The
Effects of Piety and Sin on Beauty
SHAYKH
IBN
TAIMIYYAH
Shaykh ul-Islaam
Ahmad bin AbdulHaleem Ibn Taymeeyah (d.728 A.H.) -Rahimullaah- said:
Every time a person increases in doing good
acts and Taqwaa1 then his goodness and beauty strengthens.
Every time his
sinning and enmity strengths then his ugliness2 and disfigurement
increases . . . . So we see the faces of the people of the Sunnah and obedience3,
that, as they grow older, their beauty and radiance increases so much so that
you find one of them in his senior age better and more beautiful than when he
was younger.
We find that the
faces of the people of Bida’ and sinning, every time they grow older their
ugliness and disfigurement gets worse so much for so that you cannot even look
at them, those who were dazzled and deceived by the people of Bida’ and sinning
when they were young due to the beauty of their forms.
This is apparent in
everyone [from the people of Bida’] who glorifies his Bida’ and his evil, like
the Rafidah, and the people of tyranny, oppression and evil deeds. . . Since
indeed every time the Rafidi gets older his face gets uglier and his
disfigurement gets worse to the extent his resemblance to a pig increases, and
perhaps transforms into a pig and a monkey as it has been frequently mentioned
about them….’
Translator: Abbas Abu
Yahya
Compiler: Abbas Abu Yahya
Source: Al-Istiqāmah, vol. 1, p. 365.
FOOTNOTES
1From
Abu Hurairah -RadhiAllaahu anhu- from the Prophet -SallAllaahu alayhi wa
Sallam- who said:
إِنَّ
اللَّهَ لا يَنْظُرُ إِلَى صُوَرِكُمْ وَأَمْوَالِكُمْ وَإِنَّمَا يَنْظُرُ إِلَى قُلُوبِكُمْ
وَأَعْمَالِكُمْ
Indeed Allaah does
not look at your forms [bodies], nor your wealth, but rather he looks at your
hearts and your actions. [Muslim]
2From
Abu Musa al-Asha'aari -RadhiAllaahu anhu- who said:
The Messenger of
Allaah -SallAllaahu alayhi wa Sallam- said:
مَثَلُ
الذي يَذْكُرُ رَبَّهُ وَالَّذِي لا يَذْكُرُ رَبَّهُ، مَثَلُ الْحَيِّ وَالْمَيِّتِ
The like of the one
who remembers his Lord and does not remember his Lord is the like of the living
and the dead. [Bukhari & Muslim]
3See:https://followingthesunnah.wordpress.com/2008/01/17/the-light-of-the-sunnah-tawheed-is-with-the-people-of-hadeeth/
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