Adnan Rajeh – Sh Adnan

Feel more hungry, even though they have more

reserve.

So someone who is thinner, who has a

smaller sack, doesn't feel as much hungry, even

though they have less reserve.

So hunger is not really necessarily connected to

how much reserve you have on your body,

like how much fatty, how much fat pads

you have, that your liver can turn into

energy.

That's not what hunger is based on.

Hunger is based on how big the empty

sack is.

Which is why one of the surgeries that

are done for people who are overweight is

where they go and they basically remove a

part of the sack.

They make the sack smaller, basically.

And then if they don't follow the proper

diet, eating the sack, because the stomach is

just very elastic, it gets big again, and

then they go back to the same problem

they had before.

So you have to follow a certain diet.

But the logic here is that if you

put a rock on the stomach and you

pull it, and you basically stick, you're closing

the sack, so there's less emptiness inside.

So you don't feel as much hunger.

Now, I know I'm saying this to you,

and most of you are saying like this,

but you actually have no idea what I'm

talking about, do you?

Neither do I, because we've never had to

do that in our lives.

And we don't understand that degree of hunger.

Like we haven't felt that degree, even when

you're fasting Ramadan in the middle of July,

when Maghrib is 9.20 and Fajr is

4.10. We still don't feel that degree

of hunger.

At the end of it, this is hunger

that means the person has not been nourished

properly for the last three or four days

for them to feel that way.

So they came to him, alayhi salatu wasalam,

the bottom line, Abu Talha and a few

other people, and they complained to him that

they were hungry.

And they lifted their gallabiyahs, showing that they

had a rock each tied to their bellies

to mitigate the hunger.

We say, فَرَفَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنْ بَطْنِهِ

عَنْ حَجَرَيْنَ The Prophet, alayhi salatu wasalam, lifted

his gallabiyah.

He didn't say anything.

He just lifted his gallabiyah, and he had

two rocks that were on his stomach, alayhi

salatu wasalam, tied.

Out of hunger, alayhi salatu wasalam.

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَىٰ هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ مِنْ حَدِيثِ

أَبِي طَلْحَةَ لَا نَعْرِفُهُ إِلَّا مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ

وَمَعْنَ قَوْلِهِ وَرَفَعْنَا عَنْ بُطُونِنَا عَنْ حَجَرٍ حَجَرٍ

كَانَ أَحَدُهُمْ يَشُدُّ فِي بَطْنِهِ الْحَجَرَ مِنَ الْجُهْدِ

وَالضَّعْفِ اللَّذِي بِهِ مِنَ الْجُوعِ So Abu Isa

al-Tirmidhi, he explains what I just explained

to you.

That people would tie rocks to their bellies

because they were so tired and hungry, and

the weakness they felt from hunger.

And when they came to the Prophet alayhi

salatu wasalam, complaining of hunger, and then they

showed him a rock, he pulled up his

gallabiyah and he showed them too, alayhi salatu

wasalam.

And they understood that he was going through

exactly what they were going through, salallahu alayhi

wa sallam.

And that's a true leader, that's someone who's

truly a part of his nation, where he

would refuse to eat if people around him

had not eaten first.

And he would not be nourished and he

would not be full if the people around

him were not full first, alayhi salatu wasalam.

And that's just the nature of his character.

I hope that was different.

Translated by Dima Kamal Masri