Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn How to Begin End Eating.mp4
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The speakers emphasize the importance of acceptance and gratitude in one's life, including finding spirituality through the sunGeneration of the prophet sallavi and the importance of remembering the name of Allah. They also stress the importance of avoiding confrontational behavior and being drawn for one another. The speakers also mention a new room and a car. The speakers discuss the differences between educated and ignorant people in the world, citing examples from the datch and the rich and the poor, and encourage people to connect with the hadith of the prophet sallam through a book on the matter of theharadoth. They also mention a gathering where participants will pay for their services and encourage people to connect with the hadith of the prophet sallam.
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By the father of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
This is a book I started reading
a formal or public for
maybe in 2,000 and
9 or 10. I don't recall exactly.
I think it's 2,009.
It shifted from place to place,
from
between 3 different masajid in Seattle,
and then,
from the Masjid Hassan in the south side
to the Masjid in Rockford,
and now
over
here.
And it's of the book Rialdus Salihin, which
is a
I consider a very Muslim book,
in our in our
not just our tradition, but in our life
as Muslims nowadays because
the book is deceptively
widely available.
It's probably after the book of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, the book that's
most,
easily accessed in in the masajid.
Yet strangely enough, very few people have actually
read what's inside of it.
And there's a lot of information inside of
it. And one of the one of the,
I guess, proofs that I have that very
few people have read it
read what's actually inside it is very few
people can tell you what the subject of
the book is.
And if you ask somebody, maybe they'll say
the subject of the book is hadith. The
subject of the book is not hadith. Strictly
speaking, it's not a book of hadith in
the first place.
A hadith is
has 2 components. It has a Matan and
a Isnaad,
a text and a chain of narration. And
you'll notice the entire chain of narration is
not mentioned in this book.
So what it is is just a text,
of the, of of the Hadith of the
Messenger of Allah and
of Ayaat. And a Hadith hadith themselves. The
text is there, but the only part of
the chain of narration which is mentioned is
the top of it, which is from the
Sahaba radiAllahu anhu. Although occasionally from time to
time, he'll mention 1 or 2 more narrators
mostly because of the,
context, because it gives context to the Hadith
that's being read.
So it's not strictly speaking a book of
Hadith in that sense.
Although there are the texts of many a
Hadith, rather it is a book that is
there to teach you regarding the
spiritual,
teachings of Islam
and how a person should prepare their heart,
through their actions, through their words, and through
their states,
through the imitation of the
states of the Messenger of Allah, salallahu alayhi
wa sallam,
in order to
form for themselves
a,
you know, a treasure or,
some some good deeds in their bank account
for the
the the day of judgment,
on a day where material things are not
gonna help anybody.
Rich people will die,
and,
their money is not going to help them.
Homeowners, their homes will not help them, car
car owners or cars will not help them
on that day. That's
the I need someone to catch my mistakes
inshallah.
Sisters, can can you hear?
I'll try to be a little bit louder.
Yeah. If you can move closer to the
screen.
So
Ria Abu Salihin is a book that my
understanding of
is here, so I'm a little bit nervous.
But,
you can correct me if I'm wrong and
add some stuff also.
But my understanding is that
who wrote this book,
or who compiled this book.
We couldn't find the mic. The mic is
just underneath here. Can you tell Javeria she'll
slip it out and hand it over to
But she said everything hooked up to him?
Can you sister Javeria? Yeah.
Do you have everything hooked up on the
mic and everything? Yeah. I do, but,
I don't know. The mic should be right
under there.
Mhmm. Yeah.
Yeah.
What?
And then the other one. Yeah. Cool. But,
do you have
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it.
So,
to continue, you can can you hear now
a little bit better in the sister
section? So to to continue, it's a book
that,
it's, like, kind of written with a companion
book, Imam Nuh
who was,
an alama,
a person of mastery in
in in all branches of Islamic learning,
a person
of immense piety
and suhud,
and doing without this dunya in his lifetime.
He's one of the few olamah who
one of the the few olamah who never
got married.
Generally speaking, it's not considered a positive thing
to never marry. But if you look over
his life, he really didn't have any time
to do anything else except for what he
did in his life. Many people waste their
time doing this thing and that. He died
when he was, what, 41?
43. 43.
He died at a very young age, and
he compiled if you look at the the
the the sheer number of works that he
wrote and
how how many students he taught and what
he did, the service he did for for
compiling, organizing,
and presenting the the ulun,
for for the people, whether it be in
Hadith or the fiqh of the Shafi'i Madhab,
or any number of other ulun,
including books like this that are for just
laypeople. So there are 2 books,
they're companion books. 1 is
the Kitabul Adkar,
which is a book about what you're supposed
to do,
but it's not like a fiqh book. Right?
Fiqh books are, like, very technical, and they're
they have a very set, you know, way
that they present discourses, and they're they're laid
out in a way that's supposed to present,
like, a whole bunch of details
and and kind of present a tree of
learning and understanding,
in which those details will fit in. The
is not like that. The is like, this
is how you do this. This is how
you do that. This is how you wake
up. This is how you go to sleep.
This is how you you, eat. This is
how you get married, this is how you
die,
this is how you do a janazah, wash
your body. All of these things, they're all
mentioned in that book, which is a sister
book to this riyal Abu Salihin.
And, I remember I asked my sheikh,
Moana Abdul Halim No Omani,
Allah give him a long life. He teaches
currently the the Hasus for the Hadith in
the Nuritan Madrasah in
in Pakistan. And he also teaches the Sahih
Muslim, which is very high seat of of
hadith instruction in the Jamiat al Rashid, also
in Karachi.
He's
also Mawana Bilal's Sheikh,
in in in hadith.
So I asked him I asked him very
innocently. I said,
you know there's a lot of 50 stuff
in it, and, you don't know if he's
a Shafi'i, so is it worth buying?
Because he's a chef. He's like, oh, is
it worth worth book worth buying, or is
it is it something that's gonna be, like,
not relevant?
