Adnan Rajeh – Humbleness #08
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The speakers discuss the upcoming season of the Islamic theme-week, focusing on the importance of humbleness and peace in addressing conflict. They express concern about the lack of transparency in the language used to combat the conflict and the negative sentiment towards speaking out against police shootings. The speakers emphasize the need to elevate language to avoid losing mental well-being and to share and elevate language to avoid losing the mental well-being of the community. They also discuss the importance of understanding the spirit's deen and how individuals can change their status at any time.
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This is all the final hadith within the
theme or the series of hadith about humbleness,
and I have narrated 7 today. Tonight's 8th.
It's way more than that, but that's what
I'm gonna end with. And then tomorrow, we'll
start about, we'll start, our pre Hajj theme,
hadith. I know it's it's not that early.
Starting tomorrow, it'll only get through 8 hadith,
by the end of time, we're coming close,
to that season. And as usual, inshallah, the
the the week, 10 or so, or maybe
before even 2 before Hajj, we'll we'll run
sessions that are, they'll talk about the journey
of Hajj and the beauty of it and,
you know,
make sure everyone understands why why this why
this why this, pillar is so important in
our deen and hopefully encourage people to, to
do it at some point in their lives.
In the midst of all of this, though,
Yaniyah, whatever we talk about
here and and the and the and we're
and we're supposed to talk about different Islamic
aspects, obviously, in the masjid and and, you
know,
cover different ethics and values and principles and,
you know, it's it's what masajid are for
and what these halakats or or these are
designed to do. It's very hard these days
to actually talk about anything aside from what,
Yani, what we're seeing happening in in the
in the holy land in Philistines and Rafa.
And probably this is, in my opinion, the
worst imaging or imagery that we have seen
since the beginning of this whole conflict in
the last eight and a half months. I
don't think I've ever seen anything so brutal,
so savage, and just lacking of any form
of
of of humanity within it. It's just it's
just mind boggling the way this is this
is playing out.
And may
Allah make it easier for them
We we have we have a a moral
at this point, I I I can't talk
about this from an Islamic perspective anymore. Like,
I have to stop using that terminology.
This is a moral obligation.
Now this is out this is beyond this
is beyond the nation and ummah and group,
and it's a moral obligation. If you have
any degree of of of of compassion or
justice or humanity and you you can't watch
this like, there have been there have been,
probably worse,
atrocities that occurred
across history in the past. I'm sure there
were. Right? But nothing has been
documented
in real time like this. Like, not not
like this. Not where you watch
you watch children being pulled out of the
rubble, Yani, in in pieces. You this is
not something that we like, you would hear
about the stories afterwards, but this is happening
in real time. Like, there there are people
standing there with with phones
showing you what's actually occurring, showing not you,
knowing the world was actually occurring, and it's
and it's and it's ongoing. It's an ongoing
thing. And and, you know, the the language
that is used to,
to to to, you know, to combat it
or to fight it or to push back
at it is language that is that is
disrespectful.
It's shameful. It's pathetic. It's weak. It lacks
any form of of,
of objectivity.
And the reason that that's the case is
because look,
Any any any any righteousness, any cause that
does not have people who are willing to
defend it and speak out for it will
be lost, will be forgotten.
And this is a haqq that the people
who should be speaking about it stop speaking
about it at some point for a long
period of time, which made
the the aggressors, the transgressors, the oppressors
feel comfortable enough to do something like this.
They felt comfortable enough. They felt that there
would be no consequences if they did this.
They felt that they could get away with
just burying tens of thousands of human beings
under the rubble of their own homes and
and no consequences, no repercussions would occur. And
I'm scared that they're gonna be right.
My fear would would, you know, make me
stick to my stomach is that they may
be right. They may actually be able to
get away with something like this and and
very little repercussions.
Unless,
somehow, this this group of people, this nation,
finds its voice again and finds its place
in the world and is willing to, you
know, risk maybe some of their comfort and
some of their leisure
to speak the truth and to defend the
truth and to stand by the truth. And
the truth at this point is really simple.
These are people who are these are these
are people who have no one who is
willing to protect them or stand by them.
They're civilians who are in tents in refugee
camps that are just being destroyed
and being killed,
meaninglessly,
brutally,
and heartlessly.
And the world somehow lacks the ability to
to speak out against it. And that's something
that I want you to understand that if
you attend anything this masjid and when you
hear me talking, you know, explaining or talking
about or explaining some masala here and there,
This is not disrespect towards what's happening overseas.
That's all that we think about, and that's
all that lives inside of us at all
times, by the way. Like but you can't,
for the mental well-being of a community, the
spiritual well-being of the community, you can't talk
about just one thing all day long. It'll
just it'll just way too heavy on people.
So you have to share, yeah, any things
he said
and I, they talk about other things that
allow the spirit to elevate a little bit.
But in our hearts, we continue to you
know, we don't never lose sight of what
the goal is.
And you listen, you learn the deen, you
never lose sight of the of the prophet
and his legacy, what he left behind. You
never lose sight of that, and I hope
that's just something for you to think about.
I'll narrate this final hadith. It's very short.
It's my favorite when it talks about humbleness
because
I never narrate it because I get very
emotional when I do even though it's very
simple. It's just a few words he said,
but it's just I don't know why. I
just find that these words are so genuine
and so meaningful
that I would never be able to say
them myself. So I I I usually, you
know, stay away from this hadith, but I'll
try and get through it quickly.
So
he
said I am nothing but a servant.
Is is exclusivity. I am nothing but a
servant. I sit like a servant and I
eat like a servant, alayhis salaam.
He said this when some people were pointing
out that, Yani, what what type of prophet
is this? What king is this? What leader
is this? What Yani Rasul, what what what
what he said, I am nothing but a
servant. That's all I am.
He's the one who carries the
His
his status is something that is not un
un understood or unexplained
by Allah
to to his people, to to to his
creation. We
know who this person is
and the love Allah has for him and
the status that he carries. And this is
what he says about himself. I am nothing
but a servant. I sit like a servant
and I eat like a servant, and he
did. And he lived his life like that,
And he refused for anything else to occur,
and you could not make him do it
differently. And if a servant asked if a
slave asked him to come, he would sit
and he would sit like this, he would
have his tambour
He would exchange a conversation. He didn't feel
that was and he never
sat.
He he never had banquets like we do,
and he never put himself in a position
where he would never. He he refused, alaihis
salaam, to be seen that way. Even though
he's the only living person who deserved to
be seen that way. And if you saw
him that way, it would be nothing wrong
with it. There'd be nothing wrong it would
be appropriate for his status. It would be
appropriate for the status that Allah gave him,
alayhi salatu wa sallam, and yet he refused.
So how is it that someone who is
not given that status allowing themselves to be
in a different position?
How is someone who does not have anything
that's even remotely close to that status allow
themselves to see allow themselves to see themselves
in any other light aside from the light
that he saw himself through
and then see him for who he actually
is
And I find that to be the yeah.
I need the the nicest explanation or the
nicest
description of how he lived his life and
how he cared himself