Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Shamail al Tirmidhi The Prophet () Statements on Poetry Part 41
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The history and meaning behind the use of Arabic language in writing is discussed, including its cultural fit and the importance of finding heavy objects to be careful with. The speakers also touch on the use of grammar in writing and its use to prove things like sadness and blameworthiness, including famous artists and women named Mohammed and Jana Allah. The prophecy is about Jana Allah's death in distress and when she was killed by a speck, as well as Jana Allah's death in distress and was killed by a speck.
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statements about poetry, or poetic statements I would say statements
about poetry, whatever the Rasul Allah salAllahu, Alaihe, Salam
observed about poems, poetry, and poets. That's what this chapter is
about. The word in Arabic is Share, share, is what you call
poetry. It's used in the Quran, number of places you have the word
sharara, we're sure Ira yet to be Roman Haiwan. And those poets who
are followed by the deviant ones, most likely referring to those
poets that are constantly in some kind of state, where they've lost
themselves they just saying things and so, the people who are going
to follow them in are going to be an intoxicated state on ecstatic
state of some sort, but this word the word share comes from Shara
Shara and from Shouta which means a sub or an entire element Ducky,
can you realize something very subtle, you discovered something
very refined, very fine, very subtle and sophisticated, the word
shutter for the hair, hair is very fine as well generally. So, poetry
is a refined form of speech. So, the origin of this term, the basis
SHA, SHA arta, that you just stumbled upon something, you
realize something, you acknowledged and understood
something that was very subtle. So when you say poem, when you say a
poem, then it means you are producing a kind of a refined, and
sometimes pretentious statement, Gollum and speech but eventually
this word became more famous when you say share became more mostly
used for for speech that is rhyming, or that is on a
particular form or meter that falls according to a particular
pattern. That's what this word eventually became useful. Now, it
normally refers to the thing which has been purposely said in a
particular form. So if a poet who understands different forms
different meters, he produces some lines according to those meters.
So it's a purposeful statement. It's not something that just comes
out, unless the person is a generally a poet and he always
speaks like that. So because poetry is something that you have
to do yourself consciously, generally consciously, you know,
to produce a speech like that. This means that when Rasul Allah
salAllahu alayhi wa sallam has made certain statements that sound
poetic, they are just coincidentally poetic. So the
whole idea here is that Allah subhanho wa Taala mentions in the
Quran as the famous story of Amara, the Allahu undead when he
although the famous story about him about him becoming a muslim is
the one when he went to kill Rasul Allah salAllahu Alaihe Salam
intended to kill him and then he went to his sister's house and he
beat her up and then she was bleeding. And then after that, he
felt bad and he embraced, but they say that it was actually before
that when the seeds of Islam had become planted in his heart. That
was on one occasion where he was unable to spend his night at home.
And he went to the Kaaba to the Haram this was in the early days.
So he went, and he saw a sort of loss or loss and performing
solids. And in that he was making he was reading the Quran, he had
started reading solid oil health, and how auto ml how the raw camel
have got this word How comes from the word Huck. It means the
inevitable event, the event that will definitely come to pass the
real event, the reality, the thing which will definitely occur, what
is that referring to? It's referring to the Day of Judgment,
the armor, and Walker is the same thing. And halka is the same
thing. It's just a different name for the definite event, the
inevitable event that will take place. So
Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam had started that now the people in
Morocco who especially those who understood poetry, they were
mesmerized by the Quran when it came, absolutely mesmerized taken
aback, even if they hated the message because it went against
what their forefathers used to believe in and what their self
persuasions had been for so long. It's very difficult to give up
your own beliefs, you know, all of a sudden, but they used to go and
listen to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam. So Omar, the
Allah who want to listen to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam without being noticed he hid behind the cloth of the Kaaba
and Rasulillah Salam is reading this Quran in the Surah Surah
Tehelka and eventually Omar the Allahu Anhu could not could not
keep himself silent. And he said to himself, hello Allah He Sharia.
This man is a poet, this man by Allah this man is a poet he swore
notice that this man has to be up
Oh it because the beautiful speech that was coming for him, he just
first attributed to poetry and then Allah subhanaw taala I mean
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam hearing goes towards the
end of the surah he says in Hula, hula Rasool in carry verily,
indeed these are the words of a Noble Messenger and then Allah and
then in the Quran, the next verses warmer, who will be our Risha. He
is not a poet. So that was a direct response to Omar, the Allah
one I wanted to just that he just said this to himself. This man is
by Allah, he's a poet and the verses were, he is a Noble
Messenger, and he is not a poet. So then on what are the Allahu
Akbar? Then he thought he was not a poet fine. He's a Kahin Bell who
occur when he's a soothsayer. And the next verses, well, after his
Collegium took me known so little do you believe? Then he says, it's
a Sufi he's a soothsayer. So Allah subhanaw taala says, And
Rasulullah sallallahu was reading it. Warmer, Hua behold Lika hin
wala be kolayca him. Wala be Oh, rica hint, curry Elam, karoun.
Neither is he a soothsayer. So little do reflect, really ponder
over these words, they're not poetry. They're not some form of
soothsaying. This is something divine 10, zero Mirabal. I mean,
it is but something revealed, it is the thing which is revealed
from the Lord of the Worlds. It said, that's when Islam crept into
his heart, the seeds of it were planted, it takes a while for you
to overcome your intellectual, and your emotional, and other
persuasions that have been with you for all of your life. Slowly,
slowly, it's very difficult to change somebody immediately. So
although this made a way into his heart, he had to deal with the
intellectual aspect of it, the emotional aspect of it, that had
to be worked on and that later his sister, he, she worked on the
emotional aspect of it without realizing when he sold a blood,
that emotion he was, and then intellectually he was won over as
well. So these kinds of statements, they make it very
clear, but then sometimes the sort of law some said, some statements
seem to rhyme that seem to be on some form of poetry, but because
it was not, it was not purposeful. It was not something he did
purposely it was coincidental. That means it's not poetry,
because poetry is that which is like, if you come up with
something and just suddenly seems to rhyme doesn't mean you're a
poet. You just haven't, you know, coincidentally say something that
just seemed to rhyme. So that that's what this is speaking
about. Because Allah says He is not a poet. So that means he's not
a poet. In fact, you as you will see, later on, when he even quoted
some poetry, he made mistakes in that poetry and Amara, the Allah
wanna say, he also likes not like that is actually like this. So
that was a totally something that Allah subhanaw taala established
for his messenger to make it very different. Because, you know, for
us, it doesn't make a difference. You know, we believe in the Quran
the way it is, we believe Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam
because we don't really see a distinction between anything. We
were not really refined in our understanding of Arabic language,
but people who understood poetry, if they just put him as another
poet, he was just another poet, maybe it's better than the rest,
but he's just another poet. But no, it had to be established that
this comes from beyond poetry, this is beyond any human
imagination. This comes from Allah subhanaw taala This is divine
speech. So this had to be well established. So he had to be
proven not to be a poet, as such, except something just came out
coincidentally, spontaneously, just something came from a sort of
loss of Allah, why do you have symptoms, mouth? Then we have,
then you have in the Quran, for example, you have some verses that
seem to be on a meter. Like it says Londoner will be Rahat on
FICO, Mima to a boon, then there's Nostrum min Allah, He will fatten
Corrib now obviously Allah subhanaw taala for Allah subhanaw
taala we can't say something happens coincidentally, Allah with
Allah, everything is purposeful, these verses of the Quran, but
it's not there to produce poetry for people. It's just it's there
for another wisdom that it's therefore because nothing happens
from Allah subhanho wa Taala just like that without a will, for it
to be something. Now when it comes to when it comes to whatever sort
of allah sallallahu sallam said, with regards to poetry, there's
some conflict there. In some cases, he seemed to have praised
it, or some forms of poetry and other times he condemned poetry.
So you've got different types of guidance from Rasulullah
sallallahu, some about poetry, so we need to put that in some
perspective. For example, it's related with a sound chain from
eyeshot of the Allahu anha. That sort of allah sallallahu alayhi wa
salam ala Annie share, he was asked about poetry. And he said
who are Kellerman has and who hasn't? What Kirby who who could
be now that's a, that's a very easy statement to understand. The
good of it is good, the bad of it is bad. So it's good poetry, that
is for pious purpose, to inspire piety to instigate somebody to do
good while is good, otherwise, it's bad, the bad of it is bad,
just like anything else. So that means the owner might explain that
poetry then is just
Like any other form of writing some books, some writing inspires
good, some corruptive. So it just depends. But the job would law who
will act the sorrow or the human movement. However, because poetry
is something that you generally don't just come up with naturally,
it's something you have to compose, make sure it goes
according to a certain Wuzzle for all and for all and for all on
right, it has to go through loan for rule non for rule, and it has
to sound like that, or there's 15 1617 other ones. This is very
interesting, because just like with Arabic, the at the time of
Rasulullah sallallahu, there was no such thing as grammar.
Likewise, for poetry, there were no rules, there was just as
inherited 16 or 17 forms that everybody's poetry used to fall
under, or fall on. So whenever some new poetry came up, it wasn't
like, oh, I need to fall on it like this or like this, or, you
know, I can only go this way, generally all the poetry that was
written for an upcoming vichara, hobby even, and so on. It used to
always fall according to one of these. So later on, there was a
big grammarian called Imam
Helene ignore Armadyl Farah Hedy, right. He was the first one to
discover the sounds of these forms, or put it in perspective,
because he looked at all of these poem poems, and he noticed that
they all eventually are reduced to these particular forms the Bahara,
and they've got names for different ones, there's some
longer ones and some shorter ones, but they all all of them fall on a
particular form. And sometimes words are
words, what do you call it, sometimes made shorter to fall
according to that form, but it was quite something natural that they
used to do. So the, the whole meters of poetry of Arabic poetry
was discovered later, after some of the greatest poetry had already
been written, which is very interesting. Likewise, if you've
if you've studied even a bit of Arabic grammar, Arabic grammar was
something that came earlier, the Allah on his time, says that he
was the first one or one of his students, were the first one to
come up with the fact that every file, every doer of the verb, is
going to have a have a, a dome on it, which is the case that's how
people will be speaking anyway. And anybody the object, right, the
object will always have a Fattah on it, you know, it'd be harder to
Nussle. But those rules were only written afterwards that this is a
Mukden. And then that's a Hubber. That's a subject and that's a
predicate, a predicate, that's a verb that's this that's this needs
to just speak like that.
You know, something like I mean, I think it's like English for us
who's who studied English grammar in depth. You know, like if we say
past participle, who knows what a past participle is, right? One
person out of this whole crowd. So now you see you've got somebody
who reckons he's good at writing, but he doesn't know what an active
participle is. Right? Or a past participle. Because who cares
about you know, for us, we don't study English through grammar, but
yet, we can tell when somebody is speaking well or somebody is not
speaking. Well, if somebody is speaking in English, or pidgin
English, English is the official term for Indian English for Indian
English. Right? It's the official word for it. Because now we've got
many forms of English around the world because the language has
been exported throughout. So that's that's essentially the way
it was it was only later that they developed even though Well at
least we know we've got a grammar we've got some aspect of grammar,
but that's what it is even people who speak or do I mean, how many
people who speak have actually studied the grammar of it, but if
you do want to learn Urdu as a language, you know, from not not
not just through conversation, but as a language, then I would
definitely suggest you learn the grammar of it because it is
complicated otherwise to work the masculine and feminine ins right
unless you live among Urdu speaking people and you can just
get it like that. Don't try to learn it just like that from
conversation or to try to learn it through grammar makes it a lot
easier. It tells you where to use here and sorry, it K and Ka and Ko
and COO you know and all the rest of it. So it makes it a bit
easier. So you don't make some funny mistakes. But with the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam this is it is conflicting
reports about what he thought about poetry and what poetry how
poetry should be dealt with. So he said, look at the good of it is
good, the bad of it is bad. We see as opposed to normal writing.
Poetry is a level beyond that. It's, it's, it's less needed than
writing in general, which means that there's generally it's for
people to just constrain themselves on poems and just
always be writing poetry and nothing else that is seen as not
very praiseworthy, unless it's for a particular reason. That's why
the Prophet sallallahu sallam said things like letting young Telly a
Joe for a honeycomb Kahan was studied and how you run the home
in am 30 a chevron? That one of your if one of your if you if the
stomach of your people is filled with blood and pus is superior
than it's filled with poetry. That's a very heavy statement to
say that you'd rather have your stomach filled
with blood and pasta and have you coming up with potent poetic
phrases, there's a reason for that people get lost in poems. That's
what the issue is people get lost, it's become such an addiction, an
obsession, that they become lost, it's a, it's not a problem with an
activity, it's like your whole mind gets engrossed. And if you
can't find the next poem, the word that to match when you have a
writer's block, or a poet's block, as such, for example, there's one
poem, when there's one poet, he composed to two lines, you know,
the first two lines, or the one line rather made of two b's, you
know, to two parts. He just couldn't think of the next one, he
could, he could not just find and compose to himself, the second
line, it just couldn't work it out. It just wouldn't come to him,
it happens like that. So eventually, he went out of his
house and his his vegetable cellar, you know, selling
vegetables on a cut, as they do in many countries. And he was singing
some poetry and the line that he said, was a perfect match for
this, because great, that's it inside his house, he just couldn't
find anything then he captures the next phrase from this vegetable
seller. That's how poetry is very interesting once you get into it,
but the obsession is the problem. That's why the rocks are awesome
said you'd rather have your stomach filled with blood than,
than have it's filled with. With that. It said in one of the books
of jurisprudence, while our butts have been shared to share with you
on a half, I'm going to share the essence of what I embody and youth
admin who means sugared up. There's nothing wrong with saying
poetry, but whatever the lighter forms of poetry the better because
they're not too engrossing and so obsessive, and it's not
appropriate to have too much of it, and to occupy yourself with it
is the same as comedy. We learn from our previous chapter about
joking that it's recommended to do it once in a while to relax to
maybe have a break the ice to socialize with someone to make
them feel better to make somebody's heart, a bit more
content, but then to make it a not an obsession, and an occupation.
That's another problem. Likewise, to make this an occupation is
another problem. That's that's what this is speaking about.
That's why there's another Hadith when I shudder the Allah La Radi
Allahu Allah gonna share the abadal Hadith ala Rasulillah
abadal Hadith de la sala sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, she
says that poetry was the worst type of speech for Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam he used to consider the worst type of speech.
Why? Because another problem with poetry is poetry has a lot of
pretenses in there, it has a lot of exaggeration in there. And it's
almost assumed that you can go beyond the limits, because just
like it's permissible to go beyond the limits of grammar, in poetry
to make something fit, according to that meter, is also permissible
to really exaggerate the meaning. For example, there's somebody
speaking about the loss of somebody's love. And he talks
about the angels. And he said that even the angels were crying so
much so much that even Gibreel was up to his waist in in a in in
tears. Now, what is that kind of a statement? It sounds, you know,
obviously, if you hear that,
as long as you can understand what it's trying to say, and you can
understand the exaggeration limit, and it does impact you. That means
they must have been really a loss. It was such a loss that even the
angels were crying. And the angels were crying so much that with
their tears, the tears had risen to such an amount that it become
like a lake around them, and they were swimming in it up to their
waist that even Gibreel Allah Islam was like that. Now what kind
of an exaggeration is that? That's what you call pretentious. That's
what you call going beyond the limits? What kind of an
exaggeration is that? So the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam was
not one for exaggeration. He talked reality because everything
he said was from Allah subhanho wa taala. So that's why he was, you
can say discouraged for that reason that just had a lot of
these problems associated with it. Once you get into poetry. That's
the way it works because you're working on people's emotion.
You're working on people's emotion. People can sit there and
just laugh and cry based on poetry that you say because it gets them
to think Matina B, who's considered one of the very famous
later classical poet poets is his LA Taberna, Shara fatherland,
Birdie and Masha Allah hoogendoorn Wahhabi will hubba loo el hijo
culled from wertha onea hatoon well known while Medusa Aroo so
he's talking about the blameworthiness of it, even though
he's a poet and he's actually saying it in poetry as well. I'm
one of the Allahu Anhu said there are a number share for in fee he
mahasin Tubbataha wa mercerie to taka and what are the only thing
you should study study poetry, for it is are the good points, the
praiseworthy points that should be sought and in it are the bad
points the blameworthy aspects that should be abstained from? So
if you study it, then you know, what's the right way to do it and
what's the wrong way to do it? Then Imam told me the Imam told me
he begins. The first hadith is Hadith number 251. Let's just
read. This is a slightly longer chapter
because it requires more detail but so we'll just read some of the
Hadith today. So this is chapter number 37 and the Hadith the first
hadith is Hadith number 251 or Bill Isner, the mausoleum in Italy
momentarily your collarbone merger of your synthetical army
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam a share are being called
ahead with an early human origin got ahead of the national economic
dominance theory and RB Abhi. Here I shudder Radi Allahu anha call it
theta the Hulk and Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam a
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you can build a bird human limb to the with the order he called I had
the name Mohammed Abu Bashar and call this an Arab the Rama lindo
Madeon kala had that inner Sophia and authority and Abdullah
Medicube Nero made called a hadith and Abu Salah Mata and abhi
Herrera the Allahu anha and who call it call it a call Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in Calumet, in kala Hashem it will
carry over to libido and other co Lucia in Mahan, Allah her ability
to work the Omiya to be salty a new cinema while being caught
ahead the thinner Mohamed doubloon with a knucklehead, the thinner
Mohammed paraffinic Allah had the the national avatar analysts were
the interface and gentlemen, Mr. Fennell budget do you call it a
cyber hygiene? Or cyber hygiene? SBR rasool Allah Allah allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam referred them yet for call Hello
Aunty is Barone Demeter you have isa Barilla Hema Allah PT when you
call I had this role model called I had the thinness of urinary
annata analyst with the mutation June June Daubney, Abdullah Al
bacilli Jana who are being called Mohammed and Bashar in Cora had
this in your head no, sorry. In Colorado business if you're an
authority you call a call is how I ended up honestly being Radi
Allahu Anhu I'ma call call Allahu Rajul on a Ferrara to man
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam O'Meara for call Allah
Allah. Ma Ma Allah rasool Allah He sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Walla
Walla Soran US dollar Khartoum hovers in bin nibble Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Allah above 30 He was Abu Sofia terminal
Hadith Ibni Abdul Muttalib he will be the Jamia Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi wa salam Yeah, cool, and an OB Yura Khatib and Ibnu
Abdulmutallab. So we're just going to cover those. The first hadith
of this chapter 251 is related from Arusha. The Allahu Ana, she
says that he was asked of her somebody asked her a question Can
and abuse Allah Allahu Allahu Salam yet Thermacell will be che
in mindshare did the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam ever
use poetry use poetry as evidence for something as a proof for
something? See, if you read many of our classical Tafseer and
books, you will notice that they'll mention some point. And
then they'll bring a poet a poem, a famous poem, to prove that
point. To substantiate that point to support that point. It's done
in Arabic quite a bit poetry is just they quoted left right and
center to prove certain points and look even a poet poem said that a
poet said that the the prophets of Allah some evidence it was it
seemed to be it seemed to have been accustomed during that time.
So now this Therby is asking Aisha Radi Allahu Allah did rasool Allah
Salah some ever use poetry like that? You know, maybe not his own
party, but did he ever quote poetry? So that's what it means
yet the method which means yes, the shed to use poetry as the
shahada as a witness to something call it kerning at the method
okay, Shara Livni Raja he did sometimes he used the poems of
ignore Allah this is Abdullah and Raja sahabi, very much beloved
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he was an unsightly
Hazaragi and he was one of the great leaders of the Muslims that
of the of the answer that came during the Acaba, the pledgor
acaba in the beginning so is quite earlier on he was in better as
well and are heard and hunt duck and all of them except the
conquest of Makkah because he passed away in he was martyred in
Mata in the husband to Mata he was he was he was he passed away in
that one which was in the eighth he he became the Emir he was one
of the three Jaffa or the hola Juan Zaid and then Abdullah and
Raja, but he was one of the best poets of the time. That's why one
of his very famous poems is were fina rasool Allah He sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam Athena rasool Allah He yet Luca who even Chaka
Maru for mineral February sell to Oran, alHuda Burdell. Ama for Kulu
gonna be looking at and malerkotla up to you Jaffe Jember who Anthea
Rashi either stuff collet will care for renal mythology who is
among us is also Lasala lorrison, who reads his book, and then he
speaks about the time of Fajr. And then he says he gives us guidance
after us being blind. Our hearts are now fully convinced about what
he says is going to definitely occur. He's he spends his night
with his body away from his from his bedding, when the bedding of
the kuffaar are heavy with their bodies. So it's a different way of
saying it. See that this is what I've been trying to say that, you
know, instead of it just being just rhyming. There's a lot of
metaphor that's used
So what he's saying here, up to you Jaffe Jumba who unfair Rashi
he spends his night you Jaffe means to keep separate Jimbo who?
His side from his bedding? What is that trying to say could have said
he doesn't sleep at night. That's exactly what he's saying he
doesn't sleep at night. But it's more forceful. It's more creative
to say he spends his nights with his body, his side away from his
bed. Right? It's just gives you a bit more of a picture to think
about, oh, he's not sleeping class finish. But this is look, he's not
in his bed. People are supposed to be in their bed at night. He's not
in his bed. Right? And then he said and then the same kind of
point about the kuffaar is set differently there. He says either
stuff called a tough call. It means to find something heavy to
feel that it's heavy. Mataji means the places that you sleep on,
right places. So the the sleeping places, they're resting places are
finding heavy the kuffaar because they're sleeping, and he's praying
Salat, right. So it's a different ways in that's what you call
poetry. Poetry is not like when you just tell a story and make it
rhyme. Right. The last words you make crime, that's not what that's
what, you know, that's the problem. That's when you could
really amateurish poetry. This is what you call when you're able to
put in some imagery, some, you know, a lot of metaphors, that's
very important. That's the beauty of poetry. Really, it's related
from Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi, wasallam, that he used to
use, Abdullah, ignore our has poetry. Now I'm gonna live in
Ottawa. It's related about him that he had a slave girl and in
Islam with slave girls, it's allowed to have intimacy with them
without marriage, right? That's the only other possibility outside
of marriage where that's allowed. His wife didn't he, his wife used
to dislike it a lot. So one day, she caught him coming back back
from his, his slave girls chamber, whatever it was, and she accused
him and he said, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, whatever, you
know, no. And, and he's, she said, No, no, you were with her. He
says, no, no, no, no, no. Look, I can read Quran. I can read Quran
to you. So he made up poetry that sounded like the Quran. It wasn't,
it was just poetry. And he said it and she goes, okay, okay, I'll let
you off because she thought he was reading the Quran and if he'd been
with her then he couldn't have read the Quran, but he was
actually reading poetry, right it was masterful poets in a very good
poets that will work with you guys. So he used to use his
poetry, you know, this past year the EB to Jaffe jumper who anfi
rashi. He, he spends his night with the side away from his
resting place his bed his bed, so he used to he has used his poem
poems, and there's Hassan thermometers, the other one was
the famous one used to actually defend you know, the, a lot of the
battles they will there was also poetry in them or some archieved
stuff in the middle of the battle, they will start singing poetry to
raise the morale I am this I am that the prophets Allah some did
it in her name as well. Allah the Allah Juan, who did it as well. I
am the one who my mom has called me the Haider, the lions do you
think you need to do anything? You know, it's to raise your own
morale with poetry is just an amazing, it has an amazing effect
on you. So in the middle of the better leaves to do that. That's
why there was one battle against the Romans. It was such a it was a
very precarious battle. It said and in that one, the narrator says
it was such a it was such a terrifying moment that we even
forgot our poetry. So these would normally say poetry. But that was
such a terrifying moment that we even forgot our poetry. We
couldn't even say any poetry in that time. So these these to do
these things. So are you shot at the Allahu Ana says that? Yes, he
used to use the poetry of Abdullah he murabaha where Timothy and he
used to use others as well. We are cool. And he used to say so now
she says we were cool. And where Timothy will be covering he will
decouple the manlam to the weedy then she mentioned so she didn't
she did not mention which poem of Abdullah he used. But then she
said and he used to also use this other line of another poetry.
Another poem, which was thought of as an ABS poet poem thought of
Abdullah Abdullah was another famous poet of the time we
decouple Birdy manlam to the WiDi. And he will bring you news
information, tidings, and he will bring tidings to you, who will
bring tidings to you, the one whom you have not given sustenance, the
one whom you've not given provision. So even though you've
not given him provisions for his journey, he will bring back
tidings for you where tea can be Bill Akbar, human lamb to the
weedy so obviously, he was referring to himself by that this
was a statement of a poet that you know, people who will go out
sometimes some people will come in, you didn't give them any
provisions, but they will give you the news that you really want. So
he's trying to say here as well, the same thing about himself, that
you haven't given me anything, I'm not charging you anything. All the
prophets said that in Algeria. Illa, Allah, Allah, my reward, my
compensation, my payment is upon Allah subhanaw taala I'm not
asking you for anything. So just like the one you didn't give any
sustenance and provision to they're going to bring you
important news about your enemies or some
thing that's happening, I'm doing the same thing for you. So he used
to use that line of poetry which was thought of as an ABS poet
poem. And he used to use it about himself. So he has used it like
that. Now, this is according to this narration. There's another
narration that summer candy has related from Aisha Radi Allahu
anha, in that when he said where Tikka manlam tuza with Bill
Akbari, it means the same thing but he changed the wording instead
of wetiko. Bill arbery manlam to the withy. That is the poem he
said, Where Tikka manlam tussah with Bill Akbar, so he changed it
around for cada Abu Bakr, so Bokhara the Allah and told him
Lisa, it's not like that, yes, well, Allah. That's not how the
poem is for Carla. And Abby showed, he said, Well, I'm not a
poet, many, I'm not a poet. So it's okay, I'm not a poet. So the
whole reason that he's saying is not to quote the poem, but it's to
quote, the meaning of the poem, because that concept was
understood among people is a very famous line. And so the meaning of
it is, somebody is going to give you useful information for free,
and that I am one of those, I'm giving extremely valuable
information for free, you don't have to give me any provisions for
my way, as a traveler, you don't have to give me supplies. So
that's why that's why he said it, it was just trying to appeal to
what people knew already. So which is permissible to do that means, I
guess somebody might say, if everybody's watched a certain
movie, right, that it's so famous, everybody knows about, and you
want to bring some kind of support from there for something Islamic,
you can quote that poetry, you know, you can call that film just
like this. Did you see what I'm saying? Some common information
that somebody has, it's like today, you know, I don't know,
I've heard some people quoting that there's a movie that somebody
saw about
surrogates, I think it's called where the people are, they have
these robots. And you can you just sit at home and you control your
robot. It's something like projected many, many years in the
future. So you just sit lay down at home and put on something, and
you control these robots that look human, like absolute human like
superpowers, and however you want them put whatever face you want
them. And people are getting fat and stupid. And, you know, because
he's sitting at home controlling these robots or something like
that. So somebody quoted something like that. So they might say that,
you know, you can prove it through Hadith, like this Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam quote is something that people generally
know about, you know, from their school or from whatever,
especially if you're living in a non Muslim community or something
like that, just to get people to understand a concept that they
know and relate to, or you say something about, you know, like,
win some games or something for kids, right? So they already know
about this particular game. Doom, there was Doom I think, is that
still around? It's finished is gone, is it? There's old school,
it's all history. I see. A history is like yesterday in this game. So
what's the new one call of duty zombies on the internet?
