Summary of Sunni concepts
Meaning of worship
Worship is the purpose of creating accountable people
God Almighty said
I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me
This requires that their entire lives be for God and by God
As God Almighty said
Say: My prayer, my rituals, my living, and my death belong to God, Lord of the Worlds
There are no works for this world that are separate from the afterlife
Other deeds for the afterlife are performed in other than this worldly life
Rather, it is one path, the beginning of which is in this world and the end in the afterlife
Whoever worships God alone in this path in all his deeds
In the afterlife, he reached heaven and had a good outcome
Whoever violates worship and abandons it on the way
His path took him to hell, God forbid
Therefore, worship was defined in terms of what is worshiped with
It is a comprehensive name for everything that God loves and is pleased with
Of words and deeds, both apparent and hidden
Worship was also defined in terms of the state of the worshiper
It is the perfection of love and reverence for God Almighty
With complete humility and submission to Him, Glory be to Him
If you love Him and do not submit to Him, Glory be to Him
I am not a worshiper of him
Likewise, if you submit to Him without love
You are not a worshiper of Him until you are a submissive lover
Giving the name “worship” to devotional rituals
Giving the name “worship” to various rituals
Of prayer, zakat, fasting and Hajj
It is because of its special meaning
Because those are devotional rituals
It is the greatest type of worship
Along with pronouncing the Shahada, they are the pillars of Islam
Also, worship is released in another sense
Special prayer
Because it is its core and most important goals
As mentioned in the hadith
Supplication is worship
Narrated by Abu Dawud, Al-Tirmidhi, and Ibn Majah
The jurisprudence books are divided into the worship section and the transactions section
It is a school terminological division
Its purpose is to make knowledge easier for its students
It is divided into academic stages
The harm of limiting the meaning of worship to devotional rituals
Who restricts the meaning of worship to devotional rituals only?
He will inevitably fail in his obedience to his Lord, Glory be to Him
And if you tell him that this contradicts your servitude to God
He will answer you that he has performed his duties of worship and prayer
He is currently managing his life and livelihood
It is as if he did not hear or understand the aforementioned words of God Almighty
Say: My prayer, my rituals, my living, and my death belong to God, Lord of the Worlds
It will also entail limiting the meaning of worship to devotional rituals only
Flaws and negligence in performing these same rituals
And what is hoped for from its fruits?
Prayer will become mechanical movements devoid of reverence
It does not prohibit indecency and evil
Rather, he who is busy thinking about managing his life
Because he did not understand that humility, which is a heartfelt act of worship
And abandoning immorality and evil is part of worship
Fasting will become abstinence from food and drink
He becomes sluggish after that because his stomach is full
He allegedly entertained himself during and after his fast
By watching fawazir and low-key series
He looks at what God has forbidden
His fasting will not achieve the piety desired from him
He will pay zakat on his money
Then he doesn't care after that
His trade and money are usury and forbidden transactions
Because he did not understand that abandoning that is part of worship
Which means that his entire life should be for God
And according to what God Almighty wants
Likewise, limiting the meaning of worship to devotional rituals
It is the door through which secularists and their ilk enter
In making worship a special relationship only between the servant and his Lord
It has nothing to do with other matters of life
From economics and politics
Women and family affairs
And transactions between people
Diligence in devotional rituals and sincerity in them
Diligence in devotional rituals with honesty and sincerity
It helps complete worship in its comprehensive sense
That one's entire life be for God
Devotional rituals are not isolated
About social or moral behavior in life
Rather, the connection between them is close
It is one's increase in the path of comprehensive worship
God Almighty after commanding the wives of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace
By decision at home
He forbade them from showing off during the pre-Islamic period
These are social behavioral matters
He ordered them to perform prayers and pay zakat
This indicates the role of devotional rituals
In assisting in the performance of behavioral and moral orders
And his connection to it
God Almighty said
And stay in your homes and do not display yourself as you did in the pre-Islamic era
We established prayer and paid zakat
We obeyed God and His Messenger
Prayer prevents indecency and evil
God Almighty said
And pray
Prayer forbids indecency and evil
Worshiping the call to God
It helps her to pray the night and recite the Book of God
God Almighty said
Oh, you darling!
