Abu Taymiyyah – Part 1 10 Etiquettes Sh Saleh Osaimi Exp
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Their respective brothers and sisters, insha Allahu Ta'ala,
will be going through,
the kitab Al Adab Al Asherah.
Bein Nila Ta'ala, today in the next two
lessons.
And I want to mention a couple of
things inshaAllah ta'ala before we start.
The first thing that I want to mention
is brothers and sisters
that Al ilmoo
that knowledge is very difficult.
Knowledge is difficult and it requires a lot
of patience.
I remember a couple of
weeks ago or a couple of months actually,
in the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's masjid when
we were studying with a Sheikh called Sheikh
Soleiman Ar Raheli,
When he saw some of the students dazing
off
and he sensed from them that
they may have been finding what he was
saying very difficult.
The Sheikh mentioned a very very powerful statement
that really really touched me.
And he said, Al Al Musaab
seeking knowledge,
attaining it is something very difficult
and it requires a lot of patience.
It requires a lot of patience.
And the reality of the matter is that
most people are not patient,
And this is why only a few people
they become scholars.
To be able to sit down in halakat
for hours,
and to take what the teacher is saying,
and then to go and implement and to
call to it, and then all the other.
The harm that is going to come your
way is something that a lot of people
are not willing to buy into.
And that's the sad reality.
It is difficult, most people are not patient.
Look how patient we are when it comes
to maybe attaining parts of the dunya. How
many hours we will work?
How many hours
we will work
for that disbeliever in order to get a
few pounds and pennies?
But when it comes to knowledge, most people
are not willing to go out their way
to do so. This is why you find
that there's so much jahal in our communities.
There's so much ignorance in our communities because
most people are not patient.
Another time when I was in Yemen,
another sheikh of mine,
he mentioned something similar to this. Sheikh Mohammed
bin Hizam. This individual brothers and sisters,
he's memorized a lot. He memorized Bukhari.
He memorized Muslim. He memorized Riyad Salihin. He
memorized Baruq Al Maram. He memorized Alfiq al
Malik, Alfiq al Iraqi,
and other mutoon that the Sheikh he memorized.
And he used to advise students, he used
to say, brothers,
memorize.
It is very easy for a person to
attend this Halakah, to attend that Halakah,
tend
to maybe
go to that halakah.
But you find that most people they don't
memorize. Why? Because memorizing is tough.
Memorizing
is very very tough.
And most people are not ready to do
that because of the difficulty they go through.
He said that a old woman,
a old grandpa,
a grandma,
a young person, everybody is able to go
and attend Halakat. But because memorization is very
difficult,
they are not willing to go
the to
go and try and obtain this knowledge.
So brothers and sisters, it's going to be
very tough in the next 2 days. It's
very very intensive.
It's very very intensive and mostly we are
going to struggle to be patient.
And you feel like that you can't bear
the heat in kitchen,
then the least you could do is try
to maybe
sit down
and
try to get the reward of the sitting.
Because I'm sure most of you don't know
the immense reward that a person can obtain
through attending the gatherings of knowledge.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he told us
in hadith and say Muslim,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's angels
that
tread
and
roam around the earth.
What do they do? They search for
the gatherings of knowledge.
They search for gatherings of knowledge. Then the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam at the end
of the hadith,
the malaiqa, they will say,
There is amongst them a servant.
This servant, he walked past, and then he
sat down.
Then look what the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying in this
hadith and the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
is quoting it.
This individual who just went past and he
sat down,
informed him that I have forgiven him. Just
because he went and he sat down in
a sitting.
A person might be very sinful.
He has since, he may have engaged in
filth
and
other transgressions of the religion of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. But because he went and sat
down, was the reason why Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala forgave him. Another hadith, the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam he said,
Never is there a time where the people
they gather
reciting the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
sitting down amongst themselves reciting the book of
Allah
What happens?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will send down upon
them tranquility and mercy.
And what also will happen is
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will mention these people
by name
amongst those that are with him from the
angels.
Your name is being mentioned in the gatherings
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to the malaik
by Allah ajawajal.
And also what will happen, the angels they
will come and they will surround these people.
Also another point that I wanted to mention
insha Allahu Ta'ala is,
To write down the knowledge that is being
taught.
Anawalai
Shakhshian,
I it really really astonishes me.
Unless
those who attend the gatherings are as strong
as Imam al Bukhari Rahimullah Ta'ala.
And they are able to absorb the knowledge
that's being mentioned.
And for them to automatically
straight away memorize it and keep it in
their minds.
That a person he hears all these hadith,
all this knowledge being mentioned, but then he
doesn't write it down.
The sha'ir, the poet, he said,
The ilm is like Sayed.
That which is captured is like the fish
that you go and you try to
fish
out of the sea.
Or it's like the
creature that a person goes and hunts, a
hunting animal.
