Riyadh as-Saaleheen: Weeping for the Sake of Allah and Yearning to Meet Him (Pt. 22)

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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.

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.’”

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.”

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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….

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.

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."

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.

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

Conclusion

A person will only be possessed to cry (and be overtaken by fear/hope) in meeting Allah -al-Qurtubi

And Allah Knows best