Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qasida Burda (The Mantle Ode) Part 15 Mangera
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them in generality he is getting haina Talca who will be Hashemi
got a nice little Maknoon ofii sada Finn, me mark the name and
take him in who are marked as me.
How noble the qualities of a prophet adorned by such traits.
how full is his beauty, how gifted with smiling joy,
as a flower in delicacy, as the full Moon in honor, like the sea
in bounty, as persistent as time itself,
such as his splendor that even alone in his glory, superb
courtiers and Gods seem to stand around him
from the rich mine of his speech, and his smile, hidden pearls
seemed to sparkle from their shell. So these are next few poems
starting from number 56 According to one edition 54 According to
another editions around them, which is the end which is coming
to the end of this section.
A poet says, Oh messenger of God, your beauty makes me turn a
messenger of God your heart fire makes me burn
a cream Behati Nabil.
This is a special Arabic expression a filled with Aidan.
So a creme Behala Kenobi, and it's a very strange statement, it
actually seems like an imperative or injunction injunction but it's
an expression to show amazement about something so occurring the
Hulk in a billion Zanna who who Lucan
How noble the qualities
How noble is the creation of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
Susana, who who couldn't who has been adorned by these qualities
Bill Hosni these beautiful qualities, or a criminal Hosni
Puszta, Malin, Bill Bishop remota, Simi,
how full is his beauty, how gifted with smiling joy, Bill Bishop,
patient admission means somebody with a jovial expression, whenever
you see them, they're always happy and pleasant,
welcoming,
soft.
So what the author is saying here is, after mentioning all of his
characteristics and everything, he just says this, he just gives this
expression in his amazement, expression,
that this noble prophets, how noble or his is his character, how
beautiful and handsome is His form, which Allah subhanaw taala
has adorned in the best of ways, and given the best of conduct
character and appearance, and the best of Shama ill and
characteristics.
And what should suffice you what is enough to explain this and
prove this beyond any doubt is that Allah subhanahu wa Tada has
praised him in his book by saying, We're in Nicola, Allah hookey. Now
the name that you are on the greatest, the most sublime
character.
So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
in terms of bodily perfection, external attributes, he was
the most
far reaching in that regard.
So that's his form that is an outer form that says beauty, his
outer form proportionality of this body, and all the other
characteristics which we've already read, and then his
internal Siefert which are his o'clock
so it's almost as if what the author is saying, which determine
which Tamil comes in what Shimla. Shimla is something like a cape
that you wear all over you. It's something that can cover you
completely, a shawl, like a long shawl. So it's like a HELOC and
beauty where his shawl draped around him just beautiful.
So that's what he's saying here.
And it had this beauty the show which is explaining as beauty had
envelope all of his body and every aspect of it every body
limb as well. And then he's saying that he was always his face was
always beautiful in expression, what is jovial an expression? So
constantly was jovial, happy, and
constantly like that.
You always met somebody with a smile.
So this one is just one that is out of amazement and you have his
uncle Abu Talib, his poem here. He says what Obeah do you stop a
llama movie watch he he female Julieta Marie smitten lil Aurora
movie. That's what his uncle said about him his nephew.
That is so white.
So white,
that clouds are called for are prayed for, through his
complexion, through his countenance. That through him you
asked for as using him as a vasila. You asked for the clouds
for rain. He is the one who looks after the year teams, the orphans.
And he's also the support for the widows.
Now, all the NBA
they all had, they were all
had to be the best of their time, so that they didn't have anything
weird. That would turn people away because Allah subhanaw taala gave
them the best form of Dawa.
And
so all the prophets were endowed with beauty. Some more than others
like us why Islam was well known for that I was just striking.
They said the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had more than
him, but it was more hidden. Because
it didn't want to detract from the main message that is, it will just
mean a focus on the beauty. But the beauty had to just always
strike through in every other aspect as well.
There is the statement about actually the Allahu anha that the
women who saw use of body Salam started cutting their hands into
their hands.
They had the fruit. And then the wife of the Aziz of missile told
us was on to walk in because all the women were taunting her for
going after him. So when he came in there was just like, wow. And
they started cutting their hand. They just didn't realize it was
like, totally bewitched. Absolutely taken aback. So I shall
read the Allahu Anhu says this, obviously, as a wife, she says,
What if they saw Muhammad Sallallahu somebody cut their
necks?
Obviously, that's a wife's expression of that.
