Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Going Out in the Path of Allh 01182020
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So we begin the hadith,
and it is a something I wanted to
mention in the Khutba, but we didn't have
time,
which is
that we spoke about in the Khutba today,
the importance and the need to go out
in the path of Allah to Allah.
To go out in the path of Allah
ta'ala. To leave your home in the service
of the deen of Allah.
And the companions were the allah on whom
this was their entire life.
They were not people who would stay home.
They were not people who would, you know,
expect that Islam will give me this, and
Islam will give me that, Islam will do
this for me and that for me.
Rather, they are the ones who are ready
for the service of
Islam, the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam will call upon them and they would
answer.
There are so many inspiring stories about them,
or the Allah will and the intervening generations
that came between them.
Particular that,
that
that I wanted to mention. You know, this
is a small side note. Oftentimes, you know,
one of the reasons that we
one of the
important reasons that we should focus on the
stories, the companions or the law on whom
is that that's it's common between everybody.
You know, it's our common heritage.
Someone's from Palestine. Someone's from Philippines. Someone's from
Eritrea. Someone's from,
Burkina Faso. Yeah. You know, Somebody's from Morocco.
Somebody's from, you know, wherever I'm from,
and wherever other countries that's from. Like, you
know, people are from all sorts of places,
but the the companions or the Allah on
whom are our common heritage.
However, this doesn't mean that it's, not important
to tell the stories of the intervening generations
as well.
Why? Because the the one of the marks
that is
that our sunnah is our sunnah is. It's
not as the chain of narration is is
continuous. It's unbroken.
And,
the dean reached us through that chain. It's
not like the companions or the loved one
who clocked out and then someone sent an
email, like, 1300 years later.
But, you know, this is one of the
things I want you know, so don't some
people are like, woah. So and so just
told stories. If you're telling stupid stories that
are spurious, they have no lesson in their
fake. That's a problem.
But to mention the the the,
especially the ones the people the pious and
righteous and learned people who are,
whose behavior and comportment to dealing with the
problems in life are to deal with them,
that's important to us. Sometimes we can take
something, a lesson from them that's relevant to
our lives that we may not take
from someone who's further away in time or
further away in,
in place
even though, the actual starts from the beginning.
But, the chain is unbroken, so we should
remember that as well.
So this is a story about one time
when the companions were the Allah,
Abdulla Jabal Abdulla, his
father, Abdulla,
he was shahid. He was a martyr in
the path of Allah to Allah.
There's an interesting hadith in the prophet
about him, you know, that he's he spoke
to him. He said, are you gonna get
married? He says, yes. I'm gonna get married.
And so he asked him, like, are you
gonna marry, like, you know, why don't you
marry
a a a virgin girl?
A girl who's never been married before. Young
girl like your age.
And, so that the 2 of you can
enjoy one another. And he says, You Rasool
Allah,
I,
my father, Abdullah, died,
fighting the path of Allah Ta'ala and he
left so many daughters. He said that I
need I need somebody to help me take
care of my sisters. I don't need another
sister on top of them. So I'm gonna
marry a girl who's a little bit older,
who's, you know, will will be more responsible
and mature and will help me, you know.
And the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam praised him
for his like wisdom, his foresight. The purpose
of mentioning this,
story because many of the young men in
front of us, masha Allah, those who are,
you know, of age, most of them are
married and many of the young men in
front of us are not gonna marry a
girl who's older or younger anytime soon. But
the point is is what? Think about it.
These people made sacrifices for Islam. You know
what sacrifices?
Like, they gave up something precious, something dear
to them for the sake of Allah.
He lost his father. And then afterward, when
he got married, you know, even his marriage,
you know, people are like, oh, I wanna
fall in love with the, you know, a
beautiful woman and this and that the other
thing. He's like, no, I have to get
married in order to, like, pick up the
slack from, like, you know,
from my loss. And of course, they probably
loved each other and were wonderful, like, as
a husband and wife anyway. But the point
is is that like these are these are
the real,
sacrifices they made. The real stories of the
real people that they made these real sacrifices.
