Ibrahim Nuhu – Riyad Us Saliheen – Hadith 795 Part 3
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The speakers discuss the history and negative consequences of slavery and its negative consequences, including enslaving and persecution. They stress the importance of protecting individuals and avoiding slavery, as well as shaking hands with people and following the Prophet's teachings. The speakers also emphasize the need to change behavior and avoid giving up on others. They stress the importance of following the Prophet's teachings and avoiding insulting people.
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
the Most Merciful.
May the peace and blessings of Allah be
upon the Prophet and upon his family and
companions.
Today is the 20th of Rabi'ul-Awwal,
1446.
The date is 24th of September, 2024.
We will continue our lesson in this blessed
book, Riyadh al-Saliheen.
I ask Allah SWT to bless us and
what we have learned.
And to forgive us our mistakes and to
forgive the author and to raise his rank
among his followers.
So, if you remember we are still dealing
with this hadith of Jabir ibn Sulaym and
he says, I visited a place and I
found people around the Prophet ﷺ are rushing
to whatever comes from Rasulullah ﷺ.
So, I asked somebody next to me, who
is this person?
And I am told that this is Muhammad
ﷺ, Rasulullah.
So, he went to the Prophet ﷺ and
he asked the Prophet ﷺ, Are you the
Messenger of Allah SWT?
And the Prophet ﷺ answered him with that
which fits him.
Because he is a person most likely who
doesn't know Rasulullah ﷺ and he is coming
from a village.
So, the Prophet ﷺ gave him additional information
on top of what he asked because he
needs those information for him to be doing
things in the right way and also to
have the correct belief and faith in Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So, he said, Ya Rasulullah, he said, Ya
Rasulullah give me advice, advise me with something
that I will be doing in order to
succeed in life.
General advice Ya Rasulullah.
The Prophet ﷺ has said, Don't curse or
insult anyone.
Don't you ever curse or insult anyone.
And the Prophet ﷺ told him this, Rasulullah
ﷺ told him, Don't curse or insult anyone.
The man says, he says, I never curse.
I never insulted anyone.
Whether this person is a slave.
So subhanallah, if he doesn't insult the slave,
for sure he will be staying away from
insulting those whom he respects more.
Because you know slaves, they have no value
before the arrival of Muhammad ﷺ.
Only Islam recognizes these ones to be acting
as human beings, to be considered human beings.
Islam says, they are our brothers.
Just because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala put
them under our custody, doesn't mean we are
allowed to do whatever we want.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala stands for
them.
If you oppress them, Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala also will take revenge on their behalf.
Because Allah hates oppression.
So that's why you find them enjoying life
under the umbrella of Islam, which never been
before.
And this is the information that is hidden
from our communities.
We would talk about Islam, Islam coming with
slavery and all of these things that you
have been hearing from the enemies of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala from within and from
outside the Muslim territories.
If you look at the slavery and the
way Islam dealt with it, subhanallah, it is
an absolute favor, a blessing actually for those
human beings who are captured.
Because Islam doesn't take slaves randomly.
Islam does not agree with that.
Actually there is a hadith from the Prophet
ﷺ that says, يقول الله عز و جل
ثلاثة أنا خصمهم يوم القيامة.
ومن كنت خصمه فقد خصمت.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says there are
three people.
I will be the one who will be
fighting them on the day of judgment.
And one of them he says, وَرَجُلٌ بَاعَ
حُرًّا فَأَكَلَ ثَمَنَه.
And a person who sells a free person
and he consumed that money.
This is Islam.
Islam is very sensitive on human trafficking and
all of these matters that we hear today.
Shows zero tolerance.
So the concept of slavery, it does exist
and it remains until the day of judgment.
Islam only did it for those people who
fight Islam.
Islam doesn't just go to a place and
just capture somebody who doesn't believe in Islam.
No, we don't do this.
But those who come and attack and fight
the Muslim and the Muslim community.
These are the ones when Islam get them,
they will be enslaved as a punishment for
them.
Go and ask any human being who is
not majnoon.
If you fight a person and that person
gets you and he gave you a choice
at the end of the day whether to
kill you or to enslave you, what would
you be choosing?
