TRANQUILITY

We all desire tranquility, peacefulness, and calmness within our souls; certainly, nobody desires distress.
We desperately need to feel, grasp, sense, and enjoy this feeling in every moment of our lives; especially in
the Dunya of the present day. Its full of unhappiness, misery, and crushing moments. If you really want to
escape the misery of this life, read what Ibn al-Qayyim says about tranquility.
He recorded imam ibn Taymiyyahs attitude; he said, Imam ibn Taymiyyah used to recite the verses of
tranquility whenever lifes tension heightens. I heard him once narrating an incident beyond minds
imagination that struck him during his illness; he was struggling against some evil satanic spirits
appeared during his lack of body strength. He said, I instructed my relatives to recite the verses of
tranquility. After they recited them, I was relieved and returned back healthy. Imam ibn al-Qayyim
followed this with recording his own experience, I have also followed this recipe whenever my
heart goes through inordinate disorder, and Ive noticed a great impact of those verses on my heart;
they descend tranquility and peace.
Those verses, as mentioned by imam ibn al-Qayyim, are found in the Quran in six places: Al-Baqarah: 248-
al-Tawbah: 26 and 29- al-Fath: 4 and 18 and 26.
Source: Madarij as-Salikeen: 2/206-207
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248. and their Prophet (Samuel) said to them: Verily! the sign of his Kingdom is that there shall come
to You At-Tbt (a wooden box), wherein is Sakinah (peace and reassurance) from Your Lord and a
remnant of that which Mus (Moses) and Hrn (Aaron) left behind, carried by the angels. Verily, In
This is a sign for You if You are indeed believers.
[Al-Quraan 2:248]
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26. Then Allh did send down his Saknah (calmness, tranquillity and reassurance, etc.) on the
Messenger (Muhammad), and on the believers, and sent down forces (angels) which You saw not, and
punished the disbelievers. such is the Recompense of disbelievers.
[Al-Quraan 9:26]
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29. fight against those who (1) believe not In Allh, (2) nor In the Last day, (3) nor forbid that which
has been forbidden by Allh and his Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the Religion of
Truth (i.e. Islm) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah
with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.
[Al-Quraan 9:29]
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4. He it is who sent down As-Sakinah (calmness and tranquillity) into the hearts of the believers, that
they may grow more In faith along with their (present) faith. and to Allh belong the hosts of the
heavens and the earth, and Allh is ever All-Knower, All-Wise.
[Al-Quraan 48:4]
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18. indeed, Allh was pleased with the believers when they gave their Bai' (pledge) to You (O
Muhammad Sal-Allaahu 'alayhe Wa Sallam) under the tree, He knew what was In their hearts, and He
sent down As-Sakinah (calmness and tranquillity) upon them, and He rewarded them with a near
victory,
[Al-Quraan 48:18]
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26. when those who disbelieve had put In their hearts pride and haughtiness the pride and
haughtiness of the time of ignorance, Then Allh sent down his Sakinah (calmness and tranquillity)
upon his Messenger ( Sal-Allaahu 'alayhe Wa Sallam) and upon the believers, and made them stick to
the word of piety (i.e. none has the Right to be worshipped but Allh), and they were well entitled to it
and Worthy of it. and Allh is the All-Knower of everything. [Al-Quraan 48:26]