al-Muzanī reported that al-Shāfīʿī said: “To admonish your brother in private is to advise and improve him, and to admonish him publicly is disgracing and shaming him.”

حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ، قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ الْمُزَنِيَّ، يَقُولُ: سَمِعْتُ الشَّافِعِيَّ، يَقُولُ: «مَنْ وَعَظَ أَخَاهُ سِرًّا فَقَدْ نَصَحَهُ وَزَانَه، وَمَنْ وَعَظَهُ عَلَانِيَةً فَقَدْ فَضَحَهُ وَخانَهُ

Abū Nuʿaym al-ʾAṣbahānī, Ḥilyah al-Awliyāʾ 9/140

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ʿAwn b. Ibrāhīm told me, he said: Aḥmad b. Abī al-Ḥawārī told me, he said: Aḥmad b. Wakīʿ told me, he said: Sulaymān al-Khawwāṣ said:

“He who advises his brother in what is between him and him (ie: privately), then it is a naṣīḥah (ie: sincere advice),
and He who advises him (his brother) upon the heads of the people (ie: publicly), then it is nothing but exposing him.”

Ibn Abī ʾl-Dunyā, al-ʿAmr bi ʾl-Maʿrūf wa ʾl-Nahī ʿan al-Munkar 1/99

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Umar Ibn al-Khattab (رضي الله عنه) said,

‎”The death of a thousand worshippers who stand to pray at night and fast during the day is less significant than the death of a single scholar who has insight concerning what Allah has made lawful and unlawful.”

‎Jami’ Bayanul-Ilm (1/127)

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Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saleh al-Uthaymin رحمه الله said:

If someone asks: Why do we have to elongate and elaborate in our supplications?

We say that the affair of supplication requires elaboration.

And the Sunnah regarding elaboration and elongation in supplication are for six reasons:

[1] Elongating the supplications shows the love of the one supplicating. This is because if an individual loves someone, he loves to prolong his intimate conversation with him. For indeed you are connecting with Allah when you supplicate. So your elongating and elaborating in your supplication is proof of your love of intimately conversing with Allah.

[2] Elongation of the supplication manifests elaboration which shows the tremendous need of the individual for his Lord in every circumstance.

[3] It causes the heart to be more present.

[4] An increase in rewards and acts of worship to Allah. Verily supplication is an act of worship that one is rewarded for.

[5] It is from the affairs of insistency in supplication and Allah answers those that are insistent in supplication.

[6] With elongation in supplication one might remember a matter that he may forget when supplicating.

الشرح الممتع على زاد المستقنع ٥/٣١٩،٣٢٠

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Sheikh Abdulrahman as-Sa’di said:

O you who have turned away from seeking knowledge,

what is your excuse with Allah whilst you’re enjoying yourselves with good health?

And what prevents you from (seeking knowledge) whilst you are indulging in the provisions of your Rabb?

Indeed, by Allah, it is a state which none is satisfied with except for the likes of cattle;

for if you turn away from knowledge completely, then you have certainly perished and become from the losers.

[الفواكه الشهية في الخطب المنبرية]

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Ibrāhīm At-Taymī said رحمه الله said:

"There is no servant whom Allāh has granted the ability to: Endure harm with patience, endure trials with patience, endure calamities with patience, except that he has been given the best of what anyone has been given, after Īmān in Allāh."

[As-Sabr: 1/28]

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It is reported that ʿAlī – Allāh be pleased with him – said:

When you learn knowledge, preserve it, and do not mix it with laughter and falsehood, such that the hearts refuse (dislike) it.

Al-Khaṭīb Al-Baghdādī, Al-Jāmiʿ li-Akhlāq Al-Rāwī wa Ādāb Al-Sāmiʿ 1:232

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