With the Hadith
The Right of a Muslim on a Muslim, Living and Dead
We greet you all, dear friends 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.
Narrated Abu Huraira, may God be pleased with him, that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Whoever attends the funeral until the prayer is offered for it, will receive a Qirat, and whoever attends it until it is buried, will receive two Qirats." It was said: "What are the two Qirats?" He said: "Like two great mountains." Narrated by Muslim No. 1633.
Dear Listeners:
Attending the funeral is a right of a Muslim on his fellow Muslim, but it is an act of worship for which a person is rewarded. The purpose of this approaching to God Almighty is to learn a lesson and remember the afterlife, as well as humility, presence of heart, tranquility, contemplation, and consideration. The companions of our noble Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, lived these meanings, so they were humble and considered, and you would hardly hear a sound from them other than sobbing.
O Muslims:
As we talk about the greatness of this religion in which God has made a right for the dead on the living, we ask: Where is this right today in the laws of the land? Where are the rights of the dead over the living in the world of Western civilization, which boasts of human rights? Rather, where are the rights of the living over the dead rulers? Just as Islam has made rights for the dead, it has made rights for the living, and the living have more priority than the dead. Funeral prayer is a communal obligation on Muslims, while the rights of Muslims over their rulers are an obligation and duty on the ruler, and the most important of these rights is that he governs them according to the Qur’an and Sunnah in exchange for hearing and obedience. But what do we say when the client rulers have usurped the rule in the Muslim world and renounced the nation? They did not only take away its rights; rather, they brought it into the furnace of ignorance and loss. Yes, we can only say that it is obligatory to overthrow them and appoint an Imam in their ruins, who rules according to the Book and the Sunnah, establishes justice among the subjects, and knows their rights, dead and alive.
O God, hasten us with a righteous caliphate according to the method of prophecy in which the Muslims gather their affairs, and remove from them what they are in of affliction. O God, illuminate the earth with the light of Your generous face. O God, Amen, Amen.
Dear beloved, 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
