النص العربي
أَخْبِرْنِي بِعَمَلٍ يُدْخِلُنِي الجَنَّةَ وَيُبَاعِدُنِي عَنِ النَّارِ
الترجمة الإنجليزية
A man asked: 'Tell me of an act that will take me to Paradise and away from Hell.' He ﷺ said: 'You have asked about a great matter — but it is easy for whom Allah makes it easy: worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, establish ṣalāh, give zakāh, fast Ramadan, and perform hajj to the House.' Then: 'Shall I tell you of the head of the matter, its pillar, and its peak? The head: Islam. The pillar: prayer. The peak: jihad.' Then: 'Shall I tell you the controller of all of that?' He took hold of his tongue and said: 'Restrain this.'
— Mu‘ādh (RA) (Tirmidhi (ṣaḥīḥ))
الشرح
Salvation is structured: the basics → the peak → the controller (the tongue).
شرح موسّع
Mu‘ādh asks one of the great questions: what is the act that secures Jannah and distances Hell? The Prophet ﷺ structures the answer: floor (the five pillars) → peak (Islam → ṣalāh → jihād) → controller (the tongue).
Ibn Rajab notes the genius: jihād is the ‘peak of the hump’ (dharwat sanāmihi) — meaning the highest, but not the foundation. Many invert this — they leave the foundation, skip the pillar, and rush to the peak. The Prophet ﷺ then closes with the most surprising lesson: the controller of all of it is the tongue. A man can pray, fast, fight — and lose it all by what his mouth produces.
من كلام أهل العلم
"The tongue is the most disobedient organ — most sins of the limbs require effort, but the tongue moves freely. Restraining it is the heaviest jihād."
"Jihād is at the peak — but the peak is reached by climbing the foundations. Skipping levels destroys the climber."
الفقه والأحكام
- •Jihād here is broad — it includes jihād of the self, of Shayṭān, by tongue and pen, and (under conditions) by sword.
- •Armed jihād has strict conditions: legitimate Muslim authority, just cause, observance of war ethics — not vigilante action.
- •Restraining the tongue from gossip, slander, lying, and false witness is part of the tongue-jihād most relevant daily.
الصلة بآيات القرآن
مفردات عربية مفتاحية
the head of the matter
its pillar
the peak of its hump
restrain this (the tongue)
تأمل اليوم
What did your tongue cause yesterday? Restrain it today.
أبرز الفوائد
- 1Most regret comes from speech.
- 2Religion is structured — head, pillar, peak.
أخطاء شائعة وتنبيهات
- ⚠Some misuse ‘jihād is the peak’ to justify vigilante violence — the hadith explicitly orders the foundation first, and armed jihād requires legitimate authority and conditions.
- ⚠Restraining the tongue is not silence in the face of injustice — it is restraint from ḥarām speech.
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