Abu Taymiyyah – Ep 10 Having Good Thoughts of Others How To Soften Your Heart Series
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My dear respected brothers and sisters,
number 9 from that which
softens an individual's heart.
Scholars, they mention Husnuuddinni
binas,
having good thoughts of others.
Prophet
he told us an authentic Hadith, it was
narrated by Abu Hurairah,
and reported by Bukhari
beware of having evil thoughts about others, for
indeed the evil thoughts that one may
have of others
is from the worst of fabrications.
This is what the Prophet
SAW told us warning us from this evil
trait which is the opposite of Hiznudhan,
bad thoughts of others, Su'adhan.
Imran Alkaim Rahmatullahi
mentions,
which shows of course,
how this is a mechanism now to soften
up your heart. He says:
Whoever makes it a habit to give the
people the benefit of the doubt?
And He has good thoughts of them.
He says that this individual's intentions will become
pure.
He will also feel at peace,
Wa'ufyaqalbo,
and his heart will become cured.
Allah.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will protect him
from all types of evils.
So when we ask now, what does Su'adan
actually mean? Having evil thoughts on the people,
what does it actually mean?
Ibrahim Armatullahi
says:
Your heart now becoming filled
with bad thoughts of others.
So much so that it ends up now
becoming apparent on one's tongue
and also his limbs.
If you're having bad thoughts of others without
it now becoming apparent on your tongue and
also your limbs, then my beloved brothers and
sisters, you are not held to account for
that.
As the Messenger
told
us:
Allah
Azzawajal has pardoned
his Ummah
for that which they speak to themselves about,
as long as he doesn't utter it or
act upon it.
You are excused as long as you're having
these thoughts and it doesn't
exit
from your mouth or you don't
act upon it, then, InshaAllah Ta'ala, you are
excused for that.
And one should try to fight it as
much as he can.
One should try to fight it as much
as he can. Another profound statement I would
like to share
is the statement of
Abu Waqrib Nadilahi Al Muzani When
he said:
Beware of uttering that which, if you were
to be correct in
it, then you would not get a reward
for it.
And if you were to be wrong in
it,
you would,
attain a sin.
And that is what Su'adhan.
How often do we hear people,
making a judgement
about others,
when in reality they have no evidence to
make this claim?
Right? And then when it turns out to
be
what he mentioned,
he says to you, then I tell you,
I was right.
As if this is something praiseworthy, you are
not being rewarded for that at all.
You are not being rewarded for that at
all.
Being correct in the bad assumptions you had
about others
is not something
that gets you a reward,
but rather it leads to that which can
be extremely detrimental to your religion, when you
make that a norm.
When you make that a norm.
The
scholars from the early generations,
they would
give the people the benefit of doubt. Like
Umar Khattab
He would say:
If you are able to give your Prophet
a benefit of doubt,
then do not
carry that which he says with his tongue
with an evil meaning, as long as you're
able to give him the benefit of doubt.
Hassan al Basir Rahmatullahi
would say:
Give your brother 70 excuses.
Give your brother 70 excuses.
And from the
very profound statements that I came across with
regards to this issue, is the statement of
Al Imam Shafi'i Armatullahi when he said:
If he wants Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la
to treat him well,
okay, then let this individual be
someone who has good thoughts about others.
And then look what he says, and this
is extremely, extremely profound.
And you will normally find those are bad
thoughts of others is because they are individuals
who engage in these bad things. SubhanAllah.
And then he mentioned a
line of poetry:
If an individual is someone who engages in
that which is haram and evil,
This is the type of individual that will
have bad thoughts of others.
SubhanAllah.
May Allah Azzawajal protect us from this disease,
Having evil thoughts
and acting upon speculation
has destroyed so many relationships
and so many marriages.
A sister may continuously think that her husband
is cheating on her or maybe looking at
other women when in reality he is not.
Right?
But rather
leave the issue to Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la,
because if somebody now
is being deceitful
and it's only a matter of time that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala exposes
him, turn to Allah Azzawajal and make Du'a
to him, asking him
to show you That Which is the truth,
instead of just constantly
suffering from this sickness
of having evil thoughts about others. The scholars,
they also mention,
If we didn't take
any other benefit
and the fact that
one individual now has good thoughts about others,
he is able to go to sleep peacefully,
then that would have been sufficient.
And also, if the only harm from having
evil thoughts about others
was the fact that his mind remains occupied
and he constantly
is struck with worry
and not being able to sleep properly,
then this, my beloved brothers and sisters,
would have been sufficient to show
how bad of an evil trait that this
is.
May Allah
protect us from that Ami.
And last but not least,
I would like to share an incident that
happened
between
Uthman ibn Affan
and also Umar ibn Khattab
Usman ibn
Affan narrates that:
Once upon a time, Umar ibn Khattab
walked past him
and he gave
him salaams.
He said: I didn't even realize that he
walked past me
nor that he gave me salams.
So Umar Khattab
went to Abu Bakr
to complain about that which happened.
And then he told him,
What do you think about what I'm about
to tell you, O Abu Bakr?
I walked past Uthman, I gave him my
salaams and he didn't return it.
Right?
So they both then entered into
where Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala was,
and they both gave him salabs.
Right?
Abu Bakr
then
turned to Usman and he told him,
Say that your brother, Umar, came to me
and he told me that he walked past
you, gave you salams and you didn't return
salams.
What caused you to do that? Look how
Abu Bakr
verified,
double checked,
okay, and he didn't just quickly
take the side of Umar ibn Khattab
He took his time in dealing with the
situation
to see really what's up, right? Does he
have an excuse as to why he didn't
do so? What was the reason why he
didn't respond to salaam? Even though it's something
that is mandatory to return the Salaam, my
beloved brothers and sisters and Messrs of Salaam
said, Haqqul Muslimi Al Muslimi Sit.
The right that your Muslim brother has over
you are 6 things and one of them
is Radu Salam, to return to Salam.
So Uthman ibn Affan radiAllahu ta'ala and he
said, I didn't do that.
Said, yes, you did. That's exactly what you
done.
And then he says, By Allah,
I didn't even realize that you walked past
me and that you gave me salams.
So Abu Bakr
said, Uthman of Truthful.
And
there is something that occupied him from that,
or that busied his mind from that. How
often does that happen, my brothers and my
sisters, someone may walk past that is beloved
to us, that we love
and they don't even realise that they're walking
past us,
and then we go home and we are
in deep thought
of that which may have happened,
the best thing to do, my beloved brothers
and sisters, to maybe confront that individual and
to maybe just ask and verify, did you
do this? Did you not do this?
And that will really put you at peace
and make you feel extremely better.
Because one thought will lead to another, so
much so that you will end up treating
that individual
badly and he wasn't deserving of that.
May Allah
protect us all, I mean, from that.
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