With the Hadith - If you were as you are with me
We greet you, dear listeners, everywhere, in a new episode of your program With the Hadith. We begin with the best greeting: Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.
On the authority of Hanzalah 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 them with our own eyes. Then I went to my family and children and laughed and played." He said: "Then I remembered what we were doing, 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 that too." So Hanzalah went and mentioned it to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and he said: "O Hanzalah, if you were as you are with me, the angels would shake hands with you on your beds or on your paths, O Hanzalah, an hour and an hour."
It is mentioned in the explanation of Ibn Majah's Sunan by Al-Sindi
His saying (I have become a hypocrite) means that my state has changed in such a way that it is not appropriate to be unaware of them for those who believe in them, so being unaware of them is similar to being an internal denial of their existence. In short, the existence of faith in them in his heart was confused with him without a doubt, and he considered it hypocrisy. Thus, it became clear that doubt in faith does not make one an infidel, but rather doubt in the one who believes in it is what makes one an infidel.
His saying (if you were as you are)
He pointed out to them that attendance does not usually last, and its absence does not harm the existence of faith in the heart, and negligence only contradicts attendance, so it does not necessarily mean the absence of faith; an hour for attendance to regulate the affairs of religion, and an hour for negligence to regulate the affairs of religion and livelihood, and in each of them is mercy on the servants.
Dear listeners:
The honorable Hadith that we have in our hands confirms several things, including:
First: That the concept of (an hour and an hour) has no relationship, neither near nor far, to what some understand as an hour for you and an hour for your Lord. It is taken for granted that the Muslim's entire life is for God Almighty, as He said, teaching His servants to say (Say, "Indeed, my prayer, my rites of sacrifice, my living and my dying are for God, Lord of the worlds.")
There is nothing in the Muslim's life that is not for God, because God (has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise). So all Muslims have sold what they own as a price for Paradise. Yes, there may be in the Muslim's life an hour of wakefulness and an hour of negligence, an hour of strength and an hour of weakness, an hour of closeness and an hour of distance, but he quickly remembers and sees clearly; so he repels negligence and strengthens weakness, and flees to God. God Almighty said: (Indeed, those who fear God - when an impulse touches them 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.)
Second: that preaching and guidance alone are not enough to be a way to build personalities and change behavior. Paradise, Hell, intimidation, and encouragement are all from Islam. However, our scholars and those who carry the call 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 also 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 applied, be aware that there is no application of Islam except with a state, and be aware of the reasons for our backwardness and the path to our renaissance.
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, 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 devoutly learned, 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. Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.
