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G-About the Good Attitude towards Women
97-Narrated 'Alqama:
While I was walking with 'Abdullah he said, "We were in the company of the Prophet and he said, 'He who can afford to marry should marry, because it will help him refrain from looking at other women, and save his private parts from committing illegal sexual relation; and he who cannot afford to marry is advised to fast, as fasting will diminish his sexual power."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam for men towards women include that when they marry them, they must provide them shelter in the physical sense and provide them honor by keeping them steadfast upon the Truth in the spiritual sense; note that the Marriage at necessity is highly preferable in Islam as at that time, the men are highly troubled with specific feelings towards women and so it keeps the Muslim man safe from shameful sins; however, if good control over such feelings is totally possible with no inclination practically towards unrelated women even for some conversation then it is better for men to marry in thirties and for that matter, late-thirties is even better taking up Saum (fasting) as much as possible; I, MSD, heard from some knowledgeable person that the stomach and the private parts are near to each other so (even though their systems at physique are different) they affect each other; when the former is fully satisfied at adulthood, it asks the satisfaction to the latter so the intake of food must not be to its total satisfaction; Al-Hamdu Lillah; whenever the man marries, he must take care about all the liability that falls on him for the wife before asking for his rights to her; early marriages might result in the increase in the quantity of Muslims but we Muslims are much more in need of quality at these current times; the need today is that Muslims become practicing Muslims rather than having increase in quantity though in the normal circumstance even quantity would have been a merit to Muslims as at that situation it would not have been without quality; the Islamic Teachings value weight in character rather than count of heads and it is said in the Holy Book Quran, “Say: The bad and the good are not equal though the abundance of the bad might attract you; so be careful of (your duty to) Allah, O men of understanding, that you may be successful” (5:100); Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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98-Narrated Abu Masud Uqba:
The Prophet said, "One of the sayings of the prophets which the people have got, is. 'If you do not feel ashamed, then do whatever you like."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam ask to honor women highly that live strictly upon Islam; this Hadith notes that the true Muslim does not commit sins that are highly immoral in nature (especially adultery) as keeping away from shameful acts is well incorporated at his inside due to his keen sense of morality; if he loses this beautiful sense, then he becomes susceptible to Satanic temptations towards the shameful acts; if he falls in them getting used to committing them, they might in turn, lead him to lose the true belief; in other words, this Hadith notes that the person who once gets used to filth (in the spiritual sense) at the life he leads then that might take away the true belief away from him; as even good deeds become useless without the true belief, it does not matter what he does as he turns liable to enter JAHANNAM (the hell) if he does not repent soon and make his life totally better at the world within good time by holding truly to Islam; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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99-Narrated Abdullah bin Zama:
That he heard the Prophet delivering a sermon, and he mentioned the she-camel and the one who hamstrung it. Allah's Apostle recited:-- 'When, the most wicked man among them went forth (to hamstrung the she-camel).' (91.12.) Then he said, "A tough man whose equal was rare and who enjoyed the protection of his people, like Abi Zama went forth to (hamstrung) it." The Prophet then mentioned about the women (in his sermon). "It is not wise for anyone of you to lash his wife like a slave, for he might sleep with her the same evening." Then he advised them not to laugh when somebody breaks wind and said, "Why should anybody laugh at what he himself does?"
The decent attitudes as told by Islam ask to avoid injustice in every manner; it asks the Muslim person to develop sobriety in attitudes and as such it despises making fun of someone on some natural phenomenon that men are bound to; note that there are two categories of sins and that are injustice (ZULM) and indecency (FAHISHA); the three biggest of sins are included in these two categories as SHIRK (to take someone equal in power to Allah considering him capable to fulfill human necessities with Allah or without Him), is the biggest sin that is the greatest of injustice and to kill some innocent person is extreme injustice too; to commit adultery is the most indecent & shameful act and it also has the aspect of huge injustice too when such woman is involved in it that is the wife to some other person; these all are included in the greatest of sins; but whoever repents with total heart asking forgiveness from Allah reading NAFL-SALAH for this purpose doing good to those he had done wrong and refrains strictly from committing any big sin of these two categories (that means all big sins) ahead, Allah would surely forgive him and give him TAUFIQ (good time and space) to make things better for himself; it is mentioned in Surah AALE-IMRAN, “And those who when they commit indecency (FAHISHA) or do injustice (ZULM) to their souls remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their faults---and who forgives the faults but Allah---and (who) do not knowingly persist in what they have done; (As for) these, their reward is forgiveness from their Lord, and gardens beneath which rivers flow, to abide in them, and excellent is the reward of the laborers” (verses 135 & 136); Al-Hamdu Lillah; note here that the Hadith tells about the cruelty that the men of THAMUD (the people of SWALEH-AS) showed towards the she-camel they were given as the miracle from Allah; one of the most unfortunate killed her and brought wrath of Allah upon all that people; this Hadith also guides to stop from any kind of cruelty towards the wife who is under the command of the husband at the worldly life; she does have to see to all that might please her husband with obedience to his commands when they are not against the command of Allah but she is totally allowed to advise him on all matters of life; Ahadith about rights of women clarify that actions do speak loudly how the man is as the man who is decent would always remain most decent to his wife caring about her in all ways possible; in the matters of AKHIRAT i.e. the coming true life, they are equals and whoever has the better Belief and better deeds according to it, he or she would indeed be the better one there; they both must have high trust in each other and must never break that trust; indeed they both must keep to commands of Allah; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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100-Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "Avoid the seven great destructive sins." The people enquire, "O Allah's Apostle! What are they? "He said, "To join others in worship along with Allah, to practice sorcery, to kill the life which Allah has forbidden except for a just cause (according to Islamic law), to eat up Riba (usury), to eat up an orphan's wealth, to show the back to the enemy and flee from the battlefield at the time of fighting, and to accuse chaste women, who never even think of anything against chastity and are good believers.
The decent attitudes as told by Islam ask to avoid injustice & shameful attitudes in every manner as we studied at the Hadith-99; this Hadith also asks to avoid all wrongs that include SHIRK, murdering someone unjustly, practicing sorcery (putting spells to make rifts among Muslims especially among the man & wife) and accusing chaste women that care for good morals; in addition, it asks not to get wealth wrongfully as by taking of RIBA or by eating up the orphan’s wealth if the chance is available to it and it also asks not to save life in any manner when needed to surrender it in the good cause of raising the name of Allah; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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101-Narrated Masruq:
'Aisha said that Hassaan bin Thabit came and asked permission to visit her. I said, "How do you permit such a person?" She said, "Hasn't he received a severe penalty?" (Sufyan, the subnarrator, said: She meant the loss of his sight).
The decent attitudes as told by Islam strictly ask to refrain from accusing any chaste woman of adultery as we studied at Hadith-100 too; HASSAAN (the poet who had said poetry in favor & defense of the Prophet PBUH at occasions) was among those who wrongfully involved himself in this heinous matter when he supported those who had wrongly charged SAYYIDAH Ayesha-RA of this most shameful thing; Allah descended verses in Surah NOOR for the acquittal of SAYYIDAH that read, “Surely they who concocted the lie are a party from among you; do not regard it an evil to you; nay, it is good for you; every man of them shall have what he has earned of sin; and as for him among them who had the greater share therein (i.e. Abdullah bin Ubayy), he shall have the grievous chastisement”; it seems by the narration here that HASSAAN was repentant on his grave blunder and it also tells us that he had turned blind; the words of Ayesha express clearly that she had forgiven him; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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102-Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "Seven (people) will be shaded by Allah by His Shade on the Day of Resurrection when there will be no shade except His Shade. (They will be), a just ruler, a young man who has been brought up in the worship of Allah, a man who remembers Allah in seclusion and his eyes are then flooded with tears, a man whose heart is attached to mosques (offers his compulsory congregational prayers in the mosque), two men who love each other for Allah's Sake, a man who is called by a charming lady of noble birth to commit illegal sexual intercourse with her, and he says, 'I am afraid of Allah,' and (finally), a man who gives in charity so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand has given."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam ask the Muslim person to repent on all wrongs and become truly good practicing Muslim; the Hadith indicates that all good Muslims would get the shade provided by Allah in AKHIRAT as all of good Muslims do find a place here in the seven somewhere but the point to note is that here the Prophet (PBUH) intended to guide towards the high control over adverse temptations as that control leads to the high status at AKHIRAT; the just Imam (ruler; head of matters) controls the temptation to show his authority just for the sake of display how powerful he is; the young man controls the temptation to attach him to worldly games that his age asks but always remembers Allah with total attention; the man who has committed wrongs, controls his haughtiness that asks him to admit those wrongs but rather cries on them remembering Allah truly in silence asking for His Mercy and His Kindness intending to make things better in future (perhaps the best one among those that are mentioned here for he fights all his adverse temptations collectively then & there); the man who is attached to the Mosque while other places tempt him towards them; each of the two men that meet each other with care to keep their financial transaction fair with disregard to the temptation to get profits unfairly; the man whom a beautiful rich woman call towards wrong and he declines her offer (and how difficult it is to fight out this temptation except in hope & fear of Allah with total love towards Him); a man who shuns the temptation to save his money (only to spend it to get recognition among people) and gives it in charity at the right place with as much secrecy as possible; these all good Muslims are highly praiseworthy as they have good control over temptations and that control they must certainly have in them; adverse temptations can not distract them from the righteousness certainly; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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103-Narrated Abu Huraira:
While we were in the company of the Prophet, he said, "While I was asleep, I saw myself in Paradise and there I beheld a woman making ablution beside a palace, I asked, To whom does this palace belong? 'They said, To 'Umar bin Al-Khattab.' Then I remembered 'Umar's Ghaira (concerning women), and so I quickly went away from that palace." (When 'Umar heard this from the Prophet), he wept and said, "Do you think it is likely that I feel Ghaira because of you, O Allah's Apostle?"
The decent attitudes as told by Islam ask even the Muslim men to care for HEJAB of the woman and to care for their chastity in general to the extent possible; GHAIRA is the rightful anger against the wrong of shameful nature that is committed against the Command of Allah and it is one of the positive traits in the Muslim Man; the Prophet PBUH cared that no such attitude takes place by him even, that might affect the GHAIRA of any Muslim man; we have noted at Hadith-96 that he took the trouble to tell the passer-by Muslims that the woman he is with, is his wife SAFIYA so that Satan does not get the chance to affect their thoughts adversely taking the undue benefit from this positive trait of GHAIRA that is present in all Muslims to height; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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104-Narrated Abu Musa:
Allah's Apostle said, "He who has a slave-girl and educates and treats her nicely and then manumits and marries her, will get a double reward."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam guide all of us Muslims to care highly about all those who are less-privileged among us in all the manner possible; when slavery was in vogue, the Prophet PBUH asked to care highly for all slaves that the Muslims had in their custody as many of Ahadith clarify well; slave-girls had lesser status than wives and had to see to the sexual needs of their masters too; it was certainly an attitude of EHSAAN that was highly praiseworthy for the master to free his slave-girl and to marry her raising her status to the better standing at the society then when she had no liability upon him; also if he taught her Islamic Moral Values and good understanding of matters for her spiritual betterment too then he was most certainly liable to get double rewards from the True Lord Allah; in these current times, if the Muslim man of good social standing at the place cares to raise the status of some capable Muslim woman who is among the less-privileged asking her to come into his marriage (even as his second or third wife) providing her all the physical necessities and all the beneficial education that protects her from all Satanic things, he certainly too is liable to double rewards from the True Lord Allah, that has been mentioned at the Hadith here; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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105-Narrated Tha'laba bin Abi Malik:
'Umar bin Al-Khattab distributed some garments amongst the women of Medina. One good garment remained, and one of those present with him said, "O chief of the believers! Give this garment to your wife, the (grand) daughter of Allah's Apostle." They meant Um Kulthum, the daughter of 'Ali. 'Umar said, Um Salit has more right (to have it)." Um Salit was amongst those Ansari women who had given the pledge of allegiance to Allah's Apostle.' 'Umar said, "She (i.e. Um Salit) used to carry the water skins for us on the day of Uhud."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam ask the AMEER to care about all the people that are subject to his authority; this asked Umar-RA to care to distribute the ladies’ garments that he most probably received in his custody through spoils of war; that certainly asked for justice highly at that time; Umar was strict in matters of Islam and here as the Caliph, he felt that UM-SALIT was more rightful to get the last of the ladies’ garments he had, even more rightful than his respectable wife, so he provided that to her; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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106-Narrated 'Abdullah:
During some of the Ghazawat of the Prophet a woman was found killed. Allah's Apostle disapproved the killing of women and children.
The decent attitudes as told by Islam strictly forbade to kill women and children even if they are at war at the battlefield; the best thing is to capture them rather than to kill them where they are at war; note that at those times, the women taken into custody as slave-women had to be during wars only and secondly, they had to be only those that were present at the battlefield or at its vicinity to help their men at the war; due to caring about the weak, the Prophet PBUH used to instruct not to perform MUTHLAH (this means mutilation of corpses of the enemy) as then the enemy is not able to answer; it just shows a psychological aberration that is not appreciated by Islam; even the animals that are to be eaten must be slaughtered with the name of Allah with highly refined and sharp knife so that they feel no pain or very little of it; in other words, when some one becomes weaker against the strength Muslims have, Muslims have to care for those weaker ones rather than put a show of strength putting them into trouble without validity; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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107-Narrated Ibn Abbas:
regarding the Divine Verse: "O you who believe! You are forbidden to inherit women against their will, and you should not treat them with harshness that you may take back part of the (Mahr) dower you have given them." (4:19) (Before this revelation) if a man died, his relatives used to have the right to inherit his wife, and one of them could marry her if he would, or they would give her in marriage if they wished, or, if they wished, they would not give her in marriage at all, and they would be more entitled to dispose her, than her own relatives. So the above Verse was revealed in this connection.
The decent attitudes as told by Islam forbade to treat women with high-handedness and in-fact ask to treat them in extreme soft manner keeping the delicacy that they do have in manners due to their feminine nature (note also the comment at Hadith-8); this Hadith tells the state of women before Islam gave them true respect as Human Beings; the verse-19 of Surah NISAA reads, “O you who believe! it is not lawful for you that you should take women as heritage against (their) will, and do not straiten them in order that you may take part of what you have given them, unless they are guilty of manifest indecency, and treat them kindly; then if you hate them, it may be that you dislike a thing while Allah has placed abundant good in it”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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108-Narrated Urwa:
Aisha the wife of the Prophet, said, "Allah's Apostle used to ask commitment of the believing women (to Islam) who migrated to him in accordance with this Verse: 'O Prophet! When believing women come to you to take the oath of allegiance to you... Verily! Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful.' (60.12) 'Aisha said, "And if any of the believing women accepted the condition (assigned in the above-mentioned Verse), Allah's Apostle would say to her. "I have accepted your pledge of allegiance." "He would only say that, for, by Allah, his hand never touched, any lady during that pledge of allegiance. He did not receive their pledge except by saying, "I have accepted your pledge of allegiance for that."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam ask to remain totally away from all shameful activities and the Muslim Woman has the responsibility to eliminate shameful things more than the Muslim Man; however, the Muslim Man too has to care for it to the height possible as the matter certainly relates to him too; whenever the woman migrated to Medina due to the intention to live upon Islam in the best way and with no other intention then the Prophet PBUH used to take oath from her according to the verse-12 of Surah MUMTAHINA; it reads, “O Prophet! when believing women come to you giving you a pledge that they will not associate aught with Allah, and will not steal, and will not commit fornication & adultery, and will not kill their children, and will not bring a calumny which they have forged of themselves, and will not disobey you in what is good, accept their pledge, and ask forgiveness for them from Allah; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful”; note here that the Prophet PBUH cared not to touch any woman even for this BAYAH (pledge) and this tells clearly that men are certainly not allowed to touch NA-MEHRAM women (and in-fact, even unnecessary conversation to her is disallowed) as Islam takes this too as an indecent attitude; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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109-Narrated Anas bin Malik:
A group of three men came to the houses of the wives of the Prophet asking how the Prophet worshipped (Allah), and when they were informed about that, they considered their worship insufficient and said, "Where are we from the Prophet as his past and future sins have been forgiven." Then one of them said, "I will offer the prayer throughout the night forever." The other said, "I will fast throughout the year and will not break my fast." The third said, "I will keep away from the women and will not marry forever." Allah's Apostle came to them and said, "Are you the same people who said so-and-so? By Allah, I am more submissive to Allah and more afraid of Him than you; yet I fast and break my fast, I do sleep and I also marry women. So he who does not follow my tradition in religion, is not from me (not one of my followers)."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam do not appreciate to suppress feelings that relate to natural needs of men taking hardship upon the self; rather Islam asks to provide the rightful outlet to desires with care for the moral teachings of Islam in the ordinary business of life; the beauty of Islamic Teachings is that it asks to fulfill the necessary practice of Islam that is easy upon the self and certainly it does not ask to burden the self taking up tasks that are neither necessary nor practicable in the long-run period due to the suppression of the needs inside; the strict words of the Prophet PBUH show clearly that Islamic Teachings care to provide the good outlets to feelings rather than do away with those outright; note that the sources to understand the Islamic Teachings are primarily the Holy Book Quran (that is complete Islam in theory) and the SUNNAH of the Prophet PBUH (that is complete Islam in practice); please see also the “Brief Note on TAQLID” at the last of this writing; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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110-Narrated 'Abdullah:
We used to participate in the holy battles led by Allah's Apostle and we had nothing (no wives) with us. So we said, "Shall we get ourselves castrated?" He forbade us that and then allowed us to marry women with a temporary contract (2) and recited to us: -- 'O you who believe ! Make not unlawful the good things which Allah has made lawful for you, but commit no transgression.' (5.87)
The decent attitudes as told by Islam prohibit MUTA; it was temporary marriage that was allowed when the Prophet (PBUH) started calling towards Islam and remained allowed till GHAZWA-KHAYBAR when the Prophet (PBUH) prohibited it outright; before that at necessity, it was allowed for the men when they went away from homes at JEHAD and had no way to satisfy their sexual needs (except by the slave-girl once they won some war); however once when it got out of lives at the command to abstain from it given at KHAYBAR, it had remained out thence; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that even when it was practiced at that time, its practice was limited and exceptional; now, as slavery also is out of lives; Al-Hamdu Lillah; only the lawful marriage remains the righteous way to give outlet to the sexual desires for the men; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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111-Narrated Abu Jamra:
I heard Ibn Abbas (giving a verdict) when he was asked about the Mut'a with the women, and he permitted it. On that a freed slave of his said to him, "That is only when it is very badly needed and women are scarce." On that, Ibn 'Abbas said, "Yes."
(Note the comment at Hadith-110)
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112-Narrated Ibn 'Umar:
The Prophet said, "If your women ask permission to go to the mosque at night, allow them."
(Note the comment at Hadith-113)
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113-Narrated 'Aisha:
Had Allah's Apostle known what the women were doing, he would have forbidden them from going to the mosque as the women of Bani Israel had been forbidden. Yahya bin Said (a sub-narrator) asked 'Amra (another sub-narrator), "Were the women of Bani Israel forbidden?" She replied "Yes."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam do not allow women to adorn their-selves when they leave homes for some genuine necessity; though it was allowed for women to attend Salah at the times of the Prophet (PBUH) as he tolerated it and asked to tolerate it then, yet ULAMA generally and explicitly disallow women now for such attendance due to general occurrence of FITNAH; note that just after the passing away of the Prophet (PBUH) many SAHABA that allowed such attendance revised their attitude and disallowed it; this was due to the fact that the times of the Prophet (PBUH) were highly virtuous and now SAHABA were seeing clearly that the people still had to learn Islam much; the means of communication were not high and whatever means were available they were not much sophisticated and with people getting into Islam in great numbers without getting fully aware of the Islamic Teachings did pose threat to the misunderstanding of Islamic Teachings; note that even when the women were allowed this attendance at the times of the Prophet (PBUH) they were told that it is better to read Salah at home and if they do come at mosque they must not take-up any kind of make up or such clothes that might attract men and leave just after the end of SALAH; with time, this attendance of women at mosques ceased in general and understandably, this outcome has taken place for the better for sure; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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114-Narrated Ibn 'Umar:
The Prophet decreed that one should not try to cancel a bargain already agreed upon between some other persons (by offering a bigger price). And a man should not ask for the hand of a girl who is already engaged to his Muslim brother, unless the first suitor gives her up, or allows him to ask for her hand.
The decent attitudes as told by Islam are explicit on the point that Muslims must care for each other to the extent possible; for that reason, it is not allowed to intervene in a transaction that is already in good progress among two persons until that transaction is over; as marriage has also the aspect of an agreement between a man and a woman, it is not allowed to propose a girl knowing that the matter for her is in good progress with someone else; however, if the girl does not favor that proposal then after her rejection to it, another man is allowed to ask her WALI for her marriage to him (or if she is widow or divorced then he is even allowed to ask her directly through someone knowing both so that she does not mind the proposal); Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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H-About the Good Attitude in General
115-Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "O Muslim women! None of you should look down upon the gift sent by her sister at neighborhood even if it were the trotters of the sheep (fleshless part of legs)."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the person must show gratitude to that person who genuinely cares for him or her even if that person expresses it by giving something as gift that is taken as most ordinary; high value is given to neighbor in Islam and if he is a Muslim then his right increases even more; with that if he is a relative too, that increases his right even more; note that it is necessary to care for the non-Muslim neighbor too as he is ZIMMI (non-Muslim that lives with an agreement of peace in the Muslim Society and that word of peace might not be present in a written form necessarily but it is understood as such) and he must not be put to trouble in any way; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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116-Narrated Sahl bin Sa'd:
The Prophet said, "Whoever guarantees me (the chastity of) what is between his legs (i.e. his private parts), and what is between his jaws (i.e., his tongue), I guarantee him Paradise."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the Muslim person must take care of the tongue speaking the truth only and that even where necessity asks for it; in any conversation or writing that takes at any time and at any place, it is most crucial that the person mentions Allah and remembers His commands as that shows the care Muslims have for those commands in their lives; the other thing is to take care of the respective private parts and this asks the Muslim person to keep away from all shameful acts of high sinful manner asking Allah for shelter against them all; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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117-Narrated Asma:
I prepared the journey food for the Prophet and Abu Bakr when they wanted (to migrate to) Medina. I said to my father (Abu Bakr), "I do not have anything to tie the container of the journey food with except my waist belt." He said, "Divide it lengthwise into two." I did so, and for this reason I was named 'Dhat-un-Nitaqain' (i.e. the owner of two belts).
The Islamic moral values include the guidance to care for HIKMAT (application of knowledge to the environment) and here the advise of Abu-Bakr denotes the same; the divided belt of ASMA-RA was yet able to provide for her need and also for the bondage to the container so it did well then; HIJRAT (the migration to Medina) was the event that marked the manifestation of the rule of Righteousness and it brought not only the change to HIJAZ but also changed the time from the darkness towards the light of the Truth; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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118-Narrated Aiman:
I went to 'Aisha and she was wearing a coarse dress costing five Dirhams. 'Aisha said, "Look up and see my slave-girl who refuses to wear it in the house though during the lifetime of Allah's Apostle I had a similar dress which no woman desiring to appear elegant (before her husband) failed to borrow from me."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance to adhere to the concept that no Muslim person must take his own person as something high among the men; the Muslim person must understand that the greatness lies at his inside and he needs to develop his good traits rather than care for the things outside; the point to note here is that clothes do not make the person but the righteousness in his or her character does so; it is not the physical but the spiritual eminence that counts; if he values external things for his respect then that would make him susceptible to fall in his own eyes once he loses such external items; such concept also does lead to the inferiority complex ultimately and needs total avoidance; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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119-Narrated 'Aisha:
that she prepared a lady for a man from the Ansar as his bride and the Prophet said, "O 'Aisha! Haven't you got any amusement (during the marriage ceremony) as the Ansar like amusement?"
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the women have to care for reservation in their attitudes at all times and places; certainly, it is necessary to observe these all moral values yet adhering to that well, they might take up such entertainment at the time of marriage of someone from among them that Islam does allow; they might even enjoy playing of DAFF and singing of decent poetic verses among their own (without any such women who takes up such entertainment professionally) where strictly no-one from the men is present; note also the comment at Hadith-136; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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120-Narrated Nafi':
Whenever Ibn 'Umar was asked about marrying a Christian lady or a Jewess, he would say: Allah has made it unlawful for the believers to marry ladies who ascribe partners in worship to Allah, and I do not know of a greater thing, as regards to ascribing partners in worship, etc. to Allah, than that a lady should say that Jesus is her Lord although he is just one of Allah's slaves."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the Muslim decent man must see high decency that Islam asks for in the woman he marries; note here that the Muslim person might marry some Christian lady (but he must avoid marrying some Jewess due to the negative attitude in general of Jewish people towards Islam); with this, note also that Ibn’-Umar-RA remarked very rightly that the Christians raise the Prophet Jesus-AS from the status of the man but certainly besides being the Prophet, he also is among the men; the point to note here is that as the Holy Book Quran allows such marriage in clear terms (see Surah MA’EDAH-5) so it is not prohibited; the prohibition that Ibn’-Umar has expressed here is his personal leaning towards the matter that the Islamic Teachings tolerate yet generally it is not the Islamic ruling; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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121-Narrated Anas:
Ar-Rabi, the daughter of An-Nadr broke the tooth of a girl, and the relatives of Ar-Rabi' requested the girl's relatives to accept the Arsh (compensation for wounds etc.) and forgive (the offender), but they refused. So, they went to the Prophet who ordered them to bring about retaliation. Anas bin An-Nadr asked, "O Allah’s Apostle! Will the tooth of Ar-Rabi' be broken? No, by Him Who has sent you with the Truth, her tooth will not be broken." The Prophet said, "O Anas! Allah’s law ordains retaliation." Later the relatives of the girl agreed and forgave her. The Prophet said, "There are some of Allah's slaves who, if they take an oath by Allah, are responded to by Allah (i.e. their oath is fulfilled). Anas added, "The people agreed and accepted the Arsh."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance to control the anger towards all even if the person feels that his anger has worth; there is an authentic Hadith that tells that one of traits of the hypocrite is that when he quarrels, he begins to abuse the opponents; note that the monetary compensations that the inflictor of wounds provides to the affected person, is named as ARSH that is calculated mostly as the ratio to the DIYAT amount; the Hadith points out that Allah cares for the pious persons and where they take an oath on something as DUA to Allah, it happens that He grants it to them; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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122-Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
The Prophet was shier than a veined virgin girl.
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that all Muslim persons, men and women, must have their total leaning towards HIYA; this asks the attitude to avoid all shameful things due to the inherent sense of caring for the most decent values Allah has provided to the Man; there is an authentic Hadith that asks for HIYA in the most beautiful manner by indicating that loss of HIYA might affect the True Belief most adversely (see the Hadith-98 and note the comment on it); the Prophet PBUH had the realization of this inherent sense to the most beautiful height as the Hadith here denotes totally well; though this word is difficult to convey in English yet one of manners to express it might stand by these words that “it is the natural strong tendency that the woman (and that means all of them) has inside her at birth and develops ahead so as to avoid all of shameful things for all her life ahead”; note well that this spiritual quality of HIYA if it develops even in the man, is not something abnormal but it makes even that man highly virtuous; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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123-Narrated 'Aisha:
I never saw the Prophet laughing to an extent that one could see his palate, but he always used to smile only.
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that no one presents himself leaving all sobriety even if he is in the gathering of close friends; they also ask not to make fun of anyone keeping the fact in view that to have fun by the Islamic limits, is something else and to make fun is another; the Prophet never made fun of anyone or put anyone to hardship by jests though at occasions, he did enjoy jokes in a light hearted mood having fun along-with SAHABA but always in a limit and he never laughed but only smiled; he was not a man asking for strict discipline or demanding of unworthy protocol; note that this great teacher i.e. Muhammad PBUH, the last Messenger of Allah, has never had any schooling from anyone except directly from Allah; he was a lenient person in attitudes giving value to his SAHABA; he was soft in ways, modest in manners and simple by choice in living; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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124-Narrated Fatima bint Al-Mundhir:
Whenever a lady suffering from fever was brought to Asma' bint Abu Bakr, she used to invoke Allah for her and then sprinkle some water on her body, at the chest and say, "Allah's Apostle used to order us to abate fever with water."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance to make things better both by physical and spiritual effort and this is best to tackle problems; do whatever you can and then have trust in Allah for results; this in actual is TAWAKKUL (to have total trust in Allah); The Hadith asks to cool the fever by putting clean water (and here in Pakistan, many persons do keep a cloth soaked with clean water but dried to necessity by twisting the cloth, onto the forehead in such cases) and ask Allah for betterment in the condition; note that it is allowed to present DUA (supplication) against problems in any language provided that it is only to Allah, the Truly Mighty One; note that it is better to take AABE-ZAM ZAM for cooling fever though if unavailable or difficult to get, ordinary clean water would suffice; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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125-Narrated Um Salama:
that the Prophet saw in her house a girl whose face had a black spot. He said. "She is under the effect of an evil eye; so treat her with a Ruqya."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the Verses of the Holy Book Quran have the power to cure afflictions; these are specially related to the poisonous bite (of snake or scorpion), evil eye (a bad effect had from eyes of anyone intentionally or unintentionally) and small pustules (as another Hadith include them too); by the recitation of four things from the Holy Book Quran that are Surah FATIHA & AAYATUL-KURSI & the last AAYAH of Surah BAQARAH & the MAUDHATAYN (the last couple of Surah) in routine, he would insha Allah remain safe from every troublesome spiritual & physical affliction till the last moment of his life; note that there is an Hadith in TIRMIDHI that reports that “ANAS-(RA) confirmed that Allah’s Messenger permitted RUQYA (to recite the verses of the Holy Book Quran and blow with the mouth onto the affected person) for snake-bite, evil eye and small pustules”; ULAMA say that if the mentioned four things of the Holy Book Quran are recited 100 times a day, that would prove cure to any spell even if put on the person intentionally; for making this recitation into a habit, its better reciting these four 10 times after Fajr (early morning; beginning of the day) and 10 times after MAGHRIB (beginning of the night) counting the reading of all of these as one time till their total reading of 10 times is complete; insha Allah this would suffice against all spiritual afflictions and with that, this would insha Allah keep away all the physical afflictions too; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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126-Narrated Abu Hazim:
Sahl bin Sad said, "A lady came with a Burda. Sahl then asked (the people), "Do you know what Burda is?" Somebody said, "Yes. it is a Shamla with a woven border." Sahl added, "The lady said, 'O Allah's Apostle! I have knitted this (Burda) with my own hands for you to wear it." Allah's Apostle took it and he was in need of it. Allah's Apostle came out to us and he was wearing it as an Izar. A man from the people felt it and said, 'O Allah's Apostle! Give it to me to wear.' The Prophet s said, 'Yes.' Then he sat there for some time (and when he went to his house), he folded it and sent it to him. The people said to that man, 'You have not done a right thing. You asked him for it, though you know that he does not put down anybody's request.' The man said, 'By Allah! I have only asked him so that it may be my shroud when I die." Sahl added, "Later it was his shroud."
