Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Overturner of Hearts Dus cont 07312023
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So the
Sahabi
This is the
only hadith that is narrated from him
according to Hafiz ibn Hajar.
Again,
When we say here, it doesn't mean like
someone who can do but somebody who has
memorized,
at least anecdotally a 100000 hadiths with the
chain of narration as well.
So they say that this is his only
hadith that's narrated,
from him. That he said, I said, oh,
messenger of Allah, teach me
such a dua.
Teach me a dua that I can call
on Allah Ta'ala by.
And so the Messenger of Allah
said, oh, say, oh Allah,
I seek refuge in you.
Right?
From the evil of my ear hearing.
So, like, from hearing evil stuff. Like, people
talk garbage about one another. People backbite one
another. People lie, cheat.
You're sometimes you can hear things with your
ears you wish you never heard,
or things that that you, at the time,
think this is beneficial for me, but then
later on, you'll come to realize that it
was very harmful.
So that, yeah, lie, I seek refuge in
you from the evil of my hearing and
from the evil of my sight that I
shouldn't see something bad or see something
my heart that I shouldn't feel something haram.
And from the evil of
here,
the word many is a is the Arabic
word for *,
but it is an allusion to the private
parts that someone should do something wrong with
their private parts.
And this,
this dua,
it occurs to me that it is a
very
relevant dua for
people who use,
the Internet a lot, people who use social
media a lot. Because what happens is, like,
it's this unfiltered channel of information,
unfiltered channel of things that you're hearing, unfiltered
channel of things that you're seeing, unfiltered channel
of things that people are themselves speaking,
and,
pumping and cranking out
into the public,
and
an unfiltered
channel of also
other types of indecency.
And,
we should seek refuge in Allah
from all of these
things.
And it's all there inside of the hadith.
But,
the dua is
apt. This is part of the thing that
we should be aware of that we live
in a time where all of these evils
are, like,
like, so accessible, and people are not discouraged
from,
cranking them out at all whatsoever.
And so we ask Allah for his help
because, you know, you you can't unsee things.
You cannot unhear
things.
You know, once it comes into your head,
it just kinda goes there and rots. If
it's a lie, if it's backbiting, if it's
whatever it is,
it's it just goes inside and rots, and
it causes evil to a person's heart and
it harms them.
And a good person doesn't wanna hear any
of these things. But when you get desensitized
to them, you don't wanna see any of
these things. You don't wanna say any of
these things. But when you get desensitized
like, for example, the Sharil Lissani,
the evil of of the tongue that I
see refuge in you from the evil of
my tongue. Like, I when I went to
study overseas,
I never heard anyone say bad words. Like,
I'd never heard anyone say, like, curse words
in English. For years passed by, I never
heard it. Then they came back, and all
of a sudden, like, when I was your
guys' age, on TV, it was very difficult
to hear curse words.
But now everybody is cursing.
So it was like a shock. Like, someone
stabbed me in the ear.
The first time I would hear, second time
I'd hear. But then it become, like, after,
like, a month or 2 a month and
a half, 2 months, it becomes very normal.
And then what happens that I find myself
even saying these things,
and it becomes normal. It's no longer something
that has any shock to it. And in
fact, more than,
more than it being,
normal, there are some people they curse, and
they they're not even cognizant that they're saying
it.
And the whole point of all of this
is that we should be people that make
zikr, and we're not cognizant that we even
say it.
But what happens is that people, you know,
they're they curse and they use, like, foul
language. They're not cognizant that they say it.
It actually becomes they they become figures of
speech that are gross and that are indecent,
and, a person doesn't become cognizant of it.
I'm not such a,
I'm not such
a prudish person that I say that
language shouldn't be used.
At the end of the day, curse words
are also words of the language, and they
have very particular occasions in which they're actually
appropriate.
But,
you know, that's,
they should be used in their time and
in their place. They should not become,
the breath that a person breathes,
you know, whenever they're
thinking or not thinking about something.
Seek refuge in you from
Baras.
Baras
is vitiligo.
It's the disease that causes a person's splotches
in there,
in the in the the
pigmentation of their skin.
And
it was something that,
you know, I don't know that it's gonna
actually kill a person or or harm them
all that much. Although when a person suffers
from vitiligo, the melanocytes all become, you know,
defunct in a person's skin. So if you
go outside for a very short amount of
time, it could actually be very harmful for
you. But other than that, I don't know
it to be fatal,
or or difficult, but it's something that, like,
it causes splotches in people's faces and things
like disfigures them somehow.
And so people people used to not like
that. They used to consider in fact, the
ancient people used to take
an ill omen from
it. So I I seek refuge in you
from,
from and
from from
losing my,
rational faculty,
from going crazy.
Junoon is that a person should lose their
their their ability to reason and that they
should become and just go mad.
And,
judam is
leprosy.
Leprosy causes the the extremities to rot and
the,
the limbs to become disfigured starting from the
extremities and going inward. And it's an extremely
painful
disease that causes the eyes to shrivel up.
