Faraz Rabbani – The Rawha #028 Being With the Prophet in Paradise and Gratitude
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The importance of seeking guidance and affirmations in early and late mornings is emphasized, as it is crucial for achieving one's beliefs. The speaker emphasizes the importance of affirmations and blessings in achieving their own goals, and the need to reflect on their own values. The importance of gratitude and understanding oneself is also emphasized, along with the call to donations for listeners to help keep their donations from tax deductible in the US.
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The messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be
upon him, encouraged us to strive for uprightness
by seeking assistance in the early mornings, late
afternoons at and something of the depths of
the night. From this tradition, the scholars made
it a habit to briefly read text of
religious guidance in the late afternoon and often
term such readings the daily.
The term refers to the late afternoon, but
also to a time of rest from worldly
toils and reinvigoration of one's spirit.
In this day, Sheikh Harazrabani will be covering
2 texts, imam Zarnunji's primer on the etiquette
of seeking knowledge,
and imam Youssef An Nabhani's beautiful collection of
40 sets of 40 prophetic hadith.
In our daily rahuha,
in which we're
reading both from Hadith of the Prophet
as well as
the
advice of Iam Zarrnoji for the student of
knowledge.
We are
looking
at Hadith number
how much?
Hadith number 14. So the first Hadith we're
going to be looking at
is
hadith number 14.
And this is from a collection of 40
hadiths
of
the Prophet
in
praise of Allah mighty and majestic.
So Hadith 14,
to the prophet
and said, oh, messenger of Allah, you have
come to us with
so many
matters
and with prophethood.
So what do you say?
Okay. That if I believed
if I believe in the like of what
you have believed in and I do the
like of what you do,
will I be with you in paradise?
Will I be with you in paradise?
The prophet
said, yes you will be.
And here there's an important aspect, right? This
is something that even
a stranger
coming from Abyssinia,
right, realized. Right? That the
tremendousness
of the role of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam. The tremendousness of the role of the
prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
That what is the qibla for those seeking
paradise,
right? The point
of the focal point of paradise,
at the highest of paradise
is
the prophetic
station in paradise. Al Maqam Al Mahmoud. Why?
Because that is what encapsulates
the love,
and good pleasure of Allah. That's what
is the essence of closeness to Allah, is
the station of the prophet said. If I
believe in what you have believed in, and
I do
I believe in the like of what you
have believed in, and I do the like
of what you have done, Will I be
with you in paradise?
And this
is something that the sahaba asked about repeatedly.
Ask me whatever you want the prophet asked
the companion, he said I seek your close
company in paradise.
Das haba said the greatest thing that would
cause them sorrow
would be that in this life we are
with the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
we spend time with him. But in paradise
he will be in the highest of states
we won't be there.
So they asked the prophet
that a man
may love some people
but he's not with them,
but he's not at their level.
So the prophet said, Al Marum ma'am and
ahab, a person will be with those they
love. When they say a person may love
some people, but it's referring to a person
which is the prophet
So Sayyidina Anas said, we didn't rejoice with
anything
since our very islam,
right, we did not
rejoice
in anything
as
we rejoiced in
hearing these words from the Prophet
We didn't rejoice in anything
as we rejoiced in hearing these words
from the Prophet
That a person will be with those they
love.
Right? But this is what they sought. Right?
To be with the Prophet not because it
sought in of itself
alone, but rather
because where do you find the love of
Allah. Right? And the love of Allah is
inseparable
from the love of the messenger of Allah
Closeness to Allah, subhanahu is
inseparable from closeness to the prophet
seeking the good pleasure of Allah is inseparable
from seeking
the good pleasure of the prophet
Why?
Because
his love mirrors the love of Allah,
and he is the manifestation of all that
is beloved to Allah. Right? So this is
and this is a meaning understood even by
someone who had not yet entered Islam.
The centrality of the role of the prophet.
Right? So this Abyssinian man came, and he
asked this question. The prophet said, yes.
That if you do
And this is a great bishara
for for us. That if we strive to
make our beliefs correspond to what the prophet
has come with. We strive to make our
actions correspond
to the like of what he has come
with.
We also see the role of Adeb. He
didn't say if I believe in what you
believe. He
said,
with the like
of what you believe in.
And if I do the like of what
you do because I you know
he he realized how tremendous
the the the prophet
his action and state
is. Then
the prophet said
The prophet said whoever says
has
through it a covenant with
And whoever says,
glory be to Allah,
a 100,000
good deeds are written for them.
