Notes derived from
1)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyOBkFiQsBk&spfreload=10
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsEIkOz9JoA&spfreload=10
1) Tawheed
:- A stranger believes in tawheed. Tawheed is something very deep. It’s so deep that Allah Himself says about it
3:18 There is no god but He: That is the witness of Allah, His angels, and those endued with knowledge, standing firm on justice. There is no god but He, the Exalted in Power, the Wise.
Allah Himself bore witness to His oneness, and there isn’t anything or anyone greater than Allah and Allah doesn’t need to bare witness to something that is 100% the truth and nothing but the truth. But its so significant and so important for us to understand submission, that Allah Himself made that testimony, followed by the angels, followed by the scholars and then followed by all the evidences that you see on the earth that Allah is only One.
Tawheed is something which has been revealed to us, it is in our fitrah. Allah is beyond human capabilities and human intellect. That is why, when people use only their intellect and do not refer to the revelation, they end up taking others as Gods – such as god became a cow or god became a rat or god became a snake, and he became a tree and the sun and the moon and the animals and even insects became a god for these people, because they did not refer to revelation; instead they were using the feeble mind of theirs thinking that they understand.
Hence when your intellect comes in conflict with the revelation, its time to put your brain on vacation – that is Tawheed, otherwise one will go astray. True Tawheed is when you believe in Allah as He has revealed and describes Himself in the Quran and the Sunnah – this is very critical.
2) Following the Sunnah:
The stanger is a follower of the sunnah. It’s very important to define sunnah here – sunnah can mean the recommended voluntary acts of worship, or it could mean the way of the prophet (SAW) brought to us through the hadiths which could includes practices that are obligatory or recommended or mubah or makroo or haram.
So those who practice the sunnah, we are mainly focusing on doing the obligations and staying away from the haram – and that is the minimum we should do. How many muslims do that today? How many muslims today violate the hadiths and justify it by saying that the maulana said otherwise, or father or mother or uncle said otherwise, or back home that’s how we do islam?
3) Following the ways of the righteous predecessors :
- A stranger follows the ways of the righteous three generations that the prophet Muhammad (SAW) praised and gave them the special tazkiya that none of us can ever dream about
The best of mankind is my generation, then those who follow them, then those who follow them.
- Bukhari
The prophet(SAW) describes them as the ‘best of mankind”. We love these people, we are just stuck to them, we like to read what they said, do what they did and apply their understanding and application over anybody else afterwards, unless that person also did exactly what they did. Its just that simple. Anyone who has a problem following the sahaba and their ways, as was instructed by the prophet(SAW), then such a person is considered a serious deviant. However when we interpret their ways, we need to do it with wisdom, by keeping in mind the historical context in which it was said or practiced.
4) They are Patient:
- They show three kinds of patience – patience in obeying Allah, patience in staying away from disobedience and patience during times of calamities.
5) They love eachother for the sake of Allah:
- They truly love each other for the sake of Allah. Loving each other does not mean that we will not differ or maybe argue or fight sometimes, it does not mean that there is 100% compatibility. But at the end of the day, when it comes down to it, you love each other for the sake of Allah, even though you might differ at times.
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