Imaam Maalik used to say: “Whoever is to answer a question about a Mas’alah (an affair of the religion), then it is befitting that he turns his attention to the Paradise and Hellfire before he answers and how he can be saved in the afterlife. Then he answers (the question).”
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[Quoted by Shaikh Raslaan in Fadlul Ilm (page: 541)]