.........................Although
it is ambit clear that this 40 days and 4 month are not a sharaee ruling. It is
just tarteeb/system. Otherwise their will be so many problems like Family will
not be knowing when the person is returning back.
Only after going in the
path of Allah you will taste these difficulties and its Reward.
Still while fixing the days the Ulema of Tabligh movement has tried
that there should be some relation from Quran and Hadith.
Here we are Presenting some Ayats of Quran and Ahadith that
establish some numerical Value of 40 days and 4 months.
40-Days from Quran
Allah
(ta’ala) mentions in Surah Baqarah verse 51: "We appointed
40-nights for Musa.." (wa Idh wa adna Musa arbaain laylatan ….).
This verse establishes the numerical value and importance of 40days.
40-Days from the Hadith
It will
make this nice and easy for the critics. Imaam Tirmidhi (rahmatullahi alayhi)
has recorded the following hadith:
"Whoever
prays to Allah for forty-days in congregation, reaching the opening
Takbeer, will have immunity from two things: freedom from the Fire and freedom
from hypocrisy."
(Hasan
by Tirmidhi, and also by Nasiruddin al-Albani in Saheeh al-Jaami' (6365).)
('An Anas ibn Maalikin [radhi allahu anhu]
qaala, Qaala rasullulahi [sallahu alayhi wa sallam]: man salla lillahi 'arba'aina yauman fee jamaatin yudriku-takbeerata al-ulaa kutibaa lahu
baraa-ataani, baraa-atun min-nan naar wa baraa-tun min-nan nifaaqi) - Rawahu
Tirmidhi
What we
should ask ourselves is, "have we acted according to this hadith knowing
well that it brings immunity from Hypocrisy and fire of Hell?"
