Zakaullah Saleem – 61 Riyad asSalihin
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The speaker discusses various scenarios and consequences of hesitation, including the importance of speaking the truth in one's presence, avoiding sinful behavior, and being a good confident person. The evil spread quickly and difficult to spread, and actions and ability to act upon others' actions are crucial for avoiding sinful behavior. The speaker emphasizes the importance of following rules and avoiding sinful behavior, and warns of the consequences of actions and ability to act upon others' actions.
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This is
the 11th hadith of the chapter
Al Amrbul Maroof 1 Nahi yayal Munkar.
The significance and importance
of
enjoining the good and forbidding the evil.
We went through
some ayat of the Quran and some Hadith
of Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam with regards
to this
obligation that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has placed
on the shoulder of every single Muslim.
So today,
InshaAllah, we will be completing this chapter and
we begin today's lesson with the
11th hadith of this chapter that is
rated by
Abu Sayid al Khudari
Who says that the Prophet
said,
the best
form of Jihad
and some and and best form of striving
in the way of Allah,
for the sake of Allah,
is
to say
the
truth
and to say the truthful statement
in the presence of
a tyrant and oppressor ruler.
This is the best form of jihad.
So,
this Hadith is classed as one of
those ahadith of the Prophet
that are seen as Jawami'ul Kalim.
Short and concise statements
that the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam said,
but they contain a large
and
very broad meaning.
The oppressor and tyrant ruler,
saying truthful statements or saying the truth
in the presence of
an oppressor ruler.
So as I was saying, this
hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is
from Jawamir Al Kalim,
from the concise and short statement,
that is one of
the miracles that Rasulullah
was blessed with.
And this
is contrary to
what some people do in the presence of
the rulers
Or in reality,
majority of the people,
they
don't speak truth
in the presence of the ruler,
or
not particularly ruler even in the presence of
someone who has authority over them,
or someone
who has authority in any form or shape.
People
don't tend to say truth
in their presence
rather what happens,
people
say whatever the ruler
wants to hear
And unfortunately,
it becomes
one of the evilest
deeds or the actions
when
someone who is known as a person of
knowledge,
says what the ruler wants to hear
and they do not speak the truth.
Sorry, we need to switch off the speaker
in one of the areas.
So as saying the truth in the presence
of oppressor
ruler is
the best form of jihad
and striving in the way of Allah
striving for the sake of Allah
On the other hand, the evilest of the
deeds is
to say
something evil
and to,
and to present it as part of the
religion, unfortunately,
in the presence of an oppressor ruler.
Someone, a ruler,
who is unjust,
who is
not acting justly
amongst his people
and
and they find someone
who
promotes them and someone who backs them and
supports them
and it becomes even evil,
it
becomes
worst form of the evil,
when he is spotted by those
who are expected to advise him.
And unfortunately,
this is the situation
of
the rulers throughout the world,
And this is a situation
of the ruler this has been the situation
of the rulers
in most of the times in the history.
That is why, Shakhnu Uthayim
He said,
There are 4 scenarios when it comes to
the
tyrant and oppressor rulers.
The first one is
that
when it comes to the rulers,
you say the ruler itself, the ruler,
the ruler or the or the Hakim himself
is a just ruler.
And it is very easy to say
the truth in his presence because he himself
is a pious ruler, he is a just
ruler.
To say something
that is true in his presence,
it is one of the easiest thing that
you can do.
The second scenario is
that you say truth,
sorry, completely opposite.
You say
something evil
but
you present it in the form of good,
in the presence of
an unjust ruler.
The ruler himself
is walib,
he is tyrant, he is oppressor
and he needs to be advised,
he needs to be advised to prevent and
to stop and abstain and refrain from
acting unjustly.
But unfortunately you find people around him
who
support him
and
they try to justify his will and his
oppression,
and this is
the worst type of
the acts or worst type of evil.
And the third scenario is the Kalima to
Haqqani in the sultan in jayr.
