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Letter 2: The Case for the Prophecy of Women, Part I - The 6 Nabiyyas of the Andalusian Scholars

Peace be upon those who follow the right path. Which is to say, what’s up guys??

Okay, new letter, this time for one of my favorite topics, even though I know it’s not as pressing as some of the other ones I’ve got on my list. I’m procrastinating a little, forgive me: it’s kind of like how I’m still referencing Muhammad’s letters to diplomats and not the actual letters of Imam Mahdi because I’ve seen ar-Risaala but I still can’t find a good PDF with all the Imam’s letters in a format that doesn’t make my eyes hurt.

Y’all ready? Okay. Let’s do this:

If you don’t consider Prophet Maryam, peace be upon her, a Muslim Prophet, you are a fucking kaafir or a sexist or both.

(I mean that lovingly, but if you are gonna be offended by that, it is not gonna get better, I recommend a soothing night of Surat Maryam by Sheikh Abdulbasit Abdassamad, probably my favorite Egyptian reciter. I know my ancestors would be angry I’m recommending an Egyptian right now and not somebody like Sheikh Salih Ahmed Salih, who is great, but come on, Abdassamad is called “the Voice of Heaven” for a reason. Check him out!)

Okay, first of all, this is not just some 21st-century “oh, look, I wanna make Islam liberal” nonsense, this is a hot take that dates all the way back to Andalusia, Spain: back in the time Muslims ruled. When was it? Dunno, I hate numbers, don’t make me keep track of dates, but this is a take so hot it basically never left Spain. But I’m bringing it back, because I’m nothing if not a history nerd. I go crazy for this shit.

And so, let’s talk: the six female prophets (nabiyyas) of the Andalusian scholars.

“Hold the fuck up!” I hear a strawman calling out in the distance, “Aren’t Muslim prophets only supposed to be MEN, silly??”

Oh, get the fuck over yourself, ‘Umar, let’s have a look at this verse from the Song of the Prophets:

وَمَآ أَرْسَلْنَا قَبْلَكَ إِلَّا رِجَالًۭا نُّوحِىٓ إِلَيْهِمْ ۖ فَسْـَٔلُوٓا۟ أَهْلَ ٱلذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

We’ve only sent to you people MEN, MEN, underlines, circles, provides several citations of Arabic dictionaries, walking on their damn MANLY feet, who we delivered Revelation to (AKA inspired in white Christian). Ask THE PEOPLE OF REMEMBRANCE (they mean the Muslims, obviously, and my favorite Muslims specifically) if you don’t got a clue (like you, Shi’i heretic)

Ugh, don’t make me do this to you, ‘Umar. Okay, why don’t we actually talk about Song of the Prophets instead of just playing linguistics games that make the Recitation seem way more complicated than it actually is. Okay, so, what is the Song of the Prophets?

The Song of the Prophets is the 21st chapter (or surah) of the Uthmanic Bible, AKA the mushaf, the written Qur’an that you probably think of when somebody says “Qur’an,” which I call the Recitation. Anyways, Recitation Songs lowkey follow the “Tupac naming rule.” Some dude once showed me this YouTube video where Tupac was talking about how the best way to make a rap song is to just be as in the moment as possible, mentioning “what’s the last thing that nigga said? Okay, let’s make that the title of the song.” Recitation Song titles are lowkey like that. They’re usually just a name people picked cause it made this collection of verses easier to refer to, so sometimes Songs have multiple different names, but don’t think the Song title will always tell you what the Song is about. That said, the Song of the Prophets is built different, as the kids say. Basically every other verse is about another Prophet up until like the last 20 or something lines, like:

وَٱلَّتِىٓ أَحْصَنَتْ فَرْجَهَا فَنَفَخْنَا فِيهَا مِن رُّوحِنَا وَجَعَلْنَـٰهَا وَٱبْنَهَآ ءَايَةًۭ لِّلْعَـٰلَمِينَ (91)

PLUS the one who kept her legs closed (look, the Arabic isn’t much better, trust me), so we blew some of our Spirit into her and we made her and her baby boi a Sign to all of humankind

