Khalid Latif – Five Wisdoms Part 12
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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