Yaser Birjas – Taqwa Is The Gate To Jannah Isha Khatira
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The speaker discusses the importance of the hadith and the protective barrier of taqwa, the protective barrier that protects against crossing into the wrongdoing. They emphasize the importance of following five daily prayers and fasting, respecting the umfred and the social contract, and maintaining four things, including obeying leaders and not going out of line. The speaker emphasizes the need to be mindful of Allah's limits and not be mindful of his expiration of the five daily prayers.
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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.