The Islamic moral values include the care to each other certainly; it is necessary even for the needy person to see not to affect someone by asking him for something for which he himself is in need of; here the matter is interesting as the Prophet PBUH cared to provide necessities to all persons that he could manage; now, when one of SAHABA asked him for the sheet that has come to him as gift from someone, he provided that to him; the intention of that one among SAHABA was good yet the most important point to note according to the Islamic Teachings is that things at manifestation do not actually help at the matters of AKHIRAT unless the person has good deeds with the Righteous Belief; the Hadith also indicates that it is not prohibited to gift someone such a thing that the person has got in possession by gift himself; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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127-Narrated 'Aisha:
The Prophet said, "Whoever vowed to be obedient to Allah, must be obedient to Him; and whoever vowed to be disobedient to Allah, should not be disobedient to Him."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the Muslim person must always care to fulfill the commands of Allah and never do against them; the person in taking upon himself to do or give something if Allah does the needed for him must take an oath not only intending it but saying it verbally too and it must only be of something that is clearly taken as an act of worship to Allah; for example a person can say if this happens he would read this many RAKA’AH of SALAH in thanks to Allah or he can say that he would feed so many of needy persons; he certainly must not take any oath to commit any sinful act if his want is fulfilled like drinking wine or committing theft as such an oath does not take place at all and this type of an oath in itself is highly sinful; Muslims must care for Islam in all the positive way never ever going towards any wrongs at all; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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128-Narrated 'Aisha:
When the Prophet married me, my mother came to me and made me enter the house where I saw some women from the Ansar who said, "May you prosper and have blessings and have good omen."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance to ask Allah for His blessing at some significant occasion of life that affects it highly; though the Prophet Muhammad PBUH had just come to Medina by HIJRAH and the Islamic Environment had just started taking shape then yet the good attitude to ask Allah only for all of the blessing, had taken hold; the first thing certainly to achieve His blessing is to turn attention towards Him only as that only leads to all the other good things; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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129-Narrated 'Aisha:
(the wife of the Prophet) that whenever one of her relatives died, the women assembled and then dispersed (returned to their houses) except her relatives and close friends. She would order that pot of Talbina be cooked. Then Tharid (a dish prepared from meat having much of gravy and bread-crumbs) would be prepared and the Talbina would be poured on it. 'Aisha would say (to the women),"Eat of it, for I heard Allah's Apostle saying, 'The Talbina soothes the heart of the patient and relieves him from some of his sadness.' "
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that when there is some troublesome occasion for someone, other Muslims have to soothe him by their good words and their good attitudes; they should try also to provide foods that is soothing in nature to those where someone has died as their sorrow might have made them oblivious to care for the provision of that so the children there might be suffering; Talbina is barley-flour (grinded JAU) to which the milk is added as needed and stirred well; that turns it into the shape of porridge to which then some honey is added and stirred well; Tharid is bread crumbs etc. soaked with fine tasty gravy and Talbina might be taken with Tharid as reported; note that both milk & honey are the natural foods and they both have most beneficial soothing effect against depression especially when mixed in the barley-flour; the Holy Book Quran mentions both of these natural foods very positively in Surah NAHAL; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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130-Narrated Abu Salama:
'Aisha's brother and I went to 'Aisha and he asked her about the bath of the Prophet. She brought a pot containing about a Sa' of water and took (that as in) a bath and poured it over her head and at that time there was a screen between her and us.
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the person who knows something of significance, he or she must provide it totally in the best manner possible with total care to the Islamic morals when it is needed; the words of Hadith here might give the impression that ‘Aisha-RA taught the needed by demonstration of her bath but that impression is highly erroneous; note that it was by pouring of water on her head practically with total of her dress on and it was not actually bathing at all; note well that it means that for this limited teaching even, she was fully dressed in her total clothes and still kept a screen between her & those two showing them from behind it by the shadow only how to pour water upon the head at the bath taken; however, even this much of permitted limited teaching, with such necessary caution (being only in front of the MEHRAM relatives only), is better to avoid at current times even if that comes from the highly learned woman as there is no need to get the SUNNAH in this respect now as was necessary then; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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131-Narrated Um Salama:
One night Allah's Apostle got up and said, "Subhan Allah! How many afflictions have been descended tonight and how many treasures have been disclosed! Go and wake the sleeping lady occupants of these dwellings (his wives) up (for prayers). A well-dressed (soul) in this world may be naked in the Hereafter. "
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the Muslim person must keep in his mind that he has to die some day for which he must keep the preparation; he must have total belief in the Holy Book Quran, read it on, understand it well, put it into his practice and ask all persons for all these things about it certainly; this night mentioned here is taken as the 15th night of Sha’ban; it is named as the night of BAR’AT (freedom) as at this night, Allah provides mercy to all those who ask for it with total heart, forgiving their sins; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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132-Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah:
While we were returning from a Ghazwa (Holy Battle) with the Prophet, I started driving my camel fast, as it was a lazy camel A rider came behind me and pricked my camel with a spear he had with him, and then my camel started running as fast as the best camel you may see. Behold! The rider was the Prophet himself. He said, 'What makes you in such a hurry?" I replied, I am newly married " He said, "Did you marry a virgin or a matron? I replied, "A matron." He said, "Why didn't you marry a young girl so that you may play with her and she with you?" When we were about to enter (Medina), the Prophet said, "Wait so that you may enter (Medina) at night so that the lady of unkempt hair may comb her hair and the one whose husband has been absent may shave her pubic region.
The Islamic moral values include the guidance to provide ease to the wife in the best way possible so that she might see to her obligation towards her husband well; returning from GHAZWA BANI-MUSTALAQ, the Prophet (PBUH) saw that the camel of JABIR (RA) was very slow and he only touched it with some branch or the spear as reported here; the Prophet (PBUH) was highly particular not to hit animals even and it is known well by Ahadith that when he had to attend wars at the command of Allah, he tried his best not to involve himself into the hand-to-hand fight there but commanded the occasion standing in the midst of his forces; he never beat a woman or a child (or any weak person for that matter) any time anywhere for any reason whatsoever; he always stood for the weak persons all his life and we all must also see to this without fail in our own capacity; we all must note that no harsh action is taken against young students that is often taken at places or accused persons for some crime that are yet to be proved criminals as that proves to be a high psychic burden to them in their later lives; note that all dictators of recent times had received a harsh treatment in some way from the adults or from the people in authority in their childhood and we know how they dealt with the world once they got power; in current times, if we care for the Islamic Moral Values in all our attitudes especially that are taken at the teaching department, at the medical department and at the justice department then surely it would be only matter of time for Islamic Society to come into existence as Islamic Morals are mostly needed in these very fields; coming back to the narration, note that the animal ran so fast that it went ahead of all and the Prophet (PBUH) offered to buy it; Jabir asked to take it without any price as a gift from him but the Prophet declined that and told him that he would pay; the transaction was finalized but the Prophet PBUH allowed Jabir to ride it till they reach Medina as he had no other conveyance available; when they reached Medina, Jabir gave the camel and taking the money, he turned to go home; the Prophet (PBUH) then called him and told him words to the effect to take the animal with him as gift to him from the Prophet PBUH; another version of this Hadith tells us that Jabir had told the Prophet PBUH that he had many sisters (seven or nine) and his father has passed away so he needed some mature woman to take care of the household; ULAMA have remarked that in normal situation it is better for the man to marry a virgin girl yet in difficult situations where the marriage to some woman of mature understanding is needed, then that only is feasible in practice; note that only one of the wives of the Prophet (PBUH) was virgin among the 12 of wives he took and that was AYESHA (RA); his marriages prove one of the means to resolve differences with many of Arab tribes (as the custom prevailing then asked to care highly for the man who married a woman from the tribe and provided ample respect to her); he was certainly facing difficult times containing the enemy of Islam then but with the total blessing of Allah, those difficult times changed to better times for Islam in the last of his life; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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133-Narrated Sahl:
A man passed by Allah's Apostle and Allah s Apostle asked (his companions) "What do you say about this (man)?" They replied "If he asks for a lady's hand, he ought to be given her in marriage; and if he intercedes (for someone) his intercessor should be accepted; and if he speaks, he should be listened to." Allah's Apostle kept silent, and then a man from among the poor Muslims passed by, an Allah's Apostle asked (them) "What do you say about this man?" They replied, "If he asks for a lady's hand in marriage he does not deserve to be married, and he intercedes (for someone), his intercession should not be accepted; And if he speaks, he should not be listened to.' Allah's Apostle said, "This poor man is better than so many of the first as filling the earth.'
The Islamic moral values include the guidance to respect the virtuous person highly in all matters of life; note well that it is not the possession of worldly assets that makes the Muslim person respectful but in fact, it is the good deeds according to his good Belief that raises him to respect; the worldly assets do increase his chances to good deeds yet it might prove extreme burden too over him if he cares but little for the commands of Allah for those worldly assets; it is well to live at the world with ease in necessities with care to the good deeds that would weigh at AKHIRAT rather than troubling the self for the accumulation of wealth after the satisfaction of necessities; the useless economic activities do take much of the precious time available that the Muslims could have utilized for the spread of the Islamic Teachings by the Holy Book Quran & the SUNNAH of the Prophet PBUH; the Muslims would insha Allah rise again to guide the world towards the Truth; we spread the teachings of Islam before with the Holy Book Quran & the SUNNAH and certainly with that only, we would do it again; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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134-Narrated Kharija bin Zaid bin Thabit:
Um Al-'Ala an Ansari woman who had given a pledge of allegiance to Allah's Apostle told me:, "The Muhajirin (emigrants) were distributed amongst us by drawing lots, and we got 'Uthman bin Maz'un in our share. We made him stay with us in our house. Then he suffered from a disease which proved fatal. When he died and was given a bath and was shrouded in his clothes. Allah's Apostle came, I said, (addressing the dead body), 'O Aba As-Sa'ib! May Allah be Merciful to you! I testify that Allah has honored you.' Allah's Apostle said, 'How do you know that Allah has honored him?" I replied, 'Let my father be sacrificed for you, O Allah's Apostle! On whom else shall Allah bestow His honor?' Allah's Apostle said, 'As for him, by Allah, death has come to him. By Allah, I wish him all good (from Allah). By Allah, in spite of the fact that I am Allah's Apostle, I do not know what Allah will do to me.", Um Al-'Ala added, "By Allah, I will never attest the righteousness of anybody after that."
The Islamic moral values include that Muslims must not talk ill about the person dead (except where he has been at authority abusing it by extreme injustice); it is not feasible to mention him of such merit too that he certainly has got the place at JANNAH without any reasoning (that has to be based at his adherence to the KITAB and the SUNNAH); UTHMAN bin MAZ’UN was certainly virtuous person due to his care to the Islamic Teachings yet the Prophet PBUH intended to guide that all speech especially speech that appreciates someone highly relating to AKHIRAT or that depreciates someone highly relating to it, needs high caution; note well that the Prophet PBUH did not have the knowledge of GHAIB by his own but received WAHI (revelations from Allah) the education of which he had to provide to all as the last Prophet of Allah; we all have an examination here in the world and that means that we all must believe in GHAIB (whatever we are not able to see or hear but understand well that this GHAIB does have existence because of the WAHI i.e. communication of Allah to the Prophet PBUH); may Allah give us the wisdom to see the Truth as it is and the adherence to accept it well taking it well in our deeds; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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135- Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle forbade the selling of things by a town dweller on behalf of a desert dweller (villager); and similarly Najsh was forbidden. And one should not urge somebody to return the goods to the seller so as to sell him his own goods; nor should one demand the hand of a girl who has already been engaged to someone else; and a woman should not try to cause some other woman to be divorced in order to take her place.
The Islamic moral values include the teaching that all Muslims are brothers and they must try their best to care for each other in all the manner possible; those worldly profits actually are bad that anyone earns by inflicting loss to someone consciously; though the market was very limited at that time in comparison with today and even commodities too yet the rulings we get by Ahadith still have the competence to guide in the field of Economics well; the villager in possession to some goods that has utility at the city has to provide that by his own resources there at the market and he should ask distributors for its marketing only when it does not raise prices to height and where it does not lead to monopoly of that; when the transaction among two sides is in progress, someone intervenes and bids a better price than the buyer there that is not actually for buying the commodity but for the sake of providing material benefits to the seller tricking the buyer there into raising his bid, this approach is called NAJASH and it certainly is prohibited; also, it is not allowed to ask for the cancellation of the transaction without any reason or with the reason for the benefit of that person who pursues the buyer to that (note that the transaction might be cancelled by the buyer within 3 days if he intends); also, it is not allowed to propose a girl that is already engaged to someone; the Hadith also guides that one of the wives of the man must not try to impress him to divorce other of his wives to gain favor in his eyes; it also guides women in general to avoid applying such ways that might lead a man to detest his wife that leads him to divorce her as this is extremely bad whether the persuader to that, intends to become his wife in her place or does not; may Allah save all Muslims from asking for trouble to any other of Muslims and in fact, to anyone of the world; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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136-Narrated Aisha:
Allah's Apostle (PBUH) came to my house while two girls were singing beside me the songs of Buath (a story about the war between the two tribes of the Ansar, the Khazraj and the Aus, before Islam). The Prophet (PBUH) lay down and turned his face to the other side. Then Abu Bakr came and spoke to me harshly saying, "Musical instruments of Satan near the Prophet (PBUH) ?" Allah's Apostle (PBUH) turned his face towards him and said, "Leave them." When Abu Bakr became inattentive, I signalled to those girls to go out and they left. It was the day of 'Id, and the Black people were playing with shields and spears; so either I requested the Prophet (PBUH) or he asked me whether I would like to see the display. I replied in the affirmative. Then the Prophet (PBUH) made me stand behind him and my cheek was touching his cheek and he was saying, "Carry on! O Bani Arfida," till I got tired. The Prophet (PBUH) asked me, "Are you satisfied (Is that sufficient for you)?" I replied in the affirmative and he told me to leave.
The Islamic moral values include that there ought to be no pursuance to any shameful thing at the Islamic Environment; this concept is named as SADDE-ZARA’E (stopping of means); the Holy Book Quran tells us at the nineteenth verse of Surah-Noor that “Lo! those who love that slander (FAHISHA) spreads concerning those who believe, theirs will be a painful punishment in the world and the Hereafter; Allah knows; Ye know not”; note here about the TV-programs & about Music that none of programs at any of TV-channels would directly present the wrong-doing of persons belittling them on their doings as that is taking law of the land into individual hands but the channels might point out the wrongs addressing the responsible authorities to curb such criminal activities without going particularly against anyone by name & destination; also there certainly must be no such programs that challenge the HEJAB in any manner especially by the presentation of cultures adverse to the Muslim traditions in the name of Reality-Shows or any other; there must be no such programs too in the name of entertainment or any other that lead to the temptation of worldly commodities making greed for them to take place in general; there must be no such programs too that ask callers on-line arbitrarily or that go onto markets for random survey except for interviews on-line of the prominent persons; all programs, live or recorded, would care to high “sobriety” according to the asking of the Islamic Morals in all manner possible while there would never be any making of fun or belittling of any person here; the tolerable songs at the computer (and even at the mobile cell-phone and other modern gadgets) must not present the view of performers but they must relate to voice only and though the limitation here would depend at the will of the listener yet he must see by himself that they are singly sung in decent words by the male singer or by the female singer but not together and that also must remain without any video to them; video that are directly related to the Fine-Arts, must better be avoided at the computer, mobile cell-phones and other modern gadgets in general for certain at the level of EHSAAN by own; Al-Hamdu Lillah; at the TV, such videos related to the Fine-Arts might be allowed keeping to few necessary conditions for the Music; at the Islamic Environment for the Music, the first point to note as one of conditions to it is that words of the songs must not challenge Islamic Morals in any way and this matter must be decided by ordinary Muslims at times yet with total devotion to Islam; the second point to note in this respect is that the singers and the players of instruments must not be professionals (in-fact, it is better if the amateur singer can play an instrument or two and sings with that leisurely and women would necessarily have to avoid singing in front of men at the TV though they might take that up singly at the Radio) so notable here is that their occupations must be some other works while the music just remains a pastime to them taken up at leisure and to all those who enjoy the soft music; the third point is that the music must be soft and not a rhythmic din of some kind as the fast music is not appreciable in an Islamic set-up; the last point in these important ones for this matter is that total instruments used for the songs must not be more than two so that the song does not seem to be a professional kind of thing and remains to softness; it is better if a computerized gadget that is able to provide different musical voices, is used for the song with the set-up of voices of two musical instruments that fulfill the minimum requirement of the music (yin and yang) in the song that must remain soft in nature; other conditions too might be valid here though they might manifest at different levels of importance; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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137-Narrated Aisha:
Abu Bakr came to my house while two small Ansari girls were singing beside me the stories of the Ansar concerning the Day of Buath. And they were not singers. Abu Bakr said protestingly, "Musical instruments of Satan in the house of Allah's Apostle !" It happened on the 'Id day and Allah's Apostle said, "O Abu Bakr! There is an 'Id for every nation and this is our 'Id."
(Note the comment at Hadith-136)
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138-Narrated 'Urwa on the authority of 'Aisha:
On the days of Mina, (11th, 12th, and 13th of Dhul-Hijjah) Abu Bakr came to her while two young girls were beating the tambourine and the Prophet was lying covered with his clothes. Abu Bakr scolded them and the Prophet uncovered his face and said to Abu Bakr, "Leave them, for these days are the days of 'Id and the days of Mina." 'Aisha further said, "Once the Prophet was screening me and I was watching the display of black slaves in the Mosque and 'Umar scolded them. The Prophet said, 'Leave them. O Bani Arfida! (carry on), you are safe'."
(Note the comment at Hadith-136)
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139-Narrated Um Khalid bint Khalid:
The Prophet was given some clothes including a black Khamisa. The Prophet said, "To whom shall we give this to wear?" The people kept silent whereupon the Prophet said, "Fetch Um Khalid for me." I (Um Khalid) was brought carried (as I was small girl at that time). The Prophet took the Khamisa in his hands and made me wear it and said, "May you live so long that your dress will wear out and you will mend it many times." On the Khamisa there were some green or pale designs (The Prophet saw these designs) and said, "O Um Khalid! This is Sanah." (Sanah in a Ethiopian word meaning beautiful).
The Islamic moral values include that Muslims must be lenient to children; they like colorful designs, attractive embroidery and playthings; due to this psyche of little children, the Prophet PBUH led the attention of the child to the design at the black garment KHAMISA (the outer garment) indicating its beauty to her; due to DUA of the Prophet PBUH, she lived up-to the ripe age and was one of the last of SAHABA to die then; she always remembered this beautiful incident where the Prophet PBUH gave her the wonderful gift and with that, the wonderful DUA too; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that though white & green among the colorful garments are preferable to wear yet garments of all other colors are also well to wear but total red dress and total yellow dress is better to avoid though linings & shades of these colors at garments of other colors are no problem; note also that even the wearing of the black color too is no problem when the heart truly is towards Allah only; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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140-Narrated 'Ali:
The Prophet gave me a silk suit and I wore it, but when I noticed anger on his face, I cut it and distributed it among my women-folk.
The Islamic moral values include that even the Muslim men have to be cautious in whatever they wear; they are not allowed to wear silk except where necessary mostly due to some affliction to the body and gold is forbidden too for them; however, there is a difference among ULAMA here as many of them say that even in necessity, pure silk must be avoided and mixed cloth that has silk must be taken (and they say that it is better that even that cloth with impure silk has silk at the inside of the cloth and not obvious) while the other ULAMA say that at necessity silk might be used unconditionally; note that at ordinary circumstances both agree that men must totally avoid the wearing of silk according to the guidance of the Hadith; note that the Prophet PBUH had provided the silk garment to Ali-RA to distribute among the women relatives and it was not for his own usage; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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141-Narrated Anas bin Malik:
that he had seen Um Kulthum, the daughter of Allah's Apostle , wearing a red silk garment.
The Islamic moral values include that the Muslim men do not wear total red garment or total yellow one; however, like silk & gold, even that is allowed for the Muslim women with care to HEJAB; note that ANAS was just a boy of small age then at the times of the Prophet PBUH; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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I-About Avoidance of Wrongs in General
142-Narrated Aisha:
Utba bin Abu Waqqas took a firm promise from his brother Sa’d bin Abu Waqqas to take the son of the slave-girl of Zam'a into his custody as he was his (i.e. 'Utba's) son. In the year of the Conquest (of Mecca) Sa’d bin Abu Waqqas took him, and said that he was his brother's son, and his brother took a promise from him to that effect. 'Abu bin Zam'a got up and said, "He is my brother and the son of the slave-girl of my father and was born on my father's bed." Then they both went to the Prophet; Sa’d said, "O Allah's Apostle! He is the son of my brother and he has taken a promise from me that I will take him." 'Abu bin Zam'a said, "(He is) my brother and the son of my father's slave-girl and was born on my father's bed." Allah's Apostle said, "The boy is for you. O 'Abu bin Zam'a." Then the Prophet said, "The son is for the bed (i.e the man on whose bed he was born) and stones (disappointment and deprivation) for the one who has done illegal sexual intercourse." The Prophet told his wife Sauda bint Zam'a to screen herself from that boy as he noticed a similarity between the boy and 'Utba. So, the boy did not see her till he died.
It is necessary to fulfill the demands of the Islamic Justice and everyone of Muslims must take care to it; if someone claims a person to be his son by admission to adultery, he would be punished for that heinous crime to which he has admitted by himself and with that too, he would not get the custody of the person he claims to be his son though his looks (or even the DNA test in the current times) might tell him to be his son; however, the verdict does not make him MEHRAM to the Female near relatives of the person who has got it in his favor; though the boy remains his son by the law, those female persons that become his near relatives by the law would still have to care for HEJAB from that boy as he grows and this proves that ADL is for the claimed issue and EHSAN in attitude is for the social values that prevail in the Islamic Environment; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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143- Narrated Jubair bin Mutim:
A lady came to Allah's Apostle and she talked to him about something, and he gave her some order. She said, "O Allah's Apostle! If I should not find you?" He said, "If you should not find me, then go to Abu Bakr." Ibrahim bin Sa'd said, "As if she meant the death (of the Prophet)."
It is necessary to fulfill the demands of the Islamic Justice and everyone of Muslims must take care to it; seeking of the Islamic manner in issues at hand is necessary for all Muslims, male or female; if the person can not get the solution to the problem from the one intended due to his passing-away, he or she ought to ask another knowledgeable person trusted that answers by the same criteria of the KITAB & the SUNNAH of the Prophet PBUH that might provide the answer well to practice then & there; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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144-Narrated Anas:
A Jew crushed the head of a girl between two stones. The girl was asked who had crushed her head, and some names were mentioned before her, and when the name of the Jew was mentioned, she nodded agreeing. The Jew was captured and when he confessed, the Prophet ordered that his head be crushed between two stones.
It is necessary to fulfill the demands of the Islamic Justice and everyone of Muslims must take care to it; here we find that the Islamic Justice accepts even the indication by gestures towards the identity of the criminal that clearly provide that if he or she is unable to convey that by words; the other notable thing is that the Islamic Justice might take-up the same manner of execution to the verdict that the criminal manifested at the crime as this fulfills its demands well; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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J-The incident of “IFAK”
145-Narrated Aisha:
"Whenever Allah's Apostle intended to go on a journey, he would draw lots amongst his wives and would take with him the one upon whom the lot fell. During a Ghazwa of his, he drew lots amongst us and the lot fell upon me, and I proceeded with him after Allah had decreed the use of the veil by women. I was carried in a Howdah (on the camel) and dismounted while still in it. When Allah's Apostle was through with his Ghazwa and returned home, and we approached the city of Medina, Allah's Apostle ordered us to proceed at night. When the order of setting off was given, I walked till I was past the army to answer the call of nature. After finishing I returned (to the camp) to depart (with the others) and suddenly realized that my necklace over my chest was missing. So, I returned to look for it and was delayed because of that. The people who used to carry me on the camel, came to my Howdah and put it on the back of the camel, thinking that I was in it, as, at that time, women were light in weight, and thin and lean, and did not use to eat much. So, those people did not feel the difference in the heaviness of the Howdah while lifting it, and they put it over the camel. At that time I was a young lady. They set the camel moving and proceeded on. I found my necklace after the army had gone, and came to their camp to find nobody. So, I went to the place where I used to stay, thinking that they would discover my absence and come back in my search. While in that state, I felt sleepy and slept. Safwan bin Mu'attal As-Sulami Adh-Dhakwani was behind the army and reached my abode in the morning. When he saw a sleeping person, he came to me, and he used to see me before veiling. So, I got up when I heard him saying, "Inna Lillah wa Inna Ilaihi Rajiun (We are for Allah, and we will return to Him)." He made his camel kneel down. He got down from his camel, and put his leg on the front legs of the camel and then I rode and sat over it. Safwan set out walking, leading the camel by the rope till we reached the army who had halted to take rest at midday. Then whoever was meant for destruction, fell into destruction, (some people accused me falsely) and the leader of the false accusers was 'Abdullah bin Ubai bin Salul. After that we returned to Medina, and I became ill for one month while the people were spreading the forged statements of the false accusers. I was feeling during my ailment as if I were not receiving the usual kindness from the Prophet which I used to receive from him when I got sick. But he would come, greet and say, 'How is that (girl)?' I did not know anything of what was going on till I recovered from my ailment and went out with Um Mistah to the Manasi where we used to answer the call of nature, and we used not to go to answer the call of nature except from night to night and that was before we had lavatories near to our houses. And this habit of ours was similar to the habit of the old 'Arabs in the open country (or away from houses). So. I and Um Mistah bint Ruhm went out walking. Um Mistah stumbled because of her long dress and on that she said, 'Let Mistah be ruined.' I said, 'You are saying a bad word. Why are you abusing a man who took part in (the battle of) Badr?' She said, 'O Hanata (you there) didn't you hear what they said?' Then she told me the rumors of the false accusers. My sickness was aggravated, and when I returned home, Allah's Apostle came to me, and after greeting he said, 'How is that (girl)?' I requested him to allow me to go to my parents. I wanted then to be sure of the news through them; Allah's Apostle allowed me, and I went to my parents and asked my mother, 'What are the people talking about?' She said, 'O my daughter! Don't worry much about this matter. By Allah, never is there a charming woman loved by her husband who has other wives, but the women would forge false news about her.' I said, 'Glorified be Allah! Are the people really taking of this matter?' That night I kept on weeping and could not sleep till morning. In the morning Allah's Apostle called Ali bin Abu Talib and Usama bin Zaid when he saw the Divine Inspiration delayed, to consul them about divorcing his wife (i.e. 'Aisha). Usama bin Zaid said what he knew of the good reputation of his wives and added, 'O Allah's Apostle! Keep you wife, for, by Allah, we know nothing about her but good.' 'Ali bin Abu Talib said, 'O Allah's Apostle! Allah has not imposed any restrictions upon you, and there are many women other than she, yet you may ask the woman-servant who will tell you the truth.' On that Allah's Apostle called Buraira and said, 'O Burair. Did you ever see anything which roused your suspicions about her?' Buraira said, 'No, by Allah Who has sent you with the Truth, I have never seen in her anything faulty except that she is a girl of immature age, who sometimes sleeps and leaves the dough for the goats to eat.' On that day Allah's Apostle ascended the pulpit and requested that somebody support him in punishing 'Abdullah bin Ubai bin Salul. Allah's Apostle said, 'Who will support me to punish that person ('Abdullah bin Ubai bin Salul) who has hurt me by slandering the reputation of my family? By Allah, I know nothing about my family but good, and they have accused a person about whom I know nothing except good, and he never entered my house except in my company.' Sad bin Mu'adh got up and said, 'O Allah's Apostle! by Allah, I will relieve you from him. If that man is from the tribe of the Aus, then we will chop his head off, and if he is from our brothers, the Khazraj, then order us, and we will fulfill your order.' On that Sad bin 'Ubada, the chief of the Khazraj and before this incident, he had been a pious man, got up, motivated by his zeal for his tribe and said, 'By Allah, you have told a lie; you cannot kill him, and you will never be able to kill him.' On that Usaid bin Al-Hadir got up and said (to Sad bin 'Ubada), 'By Allah! you are a liar. By Allah, we will kill him; and you are a hypocrite, defending the hypocrites.' On this the two tribes of Aus and Khazraj got excited and were about to fight each other, while Allah's Apostle was standing on the pulpit. He got down and quieted them till they became silent and he kept quiet. On that day I kept on weeping so much so that neither did my tears stop, nor could I sleep. In the morning my parents were with me and I had wept for two nights and a day, till I thought my liver would burst from weeping. While they were sitting with me and I was weeping, an Ansari woman asked my permission to enter, and I allowed her to come in. She sat down and started weeping with me. While we were in this state, Allah's Apostle came and sat down and he had never sat with me since the day they forged the accusation. No revelation regarding my case came to him for a month. He recited Tashah-hud (i.e. None has the right to be worshipped but Allah and Muhammad is His Apostle) and then said, 'O 'Aisha! I have been informed such-and-such about you; if you are innocent, then Allah will soon reveal your innocence, and if you have committed a sin, then repent to Allah and ask Him to forgive you, for when a person confesses his sin and asks Allah for forgiveness, Allah accepts his repentance.' When Allah's Apostle finished his speech my tears ceased completely and there remained not even a single drop of it. I requested my father to reply to Allah's Apostle on my behalf. My father said, By Allah, I do not know what to say to Allah's Apostle.' I said to my mother, 'Talk to Allah's Apostle on my behalf.' She said, 'By Allah, I do not know what to say to Allah's Apostle. I was a young girl and did not have much knowledge of the Quran. I said. 'I know, by Allah, that you have listened to what people are saying and that has been planted in your minds and you have taken it as a truth. Now, if I told you that I am innocent and Allah knows that I am innocent, you would not believe me and if I confessed to you falsely that I am guilty, and Allah knows that I am innocent you would believe me. By Allah, I don't compare my situation with you except to the situation of Joseph's father (i.e. Jacob) who said, 'So (for me) patience is most fitting against that which you assert and it is Allah (Alone) whose help can be sought.' Then I turned to the other side of my bed hoping that Allah would prove my innocence. By Allah I never thought that Allah would reveal Divine Inspiration in my case, as I considered myself too inferior to be talked of in the Holy Qur'an. I had hoped that Allah's Apostle might have a dream in which Allah would prove my innocence. By Allah, Allah's Apostle had not got up and nobody had left the house before the Divine Inspiration came to Allah's Apostle. So, there overtook him the same state which used to overtake him, (when he used to have, on being inspired divinely). He was sweating so much so that the drops of the sweat were dropping like pearls though it was a (cold) wintry day. When that state of Allah's Apostle was over, he was smiling and the first word he said, 'Aisha! Thank Allah, for Allah has declared your innocence.' My mother told me to go to Allah's Apostle . I replied, 'By Allah I will not go to him and will not thank but Allah.' So Allah revealed: "Verily! They who spread the slander are a gang among you . . ." (24:11) When Allah gave the declaration of my Innocence, Abu Bakr, who used to provide for Mistah bin Uthatha for he was his relative, said, 'By Allah, I will never provide Mistah with anything because of what he said about Aisha.' But Allah later revealed: -- "And let not those who are good and wealthy among you swear not to help their kinsmen, those in need and those who left their homes in Allah's Cause. Let them forgive and overlook. Do you not wish that Allah should forgive you? Verily! Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful." (24.22) After that Abu Bakr said, 'Yes ! By Allah! I like that Allah should forgive me,' and resumed helping Mistah whom he used to help before. Allah's Apostle also asked Zainab bint Jahsh (i.e. the Prophet's wife) about me saying, 'What do you know and what did you see?' She replied, 'O Allah's Apostle! I refrain to claim hearing or seeing what I have not heard or seen. By Allah, I know nothing except good about Aisha." Aisha further added "Zainab was competing with me (in her beauty and the Prophet's love), yet Allah protected her (from being malicious), for she had piety."
The incident reported here tells that there have been such unscrupulous persons even at the times of the Prophet PBUH that accused even the chaste pious women; the incident of IFAK tells us that some of persons then accused Sayyidah Ayesha RA when she was left behind of the procession at GHAZWA BANI-MUSTALIQ that proceeded on ahead at the night and SAFWAN bin MUATTAL coming behind the procession to see if nothing of the procession has been left behind by mistake, found her sleeping at the way; he recognized her and awoke her by praising Allah; she rode at the camel he had that he led walking silently to the procession; they reached it at the afternoon of the day; there was Abdulah ibn Ubayy present at the procession who spread the rumor that there is some wrong between these two so they had stayed behind; some good Muslims fell into this wrong accusation too including Mistah & Hassaan and the sister of ZAYNAB bint JAHSH also fell for it though ZAYNAB kept herself away from such abuse; it was after many days that Ayesha came to know about this heinous slander and it caused high stress to her; Allah gave her the most high esteem by providing the fact about the matter in clear terms at Surah-NOOR (read its verses from 11 to 20); note well that it is most heinous thing to publicize scandalous news & programs (even if true by information) that belittle any person (specially when it disrespects some good respectable persons at the environment) and the media must be very careful in this matter; it has to ask the Government officials to take the necessary lawful action against the wrongs and the wrong-doers without seeking to become one of sides to reports of the shameful issue; note that when this matter was settled with general acceptance of the acquittal of Sayyedah Ayesha RA and Safwan RA from the heinous charge, Allah commanded not to stop charity as social boycott to such persons even, who had been the part of the problem but who now had accepted their grave mistake when the Holy Book Quran had clearly announced the untruth of this heinous charge; we have seen that Sayyedah did show leniency to HASSAAN (see the comment at Hadith-101) and did not have anything against him; the incident of IFAK tells clearly that good Muslims must always care not to charge any chaste pious woman of adultery on assumptions because Allah cares for such good woman and He might punish such slanderers most severely even in the worldly life; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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146-Narrated Az-Zuhri:
Urwa bin Az-Zubair, Said bin Al-Musaiyab, 'Al-Qama bin Waqqas and 'Ubaidullah bin 'Abdullah related the narration of 'Aisha, the wife the Prophet, when the slanderers had said about her what they had said and Allah later declared her innocence. Each of them related a part of the narration (wherein) the Prophet said (to 'Aisha). "If you are innocent, then Allah will declare your innocence: but if you have committed a sin, then ask for Allah's Forgiveness and repent to him." 'Aisha said, "By Allah, I find no example for my case except that of Joseph's father (when he said), 'So (for me) patience is most fitting.' " Then Allah revealed the ten Verses:-- "Verily those who spread the slander are a gang amongst you.." (24:11).
