بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين ومن تبعهم بخير إلى يوم الدين و بعد
Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatullah Wabarakaatuh.
Honored brothers and sisters in the Din. You’re welcome to this mornings session of the Halqah where we shall continue with our Class on the Commentary of the book Safwatu Az-Zubad
Alhamdulillah.
We stopped where the Imam said :
فدونك الصلاح أو فسادا … أو سخطاً أو تقريباً أو إبعادا
“Thus presented before you for your choice is Rectitude and Destruction
Or Wrath or closeness or distance (from Allah) ”
And we explained it.
Then he said, rahimahullah:
وزن بحكم الشرع كل خاطر … فإن يكن مأموره فبادر
“Evaluate all that crosses your mind with the Scale of the Shar’iah;
If it is a Commandment of Allah, then hasten to it”
The Imam here has moved to another topic which is what is known as Khaatir (The things that cross the mind or the dictations of the Mind). So whenever your mind dictates to you to do something, it is obligatory upon you to weigh those thoughts or contemplation firstly with the Hukm of Islam, the Scale of the Shar’iah.
It is the things that occur to the mind to do or not to do even without initially intending to do it beforehand.
For that reason he said, if it is found to be one that complies with the Commands of Allah, then hasten to its execution and don’t waste time. This is because there are several hindrances that can come in between you and the execution of that good deed. That’s why you must execute it immediately.
Of the hindrances that can come in between a Servant and the execution of any of these good deeds is forgetfulness, distractions with the other preoccupations of the Dunya, inability and incapacitations like ill health, death, Fitnah, etc.
And in the Hadith that was recorded by Imam Muslim from Abu Hurayrah radiyallahu anhu the Rasul salallahu alayhi wasallam said:
بَادِرُوا بِالأَعْمَالِ فِتَنا كَقِطَعِ اللَّيْلِ الْمُظْلِمِ. يُصْبِحُ الرَّجُلُ فِيْهَا مُؤْمِناً وَيُمْسِي كَافِراً. أَوْ يُمْسِي مُؤْمِناً وَيُصْبِحُ كَافِراً. يَبِيعُ دِينَهُ بِعَرَضٍ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا
“Be prompt and hasten in doing good deeds (before you are overtaken) by turbulence which would be like a part of the dark night. A man would be a believer in the morning and turn to disbelief in the evening, or he would be a believer in the evening and turn disbeliever in the morning, and would sell his Faith for worldly goods.”
Here the Rasul salallahu alayhi wasallam encouraged us to not waste the period of our abilities awaiting the later years of our lives when we may be incapacitated by Fitnah and the turbulence of this world from the doing of good deeds.
In his Commentary on Sahih Muslim, Imam An-Nawawi rahimahullah said:
“The Implication of the Hadith is to encourage the doing of good deeds and speeding to it before inability to do it sets in and becoming preoccupied with other things away from it of what happens of preoccupying and encompassing Fitnah… ”
The Hadith is also proof that the one who preoccupies himself with the doing of good deeds will be saved from Fitnah. We ask Allah to save us from it, amin.
And in the Hadith that was recorded by Haakim An-Naysaaburi from Abdullah bn ‘Abbas,radiyallahu anhuma the Rasul salallahu alayhi wasallam said:
اغْتَنِمْ خَمْسًا قَبْلَ خَمْسٍ: شَبَابَكَ قَبْلَ هِرَمِكَ، وَصِحَّتَكَ قَبْلَ سَقَمِكَ، وَغِنَاءَكَ قَبْلَ فَقْرِكَ، وَفَرَاغَكَ قَبْلَ شُغْلِكَ، وَحَيَاتَكَ قَبْلَ مَوْتِكَ
“Make good use of five things before five : your youthfulness before your old age, your healthiness before your illness, your wealth before your poverty, your free time before you become preoccupied, and your life before your death overtakes you”
May Allah make us of those that hasten to the doing of good deeds and forgive us our sins a forgiveness that leaves behind no blemish… Amin.
Barakallahu fikum
Jazakumullahu Khayran
We shall pause here for the week
سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك اشهد ان لا اله الا الله أستغفرك وأتوب إليك
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