He will be choosing to be enslaved.
Because probably he might escape, he might run
away, he might be treated in the right
way.
And subhanallah when Islam bring them to the
community, they are well treated.
They are well treated.
You can't just do whatever they used to
do in the Jahiliyyah time, you know, and
kill them in the way you want, cut
their ears, cut their nose, in the way
they used to do all of these useless
and oppression against their slaves.
Islam is the only religion that says there
are some issues, some problems you might get
yourself involved in, and you cannot go out
of it unless if you free a slave.
There are in Islam things which you do,
you have to free a slave for you
to get a forgiveness from Allah.
This is what should be shared with others.
People should know the stance of Islam concerning
these matters.
That's why you can see because of the
good behavior that Prophet ﷺ gave his free
slave, the given slave by his wife Khadija
Zayd bin Harithah, he chose to be with
the Prophet ﷺ as a slave rather than
going to his parents, his father and his
uncle.
He said, yes, I know them, Rasulallah, I
recognize them.
Rasulallah ﷺ said, choose one of them, either
you stay with him or you go with
them, it's okay, free of charge, they don't
need to buy you.
He said, no, Rasulallah, I want to stay
with you.
He chose to stay with Muhammad ﷺ rather
than going with those two people who one
of them happened to be his father.
I'm just quoting a bit.
Wallahi what you have is much bigger than
this in the way Islam recognizes a slave
and deal with them, encourage them and give
them a very good status in our community.
That's why in Islam to marry a slave
is halal or haram by the free person.
Marrying a slave, is it halal or haram?
Haram.
Why is it haram?
Haram unless if you fulfill two conditions.
Number one, you are afraid of committing zina.
Number two, you cannot afford marrying a free
person.
Why?
Because according to the principle, if you marry
a slave and you are a free person,
all of your children, they will be the
slaves of the master of that slave.
Islam doesn't want this.
That's why it stopped the intention of anyone
who wants to marry a slave.
Because his children are going to be the
slaves of somebody.
So we are increasing the slave community.
So Islam says no.
You cannot marry a slave unless if you
cannot afford marrying a free person and you
are scared of committing zina if you don't
marry.
Then you go and marry.
But marrying between the slaves themselves, amongst the
slaves, this one is okay, it's fine.
You get a free person married, Islam says.
Islam says no.
So they have no recognition until the time
Islam arrives and gave them status and care
and concern.
The companions of the Prophet ﷺ understood that.
So that's why he started with this.
He says even the slaves also I did
not insult.
He said I did not curse a slave
or a free person.
Even animals, he says, I don't curse them
after that.
I don't oppress anyone after hearing this.
And I guess we talk about this that
a Muslim is somebody who always tries to
say good or keep quiet.
Train yourself upon this.
Whenever you open your mouth, good will come
out of it or just keep silent.
No matter how much they pressure you, they
curse you, they do whatever they want to
do.
Do not reply with the same.
Allah says, They curse you, don't curse them.
They abuse you, don't abuse them.
They accuse you, don't accuse them.
They insult you, don't insult them.
That's the religion of Muhammad ﷺ.
Although you have a right to revenge, but
Islam says not to take revenge is always
better for you.
It's always better for you.
He said I don't curse a camel or
sheep.
Rasulullah ﷺ told him, don't you ever belittle
any ma'ruf.
Anything that is considered good Islamically, do not
belittle that.
And we talk about this, right?
Because a Muslim doesn't know which part of
his righteous deed Allah will take and accept
it.
And make it the most valuable act of
worship he did and take him to paradise
because of that.
You don't know.
So that's why as a Muslim, my job
is just to try to identify what is
right and do it.
What does Allah wants me to do?
Just do it.
You see small, you see big.
Big, I mean small in your eyes.
But in the eyes of Allah, small is
big because he loves it.
Whatever Allah loves, my dear brothers and sisters,
is big.
The value is far beyond what you can
ever imagine.
But unfortunately, our life is so materialistic.
This kind of materialistic life that we adopt
to ourselves.
That's why we categorize the deen of Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam into Hushur, Waloob.
All of these things that you hear.
These are simple matters, these are big matters.
