Al-Qāriʿah

24 passages reference this surah

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Volume 3 — The Sīrah: From the First Revelation to Badr

Ibn Kathir · Al-Bidāya wal-Nihāya

1. "The messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, approached us smiling. Ali remarked, I said to him, You have encountered a calamity from the Bedouin. He replied, Yes, O Abu al-Hassan, there is no calamity without a greater calamity above it,"

   Source in First Revelation to Badr →

2. "When Umar ibn Wab left, Safwan was saying, Rejoice! A calamity is about to befall you now that will make you forget the calamity of Badr. Safwan kept asking the travelers about him until a writer"

   Source in First Revelation to Badr →

Book 31: The Book of Repentance

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "If you do not cry over this disobedience, it is due to your ignorance, and your calamity by your ignorance is greater than any other calamity, yet ignorance is a calamity whose afflicted do not realize its severity."

   Source in Repentance →

2. "This is what is meant by the statement of the Prophet, peace be upon him: "Calamity is assigned to the Prophets, then the saints, then the most exemplary. Do not think that calamity is like the tribulation of Job, peace be upon him, affecting the body, for the trial of Noah,"

   Source in Repentance →

Futūḥ al-Ghayb — Revelations of the Unseen

Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Timeless Classics

1. "So let the servant show good manners when calamity descends, and search for his sins in neglecting commands and committing prohibitions, both outward and inward, and disputing destiny, as he is often tested for that reason. If the calamity is lifted, otherwise, let him resort to weeping, supplication, and apology, and persist in asking, for it may be that he was tested to ask,"

   Source in Futūḥ al-Ghayb →

2. "If you see the world in the hands of its lords and children, with its adornments, falsehoods, deceptive traps, and deadly poisons, with the softness of its surface and the harm of its core, and its swift destruction and killing of those who touch it and are deceived by it, and are heedless of its calamity, and its change upon its people, and its breaking of covenants, then be like one who sees a person on the toilet,"

   Source in Futūḥ al-Ghayb →

3. ""And man bore it. Indeed, he was unjust and ignorant." Surah Al-Ahzab: 33:72, and His saying: "...and man is ever hasty." Surah Al-Isra: 17:11. Guard your heart from turning back to what you have left of creation, desires, intentions, arrogance, and planning, and from abandoning patience and agreement when calamity descends, and cast yourself before God Almighty like a ball before a knight who turns it."

   Source in Futūḥ al-Ghayb →

al-Akhlāq wa'l-Siyar — Character and Conduct

Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba · Timeless Classics

1. "The most just witness against a liar is their tongue, for its contradictions and inconsistencies. The calamity of a treacherous friend is greater than the calamity of losing them. The people who most magnify faults with their tongues are the very ones who make lightest of them in their deeds."

   Source in Character and Conduct →

Book 32: Patience and Gratitude

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din

1. "Hence, patience addresses the sorrow, and gratitude the joy. In every poverty, illness, fear, or worldly calamity, five factors should evoke joy and thankfulness in the heedless: First, every calamity or illness can be imagined to be worse, as Allah's decrees are boundless."

   Source in Patience & Gratitude →

2. "The hadith, "The world is the believer’s prison and the disbeliever’s paradise," is narrated by Muslim from Abu Huraira. One who does not believe that the reward of the calamity is greater than the calamity itself cannot conceive gratitude for the misfortune."

   Source in Patience & Gratitude →

Volume 1

Imam al-Dhahabī · Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalā

1. "said: "When a calamity befalls one of you, let him say: 'Indeed, we belong to Allah, and indeed, to Him we will return.' O Allah, with You I seek the reward for my calamity, so reward me for it and replace it with something better." When Abu Salamah was on his deathbed,"

   Source in Volume 1 →

2. "and the night of my brother's calamity was long. Tears comforted me, and that is little for what the Muslims have suffered. Our calamity was great and immense when it was said: 'The Messenger has passed away.' We lost the revelation and the descent among us,"

