Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Shamail al Tirmidhi The Life Style of Prophet () Part 22
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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu
was Salam ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi odaka was
seldom at the Sleeman Cathedral on Eli Yomi been a my birth.
After speaking about
the various ways that a Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam did
things,
like what he leaned on. And other things before we move into some
other chapters, there's a very important chapter which Imam
telemovie has, according to some editions of this book, Imam
Timothy has
mentioned this chapter twice. And
the Hadith that he's bought in this chapter are not the same in
both instances, although there are some which are the same. So
according to some additions, you will see that this chapter is
found here in the middle, then it's also found after
the chapter on the names, the different names of Rasulullah
sallallahu, alayhi, wasallam. This chapter is actually it's called
burbled manager if he or she Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam chapter on the lifestyle of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
salam. And in particular, it speaks about his interaction with
the dunya. Things that are very personal to oneself with relate
with relate with regards the world the dunya, more specifically to do
with issues of eating
and hunger, and specific aspects about clothing and things like
that clothing, the prophets of Allah Islam, that's also already
been discussed, where the turban and the lower garment and the the
upper garment and all of this has been discussed by Imam Timothy,
but in this one in particular is the focus is more going to be on
food. Many of these Hadith that are mentioned in this chapter are
very popular narrations that many of us may have heard before, or
Lama mentioned them quite frequently. But this in this way,
Imam Tirmidhi has put it all together in perspective. So the
chapter is on that which has been related about the Irish, Irish are
actually your issue means to live the life, to be alive to live, and
to basically adopt things which will sustain your life. So it's
about things. What are the things that the prophets of Allah Islam
did to sustain his life? How far did he go with that? Because that
is the big deal that we we that is the big issue that we all we are
all challenged with today, how much do we work? How much do we
earn? How much do we save? And how much do we buy? What are we
allowed to buy? What are we not allowed to buy? Today, when you go
into any supermarket, you'll see a variety of foods and every year
from what I've observed, because the
because of the global trade organizations and so on, you find
that there are things from literally all around the world,
you're spoilt for choice. You will find things from Europe, you'll
find things from the Middle East, you will find things from Africa,
you will find things from all over the world. And maybe never before
in history.
Has it been so available? Has the world been so available like this
to every common person? Yeah, no doubt the wealthy in every given
time, they got things they wanted, because they had the resources to
be able to pursue these things, and acquire these things. But now,
the way we live today and what we have in front of us at our
disposal, the ability for us to purchase any time of the day.
We could probably compare ourselves with many of the so
called wealthy people of the past, though we would not be considered
wealthy of in today's times necessarily, and there are people
who go even beyond that. But the dunya is really open. So this
chapter inshallah will help us to orient ourselves negotiate our way
in this world where the world has really opened up to us. The
author, the question is that in some editions of this book, why
did the author mentioned this chapter twice? And precisely the
reason the commentators give is for this reason, that it's such an
important chapter, which we all have to deal with. It's a
challenge for all of us. So it's like a reminder twice that think
about it. So in here, the author Imam telemovie Rahim Allah will be
mentioning,
after he's mentioned the hood, he'll be soon mentioning the types
of food for example, the hoods the bread of Rasulullah, sallAllahu,
alayhi, salam, and the type of condiment or whatever you eat with
bread, that he's going to be mentioning later on in a specific
chapter, but he is just his general approach to food. So
first, he talked about clothing. Now he talks about the lifestyle
in particular, and then speak about the different types of foods
and so on.
Essentially the conclusion of this chapter is that the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would restrict Himself to eating
in general, throughout his life to only that, which was sufficient to
sustain himself, only enough to sustain himself.
And he would totally abstain as far as possible from anything
extra in terms of his eating or drinking. So he would not go after
anything extra that restaurants really nice people, people talk
about it. You know, nowadays, when a new restaurant becomes or a
takeaway becomes HMC, we suddenly get text messages. Okay, now
you've got Jamaican cuisine, right? It's HMC. You got Chinese
cuisine, HMC, you know, you've got all of the Indian and have Ronnie
and you know, and then people, and we go far we will spend money to
do this. Not that is haram to do, but it's totally unlike Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wasallam, that he would go and seek out a really
nice restaurant, right where the food is known to be really good
and go and eat down there for that purpose. The reason is that
approximate Allahu alayhi salam was a complete servant of Allah
subhanho wa Taala at the highest level of servitude, which means
his whole focus on the dunya was totally different. His whole focus
was the Hereafter. And that is obviously the most superior state
of a human being. That is the most superior state of a human being.
So we're far from that. But Inshallah, when we look at these
Hadith and so on, it will at least cut it down from at least going
twice a week, to maybe once a week. And for those who go once a
week, to maybe once every two weeks or once every month. Because
there are people who actually spend small fortunes outside every
time.
Small fortunes they will spend if you calculate the amount of money
that they have, that they spend behind these things they will
spend because they just mashallah just love their food
outside and they get bored with the home cooked stuff.
That's why the commentators they say that the majority of people
they worship their stomachs.
The majority of people, yeah, but doing a Butina home, they worship
their stomach, they worship their stomachs. So the author would
bring in this is a very long chapter as well. The reason he
brings this is to just try to knock on
the veil over our ears and our hearts that look cut it down. Be
careful. The first Hadith here
is related from Normandy, Bashir are the Allahu under sahabi, who
says that
he must have seen how
some of the
Sahaba or the tabby in the people who came after him who didn't see
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, he must have seen how they were
enjoying their food. So he said to them, this is what it says it
says,
a stone for you to I mean, where shall have been Machito him
onto in a in your interaction with food. And chew in a very good
state when it comes to your enjoyment with your food and your
drink.
