The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ Respect and modesty ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 368 من الجزء Four

Among that is respect and modesty from Chapter 188. No benefit comes from someone who is not respectable, so respect, and no gift benefits anyone except someone who is modest in your presence, so be modest. Whoever performs the service and neglects respect and modesty is disappointed, and he does not succeed and loses, and the servant does not gain in humiliation, not in pampering. What is the servant’s and the pampered’s and what is his and the beggar’s. If the servant is not like a dead person in the hands of the washer, then there is nothing wrong with his servant. If the servant enters upon his servant and objects, then there is a sickness in his heart, so God has increased their sickness, and for them is a painful punishment because they lied while they did not perceive or know. I found it, so return to him. This is how the people of God were unanimous in what they relied on. Al-Qushayri mentioned this in his letter about respecting the Sheikh and continuing to honor him. Des


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