Maqasid
as-Shariah:
1-Essential
Rights (الضروريات)
A-Life
B-Intellect
C-Property
D-Honour
E-Religion
2-Basic
Needs (الحاجيات)
-Anything needed to attain the above
-Without said need, life would be
difficult
3-Comforts
(التحسينيات)
-Things needed to make all of the
above of better quality
After
talking about hope and fear, we have the effects of such in the life of a
believer…
THE VIRTUE OF
CRYNG FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH (تعلى) AND YEARNING TO MEET HIM
How
to bring about this act of worship:
1-Increasing
in fear or hope, depending what increases your Eman
Abu Muhammad that al-Taymi said: Whoever is given knowledge
and does not weep, he deserves not to have any knowledge, because Allah has
described those who have knowledge; then he recited this verse.
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2-Pondering on the Ayat of Allah, Kawni and Shari AND
applying both to you on a personal level
Sufyan used to
weep and say: “I am afraid that my faith will be taken away at the moment of
death.”
Isma’il ibn
Zakariya described Habeeb ibn Muhammad, who was a neighbour of his. He said:
“Every evening I heard him weeping and every morning I heard him weeping, so
I went to his wife and said: ‘What is the matter with him? He weeps in the
evening and he weeps in the morning!’ She said to me: ‘By Allah, when evening
comes he fears that he will not live till morning and when morning comes he
fears that he will not live till evening.’”
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3-Knowing the greatness of your lord and the weakness of
the slave.
If a person is alone and he thinks about himself and his
lord, then this will create a good balance of hope and fear and this will
impace his public life.
BUT if he is wasting his time and not conscious, then
your limbs is an indication for what is inside..
One night al-Hasan woke up weeping, and he disturbed the
other people in the house with his weeping. They asked him what was the
matter and he said: “I remembered a sin that I committed and I wept.”
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4-Regret for what you missed out on, see 53:59-60.
Sometimes
people cry because they are emotional, either because of Shukr or Subr.
However,
what is meant here is that which a person wants for himself in the hereafter.
Either
he wants His Reward and wants to meet Him.
Or
he is frightened of Him and His Punishment.
-Ibn Uthaymin
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إِنَّ
الَّذِينَ أُوتُواْ الْعِلْمَ مِن قَبْلِهِ إِذَا يُتْلَى عَلَيْهِمْ يَخِرُّونَ
لِلأَذْقَانِ سُجَّدًا
وَيَقُولُونَ
سُبْحَانَ رَبِّنَا إِن كَانَ وَعْدُ رَبِّنَا لَمَفْعُولاً
وَيَخِرُّونَ لِلأَذْقَانِ يَبْكُونَ وَيَزِيدُهُمْ خُشُوعًا
17:107-109
These
Ayat have the following:
1-Eman
2-Believing,
reciting and learning the Quran
3-Remembering
Him in all his affairs
4-(After
knowing His word is true and has gained a love for it by having Dhikr of it)
Knowing that the promise of Allah is true
5-Their
bodies fall to the ground (مبالغة) and their hearts do likewise
-Ibn Uthaymin
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وَتَضْحَكُونَ وَلا تَبْكُونَ
وَأَنتُمْ سَامِدُونَ
53:59-60
This
is actually a rebuke for those who know the Quran exists but don’t benefit
from it.
Such
often comes about when he thinks highly of himself and sees himself upright
and safe.
-Ibn Uthaymin
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Proof for point
2:
446- Ibn Mas'ud (May Allah be pleased with
him) reported:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said to me: "Recite the
Qur'an to me". I said, "O Messenger of Allah! Shall I recite the
Qur'an to you, when it has been revealed to you?" He (ﷺ) replied, "I love to hear it recited by others". So I
recited to him a portion from Surat An-Nisa'. When I reached the Ayah:
"How (will it be) then, when We bring from each nation a witness and We bring you (O Muhammad (ﷺ)) as a witness against these people?". (4:41)
He (ﷺ) said, "Enough for now". When I looked at him I saw his eyes were shedding tears.
"How (will it be) then, when We bring from each nation a witness and We bring you (O Muhammad (ﷺ)) as a witness against these people?". (4:41)
He (ﷺ) said, "Enough for now". When I looked at him I saw his eyes were shedding tears.
This is proof that the person needs
to adopt different ways to benefit himself. The point of the religion
(listening to Quran, reciting it, listening to Hadith and lectures etc.) is
not to climb up a ladder.
The point is to have our hearts
tremble and show humility to Allah.
So the stages that a person goes
through MUST be beneficial for him/her.
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447- Anas bin Malik (May Allah be pleased
with him) reported:
Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
delivered a Khutbah to us the like of which I had never heard from him before.
In the course of the Khutbah, he said: "If you knew what I know, you would
laugh little and weep much". Thereupon those present covered their faces
and began to sob.
How can a person have this when his
heart (and life) is empty of Allah?
-Ibn
Uthaymin
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448- One who weeps out of fear of
Allah, will not enter the Hell till milk returns back in the udder; and the
dust raised on account of fighting in the path of Allah and the smoke of Hell
will never exist together".
