Muhammad Salah – Gardens Of The Pious #276 Apr 12th 2017
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The importance of religion in difficult times is discussed, including the use of hesitation in preaching, clinging to traditions and the way of life of the individual, the importance of being aware of one's actions and not just clinging to guidance, the use of words in relation to the culture of the Muslim community, the use of tequila in various religious practices, and the importance of obeying rulers and following rules. The importance of good manners is emphasized, including being aware of one's behavior and avoiding embarrassing people, and the use of force and not being interrupted by others.
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The first Hadees that we're going to tackle in this episode is Hadith number seven or one in the series of Riyadh Saudi hit.
The hadith is collected by a Buddha would attend MIDI may Allah have mercy on them. And every energy when Allah about in his area while the Allahu Anhu called
well on our Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam now wherever turn the lever turn, what do you let mean * Kulu was all of it mean Haroon for Hoon rasool Allah subhana wherever to me what they're in for our sunnah call. We'll see can be Taqwa Allah was seminary we're pa we're into emalahleni Komaba don't have a che we're in the Houma Yasmin come tasaki left and Kathira la can be sunnah T or sunnah till hola Urvashi D in Medellin out our blue array has been wedges for a year come almost deserted or more. So in coolabah Dalton bodalla
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Allah be pleased with him never rated that the Messenger of Allah peace be upon him. Give us a sermon
by which our hearts were filled with fear, and tears come to our eyes.
So we said O Messenger of Allah.
It is as though this is a Farewell Sermon, to advise us.
So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, I advise you to be conscious of Allah,
and to listen and obey your leaders.
Even if another senior slave were to become your leader, surely, the one who lives long will see great controversy.
So you must keep holding firm to my way of life, to my traditions, and to the way of life of the rightly guided car lives. Those are guided to the right way.
cling to it with your mauler teeth. Beware of newly invented matters in religion. Surely, every innovation is misguidance.
In fact, brothers and sisters have studied this hadith before in the chapter of the command of maintaining observing the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu sallam, because obviously the Hadith focuses and one of most important advices in the hadith is to cling to the traditions and their way of life of Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. But why are we studying this hadith one more time in this chapter.
We're talking about the methodology the prophetic methodology of preaching of giving Dawa. We have learned in the previous several a hadith since the beginning of the chapter, in the previous two episodes, how kind how gentle was Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi salam in given the my wherever
A reminder in preaching, and he would not do it all the time. That's why we say discontinuously he would do it whenever it is needed. And whenever he feels that the audience are ready to accept an advice, or they're ready to listen
in today is my wherever. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam went a little bit out of his way, where his advice was very,
you say, intense,
when you can very condensed and it contains a lot of reminders that to the point that it frightened the hearts of the Sahaba and it filled the eyes with tears.
It doesn't happen all of a sudden.
It happens when the my wherever becomes very effective.
When the preacher makes mention of the evil effect of Sins of disobeying Allah, disobeying His Messenger of slipping away from the straight path, the punishment determine of hellfire. So all of that was included. And that's why the hearts were frightened, and our eyes were filled with tears. He said, My whatever 10 the lira, a very powerful and a very eloquent reminder. What do you like mean * loop it made our hearts frightened out of it was out of admin Hallelujah. And our eyes were flown of tears, because of the mouth wherever the preaching and the reminder of Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam
alike what others may expect that they say Enough enough we can take any more. You made us very frightened.
The Sahaba feel that this is a very unique way of advising and preaching.
So they say some of whom say to the Messenger of Allah salAllahu salam ala Rasulillah it sounds as though this is a Farewell Sermon. You went a little bit out of your way this is not how you normally preach or remind
for Alsina so give us now I will see ya. What is the difference between my wherever and we'll see.
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you hear the word now whatever is the more whatever is when you deliver a preaching or reminding.
