Ammar Alshukry – The Mercy of the Prophet Muhammad
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Okay, alhamdulillah wa salatu wa salamu ala rasulillah
wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim wa
kathirat.
So, a question for you.
Even before that, we said that the Prophet
ﷺ would hasten the prayer due to what
he heard of a person crying.
And that's why Shaykh Omar r.a. led
with two verses each raka'ah.
I was surprised, man.
Three verses?
Okay, okay.
So he was obviously inspired by the session.
So...
But Rasulullah ﷺ would also prolong his sajdah.
This is amazing.
He would prolong his sajdah because of one
of his children.
One time, the Sahaba r.a. were praying
behind the Prophet ﷺ and he prolonged his
sajdah so much that after the salah was
over, he explained to them why it was
prolonged.
And he said, one of my sons wanted
to take me as a mount.
So he began to ride the Prophet ﷺ
like a horse.
And so he said, and I hated...
I hated to get up before he had
his fill until he was satisfied.
And so the Prophet ﷺ is engaging his
child, I won't say at the expense, but
even in his salah.
And so this is a hadith, honestly, for
every parent to reflect on.
You know, sometimes you might be doing something
and your kid wants to come and enjoy
your company at the moment.
And you would see that the Prophet ﷺ
would indulge his child even if he was
in salah, which is the most important act
of the day.
So what happens if my child wants my
attention or wants to play with me while
I'm on the phone or I'm doing something
much less important?
Isn't it more worthy of me indulging my
child in that moment, right?
The mercy of the Prophet ﷺ.
The Prophet ﷺ had mercy for sure for
the Muslims.
The Prophet ﷺ avoided many things and he
avoided commanding many things because he was afraid
of causing a burden on the ummah.
So for example, Rasulullah ﷺ says in the
hadith that's reported by al-Bukhari and Muslim,
he says, لَوْ لَأَنْ أَشُقَّ عَلَىٰ أُمَّتِي لَأَمَرْتُهُمْ
بِالسِّوَاكِ عِنْدَ كُلِّ صَلَاةٍ He says, if it
wasn't for the fact that I feared hardship
on my ummah, I would have commanded them
to make siwak, to brush their teeth before
every prayer.
And so this shows us that this is
something that's incredibly recommended.
The only reason why the Prophet ﷺ did
not command it is because he feared hardship
on the ummah.
But otherwise, he would have did it or
he would have commanded it.
And so the idea of the Prophet ﷺ
avoiding commanding things just because of consideration of
hardship for the ummah out of his mercy
for the ummah.
Rasulullah ﷺ says in another hadith, he says,
if it wasn't for the fact that I
feared hardship on my ummah, I would have
not stayed back from any battalion.
I would have went on every single campaign.
But I feared hardship for my ummah.
My ummah is not going to be able
to do things like that.
Rasulullah ﷺ avoided, as you know, coming out
the third night after having led taraweeh twice.
The third night the sahaba were waiting in
Ramadan and Rasulullah ﷺ did not come out
because he said, I was afraid that it
would become obligatory for you.
And so him avoiding things.
In fact, one time the Prophet ﷺ was
waiting or the sahaba were waiting for him
to pray isha.
And so they were waiting, this prayer that
we just prayed, they were waiting for him
to come into the masjid, to come into
the mosque, to lead them in prayer.
And he kept delaying and kept delaying and
kept delaying until half the night had passed.
Half the night.
And then he came out.
So the sahaba are sitting there and they're
sleepy and they're tired and they've been waiting
for him.
And then he said, this is the time
of isha.
This is its time.
Like this is the best time.
If it were not for the fact that
I feared hardship on my ummah, this would
have been the time.
And so again, him avoiding many things out
of mercy for the ummah of the Prophet
ﷺ.
The Prophet ﷺ's mercy to non-Muslims.
Many, many, many, many examples.
Many examples.
Abu Huraira, the famous narrator of hadith.
His mother was not Muslim.
Abu Huraira was Muslim.
And so that's not only was she not
Muslim, but she was very antagonistic against the
Prophet ﷺ.
And so that's a very painful conflict for
a person to believe and love the Messenger
ﷺ.
And at the same time, the people who
you love the most, your family members, hate
the one who you love or hate the
religion that you love.
And so on one occasion, Abu Huraira comes
to the Prophet ﷺ and he says, O
Messenger of Allah, please make dua for my
mother because she said some things about you.
