Husain Sattar – Abu Bakr The Keys to Success
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The fact that I sit before you and
the fact that you sit before me
binds us in a covenant between Allah
and ourselves.
Every single word that I say to you
is being
recorded and I'll be questioned about on the
day of judgment,
And every single word that you hear is
being recorded and you'll be questioned about on
the day of judgment.
And so there is some serious
consideration
that we should place on this particular gathering
and that there's a covenant that binds each
of us. I have a covenant to tell
you what my teachers told me, and you
have a covenant to do the best you
can to inculcate those words.
So I'm just saying that because that's why
I prefer to sit in front of the
table than behind the table. I prefer that
I be closer to the people who are
responsible for listening to me, and I prefer
that the people responsible listening to me are
closer to me. So I'll encourage you, give
you a couple of minutes if you can
just move up inshallah.
Inshallah, it'll tighten the gathering. It's easier for
me to focus, and it'll be easier for
you to listen.
If you look through the history of the
world,
you'll find
that there are many great civilizations
that have crossed its path.
Each civilization
produced
some individuals which reached pinnacles in their profession,
and these are the famous people of that
particular civilization.
So you trace the history of the world
and you look through Indian civilization and you
find that there were great people in the
history of Indian civilization, irrespective of their religion.
You trace through the history of the world
and you find a great Chinese civilization, and
you find within them that there were a
handful of great people who reached some accolade
within their particular
profession.
Each civilization
in their history
has some individuals
that reached a particular
level or depth
of perfection,
But
there is one civilization
which
over its history continued to produce such individuals
and even up until this day continues to
produce individuals
in every single century,
in every single place, and in every single
time, and that's the history of Islam.
The Islamic civilization is so unique
that it's not a handful of individuals, but
it's a long list
of individuals
in so many different fields, in so many
different times, in so many different cultures, and
in so many different places that became great
and performed
things which were unique within the history of
mankind.
Whether it be medicine, whether it be philosophy,
whether it be the Arabic language, whether it
be the collection of the Quran, the compilation
of Hadith, etcetera, there are incredible individuals within
our history.
And the list is extensive.
It's not a handful.
It is an extensive list of individuals
who were just incredible in what they did.
But there's one factor that differentiates the people
of our civilization
from the people of any other civilization.
And that is the purpose and the sole
purpose of the deeds which the people of
our civilization performed
was the greatness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
You look at Chinese civilization, a man decided
that he wanted to be he wanted to
be the first to make a particular,
to make a particular invention or to invent
something.
So that he would have the name of
being famous for making that particular thing.
Or there was a man who reached the
pinnacle in a particular aspect of knowledge, so
that people would remember that he was the
one who developed that particular form of knowledge.
Loss
of Hanover Wazda. Whether it meant building the
biggest mischief that they could,
or
reaching new accolades in a particular field,
or developing something which humanity had yet to
experience
in each and every occasion,
their intention
was to raise the name of
and
we go to a masjid, for example, in
Turkey, which is so beautiful in its architecture,
and we get caught up in the building,
and we don't realize that the purpose of
that man who built that building was because
he wanted to raise the name of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta.
That was the purpose. That was what drove
him to make that building. And that was
what drove the individuals
who contributed in building that building,
the name and the greatness
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta.
That was what drove the individuals in our
community,
and that's what differentiates
them from any other community that has stepped
foot on this planet.
Really stands out. There's one individual now we're
putting the profits aside. There's one individual
Rady
Allahu and the famous companion of the prophets
of Allah who are they he was sending
them.
Now his eminence
is not being established by my words.
In fact, the prophets of Allah who are
they he was sending them himself established the
greatness of Abu Bakr Al Di
Obata.
Well, look through the narrations of the prophets
of Allah, who are they, who send
them. On one occasion, the prophets of Allah,
who are they, who send them,
said everything that has been put in my
heart,
I placed in the heart
of. Yani, everything that Allah
put in the heart of the
he put in the heart of.