(Note the comment at Hadith-145)
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147-Narrated Ibn Abu Mulaika:
Ibn 'Abbas asked permission to visit Aisha before her death, and at that time she was in a state of agony. She then said. "I am afraid that he will praise me too much." And then it was said to her, "He is the cousin of Allah's Apostle and one of the prominent Muslims." Then she said, "Allow him to enter." (When he entered) he said, "How are you?" She replied, "I am Alright if I fear (Allah)." Ibn Abbas said, "Allah willing, you are Alright as you are the wife of Allah's Apostle and he did not marry any virgin except you and proof of your innocence was revealed from the Heaven." Later on Ibn Az-Zubair entered after him and 'Aisha said to him, "Ibn 'Abbas came to me and praised me greatly, but I wish
that I was a thing forgotten and out of sight."
(Note the comment at Hadith-145)
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K-About the Custody of Women
148-Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
That while he was sitting with the Prophet a man from the Ansar came and said, "O Allah's Apostle! We get slave girls from the war captives and we love property; what do you think about coitus interruptus?" Allah's Apostle said, "Do you do that? It is better for you not to do it, for there is no soul which Allah has ordained to come into existence but will be created."
The war at old times allowed taking the women of the defeated side that were at the battlefield in custody as slave-girls and the commander distributed them among the warriors of the winning side as the booty; Coitus-Interruptus (AZL) though allowed at times is not appreciated in general by the Islamic Teachings; the man might take-up few very limited ways to stop pregnancy temporarily when that seems necessary, the best being the natural avoidance of nearness to his wives in this respect with their consent (or taking up such nearness at times where the chances are much lesser to pregnancy with their consent) and at the lesser degree taking-up AZL with their consent; they must not take-up such ways as to cause permanent blockade of pregnancy to their wives; however the Muslim woman has to avoid taking any measures that prevent the pregnancy except where her life is most probably threatened due to the pregnancy; slaves were taken as valuable property at those times and the value of slave girls when they gave birth to the child of the master fell at the market so the owners of some slave-girls asked about coitus-interruptus so that they do not become pregnant; note that Islam being the natural tendency of human-beings highly appreciates the natural role of men to earn the bread and of women to bear and rear the children; note also that the Muslim women must remain most cautious as of now in taking-up the modern medical methods for cure to afflictions as they are becoming most challenging to the Islamic teachings now due to the extreme omission of Islamic Moral Values in the medical field, especially with high male medical staff among doctors and paramedical personnel at hospitals now; it is most feasible that they avoid admittance to hospitals as of now for any reason whatsoever; may Allah give them all the patience to endure afflictions in such ways that they keep to the Islamic Moral Values at all places and at all times by the blessing of Allah; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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149-Narrated Al-Bara bin Azib:
The Prophet appointed 'Abdullah bin Jubair as the commander of the infantry men (archers) who were fifty on the day (of the battle) of Uhud. He instructed them, "Stick to your place, and don't leave it even if you see birds snatching us, till I send for you; and if you see that we have defeated the infidels and made them flee, even then you should not leave your place till I send for you." Then the infidels were defeated. By Allah, I saw the women fleeing lifting up their clothes revealing their leg-bangles and their legs. So, the companions of 'Abdullah bin Jubair said, "The booty! O people, the booty ! Your companions have become victorious, what are you waiting for now?" 'Abdullah bin Jubair said, "Have you forgotten what Allah's Apostle said to you?" They replied, "By Allah! We will go to the people (i.e. the enemy) and collect our share from the war booty." But when they went to them, they were forced to turn back defeated. At that time Allah's Apostle in their rear was calling them back. Only twelve men remained with the Prophet and the infidels martyred seventy men from us. On the day (of the battle) of Badr, the Prophet and his companions had caused the 'Pagans to lose 140 men, seventy of whom were captured and seventy were killed. Then Abu Sufyan asked thrice, "Is Muhammad present amongst these people?" The Prophet ordered his companions not to answer him. Then he asked thrice, "Is the son of Abu Quhafa present amongst these people?" He asked again thrice, "Is the son of Al-Khattab present amongst these people?" He then returned to his companions and said, "As for these (men), they have been killed." 'Umar could not control himself and said (to Abu Sufyan), "You told a lie, by Allah! O enemy of Allah! All those you have mentioned are alive, and the thing which will make you unhappy is still there." Abu Sufyan said, "Our victory today is a counterbalance to yours in the battle of Badr, and in war (the victory) is always undecided and is shared in turns by the belligerents, and you will find some of your (killed) men mutilated, but I did not urge my men to do so, yet I do not feel sorry for their deed" After that he started reciting cheerfully, "O Hubal, be high! On that the Prophet said (to his companions), "Why don't you answer him back?" They said, "O Allah's Apostle What shall we say?" He said, "Say, Allah is Higher and more Sublime." (Then) Abu Sufyan said, "We have the (idol) Al Uzza, and you have no Uzza." The Prophet said (to his companions), "Why don't you answer him back?" They asked, "O Allah's Apostle! What shall we say?" He said, "Say Allah is our Helper and you have no helper."
The war at old times allowed taking the women of the defeated side that were at the battlefield in custody as slave-girls and this became one of the causes to the setback that Muslims faced at UHUD; the Prophet PBUH had set the battalion of fifty warriors there at the mount where there was the danger of surprise attack from the enemy; as many of those who were posted there erroneously thought that the Muslims have won the battle, they made for the main field to get their shares from the booty and that allowed the enemy to retaliate from that very soft corner; it was the deadly duel at UHUD where Muslims incurred heavy losses to lives; though Allah saved Muslims then and the enemy turned back without inflicting more losses to Muslims yet the matter did tell clearly that Muslims must remain committed to the command of the Prophet PBUH in the best manner possible; they must not care for the worldly assets if their adherence to the Islamic Teachings is challenged by the trying times; Allah would surely give them all sustenance at the world with total ease if they do keep to Islam that would lead them to the total salvation at AKHIRAT; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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150-Narrated Ibn Umar:
Bani An-Nadir and Bani Quraiza fought (against the Prophet violating their peace treaty), so the Prophet exiled Bani An-Nadir and allowed Bani Quraiza to remain at their places (in Medina taking nothing from them till they fought against the Prophet again) . He then killed their men and distributed their women, children and property among the Muslims, but some of them came to the Prophet and he granted them safety, and they embraced Islam. He exiled all the Jews from Medina. They were the Jews of Bani Qainuqa', the tribe of 'Abdullah bin Salam and the Jews of Bani Haritha and all the other Jews of Medina.
The war at old times allowed taking the women of the defeated side that were at the battlefield in custody as slave-girls and even the men too that were captured there alive were turned into slaves; the male slaves had to earn for their respective masters paying them some amount on daily basis while the female slaves had to see to the sexual needs of their respective masters; Islam did not initiate this practice nor did it appreciate it; on the contrary it gave commands for slaves i.e. for both male and female that led to their emancipation with time; here detail would not be possible yet please note in brief that Islam asked to treat slaves with respect, asked to release them from slavery in compensation of some commands of Allah that the masters could not fulfill, asked not to give female slaves to men for sexual reasons except by marriage (though their sale was allowed yet not appreciated), allotted the freedom to the female slave if she became the mother to his child (that was named UMM-WALAD); asked not to stop them from becoming MUKATAB i.e. those male and female slaves who asked release by paying-out some amount for their freedom to their respective masters and in addition to these, Islam asked in many other ways too to free slaves; with that it also asked not to make the free people slaves to the extent possible at those times and this was the best that could have been done at the situation where the custom of slavery prevailed; women used to outnumber men highly as men fell at battle-grounds in those days in scores while the number of battles was high too; please note well that slavery in essence was and is totally alien to Islamic teachings but it was there to deal with at the time Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), the last of Messengers of Allah, started the teaching of Islam; no doubt that in that given situation at Arabia and in that given time, Islam that is based on the teachings of the Holy Book Quran and the SUNNAH of the Prophet (PBUH), dealt with it beautifully; Al-Hamdu Lillah; as for the Jews mentioned at the Hadith, note that the Prophet PBUH tolerated all the Jews at Medina that belonged to three of tribes, to the extent possible and made pacts with them; however, when they conspired against Muslims and assisted the enemy of Islam in different ways, he expelled all of these Jewish tribes one by one at different times from Medina and cleared Medina of their nuisance so that Muslims might remain totally steadfast upon the Truth as told by Islam; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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L-About Salah
151-Narrated Abu Huraira:
One day while the Prophet was sitting in the company of some people, (The angel) Gabriel came and asked, "What is faith?" Allah's Apostle replied, 'Faith is to believe in Allah, His angels, (the) meeting with Him, His Apostles, and to believe in Resurrection." Then he further asked, "What is Islam?" Allah's Apostle replied, "To worship Allah Alone and none else, to offer prayers perfectly to pay the compulsory charity (Zakat) and to observe fasts during the month of Ramadan." Then he further asked, "What is Ihsan (more of the good than asked of the Muslim person)?" Allah's Apostle replied, "To worship Allah as if you see Him, and if you cannot achieve this state of devotion then you must consider that He is looking at you." Then he further asked, "When will the Hour be established?" Allah's Apostle replied, "The answerer has no better knowledge than the questioner. But I will inform you about its portents.
1. When a slave (lady) gives birth to her master.
2. When the shepherds of black camels start boasting and competing with others in the construction of higher buildings.
And the Hour is one of five things which nobody knows except Allah.
The Prophet then recited: "Verily, with Allah (Alone) is the knowledge of the Hour--." (31. 34) Then that man (Gabriel) left and the Prophet asked his companions to call him back, but they could not see him. Then the Prophet said, "That was Gabriel who came to teach the people their religion." Abu 'Abdullah said: He (the Prophet) considered all that as a part of faith.
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam and this Hadith guides to read it with total application of self; this Hadith is known as “Hadith Gabriel” among ULAMA and it denotes that the angel GABRIEL came to teach SAHABA openly at a meeting about the True Belief but in the disguise of a man; it is taken as one of the significant Ahadith that has been narrated from the Prophet (PBUH); this appearance of Gabriel most probably took place at the very last of the Prophet’s worldly life; SAHABA used to be very cautious in asking questions after the revelation of the verse of Surah MAE’DAH, “O you who believe! Do not put questions about things which if declared to you might trouble you” (5:101) so this opportunity was provided by Allah to them to make them even better; here it is noteworthy that two important signs for the Hour are given as that maid-servant would give birth to her mistress; and shepherd that had low worldly status would rise to high worldly status constructing huge expensive buildings; ULAMA have taken the former to mean that young girls would treat their mothers as if they are slaves to them expecting every comfort from them yet not providing their rights from their side as they should be provided; for the latter, no explanation is necessary as indeed many persons among Arabs have risen to heights today getting high worldly status; this tells quite well that this is the time that is mentioned in Hadith and so certainly QAYAMAT is extremely near; it is notable that the Muslim woman must not initiate the shameful things and the Muslim man must avoid initiation to all of attitudes that are injustice; this Hadith by its expression also tells us clearly that construction of huge buildings is not praiseworthy by Islam as that is useless expense and as such, injustice to the needy towards whom the Muslim man must direct the wealth; it is most appropriate to mark here that those Arabs who are not inclined to show-off but use their finances in the betterment of Muslims caring about AKHIRAT, they are certainly most praiseworthy; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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152-Narrated Ibn Shihab from 'Urwa:
'Aisha said, "Once Allah's Apostle delayed the 'Isha' prayer till 'Umar reminded him by saying, "The prayer!" The women and children have slept. Then the Prophet came out and said, 'None amongst the dwellers of the earth has been waiting for it (the prayer) except you." Urwa said, "Nowhere except in Medina the prayer used to be offered (in those days)." He further said, "The Prophet used to offer the Isha prayer in the period between the disappearance of the twilight and the end of the first third of the night."
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam that Muslims read five times daily; here at this Hadith, we have ISHA in focus; the better time for ISHA is unanimously taken as somewhat later than its initial time and this Hadith also has words to that effect; JAME’-TIRMIDHI reports by NU’MAN bin BASHIR that “Allah's Messenger (PBUH) used to observe ISHA at the time of the setting of the moon on its third night”; this also tells that delay for it is better as the Moon on its third night takes some time to set then; it has also reported by Abu-Hurayra RA that the Prophet PBUH said; “Were it not that my UMMAH would be distressed by it, I would have commanded them to postpone the Salah of ISHA to third or half of the night”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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153-Narrated 'Aisha:
The necklace of Asma' was lost, so the Prophet sent some men to look for it. The time for the prayer became due and they had not performed ablution and could not find water, so they offered the prayer without ablution. Then Allah revealed (the Verse of Tayammum).
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam that needs WUDHU to read it; if the water is not available or extremely scarce, the MUSALLI is allowed to make TAYAMMUM; this means to get cleanliness by pure sand if water is not available and to ask for cleanliness becomes necessary by WUDHU or by GHUSL; it was allowed by the sixth verse of Surah-MA’EDAH (around the fourth or the fifth year of HIJRAH) and that was when the necklace of Ayesha-RA was lost; it was later found beneath the camel she was riding; the procession had to stop for its search while water was scarce; in TAYAMMUM, only hands and face are wiped with two beats of both hands one by one at the sand that shows smoke by the beats, one for the face and the other for hands up-to joints (but up-to elbows is better); note here that TAYAMMUM is one of the specific attributes of the Muslim UMMAH; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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154-Narrated 'Aun bin Abi Juhaifa:
I heard my father saying, "The Prophet led us, and prayed a two-Rak'at Zuhr prayer and then a two- Rak'at 'Asr prayer at Al-Batha' with an 'Anza (planted) in front of him (as Sutrah) while women and donkeys were passing in front of him (beyond that 'Anza i.e. the spear)."
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam that asks MUSALLI for concentration upon it; this attention might be disturbed by someone passing in front of the MUSALLI and he might plant SUTRAH in front to avoid that disturbance; SUTRAH is such an obstruction planted in front of the IMAM that even if people pass from ahead of him, neither his SALAH nor the SALAH of MUQTADI is affected adversely; the better SUTRAH is the cane that is pierced in front of IMAM (or in front of the MUSALLI reading the SALAH alone) on a bit left and it must be a thin stick only; in these current times, there are many of mosques that have wooden thin slabs that are in front of rows perpetually joined with each other that work as SUTRAH and people pass in front of them without any problem; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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155-Narrated 'Aisha:
The things which annul the prayers were mentioned before me. They said, "Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman (if they pass in front of the praying people)." I said, "You have included us (i.e. women) with dogs. I saw the Prophet praying while I used to lie in my bed between him and the Qibla. Whenever I was in need of something, I would slip away for I disliked to face him."
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam; there is an authentic Hadith that has words to the effect that if a black dog or a donkey or a woman passes in front of the MUSALLI (the man who is reading SALAH), his SALAH is affected adversely; actually the Prophet (PBUH) did not put these three at an equal plane (and note that AYESHA-RA was offended when she heard it not knowing that this was Hadith thinking that people are degrading women by such statement) rather he said it because these three distract the attention of the MUSALLI from SALAH; dogs and donkeys due to the view they present and the sound they make; but as for women, note that the attitude to keep the sight in control is very hard if a beautiful woman passes by; TIRMIDHI reports that FADL the brother of ABDULLAH bin ABBAS was looking at the young girl that came to ask the Prophet PBUH about something while he was with the Prophet PBUH and that was the occasion of HAJJ; it reports that at that time, the Prophet had turned FADL’s face away from the young girl; Al-Hamdu Lillah; this narration here by Ayesha (RA) tells that the Prophet (PBUH) used to read SALAH at night while she was lying in front of him (other version of this also informs that he just pressed her legs lightly so that she moves them when he had to make prostrations); this proves that women in front of SALAH do not make it null and void; so even if the man does not have SUTRAH in front and has control but little on his views, he has read it then though it might become lesser in excellence; with SUTRAH plus control over the self, SALAH insha-Allah is totally fine; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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156-Narrated 'Aisha:
It is not good that you people have made us (women) equal to dogs and donkeys. No doubt I saw Allah's Apostle praying while I used to lie between him and the Qibla and when he wanted to prostrate, he pushed my legs and I withdrew them.
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157-Narrated 'Aisha:
I had seen my parents following Islam since I attained the age of puberty. Not a day passed but the Prophet visited us, both in the mornings and evenings. My father Abi Bakr thought of building a mosque in the courtyard of his house and he did so. He used to pray and recite the Qur'an in it. The pagan women and their children used to stand by him and look at him with surprise. Abu Bakr was a Soft-hearted person and could not help weeping while reciting the Quran.
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam for which all of the righteous Caliphs cared highly; ABU-BAKR RA was born two years after the Prophet (PBUH); his main profession was trade; he accepted Islam immediately without having the slightest doubt when the Prophet (PBUH) presented it to him; in this way he was the first adult free man to accept the Prophet's invitation to Islam; he became the first Caliph of Muslims after the passing-away of the Prophet (PBUH) and kept the Muslim UMMAH upon the Truth during all the period of his KHILAFAH; he was an humble man very soft at heart who was highly respected among all of the tribes and who cared about the Islamic Teachings to height; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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158-Narrated Sahl bin Sad:
We used to be very happy on Friday as an old lady used to cut some roots of the Silq, which we used to plant on the banks of our small water streams, and cook them in a pot of hers, adding to them, some grains of barley. (Ya'qub, the sub-narrator said, "I think the narrator mentioned that the food did not contain fat or melted fat).") When we offered the Friday prayer we would go to her and she would serve us with the dish. So, we used to be happy on Fridays because of that. We used not to take our meals or the midday nap except after the Jumua (i.e. Friday-Salah).
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam and the Friday-SALAH has special significance; the narration also tells it is better to take the lunch after the Friday-SALAH and even some sleep if that is needed; note that there were many Muslims at those days that were extremely poor managing the life with whatever they got as gifts & Sadaqah; they used to feel pleased upon the good meal they got after Friday-Salah that the old lady at Medina cooked for them as SAHL-RA reports here; they even used to wait for Fridays to get that good simple meal as the gift then; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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159-Narrated Abu Huraira:
Abul Qasim (the Prophet ) said, "There is an hour (or a moment) of particular significance on Friday. If it happens that a Muslim is offering a prayer and invoking Allah for some good at that very moment, Allah will grant him his request." (The sub-narrator placed the top of his finger on the palm of the other hand between the middle finger and the little one.)
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam and the Friday-SALAH has special significance; according to some of ULAMA, this time is between ASR and MAGHRIB on Friday which is said to be the time when Allah accepts all rightful DUA; there are other of ULAMA who have taken this time to occur at the main Friday-Salah taking it to commence from the time the IMAM sits for KHUTBAH till the end of JUMU’AH-SALAH; perhaps both of these times at Friday are such where the good Muslim person gets what he asks in DUA to Allah; the indication of the sub-narrator as reported here tells that this time stays for a very short period at Friday; however, note well that if the Muslim person is always attentive to Allah, He does accept his DUA at all of times and at all of places certainly; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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160-Narrated Imran bin Husain:
That they were with the Prophet on a journey. They travelled the whole night, and when dawn approached, they took a rest and sleep overwhelmed them till the sun rose high in the sky. The first to get up was Abu Bakr. Allah's Apostles used not to be awakened from his sleep, but he would wake up by himself. 'Umar woke up and then Abu Bakr sat by the side of the Prophet's head and started saying: Allahu-Akbar raising his voice till the Prophet woke up, (and after traveling for a while) he dismounted and led us in the morning prayer. A man amongst the people failed to join us in the prayer. When the Prophet had finished the prayer, he asked (the man), "O so-and-so! What prevented you from offering the prayer with us?" He replied, "I am Junub," Alllah's Apostle ordered him to perform Tayammam with clean earth. The man then offered the prayer. Allah's Apostle ordered me and a few others to go ahead of him. We had become very thirsty. While we were on our way (looking for water), we came across a lady (riding an animal), hanging her legs between two water-skins. We asked her, "Where can we get water?" She replied, "Oh ! There is no water." We asked, "how far is your house from the water?" She replied, "A distance of a day and a night travel." We said, "Come on to Allah's Apostle, "She asked, "What is Allah's Apostle ?" So we brought her to Allah's Apostle against her will, and she told him what she had told us before and added that she was the mother of orphans. So the Prophet ordered that her two water-skins be brought and he rubbed the mouths of the water-skins. As we were thirsty, we drank till we quenched our thirst and we were forty men. We also filled all our water-skins and other utensils with water, but we did not water the camels. The water-skin was so full that it was almost about to burst. The Prophet then said, "Bring what (foodstuff) you have." So some dates and pieces of bread were collected for the lady, and when she went to her people, she said, "I have met either the greatest magician or a prophet as the people claim." So Allah guided the people of that village through that lady. She embraced Islam and they all embraced Islam.
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam and it needs WUDHU to read; The Prophet PBUH and his SAHABA were at such place in their journey where the water was scarce; there are Ahadith that tell us that water gushed out of the fingers of the Prophet PBUH when it was needed highly; this Hadith also narrates the amazing phenomenon that little of water that was in two water-skins sufficed for forty of SAHABA when the Prophet PBUH rubbed the mouth of those water-skins; the woman that owned the water-skins was extremely impressed by this spiritual experience and not only she but whole of her tribe embraced Islam; there are some amazing things in the world that we can observe yet our minds can not perceive them well due to the limitation of whatever human sources of understanding we have; note for the ears & eyes that we can hear well yet we can not hear persons at some distance due to the limitation in hearing of our ears even if we can guess that they are having a conversation by their gestures and similarly if we see an air-plane flying we can see it to some distance then after some moments it vanishes from eyes even though we know that it is there at the sky yet we can not see it due to limitation in seeing of our eyes; the same is correct for the human mind and that is why Allah, the One with powers that we are unable to understand, provided the man with Messengers to tell all of them that they must believe in Allah Who has created them and to Whom they have to return; also, they must certainly obey Him because He only is the True Authority; note that sometimes impression of hope & fear affect even rocks and wood too and it is said in the Holy Book Quran narrating some incidents about the children of Israel, “Then your hearts hardened after that, so that they were like rocks, rather worse in hardness; and surely there are some rocks from which streams burst forth, and surely there are some of them which split asunder so water issues out of them, and surely there are some of them which fall down for fear of Allah, and Allah is not at all heedless of what you do” (2:74); Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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161-Narrated Ishaq:
Anas bin Malik said, "My grand-mother Mulaika invited Allah's Apostle for a meal which she herself had prepared. He ate from it and said, 'Get up! I will lead you in the prayer.' " Anas added, "I took my Hasir, washed it with water as it had become dark because of long use and Allah's Apostle stood on it. The orphan and I aligned behind him and the old lady (Mulaika) stood behind us. Allah's Apostle led us in the prayer and offered two Rak'at and then left."
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam and the Hadith here tells us that in the case when there are men, children & women in the MUQTADI, they stand in this sequence i.e. men first in rows then children and then women; MULAYKAH was the mother of UMM-SULAYM who was the mother of ANAS bin MAALIK; the boy mentioned as YATIM that means orphan at the text of Hadith was the younger brother of ANAS and perhaps his nick-name was YATIM (note that ABU-TALHA was the step-father of ANAS and this boy and he was very lenient to them respected by both); this SALAH was not FARDH but the Prophet read it to ask Allah for blessing at the place so it was NAFL, the JAMA’AH for which is not usual as it is read individually yet allowed sometimes with few of MUQTADI present without any regularity and without any call to it as happened here; note that ’Khumrah’ is small mat, ‘Hasir’ is bigger and ‘Busut’ is any mat that is spread at the floor; the Prophet (PBUH) prayed upon all types of mats and that has provided ease for Muslims to take anything clean to spread and say their SALAH upon it; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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162-Narrated Abu Said:
I heard the Prophet saying, "Allah will bring forth the severest Hour, and then all the Believers, men and women, will prostrate themselves before Him, but there will remain those who used to prostrate in the world for showing off and for gaining good reputation. Such people will try to prostrate (on the Day of Judgment) but their backs will be as stiff as if it is one bone (a single vertebra)."
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam; Muslims have to read it with total attention towards Allah without RIYA (showing-off); those who do not care to read Salah or those who say it just to impress the people that they are MUSALLI (good readers of Salah), they would not be able to prostrate themselves before Allah there at HASHR when demanded of them; their backs would be stiff and make them unable to bend; may Allah save all good Muslims from the harshness of that day of Accounts; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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M-About the New-Born
163-Narrated Abu Musa:
A son was born to me and I took him to the Prophet who named him Ibrahim, did TAHNIK for him with a date, invoked Allah to bless him and returned him to me. (The narrator added: That was Abu Musa's eldest son.)
SAHABA used to bring their new-born children to the Prophet PBUH for TAHNIK; it means to chew some sweet edible (dates preferably but honey is also good for it) and put little of that totally chewed thing into the mouth of the new-born; this was to get the BARAKAH (the good spiritual impression) that might lead the new-born to get TAUFIQ to remain steadfast at the True Belief and to all of good deeds according to that True Belief that might benefit that new-born at AKHIRAT; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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164-Narrated Asma' bint Abu Bakr:
I conceived 'Abdullah bin Az-Zubair at Mecca and went out (of Mecca) while I was about to give birth. I came to Medina and encamped at Quba', and gave birth at Quba'. Then I brought the child to Allah's Apostle and placed it (on his lap). He asked for a date, chewed it, and put his saliva in the mouth of the child. So the first thing to enter its stomach was the saliva of Allah's Apostle. Then he did its Tahnik with a date, and invoked Allah to bless him. It was the first child born in the Islamic era, therefore they (Muslims) were very happy with its birth, for it had been said to them that the Jews had bewitched them, and so they would not produce any offspring.
SAHABA used to bring their new-born children to the Prophet PBUH for TAHNIK; it was great pleasure to all Muslims when Abdullah bin Zubayr (RA) was born as there was rumor that Muslims had been bewitched by the Jews that were known for such sorcery; Abdullah bin Zubayr was the boy who rose to become the ruler of Makkah by Islamic manners for many years when there were political leaders that have given in to luxury and worldly pleasures; he achieved SHAHADAT fighting the forces of such despicable leaders of the time in the defense of Makkah courageously; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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165-Narrated Salman bin 'Amir Ad-Dabbi:
I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "'Aqiqa is to be offered for a (newly born) boy, so slaughter (an animal) for him, and relieve him of his suffering." (Note: It has been quoted in Fateh-AL-Bari that the majority of the Religious Scholars agrees to the Hadith narrated in TIRMlDHI that the Prophet was asked about Aqiqa and he ordered 2 sheep for a boy and one sheep for a girl and that is his tradition "SUNNAH").
SAHABA used to bring their new-born children to the Prophet PBUH for TAHNIK; they also used to provide AQIQA for the new-born, shaved its hair and named it within seven days of its birth (the male child needs circumcision too); AQIQA is to give 2 of sheep in SADAQAH in the way of Allah for the male child and one of that for the female child as that is the manner to keep away all evil away from that new-born; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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N-The Wives of the Prophet (PBUH)
166-Narrated Aisha”
that she made a will to 'Abdullah bin Zubair, "Do not bury me with them (the Prophet and his two companions) but bury me with my companions (wives of the Prophet (PBUH) ) in Al-Baqi as I would not like to be looked upon as better than I really am (by being buried near the Prophet)."
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The wives of the Prophet PBUH are the women whom the Muslim woman has to see to for her practical guidance; Ayesha RA had plunged herself by the mistaken decision to challenge Ali RA at the battlefield so as to force him to punish the mutineers who had killed Uthman RA mercilessly without any just cause during the rebellion; Ali RA intended to consolidate his authority before taking any harsh step against the mutineers; she had repented highly afterwards as besides the defeat her forces incurred, it was certainly the gravest error for her to challenge the chosen Caliph at the battlefield; her repentance was of course for the challenge she gave to him actually as it caused division among Muslims yet what was done could not be undone and being one of the most knowledgeable woman then, she knew very well that she had erred highly by that decision; due to the consciousness of the grave error, even when she commanded great respect among Muslims, she asked to be buried at the graveyard of AL-BAQI with other of the wives of the Prophet PBUH rather than besides the Prophet PBUH; note that near to her death, IBNE-ABBAS RA had visited her and reassured her that she was the beloved wife of the Prophet PBUH while she had spent her life with virtues in general so she would achieve success at AKHIRAT; he had referred to Surah NOOR where Allah has defended her; it had happened when the enemy intended to degrade her badly with the extreme grave charge upon her (note the Hadith-145 and the comment upon it); so he had said most soothing words to her when she was very near to her death; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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167-Narrated 'Aisha:
One of the mothers of the faithful believers (i.e. the wives of the Prophet) did l'tikaf while she was bleeding in between her periods.
The wives of the Prophet PBUH are the women whom the Muslim woman has to see to for her practical guidance; note that the word “ISTIHADHA” denotes a problem relating to the female that means flow of blood even after the normal days of menstruation or continuous flow of blood from the site that might be due to some affliction; mostly such problem occurs in such manner that the woman knows her normal day of the menses and she is termed as MO’TAADAH; there were few women that were afflicted with this problem in the days of the Prophet (PBUH) and they were worried about how to read their SALAH as they do not get clean from blood; it is recorded that two of the wives of the Prophet (PBUH) had this affliction too while the names of FATIMAH bint ABU-HUBAISH, HAMNAH bint JAHSH and UMM-HABIBAH bint JAHSH are also mentioned in Ahadith; Ahadith present three ways to deal with this matter and all clarify that the woman afflicted with ISTIHADHA has to say her SALAH certainly even with blood flowing as that is not menses but the blood that flows in a disorderly manner from some vein, from inside the uterus or from outside; the normally accepted way in practice is that the woman with such affliction determine the normal days of the menses by an idea of previous periods and then take the obligatory bath and consider her-self clean; then make WUDHU for each SALAH and goes on reading SALAH in the normal routine as other women do until she gathers after 23 or 24 days that now the period of menses has commenced; the second way is to delay ZUHUR reading it in last of its time and advance ASAR reading it in the first of its time, saying them with one bath and to do the same with MAGHRIB and ISHA; she would make a separate bath for FAJR (this way was preferred by the Prophet PBUH); the third of options was to bath for each SALAH and the Prophet (PBUH) also showed his favor for this option; any of these ways is valid for MO’TAADAH and the notable point is that Islam is easy to practice and the Muslims must not make things difficult for them by committing their-selves to such practices that are alien to Islam; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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168-Narrated 'Aisha:
Some of the wives of the Prophet asked him, "Who amongst us will be the first to follow you (i.e. die after you)?" He said, "Whoever has the longest hand." So they started measuring their hands with a stick and Sauda's hand turned out to be the longest; (when Zainab bint Jahsh died first of all in the caliphate of 'Umar) then we came to know that the long hand was a symbol of practicing charity, so she was the first to follow the Prophet as she loved to practice charity.
The wives of the Prophet PBUH are the women whom the Muslim woman has to see to for her practical guidance; “the longest hand” was the manner of speech to convey the most charitable nature and Zaynab bint Jahsh was the most charitable among them all; Allah had married her to the Prophet PBUH when ZAYD bin HARITHA divorced her (see Surah AHZAAB-37) and that also is one of her most high merits; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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169-Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:
The Prophet concluded a contract with the people of KHAYBAR to utilize the land on the condition that half the products of fruits or vegetation would be their share. The Prophet used to give his wives one hundred Wasaqs each, eighty Wasaqs of dates and twenty Wasaqs of barley. (When 'Umar became the Caliph) he gave the wives of the Prophet the option of either having the land and water as their shares, or carrying on the previous practice. Some of them chose the land and some chose the Wasaqs, and 'Aisha chose the land.
The wives of the Prophet PBUH are the women whom the Muslim woman has to see to for her practical guidance; note that in FIDAK in the land of KHAYBER, the Prophet PBUH made the deal of MUZARI’AH with Jews that whatever produce is got from the cultivation of that land, it would be shared half & half, both sides sharing equally; from this earning, he provided for his household though before that, the wives of the Prophet PBUH had faced hard times too with ease without any complaints with the fulfillment of just the necessities and remained attached to the Islamic values; with times they achieved much ease and like the hard times, they still remained well-attached to the Islamic Values; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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170-Narrated 'Aisha:
The people used to send gifts to the Prophet on the day of my turn. Um Salama said: "My companions (the wives of the Prophet Other than Aisha) gathered and they complained about it. So I informed the Prophet about it on their behalf, but he remained silent.
