Do not detest the misfortunes that befall you, for what you detest may be the cause of your salvation and what you like may be the cause of your ruin
– Hasan al-Basri rahimahu Llah –
20 Friday Jul 2018
Posted Hasan al-Basri
inDo not detest the misfortunes that befall you, for what you detest may be the cause of your salvation and what you like may be the cause of your ruin
– Hasan al-Basri rahimahu Llah –
18 Thursday Jan 2018
Posted Hasan al-Basri
inA man once said to Hasan al-Basri (rahimahu Llah):
People sit around you so that they may find fault with you.
Imam Hasan al-Basri (rahimahu Llah) replied
People are not pleased with their Creator even though He provides for them, so how can they be pleased with a created being like themselves?
25 Thursday Jun 2015
Posted Hasan al-Basri
in14 Saturday Feb 2015
A woman came to Sayyidina Hassan Al-Basri (rahimahu Llah) and said,
My daughter passed away and now I wish to see her in my dream.
Sayyidina Hassan (rahimahu Llah) told her,
Offer four rakat Nafl after Isha and in each rakaat recite Surah At-Takasur (102). Then go to sleep while reciting Salawaat upon RasulAllah ﷺ until you fall asleep.
The woman did so and narrated the dream to Sayyidina Hassan (rahimahu Llah) the next day. She said,
I saw her in a bad state. She was wearing dirty robes. Her hands were tied and there were chains of fire around her feet.
Sayyidina Hassan (rahimahu Llah) asked her to give sadqa and hope that her daughter’s affliction gets lessened. The following night Sayyidina Hassan (rahimahu Llah) himself saw a dream wherein he was in Jannah and there was a beautiful young girl on a throne dressed in magnificent clothes. She told him that she was the daughter of the woman who had visited him. Sayyidina Hassan (rahimahu Llah) told her,
But your mother told me that she saw you in a bad state.
The girl said,
Indeed what she said was true. We were 70,000 souls who were afflicted with the torture of the grave until a pious person passed by us. He recited Salawat upon RasulAllah ﷺ dedicated it’s sawaab to us. And Allah accepted it in such a manner that we were freed from our tribulations and what you see now is due to barakah of that Durood Shareef.
– Al-Qawl Al-Badee : Imaam Shams Ad-Deen Sakhaawi, p.234-235 –
09 Monday Feb 2015
Posted Hasan al-Basri
inA man said to Al-Hasan Al-Basri (rahimahullah):
The people sit around you so that they may find fault with you!
So he said,
Indeed, I encouraged my soul to aspire for Paradise so it aspired for it. Then I encouraged it to aspire for salvation from Hellfire and so it aspired for it. Then I encouraged it to aspire for salvation from the people, but I didn’t find a way to that. Indeed the people were not pleased with their Creator although He provides for them, so how can they be pleased with another creation like themselves?
– Source: Al-Bidaya wal-Nihaya (9/318 –
09 Friday Jan 2015
Posted Hasan al-Basri
in
Al-Hasan rahimahu Llah was scolded for his deep sadness and fear, so he replied:
What security do I have that perhaps Allah has seen what He dislikes of me and says, ‘Go, I will not forgive you’. So I work for that which cannot be worked for.
– [Translated from Mahmood Al-Masri’s ‘Qisas Al-Tabi’een’, P. 258]
09 Friday Jan 2015
Posted Hasan al-Basri
inal-Hasan rahimahu Llah was brought a mug of water to break his fast, so when it was brought nearer to him, he began to weep. He said,
‘I remembered the wish of the people of Hell-fire and what they said: “Pour upon us some water or from whatever Allah has provided you.” and I remembered the reply: “Indeed, Allah has forbidden them both to the disbelievers”.
– [Translated from Mahmood Al-Masri’s ‘Qisas Al-Tabi’een’, P. 258]
09 Friday Jan 2015
Posted Hasan al-Basri
in
A man asked al-Hasan rahimahu Llah,
How have you woken up?
He said,
Fine.
The man said,
How are you?
al-Hasan rahimahu Llah smiled and said,
You ask me how I am?! What do you think of people who got aboard a ship until they reached the middle of the sea and the ship broke down, so each one was hanging on by a wood, what would be their state? My state is more severe than theirs.
