Mohamad Baajour – Wings Of Tawheed – Story Of The Hoopoe
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The importance of learning and handling evidence in leadership is emphasized, with a focus on the need for strong leadership and proper evidence in order to assert one's legitimacy. The importance of double-checking information and not giving false information is also emphasized. The speaker emphasizes the need for learning from the "hammer" and "hammer's" of Islam, while avoiding distraction and discomfort.AI: Transcript ©
So
we will take, another story today from the
Quran, and all the stories of the Quran's
are full with lessons
that we beg Allah to make us from
the people who listen and apply.
In the same,
even we don't have to go to another
page, in the same page
where the story of Suleiman alaihis salaam
with
the ant,
the namla,
in the same page,
there's another story
with a bird.
First, it was on an insect
and now Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is telling a story
between Suleiman
and
a bird called alhudhud.
In English, it's called hoopoo, but I'm gonna
keep repeating the word hood
hood.
So
like we said, Suleiman
alaihis salam is marching
with his soldiers,
birds and jinn and you name it.
Huge army.
And then Allah said
Now I want you to imagine
this whole army
and Suleiman
noticed
that there is one
bird missing.
Army of Allah said,
army of birds
and jinn.
And then he noticed that there's a hoopoe,
there's a hood hood missing.
Where is the hood hood?
Some of the scholars said,
he needed the hood hood
in every time he travels
because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
gave this hudhud something
that nobody has.
And this bird
can see what's under the ground
just like he sees what's above the ground.
He sees the water and he can tell
Suleiman, okay you want water for your army?
There's water right here.
He can see under the ground the water
just like he sees the water above the
ground.
So he missed him.
And look at the leadership. You're gonna learn
a lot of leadership qualities.
The leader, first of all, noticed that one
of the employees is missing, even though he
has
2,000,000.
And he checks on his people,
Just like our Hakam, our presidents and our
leaders and our kings, they're always checking up
on us and making sure everything is okay.
So
he noticed someone is missing,
but at the same time,
he said,
maybe
he has an excuse.
He is an absent for he's absent maybe
for a reason.
He did not
act.
I am the leader,
and someone is missing without
my permission.
No. No. He said,
He gave
a room for
the bird to express
why is he not there.
And then he
said,
in front of everybody.
I'm gonna torture him.
And the scholar said,
torture here means I'm gonna take his feathers
1 by 1 while he's alive.
1st option.
2nd option, I'm gonna slaughter him.
3rd option
or 2 options. I'm gonna
take his feathers or I'm gonna slaughter him
or
unless
he comes with a valid,
clear excuse.
Now imagine you are
an employee,
and the leader is saying this about employee
he was absent. Would you be absent again?
Wallahi, this is all leadership qualities.
And you could imagine how can everything has
to be perfect.
Or but, again,
he left room
to show his humbleness,
to show that
there might be a valid excuse why the
bird is he is not here and why
he did not tell me he's not
here.
After a very short period of time,
the hudhud came back. Faqal.
Now, he says, subhanAllah.
Now you coming back to Suleyman. You know
who Suleyman?
Suleyman alaihi salam is a king. He is
the Mohammed of his time.
So you come meet you're coming back and
you know Husulayman,
you have to come back with really really
a major excuse.
And the way you present your case has
to be very strong.
So the hudhud came back,
and immediately he said,
Wow.
I came to you with news that you
do not know.
He came with a very strong
beginning that, you know, there's no room
even for the king except to listen to
him.
I know something
that you do not know.
I found out about something that you, the
king, you, the prophet of the time, do
not know, and that's another
daleel that the messengers do not know the
raid.
They do not know the unseen. They only
know what Allah
informed them.
And I came back from Sheba, from Saba
with
100%
authentic news.
100%.
That shows us that when you want to
spread news
or tell someone or forward something,
you have to make sure it's authentic before
you send it.
Unfortunately,
now
anything that looks good, that sound good,
forward.
