1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:09,539 Summary of the concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah 2 00:00:09,539 --> 00:00:14,009 Moderation in worship 3 00:00:14,009 --> 00:00:22,010 Worship in Islam is a middle path between those who are negligent and fall short in it, and those who are extreme and practice monasticism. 4 00:00:22,010 --> 00:00:30,039 As for those who are negligent in worship, worldly life has deceived them, they clung to it, and they ran after it. 5 00:00:30,039 --> 00:00:34,039 So all their measures were materialistic and worldly. 6 00:00:34,039 --> 00:00:37,039 And the clearest representation of these people 7 00:00:37,039 --> 00:00:40,039 are the Jews, concerning whom Allah said: 8 00:00:40,039 --> 00:00:47,039 “And thou wilt find them greediest of mankind for life and (greedier) than the idolaters. (Each) one of them would like to be allowed to live a thousand years. And to live (a thousand years) would be no means remove him from the doom. Allah is Seer of what they do.” (2:96) 9 00:00:47,039 --> 00:00:51,070 “And thou wilt find them greediest of mankind for life and (greedier) than the idolaters. (Each) one of them would like to be allowed to live a thousand years. And to live (a thousand years) would be no means remove him from the doom. Allah is Seer of what they do.” (2:96) 10 00:00:51,070 --> 00:00:53,070 So they are eager for life, 11 00:00:53,070 --> 00:00:55,070 thus, in indefinite form, 12 00:00:55,070 --> 00:00:59,070 which implies a love for life, whatever it may be, 13 00:00:59,070 --> 00:01:03,070 even if it is animalistic, filled with instincts and desires. 14 00:01:03,070 --> 00:01:06,069 And for this reason, they deserved to be described as 15 00:01:06,069 --> 00:01:08,069 the ones who have incurred Allah's wrath, 16 00:01:08,069 --> 00:01:11,069 for their refusal to comply with religious commands 17 00:01:11,069 --> 00:01:16,069 and their cunning maneuvers to circumvent them for their worldly benefit. 18 00:01:16,069 --> 00:01:18,069 And those who are extreme in worship, 19 00:01:18,069 --> 00:01:22,069 their extremism led them to forbid what Allah had made lawful, 20 00:01:22,069 --> 00:01:24,069 and to innovate monasticism, 21 00:01:24,069 --> 00:01:27,069 like the monks of the Christians and their worshippers, 22 00:01:28,069 --> 00:01:33,069 who forbade themselves marriage and good things from sustenance, 23 00:01:33,069 --> 00:01:36,069 and considered that an abomination from the work of Satan. 24 00:01:36,069 --> 00:01:39,069 So they rejected Allah's bounty upon them, 25 00:01:39,069 --> 00:01:42,069 and did not find guidance to the truth in the matter of worship. 26 00:01:42,069 --> 00:01:46,069 So they deserved the description of being astray. 27 00:01:46,069 --> 00:01:49,140 The former are people of deficiency and sin, 28 00:01:49,140 --> 00:01:53,140 and the latter are people of excess, extremism, and innovation. 29 00:01:53,140 --> 00:01:56,140 And the salaf warned against both of them. 30 00:01:56,140 --> 00:02:00,260 And the concept of moderation in worship in Islam is summarized 31 00:02:00,260 --> 00:02:04,260 by considering the texts of the two revelations on this matter, 32 00:02:04,260 --> 00:02:06,260 and combining some of them with others, 33 00:02:06,260 --> 00:02:10,259 to act upon some of them and abandon others. 34 00:02:10,259 --> 00:02:14,259 The Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, who said: 35 00:02:14,259 --> 00:02:17,259 "The mujahid is he who strives against himself." 36 00:02:17,259 --> 00:02:21,259 is the same one who said to the three men who asked about his worship, 37 00:02:21,259 --> 00:02:24,259 as if they found it burdensome, 38 00:02:24,259 --> 00:02:29,259 so one of them said: "As for me, I will pray all night, always." 39 00:02:29,259 --> 00:02:34,259 And another said: "I will fast all day and never break my fast." 40 00:02:34,259 --> 00:02:37,259 And another said: "I will abstain from women, 41 00:02:37,259 --> 00:02:40,259 and never marry." 42 00:02:40,259 --> 00:02:43,259 So the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: 43 00:02:43,259 --> 00:02:46,259 "You are the ones who said such and such." 44 00:02:46,259 --> 00:02:51,259 "But by Allah, I am the most fearful of Allah among you and the most pious." 45 00:02:51,259 --> 00:02:55,259 "However, I fast and break my fast, I pray and I sleep," 46 00:02:55,259 --> 00:02:57,259 "and I marry women." 47 00:02:57,259 --> 00:03:01,259 "Whoever turns away from my Sunnah is not of me." 48 00:03:01,259 --> 00:03:05,259 So he urged in the first text the striving in worship, 49 00:03:05,259 --> 00:03:09,259 and in the second he forbade extremism and monasticism. 50 00:03:09,259 --> 00:03:12,490 So his path, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 51 00:03:12,490 --> 00:03:16,490 is based on moderation and balance between rights and obligations. 52 00:03:16,490 --> 00:03:21,490 And when Salman al-Farisi said to Abu al-Darda', may Allah be pleased with him: 53 00:03:21,490 --> 00:03:24,490 "Indeed, your Lord has a right over you," 54 00:03:24,490 --> 00:03:26,490 "and your self has a right over you," 55 00:03:26,490 --> 00:03:29,490 "and your family has a right over you." 56 00:03:29,490 --> 00:03:32,490 "So give each one his due." 57 00:03:32,490 --> 00:03:35,550 The Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: 58 00:03:35,550 --> 00:03:37,550 "Salman has spoken the truth." 59 00:03:37,550 --> 00:03:40,550 Likewise, the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 60 00:03:40,550 --> 00:03:43,550 permitted what was legislated from vows, 61 00:03:43,550 --> 00:03:46,550 and invalidated the innovative and rejected ones. 62 00:03:46,550 --> 00:03:49,550 When he saw a man standing, 63 00:03:49,550 --> 00:03:52,550 he asked about him, and they said: 64 00:03:52,550 --> 00:03:55,550 "He vowed to stand and not sit," 65 00:03:55,550 --> 00:03:58,550 "and not seek shade, and not speak, and to fast." 66 00:03:58,550 --> 00:04:01,580 So he said: "Tell him to speak," 67 00:04:01,580 --> 00:04:04,580 "and to seek shade, and to sit," 68 00:04:04,580 --> 00:04:07,710 "and to complete his fast." 69 00:04:07,710 --> 00:04:09,710 Narrated by Bukhari. 70 00:04:09,710 --> 00:04:12,710 And this is from the moderation of worship, 71 00:04:14,419 --> 00:04:17,420 Summary of the concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah.