In the Name of Allah,
The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful.
Image: love
O Youth! If you adhere to Islamic brotherhood, deepen your love of Allah,
and follow the percepts of Islam concerning social relationships, Islamic unity
will be achieved; Islam will spread throughout the world; Islamic civilization
will be renewed, and the pillars of solidarity, cooperation, and altruism will
be firmly established in the Islamic society.
Through history we know about countries, which established Islamic law and
adhered to love for the sake of Allah and became richer, having a stronger
spirit of cooperation, solidarity, and love predominating among the people.
Unity, power, and glory were their slogans before the whole world.
Before I conclude my words, I would like to advise you to follow the
principle of moderation as the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) ordered us; be moderate
when you love, as your lover may become your enemy. Be moderate when you hate,
as the one you hate become your lover. Al-Khara’ity reported that Imam Hassan
al-Basri recommended: “Choose good friends, good brothers, and good councils.
Be moderate when you love and hate. Some people were hurt because of their
excessiveness in love. If a man tells you a secret, you should keep it.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib, (may Allah honor him), recommended and advised his
colleagues and friends saying,
Do good deeds and
forgive others,
Because you will
harvest the
Results of your
actions.
Be moderate when you
love,
Because you do not
know the
Time of hate and quarrel.
Be moderate when you
hate,
Because you do not
know the
Time of love.
O youth, though moderation in love and hate, you will open the gate of
understanding, reconcilialation and sincerity, and open a way to brotherhood
and agreement, and follow the precepts of Islam that recommend the respect of
men and praise good people. You should not praise other people more than they
deserve. If you do so, you will be like those who are ignorant and exceed the
proper boundaries. Allah, the almighty may reconcile two opponents under the
shade of Islamic brotherhood after they thought that they could not reconcile
or meet gain. May Allah have mercy on the poet who said:
Allah may reconcile
between two
Opponents after they
thought
That they would not
reconcile
And meet again.
Many people were moderate when they loved others. They respected and loved
them without exaggerating in their love. They did not love them as they loved
Allah. They did not raise them in their love, to the rank of Allah nor to the
rank of prophecy. They used to measure men with truth. Islam is pleased when it
finds truthful men and friendly youth practicing Islamic teachings in all
aspects of life. If the Islamic call presents truthful and faithful callers of
whom people will follow, it will harvest millions of people who apply the
teachings of Islam. Moreover, it also reaps the best fruits and results, and
thereupon, the believers will be pleased with Allah’s victory.
“And Say (O Muhammad (peace be upon him) “Do deeds!
Allah will see your deeds, and (so will) His messenger and the believers. And you
will be brought back to the All-knower of the unseen and the seen. Then He will
inform you of what you used to do”
(Surah At-Taubah: 105,
The Holy Qur’an)
Messege by ‘Abdullah
Nasih ‘Ulwan, Professor of Islamic Studies,
King Abdul-‘Aziz University.
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