Abu Taymiyyah – Part 5 UsoolusSunnah of Imam AlHumaydi
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Last week we took
very important message pertaining the issues of Alqaddah.
We mentioned that a person, he can't believe
in Alqaddah
except
that he truly believes in the 4 matters
of Al Qadr.
Can someone tell me quickly what what these
4 matters of Al Qadr are?
The second one was? Everything is written
down. We mentioned some hadith of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and I forgot to
mention a few, which I think is important
that I mentioned
the prophet
he mentioned
If the whole jinn,
the human, and the jinn were to come
together
in order to benefit a person,
they won't be able to benefit a person
except
that which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala had decreed.
And then the second part of the Haram
says
And if the jinn and the inswah come
together in order to harm you or bring
harm towards you, then they wouldn't be able
to do this except
with that which Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala willed.
How many times do we find
people
gathering at the person's house, wanting to stun
him, wanting to do something to this person.
Now I've witnessed in my own eyes once,
Fatih Jahiliya.
Everybody went to
try and get one of them because at
that time, in Lasser, there was a lot
of problems between
the African
boys and also Somali
boys. Until a person has got stabbed, the
army's intestines came out and etcetera.
The whole point is there was a time
I was there as well.
There was at least 20 guys standing at
the person's house.
Everybody thought, Khala, this guy when he comes
back from his house, his own tag is
low, he needs to be home at 7
o'clock. We're gonna get him. We're gonna finish
him off. So So everybody surrounding his house.
Prayib.
The guy somehow slips in,
drops his bike, and he goes in his
house.
What does it show you that if something
is written down,
Allah
decreed
that this person, no harm will come to
him.
Nobody from the or the jinn can do
anything in order to bring harm to this
person.
And likewise, if a person now,
if the people come together
and they want to what? Benefit you, they
want to give you money, they want to
give charity to you in order to make
you rich.
Then if it wasn't for Allah
his will, nothing can take place in this
dunya.
Also, the prophet
he said,
There's no person that breathes except the Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has written his place either
in Jannah
or
the
hellfire.
So Oman
so Oman
shall we not totally rely now on our
decree, predestination,
that which has been decreed for us?
And then leave of action altogether. What did
we mention before?
Something similar to this. What do some people
say?
It is written down for me that I'm
going to the hellfire.
So I don't need to do anything.
Allah
will to me
this to take place. And some people, what
do they say? The other statement and this
is what is
monastic
to it. Some people, they make it look
like as he is a feather in the
middle of the wind.
He has no choice whatsoever.
He has no choice whatsoever at all.
But the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
Perform.
Do the actions.
And whoever is destined to go to a
place will become easy for him to end
up in a place.
So Ahmed, in the time of the prophet
asked,
shall we not just rely now on that
which has been
written for us
and leave a poll of actions?
No, the prophet
This is what? A reputation on those that
say they have no ability whatsoever.
That they are like a feather in the
middle of the wind, wherever the wind goes,
wherever the wind takes the feather, they are
going as well and they don't have no
wind whatsoever, which is totally because Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala says what?
Whoever amongst you wants to be upon the
correct path, then he has the ability and
the will to do so.
So we mentioned that a person
a person what? He has free will to
do whatever he wants.
So when a person now gets hit
by a car,
does he have a choice?
He gets hit, does anybody ever want to
get hit by a car or get into
an accident?
Nobody wants to get into an accident.
Or a dog now,
comes running behind you and you flinch.
Do you have the choice now to flinch
or not to flinch?
Who can I ask you that question?
Now, a reaction happens straight away and a
person has no control.
So at the sunnah, they
split the actions into 2.
The actions
where a person has a choice,
and the actions
where a person is
compelled.
Like a dog coming and barking at you,
you have a automatic reaction. You're gonna react.
You have no ability whatsoever
to stop yourself from reacting. It's part of
a human being. It's part of a human
instinct.
Now and when a person is being hit,
he is driving normally.
He is driving normally. He's not speeding.
He's not speeding. He's not driving like a
heretic.
All he is doing is driving normally. He
gets into an accident. These are from the
that a person can't do anything.
And this now brings us to what? The
re the statement of Imam Al Khomeidi
Read to me
a
So the imam is saying here,
part of other is as well that
whatever was meant for you was always going
to get you.
And that which wasn't meant for you
was always going to miss you.
Is that clear?
Ubaidullah Salim's son is on his deathbed due
to an illness.
