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them to keep looking at the Kaba e sheriff and to keep reciting the durood because of the barakah of that place. 3. The ziarat (the act of visiting) of the Prophet .Even today Prophet is there in the masjid and special times are arranged for both and women separately so they greet Prophet with their salams. With these three purposes, the women used to come to Masjid-un-Nabawi during the time of the Prophet .The (daleel) evidence for this is during the time of the Prophet ,there were nine more masajid other than the Prophets Masjid in madinah munawarrah in different locations. There are two books of Hazrat Abu Dawood (RA). One is Sunnan Abu Dawood and the maraasil Abu Dawood is attached at the end of Sunnan Abu Dawood. In the second page of maraasil Abu dawood, the names of nine masajid are given but there is not a single narration that says that women went to any of these nine masajid. They used to come only to the Masjid-un-Nabawi. If we think that their purpose was to offer salah, then they would have gone to other Masajid to offer salah but there is not a single narration that states that. They used to come only to the masjid-un-nabawi and for the three main purposes. As the deen was being revealed and they are supposed to learn, they visited the masjid. Today our female children learn deen in maktab (a place where Quran is learnt) and in those days, there were no books and everyone have to learn deen as it was revealed and so people learnt coming to the masjid. Second is for the ziarat of the Prophet and today is to offer salam at the roza-emubarak (blessed grave) of the Prophet .Now when women go to to masjidun-nabawi offer their salam, they will offer salah too. And third is for the barakah of the sacred places of mecca and masjid.
In those days, as there were no books, this was not the method of learning. Whatever masla one has, they ask directly to the Prophet and he answers. This was in practice for a long time like the students of ilm would sit and ask the teacher. The teacher would answer their questions and the students will write down the answers and this has been the method. One Sahabi asked the Prophet ,if a person has a wet dream and he wakes up, is ghusl wajib on him? Prophet said if he sees wetness in his cloth, then ghusl is wajib. It sometimes so happens one has a dream but no wetness is seen in his clothes when ghusl wont be wajib. Hearing the reply of the Prophet ,Hazrat Umme Sulaim (RA) who was sitting at the back asked, O Prophet of Allah, what if this happens to a woman? Prophet said that same is the case for the women. When a fruit say the watermelon was cut half with a knife, both the portions of the fruit will have same characteristics. If one portion is sweet, the other too will be sweet. They are portions of the same fruit. Prophet told that men and women are two portions of the same fruit. So whatever ahkam (religious commandments) that has come for men, it is also for women and vice versa. Same is the case of this masla which is for both men and women.
worship any other thing whatever with Allah, that they will not steal, that they will not commit adultery (or fornication), that they will not kill their children, that they will not utter slander, intentionally forging falsehood, and that they will not disobey thee in any just matter,- then do thou receive their fealty, and pray to Allah for the forgiveness (of their sins): for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (AlQuran: 60:12) When women come to give bayt, the Prophet was asked to accept their bayt on some conditions which is the same for men too. In fact there are many evidences from ahadeeth where Prophet took bayt from men on the same conditions as described in Quran in connection to the women. Hence it has been proved that whatever the masail that comes in Quran and sunnat related to men, it will be valid for women and vice versa. Why? Because both men and women are human beings and both are the children of Adam (AS). Those ahkaam which are based on being a human, it applies to both men and women. But then human beings are of two kinds like men and women when some features will be distinct to each kind and so some commandments will be slightly different. For example, men will get beard and women wont. Shaving the beard for men is haram while for women if some hairs grow out, it is waajib for her to shave. So there are specific differences between men and women which both men and women understand. In such cases of coming down to a specific gender, there will be different commandments for both men and women as such conditions are met only with the specific gender like monthly period is seen only in women, so the commandments related to that will be only for women and what is that to do with men. But one must understand that such differences in commandments related to different gender are just 1%. And 99% of the commandments are common to both men and women. Women should understand that based on gender, the difference in commandments is to do just with 1% and as a human in general, 99% of commandments applies to both.
