Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyad alSalihin Scrupulousness II.mp4
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Said
he narrates directly from the messenger of Allah
that from the things that I remember from
the messenger of
Allah is the following.
Remember the Hussein
are born
in Madina So they're less than 10
is that he said, leave that thing which
causes you doubt for that thing that doesn't
cause you doubt.
So it's a very interesting narrated
by
He had a slave boy. He had a
slave boy with which he used to have
an interesting arrangement.
The arrangement was this, that
the the slave boy would
work. He would just do free enterprise,
essentially. He's too smart to, you know, sweep
the floors and work the fields. So he
said, go out and just do your business,
and then you give me a certain portion
of what you earn every day.
And, the rest of it, however much money
you earn, you you can keep. This is
a very, like,
republican type of arrangement that they have. So
this was this was from the beginning of
in the beginning of Islam.
And so what happens is that both Sayna
Abu Bakr and and his slaves,
including the slave, they became Muslims then after
the advent of
Islam. And so what happens is that,
what happens is that one day,
from the haraj, from that, like, daily
from that daily price that or daily fee
or whatever that he would bring to Sayid
Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. And this is
this is actually a good thing. This is
actually considered to be
an honor for the slaves. It's much easier
than doing backbreaking labor or whatever. It's much
easier
convenience. A more convenient arrangement.
So from the thing that the slave used
to bring, Sayed Abu Bakr,
he brought him some food one day
and so, you know, when he was done
eating,
the
the the slave boy asks him, do you
know what that was you just ate? And
so Abu Bakr says,
no, tell me. Umahu, what is it? And
so he says, I used to do fortune
telling.
This this is an interesting word.
Right?
The the word for a temple priest
in Judaism
is kohin. Right? You have you have this
name kohin amongst Jews. Right? It's not like
a temple priest. So, you know,
it's a priestly family
from the line of Sinha'un alayhis salam, and
they have special rules regarding them. The rest
of the Jews, they trace their lineage
through the mother in rabbinic Judaism.
This is a new form. This happens after
Sinai 'eighty's alaihis salam. It's kind of a.
Them.
The original the original lineage was traced like
the lineage of the Arabs through the father.
And so the Cohen priest starts the only
Jews that still keep their lineage from their
father's side. In order to be a priest,
you have to be a priest from your
father's line, not from your mother's line. At
any rate, it's a cognate. It's a cognate.
It's the same word the word that they
use for priest.
So to the Arabs, though, the word kahim
means
means what? Like a soothsayer.
Because what do they do? They go into
the temple. They make the sacrifice, and they
say, the will of God is this and
that today.
And so,
amongst the Arabs, it was considered to be
kind of, like wishy washy. It wasn't necessarily
something they respected completely.
Although the person in their kind of it's
kind of like here, you know, the people
don't think that psychic friends network, you know,
goes out of business and they joke and
they say, oh, if they were so psychic,
they should have been able to foretell that
the business wasn't gonna work. But still, you
have people calling them. You have the president
is calling them and senators and congresspeople and
super rich people still are kinda privately it's
a little private shamed to call and ask
about these types of things.
So it's kind of like that in Jahiliya.
To say someone is a kahuna means he's
kind of like halfway mad and he's kind
of a weirdo.
But privately, they used to go to these
people and consult with them.
So he said, I used to and that
was one of the allegations they made against
the prophet
that he is a he's just a soothsayer.
And so this young man, he says, I
used to do I used to be a
fortune teller. I used to do
that, and so this this man came to
me and I told this fortune to him
in Jahiliya. I did the I was I
was I did the Cohen thing with him
in Jahiliyah,
and I I I said that you owe
me the money for it, you know, the
the fee for it. And so he said,
okay. So today, I saw him again. And
he said, I used to be really good
at fortune telling,
except for.
He said that I used to be really
good at people really believed me and trusted
me when I would tell them things, except
for I was just making it all up.
So I was just messing with them. I
was just messing with them.
This is, but anyway,
this guy really used to trust me, and
I used to just mess with him.
And so today, he he saw me again,
and he brought me the price for the
fortune telling that I did for him in
Jahiliya.
And so what what is the scene? The
scene is obviously said that Abu Bakr,
a
man of great piety is also a. He's
a person who understands the deen. Right? So
what does he do immediately? He sticks his
hand in his throat and he vomits all
the food out. He threw all the food
out. It says in the hadith,
he literally vomited everything he could out of
his,
out of his stomach.
That's the end of the hadith. Meaning what?
He knew that the
the the the food that he had
in mind was from haram.
It's from Batim. The first of all, fortune
telling is Haram.
2nd of all, lying is Haram.
You know you know, and taking money from
somebody
based on a lie or based on something
that's haram itself is also haram. So he
didn't want that inside of himself. So what
did he do? He,
he he literally vomited out everything he ate.
Now without getting into too much of a
technical discussion because it's not a fit class,
we'll cover all of these things in fit
class in in great detail in
Just one of the benefits of reading the
the,
you know, chapter by chapter
is that you can
have discussions
which are not based on context because what
happens when, you know, there's certain trigger issues
in every masjid that everybody gets into a
fight about, You know, if you talk about
moon signing on the 27th of Shaban, 28th
of Shaban, yes, obviously, there's going to be
a big fight about it. If you read
the books of Sharia and it's like just
some random, you know, Tuesday and then, you
know,
then nobody cares because Eid is so far
away and whatever so far. So you can
have a calm and cool discussion
because nobody brought it up to beat another
person. It's just where we are in the
book.
