Umar Quinn

🧠📖[[He Built the House; He Perfected It]] Ibn ʿUthaymīn on the relationship between Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim 📌 Imām Ibn ʿUthaymīn (may Allah have mercy upon him) said: “Among the most important books that a student of knowledge should be eager to study are the works of Ibn Taymiyyah and his student Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy upon them both). It is well known that the books of Ibn al-Qayyim are easier and more fluid in style, because the expressions of Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah were powerful due to the vastness of his knowledge and the brilliance of his intellect. Ibn al-Qayyim, on the other hand, found a house already built and inhabited, so his contribution was one of refinement, enhancement, and organization.” Source: Majmūʿ Fatāwā wa Rasāʾil al-Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn, 26:338.

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📖 NEW RELEASE An Ummah of One Building Faith, Family, and Civilization through the Story of Ibrāhīm When Ibrāhīm ﷺ took his stand, there was not another believer on the face of the earth. He was, as the Qurʾān describes him, an ummah — a whole community — in a single man. This book is written for the believer who knows that feeling: the one who turns toward Allāh while everything around them turns the other way. Through the story of the Khalīl — his solitude, his certainty, his family, and the civilization that rose from one man's ḥanīf resolve — it traces what it means to hold the faith that begins alone. Volume IV of the Sacred Stories Series. Order now: 🇺🇸 US — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2ZM7646 🇬🇧 UK — https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H2ZM7646 🇨🇦 Canada — https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0H2ZM7646 🇳🇱 Netherlands — https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B0H2ZM7646 Thaqafa Press

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🗡️“And from where would I be granted the honor of being killed over a Sunnah?!” It was the time of Ẓuhr at the maḥras of Ibn al-Shawwāʾ — a coastal watch-post on the frontier port of Alexandria, part military lookout, part teaching circle. Ibn al-ʿArabī was the resident teacher there, and on this particular afternoon he had taken his usual seat at the back of the masjid, near the openings overlooking the sea, perhaps hoping to catch a breeze against the heat. His teacher walked in. Abū Bakr al-Ṭurṭūshī — the great Mālikī faqīh of al-Andalus, the faqīh of the age by his student’s own admission — came in from the watch-post side and made his way to the first row. He stood to pray. And in that same first row, just a few men away, stood Abū Thumna, raʾīs al-baḥr — the commander of the Fāṭimid fleet — flanked by his officers, half-praying and half-watching the ships in the harbor below. When al-Ṭurṭūshī performed rafʿ al-yadayn — raising his hands at the rukūʿ and again when rising from it — the commander turned to his men and said, low enough to be conspiratorial but loud enough for Ibn al-ʿArabī to hear from the back: «ألا تَرَوْن إلى هذا المشرقيّ كيف دخل مسجدنا؟! فقوموا إليه فاقتلوه، وارموا به في البحر، فلا يراكم أحد». “Do you see what this easterner has done in our masjid? Get up, kill him, and throw his body into the sea — let no one see you.” To the Egyptian sailors of that era, the gesture read as a foreign Mashriqī import, an intrusion of “easterner” practice into their masjid. They didn’t recognize it as the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ. They didn’t recognize it as the Madanī riwāyah from Imām Mālik himself. They saw a stranger praying strangely in their territory, and reached for blood. Ibn al-ʿArabī says his heart leapt out from between his ribs. He scrambled forward. “Subḥān Allāh — this is al-Ṭurṭūshī, the faqīh of the age!” “Then why is he raising his hands?” “Because this is how the Prophet ﷺ used to pray, and this is the madhhab of Mālik in the narration of the people of Madīnah.” He kept defusing them, calming them, holding them back, until the Shaykh finished his prayer in peace — never knowing, in the moment, how close he had come. Then Ibn al-ʿArabī walked him out toward his lodging. Al-Ṭurṭūshī noticed his student’s face had drained of color and pressed him for the reason. So Ibn al-ʿArabī told him everything — the commander, the order, the drawn breath of the entire row. The Shaykh laughed. And he said: وَمِنْ أَيْنَ لِي أَنْ أُقْتَلَ عَلَى سُنَّة؟! “And from where would I be granted the honor of being killed over a Sunnah?!” Ibn al-ʿArabī, still shaken, tried to talk sense into him: “This is not permissible for you — you are among a people who, if you persist, will rise against you, and your blood may well be spilled.” Al-Ṭurṭūshī waved him off: “Leave this talk. Speak of something else.” 📚Adapted from: Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī, Aḥkām al-Qurʾān, in his commentary on Sūrat al-Inshiqāq (84:21).​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[المتحمسون لا يعوضون الأمة عن علمائها] Enthusiasts Don't Replace the Scholars [ash-Shaykh 'Abd Allāh ibn 'Abd ar-Raḥīm al-Bukhārī] • 🎙 لفضيلة الشيخ العلّامة أ.د: عبد الله بن عبد الرحيم البخاري حفظه الله ونفع به. • https://t.me/dr_elbukhary • 📍 قناة فوائد مشايخ المدينة https://t.me/madinasona

