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Using the right hand

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Dear Mr. Burhan,

1)What is the importance of using right hand?

2)If someone has left-hand powerfull then right-hand,will he get less sawab, besause Prophet always suggested to use right hand.

Please give the proper hadit and quranic reference where it tells that using right hand gives more sawab.

 

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Using the right hand

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

Allah and His Messenger (saws) have preferred the Right Hand over the left hand, and time and again the Messenger of Allah (saws) guided the believers to do all good deeds with the Right Hand. Whether it be eating food, or drinking water, or wearing a shirt, or a shoe, or shaking hands, or taking a bath, or starting to distribute something…. The Messenger of Allah (saws) commanded that the Right Hand and the Right Side be given preference to the left. All over the Quran, Allah Subhanah has preferred the Right Hand or Side over the left, and constantly associated the Right Hand with the fortunate dwellers of Paradise and the Left Hand with the evil-doers of Hell Fire!

 

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 56 Surah Waqiah verses 27-34:

27 The Companions of the Right Hand, what will be the Companions of the Right Hand?

28 (They will be) among lote trees without thorns

29 Among Talh Plantain or Barsara trees with flowers (or fruits) piled one above another

30 In shade long-extended

31 By water flowing constantly

32 And fruit in abundance

33 Whose season is not limited nor (supply) forbidden

34 And on Thrones (of Dignity) raised high.

 

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 56 Surah Waqiah verses 41-43:

41 The Companions of the Left Hand, what will be the Companions of the Left Hand?

42 (They will be) in the midst of a fierce Blast of (Hell) Fire and in Boiling Water

43 And in the shades of Black Smoke:

 

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 69 Surah Haaqqaah verses 19-31:

19 Then He that will be given his Record in his Right Hand will say: "Ah here! Read ye my Record!

20 "I did really understand that my Account would (one Day) reach me!"

21 And he will be in a life of Bliss

22 In a Garden on high

23 The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.

24 "Eat ye and drink ye with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you in the days that are gone!"

25 And he that will be given his Record in his Left Hand will say: "Ah! Would that my record had not been given to me!

26 "And that I had never realized how my account (stood)!

27 "Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!

28 "Of no profit to me has been my wealth!

29 "My power has perished from me!"...

30 (The stern command will say): "Seize ye him and bind ye him

31 "And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.

 

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 74 Surah Mudaththir verses 38-40:

38 Every soul will be (held) in pledge for its deeds.

39 Except the Companions of the Right Hand.

40 (They will be) in Gardens (of Delight);

 

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 84 Surah Inshiqaq verses 7-9:

7 Then he who is given his Record in his Right Hand

8 Soon will his account be taken by an easy reckoning

9 And he will turn to his people rejoicing!

 

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 56 Surah Waqiah verses 90-91:

90 And if he be of the Companions of the Right Hand

91 (For him is the salutation) "Peace be unto thee" from the Companions of the Right Hand.

 

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 57 Surah Hadid verse 12: One Day shalt thou see the believing men and the believing women how their Light runs forward before them and by their Right Hands: (their greeting will be): "Good News for you this Day! Gardens beneath which flow rivers! To dwell therein for aye! This is indeed the Highest Achievement!"

 

Your Question: If someone has left-hand powerfull then right-hand,will he get less sawab, besause Prophet always suggested to use right hand.

Al-Muwatta Hadith 49.6

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Abu Bakr ibn Ubaydullah ibn Abdullah ibn Umar from Abdullah ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah (saws) said, "When you eat, eat with your right hand and drink with your right hand. Shaytan eats with his left hand and drinks with his left hand."

 

Al-Muwatta Hadith 49.17

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Anas ibn Malik that the Messenger of Allah (saws) was brought some milk which was mixed with well-water. There was a Bedouin at his right side and Abu Bakr as-Siddiq on his left. He (saws) drank some of it, and then gave it to the Bedouin and said, "The right-hand to the right-hand."

 

Hadrat Hafsah, the wife of the Prophet (saws) reported, "The Messenger of Allah (saws) reserved his right hand for eating, drinking, putting on his clothes, taking and giving. He (saws) used his left hand for other actions."

Related by Ahmad, Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah, Ibn Hibban, al-Hakim and al-Baihaqi.

 

Even if one is naturally left-handed, he must strive to follow the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (saws) and eat, drink, take and give using his Right Hand, and whenever he wears something, or starts something, or passes or distributes something, he must strive to pass it from his Right Side. There is absolutely no harm if one does all other deeds with his left-hand, if he finds it convenient to do so.

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

Your Brother in Islam,

 

 

Burhan


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