Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Hayat alSahabah Are They Equal Those Who Know and Those Who Dont.mp4

As for he who is

is

an interesting word.

It means

obedient, it means still from motion,

it means silent.

You know, person who is has a kamal,

a kind of perfection in their obedience, that

Like a person stands at attention.

Right? That's one of the meanings of the

word,

Stand still and silent in a state of,

obedience.

That is the one who is valid, who

is perfect in his obedience,

And

he is

standing in prayer and making

through the night. And he fears the and

he wishes for the mercy of his lord.

Is that person

going to be equal,

who knows and that person who doesn't know?

Allah asked rhetorical questions,

a description of, again, the

that their people

of perfect and stillness and obedience

quiet and obedience to Allah

And they make

through

the, night, And they fear the

and they, they fear that the hereafter,

what could happen if a person makes it

go wrong. And they wish for the raima

of their lord. May Allah be pleased with

them. May Allah ask,

Are they equal, those people who know and

those people who don't know?

And this is an important question to ask

because,

you know,

we treat people fairly. We treat people equally

when it comes to the law.

People are entitled to fair treatment when it

comes to the law. People are entitled to

fair treatment when it comes to institutional type

matters, when it comes to judgment and and

and and whatnot.

But it doesn't mean that everybody's equal.

This is something that we have to dispel

from our,

minds and from our hearts. Rather,

Allah says in in the in his book,

look how

look how we have

preferred some of them over others.

And in the you will see that there

are the gradations

between

people's different stations will be even greater,

and the amount of preference Allah has over

for some for over others will be even

greater.

And so the judge who

says who is in a higher maqam and

who is in a lower maqam, that's Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala. So we're not entitled to

go around and say, oh, you're in this

Maqam, you're in this Maqam, I'm in this

Maqam. You're not entitled to do that. Of

course, some people, it comes from

and, you know, occupy the alpha position in

the creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And

then the

and then the

and then the and the shayban is, you

know, in the and etcetera, they occupy the

lowest positions.

But whatever we don't know from Nas, whatever

we don't know from the kitab and the

sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

we're either entitled to nor even allowed to

speculate about what a person's maqam is or

isn't.

But the fact that you're not supposed to

speculate or entitled to speculate, the fact that

you have to treat people fairly,

no matter who they are, whether you like

them or not or whatever,

doesn't mean that there isn't a difference between

people. And so the functional take home message

that each person needs to take from this

realization

is what? Is that everything I do, there's

nothing that's a waste. Everything good I do

is helping me out somehow, and everything bad

I do is harming me somehow.

And when you see people making good choices

and they're still happy, and you see people

making bad choices and they're still happy, in

this dunya, it looks like everyone's the same.

Right? Someone comes to the masjid,

gets married, has a children, looks after their

family, you know, donates money to orphans, etcetera,

etcetera. That person seems to be okay. He's

living his life, and then the person

is and,

you know, every sin under the under the

sun, and he's still happy. It seems like

he's ice skating by in the system. Nobody's

getting by. Nobody's getting by. Whoever does something

good, Allah raises their maqam for it, and

whoever is doing something bad, Allah drops their

maqam. What another person's maqam is may not

particularly be your or my business, but we

have to remember for ourselves

to be afraid of taking the bad route

because

it's going to harm us. And we have

to always have rhabba and we have to

always have,

excite excite excitement and desire for taking the

good route because we know in the end

it's going to be good for us. Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala give all of us to

feel