If Rasulallah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was doing
it and he was very serious on it,
why do you come in this time of
ours and say, oh this one is little,
this one is this and that.
Always remember Rasulallah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the
one who is doing it.
To see whether you can call it a
little thing or a big matter.
As Imam Malik said, Islam is all big.
There is nothing in Islam that is simple.
Everything is big and everything has value.
And everything is great in the eyes of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So when Sharia says, sit down and drink.
Although there are some who said, it's makruh,
not haram.
What is it better for you as a
Muslim?
Sit and drink.
By doing this, all the scholars on the
face of the globe agree that you are
doing the right thing.
All the scholars.
By doing this, everyone agrees that you are
doing the right thing.
And on top of all, even if it
is makruh.
What is the tarif of makruh?
Makruh means, things which if you do them,
you will not be sinning.
But if you stay away from them, you
will be rewarded.
Which one is better for you?
Why would you stay away from something that
will earn you reward?
And how much you lost?
And also health wise, Alhamdulillah.
And Wallahi, anything advised by the Prophet ﷺ,
trust me.
If you go deep down scientifically, you will
find a lot of benefits.
This is what your eyes and your research
can reach.
That which is hidden from us is far
greater than what we see.
That's why we need that trust.
To trust Allah and the Prophet ﷺ, just
do.
He says go, just go.
You should believe that it is beneficial for
you, that's why Rasulullah ﷺ tells you to
do.
So scientifically, we have been discovering things.
They say it is unhealthy for somebody to
do it against that which the Prophet ﷺ
advised.
And the same goes to anything.
But nowadays people call it little things.
You shouldn't pay attention to the little things.
Audhu Billah.
And also you can understand why some of
us cannot do the big things.
Because if the little one is difficult for
me to do, how can you expect me
to be able to do the big thing?
Actually you see these things that some people
call tiny, tiny things.
They are there as a blessing from Allah
for us to train ourselves for the bigger
matters will become.
If you are incapable of doing them, preserving
them according to your ability, trust me, when
the big matter comes, you might be failing
in being able to achieve that which Shariah
wants from you.
So Rasulullah ﷺ told him, Don't you ever
belittle anything that is called Ma'ruf.
Whatever Allah ﷻ loves, just do.
What is Ma'ruf?
Whatever is recognized by the Shariah, Shariah accepts
it and Shariah recognizes it as Ma'ruf.
And this is what the Deen of Muhammad
ﷺ is all about.
He said, Rasulullah
ﷺ said, You can also make sure that
whenever you talk to your brother, you are
Mubasitul Wajh.
Mubasitul Wajh.
What is Mubasitul Wajh?
Smiling.
Your face is the face of somebody who
is telling him you are welcome.
Yeah, you know I'm telling the truth.
There are some of our brothers and sisters
who are trying their best to follow the
method and the sunnah of Rasulullah ﷺ.
But they think being a righteous person means
that whenever you meet a person, you have
to be meeting him with a very serious
face.
That's why when you meet them, you shake
their hands.
If you look at their face, because when
we meet each other, what do we do?
I shake your hand, my head is like
this?
No, we don't do that.
I look at you, I smile.
Subhanallah, some of our brothers, trust me, when
you look at him, you are shaking his
hand.
If not, Wallahi, Islam says it's recommended to
do that.
You will never meet him and shake his
hand again.
Because the face is so angry.
It's like somebody who is pressured by you
to stretch his hand to shake yours.
Why is he doing this?
Because he thinks he is righteous.
He is busy.
He has a lot of issues in front
of him.
Even if you don't have aqidah matters with
him, A person who doesn't know you, this
is the first time you meet him with
one of your friends, you are shaking his
hand, but his face is like this.
This is not the manhaj of Rasulallah ﷺ.
It's not like that.
And Wallahi, you are the loser.
Whoever is doing this is the loser.
He is losing.
This is not our deen.
Our deen, when you meet your brothers, a
sister meets a sister, they meet mumbasiti al
wujud.
The face has to be mumbasit.
It means happy face.
You are welcome.
Do you get it?
I don't have an issue with you.
That's why when they shake the hand of
Rasulallah, he held their hand.