It causes a person to become
extremely deformed. And,
you know, if people have take a ill
omen from,
from vitiligo than from leprosy. They used to
literally have leper colonies. At some point or
another, only the most biased of people would
take care of lepers.
Otherwise, in many parts of the world, they
would just
abandon them far away from people out of
fear of,
getting their disease.
And I seek refuge in you from
evil
diseases and illnesses.
So
even Allah says, from those
illnesses that are evil that are ugly, that
that that make a person ugly disfigure their
noble Adamic form,
like
paralysis
or like
that a person should lose their their their
sight or, like, the the the diseases that
were mentioned.
Why a person is particularly afraid of those
things. Why? Because in general, the sicknesses a
person goes through, like, a person just has,
like, a cold or has a flu or
a fever or something like that.
It's understood that this is a temporary setback.
A person just eats a little bit less.
They'll get through it in a couple of
days,
and they're being rewarded for it,
from Allah
Whereas these types of really overwhelming illnesses, the
fear is this is that a person's will
run out.
A person is afraid that their sabr should
run out and then they should that they
should say something,
to Allah Ta'ala,
or about Allah which
is not appropriate, and they should jeopardize their
akhirah,
because of,
you know, because of that, that that that
thing that they say.
That it will end up the illness itself
will be a a a reason for a
person being driven further from the deed.
And, this is, you know, it's one of
those tribulations that a human being was meant
to be in a particular form. Allah gave
every human being honored form. And that's why
you see actually the the the a hadith
with regards to the reward of being patient
with
particularly those illnesses that disfigure a person's form.
It's a great reward, actually.
For example, the person who loses their sight.
The Rasulullahahu
alaihi wasallam said that the person who
is
makes on the loss of his,
the 2 their 2
precious,
and noble
eyes
that that person that person
will give them. But if you have to
suffer this and you're still patient with Allah,
that you don't speak ill about him, that
the reward for that is Jannah.
Likewise, there are a number of other illnesses
and diseases.
It's narrated,
by, I believe,
but
don't quote me.
We have students of knowledge. You guys can
go
crack the books open and then trace these
things and then correct me if it's wrong.
But,
that he
he once,
spoke about
about plague. The prophet said that the person
dies of plague,
that that they die as a shayid.
And so there was one of the companions
of the who was there in the madras,
and they say that plague used to start
like a, like a lesion, like a, like
a white colored lesion in the skin. So
he said, I woke up in the morning,
and I saw this lesion in my hand,
and I was
like, completely distraught.
And he said that, but now you said
this thing from Rasulullah
He said that this thing is more precious
to me than the entire dunya and what's
inside. But a person should seek refuge in
Allah Ta'ala from those tribulations. And if you're
tested with them, then ask Allah
to make you for just like that the
rasulullah
always said means to forbid people from
making tamani to from from from dreaming and
fantasizing about the lakaal or adu,
for the fantasizing
about,
and desiring meeting the enemy in battle.
Rather, you should ask
Allah we settle our our problems the easy
way and that we should not, you know,
be forced to do, you know, we're not
not be forced to go into war and
things like that.
But then if you if you're tried by
it, if it's something Allah chooses for you,
then you ask Allah for his,
for his help and for salat that he
make you that he make you firm. And
so these diseases and things like that, likewise,
we're commanded to continuously seek refuge in Allah
from them. But if we should be tested
by them, then not to freak out about
it. This is something, you know, relevant to
to bring up at this time because the
mention was made of plague, and the mention
was made of of, judam,
of leprosy.
One of the reasons that's written in the
the the books of Fatwa,
the
books of Fatwa, with regards to why it
is that the person who suffers from
from plague, who dies of plague, dies of
shahid.
It's not automatic that everybody who dies of
plague all of a sudden becomes a righteous
person or a good person or receives that
rank.
But
it was mentioned in the miyar
that
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said
that if a person is in a place
where the plague is,
it's haram for them to leave. If a
person is not in that place, haram for
them to go to that place. And if
they're in that place, haram for them to
leave. And so one of the concerns that
the that the had
in the old days
was what? Was that the
people who are themselves dying of plague, what
are the wisdoms of this is that somebody
the healthy people still have to take care
of them. Otherwise, what is what is the
kind of, like, self centered,
you know, rationale
of what you should do. Just let them
die. Maybe if I stay in my own
house, let everybody else die. It'll be done.
It'll be finished. Their corpses will rot in
their houses, but, like, I'll be saved.
And this is not something as I've found
with Qifai, people should have janazas. You know?
Fine if you have to, like, you know,
whatever, p
PPV or whatever up and then, like,
you know, like, handle it, you know, in
a in a way that you protect yourself.
That's fine. But the sick need to be
taken care of. This is also a Fard
Kifa'a,
and it's known that there's a danger in
doing this as well. But if everybody abandons
because what happens even in the old days,
people used to do that. They said they
just abandoned,
they would be in a place where plague
is, they'd still abandon
the people who are suffering to their suffering.
This is akin
the Fokkarite
to abandoning
battle,
the field of battle in the middle of
a difficult fight.
This is something very few people think about
or talk about. You see, the per people
abandon burying the dead and reading their janazahs,
they're like the people who abandon
the,
the the battle,
the battlefield in the middle of
battle. And for those people to expect that
somehow that they should be treated like shohada,
this is an unreasonable
expectation.
It's not just magic. Oh, look. You got
plague. You're automatically shaheed. We have a good
opinion of people,
you know, who were tried with these things
in the past, but for us ourselves, we
shouldn't imagine that this thing is just like
some sort of automatic, like,
a thing that I have, like, 17 comorbidities.
So this you know, I'm gonna make it
to.
You know? That's where my appointment is tonight.
It's not that's not necessarily like that.
And so that was that was you know,
Muslim doctors used
to try the pious ones used to try
to treat lepers.
Even to this day, the pious ones try
would try to treat the people in COVID.
Can you imagine the lockdown happened? There were
doctors who called me.
Like, shit. Can you write us a note
saying that, you know, we can't work at
the hospital because in order to put on
the the the respirator or the n 95
mask or whatever,
you had to shave your beard.
And, I'm like, no.
I said, you guys all told everybody you
told everyone you became a doctor because you
wanted to help people.
Right?
This is your your big shot. I'll write
you a letter saying that under normal circumstances,
not permitted.
But under this particular circumstance, because life and
death situation, there's not enough people taking care
of the sick, that for you to take
the rugsa,
that it's to shave your beard,
That it's in this time, it's one of
the few times even I would say that
it's appropriate for a person to take the
ruxa and put on the respirators and say,
and there are Muslim doctors, Muslim nurses who
did it.
In those days where other doctors and nurses
didn't wanna show up to
work. This is a very noble thing.
These people deserve praise. Allah ta'ala increase their
ranks, Allah ta'ala
forgive them their sins, Allah give them the
fey and the barakah of this world and
the Hereafter.
These are the type of people this is
the wilayah of Allah
You know, it's not just like people think
of who's the holy of Allah or whatever.
Do you know who the is and blah
blah blah. Yes. Some of them are secret
and some of them are hidden,
but some of them also you can see
in things like this,
blesses blesses with with sainthood. It's not something
like something like in a back pocket that
if you, like, you know, do some sort
of secret handshake, high five patty cake baker's
man with, you know, like, you know, some
sort of, like,
you know, secret, like, leprechaun Sheikh that, like,
hides around.
People think of things like that. Right?
And if that's how it was, what's the
point of the deen in the first place?
Right? I'm the hidden imam. I have secret
knowledge. I have this. I have that. And
the normies don't understand, blah blah blah. The
the like, people fall for this. There are
people in Chicago right now who are 100%,
like, in in stuff like that.
And, you know
you know but you wanna see sainthood? The
saint is what? He's the person who, like,
gets up and then goes and serves. Even
though it's a danger to himself, it's a
danger to his, you know, his health and
well-being and things like that. They went and
they went and helped those people. Some of
them got sick. Some of them actually died.
Those people, if someone were to say that
this person died,
I would say, you know what, this makes
the hadith make complete sense, though.
And Allah gives from his father, people go
through even a small amount of
difficulty. Allah forgives people. You know, a person
shouldn't think that, you know, like, oh, no
one is gonna ever get anything good from
him, but these are the people who really
did it right. Really,
they
you know, like, you know, it reminds you
of that that that level of that level
of goodness.
And people should not everyone has the hima.
Not everyone has the the courage to do
things like that. At least you should
say this is a good thing. Admit it
as a good thing. Love it inside of
your heart.
Even that much is still a level of.
If you're going to be a hater, then
and think, oh, look. You know? Good thing
that I didn't, like, whatever, because now I
survived. And if I was with them, you
know, I would have died. It can 100%
talk.
You know? If you survive, good for you.
I'm not saying you're monolithic for having survived
and saved yourself even.
It's a very normal human thing. It happens.
You know?
But, like, to look down on the other
people who gave sacrifice for the sake of
Allah,
that's that's, like, bogus. That's that's 100% nifaq.
If you wanted to save yourself, you wanna
save yourself, good for you, don't expect, like,
some sort of Nobel Prize for doing you
saved yourself, good for you.
But to, like, look down then on the
people who, you know,
the people who gave sacrifice for the sake
of Allah, that's, like, that's, like, kind of,
like, a disgusting
feeling that really a person should make Tawbah
from if they find themselves happy.
The life of a shahid for the
the life of a shahid is for
for the for the,
and the blood of the shahid is for
the.
People have to make sacrifices. Otherwise, the entire
system falls apart.
And you see, you wanna see a picture
of the entire system falling apart, go to
several countries in the Muslim world where nobody
everybody's completely self absorbed. Nobody's willing to do
the smallest thing for one another.