That you say the truth
in the prince of the oppressor ruler.
That is why this is
the best of the form of jihad as
Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wasallam said. And this hadith also
confirms
that the jihad is not always
by using the weapon or something like that,
rather
the the word jihad means striving, and
striving and struggle for the sake of Allah
Allah says in the Quran in Surah Al
Furqan,
Do not obey the disbelievers,
rather
strive against them, have struggle against them
through
this Quran, jihad and kabirah and this is
the biggest struggle.
This is the biggest struggle.
So the jihad has a different forms
and according to this hadith of Rasulullah
the best type of jihad is that you
speak the truth.
Specially when you know that people around you,
they are oppressors
and they are acting unjustly
and particularly the ruler who is acting unjustly,
so you speak the truth in his presence.
And this hadith also
teaches us the lesson of the importance
of Amr Bil Ma'ruf and Nahya al Munkar.
That in joining the good and forbidding the
evil is one of the greatest
obligations that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has obeyed
his ummah with.
The next hadith is the hadith of
Abu Abdullah
who
says,
that a person, a man came to the
prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, and he asked
them, and he said, Ayul jihadi afghbal, a
similar hadith. He said, Ayul jihadi afghbal, what
type of jihad is the best jihad?
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
replied with this hadith, kalima tu haqin in
the sultan in jayr.
The best form
of jihad is that you say truth in
the presence of,
in the presence of an oppressor and tyrant
ruler.
The following hadith is the hadith that is
reported by Sayyidun Abdullah ibn Surud radiAllahu ta'ala
who
says,
The messenger of Allah said,
said,
The very first defect or problem that entered
into Bani Israel,
the very first
defect or the problem
that occurred
again, uh-uh,
amongst Banu Israel was,
That person would meet another person,
the second person who would commit a sin,
and the other person
who
was saved from committing sin, he would approach
him and he would say to him,
oh so and so.
Fear
Allah and abstain
and stop from
what you are
doing.
This is something that is not halal for
you. This is haram.
But what happened after that,
Then this person would meet the other person
next day, and he would find him committing
the same mistake,
the same sin.
But the second day,
the person would not advise him, and he
would not say anything to him. Rather
he would accept his sin
and he would become friend with him and
And next day he would become
his friend, so he would sit with him,
he would drink with him, he would eat
with him, and he would not have
any kind of shame, and he would not
have any courage to prevent him or to
even advise him to stop committing sins.
And when this practice
became
common amongst Bani Israel,
what happened?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
made the change, Allah
changed the hearts of those who used to
advise initially, and Allah
turned
their heart similar
to the hearts of
the sinners.
That their heart became
the same.
So as the sinner
would not have any kind of shame when
committing sin,
likewise
those who would see the sinners committing sin,
they would not feel any shame.
So Allah subhan'ala, this was the punishment of
Allah
upon them. And then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam recited
the ayat of Suratul Maidah in which Allah
says,
Those who disbelieved
from amongst Bani Israel,
they have been cursed
by the tongue of Sayyidun Dawood alaihis salam
and Isa ibli Maryam. Particularly
by these 2 prophets,
Because these 2 prophets, they saw great evils,
and especially, particularly,
the evil amongst the Bani Israel, that they
would see one another committing sin, and they
would not advise anyone, and they would not
try to prevent the sinners from committing sins.
So Allah says in the Quran,
Those who disbelieved amongst the Bani Israel
have been
cursed by the tongue of Sayyidun
and this was the curse of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala upon them was
because of their,
this was because of their disobedience,
they disobeyed Allah, they disobeyed the messenger of
Allah alayhis salatu wa salam. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
had ordered them
to
advise people not to commit sin and whenever
you see someone committing a sin, you must
go ahead and you must try your best
to stop them from committing sin or advise
them from, and advise them to abstain and
refrain from committing sin. But they disobeyed Allah.
They did not obey Allah
They disobeyed Allah
and they
used to cross the boundaries
and they transgressed.
