Selected Course to Understand the Demands of Qur'an
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On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah
[The Most High] be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah [The
Most High] said: Allah (glorified and exalted be He) said:
I am so self-sufficient that I am in no need of having an
associate. Thus he who does an action for someone else's sake as well as Mine
will have that action renounced by Me to him whom he associated with Me.
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah
[The Most High] be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah [The
Most High] said: Allah [The Most High] said:
Sons of Adam inveigh against [the vicissitudes of] Time, and
I am Time, in My hand is the night and the day*.
*As the Almighty is the Ordainer of
all things, to inveigh against misfortunes that are part of Time is tantamount
to inveighing against Him.
On the authority of Zayd ibn Khalid
al-Juhaniyy (may Allah [The Most High] be pleased with him), who said:
The Messenger of Allah [The Most High] (may
the blessings and peace of Allah [The Most High] be upon him) led the morning prayer
for us at al-Hudaybiyah following rainfall during the night. When the Prophet
(may the blessings and peace of Allah [The Most High] be upon him) finished, he
faced the people and said to them:
Do you know what your Lord has said?
They
said: Allah and his Messenger know best.
He said: This morning one of my servants became a
believer in Me and one a disbeliever. As for him who said: We have been given
rain by virtue of Allah and His mercy, that one is a believer
in Me, a disbeliever in the stars*; and as for him who said: We have been
given rain by such-and-such a star, that one is a disbeliever in Me, a believer
in the stars.
*The pre-Islamic Arabs believed that
rain was brought about by the movement of stars.
This Hadith draws attention to the fact
that whatever be the direct cause of such natural phenomena as rain, it is Allah
[The Most High] the Almighty who is the Disposer of all things.
It is related by al-Bukhari (also by
Malik and an-Nasa'i).
