Abu Taymiyyah – Sincerity & How the Salaf Hid Their Good Deeds Jeylaani
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Dear respective brothers and sisters
in this sitting,
we want to speak about sincerity
and how the righteous of the past,
they used to try and hide their actions
as much as possible
when they done their Ibadat.
Because you know my brothers and sisters,
from the
deprivation that a person
can go through in this dunya and likewise
in the Akhir Ra'ez
that you find, subhanAllah,
a person he's handpicked out
from 1,000,000 of the creation of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
to come and fulfill this Ibadat.
But then when he's performing the,
a person is
deprived of the reward
because maybe
there is intentions behind this.
There is hidden agendas behind it,
and because of that he gets prevented.
Because
my brothers and sisters, the messenger salallahu alaihi
wa sallam, he reinforced this issue multiple times,
And the scholars they talk about this hadith
very, very much.
That no
action is accepted from a person except with
the correct intention.
And the scholars speak about this so much
to such an extent.
Some scholars even say that this hadith goes
just about in every single chapter of fiqh.
Some of them they said it is half
of knowledge. Some of them they said it's
a third of knowledge.
The issue of the intention because brothers and
sisters, wallahi, it's sad. It's really really sad.
Look around you.
How many
Muslims today, they don't necessarily even pray?
How many Muslims today, even this month of
Ramadan, they are not necessarily fasting.
But then for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
choose us,
and then it all goes down the drain,
or we come on yawmur qiyamal and our
actions are
It is like scattered particles.
This is really a big type of hermana
deprivation
that maybe Insha'Allah
in this lesson,
we do something about it.
You know
the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he spoke about the intention in many different
hadith with different scenarios.
And likewise, in the Quran, it is talked
about as well. You have the hadith of
where
the messenger said,
Whoever borrow some money,
and he makes the intention of paying it
back,
Allah
will help this person.
Whoever now takes the money of the people,
he borrows it, but he does it with
the intention of doing that person over.
He wants to do that person over.
What happens? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will end
up doing this person over.
Can you see the positivity and the negativity?
Just this movement in the heart,
the effects of it.
Also Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells in the
Quran,
There is no khair, there is no good
in the secret councils that take place amongst
the people
except the one who is commanding
with sadaqa.
He's telling the people to go and do
good.
Oh, he's trying to reconcile. He's solving their
problems.
And then Allah
says,
Whoever does this but he wants what?
He wants the pleasure of Allah
This person, we will give him a very
great, immense reward.
He is not solving the problems of people
just so later on,
he might get some reward from this person,
or this person starts respecting him.
Or maybe because this individual is a very
rich person,
and he knows if he now comes and
solves his problems and helps him out,
later on he gets some perks with it.
But he does this solely for Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala's sake because he wants the reward.
Also,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us about a
husband and a wife, sometimes when problems take
place between them. Just to show you again
what the intention can do in situations.
Allah tells in the Quran,
If you begin to sense or feel that
there's a problem between the husband and the
wife,
Bring out somebody from her family and bring
out somebody from his family.
Then Allah says,
If they have the intention of solving the
problem, they want to rectify it, Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala will help them.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will help them just
because of the intention.
Sometimes problems take place.
The family, they want to help the situation,
but the sister or maybe the brother has
already made up his mind,
but he doesn't wanna make this clear.
But if this person really, you know, just
makes the intention
of wanting to solve the problem,
Allah opens doors of for these people.
Also, the Messenger
and this is just the icing on the
cake
of how we can accumulate so much reward.
Even sometimes in situations where
a person doesn't even necessarily cross his mind.
Messenger SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
narrated by Imam Bukhari.
There's not a time when a person he
spends,
and he
intends through the spending the faith of Allah
except Allah will reward him. Even
brothers and sisters, the lukman, the food,
there
are person he places in his
wife's mouth.
Us just going as the Iceland,
since breathes us buying the food,
but we intend by it what? We want
to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala with it,
not because it's a chore.
We are just doing it because we have
to do it and we see it as
a burden. But maybe through that, we become
strengthened for our
Through that, our wives,
our families become strengthened
and through that they can worship Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala through that which they eat.