Because if that was to be taken, literally Wallah, why then maybe
she knows more than I do. She she definitely does. No doubt about
that. But
maybe maybe she's saying it literally, I don't know. But
obviously, it's a it's a waste expression.
as well.
Then next one,
is a really beautiful one. Because in this one poem, he brings four
different aspects of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam. So both in the
way they sound in Arabic, and in what they mean. I think this is
one of those really, one of the greater points here. He says
Kuzari photography while bedrijf he shot off him while battery fee
kahraman What the * if he hidden me?
So there's four points he's making in this one poem, in which he has
to match the meter as well. So the meter has to be matched as well.
It's really good. It sounds just very good. And then the next one
is
gonna know who performed on V Jilla. T he asked in Hina Hina
Takahashi Hashemi, but this one is just beautiful, because that if he
thought I think well, better if he shot of him. Well, the Hanafi
kahraman with the heavy fee him me.
So he's saying as a flower in delicacy, because Zadie if he
thought of him, he's like a flower in its delicate nature.
In its fineness, delicacy, and it being so subtle and just so
beautiful, because what is a flower?
A flower. The main thing about a flower is that it's not some kind
of heavy, strong. It's not a tree. It's not a branch. That's the
difference. The flower is generally very delicate. If you
look at the petals on a flower, and then the small things inside
and everything else that makes that flower is all about being
delicate, refined. Just perfect. The RGB colors, the
proportionality, Sanjeev.
So
he's, you know, how does a person's mind go to all of these
things? That's why this is a karamo of this man.
Yeah, how do you think of all of these things?
So he's saying that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he's
like a flower
In its delicacy in its refinement, and in its subtle perfection,
in tricky perfection.
And then what else is so great? He is like the butter, the full moon.
Fish shut off in its honor. The moon comes out. It's honorable,
and in Arabic poetry, but that is used to show brightness and honor
for somebody. The reason why butter is called Better is better
is from MOBA Daraa, which means to come first to come quickly. So as
soon as the sun sets down, the moon wants to come out. So that's
why they call it bother.
And the first part of the moon when it's when it's the first few
days, it's called the healer. And then the full moon becomes the
mother because it's full, sparkling. Amazing, just out there
showing its honor reigning supreme in the night. So that's the second
that's the second point he makes about him.
Number three, well, Barry fee kahraman. And he's like the ocean
or sea in its bounty. In its vast generosity does the ocean complain
when you take from it?
So he's like the ocean his honor, in its in its generosity, and
beloved benevolence
bounty.
And then
he goes from the petals of a and a flower, to the moon, to the ocean,
and then to time itself. What the hurry fee him me. And time
in its aspiration in its him.
All of this will need to be understood in terms of why he's
saying this.
Molana Khalid says in a poem, like the earth in mildness was he like
the lofty mountains in power?
as bright as the sun itself, as high as the heavens tower?
Like the earth in mildness, was he. He's like the,
like the lofty mountains in power when he needed that power. He was
like the lofty mountains, as bright as the sun, illuminating
everything, getting into everything, you'd have to block
him to not, the sun comes everywhere you have to block it if
you don't want it. You put curtains on they're not good
enough.
It comes through the cracks. You need special curtains special
covering to make it totally dark otherwise light comes in. That's
the power of light. That's the power of Rasulullah sallallahu
and has as high as the heavens tower. That's his aspiration his
Himba. That's where it is, when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam has been described by the poet's
for perfection in his creation in his luck.
Now
he gives a
description here of the four different ways that he is talking
about perfection.
So he says that the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam
resembles a flower
in its resplendence in its softness and delicacy, and its
beauty and refinement, and its intricacy. And really, that's just
so perfect. Now,
what about refinement that you try to take on yourself where you're
sitting there, and every few minutes you're
flicking dirt off you combing your hair?
And every moment you're taking your mirror out and checking, I
don't know, some some parts about, you know, whether that's men or
women, I mean, there's
that's,
that's done through pretenses. That's not something then that's
endowed.
Beauty that's been endowed by Allah subhanaw taala. How can you
complain about that? So that's the prophets. Allah Larson's beauty is
not something that
he
had adopted. He was given it he was distorted
without any asking on his own, that's what he was given as a
pure,
Divine gift from Allah subhana wa Tada.
So then there's nothing wrong with that. That's his Marchesa. That's
his Quran.
