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أترجو أن تكون وأنت شيخٌ

كما قد كنت أيام الشباب

لقد كذبتك نفسك ليس ثوبٌ

دريسٌ كالجديد من الثياب

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Mans greed for wealth and status.

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��َٱللَّهُ خَلَقَكُمۡ وَمَا تَعۡمَلُونَ

While Allah created you, and that which you do?

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Surah Al An'ām (6) : 76 - 79

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Surah Al Baqarah (2) : 165

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Balance between Hope [رجاء] and Fear [خوف]

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Ibn Al Qayyim (رحمه الله) said,

الدين كله خلق

This Deen, all of it is good character,

فمن زاد عليك في الخلق

So whoever passes you in good character,

زاد عليك في الدين

passes you in this Deen."

[مدارج السالكين]

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Ibn Al Mubārak (رحمه الله) said,

[...] كانوا يطلبون الأدب ثم العلم

"[...] They [The Salaf Aṣ Ṣāliḥ] would seek manners [first], then knowledge."

[غاية النهاية]

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Sufyān Ath Thawrī (رحمه الله) said,

لا يذوق العبد حلاوة الإيمان حتى يأتيه البلاء من كل مكان

"The 'Abd (Slave) will not taste the sweetness of Imān (Faith) until calamities come to him from every place."

[تاريخ بغداد]

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'Abdur Raḥman bin Mahdī (رحمه الله) said,

لو كان لي من الأمر شيء لقمت على الجسر فلا يمر بي أحد من الجهمية إلا سألته عن القرآن

"If it was up to me on the matter of things, I would stand on a bridge, so no one will pass me from the Jahmiyyah except that I would ask him about the Qur'ān

فإن قال إنه مخلوق ضربت رأسه ورميت به في الماء

If he [The Jahmi] says, "It is created," I would strike his head and throw him into the water."

[كتاب السنة لعبد الله بن أحمد]

Ibn Al Qayyim (رحمه الله) said,

بل الذي بين أهل الحديث والجهمية من الحرب أعظم مما بين عسكر الكفر وعسكر الإسلام

"Rather that which is between Ahl Al Ḥadīth and the Jahmiyyah as war, is greater than what is between the soldiers of Kufr and the soldiers of Al Islām."

[اجتماع الجيوش الإسلامية]

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Imam Ash Shafi'i (رحمه الله تعالى) said,

قل بما شئت في مسبة عرضي

Say what you wish in abuse of me,

فسكوتي عن اللئيم جواب

For [Indeed] my silence towards the idiot is an answer.

ما أنا عادم الجواب ولكن

I am not at a loss for an answer, but rather,

ما من الأسد أن تجيب الكلاب

It is not [befitting] from the lion to answer to the dogs.

[ديوان الإمام الشافعي]

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It was said to Imām Ash Shāfi'ī (رحمه الله)

ما لك تكثر من إمساك عصا ولست بضعيف؟

"Why do you often carry a stick when you are you are not with weakness?

قال لأذكر أني مسافر

He said, "To remind myself that I am a traveller [in this Dunyā]."

[سير أعلام النبلاء]

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Ibn Kathīr (رحمه الله) said,

فلا ألفة بين روحين أعظم مما بين الزوجين

"No love [or intimacy] between two souls is greater than that which is between the spouses."

[تفسير ابن كثير]

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The Prophet (ﷺ) said,

إن الإسلام بدأ غريبًا، وسيعودُ غريبًا كما بدأَ، فطُوبى للغُرباءِ

"Indeed, Al Islam started strange, and it will return being strange as it began. So glad tidings to the strangers.

قيل من هم يا رسولَ اللهِ

It was said, "Who are they O' Messenger of Allah?

قال (ﷺ) الذينَ يصلحونَ إذا فسدَ الناسُ

He (ﷺ) said, "Those who rectify [themselves/others] when the people have become corrupt."

[سلسلة الأحاديث الصحيحة وشيء من فقهها وفوائدها]

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Al Ḥasan (رحمه الله) said,

المؤمن في الدنيا كالغريب

"The Mu'min (Believer) in this Dunya is like a stranger,

لا يجزع من ذلها ولا ينافس في عزها

"he does not become upset when it degrades him, nor does he compete [with others] in what it gives in honour.

له الشأن وللناس الشأن

For him is a condition and for the people are a condition."

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Yūnus bin 'Ubayd (رحمه الله) said,

ليس شيء أغرب من السنة وأغرب منها من يعرفها

"There is nothing more stranger than the Sunnah and [more] stranger than it is the one who knows it."

[كشف الكربة في وصف أهل الغربة]

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How to enjoin good and forbid evil!

Imām Aḥmad was asked (رحمه الله) about enjoining good and forbidding evil, "How should one enjoin it?"

He (رحمه الله) said,

يأمر الرفق والخضوع

"[one should] enjoin [good] with gentleness and humility.

ثم قال إن أسمعوه ما يكره لا يغضب فيكون يريد ينتصر لنفسه

If they make him hear what he dislikes, he should not get angry such that he wants to avenge himself."

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He [Imām Aḥmad] also said,

كان أصحاب ابن مسعود (رضي الله عنه) إذا مروا بقوم يرون منهم ما يكرهون يقولون

"The companion Ibn Mas'ūd (رضي الله عنه), if he passed by a people from whom he saw something they hated, they would say,

مهلاً رحمكم الله

"Take it easy, May Allah have mercy on you."

[الأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر للخلال]

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Shaykh Al Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (رحمه الله) said,

ولهذا قيل ليكن أمرك بالمعروف بالمعروف

"It has been said, "Let your enjoining of good, be good

ونهيك المنكر غير منكر

and your forbidding of evil, have no evil."

[الأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر لابن تيمية]

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Don't be so hasty!

Shaykh Muḥammad Naṣr Ad Dīn Al Albānī (رحمه الله) said,

لا رأي لطالب العلم أن ي��تعجل في التأليف، بمعني أن ينشر ذلك على الناس

"[It is] not [fit] in my opinion for the student of knowledge to rush into writing, meaning he spreads that [i.e, whatever he writes] upon the people.

بل عليه أن يفعل ذلك بعد ثلاثين سنة من طلبه للعلم على العلماء

Rather, upon him is to do that after thirty years of seeking knowledge from the Ulama' (Scholars)

فإن تعجل ففي خمسة عشر

[And] so if he is hasty [in this matter], then in fifteen years.

ولا يمنع أن يكتب قبل ذلك ويراجع من هم أقدر منه في هذا الشأن

And there is no harm if he writes before that [i.e, before fifteen or thirty years] and returns [i.e, consults] to those who are more able than him in this matter..."

[الإمام الألباني دروس ومواقف وعبر]

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Imām Aḥmad (رحمه الله) said,

إنما علينا أن نتبع من كان قبلنا

"Indeed, what is upon us is to follow those who were before us."

[مسائل الكوسج]

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Ibn 'Abbās (رضي الله عنه) said,

لا تشتم السلف وادخل الحنة بسلام

"Do not insult the Salaf and enter Jannah with peace."

[تاريخ دمشق لابن عساكر]