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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The benefits of the saying of Allah the Exalted: (( ... and the fasting men and the fasting women, and those who guard their private parts, and those who guard their private parts, and those who remember Allah much, and those who remember Allah much, Allah has prepared for them

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And among the benefits of the noble verse is the virtue of fasting, as He said:
and the fasting men and the fasting women والصائمين والصائمات
Its obligatory and voluntary aspects. And what is the best voluntary fast? Fasting one day and breaking the fast the next, which is the fasting of Dawud (peace be upon him).
And among the benefits of the noble verse is the virtue of guarding the private parts, as He said:
the men who guard their private parts and the women who do so والحافظين فروجهم والحافظات
[Al-Ahzab 33:35]
And excepted from this is guarding the private parts from one’s wife and what one’s right hand possesses, for a person is not blamed for that.
It is derived from the noble verse that it is obligatory—no, it is not obligatory, rather it is recommended—to adopt the means by which the private parts are guarded, because praise for a thing is praise for it and for its means. So whatever leads to the guarding of the private parts is required and prescribed. For this reason, looking at a non-mahram woman is forbidden, and taking pleasure in speaking to her and listening to her voice is forbidden, and shaking hands with a non-mahram woman is also forbidden, and seclusion with her is forbidden, and her traveling without a mahram is forbidden, and the like of that which is a cause for the guarding of private parts. If Allah the Exalted has praised those who guard their private parts, then the means that lead to the guarding of the private parts are among the required matters.
And among the benefits of the noble verse is the virtue of much remembrance of Allah, as Allah the Exalted said:
the men who remember Allah often والذاكرين الله كثيراً
[Al-Ahzab 33:35]
It is befitting for a person to be constantly remembering his Lord (Mighty and Majestic), because there is no blessing in which he is but it is from Allah. If He has continued His blessings upon you and increased His blessings upon you, why do you not continue His remembrance? Yes, the truth of the matter is that if a person were to think, he would find that if he were to fill his night and day with the remembrance of Allah, it would not suffice. For this reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
I cannot count Your praises. You are as You have praised Yourself سبحانك لا أحصي ثناء عليك أنت كما أثنيت على نفسك
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3493Sahih (Darussalam)
So a person can never count the praise of Allah, no matter how much he does.
And among the benefits of the noble verse is that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has prepared for these... those who possess these attributes, forgiveness for sins and a great reward for acts of obedience
for them Allah has prepared forgiveness and a great reward. أعد الله لهم مغفرة وأجراً عظيماً
[Al-Ahzab 33:35]
.
How many descriptions were mentioned? Ten: the Muslim men and the Muslim women, the believing men and the believing women, the devout men and the devout women, the truthful men and the truthful women, the patient men and the patient women, the humble men and the humble women, the charitable men and the charitable women, the fasting men and the fasting women, those who guard their private parts, and those who remember Allah much. Ten, and with their corresponding feminine forms, they become twenty. This twenty is sufficient with a single pronoun, which is His saying:
Allah has prepared for them أعد الله لهم
[At-Tawbah 9:89]
If He were to enumerate them, He would say: Allah has prepared for the Muslim men and the Muslim women, the believing men and the believing women. But this is among the benefits of pronouns: brevity, that they summarize much speech with a single pronoun.
And among the benefits of the noble verse is the preference of men over women, because the men were mentioned first. Is that not so?
Indeed, the Muslim men إن المسلمين
to His saying:
the men who remember Allah often والذاكرين الله كثيراً
[Al-Ahzab 33:35]
.
And among its benefits is also the predominance of the masculine side, as He said:
Their. لهم
and He did not say "for them and for them" (referring to both men and women separately).
And among the benefits of the noble verse is that it is recommended, when mentioning men and women, to mention the men first, as in this verse and other verses. As for those who have become estranged and have started to mention women before men, Allah has made them follow what they have followed of imitating the disbelievers, inverting the fitrah, and reversing the state, that they mention women before men when they say, for example, "his ladies and his gentlemen," mentioning the ladies before the gentlemen. And the wonder of that is that they call women... ladies, saying "such-and-such lady," while a man, no matter his age, is called "such-and-such gentleman." Where did they take that from? Yes, from the West and the disbelievers, because the man is in reality the master over the woman. Allah the Exalted said:
And they found her master at the door وَأَلْفَيَا سَيِّدَهَا لَدَى الْبَابِ
[Yusuf: 25] As for the woman, she is never a lady over the man. But these people, as I said, Allah has inverted their fitrah because they followed the enemies of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). And many Muslims, unfortunately, do not feel these matters now and do not see it as a thing; they go along with the world, even in terms that may be forbidden, they go along with them.
And among the benefits of the noble verse is that the giving of Allah the Exalted, or the reward of Allah, is greater than the deed of the person, because the deeds that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) mentioned, He made the reward for them two things: forgiveness of sins and a great reward. And this great reward, which is unspecified here, has been clarified in texts from the Book and the Sunnah. What is it? A good deed is rewarded with ten times its like, up to seven hundred times, up to many multiples. And this is what indicates the favor of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). And it is wonderful that the favor of Allah upon you in the reward is like His favor upon you in the deed, for the favor of Allah upon a person in the deed is a favor that nothing equals. For this reason, Allah made that part of the completion of the blessing
This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion. الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَأَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي وَرَضِيتُ لَكُمُ الإِسْلامَ دِينًا
[Al-Ma'idah: 3] and made that part of His limit where He said:
Certainly did Allah confer [great] favor upon the believers when He sent among them a Messenger لَقَدْ مَنَّ اللَّهُ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِذْ بَعَثَ فِيهِمْ رَسُولًا
[Al-Imran: 164] and He said:
They consider it a favor to you that they have accepted Islam. Say, "Do not consider your Islam a favor to me. Rather, Allah has conferred favor upon you يَمُنُّونَ عَلَيْكَ أَنْ أَسْلَمُوا قُلْ لا تَمُنُّوا عَلَيَّ إِسْلامَكُمْ بَلِ اللَّهُ يَمُنُّ عَلَيْكُمْ
[Al-Hujurat: 17] Look now, Allah is the One who granted you the deed, then granted you the reward, then He said:
Is the reward for good [anything] but good? هَلْ جَزَاءُ الإِحْسَانِ إِلَّا الإِحْسَانُ
[Ar-Rahman: 60] even though He is the One who did good to you, is He not? And the goodness of Allah upon you in the deed is preceded by His goodness upon you in something else: guidance, knowledge, because there is no deed except with knowledge. So the deed of a person is preceded by knowledge, by the blessing of Allah upon him with knowledge, then by the blessing of Allah upon him with success, and followed by the blessing of Allah upon him with acceptance and reward. So reflect on such matters so that the favor of Allah upon you becomes clear to you.
And among the benefits of the noble verse is that Paradise exists now? Where do we take that from? From His saying:
Repeat. أعد
Because "prepared" means "made ready," and "prepared" is a past tense verb, so it necessarily follows that Paradise exists. And this is a known matter among the people of the Sunnah and the community, and it is supported by texts from the Book and the Sunnah that Paradise and Hellfire exist. Now, do we take the lesson or do we finish? We finish.
Source alathar.net

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