Faraz Rabbani – The Rawha #120 Prophet Muhammads Station and Special Virtues in This Life and the Next The Most Noble
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who will be covering Imam Yusuf and Abiheni's
beautiful collection of 40 sets of 40 hadith
of the prophet, peace and blessings be upon
him, as well as Imam Zarnooji's guidance for
seekers of knowledge regarding the ways of seeking
knowledge.
Alhamdulillah.
In our rahuah sessions, we are
continuing to look at
a collection of 40 hadiths on the virtues
of the the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
From
a work by
one of the great scholars of the 20th
century,
Sheikh Yusuf
and Nabihani
And we stopped at hadith number
2028.
And this
hadith is related by Sayna Anna Sibin Malik,
the personal
attendant of the prophet
And
in this hadith,
the prophet
mentions some of what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
distinguished him with
on the day of resurrection.
Right. These are from the from the unique
qualities
granted
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So he so Sayna Anas relates
that I am the first of the people
to come forth when
people are resurrected.
I'm the first of people to come out
of his grave when people are resurrected.
And
I will be their leader
when they
go forth in groups.
And I will be
addressing them all when they are quiet
and attentive. So they'll be gathered,
and the prophet will address him, which is
why one of the
the terms of praise that some of the,
in the poets from the Indo pack subcontinent
refer to the prophet
by is.
The
the one who
addresses
all people. And one because his address in
this life is to all people, but also
because on the day of resurrection he will
address
the people when they're gathered in their
food, in their groups.
And I will be the one who will
be sought
for intercession
and who will be seeking intercession for them
when they are in, when they're stuck.
And I will be the one giving them
glad tidings
when
they
lose hope.
Is.
Distinct
here, distinction,
honor,
and the keys on that day will be
in my hand.
This is related
walhambioma
is Biyadi,
and
the banner of praise
on that day will be in my hand.
When and I am the most distinguished
of the children of Adam with my lord.
Right?
Around me will
will encircle
a 1,000 servants. Each of them as if
they are hidden
white pearls.
Or like pearls
outspread. And this is related
by
Imam.
And
are hidden white pearls. A fair clear pearls.
Right?
So he will be
he is the most honored on the day
of resurrection
and the most honored in the hereafter,
likewise.
And and all of these are reminding us
of the preciousness of the prophet and
that he is the firm grasp in this
life for the one who holds on to
him. Right?
Holds on to him how? Through love, through
reverence,
through learning his way, through living his way,
through
striving to uphold
his conduct and character, through spreading his guidance.
Hadith number 29,
Anjebi Radiallahu
Alaihi
Wasallam
that I am
the leader
of the messengers and this is not a
boast.
And I am the seal of prophets, and
this is not a boast.
And I am the first
intercede
and the first whose intercession
is accepted, and this is not a boast.
This is related by Imam Darami as well.
I am the foremost of the children
of Adam on the day of resurrection, and
this is not a boast.
And in my hand
is the banner of praise, and it's not
a boast.
Is
Adam
And there will be no prophet on that
day
from Adam to all besides except that that
they will be
behind my banner.
And I'm the first for whom the earth
will open up
for him
to
come
forth.
This is related by Imam.
Right? And of course, there's a note of
Adam that sometimes
there is a clear interest in mentioning something
in which there is self praise.
Right?
But when one does it, right? One does
it with sincerity of intent and one takes
the means of guarding oneself
from iftikhar,
from showing off.
Right. So prophet made it clear that this
is not a boast. But the ulama said
it's understood from that that there's nothing wrong
with mentioning
a good quality.
That one has a good deed that one
did.
If there's a clear interest in doing so.
But one does so in a manner that
guards one from
from showing off.
Right? Because approximately and this is not a
boast.
We learned from it that do not do
not boast of your good qualities,
but if there there's a need to mention
them, then one does so
sincerely
because of the need
while guarding oneself
from
boasting. And one of the ways to do
that is
you need to make it
is to make it actually
a mention of blessings.
Actually, that's not just on the tongue that
Allah blessed me with this
because beware of self praise,
explicit or hidden.
Right?
So it needs caution.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells the messenger
and the believers,
As for the blessings of their of your
lord,
proclaim them, mention them.
Right?
So when does one do this? When one
sees it as a blessing from Allah
and one mentions it
seeking the pleasure of Allah
in a manner
that is pleasing to Allah. Right?
While guarding oneself
from from
from boasting,
self consequence, and arrogance, so to be
be on guard
regarding it.
So they always ask, why am I why
am I doing it? Right? Whoever is careful
about consequences
remain safe.
