Advice from the Shaykh to those who rush through the dhikr after the prayers
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The Shaykh : After this introduction and preamble, I want to mention two issues, and then I will turn to listening to the questions you have and answering them with what Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, makes easy for us and for you.
The first issue: I see many people who appear to be committed, not only to the obligatory acts but also to the voluntary ones and the recommended matters, such as the dhikr after the prayer, for example, and the tasbih, tahmid, and takbir, and the like. I see some of them, when they want to act upon his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): This hadith is authentic, and Imam Muslim narrated it in his Sahih. When they want to act upon this hadith, you see some of them barely making their tongues clear in the tasbih of Allah, His tahmid, and His takbir. What do you hear? As, as... You saw as I saw, I think; I am not alone in this claim. What do we call this? Mumbling. Then, praise be to Allah... This is not tasbih and it is not tahmid, Allahu Akbar... In moments, in seconds, he is done with the hundred. What is the reward of this hundred? May Allah forgive his sins, even if they were like the foam of the sea. If he were to recite them with this mumbling, far be it from Allah! Rather, he must be deliberate and say: Subhan Allah, Subhan Allah, Subhan Allah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah, and so on. I do not want, with what I am about to say, to turn people away from the tasbih thirty-three times and what came in the rest of the hadith. Rather, I want to bring closer to them what is better for them in terms of the Shari'ah and easier for them in practice, better for them in terms of the Shari'ah and easier for them in practice. And I think you will hear this hadith for the first time, or at least some of you will. It is a very important hadith, and it is also authentic. Imam al-Nasa'i and al-Hakim and others narrated it from two Companions with authentic chains: That a man from the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saw in a dream a person asking him, "What did the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) teach you?" He said, "He taught us Subhan Allah," and he mentioned this number that was previously specified in the previous hadith. Then that person in the dream said to the dreamer, "Make them twenty-five, make them twenty-five," meaning: Say Subhan Allah, Alhamdulillah, La ilaha illa Allah, and Allahu Akbar. So instead of the person counting one hundred units, he goes to count what? Twenty-five units. And the twenty-five units will force him to slow down in the counting; he cannot rush with this speed that we condemn most strongly. So however much he hurries with Subhan Allah, because after it comes Alhamdulillah, however much he hurries, it will not come out of him except as something more complete than if he said: Subhan Allah, Subhan Allah, Subhan Allah... Like those who remember Allah: La ilaha illa Allah, and then they drag it out so you hear nothing from them but: Allah, Allah, and so on.
So the protection for these hurriers after the prayer in the tasbih and tahmid mentioned in the first hadith is that they should combine the four phrases and say them twenty-five times: Subhan Allah, Alhamdulillah, La ilaha illa Allah, and Allahu Akbar, twenty-five times. And this is better, as evidenced by the completion of the hadith. That dreamer saw a dream; it may be that this dream was a jumble of dreams and has no interpretation, because we do not know the interpretation of dreams. But this man, the dreamer of the vision, related it to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and his answer was:.
Here a jurisprudential question arises: Does this abrogate the first hadith? Thirty-three tasbihs, thirty-three tahmids, thirty-three takbirs, ending with one tahlil? No, it is not abrogation, but rather preference. So if the one who prays brings the thirty-three counts after the prayer with deliberation and calm, there is no harm in that. But it is better for him to combine the four phrases in twenty-five times: Subhan Allah, Alhamdulillah, La ilaha illa Allah, and Allahu Akbar; Subhan Allah, Alhamdulillah... like this twenty-five times. It will be better for him than what came in the first hadith. This is the first issue.
The first issue: I see many people who appear to be committed, not only to the obligatory acts but also to the voluntary ones and the recommended matters, such as the dhikr after the prayer, for example, and the tasbih, tahmid, and takbir, and the like. I see some of them, when they want to act upon his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):
Whoever says Subhan Allah after every prayer thirty-three times, and Alhamdulillah thirty-three times, and Allahu Akbar thirty-three times, and then completes the hundred by saying: La ilaha illa Allah wahdahu la sharika lah, lahul-mulk wa lahul-hamd wa huwa 'ala kulli shay'in qadir, his sins will be forgiven, even if they were like the foam of the sea.
من سبح الله دبر كل صلاة ثلاث وثلاثين وحمد الله ثلاثا وثلاثين وكبر الله ثلاثا وثلاثين ثم قال تمام المئة : لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له ، له الملك وله الحمد وهو على كل شيء قدير , غفرت له ذنوبه وإن كانت مثل زبد البحرSo the protection for these hurriers after the prayer in the tasbih and tahmid mentioned in the first hadith is that they should combine the four phrases and say them twenty-five times: Subhan Allah, Alhamdulillah, La ilaha illa Allah, and Allahu Akbar, twenty-five times. And this is better, as evidenced by the completion of the hadith. That dreamer saw a dream; it may be that this dream was a jumble of dreams and has no interpretation, because we do not know the interpretation of dreams. But this man, the dreamer of the vision, related it to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and his answer was:
So do it, so do it.
فافعلوا إذا فافعلوا إذاHere a jurisprudential question arises: Does this abrogate the first hadith? Thirty-three tasbihs, thirty-three tahmids, thirty-three takbirs, ending with one tahlil? No, it is not abrogation, but rather preference. So if the one who prays brings the thirty-three counts after the prayer with deliberation and calm, there is no harm in that. But it is better for him to combine the four phrases in twenty-five times: Subhan Allah, Alhamdulillah, La ilaha illa Allah, and Allahu Akbar; Subhan Allah, Alhamdulillah... like this twenty-five times. It will be better for him than what came in the first hadith. This is the first issue.
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