إِنَّ هَـٰذِهِۦٓ أُمَّتُكُمْ أُمَّةًۭ وَٰحِدَةًۭ وَأَنَا۠ رَبُّكُمْ فَٱعْبُدُونِ (92)

This is your community: one community, and I’m y’alls’ Lord, so worship me dudes

وَتَقَطَّعُوٓا۟ أَمْرَهُم بَيْنَهُمْ ۖ كُلٌّ إِلَيْنَا رَٰجِعُونَ (93)

It’s just that later on y’all fucking lost sight of yourselves and started overcomplicating this stuff; you’re coming back to Us, don’t worry.

I hope people aren’t offended by the way I’m translating these verses. I just don’t think that translating the Qur’an into Biblical English is always the right thing to do, especially if I’m tryna talk to fucking normal people and not people who, you know, don’t know enough Literary Arabic to understand the Recitation by ear alone (like I can…most of the time, the Medinan surahs are SO HARD).

Anyways, those verses come after a list of people that includes:

Yahya (John the Baptist): asexual prophet famous for giving his cousin Jesus a bath and starting a trend that took over the Roman Empire (and most of the world now)

Zakariya’s Wife: name isn’t mentioned, but she gets a miraculous baby in old age, also mentioned as somebody who does “good works” and prays a ton

Zakariya: Johnny’s dad, who’s most famous for…being Johnny’s dad!

Zun Nun/Yunis/Jonah: dude who gets swallowed by a whale, has a great verse here, he’s all “OKAY GOD I’M SORRY MAN DUDE FUCK I SHOULDN’T’VE BEEN SO SELFISH please forgive me” and God saves him in the nick of time. Boom!

Zul Kifl: Oh, don’t get me started on this guy.

Idris: Not, as some Nubians would have you believe, Nubian for “man of knowledge,” although this nigga did apparently learn to write thanks to God

Isma’il: forefather of the Arabs, who Muslims believe was about to be sacrificed by Ibrahim v.s. Isaac like Jews and Christians do. Ya see, Isma’il was the son of Ibrahim’s…err…sex slave, to put it in modern terms, or concubine, to put it like a historian. Sarah didn’t like him or her mom cause she was a Karen and she told Ibrahim “hey, get those motherfuckers outta here” so Ibrahim totally left them in the Arabian Desert.

Ayyub/Job: Mentions the part of the book of Job where the Prophet (well, according to Muslims, Christians don’t consider him a Prophet) has God come in and save him from his suffering, leaving out the part where God…er…put him through horrible suffering to prove a point to Satan and was also a total dick about it

Sulayman/Solomon: mentioned as genie tamer king and ultimate airbender Prophet

Dawud/David: don’t get me started on this guy, either.

Nuh: Ugh, let’s leave this one for another time.

Lut: Oh we’ll get to you, motherfucker. We will get to you.

Ya’qub/Jacob: Uhhh, Yousif’s dad? Cries his eyes out, I think?

Isaac: Ugh, the lightskin if we were to compare him to Isma’il and imagine them as kids of one Black American dude with a white American wife (Sarah) and a Black American wife (Hajar), deadass

Ibrahim: Ooh, it has the story of him smashing the idols in this one, best Ibrahim story, no cap

Muhammad: The opening is vaguely about him. It’s tryna establish his credentials by comparing him to these other famous figures.

Hmm, what do all these figures have in common with the Prophet Muhammad?

Well…they’re not all Jewish: Isma’il is, you know, the original Arab who gets kicked out of Palestine (I mean that in an anti-Zionist way, not an anti-Jewish way, to be clear, fuck anti-Semites). They are basically old dudes, except for like, one person: fucking Zakariya’s wife. Now, what does she have in common with Maryam? What do these two women who gave birth to famous prophets (Yahya/John and ‘Isa/Jesus) have to do with Muhammad?

Well, I mean, you could go with my very simple explanation: they’re Prophets. I mean, why the fuck not? You know, Andalusian Sunni Imam al-Ashari said Hawwa/Eve, Haajar/Agar, Moses/Musa’s Mom, Asiyah (Pharaoh’s wife, Musa’s adopted mom), Sarah (Isaac’s mom), and Maryam (Jesus’s mom) were all Prophets.

