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Islamic Reminders, Lahore (2025)

04/03/2024

The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings upon Him) said "If any one of you improve (follows strictly) his Islamic religion then his good deeds will be rewarded ten times to seven hundred times for each good deed and a bad deed will be recorded as it is."
(Sahih bukhari Book 2, Hadith 40)

23/02/2024

Amr ibn Awf reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “By Allah, it is not poverty that I fear for you, but rather I fear you will be given the wealth of the world, just as it was given to those before you. You will compete for it just as they competed for it, and it will ruin you just as it ruined them.”

Source: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 3158, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2961

01/01/2024

Allah’s Apostle (p.b.u.h) said, “Our Lord, the Blessed, the Superior, comes every night down on the nearest Heaven to us when the last third of the night remains, saying: “Is there anyone to invoke Me, so that I may respond to invocation? Is there anyone to ask Me, so that I may grant him his request? Is there anyone seeking My forgiveness, so that I may forgive him?” Bukhari Volume 2, Book 21, Number 246:

27/12/2023

"And whatever the Messenger gives you, take it, and whatever he forbids you, leave it. And fear Allah: truly Allah is severe in punishment. " [Qur'an 59:7]

26/11/2023

Narrated `Aisha (ra): The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, "Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately, and receive good news because one's good deeds will not make him enter Paradise." They asked, "Even you, O Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him)?" He said, "Even I, unless and until Allah bestows His pardon and Mercy on me."

(Sahih al-Bukhari 6467, Book 81, Hadith 56)

16/11/2023

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported that: The Messenger of Allah (Peace be upon him) said: "The reward for Salat performed by a person in congregation is more than 20 times greater than that of the Salat performed in one's house or shop. When one performs Wudu' perfectly and then proceeds to the mosque with the sole intention of performing Salat, then for every step he takes towards the mosque, he is upgraded one degree in reward and one of his sins is eliminated until he enters the mosque, and when he enters the mosque, he is considered as performing Salat as long as it is the Salat which prevents him (from leaving the mosque); and the angels keep on supplicating Allah for him as long as he remains in his place of prayer. They say: 'O Allah! have mercy on him; O Allah! forgive his sins; O Allah! accept his repentance'. This will carry on as long as he does not pass wind".
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].

21/10/2023

“Let the servant of the Dinar, the servant of the Dirham and the servant of the Khamisah (of clothes) perish, as he is pleased if these things are given to him, and if not, he is displeased. Let such a person perish and be humiliated, and if he is pierced with a thorn, let him not find anyone to take it out for him. Paradise is for him who holds the reins of his horse, striving in Allah’s cause, with his hair unkempt and feet covered with dust: if he is appointed to the vanguard, he is perfectly satisfied with his post of guarding, and if he is appointed in the rearguard, he accepts his post with satisfaction; if he asks for permission he is not permitted, and if he intercedes, his intercession is not accepted.”
Al-Bukhari 2886

30/09/2023

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "The most enviable of my friends is a believer with little property who finds pleasure in prayer, who performs the worship of his Lord well, who obeys Him in secret, who is obscure among men, who is not pointed out by people, and whose provision is a bare sufficiency with
which he is content." (Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1352)

22/09/2023

A man wrote to Ibn ‘Umar رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُمَا [saying]:

“[Please] write down all knowledge for me. Ibn ‘Umar رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُمَا wrote back to him [saying]:

‘Knowledge is vast, if you can meet Allāh [the Exalted] having kept your back light from the burden of people’s blood, your stomach free of people’s wealth and having kept your tongue from [disparaging] their honour, then do so!’”

Siyar ‘A’lām Al-Nubalā 3/222

06/09/2023

“Those who walk to the Masjids when it is dark, give them the glad tidings of complete Light on the Day of Resurrection.” (Abu Dawud 561)

03/09/2023

"The most sagacious of the sagacious ones is he who enters Paradise because of a sin he perpetrated: He places his sin before his eyes, continuing to be constantly afraid for himself on account of that sin until he departs from this world and enters Paradise. And the most foolish of the foolish ones is he who enters the Hellfire on account of a single good deed he performed: He places it before his eyes, constantly remembering it and hoping to be rewarded for it, and in the meanwhile, he takes his sins lightly; and he continues to remain upon that condition until he parts from this world and enters the Hellfire." -Sufyan al-Thawri

25/07/2023

Abu Hurairah (Radiyallaahu Anhu) narrates that Rasulullah (Sallallaahu Alaihi wa Sallam) said, “Verily, Allah is Pure and He only accepts pure, and indeed Allah commanded the Believers what He commanded the Messengers. He said: ‘O Messengers, eat of the pure things and perform righteous acts. Verily, I am Well-Aware of what you do.’ And He said ‘O you who believe! Eat of the good things that We have provided you with, and give thanks to Allah if Him it is that you serve.’ Then the narrator of the hadith says: Then he (i.e. the Prophet) made mention of a man who is constantly in journeys and has dishevelled hair and dusty appearance (due to constant journeys for performing acts of righteousness such as Hajj, Umra, seeking knowledge etc.) and he raises his hands towards the sky saying “O my Rabb. O my Rabb”. But his food is from haraam. His drink is from haraam. His clothes are from haraam. He is nourished from haraam. How can it (his prayer) be accepted?” (Muslim; Mishkaatul Masaabih pg. 241, Qadeemi)

24/06/2023

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2154
Aishah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said:
" Six are cursed, being cursed by Allah and by every Prophet that came: The one who adds to Allah's Book, the one who denies Allah's Qadar, the one who rules with tyranny by which he honors whom Allah has debased, and he dishonors whom Allah has honored, and the one who legalizes what Allah forbade, and the one from my family who legalizes what Allah forbade, and the abandoner of my Sunnah."

12/06/2023

Abu Hurayrah (RA) reported: that the Messenger of Allah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) said: “Hasten to do good deeds before there come tribulations like pieces of a dark night, when a man will be a believer in the morning and a kaafir by evening, or he will be a believer in the evening and a kaafir by morning, selling his religious commitment for worldly gain.”

{Narrated by Muslim, 118}

02/06/2023

Reported by Abu Hurairah (RA): The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him), "If people came to know the blessing of calling Adhan and the standing in the first row, they could do nothing but would draw lots to secure these privileges.''
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

28/04/2023

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "Allah says, 'I have nothing to give but Paradise as a reward to my believer slave, who, if I cause his dear friend (or relative) to die, remains patient (and hopes for Allah's Reward)." [ Bukhari. Volume 8, Book 76, Number 432.]

09/04/2023

Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “How wonderful is the affair of the believer, for it is all good, and this does not apply to anyone except the believer. If something good happens to him, he gives thanks for it and that is good for him, and if something bad happens to him he bears it with patience and that is good for him.” Narrated by Muslim, 2999.

04/04/2023

"If Allâh helps you, none can overcome you;
and if He forsakes you, who is there after Him that can help you?
And in Allâh (Alone) let believers put their trust."

[The Qur'an 3:160]

Islamic Reminders