Shia Strength: [MahdiUniteMuslims] Rights of Allah or the Worship Acts (Haqqullah Ibadah) & Rights of people (Haqqun Naas)

Rights of Allah or the Worship Acts (Haqqullah Ibadah).

The first thing about which a person will be questioned is prayers (Namaz). Did he say his prayers in time? Did he serve (rightly) this pillar of Islam and the Legacy of prayers , or did he recite it to show off. After this people will be questioned about Fasting (siyam), pilgrimage (Haj), Zakat, Khums, the Holy War (Jehad) etc. and then the righful recipients will catch hold of their shirts (and ask for their rights).

Rights of people (Haqqun Naas)

Allah will deal with His servants in two ways, (1) with Justice (Adl), and (2) with mercy (Fazl).

Allah's Justice (Adl): If a person has upon him someone's right (haq), his good deeds (of equal weight or merit) will be handed over to the rightful owner. For example backbiting (gheebat), defaming etc. The good deeds of a person who has backbited or has defamed anyone, will be transferred to the account of the person whom he backbited or defamed, and in turn that person's bad deeds will be transferred to the account of the person who backbited and defamed him.Many traditions (Ahadees) are quoted to support this.

There is a lengthy tradition (Hadees) from Imam Ali Zainul Abedeen (A.S.) in "Rawzae kafi" that on the day of Qayamat people will be questioned about the rights of men. At the concluding part of this tradition it is quoted that a person asked Imam (A.S.), "O son of the prophet If a non-believer who has been thrown into hell owes something to a believer, how will the deeds be exchanged when the non believer has no more good deeds left". Imam Zainul Abideen (A.S.) replied, "The punishment equivalent to the right that he owes will be incurred on him. Likewise the good deeds of the oppressor will be transferred to the account of the oppressed". The person asked, "But if the Muslim oppressor does not have any good deeds left"? He (A.S.) replied, "The load of sins of the oppressed will be placed on the shoulders of the oppressor, and verily this is true justice"

It is narrated in "Lu'ali'Akhbar" that once the Holy prophet (S.A.W.S.) asked His companions as to who was an indigent (muflis) person, they replied that, "That one of us is an indigent person who does not possess wealth or property". He (S.A.W.S.) replied, "The indigent from my ummah on the day of Qayamat will be the one who even after having offered Namaz, kept fasts, performed the Haj, paid the zakat, but simultaneously abused anyone, or usurped the rights of anyone, or killed or physically tortured someone. Hence the oppressed ones will be given the good deeds of the oppressor and these deeds will be their's. If the good deeds of the oppressor are exhausted, the bad deeds of the oppressor will be given to the oppressor, and he will be thrown into the raging fire". (Ma' ad)

Allamah Jaza'eri quotes a tradition in his book that if a person owes someone even one dirham and returns it back to it's owner, this act of his is greater than worship of a thousand years, freeing one thousand slaves in the way of Allah, and performing one thousand Haj and the lesser pilgrimage (Umrah ).

In another tradition Ma' soomeen (A.S.) says, that whosoever pleases his debtors (by repaying their loans), will be made to enter Paradise without taking account, and in paradise they will be among the friends of Prophet Isma`il (A.S.)

Allah's mercy on the day of Qayamat when a person owes some rights to someone, and if Allah is drowning in their own sweat (due to fear). Allah will reveal to the people the palaces of paradise and call out to the persons who owes something from His servants: O people who owe something from my servant, if you wish to enter paradise, forgive him the rights that he owes you, and thus free him of this responsibility. Fortunate is the person on whom Allah is Merciful. For verily if Allah does not straighten his affair, his state will become bad. Imam Ali Zainul Abedeen (A.S.) wept (in fear) with Thy Justice, O Merciful Lord.

It is appropriate to quote here the Supplication (Du'a) of Abu Hamza Sumali.