He says to him,
When a person is suffering from illness or
when he's dying, one of the best things
to
remind him with
is the qawla and the qadr of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. That everything is decreed. Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala decreed for you to be
sick.
In order for you to get cancer or
this to happen to you or you to
get a broken leg.
So he said to him, Wa Ala, know
that which was meant for you was always
going to get you.
And that which missed you was an ever
meant for you.
So then he says to him
he then says to him,
If you was denied now,
If you was denied, now, if you was
denied,
upon other than this, you will be from
the people of the fire. So
when a person is walking now, scaffolding,
and a brick drops right in front of
him, it misses him totally.
It was never ever meant for him. And
if that brick now drops on top of
him,
it was always meant for him and he
can't do anything. That's why
split the action into 2.
A person, he has the will to do
anything. When I'm gonna say that guy, he's
like a feather in the middle of the
But you find that sometimes a person has
no choice whatsoever
in matters like getting into an accident, especially
if he's taking that bag of driving normally,
or when a dog comes and he barks
at him and he flinches,
straight
away.
It's a clear point. And then whatever happens
to a person,
as we mentioned last week when we explained
the Masayid Al Qadr, the
prophet mentioned,
The situation
of the believer is amazing and excellent.
And this doesn't take place except in what?
The case of a believer.
If he's now,
if he's now
afflicted with a good matter,
he thanks Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
And now he's afflicted with an evil matter.
He is patient.
He is patient
with that which has afflicted him
and he tries to become satisfied with that
which decree
for this individual.
So it's an important matter.
Is telling his son who is on his
deathbed,
He's got Umrah.
If you will stand upon other than this
creed
of believing what we just mentioned.
That you believe,
that whatever was meant for you was always
going to come and get you. And that
which wasn't meant for you was always going
to miss you.
If you was to die upon other than
this, you would be from the people of
the fire. So the matter,
learning these matters, knowing these matters are very,
very important.
Is that clear, Juan?
Played
with Muhammad
issues pertaining a demon.
His name read.
That the iman
is affirmation with the tongue,
and also
action.
Action. Last for the imam of the main
mentioned,
when the imam
increases
and it also decreases.
So So probably pay attention here.
The iman
I'm speaking about the definition of an iman.
I'm not speaking about the Alkhan and iman.
The that
that we all know about hadith Gibrid. The
definition
of an iman.
The definition of an iman.
When we want to define an iman,
what goes under this? And this topic is
very, very important. Why? Because it stops a
person
becoming very complacent in his religion.
Oh, the other extreme. He begins to think
that what? He has left the fold of
Islam if a person doesn't understand this chapter
really really well.
How many times do we hear you tell
a guy grow your bed
or pray
the salah How many times have you heard
this? Witnesses in my own eyes. One of
my friends was telling a brother,
advice.
Pray the salah and Islam. Because
as long as my heart is fine, everything
else is fine.
Which
is It is a very, very dangerous speech,
which could lead to a vessel
being destroyed.
As we're gonna come onto later inshallahta'ala
as well. As we're gonna come onto later
inshallahta'ala,
this this kind of methodology which has made
the law of the fusat. There's people that
believe this. There's people that believe this, that
the action is not from a demon.
And I couldn't even come on to that.
Now write down
these 4
or the 3 pillars.
Write down the 3 pillars.
That the faith, the definition of faith
is affirmation with
the tongue.
The second thing the second pillar,
to believe in your heart.
And the third is action.
And give it 2 branches.
Action with the lips and action with the
heart.
Action of the limbs and action of the
heart.
So you take the Amal out, you have
2 things left. Affirmation of the tongue and
belief in the heart. There's people that actually
believe the
as
time goes on, we're gonna come to understand
who the are. But at the moment, I
want to leave of the firoc,
the groups, the deviated groups, and we just
want to learn
our a'id and then
After that everything else will become clear.
The they say that the amal
is not from an iman.
So if a person now affirms
with his tongue,
he believes in his heart that his iman
is like the iman of Jibril Al Mikael.
Because action what? Has no significance whatsoever.
So the fact that the Malayka
The fact that they are 247
doing what Allah
told them to do, the actions,
The awamir, the commands that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala commanded them with. All what? Actions.
All of this doesn't get taken into consideration.
So anyone that says La ilaha illallah and
he believes in his heart, everybody's the same.
You and the malaik are the same.
Why? Because
actions have nothing to do with it.
So I'm going to know explain
every single
one. Affirming
with your tongue.
In order for a person
to have iman,
he has to
say with his tongue.