Right?
An example of when one would mention something
like this would be if, for example there's
a need in the community. Right? There's a
need in the community.
Let's say you've learned Tajweed.
Right? And you work with the local masjid
and they're saying we we really need a
Quran teacher.
Because there's a lot of people who don't
know their basic
and so on. And sisters Ubaydah knows. She
has Ijaz and.
Right? Now for her to remain silent there,
at their feet, there there is a
that is not being fulfilled.
It may be obligatory for her to mention
it. But how should one mention it?
One mentions it with those
for the sake of Allah
Right? To fulfill that, you know, in a
manner
pleasing to Allah while
you know guarding oneself from any showing off
etcetera. And one of them is to only
mention to the extent of the need. Right?
When it comes to diplomacy with the self,
one of the things that guards one from
the tricks of the self is to consult.
Right? To be aware of that
like, that's why
the that your
your lower self is a snake, is
As long as you're alive.
So don't don't feel safe from it. One
of the careful things is to consult
trusted friends,
teachers that you don't have to tell them
in the meeting that you can do it.
It may be safer to mention it afterwards.
Okay. You tell a friend that oh by
the way you know there's an opening there,
they couldn't find a teacher. What do you
advise? And a true friend is someone
who knows
you and your circumstances and who will give
you true advice.
A teacher,
you know, a mentor,
and sometimes they can suggest it. Because you
don't have to be the one saying, Anna,
I can do it. If someone else can
do it and that's safer
That's safer. So one of the things that
safeguards
one from
this. So what it fulfills the need, but
without
if something can something like this can be
done indirectly.
And if that's why the it's come in
this sunnah that
that the one who consults
does not regret.
Right? If the person one consults is
trustworthy,
right, given what you're consulting about.
Hadith number 31.
So so it's related by Abu Huraira
that the prophet
said, I will be the first for whom
the earth opens up,
and I'll be clothed
from a set of clothes
of set of garments from the garments of
paradise.
The plural of
the is a set of garments,
a complete set of clothing.
That typically it it, you know, it it
matches.
Right?
So he'll be clothed on the day of
resurrection with some of from the garments of
paradise.
No one will ever have worn anything as
dazzlingly beautiful
as this.
And no one ever will, even in paradise.
Besides him,
Then he'll then I will stand, said the
prophet on the right of the throne.
And no one else
in creation
will stand in that station besides me.
This is related by who said this hadith
is.
It is both sound
and rigul and rigorously authentic.
This mentioned
for emphasis.
And there's lot of discussion
about what Imam Al Thirmezi meant by saying
Hassan.
The strongest opinion would appear to be it's
that it's
So it is a hadith of
it's clearly
hadith. That's what he meant.
And there's other in terms. Some said
is between it's Hasan going towards the Sahih.
But,
but upon testing, the of hadith say that
the Hassan Sahih Hadith are Sahih.
So it's a unique terminology for him that
it's Sahih
that
he was
Muslim. It's an amazing hadith of the prophet.
Uqba bin Amir relates.
This hadith is in both Bukhari and Muslim.
This is in the the highest degrees
of
being rigorously authentic.
That the messenger of said,
I am what is?
And a follow-up to.
I am
your
your share of good.
Right? I am your
bounty as it were. Yeah. I am. Why?
Because,
you know, I am your I am the
gift to you.
I am your bounty as it were.
K?
And
and I am a witness over you.
A witness over us at many one out
of his concern for us. Because the prophet
continues to pray. He has prayed for us
already.
Right?
He has prayed for us already
even in his worldly life.
He
we know from authentic hadith that he will
be praying for us even in his
life in the grave. The hadith in Bazar
and and others
and it's from the of the prophet
right?
That
the prophet
is shown
the actions of his community after his passing
away.
My life is best for you and my
passing away is best for you.
Right?
During his lifetime,
You do things,
you do you do new things and new
rulings come down for you
to clarify
whether or not what you do is pleasing
to Allah.
Right?
And after his passing away,
Right?
After his passing away, your actions are shown
to me.
Whatever of good
that I see, I praise Allah for them.
Meaning and
ask Allah to accept it. And whatever I
see that is other than that,
I seek Allah's forgiveness
for you.
Now
how that works? Is it all actions or
specifically
or the actions generally?
That's none of our business.
Right?
I am a witness over you, and you'll
be a witness for us on the day
of resurrection
that this is my.
As one of the poets said
in Urdu,
I am I am of the followers of
Muhammad. Oh, *.
Listen up.