Then Allah
makes the mention of their disobedience. Allah did
not say that they abandoned the salah,
or they did not give zakah,
or they did not Allah did not mention
any of their
sins apart from one sin,
which
is They would not stop one another
from committing sins,
that they all, the whole community
would get involved in committing sin and no
one would be amongst them to stop them.
In another ayah, Allah
says, that the situation became so bad to
the extent,
that there were some people who initially tried
to stop them and then they, they also
stopped,
they also stopped
from preventing people, or advising people
from abstaining and refraining from committing sins.
And then amongst them
were those
who
continued,
they continued,
with their duties.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has made the
mention of these three types of people in
Surah al Araf.
They were first type of people who used
to commit sins.
The second type of people
who did not commit sin,
rather initially they tried to stop the sinners
from committing sins,
but later
they gave up
and they kept quiet.
And they said, we can't do anything. We
have advised them. But they are continuing committing
sins, so let them commit. Let them carry
on with their evil acts. So these were
the second type of people who kept quiet.
They themselves did not commit a sin, rather
they kept quiet. And 3rd type of people
were
those who continued advising them. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala has made the mention of all these
3. And then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
has made the mention of
the punishment
of Allah
Those who were
struck with the punishment of Allah
Allah
says
Amongst them there were a group of people
who used to say,
they used to say to those who would
advise the sinners
and they would try to stop the sinners
from committing sins.
And these people
who had stopped
giving advice,
they would approach
the advisors and they would say,
why why are you taking these many, why
are you making these efforts
and exerting yourself day and night? Why are
you advising
these sinners,
Because these are the sinners and we know
that Allah, Allah
is going to destroy them. Allah is going
to punish them because they are the sinners.
So you don't need to waste your time
with them, in other words.
Why are you advising these people? They are
going to be destroyed anyway.
And these advisors, these pious people, they replied,
they said,
There are two reasons.
Two reasons that we never give up,
rather we continue advising them. We continue
enjoining them good and forbidding them from evil.
There are two reasons. 1 is, the first
one,
So that on the day of judgement we
can present our excuse before Allah.
So this is excuse, O Allah, O our
Lord, we carried out our duty.
We try to fulfill our obligation.
So we did not neglect our obligation.
Rather we tried our best to convey your
message and we tried our best to enjoin
the good and forbid the evil. And secondly,
You never know that they perhaps
fear Allah. You never know that Allah changes
their heart and they may accept the advice.
And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in
the following ayah.
When Allah's
punishment
struck them,
what happened? Allah says,
we saved only those who used to forbid
the evil.
They were the ones who were saved from
the punishment of Allah.
Which means what? That those who committed sin,
they were punished by Allah as
well as those who gave up.
Those who did not advise them,
those who did not try to stop the
sinners from committing sins.
That is why Allah says in this ayat,
in this ayat of Surah Al Maidah,
that Banu Israel, those who disbelieved amongst Banu
Israel, they were cursed by the tongue of
Dawud
and Isa ibn Maryam
because of this,
and this was because of their disobedience
to Allah and his messengers
and the biggest
disobedience that Allah mentioned, this ayah is
They would not
stop one another from committing sin. They would
not forbid one another from committing sins. Rather,
they would all got involved in committing sin.
And unfortunately,
this is a reality and this is a
fact.
If you see a sinner committing a sin,
if you do not try to stop them
or forbid them, what happen next day, you
will see another person committing the same sin.
Then the third one, then the 4th one.
And,
and and and evil
spreads
very easily
and it is easy to spread the evil
and it is far easy,
far easier than
spreading good.
Bringing people towards good is very difficult.
As for spreading evil, it is very easy.
So evil spreads very easily.
So if you do not try to stop
the evil in first place,
at first instance then what happen? That it
continues spreading. And unfortunately this is what we
see everywhere,
everywhere.
On international level, on national level, on local
level, in our community level, and here just
go outside the street.
Go on the streets.