The wives of the Prophet PBUH are the women whom the Muslim woman has to see to for her practical guidance; AYESHA (RA) was the most beloved wife of the Prophet (PBUH) after KHADIJAH (RA) and has narrated many Ahadith; another version of this Hadith that TIRMIDHI has reported, tells us that the Prophet PBUH told UMM-SALAMA, “Don’t bother me about Ayesha as I do not get WAHI (Revelation) in any (of you) woman’s bed-sheet except in the bed-sheet of Ayesha”; she was the daughter of ABU-BAKR SIDDIQ and UMM-RUMAN and was married to him in Medina; there is some controversy on the matter that at what age she was married to the Prophet (PBUH) but the best to say here is that in those times, the adolescence of the person used to matter and his/her capability to marry rather than the age for which nobody cared to keep any records; she might have been at the age of 12 or 15 or even more (and interestingly much work has been done on this line and there are many Muslim scholars of history who refute the charge on this basis now) and to base some charge of this sort on sheer guess-work is extremely malicious and proves nothing; all the women the Holy Prophet married, were very happy with him and in fact, when they were given an option by Allah to leave him if they want in the Holy Book Quran (see Surah Ahzaab-28 & 29), all of them chose to stay with him without exception; he never did any wrong to any woman at any time anywhere and in fact, he was never even charged for any such thing even by the worst of his enemies all his life; though Allah gave him an option to marry any number of women he wanted (see Surah-Ahzaab-50 to 52), he only married 12 women in total; the notable point is that as we are informed he had 12 wives, then there were only these 12 respectable women and no more to whom his sexual matter was totally related to, though the reason for his marriage to any of these was not lust certainly but either it was to care about these women or to extend relationship to their respective tribes that became the defenders to Islam rather than its challengers; the tribes used to respect the man highly who married a woman from their tribe and gave ample respect to her; the age of the Prophet (PBUH) was around 53 years by the Lunar Calendar when he married Ayesha RA after HIJRAH in SHAWWAL; she died at Medina in 57 AH when she was about 70 years old and was buried at the graveyard of BAQI according to her will for it; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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171-Narrated 'Ali bin Al-Husain:
The wives of the Prophet were with him in the mosque (while he was in Itikaf) and then they departed and the Prophet said to Safiya bint Huyai, "Don't hurry up, for I shall accompany you," (and her dwelling was in the house of Usama); the Prophet went out and in the meantime two Ansari men met him and they looked at the Prophet and passed by; the Prophet said to them, "Come here (note that) she is (my wife) Safiya bint Huyai"; they replied, "Subhan Allah, (How dare we think of evil about you) O Allah's Apostle!”; the Prophet replied, "Satan circulates in the human being as blood circulates in the body, and I was afraid lest Satan might insert an evil thought in your minds."
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O-About nearing of QAYAMAT & About HASHR
172-Narrated Sahl bin Sad As-Sa'idi:
that Allah's Apostle, holding out his middle and index fingers, said, "My advent and the Hour's are like this (the period between his era and the Hour is like the distance between those two fingers, i.e., very short).
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come; that is the Hour referred to in the Hadith and it is the last day of the world; this Hadith clarifies well that the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), being the Last Messenger of Allah, was the first big sign of QAYAMAT; the two fingers were kept apart to show that there is still some time to it yet not much; narrations point out well that the time from the Prophet (PBUH) to QAYAMAT is like the time from ASR (the time when afternoon breaks) to MAGHRIB (sunset) in a day by ratio; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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173-Narrated 'Aisha:
He added, 'But this year he reviewed it with me twice, and therefore I think that my time of death has approached. So, be afraid of Allah, and be patient, for I am the best predecessor for you (in the Hereafter).' " Fatima added, "So I wept as you ('Aisha) witnessed. And when the Prophet saw me in this sorrowful state, he confided the second secret to me saying, 'O Fatima! Will you not be pleased that you will be chief of all the believing women (or chief of the women of this nation i.e. my followers?")
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come; however, the Prophet PBUH did tell its signs and the first of them was that he was the last of Messengers of Allah; he informed Fatima (RA) before his death that she would be the chief of all the women of the Muslim Ummah; another version of this Hadith tells us that she laughed and was very pleased by this; she was married to Ali (RA) at the second year of HIJRAH (623 AD) when she was about 14 years old; Sayyidina ALI (RA) and Sayyidah FATIMAH (RA) had five children; three boys & two girls namely Hasan, Hussain, Muhsin, Umme-Kulthum and Zainab; all of these were highly virtuous children (RA); note that UMM-KULTHUM was married to UMAR (RA) later-on by ALI (RA); six months after the passing-away of the Prophet (PBUH), Sayyidah Fatima (RA) passed away at the 3rd of Ramadhan when she was about 24 years old; FATIMAH (RA) was the dearest of daughters of the Prophet (PBUH) and she also had great love for her father; it is known that she resembled the Prophet (PBUH) highly in habits, character and the manner of speech; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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174-Narrated 'Aisha:
Allah's Apostle said, "The people will be gathered barefooted, naked, and uncircumcised." I said, "O Allah's Apostle! Will the men and the women look at each other?" He said, "The situation will be too hard for them to pay attention to that."
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come but it would come certainly; there are three basics of the True Belief that are to believe that Allah is the Only Creator of all the creation and He Only is the True Authority, the second is that the world would end at QAYAMAT and then AKHIRAT would come where Allah would present the Account of every person providing him/her life again that would go on endlessly, at its first day that is HASHR (and it is of 1000 years by our count) and the third is that Allah sent His Messengers in the world (Muhammad PBUH is the last one of them) to keep this clear that Allah is the Only Creator and He Only is the True Authority Who would account for each & every person at HASHR; this is the TRUTH; the verse-104 of Surah ANBIA i.e. the 21st Surah of the Holy Book Quran tells us that the people would be assembled at HASHR as they were born here in the world though with a physique that would seem around 30 to 33 years of age of the normal healthy person as clarified by the ULAMA; this age is taken as the age of maturity; IBRAHIM (Abraham) AS would be clothed first as it is said that he was very particular in wearing decent clothes and Allah would take care about that; Al-Hamdu Lillah; all the persons would be provided clothes then with time according to their status at AKHIRAT yet there would remain those with this nakedness who did not believe the TRUTH and so did not make deeds worthy of any respect; similarly some would be provided with means for conveyance towards HASHR, some would be on foot and there would be others who would be dragged (by angels) harshly towards that amazingly vast field of HASHR; may Allah save all true Muslims from the severe harshness of that day; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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175-Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Turks; people with small eyes, red faces, and flat noses. Their faces will look like shields coated with leather. The Hour will not be established till you fight with people whose shoes are made of hair."
Both the sentences in the Hadith tell about Mongols that fought at the command of Chenghez Khan who destroyed a vast area that was under the Muslim Rule; his forces reaching Baghdad in 1258 AD much after his death, the year of the great fire that came out of Yemen; their shoes had hair all over them and their faces were flat and rough with yellowish skin; these Mongols were recognized as TURKS in those days; they mercilessly persecuted the AMEER of Muslims at the time and killed a great many Muslims as history has recorded; however, Muslims got their areas and their status of glory back when the descendants of Chenghez Khan accepted Islam and one of our poets of Urdu has said on this in a verse “it is clear from the story of TATARI (Mongols) that KAABA does get its guards even from the idol-worshippers (as they convert to Islam leaving all evil)”; note that Muslims had faced many challenges from the enemy after the Prophet (PBUH) but three of them are highly noteworthy; one was just after his passing away; second was when Muslims were challenged by Chengez Khan and his forces who destroyed their political power and put a heavy blow to them at the time and that was at height in 1258 AD; third is the present time when since a couple of centuries Muslims have been facing a challenge that is still in progress from the West (that manifested even by imperialism for a century or so) and though Muslims are bearing the challenge for such a period of time, it seems that the West is not ready to draw itself back from presenting its way of life as the final development of human-kind and has decided to go only for a win against the Muslims whatever it takes; Muslims were able to subdue CAESER of Rome and KHOSROE of Persia even conquering a vast area due to their physical power by unity and spiritual power that Islam had provided them, at the first challenge; they came out of the second very deadly challenge posed by the forces of Chenghez Khan because his descendants accepted Islam as these people though deadly warriors did not have any morals to guide them for an inner satisfaction and totally lacked a system to run the matters of life while Islam provided the way to see both the spiritual and the physical advancement with quality; their conversion was a blessing of Allah upon Muslims as Muslims were spiritually very much alive even then being attentive to Islam though they had lost physical power due to lack of unity and useless discussions on petty religious matters asking for friction among themselves not caring a bit about tolerance; it is yet to be seen what happens of the third deadly challenge that Muslims face at the current times when there is much loss of care about collection of good deeds among Muslims; there are still uncountable Muslims who repent on sins and ask forgiveness from Allah by the blessing of Allah though physically they are dispersed in many countries; Ahadith have told about all these three challenges that Muslims have faced as I, MSD, have noted at “Notes on TIRMIDHI-Ahadith”; may Allah save all Muslims from the adversity that they face by the challenge of the enemy at the current times; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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176-Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established till a fire will come out of the land of Hijaz, and it will throw light on the necks of the camels at Busra."
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come but the Prophet PBUH has provided us some of its signs to understand that now it is very near; there is an authentic Hadith narrated by HUDHAYFAH bin USAYD (RA) that the Prophet (PBUH) said, “The last hour QAYAMAT will not arrive till you have seen ten signs; he then mentioned the Smoke, the Descent of Jesus Christ, DAJJAL, Rising of the Sun from the place of it's setting, YAJUJ MAJUJ, The Beast, Three Landslides; one in the East, one in the West and one in the Arabian Peninsula; and a Fire that would spread from Yemen and drive the people to their place of gathering”; some of these have already taken place as I, MSD, have clarified at “Notes on TIRMIDHI-Ahadith”; ULAMA have mentioned almost unanimously that the fire mentioned here, was the liquid of Fire (LAVA) boiling heavily for more than 50 days with fumes all the time and burning all that came in its way coming out from Eden in Yemen and making way ahead in 1258; the day it began is recorded by the Muslim historians as Friday 7th June of 1258 and this was the year when forces of Chenghez Khan (that means of his descendants as he had died before this) destroyed Baghdad; it was the blessing of Allah that with time, the descendants of Chenghez Khan accepted Islam and remained loyal to it; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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177-Narrated 'Adi bin Hatim:
While I was in the city of the Prophet, a man came and complained to him (the Prophet) of destitution and poverty. Then another man came and complained of robbery (by highwaymen). The Prophet said, "Adi! Have you been to Al-Hira?" I said, "I haven't been to it, but I was informed about it." He said, "If you should live for a long time, you will certainly see that a lady in a Howdah traveling from Al-Hira will (safely reach Mecca and) perform the Tawaf of the Ka'ba, fearing none but Allah." I said to myself, "What will happen to the robbers of the tribe of Tai who have spread evil through out the country?" The Prophet further said. "If you should live long, the treasures of Khosrau will be opened (and taken as spoils)." I asked, "You mean Khosrau, son of Hurmuz?" He said, "Khosrau, son of Hurmuz; and if you should live long, you will see that one will carry a handful of gold or silver and go out looking for a person to accept it from him, but will find none to accept it from him. And any of you, when meeting Allah, will meet Him without needing an interpreter between him and Allah to interpret for him, and Allah will say to him: 'Didn't I send a messenger to teach you?' He will say: 'Yes.' Allah will say: 'Didn't I give you wealth and do you favors?' He will say: 'Yes.' Then he will look to his right and see nothing but Hell, and look to his left and see nothing but Hell." 'Adi further said: I heard the Prophet saying, "Save yourself from the (Hell) Fire even with half a date (to be given in charity) and if you do not find a half date, then with a good pleasant word." 'Adi added: (later on) I saw a lady in a Howdah traveling from Al-Hira till she performed the Tawaf of the Ka'ba, fearing none but Allah. And I was one of those who opened (conquered) the treasures of Khosrau, son of Hurmuz. If you should live long, you will see what the Prophet Abu-l-Qasim had said: 'A person will come out with a handful. of gold...etc.
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come and even the Prophet PBUH did not know that; but he foretold a few matters that took place just after he passed away; it is so very amazing that he had told about the conquest of Persia and even of the areas of Roman Empire while both of these were the formidable military powers of the time; the most amazing aspect of this prophecy is that the Prophet Muhammad PBUH gave it first when he was digging the ditch with SAHABA to prevent the forces of enemy that were coming to finish-off the impression of Islam once & for all; not only the Muslims saved Medina then but with time, they spread Islam far & wide; Al-Hamdu Lillah; those who challenged them in the process not accepting the supremacy of Islam and even rejected the pact of peace with them, they took their challenge at face and rose to conquer the vast areas of Persia and the Byzantine (the Roman Empire); the eminent commander of Muslims Khalid bin Walid rose to the height of respect and he has the triumph of numerous wars against both Persia & the Roman Empire, most of them very important to Muslims, to his credit; he weakened both of these great political powers of his time by the blessing of Allah, by amazing, bold and victorious attacks that led to their downfall eventually; note that Adi bin Hatim was the son of Hatim Tai, the famous charitable person in Arabia, and he participated in the wars against Persia at the side of Khalid bin Walid and even commanded a section of the Muslim troops there; due to the power of faith Muslims had with them and with the inherent inclination towards the warfare, they were able to stand successfully against the highly trained armies of these formidable powers of the time; the Persian Empire received a mortal blow at the battle of QADSIAH fought in 636 AD under the high command of SA’AD bin ABI-WAQQAS with KHALID bin ARFATAH, JARIR bin ABDULLAH and others at his side; the Byzantine Empire received nearly the same mortal blow at the battle of YARMOUK in the same year under the command of Khalid bin Walid and that was his tactical marvel that he managed with the great support of his high commander Abu-Ubaidah; he changed the Arab’s style of fighting wars that used to be with strength only to a matter of skill and tactic with the brilliance he had and it was not long when Muslims gained control of the vast lands that were under the Persian and the Byzantine Empire; the people at these lands converted to Islam with pleasure by their own will and so Islam spread far & wide; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the Prophet PBUH has designated Khalid as the sword of Allah and he died at the young age of about 50 years at 642 AD on his bed as being the sword of Allah he could not have been slain at the war-field; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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178-Narrated Anas:
I will narrate to you a Hadith and none other than I will tell you about after it. I heard Allah's Apostle saying: From among the portents of the Hour are (the following):
1. Religious knowledge will decrease (by the death of religious learned men).
2. Religious ignorance will prevail.
3. There will be prevalence of open illegal sexual intercourse.
4. Women will increase in number and men will decrease in number so much so that fifty women will be looked after by one man.
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come; however, the Prophet PBUH did provide many of the signs that would occur near to it; note here that many ULAMA would be killed without any rhyme or reason except for the dislike of the killers most of whom talk about tolerance and harmony in living and that would decrease the spread of the true knowledge; people would be knowledgeable in worldly matters yet mostly unaware of the knowledge that could provide them salvation at AKHIRAT; a great number of people would incline towards wine & women (number of whom would themselves assume a derogatory status due to women being huge in number mostly deprived of basic needs of life); note that there are two categories of sins and that are injustice (ZULM) and shameful acts (FAHSHA); the three biggest of sins are included in these two categories as SHIRK (to take someone equal in power to ALLAH considering him capable to fulfill human necessities with Allah or without Him), is the biggest sin that is the greatest of injustice; to kill some innocent person is extreme injustice too; and to commit adultery is the most indecent & shameful act (and it also has the aspect of injustice if the woman is married); note that at Surah-YOUSUF-23, the Prophet YOUSUF-AS told ZULEKHA when she called him towards the wrongful act that the unjust persons do not find true success; in the verse ahead, Allah tells us that He saved YOUSUF from both injustice (SOU) and shameful issue (FAHSHA); certainly all of these three are included in the greatest of sins; note also the comment at Hadith-108; may Allah save all true Muslims from all the major sins; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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179-Narrated Abu Musa:
The Prophet (PBUH) said, "A time will come upon the people when a person will wander about with gold as Zakat and will not find anybody to accept it, and one man will be seen followed by forty women to be their guardian because of scarcity of men and great number of women. "
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come but we do know many of its signs as the Prophet PBUH has told us; these signs include that there would come a time when the two things that attract men towards them that is wealth and women, they both would lose their attraction for the men who would care about Islam practically to such height that these both would not be able to mislead those Muslim men; these virtuous men would have wealth at that time in abundance and generally men would be scarce; note that the Hadith does not guide to take 40 women at marriage at that time as that is not allowed but tells about the scarcity of men by ratio to women and tells that even the needy persons both men & women would generally avoid asking for any ZAKAH or any SADAQA due to their own sense of keeping to utmost necessities; it has the latent message that at that time, it is better for the wealthy virtuous persons to provide needed commodities to all the needy persons designating them as gifts only just by their own good sense of Islamic morality without considering their-selves high among the persons around; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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180-Narrated 'Uqba bin 'Amr:
The Prophet once came out and offered the funeral prayer for the martyrs of Uhud, and proceeded to the pulpit and said, "I shall be your predecessor and a witness on you, and I am really looking at my sacred Fount now, and no doubt, I have been given the keys of the treasures of the world. By Allah, I am not afraid that you will worship others along with Allah, but I am afraid that you will envy and fight one another for worldly fortunes."
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come though as for its signs, this Hadith tells clearly that once Muslims get used to wars, they would need to fight; they would either fight the enemy or either their own-selves until the advent of the MAHDI (the guided one) near QAYAMAT when it is said that wars would cease to exist when after some great war (or even without it), people would come to Islam generally; it is obvious from many Ahadith that the Prophet (PBUH) was worried that after him there would come wars between his followers as this was a warrior nation that he had taught high morals and he knew well that those who had not been much in his care might cause high trouble specially to achieve dominance among Muslims for their own sinister cause; the reference to “keys of the treasures of the world” is to indicate that many of Muslims would achieve high amounts of wealth yet their inclination to get more of wealth to compete for the worldly status with uncaring attitude towards AKHIRAT would incapacitate many of those to achieve the true respect that counts at AKHIRAT; keeping to the Holy Book Quran understanding it by SUNNAH and remembering that everyone has to account for his Belief and doings at HASHR saves the man from all kinds of disrepute certainly; note that the teaching to refrain from wars with each other helped the Muslims generally to keep the teachings of the Prophet (PBUH) intact and made them rise to heights after he passed away; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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Ended on:
16th of April 2017 (at the morning 11:10 am)
(These were selected Ahadith extracted from Sahih Bukhari related to the guidance of the Muslim Women that I, Muhammad Saleem Dada, presented here with comments; Al-Hamdu Lillah)
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Brief Note on TAQLID
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TAQLID generally means for the SUNNI Muslims to follow the four IMAMS of FIQH (that are Malik, Shafa’i, Ahmed Ibn Hanbal & Abu-Hanifa; may Allah have mercy on them) to practice the commands of Allah in the best possible way. They do not challenge each other but there is difference of opinion in issues by the interpretation of Ahadith to practice them in the best possible way. However, the attitude of the teachers of Ahadith does often give the impression that this difference in opinion is the matter of utmost importance and they try to prove the stance of the IMAM they follow not only by the positive reasoning for it but also by negatively degrading the stance of the other IMAM; this attitude is highly erroneous. The most notable point here is that TAQLID must not be TAQLID-SHAKHSHI (that means to follow rulings of one IMAM only or of one of schools of FIQH only in all issues to practice Islam) and though, the followers of one IMAN adhere to his FIQH with dedication yet the fact of the matter is this that nobody considers it necessary. The Holy Book Quran and the SUNNAH (the two primary sources to get the Islamic Commands with IJMA’ to guide to the status that these Commands have) certainly do not ask to follow any one of schools of FIQH to fulfill the Islamic Commands as these schools took shape after about 225 years of the passing away of the Prophet PBUH; note also that TAQLID-SHAKSHI took about 100 years more to come at practice as then it was thought that issues of all kinds have been tackled by Islam (and for this many issues were assumed even and rulings for them were provided). Certainly no IMAM or any other could have gathered the shape the world has taken-up now and as such their assumptions have proved to be highly unplaced in these current times and there are certainly many issues as of now at different fields that do need address clear & fast. In today’s scenario, we would have to revise the strict adherence to TAQLID-SHAKSHI without degrading any of the respectable IMAM and without challenging the most necessary issues that are well-settled that needed address then too and that are most relevant at the current times too; these well-settled issues relate to the fulfillment of most necessary practical commands of Islam and due to this close attachment to them, they are among the ZARURIATE-DEEN (necessities to take up in the practice of most necessary practical Islamic Commands); Al-Hamdu Lillah. Certainly, it would raise the question that SUNNI Muslims have practiced TAQLID-SHAKSHI for centuries and many prominent names that are counted among ULAMA practiced it. Please note here that the blind following of ancestors is not praiseworthy yet those that were truly ULAMA (as conformed by our good reflection on their good lives) do need our respect and even our acceptance of their advises on matters needing advises to practice Islam (these good people also include the four IMAMS) without being committed to any one of them in issues that are not included in ZARURIATE-DEEN. But there is another aspect to the matter of TAQLID-SHAKSHI that is totally omitted in the discussion of TAQLID. Please note that since a century or so, many issues needing address by Islam have come at fore mostly by inventions of different mechanical devices, heavy machines, appliances, gadgets, technical apparatuses; these have come into the common usage with time now and this has affected the set-up of the life that we had seen for thousands of years, particularly in the field of communication and in the field of transport. This has led to high intermingling of Muslims with non-Muslims that understand Islam but little and note also that this intermingling has come at the time when high number of Muslims do slack in the practice of Islam highly. Noting this point, please care to see that TAQLID-SHAKSHI was not much of an issue to Muslims certainly a century back as the rulings of FIQH (of any of schools) related well to the set-up of the life then so it enlightened them on many of issues then yet with the changing of that set-up, many of the FIQHI rulings that are other than ZARURIATE-DEEN have become unrelated to the situation around so those need modification keeping to the basic guidance that we get by the SUNNAH of the Prophet PBUH. In other words, they do need address with revision to them but even with that, we all must totally keep to the teachings that the Prophet PBUH has provided for such issues in the essence for practice. For the detail to this statement, please note that today we Muslims have three types of issues where two types do need IJTEHAD in character and among them the issues at the third type need high concentration for sure. These we Muslims have to address so as to adhere to the practice of the Islamic Commands at least at the minimum level in the current times; Al-Hamdu Lillah. The first type in issues are those for which we Muslims need rulings for detail to practice at all times and all places so as to fulfill the Islamic Commands given in the KITAB and the SUNNAH; these specific rulings provide the guidance in clear terms that is totally necessary to take-up well to practice those necessary Islamic Commands so they are ZARURIATE-DEEN (where even TAQLID-SHAKSHI is no problem) and in them are those important rulings too that relate to the five pillars of Islam; also many of those rulings are here that relate to Business transactions and Matrimonial matters (the Holy Book Quran has mentioned all such Islamic Commands and they have been detailed by rulings at the SUNNAH for practice from whence the FIQH of all IMAM and of other learned true Muslims too has taken them well); these are the totally settled issues that need total attachment only to them in practice and the practicing Muslims do follow them well even now; note well that the Principles do not change yet the minor practical issues dependent upon them, might change with time to such better practice that still provide the worthy attachment to the same Principles; Al-Hamdu Lillah. We must not challenge these rulings neither by IJTEHAD-MUTLAQ (that occurs when the highly learned person in Islam totally attentive to Allah that has the ability to put all its aspects to practice i.e. MUJTAHID takes the Islamic rulings to issues directly by the consideration of his own observation of the guidance given by the KITAB & the SUNNAH) nor by IJTEHAD-MUQAYYAD (that occurs when the highly learned person in Islam totally attentive to Allah that has the ability to put all its aspects to practice i.e. MUJTAHID takes the Islamic rulings to issues indirectly by the consideration of his own observation from the schools of FIQH that base those at the KITAB & the SUNNAH); Al-Hamdu Lillah; the second type in issues are those for which we Muslims needed rulings for detail to practice the Islamic Commands before these current times, specifically based on the authentic Ahadith. We do still need them in essence yet there is no need to adhere strictly at face to them at these current times though their asking has yet to be fulfilled. The example for this are the rulings relating to the weaponry of old when and where applied for the necessary QITAL that their rulings would apply in these current times to the modern weapons by compatible way keeping the essence of those rulings intact according to the Islamic Guidance. The ruling for LUQTA (any thing of value lying somewhere at the ground with no evident claimant to it) would apply in these current times by the good announcement by the finder by the newspaper or by some specific program relating to people in general at electronic or social media for some period after finding of it so that certainly would do well at the present times as the main thing here is to announce the LUQTA as much as possible to all according to the Islamic Guidance. The rulings relating to the means of conveyance given at those ancient times as that were mostly related to horses & camels then, would apply onto the modern means of conveyance in these current times by the manner best suited for now avoiding all shameful attitude and also all unjust approach according to the Islamic Guidance. Similarly, the ruling for purity of water at wells that were commonly used in those days (and even up-to the previous century) but now their usage is limited where the old ruling must be followed, yet its ruling in general would apply in these current times by the modern methods of cleanliness of the water checking that no difference to it takes place that is related to its color, smell or/and taste according to the Islamic Guidance; other such rulings too that strictly pass the criteria of taking the actual specific asking of the previous rulings based on Ahadith only as mentioned here when and where necessary are also included in this type judging with utmost care all the issues of this type taking high care that nothing adverse to the asking of the KITAB and even to the asking of other authentic Ahadith takes place in such practice. This does need a collective stance of ULAMA of repute with care to this point that where there is confusion as to taking an issue at the first type or at this second type, then it must be taken at the first with a strict adherence to it for sure. All the practicing Muslims must take-up the practice on these second type of issues observing that their practice neither violates the respective specific asking of the commands for them at Ahadith nor their practice causes any disrespect to those Ahadith in any way. The ULAMA of repute only, rising to the status of MUJTAHID by the highest study of the KITAB and the SUNNAH possible for them with their practice strictly upon Islam and with their total attention towards Allah only, can take-up this IJTEHAD-MUQAYYAD. They only have to fulfill the actual asking of the rulings on them as guided by the authentic Ahadith in such issues without degrading the previous rulings for detail in any way by their good efforts. Note that Ahadith their-selves authenticate this stance well as there is an authentic HADITH that clearly validates this attitude of taking-up the asking of the SUNNAH where there is some debate at an issue. The Prophet PBUH had commanded on the day of AHZAAB that “No one of you should pray ASR until you reach BANU-QURAYZAH; now while they were on their way, the time of ASR came so some of SAHABA-RA said we should not pray until we reach BANU-QURAYZAH and others said we should pray ASR now because the Prophet (PBUH) did not mean for us to leave the ASR prayer (on its time), but he wanted us to follow in haste; so some of the SAHABA-RA prayed ASR, while others of SAHABA-RA continued on until they reached BANU-QURAYZAH after sunset; when they went back to the Prophet PBUH, they mentioned to him this all and HE DID NOT BLAME either one of them" (reported by BUKHARI). This validates the stance for taking-up IJTEHAD-MUQAYYAD at Ahadith keeping to them in essence and keeping in mind that even IMAMS have chosen Ahadith for their respective rulings on practical issues where the option was available (sometimes leaving even the comparatively strong Hadith in the favor of the one lesser in strength). So when we take-up the asking of Ahadith keeping to Ahadith (not discarding them) at some issue to practice with total purity of intention without challenging any of Ahadith with total respect to all of them, it poses no problem certainly; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the third type of issues that need clarification for practice are those which we Muslims are facing today due to the general effect of the modern gadgets and the high impression of the West in the lives of all the people at anywhere today; these issues were neither encountered nor any interpretation was offered for their application according to the Islamic Teachings by the IMAMS or the other learned men in FIQH of old previously. However, if the MUJTAHID among us ponder upon the Holy Book Quran and at the SUNNAH as detailed by the asking of the authentic Ahadith, we can get the rulings to them too insha Allah without much problem certainly. Note that the issues at the first type do not need any IJTEHAD at all as of now and the practice of issues at the second type relating particularly to Ahadith need the IJTEHAD that is MUQAYYAD only in nature; that only the ULAMA of repute with total purity of intention take-on keeping their total attention towards Allah only with the consideration to TALFIQ (that means taking rulings for issues from all ancient schools of FIQH for practice when & where needed, caring to fulfill the asking of the SUNNAH totally well as of now without any inclination towards TAQLID-SHAKSHI). The problem arises when the unworthy persons ask for IJTEHAD at the rulings even of the first type that must not be touched at all certainly while on the other hand, we have such persons that understand Islam well (and even included in ULAMA) that do have the eligibility for IJTEHAD-MUQAYYAD at the second type of rulings yet they do not bear touching them slightly even, so that causes the problem. The former intend even to touch the ZARURIATE-DEEN and do away with the second type totally; the latter intend that the second type even needs to be followed strictly not only in the spirit but even in the letter without fail. Both sides do not have any worry at all about the threat of the material negativity that occurs by the practice of modern inventions & the spiritual negativity that occurs by the intermingling of Muslims with the non-Muslims today so they all care but little to see to the rulings for the third type of issues that certainly do need address most urgently. Note that for these third type of issues, we Muslims do need IJTEHAD that is MUTLAQ (that means that the good MUJTAHID having the height in the knowledge of Islam and being well-aware of putting it into practice takes the rulings for these third type of issues for practice directly by the KITAB or/and the authentic SUNNAH reasoning from them in the most positive manner only without fail as that only keeps it to the feasible IJTEHAD). Many of these issues relate to the Administrative Manner in the current times and also relate to the Economics as of now; also, the need for clarification of issues by Islam at the Judicial Department is extremely high. The Social Level also bring issues at fore like the application of the Islamic Rulings for the social and the electronic media and like the application of the Islamic Rulings at the modern education and the medical practice; these all need address within the good time. I, MSD, have tried whatever individually was possible for me in these last type of issues by writing “The Islamic Guidelines” where I tried by the blessing of Allah to present the practical picture of the Islamic Environment without any drastic change in the set-up we have as of now; Al-Hamdu Lillah; what to do while those that consider their-selves only responsible to the task, do keep-on being silent upon it and to do it is so very urgent. It is most necessary that we make the way by Islam inside this given set-up that we have today as the change towards the Islamic Environment is certainly possible still without the change of the format that we have as of now; Al-Hamdu Lillah. However, this significant task does need works by many of such worthy ULAMA that do realize the need of the day and do the needed significantly as soon as possible. The notable point here is that this address to these issues at hand must positively take something from the two primary sources (the KITAB and the SUNNAH) to the Islamic Commands as the reasoning to it; just seeing in this IJTEHAD that nothing adverse takes place to these primary sources would not do here at all but in fact, certainly mislead the Muslims today. Note well that to take-up rulings for debatable issues at hand in this manner is highly erroneous, especially in these present times where the persons at the management of the Muslim’s affairs care but little about Islam. We Muslims must follow this important ruling as the base here that “the true practicing Muslims must use all of modern gadgets strictly in physical limits for the sake to keeping it all in the specified limit of the morality as guided by Islam”. Note well that Islam does not suppress emotions in the Human Beings but asks to provide the rightful outlet to desires with care for its moral teachings in the ordinary business of life (see the comment here at the Hadith-109); it is strange that ULAMA do not care to present this highly essential principal to the masses that are going towards the usage of modern technical gadgets without any check whatsoever; may Allah give all Muslims the insight to decide the limits to the usage of these modern technical gadgets; Al-Hamdu Lillah. We Muslims do face a huge challenge at the present times as the change in the living set-up, due to the modern gadgets that have come into the common usage and due to high inter-action that have occurred between the Muslims and the non-Muslims by the media and even by the physical contact, has affected people so much all over the world in this current era that we Muslims need to decide for the necessary Islamic Attitude here fast and clear even within this given format so that if this change does affect, it must not affect us adversely at the collective level. Never ever before in the history of the mankind has such change in the life-style of the Man occurred so fast and so big. But with all said, note well that Islam comprises of the Commands of Allah and as such, it is true in the text and easy in the practice for all times and for all places; these Commands in essence, have been provided to us totally at the golden period of the Last Prophet Muhammad PBUH and from that time & that place, we do get them for all times and all places most certainly; Al-Hamdu Lillah. May Allah provide us the enlightenment to understand the problem and also the guidance to solve it in the due time for the betterment of all of the Muslim UMMAH today; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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G-About the Good Attitude towards Women
97-Narrated 'Alqama:
While I was walking with 'Abdullah he said, "We were in the company of the Prophet and he said, 'He who can afford to marry should marry, because it will help him refrain from looking at other women, and save his private parts from committing illegal sexual relation; and he who cannot afford to marry is advised to fast, as fasting will diminish his sexual power."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam for men towards women include that when they marry them, they must provide them shelter in the physical sense and provide them honor by keeping them steadfast upon the Truth in the spiritual sense; note that the Marriage at necessity is highly preferable in Islam as at that time, the men are highly troubled with specific feelings towards women and so it keeps the Muslim man safe from shameful sins; however, if good control over such feelings is totally possible with no inclination practically towards unrelated women even for some conversation then it is better for men to marry in thirties and for that matter, late-thirties is even better taking up Saum (fasting) as much as possible; I, MSD, heard from some knowledgeable person that the stomach and the private parts are near to each other so (even though their systems at physique are different) they affect each other; when the former is fully satisfied at adulthood, it asks the satisfaction to the latter so the intake of food must not be to its total satisfaction; Al-Hamdu Lillah; whenever the man marries, he must take care about all the liability that falls on him for the wife before asking for his rights to her; early marriages might result in the increase in the quantity of Muslims but we Muslims are much more in need of quality at these current times; the need today is that Muslims become practicing Muslims rather than having increase in quantity though in the normal circumstance even quantity would have been a merit to Muslims as at that situation it would not have been without quality; the Islamic Teachings value weight in character rather than count of heads and it is said in the Holy Book Quran, “Say: The bad and the good are not equal though the abundance of the bad might attract you; so be careful of (your duty to) Allah, O men of understanding, that you may be successful” (5:100); Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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98-Narrated Abu Masud Uqba:
The Prophet said, "One of the sayings of the prophets which the people have got, is. 'If you do not feel ashamed, then do whatever you like."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam ask to honor women highly that live strictly upon Islam; this Hadith notes that the true Muslim does not commit sins that are highly immoral in nature (especially adultery) as keeping away from shameful acts is well incorporated at his inside due to his keen sense of morality; if he loses this beautiful sense, then he becomes susceptible to Satanic temptations towards the shameful acts; if he falls in them getting used to committing them, they might in turn, lead him to lose the true belief; in other words, this Hadith notes that the person who once gets used to filth (in the spiritual sense) at the life he leads then that might take away the true belief away from him; as even good deeds become useless without the true belief, it does not matter what he does as he turns liable to enter JAHANNAM (the hell) if he does not repent soon and make his life totally better at the world within good time by holding truly to Islam; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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99-Narrated Abdullah bin Zama:
That he heard the Prophet delivering a sermon, and he mentioned the she-camel and the one who hamstrung it. Allah's Apostle recited:-- 'When, the most wicked man among them went forth (to hamstrung the she-camel).' (91.12.) Then he said, "A tough man whose equal was rare and who enjoyed the protection of his people, like Abi Zama went forth to (hamstrung) it." The Prophet then mentioned about the women (in his sermon). "It is not wise for anyone of you to lash his wife like a slave, for he might sleep with her the same evening." Then he advised them not to laugh when somebody breaks wind and said, "Why should anybody laugh at what he himself does?"