The prophets Allah loves him himself just wanted as less of
this world as possible. So he makes a dua to Allah subhanho wa
Taala Allahu machina resume Ratan Masaki
Allah gather me with the Misaki
another dua he makes his o Allahumma Kuta Allahumma jell O
Allah make the sustenance risco early Mohammedan Kuta make the
sustenance
Have the Earl of Muhammad, the family of Muhammad Sallallahu
Sallam just enough to suffice them. That's all he wanted.
Whether it be in clothing or being in drink food, whatever it may be.
And that's why, early on the, the point already said, I have the
rule of the Sunnah of the one man, Aria Layali, the one who enliven
the knights and put the rocks on his stomach due to extreme pangs
of hunger. That's what he already said. So now,
the prophets. So the first resemblance is about his refined
nature, and his perfection. And the way he was just like a flower
so soft and so subtle and delicate.
Remember, his hands were like silk, you see.
Then the second, the second one here, was that his honor, was like
the moon. His honor, his position, his MACOM was like the moon, in
terms of his high place. What what is the correspondence between the
moon and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, aside from the
fact that when some of the Sahaba did say that about him, but how is
What's he trying to say here? Well, just like the moon is
considered to be a very high and honorable source of light for us
in the dark,
through which you can gain guidance at night. I mean, one is
you can use the stars at night. But if the moon is there, it makes
it even clearer.
So likewise, of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
that's his high place that he's being described, then the ocean,
how is the province of the Lauridsen like the sea and the
ocean? That is due to his Sahaba that is due to his generosity, his
generosity and the major gifts and the great gifts that he was able
to give? Because the prophets of Allah was known to be the most
noble of people.
And this is how he was brought up in his young age as well. And that
is why before prophethood, he was extremely open hearted, very
generous. And it was a custom, it was known among that it was known
among the Arabs, that anybody who's generous, is never going to
be harmed. Like they have Baraka with them, anybody who's generous,
they've got Baraka with them, they really believe that. And that's
why they used to try to outdo each other in that regard. And that's
why you have all of these really mind boggling stories about how
generous they were that you think how can they do that? So when the
Prophet salallahu Salam had his first encounter with Gibreel, that
first experience of the ye and he came back, which we mentioned
before, and he felt fearful because he's having the experience
this outward of the world experience where the Quran has
been revealed to him.
And he said look at her she to Allah enough See, I fear for
myself I shot a hadith of the Allahu Allah immediately just
recall all of his qualities and said there's no way that can be
the case.
So calming him down, consoling him, reassuring him she says, Hola
Hola. Hola, yo, Zeke. Allahu aboda No way absolutely not Allah
subhanaw taala will never forsake you. Because let us see the Rahim
with that miracle because you are good with your family members,
Dustin Rahim you are good with your you tie the knots of kinship
relationship with your mother for a you know with with people around
you, your relatives and others. You pick up the burden of others
where taxable Makhdoom are taxable Madam you help the poor to earn
and then you assist people Allah Noah it will hook in through
aspects of need you help them. So she mentioned all of these things
which were known at that time to be the ASVAB was Salama. To be
means of a person staying safe. You know there's culturally the
superstitions you can say that if you do this, you'll be fine. If
you do this, you know there's something bad that will happen to
you, there's these cultural superstitions. So, this was a
virtuous superstition in that sense, it was considered to be a
good thing. So she told him immediately that this is the case.
And that is what they had observed that was the sunnah to Allah at
that time. And it would still be the case that people who are like
that were generous and so on, they generally get more Baraka anyway.
Right then
how is he like the time
the her how is he like the time
see, because the Arabs they use a lot of metaphor don't they? The in
the poetry they use a lot of metaphor
where they say something but they mean something else.
Hamza, the Allah one was the assadullah, the Lion of Allah.
So
they used to use time for high aspiration. He's like time, high
expert. What does a person with a high aspiration do?
high aspiration nobody
He's going to stop him. If he can't find one way to fulfill
whatever he wants to do, he's going to find another way. That's
what you call a man of high aspiration or any person of high
aspiration, he'll find many, many ways to do something, they won't
be stuck in one way.
It's very interesting. There's
the Jungian theory, which is a philosopher think he was a student
of Kant, he came up with 16 personality types of people, the
72 questions that you have to answer, and you get your
personality type type, whether your intuitive, more rational, or
you go more with feeling, or whether you are extroverted or
introverted. Then out of the 16, there are some, which are the
leadership people. And they analyze leaders of the past, like
Alexander the Great, and, you know, the famous presidents and
prime ministers and actors and other famous personalities, it's
kind of very interesting, if you do that, what you will find out
about yourself, it's very interesting. It's almost like,
it's a book about you. It's so interesting, you find, you'll find
that generally, people have this straight, these are their
strengths. And these are the weaknesses. So one particular
personality type type is very argumentative,
right? There's another personality type, they're very organized, and
anything out of order, then they get really prickly about it. But
there's others who don't really care about oddities come up with
ideas. They're the people with high hammer, they come with idea
that they're just very intelligent, these come with
ideas, ideas, ideas, but they don't necessarily follow them
through afterwards, they let other people do it. Very interesting
stuff is done with a lot of research and so on.