So without getting into the technical discussions about
the the issue,
this is a great deal also because the
chapter has to do with what with scrupulousness.
This is a great deal about
the fact that a person's scrupulousness and scrupulousness
with regards to the things that they eat
and drink. They have to be very high.
It's something we have not taken seriously.
Something we haven't taken seriously. The person is
concerned, sometimes even more concerned. Okay. If I
go to Starbucks
and, you know, drink a cappuccino,
I'm gonna go to * because I'm supporting
the Zionist occupation,
which it may be true or may not
be true. Right? The the CEO of Starbucks.
I'm from Seattle.
His name is, what's his name again?
I forget because I forget things a lot.
But, the CEO of of of Starbucks,
it's probably a blessing that I forgot his
name. At any rate, he he is a
a a a rabid supporter of Israel. He's
a rabid supporter of Israel. Right?
And, I I remember, like, during Sonix games,
it's probably why took the Sonix away from
us. It's because during he do stupid things
like this during Sonix game at halftime.
They're like bombing the the they're bombing Janine,
you know, right after 9:11.
And so they they, he he put out
like a big banner saying we stand with
you in Israel, we support you. You don't
need support, you're bombing on people, it defensives
people in the stone age. You don't need
a new support, you're a bully.
Right? And so, like, you know, things like
so they say, oh, if we buy something
from Starbucks, we're gonna go to *. The
fact of the matter is he's an employee
of the corporation and he definitely draws a
salary from it, but it's not his corp
it's not his corporation.
A and b, even if it was his,
anyone who studies fiqh knows that it's permissible
to do a transaction between 2 people and
taradi, even if the person
is, you know, horrible in every way, shape,
and form, you know. But if you're doing
something permissible with another person, that's permissible.
Okay. Fine. Long term, if you're giving, you
know, bad people in business, you there's an
understanding that they're gonna make money. But technically,
it's not haram.
The things that are technically haram receive priority
over the things that are technically not haram
even though there are certain permissible things that
a person should be careful not to do,
that a person should be careful not to
do. Then for example, I need to give
the examples. What do you mean permissible things
you shouldn't do? Is this permissible for a
man to give the
Right? When no one would wanna do that.
I actually gave that example one place. Some
sister wrote in the comments, yeah, she's back
in every program and said, Sheikh, there's sisters
here. You shouldn't say stuff like this. This
is bad. I don't mean maybe it is.
Maybe she was bad. Maybe I should have
said it. But at least the point the
point got driven home. They understand that people
understand. Not everything is permissible as worth doing
because so many people are less permissible, shit,
it's
good. But people have a lot of sensitivity
regarding certain things that are important, but they
may be of a lower priority.
They have less sense they have less sense
sensibility about things that are much higher priority.
See what does Said Abu Bakr Sadegh radiAllahu
ta'alen do? He did something that many of
us would consider extreme, which is what? He
stuck his hand in his his his story
and he the the food out. And it's
not because it's it it goes even beyond.
It goes beyond halal and haram. Why? Because
he ate the food he didn't know. Right?
They all knew at this point, this much,
that if you didn't intend not to do
something bad, you're not gonna get to sin
for it. But there's a level deeper than
that. What is the level? The understanding that
haram is like a poison. It really will
it will hurt you. It will harm you.
It will harm your prayers. It will harm
your reading of the Quran. It will harm
your your your mental abilities.
It will harm everything of everything. It will
deduct from your good things, and it will
increase in your bad things. It will be
an incitement. It will go to you and
prod you onto,
doing haram things even despite yourself, whether you
want to or not. So he understood that.
He said, I don't want that inside of
me. You know, so he he took it
out just like a person would like a
snake bite, suck the poison and spit out
the poison from the snake bite. He got
rid of it and left right away without
skipping a beat. Right? This is a a
really, I think, an important reminder to us
when with what we eat and drink literally
and what we earn. We have to be
very careful about that. That there shouldn't be
any haram in what we've earned. There shouldn't
be any any any sort of,
deception
in what we earn. There shouldn't be anything
questionable in what we earn and what we
eat. It's literally what we eat. There shouldn't
be anything questionable in those. That's not a
joke. It's for real. Obviously, the have different
opinions about different things. So different people will
take different opinions that's correct for whatever reason
it may be. But that being said, this
is a chapter regarding.
Maybe you could say, okay. I believe such
and such thing is halal, but I don't
wanna mess with it myself. I don't wanna
mess with it with my family. Do you
have a piano? What's the worst thing that
could happen? You know, if it turns out
that McDonald's was halal and people like me
are just,
you know, just trying to make our own
business and make our own,
career out of scaring people and, you know,
I said I knew it. He's crazy. I
knew it was crazy. And now in Africa,
I know he's What's gonna happen?
We'll reward
you because you said,
We feared you in this world and because
of,
you know, we abstain from it because there
were a set of people who thought maybe
they know what they're talking about. Right? It'll
be a benefit to you anyway.
Right? Whereas if it's the other way around,
it's gonna be horrible for all of us.
