Al-Allaamah Al-Muhaddith Muqbil ibn Hadi Al-Waadi’ee (rahimahullah) stated regarding fitnah,
It’s inevitable that there will be trials, tribulations and tests, Allah (The Mighty and Majestic) says,
ونبـلوكم بالـشر والخيـر فتـنة
We shall make a trial of you with evil and with good (21:35)That which is important is to remain patient and firm (during fitnah).
Al-Jaami’u Al-Kabeer v.1 pg.608
It is befitting for the People of Īmān to be the most patient of people, the firmest of people upon the truth and its defence, rejecting falsehood and striving against it. And even if others are patient upon falsehood, then the People of Īmān and Taqwa are foremost with patience upon the truth and steadfastness upon it.
Al-Fawāid al-ilmiyyah min ad-Durūs al-Bāziyyah – Fawāid min at-Tafsīr pgs. 33-34
Allāh commanded with steadfastness (upon the religion), moderation, taking the middle course and He prohibited harshness and negligence.
Steadfastness is (attained by ones actions and belief) being in conformity with the Book of Allah, the Sunnah of His Messenger (alaihi salātu was salām), and that which the Pious Predecessors from the early period of this nation were upon.
Source: Official Website of Shaykh Fawzān
“It is treading the straight path, -which is the upright religion – without diverting away from it; not to the right and not to the left. And this (treading the straight path) encompasses the acts of obedience,all of them; the outward and the inward and likewise it encompasses the abandoning of the prohibited matters in their entirety.”
“The outward and inward”; so all of the affairs of the religion are gathered and nothing at all is left.
Actions of the heart such as Eemaan, Love, Fear, Hope and the outward actions such as actions of the limbs (eg the Salah) and actions of the tongue (eg the Shahaadah).
There is nothing that is left from the religion of Allah. So commanding with istiqaamah is commanding with establishment of the affairs of the religion in entirety; outwardly and inwardly.”
Slightly Paraphrased from:
المجموع الرائق من الوصايا و الزهديات و الرقائق ص ٩٦
The imam, the exemplar, the martyr inshaa Allah, Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Sahl Ar-Ramli, known as Ibn An-Nabulsi [d.363 AH]1
{كَانَ ذَٰلِكَ فِي الْكِتَابِ مَسْطُورًا}
{That has been written in The Book [of decrees]} – [Al-Israa:58]”
“My Lord gifted me with eternal honour ~ And He promised me imminent victory
And He brought me close and near to Him ~ And He said: Live delightfully in a life next to Me”
Excerpts: Imam Ath-Thahabi’s Siyar A’alam An-Nubula; 16/148 – 150
1 Shaikh Abdullah Al-Bukhari spoke concerning this Imam’s crucifixion in his lecture “Steadfastness upon the Sunnah” on 7th Shawwal 1436. The Shaikh and those present in the gathering cried when hearing the patience that this Imam had in remaining steadfast upon the Sunnah.
Link to audio clip of the Shaikh: http://safeshare.tv/w/GZMCWpzPug