FatwaFederal TerritoriesEthics, Remembrance & Supplication
BAYAN LINNAS SIRI KE-190: LAPAN HIKMAH HATIM AL-ASHAM DARIPADA GURUNYA SYAQIQ AL-BALKHI
What are the eight lessons Hatim al-Asham shared from his teacher Shaqiq al-Balkhi?
Short answer
This Bayan Linnas relates the account of Hatim al-Asham from Ihya' Ulum al-Din.
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- Authority
- Federal Territories Mufti Office
- Date
- Status
- Opinion (irsyad)
- Series
- Bayan Linnas
- Topic
- Ethics, Remembrance & Supplication
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Summary
This Bayan Linnas relates the account of Hatim al-Asham from Ihya' Ulum al-Din. After thirty-three years of study, he named eight lessons: taking good deeds as one's true beloved, restraining desires, entrusting valuables to Allah, prioritising piety, abandoning envy, treating only Satan as an enemy, trusting Allah's guarantee of provision, and relying on Him. Each lesson is tied to a Quranic verse, and Shaqiq remarked that all four revealed scriptures cover these eight matters. The first lesson stresses that only good deeds accompany a person until the reckoning.
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Federal Territories Mufti Office. “BAYAN LINNAS SIRI KE-190: LAPAN HIKMAH HATIM AL-ASHAM DARIPADA GURUNYA SYAQIQ AL-BALKHI”, 7 July 2019. https://muftiwp.gov.my/ms/artikel/bayan-linnas/3552-bayan-linnas-siri-ke-190-lapan-hikmah-hatim-al-asham-daripada-gurunya-syaqiq-al-balkhi. Found via Rujuk Fatwa: https://rujukfatwa.com/en/fatwa/eight-lessons-hatim-al-asham-from-shaqiq-al-balkhi/