I mean, why not??

First of all, all of them receive revelation and the same word is used for it: wahy. Now wait! ‘Umar says: a BEEEEE receives wahy/Revelation at one point. Gonna call a bee a Prophet?

Ugh, ‘Umar, Prophets can only be humans, you know this, ‘Umar! That was the point of the line you were using to refute me! This is why the Recitation keeps going on and on and on about how human the Prophet Muhammad is: the point of sending an Arab dude and not an angel or something more obviously from God is because people would think they’re hallucinating that shit. Bring them a dude that speaks their language and speaks some fucking sense.

So, I mean, maybe that bee is a bee prophet. Who cares?? We’re talking about PEOPLE, ‘Umar, why can’t these people be Prophets? Fucking Surat Taha mentions how Musa’s Mom receives Revelation to chuck baby Musa into the river. Ya see, if she’d done that on her own, we’d call her a lunatic (or at least a severely negligent parent). But because God told her to do it (and it worked out really well, as far as chucking babies into the Nile goes), we respect Musa’s mom. Not to mention, her son is a Prophet. Hmm, who else does that apply to?

Well, Haajar is also the mother of a Prophet: Isma’il. Despite her lack of illustrious background compared to Ibrahim’s legal wife, Sarah, God likes her enough to, you know, tell Muslims to follow in her footsteps every year at Hajj. Literally. Plus, her son is super important to Muslims as the ancestor of Muhammad, at least in traditional belief. You know, doesn’t she get Revelation when the whole zamzam thing is going on?

Okay, Asiyah, when does she receive wahy? You got me, I think Andalusian guys just really liked her cause she raised Musa, and who doesn’t like Musa?

See, now Maryam is even more special. She’s so special, she is the only woman mentioned by name in the Qur’an, deadass, and she’s mentioned in a few hadith with some extended shahaadas, which Islamophobes love to point out to prove the Qur’an basically secretly worships Maryam???

I mean, people need to learn to read books. The Recitation likes Maryam because Maryam is literally the Mother of Jesus Fucking Christ, who is basically the most important Jewish Palestinian who ever lived. You know what that means, right??? This is the chick that RAISED Jesus, literally the most perfect Muslim boy to ever walk the face of the Earth. Dude was so perfect, God, depending on what you believe, either 1) loved him so much, he let that nigga get tortured to death then brought him back to life and took him to Paradise or 2) loved him so much, he saved that nigga from getting tortured to death in public (what most Muslims believe). And Prophet Maryam, according to Muhammad, was equally perfect: apparently the dude said that Iblis pricks every single child when they’re born, except Mary and Jesus. Now, literalists are gonna focus on how exactly it is Iblis, a being made of invisible fire, goes around pricking newborns but that’s really just not the fucking point. The point is, girl is pristine. The usual gross straight person way to read this is “well, yeah, she’s cool because despite not being a hoe she managed to still be a mom”

Uhhhhhh

What? No.

Muslims aren’t that obsessed with Maryam’s virginity compared to Christians, at least not in the same way. I mean, they care that she was a virgin when Jesus was born. Otherwise, what would be the point of making such a big deal about his birth? Dudes named Jesus were born all the time in 1st-century Palestine to moms named Maryam, these some basic-ass names. Like, I read this one book called Christians, Muslims, and Mary by some Catholic woman (I think she was Catholic? Might be wrong on that) who talked about how this one Muslim was arguing with a Christian whether or not Maryam’s hymen was intact after she gave birth to Jesus. The Muslim, having what I like to call “common sense,” said “who the fuck actually cares, like, seriously??? She gave BIRTH, how did her cherry survive that shit” while the Catholic was like “well, you know, if God can make a virgin give birth, why can’t he make her hymen survive the ordeal?”

