Daily Knowledge

#SpiritualTreasures: The sun which rose from among the Arabs illuminated every people and shined its light on every village. It is the sole pride of the Noble Quran alone that it has the ability to reign supreme over all the other world religions in the matter of God’s Unity and prophethood. It is a matter of pride for the Muslims that they have been granted such a book. Those who attack the teachings of Islam and level allegations against its teaching and guidance do so only out of their own benighted nature and lack of faith. (Malfuzat – Volume II, p. 4)

#DailyHadith: Abu Kabshah Al-Anmari narrated that the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) said, "There are three things for which I swear and narrate to you about, so remember it." He said: "The wealth of a slave (of Allah) shall not be decreased by charity, no slave (of Allah) suffers injustice and is patient with it except that Allah adds to his honor; no slave (of Allah) opens up a door to begging except that Allah opens a door for him to poverty" (Tirmidhi)

#SpiritualTreasures: And as long as he [Man] does not cleanse himself of the stain of his being and as long as he does not adorn himself with the ornament of baqa billah [being sustained by God] he cannot have the ability to attain nearness [to God]. And the rank of baqa billah is achieved only when the love of God becomes the sole food of man and his condition becomes such that he cannot survive at all without His remembrance, and when he realizes that if his heart is occupied by something other than God, it is tantamount to his death and it becomes vividly manifest to him that he lives with Him. (BarĀhĪn-e-aHmadiyya - Part Four, p. 369)

#DailyHadith: Ibn 'Abbas reported that Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) used to supplicate during the time of trouble (in these words): "There is no god but Allah, the Great, the Tolerant, there is no god but Allah, the Lord of the Magnificent Throne There is no god but Allah, the Lord of the Heaven and the earth, the Lord of the Edifying Throne. (Muslim)

#SpiritualTreasures: And I was shown a spot in a vision and was told: this is the site of your grave. I saw an angel who was measuring the ground and arriving at a certain spot, he said to me: This is the place of your grave. Then I was shown a grave which was brighter than silver and all its soil was silver and it was said to me: ‘This is your grave’. I was shown a place which was named Bahishti Maqbarah [The Heavenly Graveyard], and it was conveyed to me that it contained the graves of such righteous members of the Jama‘at as are destined to dwell in heaven. (The Will, p. 22)

#DailyHadith: A'isha reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: He who loves to meet Allah, Allah loves to meet him, and he who dislikes to meet Allah, Allah abhors to meet him. I ('A'isha) said: Allah's Apostle, so far as the feeling of aversion against death is concerned, we all have this feeling. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: It is not that (which you construe), but (this) that when a believer (at the time of death) is given the glad tidings of the mercy of Allah, His Pleasure, and of Paradise, he loves to meet Allah, and Allah also loves to meet him, and when an unbeliever is given the news of the torment at the Hand of Allah, and Hardship to be imposed by Him, he dislikes to meet Allah and Allah also abhors to meet him. (Muslim)

#SpiritualTreasures: God’s holy teaching instructs us that pure and perfect and firm faith in God, His attributes and His designs, is a beautiful garden of fruit trees, and righteous actions are the streams that irrigate the garden. (The Philsophy of the Teachings of Islam, p. 123)

#DailyHadith: Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri (ra) reported that he heard Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying "The best assemblies are those in which people make room for one another." (Abu Dawud)

#SpiritualTreasures: A denial of the Prophets results in a loss of faith because the Prophets declare that they have been sent from God. Moreover, God states: ‘Whatever the Prophets announce are My words, I have sent this Prophet so believe in him, accept My book and act upon My commandments.’ A person who does not accept the Book of Allah Almighty, and who does not act upon the guidance and injunctions stipulated therein, becomes a disbeliever by denying them. (Malfuzat – Volume II, p. 60-61)

#DailyHadith: Mustawrid (ra) narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "The world compared to the Hereafter is but like what one of you gets when placing his finger into the sea, so look at what you draw from it." (Tirmidhi)

