Finding Fault

Isa Ibn Abdulwahab al Hindi held long and frequent conversations in which he discoursed on every imaginable topic, for a number of years.

 

One day a certain respected sheikh called upon him and said:

 

‘My hear is heavy, for it is reported that you have spoken critically of me on many occasions.’

 

Isa said:

 

‘I have said twenty times that there are disparities between your words and actions. Can you doubt that this is true?’

 

The sheikh asked:

 

‘I would be glad to hear the grounds upon which you find fault with me.’

 

Isa replied:

 

‘You will know them the moment you hear the two hundred occasions on which I have praised you before those same people who, in the name of accuracy, now inwardly seek to separate us. To report half a thing is worse than reporting nothing. To report one-tenth of a thing is equal to falsification.’

~ by Shaykh on April 28, 2008.