With the Hadith - If you have no shame, do as you wish
With the Hadith - If you have no shame, do as you wish

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August 05, 2025

With the Hadith - If you have no shame, do as you wish

With the Hadith - If you have no shame, do as you wish

Dear listeners, peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.

Al-Bukhari, may God have mercy on him, narrated in his Sahih, from Abu Masoud Al-Ansari, may God be pleased with him, from the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, who said:

«Verily, from what people have learned from the words of the first prophecy is: If you have no shame, do as you wish.»

Ibn Hajar, may God have mercy on him, explained the hadith in Fath al-Bari, and among what came in it:

His saying: (Verily, from what people have learned) means the last thing that the people of ignorance were concerned with from the words of the first prophecy .. And learned: means reached, and if you have no shame: it is a name for the word similar to the interpretation of this saying.

His saying: (Do as you wish) Al-Khattabi said: The wisdom in expressing the word in the form of a command rather than a statement in the hadith is that what prevents a person from committing evil is modesty, so if he abandons it, he becomes naturally ordered to commit every evil. Al-Nawawi said in "Al-Arba'in": The command in it is for permissibility, meaning if you want to do something, if it is something that you are not ashamed of doing before God or people, then do it, otherwise, do not. And this is the basis of Islam, and the justification for this is that what is commanded of the obligatory and recommended is ashamed of abandoning it, and what is forbidden of the haram and the disliked is ashamed of doing it, and as for the permissible, it is permissible to be ashamed of doing it, and likewise whoever abandons it, so the hadith includes the five rulings. It was said that it is a threatening command, and its meaning is that if modesty is taken away from you, then do as you wish, for God will reward you for it, and in it is an indication of the glorification of the matter of modesty, meaning whoever has no shame does what he wants.

Dear listeners

It is as if the rulers of the Muslims did not care about modesty, so they did not give it any weight or consideration, so they made their peoples taste woes and woes and woes, so a murderer in Syria and another in Libya and a third in Yemen and a fourth in Egypt and a fifth in Hejaz and Najd until the Muslim countries were filled with rulers with little shame, but rather say: lacking shame, and their audacity reached the point of naming the countries after them, so this is Hejaz and Najd, they named it Saudi Arabia in relation to the rulers of misguidance, and this is Jordan, they named it Hashemite in relation to the rulers of misguidance there, and the crimes of the rulers exceeded all limits, they violated honors and violated them, and killed the youth, the elderly, the women and the children, and even sent out armies to punish the peoples, so killing spread among the Muslims from their rulers, and all of this is only due to the absence of the barrier of modesty, and when modesty is absent, nothing prevents the criminal from his crime, then it becomes necessary for the people of truth to establish the truth by force, and there is no force greater than the force of the peoples if they want their right and seek to restore their authority, so these Muslim peoples have begun to stir, demanding their right and their authority and seeking it, and the criminals who lack shame have begun to fall one after the other, and we call on the peoples to move forward in the path of their glory, and we advise them not to hope for good from those who lack shame, for there is no hope from those who lack shame, and God is the guardian of the oppressed if they support Him and are upright in His command.

Until another meeting, we entrust you to God, 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.

His bankruptcy is that his good deeds, which are his capital, are taken and given to this one and used to pay off that one for the price of his slander, insult, and beating. After his good deeds are exhausted before he settles what is owed, their sins are taken and cast upon him, then he is thrown into the Fire.

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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