Zakaullah Saleem – 59 Riyad asSalihin
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We are going through
the 23rd chapter of the book, The Adus
Salihin, titled
enjoining the good and forbidding the evil.
As we mentioned previously, that this is one
of the core obligations
upon every single Muslim and this is something
because of which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
has raised
the status of this Ummah as Allah says
in the Quran,
You are the best of the nations who
have been raised for people.
And you have been given this status, this
high status, why? Because you people enjoin good
and you forbid the evil,
and you believe in Allah, Dhul Jala likham.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has raised the
status of this Ummah because of this very
action, which is, of this very action
which is al amrbulmaroofwannahayanilmunkar,
enjoining the good and forbidding the evil. And
this is something that is compulsory
upon every single Muslim,
according to their capacity,
according to their power and authority
and according to Rulullah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
Basically bay'a means that you promise
the companion, idwanullahi al jumayeen, they promised
the Rasul,
the Rasul
they promised the messenger of Allah
to do certain things and to refrain from
certain things.
Because the bay'a includes
both
positive and negative, it includes
the do's and don'ts.
As Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the
Quran,
Oh,
the prophet. Oh, prophet
when the believing women come to you,
in order to give bayah,
And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes the
mention of all the don'ts.
Bayah includes do's and don'ts both. So in
that particular ayah, Allah has made the mention
of all the don'ts.
They
give bay'a and they promise you that they
will never associate partners with Allahuwwala jalalikram.
Walayasirknan,
they will not
steal.
Walayasneena,
they will not commit fornication or zina.
So all
don't, don't, don't.
So the paya includes
not only do's rather don'ts as well. And
this is very important to understand because nowadays
the concept of bayah
has changed with certain people
and particularly
those who claim
to
be connected with the silsila, with the chain
and particularly amongst the Sufis.
They say that we have given the bay'a
to so and so that we'll do this,
this, this, this. But what about don't? There
is no mention of don't at all.
Okay? So it is important
that the bay'a includes both. So companion, Ridwanullahi
wa jamae. You'll find many ahadith of the
companions,
with 1ullahahi ani wjba'een,
who
says that we gave the bay'a to Rasulullah
SAWSAWALAM, we promised the messenger of Allah alaihi
wa sallam that we'll do this, or we
don't do this.
And, when we look at the hadith, different
uhadith of the Prophet
we also come to know that the Prophet
used to take the promise from different companion
in different aspects.
So bay'a is not always on one particular
matter.
So the bay'ah for example, jareed bin Abdullah,
previously we mentioned this hadith. Jareed bin Abdullah
radhiyallahu ta'ala he says that, I gave bay'a
to Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam, I promised
them a senior of Allah alaihi salallahu alaihi
wa sallam on one single
point, which was
Annoosh holy kulli Muslim. That I will remain
sincere to every single Muslim. This was my
promise to my senior of Allah alaihi wa
sallam.
And then he stood by his promise and
he fulfilled his promise.
When we study the seerah of jari'b an
Abdullah, that great company of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, We come to know that
he truly
fulfill his promise that he made to Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So one single matter
only, one single point. It can be more
than one.
So in this particular hadith, Ubada ibn Usamit
says that we,
meaning
not only himself,
rather there were other companions as well. We
the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, we promised the messenger of Allah alaihi
wa sallam.
Promised what? Alasamri
wata,
that we will hear and we will obey.
Meaning anyone who is who has authority
over
us, we have promised them as near of
Allah that we will listen to them, we
will hear them and we will obey them.
And obey them when?
Whenever it suits us,
and disobey them when it does not suit
us? No.
To messenger of Allah that we will listen
and we'll obey
in times of difficulties,
as well as in times of prosperity.
In difficulty
as well as in prosperity,
walmanshati
walmacra,
in times are in time in times of
ease and hardship,
whatever the circumstances
are, we promise that we will listen and
we obey
those who will have authority over us.
