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2022-03-02 12:06:55 The one who praises you with that which is not within you, reaches the peak in criticizing you, because he alerts to your shortcoming.
أبلغ فِي ذمك من مدحك بِمَا لَيْسَ فِيك لِأَنَّهُ نبه على نقصك

And the one who criticizes you with that which is not within you, reachest the peak in praising you, because he alerts to your virtue.
وأبلغ فِي مدحك من ذمك بِمَا لَيْسَ فِيك لِأَنَّهُ نبه على فضلك

Ibn Ḥazm, al-Akhlāq wa ʾl-Siyar fī Mudāwāh al-Nufūs 1/38
ابن حزم، الأخلاق والسير في مداواة النفوس ١/٣٨
https://shamela.ws/book/6874/28

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2022-03-01 12:54:55 As for the saying: “Whosoever's guide is his book then his error(s) will be more than what he is correct in” - then this is not totally correct and nor totally incorrect.
وأما قوله: " من كان دليله كتابه فخطؤه أكثر من صوابه "، فهذا ليس صحيحًا على إطلاقه ولا فاسدَا على إطلاقه،

As for the person who takes knowledge from any book he sees, then no doubt he will err abundantly.
أما الإنسان الذي ياخذ العلم من أي كتاب يراه فلاشك أنه يخطئ كثيرَا،

And as for the one who in his learning depends upon the books of men known for trustworthiness, reliability and knowledge then this person's errors will not be many and will be correct in the majority of what he says.
وأما الذيْ يعتمد في تعلمه على كتب رجال معروفين بالثقة والأمانة والعلم فإن هذا لا يكثر خطؤه بل قد يكون مصيبَا في أكثر ما يقول.

Muḥammad b. Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn, Majmūʿ al-Fatāwá wa Rasāʿil 26/197
ابن عثيمين، مجموع فتاوى ورسائل ٢٦/١٩٧
https://shamela.ws/book/12293/10783

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2022-03-01 08:48:29 The Messenger ﷺ said: “Hasten in performing good deeds before being overtaken by a Fitnah the likes of a dark night: A man will wake in the morning as a believer, and be a disbeliever by the evening; or reach the evening as a believer, and wake in the morning as a disbeliever: He would sell his religion for a worldly gain.”

وَبِإِسْنَادِهِ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «بَادِرُوا بِالْأَعْمَالِ فِتَنًا كَقِطَعِ اللَّيْلِ الْمُظْلِمِ، يُصْبِحُ الرَّجُلُ مُؤْمِنًا وَيُمْسِي كَافِرًا، وَيُمْسِي مُؤْمِنًا، وَيُصْبِحُ كَافِرًا، يَبِيعُ دِينَهُ بِعَرَضٍ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا»

Abū Yaʿlá al-Mawṣulī, Musnad 11/396 #6515
أبي يعلى الموصلي، مسند ١١/٣٩٦ #٦٥١٥
https://shamela.ws/book/12520/6541

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2022-02-28 14:42:23 As for al-Salafī who is allied with al-Salafiyīn,
أمّا السلفي يوالي السلفيين

Who loves al-manhaj (ie: the methodology of) al-salafī (ie: the pious predecessors),
ويحب المنهج السلفي

Bārak Allahu fīkum (ie: may Allah bless you),
بارك الله فيكم

Who hates al-aḥzāb (ie: the sects),
ويكره الأحزاب

Hates al-bidaʿ (ie: innovations) and their followers,
ويكره البدع وأهلها

As well as the one who presents other signs among the signs of al-manhaj al-Salafī,
وغير ذلك من علامات المنهج السلفي –

If after that, he is ḍaʿīf (ie: weak) in some aspects,
ثم يضعف في بعض النقاط ,

We show ourselves softly towards him.
فإن هذا نترفق به ,

We do not abandon him,
ما نتركه ,

Instead we advise him,
ولكن ننصحه ,

We pull him,
وننتشله ,

We are patient with him and we heal him,
ونصبر عليه ونعالجه ,

May Allah bless you.
بارك الله فيكم -

As for saying: “The one who is wrong will perish”, if we base on this, no one will stay!
أما أن يقال: من أخطأ هلك! فعلى هذا فلن يبقى أحد.

