Did you ever weep out of fear from Allah?
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Praise to Allah solely, and
peace and blessings upon whom no prophet is beyond, our prophet
Mohamed, and upon his relatives and apostles till the end of
days
Dear brother:
Did you ever cry one
day?
Did you ever ponder your huge
crimes and cried over what you did?
Did you ever ponder Allah
enshroud over you and exhaled out of relief?
Did you ever ponder Allah care
for you, his patience on you in spite of your repel and distancing
from Him? So you cried and sighed.
Did you ever ponder His
strength and your weakness? His richness and your poverty? His
perfection and your incompetence? His eternal life and your
death?
Did you ever ponder Allah
severe torture for His disobeyers? His fine reward for His obedient
and followers?
Why did our eyes dry out and
did not allow us to shed a tear?
Why did our hearts harden,
became impatient and our conditions are worsened?
Why did our feelings are
burdened with the acts of worship and are vivid to amusements and
evil acts?
Where do we stand from this
nation's ancestors who performed their work efficiently, who wept
out of their fear from failure and slippage, and out of their
anxiety from frustration and defects?
Where do we stand from those
who "When the verses of the Most Merciful were recited to them,
they fell in prostration and weeping" [Maryam 19:58]
Transliteration:'Idhā Tutlá `Alayhim 'Āyātu
Ar-Raĥmāni Kharrū Sujjadāan Wa Bukīyāan
Where is our weeping while
listening to the Qur'an? Where is our humility and humble to the
signs of criterion?
"And [it is] a Quran which We
have separated [by intervals] that you might recite it to the
people over a prolonged period. And We have sent it down
progressively. (106) Say, "Believe in it or do not believe."
Indeed, those who were given knowledge before it, when it is
recited to them, they fall upon their faces in prostration, (107).
And they say, "Exalted is our Lord! Indeed, the promise of our Lord
has been fulfilled." (108). And they fall upon their faces weeping,
and it [i.e., the Quran] increases them in humble submission
(109)". [Al Israa 17:106-109]
Transliteration:
Wa Qur'ānāan Faraqnāhu
Litaqra'ahu `Alá An-Nāsi `Alá Mukthin Wa Nazzalnāhu Tanzīlāan (106)
Qul 'Āminū Bihi 'Aw Lā Tu'uminū 'Inna Al-Ladhīna 'Ūtū Al-`Ilma Min
Qablihi 'Idhā Yutlá `Alayhim Yakhirrūna Lil'adhqāni Sujjadāan (107)
Wa Yaqūlūna Subĥāna Rabbinā 'In Kāna Wa`du Rabbinā Lamaf`ūlāan
(108) Wa Yakhirrūna Lil'adhqāni Yabkūna Wa Yazīduhum Khushū`āan
(109)
"Weeping out of fear from
Allah is the proof of our faith and sensing its sweetness.
Therefore, Mighty Allah rejected those who laughed while listening
to the Quraan and did not cry. So He says: "Then at this statement
do you wonder? (59). And you laugh and do not weep" [An-Najm:
59-60]
Ibn Katheer
said in his interpretation: Then the Mighty Allah denies the way
the disbelievers listen to the Quraan, their negligence and messing
around and says: {Then at this statement do you wonder} He wonders
how could this be true, {And you laugh} out of mocking and irony
{and do not weep} as the believers do, and he describes them "And
they fall upon their faces weeping, and it [i.e., the Quran
increases them in humble submission" [Al Israa 17:109].
Transliteration:
Wa Yakhirrūna Lil'adhqāni
Yabkūna Wa Yazīduhum Khushū`āan
Weeping in
Sunnah:
What was provided from the
prophet, peace be upon Him, concerning the virtue of weeping out of
fear from Allah, and narrated by Abou Huraira, may Allah gratifies
him, said: the messenger of Allah, peace be upon Him, said: »One
who weeps out of fear of Allah, will not enter hell till milk
returns back in the udder; and the dust raised on account of
fighting in the path of Allah and the smoke of hell will never
combine together« [Narrated by At-Tarmathey and edited by Al
Albani]
That is proof that weeping out
of fear from Allah is worship and is one of the reasons to gain
entering heaven and be saved from hell.
