WEBVTT 00:00:00.180 --> 00:00:09.539 Summary of the concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah 00:00:09.539 --> 00:00:14.009 Moderation in worship 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. 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. 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:34.039 So all their measures were materialistic and worldly. 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:37.039 And the clearest representation of these people 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:40.039 are the Jews, concerning whom Allah said: 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) 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) 00:00:51.070 --> 00:00:53.070 So they are eager for life, 00:00:53.070 --> 00:00:55.070 thus, in indefinite form, 00:00:55.070 --> 00:00:59.070 which implies a love for life, whatever it may be, 00:00:59.070 --> 00:01:03.070 even if it is animalistic, filled with instincts and desires. 00:01:03.070 --> 00:01:06.069 And for this reason, they deserved to be described as 00:01:06.069 --> 00:01:08.069 the ones who have incurred Allah's wrath, 00:01:08.069 --> 00:01:11.069 for their refusal to comply with religious commands 00:01:11.069 --> 00:01:16.069 and their cunning maneuvers to circumvent them for their worldly benefit. 00:01:16.069 --> 00:01:18.069 And those who are extreme in worship, 00:01:18.069 --> 00:01:22.069 their extremism led them to forbid what Allah had made lawful, 00:01:22.069 --> 00:01:24.069 and to innovate monasticism, 00:01:24.069 --> 00:01:27.069 like the monks of the Christians and their worshippers, 00:01:28.069 --> 00:01:33.069 who forbade themselves marriage and good things from sustenance, 00:01:33.069 --> 00:01:36.069 and considered that an abomination from the work of Satan. 00:01:36.069 --> 00:01:39.069 So they rejected Allah's bounty upon them, 00:01:39.069 --> 00:01:42.069 and did not find guidance to the truth in the matter of worship. 00:01:42.069 --> 00:01:46.069 So they deserved the description of being astray. 00:01:46.069 --> 00:01:49.140 The former are people of deficiency and sin, 00:01:49.140 --> 00:01:53.140 and the latter are people of excess, extremism, and innovation. 00:01:53.140 --> 00:01:56.140 And the salaf warned against both of them. 00:01:56.140 --> 00:02:00.260 And the concept of moderation in worship in Islam is summarized 00:02:00.260 --> 00:02:04.260 by considering the texts of the two revelations on this matter, 00:02:04.260 --> 00:02:06.260 and combining some of them with others, 00:02:06.260 --> 00:02:10.259 to act upon some of them and abandon others. 00:02:10.259 --> 00:02:14.259 The Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, who said: 00:02:14.259 --> 00:02:17.259 "The mujahid is he who strives against himself." 00:02:17.259 --> 00:02:21.259 is the same one who said to the three men who asked about his worship, 00:02:21.259 --> 00:02:24.259 as if they found it burdensome, 00:02:24.259 --> 00:02:29.259 so one of them said: "As for me, I will pray all night, always." 00:02:29.259 --> 00:02:34.259 And another said: "I will fast all day and never break my fast." 00:02:34.259 --> 00:02:37.259 And another said: "I will abstain from women, 00:02:37.259 --> 00:02:40.259 and never marry." 00:02:40.259 --> 00:02:43.259 So the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: 00:02:43.259 --> 00:02:46.259 "You are the ones who said such and such." 00:02:46.259 --> 00:02:51.259 "But by Allah, I am the most fearful of Allah among you and the most pious." 00:02:51.259 --> 00:02:55.259 "However, I fast and break my fast, I pray and I sleep," 00:02:55.259 --> 00:02:57.259 "and I marry women." 00:02:57.259 --> 00:03:01.259 "Whoever turns away from my Sunnah is not of me." 00:03:01.259 --> 00:03:05.259 So he urged in the first text the striving in worship, 00:03:05.259 --> 00:03:09.259 and in the second he forbade extremism and monasticism. 00:03:09.259 --> 00:03:12.490 So his path, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 00:03:12.490 --> 00:03:16.490 is based on moderation and balance between rights and obligations. 00:03:16.490 --> 00:03:21.490 And when Salman al-Farisi said to Abu al-Darda', may Allah be pleased with him: 00:03:21.490 --> 00:03:24.490 "Indeed, your Lord has a right over you," 00:03:24.490 --> 00:03:26.490 "and your self has a right over you," 00:03:26.490 --> 00:03:29.490 "and your family has a right over you." 00:03:29.490 --> 00:03:32.490 "So give each one his due." 00:03:32.490 --> 00:03:35.550 The Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: 00:03:35.550 --> 00:03:37.550 "Salman has spoken the truth." 00:03:37.550 --> 00:03:40.550 Likewise, the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, 00:03:40.550 --> 00:03:43.550 permitted what was legislated from vows, 00:03:43.550 --> 00:03:46.550 and invalidated the innovative and rejected ones. 00:03:46.550 --> 00:03:49.550 When he saw a man standing, 00:03:49.550 --> 00:03:52.550 he asked about him, and they said: 00:03:52.550 --> 00:03:55.550 "He vowed to stand and not sit," 00:03:55.550 --> 00:03:58.550 "and not seek shade, and not speak, and to fast." 00:03:58.550 --> 00:04:01.580 So he said: "Tell him to speak," 00:04:01.580 --> 00:04:04.580 "and to seek shade, and to sit," 00:04:04.580 --> 00:04:07.710 "and to complete his fast." 00:04:07.710 --> 00:04:09.710 Narrated by Bukhari. 00:04:09.710 --> 00:04:12.710 And this is from the moderation of worship, 00:04:14.419 --> 00:04:17.420 Summary of the concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah.