Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Duha Tahiyyat alMasjid and Wudu Ribat 0310 2019
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We continue
The chapter regarding the virtue of the morning,
the the
morning prayer, and the
the the explanation regarding what the minimum
performance of it is, and what the maximum
performance is of it, and what the, what
the,
medium performance of it is, and the encouragement
to,
to keep it as a regular practice.
So we read the first hadith last week.
It it bears repetition
he,
he he gave me as a bequest
that
I should or as a commandment
that I should fast 3 days every month,
and that,
I should,
pray
2 rakas,
every day after the sun rises off the
horizon, and that I should,
pray my wither,
prayer
before I go to sleep.
And so the common thread between all three
things is that they're all sunnah practices,
minimum performances.
Meaning what? Meaning that the the sunnah fastest,
what, 3 days a month? Or Mondays Thursdays,
which is the medium performance or the maximum
performance is what is fasting every other day,
and you actually get less reward for fasting
every day. That's the maximum performance is to
fast every other day. And just like that,
he said that I should pray 2 rakazav,
meaning that this is also a minimal performance.
And when I say minimal, I mean in
quantity,
quality makes up for what quantity lacks.
And, any of these sunnahs, even if a
person does the quote, unquote, minimum performance,
that's like a really that's a really, good
thing, and it's a really big deal. And
whoever wants more,
there's always a a Makama about every other
Makama. Share your come forward, inshallah.
You have your copy with you?
Uh-huh. Uh-huh. No. No. It's not in the
car? It's in the car. Yeah. Go get
in go get it, inshallah.
Well,
uh-uh, so the,
so that's the
the,
the the fast is also the minimal performance.
The
is 2 rakas, which is the minimal performance.
And,
the minimal performance of wither is what? That
a person pray before they sleep. The maximal
performance is that they wake up and, combine
it with their
that the messenger of Allah
said, everyday the sun rises over,
one of you.
You owe Allah
an act of sadaqah, an act of charity
for every one of your joints.
For every one of your joints that Allah
kept you functional. He kept you working.
He kept you,
That you don't have to go and, you
know,
get insurance your insurance company to pay people
like Alawi money. Right? This is a blessing.
We want him to be successful, but we
don't want him to make we want him
to be successful from other people, not from
us. Right?
The the idea is that there's a so
many things could go wrong. So many, like,
I did weird things that can go wrong
in in the body
at any time, any of any of them.
And and you think that it doesn't happen,
it happens.
I met a a I met a a
a brother who's a pathologist,
and he said,
he did a, like, a rotation with the
coroner in some place. The people die of
all kinds of crazy things.
Just freak freak things. You think people die
normally? There's a fair number of people who
die in very abnormal and weird circumstances.
It's, anything could go wrong,
and it does go wrong oftentimes.
So Allah is reminding,
is reminding the the the the believers
that,
Allah owed a sadaqa for every day that
each joint of yours is functional. Allah owed
a sadaqa.
And it doesn't necessarily have to be money.
Meaning what?
That to say
is also a sadaqa.
There are a number of meanings of this,
and there are a number of possible meanings
of this. Not the least of which is
that when an act of, piety is done,
it benefits other people as well. You do
an act of piety, other people benefit from
it. This is one of the reasons that
people,
when you go to the Harambee and Sharifeen,
those people who barely can pray their 5
times daily prayer, they end up praying sunas,
and they end up sitting in the masjid
half the day. It's because what? It's that
piety of centuries of people, the sacrifices of
centuries of people. It leaves
the and and and and and in those
places to the point where the hearts then
inclined toward goodness, and then places where you're
round up people and, like, give them, like,
weird poison, smallpox blankets, and you, genocide and
all this other stuff, then there's a darkness
that that that floats over even the heart
of a pious person. And person shouldn't be
too negative or despair,
rather the
the
the, Allah himself in his book says
that when you do good deeds, it words
off the evil
effect of a of a sin.
And Rasulullah
says that he said that follow a good
deed or a bad deed with a good
deed,
and it will efface it.
It will it will literally like like, like,
like, you wash like, like ink off of
a slate or something like that. It will
efface it. It will erase it.
And so, you know, not to despair, but
all these things are considered and there's other
for this word being used over here, but
that's also something to think about. So when
any of you says,
it's a sadaqa. And when any of you
says,
it's a sadaqa. And when any of you
says,
it's a sadaqa. That's why we hang out
for zikr afterward. It's good,
There's there's that comes from it. You know?
The people living upstairs, who knows? You know?
Maybe they're they sleep well on Sunday night.
You know what I mean? Maybe they're they're
and people people mention this. This is not
like Farfetch. Like, the I studied in,
right next to it, is
a a factory for a Chinese corporation called
Haier, h
a
I e r, something like that. So it's,
like, half owned by Pakistani investors, and it's
half owned by the Chinese parent company. And
so they make refrigerators
and,
air conditioners and stuff like that. You know?
And so what happened was the madrasa is,
like, there and then the the the factory
is there. And one of the ajeeb strange,
very successful tricks of shaitan is is that
shaitan has, like, made the population of the
Muslims separated from the from the ulama.
It's very strange. Like, a regular person, quote,
unquote,
a regular person. All of us were regular
people at one time. Now we're one of
the weirdos. Right? But at one point, we're
all regular people. We used to look at
people with beards and look at people with
big families, vans filled with children, and God
no look. Ajib, like the you know, these
people are praying and saying mumbling things and
reading things that we don't know how to
read and saying things we've never heard before
nor do we understand in a language you
don't understand.
Right? Shaitan has done that separated the the
the the regular Muslims from the ulama and
thereby from the Islam itself.
And so this is I mean, it's it's
it's a thing in in many places. You
know? People, like, literally, the people who live
right in the same neighborhood as the madrassa,
they have no idea what's going on in
the madrassa. Have no idea that what's going
on with the. They see the says this
guy is a terrorist or whatever. Just like
whatever gym down the street sees us and
thinks this guy may be a terrorist. Like,
literally, it's the same scam that Shaitan has
pulled even in the Muslim world. So what
happens is that the the the the the
the manager of the higher factory,
which is a pretty big job. It's a
huge factory. The man was a manager of
it. It's a it's a big, for a
person at hold. He was, you know, he
just, like, got over his fear one day.
And he's like, you know what? They're like
our neighbors. Let's just go check out what's
going on. If something crooked is going on,
at least we go in the property and
see what's going on. Right? So So he
himself, like, on his own initiative one day,
he came into the madrasah and he met
the the sheikhul Hadith of the madrasah and,
he gave him a tour and he showed
him this room we teach this. This is
where the children do hiss of Quran. This
is where fit has taught. This is how
the prayers go. This is where, you know,
the hadith of the darul hadith is over
here. You know,
that the students have break from this time
until this time. And,
he noticed that,
the the the the monsoon torrential rains in
the monsoon season in the late part of
summer actually destroyed the the the the the
the it's not like an indoor cafeteria,
rather it's just like a shaded place because
it's so hot over there that you're you
know, it's better they build a lot of
the buildings kinda semi exposed so the wind
can go through them.
So,
a a windstorm actually, destroyed the roof of
the Ma'am, so it's just a structure.
And so he he was like, what hap
what is this? And they said, well, the
last time the the storms came through and
destroyed it, it was how much will it
cost to fix it? By this time, he's
very impressed. He's happy because there's nobody who
actually, you know, believes in Look. It looks
weird from a distance. But, like, you know,
then you're like, oh, wow, Like, you know,
20 kids become Hafaz every year from this
place, and they read all the 6 books,
and the kids are actually learning in Arabic.
People, like, cannot believe that you know, because
they see the the kids studying. They can't
believe that these kids actually learn so much.
You know? So he became happy. Like, most
people become happy.
And,
and then, he he asked you, how much
will it cost to fix the the the
the
and,
the told him. He says, don't worry. I'll
take care of it. He he said, he
wrote a check, and he just gave it
right there then and there. He said, I
only have one favor I wanna ask. So
what's your what's your favor?
He says that I have a a a
clinical problem. I can't sleep at night.
And oftentimes, I take I have to take
very powerful tranquilizers to sleep.
And,
I don't understand why, but now that I've
come into this place, I, all of a
sudden, feel sleepy. Is there a place that
I can sleep? And the chief told the
students, go find, like, a corner where there's
no class going on. Because every there's no
halls. It's the old system, which is what
the Masjid is, like, essentially, like, the elementary
school through university. You just have a different
halakha that you sit in. It's an open
area. Does it find, like, some semi cordoned
off place, shut the light off in that
place, and let him sleep? And he he,
like, sat there for 3, 4 hours, and
then he got up. And,
he says, you know, he asked the sheikh,
he goes he goes, is it okay from
time to time if I wanna sleep, I
can come here? And he says, yes. This
this is something people experience the whole world
over,
which is what Allah talks about it in
his book. It's talked about in the hadith
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. This
is the thing. It's called sakinah.
That Allah when a a person becomes the
heart becomes aware of the presence of Allah
Ta'ala. Allah Allah's presence is everywhere,
but when the heart becomes attuned to it,
what does it do? It makes a person
feel,
comfort comfortable and secure like the fetus feels
comfortable and secure in inside of the womb.
All the worries of a person are gone
then. This is why it's described in the
hadith of the messenger of Allah said that
Abu Bakr Siddiq, he mentions during the battle
of Uhud. Right? Which is not the one
where, you know, like, you're not gonna that's
not gonna be like the, like, the 5
minute YouTube, like, movie clip that's gonna, like,
sell the movie. You know? Like, that's a
a very difficult time.
It's not like the glorious victory that, you
know, whatever. It's there's hate in it, but
it's it's a hard time. Said that Abu
Bakr Siddiq mentions despite the fact that it
was, like, such a pitched battle, he said
that so many times I felt so sleepy
that my sword fell from my hand. I
felt drowsy, and I had to, like, you
know, whatever. There are people that you mentioned,
they they actually took a nap during the
battle,
which is very strange. And, the Rasool alaihi
wasalam confirmed that this is the sakinah that
that that you were feeling,
at that time and in that place.
And it comes at the strangest of times.
This is why people, there are some people
who
live, like, very upper middle class and very
comfortable lives, and they're nerve racked. And there
are some people who, live,
you know, they live in great difficulty,
but you can see the in their faces
that they're they're they they feel that that's
sakinah. So this is one of the meanings
of, right, all of these things. These are
all so you don't know that the that
you you sit together and take the divine
name, the Mubarak name of Allah Ta'ala and
what comes from it, not just for you,
but for those around you. And then if
it goes for those around you, then you
get the reward for that as well. It's
not just like altruism.
This also in your favor. It's also a
benefit as well.
And he says that to command to that
which is right, give people advice to do
what's good is also a sadaqah, and to
per prohibit
what is wrong, to prohibit sin is also
to to tell person not to do bad
things. It's also it's it's also
and a person can understand these things a
little bit more tangibly how they're that that
that you encourage a society that's functional by,
telling people to do productive things rather than,
rather than harmful things. And then the messenger,
at the end, he says that in all
all of those 200 sadaqat, if you wanna
have no one act which will fulfill all
of them, then the the the paying 2
rakas at the time of Doha, that will
fulfill that will fulfill all of them. And
so there's some of the they mentioned, they
take 2 different routes to explain this. Some
of them say, well, the the subsidiary parts
of the salat, the ayat of the Surat
of Fatihah and the Tasbihat in your ruku
and your sujood, they all sum up to
200. And some of them say, no. It's
more the salat itself is more than the
sum of its parts. Rather, the tajalli of
Allah's rahma and the tajalli of Allah's,
that come down on on the person who
prays means that this is, an act which
is, becomes more than the sum of its
parts.
And I can see the the for both
of them, but the point is that the
is,
it's,
mentions it at this point in order to,
make takid to emphasize the the the the
the and the benefit of it, the virtue
of it. Go ahead.
So Sayid Aisha
said that the messenger of Allah
used to pray,
at the time of buha for rakas and
then he would increase,
he would increase from time to time as,
you know,
would will for him to increase. So sometimes
he would pray more, but he would he
would generally pray for. He would generally pray
for. And you'll see that that that's a
that's like the minimum is 2,
like, for for
8 is a is a is a set.
Right? Like, the is same thing as 8
and the,
is also 8. The minimum is 4. Generally,
the prophet's minimum
practice was 4.
2 is the minimum. 4 is, like, practically,
from his sunnah, how how he used to
pray them. And then, thereafter, it would go
up to 8. And then if you wanna
pray more, then you lengthen
the the rather than increase the
increase the quantity. So this is the the
you said the minimum, and then we said
the the middle,
amount, and then we're gonna talk then
he he's gonna mention the extent of the
the,
the the sotl dua. Go ahead.
So this is a, this is a, an
interesting hadith and, it's
it's very well known between the hadith narrators.
