August 11, 2012

The Right The Wrong and The Answer

All praise to God the Al-Mighty and the Exalted. Allah created humans and this earth only for one sole reason. And that reason was our beloved Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W).  Allah created the earth for six days and on the seventh he rested marvelling in what he had created. Allah created Adam (A.S) and from his left ribs his wife; Hawa or Eve as many people know her. As we all know the story, Hawa and Adam were told by Allah not to eat from this one tree. Satan, or Iblis or Shaytaan as many people call him had been rebuked from being an angel to being Jinn.  He tricked Eve into eating from that tree as we all know girls can/are easily manipulated at times. Anyways, Allah got angry at both husband and wife and threw them out of heaven and into the world that today we all reside on. They had children who had children who had children and so on forth it went. From those children’s and children’s the Prophet Nuh or Noah was born and he lived a couple of hundred years and then Prophet Ibrahim was born, then his son Prophet Ismail from his wife of that time Hajara or as known in English Hagar. After a few years Prophet Isaac was born from his other wife Sarah. Prophet Isaac had a son whose name was Yakub which in English is Jacob; he then had twelve sons and the eleventh son happened to be Prophet Yusuf or known as Joseph. However, there’s another tragic story that happened with Prophet Yusuf but continuing on somehow leads to Prophet Musa also known as Moses who well he was brought up to believe he was a prince when he wasn’t. The people of all these prophets were known as the Bani Israel. I don’t know if many people know this tribe however, they cause Musa (A.S) some very hard time. They always had to question the yes and the no, this and what. They didn’t have a stop to their questions. They wanted the right, the wrong and the answer. But they would never be satisfied with what they got.
Today’s society seems to have become like Bani Israel... to be honest that is. Everyone wants this question and they want that answer. This isn’t right or that isn’t wrong. It always has to be questioned. Of course I’m not accusing or assuming this about people, just stating a fact that I have seen with my own eyes. Back in school my teacher would call us students Bani Israel because we would love to question her and ask questions that were useless. Also Bani Israel had the tendency to do the opposite of what was told to them and well my class and I would do that, it was quite amusing.

I’d like to touch upon a topic that has been well driving me crazy for the past few days. There are many people who have become scholars and well learned people of Quran and Hadith and the ways of the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W).  Learning this and talking about it is an amazing thing to do. To learn and to leach is the greatest. However, it all depends on who, what, where and how you are learning it from; when, you can learn whenever. The stuff you learn should be authentic; it should be backed up with the proof with Hadith and Quran.  Before the death of our Prophet (S.A.W) he said a Hadith in which it has been narrated to say: “After my death there will come a time when more than 70 different nations of Muslims will be known” it is not the exact narration but Allah forgive me if I have spoken it wrong in any way, ameen. Today if you look around there are many people who have created different groups of Islam and following only what they like. For example; there are people who only follow the Quran and not Hadith and Sunnah. Then there are people who are the opposite, they follow the Hadith but not Quran and Sunnah. And then there are some who follow only the Sunnah and do not believe in the Quran and Hadith. There are other groups out there known as Al-Huda and Isna and I don’t even know for sure how many others there are. But my point here is that you don’t know who is right and who is wrong. You have to believe in Allah, in Muhammad (S.A.W), in the Quran and in Hadith. When hearing something or reading something you should make sure where it is from, is it authentic? Let’s just say that you hear something and its wrong and you spread the word around, you will get a sin for it. However, if you don’t know that it’s wrong it’s up to Allah then but Inshallah Allah is the Most-Forgiving and of course he’d forgive us all. That’s why it is up to you to figure out the Right the Wrong and the Answer. Also, when you hear something or see something you shouldn’t just go telling everyone about it, first find out if it is a reliable source; learning something from a Sheik, Molana or an Aalimah is right, no one would question that but then it depends on who they follow; are they following just Quran? Just Hadith? Just Sunnah? Or all three? Do they believe in everything Allah says or are they questioning it and only believing what they think are easy for them? Because today, I myself with my own eyes have seen people follow one Muslim nation but only accepting and doing the things they find easy for them and the rest... it’s all history.

So the moral of what I just wrote above; Figure out what you hear, see or learn is authentic or not. Who has it said by? A sheik? A Molana? An Aalimah? You should make sure of it and keep close tabs on what is being said. And after you learn that it is reliable you should then practise upon it before preaching it.

May Allah keep us all in His good favour and May He forgive us for all our sins and May he give us all Jannat-ul-firdos. Ameen.

Oh and one last thing, the last ten days of Ramadan are going by, make these last ten days like they are last ten days of your life. In one of these nights will be Laylutal Qadr also known as The Night of Power, it comes on one of the odd nights, one of them has already passed, tonight is the second one. Keep in mind that this night is a very powerful night and Allah comes down from His Throne to rest above the Earth so he can see who is praying for him, who is dedicating themselves to him during the night. He sends out his Angels to gather and record all that is being done.  Read Quran, pray extra salaah and search for the Night of Power. Have a good morning, evening, or afternoon to everyone in the world. Remember me in your duaas and me in return.

Oh and I hope I haven’t offended anyone cuz it was never the case to offend anyone.

The Right the Wrong and the Answer should be learned by everyone, it’s only best.

6 comments:

  1. It's not wrong to ask questions,

    " QUESTION EVERYTHING"

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  2. AssaIamulaikum I was going to let Ira take this comment as it was her post; however, I’m going to have to disagree with you. Ask questions, but only when NECESSARY. The Holy Qur'an 5:101 states: "Believers, ask not questions about things which if made plain to you may cause you trouble when the Qur'an is revealed. Some people before you asked questions, and on that account lost their faith."
    Narrated Al-Mughira bin Shu'ba (RA): The Prophet (SAW) said: And Allah has hated for you vain, useless talk, or that you talk too much about others, to ask too many questions, (in disputed religious matters) and to waste the wealth (by extravagance) ."[Sahih Bukhari: Volume 3, Book 41, Number 591] Muslim also and gives another version: It is reported from Abu Hurayrah that he heard God’s Messenger as saying: Avoid what I forbid you to do and do what I command you to do to the best of your capacity. Surely the people before you went to their doom because they had put too many questions to their prophets and then disagreed about them. For a more specific example: It is reported from Abu Hurayrah: God’s Messenger gave us a sermon, saying, “O people! Hajj has been made obligatory for you, so perform it.” A man asked: “Every year, O Messenger of God.” He kept silent until the man asked him three times. He then said: “Had I said ‘yes’, it would have become obligatory for you and you would not have been do it.” He then added: “Leave me with what I leave you. Surely the people before you went to their doom because they had put too many questions to their prophets and then disagreed about them. So when I command you something, do it to the best of your ability and when I forbid you something, abstain from it.” [Muslim]
    Hope this helped! :)

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  3. actually it didn't helped,

    your answer is out of context. I want your personal, logical explanation for why is it so bad to ask question

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    1. Because if you read the above post the bani Israel would ask questions and question everything where as Allah himself says not to. It's not right. You should only question that; which is needed and not otherwise.

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  4. Yeah, asking pointless questions is just that, Pointless but a question that can't be answered is not pointless, there is a huge difference !

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  5. Dude, I don't think you really understood what this post was actually about. And if you wanna have a hissy fit over something you don't understand I suggest you stop reading this and move on. I was thinking and your question doesn't even make sense. So plz first get your properties straight then leave comments that actually make sense. Jazakallah.

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