Umar Quinn

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💎 [An essential cause of unity is disregarding & ignoring provocation and instigation] Al-Hasan al Basri (رحمه الله) said, ما استقصى كريم قط. "A noble person never insists on exacting his full rights." Amr ibn Uthman al-Makki ( رحمه الله) said, "المروءة التغافل عن زلل الإخوان". "True nobility is overlooking the faults of friends." Al-Awza'i ( رحمه الله) said, السلامة عشرة أجزاء؛ منها: تسعـة في التغافل. "Well-being consists of ten parts; nine of them are in overlooking faults." This is similarly reported from Imam Uthman ibn Zaidah, eliciting Imam Ahmad to respond, العافية عشرة أجزاء كلها في التغافل "Well-being consists of ten parts, all of them in overlooking faults." Sufyan al-Thawri ( رحمه الله) said, ما زال التغافل من فعل الكرام. "Overlooking faults has always been the practice of the noble." Al-A’mash ( رحمه الله) said, : "التغافل يطفئ شرًا كثيرًا" "Overlooking faults extinguishes much evil." Al-Shafi’i ( رحمه الله) said, "الكيّس العاقل هو الفطن المتغافل" "The intelligent and wise person is the one who pretends not to notice." The poet said: ليس الغبي بسيد في قومه *** لكن سيد قومه المتغابي "The fool is not the leader of his people, but the leader of his people is the one who pretends to be a fool." Aktham ibn Saifi ( رحمه الله) said: مَنْ شَدَّدَ نَفَّرَ، وَمَنْ تَرَاخَى تَأَلَّفَ، وَالشَّرَفُ فِي التَّغَافُلِ، "Whoever is strict repels others, and whoever is lenient wins their affection. Nobility lies in overlooking faults." He also said, السَّخَاءُ حُسْنُ الْفَطِنَةِ وَاللُّؤْمُ سُـوءُ التَّغَافُـلِ. "Generosity is good perception, and meanness is poor perception of what should be overlooked." Salahuddin al-Ṣafadī said in his Lāmiyah poem: واستشعرِ الحِلمَ في كلِّ الأمورِ ولا * * * تُسرع ببادرةٍ يوماً إلى رجلِ Embrace wise-restraint in all matters, And never hastily lash out at anyone. وإنْ بُليتَ بشخصٍ لاَ خَلاقَ لهُ * * * فكُنْ كأنَّكَ لمْ تسمعْ ولمْ يَقُلِ If you are afflicted with a person who lacks goodness, Act as if you did not hear him and he did not speak. Ibn al-Azraq said about kingly manners in "Bada'i' al-Silk fi Taba'i' al-Mulk": إِن من السخاء وَالْكَرم ترك التجني وَترك الْبَحْث عَن بَاطِن الغيوب والإمساك عَن ذكر الْعُيُوب كَمَا أَن من تَمام الْفَضَائِل الصفح عَن التوبيخ وإكرام الْكَرِيم والبشر فِي اللِّقَاء ورد التَّحِيَّة والتغافل عَن خطأ الْجَاهِل، من شدد نفر وَمن ترَاخى تألف "Generosity and nobility include refraining from seeking revenge, abstaining from probing into hidden matters, refraining from mentioning faults, and part of perfect virtues is forgiving reproach, honoring the noble, showing a cheerful countenance, reciprocating greetings, and overlooking the mistakes of the ignorant. Strictness repels people, and leniency wins their affection."

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We are starting late today due to a small hiccup. Should be starting the talk around 7:40ish