Except for very few people who are very
special, and the burden shifts to fewer and
fewer people,
and it becomes more and more unsustainable
for them.
And, you see, it's a dysfunctional, like, failed
state type of society.
Whereas if people are willing to help one
another out, the irony is that the play
won't spread as much actually if we take
care of one another.
So think about that. Remember that as well.
When you, when you
read these a hadith, the Rasulullah
asked
Allah for protection for those reasons because it's
such a fitna. Person doesn't
know or have a reasonable expectation that they'll
come out of it with their iman intact.
That's what was what's scary about it. Otherwise,
if a person knows that they'll survive the
the the the difficulty
for
The most
severe in tribulation are the prophet,
and those who are most like them, and
those who are most like them.
He
mentioned that he he said that the messenger
of Allah
used to make dua. He said, oh, I
seek refuge in you from hunger.
I seek refuge in you from hunger
because it's,
like, the worst
the worst companion to go to sleep at
night with.
And so here,
even it means, like, not just, oh, I'm
hungry,
but, like, I could use a snack.
You know, the hunger that,
that that paralyzes a person from being able
to do things that they need to, from
being able to go to the masjids, from
being able to go to, you know, go
to work to take care of their family,
to help others,
etcetera.
It's because it's a bit it's a. It's
the
the the worst the worst companion to sleep
in the bed with. I mean, it keeps
a person awake at night and, you know,
then when you don't get rest, you become
weaker and weaker.
And,
it will kill your ability to wake up
for fajr. It will kill your ability to
wake up for tahajr. It will kill your
ability to do the things that you need
to in the day.
And, otherwise, they used to go hungry. I
mean, from our
purposes, they used to not eat a lot.
But he's talking about that overwhelming hunger that,
doesn't let a person sleep at night. And
he says that, and I,
seek refuge in you from
treachery
because it is the worst. It's the worst,
like, the worst companions
that a person could
worst companion a person could keep with them.
Here means what? It's like your your your
your your
privy council
or your your crew, you know, that you
roll with your people that you trust.
That if your go to in your mind
to deal with problems is what
is treachery. That, okay. Well, I told him
and or he thinks this or he thinks
that, and I'm just gonna, like, wait till
he turns around, and stab him in the
back. This is this is not good.
This is not good at all. And sadly,
you see that this has become very normalized
behavior in a lot of places in the
Muslim world
as well. And it's become very normalized behavior
amongst a lot of things who actually think
they're smart. They think that people who are
trustworthy and trusting people are stupid,
and somehow, you know, being treacherous is smart.
This is not this is not good at
all. This is this is not good at
all.
And treachery is stupid because once human beings
stop trusting one another, society falls apart, and
you go back to the jungle.
And,
you know, if behaving like a like a
ape is a smart thing, then it's smart,
but it's not.
Allah protect us from other people's and Allah
protect us from becoming.
There's a mistake in the book,
and my pen is made out of, like,
my my pen is made out of metal,
so I can't take it with me to
the airport. So I just came from the
airport. It's gonna help me to make the
correction here.
I didn't read it. I corrected it while
reading, but I wanted to mark it in
in case somebody else reads from this from
this copy.
Alib Nuh-uh Alib Nuh-uh Alib Nuh-uh narrates that
a mukatab who's a mukatab? A mukatab is
a slave
that comes to an agreement with the with
the master, with the owner.
That
you go out and earn money and pay
me payments in installments.
And then once that
that that agreement is fulfilled,
then you're you're free.
So imagine this,
a
a slave who was like this on like,
trying to buy him buy his freedom in
installments,
came up to him, and he said,
help me
because,
I I I've I'm I'm not unable to
I'm unable to, like, fulfill my installments. Like,
this deal is gonna collapse. Because what happens
if you don't if you don't fulfill it,
the master keeps the money and you're
just you stay slave. That's it. So he
says, I'm I'm about to lose this thing.
And so said
to him
and said, I'll teach you certain some words.
Because the thing is he went to say,
said, said, do you think he's also ruling
with a huge bank account account or whatever?
These all these people are zuhat. Right? Do
you remember the hadith of Sayyidaf Fatima
that that was the thing the messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said to
him, no, he himself is, you know, not
rolling with a huge amount of money and
silver and gold everywhere, throwing money all over
the place.
And so
he gave him the advice that he used
himself and that he was given by the
messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, which is
to turn to Allah Ta'ala.
He says, shall I not teach you certain
words that
the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu
had taught them to me.
And even if you had
a mountain of debt on your head,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala would
discharge that debt from you.
So say, oh Allah,
be sufficient. Make your halal sufficient for
me so that I never have to turn
to your haram,
and enrich me through your grace
so that I never have to ask anyone
other than you.
This is a very important
dua. People should write it down, people should
memorize it, and people should say it.
We're not supposed to get into debt in
the first place. The prophet
very
stridently
discouraged people from taking debt on that's not
absolutely necessary.
