Adnan Rajeh – Performing Dawah – Outreach 2
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The speaker discusses the importance of performing dawear and outreach during the upcoming month, which is a theme of their community. They emphasize the need to be mindful of people who may not be able to handle the pressure of doing things and encourage them to take responsibility. The speaker also talks about the importance of understanding and following people in a way that is not harming them.
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We said that in Hasanin and Aqirin
So
collection of and
his and
what is called and has a reasonable generation
rate to us by the prophet
cousin Ateel. Does not allow a hadith? This
is one of them.
And the theme is the importance of dawah
or the significance of performing dawah and outreach,
which is the theme of this month,
August. We're hoping that inshallah or at least
I am, I need that people take upon
themselves the, the obligation,
performing dawah and bringing people to the masajid
and introducing to the houses of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala allowing us to welcome them and
to get to know them and and to
allow people to feel more comfortable in these
houses and that they feel feel that this
is a this is the center of their
community is where they should be and is
where they should, you know, feel, welcome and
at home inshallah, moving forward. Because that's how
we we, revive our community really is just
making sure that are
the go to spot for all of our
Muslim brothers and sisters whether they are close
to Allah or whether they are struggling. And
this hadith here is is within that theme
and this is a very interesting hadith. You
heard the story, I think, maybe through at
different points in your life, but I here
here's here's a nice kind of breakdown of
it.
Uncle and said, indeed your cousin oh, sorry.
Your nephew,
is harming us in our when we are
gathering in our Masjid, meaning where we go
for for prayer. Meaning, he's always coming up
with ideas. He's pushing back.
Can you please ask him to stop doing
that?
Bring me Muhammad.
So I went and I brought him
Oh my nephew,
indeed your cousins and he's referring to them
people of Quresh because Quresh is one big
family. Indeed, they are
claiming that you are harming them within their
gatherings and in their masjid. So please stop
doing that.
Looked up
to the sky for a moment.
And this was after years years years of
his struggle with them and a couple of
this was amongst the at the end of
the negotiation period just before they decided to
start and plan for his assassination
So he looked at this guy,
You see the son.
I
am not capable
of stop of stopping what it is that
I am teaching and what I am trying
to push people toward understanding and following
more than you are capable
of going to the sun
and
and bringing a flame from it.
Meaning, that there's no way that I'll ever
stop doing what I'm doing.
Said I,
Wallahi, my nephew has never in his life
ever lied to me. So go back, from
to where you came from. He's speaking to
the people of
Koresh.
Koresh never never spoke to Abu Talib
about this again. They did obviously do much
worse things, but this was the last time
they spoke to him
about
him
The point that I brought out this hadith.
The way he put this
is almost to say the way he said
it was that you see the that I
do
is a force of nature.
It's a force of nature. I will never
stop.
I don't have the ability to stop more
than you have the ability to go and
grab a flame from the sun.
I don't I can't. It's not possible.
This is I will always do this
until I'm not around to do it anymore,
until I'm dead, and then I can't do
it. Until I'm not here, then I won't
do it anymore. Yeah. I need with my
physicality. He still does it through his teachings,
but he won't do anyone would do it
physically because it's a force of nature, because
a part of who he is. It defines
his character. It defines his job and his
mission as it must define
ours, as it should be defining ours because
he left us
with this responsibility
after he left. He left it with us.
He left it with you to continue
this legacy, to continue to teach and to
spread. He can't stop more than they can
go and pull a flame from the sun.
Meaning, he will always do this, whether they
feel that they like it, they don't like
it, they want it, they don't want it.
Is is happy with it. Is not happy
with it. It makes no difference to him
He hopes that they listen. He wishes continues
to defend him. He wants them all to
accept the stem and be close. But whether
they do or they don't, satisfied,
unsatisfied, he will continue to do this
until his last moment because that's what Dawah
is to him, and that's what Dawah has
to be for us as well. This is
who we are. We are those who have
found guidance and wanna make sure that we
take it to everyone. They accept it. They
don't accept it. They join us or they
don't join us. That doesn't change anything. They
pros persecute us for it or they welcome
us for it. It doesn't change. We keep
on doing it because that's who we are,
and we can't stop it more than anyone
can go and pull a flame from the
sun.
And that's how we have to understand. I
love the way he says
because it's just very it's just it this
is who you are. This is who you
follow.