PROPHET ﷺ SAID THIS ABOUT SILENCE

foreign whoever remains silent shall be successful whoever adopts the policy of being quiet whoever learns the art of not speaking mansomata is verb to not speak is an action to not speak requires effort for many of us not speaking requires much more effort than speaking for many of us to close our mouth requires more Jihad than opening the mountain blurting things out and our Prophet sallallahu reminded us memorize this beautiful Hadith and from this obviously it was the prophet sallallahu alaihi he would send them to maintain long periods of Silence he wouldn't speak frequently he wouldn't constantly be talking says asked did you sit with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam were you one of the sahaba is one of the younger sahaba he says yes used to sit with the prophet sallallahu alaihi he was he would be silent for long period of time and he would not laugh that much and the sahaba would be telling Tales of their days of jahiliya or saying something of poetry and they would laugh in his presence and he would sometimes smile listening to them so he gives us glimpse into the prophet he's with the sahaba he's listening to them he's allowing them to be merry and happy he himself is adopting longer periods of silence and he's participating more with his presence and with his Smiles the prophet she said that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would speak in such manner if he wanted to count his words you could do so he would speak in such manner when he said something if he wanted to just count on your fingers how much he spoke you could do so in other words when he spoke it was poignant succinct short concise it was to the point and he didn't go longer and longer and this has been well-known characteristic of the people of wisdom and knowledge even beyond our religion it is universal characteristic of wisdom not just within our faith Universal characteristic of being intelligent that you diminish blabbering and speaking and you speak only when you need to and you choose silence over extra speech one of the sahaba said when you see person who has no love for this Dunya and whose speech is very little then accompany that person for Allah has given him wisdom when you see person he's not greedy for the Dunya he's not always running after this world and you also find that he has little kaliers he doesn't speak that much about unnecessary things then this is the person you should take as your friend this is the person who's wise person benefit from his presence warn you from constantly talking warn you from unnecessary talk because it is only enough sorry so it is sufficient he said not because it is sufficient for man that he conveys what he needs to and then is silent it is sufficient for man he speaks what needs to be said and then doesn't go beyond this he said leave and abandon that which has no benefit to you and do not speak about an issue that does not concern you and control your tongue and trap it more eagerly than you trap your gold and silver be careful about spending your tongue he's saying more eagerly than you're trapping your money make sure you keep your mouth shut more than you keep your wallet shot out of spending Israel this is constant thing we find amongst the sahaba and amongst the early Scholars and subhanallah just imagine how much trouble we would save ourselves if we only chose silence over speaking in Anger silence over speaking in haste silence over speaking without choosing our words rarely rarely will you be criticized for your silence sometimes you will sometimes you must speak up but generally speaking you shall be criticized for speaking nine times and criticize for silence one time generally speaking your tongue and opening it will cause you much more distress than keeping your tongue silent subhanallah one word that you say can break years of friendship one with argument that you have can break the love of your spouse subhanallah how dangerous is this tongue that we have how dangerous is the unleashment of this tongue where so much harm can be done if only we kept it quiet if only we kept our thoughts within us and then waited until we're able to formulate better response and then speak with words of wisdom we would save so many friendships we would cause so much so less stress and arguments and all of this goes back to the issue of controlling the tongue and as said the the notion of controlling the tongue is beyond just our culture we find these Snippets of wisdom in all civilizations and cultures even Plato not that we care about Plato's Akida but even Plato he has statement that wise men speak because they have something to say fools speak because they have nothing to say wise men speak because they have something to say but when fools speak is because they have nothing to say they're just blabbering on and on and the one of the philosophers of the western tradition Francis Bacon he said silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom meaning when you're silent it allows time for for contemplation for minimizing your mistakes and in fact that is why in many again Eastern Traditions the notion of meditation requires what silence now we don't have that version of meditation but we do have something similar Ibrahim IBN adham that famous scholar and ascetic that famous worshiper and that one of the greatest luminaries of his time Ibrahim IBN adham he said the Pinnacle of worshiping is to think lot and to be quiet the Pinnacle of worship will be achieved when you think more than you speak when you contemplate and you speak less except he goes for the thicker of Allah so silence is one of the characteristics of virtue especially when it comes to speaking of the matters of this world and Silence by the way is not just of the tongue in our days silence must also be used by our our fingers social media Facebook Twitter writing an email this too silence you have to think before you type think before you tweet think before you put Facebook status up there think and do not ever write or tweet or speak in state of anger calm down collect your thoughts think about the wordings you're gonna use and then reply back saying goes Fool by staying silent appears wise and wise man by constantly talking appears foolish Fool by staying silent people might think you're wise call us you're going to give the false impression but wise man who constantly talks he's gonna appear to be foolish the benefits of Silence are many of them you cultivate wisdom it is sign of Iman because our Prophet saws said of the Perfection of Iman is to leave that which is of no concern to you it is sign of it is mechanism of protecting one from hurting the feelings of other people it allows you time to formulate better response it brings about positive impression amongst the people and most importantly it saves you from the fire of hell and causes you to earn the pleasure of Allah brothers and sisters silence is an art silence must be trained you must push yourself to be silent you must learn the art of controlling your tongue next time you feel like speaking think before you speak our final point inshallah or two points number one all of this silence is meant in the world in the Affairs of the Dunya as for the Affairs of the akhira ask for dikkar of Allah and the Quran ask for more and preaching and teaching obviously that is not the type of Silence that we are talking about IBN Abdul bar the famous scholar said that the Kalam that comes when good from doing Allah from the reciting of the Quran from doing good deeds from preaching from bringing people together and bringing reconciliation this is much better than being quiet so when you do say something to bring people together their friendships are broken you bring them together of Allah the Quran this is not what we are talking about and the second point and the final point is that and speak to your lord plentifully how do you speak to your Lord this is how you speak to your lord we conclude by reminding ourselves of the famous Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam whoever believes in Allah in the final day either say something useful or else be quiet say something good say something useful or else be quiet may Allah grant us the wisdom to speak when speaking is better and the wisdom to be silent when silence is better have you ever wished that there was Muslim version of YouTuber Netflix well we have created one the one Islam TV app has no adverts and is safe to browse for your peace of mind watch hundreds of high quality produce Islamic reminders or on videos stories of the prophets Hot Topic debates and so much more four to eight new videos are uploaded daily Insha'Allah you can watch or listen to videos while your device is Switched Off watch videos on demand or download videos and watch offline one Islam TV is 100 run and owned by Muslims which means the small amount you pay for your subscription is continuous charity for you 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