And we'll see here is when you advice or injuring somebody to do something even after you part away from each other. When you leave each other. That's why we'll call the bequest or they will say yeah, when I die please do this and this and that. Whether with regards to wealth, whether with regards to how you should bury me and how we should deal with my body with my belonging.
In the Quran, Allah Almighty says well Accardi was saying a Latina who told Kitab Amin kabhi de como a year come Anitta Hola.
Indeed we have advised We have enjoined those who are given the book before you and you with the following will say yeah, what is the greatest we'll see here is to be conscious of Allah's Presence is to be God fearing is the key we are duty to Allah Tacu Allah.
So when you meet somebody, and you assume that this person is a righteous person and you ask him how sinning you know, I may not see you for a while so give me a year to hold fast to it. The greatest for CSSA tequila a tequila is not an insult.
Be God fearing is not something bad. As many people take home they think oh, do they think and you see me committing a sin? They think I'm criminal to tell me a tequila you tequila
you should feel Alana me. Well, you him myself it companions and even the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam was given the wasa a tequila yeah are you have Nabi duckula
Allah Almighty enjoying the prophets Allah Allah Allah Selim to do Taqwa
he said it took Allah is not a bad thing.
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one of our his advice to be God fearing he would feel like he's been insulted. Recommended. Who are you to tell me it tequila?
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is aboard. And how terrible is such a boat.
Those are the people who are pure, wonderful clean but when somebody
is advice with taqwa, it says May Allah make us amongst those who fear may Allah make us among those who are conscious of his presence. So when people when friends what Companions would family members advise each other it tequila it's a good thing. It's not a bad thing. The first I have sorted Yeah, you have never used tequila, however total caffeine, you know.
Okay. So they said yeah, rasool Allah. al Sunnah. Give us a wasa. Yeah. Why? Because he assumed it sounds his nowhere ever sounded as a Farewell Sermon. So gave us something to hold fast to and to cling to in case this is really, really A Farewell Sermon.
He said, Oh, see come by what? I enjoin you to do what I advise you to do. What better Paula? The I have certainly said, well, Accardo was finally Dina O'Toole. Kitab Roman Catholic
and he toquilla That is a greater Swansea. Okay. Also cometa Paula, to be conscious of Allah's Presence, whether I'm amongst you, or whether I lie, it Aquila.
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and to listen and to obey, to listen and to obey whom we know that
Allah Almighty commanded us to listen to him and to listen to His Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam manufa Rasul Allah Allah, whosoever obeys the Messenger of Allah have obeyed Allah, the Almighty, and
the Companions who are commanded to say Samira, now Aparna we heard and will obey not to be like Benny Israel who used to say Samia now Selena, we heard but we're not gonna obey. We will do the opposite. We'll do whatever we want to do, okay.
But here the Prophet sallallahu Sallam is referring to something that they will need it whenever he is not there.
Whenever he's not around, whenever he is not the leader anymore. Rasul allah sallallahu sallam was not just a religious leader. No, he was the commander of chief of the Muslim army. He was a political leader. He was the leader of the entire OMA on every level, in every aspect. So because of that, brothers and sisters, that if I pass away, and then somebody would follow me and succeed me and leading you, you need to obey Him, and listen to Him, LISTEN and OBEY openly. And every command and everything he says, well, there are some rulers who command things contradictory to the teaching of the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, you should not listen to them.
You should not obey them, you should disregard their commands. There happened to be some rulers who claimed to be Muslims, the ban or then
the banned recitation of the Quran, the ban hunt, the ban going to the masjid, the ban hijab.
In this case, they should not be obeyed. Rather, they should be impeached. Why because they challenge Allah and His Messenger SallAllahu sallam. So don't no one should misunderstand that said if he is a leader then he is like the representative of God. No.
He's not the representative of God.
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are to your Allah. Where LT or or wrestler, we're all in Marimon come. When you look into the grammatical structure of the I understand that, obeying Allah and obeying the messenger of Allah. Allah Almighty commanded things in the Quran, and Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi salam commanded things which are not in the Quran.
