4th Pillar: 9th Dars: (Messengers), from: 📗 Explaining (Hadeeth Jibrael)📗 By: Shaykh Ibn Othaimeen

  📗 Explaining (Hadeeth Jibrael)📗

By: Shaykh Ibn Othaimeen

What is it about? 👇👇

A great Hadeeth that gives a clear vison of what the Deen (Religion) of Islam is.
We will concentrate on the matter of faith (Iman).
We will study it from the explanation of Shaykh Ibn Othaimeen rA.

In this Dars will discuss: 👇👇

Due to the great care of Allah Taala about his slaves; He sent among every nation a human messenger to guide them to the correct way of worshipping Him.

How many are they?

What are their descriptions?

Who is the first messenger? and who is the last one?

What are their ranks?

What is the difference between a messenger and a prophet?

The 9th Dars (class):  

[4th pillar: The Belief in Messengers].

Dated 14th of Moharram 1446H👇👇 

4- The Belief in Allâh’s Messengers

 

It is the true belief that Allâh has sent among every nation a Messenger proclaiming them to worship Allâh alone with no other partner and disbelieves in what is worshipped else. And it is the belief that they are all pious, honest, trustworthy, and that they have proclaimed the Messages that have been sent to them quite clearly and they have relayed the argument of Allâh upon Alamin (mankind and jinn and all other creatures).

A Messenger is a person who is sent by a certain Message. And it is here the person who is inspired by legislation and ordered to proclaim.

The first Messenger is Nuh (Noah), and the last one is Muhammad r, Allâh I said, “إِنَّا أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَيْكَ كَمَا أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَى نُوحٍ وَالنَّبِيِّينَ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ” - meaning – {We have sent you inspiration (O Muhammad r), as We sent it to Noah and the Messengers after him}. Al-Bukhari narrated the Hadith (tradition) of Ash-Shafa’a (intercession) which states that people in the Day of Resurrection go to Adam to intercede for them, but he refuses to do so and he advises them to go to Nuh (Noah), the first Messenger Allâh sent to earth. Moreover, Allâh I said, “مَا كَانَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَبَا أَحَدٍ مِنْ رِجَالِكُمْ وَلَكِنْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَخَاتَمَ النَّبِيِّينَ” - meaning – {Muhammad r is not the father of any of your men, but (he is) the Messenger of Allâh, and the Seal (Last) of the Prophets}.

In fact, no nation or community ever passed without having a Messenger whom Allâh sends to his people with a new Legislation, or a Prophet with a preceding one to confirm it and renew its ordinances. Allâh I said, “وَلَقَدْ بَعَثْنَا فِي كُلِّ أُمَّةٍ رَسُولا أَنْ اُعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ وَاجْتَنِبُوا الطَّاغُوتَ” - meaning – {For We assuredly sent amongst every People a Messenger, (with the Command), "Serve Allâh, and eschew Evil}.

Messengers are human beings, who have no divine characteristics. Allâh ordered Muhammad r despite being the greatest Messenger and the most honest Prophet to say, “قُلْ لا أَمْلِكُ لِنَفْسِي نَفْعًا وَلا ضَرًّا إِلا مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ وَلَوْ كُنتُ أَعْلَمُ الْغَيْبَ لاسْتَكْثَرْتُ مِنْ الْخَيْرِ وَمَا مَسَّنِي السُّوءُ إِنْ أَنَا إِلا نَذِيرٌ وَبَشِيرٌ لِقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ” - meaning – {Say (O Muhammad r): "I have no power over any good or harm to myself except as Allâh will. If I had knowledge of the unseen, I should have multiplied all good, and no evil should have touched me: I am but a warner, and a bringer of glad tidings to those who have faith".}

They certainly have all human characteristics such as sickness and death and need for food and drink and so on. Allâh informed about Ibrahim (Abraham) that he said, “وَالَّذِي هُوَ يُطْعِمُنِي وَيَسْقِينِي. وَإِذَا مَرِضْتُ فَهُوَ يَشْفِينِي. وَالَّذِي يُمِيتُنِي ثُمَّ يُحْيِينِ” - meaning – {It is He Who gives me food and drink, And when I am ill, it is He Who cures me; Who will cause me to die, and then to live (again)}. And the Prophet r said, “إنما أنا بشر مثلكم أنسى كما تنسون” - meaning – “I am a human being just like you, so if I forgot something, you should remind me”.

As a matter of fact, Allâh has described his Prophets and Messengers with a high aspect of slavery and submission to Allâh when He praised them, as He said about Nuh (Noah): “إِنَّهُ كَانَ عَبْدًا شَكُورًا” - meaning – {Verily he was a devotee most grateful servant}, and said about the Prophet Muhammad r, “تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي نَزَّلَ الْفُرْقَانَ عَلَى عَبْدِهِ لِيَكُونَ لِلْعَالَمِينَ نَذِيرًا” - meaning – {Blessed is He Who sent down the Criterion to His servant, that it may be an admonition to all creatures}, and so as the rest of them, peace of Allâh be upon them.

 

The Belief in the Messengers includes four aspects:

First: the belief that their message is mere truth descended from Allâh, so that if anyone disbelieves in any of their message, he is a disbeliever in all of them. Allâh I said, “كَذَّبَتْ قَوْمُ نُوحٍ الْمُرْسَلِينَ” - meaning – {The people of Noah rejected the Messengers}, so He considered them disbelievers in all of the Messengers of Allâh in spite of the fact that there existed only one Messenger at their time. Similarly, Christians who disbelieved in Muhammad r and did not follow his Message are disbelievers in Isa (Jesus) as well, especially when he gave glad tidings of the Messenger Muhammad r to come after him. Moreover, his pronouncing the coming of Prophet Muhammad r would have no meaning if it was not to inform them that he is the Prophet by whom Allâh will save them from going astray and guide them to the Straight way (Islâm).

Second: the belief in whom we were informed about their names such as, Muhammad r, Ibrahim (Abraham), Musa (Moses), Isa (Jesus), and Nuh (Noah) and these are the Messengers of the Strong Will. Allâh I said, “وَإِذْ أَخَذْنَا مِنْ النَّبِيِّينَ مِيثَاقَهُمْ وَمِنْكَ وَمِنْ نُوحٍ وَإِبْرَاهِيمَ وَمُوسَى وَعِيسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ” - meaning – {And remember (O Muhammad r) that We took from the Prophets their Covenant: as (We did) from you: from Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus the son of Mary}.

However, those who were not informed about their names, we should believe in them as a whole, Allâh I said, “وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا رُسُلا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ قَصَصْنَا عَلَيْكَ وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ لَمْ نَقْصُصْ عَلَيْكَ” - meaning – {We did aforetime send Messengers before you: of them there are some whose story We have related to you, and some whose story We have not related to you}.

Third: the belief in what is sound of their tidings.

Fourth: to perform the descended rituals by the Messenger sent to us, who is their last (end) Prophet Muhammad r, who is sent to all mankind, Allâh I said, “فَلا وَرَبِّكَ لا يُؤْمِنُونَ حَتَّى يُحَكِّمُوكَ فِيمَا شَجَرَ بَيْنَهُمْ ثُمَّ لا يَجِدُوا فِي أَنفُسِهِمْ حَرَجًا مِمَّا قَضَيْتَ وَيُسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا” - meaning – “But no, by your Lord, they can have no (real) Faith, until they make you judge in all disputes between them, and find in their souls no resistance against your decisions, but accept them with the fullest conviction”.

 

The Belief in the Messengers brings forth to the believer so many significant benefits, like:

First: to know how Merciful Allâh is with His slaves and how He cares for them. This is because He sent to them these Messengers in order to guide them ahead to the Way of Allâh and show them clearly how to worship their Lord because the human mind is incapable to know that.

Second: to perform all thanks and praise to Allâh for this great grace.

Third: to love all Allâh’s Messengers and glorify and praise as it is suitable for them. This is because they are the Messengers of Allâh, who did what they had to do concerning worshipping and proclaimed the Word of Allâh to His slaves.

Despite this fact, obstinate people have denied their message claiming that Allâh should not have human messengers; however, Allâh mentioned this claim and repelled it by saying, “وَمَا مَنَعَ النَّاسَ أَنْ يُؤْمِنُوا إِذْ جَاءَهُمْ الْهُدَى إِلا أَنْ قَالُوا أَبَعَثَ اللَّهُ بَشَرًا رَسُولا. قُلْ لَوْ كَانَ فِي الأرْضِ مَلائِكَةٌ يَمْشُونَ مُطْمَئِنِّينَ لَنَزَّلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ السَّمَاءِ مَلَكًا رَسُولا” - meaning – {What kept men back from Belief when Guidance came to them, was nothing but this: they said. "Has Allâh sent a man (like us) to be (His) Messenger?" Say (O Muhammad r): "If there were settled, on earth, angels walking about in peace and quiet, We should certainly have sent them down from the heavens an angel for a messenger"}.

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