It's a hadith of both Sahibukhari and Sahib
Muslim
that Umu Hani,
who is the sister of Saidna Ali
that when Rasul
was in Makkamukarama
at its conquest,
she came to the says, this is a
part of a longer,
a longer hadith,
in which there's a longer incident that's narrated
that
said was given the assignment of essentially,
taking out a certain individual.
Fulan Abu Abu Hubera. His his actual name
is not mentioned,
but his, the the name of his father
is mentioned. It's so and so, son of
Abu Hubera,
that he he essentially is assigned to take
this guy out. People
don't don't may not know this because part
partially because they don't read the Sira.
There's some other issues as well, but,
that there is a short list of people
who the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
that these people are to be killed
even if they're,
taking found taking refuge, clinging to the astar
of the Kaaba, the the the cover of
the Kaaba.
And interestingly enough, I don't know that any
of them actually get killed.
But this was the the this was the
explicit order of the Rasulullah
alaihi wasalam. And the hadith of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam also narrated in Bukhari
that the haram was was made halal for
me in in the in the hour of
conquest.
And it will never be made halal again,
meaning that the the the prohibition for,
the prohibition for, killing was lifted for the
prophet, bloodshed was lifted for the prophet
for the hour of conquest, and it will
never be lifted again until.
And so it's interesting the stories about these
people. Most of them, even they end up
getting forgiven. They'll like, Safwan and and and,
they'll, like, run away, and then they'll, like,
seek permission to come back and the prophet
will give them protection, and they'll come back
and they'll accept Islam later.
The,
the the the poet,
He he he will, like, literally brazenly, like,
in the in broad daylight, he'll walk into
the tent in which the prophet
is staying,
and, he will come and he'll say salaam
to the rasulullah
and,
he will accept Islam and the prophet will
accept it from him. He used to, write,
he used to write,
disparaging
and untruthful
propaganda in the in in in the form
of verse used to write Hijai against the
prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and, the Rasul
his name was on the list as well.
You know, you have people like that you
watch on Fox News, they'll lie about us.
They'll just lie about the din.
And one of the reasons they lie is
because if people knew what the dean was,
they they would say that that's very reasonable.
There's a fear that not only is it
reasonable, in some sense it will seem more
reasonable to people than than than the other,
nonsense that's being peddled to them.
There are very few people who are going
to, who are gonna argue with it. So
what do you have to do? You have
to lie. And so, he was basically doing
the bidding of the that, that that he
would
compose a a a satirical poetry,
attacking the messenger of Allah
particularly
fabricating false
claims against him.
These are very these are not this is
not a small thing. Why? Because a person
believes it and they die in that state,
they're gonna go to Jahnun forever. It's a
big it's a very heavy responsibility. It's not
a sin like other sins. But he just
walks right in broad daylight, and he he,
takes the Shahada and the prophet accepts it
from him, and then he leaves.
And then the and when when he just,
like, leaves, he says to his companions, he
says, didn't I tell you guys to kill
this guy?
And they said,
if you even if you even, if you
even, like, made a gesture with your eye,
we would have we would have killed him
on the spot.
He says, no. Nabi is not
Nabi
is
not
Nabi is not Nabi is not treacherous of
the eyes. Meaning, he walked in, and it's
not like I charged him or anything. He
walked into the tent seeking
seeking protection, and I, you know, like,
you know, I didn't I didn't indicate to
him that he's not protected. So from that
moment, he becomes my guest. So he was
under the protection. He I guess he's he's
fine now. He's now he's a Muslim, so
it's a completely a moot point at that
at this point. And interestingly enough, the original
he's the one who writes it, which is
one of which is one of the most,
beloved,
verse to the messenger of Allah
when he presented this verse and prays of
the prophet
as a kafarah for the
the the the misuse of his, of his
artistic talent from before.
Was so happy that he actually took off
his cloak and put it on his,
on his shoulders
as a, as a sign of,
as a as a as a, like, a
sign of his pleasure and his his,
as a reward for him, for doing this
thing. So what happens if this Abu Hubera
is like if if Alain Abun Abun Abun
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And so what happens is that,
Umuhani,
who is the sister of Sena Ali
and,
I don't even think she was a Muslim
before before the Fath. I think she accepted
Islam on the on the occasion of the
Fath.
She comes to see the prophet
with regards to this,
she says she she says,
the
asked who it is. It's a very interesting
scene actually because the prophet is actually taking
a bath. He's making.
And how is he making?
Say
the is,
like, against the wall and
has a open,
open, like, open shawl. And she's screening him,
and he's he's making. She's just holding it
for, from the from the back, and he's,
he's making
inside, which shows also the simplicity of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. It's not like
a a royal type setup. There's no servants
or slaves or anything. It's in fact, Salafatima
who was just screening him, and he's he's
he's he's making at this time. And,
with very little takallaf,
enters into the room while this is happening.
And, the Rasul
while this is happening, he asked, who is
it? And she says it's Umuhani,
and he says,
he says,
he says welcome
And so,
what happens, he continues his whistle. He finishes
it, puts his puts his clothes on, and
then he'll pray 8 rakas of
of,
the slothl, slothl, slothl duha.
And then after he's done with it, he'll
ask her what's going on.
And the I guess that one of the
things that strikes me about this is the
lack of the complete, like, lack of formality
that, there's no protocol, first of all. The
second thing is that,
their family members anyway. Right? It's his first
cousin,
and,
it's really interesting. Right? If you're the first
cousin of the prophet,
but she accepted the Islam in the time
of the if I'm not mistaken.
And,
so she's just coming basically to ask for
a favor.
She says that she says
after Rasulullah
was done with his 8 rakahs,
he's he he says, he says, welcome, Umohani.
And,
you know, when she comes in, and then
after he's done with the 8 rakaz, he
he, asked,
you know, he asked, what's what's going on?
And she says that,
The the prophet, I mean, he didn't also,
like
she didn't interrupt his
his, his, his, like, his schedule of of
car as well. His his weird. You understand
what I'm saying? Now we think about, like,
Dawa. Dawa has become like it's morphed into
a freak that will, like, miss our prayer
time just to make other people happy.
And, Dawa, the best Dawa is to practice
what you believe
in. So he did pray his 8 rakas,
and he didn't apologize or anything for that
because that's just what he does. He's not
a greeter at Walmart. He's the messenger of
Allah
You and me are not greeters at Walmart.
We all have to get to Jannah as
well. So we have to say our we
have to say our we have to read
our from
our, our whatever, our words from the Quran.