I mean, flawless logic, but that’s besides the point. It’s notable that in Arabic, Christians call Mary Maryam al-’Adhraa’: Mary the Virgin, or Mary the Pure. The Prophet Muhammad, though, liked Maryam al-Batoul better: Mary the Secluded or Isolated, or Mary the Pure. But the point of the Recitation isn’t really to prove she’s a virgin, but it’s to prove she’s worth being Jesus’s mom. At the time Muhammad was walking around Arabia, dropping facts and hot takes left and right, Muhammad was pretty pissed with this thing a bunch of Jews who read the Babylonian Talmud were doing. They were spreading this pretty scandalous rumor: ya see, Mary wasn’t actually a virgin. Mary actually banged some Roman officer and gave birth to a bastard baby, Jesus Christ, who pretended to be the Messiah until the Jewish elite put an end to his misery by getting him tried and convicted as a sorcerer, before stoning him to death and hanging him on a tree.

So…Muhammad had some notes…

Which is why the Recitation, which is really concerned with correcting misunderstandings and refuting bad Abrahamic ideas, leaves Maryam’s supposed husband (Joseph) out of the story and focuses instead on how fucking badass Maryam is. Girl the son of Imran, a dude who’s LITERALLY named after Moses’s dad and descended from Aaron (Moses’ older bro, the Mario to his Luigi), plus her mom was also expecting to give birth to a prophet, cause, you know, that’s what descendants of ‘Imran do. They give birth to prophets. She dedicates her womb to God, hoping for a male prophet, and woops: it’s a girl! And God’s all:

إِذْ قَالَتِ ٱمْرَأَتُ عِمْرَٰنَ رَبِّ إِنِّى نَذَرْتُ لَكَ مَا فِى بَطْنِى مُحَرَّرًۭا فَتَقَبَّلْ مِنِّىٓ ۖ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ

Remember when Imran’s wife was like “yo God, I’ve dedicated whatever’s in my belly to you man, completely, so accept it; you’re the one who knows and hears prayers.”

فَلَمَّا وَضَعَتْهَا قَالَتْ رَبِّ إِنِّى وَضَعْتُهَآ أُنثَىٰ وَٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا وَضَعَتْ وَلَيْسَ ٱلذَّكَرُ كَٱلْأُنثَىٰ ۖ وَإِنِّى سَمَّيْتُهَا مَرْيَمَ وَإِنِّىٓ أُعِيذُهَا بِكَ وَذُرِّيَّتَهَا مِنَ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنِ ٱلرَّجِيمِ

Then she gave birth and was like “Oh God, I gave birth to a girl! And God knew I’d give birth to a girl, and women are definitely not like men. I’mma name her Maryam – servant of God – and I pray God protects her from fucking Satan.”

فَتَقَبَّلَهَا رَبُّهَا بِقَبُولٍ حَسَنٍۢ وَأَنۢبَتَهَا نَبَاتًا حَسَنًۭا وَكَفَّلَهَا زَكَرِيَّا ۖ كُلَّمَا دَخَلَ عَلَيْهَا زَكَرِيَّا ٱلْمِحْرَابَ وَجَدَ عِندَهَا رِزْقًۭا ۖ قَالَ يَـٰمَرْيَمُ أَنَّىٰ لَكِ هَـٰذَا ۖ قَالَتْ هُوَ مِنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ ۖ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَرْزُقُ مَن يَشَآءُ بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ

And God accepted her prayer, made her prettier and more pure till she grew up and started living with Zakariya. Every time he came into her room he found tons of fruits around her. He was like “Mary, where the fuck did you get this shit?” And Maryam was like “I got it from God, dude, God provides limitlessly for whoever he likes.”

You think somebody God loved that much couldn’t be a prophet? Just cause she’s a woman who never got married?

I like to think of Maryam as the queen of the asexual women. Maybe her celibacy isn’t about her proving to the dudes she’s magic, or just about that. Maybe…she didn’t want to have sex. Maybe she was fine enough on her own. I mean, she fucking gives birth in the desert in the Qur’an and the only person who helps her out is God.

This is why Andalusian scholars were all so convinced. These 6 women are mothers of prophets, and in the Recitation, prophethood tends to be passed down familially. Well, that’s what I think, but I also think Imam Ali was a better choice than Abu Bakr for first caliph.