That you're really going to extensive lengths to have good
food and drink, mash it to whatever you want. So essentially,
you've got whatever you want of food and drink.
And then he says, Look, I am gonna be here come sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam,
I saw your Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam What made you do
who OMA he Domina Ducati miam la Batra.
And he didn't even have enough of the most inferior types of dates
available to fill his stomach with.
So essentially, he's making them reflect. So firstly, look at the
way he addresses them. He says, I have seen your prophet, it's his
prophet as well.
He could have said, I've seen Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi
salam, as most people would do. But obviously, he was really
trying to make them think that I've seen your profit, the one
that you look up to the one you adhere to that you think and
consider to be your profit. And he's the one that has taught us.
So you must be really thinking about this. So I have seen with my
own eyes, your Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam.
And he could not find enough of even the most inferior types of
dates because within dates there are the different types. So this
is the most inferior ductal is the most inferior types of dates. Not
enough to start to fill his stomach with. So essentially he
was trying to tell them that think about your your profits lifestyle
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, what He taught his whole focus in this
life and what he encouraged and essentially, it's like,
an encouragement towards Zuid the concept of Zod means abstinence
from the world. And there's different levels obviously, some
of us are more in indulgent in the world than, than others. So it's
about going as far as possible, especially as we grow older to
start thinking of
like these things, and I think when when a person thinks about
this, and when they realize that now I'm 30 years old, now I'm 40,
I'm coming to 5060 Whatever it is, and then essentially, with the
onset of older age, a person should think to themselves that
How long am I going to work extra for to get the extra things in
life? And then I'm going to die, I may not even enjoy it. And what am
I going to take, if I am if I am switched off today, meaning if I
die today or tomorrow, or very soon, what have I got to show
there? So when a person begins to think of the Hereafter, that's
when they will cut themselves away from the world a bit more. But
when we never think about the hereafter, then we will never be
cut away from this from this dunya the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, is had dunya you heybrook Allah was had femur in
the nurse of femur, ie the nurse, you hit brokenness.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in this hadith
that abstain from the dunya be as abstinent from the world as
possible. Don't show your love for and don't try to get extra of it
as much as possible. And Allah will love you. And the reason is
that the world is a, there's nothing from Allah's perspective,
there's no competition. But from our perspective, the more we
become indulgent in the world and let it get into our hearts, and
that is how much less we will focus on Allah subhanho wa taala.
It's just the way it is. So that's why Allah subhanho wa Taala says,
If you abstain from the dunya, then Allah will love you, because
you are not going towards the competition. You are not going
towards that which will prevent you from a full focus on Allah
subhanho wa taala. And then he said something else. He said,
abstain from what people have abstain, what people can do for
you, and people will love you. That's interesting. People will
love you if you abstain from what they have. Because essentially,
then you're not seen as a competition for them. Because
people are greedy. People are miserly, very competitive. So if
they see another person also trained to attend the dunya as
much, they don't have as much respect for them as they have the
one who doesn't care about the dunya. Because they don't see them
as a competition, they'll begin to love this person. And the natural
servitude within them will bring about the honor of this person
that this person really is making sacrifices. The Prophet sallallahu
Sallam couldn't find enough dates. Well, we'll see a number of other
Hadith about this that will prove this and support this. See, the
whole question that arises here is that a Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam
was offered the dunya he was said that I've been given the keys of
the treasures of this world. Persia has been opened up for me
Yemen has been opened up for me, the whole world has been opened up
for me. So why is it that he couldn't find sufficient dates to
not even good dates, but even inferior dates to be able to just
sustain himself with
Imams a rock, who was one of the great, pious people of the past.
He says that the IRF Biller, the one who's given himself to Allah
subhanaw taala, and the Gnostic as such, sometimes he is in the state
of feeling enriched, sometimes his state will be the he'll feel very
enriched. And that's why the effects of generosity and helping
others will become manifest on him. And sometimes, you will see
that the state of poverty will become dominant on a person on a
person who's close to Allah subhanaw taala. So, with the
Prophet sallallahu, I used to know for example, the most Beloved of
Allah, sometimes when this state of richness being feeling rich and
richness would, he would sometimes give
he would spend 1000s of measures of
food stuff that he had in the path of Allah subhanaw taala
so that's a state of his that he's got all the food he spends it out
I should have the Allah wanna same thing is that state that they just
feel enriched and they give out, and then sometimes the fucker, the
poverty would become dominant, and that is when he would tie a stone
onto his stomach.
It has nothing to spend.
Because he, he's not taking anything. He's not demanding
anything. Allah subhanho wa taala. If he asked Allah, He could have
had it. But he decides to put a stomach put a stone on his stomach
and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he was given a choice.
As mentioned in that hadith, he was given a choice that will can
if you wanted, he could be a prophet that was a
prophet
with Kingdom, so he could have whatever he wanted of the world at
his disposal, like Somalia, Sudan, for example, or that he'd be a
newbie and Abdon and
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are a profit with just the full level of servitude. And he chose
to be a prophet of servitude. And that's why he said a Jew Yeoman.
For us. We're Uttara we're a Shabbat Yeoman.
So one day I will remain hungry, he says, and that's how I can ask
Allah subhanaw taala you will make me want to ask Allah subhanho wa
Taala and what a thorough and humbly and treat him and one day I
will be satiated, I will have food I'll be sated, and I can think
Allah subhanaw taala and praise Him.
