The Messenger (sallal-laahu-alayhi-wasallam) said: ‘Trials and tribulations will be presented to hearts, as a reed mat is interwoven stick by stick. Any heart which absorbs these trials will have a black mark put in it. However, any heart that rejects them will have a white mark put in it. The result is that hearts will be of two kinds: one white like a white stone, which will not be harmed by trials as long as the heavens and earth endure; and the other dark and rusty, like an over-turned vessel; not able to recognise the good, nor reject evil, but rather being absorbed with its desires.’
Imaam Ibn al-Qayyirn said, ‘The fitan (trials) which are presented to the hearts – and which are the cause of its weakness are the trials relating to shahwah (false desire) and the trials relating to shubhah (doubt)… So the first causes intentions and desires to be corrupted, whilst the second causes knowledge and beliefs to be corrupted.’ He (rahimahullaah)said: ‘Hearts, when exposed to such fitan (trials)are of two types:
[The first type]: a heart, which, when exposed to such trials, absorbs it like a sponge that soaks-up water, leaving in it a black stain. Such a heart continues to soak-up the various trials that are presented to it, until it becomes dark and corrupted – which is what is meant by ýan over-turned vessel’, so when this occurs, two dangerous and deadly diseases take hold of it and plunge it into destruction:
Firstly: confusing good with evil, so it neither recognizes the good, nor rejects the evil. This disease may take hold of it to such an extent that it believes good to be evil; and evil to be good, Sunnah to be bidýah (innovation); and innovations to be the Sunnah, and the truth to be falsehood; and falsehood the truth.
Secondly: judging by its whims and desires, over and against what Allaahýs Messenger sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam came with – being enslaved by its whims and desires and being led by them also.
[The second type]: a white heart in which the light of eemaan is bright and its radiance is illuminating. So when trials are presented to such a heart, it rejects and turns away from them. This further increases its light and illumination and its strength.’[source: Al-Ibaanah Issue No.3]
So contemplate O Sunni Salafi! Indeed, hizbiyyah has afflicted many individuals. The devils amongst mankind have even changed its evil reality to an affair of moderation and a praiseworthy quality in the field of Dawah. Those who call to unity upon the sunnah and abandonment of Tahazzub are vilified and judged to be extremists and haddaadees, whilst those absorbed in the Fitnah, Doubts and Tamyi of the organizations and masaajid of Hizbiyyah are judged to be upon moderation and fairness. Indeed, this is a deceit of shaytaan.
Therefore, those who label the salafis with haddaadiyyah are to examine their hearts, for they have gradually been overtaken by the ideas, desires and doubts of those organizations and masaajid of tahazzub that openly co-operate with the people of innovation and misguidance from amongst the qutbees, ikhwaanees, soroorees and extreme soofees.
Indeed, labeling the Salafis with haddaadiyyah is a lie, slander and a call to falsehood. Once again the individuals and websites of misery and calamity have given in to shaytaan in propagating falsehood and slander against the salafis. So as they spread fasaad behind hidden names and under the umbrella of the organizations and masaajid of tahazzub, we strive to spread the clear verdicts of the Ulema and cling to the correct walaa wal baraa towards the deviate sects and parties.
The Messenger (sallal-laahu-alayhi-wasallam) said:
‘Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all. And whoever calls to misguidance will carry the burden of the sin similar to the sin of the one who follows him, without the sins of either of them being lessened at all.’
Trials Of The Heart
