Ahmed Suleman Khatani – Character Of Muslim
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Muhammad Abu
holokin
Nima, makarima, ak o Kama, Kala, sallam, Allahu, alayhi wa sallam,
inspected Anima ikaram, elders and beloved brothers in Islam, all of
us are well aware
of the significance and the auspiciousness
of the night of Bharat, which inshaAllah commences from Maghrib
Salah this evening
is a night of ibadah. Night which we have returned was ALLAH SubhanA
wa taala.
However, in the hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi wa
sallam,
we find not only on Barajas and not only on shabakara, but even on
other auspicious occasions,
there are certain
wrong dreams.
There are certain masihats, disobedience of Allah,
which become mania, which become an obstacle to the acceptance of
DUA
and one such obstacle,
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that even despite the
fact that on this night, ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala
will flee, will free more people from Jahannam than The hares on
the sheep of the Bani Kalb tribe, a tribe which were famous and well
known for the number of sheep that they possess. So he said, more
people than that will be freed, and their emancipation from
Jahannam will occur on this night.
But despite this, one of the people who will not be forgiven,
he said, is Musha hen,
that person who harbors hatred or enmity or dislike for his Muslim
brother,
the emphasis
which
Islam, the Quran
and the Sira the life of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam places on akhlaq and character is so great that Alama
saved majority. In fact, more than 60%
of the Shariat of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam does
not pertain to how to make salah or how to make Tila with the
Quran, or how to make zikrullah Or how to pay your zakat.
They say this forms only about 1/3 of the teachings of rasulallah.
Majority, more than two thirds
of what rasulallahu alayhi wa sallam came with
was to teach this human being, to teach this believer, to teach this
reciter of la ilaha, illaLlah, Muhammadu rasulallah, how to
interact with the people around him.
What are the rights of those whom you are living with in the present
circumstances which the Muslim ummah is facing throughout the
entire world, the need for emphasis on akhlaq and character
has become even greater.
Rasulallah mean he was a mercy for the entire Alam, his night upon
night crying in front of Allah. Subhana, wa taala, his day in
nalaka. Fin nahari, sabhan, tawela, that in the day, you have
a swim in the sea of humanity. Sahaba, description of him.
Kanada, imal, fikrival, akzam Lay sad. Lahu Raha that
he was always in fiqr he was always in gamma. He was always
worried. Lay sat Nahu Raha. There was no peace for him. All this, my
respected brothers, was for the entire humanity. Was not just for
the 1 billion reciters of la ilaha, illallah, Muhammad,
rasulallah, that are living today. But his concern, his cry, was for
every person to come before.
Tiamat presently, 6 billion insan on the surface of the earth. 5
billion of those Insan, of those human beings, do not see your
Salah,
they do not see your Tila ut Quran. They do not see your
zikrullah. What is their introduction to Muhammad?
SallAllahu, sallam? What is their introduction so Rahmatullah
Alameen, what is their introduction to the legacy which
rasulallah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came with my respected
brothers. It is how a Muslim lives,
how he interacts,
how he talks, how he conducts himself, what his business is like
how he treats his staff,
how he treats his wife, how he treats his children.
That is why majority of the shariata, Rasulullah, sallAllahu,
alayhi wa sallam pertains to this, unfortunately, our concept or our
ideology, our understanding of what is Islam has become very
limited. We have confined it to the masjid. We have confined it to
just a few acts of imadats,
yet Walla, I am sitting on a member of the masjid,
the mafu, the hadith of Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa
sallam. He said,
he said, the person whose every day, every day he fasted,
every night he spent in tahajjud salah,
his entire life, 3040, 50 years, he did this
on the day of judgment, He will not get the rank and status of
that person who develops his akhlaq in character,
maamin Shay in haskal, P mizanil Abdul Mina Yom al qayama, Min
hushin
kholok in Hasan, rasulallah Islam said there is nothing, There is
nothing that is more weightier on the scale of deeds, on the day of
judgment, than good, akhlaq and character, not Salah and not Zakat
and not tahajjud. Why? Because His concern was for the entire
humanity. One Hadith comes in nali, lahita, Allah, Lohan, Min
zumur, rudrat in khadra, taktal Ash
Allah, Tala has a tablet that is made out of green emerald that is
underneath his ash. Katawafihi Allah has written on these
tablets. Inni, an Allah, La Ilaha, Illa, Anna, arhamur, Rahimi,
khalaq to bid AA, man manjaani, Vin Wahid, mashahati, Allah,
ILAHA, illAllah, udfilhul, Jannah,
Allah. Tala has a tablet of green emeralds underneath his ash, on it
is written, Verily, I am Allah.
