Abu Taymiyyah – Ep 3 Treat People With Kindness How To Soften Your Heart Series
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The second point, my beloved brothers and sisters
that I'm going to be mentioning
in working towards softening up our hearts
is treating the people
kindly.
It says being kind
towards the creation and that is
treating them
the way you love to be treated with
kindness.
And He doesn't treat them with harshness and
sternness
And being rough with them.
Fa'ina Dalika Yunafiroaman,
that will cause the people to run away
from you.
He then goes on to say: Falaysal Al
Qalbi
anfaaminmaamatinasinulotf.
And there is nothing more beneficial
for the heart than treating the people kindly.
Allahu Akbar.
See how you feel, my brothers and my
sisters, when you see an old lady
walking with very heavy shopping bags
and you help her
all the way up until her home.
You might see an old lady needing to
cross the road and she's really, really struggling.
It might well be
that you help her out in that.
See how you feel after that. It might
be your parents that are asking you to
do the errands of the house. See how
you feel after that
satisfaction of having helped somebody,
my beloved brothers and sisters, it goes a
very,
very long way.
And this is exactly how the Messenger
used to be:
he was never too busy.
There was even a time when a woman
came to him and she had
some sort of deficiency in her intellect, fiyaqaliha.
And the Messenger
SAW said to her, O mother of so
and so,
Take me wherever you need.
So the Messenger
helped her out, fulfilled her needs,
and then when she finished,
he left her.
Even though the Messenger
was a general,
he was the leader.
He was a family man who had 9
wives at the same time.
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, my beloved brothers and
sisters,
He was the,
you could even maybe call it the King
of his people.
He was all of that.
And at the same time, he still finds
time
to help others.
And this is the statement of the Prophet
when he told us:
Allah
is in the Aid of a 7 as
long as He is helping others.
Sometimes you may think that
things are becoming extremely difficult,
you're struggling with time
in whatever you're trying to fulfil and do.
Take a couple of moments out to help
somebody.
You may see it as losing 20 or
30 minutes.
The way you should really look at it
is
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
blessing you in whatever you're trying to do.
That's the kind of mindset we should have.
Perhaps Allah will open a door that seemed
extremely, extremely difficult to open.
Say
Bin Kuntatasibuho and Shirdatiriyaseelam Yuhlakbi Miftahi, as the
poet says: Allah would open that door,
that you thought
was impossible to open because it was created
without keys.
The impossible becomes possible
maybe because you helped another.
Ibrahim Rahmatullahi
Alaihi, he
tells us about his teacher in Utemia.
He said
He really used to go out his way
in a very earnest manner
to help others.
Why?
Because the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam said:
Allah is in the aid of his servant
as long as he's helping others.
Ibn Nadeem Rahmatullahi
he also tells us about his teacher:
I never saw anyone,
I never saw anyone
who had
a more complete
way of fulfilling
these characteristics
than Sheikh Ullisameateemir
Ahmadallahi
Alai Waqan Abad Ashabi Laqabri Yaqul
Some
of his companions, the companions of Mutaymi they
would say:
Waditu Anneeli Ashabi, I wish I could treat
my friends
The same way
Ibn Taymiy Rahmatullahi
Alaihi,
he treats his enemies Li Adaihi,
Wa Khosomei and also his opponents.
And an example of that is
when Ibn Utaim
came rushing
towards Imutaimia,
to give him the good news about
one of his enemies
departing from this world.
He says,
And this individual that passed away, my brothers
and my sisters, he wasn't just any ordinary
enemy.
He was
from those who used to harm him the
most.
Fa Naharani Watanak Karali, he told me off
And he showed his displeasure.
And then he began to say,
And then he rushed
to the home of this enemy who just
passed away.
And he paid his condolences.
Today,
I will take his place.
Whenever there's a time that you all need
something,
I will be there to help you all
out.
I will take the place of
your departing father.
Your father who has just passed away.
So they became very, very
happy with what he said,
and they even made dua for him.
They even made dua for him.
And this meant a huge
thing to them.
The fact that Ibn Taymiyyah, who was harmed
so much
by the father of the house,
and now he is coming to them and
saying this,
this was very, very touching.
Allahi, my brothers and my sisters,
the leather and the sweetness
of helping another out and then him
making a Dua for you from his heart
is something that is unmatched.
It could be that dua that he makes
from his heart.
That could cause your life to turn for
the better.
And that's something that money can't buy.
At times we ask people to make Dua
for us, make Dua for us, even sometimes
it might become a burden for them.
That Dua from the bottom of their hearts
could perhaps be the reason
why
so many doors that you thought
were created without keys begin to open.
He told us in
Hadith. Most beloved
Servants to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala are those
who are most beneficial to the people.
And from the most beloved acts to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is happiness that you enter into your brother's
heart.
'Our Taqshifa Anhu Korba.'
He might be going through some sort of
distress.
Life's become so difficult for him.
You remove this difficulty.
Aw Taqdia Anhudaynan,
He has accumulated a lot of debt and
you help him pay it back.
He might be
suffering from an extreme type of hunger,
and you
fill his stomach for
him, you feed him.
And then he said,
Waliyanamshiima
akhil muslim
and that I
now assist my brother, I walk with him.
Is more beloved to me than me spending
a whole month
doing Atikaf
in this Masjid, and he was referring to
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's Masjid
that we have today in Al Madina.
And then as Marykn radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he
says,
Never was the Messenger
asked anything,
that he ever said no.
He tried his utmost best to fulfil the
needs of the people.
So don't look at it as a burden.
Don't say,
'Some and so only asks me when he
needs me. Where is he for the rest
of the year?'
Perhaps my brothers and my sisters, you should
be thankful that Allah Azzawajal
is sending people to you
because you have
the capability
to provide them with a service
or the ability
to help them in something that they
foreshorten.
And it's Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala choosing you
to engage in such a noble act,
giving you the opportunity
to help you, yes.
Allah is throwing you a lifeline.
You do this and I will help you.
But do we look at it like that?
Or do we switch our phones
off when these individuals call us or we
behave prestigiously?
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