We have to pray our our our of
prayer. We have to do all of those
things. You don't have to apologize for for
it. You don't have to be a jerk
about it either. You just do it. And
so very without much the kaloof, he did
it and then once he was finished with
it,
she she asked this,
she asked
the messenger of Allah. She said, oh, messenger
of
Allah, the son of my mother,
Alib Nuhabit Alib.
Meaning my brother.
So as Saidna Ali is the one who's
with the prophet says he's, like, 9 years
old. He's the one
Uhud's brother. He's there all of these places.
Right? He's there with the prophet who sticks
to through with him through thick and thin.
And she goes, well, the she goes to
the messenger of Allah who like, hey, Kaz.
What's going on? Like, after all these years?
You know, my my my brother, he's he
he he claims that he's he's gonna kill
a person that I I gave protection to,
which is,
which is Fulan,
Ibn Hubayrah.
And the messenger of Allah,
he he just kinda like you know, I
can imagine it was probably something almost like
humorous for him. He's like he says, don't
worry, Mohani. Whoever you give protection to, I'll
give them protection as well.
So, like, there's another one slips past the
list. You know?
And and and so,
Umuhani mentions that that that time that, you
know, that all this happened, he made and
he prayed 8 rakaz, that was at time
of Dua.
And so it's transmitted through so many, channels.
This is one of the most well known
hadith in which the of the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has mentioned.
Go
ahead.
Go ahead. Read the know these comments too.
So this is a chapter regarding,
it's it's permissible
the chapter regarding the permissibility
of,
sorry, the the,
the the the of the,
of the
from the time that the
sun lifts off of the horizon,
all the way until high noon.
And, that from the virtuous times,
to to to pray it
is,
later in the morning when it gets hotter
and when the sun rises higher
in the morning.
So it's narrated by
that he saw
a group of people once,
praying,
praying the,
and he says to them,
do not he says about them, don't they
know that the,
that this this very salat that they're praying,
if they prayed it at a different time
or in a different hour, they would get
more reward for it. And,
he mentioned that indeed the messenger of Allah
said that the prayer of the the
prayer of the
man
that
That the,
that the the the don't they know that
the prayer that the messenger of Allah said
that the prayer of the
meaning those who return again and again from
heedlessness to being present with Allah.
That they don't they don't clock out for
days at a time, hours at a time,
in which their that the the the the
as soon as they realize or they're aware
that they're they're of Allah they bring their
themselves back again and again and again in
the day so many times.
Do Allah's remembrance and to being aware of
the sacred presence of Allah,
and
the are are are are those who, they
do that and they also
constantly
are
coming back from the state of sin
into the state of Toba.
So Awab
awab is is like a more intense form
of Toba.
There there are number of words, awab, awa,
etcetera,
that that that describe
different forms of intensity of of persons
constant turning to Allah and his and his
or her
his or her constant returning to Allah and
all matters and all times of the day
or night. The
said that the the the prayer of the
is
when is is,
What is a fisal? A fasilah fasilah is
the
the the plural of the word fasilah.
Fasil in Arabic means for something to be
separated from something.
It's like a fussle is like a crop
or like a classroom. It's like a separate
class in the school,
or it's,
it's something for something like,
for something to be separated. It's the base
meaning of the the the root. So if
you saw all those baby camels
that are weaned from like, when they just
when they get weaned from their mother. So
they don't they're they're no longer, they're no
longer feeding from the mother or drinking milk
from the mother, but they're just barely big
enough to be able to function on their
own. So little of the fissile.
And so
the idea is what is it? The the
the,
the hoof or the foot of the camel,
the baby is still so soft
that when it gets to the heat of
the midday, it still burns it a little
bit to walk. It's not like scarred and
hard and, like, tough like the the fully
grown camel is. So the messenger
said
that the the prayer of the people of
the that make Tawba over and over again.
The
is is what it's when you see in
the late morning
that the the the feet of the, the
the the those little camels that they'll start
walking,
like, because it's it burns their feet,
in the heat of the day. Obviously, that's
not something we can see in Lombard,
and it's definitely not happening nowadays.
But but it's it's like that whatever 11
o'clock, you know,
10:30, 11 o'clock, until until,
the midday.
That's the the type type of time it
is. And it's interesting actually,
this hadith as a cultural note, there's a
kind of like a
a a a a a a win for
the desi's and a fail for the desi's.
The win is what? Is that there's actually
a word in Persian, josh,
that describes the this time. We actually have
a word for the salat. And so you'll
oftentimes see, like, on the on the, like,
prayer times board in, like, a really hyper
Masjid.
I don't know if anyone any of them
in the suburbs that are that like this,
but you'll see actually, see they'll have a
time posted for Josh. And people are like,
what is Josh? Did these people made up
their own religion or whatever? What is Josh
is just a Persian word for the late
morning.
And so the is what? It's the
that's a win.
Pat yourself on the back. Okay? Not that.
K. Pat yourself on the back once you
start praying it, and don't let anyone see
you. In fact, don't let Allah see you
either. But,
so don't pat yourself on the back. But,
the the
the the the the fail is what? The
fail is for whatever reason, there's another hadith
in
in which it it said that whoever prays
6 after
and he doesn't speak evil between any of
them.
Meaning, like, don't whatever,
text mean things to people or backbite or
shoot dirty looks across the room or whatever.
Just when you're done with your, say you're
out of the car, get up, and you
pray 6 rakas.
So Allah will write for you the the
reward of continuously
worshiping him for 12 years.
Okay? That's that's another that's another thing.
That's another, hadith of the prophet
is narrated in. Okay?
For god knows what reason in the Indian
subcontinent,
that's they call that
and I have no reason I have no
idea why.
The
narration of Muslim is that he called
the what? What did they see people call,
which is the is the portion of the
in the late morning. So for example,
many of you guys are probably gonna do
a this year or at some point in
your life or whatever. Right?
So,
the the the the the best way of
praying the is
what? Is that you pray some part of
it after the sun rises?
And if you want to, then go to
go go sleep for a little while. Then
when you wake up before it's over, like,
an hour before it's over or whatever, then
finish the rest of your 8 rakat. The
prophet
sometimes
would observe the subtle duhas one time, and
sometimes he would break break it up into
2 different times. And this is also another,
this is another, I guess,
piece of Hikma and wisdom for the the
person who wishes to worship Allah.
You know, it's you know, anyone can be
like, yo, I'm gonna read a 100 raka.
