Stay Righteous

  

Al-Muzanī reports:I heard Al-Shāfiʿī say: A man once asked Ubay b. Kaʿb – Allāh be pleased with him, “Exhort me with something I can benefit by and by which I will be rewarded.”

He replied, “Be brotherly with brothers according to how righteous they are, do not expend your speech on those who are not interested in it, do not seek anyone to meet your need who does not care if he does not fulfil it, and do not envy the living except for something you would envy the dead.”

 

It is reported that Yūnus b. ʿUbayd – Allāh have mercy on him – said:

 

There is no one who is mindful of what he says except that you will see the good of it in the rest of his actions.

 

It is reported that Ḥudhayfah b. Al-Yamān – Allāh be pleased with him – said:

 

True misguidance is that you approve now what you used to repudiate before (because it was wrong) and repudiate now what you used to approve before; and be aware of changing colours in the religion, for the religion of Allāh is one.

 

It is reported that Al-Nuʿmān b. Bashīr – Allāh be pleased with him – said during a sermon he was delivering in Homs: Total destruction lies in doing bad deeds during a time of calamity and tribulation.