26. SEEKS ALLAH’S PLEASURE AT THE EXPENSE OF PEOPLE’S ANGER
A wise man preserves what Allah has ordained, even if doing so results in angering people. In fact, he who seeks people’s pleasure by angering Allah, then Allah will flip people’s hearts against him.
Al-Ma(mun told one of his companions: ‘Never obey me in anything that is displeasing to Allah, otherwise Allah will turn me against you.’ When Al-Ma’mun asked Tahir Ibn al-Husayn to (be excessive in) maiming al-Ameen by hanging his decapitated head, Tahir obeyed Al-Ma’mun’s instruction, but was unable to look him in the face after that.
Another time a Sultan asked to be given the title “The King of Kings”, so he asked the jurists and they said it was permissible for him to do so.
However, Al-MawardI said it was not permissible, so the Sultan became fond of him.
There are many such stories.
A person must intend to obey Allah even if that resulted in angering people, because he will end up getting humiliated and the same people he tried to please will turn against him.
So he will lose from both ends.
(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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