Explaining the sufficient ghusl without detailing its recommended practices and obligations
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We have a young man whom I always see in the mosque. When someone asks him for a ruling on the ghusl for major ritual impurity, he describes the sufficient ghusl for them but does not explain its recommended practices and obligations. He claims that he does not want to make things difficult for people. Is there a word for someone like this?
This man, who does not explain from the religious laws except what is obligatory, is considered one who withholds knowledge. The obligation of the student of knowledge is to explain the obligatory and the recommended, then tell people: this is obligatory and this is recommended. Whoever performs the obligatory has fulfilled the requirement, and whoever performs the recommended increases his reward. As for withholding the recommended out of fear of making things difficult for people, he is, by Allah, not more merciful than Allah, nor more merciful than the Messenger. The Messenger explained the sufficient to people and explained the recommended to them.
So I advise this brother, as a counsel from me to him through you: Tell him: he should fear Allah and explain to people the obligatory and the recommended. If people act upon the recommended based on the knowledge he gave them, he will have a reward. So he explains the obligatory to people and explains the recommended.The excess over the obligatory, he says: O people! If you limit yourselves to the obligatory, your conscience is cleared. If you do the recommended, it is more complete and increases your rewards.
As for withholding the truth out of fear of making things difficult, we seek help from Allah. Is he more merciful to the believers than the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)? No, he is not more merciful. The one who performed the sufficient has a valid ghusl.Meaning: If you immersed yourself in a pond, for example, or a sea or a river, and intended the ghusl for major ritual impurity, and rinsed your mouth and inhaled water, and then got up, the major ritual impurity is removed from you. But it is better to wash your private parts first from the effect of the major ritual impurity, then perform a complete ablution, then pour water over your head three times, then wash the rest of your body.
This man, who does not explain from the religious laws except what is obligatory, is considered one who withholds knowledge. The obligation of the student of knowledge is to explain the obligatory and the recommended, then tell people: this is obligatory and this is recommended. Whoever performs the obligatory has fulfilled the requirement, and whoever performs the recommended increases his reward. As for withholding the recommended out of fear of making things difficult for people, he is, by Allah, not more merciful than Allah, nor more merciful than the Messenger. The Messenger explained the sufficient to people and explained the recommended to them.
So I advise this brother, as a counsel from me to him through you: Tell him: he should fear Allah and explain to people the obligatory and the recommended. If people act upon the recommended based on the knowledge he gave them, he will have a reward. So he explains the obligatory to people and explains the recommended.The excess over the obligatory, he says: O people! If you limit yourselves to the obligatory, your conscience is cleared. If you do the recommended, it is more complete and increases your rewards.
As for withholding the truth out of fear of making things difficult, we seek help from Allah. Is he more merciful to the believers than the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)? No, he is not more merciful. The one who performed the sufficient has a valid ghusl.Meaning: If you immersed yourself in a pond, for example, or a sea or a river, and intended the ghusl for major ritual impurity, and rinsed your mouth and inhaled water, and then got up, the major ritual impurity is removed from you. But it is better to wash your private parts first from the effect of the major ritual impurity, then perform a complete ablution, then pour water over your head three times, then wash the rest of your body.