Imâm an-Nawawî's 40 Hadîth Explanation 
by: Ibrahem Tleme

1st Hadith Of The Forty

Actions are judged by intentions

On the authority of Omar bin Al-Khattab, who said : I heared the messenger of Allah salla Allah u alihi wa sallam say : 

(Actions are but by intention and every man shall have but that which he intended. Thus he whose migration was for Allah and His messenger, his migration was for Allah and His messenger, and he whose migration was to achieve some worldly benefit or to take some woman in marriage, his migration was for that for which he migrated.) related by Bukhari and Muslim 

ISLAM IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT

ISLAM

IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT

ach person is born in a religious environment that is not of his/her own

choice. From the very beginning of human existence in this world, they

are assigned the religion of their family or the ideology of the state. By the

time individuals reach their teens they usually accept the beliefs of their

parents or that of their particular society.

However, when some people mature and are exposed to other beliefs

and ideologies, they begin to question the validity of their own beliefs.

Seekers of truth often reach a point of confusion upon realizing that

believers of every religion, sect, ideology and philosophy all claim to have

the one and only correct religion or ideology. There are only three

possibilities. They are either all correct; all wrong or only one is correct and

the rest are wrong. They cannot all be right since all religions are different

from each other in their fundamentals. Furthermore, the majority claim that

they alone are correct and the rest are wrong. On the other hand, to claim