And you know, it makes sense with the Islamic worldview. Who’s the first Prophet? Adam. Who was the other Prophet there? HAWWA, EVE, his wife! Girl passing down the prophethood, too, like all the other prophet wives, cause somebody’s gotta raise the prophets. Even the Prophet Muhammad had a religious mentor: the love of his life, Khadija. In my opinion, she was the last of the female prophets. She raised Fatima, who’s literally known as the Queen of the Queens of Paradise in Islam, and was the Prophet Muhammad’s favorite daughter. The Prophet Muhammad had nobody but Khadija when he started out. She was literally the first Muslim woman, tremendously literate in Christian literature since her uncle, Waraqah, was a priest, plus she was a business woman who went to Syria (where a bunch of Christians lived) all the time. She was the one who encouraged him to be a Prophet. She was the first to identify the Light in him. She was taken early…before Muhammad left Mecca, after which, Muhammad actually starts getting called nabi (prophet) in the Recitation, not just rasuul (messenger). Almost like he took the position, filling a vacancy.

I like to think of a nabi as somebody charged with preaching God’s truth to their community, as opposed to a rasuul, somebody charged with preaching God’s truth within their community, like Prophet Maryam with the Jews. That is, assuming they’re different things. Maybe they’re one in the same, in any case, I don’t see a great reason not to count these 6 chicks as prophets.

Prophets Maryam, Hawwa, Umm Musa, Asiya, Haajar, Sarah: all women who received revelations and were also key parts of the lives of the 6 super important Muslim prophets, Jesus Christ, Adam, Moses…Moses again, Ismail, Isaac, and Ibrahim! Not to mention, God also inspires Musa’s sister, Miriam, to tell Asiya to bring in Umm Musa to nurse Musa. You know the Christians consider her a prophet? She did become a leper later, though, but I don’t think getting sick is disqualifying for a prophet…

You might say “hey! Never heard of this take.” But also, like, you know, this take is older than the entire country of Sudan and basically any of the modern Muslim theocracies y’all think practice “true Islam.” Be careful. You have more options than you think, gay Muslims of the world. It’s fine if you wanna be atheist, but don’t let people kick you out of a relationship with the God you want to have a relationship with, deadass. Wish I’d learned that earlier! Knowing this could’ve helped.

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tamamita · 5 months

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They way I've seen Zionists call Anti-Zionists "self-hating Jews" is on the same level as Salafists/Wahhabists doing Takfir (declaring a Muslim an disbeliever)// uh??? who are those? Salafists & Wahhabist? weird names

Salafism is a movement within Sunni Islam. It's a group of Muslims that emphasise individual interpretation (ijtihad) of Sunni Hadiths and Qur'anic interpretation in the way of the "pious predecessors" (=salaf). The Salafs were basically Muslim scholars in the first three centuries of Islam. They're pretty strict and adhere to a fundemantal doctrine of Sunni Islam with a literalist interpretation (athari). They reject the notion of Taqlid (following a school of thought on Islamic opinions). While they don't deny the opinions of these schools, they simply hold that laymen Sunnis should adhere to ijtihad. They are particularly invested in the works of Ibn Taymiyyah, an extremist scholar, who is notorious for his polemics against other Islamic groups or heterdox interpretation of Islam and its followers, mostly Shi'a Islam. Wahhabism is a particular movement within Salafism that follows the opinions of Muhammed ibn Abdul Wahhab.

Al-qaeda, ISIS, Jaysh al-Islam, Tahrir al-Sham are a few examples of Salafist groups.

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basicsofislam · 24 days

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ISLAM 101: AN INTRODUCTION TO HADITH: Part 2

The Hadith Studies and The Sunnah: Part 2

SCOPE OF SUNNAH

The word Sunnah has acquired different meanings across different disciplines.

Every discipline has employed the term with a meaning suitable to its own particular methodology. Jurists have used Sunnah as the antithesis of bid’a as well as those narrations which serve as the source of legal rulings. According to them, hadith and Sunnah are in this sense synonymous. In books of Islamic jurisprudence, however, Sunnah is used to mean those religious commandments which are not religiously obligatory or necessary for human beings.

