Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Places of Transgression 11192017
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It's the chapter regarding
what the benefit is in
somebody whose small children died.
This is a very awkward sounding title because
one might think that there's no nothing happy
or nothing good about small children dying.
In fact, this is a common objection that
atheists have that if God exists, how can
he let small children die?
And
first of all, that's a lot logical fallacy
because the existence of Allah has nothing to
do with whether you,
approve or disapprove of things he does
or whether you think that what he does
is good or not. That has nothing it's
nothing that question has no,
relation to whether he exists or not.
But the fact of the matter is is
that Allah ta'ala, every decision of his is
steeped in hikmah,
and it is his choice that whoever has
iman and whoever has faith,
for that person, everything that Allah does, there's
some good that will come out of it
for them.
So this is the chapter about the virtue
of the one whose small children died.
The Hadith is,
the Hadith is something that people should remember.
They should be aware of
where to find it
so that when these things happen and they
do happen,
you know what to say to a person,
in order to in order to give them
some sort of condolence.
And, you know, people are in a very
distraught state at that time. Maybe you say
to them, and it doesn't stop them from
crying. You don't have to badger them or
browbeat them afterward.
But the the fact of the matter is
what? The fact of the matter is is
that these are these are things that will
ultimately,
you know, help people make sense of things
that happen that oftentimes people can't make sense
of. Making sense of things is really important
because
the human psyche,
can deal with a lot of stress
if it knows why.
And if it doesn't know why, even small
things small things can make a person lose
their mind.
And people say the most awkward and stupid
things when when when tragedy happens to another
person, and all they do despite their intention,
all they do is end up making things
worse.
So it's important to, you know, remember these
ahadith
and to remind each other about them,
when,
when when these types of tragedies do happen,
and they do happen. And they're tragedies to
us in this world and in the hereafter
we'll see what the reality is of them.
Said Anas bin Malik radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu narrates
that the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
there's no Muslim,
that,
that that loses 3 children
before they reach the age of puberty
except for
Allah will enter that person into Jannah.
Shear
only out of out of his,
out of his mercy for them.
Only out of their his mercy for them,
that that person and there's some difference of
opinion with regards to what the what the
refers back to. But the point is is
that the the mercy that that that that
parent had for their children,
that itself is an act of piety that's
sufficient
that it will help those, children enter into
Jannah. And,
and it sorry. Not the children. The children
are sinless as it is. It will help
the,
the parents enter into Jannah. And there's a
disc discussion actually
about whether the children automatically go to Jannah
or whether they're judged or whether they follow
the hookahum of what their parents are, etcetera.
Generally speaking, we teach people that children would
die before they, before they reach the age
of
maturity that that they're not taken to account
and they're not punished.
But the reality is there's a number of
different opinions of the ulama, but the most
the most correct opinion
according to the to the and the the
is that they they do go to Jannah.
They're not judged.
So
Abu Rayder radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu he narrates that
the prop the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam said,
no one will have
3 children
from the Muslims that die,
except for
the fire will not touch that person
except for fulfilling the the the the the
oath of Allah Ta'ala.
And,
Noah he
says that, the oath of Allah Ta'ala is
mentioned in Surat Surat Mariam.
There's not one of you except for you
will you will come to it. And the
the the the the pronoun
it refers to the hellfire.
And the tafsir of that verse is what
is that there's a Sirat, which is a
bridge over
bridge from the place of judgment to the
to Jannah,
and that bridge passes over the hellfire.
And, the tafsir of this word verse or
these words of Allah
means that everyone has to cross over that.
And,
it's as it's as if they they come
to Jahannam or come close enough to it
that that that that, they, you know, they
experienced some of its fear.
And it's very interesting that, you know, it
comes in the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam that the salat sirat that's
a bridge from the place of the day
of judgment to
where?
Jannah.
It's a bridge
from the place of the judgment to the
place of what?
Jannah. And that bridge underneath it is what?
Jahannam.
Okay. And that bridge is called
the Sirat.
So
a person will cross that Sirat and they
will they will be able to,
see or hear or feel something that Jahannam
is very close by. So Allah ta'ala said
every one of us will see it.
But that's also part of the the the
reward of Allah ta'ala for the people who
are righteous in this world. That the one
who was the the highest rank of people
will cross the tiroc like lightning, like literally
the in the in the flashing of an
eye at the speed of light, which is
the fastest thing in in in the material
world that we know of,
at least over long distances.
And,
there are some people who cross like the
wind, meaning they'll fly over it. It's not
as fast as lightning, but it's pretty fast.
And then some people will cross running, walking.
Some people will have to cross crawling, and
some people will fall into the hellfire from
it.
So
the hadith coming back to the hadith that
if a person has 3 children that die,
kids that don't don't live to to to
to their full age,
that person,
the fire the fire, is not going to
touch him except for what except for
that Allah ta'ala's oath should be fulfilled,
that there's none of you except for you'll
pass by
it. Right? Except for you'll come by it
which is what which is the tafsir that
is crossing over the
And this is what they call in Arabic
grammar
is. So for example,
the person who crosses over Jahannam, are they
actually gonna go into Jahannam?
No.
Uh-uh. So,
it says that indeed there's nobody who, except
for that person, will will will come to
it.
The exception is not
it's the exception is not part of the
rule.
So,
you'll pass by it. You're not gonna sorry.
The exception is part of the rule. So
there's none of you except for you will
pass by it. Here, the exception encompasses everybody.
So it's not I
apologize.
Rather, it's a
it's a complete exception. There's no there's no
one who's an exception to the exception.
So it's essentially a rule that's stated as
the exception, but one of the reasons that
they do that in Arabic,
or really in any other languages, sometimes when
you have a statement that's
meant to,
be
listened to and profound,
then you artificially puff it up and put
more words into
it more words into it. And so this
is the way that in Arabic certain sentences
are weighted one way or the other in
order to convey emphasis
that, like, you know, you listen to what
what's being said. Everybody will will pass will
pass by it. And so, the the is
that what Allah swore that everybody would pass,
you know, come to it.