This part of the hand goes into theirs.
Not like this.
Or like this.
You have many types of salam.
Or the touch and go kind of salam.
The person just touch and run away.
And sometimes, subhanallah, I'm just telling you example
that I witnessed, sometimes when they just touch
your hand and then look at the other
side.
Ya rajul, ana huna.
I'm in front of you here, but his
face is in another place.
What message is he telling me?
You are not welcome.
Rasulallah is not like that.
But he shakes the hand, he faces the
person, he looks at him, he focuses on
him, if that person happens to tell the
Prophet ﷺ something.
In a way, sometimes some of them even
deceive themselves thinking that actually they are the
closest people to Rasulallah ﷺ.
You remember that companion, right?
Rasulallah ﷺ was talking to him.
Subhanallah, he enjoys the focus.
He sees that Rasulallah ﷺ is only focusing
on him.
Nobody else.
He's the one who is getting all the
attention.
He stopped whatever he was telling the Prophet
ﷺ.
He said, Ya Rasulallah, wait a minute.
Who is better?
Abu Bakr or me?
What is the connection?
But you can imagine how much the Prophet
ﷺ is giving him attention and the way
he even forgot what brought him to the
place, he started asking the Prophet ﷺ unrelated
matters.
He says, Ya Rasulallah, who is better?
Is it Abu Bakr or me?
Rasulallah ﷺ said Abu Bakr.
He said, Ya Rasulallah, how about Umar?
Rasulallah ﷺ said Umar.
He said, Ya Rasulallah, how about Uthman?
Rasulallah ﷺ said Uthman.
He said, I stopped asking from here.
He said, the reason why I stopped asking
because I was scared there are some people
that I believe I'm better than them.
I might ask him about those ones, you
know.
At least Abu Bakr and Umar, he already
knows that these ones are better than him.
He just want to confirm.
Because of the way the Prophet ﷺ was
treating him, not giving them attention, but he's
giving him attention because he's the one who
came first.
Subhanallah.
That's how the Prophet ﷺ was able to
gain everyone to his side.
Eewallah.
That's how he managed to gain everyone to
his side.
You remember even the kufr in Mecca when
he made dua against them, they told him,
Ya Rasulallah, you are not like that.
Subhanallah.
They went to him, they told him, Ya
Muhammad, you are not like that.
That's too much.
They were scared because they know who he
was among them.
Dua is a very, very, very important matter
to all of us being given to this
man by the Prophet ﷺ.
Meet your brothers with salam, with good face.
The Prophet ﷺ said, it is a charity
to show him good face as a Muslim.
Who is the only one that you change
your face when you meet him?
It's only one person.
The person that you try to give da
'wah and you exhaust your effort.
Not the one that you go to him
once, twice, thrice, you don't, no.
You do a lot, a lot, a lot.
Maybe hundreds of times you have been visiting
him.
This guy doesn't want to stop doing what
he is doing.
The scholar said, if you believe that staying
away from him can bring him back to
his consciousness, then it is wadib upon you
too to stay away from him.
And when you meet him, you meet him
with angry face.
Ibn Asim said, sorry, Ibn Abdul Qawiyy, he
says, These are all descriptions of the face
that you are, even the word is not
good.
You meet him with those face.
But they said, this is only applicable on
a person that should believe that the best
is to stay away from him.
Then he will come back to his consciousness.
Other than that, the Prophet ﷺ advised you
not to forsake in a person.
Open the door.
Keep giving him da'wah.
Always take the best example in this regard.
Nuh a.s. 950 years of da'wah.
This answer the question that some of us
are asking or might be asking.
For how long should I be patient?
For as long as you live.
That's supposed to be like that.
How old are you going to be?
No matter how much you try, this Ummah
of Muhammad ﷺ live within 60, 70.
You have some people who reach 100, you
know.
Even the Muammar al-Pakistani, the one that
is in Pakistan, they said it's 160 years.
You get it?
Let's say they live 400 years, 500 years.
Nuh a.s. Just the time of da
'wah, the period of da'wah alone is
950 years.
950 years.
Da'wah.
Every day.
Day and night.
He said, Ya Allah, I gave them da
'wah.
