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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Explanation of the Hadith: "What Allah Wills and What Muhammad Wills"

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The Shaykh : I will mention to you an example of a change that is easier than this alteration. A man from among the Companions of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) saw a dream, so he came to him and related it to him (peace and blessings be upon him). He said: "O Messenger of Allah, I saw myself walking on one of the roads of al-Madinah, and I met a man from the Jews. I said to him: 'You are a good people, O you Jews, if only you did not associate partners with Allah by saying: "Uzayr is the son of Allah."' The Companion said this to the Jew in the dream: 'You are a good people, O you Jews, if only you did not associate partners with Allah by saying: "Uzayr is the son of Allah."' So the Jew answered him in the dream: 'And you are a good people, O you Muslims, if only you did not say: "What Allah Wills and What Muhammad Wills."' Now, people say this phrase today out of their ignorance of Islam: 'You are a good people, O you Muslims, if only you did not say: "What Allah Wills and What Muhammad Wills."' He said: "Then I continued on and met a man from the Christians, and I said to him: 'You are a good people, O you Christians, if only you did not associate partners with Allah by saying: "What Allah Wills and What Muhammad Wills."' This Christian is being addressed."

The questioner : The Messiah.

The Shaykh : Yes?

The questioner : The Messiah.

The Shaykh : Ah, the Messiah, excuse me. The Muslim says to the Christian: 'You are a good people, O you Christians, if only you did not associate partners with Allah by saying: "Isa is the son of Allah."' The Christian responded to him by saying: 'And you are a good people, O you Muslims, if only you did not associate partners with Allah by saying: "What Allah Wills and What Muhammad Wills."' When he related the story to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), he (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him:
Did you relate it to anyone? هل قصصت على أحد
He said: "No."
The Shaykh : So the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) addressed the Companions and said:
I have heard from you a phrase that you say, and I am shy of you طالما سمعت منكم كلمة تقولونها فأستحيي منكم

The Shaykh : So he said to them:
I have heard it from you طالما سمعتها منكم
Then he related to them this dream, and based on that, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Let none of you say "What Allah Wills and What Muhammad Wills," but let him say "What Allah Wills Alone" لا يقولن أحدكم ما شاء الله وشاء محمد ولكن ليقل ما شاء الله وحده

The Shaykh : So, may Allah reward you. Changing what is wrong is not such that whenever you see something wrong, you must rush to change it. You need to do what they call today in arithmetic operations: an equation that balances good deeds against bad deeds. If it is more likely in your opinion that in changing this wrong, the good deeds will be more than the bad deeds, then rush to do it, and you will be rewarded, and you will be implementing this hadith. But if it appears to you that the bad deeds and harms will be more than the benefits sought in enjoining good and forbidding evil, then hold back, just as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) held back from demolishing the Ka'bah, and just as he held back for days from saying to his Companions:
Let none of you say "What Allah Wills and What Muhammad Wills," but let him say "What Allah Wills Alone" لا يقولنّ أحدكم ما شاء الله وشاء محمد ولكن ليقل ما شاء الله وحده
Perhaps we will conclude our answer to the previous question with this.
The Shaykh : There is still... Yes? Go ahead, what do you want? A question? 'Ukkashah got ahead of you with it.
Source www.al-albany.com

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