And so except for that amount of making
the word of Allah Ta'ala come true,
that person will never they're not gonna fall
into it nor are they gonna go to
defend them. And this is,
you know, people who people who have this
objection that, like, why does god let baby
dies babies die?
This not only explains why,
it also explains why it's good for the
baby
and why it's good for the person.
And the question has nothing to do with
whether God exists in the 1st place or
not anyway.
Obviously someone whose child dies that's not gonna
take the pain away from them, but it
will let them understand there's a reason for
it. And when a person knows why they're
suffering, they can take a lot and and
still, you know, survive without being damaged mentally.
If they don't know why they're suffering, then
even small things will break a person's mind.
From Saidna Abu Saidul Khudri that, a woman
came to the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
And she said, oh, messenger of Allah,
the men have
the men have, like,
left with all of your speech. I mean,
it's an expression meaning they get to hear
all the time. We don't get to hear
all the time. The men have left with
your speech.
So give us
from your own, time a day that we
can come come and you can teach us
from those things that Allah has taught you.
So they asked Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wasallam for
a special a special separate dars.
And this is something actually that many of
our masha'is used to do as well. Mulla
Shirkali Tanwi
It's well known that he used to, pay
attention to the letters that that were written
by the sisters, and he used to answer
them. And he actually wrote a book. There's
a book, of Hanafifat Behisti Zaver.
Many people, like, when they read the the
translation, they're like, it's a really weird book.
But it has to do with a lot
of, like, issues that
happened back in the in those times, in
in those places.
So, you know,
5th the 5th of being in a village,
it gets really weird sometimes. But at any
rate, you know,
immature people, they can read like and they
snicker at it. But, I mean, those things,
they used to happen. So he answered all
those questions. And and the book was written
for women, but it was written so well
that, you know, now students of knowledge read
it because you'll find all sorts of,
of issues in it that that you won't
find in other places in writing.
But at any rate,
you know,
he used to he used to that that
was his way of doing things. And he
would ask the and the thing is, it's
not like, you know, this is okay, class.
But now, like, you know, some dude who
has, you know, Ijazah to, like, you know,
DM all the sisters and say, oh, yeah.
I'm taking care of their dean or whatever,
that doesn't even know what what he's talking
about or that does know what he's talking
about because those people are not immune to
these things either. Right? Rather Hazrat Tani
used to make the the or he used
to ask that the husband
sign the seal of the letter as well
so that he bear witness that whatever is
in it he knows what's in it, so
he cannot turn around and blame blame the
sheikh afterward.
And so there are many, the
the even in in in this city.
There's a handful of them. Right? Like Mufti
Nawaal, Moana, Aziz, these people, they still maintain
the sheikh,
the sheikh's sunnah.
They have separate duros for the ladies. And
the way it is that you see, like,
there's the partition here right now, They'll have
the ladies will be in the room, and
there will be an another entrance, a separate
entrance. And right in front of it, there's
a partition. And they'll sit in sit behind
the partition. They'll give band. Those issues that
are relevant to the the the the the
ladies with emphasis to those issues that are
relevant to the ladies, they already have access
to the recordings of the other bands or
access to the other bands just from the
ladies section anyway.
But he'll they'll give bands that are relevant
to those issues that the ladies have, and
then they'll sit and they'll take questions. The
the
sisters will write questions and give them to
the the sheikh, and the sheikh will answer
those questions as well
in those majalis where, the sisters may not
have an opportunity or may not feel comfortable
asking those questions in public, or those questions
are not suitable to be asked in front
of men in the first place.
And so I don't want people to get
the impression that, you know, that the,
the the the, you know, somehow that the,
traditional olamah are,
misogynistic
or,
that that that, you know, with time, they've
you know, their practice has ossified into some
way that's misogynistic
or doesn't take into account what the needs
of the sisters are or whatever.
This is nonsense.
Certain individuals people interact with may be that
way, but this is not how our Masai
used to teach. And this something I tell
people again and again. The alumna from the
Muslim world in America are the b team.
They're the c team. Why? Because
all of the they don't look well on
immigrating to, Darul Kufir.
Because if you have half of a brain,
you're like, okay. Yeah. Go move over there.
Your kids will be like you know, your
kids from the age of kindergarten, all the
kids will be eating pork around them, so
they have to become like halal advocates, like,
you know, level of of of of, whatever.
Aware of halal things, and you're gonna have
Halloween and Christmas, and the kids are not
gonna be able to celebrate it, and, you
know, but your kids are gonna be like,
you know, why can't I celebrate Christmas? And
you're gonna, you
know, you then your sons and your daughters
when they get into high school, this is
gonna happen and that's gonna happen. And
they're like, yeah. It doesn't sound like a
good idea. Right? So very few of the
actual, like, the top tier, the ulama that
we have back home will would ever consider
even visiting here, much less,
much less coming here. In fact, I would
say out of the olema
from back home, the ones from the Indian
subcontinent probably because the influence of, like, Tabligh
and things like that, they're the ones that
came in the greatest numbers,
someone who's actually studied it. There are some
some, nationalities.
They have many back home. You'll find almost
none, maybe not even one of them,
over here because they all refuse to to
to leave Darul Islam,
which, you know, from our point of view,
you're like, well, that's real close minded. From
their point of view, it makes a lot
of sense.
So,
you know, people may have these kind of
ideas in their head that, like, you know,
the the people back home have some irrelevant
outdated Islam,
and, we have to pave, like, a new
way forward. And that means wholesale, like, embracing,
norms that are contrary to the Sharia or
at at any rate imperiled people. In the
realm of Dawa, I can understand that. In
Dawa, when you're working with people whose iman
is weak or don't have iman at all,
then you're trying to take them take to
them the beliefs of Islam. You're not trying
to take to them the
rules and laws of Islam.
You're trying to teach them the akhida of
Islam, not the sharia. You don't make dawah
based on the Sharia, you make dawah based
on the Akhayd.
But then once you're in the in the
realm of like, you know, dealing with the
Muslim community, people who pray and generally, you
know, they believe in the book of Allah
Ta'ala, they believe in the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam,
then, massaging rules and things like that,
or, it's it's it's a little it's a
bit more problematic.