And people are very flippant with it. You
have, like, people going around with, like,
leather boots that they bought on their credit
card, and they're
paying interest payments. Or they're not paying interest
payments. I have a month to pay it
off. I have 6 months to pay it
off. It's not a big deal. Even then,
even the halal that the prophet used
to,
he's
very emphatically,
you know,
tell people not to take on debt unless
it was absolutely necessary.
Then when it's on your head, you have
to pay it back. It's a sin to
not pay it back when you're able to.
It's a sin to delay payment when you're
the time comes, and you know you can
get away with delaying payment. It's not just
that. You know? We're not just commies that
we let go everything. The rich, the rich
you rich bastard. Everything. You're just the rich.
You're always pissed at the rich and upset
at the rich. You know? They have rights
too. You
know? Maybe someone
gathered money because, you know, like, you know,
while you were eating Snickers bars and drinking
Coca Cola, the guy was like, you know
what? I I don't drinking from the water
fountain. You know? That's another you know, there's
ways that people get wealth that are halal
and noble as well
and dignified as well.
And to have eaten your turn, and then
eat someone else's turn, and then not pay
them back, it's a it's a sin. It's
a type of the the sometimes the debtor
can be a volum against the
the the creditor.
So
at any rate, the point is this is
that,
you know, don't get into debt so you
don't have to worry about any of these
things. Buy things used. Buy things second hand.
Michelle, I see a lot of people young
people who are, like, college age
people. I'm assuming
either that or you have some sort of
incredible, like, cream that you put on in
the morning, some of you guys.
Go to community college. Go to public school.
Don't go into debt if you don't have
to.
People are like, oh, Sheikh, well, you know,
can we take out college loans? Okay. Fine.
Even if I said, go ahead and take
out your college loans. Right? Riba is haram.
I can't say riba is not haram. Like,
I'd be a kaffir if I did that.
Right?
But if I were like, well, you know
and you have to earn a living and,
you know, it's bad, you know, to, like,
not have this and that and the other
thing. You know, you can't live without them.
All of those things. But still, right, why
would you if, you know, if someone were
to say that there's some I'm not saying
this, go ask Amufthi about all of these
things. But I'm saying that even if someone
were to give fatwa that it's permissible.
Where would the permission permissibility be that if
you could get the get a degree that
will get you
a gainful employment and and and and skills
in one school for, like, you know, with
$15,000
of debt and another school, like, for 50.
And where would the permissibility
be for the the latter if the former
exists?
Or is it that I wanna look good
or I wanna go out of state or
I like the dorms in that place or
I like you know, I wanna go with
my friends because my friends are going your
friends are idiots. Your friends are dumb.
Your friend
you know, much less some of your friends
are not so bad. But I'm just saying,
like, if they do dumb things, then your
friends are dumb. Just you come to grips
with it. Don't you don't have to run
after them.
But, at any rate, a person gets into
debt. People you know, the people of the
Umay used to have debt. What was the
Rus'ul died.
He passed away from this world, and
he,
he was in debt.
He owed he owed, like, wheat
to one of the Jews of Medina,
and he had to,
he had to
give his armor as collateral for
it. Is wheat a luxury?
Like, wheat. You know, we're gonna what are
you gonna do this weekend? We're gonna go,
like, do wheat. Like, nobody says that. That's
like,
you know, if someone were to be served
wheat as a meal, we would, like, turn
our noses up.
He was he was feeding. It was not
it's like it's not even he was himself.
Like, he was just feeding his family. You
know? He was feeding women and children.
He was feeding orphans. He was feed he
was feeding the people of the prophetic household,
the people of the sofas. That's that's and
he had that's what debt is. Right? What's
debt?
I'm a slave,
and I worked so hard to keep this
contract. And for some reason, I'm not able
to fulfill this installment right now. Those are
reasons to be in debt.
What's the dua? And this dua is really
good because, you know,
that's the part that's
has with the the debt.
So many people are indulging in haram.
Haram food, haram drink, haram clothes, looking at
haram, listening to haram. It's like overwhelmed a
person.
Why, you know, you know,
people don't even get married anymore because they
can fulfill all of these things through haram.
Imagine that
a person gets to, you know, to, get
the get the milk and doesn't have to
buy the cow.
This is an expression in many
languages. What is it that you a person
enjoys themselves that takes no responsibility
whatsoever?
Which is one of the fatal stupidities of
feminism, actually, is that the sexual revolution is
completely, like, works against women. Because women are
the ones that
are shackled biologically with the responsibility.
In decent societies, men are shackled with responsibility
socially.
But if someone commits zina or does something
haram, they're cascading, like, worse and worse, more
degenerate types of haram.
You know, like a bad marriage, you know,
in America, your wife could take half your
stuff, but one night stand, she didn't take
anything. Like, you just don't see her again.
All of these temptations.