So it seems to be like appealing to some famous concept that people
had in their mind, a famous line, famous idea. And then you're
trying to say, look, this is what it is. So with a pious result to
it, I think that that's, that's what this seems to be between
Wallah Harlem like if you don't get it, look, look at this even
poem that you have. This is exactly what he's saying. I'm like
that I'm like that kind of person. I'm giving you valuable, rich
information. And I don't want anything from you for it so
thermotherapy mad that he would Joe Hurry Hurry up so he's just
focusing on its meaning and the general meaning that's coming from
it he's not saying it for the poet you know, he's not quoting his
poetry set up the local a jamoma, Quinta Halen, and then the poet
says after it which is so appropriate, this poet, he says
wetiko bit aquarium and limb two is a windy setup the local a Yama
cartagia makhanda Halen, the days will eventually show you will
eventually reveal to you those things which you are you are
ignorant of. So eventually you will realize the reality what do
you have what he's saying? That's the second part of this poem. The
days will tell the days will tell the next hadith is Hadith number
252, related by Abu Huraira the hola Juan he says that Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in US kaka Leamington called
Hashem, this means the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam and
obviously heard these things. And that's why he was able to comment
he said that the most truest statement said by any poet, the
truest statement made by any poet is that me by any point is the
poet is the poem of libido. libido, IGNOU, Robbia, AlAmiri,
famous poet poet of the time, he actually he actually became
Muslim, but it's a hobby, and he was enjoy hadiah then he became
Muslim in a great Islam, his Islam, he was a great Muslim, so
lobbied set a line of poetry, and Rasulullah sallallahu said about
him, that he has said them any poet to have said the truest
statement was him and what did he say? What was his what was his
line of poetry? Allah Kulu che in maha Allah Bottineau that know
that everything other than Allah is in vain is inverted, it's in
vain, it's it's going to come to nothing. Now the meaning when I
say it in English doesn't sound all that great in the sense that
you know, it's not very
poetic, but this other co Lucia in Halima Hala bout you know, other
than Allah subhanaw taala everything is about him. Allah
says in the Quran coolamon Ali have fun, everything will perish,
that is upon the earth everything is to perish, or everything in in
the universe could Lucia in her the Quran Illa wager everything is
to perish, except the Lord's countenance to everything is to
perish about this about this poet, he became a Muslim, and it said
that he stayed alive for a number of years he had a very long life
and he was considered of social Allah will assure Ahrar Al Arab,
among the Arab poets, he was considered the most eloquent even
among the poets, he was the most eloquent one or four, so he him in
eloquence, not just not just, you know, in terms of manipulating
language to for its beauty, he was the best at that. The thing is
that as soon as he became Muslim, he never said another line of
poetry. After becoming Muslim. He never said he never uttered
another line of poetry. So that means this statement of his about
Allah subhanaw taala was before his Islam. So this was after Islam
when he never said a single word about poetry. He used to say Yuck,
Fini, Al Quran, the Quran is sufficient for me, the Quran is
sufficient for me. And it is as though he was embarrassed in front
of the Quran with the beauty, the eloquence, the divine nature of
the Quran, and he realized what his status was, even though he was
the most eloquent of the poets, he realized that I can't say anything
in front of this Quran, I'll be embarrassed to make up anything
and nothing can be as beautiful. So he refused to make anything,
anything up afterwards afterwards. And it says though, he went into
the depths of the words of the Quran, because he's a poet, he,
you know, he could appreciate it, maybe a bit more than others as
well, in some cases, and the room that he found in the sciences and
the knowledge that he found in there of the earlier people, and
of the of the things to come, it just totally enriched him and made
him independence. It made him It made him sufficient that he didn't
have to go and into poetry or anything else. Allah subhanaw
taala says in the Quran, Allah McPhee him an illegal kita. But
you'd look at him, isn't it sufficient for them? That we have
revealed a book to them that is recited to them? Isn't that
sufficient for them to find anything that they want? If that's
a poet who stops then where does it take us? Isn't the Quran
sufficient for us? That's why ignore bacilli Allahu Anhu is a
true professor of the Quran he said Jimmy will Rulu Jimmy or
enemy Phil Quran entire knowledge is all found in the Quran Wallach
in Dakar, Surah, and who have irmo ritual. But the problem is,
although everything is found in the Quran, it's the understanding
the comprehension level of humans is has shortcomings, it's too weak
to be able to grasp all of that knowledge. That's why the Quran
will continue to reveal things when Allah subhanaw taala opens it
up for people. And maybe the reason why the Prophet salallahu
Alaihe Salam sometimes use these kinds of poet poems was to come
down to the level of the pupil to talk about something that they
also understood that they can relate to. So he's coming down to
the level to speak about something that they could relate to as well,
just so that it breaks the ice, he can socialize with them in that
sense, but obviously, the things he is quoting is only Halal
things, only the good things. So it's like, if you are going to
speak to somebody at their level, you know, we constantly say, you
know, you have to speak people's language and you know, you have to
come down to their level, but it must all be done in the UK, you
can't kind of go out and have a few drugs with somebody just just
to be you know, just to bring them closer to Islam. Because you make
you may get lost, right? But it's to go to their level, but only say
the truth. That's what's important. This is what the Sunnah
of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is telling us so sometimes
he said this, why, why did the Prophet salallahu Salam have to
say a line of poetry, when he's got the whole Quran to speak
about, it's because the Quran was new. These other things people had
in their mind, you're probably saying it, they're listening to it
all the time. So because the thing that they know about, they can
relate to more, he's attracting them by that. And once that
meaning is established in the context, he wants it, then the
Quran will then open up to them. So that's what it is. Sometimes
you just have to use these other strategies to bring people closer
to say something that they that they can relate to, but you must
realize you can't go into the bottle. When doing that. Sometimes
it happens to people. There was one great Sufi Sheikh one day he
read his portion of the Quran that he reads every day, you know, one
Jews, Two Jews, whatever it was, after the morning solid, he read,
he read his Quran, his Manziel, whatever he used to read. And on
that day, he didn't find any ecstasy in his heart. You know, he
didn't go into a state he didn't get into it, that emotional state,
that ecstatic state somebody came back it was going by and he was
seeing some poetry and that one line of poetry gave him such an
extended stake state that he just got lost in it when he came back.
