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#DailyHadith: Narrated Hisham's father: Ibn `Umar said, "Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, 'Do not pray at the time of sunrise and at the time of sunset.' " Ibn `Umar said, "Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, 'If the edge of the sun appears (above the horizon) delay the prayer till it becomes high, and if the edge of the sun disappears, delay the prayer till it sets (disappears completely).'" (Bukhari)

#SpiritualTreasures: "Another great tragedy worth mentioning is that the Jews had, by their mischief and faithlessness, tried to apply the most negative application of the word ‘curse’ with regard to the eternally beloved, eternal sweetheart, eternally accepted of God, whose name is Jesus. But the Christians have also joined, to some extent, in this calumny. It has been supposed that the heart of Jesus, the Messiah, earned the application of ‘curse’ for three days. My body trembles with this thought and every particle of my being becomes restless. How can the word ‘curse of God’ be imagined to apply to the pure heart of the Messiah even for a second!!! Woe! A thousand woes, that such a belief be harboured for a beloved of God like Jesus, the Messiah, that his heart deserved the implication of the meaning of curse at any time." (A Gift for The Queen, p. 20)

#DailyHadith: Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "If the people knew the reward for pronouncing the Adhan and for standing in the first row (in congregational prayers) and found no other way to get that except by drawing lots they would draw lots, and if they knew the reward of the Zuhr prayer (in the early moments of its stated time) they would race for it (go early) and if they knew the reward of `Isha' and Fajr (morning) prayers in congregation, they would come to offer them even if they had to crawl." (Bukhari)

#SpiritualTreasures: Winds of change will blow and people will flock to enter the fold of Islam. The gates will be flung wide open; it will be an influx en masse. As a result, Jizyah will become obsolete, for no one will be left to pay it. All this, however, will not happen at once; but its foundations are being laid here and now. (Elucidation of Objectives, p. 12)

#DailyHadith: Narrated `Aisha: The Prophet (ﷺ) used to love to start doing things from the right side whenever possible, in performing ablution, putting on his shoes, and combing his hair. (Al-Ash'ath said: The Prophet (ﷺ) used to do so in all his affairs.) (Bukhari)

#SpiritualTreasures: “True faith resembles a plant and righteous actions are like streams which irrigate that plant and maintain its greenness and glory. In this world, they are perceived as if in a dream, but in the other world they will be felt and observed as realities.” (Essence of Islam Vol. 2 p. 442), p. 442)

#DailyHadith: Abu Huraira (ra) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim. He neither oppresses him nor humiliates him nor looks down upon him. The piety is here, (and while saying so) he pointed towards his chest thrice. It is a serious evil for a Muslim that he should look down upon his brother Muslim. All things of a Muslim are inviolable for his brother in faith: his blood, his wealth and his honour. (Muslim)

#SpiritualTreasures: It is under divine commandment—not due to my own thoughts or volition—that I occupy myself in praying for this government under whose shadow of security I am passing my days in peace. I am grateful for its favours, and take its pleasure as my pleasure. I convey to it honestly what has been conveyed to me. Therefore, on the occasion of this jubilee—remembering the continuous favours of Your Majesty, which concern our lives, wealth and honour—I present a gift of gratefulness, and that gift is the prayers which arise from the heart and every grain of the body for the safety and honour of Your Majesty. (A Gift for The Queen, p. 13)

#DailyHadith: Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The mortgaged animal can be used for riding as long as it is fed and the milk of the milch animal can be drunk according to what one spend on it. The one who rides the animal or drinks its milk should provide the expenditures." (Bukhari)

#SpiritualTreasures: I am true in my statement when I say that those who become the slaves of reason and claim that revelation is worthless, are people who do not even make use of reason itself. Those who make use of their intellect are referred to as ‘people of understanding’ in the Holy Quran. Then after this, in the same verse, Allah states: "Those who remember Allah while standing, sitting, and lying on their sides" (Quran, 3:192). In this verse, Allah Almighty has elaborated upon another aspect, namely, that the people of understanding and those who possess good sense are ones who remember Allah, the Glorious, at all times. Do not entertain the belief that sense and wisdom are qualities that one can attain without effort. Not at all. (Malfuzat – Volume I, p. 64)