So he was a really young man at
this time. Jabal bin Abdulaz from the Ansar
and he was a young man at the
time of this hadith. And so he said
that the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam sent us to intercept a caravan of
the Quraysh.
Quraysh was sending a caravan,
of goods through the, through the land of
the Muslims
and, they they were they were sent out
to intercept that caravan.
And who was the commander that was put
in charge of this detachment of companions?
Abu Ubaidu,
Abu Ubaidu Abdul Jabra,
who we mentioned on
Tuesday night. For those of you who are
here for the Tuesday night, we talked about
he's one of the 10 that was promised
and, like, he was very similar in his
disposition demeanor to Abu Bakr Sadif, radiAllahu, and
Abu Bakr radiallahu anhu proposed that he should
be Khalifa, either him or Omar. And that
Ansar Alam said, no. You Abu Bakr. You
should be Khalifa.
And Sayidna Omar radiAllahu anhu also,
gave the order that if I die, he
should become Khalifa after me. And the only
reason he didn't become Khalifa is because he
passed away before Omar passed away, radiAllahu anhu.
Otherwise, he was a man of very high
high status. And the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam and the companions trusted him.
He was they trusted him because the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasalam himself said that
he is the trustee of this ummah, that
this ummah can keep its trust with Abu
Ubaydah.
And,
Sayed Nama
said about him that the dunya changed everybody
except for Abu Ubaydah. Like, wealth, money, these
things didn't didn't affect him.
So, he was the commander of this detachment
and they went out in the path of
Allah to do what?
To intercept a caravan of the Quraysh.
So we were given a sack of dates.
That was that was like our provision. Was
what?
A sack of dates,
And so, there are dozens, minimum dozens of
people in this detachment. It's an army to
go out. You know, they're not like sitting
there programming a computer. You know what I
mean? They're actually physically marching, carrying stuff. And
then when they get to where they have
to get to, they're probably gonna have to
fight. And what do they get? They get
a sack of dates. Now given that dates
are very,
nutritious
and you can get go really far with
the date, but it's, you know,
it's not like it's hardly a filling meal.
The companions really long hold on. We used
to do that in difficult times. They would
survive on one date, on two dates, on
half a date. They would survive for an
entire day like that, You know? And if
you wanna see you wanna do, like, a
homework assignment. Right? Science is important. Right? You
wanna do a science experiment? Go home and
then, like, 24 hours, take a date
and see like how does it feel. And
then imagine marching and like actually having to
do physical activity, with that. So what ends
up happening is,
he says he says,
that we were given a supplies, one bag
of one sack of dates.
And and there was nothing other than that.
It's not that the prophet was trying to
be mean, you know. It's like in Madinah,
they didn't have anything else. They were very
poor. They really didn't have anything else other
than that to give as provision.
That the the the what happened is Abu
Arbeyda would give us, like, one date a
day. That was a stipend, the ration for
food.
Every soldier gets what? One date every day.
And he was the Aminu Hadid Ummah. He
was like the treasurer of the Ummah. The
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam basically put him
in charge of the the baytul mouth. So
he, you know, he was good at calculating
and accounting like how to, you know, how
how things are gonna how things are gonna
be distributed properly.
So that was his that was his,
his decision that every soldier in that army
is going to receive
one date, per day. And they were given
out one at a time.
It was said,
how how were you able to survive?
Like how would be like what would you
do with that one date? And so he
said that every because if you eat it
too quickly, what happens? It's like it's gone.
Right? So he said that every person would
take the date and suck on it like
candy.
Right? So that it dissolves slowly. That the
sugar in it dissolves slowly. Like you don't
just like roll right through it. That you
go in and it's like a high for
5 minutes and then you're hungry again.
Rather, you can, you
know, dissolve the the the date slowly. Literally,
the wording of the hadith is that the
the that we would suckle on the date
like a baby suckles,
from, from its mother.
Instead of, like, chewing or biting into it,
we would just suck on the date. And
he said then, afterward we would drink water
on top of it. So it's like fill
the stomach up with something so that we
don't feel like so super hungry.