Meaning when he came back to his senses, he said that if
You know, I don't blame you people if you're if you're going to call
me as indique fear if you're going to call me a heretic and I've lost
my faith because I'm, I go into a trance when I listen to the line
of poetry and it didn't happen to me with the Quran today. I
wouldn't blame you for it today but it's just happens a human
being we're very unpredictable sometimes. But mostly it's with
the Quran. But sometimes it might not happen sub to Allah subhanho
wa Taala that you can tie in with this handle out of the Allah one
was Heidi Subhanallah he never said a line of poetry again, you
know, you're a master of something. People are looking
forward to hear you your poems, your lines, they preserved it, and
then you just stop because you've got a higher calling. That's
That's amazing. That's amazing. And unfortunately nowadays what we
got people is people are going back to back to haram the Quran
isn't sufficient for them they stay away for so long. Abstain
from music, music music, which is which is called causes hypocrisy
in the heart. The reason why music causes hypocrisy in the hearts is
because once you get used to music, then you no longer feel
good about listen to the Quran because it's not as enjoyable
music pulls out the chords of your heart music is supposed to be very
influential. So now, aside with the example of this man, this
poet, he stops it completely because he reckons the Quran is
sufficient, but other people they go back to entertaining with the
guitar and so on. May Allah preserve us all. So above this
line that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam spoke, said that
this is the truest line of poetry that any poem poet has said in his
in his poem at Kulu. Che in Mahalo, Allah balterio, which is
the same as the verses that I quoted others before you. And
essentially what they're saying is that the whole purpose of this
speech is to say that you must realize that everything in this
world doesn't have its own existence. It only exists because
of Allah Barton who means that everything in this world, though
we see it today, but eventually it will perish just like everything
small eventually. But as your watch stops working, your phone
goes obsolete, it stops working, it crashes your computer, you know
this, that and other you have to get a new one. There's a lifecycle
to everything, including the world in general, everything within the
world has a lifecycle like the dunya itself, except Allah
subhanaw taala, which means that if you compare the existence from
an existence point of view of Allah, and of everything other
than Allah, you will notice that the true existence, the necessary
existence is only Allah's, because he will never perish, he doesn't
have a shelf life, right? He doesn't have a timeframe, he is
just there, and he will always remain, he is pretty eternally
been there from the past reaches of eternity, and he will be in
post eternity whereas the human beings we have, we have a time and
eventually we will die, then Allah subhanaw taala will resurrect us,
and then eventually he will keep us alive. So when we stay alive in
the Hereafter, it's not because of who we are. But it's because of
Allah allowing us to stay alive, right? Because we were not there
in the past. We are only in the future as such, but Allah subhanaw
taala is from pre eternity to post eternity intrinsically by himself.
He is the Samad self subsisting, whereas everything else subsist
through others through Allah subhanaw taala. So when you look
at the existence of Allah and the existence of everything else, the
true existence is only of Allah and everything else is Boulton
because eventually it will die out, it will perish, it will
wither and it will become obsolete. And that's what this is,
that's what this is speaking about. So you look around in the
world, do not become attached to those things which will wither
become attached to Allah subhanaw taala if you lose anything else,
you will gain something else for it. If you lose Allah subhanaw
taala you can't get a replacement. That's what am said. That's why
anybody who realizes this, who gets the newer light of this, they
will cut away from everything and go towards Allah subhanaw taala
they will never feel and find satisfaction in anything but Allah
subhanaw taala and the more we cut away from it, the more we realize
that the more we can be closer to Allah subhanaw taala. And you have
to start thinking about these things to be able to get into that
state, you can't just become in that state one day unless Allah
wills it. You have to start pondering over this, all of these
things are set so that we stop pondering, we start reflecting, we
start looking around all the beauty we see around us. And
everything we take for granted at the end of the day is all going to
perish. But when you start realizing you will perish, I am
going to perish. I could perish any time. I'm only being allowed
right now. And you start thinking to ourselves, you know, my clock
is ticking inside, my blood is going around, I could have a heart
attack any moment. Something could fail at any time and organ could
fail and I could die. Am I ready? And I think that kind of a maraca
is extremely important. That is when life is really put in
perspective. Otherwise, we're just like any other animal that's going
around doing its job fulfilling its timeframe. That's exactly how
we are until we start not thinking until we don't start thinking
about who we are and what can happen to us in the next moment.
We're literally just carrying on pursuit after the next one meal
after the next one activity after next next goal next meeting next
point, next schedule. That's all we're doing until
We don't stop doing that until we don't, don't start thinking we
can't put this in perspective. Once we start thinking, then
everything we do, even though we're still going to be meetings,
we're still going to be pursuing things. But it will be for a more
rightful purpose. Because we will realize the fickleness of
ourselves, we will realize the weakness and the weakness of
ourselves, we will realize how it could just end, it could just all
of a sudden end. And you know, the older you get, the more these
thoughts should come to you just by nature, just by the thought
that you're that much closer to death than you were last year than
you were five years ago. And if it doesn't, then we've got a big
problem. If we're not thinking about our mortality, that we could
die, that death is just so close, we've seen it over and over and
over again. But the only reason we don't think about ourselves is
generally the custom of Allah subhanaw taala in this world is
that he allows people to live for a while 60 7080. So we think we're
going to be one of them. So the probability is what we go with, we
don't realize, we don't think that we could be not one of those
probabilities, we could be one of those exceptions that were you die
at the age of 2030 4020 520-416-1410. It could
be anything. That's what if we can start realizing this, our life is
made, that's the most important thing. That's why the maraca of
death is so, so powerful, because it puts life in perspective,
because it's the end, when you don't have a goal and you just
keep doing things, then you'll waste a lot of time. When you
suddenly see the time what happens in the daytime, you're doing
something you might get involved in something you start, you know,
you may be researching something online, typical example you
researching something online for an article or for, for some, for
some, maybe something, you want to buy something else, and you just
go from one place. And that's, that's the fitna of YouTube, you
got something very pious that you're watching. But on the side,
you've always got one something wrong wonder in all of those side
options, right? And there needs to be a campaign against this, you
know, you should only have one line, you should just have one one
once one box, because the side is where there's going to be related
aspects, but then it's also going to be some air related, just
totally the opposite. Right. And that's the fitna, and you just go
from Go Go, go, go. And then eventually you look at a time Hey,
man, I've got half an hour left, then you will get back to you get
back on track. Let me finish off this thing that I needed to do.
Let me finish on my paper I'm writing or whatever you're doing
on this email, or this story, or whatever you're doing life is just
like that. But the problem is that we're never thinking about how
much time we got left. Who thinks how many times you gotta how many
of us think we've got 10 years left and start really working
accordingly. Very few people are like that. Then the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said he made a statement he, he said,
This is the most truest poem that any poet has said, the truest
statement any poet has made. Then he said, he talked about another
poet. Again another one of the great poets of the time, what can
or may not be salt, or may not be salt was another poet very, very
famous one he said, what can or may not be salt a useless Omiya
Abner be salt was very close to becoming a muslim. He was that
close to becoming a muslim, but he didn't. He was another famous
poet, a thug of yours from the thick of it. Beneath the cliff, he
was very famous before Islam, but he he was there when Islam came.
