Hamza Ayedi – Be Mindful of Allah Halaqa series #2
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The speaker discusses the benefits of seeking knowledge and obtaining it from a friend, including educating children on Allah's limits and regulations, avoiding harms, and preserving one's thoughts and behavior. They also emphasize the importance of protecting one's health and not losing faith in oneself. The speakers stress the importance of protecting one's hearing, eyesight, and intellect, honoring contracts, and being mindful of one's behavior.
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Everybody and welcome to, day 2 of our
halaqa series.
Be mindful of Allah. An explanation of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's advice to Ibn
Abbas
radiAllahu anhu from the book, Nur Noor Iqtibas.
Nur Al Iqtabas. Type.
So, last week, alhamdulillah, we kind of went
into the introduction of the book and the
hadith.
And today, bi idhnillah, we wanna go into
the main text. Okay. We'll uncover probably 1
or 2 sentences of the hadith,
about being mindful of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Of course next week we will cover some
more of the text
and this should take us about
5 more weeks inshaAllah. So today's agenda, inshaAllah,
we'll do some review quickly. We'll talk, we'll
start talking about,
the beginning
of the hadith about being mindful of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. What does that mean? What
does that entail? We'll talk about Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala's protection.
And then also we'll talk about
what does it mean to have Allah with
you on your side.
So let's start with some review. By the
way, who was here last week? Who was
here last week?
Taib. So I know who to
ask. Taib. So number 1, name a benefit
from seeking knowledge. Yesterday we mentioned 3 benefits
of seeking knowledge. Who can who can mention
one of them?
So Allah, this is gonna
bring back all the information, so we don't
forget it. We mentioned 3 benefits of seeking
knowledge.
Can you name one of them?
True.
In Surat Al Mujad Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says, Yes. That's one of them. Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala raises the status of those who
seek knowledge.
Anybody remember another one?
Remember the one that we said when the
people come and they seek knowledge and then
when they're about to leave,
Allah says to them,
And all your sins are changed into good
deeds. SubhanAllah. That's like one of the one
of the greatest benefits. So we said that
the one who the best of us is
the one who comes here with the with
the most sins, and then he's gonna live
with what? With the most with the most
good deeds. Jameeb.
They're good because
it's there to motivate us.
Now, Tayl.
Second question, what is the name of the
book we are studying?
I mentioned it like 2 seconds ago. What
is the book called?
It starts with 'Noor'.
Nurul Iqtabas, ascent. So Nurul Iqtabas,
Afim Ishqati,
Wasayi ibn
Abas. Okay?
Noor Leqtibas inshallah, we're going to go through
it. Who is the author?
Who remembers?
Or Ra. Even what?
Ibn Rajab.
So even Rajab is the author of the
book, Nurul Isti Baas.
Tayeb, Jameel.
What is the name of the narrator of
the hadith? The brother just mentioned it. Ibn
Abbas radiAllahu anhu, the cousin of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And we talked about
him last week. By the way, alhamdulillah, these
are being broadcasted and they are recorded. And
so if you miss something and you want
to review it, it's available our YouTube channel.
So you can always go back and review
this one and all the other halaqaat in
all our looking.
The last question, what is lesson we learned
from the first few words of the hadith?
So last week we covered,
that the prophet, the prophet, the bin Abbas
was saying that I was
riding behind the prophet
when he said to me, oh young man,
shall I teach you some words that will
benefit you?' That's where we stopped.
What are some of the benefits that we
extracted from those few words? The introduction of
the hadith. Who could tell me a benefit
that we extracted?
You mentioned that ibn Abbas was writing with
the prophet he was a young man, you
know, the prophet said to him these words
before giving him the actual advice.
So what are some of the benefits we
took last time?
Nam? Nam? Getting his attention. So the prophet
you know, they're riding on an animal and
the young man is looking around. So he
doesn't want to just talk to himself. He
wants to get his attention,
right? And this is a technique used with
your children, especially the young ones, right? Khuzib
ibn Abbas was 10 years old, 11 years
old. Yeah, you tell them, hey can I
tell you You want me to tell you
a secret? So they'll listen now their ears
are open. So the prophet used that technique.
He says, shall I tell you something that
will benefit you? Right? And so
ibn Abbas now he's paying attention. What's another
benefit we we took from this one?
Ascent. Ascent.
So to seek those those one on one
chances with your child to educate. So Ibn
Abbas,
the prophet is is not even his son
yet. It's his cousin. And so he took
they could have just sat on the on
the, you know, on the animal and, you
know, just talked about different things or just,
you know, daydreamed.
But the prophet knew that this was like
an intimate one on one time. So he
took advantage of it to give him advice
and we said, the alternative for us would
be what? Like you're in a car with
your child coming back from school or something
or from shopping or You take that time
to talk to them. You take that time,
to talk to them.