And so both have the same power and authorization, even if it is not in the Quran.
But when he came to the third level, were O'Neill and remain calm. He did not say what are three rules and remain calm. Rather because we only obey them as long as he commend things that Allah and His Messenger have commanded.
They do not command anything, which is contradictory to the teaching of the Quran and the Sunnah.
In this case, in this case, if the command whatever Allah and His Messenger have commanded, and if they comply by that we must obey them, or must listen to them. Do you know why? Because every if we take any vehicle, a car, a school bus, pickup truck, a ship, a plane, there is one captain, maybe there are assistants, there is one captain, there is one pilot, there is one sailor, who's in charge, who's the decision maker at a serious moment, if everyone is having an opinion, and every opinionated person wants to impose his opinion, and he is a critique of the captain, and the sailor or the pilot, he will cause a disaster.
We should assist him as long as he is doing good, and he's in the right way. As long as he's obeying Allah and His Messenger, salallahu Alaihe Salam, and he's not ordering anything contradictory to the the idea of having a position just for the sake of opposition, just for the sake of competition, political competition, it slows down the process of progress or building the society.
Yes, we should advise given advice to each other, even to the rulers.
Omar Mahatama has appointed somebody to advise him and if I make any mistake, correct me. I'm not I'm not disease likewise. And the whole affair used to have advisors. There is actually there's something since the beginning. And rasool Allah is Allah Allah Anna sellin had Abu Bakr and Omar, even though he receives that ye from Allah Almighty, but Allah Almighty says in the Quran, or share with whom Phil
will share were harmful and consult them in the matter. You do not consult them so that you disregard the views you consult them so that you select the most ideal and the best of their suggestions of their opinions, to act upon it.
So here the Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam has said, assemble what are even if you're elected or appointed ruler, or Cardiff, or president, or whoever, whatever position he is in,
happens to be somebody whom you used to perceive as inferior. Because after Islam, there is no superiority for race, color, ethnicity, or mother tongue.
In his farewell speech, sallAllahu Sallam he, he made it very clear. All people, You all belong to Adam and Eve.
You all belong to Adam and Eve, and Adam is created from dust. So this is you. This is me, whether you're black, whether I'm white, whether, whether you are an American, whether you are an Arab, we're all from Adam and Adam is from us, too. We share the same origin. And he says Salah and Islam, there should not be any superiority for an Arab over an Arab nor foreigner, an Arab over an Arab, there should not be in a superiority for a white over a black no for a black over a white except through piety and righteousness.
So they say, the first the very first black president in the United States of America,
or really, that had been black leaders in the Muslim ummah since its beginning.
Since its beginning,
when the Prophet salallahu Salam appointed Osama bin Zayed, the son of Zaidan had it and we used to be a slave, exceedingly black,
because color have nothing to do with the decision making except through piety and righteousness, he is qualified and he should take the lead.
Okay.
So the prophets Allah Allah Allah Selim emphasize this is more than 1400 years ago, even if your leader whom you're pleased with is Abdun habit che Yanni he had
going to be in the past, he was a black of a senior and a slave like Milan and Nevada
and others and others.
So, ethnicity,
the color complexion of the of the skin, the race and one year from would not affect the relationship between the ruler and his people
at all,
you should assist them, you should not hinder his path, you should not be an obstacle on his way that you should listen and obey. Why
if you live after me, he should see a great deal of controversy
disputes, especially political disputes, fighting over power and leadership.
So in this case, what shall you do? He says Allah Allah Allah Salem surely those who live long will see great controversy.
So you must keep holding firm to my way of life for I like won't be so naughty
adhere to my traditions, I adhere to my teachings and Sunette will qualify or she didn't and Medina, Abdullah had been awarded and the traditions and the way of life of the rightly guided qualify some other ahaadeeth have explained that the rightly guided Khilafah will be for 30 years that is basically the time of the Khilafah Bobak Omar, most men and Ally may Allah be pleased with them,
okay.
