People of the Sunnah, Be Kind With One Another part 1

All praise is for Allah Who joined the hearts of the believers together in love, and created
a desire in them to join together in unity and harmony, and Who warned the believers against
disunity and conflict. I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah Who is
alone without partner, Who created everything and then proportioned it, and Who legislated (the
religion of Islam) and then made the path easy for us, and was merciful towards the Believers. I
(further) bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger, who ordered (those calling
to Islam as well as those in positions of authority) to make things easy for the people and to give
them good tidings, saying:

يَسِّروا وَلا تُعَسِّروا وَبَشِّروا وَلا تُنَفِّروا

“Facilitate things for the people (treat the people in the most agreeable way), and do not
make things difficult for them, and give them glad tidings, and do not drive people away (i.e.
to make the people hate good deeds)…”1

O Allah, send peace and blessings upon (Muhammad), upon his good and pure family,
and upon all of his noble companions - who have been described by Allah as being harsh
towards disbelievers yet merciful amongst themselves, and upon all of those who follow them
with sincerity until the Day of Judgment.

O Allah! Guide me and guide others through me. O Allah! Purify my heart of any hatred
(for the believers), and guide my tongue to always speak the truth. O Allah! I seek refuge with
you lest I stray or be led astray, or slip or be made to slip, or oppress or be oppressed by others,
or to do wrong or have wrong done to me.

To Proceed:
Ahl-us-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah are those people who follow that which the Messenger of
Allah (ρ) and his Companions were upon, and they refer to themselves as ‘People of the Sunnah’
referring to the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (ρ). The Prophet (ρ) encouraged strict
adherence to his Sunnah saying:

...فَعَلَيْكُمْ بِسُنَّتِي وَسُنَّةِ الْخُلَفَاءِ الرَّاشِدِينَ الْمَهْدِيِّينَ
تَمَسَّكُوا بِهَا وَعَضُّوا عَلَيْهَا بِالنَّوَاجِذِ...

“…Stick to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly-guided Caliphs after me. Hold to it
and bite down on it with your molar teeth (i.e. strictly adhere to it).”1

Likewise, he warned against contradicting the Sunnah, saying:

...وَإِيَّاآُمْ وَمُحْدَثَاتِ اللأمُورِ فَإِنَّ آُلَّ مُحْدَثَةٍ بِدْعَةٌ وَآُلَّ بِدْعَةٍ ضلالَةٌ.

“…Beware of newly invented matters (foreign to the true teachings of Islam) for verily
(every newly invented matter) is a bid’ah and every bid’ah is a going astray.”2


1Saheeh Al-Bukhaari (Eng. Trans. Vol. 8, Pg. 92). Saheeh Muslim (Eng. Trans. Vol. 3, Pg. 944).
1Narrated by Abu Dawood (Eng. Trans. Vol. 3, page 1294). Also narrated by Ibn Abee ‘Aasim and At-Tirmidhi who said that the hadeeth is hasan Saheeh. The hadeeth was also authenticated by Shaykh Al-Albaani in Saheeh Sunan Abu Dawood (Vol. 3, page 871, # 3851).
2See previous footnote.