Mirza Yawar Baig – Turn a mistake into a learning opportunity #1
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I am answering a question that
my very dear,
brother
asked me this morning,
and I call him my
the champion questioner
because, may Allah bless him,
Allah has given him the ability to ask
the most serious
and the most searching questions,
which comes out of his
genuine
desire and his sincerity and
his to learn
more about the deen.
And Allah
give me the privilege
and the honor of trying to answer some
of those questions.
I ask Allah
to increase him in in
and in sincerity and protect his
so that he never does anything that
is even remotely displeasing
to Allah
Now he asked me a beautiful question. The
question he asked me was that
the,
Hadith of Anas bin Malik
who
who said that Rasoolah, that he worked for
Rasoolah
as a servant for 10 years.
And in that entire period, Rasoolah
never even said oof
to him. So let alone reprimanding
or anything else, he didn't even say oof
to him. And he says that he never
even asked me, why did you do this?
I mean, if meaning that he did something
wrong and,
Nurul Shahram never asked him, why did you
do this?
So Omar's question was
that when I
am given the responsibility of Tarbia,
of,
somebody,
You know, youngsters,
my maybe my children, maybe my
nephews and nieces, maybe
schools
that I'm teaching and students,
maybe
some team that I'm coaching and so on.
So what should I do? I mean, should
I just let it pass? Should
I try to correct anybody? Should I not
say anything at all?
Should I even ask if they do something
wrong? Should I even say, well, you know,
why did you do that?
If I'm gonna follow the this particular
teaching as I understand it from this hadith.
As I said, beautiful question.
Incidentally, for those of you who are wondering
this peep peep is,
the alarm call of the American robin.
Now why this robin,
this particular one is alarmed? I have no
clue, but,
that is the alarm call of the robin.
So
the,
so this question now,
my,
answer to this question answer is
as follows. Number 1,
when you look at the question, we also
have to look at the context,
of the question and say,
meaning
the statement
of Anas ibn Malik.
Who is making this statement?
Now think about this. Anas bin Malik,
who was the son of Umayr Solaim,
one of the greatest,
of the ladies
who were the companions of Rasool Allah,
and and others. These were some
phenomenal women,
who were the Sahabiat of Rasoolullah Salim.
Umu Sallalaim,
was married to Malik bin Nadar,
who was not a Muslim,
and
he was killed
by one of his enemies.
And then she married,
who was again one of the greatest of
the Sahaba of Rasul Rasul Salam. They are
amazing stories about him and his dedication with
the prophet. So now,
Anad bin Malik is raised in that household,
first of all. Second thing is at the
age of 10,
he was he was 10 years old when
Nabi
Salam came to Madina.
Umair Salam,
his mother, demonstrated her amazing intelligence
by,
investing
in the project of Rasool Allah his alaihi
wa sallam. I call this an investment because,
she gave her son as
a servant, not a slave, servant
to Rasulullah hissalam.
Now you can imagine from from the from
the dialogue,
Naveen said he's so small. What can he
do? I mean, you know, you're giving him
to me. She said, yeah, Rasool, I'll just
keep him with you. You know, he'll he'll
serve you. He'll he'll do whatever you tell
him to do. So it shows that here
is a little boy who is being given
into the service of Rasool Salam.
And
he's not going to work in the morning,
coming back home in the evening to his
mom. He this is
immersion learning
in the sunnah of the Nabi alaihis salaam,
from the Nabi alaihis salaam, at the feet
of the Nabi alayhis salaam, in the home
of the Nabi alayhis salaam.
Here is this little man.
Right. This little boy,
10 years old, who is eating
with Rasulullah Salaam from the plate in which
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam ate because that
was the way in which he ate. Big
plate, everyone.
He's sitting next to the prophet
rasulullah sallam's
hand touches him. Nabi shalahu alaihi wa sallam
will hug him.
He,
maybe even sleeps in the same room as
Rasool Salam.
He brings him water for his. He brings
him he runs errands for him.
He's just hanging about. He's there in the
house
247 with the Rasool alayhis salam. And
think about this. He's not just there accidentally.
He's not there resenting the fact that my
mom abandoned me.
He's there loving the messenger
total and complete devotion to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. He considers himself to be
the most fortunate human being on the face
of the earth at that age.
He is focused on the Ravi shalallam. And
and the reason I'm saying all of this
is not just my
about the Rasul alaihi salam and his,
amazing,
companion. It is because one of the fadai
of, Anas bin Malik
is that Allah gave him a very long
age.
He died
in his very late nineties,
and he was considered to be the last
of the great Sahaba of Rasool Salam to
leave this earth.
And every single
night
after the passing away of Rasool alaihi salam,
which was when Anas bin Malik was about
20 years old.
So from the age of around 20
to the age when he passed away, which
was in late nineties,
close to a100,
Anas bin Malik
who saw
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in his dream
every single night.
And that's not accidental. Believe me, my brother
and sister. This
is Allah generosity
on Now
we have to we have to we have
to understand this, and we have to appreciate
it.
This is the man who is saying that
the Nabi never said oof. The Nabi
never reprimanded me. Now tell me, how many
times do you think he gave him the
opportunity to say oof? How many times do
you think he gave him the opportunity to
to to, reprimand?
So we must look at things in context.
Right?
Yes. It is true. Rasulullah
never said oof to him and so on.
