Explaining that the enemies of Islam are still attempting to distance Muslims from their religion by stirring up doubts and desires among them.
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The Shaykh : ... and especially since Muslims have many enemies, and every one of these enemies tries to distance Muslims from their religion by all means. Without a doubt, the disbelievers in the present age, in which material power has completely submitted to them, have realized that Muslims are not diverted from their religion by force and weapons, but rather by distorting their religion. Distorting their religion is done through two things:
The first thing: distancing them from the medicine that Islam brought.
The second thing: testing them with material desires in their various forms and types.
If a Muslim is not protected by his Islam and the correct Islam, as we mentioned, the disbelievers can easily lure Muslims into following their desires and appetites; because the soul, as He (Glorified and Exalted is He) said:[Yusuf 12:53]; therefore, let the Muslim be in a secure fortress against ideological and material deviation at the same time. He must study Islamic jurisprudence and know its rulings from the Book of Allah and the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him); for this is the jurisprudence for which the Messenger (peace be upon him) prayed for its possessor by saying: Sahih Muslim 1037a; so studying jurisprudence in the religion is based on the Book and the Sunnah. Very strange things have entered into both, which have nullified this medicine that was a cure for the most deviant of peoples, namely the Arabs in the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. With this medicine, they became noble and were able to dominate the lands that had previously ruled them, even though those rulers were stronger in number and greater in count. As they say, history repeats itself; just as Islam was a cure for those Arabs who were oppressed on earth by the Persians and the Romans, and they became the masters of all because of this medicine, which is Islam; if history repeats itself and the Muslims return to this medicine, it will restore to them what they have lost of nobility, glory, strength, and power.
The first thing: distancing them from the medicine that Islam brought.
The second thing: testing them with material desires in their various forms and types.
If a Muslim is not protected by his Islam and the correct Islam, as we mentioned, the disbelievers can easily lure Muslims into following their desires and appetites; because the soul, as He (Glorified and Exalted is He) said:
Indeed, the soul is a persistent enjoiner of evil, except those upon which my Lord has mercy
إِنَّ النَّفْسَ لَأَمَّارَةٌ بِالسُّوءِ إِلَّا مَا رَحِمَ رَبِّيHe upon whom Allah intends to bestow goodness, He confers upon him an insight in religion
مَن يُرِدِ الله به خيرًا يفقِّهْه في الدين
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