And
not only this,
we'll continue
listening and obeying
even if they
discriminate,
even when they discriminate.
When they give others preference over us and
they cause the discrimination,
we'll still continue
listening and obeying
them.
And also,
in addition to this,
And we also made the promise and we
gave the bay'atul Rasulullah
that we'll not dispute
in rule.
In rule, we'll not dispute in rule
with those who have authority over us,
will not cause any
problem.
Except 1 there is one exception.
The Prophet
said,
except that you see and you witness
a clear cut disbelief
and kufr.
So if a Muslim ruler
says something or he does something,
that is clear cut kufr,
clear kufr,
without a doubt.
And the Prophet
also said,
The kufr,
disbelief that is clear
and it is a kind of kufr upon
which you have a clear evidence from Allah.
You have the evidence from the book of
Allah, or from the sunnah and the hadith
of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Then at
that point you don't have to listen to
them, you don't obey them.
And there was another point
upon which we promised the messenger of Allah
and we said, ala
alaannakoolabilhaqq
and this is
the point of his idlaal and this is
the reason because of which Imam An Nabi
rahamalala has quoted this hadith in this chapter.
Hala annakoolabilhaqq.
We promise the messenger of Allah that we
will always utter truth,
We'll always
speak the truth.
Al haqq aina ma kunna, wherever we are,
lana kafuffillahi
will not
face and will not bear any kind of
fear
in the way of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
in order to please Allah Guljalaikram,
we will not have the fear of anyone's
reproach.
So anyone who criticizes us, anyone who blames
us, anyone who calls us with different names,
whatever,
will always utter the truth. And this is
the reason because of which Imam An Nabi
rahamullah has got this hadith in this chapter.
That's
as a Muslim, as a believer, we always
have to stand by the truth and we
must utter the truth.
And we should not have the fear
of the malama,
of
the reproach,
or anyone's criticism.
As Allah says in the Quran,
Or you believed,
if anyone amongst you becomes mortad,
they leave the deen,
they give up the deen of Islam,
the apostate
then they should know, Fasafa yatillahu biqam, Allah
will replace them with another
group of people.
Allah will bring
more new people, your hibum or your hibuna.
That those people will love Allah, and Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala will love them. And their
distinctive quality
would be,
That they will be soft towards the believers,
and they will be harsh on the disbelievers,
and they will not have the fear of
anyone's criticism.
And this is one of the
distinct distinctive qualities
and
the characteristics
of the believer.
Whatever you understand that it is true, you
must speak the truth,
and you will not have the fear of
anyone's
criticism.
The next hadith
is
the
Hadith
of
The likeness
of the one who observes
the boundaries
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has prescribed, the
boundaries of Allah will
come. The one who observes those boundaries and
the one
who transgresses
those boundaries and those limits.
Their likeness is
is like those,
like the that group of people, istahamoo
ala Safina.
Those who casted
a lot
and draw
and they decided to all of them to
get onboard
a ship.
Now basically according to their draw some of
them would be on the
lower deck and some other will be on
the upper deck.
So
these people were divided into 2 groups, some
of them they were on the lower deck
and some others on the upper deck.
Obviously usually those who are on the upper
deck,
they feel themselves that they are higher in
position, in their status,
and they are better.
But
Those who are on the lower decker,
when they need a water,
they went upstairs
and they passed by those who were in
the upper deck,
and they asked them and they said,
we need a water.
You people you have a water,
clean drinking water. If you were to give
us the water,
fine. Otherwise,
we have no option other than
breaking and making some hole
in the lower deck.
So it is up to you.
They say, if you people think that we
are causing any kind of trouble to you,
and we are causing any harm to you
by approaching you and asking you for water,
if you feel that we are disturbing you,
then let us make some hole in the
lower deck.
And in this case, we'll not disturb you.
But what would happen?
The Prophet
said, Those who are in the upper deck,
if they do not stop them from making
hole in the lower deck, what will happen?