She said some things.
The Prophet ﷺ didn't ask, what did she
say?
He didn't say, what did he say?
He said, Allahumma ahdi um Abu Huraira.
O Allah, guide the mother of Abu Huraira.
That's what he said.
Abu Huraira takes off, running to his house.
And he finds that the door to his
house is locked and he hears the swishing
of water.
And from the inside of the house, he
hears his mom saying, stay out, Abu Huraira,
stay out.
Don't come in.
He's waiting outside and when his mom comes
outside, he sees that she's bathed herself and
she says, ash-hadu an la ilaha illallah
wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan Rasool Allah.
I bear witness that there is nothing worthy
of worship except Allah and that Muhammad ﷺ
is His Messenger.
These types of du'as that the Prophet
made were so many.
In Bukhari, there was a group, a tribe
called Daws that had not believed in him.
And so Tufail ibn Amr al-Dawsi, Tufail
ibn Amr was a convert to Islam.
And Tufail came, believed in the Prophet ﷺ.
His story of conversion is a long one,
but he believed in the Prophet and then
he went back to his people to call
them to Islam.
And he was so excited.
When a person accepts Islam on day one,
they have all of this passion.
And so he comes back to Rasool Allah
ﷺ and this is incredible.
He says, Ya Rasool Allah, Daws has disbelieved
in Allah and His Messenger.
Make du'a to Allah to destroy Daws.
It's like, it's your people.
These are your people.
But that's what passion does.
When people are new Muslim or even when
people are newly practicing Muslims.
A lot of times you burn a lot
of bridges with your family and with others
just because you are so excited about practicing
the deen.
And willing to sacrifice relationships and all of
that.
And Tufail ibn Amr, he comes to the
Prophet ﷺ and says, make du'a that
my people are destroyed.
And so the Prophet ﷺ raised his hand
and he said, and the people said, Halakat
Daws.
When the Prophet ﷺ raised his hand, he
said, Daws is destroyed.
He said, Allahumma hdi Daws wa'tibihim.
He said, O Allah, guide Daws, guide those
people and bring them to Islam.
The Prophet ﷺ when he was expelled from
Ta'if, that city that he had went
to for support outside of Mecca.
And he went to the people of Ta
'if and they had their fools, their kids
stone him out of the city.
The Prophet ﷺ said that that was one
of the most difficult if not the most
difficult day that he had ever experienced.
Aisha had asked him that question.
What was the most difficult day you experienced?
And he told her about when he went
to Ta'if and they expelled him from
Ta'if.
He said, I walked for hours, completely overwhelmed.
I didn't know where I was going.
Like if you ever walked like a stressful
walk to the point where you don't even
know which direction, you don't know where you
end up.
He ended up in a valley between two
mountains and he sees, he looks up and
he sees Jibreel ﷺ, the angel with an
angel that Jibreel introduces him to.
This is the angel of the mountains.
And we see that your people have disbelieved
in you.
And if you wish, just say the word,
we will command for the two mountains to
collapse on the people of Mecca.
And so the Prophet ﷺ said, rather from
his mercy, he said, rather I would wish
that Allah ﷻ bring out from their loins
their next generation people who would worship him
alone.
Rasulullah ﷺ, his mercy was not just for
humanity though.
It was also for the animals.
I mean the Prophet ﷺ, when you look
at the Prophet and animals, you say, how
could this person not be a prophet of
God?
Like the society he's emerging from is one
where they didn't consider human beings to be
worth anything if they weren't from the right
tribe.
They didn't consider women to be anything.
Umar ibn Khattab ﷺ says, he says, we
never used to consider women to be anything,
literally.
We didn't consider them to be anything.
And yet the Prophet ﷺ is coming from
that and he is telling them that a
woman entered into the hellfire because of a
cat.
You have to believe that before he told
them that they did not consider the life
of a cat to be worth anything.
And he says, a woman enters into the
hellfire because of a cat.
And he tells them that another woman entered
into paradise because of a dog.
And the Prophet ﷺ would be making wudu.
He would be performing ablution with water.
And a cat would come and drink from
his vessel.
And the Prophet ﷺ would let the cat
drink until it was filled.
And then he would continue making wudu with
that water.
The Prophet ﷺ prohibited us from using animals
as pulpits.
Using an animal as a minbar.
You know what that means?
When people are riding a horse or they're
riding a donkey or they're riding a camel
or whatever it is that they're riding.
