Understanding the Obligation to Obey the Messenger: Commands and Prohibitions in Islam

The Importance of Following the Messenger’s Commands and Prohibitions in Islamic Teachings”

ORDERING OBEDIENCE OF THE MESSENGER IN ALL COMMANDS AND PROHIBITIONS

ALLĀH the Exalted said,

وَمَا اتَاكُمُ الرَّسُولُ فَخُذُوهُ وَمَا نَهَاكُمْ عَنْهُ فَانتَهُوا
Whatever the Messenger gives you, take it. And whatever he forbids you from, leave it.

This includes both fundamental and minor issues of religion, whether they have to do with outward conduct or inward beliefs and attitudes. Whatever the Messenger (ﷺ) gives, it is obligatory for people to pay heed to it and follow it, and it is not permissible to go against it. If the Messenger (ﷺ) gives a ruling, it is like a ruling from ALLĀH, and no concession or excuse is granted to anyone to refrain from doing it. It is not permissible to give precedence to the view of anyone else over the view of the Prophet (ﷺ).

{Tafsi‌r As-Sa’di}

#sadi #hashr (57:7)

Abdullāh ibn Mas’ud (may ALLĀH be pleased with him) said: “The Messenger of ALLĀH (ﷺ) cursed the woman who does tattoos and the one who has them done, and those who pluck their eyebrows and file their teeth for the purpose of beautification, and those who change the creation of ALLĀH.”

News of that reached a woman of Banu Asad who was called Umm Ya’qub. She came to him and said: “I have heard that you said such and such.”

He said: 'Why should I not curse those whom the Messenger of ALLĀH (ﷺ) cursed ? And it is in the Book of ALLĀH (Qur'an).''

She said: “I read what is between its two covers ‘and I have not found that.”

He said: “If you read it properly you would have found it. Have you not read the words:

‘وَمَا اتَاكُمُ الرَّسُولُ فَخُذُوهُ وَمَا نَهَاكُمْ عَنْهُ فَانتَهُوا
Whatever the Messenger gives you, take it. And whatever he forbids you from, leave it.

She said: “Of course.” He said: ‘The Messenger of ALLĀH ﷺ forbade that.”

She said: ‘I think that your wife does it.’

He said: ” Go and look.”

So she went and looked and she did not see what she wanted. She said: “I have not seen anything!’

‘Abdullāh said: “If she was as you say, I would not have kept her with me.”

{Sunan Ibn Majah #1989}