[Sahih Muslim : Book 32, Number 6232]
Abu Huraira (Radi Allah Anhu) reported Allah's Messenger (sal-allahu-alleihi-wasallam) as saying: Verily, Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, would say on the Day of Resurrection:
"O son of Adam, I was sick but you did not visit Me. He would say: O my Lord; how could I visit Thee whereas Thou art the Lord of the worlds? Thereupon He would say: Didn't you know that such and such servant of Mine was sick but you did not visit him and were you not aware of this that if you had visited him, you would have found Me by him?
O son of Adam, I asked food from you but you did not feed Me. He would say: My Lord, how could I feed Thee whereas Thou art the Lord of the worlds? He said: Didn't you know that such and such servant of Mine asked food from you but you did not feed him, and were you not aware that if you had fed him you would have found him by My side?
(The Lord would again say :) O son of Adam, I asked drink from you but you did not provide Me. He would say: My Lord, how could I provide Thee whereas Thou art the Lord of the worlds? Thereupon He would say: Such and such of servant of Mine asked you for a drink but you did not provide him, and had you provided him drink you would have found him near Me."
Bismillah and the significance of
786
A few years back when e-mails weren't so common and letters were sent by post and held a great importance. As a child I communicated with my grandfather through this medium. To my surprise my grandfather always started his letter with a specific number. The question that rose in my mind was what is this magical, mystical number and why does it come at the very start?
I found out that the number 786 was nothing but the misunderstood numerical representation of the holy words of Allah "Bismillah er Rehman ir Raheem".
Unfortunately, it's an innovation to write 786 instead of Bismillah at the top of a document or a letter or elsewhere to seek Brakah (Blessings), protection and good luck. And the victims to this habit are our innocent Muslims of the Indian subcontinent who believe this is a part of Islam. It's misinterpreted that these numbers are numerical representation of the Arabic letters of the Bismillah. But is it really so? Can a number bring good to one and does Shariah allow this? Did the Prophet and His Blessed Companions use such numbers?
When we examine Shariah, we realize that 786 has absolutely no religious or Islamic significance. Actually this is the old game of numbers practiced by civilizations which Islam came to eliminate. Islam has no place for superstitions, mysteries and numerological mumbo-jumbos.
It was not the practice of the Prophet (pbuh) and it is not permissible to do any act of worship except those approved by the Islamic Shariah i.e. Qur'an and Sunnah. The Prophet (pbuh) said, "Whoever innovates something in this matter of ours (Islam) which is not a part of it will have it rejected. (Agreed Upon).
What we learned from the teaching of Islam is that the Prophet (pbuh) started his tasks with the name of Allah and even when writing letters to people of different faiths he started with the Bismillah. The Prophet used to mention these words in messages to the kings and princes of his era. As the Prophetic Hadeeth narrated by Abu Dawood and Ibn Majah conveys "any significant matter that is not preceded by mentioning Allah is of no avail or maimed".
In conclusion, whoever uses 786 or any other number with intention of obtaining Divine blessings is being misguided on the basis of ignorance and blindly following the practices of ancestors and the inventors of 786 are guilty of tampering with the words of Allah and His Messengers.
We as Muslims should give up this disgusting practice of using 786 as it is an innovation in Islam and in no way sacred.
We must return to the Qur'an and Sunnah and follow our Prophets as also letter of Prophet Sulaimân (pbuh) to the Queen of Sheeba — Bilqis — who was an infidel at that time bore the Bismillah as its heading "Verily, it is from Sulaimân (Solomon), and verily, it (reads): In the Name of Allâh, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful". (An-Naml- 30).
- By Nawal Aqil
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There is no harm reciting from a copy of the Qur'aan during tahajjud
The following question was posed to Shaykh Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah ibn Baz )
Shaykh Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah ibn Baz: (Born: November 21, 1910, died: May 13, 1999), may Allah have mercy upon him) was a Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar, considered as one ofthe renowned Sunni Muslim scholars of the twentieth century. He was the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia from 1993 until his death in 1999
Question: Is it allowed to read from a Qur'aan during the late-night (Tahajjud) prayer since I have memorized very little and I desire to finish the Qur'aan during the late-night prayers?
Response: There is no harm in that. Dhakwan the freed slave of 'Aa'ishah, used to lead them in prayer during Ramadhaan reading from a copy of the Qur'aan. Al-Bukhaaree recorded that in his Saheeh with a definitively stated discontinuous chain. This is the opinion of a large number of scholars. Those who don't allow it have no evidence to support them. Not everyone has the Qur'aan memorised and therefore, there is a need to read it from a copy of the Qur'aan in the prayer and otherwise. This is especially true for the late night prayers and during the night prayers of Ramadhaan for those who have not memorized the Qur'aan in their hearts.
Shaykh Ibn Baaz
Fataawa al-Mar'ah
Published: 18th October 1999.
So the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Whoever prays qiyaam (referring to voluntary prayer at night) reciting ten verses will not be recorded as one of the negligent.
Whoever prays qiyaam reciting one hundred verses will be recorded as one of the devout. Whoever prays qiyaam reciting one thousand verses will be recorded as one of the muqantireen."
Narrated by Abu Dawood, 1398; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood.
The muqantireen are those who will be given a qintaar of reward. A qintaar is a large amount of gold, and most of the scholars of Arabic language are of the view that it is four thousand dinars.
And it was said that a qintaar is a bull's hide full of gold, or eighty thousand, or a large but unspecified amount of wealth.
See al-Nihaayah fi Ghareeb il-Hadeeth by Ibn al-Atheer.
It has been said that from Soorat Tabaarak [al-Mulk - 67] to the end of the Qur'aan is one thousand verses.
Whoever prays qiyaam reciting from Soorat Tabaarak to the end of Qur'aan has prayed qiyaam with one thousand verses.
"Their sides forsake their beds to invoke their Lord in fear and hope, and they spend [in charity] out of what We have bestowed on them. No person knows what is kept hidden for them of joy as a reward for what they used to do" (Surah al-Sajdah:16-17)
And Allah knows best.
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