Let's get into it. So we mentioned last
time that, I had this on the presentation
last time, but we didn't have the screen.
So I just wanted to kinda show it
to you. So the book is Nurul Iqtabas.
There's one translation that this is the one
that I, I went through it. It's pretty
good. The, Be Mindful of Allah by Shawayb
Shah. There's another translation that's available on PDF.
The legacy of the prophet by Abu Lu
Maesa. So these are both translations of the
Arabic book. And the actual Arabic text is,
this one.
You
will see it in Abu al Abbaas.
And this one has a taktiki.
The the author actually,
went through all the hadith and wrote down
which ones are strong, which ones are weak,
and so on.
And for those of you who actually go
through the book and through some of the
classical books, something important to note is that
a lot of them used a lot of,
weak hadith. They will use weak hadith sometimes.
And sometimes you'll find like maybe 40% of
them. Okay, are weak hadith. And so the
person might look at it and be like,
okay what's this? Yeah, there's no benefit
from this. But, when you
go into the signs of hadith, an important
rule is that,
it is allowed to use weak hadith
in in virtues when you talk about virtues.
Okay? But you're not allowed to use them
in like aham,
uh-uh rulings and you're not allowed to use
them like an aqeedah. You know, core beliefs
of the deen. But when it comes to
virtues, which we what we are talking about,
the ulama will use them as extra proof.
Right?
Right? Because a a weak hadith, it might
be from the prophet
but because there's a problem with the hadith,
from the methan or from the narrators.
Right? It's be considered a weak hadith.
Let's quickly go to the hadith. Again, so
inshallah, we're reminded of what hadith we're talking
about. So
ibn Abdullah, he says,
So one day he was writing with the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and he said
to me, oh young man, I shall teach
you some words of advice. So this is
what we covered last week. Today, inshallah, we'll
be covering, be mindful of Allah, and Allah
will protect you. Be mindful of Allah, and
you will find in front of you. Up
to there, inshallah, we'll be covering. The rest
of the hadith, inshallah, the, the next helps
he can help in Allah. Know that if
the nation were to gather together to benefit
you with they would not benefit you with
anything except that which Allah has already recorded
for And if they gather to harm you
by something, they would not be able to
harm you by anything except what Allah has
already recorded against you. The pens have been
lifted and the pages have dried. And the
second narration, we should go through that has
additional wordings
is
Be mindful of Allah. You will find him
in front of you.
Become beloved to Allah during times of prosperity.
He will know you in times of adversity.
Know that what has passed you by was
never to befall you. And know that what
has befallen you was never to have passed
you by. And know that victory accompanies perseverance,
relief accompanies affliction, and ease accompanies hardship.
And I I know this is a bit
repetitive but I wanna always mention this hadith.
So we have it in mind when we
when we are going through, through the the
explanation of it. So we start now,
the prophet
ibn Abbas told us that he was riding
with the prophet
and the prophet says, Oh young man, I
want to give you some words of advice.
Okay? So we start now with the first
one. He said he said to him what?
For those of you who have some understanding
of Arabic,
what do you understand when it says iphab?
This is a feh al amr. It's a
verb in the command form. What does it
mean when I say iphab or when someone
says iphad?
Jameel, so what do we call someone who's
memorized the Quran? We call him? Halfhad. Halfhad,
yes. So from the meanings of hif is
to,
hold on to something. The the hafad is
the one who has hif of the Quran
and he has he holds on to it
and remembers it. Right? And he keeps it
close to him and,
and, tayb. What else? Ikhafad.
One of the names of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is what?
Al al Hafir. Al Hafir. Which means what?
The one who the protector, right? So one
of the meanings of is what? Is protection.
Right? So does it so what's the question
that a person would ask now? It says
If you translate it, it's it means what?
Protect or guard or safeguard
Allah
type.
Does that make sense to you when I
say to you protect Allah or safeguard Allah?
What they call is hadf. Right? Hadf al
mudaf
or hadf,
a jumlah. Right? You can kind of hide
the jumlah, not show it because it's understood.
Right?
And you'll find it in the Quran actually
many times and it has different reasons for
it, that you study. So here, iphal,
we see that ihfalullah means ihfal hudood Allah.
Okay? So one of the meanings we get
is ihfal hudood Allah. Al hudood are the
limits. Okay? So it's understood. Just like when
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
What does it mean here intan surallaha?
If you help or give victory to Allah,
type, does Allah need your help or victory?
No. So it doesn't literally mean intan Surah
Allah. Right?
Victor. Right? So the same thing here. So
it means you could either say iphalhadudallah
or
iphalallaha fihhadudi.
So what so what it means is to
be mindful so the author of
the books that were translated
and also another book
that I refer to a lot is the
Expliv
by Sheikh Jamal Zarabuza, which is an excellent
chart of the 40 Noah hadith because this
is one of the 40 hadith that were
mentioned in the in the in the
in that book. So he mentioned he used
the word be mindful and that's the title
of this of this
this halaqa.
