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Exhortations from the Book and the Sunnah

Written by
Dr. ‘Alee bin Muhammad bin Naasir al-Faqihee (hafithahullah)

Professor of the Department of Higher Studies in the Islamic University of

Madeenah, K.S.A, College of Da’wah and Usool-ud-Deen

Translated by
Aboo ‘Imraan al-Mekseekee

  



Introduction

All praise is for Allah, we praise Him, seek His assistance, and ask His
forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from the wickedness of ourselves
and from the evil of our actions. Whomever Allah guides will never be
misguided, and whoever He misguides will never be guided. I bear
witness that nothing is worthy of worship except for Allah, He is Alone
having no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His Servant
and Messenger.

{O those of you who believe fear Allah as He ought to be feared and

do not die except as Muslims.} Soorah Aali ‘Imraan: 102

{O Mankind fear your Lord, the One Who created all of you from a
single soul, Who created from it it’s mate and spread from them

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both many men and women. Fear Allah the One Whom you demand
your mutual rights and do not cut the relations of the wombs.
Indeed Allah is a Watcher over you.} Soorat-un-Nisaa: 1

{O those of you who believe fear Allah and always speak the truth.
He will rectify your actions and forgive you of your sins. And
whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has achieved the greatest
achievement.} Soorat-ul-Ahzaab: 70-71

To proceed: The Book of Allah the Almighty and the Sunnah of His Noble
Prophet contains righteousness and happiness for mankind until Allah
inherits the earth and everything that is upon it. The Messenger of Allah
(may the peace & blessings of Allah be upon him) said in his final
testimony to his nation:

((I am leaving you all with something that if you hold tight to you will
never be lead astray it is the Book of Allah and my Sunnah.))

And it is here that we find that the exhortations that are included in the
Book and Sunnah all invite towards goodness and moral excellence in
addition to impelling towards obedience and the perseverance of ones
piety, because the exhortation is an established and confirmed matter.

And it is appropriate that we begin with the beginning of the narration

that is from (one of) the exhortations contained in the Book and the
Sunnah, the narration of the ten legislated commandments that were
narrated in the Book of Allah Most High and in which the noble
companion ‘Abdullah bin Mas’ood (may Allah be pleased with him) said:

Whoever desires to read the will of the Messenger of Allah (may the peace
& blessings of Allah be upon him) then let him read the following verses:

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{Say: Come, I will recite what your Lord has prohibited you from: Do
not join anything in worship with Him; be good and dutiful to your
parents; kill not your children fearing poverty-We provide
sustenance for you and for them; come not near to shameful deeds
whether committed openly or secretly, and kill not anyone whom
Allah has forbidden, except for a just cause (according to Islamic
Law).This He has commanded you that you may understand. And
come not near to the orphan’s property, except to improve it, until
he or she attains the age of full strength; and give full measure and
full weight with justice. We burden not any person, but that which
he can bear. And whenever you give your word, say the truth even if
a near relative is concerned, and fulfill the Covenant of Allah, this
He commands you, that you may remember.}
Soorat-ul-An’aam: 151-152

The Exhortations contained in these two Quranic verses from Soorat-ul-

An’aam are universal to the entire life of man according to what will
rectify him in his religion and in his daily life. It begins with the basic
principle that the Divinely Legislated Commandments are not achieved
until after one has full conviction of belief in Allah, the Unique, the Only
One Most Deserving to be worshipped Alone, and alienation from Shirk
(polytheism). The Most High says:

{Say: Come and I will recite to you what your Lord has forbidden you
from and it is that you do not associate partners with Him in
worship}

And He commanded to believe in Tawheed as He Most High says in the

verse found in Soorat-ul-Israa:

{Do not worship other gods alongside Allah or you will sit down
reproved and forsaken (in the hellfire). And your Lord has decreed
that you worship none but Him.} Soorat-ul-Israa: 22-23

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Thus He has commanded with belief in Tawheed to the One Who is

Most-Worthy of worship and then after that one must alienate ones self
from ash-Shirk (polytheism).

And here He says: {…Do not worship other gods alongside Allah}
which means: Devote your worship to Him alone.

Then He places these exhortations to clarify for the Muslim what one
must undertake (from the affairs of his religion), adhere to completely
(from the affairs of his religion) and perform (from the affairs of his
religion) as Allah has commanded, it is the Siraat-ul-Mustaqeem (the
Straight Path) which is the clear path that is explained to the people and
gives counsel to all of His Servants, ordering the believers to adhere to
the Jamaa’ah and prohibiting them from differences and separation,
informing them that it destroyed those who were before them by way of
opinions and argumentation in the Religion of Allah Most High Who says:

{This is My Straight Path so follow it and do not follow the other

paths that separate you from His Path that is advice for you so
perhaps you will be god-fearing people.}

Because the life of a Muslim is lived solely for Allah as the Most High
says:

{Say: My prayer, my sacrifice, my living and dying are all for Allah,
Lord of all the worlds, He has no partner and I have been ordered
with that and I am the first of the Muslims.}
Soorat-ul-An’aam: 162-163