Yes, dear brother, one instant
where you shed one sincere tear could be your saver from hell. So,
where is this instant and where is that tear?
The prophet, peace be upon
Him, said in the hadith related to the seven types of people whom
Allah will shade on the day of resurrection, when there is no shade
but His: »and a man remembered Allah while he is alone and his eyes
overflowed with tears out of His fear« [Narrated by Al Bukhari and
Muslim]
The prophet, peace be upon
Him, always impelled His apostles to weep. Narrated by Anas, may
Allah gratify him, said: The prophet, peace be upon Him, was
informed of something occurred to His apostles, so He said: "Heaven
and hell were showed to me, and I have never seen like that day in
which good and evil are presented. If you would know what I do,
then you would have laughed a little and cried a lot" [Narrated by
Muslim]
He said: No day appeared to
the apostles of the messenger of Allah, peace be upon Him, harder
than that day. Also he said: They (the apostles) covered their
faces as they were Weeping and sniffling.
The prophet,
peace be upon Him, weeps:
The prophet Himself, peace be
upon Him, wept and his tears flowed. He, whom Allah has forgiven
all His future and past sins, and Allah forbid that His prophet,
peace be upon Him, does any sin towards Almighty Allah. He is the
infallible, the chosen one and who is renounced from all sins and
evil deeds.
Abdullah Ibn Ash-Shakheer, may
Allah gratifies him, said: "I came to the prophet, peace be upon
Him, when he was praying. He was sobbing and his chest sounded like
a boiling kettle." [Declared authentic by Al Albani]
«أتيت رسول
الله صلى اللهعليه وسلم وهو يصلي ولجوفه أزيز كأزيزالمرجل من البكاء»
This is the legitimate Weeping
according to Shariah, not yelling and wailing, lamenting during
funerals, hitting chests and cutting clothes and any other deeds
similar to what was done by the people of ignorance. All this is
done out of ignorance, delusion and heresy of which Allah has not
revealed any sanction.
Narrated by Abdullah Ibn
Massud, may Allah gratifies him, said: The Messenger of Allah,
peace be upon Him, told me: "Read the Quraan for me", I said:
"Messenger of Allah, how would I read it to you while it was sent
down upon you?" He said: "I like to hear it from someone else but
me." [Narrated by Al Bukhari]
Ibn Massud said: "So I read
Surah An-Nisaa till the part of "So how [will it be] when We bring
from every nation a witness and We bring you, [Muhammad], against
these [people] as a witness?" [An-Nisaa 4 :41]
Transliteration:
Fakayfa 'Idhā Ji'nā Min Kulli
'Ummatin Bishahīdin Wa Ji'nā Bika `Alá Hā'uulā'
Shahīdāan
He said: I lifted up my head
and saw His eyes flowing with tears", and in another narration: "I
lifted up my head and saw his tears shedding".
The prophet, peace be upon
Him, did not make any sound while he was weeping so that Ibn
Massud, may Allah gratifies him, did not know it except after he
rose his head. In some narrations, a man nudged him so he lifted up
his head and saw the prophet's, peace be upon Him, tears
shedding.
His guidance
in weeping:
Ibn Al Qayem,
may Allah have mercy on his soul, said: "With regard to His weeping, peace
be upon Him, was the same as His laughing. His weeping was not
inhaling and loud and His laughing was not giggling, but He shed
tears till His eyes overflow, and his chest sounded like a boiling
kettle. His weeping was sometimes due to mercy for the deceased, or
fear for His nation and out of pity upon it, and sometimes out of
fear from Allah and while listening to the Quraan. It is weeping
out of longing, love and reverence, which is accompanied with fear
and dread.