For example, we mentioned in few weeks ago,
probably last week I mentioned
that you know, when you go, when you
walk on the streets of small Heath and
this area, you see the rubbish everywhere.
How this all rubbish started on our streets?
Because one person threw the rubbish,
Next person, no one stopped him. Next day,
second person came and he threw the rubbish.
Then the third one, then the 4th one.
Now the whole community,
now it's used to have this rubbish on
the street, on the pathways, on the pavements.
This is how the evil
spreads. Likewise,
the drugs
Drugs everywhere!
Openly everyone sees the drug dealers on our
streets.
No one has the courage to stop them.
And unfortunately,
even the parents.
The parents
of those youth and youngsters
who are involved,
the parents know that their children are involved
in the drugs,
but they do not stop them.
They do not stop them. And when they
do not stop, they ruin their lives and
they ruin the life of other children as
well, other youth as well. And this is
how the evil spreads.
And this is the reality and this is
the fact with regards to every single evil.
Allah says,
what an evil
what they have done. So evil is what
they have done.
You will see most of them,
they will try to become friend with those
who have disbelieved.
This is so evil, so bad
that they
and and and it is so evil that
they have,
they have sent forth
for them for their next life, what is
evil and what is bad, and
and in result of this, Allah
has
sent
his wrath and his ghadab and his anger
upon them
And in the punishment of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, they will remain forever
because of this evil.
That is why Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
used
to encourage his companions, his one Ullahi and
Jjma'een,
not to ignore the evil. Whenever you see
an evil or a sin being committed in
your presence, try to stop it. And then
after after making a mention of the situation
of Bani Israel,
and how they were afflicted by the punishment
of Allah
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam then said,
By Allah,
you people, my followers, the believers, the Muslims,
the ummah of Muhammad
all of you, you must continue in joining
the good.
And you
must continue forbidding the evil.
And you must catch hold of the hand
of the oppressor.
Wherever you see
the oppressor oppressing whether it is a ruler
or other than ruler.
You try to stop him from committing
sin and from committing his oppression.
You must continue doing that.
And you must
force him
to act justly.
And you must force him to stick to
truth.
Otherwise what happens?
Otherwise,
Allah
will make your heart similar to the hearts
of the sinners
and the hearts of the oppressors, so you
will have no feeling against the oppression.
You will see the oppression
and you will not removed
and it will not affect your heart.
And then what happen,
eventually
Allah will curse you as Allah cursed by
the Israel.
Severe punishment.
Every single one of us, within our capacity,
we need to look at our situation.
We need to ask ourselves to what extent
we are fulfilling this duty.
As we mentioned repeatedly,
amar bil ma'ruf and nahyanmunkar.
In joining the good and forbidding the evil
is an obligation
of every single Muslim, every single Muslim,
every single Muslim.
Because we are all part of the ummah
and Allah has raised the status and the
rank of this ummah just because of this,
because of this good deed. Al amrubilmaroof
wannaha yawani mulkar.
And this is, this hadith is collected by
Imam Abu Dawood
and these
are the wording of the narration
collected by Imam Abu Dawood
As for
the other narration that is collected by Imam
Thirmidhi
The narration says that the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam said
When Bani Israel,
they
fell into
committing sins and disobedience
and evil acts.
The the scholars,
the people of knowledge initially,
they try to stop them from committing sins.
But those people, they did not listen to
the scholars. They did not listen, they did
not accept the advice
of the knowledgeable people. Then what happened? These
these
scholars, the people of knowledge, they kept quiet,
they gave up.
And then eventually,
they started
And these people, these ulama, these scholars, they
became like them. And they started
sitting with them, eating with them, drinking with
them, and having their conversation with them, you
know, very comfortably and without feeling, without having
any feeling against the evil of the sins.
Then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
changed the heart of these scholars, these ulama
and Allah changed their hearts and their hearts
became the hearts of like the hearts of
the sinners.
