Adnan Rajeh – Humbleness #06
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The speaker discusses the behavior of the prophet's son who sat on the ground and ate on the floor, but did not feel that any effort was required to make a point to himself. The speaker explains that the son did not feel embarrassed or required effort to make a point to himself, but the behavior was natural and should be learned.AI: Transcript ©
This hadith is in collection of 3 in
3 collections, you know, collection of Tobrani and
Ibn Saad and his and as well, Imam
Behan Mishra bin has a reasonable generation right
to us by ibn Abbas and Anas. And
the wording is the same almost. Almost with
maybe a very small variation. I'm not gonna
even go into it. And they describe the
prophet
And they described
him by the following words.
So they they described him
with 4 things. They said,
he used to sit on the on the
ground
even though there may be other ways for
him to other places for him to sit.
Maybe there there was availability of sitting on
any,
chairs or on something on a on something.
He he was offered. Obviously, Adi saw some
thrones throughout his life, especially in his late
life. And he refused. He would always refuse.
And he would enter someone's house. He would
always sit wherever the person
It's exactly the same level. He would refuse
to sit on anything higher. So even if
if if the difference was just a,
a a a a very
thin piece
of furniture. He wouldn't he wouldn't sit on
that. If you're sitting on the ground, he
would sit on the ground right in front
of you. And most whenever he whenever he
he sat, and he he would make sure
and when he or he ate, he ate
on the ground as well. This is
eating on the ground. There's nothing wrong with
eating on a table and and and,
and chairs. It's fine.
However,
maybe at some point in your life when
you have children, teach them to eat on
the ground. There's something in that that's helpful
for them. Even if that's not the norm
in the house and it doesn't have to
be, but maybe every once in a while,
have them sit on the on the ground,
the floor, and eat.
Because it's it's humbling. It's it's a nice.
It's something in it for them to kinda
appreciate,
a little bit of humility in the way
that they they receive Allah's
nama. The prophet
always eat on the on the floor, on
the ground. He would sit on the ground.
He'd eat on the ground.
He would he would see him uh-uh pulling
a
a shah, which is a a female
sheep, or sometimes it can be used for
for other for for a for a goat
as well. So he would he would he
would see him by the horn or or
by the, by the collar pulling pulling a
sheep, and he wouldn't you you didn't necessarily
send any someone else to do this, alayhis
salatu wa sallam. He would take care of
his animals. Like, whatever animals he had,
whatever he had, he would he would he
would manage them with himself. He didn't have
someone else do this for him. He didn't
feel that this was something that took away
from his status. The point of what they're
trying to point out here is that he
did these things, and he didn't feel that
they were taking away from his status alaihis
salatu wa sama, or that he was beyond
that, or that or that these things were
beneath him. No. He very naturally and normally
would sit on the floor, he would eat
on the floor, he would manage his own
animals.
Is someone who doesn't have their freedom.
He would respond to the invitation of of
a slave
who was inviting him to eat
which is,
bread made from barley.
So I'm not I'm not sure if you've
if you've been on a really horrible diet
and they made you eat barley bread but
it's it's it's it's horrible. And and and
it really is very difficult to eat. And
I had I had a friend who had
a specific
disease
and he would have to eat.
And honestly, I used to I I had
no idea how this person was able. It's
so difficult to eat. Like, it it just
taste it does not taste nice at all.
And it's it's really and and the prophet,
by the way, never ate,
the bread that we we ate we eat
ever. He he he never had the luxury
of eating bread that was made from, processed
wheat.
If it yeah. It was always made from
either either processed barley or non processed barley.
So barley with its, with with with with
the, with the covering. So
he would respond to the invitation of a
slave who was inviting him to eat a
piece of, of barley bread with
him because he didn't feel that any of
that was something that he shouldn't do or
that any of that was something that was
beneath.
Very normal to him. Because it's not and
it wasn't the point of him them saying
this about him. So he didn't put he
didn't put any effort in doing this. Maybe
maybe I'll maybe if I'm in that position,
I'll put effort into doing it. So I
I make make a point of sitting on
the ground. No. No. He wasn't making a
point. This is what it came naturally because
he understood the reality of of humanity and
who he was
as a servant.
Understood that. So it was normal. It was
natural. And this is the piece that we
have to understand about him
that he didn't this was not an effort
that he put in where he would go
out of his way and and respond to
the invitation of a slave just to show
that he's humble. No. No. This this is
natural. It was normal. He didn't this felt
to him as the most it came to
him
naturally because of understanding of things. We have
a problem in the way we understand things.
So we may do one of these things,
but we'll do them out of our way.
Like, because we don't think we should be
doing them or we a part of us
may feel a little bit embarrassed to do
them. He didn't salaahu alaihi wa sama. That
is the key difference. Is that he lived
his life not feeling that any of these
things required any effort or that he did
them to make a point to himself. He
just felt them that that was natural. He
sit on the floor, get on the floor,
pull
pull pull a sheep along or go and
and and share a piece of barley bread
with the slave who's inviting him to it.
And that's just his character.
And it's really the character piece that you
have to learn. Maybe not the the practices
will differ from one timing in in our
lives to the other. It's the character piece
that we have to learn from him.
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