Abu Taymiyyah – Ep 10 Having Good Thoughts of Others How To Soften Your Heart Series

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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