Page 68 - The Importance of the Ahl Al-Sunnah

HARUN YAHYA

lished in these terms: “Not everyone may know the hadiths
of the Prophet. If I propose any idea or put forward any
tenet without knowing that these are in contravention of
the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah, then it is the word of
the Messenger by which people must abide. That is my
school. If I relate a hadith from the Messenger of Allah but
do not act in its light, what earth will bear me and what sky
will give me shade? The hadith of the Prophet is of sublime
importance to me.”
Some of Imam al-Shafi‘i’s sayings:
“If one of you wishes to content all the people, he cannot.
The servant must be careful to have moral sincerity. Every
good work he performs must remain between him and
Allah.”
“The pursuit of knowledge is better than supererogatory
prayer. Because supererogatory prayer benefits only the
individual, whereas knowledge benefits the entire commu-
nity.”
“If anyone gives secret advice to his brother in faith, he
will have engaged in good counseling and adorned him with
good manners. If he seeks to give advice openly in public it
will have no effect. He will, in a sense, have condemned the
other party, and thus shamed him.”
“Let he who desires the bliss of the Hereafter have sincer-
ity in knowledge.”
“Whoever tries to give advice through his deeds is also a
guidance.”
“The following three conditions are signs of the genuine
nature of one’s love for his brother in religion:

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