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Tag: Abū ʿAbdillāh Bilāl Hussayn al-Kashmirī

Evil Consequences For The Rejection Of The Truth

Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 751 AH) rahimahullāh mentions: Beware, beware of two matters that have evil consequences. The first of them: Rejection of the truth because it opposes your whims and desires. So you will be punished with the turning of your heart away (from guidance) and with you rejecting whatever comes to you from the truth. And you will not accept the truth unless it is evidently in accordance to your desires. Allāh, the Most High, mentions: وَنُقَلِّبُ أَفْئِدَتَهُمْ وَأَبْصَارَهُمْ كَمَا لَمْ يُؤْمِنُوا بِهِ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ “And We shall turn their hearts and their eyes away (from...

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The Legislated Knowledge Concerning Theorists and Social Scientists Who Discuss Islamic Topics

[Q]: Some individuals rely upon and study books of al-Fikriyyah (ideological thought) and al-Thaqāfiyyah (educational and cultural sciences) then after that he presumes that he is an ʿĀlim (scholar of the religion) and a Dāʿiyyah (caller to Islām) whilst he is weak in understanding of the religion and he has not studied the books of the Sharīʿah (Divine Legislation). So what is the advice of your eminence for the likes of that person? [A]: Knowledge is what Allāh said and what His Messenger said and it is not what so and so, and so and so says. Knowledge is what Allāh said and what His...

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