So after the prophets, Allah Islam was made a messenger he was there
but he was not given the trophy, as opposed to the other one. What
was his name lobbied ignore Robbia. This man, great poet, he
was not given the Tofik In fact, he was even better off than libido
ninja Heliade seemed because he used to talk about pious things
he's he he used to worship in the Joe Hillier times. He used to
believe in the hereafter during that time. See, the people that
obviously Lawson was dealing with, they didn't believe in the Meccans
they didn't believe in the hereafter, you know, and they came
with the bones and they said, Look, all of this is become dust,
you think we're going to be resurrected. He used to believe in
the birth and in Allah had given this truth on his tongue. That in
his poems, he used to say a lot of realities, he used to voice a lot
of realities, he used to say a lot of true things. And he used to go
into great, deep, profound points of view and really hot rendering
points. He was very good, a very good, very profound poet. And that
is why when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam heard 100 lines
of his poem, there was a poem of his with 100 lines Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam heard it, he said, Look at this person's
speech. It has so many realities, so many Hakka, ik gather and use
them. He's so close to becoming Muslim, because the things that he
was saying that it's very unusual for people of that time to be
saying those things very close that he will become a Muslim, but
unfortunately, he didn't. The person was a gatherer, very close,
but he wasn't there. And then he also said about him I'm gonna
share who who worked for Apple. Boohoo his poetry embraced Islam
is with faith, but his heart is Cofer. His heart has covered the
person he used to read the rotten injeel in the times of Joe
Hillier, he was an Arab
He used to read the Torah and the Injeel. He used to read, he's read
those books in jarhead here, and he knew that there was a prophet
to come. Unlike the other Mexicans who didn't know the Jews knew.
That's why they come to Medina. He knew as well he was one of those
enlightened ones he knew. So he knew about us what allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and he used to hope that it was him
because, you know, he used to speak so many wise things. So he
actually thought it might be him. Because you know, in that last 100
years or last generation, people knew there was going to come very
close. Some Arabs knew about this as well. And that's why
Abdulmutallab Abdulmutallab, yes. He and it was also known, some
prophecies had also been made, that the name of the name of that
new prophet is going to be Muhammad, and the prophets of
Allah and His name was Mohammed and it was a few other people will
call Mohammed as well. But anyway, he thought it might be him. But
when Rasul Allah salAllahu alayhi wa sallam was the one that was
chosen for prophecy, and the message has said, he became
envious and jealous. And that's what led him to prefer. He stayed
alive until brother he stayed until butter. And, you know, the
70 leaders that were of the kuffar that were killed in butter, he
composed an elegy for them, he composed poetry in about the loss
and so on. And then he died when Bife was That was after the
conquest he died when I thought it was
when you call it besieged, as a Kaffir in the in the eight HD or
the 93, unfortunately, but the price was insane look at his
portrait was so beautiful, that he had so many realities, but he
didn't become a Muslim. So this goes to prove that just because
you say a lot of ways things doesn't mean that you have Eman or
that you're gonna have Iman or that you're pious. It just goes to
show that despite him being one of the you know, one of those that
said so many good things before he died uh sorry, beer in time of
Gehenna when the crunch came you didn't take it so you could be a
genius but that doesn't mean anything. The genius is that who's
got the highest ranks in paradise and we've got the pleasure of
Allah subhanaw taala and we'll do just one more short Hadith The
next one is from Judah woodenness Sophia Anna buddy. He said he
relates that once the prophets of Allah isms finger was hurt by a
stone you scratched it somewhere he was hurt by a crushed or
something by a stone started bleeding for them yet it started
bleeding. It says that this happened in the Battle of art. In
Sahih Muslim you mentioned that a sort of Rasul Allah hardyston was
in a cave and that's when he hurt his finger. There's other opinions
as well that this was when he was actually one of the battles and
other versions that day was when he went out for Salaat. So the
main thing about this the reason why he wanted me depends this
hadith here is he looked at it, he looked at his finger, and he said,
I'll enter in a spoon the meaty hull enter in Ohle anti hull anti
ill is boron Dimity Wolfie subete Allah Hema looked at you just put
a finger that is blood that has got a bit of blood on it, but it's
in the path of Allah that this has happened to you it's in the path
of Allah that whatever has happened to you has happened to
you this was a line it sounds like a line of poetry but it was just
something that spontaneous came out of sort of Lhasa Lhasa he was
not a poet but this was on the lines of poetry so that's why he
jumped in with the brings this hadith here essentially he's
trying to comfort it could be a march is that he's actually
speaking to the finger it's a possibility it's a march is
because he's actually addressing it and he's using the same
the same words for it, you know, directly at it. Lucky T because
the word is in Arabic is feminine, and to for feminists a lucky T
instead of Nikita, which is for masculine. So he's actually saying
Hello Aunty Illa is burn Dimity wifey Sabina la Hema la ke et so
you're saying look, it's It's for the sake of Your Beloved ALLAH
SubhanA wa Taala in the path of Allah. So when you start, when you
know that your pain has been undertaken, because of Your
Beloved, then it becomes easy for you to bear that pain. That's what
that's that's one of the things even though hydro and Ashkelon he
says that it's possible that it's a margin of Rasulullah sallallahu
alayhi salam that he's saying you know he's speaking to his finger
like this. I love him when he says that even this line was not
something that sort of LaSalle awesome composed himself. This is
actually part of Abdullah Abdullah has poetry it's what Abdullah Raja
has said during the First War of Moto because what happened is
Jaffa the Allah one heat he was the Emir he died he was martyred
Jaffa the Allah when he was martyred then the people said yep,
not Allah. Oh ignore Allah, you come forth. So he came, and he
started fighting and his finger became wounded. So that's when he
said * and anti IL is boring or US boring. The meaty what used to
be the law Hema la PT yeah knifes Allah doctorly for Mutti How the
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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam may have remembered and said and
that's what you call poetry anyway, poetry is very powerful
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