So our masha'if, they had ways of dealing
with these these issues that both
took care of the needs of the people.
And and the reason I mentioned this, I
met a I met a gentleman yesterday, undoubtedly
a very,
a very well intentioned person.
But, you know, he runs some sort of,
like, Islamic studies program at a university,
and he kind of in a very snidely,
like, slid in there that, like, yeah, we
teach our students to
serve the Muslim community, you know, be by
being relevant to the youth and, like, dealing
productively with women in a way that they
don't teach back home. And I'm like, yeah,
like there's no women back home, like Muslim
civilization didn't survive until you moved to America
and like,
like open a Facebook account.
I I just anyway, that so this this
is why I'm a little bit getting it
off off of my chest as well, but
this is this is soon as the prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Right? We can't then on
the flip side become,
you know, so like jamaid that, oh, women
are evil and I'm gonna stay away from
your mother was a woman, your wife is
your daughters are women. You can't just do
that, you can't just abandon them either,
out of your
or whatever. Where are you going?
Thank you. Sit down, don't worry about the
door.
For those at home that
was my daughter.
So a little bit more strict with her
than the other students.
Right, Aisha?
She's smiling right now.
The the idea is what? Is that
that that, you know, one extremism has completely
shut people out, shut the women out, and
shut the sisters out. Nobody said that women
are evil. If a person lowers his gaze,
does he lower his gaze because the women
are evil or because of the the the
evil inside of his own heart? Let's look
what the Quran have to say.
Sayedna, Yusuf Alaihi Salam
is locked inside of the room by the
wife of the Aziz.
And she said, hey, Talak.
You know? Come here, big boy.
Right?
What does he what what what does he
say later on?
Right? I don't I don't, I don't,
leave my own nafs without blame.
He didn't say, It's okay, you know, you
messed up. It's okay. It happens, you know.
He said, No.
That that, that my nafs is not without
blame even though quite literally his nafs was
without blame.
So that's why that's why we do those
things. If you start to think the other
if a man lowers his gaze to because
he thinks the woman is evil or he
lowers his gaze or she lowers her gaze
because she thinks a man is evil or
because, you know, people's lower their gaze from
the dunya. Lowering your gaze is not only
something that has to do with the gender
and things like that. Right? You should lower
your gaze when looking at the dunya of
other people. If you see, like, the car
of your neighbor and you'll go, oh, I
should have that or whatever or, like, you
know, you you start to, like, it drags
your mind into, like, covetousness. Right? Time to
covet the property of another person.
Right?
So lower your gaze, avert your gaze. Don't
look at it if it's a fitna for
you. You know, sometimes people have nice stuff.
Right? What are you gonna do? Just look
at something else.
But you don't do it. Why? Because it's
that person's evil for having that thing or
the thing itself is evil. The thing is
a thing. It's not good or evil. It's
just stuff. Right?
When you lower your gaze, you do so
out of fear of your own not because
you have any bad opinion about,
about another person.
Even though some people are sketchy, but leave
it between them and Allah. That's not your
judgment to me.
So the moderation is what? Is to still,
like, have concern and care for other people.
We don't wanna have a society that's so
bad that, like, a woman in hijab has,
like, a flat tire in the middle of
winter and, like, the Muslim brothers are passing
by
stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff, and they're driving
by and, like, you know, whatever,
you know, so so, like, the super taqwa
crew, you know, and like a 80 year
old, like, auntie in hijab is, like, standing
there. And while while Super Taqwa, like, drives
by and, like, she's, like, freezing and she's
gonna become sick or, you know, then whatever,
like, the, you know, the the the local
people from whatever other church or temple or
whatever that we expect them to stop and
help her or that she has to die
and that's that's ridiculous.
That's utterly and totally and completely ridiculous.
And and,
you know,
again, some people their mindset is such that
they're gonna take the flag and make a
touchdown and use it as an excuse to
do all sorts of things that are on
the other side ridiculous.
But, you know, whoever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
gave some sense to, they should be able
to differentiate,
you know, when they're trying to make conversation
and impress people and when they actually are
interacting for some sort of genuine
Sharia or even dunya countenance benefit.
So,
this
this Sahabiya,
may Allah be pleased with her, she came
to Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and,
she said that the the men, they get
to hear everything you have to say
and,
you know, it's like they they ran away
with the prize, and we don't get to
hear, what you have to say. And so
she asked Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
politely but forthrightly,
which
is
politely but forthrightly,
which is the the sunnah of a student
of knowledge.
That you should, you know, you should be
shy about, you know, have haya about like
whatever, you know, like you shouldn't
take a 100 pictures of yourself and post
them on Facebook or whatever. Brothers and sisters.
Okay? You shouldn't take a 100 pictures of
yourself and post them on Facebook. The reason
we the reason culturally, I think that we
focus on sisters more is because people will
look brothers. You're just fooling yourself. No one's
gonna look at you. Right?
Or maybe the men have become so much
like women.
The the idea is this is that that
that that in in student studying knowledge,
is
excessive amount of is is actually a bad
thing. It's blameworthy.
So she came and she made a forthright
request. And this hadith of the prophet in
which he he,
he praised the women of the Ansar
because they're 4th forthright in asking questions. They
used to do things that, like, you know,
whatever as you know, nowadays we would find
very awkward
which is what they would send the hursuf.
The woman would have menses and so she
would send the cloth with the blood of
the menses
or the residue
from it to Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
to ask him is the menses over or
not
Because,
the discharge, you know, keeps going
and then at some point the discharge is
is like the color of blood or like
brown and then it, you know, it lightens
lightens lightens until it's just a little bit
murky or yellow. And then at some point,
you know, it becomes clear or it becomes
white
for for those women who have discharge even
when the menses is not done. And when
it's clear or it's white, then the menses
is over.
So they wanted to see is it over
yet or not because in the middle it
lightens up quite a bit until it's almost
to that point. So Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he would take the boxes that they would
send with that and he would give them
to Sayda Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha and she
would answer those questions for them, which is
what it's also in Insha'Allah that you know,
some of these questions, they're more aptly answered
by sisters. If they can't and the only
person who can answer some of these questions
are men, then,
that's fine as well. But, what did Rasool
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam say? Gross.
