Compiled & Translated
By
Abbas Abu Yahya
Shaykh ul-Islaam Ahmad bin AbdulHaleem Ibn
Taymeeyah (d.728 A.H.) -Rahimullaah-said:
Ibn Qayyim aj-Jawzeeyah (d.751 A.H.) -Rahimullaah-said:
‘al-Ishq is an excessive love,
where by one fears for the person who is excessive in his love.’[3]
Ibn Taymeeyah (d.728 A.H.) -Rahimullaah-said:
‘Majority of the scholars do not completely
apply this word[4] in respect to
Allaah. This is because al-Ishq is an extreme love, which
exceeds necessary bounds, and Allaah’s love has no limitations, so
it does not end at a level of which it is necessary to not go beyond.
These scholars have said al-Ishq is criticised and
disliked completely, it is not praised, not in love for the creator or
for the creation, because it is an excessive love which goes beyond the
bounds of being praiseworthy.
Also, the word 'Ishq' is
customarily used for a man loving a woman or a young child, it is not
used for love like loving ones family, wealth, ones country, status, love of
Prophets and righteous people. Since Ishq is also mainly
linked with prohibited actions, either with loving a woman one is not married
to, or a young child, and al-Ishq is mainly linked to
looking at something prohibited, or touching something which is
prohibited, as well as other prohibited actions.’[5]
Ibn Taymeeyah (d.728 A.H.) -Rahimullaah-said:
‘Ishq is a psychological disease
and if its effect is strengthened against the body, then the sickness in the
body becomes either mental illnesses and that is why it is a sickness of whisperings,
or physical illnesses of the body like a weakness and anorexia etc.’[6]
Shaykh ul-Islaam Ibn Taymeeyah (d.728
A.H.) -Rahimullaah-said:
‘Having Ishq for a woman
[whom a person is not connected to] has so much corruption which no one can
enumerate except the Lord of the worshippers. It is from the illnesses
which corrupt the Deen of the one who has this
illness. Then it can corrupt his intellect, and after that his body.’[7]
Shaykh ul-Islaam Ibn Taymeeyah -Rahimullaah-said:
‘If a man’s heart becomes attached to a
woman, even though she is permissible for him, then his heart
becomes a prisoner for her. She controls it and manipulates it the way
she wants.
From what is apparent he is her
master, because he is her husband, whereas in reality he is her
prisoner and her slave, especially if he is in great want of her, and had excessive
love for her. Then here she controls him like an overwhelming oppressive
master controls his subjugated slave from whom he cannot end
with, rather it is greater than this, indeed imprisonment of the
heart is greater than imprisonment of the body, and enslavement of the heart
is greater than the enslavement of the body.’[8]
Ibn Taymeeyah (d.728 A.H.) -Rahimullaah-said:
‘If the heart has love for Allaah Alone
taking the Deen sincerely for Allaah, then fundamentally it
is not trialled with love for other than Allaah, more so than being trialled
with Ishq.
Whereby if a person is trialled with Ishq then
indeed his love for Allaah alone was deficient. This is why as Yusuf loved
Allaah and took the Deen sincerely for Allaah, he was not
trialled by it. Rather Allaah Ta’ala said:
كَذَٰلِكَ لِنَصۡرِفَ عَنۡهُ ٱلسُّوٓءَ
وَٱلۡفَحۡشَآءَۚ إِنَّهُۥ مِنۡ عِبَادِنَا ٱلۡمُخۡلَصِينَ
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As for the wife of Aziz she was a Mushrika (female
polytheist), her and her people, and that is why she was trialled
with Ishq.’[9]
A Fabricated Hadeeth about Ishq
The Fabricated Hadeeth:
'Who ever had Ishq, hid it,
abstained and died then he is a martyr.'
Mawdoo – fabricated
Shaykh Albaani commented after
researching the hadeeth saying:
'Indeed the 'Allaama Ibn
al-Qayyim rejected this Hadeeth due to its meaning and also due to the ruling
of it being fabricated. He brilliantly clarified this in his book 'Zad
al-Ma'ad' where he said:
'Do not be deceived by the fabricated
Hadeeth upon the Messenger of Allaah - sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam'
Then Ibn al-Qayyim researched this Hadeeth
from two chains then he said:
'Indeed this Hadeeth is not authentically
reported from the Messenger of Allaah - sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam
- and it is not permissible for it to be from his speech, since
indeed martyrdom has a very high status to Allaah, which is connected
to the status of truthfulness. It has actions and situations which
are conditions for achieving martyrdom and they are of two types,
general and specific.
Specific martyrdom is martyrdom in the path
of Allaah and the general are the five mentioned in the Saheeh of Bukhari
and al-Ishq is not one from them.
How can having Ishq acquire
the status of martyrdom when it is committing Shirk in loving Allaah and it
is emptying the heart from loving Allaah and that the heart, soul and love
are possessed for other than Allaah!? This is impossible, indeed evil
corruption for the heart of the one who has Ishq of pictures
is above all evil corruption, rather it is an intoxicant of the soul which
makes it intoxicated and averts it from the remembrance of Allaah and loving
Him, and the delight and sweetness of calling unto Him and to come close to
Allaah.
