LBK
Relevant Commands in Islam for Young People:
Stop talking trash about other people:
“O you who have attained to faith! Avoid most guesswork [about one another] - for, behold, some of [such] guesswork is [in itself] a sin; and do not spy upon one another, and neither allow yourselves to speak ill of one another behind your backs. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay, you would loathe it! And be conscious of God. Verily, God is an acceptor of repentance, a dispenser of grace!” - The Holy Qur'an [49:12]
Stop saying you’ll do something, but not do it:
“Most loathsome is it in the sight of God that you say what you do not do!” - The Holy Qur'an [61:3]
Stop talking when you’re angry:
“When one of you is angry, he should be silent.” - The Prophet [Al-Adab Al-Mufrad]
Stop thinking that God won’t accept your repentence:
“Even if your sins reached up to the clouds in the sky, I would forgive you.”- Hadith Qudsi [Sunan al-Tirmdhi]
Stop pretending that God won’t forgive you from your sins so you don’t start fresh:
“Why would God cause you to suffer [for your past sins] if you are grateful and attain to belief - seeing that God is always responsive to gratitude, all-knowing?” - The Holy Qur’an [4:147]
Stop telling the other gender to lower their gaze, lower it yourself, that includes online:
“Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and to be mindful of their chastity: this will be most conducive to their purity - [and,] verily, God is aware of all that they do… And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and to be mindful of their chastity.” - The Holy Qur'an [24:30]
Stop being mean to those who have wronged you:
“Excellence is being kind to those who are evil to you.” - Prophet Eisa (Jesus) [Tafsir ibn Kathir]
Stop forgetting to pray to God when times are tough, here, Dua of Desperation:
رَبِّ إِنِّي لِمَا أَنْزَلْتَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَقِيرٌ
Rabbi inni limaa anzalta ilayya min khayrin faqeer
[28:24]Stop neglecting to put what you learn into practice:
“Who are the learned? Those who practice what they know.” - The Prophet [Bukhari]
Stop procrastinating and work hard:
“The believer dies with sweat on his brow.” - The Prophet [Tirmidhi]
Stop envying other people:
“Beware of envy, for envy consumes good works as fire consumes wood.” - The Prophet [Abu Dawud]
Stop chasing things that you know aren’t good for you:
“…it may well be that you hate a thing the while it is good for you, and it may well be that you love a thing the while it is bad for you: and God knows, whereas you do not know.” - The Holy Qur’an [2:216]
Stop forgetting that God is testing you with hardships:
“Do people think that they will be left alone because they say: ‘We believe,’ and will not be tested?” - The Holy Qur'an [29:2]
“And most certainly shall We try you by means of danger, and hunger, and loss of worldly goods, of lives and of [labour’s] fruits. But give glad tidings unto those who are patient in adversity -” - The Holy Qur'an [2:155]
Stop forgetting that God knows you can get through these hardships:
“God does not burden any human being with more than he is well able to bear” - The Holy Qur'an [2:286]
“God does not burden any human being with more than He has given him - [and it may well be that] God will grant, after hardship, ease.” - The Holy Qur'an [65:7]
“Seek closeness [to God] and be steadfast.. in all that afflicts the believer there is atonement, even a thorn that pricks him.” - The Prophet [Tirmidhi]
Stop taking your free time and health for granted:
“Two favors that many of the people squander are health and free time.” - The Prophet [Tirmidhi]
Stop fooling yourself into thinking that those sins you do lead to better things than what God can give:
“There is nothing that you leave out of God-consciousness [taqwa] except that God will compensate you with something better” - The Prophet [Ahmad]
Stop forgetting that God remembers those who do good:
“O son of Adam, I do not forget the person who disobeys Me, so how can I forget someone who obeys Me?” - Hadith Qudsi
Stop finding excuses to not give money in charity:
“A man said: ‘O Messenger of God, which kind of charity is best? He said: ‘Giving charity when you are in good health, and feeling stingy, hoping for a long life and fearing poverty.”’ [Nasa'i]
“[O believers,] never shall you attain to true piety unless you spend on others out of what you cherish yourselves;” - The Qur'an [3:92]
Stop waiting for God to make a change you need to make:
“Indeed, God will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.” - The Holy Qur'an [13:11]
Stop forgetting to pray for your parents, here, the Dua for parents:
[rabbi irhamhuma kama rabbayanee sagheera] “My Lord, have mercy upon them as they brought me up [when I was] small” [17:24]
Stop thinking that being young doesn’t matter, of the protected people on Youm Al-Qiyamah it includes:
“a youth who grew up with the worship of God” - The Prophet [Bukhari]
Stop pretending that wealth and worldly stuff is a reward from God, they’re tests:
“and know that your worldly goods and your children are but a trial and a temptation, and that with God there is a tremendous reward” [8:28]
Just remember: “The Prophet said, ‘My Lord says…if he comes to Me walking, I go to him running.’” - [Bukhari]
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Imam Ash-Shafi’i said, “Journey to Allah limping and broken and don’t wait for wellness, because waiting for wellness is inability.”
What is the meaning of journey to Allah broken?
It means, for example, that you get up to pray but your prayer is still without focus, you recite the quran but it is a broken recitation far from perfection…
Don’t worry, continue and seek out who will teach you to recite.