The decent attitudes as told by Islam ask to avoid injustice in every manner; it asks the Muslim person to develop sobriety in attitudes and as such it despises making fun of someone on some natural phenomenon that men are bound to; note that there are two categories of sins and that are injustice (ZULM) and indecency (FAHISHA); the three biggest of sins are included in these two categories as SHIRK (to take someone equal in power to Allah considering him capable to fulfill human necessities with Allah or without Him), is the biggest sin that is the greatest of injustice and to kill some innocent person is extreme injustice too; to commit adultery is the most indecent & shameful act and it also has the aspect of huge injustice too when such woman is involved in it that is the wife to some other person; these all are included in the greatest of sins; but whoever repents with total heart asking forgiveness from Allah reading NAFL-SALAH for this purpose doing good to those he had done wrong and refrains strictly from committing any big sin of these two categories (that means all big sins) ahead, Allah would surely forgive him and give him TAUFIQ (good time and space) to make things better for himself; it is mentioned in Surah AALE-IMRAN, “And those who when they commit indecency (FAHISHA) or do injustice (ZULM) to their souls remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their faults---and who forgives the faults but Allah---and (who) do not knowingly persist in what they have done; (As for) these, their reward is forgiveness from their Lord, and gardens beneath which rivers flow, to abide in them, and excellent is the reward of the laborers” (verses 135 & 136); Al-Hamdu Lillah; note here that the Hadith tells about the cruelty that the men of THAMUD (the people of SWALEH-AS) showed towards the she-camel they were given as the miracle from Allah; one of the most unfortunate killed her and brought wrath of Allah upon all that people; this Hadith also guides to stop from any kind of cruelty towards the wife who is under the command of the husband at the worldly life; she does have to see to all that might please her husband with obedience to his commands when they are not against the command of Allah but she is totally allowed to advise him on all matters of life; Ahadith about rights of women clarify that actions do speak loudly how the man is as the man who is decent would always remain most decent to his wife caring about her in all ways possible; in the matters of AKHIRAT i.e. the coming true life, they are equals and whoever has the better Belief and better deeds according to it, he or she would indeed be the better one there; they both must have high trust in each other and must never break that trust; indeed they both must keep to commands of Allah; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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100-Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "Avoid the seven great destructive sins." The people enquire, "O Allah's Apostle! What are they? "He said, "To join others in worship along with Allah, to practice sorcery, to kill the life which Allah has forbidden except for a just cause (according to Islamic law), to eat up Riba (usury), to eat up an orphan's wealth, to show the back to the enemy and flee from the battlefield at the time of fighting, and to accuse chaste women, who never even think of anything against chastity and are good believers.
The decent attitudes as told by Islam ask to avoid injustice & shameful attitudes in every manner as we studied at the Hadith-99; this Hadith also asks to avoid all wrongs that include SHIRK, murdering someone unjustly, practicing sorcery (putting spells to make rifts among Muslims especially among the man & wife) and accusing chaste women that care for good morals; in addition, it asks not to get wealth wrongfully as by taking of RIBA or by eating up the orphan’s wealth if the chance is available to it and it also asks not to save life in any manner when needed to surrender it in the good cause of raising the name of Allah; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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101-Narrated Masruq:
'Aisha said that Hassaan bin Thabit came and asked permission to visit her. I said, "How do you permit such a person?" She said, "Hasn't he received a severe penalty?" (Sufyan, the subnarrator, said: She meant the loss of his sight).
The decent attitudes as told by Islam strictly ask to refrain from accusing any chaste woman of adultery as we studied at Hadith-100 too; HASSAAN (the poet who had said poetry in favor & defense of the Prophet PBUH at occasions) was among those who wrongfully involved himself in this heinous matter when he supported those who had wrongly charged SAYYIDAH Ayesha-RA of this most shameful thing; Allah descended verses in Surah NOOR for the acquittal of SAYYIDAH that read, “Surely they who concocted the lie are a party from among you; do not regard it an evil to you; nay, it is good for you; every man of them shall have what he has earned of sin; and as for him among them who had the greater share therein (i.e. Abdullah bin Ubayy), he shall have the grievous chastisement”; it seems by the narration here that HASSAAN was repentant on his grave blunder and it also tells us that he had turned blind; the words of Ayesha express clearly that she had forgiven him; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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102-Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "Seven (people) will be shaded by Allah by His Shade on the Day of Resurrection when there will be no shade except His Shade. (They will be), a just ruler, a young man who has been brought up in the worship of Allah, a man who remembers Allah in seclusion and his eyes are then flooded with tears, a man whose heart is attached to mosques (offers his compulsory congregational prayers in the mosque), two men who love each other for Allah's Sake, a man who is called by a charming lady of noble birth to commit illegal sexual intercourse with her, and he says, 'I am afraid of Allah,' and (finally), a man who gives in charity so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right hand has given."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam ask the Muslim person to repent on all wrongs and become truly good practicing Muslim; the Hadith indicates that all good Muslims would get the shade provided by Allah in AKHIRAT as all of good Muslims do find a place here in the seven somewhere but the point to note is that here the Prophet (PBUH) intended to guide towards the high control over adverse temptations as that control leads to the high status at AKHIRAT; the just Imam (ruler; head of matters) controls the temptation to show his authority just for the sake of display how powerful he is; the young man controls the temptation to attach him to worldly games that his age asks but always remembers Allah with total attention; the man who has committed wrongs, controls his haughtiness that asks him to admit those wrongs but rather cries on them remembering Allah truly in silence asking for His Mercy and His Kindness intending to make things better in future (perhaps the best one among those that are mentioned here for he fights all his adverse temptations collectively then & there); the man who is attached to the Mosque while other places tempt him towards them; each of the two men that meet each other with care to keep their financial transaction fair with disregard to the temptation to get profits unfairly; the man whom a beautiful rich woman call towards wrong and he declines her offer (and how difficult it is to fight out this temptation except in hope & fear of Allah with total love towards Him); a man who shuns the temptation to save his money (only to spend it to get recognition among people) and gives it in charity at the right place with as much secrecy as possible; these all good Muslims are highly praiseworthy as they have good control over temptations and that control they must certainly have in them; adverse temptations can not distract them from the righteousness certainly; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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103-Narrated Abu Huraira:
While we were in the company of the Prophet, he said, "While I was asleep, I saw myself in Paradise and there I beheld a woman making ablution beside a palace, I asked, To whom does this palace belong? 'They said, To 'Umar bin Al-Khattab.' Then I remembered 'Umar's Ghaira (concerning women), and so I quickly went away from that palace." (When 'Umar heard this from the Prophet), he wept and said, "Do you think it is likely that I feel Ghaira because of you, O Allah's Apostle?"
The decent attitudes as told by Islam ask even the Muslim men to care for HEJAB of the woman and to care for their chastity in general to the extent possible; GHAIRA is the rightful anger against the wrong of shameful nature that is committed against the Command of Allah and it is one of the positive traits in the Muslim Man; the Prophet PBUH cared that no such attitude takes place by him even, that might affect the GHAIRA of any Muslim man; we have noted at Hadith-96 that he took the trouble to tell the passer-by Muslims that the woman he is with, is his wife SAFIYA so that Satan does not get the chance to affect their thoughts adversely taking the undue benefit from this positive trait of GHAIRA that is present in all Muslims to height; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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104-Narrated Abu Musa:
Allah's Apostle said, "He who has a slave-girl and educates and treats her nicely and then manumits and marries her, will get a double reward."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam guide all of us Muslims to care highly about all those who are less-privileged among us in all the manner possible; when slavery was in vogue, the Prophet PBUH asked to care highly for all slaves that the Muslims had in their custody as many of Ahadith clarify well; slave-girls had lesser status than wives and had to see to the sexual needs of their masters too; it was certainly an attitude of EHSAAN that was highly praiseworthy for the master to free his slave-girl and to marry her raising her status to the better standing at the society then when she had no liability upon him; also if he taught her Islamic Moral Values and good understanding of matters for her spiritual betterment too then he was most certainly liable to get double rewards from the True Lord Allah; in these current times, if the Muslim man of good social standing at the place cares to raise the status of some capable Muslim woman who is among the less-privileged asking her to come into his marriage (even as his second or third wife) providing her all the physical necessities and all the beneficial education that protects her from all Satanic things, he certainly too is liable to double rewards from the True Lord Allah, that has been mentioned at the Hadith here; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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105-Narrated Tha'laba bin Abi Malik:
'Umar bin Al-Khattab distributed some garments amongst the women of Medina. One good garment remained, and one of those present with him said, "O chief of the believers! Give this garment to your wife, the (grand) daughter of Allah's Apostle." They meant Um Kulthum, the daughter of 'Ali. 'Umar said, Um Salit has more right (to have it)." Um Salit was amongst those Ansari women who had given the pledge of allegiance to Allah's Apostle.' 'Umar said, "She (i.e. Um Salit) used to carry the water skins for us on the day of Uhud."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam ask the AMEER to care about all the people that are subject to his authority; this asked Umar-RA to care to distribute the ladies’ garments that he most probably received in his custody through spoils of war; that certainly asked for justice highly at that time; Umar was strict in matters of Islam and here as the Caliph, he felt that UM-SALIT was more rightful to get the last of the ladies’ garments he had, even more rightful than his respectable wife, so he provided that to her; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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106-Narrated 'Abdullah:
During some of the Ghazawat of the Prophet a woman was found killed. Allah's Apostle disapproved the killing of women and children.
The decent attitudes as told by Islam strictly forbade to kill women and children even if they are at war at the battlefield; the best thing is to capture them rather than to kill them where they are at war; note that at those times, the women taken into custody as slave-women had to be during wars only and secondly, they had to be only those that were present at the battlefield or at its vicinity to help their men at the war; due to caring about the weak, the Prophet PBUH used to instruct not to perform MUTHLAH (this means mutilation of corpses of the enemy) as then the enemy is not able to answer; it just shows a psychological aberration that is not appreciated by Islam; even the animals that are to be eaten must be slaughtered with the name of Allah with highly refined and sharp knife so that they feel no pain or very little of it; in other words, when some one becomes weaker against the strength Muslims have, Muslims have to care for those weaker ones rather than put a show of strength putting them into trouble without validity; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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107-Narrated Ibn Abbas:
regarding the Divine Verse: "O you who believe! You are forbidden to inherit women against their will, and you should not treat them with harshness that you may take back part of the (Mahr) dower you have given them." (4:19) (Before this revelation) if a man died, his relatives used to have the right to inherit his wife, and one of them could marry her if he would, or they would give her in marriage if they wished, or, if they wished, they would not give her in marriage at all, and they would be more entitled to dispose her, than her own relatives. So the above Verse was revealed in this connection.
The decent attitudes as told by Islam forbade to treat women with high-handedness and in-fact ask to treat them in extreme soft manner keeping the delicacy that they do have in manners due to their feminine nature (note also the comment at Hadith-8); this Hadith tells the state of women before Islam gave them true respect as Human Beings; the verse-19 of Surah NISAA reads, “O you who believe! it is not lawful for you that you should take women as heritage against (their) will, and do not straiten them in order that you may take part of what you have given them, unless they are guilty of manifest indecency, and treat them kindly; then if you hate them, it may be that you dislike a thing while Allah has placed abundant good in it”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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108-Narrated Urwa:
Aisha the wife of the Prophet, said, "Allah's Apostle used to ask commitment of the believing women (to Islam) who migrated to him in accordance with this Verse: 'O Prophet! When believing women come to you to take the oath of allegiance to you... Verily! Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful.' (60.12) 'Aisha said, "And if any of the believing women accepted the condition (assigned in the above-mentioned Verse), Allah's Apostle would say to her. "I have accepted your pledge of allegiance." "He would only say that, for, by Allah, his hand never touched, any lady during that pledge of allegiance. He did not receive their pledge except by saying, "I have accepted your pledge of allegiance for that."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam ask to remain totally away from all shameful activities and the Muslim Woman has the responsibility to eliminate shameful things more than the Muslim Man; however, the Muslim Man too has to care for it to the height possible as the matter certainly relates to him too; whenever the woman migrated to Medina due to the intention to live upon Islam in the best way and with no other intention then the Prophet PBUH used to take oath from her according to the verse-12 of Surah MUMTAHINA; it reads, “O Prophet! when believing women come to you giving you a pledge that they will not associate aught with Allah, and will not steal, and will not commit fornication & adultery, and will not kill their children, and will not bring a calumny which they have forged of themselves, and will not disobey you in what is good, accept their pledge, and ask forgiveness for them from Allah; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful”; note here that the Prophet PBUH cared not to touch any woman even for this BAYAH (pledge) and this tells clearly that men are certainly not allowed to touch NA-MEHRAM women (and in-fact, even unnecessary conversation to her is disallowed) as Islam takes this too as an indecent attitude; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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109-Narrated Anas bin Malik:
A group of three men came to the houses of the wives of the Prophet asking how the Prophet worshipped (Allah), and when they were informed about that, they considered their worship insufficient and said, "Where are we from the Prophet as his past and future sins have been forgiven." Then one of them said, "I will offer the prayer throughout the night forever." The other said, "I will fast throughout the year and will not break my fast." The third said, "I will keep away from the women and will not marry forever." Allah's Apostle came to them and said, "Are you the same people who said so-and-so? By Allah, I am more submissive to Allah and more afraid of Him than you; yet I fast and break my fast, I do sleep and I also marry women. So he who does not follow my tradition in religion, is not from me (not one of my followers)."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam do not appreciate to suppress feelings that relate to natural needs of men taking hardship upon the self; rather Islam asks to provide the rightful outlet to desires with care for the moral teachings of Islam in the ordinary business of life; the beauty of Islamic Teachings is that it asks to fulfill the necessary practice of Islam that is easy upon the self and certainly it does not ask to burden the self taking up tasks that are neither necessary nor practicable in the long-run period due to the suppression of the needs inside; the strict words of the Prophet PBUH show clearly that Islamic Teachings care to provide the good outlets to feelings rather than do away with those outright; note that the sources to understand the Islamic Teachings are primarily the Holy Book Quran (that is complete Islam in theory) and the SUNNAH of the Prophet PBUH (that is complete Islam in practice); please see also the “Brief Note on TAQLID” at the last of this writing; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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110-Narrated 'Abdullah:
We used to participate in the holy battles led by Allah's Apostle and we had nothing (no wives) with us. So we said, "Shall we get ourselves castrated?" He forbade us that and then allowed us to marry women with a temporary contract (2) and recited to us: -- 'O you who believe ! Make not unlawful the good things which Allah has made lawful for you, but commit no transgression.' (5.87)
The decent attitudes as told by Islam prohibit MUTA; it was temporary marriage that was allowed when the Prophet (PBUH) started calling towards Islam and remained allowed till GHAZWA-KHAYBAR when the Prophet (PBUH) prohibited it outright; before that at necessity, it was allowed for the men when they went away from homes at JEHAD and had no way to satisfy their sexual needs (except by the slave-girl once they won some war); however once when it got out of lives at the command to abstain from it given at KHAYBAR, it had remained out thence; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that even when it was practiced at that time, its practice was limited and exceptional; now, as slavery also is out of lives; Al-Hamdu Lillah; only the lawful marriage remains the righteous way to give outlet to the sexual desires for the men; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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111-Narrated Abu Jamra:
I heard Ibn Abbas (giving a verdict) when he was asked about the Mut'a with the women, and he permitted it. On that a freed slave of his said to him, "That is only when it is very badly needed and women are scarce." On that, Ibn 'Abbas said, "Yes."
(Note the comment at Hadith-110)
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112-Narrated Ibn 'Umar:
The Prophet said, "If your women ask permission to go to the mosque at night, allow them."
(Note the comment at Hadith-113)
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113-Narrated 'Aisha:
Had Allah's Apostle known what the women were doing, he would have forbidden them from going to the mosque as the women of Bani Israel had been forbidden. Yahya bin Said (a sub-narrator) asked 'Amra (another sub-narrator), "Were the women of Bani Israel forbidden?" She replied "Yes."
The decent attitudes as told by Islam do not allow women to adorn their-selves when they leave homes for some genuine necessity; though it was allowed for women to attend Salah at the times of the Prophet (PBUH) as he tolerated it and asked to tolerate it then, yet ULAMA generally and explicitly disallow women now for such attendance due to general occurrence of FITNAH; note that just after the passing away of the Prophet (PBUH) many SAHABA that allowed such attendance revised their attitude and disallowed it; this was due to the fact that the times of the Prophet (PBUH) were highly virtuous and now SAHABA were seeing clearly that the people still had to learn Islam much; the means of communication were not high and whatever means were available they were not much sophisticated and with people getting into Islam in great numbers without getting fully aware of the Islamic Teachings did pose threat to the misunderstanding of Islamic Teachings; note that even when the women were allowed this attendance at the times of the Prophet (PBUH) they were told that it is better to read Salah at home and if they do come at mosque they must not take-up any kind of make up or such clothes that might attract men and leave just after the end of SALAH; with time, this attendance of women at mosques ceased in general and understandably, this outcome has taken place for the better for sure; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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114-Narrated Ibn 'Umar:
The Prophet decreed that one should not try to cancel a bargain already agreed upon between some other persons (by offering a bigger price). And a man should not ask for the hand of a girl who is already engaged to his Muslim brother, unless the first suitor gives her up, or allows him to ask for her hand.
The decent attitudes as told by Islam are explicit on the point that Muslims must care for each other to the extent possible; for that reason, it is not allowed to intervene in a transaction that is already in good progress among two persons until that transaction is over; as marriage has also the aspect of an agreement between a man and a woman, it is not allowed to propose a girl knowing that the matter for her is in good progress with someone else; however, if the girl does not favor that proposal then after her rejection to it, another man is allowed to ask her WALI for her marriage to him (or if she is widow or divorced then he is even allowed to ask her directly through someone knowing both so that she does not mind the proposal); Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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H-About the Good Attitude in General
115-Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "O Muslim women! None of you should look down upon the gift sent by her sister at neighborhood even if it were the trotters of the sheep (fleshless part of legs)."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the person must show gratitude to that person who genuinely cares for him or her even if that person expresses it by giving something as gift that is taken as most ordinary; high value is given to neighbor in Islam and if he is a Muslim then his right increases even more; with that if he is a relative too, that increases his right even more; note that it is necessary to care for the non-Muslim neighbor too as he is ZIMMI (non-Muslim that lives with an agreement of peace in the Muslim Society and that word of peace might not be present in a written form necessarily but it is understood as such) and he must not be put to trouble in any way; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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116-Narrated Sahl bin Sa'd:
The Prophet said, "Whoever guarantees me (the chastity of) what is between his legs (i.e. his private parts), and what is between his jaws (i.e., his tongue), I guarantee him Paradise."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the Muslim person must take care of the tongue speaking the truth only and that even where necessity asks for it; in any conversation or writing that takes at any time and at any place, it is most crucial that the person mentions Allah and remembers His commands as that shows the care Muslims have for those commands in their lives; the other thing is to take care of the respective private parts and this asks the Muslim person to keep away from all shameful acts of high sinful manner asking Allah for shelter against them all; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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117-Narrated Asma:
I prepared the journey food for the Prophet and Abu Bakr when they wanted (to migrate to) Medina. I said to my father (Abu Bakr), "I do not have anything to tie the container of the journey food with except my waist belt." He said, "Divide it lengthwise into two." I did so, and for this reason I was named 'Dhat-un-Nitaqain' (i.e. the owner of two belts).
The Islamic moral values include the guidance to care for HIKMAT (application of knowledge to the environment) and here the advise of Abu-Bakr denotes the same; the divided belt of ASMA-RA was yet able to provide for her need and also for the bondage to the container so it did well then; HIJRAT (the migration to Medina) was the event that marked the manifestation of the rule of Righteousness and it brought not only the change to HIJAZ but also changed the time from the darkness towards the light of the Truth; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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118-Narrated Aiman:
I went to 'Aisha and she was wearing a coarse dress costing five Dirhams. 'Aisha said, "Look up and see my slave-girl who refuses to wear it in the house though during the lifetime of Allah's Apostle I had a similar dress which no woman desiring to appear elegant (before her husband) failed to borrow from me."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance to adhere to the concept that no Muslim person must take his own person as something high among the men; the Muslim person must understand that the greatness lies at his inside and he needs to develop his good traits rather than care for the things outside; the point to note here is that clothes do not make the person but the righteousness in his or her character does so; it is not the physical but the spiritual eminence that counts; if he values external things for his respect then that would make him susceptible to fall in his own eyes once he loses such external items; such concept also does lead to the inferiority complex ultimately and needs total avoidance; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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119-Narrated 'Aisha:
that she prepared a lady for a man from the Ansar as his bride and the Prophet said, "O 'Aisha! Haven't you got any amusement (during the marriage ceremony) as the Ansar like amusement?"
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the women have to care for reservation in their attitudes at all times and places; certainly, it is necessary to observe these all moral values yet adhering to that well, they might take up such entertainment at the time of marriage of someone from among them that Islam does allow; they might even enjoy playing of DAFF and singing of decent poetic verses among their own (without any such women who takes up such entertainment professionally) where strictly no-one from the men is present; note also the comment at Hadith-136; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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120-Narrated Nafi':
Whenever Ibn 'Umar was asked about marrying a Christian lady or a Jewess, he would say: Allah has made it unlawful for the believers to marry ladies who ascribe partners in worship to Allah, and I do not know of a greater thing, as regards to ascribing partners in worship, etc. to Allah, than that a lady should say that Jesus is her Lord although he is just one of Allah's slaves."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the Muslim decent man must see high decency that Islam asks for in the woman he marries; note here that the Muslim person might marry some Christian lady (but he must avoid marrying some Jewess due to the negative attitude in general of Jewish people towards Islam); with this, note also that Ibn’-Umar-RA remarked very rightly that the Christians raise the Prophet Jesus-AS from the status of the man but certainly besides being the Prophet, he also is among the men; the point to note here is that as the Holy Book Quran allows such marriage in clear terms (see Surah MA’EDAH-5) so it is not prohibited; the prohibition that Ibn’-Umar has expressed here is his personal leaning towards the matter that the Islamic Teachings tolerate yet generally it is not the Islamic ruling; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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121-Narrated Anas:
Ar-Rabi, the daughter of An-Nadr broke the tooth of a girl, and the relatives of Ar-Rabi' requested the girl's relatives to accept the Arsh (compensation for wounds etc.) and forgive (the offender), but they refused. So, they went to the Prophet who ordered them to bring about retaliation. Anas bin An-Nadr asked, "O Allah’s Apostle! Will the tooth of Ar-Rabi' be broken? No, by Him Who has sent you with the Truth, her tooth will not be broken." The Prophet said, "O Anas! Allah’s law ordains retaliation." Later the relatives of the girl agreed and forgave her. The Prophet said, "There are some of Allah's slaves who, if they take an oath by Allah, are responded to by Allah (i.e. their oath is fulfilled). Anas added, "The people agreed and accepted the Arsh."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance to control the anger towards all even if the person feels that his anger has worth; there is an authentic Hadith that tells that one of traits of the hypocrite is that when he quarrels, he begins to abuse the opponents; note that the monetary compensations that the inflictor of wounds provides to the affected person, is named as ARSH that is calculated mostly as the ratio to the DIYAT amount; the Hadith points out that Allah cares for the pious persons and where they take an oath on something as DUA to Allah, it happens that He grants it to them; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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122-Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
The Prophet was shier than a veined virgin girl.
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that all Muslim persons, men and women, must have their total leaning towards HIYA; this asks the attitude to avoid all shameful things due to the inherent sense of caring for the most decent values Allah has provided to the Man; there is an authentic Hadith that asks for HIYA in the most beautiful manner by indicating that loss of HIYA might affect the True Belief most adversely (see the Hadith-98 and note the comment on it); the Prophet PBUH had the realization of this inherent sense to the most beautiful height as the Hadith here denotes totally well; though this word is difficult to convey in English yet one of manners to express it might stand by these words that “it is the natural strong tendency that the woman (and that means all of them) has inside her at birth and develops ahead so as to avoid all of shameful things for all her life ahead”; note well that this spiritual quality of HIYA if it develops even in the man, is not something abnormal but it makes even that man highly virtuous; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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123-Narrated 'Aisha:
I never saw the Prophet laughing to an extent that one could see his palate, but he always used to smile only.
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that no one presents himself leaving all sobriety even if he is in the gathering of close friends; they also ask not to make fun of anyone keeping the fact in view that to have fun by the Islamic limits, is something else and to make fun is another; the Prophet never made fun of anyone or put anyone to hardship by jests though at occasions, he did enjoy jokes in a light hearted mood having fun along-with SAHABA but always in a limit and he never laughed but only smiled; he was not a man asking for strict discipline or demanding of unworthy protocol; note that this great teacher i.e. Muhammad PBUH, the last Messenger of Allah, has never had any schooling from anyone except directly from Allah; he was a lenient person in attitudes giving value to his SAHABA; he was soft in ways, modest in manners and simple by choice in living; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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124-Narrated Fatima bint Al-Mundhir:
Whenever a lady suffering from fever was brought to Asma' bint Abu Bakr, she used to invoke Allah for her and then sprinkle some water on her body, at the chest and say, "Allah's Apostle used to order us to abate fever with water."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance to make things better both by physical and spiritual effort and this is best to tackle problems; do whatever you can and then have trust in Allah for results; this in actual is TAWAKKUL (to have total trust in Allah); The Hadith asks to cool the fever by putting clean water (and here in Pakistan, many persons do keep a cloth soaked with clean water but dried to necessity by twisting the cloth, onto the forehead in such cases) and ask Allah for betterment in the condition; note that it is allowed to present DUA (supplication) against problems in any language provided that it is only to Allah, the Truly Mighty One; note that it is better to take AABE-ZAM ZAM for cooling fever though if unavailable or difficult to get, ordinary clean water would suffice; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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125-Narrated Um Salama:
that the Prophet saw in her house a girl whose face had a black spot. He said. "She is under the effect of an evil eye; so treat her with a Ruqya."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the Verses of the Holy Book Quran have the power to cure afflictions; these are specially related to the poisonous bite (of snake or scorpion), evil eye (a bad effect had from eyes of anyone intentionally or unintentionally) and small pustules (as another Hadith include them too); by the recitation of four things from the Holy Book Quran that are Surah FATIHA & AAYATUL-KURSI & the last AAYAH of Surah BAQARAH & the MAUDHATAYN (the last couple of Surah) in routine, he would insha Allah remain safe from every troublesome spiritual & physical affliction till the last moment of his life; note that there is an Hadith in TIRMIDHI that reports that “ANAS-(RA) confirmed that Allah’s Messenger permitted RUQYA (to recite the verses of the Holy Book Quran and blow with the mouth onto the affected person) for snake-bite, evil eye and small pustules”; ULAMA say that if the mentioned four things of the Holy Book Quran are recited 100 times a day, that would prove cure to any spell even if put on the person intentionally; for making this recitation into a habit, its better reciting these four 10 times after Fajr (early morning; beginning of the day) and 10 times after MAGHRIB (beginning of the night) counting the reading of all of these as one time till their total reading of 10 times is complete; insha Allah this would suffice against all spiritual afflictions and with that, this would insha Allah keep away all the physical afflictions too; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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126-Narrated Abu Hazim:
Sahl bin Sad said, "A lady came with a Burda. Sahl then asked (the people), "Do you know what Burda is?" Somebody said, "Yes. it is a Shamla with a woven border." Sahl added, "The lady said, 'O Allah's Apostle! I have knitted this (Burda) with my own hands for you to wear it." Allah's Apostle took it and he was in need of it. Allah's Apostle came out to us and he was wearing it as an Izar. A man from the people felt it and said, 'O Allah's Apostle! Give it to me to wear.' The Prophet s said, 'Yes.' Then he sat there for some time (and when he went to his house), he folded it and sent it to him. The people said to that man, 'You have not done a right thing. You asked him for it, though you know that he does not put down anybody's request.' The man said, 'By Allah! I have only asked him so that it may be my shroud when I die." Sahl added, "Later it was his shroud."
The Islamic moral values include the care to each other certainly; it is necessary even for the needy person to see not to affect someone by asking him for something for which he himself is in need of; here the matter is interesting as the Prophet PBUH cared to provide necessities to all persons that he could manage; now, when one of SAHABA asked him for the sheet that has come to him as gift from someone, he provided that to him; the intention of that one among SAHABA was good yet the most important point to note according to the Islamic Teachings is that things at manifestation do not actually help at the matters of AKHIRAT unless the person has good deeds with the Righteous Belief; the Hadith also indicates that it is not prohibited to gift someone such a thing that the person has got in possession by gift himself; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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127-Narrated 'Aisha:
The Prophet said, "Whoever vowed to be obedient to Allah, must be obedient to Him; and whoever vowed to be disobedient to Allah, should not be disobedient to Him."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the Muslim person must always care to fulfill the commands of Allah and never do against them; the person in taking upon himself to do or give something if Allah does the needed for him must take an oath not only intending it but saying it verbally too and it must only be of something that is clearly taken as an act of worship to Allah; for example a person can say if this happens he would read this many RAKA’AH of SALAH in thanks to Allah or he can say that he would feed so many of needy persons; he certainly must not take any oath to commit any sinful act if his want is fulfilled like drinking wine or committing theft as such an oath does not take place at all and this type of an oath in itself is highly sinful; Muslims must care for Islam in all the positive way never ever going towards any wrongs at all; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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128-Narrated 'Aisha:
When the Prophet married me, my mother came to me and made me enter the house where I saw some women from the Ansar who said, "May you prosper and have blessings and have good omen."
