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Tarada (invoking God's pleasure upon a person)

الترضي

Tarada is asking for pleasure, that is, the formula of God's pleasure upon someone. Its ruling depends on who is named: it is recommended for those whose prophethood is disputed, agreed to be recommended for the Companions, and allowed for other early scholars and the righteous. The writer should keep writing it, and a listener should also invoke it when the Companions are named. 1 2

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Summary

Tarada is asking for pleasure, a formula in which one invokes God's pleasure upon the person named. Its rule depends on who is named. 1 2

Definition and its difference from tarahhum

Rida is the opposite of anger, and tarada for a person is a formula that invokes God's pleasure upon him. 1 Tarahhum invokes mercy and tarada invokes pleasure; both are invocations. 1

The ruling by the person named

  • Those whose prophethood is disputed, such as Dhu al-Qarnayn, Luqman and Dhu al-Kifl: invoking pleasure upon them is recommended. Al-Nawawi preferred the formula of pleasure over that of blessing, since their rank is not that of prophets and their prophethood is not established. 1
  • The Companions: invoking pleasure upon them is recommended by agreement, since they strove for God's pleasure and did what pleases Him. When a Companion's father was also a Companion, the formula names both; when the grandfather is one too, all three are named. 1 2
  • Others: the author of Umdat al-Abrar holds that it is allowed for the early shaykhs and scholars, on the general words of the verse of surah al-Bayyina (98:7-8) about believers. Scholars have long begun their writings with this formula. 2

Keeping the formula

One should keep writing the formula for the Companions and the early scholars and the righteous, and not tire of repeating it. A listener who hears the Companions named is recommended to invoke pleasure upon them; the detail is under the entry on the sermon. 2

People and things also explored

Command, prohibition and capacity· The ruling on one who abandons prayer· Ada' (performance of an obligation within its time)· Adhan (the call to prayer: its ruling, wording, conditions, recommended features and the muezzin)· Bone (adhm): purity, use and retaliation· The adornment of desires and the goods of this world· The people of the bench (ahl al-suffa)· The seven ahruf

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.4967
  2. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.4968
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Command, prohibition and capacity

The duty of complying with prohibitions by avoidance, and with commands according to one's capacity; in Abu Hurayra's hadith 'what I forbid you, avoid, and what I command you, do of it what you can' — its occasion, per Ibn Rajab, being the questioner who asked when hajj was imposed 'every year?' until he said it three times and was told 'had I said yes it would have been obligatory and you could not have managed'; Ibn Rajab derives from it the prohibition of asking about what is not needed, of asking out of obstinacy, frivolity or mockery, of asking about what God has hidden from His servants, and of questions on the lawful and unlawful that might draw stricter rulings, noting that licence to ask was for bedouins and delegations, not the residents of Medina; and in Abu Sa'id al-Khudri's hadith — the thirty-fourth — the three grades of changing evil by hand, then tongue, then heart, according to capacity, that being the weakest of faith, corroborated by Ibn Masud's report that whoever struggles against the successors who say what they do not do with hand, tongue or heart is a believer, and beyond the heart there is not a mustard-seed of faith (pp. 218–222, 698–699).