An intention that a person makes.
All of these examples that I just mentioned
of borrowing money,
of how the positivity could have,
and also trying to solve the problem between
the husband and the wife,
again with a positive intention you find a
lot of comes out of it, as I
mentioned in the ayah in Surat Nisa, and
all these other examples
is something brothers and sisters, it requires a
bit of movement in the heart.
But then,
He opens the door for this person.
So
brothers and sisters,
today
I
wanted to speak about the people of the
past.
The salaf, the 3 golden generations.
If you're going to try and be like
somebody brothers and sisters,
As Abdullah ibn Mas'ud he mentioned.
If any of you now wants to take
somebody to imitate,
let it be those who have passed away.
Why? Because the person who's still living,
he's not free from fitna. He might be
afflicted with a fitna tomorrow.
Today he's somebody, and tomorrow he becomes somebody
else.
So is the people of the past that
we have to try and be like. We
hear Quran, sunnah all the time. Right? We
need to follow the Quran and the sunnah.
But the restriction that is very very important
is,
Upon the understanding of the companions, the tabi'in,
the tabi'ir tabi'in.
If your aqeedah is in the way of
the people of the past, that's great. That
is the foundation.
But the religion is just not aqeedah,
even though it is the foundation of it
and it's very very important.
And it doesn't guarantee you a green ticket
to go into aljannah.
But it comes with many different components. The
akhlaq of a person, his etiquettes, and his
manners, the way he talks to people.
You have to try and be like the
3 golden generations.
Also with regards to the Ibadat, and this
is exactly what I want to speak about
today.
How they used to be with regards to
the Ibadat.
The prophet salallahu alayhi gave them a tazkiyah,
he praised them.
The best of them, he said, is my
generation. Those who come after him, the and
those who come after him, the
So in every aspect of our lives,
what we should try and do is try
and be like these people who are the
best people to walk on the face of
this earth.
The first point I want to mention, brothers
and sisters,
Them always trying
in order to have the correct intention in
everything that they've done.
And without the shadow of a doubt, brothers
and sisters, that's something very difficult.
If the people of the past, they struggled,
where do me and you stand? So if
you Anath Thore
the great Tabi
said, I haven't wrestled
with anything more than my intention.
Why? Because it keeps flipping from side to
side.
Also, a very powerful statement,
and this one, Wallahi brothers and sisters, we
should always place in front of our eyes.
He was from the companions of Imam Muhammad.
Even Imam Muhammad
said about him,
He's somebody who is fit enough to be
the Khalif of the Muslims.
Also, Imam Shabir
said,
I haven't seen anyone more intelligent than these
two people. Imam Mohammed and Surayman Al Hashmi
Rahim Allahu Ta'ala.
He said,
Perhaps I might
narrate a hadith and I have an intention.
Hadith
I might narrate a hadith, he says,
and I have an intention.
And then I reach the other part of
the hadith and my intention begins to change.
And perhaps maybe just one hadith, it requires
multiple intentions.
And this goes to when we give advice.
Let's just say for example, the hadith that
consists of 7, 8 lines. Let's just say
the hadith of Jibril. It's quite a bit
of a long hadith.
One might have the correct intention right at
the beginning,
but then while he's narrating,
the shaytan gets the better of him, or
more people they enter into his sitting,
and because of this, the whispers of trying
to impress them, the shaytan might whisper in
that person's ear.
So a person, while he's just narrating that
one hadith, he requires
to multiply, you know, all the time try
and check his intention out.
If the best of the people of that
time were saying this, of course it's very
very difficult.
And if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala can see
that in you, that you keep trying,
He gives you
If he sees that goodness in you, he
will give you that goodness of a person
really really trying.
And the more a person, he fights with
himself,
the more this individual is getting closer to
Allah
and doesn't affect him.
The showing off doesn't affect that person. Because
brothers and sisters, with regards to the ibadah,
we find
that one requires to be very patient
in 3 different situations.
Firstly, at the beginning of the Ibadah, before
he does the Ibadah,
which is he has to try and learn
that Ibadah, and he also tries
to learn the Ibadah in accordance to the
messenger of Allah alaihi wa sallam.
