Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 4 Ramadan 1442 Late Night Majlis Book 8 And Why We Love
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One tenth of the month is over,
which is kind of scary if you think
about it. So whoever,
wishes to do some good,
there's still time to get your act together.
The first ten is mercy is rahma from
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. It would be a
shame if, we missed it,
because so much, of the world is in
need of so much mercy. So much of
the world has become bitter despite its riches
and its,
pleasures and its enjoyments. May Allah, I'll put
Barakah in them for you even if a,
even if a
fundamental and fanatical moldy like myself,
were to try to scare you away from,
enjoying,
all of the wonderful bounties Allah
made for his slaves.
Don't worry about it. Go ahead and enjoy
them,
anyway, as long as they're not haram. Say
Bismillah before you do and Alhamdulillah when you're
done.
But we are in need of so much
mercy,
and, this is the time to ask. And
look, it's the 4th night of Ramadan.
These nights, are just few,
in the year. Each one of them has
its own flavor. Each one of them has
its own,
color. Each one of them has its own
beauty.
And, the beauty of the night before, you're
not gonna get tonight, and the beauty of
tonight, you're not gonna get from tomorrow.
Has
certain people that he will manumit
their necks from the slavery of the hellfire,
and that's a different list of people every
night. May
Allah make us on the list of the
people for tonight and for all of the
rest of the nights of Ramadan.
Say, Amin, Amin.
So,
just again, enjoying so much the
benefit of being able to congregate and pray
salatul taraweeh,
that benefit and that
mercy from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So many
of us were deprived of,
last year whether for justified or unjustified reasons.
We're not gonna get into that right now,
but Alhamdulillah,
there's so much beauty in it and so
much in it for people like myself who
are not the father of the Quran.
Those ayat of the Quran that that, you
know, we don't hear,
all the time and we don't recite and
carry with us all the time,
because of our own shortcomings in the right
of the Quran or for whatever other reason,
how beautiful their words are
and how fine, the words of the Quran
are. And for those who don't know Arabic,
my
sincere advice is that you learn it so
that you can benefit from those words as
well. Those words that even Abu Jahlil and
the greatest enemies of the prophet
found themselves time and time again just having
to stop and marvel at the beauty, admire
the beauty of those words. That even from
amongst the malahida,
the atheists and godless materialists of the Arabs,
when they would hear the words, it would
give them pause,
and they would, marvel at its beauty,
like a person who is
dying of thirst
and can bring the water just close to
their lips and feel its coolness.
But, because of a divine curse on them,
they cannot drink. And, may Allah whatever sin
a person does to invoke that curse on
themselves, Allah
protect us from that and forgive us for
that sin if we've done it and keep
us keep us the heck away from it,
for all the rest of the days of
our lives, I mean.
So,
the end of last
night's majlis,
was somewhat one of a cliffhanger, but because
I'm not trained in the entertaining arts, I
wasn't able to,
I wasn't able to or didn't remember to
get the maximum mileage out of that, which
is what is that,
we ended with, Moana, Ashraf Ali Tanwi
talking about his analysis of his,
actions in the day and night, and his
I'm kinda sorting through,
those actions to see how much of it
is in accordance to Sunan, how much of
it isn't,
and how when
conveying
the story of this exercise of, Hazrat Anu
Sheikh doctor Abdul Hayl al Ariefi
Mufti Taqin Mufi Rafi'
Sheikh
have mercy on them and fill their, kobur
with light and give them a high daraja,
for spreading this, Mubarak message of, of love
to, the people and to the masses and
to the nations.
He continued after,
talking about that incident,
and he said that after this detailed observation,
Hakim ul Ummar Rahimullah Ta'ala delivered a lecture
entitled Al Ghaleb Litalib, in which he,
highlighted those actions and deeds which the Messenger
of Allah, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, has commanded
us to obey and follow, or those actions
which His love and reverence demand us to
fulfill. In this lecture, Hakim ul Umma Hazratanui
Rahemullah Ta'ala stressed the importance of the reading
of the 8th section from his book Hayatul
Muslimeen which revolves around the beautiful example of
the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He also said
Raheemullah
I am absolutely certain that reading this will
be very beneficial Insha'Allah.
The wonderful thing about this book that Sheikh
Tamim,
compiled is what is that he doesn't leave
us hanging. And indeed, the next section of
the book is the 8th
facile from
the book Hayatul Muslimen,
the chapter that was
pointed to by Hazrat Tanvi
and that was mentioned by doctor Ablohay Rahimahullah
in the, in the in the in the
previous lecture that was,
transcribed and
delivered,
in this book, at least in part. So
we start tonight's majlis with that
for you.
