Fitan (Trials) & Istiqamah (Steadfastness)

Fitan (Trials, Tests)

• Testing, Afflictions and Calamities – Dr Saleh As-Saleh [Audio & Transcribed Notes]
• Necessity of approaching Allah with Tawbah and supplication in adversity – Imam Ibn Baz
• When Fitnah occurs, Remain in your House – Sharh as-Sunnah | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En]
• Allaah causes afflictions to strike the believers in order to purify them or to multiply their reward – Sharh as-Sunnah | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En]
• In times of calamity, people divide into four levels – Shaykh ibn Uthaymeen
• How to know whether the Calamity/Trial is a Test or a Punishment? – Dr. Saleh As Saleh [Audio Benefit|En]
• Why is it that Allaah burdens the believers with trials while those disobedient enjoy all the goods of life? – Shaykh Uthaymeen | Dr Saleh as Saleh [Audio Benefit|English]
• Averting Ghamm (Grief) and Hamm (Worry) – Imam Ibn al-Jawzi
• When the Ignorant Speak about Fitnah it Increases the Fitnah – Shaykh Saalih Al-Fawzaan
• Sincere Advice to Understand the Deen – Dr. Saleh as Saleh [Audio|En]
• Means of Warding off Punishments and Threats – Dr. Saleh as Saleh [Audio|En]
• Be Mindful Of Allaah And He Will Protect You : An-Nawawi 40 Hadith – Shaykh Uthaymeen | Dr. Saleh as-Saleh [Audio|En]
• The Excellence of Worship in the time of Tribulations – Riyad-us-Saliheen
• The Position of the Muslim in Times of Fitnah – by Shaykh Adil Mansoor [Audio|Ar-En]
• Understanding Of The Religion Will Protect You From Trials – Abu Muhammad al-Maghribee [Audio|En]
• Seek Knowledge : Protection from Fitna – by Shaikh Saleh al Fowzan
• Fleeing from Fitnah – Shaykh Muhammad al-Hamood
• The Greater The Hardship The Greater The Reward – Abu Uwais Abdullaah Ali
• Advice During The Time In Which Trials Have Increased, People Of Innovation Have Spread And The Scholars Are Passing Away – By: Shaykh Saalih ibn Fawzaan al-Fawzaan
• How to Behave in Times of Fitnah – Dawud Adib [Audio|En]

• The fitnah of As Shahawaat (Base Desires) – Shaykh Abdul Qadir al Junaid
• The Best Way for Sisters to Say the Supplication to Alleviate Grief, Distress and Anxiety – Imam Ibn Taymiyyah
• Only Allaah Can Remove Harm – Shaykh AbdurRahman bin Nasr as-Sa’adi
• Hardship and prosperity, obedience and sin – Sayings of the Salaf
• Where do you stand? – Shaykh al Islaam Ibn al Qayyim
• Man is fickle when Ease comes to Him after Difficulty – Tafsir Ibn Kathir
• Is clinging to the religion a cause of affliction? – Imam Ibn Baaz
• When Does a Slave Know that a Trial is a Test or a Punishment? – Imam Ibn Baz
• The greater the test, the greater the reward – Abu Uwais Abdullaah Ali
• Prophet’s Guidance in Treating Afflictions – Imaam Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah
• Sahih Muslim : Book 41: The Book Pertaining to the Turmoil and Portents of the Last Hour (Kitab Al-Fitan wa Ashrat As-Sa`ah)

Sabr (Patience) during the Fitan

• Becoming Angry when Hardships Occur? – Shaykh ibn Uthaymeen
• The Ruling of Committing Suicide & not having Patience upon Trials – Ibn Baaz
• Wishing for Death : “I have faced so many hardships in my life that it has made me hate this life..” – Shaykh Uthaymeen
• Do Not Wish or Ask For Death – Dr Saleh as-Saleh [Audio|En]
• Sabr – Patience – Perseverance (Al Baqarah 155 to 157) – Shaykh Uthaymeen / Dr. Saleh as Saleh [Audio|En]
• “O you who Believe! Seek help in Patience and As-Salāt (The Prayer)” – Shaykh Uthaymeen | Dr. Saleh As-Saleh [Audio|En]

Istiqamah (Steadfastness)

