Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Virtues of Zakt Ribt 07032022
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Alhamdulillah by Allah Aas Fadhu we've
we start today the 4th mujallad of,
4,
4th
volume of the commentary on Riald Salihin.
And,
Allah Allah is to be praised just like
he got us through,
the first 3 inshallah. We'll get through this,
4th one as well and it will be
khair and baraka inshaAllah.
So the chapter regarding the emphasis,
and the emphatic
obligation of zakat and the explication of its
virtue
and those things that are connected therewith.
Allah most high said in his book, he
says,
establish a prayer
and give zakat.
Allah
most high also said in his book, and
they were not and when describing the believers,
they were not commanded except for to worship
Allah,
making their deen
purely and sincerely for him, inclining to the
truth and establishing the prayer and giving zakat.
And that is the deen that is upright
in which there is no crookedness.
And Allah most high said,
to the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, take
some portion of their
wealth,
by which you
cleanse them and purify them and make them
grow.
And, the term zakat,
in the,
linguistically,
it means
to
purify something
and, it can also mean to to grow.
And
That it is a, you know, some a
part of the
basically a part of wealth that's taken out
in a particular way,
for a particular purpose.
And again,
it's sufficient for a person to know how
important zakat is that it's
mentioned in the, in the Quran
with,
the mention of salat
so many times,
to the point where both just like salat,
a person cannot imagine,
an Islam without salat.
A person cannot imagine Islam without zakat either.
And it's important, you know,
zakat is some people in the modern age,
they refer to it as the lost pillar.
Obviously, not everybody is paying zakat.
If everybody was paying Zakat, we would have
dramatically lower rates of poverty.
Zakat is something that people don't study. The
most people usually know about Zakat is it's
2.5%
of something. What it is 2.5%
of people don't really know.
And, the fact is that there are different
rates of zakat that are levied against different
types of wealth.
There's a different way of levying zakat against
craps.
There's a different way of levying zakat against,
against,
things that are mined.
There's a different way of levying zakat against
livestock.
And people really don't
don't know how any of these things work.
And, they don't give them. And the Muslim
world, Masha'Allah, has some of the best agricultural
land in the entire world.
The land of Egypt is so fertile.
You know, at one point or another before
someone had this idea of like, let's just
grow cotton and get cash instead.
They grew enough wheat to feed the entire
Arab world.
The land of Sham is fertile. The land
of Iraq is fertile. Rivers run through it.
It gets so much heat. It would have
been otherwise just an arid desert except for
these huge rivers run through it. And so
the Salat is completely,
like one of the most or at least
historically has been one of the most productive
and fertile
pieces of land in the entire world and
amassed great wealth through the agricultural production of
of that land.
The Indian subcontinent,
really, there's so many things over there that
grow. The South East Asian Archipelago, so many
things that grow that outside of those countries,
if people didn't
see the fruits that come from those countries,
they would not have thought that such agriculture
is even possible.
But,
sadly, people don't pay their zakat. They don't
take their zakat out. They don't give their
zakat.
And it's a curse and a blight, not
only on the poor that don't receive their
right, but also on the wealthy as well
that their money,
no longer has any barakah in it. And
this is something that's been seen that I've
seen people who have haram businesses that they
eat and drink from haram wealth
that, their money has no barakah in it.
You may have people who run, you know,
multimillion dollar businesses and their children all grew
up addicted to drugs or, you know, these
types of things. There's no barakah in it.
What do you expect?
What do you expect?
And, that money is then cursed. And one
of the types of haram wealth and one
of the types of cursed wealth is what's
referred to as kans.
Kans is
is what in the particularly in the context
of zakat. Kanz in general means like treasure.
But in the context of zakat, kans is
that money that a person,
doesn't pay zakat from. All of it becomes
poisoned.
All of it becomes poisoned. And if a
person ever makes tawbah, the way that they
can remove the curse from that that wealth
and from that money is what? Is by
paying the zakat. Obviously, the risk of everybody
is apportioned.
Allah gave everybody a a a risk a
portion of risk. And they're the ones who
choose to make it halal or haram.
And this is the whole issue is that
of barakah versus lana, of curse versus blessing,
is that if you're given a certain amount,
you're gonna get one way or the other.
And you choose to make it haram,
then
the part of it that you weren't supposed
to get in the first place anyway, you're
gonna lose it one way or the other.
Paying the zakat doesn't decrease your wealth. In
fact, the the text of the Quran and
the word of zakat itself seems to indicate
that it will cause your money to multiply
and it will cause your money to grow.