Rabīʿ b. Hādī al-Madkhalī, Majmūʿ Kutub wa Rasāʾil wa Fatāwá 1/482
ربيع بن هادي المدخلي، مجموع كتب ورسائل وفتاوى ١/٤٨٢

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2022-02-28 14:18:28 Ibn Kathīr reported: Abū ʿUthmān al-Wāʿidh may Allah have mercy on him was asked: “Which of your deeds do you most hope for its acceptance (by Allah)?”
وقال ابن كثير رحمه الله: سئل أبو عثمان الواعظ رحمه الله: أي أعمالك أرجى عندك؟

He said: When I grew up while I was in al-Ray and they wanted me to marry but I used to refuse.
فقال: إني لما ترعرعت وأنا بالري وكانوا يريدونني على التزويج فأمتنع،

A woman came to me and said: “O Abū ʿUthmān, I love you so much that I cannot sleep at night and I have no patience. I ask by the controller of the hearts (Allah) and make him mediator that you marry me.”
فجاءتني امرأة فقالت: يا أبا عثمان، قد أحببتك حبًا أذهب نومي وقراري، وأنا أسألك بمقلب القلوب، وأتوسل به إليك لما تزوجتني.

I asked: “Do you have a father?”
فقلت: ألك والد؟

She said: “Yes.”
قالت: نعم

So He was brought and I married her in the presence of witnesses.
فأحضرته، فاستدعى بالشهود فتزوجتها،

But when I went to her alone I saw that she was one-eyed, crippled and disfigured.
فلما خلوت بها إذا هي عوراء، عرجاء، مشوهة الخلق،

I said: “O Allah, praise be to you that you have decreed her for me.
فقلت: اللهم لك الحمد على ما قدرته لي.

My family used to blame me for marrying her but I would always increase my goodness and good behavior with her.
وكان أهل بيتي يلومونني على تزويجي بها، فكنت أزيدها برا وإكراما،

Many times she kept me with her and prevented me from attending some al-majālis (ie: gatherings of knowledge),
وربما احتبستني عندها، ومنعتني من الحضور إلى بعض المجالس،

And due to that I would consider myself as if I was on hot coals but I never showed her anything about my feelings.”
وكأني في بعض أوقاتي على الجمر، وأنا لا أبدي لها من ذلك شيئا،

I remained like that for fifteen years,
فمكثت كذلك خمس عشرة سنة،

(Due to this) there is no good deed which I hope for acceptance because I preserved her love for her (ie: by not showing her how he felt towards her).
فما شيء أرجى عندي من حفظي عليها ما كان في قلبها من جهتي.

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2022-02-28 10:14:28 ʿAbd Allah (Ibn al-Mubārak) said: “If the good qualities of a person outweigh his bad qualities, then his bad qualities are not mentioned.
وقال عَبَدان بن عثمان: قال عبد الله: إذا غلبت محاسن الرجال على مساوئه لم تُذكر المساوئ،

And if his bad qualities outweigh his good qualities, then his good qualities are not mentioned.”
وإذا غلبت المساوئ على المَحاسن لم تُذكر المحاسن.

al-Ḏahabī, Tārīkh al-Islām 4/882
الذهبي، تاريخ الإسلام ٤/٨٨٢
https://shamela.ws/book/35100/6305

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2022-02-28 08:37:11 {And for all, there will be degrees according to that which they did, that He (Allah) may recompense them in full for their deeds. And they will not be wronged.} [46:19]
{وَلِكُلٍّ دَرَجَاتٌ مِمَّا عَمِلُوا وَلِيُوَفِّيَهُمْ أَعْمَالَهُمْ وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ}.

The majority of Ahl al-Kalām refute falsehood with falsehood and innovation with innovation;
وَأَكْثَرُ الْمُتَكَلِّمِينَ يَرُدُّونَ بَاطِلًا بِبَاطِلِ وَبِدْعَةً بِبِدْعَةِ؛

However, they refute the falsehood of the disbelieving polytheists and People of the Book with the falsehood of Muslims.
لَكِنْ قَدْ يَرُدُّونَ بَاطِلَ الْكُفَّارِ مِنْ الْمُشْرِكِينَ وَأَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ بِبَاطِلِ الْمُسْلِمِينَ

Thus, al-kāfir (ie: the disbeliever) converts into a Muslim innovator.
فَيَصِيرُ الْكَافِرُ مُسْلِمًا مُبْتَدِعًا

