Gifts of Knowledge

Ibn al-Qayyim said, “The nation under Allaah’s Wrath, the Yahūd: liars, slanderers, betrayers, deceivers, tricksters, murderers of Prophets, consumers of the forbidden, of usury and bribes, having the most malicious conscience of all nations, the most defective of them in character, the furthest removed from mercy, the closest to punishment, their very habit is hatred and malice, their custom enmity and hostility, a house of magic, lies and deceit, they hold no sanctity for anyone who opposes their disbelief and denials even if a Prophet, they honour not the bonds of kinship or treaties with the believers, nor [even] does anyone who agrees with them get any rights or pity, there is no justice or fairness for anyone who goes along with them, no serenity or peace for anyone who mingles with them, no love of good towards someone who might utilise/employ them, nay—their most intellectual is the most vile, their most truthful the most fraudulent, the one having a sound breast among them—and far be it that such a person be found from or among them—is not a Jew in reality, the most distressed among creation, the darkest houses and the most rotten courtyards, the wildest in character, their greeting is a curse, meeting them is misfortune, their inner-garment is anger, and their outer hatred.”
Hidāyatul-Ḥayārā, p. 15.

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