So being in this state allows the person to do more than when you
have too much because then you forget Allah subhanaw taala
the next hadith is related from
alright, you should have the Allahu Allah.
So, in this case, in the first half of the Hadith, he was
somebody else telling another group of people, I've seen the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And I've seen that he
would never have enough to satiate himself with and look at you with
everything you want at your disposal, you're getting it. So
he's trying to make them think in this one. It's from an insider.
It's from Aisha Radi Allahu Allah, she confirms the state of the
Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam. And thus, she says, Good, ol
Mohammed, us as the family of Muhammad Sallallahu sallam. So
she's not just referring to herself, she's obviously referring
to the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, and you'd expect that if
there was shortage, she would get more than the Prophet sallallahu
sallam, because you will expect that the prophets Allah lorrison
would eat himself, if there was a small amount and deprive her would
deprive the other wives. So she is speaking on behalf of all of them.
So you can imagine in this, that she is obviously saying that if
this was our state, that are probably still alive, some state
would have been even more because he had nine waves to think about.
She said, Good. Luck, Mohamed Namco.
Sharon, Ma,
the Stoke YouTube winner in in Hua Illa, Illa, TomorrowWorld. Ma.
She said, we used to sometimes stay for a whole month,
not two days, but a whole month, where we would not like the fire
at all. So we would never put the stove on. It used to be just
simply water and dates.
Just totally destroy water. And it's
not an energy bar made of dates, and nuts and honey, and you know,
everything that you find nowadays, just simply just dates, row dates,
and water. That's it. So she says we used to stay like that,
sometimes for a whole month used to be and this is not she's not
just talking about one time, she's talking about that this has
happened often, where we just that was the preference. That was the
Allah subhanaw taala kept us as the Prophet sallallahu Sallam
wanted to keep us that way. And that's how we stayed.
In another Hadith, instead of saying data and water, it's
actually says it'll tell us whether except the two black
things. And normally the reason for that is very clear that water
doesn't really have a color. When it's put next to dates, the dates
are dark, so the water looks dark. So it's just a way of the Arab
spoke to just use one term to mean the to write in Arabic, it works
quite a bit. When you say Camaron. The two moons you actually refer
to that as the moon and the sun. So it's understood. Arabic is a
very ajeeb language. There's a very, there's a very famous
lexicographer philologist, as somebody who deals with Arabic
language, one of the pioneers, his name was a summary
blucora And he used to he was born in Basra at a time when grammar
was being developed. So his teacher was Khalid Mohammed Al
fahidi, the one who developed Arabic grammar, that was his
teacher. And the other famous grammarians. If you've heard of
them Faraj and the others, he was they were his contemporaries. And
he used to be constantly in debates with them. He's written
full full books on sheep,
the cow, the camel, the,
the horse, and essentially, all of this the book on the camel, for
example. It's a full book, all taken from the poetry of the past.
The different colors that are different types of camels, the
different colors that they come on how fast they can run, and
essentially an encyclopedia of camels. But all with proof from
poetry. Amazing. I mean, he had memorized all of the
the D ones. The D one is somebody's collection of poetry.
So all the famous D ones are one of the famous poets
Jaha Lea times and Islamic times up to his time was about 150
Something. He'd memorized all of them, and 40,000 other poetry. And
he was so particular about this, he was a hadith scholar as well.
Imam Ahmed is his student. And so he is he used to go out into he
used to go out to live with the Bedouins to learn the language.
And sometimes he would go and he would go specifically to Makkah
Makara, Madina Munawwara, into the hijas, deserts, to talk to and
live with the Bedouins and ask them questions because their
language was considered the most purest language, because it wasn't
they weren't living in a city where people were coming
constantly and language is getting mixed up. Right? That constantly
things were changing, he would go into deserts where it was being
preserved. And he would have questions about that, and so on.
And today, if you were to, if you want to study Arabic grammar,
language, lexicography, you can't stay away from his books, because
he was one of the pioneers who established many of these kinds of
disciplines. In fact, he was one of the first to do literary
criticism of poetry, that that's a very good poem. That one's not as
good that one's like this, that one's like that. You know, there's
a whole subject that you studied today of literary criticism. So
you got words Arabic is a very interesting very rich language I
mean, you can never get to the end of it once you once you once you
start. But that's the other Hadith says Ill Sudan except the two
black things.
And the reason why it said black because you get dates which are
brown you get dates which are light brown, reddish green, the
fresh fresh dates yellow. The reason why he's saying black here
is because the majority of the dates are Madina Munawwara and as
you see them today as well you know the most of the dates that we
have today the what is it the ajua the
call me and all this other stuff that we have
most of them except that one is they all they all dark they all
black, so that's what softly softly I think isn't that a bit
yellow, reddish, yellowish reddish brown that one's a bit brown. So
most of them are black even the the amber the big ones and so on.
In another Hadith, it says in this one it says one month used to pass
in another one it says a month and a half or a month and the prophets
Allah Lauryssens house never had a stove that was lit in fact, you
know, and you know when it says here that the fire was not lit. We
I'm taking it to mean a stove but it doesn't just mean a stove. It
means the fire wasn't even lit for the lamp.
So after Isha we you know people used to sleep anyway, so there was
no need even for that we didn't even have enough oil to light the
lamp or firewood to light the stove.
In another one it mentions the two shot of the Allahu Anhu said to
her nephew Rotorua * Allah one Oh, my nephew.