How many times Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
By this idea, the intended purpose is with
the sun or kedalik al tamb as we're
gonna come into it later inshallah.
But what I'm trying to now give emphasis
to, the affirmation of the tamb.
A man came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam and said to him,
Tell me something or tell me a speech
in Islam that nobody else
can tell me of.
So the prophet said here,
He told this man say,
and then he starts passing.
So the point is what?
Affirmed with his tongue.
Right?
So the whole point is affirmation of the
tongue. I can't have iman.
If I don't affirm with my tongue.
The second
one
is
to believe in your heart.
And later we're gonna comment, inshallah,
if I was to take now the belief
out or if I was to take the
speech out, but affirm the other ones, who
would I be entering into Islam?
And you're gonna find out some ajay, some
things that are very, very clear that you
find people saying no.
So affirmation of the heart.
I have to solely believe what?
That no one has the right to be
worshiped in truth except
Allah The belief has to be there.
So affirmation of the tongue is a pillar
in the definition of an iman.
But even with your heart, the second pillar
in the definition of an iman.
And what's the proof of this? Hadith Jibreel.
The prophet
said what?
That you believe. The iman is that you
believe.
You know
Allah his
angels,
his books and his messengers,
in the last day, and the hada that
we just bring this into, the good of
it and the evil of it. So here
we have the proof that what? The heart
is
a important matter important factor,
Ben, rather it's a pillar in that definition
of an imam.
Then you have
Then you have You find sometimes some of
them they affirm what?
The actions of the heart, but they take
away what?
The actions
of the limbs.
Actions with the names.
And this is where a lot of controversy
surrounds.
The and the people of innovation, they've taken
this out of Alimhan.
And the,
the guy that is disobedient,
the sinful guy, they get very, very excited
and they really like the method. Why? Because
he doesn't need to do any actions. As
long as his heart is good, everything is
fine.
Is that clear? So when Ahmad ibn Jabal
was the proof that the actions is part
of an iman,
the prophet
said,
The prophet
said,
That iman
is
7th your something branches of what? Faith.
The highest part of an imam is to
say
Which one is this? The second or the
first one? Or the third one? The first
one. We mentioned earlier what?
Affirmation of the tongue.
And the lowest part of an iman is
what?
To remove something harmful from the path.
And why is that?
It's an action.
It's an action that a person is what?
Doing with his name. Is someone
able to move something
physically,
without him actually moving his limbs?
It's impossible.
Done? And then the prophet said,
And also shyness is what?
Part of an iman.
It's a branch of an imam. And Haya
is what?
Action of the limbs, action of the hearts.
Shyness
is action of the heart.
Done? And you find that
Imam al Bukhari
who was who?
The student of who?
Imam al Khomeini. And time and time again,
we mentioned that the first person in the
chain is what?
Imam al Khhamidi in the first hadith that
is mentioned
in Asahi al Bukhari.
If you go back to his kitab kitab
of iman,
iman. And if a person wants to memorize
the hadith
with also the the
chapter is inside Kitab al iman and Sayed
Bukhari, A lot of things will become very,
very clear and simple to him.
The chapter
is from an iman. What does a person
do in a salat? He covers all the
aspects of an iman.
Iman. Takes place what? In the heart. He
speaks,
affirms with his tongue.
Nam does actions with his limbs. Now in
another place he says,
fasting is from an iman. The prophet
and also hoping for the reward, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala forgives his pastures. The point is
what?
Salma,
whoever fasts, no. You have to do this
physically by staying away from the food and
the drink and the sexual *.
And he does that with faith,
believing in Allah
And in many, many other places he mentions.
Also,
That is what?
An action.
I find it on my soul is gone
today.
And I've got to listen to our
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
Whoever follows the which
is an action,
it is buried, he comes back with 2
mountains, every mountain.
The whole point is it's an action.
It's a clear one. So you find the
Imam Bukhari, whoever goes back to it, finds
that the Tabooibat.
The chapter is,
of Imam al Bukhari, he propagates the same
Just to give you more confidence and more
security of what you're learning.
Now, unlike with the actions of the heart,
he mentioned
loving the prophet is
from
One cannot be a true believer until he
loves for his brother what he loves for
Himself. And that takes place where?
In the heart. Is that clear, Hwan?
To
the increasing
of an iman and also the decreasing.
And that's also something that is from the
Then the iman decreases?
And the fact that the iman decreases,
you find that some of the they said
the iman that doesn't decrease maybe because,
the didn't
reach them or they couldn't
extract it from the Quran because it doesn't
necessarily come clean in the Quran.
