Ammar Alshukry – How to Endure Peoples Harm

Ammar Alshukry
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The speakers discuss the negative impact of isolationism on the positive side of individuals, including the importance of recognizing the harm and looking through the harm. They also discuss ways to manifest the harm, such as forgiveness and patient behavior. The conversation includes examples of how individuals can increase their endurance and endurance through patient behavior and patient forgiveness. The transcript also describes the importance of forgiveness and forbearance in resolving issues.

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			All praises due to Allah we seek His guidance and his forgiveness and we seek refuge in Allah from
the evil of ourselves and the whispering of our desires, whom Allah guides no one can misguide. To
whom you allow us to be misled. No one can guide and I bear witness that there is nothing worthy of
worship except Allah alone, having no partners, and that Muhammad Sallallahu it who was sending them
his his slave, and perfect worshipper. Allah subhanho data says in the Quran, Oh you who believe
fear Allah as he deserves to be feared, and do not die except in a state of Islam. And Allah says,
Oh mankind's, Fear your Lord who created you from a single soul and produce from that soul it's made
		
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			and made from their combination many men and women. So Fear your Lord whom you asked each other by
and by the ties of kinship, verily, Allah is Ever Watchful over you. And Allah says, Oh, you who
believe, fear Allah and say that which is correct, he will correct for you your deeds and forgive
you your sins. And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger, then they are indeed victorious, as to
proceed.
		
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			The prophets of Allah Allah was sending them was once distributing
		
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			spoils after a war.
		
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			And a man came to Rasulullah sallallahu sallam,
		
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			and he said, Oh, Mohamed Adel.
		
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			He said, O Muhammad be just
		
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			because had he had this Mattoon Maori, Debbie Howard, hola. This is a distribution through which the
face of God is not being sought, said O Muhammad be just because the way you're distributing right
now. This is not the distribution of somebody who's seeking God.
		
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			Can you imagine a statement like that being made to Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam. The accusation
of being unjust, the accusation of seeking other than Allah subhanaw taala in his entire life, has
been the greatest manifestation of human sincerity ever. The greatest manifestation of worship ever,
the greatest manifestation of sacrifice ever and the prophets of Allah it was sending them lowered
his head.
		
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			And he said, may Allah Subhana Allah have mercy on Musa Lockard gouvia The foreman has for Sabol may
Allah have mercy on Musa, he has been harmed by more than this by more than any statement like this
man is saying.
		
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			And he endured, he showed solver
		
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			to interact with human beings
		
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			is to experience ignorance, to interact with people is to is to experience harm. And so I wanted to
briefly remind myself and my brothers with regards to and my sisters with regards to our instruction
that ALLAH SubhanA data gives us with regards to enduring harm.
		
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			Many times, you may come across a person who as a result of harm that they experience, whether it's
from their family, or whether it's from the community or whether it's from the masjid or whether
it's from the Muslims or whether it's that their response is to then isolate themselves. Their
response is to no longer interact, their responses to cut off family members, their responses to cut
off relationships, their responses to distance themselves from the community because of harm that I
experienced from them, because people back baited me because people insulted me because people will
harm me in some way.
		
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			But Allah subhanho wa Taala reminds us and he says was stupid enough second, my Lavinia the owner of
bombilla data will actually
		
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			are you doing Oh Ha ha, Allah Subhana Allah, Allah says, endure the company of those who call upon
their Lord in the morning of the evening you really do in our chest seeking his face, endure their
company persevere in their company. Yes, there will be times when people will wrong you.
		
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			That is part of the human experience. Allah subhanaw taala describes humanity when he says, Well how
am Allah had insight into how Ghana lumen Jehovah? Allah describes humanity as being oppressive and
ignorant.
		
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			The only way to avoid oppression in your life and to avoid ignorance in your life is to avoid people
forever.
		
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			But to interact with people,
		
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			to interact with human beings, is to interact with people who have human deficiencies. And so our
response is not to try to create an idealistic world in which there is no harm and there is no one
will ever insulted me and no no ever misjudged me or mischaracterized me or
		
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			this dunya was not created to be that place.
		