So another way you can understand it is
be mindful. What does it mean be mindful,
Yani? Be mindful of the limits of Allah
of the rights of Allah
of the commands of Allah and the prohibition
of Allah
So when you hear the word ikhval or
the phrase ikhvalillah,
what does it mean here?
It basically means to take care of the
limits of Allah
The rights of Allah
and the commands of Allah
and His prohibitions.
That's what it means when it means when
it says ikhfadillah,
ikhfadillah,
tayb, jameel. How do you do that? Through
three things. Okay? So number 1 is by
following the commands of Allah
Right? Allah
says pray, you pray. Allah says fast, you
fast.
Right? Allah by by avoiding his prohibitions, Allah
says stay away from urba, you stay away
from urba. Allah says stay away from zina,
you stay away from zina. Okay? So this
is all goes into
Okay?
To to to preserve the limits of Allah
And the third thing that people tend to
forget is to stay away from the gray
areas.
What do I mean by that?
Assent.
Yeah?
That that halal is very clear in the
deen, right? And the haram is very
clear. There's something in the middle.
Or another narration.
And between them there are things that are,
doubtful.
Yeah. Or they're they're kind of a gray
area. Okay? And then the hadith goes on
to say, so whoever stays away from these
from these gray area, from this gray area,
then he has what?
What does he get? He has protected his
deen.
Yeah. And then whoever goes into these gray
areas, then what? Eventually he will what?
He will fall into
haram.
He will fall into haram. Right? So in
our deen, there are things that are very
clear. And there are things that are in
the middle. Right? And a lot of people
like to leave the clear things and they
go into the middle. Right? And the the
prophet told us that if you go into
these things,
eventually what happens?
You will fall into the haram. And the
Prophet in the hadith, he gave a nice
example. He says, Karai. Who is the Ray?
The shepherd. Right? The shepherd. Yeah.
Yeah. So it's like the shepherd that has
his sheep. Right?
And so the shepherd, his job is to
make sure that his sheep don't run off
or don't go to the to by themselves.
Right? The wolf will eat them. And so
the Ra'i has a, has a, like, an
area that he shouldn't go to.
Yeah.
Right? So the prophet says it's like the
Ra'i who,
he's he's he's he's going with his sheep.
Right?
And then there's an area he's not allowed
to. These are hurumat of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. The limits of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Okay? And so, that if he goes next
to those limits, what happens to the sheep?
Can he watch them all the time?
Eventually, one of them is gonna what? Cross
over.
Right? And they're gonna cross over to the
other side. And so that's the example. So
as a Muslim you should what? You should
stay close to the shubuhat or stay away.
Stay away. Because if you stay close to
them eventually you're gonna fall into into haram.
So so when it says, ikhadillah yani,
follow the commandments of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
this might be a question next week. And
I was supposed to bring candy but I
forgot but InshaAllah, next week I will bring
it. So how do you do that? You
follow the commands of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
you stay away from the haram that He
prohibited,
and you stay away from the from the
shubuhaz, from the gray from the gray area.
Stay, Jimmy.
There is a hadith where the prophet says,
This hadith kind of summarizes what we just
said. He says, prayerily Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
has laid down religious obligations,
These are things that you have to do.
So do not neglect them. Do not
neglect
these And He has set limits, so do
not overstep them.
He has forbidden something, so do not violate
them. Exactly what we kind of just mentioned
here.
This hadith kind of summarizes.
In Surat Tawba, Allah
when he's talking about
the transaction that
Allah has made with the believers. The transaction
where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has made a transaction
with the believers.
Right? What's the transaction?
The believers, they give up their their life
and their wealth, and Allah gives them what?
Allah will give them jannah. When Allah was
describing these believers,
he said in the next ayah, they are
They are the the ones who repent.
The ones who are always in in, devoted
to worship Allah
alhamidun, those who always praise Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. Al saihhun, in other words, for those
who fast.
Al rakiyoon, those who bow down to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Those who prostrate to Allah
those who command good.
And then what does he say? What does
he say?
And there are those who
observe the limits of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
They take care of the limits of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. They are not people who
whenever they it it goes with their desires,
yeah,
they stay in the limits. And whenever it
goes against their desires, they cross the limits.
So they're,
And what's the reward?
And and give good news to the to
the believers. Jameel.
In another ayah, Allah Subhata Wa Ta'ala says,
When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
When Jannah is brought forward to the believers,
it will be said to them,
Right? This is what you were promised for
every a person who turns back to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Right? From the word Right? And here there's
2 tafsirs.
