Adnan Rajeh – The Unlawfulness of Harm #08
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And
the
theme of the unlawfulness of Harm is what
I'm going to continue inshallah to the end
of this week.
We'll start something new inshallah
next week.
And this is a hadith that talks about
harmony. It specifies it specifies where it's happening
and how it's happening. And I think it's
a hadith that's worth
sharing with you in within this theme for
sure,
because of of the type of harm the
prophet
cared for. This is what I'm trying to,
share and get you to see. The prophet,
Alaihi, saw some he looked at harm. He
didn't just didn't just look at someone punching
someone or someone stealing from someone or someone
who's, killing someone. These are under he looked
at other aspects of harm that are a
bit more subtle that we tend to overlook
or not care about where as simple as
as as over
overstepping someone in when they're sitting, to attend
something with our,
or or or harming
harming them by speaking, whispering, and and and
excluding them to from the them from the
conversations. Stuff that that
so most of it don't even qualify as
harm. Let's tell you today a little bit
more direct. So he
said, Now he'd be very aware and careful
from saying do not. And he's basically, means
don't do it.
Here is not like a is different. Is
I I I I warn you from ever
doing this, and the linguistic meaning reasoning behind
it is is long. I'm not gonna
for another time.
So may you not spend time sitting on
the sides of of,
of of paths where people walk. That's what
means.
He's not talking about a highway. But he's
talking about where paths where people are are
back walking back and forth to buy their,
you know, they're going to buy things or
they're bringing back their,
their merchandise or their Yani, it's a it's
a place it's a public space that everyone
is using, everyone needs to use. Men and
women, young and old need to use. So
So when you sit there on the on
the on on the path on the side
of the path, you yeah. I mean, the
the prophet alaihi sallam saw that to be
not something that you should be doing.
We have nowhere else to to spend time
to talk to each other and see each
other and, like, this is what we've been
doing for a long time. If you tell
us to take this away, then we're kinda,
we're stuck. Like, we don't have anywhere else
to this is where we've always been sitting.
There's always where we have our conversations. So
they and the prophet, alaihis salaam, would say
something. And the sahaba sometimes that they felt
like the, I mean, the the warning or
the piece of advice he gave alaihis salaam
was something that they could argue with. They
didn't feel bad about doing that. Not arguing,
but, yeah, I
if if there was a thought that they
wanted to share or if they felt that
it was gonna be difficult or they felt
this was not gonna be
something that was feasible, they would bring it
up to him, alayhis salatu wa sallam. And
that shows you that's important, obviously, for this
whole story to to to exist because
if they didn't, Islam would be looked differently.
It's it's that interaction between the prophet
and his companions that allowed us to have
Islam the way it is.
If you have to sit in it, like
there's no way out of it, then give
the the the path its right.
And what is the right of the path?
He
said these 4 things. Then you must shave
away shy away with your geyser or lower
your gaze.
Shy away with your eyes when you're looking
or lower your gaze when people are walking
back and forth. Don't stare at what they're
carrying or at them if they're
this is important. Like, something to learn to
teach your kids even. Like, there there's there's
a there's a fine line between
curiosity and nosiness,
between normal just normal,
behavior and and actually prying into people's personal
lives and seeing something and looking,
oh,
he was he was carrying,
Mo'ez Maha. Oh, he had, he had he
seemed like he he had bought those expensive
peaches or he got something. It's not your
business with this person. Oh, it was filled
with meat or they brought, they ordered food
or they brought in
you know? So so for it's not just
not looking at someone's physique like if a
lady is walking by. No. It's also not
prying into people's personal lives. So you don't
stare.
Because sometimes people don't want you to know
that they're at home today or that they're
walking back or that they were here that
time. Like, people everyone's like, you have that
problem too. Like, you don't always want to
be to be reachable or to be accessible
or to be known that you were at
one place or the other.
So
and and withholding harm, making sure that you
don't cause any form of harm.
This is like the the the theme of
the whole thing.
Offering back is given to you.
And when you see something that is happening
that is positive, you continue to to to
encourage it. And when a problem,
comes up or something where there is harm
occurring in front of you that you discourage
it and and and you stop. And this
is the these are the rights of the
path. Like, if you're going to exist in
a public space, this is what you what
you owe the people there. You owe not
to pry into their personal lives. Do not
cause any harm. To respond when people speak
to you in a proper way and to
continue to to continue to encourage good behaviors
and discourage the ones that are that
are not beneficial.
Otherwise, if you can't do those things, then
then
don't and don't don't don't sit around in
public spaces just watching people flow back and
forth.
Because that's the that's how he he sees
the
as a form of harm because people don't
like to be
pride. And I think it's something worth,
There's obviously a lot of aspects here that
I didn't discuss with you and there's a
lot of questions that you could ask that
I could offer answers. But I just want
you to take the basic idea from this
hadith and to, yeah, to benefit from
I hope that was a a benefit to
you.