They'll have conversations on it.
You know, they stop for a second.
Yeah, so and so.
And they have a whole conversation on that
donkey.
The Prophet ﷺ said, don't turn your animals
into pulpits.
Like, ride your animal to its destination and
then get off the animal.
Like that level of sensitivity, that level of
beauty, that level of mercy, the Prophet ﷺ
is saying.
The Prophet cursed the man who brands the
face of an animal.
He saw a face branded of an animal.
And he said Allah ﷻ cursed the person
who does that.
Again, these were things that were unknown.
People didn't consider these things to be anything.
They didn't consider animals to be worth anything.
The Prophet ﷺ cursed the one who would
take animals, living animals as targets.
So Abdullah ibn Umar, these companions learned from
the Prophet ﷺ.
Abdullah ibn Umar saw a bird that was
tied up.
And some kids were using it as targets
for whatever they were practicing.
And so when they saw him coming, they
fled.
And Abdullah ibn Umar said, who did this?
قَدْ لَعْنَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَنْ فَعَلَ هَذَا
The Prophet ﷺ has cursed the people who
do this, taking animals as targets.
So again, the Prophet ﷺ was not just
a mercy to people, but the Prophet ﷺ
was a mercy to the world.
He was a mercy to Muslims.
He was a mercy to non-Muslims.
He was a mercy to the animal kingdom
as well.
The question then becomes, how do we gain
mercy?
What do we need to do to gain
mercy?
Okay, so that's number one.
To ask Allah ﷻ to gain mercy.
What else?
How do you show mercy?
How do you show mercy?
Like what would...
What would...
If my mercy is at a six, what
would I need to do?
What would I need to do to be
able to get it to an eight or
a nine?
We've already said that the Muslim community is
not very merciful.
We gave it a negative or we gave
it a three or a four.
So what do we need to do?
What would we need to do collectively or
individually to bump up our levels a bit?
Okay, so reflect on the mercy that Allah
ﷻ shows you.
الرَّحْمُونَ يَرْحَمَهُمْ الرَّحْمَانَ The Prophet ﷺ says, the
merciful will experience mercy from the merciful.
Have mercy on the ones on earth.
The one who is in the heavens will
have mercy on you.
What else?
Start with your family.
Okay, so how do I start with my
family?
Forgive.
Being patient.
Try to have a relationship with those who
push you away.
Okay?
Yes?
Excellent.
Specifically deciding, being mindful.
Right?
And so that idea of mindfulness is a
choice.
Like, when you see somebody do something wrong,
is that something that they wanted to do?
Is that something that they fell into?
Is that something that they're overpowered by?
Is this a hole that they can't get
out of?
Like, if you empathize or decide to empathize
with someone, you might find that you're able
to help them in a different way.
Yes?
You know, it's crazy that you have the
microphone right in front of you.
Absolutely.
Sisters, do you guys have a microphone?
No?
Do we have another microphone over there?
Okay, sorry.
It's over here, guys.
Yeah, the sister who has her hand raised.
Don't throw it.
Okay.
Hold on, just turn on the microphone first.
Is it green?
Yeah, it's green.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
And you know what?
I don't even feel that judgment because Allah
does not attribute our sins to our self
-worth and who we are.
And like, in his line, it's everything, clothing,
they're fixable, right?
You can have your possessions, all that.
But then, as human beings we really approach
each other with this judgment and we infuse
the people, the human beings with the sins
and we just assume that they like, oh,
they're a lot hot.
It's just like the example you just gave
about the guy.
I mean, he was not a lot hot
and he doesn't work and he tends to
kind of get to the core of what's
happening and that's unfortunately, this is just a
sign that you're, I would not say that
our market can even emerge people doing much
good right now because I don't think we
can do that amongst ourselves.
So the, huh?
Especially with the...
Especially with Muslim women?
So that's why we're asking these questions, right?
So how do you increase your ability to
be merciful?
Yes, Erica, just pass it back over there.
Yeah, you have to push the button on
the side until it turns green.
Beautiful.
Jazakallah khair.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Pass the microphone back.
Were you a legend in your game?
No, he wasn't, he wasn't 12, no.
Because me, I would play video games in
class.
So the teacher would one time told me,
she's like, hey, I'm going to have mercy
on you and I'm just not going to
do anything this time.
But then I went back to playing video
games because she showed me that mercy.
