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The 3 conditions of a successful servant of Allah

 The 3 conditions of a successful servant of Allah   Three conditions are tokens of the servant’s happiness [sa’adat al-abd], and the signs of his success in this world and the next. No servant is without them, but is always shifting from one to the other.   These are:  1. When blessed, give thanks (Shukr);  2. when tried with difficulties/trials, persevere (Sabr); and  3. when sinful, seek forgiveness (Tawba).                 1. Shukr for blessings: The first condition is the blessings which come to the servant from God (Most High), one after another. What secures them is gratitude [shukr], based on three supports:  (a) inward recognition of the blessing;  (b) outward mention and thanks for it;  (c) and its use in a way that pleases the One to whom it truly belongs and who truly bestows it. Acting thus, the servant shows his gratitude for the blessing—however brief.  2. Sabr in trials: The second is the trials from God (Most High) which test the Servant, whose duty therein is patience [sabr] and forbearance:  (a) to restrain himself from anger with what is decreed; (b) to restrain his tongue from complaint;  (c) to restrain his limbs from offences, such as striking one’s face in grief, rending one’s clothes, tearing one’s hair and like acts.  Patience, then, rests on these three supports, and if the servant maintains them as he should, affliction will become benefaction, trial will change to bounty and what he disliked will become what he loves. For God (Exalted and Sublime) does not try the servant in order to destroy him. Rather, He tries him to put his patience and devotion [al-ubudiyya] to the test. For the servant owes devotion to God in affliction as in ease. He must have as much devotion in what he hates as in what he loves. And while most people offer devotion in what they love, it is important to do so in the things they hate. It is by this that servants’ ranks are distinguished and their stations determined.  Ablution with cold water in searing heat is devotion. Sexual relations with one’s beautiful and beloved spouse is devotion. Spending money for her, for one’s children and for oneself is devotion. It is devotion no less than ablution with cold water in the bitter cold; giving up vice to which one’s soul is driven without fear of people; and giving charity in hardship. But there is a great difference between the [two kinds] of devotion.  He who is God’s servant in both states, maintaining his duty in both comfort and adversity, is the one to whom His words refer,‘Is not God sufficient for His servant?’ With complete devotion comes complete sufficiency, and with less comes what is less. Let him who discerns some good give praise to God, but let whoever finds something other than this blame no one but himself.  These are the servants over whom God’s Foe has no control. God said [to the Devil], ‘Lo! As for My servants, you have no power over them.” And when His Foe Iblis learned that He would not let His devoted servants yield to him or give him control over them, he proclaimed, ‘Then by Your Might, I will surely beguile them all save for Your sincere servants among them. And God (Most High) said, ‘And Iblis found his calculation true, for they [all] followed him save a group of true believers. And he had no warrant whatsoever over [any of] them save that We might know the ones who believe in the hereafter from those who doubt it.’ God will not yield to His Foe control over His faithful servants. They are in His protection and His care. If the Devil robs any of them, as the thief robs the heedless man, this cannot be avoided, because by heedlessness, passion and anger is the servant tried. It is by these same three doors that the Devil comes to him. Try as he may to protect himself, the servant is bound to be heedless and given to passion and anger.  3.Tawba after sinning: Adam, the father of all humanity, was the most discerning of creatures, their superior in wisdom, and the most steadfast. Yet the Foe kept after him until he made him fall into that which he fell. What then of someone with the reason of a moth, whose intelligence compared to that of his father [Adam] is like a spittle in the ocean? Still, the Foe of God obtains nothing from a faithful person except by robbing him in [a moment on inattention and carelessness. And when he causes him to fall, the servant may think that he can never again face his Lord, that this fall has carried him away and destroyed him. Yet behind it all is God’s grace, mercy, clemency and forgiveness.  For if God intends what is good for His servant, He will then open for him the doors of repentance [al-tawba] and remorse, abasement and humility, dependence and need; the doors of the request for God’s help and protection; the doors of perpetual humility, supplication and the approach towards Him by means of whatever good works he can manage—so that his wrong may become a means to God’s mercy. For the Foe says, ‘Alas, I left him without causing him to fall!’  This is what one of the early believers [salaf]meant when he said, ‘A person may commit a sin by which he goes to heaven and a good deed by which he goes to hell.’ ‘How?’ someone asked. He replied, ‘Having committed the sin, he is ever watchful in fear, regretful, timorous, lamenting, shamed before his Lord, his head in his hands and his heart rent. The sin that brings him all that we have mentioned, wherein lie his happiness and salvation, is more beneficial to him than numerous devotional acts. Indeed, it becomes the means by which he enters Heaven.  [On the other hand], he may perform a goodly deed and constantly laud it before his Lord, wax proud, boast, become vain and haughty with it, as he says, ‘I did this, I did that.’ His self-importance, pride and arrogance provide him only with the means to his own ruin. If God intends then what is good for this miserable person, He will try him through something that breaks [his pride], abases him and reduces his self-importance. But if He intends otherwise, He will leave him to his self-importance and pride, and this misfortune is what leads to his ruin.