• Seeking Istiqaamah (Steadfastness) – Al-Istiqaamah Magazine, Issue No.2
• The Status of al-Istiqaama – Imam Ibn al Qayyim | Abbas Abu Yahya
• The Regression of the Believer – Shaykh Muhammad Bāzmūl حفظه الله [Video]
• Know leavings the correct path occurs in two ways – Abu Muhammad al Maghribee [Audio|En]
• “Allaah! O Guardian of Islaam and its people! Make us firm upon Islaam until we meet You with it” – Aqeedah Tahawiyyah
• We ask Allaah to make us firm upon Eemaan & to conclude our lives with it – Imam Tahaawi | Dawud Burbank [Short Clip]
• Beware of Self Delusion (al Ghuroor) – Shaykh Rabee ibn Hadee
• Be FIRM, and DO NOT change (your stance) because of the large number of attacks on you – Shaykh ibn Uthaymeen
• Uprightness and Steadfastness – Riyad-us-Saliheen | Ahaadeeth
• Say ‘I believe in Allah’ and then be Steadfast – Shaykh Uthaymeen | Dr. Saleh As-Saleh [Audio|En]
• Shaytan says : “If you miss him now , you will never catch him again” – Ibn al Jawzi
• Are We Really Holding Firm? How to Check Ourselves ? – Abu Muhammad Al-Maghribee [Audio|En]
• Leaving the Correct Path Occurs in Two Ways : Sharhu Sunnah | Shaykh Fawzan | Dawud Burbank
• Remaining Steadfast After Ramadhaan – Abdullaah bin Saalih Al-Fawzaan
• ‘Ashru Qawaa’id fil-Istiqaamah (10 Principles of Steadfastness) – Shaykh Abdur-Razzaaq Al-Badr | Abu Muhammad al-Maghribi [Audio|En]
• Stay Firm upon the Sunnah – Shaykh Hasan ibn Abdul Wahhab Marzooq al-Banna [Audio|Ar-En]
• The Believer (Mu’min) should combine between al-Khawf (Fear) and ar-Rajaa (Hope) – Sharh as-Sunnah | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En]
• Al-Istiqaamah (Steadfastness) of the Deen – A Door from the Doors of Sustenance – Shaykh Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdul-Wahhaab al-Wassaabee
• “Allah gave me intellect; therefore I can sit with the innovators” – Shaykh Sulaymaan Ar-Ruhaylee

Riddah (Apostasy )

• Story of a man who succumbed to Temptation (Inspirational Read !) – Al-Hasan al Basri
• The way a Person may fall into Disbelief (Apostasy) – Sharh as-Sunnah | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En]
• The Believer exiting from Eemaan – Aqeedah Tahawiyyah | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En]
• No Muslim Exits Islaam Unless He Perpetrates That Which Nullifies It – Sharh as-Sunnah | Dawud Burbank [Audio|En]
• Earth had thrown his body out – Hadeeth from Sahih Bukhari
• Sahih Bukhari : Book 84: Dealing with Apostates – Ahaadeeth

Supplications During Trials & for Istiqamah

• Istirja (Inna Lillahi wa Inna Ilahi Raaji’oon) – Tafseer Ibn Katheer
• The Supplication for When Things Become Difficult for a Person – Silsilah Ahadeeth As-Saheehah
• [EL] The Prophet’s ﷺ Most Repeated Du’a (authentic-dua.com)
• [EL] Allaahumma innee as-aluka ath-Thabat fil Amr – Comprehensive Du’a (authentic-dua.com)
• [EL] Allaahumma ‘innee as’aluka fi’lal-khayraat wa tarkal-munkaraat (authentic-dua.com)
• [EL] Allaahumma ‘innee ‘a’oothu bika min jahdil-balaa (authentic-dua.com)
• [EL] Allaahum-maqsim lanaa min khashyatika (authentic-dua.com)
• [EL] Supplication when stricken with a mishap or overtaken by an affair (authentic-dua.com)
• [EL] Seeking Refuge from Four Things Before the Dua’ in Tashahud (authentic-dua.com)
• [EL] Allaahummah-dinee wa saddidnee (O Allaah! guide me and direct me)  (authentic-dua.com)
• [EL] Supplication of Yousuf (Peace be upon him) to die as Muslim