Regarding that which has been [authentically] reported about the prohibition of walking in a single shoe (footwear), then [wearing] a khuff (leather sock) or a [regular] sock [on a single foot] is...
Category: Words of Wisdom
Lazy people
The lazy ones are the most distressed, depressed and saddest of the people; they experience no joy nor pleasure.
Not from the muttaqoon until…
A man is not [considered to be] from amongst the muttaqoon [الْمُتّقُوْن] until he takes himself to account [to a degree] more than taking his partner to account, [sufficiently such] until he knows...
The greatest loss
We left Yemen [with the intention of] making hijrah - wanting [to meet] the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ.
Beware of the scholars of evil
Be cautious of the scholars of evil, just as you are cautious of Iblees.
That which we have witnessed
That which we have witnessed - as have others [too] - and have come to know by experience is that when music and musical instruments were adopted by the people and they spread [amongst them] and...
The most all-encompassing of supplications
Our Lord, give us in this world that which is good and in the Hereafter that which is good, and protect us from the punishment of the Fire.
Falsely accused of being one of them
In our village, there wasn't anyone from al-Ikhwaan al-Muslimoon, [rather] in our village there were members of Hizb at-Tahreer; [their] gatherings were held there to educate those affiliated to this...
My father, as I knew him
Before [the advent of] electricity, he would go out every moonlit night to read. And in winter, he would go out and sit between two steel barrels for protection against the cold!
He would read 800 pages a day
He (Shibbeer 'Ataa رحمه الله) was extremely fond of knowledge, and would read extensively, such that when he was in his youth, he would read 800 pages a day, and read 2,000 volumes in the moonlight.'