Night and day and night.
In public and in secret.
He uses all the method for 950 years.
Never gave up.
Until the last minute.
And he told Allah, he says, Ya Allah,
according to the way I see things are
going, La yaladu illa fajr an kaffarah.
These people will not change.
And whoever comes also from their progeny is
going to be the same or worse.
That's why he says, Maghloobun fantasi.
And they put him under pressure.
It wasn't an easy life.
It wasn't like he's just going to talk
to them and they smile.
No.
Not like that.
They pressured him a lot.
Only Allah knows how much that man was
persecuted by those people.
Never complained.
And when it comes to our time, I
just meet him once and I give him
the da'wah and he is not willing
to accept and then I make a lot
of negative comments.
If somebody wants to approach him also, I
would tell him, you're just going to waste
your time.
We have to change this.
Ya Allah, we have to change this.
Meet your brothers and sisters with Wajh Mumbasit.
When I say brothers and sisters, it means
brothers with brothers and sisters.
The Fuqaha says, saying Salaam between the Shabab
and Shabbat, Shabab and Shabbat, he says it's
wrong.
If a teacher says Salaam to his student,
that's the teacher and student, right?
Student and the teacher.
An old man with the young people.
It's an old fire.
Do you get it?
But the young people amongst themselves, that Salaam
is not only Salaam, right?
Salaam and something else.
That's why the Fuqaha says, they should be
very, very careful.
When somebody says Salaam to you, you reply,
whoever that person is, male and female, because
it's wajib for you to reply, but reply
in a decent way.
Is that clear?
Inshallah.
When you meet your brothers, smile.
A sister, when she meets her sisters, she
smiles to them, shakes their hand, this is
our religion.
Shaking hand can earn you reward and also
at the same time, you will get relief
from your sins.
The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said, if
you meet your brother and you shake his
hand, your sins will be dropped down, just
like the way the leaves of a tree,
the leaves of a tree when the wind,
the dry leaves, when the wind blows, the
leaves are falling down, this is how your
sins will be, will be taken away from
you when you shake the hand of your
Muslim brothers, when you meet them.
Is that clear?
Inshallah.
Ibn Abdul Qawiyy says, he says, he
says, whenever you meet a Muslim, shake his
hand.
You know that this is a Muslim, say
salam to him, at least say salam to
him, which is one of the forgotten sunnah
nowadays and it's a sign of the day
of judgment.
So please, let's collectively change this.
You know, when you meet your brothers from
now onward, no more angry face.
Sometimes you will be wondering, what did I
do to him?
And there is nothing, just because his righteousness
told him that you have to be very
busy and you have no time for others
and you must be serious all the time,
but you have to remember, no matter how
much righteous you are, you will never be
like Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
When he says salam to everyone, he smiles
to everyone, you will never be like Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
May Allah SWT grant us the ability to
follow the sunnah of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam and correct it.
And then he told him, He says,
raise up your garment up to half of
your shin.
Half of your shin.
He says, do that.
He says, but if you think that will
be difficult, because sometimes, you know, nowadays, it
might be very difficult for a person to
do this.
You work in a place, and in some
other places also, you might be the only
one who is doing, so people focus on
you so much.
So the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam gave
us another permissible sunnah.
He says, If you refuse to do that,
then let it go down, up to the
Ka'bah.
Subhanallah, between the Ka'bah and the shoes,
nothing.
Because when you wear the shoes, sometimes, you
make it up to the Ka'bah, and
it goes almost next to the shoes.
So whenever you are afraid of people looking
at you, nobody even will pay attention to
it.
That's why I really urge every Muslim, you
know, to pay attention to this.
Rather than following rukhas, unnecessarily, with those scholars
you are following, they say it is makrooh.
Meaning, if you stay away from it, you
will be rewarded.
And you have a large group of other
scholars who believe that, no, it's wajib.
If a person doesn't do it, that part
of the leg might be punished by Allah
s.w.t. according to the sunnah.
And if a person doesn't get to be
careful, he might go and receive the anger
of Allah s.w.t. on the Day
of Judgment.
Nobody wants this.
So rather than following your desire, you know,
try your best.