And, he said that if we were still,
hungry, what we would do is we would
take the leaves of the shrubs.
And
who here has been to the Badia before?
Anyone been out in the desert before?
The the you've you've been out. Right? You
yeah. Right?
You're like you're like you're like 65% Badu.
Right?
Eritrea has Badia too, doesn't it?
Yeah.
So the you've been out you've been on
the desert before? You you you you from
Cleveland.
Right?
So,
the the the leaves in the desert are
not like the leaves in the jungle, like
the forest, like forests and jungles. In the
sense that, like, they're not like
like salad.
Rather, it's dry outside. They're very thick and
they're very woody.
Right? They're very woody. Imagine if you tried
to eat wood. Wood is a plant and
lettuce is a plant. Right? But lettuce is
real soft and like crisp and crunches and
it's all nice and juicy and like watery.
Right?
Whereas, like, wood is just, like, it's hard.
Right?
So the the the the shrubs in the
in the desert because of the, like, low
amount of water, they're very coarse and they're
very thick and they're very coarse. One of
the reasons for the thickness is so that
they don't lose water so quickly. Right? I
don't know if what the because I we
know the names. I know the names of
the the plants in in the Sahara and
Mauritania. I don't know if they use the
same names for the same plants in in
the Arabian Peninsula or if it's like a
different dialect, but like,
in Turja and like whatever. Like, the weird
like the different and stuff like that. It
just doesn't look like something you wanna be
eating. It looks like like when I when
I heard the hadith, I'm like, I know
exactly what they're talking about and this does
not look like fun. So when they were
still hungry, like your stomach is killing you
inside
and, they're still hungry, they're gonna They they
What they did was they would pick the
leaves, these like the the leaves, the really
hard woody leaves of these plants, and then
they would like smash them with their sticks,
their walking sticks. By the way, carrying a
stick is like a sunnah. It's not a
sunnah in the sense, like, it's not like
an act of worship, but the prophet, alayhi,
wasalam, that that was their style. That's how
they used to roll. They used to all
carry sticks, and the companions really want them
to have, like, walking sticks, you know, like
a cane. It's not just for old people.
But, you know, just thought I'd mention that.
So like on Eid or on Jummah, if
you wanna like roll with the with the
cane or something like that, it's like it's
it's it's it's a old style. It's old
style. That's not what makes you a good
Muslim or a bad Muslim. It's just a
it's a But it is the fashion of
the prophets so there's some beauty in it.
So what happens, they would take their their
sticks and they would, just pound the leaves
until the wood, like, basically would, like, the
threads of it would, like, separate and it
would just become softer, and they would put
water on it so it would become softer.
So it's not like just like trying to
eat a stick of wood, you know. So
kind of go down a little bit like
food, you know.
And that was what they would do. Now
tell me something, do you think that's very
nutritious?
You think there's any energy in it or
vitamins and minerals? Absolutely not. Like, it is
like, even barely the animals wanna eat that.
And the, you know, the animals get some,
nutrition out of it. Why? Because animal animals
can digest cellulose. They can actually get sugar
out of wood and out of, like, plants
and things like that. Human beings don't have
the enzyme, the cellulose enzyme in in the
bacterial plaque in the stomach to be able
to digest it. So you get a human
gets nothing out of that at all. Even
the animals, that's why they, you know, like
cows have 7 stomachs.
And you know how they're constantly chewing, like,
they're always making a chewing, like, motion with
their mouth even though they're they're they're not,
like, actually directly eating anything. What happens is
that they eat these these types of plants
or even plants softer than it, And what
happens, they have to constantly chew it into,
like,
a paste. They can't chew it properly the
first time. So they have 7 stomachs for
that reason.
So they they'll store some in one stomach
and then store some in another stomach. And
then when they're not eating, they're just walking
around. They'll regurgitated and chew what they call
chewing cud. They'll they'll chew the cud so
that they can break it down even more.
Because even the plants that can get energy
out of those types of plants I'm sorry.
