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Reflections on the Book: "The Components of the Islamic Psyche" - Episode Twelve
Reflections on the Book: "The Components of the Islamic Psyche" - Episode Twelve

Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and prayers and peace be upon the Imam of the pious, and the master of the messengers, sent as a mercy to the worlds, our master Muhammad and upon all his family and companions, and make us with them, and gather us in their company by Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful.

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November 11, 2025

Reflections on the Book: "The Components of the Islamic Psyche" - Episode Twelve

Reflections on the Book: "The Components of the Islamic Psyche"

Episode Twelve

Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and prayers and peace be upon the Imam of the pious, and the master of the messengers, sent as a mercy to the worlds, our master Muhammad and upon all his family and companions, and make us with them, and gather us in their company by Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful.

Dear listeners, listeners of the Media Office radio of Hizb ut-Tahrir:

Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you. In this episode, we continue our reflections on the book: "The Components of the Islamic Psyche." In order to build the Islamic personality, while taking care of the Islamic mentality and the Islamic psyche, we say, and with God is the success:

O Muslims:

God Almighty said, and He is the most truthful of speakers: {O you who have believed, whoever of you reverts from his religion - God will bring forth [in place of them] a people He will love and who will love Him [who are] humble toward the believers, powerful against the disbelievers; they strive in the cause of God and do not fear the blame of a critic. That is the favor of God; He bestows it upon whom He wills. And God is all-Encompassing and Knowing}. (Al-Ma'idah 54)

In the noble verse, there is an address of warning and threat, meaning: O believers, whoever among you turns away from his true religion, and replaces it with another religion, and turns from faith to disbelief, and in the verse is an announcement of the apostasy of some Muslims, so it is information about the unseen before it occurs, and many groups have apostatized from Islam, some of whom apostatized during the time of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and some of them during the time of Abu Bakr, and the sons of Hanifa, the people of "Musaylima the Liar," apostatized, and Musaylima wrote to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace: "From Musaylima, the Messenger of God, to Muhammad, the Messenger of God, after that: Half of the earth is mine and half is yours." So he, peace be upon him, replied to him: "From Muhammad, the Messenger of God, to Musaylima the Liar, after that: The earth belongs to God, He bequeaths it to whom He wills of His servants, and the outcome is for the righteous."

Then the noble verses explained the characteristics of those whom God Almighty loves. God said: {God will bring forth [in place of them] a people He will love and who will love Him}. That is, God will bring in place of those who have apostatized people who believe, whom God loves and who love God. {humble toward the believers, powerful against the disbelievers}. That is, merciful, humble to the believers, and strong, honorable against the disbelievers. Ibn Kathir said: These are the characteristics of the perfect believers, that one of them should be humble to his brother, and honorable against his enemy, as God Almighty said: {Forceful against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves}. And one of the signs of God Almighty's love for the believer is that he is gentle, humble to his fellow believers, and clothed with honor towards the disbelievers and hypocrites. {they strive in the cause of God and do not fear the blame of a critic}. That is, they strive to exalt the word of God, and do not care about those who blame them, so they are firm in the religion of God and do not fear anyone in the cause of God. {That is the favor of God; He bestows it upon whom He wills}. That is, whoever possesses these praiseworthy qualities, it is only from God's grace upon him and His guidance for him. {And God is all-Encompassing and Knowing}. That is, vast in favors and benevolence, and knowing of who deserves that.

O Muslims:

Love for God and His Messenger is one of the things that God Almighty has linked to a legal concept that He has made an obligation, and the evidence for that in the Sunnah is abundant, including the long hadith of Ka'b bin Malik about the three who were left behind from Tabuk, in which Ka'b says: "As for me, I was the youngest of the people and the most steadfast, so I would go out and witness the prayer with the Muslims and walk around in the markets, and no one would speak to me, and I would come to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and greet him while he was in his gathering after the prayer, and I would say to myself: Did he move his lips in returning the greeting to me or not? Then I would pray near him and steal glances at him, and if I turned to my prayer, he would turn to me, and if I turned towards him, he would turn away from me, until when that was prolonged for me from the coldness of the people, I walked until I climbed the wall of the garden of Abu Qatada, and he was my cousin and the dearest of people to me, and I greeted him, but by God, he did not return the greeting to me, so I said: O Abu Qatada, I adjure you by God, do you know that I love God and His Messenger? But he was silent, so I repeated it to him and I adjured him, but he was silent, so I repeated it to him and I adjured him, so he said: God and His Messenger know best, so my eyes welled up with tears, and I turned away until I climbed the wall..."

