Strict avoidance of sin

عن النُّعْمانِ بنِ بَشيرٍ – رضي الله عنهما - قال: سمعتُ رسولَ اللهِ ﷺ يقول - وأَهْوى النُّعمانُ بإصْبَعَيْهِ إلى أُذُنَيْهِ -: «إنَّ الحَلالَ بَيِّنٌ، وإنَّ الحَرامَ بَيِّنٌ، وبَيْنَهُما مُشْتَبِهاتٌ لا يَعْلَمُهُنَّ كَثِيرٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ، فَمَنِ اتَّقى الشُّبُهاتِ اسْتَبْرَأَ لِدِينِهِ وعِرْضِهِ، ومَن وقَعَ في الشُّبُهاتِ وقَعَ في الحَرامِ، كالرَّاعِي يَرْعى حَوْلَ الحِمى، يُوشِكُ أنْ يَرْتَعَ فِيهِ، ألا وإنَّ لِكُلِّ مَلِكٍ حِمًى، ألا وإنَّ حِمى اللهِ مَحارِمُهُ، ألا وإنَّ في الجَسَدِ مُضْغَةً، إذا صَلَحَتْ صَلَحَ الجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ، وإذا فَسَدَتْ فَسَدَ الجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ، ألا وهي القَلْبُ».

تحميل الملف الصوتي

Al-Nu‘mān ibn Bashīr narrated saying: I heard God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) say; and al-Nu‘mān pointed to his ears with his two fingers:

1. What is lawful is plain and what is unlawful is plain;

2. and in between are doubtful matters unknown to many people.

3. Whoever avoids doubtful matters clears himself in regard to his religion and his honour;

4. but the one who slips into the doubtful will fall into what is unlawful. [He is] like a shepherd who pastures close to a sanctuary, all but grazing therein.

5. For certain, every king has a sanctuary, and for certain God’s sanctuary is His prohibitions.

6. Indeed, there is in the body a morsel of flesh which, if it be whole, all the body is whole, and which, if it be diseased, all the body is diseased. Indeed, it is the heart.

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He it is who has sent down to you the Book, containing verses which are clear and precise – and these are the essence of the Book – and others are equivocal. Those whose hearts have swerved from the truth pursue that part of it which is equivocal, seeking to create dissension and trying to give it an arbitrary meaning. None knows its final meaning other than God and those who are firmly grounded in knowledge. They say: We believe in it; it is all from our Lord. But only those who are endowed with insight take heed.

(3: 7)

If any matter pertaining to peace or war comes to their knowledge, they make it known to all and sundry; whereas, if they would only refer it to the Messenger and to those from among them entrusted with authority, those of them who are engaged in obtaining intelligence would know it.

(4: 83)

Let me not suffer disgrace on the Day when all shall be raised from the dead; (87) the Day when neither wealth nor children will be of any benefit; (88) but only the one who comes to God with a sound heart [will be happy].

(26: 87-89)