Adnan Rajeh – Performing Dawah – Outreach #15

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.