Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyad alSlihn Not Being A SelfAbsorbed Goon.mp4
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It's a chapter regarding visiting,
visiting,
the sick
and
following,
the
dead the the the deceased to their place
of burial
and praying their funeral prayer, their janaza,
and
staying or standing by their grave and
burying them.
So all of these things are
in
the same bob. The idea being that when
you visit the sick,
there's an inward and outward reason that you
visit them.
The inward and it's important not to confuse
them
and to keep everything in their place.
The inward reason is what?
The outward reason is what? The outward reason
is that you're going to make that person
feel better.
You're going to say a good word to
that person. You will make them happy.
You will make them feel like they're not
alone in their moment of pain, in their
moment moment of suffering.
And it's really important. And there's a lot
of people nowadays. There's perhaps no age that's
more selfish than the one that we're in
right now. If someone is sick and they're
they have to suffer alone and no one
visits them, no one sees them, they'll become
very sad.
And there's no age in which people suffer
more and honestly
in this
in this condition than today.
A person may be in a hospital.
They may have the most state of the
art equipment. They may have the best insurance.
But if you're alone, it it's really horrible.
And
your psychological state has a lot to do
with your outcomes.
Am I wrong? Am I just making that
up? Right? It has a lot to do
with your your outcomes in terms of, you
know, whether you're gonna get better or not,
how long it takes you to get better,
how much pain you feel, how much suffering
you feel.
And,
it's it's really,
it's really, like,
good when good people come and visit a
person.
The inward reason, however, is very different. The
inward reason is that it's a reminder of
death. It's a reminder of where you're going
in life,
that nothing works forever. Everything that goes up
must come down. Everything that that flies high,
has written for all created things
that every every single thing will taste death.
Every single thing will, at some point or
another,
decline,
and it will go back, into the state
of nothingness from once it came.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, even the Yom Kiyama
itself, there will be a time Allah ta'ala,
the trumpet will be blown, everything will be
destroyed. And for some time, that's known in
the elm of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
there will be nothing.
And Allah will create it again just as
a proof or just as a demonstration.
Why he does it? We don't ask why
about Allah. When the hikmas is what? That
it will show us, very clearly that
nothing has an existence that's eternal or that
that has a reality of its own except
for Allah.
And
so visiting the sick is a sign
for you that you can take that that
this person who used to be healthy, who
used to be happy, they're going through pain,
they're going through difficulty,
this is where all of us is are
going.
Now it's really important to not conflate the
2 of them. If you walk into the
room of a sick person with the look
on your face like, oh my god, death
is coming,
then you're not you're not helping them, and
you're not helping yourself.
That's not good. Do not walk into a
into a room
and be like, oh, brother. You know, the
and this and that and the other thing.
And they're like, yo, no. I hopefully, I'll
be out of the hospital next week and
think, no. No. You're gonna, you know, this
and that. Don't do that.
That's for that's inward. That's for you, yourself,
to ponder over.
For your brother, you should give them hope.
You should give them tell them about the
reward of enduring suffering.
Tell them about the reward. Tell them that
that will help you if you need anything.
Do you want something? Can we get you
something that we're there for you? Make them
feel make them feel better. Even someone who's
terminally ill, they know themselves they're gonna die.
Say a good word to them. Remind them
about the mercy of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Remind them about the the the the good
Allah Ta'ala has prepared for the believers. Remind
them that the doctors are not the ones
who choose who dies and when they die,
it's Allah Ta'ala, and they're oftentimes wrong as
well.
Despite the, best education that whatever,
has to offer or, you know, whatever institution
in America or Pakistan or the Caribbean has
to offer. Despite all of those things, Allah
overrules,
their their prognostications
very frequently.
So be positive about it regardless of the
circumstances. And there's an an a different reward
for both of those things. You get both
of them at the same time.
And, you know,
as far as praying the janaza of the
deceased,
as far as,
you know, following the Janaza, honoring the person,
being present at their burial, and all of
those good things.
As far as those things are concerned,
one thing I heard from a rabbi one
time, which is
the meaning is correct and it's filled with
Hikma. He said that in our tradition, we
consider
burying the dead to be one of the
greatest acts of piety.
And the reason he gave for that is
what? Is that the person for whom you're
you're doing a favor, there's no way they
can repay you.
So there is
a diminishing amount of conflict of interest in
it.
That that person, there's almost nothing they can
do to repay you in this world.
And so that's that's also,
something to think about.
Al Baraibnu Al Baraibnu Azib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
narrates
that the messenger of Allah
commanded us to the following.
The messenger of Allah
commanded us to visit the sick
and to follow the jana'is, the funeral prayer
when it happens to pray and then follow
that person to their,
resting place where they're buried.
And that when someone should, sneeze and say
that you should give them the benediction of
And the person who swears an oath by
Allah,
that person,
you should aid him in in in fulfilling
that oath.
The person who swears an oath by Allah,
you should aid him in fulfilling that oath.
So whatever, you know, when somebody,
makes a stands up at whatever the Khalil
Center fundraiser and pledges, I'm gonna give, like,
whatever, $700,000,
Then afterward, help them fulfill that amount.
