Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – The Responsibilities of a Believer (Hadith Commentary from Zad alTalibin)
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the Hadith for today is
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam relates, it's a hadith of
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in this hadith the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is
speaking about a number of things. Essentially, all of these things
are about
how to respond to somebody when they seek something from you, when
they do something for you, or when they're in need. And when they
request for something from you. How do what is the appropriate way
of responding to all such people. So the first one is saying the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Whoever seeks refuge
of you in the name of Allah granted to him.
This normally refers to a situation where it's more of a
political situation.
And it used to take place in
a probably still takes place in many places. I'm sure we could
also relate this to our situation. But essentially what happened is,
for example, you've got a non Muslim
coming in from a place that is at war with a Muslim place. And one
of the Muslims here gives refuge and says, I give refuge to this
person, I give amnesty to this person, and this person is under
my protection. So essentially, any individual among the Muslims can
extend their protection, the personal protection that they
enjoy to somebody else.
And in most cases, it has to be respected.
In most cases, it has to be respected. And so that's why the
daughter of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
she gave refuge to her husband who had not become a Muslim yet, for
quite a while.
And a number of other situations as well Abu Bakr Siddiq, or the
Allahu Anhu. Left, left Makkah Makara, Rama under when he felt
some persecution and he went down south and there was a blood donor
who met him one of the chiefs of one of the tribes of the south and
he said, Where are you going, and he said, I'm being forced out of
my city, I'm having to leave. And he said, a person like you can
never be forced out of his city or should not have to leave on his
own accord come and I'll come back with you to Macomb Academy, he
came back to Makkah macabre, and this evening, the winner, he spoke
to the chiefs of Makkah and said, I'm putting him under my
protection, they said look where we agree with that, as long as he
doesn't do this, and they gave him one or two conditions. So out of
respect for somebody else, because the thing is that if somebody
gives you protection, and it's contravened, then the person who's
granting this protection is then officially at war. So this was
kind of a rule, and then a kind of an unwritten rule as such.
And nowadays, as well, I mean, the point here is that let's just say
that you've got somebody in your community. And we could extend
this to somebody's after someone after someone for maybe some money
that's owed to them. And they come and ask you to can you please, I
can't really pay, I don't have the means to pay. And they're
legitimately in need at that time. And you know them. So they're
asking you for protection, that can you go and speak to them and
say look, you take some kind of guarantee, although it kind of
extending the meaning of this hadith, and there are, that's
called Kathrada. That's called Kafala. But that can still be
done, where you're trying to protect somebody genuinely for
some good reason. Right where people are after them. So if
somebody asks you in the Name of Allah, so the main thing here is
that he's asking you in the name of Allah. So it's not for
something false because something false they probably wouldn't ask
you in the name of Allah.
So it has to be something that legitimate if you're giving
century to someone who is doing wrong, it means you're assisting
in evil it means you're not helping the oppressor. You're not
helping the oppressed, but you're helping the oppressor in the wrong
Wait, he's supposed to help him by giving him not see her. So whoever
seeks refuge of you in the name of Allah granted to him. The second
part which whoever asks you, in the name of Allah give it to him,
this is much more general. This is asking anything, somebody asks you
something in the name of Allah subhanaw taala, give it to him.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam was in the habit that if
somebody asked him for something, and it could be given, he would
give it just in a Shama. And it's, we read yesterday in the
commentary of the shaman,
that the prophets of Allah had just been gifted,
a really nice shawl,
a sheet that a woman had one of the Sahaba, she had woven herself,
and she gave to, to prophets of Allah Holies. And she said, I did
this for you. And she gave it to him, the person hasn't came out
wearing it. And one of the Sahaba he said, Can I have that? So of
course, I was on set for a while and he went inside, and he took it
off, put something else on, wrapped it up, came on and sent it
to him. And others Hubbard was sitting there, they weren't very
happy about this, because they said that, you know, that the
prophets of Allah and doesn't like to refuse anything.