And writing it down is like tying that
hunting animal. When you go and hunt and
then you capture what happens? You have to
try and tie it, right? Otherwise someone else
is going to come and take it.
And the poet, he said, tie the animal
that you hunted
with a rope so that it remains with
you.
And then he says from stupidity.
That you go and that you hunt
a animal,
a rain, and what do you do that
you leave it amongst the people?
Just like that. You leave it abandoned amongst
the people. We know very well that someone's
gonna come, might take it, an animal might
come, start eating into it but try and
write it down.
I'm going to ask a question.
Who was the companion who knew the most
hadith?
Abdullai.
The companion who knew him the most hadith.
Abu Hurayra radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, and Nam, rightfully
so.
But before he became the top
of the companions from those who memorized the
hadith, There was an individual who knew more
hadith and Abu Hurairat radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu he
testify to this.
The chapter of writing down knowledge.
The chapter of writing down knowledge.
And then he uses as proof
the statement
of Abu Hurayra radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. He said,
Nobody knew more hadith than me.
Except one person, Abdullah Ibn Amir ibn Ask.
Why?
Abdullah ibn Amar ibn Az, he used to
write down the hadith.
He used to write down the hadith but
Abu Hurairah said, I never used to write
down the hadith. But because he did, he
ended up accumulating so many hadith. But that
was before the prophet
made du'aaf of Abu Hurairah.
Once the prophet made du'aaf of Abu Hurairah,
became the companion who knew the most hadith
because of the fact they used to write
it.
Because of the fact that he used to
write it.
Before we, inshallahuta'ala,
get into the book, I'm going to mention
the importance of Alikhlas,
of sincerity.
Brothers and sisters, wallahi, we might sit here
for a couple of hours and then we
come on Yomul kham, we have absolutely nothing.
We have
absolutely nothing.
Why? Because a simple component
that the Sharia has come to inform us
about time and
time again.
Most of my youngsters today have memorized the
Surah. You weren't commanded except to worship Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala with what? With sincerity.
We might say for a couple of hours
but because of the wrong reasons. Maybe we
came here because hoy or abba they forced
us
and we can't bear sitting here. We are
sitting here by force.
Or maybe because my friends
are sitting in the misery today, I'm just
gonna come along as well and I'm going
to sit there.
I'm not here for the right reason
as to why I'm listening to his knowledge.
Or for whatever other reason that a person
might have. Today you find people they fast,
or they might pray because, you know, mommy
and uncle
is looking at me because of that I'm
going to try and up my game.
Or a person he fast, why? Because he
wants to gain good health. But not because
he wants to
seek the face of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And we know the hadith of the prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
No action is going to be accepted from
you except if you have the right intention.
Except if you have brothers and sisters the
right intention.
So this is why the Salaf
and I'm going to mention some quotations it's
all Allah
from them as well. Of how
they used to struggle so much
so much
to try and make their intentions sincere as
much as possible.
If this is them, the best of the
crop, the creme of the crop as they
say,
we're struggling. Where do any of us stand?
Where, me and you, Mesakim people who have
been brought up in England, nourished upon chicken
and chips. Where do we stand?
I remember, Shasulaimanur Rahayi in the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam al Masjid.
Right at the end and subhanAllah just really
really touched me.
He's sitting on the chair and he was
talking about the khlaas and he mentioned
brothers and sisters brothers
me sitting on this chair I'm striving against
myself.
I'm really really working hard against myself
Sitting on this chair,
trying to remain as sincere as possible.
Because this is the one of the madaghil.
One of the ways that the shaitan, he
enters upon an individual.
He sees that a lot of people flocking
around him for him to think to himself,
Khalaas, you know I'm a very very high
individual with a great status now. And then
he says things to try and impress the
hawalin, those who are present.
Again, from our teachers of the prophet salallahu
alayhi was a masjid. He mentioned his kitab
to
ilmahlmakhadithani.
He mentions 20 points in a book. In
the second point he says,
None of those before us.
From the salaf of salihin, the 3 golden
generations. And when I say salaf of salihin,
I intend by it what?
The 3 golden generations.
The Sahaba, the Tabi'in, the Tabi'i'in.
Those who the prophet said,
The best of you is my generation who
talk to the companions. Then those who came
after and those who came after them. He
said,
none of them excelled to where they reached.
The status they gained. And none of them
reached where they reached
except
because of the Ikhlas.
The sincerity they had.
Except of the sincerity they had.
Abu Bakr al Maroo Diu.
Abu Bakr al Maroo Diu
He said,
he said that he heard
a man say to Ahmed ibnhambal, the great
imam.
He mentioned 2 things to him. As Sidhu
al Ikhlas.
He mentioned the issue of truthfulness and also
being sincere in knowledge. Imam Muhammad ibn Muhammad
he responded, replied back and he said,
These people
who preceded us before us,
they never reached where they reached except through
what? Sincerity
and also being truthful in what they were
doing. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala raised them
because of this.