Now this line of reasoning is not a
legalistic line of reasoning because if you take
this line of reasoning,
then a person will just have to shut
themselves in a cave because there's somebody who
said everything is halal and there's someone who
says everything is halal. And so if anything
anyone ever said is halal, anyone just took
took that and you said, okay, I'm gonna
be cautious about it. Maybe you might die
because you won't be able to eat anything
or drink water anymore or
whatever. But at the same
time, the point of this hadith or what
I wanted to bring up with this hadith
hadith very specifically
is that it it's the the the things
that you eat and drink, the things that
you consume are primary
an issue of primary importance.
There's certain things that are more important than
other things. This is more important than a
lot of other things that a person thinks
about when they think about with the deen.
It's more important than a lot of things
a lot of things what people take as
important. That's what I wanted to highlight.
A great transmitter of the hadith of the
prophet and
the great as well. So when I read
a little bit differently,
right, that's the that's the Qurah transmitted by
Nafir. Right?
The we'll call the wife,
both of them are both of them are
students of Nafir.
Nafir is the freed slave of.
So so this Nafir, he marries that who
is not just anyone. Rather he's, you know,
when in the Arab custom
when a family freed a slave, that slave
becomes a member of the family.
They have something called. This is something they
used to do in the beginning of Islam.
Say they know, for example, he's a Persian.
Right? But he has with one of the
tribes of the Arabs. Right? All the, you
know, in in the in the first times
of Islam, they literally used to accept new
converts into their tribes to the point where
forget about freed slaves, even somebody
takes Islam, takes to have that at the
hands of somebody. They used to accept this
person, and this person now becomes a member
of the family, which is very unfortunate that
we don't have these customs anymore.
And it's a really big it's a big,
responsibility if somebody accepts Islam at your hands.
Right? It's a big responsibility
for them and it's a big responsibility for
you as well. You should be prepared for
that as well. You should accept them into
your family. You should think about, okay, this
person needs a job. This person needs to
get married. This person needs to straighten out
their life. How can we help them? Now
obviously, if somebody doesn't wanna be helped, you
can't help them.
But there are a lot of people who
wanna be helped and they need somebody to
help them, and they're human beings as well,
which means they're gonna screw up along the
way. So just like we would be patient
with our own family, we would be patient
with them, this is what the Arabs did
when people accepted Islam, and it was a
a source of strength for Islam actually. It
was a source of benefit. This is one
of the things people say, oh, you know,
Islam, you forget about the culture and this
and that. Islam is Islam. Forget about your
culture, your background, you're just that and the
other thing. No. It's not like that. Your
culture, your background, your family, your name, your
lineage, all of these things are a source
of strength for everyone.
Don't use them against the deen, use them
for the deen. That's how the the Arabs
did. So Nafir is talking about saying that,
Amr alayhi Allahu Anwun. So amongst the Arabs,
it's as if a man is talking about
his own grandfather because he's a freed slave
of of Abdul Abin Amr. This is something
actually to this day, you know, if you
go to Emirates and Qatar and these places,
the freed slaves of the family, especially the
big rich but ruling families,
I've seen that they still they still live
next to each other even though the, you
know, you may have a man, his father
freed,
the father of the guy who's sitting next
to him. But to this day, when they
build a house, they'll build a house with
their freed slaves. When they send their sons
to college in America, they'll send the freed
slaves to a college in America. They hang
out with each other and their families do,
you know. And obviously, it doesn't happen always.
It's, you know, very idealistic that it it
you know, for it for it to happen
always. Obviously, there's risk conditions up. People not
not honoring this custom, but it does happen.
It didn't happen in America. It happens in
the Muslim world. It's something you can still
see that to this day. Oftentimes, people, they're
freed slaves, they'll marry their own daughters to
them, especially if they're people of,
of worth and of,
of of status. So so when he marries
it, it's
as if, you know, it's the closest thing
without being so, it's the closest thing to
not narrating something from his own grandfather because
freed him, taught him, and made him into
the Alim and the great scholar that he
was.
So he said that the the
he was he ruled for for like 8
years.
After the
he's 10 years younger than the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Said Abu Bakr
is 2 years younger than the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam will die at the age
of 63.
Said Abu Bakr completes his 2 years and
also dies at the same age.
And so, Umrah is 10 years younger than
the messenger of Allah
So 2 years and then he'll do his
8 as Khalifa.
And then when he reaches that age also,
he'll also he'll also clock out, so to
speak. And so in those 8 years, he
established such a state. You know, he established
such a state and such a bureaucracy, such
a system. They didn't just rule by, you
know, they didn't rule haphazardly.
He had a very interesting system that he
had, and it was politically very there's a
lot of astuteness in it. So one of
the things that they did was they fixed,
they fixed,
pensions
for different people, for veterans in different battles,
and for, you know, people of different rank
in the state. And so the the the
pension that was fixed for everyone from the
people who made hijra, from the first people
who made hijra in the was
very high it was very high grade in
the in the pension system.
And Saidna Abdullah bin Omar, his
son, he was actually the the in charge
of the bureaucracy of the state. The first
terms that from the Arabs too have a
bureaucracy. They have written records, so and so,
which battles, where they at, when did they
make hijrah, when did they accept Islam, what
are their famay or do they have some,
you know, something good in the record, something
bad in the record? He was the first
one to keep written records, which was almost
unheard of, you know, with the Arabs. And
so said that he was a very key
functionary in the state and he was very
important. He knew exactly what was going on.
They had, like, tabs on everybody. They knew
exactly who's doing what and who's going where,
etcetera. This is one of the reasons why
I would say now,
Amar,
he he is,
stabbed and he's dying.
