To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him.
AL-SHAFI'IBut to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.
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Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.
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The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him.
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When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening and an escape
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My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace,
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You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.
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Be hard on yourself, easy on others.
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And those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.
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My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness I found Your forgiveness to be greater
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He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.
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Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.
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O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.
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To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.
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If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.
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The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status.
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There is not on the face of the earth-after the Book of Allah – a book which is more sahih than the book of Malik.
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