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			But what I am required to do is to recognize the reality of humanity, it is to recognize the reality
of this dunya and to recognize that all of this is an opportunity for me to manifest an attribute
that Allah Subhana Allah loves for me to manifest and that is the attribute of somebody. Allah
subhanho data says, endure the company of those who call upon their Lord in the morning in the
evening, and do not let your eyes seeking his face and do not let your eyes go beyond them. You're
seeking the adornment of this world, perhaps a person that adornment may simply be something like
peace of mind.
		
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			It may be something like
		
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			seeking the company of those who might be a better a better opportunity for them when it comes to
the dunya. But Allah subhana wa Tada says, Hold faster the community of the believers and the
prophets of Allah Hadi who is sending me says I mean, the believer Alethea you Harley to NAS. The
believer as a major reports, the believer that mixes with the people weigh us Bureau either at home,
and is patient and endures the harm that comes as if to say, to be in the company of people is to
incur or to experience harm that you must then endure. That just comes with relationships, any
relationship, someone's going to let you down one day, someone's going to harm you one day,
		
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			someone's going to make a mistake one day and they're going to come and apologize the next day and
you're going to have to forgive them. That is part of having meaningful relationships. The only way
to avoid that is to avoid any relationship of meaning. And so the province of Allah do is Sydenham
says the believer, a leather you hide it to nurse Wellsboro Allah Allahu Allah harder to nurse what
is with Allah him.
		
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			The believer who mixes with the people, and endures their harm is better than the believer who
doesn't mix with the people and doesn't endure their harm.
		
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			Person who isolates themselves are going to have a lot of tranquility and peace in their life. But
the Prophet sallallahu, as the name says, The one who mixes and the one who endures, and the one who
who who teaches a person forever, and then that person turns around and slanders them and this
person who helps a person forever, and then that person comes around and back bites them, or is
ungrateful to them or takes an opportunity that causes them harm, that is still a person who is in a
better position than the one who isolates themselves. Now the scholars, they talk about isolationism
versus integration, they talk about that a lot. And there are a time there is a time and a place for
		
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			a person to isolate themselves true. At the same time. It's not like it is something that is
absolute In either case, there are times when a person should separate themselves, and of those
times is when you are not a positive influence on those who you are in their company, but rather
they are a negative influence on you. And so if I could give you a really basic example, you have
the example of the person who's struggling in the water,
		
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			but you don't know how to swim. So if you jump in to try to help them, that's two casualties.
		
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			But if you're strong enough, and you're skilled enough, and you have the ability to go and to pull
them out of the water, then you do that. But you're not obligated to cast yourself.
		
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			If you don't have that strength, and you don't have that skill. Similarly, if I have the ability to
positively affect people who want when I'm in their company, when I'm in their company, I have the
personality or the leadership or the rapport or what have you that when I say let's pray, they pray.
And when I say no, we're not going to do that. We don't do that. Or when I say let's do this,
everybody listens. I am positively influencing then yes, I engage. But if I am not have that
personality, or I'm not of that age, or I don't have that status or whatever it is and rather they
are the negative influence on me.
		
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			And so when I'm with them, I'm not praying. And when I'm with them, I'm doing things that I normally
otherwise wouldn't do, then I don't be myself, I don't be that person who casts myself into the
water at my own destruction at my own peril. It depends on who is influencing who, and who has a
positive influence. And so when you have the ability to engage people,
		
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			and they do not affect you negatively, other than maybe some harm that you incur,
		
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			doesn't affect your deen rather, it might be a source of raising of your status with ALLAH SubhanA
data, then that is something that a person should endure and something that a person should seek
reward with Allah subhanaw taala for because the prophets of Allah do is send them said that the
believer who mixes with the people and his patient and endures and perseveres their harm, that is
better than the one who doesn't mix with them. And so, what are some of the ways that we can
manifest this endurance? What are some of the things that we can do to increase this endurance of
ours, this patients of ours this perseverance of ours, number one is to recognize that this is, this
		
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			is the stage. This is the way that Allah subhanaw taala designed this world, ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada.
He says, with Jada, John Nevada, coming to you baldly, and fitna, as a spiritual law says, We made
some of you tests for another, are you going to be patient? And so that first, that first step is to
look through the harm?
		
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			Not to focus on the person, but to look through the harm? What does that mean? The example that the
scholars give is like the example of glass.
		