So he goes he goes, oh, Mia. He
he used to do this. He's a very
old man, has very thick spectacles. So he,
like, whenever he wants to say something to
you with emphasis, he'll like like lean his
face forward, like tilt his face forward, and
then peer at you through, like, over his
over his glasses. He says,
oh,
He says he says he says, old man,
sell the house if you have to, but
buy the avkara.
This is a common saying amongst the Alama.
Yeah.
So that's a that's a wonderful book. Unfortunately,
we won't be able to we won't be
able to read that,
in this Darz. But this book is like
a companion. It's a it's a it's like
a sister to that book. This is my
understanding if it's correct
that it's it's a companion to that book.
And this is about
the spiritual teachings of
of the Deen and spiritual teachings of the
sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And so you have a copy of the
translation of the Tabla of Kaar,
there you go. This is really,
Masha'Allah. Beautiful edition.
So this is a a companion book to
it to teach teach us about the
the the spirituality of the deen. But again,
it's not like no high
in the sky pie in the sky in
July type of, like, discussion about
stuff that's not relevant to you and I,
or things that that
the common person experiences that they won't
appreciate. Rather, this is about finding spirituality through
the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam which was there all along,
bringing a person's focus and attention to it.
It may be that somebody through this will
understand
those other things later on,
But even when they do, they'll realize there's
more spirituality
in the hadith of the Messenger of Allah
then there is a 1,000 enlightened discourses about,
about this, that, and the other thing that
people use very fancy
words. They use the word paradigm and ethos
like 7 times in an hour and a
talk and whatever. There's more ruhaniyah and the
simplicity of the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam than there aren't. There isn't all
of those other things
put together, and those other things if there
is something amongst those things that has benefit
in it, it only derives its benefit from
the the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And so there are certain things that are
overlapped between the two books, like a certain
hadith that are mentioned in both places, but
the arrangement of the book is there for,
for
to focus on the the the the spirituality,
the the things that you need to say,
the things that you need to do, the
states you need to have in your heart
in order to
prepare it
for the day of judgment.
And, you know, I guess before we start
the starting on the hadith, a little bit
about Imam Nawi
Again he
he basically, he was a student of knowledge,
and he
as a kid. And then after he studied
for some time, his father
pulled him out of study,
and
purchased from a shop,
so that he could do business and earn
a living.
And so his his teacher
pleaded with his father and said, why, why
did you pull my son out of the
out of or he said, why did you
pull this your son out of
study? He was doing really well, and he
showed a lot of promise. So I got
him a shop to study,
and then the the the sheikh says, let's
go see what he's up to. So they
go to the shop, and they see he's
just reading Quran, and he's heedless of what's
going on in the market place. This guy
is not gonna do anything in the shop.
Let us take him inshallah. He'll, you know,
he'll it'll be a great benefit for everybody.
So they took him and he studied, studied,
studied in the village and until he couldn't,
you know, until he took the ooloom from
all of his teachers. And at a very
young age in Damascus,
he studied and reached a very high makamah
months day,
There's my understanding in those days, the highest
seed of learning in the highest seed of
learning of hadith in Damascus was the Darul
Hadith Al Shafiya.
And so
he died at an age
that was probably decades younger than the age
most people would would, you know,
would would receive a chair in in in
that, institution to teach,
much less started teaching.
So it's,
you know, it's a great achievement, accomplishment. There's
a very
a fatwa,
and
had the his ulama, his kind of court
lackey ulama, a fatwa
and had the his ulama, his kind of
court lackey ulama push a fatwa that that
Imam Nawawi opposed.
And so when the king found out, he
got upset and said, have this have this
person brought to me.
And or so this sorry. This person,
tell him if we don't he doesn't cancel
his fatwa, I'll have him fired from his,
from his government job.
And, they said, well, he doesn't take any
money from from any, like, walk for any
any government entity. So, well, tell him if
he doesn't rescind his fatwa, I'll burn his
house down. So he lives in the mustard.
You can't burn the mustard down.
They said they said that have him brought
to me,
and, I'll I'll I'll tell him to either
send his Fatwa or I'll kill him. And
so they bring him, and he walks right
into the court like a like a lion,
and starts telling the haq to the king,
and tell him you have to fear Allah
and this, that, and the other thing. And
he preached the word, and he just walks
right out. And the king was speechless.
The other kind of sell out sell out,
like, kind of movies were in the court.
They're like, how come you didn't do nothing
to him? So this man fears Allah,
if you had so much taqwa as he
did, I would also listen to what you
guys have
to say as well. So there's a there's
a number of stories about Masha'allah, his saintly
miracles. May
Allah Just you know that this this thing
there's there's a type of spirituality that comes
because there's unbroken chain through which these these
hadith come. There's spirituality that comes through the
prophet
but it's through like a whole set of
people. And so maybe sometimes in a certain
masjid, you may read the same hadith or
hear the same hadith that you heard a
100 times before, but it will affect you
differently,
because because of the the that chain and
appreciating what the value of it is.
And you know these people are like drops
in the bucket compared to the Sahaba radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhu.
And, you know, they're drops in the bucket
compared to the rasul sallallahu alaihi wasallam, the
ocean that nobody can understand except for the
Allah who created him.
So we move
to something very simple
and something
very, you know, every day,
which is
which is what it's the,
the book regarding the proper way of of
eating and the proper manner of dealing with
with food. And one might say, well, that's
not very spiritual.
Well,
the reason that we're
not gaining a lot of benefit is because
that's what we think when we eat.
So Babu Babu tells me
Said, now Amr ibn Abi Salamah. This
is the Raviv of Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Amr bin Abi Salamah is the the the
son of the Shahid Sahabi radiallahu
anhu or Anhu. Saidna Abu Salamah radiallahu anhu.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam married his
mother after his father was martyred
in in in the path of Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala. So he's
but his rabi, like what we would say
nowadays step son. But we we wouldn't say
step son in the technical terminology, the sharia.