And it's really interesting linguistical the mid linguistical
meanings for riba and for zakat are actually
very similar. If you look them up in
the dictionary there's a fair if you made
a Venn diagram, there's a fair amount of
overlap between the two words.
But look how how different they are
in in their haqqai, in their spiritual reality.
That one of them just saps everything of
barakah. It literally causes enmity in society. It
causes things to move toward collapse and chaos
whereas the other one it, you know, seals
up gaps that are there in society and
it,
it shores up holes that are there in
society and it brings those things that are
broken back toward wholeness and back toward,
being in a good state. That people, if
they're productive, you know Not every poor person
is lazy.
Right? Sometimes people would get a job but
they just can't, you know, they don't have
a car to go to work. Sometimes they
would, you know,
I don't know. They would they would do
do the habits of like good upright citizens
that, you know, should spend on the economy
and whatever.
But, they're just not able to get by
with it, you know. They would be good
workers
but if a single mother has nobody to
support her, nobody to support her kids, no
medical insurance, none of those things,
then yeah. Sure. She's gonna be, like, late
to work from time to time. She's gonna
miss work from time to time,
or or a father for that matter as
well, that we should give respect to the
fathers that work. It's not only the single
mothers, masha'Allah, they do a lot as well.
May Allah Allah give them a high maqam.
Fathers also do a lot.
But the issue is this, you know, sons
do a lot. I I know I know
many sons that take care of their their
sick and aging mother or their disabled mother
or father or siblings and things like that.
It's the same thing. You're not gonna be
able to hold a job because you have
other things you have to take care of.
Zakat is a way of
sealing those things up
as well. And so if a person,
at any rate, they're holding on to kans,
denying zakat is
obligatory on them is not gonna help.
Denying what zakat is isn't gonna help. I've
heard all sorts of crackpot theories from people
just because they don't wanna give
what they have. The fun part of zakat
is everybody can afford it. Why? Because it's
not on the gross income. It's about it's
on what's left over afterward. Right?
And so people, well, I pay taxes, and
the taxes help the poor. Right? That's not
zakat.
I've heard this from people, people whose hair
gray hair have become white. One man I
heard this from him and I was like,
my good lord. I go, you know, the
day you realize how wrong this is, please
just pay pay your back zakat, it's not
gonna be good. The hadith of the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, took wa bi hijibahu
wajunubuhum,
that that that
kans will
be heat heated up, and they'll be branded
their foreheads will be branded with the hot
metal of it and their sides. I said,
even a penny, who's going to be able
to be patient with that
in the hellfire nonetheless?
It's not it's not a good thing. Just
go ahead and let it go. It's okay.
Let it go. It's not anything you need.
It's after all your expenses are all done.
What's left over, you give
from that.
It's it's not gonna kill anybody. You're all
everyone is gonna survive. You know, the same
things, you know, the same thing with the
farmers,
the same thing with the thing with herders.
There's a nisaba that you keep that's that
that that you're not taxed on if you
really need your bare necessities,
you know? What's the nisaba? Anyone here, you
guys, some students are not, what's the nisaba
of craps?
Everyone should know this. Right? It's Khamsa to
Osuk. Right? What's the of gold?
40. Yeah. 40 40 40 mithqals. So it's
40 40, dinars.
Right? A dinar is a coin
that's, around what, 4 grams?
And,
what is the nisab in silver?
200 dirhams. 200 dirhams. And a dirham is
a coin that's about 3 grams.
Right? And so whatever weight equivalents of them.
Right? What's the nisab what's
the nisab in in,
livestock?
Mawashi.
I'm
I'm not gonna lie. I don't remember that
either myself. Like, you look it up. We
read the chapter again because it's, like, so
rarely
rarely applied. I know farmers in in America.
I don't know any any pastoralists that actually
own, like, herds of livestock. But the point
is just go ahead and give it. It's
what's what's left afterward.
It's okay if you have a herd that
that's that's that big, Insha'Allah, you'll get you'll
produce more,
by next year.
You know, the animals will will will procreate.
If you have land, you'll produce more in
land. It's, you'll produce more by next year.
There'll be a crop next year as well.
It's really interesting like the whole
economic system that the sharia drives.
Right? If you're gonna get hit with zakat
and you don't wanna get hit with zakat
because if you're a billion billionaire, you know,
like, 2.5% comes out to, like, a lot
of money. Right? It comes, like, to $25,000,000.
Right? So you wanna save that $25,000,000.
What's a way that you can, like,
lawfully run away from zakat? Just invest it
in the economy, buy stuff.
