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Difficulties are the result of sin. The sinful therefore does not have the right to lament when difficulties befall him.

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Stick to the narrations and the way of the salaf(pious predecessors) and beware of newly invented matters for all of it is innovation.

If you learned the sacred knowledge for the sake of this world, then the knowledge will be never rooted in your heart.

It is unlawful for any person to accept my view without knowing the source from where we got them.

For the attainment of knowledge satisfaction is useful and satisfaction is not gained by increasing information but by decreasing it.

When a hadith is authentic, then that is my madhab.

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