In Islamic legal theory or methodology of fiqh, Sunnah represents the communications of the Prophet, outside the Qur’an, conducive to functioning as demonstrative evidence. Moreover, not being restricted to its evidential nature, Sunnah has also been defined as everything, other than the Qur’an, issuing from Allah’s Messenger.

The practice of the Companions has also been called Sunnah, for their practice could well be conveying a Prophetic practice that has not reached us in the form of ahadith. ( Shatibi, Al-Muwafaqat, 4:2) For this reason, the words and sayings of the Companions have been related by scholars of hadith (muhaddithin) along with their list of transmitters, like the hadith. The Companions’ devotion to the Sunnah led them to either seeking a particular practice of the Prophet in their every act or to determining their way via independent reasoning (ijtihad) in accord with the Sunnah. Moreover, Allah’s Messenger himself enjoined his community to follow the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs who succeeded him:

“Hold fast to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the Rightly Guided Caliphs.”( Sunan at-Tirmidhi, Ilm, 16)

HADITH QUDSI

Among the revelations communicated to the noble Prophet, the words of which cannot be recited in worship, are the words ascribed to Allah.

The Prophet conveyed these words from his Lord, to the people. These Traditions are referred to as Hadith Qudsi or Divine Hadith. For instance, Allah’s Messenger stated that Allah said,

“My mercy prevails over My wrath.”( Sahih al-Bukhari, Tawhid, 15)

These words are those belonging to Allah verbatim. However, as this statement was not revealed to the Prophet as part of the Qur’an, it is not a Qur’anic verse. Due to its wording not being communicated through revelation, it is also not of a miraculous nature with respect to its wording. As a result, it cannot be recited in place of the Qur’an during the Prescribed Prayer.

The words narrated by Allah’s Messenger as the words of Allah are juristically subject to the rules which apply to hadith. By means of adding His words among those of His Messenger, Allah the Almighty demonstrates the value and regard He places upon him and his Sunnah.

IMPORTANCE OF ADHERENCE TO THE SUNNAH

Those who best know the Sunnah’s importance are the Companions.

They preferred adherence to the Sunnah to everything else. When Abu Bakr was appointed caliph, the Prophet’s daughter Fatima went to him and requested her share in the Prophet’s inheritance. Despite his loving the Prophet’s relatives more than his own, he reminded Fatima of something he had heard from Allah’s Messenger. He had heard something from the Messenger, which Fatima had not:

“We, the community of the Prophets, do not bequeath anything. Whatever we leave is charity.” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Khums, 1)

He thus declined Fatima’s request. Such was his faithfulness to the Sunnah that it had overcome even his own sentiment.

The Companions preferred the Sunnah to their own views and opinions. If there was a hadith in relation to a particular matter, they immediately followed it, and when they were made aware of a hadith that they had hitherto not known, they would instantly abandon their own views and adhere to that hadith. During his caliphate, Umar had embarked on an expedition to Syria for the purpose of inspecting the army. When he heard that pestilence had broken out in Amwas, he was undecided as to whether or not he should return to Medina. Abdu’r-Rahman ibn Awf said to him:

“I heard the Messenger say: ‘If you hear that pestilence has broken out in a place, do not enter it. If you are in such a place already, do not leave it.’” Upon hearing these words, Umar returned without hesitation. (Sahih al-Bukhari, Tibb, 29)

Known for his sagacity and knowledge, Ali said in reference to wiping over indoor boots during the ritual ablution:

“If the religion were based on opinion, it would be more important to wipe the under part of the shoe than the upper but I have seen the Messenger of Allah wiping over the upper part of his shoes.” ( Sunan Abu Dawud, Tahara, 63)

With these words, he has drawn attention to the transcendental nature of religion and has expressed the importance of adherence to the Sunnah.

The Prophets are exempted by Allah from all kinds of sin and wrongdoing.

