I kew i Bilal. That Tirmidhi guy is timid to the core. This is his answer to the query:
If you don't argue your position when challenged, how o you know your position is
right or wrong? to wit {Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wasallam) said: “Leave that which
causes you doubt for that which does not cause you doubt.” [Tirmidhi]}. I mean the
need for knowledge especially about the deen and other social matter is a cornerstone
of seeking education and bearing witness. How do you bear witness for Allah and your fellow
man when you abandon query and the search for knowledge? I am confident RasuluLLaah
did not say such or may be Tirmidhi was in error unawares. This is very significant
because it is the precursor Hadith that yielded the caution for argumentation.
And from literature both Arabic, English, Fula, Mandingo, Finn, Svensk, and Wollof, argument
is different from quarrel or garrulous gaucherie. I encourage the Ulemaa to re-state Tirmidhi's
caution and clean up the above saying for Islam's sakes. Allah himself encouraged the pursuit
of knowledge and discernments for during the badar'l Hudaybiyya, it is information gathering
and processing that determines the Hunafaa'A, the Ansaar, the Mu'Umin, and the enemy.
If uncomfortable knowledge is good for Jihad, it is good in Salaam. Anyway thanks Bilal for
sharing but stay on top of Tirmidhi for us. Keep sharing this guy with us. I'll do some reading
into who he is and where he came from. Haruna.
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om: Edi Jah <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wed, Jul 1, 2009 8:44 am
Subject: Fwd: Daily Hadith: Ask Your Heart
Ask Your Heart
asul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wasallam) said: “Ask yourself for a
ecision, ask your heart for a decision (saying it three times.)
ighteousness is that with which the soul is tranquil and the heart is
ranquil, but sin is that which rouses suspicion in the soul and is
erplexing in the breast, even if people give you a decision in its
avour.” [Mishkat]
Everybody has within them the sense to distinguish right from wrong.
nd each person will be held accountable for using this sense. It is
ossible to twist facts and get people to give the decision that you
ant to hear, but if your heart is not at peace with the decision then
now that it is most likely sinful for you to act on it.
nfortunately, if a person sins enough then the heart becomes dead and
he ability to feel disquiet dies.
Rasul Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wasallam) said: “Leave that which
auses you doubt for that which does not cause you doubt.” [Tirmidhi]
This hadith is one of the ahadith around which the whole religion
evolves: it is the foundation of scrupulousness (wara) around which
evolves certainty; and it brings relief from the dark oppressiveness
f doubts and speculation.
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