Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 5 Ramadn 1442 Late Night Majlis Mercy Towards the Weak Enemies ESA
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The importance of love and being a person of love is discussed in the context of discussion. The use of water and the use of the messenger of Islam are highlighted. The use of sallamaic behavior and the Messenger of Allah's attitude with enemies is also discussed. The conversation concludes with a reminder to be mindful of one's actions and natural disposition.
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We've reached this
Mubarak 5th night of Ramadan.
And
the
beauty of
the salat of Tawawi, the congregations being held
in the Masjid,
the gathering of the Muslims,
the experience of the first Jumu'ah of Ramadan.
All these things are blessings from Allah
Allah keep them
over our heads.
Allah
keep us,
consistent
and present
in the house of
Allah
in his Mubarak house and in these Mubarak
gatherings again and again,
And give us from them the that we
need to get through
this life in the hereafter. Say, I mean.
We continue the narration,
that said, Anas radiallahu ta'ala and who narrates
after the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
would
complete his Fajr Salah.
The servants of the people of Madinah would
bring containers of water.
Whoever presented a container, the messenger of Allah,
salallahu alaihi wa sallam, would immerse his blessed
hand in the water.
This was done for the sake of its
barakah, for its blessings.
Sometimes the mornings were extremely cold. Nevertheless, he
would still put his hand in the water.
This is one of those things,
the difference between a a person who
is
genuinely a person of love, versus a celebrity
who's just,
stoking their own ego.
I saw my own Ustaji, Moana Hassan, Allah
protect him and give him long life.
The students loved him so much that whenever
he would come from a trip,
they would line up outside in order to
meet him. He would not leave until he
shook everyone's hand. The line for shaking hands
would sometimes be an hour long.
Sometimes some of the goof,
students, they loved the Estadji so much. They
would shake his hand and then get back
in line.
And,
you know, bully like students like myself would
pick them out and say, you already shook
Ustaji's hand. Stop wasting his time. Get lost.
But if Ustaji saw, he would say,
let them come back and let
them shake hands again.
And this was sometimes, you know, when he
would come home at 2 at night
or he'd come back from the suffer of
Hajj
completely unrested, completely unrested.
The man that I saw with him 1
year when he came back from Hajj,
was one of the most, like, ajeeb wondrous
things I've ever seen, that our madrassa is
out in the village,
and, there are literally mounds of dirt
between the gate and between the building.
Because of, you know, stuff being moved around,
because of agriculture. They used to actually grow
their own wheat. We would eat the roti
of, of the wheat of the madrasa,
one of the most
halal
things I ever ate in my life.
And also because there's constructions,
construction, that there's
upwards to over a 1000 students in the
madrasas, so, like, 700 of them just thronged
outside.
And the car couldn't go any further, so
stopped by a mound,
and, 2 of the the senior students who
were accustomed to serving those,
They got out and they unfurled
their,
their their,
shawls
so as to form a shade. And
literally came in, like, people, you know, on
that mound, they were shaking hands. I was
observing this entire
spectacle from a distance.
And I thought,
they love him so much,
and he loves them so much. I myself
sat back in the madrasah and didn't want
to go out there because I thought, for
god's sakes, at least let him,
you know, go rest, drink some water, use
the restroom. You know what I mean? He'll
come out and give bayan anyway. We'll all
see him.
But, you know, there's something about real love
when you have especially for people who have,
like, a childlike innocence inside of them,
which, Ustadji had and the students had. It
gives these people grew up in villages. Some
of them they're geniuses. I don't say that
in order to,
disparage them. Some of them really were geniuses.
Their minds were unconvoluted and unpolluted with kind
of the stupidities,
and frivolities of city life.
But they loved each other so much that
they would do these things. And, Ustaji, I
never saw him blink or complain.
Almost every other even scholar of Din. I've
seen when they get tired, they get really
testy, and they tell people to get lost.
I've seen some of many of our very
famous ulama. They literally will announce nobody should
come forward and,
ask to shake hands. I mean, we think
that we have rock star imams in America.
Nobody cares about Dean over here. If you
wanna see who a real rock star scholar
is, go to the Darul Islam.