Don't be don't be like a person who's
don't be like a hater afterward and be
like, well, why did you say that? You're
never gonna this and that. You're not gonna
know. So I know someone. Let's go talk
to them. They'll you know, you'll get 50
from here and you'll get 10 from there
and,
you know, I'll help you with this. You
know, let's sit down and let's map out
how we're gonna do it. I'll help you.
I'll find I'll find I'll I'll take this
much on myself, etcetera, etcetera.
What's the what's the,
result of that?
The result of that is that then people
will feel more confidence in doing good things.
And if they feel more confidence in doing
good things, they'll do more good things.
That we take these things as a collective
duty. That's the culture and the society that
we want to make. Obviously, a person should
be very careful when they when they when
they say that they're gonna do something. When
they swear that they're gonna do something, they
promise they're gonna do something, they should not
take that.
They should not take that,
that that,
promise lightly.
But at the same time, when someone is
gonna do something good, we should be there
for each other. This is part of this
is part of the adab of, of of
of of of that we were there to
help people.
This is one of the
said
about him when he first received the and
he said
I fear for myself.
By Allah, Allah Ta'ala will never humiliate you.
And she named a number
of virtues of the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam because of which Allah Ta'ala would never
humiliate him. And the last in the list
is what? That
you're the one who helps other people,
when they have to go through all the
vicissitudes and difficulties that that always come along
with standing with the Haqq.
That
not only stood with the Haqq himself,
but, like, you know, you you have a
good day, you have a bad day. If
you're if you're having a good day, but
you see someone else did what's right and
because of that, you know, keeping it real
went wrong and they're having a hard time,
then then you should also go to that
person. This is part of piety as well
that you go to that person and you
say, hey. You know, that's I know you're
going through difficulty because you spoke the truth
or because you did what was right or
you, you know, tried to help and it's
backfiring and all that other good stuff. Let
let me help you. You're not alone. Let
me help you. You're not alone. What does
that mean? That means more peoples I mean,
if we wanna, a society in which more
people will speak the truth, if we want
a a society in which more people will,
you know, help one another, if we want
a society in which,
you know, just good things happen,
we have to incentivize the behavior that gets
you to those good things. And this is
a problem. There's a type of quote unquote
hikmah that people have, which is very, very
and people from Muslim countries, unfortunately, are, like,
experts at this. They're very, very good at
looking at their after their own,
concerns,
which is what?
Don't say something in this in this gathering
because if you say something about what's going
on,
it's going to give you difficulty in the
future or people are not gonna like you.
And you're not gonna change anything anyway. And
this is gonna happen. That's gonna happen.
Whereas as an individual, it's true.
Sometimes, speaking the truth is a very little
benefit to a person.
Sometimes, taking a stand is a very little
benefit to a person personally. In fact, there's
no way you can see that there's gonna
be any benefit in it at all.
But there are certain things look. We benefit
from Islam. We benefit from the sacrifices of
our forefathers. We benefited from the sacrifices of
the Sahaba radiAllahu on whom, you know, we
enter the Masjid,
you know, we enter the Masjid without anyone
asking us for a membership, without anyone ask
asking for us for a tithe. We enter
the duros of the ulama without anyone demanding
money for us. One of the things that
ulama find strange is that, you know, even
over here, if you wanna take courses of
study and things like that, there's, like, fees
and
admissions. And and that's something I,
I studied
in so many places with the best of
teachers, and no one took a cent from
me. No one even asked. They found the
the question strange.
When I was in Pakistan, I remember I
actually asked the sheikh of the Madrasa. I
said I said, how much, how much, you
know, should I pay? He's like, I don't
know. Nothing. It's
you know, that's how it is. You don't
pay for this. And I'm like, no. I
don't wanna eat from the money of other
people's
because I have I have enough to pay
for for for my education. He said, I
don't even know what number to tell you.
I said, well, can you do me a
favor? Go talk to the accountant,
for the madrasa and,
you know, see the expenditure and divide it
by the number of students that the expenditure
of the divide it from the by the
number of students and give me a number
monthly, and I'll just give you that much.
So he came back to me with, like,
this
ridiculously low sum. It was, like, 500 rupees,
which at the time now is probably, like,
$5, but at at the time, it was
probably, like, $897,
right, a month,
which is, like, the electric bill and, like,
how much they spend on food because they
used to grow the wheat in the madrasa
itself for the roti and things like that,
how much they spend on salaries and things
like that. It came out to this, like,
super low number that's even for Pakistan purposes,
it's like almost unbelievable.
And so
but that so over here, this institution, nobody
supports them.
People nobody cares. I mean, even that much
even that imagine if if if you have
teachers and they're taking such a meager salary
and that that can be how much it
costs to educate you and people are not
even willing to support that much, it's a
problem. So, okay, I don't you know, our
institutions that we have, some of them, they
take money. They charge tuition and things like
that. It's a necessity. The preservation of the
knowledge of the
the blame of it doesn't go on that
supposedly became money hungry,
because they're not really making that much money
either from charging.
But it goes it goes on the entire
society for not keeping up that that that
that tradition and that spirit, which inshallah we
we can change inshallah, you know, when you
become like the big hospital administrator and you
have like all these rich disciples and whatever
other people are doing, you know, you,
you know, whatever have the big, like,
big big big name clients and whatever. And,
Nabil, whatever you do, you do that too.
