Shaykh Sālih bin Fawzān Al Fawzān – Hafidhahullah – stated in his explanation of the Treatise of Servitude. Regarding the individual who lacks Sincerity; “He is like the branch of a tree, everytime a gust of wind comes he sways…”

Shaykh Sālih bin Fawzān Al Fawzān – Hafidhahullah – stated in his explanation of the Treatise of Servitude.

Commenting on  Shaykh Islām Ibn Taymiyyah’s statement regarding the servant of Allah being granted sincerity by Allah Shaykh Sālih bin Fawzān said:

“If Allah –Azza wa jal- grants the servant sincerity nothing comes to him of harm.

Regardless of what presents itself to him from desires, doubts and adversities for indeed Allah will make him firm.

And as for if the heart is deprived of sincerity, then indeed the individual is affected by the various desires, doubts, fears and other such matters that present themselves to him on account of the deficiency that is in him.

He is like the branch of a tree, everytime a gust of wind comes he sways in a northerly southernly, easternly or westernly direction, he is not firm. Similarly the Heart that does not have sincerity, it is swayed by (the various affairs) that present themselves to it.”

[Sharh Ar-Risālatu Ubudiyah; page 251]

Translated by: Abu Affān, Hakīm bin  Bilāl Davis

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12/24/18, 5:58 PM

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