Adnan Rajeh – Recitations from the book of Prophetic Descriptions -7

Adnan Rajeh
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The Prophet's hair is a reference to his status and a book he wrote about his hair. The interviewer discusses the behavior of the Prophet, including a mix of feelings and emotions, and the importance of having a strong identity for one's own theories. The interviewer also touches on the behavior of the Prophet alayhi, who was supposed to fight sand but lost his war. The interviewer emphasizes the need for everyone to be careful with their hair, avoiding false accusations, and being careful with their hair.
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We continue tonight insha'Allah in the recitation

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of a hadith from Shamail Imam al-Tirmidhi

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rahimahullah to tell us a little bit more

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about the Prophet as we appreciate his status.

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So the hadith tonight qala hadathana suwaylu ibn

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nasrin hadathana abdullah ibn al-mubarak radiyallahu anhu

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an yunus ibn yazid an az-zuhri qala

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hadathana ubaidullah ibn abdullahi ibn utbah an ibn

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abbasin radiyallahu anhuma anna rasulallahi salallahu alayhi wa

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alayhi wasalam so the hadith is read to

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us by ibn abbas and within the chain

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of narration it's an authentic chain and it's

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also in the collection of Imam Bukhari as

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well and in the chain is abdullahi ibn

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al-mubarak radiyallahu anhu one of the great

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tabi'een one of the great scholars of

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Islam and someone that is for sure worth

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learning about and within the chain is ibn

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shihab al-zuhri rahimahullah also one of the

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great scholars of Islam one of the shiukh

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of Imam Malik and other great scholars as

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well and these are names subhanallah there is

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barakah in just reading the names of as

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-salihin of ahlullah there is something in that

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that I feel is there is a deprivation

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of it for people and I remember growing

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up and that was what I did this

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for for years as a younger person subhanallah

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there was a book it wasn't written by

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shiukh al-sharawi but it was I think

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taken from some of his lessons and the

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person who wrote it the whole book was

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just quotes from people and then every time

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the person's name was there he had this

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like half a page of a biography for

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him and as a child as a kid

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that's all I did I just read this

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book I don't remember what the book was

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about I honestly cannot remember anything that was

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in this book all I remember is just

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reading the stories or reading the biographies or

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the sharh of these individuals and and there's

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more knowledge in doing that there's more barakah

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in doing that that probably anything else that

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you can do as a young Muslim or

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as someone who wants to solidify your identity

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or draw your heart closer to Allah subhanallah

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just read the stories and read the life

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stories of the salihin of the people who

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are close to Allah subhanallah and there's a

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lot of barakah in that so the the

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chapter that I'm taking the hadith from today

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is baab ma jaa fi shaari rasoolillah alayhi

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salatu wasalam something talking about his hair alayhi

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salatu wasalam and I'll take from every chapter

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like a hadith or so just to share

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it with you so what this is what

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Ibn Abbas said qala ane rasool Allahi sallallahu

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alayhi wa sallam kana yasdilu shaarahu wakana almushrikuna

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yafruquna ruoosahum wakana ahlul kitabi yusdiluna ruoosahum wakana

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sallallahu alayhi wa sallam yuhibbu muwafaqata ahlul kitabi

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fima lam yu'mar fihi bi shay'in thumma

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faraqa rasool Allahi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam raasah

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so what he says here Ibn Abbas said

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the Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam yusdilu shaarahu he

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let his hair just hang so meaning his

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hair in front of his head we just

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hang in front of his his forehead just

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kind of it just fell as it is

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the mushrikeen at the time they actually they

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had a style where that they basically put

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their hair right on the side on the

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sides I mean right in the middle they

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broke it down in the middle and they

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sent them on both sides and the Prophet

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alayhi salatu wasalam he ahlul kitab they let

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their hair hang and al mushrikeen would part

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it in the middle so it's not new

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to to the world that people who belong

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to certain groups look a certain way this

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is how the human race has always been

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that if you're a part of a certain

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group whether it's an ideological group or religious

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group or racial group doesn't make a difference

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you will look a certain way and the

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Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam in his time he

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acknowledged the fact that people did that and

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Ibn Abbas tells I like this hadith because

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it's not just about his hair alayhi salatu

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wasalam which is more than enough by the

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way and there are still remnants of his

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hair alayhi salatu wasalam in the world and

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if you're lucky you'll run into someone who

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from ahlul bayt who still has something and

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there's shaykh muhammad saeed al kahil rahimahullah one

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of the great scholars of Homs he from

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ahlul bayt and he had something and I

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remember my shaykh yeah every time he had

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an opportunity he would take us to Homs

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just to go visit him and and have

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because subhanallah there's always something sentimental about yeah

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I mean anything saying that Khalid Walid had

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in his imamah shahratani min shaykh min ra'si

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rasool Allah alayhi salatu wasalam he carried them

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with him this is yeah alayhi salatu there's

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nothing in this that is scary this is

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just the human need for sentiment is the

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human anything that is left for you that

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you left behind for you from someone that

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you love will become very meaningful to you

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may Allah subhana grant you the companionship of

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all your loved ones for a very long

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time but if you lose someone that you

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love yeah like a father a grandfather or

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mother anything that is left from them anything

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will be something will have meaning to you

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if you truly love them and you and

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you felt the words them then they'll be