Don't do that. What you have no adab.
What's wrong with you? Who you know, I'm
gonna tell your father. No. She didn't he
didn't say any of those things.
Right? Rather he praised the women of the
Ansar
that when it comes to learning their deen,
nothing nothing holds them back. Nothing they're not
going to their shyness is not going to
hold them back.
It's not like those, you know, those women
are are are like, like people nowadays. People
nowadays have no haya. We don't even know
what the word haya means. It's not a
virtue, right, for a person to to have
a little bit of hesitation to, like, just
be out there in front of everybody. We're
the ones that we post pictures of ourselves
doing the stupidest of things in front of
everybody, hoping that more people see it rather
than less. Those women had
but they didn't let the that they have
interfere with their learning the deen. And, indeed,
Hafiz bin Hajar actually says that the woman
who asked this question from Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam was one of the women of the
Ansar.
May Allah be pleased with them.
So,
so she said, give us a special day
with with yourself,
that you can teach us in which you
can teach us from that which Allah Ta'ala
has taught you. And so the Messenger of
Allah salallahu alayhi wa sallam, you know, he
didn't say like, you
know, whatever, just go learn from your husband.
He didn't say that.
He said what? He says, gather on such
and such day.
Gather on such and such day,
and,
they gathered on that day,
and Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam came to
them. And there's actually a number of hadith,
by the way, in which it's recorded that
there's a special ahas madzahs for the women.
So he gathered on such and such day,
with them and the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam
came to them and he taught them from
that which Allah taught him.
And then he said to them one of
the things that that Saidna Abu Saiedl Khudriri
narrates that one of the things that he
said to them is what?
He said to them that there's no woman
amongst you for whom 3 children will die
before they,
before they
before before they they become adults, 3 children
die.
Except for the the death of those children
will become a hijab between you and the
fire. Hijab means what? It completely blocks it's
a complete separation between
what?
Between that that person and the fire.
And so a woman said, what about someone,
you know, for whom 2 children died?
And the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said, and 2 children as well.
And,
you know, this is I mean, subhanallah, this
hadith imagined Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said what? 3 children.
This means this was a common thing.
I mean, it used to happen.
Now it's very rare for some a family
to lose even a child, and people become
extremely distraught.
Can you imagine? And it's I I'm not
I'm not talking down to anybody.
In fact, this is an experience I've had
myself. I haven't lost any children.
But,
you know, it's an experience I've had that
despite talking a real tough game.
I have a I I've made a career
for myself and a reputation for myself amongst
my peers that I talk a very tough
game.
Small setbacks happen and I feel really, like
I feel distraught.
I feel like giving up.
You you know what I mean? Something happens,
you get sick, you've been working on something,
you know, some project, you know, people, you
know, whatever.
People have all sorts of setbacks, marriages, these
types of things. Right? You have some sort
of setback and you just feel like giving
up. You feel so distraught, like, you feel
like giving up. I don't wanna go go
on anymore. You stop eating food. You stop
talking to people.
You stop, you know, whatever, saying your orad.
You stop saying you know, you stop, you
know, helping other people. You're all sudden in
a stoic mood, and you think you're being,
like, you know, I've I've become an old
man. You haven't become an old man yet.
You know? You haven't
become old person yet. You just you just
retreat into that shell being a shell of
a person. Why? Because human being, you invest
so much effort into something and then you
see, like, a loss happen,
then it's real hard to go on. You
know? Because you wonder what's the point.
This happened to me. It it it might
happen to me again. And if that's the
case, why even go on right now?
But look at the look at the Sahaba
radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
They suffered such hard setbacks,
and they still had they they still had,
like,
courage to go on.
And
look at the generations of Muslims. One of
the things that, like, people born and raised
here,
you know, they, like, make fun of they
make fun of, like, the generation that immigrated
voters or people from back home. They have
all these kind of weird,
names that they call them and things like
that. I would say I would say even
African American community.
Right? People come to the city. You in
Chicago, you in Detroit, you in New York
become very sophisticated.
Right?
But
maybe your parents or grandparents or some cousins
of yours live back in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana.
You know what I mean? And,
you know, you don't you don't you don't
wanna be associated with those people when you
come here. You don't wanna look like them.
You don't wanna talk like them. You know,
they lose their their their draw from back
back home really quickly and stuff. You wanna
be like a sophisticated person or whatever. Right?
Those people from back home.
Those people for whether it's Pakistani or Mississippi
or whatever. Right?
Those people have
born such
soul crushing, heart crushing
difficulties of their lives.
The fact that they even wake up and
get out of bed and try
after going through some of the things that
they've been through
is a testament to the superiority of what
they have over what we have.
And
look at these questions. Right? These are these
are women it's not like a like some
uncle is asking, you know, because you're you're
a man, tough. Suck it up. Go back
to work. Whatever. Right?
You know, you you have it in you
to do that. And if you don't, you're
not a successful man in society anyway. You're
probably gonna have other problems.
But for a mother, she's asking Rasool
Allah He says that he said that he
gave this,
bishara and glad tidings to the women that
if you went through you lost 3 children,
that there'll be hizah between you and the
nad. You won't
they they will protect you from the word
of the fire. And a woman asked Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam what if what if
someone lost 2 children? No one's gonna randomly
ask that question. It's a woman who lost
2 children probably,
and she's like, what about a person that
lost 2 children as well?
Rasulullah, a sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said said
to him. This is a motif in the
hadith of the prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
happens a lot, where
will ask, like, if 3 of whatever happens,
then you'll get Jannah or you'll be protected
from the fire, or this will happen, that'll
happen. And always someone asks, what about 2?
And almost always,
yeah, 2 as well. And in many of
them, the then the narrator will say, we
wanted to ask about 1, but we didn't.
Meaning what if they had asked about 1?