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			And so when my children are disrespecting me, or when my spouse is harming me, or my family members,
or my community, or whatever tests that I incur, my, my coworker, whatever tests that I incur, I am
not looking at them, because we naturally then obsess over this individual.
		
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			But you look through them, and you see behind that person,
		
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			Allah subhanaw taala, that I recognize that behind this individual is a Lord who created this test
for me. And the question is, am I going to pass this test? Or am I going to fail? And so through
every interaction, I am no longer even seeing the interaction and I'm not seeing the person who is
the actor of the interaction, but rather I am seeing through that interaction and through that
individual and I am gazing at Allah Subhana Allah, and I am seeing that Allah subhanho data says,
Oh, John Navab Wikimedia evolved in fitna, Allah designed this world to be like that. And Allah then
says, arthrospira, when are you going to? Are you going to exercise endurance? Are you going to
		
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			exercise perseverance? Are you going to exercise patience? Number two, so the first is to look
through. The second is to look upwards.
		
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			The second is to look upwards. And this is of the greatest benefits that a person recognize that
however you respond,
		
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			I just thought woman Jean said that people will have a reward similar to their actions. And so when
I turn around to someone, and I show in forbearance, that Allah Subhana Allah Allah will show me
forbearance, forbearance, meaning restraint, with the ability to punish, that when I exercise
forbearance, it is time when I could have exercise anger, or I could have exercised power that Allah
subhanaw taala is an Haleem, Allah subhanho wa Taala will deal with me with forbearance, that when I
exercise forgiveness when someone has wronged me that I recognize that Allah subhanaw taala is the
forgiver and my sins are too many to count. And so when I turn around and I forgive someone who has
		
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			wronged me because you don't forgive anyone except the person who has wronged you,
		
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			and so when you turn around and you show forgiveness, you hope that in doing so, ALLAH SubhanA data
is going to forgive you. Allah Subhana Allah Allah he says, Well, yeah for well yes for who? Allah
to a boon for Allah, Allah. Allah says, Let those who have been wronged let them forgive and let
them overlook. And this came down with regards to Abu Bakr so they called the ALLAH and he had a
relative who had participated in the campaign the slander against Aisha, even an ISIS his daughter,
Abubakar Delano, even though this man is a relative of Abu Abu Bakr, Radi Allahu Anhu. And even
though this was a man who will work Radi Allahu Anhu used to actually give money to he used to help
		
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			him out. Could you imagine the layers of pain? This is somebody who used to financially help. This
is someone who is a relative to you. This is someone who is being slandered in your family to his
daughter, I shut out the law and there was no greater harm that could be directed towards an Arab
Arab man. During the time of the prophets of Allah. It is certainly than an attack on his honor on
his family, and welcome to the Allah and who's experiencing this
		
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			So when the verses of Ashleigh Gila Anna and his innocence were revealed, aboubaker said, I'm never
going to I'm not helping this guy out anymore. But what did Allah subhanaw taala reveal? He said,
Let them forgive and let them pardon. But Allah subhanaw taala ties that forgiveness, to what to his
forgiveness? Allah subhanaw taala is making him look up. It's not about this individual anymore. But
do you not love that Allah subhanaw taala forgive you. And so a question that is a healthy exercise
for us to ask ourselves, whatever that injury is, whatever whoever that person is, that we feel has
wronged us and has caused us so much harm. Ask yourself a simple question. If by forgiving this
		
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			person, Allah subhanaw taala would forgive me? Would I forgive them?
		
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			If by forgiving this person right now, Allah subhanaw taala would forgive me what I forgive them.
And Allah Subhana Allah to Allah says, Allah Who? Affordable Rahim Allah subhanho data is Forgiving
and Merciful. To look up. So the first is to look through the act. Number two is to look above and
to see Allah subhanho data. And number three is to look inwards, to look inwards. Allah subhana data
says we might also become a Muslim but Informatica Sabbath ad, Allah says there is no calamity that
befalls you. Except it is because of what your hands how for up? Well, yeah, for Uncas here, and
Allah forgives much. And so every mistake, or every injury, or every harm, or every insult, or every
		
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			act of ignorance that comes my way.
		