And then the other time where he has
to be very patient is at the time
of the Ibadah,
where he fights with himself in trying to
remain sincere,
of not showing off. In that, at the
time of it, and also after the ibadah,
He requires a lot of patience.
How does he,
remain patient?
By not talking about the actions and the
good deeds that he may have done last
night.
So as you can see brothers and sisters,
it's a very difficult thing.
Even the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam he said,
narrated by Muhammad Islam Al Hasan,
That which I fear for you the most
is
showing off, which is the shirk Al Azhar,
the minor shirk. Who was he speaking to?
He's speaking to the companions. The best of
the creation.
So we shouldn't take this matter lightly,
and the least we could do is actually
give importance to it,
us to think about it, to try and
introduce into our lives.
So Ibrahim Al Nakhahirahim Allahu Ta'ala, the tremendous
tabi'ahi he said,
ibn Yazid.
Abdulrahman ibn Yazid. Ibrahim Al Naka'id, the other
tabi'i mentions that he heard
or he knew of Abdul Rahman ibn
He
never used to do any action except
with trying to make his intention
present,
even at the time of drinking water.
Maybe at the time of drinking water, he
makes the intention of,
I want to use this to get closer
to Allah
so I have strength in my Ibadah.
So the mubaha, the things that are permissible
become
rewarded for this person. And likewise eating and
even sleeping. You wanna sleep, why? Because you
wanna be nashied.
You want to have energy with regards to
your Ibadah.
Are some of the tabi in that I
mentioned. Perhaps maybe a small action
because of the intention it becomes so great.
This is why subhanAllah
this example,
I remembered it now that they always mention
in Qawadul Fakhihyah.
If a person now, he goes, makes
He makes
and when entering into the Masjid at Fajr
time, Methilen, before Fajr, he makes the intention
to pray 2 raka'at of Fajr.
And also the Tahiyat al Masdid, at the
same time, he makes the intention.
And he also makes the intention of the
2 raka'at of
making wudu. That's 6 raka'at with what? One
intention.
A intention greater than such a
action because of that the intention.
Brothers and sisters, he was the son of
Jubeir ibn Mutaim,
the great companion. The one that narrated the
hadith
The one who cuts his relationship with his
family members won't enter into a jannah.
And Jubeir ibn Mutaim was the son of
Mutaim ibn Adi.
Who was Mutaim ibn Adi? The messenger of
Allah
was alive, he said, this is the Battle
of Badr after there were some captives that
were captured.
If he was still alive and he asked
me
to
if he wanted to intercede for them to
be let go,
I would have allowed it. Because Mutaim ibn
Ali Adi was
the one who gave the Messenger
refuge
after
he was exiled from Makkah. And he went
to Taif, and he was stoned, he was
given a heart, and then he came back.
He sent someone from Khuzaa to go to
Mutt ibn Adi to give him refuge.
So this individual now, Nafiyyah ibn Jubair,
he's from the offspring of Mutaim ibn Adi
who didn't die as a Muslim, but his
son, Jubeir ibn Mutaim, was a narrator of
hadith.
It was one time said to him, Are
you not going to attend the janaza?
He said,
until I make the intention.
He's wrestling with himself. He wants to have
the correct intention. He doesn't wanna go because
everybody else is just going.
Sometimes it becomes a chore for a person
to go. It's not necessarily
And Imam Ahmed Rahim Wa Ta'ala one time
said to his son,
Oh son, intend good.
You will remain upon goodness as long as
you intend good.
As long as you're intending good, you will
remain upon goodness.
Also, what I want to, Insha'Allah,
stand over is the way they used to
hide their actions.
The way they used to hide their actions.
Hassan al Basri
he said,
1 will memorize the Quran,
Hassan al Basih, again the tabi he is
saying this.
One will memorize the Quran in his home,
and even the neighbors won't find out about
it.
Even the neighbors won't find out about it.
Why? Because he's trying to keep this
really sincere.
And sometimes you find an individual,
he might end up accumulating so much knowledge
with regards to fiqh.