We used to look at one healer. Right? And it doesn't say you
could see clearly at that time there was proper sighting at that
time. Right? So we could see it one healer, then another healer,
and then another healer. So you're talking about three months, the
beginning of three months they would see healer laughter healer
laughter Hillel, two months, three months, and the stove would not be
lit in the house of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
So then, in another version it mentions he said oh holla you know
and then what did you use to sustain yourself on Makana, your
Isha calm what you what used to sustain you she said a sweater and
a thermal Wilma. Water and dates, no need to cook them straight
enough protein Enough, enough energy enough gives you enough
sustenance in there.
That means essentially a person can live on dates and water for
three months. I mean data is a very powerful food Allah subhanaw
taala made an abundant data at least he got that.
And that's why I will share when you are studying in the mother so
whenever this particular narration would come in Buhari, when the
Buhari class would study this narration, then he would declare
one day for Sweden. So no food, he would say no food would be served
and just put boxes of dates. And obviously water was available, and
you try to sustain yourself on that then he would give supper in
the evening, even though he'd say I'm not gonna give you some I just
tried to be like Rasulullah sallallahu Sana for a whole day.
But then he would feel sorry for everybody that gets up or at least
so lunch. And it was quite interesting because those days you
didn't have as many dates as you have today. Mashallah, nowadays
the dates are really available that you have to especially order
them because the import of dates wasn't as big at that time. You
know, where did we used to get dates before? 20 years ago, only
when somebody came from Morocco, Morocco, Rama, Medina when they
came back from the Holland that's when you'd get dates. And these
big
bull sized California dates were not really available in the UK
either. Right? So
I'm not sure if they
I've got the,
the gene of KNOX in there or something like that genetically
modified. Probably not. Actually they came over 100 and so many
years ago from Iraq and some other countries, they brought them in
and then they planted them in California now that's how they got
them. So then originally California, they actually
originally Iraqi or something. So there was actually brought over.
Now look, there was, I mean, there were some neighbors of Rasulullah
sallallahu. I used to we used to have the sheep, the sheep that
used to give milk goats that used to give milk, and they used to
sometimes give to allah sallallahu some of that milk. So sometimes,
along with the Aswan, there used to be some milk. But that was it,
there was no proper food cooked, can you try? Can you Can we even
try to stay away from cooked food for three days? Like seriously? I
mean, do you think that would be possible? I mean, we just about
fast the day and then we have to have the proper fried stuff at the
you know, if third time and so on. Otherwise, it just doesn't work in
you have to have your falooda you know, you have to have your milk
and you know, you just have to have that stuff otherwise, it's
just not enough. And then so Allah when we sit down with our dates as
well, you know, we filled those packets that they offered on the
with, I don't know about 5678 10 dates, just and then we go back
into eatin Subhanallah and I seriously let's be inspired to try
this for three days. With just one day. Start with one day and see if
we can go for three days just on date and water.
No cooking in the house. No ordering. You know, there's a
tradition that women don't want to cook on Saturdays. You have to
order
right? You have to order on Saturdays the women they refuse to
cook on Saturdays. I don't blame them because they cook every day
right? But
let's try this one day. You know everybody personally whatever you
know whenever you can do it.
Because if we I mean if we can try this Elise and say look three days
I tried to act like Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam used to do it
for three months.
Hopefully that will give us some
that will give us some capital in the hereafter in sha Allah.
So it proves when you have these different durations explaining
different timescales, one month, one and a half months, or I saw
three healers one month, next month next month next Hillel that
means that it happened many times. It wasn't necessarily always but
it happened on many instances where this happened with
Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihe salam ala moana, he says, if you look at
the state of the people after Rasulullah sallallahu sallam,
there's immediate Sahaba. And then later, the generations afterwards,
you can split people into four categories.
And we can decide which category we're on among them. He says that
the first category of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, the one on one of the categories would be those who did
not want the dunya.
And the dunya didn't want them either.
Which means they didn't really focus on the dunya. And neither
was it so easy for them to get the dunya. And that example of that
would be Abu Bakr, Siddiq Rhodiola. Han, another one would
be able to refer to the Allahu obika. They used to do a bit, but
he didn't attain a lot as such. And if there's a group which the
dunya wanted them,
so it was easy for them to get, but they did not want the dunya.
So they turned away from it. But the dunya wanted them. An example
of that is Amal Pharaoh, Claudia la han. So these are people for
some reason, Allah gives them a lot of Baraka.
And as some people say, they can throw the dice anyhow. And they
get lucky.
Right, a bad example. But the whole idea is that Allah gives
them a lot of Barack and you want that kind of Baraka in your life.
You're good to your relatives, and you do a lot of sadaqa, then that
gives you Baraka in those kinds of things. The third category
is those people who wanted the dunya. And the dunya also wanted
them so that dunya came to them as well. The example of the whole
alpha of the bundle omega, the omegas and the whole of of the
bundle ibis, except Amara and Abdulaziz gave everything away.
So they wanted to dunya and the dunya wanted them and thus it was
a very good marriage, very prosperous marriage, in that
sense. And the fourth type are those who did not want the dunya
and neither did the dunya come to them.
This is obviously those who Allah subhana wa Taala has made poor as
we see poor people today. It's just not open droughts. Just no,
nothing available to them, and neither can they get anything. The
next Hadith, right so this second Hadith or summary should have the
Allahu anha
personal personal experience. And the third hadith is
from
and also the hola Juan, from Abu Taha for the Allah one. He says
shikonin Illa Rasulullah sallallahu is majeure.