The animals that can get energy out of
those types of plants, it's still very
difficult. Right? So imagine a human being is
not gonna get any energy and they're eating
it. Why? Just out of desperation and hunger.
So, he said that that's what we would
do if we if we were still hungry,
that we would, smash it up with our
sticks, and then we would, put a little
bit of water on it to soften up,
and then and then we would eat it.
So he said that when we, we got
to the coast,
right? The coast of the red sea,
the the West Coast of the,
of the ribbon and pencil. What is it
about the West Coast that it's always better?
I don't know, you know. But anyway, so,
Sheikh Musa may be able to, like, talk
about that a little more, but, like,
what happens, they get to the coast
and,
they saw something that's like looks like a
hill or like a big, like, mound, like
a big mound.
So that we came to it and we
found it. It is a it was a
creature,
that's called amber. Right?
Amber Amber is actually the name even in
English for whale.
Ambergris,
Amber,
is something eaten from the will fat. They
make like perfumes
from it because it apparently has like a
very unique
They although it has to be refined in
order for it to not smell bad, but
like there's something from that from that whale
fat that you can make that's that has
a nice scent.
Other things that are made from whale fat
is like, women's makeup, which is like gross.
Right? Like you're rubbing dead whale on you,
but like,
the consistency of that fat, you know, it
it's been used for cosmetics,
for a very long time because it stays
on the skin well and things like that.
It was like a luxury item. Item. At
any rate, so this this word I suspect
is the same. It's a cognate for that
word, amber,
in, ambergris in, in English.
So it was a big it was a
big whale.
Something called a big whale. Now think about
it. Someone is living in the Arabian desert.
Right? Are they going to see a lot
of whales?
They probably never been to SeaWorld before because
there was no SeaWorld back then. You know
what I mean? And if there was, it
sure as heck wasn't in desert. You know
what I mean? So for them to see
this this whale is probably really amazing and
it's like a 1 in a 1000000 chance
like not many people, from amongst the people
of Arabia would see a whale like that.
So what happens is that they saw this
whale,
people.
So this they they they
saw
this,
that this, this,
this creature that's like called the that's called
the ambar.
Because they're all hungry. Right? They're all hungry
and they're like, hey, look. There's this big
animal there and like, we're really hungry. We've
been eating like we've been like beating up
leaves with our sticks and eating them and
likes like sucking on dates like it's candy.
And like, there's this big animal. Like, you
guys know,
you guys know about,
like,
whales. Right? Whales, are they a fish?
Now what are they?
They're mammals. Right? They're basically, like, there are
some mammals that like,
like a 1000000 years ago or something in
Pakistan.
No joke from Pakistan. That like went into
the water somewhere around where Karachi is nowadays
and like just like started swimming and eating
fish and stuff it's like, hey, I like
it in the water. And then like it
just like would live its life in the
water and then its children and stuff. And
they just ended up going out to sea
and they
became this thing. And the way they know
that this whale is a mammal is why?
It has a 4 chambered heart and it's
warm blooded and, you know, it feeds milk
to its calves and like, you know, it's
not like a fish.
What is the nearest living, living relatives of
this,
of this whale, like from the land. It's
like a hippopotamus
or like
a cow or deer or whatever. Right? So
it's basically like
mountain. Right? And it's like a seafaring, like
it's like seafaring beef. And like beef is
what's for dinner, especially if you've been eating,
eating leaves for a while. So they were
like, let's have that to stay. It's dead.
It's carrying meat. It's not permissible in our
Sharia.
Now perhaps he didn't know,
or perhaps it wasn't explained to him, you
know, that, the animals of the sea,
at least the fish like animals of the
sea are are permissible to eat. And so
what happens is first reaction is like you
guys can't eat it. And then,
He said that he said that after thinking
about it for a minute. Right? This is
there this is there's so much in this.
What was the first thing he said was
no.
And then he thought about it. Now if
you say no and you think about it
and you change your mind, can you still
change your mind?
Yeah. If you're like, yeah. I'm gonna eat
it, and then you think about it and
you change your mind, like, maybe you shouldn't
have eat it. Can you, like, uneat it?
