Abdul Wahab Saleem – 40 Hadith of Imam Nawawi – #04 The Beginning & the End of Man

			Now we're going to another Hadeeth and that's the hadith of Abdullah ibn Masood who is one of the
elderly Sahaba but he's not from that era, as we said before about the
		

			man.
		

			I'm Abby Abdul Rahman Abdullah hiddenness rude or the Allahu Allahu Akbar had death in our sword
Allah He sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, who was saw the eponymous dope, that the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told us, and he was a father, and he was an Musto. He was the honest
one. And he was also in Moscow, which means that the person who was giving him the message was also
honest. He said, I'm so sorry, they're confused. Oh, he must to configure your condom. He's truthful
in what he would say. And he was true, it was true whatever would be said to him, he whatever God
would bring to him.
		

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			feedback from me. Each one of you ends up being gathered and developed within the womb of his mother
of Marina Yeoman for 14 days, most often as a note,
		

			and I'll explain what each of these words actually mean. Some Allah button to Maya Kunal Allah
cotton with Alec, then the person becomes a anaka, for the same sort of period, approximately
speaking filma Economou data and then he becomes a mandala,
		

			also for a similar type of period. Then finally for microcenter, la he'll Malak done and angel is
sent to him. And that Angel breeds the soul into him. And he's told to do four things,
		

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			the sustenance of this individual, the lifespan of this individual, the actions of the individual,
and whether the person will be a happy individual, or he will be a sad individual, whether he will
be a person of bliss or whether he will be the opposite of that.
		

			So Allah for Allah, He lives in Ohio, so by Allah,
		

			the One who there is no god except him.
		

			Each one of you may end up doing an action of the people of Jenna or some some of you may end up
doing the actions of the people of jedna until there's nothing between him and Jenna except an arm
span for yes before I lay him keytab Emily le nanny for the hula, hula, then he may end up doing the
actions of the people of the hellfire. And then he ends up entering the hellfire. And one of you
might end up doing the actions of the people of the fire until there's nothing left between him and
the fire except an arm span. Then suddenly, the book that Allah has predestined may end up
overcoming and overruling. And that book may lead this person into doing the actions of the people
		

			of Jenna. And then this person enters Jenna. Okay, so this Hadeeth has a lot of things in its
panela. Let's start trying to break it down one by one. Firstly, you see, unlike other a Hadith,
this hadith is very unique in that Ibn Masaru he starts it off saying, the prophet is honest, the
prophet is truthful, and whatever the Prophet would have heard from God and is also true.
		

			The question is, why is even Mr. Rude saying this? Why is he saying that the Prophet is honest, and
the Prophet is truthful, and whatever he would have heard from God and it's also true and honest.
The reason why he would say this Subhan Allah is because maybe perhaps considering the type of
information that this hadith has, some people may end up denying, and some people may end up
disbelieving. We know that one of the reasons why people end up disbelieving is because of the idea
of predestination, the idea of other it's very hard for some people to believe in the idea of other
right. So, at any moment, the highway he says that,
		

			that a foot within Islam can never be truly established, except if you completely submit yourself
and your mind to Allah Subhana what that whether that's where to put them on film, Islamic Allah,
Allah veritasium, that you have to submit your appeal to Allah Subhana Allah to Allah, Allah has
told you this, your finite brain may not be able to comprehend the infinite realities. So sometimes
you just have to submit that's the purpose. I mean, the whole idea of Islam and submission, right.
So that's why even Mr. Rudi starts this hadith off and he says, a saw that Calma Stoke, he's honest
and whatever news is coming to him is
		

			Also truth, then he says in a header comb the profits at in
		

			huge Metro houfy Bethany on me, each one of you will will be within the womb of your mother for 14
days, okay.
		

			And for these 40 days, essentially the person will be
		

			like a sperm
		

			and then from that sperm the person will become a clot. And from that clot, the person will become a
		

			lump, or like a lump of flesh. So, the first one is a sperm and multiple phi, okay, so the person
starts off with being just a drop or eight, or a notifier, or a sperm. And then he goes, and he
continues on to becoming a clot of blood, and then he becomes a morsel of flesh or a
		

			or a small thing of flesh. Now, the question is that are these 340 days? Or are they 140 day?
		

			It sounds like 340 days. Okay. So the reality is, there's actually conflicting, conflicting
narrations about whether these are 340 days, or they are all 140 days. But if you look at the
Hadith, it doesn't explicitly say if you look, especially at the Arabic, it doesn't explicitly say
that these are 340 days, it doesn't explicitly say 120 days, at least not in this narration. It says
that each one of you will gather within the womb of his mother for 40 days, as a note for as a sperm
like substance, then he will become something of a clot, then he will become a flesh, a morsel of a
flesh.
		