So many, this was a time in Madina, Munawwara when they didn't
have enough, they did not have much prosperity, food and things
available. So it was a very dire time. They came and complained to
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And so the alarm says
that I will tell her or the Allah one he came to complain to
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam were very hungry.
What a foreigner and Butina and to prove it to him that we're very
hungry. He says we raise the garment from our stomachs. And
then there was a stone tied to our stomachs. So each one of us, he
says a group of us had gone and we all showed that we have stomach a
stone tight to our stomach. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam. In response to them, He raised up his garment, and he had
two stones tied to his stomach.
And the reason he showed them this was to make them feel better, that
don't worry, I'm not one of the kings of the past were the people
they suffer, and I enjoy myself I'm in the same street as you, and
I am the most Beloved of Allah subhanaw taala he was appealing to
their understanding their Iman in the fact that the Prophet
sallallahu said was the most beloved to Allah subhanaw taala.
And if that is how the Prophet of Allah the most beloved to Allah
subhanho wa Taala was being kept, then obviously, their their state
wasn't as bad. So it's to
show them familiarity, show them sympathy, show them that I'm I'm
also experiencing the same thing, in fact, worse. Now this concept
of putting stones on the stomach, may Allah subhanaw taala never
allow us to see that day.
Right? I know, it's a sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, but it's something that he did me we don't have to see that
day because we don't, I don't think we have the ability to deal
with that kind of level of hunger. Because Can you imagine it that
when you're hungry, when you're fasting, you know that at the end
of the day, there's going to be some really good food,
you're going to enjoy your food. And the Prophet sallallahu sallam
said that when I saw him, he saw me far hotter than the fasting
person has to.
two sources of happiness. One is when he does Iftar. I mean,
that's, that's a time when you feel really good to eat. And the
other time is when he meets with his Lord. So we know that today
I'm feeling really hungry. Fasting is very difficult. But I know that
I'm going to get food. In fact, then we, if you go, that's the
worst time to go shopping. Right? Because then you buy too much,
because you're really hungry. The mind is very greedy, the eyes are
very greedy.
Can you imagine if we have to reach a state where you have to
tie something to your stomach so that it feels like you've got
something there? Have you the feeling when you haven't eaten for
a while? What is it there's this irritation in the stomach, it kind
of causes right through the body, it makes you feel lethargic, it
makes you feel tired, it makes you feel like you want something,
it's suddenly the sugar goes down, you suddenly start,
you know, you could even start shaking, and you know that there's
lots of things that happen to us because we're just not used to it
like that.
So the benefit and the wisdom of putting a stomach, according to
what the aroma mentioned, and I'm sure modern biology will tell you,
we'll give you a more intricate explanation of these things. But
essentially, the pain of hunger that a person feels that the
stomach being tied with a stone, he gets rid of some of that and
how it does that is if there's food in the stomach,
then the stomach remains occupied with it. You know that there's a
whole system of something happening within the stomach, the
way it processes the food and stomach and things, but when there
is nothing in the stomach, right? Where there's nothing in the
stomach. And even as they said that, the one of the Sahaba he
said that you people, you people defecate the through tuna Felton,
you people defecate like the like the Buffalo and the cowardice. You
know, big hello hostile. Right? Whereas we used to, in our time,
the way people used to defecate was like the goat. Just small
droppings, small dried balls of dropping.
And you guys, you guys throw in a filter.
So when you got nothing in your stomach that all it can produce is
small bowls. You know, subhanAllah Can you imagine it? If you've seen
goat droppings. In fact, it's mentioned about some of the
individuals of the past that they used to only defecate three times
a month, three times a month not because of constipation. Not
today. If you enter a difference and I've only done it three times
on Monday is going to put you on something you must go at least a
healthy person has to go one day in fact, there's even there's some
more health freaks they say that should be like a baby where
nothing should
be retained, everything should just come out just like the baby,
they do it four or five times a day. That's what you call a
healthy, healthy one.
Right? If you eat the right kinds of foods and so on, and these
people were eating healthy foods, I mean, you know, it was it was
coming out, but three times a month, 200 Ala.
Anyway, when there is food in the store, when there's no food in the
stomach, the heat of the stomach, the mechanism of the stomach will
start to then interfere with the, the moisture within the body with
the rest of the fluids and so on. And the other substances and
nutrients of the body, I mean, it's just an older way of talking
about the digestive system as such. And that's where you start
getting pain, because there's nothing for the food to for the
systems of the stomach to work on. So there's a certain pangs of
hunger, the, the system wants food in there, so it can attack it.
Right, it wants fuel. So if you put a, if you tie a stone to the
stomach, then the stone is considered one of the coolest in
terms of
in terms of this medical temperature, such it's considered
one of the coolest of substances. So when, when the stone is under,
calm some of its heat of the stomach. And that's why you you
get some kind of relief from that. And clearly there was a benefit.
That's why they were doing it at the time. And there must be much
more sophisticated scientific understanding of how this works.
Nowadays, if somebody cares to look into it.
Now, a person would obviously put as big a stone on his stomach,
as the level of pain defeating because you put a small stone and
you still have the pain, you're going to put a bigger stone. If
the Prophet sallallahu had to put two stones on his stomach, that
means that the pain was much higher. Now the thing about a sort
of loss Allah which has to be clarified here, is that the
Prophet salallahu Salam staying hungry was voluntary. It was
something he chose. Otherwise, he had everything open to him. So
that's the difference between that some of the other Ma, they very
strictly said that anybody who says it's a blasphemy to say that
Rosa Lawson was poor, because when you say somebody's poor, it means
God hasn't given him anything. And that's wrong because of Rosa
Luxemburg, everything opened up to him. But this was voluntary
poverty that he had taken up. In fact, according to subkey, he says
that his father, if he had anybody saying that Robert Solow son was
fucky, he would, he would say, get out of this measure this, you
would make him stand up from this measureless.
