Adnan Rajeh – Recitations from the book of Prophetic Descriptions 3

Adnan Rajeh
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The speakers discuss the differences between authentic and authentic narratives in a book. They touch on historical events and the importance of generosity in narratives. They also discuss the use of "has been handing down" in a Prophet's statement and how it is not true. The speakers stress the importance of avoiding false accusations and honesty in life, and describe the characteristics of people of wealth and how they use words to make evaluations.
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And I'm a read the hadith,

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I believe it's number

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5.

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I forgot which one I'd which one I

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chose for tonight.

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Give me a second here to

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No, I'm fine. You're in Tajuz, I'm fine.

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No.

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So,

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the hadith tonight is

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is a hadith that one of my teachers,

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the Sheikh Mohammed Quresha

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Rabib

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used to love to narrate and he made

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us memorize when I was really really young.

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Like I know this hadith, it's a very

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long hadith and I know it

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from very young age. The hadith itself,

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there's a lot of there's question about the

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Senat, but the actual

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narration. But the wording of the hadith, the

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metin, the actual content is fully agreed upon.

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There's nothing in the hadith that does not

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exist in another

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authentic narration. And this is where it's important

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to know the difference between

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and

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the difference and the weakness on both sides.

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So this hadith may have some question in

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terms of the authenticity of the chain but

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the actual content of the hadith has has

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no disagreement upon amongst scholars so it's very

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safe to narrate and it has a story

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to it so I like to tell it.

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So I'll recite the beginning of it and

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I'll tell you

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what it is.

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So the hadith, this hadith is collect is

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is narrate to us, to us by Sayyidina

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Ali

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by one of his

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grandchildren.

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So the Ba'af in the Sanad here, like

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the weakness of the chain, this is just

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for your own kind of information. The weakness

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of the chain here is just that the

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person who is narrating

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the hadith Ibrahim ibn Muhammad is the grandchild

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or the great grandchild of Sayidna Ali. We

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don't have full evidence that he actually met

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his grandfather. But he's narrating this because he

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learned from either one of his parents or

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his grandfather that his great grandfather said this

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but he didn't point out who told him.

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This is how

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delicate and precise

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the science of hadith is. So Ibrahim ibn

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Muhammad the great grandson of Sayyidina Ali is

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a great imam. We have no reason to

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believe that he lies here. But he just

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failed to tell us who is it that

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told you that your grandfather said this? He

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didn't pick it out. He didn't he didn't

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point it out. He forgot to say that,

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oh, my dad told me this or my

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great my granddad told me this. He just

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said my great grandfather said this because this

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is something that his family has been handing

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down generation after generation.

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So and the scholars still point out the

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hadith being having a problem with his authenticity.

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This is from the Amana. This is the

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this is the scientific

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Amana or the scientific

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integrity that we have in our deen that

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even something like this No. No. Just because

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you're his great grandfather great grandson is not

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gonna give you

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a free ticket to say whatever. No. You

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have to tell us exactly who said this

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but the actual wording of the hadith. There's

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nothing in it that is added that you

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don't find in authentic narration. So, we narrate

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this hadith with a lot of openness

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and it's in Taafat al Ahwadi as well.

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And this is what Sayyidina Alis radiAllahu anhu

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said,

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When he when he when he,

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described the prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam, he

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will say the following. I'm going to, actually

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skip the first part because the first part

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I'm gonna narrate to you tomorrow in another

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hadith. I wanna take the piece that I

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want you to hear. He would say,

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They're just probably the probably

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the most beautiful description that exists of all

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descriptions of the Prophet 'alayhi salatu wa salam.

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And who else to make it aside from

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Sayyidina Ali radiAllahu anhu again

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positions and no one who was closer to

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him than Sayyid N Ali. So when he

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says these things, you can take it for

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sure that this is how he was fa.

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He would describe him by saying

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He was somewhat he was the most generous

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person.

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Is is the chess. He was just the

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most generous person. Generosity here is not necessarily

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with wealth.

