047 – Bearing Witness from the Heart | Dying on the Shahada | Sustainable Momentum in Seeking Knowledge

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In this episode, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani begins the fourth set of hadiths on the virtues of faith and submission from Imam Nabahani’s forty sets of forty hadiths. Shaykh Faraz begins by defining the interrelated concepts of faith and submission, both of which, in essence, relate to an action of the heart. In the first hadith, we learn that there is no one who bears witness to the testimony of faith except that Allah Most High forbids them from the fire; however, key to this is truthfulness from one’s heart. In the second hadith, we learn that one who dies upon “There is No God But Allah” is entered into Paradise, even if they had committed theft and fornication. Here, Shaykh Faraz emphasizes that the basis of looking at the believer is therefore respect, and that the intrinsic honouring of human is their capacity for belief. Shaykh Faraz then continues the section on Striving, Consistency, and High Resolve from Imam Zarnuji’s “Instruction of the Student”. Here, we learn about the importance of making use of the days of early youth and adolescence. In addition, we learn an important lesson about the balance between high resolve and sustainable momentum in one’s seeking of knowledge.