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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious and Most Merciful, and with Him, I ask for help. I send greetings upon the Master of the Prophets and Messengers.
As for the rest, we must always make sure that we are steadfast in the religion of Allah, steadfast in the Book and the Sunnah.
"Say, I believe in Allah, then be steadfast," as the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, enjoined.
There is no doubt that man has been tested. Temptation is presented to man in its types, forms, and shapes.
For this reason, temptation can be related to suspicions, meaning suspicions related to matters of belief—whether it is belief in Allah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), the Qur'an, the pillars of Islam, or the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them).
This is related to suspicions. There are many things in which there is doubt in faith, in the obligatory beliefs, in the religion of Allah, and in the service of Islam and the scholars of Islam to this religion.
The second thing is the lusts that are presented to man. Time may not be enough for the differences in times related to lusts, and their circle—on the lust for money, the lust for men and women, and the lust for leadership and position. These are all lusts.
A Muslim has the right to ensure the stability of the religion of Allah. For this reason, we have rules and principles for safety, Allah willing, from suspicions. And the greatest thing is that a Muslim knows his religion well.
He knows what Allah has commanded him to believe—belief in the names of Allah Almighty and His attributes, belief in the matters of faith, what to believe in, in the matters of the unseen, and in everything that came in the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet.
And he knows the belief of the people of the Sunnah, what a Muslim should follow and understand, because it is based on the Book of Allah and the Hadith of the Prophet.
Why do we say this? This is the first way to prevent the effects of suspicions on you, O Muslim.
Because if you truly believe with evidence and firmly believe in the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet, this is a barrier preventing you from being affected by the slightest suspicion.
While suspicions pierce those who have no knowledge or have little knowledge.
The more you increase your knowledge of the Book and the Sunnah and the doctrine of the Muslims, the more steadfast you become, and the less you are exposed to temptation—without doubt or hesitation in that.
Temptation comes only when faith is weakened in the temptation of desires, and when knowledge is weakened, especially in the matter of the temptation of suspicions.
This is why this is the stage of building. If the building is sound, strong, and solid, it will not be affected by any wind or storm.
On the other hand, if the building is weak and fragile, it will be affected by the slightest wind or storm, and this may lead to the collapse of the building.
This is why we find the issue of knowledge before action, as well as the level of knowledge and the virtue of knowledge.
All of this is for the sake of action, for the sake of working with it and believing in it. This virtue of knowledge exists for this stage.
The more you increase your knowledge of the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger, the more steadfast and firm you become in this great religion.
This is a great principle in this regard—to stay away from the temptation of suspicions, to be firm in knowledge, and to be firm in understanding so that it becomes a barrier preventing any effect of any suspicion.
The second point is that a person should not listen to, learn from, or receive knowledge except from its rightful sources.
Allah says:
"So ask the people of knowledge if you do not know."
The question is directed to the people of knowledge—the people of the Qur'an, the people of the Sunnah, the people of monotheism, the people of Islam, the true religion.
These are the ones who are asked for knowledge, and knowledge is received from them.
As for those who have deviations—those who have strayed from the religion of Allah and the understanding of the Sunnah—knowledge should not be taken from them unless it is out of necessity and with extreme caution.
Otherwise, their influence will corrupt a person’s belief in ways he does not even feel.
This is why Al-Hafidh Ibn Hajar mentioned in his book Lisan Al-Mizan, in the translation of Al-Zamakhshari, about one of Al-Bukhari's interpreters. I can't remember his name now. I think he is the author. Al-Bukhari, may Allah have mercy on him, mentioned in his book Al-Zamakhshari that it is recommended not to read from the book of Al-Kashshaf.
Why? He said because if a person is a competent scholar, he may be influenced by a suspicion or be influenced by a suspicion in himself, which stimulates him.
Al-Zamakhshari has a tongue and a pen, with his creativity in the miracles of the Qur'an, but unfortunately, he has a weak sense of balance, and he has his own ways of influencing the reader, and he mixes the poison with the honey.
The first thing is that a scholar, if he looks at it, is influenced by it in a way that he does not feel.
The second thing, and this is important, is that the public, when they see this book, follow it, and therefore, they fall into these suspicions, and this misguidance, and this deviation.
And as for those who have no knowledge, from the beginning, these suspicions increase and become stronger in the soul, and at that time, there will be a great deviation.
This is an important issue.
And as for the book, in short, it is the explanation of Bukhari, not in short, to Ibn Abi Jamrah, I think, The Delight of the Souls, perhaps, but the name of the book, The Delight of the Souls, and its solution, to the end, to Ibn Abi Jamrah, yes.
So here, dear brothers and sisters, the acquisition of knowledge from the people of the Sunnah and from the companions of the correct belief is essential because a person may become weak in the face of some suspicions, and he cannot respond to them.
This is also an important principle in knowing the truth, and also, for a person to be in security and safety from the temptation related to suspicions.
We said, the acquisition of correct knowledge, this is the first basis, and it is the correct building.
The second matter is that he does not take knowledge and does not receive it except from its rightful sources.
The third matter is that a person seeks refuge in Allah by supplication and asking Allah for stability:
"O Allah, make us firm with the word of stability in the life of this world and the hereafter."
We supplicate to Him for stability.
No matter, if it is a matter of stability in religion, he does not doubt himself.
I do not want to give you, I know stories from people, Allah knows them well, but they are temptations.
We ask Allah for stability.
So, it is advisable for a person to always ask Allah for stability in this religion.
One of the reasons that makes some people doubtful about suspicions until they become firm, and there is no suspicion left, is what can be called curiosity.
Meaning, that he does not need to listen to some people, just to flip the pages, to flip YouTube, to flip the media, for misguided parties and deviated groups, with the claim of curiosity.
And he has no knowledge at all, and he does not need this at all, and he is not convinced, certainly. But, he does not have a solid foundation at all.
So, when he comes and flips through these channels and these multiple means and listens here and there for the love of listening only, with the claim that Shaytan deceives himself little by little and spoils his religion.
The matters of creed are very dangerous.
And the lusts related to this topic, one has to close and block all the doors that he fears, what he is certain about, but just the possibility that evil comes to him from this door or that.
The creed is the foundation of religion.
And as we said, the aspects of obedience in religion, the doubt in religion from multiple aspects.
And man seeks his Lord, Glorified be He, for stability.
And also, an important matter is that if a suspicion is attached to him or a suspicion and a confusion occurs in it, that he turns to the people of knowledge, the people of specialization, the people of Sunnah, and the people of righteous belief.
If someone is affected by this or has a question about it, he should ask: what is the answer to this? How is the answer to this?
And he should not leave this suspicion in himself so that this suspicion does not increase and multiply.
This is a great principle of principles that we should be aware of.
And a person should not leave this suspicion to grow in himself.
He should be concerned about the righteous belief and ask Allah for stability and the absence of confusion in these areas, where the people of innovation and desires attempt to mislead others.
And from the very important matters also, is returning to the Book of Allah and to the Sunnah of His Messenger, peace be upon him, and to the scholars of knowledge, and those who have knowledge and expertise in this.
Not that every person becomes as if he is a political analyst in issues that even the people of politics and expertise are unable to solve.
So, every student of knowledge becomes a political analyst in issues that the people of politics are unable to solve.
If a student of knowledge follows what we mentioned, avoids what we warned against, and builds his foundation in understanding religion on a solid and sound basis, then the more he is away from suspicions.
For example, one who knows the status of the people of the house in the religion of Islam and among the people of the Sunnah, and who knows the status of the companions, may Allah be pleased with them, in the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.