Go and listen to the lowest permissible moment
and situation that Prophet s.a.w. gave
us.
And he says, I warn you from doing
isbal.
Where is something that goes below the ankle?
Because this is part of the khuyla.
Show off, arrogance.
The Prophet s.a.w. said, don't do
it because it's part of the khuyla.
Allah s.w.t. doesn't like khuyla.
So as I always mention, being on the
safe side is always good for you.
Allah.
Being on the safe side is always good
for you.
I know that some scholars said this, some
scholars said that.
But being on the safe side is always
better for you.
He says, He says, if a person shatamak,
if you have a person who insulted you
and cursed you, this one is quite interesting.
Because we are monitored by people.
So we have somebody who, he knows about
your life.
And he knows who you are.
So he started talking about those things which
he knows.
Which are the things he sees in you.
He cursed you, he insulted you, he mentioned
things which, you know, were practiced by you
in secret.
But unfortunately he knows.
The Prophet s.a.w. said, Rasulullah
s.a.w. said, Don't reply by insulting
him through mentioning things which you know he
does.
And this is what we do.
He might talk against me.
I also know his life.
Then I talk against him also in the
same way.
I mention things which only me knows about
them.
Rasulullah s.a.w. said, don't do that.
If somebody cursed you, insulted you, and says
something bad about you, using things which he
knows about you.
The Prophet s.a.w. said, You don't
reply him in the same way.
May Allah s.w.t. guide us to
the truth.
There is a question about somebody who believes
that his nature is not to smile.
It's like that.
But he says his heart is fine.
That's great.
May Allah s.w.t. purify our heart.
But my advice to this person, whoever he
might be, there are two types of behavior.
One of them is quiet.
And the other one is naturally giving.
That's why Rasulullah s.a.w. some advice
to this, to this, to this.
There are some people, naturally, even if they
don't know this, but when they meet a
person they meet him with, smile.
This is like that.
And most of the people, they have to
learn.
They have a variety of types of attitudes
and behaviors.
So Islam tells you this one is good,
this one is that.
So you are doing it because Islam advises
you.
You keep doing it slowly, slowly, gradually, until
it becomes part of you.
So advise whoever is asking, to take this
opportunity that this is what the Prophet s
.a.w. advised us to do.
Your heart will never be as pure as
the heart of Muhammad s.a.w. Never.
Whenever he meets people, he meets them in
this way.
So that means we can do it.
Meaning Allah doesn't ask us to do something
which is beyond our capability.
I'm pretty sure this person has a moment
where he smiles in his life.
I'm pretty sure he has a moment where
he laughs in his life.
So in the way he smiles some other
moments, he can also do it when he
meets his brothers.
If it's a sister who is asking when
she meets her sister, she can also smile
to the people, and laugh and say salam
to them, and greet them in a nice
way, and show a good face rather than
showing an angry face.
Because that which is in your heart, we
don't know.
People try to look at your face to
read your acceptance for them or rejection.
If your face is always angry although your
heart is clean, but how can they read
that?
They cannot read it.
So if they cannot read it, then they
have to see a translation of that which
is in the heart on your face.
So a person should control his face and
make sure that he shows the believers that
good face the Prophet s.a.w. advised
him to do.
So even if it is not part of
you, part of your behavior, but I believe
it is very simple for a person to
acquire this behavior, and do things in the
correct way inshallah.
So don't deprive yourself from this noble charity.
Because when you meet your brother and show
a good face, say salam to him, Allah
will write it as a charity for you.
So it's a great reward that you don't
need to make any effort.
You don't need to make any effort.
I cannot live alone.
I have to meet my brothers and sisters.
When I meet them, the Prophet s.a
.w. told me what to do.
And I observed that manner.
You get it?
And I get reward.
So it's a win-win situation.
But if you don't, and you don't try
your best to accommodate this behavior and to
be familiar with it and to make it
part of you, trust me, you are losing.
Eewallah, you are losing.
And also you are opening the door for
people to see you as an arrogant person.
Yeah, they will keep on talking about you
being arrogant.
Because they don't know what is in your
heart.
May Allah grant us good and ability to
apply the sunnah of Muhammad s.a.w.
wherever we are.