There is no deity besides me. I am arhamurhimeen. I am the Most
Merciful of all those who show mercy.
I have created. I have divided akhlaq and character into more
than 300 parts.
That person who is a reciter of la ilaha illallah, and he comes
before me on the day of judgment with just one out of 300 parts of
ah Allah says, I will put him into judgements
in Allah. Deen, enough. Sihi, walaya, Salafi, janai, Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
Verily, Allah has chosen Islam for himself.
Understand, my respected brothers, when you when you claim to be a
Muslim, when you recite Kali Ma, you are khalifatul Allah wa
khalifatul Rasul salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. You are Allah and His
Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is a representative on this earth.
This is not an ordinary thing.
Rasulallah has linked and made the Nisbet of Islam with himself. Then
when you become a Muslim, you also have to have certain qualities.
What are those qualities? He said, wala. Yasulo, rihad, Deen, Illa
sakhaa, wala,
you have to be an embodiment of generosity.
You have to be an embodiment of good. Akhlaq in character. I
mentioned this incident before, somebody came with 30,000 Dirham,
la sala assalam. He started distributing it. Within a short
while, everything was gone.
Somebody still came and said, Ya rasulallah, give me some more Rais
salary. Salam said, I don't have anything.
But nevertheless, if.
Go to the bazaar, buy something on my name. Buy something on my name,
take that incur the debt on my name, and then when I get
something, I will pay the debt. All gets irritated. Makalapaka
Lama Rana has not commanded you with that which is beyond your
ability. Rasulullah Sallam becomes angry, and sari Sahabi sees the
anger of rasulallah. He says, An Kriti a rasulallah, wala tak sham
in dilashiyala, spend on Abhi of Allah. Spend, do not fear any
shortage from the one of
the ash Nabi salaam smiles, Hatha Ori pal Vishnu ki wa Ji, the
happiness could be seen on his face, and he says, Bihar zaumer to
this is what Allah has ordered me with. This is that generosity that
melted the hearts of people. One person, ramislas, and gave him so
much goats that it filled the valley between two mountains. He
went back to his people, and he said, aslim finda, Muhammadan,
European, Allah yashyapaka. He said, Oh, my people accept Islam
because Muhammad, sallAllahu, alaihi salam spends on the people
in such a way that I know he does not fear poverty. His link is with
Allah.
If we exhibited this type of generosity, is it possible that
the hearts of the people around us could be full with hatred for us.
Instead of exhibiting generosity, we exploited them. We took
advantage to fill our coppers at every juncture,
we made zulum an oppression on those around us. That is why the
heart had turned against us, he said, khaslatan, khaslatan la
tajitani. Aan Primum said there are two qualities that will never
come together in a Moomin. If he has these two qualities, he is not
a Moomin.
Al buchaul,
he said miserliness and bad akhlaq and character will never come
together in a movement.
Sahaba came and said, Ya rasulallah, there is a woman.
She is very vibrated buchare.
She makes a lot of vivadhas
a night, husband in Salah, her days are spent in fasting, in
tirawat, in vikrullah.
But she has a loose tongue
when she speaks. This
is not the direct words I'm explaining when she speaks.
Instead of roses coming out, thorns come out, people are
affected by her speech, Rasulullah sallallahu Islam said, Here Finn
naarshi is in Jahannam
despite ad, he said, Wallahi. You mean Wallahi LA, you mean Wallahi
LA. You mean Allah skasam. He is not a believer, Allah skasam. He
is not a believer, Allah skasam, he is not a believer. Sahaba was
shocked.
Many a rasulallah, who is this person that is not a believer?
Rasulallah tells him he is saying Qassam. He is not a believer. Who
is he going to be of Allah, Allahu, jahu, Bawa,
he said, that person who is a source of taqlid and hurt to his
neighbors, can never be a believer.
We have failed to understand what is Iman and Islam. We have
confined it. One Bedouin came to rasulallah and he said, What is
Deen? Bedouin, villager, the questions are very simple.
So he said, What is Deen? He expected rasulallah, sallAllahu,
Islam to refer to some Amal of Deen. Maybe Salah may be tilawad
may be sikhlula may be something else. May be fasting. But we
surprised rasulallah Sam says, when he asked him, What is Deen
Navi salasam said, Good, aklaq. So
he comes from another direction. They were simple people. So he
comes now from the right hand side, Ya Rasulullah, what is Deen
Ramesh lasales, Buddha Laak, he comes from the left side. Ya
Rasulullah, what is Deen Ramesh? Lasal says, Buddha Clark.