So sometimes when you meet somebody of this nature, and you
know, that's why we're told to just make supper, because
sometimes, when a person does something due to their personality
type, because they haven't been able to deal with it, they haven't
done any Mujahidin, they've not discovered it, they haven't done
any, you know, special undertaken in special exercise to overcome
those things.
So sometimes, they might be a bit brash, and you think that they're
just being very rude to you, but that's just the way they don't
really mean anything bad instead, that's just the way they are.
So when you look at your personality type, then it's a good
idea to figure out those weaknesses so that you could
compensate for them. Because that is what you would naturally just
do. So you have to compensate for them.
One of them was
the type that's clever and whatever is like when they when
they see somebody who doesn't understand something that they
think it's so simple, then they get really angry.
Right So there's these kind of really particular points that they
come up with very interesting stuff. So the the Arabs used to
consider time to be the metaphor for a person with high him high
aspiration high goals, because time does it wait long for
anybody. Time just comes and does it once. So because time is so
powerful, so dominating? It does as it pleases the master of
everything. That's why they say he's like the time.
So time it will just overcome it will take what it wants, it will
take his prisoners it will do as it wishes. It comes calamities
when it wants to it comes with bounties when it wants to. Again,
this is metaphorical Allah is behind everything. Remember that
this is just metaphorical. So then that's why they have expressions
that Arabs, Jarrah Allah, yes, the man.
Time has been oppressive to me. Time oppressed me. What a sob any
data because time did this to me time brought me this time Roman
people blame time, time has become bad. People have become bad, not
the time. So they normally attribute time to big calamities
and other issues like that. So time is just so high, highly
aspiring, that it can never be challenged. It never has to do any
pretenses. It never has to plead. It doesn't have to
be hypocritical. It does as it pleases.
It doesn't complain. It just does what it wants and moves on. It
doesn't complain. It doesn't cry. It doesn't weep. Likewise the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam with his high Himba he was
proclaiming the truth regardless of where it was just as Allah
subhanho wa Taala told him to first start Bhima tomorrow, what
are earning Mushrikeen go and say aloud, what you have been what you
have been commanded to do? Raise it, proclaim it aloud, and just
avoid just ignore the Mushrikeen so he did not fear anybody when it
came to the truth. Now
Did he need to try to have any pretenses in that regard? Neither
did he have to submit himself to any of the any of the disbelievers
of the time to do it in another way. He did not complain. He was
not worried about the criticism of any person who would criticize in
that regard. That's why it mentions in a sahih Hadith, that
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam said and this is a very
expressive statement, he says that the bunu is a Surah Al the Bani
Israel whenever, among them, somebody noble, somebody with a
high position in the culture, if they stole if they were caught for
stealing, like we have today, right? They would, they would
leave him they wouldn't do anything. And if some weakling
some normal common person was down stealing, then they would cut his
hand, they will amputate his hand. Wallah. He said in the province of
Allah made a statement that look, this is my way Wallah he Fatima
May Allah subhanaw taala protect her from that and he did. If
Fatima the daughter of Muhammad was to have was to steal, I would
even cut her hand. So he was trying to say that we this is the
way I am
part of his renewal him part of his high aspiration is that the
Quraysh they offered him a lot of wealth, stop doing, stop doing
propagating your religion will give will give you as much money
as you want to be silent. He said no. He said no. He would never do
something like that. He would always stand up for the sake of
Allah subhanho wa Taala until Allah subhana wa Tada made him
dominant. So the conclusion here is that the author is comparing
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in his refined pneus. And
in the delicate nature of his physique and his body, softness of
his hand, just like a flower.
And
then with this with the moon, there, it's the moon is very
popular, it's known, it's visible for everybody to see it has light
and has height, and it has it guides. So in all of those
aspects, the price of aluminum is the same, he has light he guides,
he has popularity, he is well known, and so on and so forth.
Then when it comes to the ocean,
the consider the consideration there is that the ocean gives a
lot it's freely gives its water, and everything else that comes
with it, it provides it for free. And that's the purpose of lorrison
is knowledge, spreading his knowledge, spreading his knowledge
and his Hikmah and his wisdom. And then with the time is due to his
high him because the purpose of the law some had a very high sense
of purpose and a very high sense of personality, a very high sense
of personality, he did not care for anything, as long as it was
for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala. He did not care for
anything. But you see, this is where we have to be a bit careful
and understand the real nature. He said he didn't care for anything.
Yes, but he did it in a way of wisdom. One of the things that is
driving a lot of people away, right, especially in places where
they don't have a particular mon Hajj where they don't have a
particular dominant.
You can say a particular dominant, tried and tested methodology or
school, that people can feel that they belong to something, they
have access to scholars, we have to be really, really appreciative
of the people, our
generations of Earlimart that have given us this man Hajj, because we
feel we belong. We feel we have something to go for. We feel very
happy. Within our deen despite the fact that there are problems
around the world, we still feel a sense of happiness in the last
week. It's been very troubling for me because I'm learning that there
are a lot of people who are not happy. One of the emails that I
got was that this happy Muslims video made people who were
seldomly happy, it made them happy. And I'm really like
thinking to myself that what's wrong with these people that are
not happy that they need a video like this to make them happy? What
is the issue? What is what's behind them? And subhanAllah one
discussion I was having with another scholar, what came about
was that he's saying that these people, they everyday they're
seeing something strange. They're seeing cannibalism in Pakistan.
That's the latest thing. They're seeing, like Muslims, apparently
taking over schools, you know, these old things you hear about in
the media, then there's some terrorist plot every few months
that we hear about, you know, whether it's true or not, then you
hear about this problem, then Syria is just an everyday thing
around the world. And when you have no closeness to religion,
you're within the religion because maybe you're born in the religion
or something like that. But you don't really appreciate the
religion because you haven't been taught it maybe, or whatever the
reason is, or you've been distanced from it for whatever
some bad experience you had, you have some abuse or some other
reason. And then you see all of these things every day. You don't
know how to belong because you don't know what the true faith
Is your your identity of your faith is what the media is telling
you every day. So it makes you really, really bad. It just makes
you really, really depressed. So when they see somebody
superficially happy putting it on for a show for a video, they get
happy about it.
Whereas happiness is with Allah subhanho wa Taala smile. I mean,
these things are around the world, they do affect us. But that
doesn't mean that you have to be depressed,
depressed, where you don't do anything. That's what kind of a
depression is that?
Yes, you're supposed to have concern which leads you to try to
help and assist. Not that you become depressed so that you don't
even then you go further away in the darkness. Now, this is a
really a deep thing. But this is the kind of thing that I've been
thinking about this is because if there's genuinely people out
there, who are seldomly happy who this happy Muslim video made
happy, then really we're in a crisis. We're in a crisis, the
Prophet salallahu Alaihe. Salam for 10 years, for 13 years first
in Makkah undergoing persecution, the Sahaba, then it comes to
Madina, Munawwara. And much of that was defense, defense,
defense, being attacked, being attacked, being attacked, constant
problem with MCC until finally, you know, there was a ceasefire
between them and it was an agreement of who they be.
But you will never hear about anybody being depressed taking
their life, except that one person in the battle.
You know, you hear that one story about that person in the battle,
which is probably the last one predicted anyway. But you just
don't hear about that.
The Sahaba went through so much they came back and that some of
the stories that you hear just amazes you.
Now, let's just take a sidestep and I just want to discuss the
concept of generosity among the Arabs. Just so we understand what
kind of a background the Prophet sallallahu Sallam is coming from,
what he's living in what he's propagating. The Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said l caribou, caribou min Allah, the
noble and benevolent Generous One is close to Allah. Caribou Mina.
pneus is also close to the people because people love those kinds of
people. People love those people love people who are generous and
Allah loves people who are generous, because they are giving
what Allah subhanho wa Taala is giving them so they're acting as a
means of Allah subhanaw taala is never being spread. So the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that the Karim is close to Allah
close to the people, caribou mineral Jana and thus he is close
to Jana, Berry Domina nada and far from the hellfire. While the Bible
is buried Amin Allah, the miser is distant from Allah distant from
the people distant from Jana, and close to jahannam.
And there's no doubt that benevolence, nobility, personal
ability and generosity is one of the highest traits of goodness and
piety.
Because that is one of the greatest that is one of the
greatest characteristics of Allah Himself. He gives even people who
blaspheme him. He gives people who say he doesn't exist, how much?
How much worse, can you get to say, the one who gives you
everything, he doesn't exist.
He even gives them
so
and this is the characteristic of the Gambia and the Olia because
they're so connected to Allah subhanho wa taala. The connection
to their wealth and worldly things doesn't really matter anymore. So
they're able to give it it's easy to drop it.
And this is a characteristic that was praiseworthy, both in Islam,
and before Islam,
and both among the elect the elite and among the laypeople. So it's a
very dominant, good characteristic. Now,
if not RGB relates from Madani
who then tells the story of Hassan and Hussein or the Allahu Anhu.
And I love this story. And Abdullah Hypno Jaffa
and, you know, one characteristic that I've seen among the family of
Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam the descendants even today is
generosity, the very open hearted.
I'll give you some examples of people in Amana, Mahmood Madani I
was with him for two days
in Abu Dhabi, very generous individual.
He's, he's a senior, he's another one I know is Dr. RTF. Again, he's
a say very generous individual, very open hearted individual.
Another one is a local modern as a career. Very generous individual.
And, again, he's a saint yet. I haven't dealt with many other
seeds. So I don't know if there's any other seeds that are sitting
here but monozukuri I've dealt with him a lot. I know that I can
say that. Very generous individuals have this quality.
Not to say others don't have it, but
One thing I've seen with the family of Rasul Allah to the few
that I've had closer interaction with.
So Hassan and Hussein and Abdullah Hypno Jaffa are the hola Juan.
They were on their way to hajj
and they had the they had their provisions with them.
Camel, whatever it was. So on one occasion what happened is somehow
they lost it. They lost all their provision, they lost their food
and everything in the middle of the desert. They lost,
became very hungry, very thirsty. So as they walking along looking
for something they pass by an old woman, innocent.
They went to her and they said, Have you got anything to drink? Do
you have anything to drink? He says yes.
So they took the other camels, got them to sit down, and rest. And
the only thing she really had was one goat.
Bacary. That's all she had. And one side of the tent.
So she said, Go ahead, milk, milk, this goat and have what you can.
So they did that. And then they drank a bit of the milk and we one
got three guys thirsty, what's gonna be going any food?
So she said,
at this time, I've got nothing else except that goat. That's all
I have. I got nothing else. So one of you go ahead and
slaughter it, and then I'll make some food for you from it. So one
of them, they went, they slaughtered it, and skimmed it.
And she prepared the meat, she prepared meat,
some food from the meat they ate. And then they stayed here for a
short while until the heat of the sun of heat of the sun. dwindle
slightly and then after that they left but before they left, they
told the look we are from the Quraysh everybody knew the Quraysh
well known we're from the Quraysh in sha Allah when we come back if
we come back safe and sound Beholder then
when you find us like full hippie Bina, find us and see what we can
do for you Inshallah, you know, see what we can do for you. How we
can repay you. So then she's an old woman. Her husband came back
eventually from wherever he had gone. And she told him what had
happened. The only goat
and he said to her, you sacrifice that goat. We had nothing but that
goats and you don't even know them.
After that, that's what he said what else is gonna do now?
Her and her husband, they were then forced to go to come to the
city, Madina Munawwara and they used to pick up the dried dates,
the buzzer, the dates that fallen from orchards or whatever they
would sell them
and that's how they would live with the basic earnings that they
will get from there. On one occasion, this old woman she's
going through one of the one of the streets of Madina, Munawwara
Hasson have no idea but the hola Vaughn who is they're sitting at
the door of his house. Immediately he recognizes her, but she doesn't
recognize him.
So he calls out He says, Yeah, I'm at Hola.
I'm gonna 30 Feeny Didn't you recognize me? So she said what
Lahemaa ID for No, I haven't recognized you. says, I'm the I'm
your madman. I'm your guest. That particular day that guests that
you had I'm one of them.
She said be a be enter Well, me enter Hua by my mother and father.
That's you? He said yes. And then he
gave her a he ordered his heart and whoever it was to give her
1000 Goats. She deserves 1000 Goats. And then he sent her to his
brother her saying so it's not like okay, 1000 goats on behalf of
everybody go. Then he sends it to Hussein.
When he got to Hussein or the Hola, Juan, he said how much did
my brother give you? Said 1000 Goats. So he gave her 1000 goats
as well.
So he's not to be outdone.