Rather, he was raised in the home of
the prophet
and then Nabi
treated him with great kindness and there's
a hikma in that that then those people
transmitted the sunnah of the Risul
So say, Na'ammar ibn Abi Salamah
he said,
that the Messenger of Allah
said 3 very base basic
etiquettes and protocols of eating. 1 is that
you should say the name of Allah
The second
the food together,
from the same plate. And then after that,
another age came where people are supersizing
things, and then they're still hungry.
Sayyidina Nabi, salawahu alaihi wa sallam, said what?
Say the name of Allah
There's a difference of opinion amongst the olamah.
Some of them say this means say Bismillah
ur Rahman ur Rahim. Some of them say
this means
just Bismillah.
But say the Name of Allah and
eat from that which is close to you,
assuming that the plate is like just one
dish. Don't make your hand go around and
sully the entire dish, but eat from the
side that that that's close to you.
Sorry. Eat with your right hand and eat
from that which is close to you.
In
a
say the Aisha Umu Minin, may Allah ta'ala
be pleased with her.
She said that the messenger of Allah
said, when one of you eats,
let him remember or mention the name of
Allah Most High.
And if he forgets
to mention the name of Allah Most High
in the beginning of the food, let him
say,
Let him say
in the name of Allah Ta'ala in the
beginning of it, and in the name of
Allah Ta'ala in the end of it. Everyone
can say that together, so not everybody is
accustomed
saying. And so this is the first the
first thing from the 3 that was mentioned
in the hadith before us too, say the
name of Allah
One of the things that I find I'm
not going to pick on anybody else even
with myself is that I oftentimes forget to
say the name of Allah Ta'ala in eating.
Sometimes even my my children will remind me,
and I forget myself. And, unfortunately, this is
because of the
the proliferation of the
the favor of Allah
on us that we never really have to
go through hunger,
and food is kind of always there.
And we eat so much during the day
on so many occasions. Many people eat on
so many occasions like snacking and and whatnot
that, it becomes so commonplace. Who's gonna remember
to,
say the name of Allah when they eat
or when they don't eat. The remembrance of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, it's a state that
you carry with you inside of your heart.
It's a state that you carry with you
inside of your heart. Hopefully, you get to
a point
eventually where
it's with you all the time. That's the
perfection of iman. Right?
That remember Allah ta'ala inside of your self,
inside of your very being.
In humility and in fear of Him.
And Allah saying that this is not this
is not this commandment is not speaking about
just saying it on your tongue.
This is something even more subtle than that.
It's on a even even on a more
basic level than that. It's not saying Allah
Allah on the tongue,
but it's it's that's that whatever
the the the
the
or the, the the the, you know, the
fruit of
of of what you get from saying it
on your tongue, that thing should be in
your heart in the morning and in the
night.
Right? And there's no other time of the
day. Is there?
Should be there in the morning and then
the night. And lest the person think there's
any exception to this or any time that
you're exempted
from
it, and don't ever
don't ever be heedless of it. So that's
a very, like, tall order. Sometimes we say
these things to people, and then they feel
overwhelmed and freaked out. And they're like, oh
my god. How are we gonna do that?
I forget all the time and blah blah
blah. It's important. The thing is you have
to know what your goal is in order
to strive to get to it.
A person doesn't need to freak out if
you're not there yet. This is a commandment
of
Allah How are you gonna get there? You're
gonna get there from these types of things,
basic human necessities.
If you use them as an occasion to
remember
Allah, you eat like angels
eat. No. Angels don't eat.
You eat like animals eat.
Right?
What you're doing is, you're using this
is the hikman, the genius of the Nabi
that he's using your animalistic nature. Your animalistic
nature is the nature that you share with
all of those other creations that are not
connected with
Allah at a high level.
They're not going to have eternal life. They're
not going to have nabua. They're not gonna
have any and they're they're connected with Allah
prophetic geniuses. You he's using what?
Your animal nature and harnessing it in order
to make it a vehicle for your,
promoting your angelic nature,
for promoting your spiritual,
your your your kind of your spiritual ascent
toward Allah
Why? What are like human functions people do?
They eat,
there's a dua for eating, there's several duas
for eating, before and after.
What do you do? You go to the
bathroom.
Right? That's not like, at first glance that's
not a super spiritual thing to do, is
it?
Many people are like, why is he talking
about this?
It's awkward. Right? There's a dua for going
into
the place that you,
you know, relieve yourself, and there's a dua
for leaving.
There are sunas for going to the bathroom,
there's sunas
for coming out.
Right. What is it what is it a
thing animals do that human beings do?
Right? Would a husband and wife make love
to each other? There's even a du'a for
that.
I promise you if a person can remember
Allah at that time, there's no time that
they need need to forget him ever.
There's a dua for that as well. Every
single part of your animalistic nature, even that
Nabi because of his
and his understanding of
person would be insurmountable.
Normal people are so stuck in the dunya
that they're not I mean people, even not
many people who are not Muslims, even many
people who don't even believe in Allah
They understand that there's some spiritual element in
the human being, and there's some benefit in
harnessing it, and and enjoying
a healthy spiritual life as well. That's why
we have, like, nowadays, you know, people, they're
like, I'm spiritual but not religious. Right? I
consider that to be like a spiritual zina.
It's like trying to enjoy a relationship with
with a woman without being married to her.
It's not it's wrong. It's very wrong. You'll
enjoy it, but it's very wrong. It's not
gonna lead you anywhere beneficial. Because if you
you can be so spiritual that you fly
in the air, and you can read people's
thoughts, and and perform miracles. There are people
who can do stuff like this.
You can do all of that stuff. You
don't know if you go to Jannaim anyway.
What's the point?
What's the point of any of it? It's
not it's not good. It's not right. So
Nabi
used, like, you know, his prophetic genius. He
used that the very things that that everybody
else, they separate them from Allah
He
used those things to connect people to Allah
So first he gives, like, these three basic
protocols, now we're gonna elaborate through them. Right?