He's he's dying.
He actually gives to the other,
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from who are are are are are there
too. Make the the choice of who becomes
the next khalifa. He says that my son
also let him sit in your madras. Why?
Because he knows the way the state works.
If you have any question, like, technical question
of, you know, does this province, you know,
make, you know, more,
income than this province, or what's the problem
here that happened in such and such year?
He can dig out the files here because
he keeps all of them. He can dig
out the files and tell you exactly what's
going on. But the condition is that you're
under no circumstance to allow him to be
a candidate to be Khalifa. He forbid them.
And so in in line with that, this
hadith is that he
set as a pension for the the the
the first wave of,
4,000
dirhams. 4,000 dirhams is silver. So dirham is
silver, maybe worth about $5.
So he set for them a pension of
4,000 dirhams, and I assume that this is
yearly.
And so,
but he set for his he set for
his son,
33 and a half 1000
dirhams.
And so it was said to him,
that that this you know, that your son
is also from the He also made Hijra
from.
So
why have you
why have you given him a lower, pay
grade than everybody else in the same pay
grade that he was in? And so he
says what? He says,
I should say. I'm sorry. He said that,
verily,
he made Hijra because his parents made Hijra.
It's not like it was his own choice.
His parents took him with and so he
says he says,
So he he doesn't have the rank of
the person who makes Hijra
on his own. And so but you have
to look at it. You have to see
who is it,
he's doing this to his own son.
Said Omar
was a very harsh person.
But by the time he becomes Khalifa, his
harshness is directed on himself. It's not directed
on other people. You'll see that other people
will come thrash
out
somebody or go go nuts on somebody or
ask to kill them or ask them to
kill them. You'll see him
thrash out somebody or go go nuts on
somebody or ask to kill them or during
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's life, there
are a couple of times He asked for
permission
that give
me permission of
of of strike the neck off of this
right now. But do you remember any story
from his caliphate where he actually he said
come here come here. Bam. You know? No.
There's it doesn't work that way.
Is complete at that time. He's a very
harsh person,
but he keeps reserves his harshness for himself.
And then after that, for his immediate family
so as to be an example to other
people. And after that, the people who are
ruling, the governors and the generals of the
empire. He doesn't subject other people,
other people to it. But this is his
and
he subjected himself to it. This is why
he's a different ruler than other people.
There are other commanders, other conquerors that were
very,
wonderful
people and they're very talented and they're worthy
that Islam in its history, its entire civilization
would boast about these people. That these people
were truly,
people who brought honor to Islam. But the
difference with Sayna Amar was
that he was in every way, shape, and
form, and he learned this from the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
He was a person that did things in
such a way that he minimized conflict and
interest.
Right? Saidah Aluba,
Right? He's the one who, later on, he'll
make the suggestion again. It will be kind
of like a fail, you know? It'll be,
you know, keep it real goes wrong. So
he makes a suggestion, and we'll say, Omar,
he's dying. He says, I have a suggestion.
Why don't you just name Abdul Abdul Amr
Khadifa after you, and it will make it
into you know, you know, and why did
he
also? He didn't just say it because he's
a troublemaker,
but because the idea is it it ensures
the continuity of the state. The state will
keep running on the principles that it's running
with, and people who are in, like, far
flung provinces in Iraq and in in Persia
and in Egypt and in North Africa, they
don't know who's Omar or who's Uthman. They
don't know any of these things. They they're
just accustomed to so and so used to
rule and now his son rules and it's
the same thing that the state is still
running with struggle. Said Nama was so offended
by the said that even the suggestion, he
ordered the people in the room to take
this man out. He says, until I'm dead,
don't let me see his face again.
Why? Because he was he was so offended
by the suggestion,
and he was also afraid that that this
person, if we let him stay here, he
may, you know, work his his arguments in
such a way that he'll make it happen.
That's not how Sayna'allah
radiAllahu ta'ala who used to rule. This is
an important this is an important,
lesson for anybody
who wants to know what taqwa is and
who wants to know what leadership is. That
the first locus of your taqwa and the
first locus of your wala and the first
locus of your leadership that you wanna inflict
on everybody else, it should be you, and
it should be your own family. And not
just your own family, it should first be
you, then you can trouble your wife and
kids about all of these things.
Every one of us should be asked. We
should be the person that we wish to
see in the world. If we wanna do
something for the, you know, for for people's
akhlaq, we should be the ones who tighten
up our akhlaq first. If we wanna do
something for the people, you know, if you
wanna, you know, they say that in Arabic.
The person who himself is missing something, he
cannot give it to anybody else. And this
is something I never ceases to amaze me
how the psychology of the nafs, how the
psychology of the ego is, that so many
people so many people can so shamelessly, ly,
be completely bereft of something. Because then when
they wanna talk about somebody else or say
something about somebody else, they're so quick to
open their mouth and say something and and
and judge people and to look down on
people. Allah made the path for Jannah easy
for us. The path to jahannam is the
path of shaitan. It's the path of.
I'm better than him. You made me out
of fire. You made him out of clay.
Right? The path to is what? Tawad. Right?
It's humility.
Lord was humble for the sake of Allah.