449- “Seven people Allah will
give them His Shade on the Day when there would be no shade but the Shade of
His Throne (i.e., on the Day of Resurrection): And they are: a just ruler; a
youth who grew up with the worship of Allah; a person whose heart is attached
to the mosques, two men who love and meet each other and depart from each other
for the sake of Allah; a man whom an extremely beautiful woman seduces (for
illicit relation), but he (rejects this offer and) says: 'I fear Allah'; a man
who gives in charity and conceals it (to such an extent) that the left hand
does not know what the right has given; and a man who remembers Allah in
solitude and his eyes become tearful".
This is going
to be a day of great darkness but there will only be light for SOME people.
All seven
mentioned here have a sense of crying/struggling/yearning for the sake of
Allah.
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450- 'Abdullah bin Ash-Shikhkhir (May
Allah be pleased with him) reported:
I came to Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
when he was performing prayers. He was sobbing and his chest sounded like a
boiling kettle.
The effects of the speech of Allah
on the best of creation because he knew what it meant, literally and
metaphorically.
So how did it effect those around
him….
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451- Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to Ubayy bin Ka'b (May Allah be pleased with him),
"Allah has ordered me to recite to you Surat-Al-Baiyyinah (98): 'Those who
disbelieve ..."
Ubayy (May Allah be pleased with him) asked, "Did He name me?" Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) replied in the affirmative. Whereupon Ubayy (May Allah be pleased with him) began to weep.
Ubayy (May Allah be pleased with him) asked, "Did He name me?" Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) replied in the affirmative. Whereupon Ubayy (May Allah be pleased with him) began to weep.
452- Anas bin Malik (May Allah be pleased
with him) reported:
After the death of Messenger of Allah (ﷺ),
Abu Bakr said to 'Umar (May Allah be pleased with them): "Let us visit Umm
Aiman (May Allah be pleased with him) as Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to visit her." As we came to her, she wept. They
(Abu Bakr and 'Umar (May Allah be pleased with them) said to her, "What
makes you weep? Do you not know that what Allah has in store for His Messenger
(ﷺ) is better than (this worldly life)?" She said, "I
weep not because I am ignorant of the fact that what is in store for Messenger
of Allah (ﷺ) (in the Hereafter) is better
than this world, but I weep because the Revelation has ceased to come."
This reply moved both of them to tears and they began to weep along with her.
453- Ibn 'Umar (May Allah be pleased with
them) reported:
When the illness of Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
became serious, he was asked about the leading of Salat and he said, "Ask
Abu Bakr to lead Salat." Whereupon, 'Aishah (May Allah be pleased with
her) said; "Abu Bakr is very tender hearted. He is bound to be overcome by
weeping when he recites the Qur'an." Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) repeated, "Ask him (Abu Bakr) to lead Salat".
In another narration: 'Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) said: "When Abu Bakr stands in your place, he will not be able to recite the Noble Qur'an to the people on account of weeping."
In another narration: 'Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) said: "When Abu Bakr stands in your place, he will not be able to recite the Noble Qur'an to the people on account of weeping."
Crying is not
the objective, it’s a symptom.
IF a person
has the unseen clear in his mind.
If he wants
to benefit to learn more about it by reciting, reading and listening to
lectures etc. he will be effected in a manner that others aren’t.
He will
personalise its lessons and teachings and it will create a fear that he will
be lose it/be rejected, and when hope is given to him he will rejoice/find
acceptance.
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454- Ibrahim bin 'Abdur-Rahman bin 'Auf
reported:
Food was brought to 'Abdur-Rahman bin 'Auf (May Allah be pleased with
him) when he was observing Saum (fast) and he said: "Mus'ab bin 'Umair
(May Allah be pleased with him) was martyred and he was better than me, but
only one sheet was available to shroud him. It was so small that when his head
was covered; his feet remained uncovered and if his feet were covered, his head
remained uncovered. Then the bounties of this world have been bestowed upon us
generously. I am afraid that the reward of our good deeds have been awarded to
us in this world." On this he began to sob and left the food untouched.
-Mus’ab came from a very rich family
in Makkah.
-His clothes were tailor made, the
materials were imported and he ate the best of foods.
-When he accepted Islam, his family
disowned him.
-So now he had no luxuries, he was boycotted and lived a life of extreme poverty.
-His companion became the Quran and
it was by this he was elevated; the Prophet sent him as a Da’ee to al-Madinah
and the whole of the city accepted Islam through him.
-So he left the life of riches and
made Hijrah to al-Madinah.
-On day of Uhud when he was
martyred, there wasn’t enough clothing to cover his body, whilst in Makkah he
used to have the best, in abundance.
Abdur-Rahman bin Awf was narrating
this after Islam had spread and al-Madinah became a very rich city.
He wept because he feared that the
virtue of the Akhirah may be lost or lesser, because those who were more
pious and wanted to meet Him more were accepted and taken to meet Him.
-Ibn
Uthaymin
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Conclusion
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A person will only be possessed to cry (and be overtaken by fear/hope)
in meeting Allah
-al-Qurtubi
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