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.