No.
You can't. You've already eaten it. Right?
Right?
The companions of the along who are wise
people. They understood these things. Nowadays, we live
in an age where people are like, oh,
it's new. Let's just try it. You know?
No. It's okay. If, like, anyone here you
know, but, Hayosama is an IT. Right?
No?
You're not a programmer?
You're an engineer. That's right. Who here is
IT?
Right?
When, like, the absolute if you have, like,
a really critical, like, business going on, like
a small thing could like mess up your
entire business. If a new piece of software
like a new operating system comes out just
today, do you wanna install it today? No.
There are some dudes like if they were
able to, they would be running Windows 98
to this day.
98 was a long time ago. You know,
like these kids are like to them 98
is like
j f k getting assassinated. Like, you know
what I mean? Like, it's it's it was
a long time. You don't change those things.
Why? Because you're gonna screw up something when
it's running. You screw it up in the
middle. It causes a big problem. Right?
So yeah.
Does it mean Muslims should live in, like,
the dark ages? No. If, like, new stuff
comes along, it's beneficial.
That's great. You know, we should take benefit
from it as well. Just use your brain.
Wait. See. Is this thing actually like good
for you or not? You know, don't be
the first one to jump in head first
and then you realize the pool is empty.
You know what I mean? Because then you're
gonna crack your head open, break your neck,
see, like, is this like is this thing,
like, worth doing? Then go ahead and adopt
it afterward. So what does he say? He
says, no. It's it's Carrie, and I don't
I don't think that like, I have a
doubt about whether it's halal or not.
Then after thinking about it, like pondering over
the the the issue. Right? That was the
one of the things that was a description
of his, is to end me that he
used to, like, not rush into things. He
used take his time and think about stuff.
He said that he said that we are
we are the messengers of the messenger of
Allah.
Allah sent his prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam, and then he sent
us to go do something, you know. And
he says and and this is the the
this is the one like sentence that makes
this like why I wanted to mention this
hadith today.
This is an honor. Right? That we we
are the messengers of the messenger of Allah
and we're in the path of Allah.
We we we come in the path of
Allah. And that's glad tidings to all of
you. All of you. You came to the
masjid to pray. You came to hear the
hadith of the prophet
and perhaps increase in your knowledge. Right?
All of
you,
It's a hadith of the prophet
that whoever
leaves his
home in order to, seek knowledge that person
is in the path of Allah until they
return.
That's a great glad tiding.
You know, it's a great glad tiding from
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. He says, and we're
also in the path of Allah
He said that and I he's like, I
know. Like, even though I'm only giving you
guys one day to day, it's not like
because, like, I'm trying to be mean. You
know, I know what pain and suffering you're
going through, and I know that if we
keep doing this, like, people are gonna start
to die and get sick and, like, be
harmed permanently. You know? So he says so
he says that he said that that this
is not even, like, something that we can
really choose anymore.
Because he has a doubt whether it's permissible
or not, but he's like we'll call
the
is what?
It's Right? That's what it is. Like, you're
gonna lose your life, limb, your eyesight.
You're gonna, like, permanently get damaged.
That's what
means. Right? Is not like, oh, like, I
really want it. Everyone else has it. That's
not That's just like
like weak impulse control. This is actually that's
why you guys are I see that I
see that you're, gonna be harmed. So he
said that because we're in the path of
Allah ta'ala and you like it's a necessity,
so,
you know, go ahead and eat from it.
He said there was enough food from it
that we actually ate from it for an
entire month.
So we were 300. There were 300 of
us and we were able to eat from
it
for a month. And now, imagine that.
Right? It's meat. So they're actually they were
out on the path of a lot to
Allah with, like, one data piece per day.
And now they're
eating, like, they're eating better than the people
in Madinah are eating. So we stayed for
we we we stayed and were able to
eat from it. We were 300 of us.
We ate from it.
We ate from it until we put on
weight.
He said that we were scooping out from
its eye socket fat
with bowls, bowls at a time. Remember I
told you will fat is like will fat
is like really high quality. It melts. It
becomes like butter basically, you know.
