فأهل الإسلام في الناس غرباء. والمؤمنون في أهل الإسلام غرباء. وأهل العلم في المؤمنين غرباء. وأهل السنة – الذين يميزونها من الأهواء والبدع – فهم غرباء.
Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) said:
“The people of Islām are strangers amongst mankind.
—And the believers are strangers amongst the people of Islām.
—And the people of knowledge are strangers amongst the believers.
—And the people of the Sunnah who separate it from the desires and innovations are strangers.
—And those who call to it and have patience upon the harm of the opposers, they are the severest of them (all) in strangeness.”
[Madārij as-Sālikīn, 3/186]
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