All of these temptations. And then on the
flip side, you have, like, whatever. Like, you
know, you went and proposed marriage to, like,
Abu Khaled's daughter, and he's like, I want,
like, $700,000
in Mahir and, like, you know, 3.5 tons
of gold. And, you know, the
the, you know, the the the
marriage party has to be at the, like,
whatever. You know? It's it's just some ridiculous
place. And so that a small amount of
money that you could liberate, like, a quarter
of Palestine with, you have to spend it
on the wedding. And that's that's that's, you
know and otherwise,
it's either that or you get it for
free on the other side. Right? It's a
really bad place to be in. It's a
very frustrating place to be in. People don't
talk about these things. They don't take them
seriously.
And,
it's 100% the work of shaitan. It's just
it's not a good thing.
But the problem is as as idealistic young
individuals like you are, you can't just be
like, but it's wrong. And everyone's like, I've
been like
a scumbag for, like, the last 40 years.
Do you think I care about this one
wrong thing that has to do with you?
You know? Like, they're not gonna be moved
by it.
That's why life is a test. That's why,
you know, like, you have to have suburb
and that's you go to Jannah because it's
suburb, not just because you're, like, smart and
you're, like, you're, like, you can say what's
right. You have to actually, like, do it.
So the istiana
asking Allah for help, he says, should I
not teach you words that were were taught
to me by the messenger of Allah?
Even if there was a mountain of debt
against you,
he he would have,
through these words, he would have
discharged such a debt.
Is that, oh, Allah, make your halal sufficient
for me
so I don't I don't have to go
to your haram.
Starts with mister broast and extends through all
sorts of different things in your life, your
homeownership
and college education and marriage and all of
these other things.
Ask Allah to Allah. Make it whatever
halal is there, make it enough for me
that I don't ever say, like, why do
I need more from, like, how you know,
for from Haram things. Well, I don't need
to enrich me from your grace,
so that I don't have to ask anybody
else other than you.
It's a serious thing. People should, you know,
remember this dua and ask this dua. There's,
like, a 100 different things you could ask
for or intend by it, and people should
make it part of their their daily word,
inshallah. Allah will give inshallah from his father.
Allah will give. I know I know, like,
every one of us,
This is Hussain with Asad.
He said that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
taught his father Hussain 2
utterances
that he used to make dua to Allah
Ta'ala with or by
to say, oh Allah,
inspire
me to my guidance,
to find my way through misguidance.
Inspire me, my guidance,
and
protect me from my,
from the evil of my
from the evil of my protect me from
the evil of my from its bad harm
because it it calls me to,
my destruction
and it calls me to be thrown to
the wayside.
A person's enough in 10 minutes, in 5
minutes, in 1 minute can destroy an entire
lifetime worth of achievement both in the dunya
and the afghira. All of it can be
blown in just a couple of minutes.
That I said, O Messenger of Allah,
teach me something
that
I can ask Allah Most High.
So from the siak of the hadith, this
is after the fat.
He's the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's uncle, but
he accepted Islam. I shouldn't say after the
fatru. He's the last person one of the
last people to accept Islam before,
before the fatru is complete. So he's the
last considered in the register, the last name
of the
Muhadrin.
That, but, you know,
family, family is family. You know? Like, I
don't wanna speak ill of it's the family
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
But, you know, the rest of sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam again, you know, one would hope
that they would be the first of the
Mujahid instead of the last of them. You
know? This tells you about the rank of
Sayidna Ali. It tells you about the rank
of Sayidna Hamzah and
whom,
that you know? So
Sayidna he came. You know? That's a big
deal that he even came. Otherwise, the other
Abu Lab is, like, at the bottom. He
got kicked out because of because of his
wretchedness.
So imagine so
he, you know so he he so this
is much later in the Rasuulullah alaihi wa
sallam's
nubuah and his Mubarak life sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. So he said, oh messenger of Allah,
teach me something I can ask Allah most
high. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, ask
Allah al afiyah.
Ask him for Aafia. Aafia is like
a well-being that's free of any sort of,
like, harm or downside.
A type of happiness
that is, free of, you know, of anything
bad. Like, there are types of happiness that
a person can be enjoying that are really,
like, bad bad for you.
But,
is that I ask for ask ask for
this happiness that's free from any harm or
any, you know, any any anything negative.
And
he said that, he said that he,
hung around for a couple of days.
And then he came to the messenger of
and asked him the same question again. The
subtext being like,
yeah, that's that's nice, but, like,
what should I ask for? What should I
really ask for? You know?
Like, that was cute. Like, obviously, he wouldn't
say that because, you know, but I'm just
saying, like, he so they had eda with
the prophet of the prophet of the prophet
of the prophet, but he didn't obviously,
he thought that there's something missing. I should
be getting something more. So he asked again
after a couple of days.
And so the messenger of Allah, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, so he's beautiful. Look at his
suburb, you know,
after all of that, and now he's asking
again.
And,
this is beautiful, his and his adab with
his uncle and, you know, how he communicated
with people.
