{"id":103,"date":"2016-05-06T15:53:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islaminlife.com\/en\/?p=103"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T11:02:46","slug":"talking-less-the-way-of-pious-predecessors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islaminlife.com\/en\/talking-less-the-way-of-pious-predecessors\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Less: The Way of Pious Predecessors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px\">Ata bin Rabah (R) said, \u201cOur pious predecessors would not like worthless talks. They would talk about the <em>Quran<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Sunnah<\/em>; they would advice the good and forbid the wrong; they would talk only when it was bare necessity to do so; their talks didn\u2019t include unnecessary words and statements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px\">There are honorable angels on the left and right of every man \u2013\u00a0<em>the<\/em>\u00a0<em>Kiraaman Katebeen<\/em>, who have been assigned to write down all deeds of a man. Allah Taala states (Meaning):\u00a0<em>Not a single word is uttered by one, but there is a watcher near him, ready (to record).\u00a0<\/em><sub><sup>Sura Qaf: 18<\/sup><\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px\">Don\u2019t you feel even a bit shameful that when on the Judgment Day your&nbsp;<em>Book of Deeds<\/em> will be opened and you will discover that there are so many words in it which neither has any relation with the&nbsp;<em>Deen<\/em>&nbsp;nor the world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px\">One Sahabi radiallahu anhu said, \u201cThe questions people ask me are to them just as cold water is to a thirsty person. For me too, to answer such questions are similarly exhilarating. However, I become quiet in fear that while answering to those queries, my words may be superfluous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px\">Mujahid alaihir rahma said, \u201cEvery utterance of a man is written down. 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