Taqwaa has three levels:
The first: Protecting the heart and limbs from sins and all forbidden matters.
The second: Protecting the heart and limbs form disliked matters [Makrooh].
The third: Protecting oneself from the fudool [curiosity] and what does not concern him.
The first gives the servant his life, the second gives him health and strength and the third enables him to gain happiness, contentment and light.”
[Ibn al Qayyim; Al Fawaa-id :P 45]
Ash-Shafi‘i (rahimahullâh) said, “Whoever spread gossip for you spreads gossip against you. Whoever relates tales to you will tell tales about you. Whoever when you please him says about you what is not in you, when you anger him will say about you what is not in you.”
Siyar ‘Alam al Nubala’ of Imaam ad-Dhahabee
Abu Ad-Dardaa:
“It is better to advise your friend than to severe relations with him, for no one can take the place of your friend if you lose him. However, how could you grieve after he dies, when you have shunned him when he was still alive?”
(Sifaat us-Safwah, 1/364)
Sufyaan ath-Thawree: "The scholars are similar to rain, wherever they fall, they benefit." (Jam'ee Bayaan al 'Ilm wa Fadlihee 1/56)
Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawiyyah: "Patience is that the heart does not feel anger towards that which is destined and that the mouth does not complain." (al-’Uddah, p. 156)
"If your brother mentions something to you in private, then walks away, it is an amaanah (trust) even if he didn't instruct you not to inform anyone."
The first: Protecting the heart and limbs from sins and all forbidden matters.
The second: Protecting the heart and limbs form disliked matters [Makrooh].
The third: Protecting oneself from the fudool [curiosity] and what does not concern him.
The first gives the servant his life, the second gives him health and strength and the third enables him to gain happiness, contentment and light.”
[Ibn al Qayyim; Al Fawaa-id :P 45]
Ash-Shafi‘i (rahimahullâh) said, “Whoever spread gossip for you spreads gossip against you. Whoever relates tales to you will tell tales about you. Whoever when you please him says about you what is not in you, when you anger him will say about you what is not in you.”
Siyar ‘Alam al Nubala’ of Imaam ad-Dhahabee
Abu Ad-Dardaa:
“It is better to advise your friend than to severe relations with him, for no one can take the place of your friend if you lose him. However, how could you grieve after he dies, when you have shunned him when he was still alive?”
(Sifaat us-Safwah, 1/364)
Sufyaan ath-Thawree: "The scholars are similar to rain, wherever they fall, they benefit." (Jam'ee Bayaan al 'Ilm wa Fadlihee 1/56)
Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawiyyah: "Patience is that the heart does not feel anger towards that which is destined and that the mouth does not complain." (al-’Uddah, p. 156)
"If your brother mentions something to you in private, then walks away, it is an amaanah (trust) even if he didn't instruct you not to inform anyone."
(Ibn Muflih's Adaab Ash-Sharee'ah).
-- Umar ibn al-Khattab
The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah -- Ibn al-Qayyim, (al Madaarij 3/485)