Also Sheikh Sala was saying in another
A person, he only attains knowledge
based upon the Ikhlas. So if you're half
Ikhlas, are you bound to get anywhere?
If a person comes with full sincerity, he's
bound to because of that. Based on that,
he's going to obtain a lot of knowledge
as well.
And his statement, brother and sister, is very,
very powerful. Sufyanath Thori. You don't know Sufyanath
Thori? Can, I mean, what
From the most tremendous of the Tabia'in, Sufyan
al Thuri? He said,
I haven't tried to work on cure
more than
trying to rectify my intention.
Because what? It turns
from one side to the other. It keeps
going back and forth.
Sometimes you're saying, Sayba de shaitaan, he whispers
in your ear.
This is even more powerful. Sulaimanul Hashmi
He said,
He said, I might mention hadith.
And then I have an intention.
When I come to another part of the
hadith, my intention begins to change.
You don't know the hadith of
when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
ascended to the 7 heavens. Right?
Is
also known as
The hadith, brothers and sisters, is maybe 15
lines long, maybe a bit more than that.
Look what the Sheikh is saying.
It's an imam from the past.
He said, I might mention hadith and then
I have an intention at the beginning of
the hadith.
Then I reach maybe another part of the
hadith. Let's just say, in this case, he
reaches the 5th line.
My intention begins to change. Maybe because so
many people walked in into the Masjid and
now they're sitting there and he's trying to
impress them for whatever reason it might be.
So one hadith, it requires
multiple intentions.
Just for one hadith.
Imagine a whole lecture that a person gives.
How many times the shaytan might have entered
upon him?
So this is why brothers and sisters, they
say about this hadith.
Imam al Shafi'i
said, this this hadith is a third of
knowledge.
And he enters into 70 different chapters of
al fiqh. When you look at salah, if
a person doesn't have the correct intention, is
salah gonna accept it?
Okay. I'm gonna ask a question now. He
had the correct intention when he's entering into
salah.
2, he had a correct intention. Then he
reached the other 2 raka'at.
And then his intention why? Why? Because Hoya
was there. And she promised him, you pray,
you know, I'm going to give you maybe
£10, £15, £20.
His mom walked in. She wasn't there, he's
praying, he's trying to do it for Allah
Azza wa Jal and Hoya is there now.
She's watching him, perfects his prayer.
Like that and then like this and then
he goes up and then he's not praying
like, you know, how the Ferrari moves.
He is doing it with frustration. He's taking
his time. You know the video that goes
around every now and again in in Ramadan,
where these people are playing Ferrari, tarawih. They're
going up and down up and then everybody's
laughing.
That's how we would normally pray, maybe if
nobody's watching him.
But then, oh yeah, he's just doing it,
trying to perfect his prayer.
Is the salah accepted?
When he was sincere for 2 of them,
but then the other 2,
he wasn't sincere.
Why not?
Because the salah is connected. These raka'at are
connected.
If he was independent, maybe let's just say
you pray 2 raka'at of al fajr.
I'm talking about the sunnah that you pray
before fajr. He was sincere. And then the
other 2 that he prays behind the imam,
the wajid prayer. He's not sincere in it.
Then maybe we say to him that the
first suraka were accepted, but the other 2
wasn't. Why? Because they are disconnected.
Likewise, when you pay £500,
you put in the sadaqa box, and that's
sincere.
You do that with sincerity. But then the
other 500, you saw a couple of people
watching and then he does this,
and he puts it into the salakha box.
This 500 is not going to be accepted.
The first one is going to accept the
other one. But if the Ibaal is connected,
then we know that door prayer is not
2 raka'ah, is it?
Of course it's not. It's and it's a
connected Ibadah.
Islami
hadith.
The fundamentals of al Islam revolve around 3
hadith.
First one's hadith, umar, innamalalalbiniyat.
Second one, hadith, Aisha.
Your intention brothers and sisters important. Every Ibad,
every step that you take, every move that
you make,
you need an intention for when you
are doing the Ibadah.
Otherwise, you're not getting nothing, you're wasting your
time.
This is how we should look at it
brother and sister. We are wasting our time.
Maybe you could try and maybe, you know,
change our intentions in whatever situation it might
be.
The second one, hadith aisha.
Whoever does an action is not from our
affairs,
then what? It will be rejected.
That action that you're doing, it's if it's
not in accordance, in accordance
to how the prophet done it, is being
rejected from you.
And then the 3rd hadith, inal halal abaynuinal
haram abayin. Halal is clear. Haram is clear.
But
between it
is some gray areas.
Some gray areas in between that which is
halal and that which is haram.
Now insha Allah,
brothers and sisters, I'm going to go into
fifadil adab.
The ahadi will still haven't entered into the
book here, by the way. These are just
mukaddimat.
Ahadi fifadil adab.
Some ahadith
showing us the virtue
of adab.
Because brothers and sisters,
something I have come across a lot
is a person, he might be seeking knowledge
and he might attain a lot of knowledge.
He's sincere what he's doing, but he doesn't
go and learn manners
and etiquettes.
These might be people who have memorized quite
a lot.
And now because of his bad etiquism, bad
manners, what happens?
When he goes back to his country, let's
say he's in Medin or he went to
Al Yem and to study, he goes back
to his city,
because of his bad dealings and his bad
etiquette.
It causes the people to turn away from
him in totality.
Imagine, brothers and sisters,
you've memorized Buhari and Muslim,
the 2 most authentic books.
After Kitab allahu alaihi wa jal, after the
Quran, the most authentic book.
He goes back to his city, goes back
to his country. But because of the way
he speaks to the people, the way he
carries himself, the way he adorns himself, it
is the most disgusting.
You think the people are going to accept
from him?
Of course, they're not gonna accept it from
him.
A person is doing something wrong. You shout
in his face, Akeem, what are you doing?
That's not the way to go about it.
And etiquette and manners teaches that. Especially if
you find that a person now is falling
short from the basic of etiquettes.
All that knowledge that a person may have
is going to go down the drain.
It's going to go down the drain
Because of the lack of seriousness that people
are going to have with him.
Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said in
hadith, hadiabirdarda,
that was narrated by Matimid
There isn't anything
there isn't anything, brothers and sisters, that is
placed on the mizan, on the scale
that is more heavier than having what? Good
etiquettes.
Just having great, good, ethical manners,
Because of that, you could reach the level
of an individual who has many salawat.
A guy who prays all the time
or a guy who fasts all the time.
Because of the Husnil Khuluq. The good ethic
is in a good manner that a person
comes with.
We know Yomul Qiyam, my brothers and sisters.
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasall mentioned another hadith.
A big fat hench guy
is brought on Yomul Qiyamah.
He's placed on the scale,
then he won't weigh the weight of the
wing of a mosquito.
See the guy now today, when he goes
to the gym, right? He's so big, so
hench,
he's carrying a 120, a 140, 50 kilos.
He's so strong that he can even bend
the bar in the middle, that's how strong
he is.
And it's a fit and that we have
today.
A fit and that that we have today.
We have
left off, turned away from
what?
Trying to rectify our inner self.
Trying to work on our etiquettes. Trying to
work on our manners. But we're so busy,
the sister she wakes up in the morning,
and she spends maybe
2, 3 hours trying to put makeup and
beautify her outer appearance. Just so she could
get a few likes
on her Instagram page.
Tell the brothers, come come forward come forward.
All of you, our youngsters, come forward as
much as possible, insha Allah.
Are you with me brothers and sisters? Likewise,
the guy who spends 8:9 hours in the
gym a day.
That's how big he's become now.
You could be brought
because of your lack of actions
and your heart also being corrupt. You get
absolutely nothing.
This big fat man now, hench, wench, that
everybody is trying to be like. They're working
so hard to get their muscles.
Nothing.
And Husn al Khuluq having good etiquette and
manners is a means of what? Having a
very very what?
Great day on Yomul Qiyamah.
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam, he mentioned on
the hadith,
The most beloved to me on Yom Al
Qiyamah,
and the most closest to me. Pay attention,
brother and sisters, for something very minor.
On yomul kiyamah, those who are going to
sit the closest to me on your markiama,
those who have the best etiquettes and manners.
For indeed those
who are
most hatred to me, those who I despise
the most,
who and those who are going to be
furthest away
from me. They're not going to be sitting
near me.
The sarsar, brothers and sisters, the arrogant individual.
The individual is arrogant. Later, I'm going to
talk about.
Also in Usul Assithah and also inshallah to
Adam, we'll reach the last point of, Dabur
Asherah.
How sometimes arrogance
causes a person
not to seek knowledge.
Think to himself that he knows it all
or maybe because that is the person that's
teaching or he feels like he's older than
him. Or I've been studying a few years.
I'm not in need of what he's teaching
and so on and so forth.
And you will find it so common amongst
the people.
The
is the individual's
the individual who is someone that is arrogant.
So
in the
The person who is Tharsar.
He's the individual who has a lot of
speech, just talks.
The individual just talks all the time. That's
the means that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
gonna push you away
from the messenger of Allahu alaihi wa sallam.
The
individual
he's
The one who is very boisterous in his
speech.
In the way he speaks to the people,
he makes himself higher than the others.
Some of you kids will agree. Right?
It comes to school and when it comes
to some of these people that, you know,
are trying to get rights
inside your classroom. Just the way they speak
to the people to make other people scared.
He said the Prophet was asked, what is
that which causes the people to enter into
ajannah the most? He mentioned 2 things.