And another occasion, the
upon whom Allah
himself testifies
that Allah
is pleased with them and that they are
pleased with Allah. Imagine the sacrifice that they
made in order to attain that status
in front of this group of people that
had sacrificed
everything
to establish this deen on this planet. The
prophet sat
before them and said, to each of you,
I have repaid my day.
Immense sacrifices that you have made to establish
the name of Allah on this planet, such
that it would perpetuate 1400 years later,
Every single one of your debt has been
repaid except the debt of Abu Bakr radiAllahu
an on the day of judgment. Allah will
repay that debt.
In another hadith, in the book of imam,
I shall radiAllahu an has says
about the prophet
that there was not a day that I
can remember that passed upon us except that
the prophet
came to visit the house of a twice
in a day.
Imagine.
We're a great personality of our time to
come and visit our house once in our
lifetime. We would extol and we would talk
to the entire world about who came to
visit us.
Imagine imagine if the prophet of Allah, Harley,
or someone were to come to your house
even once in your lifetime. What that
would
mean. The prophets of Allah or something came
to the house of Abu Bakr not once.
Not once in a day.
Twice every single day.
So, Pronil,
look at the status of Abu Bakr radiya
abhana.
This is the greatness
that Allah gave
to Abu Bakr radiya abhana.
In another narration, the prophet
said,
were you to take the iman of Abu
Bakr
and place it on one side of a
balance, and were you to take the iman
of the rest of the community and place
it on another side of a balance, the
iman of Abu Bakr would
outweigh. Look who you're placing on the other
side of the balance. It's not a joke.
You're placing
the minus 1. You're placing these incredible companions
and all of what they did on one
side of a balance, and you're placing
on the
other side and his.
Look at the life of this man and
look at what our civilization has produced.
It just shows you a giant among
have passed. They'll be asked about what they
did, and we now are here, and the
challenge now faces us.
So what's the benefit in the life of
Abu Bakr radiAllahu an?
What lessons can you take from the life
of from the life of Abu Bakr radiAllahu
an? And so that's actually the purpose of
our gathering, and that's the covenant that binds
us for the next half hour.
If you look through the life of
our our
scholars have picked up on 2 essential
characteristics
that summarize
the life of Abu Bakr Radiola, and
allow us to take lessons
from his from his, from his presence.
The first
is that Abu Bakr Odeolahu an
was from, from was from among.
This was the first principle that drove his
life.
The foremost of the foremost
and
or or fasting
or prayer
or the company of the prophets in
every single aspect of the deen Abu Bakr
Ravi Allahu An was at the foremost of
the foremost.
Laid our history out. There are 2 great
journeys that the that he was someone took
in his history in his life. 2 journeys.
One journey was to Allah, and the other
journey was to Medina.
1 to Allah,
which we call the and
1 to Madina, which is called the These
are the 2 great journeys that define
Islam.
The first journey was the journey upon which
salah became mandatory.
It defines a Muslim.
And the second journey was the journey which
started the Islamic calendar. It defines the community
of Islam.
And each of those journeys, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala chose a companion for the prophet subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
In the case of the mairaj, it was
the angel Jibranai alaihis salam. And in the
case of the hijra,
it was Abu Bakr radiallahu an. Even in
the company of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
Abu Bakr radiallahu an was the foremost of
the foremost in that companionship.
In fact, when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
came to the house of Abu Bakr
response.
Make me your companion on this journey.
And let me tell you that Abu Bakr
was
so forefront, was such a forefront in his
emulation of the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam.
Not only the companionship, but the emulation of
the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam
that if you go into the book of
Imam Bukhari and you look at the events
that surrounded the arrival of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam in Medina, you find that when
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam arose arose arose
arrived there,
when he arrived in Medina or a little
bit outside of Medina, the people of the
city were waiting for him.
All of the people of the who were
who were in Medina came out of the
city to wait for the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam. With him was Abu Bakr radiAllahu an.
Now when the people saw Abu Bakr and
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
they couldn't distinguish which one was the prophet
and which one was following the prophet.
They couldn't distinguish.
And in fact, they made the mistake of
thinking thinking that Abu Bakr was
actually the prophets of Allah who are like
him to send them.
So all of them began rushing towards.