Hafil,
meaning the one who
the one the meaning that we intend here,
which means the one who takes care of
and is mindful of the limits of Allah
and he follows the commandments of Allah and
stays away from the haram. Another meaning, hafir
the one who is sinful and always
takes care of his toba and istighfar, goes
back in, does istighfar to Allah
And then he says in the next ayah,
And this is what kind of hints to
the second meaning.
He's the one that
is is in awe of the most compassionate
without seeing him. So it can mean 2
things. This is the one
who has has fear and is mindful of
Allah
even though he can't see him. This is
one meaning.
The one who fears Allah and is mindful
of Allah even though he can't see him.
Right? Because that's
it's not easy. Right? It's not easy, and
that's part of our iman is al iman
bilhaib. Right? And the
meaning is the one who is mindful of
Allah
when he's hidden, when nobody can see him.
Bil ghayb, bi'ani. When nobody can see him,
he's still mindful of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And that's a high level of taqwa. And
that's the one that really proves that a
person has
this mindfulness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Because
it's it's easy to to be mindful in
front of people.
It's easy for me here to act righteous
in front of you. But when nobody is
looking and it's just me and Allah
then that's the true test of the person's
taqwa.
The person's taqwa.
So now there are many things that we
are supposed to,
preserve or be mindful of. Right? The thing
that you're mindful of is something that you
focus on and you take care of.
Allah mentions a couple of them in the
Quran. From the most important is what?
What's the most important thing that we have
to be mindful of? It tells us to
preserve the salah.
Who can think
of
1? And
And this is interesting.
This aya,
it's it's right on the top of the
page, and it's it's
it's it comes between the the what?
What's Allah talking about here?
He's talking about one of the most difficult,
I guess, experiences that
an adult can go through, a married person
can go through, which is what?
Right? So,
in Surat Al Baqarah, there's a there's a
long section on
Right? And so in the middle of the
of divorce,
which is a very difficult thing for a
person to go
through, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Yeah. Be
observe the 5 days prayers. Take care of
them. Preserve them.
Uh-uh.
Especially
the middle prayer.
Which one is the middle prayer?
I heard asar and? Uh-huh.
Uh-huh. It might be a asap and it
might be a person. Asap. So there's there's
2 there's 2 opinions. Nam, Asap. Actually, Allah
is he just read it like last night.
Do you mean? So,
there's one opinion that says it's the Asr.
And,
how do they get to that? Because if
you take Fajr as the first one and
Isha as the last one, then we have
5 prayers, and the middle one is Asr.
The second opinion is fajr.
And how did they get to that one?
Jamil. Jamil. Because our day technically starts when?
The the Islamic day starts Maghrib. Right? So
in a few minutes
Yeah.
What's the date? Yeah. In a few minutes,
technically, the next day will start. So,
in Maghrib time. So they said Maghrib is
the first one, Isha is the second one,
the third one would be what? Fajr. The
third one would be fajr. Wallahu alam, which
one? It could be
one or the other.
The main thing is that you preserve your
salah. And like I said, it's interesting that
it came into
the middle of the 'ath al talaq. Meaning
that this is going to help you actually
get through these difficult times.
And stand in true devotion to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. In another area,
in Surah Al An'am, Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala says
This is a book that we have sent
down the Quran.
It is Mubarak. It it is blessed.
Okay. Confirming what came before the Torah and
the Injeel.
And to warn the people of Mecca.
And those around it, the other people.
And those who believe in the akhirah, they
believe in this book.
And they are the people who,
preserve their salat. They guard their prayers. They
take care of their prayers. When we say
guard your prayers, what what does it mean
when I tell you guard your prayers? If
if I tell you,
Fulan,
you know, goes to work from morning until
whatever, till Madrib, he comes back,
and then he prays all all his salawat.
He took he he he prayed all of
them. Would that be included in half of
the ala salawat?
Would this be someone who half of the
ala salah? He prayed them all together at
once, at the end of the day? He
cannot find a place for the
So would this would this be included in
someone who's preserving his sawas?
Like, if I told you,
Yani, someone,
someone who is,
very mindful and preserving of his studies. Right?
This is a and I would describe
always studies last minute?
Would you say this is someone who preserves
study? It's one who prays it on time.
Praises it on time, of course, and prays
all of them. Unless he has a reason,
a valid reason. Right? But we're talking about
the asl, the default. The default is that
the person
prays his salah, right, on time.
Right? It's it has a prescribed time
to ma'am. So,
a person should strive to pray it on
time.
And to do it properly, right, and to
have proper and to have and the salah.
Right? There's different levels of.
Right?
That would be like the minimum to pray
them and to to do them on time.
Right?
The prophet says in a very beautiful
hadith, he says, The salah. Whoever preserves their
salah,
it it will be for him Anur. Yeah.
Yeah.
And a very strong light.
Right? And it would be a salvation for
him on the day of judgement.
And of course, the day of judgement
what's one of the unique things about the
day of judgement that makes it very scary
and difficult?