Because that would denigrate the level of Rasulullah sallallahu
Sallam because that means Allah subhanaw taala isn't given him,
Allah wanted to give him whatever, whatever it was. So many times
when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam was hungry like this, it
was to get more agile, or it was to just be like a Sahaba. To so
that he could sympathize with them, they could simplify,
sympathize with his state as well, or for some other benefits.
Nowadays, they're discovering that, you know, it's people,
they're discovering that it's very difficult for people to go on
diets for for a very long time.
People go, it's a few weeks, few months, and then after that, they
put everything back on again. And if anybody's tried diets, they
will know that. So there's an alternative idea that's coming up,
which is that it's called the five two or three, two or whatever, you
eat whatever you want for five days. You know, Masako, you know,
normal, indulgent, however, is over two days, you eat just a
small amount.
And it says what the system actually, in that case, the system
actually helps to lose weight, and to keep you better.
So what they're discovering is that if you just eat less for even
a few days of the week, essentially fast two days a week,
exactly as we as we do Monday and Thursday, if you just encouraged
to do that. Now
fasting Mondays and Thursdays is a must have
the stronger faster the three days of each month.
You know, the three days of each month that Rosa last mister fast,
those are even stronger, they're more similar. Now look at that.
It's difficult for people to fast Monday and Thursday every week.
But if they do, there's a great health benefits as well. And if
you fast, at least the three days then at least you're getting some
health benefit three times at least for those those days of the
month.
So that's the benefit that if we can at least fast three days a
month, it'd be great. Also it is the month of Shawwal I hope we're
doing our six days of Chawan because there's great benefits of
that as well.
So hello, the way Allah subhanaw taala has kept these things I mean
after a whole month of fasting extending us to another six months
soon. And he's giving us great encouragement saying that if you
fast those six months you'll get for the rest of the year as well.
I mean another word of wisdom in that could be that once Ramadan
finishes once
You know the light of Ramadan is gone as such, and you fasted in
that when you come out of it. Normally what you can do in one
place is very difficult when the when the scene changes. So the
prophets of Allah Islam is trying to give us the same scene that
okay keep fasting for at least six days right. So that will get you
habituated to inshallah fast more after the month of Ramadan as
well, because you don't think it's only linked to Ramadan as such.
So that's one of the benefits. That's why you want to judge Dina
Sookie. Now the great scholars, he says that
the Prophet sallallahu salams hunger was a theory and not
forced, it was optional, there was something voluntary, that he
wanted for himself.
The reason is that he could have easily dispelled the hunger.
He could have easily got rid rid of the hunger, either by
making the awesome how to get rid of the desire for food and drink,
don't have the desire for food and drink, you're not going to feel
pangs of hunger, you. I've got a friend make dua for him. He's got
a sickness where he can't eat. He just doesn't feel like eating. So
it's so hard Allah, that the majority of people in the West
would love that, as long as not a sickness that they just cannot
eat. So you're losing. Because of that you're losing your weight
because of that, but he's having to find a cure for this problem.
And he can't just find the cure for it. So it was possible. subkey
says that it was possible that he could have had from himself this
the whole feeling of food removed, certain there is no pain
with the permission of Allah subhanaw taala or Allah subhanaw
taala could have fed him because he does mention in some Hadith
that my Lord feeds me, I don't, I don't need to eat. So he could
have had that state where he was being nourished internally, and he
didn't need to eat.
Or he could have got food if you wanted. It was all available to
him. He could have gone anywhere he could have Allah subhanaw taala
would have given it to him. These are all options open to him.
That's why he says that the voice of awesome despite the fact that
he had this ability to remove this hunger from he did not remove it.
That's why it was definitely voluntary. That's why he says that
his father used to remove anybody from the measureless who said that
the profit or loss was poor because his poverty was not was
not poverty in that sense.
Now the Prophet sallallahu Sallam did use to make a dua that Allah
Hama, Heaney, Myskina,
oh Allah
keep me alive in the state of poverty. So he says that the
meaning of that is, is to kind of culpa, which means the state of
the heart where he doesn't become tyrannical against Allah subhanaw
taala. It stays humble, that that's what he's referring to.
Because obviously, if Allah subhanaw taala had given him the
hazard in the dunya,
the keys to the treasures of the world, and anything he wanted,
then how can you call him poor?
Now the thing about the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
was that despite the fact that he used to go for long periods with
this kind of minimal amount of food, that kind of person would be
really thin, really kind of thin and weak, and emaciated. And the
prophets, Allah, so it's not like that. He looked healthy, and he
was totally in control of his faculties, which means Allah
subhanaw taala was definitely sustaining him.
So there was none of that problem. In fact, he was the most handsome
of people as the description shows, despite the fact that he
would sustain himself in such small amounts of food. So there
are many reasons why he would do that. Allah subhanho wa Taala
says, well, the nine acre Illa Matera NaVi as well, I mean, this
is an idea that should come to mind whenever you go outside. And
you see people enjoying themselves you see people with lots of
substance and you think that you should go after these kinds of
things as well. Do not extend your eyes towards that, that we have
given them extra in this world to indulge themselves in Zara tell
hieratic dunya is just the flower of this world, it's just the
beauty of this world, lean Athena home fi so that we can test them
and try them in it. If you remember this iron, then it gives
you a sense of comfort that we don't need to go after the same
thing so you don't feel as bad.
