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Let go of what does not concern us | Hubeali Skip to content Hubeali Menu Topics Quran Tafseer Books Urdu Books English Books Sermons School of Wilayat Search for: Search Button Home Articles Let go of what does not concern us Details Sidebar Table of contents Summary: Introduction: To Whom Questions are to be Directed and how?

Conjectures Cause Disharmony among Believers: Discussing/reporting a believer in his Absence: The snooping/spying Supplication of Imam-asws to Allah-azwj against Hostile ones: APPENDIX: Additional Ahadith on enquiring unconcerned issues Let go of what does not concern us Summary: One of many problems of modern life is social media, which is hard to avoid these days, as we are being told/shown mostly about that which does not concern us.

Sometimes, it’s in the name of News, or a social media friend request, or coverage of a private story/tragedy of a poor soul, the list goes on. Hence, we become inquisitive about all that which concern us or not, and quite unknowingly slide into the grey areas, although our initial intention is innocent and merely based on curiosity.

However, before we realise and try to quit, we are already in a regrettable situation – asking our Lord for forgiveness for wasting time on mostly that which is unholy and unrelated to us. Why don’t we stop? Imam -asws says in a Hadith, eyes are never satiated from looking. [1] Amir Al-Momineen -asws says: قال : وفي الحديث : إن لكل ملك حمى ، وحمى الله محارمه ، فمن رتع حول الحمى أوشك أن يقع فيه .

He said, that it is in a Hadith (of Amir ul-Momineen -asws ): ‘Surely, for every king there is a territory, and the territory of Allah -azwj is His -azwj Prohibitions. Whoever, strolls around it or falls into doubt, will end up inside it’. [2] Can we leave that aside which does not concern us? It is not easy as one question leads to another and to another, but we can learn from some Ahadith, what should we be learning and where the boundary of ‘Let go of what does not concern us’ comes.

For example: العياشي: عن يونس بن عبد الرحمن، أن داود قال: كنا عنده فأرعدت السماء، فقال هو: «سبحان من يسبح له الرعد بحمده و الملائكة من خيفته» فقال له أبو بصير: جعلت فداك، إن للرعد كلاما؟ فقال: «يا أبا محمد، سل عما يعنيك، و دع ما لا يعنيك». Al-Ayyyashi, from Yunus Bin Abdul Rahman that Dawood said, ‘We were in his -asws (6 th Imam -asws ) presence, so the sky rumbled (with thunder).