Is it gonna be is there gonna be
light like this?
It's gonna be darkness for everybody except those
who had iman.
Right? And we we get this from the
Surah Al Hadid and other ayaats,
where where the hypocrites and the believers are
headed, yeah, are headed Of course, the believers
are looking for jannah. The kuffar are already
in the * fire. And the hypocrites and
the believers are headed to jannah. They have
to cross what?
They have to cross the sarat.
Yeah. And so the munafiqeen, they say,
remember this, this this is from the title
of the book.
They said, wait for us
so we can get some of your lights.
The
have no light. Right?
They faked having light in this life,
and,
while standing with the believers. But in reality,
they had no belief in inside. So because
they had no belief, on the day of
judgement they will have no no light. So
they will ask the believers for light. So
the prophet is saying, whoever takes care of
a salah, it will be noor for him.
In another hadith of the prophet says,
That give glad glad tidings to those people
who walk in the darknesses. What does it
mean by that?
Good news to those people who walk in
the darkness. Who walks in the
darkness? Those
who walk who don't have to walk, you
can drive inshallah.
Those who go to Fajr and Isha.
A special reward for them that they will
get
a bright light on the day of judgment.
SubhanAllah. So here's what it's talking about. Yeah.
Whoever doesn't
preserve the prayers,
so he will not get noor or light,
and no salvation on the day of judgment.
And he will be with who?
Like, the worst people in the history.
If any you cannot think of worse people
in history than these people. And of course,
where will these people be?
In the in the lowest I always miss
you. In the in the lowest place in
Jahannam. SubhanAllah. Right? So it's a very serious
thing. Right? In Allah in the ayah in
Surat Al Mudathir,
when
when when the the people of Jannah, they
will say
they will look down and they will see
some people they knew.
Right? In Jahannam, they'll say, like, why are
you in the hellfire? What's their first response?
SubhanAllah.
So they didn't take care of their prayer.
Yeah. They didn't take care The first thing
they said, they didn't take care of their
prayers. So is
like the one of the most important things.
Now I want you to keep mindful because
to these things. That's the first salah. Another
thing we find in in the hadith, especially
is that is the is taking care of
your wudu.
Right? Some question of our wudu.
Sometimes, you know, we do wudu, like I
remember when we were kids, you know, we
make wudu fajr
and then like we
to
we keep it till Isha. Right? And your
dad asks you, like, you have wudu? You're
like, yeah. Yeah.
But you're saying.
So when you're a kid and sometimes, subhanAllah,
adults do that. We're very negligent of our
wudu,
and
we we might have lost it and we're
like, who cares? Whatever. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
But the prophet told us
Try
to be try to be as straight as
possible. Try to stay on the straight path
as much as possible. Okay?
You will never be able to be perfect,
but you try to be the best. Yeah?
And then he says
that the best of know that the best
of your deeds is salah, and then he
says,
The person who takes care you have the
same word. Who takes care of his wudu
and preserves his wudu is a mummin.
And so part of iman is the person
who takes care of his wudu. What's interesting
about
is, when we get up to pray Maruhala
in a few minutes
Yeah? Right?
Can anybody tell if somebody doesn't have
Can you tell like is there a sign?
Is there like a red button or a
green button, green light? You can't, subhanAllah.
Subhanallah, it's something between you and Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. It is something between you and
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Nobody knows about it.
Yeah. You can you you might think you
can trick people, but you're gonna trick Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And so when a person
loses wudu
and his his nafs is saying what? Oh
my god. I have to go downstairs and
make wudu in cold water. Yeah? But he
he he overcomes that and he makes wudu.
What's that a sign of?
It's it's a sign of iman. It's a
sign of being mindful of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. It's a sign of being mindful of
Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. And then another beautiful hadith, the
prophet says this to encourage people to, yani,
keep doing your wudu. Right? And and what's
something amazing about the wudu? The prophet gave
the analogy of the person who had
a river outside his house, and he washes
himself 5 times a day. Would any dirt
be left on him? Would any dirt be
left on you if you had a pool?
Yeah. If you had a swimming pool, I'll
tell you your house. You have a swimming
pool? I'll tell you your house. Yeah. And
I'll tell you.
If you had a swimming pool, right, and
you keep you go there 5 times, will
you be like will someone can someone call
you dirty? No.
You're clean. Right?
For the same thing with your.
Right? Your.
And one of the things about the the
prophet says,
My my nation, the prophet is saying, will
be called
They will come on the day of judgement
with with with bright faces,
right, and bright hands on the day of
judgement. Similar to the hadith that we mentioned.
Right? Because of so much wudu they made.
So the prophet is saying what here? Whoever
can extend his brightness,
keep doing his
And Abu Huraira, when he explained this hadith,
he said that, you know, you you make
sure that you cover your limbs.