But it was kind of like more mercy
for her to tell my parents and they
did not show me any mercy.
So I think it's kind of like, it's
also kind of how you look at it.
So sometimes calling someone out can actually be
beneficial for them rather than just doing it
in a compassionate way.
Yeah.
At the beginning, you're actually describing what we
talked about.
What's the difference between rahma and ra'afa?
So what you just described as compassion is
ra'afa and what your parents did is
rahma.
Rahma is a mercy that allows for pain
and ra'afa is the compassionate way, like
you said, where you don't really hurt them
even though it might be something that's beneficial
for them in the long run.
You know Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, yes, Romero,
go ahead.
Okay.
How does being grateful to the people around
you show mercy?
Yeah.
Okay.
You know, I think also one of the
ways is, you know, we've kind of talked
about it I guess a little bit but
just the idea of walking in someone's shoes,
whether it's physically or whether it's as a
mental exercise.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, a man approached
him and he said to him, you know,
I have a very hard heart, what should
I do?
And he told him, he said, go and
wipe over the head of an orphan.
Go and wipe over the head of an
orphan.
If you go and you sit with an
orphan and you see this child that is
now, you know, going into this cruel world
without the protective mechanism of their parents or
their father.
I mean, it's heartbreaking.
That in and of itself.
And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, I have
no doubt that his empathy was also a
result of his upbringing.
He was an orphan.
He didn't have the presence of a mother.
He did not have the presence of a
father.
There's no pain that people go through in
life.
Except that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had a
portion of that pain.
You know, like if you met a person
and they told you, I lost a child,
you'd say, oh my God, I'm sorry.
I don't know what to say.
May Allah have mercy on them.
And then, two children, three children, four children,
five children, he buried them.
Then he's also a widower.
He also lost his wife.
He also lost his, I mean, he also
lost his family.
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam I do have a a
poem that I wrote called The Prophet's Pain.
It speaks speaks to some of that.
It goes, You never saw your father's face
or felt the warmth of a mother's embrace.
Your grandfather's heart burned with concern but death
would come to him in turn.
No one to look up to so you
cast your vision towards the sky when all
you do is speak the truth.
It hurts when they say you lie, doesn't
it?
But you take it all in stride.
The honest prophet who by his own people
is belied with only two pillars of support,
an uncle and a perfect wife.
But in the same year, both of them
would lose their life.
Jibreel gave Khadijah his salam, told her of
a house in paradise but an angel other
than Jibreel came to your house to collect
its price.
You went to Taif with the message you
needed to spread.
They laughed at you and had their fools
stone you until you bled.
At Uhud, you were deserted.
They struck you with vicious blows and rumors
were spread about Aisha that caused pain.
Only God knows.
Your cousin Jafar would return from a long
absence in Abyssinia.
He would come but in the same day
he'd be martyred with Zayd, your adopted son.
An-Num-Kulthum would pass away, Zaynab Ruqayya
as well.
You held Ibrahim in your arms with a
heart that breaks and eyes that swell.
Death would come for you but first would
come for those you love.
But you never expressed distress for the test
that came from up above.
The trials made you strong and to Allah's
perfect company you would yearn because it is
to Allah that we belong and to Him
is our return.
Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Okay.
Allahu Akbar.
Okay, the last thing that I just wanted
to mention was the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam's mercy to the ignorant.
His mercy to the ignorant.
A lot of times he would have Bedouins
come and these people were very uncouth, very
uncivilized.
A man came to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam and he grabbed his cloak and he
yanked it.
He yanked it.
And so, could you imagine the Sahaba watching
someone do that until the trace was on
the Prophet's neck.
And the man said, he said, Ya Muhammad,
O Muhammad, give me from your wealth, not
the wealth of your father or the wealth
of...
And so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
simply smiled.
And he went and he filled that person's
ride when he came on.
He put some stuff on it.
Some goods.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
to him, Have I done well?
And the man said, No.
You haven't done well.
And no thank you.
May Allah not reward you for what you
just gave me.
So disrespectful.
And I want you to...
I mean there are times when dealing with
the Muslim community you feel disrespected.
Is that not right?
Someone says something and you're like, Yo, where
were you raised?
Why do you talk like that?
Who says what you're saying?
Right?
Just completely...
And yet the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
when that man said that to him, the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam simply smiled and
then put more on his ride.
And then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
said to him, He said, Have I done
well?
And the man said, Yes.