But
is a covenant,
why? Because when you affirm it you are
affirming a covenant.
That I affirm with conviction that there's none
free of need of any other, whom all
are in absolute need of except Allah. So
mean, O Allah I believe in your
divinity,
and I recognize
my
indigence and neediness. That's a covenant.
When we say it has limitless
rewards.
Right? Why?
Because it's meant to be said with limitless
marvel.
Like a friend of mine said it. SubhanAllah
is the Muslim way of saying wow. Right?
But it's the absolute wow.
So a man said, oh messenger of Allah,
how can we be ruined? How can we
be ruined after this?
So the man said, he's like amazed. Wow.
Oh messenger of Allah, how can we lose
out
after this? How can we be ruined
after this? The prophet
in a sobering reminder said, by the one
in whose grasp
is
my soul.
Truly a man will be brought forth on
the on the day of resurrection
with so much action that it were if
it were placed upon a mountain,
the mountain would feel it to be heavy.
Then
a single blessing of the blessings of Allah
will be brought forth
and
it would almost exhaust
all
their good deeds,
all those weighty good deeds by just that
one blessing.
Were it not for what Allah
bestows
of favor from his mercy.
Tafadbuul
is the bestowing of favor.
So of course from here we see an
important lesson
which is
that just as we should consider Allah's blessings
in the plural,
right,
and how many blessings we have.
We should also
in reflecting on the blessings of Allah
reflect
deeply on particular blessings.
To reflect deeply on a particular bless on
particular blessings.
And this is one of the several wisdoms
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is telling us.
If you enumerate
Allah's blessing
you could not enumerate it.
So one understanding of that is that
the
there's a number of interpretation. 1, if if
you try to enumerate Allah's blessing,
it's in the singular.
You
could
not
enumerate it. One meaning is
that any single blessing, if you try to
enumerate all that it represents and what a
favor it is. Just consider the blessing of
sight,
the blessing of taste,
the blessing of the air we breathe.
I mean
if things weren't exactly as they are, we
wouldn't exist. Simple,
right.
Very simple
blessing. What a tremendous blessing that is. Any
single blessing, if you look at it, you
would see all the totality of blessings are
connected to it.
You could not enumerate all that it represents.
And so many blessings are like that. Think
about the blessing of your parents.
Didn't have them you wouldn't be. Simple.
So
or another
understanding of if you were to enumerate Allah's
blessing,
you couldn't count it because
all divine blessings are reality one bestowing.
Be and it is.
Then you cannot
So it's pointing
to remember that all blessings,
it's not about the blessing but it's about
the bestower.
Right because all of all of creation as
is one divine act.
Be and all is.
And the another
is that it's in the singular
is that the greatest blessing of Allah is
the messenger
and many of the salaf said that
the here
and you can see
interpretations
of this from the from the salaf, from
the great early Muslims in the Shifa of
Badi Iyal, for example, and elsewhere.
That the nirama of Allah is referring to
the prophet
If you are to enumerate
the blessing of Allah, what the messenger means
and represents
actually or potentially in your life, you could
not even begin to imagine what it what
it means.
Right.
So the prophet
then said
then then the hadith, you know, of ibn
Omar says,
Right? Then the opening verses of Surat Al
Insan,
also known as Surat Ad Dahr
or revealed. Has there not come to
to to the human a time
when
there were not even
a thing to be mentioned?
And
Allah reminds in Surat Al Insan of the
tremendousness of his blessings. And of course Surat
Al Insan
is recommended
to at least sometimes recite
in Fajr prayer on Friday mornings because the
prophet
would often recite it on Friday mornings.
And
and it's a good sunnah and if one
misses the opportunity of reciting it or in
the prayer or
it it is something
to reflect on not necessarily every Friday, but
at least you make it a routine to
recite
Surah Al Insan with which Surah?
No. No.
On on Fridays, what is the sunnah?
No.
In Fajr prayer.
And the Shafis insist on that so much
that they complain,
that the Hanafis complain that
it's as if they think it's wajib. And
the Hanafis have tended to neglect it and
in some places they take it so seriously.
But it's not just out of foolishness because
it's so such a powerful surah. I remember
in our masjid in Damascus, which is right
next to my house,
the imam,
and he's a qualified scholar, he had to
go because his one of his senior teachers
was teaching a lesson.
