A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   Sayyidina Hasan ibn ‘Ali ( r.a. ) said, “A believer is responsible for his self, and he brings it to account in order to please Allah ( s.w.t. ).   Judgement will be lighter on the Day of Judgement for the people who have brought their selves to account in this life, but it will be severe for the people who did not prepare for it by bringing their selves to account beforehand.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Sayyidina Hasan ibn ‘Ali ( r.a. ) said, “One who lacks intelligence has no decorum, and one who lacks determination has no magnanimity, and one who has no modesty has no religion.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Sayyidina Hasan ibn ‘Ali ( r.a. ) said, “It is for you to contemplate, for it is revitalisation for the heart of the perspicacious, and the key to the gateways of wisdom.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Sayyidina Hasan ibn ‘Ali ( r.a. ) said, “Beware of wronging him who does not have a supporter except Allah ( s.w.t. ).”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Sayyidina Hasan ibn ‘Ali ( r.a. ) said, “Opportunities pass away swiftly, and take longer to return.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Sayyidina Hassan ibn ‘Ali ( r.a. ) said, “The best wealth is contentment and the worst poverty is humiliation.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Sayyidina Hasan ibn ‘Ali ( r.a. ) said, “Teach others your knowledge and learn knowledge of others, so you will bring your knowledge to perfection and learn something which you do not know.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Sayyidina Hasan ibn ‘Ali ( r.a. ) said, “Whoever relies on the excellence of Allah’s ( s.w.t. ) Choices, does not wish to be in other than the situation that Allah ( s.w.t. ) has Chosen for him.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Sayyidina Hasan ibn ‘Ali ( r.a. ) said, “If the recommended actions harm the obligatory actions, then abandon them.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Sayyidina Hasan ibn ‘Ali ( r.a. ) said, “I wonder at a person who ponders over the things that he eats, how he does not ponder over his reasoning.  He preserves his stomach from that which harms him, yet deposits in his breast that which is a cause for his destruction.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Imam Abu al-Qasim Sulayman ibn Ayyub ath-Thabarani ( r.a. ) recorded that when Sayyidina Abu Hurayrah ‘Abd ar-Rahman ibn Sakhr ad-Dawsi az-Zahrani al-Azdi ( r.a. ) was on his deathbed, the cursed Marwan entered upon him and said, “Since I have been acquainted with you, there is nothing that upsets me about you except your love for Hasan and Husayn.”   Sayyidina Abu Hurayrah ( r.a. ) replied, “I recall that I was in a journey with the Messenger of Allah ( s.a.w. ) once, and he heard the cries of Hasan and Husayn, so he rushed towards them and asked, ‘What is the matter with my sons?’   He was told, ‘Thirst.’   So, he looked for water, but none was found.   So, he then took one of the boys in his arms and made him suck his blessed tongue until he stopped crying.   Then he did the same with the other boy.   So, do you not want me to love those two after what I saw from Rasulullah (s.a.w.)?”   And yet, it shou...

Imam Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Isma’il al-Bukhari narrated in his swahih that some hujjaj from Karbala approached Sayyidina ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar and asked him for the ruling on killing a mosquito while in ihram .  His response carried the force of a slap: “Look at this man!  He asks me about killing a mosquito, and they have killed the son of Rasulullah!  Indeed, I had personally heard him say, ‘Hasan and Husayn are my sons, and fragrant flowers in this world.’” Sayyidina ibn ‘Umar does not dispute that the ruling on mosquitoes has merit.  He did not accuse the questioner of asking a wrong question in the abstract.  He accused him of asking it at the wrong moment, with the wrong sense of proportion, from men who had just come from the very location where the Prophet’s own grandson had been slaughtered.  This is not a rejection of fiqh .  It is a rejection of fiqh divorced from moral weight, deployed as a distraction from the atrocity sitting directl...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Sayyidina Bilal ibn Rabah al-Habashi ( r.a. ) moved to Damascus upon the demise of Rasulullah ( s.a.w. ).  He dreamed of the Prophet ( s.a.w. ) who asked him, “Why did you run away from me, O Bilal?”   Sayyidina Bilal ( r.a. ) quickly returned to Madina.  He went to visit the Prophet’s ( s.a.w. ) maqam , crying.  On his way back, he met Sayyidina Abu Bakr ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Utsman asw-Swiddiq ( r.a. ) who said to him, “O Bilal, I wish you would perform adzan as before.”   Sayyidina Bilal ( r.a. ) replied, “No, I cannot bring myself to do it since the passing of the Prophet ( s.a.w. ).”   Sayyidina Bilal ( r.a. ) continued walking and met Sayyidina Abu Hafsw ‘Umar ibn al-Khaththab al-Faruq ( r.a. ).  He, too, asked Sayyidina Bilal ( r.a. ) to perform the adzan .  Sayyidina Bilal ( r.a. ) replied, “I cannot. I am afraid I will not be able to say the Prophet’s ( s.a.w. ) name.”   Sayyidina Bilal ( r.a....