And then they said they sent it to Abdullah hidden the Jaffa who was
with them even OB toilet so this is a cousin brother Abdullah Jaffa
Jaffa son. So they are the sons of Ali. Ali's brother was Jaffa so
the two brothers and one cousin
got to Abdullah who Jaffa how much it hasn't percent give you say
2000
So then he gave her 2000 She ends up with 4000 Goats
And he said to her, had you come to me first, then I would have
overcome them like I would have given you so much that they
wouldn't have been able to beat me. On one occasion I'm delighted
to Jaffa same Abdullah in a jar for the Allah one. He went to his
estate
he was on in his lands, his fields.
And on the way there was an orchard there somebody's orchard,
somebody else's orchard palms, palm trees and so on.
So he just sat there to rest for a while and in there there was an
African slave that was working for the master of that for the owner
of that orchard.
In the middle in noontime in afternoon time, whenever lunchtime
he somebody heard him brought his food which was literally like a
few bowls of you know, some dough or something like that some some
really basic something. So
as soon as that happened, this dog comes along and stands by this guy
looking at his food. This African slave is looking at his food.
So he picks up one of those bowls that he had received the food when
a mimosa or whatever it was, and he threw it at the dog the dog ate
it up very quickly. So he gave him the second one. And then he gave
him the third one.
I'm delighted to Jaffa is just looking at him.
Finally after all of this happens, Abdullah and AceStream in
amazement come go to Coolio. How much do you get every day? It says
her the La Crosse lottery Right? Exactly these bowls that you saw
me give him this is exactly how much I get a day.
So then he said Fatima and I felt the huddle. Why did you give
preference to this dog over yourself than you know your entire
days provision? You gave it to the dog? What's the reason for that
preference? So this golem said yes, say the MaHA the Hebrew or
the Caleb.
My leader. This is this place. We don't get dogs around here. This
is not a place where dogs hang out. This dog has come from
somewhere very far because he's hungry.
He's not just like some local dog. That's always that this is some
special dogwoods come from very far distant because he's hungry.
And I just felt totally that I can't reject it.
So then Abdullah him Jafra didn't said to him, then what are you
going to do now?
She says, Well, I'm just going to spend my day I'm just gonna have
three I'm gonna try to just spend my day finish up the rest of my
day.
So Abdullah had no job for said that no SIPTU al Karim USA, WA the
US House accordingly. You know, I am attributed to a lineage of
benevolence and generosity, you know, I'm from that family. But
this man is even more generous than me. This man is even more
generous than me. Then he went and made some inquiries as to who's
the owner of this orchard and who this belongs to. And he purchased,
he made the deal and he purchased both the orchard and that slave.
And then he freed that slave, and he gave him the orchard
as a gift. So this is the return in the world.
Another story that's related about that time, is that around the
Kaaba, there were three guys sitting there.
And they were discussing these were the discussion is,
man, you're not going to be able to come back up. Liverpool's
finally been able to come on top, mainly United can't get into the
European whatever it was, and this is on us. I'm hearing okay, I
don't follow this stuff. This is just news. You can't avoid it. So
this is all I know from that. So that's what they were discussing.
They didn't discuss those kinds of bilkul things in those days.
What were they discussing? I'm only joking. Okay. What were they
discussing? They were discussing who is the most noble and generous
of people that they've ever met? Like, who's the most noble guy
who's the most generous person you've ever met? I mean, is that a
discussion we've ever had?
So somebody said oh, I think the most noble most general person is
Abdullah Hema Jaffa
the same Abdullah in Jaffa another one says no, I think it's tasty
blue sad ignore burdah sadhana Oba was the
the
the leader of the hostage
if no more other was the leader of hosts, the two main Medina and
tribes started Saturday no more of so this is his son place inside.
The third one said no, I think it's Robert OC.
I think he's the most noble and generous person. How are you going
to decide that it's everybody's perspective, isn't it? Like some
time somebody sees
I don't like that one. Who cares? If you don't like that? I like it.
It's a personal preference. Is it? No, that's not nice. Why are you
saying that's not nice? Just say you don't like it, somebody else
likes it. Somebody's got this bright red car. That's not nice.
It's not nice to you. But the guy who bought it, it's nice for him.
It's his perspective.
So they kept talking about this and discussing this. They're
arguing about this. Eventually, they said, Look, how are we going
to decide this? Every one of you, every one of us, they go to the
person they think is the best and most noble and most generous, and
go to them as though you're a beggar and see what they give you.
And then come back, and then we'll decide who is the most generous
person.