Ishq obligates servitude of the heart to other than
Allaah, since the heart of the one who has Ishq worships
the one whom he has Ishq for, rather Ishq is
the core of servitude, since it is complete humility and love and submission
and regarding as great.
So how can a heart have servitude for other
than Allaah, that great servitude which the status the best of the Muwahiddeen (those
who worship Allaah Alone) and their foremost and the best of the Awaliyah (those
close to Allaah) can achieve?!
If the Isnaad of this
Hadeeth was clear like the sun then still it would be wrong and presumptuous,
and there is no correct recorded wording what so ever of Ishq from
the authentic Hadeeth from the Messenger of Allaah - sallAllaahu
alayhi wa sallam.
Indeed from Ishq there is
that which is permissible and that which is prohibited, so how can one think
that the Prophet - sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam - would give
a verdict upon every person who has Ishq hides it and
abstains from it that he is a martyr?!
How can it be that a person has Ishq for
someone else's wife or has Ishq for a young child or a
prostitute and that due to his Ishq he will achieve the
status of martyrs! ?
Is this not something which is known to
oppose that which is known about the Deen of the
Prophet - sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam?
How can it be since Ishq is
an illness from the illnesses for which Allaah -Subhanahu-placed
treatment for it from the Sharia and an amount for it,
seeking treatment from Ishqis either obligatory if the Ishq is
the prohibited type or treatment is recommended.
If you reflect upon the illnesses and those
things which affect a person for which the Messenger of Allaah -
sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam - gave a verdict that the person who
has that illness achieved martyrdom then you will find that it is for those
illnesses which have no cure for them. For example, the plague, stomach
illness, mental illness, death by fire, drowning also from them is a woman
who is killed by the child in her stomach.
Indeed this affliction is from Allaah, the
slave of Allaah plays no part in this, and it had no cure and the
reasons for these types of martyrdom are not prohibited ways, and as a
consequence there is no evil corruption upon the heart or worship of other
than Allaah as is a consequence of al-Ishq.
If this is not sufficient invalidating the
ascription of this Hadeeth to the Messenger of Allaah - sallAllaahu
alayhi wa sallam, then you should blindly follow the scholars of Hadeeth
those who have knowledge of it and its defects. This Hadeeth has not been
authentically preserved from not even one Imam from amongst them ever, that
he testified that this Hadeeth is authentic, not even regarded as Hasan,
how can it be when the Imams criticised Sawayd (a narrator) about this
Hadeeth and they accused him due to this Hadeeth with terrible things and
some of them allowed a war to be waged against him due to this Hadeeth.' this
is the end of Ibn al-Qayyim's speech.
A summary of this is that the Hadeeth
is Da'eef Isnaad and its text is fabricated as is declared
likewise by Ibn al-Qayyim in the two previous sources and also in the book
'al-Manar' by Ibn al-Qayyim and also in 'Rowdatul Muhibbeen', and Allaah
knows best.'[10]
The Cure for Ishq
Ibn Qayyim aj-Jawzeeyah (d.751 A.H.) -Rahimullaah-said:
‘If Ishq occurs but not in
a prohibited way, then a person is not blamed for it. Like the one who
has Ishq for his wife or his slave girl but then separates
from her but Ishq for her remains and it does not separate
from him, then this person is not blamed for it.
Likewise if the man took an unexpected
glance but he turned away from looking, however, Ishq indeed
had caught a hold of his heart involuntarily except that it is upon him to
repel it and turn it away.’[11]
Ibn Taymeeyah (d.728 A.H.) -Rahimullaah-said:
‘If he is trialled with Ishq and
desisted, and was patient then he is rewarded for his havingTaqwa of
Allaah. Since it is known with Sharia evidence that if a person
desisted from prohibitions, looking at them, statements and
actions, and he kept them secret and did not speak about them, so much
so that there is no prohibited speech which is, either complaining to the
creation, or doing an evil deed or fulfilling a request for the beloved
one, and being patient upon obedience to Allaah and keeping away from sinning
against Allaah. Also being patient upon what is in his heart from the
pain of Ishq just like an afflicted person is patient upon
the pain of the affliction. This is done by he who feared Allaah and
had patience.
إِنَّهُۥ مَن يَتَّقِ وَيَصۡبِرۡ فَإِنَّ
ٱللَّهَ لَا يُضِيعُ أَجۡرَ ٱلۡمُحۡسِنِينَ
<< Verily, he who fears Allaah with
obedience to Him (by abstaining from sins and evil deeds, and by performing
righteous good deeds), and is patient, then surely, Allaah makes not the
reward of the Muhsinoon (good-doers) to be lost. >>
[Surat Yusuf: 90][12]
All Praise belongs to Allaah, may His peace
and blessings be upon our final
Prophet Muhammad, his
family, his companions
and all those who
follow his
[1] T.N. Some of the ignorant Muslims
apply this word in their false claim of loving the Messenger of Allaah -sallAllaahu
alayhi wa sallam, whereas in reality they do not follow him -sallAllaahu
alayhi wa sallam. Allaah Ta’ala said: << Say: ‘If you (really) love Allaah then follow
me >> [Al-Imraan: 31]
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Thursday, May 29, 2014
Ishq – Extreme Fervent Love
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