So if you forget to say the name
of Allah when you begin eating,
then what do you do? You say, in
the name of Allah, in the beginning of
it, in name of Allah, at the end
of it. You should memorize in Arabic, Bismillahi,
But
if you don't remember it, even even if
until you can remember that in Arabic, even
if you remember the meaning and make that
dua,
in your own tongue, it will suffice until
you until you learn. Obviously the barakah and
the
using the same words of the prophet There's
more barakah there. Why? Because you and I,
Allah Ta'ala, may not see in us much
that's worth forgiving.
But if he sees the words of the
Prophet
out of his love of the Prophet
will
will will kind of, you know, will get
in free with the band, you know.
Allah be pleased with both of them. He
said, I heard the messenger of
Allah say, when a man enters into his
house and then he mentions,
the name of Allah
when he enters, and he mentions the name
of Allah when he eats. Shaitan says to
his companions,
this is a house in which you will
not receive,
you will not be able to sleep at
night.
You'll have no lodging, and you will have
no no dinner. You'll have nothing to eat
either. This
is the shaitan says to his companions,
and,
shaitan has a lot of companions,
nowadays.
Shaitan will say to his companions
that you have no place to stay at
night, and you have nothing to eat.
And when a person enters into his house,
and he doesn't mention Allah
when he enters,
Shaitan says
that you have a place to stay at
night.
And if a person enters into his house
and doesn't mention, the name of Allah Ta'ala
when he eats, Shaitan says, you not only
have a place to stay at night, you
also have something to eat as well.
What does this mean?
Right? What does it mean? Obviously, Shaitan is
not gonna, like, eat your lafwah. I didn't
say and I saw it, and, like, I
ate one piece of chicken and the other
one wasn't touched. What's going on? Right? There
is something there's a spiritual reality to everything
physical as well.
There's a spiritual reality to things that there
everything has a spiritual dimension and a physical
dimension.
And so the the the spiritual dimension of
of the the process of eating,
that dimension, Shaitan, will
will have some sort of connection with it.
He will benefit from it. Your house will
be a place. Like, that's one of the
reason, like, one of the reasons you wanna
clean up in your house. It's nice to
have the house clean. But, okay, not everyone
can clean things all the time. But one
of the differences between,
for example,
leaving your laundry on the on the carpet
versus leaving an apple pie in the carpet.
If you keep leaving apple pie in the
carpet, you're gonna get bugs, you're gonna get
rats, you're gonna you're gonna attract bad things
to the house. Those things bring pestilence and
disease,
and,
those things, you know, that's how a black
plague spread. The black plague killed, like, what,
a third of the population of Europe and
a significant amount of the population of the
rest of the world as well.
So, obviously, you don't want to the 2
things are not the same. Like, leaving clean
laundry on your clean carpet doesn't look good.
It's not gonna impress the in laws, but
it is, you know, it's not gonna cause
you that much harm. Whereas if you leave
food on the floor, you're gonna attract all
sorts of stuff that you don't wanna have
in your house. And so that's the same
thing with Shaytan.
And Shaytan is real. And people ask me,
like, literally within the last 48 hours, can
Shaitan read your I get text messages and
emails from people. Can Shaitan read your thoughts?
Can Shaitan do this to you? Can Shaitan
do that to you? Can Chaitan influence you?
Can he get inside of your head? Does
he see you when this happens, when that
happens? Oh, yeah. It's conceivable that Chaitan can
do all of these things.
But if you block the inroads for him
to enter into your body, into your mind,
into your into your house, By what? By
by by saying the name of Allah when
you eat. By saying the name of Allah
when you enter into the house.
By by eating the halal. By guarding your
eyes from seeing the haram, from guy guarding
your ears from hearing the haram,
guarding your your stomach from from eating the
haram, guarding your private parts from the Haram,
all of these different things would have you
block him out.
So that's the defense. What's the offense? You
say your prayers, you read your Quran, you
say your urad, the zikr, and you say
all these things, and, and he's not gonna
wanna come anywhere near you.
And so instead of obsessing regarding
shaitan can mess a person up really badly.
It's a hadith of the prophet
that a man,
he heard of a people worshiping a tree,
and so he got so upset that he
took his axe and he was gonna chop
the tree down.
And none of you know, I remember told
me this story. The first time I heard
it, he I heard it from him. It's
that's it's a Nabi
narrates a story. It's not a spurious story.
Nabi himself narrates the story to the Ummah,
that he he got upset and he took
the he took the the the the axe
to chop the tree down.
And,
you know, on the way, Shaytan met him
in the form of a human being,
and says, what are you doing? So I'm
gonna I'm gonna knock this tree down because
the people are worshiping it instead of Allah.
And so he he he tries to plead
with him not
now he's gonna do it. And finally he
says, how about this? Just for today leave
it. You you know, just don't do it
just for one day, and I'll give you
a gold dinar. I'll give you a gold
gold coin, which is worth it, you know,
maybe like a $100 or something like that.
He said, I'll give you a gold coin,
You know? In our context, I'll give you
a $100 bill if you just need it
for today.
So he's like, I can do it tomorrow
anyway. Make make a $100. Why not?
So the next day, he goes with the
axe to chop the tree down. Alright. People
you guys are familiar with the story. Right?
Right. Next day, he goes with the axe
to chop the tree down. The same thing
happened. Same thing happened, and shaitan come to
him in in the form of a man
and says, you know, whatever. Right? That I'll
give you gold coin if you leave it
for a day.
And, now Shaitan has got to him. The
3rd day he takes the axe going to
the tree, his nia now is he's gonna
make some money.
It's not about chopping the tree down no
more. Right? He's gonna make some money. Right?
And so what happens is Shaitan grabs them,
the throat slam them. He's a grab but
literally he's saying the hadith, he grabs them
by the throat and throws them to the
ground. What do you think you're doing?
We have to be careful. One of the
one of the benefits for this, because there's
a lot of people,
a lot of people out there who have
allowed Shaitan to be in their life to
such a degree that he gets the upper
hand on them. Notice that the 3rd day,
it's not a matter of negotiation.
