When you are content with somebody all you see is their perfection, but when you dislike someone all you see is their faults. And I don’t feel respect towards the one who shows me no respect and I don’t see in others what they don’t see in me. If you draw near to me, my love draws close to you, but if you turn away from me- you’ll see me turn away from you. Each is independent of each other and when we die we’ll be even more independent of each other.
-Imam ash-Shafi’i
Don’t you love how he is so direct, honest, down-to-earth?
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MUSLIMOLOGY 
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By: Ali on December 3, 2009
at 5:14 pm
as salamu alaikum, it would be better when you say the source for that. barak allahu feekum
By: Valon on December 4, 2009
at 7:15 pm
I try my best to source things, but source isn’t essential here. Its the meaning. This is from a scholars talk that I noted down.
Wa aleikum salaam.
By: Dawud Israel on December 4, 2009
at 11:51 pm
salamu alaikum, no you are wrong, the source is the most important thing, because we from ahlu sunnah take for example just sahih hadith and not a mawdu hadith even the text of a mawdu hadith ist excellent…i hope you understand what i mean?! i will know in which book this text is, not more, barak allahu feek
By: valon on December 5, 2009
at 10:48 pm
Your concern for rigor is admirable.
I think you have the wrong impression. This quotation is a statement of Imam ash-Shafi, founder of the Shafi’i madhab. This quotation is not a hadith (statement of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam) so it does not carry hukm nor is it a saying of any sahaba, but rather a saying of Imam Shafi’i, which was mentioned in a talk I listened to from Hamza Yusuf. Imam ash-Shafi’i is known for these sorts of quotations since he was a master of language. I’ll try to share more of them in the future.
Wa aleikum salam.
By: Dawud Israel on December 6, 2009
at 9:12 am