4.3. THE LEVELS OF THE PEOPLE PERTAINING TO THE AFFAIRS OF THE WORLDLY LIFE
Similarly, concerning the matters of this world. So whoever is in- formed of passion fishq) and marriage (nikah), and he has not seen or experienced it, he (only) knows of it. If he witnesses it and doesn’t experience it, he has certain knowledge of it. If he has undergone it for himself, then he has experience and expertise in it, and whoever hasn’t tried something he does not know its reality. So the expres- sion avails exemplification (tamdhil) and approximation (taqrib). As for understanding the reality (marifa al-haqiqa), it cannot be attained with just an expression, except for the one who has tried the thing being expressed, and he knows it and has experience of it. This is why they are called people of knowledge (ahlal-marifa), because they know based on trial (khibra) and experience (dhawq) what others know based on being informed (khabar) and observing (nazr).
In an authentic hadith, “Hiraql (Caesar), the Roman Emperor, asked Abu Sufyan ibn Harb about the Prophet’s “Do any of his followers leave his religion displeased after entering it?” He (Abu Sufyan) said “No.” He said, “And so is faith, when its radiance mingles with the heart, it displeases no one.”
By Shaykhu’l-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah
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