Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyad Al Salihin Glad Tidings[1]
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The chapter regarding
the recommendation
to give glad tidings
and to congratulate
others,
on occasions of of goodness.
Allah commands Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
and Surat Zumr
to give glad tidings to my servants.
Those who listen
to whatever is said,
and they
follow the best of it.
Meaning not people who are trying to cherry
pick and nitpick stuff that they disagree with
or stuff that they can, you know, have
something to say about.
There's nobody whose speech is perfect after the
Rasool
and there's no book that's perfect except for
the Quran.
So there are a certain amount of things
you're always gonna disagree with with everybody
and with everything
that you read and everything that you hear
And it's a,
characteristic
of being a good servant and a good
slave of Allah Ta'ala
that when you hear something being said
that you not fixate on what's wrong with
it, but you fixate on what's right with
it.
That being said, I mean, fine. If someone
is gonna get up and say something, like,
unacceptable,
someone's gonna get up and say, well, you
should say Amin out loud after the fatah
has done, and you don't say amen out.
You follow the masalik of not saying it
out loud. You can say it's okay. That's
his that's his that's his school that he
follows, and that's also there's khair in it
as well. That's fine. Someone's gonna get up
and say, well, we're gonna worship 2 gods
today instead of 1, or I'm a Nabi
or something crazy like that. Right? That's those
are the exception, though. The mind fixates on
the exception, doesn't understand the rule. The rule
is the majority of things people do and
say that we disagree with are not of
that nature.
A majority of things are really not of
that nature. There's a lot of stuff we
disagree. There's a lot of stuff that that
people disagree with one another about. About. But
there are things that, you know, you just
you have to understand it's not that big
of a deal. You don't fixate on it.
You fixate on what's good. Why? Because that's
how you're going to become a better person.
Your practice of deen is supposed to be
practical. It's not abstract. You and I are
not like,
gods that are making up our own religion
or that are there to explain religion to
everybody. You and I are slaves
that are
primarily charged with getting ourselves to Jannah.
And so it's a good it's a good
trait to to hear what's good in everything,
to hear what's good in everything. Sometimes an
ignorant person who has no idea what they're
talking about will say something to you, but
you can even find some good in in
in what they're saying.
You can even find some good in what
they're saying. This is the ulama. They they
always say, you see you see the great
ulama in the past when they write about
their lives. They'll say one time someone said
this to me and that to me. Imam
al Ghazali. Right? Imam al Ghazali got jacked
by a brigand.
They robbed him. They took everything he had
And he pleaded with them, don't take my
books. Right? Nowadays, you can buy books on
the store and buy them online, photocopy, PDF.
But still, if someone took my books, I'd
be upset.
Like, very upset.
Like, not good. Very upset. Right? Don't don't
I don't even loan my books out to
people, you know.
That's how upset I'd be. But, you know,
if I lose them, they're all printed. They're
out they're editions that you can get them
reprinted even if they're out of print. Right?
In those days, they used to copy the
books by hand and the copyists this was
actually one of the things that they used
to do because now, the only thing that
a scholar can do
as a job in America,
except with very few exceptions is like either,
you know, it's basically like being imam in
a masjid. Right? So being imam in a
masjid is very like a PR
type of job.
You know, you understand what I'm saying? So
So there's a lot of, like, not scholarly
work that you do with being an imam.
So you'll say something. You'll be like, you
know, like, whatever. For the 20th times, you
know, I'll I'll read you
know, and someone will give the correction.
It's okay. It's in a different terai. You
know? You you guys should come to Tajiri
class. Your will tell you all about it.
You understand?
But, those are not Ilmi type pursuits. So
they actually used to have Ilmi occupations for
the scholars. They used to have intellectual and
and academic occupation. So one of them is
that they would pay them to copy books,
right? And so when a scholar copies a
book by hand, it's not like a Xerox
machine,
Right? The scholar, when they're copying the book,
they're editing it. Right? If there's a word
that that's, like,
a little bit different or has a different
meaning, they'll write between the lines. They'll write
this is means this, doesn't mean that. Each
each copy a copyist, a good copyist, his
copy of a book is like a work
of art.
And in fact, the interesting thing is majority
of,
the books of the Muslim tradition,
over 95% of them, 90% of them, maybe
85% if you want a conservative estimate, but
not much more than that. It's still in
manuscript form. It's not actually printed.
