Adnan Rajeh – The Significance of Masajid #7

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.