Allah will raise him. He made it so
easy to direct
go on the path to Jannah because he
gave all of us so many imperfections and
so many faults
that nobody ever needs to even worry about
being with the commander. Nobody ever needs to
worry about about being,
arrogant. But the problem is that, you know,
somehow we
it's like an Olympic feat. You know how,
like, you know, you train for so many
years and like one day finally you're on
the podium, they're giving you the gold medal.
Somehow the nafs is still able to, like,
blind itself to the overwhelming
of of
oneself and the person can make it that
day, you know, that they can say, oh,
look. You know, look what's wrong with everybody
else. I you know, implicitly, I'm so good
and I understand. Said, Omar who had that
handled, you
know, properly.
And as they say in another they say
in another,
that Ruwaia that said that Omar alayhi wa
siddin Abdullah bin Omar alayhi wa siddin Abdullah
was looking through the records. And he saw
the he saw the
stipend of Osama bin Zayed. Right? He said
Osama bin Zayed and the
prophet at one point had adopted until the
adoption was was revoked by the Quran. It
was abrogated by the Quran, but still everybody
knew that he was, you know, he was
so close to the messenger of Allah
And so Osama bin Zayed was the son
of him and the son of Parqa al
Habashiya,
the Abyssinian,
woman who was the wet nurse, the mother
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So
both the parents of this child were so
beloved to the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. But he was a young man
also. He wasn't that young. He was maybe
17 or 18 or the time the prophet
passed away, but he was definitely not one
of the elders of the Sahaba. And so
he wasn't there at Badr. He was too
young to be able to participate at Badr.
The highest stipend in the system was what?
It was a stipend that the highest rank,
you know, in the bureaucracy was? A veteran
of Badr, a person who was a veteran
of Badr received the highest, stipend in the
system that was set by Saidah Omar.
So Saidah Abdul Abin Omar looks through the
files and he sees what he what seems
to be a discrepancy.
That Osama bin Zayed received the stipend of
a veteran of Badr even though he wasn't
their Badr.
And so he takes the file to his
father radiAllahu ta'ala anhumah,
and he says he points out this discrepancy.
He says, look, you know, he's receiving he's
a young man, but he's receiving a stipend
of a veteran of Badr. And said, Omar
says to him, he says, don't talk to
me about Osama bin Zayed
because because the messenger of Allah,
loved him more than he loved you, and
he loved his father more than he loved
your father.
That's it. Done.
Look at the amount of the amount of,
control he had on his nose.
It's amazing
who comes to that point and and is
able to do so. Right? Everybody, you know,
everybody this is like
a a a a theme. If you want
to write a book or a novel or
make a movie, a screenplay. You can do
it again and again. It's happened in our
history so many times. A good king and
his son is an imbecile, but he still
wishes, oh, my son will be get be
get better before the end and whatever. And
he says, okay. Make him make him king
after me. And then look what kind of
shenanigans happen afterward. Maybe some of them, they
actually straighten out,
but but
more often than not, it doesn't happen. It's
like it's it's a trope. It happens again
and again. And it's like,
You know, sometimes we're so intelligent, but sometimes
we're just like a goldfish. No long term
memories. Every time you go around the the
fishbowl, it's like a new experience. And you're
like, oh, I didn't think this was gonna
happen. Otherwise, I would have never done it.
So by the whole sensitize, 2000000 years or
3000000 years of human history, god knows, you
know, from before people can read and write.
It's the same things that are happening again
and again and again. And now everybody is
has to learn, you know. So So hadith
of the
prophet,
The happy person is the one who learns
his lesson from somebody else's mistakes.
Who was mentioned from a.
It says that he narrated from a from
the,
3 hadith,
that that that make it to us to
this day.
He says that the messenger of Allah
said
that a slave
will never reach the rank of being amongst
the people of Taqwa.
He will never reach the rank of being
amongst the people of Taqwa with Allah
until he goes through
the the the phase of having given up
that thing that there's nothing wrong with out
of fear
of getting into the thing that there's something
wrong with.
A person will never reach the rank of
the until
he has given up that thing with which
there's nothing wrong in order
to prevent or out of fear of,
going through those things that are wrong.
So,
I mean, it's it's important. Right? We have
to also, like, look through it. Like, people,
like I said, people have to we mentioned
this 2 weeks ago when we had our
last.
They have, like, self defense mechanism.
And so they have all these defense mechanisms.
They throw out text of the book and
of the sunnah, and they misinterpret them. They
misinterpret those texts. That's not what those texts.
You go look at what does it mean
in.
And what does it mean in in the
Quran?
Go look up what the meanings of those
that
a person should never go through any difficulty.
It means that there are certain things you're
gonna wanna do, and you're gonna find a
way to explain to yourself if you really
want to that this is okay. But you
know in your heart or you even feel
in your heart that there's something not okay
about this, you're gonna have to get go
through that phase of having given those things
up. You're gonna have to go through the
phase of, like, seeing something that you're like,
oh, that would be wonderful. That would be
amazing. But maybe x y z thing will
happen because of it. Right? There's so many
temptations about so many different things.
Ask the person who's person who's an addict
of something.
Ask the person who's an alcoholic. There are
people in the Muslim. Maybe there are people
here right now. There are people who come
to read.
They're alcoholics. They're addicted to drugs. They're addicted
to all kinds of different things. All kinds
of different things. Someone is addicted to gambling.
Somebody is addicted to *. Somebody is addicted
to all sorts of different things. Right? Ask
them, how much easier would it have been
to give up something,
right, that you're going to a party with
your friends and then, you know, they're drinking,
but I'm not gonna drink. I never drink.
