Friday, 27 December 2013

The importance of the practicing sunnah of prophet sw.(part-3)


From the week before last we are talking the importance of the practicing sunnah of prophet sw.
Insha Allah Today, we will continue this topic and we will discuss about some sunnahs and the opposite of the sunnah which is bida’ah.
Dear brothers!
Islam is not an ideology like a person’s theology or it’s not about following someone. Islam it’s a path of Allah, a way to have a better and peaceful life after the death. Without Islam there is no way to avoid the hellfire even if someone does good deeds on this earth and this is why we should practice exactly the way Allah swt. And his messenger showed us. If someone did any Ibadah which is performed not according the sunnah of prophet sw. it will be rejected. This is very important that our Ibadah it has to be the way our beloved prophet sw. told us to do. He saying in a hadith narrated by anas ibn malik RA. “Whoever will show his dislike to my sunnah or will follow some other way rather than my own sunnah he will be considered as not a follower of my sunnah”
(bukhari and muslim)
There is nothing left in our daily life that prophet didn’t teach or didn’t give any instructions. On every single thing prophet sw. gave the instructions even how to do the toilet he gave a hygienic instructions.
Leading our daily life according the sahih sunnah prophet sw. is the best way to run. There is a hadith narrated by salamna farsi Ra. He saying “prophet sw. taught us every single thing even he taught us how to do the toilet”
Last week we talked about some sunnah related with the prayers. There are thousands of sunnah along our daily life. Today, briefly i would like to mention some more important useful sunnah of the prophet sw. hopefully, me and you will be benefited here and hereafter in sha Allah.
The sunnah are:
1. Marriage on time
it is the sunnah of prophet sw. he saying “the marriage it’s the sunnah of mine so, whoever don’t get married he is not followers of my sunnah” Islam doesn’t allow to be single even if someone say for the sake of practicing Islam he won’t get married. Prophet sw. strictly didn’t allow this. He saying to the young “get married when you are able to because it’s save your eyes from indecency and save you from adultery if you are not able to get married then observe fast coz the fast are the saver from adultery” (
bukhari and muslim) also, Islam encourages parents to make married their kids on time.

2. Fasting three days on every month.
There is a hadith narrated by abi hurairah RA. “He saying my friend(prophet sw.)took oath from me/advised me  on three things 1.Fasting three days on every month. 2.Pray salatut duha 3.Pray witr prayer”(bukhari and muslim)

3.Coming early to the masjid for the Friday prayer: there is a hadith “on the day of Friday the angels write who is coming first and they write the rewards and its start from the Qurabani of camel to the donating a egg and when imam starts the khutba they stop writing and listen the sermon”
(bukhari: 929 and muslim:850)
4. Protesting when see any injustice or a crime: when you seeing any injustice committing in front of you. You should protest it like if one of your Muslim brother getting injustice you should save him. This the sunnah of prophet sw. and his companion. What prophet sw. saying “when you see anything bad first you should protest by your hands if its need if it’s not possible then raise your voice against it if it’s not possible then hate it and that’s will show weakness of your eeman to protest”
so, they are the some sunnah of prophet sw. there are lots of sunnah we can’t bring all the sunnah. now what we have to know if any ibadah performed by the opposite of sunnah it will be called BID’AH which could lead us towards misguidance. Prophet sw. saying “every innovation is misguidance and every misguidance lead to the hellfire”

Now the question is what's the bidah? The word bidah means something new, innovation, invention etc.
Imam Shafi`i stated that innovative acts are those things that do not go in harmony with the Qur'an, Sunnah, traceable tradition (Athar) and the consensus (Ijma`) of Muslims like something that the innovation does not take place during the early Islamic period.

The innovation is considered unlawful when it contradicts one of the primary sources of Islam, such as the Qur'an and the Sunnah.
There are lots of bida’h in our society which is not based on the Quar’an or the Hadith of the prophet sw. for example celebrating birthday or death anniversary or celebrating the eid-e-miladunnabi or celebrating the wedding anniversary.
Dear brothers! We should educate ourselves about the 'real' Sunnah of Prophet and find out what is the bida and what is not. We have to look at the tafseer (explanation) of the Qur'an as well as the hadith of the Prophet When understanding the verses of the Qur'an and the hadith of Prophet we have to take into consideration the context and the time of the revelation of the verse or the hadith of Prophet.

Dear brothers! 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 sahih sunnah of prophet sw.  We should hold firmly the sunnah of prophet sw. we should follow the sahih hadiths of prophet sw. we shouldn’t ignore or avoid when someone saying it’s the sahih hadiths. Unfortunately, there are some of us when we hear someone saying it is the sahih hadith we make questions that we didn’t hear that before? But, this is not a wise question what Allah swt. indicating 5:104When you say to them: "Come to what God has revealed, and the Prophet," they say: "Sufficient to us is the faith that our fathers had followed," even though their fathers had no knowledge or guidance”
A true believer can’t say like that but he say what Allah swt. saying ”The response of the believers, when they are called to God and His Messenger in order to judge between them, is to say, “We hear and we obey.” These are the successful”
Dear brothers! I would like conclude this topic here by requesting to you please, come forward and try to learn and understand the sahih sunnah of prophet sw.

May Allah swt. give us tawfiq to avoid the bidah.
May Allah swt. give us tawfiq to follow the true guidance of the Qura’n and the sunnah of prophet sw. the way he showed us.

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