Sunday, April 3, 2011

The Ignorant one Complains about ALLAH to People! [Ibn al-Qayyim ra]

 

Bismillah Walhamdulillah Was Salaatu Was Salaam 'ala Rasulillah.


As-Salaam Alaikum Wa-Rahmatullahi Wa-Barakatuhu . 


 
Imām Ibn al-Qayyim {may Allāh have mercy upon him} said:-
 
The ignorant one complains about Allāh to the people!
This is the height of ignorance in complaining and in whom the complaint is about.
 
For if a person were to truly know his Lord, he would never complain of Him.
 
If he truly knew people, he would never complain to them …
 
The gnostic complains only to Allāh,
 
and the most knowledgeable of the gnostics are those who complain to Allāh about themselves, not others …
 
So there are three levels:-
 
# 1/-The most contemptible of them is to complain to people about Allāh;
 
#2/  The loftiest of them is to complain to Allāh about oneself;
 
#3/ The middle level is to complain to Allāh about others.
 
 
Source: al-Fawa'id
Transcribed from: Translator's Footnote from 'The Exquisite Peal –
 [The Journey to Allāh & The Home of the Hereafter' | Shaykh 'Abd Al-Rahmān Al-Sa'di.





 

My "Salaams" To All. 
 
                       Y a s m i n.                  
  "All that is on earth will Perish. But will abide {Forever} 
the Face of thy Lord, full of Majesty, Bounty and Honour"
 {'Quran'- Surah Al-Rahman-55.26-27 }
 
Son of Adam! You are nothing but a number of days,
whenever each day passes then part of you has Gone!
{Al-Hasan Al-Basree}

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