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2:158 - Behold! Safa and Marwa are among the Symbols of Allah. So if those who visit the house
in the season or at other times should compass them round it is no sin in them. And if anyone
obeyeth his own impulse to good be sure that Allah is He Who recogniseth and knoweth.
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160 The virtue of patient perseverance in faith leads to the mention of two symbolic monuments of that virtue. These are
the two little hills of Safa and Marwa now absorbed in the city of Mecca, and close to the well of Zam-zam. Here,
according to tradition, the lady Hajar, mother of the infant Ismail, prayed for water in the parched desert, and in her
eager quest round these hills, she found her prayer answered and saw the Zam-zam spring. Unfortunately the Pagan
Arabs had placed a male and a female idol here, and their gross and superstitious rites caused offence to the early
Muslims. They felt some hesitation in going round these places during the Pilgrimage. As a matter of fact they should
have known that the Ka'ba (the House of God) had been itself defiled with idols, and was sanctified again by the purity
of Muhammad's life and teaching. The lesson is that the most sacred things may be turned to the basest uses; that
we are not therefore necessarily to ban a thing misused; that if our intentions and life are pure, God will recognise
them even if the world cast stones at us because of some evil associations which they join with what we do, or with
the people we associate with, or with the places which claim our reverence. (2.158)
161 The House - the Sacred Mosque, the Ka'ba. The Season of regular Hajj culminates in the visit to Arafat on the ninth
day of the month of Zul-hajj, followed by the circumambulation of the Ka'ba. A visit to the Sacred Mosque and the
performance of the rites of pilgrimage at any other time is called an Umra. The symbolic rites are the same in either
case, except that the Arafat rites are omitted in the Umra. The Safa and Marwa are included among the Monuments,
as pointing to one of the highest of Muslim virtues. (2.158)
162 The impulse should be to Good; if once we are sure of this, we must obey it without hesitation, whatever people may
say. (2.158)
53:2 - Your Companion is neither astray nor being misled 5086
5086 "Your Companion" is the holy Prophet Muhammad, who had lived among the Quraish. He is defended from three
kinds of charges that the Unbelievers brought against him: (1) that he was going astray, either through defect of
intelligence or through carelessness; (2) that he was being misled or deceived by evil spirits; and (3) that he spoke out
of a whim or impulse, or from a selfish desire to impress his own personality. None of these charges were true. On
the contrary he had direct inspiration from Allah. (53.2)
102:1 - The mutual rivalry for piling up (the good things of this world) diverts you (from the more
serious things) 6257
6257 Acquisitiveness, that is, the passion for seeking an increase in wealth, position, the number of adherents or followers
or supporters, mass production and mass organisation, may affect an individual as such, or it may affect whole
societies or nations. Other people's example or rivalry in such things may aggravate the situation. Up to a certain point
it may be good and necessary. But when it becomes inordinate and monopolises attention, it leaves no time for higher
things in life, and a clear warning is here sounded from a moral point of view. Man may be engrossed in these things
till death approaches, and he looks back on a wasted life, as far as the higher things are concerned. (102.1)
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith
Hadith 5144
AbuTha'labah
Narrated by
AbuTha'labah swore by Allah that he had asked Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him and grant him peace) about the
words of Allah Most High, "Care for yourselves; he who goes astray cannot harm you when you are rightly guided." He had
replied, "No, enjoin one another to do what is reputable and forbid one another to do what is disreputable. But when you see
niggardliness being obeyed, passion being followed, worldly interests being preferred, everyone being charmed with his own
opinion, and you see something you are inclined to do, care for yourself and leave alone what people in general are doing; for
ahead of you are days which will require endurance, in which he who shows endurance will be like him who grasps live coals.
The one who acts rightly during that period will have the reward of fifty men who act as he does." The hearers said, "The
reward of fifty of them, Messenger of Allah! (peace be upon him)." He replied, "The reward of fifty of you."
Transmitted by Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah.
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith
Hadith 5115
Narrated by
Asma', daughter of `Umays
Asma heard Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) say, "He is a bad servant who is proud and puts on airs and forgets the
Most Great and Sublime One. He is a bad servant who is overbearing and overweening and forgets the Overpowering and
Most High One. He is a bad servant who is neglectful and careless and forgets the graves and corruption. He is a bad
servant who is corrupt and excessively disobedient and forgets the beginning and the end. He is a bad servant who
deceptively uses religion. He is a bad servant who is let by greed. He is a bad servant who is misled by passion. He is a bad
servant who is debased by worldly desire."
Tirmidhi and Bayhaqi, in Shu'ab al-Iman transmitted it, Tirmidhi saying its isnad is not strong and also that this is a gharib
tradition.
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