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Anas ibn Maalik (may Allaah be pleased with him) said:
The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
“When Allaah wills good for His slave, He uses him.” They said, “How does He use him?” He said, “He guides him to do good deeds before he dies.”
Narrated by Imam Ahmad, 11625; al-Tirmidhi, 2142; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in al-Silsilah al-Saheehah, 1334.
Hifdh Motivation for weaklings like me!!!
Memorizing the Qur’an is a win-win situation for a Muslim attempting it.
● If he is gifted with a powerful memory he is lucky and fortunate to complete the memorization early.
●If he has a weak memory and let’s say, has to struggle for a week for 1 line (not Ayah) of a page of the Mus’haf,in this case he is amply and enormously rewarded for repeating the very line again and again and again .And this latter one,the sttruggler&striver, will In’sha’Allah gain copiusly more amounts of Hasanaat by the time he concludes with the 30 Ajza (30 Juzzs).
-Abu Muaaz Mohammed Manna
When Tawheed is entrenched in the heart…
One day as I was travelling with my friend in his car,with his son who was hardly 4 or 5 years old.
This friend of mine who was encouraging his son to complete the Hifdh of The Quran said,
“Son, if you complete memorizing The Quran I will gift you a real big car!”
His son replied, “I will do ابي but I don’t want you to gift me the car!”.
My friend was perplexed and asked, “Why? You love cars right!?”
The kid’s reply was amazing, “Dad, I’ll only ask Allah for the car”.
We were shocked at The Tawkkul of the boy and were almost in tears.
The poet Muhammad Iqbal said:
Tawheed ki Amanat seeno mein hai hamare… Asaan nahi mitana naamon nishan hamara…
(The treasure of Tawheed is in our heart, it is not easy to wipe out our existence).
-Abu Muaaz Mohammed Manna
Allah used a lowly creature , a dog, to convert 40,000 Mongols to Islam.
In the year 1258 (675 A.H.), there lived a tyrant Mongolian leader by the name of Hulagu Khan (Halaku),who invaded Baghdad and killed thousands of Muslims.This paved the way for Christian missionaries to preach Christianity and convert Muslims openly. Hulagu himself was married to a Christian woman.
One day, a delegation of the most notable Christians headed for Baghdad to attend a grand party to celebrate the conversion of a key Mongolian leader to Christianity. The Mongolian leader had his favourite hunting dog on a leash nearby.
One of the Christians then began congratulating the Mongolian leader on his wise decision and then proceeded to revile the blessed character of our Beloved Rasool (ﷺ).
[Supposedly in order to discourage them from accepting Islam]
The dog started acting violently and jumped on the Christian, scratching him badly. It took several men to make the dog let go of the Christian. One of the attendees turned to the Christian and said, “The dog did this because of what you said about
Muhammad (ﷺ).”
The Christian brushed aside the man’s comment and arrogantly said, “No, that was not the reason for the dog’s reaction. When I was speaking, I pointed with my hand and the dog thought that I was going to hit him.”
The Christian appeared unmoved by the incident and continued to insult the Holy Prophet(ﷺ). At that time the dog, in such a rage, cut itself loose, jumped on the Christian and sank its molars in the man’s neck. It snatched his throat out and the man died immediately.
This incident caused 40,000 Mongolians who were present there to embrace Islam.
(Ad-Durar Al-Kaminah,Vol.2,pg.202 [Not translated by me.])
Imam Adh-Dhahabi, Mujam Ash-Shuyookh (387).
Compiled: Abu Muaaz Mohammed Manna.
Is it obligatory to love the Muslim leaders or just obey them and not revolt against them?
The prohibition of revolting against Muslim rulers has been mentioned in many Ahadith. Similarly, there are many statements from the Imams of the Salaf, like Ahmed ibn Hanbal, and others to the same effect.
But nowhere in the Hadith corpus, or in the statements of the Imams of the Salaf do I find that it incumbent upon Muslims like or love their rulers.
In fact, the Ahaadith which prohibit rebellion against rulers point to the fact that the people will not liking their rulers, otherwise they wouldn’t have thought of rebelling against their rulers, would they?
In several narrations there is a mention of:
أَثَرة
i.e. rulers who will take up wealth for themselves and/or their relatives and not give the subjects their share.
The Ahaadith command us to be patient in such times; not that we should like or love them anyways.
In another Hadith, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ mentioned that the worst of rulers would be those whom you would despise and they would despise you. He was asked, shouldn’t we fight against such rulers with our swords? He replied: No, as long as they establish prayer. [Sahih Muslim]
In this Hadith, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ didn’t forbid despising the rulers, he forbade against rebelling against them.
Some people think that in order to prevent people from rebellion we should try and make them love the rulers, and to this end they praise the rulers day-in and day-out, and pretend that people have no genuine grievances against their rulers This can be very counter-productive. People consider such people as sellouts, and thus they increase in their hatred for rulers and their desire to rebel against them.
Instead one should address the people saying, we understand your grievances and we know about the corruption and oppression, but such rulers were prophesied by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he asked us to be patient and not rebel against them. He asked us to hate their corruption but remain patient and not rebel.
Moreover this constant praise goes against the way of the Imams of the Salaf, despite the fact that the rulers in their time were much better than the rulers today.
To the contrary, it has been reported from the great ascetic and renowned scholar of his time Fudhail ibn ‘Iyaadh (d. 187) that he said about Haroon al-Rashid:
ما على ظهر الأرض أبغض إلي من هارون ولا أحد أحب إلي بقاء منه، لو قيل انتقص من عمرك ويزاد في عمره لفعلت، ولو خيرت بين موته أو موت هذا (يريد ابنه أبا عبيدة) , وإنى لأحبه (يعني أبا عبيدة) قال: وأحبه لأنه جاءني على الكبر= لاخترت موت هذا. فسبحان الذي جمع بين هاتين الخصلتين في قلبي
“There is no one on this earth whom I *despise* more than Haroon, but despite that there is no one for whom I wish a long life except him. If it was said to me, you can subtract years from your life and add it to his, I would do it. If I was given the choice between the death of my son whom I love very much, and the death of Haroon, I would prefer my son’s death over his. Glory be to Allah who has combined together these two (opposing) feelings in my heart!”
[Hilyat al-Awlia 8/104-105]
The narrator who heard this, as well as Imam Ahmed (as narrated by Al-Khallal in “Al-Sunnah” 1/31), explained that Fudhail wished for Haroon’s longevity because he feared that the one who would come after him would be much worse. And that is exactly what happened, Haroon was succeeded by Mamoon who started the Fitnah of Khalq al-Qur’an.
To summarize, Allah has not made it incumbent upon us, nor was it the practice of the Salaf, to constantly praise the rulers, or justify each and every one of their actions and words.
-Via Ustadh Nabeel Nisar Sheikh (Pupil of Shaikh Uzair Shams Rahimahullah) on Facebook.
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