I'm gonna read a 1,000. You know, it's
you can say all that stuff. It's easier
said than done. One of the practical,
tips,
of how how you're gonna be able to
do that is when you're doing things like
like 8 rakas or whatever,
pray to and then sit for a while
in the middle. Read some Quran, make some
zikr, go stretch, make renew your wudu.
Uh-uh. You know, do some you don't have
to waste time. Right? Like, don't do something
that's gonna completely kill the kill your kill
your mind. Like, okay. I'm gonna start,
you know, get on my phone or whatever.
That's gonna suck your brain into, like, a
a different place. You know? But do something
that will that will,
that will give you some refreshment
so that when you get through the salat
again, you get to the salat again, you
feel refreshed and you feel happy and motivated
to do it. Because the hadith of the
prophet doesn't
get bored of your, your acts of worship
until you bore from them yourself.
Obviously,
what does it mean in the hadith for
Allah to be bored with? I mean, he's
not impressed with them, and he does he's
not gonna reward you so much for them,
and it doesn't mean anything to him.
If you're getting bored with your worship, don't,
you know, just,
move on, do something else. And this is
a a a a kinda like one of
the tricks of the trade, which is what?
That move from one thing to another to
another to keep your mind engaged, to keep
your heart engaged.
And that's a better and a superior way
of showing,
slavehood to Allah than,
doing something and completely being, like, mentally checked
out and, like, spiritually checked out. At that
point, you're just going through the motions, which
is not which is not gonna help you.
In most cases, it's not gonna help you.
So the chapter regarding the encouragement to pray,
a prayer
as a greeting for the Masjid, dislikedness of
sitting in the masjid before having prayed those
2 rakas.
The rest of the title name is, I
guess, Imam is Imam Nawawi,
kind of
working his
angle. So if you're a
then follow it, and if you're not, then
you don't have to. But,
the opinion is this is that a person
should not sit in the masjid until they've
prayed at least 2 rakahs no matter what
the time of day it is.
So he says that the the the and
the dislikedness of sitting down before praying 2
rakas, no matter what the time of day
it is, whether or not that person,
prays the the salat with the intention,
of of the greeting the masjid,
or the intention of of hard prayer, or
the intention of 1 of the sunnahs, or
anything else. The first thing you should do
when you enter the masjid, they should do
the tahiyyah first and then sit down. So
this word tahiyyah, where do you remember it
from?
It's from the tashahood. Right? And we mentioned
the the the reason for this word being
used that the word is a word meaning
greeting, and it's specifically used for greeting Allah
because you're not gonna say
to the one who himself is a salam.
So this peculiar word is used for
the same similar meaning, but to Allah because
it's appropriate with Allah,
whereas
the salam is a better word to use
when,
greeting the creation.
And so the idea is that when you
go to the masjid, what do you go
for?
Do you go to be seen by the
other people so they vote for you in
the next board election?
No. Do you go there because I wanna,
like, you know, show everybody how good my
recitation is, and maybe the imam won't show
up and I can be imam today? No.
You you know, are you just there to
to play basketball?
Hopefully not.
Are you you know? And then nothing Sheikh
has basketball. No. I didn't say that, but
that's not why you go to I mean,
hopefully, that's not like why you go to
the Masjid.
You know? It's okay to play basketball again,
but, you know, people should at least have
enough common sense to know that it's not
why why they go to the Masjid.
The idea is what? You're going there for
the the that
Allah should be pleased with you. So as
a as a and a sign that you're
entering the Masjid is for the sake of
Allah before doing anything,
what do you do? You greet the Masjid.
You greet Allah in the Masjid by meaning
what? Allah is with you all the time
anyway. But when you enter the Masjid space,
the first thing you do is an active
devotion to Allah. Then afterward, you go say
to your buddies and,
do all the other good stuff that that
that everybody will do in the masjid afterward.
This is one of those things completely completely
for reasons known only to the Lord. In
America, we completely butcher the sunnah.
We completely mercilessly butchered the sunnah. We killed
and destroyed the sunnah. The people walk into
the Masjid
And,
you know, it's one of those things people
think that maybe people from that country do
that back home. Nobody does it back home.
If you walk into any Masjid back home,
I don't care where you're from. If you
walk in,
unless it's like the most jahil of places.
There are some places, like, villages where, like,
nobody knows how to read. In those places,
I've seen stuff like this happen. If you're
from any of the amsar, like, a place
where, like, you can reasonably expect that a
person has gone to middle school, nobody does
this.
Nobody does this in any of the Muslim
countries.
For whatever reason, here it becomes like a
very common, very common practice that even if
you're like, okay. I went to Riyadh Salihin.
I'm in the zone. From now on, when
I enter the Masjid space, I'm gonna do
my 2 rakas because I go in for
the sake of Allah. Some someone will come
and intercept you and, like, put you in
the awkward position of being like,
this, that, and the other thing. So, like,
at first, after I read this the first
time, I would just start to ignore people.
I just walk right in and pray my
2 rakats, and then afterward, I'll go and
find them and I'll say to them.
Now but then it can't people are going
to, like, make
documentary.
They said Islam, and he didn't respond. He's
just this and that. And that's why I
left Islam, and I'm alcoholic now. And, like,
I moved in with my girlfriend because that's
sheikh. I hate him so much. I'm gonna
go to *. That I but I don't
believe in * anymore. But, you know, like,
it's like, okay.
How are you? Right? And you're just like,
yeah. Allah knows that he sees all of
these things. If you're not, you know, the
one of the best things you can have
in life is just keep a low profile.
You don't know a whole lot of people,
and a whole lot of people don't know
you. Most people are not worth knowing anyway.
Just know the people who are worth knowing
and be someone worth knowing to the few
people who know you as well. That's a
real blessing.
But
since we're gonna construct a society based on
the ideals of the sunnah. Right?
One day,
This is the way it's supposed to be.
People should have common sense. Even if somebody,
when they walk into the masjid, when they
see them,
let them pray their 2 rakas, then you
can go buddy buddy with them as well.
There's There's nothing wrong with that. And the,
it's it's it's good. You should, you know,
love one another and all this other good
stuff, say song to one another. That's wonderful.
I'm not trying to say not. I remember
I taught this, Hadith from the in
in a master that was imam and
some nondescript,
amount of time ago. And,
some guys like, Shay, you know, I wish
you hadn't taught that hadith. I'm like, why?
He goes, I've become in such a habit
now that when I walk in a message
and someone says to me to, like, just
pray 2 rakat, now people say to me
outside, and I don't I, like, stop myself
from saying
to them.
I said,
no. That has nothing to do with the
hadith.