Jazakallah khair.
The man was not trying to show animosity.
He was not trying...
This is just the way that he talks.
This is the way that he knows how
to talk.
And so the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
then told him and he said, Now that
you've said that I've done well, I just
want you to know that my companions might
be a little upset with you because of
the way that they saw you deal with
me.
So if you could just go and you
know...
And so the man went in front of
them and he praised the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam.
And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam then
gave a beautiful example.
He said to the Sahaba afterwards, he said,
The example of me and this man is
like the example of a camel and you
all were chasing it and the more you
chased it, the more it ran away from
you.
And I said, Leave it alone.
I know my camel better.
And I went and I grabbed some khushaash
al-ard.
I went and I grabbed some...
like some grass or something like that.
And then I called it with the grass
until it came willingly.
If I had left him to you, you
would have chased him, you would have beat
him and he would have entered into the
hellfire.
He wouldn't have accepted Islam.
He would have entered into the hellfire.
Like, the way that I'm treating him with
this mercy is better and I know my
people better.
So the idea of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam is mercy with ignorance as well.
Overlooking people's faults, showing mercy, showing empathy, thinking
of people, putting yourself in people's shoes.
And then the last thing that I just
want to mention and I'll end with this
is that one of the ways that you
experience mercy is by interacting with people like
for real.
Like in real life.
There's a really amazing hadith.
An amazing hadith.
I would encourage you to write it down
because you're going to want to share it
with other people.
And that is the hadith that's in Ibn
Majah.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, whoever
lives in the desert becomes harsh.
من سكن البادية جفا Whoever lives in the
desert becomes harsh.
Bedouins by nature are harsh.
They don't have any of the civility that
comes with living in a city with civilization
and with people, interacting with people.
You become refined.
You become merciful.
The desert is a harsh place.
People become harsh.
I say this, why?
Because living online is a desert.
The internet is an experience where we are
all alone together.
And that's why people are so harsh with
each other in comment sections.
That's why people are so harsh with each
other online because I don't have to sit
in front of this person.
I don't have to see this person really
as a human being.
They are whatever they are.
And so, the importance of sitting down together
in person becomes a source of mercy.
And Allah knows best.
Cool?
Yes.
Yes.
You got the question?
Absolutely.
Very good.
Yes Najwa.
Just keep passing the microphone back.
Peace be upon you.
Peace be upon you too.
So, also consider that with Rahmat comes Fahad,
comes our
mercy, and then it says We gave him
mercy from us and we taught him knowledge
from us.
Right?
Yeah.
Absolutely.
You know I'm reminded of Al-Shafi'i
who was one of the most brilliant minds
in Islam.
He had photographic memory and one of his
students, I'm forgetting his name, but I'll remember
it after the session is over.
He, Al-Shafi'i had photographic memory.
And sometimes people who are very intelligent, they
get very frustrated with people who aren't as
smart as them.
And they don't see like why aren't you
getting this like on the first shot like
I got it.
And so, but he would explain to him,
his student, he would explain to him a
mas'ala, an issue, 40 times.
Like again and again and again and again.
And he would still not get it.
And finally the guy would leave the class
like, you know, yeah Alhamdulillah I understood it.
Yeah, yeah.
He didn't understand it.
And he would just, he would leave not
having understood it.
And Al-Shafi'i would go follow him.
Al-Shafi'i would go follow him and
still teach it to him again and again
until he understood it for real.
And then he would say to him, if
I could feed you this knowledge, I would
feed it to you.
I would feed it to you.
So that mercy for people, even, like if
you can't necessarily relate, right, because he couldn't
relate to the idea of that, that not
being able to understand like that.
So, yes, we'll take whatever questions we have
in the live ask, Mahmoud, just go ahead.
So we're switching the live ask.
We're having Mahmoud read them instead of me
because it's very confusing.
Go ahead.
Sure.
Well, obviously the Prophet ﷺ got back up
and he completed the obligation.
So it's not like he got down from
the minbar and then left the masjid.
He got back up and he completed the
hukmah.
In fact, he communicated to them why he
came down from the minbar.
How do you avoid being people pleasers and
pushovers but still show mercy?
What do y'all got?
Boundaries?
Okay.
Huh?
Intention?
Like give me something.
You guys are just throwing words at me
at this point.
Boundaries, intention, what else?
People pleasers?
Is it a good thing or a bad
thing?
I'll tell you something.
