7.
Prophet Yaḥyā عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام and Satan
It is narrated that Prophet Yaḥyā عَلَيْہِ الصَّلٰوةُ وَالسَّلَام once saw Satan with
many traps (for people) and asked him about them. He replied that those were
the traps of sensual desires by which he entraps people. Sayyidunā Yaḥyā عَلَيْہِ الصَّلٰوةُ وَالسَّلَام asked him, 'Do you
have any trap for me?' Satan replied, 'No, however, one night you ate food till
you were full, so I made it difficult for you to offer your Ṣalāĥ that night.'
Upon hearing this, Sayyidunā Yaḥyā عَلَيْہِ السَّلَام
said, 'By Allah ! I will never eat food to a full stomach in the future.' Satan
responded, 'I will also no longer tell anyone such useful things.'
(Minĥāj-ul-'Ābidīn,
pp. 93)
May Allah have mercy on him and
forgive us without accountability for his sake!
صَلُّوْا عَلَى الْحَبِيْبِ ۞ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ
تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
Pleasure
in worship
Dear Islamic brothers! Commenting on
the foregoing parable, Hujjat-ul-Islam, Sayyidunā Muhammad Ghazālī has stated:
This is the state of such a noble individual عَلَيْہِ
الصَّلٰوةُ وَالسَّلَام who ate food to a full stomach just once
in his whole life. What will be the condition of the person remaining hungry
just once in his entire life? Can such a person hope to have pleasure in his
worship? Eating to a full stomach causes a reduction in worship because when a
person eats to a full stomach his body becomes heavy, he feels sleepy and his
body parts become lazy. He cannot carry out any work despite making efforts. He
lies on the ground all the time like a dead body. It is rightly said that when
you become a glutton, then consider yourself like the person in chains.
Sayyidunā Abū Sulaymān Dārānī has stated, 'I feel the most pleasure in worship
when my back touches my stomach due to hunger.'
(Minĥāj-ul-'Ābidīn,
pp. 93)
May Allah have mercy on them and
forgive us without accountability for their sake!
صَلُّوْا عَلَى الْحَبِيْبِ ۞ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ
تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
8. He
spewed milk
Once, a slave of Sayyidunā Abū Bakr
Ṣiddīq presented some milk to him. He drank the milk. His slave asked,
'Previously, whenever I presented anything to you, you used to ask about it,
but you did not ask about this milk.' Upon hearing this, he asked his slave as
to where he had brought the milk from. The slave replied that during the
(pre-Islamic) era of ignorance, he had treated a sick person by reciting some
incantations and the milk was given to him as the payment of reciting those
incantations. Listening to this, Sayyidunā Abū Bakr Ṣiddīq immediately placed
his fingers into his throat and spewed out whatever milk he had swallowed.
After doing this, he prayed to the Almighty with extreme humility, 'O Allah ! I
have done whatever I could do; forgive some of the milk left in the veins.'
(Minĥāj-ul-'Ābidīn,
pp. 97)
May Allah have mercy on him and
forgive us without accountability for his sake!
صَلُّوْا عَلَى الْحَبِيْبِ ۞ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ
تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
Dear Islamic brothers! How pious and
virtuous Sayyidunā Abū Bakr Ṣiddīq was! The unbelievers often used to recite
blasphemous incantations to exorcise patients. This practice dates back to the
pre Islamic era of ignorance. As the slave had read incantations during the
days of ignorance, Sayyidunā Abū Bakr Ṣiddīq spewed out the milk he had
swallowed for fear that the slave may have spoken words of Kufr (blasphemy).
9.
Roasted meat
Once, Sayyidunā Abū Ĥurayraĥ passed
by some people who were eating roasted meat. Seeing him, they offered him to
join them but he refused saying that the Beloved Prophet ﷺ left the world in such a state that he ﷺ never ate even barley bread to his full stomach. (Ṣaḥīḥ
Bukhārī, vol. 6, pp. 252, Ḥadīš 5414)
May Allah have mercy on them and
forgive us without accountability for their sake!
Roasted
thigh
Dear Islamic brothers! On one hand,
Sayyidunā Abū Ĥurayraĥ refused to eat the roasted meat because the memories of
the hunger of the Holy Prophet ﷺ brought about grief in
him. On the other, there are the so-called devotees like us who pound upon the
roasted meat, like placed before us, like a starving lion forgetting all love
and grief and devour it so voraciously that we even miss the Jamā'at of Ṣalāĥ.