And also to make himself distinct from the cosmos, and the seasons
of the Roman and the Persian and the Roman Empires, who he says, in
the home of regedit lumpa Uberto V hired him at dunya
the good that there's the bounties of the hereafter has been given to
them in this world, so they don't get anything in the Hereafter. And
it's also what if hard on the Hakata dunya and it's also to show
the
the humiliated state of this world on this dunya with the promise of
loss, I was able to totally abstain from it. And that's why
the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam said locality dunya
ideally we're in the Allahu ginawa Masako curfew Rahman her shot
button Lima, that if this world, equated in the sight of Allah
subhanahu wa taala to the wing of a fly or a mosquito,
then he would if this world had that even that much of a value to
Allah subhanho wa Taala
then he would not have given any disbeliever who disbelieved in
Allah subhanho wa Taala even a sip of water to drink. But the value
is not there in the sight of Allah subhanho wa Taala for this world,
so he lets whoever wants it, he lets him have it. That's why a
poet says photocatalytic dunya Thorburn leamore sin even let me
configure my I shouldn't divide him in local geography MBO local
geography Ambia chromatin worker shall be at V habitational Baja me
for no Ghana, dunya Tharwa Naimark sin, even lumea configuration
Mithali me if this dunya was a source of reward for the doer of
good, if this was the reward, this dunya and the reward of it, you
get in this world for the doer of good, then it means that for the
oppressor, there would be no sustenance in this world.
Because if this word was supposed to be a reward for you, when you
do good, then those who are volumn, they wouldn't get anything
because that this was this was reward. And then that's why he
said look at geography, hurl, Ambia, or chromatin. Prophets have
remained hungry, as an act of nobility, as an act of nobleness,
they've remained hungry in this world, whereas even the stomachs
of wild beast have been fully seizure satiated. So it's not
about satiation and hunger, that this that is the substance of this
world.
But the profit and loss I'm used to do it to mainly the people that
needed help. Not were not the rich ones as much as the poor ones,
because the rich ones, they felt they had something, but the poor
ones, they felt they had nothing. So when they saw that, obviously,
the lesson was also like that, and the poor that will be coming until
they have judgment, they can look in to the successful successful
prophet, and how he used to spend his time
so that they could also abstain from the world and feel content
about it as well. That's why once the prophets Allah loves him, gave
a hotbar he said, Wallahi Ma, I'm surfy Beatty, early Muhammad SAW
or mentor, I mean, we're in her lattice or to appear to him. In
what he said one day in this hotel, he said
that never once.
He says,
Not one single measure of food
is available in the evening, in the house of the family of
Muhammad salallahu Alaihe Salam in any of the houses of the Romans.
And he says, and they are nine rooms, there are nine houses
because he had different houses for each of his wives. In the nine
houses, there's not one song, so it's like a cup of food in any of
them.
And the only reason he said that was not to complain, but to show
others as well. That don't worry about it. We're all in a similar
state.
And to also show that the real poverty sorry, the real richness
is not richness of substance, but the richness of the heart.
Independence and richness of the heart is the real substance. And
that is if you've got that kind of and that is the thing with with
which you get the your hearts contentment. People have lots of
money today, but they have no heart contentment. I mean, we hear
this all the time. And yet there are others who don't have
sufficient but their hearts are very content. They have sukoon
they have Raha they have tranquility in their hearts, they
come they relaxed, they don't care, they don't want more, you
try to give it to them, and they won't want more because they've
got a lot of contentment. And
they have they don't have any needs from anybody. They don't
have to bother anybody. They don't have any need towards any anybody
because they are solely connected to Allah subhanho wa Taala and
they are very happy with the way Allah subhanaw taala has kept him
So hello, look at what a poet says.
He says woman Yun Fick Asara three January murli Maha for the fucker
in Fela the Sana alphacool. Very clever statement, then
the one who spends hours in collecting wealth out of fear for
poverty.
Then all he's done is he's created poverty. Because if you don't
consider poverty, poverty,
then you're not worried about here you are worried about something
that you're creating for yourself that I'm not going to have that's
why I want to spend this many hours getting more
Subhanallah we really need to think about this hadith in Bukhari
from Iran of no Hussein or the Allahu and he says that the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said I looked into Jana.
Remember when he was taken up on the US
Tension I looked into Jana for a two act Farah Alia Alpha Cara. I
saw the majority of its inhabitants the poor people what
taller to thinner and I looked into the hellfire. And I saw for
our A to Accra Alia and Nisa. I saw the majority of it
inhabitants, women and from the hug, it relates.
And so when Allah you go to Oxford Street, right, you go, Harrods,
whatever, and you see something, I mean, don't go in there to Agulla
things. But if you see somebody if you see something and you're
unable to get it, the hug says whoever enters the market
and he sees something that he really likes for sabara but he
remains solid he remains patient what he does,
and he puts his anticipation Allah subhanaw taala that oh, this is
all dunya Allah will give me better Girnar higher Allah mean
Elfi dinar in unifocal huffy, subete Allah it is superior to
1000. Durham's.
Sorry 1000 dinars, 1000 gold pieces that you could spend in the
path of Allah subhanaw taala that sober for that moment when you
didn't when you wanted something and you just said no, I'm gonna do
some work for Allah subhanaw taala and I hope Allah will give me a
better reward is better than spending 1000 dinars in the path
of Allah subhanho wa Taala that's a huge reward
because 20 dinars is worth about two 3000 pounds today. And how
many dinars is he saying 1000 dinar that's, that's, that's a
huge sum of money.
