Final Blame and Praise
The outcome of trying to please people by displeasing Allah, and sticking to the truth even if people blame you.
A righteous and knowledgeable Imam from the Successors of the Companions. Died 103H.
The outcome of trying to please people by displeasing Allah, and sticking to the truth even if people blame you.
It is reported that Khālid b. Ma’dan – Allāh have mercy on him – said: Whoever seeks praise by going against the truth, Allāh will throw it back upon him as blame, and whoever faces blame in order to conform to the truth, Allāh will return it as praise for him. Al-Dhahabī, Siyar A’lām Al-Nubalā` […]
It is reported that Khālid b. Ma’dān – Allāh have mercy on him – said: There is not a person except he has four eyes: two in his head with which he sees the matters of this worldly life, and two in his heart with which he looks to the matters of the hereafter. So […]