You know, sometimes you make wudu and you
you didn't hit your your elbow and you
know you should hit your elbow because it
should go to the elbow. And you're like,
whatever. Right? But the person who appreciates this
hadith will make sure and so Abu Hurayra
would always go a bit extra to make
sure he didn't miss, to make sure he,
he didn't miss. So
you salam, 20 minutes. Type.
I put a time here, so type 20
minutes.
So the next thing is al al aiman.
Right? Al aiman. What's yamin?
Yamin?
Yamin Yusar?
Yamin is right. Yeah? What's yamin?
Yeah. Yamin is right. But when it
when we say yamin
yeah. Yeah. Alhalf. Yeah. Yeah. Because he will
say, yeah, and he will use his right
hand. So
yeah. So when someone takes an oath
right? And so in sharia, we have 3
kinds of oaths.
We have,
someone
just says,
5 seconds. Right? And it's not something that's
recommended,
but you're like
beautiful day. Right?
And
I saw him.
Right?
Right? And sometimes we say them without we
don't mean to take an oath. We don't
mean to take an oath. Right? It's it's
something that is not it's not recommended, so
it's better to stay away from it. But
you don't have to fulfill that oath if
you make an oath, tama'am. Then there's a
deliberate oath,
where you say, you know,
you know, wallahi.
You know, if,
if the halakat doesn't finish in another time,
I'm not coming.
Don't make that oath. Right? So then you
would have to if you had the intention
and you and you meant it, then you
should never come back. There's
there's a there. If there's a yamin you
take, and there's no there's something haram in
it or something that's not beneficial, then do
you you should do the kafara and,
and,
It's called yamin alhammus because like it will
cause the one who does it to to
be entered into the fire.
To
to put it right inside the fire.
This this is when someone,
he swears on something that he didn't do,
that Yani. It's a lie, basically. So basically,
Yani, subhanallah, this
this happened, SubhanAllah, once I was
in the in the kulli in in Riyadh.
And we were writing a test,
and I saw someone cheating. Right?
Faniur later will be right to change with
his hands or so I saw it. I'm
like, man, I should tell the, you know,
you know, regardless
snitch, no snitch. So,
I told the guy he wouldn't listen. So
then I went to the professor,
and I wrote down on my paper. I
finished my test and I said, Fulan is
cheating.
Right? Don't read it out loud.
He read it out loud.
And so the guy heard him, he's like
and then he got upset, and and then
he said, wallahi, I'm not cheating.
I'm like, Subhanahu, I saw you. He said,
Wallahi, I'm not cheating. So this would be
amil ramus because you're swearing by Allah
for something you know that's not true.
Right? Or if you steal something you say,
Wallahi didn't steal it. Right? And so this
is yameen that could send someone in the
hellfire if he does not make tawba.
So Allah will not hold you accountable for
your thoughtless oaths. We said, Allah. Yeah. And
deliberate ones. Yeah.
But he will take you account
for the, for the imin that's the one
that's deliberate. You mean it. Right? You mean
that. So the penalty what's the fakafara to
who?
And so part of the hibf of Allah
subhanahu wa'ala, being mindful of Allah subhanahu wa'ala,
is that when you make an oath, you
fulfill it. And if you break it, you
should do the kafara. You should do the
kafara. How do you how do you do
the kafara? So it says here,
So the penalty of the oath the oath
is to feed 10 poor people.
Right?
Right?
So just something average that you would feed
a person. Don't know. What's an average meal
now? Yeah. I don't know. $15? So you
feed 10 poor people. Yeah. Or if you
can't, you you you, you buy clothes for
them in in that amount.
Right?
Or you free a slave, and of course
that's not an option these days.
And so
the 3 options,
you have to do one of the 3
in the in the beginning,
then if you don't have those 3, then
you fast.
Yeah.
The the the 3 days. So it's not
you shouldn't go to the fasting before those
3. It's important to note.
So
if you if you, if you wanna pay
the kafara,
you have to do one of those three
options
or or clothe
or free a slave. Okay?
Then if you can't, and let's say you
don't have money, you have debts, you cannot
do that, then you
fast,
And preserve
and take care of your oaths.
So that's the oaths. What else?
In another in hadith, the prophet says,
he was talking about al istihyahimin
Allah. Right? Having like, modesty and and al
al hayyah in front of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Is one of those words that's hard to
translate. And so they said, what does that
mean? So the prophet says,
That you protect
you you guard your head
and what it retains. Yeah. And
what you're putting into your head.
You know, like, sometimes you're negligent. You know,
like, oh, this is my body. Do whatever
you want. You know, like now, the philosophy
now postmodern
philosophy,
right, is that
do whatever you feel like. Your god is
your feelings. This is and this is why
all these weird ideas come in these societies
because,
they they go back to their feelings. Hatah,
not even the akhir. This is like an
old philosophy.
