📘 ❞ The Criterion Between The Allies Of The Merciful And The Allies Of The Devil ❝ كتاب ــ Sheikh ul Islam ibn Taymiyyah

عن كتاب The Criterion Between The Allies Of The Merciful And The Allies Of The Devil:
All praise is to Allah. We seek His aid, ask Him for guidance, and ask His forgiveness. We
seek refuge in Allah from the evil which is in ourselves, and the wicked of our actions.
Whoever Allah guides none can send astray, and whoever Allah sends astray, none can
guide. We testify that there is no deity except Allah, alone and with no partner. And, we
testify that Muhammad is His slave and messenger. He sent him with the guidance and the
way of truth so that He (i.e. Allah) might make it predominate over all other ways, and
Allah is sufficient as a witness. He sent him preceding the Hour (qiyama), as a bringer of
good tidings, a warner, and a caller to Allah by His permission, and as a beacon light. He
(Allah) guided with it those who had been lost, and gave sight to those who had been
blind, gave uprightness and order to those who had been following unbridled impulse, He
opened unseeing eyes, deaf ears, and sealed hearts. With it, He established the criterion
for distinguishing truth from falsehood, guidance from going astray, uprightness from
following of whims, the believers from the disbelievers, the joyous people of paradise and
the miserable people of the fire, and the allies of Allah from His enemies. Whoever the
Prophet (sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam) has attested to as being among the allies of Allah,
are the awliyaa' (friends or allies) of the Merciful, and whoever the Prophet has described
as being among the enemies of Allah, are indeed among the enemies of Allah, and are
among the awliyaa' of the shaitaan (devil).
Allah has explained in His Book, and in the Sunnah of His Prophet that He has awliyaa'
among the people and that shaitaan also has his awliyaa', and He has differentiated
between these two types of awliyaa'. Allah said:
“Indeed, there is no fear upon the awliyaa' of Allah, nor shall they grieve,
those who believe and are ever pious in their actions. To them are glad
tidings in this life and in the hereafter. There is no changing the words of
Allah. That, then, is the great success.” (Qur'an Yunus 10:62-64)
“Allah is the protector (ally) of those who believe, He takes them out of the
darknesses into the light. As for the disbelievers, their allies are the taaghoot
who take them out of the light and into the darknesses. Those are the people
of the fire, and they will be in it forever.” (Qur'an al-Baqarah 2:257)