For me that other people spend their Ramadan
nights watching
telenowels
and dramas and all this other stuff. Other
people spend their nights,
in Ramadan,
making samosas and pakoras or eating them, stuffing
their faces with them, with, iftar parties and
suhoor parties and whatever. And other people, they
spend their nights in solitude.
But what's better than bad company is solitude,
and what's better than solitude is good company.
A person's is what
makes them
that we have that we get
to spend this masjid with,
Hazrat,
Tanuhi, and, doctor Ablohay, and all of these
wonderful people. More than any of them,
no matter how great their maqam is, we
get to spend this night in the
remembrance of love in the love of Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. That Rasul sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, undoubtedly anyone who is listening, even
the sinner amongst us,
would give anything that we had and everything
that we had just to see one glimpse
of his,
Mubarak and Anwar, most radiant
countenance.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us his suhba,
in this world through his hadith and through
the company of his,
heirs
and through
the practice of his sunnah, his Mubarak sunnah,
and through feeling the states of pain and
suffering in his heart that he felt, even
if it's just a sliver of it, and
feeling the states of joy and happiness that
he felt for the things that he felt
them for. May Allah give him his give
us his suhbah by visiting,
the Mubarak
Earth of Madinah Munawara. And may Allah give
us his suhbah on the day of judgment
in the and
at the Sirat and at the gates of
paradise
and, in the hereafter, thereafter, forever and ever
in a Maqam in Jannah,
in his love and in his riva, his
good pleasure. Say amen.
So the 8th, fasile begins.
It is essential to inculcate in our hearts
the reverence and respect for the lofty character
and habits of the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
It is essential that the morals of the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam become
established in our hearts so that love for
him sallallahu alaihi wa sallam becomes dominant in
the heart and eagerness to follow his blessed
character sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is induced in
the believer.
Some ayat and hadith will be mentioned in
this regard. Allah most high says, verily you,
O Muhammad, are on a lofty character.
Allah most high also says, indeed this conduct
offends the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, but
he does not make this known. He takes
you into consideration by his silence. However, Allah
does not refrain from disclosing the truth.
This is a reference to a particular incident.
Some companions,
Radiallahu anhum when invited to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam's house would stay longer than what
was proper. But the messenger of Allah salallahu
alaihi wa sallam would be hesitant to retire
for the night or to tell his guests
to disperse and return to their homes. They
would therefore continue in conversation not knowing that
this was inconveniencing the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Despite this inconvenience, he Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam refrained
from asking them to leave, not wishing to
hurt their feelings. The silence of the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wasallam, was in regard to his
personal matters and not such affairs
that came within the purview of conveying the
commandments of Allah.
So this is this is a really beautiful
incident. There's a
author of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam narrated
by Malik in his Mu'ata,
which is a great principle of deen, which
is that the messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi
wa sallam says that I don't forget things
rather I'm caused to forget by Allah ta'ala
in order to
in order to,
show what the sunnah is. And so the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, even in his
personal affairs, even in his personal affairs,
he was indulgent to people. He, he was
considered of their feelings before his own feelings
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And it's part of
his beauty, you know, who who who amongst
us would want someone to care for them
that much? And if we all cared for
each other even a fraction of that much,
the world would be a better place.
And you just imagine,
you know, people especially people who take Islam
for granted, we think, like, this is just
automatic. It's something that like we expect that
people will have good character for us. Just,
I don't know, because they like, you know,
like because our grandfather
owned like a shop of good character or
whatever, so we should get a discount.
From
others, they
from others. They're the ones who know how
difficult this is, how easy it is to
get away without it, and how completely devoid
of joy and beauty life is without it.
And they're the ones who appreciate good character
the most.
And only a person who's been let down
and had their heart broken a 1000000 times,
knows what, in fact, it means,
for somebody to show in this indulgent character.
And most of us are so selfish,
we,
don't serve others. We hear hadith about good
character
and we say, yeah, everybody else should have
good character. Whereas, we ourselves, when it's our
time to show indulgent character to other people,
it's just like the nuffs. It's just like
the nuffs. You know, like, I see here
children saying stuff like this. You know, like
a child will say something bad about another
child and then,
you know, I said, well, you know, you
do the same thing yourself. So no, I
don't do that. I'm just I'm just being
me.