So the teachings of this Religion include creed, worship, business

transactions and moral manners. As for creed then it is the decisive
belief that Allah Most High is the Creator, the Provider, the Giver of Life,

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the One Who causes Death, the One Who causes harm, the One Who
causes benefit, the One Most Worthy of worship Alone. So because of this
it is not permissible for the Muslim to direct any act of worship to anyone
other than his Lord and Creator, devoting himself purely for His religion
and adhering to His Messenger, because the condition for the acceptance
of a righteous act to Allah Most High is that it is done purely for Allah
and in accordance with the commands and statements of His Messenger
(may the peace & blessings of Allah be upon him) thus Allah says:

{And they were not commanded except to worship Allah and worship
none but Him Alone.} Soorat-ul-Bayyinah: 5

And He says:

{So whoever wishes to meet his Lord then let him do righteousness
and associate none as a partner in worshipping his Lord.}
Soorat-ul-Kahf: 110

And the Messenger of Allah (may the peace & blessings of Allah be upon
him) said: ((Whoever does a deed that is not in accordance with our
religion then it will be rejected.)) Agreed upon by Bukhaaree and Muslim
with the meaning of the Arabic word radd to mean mardood (something
rejected, not accepted).

And in regards to ones business transactions and moral manners then

they are towards his parents, his children and towards others of society
in performing and protecting their rights in accordance with the Book of
Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (may the peace & blessings of
Allah be upon him) because the Islamic religion is the seal of all the
religions and the religion that Allah is pleased with for His Servants it
has come perfectly intact as the Most High says:

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{Today I have completed your religion and completed my blessing

upon you and I have chosen Islam as your religion.}
Soorat-ul-Maidah: 3

Therefore its teachings, rulings, and advices are from the All-Knowing,
the All-Wise, the One Who knows the true nature of mankind, and knows
what will rectify him in his worldly life and what is related to the
happiness and success experienced in the next life:

{Should not He Who has created know? He is the Most-Kind, the All-
Aware.} Soorat-ul-Mulk: 14

And from here the Da’wah of the Chosen One (may the peace & blessings
of Allah be upon him), from the beginning of his mission up until the
time he met his Companion the Most High, began to turn his followers
towards rectifying the hearts and connecting them to the Creator, the
Organizer of its Decree, and immersing pure faith into the hearts of the
people with the meanings of His Names and Attributes, not a secret is
kept from Him and He knows the misleading eyes and whatever the
chests conceal, He is the All-Knower of everything, the One having ability
to do all, in addition to belief in the Last Day, in the Resurrection and the
Rewarding of the Deeds performed by a person during his life, that which
Allah has made as habitation for the Hereafter, so whoever does good will
find his reward with Allah on the Day when he will be in most need of it,
and whoever does evil will wish he had not done so:

{On the Day when every person will be confronted with all the good
he has done, and all the evil he has done, he will wish that there
were a great distance between him and his evil.}
Soorat-ul-Aali Imran: 30

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And He says:

{So whosoever does good equal to the weight of an atom shall see it.
And whosoever does evil equal to the weight of an atom shall see it.}
Soorat-uz-Zalzalah: 7-8

So if this small deed consists of good and evil then it is safeguarded for
the one who performed it and it is (either) against him (or) he is rewarded
for it, if it is a good deed then it is good and if it is an evil deed then it is
evil, so what do you think of the one who does (the good deed) the like of
the mountains? Allah never depletes the reward of the one who perfects
good deeds.

And it was for the sake of affirming this belief in the heart so that when
the Divinely Legislated Commandments were revealed and the soul found
acceptance – he (may the peace & blessings of Allah be upon him) then
took care in purifying the hearts from the filth of doubts and desires
saying:

((Verily in the body is a morsel of flesh that when it is upright then the
entire body is upright and if it is corrupt then the whole body is corrupt
it is none other than the heart.))

That is because the heart is the king (over all) of the body parts; it
commands them and directs them either towards the path of good,
success and happiness or towards the path of evil and destruction.

Now when we closely examine these Ten Commandments we find that

the first commandment is being meticulous in rectifying the hearts and
purifying them from doubts, and it is the prohibition of associating
partners with Allah Most High because Allah is the Sole Creator. It is

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obligatory that He be the only focal point of worship alone. Allah Most
High says:

{He has created the heavens without any pillars that you see and
has set on the earth firm mountains, lest it should shake with you.
And He has scattered therein moving (living) creatures of all kinds.
And We send down water (rain) from the sky, and We cause (plants)
of every goodly kind to grow therein. This is the creation of Allâh.
So show Me that which those (whom you worship), besides Him have
created. Nay, the wrongdoers are in plain error.}
Soorah Luqman: 10-11

And He is the One in whose Hands is harm and benefit:

{Say: "I possess no power of benefit or hurt to myself except as Allâh

wills.} Soorat-ul-A'raf:188

And now onto the prophetic narration concerning the first exhortation
and it is the prohibition of associating partners with Allah Most High and
its importance in the life of the Muslim.