Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Hayat alSahabah Hospitality.mp4
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So
regarding
the speech of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
that
there would be many people who would visit
the prophet
This is also
halal and haram to people,
people,
oftentimes are very quick to quote
Right? That the food of the people will
book is halal for you. Obviously, this is
the text of the Quran, and this is
something that nobody will deny except for that
they leave the fold of Islam because it's
the book of Allah Ta'ala. What the correct
of it is perhaps is the the the
occasion for a different
talk.
But
the other part I've never heard anyone quote
to me, which is that
that your your food is also halal for
them.
So instead of being so fixated on eating
something at McDonald's,
why where's the fiqh
for eating, you know, having other people come
to your house and eat your food? There's
nothing wrong with it. It's really good.
It's
really good. We can have the thick discussion
about the other thing later inshallah but until
then, right, what is the first quid of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam when he
came to Madinah Mun Hawwala?
Ashush Salam
and spread salaam
and feed feed people
and,
keep your kinship bond and pray in the
night while other people are sleeping.
And one day by Allah's father, you'll enter
with ease, you'll enter into Jannah.
And so this is a sunnah of the
prophet
that people should constantly be visiting the house
and people
should uh-uh constantly be visiting the house and
you should constantly be entertaining and dealing with
guests. You should be accustomed to it. Your
children should be accustomed to it. Your house
should be open to people.
Your house should be open to people.
And this is something I think
very, very recently. It was a custom of
all of us.
And very recently,
it's kind of dropped off the map,
and it should be revived. And people should
give it the, importance that they give other
sun sunan and other parts of the deen
as well. Because interesting is the affair of
the guest that the guest comes with his
own risk.
Everybody only eats their own risk. Allah has
provided for them. They come with their own
risk. They're not eating your food. They're eating
their own food. Allah has written for them.
But when they
leave, what the your sins leave with them.
Your sins, they bring their own risk. You
know how this is some one of the
things, you know, it's interesting
alcoholics. We don't drink alcohol. But if we
did, we wouldn't be the type of people
who have b BYOB invitations. This is conducive.
You're
this is like a Hijjah guest kufar. Not
only are they doing something haram, but they're
doing it in a bad way.
They're getting generous enough to give something to
drink to their guests out of illa. Right?
Alhamdulillah. We don't do I'm not encouraging to
do that, but I'm just saying that it's
like a double
that the the the part, you know, kufr
is something that part of it bears witness
against the other part. Right? So why should
we adopt these? Why should we adopt these?
These customs, these are inferior customs. What is
superior from the society? And there are many
superior things that we have to learn and
that we should improve upon from these societies,
that we immigrated to. Those of us who
are immigrants from the places that we came
from, go ahead and learn them by all
means. This is not this is a very
inferior part of the society.
Right? That you should split checks and you
shouldn't invite people over to your house and
that you should you should not, you know,
you should be not feeding people. Because if
you feed someone, someone comes to your house
and drinks chai and has, like, a cookie
or something like that or whatever other things
people eat and drink in their homes. They
bring their own risk and then afterward when
they leave the sins of the house leave
with them. And so this is a hadith.
It's a sunnah of the prophet
that he always had,
he always had visitors coming,
and they would never leave the house except
for after having tasted something.
Even if it's just water.
If you're poor and you don't have a
lot of stuff in your house to feed
people, it's okay to put out water for
people.
You shouldn't feel ashamed of that or just
put out a drink if you don't have
to put chai without sugar or with sugar
or you don't have to put on a
feast every time people come to your house
and have these kind of
you know? But they wouldn't leave without without
having,
eaten something. This is a really beautiful sunnah
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam completely
non controversial and something completely,
you know, just would just make the world
a better place if we did this for
each other and if we did this for
our neighbors and whatnot.
So one of the things I guess we
could say is like a homework project
is just to invite someone over to your
house even if for, like, half an hour
or something like that. If you can invite
somebody over to your house that's never been
to your house before and that you only
invite them for the sake of Allah.
Obviously, you know, I can't check your work
or whatever, but it's something good to do.
It's nice. Nobody regrets these things. Once they
do, then nobody regrets them. Everyone is is
usually happy about it.
And, and the the the last part of
this, this hadith or this narration is what?
Is that they wouldn't leave except for they,
they had tasted something.
And when they would leave, they would be
guides for other people. Meaning, they would be
with with an increase in knowledge.
That's not something everybody can give.
Prophet
that that there are a set of people
there's there there are 3 people that are,
what you call that that that you could
be excused for being jealous of them. And
one of them is the person who Allah
gave him Hikma and gave him wisdom and
knowledge, and he teaches people,
by day and night.
And so that's also something I will say,
that not everybody is a person of
and,
not everybody has knowledge. So, obviously, we can
share what we have, but we should always
be,
keen to learn more
than Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam. Everything he
had, he never he wasn't a person who
was like a hoarder. So he never asked
for an increase in anything. There are only
2 things that the hadith of the prophet,
it comes that he asked for increase in
in it that I know of at least.
One is the is milk. Right? The dua
of drinking milk is
Allah put blessings in it for us and
increase us in it. And the other is
is is
and the difference between the milk and the
is that the is a commandment from Allah
to Allah from the text of the Quran.
Allah commands the prophet
and say, my lord, increase me in knowledge.
And so we should always make this du'a
for ourselves and this and for our children
as well. And, one of the things is
if you if you ever wanted to seek
knowledge and weren't able to be an aalim.
You know, like I wasn't able to learn
the things that I wanted to learn. I
wasn't able to become a halal of Quran.
I wasn't able to learn so many. There's
a list of books I wish I could
go and study and Allah inshallah will give
me the tawfiq. But you know, if I
don't get a chance to do it, the
ulama say that if you want your children
to be ulama after you, it's very possible.
You just need to do one thing is
honor the people of knowledge in front of
them and they'll become ulama.
Don't be a person who doesn't honor the
knowledge and don't be a person who treats
the knowledge as a second priority, then keep
the the hope in your head that somehow
the child will honor it afterward.
It doesn't work that way. But Allah gave
us a tawfiq of putting these 2 sunnahs
into action. 1 is that we have have
have have people come to our house, guests
coming and going, and that we be able
to feed them. And the second is that
when people leave our houses, they, leave with
more knowledge, more understanding than when they came
in.