them to commit. There is no code, course, law, or path for all people more perfect than the law with which Allah sent His Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him. As he used to say in his sermons:

“The best speech is the speech of Allah, and the best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him.”

“Among their errors is the assumption that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, the Companions, and the Successors attended this form of listening—listening to whistling, clapping, singing, and the striking of palms together. Some liars even related that ‘a Bedouin recited poetry to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, saying:

The serpent of passion has bitten my heart … no physician or reciter of charms can heal it,
Save the beloved with whom I am enthralled … from him comes my sickness, and from him my antidote.

And that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, expressed such ecstasy that his cloak fell from his shoulders, and said: “He is not noble who does not express ecstasy at the mention of the beloved.”’”

This hadith is a lie by the consensus of those acquainted with the life, Sunnah, and circumstances of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. Likewise, some liars fabricated the claim that Ahl al-Suffa (the people of the shaded platform) fought against the believers alongside