Don't just have the money locked up in
cash. This is the whole, like, liquidity is
what what ends up bringing economies down. It's
not that there's, like, the money doesn't exist.
The money exists. Nobody would starve to death.
The money is there to feed everybody, like,
10 times over. The money is there for
solve all sorts of problems in the world.
But it's it's liquidity which which is the
problem. And this is like such a small
and simple solution that drives the economy in
ways or pushes the economy in ways that
are really for the for the general welfare
of everybody.
But,
you know,
the person who fears Allah ta'ala, they'll,
they'll take it, they'll they'll take heed and
they'll
benefit and they'll benefit others. And the person
whose greed is like so disgusting that they,
that they don't care to harm others. Ironically
they'll end up harming themselves as well, in
this world and in the hereafter.
It's a hadith narrated by Abdullah bin Umar
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma
that, the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said that Islam is built on 5.
That's why we used to call it 5
pillars. Right? The the Islam is built on
5,
on 5 things, on the testimony that there
is no God except for Allah, and that
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is his messenger,
and on establishing the prayer and on giving
zakat,
and on making Hajj of the holy house.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give his mother
to the Hujjaj that are there and those
were on the way to his house Amin.
And the fast of the month of Ramadan
and it's narrated both
by Bukhari Muslim.
So this is a very interesting hadith.
Masha'Allah.
And there are a couple of things that
I wanted to mention
in the
of talking about the meaning of the hadith.
The first is that it's narrated by Sayna
Talhatabnu Ubaidullah.
Sayna Talha is a cousin of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
and he is
a noble person of Quraysh. He's one of
the first people who accepted Islam
and he's one of the 10 that are
promised paradise,
again and again by the Rasool sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam to the point where it's become
a point of aqidah for us. And he
is, one of the 5 that accepted Islam
at the hands of Sayyidina Abu Bakr Siddiq
radiAllahu ta'ala anhu when he first preached Islam.
And he is one of the 6 that
were,
appointed
by Sidna Umar
who to
discuss with themselves to make mashra in order
to appoint the next,
the next,
Khalifa after him.
Because he was one of those that it
was well known that the messenger, R Allah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam passed away and he was
pleased with him.
The Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to nickname
him, Talhatul Khaira, Talhatul Jood,
Talhat
of good and Talhat of
generosity.
He was one of the first
people who made Hijrah in the path of
Allah Ta'ala.
And although he was not there in the
Battle of Badr Darussul, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
actually
reserved a share of the the khanima, the
war treasure for him, indicating that he was,
there by the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's
permission.
And,
in case in case some of the, conspiracy
theory minded Muslims
should
raise an objection about him, about this, that
he was there by the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam's,
grace. And the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam actually
gave him a share of the ghanima from
the Battle of Badr. He was there
at the Battle of Uhud,
and he participated in it so
vigorously, that said Abu Bakr Siddiq radiAllahu anhu
used to say,
that it was such a day that all
of it belongs to Talha.
And
why is that? It's because when the, Quresh
saw their opportunity to
assassinate the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and
they focused all
of his their forces, on him. That, that
that that he himself was one of those
who personally put his body in between the
strikes of Quraysh in between, the noble person
of the messenger of Allah,
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So he defended the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
so vigorously
that,
Sadashar radiAllahu an has she said that he's
one of the ones that's meant by the
word of the Quran,
Praising those,
the one who basically
gave up his life, for the sake of
Allah and they never changed. They never,
they never changed meaning that they never rotted
or spoiled from their pristine state in which
they,
fought for the sake of Allah ta'ala.
And in,
on the day of Uhud in particular, there
was one incident that occurred
that,
someone,
somebody attempted to strike the Rasool, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, with his weapon.
And,
Talha actually blocked it with his own hand,
radiAllahu anhu.
And he,
received such a deep and,
such a devastating wound that his hand was
no longer functional after that day.
It wasn't amputated but it was no longer
functional after that day.
That the Rasool
said about about him that day that,
Talha
is become he's made
made it made it wajib. Made it wajib
what meaning he's made it wajib for him
to
enter into Jannah.
He was assassinated
on the,
on the day of,
the Waqatul Jammal
by a
person who shot an arrow,
from the side of,
Sayidna Ali radiAllahu anhu without permission.
And Sayna Ali radiallahu anhu actually,
when that when he saw that he his
arrow actually hit one of the commanders on
the other side or one of the big
big shots on the other side, He started
to vaunt as if he did something good
and said, Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu shook his
head and he said that I heard the
messenger of Allah ta'ala say that the curse
and, the the warning of Jahannam for the
person who kills this man.