Then he comes from behind and he says, ya rasulallah, what is Deen
Rames? Lam turns around, he realizes the same person asking
the same question over and over again, he cannot appreciate the
answer. Visalarsalam says, you don't want to accept what I am
saying. All right, do not become angry. Control your emotions. That
is Deen.
He said, there are four types of people. There are four types of
people. One is that person, Sari ulhab Batti will faint.
Sari ulhab Sari UL Fay, a person who becomes angry very quickly,
and he cools down very quickly. He said, ahadu Kumar will akhar.
One Cancels the other. Then he said, The second type of person,
Bhati will HUD up. Bhati will fail. It takes him a long time to
become angry,
but it also takes him a long time to cool down. So there also he
said, ahaduma will offer one will cancel the other off. Then he
said, kriya rukum. Kriya rukum, best amongst you, the best amongst
these four people, bathi ul Halab, Sari UL Fay, that person who it
takes him a long time to become angry. And when he becomes angry,
he cools down very quickly. And he said, shirarukum. Shirarukum, the
worst amongst you is that person, Sario Gaza, who becomes angry very
quickly, and it takes him a very long time to cool down and get
over his anger. He does not control his emotions, he said.
Laser Shadid of his, Surah,
the wrestler, is not a powerful man. Wala kinna, Shadid Allah the
yam liquna Sahu in the Ghalib,
the powerful man is a person who can control himself at the time of
anger, he said. Man, kalamava, khalaya Khata Yu hai, rahomini,
Masha, he
said that person who swallows his anger controls his anger.
One
you are small, you are meekly birth, you are weak, and the
person you are angry with is very strong. Then to say, in the name
of Islam, I forgive you, and I am consoling My anger is very easy.
He said that a person swallows his anger and he is in a position of
authority.
It is his wife.
Oh, it is his children, oh, it is his staff cry tears of blood. Wu
Allah cry tears of blood. When you walk into the Muslim businesses
today and hear the manner in which those non Muslim staff are being
spoken to, hear the manner in which a Muslim who is poor is
being spoken to.
The Sullivan looked at the bait Allah,
and he said, You are a place of great sacredness.
But Walla, the honor and dignity of a Muslim is greater than yours
to sway the mother of someone or to sway the sister of someone or
to malign an insult a person, is a greater cry in Allah than breaking
the faith Allah. It
is not the press and it is not the media that have destroyed the
image of Islam and Muslims. It is we ourselves our conduct.
Islam never spread through the soul. That is a fallacy that the
orientalist Islam spread through akan character,
the sunlast once was sitting with Abu Bakr Siddiqui, Allahu dalam Hu
one person started swearing. Abu Bakr, swearing him, insulting him.
In the presence of rasulallah silam
sits there quietly. Abu Bakr is also quiet. Eventually it becomes
too much.
Abu Bakr becomes angry. When he becomes angry, he starts answering
that person assurance, gets up and walks away immediately. Abu Bakr,
realizing that I have slipped up, I made an error. He runs behind
rasala Ali Salam, and he says, O Nabi avala,
he was insulting me. You sat silently when I defended myself,
you woke up and went away.
Navi salasan said, indel Malak, yaru dwali, Yanka, Mars Malam
sakatha, kalamta, zahabal, Malak, Wakata, shaitan fakaritu and
akhira majlisan kanath, kanafi, shaitan Ramesh said, Abu Bakr,
what must I tell you when you remain silent, Allah sent His
angel to defend your honor. The more he swore you, the more the
angel extolled your praises
when you open your mouth. That is the time the angel went away and
shaitan came, because now he was angry, and you angry so the door
has opened up for shaitan. You
On one occasion, I'm just digressing. Hafiq Abu Asmaa Kandy
Rahul Ali mentions his incident
that once Iblis came to Musa Ali, Salat was salam
and he said, You are kalimullah. You are the chosen messenger of.
Allah Iblis,
I am shaitaan. I am murdoon. I am rejected.
I have decided to make tawba
intercede before Allah
and ask Allah if you will accept my Toba.
So Musa Ali Salam makes wudu. He makes turakat salah. Is happy.
What an opportunity. Shaitan has decided to repent.
