Abdul Nasir Jangda – The Authority of the Sunnah #03

			In the sermon of the farewell pilgrimage, Hajjatul
		

			Widaa, the Prophet ﷺ stated, تَرَكْتُ فِيكُمْ أَمْرَيْنَ
		

			I leave you with two resources.
		

			لَن تَضِلُّوا مَا تَمَسَّكْتُمْ بِهِمَا You will not
		

			go astray, you shall not lose your way,
		

			so long as you hold on to these
		

			two things.
		

			كِتَابُ اللَّهِ The Qur'an وَسُنَّةُ نَبِيِّهِ ﷺ
		

			and the way the practice, the tradition of
		

			the Prophet ﷺ.
		

			And something that's really fascinating and also extremely
		

			logical, if you think about it, is the
		

			fact that how are we even supposed to
		

			practice our religion properly and appropriately, fully, if
		

			we don't have the instruction from the Prophet
		

			ﷺ.
		

			Let's take a couple of examples.
		

			Salah, prayer, is mentioned in the Qur'an
		

			more than 67 times, at the very least
		

			67 times.
		

			17 times Allah commands us to pray in
		

			the Qur'an.
		

			Pray Salah.
		

			أَقِمِ الصَّلَاةَ أَقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ etc.
		

			But as Ibn Hazm, a great scholar of
		

			our tradition said, في أي قرآن وجد أن
		

			الظهر أربع ركعات وصفة الصلاة والسجود والركوع وغير
		

			ذلك In which verse of the Qur'an
		

			is it telling us that Fajr is two,
		

			Dhuhr is four, Asr is four, Maghrib is
		

			three, and then Isha is four.
		

			And that in every rak'ah, there's one
		

			ruku but two sujoods.
		

			Which verse of the Qur'an is telling
		

			us that?
		

			And the answer is none.
		

			So then how do we know how to
		

			pray?
		

			Well, we know how to pray because the
		

			Prophet ﷺ said, صَلُّوا كَمَا رَأَيْتُمُونِي أُصَلِّ Pray
		

			as you have seen me pray.
		

			Allah tells us in the Qur'an, complete
		

			your hajj, do your hajj.
		

			Hajj is mandatory on you.
		

			But where in the Qur'an am I
		

			finding all the rituals of hajj?
		

			The answer is I'm not finding it there.
		

			Rather, the Prophet ﷺ went for hajj and
		

			he said, خُذُوا عَنِّي وَمَنَاسِكَكُمْ Learn from me.
		

			Watch me and learn from me how to
		

			do hajj.
		

			So it's a very, very logical issue that
		

			without the sunnah, the practice, the tradition, the
		

			example of the Prophet ﷺ, we can't even
		

			fully live even the basics of our religion.
		

			And that's why we learn and we cherish
		

			and we practice the prophetic tradition, the sunnah
		

			of the Prophet ﷺ.
		

			Jazakum Allah khair.