The Sunnah is Not Found in Self-Righteousness

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Shaykh ‘Abd al-Hakim Murad Timothy John Winter said, “Beware of others or beware of yourself when the energy that moves you in life is actually the ego’s energy, but has found a religious form of expression – that is the most dangerous thing of all.  Self-righteousness that can lead to you eventually blowing yourself up in public – that is the kind of ultimate triumph of the ego: Using the forms of piety in order to magnify the turbulences within.

The sunnah is not to be used as a megaphone for our own internal traumas.  The sunnah is a way of moving away from our own rubbish and to mould ourselves outwardly in the form of somebody who is serene - who despite all of the threats, is always smiling, never had any difficulty sleeping, never had ego issues, always at ease.”