That's just you, like,
not applying it because the Hadith didn't say
not to say to people outside. It just
says to pray to first, and then you
could say to people inside the Masjid and
outside the Masjid, you don't have to worry
about it. So just because you misapply it
doesn't mean there's anything wrong with
Well, with the hadith of Rasulullah,
or with, these adab. They're beautiful. They're beautiful
adab. They're beautiful adab. If you think about
it, that it makes a person go to
the message for the sake of Allah.
People, if they went to the message for
the sake of Allah, maybe there wouldn't be
as many fist fights in, you know, which
would be a good thing. It would be
a beautiful thing. It'd be wonderful. You know,
Rial Sahin would just that would be, like,
not just a book we read, but it
would be, like, our reality that we live.
Like, no fist fight over toe toes and
heels on the line. No fist fight over
over,
a fundraising or no fundraising. No fist fight
over whether Eid is there or not. So
many people are like, I knew the moon
was sighted because there was a fight that
happened in the masjid that night. You know?
I knew someone saw the moon somewhere. Like,
no.
Let's, like, see the moon and still, like,
not fight anyway. Even though Shaitan is not
locked up, but, like, just because we're not,
like,
the Shaitan ourselves, you know, like, let's try
not to fight with each other.
It's a beautiful thing.
And so if it's hard to become accustomed
to, then
said,
that one of you not will not perfect
his
or her faith until their desires
become conformant to the thing that I brought.
So with regards to this, the in the
Hanbalis, may Allah
honor all of our and all of those
people who follow them. Their is what is
that when you enter the message, you have
to pray 2 rakas in any circumstance whatsoever,
whether you've already prayed Asr and it's Maghrib
hasn't come in yet or not, whether you
already prayed,
Subha and the, sun has risen or not,
whether the imam is on the mimbar giving
the khutbah.
And these are three notable exceptions that the
elders from the Sahaba and the elders from
the Mujtahhidun, they actually made exception in these
things,
which is what that that you pray to,
at minimum,
except for
if you pray to Asr because of Makrut
to pray,
pray anything and tell thee, the sun has
set at that point.
Or if you've prayed the salat al subu,
the fajr prayer, because makrud will pray anything
until the sun rises off the ground. Or
if the imam is the imam is on
the mimbar giving the khutbah because the khutbah
is as if it's part of the salat.
That it's fart you don't start praying sunnah
when the farthest is going on in the
masjid.
And so, according to Malik and according to
Abu Hanifa or,
in in in the situations
where it's makrud to pray,
with the with the khutbah, you just go
in and sit down. In the 2 aforementioned
situations, when it's makrud to pray at those
times, There's a narration that comes from the
Rasool that
the
at that time is the what what's known
as the
If I'm not mistaken, they see people refer
to it as Right? So
You say it 4 times. Each two times
is like stand in the place of a
raka of prayer, and this is the of
the of of the masjid at that point.
If you follow whatever
you follow,
keep following it and do good inshallah.
The but the point is don't walk into
the masjid heedlessly.
Don't walk into the masjid like a consumer
or whatever. Come come as somebody that you're
you you you went there with with a
a goal that you wanted to make Allah
happy with you. You wanted to make Allah
pleased with you. Alright? This is the this
is the this is the prize of every
believer
that in every moment, they should have and
and think, ask themselves the question, which thing
can I do in this moment that will
make Allah pleased with me? And do it.
And just like that, the the opposite the
there's the poison of a person's iman that
will kill a person, the poison that will
kill a person's iman, and that will will
deprive them of Barakat and Rahamat in this
world and the hereafter
is the secret the secret conversation
every person has with themself,
with regards to Allah's disobedience, which they don't
understand or they don't they're not aware that
Allah is hearing and listening to. That that's
the poison that shuts the door of Khair
for a for a person. And so at
any rate, the the the the former thing
that we mentioned, that's that's how you
how you, enact. Allah forgive all of us
Allah forgive all of us and have mercy
on all of us and straighten us out
and and pull us out of our stupidity
that we do these dumb things that we
think we're smart and we're really just the
dumbest people of the entire creation when we
do them. Allah forgive us and give us
to leave such things behind. Then you're right.
If you wanna do the new things the
right way, that's how you do it is
that I'm gonna go to the Masjid to
make all the happy. This is the thing
that I'm going to do. And then afterward,
you say to other people and you show
face and all these other things. That's fine,
Insha'Allah,
within reason. Go ahead.
He said I came to the prophet
while he's in the masjid
and
he
he he said he, he says to him,
go pray 2 rakaz.
Meaning what?
He came to the prophet to talk about
something.
He came to the prophet say and talk
about something. What did
say? He didn't say he said go pray
2.
This is one thing, Bahisha here just between
you and I.
This is Rasool Allah as I'm doing it.
Right? This Ajib, like, weird Disneyland, Walmart, greeter,
type.
The people have about the of the
prophet
is is is wrong.
Saydul Jabir
came to him to say salam to discuss
it. He literally told him, no. Go pray
2 raka'as first, then come back and then
we'll talk about it.
And that's also the of the prophet
otherwise, how would say who know that and
the Hadith is narrated by him. Right? The
hadith is narrated by him. Imagine that he's
gonna receive the reward for everybody who remembers
to pray the and tell you there's so
much in it. But what is it when
the nafs is, like, so hyper touchy? And
it's like, oh my god. It's still o'clock
in the process. So you're gonna treat me
like this. I mean, I'm not saying this
to like, there are people who are in
that state right now. We have to deal
with them where they are. There's no profit
in pushing them away from the dean. You
know? There's no profit. If you know someone's
gonna flip out and make a documentary about
how they hate Islam just because you didn't
say so, then go say to them, you
know. There's no profit in doing that. But
the point is that when people bring this
this this ishqal,
this objection up,
the person the people of knowledge should know
this is a baseless objection.
And they should deal with the people as,
like, a psychological case rather than a a
a a case that has to do with
understanding the sunnah or not. Because the actual
sunnah is to to the person who's able
to
understand the hap that that person you should
tell them, and there should be no on
either side, neither in saying it nor in
hearing it as well. And then there are
some people who they're they're just not there
yet, so you have to deal with them.
But the the the you know, it's
there's, like, so many stories. The story is
saying
Al Hasan jumped on the back of the
prophet
in the masjid. So people are like, yes.
It's a sunnah. Let's have all the kids,
like, run crazy during the salat.
No. Everybody understands it's really bad for that
to happen.