#DailyHadith: Narrated `Aisha: The Prophet (ﷺ) bought some foodstuff on credit for a limited period and mortgaged his armor for it. (Bukhari)

#SpiritualTreasures: It is my firm belief that the spread of atheistic naturalism is due to the fact that in order to counter or respond to those satanic onslaughts that are laced with the poison of disbelief and waged against Islam by naturalists, philosophers and astronomers, Muslims employ hollow rationalism along with conjectural and hypothetical argumentation because they deem the teachings of Islam and heavenly light to be inadequate. Consequently, such apologetics are led far away from the deeper meanings and aims of the Holy Quran. They cover their hearts with the hidden veil of irreligiousness, which sooner or later—if not for the grace of Allah Almighty—takes on the guise of atheism, leaving a tinge on the heart, which then leads to such a person’s ruin. (Malfuzat – Volume I, p. 68)

#DailyHadith: Aisha (ra) narrated that "When this Ayah was revealed: وَأَنذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ ٱلْأَقْرَبِينَ And warn thy nearest kinsmen....(26:215), the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "O Safiyyah bint 'Abdul-Muttalib! O Fatimah bint Muhammed! O Banu 'Abdul-Muttalib! I have no authority on your behalf over Allah for anything. Ask me for whatever you want of my wealth." (Tirmidhi)

#SpiritualTreasures: To implore of anyone or anything besides Allah is diametrically opposed to a believer’s indignation, because only Allah is worthy of being implored in supplication. (Malfuzat – Volume I, p. 163)

#DailyHadith: Abu Huraira (ra) reported that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "if anyone summons other to follow right guidance, his reward will be equivalent to that of the people who follow him, without their rewards being diminished in any respect on that account; and if anyone summons others to follow error the sin of which sins being diminished in any respect on that account. (Abu Dawud)

#SpiritualTreasures: When a person’s love of God reaches a stage at which his living and his dying is not for his own sake but is entirely for God, then God, Who has always loved those who love Him, bestows His love upon him and by the meeting of these two loves a light is generated inside the person which the world cannot recognize or understand. (The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam, p. 113)

#DailyHadith: Narrated Muawiya bin Suwaid: I heard Al-Bara' bin `Azib saying, "The Prophet (ﷺ) orders us to do seven things and prohibited us from doing seven other things." Then Al-Bara' mentioned the following:-- (1) To pay a visit to the sick (inquiring about his health), (2) to follow funeral processions, (3) to say to a sneezer, "May Allah be merciful to you" (if he says, "Praise be to Allah!"), (4) to return greetings, (5) to help the oppressed, (6) to accept invitations, (7) to help others to fulfill their oaths. (Bukhari)

#SpiritualTreasures: [Persian poem] O God! grant not joy To the heart full of darkness, Which has no sympathy For the Faith of Ahmadsa. O my brother, Few are the days of rejoicing and merrymaking; These blissful gardens and enchanted orchards Will not last forever. (Blessings of Prayer, p. 62)

#DailyHadith: Narrated from Abu Hurairah (ra) that the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "When a man goes out of his house to his Masjid, one foot records a good deed and the other erases a bad deed." (Nasai)

#SpiritualTreasures: The outstanding aspect of swearing allegiance to a spiritual guide is repentance (tawbah), which means to turn back (ruju). Repentance refers to the state when man forsakes the ties that bind him to sin. When a person is indulged in a life of sin, he begins to dwell in this state and sin becomes his homeland, as it were. So, tawbah is to leave one’s homeland and ruju means to purify oneself. (Malfuzat – Volume I, p. 2)