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meaningful so the sahaba during their lives they

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would look for stuff like that anything they

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could take from the Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam

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had meaning to them anything that's why all

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literally everything he ever owned if he the

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hair on his head alayhi salatu wasalam the

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hadith is known in what he performed his

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hulk on umrah he wasn't allowed to perform

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the umrah he performed hulk they shaved his

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head none of his hair reached the sand

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like it never touched anything the sahaba allowed

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none of it it was all taken all

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the sahaba the Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam got

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tired in his life of fighting this off

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like he stopped fighting this off there's no

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point they're going to do this whether he

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likes it or not alayhi salatu wasalam let

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it be but there's meaning to it because

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that's who he was to them alayhi salatu

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wasalam so when you say why was he

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talking about how his hair was because they

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loved him that much it mattered to them

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what his hair looked like alayhi salatu wasalam

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they took time to describe it you have

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to understand this appropriately this is the behavior

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of someone who's in love with someone else

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this is the behavior of those who have

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love so for them how he put his

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hair is something to discuss it's something to

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narrate that's how he had his hair he

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let it hang down the ahl kitab let

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it hang down the mushrikoon they parted it

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so the Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam during the

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time of Mecca and during the early years

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when the mushrikoon were his enemies when they

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were trying to ridicule him and trying to

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deprive him of his rights he like not

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to be like he wanted the Muslim to

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have their own identity and if there was

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no nafs there's nothing in the Quran he

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would like to be like ahl kitab alayhi

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salatu wasalam because they're closer to the haqq

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than the mushrikoon are he he saw these

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rankings alayhi salatu wasalam mean he saw the

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difference between ahl kitab someone who has a

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law someone who believes in God versus someone

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who is in any a polytheist or someone

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who doesn't believe in God at all no

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they're not the same yeah they have they're

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not they all are far away from haqq

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but not at the same distance from haqq

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so the Prophet alayhi salatu wasalam would prefer

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to be similar to those who are the

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closest to haqq if needed and this is

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what Ibn Abbas said this is the literal

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wording here there's no command he would like

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to be like ahl kitab he would like

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to be some more similar to those who

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are similar today things may be different because

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those who are ridiculing you or those who

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are depriving you of your rights are people

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on it on a different they may not

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be ahl kitab they may be ahl kitab

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themselves so it's learning from the Prophet alayhi

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salatu wasalam his thought process when someone was

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depriving him his right the Prophet alayhi salatu

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wasalam told the sahaba we need to have

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our own identity and then when the mushrikoon

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were no longer a threat to him Ibn

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Abbas says thumma faraqa rasool Allahi alayhi salatu

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wasalam wa raasah and the Prophet alayhi salatu

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wasalam later in his life he parted his

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hair because the mushrikoon were not no longer

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an enemy to him and if they were

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they didn't they couldn't do the identity of

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Muslims was way too strong the mushrikoon didn't

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have an identity anymore he did so he

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didn't have to be to fear that so

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we talk about these things talk about appearances

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and how we look there is hikmah there

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is wisdom in this that the Prophet alayhi

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salatu wasalam taught us that as community leaders

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and members we and parents you have to

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be careful what is it that you don't

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want your child to do what what is

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okay for them to do what is actually

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going to harm their identity what's not going

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to harm their identity be very very careful

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with what you tell them not to do

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and what you allow them to do based

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on that piece are they is their identity

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at risk here when you allow them to

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look this way or is it not if

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it's not then you let it go and

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if it is that's where the Prophet alayhi

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salatu wasalam would take time and say no

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we look different we will we will look

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different alayhi salatu wasalam and his hair was

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neither too silky nor was it curly it

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was something in between alayhi salatu wasalam he

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would commonly allow it to grow to the

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point where the hair in front of his

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head could make it as far to the

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lobe of his ear alayhi salatu wasalam there

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are some narrations that when he came to

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Medina his hair was very long to the

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point there were a few braids in them

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alayhi salatu wasalam but there's the question of

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the authenticity in general alayhi salatu wasalam had

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long hair had short hair his hair held

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down he parted it he shaved it it's

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not that big a deal what you do

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with your hair honestly if you come in

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here with a rainbow mohawk I don't care

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as long as you salli and you your

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identity of being a Muslim is clear to

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you and you understand what it is that

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means to be a Muslim it's not but

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if you want to if you love if

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you have love and you love him alayhi

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salatu wasalam you go and look how did

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he have his hair can I be similar

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to that even to that but then you

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have to make sure that the bigger questions

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have been answered as well because when you're

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gonna be similar to him alayhi salatu wasalam

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in that way then you have to make

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sure you better make sure you're similar to

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him in the in the ways that that

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matter most to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala I

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hope that was a benefit to you Imam

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al-Tirmidhiyy in my mosque with a correct

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chain of transmission Ibn Abbas, may Allah be

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pleased with him that the Messenger of Allah,

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peace and blessings be upon him used to

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have his hair down and the polytheists used

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to have their heads parted and the People

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of the Book used to have their heads

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parted and they used to love the agreement

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of the People of the Book in what

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they were not commanded to do then the

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Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon

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him, parted his head the Messenger of Allah,

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peace and blessings be upon him, parted his

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head and said, there is no God but

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You, I ask forgiveness for you and peace

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and blessings be upon you ala nabiyyina wa

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habibina

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