Right? But the thing is that that that
coming back to the the the the point,
If we want a society where that stuff
happens, we benefited from that.
We we benefited from
those ulama, not just the teachers that taught
me directly
or the ones that taught us directly, but
then they benefited from their teachers. They benefited
from their teachers. This is a whole society
that people were not concerned, you know,
about their own individual welfare
exclusively.
And the Sharia doesn't say give up your
own individual welfare.
You have to take care of certain things
in your life. You have to take care
of having enough food to eat. You have
to take care of, you know, having a
a place to stay that won't kill you.
You have to take care of if you're
married, you have to take care of that
that stuff for your missus. You have to
have enough, you know, wherewithal to clothe your
nakedness in a way that's not that's not
like, you know, completely shameful in the society
that you're in.
You know, so do that. But then after
that,
you should give some and you could after
that also give some, preference to yourself. Say,
okay, I would I always wanted to go
to Peru. So So I'm gonna go on
vacation to Peru without telling my friends. But
I'm gonna go on vacation and see, like,
Machu Picchu and whatever. Right? That's great. That's
wonderful.
You can do that but don't make it
everything that you do. And know between us
that the amount after that point that you
that you spend on, on on the benefit
of others, that's commensurate to that amount. That's
what your worth is with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. So if it's a 100% of your
stuff you spend on on yourself, you're a
100% worthless to Allah
Ta'ala. Under that amount, you're getting reward from
from him.
If you're struggling just to get by with
you or your family,
The one who earns for himself and earns
for his family, that one is the beloved
one of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
After that point, however, if everything is a
100 just for yourself, you're a 100% worthless
with Allah ta'ala.
If you die in that state, that's that's
that's that's that's completely like a fail.
The degree you the degree that Allah Ta'ala
loves you is the degree with to which
you do things for for others around you
afterward.
And we benefited from that. If we don't
uphold that
that tradition, then that benefit will
cut off with this generation and the people
in the future are not going to receive
it anymore.
And the strange thing is, if you want
to benefit yourself,
benefiting others is one of the best ways
of doing so.
Because you as an individual can't cannot do
anything to change the world. But when people
come together, they can do a lot.
You are not going to fight the government.
Obviously, nobody wants to we love the government.
Nobody wants to fight the government. Right? We
love the government. But the thing is you
cannot fight against them even forget I'm not
talking about, like, violence and all that jazz.
I'm talking about, like, a legal there's a
you have a problem with
some,
you know, enforcement of some law that's had
happening
in a discriminatory way.
You as an individual,
you can't do anything about it.
But when, like, a 100 people show up
to city hall, then the mayor might take,
you know, you know, pay attention.
If you have a 100 people over which
to defray, like, legal expenses for something like
that, then people will pay attention.
If you have a bad experience at, like,
whatever United Airlines slammed your face into a
a a,
you know, into a armrest, it may have
been any of them.
But the thing is that you have
you may have You you may have this
experience where something like that happens. If there
wasn't social media to have a a outrage
about it, that one person's experience itself is
not is not gonna help anyone.
So the strange thing is that being together
and there's like a a 100 different ways
in which being together will help us. It's
not just in, like, legal matters. It's not
just in economic matters. It's not just in
political matters. It's not just in negative things.
It's in positive things as well.
But being together and doing stuff for one
another, it works out.
And someone may feel like, oh, well, you
know, people I don't wanna donate money to
an organization. I don't wanna help out. People
are using it for their own benefit. Even
with leeches and even with with with,
peep misappropriations
and things like that, still, the society is
better when people work for one another,
rather than than than than everyone separating themselves
and becoming the prey of Iblis afterward.
The the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam is what? They stay with the
jama'a. Why? Because the wolf always hones in
on the sheep that strays from the flock.
When the flock is together, if like, you
know, like 5 rams charge a a wolf,
they will kill it.
But if one sheep is,
strays from the flock, what is it what
is it gonna do? If the wolf can
get to its throat before the other rest
of the flock can get to it, they'll
just watch. Once the things die dies, they're
not gonna engage with the wolf because there's
no benefit now anymore in doing anything.
So this kind of like,
selfish, like, oh, well, it's not gonna benefit
me. It's none of my business. I'm just
looking out for myself. This time, it's really
bad. It will end up harming you as
a person. And even if it even if
it doesn't, there's another world that we have
to go to after this one in which
case it's gonna come up as an utter
fail. So when we read this hadith of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, right,
the
the
helping someone fulfill a vow, what's the common
thread between all of these things that they
have to do with what? They have to
do with all of these things fulfilling the
rights of other people
and and and helping other people in a
way that's that that that that's good for
the community
and good for society,
at large and not necessarily a person may
not see what the what the benefit of
it is for for oneself in this world.
So what what Ibrahim that we should help
a person to fulfill their oaths that they
take by the name of Allah
And if a person is is is being
oppressed that we're there to help that person.
