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Badgumani | Bad Assumption
A strange worshipper
‘Allamah Abdullah Bin As’ad Yaafi’i رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه (who passed away in 768 AH) stated: ‘Once Sayyiduna Abul Qaasim Junayd Baghdadi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه was waiting in Masjid Shoniziyyah for a funeral. Many other Baghdadis were also present there. Sayyiduna Junayd Baghdadi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه saw a person who seemed to be a great worshipper but was asking people [for money]. Sayyiduna Junayd Baghdadi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه thought that it was better for him to do some work so that he could avoid asking people [for money].
That night, it became difficult for Sayyiduna Junayd Baghdadi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه to carry out his religious activities (i.e. offering Nawafil and reciting Wazaaif etc.) and he could not maintain his concentration on anything. He remained awake for a long time and then finally fell asleep. He had a dream in which he saw that the same worshipper was brought and laid on a dining-mat. Sayyiduna Junayd Baghdadi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه states: I was asked to eat his meat because I had backbitten him. The matter was cleared up (i.e. I realized that I was warned of bad evil assumption I had about that person). I said: ‘I did not backbite him; I only thought negatively about him.’ I was answered: ‘We do not want you to indulge even in this thing.’ Go and ask forgiveness from him.’
Sayyiduna Junayd Baghdadi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه states: ‘I went in search for him in the morning. I found him at the riverbank,
BOOK TOPIC
BOOK TOPIC
- Trader suffers a loss
- Excellence of reciting Salat-‘Alan-Nabi صَلَّی اللّٰہ تعالٰی علیہ واٰلہ وسلَّم
- What is assumption?
- Prohibition of excessive assumptions
- Types of assumption
- 1. Conditions in which bad assumption becomes permissible
- Meaning of bad assumption being permissible
- Second condition
- 2. Bad assumption is prohibited
- When will the Shar’i ruling of bad assumption be applicable?
- Three sayings about avoiding bad assumption
- Two conditions in which bad assumption becomes Haraam
- 1. Permanently having a bad assumption in the heart
- 2. Speaking about the bad assumption or acting according to it
- Harmful effects of bad assumption
- Bad assumption: A dreadful disease
- 5 Parables of those who repented of the bad assumption about the blessed saints of Allah
- 1. Repentance of a trader
- 2. Female slave who presumed evil
- 3. Power of a Wali
- 4. An apple of finest colour
- 5. Intercession in the royal court of the king
- 12 Remedies of bad assumption
- First remedy
- Second remedy
- Third remedy
- Fourth remedy
- Fifth remedy
- Sixth remedy
- 5 Narrations about presuming good
- 1. It is a worship to presume good
- 2. Don’t stick to the bad assumption
- 3. Think positively
- It is Wajib to presume good about a Muslim
- It is Mustahab to have good assumption about a Muslim
- A strange worshipper
- Refrain from assumptions