#SpiritualTreasures: Promised Messiah (as) said that, "Allah says in the Holy Quran لَن تَنَالُوا الْبِرَّ حَتَّىٰ تُنفِقُوا مِمَّا تُحِبُّونَ Never shall you attain to righteousness unless you spend out of that which you love (3:93). This is not the way to please God. For example, if a Hindu's cow becomes sick and he says that I give it up for God. There are many people who give old and stale bread to the beggars and they think they have done charity. Allah does not like such behavior and such charity is not acceptable. He has clearly stated in the above verse that in reality no good act can be considered good unless you spend your dear wealth for the propagation of his religion and in sympathy of his creation. (Fatawa Masih Ma'ud, p. 139)

#DailyHadith: Abdullah bin 'Amr narrated that : the Messenger of Allah said: "It is among the greatest of sins that a man should curse his parents." They said: "O Messenger of Allah! Does a man curse his parents?" He said: "Yes. He verbally abuses the father of a man, who in turn, verbally abuses his father, and he (retaliates and) curses his mother , so he curses his mother." (Muslim)

#SpiritualTreasures: The root of the word Zakat means purification. When a person who acquires something lawfully and out of it spends in the cause of the faith, the rest of it is purified. Many people are involved in these errors and they do not recognize the reality. (Essence of Islam Vol. 2, p. 318)

#DailyHadith: Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri (ra) said that the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "From your caliphs there will be one in the Last Days who will distribute wealth without counting it." (Muslim)

#SpiritualTreasures: A heart which has no desire to receive Divine communion is dead; a religion which cannot lead its followers to this perfection and fails to grant them communion with God, does not possess the spirit of truth and does not come from God; a prophet who does not lead his people on the path where they crave for Divine communion and God-realization, is not from Him and only attributes falsehood to Him; for the ultimate purpose of religion, which can rid man of sin, is to attain certainty about God and the Day of Reckoning. (Lecture Lahore, p. 21-22)

#DailyHadith: Narrated Abu Mas`ud Al-Ansari (ra), whenever Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) ordered us to give in charity, we used to go to the market and work as porters and get a Mudd (a special measure of grain) and then give it in charity. (Those were the days of poverty) and today some of us have one hundred thousand. (Bukhari)

#SpiritualTreasures: Not one of the doctrines and principles and commandments that it sets forth is sought to be imposed merely by authority; as it has explained, they are all inscribed in man’s nature. It is called a Reminder as is said: 'And this is a blessed Reminder' [The Holy Quran, 21:51]. Meaning that the Blessed Quran does not set forth anything that is new but is a reminder of that which already exists in man’s nature and in the book of nature. (The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam, p. 185)

#DailyHadith: Abdullah bin Amir bin Rabi'ah narrated from his father who said: "I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) - (a number of times) such that I was not able to count - using the Siwak while he was fasting." (Tirmidhi)

#SpiritualTreasures: These are the three states of spiritual ranks of which the first is named ‘ilmul-yaqin [knowledge by inference], the second is designated ‘ainul-yaqin [certainty by sight], and the third blessed and perfect rank is known as haqqul-yaqin [true certainty]. The cognition of any human being cannot be perfected nor can it be washed clean of all impurities until it reaches the stage of haqqul-yaqin, for this stage does not depend only on observation, but descends upon the heart of a man as an actual experience; and the man, being thrust into the blazing fire of divine love, is totally separated from his carnal self. (HaqIqatul-WaHI—The Philosophy of Divine Revelation, p. 31)

#DailyHadith: Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: I live in the thought of My servant and I am with him as he remembers Me. (The Holy Prophet) further said: By Allah, Allah is more pleased wth the repentance of His servant than what one of you would do on finding the lost camel in the waterless desert. When he draws near Me by the span of his hand. I draw near him by the length of a cubit and when he draws near Me by the length of a cubit. I draw near him by the length of a fathom and when he draws near Me walking I draw close to him hurriedly. (Muslim)