Young Somali Brother

[Thierry.]

Fellow nomads of N America have you guys heard of the young Somali Brother Mohamed Diini.

 

Here he is talking about the important issue of extremism in both ends.

 

 

 

This is a complimentary advice from Ibn Al-Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah

 

 

The Deception of Satan in Causing People to Fall

 

 

So from his (i.e. Satan’s) strange plot/stratagem is: that he will test the Nafs (soul) in order

to see what it has with it. This he does to determine which of the two resolutions is a

mainstay over it:

• The resolution of fearlessness and bravery; or:

• The resolution of turning away and abstention and contempt.

 

For if he sees that its mainstay upon the soul is: contempt and abstention, he then begins to hinder him and weaken his endeavour as well as his intent from that which he was commanded with.

 

Thus he makes it burdensome for him, and so he demeans it upon him

in order that he should abandon it – such that stage by stage he abandons it; or falls short in it; and so neglects it.

However if he sees that its mainstay over it is: the strength of fearlessness and being strong-hearted; he then seeks to cause his underestimation of that which he was

commanded with. Thus he causes him to fall into the illusion that he has not sufficed in it; therefore needing exertion with that along with that which is additional.

So he causes the first type to fall short whilst the second he causes to go to extremes. It is

 

just as some of the Salaf said:

‘Allaah The One free of all imperfections never commanded with a command – except that Satan

had in it two incitements: either towards negligence and shortcoming; or towards transgressing

the bounds and extremism – and he (Satan) does not care to which of them his achievement lies.’

Indeed most of the people have diverged to these two wadi’s (valleys) – with the exception

of lesser than a few. That being the wadi of falling short and the wadi of transgressing the

bounds and transcending.

Yet a very small number of them are firm upon the path which the

 

Messenger of Allaah

(Sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) and his companions were upon.

For there are a people who he caused to fall short in performing the obligatory acts of

purification.

Yet there are a people whom he caused to go to extremes such that they exceed suchbounds through whisperings.

1 Taken from: Ighaathatul lahfaan fee massa’id ash-shaitaan (Daar Ibn Al-Jawzee) 1/222-226.

 

 

you can get the rest of the article from the link below

 

http://www.salafipublications.com/sps/v