And then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
recited this ayat,
So this hadith shows that those who have
been blessed with the knowledge of the deen
of Allah
their duty
and their obligation is even greater.
They have big duty and big responsibility.
That is why an alim, a person of
knowledge, has a duty
to say and speak the truth always. Whatever
he has learned from the Quran and sunnah
of the of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, he must say the truth. And he
cannot hide the truth and he cannot give
up because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has chosen
him and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has selected
him to be the heir of the Prophet
alaihis salatu wa sallam. As Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam said,
The ulama, the people of knowledge, they are
the ears of the of the anbiya and
the Prophets.
So, as the anbiya, they carried out their
duties,
likewise the ulama, they have to carry out
their duties.
The next chapter
is the similar chapter,
and
as usual, Imam has
started his chapter by quoting certain verses from
the Quran, from the from the book of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And this is chapter
This is the chapter is about the punishment
about the punishment
of someone who enjoins a good
or forbids from the evil,
but he himself
does contrary.
He enjoins the good, but he himself does
not do good.
He forbids the he forbids our others from
evil, from committing sins, but he himself falls
into sins,
and the punishment of such person.
So, before quoting a hadith of the Prophet
in this chapter, Imam An Nabi has
quoted some ayaat. The first one
is the ayah of Surat Al Baqarah in
which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says about Bani
Israel. Allah says
You people,
you
order and advise others
to perform good deeds
and you forget your own selves.
You advise others to do this good, this
good, this good,
but you forget yourself
while you people read the book and you
recite the book. You recite the ayat of
the Quran,
instead of being exemplary
and the role model for the community for
others, you forget yourself.
Do you people
have
no
no
sense?
How how can you do this that you
enjoin others to do good and you yourself,
you do not do good rather
you do something contrary.
In another ayah, in Suratul Saffal
or you believed.
Why do you say? Why do you advise
people? What you yourself do not do?
This is really
hateful
in the sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that you say something that you do not
do yourself.
You advise
others to do something good, but you yourself,
you do not do it.
And in other ayah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says in Suratuhud,
regarding Sayyidun Ashu ayb alaihi salam.
That
he said to his people,
I do not want
to do something
in contradiction
of what
I advise you. I do not want to
do something
that I myself
has forbidden you from it.
Something a sin or an evil act that
I myself have
have forbidden you from, how can
I do myself? How can myself do it?
So I cannot do that because Shoaib alaihis
salah was the prophet of Allah,
he was prophet of Allah,
then the prophet, then Imam Nabi Ramallah quoted
the hadith of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in
this chapter. Only one Hadith.
And the Hadith is,
rated by,
Usama
On the day of judgment,
a man will be brought
before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the plans
of the whole
creation of Allah
Fayul kaafinar
and he will be thrown into the fire.
In front of the whole creation of Allah,
waljalalikram, he will be thrown into the fire
and people will see him, people will witness
him.
And the intestines
are from inside of his belly will come
out
and he will start
He will start
walking around his own intestines
that have come out of his belly, and
he will be walking around his intestines
as the donkey goes around
the, you know, he goes around the
what's called the millstone.
Then at that point,
all the people of fire will gather around
him and they will say,
Yeah fulan, Malik, or so and so. What
happened to you?
Were you not so and so who used
to enjoin the good and forbid the evil?
What happened to you? We thought that you
were so pious and righteous.
He would say, yes.
It is true.
I used to enjoying the good.
I used to enjoying the good but I
myself would not do it.
And I used to forbid from evil but
I myself
and ability
to carry out the duty of Amr Bilmarouf
and Nahim Munkar in 1st place,
and then in addition to that we Allah
we ask Allah
that he
gives us and ability to act upon whatever
we advise others
to act upon. And may
Allah give us tawfiq and ability to refrain
and abstain
from those sins that we try to forbid
others
from committing those sins. And this can happen
only by the tawfiq of Allah.
No one has the ability to abstain from
committing sin and no one has any power
to do any good deed except by the
tawfiq of Allah
May Allah
give us ability.