The people love the so much. They have
a they have a love for them, which
is,
you know, something I don't I don't think
people over here can or would understand.
And, many of those who reach that status,
literally, there are announcements. Don't try to shake
hands. Don't try to meet. Don't try to
say anything. Don't try to any questions. Just
let them come and go unimpeded.
And I've seen,
scholars turn down people. People have put their
hands up, and they, like, look at them
and, like, shake their head like, no. I'm
not gonna shake your hand.
And that's reasonable because who's gonna shake the
hands with a 1000 people? Used to shake
hands with a 1000 literally, he would shake
hands with a 1000 people.
And, he still does it to this day.
Allah
give him a long life.
Allah
give him a long life and protect him.
He's, one of the wonders of the world.
But the point is is what where did
it come from? It's not him. It's these
are the fuuul of the prophet
that,
you know, very you know, very few of
us can imagine
the frigid cold of, Madinah Munawwara.
We think of the Arabian Peninsula as a
really hot place, but when it gets cold
in places like that, it gets really cold,
and there's no heaters and there's no heated
space. The cold gets to the bone and
people used to die from making wudu in
that weather.
There's a narrations of
being very apprehensive about making wudu, in a
in a in a one
time
for that very reason.
And here, it's mentioned that that that that
that who the most broken and humble people
of Medina,
The servants and the slaves of the houses
would come, and they would bring water for
the Rasul
to bless.
And,
these are people that you're not gonna get
any status from them. You're not gonna get
any money from them. You're not gonna get
political power from them. They don't have the
skill or the wherewithal to be able to
pick up weapons that they can make up
your army. You're not gonna, you know, you're
not gonna get anything from them.
Those are the people that, like, life had
left behind and forgotten.
Those are the people nobody cares for, but
Allah cares
for them, and the one who loves Allah
will care for them.
And so he would bless the water for
them even though it was extremely cold.
And that's why everybody loves Rasulullah
Sadanis
who narrates the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam was not harsh in his disposition,
nor was he one who cursed.
If someone had to be reprimanded, at most,
he would exclaim, what is the matter with
him? May dust settle on his forehead, which
is just in a figure of speech. It's
not even literally that he was saying that.
It's just a figure
of speech in Arabic,
and, like, death settling on someone's forehead is
not even a harsh thing to
But it was just a figure of speech
that he's just wondering what's wrong when a
person did something wrong.
This statement, may dust settle on his forehead,
is not a curse. Even during
salat, dust settles on the forehead when in
prostration simply by virtue of the head touching
the earth. In a way, this was a
du'a for the betterment of the individual.
It is implied that he attained rectification by
the performance of the salat, for salat prevents
evil and shameless deeds. This is one of
the qualities and special qualities of salat.
Abu Sa'id al Khudiri radiAllahu ta'ala and who
narrates that the messenger of
A young girl that that that that was
in the seclusion of her house and knows
nothing about the outside world.
Abu Sadal Khudib
who said,
when he saw
something detestable,
we would notice it from the effect on
his, Mubarak face,
that it would affect him. Like, if something
disgusting that would happen or something that's, like,
evil or something that's just bad or wrong,
we would notice it on his face. He
wasn't
like desensitized to things like all of us
that we'd see something disgusting happen like a
1000 times and and it doesn't affect us
or even
worse yet will laugh about it or joke
about it. That it would affect him
That's how pure his,
his nature was.
Aswad
narrates that he
What did the messenger of Allah
do at home? She replied he would assist
his wives with their housework.
Some examples of the type of housework done
by the messenger of Allah
are mentioned in the following hadith.
Narrates,
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
would mend his shoes.
He would sew his clothing, and he would
do the work of the houses ordinary people
among you do.
She also narrates that the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam did not act like
a master at home.
Rather, he would go and milk the goats
himself.
Aisha radiAllahu anha narrates that the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam never killed anyone
with his own hands nor did he ever
beat a servant. Yes. Jihad in the path
of Allah Ta'ala was an exception. He never
hit anyone in anger nor inconvenience
inconvenienced anyone unnecessarily
nor took revenge for himself. However, when the
commandments of Allah were violated, the Messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam took appropriate actions
for the sake of Allah Most High.
