"The significance of piety and righteousness among the qualifications for reasoning with the law should not be underestimated. In later centuries, when the compendia of biographical sketches of the Companions and their successors were compiled, their personal reputations remained the most prominent element. They are praised for the quality of their Islam, that is, the quality of their self-transcendence expressed as surrender to the will of God, their obedience and love of Him and of His Messenger. In modern idiom, this quality translates as the capacity to balance short-term interests with long-term ones: they had to balance the need to resolve the immediate problems and disputes before them against the need to preserve the ethos of Islamic society for future generations." - Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi [Introduction, "Abu Hanifa: His Life, Legal Method, and Legacy."]
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