He makes turakat salah, and then he addresses Allah, Tala, he says,
Ya Allah. He
believes he is only a creation. He has decided to repent. Please
forgive him. Allah Dalai says to Musa, alaihi salam, O Musa, he has
no intention to repent. He is not sincere. Musa Ali salaam says, Ya
Allah, He has come to me and he has pleaded give him the chance.
Allah Dalai says to him, oh, Musa, go to Iblis and tell him to make
sajda to the cover of Adam alaihi salam. If he will make that
sadhai, I will forgive him. Musa Ali Salam goes to Iblis and he
says, Allah has given you an opportunity make Sadda to the
cover of Adam and esalam. Iblis gets angry, and he says, when he
was alive, I refused to make satsang. Now that he is dead, how
am I going to make Saddam Forget about him? Then he says to Musa
Ali Salam, because you tried to intercede for me. You did me a
good turn. I am going to pay you back. There are three occasions.
There are three occasions when tell your ommats and tell humanity
to remember me to be careful. One is those of occasions I believe,
is telling Musa as that when he when a person becomes angry, know
that I am flowing through his blood. I am flowing through his
body like his blood is flowing through his body at the time of
his anger. Remember me. Remember me at the time of anger. The other
two occasions he mentioned not pertinent. What we are talking
about is that he said, when a person is striving in the path of
Allah, I will come to him, and I will remind him about his wife and
his children and his wealth and his business and what he left
behind, so that he goes back. And the third occasion is when
he is sitting alone with a woman. When he is in khalwa with a woman
who is not his mahram, then I am her messenger to Him and His
Messenger to her,
controlling of emotions,
controlling one's base desires and feelings,
normally our concept of akhlaq in character is what we call an
intikami akhlaq,
what we call a reciprocal akhlaq.
We are good to that person who is good to us, and
we want to get angry with that person who gets angry with us.
That is not the aash of nubuvat. That is not the aash of Rasulullah
sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam, the verse of the Quran comes down
husil aafwa vamoor, Bill aur wa adanil jahilien o mahinavi,
forgive the people. Forgive the people.
Rasulullah sallallahu, sallam, thanks to Jibril, and he says, oh,
Jibreel, what is the meaning of this verse? Jibreel says, ya
rasulallah, I have to go back to Allah to find out what the meaning
of this verse is. He goes back to Allah taala, and then he comes
back and he says, Ya Muhammad in Allah, amurok, Anta Silman, Qatar
Vati, wataman, haramak, wataw, mandalam wa Tah sin Elam, an Asai
leg ulama se this one Hadith of Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa
sallam is an explanation of the akhlaq and character of nubuvat.
And they say that if humanity, whether TAF or whether Muslim,
adopts the four things that are mentioned in the Hadith, then
every dispute, every argument, whether between wife and husband,
whether between staff and their boss, whether between nations and
governments, every argument will come to an end. What is the clock
of nabowitz? Janabi Rasulullah said, join with the one who breaks
off with you. Join with the one who breaks off with you. Do good
to the one who does wrong to you. Forgive the one who oppresses you
and spend on that person who deprives you. What is our love?
What is our character? Join with the one who joins with you. Do
good to the one who does good to you. If he scratches your back,
you scratch his back. That is not a club.
That is human nature to be reciprocal of.
Rock and character is to swallow one's emotions. Janavya sulasana
said, coming back to that hadith, that person who will swallow his
anger and he is in a position of authority. It is his wife, she has
done something wrong. It is his children, they have done something
wrong. It is his staff or his laborer who has done something
wrong. Janavya rasulallah says, On the Day of Judgment, Allah will
call this person. Allah will call this person. He will line up the
fools of Jannat. Miss Universe. Competition will take place. Allah
will say to him, on a certain day, you swallowed your anger. You
could have given in to the dictates of your anger. For my
sake, you swallowed your anger. Now choose any of these women,
whichever one pleases you, in exchange for controlling your
anger, I am giving you that
Sri Ravi Rasulullah salasan said, I am responsible. Come to me on
the day of judgment. I am your guarantor that if you correct your
clock and your character, I will give you a home in Jannatul. To
those, I will give you a home in the highest Jannat. One person
came to rasulallah, sallAllahu sallam, and he said, What is
Islam? What is Islam? If the question is put to us, what will
we say? Salah zakat Hajj. Rabbi Abbas salal, Islam says Islam.
