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| Quote from Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah |
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| bhaloo |
| 09/29/01 at 22:41:17 |
| slm Taken from "Kitaab At Tawheed" (p.302) Quote from Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah provided by brother Hisham (from our board :) ) Ibn Qayyim says concerning the tafseer of the ayah wherein Allah the Almighty states: "Of mankind are some who say: "We believe in Allâh," but if they are made to suffer for the sake of Allâh, they consider the trial of mankind as Allâh's punishment." {Al Ankabut: 10} Whenever messengers are sent to a people, they are between two positions wherein they must make a decision between one of them. Either they say we believe or they refuse to say it, as matter of fact they can continue upon their disbelief and sinning. As for those who say we believe their lord will put them through trials, tribulations and fitnah, fitnah being the test to distinguish the truthful ones from the liars. Thus, those who do not say we believe should not think that they can escape or avoid Allah's' punishment. As for the ones who believe in the messengers and obey them, then the enemies of the messengers will seek to punish and afflict harm upon them. On the hand, those who neither believed in the messengers nor obeyed them, they will also be punished in this dunya and the in akhira, in addition to being afflicted by that which they dislike. And this affliction (of those reject faith) is much greater and longer lasting than that which the followers of the messengers bear. Hence, that which is hurtful must afflict every soul. Whether they believe or they refuse to believe. However, for the mu'min, in this dunya he is tested by that which is hurtful to him in the initial stages, then the {victorious} end result will for him, both in this life in the next. As for the one who refuses to believe, in the beginning stages he enjoys the pleasures of this life, but after this he will be in eternal pain. As human beings we must live amongst people, and people have wants and objectives, thus they desire that one agree to that which they are upon, and if this request is refused they inflict hurt and pain on the one who refuses to do so. Even if one agrees to that they want he still is inflicted with pain and punishment, sometimes from them and other times from others. Such is the case of the one who has piety, whereby he tries to avoid the oppression of an evil people and he cannot avoid their oppression except by {outwardly} agreeing with them or remaining quite about their injustices. Thus, if such a person agrees to what these evil people do, or remains silent about their evil, he will be safe from their evil in the initial stages, however in the long run they will shower upon humiliation and harm far greater than that which he initially feared if he had rejected their ways and differed with them. Hence, it is imperative upon us that we understand and implement the statement of the mother of the believers `A`ishah (may Allah be pleased with her) when she reported the Allah's Messenger (saas ) to have said: "Whoever seeks Allah's Pleasure at the expense of men's displeasure, will win Allah's Pleasure and Allah (swt ) will cause men to be pleased with him. And whoever seeks to please men at the expense of Allah's Displeasure, will win the Displeasure of Allah (swt ) and Allah (swt ) will cause men to be displeased with him." (Narrated by Ibn Hibban in his Saheeh) So whoever Allah guides and inspires to that which is correct, He {Allah} saves him from the evil of himself and prevents him from agreeing to that which is haram, enabling him to be patient upon the harm and hurt of those who call to this haram, and such a person will have the victorious end result in this life and the next, in the same manner as the messengers and their followers had this victory. |
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