So he told everyone he he wouldn't be
there.
And they're expecting that this particular person would
lead the prayer, the younger brother
of a very respected
damaskan scholar.
But that brother was sick the night before.
And he didn't come. Everyone waited and waited.
And there are several scholars in the masjid,
but they're not from Damascus.
And then Damascus are like,
yeah, we like him, but he's not one
of us kind of thing. Right? Like, you
gotta prove that you're legit,
which is a good quality to be careful.
So they didn't find anyone to lead the
prayer.
So then
They actually went and knocked on
the the brother's house, who was should have
led the prayer, and he was sick. Actually
went to the door of the masjid to
see. His house was facing the door of
the masjid.
And he was, like, coughing and unwell.
Says, Dan, I'm in my pajamas.
So they already they had the the Juba.
So they called him in a Juba. Someone
took off their own cap, put it on
his head and said lead us.
Right. Why? Because it's so so important. Right?
And in this, in Surat Al Insan, one
of the reasons it it's a it's a
profound reminder of blessings.
Till Allah's words.
Says and if you look there,
right, in paradise what will you see? You
see Naim,
Allah's
manifest blessings.
Right.
And
an expansive
dominion,
mulk.
And they say the extent of what one
receives
in paradise
is to the extent of what one recognizes,
you know,
the extent of what one receives of blessings
in paradise
is to the extent that one recognizes
blessings
in this life.
Right.
If you are grateful in this life we
will grant you increase
in the next.
Right. And this Abyssinian was smart. He said,
and oh messenger of Allah, will my eyes
see in paradise
like what your eyes will see in paradise?
Right because you realize
you're special like what you will see in
paradise
and of course this is telling you of
the iman of of the fitrah of somebody.
Right. Waiza raita. The address there in the
Quran was direct second person address. Who does
it apply to first?
Whom does it apply to first?
To the prophet
and by extension to all of us.
Right.
So he noticed that. He said Allah is
talking to you. So if you see, you'll
see this thing tremendous. But what about me?
He said, will my eyes see in paradise
like of what your eyes will see?
Faqal Nabi
naham. Said the prophet said yes. Faqal Habashi.
And this Abyssinian man who was,
you know, at the footsteps of becoming Muslim.
And this Abyssinian
cried
until
he died,
right. Until his very soul
left him.
And he was so moved
that if I believe and follow the messenger,
I'll have this tremendous
thing. He just cried and died there. So
Sayidna
ibn Umar
said, He said, and I myself saw the
messenger of Allah
place him in his
grave. And this hadith is related by Imam
Tabarani,
right.
Containing
a number of key lessons, right. Of the
consequence
of
true faith. But also striving not just to
accept the well I believe but striving to
make
one's faith correspond to that prophetic faith. As
Allah tells in Quran,
If they believe in the like of what
you have believed in. And how does one
believe in the like of what the Prophet
believed in?
It requires knowledge.
To make one's actions like the actions of
the Messenger of Allah
How? It requires knowledge. Right?
The the role of remembrance.
Right? That
is a covenant. SubhanAllah
is a door to limitless.
You know 100,000 good deeds. Right?
But also the tremendousness of gratitude. That doesn't
matter how much you do.
The basis
of your standing thereafter is gratitude for what's
from Allah to you.
Because whatever you do in comparison is almost
nothing. And we'll see tonight in the healing
hearts class that one of the causes
for people
losing
resolve
that they previously had
of
slacking off
or just losing
concern
at reaching a level of,
you know, mediocre
or miserable religious statists. They think everything is
fine.
I am doing okay. But that's
not, that's not, that is ingratitude,
right. And the key,
the key
to the preservation of good
and increase
is gratitude.
And the loss of gratitude or the lack
of gratitude
is the cause for stagnation
in one's religion or even worse
of drifting away from religiosity.
But you also see that the state of
a sincere
human being, right. When he realized that he
reflected
even the quranic verse he heard it and
that when you look you will see
bliss,
naiman
and tremendous
dominion.
He said and will my eyes see the
like of what your eyes
see will see oh messenger of Allah? The
prophet said yes, but consider the depth of
his reflection.
He just cried
and died.
And
the prophet himself
buried this man.
Right.
This is
the intensity.
Those who believe are more intense
in their love for Allah, in their yearning
for Allah
in be moved by the realities and implications
of faith. May Allah realize in us in
these.
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