Right? And when the people nowadays take the
manuscripts and type them up into the computer,
they're utterly horrible. They're full of mistakes. They're
completely full of mistakes. There's not even a
good copy of Sahih Bukhari, to be honest
with you. The king the king of Saudi
Arabia,
the past kings of Saudi Arabia, for whatever
other faults they may have had. I'm not
endorsing someone politically but one of the things
they threw a lot of money out this
project to
to what you call
publish the the the, the Quran,
in a very in a very good way,
a professionally edited way. And there are a
couple of other editions from from Cairo, from
Damascus
that are that well edited of the Quran.
But what what's the problem now? Because everything
is typed up in machine. You'll notice the
mushaf. If you open it up, it's not
a machine print. It's a lithograph. It's actually
handwritten, and they just take they make, they
carve plates, and they just print those plates.
But it's handwritten to this day. Why? Because
a person,
who's a katib, a scribe, right, a trained
scribe
will be better at catching mistakes than a
typist who's just typing stuff up. So it's
very difficult to get good editions of books.
There are very few books that have good
editions. Any serious scholarship,
you have to go and you have to
find different manuscript copies of the the,
the work that you're you're using, and you
have to then,
check them against each other. And you have
to,
you know, you'll you'll see variance between them,
etcetera, etcetera. It's not an easy
it's not an easy task. But at any
rate, coming back to we've gone too far
off on the tangent. Ghazali has all these
books, basically. He's moving
from, from Tuz,
in Iran where he's from, to Baghdad,
because he receives this,
you know, position in the Madras Aliramiyah.
And so he has all of his books
with him. He probably copied by hand. He
probably has copious notes in all of them.
It's every book is like a work of
art. So he gets jacked. He gets robbed
by a brigand, right?
So what is what is the what is
he telling him? He says, listen,
the other stuff, gold, silver, take it. I'll
give it to you. Don't don't worry about
it. Okay? But please just leave my books.
All my knowledge is in the books. And
so the brigand laughs at him. He says,
what kind of knowledge is this that a
man can steal it and it's gone like
that? That's not knowledge. That's like you know
knowledge should be something you carry with you
and he laughed at him. He took his
books, you know. So what did Rasal Ali
say? He said I learned a lesson from
that. After that day, every every darsa I
read, I would memorize it. Right? Which is
the classical way of the ulama, the old
way of the ulama is that they used
to memorize their books. Right? So he said
I've made sure just to memorize everything because
I didn't know if I'm gonna be able
to keep my books or not. Okay? If
it was me, I'd be like, oh my
god. This man just stole my books. You
understand what I'm saying? I would be crying
about it for the whole rest of my
life. I had this edition of this, I
had this edition of that. Why what's the
difference? Right?
The ones who hear something what's said and
they follow or they gain or they benefit
from the best of it. Right? That guy
just jacked his books. But, you know, you
don't see him writing in his books that,
oh, my books got stolen. Oh, this, oh,
that. I hope the guy goes to *.
Please, you know, like, whatever, let's go. You
know, like Julius Caesar, what did Julius Caesar
do? He got like, he got held
captive by pirates,
you know, and so they paid the ransom
and freed him. And then he was a
rich kid, he had a lot of money
from wealthy families, so he raised a private
army, went and found all the pirates and
killed them. I would have done something like
that because that's the kind of people that's
the kind of people I am and maybe
some of us are that's the kind of
people we are, you know. But what is
this? They're not concerned with this. What happens
if you take revenge from someone in this
world? What's the point? Allah is gonna take
revenge from them eventually anyway. You have to
get yourself to Jannah. Right? Killing pirates and,
like, taking it's not gonna get you to
Jannah. It's just, like, a waste of time
while you have a set number of things
you have to get done in this world.
Easier said than done, admittedly. I'm not, you
know, I'm just kept passing the message on.
I'm not claiming. I told you myself if
it was me, that's what I probably would
have done if I had the ability. Right?
But that's the difference between those people and
our you know, those people and us. That's
why people read Ghazali's books and they don't
read mine. Otherwise, if I was that good,
maybe my you know, I'd have something important
to contribute
as well. But,
you know, the the ulama, the people of
this tradition, that's the the the the far
end of it is that even somebody who's
like a completely horrible person, a bad person,
when they say something to you, you can
always benefit from it. You can always benefit
from it. And really, he actually benefited from
it.
He actually just he actually changed his life.
Someone robbed him, and it changed his life
for the better.