That if a person is being oppressed, we're
there to help that person. We're not the
people that someone's getting mugged on the street
and people are just walking around. Someone's, like,
dying breathing their last breaths on, you know,
on a sidewalk somewhere and we just walk
around because we got somewhere go and we
can't be can't be bothered about,
about it. We're not the ones that like
you all well, you know, look at poor
people, That's their problem.
If wish to, he would've he would've fed
them.
Those people that
in You're nothing except for in in manifest
error.
We don't help other people because if we
don't help them, they're not gonna get help.
We don't feed other people because if we
don't feed them, they're not gonna get fed.
The same Allah feeds you, he'll feed the
poor, he'll feed everyone. He'll take care of
everybody.
It's for our own benefit. If we don't
feed them, how are we going to earn
Allah to Al Mahaba before leaving this world?
That Mahaba without which nobody will make it
on the day of judgment.
This is one of the most proud one
of the most proud traditions of the Muslims.
That if somebody picks on someone because they
know they can get away with it, whether
it's an individual or whether it's a group
of people, if somebody picks on some people
and and and oppresses them and takes from
them unjustly and and behaves with them unjustly
and a Muslim comes by,
that's it. You just, you know, you just
made the to do list. You better apologize
very quickly because the of Islam is not
down for that type of nonsense.
Unfortunately,
that has not
you know, stayed the standard anymore with people's
conduct and with their behavior.
But this is one of the proudest sunan
and one of the proudest traditions of Islam.
Whether as a collective
group of people or whether as individuals, it
doesn't matter if that person is a Muslim
or isn't a Muslim that's being oppressed.
Rather the the the dua, the dua of
the oppressed person, they're fear the dua the
hadith of the prophet
fear the dua of the oppressed because there's
no hijab between it and between Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. Even if that person in this
world is a,
no one will be oppressed. Even in this
world, if that person is not a Muslim,
their dua to Allah ta'ala is heard
and it is answered.
And if you wish it to be against
you, there's one way of conducting yourself. If
you wish it to be in your there's
a different way of connect this is an
opportunity that that answered dua can be in
your as well that you help a person
if they're if they're being cheated, if they're
being shortchanged, if they're whatever.
Whether it's in your benefit or whether it's
in your interest or whether it's not in
your interest.
And if someone calls you to something that
you,
that you,
answer that call.
Nowadays, there are people
have very elaborate
invitations.
It looks like the,
whatever Tang dynasty imperial decree
that I just got, like, appointed governor of,
like,
of, like, the
what's it called? The Forbidden City or something
like that. You know? But, I remember my
my own sheikh.
He,
my my father-in-law told me that for my
my my wife's sister, she got when she
when she was getting married,
it's like a custom that, like, wedding invitations,
you know, amongst certain peoples
that if you don't deliver it in person,
people don't come, or they're like these ritualized
protocols, like, I gave you the invitation in
a certain way, and you didn't give it
to me in another way or whatever. So
these things, they they they kinda take on
a life of their own. My my father-in-law,
he told me he said he was so
surprised.
He said that, Chishisab, I went to go
to,
to go and deliver the invitation to him.
He's like, one of the of of
of of Pakistan.
So he deserves some protocol. So he went
to deliver the the the physical invitation in
person.
And, he said the first thing that that
the sheikh said to him, he says he
says he says, Miya, why did you,
go through all this tekalluf? You could have
just called me on the phone, I would
have come.
Which is what that's the sunnah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
It's a sunnah
to answer people's invitations.
If they're rich, if they're poor, if you
feel like you're in the same social class
or or less than them or greater than
them or if they're from a different race
or if they're from a different place or
you you you don't even someone I don't
like, you know, their food. I don't like
a lot of people's food. You don't have
to eat if you don't if you'd if
you go. You don't you know, you can
just eat a little bit and, like, whatever.
To
answer the the the the the dawah, the
the invitation of another person,
especially the believer
is is a is a great sunnah. It's
a haq that a person has on you.
Now there's obviously,
exceptions to it. If everybody over there is
gonna go shoot up or do something crazy
like that, you know, then or some halalam
thing is gonna happen or there's some tohin
of the is going to be there or
you fear for your safety or whatever. Obviously,
exceptions there's lists of exceptions to almost every
rule.
But the rule is what? It's a sunnah
to, answer people's invitations if you're able to.
And there's so much power. Like, if just
people would do that, if they would accept
one another's invitation,
it would make so much Islah in society.
They have, like, all these weird, like,
studies
and, you know, we have to have a
corporate retreat and, like, you close your eyes.
Like, someone tells you to close your eyes
and fall back and someone catches you and
all this other nonsense, and you have to
buy tickets for it and, like,
the retreats cost, like, 100 of dollars, like,
a person per day and, you know, yeah,
exercise confidence building exercises and people go out
to, like, whatever. They ask me, Sheikh, you
know, our we have, like, a thing in
our work that we have to go to,
like, whatever Dave and Buster's and people are
drinking alcohol. Can I should I go? Or
and they have all this kind of stuff
where you have spend all this money doing
things that what if people just, like, ate
dinner at each other's house, like,
once every other month or whatever. Right? You're
gonna eat dinner anyway. You don't have to
be rich to do it. You eat dinner
at someone's house, and then you eat dinner
at the next guy's house the next day.
You pay double one time and then eat
free the next time.
