Khalid Latif – Five Wisdoms Part 12

In the name of Allah, the gracious, the

merciful,

all praise is due to Allah, the Lord

of the universe, the master of the day

of judgment.

I bear witness and testimony to the oneness

of Allah,

to his magnificence, his omnipotence, his might, his

glory,

to his being the creator and sustainer of

all things,

the giver of life,

the guider of hearts,

the master of the day of judgment.

And bear witness to the fact that Muhammad

ibn Abdullah salallahu

alayhi wasalam

is his servant and final messenger.

May the peace and blessings of Allah be

upon him and upon all those who choose

to tread in his path until the last

day.

It is said

that in the years before Islam entered into

the hijaz,

the custom of the Meccan society was that

the people wanted to have sons in their

family.

That no one at that time, none of

the clans, none of the tribes, none of

the people of the place of Mecca, none

of them wanted to have any kind of

daughter, none of them wanted to have any

females, but rather they wanted to have sons.

They wanted to have people who would carry

on their lineage. They wanted to have men

who would go forth and say that this

is who my father was, that look at

who I am the son of.

That even the prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam himself,

his own grandfather, Abdul Muttalib, when he is

having his sons, when he has his sons,

he is praying to his gods, he is

praying to his lords to give me more

sons. Give me more people that I might

have my name carried forth.

To the extent that it was custom at

that time that when a young woman, when

a daughter was born into a family, they

would go to the stakes of burying that

woman alive in the ground.

They wanted men. They wanted sons. They wanted

their name, their lineage to be carried forth.

This was the way that the people functioned

at that time.

But we know that our beloved alayhis salam,

the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he was in

the situation that none of his sons survived

past an early age.

Then aside from Fatima, aside from his daughters,

aside from the women that bore his name,

he did not have any men. He did

not have any sons. He did not have

any males that would carry on his legacy.

They would carry on his lineage. And so

rather than leaving behind any men that would

carry on his name, the prophet

instead left behind his words and his actions

and his examples.

That at any given occasion, in any given

circumstance, whenever he was surrounded by his Sahabis,

those men and women of that best generation,

whenever he had the opportunity to impart advice

and knowledge upon them, he would do so

in the most concise and loosen of ways.

Knowing who his audience was, knowing who the

people were,

Muhammad ibn Abdalla

Sallallahu

Alaihi Wasallam, he

would

strength. This man, Mohammed ibn Abdallah Sallallahu Alaihi

Wasallam,

he knew that what he would say would

carry forth beyond him. And so he spoke

not only understanding that the people at that

time would take heed of his words, but

knowing that the likes of you and I

today would also ponder upon the wisdom that

he imparted upon us.

And so this man, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa

sallam, and it says that his speech was

categorized as being jawami, that it had a

certain uniqueness to it, that every single word

carried meaning, that he did not require lengthy

speeches and lengthy orations to carry forth his

meanings that he did not need to speak

for hours upon hours. But when he spoke

concise statements, these 2 carried such power and

profoundness.

And so it is said on one occasion,

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he is sitting

with a group of his Sahabis

and he says to them that I will

tell you five things to do, that I

will advise you of 5 things. Will you

well, which one of you will act upon

the things that I am about to say

and then go out and teach those to

people who will practice upon it as well?

And Abu Harayra radiAllahu an, he says that

he is sitting in that gathering. He is

sitting in that group with the prophet Sallallahu

alaihi wasallam and the rest of the companions

and he jumps up before anybody else will

say anything and he says, You Rasool Allah,

I will act upon those 5 things. Tell

me what they are without knowing what is

gonna come out of the mouth of the

prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam without having any kind

of consideration or any understanding of what the

prophet

is about to tell him to do. He

says that, you Rasulullah,

whatever

alayhi salam, he takes his Sahabi Abu Harayhi

Salam, he takes his Sahabi Abu Harayhi Salam,

by the hand and taking his hand finger

upon finger, he begins to count these five

things.

And the first thing that he says to

Abu Harayra is

Ittaqal Maharim.

They refrain from doing the sins, refrain from

doing things that are haram. You will be

of the most virtuous of people.

And for our understanding, what we take away

from this is that when we would describe

somebody as being of the

those who are the most virtuous of men,

those who are the most virtuous of women,

we immediately begin to think of people who

have some kind of quantified aspect of worship

in their lives. Then mashallah, how virtuous is

that person? How much Quran does he know?