Why? Because the nafs always thinks it's a
special snowflake. The nafs that thinks it's special
is completely run of the mill, it's completely
ordinary. The nafs that thinks that it's not
special, that nafs is special.
Service of everybody that you realize how much
it takes to efface yourself,
and and and and to stretch yourself and
and to to to be patient in order
to not break other people's hearts.
Most people only
do this
for
those people that they want something from or
that they need something from. So if they
fall in love with a beautiful person, they'll,
you know, efface their nuffs in order to
get that person to love them. Or if
they want a job or if they're getting
paid or if they're in a position of
power or whatever, they'll suck up to people
in authority
and step on their own nafs in order
to get a place with them. Look at
the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He has the
Maqam Mahmud with Shafa'atul
Uthma. Allah Ta'ala already gave him the highest
station from amongst the creation. And what is
he doing? He's sucking it up not even
for the great fuqaha of the Sahaba. Sayed
Abu Bakr, Sayed Namer radiAllahu anhu. They already
know the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's disposition
and were already keen not to not to
bother him in the least. Not to especially
Sayid Abu Bakr Sadiq radhiallahu alaihi wa sallam
who used to observe the prophet
very keenly, and if anything even slightly bothered
him, he would just back away right away
because of how
how sensitive they were to the the the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's
comfort and his,
you know, his being in in in a
in a in a good state free from
any harm because they knew his job was
already difficult enough. This is the Rasul not
showing sensitivity to those people
who were
the most helpful to him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
This is him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam showing sensitivity
to those people who he's not gonna ever
get anything out of or that don't really,
you know, a person who is Machiavellian or
conniving would say don't really amount to much,
but he knew that because they have
because Allah chose them for his companionship that
they are great and they have a lot
of value with Allah. And so the question
is, well, why didn't he just kick them
out in the first place? The reason is
what? Allah ta'ala wanted to show the Rasul
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's beautiful character that he
is the one who would sacrifice himself
in order to,
in order to keep people happy and to
make people happy and to bring joy to
people's hearts and to keep grief, and pain,
and suffering away from people's hearts even if
it's the slightest and most reasonable amount.
That being said, Allah Ta'ala wanted to expose
this beauty of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
which he would have kept hidden from the
people out of his
humility. He wanted to expose that, look, he's
beautiful like that. Don't abuse him. Don't push
him. Just because he'll indulge you for that,
doesn't mean that you need to,
keep taking advantage of it until you completely,
like, run him into the ground
Rather,
this is who he is. He's a beautiful
person, and I love him, and be careful
how you deal with him. Be careful how
you treat him. Be careful how you talk
about him. Be careful how you act with
him. How you behave in his presence. How
you,
carry yourself with regards to him in his
presence and in his absence. May Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala protect us from ever
doing anything to cause disturbance to the messenger
of Allah salallahu alayhi wa sallam who loved
us so much and who indulged us so
much and who prayed for us more than
we even prayed for ourselves.
And even though we forgot to say our
salat and salaam on him, he never forgot
to make dua for us in any point
of his life. Allah give us, a tawfiq
of being very careful of how we, how
we, you know, keep our adab with him.
And likewise, all of those afterward who keep
who have this color of the prophet
in which they're dyed that causes them to
think and worry for the ummah when we
don't even carry and worry for ourselves. We
don't even take care of ourselves properly,
that we don't do anything to harm those
people. Allah Ta'ala does not like that those
people who have this beautiful character inside them
that they should be harmed or they should
be abused. Rather, the hadith of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam could see is not
only about him salallahu alayhi wasalam but about
everyone who has the wilay of Allah, everyone
who has the friendship of Allah
Whoever
whoever,
shows aggression or enmity or antagonism toward
a friend of mine,
that I declare war on him.
