Discussion of the hadith regarding the self and the rulings related to it.
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The Shaykh : Something to make you pay attention. Who knows about speaking with the mind, the heart, or the blessing? Please go ahead.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, meaning he mentions to himself what Allah has bestowed upon him and acknowledges to Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, with his heart that these blessings are from Allah, Mighty and Majestic.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Rest. What is the evidence that speaking with the self, speaking with the heart, is called a hadith or called updating? Please go ahead.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Well done. The saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):Bulugh al-Maram 8:133 Say what the brothers said.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : He speaks to himself about what Allah has bestowed upon him, he thinks about it and knows that it is from Allah, so he thanks Him for it with his heart. What is the evidence that speaking with the self is called updating?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Continue, continue the hadith: Continue Sahih al-Bukhari 5269 Continue Or what? Rest, may Allah reward you. Good.
The third: speaking of the blessings of Allah with the limbs, with the faculties. How is that? Please go ahead. You took it, you took it, rest, please go ahead.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Well done.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : And if he is a scholar, he teaches, and if he is wealthy, he gives charity. May Allah reward you. This is speaking with action. If Allah has made him wealthy, he wears the clothes of the wealthy, rides as the wealthy ride, and lives as the wealthy live. This is part of speaking of the blessings. Likewise, if he is a scholar, his speaking of the blessing of Allah, the Exalted, with action is what? He teaches people. And he also shows the effect of his knowledge upon him in his worship, in his morals, and in his dealings. Because knowledge, as they say, has a tax. Knowledge requires complete care. Good. Commenting on the authentic hadith: I ask, if a man said in his heart, "My wife is divorced," meaning, for example, he thought that his wife angered him, so he said in his heart, without speaking with his tongue, if he said "My wife is divorced," is the wife divorced? Stand up.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: She is not divorced.
The Shaykh : She is not divorced. Why?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : What?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Do you have evidence for this? He might oppose you, saying that divorce is by the tongue. This is a reasoning that someone might refute by saying to you that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: So what do you say?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good. Good. Who knows? You, please go ahead.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Read the hadith.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh :Bulugh al-Maram 8:133 May Allah reward you — pay attention.
This is the problem. I brought it up incidentally because it happens to many people. Many people are afflicted with obsessive thoughts, may Allah protect us and you from obsessive thoughts. You find him speaking to himself and saying, "That's it, I do not want my wife, my wife is divorced," but he does not speak it with his tongue. So what do we say to him if he seeks our ruling? What do we say to him? All of you, there is no god but Allah. What do we say to him? This is a man whose wife angered him, and he left the house. While he was walking, he thought, he thought, he said in his heart, "She is divorced." Is she divorced or not?
The student: She is not divorced.
The Shaykh : She is not divorced. Why? Because speaking with the self is excused, unless a person acts or speaks. Then what he acted or spoke with takes place. And this is a blessing of Allah upon us, and praise be to Allah, that what our souls speak does not harm us in any way, even in the most severe case. Even if your soul speaks to you of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and kufr (disbelief) without you inclining to it, but it is a passing thought of the soul, it does not harm. And this is a blessing of AllahBulugh al-Maram 8:133. Good.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, meaning he mentions to himself what Allah has bestowed upon him and acknowledges to Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, with his heart that these blessings are from Allah, Mighty and Majestic.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Rest. What is the evidence that speaking with the self, speaking with the heart, is called a hadith or called updating? Please go ahead.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Well done. The saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
Allah, the Most High, has forgiven my followers what they contemplate on within themselves (i.e. evil thoughts) as long as they do not act upon or speak about them.
إن الله تجاوز عن أمتي ما حدثت به أنفسها مالم تعمل أو تتكلمThe student: ... .
The Shaykh : He speaks to himself about what Allah has bestowed upon him, he thinks about it and knows that it is from Allah, so he thanks Him for it with his heart. What is the evidence that speaking with the self is called updating?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Continue, continue the hadith:
Indeed, Allah has pardoned my ummah (the Muslim community) for what their souls speak of.
إن الله تجاوز عن أمتي بما حدثت به أنفسهاas long as such thoughts are not
ما لم تعمل أوas long as they do not act
ما لم تعملor speak
أو تتكلمThe third: speaking of the blessings of Allah with the limbs, with the faculties. How is that? Please go ahead. You took it, you took it, rest, please go ahead.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Well done.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : And if he is a scholar, he teaches, and if he is wealthy, he gives charity. May Allah reward you. This is speaking with action. If Allah has made him wealthy, he wears the clothes of the wealthy, rides as the wealthy ride, and lives as the wealthy live. This is part of speaking of the blessings. Likewise, if he is a scholar, his speaking of the blessing of Allah, the Exalted, with action is what? He teaches people. And he also shows the effect of his knowledge upon him in his worship, in his morals, and in his dealings. Because knowledge, as they say, has a tax. Knowledge requires complete care. Good. Commenting on the authentic hadith:
Indeed, Allah has pardoned my ummah (the Muslim community) for what their souls speak of.
إن الله تجاوز عن أمتي بما حدثت به أنفسهاThe student: ... .
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: She is not divorced.
The Shaykh : She is not divorced. Why?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : What?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Do you have evidence for this? He might oppose you, saying that divorce is by the tongue. This is a reasoning that someone might refute by saying to you that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Actions are only by intentions
إنما الأعمال بالنياتThe student: ... .
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good. Good. Who knows? You, please go ahead.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Read the hadith.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh :
Allah, the Most High, has forgiven my followers what they contemplate on within themselves (i.e. evil thoughts) as long as they do not act upon or speak about them.
إن الله تجاوز عن أمتي ما حدثت به أنفسها ما لم تعمل أو تتكلمThis is the problem. I brought it up incidentally because it happens to many people. Many people are afflicted with obsessive thoughts, may Allah protect us and you from obsessive thoughts. You find him speaking to himself and saying, "That's it, I do not want my wife, my wife is divorced," but he does not speak it with his tongue. So what do we say to him if he seeks our ruling? What do we say to him? All of you, there is no god but Allah. What do we say to him? This is a man whose wife angered him, and he left the house. While he was walking, he thought, he thought, he said in his heart, "She is divorced." Is she divorced or not?
The student: She is not divorced.
The Shaykh : She is not divorced. Why? Because speaking with the self is excused, unless a person acts or speaks. Then what he acted or spoke with takes place. And this is a blessing of Allah upon us, and praise be to Allah, that what our souls speak does not harm us in any way, even in the most severe case. Even if your soul speaks to you of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and kufr (disbelief) without you inclining to it, but it is a passing thought of the soul, it does not harm. And this is a blessing of Allah