Humility Over Fame

O young man Rafi, listen. I tell you, by God, I see you mixing the merchandise like I do.

He has little knowledge of the craft.

So at the very least, be eager to obey.

And adhere to your five prayers in congregation.

Is there anything more disgraceful than a young man who serves the Sunnah and does not act on it?

Yes; another goes too far in making requests.

And it will be written about one who walked and crawled,

Then he does not pray; may God not bless this kind.

For indeed these people, their misguidance by hadith is no more than the misguidance of the wrestler, the runner, and the pigeon-player.

On the contrary, those are more excusable because of ignorance.

And this one who causes others to stumble makes thousands of youths hear the warning and the threat contained in it.

And the severe punishment,

and he is not deterred.

Rather, I do not think he hears anything.

And he does not understand a hadith,

Because if he is reading by his own self, then by his effort that he spell out the names and the texts.

And he replaces what it points to,

And his aim is to alert the sheikh at times,

and sometimes to a bald man who was present,

And sometimes to preserve the grammatical inflection.

Lest he be disgraced among those present.

And if another reciter took a rest,

So I guarantee to you that he hears nothing except "narrated to us, he said, narrated to us."

And may God bless him and grant him peace.

Because that happens so often, you will then see him either write the names at the moment of hearing.

So it becomes null and becomes null,

Or he copies them into a section,

or writes it in duplicate,

or consults something,

And this is his best state, and there is no goodness in it or in any place.

And this is what most often happens to his companion,

And he jokes with the handsome boys,