You said I was wrong, in a way headstrong,
Blunt, I thought, lacking
in Adab and mercy.
You've done it before - it's true, I've seen it often,
So I shall point it out to you with
Gentle courtesy.
You see, it is not the way of the messenger
That we be harsh in reply,
insensitive.
In my heart I carry the Book and sunnah.
With hikmah it is that I
Intend to give.
Though my knowledge is greater, I can prove it so,
And you should not be foolish
Debating me,
It is advice I give to you with rahmah,
And I too dislike that one be
Debasing me.
I know kinder it would be to advise in private,
But arrogance to the arrogant
Can be his cure.
Yet still, I give with kindness upon sunnah.
From my heart carrying haqq.
Of it I'm sure.
Do I know that the beauty, it was missing.
The rahmah and adab
Apparently too.
Oh slippery nafs, was this my righteousness from a
Heart wishing well,
Or was it...through you?
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(Assalaamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakaatuh.
It's a very difficult thing to be in a disagreement with someone yet address them truly from a place of compassion and rahmah, at least I've found it to be the case with myself. Maybe some day, inshaa'Allah, I will be able to do this as part of a trait of my character, and you will, too. May Allah SWT help us, and pardon us and accept from us what good we try to do.)
Blunt, I thought, lacking
in Adab and mercy.
You've done it before - it's true, I've seen it often,
So I shall point it out to you with
Gentle courtesy.
You see, it is not the way of the messenger
That we be harsh in reply,
insensitive.
In my heart I carry the Book and sunnah.
With hikmah it is that I
Intend to give.
Though my knowledge is greater, I can prove it so,
And you should not be foolish
Debating me,
It is advice I give to you with rahmah,
And I too dislike that one be
Debasing me.
I know kinder it would be to advise in private,
But arrogance to the arrogant
Can be his cure.
Yet still, I give with kindness upon sunnah.
From my heart carrying haqq.
Of it I'm sure.
Do I know that the beauty, it was missing.
The rahmah and adab
Apparently too.
Oh slippery nafs, was this my righteousness from a
Heart wishing well,
Or was it...through you?
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(Assalaamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakaatuh.
It's a very difficult thing to be in a disagreement with someone yet address them truly from a place of compassion and rahmah, at least I've found it to be the case with myself. Maybe some day, inshaa'Allah, I will be able to do this as part of a trait of my character, and you will, too. May Allah SWT help us, and pardon us and accept from us what good we try to do.)
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