Accepted all that greeting
because he didn't want that the prophets of
Allah that was in them be disturbed by
all these people greeting him after such a
difficult
1 by 1, the people greeted Abu Bakr
assuming that he was a prophet. He was
so much a copy of the prophet of
allahu alaihi wa sallam externally. The way he
looked, the way he handled himself, the way
he walked, the way he greeted, that the
people could not distinguish between these 2 men.
Until all of a sudden, from behind the
clouds, the sun arose.
And the sun began shining down on the
head of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And
it's in the book of
took his shawl and placed it over the
head of the prophet
to shave. And at that moment, the people
realized who was the prophet and who was
the follower of the prophet.
This is the this is the emulation of
In everything, he was among the forefront, he
was among the forefront of the
and
one instance, the prophets of Allahar, they would
send him he gathered his companions together and
he said to them that we are in
need
of supplies for the next battle.
And they began gathering the wealth among the
Sahaba and they prophet
said to them, bring what you can.
Each of my companions,
despite the sacrifices that you have previously made,
I challenge you now to bring what you
can for the sake of the next
straw. Himself,
in his own words, narrates,
on this particular occasion, I made a decision.
And that decision was that I would outdo
Abu Bakr Ola Houan. He had outdone me
in so many deeds.
And so I, today, decided that I would
outdo him in this particular deed. And I
decided that I would bring half of everything
in my house and place it before the
prophet of the law.
So he went to his home. He brought
50%
of his wealth and put it at the
feet of the robots of the law. Harley
will send them for that battle.
All of a sudden from the corner came
Abu Bakr, all the law.
He came with every single thing that was
in his house.
Every single thing,
100%
of what he owned, he brought and he
placed before the prophet. The
prophet
turned to Abu Bakr and said, yeah, Rebecca.
What have you left behind for your family?
He turned to the
and he said, I've left behind Allah his
messenger.
On that day,
Omar said, I now knew I would never
be able to outdo Abu
Bakr. Imagine
a man of the status of Omar,
the one who the prophet
said,
were there to be a prophet after me,
it would be Umar And
is saying, on that day, I recognize that
I would never be able to outdo Abu
Bakr O'Neill Law Firm.
From a savvy goon, a savvy goon, he
was the from the forefront
among the foremost
of those who did good deeds. And look
at the look at the competition that he
had. He wasn't the foremost amongst us. That's
not difficult. He was the foremost among the
Sahaba.
That was the first characteristic
that defined.
And in fact, that's the challenge that befalls
us today.
Those people
who truly see
to succeed in this world and their deme
and to attain a reward in the hereafter
have to make themselves from the foremost of
the foremost. And that's the first challenge that
falls upon your laps today.
You have to look at your life,
not the life of Abu Bakr and get
excited about that.
Look at your own life.
Look at your own life and say, where
can I become the foremost of the foremost?
Whether it be in my salah,
whether it be in my recitation of the
Quran,
whether it be in my sacrificing
of my desires,
my family, my time for the sake
of how can I make myself
from the foremost of the foremost in the
you
would not be here listening to these words,
and I would not be here stating these
words unless that potential existed between the both
of us? Again, that's the covenant. It finds
us. And so you need to look. I
can't tell you.
I cannot tell you. No one can tell
you what lies within
you. But I'm not created within you and
us an ability to
and rather
than turn that ability towards other people and
critique them. Why does he sit this way?
Why does he dress this way? Why does
he walk this way? Why does she talk
that way? Turn it into your self.
That's why it was created.
And ask yourself, where am I and where
do I want to be?
What have I earned and what do I
want to earn? And where will I stand
on the day of judgment? And what do
I want to be able to say?
These are the questions that face all of
us.
And these are the questions that only you
can answer.
You know where your abilities lie.
You know what strengths of loss upon whom
whatsoever has bestowed within you. And so you
know where you can attain
becoming from the foremost of the foremost.
So that was the first characteristic of Abu
Bakr radiya allahu anhu. That he was from
a.
The second characteristic that defined the life of
Abu Bakr radiya allahu anhu
was that he
implicated he implemented
a very powerful hadith of a prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam as one of his core
guiding themes in his life.