They will make the hole and the water
will come into the ship and all of
them, they will be destroyed,
they will drown.
And if they held on their hands and
if they stop them,
those who are on the lower deck they
will be saved and those who are on
the upper deck they will also be
saved. And the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
gave this as an example of this ummah.
This whole ummah of the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam is like a ship.
In the ship you have some people on
the upper deck, and some
on the upper deck, and some others on
the lower deck.
Meaning within the ummah, you have some who
have more knowledge than the others.
Some who have more wisdom than the others.
Some those who have more authority than the
others.
Those who have more knowledge, more wisdom,
more authority, they have bigger responsibility.
They have bigger responsibility
of saving themselves and saving the rest as
well.
If they do not fulfill, if they do
not fulfill their obligation, their responsibility,
they are going to destroy themselves, and they
are going to destroy the whole ship as
well.
Those who have the authority, knowledge, power, if
they do not fulfill their responsibility and their
obligation,
they will be destroying not only themselves, they
will be destroying the whole ummah. That is
why
it is said that
the mistake
of
a knowledgeable person is far greater
than the mistake
of an ordinary person.
For example,
an ordinary Muslim, obviously we all know that
every single Muslim regardless of their knowledge, and
age, and gender, whatever. Every single Muslim has
to establish 5 daily prayers.
Someone
who has sowed the knowledge of the deen
of Allah, for example someone has memorized the
Quran,
someone who understands the hadith of the Prophet
If such person abandons the salah,
his mistake
will be greater than the one who does
not know anything about the Deen of Allah,
they're just only Muslim.
Someone with the knowledge
commits
zina,
steals,
cheats,
lies,
backbites
or does anything wrong,
will be seen far greater
than the one who is in general amongst
the general masses.
So that is why, those who
have more knowledge, those who have more wisdom,
those who have even, those who are
bigger in their age as a Muslims, they
have bigger responsibility,
they have bigger obligations.
So it is very important for every single
Muslim to realize his and her
status within the community, within the society and
they must realize
and must understand their obligations, their responsibilities.
Those who are in authority, for example,
those who are
part of the management of this masjid, if
they do something wrong,
it will impact the whole community,
the whole community.
Whereas one individual,
amongst the general community, general Massage, if he
does something similar
to the other person, it may not be
seen as big.
So that is why
you as a Muslim, as a believer, you
must always
realise your status, your position,
your responsibility,
your obligation
and you must always bear in mind the
rights of others. And you must bear in
mind always,
that if you do something good,
definitely it has bigger impact on others, likewise
if you do something wrong it will have
negative greater impact on others as well.
So this is how Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam explained the situation of this ummah.
The next hadith is the hadith of
who says that the messenger of Allah alaihis
salatu wa salam said,
Soon
you will have some people appointed on you,
some people will be given authority over you,
and you will approve some of them and
you will disapprove some of them.
Whoever dislikes
their evil acts,
their wrong doings,
whoever dislikes them,
For kadbariyyah,
he has freed himself from committing a sin.
Whoever has disliked,
so someone who is an authority.
You can't be as a Muslim, as a
believer, you can't be yes man all the
time. You can't be, you know, whatever your
boss says, yes, yes. No, it does not
befit a believer.
You are a believer. And as I mentioned
in previous lesson and in lesson before, that
Allah
has given you higher status,
as a ummah,
because of, not because of your iman, not
because of your belief.
Because the previous nations, they also had iman,
they also had belief in their heart. Allah
has given you authority over, Allah has given
you higher status
over the previous nations because of amarbil ma'ruf
and nahiya munkah,
that you enjoined the good and you forbid
the evil. And there are various levels
of enjoining the good and forbidding the evils
according to the hadith of Rasulullah
As we mentioned last week, that Rasulullah
said, Whoever sees amongst you any evil, he
tries to stop it with his hand, with
his power, with his authority.