that 1% if only the women are present. When both men and women are present, how can there be talk on that 1%? When I spend my time during ramadhan in Uk and USA, every day after zuhr salah, there used to be the ijtima of women. I used to sit in my room and deliver the lecture keeping in mind the masail for women. It so happens that the men who come to leave their women will sit in front of me during such lectures. I drive them away because if men sit in front of me, then I will have to talk related to them and not women, and when I will be alone in the room with no men, then I can deliver lecture specifically for women and those lectures are of not much use to men and it is not even necessary for them. There is a hadith where some women told the Prophet that always in his majlis, men dominate them and so the topic specific to women do not come up and so they requested him to allot some specific time for them where there are only women. The Prophet also allotted specific time in a day where there were only women and he delivered lecture only based on women. Similarly on the day of Eid, during the khutbah (sermon) when many men were sitting in front of him and women were sitting at the back, Prophet talked about things common to them both. After delivering the khutbah, the Prophet instructed the people to sit as such and He took Bilal and reached to the place near the women going through the rows of men and delivered speech specific to women.
and have bank balance. In Asia, women might not be having money but they would have lot of jewels saved and they dont leave any way to save them. So Prophet asked them to give their jewels if not money in charity. He also told them that he saw more women in hell. One thing to be noted here is apart from the great miraj journey of the Prophet ,he had taken five or six times spiritual tour as found in the ahadeeth and he has seen the hell. So Prophet told that he found the women more in jahannam (hell). And jahannam is the place of Allahs anger. The one with whom Allah is angry, only he will go to hell. It has been said in a hadith that charity extinguishes the anger of Allah and the Prophet also instructed one to give in charity and prepare to save from hell.
husband says something, she will say what good she found in his house! After tasting the favors from him all her life, she still says that. So Prophet said, You women are ungrateful to the husband for all his favors. A hadith says if one is grateful to the people, he becomes grateful to Allah also. When one is ungrateful to the people and that too to a husband who is very closely related, then how can she become grateful to Allah ?The Prophet continued, The third deficiency in you women is in spite of being deficient in deen and also in aql (intellect), you people are so tactful that you get control over men of sharp mind. She can spoil the relation of her husband with his mother, father and his siblings. A woman can so control the men that his keen intelligence doesnt work before her. It is now very obvious that when a woman gains control over the intellect of man, then she will so make him do things that should not be done. This might lead to quarrels, fights and fasaad. As the woman is behind this all, that becomes a reason for her to enter jahannam. Then another woman stood up and asked, O Prophet of Allah, why is that we are deficient in religion and aql? See, this is the glory of the Companions be it the men or the women that they used to accept every part of deen after understanding it. They dont fall for commandments being blind and deaf. It comes in Surat-ulFurqaan; Wallatheena itha thukkiroo biayati rabbihim lam yakhirroo AAalayha summan waAAumyana. Those who, when they are admonished with the Signs of their Lord, droop not down at them as if they were deaf or blind; (Al Quran: 25:73). The slaves of Ar-Rahman when they hear naseeha (advise) related to Allah ,they dont fall for it deaf and blind. If they get any doubt in their hearts, they used to get clarified immediately. These are women and the woman is asking here when men and women are human in general, then why that is their aql is deficient? Prophet asked her, Dont we have two women in place of one man in case of witness in Quran? The women had knowledge of Quran and so they said, Yes, O Rasoolullah !This is in the Quran. Prophet then said, This is because of the deficiency of your intellect. Now only this much is in the hadith and I would like to clarify this a little more. The womens intellect as such is not less than men
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for there are many intelligent women who passed away and who are still present. If there are foolish women, then so we have foolish men. If there are extra-ordinary intellects among men, so there are among women.
anymore. As the two sons were growing up, she involved completely in politics and made a great progress. If we see the Islamic history and see the women making such progress, we wont see many children in their married life. Even if they had, there will be someone to take care of the kids. So Prophet didnt explain in detail but he sufficed them with the example of two women bearing witness in place of one man. Then about deficiency of deen, he asked, There are days in a month when you dont pray or fast, isnt it true? The Prophet is saying because of not praying salahs in specific days, women remain behind men in deen. So women miss prayers every month and also fasting in the month of ramadhan which she makes up in other eleven months. Though her prayers are forgiven, men continuously offer salah going to masjid and they pray sunnat salahs, nafil salahs and do other forms of zikr. Only farz salahs of women are forgiven while men exceed them in offering other salahs like sunnat and nafil. Similarly when women cannot fast in ramadhan and obviously she was forgiven and she fasts in other months, the men fast right in the month of ramadhan which has its own barakah. The women then affirmed to what the Prophet said about their deficiency in deen.