And, his body was taken to Basra and
he's buried there and his mazar is well
known
until this day.
And so he narrates his hadith and he's
a Tami, so he's from the clan of
Quresh
that said Abu Bakr Siddiq radiAllahu ta'ala and
who belongs to.
He narrates that a man came to the
messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wa sallam
from the people of Najd.
Thair aras, meaning his hair was completely like
disheveled.
He has crazy hair.
So we heard the drum of his voice
that he was saying something,
but it was unintelligible,
until, he came near the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And he came close to him and then
he asked him something. And so this Damam
ibn Thalaba,
I wanted to
share,
what Hafez
ibn Abi al Athir, with the Hamza,
wrote about him in his Ustlul Ghabah.
There are a number of
biographical
collections,
about the lives of the Sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhoon.
Hafiz ibn Hajar, his Isaba.
There's the,
Istiab of Hafiz ibn Abdul Bar.
There are a number of collections like that,
but the Usulullah is Masha'Allah,
it has its own
It has its own quality. It may not
be as like Taqiki as Hafiz ibn Hajar
is, but it tells the stories,
very compellingly about the companions
while still maintaining all the necessary,
scholarly
ingredients in order to be a useful biographical
dictionary.
So, ibn al Athir, he says,
Hadubani Saad bin Baqir,
wakila,
at Tamimi
walaisabishay.
And so there's a difference of opinion whether
this is the same person, but,
there seems to be a number of
a number
of, olamah that say that it's
that it's,
Bamam.
He says that it's from the that
it's unknown.
However,
he says that
it's
it's, and so did Ibn Battal.
Both both of them are great Muaddeethin,
from
from the Maghrib al Arab and from Andalus
respectively
respectively.
And,
there were those who said that it's not
him. But I think if you
listen to the
bio
biographical
note
and then you listen to the rest of
the hadith, you'll understand why a person might
think it's the same person.
So
Hafiz ibn ibn Athir, he says that he
was a man who came and visited the
prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, on behalf of
his clan.
And, the year 5,
or according to one opinion the year 7,
or according to one opinion the year 9
after hijra.
Hadith,
his hadith are narrated by carried by Ibn
Abbas and by Anas and by Abu Hurairah
and by Talhatu Abdu'lalah, which is the hadith
here in particular,
Even though Talhat didn't name him.
And so,
now Hafiz ibn Abi al Athir he narrates
a hadith that is
purportedly the same
a different narration of the same incident. Although
some of the ulema say that it's a
different incident.
So he mentions I'll drop the isnaab that's
narrated by Khurib, the freed slave of Abdullah
bin Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu from Abdullah bin
Abbas radiAllahu Anhu.
So,
Bammam was sent by his his clan to
meet the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, see what's going on.
And so he he,
arrived.
So he sat his camel down and he
tied it,
to the door of the masjid.
Bold move, right? It's
kind of how he's gonna do things.
Wakanda Rajulan Jalidan,
That he was, he was a tough
guy.
So he went and stood in the he
stood, in front of the Messenger of Allah
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam while he was sitting with
his companions.
Faqala
ayyukumibnu Abdul Muttalib. He said, which one of
you is the the son of Abdul Muttalib?
The the name of the famous well known
grandfather of the Messenger Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Faqaaar sullahi sallallahu alaihi wasallam and Abnu Abdul
Muttalib. I am the son of Abdul Muttalib.
He says, Oh son of Abdul Muttalib, I'm
going to ask you some questions and I'm
gonna ask really harshly.
So don't don't take it personally.
Right? He's Bedouin, Taf guy. He literally tied
his camel to the door of the masjid
and walked right in, stood right there and
said, which one of you is?
Anyhow.
So he he he he he he made
this disclaimer
and, you know, that's the beauty of the
Messenger of Allah salallahu alayhi wa sallam is
that he didn't, you know, he didn't take
it personally or whatever.
He said,
I won't do it I won't take it
personally. Ask whatever you wish to ask.
He said that I ask you, by Allah,
like just tell me the straight word, just
by Allah.
Did the God who of those who were
before you and the God of everyone who
is here and the God,
of those who will come after you, Allah?
Did he send you to us as a
messenger? And the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam said, Allahumanaam.
He says, O Allah, bear witness. The answer
is yes.
It's good to be,
humble as Muslims but the haqq is the
haqq, the haqq has to be said. The
Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he was humble in
all sorts of matters when it came came
to his own nafs, but when it came
to telling the haqq, he would he would
say it. He would say it with dignity.