K? Because he'll bear witness for us. But,
of course, we have to
be there,
you know, be under his banner to be
with witnessed for.
Right?
And then he said,
and I truly am by Allah
truly looking at
looking to.
Right?
My pool,
which is a pool before paradise,
now.
And Allah
disclosed it to the prophet.
Right? Said and I am indeed,
by Allah,
truly looking now
to my pool.
Right?
That it's not just I may get it.
It is right there.
Right?
And then he said, and
and indeed I have been granted
the keys
to the treasure chests of this world.
He did not
wish for material wealth.
Right.
Right. But he was granted
the possibility of having all worldly wealth imaginable.
He did not seek it. Right.
Why?
To remind his that the greatest wealth is
not the material wealth. It is spiritual wealth.
Right.
Right?
Whoever finds sufficiency in Allah, Allah will grant
sufficiency.
Right?
Which is why he said
says, and this is a hadith in Bukhari
and Muslim. Some of our friends should listen
up.
And and I, by Allah,
do not fear for you that you associate
partners
with Allah after me. This is a shirkul
jali. This is a manifest shirk of the
ummah worshiping other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
By definition, you cannot be a Muslim mushrik.
That doesn't work.
It's an absurdity.
Because a Muslim by definition, someone says.
So anybody who accuses
Muslims of committing actual shirk,
this is someone who has not gotten
prophetic
teachings or someone who accepts absurdity.
Right. Because how can you be a Muslim?
Mushrik. A Muslim is someone who says,
There is no god but Allah.
A mushrik is someone who affirms
a god besides Allah. The 2 cannot be
found. If shirk is found,
Islam is not found. The person is not
a Muslim.
Right? Someone who can accept absurdity
is someone who cannot be taken
as an authority.
It's a simple principle.
You cannot be a Muslim.
So people accusing Muslims of shirk,
Right?
This is one of the most egregious
innovations
of modern times.
Now there are particular practices
that may be problematic,
etcetera.
This illegal matter that is this practice
permissible or not?
Could this practice
be bordering on shirk or not? That's a
separate matter.
That's a matter.
Things related to actions
are the domain not of
belief. They're a matter of.
Right?
Actions do not make one an idol, a
a mushrik.
Right?
So the prophet said, by Allah, I do
not fear
for you that you worship,
that you take partners besides Allah after me.
Rather I fear for you that you compete
with one another
for it, for the dunya
in worldliness.
That not only that you become worldly,
but that you compete with one another in
worldliness.
This is related by Imam Bukhari
and Muslim.
And we'll
we'll look at the final hadith for today,
hadith number
33.
The prophet
said, describing his pool
that is before paradise. We and we ask
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that we
reach there in the best of states.
We get we granted to to drink directly
from the hands of the prophet There
there,
the prophet
said, my pool,
its length
is
the traveling distance of a whole month. If
you travel continually for a month, that is
the length of the pool.
And its corners are even.
So on each side, it's the traveling distance
of 1 month.
K.
And its
corners are the same.
Its water is clearer.
Right. It's fairer,
it's whiter
than milk.
And
its
smell
is sweeter than musk.
And its cups
are as numerous
as the stars in the sky.
Whoever drinks from it
will never
ever thirst.
Right? Not physically,
not spiritually.
Right?
So we ask Allah
to to make us of those who drink
from that and who drink
from the life giving.
Drink of the prophet in this life. Right?
As one of the poets said,
Right? Guided the people traveling to Allah.
To the station of slave hood.
And it made them like kings
in there being free of all need.
Right?
The caprice
of their rebellious
self
left them.
Likewise, all doubts.
And they beheld
the radiant sun shining
from behind
the the veils.
Right? The the the the radiant sun of
beholding
Allah and
to worship Allah as though they behold him.
Right? This is a cup,
the life giving
water that is
the prophetic guidance. We should drink from it
in this life, and to the extent that
we do, will we drink
from it at the pool of the Prophet
because not all drink equally at the pool.
The whole umma drinks from it except those
who refuse
the prophetic way
but even they eventually
will be granted respite. But there are those
who will
there's degrees of drinking from the pool of
the prophet
to the extent that we take off the
take
from and embrace and drink
and satiate ourselves with the sunnah of the
prophet So we'll continue
from
hadith 34. So we'll be completing our look
at the hadith and the virtues of the
prophet
Next week, we'll just briefly look
at
the,
the council of Imam
Al Ghazali,
which which is a beautiful
council to a a student of his. And
we are in midst of looking at the
lessons learned by one of the great scholars,
Hatim Al Asam,
after 30 years of company of Shakiq Al
Balqi.
