It was narrated that Hanzalah al-Usaydi said:
Abu Bakr met me and said: How are you, O Hanzalah? I said: Hanzalah has become a hypocrite. He said: Subhaan Allaah! What are you saying? I said: When we are with the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) he reminds us of the Fire and the Garden until it is as if we are seeing them with our own eyes, but when we depart from the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), we attend to our wives and children and businesses, and we forget a great deal. Abu Bakr said: By Allaah, we experience something similar. Abu Bakr and I went and entered upon the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and I said: Hanzalah has become a hypocrite, O Messenger of Allaah. The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Why is that?” I said: O Messenger of Allaah, when we are with you, you remind us of the Fire and the Garden until it is as if we are seeing them with our own eyes, but when we depart from you, we attend to our wives and children and businesses, and we forget a great deal. The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “By the One in Whose hand is my soul, if you continued as you are when you are with me, and continued to remember (Paradise and Hell), the angels would shake hands with you in your homes and on the streets. But, O Hanzalah, there is a time for this and a time for that” (he said it) three times.
Narrated by Muslim (2750).
2 comments:
comforting.. but I find it hard to apply...Because carrying his soul/spirit in the street can be challenging without certain mandatory tools. tools such as...
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I don't understand what you mean bro.
From what I understand "By the One is whose hand is my soul" means the Prophet (saw) is swearing by Allah, saying if you were to keep up dhikr of Allah the sameway as when listening to the Prophet (saw) then the you would be near perfect (almost like an angel). You would probably witness a miricale...angels coming to shake hands with you in the streets!
But we are in fact human and can only strive for perfection...this doesn't make us a hypocrite. It is in fact closer to being normal because as the Prophet (saw) said...there is a time for this and a time for that...meaning if all your time is spent moving beads 33 times...when did you have time to apply your faith? build community life? feed the poor?
just my understanding...
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