Probably, they had a feeling
would have said 1 as well, but they
just didn't wanna push it, you know, because
out of haramah of the thing out of
respect. Right? This is that a person's being
saved from the fire. They didn't wanna cheapen
it by by by making, you know, making
the price lower. But the idea is that
it's going to be, one as well. And
this is, you know, it's a glad tiding
to
to, you know, those people and especially those
mothers who have gone gone
through a tragedy like this that don't don't
give up,
you know, go on, you're not a failure
as oftentimes,
mothers will blame themselves for these things or
worse than that,
other relatives or in laws or whatever will
blame them for for these things even though
they're completely out of their control
or, like, someone has a child that's born
with a disability or sickness or whatever, and
they'll pass comments like, oh, that's strange. None
of the other children in the extended family
have that, you know, illness or genetic
stuff for that man. Just shut up, you
know, just don't don't say anything, you know.
Some people if they just keep their mouth
shut inshallah, they'll go to Danna.
But you know, that's their service to the
community is just just staying quiet.
But you know look at that
that that she asked even even 2 children
You Rasool Allah and he said
even even even 2.
And if Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
you know, from his Sunna is to give
hope to people like that, You know, if,
you know, whatever
setback happens, you know, whatever you applied to
university, you didn't you didn't get in or
whatever. Some girl didn't marry you or something
like that. You you get over it,
and suck it up and and keep going
and everything.
Babble is I mean, this is a this
is a rational analogy. Right?
If something as
horrible as a child dying
to a mother,
which is a situation in which you cannot
see any good in at all.
There's still some good in it.
Then other situations are some khair in it
as well.
This is the chapter regarding crying,
crying
because of death and fearing,
Allah Ta'ala
when passing by the graves of the people
of Dhulm, the people of transgression,
and when passing by their their their the
the resting away of their souls, meaning their
death,
and,
showing
one's poverty to Allah Most High
and, and warning a person cautioning others
about
about being heedless of of that, being heedless
of showing one's
faqar, one's one's poverty in front of Allah
And this is something that, I talked about
the the other day,
yesterday in Detroit, we had the the
Modernism seminar.
It's really interesting that, you know, materialism
materialism,
which is
basically, like, the the basic aqidah. Dohidah is
the aqidah of of Din.
Materialism is the aqidah of, like, whatever modernity.
And, you know, people literally, if you trace
back the things they say and the things
that they do to their logical conclusions, they
worship the material world.
That's their god for them. Whereas our goddess,
Allah ta'ala,
there's nothing in the material world that resembles
him at all.
It's a complete polar opposite of that. And,
it's very interesting how Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
preferred poverty over wealth even though it's not
haram to have wealth.
There are that had great wealth.
They had great wealth.
And Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam preferred poverty. What?
Because he's sticking it. It's like it's like
the you know, how he entered into the
Kaaba and broke the idols of the mushrikeen.
He's he's like sticking it to the material.
It's like to the max.
Because they worship money, they worship the dunya,
they worship stuff, and
said I worship Allah, I don't need your
money and your stuff. Take it away from
me.
And it's interesting how in our in our,
civilization,
the word Fakir, it
its primary meaning is a poor person,
but it also
means the the the and the people of
Dhikr.
So you say the are gonna meet in
such and such place, it means the and
the people of the people of Dhikr.
That's a that's a proper usage of that
word. I mean, from context, you should know
what it means. Right? It could also mean,
like, yeah, no, they all broke and did,
you know, whatever their meeting at such a
place. But also in a certain context when
you have it, use it in the context
especially of the of Deen and of the
and things like that. They'll say the fukara,
you know, are meeting such and such place.
And, you know, many of the Uleman,
they sign their names al fateeru illallah or
al fateerfulan
binfulan,
The the the the poor one. And many
of them are ironically wealthy people. Why? Because
the poverty that's the poverty that's that's there
in zikr
and the poverty that's there in
is manifesting your need to Allah because
poverty is not having a lot having little
amount of stuff, poverty is being in need.
So if you need a 1,000,000,000 and a
half dollars, then a billionaire is even
poor.
And wealth is not having a lot of
stuff,
wealth is being free of need from others,
even if you have nothing.
So,
you know, showing your your and your
your poverty in front of Allah ta'ala
is is is a form of worship to
him and it's it's very important.
Just like it's bad, it's against the sunnah
to show your poverty to other people.
And and tell and unless you have a
dire need to do so, you know,
you're gonna starve or something like that.
It's bad to show your poverty to other
people. Why? Because you don't worship them. You
should show your wealth in front of other
people. You're gonna
to to the creation just like that, you
should show your poverty to Allah even if
you have a lot of money.
So, Said Abdulaheb Nuhmar radiAllahu ta'ala and huma,
he narrates that the messenger of Allah said
to his companions,
when they arrived at Hijr,
which is the the the the
the
place of the place that was inhabited by
Samud,
the people who are mentioned in the Quran
as,
so many times as
a
an example of of God's disobedience and his
punishment.
He said,
don't enter on these, don't enter upon these
sinners,
except for in a state of weeping.
Because their houses were made out of stone.
Right? They're the same, like, they're the same
types of houses,
like Petra.
Has anyone seen, like, the the the the
the stone
hewn houses out of the mountainsides in Petra
that the Nabataeans made? The older the older,
ruins than Petra, and that's where they learned
them from because the Nabataeans are not Arabs.
They learned it from the Arabs in the
peninsula. The original civilization is the the civilization
of Thamud.
And this is something doctor Omar, he mentions
all the time. He says that,
they say that the oldest written written language
is the Phoenician script.
And he says that's not true. It's something
called the Samudic script, which is older than
that, and it comes from inside the Arabian
Peninsula.
Why why do historians not want to admit
that fact, or why why do they have
a bias or a dislike for that fact?
Why?
Because it corroborates
it corroborates the Muslim world view that the
Arabian Peninsula is the center of the world.
It is where civilization came from.
With all due respect, you know, the out
of Africa theory, right, is what? Which part
of Africa did everyone come from?
The part of like Somalia that's the closest
to Yemen.
So who knows who did they come from
that side or from this side? Why do
people theorize they came from Africa? It's because
Africa is a inhabitable place whereas the Arabian
Peninsula is very desolate and barren. Well, guess
what? The Yemen is not desolate and buried,
first of all. And the second thing is
that what?
You're looking at a time so long ago
that that area was all
lush and full of life.