[[Claiming What’s Not Yours Won’t Make It Yours: Falsely Claiming Rights Has Grave Consequences]] Abu Dharr reported from the Prophet (ﷺ) that he said: «مَنِ ادَّعَىٰ مَا لَيْسَ لَهُ فَلَيْسَ مِنَّا، وَلْيَتَبَوَّأْ مَقْعَدَهُ مِنَ النَّارِ.» “Whoever lays claim to that which is not rightfully theirs is not of us, and let him take his seat in the Fire.” Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī, Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Mājah, no. 1891. Also in: al-Bukhārī, Ṣaḥīḥ, no. 3508; Muslim, Ṣaḥīḥ, no. 61. People’s rights are what Allah—in His mercy and justice—has precisely assigned. Yet how often do oppressors play the victim, feeling entitled to what was never theirs. This is the tragic result of making major life decisions—like business partnerships, marriage, divorce, and custody—without knowledge of Islamic guidance. Some act as though their emotions and assumptions dictate rights, as if Allah left such matters to personal opinion. When their baseless claims are met with diplomacy and compromise from the other party, they become greedier—like a dog drinking saltwater, never quenched. Worse still, false claimants often escalate: lying, slandering, and widening the conflict—rallying allies and stirring group-think warfare, all rooted in a compound ignorance of the very Sharīʿah they ignore. Some even go as far as dragging Muslims into non-Muslim courts to seize what they have no right to, and when handed the spoils of injustice, they take them without shame—yet remain unsatisfied. May Allah protect us from one another’s harm and the wickedness of the treacherous. Written by Abu Suhailah ‘Umar Quinn.

Strive to Be the Best for Your Children ‎Imām ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Saʿdī رحمه الله

💎[[Keep a Low Profile, Get in Where You Fit In, & Protect Your Heart & Religion From The Slaughterhouse of Popularity]] Al-Ṭabarānī reported in al Kabīr and al-Bayhaqī narrated in his Sunan from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: «ٱتَّقُوا هَذِهِ ٱلْمَذَابِحَ»، يَعْنِي: ٱلْمَحَارِيبَ. “Beware of these slaughterhouses.” He meant by that: the elevated seats of gatherings (al-miḥrāb). [Al-Albānī authenticated the narration in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmiʿ (no. 120) Silsilah Al-Da’īfah (1/641).] 1️⃣ Al-Haythamī stated: «ٱلْمَحَارِيبُ صُدُورُ ٱلْمَجَالِسِ». اهـ. “Al-maḥārīb are the fronts of gatherings.” 2️⃣ Ibn al-Athīr explained: «ٱلْمِحْرَابُ: ٱلْمَوْضِعُ ٱلْعَالِي ٱلْمُشْرِفُ، وَهُوَ صَدْرُ ٱلْمَجْلِسِ أَيْضًا، وَمِنْهُ سُمِّيَ مِحْرَابُ ٱلْمَسْجِدِ، وَهُوَ صَدْرُهُ وَأَشْرَفُ مَوْضِعٍ فِيهِ». اهـ. “The miḥrāb is the elevated, prominent spot — the forefront of a gathering — and from this, the miḥrāb of the mosque derives its name, being the foremost and most dignified part of it.” 3️⃣ Al-Munāwī added: «أَيْ تَجَنَّبُوا تَحَرِّي صُدُورِ ٱلْمَجَالِسِ، يَعْنِي ٱلتَّنَافُسَ فِيهَا». “That is, avoid seeking out the head positions in assemblies — referring to competing over them.” 4️⃣ Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Amīr al-Ṣanʿānī remarked: «وَذَٰلِكَ لِمَا تَجِدُهُ ٱلنَّفْسُ مِنَ ٱلْكِبْرِ وَٱلتَّرَفُّعِ عَلَىٰ مَنْ دُونَهَا، وَفِي حَدِيثِ أَنَسٍ: كَانَ يَكْرَهُ ٱلْمَحَارِيبَ، أَيْ: لَمْ يَكُنْ يَجْلِسُ فِي صُدُورِ ٱلْمَجَالِسِ وَيَتَرَفَّعُ عَلَى ٱلنَّاسِ». “This is due to what the self finds of arrogance and self-exaltation over others. And in the ḥadīth of Anas: ‘He used to dislike the maḥārīb,’ meaning: he would not sit at the heads of gatherings nor elevate himself above the people.” ⸻ 📚 Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ṣalāḥ al-Ṣanʿānī, al-Tanwīr Sharḥ al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr 1st ed. (Riyadh: Maktabat Dār al-Salām, 1432 AH / 2011 CE), 1:350. -Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr, 1st ed. (Beirut: al-Maktab al-Islāmī, 1988), ḥadīth no. 120. -al-Haythamī, Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid wa Manbaʿ al-Fawāʾid -ʿAlī ibn al-Athīr, al-Nihāyah fī Gharīb al-Ḥadīth wa al-Athar (Beirut: Dār Ibn al-Jawzī, n.d.).