And that is the statement of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
So hadith of the prophet.
And
it translates.
The person who guides to goodness.
Is exactly like the one who did that.
Do you understand?
The one who guides someone to do something
good
receives the exact
same reward
as the person who does that actual.
And
so understood
the power
of this particular heady.
Not only was
among the foremost
of the foremost in this day.
But
he spent his full effort
guiding other people to this day.
Wherever,
whenever the occasion arose, to tell people about
the greatness of Allah,
about the message of the prophet and
about the goodness of this deen, the prophet
Abu Bakr did
not see.
He never gave up a single opportunity
to guide other people to good.
And so
not only did he receive the rewards of
his own deeds, but he received the reward
of every single person that he guided on
into his.
In fact, on one particular occasion,
well, actually, let's just take a step back.
Now,
so that there are a famous group of
people within our tradition called the.
The 10 people who the prophets of allheart,
they will send them guide, guaranteed
Jannah with his own tongue, that truthful tongue
that was commissioned to carry the words of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
It also guaranteed
10 companions Jannah while they were in this
world.
Those 10 companions are called the.
Now,
the majority
of those 10 people
were all guided to Islam by Abu Bakr
Alaihi.
Imagine
every single good that they do also goes
into the account of Abu Bakr radiya allahu
an.
Now you understand the hadith, where the prophet
says
that
if you take the iman of the whole
community and you place it on one side
of a scale,
and you place the iman of
on the other side of the scale,
the
amount of outweighs. Why? Because everything that the
people on the other side of the scale
are doing is actually going to the account
of
And so that's the second second principle that
should be driving each individual in this room.
And let me tell you the truth. That
is actually the principle
that that we should be banking on if
we sit in this room.
The reality is,
is that myself and all of us present
in this room are very weak.
We're weak. I mean, you have to be
honest with yourself. You have to know when
you stand up against an enemy, how strong
that enemy is and how weak we are.
We make a 1000000 mistakes.
And we live lives which
If the Sahaba were to come here today,
they would wonder whether we were even more
so. That's the truth. And if we analyze
our lives, I think each of us will
come up with that reality.
Gem in your society, in your neighborhood, in
your community, in your must get, who's got
potential, who's got that pure heart, and you
can bring them into this dream, everything that
they do will actually end up in your
account, and you'll have some hope on the
day of judgement.
And I'll tell you, end up in your
account, and you'll have some hope on the
day of judgement.
And I'll tell you the truth. When I
come to gatherings like this, that's my purpose.
I'm scanning the crowd, and I'm thinking, there's
got to be a gem here. And I'll
be able to instill something within them that
they'll go out and do something good and
maybe I'll get a portion of that on
the day of judgement. That's the hope that
should be driving us. And that's what should
allow us to drive to spread this theme
throughout the world. And that's what should allow
us to drive to spread this theme throughout
the world. And that's what should allow what
should allow us to drive to spread this
theme throughout the
world. Our driving force should be to recognize
that not only do we have the opportunity
of earning the rewards of our own deeds,
but we can earn the rewards of millions
of people should we guide them into this.
And that's what drove Abu Bakr really all
over the line. He didn't talk to anybody
except about this theme.
And he would just constantly be trying to
drag people into this theme. And he constantly
challenged them to accept this theme.
Now that's gotta be that's gotta be a
driving force within our lives.
Everybody we know, we have a responsibility of
telling them about this game. And every Muslim
that we know, we have a responsibility of
advising them to put themselves in situations better
than in which they're current they currently are.
Should drive us. Number 1, to be among
the forefront of the forefront. And number 2,
to guide other
people into this way. Now, I'll just close
on one last point.
And that is, is that you should understand,
And that is, is that you should understand
the
issue that we're actually faced with is not
whether Islam will succeed in the Western
is not whether Islam will succeed in the
West or not.
That's not the question.
Okay. So get that very much clear in
your minds.
The purpose of this conference, the purpose of
various conferences, the purpose of varying various gatherings
is not the establishment of Islam. Islam is
going to be established. 100% guarantee, write it
on the wall in gold. It's Allah's
deen.