The Ease of Access and the Weight of Responsibility Don’t let your time slip away in idleness. Every moment you have is an opportunity—either it raises you or it is lost. Even small, consistent efforts in seeking knowledge, improving yourself, and doing what is beneficial will accumulate into something tremendous over time in-shā-Allāh. Stay purposeful. If you can’t do much, then do a little—but do it regularly. Attend, read, listen, reflect, and act. The path of growth isn’t built on bursts of motivation, but on steady commitment. Make your time count. What you invest today, you will see the reward of tomorrow in-shā-Allāh.

#الساكت_ليس_ملزما_بالكلام_في_الفتنة. The Silent Is Not Obligated To Speak In Fitna | Shaykh Abdullah al-Bukhari. • 🎙 لفضيلة الشيخ العلّامة أ.د: عبد الله بن عبد الرحيم البخاري حفظه الله ونفع به. • https://t.me/dr_elbukhary • 📍 قناة فوائد مشايخ المدينة https://t.me/madinasona

Allāh ﷻ said about no other prophet what He said about Ibrāhīm ﷺ: «إِنَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ كَانَ أُمَّةً» “Indeed, Ibrāhīm was an ummah unto himself.” — al-Naḥl 16:120 One man. One conviction. An entire civilization of falsehood on the other side. He wasn’t fearless. He was brave because he was certain. And his journey — from a one-man ummah to the father of believing nations — is one Allāh ﷻ preserved for us to study, sit with, and learn from. Learn about the true Abrahamic faith — what Ibrāhīm ﷺ actually called to, actually stood for, and actually built. That is the question this book was written to answer. 📖 An Ummah of One — the story of Ibrāhīm ﷺ Volume three of the Sacred Stories Series From Thaqafa Press. More details soon, in shāʾ Allāh.