Now, postmodernism
is like, whatever you feel like is right.
Halas.
So so that's not how it works. Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, this is an your head
is an
So
and then
and your internal body,
and what it contains.
And so this is also from from from
being mindful of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And
when we talk about the head,
we're talking about eyesight.
Sah.
Right?
Like,
you're not really,
being mindful of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when
you're looking at haram.
You're not mindful of Allah when you're listening
to haram, and you sit down and and
and you listen to reba, and backbiting, and
insults about people. Right? And you're not really
being mindful of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala when
you talk, when you swear, when you have
profanity, when you say bad things, evil things.
So that's all included.
That's all included.
Yeah. And then the internal body,
what you eat, right, what you eat, what
you drink, that's all included. This is a
man of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But more
importantly,
right, your heart.
Right? Uh-uh, the hadith
that The second part of the hadith talks
about what?
The heart.
In the heart, in the in the body,
there's a there's a there's a What's a
Flesh. Like, yeah. Like an organ, right? Or
a flesh.
If it's if it's fine, right, and it's
good, and it's safe from all these corruptions,
then the whole body will be fine.
And so the most important thing, the 'alam'
I call it, like it's the king of
your of your body. The heart. Right? And
so we protect the heart from all these,
from all these things. Interesting. The hadith mentioned
the heart after it talked about
Meaning, if
you fall in these
in these doubtful gray matters, then that's gonna
affect what?
It's going to affect your
Your body. Your body, but more importantly your
heart. Right? Because it's talking about the heart.
So it's going to affect your heart. And
it's like a cycle because once your heart
is is is is dark and it's full
of sins, then what?
You will You will be evil.
You'll be evil, and and it will be
easier for you to do more to do
more? More sins? And will you be mindful
of Allah?
No. You will you will not. You will
be less mindful of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
I believe
That do not follow what you have no
sure knowledge of. And you don't just whatever
you feel like. Make sure you have knowledge
of the thing. Why?
Why? Why do you you don't just do
things without thinking? Without having an of it?
Why?
Because whatever you do, you're gonna be asked
about.
Yeah. Everything you do, you're gonna be asked
about.
So so then
as
So your your hearing and your eyesight
and your intellect, all of this will be
you'll be asked about. Right? What you see,
right? What you say, all of those things,
what you hear, all of them you'll be
asked about. SubhanAllah.
So that's part of the heft of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Being mindful of Allah is
is is is protecting that. And another hadith
of Allah says,
Whoever guarantees me,
what's between his
and he this is a
Yeah. Like his mouth, his tongue. Whoever guarantees
this and whatever is between his legs and
the private parts,
then I will guarantee
him Jannah. Look at that deal. Yeah. And
he literally, the prophet is saying, just stay
away from the evil of the tongue
and stay away from the evil of the
private parts, a zina and whatever goes with
it,
and then jannah will be
will be yours.
It's and it's something serious here, alhamdulillah. Yeah.
Whoever gives me a guarantee to safeguard what
is between his jaws and what is between
his legs, I shall guarantee him Jannah. Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says in
Surat
Right?
The same word.
Right? So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said to
say to them, oh prophet, tell the believing
men
to lower their gaze
and guard their chastity and to protect their
private parts from haram.
Right? So is there a link here between
Basar
and protecting your your your your chastity, your
private parts? Is there a link here?
What's the link?
Take care of his eyesight and he's always
looking, right, just
whatever he sees, whatever. Whatever he likes, he
looks. Right? If he sees something haram, he
looks at it again. Right? Then that will
will lead to what?
It might lead
to Right? It might lead to
So
to to preserve their their their their body
parts, their private parts. And then there's another
ayah for the
Also for the women. Right? It's not just
for the men.
So now that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
the prophet said to Ibn Abbas that,
What what will you get in return?
Okay?
So here you have
a shawt and
If you preserve Allah,
and you protect,
the the the limits of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, and you're mindful of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, then what's the return?
It's conditional. Right? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
protect you. And if Allah is your protector,
do you need anybody else?
You don't need Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is enough protector
for you. Right? And so this is a
very beautiful, law in in our sharia. And
mentioned it, and it's agreed upon that
Right? The reward you get is according to
what the deed that you do. It's it's
proportional.
Yeah? It's correlated to the deed that you
do. So
input
output, if you if you do good, you
will get good. Right? And Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says this you find this in many
places in the Quran. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says,
And many times.
Yeah? So honor my contract, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is talking to who?
Who is he talking to?
To us. But to us, yes. But who
specifically in this ayah? Ben Israel. Ben Israel.
If you open the Quran,
literally, right after a few pages,
the whole juzr is about Ben Israel. The
whole juzr. And the whole issue was
what? Allah said, just honor the contract, and
I will and you'll be successful.
Did they honor the contract?
