Let us not be like the one who sells their religion for the sake of high ranking positions

Benefit:

“The one who leaves this Dunya free from Shirk and blood (killing wrongfully) and these major sins, its considered a blessing in his right. Woe unto those who sell their religion for the sake of high ranking positions. So you find one of them, he hasn’t reached a high position except that he has spilled from the blood what is liable to his discontinuation from the khair and his being deprived of what calls to success.

The Prophet ﷺ said:

لا يزال مسلم في فسحة من دينه مالم يصب دما حراما

“A Muslim does not cease to be in ampleness in his religion so long as he doesn’t wrongfully spill blood.”

And these rebellions and overthrowing’s do not harvest except the spilling of blood. Their perpetrators do not reach their intended goals except upon these injustices, and how quick is it that Allah afflicts them.

By Allah this is from Istidraaj (Allah leading them on) after they disobeyed Allah ﷻ. They plotted, so Allah plotted against them. You will not find except the Dunya has been adorned to him.

حتى إِذَا فَرِحُوا۟ بِمَآ أُوتُوٓا۟ أَخَذْنَٰهُم بَغْتَةً فَإِذَا هُم مُّبْلِسُونَ فَقُطِعَ دَابِرُ ٱلْقَوْمِ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ۚ وَٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ

“Until in the midst of their enjoyment in that which they were given, all of a sudden, We took them (in punishment), and lo! They were plunged into destruction with deep regrets and sorrows. So the root of the people who did wrong was cut off. And all the praises and thanks are to Allah, the Lord of the ‘Âlamîn (mankind, jinn, and all that exists).” [Al-An’aam : 44-45]

Benefited from: Shaykh, the Allamah, the Trustworthy Advisor, Abu Abdirrahman Yahya bin Ali Al-Hajuri – may Allah preserve him.

Source: https://t.me/ShaykhYahyaEn

Translated by: Abu ‘Abdillaah ‘Omar bin Yahyaa Al-‘Akawi