			All along. So may Economou gotten misled Alec. Now misled, Alec, should we understand from that for
another 40 days? Or should we understand
		

			a similar timeframe? Okay.
		

			There's different ways of looking at it. But anyways, the overwhelming majority of the scholars
genuinely believe that this is referring to 120 days, they believe that this is referring to 120
days, I'll get to this discussion in a little while. Okay.
		

			Now, why is this discussion important?
		

			The reason why this discussion is important is because this also leads us to another discussion and
that is the discussion on abortion.
		

			Is abortion permissible? If it is when is it permissible, whether it's ethical, whether it's not all
of these discussions, kind of spread sprout from this Hadeeth that are right before us, that is
right before us. So let's think about what exactly this hadith is saying. Firstly, as I said, the
majority of scholars believe that the Hadith is telling us that it is 120 days for which the fetus
develops after which it becomes completely developed, referred during which the embryo develops,
after which it becomes a complete fetus. Okay. And after which the angel is commanded by Allah
subhanho wa Taala to also blow the soul. However, in other reports, also authentic like the report
		

			of her the effectiveness said,
		

			in Sahih, Muslim he says, When
		

			42 days go by,
		

			from the beginning of the sperm,
		

			either mclubbe in local fatty fin, Danny will obey una de Latin 142 days go by, from the beginning
of the sperm, Allah Subhana, Allah sends an angel and this angel, what does he do? He ends up doing
the same thing that's described in this hadith over here, he ends up developing the form of this
individual or this embryo. Well, hello, person, Ah ha, ha ha, ha ha ha Obama. And what he does is,
he makes that the ears of it of this fetus, and he makes the eyes of the fetus, he makes the skin
generally of the fetus as well, the flesh and also the bones. Then he looks to Allah, and he says,
Oh Allah, is it going to be a male? Or is it going to be a female? And then Allah decides whatever
		

			and Allah tells this angel to act accordingly as well. Okay, so now in this hadith in Sahih, Muslim,
the Hadith of the Prophet who said, The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is saying that it's 42
days within which all of these things happen. Okay, so based on these two different variations, the
scholars they differed whether all of this takes place in 120 days, which is the overwhelming
majority of the earliest colors. And whether it takes place within 40 to 50 days because even the 40
to some narrations say 45 other say 40 odd, okay. So whether it's
		

			40 to 49 or it's 120 complete. Now, the only way we can really come to the bottom of this is if we
use some of the mechanisms that Allah subhanaw taala has granted us today as well, right. And by the
way, the scholars of the past as well, like ignore Roger, but humbly and others, they would also
result to medicine. But medicine wasn't as developed as it is, has been developed. Today, I'm saying
this because as soon as you start looking at modern sciences and trying to understand the sooner or
trying to use them to help you understand the sooner some people they say, We're leaving the
tradition, and you're going to science.
		

			But it Will Rogers himself, he used the science, but at that time, science isn't as well developed
as it has been developed today. So if we look at the embryonic stages, and I have and I actually
wrote about this in one of my books, called from the beginning till the end, in which I spoke about
the all the different stages of the ruler, and this hadith are discussed in detail within that book.
And
		

			if we look at the different stages of the embryonic development, we find that
		

			it is around six weeks time that the baby or the fetus is the embryo develops completely into a
fetus, where now the heart also starts to beat. Okay, so what happens, it gets the ears, it gets the
eyes, the early stages of the eyes, you can see, right, and it gets the early form of the hand, and
hand as well. And also the early stages of, of the legs as well, all of this takes place within six
weeks. And if we do the math, that's exactly 42 days, okay, just as the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, he said, within this Hadith, I will say did know,
		

			the hadith of all said.
		

			So, based on this, we can say that, perhaps it is actually within the 40 to 49 days of period, that
this, these things happen in which the angel comes and gives the form to the child within this
period. Okay. And that's why a lot of many of the modern scholars, they didn't consider this
particular reality, the modern sciences and modern research that we have, and also
		

			the fact that we can actually very closely observe what's happening to the fetus as well, when they
gave their foot out the modern fifth hour related to abortion. So now let's get to the second
subject, the subject of abortion. So the summary of whatever I said previously, is this. Most of the
scholars of the past, they say that it takes 120 days for the baby to develop completely into a
fetus, the embryo to develop completely into a fetus.
		

