Hold on Tightly!

🌿Friday Reflections🌿
“ Hold on Tightly ”

A beautiful hadith by the Prophet (ﷺ), prophesized the events that were to come after him. All these trials📍 , deviations 🪃 from the truth, struggles 😔 and falsehood💥…..nowadays it’s hard to differentiate between righteousness 🌾 and untruthfulness.🥀

عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو السَّلَمِيِّ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ الْعِرْبَاضَ بْنَ سَارِيَةَ، يَقُولُ وَعَظَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ مَوْعِظَةً ذَرَفَتْ مِنْهَا الْعُيُونُ وَوَجِلَتْ مِنْهَا الْقُلُوبُ فَقُلْنَا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ هَذِهِ لَمَوْعِظَةُ مُوَدِّعٍ فَمَاذَا تَعْهَدُ إِلَيْنَا قَالَ ‏ “‏ قَدْ تَرَكْتُكُمْ عَلَى الْبَيْضَاءِ لَيْلُهَا كَنَهَارِهَا لاَ يَزِيغُ عَنْهَا بَعْدِي إِلاَّ هَالِكٌ مَنْ يَعِشْ مِنْكُمْ فَسَيَرَى اخْتِلاَفًا كَثِيرًا فَعَلَيْكُمْ بِمَا عَرَفْتُمْ مِنْ سُنَّتِي وَسُنَّةِ الْخُلَفَاءِ الرَّاشِدِينَ الْمَهْدِيِّينَ عَضُّوا عَلَيْهَا بِالنَّوَاجِذِ وَعَلَيْكُمْ بِالطَّاعَةِ وَإِنْ عَبْدًا حَبَشِيًّا فَإِنَّمَا الْمُؤْمِنُ كَالْجَمَلِ الأَنِفِ حَيْثُمَا قِيدَ انْقَادَ ‏”‏

It was narrated from ‘Abdur-Rahman bin ‘Amr As-Sulami that:
He heard Al-‘Irbad bin Sariyah say: “The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) delivered a moving speech to us which made our eyes flow with tears 😭 and made our hearts ❣️melt. We said: ‘O Messenger of Allah. This is a speech of farewell. What did you enjoin upon us?’ He said: ‘ I am leaving you upon a (path of) 🛤️ brightness 🔆 whose night🏙️ is like its day.🌆 No one will deviate from it after I am gone but one who is doomed. Whoever among you lives will see great conflict ⚔️. I urge you to adhere to what you know of my Sunnah🛡️ and the path of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs, and cling stubbornly to it ✊🏼. And you must obey, even if (your leader is) an Abyssinian leader. For the true believer is like a camel🐫 with a ring in its nose; wherever it is driven, it complies.” (Sahih Ibn Majah)

What does this mean?

Well, regardless of what you hear 🎙️or what is circulated 📲, regardless of what seems to be interesting📺 or the path that some people preach🎎….know one thing: if you adhere to the 📖 Quran and the sunnah 📚 then you are saved. How? By reading them, understanding them, 🖋️memorizing🧠 and applying them🎐, taking classes to educate yourself, and learning🎒 from scholars who provide evidences & references to them. If you are unsure of something to go back to the Q&S as sources.🕯️ And if you don’t do that, then you will be like leaf in the wind 🍂🍃swaying wherever it takes you, until you are crushed or doomed.

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