But here is a young boy who is
in his company,
taking from him
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throughout his life,
serving him,
and, being, you know,
serving him to the best of his ability,
why would he say why would he reprimand
him in the first place? Secondly,
the kind of person that Anas al Masih
was,
he was imbibing
the knowledge of Islam and the sunnah of
Rasool Salam like a sponge
in a bucket of water.
Right?
Everything, every pore of his body,
was absorbing
the barakah of the company of the Rasool,
alayhis salatu wasalam.
So he didn't need much correction. He was
learning all the time, and Rasul used to
encourage him.
Now,
on the car therefore,
let's look at something else.
Let's look at the fact, another hadith where
a man came to mister Salam,
who was
and gave him a piece of gold. Mister
Salam was raising funds for something or,
you know, I I don't remember whether it
was that or he was,
this man just came and gave him a
piece of gold and said,
I'm giving this in in charity. And said,
do you have anything? I told him he
said nothing.
So said, take this back.
Allah and the way do not need this.
Take it back.
The man insisted, no. I I have to
give it. I'm giving it. We have to
take it. And so on and so on.
Now it went to the point where Rasulullah
sallam,
he forced the piece of gold into his
hand. Nabi sallam
took that piece of gold and threw it
and
flung it
away.
And the, narrator of the hadith says, he
threw it with such force that if it
had hit the man in his head, he
would have died.
So that's a lot more than oof.
We have another case where
Asura is
sitting in the Majlis,
and Abu Bakr Siddhi Hidalanu is with him.
And obviously so are several other Sahaba, and
one can assume the names are not there,
but one can assume that, you know, maybe
Sadan Omar was also there because they usually
work together and others.
Some of the big names of the Sahaba.
A man entered the place. He came to
this and he saw
there. Now this man had some enmity against
Abu Bakr as Siddiqui Khadyanu. So he started
to abuse him. He started to curse him
even though this was in the presence of
Rasool Allah his sallam.
Highly inappropriate behavior, but the man did that.
He continued and he continued and he continued
to the point
now during this whole tirade,
this whole rant of this man,
maintained
silence.
He just didn't say anything. Maintained a dignified
silence.
And Rasoolas very
interestingly and curiously
also said nothing. He did not defend his
friend. He did not tell the man, behave
yourself. Do you realize where you are? You
have no other nothing. He did not say
anything to him. He let him go on,
and very curiously, the narrator of the hadith
says that
there was a
slight smile
on the blessed face of the Rasul, alaihis
salam, while this was going on. It was
almost like he was amused.
Now
this got to a point where
finally lost his school, and he cursed the
man back. Just one word. He said something
to the to the man
offered,
which was derogatory in nature.
Rasulullah
got up and walked away.
Now
who completely forgot about the man. He went
behind and he said, yes, Surah Allah, what
did I do?
What did I do? I mean, this man,
I'm not he no. He's not he's not
criticizing the
but he says, you know, this man was
cursing me all this while. You did not
say anything.
You were just smiling. And this man continued
and he continued.
And, you know, I mean, I just said
one word to him. Why did you get
up and go away? And he had tears
in his eyes because he was very hurt
that, you know, here is my greatest friend.
Not only does he not
defend me, but,
he is reprimanding me because it was a
reprimand that he got up and walked away.
And I am obviously in the right, and
this man is obviously in the wrong, yet
Ravish,
reprimanded me.
Said to
him,
the reason I got up, the reason I
was smiling was because
all the while this man was cursing you,
there was an angel who was sitting there,
and this angel was making dua for you
and asking Allah to forgive you. And this
angel was responding and replying to the man.
The moment you said the first word, the
angel left.
And if the Malaika leave, why should I
be there?
Now,
in Urdu, we have a saying,
Meaning,
those
whose ranks are exceptional,
for them to be exempted
is very difficult.
Meaning that for those whose ranks are exceptional,
the
correction from Allah
is immediate.
Because not because Allah hates them, but because
Allah loves them. Because Allah does not want
their
record to be spoiled,
so they're immediately corrected.
Like we see in the battle of Hunayn,
for example. Here were Sahaba. If you see
the ayat of the Quran,
where Allah mentioned the battle of Hunayn.
Allah said that there were some of you
who thought,
right, who thought that these weapons and so
on, resources are enough for us.
Now he did not say that Rasuls alaihis
salam thought that. He didn't say that the
Abu Bakr and Omar and others,
the the the of the Sahaba, they thought
this. He did not say that the Asharab
Mubashara thought this. He did not say the
Badriyan thought this. Allah said, some of you.
Now who would they be? I mean, they
they if you just think about that, had
to be some of the new converts to
Islam. Right? So these were people who didn't
have the
the the the,
benefit of the of Rasool Salam.
So they
may have thought Now, also think about this.
Since when is thinking a crime?
They didn't do anything. They didn't say anything.
And I'm sure none of them, even those
who thought, none of them actually said, well,
you know what? We don't need Allah anymore.
These weapons are enough for us. They would
never I mean, why would they say that?
Nobody said that. Yet, Allah
completely turned the battle on its head, and
the Muslims lost and they're they ran away.
And if Allah's help had not come, and
of course, Allah helped them later at the
Dua of the Nabi alaihis salam, they would
have completely been routed and they would never
have won anything. But then, of course, the
battle of Hunayn was eventually a victory, but
after that first loss.
Why? Because of the kind of people. These
were exceptional people, so no exceptions
for those who are exceptional.
They are corrected before anybody else.
Now, therefore now when you are
talking about the,
how does this relate to the tarbia of,
people, Inshallah, in my next episode.