And whoever does not have that authority
and that power, then at least he should
say something by his tongue in order to
stop the evil. And if a person is
so weak in his iman,
and he does not have a courage, he
does not he is not brave enough to
speak the truth, then at least for bikalbi
he must dislike the evil within his heart.
So this is what Rasulullah
said here,
Whoever dislikes the evil or the wrongdoing
of the rulers, or those who are in
authority,
faqadbariya,
he has freed himself from sinning.
And he also woman uncle faqadsalim.
And whoever disapproves,
whoever openly says that this is wrong. That
is wrong.
Okay? This is against the deen of Allah,
this is against the Quran, this is against
the hadith of Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
faqad salallim. He has protected his iman.
And this is higher level.
As we mentioned again previously,
that Rasulullah
said, the weakest
iman is
that you dislike an evil within your heart,
an evil. You dislike an evil within your
heart, and you do not have the courage
to speak up,
or to reject it,
or you do not say anything.
And that is the weakest
level of iman.
And if you do not dislike the evil
within your heart, then
Rasulullah
said
After that,
you must understand that you have
no grain of iman in your heart left.
No iman left in your heart.
Even with weakest iman, with little iman, you
will continue disliking the evil
and you will continue disliking the wrong doing.
So, he alaihi wa sallam said,
Whoever disliked, he has freed himself from sinning.
And
whoever disapproves, and whoever
speaks against it, that he has protected his
iman and Islam.
But, the one
who is pleased with the evil,
the one who is pleased with the wrongdoing.
And now only this, wataba,
and he follows it, he follows.
The one who is in authority,
he does something wrong, and you just simply
accept it, and you follow him.
Then the Prophet
said, This is the very dangerous situation.
This is very dangerous situation. This is something
that affects
someone's iman.
Then the companion with 1ullahi al Mujma'een, they
said, O Messenger of Allah,
if we were to face this kind of
situation, that those who in authority,
the rulers,
they continuously
do something wrong,
then
is it not our responsibility,
our obligation
that we fight against them?
In order to stop the evil?
Shall we not fight against them?
What did the Prophet said?
He said, yes go. Go ahead and fight.
Who's the problem? No, he said, La.
Statement of Rasulullah.
La.
Don't do that.
Don't raise your weapon against the rulers.
Why? Because it can cause bigger problem,
bigger problem.
And this is what we have seen throughout
the history and even recent times.
What happened
in many
amongst the Arab countries,
Recently confused, obviously,
now it has been
nearly a decade.
What happened in Syria,
in other countries,
Algeria, in Tunisia,
in Libya.
As soon as people
stood up, no doubt as I said, what
is wrong, you have to say it is
wrong. What is evil, you have to say
it is evil.
But to
stand against the ruler in a way that
you cause bigger problem and fitna, then it
will destroy the country and this is what,
something that we have seen with our own
eyes and we have experienced.
The Syrian or they have been over 10
years, they are still suffering
from that fitna, from that problem.
But if we as a Muslim, as a
ummah were to accept the advice of the
Prophet
that we continue rejecting the evil,
it does not mean
that,
you know, again as we said, the lowest
or the weakest level of Himan is that
you dislike the evil within your heart. The
person is still mumin,
the person is still within the fold of
Islam.
The problem comes or the danger comes,
when you stop, when you start accepting the
evil
and you start
following
the wrong doers.
So Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam said to
them,
As long as
those in authority they continue establishing or they
allow you to establish your 5 daily prayers,
then you must not raise your weapons against
them.
And in meaning,
according to the hadith of Rasulullah
and many hadith of the Prophet abandoning
the salah completely,
this is a sign of disbelief.
It's a sign of disbelief.
Although we have
difference of opinion amongst the scholars that someone
who abandoned the salah, whether he is within
the fold of Islam, or such person has
left the fold of Islam.