Alas! The above misdeed is often committed
in dinner feasts. Even on the occasions of the Niyāz of Auliyā, which is a Nafl
act, many people miss their Jamā'at just because of greed for food. It is my
Madanī appeal that whenever you organize any gathering, please ensure that the
time of any Ṣalāĥ does not fall during the ceremony. If the time of Ṣalāĥ
happens to fall, the host and guests should all immediately proceed to the
Masjid forgoing all activity. If you do not have a valid exemption justified by
the Sharī'aĥ, it is Wājib (compulsory) to join the first Jamā'at in the Masjid.
Even if you offer Ṣalāĥ with Jamā'at at home, you will still be considered a
sinner for missing the Wājib Jamā'at. According to some Islamic jurists, the
person who does not come to the Masjid before the Iqāmaĥ, is a sinner.
Fear
of losing faith at time of death
It is not allowed at all to miss the
first Jamā'at of Farḍ Ṣalāĥ held in Masjid on account of attending
Ifṭār-dinner, ceremonies, Niyāz (meal served to send reward to Auliyā) and
Na'at-reciting etc. In case of holding the Jamā'at of Tarāwīḥ at home or in a
hall or a bungalow, it is Wājib to offer the Farḍ-Rak'at (of 'Ishā Ṣalāĥ) with
the primary Jamā'at in the Masjid first if there is a Masjid in the vicinity.
Those not offering Farḍ Ṣalāĥ with the primary Jamā'at held in Masjid without a
valid exemption, despite having capability, should fear.
Sayyidunā 'Abdullāĥ Bin Mas'ūd has
said, 'The one liking to meet Allah as a Muslim tomorrow (the Judgement Day)
should regularly offer these five Ṣalāĥ with Jamā'at at the place where Ażān is
uttered, for Allah has rendered Sunan-e-Ĥudā (Sunnaĥ of guidance) as Mashrū'
for your Prophet ﷺ and Ṣalāĥ with
Jamā'at is also one of the Sunan-e-Ĥudā. If you offered Ṣalāĥ at your homes
like the one who stays behind and offers in his house, you would leave the
Sunnaĥ of your Holy Prophet ﷺ, and if you left the
Sunnaĥ of your Holy Prophet ﷺ, you would go
astray.'
(Ṣaḥīḥ
Muslim, vol. 1, pp. 232, Ḥadīš 257)
The foregoing Ḥadīš implies that the
one who offers Ṣalāĥ with Jamā'at will die with faith, whereas the one who
misses the first Jamā'at of Masjid without the permission of Sharī'aĥ is in the
danger of losing his faith at the time of death. Those not offering Ṣalāĥ with
complete Jamā'at because of sheer laziness should pay attention to the
following saying of A'lā Ḥaḍrat Imām-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat Maulānā Ash-Shāĥ Imām Aḥmad
Razā Khān . He has said that it is stated in Al-Baḥr-ur-Rāiq with the reference
of Quniyyaĥ that if someone kept waiting for Iqāmaĥ to enter the Masjid having
heard Ażān, he would be a sinner.
(Fatāwā
Razawiyyaĥ (Jadīd), vol. 7, pp. 102),
(Al-Baḥr-ur-Rāiq, vol. 1, pp. 604)
On the same page it is also
mentioned that if a person hears Ażān and waits at his house for the Iqāmaĥ,
such a person's testimony is unacceptable.
(Al-Baḥr-ur-Rāiq,
vol. 1, pp. 451)
Dear Islamic brothers! According to
some jurists, the testimony of those who do not arrive in the Masjid until the
time of Iqāmaĥ is not acceptable, in addition to him being a sinner. So what
would be the condition of those who offer their Ṣalāĥ without Jamā'at or with
Jamā'at at home without a valid reason or do not offer their Ṣalāĥ at all!
O Allah ! Bless us with offering the
daily five Ṣalāĥ with Jamā'at with the first Takbīr (i.e. Takbīr-e-Ūlā) in the
first row of the Masjid!
آمِيْن بِجَاهِ النَّبِيِّ الْاَمِيْن ﷺ
Mayn
pānchon namāzayn pařĥūn bā-Jamā'at
Ĥo taufīq aysī 'aṭā Yā Ilāĥī
May
I offer five Ṣalāĥ with Jamā'at, O Almighty!
Please, bestow upon me this ability!
صَلُّوْا عَلَى الْحَبِيْبِ ۞ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ
تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
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