Thus, in the 1 or 2 exceptional cases
where things like that happen, and then the
prophet
shows restraint and,
that's what the whole that's what makes those
hadiths make sense.
Right? The the Bedouin
came into the Masjid and started to urinate.
Everybody knows this is very wrong. This is
high level of incorrectness happening right now,
to phrase it funny. Right? Very high level
of incorrectness. To phrase it politely, to be
honest with you. Right? There's other more,
colorful ways of describing something like that happening
that people would generally use if they saw
that happening. They'll be, oh my god. Bleep.
Like, what what's going on? Right?
Everybody knew that.
That's why it's so exemplary that the messenger
of Allah sees, like, this guy is so
clueless. He obviously doesn't know what's going on.
So let's deal with this in a different
way, and it's a a legendary show of.
The meaning of it is not that this,
oh, let's follow the sunnah, put in your
urinals into the Masjid.
There nowadays, there are people like that. They
don't understand that the exception only has meaning
when when put in the context of the
rule.
If you turn the exception into the rule,
you'll completely,
turn the entire Islam upside down and you'll
make, like, Islam completely nonfunctional.
You'll make it completely nonfunctional.
That if everything is constantly being disrupted, if
no if everyone is so touchy and so,
like, like, sensitive, trigger sensitive that you nobody
can say the to anybody anymore, the Ummah
is gonna is is gonna be in a
really, in a bad position. It's gonna be
in a bind. It's a hadith of the
prophet
it's narrated by no less than Abu Bakr
said, Abu Bakr
said,
Then if you see the people stop commanding
to that which is right, and stop for
prohibiting that which is evil.
You you say goodbye to them. There's no
more left in them.
Again, that doesn't mean that you just walk
up and blast somebody who's probably not gonna
take it well.
But at the same time, other people should
themselves understand that this is part of my
iman. This is part of my deen. This
is part of my spirituality
that I also should, like, listen to it
and, like, not
be so, like,
you know, snowflaky about about the whole, about
the whole issue, about the whole matter.
And so this is
a it's a beautiful hadith. He's a young
man. I mean, it's not no one's gonna
say, oh, look, you're driving the youth away
from Islam. He's a young man at this
time. And the rest of the salam,
he he actually had business with him. It's
in the in the commentary. This is a
part of a larger hadith in which Sayna
Jaber was conducting a business transaction with the
messenger of Allah, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he's
informing him about business.
So it's not like he came to waste
time or shoot the breeze or anything. It's
like
he's doing work, which is also the work
of the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, but
the Rasulullah said, first, go read your 2
rakaz, then inshallah we'll we'll we'll talk about
we'll talk about whatever it is afterward.
Go ahead.
Said to Sayidna
You know Sayidna Bilal is?
Right? He was a slave,
and then his he accepted Islam and his
master tortured him, almost killed him
before becoming Muslim and he said he kept
beating him and torturing him more and more
and almost killed him and kept saying,
come back to the worship of idols and
I'll let you go and he refused and
he kept saying, I had I had the
I just worship 1 Allah.
And then, say, Abu Bakr Sadiq,
bought him when he was about to die.
He purchased him as a slave and then
he freed him, and he was one of
the most beloved companions of the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Who
one day the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam said to him,
he said, and said that Bilal is one
of those people. You see, sometimes you get
the feeling from reading the Hadith of the
prophet sallahu alaihi wa sallam that especially when
they're new to Islam, some of the people
didn't
like, not the but maybe some of the
people that didn't
understand his worth as much. Right? Nobody appoints
him governor. Nobody appoints him Khalifa afterward. He's
not a judge. He's not you know what
I mean? When the messenger of Allah sallahu
alaihi wa sallam is gone, then the one
who appreciated him is gone.
Because nobody knew his worth like the messenger
knew it.
But there's a very special,
relationship of love between the 2 of them.
And so said the messenger
of Allah
says to him, he says, oh, Bilal, tell
me about,
the deed that you do, like, like, that
you in particular do,
that you have the most hope.
You have the most hope that it's going
to the deed in Islam that you do,
they have the most hope, in,
because you do it. Because he said, I
was shown,
in a vision, I heard the the duff,
the sound of your
your 2,
your 2,
sandals in front of me in Jannah.
And the
his vision is it's the haqq.
When we see visions and things like that
in dreams and whatnot, they're metaphoric
metaphorical, you know, there's like a image that
is a metaphor for some other meaning.
But
the
is that the the meaning is no longer
metaphorical. What they see is is they're seeing
literal realities in front of them. And so
it's part of it's part of the part
of the wahi that, he that he saw
it, meaning it's gonna happen. It's the.
And so he said, I I because I
heard the the sound of your footfalls, the
footfalls of your sandals,
in front of me in Jannah.
And so said that
he says that the there's no deed that
I do in which I have more hope
than,
that I,
never,
make or,
in any hour of the day or night,
except for after making the,
I will pray,
to rakaz with that,
as long as
Allah writes for me or fates for me
too, be able to pray.
And,
you know, the the the note with this
is what is
as well as a number of the Sahaba
They used to stay in in the state
of. It's not that they only did it
for
the
obligatory performances, but they used to make it
a point as an act of worship to
stay in all of the time.
So hadith of the prophet
that nobody will take take,
care and caution
to, be in all the time except for
the
believer. It's a sign of a person's iman.
And the benefit of it is what? Is
that in and the the the ritual purity,
it's a spiritual thing. It's not just a
physical thing. It's a spiritual thing. That that
in that state, a person is
shaitan is denied easy access to the person.
Evil influences
are are impeded from affecting that person,
and the
attracted to that person. The limbs of literally
shine in the in the in the spiritual
realm. And it's beautiful. The angels, they adore
and they marvel those things. And their presence,
angelic presence opens the heart to what? It
opens the heart to, accepting
good,
good influence,
in the spiritual realm. And this is not
a this is not like just something the
Sahaba used to do
It's something that that that the Muslims do
to this day. If you go if you
go places, there are people who who do
this. I mean, you cannot tell who is
in Wudu or who's not in Wudu. There
are a lot of people who do
this.
You know, who here, took Sheikh Al Hinn
that Darul Khasim? Any of you?
Any sisters?
Right? Sheikh Hinn. So that's one of the
things actually Sheikh Hinn writes about that. He
was traveling
he was traveling in,
in, Muhammadu
Hasan from
that he was traveling in, somewhere in the
Indian subcontinent,
and so he asked he saw a a
young man, Muslim young man. He said it
was time for the salah, and
he, he asked he asked him. He says,
do you have? So you pray together. Yeah.