If we were to be fair and just,
and we study
the
text, the classical text, we come to know
that almost all the companions,
and all the Tabi'un,
they were of the opinion that the person
who abandoned the salah, he has left the
fold of Islam.
This was the opinion of the majority,
vast majority you can say, amongst the companions.
In fact the companions used to say, we
would not consider
any
sin
taking the person out of fold of Islam,
except abandoning the salah.
This was the only
obligation
that we consider that if someone abandons it,
then the person has left the fold of
Islam.
And one companion speaks on behalf of the
other, he says, this is what we, companion
of the Prophet used to consider.
Later, majority of the scholars, later on amongst
the mutakil, On behalf of the opinion that
the person who abandoned the salah,
as long as he says, La ilaha illallah
Muhammadur Rasulullah and he believes in Allah's oneness,
and he believes in the Prophet
to be the final messenger of Allah,
Azzawajal,
then the person is still within the fold
of Islam even if he does not
even if he does not pray.
Even the person, if the person does not
pray at home. This is the opinion of
the majority of the scholars later. But in
early generations, amongst the companion of the duanulahi,
mujbaiin and the tabi'un,
vast majority of them they were of the
opinion that the person who abandoned the salah,
even if the person says that I believe
in Allah, I believe in Allah's oneness, I
believe in the Prophet
they used to consider such person to be
out of the fold of Islam.
And this was their
strong attachment
to the salah
and this was due to the fact that
they understood the significance of salah.
Unfortunately,
amongst us, we
do not understand the significance of salah.
Salah in reality,
the prey in reality
is one of the greatest
favors and the blessings of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
Wallahi, this is one of the greatest blessings
of Allah. If a person is blessed
with establishing the 5 daily praise, then it
is a clear sign that Allah
loves the person.
Allah
has given him tawfil,
because establishing
your salah 5 times everyday, it is something
that is not easy.
Anyway,
the
Prophet said, As long as those who in
authority,
they continue establishing the salah, and establishing the
salah
was the clear sign of iman.
And abandoning the salah was seen as clear
sign of disbelief and kufr.
And if you were to study this hadith
along with the previous one, in which the
Prophet said,
the companion Ubada ibn Usamid radiAllahu ta'ala said
that we give the bay'atul Rasulullah salallahu
alaihi wa sallam and we promised him that
we'll continue listening and obeying
until we see a clear cut kufr.
And this hadith the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa
sallam says, you do not fight against them
until they can until they abandon the salah.
So, again this hadith also indicates that abandoning
the salah
completely,
is a sign of disbelief.
So,
again as we are attending this class,
and the whole lecture is about Amr Bil
Ma'ruf and Nahya Mulkar,
every one of us, every one of
us, we should take upon ourselves
that anyone within our circle,
anyone within our household,
anyone amongst our relatives and friends,
who is not regular in their 5 daily
prayers,
go out and warn them,
and advise them,
fulfill your obligation of Amr Bil Ma'ruf and
Nahyal Munkar.
And unfortunately we see, as we have mentioned
many times, that when it comes to the
bigger
affairs and the matters of the ummah, we
are happy to discuss, the rulers do this
and no doubt.
Wallahi,
it is
clear that there is no Muslim ruler in
this age and time
who
implements the ayat of the Quran, the hadith
of Rasulullah
without any exception.
There is no such a ruler,
they do not exist now,
no doubt.
But my dear brother, before you criticize the
rulers,
what about your own household,
your family,
your relatives,
your friends,
you hang around with those who do not
pray.
But when it comes to criticizing the rulers,
you are in the first row.
SubhanAllah.
What kind of iman, and what kind of
what is the level of your iman?
Al amrbul ma'ruf wan nahajarmunkah.
You expect the rulers
to establish Amrbul Ma'ruf and Nahya Monkar, and
establish the salah, and implement the rules of
Allah
What about yourself?
Implement the deen of Allah on your body.
Implement the deen of Allah within your household.