Having Taqwa and also having good manners.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala praise the messenger sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam
with one particular thing. Does anybody know what
he praised him with?
The akhlaq zakalakir Muhammad.
For indeed you have lofty
and great mannerism.
Aisha radhiallahu ta'ala Anha. When this verse is
found in the Quran, right? This verse is
found in the Quran. The companions obviously, they
wanna know now. They wanna try and be
like the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Today,
everybody is trying to be like Messi and
Ronaldo, Kanye West.
This is the reality. Wallahi, our heads are
becoming like them.
The way we dress, the way we move,
the way we make our haircuts.
The companions, when there was an eye of
pertaining the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, specifically
they would try and inquire about it. They
wanna be like him.
They want every cause that they could take
in order to accompany the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. As the prophet
said.
A person, he's going to be with the
one that he loves on Yomul Qiyamah. You
love Messi and Ronaldo, there's a high possibility
you're gonna be with him on Yomul Qiyamah.
You like these pop stars?
You like Kanye West? You like these other
people as well that today you have brainwashed
the people.
You're most likely to be gathered on your
malqiyam with them. You like the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam? InshaAllah, you're going to be
with the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So
look now,
what's sad ibn Hisham?
From the Tabi'in, he went to Aisha and
he asked her,
Tell me of the ethical manners of the
prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
I shall reply back, and she said, his
huluk,
his etiquettes of the Quran.
He didn't just read
it. He didn't just read it like
Oh, with a very nice voice. Allah.
Rather, when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
came of the Quran, he would what? Implement
it
as clearly as possible.
A verse came down, leave this, everybody would
leave it.
Now I wanna move on insha Allah ta'ala,
as salaf umal adabikablililil.
How the salaf?
3 golden generations.
What they used to give more concern to
when they went to go and seek knowledge.
When they went to go and seek knowledge.
Brothers and sisters, salafiya
and people tend to get the wrong impression
of it all the time. When this word
salafi is used, people tend to become allergic
to hearing the word salafi.
When we say salafi brothers and sisters,
I always tell the people do not look
at Fulan and Fulan is currently living today.
Why? Because of his bad etiquettes,
people will think that this is the religion,
or this is what a Salaf means.
Rather when we say Salaf, as I mentioned,
the 3 golden generations,
we look at the aqidah.
We look at what they also the Aqwal,
the Efaal,
the Aqlaq, the Muamalat, the etiquettes, how they
dealt with one another. Any action that we
do, any statement that we say, we always
take it back. How did they say it?
How did they do it? What they believed?
It's like a
house.
Salafiya is like a house.
The foundation of it is the aqeedah, that
you have the correct belief and it's very
important to have the correct belief. Then you
have the other components in the house. The
akhlaq is like the bathroom. Then you have
the aqwal which is like the living room
and so on and so forth.
Are you with me brothers and sisters?
So in anything that we do,
that we try to look at their situation.
Today, a guy, he jumps up and down
about a Salafiya
as if it's a football team.
As if it is a a football team.
But then what happens?
His akhlaq is the most disgusting. He calls
to it, he wants to follow it, but
his akhlaq is the worst and the most
disgusting you will find.
And this has nothing to do with Salafiya.
Imam Malik Rahimullah Ta'ala, you don't know Imam
Malik? Imam Malik, when you hear the 4
ima,
the 4 great ima.
Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Shafi'i, Imam Malik, Imam
Ahmed.
One of them was Imam Malik.
He said to his mom,
I'm going to go and I'm going to
note down the knowledge that is being spread
in the Masjid.
So look
what she done.
When he said this to his mom, what
did she do? She went and clothed him
with a very nice, you know, with a
very nice type of clothing that she had
for him. And she placed a hat on
top of his head,
and then she also put an imam on
him.
This is encouragement for the parents. If you
see that khair within your student, sorry, within
your child,
that you try to encourage him, that you
try to maybe adorn him.
So when she's done this, he said,
I'm going to go now. I'm going to
write. In another place,
And she will say to him, go learn
the etiquette of Rabia before you take from
his knowledge.
Before you take from his knowledge, go take
from his etiquettes first.
5,000
people used to attend the gatherings of Imam
Mohammed.
The student of Imam Shafi'i rhamullah. Imam Shafi'i
was a teacher of Imam Mohammed.
5000 used to go. Oh, yeah. 0, even
more than that.
Only 5 of them,
sorry, 500 of them, they used to write
down the knowledge that he was spreading that
which was coming out of his mouth.
The rest of them,
4,500
now. How many are there? 5000. Right? What
were 500 doing?
The one on the red top.
They were writing down what?
Pythagoras theorem.
What the imam was saying, the knowledge that
he was given.
4,500.
What are the rest doing?
They are just trying to learn from his
edip. The way he carries himself, how he
speaks,
how he adorns himself with these lofty great
etiquettes and mannerisms.
