Yoonus As-Sadafi’ said: “I have never seen a wiser man than Ash-Shafi`ee, I was arguing with him one day about an issue and I left him. One day, he met me, held my hand and said: ‘Cannot we be brothers, even if we disagree about something‘?” Siyar A’laam An-Nubalaa’ 10/16
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Duties & Obligations Required of Friends
Posted in Companionship on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
`Ata bin Maisarah stated: “If you do not meet for three days, check on your brethren: visit them if they are ill, help them if they are busy (i.e. help them conduct their life affairs, if you are able to do so) and remind them (of Allah, their religious duties, performing acts of worship, and [...]
Keeping Bad Company – One Of The Poisons Of The Heart
Posted in Companionship, Friends, Imam ibn al-Qayyim on November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah (d.751H) said: Unnecessary companionship is a chronic disease that causes much harm. How often have the wrong kind of companionship and intermixing deprived people of Allah’s generosity, planting discord in their hearts which even the passage of time-even if it were long enough for mountains to be worn away-has been unable to [...]