Financially, it, like, evens out. It's
you're not taking any extra expense at all.
The sunnah sunu barak,
you know. If you do things properly, you
get the same work done in almost,
you know, almost no money or in just
a fraction of the the resources that other
people get it done. It would make so
much in in in our society, and people
would actually have confidence in one another. So
it's good, If I were to give everyone
a homework assignment, my homework assignment is go
invite someone over to your house. Like, that's
never been your house before.
And,
you know,
I'll probably be out of towns.
Do as I say, not as I do.
But, you know, do that. Try try it
out, you know, inshallah, and there's a lot
of in it. You'll you'll find out a
lot of good. Do we have a lot
of people over the house,
son? Do people visit us?
It's good. Right?
And that you should spread salaam, and we
talked about that at some length before, when
we were talking when when we read the
chapter of, spreading
Said Abu Hurairah
mentions that the prophet
mentioned the same things, but he gives he
gives a the first the sira and the
first one is Amara Nallahu,
or sorry, Amara Nallahu,
that these are the things Rasool Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam commanded us to. And here the,
the the
cover it up.
The
the the the words that are used is
Haqul Muslim.
That these are the rights of another Muslim
on you.
If you say,
this is what you owe to other people
who say,
And when it comes to hukuk, the sunnah
is what? To
concern yourself with what you owe other people,
not with what peep other people owe you.
Do you mind putting more into something?
And so what are they?
Answering salaams, visiting the sick,
following the procession, the funeral procession,
and accepting,
invitations and
giving the benediction for the person who sneezes
and says Alhamdulillah.
This is a hadith.
Maybe
people are familiar with it, maybe not, but
it's this is a hadith that's like real,
like, deep, like, spiritual
it's a hadith about
a discussion that someone will have with Allah
on the day of judgment.
And there's there's a lot there's a lot
of like spirituality in it. There's a lot
of it's like a very,
it's a very spiritually impactful hadith that people
should think about.
And it has to do with how Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala has transcendence.
It overwhelms people. You're not gonna you're not
gonna relate to him.
But he gives a little bit of, like,
a, like, a, like, a lifeline to you.
That if you want to get close to
me, this is how you're going to do
it.
Nabi
is narrated by Sayid Nabu Hureyar, radiallahu anhu,
that he said, sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
that Allah, mighty and majestic is he, on
the day of judgment, will say to a
person,
oh, son of Adam, I was sick and
you didn't visit me.
And before you, like, bust out the akhid
at the Hawiyyah and then
you can just listen to the rest of
the hadith. He said,
yeah, oh son of Adam, I was sick
and you didn't visit me. Allah says this.
Imagine someone hearing this from Allah on the
day of judgment that I was sick and
you didn't visit me.
He will say,
oh my lord, how can I visit you
and you're the lord of the universe, you're
the lord of the worlds?
Allah will say, did you did you not
know that my slave so and so was
sick and you didn't visit him?
Didn't you know that if you had visited
him, you would have found me,
found me when you found him. Where he
was, you would have found me there as
well.
He'll then ask him, oh, son of Adam,
I I asked you to feed me and
you didn't feed me.
That person will say, oh my lord, how
can I feed you and you're the lord
of the worlds?
He said that, did you not know that
my slave so and so asked you for
food, asked you to feed him, and you
didn't feed him?
Did you not know that
if you had fed him, you would've found
that with me on this day?
He will say, oh, son of Adam,
I would I asked you for something to
drink, and you didn't even give me something
to drink.
I mean, this is, like, essentially, like water.
It's not even like, you know, okay. Fine.
If some whoever comes and visits me, sometimes
I have very expensive ginger ale and things
like that. You know, if you're cool, I'll
give you one. They're very small bottles. You
don't get them in the state very easily,
so it's very hard to get them. We're
not talking about that. We're talking about what?
We're just talking about a glass of water.
That my,
my slave so and so asked you to
give give him drink, and you didn't give
him anything to drink.
He'll say, oh my lord, how do I
give you to drink and you're the lord
of the worlds?
He'll say that my slave so and so
asked you to for something to drink, and
you didn't even give him a drink. Did
Did you not know if you had given
him something to drink that you would have
found that with me today?
And it's a hadith of Sahih Muslim.
It's a hadith of Sahih Muslim.
This is why this is why when somebody
asks you for something,
if you have something to give that person,
the sunnah is never to turn away and
ask her empty
handed.
Even if you just give a person a
dollar or a quarter, even if you just
give a person a dua, someone's like, woah.
Shit. You know, they're just gonna use it
on drugs. Okay. You know, you even drug
addicts eat something sometime.
You understand what I'm saying?
You can make the nia that the dollar
is going to food. Okay, you don't wanna
do that? Don't even give it at least
you can give them a dua, right? You
can't buy drugs with a dua, can you?
You can't go to the crack dealer and
be like, Barkalafikum, where's my where's my rock?
So
all of these things, Sunnah is never to
turn turn a person away empty handed.
And so he'll say that, oh my, oh,
son of Adam, my so and so. He,
he was sick, and you didn't visit him.