More specific than these is the one who refutes the apparent innovation like that of the Rāfīḍī Shīʿah with a lesser innovation than that- the innovation of Ahl al-Sunnah.
وَأَخَصُّ مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ مَنْ يَرُدُّ الْبِدَعَ الظَّاهِرَةَ كَبِدْعَةِ الرَّافِضَةِ بِبِدْعَةِ أَخَفَّ مِنْهَا وَهِيَ بِدْعَةُ أَهْلِ السُّنَّةِ

Ibn Taymiyyah, Majmūʿ al-Fatāwá 13/97
ابن تيمية، مجموع الفتاوى ١٣/٩٧
https://shamela.ws/book/7289/6743

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2022-02-27 10:07:05 How, then, would the best generation (the Companions) of this ummah have less knowledge and wisdom (ie: about Allah and the rulings concerning His verses and Names) than those who are debased in comparison to them (ie: people of philosophical rhetoric)?
ثُمَّ كَيْفَ يَكُونُ خَيْرُ قُرُونِ الْأُمَّةِ أَنْقَصَ فِي الْعِلْمِ وَالْحِكْمَةِ - لَا سِيَّمَا الْعِلْمُ بِاَللَّهِ وَأَحْكَامِ أَسْمَائِهِ وَآيَاتِهِ - مِنْ هَؤُلَاءِ الْأَصَاغِرِ بِالنِّسْبَةِ إلَيْهِمْ؟

How would these young (infantile) dabblers in philosophy, the followers of the al-Hind (ie: Indian) and al-Yūnān (ie: the Greek philosophers), these inheritors of the al-Majūs wa ʿl-Mushrikīn (ie: the magians and the polytheists), the inheritors of those most misguided among the al-Yahūd (ie: Jews), al-Naṣṣārá (ie: Christians) and Sabeans and those of their likeness,
أَمْ كَيْفَ يَكُونُ أَفْرَاخُ الْمُتَفَلْسِفَةِ وَأَتْبَاعُ الْهِنْدِ وَالْيُونَانِ وَوَرَثَةُ الْمَجُوسِ وَالْمُشْرِكِينَ وَضُلَّالِ الْيَهُودِ وَالنَّصَارَى وَالصَّابِئِينَ وَأَشْكَالُهُمْ وَأَشْبَاهُهُمْ:

(How would these foul later-generation philosophers) have more knowledge about Allah, than the warathah al-anbiyāʾ wa Ahl al-Qurʾān wa ʿl-Īmān (ie: inheritors of the Prophets and the People of the Qurʾān and faith)?
أَعْلَمَ بِاَللَّهِ مِنْ وَرَثَةِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَأَهْلِ الْقُرْآنِ وَالْإِيمَانِ

Ibn Taymiyyah, Majmūʿ al-Fatāwá 5/12
ابن تيمية، مجموع الفتاوى ٥/١٢
https://shamela.ws/book/7289/1875

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2022-02-26 23:06:50 Abū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: “The rivers of al-Jannah spring from beneath hills, or mountains of musk.” وعن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه قال: قال رسولُ الله - صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ -: "أنْهارُ الجنَّة تخرُج… Open / Comment

2022-02-26 11:12:28 It should be known that acts of innovation in the religion are not upon the same level;
ثم ليعلم أن هذه البدع ليست خطورتها في نسبة واحدة

Rather they are of darajāt (ie: varying degrees);
بل هي على درجات

Some are acts of shirk (ie: polytheism) and clear-cut kufr (ie: disbelief) while some are less than that
بعضها شرك وكفر صريح كما سترى وبعضها دون ذلك

But we should know that a little act of bidaʿh a man comes up with in the religion is prohibited after it might have become clear that it is bidaʿh.
ولكن يجب أن نعلم أن أصغر بدعة يأتي الرجل بها في الدين هي محرمة بعد تبين كونها بدعة

There is nothing as such in acts of bidaʿh that are merely reprehensible as some people think.
فليس في البدع - كما يتوهم البعض - ما هو رتبة المكروه

What the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said is that “All acts of bidaʿh is ḍalālah (ie: misguidance) and every misguidance is in the Hellfire.” That is, whoever comes with it.
فقط كيف ورسول الله يقول: (صحيح) (كل بدعة ضلالة وكل ضلالة في النار) أي صاحبها.

Muḥammad Nāṣir ʾl-Dīn al-Albānī, Ḥajjah al-Nabī 1/101
محمد ناصر الدين الألباني، حجة النبي ١/١٠١
https://shamela.ws/book/399/280

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