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			I look through it. I look above it. I look within me. And I recognize that for every mistake that
has been done to me, I have made many, many, many, many more.
		
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			How many times do we get insulted in a year? How many times do we get harmed some of us more than
others for sure. But compared to the mistakes that we make, compared to the the harm that we've
created compared to the the obligations that we've squandered compared to the sins that we've
committed Allah subhanaw taala says there is nothing
		
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			that occurs to you except that it is because of what your hands have wrought and Allah Subhana Allah
forgives much, ie This is a fraction of what we have caused the huddled facade in Bollywood, Mr.
Customer alienness Allah subhanaw taala says corruption has appeared in the land and in the sea, due
to what people's hands have rots, to give them a taste, to give them just a taste of what they have
done that long held your own, that they may return. And so a person when they're experiencing this,
		
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			a person looks inward and what that should then cause with that should then propel is seeking
forgiveness from Allah subhanaw taala repenting to Allah subhana wa Tada. I didn't ever thought
about the ALLAH and he said, let a person not fear anything except for their sins. Let a person not
fear anything other than their sins. He says
		
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			Lyle, June Lyle, join Abdon Ihlara. What I often Abdullah them, he said Let no one hope and anyone
other than their Lord, and let them not seek or fear anything except for their sense. We ask Allah
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			Him the law says lot salam ala Rasulillah. So these are three actions that a person can do to endure
the harm of others, to exercise patience with regards to the harm of others. And I want to conclude
with two more in a person if anyone would like to review this you can refer back to an essay by
Sheikh Khalifa Tamia called Chi, the facade a principle of patience, it's translated and it's
excellent. But number four, that to recognize that if a person endures, or if a person is always
thinking about harm, that they've if a person is always looking at that, then that person will, you
will become occupied, you'll be busy. That's why even you know, we have this the statement that we
		
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			make that to hate somebody is to allow for them to live in your in your head rent free. You're the
one who's thinking about revenge, you're the one who's thinking about their injury, that person has
made that joke and they've long forgotten about it, everybody laughed, maybe even you laughed.
Meanwhile, you're harboring all of this animosity toward this individual for two days, or two weeks
later, three weeks later, or a month later, two years later, and this person has long forgotten
about it, and so forgiving and letting go and releasing. And the last thing that I mentioned number
five, is that if a person has
		
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			response, to harm, forget mistaken harm, but even intended harm. If a person responds to it with
goodness, and with forgiveness, and with forbearance, then many times, eventually, that person who
is intending harm becomes someone who apologizes to you
		
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			Someone who turns themselves around someone who recognizes your good qualities. Allah subhana wa
otitis as well as is still has no way to say it viability here ASAN, Allah Subhana Allah to Allah he
says
		
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			that the good and the bad are not evil, repel with that which is best
		
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			for the lead lady bein a Covina, Hua Dawa, and the one between you and them is enmity and who will
you and Jaime they will turn into a warm protector.
		
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			That person who harmed you on day one or a year later or two years later. And these verses I can't
help every time I think of us versus I actually think about a great figure in American history. And
that is Muhammad Ali Rahim Allah, that this individual stripped of his title and all sorts of things
hate it. At one point, he was the most hated individual. But when you look at his character, he was
still charming and loving and all of these types of things. And so eventually, three years later, or
four years later, however long it took, this man ended up becoming the most loved man in America.
But Allah subhanaw taala he says, Well mighty locka Illa Liliana Sabado but the only people who
		
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			experienced that transformation of your friends, be your enemies, becoming your friends or loving
protectors or what have you are those who endure you have to endure? Well my Aloka illogical health
in Alvine. And no one experiences this except for someone of incredible fortune, incredible favor.
And so we asked Allah subhanaw taala to allow us to endure what harm comes our way and that Allah
subhanaw taala makes whatever harm that comes our way pleasing to Him and in His path. And we ask
Allah subhanaw taala to allow us to follow the speech, to hear to hear the speech and follow the
best of it and that ALLAH SubhanA died to make the best of our actions or less actions and the best
		
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			of our days the day that we meet him. And we ask Allah Subhana Allah for Paradise and it will bring
us closer to actions and speech and to protect us from the Hellfire or will bring us closer actions
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