And so he says, I ask you again,
by Allah, just tell me the straight truth,
by Allah.
Did the God of those before you and
the God of those who are present and
the God of those who will come after
Allah
command you to worship him
alone and
not associate any partner with him and that
we should,
leave behind our backs the
idols that our forefathers,
worshiped.
And he said, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Allamanam.
O Allah bear witness that the answer is
yes.
Then
the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam started
mentioning
the obligations of Islam. Obligation by obligation.
First salat, then zakat, then siam, then hajj,
then the different,
rules of Islam, sacred law of Islam.
And this Balmam
asked him by Allah to swear that this
is, you know, that these are actually,
sent by these laws are sent by Allah.
1 by 1, just like he did with
the things from before.
All the way until the messenger of Allah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam completed his list.
And he says, I bear witness that there's
no God except for Allah and that Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is his messenger.
He says that, I will I will
perform all of these obligations and I will
stay away from all of these, prohibitions,
that you've forbade me from and I'm not
gonna do anything more or anything less than
that. I'm gonna do I'm gonna do exactly
what you told me, and I'm not gonna
do more than that, and I'm I'm not
gonna do any less than that. And then
he,
he left,
he left and went back home. Faqal Rasool
Allahu
Alaihi Wasallam
That this man whose two braids,
if he if he's truthful in what he
said, then he'll enter Jannah. Then he'll enter
Jannah. And so this is kinda like weird.
It's the
the Arabian Peninsula was a weird time. It
had some weird people in it that were
not into like flowery speech or like whatever.
They were very straight straight shooter type people.
And so he he said he said what
was there in his heart and,
some people are like that. They're just, like,
brash
and they're,
they're just,
blunt all the time.
But there's nothing there's no
there's no,
content behind it.
There's nothing underneath it that
holds it up.
But this was a a man as the
story will show that, he wasn't he wasn't
like that.
And so there's a little bit more that
I want to return to but we'll finish
the entry from,
Ibn Athir.
He narrates this hadith. He says,
so then when he went back, he was
sent by his his try his clan to,
like, go and check out what's going on,
you know. So he went back to his
clan and he and they all gathered around
him.
So he, he he basically spoke ill of
the the 2 idols of Lat and And
they said,
Amam He said that fear fear that you're
going to
you're going to be struck with Viriligo or
that you're gonna be struck with,
with leprosy
or that you'll
be turn mad. Right? Now we say, Taqillah,
fear Allah.
They said, no, you should be afraid that
you're gonna be stuck with,
stuck with Baras,
with Vitiligo
or with,
right? You know Vitiligo. Right? It's like when
your skin starts patching white,
and then, like, you lose all of your
color. Right? Some people are born white. That's
that's it. But I'm just saying, like, amongst
the Arabs, the vitiligo is seen as, like,
some sort of, like, curse from from from
above.
Right? If you live in Ireland, you may
not need your melanin as much as if
you live in, like in the Arabian Peninsula.
Right? So Michael Jackson.
You know Yeah. Yeah. Michael Jackson had vitiligo,
you know. Some people have it partial, some
people have But they they didn't they didn't
take a, it was very dangerous for them.
And b, they didn't, they took it as
some sort of, like, sign that a person
is cursed.
And and like that leprosy and like that,
losing your mind which I hopefully everybody thinks
is not a good thing,
although one has to wonder nowadays. And so
the you see how like Islam changed that
the taqwa is not from the the the
things but from the Allah who is the
the the one who makes things happen.
You see the superiority of of everything that
Islam did. It can change the model of
people's thinking.
He says,
He says, curse on you. You guys are
telling me to be afraid of,
of of Baras and Jadam and Junoon. And
he says,
So the 2 Latin 'uzah, these 2 idols,
they,
indeed
by Allah swear an oath that they don't
harm nor do they benefit.
And
Allah Ta'ala sent a mess he sent a
messenger
And he sent his
book with his messenger, and I will I
I will through it, I will save you,
from the the the thing that you were
in,
previously.
He says that,
I and I indeed I bear witness that
there is no God except for Allah alone
and without any partner, and that Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam is his slave and messenger.
And I came to you, from him
with the news of those things that he
commands you to do and those things that
he forbids you from.
So they say that,
you know, he spoke with such,
sincerity
and so,
compellingly
that
that there was nobody from their encampment.
Except for no man nor woman, except for
after that day they were That day they
were Muslims.
