With the Hadith
The Chapter on Lifting Trust - 1
We greet you all, dear listeners, everywhere, in a new episode of your program "With the Hadith," and we begin with the best greeting: Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.
It is stated in Fath al-Bari, Explanation of Sahih al-Bukhari by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, with modifications, in "The Chapter on Lifting Trust":
Muhammad bin Sinan narrated to us, saying: Fulayh bin Sulaiman narrated to us, saying: Hilal bin Ali narrated to us, from Ata bin Yasar, from Abu Hurairah, may God be pleased with him, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "When trust is lost, wait for the Hour." He said: How is it lost, O Messenger of God? He said: "When authority is given to those who do not deserve it, then wait for the Hour."
His statement (The Chapter on Lifting Trust) is the opposite of betrayal, and what is meant by lifting it is its removal so that the trustworthy person is non-existent or almost non-existent.
His statement (when authority is given) Al-Kirmani said: He answered about the manner of loss with what indicates the time, because it includes the answer, because it necessarily includes the statement that its manner is the aforementioned assignment, and it was mentioned there with the word "wusid" with its explanation, and what is meant by "authority" is the type of matters that relate to religion, such as the caliphate, emirate, judiciary, issuing fatwas, and so on, and his statement "to those who do not deserve it" Al-Kirmani said: He used the word "to" instead of the letter "lam" to indicate including the meaning of assignment.
His statement (then wait for the Hour) the "fa" is for branching or an answer to a deleted condition, meaning if the matter is like that, then wait, Ibn Battal said: The meaning of (authority is given to those who do not deserve it) is that the imams have been entrusted by God over His servants and they have been obligated to advise them, so they should appoint people of religion, so if they appoint those who are not people of religion, then they have lost the trust that God - the Most High - has entrusted them with.
Dear listeners:
Many people have underestimated trust, so that they no longer care about it or pay attention to it, even though its matter is great and its status is high, and perhaps that is due to a lack of awareness of its reality and the sin that results from its loss. If there was a religious deterrent among many people, they would not have neglected it.
Some Muslims have reduced the concept of trust to the deposits that people entrust, but it is more general and comprehensive than that. Prayer is a trust, Zakat is a trust, and all the rituals of religion are a trust. And every organ of the human body is a trust, so the hand, the leg, the private parts, the abdomen, and so on are a trust, so do not commit what is forbidden by that, otherwise you will become negligent in what you have been entrusted with, and every command and prohibition that God Almighty has requested is a trust.
O Muslims:
One of the greatest trusts is the trust that has been entrusted to rulers and presidents, so their trust includes the entire subjects, and in that he, peace and blessings be upon him, says: "There is no servant whom God entrusts with a flock, who dies on the day he dies while he is deceiving his flock, but God forbids Paradise to him." Yes, it is the greatest trust, after which there is no trust. By its loss, everything is lost, just as in this time that the nation is living through, of entrusting authority to those who do not deserve it from the sinners, the immoral, the agents, the criminals, the unjust, the hypocritical secularists, and even from the infidel libertines, who exploit their positions to exploit Muslims. Do you not see what is happening in Syria and in all Muslim countries? Do you not see how they are killed by their rulers?
How strange is the matter of the nation today, it knew the falsehood and followed it, and it realized the danger and rushed into it, it is like locusts falling on the fire. Will the noble nation return to its senses? Has it realized the danger of losing trust? Rather, has it known the greatest trust that has been lost? It is the Caliphate. So will it work with those who work to restore it? We ask God that it be near.
O God, hasten us with a caliphate that gathers the scattered Muslims, and removes from them the affliction they are in. O God, illuminate the earth with the light of Your noble face. O God, Amen, Amen.
Dear listeners, and 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.
Written for the radio: Abu Maryam