Now now now now, you know, now he
just got worked. You know? He he's he's
he doesn't have any way of getting out
of that now.
That's a really scary thing. There are a
lot of people in that situation.
Screwed up things that happen in the world
don't happen for free.
Right? Very few people, if any people at
all, are born that evil.
That I'm gonna wake up in the morning,
I'm gonna go kill children, or I'm gonna
go make people starve to death, or I'm
gonna steal from everybody, I'm gonna
this and that, you know, and whatever. All
those screwed up things that happen in the
world, they don't happen for free. And people,
like, their sins are, like, from their from
their own nafsas, like, small stuff.
Like, you know, like, oh he has like
a sandwich at lunch, I should have one
too. Like it starts from there, but then
Shaitan finds a way to wedge in, and
you know, one day
dude turns into Hitler or whatever. Right? That's
how that's how things happen.
You gotta be very careful as a believer
that that you use the the the commandments
of the Nabi sun, just let it pass
by like water under the bridge.
Like, oh, big deal. You know, I ate
yesterday without saying Bismillah, I don't see any
difference. Right? You have to be very careful
that you use these things not to get
in that position where you're getting, you know,
choke slammed by
by Shaitan.
And then one day you you look in
the mirror and you see somebody who's doing
crazy things.
Believers are like amazing people.
They're amazing people.
The entire the entire world around us are
I mean, people are, like,
doing crazy things, like, crazy things. Somebody's killing
someone, someone's murdering somebody.
Somebody is, you know,
whatever. Had a surgery to change themselves from
this gender to that gender, and then marrying
their boyfriend. And
for years, like, campaigning against
this, that, and the other thing. And, like,
some Muslim kid, like, you know, he comes
crying this shit. I you know, there's a
girl at school that I kind of like,
and I'm gonna go to Jahannam because I
looked at her. You know, like, why?
Obviously, sins are sins. I'm not excusing it.
Right? But, like,
why?
Because you have these protections. There's a limit
to how wrong things can go.
Once you pull out the protections, then Muslims
can be even more crazy than other people
can. Because those people, they do stuff that
they do because they don't know what the
difference between right and wrong is. We do
stuff that we know what's wrong, and if
we become wrong, then we go straight to
the wrong stuff for Allah.
Alright?
That's, that's something that that we have to
we have to respect. So when you enter
into the house,
when you enter into the house,
or, you know, there's a the the say
that there's a difference of opinion.
Does entering to the house here mean entering
into the into the domicile or
before you go to sleep. But at any
rate, both times it's Mas'un to make the
zikr of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
If you make zikr, it blocks Shaytan from
staying in your house that night.
And if you mentioned the name of, Allah
and you eat, it blocks Shaytan from,
from being able to consume with you and,
derive power and derive strength from the strength
that you have,
that you derive from the
food.
He,
mentioned that the Messenger of Allah
about incidents that that happened with him. That
he first mentioned that we used
to be present and eat with the Messenger
of Allah
And,
we never put our hands in the plate
before the Messenger of Allah
put his hand on the plate, we never
ate before he did.
So Ishqal comes up, Hazar al Sheikh
he
said that this is from
the adab of the of of the French,
of the of of the Europeans that we,
wait till people come to the food before
eating it.
Whereas the adab of the Muslims is that
you should sit on the sit on the
at the place of eating,
and the food is brought, and once the
food is bought, people eat.
So why is it he's saying we used
to wait for the messenger of Allah
to eat? Muhadithin say that the the Nabi
the commandment regarding him
is very specific.
Don't don't,
you know, don't
in in
in the context of the specific occasion of
the
the the revelation, I believe it means when
some, like, speech has to happen, let him
speak first, salallahu alayhi wa sallam. Just don't
walk in and blurt out what you wanna
don't try to set the agenda yourself. Right?
But because of the
the because of the the umum,
the the the general meaning of this, the
Sahaba radiAllahu anhu knew, like, not to do
anything before he did it. Because he's the
one that we learned the sunnah from. If
we don't see him do something first, how
do we know how to do it, or
what the deal is with it? And so
someone might say, well, we already know to
save his mihillah right now. They waited and
they saw something from him that they they
wouldn't have known had they not waited for
him
as this
mentioned in this hadith.
And Allah
knows best.
So this is our our our we used
to sometimes be present with the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam when he eat when he
would eat.
And
our custom was what? That we wouldn't put
our hands in the plate until he put
his hand in the plate
And indeed one day just like that we,
were present with him
at the time of eating,
when
a young girl,
she came forward to the plate with such
speed as if she was being pushed.
She she just closed in on the zeroed
in on the on the food as if
she's being pushed.
And she she went to
her hand in the plate,
and the Prophet
he
grabbed her hand before she could before it
could reach the plate.
And then a Bedouin.
Right? The Bedouins are nomads. They're the ones
that don't live in the city. They live
around the city. Sometimes they come in and
out. They live in tents. They move from
place to place. So oftentimes Bedouins, for anyone
here who hasn't had the wonderful experience of
of living with Bedouins before, they're very interesting
people.
Many of them are very good people,
but they have a very different
sense of, like,
a very different sense of, like,
how you interact with other people. Because they
the simple things about, like, living in the
city, they don't know.
So, like, for example, if you're a Bedouin
and you move from place to place, you're
not gonna build, like, a public restroom in
every place you go to.
So what's the adab in the Badia in
the desert? If you have to go, you
just walk out somewhere where no one can
see you, and you use the bathroom. There's
nothing wrong over there in doing that. Imagine
if such a person came to the city,
and they did go to the bathroom. What
are they gonna do? They're gonna do something
that we'll all freak out about. It's not
immoral.
It's just that's his custom.
Right? So there are a lot of things
like that. There are a lot of things
like that. So Bedouin,
came into the city,
and he saw the people are eating. He
he wanted to join. So just like that,
he came forward with such speed as if
he's being pushed.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam also grabbed
his hand as well. So now he has
2 hands with him.