And that's an ability that we have to
work on. It's it's something we have to
work on.
It says that Allah ta'ala
regarding the believers, Allah gives them glad tidings,
about his rahmah, about his mercy, and his
that he's pleased with them and about, his
gardens,
in which there will be
an ever abiding,
blessing from Allah Ta'ala or ever abiding blessings
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Meaning what? Giving basharah, giving glad tidings to
people is a good thing.
Allah ta'ala first commanded we first the first
I already read is Allah commanding his rasool
to giving, to give to give glad tidings
to people,
and then he himself gives glad tidings to
to the people in this ayah.
Allah Ta'ala says,
in Surah
So then he tells the believer
believers again, take this glad tiding, take this
good news
of Jannah, of the garden that you were
promised that you were promised by Allah
The point of your
Islam and
fasting and Iritikaf
and like everyone, you know, the Imam yelling
at you not to watch TV and listen
to music and not to eat haram food
and all this other stuff. It's not there.
Right?
We didn't send this Quran upon you, You
Muhammad, so that Alaykasa'at
wa salam so that
to ruin your life and to like ruin
your fun and like all your friends are
having fun and you're just not having any
fun because you're Muslim, You know, that's not
what that's not what the point of all
of this is, right? So take glad tidings
that there will be a day you'll be
trust me, you'll have fun. You'll be partying,
right? The pious people will be partying even
more than you. The people of the guy
weird guy with the beard always praying salat
and, like, look like you have no friends
and nothing. You'll see you'll be partying like
a G on that day. It's you'll be
like, what? You how come you're not supposed
to be like, no, that's that's gonna be
that's different. Right? So take glad tidings. There's
something there's something good in store for you.
It's not all just going down the drain
like, you know, like water, like being flushed
in the toilet or whatever. There's something that
this is going toward building something.
Allah Ta'ala says
that he gave the glad tidings to say,
no Ibrahim alayhis salaatul Islam
about Sayidna Ismael Alaihi Salaam.
Right? Munarif, what's the what's the basharah for
Ismael is bibhuramil halim, and what's the basharah
for Sayyidina Ishaq? Ulaim. Ulaim and Alim. Right?
Halim means like
a person of forbearance.
Right? Okay. You guys are gonna probably think
this is inappropriate, but I'm going somewhere with
it. Okay? So just bear witness. Bear bear
with me, you know? Have you ever had
the dish of Desi people and non Desi
people? The dish Desi people make called halim.
Have you ever had it before?
What's in it?
Everything. Everything.
Right? Like, it's just it's a very well
put together dish. There's, like, meat, there's
flour, there's,
what you call
wheat. There's,
barley. There's there's all kinds of stuff in
it. Right? It's a good mix of everything.
And when you taste it, you're like, that's
pretty good.
Right? I don't know this for a fact,
but I suspect that that's
that's why somebody would like an advanced, like,
lexical understanding
named the dish that because that's what hilm
is. Hilm means forbearance but it means being
a person who like you, you consider everything
all, you know, you're
you're a well balanced person, well put together
person, you know. So hilm is the the
the
the the emblem
as it were with
for the fitra.
That
and the people of his line will be
people of fitra. They will be people of
wholeness and
of like perfected humanity.
Right? And that's who the Nabi is,
People who are happy, you know, someone who
is happy, someone who's a good father, someone
who's a dutiful son, someone who is dutiful
to his elders, someone who's merciful to his
younger people,
somebody who, is, you know, happy in times
of happiness and sad in times of sadness,
who knows when to pull it together and
when it's time to stand and fight, who
knows when it's time time, you know, time
to let things go. He's just this,
a a a complete complete human
person, you know.
Moana A'raf was talking yesterday about about the
nabi being ummi, being being ummi, meaning what,
of the aboriginal nature, of being from the
mother, just like it's just a full human
being. Right? That's the superiority of the Messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Whereas the
that we gave we gave
Bashar,
for the, prophet,
that he is a
a knowledgeable young man, a young man possessed
a vast amounts of knowledge, which is the
the trait and the characteristic of Banu and
their Anbiya. And it's a good characteristic,
right? That's the difference. This is why the
Quran is revealed little by little, verbally, orally.
It's a Quran. It's a recitation before it's
a kitab to the prophet
and its main mode of preservation is oral.
It's not
it's not
through the, the mushaf.
