The Path of Moderation in Islam And a Repudiation of Extremism

 The Prophet (SAWA) said, "You have completed seventy nations. You are the last of them and the noblest of them before Allah." Shaykh All Ibn Nãsir al-Faqihi said, "By following of the Book of Allah, holding fast to it and seeking guidance with it and by adopting the Sunnah of His Messenger  (SAWA) this Ummah became the best of nations and the most moderate and just of them. This is due to the statement of the Prophet (SAWA) "I have left amongst you that which, if you hold fast to it, you will never become misguided: The Book of Allah and my Sunnah." The happiest of this Ummah with this superiority and the most diligent of them in terms of statement, action and belief are the Companions of the Messenger of Allah then the tabayen, then those who followed them in goodness from the three virtuous generations of Muslims. The Messenger of Allah  (SAWA) testified to their superiority in his statement, "The best of my Ummah are my generation, then those who follow them, then those who follow them''