He's going to establish it. So that question
is done. That's not the issue. The issue
is not whether Islam will survive.
The issue is not whether Islam will be
established.
The issue is not will the name of
Allah
be raised. Those are guarantees.
I don't think about those issues.
The issue that actually faces us is who
will Allah choose to do that
issue is not the name of Allah. It
will be raised and it already is raised
and it will remain raised until the day
of judgement
and forever.
Because that is the that is Allah's name.
It's it's it's inherently raised.
The question that faces everyone in this room
is will Allah choose us to do that,
so that we can get the reward of
doing that work? That's the question. And there's
no guarantees. You don't get it because of
the fact that your parents were so And
you don't get it because of the fact
that you may have spent some time learning
the deed.
It's all based on who it was.
Happened to be in that position at that
time at that circumstance when Allah decides
to choose you, then you'll succeed. And let
me tell you, I mean, the peep if
you were to make a line of the
people who deserve
this, I'm at the way.
I'm
way at the end of it. I mean,
if I tell you the history of my
life, I don't have any in my family.
I have people who are righteous in my
family, but the way I grew up was
very far away from this.
And so times I wonder why Allah gives
me the to even sit in this chair.
But I realized that it's just up to
Allah.
Whomever he chooses, whenever he chooses, those are
the people who he blesses.
And so that's the question. Will Allah use
us for this theme?
And that's There's an application process. Now look,
when you want to get to medical school,
right, people will come to me and they'll
say, I want to go to medical school.
Tell me what kind of grades do I
need? What do I need to get on
my entrance exams? What's the best type of
research that I can do? What type of
activities can I get involved in? You think
about the application process. Why? Because there's a
committee of human beings. 5, 6, 7 human
beings who sit on the admissions committee, and
they will decide will this individual be admitted
into the medical school, or will he be
rejected?
And for that decision,
one decision, accepted or rejected,
people spend years developing
them. And they spend years seeking advice of
individuals
and planning and making strategies and thinking, this
year I'll take this class, next year I'll
take that class, the year after I'll take
these two classes. Everything is so planned and
so coordinated.
Well, the same application process exists before Allah.
Sopran a whole lot.
We have to present ourselves before Allah. And
we have to hope that he accepts us
to guide other people to his name, and
that he accepts us to be among those
who can taste the benefits of being close
to him.
Right? There's 2 benefits involved. 1, being close
to him, and 2, guiding other people to
to that close
ness. And let me tell you the truth.
I studied medicine in a $50,000,000
medical school building.
That medical school building was built, and I
was a first class. My class was the
first class to use that building.
$50,000,000
was spent of US dollars was spent
on
400 medical students.
There are 400 people in 4 classes,
100 per year in my medical school.
I studied in that building with every luxury.
There was a separate coffee shop for the
medical students. There was a separate computer lab
for the medical students. There were 25 classrooms
for 400 medical students, each with the state
of the art projection system, sound dynamics, acoustics,
everything to make you a perfect doctor.
Extreme. When I went I left medical school
for a period of time. And when I
left medical school and I went to study
in the madrasa,
were you to take a camera, You know
how they say if you give 10¢, these
people can eat for a week, and then
they show you these pictures of the how
the place actually is. That's exactly how my
mother was. It was in the middle of
a jungle.
There were scorpions.
We used to get bit left and right.
We used to sleep on the hard floor,
and it used to be an oven. The
sun would shine down on that clay clay
building, and it would cook us like we
were in another. We would have our tongues
hanging out, and we would be looking at
one another in the dead heat. We wouldn't
even be able to speak. In fact, I
used to drink hot water, to tell you
the truth. I used to have a bottle
of water. It used to get hot because
that whole room was such an oven that
it would heat up that bottle of water.
The pleasure that I experienced
in studying
so, Hanola,
would that I could be back in that
and I have that experience that maybe other
people don't have that I've sat on both
ends of the that
the taste of the dean
far outweighs any taste that you can ever
experience from any dangers.
It's far away. It's that closest to a
law. That tier that runs down your your
your face. That shiver that runs down your
spine is more than anything in the world.