And it says in the beginning of the Hadith, and Windows Nazma,
taken it, he took it with the intention to use it because he was
in need of something like that. So it come at the right time as well.
But the prophets, Allah some gave it away. So somebody's asking you
in the Name of Allah, I mean, how could you refuse that Subhanallah
because a person who has power cooling Allah who recognizes that
everything comes from Allah subhanho wa Taala in the first
place anyway, then they would very clearly immediately think that
well, this is come from Allah subhanho wa taala, this person is
asking me in the name of Allah, I must give it to him.
This is very different from a beggar who comes in, that's the,
that is their statement, give me something in the Name of Allah,
they say that to everybody every day, they just don't want to work.
That's a different story. But when a normal person comes to you and
asking you for something in the Name of Allah, subhana, WA, tada,
give it to him, Allah will give you back. The main thing here is
to teach people reliance in Allah subhana wa Tada that you give it
to him. He's asking you in the Name of Allah, he's asking you in
the name of someone great. You can't ask you can't ask him. You
can't ask with any greater diversity, you can't have any
greater diversity than that.
So give it to him. And whoever gives you an invitation accepted.
Now this is where it's to your benefit, you know, it's to our
benefit, gives you an invitation in, then accept it. That means
they invite you to eat, for example, they invite you for
something that is an act of righteousness, then accept it as
far as possible. Obviously, this is not a hokum, which is
categorical that you cannot refuse. It's an encouragement.
It's been dude, it's Mr. Hub. It's a sunnah that accepted when they
when when people invite you normally what they say is that, if
it's an invitation, an invitation to a wedding is probably one of
the strongest of the invitations for eating among the invitations,
or for eating the Williamite is probably the strongest invitation
that is as long as
Haram is not taking place in that gathering, and you know it,
then in that case, there are other laws that will be applied.
So what it normally says in that kind of a situation is that if you
are a role model of any sort, somebody will people look up to
you, you're a scholar, or you're a leader, you're a diary of some
sort of people look up to you, then you must avoid places of
haram completely.
Because you just have no option in that. People will take that as an
example from you.
If you're not, then it would depend on the relationship. And
then in some cases, you might have to just kind of go in eat and then
leave. The best thing would be to actually speak to them in speak to
them in advance if you know there's gonna be something hard on
that. Look, this is the way things are I can't I can't come in
because I'd be a party to listen, it's not something that
I like myself to do.
Or the invitations, you should make it you should try to they say
you should try to take him on as far as possible. And if the person
that is inviting you Subhanallah I love and Hello, he says that if
the person who's inviting you is a poor person, then you should even
make more effort to go and accept his invitation. What happens
sometimes is that if it's a poor person that's inviting you, you
may not accept. And if it's a person who's not as poor, you will
probably accept because you're thinking a person is thinking
we're thinking that it's not as much of a burden. The person has
The other person who's poor, he doesn't have. So then we probably
think I don't want to be a burden on him. But obviously, the person
is only inviting you, because he's made the means
he thinks he's made the means he's not inviting you. And then there's
going to be nothing in the house, you must have scraped something
together and really wants to invite you. And that's why he's
inviting you, you don't want to break his heart, because the
person has probably gone through a lot more hurdles, and has taken
him taken a lot more effort probably, than the person who's
more well off to be able to invite you. And now that he's asking you
make sure you accept,
what they say is that you should accept as far as possible, as long
as it's easy for you to get there.
Yes,
it says that, just because a place is too far, you also actually says
that if a place is too far, that doesn't, that's not an excuse not
to accept, unless it's really highly inconvenient, and it's too
frequent.
So if a place is far, then you have to clearly understand that if
a place is for and somebody's inviting you, they're inviting you
for a reason. This is just not your buddy, who's now moved to
another area, and every week is calling you up, come over, come
over, come over. But clearly, you don't have to go every week.