And nobody even realize it, nobody even knows
about it.
And perhaps sometimes he prays
a very long prayer. An individual is in
the home. He prays such a long prayer,
and he has
visit is over
while they are sleeping, and he's in the
middle of the night. He's praying such a
long prayer,
and his visitors, they don't realize. They don't
even notice this.
So he says we met people
who
when there was a chance to
hide their sins, hide their good deeds, they
would never ever make it apparent.
Also even the Mujeriz
who was again from the Tabi'in of a
Sham,
he said,
He was from the best of those,
the most eager of them to try and
hide
what he had of good deeds.
He had a house.
He would seclude himself in this house every
single Jummah.
And nobody would know what he does in
this house.
Abdul Haman ibn Mahdi
he one time said to Ibn Mubarak the
great tabi'i,
Ibrahim ibn Adham mim and sami'ah.
Again, Ibrahim ibn Adham was from the most
tremendous
try and read this individual's
autobiography in
and see what you come out with. The
Jews and the Gems of this individual's life
and the way he used to look at
life.
He asked the question,
he was asked Ibrahim ibn Adham, because he
was a very righteous, ascetic person in his
time, who did he take knowledge from? Who
did he hear their hadith from?
So Abdullah ibn Barak responded back and he
said,
you heard it from the people.
This individual, he carries a lot of virtue.
He was somebody who had a lot of
secrets with regards to Ibadat. The people didn't
know what he was doing.
I never ever saw this individual even
have a tasbih making it public.
And he never ever ate food with the
people
except that he was the last person
to raise his hand. Because normally brother and
sister, what tends to happen is when a
person is eating with a group of people,
if he only takes a food post or
maybe just 1 or 2,
people begin to think, oh Masha'Allah, this individual
doesn't eat a lot. He's a zayd. He's
an ascetic individual.
Somebody who abstains from all sorts of indulgences.
He just, like, takes a little bit and
he keeps it moving,
as opposed to the other individual who
might just eat and eat, and then people
start even thinking bad of him. So this
individual now,
even though he was somebody who was a
zahid, he would be the last person to,
what, raise his hand.
Just so the people later on don't start
saying and overpraising him behind his back, He
wanted to kinda, like, just stay very secretive
about some of the that he does in
the night and the other things that he
does.
That they had with regards to the sadaqah.
And this one's very, very powerful. If you
don't take away from
anything except this example,
Alibnul Hussain, we know that he was the
grandson of
Ali Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu, and he was the
great grandson
of the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
because he came from the offspring of Fatima
Radiallahu Ta'ala Anha. And these are the type
of Al Bayt.
This is the type of Al Bayt.
The family of the Messenger SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
that we need to try and imitate because
the Messenger SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam did say to
us,
I remind you of my household.
And from them is the offspring of the
Messenger of the Messenger of Allah Wa Alaihi
Wasallam, and they are
That they are followed, the people of the
past who are upon the correct Aqeedah.
Today you might find a person, he has
any problems in his
with regards to what he should be believing,
and people become deceived.
They quote this hadith, and they say you
need to follow the Al Bayt when in
fact the guy has a corrupt
If it was nighttime,
what Ali ibn al
Hussain would do was he would take the
sadaqa, the charities,
and also the sacks filled with ta'am, and
he would carry on his back.
So he would take this to the homes
of the widows and also the poor amongst
them.
And they would never know who put this
food and this sadaqaat in front of their
homes from the widows and the poor of
them.
And he would say,
Paying sadaqa in the middle of the night
when nobody can see what's going on,
it extinguishes the anger of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
And he wouldn't seek the help of even
a servant, a helper,
or anybody. Why? Because he doesn't even want
the servant to find out of the actions
that he's doing.
And he remained doing this for a period
of time.
And the Aramil, the poor and the
they would never know who how this came
about.
Falam Mehmed when he passed away.
And when he passed away, brothers and sisters,
they ended up seeing a dent, a dark
mark on his back.
So they realized it was him that used
to go around
and take the salakat and the sacks filled
with food,
giving it to all these Aramil, these widows
and the poor amongst them.