And were you to bring all the wealth
of the world, you could not purchase that.
The way it's you could not purchase that.
The
way it's earned is by sacrifice. And I'll
tell you the truth, it took 18 months
in the madrasa before I really began to
experience
this.
And I said to myself, Sokhan Ola, in
this heat, with these sicknesses, under these circumstances,
it took 18 months, what happens to me
when I go back home? I used to
just say,
what will happen to me when I go
back home?
Our dean actually lies in sacrificing for the
name of a loss of power.
And
if
the khalifas,
if the governors of the Islamic State
knew
society with which this
So that's the challenge that we fall
of
Allah. It's a permanent pleasure. It gives you
peace in this world, and it gives you
success in the hair after.
And I'll make one final closing relate one
final closing story. It's not a story. It's
actually a narration. And then Inshallah, we'll close
this session.
If you look in the book of Iman
ibn Kathir, the famous professor of the Quran,
he says
that he's narrating actually,
an occasion in the life of the prophet
the prophet
would turn to his companions
and ask them,
which one of you have seen a dream?
On various days, various companions narrated dreams. The
prophet
continued to ask. He continued to ask until
finally one day, one of the companions stood
up and he said, Yeah, absolutely. I've seen
a dream.
So he began to narrate that dream.
He said that I saw a path.
It was a straight
path. Well behaved. On the left was a
garden. On the right was a garden.
And the right was a right. And the
right was a right.
Beautiful
garden
lying on the left and right of this.
And
the group of individuals,
Right in their mouths and they ran they
raced along that path without looking to the
left and without looking to the right and
they continued to throw that
a certain group of people was on to
rob their mouth.
They looked at the garden on the right.
They looked at the streams. They looked at
the fruit. They looked at the shade. And
they said, this would be a good place
to rest.
So they
They watered
they allowed their horses to drink water. They
took some rest in the shade. They refreshed
themselves.
They went back on their mounts and they
continued to learn the pain.
And then there was a third group of
people.
A third group of people came along the
path. They saw the gardens, they saw the
fruit, they saw the trees, they saw the
shade, they saw the streams,
and they stopped.
And they went into the garden
and they forgot
about
the Then actually, the dream continues. And I
don't want to spend too much time because
we're running near the end of our time.
The dream continues,
and there's a detailed explication of the dream.
It ends up that that 3 groups of
people were actually going to another place in
which they arrived at a place where there
were 7 steps. On the 7th step was
the prophets of the law, Harley Davidson,
and a couple other prophets. I don't want
to go into detail.
Anyway, the prophets of the law, Harley Davidson,
them after that dream was
related. The prophets of the law, Harley Davidson,
then
and
that garden that was on either side of
the path. That garden was the denier. That
garden was the denier. That garden was the
DNA. The first group of people that came
along that path were my companions.
They did not get distracted by the life
of this world. They put their heads down
and they drove straight along
that.
A second group of people were the were
the people that would come after my companions.
They partook of the world a bit. They
enjoyed some of the pleasures of this world,
but when it came to focusing on the
path, they remounted and they continued down that
path. And so when it came to focusing
on the path, they path, they remounted
and they continued to announce
the third group of people is that group
of people that comes much after the Sahaba.
They know that they're on the path. They
start on the path, but they get caught
up in the garden, and they begin to
think that the garden is the permanent
abode, so they leave their path. That will
be the last group of people in my
community.
If
you then continue through the narration,
himself states that after that day,
the never asked his companions, did any of
you see a dream?
It was as if he was waiting for
this particular dream.
And SubhanAllah,
such a simple way of explaining the path
upon which we write. This is a
of explaining the path upon which we write.
This is a straight path.
And it is completely focused, and it has
its results.
And anything that we do that distracts us
from the path is exactly that. It is
a distraction.
It
looks like it's permanent.
It shines like crystal,
but in reality,
it is passing. There is no permanence to
it. The only permanence in this universe
challenge, and they walked along that path without
getting distracted by the gardens on the left
and the right. Today, the challenge faces you.
Today, the challenge faces each and every one
of you.
