Sincerity in Prophetic Knowledge

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وَأَمَّا قَوْلُ وَكِيعِ

As for the saying of Waki'.

إِنَّ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ يَصُدُّكُمْ عَنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَعَنْ الصَّلَاةِ فَهَلْ أَنْتُمْ مُنْتَهُونَ

This hadith prevents you from remembering God and from prayer; will you stop?

فَهَذَا قَالَهُ فِي الصَّلَاةِ المُقَارَنَةِ للذكر وَهِيَ النَّوَافِلُ

So this is what he said about the prayer comparable to remembrance: it is the voluntary prayers.

أَيُّ يُقَلِّلُ تَشَاغُلَكُمْ بِالنَّوَافِلِ

That is, it reduces your preoccupation with the supererogatory acts.

فَانْتَهُوا عَنْ ذُلِّكِ

So desist from that.

أَمَّا أَنْ يَصُدَّهُمْ عَنْ الْفَرَائِضِ الْخَمْسِ فَحَاشَا لِلَّهِ

As for turning them away from the five obligatory prayers, God forbid.

هَذَا مَا كَانَ فِي سَيْرِهِمْ قِطُّ

This was never part of their conduct.

إِلَّا فِي أَيَّامِ الْجِهَادِ وَقَبْلَهَا بِمُدَّةٍ

Except during the days of jihad and for some time before them.

وَهَلْ يَتْرُكُ الصَّلَاةَ مُحْدَثًا إِلَّا وَهُوَ الرَّذَالَةُ الزَّبَّالَةُ

And who would abandon the prayer while ritually impure, except that he is base and filthy?

أَوْ إِلَى التَّعَثُّرِ وَالضَّلَالَةِ

Or to stumbling and going astray?

فَإِنَّ كَمَالَ أَنْفُسِهِ بِتَلَوُّثٍ أَوْ قِيادَةٍ

If, however, his self is perfected by corruption or by leadership,

فَقَدْ تَمَّتْ لَهُ الإِفَادَةُ

Thus he has fully benefited.

وَإِنْ اِسْتَعْمَلَ مِنَ الْعُلُومِ قِسْطًا

And if he made use of a portion of the sciences,

فَقَدْ ازداد مَهَانَةً وَ خَبْطًا

So he became increasingly humiliated and confused.

وَبَذْلٍ دَيِّنُهُ لِشَيْطَانِهِ

And he abandoned his religion to his devil,

وَأَدْبَرَ عَنْ الْخَيْرِ

And he turned away from the goodness.

فَهَلْ فِي مِثْلِ هَذَا اَلْضَّرْبِ خَيْرٌ

So is there any good in people of this sort?

لا كُثْرٌ اللَّهُ مَثَلُهُمْ

May God not increase their number.

فَمَا حَظُّ الْوَاحِدِ مِنْ هَؤُلاَءِ إِلَّا أَنْ يَسْمَعَ لِيَرْوِيَ فَقَطْ

As for any one of them, his lot is only to listen so that he may narrate.

فَلْيُعَاقِبْنَ بِنَقِيضِ قَصْدِهِ

So let them punish him with the opposite of his intention.

وَلِيُشَهِّرَنَّهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بَعْدَ أَنْ سَتَرَهُ مَرَّاتٍ

And may Allah the Exalted expose him after He had concealed him several times,

وَلِيَبْقَيْنَ مُضْغَةً فِي الأَلْسَنَيْنِ

And let a morsel remain on the two tongues,

وَعِبْرَةٌ بَيِّّنٌ الْمُحَدِّثِينَ

And a clear lesson for the hadith transmitters,

ثُمَّ لَيَطْبَعَنَّ اللَّهُ عَلَى قَلْبِهِ

Then Allah will surely seal his heart.

وَرُبَّمَا سُلِبَ التَّوْحِيدُ

And perhaps the belief in God's oneness will be taken away.

وَطَمَعٌ فِيهِ الشَّيْطَانُ

And Satan coveted him.

فَدَخَلَ فِي بَاطِنِهِ الخراب

Then ruin entered his inner self.

وَشَكُّهُ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ وَالْنَّبَوَاتِ

and his doubt about Islam and the messages of the prophets.

إِلَى أَنْ يَخْسَرَ الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةَ

until he loses both this world and the Hereafter.

نَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ العَفْوَ وَالْسِّتْرَ

We ask God for forgiveness and to conceal our faults.

فَبِاللَّهِ يَا أَخِي ثُمَّ بِاللَّهِ

By God, O my brother, by God.

اِتَّقِ اللَّهَ فِي نَفْسِكَ الْمِسْكِينَةِ

Fear Allah for your wretched self.

وَلَا تَكُنْ مِمَّنْ أَدْخَلَهُ طَلَبُ الْحِدَاثِ النَّارَ

Do not be among those whom the pursuit of novelty has led into the Fire.

فَمَا اِرْتَفَعَ رَافِعٌ إِلَّا بِالتَّقْوَى الْخَيْرُ

No one is exalted except by piety and goodness,

وَمُلَازَمَةُ الْآدَابِ النَّبَوِيَّةِ

And steadfast adherence to the Prophet's manners.