With the Hadith - "Supplication is the Essence of Worship"

We greet you all, dear listeners everywhere, in a new episode of your program: With the Hadith. We begin with the best greeting, peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.

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September 21, 2025

With the Hadith - "Supplication is the Essence of Worship"

With the Hadith "Supplication is the Essence of Worship"

We greet you all, dear listeners everywhere, in a new episode of your program: With the Hadith. We begin with the best greeting, peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.

Narrated Anas bin Malik that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: Supplication is the essence of worship. It came in Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhi with the explanation of Jami` at-Tirmidhi.

His saying: (Supplication is the essence of worship)

Al-mukh (the essence) with a damma (ضمّة) means the marrow of the bone, the brain, the fat of the eye, and the purest of everything. The meaning is that supplication is the core and the purest form of worship, because the supplicant only calls upon God when his hope is cut off from anything else, and that is the reality of monotheism and sincerity, and there is no worship above them. Ibn al-Arabi said: And with the essence is the strength of the members, so too supplication is the essence of worship, with it the worship of the worshippers is strengthened, for it is the soul of worship. Some interpreters said regarding His saying, may He be exalted: {Indeed, those who disdain My worship}, meaning My supplication.

Dear listeners:

Supplication is the servant asking his Lord. The noble verses and the noble Prophetic hadiths have been transmitted, which encourage and urge supplication, including His saying, may He be exalted: And when My servants ask you, [O Muhammad], concerning Me - indeed I am near. I respond to the invocation of the supplicant when he calls upon Me, and His saying, may He be exalted: Is He [not best] who responds to the desperate one when he calls upon Him and removes evil and makes you inheritors of the earth?, and his saying, peace and blessings be upon him: There is no Muslim who supplicates with a supplication in which there is no sin or severing of family ties, but God will give him one of three things: either He will hasten his supplication for him, or He will save it for him in the Hereafter, or He will avert from him a similar evil.

It is recommended for a Muslim to supplicate to God Almighty in times of ease and hardship, in secret and in public, until he obtains the reward of God Almighty, for in supplication there is an expression of submission and dependence on God Almighty.

Some may wonder, why has Palestine or Iraq not been liberated despite the abundance of supplication! Why does God not punish the Jews even though we pray against them morning and evening! Why has God not taken revenge on America and Britain! Why has God Almighty not removed from us this high cost of living, this poverty, and this fragmentation while we call upon Him without tiring! Why has God Almighty not changed this situation that we are in, and we always say: "God will change this situation" and "We say God will relieve it"!

Dear listeners, let it be known that supplication does not bring about anything without its cause, otherwise the beloved of hearts, peace and blessings be upon him, would have been the most deserving of that, and God Almighty would have supported him without work or effort. If we truly want to liberate Palestine, Iraq, and others, and we want to expel the Jews from our land, and we want to change what we are in, then we must work hard, following the example of the beloved Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him.

As for supplication, its purpose is to obtain reward by complying with the command of God Almighty, so it is an act of worship among acts of worship. Just as prayer is an act of worship and fasting is an act of worship, so too supplication is an act of worship. The believer supplicates and asks God Almighty to fulfill his need or other supplications related to this world and the hereafter, seeking His reward and complying with His commands.

Finally, we mention his saying, peace and blessings be upon him: (By Him in Whose Hand is my life, you must enjoin good and forbid evil, or Allah will soon send upon you a punishment from Him, then you will call upon Him and He will not answer you)

Dear listeners

Until we meet you with another Prophetic hadith, we leave you in God's care, and peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.

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This hadith, like other important hadiths, must be understood and realized. Some people are bankrupt despite their prayers, fasting, and zakat, because they insulted this person, slandered this person, consumed the wealth of this person, shed the blood of this person, and beat this person.

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When the Prophet, peace be upon him, asked his companions, "Do you know who is bankrupt?" "Do you know" means knowledge and awareness of the inner workings of things. "Do you know" means "Do you really know who is bankrupt?" This confirms the saying of our master Ali, may Allah honor his face: "Wealth and poverty are after the presentation to Allah." When they were asked this question, they answered based on their experiences: "The bankrupt among us is the one who has no dirham or goods." This is the bankrupt in the eyes of the companions of the Messenger of Allah. So he, peace and blessings be upon him, said: No... HE SAID: "INDEED, THE BANKRUPT OF MY NATION IS THE ONE WHO COMES ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION WITH FASTING, PRAYER, AND CHARITY..."

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We ask Allah to keep us steadfast on the truth, and make us of His righteous servants, and replace our bad deeds with good deeds, and not disgrace us on the Day of Presentation to Him, O Allah, Amen.

Our dear listeners, until we meet you with another prophetic hadith, we entrust you to Allah, whose deposits are never lost. Peace, mercy, and blessings of Allah be upon you.

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It was narrated from Buraidah, may God be pleased with him, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "Do not call a hypocrite 'Sayyid' (master), for if he is a master, then you have angered your Lord, the Almighty and Sublime." Narrated by Abu Dawood with a Sahih (authentic) chain of narration.

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Indeed, the best of speech is the word of God Almighty, and the best guidance is the guidance of His Prophet Muhammad bin Abdullah, peace and blessings be upon him. Now then,

This noble Hadith guides us on how to deal with the hypocrites we know. The Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, was the only one who knew all the hypocrites by their names, but we can recognize some of them by their characteristics, such as those mentioned in the Quran who perform their obligatory duties lazily and grudgingly, and those who plot against Islam and Muslims, encourage strife, spread corruption on earth, and love to spread immorality by calling for it, protecting it, and nurturing it, and those who tell lies about Islam and Muslims... and others who are characterized by hypocrisy.

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We Muslims must be the most keen people on Islam and Muslims, and not allow any hypocrite an entry point into our religion and our families, as they are among the most dangerous things we may face these days due to their abundance and the multiplicity of their faces. We must use the Sharia scale to measure the actions of those who claim to be Muslims, for Islam protects us from such evildoers.

We ask God to protect our nation from such criminals, and to guide us to the straight path and the correct scale by which we measure people's behavior, so that we stay away from those whom God does not love. Amen.

Dear friends, until we meet you with another prophetic Hadith, we leave you in God's care, and peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.

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