Al-Dhahabī's Counsel to Ibn Taymīyah

al-Naṣīḥah al-Dhahabīyah li-Ibn Taymīyah

li-al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī

ʻan aṣl manqūl min nuskhat al-Burhān bn Jamāʻah allatī katabahā min nuskhat al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Ṣalāḥ al-ʻAlāʼī al-maʼkhūdhah ʻan khaṭṭ al-Dhahabī

lammā akhadha Ibn Taymīyah yamḍī fī shudhūdhihi wa-qāma al-ʻulamāʼ ḍiddahu kāna al-Dhahabī mimman saʻá fī tahdiʼat al-ṭarafayn marrah yaʻtibu aḍdādahu ʻalá tashaddudihim ʻalayhi murāʻāh li-siʻat ʻilmihi wa-ukhrá yabʻathu bi-hādhihi al-risālah ilayhi nafsihi li-yukhaffifa min ghulawāʼihi wa-li-yuḥadhdhirahu ʻawāqib mā huwa ʻalayhi min al-waqīʻah fī kibār ahl al-ʻilm wa-al-shudhūdh ʻanhum .

wa-fī al-iṭṭilāʻ ʻalayhā fawāʼid li-al-fāḥiṣīn wa-dhikrá li-al-dhākirīn

wa-ʻaná al-Sakhāwī hādhihi al-risālah ḥaythu qāla fī al-Iʻlān bi-al-tawbīkh fī athnāʼ difāʻihi ʻan al-Dhahabī raddan ʻalá man yansubuhu li-farṭ al-taʻaṣṣub : ( wa-raʼaytu lahu risālah katabahā li-Ibn Taymīyah hiya fī dafʻ nisbatihi li-mazīd taʻaṣṣubihi mufīdah ) .

Ḥuqūq al-ṭabʻ maḥfūẓah

Bism Allāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm

al-Ḥamd lillāh . ʻalá dhillatī yā Rabb irḥamnī wa-aqilnī ʻathratī , wa-iḥfaẓ ʻalayya īmānī wā-ḥuznāh ʻalá qillat ḥuznī wā asafāh ʻalá al-Sunnah wa-dhahāb ahlihā wā-shawqāh ilá ikhwān muʼminīn yuʻāwinūnī ʻalá al-bukāʼ wā ḥuznāh ʻalá faqd unās kānū maṣābīḥ al-ʻilm wa-ahl al-taqwá wa-kunūz al-khayrāt , āh ʻalá wujūd dirham ḥalāl wa-akh muʼnis .