Islam is concerned, the aqeedah (belief) and aamaal (acts/deeds) will be same for both men and women. There can be minute difference in aamal like women cannot pray during her periods and fast during ramadhan but as far as aqeedah and aamal in general are considered they are same for both men and women. I said in the beginning, when women come to the assembly they expect that specific topic related to them be presented. Certainly such things should be presented but that will happen only when there are women in the assembly and not the men. But when the assembly is mixed, then the topic too will be a mixed one applying to both men and women.
purpose of deen is to establish the rule of Allah but the purpose is to create the fikr (concern) of akhirah and he runs everything on this keela.
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An analogy to ponder
Whatever the other people mentioned above is not wrong for they are right in their own position but that is not kutburrahaa, the keela of mill, on which the upper whole part of chakki goes around. We say in our sermon daily to have fikr for akhirat for that is in Quran and hadith and having fikr for akhirat is not a wrong thing but this is not kutburrahaa and the whole of the deen doesnt go around this. As far as establishing the deen of Allah on the earth, this is obviously a great purpose, this is not a wrong thing but then making it the kutburrahaa and to make run the whole of the deen around this is not right. Take the example of a tree, it has a stem and then there are broad branches, then small branches arise from those big branches and from there comes the leaves, flowers and fruits. So now what is the stem of the tree of Islam? This is ridhwaan minallah, the pleasure of Allah .In every amal, this should be in the mind that my amal should be liked by Allah and my Allah becomes pleased with me. This should be in the mind whenever we do the amal. And then when we get good opportunity, we should establish the rule of Allah but this is not the stem but one of the branches. We should do this when we get the opportunity. If one makes effort to establish the rule of Allah , then the purpose here is again the pleasure of Allah .
Khilafat committee in UK
Let me tell you something. In UK, there was a Khilafat committee and this is an old thing. They had their own parliament too. Once they got my appointment to discuss on this topic. About 10-12 youths came. I arranged tea for them and after having tea there was a silence as I wanted them to start as it is they who came to discuss on this topic. After some time, a young man from them asked me, Hazrat, what is the shariats command in establishing the Khilafat? I said that it is farz and that ended their conversation. They remained silence because they thought if I say something contrary to this, they will present evidence to prove that point. After this silence, they asked me, Why dont you join our khilaafat committee? I said,
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You skipped one question in between these questions and you have jumped directly to this third question. So ask me the second question They said, What is that second question? I said, Ask me where it is farz to establish the rule of Allah ?They apologized for not asking that question and they asked me for the reply. I said, Establish the Islamic rule in the Muslim countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc., which is presently not run by the Islamic rule. I told them to establish Khilafat in Misr (Egypt) when they said that there they chop off the head. I told them, O slaves of Allah! UK is not a Muslim country. People left you here to have some peaceful life. So why to create a fuss here troubling the life of other muslims? If you desire for Khilafat, you should go to the Muslim country and should try there. So we should establish Islamic rule where the conditions are met and this is not the stem but a branch.
comprehensive word and there is nothing like deeni act and dunyawi act but a deed is either righteous or wrong. Even the salah is either a good deed or a bad deed. If the intention behind offering salah is show-off, then it is a bad deed. If a man does a job thinking that he will earn halal income and take care of those under his care and responsibility, then this job is also a work of deen. So finish off the division between deen and dunya. Whoever does a good deed with eemaan then out of all the creations of Allah ,he is the best of the creatures. Now when one does righteous deed with eemaan, when he will get the reward? Here in this world, he wont get the reward.
