Foreword

On the Day of Judgement, God will not even look at a man who, in a show of arrogance, lets his clothes sweep the ground. Abu Bakr said, ‘The cloth which I have worn around my waist trails no matter what I do. ‘ To this the Prophet said, ‘You are not one of those who do it out of arrogance.’ HADITH OF AL-BUKHARI ON THE AUTHORITY OF ‘ABDULLAH IBN ‘UMAR. 132 One who walks with a tyrant, in the full knowledge that he is a tyrant, in order to strengthen him, is such as has already left the fold of Islam. HADITH OF AL-BAYHAQI ON THE AUTHORITY OF AUS IBN SHURAHABIL.