Shaykh Ubayd al-Jaabiree: An Explanation of the Verse 'Those Who Believe and Do Not Mix Their Faith with Oppression'

Shaykh Ubayd al-Jaabiree, from the Scholars of Tawhid and Sunnah from the city of al-Madeenah delivered a brief and concise lecture 28th Jumadah al-Oulaa, 1434H / 9th April 2013, after Salat al-Asr for the 10th Dawrah 'Ilmiyyah in the city of al-Madeenah al-Nabawiyyah (organized by al-Maktabah al-Salafiyyah) on the meaning and explanation of the verse "Those who believe and do not mix their belief with oppression, they will have security and they are (the ones) who are guided." (6:82) What follows is a presentation of the lecture's content based upon notes made during the lecture.
The Shaykh, after praising Allaah and sending salat and salaam upon the Messenger of Allaah, stated:

The topic in front of us is the saying of Allaah, the Exalted:

ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَلَمْ يَلْبِسُوٓا۟ إِيمَٰنَهُم بِظُلْمٍ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ لَهُمُ ٱلْأَمْنُ وَهُم مُّهْتَدُونَ

Those who believe and do not mix their belief with oppression, they will have security and they are (the ones) who are guided. (6:82)
So what is the meaning of (يلبسوا), it means (يخلطوا), which is to mix (confuse), as occurs in Sahih al-Bukhari from Ibn Mas'ood (radiallaahu anhu), that when it was revealed it caused some confusion upon the Companions, so they said, "Which one of us does not have oppression (dhulm) in his eemaan (faith)." So the Messenger (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) said, "It is not that (what you think), have you not heard the saying of the righteous servant (Luqmaan), ( إِنَّ ٱلشِّرْكَ لَظُلْمٌ عَظِيمٌ), "Indeed shirk (associating partners with Allaah) is a great oppression" (31:13).

So this story gives us two benefits:

The first is the intense and severe fear of the Companions (radiallaahu anhum) when this verse was revealed upon them. They feared for their faith, because they understood the (verse upon) the generality of its meaning, that the one whose eemaan is mixed with dhulm (oppression), he wil not have security (amn) on the Day of Judgement and he is not from the guided ones. In a like way, the Muslim is eager for his eeman (faith) from everything which negates it from (affairs of) shirk and kufr or which decrease it (and remove it from) perfection such as major sins.

The second benefit is that the Prophet (sallallau alayhi wasallam) explained the meaning of the oppression (ظلم) mentioned in the verse and that it was not what they understood for they understood it in a generalized sense involving major sins (such as cutting of ties and what is similar to that). So the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) explained that the oppression mentioned in the verse is actually shirk (setting up partners in worship) with Allaah, and the intent (by 'shirk') is the major shirk alongside which eemaan will not benefit (at all) and no action will be of benefit in its presence, for every action alongside the presence of shirk is vain (invalidated).
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Inviting Others to Something that You are not Able to Practice Yourself
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If after repeated attempts, a person is not able to apply something that he exhorts others to do, is it still permissible for him to call others to do that action? what if he does so sopposing that the person he is calling will be able to apply what he failed to apply himself?
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When one is inviting others to do a good thing that he himself is not capable of doing, then yes, he should call others to do it. An example of this is if someone calls others to pray late at night while he himself is not able to do so. If someone calls others to give charity, but he himself has no sufficient resources to give charity, then we tell him to go ahead and invite others to give charity. But as for him calling to something that he is capable of applying but doesn't then this is foolish in intellect and astray in religion.

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