Implement the deen of Allah and try your
best to implement the deen of Allah amongst
your relatives, amongst your friends.
Continue fulfilling your obligation
of Amr Bil ma'ruf and Nahya al Munka.
And if every single Muslim were to understand
their responsibility
and their obligation and their faribah
and wajib
towards Amir Bil Ma'ruf and Nahim Mukher, we
can change the whole ummah.
And we should also bear in mind always,
that the rulers always come
from amongst the ummah,
within the ummah.
And Allah
is not walaam.
Allah
does not oppress anyone.
And it is against
the justice of Allah
that
He appoints
an oppressor ruler
upon those who are very pious.
We know in the history
that Abu
Bakr
rurumr binukhtab,
Uthman, Ali Ridwanullah
Hiljqayin, Khulafaur Rashidun,
they
ruled
according to the deen of Allahu jalalikram
and the people
who lived and the people who were around
them, they were also
fearing Allahuuljarrigram.
They had the taqwa of Allah
And as soon as the problem started,
then again the history, history
proves
that as soon as the problem started amongst
the awam, amongst the amatun nas, amongst the
general masses,
then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala replaced
the just rulers
with oppressors.
And this is a this is a fact
within the history.
So if every one of us if every
one of us we were to
implement the deen of Allah
within our own lifestyle,
then Allah
will bless us
with just rulers.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us tawfiq
and ability.
The next hadith is the hadith of Umul
Mumineen
Zaynab
Bint Jahash
who says,
And then Nabiya sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
that one day the messenger of Allah, the
Prophet of Allah alaihi salatu wa sallam entered
upon her,
while he was in the state of fear.
He entered upon her while he alaihis salatu
wa sallam he was frightened and he was
in the state of fear.
And he said,
And there's another version of the hadith which
is collected by Imam al Bukhay, the Prophet
repeated this three times, La ilaha illallah, wa
iluhlilaaarab.
La ilaha illallah.
Wa iluhlilaaarab.
Woe to the Arab.
Destruction for the Arab.
Why?
Because of an evil
that has drawn very near.
An evil is very near to the Arab,
and they are going to be destroyed.
What happened? He alaihi wa sallam said,
Today
this much opening
and He made the circle with His index
finger and with
His thumb. He says,
this much opening has occurred today in the
barrier
that has been placed before you ajuj and
maajuj.
Meaning that barrier has started opening now. And
greater evil will be, the greater opening,
there will be greater evil.
And obviously when Yajuj al Majuj
will come out, there will be all evil
in this land.
They will cause evil and they will appear
upon evil people.
So
tell me about something.
Is it possible
that we, the Muslims, the believers,
we are destroyed
while we have
some people amongst us who are pious?
While we have pious and righteous amongst us,
are we still going to be destroyed?
The prophet said,
Yes, when wickedness
and evil prevails,
then yes, Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
destroys everyone.
And Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala destroys even those
who are pious and righteous.
Many
days, evil everywhere.
And subhanAllah,
we are living in a time where we
see evil around us.
And very few amongst us, very few amongst
us are those who realize the obligation and
responsibility
of
forbidding evil and enjoining the good.
Not on a greater level, even on a
on a on a smaller scale. As He
said, within our own household,
within,
within the boundaries of
our own
homes,
we see evil
and we keep quiet. We do not try
to stop the evil,
we do not try to enjoin the good
to own, to our own siblings, our own
children,
our own close relatives.
We keep quiet.
And this is something that is very dangerous,
not for the whole ummah, it is dangerous
to your iman as well.
As we'll come to this kind of ahadith,
inshaAllah in the
coming lectures that Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam has warned us
against
this kind of situation. May Allah
protect us from all kinds of evil and
may Allah
give us tawfeeq and ability
to realize our obligation and our responsibility
of Amr Bil Ma'ruf and Nahyan Munkar in
Nahusameyun Karim Mujib.