Abdullah ibn Mubarak from the most tremendous of
the time he said,
you know, earlier I gave an example right
ago, he goes all the way, he memorize
Bukhar in Muslim and he comes back here.
And then the way he deals with the
people is the most disgusting.
And all that knowledge that takes years to
study goes down the drain.
Imagine you've
been working so hard, secondary school,
then you went into college, then you went
to university, then you done your masters, Then
you've done your PhD as well.
And then all of a sudden something happens
and your PhD gets taken away from you.
All your qualifications.
You've wasted your life, isn't it?
You can have a lot of issues.
That's exactly in this scenario as
Abdulham Mubarak
is
a.
We are in need of just
small amounts
of mannerism and etiquettes, then we need so
much of knowledge.
So much of knowledge
because of what
could take place later on due to your
lack of manners and your bar etiquette.
Abdullah Mubarak in other places said,
Whoever now
takes learning mannerism
and etiquette lightly, the one who takes that
lightly, ruukhibbihermani
sunan. He's going to be punished
by being prevented
of being to put the Sunan,
the superobitry, the voluntary acts into practice.
Sometimes a person he tells me, aqi wallahi,
I'm struggling really hard to maybe wake up
for Qiyamulayl
or to do my sunan.
Like I wanna pray, I wanna be from
those who accompany the prophet sallallahu alaihi. Because
the more sujood you have, the more of
a chance you have of accompanying the prophet
sallallahu alaihi.
You want to be from those who accompany,
be with someone who has many sujood.
You find sometimes difficulty in not being able
to establish these fa'aal. These great virtues.
Maybe it's because of the lack of manners.
As his great imam he mentioned.
It just doesn't stop there.
Whoever now
takes starts taking the Sunan lightly, what happens?
He's going to be prevented
from being able to establish the what? The
wajibat. That which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made
as an obligation upon you.
Are you with me brothers and sisters? The
moment that happens, you are on your way
to destruction.
You left off your wajibat,
you're on your way to destruction.
Whoever begins to know, take this faray lightly.
He's going to be now punished by not
being able to have Ma'arifah with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
What does Ma'arifah mean to know Allah as
a wajal?
Muhammad al Masiran
mentions something very similar.
They used to learn Hadi.
And Hadi, in this case, brothers and sisters,
it means
calmness.
You know how to carry yourself accordingly.
And so on and so forth. The appearance
of how a person should carry himself when
it comes to
knowledge.
Ibrahim Al Nakhia again from the Tabi'in. He
said,
If they came to a man that they
wanted to take knowledge from, they would look
at what?
What does sempt mean? Does anybody know?
That's one of the meanings.
Anybody know what sams means?
Say Allahu Alam. Allahu Alam is this for
knowledge.
If you don't know Allah, Allahu Alam.
Abdullah ibn Azir Radhiallahu Ta'ala Anhu he say,
You know something, speak.
You don't know something, then say Allahu
Alam. Nobody place the obligation upon you to
speak.
An Uthkur UHada, I'm mentioning his brother and
said we want this to be a lesson
of Tarbih as well.
Today you find any Dom de Canari sitting
in the cafe, his inn, his paneer, his
shahi, And he's just speaking about the religion.
Saying whatever he wants. Making takfir. This guy's
kafir. This guy's an innovator. The Somali president.
No. He's not Muslim. He's a kafir. This
like speaking about matters that maybe the companions
would have brought together the kibar of the
sahaba just to make a decision.
Like a doctor now, I'm going to ask
you a question.
Anybody here? Does anybody here has a qualification
in medicine?
Come on guys, man. We should be, like,
you know, getting these qualification, becoming academics and,
you know
come, come, come.
Come as forward as possible.
Do you have back problems?
A little bit. Yeah.
You became old.
Please, brothers, come as close as possible. The
other thing I wanna ask you, like, is
how far was Jibril when he came to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
How far was he?
How far was he?
You're very right. I'm just playing around with
you. His
knees
He connected his knees to his knees.
That's how close he was when it came
to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa. And it's
exactly what we learned from it. We learned
from it. We're gonna take later on as
well. What That we try to get as
close about in a Khutbah. I'm sorry for
picking on you.
You
know, don't don't stand outside the the Masjid
later on and try trip me
over. Surah Ashaaheedu min al kalam,
I was mentioning a point. What was I
mentioning?
Assembt.
Assembt, brothers and sisters, is the way a
person carries himself.
The way he adorns himself.
The way he speaks.
The etiquettes that he beautifies himself with. They
used to try and take from his scent.
And they would be sitting there just Okay.
If that was okay, then after that we're
gonna take knowledge from him.
Hamdulillah ibn Waha, look what he said by
mammarik. What did we say by mammarik earlier?
What did his mom used to say to
him? What did his mom say to him
when he wanted to go and acknowledge?
Who?
Who did I mention?
Rabi'a zakalakher.
