Today people attach their very existence to fulan ibn fulan, the words of the shaykh and the Quran is forgotten
A man once went to ‘Umar Ibn Al-Khattaab and said,
“O Leader of the Believers, when we conquered Al-Madaain, we found a book that contained in it beautiful speech.”
‘Umar asked him,
“Was that speech from the Book of Allaah?”
The man replied, “No.”
Then ‘Umar asked someone to hand him a stick, after which he proceeded to beat the man, and all the while he (ra) was reciting the saying of Allaah:
“Alif-Laam-Ra. These are the Verses of the Clear Book. Verily, We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur’an in order that you may understand. We relate unto you (Muhammad) the best of stories through Our Revelations unto you, of this Qur’an. And before this (i.e. before the coming of Divine Inspiration to you), you were among those who knew nothing about it (the Qur’an).” [12:1-3]
‘Umar then said,
“Verily, what destroyed those who came before you was the fact that they took themselves to the books of their scholars and priests, while they abandoned the Torah and the Injeel (Gospel). And they continued to do that until the Torah and the Injeel became obliterated, and the knowledge that they contained went away.”
[Manaaqib ‘Umar, by Ibn Al-Jawzee, p. 23]
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