Adnan Rajeh – Dealing with Turbulence of Time-2

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The speaker discusses the importance of reading the Hadith and following Islam, emphasizing the beautiful source of comfort it provides. They also give advice on managing turbulence and being careful of adding things to Islam, particularly during death. The sun is his way of life and everyone can be proud of him.
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This is the night of Jumu'ah.
It is a lot of barakah in this
night, the blessed night, and the sunnah is
to increase your salah upon the Prophet ﷺ
in every good deed.
The hadith tonight is a collection of Imam
Ahmad, Imam Udawud, Imam Ibn Hibban and it
has a reasonable chain of narration and this
is a very famous hadith and the theme
of talking about dealing with turbulence or fitna
and as I pointed out yesterday and I
want this to maybe resonate with some of
you, that when you read the chapters of
fitna in books of hadith, usually the context
is always focusing on Armageddon or the apocalypse
or something that is going to happen later
in the future or something that has happened
already.
So it takes away sometimes or it strips
us sometimes from our ability to benefit from
the hadith and to walk away with something
that we can do.
If you look at turbulence, the word fitna
or fitan, as what it is, just a
turbulence that happens in your life on a
personal level, on a communal level, and you
learn from the Prophet ﷺ how to deal
with them, then actually these hadith become very
eye-opening.
They become really beautiful and you really, really
benefit from the profoundness of them.
And I'm going to try and do that
for you just so that you can inshallah
find some beauty and these hadith are very,
usually always slashed aside, people don't read them
very often, they're left for the scholars to
do in halaqats, when really I find that
there's a lot in them.
So this hadith is very famous, this is
what Arbad ibn Sariah said, وَقَالَ صَلَّى بِنَا
رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ ذَاتَ
يَوْمٍ ثُمَّ التَفَتَ إِلَيْنَا فَأَقْبَلَ عَلَيْنَا بِوَجْهِ صلى
الله عليه وسلم, he's right.
So one day the Prophet ﷺ prayed, then
when he finished he turned around and he
faced us with his face ﷺ, usually he
would do his dhikr or his du'a,
at this point he put his face out
and he got the attention of everyone, فَقَالَ
فَوَعَضَنَا مَوْعِظَةً بَلِيغَةً ذَرَفَتْ مِنْهَا الْعُيُونِ وَوَجِلَتْ مِنْهَا
الْقُلُوبِ حَتَّى قَالَ قَائِلٌ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ كَأَنَّ
هَذِهِ مَوْعِظَةٌ مُوَدِّعٌ فَبِمَاذَا تُوصِيْنَا So he turned
to them ﷺ and he gave them a
reminder, a true maw'idah, something that moved
the hearts of those who were listening, their
hearts were moved and their eyes ran with
tears and one of the people who were
sitting with, he said, يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ it
seems as if you are giving us a
farewell reminder, it's as if you feel like
you're never going to see us again and
if that is the case what wasiyah do
you leave with us and what should we
do if you leave ﷺ and many of
the scholars take that this actually was a
maw'idah that he gave ﷺ after hijat
al-wada'a, after his final sermon so
it was actually accurate, within three months he
had passed ﷺ so it was very much
so that's why he didn't correct the Prophet
ﷺ in his answer, he didn't correct the
person, he actually gave them a piece of
wisdom that we carry on today and you
hear a lot so he said the following,
قَالَ ﷺ أُوصِيكُم بِتَقْوَ اللَّهِ وَسَّمْعِ وَطَّاعَتِي وَإِنْ
عَبْدًا حَبَشِيًّا فَإِنَّهُمْ مَنْ يَعِشُ بَعْدِي فَسَيَرَ اخْتِلَافًا
كَثِيرًا number one, I leave with you my
final piece of wisdom or my wasiyah amongst
you, what I ask of you and this
is what a wasiyah is, when someone asks
you of something and it's a final ask,
I ask you of taqwa, for you to
continue to be mindful of Allah and number
two is سَمَعُ وَطَّاعَةِ for you to follow
along, meaning when the Muslims are unified and
they have a leader that you will offer
سَمَعُ وَطَّاعَةِ we talked about this in a
previous khutbah, the Prophet ﷺ is بَيْعَتْ لَعَقَبَةِ
is سَمَعُ وَطَّاعَةِ that you are going to
adhere, you are going to follow along قَالَ
وَإِنْ عَبْدًا حَبَشِيًّا even if your leader is
a slave that is brought from a part
of Africa and there's nothing wrong with that
obviously, but to the culture of the people
he was speaking to ﷺ, to them this
was something they had never heard of before,
so he ﷺ was challenging them, was challenging
some of their inherited understandings that yes, even
if one day you're ruled by someone who
was once a slave from a different culture,
you will listen because Islam is what unites
you, not your race, it's not urooba that
brings us together, it's Islam that brings us
together, it doesn't matter where the person comes
from فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ يَعِشْ بَعْدِي فَسَيَرَ اخْتِلَافًا كَثِيرًا