It depends on...
I'm sitting in a class one time back
in the day, Sheikh Muhammad Al-Sharif, rahimahullah.
A sister is complaining to him about how
much she is overwhelmed by her community.
She teaches in the Sunday school and she's
like the hardworking sister that everybody relies on
and everybody calls.
And she is completely overwhelmed.
And she's complaining to him like, what do
I do?
And then he gave an answer that I
never forgot.
And he said, if a person feels like
they can't say no to people, then they
may have to check their sincerity, their ikhlas.
And she's like, what?
What do you mean?
Like I'm doing all of this for Islam,
for da'wah, blah, blah, blah.
And then he said, because if she can't
say no, that she has to ask herself
the question.
We all have to ask ourselves the question.
Is who are you trying to please?
My goal is to please Allah.
My goal is not to please people.
If by pleasing Allah people are pleased along
the way, that's well and good.
But in fact, I have to build the
resilience to where even if people aren't pleased,
if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is pleased,
then I'm going to go this way also.
And so I think the idea of people
pleasing can be very, very actually harmful.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala praises the believers
saying, لا يخافون لهم تلائم They do not
fear the criticism of those who criticize.
And also if I care about pleasing Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, then there will be
times when people will be upset with me,
that people will be let down.
People will be, you know, they'll want me
to do things.
But I always remember this, this quote by
Stephen Covey in his book, The Seven Habits
of Highly Effective People.
He says that the enemy of the best
is often the good.
The enemy of the best is often the
good.
Meaning, a lot of times the enemy of
me being the best version of myself is
all of this good stuff that people are
trying to get me to do.
Come to Masjid Maryam, please.
You know what I mean?
Shayan, that was for you.
You weren't listening.
Oh, it's okay.
See, exactly.
So, you have to prioritize yourself and you
also have to remember that every yes that
you say is a no to something else.
Every yes that you say is a no
to something else.
So a yes that I say to doing
this Sunday school, teaching this Sunday school, might
be a no that I'm saying to my
family.
It's a no that I'm saying to my
mom.
It's a no that I'm saying to my
dad.
It's a no that I'm saying to my
daughter.
It's a no that I'm saying to something
else that might be more important.
So, you make your goal pleasing Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and whoever gets pleased along
the way, that's what we're looking for.
Yes, Asher.
I read something.
I used to have like a people pleasing
personality but then I shifted away from it
because in fact it's a manipulation tactic because
you're showing your inauthentic self to make people
like you what you're truly not really feeling.
There you go.
Yes.
Anytime you hear midnight or what have you
in the hadith, you take maghrib time, fajr
time, divide it in half.
Last third of the night, maghrib time, fajr
time, divide it in thirds.
Like that.
Yes.
Hold the mic close to you.
Yes.
So, do we consider live streaming?
I don't believe in live streaming at all.
I don't think it's bid'ah but I
think that most, I think that, I think
that from a media standpoint, most masajids are
not equipped to live stream.
Who here has watched a masjid lecture on
Instagram live in the past month?
So, four people.
Okay.
And did you watch the whole thing or
did you just happen to be scrolling through?
Right.
So, a lot of times when people, when
people, when you do an event, the first
question that people ask is, is it being
live streamed as if they were gonna actually
watch it?
It's just a question that people ask.
And then masajid, like go and look at
the live stream of any masjid in the
country and let me know if it's more
than 15 people.
What about roots?
Okay.
And how many people are watching?
Come on, man.
Podcast is different.
You're talking about different media.
So, I don't want to go into this
too long but I think that live streaming,
number one, most, most of the time masajids,
they live stream, the recording quality ends up
being very poor and so it's not even
worth it to watch it later because they're
focusing on live stream.
Number two, if I'm presentation is different.
YouTubers, Twitch streamers, all of these guys, when
they're presenting, they're presenting to a live audience
meaning they're directed to a live audience.
The idea of presenting to the masjid while
also presenting to people on live stream, I
don't think actually works.
You can only do one or the other
realistically.
And so, you end up losing on both
and that's why I feel like masajids in
the US are really, really, really unfortunately behind.
They're very poor in this regard.
Masajids in the UK are much smarter when
it comes to this.
They record in high definition and then they
upload later.
And that's why all of your favorite YouTubers
are people from the UK debating on speaker's
corner and stuff like that.
What was the second question?
So, I'll be honest with you guys.
I'll be very honest.