The Islamic moral values include the guidance to ask Allah for His blessing at some significant occasion of life that affects it highly; though the Prophet Muhammad PBUH had just come to Medina by HIJRAH and the Islamic Environment had just started taking shape then yet the good attitude to ask Allah only for all of the blessing, had taken hold; the first thing certainly to achieve His blessing is to turn attention towards Him only as that only leads to all the other good things; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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129-Narrated 'Aisha:
(the wife of the Prophet) that whenever one of her relatives died, the women assembled and then dispersed (returned to their houses) except her relatives and close friends. She would order that pot of Talbina be cooked. Then Tharid (a dish prepared from meat having much of gravy and bread-crumbs) would be prepared and the Talbina would be poured on it. 'Aisha would say (to the women),"Eat of it, for I heard Allah's Apostle saying, 'The Talbina soothes the heart of the patient and relieves him from some of his sadness.' "
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that when there is some troublesome occasion for someone, other Muslims have to soothe him by their good words and their good attitudes; they should try also to provide foods that is soothing in nature to those where someone has died as their sorrow might have made them oblivious to care for the provision of that so the children there might be suffering; Talbina is barley-flour (grinded JAU) to which the milk is added as needed and stirred well; that turns it into the shape of porridge to which then some honey is added and stirred well; Tharid is bread crumbs etc. soaked with fine tasty gravy and Talbina might be taken with Tharid as reported; note that both milk & honey are the natural foods and they both have most beneficial soothing effect against depression especially when mixed in the barley-flour; the Holy Book Quran mentions both of these natural foods very positively in Surah NAHAL; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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130-Narrated Abu Salama:
'Aisha's brother and I went to 'Aisha and he asked her about the bath of the Prophet. She brought a pot containing about a Sa' of water and took (that as in) a bath and poured it over her head and at that time there was a screen between her and us.
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the person who knows something of significance, he or she must provide it totally in the best manner possible with total care to the Islamic morals when it is needed; the words of Hadith here might give the impression that ‘Aisha-RA taught the needed by demonstration of her bath but that impression is highly erroneous; note that it was by pouring of water on her head practically with total of her dress on and it was not actually bathing at all; note well that it means that for this limited teaching even, she was fully dressed in her total clothes and still kept a screen between her & those two showing them from behind it by the shadow only how to pour water upon the head at the bath taken; however, even this much of permitted limited teaching, with such necessary caution (being only in front of the MEHRAM relatives only), is better to avoid at current times even if that comes from the highly learned woman as there is no need to get the SUNNAH in this respect now as was necessary then; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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131-Narrated Um Salama:
One night Allah's Apostle got up and said, "Subhan Allah! How many afflictions have been descended tonight and how many treasures have been disclosed! Go and wake the sleeping lady occupants of these dwellings (his wives) up (for prayers). A well-dressed (soul) in this world may be naked in the Hereafter. "
The Islamic moral values include the guidance that the Muslim person must keep in his mind that he has to die some day for which he must keep the preparation; he must have total belief in the Holy Book Quran, read it on, understand it well, put it into his practice and ask all persons for all these things about it certainly; this night mentioned here is taken as the 15th night of Sha’ban; it is named as the night of BAR’AT (freedom) as at this night, Allah provides mercy to all those who ask for it with total heart, forgiving their sins; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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132-Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah:
While we were returning from a Ghazwa (Holy Battle) with the Prophet, I started driving my camel fast, as it was a lazy camel A rider came behind me and pricked my camel with a spear he had with him, and then my camel started running as fast as the best camel you may see. Behold! The rider was the Prophet himself. He said, 'What makes you in such a hurry?" I replied, I am newly married " He said, "Did you marry a virgin or a matron? I replied, "A matron." He said, "Why didn't you marry a young girl so that you may play with her and she with you?" When we were about to enter (Medina), the Prophet said, "Wait so that you may enter (Medina) at night so that the lady of unkempt hair may comb her hair and the one whose husband has been absent may shave her pubic region.
The Islamic moral values include the guidance to provide ease to the wife in the best way possible so that she might see to her obligation towards her husband well; returning from GHAZWA BANI-MUSTALAQ, the Prophet (PBUH) saw that the camel of JABIR (RA) was very slow and he only touched it with some branch or the spear as reported here; the Prophet (PBUH) was highly particular not to hit animals even and it is known well by Ahadith that when he had to attend wars at the command of Allah, he tried his best not to involve himself into the hand-to-hand fight there but commanded the occasion standing in the midst of his forces; he never beat a woman or a child (or any weak person for that matter) any time anywhere for any reason whatsoever; he always stood for the weak persons all his life and we all must also see to this without fail in our own capacity; we all must note that no harsh action is taken against young students that is often taken at places or accused persons for some crime that are yet to be proved criminals as that proves to be a high psychic burden to them in their later lives; note that all dictators of recent times had received a harsh treatment in some way from the adults or from the people in authority in their childhood and we know how they dealt with the world once they got power; in current times, if we care for the Islamic Moral Values in all our attitudes especially that are taken at the teaching department, at the medical department and at the justice department then surely it would be only matter of time for Islamic Society to come into existence as Islamic Morals are mostly needed in these very fields; coming back to the narration, note that the animal ran so fast that it went ahead of all and the Prophet (PBUH) offered to buy it; Jabir asked to take it without any price as a gift from him but the Prophet declined that and told him that he would pay; the transaction was finalized but the Prophet PBUH allowed Jabir to ride it till they reach Medina as he had no other conveyance available; when they reached Medina, Jabir gave the camel and taking the money, he turned to go home; the Prophet (PBUH) then called him and told him words to the effect to take the animal with him as gift to him from the Prophet PBUH; another version of this Hadith tells us that Jabir had told the Prophet PBUH that he had many sisters (seven or nine) and his father has passed away so he needed some mature woman to take care of the household; ULAMA have remarked that in normal situation it is better for the man to marry a virgin girl yet in difficult situations where the marriage to some woman of mature understanding is needed, then that only is feasible in practice; note that only one of the wives of the Prophet (PBUH) was virgin among the 12 of wives he took and that was AYESHA (RA); his marriages prove one of the means to resolve differences with many of Arab tribes (as the custom prevailing then asked to care highly for the man who married a woman from the tribe and provided ample respect to her); he was certainly facing difficult times containing the enemy of Islam then but with the total blessing of Allah, those difficult times changed to better times for Islam in the last of his life; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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133-Narrated Sahl:
A man passed by Allah's Apostle and Allah s Apostle asked (his companions) "What do you say about this (man)?" They replied "If he asks for a lady's hand, he ought to be given her in marriage; and if he intercedes (for someone) his intercessor should be accepted; and if he speaks, he should be listened to." Allah's Apostle kept silent, and then a man from among the poor Muslims passed by, an Allah's Apostle asked (them) "What do you say about this man?" They replied, "If he asks for a lady's hand in marriage he does not deserve to be married, and he intercedes (for someone), his intercession should not be accepted; And if he speaks, he should not be listened to.' Allah's Apostle said, "This poor man is better than so many of the first as filling the earth.'
The Islamic moral values include the guidance to respect the virtuous person highly in all matters of life; note well that it is not the possession of worldly assets that makes the Muslim person respectful but in fact, it is the good deeds according to his good Belief that raises him to respect; the worldly assets do increase his chances to good deeds yet it might prove extreme burden too over him if he cares but little for the commands of Allah for those worldly assets; it is well to live at the world with ease in necessities with care to the good deeds that would weigh at AKHIRAT rather than troubling the self for the accumulation of wealth after the satisfaction of necessities; the useless economic activities do take much of the precious time available that the Muslims could have utilized for the spread of the Islamic Teachings by the Holy Book Quran & the SUNNAH of the Prophet PBUH; the Muslims would insha Allah rise again to guide the world towards the Truth; we spread the teachings of Islam before with the Holy Book Quran & the SUNNAH and certainly with that only, we would do it again; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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134-Narrated Kharija bin Zaid bin Thabit:
Um Al-'Ala an Ansari woman who had given a pledge of allegiance to Allah's Apostle told me:, "The Muhajirin (emigrants) were distributed amongst us by drawing lots, and we got 'Uthman bin Maz'un in our share. We made him stay with us in our house. Then he suffered from a disease which proved fatal. When he died and was given a bath and was shrouded in his clothes. Allah's Apostle came, I said, (addressing the dead body), 'O Aba As-Sa'ib! May Allah be Merciful to you! I testify that Allah has honored you.' Allah's Apostle said, 'How do you know that Allah has honored him?" I replied, 'Let my father be sacrificed for you, O Allah's Apostle! On whom else shall Allah bestow His honor?' Allah's Apostle said, 'As for him, by Allah, death has come to him. By Allah, I wish him all good (from Allah). By Allah, in spite of the fact that I am Allah's Apostle, I do not know what Allah will do to me.", Um Al-'Ala added, "By Allah, I will never attest the righteousness of anybody after that."
The Islamic moral values include that Muslims must not talk ill about the person dead (except where he has been at authority abusing it by extreme injustice); it is not feasible to mention him of such merit too that he certainly has got the place at JANNAH without any reasoning (that has to be based at his adherence to the KITAB and the SUNNAH); UTHMAN bin MAZ’UN was certainly virtuous person due to his care to the Islamic Teachings yet the Prophet PBUH intended to guide that all speech especially speech that appreciates someone highly relating to AKHIRAT or that depreciates someone highly relating to it, needs high caution; note well that the Prophet PBUH did not have the knowledge of GHAIB by his own but received WAHI (revelations from Allah) the education of which he had to provide to all as the last Prophet of Allah; we all have an examination here in the world and that means that we all must believe in GHAIB (whatever we are not able to see or hear but understand well that this GHAIB does have existence because of the WAHI i.e. communication of Allah to the Prophet PBUH); may Allah give us the wisdom to see the Truth as it is and the adherence to accept it well taking it well in our deeds; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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135- Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle forbade the selling of things by a town dweller on behalf of a desert dweller (villager); and similarly Najsh was forbidden. And one should not urge somebody to return the goods to the seller so as to sell him his own goods; nor should one demand the hand of a girl who has already been engaged to someone else; and a woman should not try to cause some other woman to be divorced in order to take her place.
The Islamic moral values include the teaching that all Muslims are brothers and they must try their best to care for each other in all the manner possible; those worldly profits actually are bad that anyone earns by inflicting loss to someone consciously; though the market was very limited at that time in comparison with today and even commodities too yet the rulings we get by Ahadith still have the competence to guide in the field of Economics well; the villager in possession to some goods that has utility at the city has to provide that by his own resources there at the market and he should ask distributors for its marketing only when it does not raise prices to height and where it does not lead to monopoly of that; when the transaction among two sides is in progress, someone intervenes and bids a better price than the buyer there that is not actually for buying the commodity but for the sake of providing material benefits to the seller tricking the buyer there into raising his bid, this approach is called NAJASH and it certainly is prohibited; also, it is not allowed to ask for the cancellation of the transaction without any reason or with the reason for the benefit of that person who pursues the buyer to that (note that the transaction might be cancelled by the buyer within 3 days if he intends); also, it is not allowed to propose a girl that is already engaged to someone; the Hadith also guides that one of the wives of the man must not try to impress him to divorce other of his wives to gain favor in his eyes; it also guides women in general to avoid applying such ways that might lead a man to detest his wife that leads him to divorce her as this is extremely bad whether the persuader to that, intends to become his wife in her place or does not; may Allah save all Muslims from asking for trouble to any other of Muslims and in fact, to anyone of the world; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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136-Narrated Aisha:
Allah's Apostle (PBUH) came to my house while two girls were singing beside me the songs of Buath (a story about the war between the two tribes of the Ansar, the Khazraj and the Aus, before Islam). The Prophet (PBUH) lay down and turned his face to the other side. Then Abu Bakr came and spoke to me harshly saying, "Musical instruments of Satan near the Prophet (PBUH) ?" Allah's Apostle (PBUH) turned his face towards him and said, "Leave them." When Abu Bakr became inattentive, I signalled to those girls to go out and they left. It was the day of 'Id, and the Black people were playing with shields and spears; so either I requested the Prophet (PBUH) or he asked me whether I would like to see the display. I replied in the affirmative. Then the Prophet (PBUH) made me stand behind him and my cheek was touching his cheek and he was saying, "Carry on! O Bani Arfida," till I got tired. The Prophet (PBUH) asked me, "Are you satisfied (Is that sufficient for you)?" I replied in the affirmative and he told me to leave.
The Islamic moral values include that there ought to be no pursuance to any shameful thing at the Islamic Environment; this concept is named as SADDE-ZARA’E (stopping of means); the Holy Book Quran tells us at the nineteenth verse of Surah-Noor that “Lo! those who love that slander (FAHISHA) spreads concerning those who believe, theirs will be a painful punishment in the world and the Hereafter; Allah knows; Ye know not”; note here about the TV-programs & about Music that none of programs at any of TV-channels would directly present the wrong-doing of persons belittling them on their doings as that is taking law of the land into individual hands but the channels might point out the wrongs addressing the responsible authorities to curb such criminal activities without going particularly against anyone by name & destination; also there certainly must be no such programs that challenge the HEJAB in any manner especially by the presentation of cultures adverse to the Muslim traditions in the name of Reality-Shows or any other; there must be no such programs too in the name of entertainment or any other that lead to the temptation of worldly commodities making greed for them to take place in general; there must be no such programs too that ask callers on-line arbitrarily or that go onto markets for random survey except for interviews on-line of the prominent persons; all programs, live or recorded, would care to high “sobriety” according to the asking of the Islamic Morals in all manner possible while there would never be any making of fun or belittling of any person here; the tolerable songs at the computer (and even at the mobile cell-phone and other modern gadgets) must not present the view of performers but they must relate to voice only and though the limitation here would depend at the will of the listener yet he must see by himself that they are singly sung in decent words by the male singer or by the female singer but not together and that also must remain without any video to them; video that are directly related to the Fine-Arts, must better be avoided at the computer, mobile cell-phones and other modern gadgets in general for certain at the level of EHSAAN by own; Al-Hamdu Lillah; at the TV, such videos related to the Fine-Arts might be allowed keeping to few necessary conditions for the Music; at the Islamic Environment for the Music, the first point to note as one of conditions to it is that words of the songs must not challenge Islamic Morals in any way and this matter must be decided by ordinary Muslims at times yet with total devotion to Islam; the second point to note in this respect is that the singers and the players of instruments must not be professionals (in-fact, it is better if the amateur singer can play an instrument or two and sings with that leisurely and women would necessarily have to avoid singing in front of men at the TV though they might take that up singly at the Radio) so notable here is that their occupations must be some other works while the music just remains a pastime to them taken up at leisure and to all those who enjoy the soft music; the third point is that the music must be soft and not a rhythmic din of some kind as the fast music is not appreciable in an Islamic set-up; the last point in these important ones for this matter is that total instruments used for the songs must not be more than two so that the song does not seem to be a professional kind of thing and remains to softness; it is better if a computerized gadget that is able to provide different musical voices, is used for the song with the set-up of voices of two musical instruments that fulfill the minimum requirement of the music (yin and yang) in the song that must remain soft in nature; other conditions too might be valid here though they might manifest at different levels of importance; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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137-Narrated Aisha:
Abu Bakr came to my house while two small Ansari girls were singing beside me the stories of the Ansar concerning the Day of Buath. And they were not singers. Abu Bakr said protestingly, "Musical instruments of Satan in the house of Allah's Apostle !" It happened on the 'Id day and Allah's Apostle said, "O Abu Bakr! There is an 'Id for every nation and this is our 'Id."
(Note the comment at Hadith-136)
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138-Narrated 'Urwa on the authority of 'Aisha:
On the days of Mina, (11th, 12th, and 13th of Dhul-Hijjah) Abu Bakr came to her while two young girls were beating the tambourine and the Prophet was lying covered with his clothes. Abu Bakr scolded them and the Prophet uncovered his face and said to Abu Bakr, "Leave them, for these days are the days of 'Id and the days of Mina." 'Aisha further said, "Once the Prophet was screening me and I was watching the display of black slaves in the Mosque and 'Umar scolded them. The Prophet said, 'Leave them. O Bani Arfida! (carry on), you are safe'."
(Note the comment at Hadith-136)
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139-Narrated Um Khalid bint Khalid:
The Prophet was given some clothes including a black Khamisa. The Prophet said, "To whom shall we give this to wear?" The people kept silent whereupon the Prophet said, "Fetch Um Khalid for me." I (Um Khalid) was brought carried (as I was small girl at that time). The Prophet took the Khamisa in his hands and made me wear it and said, "May you live so long that your dress will wear out and you will mend it many times." On the Khamisa there were some green or pale designs (The Prophet saw these designs) and said, "O Um Khalid! This is Sanah." (Sanah in a Ethiopian word meaning beautiful).
The Islamic moral values include that Muslims must be lenient to children; they like colorful designs, attractive embroidery and playthings; due to this psyche of little children, the Prophet PBUH led the attention of the child to the design at the black garment KHAMISA (the outer garment) indicating its beauty to her; due to DUA of the Prophet PBUH, she lived up-to the ripe age and was one of the last of SAHABA to die then; she always remembered this beautiful incident where the Prophet PBUH gave her the wonderful gift and with that, the wonderful DUA too; Al-Hamdu Lillah; note that though white & green among the colorful garments are preferable to wear yet garments of all other colors are also well to wear but total red dress and total yellow dress is better to avoid though linings & shades of these colors at garments of other colors are no problem; note also that even the wearing of the black color too is no problem when the heart truly is towards Allah only; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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140-Narrated 'Ali:
The Prophet gave me a silk suit and I wore it, but when I noticed anger on his face, I cut it and distributed it among my women-folk.
The Islamic moral values include that even the Muslim men have to be cautious in whatever they wear; they are not allowed to wear silk except where necessary mostly due to some affliction to the body and gold is forbidden too for them; however, there is a difference among ULAMA here as many of them say that even in necessity, pure silk must be avoided and mixed cloth that has silk must be taken (and they say that it is better that even that cloth with impure silk has silk at the inside of the cloth and not obvious) while the other ULAMA say that at necessity silk might be used unconditionally; note that at ordinary circumstances both agree that men must totally avoid the wearing of silk according to the guidance of the Hadith; note that the Prophet PBUH had provided the silk garment to Ali-RA to distribute among the women relatives and it was not for his own usage; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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141-Narrated Anas bin Malik:
that he had seen Um Kulthum, the daughter of Allah's Apostle , wearing a red silk garment.
The Islamic moral values include that the Muslim men do not wear total red garment or total yellow one; however, like silk & gold, even that is allowed for the Muslim women with care to HEJAB; note that ANAS was just a boy of small age then at the times of the Prophet PBUH; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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I-About Avoidance of Wrongs in General
142-Narrated Aisha:
Utba bin Abu Waqqas took a firm promise from his brother Sa’d bin Abu Waqqas to take the son of the slave-girl of Zam'a into his custody as he was his (i.e. 'Utba's) son. In the year of the Conquest (of Mecca) Sa’d bin Abu Waqqas took him, and said that he was his brother's son, and his brother took a promise from him to that effect. 'Abu bin Zam'a got up and said, "He is my brother and the son of the slave-girl of my father and was born on my father's bed." Then they both went to the Prophet; Sa’d said, "O Allah's Apostle! He is the son of my brother and he has taken a promise from me that I will take him." 'Abu bin Zam'a said, "(He is) my brother and the son of my father's slave-girl and was born on my father's bed." Allah's Apostle said, "The boy is for you. O 'Abu bin Zam'a." Then the Prophet said, "The son is for the bed (i.e the man on whose bed he was born) and stones (disappointment and deprivation) for the one who has done illegal sexual intercourse." The Prophet told his wife Sauda bint Zam'a to screen herself from that boy as he noticed a similarity between the boy and 'Utba. So, the boy did not see her till he died.
It is necessary to fulfill the demands of the Islamic Justice and everyone of Muslims must take care to it; if someone claims a person to be his son by admission to adultery, he would be punished for that heinous crime to which he has admitted by himself and with that too, he would not get the custody of the person he claims to be his son though his looks (or even the DNA test in the current times) might tell him to be his son; however, the verdict does not make him MEHRAM to the Female near relatives of the person who has got it in his favor; though the boy remains his son by the law, those female persons that become his near relatives by the law would still have to care for HEJAB from that boy as he grows and this proves that ADL is for the claimed issue and EHSAN in attitude is for the social values that prevail in the Islamic Environment; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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143- Narrated Jubair bin Mutim:
A lady came to Allah's Apostle and she talked to him about something, and he gave her some order. She said, "O Allah's Apostle! If I should not find you?" He said, "If you should not find me, then go to Abu Bakr." Ibrahim bin Sa'd said, "As if she meant the death (of the Prophet)."
It is necessary to fulfill the demands of the Islamic Justice and everyone of Muslims must take care to it; seeking of the Islamic manner in issues at hand is necessary for all Muslims, male or female; if the person can not get the solution to the problem from the one intended due to his passing-away, he or she ought to ask another knowledgeable person trusted that answers by the same criteria of the KITAB & the SUNNAH of the Prophet PBUH that might provide the answer well to practice then & there; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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144-Narrated Anas:
A Jew crushed the head of a girl between two stones. The girl was asked who had crushed her head, and some names were mentioned before her, and when the name of the Jew was mentioned, she nodded agreeing. The Jew was captured and when he confessed, the Prophet ordered that his head be crushed between two stones.
It is necessary to fulfill the demands of the Islamic Justice and everyone of Muslims must take care to it; here we find that the Islamic Justice accepts even the indication by gestures towards the identity of the criminal that clearly provide that if he or she is unable to convey that by words; the other notable thing is that the Islamic Justice might take-up the same manner of execution to the verdict that the criminal manifested at the crime as this fulfills its demands well; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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J-The incident of “IFAK”
145-Narrated Aisha:
"Whenever Allah's Apostle intended to go on a journey, he would draw lots amongst his wives and would take with him the one upon whom the lot fell. During a Ghazwa of his, he drew lots amongst us and the lot fell upon me, and I proceeded with him after Allah had decreed the use of the veil by women. I was carried in a Howdah (on the camel) and dismounted while still in it. When Allah's Apostle was through with his Ghazwa and returned home, and we approached the city of Medina, Allah's Apostle ordered us to proceed at night. When the order of setting off was given, I walked till I was past the army to answer the call of nature. After finishing I returned (to the camp) to depart (with the others) and suddenly realized that my necklace over my chest was missing. So, I returned to look for it and was delayed because of that. The people who used to carry me on the camel, came to my Howdah and put it on the back of the camel, thinking that I was in it, as, at that time, women were light in weight, and thin and lean, and did not use to eat much. So, those people did not feel the difference in the heaviness of the Howdah while lifting it, and they put it over the camel. At that time I was a young lady. They set the camel moving and proceeded on. I found my necklace after the army had gone, and came to their camp to find nobody. So, I went to the place where I used to stay, thinking that they would discover my absence and come back in my search. While in that state, I felt sleepy and slept. Safwan bin Mu'attal As-Sulami Adh-Dhakwani was behind the army and reached my abode in the morning. When he saw a sleeping person, he came to me, and he used to see me before veiling. So, I got up when I heard him saying, "Inna Lillah wa Inna Ilaihi Rajiun (We are for Allah, and we will return to Him)." He made his camel kneel down. He got down from his camel, and put his leg on the front legs of the camel and then I rode and sat over it. Safwan set out walking, leading the camel by the rope till we reached the army who had halted to take rest at midday. Then whoever was meant for destruction, fell into destruction, (some people accused me falsely) and the leader of the false accusers was 'Abdullah bin Ubai bin Salul. After that we returned to Medina, and I became ill for one month while the people were spreading the forged statements of the false accusers. I was feeling during my ailment as if I were not receiving the usual kindness from the Prophet which I used to receive from him when I got sick. But he would come, greet and say, 'How is that (girl)?' I did not know anything of what was going on till I recovered from my ailment and went out with Um Mistah to the Manasi where we used to answer the call of nature, and we used not to go to answer the call of nature except from night to night and that was before we had lavatories near to our houses. And this habit of ours was similar to the habit of the old 'Arabs in the open country (or away from houses). So. I and Um Mistah bint Ruhm went out walking. Um Mistah stumbled because of her long dress and on that she said, 'Let Mistah be ruined.' I said, 'You are saying a bad word. Why are you abusing a man who took part in (the battle of) Badr?' She said, 'O Hanata (you there) didn't you hear what they said?' Then she told me the rumors of the false accusers. My sickness was aggravated, and when I returned home, Allah's Apostle came to me, and after greeting he said, 'How is that (girl)?' I requested him to allow me to go to my parents. I wanted then to be sure of the news through them; Allah's Apostle allowed me, and I went to my parents and asked my mother, 'What are the people talking about?' She said, 'O my daughter! Don't worry much about this matter. By Allah, never is there a charming woman loved by her husband who has other wives, but the women would forge false news about her.' I said, 'Glorified be Allah! Are the people really taking of this matter?' That night I kept on weeping and could not sleep till morning. In the morning Allah's Apostle called Ali bin Abu Talib and Usama bin Zaid when he saw the Divine Inspiration delayed, to consul them about divorcing his wife (i.e. 'Aisha). Usama bin Zaid said what he knew of the good reputation of his wives and added, 'O Allah's Apostle! Keep you wife, for, by Allah, we know nothing about her but good.' 'Ali bin Abu Talib said, 'O Allah's Apostle! Allah has not imposed any restrictions upon you, and there are many women other than she, yet you may ask the woman-servant who will tell you the truth.' On that Allah's Apostle called Buraira and said, 'O Burair. Did you ever see anything which roused your suspicions about her?' Buraira said, 'No, by Allah Who has sent you with the Truth, I have never seen in her anything faulty except that she is a girl of immature age, who sometimes sleeps and leaves the dough for the goats to eat.' On that day Allah's Apostle ascended the pulpit and requested that somebody support him in punishing 'Abdullah bin Ubai bin Salul. Allah's Apostle said, 'Who will support me to punish that person ('Abdullah bin Ubai bin Salul) who has hurt me by slandering the reputation of my family? By Allah, I know nothing about my family but good, and they have accused a person about whom I know nothing except good, and he never entered my house except in my company.' Sad bin Mu'adh got up and said, 'O Allah's Apostle! by Allah, I will relieve you from him. If that man is from the tribe of the Aus, then we will chop his head off, and if he is from our brothers, the Khazraj, then order us, and we will fulfill your order.' On that Sad bin 'Ubada, the chief of the Khazraj and before this incident, he had been a pious man, got up, motivated by his zeal for his tribe and said, 'By Allah, you have told a lie; you cannot kill him, and you will never be able to kill him.' On that Usaid bin Al-Hadir got up and said (to Sad bin 'Ubada), 'By Allah! you are a liar. By Allah, we will kill him; and you are a hypocrite, defending the hypocrites.' On this the two tribes of Aus and Khazraj got excited and were about to fight each other, while Allah's Apostle was standing on the pulpit. He got down and quieted them till they became silent and he kept quiet. On that day I kept on weeping so much so that neither did my tears stop, nor could I sleep. In the morning my parents were with me and I had wept for two nights and a day, till I thought my liver would burst from weeping. While they were sitting with me and I was weeping, an Ansari woman asked my permission to enter, and I allowed her to come in. She sat down and started weeping with me. While we were in this state, Allah's Apostle came and sat down and he had never sat with me since the day they forged the accusation. No revelation regarding my case came to him for a month. He recited Tashah-hud (i.e. None has the right to be worshipped but Allah and Muhammad is His Apostle) and then said, 'O 'Aisha! I have been informed such-and-such about you; if you are innocent, then Allah will soon reveal your innocence, and if you have committed a sin, then repent to Allah and ask Him to forgive you, for when a person confesses his sin and asks Allah for forgiveness, Allah accepts his repentance.' When Allah's Apostle finished his speech my tears ceased completely and there remained not even a single drop of it. I requested my father to reply to Allah's Apostle on my behalf. My father said, By Allah, I do not know what to say to Allah's Apostle.' I said to my mother, 'Talk to Allah's Apostle on my behalf.' She said, 'By Allah, I do not know what to say to Allah's Apostle. I was a young girl and did not have much knowledge of the Quran. I said. 'I know, by Allah, that you have listened to what people are saying and that has been planted in your minds and you have taken it as a truth. Now, if I told you that I am innocent and Allah knows that I am innocent, you would not believe me and if I confessed to you falsely that I am guilty, and Allah knows that I am innocent you would believe me. By Allah, I don't compare my situation with you except to the situation of Joseph's father (i.e. Jacob) who said, 'So (for me) patience is most fitting against that which you assert and it is Allah (Alone) whose help can be sought.' Then I turned to the other side of my bed hoping that Allah would prove my innocence. By Allah I never thought that Allah would reveal Divine Inspiration in my case, as I considered myself too inferior to be talked of in the Holy Qur'an. I had hoped that Allah's Apostle might have a dream in which Allah would prove my innocence. By Allah, Allah's Apostle had not got up and nobody had left the house before the Divine Inspiration came to Allah's Apostle. So, there overtook him the same state which used to overtake him, (when he used to have, on being inspired divinely). He was sweating so much so that the drops of the sweat were dropping like pearls though it was a (cold) wintry day. When that state of Allah's Apostle was over, he was smiling and the first word he said, 'Aisha! Thank Allah, for Allah has declared your innocence.' My mother told me to go to Allah's Apostle . I replied, 'By Allah I will not go to him and will not thank but Allah.' So Allah revealed: "Verily! They who spread the slander are a gang among you . . ." (24:11) When Allah gave the declaration of my Innocence, Abu Bakr, who used to provide for Mistah bin Uthatha for he was his relative, said, 'By Allah, I will never provide Mistah with anything because of what he said about Aisha.' But Allah later revealed: -- "And let not those who are good and wealthy among you swear not to help their kinsmen, those in need and those who left their homes in Allah's Cause. Let them forgive and overlook. Do you not wish that Allah should forgive you? Verily! Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful." (24.22) After that Abu Bakr said, 'Yes ! By Allah! I like that Allah should forgive me,' and resumed helping Mistah whom he used to help before. Allah's Apostle also asked Zainab bint Jahsh (i.e. the Prophet's wife) about me saying, 'What do you know and what did you see?' She replied, 'O Allah's Apostle! I refrain to claim hearing or seeing what I have not heard or seen. By Allah, I know nothing except good about Aisha." Aisha further added "Zainab was competing with me (in her beauty and the Prophet's love), yet Allah protected her (from being malicious), for she had piety."
The incident reported here tells that there have been such unscrupulous persons even at the times of the Prophet PBUH that accused even the chaste pious women; the incident of IFAK tells us that some of persons then accused Sayyidah Ayesha RA when she was left behind of the procession at GHAZWA BANI-MUSTALIQ that proceeded on ahead at the night and SAFWAN bin MUATTAL coming behind the procession to see if nothing of the procession has been left behind by mistake, found her sleeping at the way; he recognized her and awoke her by praising Allah; she rode at the camel he had that he led walking silently to the procession; they reached it at the afternoon of the day; there was Abdulah ibn Ubayy present at the procession who spread the rumor that there is some wrong between these two so they had stayed behind; some good Muslims fell into this wrong accusation too including Mistah & Hassaan and the sister of ZAYNAB bint JAHSH also fell for it though ZAYNAB kept herself away from such abuse; it was after many days that Ayesha came to know about this heinous slander and it caused high stress to her; Allah gave her the most high esteem by providing the fact about the matter in clear terms at Surah-NOOR (read its verses from 11 to 20); note well that it is most heinous thing to publicize scandalous news & programs (even if true by information) that belittle any person (specially when it disrespects some good respectable persons at the environment) and the media must be very careful in this matter; it has to ask the Government officials to take the necessary lawful action against the wrongs and the wrong-doers without seeking to become one of sides to reports of the shameful issue; note that when this matter was settled with general acceptance of the acquittal of Sayyedah Ayesha RA and Safwan RA from the heinous charge, Allah commanded not to stop charity as social boycott to such persons even, who had been the part of the problem but who now had accepted their grave mistake when the Holy Book Quran had clearly announced the untruth of this heinous charge; we have seen that Sayyedah did show leniency to HASSAAN (see the comment at Hadith-101) and did not have anything against him; the incident of IFAK tells clearly that good Muslims must always care not to charge any chaste pious woman of adultery on assumptions because Allah cares for such good woman and He might punish such slanderers most severely even in the worldly life; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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146-Narrated Az-Zuhri:
Urwa bin Az-Zubair, Said bin Al-Musaiyab, 'Al-Qama bin Waqqas and 'Ubaidullah bin 'Abdullah related the narration of 'Aisha, the wife the Prophet, when the slanderers had said about her what they had said and Allah later declared her innocence. Each of them related a part of the narration (wherein) the Prophet said (to 'Aisha). "If you are innocent, then Allah will declare your innocence: but if you have committed a sin, then ask for Allah's Forgiveness and repent to him." 'Aisha said, "By Allah, I find no example for my case except that of Joseph's father (when he said), 'So (for me) patience is most fitting.' " Then Allah revealed the ten Verses:-- "Verily those who spread the slander are a gang amongst you.." (24:11).
