Adnan Rajeh – The Significance of Masajid #7
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The speaker discusses the importance of tashid of masajid, which is the process of building a church or a church. The speaker explains that tashid is not just a means to get wealth, but also a means to create a sense of unity and knowledge. The speaker emphasizes the importance of not overpaying for the process and the need to be careful with what is being spent.
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Has a reasonable generation rate to us for
Abullah bin Abbas. It's a very short hadith.
It's very, very short. And the theme is
still the significance of masajid that I will,
conclude next this Wednesday inshallah. So just a
few more hadith. It's a very short hadith,
but the meaning I think is very important.
This is what he said
That's it.
I was not commanded by Allah
to perform tashid of masajid. Tashid doesn't mean
building.
Tashid
means making,
glamorous.
That's what tashid means.
And of course, scholars do have some degree
of difference of opinion on this topic, so
I'm not going to act like they're that
that that that does not exist.
What he's saying, alayhis salam, is that I
was not told
to spend a lot of money in making
the appearance of the Masjid, very glamorous. That's
not where I was told to put the
wealth. And Masajid, in order for them to
be functional, they don't have to be like
that. They don't have to be because the
reason you would say this, alayhis salaam, is
because the pagans,
they did tashid of when it came when
it, of their kubu of the that they
that they,
of the graves that they cared for. And
they did form a lot of tashid when
it came to the Islam that they worshiped.
And when you looked at the Christians and
the Jews before the prophet alaihi sallam, they
performed tashid of their
synagogues. Like, they they spent a lot of
money. They made them of gold. They put
so much wealth in it that it seemed
like it was something beyond what it what
it, you know, needed to be. And the
prophet, alaihis salaam, he was saying this. He
was trying to say that that's not what
I that's not what I'm bringing. I'm not
just adding to that. It's okay. Now there
was you want
synagogues and churches and and and and pagan,
and now there's gonna be Mas'ach. You know,
all the same thing. All are going going
to be, Yani, toilets of money, where money
just he just keeps on taking money and
taking money because you need to build something
that is, extremely expensive. No. No.
That's not what he said. That that he's
trying to explain that's not what I'm bringing.
A masjid is not going to be a
space that is extremely,
I
mean, and extremely expensive to but no. It's
going the value of it is going to
be the value of what it brings to
the people who come to it. The value
is going to be the unity and the
and the mentorship and the love and and
the knowledge that's going to exist within it
even though it may be simple.
And we know that because the prophet
did not perform tashid of quba nor did
he perform tashid of his own masjid
in his own life.
And put more things in it to make
the the roof higher and maybe, paint it
and put a note.
He lived all his life,
the Masjid as simple as it was when
it was first
built. They did put all they put in
was a was a roof, and the roof
was of.
Meaning, they would take old
pieces of of, of palm trees and and
cover because he covered the first piece where
he was going to he was praying towards
the Masjid Al Aqsa, so the northern part
had it. And then the qibla changed, so
now he wasn't standing under the, under the
palm trees anymore. He was standing under the
sky. So whenever it rained, the whole thing
turned into a it was a lot of
mud.
Lived in that place so they they covered
it up eventually during his life, alayhis salatu.
Somebody got him a after the was right
beside the
the the jidya. They made him a small
member which is just 3 steps just to
let the people and he could see him
a little bit better, alayhi salatu. That's it.
No wealth was put he could have easily
taken like, he could
have gathered wealth and made sure that a
certain portion if he stood on the said,
put money together to us for us to
yeah. And he fixed up the messian to
make it. Would they not have put their
money?
Right? He didn't.
He didn't.
May that be something that the people who
run Masjid learn from? He didn't.
He left the Masjid
with no walls
with no walls
all his life, alaihis salaam. It was wallless.
Alright?
And he never gathered money to improve it.
Doesn't mean that we make our
sad. Yeah. And he where where it's not
taken care of, it's not maintained, it's not
but we have to be careful.
We have to be careful on what we
do and how we use the wealth that
is coming within Masayid. We have to keep
it. And I say that to myself first,
obviously, as someone who but we have to
watch out for that. It doesn't mean that
you don't put your money there, but we
have to remind ourselves what masajid, the value
of masajid is the programming,
is the teaching, is the knowledge, is the
love, is the mentorship. It's that's that's the
value of it. It's not the yeah. I
mean,
I've entered Masjid. I remember I yeah. I
don't wanna name the country. So I've entered
Masjid.
Yeah. I mean, if we if we broke
this masjid down and and sold all of
its parts, we could literally
feed a small country somewhere in Africa for
a year. This
amount of
look the I remember one of the shield
was showing me.
By the one of them was in. It's
like, oh, this
is
It's covered with gold. So what?
Are are the are the words that you're
saying
arriving? Are they landing? Are people learning? Are
kids what that's gold.
That's gold. That's nothing.
This means nothing. Yeah. But the Masjid
was better than your Masjid and it was
from and
he gave us under a a tree branch
There was more barakah there than anywhere play
anywhere else on the on earth.
So we have to be aware.
Is what he said.
It's a hadith and it's authenticating. It's worthy
of reflection.
Even though there's difference of opinion here, and
I do I do I do, acknowledge that
and accept that.
I think there's a peace we can
learn from.