So, why those will affair why those four whole affair they happen to be either a father in law, or a son of law of Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam and not because they were in lows, they are righteous or they are fit rather the will the close is to him. Um, riddle asked asked him once. Whom do you love most? Is it a while back? He said.
Then when he said then who? He said, Roma, then off man, then I robbed the Alon and he didn't ask him afterward. Okay.
Those who were the closest to the Prophet sallallahu sallam, so they may have seen things in his house because they were amongst his household. And they have an access to them that others didn't. So they may have seen things which others did not get to see. And that's why when they tell people, this is the right way to do it, it is not an invented way. Rather it is an extension of the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu sallam. That's why he said was so natural Hola Hola, Sheena and Madeon outdo Allah you have been no added, hold fast to it and buy it on it by your more molars.
This is how strong you should adhere to the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu sallam, and the way of the right guy did a whole affair. Then he warned against invasions and he said Indeed, every innovation will be the study and the segment, as I said, had been explained before in the chapter of the importance of adhering to the Sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu sallam. Before we begin another Hadith Inshallah, I'd like to take a short break and we'll be back in a couple of minutes, please stay tuned.
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Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh and welcome back. In this segment in sha Allah, we will begin the following chapter chapter number 92, which deals with the qualities of the believers
the behavior in public, and we'll call was Sakina chapter number 92. The calmness, tranquility and serenity
we have one area, which is the reference in the chapter to a lower car was Sakina which is an apparent behavior of the individual any individual.
The reference, we hear a very oftenly it is of Surah Furqan and one surah. Al Furqan is mentioned right away everybody remembers are the sewer in which Allah talks about the qualities of a bad man
There is absolutely right about or man the servants of the Most Beneficent have certain qualities
on top of him, and the very first quality was mentioned in an number 63 Allah Almighty says, Why are you bad rock man in leadin? I am Shawna I'll be how on either. Acaba humulene. Jaya he ruined our call who's
the meaning of this area and the servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk on Earth gently.
And when the foolish address them, they only respond with peace, or with a statement that is free from any fault, disgrace, insult or curse. Because the word Salem when we say one of the names of Allah is a Salam.
It means he is free from any imperfection. He is perfect, the most perfect. So Carlos Salama, they say anything that doesn't have any fault in it. I response, which is free from any imperfection, any aggression, any insult, or anything of this nature.
So they are good. But sometimes while you're being good,
it cannot avoid having Polish people address any with foolishness. You're playing in your Quran, in your car, in your car.
And you're listening to maybe a hadith are of car, you're driving in your lane, you stop at the red light, and maybe the driver in the vehicle next to you is wrong.
Or he is affected with Islamophobia. He rolls down the window and he starts cursing you use in the most offensive language.
Okay, I just came out of the gym. And you know, I want to beat somebody. So he says one word I give him 10 He can do that. Absolutely. Especially if you think that you can overpower this person or be them. No problem. But Allah doesn't want you to do that.
Allah wants you to control your emotions. Allah wants you to control your behavior, and to be Waku,
a man of dignity.
A man of dignity is not the one who deals with others with dignity because they are dignified, too. But he deals with dignity with those who are dignified, and those who are awful.
And those who are foolish, because He's genuinely dignified person. This is his way he doesn't come out of his way, in dealing with the foolish, he doesn't deal with them with foolishness, but he is with them,
according to his manners, according to the way that he is raised up and brought up. According in fact, sometimes the person was not brought up like that.
Or he did not even belong to a believing family. He is a new Muslim, or is a Muslim but born to a family will not practicing.
Does it mean that those traits how to acquire No, because Abdullah Hypno Omar, may Allah be pleased with him and his father said, enamel helmet with the Harlem enamel sub rabita sub bar.
