Fiqh al-Adiyah wa-al-Adhkar - Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Badr - (2/183)

Fiqh al-Adiyah wa-al-AdhkarAbd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Badr

91 — The Indications and Meanings Derived from Raising the Hands

The discussion continues regarding raising one’s hands to Allah, Mighty and Majestic, while supplicating. This is the sublime etiquette shown by a poor and needy creature toward his self-sufficient, munificent, and generous Lord. By raising his hands, the creature displays his need for his Lord, his utter dependence upon Him, and his lowliness, submission, and brokenness before Him. The greater his need, the stronger his desire, and the more insistent his plea, the higher he raises his hands and the farther he extends them toward Allah, humbling himself and beseeching Him.

For this reason, since the supplication for rain involves a degree of earnest desire and insistence not found on other occasions, the Prophet’s raising of his hands and his gesture during it were more pronounced than at other times. This provides the clearest evidence of affirming Allah’s oneness, venerating Him, proclaiming His greatness, believing in His exaltedness above His creation and in His absolute self-subsistence and sustaining of all creation, and acknowledging His complete independence of them and their utter dependence and need for Him. Allah Most High says:

“O mankind, you are in need of Allah, whereas Allah alone is the Self-Sufficient, the Praiseworthy.” 1

He also says:

“Can He who watches over every soul and all that it earns be compared to any other? Yet they have ascribed partners to Allah. Say, ‘Name them.’” 2

Thus, raising the hands to Allah constitutes an acknowledgment that Allah, Glorious and Exalted, is self-subsisting and sustains all creation; that He watches over everything and every soul; that He directs every affair; and that He exercises complete control over all creatures. The One who possesses these qualities alone deserves to be worshipped as God, to be served, prayed to, and prostrated before. He alone deserves the utmost love coupled with the utmost submission, because His names, attributes, and actions are perfect. He alone is truly obeyed and worshipped: “That

(1) Surah Fātir, verse 15. (2) Surah al-Raʿd, verse 33.

٩١ ـ الدلائل والمعاني المستفادة من رفع اليدين لا يزال الحديث ماضياً في الكلام على رفع اليدين إلى الله ﷿ حال الدعاء، ذالكم الأدب الرفيع من المخلوق الفقير المحتاج مع ربِّه الغنيِّ الجواد الكريم؛ حيث يُظهرُ المخلوقُ برفعه يديه احتياجَه لربِّه، وافتقارَه إليه، وذُلَّه، وخضوعَه وانكسارَه بين يدي ربِّه، وكلَّما عظمت حاجة المخلوق واشتدت رغبتُه وزاد إلحاحُه بالَغَ في رفعه يديه وزاد في مدِّهما إلى الله متذلِّلاً متوسِّلاً، ولهذا لَمَّا كان دعاءُ الاستسقاء فيه من الرغبةِ والإلحاح ما ليس في غيره كان رفعُ النبي ﷺ وإشارتُه فيه أعظمَ منه في غيره، وفي ذلك أعظمُ دلالة على توحيد الله وتعظيمه وتكبيره والإيمان بعلوِّه على خلقه وقيُّوميَّته، وغِناه الكامل عنهم وافتقارهم واحتياجهم إليه، كما قال تعالى: ﴿يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَنتُمْ الفُقَرَاءُ إِلَى اللهِ وَاللهُ هُوَ الغَنِيُّ الحَمِيدُ﴾ ١، وقال تعالى: ﴿أَفَمَنْ هُوَ قَائِمٌ عَلَى كُلِّ نَفْسٍ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ وَجَعَلُوا للهِ شُرَكَاءَ قُلْ سَمُّوهُمْ﴾ ٢. ففي رفع اليدين إلى الله إقرار بقيوميّته الله جلَّ وعلا، وأنَّه قائم على كلِّ شيء، وقائم على كلِّ نفس، وأنَّه المدبِّر للأمور كلِّها، والمتصرِّف في الخلائق جميعهم، ومَن كان كذلك فهو المستحقُّ أن يُؤْلَه ويُعبد ويُصلّى له ويُسجد، وهو المستحقُّ نهاية الحبِّ مع نهاية الذُّلِّ لكمال أسمائه وصفاته وأفعاله، وهو المُطاع المعبود وحده على الحقيقة ﴿ذَلِكَ

١ سورة فاطر، الآية: (١٥) . ٢ سورة الرعد، الآية: (٣٣) .