  • The 3 conditions of a successful servant of Allah 


Three conditions are tokens of the servant’s happiness [sa’adat al-abd], and the signs of his success in this world and the next. No servant is without them, but is always shifting from one to the other. 


  • These are: 

1. When blessed, give thanks (Shukr); 
2. when tried with difficulties/trials, persevere (Sabr); and 
3. when sinful, seek forgiveness (Tawba).               

1. Shukr for blessings:
The first condition is the blessings which come to the servant from God (Most High), one after another. What secures them is gratitude [shukr], based on three supports: 
(a) inward recognition of the blessing; 
(b) outward mention and thanks for it; 
(c) and its use in a way that pleases the One to whom it truly belongs and who truly bestows it. Acting thus, the servant shows his gratitude for the blessing—however brief.

2. Sabr in trials:
The second is the trials from God (Most High) which test the Servant, whose duty therein is patience [sabr] and forbearance: 
(a) to restrain himself from anger with what is decreed; (b) to restrain his tongue from complaint; 
(c) to restrain his limbs from offences, such as striking one’s face in grief, rending one’s clothes, tearing one’s hair and like acts. 
Patience, then, rests on these three supports, and if the servant maintains them as he should, affliction will become benefaction, trial will change to bounty and what he disliked will become what he loves.
For God (Exalted and Sublime) does not try the servant in order to destroy him. Rather, He tries him to put his patience and devotion [al-ubudiyya] to the test. For the servant owes devotion to God in affliction as in ease. He must have as much devotion in what he hates as in what he loves. And while most people offer devotion in what they love, it is important to do so in the things they hate. It is by this that servants’ ranks are distinguished and their stations determined.

Ablution with cold water in searing heat is devotion. Sexual relations with one’s beautiful and beloved spouse is devotion. Spending money for her, for one’s children and for oneself is devotion. It is devotion no less than ablution with cold water in the bitter cold; giving up vice to which one’s soul is driven without fear of people; and giving charity in hardship. But there is a great difference between the [two kinds] of devotion.

He who is God’s servant in both states, maintaining his duty in both comfort and adversity, is the one to whom His words refer,‘Is not God sufficient for His servant?’ With complete devotion comes complete sufficiency, and with less comes what is less. Let him who discerns some good give praise to God, but let whoever finds something other than this blame no one but himself.

These are the servants over whom God’s Foe has no control. God said [to the Devil], ‘Lo! As for My servants, you have no power over them.” And when His Foe Iblis learned that He would not let His devoted servants yield to him or give him control over them, he proclaimed, ‘Then by Your Might, I will surely beguile them all save for Your sincere servants among them. And God (Most High) said, ‘And Iblis found his calculation true, for they [all] followed him save a group of true believers. And he had no warrant whatsoever over [any of] them save that We might know the ones who believe in the hereafter from those who doubt it.’ God will not yield to His Foe control over His faithful servants. They are in His protection and His care. If the Devil robs any of them, as the thief robs the heedless man, this cannot be avoided, because by heedlessness, passion and anger is the servant tried. It is by these same three doors that the Devil comes to him. Try as he may to protect himself, the servant is bound to be heedless and given to passion and anger.

3.Tawba after sinning:
Adam, the father of all humanity, was the most discerning of creatures, their superior in wisdom, and the most steadfast. Yet the Foe kept after him until he made him fall into that which he fell. What then of someone with the reason of a moth, whose intelligence compared to that of his father [Adam] is like a spittle in the ocean? Still, the Foe of God obtains nothing from a faithful person except by robbing him in [a moment on inattention and carelessness. And when he causes him to fall, the servant may think that he can never again face his Lord, that this fall has carried him away and destroyed him. Yet behind it all is God’s grace, mercy, clemency and forgiveness.

For if God intends what is good for His servant, He will then open for him the doors of repentance [al-tawba] and remorse, abasement and humility, dependence and need; the doors of the request for God’s help and protection; the doors of perpetual humility, supplication and the approach towards Him by means of whatever good works he can manage—so that his wrong may become a means to God’s mercy. For the Foe says, ‘Alas, I left him without causing him to fall!’

This is what one of the early believers [salaf]meant when he said, ‘A person may commit a sin by which he goes to heaven and a good deed by which he goes to hell.’ ‘How?’ someone asked. He replied, ‘Having committed the sin, he is ever watchful in fear, regretful, timorous, lamenting, shamed before his Lord, his head in his hands and his heart rent. The sin that brings him all that we have mentioned, wherein lie his happiness and salvation, is more beneficial to him than numerous devotional acts. Indeed, it becomes the means by which he enters Heaven.

