Reflections on the Book: "From the Components of the Islamic Psyche"
Episode Seven
Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and prayers and peace be upon the Imam of the Pious, the Master of the Messengers, the one sent as a mercy to the worlds, our master Muhammad, and upon all his family and companions. Make us with them, and gather us in their company, by Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful.
My dear listeners, listeners of the Media Office Radio of Hizb ut-Tahrir:
Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you. Thereafter:
In this episode, we continue our reflections on the book: "From the Components of the Islamic Psyche." In order to build the Islamic personality, with attention to the Islamic mentality and the Islamic psyche, we say, and with God's help:
God Almighty said: {And hasten to forgiveness from your Lord and a garden as wide as the heavens and earth, prepared for the righteous}. (Al-Imran 133).
And He said: {The only statement of the believers when they are called to Allah and His Messenger to judge between them is that they say, "We hear and we obey." And those are the successful. (51) And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger and fears Allah and is conscious of Him - it is those who are the attainers}. (An-Nur 51-52).
And He said: {It is not for a believing man or a believing woman, when Allah and His Messenger have decided a matter, that they should [thereafter] have any choice about their affair. And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger has certainly strayed into clear error}. (Al-Ahzab 36).
And He said: {But no, by your Lord, they will not [truly] believe until they make you, [O Muhammad], judge concerning that over which they dispute among themselves and then find within themselves no discomfort from what you have judged and submit in [full, willing] submission}. (An-Nisa 65).
And He said: {O you who have believed, protect yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is people and stones, over which are [appointed] angels, harsh and severe; they do not disobey Allah in what He commands them but do what they are commanded}. (At-Tahrim 6).
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: «Hasten to do good deeds before trials come like pieces of a dark night, when a man will be a believer in the morning and an infidel in the evening, or will be a believer in the evening and an infidel in the morning, selling his religion for a worldly gain.» Narrated by Muslim from Abu Hurairah.
O Muslims:
Those who hasten to forgiveness and Paradise and rush to good deeds were found in the time of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and in the eras that followed, and the nation continues to produce these hasteners who respond to their Lord and sell themselves seeking His pleasure, and that includes:
In the hadith of Jabir, which is agreed upon, he said: «A man said to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, on the day of Uhud: What do you think if I am killed, where will I be? He said: In Paradise, so he threw the dates in his hand, then fought until he was killed.» And the hadith of Anas in Muslim, in which: «The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and his companions set out until they preceded the polytheists to Badr, and the polytheists came, so the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: Arise to a Paradise as wide as the heavens and the earth, he said, Umair bin Al-Humam Al-Ansari said: O Messenger of God, a Paradise as wide as the heavens and the earth? He said: Yes, he said, Bravo, bravo, so the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: What makes you say Bravo, bravo? He said: No, by God, O Messenger of God, except hoping to be one of its people, he said, then you are one of its people, so he took out dates from his quiver, and began to eat from them, then he said: If I live until I eat these dates, it is a long life, he said: So he threw what he had with him of dates, then fought them until he was killed.»
In the hadith of Anas, which is agreed upon, he said: «My uncle, Anas bin Al-Nadr, was absent from the Battle of Badr, so he said, O Messenger of God, I was absent from the first battle you fought against the polytheists, if God allows me to witness a battle against the polytheists, God will see what I do, so when the day of Uhud came, and the Muslims were defeated, he said: O God, I apologize to You for what these people did, meaning the companions, and I disavow myself from what these people did, meaning the polytheists, then he advanced and Sa’d bin Muadh met him, and he said: O Sa’d bin Muadh, Paradise, by the Lord of Al-Nadr, I smell its scent from beyond Uhud, Sa’d said: I could not, O Messenger of God, what he did? Anas said: We found on him eighty-odd blows of a sword or a stab with a spear or a shot with an arrow, and we found him killed, and the polytheists had mutilated him, so no one knew him except his sister by his fingertips,» Anas said: We used to see or think that this verse was revealed about him and those like him {Among the believers are men true to what they promised Allah}. (Al-Ahzab 23) to the end of the verse.
O Muslims:
Al-Bukhari narrated from Abi Sarwa'ah who said: «I prayed behind the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in Medina, the Asr prayer, and he gave the salutation, then he stood up quickly, stepping over the necks of the people to some of his wives' chambers, so the people were alarmed by his speed, then he came out to them, and he saw that they were surprised by his speed, so he said: I remembered some gold we had, and I disliked that it would detain me, so I ordered it to be divided.» And in a narration of his: «I had left some gold from charity in the house, and I disliked spending the night with it.» This guides the Muslims to hasten and rush in implementing what God has obligated upon them. Al-Bukhari narrated from Al-Bara’ who said: «When the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, came to Medina, he prayed towards Jerusalem for sixteen or seventeen months, and he liked to be directed towards the Kaaba, so God Almighty revealed {We have certainly seen the turning of your face, [O Muhammad], toward the heaven, and We will surely turn you to a qiblah with which you will be pleased}. So he was directed towards the Kaaba, and a man prayed with him the Asr prayer, then he went out and passed by a people from the Ansar, so he said: He testifies that he prayed with the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and that he has been directed towards the Kaaba, so they turned while they were bowing in the Asr prayer.»
Al-Bukhari narrated from Ibn Abi Aufa, may God be pleased with them, who said: «We were afflicted with famine during the nights of Khaybar, so when the day of Khaybar came, we fell upon domestic donkeys and slaughtered them, so when the pots boiled, the announcer of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, called out: Spill the pots, do not eat anything from the meat of donkeys, Abdullah said: We said: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, only forbade it because it was not divided into fifths, he said, and others said: He forbade it absolutely, and I asked Saeed bin Jubair, and he said: He forbade it absolutely.»
Al-Bukhari narrated from Anas bin Malik, may God be pleased with him, who said: «I used to give Abu Talha Al-Ansari, Abu Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah, and Ubay bin Kaab a drink of Fadih, which is dates, then someone came to them and said: Verily, alcohol has been forbidden, so Abu Talha said: O Anas, go to these jars and break them, Anas said: So I went to a mortar of ours and struck it with its bottom until it broke.»
Al-Bukhari narrated from Aisha, may God be pleased with her, who said: «And it reached us that when God Almighty revealed that they should return to the polytheists what they had spent on those who emigrated from their wives, and He ruled that the Muslims should not hold on to the bonds of disbelieving women, that Umar divorced two women.» Al-Bukhari narrated from Aisha, may God be pleased with her, who said: «May God have mercy on the women of the first emigrants, when God revealed {and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests}. They tore their waist wrappers and covered themselves with them.»
O Muslims:
If we want God Almighty to honor us with His victory, and change our conditions to what we love and are pleased with, and to honor us with Islam, and honor Islam with us, as He honored His Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, and his honorable companions, may God be pleased with them, and helped them against their disbelieving enemies, then all we have to do is follow our Prophet, and follow the example of the companions in their quick response to the command of God Almighty.
My dear listeners, listeners of the Media Office Radio of Hizb ut-Tahrir:
We suffice with this amount in this episode, provided that we complete our reflections in the upcoming episodes, God Almighty willing, so until that time and until we meet you, we leave you in God's care, protection and security. We thank you for your kind listening, and peace, mercy and blessings of God be upon you.