This is not
this is not like a light wording
that Allah Ta'ala protect us from ever doing
something that makes us from amongst those who
Allah declares war on. And this is for
and all of the oliya and none of
the oliya,
all of the oliya put together
are not
equal
to even a fraction of the least of
the prophets, alaymus salam, and all of the
prophets put together are not equal to the
messenger of
Allah. And if anyone has any doubt about
that, show me how many people,
from the, from the people who follow the
Torah,
are keeping the tawhid of Allah Ta'ala and
how many of them have completely thrown the
Torah behind their backs? Show me from amongst
the people who say they follow Seda Isa
alayhis salatu as salam
as the, fountain of their deen. How many
of them are worshiping Allah alone and without
any partner and keeping the sacred law of
the Torah, and how many of them have
thrown it all behind their backs? Show me
who Allah his tawfiq was given to. From
anyone who claims nubuwa from before him and
after or after him, let's forget about the
equal to the the the tawfiq of this
ummah, even a fraction of it, and I'll
say maybe there's something there. There's really nothing
there. There's really nothing there. Allah Ta'ala closed
all of the the the doors to the
point where even Sayna Musa, alayhis salam, was
shown
the, the the amount of tafik that Allah
granted this ummah that he asked to be
part of this ummah, and Allah Ta'ala said,
no. You'll have your own great ummah.
And Allah Ta'ala accepted the the dua of
Sayna, Isa alaihis salam, that he should also
be
part of this Ummah when he comes back
before the end of time. This is sufficient
as a a sign of the greatness of
this prophet
without sliding any of the others that we
love and respect all of them and revere
all of them with all of our hearts,
because they come from the same Allah ta'ala.
Anhu
narrates, I served the messenger of Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam for 10 years, yet never did
he speak a word of rebuke to me.
He never said to me, why did you
do this and why did you not do
that?
The messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was
the kindest in disposition.
Once the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
asked me to do something, but I refused.
While in my heart, I intended to go
where he had ordered. It's just like a
kid, you know, you're just being a kid.
I then went on the errand and I
passed some children playing in the market place
and joined them to
play. All of the which is also a
very normal thing, that happens to children.
All of the sudden, the messenger of Allah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam arrived. He smiled and
took hold of me and said, are you
going? He said, yes. I'm going just now.
Meaning what? His beauty and his,
softness
and his love was so much that even
the kid who wanted to,
disobey or who was showing
a little bit of
aloofness
and who even forgot
as soon as he saw the Rasul
the love was too much, he said I
can't I can't like make mukhalifa, I can't
go against him
And he acquiesced. Why? Because there's no power
that overwhelms a person more than love. You
can bring swords and shields and become with
fear and, you know, make people afraid of
you and force them,
at the point of a gun or at
the, you know, pain of death or loss
or deprivation or poverty or whatever, and people
will
obey you as long as that threat and
coercion is above their heads. As soon as
it's gone, you'll be the most despised of
people. Go ask the people in Algeria how
much they love the French. Go ask the,
you know, the the people whose relatives were
gunned down in the jaliwalabagh. They're not even
Muslims. They're Muslims. You know, you can accuse
them of being fanatics or whatever according to
the
modern Kufic sensibility.
Even the Hindus and the Sikhs, they're people
who celebrate,
curses on, the memories of the people who
did those things. Why? Because they ruled, through
despotic means
and through cruelty
and through,
inhuman,
through inhuman means.
Whereas the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam look,
the companions and Banu Umayy and Banu Abbas,
their mulk has expired long ago. And
the Khilafa,
Allah
hasten its return and its general and in
its specific meanings. It's been gone for for
so long from so many,
in so many ways.
But look, the Rasool
still, you know, Masjid dar
salam where I prayed Taraweeh
still fills up in Lombard, Illinois where there's
no threat of coercion. Why? Just because of
the beauty and because of the love of
the mercy that was conveyed through generations through
the Rasul, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, by him
delivering the kalam of Allah ta'ala and delivering
his Mubarak sunnah to the people. That people
even seemingly irreligious people will,
stand and pray, you know, for 2 hours
their taraweeh,
even though they may not even make it
to the masjid, but once or twice a
week in any other part of the, of
the year. Why? Because love is a power
and a force that overwhelms
and that there's really nothing that can stand
in its way. So much so to the
point where even the,
who tried for 20,
years
to completely
completely destroy the prophet
and his companions, kill them and bleed them
into the ground. The
most dastardly and the most evil of of
intentions.
That even those people, when there was with
his,
army of
of of of Aliyah,
of the,
of the the the vanguard of the people
of sainthood with the companions
when they walked into the Kaaba and they
gave amnesty to the people and said Nabilah
ascended to the the roof of the Kaaba
and made the Adhan.
And even then they were up to their
racist, no good,
and they called him they
called him the black what is this black
crow doing while he was calling out the
adhan? Even then even then the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, when those people were most
deserving of
the most cruel punishment,
that if they did, if the Rasul Sallallahu
Alaihi Salam and the companions did to the
what the tried to do to them,
even a Kafir,
even a disbeliever and an atheist would say
it's justice.