And it makes food richer, like, you know,
that's like the difference between eating a bowl
of sugar and eating frosting. There's frosting sugar
with fat in it. Right?
So it's like really rich. It's really like
really tasty.
And,
and we would hack off from the court
from the carcass of this animal
and as much meat as like a full
bull worth of beef
and like just cut it out all at
1 huge chunk and then, you know, prepare
it and roast it and eat it.
Now at this point, I remember I I
I read this hadith and the masjid in
the hood in the south side in in
of Chicago.
And run brothers like,
shift, this is supposed to be the chapter
regarding the virtues of hunger.
Right? It's it's it's
it's
The chapter regarding the virtues of hunger
and eating
course food, not eating fine food,
and,
just being sufficing with having a little bit
of food and a little bit of drink
and
simple clothing,
and simple things other than that that enough's
desires.
Right? So, like,
so it's like, Sheikh, I have a question.
I go, what's your question? He goes, if
this is the chapter about, like, the virtues
of hunger, it looks like they're eating really
well. Like, it sounds like this saber having
a barbecue on the beach, which is essentially
what was happening.
Why does this why is this hadith
included in the chapter regarding the virtues of
hunger?
Like he's they're hacking off like a bull
worth of meat at a time. I'll answer
the question just in a second.
By the way, as a matter of tahtikh,
Mufti Aizaz one time he said that the
Ambar is not a whale. He he said
that his opinion was that it's some sort
of supernatural animal. Why? Because the eye of
a blue whale,
which is the largest whale, is about the
size of a grapefruit.
And so this this person There This hadith
is being narrated that they're, like, pulling out,
like
like, bowls full of fat from it at
one time. My my,
my,
feeling is it's still, like, amber. The word
amber amber is obviously a whale,
and it it's probably, you know,
inside the heads of,
like, terrestrial
land like at land animals, there's synapsids and
diapsids. Right? So one of the, like,
base,
differences between mammals and between,
like lizards,
soro forms like, birds and lizards and things
like that. Is Do they have like one
cavity in the head or 2? So whales,
the cavity there there is a really big
cavity and they have like a lot of
fat in their head so that they can,
hear have acute sensitivity for echolocation because you
cannot see very far in the water.
So they're probably scooping the fat out of
the the the the head cavity that looks
like an eye cavity to them because they're
not like professors of marine biology.
Allah knows best.
I I find that, like, explanations that don't
have to invoke, like, supernatural,
explanations,
are and tell our lessons of Ta'ina that
that necessitates that you have to do that.
Wallahu 'ala.
Allah knows best. So at any rate, so
and Allah knows best what it was. If
there was anyone who is worthy of of
receiving the supernatural help of Allah, it was
them. Allah be pleased with them. So they're
they're they're hacking off like a whole bull
worth of like meat all at a time.
Can you imagine it's like solid, no bones,
nothing. Just like meat. You just cut it
up and eat it.
Sounds very tasty.
He said that 13 people were able to
sit in the eye socket.
And and like I said, maybe it's the
it's it's one of the one of the
cavities in the brain. You know, the point
of that cavity in the brain is so
that when you chew the problem is when
you chew, it puts pressure on your head.
And like if you press the brain like
that, like it's gonna harm it. So they're
they're like openings a person has in their
skull so that the brain can like expand
out in them so that when you're chewing,
you don't like actually like make yourself
At least most of us try not to.
So
the the the is it 13 people, like,
were able to fit inside the the head
cavity? That's how they measure like how big
it is.
He said that that they took 2 of
the ribs and they stood them up like
an arch, like a gateway.
And, we had the person who had the
the biggest camel sit on the camel and,
like, they could ride underneath it without, like,
their head hitting the rib. And if you
see like a blue whale, a blue whale
is like the largest animal that ever lived.
I mean, even scientists Allah knows best what
was there, what wasn't there, but, like, even
dinosaurs and stuff like that, a blue whale
is actually bigger than any of them. And
so if you see the the the the
skeleton of a blue whale,
it's it's it's possible that like a person
could could do this. That much is, you
know, even though the eye is the size
of a grapefruit, but the the ribs of
it are
that's known that, like, a person could do
this. That's what we know about it.