Allah has sent down upon them His blessing and mercy and has commanded the believers to entreat Him for the Prophets and demonstrate their attachment to them with the following Qur’anic verse:

Surely Allah and His angels bless the Prophet (He always treats him with His special mercy, with the angels praying to Him to grant him the highest station of praise with Him, and for the decisive victory of his Religion). O you who believe, invoke the blessings of Allah on him, and pray to Allah to bestow His peace on him, greeting him with the best greeting. (Love and follow him with utmost sincerity and faithfulness, and give yourselves to his way with perfect submission). (al-Ahzab 33:56)

Deeming the fulfillment of the injunction in this verse a religious obligation, Muslim scholars have asserted that saying “peace be upon him” (alayhis- salam) when the names of Prophets are mentioned and “upon him be peace and blessings” (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) at the mention of Prophet Muhammad’s name, is indispensable.

Invoking the peace and blessings of Allah upon Allah’s Messenger at the first mention of his name is necessary (wajib), while recommended and rewarded (mustahab) at repeat mentions. Furthermore, such expressions of praise and devotion as “our master”, “noble Messenger” and “most illustrious Prophet”, in prefix to his name, at each and every invocation is a demonstration of our reverence and respect to him.

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Mempertahankan kebenaran yg kita rasa benar atau memilih untuk melihat melalui perspektif orang lain? kadang tu rasanya mau mempertahankan pendapat tapi jadi malah ngerasa paling egosi, dan takut malah jatohnya ngerasa paling bener. Menurut mu mana yg lebih baik diantara kedua itu?

Kebenaran itu seharusnya absolut. Karena harus absolut, maka harus ada pedoman yang mendasari, bukan sebatas asumsi perorangan. Terkecuali bagi mereka yang sudah ditaraf mujtahid (memiliki kemampuan dalam mengambil ijtihad), tapi itupun tetap dilandasi nash-nash Al-Qur’an dan sunnah. Bukan semata asumsi/perasaan pribadi. Apalagi kalau keputusan yang berdampak buat banyak orang.

Dilain sisi, syura (musyawarah) kedudukannya lebih tinggi dan terpuji dibanding dengan keputusan yang lahirnya hanya dari diri sendiri (misal dalam memutuskan satu perkara). Hikmahnya adalah kebijaksanaan pendapat/pilihan akan didapatkan ketika dilahirkan dari banyak kepala. Pandangan A, pandangan B, dsb. baru dicarikan titik temu, mana yang paling banyak maslahatnya.

Dari dua paragraf diatas, maka kalau konteksnya adalah keputusan yang bakal berdampak buat banyak orang, upayakan tanyakan ke ahli atau lebih baik dirapatkan dengan beberapa orang. Supaya ada perspektif lain. Bahkan keputusan untuk pribadi aja, juga kalau perlu tanyakan orang yang mafhum atau setidaknya punya pengalaman dalam hal itu.

Memang nggak mudah, mengelola perasaan “paling benar” itu. Tapi disitulah seninya, menuntut adanya kedewasaan dan kesabaran. Makanya ada ulama yang pernah bilang :

Puncak dari adab (etika) adalah saat kau diam mendengarkan dengan seksama pada seseorang yang sedang menyampaikan satu hal yang sangat kau pahami sementara dia tidak lebih tahu darimu.

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The Life of The Prophet Muhammad(pbuh): The Battle of Tabuk and Afterwards

Sending Governors and Zakah Collectors to Towns

In the 10th year of the Migration, the sun of Islam started to shine magnificently in many towns. Meanwhile, the Prophet sent governors and zakah, sadaqah collectors to all of the towns where Islam spread. Najran, Hadramut, San’a, Kinda, Sadif, Yemen, Zabid, Rima, Aden, Sahil, Janad (Yemen) were among the places where governors and zakah collectors were sent.

Muadh b. Jabal is Sent to Yemen

It was when the Prophet was sending governors and zakah collectors to Muslim towns.

One day, after the morning prayer, he turned to the congregation and asked, “Who would like to go to Yemen?”

Hazrat Abu Bakr said, “I would, O Messenger of Allah!”

The Prophet did not answer; he kept silent.