And then
after I send it to 5,000 people, I
got a message from a good brother. He's
saying, Yaqi, this hadith is fake.
This hadith, one guy is sitting in his
basement board, he made it up and you
forward it to 5,000 people.
Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry it's too late, Habibi.
You should have done your homework before you
send anything specifically
when it comes to the deen.
When it comes to deen matters, this is
not a joke.
This is not a joke.
Rasulullah said, whosoever says something about me I
did not say, he have a VIP
position in the hellfire.
So this is not a joke. I'm sorry.
No. No. No. Sorry.
You have to make sure in advance.
I came. Look at it. We're learning from
a bird. I came to you with news,
100%
authentic.
Now look at this.
SubhanAllah. In our countries,
they will beat
you, they will torture you,
they will jail you, and then maybe they
will listen to you.
Why? And then if you turned out to
be innocent,
you're lucky if you get a sorry.
No. No. No. Suleiman alaihis salam with his
king. Suleiman
remember,
what is the dua that Suleiman made?
You Allah forgive me and give me a
mulk. Give me a bounty no one on
earth will ever have till the day of
judgment.
No one.
So you you you know who's talking now.
Look at the humbleness of the leader that
he's listening to a bird to present his
excuse.
What is the excuse? What did you see,
mister, mister Hadid?
He said,
I was flying over
and I saw a group of people
where their king is a woman,
their queen. They're led by a queen.
Tamlikohum, the Malik, the king over that is
not a man, so something is weird. It's
strange. It's a woman.
And she has min kul lisheh. In Arabic,
if you just wanna literally translate it, she
has everything. But here,
in
Arabic, it means
that she has
everything that a king have.
And she has a harsh. She has a
throne that is havin.
Keep in mind, who's saying this? The
that is his eyes are familiar
to the
arsh of Suleyman.
Arsh of Suleyman. You could imagine what kind
of arsh Suleyman have. So if someone is
used to the arsh of Suleyman and saw
the arsh of Balqis and said, It's Arshun
Avim, she has Arshun Avim, she has a
great throne,
they said it was all gold and you
name it.
What's the problem?
What is bothering you, mister Hudhut?
What's killing you? He said, I found these
people
with their queen making sujood to the sun
and not to Allah.
And the shaitan beautified this to them so
they are not
guided.
You are not mukhulaf.
You are not responsible
whether they are making sujood to the sun,
they are making sujood to the moon, they
are making sujood to a tree. This is
not your problem. You're not gonna be questioned
on the day of judgment.
You're just a bird.
Why are you worried?
And you came back and you're very,
in a rush to inform the king of
what you saw. Why is that bothering you?
Listen.
They're making sujood to the son.
Why they're not making sujood to Allah?
Who's Allah to you?
For the bird,
what came to mind when it comes to
Allah,
he is the one
who brings the clouds. The clouds
bring down the rain. The rain brings the
vegetation,
and then I get my share of 2
grains of wheat.
He's the one who brings the things that
are hidden, bring them out.
This is the biggest namah
that the Hudhud
felt for 2 grains of wheat and the
nest. He felt that no one
should worship
other than Allah.
Because of this small nirma,
2 grains of wheat fill up his stomach
and the small nest.
He felt
that this is a huge
great namaz from Allah
that I only because of this nama, I
only should worship him.
And that bothered him and killed him.
Think about it. This bird is flying 2,000
miles, 2,000 kilometers
from Suleyman to Yemen.
And it's a bird.
What attracts the bird?
The beautiful scenery,
and how beautiful is Saba.
Allah told us how beautiful is Sabah.
Gorgeous 2 2 gardens from the left, from
the right. Beautiful.
You hood hood.
All this beauty
did not attract you. All this distraction
did not attract you. All you saw that
are people
making sujood to the sun and that bothered
you.
You notice that there are people committing shirk
and that killed you because you are a
mwahid.