Grow people into Rasul Allah, Allah Salam here prohibited that
people should not have continuous fasts. So you know, when there
would be no cooking in the house,
they would still eat some dates and water. Even if it's a few
dates, let's delete something because it's wrong to fast
continuously for over a day and not break it at all. Because then
that's harming you. And Allah says that he wants ease with you not
difficulty, and he wants you to gain Taqwa. And the way you gain
Taqwa is by abstaining for a short time to let the knifes go down a
bit, not to suppress it to such a degree that you kill yourself. So
that's why we're the cause. So mudhar, someone we saw, which is
continuous fasting day after day without breaking it is wrong. It's
haram, it's mcru to do that. So that's why the professor Lawson
said learn to whilst you do not do this continuous fasting.
So then, they said to Rasulullah, sallAllahu, samba, you do it.
We've never seen you eat, you do it. He says in the list of
Honeycomb, I'm not like any of you. In the otter, I'm Oscar. I am
fed, and given to drink by ALLAH SubhanA, WA, tada. You don't have
that special sauce of nourishment. I have that.
In another narration, he says you to me when you were you skinny,
Allah subhanaw taala gives me food and drink. He sustains me.
So then the question is that when all of these are Hadith we've
read, right? Where it says that he used to stay hungry, he used to
feel the pangs of it, and so on.
And then here, it's indicating that he used to, he used to fast
continuously. That looks like a different state from this state.
You understand what we're saying? Because he's saying that he's
showing that we didn't get enough food, and he shows the two stones
on his stomach.
And then here, he's telling the Sahaba, not to continuously fast,
which means not to eat anything at all, he says is prohibited. They
said, but you do it. He said, I'm different. I can do it and still
get away with it. Which means that there was times and he used to do
that as well.
But he's the only one that was allowed to do that. According to
this narration. It's not clear cut, but that's what it indicates.
But there were times when he used to eat things. And then he used to
feel hunger as well. But there were times when he never used to
feel hunger, and neither did you used to eat. So there were
different states that the process allows us to go through. That's
what it that's what it describes here. So what the enema mentioning
is that when he did sawmill we saw when he never ate at all, then
Allah subhanaw taala did feed him that was the time when he used to
be fed. Otherwise, why would you be feeling pangs of hunger other
times and put the stomach the stone on his stomach otherwise, so
there are different states that he was in. So we have to combine the
two generations in that way.
Famous Hadith from Jabra, the Allah one that the people on the
day of the when they were digging the trench during the major Battle
of the Trench, this big boulder they came across and nobody could
attack it. They just, I mean they all had a stone on their stomach
at that time as well because they didn't have much food in those
days as well. So they were all trying to attack it and they there
wasn't a single instrument that they had that could make even a
small dent or chip in the in that boulder that's how tough that
boulder and large it was. So after trying it for a very long time
that
Even Tala Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he stood up. And
he had at that time one stone stay to his stomach. So he was also
hungry.
So the Prophet Allah was also hungry. None of them could could
do it. They didn't have the strength and the instruments were
just not strong enough.
And
he says that it mentions in this hadith that three days, we haven't
tasted anything. So there was no chedule there were no no dates,
that time as well for three days. We hadn't tasted anything. We've
been hungry for three days and are working in that kind of condition.
The Prophet sallallahu Sallam took hold of the pickaxe or whatever it
was the instrument and he hit it once and immediately 1/3 of it
broke.
Immediately 1/3 of it broke.
And
he says he said Allahu Akbar or Tito Marathi, Hashem
Wallah, he in the law, lobe Scirocco Surah Al hamara Asara,
he says, All praises to Allah.
I've just been given the keys of Sham, the Levant, Syria,
Palestine, Jordan,
and I see its palaces, it's read palaces at this moment, I can see
them there. It's as good as given. I've got they've been given to me.
Then he hits it again. And 1/3 of it broke, another third of it
broke and chipped away. And Allah Subhana Allah, then he says,
Allahu Akbar, I've been given the keys of Persia. And I see
the palaces of muda in, which was their capital.
I see the white palaces of muda in, and then he hits it again. And
this time, he said, Bismillah, he said, Bismillah, and the rest of
it broke to pieces. And he said, Allahu Akbar, I've been given the
keys of Yemen. And I see the doors of sun out the gates of sun, I can
see them right now, the capital Sana. From he says, I can see them
from my place that I'm standing in, I can see them at this point.
Imam told me he then brings a number of other Hadith inshallah
we'll look at, we'll look at next week. But these are the types of
Hadith that he has gathered in this chapter, to soften our hearts
to turn our hearts away, somewhat, at least from this world, where
it's very difficult for us to abstain from this world, because
it's just everywhere. And it's just becoming more convenient and
more convenient to buy things and to get things and to acquire
things. And that's what the problem is, you can never go into
a supermarket and just buy a bottle of milk. That's what you've
gone to buy, you'll have to come out with 2030 pounds of shopping
minimum, because the the trolley is big enough, right? And you go
in and you think that I might just buy something else, even if you
end up going in there without a trolley. Right and you're just
going to pick up a milk, then suddenly you'll start looking for
a trolley because you'll probably pick up five other things and
you'll be looking kind of strange with five things in your hand. May
Allah subhanaw taala give us the Tawfeeq to abstain from this world
and focus on the hereafter working with Dhawan and in hamdu Lillahi
Rabbil Alameen