Imam Ibn ul Qayyim al Jawziyyah

Excerpted from “The Dispraise of Hawaa”
Translation: Dr. Saleh as-Saleh
© 1998 Daar al-Bukhaari

“Allaah will give shade to seven, on the Day when there will be no shade but His. (These seven persons are):

1. a just ruler,
2. a youth who has been brought up in the worship of Allaah (i.e. worships Allaah subhanahu wa ta`alaa sincerely from his childhood),
3. a man whose heart is attached to the mosques (i.e. he offers the five compulsory Salaat (prayers) in the mosques),
4. two persons who love each other only for Allaah’s sake and they meet and part in Allaah’s Cause only,
5. a man who refuses the call of a charming woman of noble birth for illegal sexual intercourse with her and says: I am afraid of Allaah,
6. a man who gives charitable gifts so Secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand has given (i.e. nobody knows how much he has given in charity), and
7. a person who remembers Allaah in seclusion and his eyes become flooded with tears.”
[Reported by Al-Bukhaaree and Muslim. The text is that of Al-Bukhaaree: Saheeh Al-Bukhaaree, V.1, Hadeeth #629.]

If you contemplate about the seven whom Allaah will shade in the shade of His `Arsh wherein there is no shade but His, you will find that they deserved that shade because of their opposition to Al-Hawaa.

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