indeed, those who will live after me or
outlive me will see a lot of differences,
they'll see a lot of conflict, a lot
of dispute that's going to come, and then
he ﷺ said وَعَلَيْكُمْ بِسُنَّةِ وَسُنَّةِ الْخُلَفَاءِ الرَّاشِدِينَ
الْمَهْدِيِّينَ مِنْ بَعْدِي and I ask you to
hold on to my sunnah, to my way
of life sunnah is not just the miswak
and the imamah and the, as beautiful as
these things are sunnah is his way of
life ﷺ, how he saw the world, how
he treated people, what he valued, what he
sought to be, what his principles were ﷺ,
those things have to come first and then
everything else will follow take my sunnah, and
the sunnah of those, the leaders, the khulafa,
my successors who are rashideen, who walk the
straight path, mahdiyeen, who are guided by the
word of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that
come after me تمسكوا بها hold on to
it وَعَضُوا عَلَيْهَا بِالنَّوَاجِذِ and bite down on
the, with your molars, like if you have
no other way to hold on to it
aside from biting down on it with your
teeth, if your arms are cut off and
your legs don't work and the only thing
you can do to hold on to this
sunnah is bite down on it with your
inner teeth and that's what you do, that's
what he's teaching ﷺ عَضُوا عَلَيْهَا بِالنَّوَاجِذِ and
this continues to be the way the Prophet
ﷺ taught us to live this is what
he left you with ﷺ, this is what
he asked you to do as turbulence comes
throughout life and you deal with these difficult
moments remember that ﷺ did not leave you
lost, no, he left you with clarity you
continue to be mindful of Allah, you continue
to hold on to the jama'ah of
the Muslimin you commit to the group, you
don't go on your own, you stick with
the jama'ah even if the jama'ah
is run by someone you don't like, even
if the jama'ah is run by someone
you don't respect even, even, it doesn't matter,
you stick to the jama'ah because that's
how we're defined, there's nothing else and then
you hold on to his way of life
ﷺ and the way of life of those
who were guided after him ﷺ the word
khulafa is not necessarily even a political term
in this hadith the word khulafa in this
hadith is not even necessarily a political term
but rather it's a religious one because the
khalifa is someone who picks up after someone
else and the Prophet ﷺ here wasn't even
necessarily talking about politics he was talking about
those who will pick up after him as
in the religious leadership of this ummah those
who he will learn from after he passes
away ﷺ it happened to be the first,
the same people when he passes away ﷺ
who are they going to learn from?
Abu Bakr I'm going to learn from first
and then if he's gone I'll learn from
Umar and then from Uthman, and then from
Ali, and then Zubair, and Tarha it happened
to work that way anyways but he's trying
to teach us, here's who you hold on
to hold on to this, tamassaku biha, wa
adlu alaiha bin nawajid and bite down on
it, bite down on it if you have
no other way to hold on and that's
how you deal with turbulence that is how
we deal with turbulence as an ummah we
hold on to what he left us ﷺ
and in the midst of these tornadoes and
high waves that are hitting us within this
world as long as we continue to hold
on to this wasiya that he gave us
ﷺ we will make it we will, when
the sun finally shines and it all calms
down you'll still be standing and you'll still
be facing the right direction and you'll still
be able to own that which you believed
in to begin with and there's no other
way around it aside from that and I
find this hadith, this hadith is beautiful he
concludes it ﷺ, he says wa iyaakum wa
muhdathati al-umuri fa inna kulla bid'atin
dhalalatin wa kulla dhalalatin finnaar and be careful
of making things up be careful of adding
to Islam something that's not from Islam be
careful of deciding that you don't like it
and you want to put your own touch
into the deen and bringing something that he
never taught, subhanahu wa ta'ala or bringing
something the Prophet ﷺ never taught because you
do that, you misguide people and when you
misguide people you end up in jahannam wa
l-iazubillah he left you with everything you
need ﷺ there's no need to make something
up and I think there's a lot within
that to reflect upon yarwil imam wahmad fi
musnadihi bi sanadin hasanin al-irbad ibn sariyah
qala salla bina rasulullahi ﷺ dhata yawmin thumma
altafata fa aqbala alayna bi wajhihi fa wa
'adana maw'idatan balighatan dharafat minha al-ayoon
wa wajilat minha al-quloob hatta qala qailun
ya rasulullahi ka anna hadhi maw'idata muwaddi
'in fa bimada tuwsiina fa qala ﷺ uwsiikum
bitaqwa Allah wa sam'i wa atta'ati
wa in abdan habashiyan fa innahu man ya
'ish ba'di minkum fasayara akhtilafan kathira wa alaykum
bi sunnati wa sunnati al-khulafa ir-rashideen
al-mahdiyeen min ba'di tamassaku biha wa abduu
alayha bin nawajid wayyakum wa muhdathati al-umuri
fa inna kulla bid'atin dalalah wa kulla
dalalahin finnaar sadaqa rasulullahi ﷺ alhamdulillah la ilaha
illa anta astaghfirullah