Abu Taymiyyah – Abstaining from bad assumptions
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Muhammadin
Dear respected brothers and sisters,
what I want to speak about today
is a matter that is very very crucial,
and very very important.
What it is basically,
It is the steps and the processes that
a person goes through,
Before
he ends up falling in a Matzah, which
is very very severe.
And this process and this step that I'm
talking about,
Is the thought,
the Surah Adhan,
the bad thought that a person has for
his brothers.
Because never ever does a person wake up
in the morning,
and he says something with his tongue,
and he hasn't preceded a thought.
That's why in order for us to
stop ourselves from falling into this major problem,
we have to try and cut out the
steps,
and the processes that a person that goes
through.
Because it can lead to a very, very
dangerous and severe matter. As the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam told us about the tongue.
A man, he says something with his tongue.
He says a word with his tongue, and
he doesn't give any care to it.
And because of this what happens? He gets
chucked into the hellfire because of this one
word.
And the Hadith
that talk to us about the tongue are
many.
This is not the topic that I want
to
maybe speak about in detail today.
But it's a matter that is as important.
Because if a person stop this,
he's able to control that which comes out
of his tongue.
This matter Ikhwan ifillah that is related to
the
thoughts, the assumptions,
and also the speculations.
That person begins to
build matters upon
and rulings
due to his speculation and also the assumptions.
The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam warned us
about it.
And he told us to be aware.
It came in the hadith
in Sahih Muslim
on the authority of Abu Hurairat radiAllahu an.
That the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
beware of the assumptions
and the thoughts.
For indeed the assumptions and the speculations
are from the worst
of the narrations.
The most fabricated of the narrations.
The thought that a person thinks about someone
else.
Also Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said in the
Quran,
O you who believe,
Stay away from the most
of the thoughts,
and the assumptions, the speculations
in the Ba'al al Bani I Islam.
For indeed some of these
thoughts,
is a sin.
In our Sharia,
we contemplate upon the Sharia, we find that
assumptions, speculations,
and opinion has no place in our religion.
Has absolute no place in our religion.
This is why Ilm, knowledge
and assumption and speculations,
they are complete opposites.
The is on one side and the assumptions
and the speculations on another side.
The food that goes through a person's head,
his opinion.
That's why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in
the Quran.
These people they follow
their opinion
and their assumptions.
For indeed the assumption and also their opinion,
It doesn't prevail over the half of the
truth.
And also Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in
the Quran,
say to them, O Muhammad
Say to them, O Muhammad,
do you have any knowledge that you can
show us?
Indeed you are only people that follow assumptions
and speculations.
And it's very very sorry to say,
Haz Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentioned in the
Quran,
and he is the most
truthful.
As Allah mentioned, The
majority of the people, they are people that
follow assumptions and speculations.
Allah
says,
The majority of the people, they only follow
speculations and assumptions.
So that's why if one if we like
it, it's very very important
that we try and assess this matter very
very well.
Because like I mentioned before,
it is always the result of a person
having bad thoughts,
he uses his tongue to speak badly about
another person,
or him he makes a ruling.
And because of this it could be the
reason why he gets shoved into the hellfire
because
of his bad thoughts.
And it's very important that I bring examples
now so that people understand.
With examples,
the speech becomes more clearer.
If you look in Surat Al Nur,
and contemplate
on the story of Aisha Radiallahu Anha.
Never did the matter become so big
and the chaos increase.
Except
because of some of the bad thoughts
and the speculations and the assumptions
that some had about her.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
He addressed this,
and he spoke about those
that had bad thought about Aisha radhiallahu anha,
in a severe manner.
We're not talking about the people that spread
their lies. They even worse. We're talking about
the people
that only had the bad thought enter into
their heads.
They only thought negative about that.
And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala he sent down
Allah
says,
Why is it,
when you had these message,
about the believing
people. You never thought good about them.
And why do you say,
This is a click of light.
Why do you say this?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is talking about those
who had bad thoughts, that bad thoughts entered
into their heads.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also then goes on
to say,
And why did you not?
Why is it not?
Why did you not say?
This is not from the affairs
that is suitable for us to speak about.
Here Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is addressing
those people who fought Badaba Aisha radiAllahu anha.
Ibn Kathir, he mentions
that this is further discipline.
This is further discipline.
In addition
to the good thought a person needs to
have about the people,
That when there is someone that is known
to be upon good,
that
he doesn't allow
the bad thought to take over him
in thinking about this person.
Further discipline he says, further discipline.