(Note the comment at Hadith-145)
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147-Narrated Ibn Abu Mulaika:
Ibn 'Abbas asked permission to visit Aisha before her death, and at that time she was in a state of agony. She then said. "I am afraid that he will praise me too much." And then it was said to her, "He is the cousin of Allah's Apostle and one of the prominent Muslims." Then she said, "Allow him to enter." (When he entered) he said, "How are you?" She replied, "I am Alright if I fear (Allah)." Ibn Abbas said, "Allah willing, you are Alright as you are the wife of Allah's Apostle and he did not marry any virgin except you and proof of your innocence was revealed from the Heaven." Later on Ibn Az-Zubair entered after him and 'Aisha said to him, "Ibn 'Abbas came to me and praised me greatly, but I wish
that I was a thing forgotten and out of sight."
(Note the comment at Hadith-145)
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K-About the Custody of Women
148-Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:
That while he was sitting with the Prophet a man from the Ansar came and said, "O Allah's Apostle! We get slave girls from the war captives and we love property; what do you think about coitus interruptus?" Allah's Apostle said, "Do you do that? It is better for you not to do it, for there is no soul which Allah has ordained to come into existence but will be created."
The war at old times allowed taking the women of the defeated side that were at the battlefield in custody as slave-girls and the commander distributed them among the warriors of the winning side as the booty; Coitus-Interruptus (AZL) though allowed at times is not appreciated in general by the Islamic Teachings; the man might take-up few very limited ways to stop pregnancy temporarily when that seems necessary, the best being the natural avoidance of nearness to his wives in this respect with their consent (or taking up such nearness at times where the chances are much lesser to pregnancy with their consent) and at the lesser degree taking-up AZL with their consent; they must not take-up such ways as to cause permanent blockade of pregnancy to their wives; however the Muslim woman has to avoid taking any measures that prevent the pregnancy except where her life is most probably threatened due to the pregnancy; slaves were taken as valuable property at those times and the value of slave girls when they gave birth to the child of the master fell at the market so the owners of some slave-girls asked about coitus-interruptus so that they do not become pregnant; note that Islam being the natural tendency of human-beings highly appreciates the natural role of men to earn the bread and of women to bear and rear the children; note also that the Muslim women must remain most cautious as of now in taking-up the modern medical methods for cure to afflictions as they are becoming most challenging to the Islamic teachings now due to the extreme omission of Islamic Moral Values in the medical field, especially with high male medical staff among doctors and paramedical personnel at hospitals now; it is most feasible that they avoid admittance to hospitals as of now for any reason whatsoever; may Allah give them all the patience to endure afflictions in such ways that they keep to the Islamic Moral Values at all places and at all times by the blessing of Allah; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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149-Narrated Al-Bara bin Azib:
The Prophet appointed 'Abdullah bin Jubair as the commander of the infantry men (archers) who were fifty on the day (of the battle) of Uhud. He instructed them, "Stick to your place, and don't leave it even if you see birds snatching us, till I send for you; and if you see that we have defeated the infidels and made them flee, even then you should not leave your place till I send for you." Then the infidels were defeated. By Allah, I saw the women fleeing lifting up their clothes revealing their leg-bangles and their legs. So, the companions of 'Abdullah bin Jubair said, "The booty! O people, the booty ! Your companions have become victorious, what are you waiting for now?" 'Abdullah bin Jubair said, "Have you forgotten what Allah's Apostle said to you?" They replied, "By Allah! We will go to the people (i.e. the enemy) and collect our share from the war booty." But when they went to them, they were forced to turn back defeated. At that time Allah's Apostle in their rear was calling them back. Only twelve men remained with the Prophet and the infidels martyred seventy men from us. On the day (of the battle) of Badr, the Prophet and his companions had caused the 'Pagans to lose 140 men, seventy of whom were captured and seventy were killed. Then Abu Sufyan asked thrice, "Is Muhammad present amongst these people?" The Prophet ordered his companions not to answer him. Then he asked thrice, "Is the son of Abu Quhafa present amongst these people?" He asked again thrice, "Is the son of Al-Khattab present amongst these people?" He then returned to his companions and said, "As for these (men), they have been killed." 'Umar could not control himself and said (to Abu Sufyan), "You told a lie, by Allah! O enemy of Allah! All those you have mentioned are alive, and the thing which will make you unhappy is still there." Abu Sufyan said, "Our victory today is a counterbalance to yours in the battle of Badr, and in war (the victory) is always undecided and is shared in turns by the belligerents, and you will find some of your (killed) men mutilated, but I did not urge my men to do so, yet I do not feel sorry for their deed" After that he started reciting cheerfully, "O Hubal, be high! On that the Prophet said (to his companions), "Why don't you answer him back?" They said, "O Allah's Apostle What shall we say?" He said, "Say, Allah is Higher and more Sublime." (Then) Abu Sufyan said, "We have the (idol) Al Uzza, and you have no Uzza." The Prophet said (to his companions), "Why don't you answer him back?" They asked, "O Allah's Apostle! What shall we say?" He said, "Say Allah is our Helper and you have no helper."
The war at old times allowed taking the women of the defeated side that were at the battlefield in custody as slave-girls and this became one of the causes to the setback that Muslims faced at UHUD; the Prophet PBUH had set the battalion of fifty warriors there at the mount where there was the danger of surprise attack from the enemy; as many of those who were posted there erroneously thought that the Muslims have won the battle, they made for the main field to get their shares from the booty and that allowed the enemy to retaliate from that very soft corner; it was the deadly duel at UHUD where Muslims incurred heavy losses to lives; though Allah saved Muslims then and the enemy turned back without inflicting more losses to Muslims yet the matter did tell clearly that Muslims must remain committed to the command of the Prophet PBUH in the best manner possible; they must not care for the worldly assets if their adherence to the Islamic Teachings is challenged by the trying times; Allah would surely give them all sustenance at the world with total ease if they do keep to Islam that would lead them to the total salvation at AKHIRAT; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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150-Narrated Ibn Umar:
Bani An-Nadir and Bani Quraiza fought (against the Prophet violating their peace treaty), so the Prophet exiled Bani An-Nadir and allowed Bani Quraiza to remain at their places (in Medina taking nothing from them till they fought against the Prophet again) . He then killed their men and distributed their women, children and property among the Muslims, but some of them came to the Prophet and he granted them safety, and they embraced Islam. He exiled all the Jews from Medina. They were the Jews of Bani Qainuqa', the tribe of 'Abdullah bin Salam and the Jews of Bani Haritha and all the other Jews of Medina.
The war at old times allowed taking the women of the defeated side that were at the battlefield in custody as slave-girls and even the men too that were captured there alive were turned into slaves; the male slaves had to earn for their respective masters paying them some amount on daily basis while the female slaves had to see to the sexual needs of their respective masters; Islam did not initiate this practice nor did it appreciate it; on the contrary it gave commands for slaves i.e. for both male and female that led to their emancipation with time; here detail would not be possible yet please note in brief that Islam asked to treat slaves with respect, asked to release them from slavery in compensation of some commands of Allah that the masters could not fulfill, asked not to give female slaves to men for sexual reasons except by marriage (though their sale was allowed yet not appreciated), allotted the freedom to the female slave if she became the mother to his child (that was named UMM-WALAD); asked not to stop them from becoming MUKATAB i.e. those male and female slaves who asked release by paying-out some amount for their freedom to their respective masters and in addition to these, Islam asked in many other ways too to free slaves; with that it also asked not to make the free people slaves to the extent possible at those times and this was the best that could have been done at the situation where the custom of slavery prevailed; women used to outnumber men highly as men fell at battle-grounds in those days in scores while the number of battles was high too; please note well that slavery in essence was and is totally alien to Islamic teachings but it was there to deal with at the time Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), the last of Messengers of Allah, started the teaching of Islam; no doubt that in that given situation at Arabia and in that given time, Islam that is based on the teachings of the Holy Book Quran and the SUNNAH of the Prophet (PBUH), dealt with it beautifully; Al-Hamdu Lillah; as for the Jews mentioned at the Hadith, note that the Prophet PBUH tolerated all the Jews at Medina that belonged to three of tribes, to the extent possible and made pacts with them; however, when they conspired against Muslims and assisted the enemy of Islam in different ways, he expelled all of these Jewish tribes one by one at different times from Medina and cleared Medina of their nuisance so that Muslims might remain totally steadfast upon the Truth as told by Islam; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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L-About Salah
151-Narrated Abu Huraira:
One day while the Prophet was sitting in the company of some people, (The angel) Gabriel came and asked, "What is faith?" Allah's Apostle replied, 'Faith is to believe in Allah, His angels, (the) meeting with Him, His Apostles, and to believe in Resurrection." Then he further asked, "What is Islam?" Allah's Apostle replied, "To worship Allah Alone and none else, to offer prayers perfectly to pay the compulsory charity (Zakat) and to observe fasts during the month of Ramadan." Then he further asked, "What is Ihsan (more of the good than asked of the Muslim person)?" Allah's Apostle replied, "To worship Allah as if you see Him, and if you cannot achieve this state of devotion then you must consider that He is looking at you." Then he further asked, "When will the Hour be established?" Allah's Apostle replied, "The answerer has no better knowledge than the questioner. But I will inform you about its portents.
1. When a slave (lady) gives birth to her master.
2. When the shepherds of black camels start boasting and competing with others in the construction of higher buildings.
And the Hour is one of five things which nobody knows except Allah.
The Prophet then recited: "Verily, with Allah (Alone) is the knowledge of the Hour--." (31. 34) Then that man (Gabriel) left and the Prophet asked his companions to call him back, but they could not see him. Then the Prophet said, "That was Gabriel who came to teach the people their religion." Abu 'Abdullah said: He (the Prophet) considered all that as a part of faith.
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam and this Hadith guides to read it with total application of self; this Hadith is known as “Hadith Gabriel” among ULAMA and it denotes that the angel GABRIEL came to teach SAHABA openly at a meeting about the True Belief but in the disguise of a man; it is taken as one of the significant Ahadith that has been narrated from the Prophet (PBUH); this appearance of Gabriel most probably took place at the very last of the Prophet’s worldly life; SAHABA used to be very cautious in asking questions after the revelation of the verse of Surah MAE’DAH, “O you who believe! Do not put questions about things which if declared to you might trouble you” (5:101) so this opportunity was provided by Allah to them to make them even better; here it is noteworthy that two important signs for the Hour are given as that maid-servant would give birth to her mistress; and shepherd that had low worldly status would rise to high worldly status constructing huge expensive buildings; ULAMA have taken the former to mean that young girls would treat their mothers as if they are slaves to them expecting every comfort from them yet not providing their rights from their side as they should be provided; for the latter, no explanation is necessary as indeed many persons among Arabs have risen to heights today getting high worldly status; this tells quite well that this is the time that is mentioned in Hadith and so certainly QAYAMAT is extremely near; it is notable that the Muslim woman must not initiate the shameful things and the Muslim man must avoid initiation to all of attitudes that are injustice; this Hadith by its expression also tells us clearly that construction of huge buildings is not praiseworthy by Islam as that is useless expense and as such, injustice to the needy towards whom the Muslim man must direct the wealth; it is most appropriate to mark here that those Arabs who are not inclined to show-off but use their finances in the betterment of Muslims caring about AKHIRAT, they are certainly most praiseworthy; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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152-Narrated Ibn Shihab from 'Urwa:
'Aisha said, "Once Allah's Apostle delayed the 'Isha' prayer till 'Umar reminded him by saying, "The prayer!" The women and children have slept. Then the Prophet came out and said, 'None amongst the dwellers of the earth has been waiting for it (the prayer) except you." Urwa said, "Nowhere except in Medina the prayer used to be offered (in those days)." He further said, "The Prophet used to offer the Isha prayer in the period between the disappearance of the twilight and the end of the first third of the night."
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam that Muslims read five times daily; here at this Hadith, we have ISHA in focus; the better time for ISHA is unanimously taken as somewhat later than its initial time and this Hadith also has words to that effect; JAME’-TIRMIDHI reports by NU’MAN bin BASHIR that “Allah's Messenger (PBUH) used to observe ISHA at the time of the setting of the moon on its third night”; this also tells that delay for it is better as the Moon on its third night takes some time to set then; it has also reported by Abu-Hurayra RA that the Prophet PBUH said; “Were it not that my UMMAH would be distressed by it, I would have commanded them to postpone the Salah of ISHA to third or half of the night”; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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153-Narrated 'Aisha:
The necklace of Asma' was lost, so the Prophet sent some men to look for it. The time for the prayer became due and they had not performed ablution and could not find water, so they offered the prayer without ablution. Then Allah revealed (the Verse of Tayammum).
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam that needs WUDHU to read it; if the water is not available or extremely scarce, the MUSALLI is allowed to make TAYAMMUM; this means to get cleanliness by pure sand if water is not available and to ask for cleanliness becomes necessary by WUDHU or by GHUSL; it was allowed by the sixth verse of Surah-MA’EDAH (around the fourth or the fifth year of HIJRAH) and that was when the necklace of Ayesha-RA was lost; it was later found beneath the camel she was riding; the procession had to stop for its search while water was scarce; in TAYAMMUM, only hands and face are wiped with two beats of both hands one by one at the sand that shows smoke by the beats, one for the face and the other for hands up-to joints (but up-to elbows is better); note here that TAYAMMUM is one of the specific attributes of the Muslim UMMAH; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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154-Narrated 'Aun bin Abi Juhaifa:
I heard my father saying, "The Prophet led us, and prayed a two-Rak'at Zuhr prayer and then a two- Rak'at 'Asr prayer at Al-Batha' with an 'Anza (planted) in front of him (as Sutrah) while women and donkeys were passing in front of him (beyond that 'Anza i.e. the spear)."
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam that asks MUSALLI for concentration upon it; this attention might be disturbed by someone passing in front of the MUSALLI and he might plant SUTRAH in front to avoid that disturbance; SUTRAH is such an obstruction planted in front of the IMAM that even if people pass from ahead of him, neither his SALAH nor the SALAH of MUQTADI is affected adversely; the better SUTRAH is the cane that is pierced in front of IMAM (or in front of the MUSALLI reading the SALAH alone) on a bit left and it must be a thin stick only; in these current times, there are many of mosques that have wooden thin slabs that are in front of rows perpetually joined with each other that work as SUTRAH and people pass in front of them without any problem; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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155-Narrated 'Aisha:
The things which annul the prayers were mentioned before me. They said, "Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman (if they pass in front of the praying people)." I said, "You have included us (i.e. women) with dogs. I saw the Prophet praying while I used to lie in my bed between him and the Qibla. Whenever I was in need of something, I would slip away for I disliked to face him."
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam; there is an authentic Hadith that has words to the effect that if a black dog or a donkey or a woman passes in front of the MUSALLI (the man who is reading SALAH), his SALAH is affected adversely; actually the Prophet (PBUH) did not put these three at an equal plane (and note that AYESHA-RA was offended when she heard it not knowing that this was Hadith thinking that people are degrading women by such statement) rather he said it because these three distract the attention of the MUSALLI from SALAH; dogs and donkeys due to the view they present and the sound they make; but as for women, note that the attitude to keep the sight in control is very hard if a beautiful woman passes by; TIRMIDHI reports that FADL the brother of ABDULLAH bin ABBAS was looking at the young girl that came to ask the Prophet PBUH about something while he was with the Prophet PBUH and that was the occasion of HAJJ; it reports that at that time, the Prophet had turned FADL’s face away from the young girl; Al-Hamdu Lillah; this narration here by Ayesha (RA) tells that the Prophet (PBUH) used to read SALAH at night while she was lying in front of him (other version of this also informs that he just pressed her legs lightly so that she moves them when he had to make prostrations); this proves that women in front of SALAH do not make it null and void; so even if the man does not have SUTRAH in front and has control but little on his views, he has read it then though it might become lesser in excellence; with SUTRAH plus control over the self, SALAH insha-Allah is totally fine; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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156-Narrated 'Aisha:
It is not good that you people have made us (women) equal to dogs and donkeys. No doubt I saw Allah's Apostle praying while I used to lie between him and the Qibla and when he wanted to prostrate, he pushed my legs and I withdrew them.
(Note the comment at Hadith-155)
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157-Narrated 'Aisha:
I had seen my parents following Islam since I attained the age of puberty. Not a day passed but the Prophet visited us, both in the mornings and evenings. My father Abi Bakr thought of building a mosque in the courtyard of his house and he did so. He used to pray and recite the Qur'an in it. The pagan women and their children used to stand by him and look at him with surprise. Abu Bakr was a Soft-hearted person and could not help weeping while reciting the Quran.
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam for which all of the righteous Caliphs cared highly; ABU-BAKR RA was born two years after the Prophet (PBUH); his main profession was trade; he accepted Islam immediately without having the slightest doubt when the Prophet (PBUH) presented it to him; in this way he was the first adult free man to accept the Prophet's invitation to Islam; he became the first Caliph of Muslims after the passing-away of the Prophet (PBUH) and kept the Muslim UMMAH upon the Truth during all the period of his KHILAFAH; he was an humble man very soft at heart who was highly respected among all of the tribes and who cared about the Islamic Teachings to height; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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158-Narrated Sahl bin Sad:
We used to be very happy on Friday as an old lady used to cut some roots of the Silq, which we used to plant on the banks of our small water streams, and cook them in a pot of hers, adding to them, some grains of barley. (Ya'qub, the sub-narrator said, "I think the narrator mentioned that the food did not contain fat or melted fat).") When we offered the Friday prayer we would go to her and she would serve us with the dish. So, we used to be happy on Fridays because of that. We used not to take our meals or the midday nap except after the Jumua (i.e. Friday-Salah).
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam and the Friday-SALAH has special significance; the narration also tells it is better to take the lunch after the Friday-SALAH and even some sleep if that is needed; note that there were many Muslims at those days that were extremely poor managing the life with whatever they got as gifts & Sadaqah; they used to feel pleased upon the good meal they got after Friday-Salah that the old lady at Medina cooked for them as SAHL-RA reports here; they even used to wait for Fridays to get that good simple meal as the gift then; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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159-Narrated Abu Huraira:
Abul Qasim (the Prophet ) said, "There is an hour (or a moment) of particular significance on Friday. If it happens that a Muslim is offering a prayer and invoking Allah for some good at that very moment, Allah will grant him his request." (The sub-narrator placed the top of his finger on the palm of the other hand between the middle finger and the little one.)
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam and the Friday-SALAH has special significance; according to some of ULAMA, this time is between ASR and MAGHRIB on Friday which is said to be the time when Allah accepts all rightful DUA; there are other of ULAMA who have taken this time to occur at the main Friday-Salah taking it to commence from the time the IMAM sits for KHUTBAH till the end of JUMU’AH-SALAH; perhaps both of these times at Friday are such where the good Muslim person gets what he asks in DUA to Allah; the indication of the sub-narrator as reported here tells that this time stays for a very short period at Friday; however, note well that if the Muslim person is always attentive to Allah, He does accept his DUA at all of times and at all of places certainly; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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160-Narrated Imran bin Husain:
That they were with the Prophet on a journey. They travelled the whole night, and when dawn approached, they took a rest and sleep overwhelmed them till the sun rose high in the sky. The first to get up was Abu Bakr. Allah's Apostles used not to be awakened from his sleep, but he would wake up by himself. 'Umar woke up and then Abu Bakr sat by the side of the Prophet's head and started saying: Allahu-Akbar raising his voice till the Prophet woke up, (and after traveling for a while) he dismounted and led us in the morning prayer. A man amongst the people failed to join us in the prayer. When the Prophet had finished the prayer, he asked (the man), "O so-and-so! What prevented you from offering the prayer with us?" He replied, "I am Junub," Alllah's Apostle ordered him to perform Tayammam with clean earth. The man then offered the prayer. Allah's Apostle ordered me and a few others to go ahead of him. We had become very thirsty. While we were on our way (looking for water), we came across a lady (riding an animal), hanging her legs between two water-skins. We asked her, "Where can we get water?" She replied, "Oh ! There is no water." We asked, "how far is your house from the water?" She replied, "A distance of a day and a night travel." We said, "Come on to Allah's Apostle, "She asked, "What is Allah's Apostle ?" So we brought her to Allah's Apostle against her will, and she told him what she had told us before and added that she was the mother of orphans. So the Prophet ordered that her two water-skins be brought and he rubbed the mouths of the water-skins. As we were thirsty, we drank till we quenched our thirst and we were forty men. We also filled all our water-skins and other utensils with water, but we did not water the camels. The water-skin was so full that it was almost about to burst. The Prophet then said, "Bring what (foodstuff) you have." So some dates and pieces of bread were collected for the lady, and when she went to her people, she said, "I have met either the greatest magician or a prophet as the people claim." So Allah guided the people of that village through that lady. She embraced Islam and they all embraced Islam.
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam and it needs WUDHU to read; The Prophet PBUH and his SAHABA were at such place in their journey where the water was scarce; there are Ahadith that tell us that water gushed out of the fingers of the Prophet PBUH when it was needed highly; this Hadith also narrates the amazing phenomenon that little of water that was in two water-skins sufficed for forty of SAHABA when the Prophet PBUH rubbed the mouth of those water-skins; the woman that owned the water-skins was extremely impressed by this spiritual experience and not only she but whole of her tribe embraced Islam; there are some amazing things in the world that we can observe yet our minds can not perceive them well due to the limitation of whatever human sources of understanding we have; note for the ears & eyes that we can hear well yet we can not hear persons at some distance due to the limitation in hearing of our ears even if we can guess that they are having a conversation by their gestures and similarly if we see an air-plane flying we can see it to some distance then after some moments it vanishes from eyes even though we know that it is there at the sky yet we can not see it due to limitation in seeing of our eyes; the same is correct for the human mind and that is why Allah, the One with powers that we are unable to understand, provided the man with Messengers to tell all of them that they must believe in Allah Who has created them and to Whom they have to return; also, they must certainly obey Him because He only is the True Authority; note that sometimes impression of hope & fear affect even rocks and wood too and it is said in the Holy Book Quran narrating some incidents about the children of Israel, “Then your hearts hardened after that, so that they were like rocks, rather worse in hardness; and surely there are some rocks from which streams burst forth, and surely there are some of them which split asunder so water issues out of them, and surely there are some of them which fall down for fear of Allah, and Allah is not at all heedless of what you do” (2:74); Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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161-Narrated Ishaq:
Anas bin Malik said, "My grand-mother Mulaika invited Allah's Apostle for a meal which she herself had prepared. He ate from it and said, 'Get up! I will lead you in the prayer.' " Anas added, "I took my Hasir, washed it with water as it had become dark because of long use and Allah's Apostle stood on it. The orphan and I aligned behind him and the old lady (Mulaika) stood behind us. Allah's Apostle led us in the prayer and offered two Rak'at and then left."
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam and the Hadith here tells us that in the case when there are men, children & women in the MUQTADI, they stand in this sequence i.e. men first in rows then children and then women; MULAYKAH was the mother of UMM-SULAYM who was the mother of ANAS bin MAALIK; the boy mentioned as YATIM that means orphan at the text of Hadith was the younger brother of ANAS and perhaps his nick-name was YATIM (note that ABU-TALHA was the step-father of ANAS and this boy and he was very lenient to them respected by both); this SALAH was not FARDH but the Prophet read it to ask Allah for blessing at the place so it was NAFL, the JAMA’AH for which is not usual as it is read individually yet allowed sometimes with few of MUQTADI present without any regularity and without any call to it as happened here; note that ’Khumrah’ is small mat, ‘Hasir’ is bigger and ‘Busut’ is any mat that is spread at the floor; the Prophet (PBUH) prayed upon all types of mats and that has provided ease for Muslims to take anything clean to spread and say their SALAH upon it; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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162-Narrated Abu Said:
I heard the Prophet saying, "Allah will bring forth the severest Hour, and then all the Believers, men and women, will prostrate themselves before Him, but there will remain those who used to prostrate in the world for showing off and for gaining good reputation. Such people will try to prostrate (on the Day of Judgment) but their backs will be as stiff as if it is one bone (a single vertebra)."
SALAH is one of the most important commands of Islam; Muslims have to read it with total attention towards Allah without RIYA (showing-off); those who do not care to read Salah or those who say it just to impress the people that they are MUSALLI (good readers of Salah), they would not be able to prostrate themselves before Allah there at HASHR when demanded of them; their backs would be stiff and make them unable to bend; may Allah save all good Muslims from the harshness of that day of Accounts; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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M-About the New-Born
163-Narrated Abu Musa:
A son was born to me and I took him to the Prophet who named him Ibrahim, did TAHNIK for him with a date, invoked Allah to bless him and returned him to me. (The narrator added: That was Abu Musa's eldest son.)
SAHABA used to bring their new-born children to the Prophet PBUH for TAHNIK; it means to chew some sweet edible (dates preferably but honey is also good for it) and put little of that totally chewed thing into the mouth of the new-born; this was to get the BARAKAH (the good spiritual impression) that might lead the new-born to get TAUFIQ to remain steadfast at the True Belief and to all of good deeds according to that True Belief that might benefit that new-born at AKHIRAT; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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164-Narrated Asma' bint Abu Bakr:
I conceived 'Abdullah bin Az-Zubair at Mecca and went out (of Mecca) while I was about to give birth. I came to Medina and encamped at Quba', and gave birth at Quba'. Then I brought the child to Allah's Apostle and placed it (on his lap). He asked for a date, chewed it, and put his saliva in the mouth of the child. So the first thing to enter its stomach was the saliva of Allah's Apostle. Then he did its Tahnik with a date, and invoked Allah to bless him. It was the first child born in the Islamic era, therefore they (Muslims) were very happy with its birth, for it had been said to them that the Jews had bewitched them, and so they would not produce any offspring.
SAHABA used to bring their new-born children to the Prophet PBUH for TAHNIK; it was great pleasure to all Muslims when Abdullah bin Zubayr (RA) was born as there was rumor that Muslims had been bewitched by the Jews that were known for such sorcery; Abdullah bin Zubayr was the boy who rose to become the ruler of Makkah by Islamic manners for many years when there were political leaders that have given in to luxury and worldly pleasures; he achieved SHAHADAT fighting the forces of such despicable leaders of the time in the defense of Makkah courageously; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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165-Narrated Salman bin 'Amir Ad-Dabbi:
I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "'Aqiqa is to be offered for a (newly born) boy, so slaughter (an animal) for him, and relieve him of his suffering." (Note: It has been quoted in Fateh-AL-Bari that the majority of the Religious Scholars agrees to the Hadith narrated in TIRMlDHI that the Prophet was asked about Aqiqa and he ordered 2 sheep for a boy and one sheep for a girl and that is his tradition "SUNNAH").
SAHABA used to bring their new-born children to the Prophet PBUH for TAHNIK; they also used to provide AQIQA for the new-born, shaved its hair and named it within seven days of its birth (the male child needs circumcision too); AQIQA is to give 2 of sheep in SADAQAH in the way of Allah for the male child and one of that for the female child as that is the manner to keep away all evil away from that new-born; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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N-The Wives of the Prophet (PBUH)
166-Narrated Aisha”
that she made a will to 'Abdullah bin Zubair, "Do not bury me with them (the Prophet and his two companions) but bury me with my companions (wives of the Prophet (PBUH) ) in Al-Baqi as I would not like to be looked upon as better than I really am (by being buried near the Prophet)."
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The wives of the Prophet PBUH are the women whom the Muslim woman has to see to for her practical guidance; Ayesha RA had plunged herself by the mistaken decision to challenge Ali RA at the battlefield so as to force him to punish the mutineers who had killed Uthman RA mercilessly without any just cause during the rebellion; Ali RA intended to consolidate his authority before taking any harsh step against the mutineers; she had repented highly afterwards as besides the defeat her forces incurred, it was certainly the gravest error for her to challenge the chosen Caliph at the battlefield; her repentance was of course for the challenge she gave to him actually as it caused division among Muslims yet what was done could not be undone and being one of the most knowledgeable woman then, she knew very well that she had erred highly by that decision; due to the consciousness of the grave error, even when she commanded great respect among Muslims, she asked to be buried at the graveyard of AL-BAQI with other of the wives of the Prophet PBUH rather than besides the Prophet PBUH; note that near to her death, IBNE-ABBAS RA had visited her and reassured her that she was the beloved wife of the Prophet PBUH while she had spent her life with virtues in general so she would achieve success at AKHIRAT; he had referred to Surah NOOR where Allah has defended her; it had happened when the enemy intended to degrade her badly with the extreme grave charge upon her (note the Hadith-145 and the comment upon it); so he had said most soothing words to her when she was very near to her death; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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167-Narrated 'Aisha:
One of the mothers of the faithful believers (i.e. the wives of the Prophet) did l'tikaf while she was bleeding in between her periods.
The wives of the Prophet PBUH are the women whom the Muslim woman has to see to for her practical guidance; note that the word “ISTIHADHA” denotes a problem relating to the female that means flow of blood even after the normal days of menstruation or continuous flow of blood from the site that might be due to some affliction; mostly such problem occurs in such manner that the woman knows her normal day of the menses and she is termed as MO’TAADAH; there were few women that were afflicted with this problem in the days of the Prophet (PBUH) and they were worried about how to read their SALAH as they do not get clean from blood; it is recorded that two of the wives of the Prophet (PBUH) had this affliction too while the names of FATIMAH bint ABU-HUBAISH, HAMNAH bint JAHSH and UMM-HABIBAH bint JAHSH are also mentioned in Ahadith; Ahadith present three ways to deal with this matter and all clarify that the woman afflicted with ISTIHADHA has to say her SALAH certainly even with blood flowing as that is not menses but the blood that flows in a disorderly manner from some vein, from inside the uterus or from outside; the normally accepted way in practice is that the woman with such affliction determine the normal days of the menses by an idea of previous periods and then take the obligatory bath and consider her-self clean; then make WUDHU for each SALAH and goes on reading SALAH in the normal routine as other women do until she gathers after 23 or 24 days that now the period of menses has commenced; the second way is to delay ZUHUR reading it in last of its time and advance ASAR reading it in the first of its time, saying them with one bath and to do the same with MAGHRIB and ISHA; she would make a separate bath for FAJR (this way was preferred by the Prophet PBUH); the third of options was to bath for each SALAH and the Prophet (PBUH) also showed his favor for this option; any of these ways is valid for MO’TAADAH and the notable point is that Islam is easy to practice and the Muslims must not make things difficult for them by committing their-selves to such practices that are alien to Islam; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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168-Narrated 'Aisha:
Some of the wives of the Prophet asked him, "Who amongst us will be the first to follow you (i.e. die after you)?" He said, "Whoever has the longest hand." So they started measuring their hands with a stick and Sauda's hand turned out to be the longest; (when Zainab bint Jahsh died first of all in the caliphate of 'Umar) then we came to know that the long hand was a symbol of practicing charity, so she was the first to follow the Prophet as she loved to practice charity.
The wives of the Prophet PBUH are the women whom the Muslim woman has to see to for her practical guidance; “the longest hand” was the manner of speech to convey the most charitable nature and Zaynab bint Jahsh was the most charitable among them all; Allah had married her to the Prophet PBUH when ZAYD bin HARITHA divorced her (see Surah AHZAAB-37) and that also is one of her most high merits; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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169-Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:
The Prophet concluded a contract with the people of KHAYBAR to utilize the land on the condition that half the products of fruits or vegetation would be their share. The Prophet used to give his wives one hundred Wasaqs each, eighty Wasaqs of dates and twenty Wasaqs of barley. (When 'Umar became the Caliph) he gave the wives of the Prophet the option of either having the land and water as their shares, or carrying on the previous practice. Some of them chose the land and some chose the Wasaqs, and 'Aisha chose the land.
The wives of the Prophet PBUH are the women whom the Muslim woman has to see to for her practical guidance; note that in FIDAK in the land of KHAYBER, the Prophet PBUH made the deal of MUZARI’AH with Jews that whatever produce is got from the cultivation of that land, it would be shared half & half, both sides sharing equally; from this earning, he provided for his household though before that, the wives of the Prophet PBUH had faced hard times too with ease without any complaints with the fulfillment of just the necessities and remained attached to the Islamic values; with times they achieved much ease and like the hard times, they still remained well-attached to the Islamic Values; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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170-Narrated 'Aisha:
The people used to send gifts to the Prophet on the day of my turn. Um Salama said: "My companions (the wives of the Prophet Other than Aisha) gathered and they complained about it. So I informed the Prophet about it on their behalf, but he remained silent.