His mom said to Imam Malik, Rahimullah, when
he was young and he wanted to go,
learn from his etiquette before you learn from
his ilm. Now he stood and look what
he says about his teacher.
We never learned from Imam Malik.
That which we learned from his manners more
than what we learned from his knowledge.
Lastly, I'm going to conclude with, Insha'Allah, before
we
get into the book.
You know, I've heard time and time again,
in cafes as well, some of our Somali
cafes.
The Gal, the Gal, you know the
Galki,
the the disbeliever.
Masha Allah, his akhlaq is so good. His
akhlaq is better than a Muslimeel.
This requires a tafsir.
And it's a very very dangerous statement.
To say that that this believer has better
etiquettes and manners than the Muslim.
This is a bit of a problem and
I'll tell you why.
Because Al Akhlaqu,
mannerism,
etiquette
is split into 2 categories.
Allah
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Your etiquette and manners
of Allah Azzawajal. And also your ethical and
manners with the people.
As Bin Uthimin Rahim Allah Ta'ala in his
kitab Makarim Al Akhlaq he mentions. And it's
very very important. Why?
Because what is more important than the akhlaq
that you have with the people, your interactions
is the akhlaq with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
How can a person have good manners of
Allah Azzawajal?
By establishing a tawhid.
This girl now, this disbeliever
who is saying that your Lord is Thalata
Oh, that your Lord has a child.
Had a good etiquette?
This guy has good akhlaq.
Of course, he doesn't have good akhlaq. He
has the worst and the most disgusting akhlaq.
But again, at the same time,
the individual with his other mates and his
brothers and his sisters and the people, he
should have good ethics as well. So if
you want to say now that subjectively
this individual has better
etiquettes when it comes to Muhammad
and rightfully so. Sometimes some of these disbelievers
they've got better etiquette than us Muslims. They
stick to their words.
And we might not do that.
But to say, unrestrictedly,
This is a very dangerous statement.
Because this man is upon kufr and shirk.
When the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam mentioned,
Inna ma buiftulootammi
ma ma karimalakhlaq.
I was only sent to establish
the lofty
characteristics.
Did he only mean only my interaction and
my characteristic with the people? Allahu Allahu
He didn't mean that.
What he meant by it is the etiquette
that one should have with Allah azza wa
Jal. Because this was the biggest problem with
Quraysh.
This was the biggest problem with the Quraysh.
Where they tried to place wasa'id,
between them and Allah azza wa Jal, they
would place what?
Deities in between them and Allah azza wa
Jal.
Are you with me brothers and sisters?
So, Allah Khalaquma Allah. You have good articles
of Allah Azza wa Jal. You learn your
religion. You learn how to worship Allah subhanahu.
How to establish it Tawhid.
And also what you take seriously is
the akhlaq that you have with the
creation, which is a means of you what
being close with the prophet salallahu
alayhi wasalam.
The Sheikh starts by saying, Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.
In the name of Allah, the most merciful,
the especially merciful.
May Allah guide me in yourself
towards upright
moral conduct.
That from the greatest of etiquettes.
Good. The Mu'alib Rahim Allahu Ta'ala or the
Musanif, the author of the Kitab.
His name is Sheikh Salih bin Abdulai Bin
Hamad Al Usaymi.
He's one of the teachers brothers and sisters
in the prophets of Masjid.
He comes every year, and he goes through
16 books in 8 days.
It is one of the most intensive
programs you're going to find on the face
of this earth.
Sixteen books in 8 days.
If you are think that this is intensive,
brothers and sisters go and check that out.
100 of students are sitting in the Prophet's
Masjid.
From Badal Fajr, which is around 5 o'clock,
All the way to
9:10
AM.
Everybody goes to sleep, then they come back
after Asir.
Asr is around there, 3 o'clock.
From 3 all the way sometimes till the
Masjid in Nabiwe. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam's Masjid is closed. They are sitting
there.
He goes through book after book after book.
You get tired?
What do the people do you think?
They stand up and they stretch. They're standing
there while the Sheikh is still going on
with his lesson.
100 of students come
just to attend this dawah from around Saudi
Arabia, from around the Khaleesh, the gulf areas.
People come as far from different countries. People
from Britain came to take part in the
dawah of Sheikh Sala al Usayni.
Became very very famous
and he went through this this year as
well. And one of the books that he
has in his kitab, Muhammadul Al is his
kitab al Adabul Asharrah,
Which is 10 etiquettes.
Reason why I chose this brothers and sisters,
I think etiquettes are very very important. Most
of you will agree.
Now that you've heard everything that we have
gone through.
He said, I Alam,
he starts off firstly with the Bismalah.
Anybody know what the Bismalah is?
The Mu'ali for the author,
He started off with the best malah. In
imitation to who? To Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's
book.
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala started his book
with the best malah.