One person very impatient. And his parents are like that. Every day at home, their neighbors hear them fighting. They're very loud, they scream, very impatient. Can one of them change can all form change? I don't know about all of them. But if anyone decided to change, yes, there is a will there is a way can you switch the bong?
Or go to the doctor to switch up on in you? And you become patient? forbearing kind and gentle? Of course not. No way. So what is it? Practice
a hap, train yourself. Remind yourself repeatedly with what hap what happens when you become a man of manners, a man of good conduct versus when you become like everybody else. Remind yourself with how much you're worth the immense reward that Allah gives for good manners versus when you become an ordinary person like everybody else. Okay,
The most obvious thing, because sometimes you see people you don't know whether they are good or bad kind or not gentle or the opposite. But there is something that helps you to judge the person at least apparently, which is the way they work.
That way they walk. That's why the Sahaba some of the Sahaba used to imitate the walk in style of the Prophet sallallahu sallam.
He was as if he was ascending from a mountain going down steep. Yanni, he knows his way, he doesn't look right and left, he doesn't hang around here and there. He doesn't keep looking at people and investigating them and inspecting the locks because there are people like that they are very nosy, and they will stare at you and they will keep turning around while you're working. Like scanning you from head to toe. know a person who have the quality of Waqar tranquillity. A person will have the quality of Sakina serenity. A person who is dignified, doesn't do that.
Sometimes you see a person is wearing very revealing clothes, whether it's he or she,
okay? You find a lot of people staring at him or her a lot of people chasing them. A man of dignity doesn't do that is none of his business. There is something good that he can do he well. But there is something foolish, he will not be a part of it.
Subhanallah something very common. We see you're driving on the highway. And there is a heavy traffic jam. Nobody knows what is the cause of it. It's not even
traffic hour.
So what is it? Exactly?
Everyone is anxiously waiting to see what happened. Then by the time you reach to the peak of the gym, it's an accident.
Everyone who's a mile away from the accident, wants to know what is going on. Why don't you move. And then when he comes across the accident, he slows down. And he hangs around Eurozone the window. And he says it takes from everyone, let's say a few seconds, not even a minute. This is what is causing the jam.
If you really want to be of any use, pull over your car, gear off and assist those who are in need. If you're not going to do that, what is the purpose of slowing down or completely stopping and pausing to stare at it. Just be nosy, you're not going to help. We need 510 people, maybe we need blood transfusion. We need people by the time the ambulance would come to assist those who are in need to take them out of the vehicle. Yes, I would pull over and I would get out of the my my car and I will try to assist. But just to slow down to watch and the set. This is what is causing the jam a fight somebody is maybe a drunk and is doing insulting people and doing whatever people
gather. So others would show their approval by applauding and clapping. They make a circle around to watch what is going on. If there is a fight or street fight, for instance,
amount of dignity have nothing to do with that. Or if he were to intervene. There is a beautiful video so wide split on the YouTube it they even discussed it in some talk shows in America last week.
A Muslim brother in a neighborhood. So I'm us are fighting and using foul language and there was a big fight. So intervened, and he brought peace. And he started pitching them. And he diffused the problem. Somebody was filming that on his phone. And no one was watching no one. Amin was paying attention to that. And it went viral. Why? Because it's odd. Very few people who do that, who would intervene to bring peace to those who are fighting to resolve the matter to solve the problem, but they just sit to watch.