[“They Say I am Reserved” An Advice on Self-Respect & Preserving the Dignity of Islamic Knowledge] Many of us grow up in places where teachers and scholars are not respected. Instead of being honored, they are dismissed, undermined, unsupported, or even attacked and mocked. There is nothing new about any of that. The Qāḍī ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Jurjānī, was criticized for keeping his distance from people. But his “distance” was not arrogance or antisocial withdrawal—it was self-respect. He refused to lower himself for worldly gains, to flatter potential benefactors, or to use sacred knowledge as a tool to win favor. He famously composed the following poetry: يَقُولُونَ لِي فِيكَ انْقِبَاضٌ وَإِنَّمَا … رَأَوْا رَجُلًا عَنْ ‌مَوْقِفِ ‌الذُّلِّ ‌أَحْجَمَا “They say I am reserved—yet all they have seen is a man who recoils away from dishonor. أَرَى النَّاسَ مَنْ دَانَاهُمْ هَانَ عِنْدَهُمْ … وَمَنْ أَكْرَمَتْهُ عِزَّةُ النَّفْسِ أُكْرِمَا I see that whoever gets too close to people is devalued by them, but he who is ennobled by self-dignity is honored. وَلَمْ أَقْضِ حَقَّ الْعِلْمِ إِنْ كَانَ كُلَّمَا … بَدَا طَمَعٌ صَيَّرْتُهُ لِي سُلَّمَا I would not fulfill the right of knowledge if every opportunity for a favor that arose, I turned into a ladder for myself. وَمَا كُلُّ بَرْقٍ لَاحَ لِي يَسْتَفِزُّنِي … وَلَا كُلُّ مَنْ لَاقَيْتُ أَرْضَاهُ مُنْعِمَا Not every flash of lightning stirs me to chase it, nor do I flatter every man I meet as a potential benefactor. إذَا قِيلَ هَذَا مَنْهَلٌ قُلْتُ قَدْ أَرَى … وَلَكِنَّ نَفْسَ الْحُرِّ تَحْتَمِلُ الظَّمَا If they say, “Here is a spring to drink from,” I answer, “I see it— But the soul of the free endures thirst with patience.” انْهَهَا عَنْ بَعْضِ مَا لَا يَشِينُهَا … مَخَافَةَ أَقْوَالِ الْعِدَا فِيمَ أَوْ لِمَا I restrain it from things that wouldn’t even dishonor it, lest my enemies ask in scorn, “Why this, and why that?” وَلَمْ أَبْتَذِلْ فِي خِدْمَةِ الْعِلْمِ مُهْجَتِي … لِأَخْدُمَ مَنْ لَاقَيْتُ لَكِنْ لِأُخْدَمَا I did not exhaust myself in the service of knowledge to serve everyone I meet, but so that I might be served in return. أَأَشْقَى بِهِ غَرْسًا وَأَجْنِيهِ ذِلَّةً … إِذًا فَاتِّبَاعُ الْجَهْلِ قَدْ كَانَ أَحْزَمَا Shall I toil to plant it, only to reap humiliation? If so, then seeking ignorance would have been the wiser course of action. وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْعِلْمِ صَانُوهُ صَانَهُمْ … وَلَوْ عَظَّمُوهُ فِي النُّفُوسِ لَعُظِّمَا Had the people of knowledge preserved its dignity, it would have preserved them; Had they magnified it in their souls, it would have been magnified. وَلَكِنْ أَهَانُوهُ فَهَانَ وَدَنَّسُوا … مُحَيَّاهُ بِالْأَطْمَاعِ حَتَّى تَجَهَّمَا But they debased it, so it was debased, and stained its countenance with greedy expectations until it grew ugly.” This is how we rebuild a culture of respect for teachers and scholars: by starting with our personal attitudes on its preciousness, holding learning as sacred, and refusing to let it be debased. Knowledge is not a cheap commodity: Do not bow for crumbs or flatter those those with influence. Learning is a crown, not a begging bowl. Don’t feed the egos of self-appointed gatekeepers; flatten delusional hierarchies. Respect begins with yourself: If you treat what you know as cheap, others will follow suit and devalue knowledge. Carry what you know with dignity, and people will honor you because of it. Walk away from humiliation: Better to die on your feet than live on your knees. Better to remain obscure and even mediocre than to treat knowledge in a way that drags you into pandering for money or status. Not everyone who wears an honorific title protects its sanctity. The easy road—compromise, flattery, cheap rewards—only makes you small. The harder road of self-respect builds strength that no one can strip from you. Learning should elevate, not humiliate you: The purpose is to honor you, not to belittle you. Knowledge is meant to free you, not chain you.

Corrected link: Listen and benefit: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/too-much-focus-on-reputation-image-be-warned-of-hypocrisy--71261776

https://x.com/1MMPGH/status/2043030145859022936?s=20 New Friday Khutbah Available Too Much Focus on Reputation, Status & Image — Neglecting Real Personal Growth & Character In this important reminder, Abul-‘Abbaas Moosaa Richardson discusses the dangers of prioritizing public image over sincere self-rectification and true character development. A powerful warning against hypocrisy and the culture of social media appearances. Listen and benefit: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/foundations-of-the-sunnah-al-humaydee–6661024 May Allah grant us sincerity and true growth in character.

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