So the first man who thought that Abdullah Hypno, Jaffa
was the most noble he went to Abdullah he Naja for the Allah
one. And
when he got to his place, he found that he was just about to put his
foot in his stirrup of his horse of his animal. He was about to go
somewhere. He's about to get on. He just put his foot there. And
this guy comes along acting like a beggar saying, Yeah, you know me,
me Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa salam, O son of the uncle of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said what? He says um, I'll
be rossabi llama Wayfarer. I'm a traveler who needs who's in some
need.
So as soon as he said that
he took his foot off and he said to him You know what just take
this animal and everything that's on its use on a journey had his
provisions every his Take this and go
but just don't take the sword because you might use it against
me
so politically astute
you don't give everything away.
So careful is his take everything on here and the animal just leave
my sword for me because I you will use it on me. For in the who say
for another year. It might be a sword against me tomorrow.
The second one he went to face evening, Saturday, Oba
he found that he was asleep. So that somebody told him he is
asleep.
The heart him said he's asleep. What do you need anyway, he says,
Look, I'm a stranger in these parts. I'm a Wayfarer very far
from my house. And I need I mean needs I don't have sufficient to
carry on. So to hire them said that, you know, your need is much
lighter than waking him up is not as important. And only to wake him
up for that. Just take this bag. It's got 700 dinars in their
not their homes, dinars that's a lot of money.
And go to our camel enclosure.
And he gave him some sign or something like that. And he will
give you an animal a camel to ride on as well. And he'll also give
you a a servant or slave. And then you can carry on and go. When his
master woke up this space hypnotherapy he woke up
and heard him told him what happens. He got so happy he, he
freed his slave, he freed that slave.
The other one who would praise the robber. He went and he found that
he had just come out of his Masjid as he has come out of his house
and he was going for solid.
And he was very old and blind. So this is a very old man this one.
And he was holding taking support with two younger servants of his
to two of his slaves. So from afar, he called I says yeah, Rob.
He says yes. What is it? It says this is a traveller, a poor man
who unfortunately is cut away from his, his resources. And I'm in
this state that I need some help. So immediately, he took his two
hands off from the two servants and he kept his hand and he said,
uh, wha Matata cotton Haku clear or Robert Marlin.
He just like exclaiming to himself, he says like me, it has
not left any wealth for me. I don't have any wealth left. But
you know what? Take these two lands. Take these two servants,
the slaves I have. So
the the man then said to him, this third guy he said to him, Look, I
don't want to take your to support these people who support you. I
don't want to take them.
So Aurora said
that if you don't take them, it's fine. They are free. I've already
made that decision. So if you want to take them, otherwise they are
free.
So he left them and he went by
Back
when they got together that decision, who do you think is the
most generous?
Out of the three? What do you think that decision was?
The first one, the third one. What else?
Third one?
Yeah, I think that was their opinion as well. Their opinion was
that it was the third one. The reason is that He did judo kill,
which also spoke about Jordan McHale is to struggle when you
have a bit. So you've got a small amount, and you even give that or
you give from that. Whereas when you got lots and you just give
like a part of it, the Sahaba were very wealthy at certain times,
they were very wealthy. So they were just giving a huge chunk, it
seemed a lot of lot. But this person he gave less, but it was in
comparison to what he had. So they thought that Robert definitely was
the most.
And then finally, the other stories which we know, which is
famously mentioned in the Quran, the highest level is when you
don't have something and then you still give, which is that sahabi,
who was who took the guests of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam had a
small amount of food for the kids to sleep, put the light off to
make the guests feel that he was eating as well, and the guests ate
the food. And then the Quranic verses revealed afterwards.
You don't either and foresee him while Oh, can I be him? Kasasa and
then the next day when he went to the Prophet salallahu Salam, the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said, look at the edge of Allah in sunny
Kannada if you come, Allah subhanaw taala was amazed by what
you did with your guests. That's what you call creativity. That's
what you call creativity. And then the final story is one that
everybody's heard, which is the famous one for Lila Merle, from
Khalifa we who relates that once I went during the Yarmouk, better,
to look for my uncle, in between all those who had, who had been
fallen on the ground, and I finally saw him last moments of
life, he asked for some water, I went to get it. When I got back to
him, somebody else groaned, she says, gone, give it to him,
somebody else go and he says, go give it to him. And eventually
when I came back, and each one of them had died.
That's what you call a Sahaba. That's what you call us out.
That's what you call them ability. May Allah subhanho wa Taala grant
us nobility, okay with that 100.
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