His eyes flowed with tears
when His son, Ibrahim, died, out of mercy on his soul and said:
"The eyes flow with tears and the heart grieves, and we don't say
anything except what our God accepts, and We are really sad because
of your death, Ibrahim" [Narrated by Muslim]
He wept when He saw one of His
daughters dying…
And wept when Ossman Ibn
Mathoon died…
And wept when the sun eclipsed
and prayed the eclipse prayer and wept while he was
praying…
He wept while he was sitting
on the grave of one of His daughters…
And He sometimes wept during
the night prayer.
Kinds of
weeping:
Weeping has
different kinds:
First: Weeping out of
compassion and tenderness
Second: Weeping out of fear
and dread
Third: Weeping out of love and
longing
Fourth: Weeping out of joy and
happiness
Fifth: Weeping out of fear of
advent of painful events and our inability to bear
them
Sixth: Weeping out of
sadness
Seventh: Weeping out of
inanition and weakness
Eighth: Weeping out of
hypocrite, that is when the eyes water while the heart is cruel, so
one shows humility while his heart is one of the
cruelest.
Ninth: fake and leased
weeping, such as the rented wailing woman, who is as Omar Ibn Al Khattab said: "sells her
tears and cries over others' sorrows".
Tenth: empathic weeping; is
that when a man sees people weeping about something happened to
them so he cries with them, not knowing what they are crying about,
but just sees them weeping and he cries with them.
Weeping is
called snivel when it is feigned and forced, and it indicates two
types:
Benign: is performed due to
kindness and fear from Allah, not hypocrite and gaining good
reputation.
Malignant: is performed for
the sake of mankind.
Some of the ancestor said:
Weep out of fear from Allah, and if you cannot weep then
snivel.
Ancestor's
weeping:
I
cried over my sins due to my huge crimes *** and it is righteous
for disobeyers to cry hard
If
weeping would send my sorrows away *** I would have ignited tears
with blood
1-
Narrated by Zeid Ibn Arkam,
may Allah gratifies him, that Aba Bakr, may Allah gratifies him,
asked him for a drink one day, so he provided him with a glass of
honey with some water. When Abou Bakr lifted it to his mouth he
cried till the ones around him cried too. They stopped weeping, but
he did not and his weeping grew, so they cried with him again. Then
they stopped and so did he, and they asked him: "Aba Bakr,
successor of messenger of Allah, peace be upon Him! What made you
cry?"
He said: "I was alone with the
prophet, peace be upon him, with no one around. He said while
waiving his hand: "Get away from me, get away from me". So I said:
"Messenger of Allah, whom are you talking to while there is no one
around?" He said: "This world has been figured to me, so I say to
it: get away from me." So it said: "If you could survive from me,
then no one will be able to be saved after you". This is what made
me cry. [Narrated by Ibn Hajar in his book Mizan Al-I`tidal and
Abdul Wahed Ibn Zeid, disparaged narrator]
2-
There were two black lines on
Omar Ibn Al Khatab cheek, may Allah gratifies him, as a result of
his weeping.
People heard his weeping
behind the lines (while praying) when he recited Surah Yussef, and
Abou Ad-Dardaa and him cried all night long till dawn arose, may
Allah gratifies them.
3-
When Ossman Ibn Affan, may
Allah gratifies him, stood on a grave, he wept till his beard is
moistened with his tears.
4 -
Aly Ibn Abou Taleb, may Allah
gratifies him, used to grasp his beard and wept with humble and
despair.
5-
On Ibn Abbas face were two old
scars resulted from his tears.
After you,
those eyes were eliminated by their tears *** are there any further
eyes to borrow
6-
Ibn Masoud wept till he filled
his palm with tears and would throw someone with them.
7-
Abdullah Ibn Omar, may Allah
gratifies them, turned off the lamp at night and wept till his
eyelids stick!
8-
Thabet Al Banaty kept weeping
till he almost lost his sight. They told him: "We can cure you but
you cannot cry again", he said: "There is no good in a non-weeping
eye".