Then mashallah, how virtuous and pious is that

person? How many times is he praying and

prostrating to Allah? Then

how virtuous is that person? Look at how

much hadith he has memorized.

But the prophet

he is not recommending to Abu Horeira Radiallahu

An that, yeah, Abi Horeira go out and

carry out on some kind of actions, go

out and actually do something but he is

saying that if you want to be the

most virtuous person, if you want to be

amongst those who have the favor of Allah,

don't go out and do something, but refrain

from actually doing something that would cause you

harm.

That don't do those things that Allah has

deemed to be impermissible for you. That stay

away from those things that he has said

are not good for you. Don't engage in

those kind of activities that have been deemed

to be unlawful by the deen and the

law of Allah,

Stay away from that stuff which is haram.

It has no benefit that go out and

do this, go out and do that, go

out

that go out and do this, go out

and do that, go out and engage in

this activity, and we ourselves because we have

a love and adoration for Allah,

we will engage in whatever we can and

we will think that look at how great

we are because of the things that we

are doing.

But we forget about those actions. Actions. We

forget about those engagements that we are not

supposed to be getting even close to. We

forget about those things that in abundance we

are doing that come from the category of

being impermissible,

and so too we forget this aspect that

Allah

as much as he has made so much

halal for us, he has also made a

minority of things, haram for us, impermissible as

for us to engage in. And the prophet

alayhi salam is saying to Abu Hurairah, that

you Abi Hurairah going forth in your life.

If you wanna have success, stay away from

those things that have been deemed haram.

There and the prophet alaihi salaam is saying

to Abu Huraira that you Abi Horeira going

forth in your life. If you wanna have

success, stay away from those things that have

been deemed haram.

Thereafter, the prophet, alayhis salaam, he tells them

the second thing. He says,

That be content, be happy with that which

Allah has

given to you. You will become the wealthiest

of people.

And we would understand that on a daily

basis, we engage in this kind of thought

process that whenever we see somebody who has

something that we might not have in our

possession, our immediate thought is that, why don't

I have that thing? Why am I not

driving that car? Why is my house not

as large as that house? Why do I

not have these things? Why do I not

have these material possessions? Why do I not

have it? And more importantly, why do they?

And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he

is telling his Sahabi is that be content

with what Allah has given to you. So

many blessings he has showered upon you, nahma

upon nahma, blessing upon blessing, barakah after barakah.

He has given you the ability to see.

He has given you the means to speak.

He has given you the means to walk

and talk. All of these things he has

given to you and despite the fact that

the likes of you and I would abuse

these and do things that we are not

meant to do by them, still he gives

us the ownership over it.

And when we forget these things, we would

then realize that look at the people who

are around us. Look at the people who

are all over the world, the mes and

most by which they are being tested, the

things in which Allah is causing them to

be engaged in, the manner in which they

are being tested on whether or not they

would actually adhere to the deen of Allah.

Nobody is blowing up our homes. Nobody is

bulldozing our houses. Nobody is stealing away our

children from us. Nobody is putting a gun

to our head and saying to us that

you either renounce your Islam or I will

take your life. Nobody is putting this test

in front of us.

But because we are so weak because we

are so weak Allah has put us in

a place where our test is that we

have been given so much in terms of

material possessions. We just want more and more

and more of it. And the prophet Sallallahu

Alaihi Wasallam, he has said that when you

are looking at the people and you want

to be like somebody, look at a person

who is greater in the deen. But when

you are thinking about yourself in terms of

the dunya, when you are thinking about yourself

in terms of your possessions, what you want

of the world, look at somebody who has

less

than you and then you will understand and

you will appreciate

everything that Allah has given to you. You

will not want anything else.

And so the prophet alayhi sallam, he is

telling Abu Huraira radhiallahu an that, yeah, Abi

Huraira, don't forget every blessing that Allah

has given to you. That in those moments

when you are trying to understand why in

those moments when you are trying to contemplate

and reflect upon the situation that you are

in. Don't think about everything that you do

not have, but reflect upon everything that you

have been given thus far.

That the prophet

here said

after that the best of zikr is

and the best of duas

is to send praises upon Allah, and we

have mentioned it