And also from it is the hadith of Sahl bin Saad, may God be pleased with him: "Qutaiba bin Saeed narrated to us, Yaqub bin Abdul Rahman narrated to us from Abu Hazim who said: Sahl bin Saad, may God be pleased with him, told me that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said on the day of Khaybar: I will give this banner tomorrow to a man through whose hands God will grant victory, he loves God and His Messenger, and God and His Messenger love him. He said: So the people spent their night wondering which of them would be given it. When the people woke up, they went to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, all of them hoping to be given it. So he said: Where is Ali bin Abi Talib? So it was said: O Messenger of God, he is complaining of his eyes. He said: So they sent to him and he was brought to him, and the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, spat in his eyes and prayed for him, so he was healed as if he had no pain, and he gave him the banner. So Ali said: O Messenger of God, should I fight them until they become like us? He said: Proceed gently until you descend into their territory, then invite them to Islam and inform them of what is obligatory upon them of the right of God in it, for by God, if God guides one man through you, it is better for you than having red camels."

We said, O Muslims:

Love for God and His Messenger is one of the things that God Almighty has linked to a legal concept that He has made an obligation, so have we fulfilled this obligation in the required manner as the companions of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, fulfilled it, so that God may honor us with His victory as He honored them, and exalt us with our religion as He exalted them?

Dear listeners, listeners of the Media Office radio of Hizb ut-Tahrir:

We will suffice with this amount in this episode, on the condition 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.

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Reflections on the book: "Elements of the Islamic Psyche"

Prepared by Professor Muhammad Ahmad Al-Nadi

Episode Fifteen

Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and prayers and peace be upon the Imam of the pious, the Master of the Messengers, sent as a mercy to the worlds, our master Muhammad and all his family and companions. Make us with them, and gather us in their company, by your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful.

Dear listeners, listeners of the Media Office Radio of Hizb ut-Tahrir:

Peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you. In this episode, we continue our reflections on the book: "Elements of the Islamic Psyche." In order to build the Islamic personality, with attention to the Islamic mentality and the Islamic psyche, we say, with God's help: 

O Muslims:

We said in the last episode: It is also Sunnah for a Muslim to supplicate for his brother behind his back, just as it is Sunnah for him to ask his brother to supplicate for him. It is Sunnah for him to visit him, sit with him, keep in touch with him, and share with him for the sake of God after loving him. It is recommended for a Muslim to meet his brother with what he likes to please him with that. We add in this episode and say: It is recommended for a Muslim to give gifts to his brother, according to the hadith of Abu Hurairah, which was reported by Bukhari in Al-Adab Al-Mufrad, Abu Ya'la in his Musnad, Al-Nasa'i in Al-Kuna, and Ibn Abd Al-Barr in Al-Tamhid. Al-Iraqi said: The chain of narrators is good, and Ibn Hajar said in Al-Talkhis Al-Habir: Its chain of narrators is good, he said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "Exchange gifts, you will love one another." 

It is also recommended for him to accept his gift and reward him for it, according to the hadith of Aisha in Bukhari, who said: "The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, used to accept gifts and reward for them."

And the hadith of Ibn Umar in Ahmad, Abu Dawood, and Al-Nasa'i, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "Whoever seeks refuge in God, grant him refuge, and whoever asks you in the name of God, give him, and whoever seeks protection in God, protect him, and whoever does you a favor, reward him, and if you do not find anything, then supplicate for him until you know that you have rewarded him."

This is between brothers, and it has nothing to do with the gifts of the subjects to the rulers, as they are like bribery, which is forbidden. And one of the rewards is to say: May God reward you with good. 

Al-Tirmidhi narrated from Usama bin Zaid, may God be pleased with them both, and said it is good and authentic, he said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "Whoever has a favor done to him and says to the one who did it: "May God reward you with good," then he has exaggerated in the praise." And praise is gratitude, i.e., reward, especially from someone who finds nothing else, as Ibn Hibban narrated in his Sahih from Jabir bin Abdullah, who said: I heard the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, say: "Whoever is given a favor and does not find anything better than praise for it, then he has thanked him, and whoever conceals it has disbelieved, and whoever adorns himself with falsehood is like one who wears two garments of falsehood." And with a good chain of narrators, Al-Tirmidhi narrated from Jabir bin Abdullah, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "Whoever is given a gift and finds something to repay it with, let him repay it, and if he does not find anything, let him praise it, for whoever praises it has thanked him, and whoever conceals it has disbelieved, and whoever adorns himself with what he has not been given is like one who wears two garments of falsehood." And disbelieving in the gift means concealing and covering it up. 

