Remembrance 1 from Chapter 303

KNOW THAT IT is mustaḥabb for scholars, teachers, Qāḍīs, Muftīs, Shaykhs of Instruction, and others who are followed and imitated and from whom [knowledge] is taken to abstain from deeds, utterances and dealings which are apparently improper, even if they may justifiably do them. For if they do [such things], various corrupt things may ensue as a consequence, such as the following.

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