Recording this series or Plus One in general
has been one of the most difficult challenges.
So, we need somebody out of this 300
to kind of just own recording.
Akram has been blessing us but he's from
Palestine.
He's with us for a couple of weeks
and inshallah, he'll be moving back.
And so, we haven't figured out recording yet.
And so, we're waiting on somebody to arise
from the ashes and be our hero, inshallah
ta'ala, when it comes to recording.
Recording and editing but mostly like owning.
Like, coming like Akram with the DSLR camera
and setting it up and stuff like that.
But this series, inshallah ta'ala, is being
recorded and we'll eventually get it uploaded, inshallah.
Okay, what else?
Can you be inside of the masjid?
So, wudu is not required for entering into
the masjid.
So, I don't know what fiqh that is.
Wudu is required for three things.
What are they?
Number one, salah.
That's not entering the masjid.
Number two, is touching the mushaf.
And number three, is tawaf with a difference
of opinion about touching the mushaf and a
difference of opinion about tawaf.
But those are the three.
It's not required for entering into the masjid.
But that being said, so that's wudu.
I'm just clarifying this issue of wudu because
if it was truly about wudu, then a
guy who doesn't have wudu would not be
able to enter into the masjid and sit
down.
But nobody believes that to be true because
it's not true.
The issue of mensis is different.
And the reason traditionally why it was considered
to be something that a woman should not
sit in the masjid because of mensis was
obviously because of the fear of any sort
of impurity coming, any sort of impurity in
the masjid.
Okay, so as long as there's two aspects
to that.
Number one is as long as obviously all
of that is protected from.
And then number two, if she really wants
to avoid being in the musalla but still
attend, our masjids in the U.S. are
mostly like community centers.
They're beyond just the musalla.
If she wants, she can sit outside and
still listen to the lecture.
But, you know, I've heard this from Sheikh
Salah and many others.
There's no harm inshallah ta'ala of her
sitting in the masjid as long as obviously
there's no fear of impurity in the musalla.
So the hadith of Abdullah ibn Amr ibn
As is the one that you're referring to
and yes, he said, I go to sleep
every night and I remove any hatred in
my heart towards any Muslim.
So I cleanse my heart of hatred towards
any Muslim.
So I think that's what you're referring to.
I cleanse my heart of hatred and that's
what we're not able to do.
And that's why he's one of the people
of paradise.
So absolutely, cleansing your heart of hatred for
sure.
One and good for people.
Yes, Subhan.
You mentioned that the tribe called Dos.
Dos, yes.
What was the du'a that the prophet
said?
He said, Oh Allah, guide Dos and bring
them to Islam.
Hadith is in Bukhari.
How do you show mercy to non-Muslims
when they don't show mercy to us?
That is a very big generalization.
Number one.
It's not just Muslims that are marching and
protesting to free Palestine for example.
So that's a big generalization, number one.
And then number two.
Rasulullah was being persecuted by the Meccans and
he still showed mercy to them.
And they expelled him from his own city
and he still showed mercy to them.
He still wanted good for them.
I mean, that's what we're talking about.
Mercy is not that you show this incredible
fortitude or goodness to those who are good
to you.
I mean, that's nothing special.
That's nothing special.
But mercy is that you show mercy and
desire goodness for those who in that moment
do not want goodness for you and want
to harm you and that you're able to
win them over.
That's the story.
That's the greatness.
It's not that you show goodness to those
who start off showing goodness to you.
Yes?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, the conquest of Mecca has so
many stories of people who came and the
Prophet ﷺ forgave them and overlooked their faults
and all of these types of things.
And so, whether it's Ibn Abi Jahl or
others, I mean, that's where that beautiful mercy
exists.
And again, it's the same idea.
If I want Allah to show me mercy
when I've committed all of these sins and
all of these wrongs, I have to be
able to show mercy to others when they've
done wrong.
That's the point.
Yes, Siba?
Were there times that the Prophet ﷺ did
not show mercy?
Absolutely.
Mercy does not mean that you become a
fool.
That's number one.
So, after the Battle of Badr, the Prophet
ﷺ, there was a man who told the
Prophet ﷺ he made excuses.
He was held captive.
And the Prophet ﷺ forgave him on the
condition that he not war against the Muslims
again.
And then after the second, after the Battle
of Uhud, my man is amongst the Mushrikeen.
And he's warring against the Prophet ﷺ.