Stay up all night except for a little while
Half of it or a little less
Or add to it and recite the Qur’an in a resonant manner
We will give you a heavy word
So the preparation was for the heavy statement and the assignment of the call
It is praying at night and reciting the Qur’an
Worship and caliphate on earth
Caliphate on earth and rebuilding it as God intended
Worship to God
The ruling, analysis, and prohibition must be for God Almighty alone
This is why Adi bin Hatim’s understanding, may God be pleased with him, fell short of this meaning
He was a Christian before his conversion to Islam
He was amazed at what God Almighty said
They took their rabbis and monks as lords instead of God
He said, O Messenger of God
They were not worshiping them
He, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
Yes
But they make lawful for them what God has forbidden, so they make it lawful
They prohibit for them what God has permitted, so they prohibit it
This is their worship
Narrated by Al-Tirmidhi and authenticated by Al-Albani
Leaving servitude to God is servitude to others
Whoever abandons his servitude to God Almighty
He inevitably fell into slavery to others
From an idol demon
Or the desire of the soul or the desire for money
And so on
God Almighty said about worshiping Satan
Did I not entrust you, O sons of Adam?
Do not worship Satan
He is your clear enemy
And I worshiped Me
This is a straight path
God Almighty said about polytheism and worshiping others
Of idols and alleged gods
And they took gods other than Him
They do not create anything while they are created
They do not have the power to harm or benefit themselves
They do not have death, life, or resurrection
God Almighty said about worshiping desires
Have you seen the one who takes his own desires as his god?
Will you be his representative?
He, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
Unhappy Abdul Dinar
Unhappy Abdul Dirham
Unhappy Abdel Khamisa
Unhappy Abdel-Khamila
Unhappy and relapsed
If it is shaky, you will not be upset
Narrated by Al-Bukhari
Servitude to God Almighty and Honor
Glory and honor
Everyone who brought it deserves it
Completely and completely
Therefore, he described the most sincere worshipers
And I honor them with God Almighty
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace
This description of him was in the highest and most refined positions
The shrine of the night journey
God Almighty said
Glory be to Him who captured His servant
At night from the Sacred Mosque to Al-Aqsa Mosque around which we have blessed
It was also described in the context of revelation
Blessed is He who sent down the Criterion to His servant, so that he may be a warner to the worlds
Conditions for accepting worship
One of the conditions of worship
Sincerity and follow-up
Sincerity
Worship must be sincere to God alone
As God Almighty said
They were commanded only to worship God, sincerely in religion and upright with Him
And follow up
The work must be in accordance with the Sunnah
As he, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
Whoever does something that is not according to our command, it will be rejected
Narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim
Whoever differs in sincerity of worship falls into polytheism
It is of two types that are the greatest opposite to monotheism
And smaller things like hypocrisy and reputation
Whoever violates the Sunnah in his worship falls into innovation
Sincerity and follow-up are combined in the words of God Almighty
Whoever hopes to meet his Lord, let him do good deeds
He does not associate anyone with the worship of his Lord
So he said, “Let him do good deeds.”
Anything that agrees with the Sunnah is not innovated
And he said: And he does not associate anyone with the worship of his Lord
That is, he makes his worship sincere to God Almighty
God must be singled out for worship
The Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, was singled out for follow-up
There is another condition that is essential for acceptance of worship
It is to be a monotheist, not polytheist to God
Some Sufis claim that this is true
That worship falls from the saints of God
Those who achieve the degree of certainty in their claim
They take this from a straight understanding of what God Almighty says
And worship your Lord until certainty comes to you
Although the certainty here is death
This is unanimously agreed upon by commentators
It is as in the words of God Almighty, a story about the words of the infidels
We used to lie about the Day of Judgment
Until certainty came
Is there anyone more certain in his faith than the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace?
