Zia Sheikh – What is Hayat e Tayyeba
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The speaker discusses the three qualities of the Prophetipping, including satisfaction, blessings, and a boon. They also mention the importance of the word "naha" in the title of the book and the significance of the "naha" in the context of the title. The speaker emphasizes the need for understanding and the importance of the "naha" in the context of the title.
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this Hayatun Tayyiba with Qana'ah.
Qana'ah means satisfaction.
He'll be satisfied with what Allah SWT gives
him.
This is known as Qana'ah.
And the third opinion is also from Ibn
Abbas.
It means Sa'ada, meaning good fortune.
Allah SWT will bless him.
And Hassan al-Mujahid and Qatada RA they
say, La yateebu li ahadin hayatun illa fil
jannah.
What Hayatun Tayyiba means is that he will
get Hayatun Tayyiba in the hereafter, meaning he'll
get paradise.
And Tayyib, this word Tayyib, the only place
that the word Tayyib is justified to be
called is Jannah.
The best place to be called Tayyib is
Jannah, so according to their opinion it refers
to Jannah itself.
And Tahhaq said it means al-rizq al
-halal wal-ibadatu fil dunya.
He says that it means rizq halal and
the fact that he gets the tawfiq to
worship Allah SWT in the dunya, that is
what is meant by Hayatun Tayyiba.
Ibn Kathir RA, he sums everything up and
says the actual correct opinion is that al
-Hayatun Tayyiba tashmulu hatha kulla.
It includes all of these things, all of
these things that the various sahaba and the
tabi'een have had the opinion of, all
of these things are included in Hayatun Tayyiba.
And that is proven by a hadith that
Imam Ahmad narrates from Abdullah ibn Umar that
the Prophet SAW said, Qad aflih man aslam
wal-riziqa kafafan wa qanna'ahu Allah bima
ataah.
That the person who became Muslim, he submitted
himself, he became successful.
He is successful and also he was given
sustenance which was sufficient for him and Allah
SWT gave him qana'ah and satisfaction with
what he gave him.
A person who has these three qualities, he
is the one who has become successful and
this is what Hayatun Tayyiba is referring to
according to Ibn Kathir RA.
So again to summarize, whoever does any good
deed, whether male or female, while in the
state of iman, Allah SWT says, falanuhyiyannahu hayatan
tayyiba.
Most certainly, the wording is very powerful here.
There is taqid, there are two forms of
stress in this word.
The word nuhyiy would be sufficient in this
ayah.
We would give him a good life, but
there is a noon taqid at the end
and a laam taqid at the beginning, lanuhyiyannahu.
That means most certainly we will give him
a hayatan tayyiba, a very good life and
we have already discussed what a good life
is.
Walanajziyannahum ajrahum bi ahsani maa kanu ya'malun and
the ayah goes on to say, most certainly
we will reward him, give him the reward
or recompense him with the reward in a
better way that he used to do.
So the reward that Allah SWT is giving
us for making a small sacrifice in this
world is eternal bliss, eternal paradise, eternal happiness,
never ending.
So obviously ahsani maa kanu ya'malun, it is
much better than what we could have received
in this world.
So as the Prophet SAW mentioned in a
hadith qudsi, a'adattu li'ibadiyassaliheen maa laa
'inun ra'at wa laa'udhunun sami'at
wa laa khatara ala qalbi bashar.
I have prepared for my pious slaves what
no eye has seen, no ear has heard
and no person can even imagine in his
heart what that jannah is actually like.
This is what I have prepared for him
and this is really what jannah is about.
We really don't know what it is like.
We cannot even imagine and the descriptions that
Allah SWT has given us in the Quran
and the sunnah, these are simply just to
give us an idea.
Otherwise, the example that we need to understand
is that if you talk to a baby
that is in a womb, that you are
going to go into this world and in
this world there are going to be cars,
there are going to be aeroplanes, huge buildings,
oceans, rivers, fruit and vegetables and all these
different kinds of things, you are going to
see them in the worldly life once you
come out of this little world that you
are in.
The baby is not going to understand anything.
So this is the case with us.
We are in the womb of this world
and what Allah SWT has prepared for us,
we cannot even imagine and that is what
this hadith is talking about.