Milestones Showing The Way (manhaj)

[Umm Yoosuf]

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Taken from the book called "Love & Hate for the Sake of Allaah" by Shaykh Saleem al-Hilaalee on pgs. 17 - 19

Know, O brother upon guidance, may Allaah guide you with His permission to the Truth, indeed He guides whomever He wills to the Straight Path, that the Principle of loving and hating for Allaah alone, having no partner, has prescribed for the Believing servant the single and sole direction for his alliance which will agree with and spring from his eemaan.

Indeed the true slave of Allaah is the one who is pleased by that which is pleasing to Allaah and His Messenger Muhammad (sallAllaahu alaihi wa sallam), and who is displeased with whatever is displeasing to Allaah and His Messenger (sallAllaahu alaihi wa sallam). Whatever is loved by Allaah is enough for him, he forsakes everything which Allaah hates, so he forms alliance with the pious servants who love Allaah and he is at enmity with the enemies of Allaah.

This is the one whose heart is filled with eemaan, so that he finds its sweetness and freshness so there is no room for seeking to achieve results without applying the means, nor for applying dubious means, nor for watering down the methodology of Islaam since the core of the matter is 'aqeedah, and what is warranted here is alliance with Allaah, His Messenger (sallAllaahu alaihi wa sallam) and the Believers and to unite together upon the way prescribed by Allaah, the Magnificent, and split from those not upon it.

Allaah, the Most High, says:
"Do you think that you shall be left alone while He has not yet tested those among you who have striven hard and fought and have not taken waleejah (helpers, advisors and consultants from the disbelievers, pagans etc. giving openly to them their secrets) besides Allaah and His Messenger, and the Believers. Allaah is Well-Acquainted with what you do." [at-Tawbah (9):16]

He (sallAllaahu alaihi wa sallam) said: "There are seven whom Allaah will shade in His shade [3] on the Day when there is no shade except His shade: The just ruler; a youth who grew up upon the worship of His Lord; a man whose heart is attached to the mosques; two men who love each other only for Allaah's sake - meeting and parting for that; a man whom a woman of noble birth and beauty calls to commit fornication but he (refuses) and says: "I fear Allaah"; a man who gives charity secretly so that his left hand does not know what his right hand gives; and a man who remembers Allaah in private and his eyes flood with tears." [4]

What is adhered to, always, is the correct methodology of Islaam...that which Allaah prescribed and which was shown to us in practical and exemplary form by the life of Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alaihi wa sallam), that is the criterion, and adherence is not to lineage, or individuals, or groups, or parties, or madhhabs, or sects, or governments, or nations. Indeed the shortcomings and weaknesses that have penetrated Islaamic life are due to obstinacy and deviation from this criterion, or attempts to snatch this away from the hand of the Muslim worshiper....and instead of it's infallibility is falsely attributed to persons given the status of holiness, who are raised above any criticism or error, and laughable excuses are invented to cover and explain their practices and their errors which totally conflict with what Allaah loves and is pleased with, and have no connection at all with the correct methodology of Islaam. This is where failure and downfall begins - when the true Islaamic goals and values are used to serve ones own ends.

All praise is for Allaah who gave one the wisdom to say:
"Indeed I will make it common to all,
which is something the party makes forbidden:
How wretched, the afflictions of our ummah,
That Islaam is made to serve an organization."

This is when judgments begin to be passed according to who is the person is question, and means of bypassing the truth are extended to the point that whole works are written about them.

It is not fitting for the servant who loves Allaah, and loves and hates for Allaah's sake, and gives for Allaah, and withholds for Allaah, and forms ties for Allaah, and breaks ties for Allaah to think that calling to and clinging to the correct Islaamic methodology with regard to alliance, loving and hating, and to avoid clinging to individuals, symbols and signs, will mean a return to disunity and mean that our efforts have been wasted.

Indeed this principle which binds the connection between the Muslims is not something about which we have a choice, rather it is something essential for the correction of the direction of Muslim society and for ending of the man-made feudalism afflicting the life of the Muslims, so that what is adhered to is the Islaam which the Lord of Worlds is pleased with as our Deen, as explained fully by Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alaihi wa sallam).

Footnotes
[3] i.e. the shade of His Throne ('Arsh) as shown in a version of a hadeeth, see Fathul-Baaree (2/144)
[4] Reported by al-Bukhaaree [Eng. trans. 1/356/no.629] and the wording in his, and Muslim [Eng. trans. 2/493/no.2248] from the hadeeth of Aboo Hurairah, radiyAllaahu 'anhu.

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