He continued to worship God until he passed away
He went out to the Companions while he was dying while they were praying
He prayed with them
The servant does not stop serving God
As long as he is in the assignment house
God has two servitudes over creation
Public and private
It is general slavery
It is the slavery of oppression and kingship
This is a choice for anyone
Everything belongs to God and is under His will
It is concerned with the words of God Almighty
Everyone in the heavens and the earth
Except that the Most Merciful comes as a servant
And the Almighty said
And from God it hurts
And God wants injustice to His servants
And the Almighty said
God has judged among the servants
In addition to other verses that are useful
All creation are slaves of the Lordship of God Almighty
It is slavery for which they are not rewarded
No one departs from it
As for private slavery
It is the slavery of the people of His love and obedience
It is concerned with the words of God Almighty
O servants, there is no fear for you today
Nor do you grieve
And the Almighty said
And the servants of the Most Gracious who walk on earth are humble
And if the ignorant people address them
They said hello
And the Almighty said
My servants, you have no authority over them
And other verses
The people of this slavery are the divine servants of God Almighty
And they rent it
All creation are slaves of the lordship of God Almighty
The people who obey him and test him are the servants of his divinity
Differentiation between worship
The basis for differentiating between acts of worship
It is what arises in the heart of the servant during worship
Of sincerity, love, fear and hope
And work to please the Lord at all times
According to the requirements of that time and its function
The best acts of worship are during jihad
It is jihad
Even if it leads to abandoning the rituals of night prayer and daytime fasting
And so on
The best worship is when the guest is present
He is doing his right
Even if that distracts from the desirable roses
The best of them is during magic
Ask forgiveness
As God Almighty said
And at dawn they ask for forgiveness
And so on
Every time and situation has its own worship and function
There is also differentiation in worship and good deeds
It is also governed by the following rules
Firstly
The obligatory duties take precedence over the voluntary ones
Better than it in the sight of God Almighty
As in the Holy Hadith
My servant does not draw near to Me with anything more beloved to Me than what I brought him close to
My servant continues to draw near to Me with voluntary acts of worship until I love him
Narrated by Al-Bukhari
The obligations are an introduction
The voluntary prayers are complementary
Secondly
A permanent little is better than an intermittent lot
As he, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
And the most beloved deeds to God Almighty
I will last it even if it is small
Narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim
Strength and diligence in worship
God Almighty said
And remember our servant David, the One with the Hands
It's Owab
That is, the one who has the power to obey and worship
He is receptive
That is, a lot of repentance, return to God, and supplication to Him
This requires that one strive to obtain the reasons for the power of worship
And not to rely on breakage and unemployment that undermine this strength
Self-weakening
He hates worship and is lazy in performing it
One of the characteristics of hypocrites
May God condemn the hypocrites, the greatest hypocrisy
The ultimate disparagement
And prove their disbelief
God Almighty said
What prevented them from accepting their expenses?
However, they disbelieved in God and His Messenger
They do not come to prayer unless they are lazy
They do not spend unless they are unwilling
The verse also described hypocrites as being lazy in prayer
He hates spending for the sake of God
It made sense of it
However, the servant must perform the prayer
He is active in heart and body
And not to spend for the sake of God
Unless he is happy with his expense
He hopes that this will be preserved and rewarded from God alone
He does not resemble hypocrites in their laziness and hatred of worship
The effort of unbelievers to worship and supplicate to other than God
It does nothing for them
No matter how hard the unbelievers work in worshiping and praying to their gods
This will avail them nothing before God
God Almighty said
He has the right call
And those who call upon other than Him will not be answered with anything
Except as one who throws his hands into the water to reach his mouth, but he does not reach it
The supplication of the unbelievers is nothing but misguidance
Let no one be deceived by the diligence of the infidels in their worship
And they don't get better with it
This does not benefit the truth at all
Ihsan deals with two main things
One of them is kindness in worship
It is the highest level of worship
As he, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
When Gabriel, peace be upon him, asked him about charity
To worship God as if you see Him
If you don't see him, he sees you
Agreed
He asked him this after asking him about Islam and faith
The second is kindness to creation
And from it is the saying of God Almighty
Those who spend in good times and bad
And those who suppress anger and pardon people
And God loves the doers of good
The perfection of benevolence is in doing both things
Ihsan in worshiping the Creator
And kindness in dealing with people
The two matters are combined in the words of God Almighty
And do not cause corruption in the land after it has been restored
And call upon Him in fear and hope
God's mercy is close to those who do good
Where the Almighty’s saying indicates
And do not cause corruption in the land after it has been restored
On kindness in dealing with people
This is indicated by the Almighty’s saying
And call upon Him in fear and hope
On goodness in worshiping God Almighty
Then the verse was arranged to bring about both matters
Obtaining the mercy of God Almighty
God's mercy is close to those who do good
The more charitable the servant is
He was closer to the mercy of God Almighty