And then again, he beseeches the mercy of
the Prophet ﷺ, please, it was by accident,
I just ended up here by accident.
You know what I mean?
Like, he's trying to...
And so the Prophet ﷺ said to him,
he said, I am not going to allow
you to stroke your mustache saying that you
deceived Muhammad twice.
Not gonna let you do it.
And so the idea of just because I'm
merciful doesn't mean that I always allow for
repeat offenders to continue to offend me or
to harm me.
Yes?
Yeah, I mean, somebody was mentioning this earlier,
but I hope it's clear for people.
Did you have teachers growing up who were
very, very strict?
And terrified you as a kid?
Would you say that they were not merciful?
In fact, could you consider that some of
them were actually your best teachers?
Yeah, 100%.
But they terrified me and they scared me
and they made me do this and they
made me do that.
Absolutely.
And they didn't accept any of my lies
and they didn't accept any...
Yes.
And so that mercy is not that you
get treated gently all the time.
Mercy is that, again, goodness is desired for
you and so you are built to be
able to actually achieve that goodness.
And Allah knows best.
I see that...
Yes, let's do the last question.
Salaam.
Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commanded us
to follow the Prophet ﷺ.
Excellent question.
Did the Prophet...
Is the Prophet ﷺ a legislator?
So this is something that you learn in
Usulul Fiqh.
Is the Prophet ﷺ a legislator?
He's not an ultimate legislator, but he is
a legislator.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave him license.
Rasulullah ﷺ says, وَمَا آتَاكُمُ الرُّسُولُ فَقُذُوهُ وَمَا
نَهَاكُمْ عَنْهُ فَانْتَهُ Allah says, whatever the Prophet
has given you, then do it.
And whatever the Prophet has prohibited you from
doing, then don't do it.
And so we don't believe in just the
Qur'an.
Like some people say, oh, I'll just follow
the Qur'an, whatever the Qur'an says.
I don't believe in the Sunnah.
No.
Allah in the Qur'an says you have
to follow the Prophet ﷺ.
And the Prophet ﷺ commands and he legislates.
And it is an extension of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala's command and legislation.
There's one last thing that I wanted to
mention.
Is Wafaa here?
She's trying to get a hold of her.
Do you want to talk about this now
or save it for another day?
Yeah.
If not, then now, then it's fine.
We can save it for another time.
But if you are, then let's do it.
Okay.
So I went to a protest at City
Hall for Palestine a couple of weeks ago,
I guess, or months ago, probably now.
And I see Wafaa and she's got this
lady with her who was from Montana?
Same thing.
Okay.
So Idaho.
Okay.
She was from Idaho.
And then she told me, I was like,
so what brings you to this protest?
It was her first Palestinian protest.
It was her first protest ever.
And she was with Wafaa.
And Wafaa said, she's my neighbor.
And I said, but she lives in Idaho.
She's like, yes, she used to be my
neighbor, but she came back from Idaho to
visit me.
I know.
That doesn't happen.
Neighbors don't come back to visit their neighbors,
right?
That doesn't happen.
So then I asked Wafaa, I said, so
what do you do or what did you
do to be able to create such a
relationship with your neighbors where they would travel
states to come back and visit you?
Because we talk so much about rights of
neighbors, rights of neighbors, rights of neighbors.
But I wanted us to hear from her
about what she does with her neighbors.
Do you guys trade food?
So when you cook and you make food,
you make food planning to give to your
neighbors as well.
Or is it just a matter of if
I have some leftovers or I'll send it
over?
And you're a Palestinian, right?
So how, after all of this has been
going on, what was their response been?
She ran out and she gave me a
huge hug and she said, I am on
your side, whatever side I am.
She wanted that Kunafa cookie.
She was like...
Yeah.
So these are the hadith in action, right?
The Prophet ﷺ says that if you're making
soup, you're making a broth, add water to
it so that you can give to your
neighbor as well.
Like these are things, again, but unfortunately we're
just so inclusive as opposed to what Wafaa
is doing.
And inshallah ta'ala, I'm just so happy
that you shared that with us.
It's very inspiring as well.
Hopefully, we all get to do a little
bit more of that as well.
Yes.
Inshallah.
Inshallah.
Allah bless you, bless your rizq.
Jazakumullahu khair, everybody.
Alif, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Muhammad, wa alayhi
wa sahbihi wa sallam, jazakumullahu khair.
How are you doing?