Anas radiAllahu ta'ala narrates,
I was 8 years old when I joined
the service of the Messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
I remained in his service for 10 years.
Whenever I damaged anything with my hands, the
Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
did not scold me.
Even if someone from the family of Rasoolullah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam scolded me, he would
prevent them and say, if it was meant
to be, it would have happened.
I remained in his service for 10 years
whenever I damaged something with my hands.
Rasool Allah did not scold me
Even if someone from the family of Rasulullah
scolded me, he would prevent them and say,
if it wasn't meant to be, it would
have happened.
Meaning, he would protect him from the blame
of other people.
It's important to understand that these are the
things that make true worth and value in
a person.
Look at the housework that's mentioned that he
used to do, sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
He would mend his shoes and he would
sew his clothing
Which means what? That he's not out there
buying something new every single
time. Rather,
he would consider anything Allah gave him to
be a great blessing,
and he would use it to his complete
maximum
ability.
If it broke, he didn't look down on
it as a curse on him
Rather, he
remembered that this is Allah Ta'ala's blessing.
And out of love for Allah
he would keep using it. He would keep
mending it. He would keep using it.
Unlike us, Allah gives us so many things
and we're always
ungrateful for what we have.
And because of that, we become petty and
snippy with one another and jealous with one
and over. Overall of these things, they're all
made to be garbage. The clothes that we're
wearing, the houses that we live in, the
cars that we drive, the phones that we
use, all of them were programmed for obsolescence.
They literally were made to become garbage. Nothing
they don't people don't even make things anymore
to last. Nobody makes anything out of quality
anymore. People buy, like, a $200 pair of
jeans that's meant to rip in a certain
way.
Everyone knows that the car, when it's gonna
get a certain number of miles, it's garbage.
The phones, they program them to die even
before the hardware dies. And yet we kill
each other and hate each other for those
things.
And the sunnah of the messenger of Allah
fix it and keep keep keep going, fix
it yourself, and don't consider it to be
a curse. Rather, it's a blessing that you
had it in the first place.
Of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam visited the
sick and participated in
people's funerals in Janazahs.
When people die, nobody knows who half the
people who die in the Masjid. I myself
have
been imam. So many bodies I've washed with
my own hands. So many Janazahs I've done.
You know, the Janazahs of the pious, the
Janazahs of
the impious, the Janazahs that are weird, the
burials. I filled graveyards up with my own
hands.
And most of the people, nobody knows who
they are
Except for their own loved ones. They're just
a couple of people. Some of them you
don't you never even seen them before.
Narrates that the messenger
visited the sick and
participated in funeral services. And we should do
this as well. We should do this as
well in order to honor the one who
Allah honored with
The messenger of Allah would not withdraw his
hand
before another person withdrew his. I mean, he
was shaking hands and things
like that. He wasn't too cool for school.
Rather, he he considered when someone gave his
hand to the prophet
also gave his Mubarak hand,
That he would not withdraw his hand before
the other person withdrew his, nor would he
turn his face until the other person turned
his face away.
The messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam was
never seen stretching his legs toward others. This
is considered an insult in ancient, society,
or at least a sign of,
being higher in hierarchy with somebody that you
could stretch your legs in front of them
or toward them. The Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
treated people as if they were higher in
the hierarchy than them, even though there's no
star in the sky or angel in heaven
that has a higher position than the Messenger
of Allah
The only one whose Maqam is higher than
his is the one who created him,
But he used to treat people as if
they were better than him. He used to
honor people. The thing is, this is one
of those things. We live in a society.
We live in a time and place. Everybody
treats each other like garbage.
People treat each other like crap. Sometimes just
a little bit of, of of of of
iqram, of honoring another person, Muslim, kafir, whatever
their color, whatever their race, whatever their
socioeconomic
status, whatever.
Just a little bit of
a sometimes it hits people, like, at a
pressure point they don't even know. They'll be
intoxicated by it.
They will not know what to do with
it. Only the worst and most foul of
and
the worst and most foul of the arrogant
are impervious to a person's kindness to them.