He says about him, Alayb ibn al
Hussain,
he would show stinginess to the people.
He would show stinginess to the people from
the apparent.
When he passed away, they
found
out that he was looking after so many
families,
a 100 families from the families of Ahl
Medina.
And the reason why they used to do
this is
because they never used to feel comfortable, or
they never used to see it to be
appropriate
to be doing sadaq in front of the
people.
Yes, brothers and sisters. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
he does say,
If he wants to know
make it apparent of the sadaqat because sometimes
maybe
we find that an individual, he
asked the people to pay the sadaqah and
he says, I'll be the first one to
pay to try and encourage them. Allah says,
this is something that is excellent,
but if you now hide your sadaqat,
and this is much greater, and this is
the asl of every Ibadah.
As he came
in the Some people will be under the
shade when there's no shade except his,
and from them is
a man
that pays the Sadaqa
The hand the left hand doesn't know what
the right hand gives.
And this is the Asal of every Ibadah,
and some people they just don't feel comfortable
with doing it openly.
So how about brothers and sisters,
us maybe when we go past the bucket,
we show everybody
the sadaqa that we're paying, or we talk
about it, or we might even write on
the masjid. And this has happens in some
Arab countries
where a person has his name. Of course,
we don't go into the person's intention.
But again, Hadha
It could cause one to become very deceived
with himself.
How they used to hide
when the fear of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
would overtake him or when they would feel
like crying.
Because sometimes, subhanAllah, you find that the ayat
might be read to you and it really
touches a person's heart
and it affects it.
And sometimes when your heart becomes affected you
find that it becomes apparent on the face
and it causes a person to
weep.
Hassan al Basir Rahim Allahu Ta'ala, he said,
1 he was sitting, he's sitting, and he
has people around him.
And then all of a sudden you find
that the fear of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
would overtake him.
If he feared that it was going to
overwhelm him and it would cause him to
maybe cry and just to become apparent,
he would stand up and he would
leave.
Sometime he would narrate a hadith or he
would recite verses to the people.
And then tears would come onto his face.
He would end up changing it to what?
To his laughter.
Just so the people don't realize that this
person now, Khushur, is overtaking him.
While Muhammad ibn Nawasi,
and he's the Al
Asdi,
and he was from those who ended up
meeting anti Semitic
who would sleep on the same pillow as
their wives, their head and her head would
both be on the same pillow.
His cheeks would become so filled with
tears, and even his wife wouldn't realize because
he would try to hold it in as
much as possible. He wouldn't even want to
show his wife
the khushuah and the
fear of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is overtaking
by the time of thinking about it.
A person, he would worship Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala for 20 years, and even his neighbors
don't know about it.
Hammad ibn Zaidi said,
from the most tremendous of the Tabi'in,
he talks about him.
Sometimes he would narrate a hadith,
and then his heart would soften.
He would turn around
and you know when you sometimes have phlegm
in your mouth or you
and then you try to take it out,
And he will say, Ma'a Ashedu Zukham, how
severe is this cold that I have?
He would turn into the fact as if
he's, like, sick or something. Ma'a Ashedu Zukham.
When likewise, Bakr ibn
Ayyub al Saqtiyani,
he mentions about his dad,
If he again felt like that
his heart started trembling and he was being
overtaken by the fear of Allah Azza wa
Jal,
he would scratch his nose.
He will say, Maa shaddu zukam.
How severe is the cold?
How they used to try and be so
eager in hiding the salatul layl.
And these are some examples brothers and sisters
that are,
subhanAllah,
really heart trembling.
It came in the Tarjama of Hasan ibn
Abi Sinan again from the tremendous of the
Tabi'in.
He used to be in Asran. He was
a Christian and later on embraced Al Islam.
Hassan ibn Abi Sinan, his wife she mentioned
about him.
She mentions
that Hassan ibn Abi Sinan
used to sometimes
cheat her the same way the mom, she
cheats
the baby
or the child.
Sometimes the child can't sleep except with his
what? With his mother next to him,
and he will cry till his mom comes
to the room,
and she has to fake that she's sleeping
in order for the kid to sleep.
