What is the correct Prophetic guidance regarding asceticism?
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Question:
Many well-known scholars, especially the scholars of the Salaf and the ascetics, used to eat nothing but bread with water?
Answer:
Every scholar makes mistakes and hits the mark. Whoever contradicts the Sunnah, even if he is from the Companions, is not to be followed. The Sunnah is the model, [Al-Ahzab: 21], and whoever follows it with excellence is likewise.
Q: What if they say: [Al-Haqqah: 20]?
A: This refers to extravagance, excess, and being preoccupied with the delights of this world to the neglect of obedience to Allah. It is neither this nor that: no extravagance and settling into ease and comfort, and no artificiality and extremism, but rather the middle path between them.
Many well-known scholars, especially the scholars of the Salaf and the ascetics, used to eat nothing but bread with water?
Answer:
Every scholar makes mistakes and hits the mark. Whoever contradicts the Sunnah, even if he is from the Companions, is not to be followed. The Sunnah is the model,
There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of Allah an excellent pattern
لَقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌQ: What if they say:
Have you consumed your good things?
أَذْهَبْتُمْ طَيِّبَاتِكُمْA: This refers to extravagance, excess, and being preoccupied with the delights of this world to the neglect of obedience to Allah. It is neither this nor that: no extravagance and settling into ease and comfort, and no artificiality and extremism, but rather the middle path between them.
Source
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