Yaser Birjas – Taqwa Is The Gate To Jannah Isha Khatira

Tonight we're reading the last hadith from the

chapter of Al-Taqwa on the subject of

righteousness and piety.

Hadith number 73.

In this hadith, Abu Umamah r.a, he

said, I heard the messenger of Allah s

.a.w. say, I heard the messenger of

Allah s.a.w. during the Hajjatul Wada,

the Sermon of the Farewell pilgrimage.

He said, be mindful of your duty to

Allah.

Ittaq Allah.

Wa sallu khamsakum.

And offer your five daily prayers.

Wa sumu shahrakum.

And observe fasting during the month of Ramadan.

Wa addu zakat amwalikum.

Pay the zakah on your properties.

Wa ati'u umara'akum.

And obey your rightful leaders.

Tadkhulu jannata rabbikum.

You will enter your Lord's Paradise.

Haythi rahwatul mideen.

What is the importance of mentioning this hadith

as the last hadith in this chapter on

taqwa?

What significance?

What can we understand from the fiqh of

Imam al-Nawi?

Imam al-Nawi r.a, ulama al-hadith,

whenever they put their collections of hadith, they

classify them in a certain order.

And that shows their deep fiqh and understanding

of what they're reporting and narrating.

So why would he put this hadith as

the last one on taqwa?

Why?

What's the occasion to put it in the

last hadith?

Because what?

Summary which means what?

Hajjatul Wada.

If that was the last advice the Prophet

s.a.w. gave in his life, almost.

This hadith happened where, jama'at?

Hajjatul Wada, the farewell pilgrimage.

Which is the only hajj the Prophet s

.a.w. did after he migrated from Mecca

to Medina.

And he did that when everybody there was

Muslim.

And he was given the khutbah s.a

.w. knowing that perhaps he will give that

khutbah never coming back again.

Because he said that to them s.a

.w. He said, perhaps I'm not going to

see you next year.

So the people, they realized, okay, he is

giving a farewell khutbah.

And in that khutbah, he gives them these

statements.

So obviously, it would be one of the

most profound and most important advices he would

give s.a.w. to the ummah.

If that's like the farewell statement, what would

you choose?

Out of all the injunctions of Allah s

.w.t. and the sharia, what would you

choose?

The most valuable thing for them.

And here he begins with what?

Ittaqullah.

Ittaqu rabbakum.

So ittaqullah, obviously, we've talked about taqwa many

times.

And we mentioned what does it mean exactly.

Basically, taqwa is more like the shield that's

supposed to protect you from crossing into the

haram, into the wrongdoing.

It's supposed to be that firewall that protects

you from crossing into the violating Allah's limit

s.a.w. If you study with us

on ta'seel class, we've talked about the

limits of Allah s.a.w. And here,

what is taqwa?

Taqwa is that shield from wiqayah.

Protect you from falling into that.

And obviously, as you can see when he

says ittaqu, means put that barrier between you

and Allah's limits, it will protect you.

Here in the translation, they said being mindful

of Allah s.a.w. It's really a

poor translation for the word taqwa, but at

least it gives the essence of it.

Meaning you have to, in order to build

that shield, you need to always be mindful

of Allah s.a.w. at all times.

And if you have Allah on your mind,

and you have akhirah mindset in your life,

you always do right.

And then, after saying ittaqu Allah, be mindful

of Allah, and have taqwa of Allah s

.a.w. He starts saying, wasallu khamsakum, pray

your five, fast your Ramadan, pay your zakah,

obey your leaders.

Wait a minute.

I mean, isn't ittaqu Allah enough from giving

you all these details?

Right?

When we say ittaqu Allah, what does it

mean?

All these are included.

So yeah, all the other items that were

mentioned afterwards, included in the statement ittaqu Allah.

And the reason why he mentioned them here

specifically, because these are what, jama'at?

These are what?

The basics of Islam.

Like you have to hold on to the

basics of Islam.

And what are they?

That you maintain the five daily prayers.

That's a sign of taqwa.

That you fast your month of Ramadan.

That's a sign of taqwa.

That you pay your zakah, even though no

one is over your head asking you to

pay it.

No, you put it in the calendar.

You keep asking yourself, did I pay zakah?

Did a month pass?

Did I forget this month, this year?

So you always have it in your mind.

You pay your zakah.

And then he says, wa ati'u umara

'akum, and obey your leaders.

Now, obeying the leaders, that's part of wadah,

jama'at.

Our principle in the ummah is what?

Obeying Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, obviously.

And then you have to stay with the

jama'at.

So obeying Allah, azza wa jal, includes following

the Prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam.

And then stay with the jama'at.

Two major principles here.

Your relationship with the Creator, subhanahu wa ta

'ala.

And then your relationship with the creation.

And here, what part of it?

It's being part of the jama'at.

So obeying the umara', the leaders, he means

by that in this hadith, obviously, is what

the ulama call al-imamat al-amma.

Like the major leadership, which means the khalifa,

the amir.

When times were, when there was a khalifa,

an amir, and a Muslim ummah.

In our times, in the so-called democratic

world, most of the leaders here, obviously, they

are selected.

Which means their obedience is part of what

is known today as the social contract.

Which means we select you, you rule by

the regulations that we set for you as

a collective jama'at.

We have the congress, or the parliament, and

so on.

And if you violate that, we have the

right to pull you down.

That's a different system.

Back in the day, it was different.

Most of these umara', they were in a

mora' system.

Which means ya khuduna bil ghalaba.

So whoever overpowers the community, the ummah, people

are requested to obey.

As long, number one, this person doesn't come

between them and worshipping Allah subhanahu wa ta

'ala.

Number two, that they don't do anything openly

kufr.

And if that's the case, la sam'a

wa la ta'a.

No obedience, and no listening to this individual.

So in this case, it is conditional obedience.

It's not like, ya'ani, sama'na wa

ata'na ghafranaka rabbana, as if he's God,

audhubillah.

No, it's actually conditional to the obedience of

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he says,

if you do that, he says, I guarantee

you, you will enter jannat ar-rabbikum, the

garden and the paradise of your Lord.

So the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, in

this hadith, he simply has given us the

key and the grooves that will help you

inshallah open the doors for jannah.

The key is taqwa, and the grooves is

the five daily prayers, fasting Ramadan, giving your

zakah, and stay with the jama'a.

Stay with the jama'a.

In our time, maybe not necessarily in that

same concept of ati'u mara'akum, but

at least stay with the jama'a, jama

'at al-muslimin.

May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us

among those who listen to the speech and

for the best of it, ya rabbal alameen.

And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

to make us among those who will be

admitted generally for daws al-a'la, bila

hisabin wal-adhab.

Any questions, jama'a?

Yes?

What's the wisdom here he did not mention

about hajj?

Because they were doing hajj at that time.

That khutbah was during the hajj, right?

So they're already doing it.

They're already doing it.

So what is left for them, maintain the

other ones.

Like you already did your hajj, now keep

those other four things.

That's what it means.

Yes.

Subhanakallahu wa bihamdik.

Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.