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MORNING REMINDER: Always Verify Before You Conclude: A Pathetic Story Narrated by the author of "Restrain your tongue"!

A brother told me that one day, he stopped by the traffic light.

He narrated:

“Then I heard the sound of music with a very loud sound so much so

that I and the people around me became scared. So I turned to the right and left searching for its source and discovered that it was by my left side. The owner of the car had opened all the windows and increased the volume of the music very high. The people in the cars

around him were looking at him and were surprised at the pitch of the volume of music to this level.”

He continued: “I pressed on the car’s horn several times for him to turn to me so that I could tell him that he should reduce the volume of the radio set or to switch it off or

to engage it with something better than it such as the recitation of the Qur’aan. However, the man did not pay attention to me in spite of the extent of my alerting him with my car. Then I moved forward a little with the car in order to alert him with my hand. When he turned to

me, I discovered he was a young man. He had brought down his door glasses by his left and right side. And he had a dense beard that reached his chest.”

He continued: “I was surprised at the young man with this appearance as he allowed his beard to grow. Despite that, if he wants

if he wants to hear, how could he hear in this manner that indicates intense audacity and lack of paying attention to the people?” He continued: “I pressed the car’s horn several times but he did not also pay attention to me until the green traffic light signaled. Then he drove

drove off and I drove behind him.”

He continued: “I kept on making attempt to stop him in order to advise him and remind him of Allaah; and to caution him that such is unlawful. And to also inform him that for him to do it with audacity in front of the people increases it in

prohibition. This is because it is a form exposing ones sin; but the man did not turn to me at all till he stopped at a grocery store.” He narrated further: “So I stopped my car behind him. The man came down from the car and walked to the grocery store.

He was not wearing his clothing below his ankles. So I was surprised. Then he entered and I said to myself, ‘He will come out now with a pack of cigarette’. However, when he came out, he was holding an Islamic magazine, so I said, ‘There is no might or power except with Allaah.’

How could his condition be like that?”

He continued: “He advanced to his car, then he started it up and the music immediately began to play. I said, ‘By Allaah I cannot bear this anymore. I came down from my car and proceeded to him. I began to admonish him but he did not turn

to me. I held on to the door of his car before he locked it. Then I said: ‘O my brother, why do you not fear Allaah? Why are you not conscious of Allaah?’ “You are playing music all this while. And you are playing it so loud. O my brother, if you wish to listen to music,

you can listen to it alone. Do you want to compel the people to listen to the music with you? Why do you not fear Allaah? Why are you not conscious of Allaah?”

He continued: “The man was looking at me, and he was surprised as to why I was shouting. Then he lowered his head and

and raised it while looking at me. When he noticed that I kept on shouting at him, he began to point at his ears and tongue with his finger and indicating with his hand that he cannot hear or speak. So I understood that the man cannot hear nor speak. He was deaf and dumb.

I almost wept. Then I lowered my head and I gently put my hand into his car and switched off the radio set.” He said: “Then the man began to use his hand to ask, ‘what do you want? Why are you angry? Thereafter, he searched for an exercise book and a pen by his side

and gave me a sheet of paper and pen; and he was indicating with his hand saying: ‘Write what you want’. So I wrote to him thus: ‘O my noble brother, you were playing music so loudly. In a short while ago by the traffic light, the drivers around you were calling your attention.

What made me to follow you is to admonish you regarding what you did.’”

He continued: “When he collected the sheet of paper and read it, he lowered his head a little; then he began to agitate himself. That is to say, in a manner of a grief-stricken person. Then he wrote below my

words: ‘May Allaah reward you with good for your admonition. However, know, O my brother that I am a deaf and dumb man. I cannot hear nor talk. This car belongs to my brother. By Allaah the most Great, I was not aware that the music was playing until when you informed me of that;

may Allaah reward you with good.’”

Look at the condition of this man. Allaah took away his hearing and made him deaf and dumb. In spite of that, he is desirous of righteous deeds. Who knows? Maybe if Allaah the Most High had given him the ability to hear and talk, it may be a

means of his destruction on the Day of Resurrection. There are many are among men that would be thrown inside the Fire as a result of a speech from their tongue. It is recorded in the two Saheeh collections that the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) said:

“Indeed a slave will speak a word without being aware of what it contains...”

Source: Restrain Your Tongue, p. 6-8 by Dr. Muhammad bin Abdir-Rahmaan al-‘Areefee, translated by Abdus-Samee’ Abdussalam.