This is a just for your intellectual edification,
this is not like me giving a fatwa,
but Imam Malik,
one of the things he considered it to
be makruh and this is not the madhab
doesn't give fatwa on this but he personally
considered it makruh for people when they're sitting
waiting for salat to read from the musthaf.
Why? Because the Sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala anhu used
to read,
orally, perhaps half of them were were not
people who knew how to read in the
first
place. Right? It's not a recommendation to be
illiterate, but the the point is is what?
Is that that's the nature of this revelation.
Whereas the revelation of Sayidina Musa
it comes all at one time in set
form and it's written.
Right? The the tablets are written tablets and
they're received at one time. Why? Because that
is the the civilization of, the hulam alim,
the the the the the boy who's possessed
of knowledge. Whereas this is the civilization of
the hulam halim, the boy who is possessed
of complete character, of full character.
And and, you know, that's why, you know,
that's why you see,
you know, you see the of
with Banu
Isa, someone who has never married, someone who
doesn't even have a father,
somebody who,
you know, it's it's it's it's it's like
extreme in some sense.
Whereas the prophet
everything about his nubuah is moderate.
Obviously, when we say extreme about saying that
Isa, it's not we don't say it in
a bad way. It's extremely good, but it
it's something that shows, like, an extreme detachment
from this world, which is a good thing.
But that's not the model that this prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was working on. At
any rate, Allah ta'ala says
that we gave Sayna Ibrahim
to Islam the glad tidings of a a
a a a a a a son who
is complete in his character
and and full in his character.
You know, Allah Ta'ala says in Surat Hud,
That Allah
gives the glad tidings,
to Sayna Ibrahim, alayhis
salam, 2
before,
and his wife Saydas Sarah alayhi salam is
standing in the door
and she is watching this. The angels give
the glad tidings to,
to Ibrahim
of his son Ishaq.
And,
she she laughed. She let let out a
laugh. Why? Because it was difficult for her
to believe that she says so old,
you know, approaching a 100 years and her
husband is over a 100 years old or
near a 100 years old as well. And
how are they gonna have how are they
going to have a child?
And,
but Allah gave the glad tidings of Ishaq.
Right? And it's interesting. Right?
In Hebrew,
and and and to some degree in Arabic
also. Right? In Arabic, there is some some
some places where the get,
interdisposed with one another because they're very similar
letters. Right?
And in in Hebrew, it's, like, even more
than that. Sin, sad, bad,
all of them, they kind of make the
rounds,
you know, through each other.
And so is actually
has to do with laughter. Right? It's the
the word the the word means, in Arabic
at least, would mean to make someone laugh.
Right?
And that's what the the the the the
the the meaning of the name is,
is. Right? It's
means he he laughs In in in in
in Hebrew, it means he laughs.
And it's it's somehow connected to the glad
tidings that that that that said said that
Sara
accepted and she could barely contain her so
he could barely believe it.
And and in another place in the Quran,
she's reminded by the angels that don't
don't don't think it's not possible. Allah can
do whatever he
wants. And so we gave her the glad
tidings of who? Of Sayyidna Ihsa and then
after him Sayyidna Yaqub
will also be a nabi,
who will also be a Nabi. And then
after him, Sayna Yusuf
and the entire Banu Israel,
from that lineage. Masha'Allah. It's a it comes
in a after the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam that banu Israil.
Right? From the time of Ya'qub, who is
Israel?
Israel is the name of Ya'qub,
alayhis salaam, that from his time all the
way until the time of Sayna Isa Banu
Sura'il was not without a nabi. There were
one would die and Allah would elevate another
person to that to the state to his
station. And sometimes there'd be 2 or 3
or several Anbiya at the same time. And
so this is a great bashalah as well.
These are 2 great lines that that that
Sayyidina Ibrahim was given and it's a bashalah
that Sayyidina Ibrahim has given as well.
Allah Ta'ala gave him the glad tidings of
that.
Allah
the angels called out to Zakaria
alayhis salam,
while he was standing and praying in his
prayer niche.
And the angels called out to him and
said, Allah gives you the glad tidings of
the Yahya, the son Yahya.
Ishaq
the younger. Isma'il is the elder. Yeah. Because
when we get the reply time first time,
he was, you know,
and then he mentioned that Isaac is laughing.
No. That wasn't the first one. No.
It's the second one.
Allah gives glad tidings to say that Mariam
Alaihi Salam that Allah
gives you glad tidings of his word, a
word who comes from him from him whose
name is
Sayna'issa Alaihisattu Islam, the Messiah, the Anointed One.
