Adnan Rajeh – Performing Dawah – Outreach #7

The

theme of dawah or outreach is what these,

hadith

are focused on, and I'll be narrating challah

for another week or so, to encourage all

of us to perform dawah

in whatever way we know how to and

try and bring people to masajid and and

help them feel comfortable in masajid and be

a part of masajid. That's the only way

for our ummah to find its way back

again. It's through it's through performing this

this this this sacred act.

The the job of the Prophet salayahu alayhi

wa sallam. When you do this, then you

are now, you know, you're you are truly

following the Prophet because that's what their job

was. That's what they they were they were

hired by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to call

people to his way. So you're doing you're

following in their footsteps.

And this hadith wallahi.

Ani, I I it's just it's very short

but it's just a very

it's a very powerful one. This is what

he said alayhi

salaam.

You

understand?

He said, Alayhi Salaam, I will sometimes give

a certain person wealth

and there's someone else whom I love more,

but I'm giving it to this person because

I'm scared that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is

gonna throw home in jahannam on the day

of judgement.

So I'm giving them wealth so that they

will stay closer to Islam and they will

hold on to their deen and they will

continue to be guided because I don't want

them to find themselves in jahannam on the

day of judgement.

Here's what he said alayhi salatu wa salam.

There are examples of this obviously in the

seerah.

Right? The probably the most the clearest of

the examples that we have is on the

day of Hunayn.

When the prophet, alayhis salatu, alayhis salam, gave,

Yani, he gave so much wealth. Yani al

Safwan and Yani al Abu Sufya. And he

he just gave wealth and and the unsar

were standing there getting

Yani.

Seriously. It's like

for 10 years we we lost everything.

Finally we can cash in. Finally there's something.

We can smell a little bit of duniya

and he's giving it to these Qurashi men

who just accepted Islam yesterday, who have a

lot of money anyways.

And he's just giving. So some of them

said,

Well, the prophet found his family.

He said something

and they got upset.

Made his way to the prophet alayhis salatu

wasalam.

So he called Saad ibn Ubada and a

couple of other other leaders and he said,

yeah Saad, and

I heard that your

your insul are saying something.

The prophet alayhis salam has found his family.

He's happy with his family. He's giving

what do you say? Saad.

I

say what my people say. He didn't wanna

say it like he he couldn't say it

to the prophet directly.

So

the prophet in the known story he gathered

all of the insar

in a

saqifa, meaning an area. And he would make

sure that no one there was anyone else

but the Ansar. Only the Ansar and Abu

Bakr Umrah as witnesses. He would give this

long khutbah. It's a beautiful khutbah.

And he would say something in this this

hadith that is similar to what I just

narrated to you. He would say,

What you found

a little bit of upset in your hearts

because of a little bit of garbage of

dunya that I gave to some people who

whose whose iman is very weak and they

just accept it. I don't know if they're

gonna stick to it or not. And I

know that

I know that your iman is strong so

I didn't have to worry about you. You're

upset about some dunya. And then he said

it would say, and it's a long hadith.

It would say Is it enough enough for

you that everyone takes the goes home with

their wealth and with their sheep and with

their camels and with their money and you

go home with the prophet

Alimba.

But this is what he said, alayhis salasib.

I sometimes will give a man wealth.

There's someone else whom I love more.

I'm just scared that his iman is weak

and he will lose his deen and then

Allah says, I will throw him in jahannam.

If I can buy his iman with money

then that's a cheap price.

If money can fix it, it's cheap.

Have you learned that about life yet? If

money can fix it, it's not a big

problem.

If money can fix it, it's not a

problem, Ulla. It's not even a problem, it's

not If money can fix it, It's the

problems that money can't fix that are real

problems.

I live in the I'm an oncologist.

I'm an oncologist.

Money doesn't fix

it, and money doesn't fix it. Doesn't matter

how much money you have, it doesn't fix

it, it doesn't fix it. You could be

the wealthiest person on the world, it doesn't

mean anything.

Money is the problems that money can't fix

that are real problems. Money problems that money

can fix are nothing. The Prophet alaihis salam,

money? Alaihis salam, he's looking at someone, if

money will get your it will get your

behind in jannah, then here's money. Take money

because it's nothing. I just need to make

sure you make it to jannah and that

you don't end up outside because that's the

loss. That is the loss that can never

be fixed. That's the sorrow that will never

end. That those are the tears that will

never dry up. That is the pain that

will never go away is when someone doesn't

make it to Jannah. What is the price

for that? What price for that is too

high? Tell me. What price for that is

too expensive? Is there one? Is there a

price too expensive to get someone to Jannah?

Is there?

Think about it. Is there? I don't know.

I can't imagine when

to him, Aliya saw some of his money.

No problem. Here's money.

And he would tell them, Yeah, I'm here

going to Jannah, InshaAllah.

You have iman Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala strengthen

your iman. Be a bekhilah. There's others who

lose it, who don't have that. They need

a little bit of dunya to get themselves

across the finishing line. Here's some dunya to

get them across the finishing line. But that's

how he saw it alayhis salaat wisdom. That's

how he lived. That's how he saw the

world. To him, it was just getting you

to jannah. Getting you to jannah. Making sure

you made it. That's it. Nothing else mattered.

Nothing else had any importance. Everything else was

just background

background noise that didn't that didn't mean anything.

But sometimes people lose their way and sometimes

people lose sight of these things, of things.

And I think we have to go back

and look at this. Why do we fundraise

every year? Why do we take money into

our community? For what? What is the point?

What is the point? The point is to

make sure people make it the jinnabasta point.

The point is to make sure that we

help people strengthen their iman so they can

make it in. So we don't lose family

members. So we don't lose community members who

who are out in the in the outskirts

of of our

umm. It's it's to reel them in so

that we don't have a brother and a

sister and a relative who doesn't make it

to jannah because we were too lazy to

do the work. You fundraise and take money

so you can spend it so you can

get them in. What else? What else are

we taking money in for? Like,

what is the purpose?

Allahu Akkah.

Well, I don't know what we're going to

say, You ummukriyyama,

when the reality of all of this becomes

crystal clear.

When the reality of what mattered and what

didn't matter and what we should have been

doing, what we were actually doing becomes crystal

clear, I don't know what we're gonna say.

We're gonna be very, very upset

and very disappointed in ourselves

when we are shown that the only thing

that mattered was to get people on across

the finishing line. Was to get them to

jannah and to advocate for those who were

not being given the chance to do that.