those who were given the Scripture before you and from those who associate partners with Allah much abuse. But if you are patient and fear Allah, that is indeed a matter requiring firm resolve.’ 1
He Most High has said:
‘And if you are patient and fear Allah, their schemes will not harm you at all.’ 2
He Most High has also said:
‘Many of the People of the Book wish they could turn you back to disbelief after you have believed, out of their own envy, even after the truth has become clear to them.’ 3
The Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said: ‘Even if a believer were on a reed out at sea, Allah would send a hypocrite to trouble him.’
The poet said:
If you hear an unworthy man speak ill of me,
His words bear witness to my worth.
A man said to Ahmad ibn Hanbal—may Allah have mercy on him—‘Abū ‘Abdullāh, they say that you have a book of heresy.’ He replied: ‘Nothing protects a believer but his grave.’ …”
The Judge continued at length, then said: “… Whoever reports anything contrary to this from us, attributes anything else to us, or ascribes to us another position on this matter is a liar, a slanderer, a fabricator, and a transgressor. He incurs Allah’s displeasure, and Allah’s wrath and curse are upon him in this world and the Hereafter …”4.
- The writer said on p. 19: “(A very important notice) Among the evidence that these self-styled Salafis—the followers of Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim—likewise attribute a body to Allah and follow the very same path as the shaykh of those two men are their published works, which establish this. These include a recently printed book by a self-styled Wahhabi Salafi called (‘Abdullāh ibn Muhammad al-Duwaysh), entitled al-Mawrid al-Zulāl fī al-Tanbīh ‘alā Akhtā’ al-Zilāl (The Clear Spring: Pointing Out the Errors in In the Shade). In it, he disparages Shaykh (Sayyid Qutb) and describes him