With the Hadith
If You Were As You Are With Me
2- 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.
Narrated by Hanzala Al-Katib Al-Tamimi Al-Usayyidi, who said:
We were with the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and we mentioned Paradise and Hell until it was as if we were seeing it with our own eyes. Then I went to my family and children, and I laughed and played. He said: Then I remembered what we were talking about, so I went out and met Abu Bakr, and I said: I have become a hypocrite, I have become a hypocrite. Abu Bakr said: We do the same. So Hanzala went and mentioned it to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and he said: "O Hanzala, if you were as you are with me, the angels would shake hands with you on your beds or on your paths. O Hanzala, an hour and an hour."
It is mentioned in the explanation of Sunan Ibn Majah by Al-Sindi
His saying (I have become a hypocrite) means that my state has changed in such a way that it is not permissible to be heedless of them for one who believes in them. Heedlessness of them is similar to being an internal denial of their existence. In short, he doubted the existence of faith in them in his heart without a doubt and considered it hypocrisy. Thus, it is clear that doubt in faith is not an act of disbelief, but rather doubt in the one who is believed in is what is considered disbelief.
His saying (If you were as you are)
He pointed out to them that presence does not usually last, and its absence does not harm the existence of faith in the heart. Negligence only contradicts presence, so it does not necessarily mean the absence of faith. An hour there is presence to regulate the affairs of religion, and an hour there is negligence to regulate the affairs of religion and livelihood, and in each of them there is mercy on the servants.
Dear listeners:
The honorable Hadith that we have in our hands confirms several things, including:
Firstly: that the concept of (an hour and an hour) has nothing to do, neither closely nor remotely, with what some people understand as an hour for you and an hour for your Lord. It is taken for granted that the entire life of a Muslim is for God Almighty, as God taught his servants to say (Say, "Indeed, my prayer, my rites of sacrifice, my living and my dying are for God, Lord of the worlds.")
For there is nothing in the life of a Muslim that is for other than God, because God (has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise). So all Muslims sold what they own in exchange for Paradise. Yes, there may be in the life of a Muslim an hour of wakefulness and an hour of heedlessness, an hour of strength and an hour of weakness, an hour of nearness and an hour of distance, but he quickly remembers and understands; so he dispels the heedlessness, strengthens the weakness, and flees to God. God Almighty said: (Indeed, those who fear God, when they are touched by a specter from Satan, they remember [Him] and at once they have insight.)
And it came in the honorable Hadith: (Every son of Adam is a sinner, and the best of sinners are those who repent.)
Secondly: that preaching and guidance alone are not enough to be a path in building personalities and changing behavior. Paradise, Hell, intimidation, and encouragement are all from Islam. However, our scholars and carriers of the Da’wah must not neglect that there is also no substitute for the Islamic ideas and concepts that every Muslim needs in his daily life and that affect his behavior in a productive and focused way. In addition to being aware of the bliss of Paradise and the torment of the Hereafter, the Muslim must, for example, be aware of the reality of the conflict between Islam and disbelief, be aware of the reality of democracy, secularism, and capitalism, be aware of the reality of the Islamic creed as a spiritual and political creed, be aware that Islam came to be implemented, be aware that there is no implementation of Islam except with a state, and be aware of the reasons for our backwardness and the path to our revival.
God Almighty said:
(Muhammad is the Messenger of God; and those with him are forceful against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves. You see them bowing and prostrating [in prayer], seeking bounty from God and [His] approval. Their mark is on their faces from the trace of prostration. That is their description in the Torah. And their description in the Gospel is as a plant which produces its offshoots and strengthens them so they grow firm and stand upon their stalks, delighting the sowers - so that God may enrage by them the disbelievers. God has promised those who believe and do righteous deeds among them forgiveness and a great reward.)
And God Almighty said: (Be pious scholars of the Lord because of what you have taught of the Scripture and because of what you have studied.)
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.