So his wife, she says that he would
do the exact same thing. He would come
and he would spend the night with me,
and when he realizes that I've gone to
sleep, he would leave.
He wouldn't even say to her, Oh, you
know, honey I'm going to go and sleep.
I'm going to go and pray. InshaAllah, you
go to sleep. He will stay with her
so that even she doesn't find out.
He would stand up the whole night,
and he would hide it.
He would hide it from the people. And
when the morning came, it was a time
of Hajar,
He would make some sort of noise,
as if he just woke up from the
sleep at that very moment. So the people
don't realize that he just what Oh, he
was praying the whole night, and he was
just like everybody else.
Again from the Tabia'in.
If anybody wants to go back to Sira
Alam and Nubala and look up these names
and some of the lives, and we can't
go through everything about everybody that we're mentioning
to actually read up some of the things
that really soften up a person's hearts, brothers
and sisters, is looking up the tarajum.
The tarajim
of the people of the past,
of the salif,
to see how their lives were in order
to increase your iman. Sometimes when you're maybe
suffering from a lack of iman or a
dip in iman, to actually go back to
their stories
and to see how they used to be,
for it to encourage you.
He one time saw Rajulan Fil Majlis ba'ad
al Fajr. He saw a man in a
sitting after Fajr.
He saw somebody in a sitting
who
was just struggling to keep himself awake.
The tiredness and the sleep got the better
of him.
So he said to him, be careful. Be
careful.
Let not one think
that you are now struggling to stay awake
because
of you having stayed up all night
with prayer and the other that you were
doing. Try and hide as much as possible.
So a person doesn't even sense
that you are a somebody worships Allah in
the night.
Waqan Abdul Rahman ibn
Abi Layla.
He was again from the Tabi'in who met
a 120
of the Ansar alone. He met other companions,
but just from the Ansar he met a
120 of them.
He ended up hearing the Quran and hadith
from them.
He used to pray in the night,
and if somebody had entered into the home,
he would lie down on his firosh, on
his bed, just so the people don't realize
that this individual is praying.
And then he would find a convenient time
to go out and pray.
How do we combine? Of course, somebody might
be thinking the statement
where we said,
leaving off the because of the people is
a form of riya, because you never left
the off except because of the people.
Just as you go and do when somebody
is looking to leave it off
because the people are looking at you can
be showing off as well, and someone that
is
defamed.
They would not leave it off in totality,
they would just find a better situation to
apply that Ibadah,
while not leaving it off.
If somebody ended up leaving
sadaqah in totality because people might see him,
or Quran,
or giving out lectures because
of the people of him fearing and things
like that. That would be defamed.
But if a person now just swaps the
time or finds a better situation, Fath Amrun,
and
this is what they were
upon. I'm going to move on
and then one other point insha Allahu Ta'ala.
And then I'll leave it to that. And
these are very very beautiful examples of
as well. We know that Aslan, the Siam
is
a type of Ibadah that the people can't
see.
As the Messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam told
us,
This individual he leaves of his food and
his drink and his desires for my sake.
And SubhanAllah,
you know it's one of these very sincere
because
when a person's fasting, he can really go
behind the people's backs and go eat,
but he leaves off. Why? Because he's seeking
a pleasure of Allah
when in fact he can cheat those around
him.
He
He fasted for 40 years, and I'm not
speaking about the Ramadan that we fast.
We're talking about the voluntary fasting,
the superrogatory fast.
Even his own family never knew about it.
Horizon.
Brothers and sisters is somebody who used to,
tailor or jilt leather.
So on his way to work, he would
take the lunch that his wife, she got
ready for him,
and then on his way to work he
would give it as charity.
Would come back in the evening,
and he would eat with them.
He would eat with them, and when they
gave him the food at lunchtime, he would
give us charity on his way to work.
Just so even his wife doesn't find out
that he's fasting,
trying so hard to even hide the siam.
Again, he was from the Tabia'in.
For 20 years he fasted,
and even his own wife doesn't know about
it.
He would take his gada, he would take
his lunch,
and he would go to his place of
business, the Hanut
And he would give
us he would give us charity on his
way to work.
