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Don’t be a Candle
In an advice to the callers to Islam, part of his Fiqh ad-Dawah, Shaykh Waleed Basyouni stated:
Don’t be like a candle, giving light to everyone else, and burning yourself !
It’s a powerful statement so inshallah I will leave it at that. It really struck me and is so powerful… has a tendency to stick in one’s mind immediately after hearing.
SubhanAllah, amazing lessons in a few words.
And I see examples of this all around us. It applies to the activists in any Islamic field. I think this reminder is important to me and important to all our brothers and sisters actively engaged in Islamic activities, whether it be blogs, conferences, rihlas, camps, masajids, organizations, etc., we need to sometimes stop. Stop and take a moment to evaluate our own souls, and evaluate whether we ourselves are getting closer to Allah or not?
