Adnan Rajeh – Recitations from the book of Prophetic Descriptions 15
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The speakers discuss the importance of remembering and reciting hadiths to avoid harmful behavior and the struggles of the Sywhileu reassurents. The ongoingiva of Islam in various parts of the world is due to suffering from mistreated Muslims and their legacy is lost. The importance of contributing to the Muslim umroom's legacy and selling one's own products to make up for their lack of respect for the Prophet is emphasized. The importance of valuing and loved by the Prophet is also highlighted, and a man named Z booked a gift to the Prophet and sold it on the spot.
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Insha'Allah I will give the khatira and
after khatira we ask people to pray sunnah
and then allow for me to continue the
IDA lecture so if you don't mind socializing
in the lobby in the 10 jizak mullah
khair to allow me to continue barakallah and
generally speaking starting from next week all of
the IDA lectures will be happening after isha
anyways so we have to get into the
kind of norm or custom or habit of
praying sunnah and if you're not attending allow
the shaykh to give the lectures without too
much noise because we tend to like to
chat and so on.
Now we can use obviously the lobby and
the tent that's available for that insha'Allah
ta'ala.
So tonight I'm going to read two hadith
insha'Allah from the chapter kitab al-shamali
imam al-tirmidhi the chapter bab ma ja
'a fi sifati muzahi rasool allahi sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam talking about his muzah, muzah means
that he's joking alayhi salatu wasallam this is
imam al-tirmidhi so it's not like some
new person who's trying to make a point
he alayhi salatu wasallam was someone who would
often draw smiles on people's faces in the
way that he spoke to them and how
he spoke to them alayhi salatu wasallam.
So I'll start insha'Allah with these two
hadith they're quite short so I'll narrate them
for you insha'Allah ta'ala.
hadathana abbas ibn muhammad al-duri qala hadathana
aliyy ibn al-hasani ibn shaqiq qala anba
'ana abdullahi ibn al-mubaraki an usamah ibn
zaid an sa'id al-maqburi an abiy
hurairah radiallahu anhu qal qalu ya rasool allah
innaka tuda'ibuna this is oh prophet of
allah innaka tuda'ibuna you joke around with
us you mess around with us muda'aba
is when someone jokes with you or behaves
lightly around you as muda'aba so they
found it some of the sahaba found this
a little bit new they had not he
is rasool allah alayhi salatu wasallam he is
the khairu khalqillah he is the best of
allah's creation he is the haamil al liwa
'i yawm al qiyamah huwa sajid taht al
arsh huwa sayyid waladi adam ya'ani alayhi
salatu wasallam carries all these accolades and he
would sit down and he would mess around
with people and joke around with them and
make them laugh so they found it a
little bit fresh faqalu innaka tuda'ibuna as
if they are not objecting but asking about
it this is normal faqalu inni laa aqoolu
illa haqqa said yes but I only say
that which is truthful I never lie I
never gossip I never say anything that is
harmful to someone else which is basically the
conditions of joking so the second hadith which
is why I am reciting this and obviously
as we do this as we talk about
the prophet and he is our leader and
he is our teacher and we take from
him everything we learn from him everything alayhi
salatu wasallam whether it is the way he
joked or the way he spoke or it
is the way he persevered and the way
he stood his ground and the way he
advocated for justice and he advocated for those
who are treated unfairly and those who are
oppressed it goes without saying that subhanallah as
we come close to the full year anniversary
I don't even know if the word anniversary
is appropriate here but the full year memory
of what happened in October last year and
what followed in terms of the blood spill
and the blood shed that we witnessed over
this year instead of seeing this coming to
an end we are seeing it spread in
a different direction and now our brothers and
sisters in Lebanon are struggling and when they
struggle the Syrians do as well most of
my family is not displaced in Europe they
are displaced somewhere around Beirut and who pays
for all of this aggression and all of
this world silence and world double standard that
we witnessed it is people it is people
who are like you and I who carry
our first names and many of them carry
our last names and they look very much
like us and they live and they have
the same hopes and dreams in life and
they are living hoping to do something with
them and then they die and then they
just lose everything or they wake up one
day and half their family is gone or
their house is gone or they can't live
anymore and this is not the first time
this has happened this has been happening for
a long time if you just go back
a couple of decades if you sit with
an elderly person in their 70s or 80s
they remember this happening in other parts of
the world they remember it happening in Egypt
and happening in Iraq and happening in Somalia
and happening in Syria and happening in Lebanon
back in one time before in Philistine for
75 years and they remember this is an
ongoing saga of Muslims being mistreated in Kashmir
and in Kosovo and the list goes on
and in Myanmar and in China there is
no end to this unfortunate list that we
have of people suffering so when we see
all of that the reason that this is
occurring is because these are supposed to serve
as wake up calls they are supposed to
serve as wake up calls for an ummah
that has lost its compass for an ummah
that has lost its way and it forgot
who it was and what it represents and
the people who represent it don't know who
they are anymore don't understand their legacy don't
understand where they hail from where they come
from what the point of their lives are
supposed to be to begin with so these
ongoing tribulations that we see are there just
to try and smack some sense into all
of us regardless of our age group or
where we are living and if that is
not what they are doing then it is
lost on us honestly it becomes lost on
us as a community it becomes lost on
us as individuals if we see all this
then it doesn't change anything in you and
you just continue to live life as if
it didn't happen that is the biggest loss
of all we can't control unfortunately how certain
politicians behave and how the powers of this
world behave and we can't you and I
