In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful The life of the predecessors between words and deeds
The position of the predecessors regarding faith
It is belief, word and deed
Increases and cuts
On the authority of Jund bin Abdullah Al-Bajli, may God be pleased with him, he said
We were with the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace.
And we are naughty boys
So they learned faith before they learned the Qur’an.
Then they learned the Qur’an and increased our faith in it.
On the authority of Ubaid bin Umair Al-Laythi, may God have mercy on him, he said
Faith is not wishful thinking
But faith is a word that is understood and an action that is done
On the authority of Sufyan bin Uyaynah, may God have mercy on him, he said more than once:
Faith is word and deed
And he said
So we took it from those before us in word and deed
There is no word without action
It was said that Ibn Uyaynah increases and decreases
He said
So anything?
It was also said to him, may God have mercy on him
Faith increases and decreases
He said
Do you not read the Qur’an?
He increased their faith in more than one place
It was said
It decreases
He said
Nothing increases unless it decreases
Al-Awza’i, may God have mercy on him, said
Our predecessors did not differentiate between faith and action
Act of faith
Faith comes from action
Yahya bin Saeed Al-Qattan, may God have mercy on him, said
One of the imams I realized was saying:
Faith is word and deed
Increases and decreases
The position of the predecessors regarding fate
On the authority of Abdullah bin Fayrouz, may God have mercy on him, he said:
Something like this occurred to me
I was afraid that my religion and my affairs would be ruined
So I went to Ubayy ibn Ka'b and said:
Apple Monther
Something like this has occurred to me
So I feared for my religion and my affairs
So tell me something about that
Perhaps God will benefit me with it
And he said
If God had punished the people of His heavens and the people of His earth
He would torture them while he was not unjust to them
If He had mercy on them, His mercy would have been better for them than their deeds
Even if you had a mountain of gold
Or like Mount Uhud
Spend it for the sake of God
It is not before you that you believe in destiny
So you know that what happened to you could not have missed you
And what did you wrong would not have happened to you
And if you die otherwise than this, you will enter Hell
You do not have to come to my brother Abdullah bin Masoud and ask him
So I came to Abdullah
So I asked him
So he mentioned what my father said
He told me
And you don't have to come to Hudhayfah
Then I came to Hudhayfah
So I asked him
He said as he said
And he said
Go to Zaid bin Thabit and ask him
So I went to Zaid bin Thabit
So I asked him
And he said
I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, say
If God had punished the people of His heavens and the people of His earth
He would torture them while he was not unjust to them
Even if he had mercy on them
His mercy would have been better for them than their deeds
Even if you had gold like Uhud
Or like a gold mountain
Spend it for the sake of God
He did not accept it from you until you believed in destiny
So you know that what happened to you could not have missed you
And what did you wrong would not have happened to you
And if you die otherwise than this, you will enter Hell
It was said to Salman Al-Farsi, may God be pleased with him
What do people say until you believe in destiny, its good and its evil?
He said
When you believe in destiny
You know that what happened to you was not going to happen to you
And what happened to you would not have missed you
And don't say
If I had done such and such, then such and such would have happened
Even if I didn't do such and such
It wasn't so and so
Ubadah Ibn al-Samit, may God be pleased with him, said
To his son when death came to him
My son
I advise you to fear God Almighty
And he knew that you would not fear God
Until you believe in God
And he knew that you would not believe in God
And you will not feed the truth of faith
You will not attain knowledge
Until you believe in destiny in its entirety
The good and the bad
He said to him, Father
How can I believe in destiny in its entirety, good and bad?
He said
You know that what happened to you could not have missed you
Whatever missed you would not have happened to you
That is, brown
I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, saying
The first thing God created was the pen
He said
Write
He said
And what I write, O Lord
He said
Write destiny
The pen exploded at that hour with what happened
And what is is forever
On the authority of Ibn Omar, may God be pleased with them both
He was asked about fate
And he said
Something that God Almighty did not want to reveal to you
Do not desire from God Almighty what He has refused to you
Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Al-Hussein Al-Ajri, may God have mercy on him, said
Commenting on this effect
This is what Omar bin Abdul Aziz, may God have mercy on him, said
In his message to the people of destiny
Saying it
Because you said
God has said such and such in His book
They are told
They read from it
I mean the companions
What you have read
And learn from its interpretation what you did not know
Then they said after all that
It is all book and destiny
And he wrote Al-Shaqwa
And it was not possible
Whatever he wanted, it happened
And what He did not will, did not happen
We have no power to harm or benefit ourselves
Then they desired and were terrified
And peace
On the authority of Ibn Abbas, may God be pleased with them both, he said
Everything is as much
Until you put your hand on your cheek
On the authority of Muhammad bin Sirin, may God have mercy on him, he said:
No people deny that God Almighty knew something and wrote it down
On the authority of Iyas bin Muawiyah, may God have mercy on him, he said:
I have not devoted my entire mind to people of desires other than people of destiny
I said
Tell me about the injustice in Arab speech, what it is
They said
For a man to take what is not his
I said
God has everything
Some of them said
He who is incapable of opinion is wasting his opportunity
Even if something is missed, fate will blame
It was said to Muhammad bin Wasi’, may God have mercy on him
What do you say about fate and destiny?
He said
God Almighty will not ask His servants on the Day of Resurrection about His decree and destiny
He only asks them about their deeds
On the authority of Al-Hasan Al-Basri, may God have mercy on him, he said:
Whoever lies by fate has committed many lies