That that that was possible.
And so
he, you know, they were this is their
way of measuring how big it was. When
they went back to tell the story like
this, how they could tell how big it
was.
He said that
we, we took as provisions from its meat,
washa'eq.
Washa'eq is the jamag washiqah. It's
the the the that they make a gedeed
out of a pledeed out of,
which is like like a type of like
traditional beef jerky.
So what would they do in the old
days, you know? If you hang out with
the with the with the old school bedu,
you know? When they slaughter an animal, the
thing that you eat right away is like
the stomach and intestines, the the liver, the
kidneys, and things like that. Why? Because they
go bad.
And obviously, you're not gonna be rolling around
with the fridge in the middle of the
desert or freezer or whatever.
Right? So what they would do is they
would eat the organs right away, and the
meat they would they cut it into strips
and they salt it and then they dry
it in the sun.
What's the point of drying it? Because then
it's not gonna rot. It's not gonna go
bad. So then what happens, you can keep
that meat with you for a very long
time.
Batons do that in Balochistan as well. Actually
know how to dry it in the in
the in the, the cold of winter because
winter is actually very dry.
So they dry it in the winter and
in summer as well. And it's nice, like,
if you if you wanna cook later on,
you have some of that, just throw it
into the pot with the boiling water and
it makes like a really nice soup. Or
the murtanians are, you know, some of them
are very poor. So what happens is they'll
take like a like a little piece of
the
the the gedid and they'll like smash it
in a powder and it, like, flavors it'll
flavor like your rice or whatever and it's
really nice, you know. It's it's it's very
tasty. Like, these things are really nice. It
would be nice like I I remember I
mentioned this thing about Gedid one time. There's
some Libyan Any There are no Libyans here,
is there?
Libyan brother. He said that he's like he's
like, yeah, man. My my my pop is
old school. We would do that. We would
bring, like in Linwood, Washington. So we would
bring,
sheep into the garage
and, slaughter it DL, and then, like, make
good deed in the garage. Like, he would
like from Like hang clothes lines and like
the the clothes pins and just hang strips
of meat and like just have fans running
in the garage and like that was their
like old school thing, you know? And, I
was like, man, like it was a whole
world we were blind to. We didn't know.
I had to go to Mauritania and there
was Gedid being made in Linwood all along.
I just didn't know. So, these are these
are the old traditions of, of of of
the people. They're not deemed, like, you're not
like, you
It's not like the 5 pillars or nothing.
But it is nice to know how people
lived in the old days so that you
can connect to like how, you know, like
these hadiths and things like that you can
understand.
So what he says is that he says
that,
that that we took these,
these strips of meat that you cut down
and dry out,
from the animal so that it wouldn't go
bad and get wasted.
He said that we we we, you know,
so we took we dried out this like
whale jerky,
and, we took it with us. And then
when we, came back to Madinah Munawara, we
came to the messenger
Allah and informed him about what happened.
And he said that,
indeed that that that animal, that Ambar was
a was the provision Allah Ta'ala had,
drawn out from the sea for you.
And he asked, do you have any of
it with you so I can try some
too?
And so we sent it to the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and he
ate it. First glance somewhat of an odd
comment to make. Right? What does the prophet
not having me to eat in Madina? No.
He has
something to eat in Madina. And like, you
know, some of the commentators say like, oh,
this is for him to show that it
was actually permissible for them to eat. It
wasn't her That it's, you know, from the
water and the 5th hook them is whatever,
which is part of it as well. But
part of it is what
because he could have just verbally said that.
Part of it is what? Part of it
is that this is Mubarak. This is the
help of Allah This thing that Allah sent
to these people, this was from the barakah.
This is from the blessing Allah gives to
those who serve the deen, who go out
in the path of Allah Ta'ala.
I mean, this is just one will. They
actually literally conquered the empire of the Persians,
and they conquered Central Asia. They took the
deen to, like, eat you know, they conquered
Egypt
and Syria.
