There are some people who are
brand conscious, especially women.
They don’t want to buy a bag they
see in a normal store; they want to
go to all of these big brand named
stores and get one from there. Why?
Because it’s a brand name, and
because it has qualities which last
longer. So, just as people are brand
conscious, Allah is also brand
conscious and that brand is the
sunnah of the Prophet .
If actions are not according to
sunnah, then they are all rejected.
The Prophet said:
ف ن
�من احدث � امر
ف
هذا ما ليس منه �و رد
“Whoever does what is not
from us, that is rejected.” (Sahih
Bukhari)
Tayyib (Pure) in Tayyib Out
When we do things according to the sunnah,
then that particular thing becomes tayyib; it
becomes pure. Allah says in a hadith:
ً
ان الهل طيب ال يقبل اال طيبا
“Allah is pure and he does not accept
anything which is not pure.”
You eat what’s pure and then you do what’s
righteous. Allah says in one of the places in
Quran:
َّ َ ُ ُ ُ ُ ُّ َ َ ۤ
َُۡ
ٰيـا يُّ�ا الرسل ك ۡوا ِمن الط ِّي ٰبت َواعل ْوا
ِ
ًِ َ
صالـا
”O Messengers, eat from the good things,
and act righteously.” (23:51)
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The tayyib amaal can only come when you input
tayyib things. Now, we don’t even care about what
we eat; we go into all these r estaurants as huge
food lovers. We go and eat without even knowing
what they are selling. Then we expect that we will
become the most righteous people on the earth.
It doesn’t happen like that; it’s not the sunnah of
Allah . You have to know where it is coming
from. The people that have excelled in their
spirituality have that connection with Allah .
First of all, we need to make sure what we are eating
is tayyib. We need to make sure we eat at home as
much as possible, and whoever is cooking needs
to make sure that he/she starts with the name of
Allah before they begin to cook. Always start
with bismillah (in the name of Allah ), because
the Prophet of Allah said, “Whatever thing
that the name of Allah is not recited on is cut
off from the mercy of Allah .” If that food is cut
off from the barakah (blessing) and the mercy of
Allah , then how can we expect a higher state?
We can’t.
There are incidents where people have actually
experienced that. That if they have been eating