It is reported that Aboo Dardaa’ wrote to Salmaan
al-Farsee [may Allaah be Pleased with them both] in advice as he travelled to
Palestine, “You have become pious as you have entered a holy land.” To which
Salmaan wrote back in reply, “It is not the land that makes people pious,
rather it’s the deeds of a person that makes him pious.”
Reported by Maalik in his Muwatta’ (2/235)
Shaykh ‘Abdul-Kareem al-Khudayr [may Allaah Preserve
him], Member of Panel of Senior Scholars in Ssudi Arabia, said in explanation:
Abu Dardaa was a dear friend of his and this
friendship remained strong even after Salmaan left, and this was the advice he
had for him; that the land a person lives in (or dies in) doesn’t necessarily
benefit a person or make him pious. Some people seek to move to a virtuous
place to live and die in. Some even travel to a grave of a pious saint to
fulfill this aim. However, none of this will benefit a person if his deeds are
not pious.
[Sharh al-Muwatta’: Kitaab al-Waseeyah]
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