"The understanding of Islam is broad in accordance to the breadth of the human heart. And the broadest hearts are of the first generation, and then those who came after, and then those after them. And what we mean by that - and it is important for us to understand- is that the broadest understanding of Islam ever was by the first generation. But as the human being's heart becomes more constricted, then Islam by its nature is constricted, directly proportional to that of the human heart."
Shaykh Ibrahim.
They say that the more you study, the more excuses you have for people - because you realise that the religion is expansive; there is room for many people, with varying ideas, and different hearts. "And Religion is, and can be vast! - why? because Allah is The Vast."
رَبِّ اشْرَحْ لِي صَدْرِي
O My Lord: expand for me my heart!
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