   Source in Volume 1 →

The Disease and The Cure

Ibn al-Qayyim · Timeless Classics

1. "due to a sin. As Ali ibn Abi Talib, may God be pleased with him, said, No calamity descends except due to a sin, and no calamity is lifted except with repentance. God, the Exalted, stated, And whatever misfortune befalls you, it is because of what your hands"

   Source in The Disease and The Cure →

Book 35: The Book of Divine Unity and Trust in God

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din

1. "He adhered to the etiquette taught by the Prophet, peace be upon him, when 'Ali was ill and he heard him saying, "Oh God, make me patient in calamity," the Prophet, peace be upon him, said, "You have asked Allah for calamity, so ask Him for well-being.""

   Source in The Book of Divine Unity and Trust in God →

Al-Kabā'ir — The Major Sins

Imam al-Dhahabī · Timeless Classics

1. "congregational prayer once and Abu Ishaq al-Bukhari consoled me alone if I were to lose a child more than 10,000 people would console me for the calamity of religion is lighter in the eyes of people than the calamity of the world"

   Source in The Major Sins →

2. "head in morning and the one who tears her clothes in morning. The wailing woman is the one who raises her voice in grief at the time of calamity. The one who shaves her head is the one who shaves her hair at the time of calamity."

   Source in The Major Sins →

3. "it, even if it is the prick of a thorn. And Al-Qamah ibn Marthad narrated from his father that the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said, Whoever is afflicted with a calamity should remember his calamity with"

   Source in The Major Sins →

Book 19: The Book of Commanding Good and Forbidding Evil

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din

1. "calamity upon calamity, darkness upon darkness. So, heed my advice and take heed of my admonition. Know that I have truly advised you and not left any advice wanting. Fear Allah, O Harun, regarding your subjects."

   Source in The Book of Commanding Good and Forbidding Evil →

Book 36: The Book of Love, Longing, Intimacy, and Contentment

Imam al-Ghazali · Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din

1. "Whenever afflicted by calamity, the beloved is the removal of that calamity. If one loves nonexistence, it is not because it is nonexistence but because it entails the removal of the affliction."

   Source in The Book of Love, Longing, Intimacy, and Contentment →

The Wholesome Rain of Good Words

Ibn al-Qayyim · Timeless Classics

1. "be upon him. Whoever says them at the beginning of the day, no calamity will befall him until the evening and whoever says them at the end of the day, no calamity will befall him until"

   Source in The Wholesome Rain →

Volume Two

Ibn al-Qayyim · Madārij al-Sālikīn

1. "Rather, it is to have more trust in what is with اللّٰه than in what is in your own hands, and to desire the reward of a calamity—if it befalls you—more than the calamity itself if"

   Source in Volume Two →

al-Fawāʾid — Points of Benefit, Volume Two

Ibn al-Qayyim · Timeless Classics

1. "For the soul is ignorant and given to injustice, and it is the source of every evil that reaches the servant; no evil comes to him except from it. God said, Exalted is He: Whatever good reaches you is from God, and whatever evil reaches you is from yourself. And He said, Exalted is He: When a calamity befell you, though you had inflicted twice its like, you said, from where is this?"

   Source in al-Fawāʾid II →

2. "Yet neither what came to you has admonished you, nor what stands within you has counselled you — and with all this, you still seek reverence and esteem from others — you are then like one struck by affliction upon whom the affliction has left no mark of admonition or restraint, while he asks others to take heed and be restrained by the sight of his own calamity."

   Source in al-Fawāʾid II →

Abu Bakr al-Siddiq

Ibn Kathir · Timeless Classics

1. "Around Tulayha al-Asadi gathered the Banu Asad and Tayyi and many people besides, and he too claimed prophethood as Musaylima the Liar had claimed it. The calamity grew great and the situation grew severe, and the Trusted One, Abu Bakr, sent forth the army of Usama, so that the fighting men with him became few, and many of the Bedouin coveted Medina and sought to fall upon it."

   Source in Abu Bakr al-Siddiq →