The wives of the Prophet PBUH are the women whom the Muslim woman has to see to for her practical guidance; AYESHA (RA) was the most beloved wife of the Prophet (PBUH) after KHADIJAH (RA) and has narrated many Ahadith; another version of this Hadith that TIRMIDHI has reported, tells us that the Prophet PBUH told UMM-SALAMA, “Don’t bother me about Ayesha as I do not get WAHI (Revelation) in any (of you) woman’s bed-sheet except in the bed-sheet of Ayesha”; she was the daughter of ABU-BAKR SIDDIQ and UMM-RUMAN and was married to him in Medina; there is some controversy on the matter that at what age she was married to the Prophet (PBUH) but the best to say here is that in those times, the adolescence of the person used to matter and his/her capability to marry rather than the age for which nobody cared to keep any records; she might have been at the age of 12 or 15 or even more (and interestingly much work has been done on this line and there are many Muslim scholars of history who refute the charge on this basis now) and to base some charge of this sort on sheer guess-work is extremely malicious and proves nothing; all the women the Holy Prophet married, were very happy with him and in fact, when they were given an option by Allah to leave him if they want in the Holy Book Quran (see Surah Ahzaab-28 & 29), all of them chose to stay with him without exception; he never did any wrong to any woman at any time anywhere and in fact, he was never even charged for any such thing even by the worst of his enemies all his life; though Allah gave him an option to marry any number of women he wanted (see Surah-Ahzaab-50 to 52), he only married 12 women in total; the notable point is that as we are informed he had 12 wives, then there were only these 12 respectable women and no more to whom his sexual matter was totally related to, though the reason for his marriage to any of these was not lust certainly but either it was to care about these women or to extend relationship to their respective tribes that became the defenders to Islam rather than its challengers; the tribes used to respect the man highly who married a woman from their tribe and gave ample respect to her; the age of the Prophet (PBUH) was around 53 years by the Lunar Calendar when he married Ayesha RA after HIJRAH in SHAWWAL; she died at Medina in 57 AH when she was about 70 years old and was buried at the graveyard of BAQI according to her will for it; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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171-Narrated 'Ali bin Al-Husain:
The wives of the Prophet were with him in the mosque (while he was in Itikaf) and then they departed and the Prophet said to Safiya bint Huyai, "Don't hurry up, for I shall accompany you," (and her dwelling was in the house of Usama); the Prophet went out and in the meantime two Ansari men met him and they looked at the Prophet and passed by; the Prophet said to them, "Come here (note that) she is (my wife) Safiya bint Huyai"; they replied, "Subhan Allah, (How dare we think of evil about you) O Allah's Apostle!”; the Prophet replied, "Satan circulates in the human being as blood circulates in the body, and I was afraid lest Satan might insert an evil thought in your minds."
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O-About nearing of QAYAMAT & About HASHR
172-Narrated Sahl bin Sad As-Sa'idi:
that Allah's Apostle, holding out his middle and index fingers, said, "My advent and the Hour's are like this (the period between his era and the Hour is like the distance between those two fingers, i.e., very short).
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come; that is the Hour referred to in the Hadith and it is the last day of the world; this Hadith clarifies well that the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), being the Last Messenger of Allah, was the first big sign of QAYAMAT; the two fingers were kept apart to show that there is still some time to it yet not much; narrations point out well that the time from the Prophet (PBUH) to QAYAMAT is like the time from ASR (the time when afternoon breaks) to MAGHRIB (sunset) in a day by ratio; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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173-Narrated 'Aisha:
He added, 'But this year he reviewed it with me twice, and therefore I think that my time of death has approached. So, be afraid of Allah, and be patient, for I am the best predecessor for you (in the Hereafter).' " Fatima added, "So I wept as you ('Aisha) witnessed. And when the Prophet saw me in this sorrowful state, he confided the second secret to me saying, 'O Fatima! Will you not be pleased that you will be chief of all the believing women (or chief of the women of this nation i.e. my followers?")
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come; however, the Prophet PBUH did tell its signs and the first of them was that he was the last of Messengers of Allah; he informed Fatima (RA) before his death that she would be the chief of all the women of the Muslim Ummah; another version of this Hadith tells us that she laughed and was very pleased by this; she was married to Ali (RA) at the second year of HIJRAH (623 AD) when she was about 14 years old; Sayyidina ALI (RA) and Sayyidah FATIMAH (RA) had five children; three boys & two girls namely Hasan, Hussain, Muhsin, Umme-Kulthum and Zainab; all of these were highly virtuous children (RA); note that UMM-KULTHUM was married to UMAR (RA) later-on by ALI (RA); six months after the passing-away of the Prophet (PBUH), Sayyidah Fatima (RA) passed away at the 3rd of Ramadhan when she was about 24 years old; FATIMAH (RA) was the dearest of daughters of the Prophet (PBUH) and she also had great love for her father; it is known that she resembled the Prophet (PBUH) highly in habits, character and the manner of speech; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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174-Narrated 'Aisha:
Allah's Apostle said, "The people will be gathered barefooted, naked, and uncircumcised." I said, "O Allah's Apostle! Will the men and the women look at each other?" He said, "The situation will be too hard for them to pay attention to that."
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come but it would come certainly; there are three basics of the True Belief that are to believe that Allah is the Only Creator of all the creation and He Only is the True Authority, the second is that the world would end at QAYAMAT and then AKHIRAT would come where Allah would present the Account of every person providing him/her life again that would go on endlessly, at its first day that is HASHR (and it is of 1000 years by our count) and the third is that Allah sent His Messengers in the world (Muhammad PBUH is the last one of them) to keep this clear that Allah is the Only Creator and He Only is the True Authority Who would account for each & every person at HASHR; this is the TRUTH; the verse-104 of Surah ANBIA i.e. the 21st Surah of the Holy Book Quran tells us that the people would be assembled at HASHR as they were born here in the world though with a physique that would seem around 30 to 33 years of age of the normal healthy person as clarified by the ULAMA; this age is taken as the age of maturity; IBRAHIM (Abraham) AS would be clothed first as it is said that he was very particular in wearing decent clothes and Allah would take care about that; Al-Hamdu Lillah; all the persons would be provided clothes then with time according to their status at AKHIRAT yet there would remain those with this nakedness who did not believe the TRUTH and so did not make deeds worthy of any respect; similarly some would be provided with means for conveyance towards HASHR, some would be on foot and there would be others who would be dragged (by angels) harshly towards that amazingly vast field of HASHR; may Allah save all true Muslims from the severe harshness of that day; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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175-Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Turks; people with small eyes, red faces, and flat noses. Their faces will look like shields coated with leather. The Hour will not be established till you fight with people whose shoes are made of hair."
Both the sentences in the Hadith tell about Mongols that fought at the command of Chenghez Khan who destroyed a vast area that was under the Muslim Rule; his forces reaching Baghdad in 1258 AD much after his death, the year of the great fire that came out of Yemen; their shoes had hair all over them and their faces were flat and rough with yellowish skin; these Mongols were recognized as TURKS in those days; they mercilessly persecuted the AMEER of Muslims at the time and killed a great many Muslims as history has recorded; however, Muslims got their areas and their status of glory back when the descendants of Chenghez Khan accepted Islam and one of our poets of Urdu has said on this in a verse “it is clear from the story of TATARI (Mongols) that KAABA does get its guards even from the idol-worshippers (as they convert to Islam leaving all evil)”; note that Muslims had faced many challenges from the enemy after the Prophet (PBUH) but three of them are highly noteworthy; one was just after his passing away; second was when Muslims were challenged by Chengez Khan and his forces who destroyed their political power and put a heavy blow to them at the time and that was at height in 1258 AD; third is the present time when since a couple of centuries Muslims have been facing a challenge that is still in progress from the West (that manifested even by imperialism for a century or so) and though Muslims are bearing the challenge for such a period of time, it seems that the West is not ready to draw itself back from presenting its way of life as the final development of human-kind and has decided to go only for a win against the Muslims whatever it takes; Muslims were able to subdue CAESER of Rome and KHOSROE of Persia even conquering a vast area due to their physical power by unity and spiritual power that Islam had provided them, at the first challenge; they came out of the second very deadly challenge posed by the forces of Chenghez Khan because his descendants accepted Islam as these people though deadly warriors did not have any morals to guide them for an inner satisfaction and totally lacked a system to run the matters of life while Islam provided the way to see both the spiritual and the physical advancement with quality; their conversion was a blessing of Allah upon Muslims as Muslims were spiritually very much alive even then being attentive to Islam though they had lost physical power due to lack of unity and useless discussions on petty religious matters asking for friction among themselves not caring a bit about tolerance; it is yet to be seen what happens of the third deadly challenge that Muslims face at the current times when there is much loss of care about collection of good deeds among Muslims; there are still uncountable Muslims who repent on sins and ask forgiveness from Allah by the blessing of Allah though physically they are dispersed in many countries; Ahadith have told about all these three challenges that Muslims have faced as I, MSD, have noted at “Notes on TIRMIDHI-Ahadith”; may Allah save all Muslims from the adversity that they face by the challenge of the enemy at the current times; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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176-Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established till a fire will come out of the land of Hijaz, and it will throw light on the necks of the camels at Busra."
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come but the Prophet PBUH has provided us some of its signs to understand that now it is very near; there is an authentic Hadith narrated by HUDHAYFAH bin USAYD (RA) that the Prophet (PBUH) said, “The last hour QAYAMAT will not arrive till you have seen ten signs; he then mentioned the Smoke, the Descent of Jesus Christ, DAJJAL, Rising of the Sun from the place of it's setting, YAJUJ MAJUJ, The Beast, Three Landslides; one in the East, one in the West and one in the Arabian Peninsula; and a Fire that would spread from Yemen and drive the people to their place of gathering”; some of these have already taken place as I, MSD, have clarified at “Notes on TIRMIDHI-Ahadith”; ULAMA have mentioned almost unanimously that the fire mentioned here, was the liquid of Fire (LAVA) boiling heavily for more than 50 days with fumes all the time and burning all that came in its way coming out from Eden in Yemen and making way ahead in 1258; the day it began is recorded by the Muslim historians as Friday 7th June of 1258 and this was the year when forces of Chenghez Khan (that means of his descendants as he had died before this) destroyed Baghdad; it was the blessing of Allah that with time, the descendants of Chenghez Khan accepted Islam and remained loyal to it; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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177-Narrated 'Adi bin Hatim:
While I was in the city of the Prophet, a man came and complained to him (the Prophet) of destitution and poverty. Then another man came and complained of robbery (by highwaymen). The Prophet said, "Adi! Have you been to Al-Hira?" I said, "I haven't been to it, but I was informed about it." He said, "If you should live for a long time, you will certainly see that a lady in a Howdah traveling from Al-Hira will (safely reach Mecca and) perform the Tawaf of the Ka'ba, fearing none but Allah." I said to myself, "What will happen to the robbers of the tribe of Tai who have spread evil through out the country?" The Prophet further said. "If you should live long, the treasures of Khosrau will be opened (and taken as spoils)." I asked, "You mean Khosrau, son of Hurmuz?" He said, "Khosrau, son of Hurmuz; and if you should live long, you will see that one will carry a handful of gold or silver and go out looking for a person to accept it from him, but will find none to accept it from him. And any of you, when meeting Allah, will meet Him without needing an interpreter between him and Allah to interpret for him, and Allah will say to him: 'Didn't I send a messenger to teach you?' He will say: 'Yes.' Allah will say: 'Didn't I give you wealth and do you favors?' He will say: 'Yes.' Then he will look to his right and see nothing but Hell, and look to his left and see nothing but Hell." 'Adi further said: I heard the Prophet saying, "Save yourself from the (Hell) Fire even with half a date (to be given in charity) and if you do not find a half date, then with a good pleasant word." 'Adi added: (later on) I saw a lady in a Howdah traveling from Al-Hira till she performed the Tawaf of the Ka'ba, fearing none but Allah. And I was one of those who opened (conquered) the treasures of Khosrau, son of Hurmuz. If you should live long, you will see what the Prophet Abu-l-Qasim had said: 'A person will come out with a handful. of gold...etc.
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come and even the Prophet PBUH did not know that; but he foretold a few matters that took place just after he passed away; it is so very amazing that he had told about the conquest of Persia and even of the areas of Roman Empire while both of these were the formidable military powers of the time; the most amazing aspect of this prophecy is that the Prophet Muhammad PBUH gave it first when he was digging the ditch with SAHABA to prevent the forces of enemy that were coming to finish-off the impression of Islam once & for all; not only the Muslims saved Medina then but with time, they spread Islam far & wide; Al-Hamdu Lillah; those who challenged them in the process not accepting the supremacy of Islam and even rejected the pact of peace with them, they took their challenge at face and rose to conquer the vast areas of Persia and the Byzantine (the Roman Empire); the eminent commander of Muslims Khalid bin Walid rose to the height of respect and he has the triumph of numerous wars against both Persia & the Roman Empire, most of them very important to Muslims, to his credit; he weakened both of these great political powers of his time by the blessing of Allah, by amazing, bold and victorious attacks that led to their downfall eventually; note that Adi bin Hatim was the son of Hatim Tai, the famous charitable person in Arabia, and he participated in the wars against Persia at the side of Khalid bin Walid and even commanded a section of the Muslim troops there; due to the power of faith Muslims had with them and with the inherent inclination towards the warfare, they were able to stand successfully against the highly trained armies of these formidable powers of the time; the Persian Empire received a mortal blow at the battle of QADSIAH fought in 636 AD under the high command of SA’AD bin ABI-WAQQAS with KHALID bin ARFATAH, JARIR bin ABDULLAH and others at his side; the Byzantine Empire received nearly the same mortal blow at the battle of YARMOUK in the same year under the command of Khalid bin Walid and that was his tactical marvel that he managed with the great support of his high commander Abu-Ubaidah; he changed the Arab’s style of fighting wars that used to be with strength only to a matter of skill and tactic with the brilliance he had and it was not long when Muslims gained control of the vast lands that were under the Persian and the Byzantine Empire; the people at these lands converted to Islam with pleasure by their own will and so Islam spread far & wide; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the Prophet PBUH has designated Khalid as the sword of Allah and he died at the young age of about 50 years at 642 AD on his bed as being the sword of Allah he could not have been slain at the war-field; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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178-Narrated Anas:
I will narrate to you a Hadith and none other than I will tell you about after it. I heard Allah's Apostle saying: From among the portents of the Hour are (the following):
1. Religious knowledge will decrease (by the death of religious learned men).
2. Religious ignorance will prevail.
3. There will be prevalence of open illegal sexual intercourse.
4. Women will increase in number and men will decrease in number so much so that fifty women will be looked after by one man.
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come; however, the Prophet PBUH did provide many of the signs that would occur near to it; note here that many ULAMA would be killed without any rhyme or reason except for the dislike of the killers most of whom talk about tolerance and harmony in living and that would decrease the spread of the true knowledge; people would be knowledgeable in worldly matters yet mostly unaware of the knowledge that could provide them salvation at AKHIRAT; a great number of people would incline towards wine & women (number of whom would themselves assume a derogatory status due to women being huge in number mostly deprived of basic needs of life); note that there are two categories of sins and that are injustice (ZULM) and shameful acts (FAHSHA); the three biggest of sins are included in these two categories as SHIRK (to take someone equal in power to ALLAH considering him capable to fulfill human necessities with Allah or without Him), is the biggest sin that is the greatest of injustice; to kill some innocent person is extreme injustice too; and to commit adultery is the most indecent & shameful act (and it also has the aspect of injustice if the woman is married); note that at Surah-YOUSUF-23, the Prophet YOUSUF-AS told ZULEKHA when she called him towards the wrongful act that the unjust persons do not find true success; in the verse ahead, Allah tells us that He saved YOUSUF from both injustice (SOU) and shameful issue (FAHSHA); certainly all of these three are included in the greatest of sins; note also the comment at Hadith-108; may Allah save all true Muslims from all the major sins; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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179-Narrated Abu Musa:
The Prophet (PBUH) said, "A time will come upon the people when a person will wander about with gold as Zakat and will not find anybody to accept it, and one man will be seen followed by forty women to be their guardian because of scarcity of men and great number of women. "
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come but we do know many of its signs as the Prophet PBUH has told us; these signs include that there would come a time when the two things that attract men towards them that is wealth and women, they both would lose their attraction for the men who would care about Islam practically to such height that these both would not be able to mislead those Muslim men; these virtuous men would have wealth at that time in abundance and generally men would be scarce; note that the Hadith does not guide to take 40 women at marriage at that time as that is not allowed but tells about the scarcity of men by ratio to women and tells that even the needy persons both men & women would generally avoid asking for any ZAKAH or any SADAQA due to their own sense of keeping to utmost necessities; it has the latent message that at that time, it is better for the wealthy virtuous persons to provide needed commodities to all the needy persons designating them as gifts only just by their own good sense of Islamic morality without considering their-selves high among the persons around; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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180-Narrated 'Uqba bin 'Amr:
The Prophet once came out and offered the funeral prayer for the martyrs of Uhud, and proceeded to the pulpit and said, "I shall be your predecessor and a witness on you, and I am really looking at my sacred Fount now, and no doubt, I have been given the keys of the treasures of the world. By Allah, I am not afraid that you will worship others along with Allah, but I am afraid that you will envy and fight one another for worldly fortunes."
No person knows when would the QAYAMAT come though as for its signs, this Hadith tells clearly that once Muslims get used to wars, they would need to fight; they would either fight the enemy or either their own-selves until the advent of the MAHDI (the guided one) near QAYAMAT when it is said that wars would cease to exist when after some great war (or even without it), people would come to Islam generally; it is obvious from many Ahadith that the Prophet (PBUH) was worried that after him there would come wars between his followers as this was a warrior nation that he had taught high morals and he knew well that those who had not been much in his care might cause high trouble specially to achieve dominance among Muslims for their own sinister cause; the reference to “keys of the treasures of the world” is to indicate that many of Muslims would achieve high amounts of wealth yet their inclination to get more of wealth to compete for the worldly status with uncaring attitude towards AKHIRAT would incapacitate many of those to achieve the true respect that counts at AKHIRAT; keeping to the Holy Book Quran understanding it by SUNNAH and remembering that everyone has to account for his Belief and doings at HASHR saves the man from all kinds of disrepute certainly; note that the teaching to refrain from wars with each other helped the Muslims generally to keep the teachings of the Prophet (PBUH) intact and made them rise to heights after he passed away; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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Ended on:
16th of April 2017 (at the morning 11:10 am)
(These were selected Ahadith extracted from Sahih Bukhari related to the guidance of the Muslim Women that I, Muhammad Saleem Dada, presented here with comments; Al-Hamdu Lillah)
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Brief Note on TAQLID
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TAQLID generally means for the SUNNI Muslims to follow the four IMAMS of FIQH (that are Malik, Shafa’i, Ahmed Ibn Hanbal & Abu-Hanifa; may Allah have mercy on them) to practice the commands of Allah in the best possible way. They do not challenge each other but there is difference of opinion in issues by the interpretation of Ahadith to practice them in the best possible way. However, the attitude of the teachers of Ahadith does often give the impression that this difference in opinion is the matter of utmost importance and they try to prove the stance of the IMAM they follow not only by the positive reasoning for it but also by negatively degrading the stance of the other IMAM; this attitude is highly erroneous. The most notable point here is that TAQLID must not be TAQLID-SHAKHSHI (that means to follow rulings of one IMAM only or of one of schools of FIQH only in all issues to practice Islam) and though, the followers of one IMAN adhere to his FIQH with dedication yet the fact of the matter is this that nobody considers it necessary. The Holy Book Quran and the SUNNAH (the two primary sources to get the Islamic Commands with IJMA’ to guide to the status that these Commands have) certainly do not ask to follow any one of schools of FIQH to fulfill the Islamic Commands as these schools took shape after about 225 years of the passing away of the Prophet PBUH; note also that TAQLID-SHAKSHI took about 100 years more to come at practice as then it was thought that issues of all kinds have been tackled by Islam (and for this many issues were assumed even and rulings for them were provided). Certainly no IMAM or any other could have gathered the shape the world has taken-up now and as such their assumptions have proved to be highly unplaced in these current times and there are certainly many issues as of now at different fields that do need address clear & fast. In today’s scenario, we would have to revise the strict adherence to TAQLID-SHAKSHI without degrading any of the respectable IMAM and without challenging the most necessary issues that are well-settled that needed address then too and that are most relevant at the current times too; these well-settled issues relate to the fulfillment of most necessary practical commands of Islam and due to this close attachment to them, they are among the ZARURIATE-DEEN (necessities to take up in the practice of most necessary practical Islamic Commands); Al-Hamdu Lillah. Certainly, it would raise the question that SUNNI Muslims have practiced TAQLID-SHAKSHI for centuries and many prominent names that are counted among ULAMA practiced it. Please note here that the blind following of ancestors is not praiseworthy yet those that were truly ULAMA (as conformed by our good reflection on their good lives) do need our respect and even our acceptance of their advises on matters needing advises to practice Islam (these good people also include the four IMAMS) without being committed to any one of them in issues that are not included in ZARURIATE-DEEN. But there is another aspect to the matter of TAQLID-SHAKSHI that is totally omitted in the discussion of TAQLID. Please note that since a century or so, many issues needing address by Islam have come at fore mostly by inventions of different mechanical devices, heavy machines, appliances, gadgets, technical apparatuses; these have come into the common usage with time now and this has affected the set-up of the life that we had seen for thousands of years, particularly in the field of communication and in the field of transport. This has led to high intermingling of Muslims with non-Muslims that understand Islam but little and note also that this intermingling has come at the time when high number of Muslims do slack in the practice of Islam highly. Noting this point, please care to see that TAQLID-SHAKSHI was not much of an issue to Muslims certainly a century back as the rulings of FIQH (of any of schools) related well to the set-up of the life then so it enlightened them on many of issues then yet with the changing of that set-up, many of the FIQHI rulings that are other than ZARURIATE-DEEN have become unrelated to the situation around so those need modification keeping to the basic guidance that we get by the SUNNAH of the Prophet PBUH. In other words, they do need address with revision to them but even with that, we all must totally keep to the teachings that the Prophet PBUH has provided for such issues in the essence for practice. For the detail to this statement, please note that today we Muslims have three types of issues where two types do need IJTEHAD in character and among them the issues at the third type need high concentration for sure. These we Muslims have to address so as to adhere to the practice of the Islamic Commands at least at the minimum level in the current times; Al-Hamdu Lillah. The first type in issues are those for which we Muslims need rulings for detail to practice at all times and all places so as to fulfill the Islamic Commands given in the KITAB and the SUNNAH; these specific rulings provide the guidance in clear terms that is totally necessary to take-up well to practice those necessary Islamic Commands so they are ZARURIATE-DEEN (where even TAQLID-SHAKSHI is no problem) and in them are those important rulings too that relate to the five pillars of Islam; also many of those rulings are here that relate to Business transactions and Matrimonial matters (the Holy Book Quran has mentioned all such Islamic Commands and they have been detailed by rulings at the SUNNAH for practice from whence the FIQH of all IMAM and of other learned true Muslims too has taken them well); these are the totally settled issues that need total attachment only to them in practice and the practicing Muslims do follow them well even now; note well that the Principles do not change yet the minor practical issues dependent upon them, might change with time to such better practice that still provide the worthy attachment to the same Principles; Al-Hamdu Lillah. We must not challenge these rulings neither by IJTEHAD-MUTLAQ (that occurs when the highly learned person in Islam totally attentive to Allah that has the ability to put all its aspects to practice i.e. MUJTAHID takes the Islamic rulings to issues directly by the consideration of his own observation of the guidance given by the KITAB & the SUNNAH) nor by IJTEHAD-MUQAYYAD (that occurs when the highly learned person in Islam totally attentive to Allah that has the ability to put all its aspects to practice i.e. MUJTAHID takes the Islamic rulings to issues indirectly by the consideration of his own observation from the schools of FIQH that base those at the KITAB & the SUNNAH); Al-Hamdu Lillah; the second type in issues are those for which we Muslims needed rulings for detail to practice the Islamic Commands before these current times, specifically based on the authentic Ahadith. We do still need them in essence yet there is no need to adhere strictly at face to them at these current times though their asking has yet to be fulfilled. The example for this are the rulings relating to the weaponry of old when and where applied for the necessary QITAL that their rulings would apply in these current times to the modern weapons by compatible way keeping the essence of those rulings intact according to the Islamic Guidance. The ruling for LUQTA (any thing of value lying somewhere at the ground with no evident claimant to it) would apply in these current times by the good announcement by the finder by the newspaper or by some specific program relating to people in general at electronic or social media for some period after finding of it so that certainly would do well at the present times as the main thing here is to announce the LUQTA as much as possible to all according to the Islamic Guidance. The rulings relating to the means of conveyance given at those ancient times as that were mostly related to horses & camels then, would apply onto the modern means of conveyance in these current times by the manner best suited for now avoiding all shameful attitude and also all unjust approach according to the Islamic Guidance. Similarly, the ruling for purity of water at wells that were commonly used in those days (and even up-to the previous century) but now their usage is limited where the old ruling must be followed, yet its ruling in general would apply in these current times by the modern methods of cleanliness of the water checking that no difference to it takes place that is related to its color, smell or/and taste according to the Islamic Guidance; other such rulings too that strictly pass the criteria of taking the actual specific asking of the previous rulings based on Ahadith only as mentioned here when and where necessary are also included in this type judging with utmost care all the issues of this type taking high care that nothing adverse to the asking of the KITAB and even to the asking of other authentic Ahadith takes place in such practice. This does need a collective stance of ULAMA of repute with care to this point that where there is confusion as to taking an issue at the first type or at this second type, then it must be taken at the first with a strict adherence to it for sure. All the practicing Muslims must take-up the practice on these second type of issues observing that their practice neither violates the respective specific asking of the commands for them at Ahadith nor their practice causes any disrespect to those Ahadith in any way. The ULAMA of repute only, rising to the status of MUJTAHID by the highest study of the KITAB and the SUNNAH possible for them with their practice strictly upon Islam and with their total attention towards Allah only, can take-up this IJTEHAD-MUQAYYAD. They only have to fulfill the actual asking of the rulings on them as guided by the authentic Ahadith in such issues without degrading the previous rulings for detail in any way by their good efforts. Note that Ahadith their-selves authenticate this stance well as there is an authentic HADITH that clearly validates this attitude of taking-up the asking of the SUNNAH where there is some debate at an issue. The Prophet PBUH had commanded on the day of AHZAAB that “No one of you should pray ASR until you reach BANU-QURAYZAH; now while they were on their way, the time of ASR came so some of SAHABA-RA said we should not pray until we reach BANU-QURAYZAH and others said we should pray ASR now because the Prophet (PBUH) did not mean for us to leave the ASR prayer (on its time), but he wanted us to follow in haste; so some of the SAHABA-RA prayed ASR, while others of SAHABA-RA continued on until they reached BANU-QURAYZAH after sunset; when they went back to the Prophet PBUH, they mentioned to him this all and HE DID NOT BLAME either one of them" (reported by BUKHARI). This validates the stance for taking-up IJTEHAD-MUQAYYAD at Ahadith keeping to them in essence and keeping in mind that even IMAMS have chosen Ahadith for their respective rulings on practical issues where the option was available (sometimes leaving even the comparatively strong Hadith in the favor of the one lesser in strength). So when we take-up the asking of Ahadith keeping to Ahadith (not discarding them) at some issue to practice with total purity of intention without challenging any of Ahadith with total respect to all of them, it poses no problem certainly; Al-Hamdu Lillah; the third type of issues that need clarification for practice are those which we Muslims are facing today due to the general effect of the modern gadgets and the high impression of the West in the lives of all the people at anywhere today; these issues were neither encountered nor any interpretation was offered for their application according to the Islamic Teachings by the IMAMS or the other learned men in FIQH of old previously. However, if the MUJTAHID among us ponder upon the Holy Book Quran and at the SUNNAH as detailed by the asking of the authentic Ahadith, we can get the rulings to them too insha Allah without much problem certainly. Note that the issues at the first type do not need any IJTEHAD at all as of now and the practice of issues at the second type relating particularly to Ahadith need the IJTEHAD that is MUQAYYAD only in nature; that only the ULAMA of repute with total purity of intention take-on keeping their total attention towards Allah only with the consideration to TALFIQ (that means taking rulings for issues from all ancient schools of FIQH for practice when & where needed, caring to fulfill the asking of the SUNNAH totally well as of now without any inclination towards TAQLID-SHAKSHI). The problem arises when the unworthy persons ask for IJTEHAD at the rulings even of the first type that must not be touched at all certainly while on the other hand, we have such persons that understand Islam well (and even included in ULAMA) that do have the eligibility for IJTEHAD-MUQAYYAD at the second type of rulings yet they do not bear touching them slightly even, so that causes the problem. The former intend even to touch the ZARURIATE-DEEN and do away with the second type totally; the latter intend that the second type even needs to be followed strictly not only in the spirit but even in the letter without fail. Both sides do not have any worry at all about the threat of the material negativity that occurs by the practice of modern inventions & the spiritual negativity that occurs by the intermingling of Muslims with the non-Muslims today so they all care but little to see to the rulings for the third type of issues that certainly do need address most urgently. Note that for these third type of issues, we Muslims do need IJTEHAD that is MUTLAQ (that means that the good MUJTAHID having the height in the knowledge of Islam and being well-aware of putting it into practice takes the rulings for these third type of issues for practice directly by the KITAB or/and the authentic SUNNAH reasoning from them in the most positive manner only without fail as that only keeps it to the feasible IJTEHAD). Many of these issues relate to the Administrative Manner in the current times and also relate to the Economics as of now; also, the need for clarification of issues by Islam at the Judicial Department is extremely high. The Social Level also bring issues at fore like the application of the Islamic Rulings for the social and the electronic media and like the application of the Islamic Rulings at the modern education and the medical practice; these all need address within the good time. I, MSD, have tried whatever individually was possible for me in these last type of issues by writing “The Islamic Guidelines” where I tried by the blessing of Allah to present the practical picture of the Islamic Environment without any drastic change in the set-up we have as of now; Al-Hamdu Lillah; what to do while those that consider their-selves only responsible to the task, do keep-on being silent upon it and to do it is so very urgent. It is most necessary that we make the way by Islam inside this given set-up that we have today as the change towards the Islamic Environment is certainly possible still without the change of the format that we have as of now; Al-Hamdu Lillah. However, this significant task does need works by many of such worthy ULAMA that do realize the need of the day and do the needed significantly as soon as possible. The notable point here is that this address to these issues at hand must positively take something from the two primary sources (the KITAB and the SUNNAH) to the Islamic Commands as the reasoning to it; just seeing in this IJTEHAD that nothing adverse takes place to these primary sources would not do here at all but in fact, certainly mislead the Muslims today. Note well that to take-up rulings for debatable issues at hand in this manner is highly erroneous, especially in these present times where the persons at the management of the Muslim’s affairs care but little about Islam. We Muslims must follow this important ruling as the base here that “the true practicing Muslims must use all of modern gadgets strictly in physical limits for the sake to keeping it all in the specified limit of the morality as guided by Islam”. Note well that Islam does not suppress emotions in the Human Beings but asks to provide the rightful outlet to desires with care for its moral teachings in the ordinary business of life (see the comment here at the Hadith-109); it is strange that ULAMA do not care to present this highly essential principal to the masses that are going towards the usage of modern technical gadgets without any check whatsoever; may Allah give all Muslims the insight to decide the limits to the usage of these modern technical gadgets; Al-Hamdu Lillah. We Muslims do face a huge challenge at the present times as the change in the living set-up, due to the modern gadgets that have come into the common usage and due to high inter-action that have occurred between the Muslims and the non-Muslims by the media and even by the physical contact, has affected people so much all over the world in this current era that we Muslims need to decide for the necessary Islamic Attitude here fast and clear even within this given format so that if this change does affect, it must not affect us adversely at the collective level. Never ever before in the history of the mankind has such change in the life-style of the Man occurred so fast and so big. But with all said, note well that Islam comprises of the Commands of Allah and as such, it is true in the text and easy in the practice for all times and for all places; these Commands in essence, have been provided to us totally at the golden period of the Last Prophet Muhammad PBUH and from that time & that place, we do get them for all times and all places most certainly; Al-Hamdu Lillah. May Allah provide us the enlightenment to understand the problem and also the guidance to solve it in the due time for the betterment of all of the Muslim UMMAH today; Al-Hamdu Lillah.
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