What are the most prominent rights of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) over his Ummah?
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Question:
Shaykh, the rights of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) over his Ummah are many. What are the most prominent of these rights for the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)?
Answer:
To testify to his message with certainty, knowledge, and awareness. And loving him (peace and blessings be upon him) is greater than loving oneself, one’s father, one’s child, and all of humanity.
And following him (peace and blessings be upon him) by obeying what he commanded and avoiding what he prohibited and warned against. Following him (peace and blessings be upon him) in what he legislated; one does not worship Allah except with what He has legislated. So one abandons religious innovations and newly invented matters, for the Messenger came to abolish them. He said:Mishkat al-Masabih 140Muttafaqun 'alayh (Zubair `Aliza'i) Sahih Muslim 1718b
So the innovator is the one who invents a religious innovation or acts upon it, even if he did not invent it; he is considered an innovator. A religion from himself or from others, from the devils of mankind and jinn. It is obligatory to follow the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him); one does not worship Allah except with what this Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) has legislated. Yes. May Allah reward you.
Shaykh, the rights of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) over his Ummah are many. What are the most prominent of these rights for the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)?
Answer:
To testify to his message with certainty, knowledge, and awareness. And loving him (peace and blessings be upon him) is greater than loving oneself, one’s father, one’s child, and all of humanity.
And following him (peace and blessings be upon him) by obeying what he commanded and avoiding what he prohibited and warned against. Following him (peace and blessings be upon him) in what he legislated; one does not worship Allah except with what He has legislated. So one abandons religious innovations and newly invented matters, for the Messenger came to abolish them. He said:
God’s messenger as saying, “If anyone introduces into this affair of ours anything which does not belong to it
صلى الله عليه وسلم من احدث في امرنا هذا ما ليس منهthat is to be rejected
فهو رد، وفي رواية من عمل عملا ليس عليه أمرنا فهو رد.So the innovator is the one who invents a religious innovation or acts upon it, even if he did not invent it; he is considered an innovator. A religion from himself or from others, from the devils of mankind and jinn. It is obligatory to follow the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him); one does not worship Allah except with what this Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) has legislated. Yes. May Allah reward you.
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