People of intellect and sound mind protect and guard themselves from falsehood and their honor from anything which may harm it by following the path of virtue and good and avoiding what causes suspicion.
Khutbah Topic By Sheikh Salaah Al Budair: 01/01/21
'Warning from Busying yourself with others Faults'
People of intellect and sound mind protect and guard themselves from falsehood and their honor from anything which may harm it by following the path of virtue and good and avoiding what causes suspicion.
Whoever does not protect himself from his desires, then his faults will become great and his secrets will get exposed.
It is also said "Do not reach night causing evil gossip, and do not forget that there is a Lord always watching you.”
People have sharp tongues when it comes to others’ faults and souls that crave finding flaws. They spread others’ faults more than their virtues.
Bakr ibn Abdillah said,“If you see a man busy with other people's faults and he forget his own, then know that he has been deceived
It is prohibited to have evil assumptions of other Muslims who seem to be trustworthy, truthful, and good. Allah (the Most High) said, “Indeed, some assumptions are sin.”
Do not live in the circles of illusions, assumptions, doubts, and suspicions.
The oppressive one is he who criticizes those who are blameless and and belittles those of high moral character.
Criticism might fall on those who are free from it, and faults might be blamed on an Innocent ones, and the slanderer is from those who accused Innocents.
The poet replied,
He accused me and my father with that which we are free from.
He only accused us of this due to this well.
Do not let your minds wonder with falsehood and assumptions.
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Each thing is moved by, implicitly converted or turned back to, its own good by its cause of procession - which is principally God.
"Via est nobis tendendi in Deum." - St. Thomas Aquinas, which is to say that:
Christ, who as a man, is the way of our tending (back) into God.
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