Most people are not like that. Most people
have some human goodness inside of them. If
you're good to them, they have no,
choice except for
to be good back to you. Why? Because
this is one of the things of hikmah
that everybody is.
You know,
It's
just the the the the inner innate nature
of a human being that they they have
to love the one who's good to them.
In the Shamal of, there are 2 lengthy
narrations. Parts will be quoted here.
Hassan al Hussein
narrated on the authority of his father, saying,
Ali
when at home, the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam divided his time into 3 time
periods. In one period, he remained engrossed in
the worship of Allah
and the other, he engaged himself in fulfilling
the rights of his family.
And in the 3rd period, he reserved for
himself.
This special period was then further divided between
others and himself.
The benefits and blessings of this special period
were spread amongst the people at large through
the medium of the special companions of the
Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
In this period, the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam granted certain distinguished companions,
the ulama amongst the Sahaba
permission to sit in his company, preferring the
distinguished companions above others.
He engaged this distinguished group in matters of
deen and in the matters of the Ummah,
and all who attended came with the motive
of benefiting from the Messenger of
Allah Beside the benefits of knowledge,
Beside the benefits of knowledge, they would also
share meals with the messenger of Allah
When they departed from his company, they would
leave as guides,
of the of the Deen. They would leave
as guides
to mankind,
to the Deen of Islam.
This was
the nature of the special and distinguished gatherings
of the Messenger of Allah, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
Regarding the time that Messenger of Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam spent outside the home, Saidna Hassan
and Saidna Hussain radiAllahu anhu narrated
on the authority of their father, Sadna Ali
radhiallahu anhu, that the Messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam was at all times pleasant and
smiling.
People would not quarrel in his presence.
The Messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
did not speak until the other speaker completed
his thought and became silent.
He overlooked the disrespect in conversations with strangers.
When people would be disrespectful, he would overlook
that.
He did not interrupt a conversation unless it
exceeded the bounds of propriety.
He would then intervene and bring it to
an end,
either by his express prohibition or by leaving
the company.
Again, like, he would've just get into it
with people.
This was his attitude with the general public,
with those, with whom he had connections,
the companions
Now we will mention some points regarding his
attitude with his enemies.
Abu Hureira
narrates that once someone asked the Messenger of
Allah
O Messenger of Allah, curse the mushrikeen,
the polytheists.
The Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
I was not sent as one who curses,
rather I was sent only as mercy.
Occasionally, he would ask Allah for protection against
his enemies.
In a lengthy hadith narrated by Sayid Aisha
regarding the incident battle of Uhud.
On this occasion,
Jibril Alaihi Salam introduced the messenger of Allah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to the angel in charge
of the mountains.
The angel greeted the messenger of Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam
and said, O Muhammad, I am the angel
of the mountains. Allah has sent me
to you so that you may command me.
If you command,
I will crush the people of Taif between
these two mountains. The Messenger of Allah
replied, no.
I hope that Allah will create from amongst
them such men who will worship Allah alone
and associate none like him none with him.
Even at a time like this, the Messenger
of Allah
never thought of revenge.
He only had to give the order and
his enemies would have been destroyed. Instead, he
chose to forgive them and make du'a on
their behalf.
He confronted even his opponents with kindness and
concern.
This is a very interesting story.
I know the crooked and twisted way that
modern people think.
This is just a story. It's just a
tall tale. There's no angel. It's just made
up.
Well, guess what?
A day came when
the companions
overwhelmed Maqamu Karamah, and He still forgave them.
And a day came when the companions
overwhelmed Ta'if. And if there are any people
who deserve to be,
cut down where they stood
and their houses burned and their earth salted,
It was the people of Ta'if, and he
he forgave them. They entered into the deen.
You
know the people of Madinah Munawar Allah
raised the Maqam of the Ansar.
They accepted the Prophet
and they
established Islam
with
the swords of
the tribes of the Arabs breaking on
their bodies.
The people of Thav drove the prophet
out of out of, their city.
And still he was kind and merciful to
them.
A couple of years ago in Hajj,
we had a weird subway sandwich, which was
just subway wheat bread
and salted Arab cheese
and jalapenos. And that's it.
I guess if you put,
mayonnaise in a sandwich in in
Arafat, it's probably gonna cause food poisoning.