that this worldly life is just quarters of a day compared to the hereafter. Cant a believer wait even for quarter of a day to get his reward? Just pass through this worldly life and return to Allah where the reward is prepared. Now what is the reward? Jazaohum AAinda rabbihim jannatu AAadnin tajree min tahtiha alanharu khalideena feeha abada. Their reward is with Allah. Gardens of Eternity, beneath which rivers flow; they will dwell therein for ever; (Al-Quran: 98:8). And there is a greater reward than the jannah, which is radiya Allahu Aanhum waradoo Aanhu. Allah well pleased with them, and they with Him: (Al-Quran: 98:8). We arrange wedding for our daughters and the bride goes to the husbands place. When the daughter gets love and affection in husbands house, it wont matter if the son in law lives even in a small house for it wont make much difference but if the daughter doesnt get love and affection even if her husband has a palace like house, then that wealth is cursed for what is the use of that wealth? So if Allah is pleased with His slaves and His slaves are pleased with their Lord, then what can be the greater reward than this? But, who gets this reward? Thalika liman khashiya rabbah. All this for such as fear their Lord and Cherisher. (AlQuran: 98:8). Thaalika points to both the rewards: Jannah and radiya Allahu Aanhum waradoo Aanhu. Who will get both these rewards? Thalika liman khashiya rabbah. The one who has taqwa (piety) will receive those rewards.
wish. Fear similar to this should be developed for Allah that one has love and desire for Him and he becomes firm to obey Allahs every single command. Whatever Allah commanded us to do, we should do all those things and whatever Allah has forbidden us from doing things, we should refrain from such things. This condition of the heart is called as taqwa. Regarding the animal of qurbani that gets sacrificed, Allah says, Lan yanala Allaha luhoomuha wala dimaoha walakin yanaluhuttaqwa minkum. It is not their meat nor their blood that reaches Allah, it is your piety that reaches Him. (Al-Quran: 22:37) The qurbani meat enters the cooking pot and the blood goes down to the drainage. This blood doesnt reach Allah but the love of your heart through this Qurbani reaches Allah .With whatever passion you sacrificed the animal that will reach Allah .And the Quran says that the one who has taqwa will get the reward. The taqwa is the basis for everything. Eeman is a tree and the fruit that comes out of that tree is taqwa. That is why Allah says, Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo ittaqoo Allaha. O ye who believe! Fear Allah. You have planted the tree of eemaan and now bring the fruit of taqwa. Fear Allah and bring the passion and string desire in the heart that you should fulfill every command of Allah .Now your tree has brought fruits and has become fabulous. This is not taqwa when there is no passion in the heart of being a Muslim like you grow beard when your wife permits and shave it when she or the employer doesnt permit, you pray when you get time and leave it when you dont find time, you pay zakat when you like and when some poor comes to your house and leave it when none asks you. This is not taqwa. Taqwa is when you get the courage and passion in the heart that you should fulfill every command of Allah .Now if one errs while fulfilling commands that is a different thing as human errs and Allah forgives through repentance. But if there is no desire at all and one fulfills the commands as he likes like when he gets time, then this is not taqwa and the tree is
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fruitless. Now how to bring this fruit taqwa? This is very easy. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo ittaqoo Allaha wakoonoo maAAa alssadiqeen. O ye who believe! Fear Allah and be with those who are true (in word and deed). (Al-Quran: 9:119). Be in the company of those who already got taqwa with eemaan. A muskmelon gains color looking at the color of the other muskmelon. When one is in the company of a person who is very righteous and steadfast in prayers, the other will start praying salah even if he remains with him for just three days. Be in the company of righteous and slowly and slowly the taqwa will emerge. This is the meaning of Thalika liman khashiya rabbah. You know that just with eemaan, direct salvation is not assured. The muslims who sinned may have to go through hell if Allah didnt forgive their sins. But if one gets the fruit taqwa and gets passion, he might get both the rewards: Jannah and the pleasure of Allah . Brothers and sisters, whatever eemaan we have, it is merely because of the grace of Allah .Now just concentrate if you have the taqwa and passion in your heart and if not, read the books about pious people, go in jamaat, sit in the company of pious guide for at least one hour every week, and strive to be in the company of righteous. 100% success will come only when the tree of eemaan gets the fruit of taqwa. This is the gist of this lecture. Let Allah SWT grant us all taqwa, make us pious and keep us steadfast. Ameen
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