How much easier would it have been to
do that and not have slipped into
the road of alcoholism by drinking one?
Something that looks so small, it looks innocuous.
Right? Taking 1 puff at, you know,
at a at a at a, you know,
marijuana or God knows what. You know, looking
one time at something that's haram.
That's what it is. That's shaitan gets a
person just by the the glass. I don't
even wanna talk about it because it's something
that we all have so much,
you know, so much
work we need to do about all of
these things. One glance, you know, a person
looks at somebody that they're not supposed to
look at, and that's when shaitan gets you
in the hook. It's just a matter of
pulling a person in, and that person will
do all sorts of things that are shameful,
you know, to themselves and to their family,
to their honor, to the Muslims, to the
prophet
to everybody. Allah, forgive all of us.
All of those things. How much easier is
it just to, like, say, you know what?
This is permissible for me to do, but
I see behind it a road to something
that's not
that's not, like, good. So you know what?
I'm gonna give it up for the sake
of Allah.
Those are the people who are written amongst
Go ask a alcoholics are interesting. When alcoholics
see you as Muslims, see us as Muslims,
they see the beard,
right, they see, you know, the clothes or
whatever. When they see that we're Muslims, they
know. They all know that Muslims don't drink.
Right? At least that they're not
most in the world. Why? Because they're the
ones who've been, Alcoholics are the ones who
hate alcohol the most in the world. Why?
Because they're the ones who've been kind of
stunned by the the bitterness of it. They're
the ones who lost their job. They lost
their children, their friends,
their it. They're the ones who lost their
job. They lost their children, their friends, their
wife, their parents, their family, everybody. Now they're
just alone with them in the bottle, and
they hate it. You know, they go back
to it again and again, but they hate
it so much. They hate it in a
way maybe very few of us are would
be able to understand.
Right? So they come up to you and
they see you. They say, see, old man,
I remember one guy, he was drunk. He
goes, man, you guys don't drink.
I was like I was like, yeah, we
don't drink. He goes, what do you guys
do for fun? And so we get together
and we talk with our friends and, you
know, go out for a walk and eat
food and, you know, yeah. Isn't it obvious,
my shop? Right? We do all these other
things, you know? The guy, you know, he
goes,
yo man, that's not even that's not American.
I said, what are you talking about? There's
like a constitutional amendment banning alcohol. It's still
there. It's it's revoked, but it's still part
of the text of the you know, just
like in the Quran, there are certain but
it's still part of the Quran. Right? You
still gotta read it when you read Salat
al Tawih. So whatever else, you know, it's
still there on the it's still part of
the text of the of the of the
constitution.
I go, there's still dry counties. You can
go there places in America. There's still county
I forget, like, Jack Daniels, I think, the
the the county in Kentucky that they make
it in. It's a dry county. You can't
buy it over. They just make it. You
can't buy it. They have to ship it
out, you know, ship it out to another
state or to the next, you know, several
counties in order in order to buy them.
I said, so that's that's America, man. That's,
like, like, those are lost. Some of them
are more than us are are nearly a
century old. He goes, wow. That's amazing, man.
So one guy one guy
I start to realize so many weird stories
about it. Ask them, you know, how much
would it how much does this mean to
them? That somebody just told them at the
right time, hey, you know, just give up
something, you know, that that that that's not
you know, that you don't think is wrong,
but just out of suspicion that this is
gonna lead to something bigger, something worse. And,
how much would that have benefited? They their
people would give everything. They'd literally give the
shirt off of their back in order to,
go back in time and not take that
first drink and be able to resist it.
And then afterward, if you're not if you're
not,
addicted to it, how easy is it to
resist? It's the easiest thing in the world.
We ask all of us who are suffering
from addiction. Any one of our brothers and
sisters help. It's very difficult. It's very difficult.
It's almost like a superhuman act to be
able to break addiction afterward. Allah give all
of them the help and the aid that
they need in order to overcome this difficulty.
Allah
Inshallah,
you'll notice the is a little bit longer
than usual. Usually, I would have wrapped up
by now. We'll go another 15 minutes because
the salat, everybody
wants to and should stay for the salat.
So inshallah, just renew your
intention and your attention
and inshallah that we benefit. We'll all resinshallah.
Ask,
But the gathering that we all leave from,
forgive
It's a chapter regarding
the the the the pre preference
for staying away from people, from staying away
from people
when times become evil,
or when a person fears
fitna and and and strife
in matters of deen, in matters of religion,
and when a person fears falling into haram
or when a person fears
falling into,
the
into doubtful matters and things
of the like.
Tells his to
the people. Tell the people, run to Allah.
Verily, I'm a I'm a clear and open
warner.
I'm a clear and open warner. So this
is a chapter regarding how to run to
Allah from all of these evils.
Messenger of Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, say,
verily Allah,
he loves,
he loves, 3 qualities in a believer.
He loves 3 qualities in a believer.
He says that he lost that the believer
should
be, god fearing,
and that a believer should be.
Generally speaking, he means rich, but the over
here, the meaning
that's that's
that the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is
is is pointing toward
is not necessarily being rich as in being
like having a $1,000,000,000
But but rich wealth is, you know, having
a lot of money is the
the majaz,
the metaphorical meaning of the word.
