The imam began this reminder with the 122th ayat of Surat Al\nTauba which is translated to say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And it is not for the believers\nto go forth [to battle] all at once. For there should separate from every\ndivision of them a group [remaining] to obtain understanding in the religion\nand warn their people when they return to them that they might be cautious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear brothers and sisters, this ayat has from amongst its\nmany lessons, one of the importance of understanding of our religion. It is not\nenough that we are merely Muslim by name, we need to strive to learn about the\ndeen, which translated into English is, the way of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unlike other major world religions, Islam is unique in that\nit is not reserved for ceremonies only. Of course, we have such ceremonies such\nas the daily salah, this prayer on Jumma, Hajj to name just a few. However, the\nmeaning of deen is that we understand that the religion of Islam has limits on\nevery facet of our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the way we sleep, to the food we eat, from the way we\ninteract with each other to the way in which we interact with our Creator,\nthere is a guidance given on all these moments in our lives and it is our\nresponsibility to finding out what they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fiqh in our Deen is a science and it is defined as\nunderstanding right from wrong, commandments of Allah SWT with evidence, an\nunderstanding of what we ought to be doing and what we ought to be avoiding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Fiqh is derived from two primary sources and they are\nthe Glorious Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet SAWS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Furthermore, the fiqh is to understand what Allah SWT\nwants from His slaves, what He wants them to do, which could be to simply\nbelieve in information given to us by our Lord, or to do an action, or to avoid\nanother, and this is also not just knowing about it, but acting on it as well,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Ibn Taymiayh said \u2013 that if Allah SWT wants good\nfor someone He would teach him how to understand his deen \u2013 ie make him have\nfiqh, as those who fear and understand their Lord the most are the knowledgeable\nslaves,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is why a knowledgeable man is considered above\na worshiper, and that we are encouraged to think, to contemplate, to study, and\nhas been mentioned numerous times in the Quran and in Ahadeeth, it is not about\nblind following, but more about seeing the evidence around us, to think and to\nact, to learn and to act on the learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The imam mentioned the following hadith in relation to this\nin which the Prophet SAWS said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen Allah wishes good for\nanyone, He bestows upon him the Fiqh (comprehension) of the religion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so this reminder concludes with some practical tips that\nwe can implement to make the most of todays reminder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear brothers and sisters, we ought to take this reminder to\njolt ourselves into being more mindful of the fact that we are Muslims and that\nmakes us the follower of both the religion and the deen of Islam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The imam began this reminder with the 122th ayat of Surat Al Tauba which is translated to say: And it is not for the believers to go forth [to battle] all at once. For there should separate from every division of them a group [remaining] to obtain understanding in the religion and warn their people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[353,354],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon","tag-deen","tag-way-of-life"],"blocksy_meta":[],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salahadeenmosque.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}