This is an encouragement to do good
What is not hidden
Secret worship
Worship God in secret
One of the most confirmed signs of sincerity and good secrets
The predecessors, may God have mercy on them
They are keen to hide the benefit of their deeds other than the obligatory ones
God Almighty said
I pray to your Lord humbly and secretly
He does not like aggressors
He, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
God loves the pious, rich, and hidden servant
Narrated by Muslim
Al-Zubayr bin Al-Awwam, may God be pleased with him, said
Make for yourself a hidden area of good deeds
You also have a hiding place for bad deeds
There are many sayings of the Salaf regarding this matter
Worship is coupled with trust in God
And use it
Worship is often associated in revealed texts
By trusting in God
And use it
As in the words of God Almighty
You we worship and You we seek help
And the Almighty said
So worship Him and trust in Him
And what is that?
Except because the servant lacks God Almighty
In terms of what is desired, the beloved and the idol
And since he is the one responsible for whom help is relied upon
Through worship, the divinity of God Almighty is revealed
By relying on Him and seeking His help
His divinity is revealed
Slavery cannot be achieved except in these two ways
Just as seeking God’s help in all matters is possible
Whether or not it is a matter of worship itself
Instead of pairing it with it in the dhikr in the verse of Al-Fatihah
Seeking help from God in worship
She praises a slave for her performance
And protect him from wonder by worshiping him
And whoever thinks that it is within his power and strength
It also prevents laziness
And he was negligent in doing it
Whoever seeks help from God in worshiping Him
May God help him
Whoever neglects to seek help
God entrusted it to Himself
He became weak and lazy
And in prioritizing worship over seeking help in remembrance
In the verse of Surat Al-Fatiha
Rhetorical jokes
One of the most important ones
Worship is the goal for which the servants were created
And seeking help is a means to it
The ends take precedence over the means
Achieving servitude by knowing the Most Beautiful Names of God
His highest qualities
God Almighty did not mention His names and attributes
In his noble book
Let's get to know it theoretically only
Rather, he mentioned it to understand its meanings and facts
We reflect on its causes and requirements in the universe
And its effects on the heart and limbs
We pray to God Almighty with it
As God Almighty said
And God has the most beautiful names, so call upon Him by them
And leave those who deny His names
They will be rewarded for what they did
This is knowledge and this prayer
They are what most fulfills a person’s servitude to God Almighty
One knows that the Lord Almighty is unique in providing benefit and harm
And giving, and giving, and creation, and sustenance
Revival and death
All of this produces for the servant the servitude of trusting in God for our survival
The requirements for this trust are clear
It also produces fear of him alone
And his hope is alone
And love and glorify Him
And so it is with all the other beautiful names of God
His highest qualities
Moderation in worship
Worship in Islam
A middle ground between people of estrangement and division
And the people of extremism and monasticism
Those who worship excessively
The life of this world deceived them
They held on to it and ran after it
Their standards were all worldly materialistic
Explain who these people represent
The Jews whom God said about them
You will find them to be the most eager for life among those who associate others with others
Someone would like to live a thousand years
They are keen on life
So in disguise
Which benefits love of life, whatever it is
Even if it was an animal filled with instincts and desires
That is why they deserve to be described as those who are angry at them
For their refusal to comply with legitimate orders
And they circumvent it for their worldly interests
And the gallons in worship
Their extremism pushed them to prohibit what God permitted
And the innovation of monasticism
Like the Christian monks and their servants
Those who have deprived themselves of marriage and good things as a means of livelihood
They saw this as an abomination caused by Satan
They returned God's blessings to them
They were not guided to the truth in the matter of worship
They deserved to be described as lost
The former are people of division and immorality
The others are people of exaggeration, exaggeration, and innovation
All the predecessors had warned against them
The concept of moderation of worship occurs in Islam
Looking at the texts of the two revelations in this regard
And bring them together
To work some and leave others
The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
The Mujahid is the one who strives against himself
He is the same one who said to the three who
They asked about his worship
It's like they said if it were
Someone said:
As for me, I never arrive at night
Another said
I fast all day long and do not break my fast
Another said
I stay away from women
I will never get married
He, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
You are the ones who said such and such
By God, I fear you
And I fear him
But I fast and break my fast
I pray and sleep
And I marry women
Whoever turns away from my Sunnah
It is not from me
In the first text, he urged diligence in worship
In the second, he forbade exaggeration in it and monasticism
His approach, may God bless him and grant him peace
Based on moderation and balance between rights and duties
And when Salman Al-Farsi said to Abu Darda, may God be pleased with him
Your Lord has a right over you
And for yourself you really have to
And your family has a right over you
So I give everyone his right
He, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
Salman is right
Also, may God bless him and grant him peace
He permitted vows that were lawful
The rejected innovator was invalidated
When he saw a man standing
He asked about him
They said he vowed to stand and not sit
He does not seek shade or speak
And he fasts
He once said, "Let him speak."
