Honesty Best Policy

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Sneezing

When one of you sneezes he should say :

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ

Alhamdu lillaahi.

All praise is for Allah.

..and his brother or companion answers with…
يَرْحَمُكَ اللَّهُ

Yar hamu kal-laahu.

May Allah have mercy upon you.

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THE LABEL “WAHHAABI”

First of all it must be noted that the label “Wahhaabi” was first given to the call of Imam Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhaab by the enemies of this call, with the aim of putting people off and warning people against it. They try to present it as an odd call with weird ideas, which is extreme in following the ideas of its imam and goes against the way of ahl al-sunnah wa’l-jamaa’ah.
It says in Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah (2/255):

Wahhaabism is a name given by the opponents of Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhaab (may Allaah have mercy on him) to his call to cleanse Tawheed of all elements of shirk and to abolish all ways except the way of Muhammad ibn ‘Abd-Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). What they intend thereby is to put people off his call and block them from what he promoted. But it was not harmed by that, rather it caused it to spread even further and caused more people to come to it whom Allaah guided to look into what the da’wah was all about and what evidence it had from the Qur’aan and Sunnah. So they adhered to it, clung firmly to it and started calling other people to it, praise be to Allaah. End quote.

Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan (may Allaah preserve him) said in al-Bayaan li Akhta’ Ba’d al-Kuttaab (70):

This label is wrong with regard to wording, and with regard to the meaning.

With regard to wording, that is because the da’wah is not being attributed to the one who started it, namely Shaykh Muhammad, rather it is being attributed to ‘Abd al-Wahhaab, who had nothing to do with it. The proper name for it would be al-Da’wah al-Muhammadiyyah (“the Muhammadan call”).

But these opponents realized that this would be a good name that would not put anyone off, so they changed it to this distorted name.

With regard to the meaning, that is because this da’wah did not drift away from the way of the righteous salaf, namely the Sahaabah, Taabi’een and their followers. So it should rightly be called the Salafi da’wah, because the one who founded it did not introduce any innovation in that which was named after him, as the promoters of misguided sects such as the Ismailis and Qarmatiyyah introduced innovations. If those misguided sects had called themselves salafis, the people and the historical record would have rejected this name, because they are outside the path of the salaf and were introduced by their founders.

The correct name, both in wording and meaning, for the call of Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhaab is the Muhammadan da’wah or the Salafi da’wah.

But because this name annoys the enemies, they used an incorrect name. Therefore the word Wahhaabi was not known among the followers of the Shaykh, and it is their opponents who gave them this offensive nickname. Indeed, they gave this name to everyone who follows the way of the salaf, even in India, Egypt, Africa and elsewhere. By giving it this label, its opponents wanted to isolate the da’wah from the right path. So they excluded it from the four madhhabs and counted it as a fifth madhhab, “out of envy from their ownselves, even after the truth has become manifest unto them” (al-Baqarah 2:109). End quote.

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Assalamu walikum wa rahmathullahi wa barakathu

Inshallah this status finds my dear brothers/sisters in the good state of imaan and health. Ameen

AYAH OF THE DAY:

Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth; the example of His light is like a niche in which is a lamp; the lamp is in a glass; the glass is as if it were a star shining like a pearl, kindled by the blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west – it is close that the oil itself get ablaze although the fire does not touch it; light upon light; Allah guides towards His light whomever He wills; and Allah illustrates examples for mankind; and Allah knows everything.

[Surah Al-Noor (24:35)]

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NO IF YOUR AQEEDAH IS LIKE THIS THEN I PRAY TO ALLAH TO OPEN UP YOUR EYES AND GUIDE YOU BACK TO HIM!

Sufism varies quite drastically from the true spirit of Islam. Sufism inculcates in the follower the will to stop using the basic faculties given to him by God, the Creator of the world and to submit himself to a form of slavery.
Islam, on the other hand, is very simple; there is no need for intermediaries or any saints between man and God, and one is only to submit and surrender themselves to God, Almighty.

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“As true love of Allah increases, yearning for worldly pleasures decreases.”

“Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life—but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?”

“A sign of true repentance from a past sin is that remembering the sin only brings pangs of remorse, and not memories of pleasure.”

“Constantly thinking about someone is a sign of true love—so how often do those who claim to love Allah remember Him?”

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All you have to do, is expect the best. Because even if the ‘worst’ happened, it was what was best for you. & I guarantee that if you had the choice of going back in your past and changing things and saw the outcome of them, you’d choose exactly the same route Allah(SWT) has chosen for you. Because it was the best route for you.

Place your trust in Him.

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“Kindly push that pride away to reveal the harsh reality that you are wrong. You are wrong. You are so wrong. But it’s alright, it was never about winning. It was never about competing ; it’s about doing the right thing. Making the right decision. & often times, we don’t make the right decision; but it is then that we learn from our mistakes, and it is then that we make the effort to make the right decision next time. We learn.”