As for the people of iman, they would
say that it's
beyond justice. Why? Because when they fought with
each other, the Rasul
and his companions were fighting for the hak,
whereas
the musheikin were fighting for Batil. So it's
still not equal, it's not anywhere close to
equal.
Even then, even though those people were most
deserving of punishment, the moment in which they
were most deserving of punishment,
The Rasul
forgive them, all of them made Tawba and
entered into Islam.
And they fought the enemies
of and they, brought the Romans and Persians,
the Egyptians under heel,
and they, unseated their, imperial hegemony
and brought justice to the nations of the
earth and connected the east and the west
with La ilaha illallah in a way that
all of humanity benefited from and benefits from,
to this day.
And that's a conquest and a victory that
couldn't have been done through arms and forces.
The prophet
took vengeance from his enemies.
That victory would have been very short lasted.
It would have had a very short shelf
shelf life.
Maybe like a like a a bottle of
milk will expire after a week, And, cheese
will expire after several weeks. Maybe if you
have like crackers or something like that, it'll
expire after 2 years. Maybe if you have
some canned goods, it'll expire after
you know after 10 years, 20 years, something
like that. But the victory of the Rasool
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam because it was won
with love it never expired. It was the
same thing that made San Anas bin Malik
even after saying I'm not gonna go and
even after playing with his, friends, that when
the prophet just smiled at him. Can you
imagine that? He's he didn't yell at him.
He didn't hit nothing. He just smiled at
them at him,
and,
it compelled him, you know, like a wrestling
movie. You get someone in the choke hold,
and it completely compelled him. He had to
tap out,
in the world of, of meaning and just,
run along and and and go do what
he said. Said. And that's beautiful.
And that's not something that, you know, that's
not something all of us can do. You
know, if I smile at my kids, they're
not gonna listen because they know that I'm,
you know, I'm a hater,
you know, in so many things.
But it's that lifelong of sacrifice,
of love,
of preferring others over oneself, of being hungry
when other people eat, of letting other people
get their way when nobody even asks, of
one. It's this
lifelong self effacement
that,
gives a person, like, a kind of moral
credit in their account so that when they
do purchase, they have a, you know, they
have a great amount of power that they
say something and people will people will listen.
People who have any good inside of them
will listen.
And as for the wretched,
their people are impervious to beauty and they're
impervious to love. Their hearts are, as the
Quran describes, dead.
Allah protect us from ever being, like such
people or ever having,
such people
be or have
power over us,
Amin.
Saydna Anas radiallahu ta'ala Anhu,
narrates that I was walking with the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and he
had on him a thick najrani
shawl,
najrani cloak
with Khalil al Hashia that had
a very thick border on it.
Along the way, the a Bedouin came and
grabbed a hold of the shawl and pulled
it with such force that the Rasul sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam was physically pulled toward the
Bedouin.
In the in the narration it said that
the that he pulled him so hard that
that that thick shawl actually, like,
rubbed against his Mubarak skin
and left a mark with Iyadubillah.
And what was it for? It was so
that the Bedouin could say, oh, Muhammad, give
me from the wealth, of Allah which he
gave you,
And he imagine that he pulled him with
such force and such a batameez way, in
such a,
you know,
a way that shows complete ill manner,
ill manners and shows,
such a lack of respect. And what was
it for? To ask for money.
Usually, if you are gonna ask someone for
money, you would ask nicely but this, Bedouin
was so clueless that he, pulled the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam like that and, like,
literally pulled him off of his balance sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam in order to ask him
for money as soon as the Rasool sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam regained his,
his balance
and,
you know, was composed again physically after being
pulled like that.
He smiled at him
and ordered, that he be given from whatever
money or sadaqa,
is available for him to be given.
Will
protect us from ever being like this with
somebody, from the aliyah.
But, you know, this is the system of
Allah's favel is that the people who are
the best, they're the ones who it's the
most egregious when people are bad to them,
but they're the ones that even the one
who's bad to them,
they always leave them with good. You know,
whoever
crosses paths with them cannot say that they
haven't been
bettered as a person,
except for, because of having crossed paths with
them.
This is the type of character which allowed
the,
to enter into all of the great civilizations
of the world.
And if it wasn't, for this,
the Chinese and the Indians and the,
you know, the Southeast Asia and the Romans
and the Persians and the,
the Amazigh and the Habash,
they would not have they would not have
cared what,
the Arab prophet had to say
nor his companions.