💡 [[Don’t Allow the Little You Know Inflate You Into a Petty Tyrant]] Wahb ibn Munabbih said: «إِنَّ ‌لِلْعِلْمِ ‌طُغْيَانًا كَطُغْيَانِ الْمَالِ» "Indeed, knowledge has a tyranny like the tyranny of wealth." Ibn al Athīr comments: «إِنَّ ‌لِلْعِلْمِ ‌طُغْيَانًا كَطُغْيَانِ الْمَالِ»؛ أَيْ: يَحْمِلُ صَاحِبَهُ عَلَى التَّرَخُّصِ بِمَا ٱشْتَبَهَ مِنْهُ إِلَىٰ مَا لَا يَحِلُّ لَهُ، وَيَتَرَفَّعُ بِهِ عَلَىٰ مَنْ دُونَهُ، وَلَا يُعْطِي حَقَّهُ بِالْعَمَلِ بِهِ، كَمَا يَفْعَلُ رَبُّ الْمَالِ. "Indeed, knowledge can have a tyranny like that of wealth: it may lead one to excuse what is unlawful through ambiguous reasoning, elevate himself arrogantly above others, and fail to act upon that knowledge—just as the wealthy behave." Shaykh Ṣāliḥ Āl al-Shaykh, May Allah protect him, explains: «وَاللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ وَصَفَ أَهْلَ الْمَالِ بِقَوْلِهِ: ﴿كَلَّا إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَيَطْغَىٰ (٦) أَنْ رَآهُ ٱسْتَغْنَىٰ﴾ \[العَلَق: ٦–٨]، كَذٰلِكَ الْمَرْءُ قَدْ يَزْدَادُ عِنْدَهُ الْعِلْمُ حَتَّىٰ تُكْسِبَهُ تِلْكَ الزِّيَادَةُ طُغْيَانًا، "Allah ﷻ described the people of wealth with His words: ﴾Nay! Verily, man transgresses (6) because he sees himself self-sufficient﴿ [al-ʿAlaq: 6–8]. In like manner, a person may increase in knowledge until that very increase leads him to transgression. فَيَتَعَدَّىٰ عَلَىٰ غَيْرِهِ، وَلَا يَسْلُكُ مَعَ النَّاسِ سَبِيلَ الشَّرْعِ فِي الْعَدْلِ فِي اللَّفْظِ وَحَمْلِ أَقْوَالِهِمْ وَنَحْوِ ذٰلِكَ مِمَّا يَجِبُ عَلَى الْمَرْءِ أَنْ يَعْدِلَ فِيهِ؛ He begins to overstep his bounds with others and fails to treat people according to the path of the Sharīʿah—in justice of speech, in interpreting their words, and in all else that requires fairness. لِأَنَّ مَنْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يُقَيِّمَ الْأَقْوَالَ فَهُوَ قَاضٍ، وَالْقَاضِي يَجِبُ عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يَحْكُمَ بِالْعَدْلِ، لَا أَنْ يَحْكُمَ بِالْهَوَىٰ، ﴿فَٱحْكُم بَيْنَ ٱلنَّاسِ بِٱلْحَقِّ وَلَا تَتَّبِعِ ٱلْهَوَىٰ فَيُضِلَّكَ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ﴾ \[ص: ٢٦]. Whoever seeks to evaluate the words of others is in the position of a judge; and a judge must rule with justice, not according to whims and desires. As Allah says: ﴾So judge between people in truth and do not follow desire, lest it mislead you from the path of Allah﴿ [Ṣād: 26]. وَالْمَرْءُ إِذَا أَخْطَأَ –ٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ– جَاءَهُ كُلُّ غَلَطٍ، تَأْتِيهِ الْآرَاءُ الْخَطَأُ، وَيَقْتَنِعُ بِهَا وَيُؤَيِّدُهَا، ثُمَّ يَتَعَصَّبُ لَهَا، ثُمَّ يَحْصُلُ فَسَادٌ مِنْ أَقْوَالِهِ؛ If a person skips past saying “Allah knows best” then every form of error assails him. Faulty opinions present themselves to him, and he adopts them, defends them, then becomes fanatically attached to them, until corruption appears in his words themselves. لَكِنْ إِذَا عَوَّدَ نَفْسَهُ أَنْ يَمْتَثِلَ هٰذَا الْأَصْلَ –وَهُوَ: مَا لَا يَعْلَمُ يَقُولُ (ٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ)– فُتِحَتْ لِقَلْبِهِ أَنْوَارٌ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ، ثُمَّ إِذَا عَلِمَ الْعِلْمَ ثَبَتَ عِنْدَهُ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَىٰ، تَوَاضَعَ لِلَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ، وَمَنْ تَوَاضَعَ لِلَّهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ رَفَعَهُ.» However, if one trains himself to live by this principle—that regarding what he does not know, he says: 'Allah knows best'—then lights of knowledge will open within his heart. And when knowledge does come to him, it becomes firmly grounded, by Allah’s permission. He humbles himself before Allah, and whoever humbles himself before Allah, Allah will raise him." — 📝 Ibn al-Athīr, Al-Nihāyah fī Gharīb al-Ḥadīth, vol. 3, p. 128. Ṣāliḥ Āl al-Shaykh, Ittiḥāf al-Sāʾil bimā fī al-Ṭaḥāwiyyah min Masāʾil, p. 499b. https://t.me/umarquinn/779

