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خلاصة مفاهيم أهل السنة | 41- مفاهيم حول الزهد والورع - (619-630)
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Summary of Sunni concepts
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Definition of asceticism and piety
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One of the best things that has been said about defining both asceticism and piety
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Saying of Sheikh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah
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Asceticism is abandoning what is not useful in the afterlife
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Piety is abandoning what one fears will cause harm in the afterlife
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Therefore, asceticism is higher than piety
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Because the pious person may take what is not beneficial in the afterlife
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As long as there is no harm
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And accordingly
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Every ascetic is devout
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Not every pious person is an ascetic
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Piety and asceticism must have intention
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Both asceticism and piety must have an intention to accompany them
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It is pure abandonment without regard to its relationship to the afterlife
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It is not called asceticism or piety
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A person may abandon some worldly matters in search of comfort and laziness
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No, because it distracts him from the afterlife
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Whose business was this?
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He does not benefit from his free time for the sake of his afterlife
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Rather, it causes the greatest corruption
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He does not live in this world or the afterlife
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Asceticism and what it helps in obedience
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Everything that is used to help us obey God Almighty
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Not abandoning it is asceticism
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Whoever enjoys permissible things without expansion will distract him from the afterlife
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In doing so, they intended to strengthen their obedience to God Almighty
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He did not deviate from the description of ascetics
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Because this is what will benefit him in the afterlife
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Is there asceticism with singing?
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Asceticism may be with Ghana
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As it is with poverty
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He is one of the first prophets and predecessors
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Who were rich
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This did not exclude them from being ascetics
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Because they were not preoccupied with their need for the afterlife
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Rather, they used it to benefit them
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Imam Ahmed was asked about the man
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He will have a thousand debts
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Will he be an ascetic?
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And he said yes
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On the condition that he will not be happy if it increases
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And do not be sad if it decreases
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Piety is not only a matter of abandonment
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It's wrong
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Believing that piety is only a matter of abandonment
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But it is also a matter of action
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Performing duties is considered piety
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Because failure to perform it will cause harm in the afterlife
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It is piety to maintain ties with one’s relatives
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Enjoining good and forbidding evil
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And fulfilling the rights of the poor and the neighbor
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And all Muslims, etc
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A legal document is required
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To refrain from something
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Piety should be based on something
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Whether by abandonment or action
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On evidence from the Qur’an or Sunnah
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There is no fear of desires and corrupt thoughts
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Like people who are obsessive about purity and impurities
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Where do they think this whispering of theirs is?
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Out of piety and concern for the validity of worship
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Although this is reprehensible according to Islamic law
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The same applies to those who abstain from marrying women
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Sleeping at night and breaking the fast during the day
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The Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, was disparaged
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And he said about him, whoever turns away from my Sunnah
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It is not agreed upon by me
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Of complete piety knowledge
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The best of two good and the worst of two evils
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Of complete piety knowledge
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The best of two good and the worst of two evils
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When there is a conflict
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He offers to do their good and leave their evil
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Otherwise one might fall
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In a kind of false piety
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Whoever abandons prayer falls
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Behind the heretical imams
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In abandoning Friday prayers and congregational prayers
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He thinks that is piety
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The reality of luxury
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Luxury is what distracts a person most
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About piety and asceticism in this world
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It does not mean merely enjoying grace
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He who enjoys and expands in the havens of the world
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And her desires
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He who was blessed with grace
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He is the one who was overshadowed and overpowered by grace
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And retaliation is the return of truth
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Luxury is not mentioned in the Qur’an except as reprehensible
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As in the words of God Almighty
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And those who did wrong followed what they luxuriated in
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And they were criminals
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And We did not send to any town any warner
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Except the affluent ones said
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We disbelieve in what you were sent with
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One of the most important things that helps with piety
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Asceticism in this world is a shortening of hope
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It is the knowledge of the imminent departure
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And the speed of life ending
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God Almighty said
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Who realizes how quickly the world will disappear?
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And its annihilation
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With what accompanies its collection
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Of pain, pain, and anguish
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Then he realizes it
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The inevitability of the afterlife
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And the speed of its acceptance
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With what follows from her work
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And the honor of the good things it contains
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Who understands all that?
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His hope in this world is shortened
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His piety and asceticism are achieved in it
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And he is one of those who are sincere in his preparedness
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To meet God
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This is the key to all good deeds
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And the barrier from bad deeds
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Shortening hope is the first means
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Helped to abstain from this world
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One of the means that helps one to abstain from this world
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In addition to the aforementioned shortness of hope
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Firstly
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Frequent mention of death
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And visiting the sick
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And funeral witnesses
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And visiting graves
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Secondly
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Accompanying the righteous
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Those whose visions and conversations are remembered in the afterlife
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Third
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Frequent reading and contemplation of the Qur’an
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Fourth
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Frequent remembrance of God Almighty
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His supplication and supplication to him
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Fifth
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Constantly holding yourself accountable
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Thinking about the purpose and destiny of its creation
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VI
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Reduce interactions with people
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Except for what is useful
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Allocating times for the servant to be alone with his Lord
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Such as seclusion during Ramadan
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And sitting for remembrance from after the dawn prayer until sunrise
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From after noon on Friday until sunset
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One of the fruits of asceticism and piety
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Piety and asceticism in this world
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They protect women from falling into worldly desires
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He is the one who is pious and ascetic in this world
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He keeps people away
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About Al-Alawi’s request and the presidency therein
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And envy and hatred because of it
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It also alienated people
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About the temptations of hypocrisy and bragging
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He concealed the truth and disguised it with falsehood
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And circumventing God's law
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People and sins
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The source of which is attachment to worldly desires
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Asceticism and piety
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They facilitate the path to God
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That is the public benefit
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For piety and asceticism in this world
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Facilitating behavior on the path to God
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And sincere preparation to meet Him Almighty
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Whoever wants to reach his message
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To his goal
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Let his heart be lightened from the burdens of this world
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He who walks on his feet also feels light
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From the loads on his back