Shaikh Bakr Abu Zaid rahimahullah said:

“Hot day (يوم حار) [See: Daa wa Dawaa pg. 233 and Musnad Imam Ahmad (6/410)]

Ibn ul-Qayyim rahimahullah said in his research about the mistakes of the tongue in Dawaa wa Dawaa:

وقد كان السلف يحاسب أحدهم نفسه في قوله : يوم حار ، ويوم بارد

“The Salaf used to take one another to account for their saying: a hot day and a cold day”

It has become from the norm of the people to follow the changes in the weather and its temperature: heat and cold. How many is their terminology in that and their following of it: complaining and paining because of the intense heat and the intense cold. A person desires for winter in the summer and when the winter comes he detests it. This is because he is not pleased in any condition. Cursed is man; how disbelieving is he.

It is appropriate for a Muslim to avoid following the likes of this and taking it as a discussion in the sittings. In the Musnad of Imam Ahmad from Khawlah radiallahu anha that the Prophet sallahu alayhi wa salam said:

ابن آدم إن أصابه البرد قال : حس ، وإن أصابه الحر قال : حس

“The son of Adam, if cold afflicts him he says Hass [a statement said when one is in pain like ouch] and if heat afflicts him he says: Hass [a statement said when one is in pain like ouch]

[Silsilatus-Saheeha no. 1578]

[Taken from Mu’jim al-Manaahi al-Lafdhiyyah (1/128)]

Subhanallah! This is our custom today as the Shaikh described. We should take heed of the Shaikh’s advice and not indulge in the discussion of the weather or complain about it, especially since we have a lot changes in weather in Canada. May Allah reward Shaikh Bakr for his beneficial work rahimahullah.

Translated by

Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan

The Shaikh, Muhadith, Mujadid of Yemen Muqbil ibn Haadi al-Waadi’ee rahimahullah said:

“And you, Oh Miskeen, want to stay in the corner of your house and leave the Muslims confused? Do you not know that from the Muslims is the one who is not proficient in reading Fatihaa? Do you not know that from the Muslims is the one who cannot distinguish between the Scholar and the astrologer? Do you not know that from the Muslims is the one who cannot distinguish between a Muslim and a communist? They are in need of callers to Allah so they can awaken themselves. Allah, the Exalted says:

وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ قَوْلاً مِّمَّن دَعَآ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَعَمِلَ صَـلِحاً وَقَالَ إِنَّنِى مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ

And who is better in speech than he who [says: “My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness),” and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah’s (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: “I am one of the Muslims.

[41:33]

Who obligated it upon you that you cannot call except under the banner of so and so? Call to the Book of Allah. Take Saheeh al-Bukhari and Saheeh Muslim and teach the people how to make ablution, how they should worship their Lord, how to pray, how they should call to Allah, how they should confront a communist or nationalist. Do you leave the children of the Muslims to the schools with wicked teachers? No…”

[Majmoo’ al-Fataawa al-Waadi’ee (1/72)]

Shaikh Rab’ee ibn Haadi al-Madkhali hafidhuhallah was asked about this Hadith:

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ ‏ “‏ الْمُؤْمِنُ الَّذِي يُخَالِطُ النَّاسَ وَيَصْبِرُ عَلَى أَذَاهُمْ أَعْظَمُ أَجْرًا مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِ الَّذِي لاَ يُخَالِطُ النَّاسَ وَلاَ يَصْبِرُ عَلَى أَذَاهُمْ

The believer who mixes with people and bears their annoyance with patience will have a greater reward than the believer who does not mix with people and does not put up with their annoyance

[Reported by Musnad Ahamd (2/34), Tirmidhi no. 2507, Ibn Majah no. 4032. It’s chain is Hasan]

Answer: “No doubt, mixing with the people and being patient with their for the sake of Allah is better than the one who is secluded. In any case, mixing with the people in order to command the good and prohibit the evil is something desired. So how do you we call the people? How do we call the disbelievers? How do we call if we remain in our homes? It is necessary that we emerge by writing, by recording tapes, by delivering khutbahs, by giving lectures which the specific and general people attend. This is mixing with the people…”

[ad-Dhari’ah ila Bayaan Maqaasid Kitab as-Shariah (4/49)

Translated by

Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan

Abu Sulaymaan