So, obviously, you know, we have this thing
about like, oh, what kind of thing is
that to say? I'm not gonna do anymore,
any less or whatever. But it was sincerity.
The sincerity, you know, the other things you
can fix later. You can tell somebody why
you should read your sunnahs and things like
that. That's fine. That's like a smaller issue
But this is sincerity there are many people
who know exactly how many sunnahs there are
with every salat but that's the sincerity is
an issue that's why there's no effect in
the words.
And so he he all of his people,
they accepted Islam at his hands and they
repented.
So Abdullah bin Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala and who
said that, wallahi we never there was no
person, no delegate whoever came to visit the
Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam on
behalf of his people better than Dammam. Why?
Because he got the job done.
So now we return to the hadith
of Rialdas Salihin,
that this man walks in with crazy hair.
And we don't understand anything he's saying until
he came close to the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. We can hear him,
but his speech makes no sense to us.
So he asked about what is Islam?
And the messenger of Allah, salallahu alaihi wa
sallam said it's 5 prayers in the day
and in the night. And he says, am
I obliged to do other than them?
He says,
no. Except for,
if you do so voluntarily.
And then the messenger of Allah
he continues.
He says that,
I'm sorry if any Hanafis got their feelings
hurt with with me. I pray with her
too, inshallah. Don't take it personally. He says
that, he says that he's he continues. He
says that, and also to fast the month
of Ramadan.
And so
this man asked am I obliged to do
anything other than that? And the Rasool Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam says no,
not except for,
unless you do it voluntarily.
And then he, the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam mentioned zakat
and,
he asked, do I have to give any
more than that? And he says, no, except
for if you do so voluntarily.
So the man then turned around
and he said,
by Allah, I will not
increase do any more than this or nor
will I reduce.
And the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said
that this man if he's truthful, if he
keeps his word, then he will be from
the people of success. He'll be from the
people of felicity and of happiness.
And,
interestingly,
we see here in,
the commentary
Ibn
Allan.
He takes a couple of shots of the
cafes. Where is it?
No. He takes a couple of shots of
the Hanafeez actually. He he is a cafe.
There we go. He says that,
that he was a person of success if
he's telling the truth.
And so he says that,
he says that, he says that ibn Arabi,
the the
Maliki Khadi,
not the, Sahib al Fotuhat.
He's buried out outside the gates of fast
but he was the Khadi of Shbili of
civil.
Allah to Allah free it once again.
That he in his book Al Qabas,
he mentioned that the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam didn't like bust his chops
about not reading sunnah, not necessarily because it's
not part of Islam, but because this man
had just accepted Islam.
And he wanted him to him to,
be at peace with what he had and
then afterward
motivate to do what's more than that. And
that's what the one of the differences between
farther and between
things that are not farth.
Is the things that are farth, it's a
commandment, you know, and you stay firm on
it. The things that are not far, the
most you can and the most you should
do is
motivate people to do those things.
Motivate them to do those things. We don't
force them because then it turns into a
bida. It turns into a bida then. Even
something that's a sunnah can turn into a
bida if you if you like force them
and you start to make a car on
them for not doing it and you know
whatever, you don't give them some slack because
everybody has a capacity of what they can
do. For some people, waking up for Fudger
itself is
itself a monumental task
and it's for them, that's enough of a
task that in it is wrapped up the
reward of,
of of
the sunnahs and the reward of tahajjud and
all of these things as well. So you
should let them struggle with that before, like,
piling them on with so many things that
they become despondent and hopeless.
And there there are some people who that's
their their task
and they struggle with it and they surmount
it, they get over it, and they read
their sunnah afterward and they get that much
more reward on top of it as well.
So a person shouldn't be like, yeah, that's
me. I don't have to do anything like
that. Like, but in the beginning, focus on
what's what the what what what the farillah
is and what your Islam is built on
and then after you give tareeb, You get
you motivate people to
do what's more by making them understand that
it's in their best interest.
I
think there's
a yeah. There's a
meme missing here.
Okay.
That the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
is narrated by Abdul Abin Abbas radiAllahu Anhu
that the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sent Mu'ad
bin Jabal radiAllahu Anhu
to
be the judge,
and the governor over the people of Yemen.
And he was an Ansari, he wasn't a
nobleman of Qurayshaun, he was a very young
man but he was competent.
Islam works on meritocracy. You don't have to
be from the royal family in order to
like, you know, make it. If you're from
the royal family and you also have merit,
good for you.
Right?
But you don't have to be. It's the
the merit that makes a person fly
and worthy of these positions.
So he sends he sent him and he
gave him the general advice that says that
call the people to testify that there's no
God except for Allah.