Not to help. So a bad man have list of qualities. The first one is the apparent behavior in the way they walk in the way they behave in the street. They're very wise. They know exactly what they want to do. And nothing interrupts their way. Unless if it is something serious like giving help removing something from them.
pairs of people, which is harming them. But otherwise, you know they are not interrupted by any, you know any foolish thing around. Even Even if some foolish people will address them with foolishness, they don't have to behave towards them. Either they ignore them and this is also saying Salem or they will say something good or they would reply but with a reply or response that doesn't have any fold or insult in it. What either Hopper Mahamudra Hey Luna, Carlo Salem
and now with the very first Hadith in the chapter, which happens to be Hadith number 702. It's a sound Hadith collected by both Bukhari and Muslim and narrated by one of the Mothers of the Believers Aisha Radi Allahu Anhu. She said,
Mara at Rasool allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, most urged me and called to the Hakan had the Torah men who let her were to in Americana, yet Abbas and sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
a mother I Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her say, I've never ever seen the Messenger of Allah peace be upon him
laughing so hard to the extent of his Avila become visible. He rather used to just smile.
And some ahaadeeth
We heard that hat better now why Giro so that his
teeth were showing, he would smile so that people could take a glimpse over his teeth. It's more of Mahler's but not to the point that he would laugh and open his mouth so that a person could see the inside of his mouth that will have is the Avila know, the Prophet sallallahu Sallam would not do that.
So he was sometimes having fun passing jokes, but he would not say but the truth. And if anything that is funny, and if anything that, you know, worth laughing, he would laugh, you the smile, but in a moderate way. Because too much laughing. Making yourself as
a performer.
A stage performer
would make you lose your dignity, lose your car,
even amongst your children. As a family father, there is a difference between being nice. Being a good person, sometimes they say a character. Okay? And being a comedian, just turning everything into a joke. And either laughing too loud, or making people laugh. Some people when they laugh, you feel like they're gonna flip over and the actually do that sometimes. That contradicts the concept of Sakina and Walker.
The following chapter is chapter number 93. And before we begin in the chapter, I just want to remind that when we learn, that was the etiquette of the Prophet sallallahu Sallam or this is how he used to do this or that, not just to learn about the biography of the greatest man in history, it's and that's it. The purpose of that is LaPaglia can Allah comfier rasool Allah He also one has an ATO lemon Can I urge Allah will yo Mel Shira whether Kerala Kathira if you are a true believer, then rasool Allah is Allah Allah Allah Salam should be your role model.
The man whom you love to imitate and how would you imitate? How would you copy somebody whom you don't know much about him? How we used to eat, how he used to drink how we used to talk, how we used to smile, how he used to even cry. So that's why there is a beautiful book is called a Shana it will Muhammadiyah the prophetic traits compiled by a number Tirmidhi. And there are many other explanations of this book describing the outer traits and the inner traits such as what the Mothers of the Believers have narrated that the Prophet salaallah Salah needs to behave like this at home with his family members. This is very important brothers and sisters, for all of us to learn in
order to imitate him SallAllahu Sallam
the
the chapter that we are about to begin Chapter number 93
is a very important chapter and it has
lot of teachings by prefer
not to begin the chapter, this episode, so that we will have
connected message throughout from beginning to end in sha Allah azza wa jal. But if there is a message that I want to share with you before we wrap up based on what we have learned in the chapter, chapter number 92, which is a worker and a Sakina. Just remember brothers and sisters, the beautiful and powerful meanwhile, message of Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, when he said in an arborist to the OTA Mina, Mecca in a club have been sent exclusively, because the word in ama in the Arabic language in the grammar is adapt to hostile in workers have been sent exclusively to perfect good manners no matter that, I'm sorry, no doubt that the greatest man or ever is
monotheism, recognizing the oneness of your Creator and no one you do this words you maker, okay. But it is not only limited to that also, it is
to cover how to deal with others, how to deal with loved ones, with family members, with neighbors with guests, how even to deal with people whom you abhor, how to deal with the enemies, and so on. So he said in another voice to the OTA Mima mCherry mela cola have been sent exclusively to perfect good manners. And Allah Almighty have given this such great honor in the day on the day of judgment to people with good manners, that they may have achieved a level of those who are fasting on daily basis and praying on every single night simply because of being well mannered. May Allah Almighty makers amongst them Akula Kali herder, Estelle for Allah Holly welcome or Salah Allahu Allah say you
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