Dr. Mufti Syed Ziauddin Naqshbandi Mujaddidi Qadri

Shaykh Ul Fiqh, Jamia Nizamia; Founder - Director


Abul Hasanaat Islamic Research Center

Mufti Maulana Syed Zia Uddin Naqshbandi Quadri

Shaik-ul-Fiqh - Jamia Nizamia


Abul Hasanaat Islamic Research Center

Scholarly Articles

Benefits of silence


<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables /> <w:SnapToGridInCell /> <w:WrapTextWithPunct /> <w:UseAsianBreakRules /> <w:DontGrowAutofit /> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id=ieooui></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The effect of each and every sin lasts in some way or the other, but the effect of the sins of the tongue does not remain.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>For this reason, people take it lightly.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Remember!<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Whatever is uttered from your tongue is recorded with Allah Ta'ala and the return of each utterance will be given.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Your belief that whatever we say is dissipated is not correct.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Each and everything is being collected in a register.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ER" style="" dir="RTL">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Once, the first caliph of Islam, Hadhrat Abu Bakr Siddiq (May Allah Ta'ala be well pleased with him) was sitting in a corner and pulling at his tongue.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When people asked him the reason, he said:<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This tongue will take one into hell.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ER" style="" dir="RTL">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">To look at it, the tongue is only a piece of flesh, but everything in the world is under its power.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We get Jannah through this and hell through this.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Deliverance and punishment are both through this.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It makes someone a polytheist or a disbeliever and this is the one which makes someone a Momin and Siddiq (i.e. a true believer).<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Wiping out sins is its work and destroying all the virtues in only a moment is also its doing.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Uniting fighting people in an instant and dividing those who are united is but a small miracle of the tongue.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This tongue is the deputy of the mind.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It expresses whatever is in the mind.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The most wonderful thing is that it faces the heart.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Whatever is in the heart, it expresses it and whatever is there outside, it carries them inside the heart.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Whatever the tongue says, the same quality is produced in the heart.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the same way, whatever the heart says, it is expressed through the tongue.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>For this reason, the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said: You assure me about 2 things and I guarantee Jannah for you.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>You know what those 2 things are?<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The tongue and the private parts.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ER" style="" dir="RTL">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The health or blindness of the heart depends on the truthfulness and crookedness of the tongue.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When the tongue says a good word, then the heart is illuminated and when it says something wrong/evil, then it affects the heart in such a way that the heart becomes dark.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>For this reason, the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said:</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ER" style="" dir="RTL">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Translation of Hadith:<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Iman is not perfect unless the heart is reformed and the heart is not reformed unless the tongue is reformed.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ER" style="" dir="RTL">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The tongue is like the netherworld (<i>Barzakh</i> in Urdu) between the heart and other organs.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It has a relation with the heart also and also with other parts of the body.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The reformation of the heart reforms all the parts of the body.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the same way, the reformation of the tongue reforms all the parts of the body.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Satan does not get a chance to attack the person who is silent.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>People look upon that person with respect.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ER" style="" dir="RTL">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Once the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said: Ma'adh! Shall I tell you what the root of all virtue is?<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Then the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) held His tongue and said: This is it, Ma'adh! Guard it.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ER" style="" dir="RTL">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">For this reason, silence is better than worship of 60 years and whoever is silent gains deliverance (<i>Nijaat</i> in Urdu).</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ER" style="" dir="RTL">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">We should not talk more than what is necessary.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Too much of talking deadens the heart.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The heart is hardened and this is that pitfall after which it is difficult to save oneself from sins.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ER" style="" dir="RTL">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">If those who talk understand the perils of talking and the pleasure of silence, then they would supplicate to Allah Ta'ala for being silent for the rest of their life.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ER" style="" dir="RTL">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">The person who talks too much cannot save himself (or herself) from sins.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>You may observe that the person who talks too much often ends up lying, etc. and for this kind of persons, saving themselves from the sins of the tongue becomes difficult.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ER" style="" dir="RTL">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">We should neither talk nor act upon something without confirming it, as the ears, eyes and heart will be taken to account on the Day of Judgment as to what end they were used.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Why did you take something to your heart (i.e. consider something as correct) without confirming it?<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Thus son, do not act upon something without confirming it.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ER" style="" dir="RTL">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;" dir="LTR" class="MsoNormal"><span style="">From Mawaaiz-e-Hasana of Hadhrat Muhaddith-e-Deccan (May Allah Ta'ala shower His mercy on him)</span></p>