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This Hadith underlines a Principle of Allah that He never keeps anything in the world on the rise eternally.
Every rising star has its eventual decline. Individuals and nations apart, this law of nature also applies to animal life. In it is embedded Divine wisdom.
First, annihilation and fall is the fate of everything. Second, lest power and growth should go to man’s head, he is warned by being reduced to smallness that there exists a Supreme One Who holds sway over all creatures and can render the powerful weak and helpless.
The bedouin camel-rider resented the Companions by overtaking Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), yet he himself did not express his resentment. Rather the occasion caused him to explain the Divine wisdom behind it. The Hadith also shows the Prophet’s humility.
Commentary: Virtue obliterates vice means that virtue becomes an atonement for sin. But this applies to minor sins only because major ones will not be forgiven without sincere repentance. Similar is the case of encroachment on public rights which will not be forgiven without their compensation.
Commentary: Virtue obliterates vice means that virtue becomes an atonement for sin. But this applies to minor sins…
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Being needful and talking about death checks man from being lost in the worldly pleasures and seduction. We are, therefore, supposed to remember death frequently and to avoid remaining indifferent to post-death affairs and occurrences.⠀ ⠀
It is reported from Al-Awzāʿī that he said:
Whoever remembers death often will find a small amount (of worldly things) sufficient for him; and whoever includes his speech in his deeds will speak little.
Al-Dhahabī , Siyar A’lām Al-Nubalā` in his biography of Al-Awzāʿī.
Commentary: Being needful and talking about death checks man from being lost in the worldly pleasures and seduction.…
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Everyone who professes Tawheed (Oneness of Allah) and acknowledges the Prophethood of Muhammad (ﷺ), is a Muslim. But a perfect Muslim is one who has attained that high level where he does not harm any Muslim with his hand and tongue (speech).
Similarly, an Emigrant is the one who abandons his homeland and relatives and goes to a place where he can easily practise the religion of Allah. But such a person is also an Emigrant who renounces all such things which are forbidden by Allah, because emigration means abandoning, whether it is abandoning of homeland or sins.
Commentary: Everyone who professes Tawheed (Oneness of Allah) and acknowledges the Prophethood of Muhammad (ﷺ), is a Muslim.…
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This Hadith underlines a Principle of Allah that He never keeps anything in the world on the rise eternally.
Every rising star has its eventual decline. Individuals and nations apart, this law of nature also applies to animal life. In it is embedded Divine wisdom.
First, annihilation and fall is the fate of everything. Second, lest power and growth should go to man’s head, he is warned by being reduced to smallness that there exists a Supreme One Who holds sway over all creatures and can render the powerful weak and helpless.
The bedouin camel-rider resented the Companions by overtaking Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), yet he himself did not express his resentment. Rather the occasion caused him to explain the Divine wisdom behind it. The Hadith also shows the Prophet’s humility.
Commentary: This Hadith underlines a Principle of Allah that He never keeps anything in the world on the…
Read MoreCommentary: According to this Hadith, it is a quality of a Muslim that he is very much concerned about acquiring virtues and doing good, and he is never tired of struggling for them and live by them so much so that in this struggle he reaches the end of his life. By mentioning this Hadith in Kitab-ul-‘Ilm it has been made evident that the best of the virtues is learning and teaching of religious knowledge because it is actually this knowledge which enables a person to distinguish between good and evil.
A believer remains a student of knowledge until his death, and he is never full with the struggle and desire for the knowledge of religion; his end is Paradise, Allah Willing!
Commentary: According to this Hadith, it is a quality of a Muslim that he is very much concerned…
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