After a while, he asked again, “Who would like to go to Yemen?”

This time, Hazrat Umar stood up and said, “I would, O Messenger of Allah!”

The Prophet did not answer Hazrat Umar, either.

After waiting for a while, he asked again, “Who would like to go to Yemen?”

Muadh b. Jabal stood up and said, “I would, O Messenger of Allah!”

Thereupon, the Prophet said, “O Muadh! This is your duty.”

At that time, Yemen was divided into three governorship. Muadh was appointed as the governor of Janad, the biggest one. He was going to be the judge there; he was going to teach people Islam and the Quran; he was also going to receive the zakah and sadaqah collected by the collectors.

While Muadh was about to leave Madinah, the Prophet said to him, “When a case is brought to you to settle, how will you make your judgment?”

Muadh said, “I will decide based on the decrees in the book of Allah.”

The Messenger of Allah asked, “If you cannot find it in the book of Allah, how will you make your judgment?”

Muadh answered, “I will judge based on the sunnah of the Messenger of Allah.”

This time, the Messenger of Allah said, “If you cannot find it in the sunnah of the Messenger of Allah, how will you make your judgment?”

Muadh said, “Then, I will make ijtihad based on my own view and make a judgment.”

The Prophet became very glad when he heard what he said. He showed his contentment by saying, “Praise be to Allah! He became content with the envoy of the Messenger of Allah and made him successful.”

The Orders and Advice of the Prophet

While Muadh was about to set off, the Prophet gave him the following orders and advice:

“You are going to a nation from the people of the Book. Invite them to believe in Allah and to witness that I am the Messenger of Allah. If they accept it, tell them that Allah has enjoined on them five prayers to be offered in one day and one night. And if they agree to it, tell them that Allah has enjoined on them zakah of their properties and it is to be taken from the rich among them and given to the poor. And if they agree to that, then take from them Zakah but do not take the best property of the people. Avoid the curse of an oppressed person because there is no veil between his prayer and Allah.”

Meanwhile, Muadh b. Jabal asked the Prophet to give him some advice. He said,

“O Messenger of Allah! Give me some advice.”

The Messenger of Allah said, “Fear Allah no matter where you are.”

Muadh said, “O Messenger of Allah! Give me some more advice.”

The Prophet said, “If you commit a sin, do a good deed immediately after it so that it will eliminate the sin.”

Muadh said, “O Messenger of Allah! Give me some more advice.”

The Prophet said, “Treat people with high ethics.”

The last piece of advice the Messenger of Allah gave to Muadh and Abu Musa al-Ash’ari, whom he sent together with Muadh, when he saw them off was:

“Make things easy for people, do not make it hard for them; give them good tidings and do not make them hate. Get on well with each other; do not fall into dispute.”

HAZRAT ALI IS SENT TO YEMEN(10th Year of the Migration, the month of Ramadan / AD 631)

The Prophet gave Ali the duty of going to Mazhijes in Yemen and inviting them to Islam. There were three hundred cavalrymen with Hazrat Ali.

When the Prophet was about to see Hazrat Ali off, Hazrat Ali asked, “O Messenger of Allah! What shall I do?”

The Prophet said, “Proceed until you reach their land; when you reach there, invite them to say, ‘La ilaha illallah’. If they say, ‘La ilaha illallah’, order them to perform prayers. Take zakah from them and distribute it to the poor. Do not ask anything else. Know it very well that if Allah gives someone guidance through you, it is better for you than everything that the sun rises on in the eye of Allah. Do not fight them unless they fight you.”

Upon this order, Hazrat Ali went to Yemen with the mujahids under his command. He invited the people who met him to become Muslims. The people did not accept it and resisted them.

Thereupon, Hazrat Ali arranged his army and fought them. The enemy could not resist the mujahids and had to accept to become Muslims.

Some of their leaders went to Hazrat Ali and told him that they became Muslims and that they were the representatives of the tribes behind them. They also brought their zakah and gave it to Hazrat Ali.

Later, Hazrat Ali returned and reached the Prophet during the Farewell Hajj.

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