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Generosity is with time, it's with compassion, it's

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with love, it's with attention. This is where

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generosity actually matters. You can be very generous

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financially, but be very very, stingy when it

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comes to your attention and your love and

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your time and your and your energy and

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your devotion and your dedication. The prophet alaihis

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salatu wasalam

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was He was generous with everything that his

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chest contained alaihis salatu wasalam. Whatever he had,

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he was the most generous person with

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and that's what you find

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this everywhere. No one ever came to him

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he was too busy to speak to them.

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No one ever came to him he was

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too in too much trouble to actually sit

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down listen to them. He always found time

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for them alaihis salatu wa sallam. I have

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no idea how he does that. I have

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absolutely no clue how he was able to

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do that in his life alaihis salatu wa

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sallam. And the more you read about it,

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the more you find this as a consistent

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aspect or characteristic

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and trait of who he was and

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I have absolutely no idea how he kept

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it up because it's extremely difficult to do

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so but he was this is what everyone

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says. He was just very generous

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And he was someone who where he spoke,

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he only said the truth.

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The words that came out of his mouth

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were always truthful. You could never you could

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never heard something from him something you could

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point out as being untruthful or deceitful or

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a liar or exaggeration.

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He just everything he said

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was truthful and was honest. And that honesty

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by the way, when you spend a lot

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of time with honesty

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it allows you to become sensitive to

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lies.

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Like you become very sensitive to when you're

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listening to BS because you've heard all you've

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been with honesty for so long. So when

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someone starts to say things that aren't true

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and you you become sensitive. And the Sahaba

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because they spent so much time with him

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and they were so used to honesty and

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truthfulness,

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there were people who picked up someone who

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was lying really quickly. You couldn't you couldn't

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fool the Sahaba because of how used to

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honesty they were from him

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from living with him. And that is something

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that we for sure are

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lacking these days.

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They

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is nature.

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It's

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a food. It's when you take and you

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kind of put things together, you put ingredients

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together and then you have some. It's nature.

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His nature was just very soft

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He

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was easy He was not someone difficult. If

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you traveled with him, you spoke to him,

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if you worked with him. He wasn't someone

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who put up obstacles or or barriers or

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made life difficult or was always

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there with the stick or with the pinger

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and always had something, always objecting to something

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and there's always something not working with that

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person. You you all worked with someone like

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that. And if you haven't,

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you're that person.

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If right now you're saying, No. I've never

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looked anything like that. That's because you're that

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person probably in that group. So be careful.

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Alayhi Salatu wa Salam, Alayhi Salatu wa Salam,

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Alayhi Salatu wa Salam, Alayhi Salatu wa Salam,

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Alayhi Salatu wa Salam, Alayhi Salatu wa Salam,

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Alayhi Salatu wa Salam, Alayhi Salatu wa Salam,

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Alayhi Salatu wa Salam, Alayhi

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Salatu

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because it's just his nature.

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He was someone that if you lived with

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you meaning if you lived with him, he

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treated you well. The more you lived with

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him, the better he treated you. The longer

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the time you spent with him into your

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life

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the higher he held you, the the higher

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he he raised you, the more he he

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treated you well, the more he loved you,

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the more he gave you alayhi salatu wa

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sallam. Not the opposite. Not the more I

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spend time with you, the less you like

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me, and the less time you wanna spend

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with me, and the more bad things you

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have to say about me. No. More time

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he spent with you alaihis salatu wa sallam

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the more good things he said about you.

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The more he he gave you and the

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more he treated you well alaihis salatu wa

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sallam and the more he dignified your status

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because that is the Afaril kalam. That's that's

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that's the that's the traits of people of

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of of dignity and of high.

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And then my absolute favorite description.

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If you ran into him for the first

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time alaihis salatu wa sallam,

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you just revered him. It was reverence. It

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wasn't fear. It It was reverence. It was

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haybah. He just had this haybah about him

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alaihis salatu wa sallam. You find the first

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time you felt small, you felt a bit

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intimidated, a bit scared, a bit taken by

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the by the aura of this man who

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walked in.

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And once you get to know him a

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little bit

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you fall in love with him

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And I can't imagine it but

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the person who describes him will say the

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following

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I've never seen anyone before him nor anyone

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after him that is even remotely similar to

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him. And

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that kind of sums up his description as

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a person.

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I hope you found that beneficial.

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