And let him stay and sit
And let him complete his fast
Narrated by Al-Bukhari
This is part of the moderation of worship
One of the central areas of worship
Moderation is evident in worship
In several fields
One of them first
Mediating in supplication to God between loudness and silence
God Almighty said
Do not pray loudly or silently
And you want a way in between
Secondly
Do not transgress in purification and supplication
As he, may God bless him and grant him peace, said
It will be in this nation
People who transgress in purification and supplication
Narrated by Ahmed and Abu Dawood
It was authenticated by Ibn Hajar and Al-Albani
And Shuaib Al-Arnaut
And assault during purity
It is by spending it and exceeding the limit
Because of obsessiveness, for example
And aggression in prayer
It can also be done by raising the voice
It can also be done by praying in an unlawful way
God Almighty said
I pray to your Lord humbly and secretly
He does not like aggressors
Third
Mediation between license and determination
From the legal licence
He does not go with it until he comes out with it
About the legal intent
For example, it is legally permitted
Delaying the noon prayer in extreme heat
To cool it so that it is not prevented
Free humility therein
And the extension of this license
To cool down in the afternoon and delay
One of the fruits of worship
Worship in its comprehensive sense bears fruit
What was previously explained has great fruits for the servant
The most important of them is first
Attachment to God alone
And lack of it and dispense with everything else
And God Almighty spoke the truth when he said
Isn't God sufficient for His servant?
And the Almighty said
Say: God is sufficient for me
Those who trust in Him trust
Secondly, attachment to God alone
He inherits courage and perseverance
And sacrifice for him
And tranquility of the heart and peace and happiness of the soul
This fruit was most evident
In the elite of creation, among God’s prophets
And His messengers, as Noah said
O people, if it is too much for you
My place and my reminder of God’s signs
In God I trust
So gather your affairs and your partners together
Then let your matter not be a burden to you
Then they judged me without looking back
Hud, peace be upon him, said
So they all plotted against me
Then don't look
God Almighty said about His Prophet Muhammad
May God bless him and grant him peace
Say: Invite your partners, then plot against me
Don't look
It is the guardian of God who revealed the book
He takes care of the righteous
Third, winning God’s approval
And his love and paradise
Whoever does what God loves and is pleased with
This is the meaning of worship
He will undoubtedly receive his love and satisfaction
And he will be among the people of Paradise who will enjoy
With its bliss, the greatest of which is the pleasure of God
In the Holy Hadith
God Almighty says to the people of Paradise
O people of Paradise
They say, “At your behest, our Lord.”
And I will make you happy, he says
What is ours that we are not satisfied with?
You have given us what you have not given to anyone else
Who created you?
I give you better than that
They said, Lord
And anything is better than that
May my satisfaction be upon you
I will not be angry with you after that
Never
He stated that God’s pleasure is better
From all the bliss of heaven
Fourth, asceticism in this world
And preferring the afterlife to her
Summary of Sunni concepts