The True Man

“A man is the one who fears the death of his heart, not his body.”
Ibn al-Qayyim.

Madaarijus-Saalikeen, v. 3, p. 248.

Taken from: Gifts of Knowledge

“Knowledge is, "Allaah said…His Messenger said…The Companions said…"

Shaikh Muhammad Naasirud-Deen al-Albaani said:

So we hope that Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic, makes us students of knowledge who truly adopt the same course as the scholars and who truthfully follow their path. This is what we hope for from Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic, that He makes us from those students who follow that way about which the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said, “Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge thereby, Allaah will make easy for him the path to Paradise.” Reported by Muslim [no. 7028].

And this opens the door for me to speak about this knowledge which is mentioned many times, very many times, in the Quraan, as in His Saying, the Most High,

Ibn al-Qayyim on Repentance and Arrogance

Ibn al-Qayyim said, “Indeed when Allaah intends good for a servant, He strips away sight of his good deeds from his heart, and their mention from his tongue, and causes him to become preoccupied with his sins, and they continue to be before his eyes until he enters Paradise. For indeed, those actions which have been accepted–the sight of them is removed from the heart and their remembrance from the tongue.

And one of the Salaf said,