Sunday, January 15, 2012

The Beginning

To all my students in this new semester, I wish you all the best.
Let us all raise our hands together in praise of Him, The Most Merciful.
Let us all ask for His blessings and guidance so that our hearts will always remain in remembrance of Him in everything that we do.
May the next fourteen weeks of classes becomes the weeks that will take us closer to Him. Ameen...

"Whoever treads on a path in search of Islamic knowledge, Allah will ease the way to Paradise for him. The angels will lower their wings, pleased with this seeker of knowledge, and everyone in the heavens and on earth will ask forgiveness for the knowledgeable person, even the fish in the deepest of waters will ask for his forgiveness”
[Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah, Tirmidhi # 2835-sahih hadith]

"Seek knowledge, because seeking it for the sake of Allah is a worship. And knowing it makes you more God-fearing; and searching for it is jihad, teaching it to those who do not know is charity, reviewing and learning it more is like tasbeeh. Through knowledge Allah will be known and worshipped. With the knowledge Allah will elevate people and make them leaders and imams, who will in turn guide other people."
[Fatawa Ibn Taymiyya vol.10, p.39]

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