			And some of them they did say that within 40 days, there are some hints of this I found in some
books, okay. Then,
		

			there are a hadith which are conflicting, some ahaadeeth. They appear to refer to 120 days, like the
hadith of our beloved Mr. Wood that we have before us, but they are not extremely explicit within
them. Others may have very explicit terms as well. Others may only use 42, or 40 odd as well. So
when we look at the modern tools that we have, when we look at the results of ultrasounds and other
mechanisms, that we have to be able to study the embryo as well, we find that within the 42 days,
within the 40, to 40, to 49 days, the entire embryo is completely, very much developed into a fetus,
and all of those things that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam is mentioning in the hadith of
		

			Sufi Muslim, that the angel comes and develops, the shape develops, the ears, develops, the eyes,
develops, the skin, develops the flesh, and also the bones. All of these things have already
happened within the first 42 days. And also the heart begins to the heart begins to beat as well.
Okay, then, in addition to that, when we look at the Quran, Allah Subhana, Allah says, then we
create it into a sperm, then we take that sperm and created into a clot, then we take that clot and
clean it created into some flesh, morsel of flesh, then we take that flesh and add bones to it, and
then we take the bone and give it flush as well, then what is he saying? Now Allah even changes the
		

			tone of conversation. It's as if he's describing the first 42 days or the first six weeks.
		

			Then he says, filming and shooting and then we give it a completely new creation. So is it possible
that at the 40 days or 42 day mark or 49 day mark, that Allah sends the angel down and gives it to
the child? Hello, Adam. As I said, there are scholars in our times, especially who have this opinion
		

			In, and we can't know for sure. But I personally lean towards this well, Allahu Allah. Okay, we
can't know for sure. But nonetheless, this is something that I have a personal leaning towards based
on my studies. And Allah subhanaw taala really knows best. Okay, so considering all of this, let's
talk a little bit about the subject of abortion, we know that
		

			Islam is not
		

			very clear cut on the, on the issue of abortion, meaning we don't have a conclusive passage from the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, or from the will on that is, in every aspect of abortion is
giving us all the fine details? No, we don't have any of that. That's why there are different
scholars who have different views. Some scholars, they consider abortion held on period without any
exceptions to it. Okay. So they say, from the time that the woman gets pregnant all the way till
birth, you can't have an abortion. Okay. This is one of the views of
		

			a group of scholars from the past and also from the president as well.
		

			Others, they say that look,
		

			within the first 40 days, you have leeway. Okay.
		

			Within the first 40 days, you have leeway, because some will go and say at the 40 day mark, now the
rule has also blown into the child, other say, not the 40 days, and that's the majority opinion.
They'll say 120 days, there are some leeway as well. Why? Because they will say 120 days is when the
soul is blown. And as I explained to you, this is the majority view, although I don't necessarily
agree with it. Okay, then.
		

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			after that 120 days, there is an agreement among the scholars that the abortion is not considered
permissible. Okay. So there's a spectrum of views. And there's also a spectrum of issues which the
scholars considered reason enough for the abortion to occur. So, for example, if a person says I'm
afraid that I'm not going to be able to financially bear the responsibility of the child, is that
reason enough? It's not reason enough. How about if a mother says, you know, what I,
		

			the doctor says to the mother, that you are in no physical shape to have a child. And
		

			if you were to have a child, what's going to happen is that
		

			you might end up causing danger to your own personal life, and there's a great chance that you might
not survive the pregnant pregnancy. Okay? So are we going to say now, we'll sacrifice the mother for
the sake of a child, which we're not sure will come out alive or not? Obviously not. Right. So
depending on the reason as well.
		

			The discussions may go in different directions. This is the general outline of the spectrum of views
on this issue. I'm not here to give a fatwa because the fatwa can be different from person to
person, etc. But generally speaking, this is the spectrum of views on this particular issue.
		

			I ask Allah subhana wa Taala, to grant us the trophy, to practice and to convey there's one more
thing which is very important in my opinion from this study, and that is the last portion of the
Hadeeth.
		

			The last portion of the Hadeeth goes as such
		

			by a law.
		

			Besides zoom, there is no god that one of you may end up or some of you may end up acting by the
actions of the people of Jana, until there is nothing between you and Jenna except for an arm span.
And then the destined book or the predestination takes us course, and you end up acting by the
actions of the people of fire. Now obviously this is meant to cast a lot of fear within your heart
you feel that Subhanallah I may act as the people of Jenna throughout my life and then when I'm very
close to Jenna, suddenly something happens and the predestination takes place and I end up going to
		

			hellfire. Now the question is
		

			that what if a person is sincerely trying to get to Jenna? Wouldn't this be a mechanism to block a
person from jedna?
		

