Adnan Rajeh – The Unlawfulness of Harm #08

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.