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My Dear Beloved Son or Daughter: Translator'S Note
My Dear Beloved Son or Daughter: Translator'S Note
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TRANSLATORS NOTE:
The English translator has added all explanations given
within square brackets and parenthesis and assumes all
responsibilities for any mistranslations and seeks
Allahs forgiveness for that. All text in Arabic has
(Quran, 99:78)
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Our master of the two worlds (in this life and in the
life hereafter), Prophet Muhammad (May peace and
blessings of Allah be upon him) says in a much better,
clear, pure, and beautiful way compared to the above
sayings:
Al Kayyeysu Mun Daana Nafsahu Wa Amila Lima Badal
Mauti Wal Ahmaqu Manit Tabaa Nafsahu Hawaha Wa Tamanna
Ala Allahi Illa Mani Wafi Riwayati Ala Allahil
Mughfirati.
Intelligent is the one who subdued his/her Nafs (self,
i.e., evil desires and inclinations of the lower self)
and performed [good pious] actions for the life hereafter
and mindless (stupid) is the one who subdued his/her Nafs
to pleasures, greed, and [evil and vain] desires and
thought that Allah is with him/her. In some (Hadith)
traditions it says: [This mindless person] hopes for
Allahs forgiveness.
My dear beloved son! You stayed awake at nights to
continually rehearse (memorize/repeat) knowledge and
sacrificed your sleep to study it. If your intention was
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Now
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Ilaeyhim Lakana
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EIGHT ADMONITIONS
Among these [eight admonitions], you have to do four of
them and you do not do four of them so that your
knowledge does not become your enemy on the Day of
Judgment. First, those four things will be mentioned
that you should not do.
1.
PRINCIPLES OF DEBATE
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2.
REALITY OF PREACHING
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4.
when any
(Zalim) is praised
for an oppressor,
walks on earth as a
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