The literal meaning of the word is not
needing anybody else, being self sufficient, not needing
anybody else, Not constantly being needy. Being the
hand that gives rather than the hand that
takes, or at least never being the hand
that takes, not being dependent on other people.
So the
slave that is
god fearing
and the slave that is, self sufficient, always
happy with what he has.
Not ever
need is one of 2 things. 1 is
the bodily need, the other is the need
of the heart. You know, somebody is, oh,
man, until I get such and such a
BMW or whatever, I'm gonna die. I'm never
gonna be happy. So, you know, that's something
that no. Just being happy with what you
have. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. I give everyone
of us so much,
that being just happy with what you have
always.
Means what? Means that that, a person who
is
is,
down low,
a person who is
is is not,
a person who's not putting himself out there
all the time. It's another hadith of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the best of
people is the one that when they enter
the majlis, nobody notices that they entered. And
when they leave the majlis, nobody
notices that they they have left. Just to
keep things very low key,
to keep things very low key.
Who's a commentary commentator
of
of Sahih Muslim.
He mentions that it's also narrated,
narrated with the
with the with the with.
They said that a man came to the
messenger of Allah
and he asked him,
which which which which person which of people
is the best
is the most virtuous.
He said, Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam,
a believer who struggles in the path of
Allah,
putting his life on the line and putting
his wealth on the line.
Then the questioner asked, then who? And then
he said,
a person
who stays away from other people in a
valley from amongst the valleys, and all he
does is he worships his lord. And in
another narration,
a person who
fears Allah and,
leaves people
from,
from his evil.
He leaves people from his evil, and he
doesn't subject people to his own evil, which
is also something very important.
Oftentimes,
every you know, people
feel like we have, like, a gift to
give to the world. People should listen to
our message. But sometimes this happens. People who
wanna do something good, they have, like, a
project that they have inside and they're like,
oh, my project is I want to I
don't know, x y z, you know, like,
we're gonna
save
the the seals from starving to death in
so and so province of Canada.
Okay. That's really good. A person does that.
That's a there's reward in it. You know?
But then it, like, grows and takes a
life of its own. And the person says,
well, you don't understand me. I worked my
whole life to save these seals, and you
don't appreciate what I'm doing. You guys are
wasting your time of x y z. And,
you know, you owe me help, and my
whole life I've been doing nobody's helping me.
Everybody's so horrible. Everybody's all evil.
But what happens? A person, like, it accumulates
so much poison inside of their heart because
they're doing good work. It's a trick of
shaitan. A person needs to be very careful.
Doing good work makes you acutely poison inside
your heart for other people. They feel bad
about them, or you think bad about them,
or it it causes
people Right? A person should be very careful
about that. There are many people who are
like that. It comes to the point sometimes,
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
is teaching what is he saying here? He
said if you're if you're
what you're doing is harming other people, it's
a good deed for you just to back
off and do your own thing. Do your
own do your own effort, save the seals
on your own. Don't bother people with your
what you're doing. That this even happened to
the
alayhi
wa ta'ala. Say that Abuza al Rifari radiya
wa ta'ala.
A very jazil Qadr Sahabi.
A Sahabi of very great great and high
rank with Allah and his messenger
He was the person that he when he
accepted Islam, he went in straight to the
Haram in in front of the mushrike and
started denouncing their idols and preaching the deen
out loud. And they beat him senseless until
he almost died.
And so when he came to again, he
started doing the same thing.
They were gonna kill him. And the reason
they didn't kill him, say, not Abbas, who
wasn't even Muslim at that time. He told
the the that if you kill him, he's
from Jafar. It's a tribe of brigands. They're
a tribe of highway robbers.
You know, if you kill him, they'll destroy
every one of your your caravans that pass
through their land. You know? And so he
did it again second time. And so, Sayna
Bafra
saved him the second time, and it was
even more difficulty.
And then afterward, when finally,
that after that, the prophet
said, don't do this again. He also had
this this this thing in him. He had
to, like, say, the half black sledgehammer
pad to knock out punch, you know? So
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he didn't say you're a bad person. He
knew this is coming from a good place,
but he understood his disposition.
And so he gave him. He gave him
advice
at that point. He said he said,
He said if you're ever given, the, chance
to be even a leader over 2 other
people, never do it.
You could you'll you'll totally make, you know,
you'll make ground beef out of people. It's
not they're not gonna be able to handle
leadership as you you have a skill. You
you have a virtue and that's that the
heart shines brightly in your heart so much
so that it doesn't leave any darkness. Everything
is clear for you. But leadership is not
part of that. Right? A person can be
a good person,
doesn't mean that they're good in everything.
Right? A person just because they're, you know,
a good person doesn't mean they have to
be good in there. Someone's like, oh, so
and so. He's sheikh, and all he does,
he sit in his master
teaching Quran, and he never he never says
the hap to, you know, whatever.
Okay. He teaches Quran as a whole. What
did you and I do to our whole
life?
You know, sometimes I'm saying, surprise person,
Maybe Allah's angry with you that you said
something bad about it. You know, if your
if your complaint against other people is that
they're not perfect in every single way, shape,
or form, then that complaint is more hola
that it comes on a person's own nuffs
first before it comes on, on somebody else.
But there's this idea that, and, who
he actually during his reign, says that,
what would happen is that he would say
say things people knew that he would do.
He would, if you ask him, he would
say things very directly.