Otherwise, you'd be traveling, you know, three, four hours every week
to go and eat at somebody's house, which if you've got the time, it's
fine. But if you don't have the time, and you know, nowadays,
people are busy,
then you don't have to accept that and it won't be bad, you can go
once in a while. But if one of your relatives inviting you once,
that is good to go. So that's that's what it's saying that if
somebody invites you, you should go, you should accept it.
And whoever does you a good turn. I mean, this is very progressive,
you know, from somebody asking you to do something for them to ask,
you know, to ask him to invite you for food that you know, to be
hospitable to you. And then the last part is, whoever does you a
good turn repay him? Regardless of what that good turn is somebody
does you a good turn repay him? How would you repay that person?
Well, one one is that if somebody does your good turn, then you give
them a gift, not out of obligation, and not out of custom.
But purely because you want to follow this hadith. And you want
to be seen as a generous individual. And you want to also
increase the love between you and that person. What they normally
say is that when you give somebody something to someone, it is of
three types, depending on the intention, three or four, you
could take on three or different forms, depending on your
intention. If you give some thing to someone for the sake of reward,
that is a sadhaka.
So I'm going to give my friend something.
For the sake of reward, my primary intention is reward reward, you
get in everything good you do. That's the that's going to be the
underlying theme all the time. But if your primary intention is
reward, then that becomes a sadaqa. And that's not what you're
told to do with your friends in general in this, you know,
necessarily, for friends, and for people who you want to develop
closeness and love with for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala you
give them an idea. So the intention in giving something to
someone should be that this is to increase the love between us. And
this is a hadiya because the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said to her do the Habu give her the mutually between you
and it will increase the love between your ears. Hadiya has a
really powerful way of opening up somebody's heart. When somebody
receives something from someone, it really opens up their heart.
And the better that thing, it opens up their heart even more.
Right? opens up their heart even more, especially if it's from
somebody who have to go through some effort to get that particular
gift or something, or the cost of it for that, for that matter. So
if you really want to make up with someone, then it's good to give a
good gift.
Right? So if it's done to, to increase the love, then it's
called Hadiya. And that's the way it's going to be with family and
friends. Now clearly, you're going to get reward in that as well
because it's done for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala. Because this
is what we've been told by his messenger Salallahu Alaihe Salam,
but our primary intention is not just sadaqa. Right. The third
possible reason is you give something to someone for an
ulterior motive. Because you want to establish contact with this
person so that they can help you out afterwards. They've got good
contacts, they can give you a promotion. So you're going to go
and give your supervisor a gift, because it's out of promotion.
It's to maybe earn His favors afterwards. Or if you're a
storekeeper or a business person, you give your employees something
to keep their morale higher. But in that one that could be an idea
to increase the love and understanding between you and your
employees. So that one could be an idea. It could be quite generally
idea. Then there's one I mean, what would you consider if it was
businesses giving our freebies right for the sake of attracting
their customers?
To them, I guess just part of business. So that's fine. So if
somebody wants an illegal Maroof, and McAfee, who if somebody is
doing your good turn, you should respond, you should give something
back. So as I said, the first thing, the first thing was that if
you give something to someone, because you want to increase the
love among you, then it's considered to be a hadiya.
Although you'll be getting well, because you're following in the,
you're following the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu, I use them
to do that. But your primary intention is not reward, your
primary intention is to increase the love among you. If you give
something for an ulterior motive,
then that is the issuer. That's bribery.
Right, that's bribery.
Now,
that would depend on exactly what circumstance you're in clearly, if
you're trying to get something which is somebody else's, but
you're giving some money to to win the bid, that is clearly haram
completely wrong. There are other might have allowed that in certain
cases, where
your right is due to you, but somebody is causing problems in
between by forcing you to give ratio, for example, you are do a
visa, because you meet the criteria, you are do a housing
permit, or a certain time in a building permit or whatever, in
some countries, you have to give a golden handshake with it. Now the
thing is that as far as possible, you must avoid that as well. But
even in some cases, even if it takes a bit longer. Like if it's
instead of one week, it's going to take two weeks find don't give the
issuer have to work put in Allah subhanaw taala don't give it
because in some places you give it your work will be done in two
days. And if you don't give it it will take two weeks, three weeks
and four weeks, and sometimes it will never happen. So now that
would depend on your level of the workload. But the rule of thumb
and your ruler, mind the Hanafi school I have given a fatwa that
if it's your right, not where you're taking somebody else's,
right, if it's your right, you're qualified for it, but they're
still not giving it to you, then it's permissible to give that
payment.