He said that he said to me, O
Abbas,
oh, uncle of the messenger of Allah,
ask for aafiah in this world and the
hereafter.
Then he understood, okay, that this is,
like, a bigger deal than, like, perhaps
it seemed at first glance.
And so the messenger of Allah he he
said to him, like, in a way that's
honors him, but also
is like,
yo, like, I'm not just making stuff up.
You know, this is a command from Allah
Ta'ala, you know, like, you you best not
have some sort of, like,
discomfort with it or crave something other than
it.
And so he did it with with great
beauty and with great sabr and great patience
and great
adab. And so, you know, maybe a person
like myself wouldn't occur to me to, you
know, say something like that if I were
even in a fraction of that scenario. But
when the prophet showed you how to do
it, then you can always copy him. That's
the the the grace and the benefit of
the the sunnah. Although you have to also
then, know, the original making the original, that's
the real that's the real,
mastery. You know? To copy the original is
much it's it's not easy, but it's much
easier than than understanding it the first time.
Thank
you.
Oh, mother of the believers,
what was the duod of the messenger
made the most when he was with you?
So she said that the du'a that he
made the most
or the most of the du'a he would
make was, oh,
overturner of hearts.
Make firm my heart on your deen.
This is another hadith a person should
learn, memorize.
I was I was in Pennsylvania. I had
a program.
Long story about
how difficult it was to get there and
get back and
how it came, you know, basically straight from
the airport.
So someone was telling me
that, you know, I used to live in
Seattle. He's like, oh, you know, so and
so young guys. I don't know.
He said, oh, maybe you would remember.
I said, maybe.
He said, you know, I got him. I
I told him. I said, He didn't have,
like, the Arab halal,
eating support group.
Meets, on Sundays at Reba.
He's also one of our Arab brothers.
So he he says he says to me,
he says, yeah. That guy got him eating
but they made the offer. You know, he's
he's he's, you know, it's,
he's being tempted by Chick Fil A.
And so he, you know, he showed me
a he sent me a video saying, oh,
this guy says this is okay.
And I'm like,
this is not a good sign.
This is not a good sign.
Overturns the hearts of a person has is
good one day, and then the next day,
something stupid comes into their head, and it
convinces them that something else is good. And
all of it is 1 100%. It's just
humiliation,
and it's harm.
So many people there are so many people.
There are so many people.
I wanted to, you know, become Muslim. All
of a sudden, they're, like, ex called them
up.
So they took the shahada. They stopped praying.
You don't see them in the masjid anymore.
So many people. I wanna take shahada. Some
temptation comes. I remember there was 1 young
man.
He wanted to study in in in Hadar
Moq. That was the thing he wanted to
do, day and night. It's this thing he
would do. Right?
His father actually told me, he's like, help
me to dissuade him from go study.
Why would you wanna do that? I go
I go, like, an honor for your entire
family, you know, that,
you know,
like a fool, like, I recited all of
the to him
standing there,
but he completely was, like, just, like,
blocked.
So he basically, when his son was,
gonna go he'd already, like, actually applied and
gotten in, bought tickets, everything.
He said,
don't go. I'll give you money.
He's like, no.
He's like, I'll get you married.
And he didn't go.
Like, he's a good guy. He went in,
like, whatever. He did some course somewhere else,
you know, inshallah. But the point is, like,
he that he, you know, he didn't go.
And so,
you know,
that's that's that's that. That's how that you
know, like, life is not all happy endings.
Life is not all sad endings. Life is
sometimes weird in the middle of whatever it
is. Is. Right?
It should be clear to somebody what the
superiority is of,
you know, keeping your heart firm on the
right path.
Because all sorts of things make different amounts
of sense throughout different times of the day
and throughout different seasons of the year and
throughout different,
you know, election cycles and news cycles and
whatever.
And, you know, a person should always ask
Allah
to keep their heart pinned
down on righteousness. And it's it's sad. Right?
Like,
you know, imagine someone's like, you know, like,
how come you haven't prayed for the last
10 years? Just because, like, you know,
my girlfriend.
That's, like, pathetic. That's sad.
That's not very manly at all,
much less righteous.
Even from a dunya perspective, it's not very
manly.
Forget about righteousness and all these other things.
You're not a human being, then you're not
gonna you're not gonna be a
in the first place.
So what's even more pathetic than that?
It's for a chicken sandwich.
Yet, we're almost doomed by these things.
You see something and you want it. You
have to, like, teach yourself just to not
want it.
Just to be like yeah. Just like you
look at a kind of dog food and
you're you're not like, you know, like,
you you have you have to.
What are you gonna do? Are you gonna
be muffled by every single shiny thing that
walks by you like the monkey? You're gonna
be like, oh, it's shiny. Look. I like
it. Monkey? You're gonna be like, oh, it's
shiny. Look.
I liked.
And that only happens to sukha. That only
happens to keeping sukha. If you try to
do it on your own, you know, doing
things alone is, like, really difficult.
Anything.