These are 2 of the great imams of
the salaf.
In 30 years
after 30 years of company,
the teacher asked the student, what have you
learned from my company? He said, I learned
8 things. I said, tell me.
Okay. Because the student
the student remains a student no matter
how senior. And the teacher remains a
teacher
no matter how
old or senile. Right? Old or whatever. Right?
There there is
we we under we recognize
these things. And the and teachers test their
students.
Imam al Siyuti
wrote a history
of the scholars of Arabic grammar.
And amongst the last biographies that he mentions
is a biography
of 1 of his own teachers.
Imam Muhideen
al Kafiaji. Al Kafiaji
who whose whose
actual family name is lost. He used to
teach the kafir of Ibn Hajib so much
that they call him the
the kafir guy.
Right?
Right? And there's some scholars who's who became
known by the books by the book that
they used to taught teach. 1 of the
teachers of
was
the
Hidayah the Hidayah reader. Because he he spent
his life teaching the Hidayah.
So after over a dozen years of study
under,
one day, Imam al Siyuti visited him. And
he was already a great authority in the
Islamic sciences, but he went to his teacher.
And of all the sciences that Imam is
an imam in, he is most
brilliantly distinguished in the sciences of the Arabic
language. Even though he's most famous for hadith,
but the most
like where he is
more distinguished than anyone who came after him
comparatively
is in the science of sciences of the
Arabic language.
He goes to his teacher,
and most observers would say that
actually reached a higher level than his teach
and he says himself, he reached a higher
level than all his teachers.
Because
drank and asked Allah that
he reached the level of his teachers and
beyond
in all subjects. And he said, Allah granted
me this in all subjects. Of course, except
2 which he never
managed to study, which are maths and logic.
He actually wrote against logic.
And
there's and in there's 1 or 2 subjects,
one of them being where he said that
his teacher
had a higher level than him. And we
don't know whether without
out of humility
with one of his most impactful teachers, Allah.
So with all that in mind, after dozen
years of studying with
when he goes to Al Qafiji's presence, Al
Qafiji asked me tell me about Zaydul Qa'im,
tell me about Zayd is standing.
Imam was quite offended.
This is the most simple
sentence
in the Arabic language.
I forget
or. I think we may be. It's simple.
That's it. Said he he's remained silent because
he's quite offended.
After all these years, this is what you're
gonna ask me? In Arabic
the the first building block of Arabic grammar?
You remain silent.
So
said, I have 128
investigations
on.
100 and so
Imam swore by Allah that he will not
leave the gathering until
mentioned all of them.
And then he said, and he did it.
Okay? So teachers test students and
so
we reach the 4th.
So we'll reach one of the so he
has 8 points of benefit. These are reflections
that he gained from what he learned and
imbued.
And and one learns not only from the
teachings of one's teachers, but also from their
example, from their concern.
So I saw some people
imagined
that their honor
and their nobility
the honor and their
standing
is in having
many followers
and a large
tribe.
Right?
Large entourage, so to speak. And they take
pride in that.
And others imagined
is usually falsely imagined, wrongly imagined
that their honor
and rank is in having great wealth
and and large family. So they took pride
in that.
And others imagined
that
their nobility
and their honor was in taking and wrongfully
appropriating the wealth of other people
and wronging them
and in spilling their blood, meaning by gaining
political power,
right, which is how you do all these
things.
Right?
So I reflected deeply on the words of
Allah most high.
That the most honored of you in the
sight of Allah
are those most
mindful of Allah, those who have greatest taqwa
of Allah.
So I chose
to be mindful of Allah, to have taqwa
of Allah.
And I believed with certitude
that the Quran is
is truth
and true.
And that their their
suppositions
and imaginings are all
false
and fleeting.
That
there's nothing else worthy of
taking pride in,
of seeking status in besides
your relationship with Allah and the degree of
your mindfulness of Allah.
So this is his
4th lesson.
All of those, of course, revolve around a
reality
that a true
that a true person worthy of following is
someone who is deeply connected with the Quran
and who is deeply striving to live the
guidance of the Quran.
So each of the lessons that he learned
from his teacher were through deep reflection with
the Quran.
Through deep reflection
from the the Quran.
And this is a way of expressing his
gratitude to his teacher for inculcating that connection
with the Quran
in him.
So we ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that
he grant us
insight,
grant us connection with the Quran, and that
we realize
that what benefits in this life is
the the true realities of Taqwa. And he'll
continue looking at what else he learned from
his teacher in subsequent
lessons.
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