Do you have? He says he he looks
at the Sheikh. He's just like a farmer.
Right? He's a farmer. He goes, looks at
the shaykh. He says, doesn't isn't every Muslim
on all the time?
And, the shaykh said, like, I felt like
ashamed, like, in front of this kid, you
know, that he was, like, I'm, like, teaching
hadith and, like, for a 100 of students
and, you know, this kid, this is he
just, like, very innocently asked,
doesn't a believer always have Hulu?
So that's a good thing as well.
It's a good thing to stay on Hulu.
I mean, imagine if you're cognizant of having
Hulu,
then it's not as fun to, like, you're
you know, I don't look at haram things,
you know, haram things that you shouldn't be
looking at. It's not as fun to, you
know, cuss and swear when you're cognizant that
you're you have wudu, you know? It it
doesn't and you're you're aware of when it
passes. Right? Because imagine if a person breaks
makes wudu again after it breaks every time.
There are so many sins you cannot complete
without
without not being on wudu.
So,
it's itself the awareness of your wudu is
a type of muraqabah, but it's one of
the musnoon forms of meditation.
Not every meditation means that you have to
have, like, a idol of something in front
of you and like the incense and, like,
wood stock out like a like a hippie
or whatever. Right? There are a number of
Masoon meditations
that that that are that are that are,
you know, that are there in the sunnah,
and they're very powerful. The
the awareness of the prayer time is the
awareness of your
and things like that. These things, they they
they bring into the the heart,
state of what what, you know, you know,
people everyone wants to be a Jedi, but
not believe in god. Right? So,
you know, they call it mindfulness or whatever.
What are you being mindful of? Are you
being mindful of your dirt and your water?
You're being mindful of the body that's gonna
rot one day?
That's not something worth being mindful of. That's
something worth being heedless of.
Uh-uh, the mindfulness, if you have something to
be mindful of, then it's very potent. It's
very useful. Those
those.
All I give all of us so much.
Muhammad inshallah, we'll mix
again once once we're done explaining this hadith.
But the
so he said that, like, every time I
make wudu, that's a different thing that he
would do than anybody else. Mhmm. So whenever
he would make wudu, like, many of them
would make wudu and stay on wudu all
the time. But what he would do is
that once he would make the, he would
make sure to pray 2 rakas.
And so it's, it's considered because the prophet
mentioned that this is a that's going to,
that's going to make him hear the footfalls,
saying that Bilal radiAllahuhan whose sandals,
in Jannah in front of him,
that
that it it it's it's it's a very
virtuous deed.
Now the the question about what does this
mean, right, the the
the
It comes in a number of different word
wordings. So what does it mean the footfalls
will say that,
being in front of
in Jannah? There's a hadith of the prophet
that the gates of Jannah will be knocked
by a number of people. This is mentioned
by,
by Sheikh Waleed Manisi. He's a he's a
he's in in Minneapolis. He's like a master,
one of the senior in the,
in North America.
And, he's he's a very learned person.
So he mentions this like, he mentions on
the
that that there will be a group of
the
that the will
intercede for and
ask to let them into Jannah without
without without without having to reckon anything.
And so they'll cross the like lightning, and
they'll be the gates of Jannah and they'll
knock and the angels will be like, where's
where's the prophet no one can enter until
he comes. So they'll just have to wait
for him over there. It's better than, like,
you know, getting judged and stuff, but they're
gonna have to wait.
And so the angels will be like, how
did you make it over so fast? What
what like, did you guys cheat? Did you
cut the line? Did you cheat the system?
How did you get here so fast? And
don't you have to give hisab?
And they'll respond to the angels. Imagine that
they'll come in their form. Because the thing
is the people will show up in that
form in the form they are in the
dunya, but it will be different. It will
be
in. Right? The same,
the they're
disheveled,
like, they had nothing to eat. They had
their their their skin was rough. Their clothes
are rough, they're dusty and disheveled,
but somehow it will become like a like
a a sifa of jalal on that day
that the people will see that this is
like a a sign of their honor on
that day. So it'll come like that in
that in that in that state of jalal,
and the angels will ask them, how did
you how did you get here? Didn't you
don't you have to get in line and
get hisab before you can cross?
And they'll they'll tell the angels. This is
they'll boast in front of the angels. They'll
say what? They'll say, how are we what
are we gonna give a about? He says,
from the day we said,
we had our swords, carrying our swords on
our backs until the day that we, died
in the path of Allah Ta'ala. What are
what are they gonna ask me about? What
am I gonna be asked about?
At any rate, so the hadith is there
that nobody will enter until the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam enters. They all have to
wait for him, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And
in fact, it comes in a hadith that
he'll enter just so that they can go
in, and then he'll go back and make
shafa'ah for the other people afterwards so that
the the first batch doesn't have to wait.
So what happens is that the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, the angels will ask that
nobody can enter before Mohammed enters, alayhi salatu
salam.
And so the the the the the
the the Muhadithin, they they found this hadith
slightly problematic in the sense that what does
it mean that the footfalls of?
Saidna Bilal are are in front of him.
Majority of the, they say that it's like,
imagine, like, if a king is going somewhere,
and, he has a servant that's holding the
reins of the, like, the the camel or
the horse, and he walks in front. No
one walks in front of the king, but
the the the the the khadum of the
khadim is like the honor of the Mahdum.
That the the the the the servant going
in front of the king is like it's
it's like he's part of the entourage, so
it's counted as the the king
entering That's their the the the the generally,
the will this is the explanation they'll give.
Uh-uh,
the
other one. He mentions this that
that the
will enter first, and then from inside the
door, he'll face who
will be right there with him. And that's
what he means that I hear his, footfalls
in front of me, meaning that he'll already
be inside,
and then he'll he'll he'll see his footfalls
while facing him rather than both of them
walking in the same direction. And Allah
knows best. One of the reasons for mentioning
these things is it's good to visualize,
what the end a person wishes to have
is. Another reason to mention these things is
what? A lot of people freak out about
these things. They nitpick it, like, oh, look.
There's a proof of hadith. It doesn't make
sense. No. Just apply your mind to things
and don't think, like, so, like, linear and,
like, simplistically, literalistically.
There's a lot of nothing in life is
that linear anyway.
Real life is always like that. You know?
Just think about it 5 for 5, 10
minutes, or go ask somebody who's good at
thinking about things, and they'll explain it to
you rather than having a crisis of faith
about,
every time you don't understand, you know, how
something is supposed to make sense.