tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830788020478884788.post3394470472795276387..comments2024-01-21T08:05:05.239-08:00Comments on SUNNI TIGERS CAMP : THE PARENTS OF PROPHET WERE MUSLIMSSUNNI TIGERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021658489667498530noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830788020478884788.post-19511296622118420862012-06-13T22:23:29.186-07:002012-06-13T22:23:29.186-07:00The Prophet’s Parents Are Saved
Imam Jalaluddin as...The Prophet’s Parents Are Saved<br />Imam Jalaluddin as-Suyuti<br />Imam as-Suyuti wrote no less than five fatawa on this topic. What is translated here is an excerpt<br />from his treatise entitled: “Methods of Those with Pure Belief Concerning the Parents of<br />the Prophet ” (Masalik al-Hunafa’ fi walidayy al-Mustafa)<br />This writing concerns the question of the ruling (hukm) that the father and<br />mother of the Prophet are (believed to be) saved and not in Hellfire. This<br />has been declared by the majority of the scholars, and in reaching that<br />declaration they have several methods (masalik).<br />FIRST<br />His parents died before he was sent as Prophet, and there is no punishment for<br />them as “We never punish until We send a messenger (and they reject him)”<br />(17:15). Our Ash`ari Imams of those in kalam, usul, and Shafi`i fiqh agree on the<br />statement that one who dies while da’wa has not reached him, dies saved. This has<br />been defined by Imam Shafi`i . . . and some of the fuqaha’ have explained that the<br />reason is that that person is on fitra (primordial disposition), and has not stubbornly<br />refused nor rejected any Messenger.<br />That is the position of our Shaykh, Shaykh al-Islam Sharafuddin al-Munawi, as I<br />received it. He was once asked whether the Prophet’s father was in the fire and he<br />groaned loudly at the questioner. The latter insisted: “Is his Islam established?” and<br />he answered that he died in fitra and quoted the verse.<br />It is the position of Ahl al-Sunnah and it was opposed by the Mu`tazila and those<br />who follow them among those who say that one is condemned because Allah is<br />known rationally.<br />It is also the position of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani who said,<br />The (proper) conjecture (zann) concerning his parents, meaning also all those<br />who died before his Messengership, is that they shall obey (his call) at the time<br />of their examination (in the grave), as a gift (from Allah) to please him.<br />This method is based on the following sources:<br />[Evidence from the Qur’an]<br />• The aforementioned verse. (17:15)<br />• The verse, “Your Lord does not unjustly (bi zulm) destroy the townships<br />while their people are unconscious (of the wrong they do)” (6:131). Al-<br />Zarkashi adduced it to illustrate the rule (qa`ida) that one thanks Allah through<br />hearing (about Him), not through rational induction.1<br />• The verse, “Otherwise . . . they might say, Our Lord! Why sentest Thou<br />no messenger unto us, that we might have followed Thy revelations and<br />be among the believers?” (28:47) Adduced by Zarkashi and Ibn Abi Hatim<br />in their tafsirs. The latter adds the Hadith, “Those who die in fitra will say, My<br />Lord, no book nor messenger reached me, and he recited this verse.” (Bukhari<br />and Muslim)<br />• The verse, “And if We had destroyed them with some punishment before<br />it [your coming], they would assuredly have said: Our Lord! If only<br />Thou hadst sent unto us a messenger, so that we might have followed . .<br />.” (20:134)<br />• “And never did thy Lord destroy the townships, till He had raised up in<br />their mother-town a Messenger reciting unto them Our revelations. And<br />never did We destroy the townships unless the folks thereof were<br />evildoers” (28:59). Ibn Abi Hatim quotes Ibn `Abbas’s and Qatada’s<br />explanations that it refers to the people of Mecca, who were condemned only<br />after the Prophet was sent to them and they denied him.<br />• “Lest ye should say, the Scripture was only revealed to two sects before<br />us, and we in sooth were unaware of what they read” (6:156).<br />• “And We destroyed no townships but it had its warners for reminder,<br />for We never were oppressors” (26:208-209). `Abd ibn Hamid, Ibn al-<br />Mundhir, and Ibn Abi Hatim quote Qatada in their tafsirs to the effect that<br />revelation, proof, and exhortation must precede condemnation.<br />• “And they cry for help there, (saying), Our Lord! Release us; we will do<br />right, not (the wrong) that we used to do. Did not We grant you a life<br />long enough for him who reflected to reflect therein? And the warner<br />came unto you” (35:37). The commentators said, "The warner is the Prophet"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02176925695389916928noreply@blogger.com