Making a car, making a house, anything, like,
worth anything in the and the alone is,
like, really it's not it's not easy.
Rather, the the the Risulullah
taught us to, you know, to hold fast
to the congregation, to hold fast to
the congregation, to hold fast to good company,
that a person should say their prayers on
their own, make the dhikr on their own,
but also that there are majals of dhikr.
Also, there are the places of the gathering.
It's not just the ilm, it's a suhba
as well that's that's murad. In this hour
that a person sits and dares,
their heart goes through different states. Even a
relatively impious person thinks thinks about and idealizes
pious things.
Whereas that may not be their normal state,
you know, like, throughout the rest of the
week.
So a person has to keep, like, keep
at it keep at it keep at it
until one day the the grip that, you
know, shiny things have over a person's heart,
it starts to weaken, and you're more able
to fight against it. It will never go
away a 100%,
but it will weaken enough that a person
is able to to combat it.
Otherwise otherwise, like, you
know, like, forget about liberating Palestine. You can't,
like, you can't you can't fight that. At
least we laugh at it, but it's, like,
very real. Right? If we're Muslim by a
chicken sandwich, God help us. You know? Then
you have to do anything, because this is
not a fiqdars. Right? Then you have to
do with whether it's halal or haram. Just
the idea you have it somewhere in your
head that you're feeling Milan toward one fiqh
opinion because
the dawah, what's calling you? Not Allah.
What's calling you? The chicken sandwich.
I've had good chicken sandwiches in my life,
but and so I'm not gonna, like, whatever.
But it's there's no chicken sandwich that good.
I'm not sure you guys have broths too.
You can thumb your noses at everybody else.
Right?
But it's a blessing. It's a great blessing.
You know? Yeah. There are people who never
had that before then. You know? And so
they're like, yeah. You know, like, we're we
struggle and it's you know, we're gonna get
rewarded. Yeah. But you really just should move
to Chicago,
you know,
instead of whatever. You
know?
Abu Darda
narrated that the Messenger Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said
that from the dua of Sayna Dawud alaihislam,
was that he would say, O Allah, indeed
I ask you your love
and the love of those who you love
and deeds that will make me attain your
love.
Oh Allah,
make your love more beloved to me than
my own self and then my own family
and then cold water.
Obviously, people live in hot places. Right? This
the cold water is what's meant at at
at that place.
Ibn Allan mentions in the last hadith,
the hadith of.
He mentions,
that in a different narration of the same
hadith,
that said that
So in a different narration of the same
hadith,
Sayyidah Salamah then added she said that the
that I had once said to the messenger
of Allah alaihi wa sallam,
I marveled, like, how
how
how tentatively
is it that you make this?
Dua,
Oh, overturner of the hearts. Make firm my
heart on your deen.
So he said
indeed, there is no human except for his,
heart is between the 2 between 2 fingers
from the fingers of Allah
Here again, the point is the
point is that it's not like an anatomy
lesson or whatever. That's not what the point
of it is. The idea is what if
something is in your fingers,
you're manipulated
with great ease.
They said that the hearts are between 2
fingers from the fingers of Allah and he
whichever ones he wishes to, he keeps them
straight, and whichever ones he wishes to, he
straight and whichever ones he wishes to, he
sends them
sends them in a crooked direction.
And then he read the the dua
of
the
Quran,
or lord don't make
our hearts crooked after you've guided us.
And give us a special mercy from the
from from the mercy of yours. Indeed, you
are the great bestower of gifts.
I wanted to mention something also from the
perhaps this is we can
make this the last thing that we've mentioned
for today,
which is the hadith of Abu Fadl,
Al Abbas
in that hadith,
the narration as it's copied in most of
the copies of the
has him addressing his uncle in the,
the.
It says it's what? It says,
So there is a
from that
he he addressed it in the plural. However,
in the movie,
it's actually.
And so if that's the way that it
was narrated to somebody,
then that's what it would mean. But the
you know, it's probably not that. It's probably
something that a copyist copied.
But the actual hadith is what? It's
actually in the in the in the. Mufrad.
I remember having a talk with one of
my mashaikh before about this that it's not
he mentioned something that it's not a native
usage of the Arabs to address,
the
with the with the like the with
the exception of the royal plural. But that's
when the king talks about himself, he says
we.
And he talks about himself in the plural,
but it's not
in in address.
And, that's a long discussion.
That's
a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a,
a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a,
a, a, a, a, a, a, a,
use of the Arabic language. So I don't
wanna get into that
but
beyond that,
if a person wants to have that argument
with somebody, this is not a good why?
Because the is with is is is with
the. And, this is one of those things
that, like, person doesn't even hear the difference
between them, and they don't note them, but
their their their loved their precision and their
craft, causes them to pay attention to these
things.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us from the
elements, from the nur of the hadith of
the prophet all
of these hadith, every single hadith. This is
the Nur from the Mubarak heart of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And we're honored to receive it even though
we don't deserve it.