Now what does it mean? What does it
mean to
the Christians that
say is the word of
God. And what does it mean to us?
Right? To them, they interpret it to mean
the word of God,
as being right. In the beginning, there was
the word. Right? And the word was with
god and the word was god. They they
considered the word this is like
a very kind of neoplatonic
Greek
way of starting
what should be a Semitic revelation. But the
idea is that we have this concept
in our tradition that the Quran is a,
a sifa. It's an attribute of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, the uncreated speech of Allah
ta'ala, which strangely enough and ironically
kind of as a show of how
convoluted
the the the logic is, the Muslim Greek
logicians, they said that it's impossible for the
Quran to be the word of God. It
has to be a creation. The word word
of God has to be used metaphorically because
how can an attribute of the Lord be
bound up in books and on paper?
And we say that what the paper is,
the book, and the word, the sound, that's
not what the attribute of Allah is. It's
the effect that you invoke
when you read it.
And so the Ales Sunnah wal Jama'ah consider
the Quran to be an attribute of Allah
So here you have
the same argument that's being made that the
word is God, that the word is somehow
an attribute of Allah
and saying that is the word of God,
so he must be also an attribute of
Allah In fact, they say he is God,
but it's because
because if they were a little bit more
sophisticated in their theology, they would have come
to a formulation like this, which would have
still been wrong, but it would have been
more difficult to get to why it's wrong.
But at any rate, you,
see then from the Muslim point of view
that we also say that
is a word of Allah Ta'ala by the
Nas by the text of the Quran. But
what do we mean? Right? We
mean that verily the affair of Allah ta'ala
is is nothing but if he wishes something
to happen, he says to it be and
it is. And that's the word of Allah
that sayna
is not.
A direct intervention by Allah ta'ala. Obviously, everything
is direct intervention from Allah ta'ala but certain
things happen according to a set pattern and
then every now and then Allah ta'ala
breaks the pattern.
Allah breaks the pattern just to show, hey,
I'm the one in control, you know, to
the people who want to, you know, who
want to see that to confirm to them
that he's in control. He can do whatever
he wants whenever he wants to do it.
Well, Ayatul Filbabi Kathiratumma'aluma
and there's so many Imam Nawi continues. So
there's so many Ayat regarding the
the glad tidings that are given every which
way in the Quran.
They're numerous and they're well known.
And since as far as the Hadith regarding
the subject, they're also,
very numerous
and very well known.
And from amongst the well authenticated ones and
the rigorously authenticated ones are,
the following.
And Saydina Abi Ibrahim
He said that the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam gave glad tidings to his first
wife, Sayedah Khadida
the one who who who who who gave
spent all she's a wealthy woman. She spent
everything
that she had for the sake of Islam
and she,
you know, spent out, you know, her entire
life for the sake of Islam and she's
the first one who believed in the Prophet
The books will mention this, that the first
person who accepted Islam at the hands of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was Sayna Abu
Bakr.
Right. But the reason they say that is
what? Is because this is part of the
uslub of the Arabs that
that as in a way
to honor the women that you don't mention
their names. Why? Because for them, Haya is
considered a virtue for a woman.
And it's a virtue for a man as
well, but it's a defining virtue for a
woman that she shouldn't be brazen and out
there in front of everybody that she should
be,
have some sort
of bashfulness or reservedness.
This is one of the reasons
that,
the only woman who's mentioned by name in
the Quran is who?
Saydah Mariam alaihis salam. Why? Because she's why
she's mentioned because she's Isa
because it's Isa ibn Mariam. It's Isa the
son of Mariam alayhis salam. And it's repeated
again and again to emphasize that he's
not the son of God, but that he's
the son of Maryam alayhis salam.
And so,
you know, there's a necessity to mention her
name. Obviously, her name is mentioned in in
context other than that, but that's one of
the one of the big reasons why her
name is mentioned because there's a necessity to
do so. Otherwise, from amongst the pious women,
there are many people who are referenced, but
nobody's mentioned by name. And this is something
that our, you know, kind of time and
place that we live in completely
completely trashes this idea and says, oh, this
is patriarchy, and this is this and this
is that. And the fact of the matter
is a woman is a woman, a man
is a man, and a woman is a
woman. To this day, if a woman if
you were to brazenly put her out in
front of people,
what people think and what people say to
themselves, which may not be politically correct, but
it's there on the tongues and in the
minds and the chitchat and the gossip and
the backbiting of everybody is still the same.