But as I said that would be I personally would say that it would
depend on how long if it's just going to be a bit of a delay, then
leave it don't don't give it because it's the gray area of it.
And if you give something to someone for just the sake of
reward, then that sadaqa that's what you give to poor people, for
example, that sadaqa
or you give to the masjid or you give to an orphanage or a school
or something of that sort of God, that's a type of sadaqa. So we
give things in various different ways. Sadaqa Hadiya, Rishworth.
And then there's one way you give something to just keep away
somebody's home from you. For example, a friend of mine, he is
mashallah good Muslim wives covered up moved into this area in
Los Angeles where
one of his neighbors was really bothering him. And he was actually
having children come to pray at his house, I think his wife was
teaching them and one or one or two of the neighbors started
causing issues.
So what he did one day was he found out spoke to the neighbor
once he discovered that the person has a bird keeps a bird. So he
went out and he bought an expensive bird cage. Right really
nice bird cage, that a person will probably never go out on by
himself. Right? And that and he took a few other gifts and he went
and he said these are gifts for your my neighbor. These are gifts
for you. He's there from that day they everything stopped.
Right? Everything stopped. It's expensive. It's an expensive gift.
But this is the first shop. This is to repel evil. This is to repel
evil. Otherwise, it's nice misery after misery when somebody's going
to cause you probably get on or what they'll say to the to the
authorities what they'll say to people,
you know, you could end up
hassled greatly. So that's the official
kind of ratio, isn't it? But it's not it's a double shot. So, so you
can't Well, at the end of the day, I think it's a type of idea. Not
really sure. Because you're trying to create level understanding
between you. So that would actually come under Hadiya. But
it's a double shot. That's how it starts. So it is an idea because
you're trying to train to create love between you. And that really
works. It works in most cases.
That's why the professor Larson said if you're unable to find
anything by wish to return the favor specifically where the
processing is here is saying Whoever does your good turn repay
him. So if you are unable to find something by which to return the
favor supplicate for him until you think you have repaid him
Subhanallah supplication is free. You just need time and
concentration to do it. And that is something which is a premium
today. Time and you get the time to pray for someone else. We just
have our prefer ourselves in many cases. But the thing here is that
if you can't pay somebody repay somebody in
with the same
With a hadiya with a gift, something back a favor back then
at least make dua for them and make so much dua that you think
you repaid them.
That's going to be something you have to decide
this hadith obviously underscores the fact that people should you
should give back and not just take
because it's saying that if you don't have anything to give back
physically, of physically or monetarily, then make dua for
them.
Now how do you supplicate for somebody until you think you've
repaid for the repaint them,
you can either you don't normally get up for tahajud you get offered
tahajjud and you make tour cards or for cards and then you make a
special 15 Min. The offer that person,
especially if it's a big gift,
how valuable was that gift to you?
Now sometimes, the more valuable the gift is, for example, there
was you had a major issue major court case or major hiccup in some
application you'd put or in some immigration issue or in something
else
to do with school or your family or medical or something and
somebody helped you out, you can pay back that person because the
value of it would be in the 1000s get a knife and digest and make
some serious dough out for them.
That would that would be a form of repayment. So normally what their
rhythm I mentioned for example, Millennium curry he mentioned that
repaying somebody until you think you have sufficed them where
you've repaid them is normally making the offer them over and
over again.
And now this will be specific to offer them. Then after that you
can include them in your general to us