The idea meaning what? That you don't force
Islam on individuals.
That there's no God except for Allah and
that Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam is his
messenger.
And if they
and if they, obey
then,
inform them that Allah, Most High, has made
an obligation upon them to pray their 5
daily prayers,
by day night.
And if they obey,
then
inform them that Allah Ta'ala has obliged
upon them that
certain wealth should be taken from their
rich, and it should be returned to the
poor.
So hadith
It is
narrated both by Bukhari and Muslim. And the
thing that I wanted to mention that that
connects this hadith from the one that's from
before,
is you notice there's a tarteeb.
Right? There's
a hierarchy of order.
Don't just blast them. You know Islam
says that, like, you know,
being gay is haram or whatever. Right?
Islam says that abortion is harm. Some types
of abortion are harm, hamdullah, Mashallah, they are.
But what's the first thing you're supposed to
tell them? What's the emphasis supposed to be
on? Right?
What is Islam defined by? It's defined by
the shahadutain, which is itself a representative of
what? Of the aqd of Islam.
And then the salat and the zakat are
representative of the sharia of sharia of Islam,
of the sacred law.
It's like
somebody comes up to me, you know, so
I'm gonna do an interview. We're gonna do
a biopic piece about the life of Hamza.
Okay? And the first thing they say, is
it true that, you know, in
2012
you used to weigh
£310?
It's not how I wanna define myself.
Right? I can lie and be like, no,
it was only 309. Right?
And that was with my clothes on. I
don't know, like, you What You're already on
the back heel.
You've already skewed the entire
story.
When our enemies do that to us and
they do it,
you know. They You know, that was the
original Aladdin. Apparently one of the lines in
the introductory song is, I come from a
land from a faraway place where they cut
off your hand if they don't like your
face. Which is not quite how the had
punishment works.
But still, just the mention of the amputate
That's that's that's what what, you know, like
whatever
executives at Disney, that's their
how they're gonna make Islam look like. Right?
Okay. The head punishment is part of,
you know, it's part of,
part of our sacred sharia, but that's not
what defines it.
How many of you have ever seen somebody
amputated before, been amputated yourself, or amputated somebody?
There's a great possibility that our entire life
will pass without any of those things happening.
And we're still Muslims. Does it define your
Islam? No.
If it happens, if it comes to pass,
it is part of our deen. We're not
going
to deny that. But it's not what defines
the deen. Right?
So this is lost on a lot of
people. If the executives in Disney is lost
on them, you would expect that much from
them. The sad part is now it's lost
on the Muslims themselves.
And, then what happens if you say this,
oh look, Sheikh Hamza is against the Had
punishments and he's against the Sharia, and he's
like a compassionate imam. And he, oh look
nuance again and all this. That's not what
it is.
That's not what it is. There are so
many
people don't know what they are.
And they'll never know what they are even
to enact them for all the sloganeering.
There are some
that we've practiced that other people, like, you
know, would shudder to think if they did
because their parents would stop talking to them,
and their wife would leave them, their husband
would leave them, or whatever. Right?
That's not the point. For the people who
want to
whatever, act like life is a Facebook comment,
wall or whatever, good for you. You guys,
they're not even here anymore. Alhamdulillah, masha'Allah. This
is one of the reasons I like this
gathering is because we don't have to worry
about them anymore. They're not in the room
right now.
For us, we should understand what the idea
is that the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, his nubuah
is and it's islah.
It's knowledge and it's
practical the practical,
understanding of how to implement that knowledge in
in order to make society a better place.
The idea is that there's only one way
of implementing the knowledge which is
something that takes something broken or messed up
and fixes it.
There's no nabawi model of taking something messed
up and then introducing more chaos into the
system. That's not how that works.
The knowledge is the knowledge. It doesn't get
changed it doesn't get changed by the Islahi,
environment around you. Right? But the islah has
what? The islah has first teach them about
the aqayd of Islam, get them to accept
it, then emphasize on the salah, then emphasize
on the zakat. That there's a hierarchy within
the sharia and there's a hierarchy between the
sharia and between
the, between the aqaid as well.
Does this mean that if somebody doesn't, you
know, you're talking about Allah being one to
them that all of a sudden zakat is
not far? Absolutely not.
Zakat is still far and the thief still
gets his hand cut off and there's still
so many lashes for being drunk and still
so many lashes for, you know, committing zina
unless you're Muhsan and there's still Rajam and
there's all everything is still there and there's
still so many rakaas of sunnah and tarawi
has always 20 in any case.