And, you know, if it wasn't, you wouldn't
be able to drive a car right now.
Why?
Because all of those whatever
jungles and biological matter from animals and plants
and from whatever else, that's what what makes
all the the the petroleum the gas that
people are pumping in their cars.
Obviously, petroleum comes from other places in the
Arabian Peninsula as well, but, you know, it's
a significant amount of the the proportion of
it in the world. But you can't say
that. Otherwise, all of a sudden, the Kaaba,
it becomes very very,
possible that the Kaaba is the first masjid
that's built on earth, and it is the
place that is saying that Adam went to
worship Allah ta'ala. It is the place that
that, you know, has all this importance, and
it makes sense that say that Ibrahim would
go there and reconsecrate it. And he is
the forefather of the prophet
through his first son and he is the
Rasul
is the heir of Sayyidina Ibrahim's tradition
and has a higher claim to the to
to that miroth, to that to that legacy
than than than other than him.
Without sliding the of any of the other
prophets. But Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam is
his legitimate heir. And, you know, all of
a sudden, you know, a bunch of people
in Europe have to admit, okay. Wow. Maybe,
you know, dark skinned people have something that
we don't.
We we should sit, you know, sit on
the floor and learn something from them. You
know? You don't want to.
You don't have to. If you want to,
go go, you know, go for it. But,
and it's really it's
I I sat in the presentation doctor Bilal
Ware from
from Detroit.
And he brought he brought out the he
brought brought out the Hadith man, say, you
know, say, the Musa alaihi salam. He was,
Adam Shadil Uduma. He was he was, you
know, he was, you know, chocolate colored.
He's he would've if he came to America,
he would've been able to call a black
man.
And, the prophets, all of them are many
of them I shouldn't say all of them,
but many of them are described
as being such. And he said about, he
said more than half of the stories of
the Quran, they take place on the African
continent anyway.
So
anyway, coming back to the coming back to
the issue is that that these things are
all problematic. But Rasulullah wasalam is talking about
what? The diar of samud, which are
it's the the
the the the the the place of habitation
of,
of the ancient Arabs, the Arab al Bayda,
the people who the original inhabitants of the
Arabian Peninsula were who have gone extinct. Allah
destroyed all of them.
And those are like a former
a former,
type of human being that no longer exists.
They're people of long life and they're people
of sharper wits than we because this is
the thing. Modernism, we think that, like, everything
good is in the future. Dude, like, people
that you know, kids sit indoors. They don't
indoors. They don't play outside. They all have
to wear glasses to read,
you know, and natural selection isn't doing anything
for anyone because everyone sits on the on
the couch and things like that.
The humans the human species is not going
somewhere good even though this is our API
that that modernism teaches us that we're all
gonna, you know, one day be up in
space with Captain Picard and, like, transporting everywhere
and take over the universe and live some
Star Trek utopia. The fact of the matter
is it's gonna be dystopia. It's gonna be
more like The Matrix and less like Star
Trek.
It's gonna be really messed up.
And,
you know, not on my watch, inshallah, as
long as as long as I'm in my
my home, inshallah, Allah will keep iman in
it. And as long as every one of
us are in our homes and we say
and and that's the way we we run
things, our homes will have iman in them.
But a day will come that, you know,
a a group of people will be left
behind that don't that don't hold a fort.
But at any rate,
the the Thamud, they're they're this prototypical
ancient human being.
And in those days, the barakah of of
of of the physical things in the earth
was much greater.
You can imagine there are still places that
human beings haven't gone. Like, literally animals will
come up to you. You can just grab
it and and and slaughter it and eat
it. There are fruit growing wild everywhere, things
like so these people enjoyed the barakat of
the dunya. Everything was natural. Everything was fresh.
Imagine. Can you imagine this? What was your
name again, brother?
Farhan. Farhan. Right? Can you imagine?
Everything you eat is organic and there's no
whole foods.
It's all free. It's amazing. Right? It's hard
to picture, but that's what it is. Right?
That you eat an apple and it smells
wonderful and it tastes wonderful and whatever. And
we don't even know we eat these fruits
and vegetables. We don't even know if it
tastes like what what they're supposed to taste
like. Everything has become so degenerated and degraded
now. The soil, everything is wasted. The duniya
is on its last legs now. Even though
we have these long hopes for it that
somehow it's gonna morph into something so beautiful,
that that time is over. It's on its
last legs now. And that's one of the
beauties of Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam is
he is the last he's the last prototype
of that ancient man.
The way his mind works, salallahu alaihi wa
sallam, the way his senses works, salallahu alaihi
wa sallam, the way he slept, the way
he ate, everything was like a perfect balance
of
progress in in in technology and in knowledge
and understanding the world and etcetera, all those
things, logic, reason,
before those things started making everything go wrong,
before, you know, keeping it real started going
wrong with human beings. Right?
That he is like the the perfection of,
of a human being. So Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, he passes by,
with the Sahaba
when they go out in the path of
Allah Ta'ala.
Right? They went out in the path of
Allah. Maybe we should too. Right?
Leave your home and go do something good.
You know, there's a hurricane or something, go
take water bottles to, like, you know, senior
citizens. Go do something for the sake of
Allah ta'ala. So they all went out of
the path of Allah ta'ala
and,
they passed the Diar of Samud. They're still
there. You I mean, you could see them.
They exist. They're older than Petra.
And they have the Samudic script is there.
You can read it. It's older than Phoenician.
Right?
And he said,
he said, don't enter in into the the
the the houses of these sinners, in the
stone hewn houses out of the side, out
of the out of side sides of the
mountains. He says, don't enter into the houses
of the, of these, sinners except for in
a state of of weeping.
Meaning, when you come, if it's just, like,
completely out of intellectual
curiosity or whatever,
the the curse that he fear you know,
he had a fear about that curse that
the way you protect yourself from it is
what? Is by by feeling in your heart
that the reason I'm visiting these people is
to take a lesson from them.
Not a lesson in archaeology,
a lesson in in in in in in
in in,
you know, in in what's profitable in a
man's existence or a human being's existence and
what's not. And he says that don't enter
on these sinners until you
unless you're crying. Because if you're not crying,
you just go, so this is cool. Let
me see. And I I wanna just make
a study of the way the columns are
and this and you missed the point.
