How Does One Understand The Hadith About Cursing Time? Ask Shaykh YQ #208

Yasir Qadhi

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

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🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0	This audio is brought to you by MuslimCentral.com
0:04.1	By the Muhammad from Bangalore emails me Bangalore India and asks about the Hadith of the Prophet
0:10.7	Allahu Alaihi Wasallam
0:12.3	La Tassubbu Dahrah
0:14.1	Fa Anadahr
0:15.4	Do not
0:16.4	Curse time for I am time or in another version for Allah is time so in one version
0:22.4	It is in the first person and in the second version
0:25.2	It is the Prophet system saying do not curse time because Allah himself is time
0:29.7	And he says how can we understand this Hadith because clearly time is not one of the names of Allah Suhanahu Wa Ta'ala
1:00.7	Actually to understand this Hadith we need to understand pre-Islamic customs
1:05.7	The Jahili Arabs they would blame bad occurrences on the time
1:11.7	And as Allah says in the Qur'an
1:20.7	They would say that this is our life we live we die and it is only time that shall destroy us
1:26.7	And when something bad would happen to them they would curse time they would curse time
1:32.7	Now we have to understand they are using the word time Dahr
1:38.7	The way that in early in medieval Europe the term fate would be used
1:46.7	We don't use it anymore that much but in Shakespearean plays for example
1:50.7	One would curse one's fate
1:52.7	This is the way that they are using the word Dahr or time
1:55.7	So even though technically we translate a Dahr as time realistically what is meant is Qadar or fate
2:04.7	So when the Arabs would say I am cursing time it is the equivalent of a Westerner 400 years ago cursing his fate
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