Abandon All of the World and You Will Find All of The World
Yahya ibn Mu’adh Ar-Razi (may Allah shed His mercy upon him) said:
“Abandon all the world and you will find all the world. To take it is to abandon it, and to abandon it is to take it.”
Facilitate and Do Not Make Things Difficult: Interesting Commentary by Abul Abbas Al-Mursi
The Prophet said “Facilitate and do not make things difficult.”
Commenting on this hadeeth, The Sheikh (Abul Abbas Al-Mursi) said:
“In other words, lead people to Allah and to nothing else. He who leads you to this world has deceived you and he who leads you to good deeds will wear you down. But he who leads you to Allah has counseled you aright.” [Taken from Lataa'if Al-Minan]
Love of Rasulullah (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam)
In a discussion recently with a brother – May Allah bless him with good, my assertion that the pseudo-salafis do not understand the term “love – here we refer to Mahabbah” in reference to the Nabi Muhammad, was clearly manifested. He continued by mentioning “obedience” as well as all the other outward effects of love, yet never mentioned the love of the heart one should have for the Nabi (‘alayhis salam). This, in my view, is the disease found amongst many pseudo-salafis, and why many end-up apostatizing from the religion, or simply having the horrible manners that they have. If one is not taught that internal love for the Prophet Muhammad is a foundation of the faith, and that “love” simply means to “obey”, then the connection with the person of the Nabi ‘alayhis salaam is not solidified within the heart and leads to spiritual diseases of both the internal and external.
Imam Ash-Shafi'i on Sufism / Tasawwuf
Sunnis are bombarded with negative pseudo-salafi propoganda all over the internet. It should not surprise anyone then that such propoganda stretches its rejected rhetoric to Imam Ash-Shafi’i. Read any “salafi” site’s article on “Sufism” and you will assuredly find the following quote from Imam Ash-Shafi’i:
“If a person exercised Sufism (Tasawafa) at the beginning of the day, he does not come to Dhuhur except an idiot.” [Talbees Iblees]. – ((as quoted by the satanic site “Allaahuakbar” ))
Sahih: Abu Hurayrah Used to Ask Forgiveness 12000 times a Day!
The following report was called into question by a particular brother commenting on Seekingilm. The following is the takhrij. Abu Nu’aym reports the following in his Hilyat Al-Awliyaa through Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal:
حدثنا أبو بكر بن مالك، حدثنا عبد الله بن أحمد بن حنبل، حدثني أبي، وإبراهيم بن زياد، قالا: حدثنا إسماعيل بن علية، عن خالد الحذاء، عن عكرمة. قال: قال أبو هريرة: إني لأستغفر الله وأتوب إليه كل يوم اثنى عشر ألف مرة، وذلك على قدر ديني، أو قدر دينه
From ‘Ikrimah that Abu Hurayrah said: “Verily, I turn to Allah asking forgiveness and repenting to Him 12,000 times every day.”