Right? All of that.
It's still there. It's still true. None of
it is not true. It's not like the
prophet said, make taqiyah or like, you know,
hide it from that. No.
But the idea is what? When you want
to define Islam as it defines itself, the
most important thing you should talk about first
is the aqaid of Islam. The tohid of
Allah Ta'ala, the rasal of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
The samiriatu
rebiat about about the unseen that are conveyed
by the Quran unambiguously.
And then all of the other things also,
you know, you don't compromise the the the
higher objective for the sake of the lower
one. This is not the
ilmi,
sunnah. The ilmi sunnah is all of it's
true at the same time simultaneously.
This is what the islah. And this hadith
shows that what? He's saying do this, then
do that, do that, then do the other
thing.
Then do the other thing.
And so this is Yes. I do have
a a axe to grind that you're probably
gonna have to hear for from me, you
know, like maybe you'll stop coming because you
say he talks about it all the time
again and again. But it is an act
that I have to grind. There are certain
certain sharia, certain furu of the sharia that
are true. Nobody's in their right mind should
deny them.
But people completely all of those things and
I bet you if you look at them,
they're not eating halal, they're not waking up
for fajr, they're not, you know, they're farda'in.
They haven't, you know, received they think, you
know, all sorts of things about the basics
of Islam that are like skewed and messed
up in 7 different ways.
And someone might say, well, I don't have
any of those problems, you know. So why?
Are you talking about me? I'm like, no.
I'm talking about you because you don't have
any of those problems that's good for you.
But because you think that some other
far'eri issue of Islam,
protesting it for, you know, because it's it's
not agreed upon amongst the kafar is a
bigger problem to you in the world than
the fact that nobody these things that are
these 5 things, 3 things that I mentioned,
nobody even in the Ummah understands them properly.
That you think that the former is a
bigger problem than the latter? This is a
problem. This is a problem that the Islah
is is a person hasn't learned the sunnah
of Islahin,
what the Rasulullah
alaihi wasallam taught. Because these are really big
problems. We don't have an ummah
that we can be taken credibly by any
kafir when we say that this is what
Islam says. We don't even have an ummah
that can be taken credibly when we speak
to them about what Islam says until we
fix these things ourselves. When we live the
life ourselves, then we'll be like those people
who come back to our Qom and they
say, the Haqqan. People will listen because people
can tell who's a liar and who's not
a liar. Not everybody is going to,
listen. There are some people who are even
immune to sincerity,
but there are in every group of people,
someone or another that that's that's not that
the sincerity clicks with, if you don't have
that, you're just, you know, just one one
more video amongst, like, the 1,000,000,000 videos on
YouTube.
And so, that's
very clearly
shown from this,
from this hadith. It's interesting, Masha'Allah, the next
hadith that's coming up, I wanted to spend
the longest amount of time
on that hadith.
But it seems that we're nearing the
end of our hour.
So I'm gonna save it for next week
inshaAllah.
It's a very beautiful and elegant hadith inshallah.
Even if you don't have a chance to
make it to the Darz,
do listen online inshallah.
Which reminds me, next week we're not gonna
have dar, so it'll be 2 weeks from
now.
Because next week the Eid is gonna be
on Saturday, inshallah.
And then the 2nd day will be on,
on Sunday and I plan on slaughtering in
the 2nd days at a place that's somewhere
far from here. So I don't even know
if I I'll be able to make it
back. And it's Eid anyway. Take the day
off go celebrate have have fun. My courtesy
and loving reminder to everybody here
that
if you haven't done so make arrangements to
make your alkhiyah. If you cannot do it
by your own your own hand, there are
places you can send it overseas as well.
There are people who need,
who need the money and need the meed
and things like that. And, ironically, we're talking
about zakat and it's so mismanaged by so
many people so please don't ask me to
make public endorsements of things. If you do
need to know where I would hope that
you can roll the dice and
Vegas says that you should come out on
top, inshallah. I'll be happy to tell you
about that privately, but,
but make sure that you do get it
done.
That that animal is Yom 'Qiyama, it will
be resurrected and you'll be resurrected with it
and it will be your riding beast, on
the day of judgement to the Hashanahsha.
So hopefully, Masha'Allah all of you pious and
wonderful people. You'll have an entire flock with
you
as part of your entourage.
Not just the animals but the angels and,
those people who you guide to, the haqq
as well.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give all the stuffykh.
And, wsallallahu wa ta'ala Rasulhi Sayna Muhammadu Allah
Alihu sahabi Ajmain.