vain desire and stripped of the dignity of guidance, so eyes turn away from them and hearts recoil from them.

Earlier, he had included a chapter on the gravity of the sin of one who establishes an evil practice or calls others to it, citing the relevant hadiths. He then cited a hadith transmitted through ‘Uthmān ibn Sa‘īd: Yahyā ibn al-Himmānī narrated to us: Ibn al-Mubārak narrated to us, from Haywah ibn Shurayh, who said: Abū Sakhr narrated to me