With an authentic chain of narrators, Abu Dawood and Al-Nasa'i narrated from Anas, who said: "The Muhajirun said, "O Messenger of God, the Ansar have taken all the reward, we have not seen a people who are better at giving a lot, nor better at consoling in a little than them, and they have spared us the burden," he said: "Do you not praise them for it and supplicate for them?" They said: "Yes," he said: "That is for that." 

A Muslim should be grateful for the little as he is grateful for the much, and be grateful to the people who do him good, as Abdullah bin Ahmad narrated in his additions with a good chain of narrators from Al-Nu'man bin Bashir, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "Whoever is not grateful for the little, is not grateful for the much, and whoever is not grateful to the people, is not grateful to God, and talking about God's blessings is gratitude, and leaving it is disbelief, and the group is mercy, and division is torment."

It is Sunnah to intercede for one's brother for a benefit of righteousness or to facilitate a difficulty, as Al-Bukhari narrated from Abu Musa, who said: "The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, was sitting when a man came asking, or seeking a need, he turned his face to us and said, "Intercede, so that you may be rewarded, and God will decree on the tongue of His Prophet what He wills."

And as Muslim narrated from Ibn Umar from the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, who said: "Whoever is a connection for his Muslim brother to a person of authority for a benefit of righteousness or to facilitate a difficulty, will be helped to cross the Path on the day when feet slip."

It is also recommended for a Muslim to defend the honor of his brother behind his back, as Al-Tirmidhi narrated and said this is a good hadith from Abu Al-Darda' from the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, who said: "Whoever defends the honor of his brother, God will ward off the fire from his face on the Day of Resurrection." This hadith of Abu Al-Darda' was narrated by Ahmad, and he said its chain of narrators is good, and Al-Haythami said the same. 

And what Ishaq bin Rahwayh narrated from Asma bint Yazid, who said: I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, say: "Whoever defends the honor of his brother behind his back, it is a right upon God to free him from the Fire." 

Al-Quda'i narrated in Musnad al-Shihab from Anas, who said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "Whoever supports his brother behind his back, God will support him in this world and the hereafter." Al-Quda'i also narrated it from Imran bin Hussein with the addition: "And he is able to support him." And as Abu Dawood and Al-Bukhari narrated in Al-Adab Al-Mufrad, and Al-Zain Al-Iraqi said: Its chain of narrators is good from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "The believer is the mirror of the believer, and the believer is the brother of the believer, from wherever he meets him, he protects him from his loss and surrounds him from behind."

O Muslims:

You have learned from the noble Prophetic hadiths mentioned in this episode and the previous episode that it is Sunnah for whoever loves a brother for the sake of God to inform him and let him know that he loves him. It is also Sunnah for a Muslim to supplicate for his brother behind his back. It is also Sunnah for him to ask his brother to supplicate for him. It is Sunnah for him to visit him, sit with him, keep in touch with him, and share with him for the sake of God after loving him. It is recommended for a Muslim to meet his brother with what he likes to please him with that. It is recommended for a Muslim to give gifts to his brother. It is also recommended for him to accept his gift and reward him for it.

A Muslim should be grateful to the people who do him good. It is Sunnah to intercede for one's brother for a benefit of righteousness or to facilitate a difficulty. It is also recommended for him to defend the honor of his brother behind his back. So why don't we adhere to these Sharia rulings and all the rulings of Islam, so that we may be as our Lord loves and is pleased with, so that He may change what is within us, improve our conditions, and we may win the best of this world and the hereafter?! 

Dear listeners: Listeners of the Media Office Radio of Hizb ut-Tahrir: 

We will suffice with this amount in this episode, with the understanding that we will complete our reflections in the coming episodes, God willing. 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. 

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Episode 15

Among the assisting bodies of the Khilafah state are the ministers whom the Caliph appoints to assist him in bearing the burdens of the Khilafah and fulfilling its responsibilities. The multitude of the Khilafah's burdens, especially as the Khilafah state grows and expands, makes it difficult for the Caliph to bear them alone, so he needs someone to help him bear them to fulfill its responsibilities. However, it is not correct to call them ministers without restriction, so that the meaning of the minister in Islam, which is in the sense of an assistant, is not confused with the meaning of the minister in the current man-made systems based on democratic, capitalist, secular, or other systems that we witness in the present era.

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