Category: Book Lessons

Allah says in the Quran, meaning among His signs. are ships sailing in the sea like mountains. You may move to a port city seeking the fadhl of Allah. Allah says in the Quran meaning. It is your Rabb. Who drives for you Ships in the sea. So you may get from the bounty of Allah.

Indeed He is very merciful to you. This shows us that port cities are nodes on the earth where ships carrying goods, land and price of goods increases just because of the fact someone took the time and effort and the risk to move them from one place to the other.

The Prophet. Peace upon him said meaning the prophet. Peace be upon him. Said Meaning the Prophet. Peace be upon him. Said meaning. Grow the beard and trim the moustache. All of the companions had big beards. The least amount of beard to keep is one fistful because Ibn Mas’ud may Allah be pleased with him, used to cut his beard beyond a handful.

Growing a beard is a great deed, especially in a time when there is corruption. There is a weak narration which says, he who attaches himself with my Sunnah when there is corruption in my nation. For him is a reward of 100 martyrs being born at a time when beard is considered strange. And growing it and reviving the Sunnah is a big opportunity for the Muslim men to prove their loyalty to Allah

And we beg Allah to forgive us and keep us on Islam to our last day. Ameen

The Prophet peace upon him, said meaning he who averts from a believer of hardship, from the hardships of this world. Allah averts from him a hardship from the hardships of the hereafter.

And He will makes it easy for the one who is in difficulty Allah makes it easy for him in this world and the next. And he who conceals the fault of a muslim Allah conceals his faults in this world and the next. And Allah helps a slave. The slave who is helping his brother. How ever you should do this after you’ve helped yourself.

because of the hadith of the man who used to do this and Allah sent rain on his garden. Once a man heard a voice say, Go and give rain to so-and-so’s garden. The man followed the cloud and reached this man’s garden and asked. I heard a voice saying, Go, go and send rain upon your garden.

What is the good deed? which you do? The man replied. He divides all of his produce in three buckets, uses one for himself and his family. He puts the other back into the business and he spends the third half in the way of Allah.

Allah says in the Quran meaning and other ones who travel the land seeking from the preference of Allah.

This shows us getting wealth is tied to traveling the earth. The value of things changes based on their location. Take the example of a city which produces a lot of rice and little to no wheat. People who live here have more rice than they can eat, and anyone can buy a sack full of rice. For one silver coin in the city.

Now, imagine you took a thousand sacks of rice, filled an entire ship with them, and sailed to a far away city bearing the pain of travel in this far away city. Wheat is local produce and rice is a delicacy. And people buy one sack of rice for one gold coin. So you sell the rice in the city and load up your ship with a thousand sacks of wheat and sail back, making lots of profits.

The value of people also changes based on their location.

Because Allah says in the Quran meaning O you who believe fulfill your promises. This is the first verse of Surah Almaidah. For a muslim, a promise has to be fulfilled. Do not give your word that you will do something unless you have as good as already done it. When the customer expects you to do something in two days and you build it in one, you have under-promised and overdeliver.

You have exceeded their expectations. Now they will be happy to refer you more customers.

The prophet pbuh said, meaning the best horse is black with a white spot since the prophet peace upon him, said meaning the best horse is black. One may say the best color for a ride is also black.

The billionaire entrepreneur who drives yellow, orange, red cars pays taxes to people driving black cars. This is my personal observation. People who prefer black cars are more easygoing and generous. SUV is the best type of car because it has more ground clearance. It can offroad a car which cannot offroad is like a toddler still learning to walk. This is why I take issue with performance cars.

How can a sensible man consider something? A car which can only drive in the local neighborhood. On perfect roads.

Allah says in the Quran meaning until they embarked on a ship. So he made a hole in it. He Moosa said, Are you making a hole so it would sink? Its people. Indeed. You have done a grave thing. Later in the chapter, Allah says meaning. As for the ship, it was for the poor people working at sea. So I intended to create a defect in it. And beyond them was a king who used to seize every ship by force.

Allah sayas in the Quran, meaning say to the people good things. People love People who speak good things to them, give them hope, speak positively, and remind them of positive things. The reverse is also true. All social media algorithms mimic this. Would you like to read a magazine which constantly criticized you?

Or the one which highlighted your strengths? Of course the latter. This is why podcast formats work so well. Because they take the viewer to a lounge where people trust each other. Do not become a source of unhappiness for people. Keep quiet. If you can’t become a source of positivity for people, the prophet, peace be upon him, said a believer should say something good or keep quiet.