One hand is the hand of this girl,
and the second hand is the this little
girl, and the second hand is the hand
of
this Bedouin. And then the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said at this occasion,
he says, shaitan wanted to
make a way for himself to get at
this food.
Shaitan wanted to make a way for him
to get at this food,
by having somebody at the table
not mention the name of Allah
And so he came with this young girl
to find a way to get at the
food, and I grabbed her hand. And then
he
came with this bedouin to get it have
a way of getting at this food, and
I grabbed his hand. And I swear an
oath by the 1
in whose hand
my soul is, meaning the one who controls
me. So
Allah
That shaitan's
hand is in my 2 hands
along with these 2 other hands.
That just like you see these 2 hands
in my hand, Shaitan's hand is also in
my grasp right now.
And then what did he do?
After that he said Bismillah, and then he
started to eat, and the rest of them
ate with
him.
So you get the hand of the shaitan
outside, out of the plate.
Nawawi mentions explicitly that he's a Sahabi
because
people don't know he's one of the less
well known,
from the Sahaba
He only narrates 1 hadith,
according to
according to,
many
of
the,
and all 3 of them say that there's
no Hadith narrated from him
known except for this one Hadith.
But he is a person who's known and
his lineage
is known and his tribe is known. He's
from Huza.
From those of you who remember Sarah, what's
it what's, what's the special thing about Huza?
Anyone remember from Sarah?
Who who was the who was the tribe
that,
before.
You guys can go home and, like, pull
out your
and
your Martin Wings and
right? The right? So that's the that's the
tribe that right?
You know? So you ask ask the, they're
gonna be in 8th grade now, so ask
the 8th graders because I talked to them
through. I made them memorize all these different
tribal names and things like that. Which 5
is from what?
From Mubad and Rabi'ah and which 5 is
right.
Right. So the Khuzah Khuzah, so he's from
that from that tribe.
And so he's he's known to the Muhadefin.
So now we mentioned that he's a Sahabi
because he's not common knowledge. He's not a
well known person from the Sahaba radiallahu. And
when he narrates that the messenger of Allah
sallallahu
was sitting
and a man,
was sitting and a man was eating,
and he ate all of his food except
for there until there's just one bite left,
one morsel of food left.
And when he lifted it up to his
lips or to his mouth,
when he lifted it up to his mouth,
he said,
Remember we learned that in the second hadith.
He said that in the name of in
the beginning and at the end, and
Nabi the prophet
then laughed.
And he said that,
that Shaitan
was sitting with him and eating with him
the whole time.
And when he said that,
what happened? You know what happened, Yusuf?
Shaitan had to vomit all the rest of
the food out.
It became like poison for him, he couldn't
take it. Because when he said that, Bismillah,
in the beginning and the end, all all
of it was like he couldn't deal with
it anymore. So the prophet this is his
nabua, he could see the reb, he saw
that the shaitan had to like
vomit all of it out. He couldn't take
it. He couldn't it was too much for
him. It harmed him.
So the Nabi
was sitting, and he oftentimes would partake in
his,
in his food. When he would partake in
his food, he would partake with
6 of 6 of his companions. 6 people
would sit with him. They would sit started
sitting together, 6 of them.
And,
you know, I I don't see in the
commentary if there's a
I don't see in the commentary that he
names that there's the same 6 people. It
may have been the same 6 people or
it may have just been protocol.
This happens right in the Hanpa. We don't
have any Hanpa's over here, InshaAllah. We'll have
one one day. And the Hanpa, the place
where we, you know, where we used to
go for self improvement
and, and to, you know, make ourselves better
people, and receive instruction from our masha'i,
in the sunnah. One of the things you
had to sit, there's a certain particular way
of sitting that's sunnah for when you eat.
The prophet never leaned back against anything when
he when he ate. Rather, he used to
he used to sit. He said, I'm a
slave, and I eat like a slave. So
he'd either sit like the Tashahood position for
the prayer,
or he would,
crouch, like,
on 2 feet. I I have, like, a
bad knee, so it's gonna lock if I
do it. But like he used to he
used to basically either that or he would,
crouch on on his 2 feet.
He would sit on his 2 feet, or
he would sit with 1 leg up, sit
on one leg and sit with one leg
up.
So those were those were positions that he
used to sit. And all of them are
like a slave, but you're not sitting back
and relaxing.
That's how you used to eat So
until you sit like that,
and until you were
4 to a plate,
4 people eating from the same plate, you
wouldn't be served.
Which is good because that's how you practice
the sunnah.
Right? You wouldn't be served. So perhaps, Allahu
ala, maybe that was a protocol.
This either refers to them
just my thinking about I don't know if
you see any other imam, but either it's
the same 6 people that would sit sit
together or perhaps that was a protocol that
just the plate. 6 people would eat to
a plate. But it says that the Nabi
saw she said
that the used to, were
used to eat with 6 companions.
6 of his companions and
a a bedouin came,
and he ate the whole thing in 2
bites. And he just grabbed
in the state in 2 bites, he he
downed the whole thing. So this is
the There are people that are, like, completely,
like, in control of themselves.
So some dude comes and bust the protocol,
like no sweat, no need to freak out,
you know. Some people are this is where
one of the sifat of the
that
every single thing that happens, they get all,
like, defensive or they get all, like, confrontational
about it.
Like, someone says something like, hey,
you know, Abdul Hamid, man, you're looking good
today. Well, you say I look ugly
every day? Well, what you trying to say,
man? Right? Because some people are like that.
Right? Or sometimes all of us have a
day that we're you know, some days are
like that. You know? Try to calm that
down when you feel that's some that's coming
on and happening. I'm like the worst of
everybody in that.
Really suffer a lot. So I love forgive
all of us. We should be drawn for
one another. Right?
But it's not there's there's not faith in
it. Right? So
very calm, cool. Dude just walks in
and and he just downed the whole plate.
They didn't say nothing. The prophet then after
after that the prophet just he said he
makes a comment.