We just kind of have a little emperor's
new clothes type concept, you know, that we're
you know, like, okay. It's not PC, so
we're not gonna say that. But,
you know, people are constantly judging women. And
one of the one of the, you know,
one one example of that is, like, for
example, right, this woman, Sarah Palin, who almost
became vice president of America. It was scary.
You guys start thinking all these people make
dua against America. I'm just, like, seeing how
how is this, you know, gonna take form
one day
if someone must have made Tawba before the
elections because, alhamdulillah, it didn't happen. But, you
know,
one thing one thing they one thing they,
went after her about, which I thought was
kind of unfair, it really wasn't her fault.
They said she spent, like, $100,000
on her wardrobe for the campaign.
Why is that not fair?
Because, a, nice clothes are not cheap.
Right? You and I don't have to be
on TV all the time. So, you know,
we don't, you know, we don't, it's not
a consideration for us. I go on TV
maybe more than
a lot of people,
and I don't really care what I look
like when I go on TV. So, you
know, that's the way I get out of
it. But for people who have to be,
you know, there's it's part of their job
that they have to look presentable,
That's something that's not cheap for a man
even. Right? But for a woman in this
country, people are merciless. People are absolutely merciless.
If she wear if if she has a
woman, wears the same suit twice in a
row, the media is going to make a
lampoon out of her. Right?
What is that? What does that mean? That
means this is not a
civilization that actually respects women. Right? This all
this stuff is just a farce. It's not
a civilization that actually respects women,
because,
you know, kind of under the radar, they're
going to, like, reference all these all these
things. They're gonna hold her to a double
standard. She has to to buy literally a
new suit for every engagement she has, and
she's having, like, 3 and 4 engagements in
a day. What is she gonna do about
it? You know? That's not to say that
I'm defending her as a whatever politician. You
can come to your own conclusions about that.
But this is one thing that I thought,
like, it was it was it was kind
of unfair. It was kind of unfair. And
it's a proof that that this idea of,
like, oh, considering and considering that there are
virtues that women embody that are different than
what men embody,
to consider that patriarchy and to consider that
backwards or somehow anti women or whatnot,
is pretty disingenuous.
And this culture also has different values that
they enforce on women even though they claim
that they don't. But it's like the emperor's
new clothes. Right? Oh, the emperor's clothes are
beautiful. Well, he's actually buck naked, you know,
but no one's gonna say it. But the
reality is there, you know,
regardless of what name you give things.
At any rate, say the Khadija
that's why when you read the books of
Sira, they will oftentimes say that the first
person who accepted Islam after the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam is saying Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Let's say Nabu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. But
really it's
and it's very plain to see from the
way the the the sequence of events, the
way that they unfold. So she has a
very high Maqam in this Ummah. She has
a very high Maqam in this Ummah, and
she gave a lot for the sake of
this Ummah. She gave everything, and she loved
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and she knew
that he was, you know, he was who
he was. She may not have known that
he was, you know, the details, but she
knew that this person is like a person
who Allah Ta'ala loves.
Even before the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in
that sense knew it.
And this is evidenced by the Hadith of
Sahih Bukhari
which is really the beginning of Bukhari. The
it's a foreword. But the actual first chapter
of Sahih Bukhari is what?
Is,
the the the the book regard the chapter
regarding how did revelation start. And the prophet
sallallahu alaihi
wasallam receives the revelation,
and he's terrified out of his mind. He
comes back home. He's completely terrified, and he's
shaking literally. He's shaking. It comes in the
hadith that he's he's trembling with fear and
he's trying to process what just happened and
it's overwhelming him. And say the Khadija and
she says, no. This is this is you
this was
Allah giving you his his word.
And she then gives a proof for it.
She gives proofs for it that aren't you
the one when somebody has nothing? You're the
one who they know they can come to
you. You'll give them something. Aren't you the
one when there's a guest and no one
will take care of them? They they can
come to your house and you're the one
who takes care of them. Aren't you the
one that the person who's completely brokenhearted?
You're the one who will lift them up.
Aren't you the one who does this? Aren't
you the one that does that? Says that
Allah
would never humiliate
such a person ever.
Right. Allah would never humiliate you. Why? Because
you do all of these good things. Right?
