The importance of practicing the sunnah of prophet sw.(part-2)

From last week we are talking the importance of suannah of the prophet sw. Today, the time of Fitnah there is no way but to hold the sunnah of prophet sw. we can save ourselves from this period of fitnah by practicing the sunnah of prophet sw. there are some saying that the muslim ummah are not advance they are still backwards. It’s because of our lack of knowledge in technology/ in modern science/in modern education and this is why muslims /every muslim country’s are under trouble in all over the world.

But,we think they are not our main reasons. the main reason are we are not following our own guide books. We are far away from the Quran and hadiths. We are not following the sunnah of prophet sw. this is the one of the most important/ the biggest reason we are still backwards instead of dominating the world with the knowledge of islam. So, there is no way but, to following the guidance of Quran and sunnah.

And also, There are lots of Benefits of the practicing sunnah of the prophet sw.
1. Practicing sunnah it encourages people to practice the fard /the compulsory Ibadah.
 It’s make people to be careful about the fard. Also, to being a true believers the sunnah is the only way. 8:1 “and obey Allah and His Noble Messenger, if you have faith."
this verse telling if you don’t follow you won’t be a true believer. If we say in negative way For example the drug addicted people their addiction start from the minor drug like cigarette, shisha etc. And finally, they turn into regular major drug takers like stimulants, coca/cocaine, cannabis, hallucinogens, etc.
So if you practice the sunnah of prophet sw. the main benefit is you won’t miss any fard Ibadah. This is very true.

2. They will compensate for the incomplete fard on the day of judgement.

like someone didn’t do ruku’ and sojood properly. There is a hadith prophet sw saying.. narrated by abu hurairah “i heard from prophet sw. he said on the day of judgement First, Allah swt. will ask about the prayers from a person’s deeds/ actions. If he pass this he will be succeed and will have najat from the hell and if he doesn’t pass he won’t be succed but, a loser.

In that time if any fard deeds remain incomplete then Allah swt. will say look at his sunnah, nawafil or optional good things if he has any like that then make them for make up for that incomplete fard” (tirmizi)
so, this is not wise at all to avoid the sunnah nor ignoring sunnah the of prophet sw.

Dear brothers! There are lots of sunnah what some we know but, not aware of them and some we even don’t know yet which prophet sw. used to practice most of the time.

In sha Allah, we will continue this topic in next week on some most important sunnah of prophet sw.

Today, just we will touch on one of the most important sunnah  which is about the prayers.
There are two type of prayers: FARD and wajib,sunnah,nawafils. All The fard prayers should be performed in the mosque. Its wajib to pray with jama’ah. prophet sw. Saying. “The prayer with jama’ah its 27 fold more rewards then the prayer without jama’ah”
In another hadit narreted by anas RA. ”whoever will pray 40days continuously with takbire ula; Allah swt. Will take awy two things from him: 1.Allah swt. Will save him from hypocricy 2.save him from the jahannam”

But the The sunnah we are talking about praying all the sunnah, nawafils in the house not in the mosque. This is sunnah of prophet sw. what prophet sw. saying in a hadith narrated by zaid ibn sabit ra. Prophet sw said “o people pray in your house because, the best prayer are those which performed in the house except the fard prayers.(Bukhari and muslim)
and also, in another hadith narrated by Abdullah ibn umar he said “Pray some of your salah in the house and do not  make your house grave” (bukhari and muslim)

These hadiths are making it very clear that the best practice is all the nawafil, sunnah prayers should be performed in the house.

Now the question is Why the prophet sw. telling us the sunnah and nawafil are best to pray in the house?

There are two reason behind it:
1^st there is no chance to get influenced by shytan to make us think showing off. And the showing off its a shirk.and the shirk will be rejected. Allah swt. doesn’t accept any Ibadah associated with the shirk or Riah.

2. Its a great chance To get closer to Allah swt. Prophet sw. saying in every last night Allah swt. Comes to the earth and he call to people o you who are calling me i’ll response your call, o you who are seeking help i will help you, o you who seeking forgiveness i will forgive you”

Here another sunnah is the tahajjud prayer.
But, how many of us practice the tahajjud? How many times we did the tahjjud prayer in our entire life?

One of the significant part of the prophet’s life spent in the tahajjud prayers. What he saying about the merit of the tahajjud narrated by abu hurairah ra. He said “after the fard prayers the best prayer is the late night prayers” (Muslim, ahmad)

there are two more sunnah:

1.When we come to mosque before sitting we should pray two raka’at sunnah prayer.

 

   2.Making the lines straighten in jama'a prayers. 

Dear brothers! We should hold firmly the sunnah of prophet sw. the way he showed  us. I would like to conclude this topic here by saying one of the great verse of the holy Qur’an 3:31 “(O Messenger!) Tell people: 'If you indeed love Allah, follow me, and Allah will love you and will forgive you your sins. Allah is All-Forgiving, All-Compassionate”

So, As we all want to have pleasure of Allah swt. and also, all we want to be forgiven of all our misdeeds.

May Allah swt. give us tawfiq to have the love of Allah swt. by practicing the sunnah of prophet sw. in our daily life. May Allah swt. grant us a place in jannah. May Allah give us ability to come forward to learn the true teaching of Qur’an and sunnah. Amen!