How many times
we get bothered when we see people committing
shirk around us?
The bird boiled and came back.
Not only we are not
bothered,
but there are some of us participating
with the people of shirk
and praising them.
And the bird
came back to Suleiman reporting
that there are people
who are not worshiping Allah,
and that is bothering me.
With a small,
the hudhud
gets so annoyed
so annoyed
and came back and reported.
How annoyed me and you we get when
we see all the haram around us.
Now look at the
great king.
Even though he said I am coming with
certain news, he said,
I'm gonna double check if you're telling the
truth or you're lying.
That's why
every time someone tells you something about someone,
make sure,
make sure
you double check.
Do not immediately make your judgment before knowing,
before hearing the other side of the story.
Go
take this message from me,
give it to them and wait. Look at
this. Finish your finish finish your job.
Don't just drop it and come back. Give
them the message,
stay from far and see how they respond
to my to my message.
My brothers and sisters,
a bird
was the reason
for
the whole kingdom of Sheba
to become Muslim.
How many people
became Muslim because of your manners?
A bird
made the whole kingdom, we all know the
rest of the story,
became Muslims, took Shahada
because he was very
eager.
He hated to see shirk spread.
How many people took Shahada
because of your behavior,
because of your,
the way you do business,
before because of the way you interact with
your patients or with your clients. They loved
it so much.
Do you know what we do?
Go yesterday,
go to the
parking lot of the police station.
After we finished
tahajjud,
tahajjud.
You know what tahajjud?
This is the ultimate.
After we finished tahajjud,
the greatest Ibadah, we went to the parking
lot of the non Muslims and we filled
it with garbage.
And on the way there, there is a
gate between Medina Villas and the parking. We
ripped it all apart because the law is
to close at 2 AM and this is
bothering me. Break it. I just finished the
Hajjood.
Look how messed up our priorities.
Like I told the brothers in the door
today,
leave all the tahajjud and leave all the
qiyam, just have good manners.
We don't want your qiyam, not a Hajj,
have good manners.
Move, we wanna clean harder.
You're praying tajjud for God's sake.
What are you doing?
What are we doing? What can sometimes
it
we have our priorities messed up.
Look at all the rewards in our deen.
Look at all the highest rewards.
You will find out they are all about
how we treat each other.
Pick any hadith. You're not a mu'min
until you loved your brother what you loved
yourself. You're not a mu'min if your neighbor
is upset with you.
The best thing that Allah loves
to put a to put a smile on
your brother's face.
And so on and so on. Every hadith
you could think of.
Whomsoever
defend his brother in his absence, Jahannam's haram
for him Jahannam's haram for him. He will
never see Jahannam.
And so on, hundreds of hadith.
Now what is the reward for this because
of his?
Because of what he did, what is the
reward?
You know what's the reward?
It's haram to kill a hood hood.
1 hood hood
1 hood hood
did something good. Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala made it haram to kill any
of the species till the day of judgement.
You want your children to be protected, you
yourself become good.
You do something.
Allah protected all the species of Hudhud because
of action of 1 Hudhud.
1 Hudhud. This Hudhud is not is not
mukallaf. He's not. He did not have a
messenger that told him, listen, go
go spread the deen. No. He's not responsible.
The the animals and the insects, they only
2 they only know 2 things.
They know who's their rub.
They know who's their rub, and Allah
taught them how to seek the rizq.
Every insect or animal, this they know. That's
why when he was asked who's Allah, it's
Allah who bring the hidden seed from the
ground. This is Allah to me,
Not the one who gave me all of
Islam.
Look how much we could learn
from a story of a bird. I called
the story the wings of Tawhid.
From a bird,
a whole nation
became Muslim until the day of judgment. And
we all know
how how masha'Allah
our strong brothers of of Yemen are. Even
Rasulullah
praise them
because of a hood hood.
May Allah
make us learn from this hood hood and
from the end and from all the stories
of the Quran.
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