💎[[”Much Discord is Based On a Weak Premise”]] In a time of highly opinionated people where oftentimes the loudest and most outspoken person/people in the room are the wrongest, we must always be careful to not treat our opinions and narrow perspectives as facts, as though they descended upon us from the heavens. A refusal to admit that you don’t know what you don’t know is compounded ignorance and results in much discord. Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah -رحمه الله- said: إِنَّ كَثِيرًا مِنْ نِزَاعِ ٱلْعُقَلَاءِ لِكَوْنِهِمْ لَا يَتَصَوَّرُونَ مَوْرِدَ ٱلنِّزَاعِ تَصَوُّرًا بَيِّنًا، وَكَثِيرٌ مِنَ ٱلنِّزَاعِ قَدْ يَكُونُ ٱلصَّوَابُ فِيهِ فِي قَوْلٍ آخَرَ غَيْرِ ٱلْقَوْلَيْنِ ٱلَّذَيْنِ قَالَاهُمَا، وَكَثِيرٌ مِنَ ٱلنِّزَاعِ قَدْ يَكُونُ مَبْنِيًّا عَلَىٰ أَصْلٍ ضَعِيفٍ، إِذَا بُيِّنَ فَسَادُهُ ٱرْتَفَعَ ٱلنِّزَاعُ. “Indeed, much of the dispute among rational people arises because they do not clearly conceptualize the point of contention. And many disagreements may contain the truth not in either of the two opposing views, but in a third, unspoken one. Moreover, much discord is often built upon a weak premise; and once the flaw in that premise is exposed, the dispute itself vanishes.” 📚 Ibn Taymiyyah, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm. Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā. Edited by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Qāsim. Riyadh: Muʾassasat al-Risālah, 3rd ed., 1426 AH, vol. 12, p. 57. https://t.me/umarquinn/778

بركة صلة الرحم قال رسول الله ﷺ : إنَّ أعجَلَ الطَّاعةِ ثوابًا صِلَةُ الرَّحِمِ ، حتَّى إنَّ أهلَ البيتِ لَيكونوا فَجَرةً فتنموَ أموالُهم ويكثُر عددُهم إذا تواصَلوا ، وما مِن أهلِ بيتٍ يتواصَلونَ فيحتاجونَ 📚[صحيح ابن حبان] 🏷️ قال ابن القيم -رحمه الله- : إن القوم ليتواصلون وهم فجرة ! ⇦ فتكثر أموالهم ⇦ ويكثر عددهم وإن القــــــوم ليتقاطعون ⇦ فتقل أموالهم ⇦ ويقل عددهم. 📖مختصرالصواعق(٨٨٦/٣)

💎Ibn al-Qayyim -رحمه الله- said: “ذَبْحُ الشّاةِ الواحِدَةِ يَومَ النَّحرِ أَحَبُّ إِلَى اللَّهِ مِنَ الصَّدَقَةِ بِأَضْعافِ أَضْعافِ ثَمَنِهَا، وَإِن كَثُرَ ثَوَابُ الصَّدَقَةِ.” 🔹 Slaughtering a single sheep on the Day of Naḥr is more beloved to Allah than giving in charity many times its value—even though the reward of charity is great. 📖 Al-Manār al-Munīf, p. 11