What they would do sometimes
because it would
spread amongst the people that he was somebody
who used to fast quite a bit, and
he wouldn't like the fact that it became
known of him to be such a habit.
He wanted to just keep this between him
and Allah
And to me Allah Azza wa Jal while
he's free from the madh,
the praise of the people because constant praise
brothers and sisters,
it could really cause a person to become
deceived. This is why from the types of
Ikhlasas that the scholars they mention is that
the signs of sincerity is that a person
who doesn't care
what the people say about him, whether it's
whether it's them or them defaming him.
He just does not care. That which is
concerned about
is that which is between him and Allah
Azza wa Jal. Him perfecting his Ibadah,
because the people they talk all the time.
Pleasing everybody is an objective you can never
ever meet. So Imam Malik Rahimullah Ta'ala said,
rectify that which is between you and the
people. Allah will rectify that which is between
you and the others.
Just you constantly jab between you and Allah
People talk bad, tomorrow they're going to praise
you. Today they're praising and tomorrow they drop
you.
That's why one should never care and attach
his heart to the people of what they
say and what they think of him. Because
that which concerns you most and what you
should really care about
is what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala thinks about
you. If all the people on the face
of this earth, they praised
you,
but you was very low with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
What benefit did I bring you? And if
all the people in the world, they ended
up talking bad about you,
but you was respected
and accepted by Allah
That's what you should really, really matter and
that's what eventually matters.
He would take a thermos or a brick.
What do you call it in English? Any
brick?
You know, in Somalia, they call it. Right?
Flask. Flock. What? Flask. Flask.
My English goes missing sometimes. The flask.
He takes the flask and in front of
everybody, he would what? Place it on his
on his mouth,
and then he would just
absorb it. He would like try to suck
the top part of the flask.
This is on a Jummah
where everybody's there
just so the people can stop praising him
because some people they find praising affecting them.
It affects the person,
and so they stop speaking about him
so that he can negate from him what
spread amongst the people of him being somebody
kathir al siam.
Last but not least, brothers and sisters, the
last point I'm going to mention,
A couple of examples
a couple of examples.
How they used to really, really fear for
themselves.
Even though they were doing righteous deeds at
the same time, he wouldn't think anything of
it.
It was from the way of the righteous
of them doing righteous actions.
This was their way.
And at the same time
he sees that he's falling short,
and he is not perfect
and that there is room for improvement.
Just look at some of these examples.
Abil Hassan ibn Al Qattan
he said,
Can somebody
talk to these kids, please?
He says, perhaps I was
afflicted in my eye,
and I think this was because of me
speaking excessively. What was the speech? Was it
because he was just talking rubbish, talking nonsense?
Look at the kind of thing they're thinking
about. He said, perhaps I was afflicted in
my eye
because of me excessively talking,
and speaking, and mentioning my ivd and my
knowledge, and things like that.
Because he feels like maybe I done that,
it was with the incorrect intention of me
trying to impress somebody else, and this is
not something that is what praiseworthy.
He spoke basically him fearing that he done
that to impress others. Not because he wanted
the face of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And even though this is not necessarily the
case
because these people were very very righteous,
he raises the possibility of him having done
that and because of this he's being punished.
Also, subhanallah, brothers and sisters, you have Sheikh
Mukbul bin Hadi.
That which shows this individual's sincerity.
He said,
This was the individual who founded the Marqus
in a Yemen,
who thousands of students used to go there.
From the students of,
Sheikh Al Bani and other than them
who was in Saudi Arabia and then later
on went
to Yemen
in a province that was filled with Shia,
and the curse of the companions, and the
companions to be cursed all the time.
He came because he was initially Shiah,
and then later on spread the Sunnah
until his students ended up going around the
world.
They say approximately
300,000
Ifad came out of the Americas.
The Sheikh Muhammad
found it.
He
said
perhaps they will enter in the Jannah
and we are still waiting at the door.
And
then he says we seek refuge in Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and maybe we are taken to the hellfire
to another place.
And then he goes on to say,
It's upon an individual
to fear showing off,
and it's upon an individual to fear falling
into
being deceived with himself.