[On the other hand], he may perform a goodly deed and constantly laud it before his Lord, wax proud, boast, become vain and haughty with it, as he says, ‘I did this, I did that.’ His self-importance, pride and arrogance provide him only with the means to his own ruin. If God intends then what is good for this miserable person, He will try him through something that breaks [his pride], abases him and reduces his self-importance. But if He intends otherwise, He will leave him to his self-importance and pride, and this misfortune is what leads to his ruin.

"Allah chose you"

"Allah chose you" And blessed you with Islam!


"Allah chose you" 
And blessed you with Islam!

You were chosen by Allah . You are the from the ummah of the leader of the worlds. You were given the task of spreading this religion across the east and the west. 

In 2017, you have social media. No one before you was given this opportunity of da'wah. The world is your audience and with one click of a button, you can spread truth across the entire world whilst sitting at home.

But your selfie, yourlips, your looks, your body, your breakfast, your lunch and your dessert is more important right? The day our life rotates around doing serious da'wah  is the day we change this earth.

Ya Allah guide us all to the straight path Allahumma Ameen.

Ya Allah take my last word la ilaha illallah muhammadur rasulullah

Ya Allah take my last word   la ilaha illallah muhammadur rasulullah  Ameen.


Ya Allah take my last word  
la ilaha illallah muhammadur rasulullah
  Ameen.

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Allah ﷻ says 

هَلْ يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَّا أَنْ تَأْتِيَهُمُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ 
Are they but waiting for the angels to come to them
Meaning, the Angel of Death and his Cohort of Angels coming to extract the Soul.
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أَوْ يَأْتِيَ أَمْرُ رَبِّكَ ۚ 
or there comes the command of your Lord 
Meaning the day of Judgement and the terror on that day.

كَذَٰلِكَ فَعَلَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِ
Likewise did those from before.
The people of the past are examples of heedlessness who received the wrath of Allah ﷻ eventually after continual persistence.
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وَمَا ظَلَمَهُمُ اللَّهُ
And Allah did not wrong them.
because He gave them enough warning and clearly demonstrated His proofs to them.
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وَلَـكِن كَانُواْ أَنفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ
but they were wronging themselves.
meaning, by opposing the Messengers and denying what they brought. For this reason Allah's punishment tormented them.
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فَأَصَابَهُمْ سَيِّئَاتُ مَا عَمِلُوا وَحَاقَ بِهِمْ مَا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ
Then, they were afflicted by their evil deeds, and they were surrounded by that which they used to mock.
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The Shaykh tells the story of a 17 year old boy who dies without the Kalimah rather by admitting and exposing his Sin right before his Death! 
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This is what prevented his lips from saying 
لا اله الا الله و محمد رسول الله 
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Only Allah ﷻ knows what is happening to him in the grave, and what happened to him that day...
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But you & I should contemplate and reflect! 
How many times have we wronged ourselves by not following the command of Allah ﷻ and on top of it... Not repenting! 
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Do we wait for Death or Qiyamah like it will never arrive? 
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As Allah ﷻ says 
كَلَّا إِذَا بَلَغَتِ التَّرَاقِيَ
Nay! When it reaches the collarbones
وَقِيلَ مَنْ ۜ رَاقٍ
And it is said "who can cure him?"
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The truth is nobody can cure nor save those whom Allah wishes Death upon. 
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And He ﷻ says 
وَجَاءَتْ سَكْرَةُ الْمَوْتِ بِالْحَقِّ ۖ 
And the Stupor of Death will come in Truth.
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What are you waiting for? 
When Allah ﷻ says 
قُلْ يعِبَادِىَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُواْ عَلَى أَنفُسِهِمْ لاَ تَقْنَطُواْ مِن رَّحْمَةِ اللَّهِ
Oh you among my slaves who have wronged themselves, Don't despair of the mercy of Allah
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Repent & Worship Allah!

Allah knows the words you cannot say, The sorrows no one sees, and The pain that no one knows. So keep your head up high, His help is indeed near!

Allah knows the words you cannot say, The sorrows no one sees, and The pain that no one knows. So keep your head up high, His help is indeed near!


Allah knows the words you cannot say, The sorrows no one sees, and The pain that no one knows. So keep your head up high, His help is indeed near!

If Allah (swt) could split the sea for Musa (as), Don't you think, Allah (swt) can remove our Troubles? If only we would trust Allah (swt)!

If Allah (swt) could split the sea for Musa (as), Don't you think, Allah (swt) can remove our Troubles? If only we would trust Allah (swt)!


If Allah (swt) could split the sea for Musa (as), 
Don't you think, Allah (swt) can remove our Troubles? 
If only we would trust Allah (swt)!