No. Right? And for us. And this is
a lesson for us, of course. Right? That
the same concept here. If you honor the
the ahad Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and in a hadith, of, of, of, ibn
Masud Afun, the prophet says, do you know
what the rights
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala upon the rights
of the Ibaad upon Allah is?
He said, no. He said that if they
worship him and they don't associate
then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will enter them
jannah. SubhanAllah.
It's the same concept. Right? In another ayah,
You remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? Allah will
what? Remember you.
Right? In another ayah, in tan Surullaha,
yan Surkum. If you help Allah help in
the victory of his deen, then Allah
will help you. And so on there's so
many,
ayat.
Question here. Is the opposite true as well?
It says,
Yeah.
If you
be mindful of Allah and He'll protect you.
Does
it also mean that if you're not mindful
of Allah,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will not protect you?
So in in in in in sharia, they
call this,
Right? And some ulema say this is, Yani,
it's it has
conditions to be accepted,
but but you see that that is true,
subhanAllah. You see that this is true.
And if we have time this time or
next week, we'll cover some of the ayat
that prove
that. Right? One of the early Muslims, he
said, when I disobey Allah
I sense its effects in the bad attitude
of my slave and donkey. And he's saying,
sometimes like
my wife or my,
you know, my,
my my sheep or my animals,
they misbehave.
And I know it's because of what?
Because it's a sin that I have made.
Because I wasn't mindful of the limits of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
this this caused them to to to react
with me like that. And there's many,
many narrations like that from from, from other,
other,
Jimmy, so what will Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
protect? So Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, be mindful of Allah. Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala will protect your worldly affairs and
your deen.
Yeah. Because we need both of them. Yeah.
What's the point of Allah protecting your wealth,
your children, your money, and then you lose
your deen? How many people they're born Muslims
and then they go to sleep as non
Muslims. How many people they're born I mean,
they wake up did I say born? I
meant wake up. How many people wake up
and they pray and then all of a
sudden they start getting doubts and then they
stop praying? How many sisters are wearing hijab
then they leave their hijab? And so this
is, right? And and we're scared for our
children
to send them into the schools,
to mix in this society. Right? So part
of that goes back to this. Right? That
Allah
will not only protect your worldly affairs, your
wealth, your house, your money, your children, but
also your deen, but also your deen. So
when we talk about the dunya, right,
your body, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will protect
your body, your children, your wealth, right,
and then your religion. Taib. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says in Surat Al
Arayd,
Believe it or not, you have angels.
Believe it or not, you have angels that
are there to protect you. Their job is
just to protect you.
And you don't know how many evils were
coming your way and they pushed it away
from you.
We
don't know that.
And that deserves a shukr to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
To thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for the
things that we don't know that that were
going to happen to us, and Allah
protected us from. So Allah
has these angels,
Right? From these evil things. Right? Unless it's
something that is written on the then the
angels cannot,
do anything about
it. So then Allah subhanahu wa'ala
says,
the famous ayah. And our our conference is
based on this ayah, our 1 Ummah conference.
It's interesting here. Why did Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala put this ayah? This,
And
subhanAllah, you can kind of if you look
at it, from a macro view,
the state of the ummah yeah.
And and this is what I was saying
about about,
understanding
the the hadith
in the opposite way.
When the ummah did not,
was not mindful of the limits of Allah
then what happened?
Then Allah
stripped away the power and the authority,
Right? And the khilafa from the Muslims.
You can understand this hadith like that. Yeah?
And so how would you get that khilafa
and that authority
and that izzah and that victory back? How?
By being mindful of Allah
Right? By preserving the limits of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. And if Muslims were to do
that,
right, then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will will give them, victory. I think it's
at that time. Right? Taboo, almost done.
Aisha radiAllahu anhu
radiAllahu anha,
she said she sent a message to Muawiyah
when he was, in charge. He says if
she she said to him, if you fear
Allah, he will suffice you against people.
But if you fear people, they will not
avail you against Allah in the slightest.
She's reminding him that, You want Allah
to protect you from others?
Then you have to fear Allah
Be mindful of Allah
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will protect you
against others. Where did she get this from?
From the Ayah
The whole concept of this hadith,
basically it's taqwa.
It's to be conscious of Allah
Right? It's to be conscious of And so
when you have taqwa of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give you
a way out. Aisha said, This means Allah
will suffice him against the troubles and worries
of the world.
Any issue that you have, Allah will take
care of that for you. What's the condition?
At taqwa. To be mindful of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. So we can understand it in
another way. So if you're going through a
difficult time,
if you're going through a difficult time financially,
physically,
emotionally,
marriage, whatever it is,
what would be one thing that will help
you to get through that?
It's right in this ayah.
To have taqwah of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And so when you increase the taqwah of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
This is kind. This is a rule, that
we take,
and I think probably we should stop here.