He says that,
if you don't enter
upon them crying,
I fear for you that that that what
struck them will strike you,
which is the adab of Allah
that you earn the adab of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. And in a different narration,
it's said that when the messenger of Allah
passed Hajr,
he said, don't enter,
on the dwellings of those who transgress their
own souls
Out of fear that what struck them should
strike strike you
except for in a state of crime. And
then what did he do, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
He took his his shawl
and he covered his head with it,
meaning he cloaked himself
And, and then he he,
ordered his his his riding beast to speed
up and he
went through it. And this is one of
the things I can hide, right, when you
cross the boundary from
from,
Musdalifah and the Mina, it's a stone's throw
of of of land called,
the Batal al Muhasar or Waddal Muhasar,
which is the place where the the army
of Abraha,
the Ethiopian army of Abraha,
was destroyed.
Remember this, by the way. Right?
The Ethiopian army conquered the Arabian Peninsula, and
they colonized it.
This is another interesting point that makes a
lot of sense that doctor Bilal brought up
in the in in in the the talk
of his that I I I visited, the
historical talk,
that I I I listened to from him.
Makes a lot of sense, but never thought
of it before. He asked why are why
are there Abyssinian slaves in the Arabian Peninsula?
The Arabs never conquered Abyssinia.
And so
the the historical reason for that is that
the Abyssinians actually conquered the Arabian Peninsula and
they set up like a like colonies over
there. And so when the Arabs
rebelled and took their land back,
the weak and the the the the poor
women, people who couldn't make it back to
Africa,
they they enslaved them.
Otherwise, those are also noble people.
They were the sons of, like, generals and
soldiers and and administrators and things like that.
So they call colonized Africa.
But at any rate,
the baton al Mahasal is the is the
is the, that stone's throw between Muzdalif and
Mina,
that the the army of Abraha that had
this elephant that was dispatched to go and
destroy the Kaaba,
it was destroyed.
And so it comes in the the the
the the the books of fiqh that there
are 3 right? Hajj is a Hajj is
a journey of sevens and threes. Okay?
So there are 3 places where you're supposed
to walk fast.
One of them is the Ba'tal Muhasr you
know from the context of the thing,
the hadith.
Why? Because that's where the adab of allata
came down. So Rasulullah Sallallahu Wa Salam, what
did he do?
He cloaked himself. Obviously wearing a cloak or
putting a cloth over your head, we're putting
your shawl over your head, it's not gonna
like do anything if a rock comes down.
But what what what was it? His fear
of Allah
His fear of Allah and the fear is
what? It's like a type of shame. Not
because he did anything
but because he doesn't wanna be associated with
what happened over there.
So
nothing is hidden from the the Lord most
high.
But he cloaked himself in order to let
you know, it's like, yeah, I don't know
I don't know these people. Like, you know,
out of fear, he clocked himself and he
just,
hit his
riding beast so they can get out of
there as fast as possible.
And so it's a sunnah to go through
there. The other 2 are what? It's It's
the first three circuits of the when
you arrive in in Makkumukarama
and
the
the 2 green markers in the lowest lower
part of Asai.
But,
you know, this is something we have to
we need to keep the memory of this.
And obviously, you know,
we live in a land where, Samud didn't
live,
and there was no army of Abraha here
destroyed.
But stuff must have happened. Some of the
things
maybe we might know about, some of them
we don't.
But when you see when you see a
place where there's of the the the mercy
of Allah Ta'ala,
where there's,
you know, a showing of the,
of the, an openness and a shamelessness about
the disobedience of the Lord
You should, you know, you should feel the
same fear.
It's not like
the mood level of fear,
an odd level of fear, but you should
feel some fear. You know, you should pass
by a place people are people are drinking.
You pass by a place people are are
commit in that place. When you pass by
a place, you know,
people people are heedless of Allah Ta'ala's remembrance,
the the bank where people transact in riba.
Worse than that, the places of shirk.
You you pass by you read Dua, you
say you say your shahada again and ask
Allah ta'ala for protection and go by that
place quickly because it's not a place of
barakah.
And there are times for people to enter
those places as well.
You know, someone they ask you to come
and talk about the deen, okay, then you
should send 1 of the ulema to go
to the church, not one of the uncles
who's gonna like, you know, just try to
say everything to make everybody happy. You Send
one of the olamada go go to the
church, you know, church and tell them about
Islam.
You know, you just trust in Allah to
make your duas for protection that whatever you
need. Shaitaniya comes from from the shirk
of partners with Allah Ta'ala. He protects you
from it. Right? There's a a a a
a a a a legendary
tablihi known as Colonel Saab,
and Colonel Saab was indeed a legend. And
he's gone in with his, like, his crew.
He had his, like, his crew with him.
Right? And he they would do that. They
would hear there's some Muslim at a club
or a bar getting drunk, and they'd walk
into the thing and that, like, weird, like,
strip clubs and stuff like that. That, like,
very awkward, like, even to mention it. Right?
And they would just walk right in. Colonel
Saab would just, like, look at the guy
and the person would, like, be paralyzed with
fear and he's, like, let's go. And they
would just grab the Muslim guy and, like,
leave. And, like, 1 or 2 strippers would,
like, take Shahada on the way out. Honest
to God. Right? You'll see the the those
women are, like, wearing niqab to this day,
like type stories. Right? That's one of those
children don't try this at home.
That's not for everybody. That's exception. What is
the rule? The rule is this, is that
that wherever the Masih of Allah is, a
person should have fear of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. A person should fear entering into that
place. A person should fear being seen into
that place. If you have to go to
that place, take your you know, nobody know
nobody has a cloak anymore. Take your cloak
out and cover your head.
Make hijab from that place even if you're
not a woman.
Make hijab from that place. Why? So that
you don't see what's going on there. They
don't see what's going on with you. You're
disassociating with yourself on the the the whatever
YouTube video is being replayed on in
front of everybody.
