Mubeen Kamani – Riyad Ul Salihin May 31 2022
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Today's hadith is narrated by Shaddad bin
He says
When
you hid the, uhhadukum
shafratuhuwal
yuri zibhatum
Rasool Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
has written perfection
in Ihsan
upon all things.
So when you kill, do it well, and
when you slaughter,
slaughter well.
Let one of you sharpen his blade
and let him spare the suffering to the
animal that he slaughters.
The concept of ihsan in Islam has been
mentioned in many different hadith and many different
verses in the Quran.
The very famous hadith of Hadith of Jibrael
where Jibrael sat wasalam and comes and ask
the prophet a series of questions.
One of the questions that he asked Roshallahu
alaihi wa sallam is that what is Ihsaan?
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he points out
a very
important concept.
And the concept he actually breaks into 2
tiers.
The first tier is to
worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala as if you
can see Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And this is the prophet this is the
best tier that you actually reach perfection
in whatever you do.
But then the prophet
breaks it down to tier number 2 and
says, look, if you cannot actually reach perfection,
then that's okay.
Because you will not be the perfect person.
You will not have the perfect children. You
will not have the perfect Ibadah. Your salah
will never be perfect. Your home, your your
career will not be perfect. Why? Because
perfection
is not meant
for the dunya.
All of this,
maybe once off you might reach it. But
then they'll be up and down. And this
is why the prophet breaks it down to
the second tier and he says,
If
you can't reach the greatest level of perfection,
then bring it down and understand that
Allah He has commanded you to be just
and to have perfection
and to have goodness in what you do.
In another place, Allah
he praises a certain groups of people
and he says, وَالصِيمِيم وَالصِيمِيمة اللهِيم وَالصِديمة اللهِيم
وَالْتِيمةي
وَةَةِيمِيمِيم وَالْصِيمةِي
صِيمِيمِيمة
even better.
Allah
loves those people that strive for perfection.
Now in this hadith, Rasool Allah
says, Allah
has written Ihsan
upon everything that you do, not just your
Ibadan,
not just
your reading Quran, or coming to the masjid,
your salah, not just your fasting. But here
are law the prophet says, any aspect of
your life, look for perfection.
Says, in Allah
is beautiful himself.
You hibbul jamal, and he loves beautiful things.
So whenever you do something,
strive to make that
beautiful
strive to make that perfect in whatever aspect.
Times what we tend
to do is that we say that inside
is what matters, outside doesn't matter. And a
lot of times what happens is that people,
they hide behind this
concept that brother, as long as my inside
is okay, the outside really doesn't matter. You
know, I can drive,
you know, a beat up car. I can
wear tethered clothes. I can, you know, keep
myself unkept. This shows my Zohad.
This shows my disconnection to the duniya.
Whereas, if you look at the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi
wa
sallam, and his hair was tethered. His hair
was messy. His clothes were messy.
Fix yourself.
And then come. That it's not just your
inward side, but it's also
the external as well that loves beautiful things,
and he loves that person. Strives for perfection
that tries to be a good, presentable
person. Now,
if you look at the Prophet
Now, actually let's finish off the Hadith's first.
When this person comes back,
now,
beards brushed up, hair is nice and combed,
wearing good clothes, perfume, and the Prophet
says, is this better or looking like the
brother of shaitan better? And
he says, is this better or looking like
the brother of shaitan better? And you see
this in the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, this
common theme that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
always
work towards perfection even when it comes to
like smelling good,
right? The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, and one
of these said that from the things that
he loves from this dunya is
good smell.
And Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam instructs us that
even when you come to the masjid,
don't bring any harsh smells with you, brush
your teeth. Do me swap. Why did Raul
Allah send when the final thing Raul Allah
does before he passed away is he performed
this walk. And this is Raul
telling us that, look, even when you present
yourself,
strive for a purpose,
your Ibadad, but even your presentation of yourself
and Rassoulullah actually took
very detailed care about with his presentation.
From the sunnah of Rassoulullah
said that the prophet would take oil and
before he applied it to his hair, Rassoulullah
would take some and he would apply some
first to his eyebrows,
and then to his eyelashes. And then he
will take it and apply it to his
hair. The prophet he
he instructs us that,
who if you have
hair, take care of it.
This is perfection. Allah Subhanahu wa'an in the
Quran says,
Adam, all children of Adam, when you come
to the masjid,
make yourself presentable.
Now, this perfection is not just only in
Ibadat and not just only in presentation, but
we also see in the akhlaq of Rasool
Allah
teaches us to have the best of akhlaq.
And this is why Rasool Allah Rasool
Allah says, If you believe in Allah's Day
of Judgment,
first
find perfection in your speech.
Let him speak good or
remain quiet. And then the prophet carried on
the same hadith.
Let him be a good member of society.
Let him be a good neighbor.
Right? Take care of your lawn.
Take care don't leave your garbage cans out.
Don't have your bushes like going over, you
know,
where they where it becomes an eye sore.
But you're a good neighbor.
