1. THE ASCETICS OF THIS ERA ARE HYPOCRITES AND PRETENDERS
I noticed that the ascetics (zuhhad) of our time possess pride (kibr) and eagerness to preserve (hifz) their wealth and status in the hearts of the common people. Which made me certain of their hypocrisy (nifaq) and fakery (riya ).
You find some of them wear garments that people perceive as a sign of rigorous self-denial and self-restraint while they eat the best types of food and are snobbish with their fellows. They enjoy befriending the rich and are distancing the poor people. They enjoying being addressed with the title of master and liked to be walked besides.
They remain in such a state wasting their life living such illusions and on the aid of people and their greetings. This is because if they wear a garment that may confuse them with the jurists, their social status will no longer be maintained and hence they will find no people attached to them! In fact, if their actions matched the clothes they wore; it would be easy to swallow! But they flaunt before people who realise their fakery and so what do they expect when Allah Sees them and Knows who they are!
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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