The Right of Allah
(Mighty & Majestic) on His Slaves
& the Right of
the Slaves on Allah (Blessed & Exalted)
It behooves us to know the
right of Allah (Mighty & Majestic) on us, after He (Glorious & Exalted)
granted us guidance to believe in His Oneness and let us know His Supreme
Attributes and their Perfection, after He (Glorious & Exalted) bestowed
upon us faith in His prophets and messengers, and faith in all they came with
and in all they conveyed to us, after He made us a part of the nation of the
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers, which it is
the best nation brought forth among people, the nation He (Blessed &
Exalted) entrusted with the preservation of His Scripture—the Holy Quran—and
the protection of the Sunnah of His prophet (pbuh), and therefore, the
protection of His Law and His great religion, Islam.
It is also imperative that we know the
right of Allah (Mighty & Majestic) upon us so that we can fulfill it, for
the purpose of our lives on this earth is to give Allah (Mighty & Majestic)
this right.
From the Mighty Grace of Allah (Blessed
& Exalted), His Bounty and Generosity, is that He made compensation, reward
and a goodly payment for those who give Him (Noble & Sublime) His due
right, even though Allah (Mighty & Majestic) is God the Creator who is not
questioned about anything, while human beings are the slaves, created beings as
any others, who will be questioned by Him (Noble & Sublime) about
everything, on the Day of Reckoning.
The natural state of affairs is that the
slaves do not have rights on their master, because no one has any superiority
over Him (Noble & Sublime); rather, all Grace and Bounty is from Allah
(Blessed & Exalted) upon His creation.
To know the right of Allah
(Mighty & Majestic) over His slaves, and the right of the slaves over Allah
Almighty, we mention that which the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) related to us in
this noble hadith, which was narrated by Imam al-Bukhari from the hadith of Mu`adh.
Allah's Messenger (pbuh) said, "Oh Mu`adh, do you know the right of Allah
over His slaves and what the slaves' right is over Allah?"
I (Mu`adh) said, "Allah and His
messenger know best."
He (pbuh) said, "Allah's right over
His slaves is that they worship Him and associate nothing with Him, and the
right of the slaves over Allah is that he who does not associate anything with
Him will not be punished." [Related by al-Bukhari]
We would like
to point out one aspect of the right of Allah Almighty over His slaves, in
brief:
A.
True Monotheism (Tawhid)
From the right of Allah
Almighty over His slaves is that they affirm His Oneness, completely:
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Man believes and knows with certainty that
Allah (Glorious & Exalted) is the Lord, Who created him and all things, and
that He (Glorious & Exalted) is the Maker and Shaper, the All-Powerful, the
Sustainer, and so on among the Attributes of His Lordship. Man also knows that
there are actions no one does and cannot do, except Allah (Glorious &
Exalted). This is called the unity of lordship (tawhid al-rububiyyah).
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Man knows full well that the Lord and Creator
(Glorious & Exalted) is the Only One described with all the Attributes of
Perfection. He knows that to Him (Glorious & Exalted) belong the Most
Beautiful Names and Attributes, and that any reproachable names or attributes
cannot be ascribed to Him.
Man knows full well that the Lord and
Creator Alone is worthy of worship, and that nothing should be worshipped
beside Him. This is called the unity of divinity (tawhid al-uluhiyyah).
B. Worship
and Obedience
As the right of Allah Almighty
over His slaves is that they affirm His Oneness and not associate anything with
Him, it is also His right (Noble & Sublime) over His slaves that they
worship Him Alone (Noble & Sublime) and that they obey none but Him.
They must not associate any partners in
their worship of Allah Almighty. They must obey His commands and avoid His
prohibitions, seeking thereby His mercy and good pleasure (Blessed &
Exalted) upon them and that He remove from them His punishment and torment.
The Right of
the Slaves over Allah Almighty
As we have
stated, the natural state of affairs is that the slaves have no right over
their Lord, because no one has any superiority over Him (Noble & Sublime);
rather, all Grace, Favor, and Bounty are from Allah Almighty upon His creation.
A concise summary of the right of the
slaves over Allah Most High is what the Messenger (pbuh) has informed us of and
indicated: that Allah (Glorious & Exalted) shall not punish those who
affirm His Oneness in belief and worship, and who do not associate anything
with Him (Noble & Sublime).
Indeed, Allah (Blessed & Exalted) made
His gardens of Paradise, His realm of delights, for His believing, righteous,
obedient slaves who are exclusively devoted to Him (Noble & Sublime), where
He will bestow eternal pleasure upon them—pleasure with no end, by the Grace of
Allah (Blessed & Exalted)—where He (Noble & Sublime) will establish His
Favor upon them, and never be angry with them.
We find no better words to describe the
Bounty of Allah Almighty than those which the second Rightly-Guided Caliph,
Umar ibn al-Khattab, said, "Bounteous is the blessing of Allah and
good."
And true are the Words of Allah Most High
when He said, {Such is the Bounty from Allah, and Allah is Sufficient as
All-Knower.}[Al-Nisaa' 4: 70]
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