You begin to live your life in a way that is pleasing to Allah but at times your soul and desires overpower you…
Continue journeying to Allah and don’t delay. Don’t wait for the right moment to turn towards Allah. The moment your heart is inclined to Allah then go to Him Immediately.
Ibn Al-Qayyim said, “A person will continue to struggle with obedience until it becomes beloved to them. And so Allah will send angels that will inspire them and push them.
They will awaken him from his sleep for it, and from his gatherings for it. Allah said, “And those who strive in our path, we will certainly guide them to our path.”
Strive. Try. Endure. Persevere. And ask Allah.
However much a person comes closer to Allah they are gifted to experience a sweetness that they taste in their wakefulness, in their sleep and in their food. Until they experience what Allah has promised, “We will give them a beautiful life.”
Oh Allah grant us the sweetness of iman.
-Sh. Waleed Basyouni.
“My dear, when I tell you about hope, I want you to imagine the sweat dropping off Hajra’s skin as she insistently runs for water in the midst of the desert. I want you to feel the pain and the strength of a father like Ibrahim when he looked into his son’s eyes as a sacrifice to God; Feel the betrayal in Yusuf’s heart when his own flesh and blood tossed him away like garbage and the thick darkness inside a whale where Yunus resided, alone. I want you to picture the wide sea in front of your feet as Musa fled from the pharaoh and how terrified Asiyah must’ve been as she resisted her violent husband. Scream, as Bilal’s bones get crushed while his mouth uttered the shahada and wonder how Rasulullah could still continue his path as blood was flowing down his head and soiled meat was thrown at him. And maybe then when you see it all, feel it all, imagine it all, you would learn that thirst didn’t win over Hajra and Ismael, and Ismael wasn’t slayed. Neither did Yusuf end up unsuccessful and Yunus forgotten. Musa and his people still crossed the sea, Bilal saved out of nowhere and Muhammad’s mission is blooming like never before - because my dear hope means not seeing an escape yourself, but knowing that Allah always does.”— “O you who believe! be patient and excel in patience and remain steadfast, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah, that you may be successful.” (3:200)
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This duaa really helps to ground me during an anxiety attack or trauma flashback. The duaa is found in Bukhari and Muslim. [ detailed explanation and sources in Arabic ]
اللَّهُمَّ لَكَ أَسْلَمْتُ، وَبِكَ آمَنْتُ، وَعَلَيْكَ تَوَكَّلْتُ، وَإِلَيْكَ أَنَبْتُ، وَبِكَ خَاصَمْتُ. اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِعِزَّتِكَ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ أَنْ تُضِلَّنِي، أَنْتَ الْحَيُّ الَّذِي لَا يَمُوتُ، وَالْجِنُّ وَالْإِنْسُ يَمُوتُونَ
Allaahumma laka aslamtu, wa bika aamantu, wa ‘alayka tawakkaltu, wa ileyka anabtu, wa bika khaasamtu. Allaahumma inni a’ udu bi'izzatika laa ilaaha illaa anta an tudhillani, antal hayyul-ladi laa yamoot, wal jinnu wal insu yamutoon
O Allaah! I have submitted to You, and believed in You, and put my trust in You and constantly turn to You in repentance, and I struggle in Your way. O Allaah! I seek refuge with Your Might, there is no god but You, from straying from the right path. You are the Ever Living who never dies, while jinn and human beings will die.
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“My dear, when I tell you about hope, I want you to imagine the sweat dropping off Hajra’s skin as she insistently runs for water in the midst of the desert. I want you to feel the pain and the strength of a father like Ibrahim when he looked into his son’s eyes as a sacrifice to God; Feel the betrayal in Yusuf’s heart when his own flesh and blood tossed him away like garbage and the thick darkness inside a whale where Yunus resided, alone. I want you to picture the wide sea in front of your feet as Musa fled from the pharaoh and how terrified Asiyah must’ve been as she resisted her violent husband. Scream, as Bilal’s bones get crushed while his mouth uttered the shahada and wonder how Rasulullah could still continue his path as blood was flowing down his head and soiled meat was thrown at him. And maybe then when you see it all, feel it all, imagine it all, you would learn that thirst didn’t win over Hajra and Ismael, and Ismael wasn’t slayed. Neither did Yusuf end up unsuccessful and Yunus forgotten. Musa and his people still crossed the sea, Bilal saved out of nowhere and Muhammad’s mission is blooming like never before - because my dear hope means not seeing an escape yourself, but knowing that Allah always does.”— “O you who believe! be patient and excel in patience and remain steadfast, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah, that you may be successful.” (3:200)
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سَلَٰمٌ عَلَيْكُم بِمَا صَبَرْتُمْ ۚ فَنِعْمَ عُقْبَى ٱلدَّارِ
“Peace be upon you for what you patiently endured. And excellent is the final home.”
((Surah Al-Ra’d : Verse 24))
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“Aisha (ra) and the Prophet (saw) would use code language with each other denoting their love. She asked the Prophet (saw) how he would describe his love for her. The Prophet (saw) answered, saying: ‘Like a strong binding knot.’ The more you tug, the stronger it gets, in other words. Every so often Aisha (ra) would playfully ask, ‘How is the knot?’ The Prophet (saw) would answer, ‘As strong as the first day (you asked).’”— Yasmin Mogahed (via blvcknvy)
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