And so there were some youth in Madia
of Maloa
that were not people of Eda. And so
they would bother,
and so they would say, what about this?
What do you think about that? They would
just say the safest upsetting for no reason.
We get upset and then we become a
scene commotion.
Happened several times. You know, and says, say,
now, if man
who says says to him, he says that,
there's a place I prepared a place for
you. Go. Nobody will bother you over there.
And he lived out his life in seclusion,
in solitude.
And that's okay. There's nothing wrong with that.
There's nothing wrong with that. So a person
never finds themselves unable to shield others from
there, from their own heart. It's okay to,
like, you know, give people a break.
Where the best the best property of a
believer is what? Is land of sheep and
and,
goats,
herds.
Right? The herds of sheeps and goats. You
can subsist on it. You can live off
of it. They reproduce. You drink milk from
it, meat,
etcetera, etcetera. So the best property, there will
come a time as the best property of
a believer will be,
these herding animals
that that they just herd on mountaintops.
When a person herds on mountaintops,
Muwat al Qadr.
Any of the places that the the rain
happens. Right? Qatar is like a like a
like a drop. The places where the rain
falls. Because where the rain falls, that's where
the plants will grow. And so
the the sheep will be able to eat
over there and drink over there. But the
those the best is what? The hurting animals
you have in these places,
that a person runs away to
by
thereby saving their din from fitna.
Right? Again, that doesn't mean, like, everybody do
that right now. Everyone quit and go buy
sheep and goats and things like that, and
run away right now.
But if a person gets to that point,
sometimes it happens.
It happens sometimes.
Weird things have happened in this world. Right?
And those and those look at Spain.
Right? There was a time when the majority
of the population of the Iberian Peninsula was
Muslim.
They literally literally, the Reconquista was like a
holocaust.
In fact, the the you know, I don't
wanna, like, back the holocaust, but we're saying
it was something like that.
Majority of the population of the Iberian Peninsula
is Muslim. What happened to those people? How
many of them were killed? How many of
them were forced to convert? How many of
them were deported?
It's, you know, there's so many lines in
the world that's happened. China
China probably, like, a quarter of its population
was Muslim at one time. The communist took
over. Literally, you know, 2 thirds of the
population is gone. In 10 years, nobody can
count for it. Where did these people go?
Right? Philippines
Philippines was a Muslim country just like Malaysia
and Indonesia is. Right? The Spanish got there.
They they they they opened a branch of
the of the inquisition over there. The literate
force converted to the southern third of the
country. It was the most inaccessible and the
most,
militarily powerful,
amongst the amongst the Filipino people,
and they, they're the only ones who could
resist.
The top 2 thirds, they they destroyed every
other of Islam to the point where the
people don't even you know, they don't know
anything about about the fact that their forefathers
were Muslims for for centuries.
They had no idea about any of it.
Right? It's just that you'll see that in
the, in the museum, you know, in Manila.
There'll be, like, some small mention about it,
and then it's like a a a blink.
It's like it never even happened. Despite the
fact that there are still there's still words
in Tagalog, the the the Filipino language that's
spoken in Manila. There's still words from Arabic
in that language they couldn't get rid of.
For that matter, there's still words in Arabic
and Spanish that they couldn't get rid of.
Right? But what happened to all those people?
Where did they go? What was the what
was the situation?
Generations of people having to live in their
homes and go to mass on Sunday
and eat pork in order not to be
killed from the Reconquista. Literally, people did that.
They kept the prayer and everything in hiding.
There are some families that actually made it
like centuries that they spread, you know, when
the Spanish went to the new world, their
families in Colombia and all of these places
that they were Muslims if they they left
with their Islam. But unfortunately, there are very
few people very few people that they survived
with their Islam.
And that happens, I see that after oftentimes,
actually, I think about that sometimes.
That many of converts, the African American converts,
maybe their forefathers were Muslims, and they made
dua
These people are crazy. They're, you know, they
they're gonna take Islam away from us. They're
forcing us to eat pork and to do
all of these things. I have no idea
how Islam will survive, you Allah. Somehow you're
from it, you make it survive in that
bloodline.
And some people take
in Detroit or Chicago,
like, you know, 100 of years later. Maybe
Allah knows best. That's it. Some, you know,
some of the converts here is the,
the Hispanic converts except Islam. Maybe it was
the Dua of one of their forefathers
that that, you know, somebody in my life,
please let them let them carry iman, you
know, with me. Somebody said that we're gonna
have Hajj this year. So he said, oh,
it's really weird. We went into the and
they were speaking Spanish there. It was really
funny. I said, what are you talking about?
The funny thing is you're speaking Arabic or
speaking English in the. People have been speaking
Spanish in the from the time of the
salaf.
Malik had his own students, many of his
students were Spanish speaking people.
So the it's not some of his students.
So you know this happened. People did this.
And it's something there's a point where things
will break down so badly that it may
be necessary for a person to do that,
that there's no left to love
how to protect us from ever. Seeing days
like that, but there's a sunnah for that
as well. When things become like that, there's
no benefit in mixing with people.
You wanna go and help them and they
end up harming you instead. And there's nowhere
to go, nowhere to turn, nowhere to run,
no resources.
Go. You You and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
you ask him for what you need and
depend on him to fulfill it. All you
have to do is protect the most important
thing Allah gave, which is our deen Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala gives the tawfiq and our
progeny, the tawfiq of living God, Allah, Allah,
Allah,