This is not in you know, it's a
belief in a world and in a universe
of order,
and of of of
positivity
and out of sadism that Allah and this
is one of the things that
that many of our
Christian friends from the Western civilization,
you know, they have this kind of sadistic
outlook, and it's not something it's not being
racist by saying that. Okay? If you look
go to any church in Europe you went
to Europe recently. Right? Are the churches bright
and upbeat and positive
looking? No. There's freaking stone gargoyles on the
outside, and you go inside and there's a
big statue like, and it gives you nightmares.
You know, when you're,
you know, like if you're a kid and
you see that it'll give you nightmares and
there's like weird statues of like all kind
of like weird things. Right? Thank Allah
This masjid is so beautiful. Look at the
masjid. It's so beautiful.
Right? There's nothing like that. There's no statues.
There's nothing to freak you out or to
creep you out over here. There's nothing like
that. You know, we're talking about the chapter
of give people glad tidings. Well, they talk
about also spreading the good news also. But,
you know, you walk into the church, not
good news. They're very heavy looking buildings. Right?
In fact, if you go to if you
go to Istanbul, you'll see the Hagia Sophia,
which is the cathedral
church that was built by the Roman Emperor
Justinian, and you'll see across from it Sultan
Ahmed, his masjid. And both of them are
architecture are very sim similar. One big open
space, only 4 pillars on the inside. But
the Hagia
Sophia, the church looks very heavy,
very squared, sharp edges in the pillars. It's
a very heavy looking stone building.
Whereas if you look at the way that
the
the Sultan Ahmed Masjid is built and the
other Ottoman Turkish Masjids, they're supposed to remind
you of Jannah. So the big gates on
the outside, there's like a big arches and
gates. Right? And they have written on them
hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
and ayahs from the Quran.
Right? Gates that say you've been you you
you were good in this life, so now
enter forever,
which is what which is what what will
be said to the people. Surah al Zumarah.
It's what's gonna be said to the people
when they're entering Jannah that the angels will
welcome them in. It looks so nice. You
wish that this was actually the Jannah you're
going into. You see it. You say you
visualize one day, you know, you'll make it
inshallah by Allah to Allah's Fadu. One day
you'll make it. So you enter inside
and you see the the the pillars are
all rounded.
Right? All the architectural elements are all rounded.
They're not sharp,
and you see that they've cut windows in
the basis of all the domes. And so
when the sun rises, the light goes under
it, and it creates the illusion like the
dome is floating in air.
And it's a completely different, you know, it's,
you know, you'll see many of the masajid,
although in Turkey it's not like this, but
many of the masajid have, like, green carpets
and there's the color green.
Why? Because,
it reminds you it reminds you of what?
It reminds you of Jannah. Right? The Jannah
to the the the the Roza and the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Right? The carpet is
green, you know, and obviously it's not really
grass, but it's it's the you know, these
things were not like random. It wasn't like,
you know, the interior decorator was like, yeah,
green is in this year. Let's you know?
It's something much deeper than that.
And so,
Say the Khadid
gave so much. Allah
Messenger of Allah loved her and Allah loved
her. And He gave her the basharah of
Jannah and He commanded the Prophet to give
her basharah of Jannah. And this hadith is
prophet he gave to her during her life
time, that Allah will give you a a
a house in Jannah, which will be made
out of a large pearl that's hollowed out
from the inside.
It's a large pearl and it will be
chiseled out from the inside.
No one will be screaming in the house.
No no domestic violence, no crazy children, no
irritating relative, none of that. Alright. If your
relatives make it, Allah will make them less
irritating insha Allah. If the children make it,
they'll be behaved. You know, if your children
make it inshallah, Allah make all of our
children make it inshallah, then they'll, you know,
they'll put stuff away after they use it,
you know. You don't have to
you don't
have to yell at them. There'll be no
screaming in the house and,
you know, there'll be no screaming in the
house. And, the, prophet
said that there'll be no there there'll be
no tiredness,
no tiredness in the house. Nobody will ever
feel bad or feel ill or feel sick
or feel weak or any of that stuff.
And
it's a hadith narrated by both by Bukhari
and by Muslim.
Inshallah, this is a very long hadith. Inshallah,
we'll save it until next time. Maybe we'll
stop we'll break 10 minutes early.
Or what time is the the 38. 38.
So, yeah, 18 minutes early Insha'Allah.
And,
we'll go ahead and break early inshallah. Read
some Quran makes them du'a Allah accept from
everybody.