Criers wept for the Merciful sake
all night *** and slept tireless with their tears
Out of
my longing to the parts of the world *** I yearn when I can
prostrate upon them
9-
And Mansour wept till he
emptied his eyes. His mother used to tell him: "My son, if you have
killed someone, you would not have wept that much".
10-
Al Fodail treasured weeping,
and he even wept while sleeping till his family heard
it!
The eyes'
tears are so tender as if *** they are the tears of my tears not
the tears of my eyelids
11-
Abou Obaida Al Khawas used to
weep and say (to his weeping): I am too old, so let me go
free.
12-
Younus Ibn Obaid said: "We
used to meet with Al Hassan, and he wept till we had mercy on
him"!
Is there an
eye weeping upon shelter *** implore the emulsified rainy
udder
Wept
while the vivid springs overflowed and *** the hovering thirsty
ones responded
I did
not know that the eye is like a well *** nor that the flowing tears
are drinkable
13-
Ataa Al Salmy was asked: "What
do you like most?" He said: "I like to weep till I am unable to
weep anymore".
14-
Ashaath Al Harany and Habib Al
Agamy visited each other and kept weeping all day
long.
15-
Abdel Wahed Ibn Yazeed used to
tell Ataba: "Be kind to yourself", he wept and said: "I weep over
my deficiencies".
The weeping we
desire:
Dear brother:
Weeping we need is not the
hypocrite weeping, where the eyes shed tears and the heart is
harder than stone.
Weeping we need is not out of
dread, weakness and not out of fear from any other thing but
Allah.
Weeping we need is not
yelling, wailing and lamenting.
Weeping we need is not
negative, where it does not correct the defects or straighten out a
behavior.
The legitimate weeping is what
increases our faith and attains satisfaction, content and humble to
the heart.
"The believers are only those
who, when Allah is mentioned, their hearts become fearful, and when
His verses are recited to them, it increases them in faith; and
upon their Lord they rely" [Al Anfal: 2]
{إِنَّمَا
الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِرَ اللّهُ وَجِلَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ
وَإِذَا تُلِيَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتُهُ زَادَتْهُمْ إِيمَاناً وَعَلَى
رَبِّهِمْ يَتَوَكَّلُونَ}
Transliteration:
'Innamā Al-Mu'uminūna
Al-Ladhīna 'Idhā Dhukira Allāhu Wajilat Qulūbuhum Wa 'Idhā Tuliyat
`Alayhim 'Āyātuhu Zādat/hum 'Īmānāan Wa `Alá Rabbihim
Yatawakkalūna
Weeping we need makes us
closer to obedience and moves us away from doing sins and evil
deeds, improves ethics, develops our souls, relieves our chests,
and one can gain the best lessons and patterns out of
it…
It is the sincere weeping and
honesty in dealing with Allah the Mighty. Sofian said: Weeping is
ten parts: one for Allah and nine for other than Allah. If what is
prompted for Allah is performed once a year, then this would be a
lot! This is a warning from him, may Allah bless his soul,
regarding the necessity of loyalty and seeking it, because any deed
which is performed for anyone but Allah will not be accepted from
Him and his performer will be punished over it.
Mohamed Ibn Wassee said: "A
man would weep for twenty years and his wife does not know
it"!!
One felt like weeping, so he
took a handkerchief and swept his eyes and nose saying: This cold
is very hard, so no one would notice his weeping.
The lover tried to avoid to cry, but
his feelings betrayed him *** and he tried to imprison his tears,
but they poured
And the
one who conceals his love will be disclosed on the day of farewell
*** and the lover (who tries to withhold his tears) cannot hide his
feelings
Oh Allah, grant us a tender
tear with which we gain Your compassion, and do not deprive us from
a sincere tear that flows out of Your fear. Tears stream
unceasingly down our cheeks, out of Your generosity, to revive our
hearts, cleanse our souls and relieve our chests, with Your mercy,
oh most Merciful.
Al Watan House
Translated by
Wathakker.net website
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