“Ahead of you are days of patience, when holding onto the religion will be like holding onto hot coals, and whomsoever holds onto His religion in that time, then his reward will be the reward of fifty men.” The Companions said, “O Messenger of Allah, fifty times the worth of their reward?” He said, “Rather fifty from you.”
Collected by Abu Dawood, At-Tirmidhi, Ibn Mājah, Al-Hākim who declared it authentic, Adh-Dhahabi agreed and Al-Albāni declared it Saheeh in As-Saheehah (no. 494).
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The practice of the Salaf in removing doubts by asking the scholars.
He said: The practice of the Salaf in removing doubts by asking the scholars.
Not by asking Google, not that an individual searches the websites when he has doubts. No! If you were able to be safe from doubts it wouldn’t have intruded in your heart! So this individual is unable to remove it. Rather, the one that is able to remove it is the one who inherited from the Prophet ﷺ in explaining the religion. You should go back to a scholar and put forth this doubt to him in order for him to remove it for you. Don’t go back to other than him because if you went back to other than him, the doubt will increase and it will be established your heart.
Afterwards, he said:
The scholars will answer it with what will remove the doubt from him. And this is because they only ascribe the statement to the Messenger ﷺ
How will the scholar remove the doubt? With proofs, not with their opinions, or with desires, or with what the people of the land were brought up upon. No! Rather these doubts are removed with proofs. So none has the ability to remove doubts unless he has with him an army of proofs. If he doesn’t have an army of proofs, he will be from the humiliated. So the strong from the scholars is the one who is strengthened by an army of proofs from the Statements of Allah and the statements of His Messenger ﷺ. If a doubt takes over the heart of the creation, then he has the weapons that he can repel these doubts from himself and the Muslims. So when a doubt befalls the slave, then he is commanded to ask a firmly grounded scholar about it. And the firmly grounded scholar is commanded to repel these doubts with the Statement of Allah and the statement of His Messenger ﷺ.
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Verily! Those who believe and those who are Jews and Christians, and Sabians, whoever believes in Allâh and the Last Day and does righteous good deeds shall have their reward with their Lord, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve (Suratul Baqarah 2:62)
English – Tafsir Ibn Kathir
Faith and doing Righteous Deeds equals Salvation in all Times
Verily, those who believe and those who are Jews and Christians, and Sabians (Sabi’in), whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day and does righteous good deeds shall have their reward with their Lord, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.
After Allah described the condition – and punishment – of those who defy His commands, fall into His prohibitions and transgress set limits by committing prohibited acts, He stated that the earlier nations who were righteous and obedient received the rewards for their good deeds. This shall be the case, until the Day of Judgment. Therefore, whoever follows the unlettered Messenger and Prophet shall acquire eternal happiness and shall neither fear from what will happen in the future nor become sad for what has been lost in the past.
Verily, those who say:”Our Lord is Allah (alone),” and then they stand firm, on them the angels will descend (at the time of their death) (saying):”Fear not, nor grieve! But receive the glad tidings of Paradise which you have been promised!” (41:30) The Meaning of Mu’min, or Believer
Ali bin Abi Talhah narrated from Ibn Abbas, about,
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ امَنُواْ وَالَّذِينَ هَادُواْ وَالنَّصَارَى وَالصَّابِيِينَ مَنْ امَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الاخِرِ (Verily, those who believe and those who are Jews and Christians, and Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day) that Allah revealed the following Ayah afterwards,
And whoever seeks religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers. (3:85).
This statement by Ibn Abbas indicates that Allah does not accept any deed or work from anyone, unless it conforms to the Law of Muhammad that is, after Allah sent Muhammad. Before that, every person who followed the guidance of his own Prophet was on the correct path, following the correct guidance and was saved.
Why the Jews were called `Yahud
The Jews are the followers of Prophet Musa, who used to refer to the Tawrah for judgment. Yahud is a word that means,
`repenting’, just as Musa said, إِنَّا هُدْنَـا إِلَيْكَ (We have Hudna (we repent, go back and return) unto You), (7:156).
“Who will be my helpers in Allah’s cause” Al-Hawariyyun said:”We are the helpers of Allah.” (61:14)
It was said that;
they were called `Nasara’, because they inhabited a land called An-Nasirah (Nazareth), as Qatadah, Ibn Jurayj and Ibn Abbas were reported to have said, Allah knows best. Nasara is certainly plural for Nasran.
When Allah sent Muhammad as the Last and Final Prophet and Messenger to all of the Children of Adam, mankind was required to believe in him, obey him and refrain from what he prohibited them; those who do this are true believers. The Ummah of Muhammad was called `Mu’minin’ (believers), because of the depth of their faith and certainty, and because they believe in all of the previous Prophets and matters of the Unseen.
The Sabi’un or Sabians
There is a difference of opinion over the identity of the Sabians.
Sufyan Ath-Thawri said that Layth bin Abu Sulaym said that Mujahid said that,
“The Sabians are between the Majus, the Jews and the Christians. They do not have a specific religion.”
Similar is reported from Ibn Abi Najih.
Similar statements were attributed to Ata and Sa`id bin Jubayr.
They (others) say that;
the Sabians are a sect among the People of the Book who used to read the Zabur (Psalms), others say that they are a people who worshipped the angels or the stars.
It appears that the closest opinion to the truth, and Allah knows best, is Mujahid’s statement and those who agree with him like Wahb bin Munabbih, that;
the Sabians are neither Jews nor Christians nor Majus nor polytheists. Rather, they did not have a specific religion that they followed and enforced, because they remained living according to their Fitrah (instinctual nature). This is why the idolators used to call whoever embraced Islam a `Sabi’, meaning, that he abandoned all religions that existed on the earth.
Some scholars stated that;
the Sabians are those who never received a message by any Prophet.
And Allah knows best
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Allaahumma ‘innee ‘abduka, ibnu ‘abdika, ibnu ‘amatika, naasiyatee biyadika, maadhin fiyya hukmuka, ‘adlun fiyya qadhaa’uka, ‘as’aluka bikulli ismin huwa laka, sammayta bihi nafsaka, ‘aw ‘anzaltahu fee kitaabika, ‘aw ‘allamtahu ‘ahadan min khalqika, ‘awista’tharta bihi fee ‘ilmil-ghaybi ‘indaka, ‘an taj’alal-Qur’aana rabee’a qalbee, wa noora sadree, wa jalaa’a huznee, wa thahaaba hammee
O Allah, I am Your slave and the son of Your male slave and the son of Your female slave. My forehead is in Your Hand (i.e. You have control over me). Your Judgment upon me is assured and Your Decree concerning me is just. I ask You by every Name that You have named Yourself with, revealed in Your Book, taught any one of Your creation or kept unto Yourself in the knowledge of the unseen that is with You, to make the Qur’an the spring of my heart, and the light of my chest, the banisher of my sadness and the reliever of my distress.
[Ahmad 1/391, and Al-Albani graded it authentic]
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0:00 Introduction 2:20 The gatherings of the remembrance of Allah 6:36 Verily, in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest 9:39 Being heedless of the remembrance of Allah 11:59 The remembrance of Allah is the true life of the hearts 16:48 The remembrance of Allah expels the Shaytan 24:56 The dire need of the slave for the remembrance of Allah 28:01 The command to remember Allah frequently 29:20 The virtues of the remembrance of Allah In the Sunnah 31:37 The remembrance of Allah is the objective of every worship 32:17 The people who remember Allah most in their worship have the greater reward 35:20 The highest level of remembrance 36:10 Understanding the meanings of the remembrances 43:39 The most beloved to Allah are four 45:40 Conclusion
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