He says that this guy didn't say Bismillah
before he ate. If he had said Bismillah
before he ate, it would have been enough
for not just 6, it would have he
would have also he has the 7th, it
would have been enough for
all of us. And this is also another
sunnah that we've left,
which is what?
We don't eat together from the same
plate. In fact, oftentimes,
even if it's in
a gathering,
they'll insist on bringing separate plates for everybody.
That's fine. If you're sitting with people, right,
like, you're sitting with people, right, some whatever
Muslim lawyers
get together, and you're like, you know, I,
you know, I read a hadith this Sunday.
You wanna eat from the same plate? I
feel like, yeah. No. No. Thanks, brother. You
know, like, that's fine. You don't gotta get
up on them. It's not like, you know,
like like like the 5 times prayer, the
person's, like, refusing to pray salat or anything.
Right? But on the flip side, right,
we're here with some measures. We come to
hear about read about the sunnah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. It's we're not
reading about it because it's, like, an interesting
story. If you want interesting story, go home
and watch a movie on Netflix.
Right? It'll have better special effects than all
this other stuff. Right? Were you reading this?
Why? Because we wanna benefit from it. Right?
So on the flip side also, if you
know, whatever,
Norman and Imran Tasim and and by human
half as much of that. If you guys
are sitting somewhere and the plate comes, you
all all look at each other, you know
it's a sunnah. Right? Don't, you know, you
should have some some and some excitedness and
some enthusiasm to practice it. This is the
sunnah of the Habib sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
I
wanna
enthusiasm to practice it. This is the sunnah
of the Habib
I wanna I wanna practice it as well.
And there are benefits to the practices as
well like we're reading. Right? So what do
you do? All of you look at each
other, say, no. We'll each from the same
plate and everyone say Bismillah.
If someone asks you, did you you know,
or someone says Bismillah out loud or reminds
you, don't get up on them. Like, yo,
I know about Bismillah, man. I went to
Sunday school. Don't think you're the only one
who knows about Deen and whatever. No. Just
be like, okay. I think you already said
Bismillah, you should thank the person for the
Sahaba radiAllahu on whom there's some hadith. Amazing.
Right? People would tell them, fear Allah. So
what are you joker? You're I was at
they're at Badr, and you're telling me to
fear Allah ta'ala.
You're just saying it to insult me, and
like to try to they had so they
had everything, like, the nafs so in check,
they would thank them.
And that's not that's not they wouldn't thank
them because they thought that the person was
or, like, you know, they're intelligent. They know
the person who's saying it to them is
not
you know, they probably there's a good chance
that they have other,
other intentions behind saying what they're saying. Right?
But the,
you know, but the the the the fact
of the matter is at the end of
the day, what would they what would they
do to thank them? Because just they can
intend from from whatever they want, but the,
you know, the fact is it's still a
reminder.
You take the reminder, you say, alhamdulillah.
So that's one thing, right, that if you
have food, if there's not a lot of
food, when you eat together there's barakah in
it.
And
when you say the name of Allah the
barakah increases.
And when you don't say the name of
Allah and you just roll in, like, you
know, like, it's gonna it's gonna it's gonna
drop the it's gonna drop the barakah. It's
going to take the away from you. The
prophet says very calmly, you not to insult
nobody even said anything. They weren't like, yo,
where are you from? Who are you? You
don't know how to eat. This, that. Just
he commonly commented for the sake of teaching
the Ummah. He said that if he had
said, Bismillah, this the food would have been
enough for all of us.
That the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
when his,
the the table spread was lifted, meaning once
everyone had eaten,
when the table spread was lifted, he would
say
that, all praises to Allah,
plentiful praise and and and pure good praise.
Means pure, but in
this context,
I, you know, I I think it means
something more like, you know,
something something something that's he says right here,
it says
That that you've hear means something like such
a pure,
praise that is transcends above any sort of
showing off,
to other people to be seen or to
be heard,
or or any sort of, like, anything else
that will,
I guess, water it down.
So he says that that that that this
is not in any way this praises in
any not in any way like
paying him back for all this all that
what he he gave.
And after this, we're not freed from need
from him.
Or through this, we're not freed from any
need from him,
and he is our lord.
We'll read
one more hadith, Inshallah, and then our
time will
be
up.
He narrated that the messenger of Allah
said, whoever
eats,
some food,
and then says,
Alhamdulillah,
all praises to Allah who
fed me and who gave me provision.
He fed me and He gave me this
in provision
without any,
power
or any might or power
on my behalf.
Allah
will forgive him everything that came before from
his sins.
And, you
know, there's a couple of things. 1 is
that
one is that,
this is the the grace of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
And one of the greatest
and
and duties of and and jobs of the
Anbi alai Musaatu Wasallam was to remind people
of,
the nirma of Allah and the goodness of
Allah to his creation.
And and this is Allah
This has less to do with, like, you
know, you and me saying this,
and more to do with Allah who he
is.
But, whoever eats and then says that Alhamdulillah
who gave who fed me this and gave
it to me in provision without without basically
me doing anything to be able to earn
it, deserve
it, whatever, rather than saying, oh,
you know, I have a degree. Who here
has a degree? Raise your hand.
Who has a degree? Raise your hand. It's
okay. Who has a degree? Your degree is
totally worthless.
I'm sorry. This is not the Masjid.
This is not a public gathering
where I have to walk on eggshells
and in order to make everyone feel better
about their nafs.
The degree is not even worth the paper
it's written on
in front of Allah
Ta'ala.
He created you. He degree created the degree.
He created the paper. All of it. It's
all gift from Him.
And these things sometimes they act like a
hijab between us and Allah
and we think like, oh
I got a I got a job, I
got a degree, I this, I that, you
know. And
it's all nonsense.
I mean, we live in the world, and
it's a sunnah that we have to keep
doing these things. Right?
But remember what we talked about. You have,
like, your animal self and you have your
angelic self. You're gonna connect with Allah to
Allah through the angelic self.
In the animal sense, yes. All these things
are really important.
Right? They're all really important. Just like the
salt lick in a
a little
rat cage is important for the salt or
for the rat. Right?