The path is defined. And the people before
us, they have created a means of follow.
And so
take the company of those who succeeded a
long and
just within your community.
Find the people
within your community.
Find the people walking along this path in
a straight manner in this community and stick
yourselves to it.
That's the secret of this theme. It's not
your mind. You will never be able to
decide to succeed. The secret of this theme
lies in the company that you keep. How
do we define the people who took who
were who were the companions of the prophet
Tell me, if one of you stays up
all night and memorizes the whole Quran, can
you become a Sahaba?
Despite the fact that you memorize the Quran
in a night,
if you pray every moment of your life
until you die, can you become one of
a Sahaba?
If you gave everything you have, including your
life, would you become one of the Sahaba?
No.
The defining
factor
in the word Sahaba,
it comes from the word itself, companionship.
Those individuals who saw the prophets of Allah,
Harlei was in them in a state of
Iman.
Those are the Sahaba that never prayed a
prayer.
They never gave a dime and zakat.
They never fasted a day in the month
of Ramadan.
But they saw the prophets of Allah, hardly
ever send them. They took the Shahada, and
then they died in a battle, yet they
became the Sahaba.
It's all defined by the company they kept.
You can say, well, that's not fair. The
prophet is the prophet and the Sahaba were
the Sahaba. Give me another example.
Move down to the.
The,
the 2nd generation about which
said that the best of you is this
generation and then the generation after that and
then the generation after that. It's
not their knowledge.
It's not their
it's defined as that person who saw us
one of the Sahaba in a state of
the
Well, that's not fair. The Sahaba was a
Sahaba.
Well, let's go to the next generation.
What defines the
It's not
their knowledge. It's not their sacrifice.
Whoever saw the Tabata Ra in a state
of Iman becomes one of the Tabata Ra.
It's a siff.
We are being taught that the definition, the
defining factor is who you keep your company
with. And that tradition continues until this day
and age. And let me tell you, that's
the means of success.
Find the within your community.
Find the righteous within your community.
Find the people of within your community and
stick to them like glue. If you're with
them, then you'll actually become like them. And
if you're away from them, no matter how
academically you approach this dean, no matter how
much you decide to become good, it's very.
It's very difficult.
It's all about the company you gave.
Right? In fact, this was the great news
that was given to the sohala. On one
occasion, one of the companions came to the
and
he said to
the what day when is the day of
judgment coming? The
prophet turned to him and he said, what
have you prepared for the day of judgement?
What have you prepared?
Imagine
the prophet asking his companion, what have you
prepared? Imagine the state on that particular individual.
So he bowed his head. And he state
on that particular individual.
So he bowed his head
and accepted his reality.
And he said, I haven't prepared anything.
I have not prepared anything
except my love for you and for Allah
Allah. So the prophet
turned to him and made one statement which
enjoyed
the entire community.
The man who will be with whom he
loves.
On the day of judgment, one of the
defining factors of where we'll stand on the
day of judgment is who we love and
who we kept our company with.
Find those people in whom you see the
external and the internal of the prophet
Find those people in whom you see the
mannerisms of the prophet.
That is a sign that they inherited from
their previous generations, and that is a sign
that they can pass on their inheritance to
you.
That's the power of this team.
And that's the secret of those who aim
to attain.
So the challenge is yours. I'm not telling
you anything complicated. I'm not telling you need
to sacrifice your life and go abroad. I'm
not telling you that you need to give
every dime that you have in the path
of Allah. I'm not telling you that you
need to stand every night, all night in
prayer. I'm telling you a very simple piece
of advice.
Find the righteous in your community.
And let me tell you that there are
righteous in every community. Why? Because Allah states,
Those who believe,
fear Allah and be with the Saudi Queen.
Be with those who are truthful.
The rule of the Quran is that anytime
Allah makes a command, that command will be
possible until the day of judgment. Otherwise, he
would not have commanded.
The fact that he commands us to be
with the righteous is a sign that Allah
will always keep righteous within every community. The
righteous will always be present within every community.
And so the challenge is our.
Find those people. Stick to those people, and
we will become like those people.