– [Translated from Mahmood Al-Masri’s ‘Qisas Al-Tabi’een’, P. 258]
09 Friday Jan 2015
Posted Hasan al-Basri
inAl-Hasan rahimahu Llah said:
The believer wakes up feeling sad and goes to sleep feeling sad as there is no room for him other than this since he is in between two (constant) fears: a mistake he has committed which he does not know what Allah will do with it, and the time left ahead not knowing what hardships he will face.
– [Translated from Mahmood Al-Masri’s ‘Qisas Al-Tabi’een’, P. 258]
09 Friday Jan 2015
Posted Hasan al-Basri
in09 Tuesday Sep 2014
Posted Hasan al-Basri
inA man came to Hasan al-Basri rahimauh Llah. He said
You (al-Basri) preach all this about prayer, the consequences of not obeying Allah, the loss etc. I’m the most corrupt man in this land. And y’know what. I have the most beautiful children, the most wealth & a successful business.
He asked
What blessing has Allah prevented me from getting? Where is my punishment?
Al-Basri asked him
can you wake up for Qiyam Al Layl?
The man replied
No.
Al-Basri said
that that is your prevention. Allah has prevented you from being close to Him. You have lost everything
18 Tuesday Mar 2014
07 Tuesday Jan 2014
Posted Hasan al-Basri
inSayyiduna Imam Hasan al-Basri rahimahu Llah beautifully once said that:
I have found nothing of the acts of worship more vigorous than Qiyam (voluntary night prayer).
It was said to him,
Why do those, who pray voluntary at night have the best faces?
He answered,
That is because they devote themselves to be alone with their Lord, so He Subhanahu wa Ta’ala provides for them a Light by which they walk.
30 Wednesday Oct 2013
Posted Hasan al-Basri
in07 Wednesday Aug 2013
Posted Hasan al-Basri, Rabia al-Basri
in05 Monday Aug 2013
Posted Hasan al-Basri
inIf the shaytaan looks at you and sees that you are consistent in an act of obedience to Allaah, he will try to come to you again and again. If he sees that you are persistent in your actions (despite his efforts) he will tire of you and leave you. But if he sees that you are one day like this and one day like that, he will have high hopes in you.
— Imam al-Hasan al-Basri (‘alayhi al-rahma wa’l ridhwan) –
09 Thursday May 2013
Posted Hasan al-Basri
in28 Sunday Apr 2013
Posted Hasan al-Basri
in01 Monday Oct 2012
Posted Hasan al-Basri
inA man came to Al-Hasan Al-Basri (rahimahu Llah) and said:
“I heard you say that if you commit sins, then Allāh prevents you from things. I do all the sins that you can think of and don’t do many good deeds. I have a beautiful wife and beautiful kids and a lot of money and land and am successful. Allāh did not prevent me from anything. How is it that you say that because of sins Allāh prevents you?”
He said:
“Do you pray qiyām’l-layl? Do you enjoy your du’ā’? Do you enjoy your ṣalāh? That is enough prevention that He prevented you from communicating with Him.”
22 Sunday Jul 2012
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in22 Sunday Jul 2012
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in02 Saturday Jun 2012
Posted Hasan al-Basri
inHadhrat Hasan al-Basri (rahimahu Llah) once fell sick. His neighbour, an unbeliever, came to pay him a visit.
“O Imam,”
he exclaimed,
“I detect a bad smell.”
The Imam told him it was caused by illness, but the neighbour insisted:
“That is not the odor of sickness. It is a lavatory smell. For the love of Allah, tell me what it is!”
He had not noticed that sewage was leaking from his house into that of the Imam. When the neighbour pressed him, the Imam finally said:
“For some months your drain has been seeping through to our side. I tried to fix it, but without success.”
His neighbour asked why he had not told him before, but the venerable Imam said:
“I might have offended you.”
The unbeliever was so impressed by this ethical refinement that he was ennobled with True Faith, for he recognized the Imam’s morality as a ray of Islam.
08 Thursday Mar 2012
Posted Hasan al-Basri, Poetry
in20 Tuesday Sep 2011
Posted Hasan al-Basri, Quotes
inImam Hasan Al-Basri (rahimullah) was asked:
“Shouldn’t one of us feel too shy to ask his Lord to forgive his sin, then do it again, then ask for forgiveness, then do it again?
” He said:
“The Shaytaan wishes that you would have this attitude, so do not tire of asking for forgiveness”.
– “Al-Jaami Al-Ulum”, 1/165 –
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