are not accountable for 300 years of a
gap between certain nations and our nation we
can't we didn't I didn't contribute to 300
years of a technological scientific and organizational gap
that exists between them and us but we
do but I do contribute to the next
10-15 years for sure like I contribute
to that and so do you we all
contribute to the gap that is going to
exist in the next 30 or 40 years
so the question is whether what is happening
right now is motivating people to change their
ways and start closing that gap bridging it
by educating themselves and contributing to the education
of the Muslim Ummah and the unity of
the Muslim Ummah and the awareness of the
Muslim Ummah and that is what he would
have wanted I read about him here but
that is what he would have wanted and
I talk about him not because I have
nothing else to do because I want you
to understand that he is the glue he
is the figure that we all come around
we don't agree on anyone else honestly like
as an Ummah I agree on a lot
of people but as an Ummah we agree
on him we all know that he is
the ultimate leader and he is the Qidwa
and he is the person he is our
idol he is our teacher and we learn
from him and if we can just start
being more like him similar to him caring
about what he did and what he taught
and what legacy he left then we can
turn things around and there will be a
better future for our children a better future
for the Muslim Ummah it is just a
matter of giving up our egos and giving
up maybe a little bit of the plans
of leisure that we had and focusing and
committing ourselves to something that is bigger than
ourselves so that Yawmul Qiyamah we have an
argument to make because all about that it
is all about just making the argument Yawmul
Qiyamah because I can sit down and read
about him and make you love him but
if you did not follow him and you
did not contribute to his Ummah then he
won't be too impressed he won't be too
impressed if we did not contribute to the
well being of his Ummah that is where
his heart is his heart is in his
Ummah and we read about him so we
can love him more so that we can
motivate ourselves to care about what he cared
about which is this nation for better or
for worse so Anas
Ibn Malik tells us in this authentic hadith
that there was a man from Al-Badiya
a Bedouin man who had chickens and sheep
and cows and what not and he would
come to the city and sell some of
that stuff and he knew the Prophet we
would come from even before and he was
a Muslim his name was Zahir he always
brought a gift to the Prophet aside from
what the Prophet would buy or other people
would he would always offer the Prophet a
gift and the Prophet you would never gift
him except he gifted you back like on
the spot and more you gave him one
he gave you five it is just how
he was he would refuse for you to
gift him so he would bring the Prophet
a small gift and the Prophet would prepare
him when he is going back to the
Badiya going back to the countryside he took
with him clothing he took with him a
camel the Prophet took care of him Zahir
is our countryside and I am his city
so when he comes to the city he
has me when I go to the countryside
I have him and it was a nice
way to kind of make him the Prophet
loved him and he was an ugly man
and I am saying it because that is
the wording in the Shamaal al-Tirmidhi and
I don't have to really sugar coat it
because the word is Damim and Damim means
ugly there is really no other meaning for
it in the Arabic language the guy was
ugly he wasn't a sight to look at
but the Prophet loved him and there was
a good relationship between him and between the
two of them and Anas pointed this out
because there is a point of this story
that he wants to make the Prophet came
to him one day as he is selling
his stuff like he gave the Prophet his
gift the Prophet gives it back and he
goes and stands in the market and he
starts to sell cheese and milk and whatever
else and eggs and whatever he has he
is selling and the Prophet comes to him
as he is selling so the Prophet came
and he hugged him from behind him and
he could not see him so Zahir is
selling and then he finds someone who puts
his hands around his torso and he hugs
him Middle Eastern middle aged men don't like
that in case you didn't notice it's not
their thing hugging at least it wasn't at
that point so he said who is this?
let me go what are you doing?
what is this?
so he turned around with his head he
knew it was the Prophet he didn't notice
at first who is this?
let me go he looks back it's the
Prophet lucky him what can you say?
he recognized the Prophet he held his hands
and he pushed his back to the Prophet's
chest keeping himself in contact with the Prophet
once he noticed it was him the Prophet
said who will buy this slave from me?
if you try to sell me as a
slave you will find me worthless no one
will buy me look at me that's why
I said this who is going to buy
me?
there is nothing attractive so the Prophet left
him and he turned him around as for
Allah's opinion of you you are not worthless
you are very valuable in the eyes of
Allah he joked and joked but then when
he felt okay there's something here that's not
there's not a joke anymore no you're not
worthless and no you never say that about
yourself and never feel that about yourself no
you are valuable and you are loved by
Allah and I didn't mean it that way
as if the Prophet when he was joking
this went in a direction he was not
happy with anymore the direction was no longer
what he wanted and went in a direction
where this man felt for a moment maybe
less about himself than he should have when
he had that interaction with the Prophet so
he walks away from this interaction with the
best testimony a human being could walk away
from any interaction for the rest of his
life imagine this man living his life saying
Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam hugged me and
told me you are valuable in the eyes
of Allah it's a beautiful story and it
tells you a lot about his character and
how he saw people and how he took
life lightly and he liked to joke but
he always was sensitive to people's feelings and
sensitive to people's perspectives he felt that maybe
there was a perspective in this that wasn't
healthy or something that he did not want
someone to feel he would correct it immediately
because the point of a joke was never
to harm and I just find that to
be the act of someone of a very
high level of compassion I hope that was
a benefit ...
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