			Is our Lord such that a person sincerely seeks jedna and Allah subhana wa Taala blocks them from
jedna
		

			all of your field except the ones that are sleeping all of you feel that? The answer is no and
you're shaking your heads No, right? Well, the answer is obviously no. If Allah subhanho wa Taala
sees sincerity within a person, Allah Subhana Allah will not shut the door.
		

			For jedna for this individual, how do we understand this Hadeeth in the light of what we believe our
Lord to be? Well, there is another variation of this Hadeeth, which is also also authentic. Now,
oftentimes, you notice I say there's another variation of this. What does that mean? There's another
variation that are on is reported to us verbatim, whereas the Sunnah is not necessarily reporting to
us verbatim. Okay, so that's why we have to use the different variations of Hadith to produce the
best narrative of what the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam must have said. And that's why the
early mohideen they used to say that until we've read 30 different variations of the theme Hadeeth
		

			we don't believe we've truly understood it. So that's why we actually have to understand all of the
different variations, because someone may have thought one part is important, and they mentioned
that another person thought the other part is important, they mentioned that another person thought
and another person used the word which was more clear, another person used the word which was less
clear. So we use all of them to try to reproduce what the prophet SAW Selim must have most
accurately said. So in another variation of this hadith also authentically reported, the Prophet
sallallahu wasallam said
		

			in the haidakhan, layer, Emily Allen jannetty had female Abdul in nurse,
		

			one of you may end up acting by the actions of the people of Jenna, in whatever appears to people
not in reality. So this person was showing off to people that I am acting by the actions of the
people of Jenna, but because his heart was truly not there, Allah subhana wa tada blocked him
towards the end of his life, so that he becomes part of the people of the fire. And it becomes clear
to the people that this person didn't have real intentions in Islam. This person didn't have
		

			Yes, it does. So it goes back to the first Hadeeth as well. So the person didn't have an honest
intention in Islam. And because of that, Allah Subhana Allah turns in, and makes it clear for the
people that this person truly didn't have the right intentions. The opposite is also true. A person
may be acting by the actions of the people of the fire, he's doing every harm, but his heart inside
is burning.
		

			And that's why we never disdained people, you see a person who is completely pious, apparently he's
got the beard, he's got the job he's got. This is not piety. But the point is that it appears to be
piety, right? A woman she's wearing every hijab that you can think of and everything is there, but
the heart is not there. You may see a person who is a Shih Attali beryllium, a person who is a
person who's struggling in the path of Allah, you may see a person donating for the sake of Allah.
But the heart is really not there.
		

			You might have a donor, this happens as well. I mean, there's incidents of this. Some people they
want their name to be mentioned, wherever it is, when donations occur, if I give you $100,000 check,
you have to ensure My name is listed as the donor, you have to know ensure of that otherwise, you're
not getting my donations. Well, maybe the person didn't, doesn't have the right intentions. So Allah
Subhana Allah data, he tells us through the messenger that one of you may end up acting like the
people of Jenna, and that is only in what appears to the people, then towards the end of your life,
you end up going in other direction. Vice versa is also true. A person may be acting like the people
		

			of the fire, meaning he's continued committing every single sin, but his heart feels like I really
shouldn't be doing this.
		

			Don't ever disdain people Subhanallah so many people I remember, just a few days ago, I was giving a
talk somewhere and a brother came to me. He was in tears.
		

			And he says she I can wake up for fudger I want to I know it's good, I have to do it. But my I want
to go to sleep. But he's crying. Well la he this person is maybe better in the sight of Allah
subhanho wa Taala than a person who goes to failure and he says, Look at me I got up for fudger well
life
		

			are apart person who goes to fudger and then what do they do they take a picture of themselves and
show it to the whole planet. Or someone going for Hajj or Umrah and then they go and you know, while
they're making throw off, they're like Subhan Allah told him that he now Allahu Akbar, and then
		

			and a person who couldn't go for Hajj or Burma or so forth.
		

			So pound Allah. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in this hadith is not saying that you're
going to go to * if Allah is destined it like that. Basically, the other Hadith is describing to
us that it is the intentions of the person which weren't clear because of which Allah azza wa jal
turned him away from the path of the people of Jenna because of which ended up taking another path.
That is the path of the people of Hellfire and
		

			The vice versa The opposite is also true as well.