And you're saying so I was sick and
you didn't visit me. And he said, how
can I visit you when you're the Lord
of the worlds? I mean, that's why one
of the reasons places like this is a
Mubarak place.
Somebody is like you know, somebody is ill.
Like, there are various levels of, like, need.
You know? Some of you know, I was
talking to doctor Fahad. He, you know, he
was saying, oh, it was just a premarital
counseling. It's really easy because they're already in
love. So you'll you'll be like, oh, what
about this? They'll be, no. No. I agree.
I agree. And you just get right through
it and things like that. Right?
He goes, you know, it's more difficult when
they're about you know, when they come back
later and they're about to, you know,
have a more vigorous discussion to say the
least.
Right? But people come with, like, places like
this with, like, pain and hurt and, like,
various levels of illness and things like that,
that nobody else you know, people can't deal
with. It's, like, overwhelming for other people to
deal with, so at least there's a place
for them to come. These thing things are
these things are Mubarak. These are not things
that you should just say, oh, well, you
know, that's just their thing, and I'm not
whatever. I'm not gonna get treatment over there,
so why do I care? This is should
be a pride for for the people, the
Muhammad
these are places people can get help.
If you can't yourself become like a therapist
or whatever. Okay, go work at the hospital.
If you can't yourself work at the hospital.
One of the things that floors me is
that, so many Muslim doctors where's the Muslim
hospitals?
Catholics have hospitals. Methodists have hospitals.
Oh, but they've been here for longer.
Oh, but they've,
you know, they have more money.
Okay. The Romans were there for longer than
the Sahaba, and they had more money than
the Sahaba. It didn't stop the Sahaba or
the Allah one whom, like, beating them pillar
to post in, like, everything, everything they competed
with.
The Persians were there longer even than the
Romans.
It didn't stop the Sahaba radiAllahu anhu.
Jalaluddin Rumi is writing poetry about the prophet
He's not writing poetry about, like,
whatever,
Zoroaster and things like that. Why? Because the
Sahaba
outcompeted them in everything
and everything
despite having nothing at all, which made it
all the more miraculous.
So, you know, this is stuff that we
should do. These are things we should take
seriously, and we should be proud of them.
We should, you know, take part in them.
We should,
take them seriously.
And if you can't do the thing yourself,
then at least the person who's doing it,
you can give to them. You know, if
you're
still broke and haven't built your, like, whatever,
like, business empire yet, then you can at
least, you know, like, volunteer and help out.
If you can't do any of that, either
you can at least tell other people a
good word that, okay. Look. You know, there's
this place happening. It's really good. You can
talk it up with people. You can, like,
whatever. You know? If you can't do anything
useful, you can retweet somebody or reshare someone
on Facebook.
And if you can't if you can't do
that, you know, at least you can make
dua for people who are doing good things
like this. The feeling in your heart, almost
all the things in the deen,
even actions themselves,
the action itself is a, like, a a
vehicle.
The passenger in the vehicle is what? It's
what what what the state of the heart
is.
Right?
That the salat,
forbids a person or bars a person from
indecency and from sin.
And Allah
tells us that the fact that you're I
mean, one of the
a number of meanings of this this statement
in this ayah, there There are a number
of meanings at a number of different levels.
One of the meanings is what? Is that
the fact that you're remembering Allah Ta'ala in
the prayer itself, it's what validates the outward
form of the prayer.
So there's a lot of kinda goofball type
people, oh, you know, I'm not religious. I'm
just spiritual.
Okay.
Well,
you know, like, I don't like the prayer.
It's like I don't like organized religion and
stuff. It's just a bunch of fixed rituals
and, like, I, you know, I like my
heart is in the right place. Okay. That's
very debatable,
and that's something that no one will be
able to prove. So it's a very con
convenient claim to make that absolutely, like, is
subjective
to the max. There's no objective truth in
it whatsoever,
that anyone can verify. So it's one of
those types of things. If you said it
or if you didn't say it, it's exactly
the same. In fact, it's probably better if
you didn't say it.
But, on top of that, what? What's the
the salat itself? The salat is a vehicle
that that the passenger inside of it is
the dhikr of Allah to Allah. We ourselves
say that if your salat is devoid of
the remembrance
of Allah Ta'ala, it's devoid of kher.
So all of these things, what?
There's one person who will give a $1,000,000,
one person who will give a $1,000, one
person who will give $10, one person who
will, you know, volunteer, one person who will
repost, one person who will do nothing but
give dua or at least feel happy about
it.
All of them, maybe they'll receive the same
reward of with
Allah. Why? Because it's commensurate with what the
state in your heart is.
If you can muster the same state in
your heart by doing one of the above,
then you're on you're commensurate. You're on par
with the other one. Now, obviously, you can't
be rolling around like like a whatever billionaire
and be like, yeah. I'm happy about it.
I'm gonna I just, you know, cha ching,
saved $1,000,000,000
and whatever. Right? Because
the state in your heart at that point,
whatever you're telling yourself is one thing, but
the real state in your heart is, like,
this is not even worth,
like, what a normal person would flick a
quarter at a at a beggar. It's not
even worth that much to me. Right? So
you're not getting that. So for different people,
in order to bring that state in the
heart, it it involves doing different things.