It doesn't look bad that, like, you know,
you're you that that someone could even see
and think that you're one of them. You're
not we're not one of them. They're not
one of us. We have nothing to do
with this. You just do your thing that
you have to do. It happens sometimes. You
have to stay in a hotel because you
don't know anyone in the city,
even though that hotel is a place where
people come in and do all kinds of
weird things. Right?
It happens that sometimes you, you know, if
you're in a place I've had this has
happened to me before that that that you're
traveling in a place. The only place that
there that any food is served is in
a bar. Right?
I'm okay. Then we'll protect the names, you
know, just out of the
the the the the, what you call the,
the right to privacy that people have. But
one of my
very learned and wonderful Moana friends, and myself,
and a a a a a halal advocates
guide, the 3 of us, We're in we're
in we're in, like, Fresno, California,
which even the halal restaurants aren't as halal
as they claim to be. And,
you know, we needed to eat something in
3:3 AM. Even machine slaughter is, like, out
of business. Right? So we arrived very late,
and there's nothing to eat. And nobody nobody's
hosting us because seems like those days are
over now.
So
so
I looked through my phone and I found
there's, like, a vegan joint.
Okay?
And so we're like and it's open. It's
open, like, the whole night. We call them.
They're open. You know, will you be open
in 10 minutes? Yeah. Yeah. We'll be open
for us, like, another 2, 3 hours. Right?
So it's, like, 1 AM or some midnight
or something like that. So we go over
there. It's a club.
Okay?
It's a club. It's not like, you know,
like, Euro techno fashionable sleek looking chic looking
club.
These are, like, big, like, biker looking dudes
and, like, I don't even wanna describe the
women and, like, this is, like, just, like
this is a real crazy club. Now those
of you who are present in Darsen have
met me before know that I'm a crazy
looking dude myself.
And when I put on the turban and
everything and the beard, it amplifies the craziness,
like, even more.
And so,
and the other Mawlana Sabu who's with me,
he,
he's, you know,
he lives in California and he's on the
flag. Every anyone seen the the the flag
the big brown bear. Right? He's a big
guy too. Right?
So and then and then this other Halal
guy who's a baton. So that kinda trumps
everything. Right? So I'm like, dude, what are
these guys gonna do? You know? Just, you
know, read your say,
go in. Get your vegan food and, like,
get the heck out of there. Right?
So Moana Saab is like, man, I'm not
going in there. I don't need to eat
anything tonight. I'm staying outside.
So I go to my baton friend. I'm
like, yeah. Let's just go in there. We'll
order. Let let Moana Saab hang out outside.
We'll just order, and then we'll we'll come
back.
The kids, you can have it too afterwards.
So what what what happens is the 2
of us go inside and order all sorts
of
weirdness, tattoos,
metal sticking out of all kinds of different
places, and, like, the dudes are real big.
And the funny thing is that and to
make it even more awkward, all the men
are completely avoiding eye contact with us,
and scurrying out of the way, and the
women are all,
saying hello. Okay. Yeah. How how are you
doing too? Excuse me. We're trying to get
some vegan food here.
So we go and the woman we make
the order and she's like, yeah. It's gonna
take about 20 minutes though. We make everything
from scratch.
I'm like, oh my goodness. And there's a
concert. There's like a band live music playing,
and everything is so loud. And
and and I'm like, okay. You know, we'll
be back in 20 minutes. We go outside.
So what happened is that Moana Sabia is
like like super taqwa guy. Right? And he's
staying outside
and me and the the Patan brother, we
go in and we, you know, we get
in and we get out. The
this happens people, the higher your with Allah,
the more he Allah tests you.
So he's out there and some, like, drunk,
good old boys come up to him and
they're like he they're like, what are you
trying to prove by coming here?
He's like, dude, I ain't trying to prove
nothing, man. My boys are just inside getting
some vegan food, because we don't you know,
we're you know, that's that's that's what we
wanna eat right now. And they're like, oh,
okay. No. I'm not trying to start a
fight with you or nothing, but, you know,
you know, I know you guys are you
guys are Muslims and, like, you know, you
wanna, like, you know, show everybody you're Muslim
and stuff. I was just wondering what you're
trying to prove. And so he's he's trying
to talk and when you're trying to talk
to a drunk person, you're not gonna talk
sense to him because he's drunk.
Right? That's why alcohol is around. It makes
even a smart person into a stupid person.
It makes a stupid person much more interesting.
So so we go we go outside, and
then that dude is trying to have a
conversation with the other Moby Sahib. He sees
us and he's just like he's like, yeah.
Yeah. Okay. Nice talking to you. He just
go go. And then the head bouncer comes
out because he sees us, and he's like,
you know, he's like, you know, he's just
he he's having a conversation with us because
he just doesn't want no trouble.
Right?
And honestly, inside, I'm like, oh my god.
Like, I'm like a I'm scared to death
inside because these are, like, crazy people. They're
drunk. There's these big big guys that look
like, you know, that, like, the 2 of
them could pick up a pickup truck looking
dudes. And but, you know, you you know,
you gotta stay cool. You they show respect.
We got the order to go. The the
the strangest thing of the entire experience,
the strangest thing,
when we're leaving,
we have the food in hand. We're like
me and Abdul me and the brother are
like I was blue. It's covered. Me and
the brother, he,
you know, we're like,
you know, we got through this. Nobody tried
to shatter a beer bottle and, like, stick
us with it. You know, we didn't have
to shatter a beer bottle, stick them with
it. This whole thing went down alright. You
know, like, we're we're, you know, we we
made it.
Right? And we're scared
because, again, it's a scary situation. Right? And,
like, you all these things, you know, the
disobedience of Allah has happened. All these things
are happening and we're just, we made it
Right at that right at that minute, the
concert the the sorry. The live music had
just finished maybe, like, 5 minutes before that.
Right? And people are streaming out the doors
right before we leave. Out of one of
the doors from the from the stage, sister
Hijab comes out, and she just, like, nonchalantly
walks away. And I'm like,
man, let's just get the * out of
here.
Yeah. So
you might have to go to one of
these places at some point in your life.
Right?
If you do, there's a sunnah for doing
it, which is get in and out as
fast as you can
and cover yourself.
And, like,
god help us and god help that sister
as well.