And also in imitation
to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and the prophets before him and those who
came after
him. When Sulaiman
alaihis salatu wa sallam wrote a letter
to Malik
Saba,
the queen of Saba at a time.
Sabah, by the way, there's a whole
chapter
in the Quran that has been dedicated to
the
city of Sabah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala destroyed this nation.
There was a time when Allah destroyed this
nation.
This city, the people of that city,
they were living the life.
They had niyama4ka
niyama, blessing above blessing.
They had gardens on their right, gardens on
their left.
All Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala told him to
do was eat from your provision
and be thankful.
That's all that was asked from them, to
be thankful.
What did I do? Long story cut short,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sent down upon them
a sail.
How do you say sail in English language
again?
Water comes,
takes them out.
Sorry?
Flood. That's the word.
Send a flood upon them and all their
gardens and the blessings that they were living
with, what happened?
It got destroyed.
We rewarded them for their disbelief and their
ungratefulness.
They were ungrateful all that was asked to
be grateful to Allah They
disbelieved.
They were ungrateful and Allah destroyed everything. So
there was a time in Saba, there was
this lady who was a queen there.
If you look at Surah Namal, I'm not
here to give a tafsir on Surah Namal.
Hudhud, the bird
was roaming around on a normal day.
And he went
and he saw that this individual, this woman,
she was running an empire.
So later on, when Hudid came back, he
told Sulayman
I'm sure, you know, some of you came
yesterday with salar al Rahman, he mentioned some
stuff regarding it.
Suleyman,
after he straightened out his Jaish, his army,
he couldn't find Hudhud.
He asked about Hudhud
and he wasn't there.
And he said,
Either I'm going to destroy him. I'm going
to slaughter him. I'm going to punish him
for not being present today or he's going
to come with a Huja. He's going to
come with a
reason
as to why he's absent today. So long
story short, when he came back, he told
Soleiman
that he saw a woman and so on
and so forth. And she's running an empire.
So Sulaiman
he wrote a letter
to this queen.
He wrote a letter to her. So when
she was reading the letter, the first thing
that Suleyman alaihis salatu wasalam started the letter
off with was the Bismillah.
And likewise, the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
The contract he used to have. When he
used to start reading the Quran, also the
letters that the prophet used to send, he
will start with the basmalah.
And the proof of this is, hadith al
Nisamariq
He
said,
There was a time when the prophet salallahu
alaihi wasalam was sitting with us,
and then all of a sudden his head
just dropped. His
head just dropped.
Then the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam raised
his head while he was smiling.
What makes you laugh? What makes you smile?
He said,
A surah came down upon me. So the
first thing he said, Bismillahir
Rahmanir Rahim.
So the first thing he started with was
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim.
You don't know Hercules?
It's not just some comic show.
Hercules actually
someone who has a presence in tariq.
In Arabic language they say,
In the story of Abu Sufyan when he
went to Heraclah or Hercules,
Abu Sufyan wrote the
the the letter that he was carrying with
him from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
He read it out on Hercules.
First thing that was written on the
Started off with the best manna.
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he said to the
great king of Rome,
Hercules,
Peace to the individual who follows the guidance.
Embrace al Islam and you'll be safe.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will give you
2 rewards. What is 2 reward? For believing
in the Prophet before Muhammad. That's one reward.
And the second reward for believing in the
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So you'll get 2 reward.
And also what we see from this story,
brothers and sisters,
Herakul Aweem Arum
at that time,
he didn't believe in the messenger sallallahu alaihi
wasalam. Right?
Look how he respected him. The
great King of Rome. He written down in
the letter.
He didn't just come and he slammed him
or try to humiliate him
or try to take away from his rabi
respected him. And it's a lesson to all
of us. We wanna call a person to
the sunnah. We wanna call him guide him.
Do it in the right way.
Don't go out belittling him or bringing up
his mistakes and his shortcomings,
But do it in a very wise way
and your objective and goal from that is
to try and bring him closer.
Okay.
I think 10 minutes. Right?
10 minutes.
We're going to come back. Like I said
before, I'm going to repeat this brothers and
sisters.
Alia'l Musa'ab.
The statement that Sheikh Sulaiman Ar Rahel he
mentioned.
When he was in the prophet's messenger, when
he saw some, you know, some of the
attendees, you know, get very tired and find
what he was saying very difficult. He said,
Al Masaab.
Knowledge is difficult and it requires a lot
of patience.
Most people are not patient and this is
why most people don't become scholars.
You need patience.
You need to go through
tab,
tiredness,
difficulty.
People in the Maj, brothers and sisters, they
used to live on faqar, poverty. Sometimes nobody
would send the money
just so they could, like, carry on seeking
knowledge.
But you find that knowledge comes to you
and sometimes we know communities really, really unappreciated.
So Insha'Allah Ta'ala, after 10 minutes, we're going
to carry on and take the
next part of the lesson,
We'll try and finish this within 3 lessons.