Abu Hamza Sumali says that Imam Ali Zainul Abedeen used to recite the following du'a every night at the time of sehar in the month of Ramazan. This du'a is quoted in many books of supplications and also in the first volume of Mafateehul Jinaan' by the same author.

The recitation of Namaze Radde Mazalim (Namaz for expiation of rights due) is also beneficial. It's method is as follows: Recite four Rak'at Namaz (two Rak'at each), in first Rak'at after Surah-aI-Hamd recite Surah-at-Tawheed Twenty five times, and in the second Rak'at after Surah-al Hamd recite Surah-at- Tawhed fifty times, in the third seventy five times, and in the fourth hundred times. After ending Namaz ask Allah's forgiveness. Incident-I:

This incident is quoted in one of the writing of Shaikh Shaheed, Ahmed bin Abil Hawaree says that I had a wish to see in my teacher Abu Salman Duraani (vis. Abdul Rehman bin Aytiyyah, a virtuous person who died in Dariyah in Damascus in 235 A.H. and his grave is renowned there). After a year I saw him in my dream and
asked him, "O dear teacher, how was your treatment (after death)"? Abu Salman replied, "O Ahmed one day while coming from Babe Sagheer I saw a camel laden with hay. I casually removed a straw from it. Now I do not remember whether I put in my mouth or threw it away without chewing it. One year has passed and I am still being accounted for it".

This narration is not an imaginary work, but can be supported by the following verse (Ayah) of the Qur'an: "O my son surely if it is the very weight of the grain of a mustard seed, even though it is in (the heart of) a rock, or (high above) in the heavens, or (deep down) in the earth, Allah will bring it (to light)" (Surah-al-Luqman : l6)

Amirul Mo' meneen Ali (A.S.) in one of his sermons says, "Will not the souls be accounted for their good or bad deeds on the day of Qayamat, even if it be of the weight of a mustard seed".

Hazrat Ali (A.S.) sent Mohammad ibn Abu Bakr with a pronouncement, "O servants of Allah You should know that on the day of Qayamat Allah will certainly question you about your actions, big or small, open or concealed".

Hazrat Ali (A.S.) wrote to Abdullah ibne Abbas. "Are you not afraid of the Umanaqesha' of accounting"? In reality Umanaqesha' means a thorn pierced in the body. As

a person faces great difficulty in removing a (minute) thorn, in the same manner on the day of Qayamat people will have to bear hardships. Some researchers say that on the day of Qayamat one will be safe from the fear of the weighing scale (Mizan), except the one who in his lifetime started taking account of all his good and bad deeds. The Holy prophet (S.A.W.S.) says that, "O people take account of your selves before your account is taken (in Qayamat), and weight your actions before they are weighed in Qayamat".

Incident- 2.

It is said about Tawbah bin Samah that he daily took account of himself. One day he calculated his age and concluded that sixty years of his life had passed. Then he counted the days in sixty years and that came to twenty one thousand six hundred. He was shocked and said to himself, "Woe be to me. Will I face Lord having committed twenty one thousand six hundred sins". After having uttered these words he fell down unconscious and passed away (in grief).

It is also narrated that once the Holy prophet (S.A.W.S.) was sitting on the barren ground with no grass on it. He ordered his companions to gather fuel to lit a fire. They replied that they were in a place where there was impossibility to find dry grass for fuel. The prophet (S.A.W.S.) told them to gather whatever they could. Each one of them collected a small quantity and slowly it became plenty . The prophet (S.A.W.S.) looked at the heap of grass and said, "In the same manner sins of people will be collected on the day of Qayamat".

The prophet (S.A.W.S.) wanted to tell his companions that as the dry grass cannot be seen in that barren land, but when searched for can turn out to be a heap. In the same manner the small small sins which a person commits cannot be seen, but on the day of Qayamat when all sins will be gathered they will amount to a large stock. Thus Tawbah bin Samah calculated one sin (the least) committed in one day which amounted to twenty one thousand six hundred sins in sixty years.
Ref: Manazelul Akherah

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