But don't be fascinated by the outward you
know, don't be fascinated. What's more important? The
the the the the vehicle or the passenger?
Many people would probably say the vehicle it's
the passenger. Okay? Don't be like a a
a materialistic,
like, goon. Okay? It's the it's the passenger.
Right? So at any rate, all of these
things, that's the so the hadith of the
prophet
is not trying to tell you that the
only way that you're gonna find Allah is
by visiting the sick and giving food and
giving drink. Those are 3 very important things.
The common thread is what? If you serve
the creation of Allah
for his sake, you'll find that on the
day of judgment Allah treated treat you as
if you did it for him. In fact,
he'll treat you better than a person would
have, treated you if you did it for
them. He's happier that you do that thing
for for that person than that person is
to receive it themself.
And that's often the case.
How many people are thankful for anything you
do for them? Nobody's thankful about anything.
When they need something from you, they'll take
it. And then the next day, once they
have what they want and they're doing better
again,
except for the one who Allah has mercy
on. They they'll act like they don't even
know you.
And that's okay because you didn't do it
for them. If you did it for them,
you should've charged them.
And just get what you want out of
them right now because later on, once they
got what they need, they're not gonna they're
not gonna they're not gonna, you know, pick
up your phone. They're gonna hit no. They're
gonna put you on the block list and
things like that. Nobody cares for what you
they'll pretend like you did nothing for those.
They go, that wasn't even a big deal.
I didn't really need that. Right? But if
you do for Allah,
one of his one of his names is
Shakur.
Not the Tupac. No. The actual Shakur.
And you're thinking, why does Allah ta'ala have
to have shukr for anything?
We're We're the ones who are supposed to
be having shukr for Allah Ta'ala. Why is
he why is he why is he why
is it from his sifat al shakur? It's
not because he has to. It's because who
he is.
If you do something for his sake,
he knows
he he he knows and he's he's thankful
for it.
And it's like, you know,
for example, right, if
a a a a a a person does
something like a little kid writes or, you
know, does something for
a king. You know? But it's very touching.
The king will reward that child not because
he has to, but because he's touched by
that that what that child did, said something
nice or did something cute or whatever, wrote
a a letter or whatever.
You know, you know, someone writes a letter
to the
the orange headed one, you know, saying that,
like, oh, you're making America great again. It's
real cute. Or maybe he'll invite that kid
to the White House and be like, oh,
whatever. You know, this, that, and that thing.
Why? Is the the thankfulness
is it reciprocated?
No. It's far more thankfulness than the thing
itself. So if a person can understand how
you can get a reward from, like, the
goons of this dunya,
then think of Allah to Allah who who's
sacred, who's holy. There's no blemish or fault
in him.
Nothing bad ever comes from him,
and he's the one who created the heavens
and the earth from nothing. If he's thankful
to a person for something that they did,
it's not because he's thankful because, like, he
owes them. It's because he's he he's happy
with that person.
And this is the way that you earn
it. That on that day, if he's thanking
you as if you had fed him or
as if, you know, like, one of us
would have felt like if we someone fed
us when we're hungry or it's an intensity.
It describes the type of intensity. If you
wish for that, then,
then then there's
from his generosity opened up
very
Allah has opened up very easy doors for
us to do those types of things.
That's why, like, you know, water fountains. You
remember in Turkey,
Imran? You remember in Turkey's water fountains all
over the place? Right?
That's from the the like, old ancient water
fountains. In those days, it was very difficult
to even put water there for
for people's usage. What what what was it?
It's just the hope that
people will keep drinking, people will make make
wudu from it. People will keep benefiting from
it, and Allah his his pleasure will be,
more and more for that. You know?
It's not for, like, nowadays, it's like, you
know, the water fountain is in the airport
because TSA won't let you bring a bottle
of water from the outside and people are,
you know, don't can't afford
$5 for a bottle of water from from
the it's it's different. It's completely different theory.
It's a different thought process. The 2 of
them are similar like a dolphin and a
shark are similar, but really they're not very
similar at all.
Anyhow,
you know, dart dolphins is dolphin nice?
Is a shark nice? No. What do you
think?
Would you like to go swimming with a
dolphin one day?
Would you like to swim with a shark?
No. Yeah.
Unfortunately, you still have to go to, like,
middle school and high school.
And,
visit the sick and feed the hungry and
free the free the the the prisoner or
the captive,
which also is an Ishara towards something I
think people forget about. People, Ilham and Rahim
who accept for very few people. Very few
people think of the the the people in
prisons,
and and or, like, care about it. So
they just assume that, oh, these are all,
criminals
and,
you know, they're locked away because of what
they did and which there's obviously, there's some
of that there as well.
But the father of Allah is
something that a person doesn't deserve nor do
they earn. And everybody has the right to
the father of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And
if you wish it from Allah ta'ala, you
should also give the way Allah ta'ala gives.
The way you deal with people, that's the
way the people are gonna, deal with you.
The way you dish it out, that's how
you're gonna take it as well one day.
And there are people and, you know, you
should you don't just write people off. People
oftentimes behave horribly because people have written them
off. No one expects anything from them, so
then they give what they what what give
society what what's expected, which is nothing.
