Things seems representative of the time the Prophet (saws) mentioned when he prophesied that, “Knowledge will be raised, ignorance will descend, and there will be much senseless killing (Ibn Maajah).” We are all connected by the World Wide Web but polarized in our own little clusters of the like-minded. Still, the contemporary climate is riddled with confusion. Indeed they led to the establishment of an entire civilization. Taken holistically and incorporated, these hadith may lead individuals (and whole societies) down a path of peace and prosperity (in a true sense of the word). I now realize that proper study (preferably with a true scholar) and fulfillment of the principles embodied in the collection represents a pathway to physical, mental, spiritual, and even material well-being, a path to the balance each soul naturally requires and seeks.
Imam Nawawi’s 42 hadith are beautiful and mostly simplistic, deep in their meaning, but incredibly difficult in their implementation. As Aisha (raa) explained, Muhammad’s “character was the Quran.” As Imam Malik explained it, “The only thing that will rectify the affairs of the ummah is that which rectified the first of it.” And what rectified the first of it, was the comprehension and understanding of the personality that was the Prophet Muhammad (saws). I am attempting to return to the true path of the Prophet Muhammad.
Today, I am establishing a balance, between these two extremes. I reverted to behaviors that I hadn’t gone back to since my conversion to Islam, and I forgot how beautiful the way of truly ‘being’ a Muslim was. In prison, however, I altered my beliefs and renounced extremism, but then, for a multitude of reasons, I fell backwards. When I finally went to prison, the FBI explained how I operated my organization, “to radicalize those who saw and heard his materials online and to incite them to engage in violence against those they believed to be enemies of Islam.” And it was true. I worked hand-in-hand with extremist preachers, such as Anjem Choudary, Abdullah Faisal and Musa Cerantonio, to spread an interpretation of Islam that was built on my own desires, one preconceived and a result of my quest for meaning and significance, to locate something through which I could project my personal frustration with self a society I felt betrayed and oppressed me. Held side-by-side, those four issues of what we called Jihad Recollections look identical to an issue of Al-Qaeda and ISIS’ own Inspire, Dabiq or Rumiyya. I helped Samir Khan and Anwar al-Awlaki design and develop the first version of the glossy jihadi English-language magazines we see continue to cause mayhem unto today. I radicalized and recruited on behalf of Osama bin Laden’s Global Jihad. I’ve experienced both sides of extremism.Īs Younus Abdullah Muhammad, I ran an American-jihadist organization. Our present age is marked, simultaneously, by severe disregard for spirituality and religion and an ugly fundamentalist extremism that chases others away from the religion and fails miserably in its ostensible objective of removing authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and so-called “Western” influence from so-called “Muslim” lands.’ I should know. Unfortunately, for many today, there is too much miscomprehension and not enough implementation of what one learns. In the introduction to his explanation of the 40 hadith, Imam Nawawi described his objective as an effort to compile the most prominent narrations of the Prophet (saws), narrations the scholars of Islam had described with attributions such as “The entire religion revolves around it.” These descriptions suggest that the message and meaning of these hadith is so crucial to the universe of Islam that their understanding and implementation is an imperative component of crafting an Islamic personality. Indeed, almost every Muslim on the planet is familiar with it. This collection of 40 narrations of the Prophet Muhammad (saws) – 42 actually (but the Arabs tend to round down in numbers), has inspired and encouraged countless Muslims to cultivate a core character based on the actual message of Islam. For centuries, Muslims across the globe have read and referred to Imam Nawawi’s 40 Hadith (Al-Arbain al-Nawawiyyah).
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