It's amuttaam. Watibul Kalam. He said, feed the people and speak
nicely to the people. This is Islam. In other words, good as
character. Then someone came and said, What is Iman? What is Iman
Ravis, lasalva, Samaha, to have patience and to forgive and to
overlook, in other words, good akhlaq and character. Then someone
came and said, AYL Muslim Abdul, what is the best? Islam? Ravi
salaam said, mansali, man muslimun wafiriwaya, mansali, man
nasmillisani. Wayadi, that person who every Muslim around him, and
he wondered why at all the people living around him, when they look
at him, they know in their heart that from the tongue and the hand
of this person, I am saying when he opens his mouth, roses will
come out. Thorns will not come out
when he raises his hands. It will be a ray. It will be a hand of
Shabd, of mercy, of kindness. It will not be raised to hurt and
inflict damage upon me.
Then they asked him, Eyal, Imani, Abdul onavi of Allah, what is the
best Iman. What is the best Iman? He said, Hus khuluq, good AK, good
character. That is the best Iman.
Generally poets, when they make Kashmir, when they make comparison
of the heart of a person, they compare the heart of a person with
glass, because glass is such a thing that if you break it, to put
it together again is impossible,
and there is nothing there is more effective in breaking the hearts
of people than that which comes out of the tongue. This tongue is
such a thing. I respected brothers, we have run out of time.
We cannot possibly reiterate, for emphasize enough, the importance
of this. This is that hole in which great awliya also have
fallen. This is that hole in which ulama have fallen. This is that
hole in which people who have given their own lives for Deen
have fallen. Shaitan is very intelligent,
a businessman. In his shop, he puts that those goods which will
sell, shaitan is not going to go to a pious person or a person who
has given his life to Deen, who is in the masjid all the time, and
tell him to make Zina. What shaitan is going to bring to that
person is make vivad, slander someone, speak against someone,
hurt the feeling of someone,
because that wound is very hard to heal. Once Ali Sarath was saram
was traveling with his companions, there was a highway robber
standing on top of the mountain. And
when he looks down at the Starfleet this procession,
the noor of nubuvats on the face of isarava Salaam affects him very
greatly there and then he makes toma from all his wrong and all
his congressions. And then this Ayurveda comes down to meet Isa
esalaam And to be take bread on his hands as he is approaching one
of the hawariin, the close companions of Isa esalat was
salaam, he sees this person coming, and he thinks in his
heart.
Art.
He looks with the haqqs, with dislike, with disdain. He looks
down upon this person. We are the companions of Isa Eli salatu,
salaam, and this person is a highway robber. He is a thief. He
does not behoove him to come in our Majlis and our gathering
shibri is sent to isahi Salaam, the dhyanabi Allah om ay NaVi,
inform these two people to start their Amal again. Inform both
these people to start again. What does it mean? Tell the highway
raga that he made sincere Toba, we have forgiven him. He must start
like a newborn baby. All his wrongs have been wiped out. And
tell that companion of yours that he looked down upon a believer,
all his good deeds have been wiped out. He must also start again.
Qalama explained, they say our ibadahs, our tilawats, our Salah
will take us closer to Allah, but our conduct with our fellow human
beings is that thing which is going to take us away from Allah,
which is going to destroy our ibadahs. That is why my respected
brothers, this fourth point of Talib, that of akhlaq, of
character, of Ikram, unfortunately, is not being
stressed on enough. And believe me, my respected brothers, this is
the hardest sabak, this is the hardest lesson, and this is that
which will give us the highest rank in Jannat. Learn to overlook,
learn to forgive in that same incident, Abu Bakr, Siddiq,
RadiAllahu, talaanu is consoled by Rasulullah or Abu Bakr, when you
spoke, shaitan came the angel went away. O Abu Bakr, I give you the
worst of Allah, prasam, as long as you were silent, as long as you
were Muslim, as long as you overlooked, for the sake of Allah,
Allah, tell kyamat, this is Allah's principle, overlook,
forgive, become Muslim, become oppressed. Do not demand your
rights. Walla Allah will raise you He will raise your families. He
will raise generations and demand your rights. Become as dalim speak
out against people hurt the feelings of others, despite your
wealth, despite your status, despite your position, walla Allah
will disgrace you, and Allah will bring you down these nights that
are coming. Shabba Kadar is coming. Shabba Bharat is tonight.
Ramadan is coming, my respected brothers, it is our conduct with
our fellow human beings, and this legacy of rahmat and mercy of
janavi rasulallah that we have to portray the clerk and character to
the entire humanity. Let us make Toba from the wrongs that we have
done to those around us. Try and better our Clark. Learn to
forgive, learn to speak sweetly, learn to overlook. May Allah dare
give each and every one of us so we go after.