But when they were shown akhlaq,
that mimic these,
they had no choice except for to capitulate
in front of them. Good lord if someone
showed me that that beautiful of an akhlaq,
what would I do except for
except for to love
them?
Sayna Jabe radiallahuan who narrated that the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
never refused to give anything he was asked
for. If he had it, he would give
it, and if he did not have it,
he would apologize and make a promise to
give another time.
Said Na'Anas radiallahu anhu narrates that once a
man asked a messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam for some goats that belonged to
him. The goats were grazing in a valley.
The messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
presented all the goats to the person who
had asked for them. When the man returned
to his people, he says, oh, my people
become Muslim
because indeed,
by Allah, Muhammad gives an abundance.
Muhammad gives an abundance.
It was something that that moved him.
Who said that once he was walking,
with the messenger of Allah
on the occasion of his return from Hunain,
from the battle of Hunain, which is a
very
difficult day.
It was a very difficult battle and a
very difficult day in which the Muslims
were nearly defeated if it wasn't for the
bravery of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam and his
core,
people who are around him, the vanguard of
the army, which was mostly,
his family and mostly the Ansar
and his close companions from the Muhajirin.
A group of Bedouins surrounded the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam asking for money.
It was a great victory. There were great
spoil spoils from that battle.
So the group surrounded the messenger of Allah
salallahu alaihi wasallam and were asking for for
for some of the wealth from the spoils
of that that battle.
They grabbed everything the messenger of Allah, salallahu
alayhi wa sallam, had until,
they had finally even snatched the shawl from
his body.
The messenger, Raul, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, said,
at least return my shawl. If I had
camels as numerous as the trees, I would
have distributed them amongst you, and you would
not have found me miserly.
Maybe the messenger, Wallas salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he said, just, you know, this is the
clothing on my body, give it back and
trust that I'm not holding anything back from
you.
And really he didn't hold anything back. This
is one of the things, you know, Sheikh
Samir, he pointed this out actually that if
you read the hadith of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, if people had given sadaqa,
and it was still in the masjid, he
would try to go out and distribute it,
that very day. And if he was unable
to distribute it by night, he would not
sleep in his own home, rather he would
make make a tikaf in the, masjid.
And then in the daytime when he could
go out and find people, he would not
rest until that would that that that money
was distributed.
So think about that, you know, versus all
of us trying to pad ourselves and fill
our bank accounts with stuff. And this is
it's fine. You know, you need to do
it a little bit in order to
operate and get by. It's fine. But the
limit where your needs are sufficed and you
crossed, you know, the limit between that and
where where you've crossed into just, you know,
that you've been,
distracted
by,
by just gathering stuff.
You know, that that line is a very
fine line and many people cross it and
they feel that they've crossed it, but they
wanna lie to themselves about it because
somehow or another zeros in a bank account
make them feel good about themselves even though
you don't eat them, you don't drink them,
you know, you don't live in them, you
don't ride them.
You know, they're not gonna intercede for you
on the day of judgment nor are they
going to really intercede for you, in any
meaningful way in this world.
But it's just that kind of irrational love
of wealth,
that
that's entered into the heart of, of people.
The Rasool was completely buried. He had no,
even dust of this on his Mubarak character,
impeccable character, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He gave
everything that he had. He really didn't hold
anything back for others.
And if we're not able to be like
that in full, at least we should try
to be like that in part,
And we should at least love the one
who is like that and know that that
that's the one who's worthy of being followed
rather than,
you know, those types of, ferrets and,
squirrels who are trying to steal everybody else's
acorns and put them in, in a cave,
that they can never eat themselves nor can
anyone else eat so that all of the
forest stars to death,
while they, you know, have their idol of
their,
of their stash,
you know, giving them some sort of peace
and calm in this world, and all of
it will collapse on their heads on the
day of judgment. Allah protect
us. Allah give
us beauty in our hearts and the love
of beauty in our hearts, not of the
outward beauty of makeup and of,
you know, weird Instagram videos or whatever. That
beauty is ephemeral and temporarily.
All of you are beautiful. Allah, I'll keep
you beautiful.
Say You're all beautiful out outwardly. Allah, I'll
give us the inward beauty that never perishes
and the one that will last in glory
forever and ever,
with the lord,
under the shade of his mercy, under the
shade of his grace, under the shade of
his,
his his rida and his his pleasure.
Give us all so much