These are from the righteous. This is what
they're thinking. Where do any of us stand?
Rabi Abin Abi Abdul Rahman, he one time
covered his face with something,
and he started crying.
It was said to him, what makes you
angry what what makes you cry?
And these are from
the those who are narrating a hadith and
teaching the people.
He said, a type of showing off that
is present.
And a type of a desire that is
hidden.
And the people
are like the children
that are with their parents.
The nanaas, the people with the ulama are
like the children
that are in the rooms of their moms.
When they are commanded to do something, they
do it, and when they are told to
stay away from something, they stay away from
it.
And he was he sent one time,
Why is it that I shouldn't cry when
I have so much defect with me?
So many issues, so much halal, so much
deficiencies.
I conclude with
something that happened between Afudayl ibn Ayyab was
Sufyan al Thawri. Again from the most tremendous
of the Tabi'in.
One time they came together and they sat.
They sat down and they started revising
that which would soften their hearts.
Each one of them softened the other person's
heart and they started crying.
I hope that this is a sitting.
I hope that this is a sitting where
we gain the barakah,
the blessing and also the rahmah of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So Fudayl
responded back to Sfian al Thuri and he
said to him,
I fear that this is a sitting that
we have sat
is most harmful to all of us,
and there isn't any sitting that we have
sat before that is more harmful than this
one. Look at what the first one said,
and look at the second one.
He's fearing that this masjid might now take
him into the hellfire. Why?
He said to him,
So he said to him, isn't it so
that
I ended up telling you of the best
type of
reminder that I can give,
and you did the exact same thing as
all,
and then you beautified yourself to me, and
I beautified myself to you with speech.
Because sometimes
what the shaitan could end up doing to
a person when he's in a gathering,
mention the best type of knowledge that you
have.
So the people start realizing, enter in the
shaykh, that you have something.
From the tala'ubert of the shaitaan,
by mentioning the best thing that you know,
so that people become impressed.
So now here for they live in ayaad
is saying to him, I really fear from
this Majlis is going to be the most
harmful to me,
fearing that he just only spoke in order
to impress him,
Fearing the type of what?
Having spoken to him in order to impress
him.
And because of this,
he feared for himself.
And through that,
Sufyanath Thawri Rahim Allahu Ta'ala started crying more
than the first time.
So the sheikhi comments,
Who even thinks like this today?
Look at the way they thought and look
at the way we as people think.
So brothers and sisters,
Wallahi Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
He has chosen us from so many people.
Just ask yourself how many people do you
know who are not praying, who are not
fasting, who are not doing the Ibadat?
They are
He's in darkness above darkness.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala chose you to fast.
Allah Azza Wajal, he chose us to pray
and then we come
on and we have absolutely nothing. Maybe because
there was a problem of the nia,
or maybe we fasted because we were trying
to gain good health based on a fabricated
hadith,
fast and you gain good health. There was
an incorrect contingent from the beginning of Ramadan,
or maybe we only come to Taraweeh,
or we fast because everybody else is doing
it.
Look at this hadith of the messenger sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
When a person is placed in his grave,
and his family members have come and dropped
him off into the grave,
they leave. That which he begins to hear
is the movement of their sandals walking away.
2 angels come to that person.
They set him up, they say to him,
What did you used to say about the
messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
He would say,
I heard the people say something, and I
said it as well. You know what happens
to me brothers and sisters?
A iron hammer is brought,
and he is hit in between his ears
in front in his head,
his forehead.
He shouts a shouting, everything here except the
jinn and the ins.
Why? Because he only followed the messenger sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam
because everybody else followed him.
He wasn't sincere. He didn't do it solely
for the sake of Allah
Imagine we come on Yomukhiam, and we get
asked about our prayer, and we say, we
only pray because all the jama'ah was going,
all the friends were going and we done
it as well. I fasted because it was
the vibe at the time.
I done Ibad because everybody was gathering onion,
you know, the taraweeha or in the tahajjud
because everybody was going to get together in
order to
start eating.
This is really really Muhammed.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala purify our hearts.