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a time for this and a time for that

Date: June 06, 2002 | 25 Rabi al-Awwal 1423 Hijriah
Blog: veiled4allah
Subjects: fiqh
A hadith from Hanzalah al-Usayyidee who said: "Abu Bakr met me and asked: How are you O Hanzalah? I Replied: Hanzalah is guilty of hypocrisy! He said: Free is Allah and far removed from all defects! What are you saying? I said: When we are with Allah's Messenger (sAas) and he reminds us of the Fire and Paradise it is as if we were seeing it with our own eyes. Then when we depart from Allah's Messenger and attend our wives, our children and our business, then much of this slips from our mind. Abu Bakr said: By Allah we also experience the same. So I went with Abu Bakr until we entered upon Allah's Messenger. I said: Hanzalah is guilty of hypocrisy O Messenger of Allah. So Allah's Messenger said: And how is that? I said When we are with you, you remind us of the Fire and of Paradise and it is as if we are seeing it with our own eyes. Then when we depart from you and attend our wives, our children and our business then much of this slips from our minds. So Allah's Messenger said: By Him in whose hand is my soul if you remained continually as you are when you are with me and in remembering (Allah) then the angels would shake hands with you upon your beds and upon your roads. But O Hanzalah, (there is) a time for this and a time for that, (there is) a time for this and a time for that, (there is) a time for this and a time for that." (42)

So both of these times are regulated by the orders of Allah, as has preceded. His time for serious matters is regulated according to the Book and the Sunnah, and his jesting is kept free of anything forbidden and accompanied only by that which Allah has prescribed.

(the above taken from 40 Hadiths on the Islamic Personality; honorifics of the Prophet (sAas) removed for clarity of reading)

Some Muslims seem to frown on any lightheartedness or joking around by other Muslims. No fun for anybody. But Islam is more balanced than that, as the above hadith shows. A good reminder.
~ Posted by Al-Muhajabah, a member of the reality-based community, at 08:50 PM

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