Adnan Rajeh – Performing Dawah – Outreach #15
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The speaker discusses the concept of a person who is trying to push people back from the fire and eventually falls into it. They also talk about the speaker's belief that people are being held back from their actions by the Lord and the importance of understanding the potential impact of their actions on the world. The speaker emphasizes the importance of not overestimating the potential impact of actions and the need to be mindful of one's actions.
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So the Prophet 'alayhi salawwalaam says, Indeed, exclusively
the example, the simile
of myself and people
is the example
of someone
who made a fire.
And once a fire was made and it
was,
it was kindled and the light spread,
Everything around it was visible.
The different types of creatures that fall into
the fire
for different reasons that just are
naturally
attracted towards it and end up falling into
it, started coming and
naturally falling into it. And the
man is trying to push them back, or
remove them, or get them to stay away
from the fire. And he is trying to
push them away, and they are finding ways
to get around him. And he is pushing
them back and they are falling into the
fire anyways.
And I am holding you back from your
belts from Jahannam.
Luhajaz
is like Back in the day they used
to wear like, certain types of,
of pants that you would
The top part would would, be
flipped a couple of times over.
Something that's very,
thick. And that's the
yeah. It doesn't we don't have this anymore.
We have belts though. The belts are the
closest thing I can I can I can
I can bring you, but it's not actually
a belt, but it's that middle part? And
it's very it used to be very thick
and quite,
heavy. So if I caught you from it
or you caught some it it it makes
it difficult to move. So the prophet alayhi
wasalam is saying, and indeed I am holding
you from your belts.
From back from jahannam.
And some of you
slipped through my fingers.
And some of you slipped through my fingers.
They just I I can't I can't hold
on or I can't hold on to too
many all at the same time and some
some of you just don't I can't I
can't hold you back. Alayhi Salaam.
This is how he saw. This is how
he saw his relationship
with people
around him alaihis salatu wa sallam. He saw
it and it's a very simple
equation. The formula was not complicated for him
alaihis salatu wa sallam. He saw himself as
the guardian. He saw himself as the person
who was going to prevent
all of the all of humanity from entering
jahannam ul yadubillah. It was created. It doesn't
have to be. It will be, but it
doesn't have to be filled.
And if it will if it does, it
doesn't have to be with you. And if
it will, it doesn't have to be you
or those who follow him alaihis salatu wa
sallam. If he has the ability, if he
has the option, if he has the possibility
to hold you back then he will. And
that's how he sees his relationship with you.
Just hold you back from jahannam as much
as he can.
He's going to exhaust all of his all
of his, efforts and resources to try and
do that alayhi salatu wa sallam. He says
sometimes,
and you guys enter anyways. And I and
I and you slip through my fingers I
can't hold you back alayhi salatu wa sallam.
And if
we adopted just a fraction
of that mentality from him, alayhis salatu wa
sallam, recently if you inherited
just a fraction of that mentality from him,
alayhis salatu wa sallam, it would change your
your world view completely.
It changes the mindset altogether. You see
things differently. You see yourself as blessed beyond,
you know, beyond the ability to ever
account for. Like
beyond
the capability of understanding the magnitude of it.
Blessed in a way that it'll never be
possible to understand because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
has guided you. And because you have been
blessed to that degree, you look at those
around you as people who
deserve the blessing that you have as much
as you do and those who you would
like to make sure that they receive the
blessing that you have.
Then if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has granted
you a path where you know that this
path leads
to paradise, it's a path that does not
lead to jahannam and you're blessed to at
least know it and to be walking on
it whether you make it or not is
in the hands of Allah, but you're blessed
enough to know that this is the correct
path and this is where it, then you
want everyone to be on that path as
well.
And if you understand him alayhis salaat, that's
how he saw it. He saw life in
this very simple manner. So whatever it took
to help someone,
to help one of the people who are
slipping into the fire to be held back,
then he would do it, salallahu alayhi wa
sallam. And there's no price too, too expensive
for this.
Nothing was too pricey for this. At least
that's how we saw it, alayhi wa sallam,
And if we are true inheritors of his
legacy sallallahu alaihi salawat wa sallam ish min,
then you inherit this mindset.
You inherit this feeling that you have been
blessed with this guidance.
Hold as much as you can.
Hold back as many as you can. And
if we all did that then if you
think about it,
I love the way he used he used
this phrase. He could have used any other
phrase.
Right?
If people did this, if I held you
from that
position and you held me and someone else
then it becomes we become a wall.
We become something that's unpenetratable
because it's there's that strength and that unity
and that interconnectedness,
And we only move as a group from
then on. We only move as a group
from then on. We don't move as individuals
where their energies are getting their energy is
being lost into space because it's unsynchronized
and
is not harmonious.
It becomes we become a unit that only
moves together because I see you that way.
You see me that way. That's our goal.
And I think it's something worth contemplating.