Adnan Rajeh – Performing Dawah Outreach #8

And the theme of outreach to your dawah

is what I'll be continuing to cover over

the next week or or more.

And this is a very famous story,

but, you know, within it is just a

point I want to make with for you

inshaAllah about how the prophet saw someone by

this Qala, called Qala Anas.

The prophet

there was a boy

and the word hulam

does not necessarily mean

under age. Hulam can go from anywhere from,

you know, 13 to

to 19, basically. You can use the word

hulam. So this could be someone who is

of of of of of the age of

being an adult today, easily. And the Ravalli,

alayhi salatu wasalam, would often throughout his life,

have people who would do certain things for

him, especially when he got older, especially, you

know, towards the end of his life to

have someone young to kind of do errands

or help you out with around the house

stuff or even when he's traveling or doing

things. And this young Jewish boy

lived beside the Prophet

and he needed a summer job or something

of the sort. So, he would go and

he would help the Prophet, alayhis salawat wa

sallam, for something

in return. So, one day this boy got

sick or this young person got sick. The

prophet alayhi wasalam went to his house.

He wanted to

visit someone who was who was ill. It's

a sunnah of the prophet, alayhis salatu, to

do something like this.

So he sat right behind the this boy's

head. He The boy is lying on a,

on a bed. He went and he sat

beside him right right where his head is.

Not not far away.

Looks at him and he say and he

says, Islam. And he take the shahada.

So the young person, the young boy, he

looked at his father, the prophet alaihis salam

after he after he said that. So the

father said,

Oh praise be to Allah that he was

saved from the fire. Imam al Bayhaqi adds

in his in his in his narration of

his hadithqala,

Alhamdulillah

All praise to Allah that he used me

to save this young person from, from the

punishment of the fire. A few points I

think this is how you are interesting. Number

1, the prophet alayhi wasallahu alaihi wasallahu alaihi

wasallam. Well, this is Yeah. And he had

someone from a different faith

do actually work with him or work for

him or be in very close contact with

him alaihi wa sallam. There was nothing weird

about it. He didn't say, Well, a young

Muslim is ola to do this. No. It

didn't matter. It didn't matter what the deen

this young person had if they wanted to

do something or work with the Prophet alaihis

salatu wasalam or makes it. He didn't matter

to him alaihis salam. He didn't discriminate alaihis

salam based on the fact that this person

was from a different faith, and they have

a bad record with the Prophet alaihis salam

up to that moment. After that moment, they

had a pretty bad record. Yeah. Between Banu

Nablil and Banu Qurayyal and Banu Qaynu Ka'a.

Yeah. Things did not go very well. However,

he still worked with the Prophet alaihis salam.

He had no reason. Number 2 is that

when he got sick the prophet alayhis salam

actually went and performed ad al mereb. And

this is a younger person who works for

him alayhis salam. It was not a relationship

of kin or a relationship or friendship. This

was just someone who who did certain jobs

for him alayhi salatu wa sallam. When he

heard that he was sick, he went and

he visited him alayhi salatu wa sallam.

The 3rd piece is that he took the

and he took the opportunity to perform

dawah when he would offer the opportunity. Meaning,

the reason the meaning the the the fact

that he performed dawah at that moment means

that all throughout his interactions with this young

person, he was thinking about this alayhis salatu

wastan. That's what this means. In order for

him to go and actually do

visit him when he's sick. And then to

do this means that the whole time that

this boy was working with the Prophet alaihis

salatu wassup. In his mind, he was hoping

that he was able at some point to

offer dawah to him. Right? But why didn't

he do it when when he was working

for him?

Well, there's this conflict of interest first of

all, and there's a power differential there too,

and and maybe it wasn't the right time

or the right position. But now this is

a situation, this is very appropriate for him

to do it because this kid, as far

as he can tell, was on his deathbed.

He got very ill back then. If you

got a simple infection or you picked up

a virus or you picked up some, and

the kid did die. And this boy he

passed away. He didn't, he didn't make it

from this illness. So the prophet had to

do it then because he had no other

chance that this was the last chance he

was gonna get to perform dawah, and it

mattered to him. It mattered to him. He

was he was he was he was he

was he was enjoying alayhis salatu wa sallam.

That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala used him to

save this person from jahannam.

There's all these little gems for us in

terms of his personality and how he saw

the importance of dawah.

Even someone like this who's a peripheral human

being. You know, There's a lot of peripheral

human beings for you. People that you don't

really They're

just there to do something. They have some

value in terms of what they do for

you. But they don't matter outside of that.

Go home and think about them. You'll come

up with them. There's like a bunch of

people in your life that they don't really

matter aside from the one the one thing

you need from them. They do it for

you and then they're done. It doesn't nothing

else really matters. You're not interested outside of

that. There's no interest. You don't have time

for different reasons. You can you give yourself

all these, you know, all the different reasons

in the world. This was a peripheral person

in his life, alayhis salatu wa salam. The

whole time in his mind he's like, how

do I when do I perform dawah? Waiting

and he sees the moment, alayhis salatu wa

salamat the right time and he performed dawah

and

When can I do it in a way

that's appropriate?

That's not offensive. That's not disrespectful. That's not

going to push them away. That's not gonna

make it difficult for them to say yes.

Where they

are open to accepting it.

Even those I I in my opinion, it

was a huge gamble.

He's in his house, the father is there.

This could go horribly wrong.

This could go horribly wrong. This story could

have been very different. But he's like, Oh

he's passing away?

He's passing away. This is my last chance.

I can't I can't wait anymore. Like I

can't wait any longer for a better situation.

This is the lie He's going to die.

I have to give it a shot even

though even though it may not work. As

the dawah

says

to see if it sticks. Just see if

it works. I don't know. He's probably he

would probably at least I'm hoping for a

better moment where he could where he could

offer this dua with him. But there's no

this is the last moment so I have

to just try it. Either it works or

it doesn't.

And it worked out. And, the person was

saved. And just keep that in mind because

this, you know, this shows you aspects of

how he saw the world and he saw

it was something that I think is valuable

to us.