Or in Mina, it's gonna cause food poisoning.
And the box said it's made from the
subway in Taif.
And, I thought, subhanAllah,
look at the
look at the rahma of Rasulullah, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam's
that at least life gets to feed the
Hijjah.
If they had any sense in them, they
would have been Medina.
But,
the Rahmah of Allah touches everybody, those who
deserve and those who don't deserve.
Otherwise people would have been singing instead
of
If you command, I will crush the people
of Taif between these two mountains. The Messenger
of Allah
replied,
no. I hope that Allah will create from
amongst them such men who worship Allah alone
and associate none other with him.
Even at this time or times like this,
the messenger of Allah never thought of revenge.
He only had to give the order and
his enemies would have been destroyed. Instead, he
chose to forgive them and make dua on
their behalf. He confronted even his opponents with
kindness and concern.
In a lengthy hadith said,
who narrates an incident about a Jew
who at the time was a subject of
the Muslim state in Madinah,
the
Messenger of Allah
owed the Jews some money. Rasulullah
would do this. He would go out and
he would borrow money. When he needed to
borrow money, he would borrow it from the
Jews because he knew the Muslims would have
just given it to him.
And because he didn't wanna be an imposition
on someone, he would go and borrow from
the Jews because he no knew knew knew
that they wouldn't forgive his debts. They would
expect him to pay him back.
And, they wouldn't be lenient,
in in that payback.
In demanding money, he refused to allow the
messenger of Allah, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, to
go home. Meaning the the the the debt,
even though it wasn't due, he said, I
want I want you to fulfill the debt
now.
And he, got on him, so, harshly that
he refused to let him go home. He
blockaded the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam in the masjid from Dhuhr until Fajr
the next day. When people started to remonstrate,
with the Jew, the messenger of Allah salallahu
alayhi wasalam prevented them and said,
Allah has forbidden me to be unjust with
those, with whom I have a treaty and
with those with whom I have no treaty.
Later in that day, the Jew proclaimed, I
bear witness that there is no god except
for Allah, and I bear witness that verily
you you, Muhammad, are the messenger of Allah.
He went to say when he went on
to say, I adopted this attitude toward the
messenger of Allah, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, because
in the Torah,
the description of a prophet is given. The
Torah
describes that a prophet
like Mohammed, the son of Abdullah,
Alaihi Sall to Islam, that his birthplace will
be Mecca, and his place of migration will
be Madinah.
His kingdom will be over the land of
Sham, and he will not be harsh. He
will not be loud in the marketplaces, nor
will he commit acts of immodesty.
I wish to ascertain whether this man is
indeed the Mohammed who has stated in the
Torah.
And we know, those people who have knowledge
of the Torah that the name of
maybe perhaps not in the the the the
the the the Torah proper, but the Torah,
the expression Torah in Arabic is the entire
Tanakh that we know that the name of
the prophet
is,
it appears there,
letter by letter.
Toward piety which will overcome 1.
Hazratanvi
said,
following his sunnah
means to adopt those actions and quality
qualities that the Messenger of Allah, salallahu alayhi
wa sallam
had which were continuous, intentional, and willfully done.
These actions should become one's continuous and intentional
habit. They should become one's predominant nature, one's
natural disposition.
As for those actions of the Prophet
that were occasional and incidental,
those qualities and actions should also be implemented
and adopted occasionally when the need arises. Meaning,
don't just say this one thing is a
sunnah, and look, I follow the sunnah.
Look at those things that are
continuous, and make them continuous in your life,
and then look at those things that,
that are occasional and also make them occasional
in in your life.
Enough was read today. Enough was read today
to suffice a lifetime of
reflection and a lifetime of appreciation.
Allah
despite our own selves and despite our own
hard hearts, Allah
give us the blessing that this Mubarik sunnah
should enter into our lives and make us
people better than who we are, and fill
our hearts with light, and fill our eyes
and our ears with light, and fill
our days with light and our nights with
light, and fill our life with light, and
fill our graves with light, and fill our
book of deeds with light and give us
a maqam forever and ever with Allah
and with his Rasool
who he sent not except for as a
mercy to mankind.