Allah azza wa Jal even says,
And when you said this with your tongue,
and your mouth,
that which you don't have any knowledge about,
You see it to be something very small,
but with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala something
Another example Ikhwan.
The story of Usam ibn Zayed.
Usam ibn Zayed,
what happened?
When he killed a man who said
He killed him.
So the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
became really really angry. He became really really
angry, and he kept on repeating to him,
did you kill a person? I said
He said,
He only said it because he was scared
of
the
And the prophet
started saying,
I free myself from that which Usam bin
Nazeid did. He had bad thought about him.
Another example, Ikwani.
Is when a person he loses something,
or something gets stolen from him.
The Somali people they have
a saying,
saying,
The one that was stolen from,
his sin is more worse, and he falls
into more sin than the one that actually
stole.
Why?
This one he stole, maybe he fell into
one major sin.
By the way, Muhammad told me this.
And the one that was stolen from, he
doesn't know who he is, so he spreads
lies, he doesn't know mima, he accuses this
one, he says this about this one. He
might fall into 5 6 different major sins.
So this person ends up selling more than
the one that actually stole it.
Is true.
And then what did he say?
After his assumption maybe becomes clear.
Didn't I tell you? Didn't I tell you
this?
Wasn't I correct?
It was actually him that done it.
Rather the assumption even if you are correct,
you're not getting an extra bonus. You're not
getting reward for being correct in your assumption.
Bakr ibn Abdul Muzani,
what did he say? He goes,
Beware of that kind of speech.
Hey, which kind of speech?
If he was to be correct in that
assumption, that thing that you say, you don't
get rewarded.
And if you used to now be incorrect,
you get sin.
Bad thought for the Muslims.
Another example.
We find sometimes when a man speaks,
when a man speaks,
a person that is known to be upon
good,
a slip of a tongue, he maybe says
something about the sahabi
after mistake.
The people you find they try to get
what he said, and they try to give
it the worst mammal ever.
They try to give it his worst meaning.
This is also against what the salif. The
Sahabir eduannullahi alayhi used to say,
What did he say?
Do not think of a speech that was
said by your brother
to be something bad.
And you're able to give a good meaning.
Maybe this person here had a slip of
a tongue,
or he says something.
As we all know the famous hadith,
the man that lost his camel, what did
he say?
He said, O Allah, you are my slave,
and I'm
your
Lord.
He said the worst thing why he done
it out of severe happiness?
The
prophet
said. He fell into mistake due to severe
happiness.
The matter in order to resolve it, might
be a few minutes. You go after the
person and you explain to him, you clarify
to him what he said,
and then he takes it back.
But today we have people, they take this.
They put it all over the internet.
It gets translated into French, into Somali,
into Indonesian,
into every single language in order to expose
this person.
So it's upon us to contemplate upon these
matters
and to be very, very careful about it.
The other
day, someone came up to me and he
said to me, There's a Masjid over there
who has leaflets in there, they have shirk.
Shirky leafless in there.
I know the Masjid, this is just a
personal experience.
This man he is swearing,
he's spreading, he's accusing, he's saying all sorts
of matters.
Having bad thoughts,
I said to Makhi, maybe someone on a
Jummah came and he left there. Let's phone
them and let's explain to them. You stop
sinning.
We go into the Masjid, we will enter
to pray the Maghrib,
the leafless of one. The whole point is
not to expose this individual,
rather to
assess the matter and think to yourself,
why didn't this person just keep quiet?
Until the issue became clear cut to him.
Rather he sinned and he fell into all
sorts of matters.
When he could have just gone and advised
this individual,
or maybe had better thoughts in regards to
the matter.
So the last thing,
what I'm gonna do?
Because every sickness, there has to be a
medicine.
How do we go about changing this matter?
How do we resolve it?
Because the Shaitan,
the Shaitan is running through Aman.
Like the blood does through a person. Very,
very close to him, always whispering in his
ears.
What does a person do? As they say
in the English language, a person
needs to think before he speaks.
Even the prophet
said,
Whoever believes in Allah in the last day,
either
speak or keep quiet.
If the shaytan comes and whispers in your
ear, it's upon you to do what? Just
to keep quiet.
And you are forgiven.
As the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
Allah forgives
the one that has bad thought,
as long as he doesn't speak or act.
So as long as you prevent yourself from
actually doing the action,
and you just keep it in your head
without speaking, without spreading, without accusing,
you are forgiven.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to make us have good thoughts for our
Muslim brothers,
and to stay away from the
having bad thoughts for our Muslim brothers,
and save us from the * fire.