One Of The Most Beautiful Narrations I’ve Ever Read, Regarding Tawakkul🍃🍃✨✨✨✨🍃🍃

:قال الإمام ابن الجوزي رحمه الله تعالى

متى رأيت تكديرًا في حال فاذكر نعمة ما شُكرتْ أو زلة قد فُعلتْ

[صيد الخاطر، صـ٤٩]

Al-Imām Ibnul-Jawzī, raḥimahullāh said:

“Whenever you see [yourself in] a difficult situation then remember a blessing that was not shown gratitude for or a mistake that was made.”

[Ṣaydul-Khāṭir, pg.49]

What Happened To Your Du'ā?

Abú Saʿīd al-Khudrī reported: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ، عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا الْمُتَوَكِّلِ النَّاجِيَّ، قَالَ: قَالَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ: قَالَ نَبِيُّ اللَّهِ: “There is no Muslim who calls upon Allah, “ مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يَدْعُو بِدَعْوَةٍ without ithm (ie: sin), لَيْسَ فِيهَا إِثْمٌ، or cutting family ties in it, وَلَا قَطِيعَةُ رَحِمٍ، but that Allah will give him one of three answers: إِلَّا أَعْطَاهُ اللَّهُ بِهَا إِحْدَى ثَلَاثٍ: He will quickly fulfil his supplication, إِمَّا أَنْ يُعَجِّلَ لَهُ دَعْوَتَهُ، He will store it for him in the Hereafter, وَإِمَّا يَدَّخِرَهَا لَهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ، or He will divert an evil from him similar to it.” وَإِمَّا أَنْ يَكْشِفَ عَنْهُ السُّوءَ بِمِثْلِهَا "، They said, “In that case, we will ask for more.” قَالُوا: إِذًا نُكْثِرُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ (He ﷺ) said: “Allah has even more.” قَالَ: «اللَّهُ أَكْثَرُ» Ibn Abī Shaybah, al-Muṣannaf 6/22 #29170 إبن أبي شيبة، مصنف ٦/٢٢ #٢٩١٧٠ https://shamela.ws/book/9944/33045 @ilmtest [https://t.me/ilmtest]

The Description of Imam Ahmad

Muḥammad b. ʿAbbās al-Naḥwī said: “I saw Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal with a handsome face, well-formed, رَأَيْتُ أَحْمَدَ بنَ حَنْبَلٍ حَسَنَ الوَجْهِ، رَبْعَةً، and dyeing his hair with henna that was not too dark. يَخْضِبُ بِالحِنَّاءِ خِضَاباً لَيْسَ بِالقَانِي، He had black hairs in his beard, فِي لِحْيَتِه شَعَرَاتٌ سُودٌ، and I saw his clothes extremely white. وَرَأَيْتُ ثِيَابَهُ غِلاَظاً بِيضاً، When I saw him, he was wearing a turban and an izār.” وَرَأَيْتُهُ مُعْتَمّاً، وَعَلَيْهِ إِزَارٌ. al-Ḏahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ 11/184 الذهبي، سير أعلام النبلاء ١١/١٨٤ https://shamela.ws/book/10906/7366 @ilmtest [https://t.me/ilmtest]

💛IF💛

Motivation is overrated. What you need is discipline.

Discipline doesn't require motivation, happiness, nice weather, cute hair, the right clothes, the latest equipment, that one inspirational video that will change it all. Discipline only requires you.

Discipline requires you in pieces, too: bits of you, bare minimums, daily littles, step by steps. Motivation is always calling up big moves, 3 A.M. transformations, Monday makeovers, bonfires that quickly sizzle; but discipline keeps you warm through the thickest winter.

Discipline only wants you in return. It's always you, and only you, over and over.

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." — Robert Collier