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With the Hadith

The Hypocrites and Their Evil Deeds

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.

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.

Dear listeners,

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.

Therefore, we must understand what the Sharia (Islamic law) has deemed good and what it has deemed bad, so that we can distinguish the hypocrite from the sincere, and take appropriate action towards them. We should not trust those who do what contradicts the Sharia while pretending to do what they do out of concern for Islam and Muslims. We should not follow them or support them, or even less than that, by describing them as "Sayyid," otherwise God Almighty will be angry with us.

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.

Written for radio by: Dr. Maher Saleh

With the Hadith

Promptness in adhering to Sharia

   We greet you all, dear friends everywhere, in a new episode of your program "With the Hadith" and we start with the best greeting, so peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.

   It is mentioned in Sahih Muslim, in the explanation of Imam Al-Nawawi "with modification" in the chapter on the confirmation of Paradise for the martyr:

   Sa'eed bin Amr Al-Ash'athi and Suwaid bin Saeed narrated to us, and the wording is Sa'eed's, Sufyan told us from Amr, he heard Jabir saying: A man said: Where am I, O Messenger of God, if I am killed? He said, in Paradise, so he threw the dates that were in his hand, then fought until he was killed.

Dear listeners:

  This is Umair bin Al-Humam, a companion who was raised by the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, the first school in Islam and the first teacher. He is in the battle, striving for the sake of God, it occurred to him to ask, where am I if I am killed and martyred? And he knows the answer in advance, and it is as if he wants a special answer from the one to whom it is revealed, from the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and that was it, Paradise. So he immediately got up and threw the few dates that were in his hand, and began to fight until he was killed.

O Muslims:

   This is a lesson from the lessons of our beloved and role model Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, our noble Messenger, that O Muslims, hasten to act immediately upon knowledge. How long does it take to eat the dates? Three minutes? More or less? Umair found this short period long, so he found himself fighting, anticipating reward, advancing and not retreating as soon as he knew the answer.

   And so are we; God Almighty has commanded us and forbade us, so where are we in relation to those commands and prohibitions? What is the extent of adherence to these rulings? We live in a time when most Muslims have deviated from God's laws, so who will follow in the footsteps of Umair, may God be pleased with him? And works with those who work to exalt this religion, by establishing the caliphate of the Muslims, which will unite them under an Imam again who applies the law of their Lord among them.

   O God, hasten us with a righteous caliphate on the path of prophecy that gathers the scattered Muslims, and lifts from them what they are in of affliction. O God, illuminate the earth with the light of Your Noble Face. O God, Amen, Amen.

   Our dear loved ones, 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 by: Abu Maryam