Right? And I could leave the the correct
is that what?
The iman increases and decreases.
What's the proof that increases?
Probably, you might think think to yourself, none
of this makes sense. Why do we have
to learn all of this matter? Why do
we have to learn whether the iman increases
or decreases, etcetera? Now I'm I'm gonna mention
the significance or later.
And I shed some light on it before.
People say what? I don't need to pray
because my other good Safi,
Not even my Alib is okay. My heart
is pure.
As long as the Alib is fine, everything
else is fine, which is kalam, valid.
Here again, brothers.
The chapter of the iman increasing and decreasing.
So if anyone has any doubt about any
of these scholars,
then go back to Imam Bukhari's book.
The Imam Bukhari where the umma
have come to an agreement
with its authenticity.
There is no
And then look at this in part here.
The early man, they used to say
The understanding,
and the fiqh of Imam al Bukhar you
find in his chapterings,
because he breaks it down to Allah. Sometimes
you find a hadith. You need shuruhat,
explanations. You need to go back to Ibn
Hajar. You need to go back to Imam
Manawi. Sometimes just And
it might take you quite some time to
get the understanding or the intended person of
Hadith.
Imam Bukhari comes, he writes one line.
He writes one line and you can extract
from it what?
A great meaning and the correct understanding
due to him paying maybe one line. Not
even line, 3, 4 words.
So that's why Imam Bukhari's book was so
great.
Part of it is his and and the
fact they have the correct as well. So
he chapter The
iman increasing
to prove the statement of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
And those that have faith, we increase them
in faith.
And when
the Quran is recited to them,
it increases them in a given.
So that shows you what? That the increases.
The day when I completed your religion.
Look at the istimbat.
The
understanding of Imam Bukhari. He got his and
he mentioned
for 1 artist.
If you leave now something from now which
is complete,
it becomes
deficient.
Let's just say now we have a bottle
of water. We have
we have this.
The Febreze Mist and Refresh.
Now what happens when you buy
it? It's full.
Once you start using it for a few
months, what happens? It Becomes?
Increases.
Decreases. Oh, decreases.
It decreases.
So something when it's it's complete and
something is taken out, what happens?
It decreases.
So
Allah's
religion is complete.
He brings the ayah. If I now don't
perform the siyam around fast, what what does
that make me?
It makes my religion deficient.
That's why the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
he said
I haven't seen
anyone that is more deficient
than the women.
When it comes to their intellect and in
their religion,
so how can the woman now
be deficient in her religion?
The prophet
said, isn't it when she is on her
menses, her monthly period, that she doesn't fast
and she doesn't pray?
That has made her religion what? Deficient.
So when now a badat or missing it
makes her religion deficient and the fact that
her mind
is, deficient, her intellect is the fact that
you need 2 women
to be a witness
when there's a transaction taking place. As for
the, men, we only need 1. And according
to the whole point is that once you
start taking a bad debt out from the
region becomes efficient, And likewise with the iman.
Likewise, the iman.
And he's trying to prove to you here
that the iman decreases.
As for the proof as what the iman
or why the or the iman decreasing.
You have the famous hadith when
the
prophet
mentioned
what?
When this
is an evil, lame change will be his
hand. If he can't with his tongue, if
he can't
with his heart.
And changing with your heart is the weakest
part of an iman. That shows you what?
Iman has decreased.
And also the statement of the prophet
The one that said
He'll be taken on the fire
if he had a the
size of of iman in his heart.
Then the prophet
The one that says that will be taken
out of fire
if he has the weight of
what do you call it?
Grain of wheat.
The grain of wheat. So the point here
that the body is higher in weight than
a grain of wheat.
Right? So the one that has lesser iman,
lesser than
a weight of barley, they get taken out
of the fire. Then the prophet says
The one that says, we take it out
the fire
as long as he has the weight of
an atom, the weight of an ant
or the size of an ant. Atom. And
the atom is more smaller than all of
it.
So do you understand the point, brothers?
Body
is meant to be what?
Greater in size than the wheat.
And the size of the iman of a
person, if it is any of these 2,
this person will be taken out of fire.
And one of them is more less than
the other. And then you have the most,
I don't know if this makes sense. The
most less or
more or less are. Which was more? Least.
The least
the least iman which is the the
atom can get taken out of an iman.
So that shows you now that the iman
has gone down, gone down, gone down, and
and he
taken out of fire.
Is that clear one?
So brothers know, if I take out the
reactive cut,
Someone's saying
and he's praying, but he