Adnan Rajeh – Post Isha Khatera 20-05-2024
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The speaker discusses the concept of humbleness, which is the ability to realize reality and not try to be humble. He uses a story about the prophet alaihi sallavi alaihi wa'ala's statement about being a minimalist to encourage people to live simple and minimalistic ways. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of being humble in the present moment to avoid becoming too busy.AI: Transcript ©
On.
With a reasonable chant narration to us by.
And the series of humbleness is what we'll
be,
covering this week as well,
probably for another couple of Hadith.
And I'm talking about humbleness because I think
it's something that is worthy of our time.
It is
the realization of reality. This is what humbleness
is.
It it it it it we over complicate
it sometimes in the ways that we talk
about it, but really all it is is
the ability to realize what reality is.
If any other
way of understanding humbleness actually contradicts it, it
it makes you understand it incorrectly.
Because if it's you're not really doing anything.
By being humble, you're not doing anything aside
from just living the way you are.
I am a servant, so I'm going to
behave as such. Because that's what I am.
I'm a servant and I'm from the soul
of the earth.
How should I behave?
Any other way of behaving is wrong. Like,
any other way of going by myself is
incorrect and is misled. It's an illusion. It's
a lie.
So it's not like, no. The is that
I am of high status and I have
a and I'm going to bring myself nice
and close to the no. No. No. No.
No. No. No. You're you're from the earth
and you're a servant. And that's all you
ever will be. And actually the highest rank
you'll ever get in your life is being
a true servant. The the the the best
way the prophet alaihi wasalam was ever
and he,
described in the Quran is when he was
when Allah subhanahu wa'ala said
when he used that term to describe him
where he had achieved true service ship to
Allah subhanahu wa'ala. That was the highest ranking
for him
and the same thing for me. So humbleness
is just understanding things as they are. And
in this hadith where umama
gives us a a small like a little
a little story, a very short one. It
shows you how he thinks
and how he's trying to fix the or
help the Sahaba understand things.
The the prophet alaihi sallahu alaihi wa sallam's
companions are sitting there, and they are talking
about dunya and how much this person has
and how much that person's person has and
how big this guy's house is and how
much this person made of money and how
much money can buy and how much you
can how far you can go and what
you can do with wealth. And you know
how these discussions go. When once once once
you get a couple of guys on that
track Yeah. And it just goes on and
on and on and people just and they
walk away feeling very very upset with themselves
and and then and they and they don't
appreciate what they have anymore because they just
talked about how big dunya is. So they're
talking talking about dunya and they're stacking up.
So he interrupted them which is very out
of keeping of his of his behavior alayhi
salatu wa sallam he would listen. And he'd
listened to them talk about dunya before and
he smiled
when it wasn't going in direction of people
getting a little bit over or carried away
with with wealth and the strength of wealth
and the importance of having a lot of
money. When when they did, he said,
will you not listen to me? Will you
not listen to me?
It means
to be a minimalist.
That's what it means. Is to
depending
regarding how you dress and how you live,
you live simply in a simple manner
where it's not overcomplicated,
where you're not yeah, I need,
focused on details.
Details would that require a lot of wealth
to be spent on them to look in
a certain way or be in a certain
way, where you're okay with things being very
simple and very very minimal, and you're happy
with that. That's what that's how
the
the is that.
It means things to be simple where they're
not too complicated.
It
says. Simplicity
in living in a minimalistic way is from
iman. It's a it's a sign of iman.
A sign of iman is just living simplistically,
not requiring too many complications and too much
of dunya. That's the sign of iman. So
instead of feeling you're you're missing out on
a lot of dunya because that's where they
were going. They were going in a discussion.
Well, yeah, the wealthy of of sham and
the wealthy of the Yemen and wealthy of
of Persia and the wealthy of and there's
our and there, of course, living in a
little old Medina
with, you know, barely enough food where people
are very always ill. There's barely enough water.
Yeah. They don't have much of dunya at
all. Anyway, they're getting carried away of what
other people have.
And the prophet stopped them. Do not listen
to me. Do not listen. Are you not
hearing me? The alpighty down.
Simplicity is a sign of iman.
It's a sign of iman to be simplistic.
You know, not it doesn't mean that you
shouldn't have wealth. You shouldn't make wealth. You
shouldn't use wealth to strengthen your ummah. But
it's not You're not doing it because you
want more, need more, you aspire for just
having more for the sake of more.
And that is one of the signs of
of of being humble.
Of understanding where you came from and what
you're going back to at the end. And
I think a good way to always remind
yourself of that is attending
attend every time you can. That's why we
should always follow because you need to go
and stand there and look down.
You need to go and stand there and
look down. That's where you're gonna be. Very
soon, it'll be one of us.
It's just we're being plucked out 1 by
1. We're all going down there, and nothing
will matter anymore. Whatever you bought, whatever you
possessed, how you carried yourself, what you required
people to call you, and how you thought
you your image was, it means nothing on
that day. You're wrapped up in a white
cloth and you're put down into the ground.
And then the the the day of people
will sit around
and drink coffee and and and talk about
their problems of their dunya, maybe remember you
once every couple of minutes with a moment.
Believe me, it ends the day of.
You're lucky if in a year's time anyone
even remembers who you were.
So
just being being humble in how you present
yourself is a sign of him.
Understood the world and that's how he lived
and when he saw Sahaba his companions going
with their minds elsewhere, he brought them back.
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