Took the deen to all of these places.
They lived like kings,
those who lived long enough.
They were feared by all of the kings
of the world, and the people would see
them and enter into Islam just by seeing
them. This is how much honor Allah gave
them. What is like the meat of one
whale? You know what I mean? But it's
barakah. The prophet
saw some some some blessing in it. This
is like the help of Allah ta'ala from
these people who went out in his path
with great sincerity, which is then the answer
to the question, why is this hadith?
Why is hadith included in the chapter regarding
the virtue of hunger?
And the reason is what is that Allah
ta'ala asked people to make sacrifices,
but he doesn't actually make people take make
sacrifices very often.
The path of a lot, it'll be horrible.
It'll be hard. It'll be this. It'll be
that. You're not gonna be able to eat.
It's gonna be cold. It's gonna be hot.
It's gonna be,
you know, whatever.
You know, you're not gonna be able to
sleep. And some of that will happen.
Right? But you'll be okay.
You'll be okay.
If a person is okay, then they're okay.
And they come home if they come home
from doing something for the sake of Allah,
they come home forgiven for their
and increased and elevated in their And the
worst case scenario, if they have to give
the ultimate sacrifice that they lose their life
even, then Allah will
give that person a reward unlike any reward
that's possible in the dunya. Most of the
time, what is it?
Shaytan scares you about stuff? Nothing's gonna happen.
You'll be just fine. You'll be just fine.
Don't have to, like, make all of
the sacrifice and what ends up happening, you
end up having,
you know, so many sheikh Musa can probably
this topic right now, he can sit and
tell you just stories about, like, what happened
himself
in this regard for for for hours.
One time, you know, from,
Seattle.
I I don't even go I've only I'm
not I've I've not even gone on Jamaat
all that much
Right? And so what ends up happening, we
go out and then they come back after
2 days because you're not gonna go on
3 days because people have to work on
Friday and have to work on Monday. So
I told I told him, I said, I
said, hey, you know, I said I was
gonna go out on 3 days and, like,
you know, I'm gonna keep my word. So
he's like, fine. He said, you and me
will spend the night at the masjid and
like,
and let the rest of the jamaat go.
I said, okay. Cool. And then he took
me out for steak.
It happened So happened the message we were
staying at has the Like the only halal
steak shop on the West coast that I
know of.
It was recently,
featured in the Seattle Times. It's actually a
really wonderful restaurant. So he took me out
for steak and the, like, the owner of
the thing was like, oh, you guys are,
you know, in the path of Allah here
and was extending like free dishes and things.
What is it?
You fear
sacrifice and Allah helps you out. You're like
that in every single thing in your life.
Every single thing in your life. When you
do something for the sake of Allah, what
you get out of it is like so
much more than what you put in. This
was a lesson that prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam wanted the companions to learn for themselves
and the of that lesson, certainty of it
to sit inside their hearts so that when
he was gone, they would not hesitate. They
would just serve the deen of Allah ta'ala
and,
they would take this message to where it
needed to reach. Allah ta'ala, those were big
people and they received big help. Allah ta'ala,
we're not as big as they are. We're
little people. Let's do some little efforts so
that we can receive some help as commensurate
with who we are as well so that
we're not completely deprived. I mean, imagine if
the strips of the amber was like that.
I said, I have a bag, you know,
and would you guys like to try it,
you know?
Maybe some people wouldn't because they're like, it's
a whale. I don't wanna eat it. But
like most people would be like, yeah. I
mean, just the idea at least to partake
in the barakah of it would be like
wonderful.
Good, bad news, I don't have that meat.
It's been a while. The good news is
what? Is that there is so much for
you to partake in in the blessings of
going out in the path of Allah ta'ala
still to this day. And if you want
it,
good news is that still you can still
have it. You can still enjoy that that
that pleasure that our forefathers in the salaf
salih,
that they they enjoy. You can still enjoy
it still,
if you get together and and and make
some plan to do some service for the
sake of Allah. Allah gave all of us
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