Adnan Rajeh – The Unlawfulness of Harm #09
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Of the unlawfulness of harm is just tonight
and tomorrow inshallah, then I'll move on something
else next week inshallah ta'ala. And I hope
inshallah this is helpful and, you know, you
can share some of these hadith with your
children and and this is something has to
be taught early on. You have to learn
this early in life that you are not
to harm people, that you cannot afford to
cause any form of harm. Even if it's
something simple, even if it's psychological, even if
it's just yeah. I need something that is,
in passing that people forget about quickly. Any
form of harm is is just not permissible.
And
and I and that's how he lived his
life alayhi salatu wa salam. And that's why
he taught the Sahaba to live. And I
think
Yani, I rank this in the top 10
hadith that everyone should should learn in their
lives. It's gonna be because it's very profound
and it's very very meaningful.
And it can be used to explain multiple,
concepts. I and I'm using it for this
one here because I think it, it it
relates to. And this is what he said
And this is the narration of, you know,
Muslim and the narration of is a little
bit different. And there's
some very
variations here.
And this is just a very scary hadith.
Like, It's extremely scary but it's also very
uplifting.
It works both ways. So he he says
the following. Indeed,
the servant of Allah will will say a
word
that has within it something that is pleasing
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And the servant
will say it and will not notice or
remember or pay attention to the fact that
they said it. It'll be something that they
say that they don't even pay attention to.
Like, they forget about it almost immediately after.
Meaning, if you bring them and say, yeah,
you said that, they'll say, I I I
don't even remember meeting that person. They remember
saying this word. I I don't I don't
think so. I don't think, oh, if it's
in the book, then I must have done
it. I don't remember it. And it's and
it's some within it, there is something that
pleases Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala He finds himself
in being elevated to status as in Jannah
that they didn't think was possible. Right?
Someone someone standing by and and then you
just go up and say something nice. Someone
who's having an absolutely horrible time. Someone who
just go hit who just hit rock rock
bottom and you took, like, a split second
of your day and said, you look there's
nothing nice about them. Something nice about them.
And you walked away and you forgot that
you ever said that. Within 10 years, you
have no recollection of ever doing and even
you probably don't even remember meeting this person.
But it meant so much to them, especially
when you're talking to youth, especially when you're
talking to children and and younger people. Oh,
a young person will remember
remember who encouraged them in their lives. And
if you're if you're of the age, you'll
you'll know. You'll go back and you're you'll
be able to remember that. Quran, they and
it it didn't do much. Like, the person
that you remember to have a a positive
influence on you, they didn't do that much.
It was just a few times where they
said a few nice words and it just
it's it's resonated with you. It stayed with
you. It stuck with you. And and this
is the example of that's the positive. That's
the good piece. So yeah. But that's not
why I'm telling you this hadith. No.
I'm narrating this hadith with the other part.
This part you can do, you don't do
it. They'll still fit. It's up to you.
If you care, you don't care. I don't
I don't, honestly, it doesn't matter. But it's
the second piece that you have to know.
And indeed, the servant will say a word,
that has within it something that displeases Allah
and they don't pay attention that they even
send it. They will be falling in jahannam
for 70 years.
They will find themselves falling for 70 years.
Just falling.
Why am I falling? Because of the word
you said to Fulan.
Who is Fulan?
Oh, you met him on
July 11, 2024.
You you said,
where
who is this person? I've never seen this
person in my life.
I don't even remember. I never said that.
I didn't whoever wrote this is lying. I
I didn't I I've never said this. And
then they they play the footage back for
you. And you and you see the footage
and you still don't remember.
Because who's going to remember every single word
they say? No one does. No one has
the capacity to do that, especially we don't
pay attention to it.
If your if your threshold of harm is
not high, if you don't care a lot
about this, if you're not sensitive towards this,
then you can say something that is can
be absolutely devastating to someone. You can say
something that's harmful, that's that's disrespectful, that's rude,
that's hurtful. You didn't mean it at the
time because you didn't care.
And but it left such a it left
a a mark on that person. It hurt
them. You pushed them. You put their head
your hand on their head when they were
already down. You shove their face in the
mud when they are just fallen. You you
just and you didn't care. You didn't think
of it. You forget about it completely. You
find yourself
Be careful. Be careful. This is what he's
saying
If I were to say this, you wouldn't
accept it from me. If I said this
if I gave the meaning of this hadith
myself, you would have rejected it and throw
it back in my face. He said it
so you have to listen.
He said it. He said that you'll say
something.
That you don't even pay attention to it.
You're like, I didn't pay attention to it.
It must not matter. Oh, it matters.
Oh, it matters.
If it harms someone, oh, god doesn't matter.
It matters a lot, so be careful. Be
careful what you say and who you say
it to and how you say it and
why you say it. Be careful. Be careful
of causing harm because the first one is
beautiful. Awesome if you're that type of person.
You walk around encouraging and saying nice thing.
But if you're not that, which is the
majority of people aren't, by the way, way,
like, just so you know, in case you
think you are, you're not. We don't have
anyone like that in our community. They'll set
those they stand out like a sore thumb.
The person who walks around just saying nice
things to people. We if we had 5
of them, Yani, we would have a better
society. If you had 5 Muslims, just 5
Muslims in this community who walked around looking
for good things and to compliment people for,
we would have a different society You have
no idea how far a good word goes.
We don't have those people. We don't have
them. I can tell you, Biyani, but I've
been here for 10 years. They don't exist.
Inshallah. Maybe next generation will learn and they'll
do that. But don't be the other one.
Don't be number don't be the second guy.
Don't be the second guy because that's that
is just devastating.
That you end up yeah. You're basically you're
calculating your hasidat and say you're barely making
it. And then one word you said, you
can't even remember you said it. You have
no recollection of this mockery,
of this moment of a laugh
at someone or or a comment that a
remark that was a little bit demeaning or
a remark that just didn't wasn't thought well
through well and it hurt someone and you
find yourself, you're on, why am I falling
this far? What did I do?
I I I didn't
and that doesn't scare you, then I don't
know what will. But it scares me, and
I hope it scares you. And that's what
he taught alayhis salatu wa sallam because we
lived. You know that he did that he
did that right before the end of his
life? You know, and
he stood there and he said,
If I took any of your wealth, come.
I have whatever I have left, I'll give
you from it.
If I've ever hurt someone physically, come take
take it take it from my back now.
If I've if I've hurt your integrity, if
I've taken you from your blood, come do
it now.
He said don't forget don't don't be afraid
that I'll carry a grudge.
It's not a part of my who I
am. I don't I don't carry grudges.
But I hope to meet Allah and I
and I owe no one anything.
I come and I no one no one
has anything to ask me for. No one
can say that I owe them something in
my life.
That's how he lived. That's how he lived.
And if he lived like that, then I
don't know what I'm gonna say about myself,
but I hope that hadith is is helpful
for
Tonight, tomorrow is 3:15. I don't believe that
there's a khutbah at the encampment because there's
no more encampment. So, yeah. I mean, just
in case you were going there