Reading from the author's words with commentary and collation of manuscripts: "The eighth aspect: that apparent similarity begets a type of affection and love

The reader: And our Prophet Muhammad and his family and all his Companions
As for what follows: Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said in *Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim* "The eighth aspect is that apparent similarity begets a type of affection and love and allegiance in the inner self, just as love in the inner self begets apparent similarity. This is a matter attested by sense and experience, until"

The Shaykh : experience
The reader: "and experience, until"

The Shaykh : This is a common error: breaking the ra in *tajribah*. Yes, damming the ra in *tajribah* and *tajarib* is an error. The correct form is *tajr_ibah* and *tajar_ib*. Yes.
The reader: "until if two men are from the same town and then meet in a foreign land, there is between them a great deal of affection and harmony, even if they were not acquainted in their own town, or if they were estranged from one another"

The Shaykh : This is correct.
The student: Yes, correct.

The Shaykh : Correct. When a person sees someone from his own town, even if he does not know him or there is no affection between them, but they are in a foreign land, you find that they have affection for and love one another. Yes.
The reader: "and that is because sharing the same town is a description by which they are distinguished from the foreign land"

The Shaykh : distinguished
The reader: "distinguished from the foreign land. In fact, if two men meet on a journey or in a foreign land, and there is similarity between them in their headgear, clothing, hair, or mount, or the like, there will be more harmony between them than between others. Likewise, you will find that practitioners of worldly trades are more inclined to one another than to others, to the point that this occurs even in the midst of enmity and warfare, whether over kingship or over religion. You will also find that kings and the like of the leaders, even if their homes and kingdoms are far apart, have a connection between them that begets similarity and care for one another. All of this is the requirement of human nature"

The Shaykh : requirement
The reader: "All of this is the requirement of human nature and its implication, unless a religion or a specific purpose prevents it. If similarity in worldly matters begets love and allegiance to them, how"

The Shaykh : We do not have "to them"
The student: It is in it.

The Shaykh : No, it is not in it. He indicated it in the copy I have.
The reader: He did not indicate it.

The Shaykh : Mine is more correct. If similarity in worldly matters begets love and allegiance, how is it with similarity? Because he is speaking now about a general matter, not a specific one like the disbelievers. The important thing is to make it a copy so that
The reader: "If similarity in worldly matters begets love and allegiance, how is it with similarity in religious matters? For its leading to a type of allegiance is greater and more intense. And love and allegiance to them are incompatible with faith. Allah the Exalted said:

⁽⁵¹⁾ O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you - then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people. ⁽⁵²⁾ So you see those in whose hearts is disease hastening into [association with] them, saying, "We are afraid a misfortune may strike us." But perhaps Allah will bring conquest or a decision from Him, and they will become, over what they have been concealing within themselves, regretful. ⁽⁵³⁾ And those who believe will say, "Are these the ones who swore by Allah their strongest oaths that indeed they were with you?" Their deeds have become worthless, and they have become losers.

يا أيها الذين آمنوا لا تتخذوا اليهود والنصارى أولياء بعضهم أولياء بعض ومن يتولهم منكم فإنه منهم إن الله لا يهدي القوم الظالمين فترى الذين في قلوبهم مرض يسارعون فيهم يقولون نخشى أن تصيبنا دائرة فعسى الله أن يأتي بالفتح أو أمر من عنده فيصبحوا على ما أسروا في أنفسهم نادمين ويقول الذين آمنوا أهؤلاء الذين أقسموا بالله جهد أيمانهم إنهم لمعكم حبطت أعمالهم فأصبحوا خاسرين

[Al-Ma'idah 5:51-53]

And He the Exalted said, in what He uses to condemn the People of the Book:

⁽⁷⁸⁾ Cursed were those who disbelieved among the Children of Israel by the tongue of David and of Jesus, the son of Mary. That was because they disobeyed and [habitually] transgressed. ⁽⁷⁹⁾ They used not to prevent one another from wrongdoing that they did. How wretched was that which they were doing. ⁽⁸⁰⁾ You see many of them becoming allies of those who disbelieved. How wretched is that which they have put forth for themselves in that Allah has become angry with them, and in the punishment they will abide eternally. ⁽⁸¹⁾ And if they had believed in Allah and the Prophet and in what was revealed to him, they would not have taken them as allies; but many of them are defiantly disobedient.

لعن الذين كفروا من بني إسرائيل على لسان داود وعيسى ابن مريم ذلك بما عصوا وكانوا يعتدون كانوا لا يتناهون عن منكر فعلوه لبئس ما كانوا يفعلون ترى كثيرا منهم يتولون الذين كفروا لبئس ما قدمت لهم أنفسهم أن سخط الله عليهم وفي العذاب هم خالدون ولو كانوا يؤمنون بالله والنبي وما أنزل إليه ما اتخذوهم أولياء ولكن كثيرا منهم فاسقون

[Al-Ma'idah 5:78-81]

Thus, He the Glorious and Exalted made clear that faith in Allah, the Prophet, and what was revealed to him necessitates the absence of allegiance to them. Therefore, the establishment of allegiance to them necessitates the absence of faith, because the absence of the necessary implies the absence of the necessitating factor. And He the Glorious and Exalted said:

You will not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having affection for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even if they were their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their kindred. Those - He has decreed within their hearts faith and supported them with spirit from Him

لا تجد قوما يؤمنون بالله واليوم الآخر يوادون من حاد الله ورسوله ولو كانوا آباءهم أو أبناءهم أو إخوانهم أو عشيرتهم أولئك كتب في قلوبهم الإيمان وأيدهم بروح منه

[Al-Mujadila 58:22]

Thus, He the Glorious and Exalted informed that no believer is found who has affection for a disbeliever. So whoever has affection for the disbelievers is not a believer"

The Shaykh : I have "the disbeliever"
The student: "the disbelievers"

The Shaykh : So that the meaning does not change significantly.
The reader: "So whoever has affection for the disbelievers is not a believer. And apparent similarity is a place where affection is likely to arise, so it is forbidden, as was previously established regarding such matters. Know that the aspects of corruption in imitating them are many, so let us limit ourselves to what we have indicated. Section"

The Shaykh : And what is after "Section"?
The reader: Section: Similarity in what is not from our Shari'ah is of two types

The Shaykh : Yes