Ibn al-Qayyim (raḥimahullāh) said:
“The people of Islām are strangers amongst mankind. And the
believers are strangers amongst the people of Islām. And the people of
knowledge are strangers amongst the believers. And the people of the Sunnah who separate
it from the desires and innovations, they are strangers. And those who call to it
and have patience upon the harm of the opposers, they are the severest of them
(all) in strangeness. However, they are the people of Allāh in truth. There is no
strangeness for them (in reality), (rather) their strangeness is only in
relation to the majority about whom Allāh, the Mighty and Majestic, said, ”If you
were to obey most of those upon the Earth they would misguide you from the path
of Allaah”{6:116}. So the ones (mentioned in the verse) are (the real) strangers
to Allāh and His Messengers and their strangeness is the deserting (type of)
strangeness even if they are well-known and pointed towards.
Madārij al-Sālikīn (3/186)
Madārij al-Sālikīn (3/186)
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Translated
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