Ṭūbá li-man shaghalahu ʻaybuhu ʻan ʻuyūb al-nās wa-tabban li-man shaghalahu ʻuyūb al-nās ʻan ʻaybihi , ilá kam tará al-qadhāh fī ʻayn akhīka wa-tansá al-jidhʻ fī ʻaynika ! ilá kam tamdaḥu nafsaka wa-shaqāshiqaka wa-ʻibārātika wa-tadhummu al-ʻulamāʼ wa-tatabbaʻu ʻawrāt al-nās maʻa ʻilmika bi-nahy al-Rasūl ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam ( lā tadhkurū mawtākum illā bi-khayr fa-innahum qad afḍaw ilá mā qaddamū ) balá aʻrifu annaka taqūlu lī li-tanṣura nafsaka : innamā al-waqīʻah fī hāʼulāʼi alladhīna mā shammū rāʼiḥat al-Islām wa-lā ʻarafū mā jāʼa bihi Muḥammad ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam wa-huwa jihād . balá wa-Allāh ʻarafū khayran kathīran mimmā idhā ʻamila bihi al-ʻabd fa-qad fāza wa-jahilū shayʼan kathīran mimmā lā yaʻnīhim wa-min ḥusn islām al-marʼ tarkuhu mā lā yaʻnīhi . yā rajul bi-Allāh ʻalayka kuff ʻannā fa-innaka miḥjāj ʻalīm al-lisān lā taqirru wa-lā tanām , iyyā kum wa-al-aghlūṭāt fī al-dīn , kariha nabīyuka ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam al-masāʼil wa-ʻābahā wa-nahá ʻan kathrat al-suʼāl wa-qāla ( inna akhwafa mā akhāfu ʻalá ummatī kull munāfiq ʻalīm al-lisān ) wa-kathrat al-kalām bi-ghayr dalīl tuqsī al-qalb idhā kāna fī al-ḥalāl wa-al-ḥarām fa-kayfa idhā kāna fī ʻibārāt al-Yūnusīyah wa-al-falāsifah wa-tilka al-kufrīyāt allatī tuʻmī al-qulūb , wa-Allāh qad ṣirnā ḍuḥkah fī al-wujūd fa-ilá kam tanbushu daqāʼiq al-kufrīyāt al-falsafīyah li-nurudda ʻalayhā bi-ʻuqūlinā . yā rajul qad baliʻta sumūm al-falāsifah wa-muṣannafātihim marrāt , wa-bi-kathrat istiʻmāl al-sumūm yudminu ʻalayhā al-jism wa-takmunu wa-Allāh fī al-badan . wā-shawqāh ilá majālis fīhi tilāwah bi-tadabbur wa-khashyah bi-tadhakkur wa-ṣamt bi-tafakkur wa-āhan li-majlis yudhkaru fīhi al-abrār fa-ʻinda dhikr al-ṣāliḥīn tanzilu al-raḥmah lā ʻinda dhikr al-ṣāliḥīn yudhkarūna bi-al-izdirāʼ wa-al-laʻnah , kāna sayf al-Ḥajjāj wa-lisān Ibn Ḥazm shaqīqayn fa-wākhaytuhumā . bi-Allāh khallūnā min dhikr bidʻat al-khamīs wa-akl al-ḥubūb wa-jiddū fī dhikr bidaʻ kunnā naʻudduhā raʼsan min al-ḍalāl qad ṣārat hiya maḥḍ al-Sunnah wa-asās al-tawḥīd wa-man lam yaʻrifhā fa-huwa kāfir aw ḥimār wa-man lam yukaffir fa-huwa akfar min Firʻawn , wa-tuʻaddu al-Naṣārá mithlanā , wa-Allāh fī al-qulūb shukūk n salima laka īmānuka bi-al-shahādatayn fa-anta saʻīd , yā khaybat man ittabaʻaka fa-innahu muʻarraḍ li-al-zandaqah wa-al-inḥilāl lā siyyamā idhā kāna qalīl al-ʻilm wa-al-dīn bāṭūlīyan shahwānīyan , lākinnahu yanfaʻuka wa-yujāhidu ʻanka bi-yadihi wa-lisānihi wa-fī al-bāṭin ʻadūw laka bi-ḥālihi wa-qalbihi fa-hal muʻẓam atbāʻika illā qaʻīd marbūṭ khafīf al-ʻaql aw ʻāmmī kadhdhāb balīd al-dhihn aw gharīb wājim qawī al-makr aw nāshif ṣāliḥ ʻadīm al-fahm fa-in lam tuṣaddiqnī fa-fattishhum wa-zinhum bi-al-ʻadl , yā Muslim aqdim ḥimār shahwatika li-madḥ nafsika ilá , kam tuṣādiquhā wa-tuʻādī al-akhyār ! ilá kam tuṣaddiquhā wa-tazdarī bi-al-abrār ilá kam tuʻaẓẓimuhā wa-tuṣaghghiru al-ʻibād ilá matá tukhāliluhā wa-tamqutu al-zuhhād ilá matá tamdaḥu kalāmaka bi-kayfīyah lā tamdaḥu bihā wa-Allāh aḥādīth al-Ṣaḥīḥayn , yā layta aḥādīth al-Ṣaḥīḥayn taslamu minka bal fī kull waqt tughīru ʻalayhā bi-al-taḍʻīf wa-al-ihdār aw bi-al-taʼwīl wa-al-inkār amā āna laka an tarʻawiya ! amā ḥāna laka an tatūba wa-tunība amā anta fī ʻashr al-sabʻīn wa-qad qaruba al-raḥīl balá wa-Allāh mā adhkuru annaka tadhkuru al-mawt bal tazdarī bi-man yadhkuru al-mawt fa-mā aẓunnuka tuqbilu ʻalá qawlī wa-lā tuṣghī ilá waʻẓī bal laka himmah kabīrah fī naqḍ hādhihi al-waraqah bi-mujalladāt wa-tuqaṭṭiʻu lī adhnāb al-kalām wa-lā tazālu tantaṣiru ḥattá aqūla laka : wa-al-battah sakattu . fa-idhā kāna hādhā ḥāluka ʻindī wa-anā al-shafūq al-muḥibb al-wādd fa-kayfa yakūnu ḥāluka ʻinda aʻdāʼika , wa-aʻdāʼuka wa-Allāh fīhim ṣulaḥāʼ wa-ʻuqalāʼ wa-fuḍalāʼ kamā anna awliyāʼaka fīhim fajarah wa-kadhabah wa-jahalah wa-baṭalah wa-ʻūd wa-baqar , qad raḍītu minka bi-an tasubbanī ʻalāniyah wa-tantafiʻa bi-maqālatī sirran ( raḥima Allāh imraʼan ahdá ilayya ʻuyūbī ) fa-innī kathīr al-ʻuyūb ghazīr al-dhunūb , al-wayl lī in anā lā atūbu wa-wā-faḍīḥatī min ʻallām al-ghuyūb wa-dawāʼī ʻafw Allāh wa-musāmaḥatihi wa-tawfīqihi wa-hidāyatihi wa-al-ḥamd lillāh rabb al-ʻālamīn wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá sayyidinā Muḥammad khātam al-nabīyīn wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn .