LET'S START TONIGHT'S EDUCATION. OUR TOPIC IS 👇. *AQEEDAH AT-TAWHEED (Episode 21)

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AS AS SALAAMU ALAYKUM WARAHMATULLAH WABARAKAATUHU. LET'S START TONIGHT'S EDUCATION. OUR TOPIC IS 👇.                                                                                *AQEEDAH AT-TAWHEED (Episode 21)*                                                               

 
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▪️ *The Prohibitions of abusing the Companions and the Imams of guidance*
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*▫️. The Prohibition of abusing the Companions*
Of the fundamentals of Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah is to keep their hearts and tongue free from abuses against the Companions of the Allah's Messenger as described by Allah saying: *"And as for those who came after them, they say: 'Our Rubb, forgive us and our brothers who preceded us in the faith, and do not allow rancor in our hearts against those who believe. Our Rubb! You certainly are Compassionate, Merciful."* (59:10).
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And out of obedience to the Messenger of Allah who warned saying: _*"Do not abuse my Companions. By the One in Whose hand is my life, where one of you to expend in charity an amount of gold equal to Mount Uhud, he would not receive the reward for a Mudd of food given in charity by one of them."*_ [Bukhari and Muslim]
Ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah denounces the methods of the Shiite (Rejectionists) and the Kharijite who abuse the Companions of the Prophet, and hate them, deny their merits and impute infidelity to most of them.
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Ahl as-Sunnah also recognizes what is mentioned in the Book and Sunnah about their merits and believe that their generation is the best of all, as the Prophet emphasized: _*The best of you is my generation."*_ [Bukhari and Muslim]
The Prophet asserted that his Ummah shall be divided into seventy-three sects and that all of whom will end up in Fire except one. When he was asked about that saved sect, he described it saying: _*"It is the sect that adheres to what I and my Companions are adhering today."* [Ahmed and others].
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In his book, 'Nihayat al-Mubtad'ieen', *the Scholar, Ibn Hamdan says:* _"He who abuses any Companions believing it is lawful to do so, becomes an infidel, and if he abuses them knowing that it is unlawful to do so, he would be Fasiq."_
_He also said that he would be absolutely Kafir, and he who imputes Fisq or speaks ill of their faith or imputes Kufr to them, he himself becomes a Kafir or infidel."_ *[Sharh Aqeedat As-Safarini vol.2, pp. 388-389]*.
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*Abu Zara', one of the most respected Shaikhs of Imam Muslim said:* _"If you hear a man abusing any Companion, then you should know that he is zindiq (one who does not believe in the world to come, nor in the Oneness of Allah, or the one who conceals unbelief and makes an outward show of belief), that is because the Qur'an is true, and the Messenger is true, and whatever the Messenger was sent with is true, and it was the Companions of the Prophet who passed this to us. Therefore, he who abuses them, in fact, abuses the Book and the Sunnah. In that case, he would be the one who deserves to be abused, and imputing to him Zandaqah and deviation would be fair and just."_ .
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*▫️. The Prohibition of Abusing the Imams of Guidance, the Scholars of this Ummah.*

Next to the Companions in merit, honor and status, come the Imam of guidance among the Tabi'een  and their followers among the preferred generations, along with those who follow the Companions with piety, as Allah says: *"And as for the foremost among the believers, the first of the Immigrants and the Helpers, and those who followed them in the best manner, Allah is well pleased with them, and they are well pleased with Him; and He has prepared for them Gardens beneath which flow rivers."* (9:100).
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Based on the above Ayah, it is not permissible to disrespect and abuse them because they are the banners of guidance as Allah describes them saying: *"And as to him who opposes the Messenger after guidance has become clear to him, and follows a way other than that of the believers. We shall let him pursue the way he is pursuing, and shall cast him into Hell, and an evil destination it is."* (4:115).
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The commentator on at-Tahawiyyah said: _"It is the duty of every Muslim after aligning himself with Allah and His Messenger to align himself with the believers, according to the instructions of the Qur'an. Particularly those among them who are the heirs of the Prophets, whom Allah has placed as stars that guide out of the darkness on land and sea._ The Muslims are unanimously agreed on their right guidance and knowledge because they are the successors of the Messenger in His Ummah who revive the forgotten parts of his Sunnah.
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The Book was established by them, and they were established by it, and by them, the Book was applied, and they speak with it. They are all at unison on the incumbency of following the Messenger. But if one of them made a statement that is not substantiated by an authentic Hadith, then he must have a valid excuse for not taking that Hadith. The excuses for not considering the authentic Hadith may be summed up in three:

*🔸The first:* He did not believe that the Prophet said that Hadith.
*🔸The second:* His belief that he meant that particular issue with his statement.
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  *🔸The third:* He believed that the ruling which is based on that particular Hadith is abrogated.

Those Imams are superior to us in terms of precedence in Islam, piety and conveying to us what the Messenger was sent with and explaining to us what is obscure, therefore. May Allah be pleased with them and may He please them, and supplicate Allah in their favor, as He says: *"And as nor those who came after them, they say: 'Our Rubb, forgive us and our brothers who preceded us in the faith, and do not allow rancor in our hearts against those who believe. Our Rubb! You certainly are Compassionate, Merciful."* (59:10)..

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End of Today's Education. Subhanakallahuma wabihamdik ash-Hadu an llaaila Ilan Anta wastagfiruka wa atuuubu ilayhi.*We shall continue on this topic tomorrow in sha Allah*. May Allah Azza wajjala strengthen and make us steadfast in faith. May HE accept our ibaadat and grant us the Good in this World and the Hereafter. May Allah Azza wa jalla forgive and grant us Jannah...Aa MIN