In that sense, yes, all these things are
really important.
But in terms of your eternal life, and
you're wanting a maqam from Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, it doesn't really mean anything. But this
is again the genius of the
that through the animal nature you're
able to connect with Allah ta'ala at that
higher at that higher level.
And and you admit you have to you
have to admit from your heart
to Allah Ta'ala
that none of this made any of it
possible.
You have to believe
it. Your citizenship
as an American,
your job,
your, all of these things are blessings from
Allah your degree,
your where you live, how good the schools
are, and your zip code,
all of this other stuff. None of it
is what what what gave it to you.
It's only Allah
None of it is what got you, you
know. This is like where He says,
whoever eats, like, some food. This is not
like even you had dinner or whatever. You
have, like, whatever half a bag of chips
or something like that. It wasn't any through
any but if you can recognize that if
you can recognize that, if you can recognize
that, what's the gift Allah gives you?
It's almost incredible. A person almost bogs at,
like, bogs at it. Right? But that's like
a big deal. Imagine the person who's doing
this every day, how many times you eat
once, twice, three times, every day whenever they
eat, they're doing this. Obviously,
your right
Right? Look at how we have preferred
some of them over others,
and the akhirah, you'll see the preference of
some people over others even greater.
All of these things we see in the
dunya, it's all it's all a lesson for
us in the akhirah.
Look at the difference between an ant and
between a a lion or an elephant.
Look at the difference between educated people and
ignorant people. Look at the difference between the
rich and the poor. There's some people who
are gonna starve to death today because they
can't even they'll dig through the garbage looking
for food, they won't find it, they'll die.
And there's some people who will whatever fly
around on private jets and, you know, like
throw away more food than than even we
would eat ourselves in a month in one
meal. Look at how much difference there is.
There'll be even more difference between people,
and the person who lives their life heedless
from Allah to Allah when they eat and
when they're done. And imagine the person who
every time they said this, that
that person
who said that every time, imagine how how
ahead of the game they're gonna be on
that day. Allah, make us from amongst those
people. Allah, make us people of his remembrance
inshallah, etcetera, all of us.
Amen. I just wanted to say a couple
of things inshallah maybe before we we pray
inshallah. Inshallah, the
there's eventually, we'll move upstairs to room 103.
So the room is being,
with some help from,
our our beloved, brother,
It's, it's it was painted,
and with, you know, it's inshallah, we're gonna
get, like, a majlis. It'll be furnished properly
and things like that. It'll be ready maybe
in a week or 2. 2 203.
203. This is 103. 203 is directly
above us.
Maybe we'll have it here just because there
won't be room over there, but Allah Allah
knows best.
But,
so that's something inshallah. Please make dua for
for for that work to get done soon.
And if anyone wants to contribute toward that,
we're using Masha'at's Huddl Centre's,
generously
allowing us to use their facility. If anyone
wants to contribute toward that,
Getting the,
the seating, the painting,
carpets, things like that
is gonna cost somewhere,
3 and a half $1,000 to get the
room ready, of which about 1 and a
half $1,000, must have been pledged already. So
somebody wishes to give
give toward that any amount, large or small,
inshallah, let me know. And most importantly
most importantly, make dua and attend the darsh
yourself.
And without a without nice carpets,
we'll survive.
But without the the sunnah the Nabi sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, we won't make it.
It's like the Malik said
it's like the ark of Sayyidhanu alaihi sallam.
If you don't have it, you'll sink.
So inshaAllah, all of those things, dua, attend,
and, and inshaAllah,
support.
So inshaAllah, we'll have we'll have this darts
at at 7 o'clock inshallah next week as
well, and hopefully for the foreseeable future. I'll
announce inshallah if there's any sort
of, gap or change.
I'll announce that inshallah and then we can,
you know, you know, we can we can,
you
know,
look for those announcements for for the next
couple of weeks. Inshallah, we'll have theirs.
The second thing is that, inshallah,
after Isha,
we'll have a gathering inshallah, a very short
gathering in which there'll be some zikr and
some dua. Whoever wishes to stay for that,
they're welcome to do so. Whoever doesn't want
to, they're welcome to go inshallah.
But I just want, you know, the culture
of hearing the hadith of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa
sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi
wa sallallahu al There's another place that you
can hear it. The hadith of the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
We should, like, get used to get used
to this, make this a part of our,
a part of our routine.
You see there, like, that he
wrote a tract about the
the mongol
the mongol mongols and their numerous sieges of
Damascus.
And whenever the city was surrounded
and they were afraid because Mongols, when they
would come into a city, if you don't
surrender right away, they'll trash it, they'll kill
everybody.
They would defile a massage and they would
just destroy everybody.
What would happen?
Everybody would do the thing that they did.
So the Hanqas were filled with people who
make dua and dhikr.
Right? Because that's what they do.
And then the the the the, what would
they do? All the that had all their
books that they would teach, they would come
out of the madrasa into the masjid, and
they would start teaching.
Muhadithim would start reading the books of Hadith
and saying
the people who obviously their shops are closed,
their businesses are closed if you're under siege.
Right? They would come and sit in those
those majalis and those,
massage. So he would name that this was
a calamity such a calamity that Bukhari was
being read from this many massages on that
day. This book was being read from this
many massages on that day. The were filled
with this many hundreds of people would go
to make zikr and make dua,
and Allah ta'ala saved them.
Allah saved them.
And, you know, at some point in the
history of the Ummah, people said, well, instead
of doing this, let's just do something else.
And
things kinda went in the direction that they
did. So you can choose for yourself what,
you know, what what you think works.
InshaAllah,
you know, give us the benefit. But the
hadith of the prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
wherever it's being read, insha'Allah,
that's that's that's
a really important way for us to tap
into the barakah of Allah sending his Nabi
salallahu alayhi wa sallam as rahma for the
alimin, inshallah. So I I encourage everybody to
to find some way to connect themselves with
it.
Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala give
you a
Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Good. With
that. Them.