Take care of your neighbors. Surah
instructs us that when you when you, you
know, cook and you make gravy, add a
little bit extra water and send some to
your neighbors. And then the prophet
who believes in Allah
then let him be
generous to his guest.
And again, this is how we're going to
every aspect of our life
that control your tongue, find perfection in your
speech,
Be a good member of society.
Be generous.
And this is in all of our aspects.
Now,
if you look at this particular
when you kill,
then kill in a good way.
And as we know, killing is
when the worst thing that person can do.
Right? In, so many cases, there are only
very few cases where it's actually permissible. And
then the prophet drops it down and says,
when you sacrifice, the
then the prophetess drops it down and says,
when you sacrifice,
let your sacrifice be done in a perfect
way as well. Now, in Islam, what we
have is,
and is the principle
and Foroo is
the examples.
Right? A lot of times what happens is
people get stuck with the example and they
mention this hadith
next month in Eid ul Adha.
This hadith gets mentioned in Eid ul Adha
because
the Baftum.
But the the is just the example and
this is how the prophet would teach people.
He would give a concept and then break
it down to an example that look, even
when you do something like killing an animal,
then
find perfection.
Sharpen your blade.
Don't let your animal feel pain.
And this is just one example, but now
you take that same concept
and you apply that to everything that you
do, the way that you deal with and
interact with your parents. The way that you
interact with your children, the way that you
interact with your spouse, your akhlaq in general,
your presentation, your Ibadad,
your work ethics, everything,
find perfection
in that or strive to perfection. And if
you don't reach perfection, then the prophet says,
look, that's that's a upper tier. If you
don't reach that, then at least you have
the 2nd tier. And this is why we
say that, you know, reach for the star
reach for the stars.
If you don't get the stars, you at
least get something great. You at least do
something good. And this concept we talked about
before is to stay hungry,
to actually
keep going. Don't become content. Have qna'at when
it comes to what Allah has given you,
but besides that, a person should
try to perfect themselves in every aspect of
their life. This we act we make dwell
that lost one that gives us the ability
to act upon what has been said, you
know, just a
personal request.
Today, the day that
6 years ago,
He he he willed that my mother returned
back to him.
It's a very tough day.
So I just personal request, I made Dua
the you know, we I request everybody to
make Dua for the
makes her great from the garden of paradise.
It unites
us. When he reunites us, may she be
proud of what she has left behind.
She was a person that always encouraged us
for
encouraged
us for
I don't mean this to be
a form of me praising my mother.
But
she came from a Hindu household. She wasn't
Muslim. She wasn't born Muslim.
But when she accepted Islam, she didn't know
much.
My mother, she knew one Surah,
Sura
and she taught me Sura and then she
knew one
And
as a kid, these are the only two
things,
Islamically, my mother had to pass on to
me. And that's why I always when I
start a class and I could pitch that
and I pitch it in so that this
reward goes back to my, my.
But even though she wasn't born with so
much. She wanted perfection
in her
carry on that legacy that she left behind.
And the thing that she would preach the
most to me wasn't,
you know, perfect grades.
That was great. That was great. But
her main concern was have perfect
If
your grades are up and down,
that's fine.
But if your are up and down, that's
not acceptable. And
she would preach perfect.
You know,
one time my mother, Raima Loeb,
she said to me
that Allah
chose Islam for her
and she know she says, I know which
of my characteristics. She goes, I had brothers
and sisters.
She comes from a big family,
you know, around 10 siblings.
And she goes, I know why Allah Swanda
chose Islam for me
and gave me chose that I be famous.
And she says that when I was a
young girl, what I would do is
she actually tells her mother my mother my
grandmother, she didn't she did not accept Islam.
She passed away as a non Muslim.
But she did that. I was telling my
mother that when I was young, when I
was a little girl, I used to steal
from her.
I would take food rations,
some sugar, some rice, some flour. And as
as she would walk to school, she would
find the poor people on the street and
give it to them.
And she said that sometimes what I would
do is that I would
take off my slippers as I've passed somebody
that didn't have slippers. I would take my
slippers off and continue walking
and, you know, tell my mother that I
would, you know, my slippers broke.
You know, I would lie to my mother.
And she is telling her Hindu mother this,
that I used to steal and I used
to lie. And she is telling her is
telling her Hindu mother this, that I used
to steal and I used to lie.
But before you get mad, this is why
I did it.
And my grandmother said to her that her
name previously was Gita. So Gita, that from
the day that you accepted Islam, you have
been nothing but a shame to
us. From the day that you accept Islam,
you have nothing you have been nothing but
ashamed to us. But what you're saying now,
it gives me pride.
My mother said, it was this quality of
perfection
that
Allah chose Islam for her. So just a
personal request I make du'a that I request
everybody to make du'a for her. I made
du'a for her. Her offering may Allah forgives
all of her shortcomings may Allah overlooks all
of her mistakes
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Resurrect her resurrect
her amongst the prophets, amongst the saliheen, amongst
the shohada.