So all of these things, by the way,
Masha'Allah,
Ramadan is coming up. So, go talk to
your master then, you know,
let let let, you know, get get a
get a night for Islamic relief. Just raise
money inshallah and, Allah reward you. You'll get
the, of all of these things as well,
you know. Go go
take brother Humana and find some
people that Khalil Center can raise money for
and all do these things. Don't just be
like a passive
passive, like, end end user,
that's that's just like, you know, if you
do that, that's great as well. Alhamdulillah. I'm
not saying like, oh, if you don't raise
money for whatever, then don't come to take
Darsin the Khalil Center office or whatever.
Using is great,
but then afterward also give back as well
somehow.
There's no way that any of us can
ever give back
anywhere near what Allah deserves.
But, you know, it's not an excuse to
just give up a 100%. You know, do
something
If you can't yourself cut a check for
a $100,000
or whatever,
you know, facilitate something happening. Allah
will give you the reward of that. Allah
will give you the the reward for that.
So Thuban radiata'al Anhu he narrates that the
prophet
said,
indeed the Muslim when he visits his brother
Muslim,
and this is by the way, this is
this is not
visiting sick Muslims. This is just visiting another
brother for the sake of Allah.
And this is one of the things that
we met we we we miss out on,
is that even being a good friend to
your friends is an act of piety.
So you're like, yeah, I'm not trying to
visit sick people. It's kind of a bummer
blah blah blah. Okay. No. You should do
it. But even even so right? You're hanging
out with your friends, being a good friend
to your friends, even that's an act of
piety, but there's a different way to do
it as a Muslim and a different way
to do it as a
or a different way to do it according
to the sunnah of the Muslims in a
different way to do it according to the
sunnah of the kafar.
Right? What do the kafar do? They go
out to eat and then they split the
you know, each one of them takes their
check and they
they,
you know, they go their separate ways. I'm
not talking about a fit this is not
a fit class.
There are a lot of things that are
not haram, but they may not be a
good idea.
Marrying a second wife without telling your first
wife. It's not haram, but it's a really
bad idea. I don't encourage anyone do it.
And if you do, then go to the
hospital, treat your black eye afterward, like, come
to Khalil Center and get treated for the
trauma, that's gonna be unleashed on you. And
you deserve it. I'm laughing at you with
everybody else.
Right?
But the idea is what? Not every you
know, so this is not a fiqi issue.
This is what this is an issue of
character. This is an issue about
of of of reflecting the values you learn
from the sunnah in your own life, which
is what? Which is if you're not if
you're gonna all pay for your own bill,
what is it? It's just reciprocity. I'm just
being alone with a bunch of other people.
You're all going and you're just being alone
to, you know, in the same space.
You act like you have concern for each
other, but you don't manifest that concern in
any tangible way at all.
It's better to eat at Taco Bell. You
guys all tell me. Everyone makes fun of
me. I say Taco Bell.
Right? It's better to eat a bean burrito
at Taco Bell and love one another than
it is to, you know, have sushi and
just be stuck up and, like, be self
centered person.
Allah is not impressed by your elegance or
style or the quality of your ingredients or
how organic things are.
Allah is impressed with
not impressed, but Allah is happy with sincerity.
For you to be brothers with each other,
eating bean burritos is
more
more close to the level of Allah to
Allah than,
you know,
behaving, with the adat and the adab of
of wealthy people,
but just all be being stuck up and
concerned for for yourself.
The
prophet
when some of you cook something like a
soup, put more water in it,
water it down, and then send some of
it to your neighbors.
Allah will put the barakah, it's not watered
down. In the duniya, it looks like it's
watered down. You actually, like, made it better.
With Allah Ta'ala, you made it better.
With Allah Ta'ala, the one that you ate
yourself, that was the watered down one. That
was the the poor quality one. That was
the the the one that that has no
flavor and has no, enjoyment in it.
So this is a sunnah of the prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi wa Salam,
sorry.
That a Muslim when he
visits his brother Muslim,
he will,
he will be in the Khurfa of Jannah
until he returns to his home. It was
said, oh Messenger of Allah,
what is the of Jannah?
And he says,
Janaha.
He says what? He says, Janaha.
It's
a it's a it's a dictionary for the
difficult words of
of the that are transmitted in the hadith.
Ibu Athir wrote it. It's called a.
Yeah.
It's the it's the the the the low
hanging fruit that that person is
grabbing the low hanging fruit of Jannah until
he.
That by by going to visit,
his brother,
he is
he is
making
you know, he's sealing the deal
on the low hanging fruit of Jannah.
1,
saying Ali who
he,
he narrates
that I heard the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam say
that there is no Muslim who visits another
Muslim in the day
except
for 70,000
angels,
will will will will pray for that person's,
blessings
and for for for
that person until the night falls.
And if he visits him in the nighttime,
then 70,000 angels will,
invoke the blessings of Allah on that person
until the mourn morning.
And
that that person will,
will,
be given the low hanging fruit of Jannah.
For the for that action, they will be
given the low hanging fruit of Jannah. And
harif harif means, like, the fall.
I I I suppose the the the the
between the two the two words is that
the fall is the time of harvest.
That person will will be given a hadith
in Jannah.