The Ruling on Working in a Store that Sells Merchandise that Has Pictures – Shaikh Abdul-Muhsin al-‘Abbad

Question: A man works in a store and items that have pictures are sold in this store. So what is upon this worker [i.e. what should he do]?

Answer: “Theses pictures are from what the people have been afflicted with and some canned goods have pictures. So the likes of this are from what the affliction has overcome. So there is no harm in selling it”.

[Sharh Sunan Abi Dawood no. 472]

Translated by

Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan

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The Different Types of Souls and How to Purify the Soul – Shaikh Salih al-Fawzan

Question: What are the types of souls? And What is the way to purify it and its path as Allah, the Exalted said: Indeed he succeeds who purifies his oneself [91:9]?

Answer: The types of souls mentioned in the Noble Quran are three: the soul that commands evil (أمارة بالسوء), the self-reproaching soul (النفس اللوامة), and the pious soul (النفس المطمئنة). The soul that orders evil is the one who commands its owner to its prohibited desires and following falsehood. As for the self-reproaching soul: it makes its owner feel guilty for what passed it of good and makes him remorseful for it. As for the pious soul: it is the one that feels tranquil with its Lord and His obedience, commands, and remembrance. It is not feel settled/tranquil with other than it. Allamah Ibn Qayyim rahimahullah said: It being called pious (مطمئنة ) is a description of praise for it. And (أمارة بالسوء) is a blameworthy description for it and (النفس المطمئنة) is a description to praise and blameworthiness in accordance to what the soul feels guilty about. The way to purify the soul is by holding fast to the obedience of Allah, the Exalted, preventing it from His disobedience, and prohibited desires”.

[Muntaqa min Fatawa Shaikh Salih al-Fawzan (2/134)]

Translated by

Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan

Narrated Abu Hurayrah:

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Allah will raise for this community at the end of every hundred years the one who will renovate its religion for it”.

حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْمَهْرِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ، عَنْ شَرَاحِيلَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ الْمَعَافِرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي عَلْقَمَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، فِيمَا أَعْلَمُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏ “‏ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَبْعَثُ لِهَذِهِ الأُمَّةِ عَلَى رَأْسِ كُلِّ مِائَةِ سَنَةٍ مَنْ يُجَدِّدُ لَهَا دِينَهَا ‏”‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُدَ رَوَاهُ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ شُرَيْحٍ الإِسْكَنْدَرَانِيُّ لَمْ يَجُزْ بِهِ شَرَاحِيلَ ‏.‏

[Abu Dawood, Graded Saheeh by Shaykh Albani]

Imam Munaawi said:

meaning:
send to it [i.e. the ummah]
“at the end of every hundred years”
from hijrah or other than it
and what is meant by “at the end/head”
approximately [close to it]
“who” meaning
a man or more,
“renovate its religion for it”
meaning: clarify the Sunnah from the Biddah [innovation] and increase knowledge and aid its people and shatter/destroy people of innovation and humiliate them.
They [scholars] said, “he will not be except a scholar of the sciences of the religion apparently and hidden.”
[Faid Al Qadir (2/281-282)]

Ibn kathir rahimahullah said, “Every nation claimed this regarding their imam, it is meant by this Hadith and what is apparent, generally in a sentence [is that] he will be from the scholars  from every  طائفة  and every category from Mufassir [scholar of tafseer], Muhaddith [scholar of Hadith] faqih, nahwi, laghawi, and other then them”.

[اضواء من فتاوى شيخ الاسلام ابن تيمية]

Translated by

Naveed Sultan

A virtue of constantly seeking forgiveness (istighfar):

فَقُلْتُ اسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ غَفَّارًا
“I said (to them): ‘Ask forgiveness from your Lord; Verily, He is Oft-Forgiving;
يُرْسِلِ السَّمَاءَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِدْرَارًا
‘He will send rain to you in abundance;
وَيُمْدِدْكُمْ بِأَمْوَالٍ وَبَنِينَ وَيَجْعَلْ لَكُمْ جَنَّاتٍ وَيَجْعَلْ لَكُمْ أَنْهَارًا
‘And give you increase in wealth and children, and bestow on you gardens and bestow on you rivers.”

(سورة نوح: ١٢-١٠)

A man complained to al-Hasan about a drought, and he said to him: “Pray to Allaah for forgiveness.” Another man complained to him of poverty and he said to him: “Pray to Allaah to forgive you.” Another man said to him: “Pray to Allaah to bless me with a child.” He said: “Pray to Allaah for forgiveness.” Another complained to him that his garden was dry. He said to him: “Pray to Allaah for forgiveness.” We asked him about that and he said: “This is not my personal opinion, for Allaah says in Soorat Nooh (interpretation of the meaning): ‘Ask forgiveness from your Lord, verily, He is Oft‑Forgiving; He will send rain to you in abundance. And give you increase in wealth and children, and bestow on you gardens and bestow on you rivers.”

‘And give you increase in wealth and children, and bestow on you gardens and bestow on you rivers.”

Tafseer al-Qurtubi, 18/301-302

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Shaykh Al Uthaymeen May Allah have mercy said:

“The one who intends to strengthen his religion with an innovation, then its harm is greater then its benefit”

Al Qawlul Mufeed pg. 242

Translated by Majid Jawed

Ahmad Ibn Harb رحمه الله said:

“There is nothing more beneficial to a Muslim’s heart than to mix with the righteous and to watch their actions, while nothing is more harmful to the heart than mixing with the sinners and watching their actions.”

[Al-Bayhaqi, Al-Zuhd Al-Kabeer, p.100]