Muhammad Salah – Gardens Of The Pious #701 Prohibition Of Mourning Beyond 3 Days
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The transcript discusses the historical context and implications of the word "med strict" in Arabic, including its connection to "byala" and its use in marriage. The speakers emphasize the importance of learning and sharing experiences to avoid "has been" in one's life. The segment also touches on the negative impact of being non Muslim on one's health and the importance of considering family members' needs when weighing the pros and cons of pursuing a degree. The segment ends with a brief advertisement for a book and song.
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This chapter has only one Hadith. And it is narrated by one of the stepdaughters of Prophet Muhammad salah. Listen, it is Zainab, the daughter of Abu selama
Hadith number 17 174
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And your eaglets, it's the matter of the morning. Whether the morning pertaining
a father, a mother, a child, a sibling, all of whom on one side and the morning
of the husband is something totally different for months and 10 days. If you lose anyone, any loved one, a parent, a child, a sibling, an uncle an end, whatever, maximum period for mourning, three days and that's it.
Word for the husband not less than four months and 10 days as we're going to learn but here is the meaning of the Hadith. Zainab bint me Salama as you know when Abu Salah ma Radi Allahu Anhu passed away after
his wife almost Elena, a bunch of kids. So interviews Allah Allah Allah Selim proposed to her after her aid that was over which is four months and 10 days in order to look after her children and take care of the family of Abu Salah.
So she had children from before, like Omar Nabi selama, who also narrated some a Hadith from the Prophet Salah Salem, and Xena Zeynep tells us that she said I've entered upon OMO Habiba OMO Habiba is ramela binter ABBY Sophia, may Allah be pleased with her. She said I entered upon her when her father Abu Sofia and herb passed away and she said Radi Allahu Anhu
when he died, and Zayn had been to me selama entered upon OMO Habiba, she found OMO Habiba sent for a yellow color perfume,
something similar to it, and she applied it to one of her seven, the girls were seven her and then she rubbed it on her own cheeks. And she said
Wallahi I swear to Allah, I'm not in need for any perfume. I have no need for any fragrance. Only that I have heard the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is saying while on the pulpit. It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to mourn for the dead beyond three days.
except for the death of her husband, in which case the period of mourning is four months and 10 days zeyneb The daughter of Abby selama may Allah be pleased with her and her parents said then I visited Zainab. Zainab bint Abu Josh is also one of the prophets wives, and she was his cousin. So she said I entered upon her, and they had lost her brother as well.
So she sent for perfume and applied it. And then she said, By Allah, I don't feel any need of perfume. By her the Messenger of Allah peace be upon him saying while on the pulpit, it is impermissible for a woman who believe in Allah in the last day, to mourn the dead beyond three days, except in case of her husband, for whom that period is four months and 10 days. So it seems like that you've witnessed two similar incidents, my dear viewers,
one of them was with one of the wives of the Prophet peace be upon him. And that was Habiba, while is the second incident was with another wife was ramela, the daughter of Abu Sufian was also known. Mojave was the first and the second was in a vintage rush, may Allah be pleased with her.
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she have witnessed them both applying perfume
soon after the three days have elapsed in the case of almost selama.
In the case of OMO Habiba around Lebbon to ABI Sophia Chu who lost her father Abu Sofia and in the heart. Three days later, she called for some perfume and applied it on one of her servants and the lift over she waved over her cheeks. And she said, I'm not interested in wearing any perfume. I'm only doing this because I have heard a messenger of Allah said it is not permissible to extend the morning beyond three days, as long as it wasn't the husband who died. Let it be a father, a mother, a sibling, a child, it doesn't matter three days and the
same thing happened with Zainab into Jash when she lost her brother, the Almighty Allah stated in Surah Al Baqarah, the second chapter of the Quran a number
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Allah who be Mata una hobby, so Allah Almighty declare that those who die and they leave behind wives as wurden applies to both wives or husbands. zellige is for both a husband or wife. Yet Rob bus NaVi M fusi hin, rabada asuran washer for months and 10 days they should mourn the death
of the husband. And what is the meaning of hay dead or
to mourn the death? It means the following number one when a woman loses a husband, the house in which he died, she should stay in the house for four months and 10 days. Can she go out whenever it is necessary? Only whenever it is necessary. She is a student taking exams, attending classes, she is a teacher working and no one would provide for her. She is a single woman and she has to buy her own food medication and go to the hospital. She has to finish the paperwork of the burial and the inheritance and so on. And it's it has a limited time. All of that is permissible provided she must leave in the house. Yeah, and the minute you stay at home, you don't travel abroad you don't attend
weddings, you don't attend any celebrations. You don't wear any colorful clothes. You don't wear any fragrance perfume, makeup, including copper. You don't apply any makeup whatsoever, because you are in a condition of mourning the death of her husband. And that indicates the great position of a husband in Islam. Obviously a woman
Who has a great position? And you all know that interview SallAllahu sallam said to a man who asked him who has more rights upon me, he said, your mother he said then whom your mother then whom your mother so many times then finally said, and your father only once. A combination of all of these references indicate that you know, a husband and wife, each one have rights, parents, mother or father, each one have rights. By the end they're all equal. But when a husband dies for months and 10 days also it indicates what is known as Bora
Bora Tora Hamza, she is not pregnant for certain. And that's why this eight day which is four months and 10 days if a woman was pregnant, when the husband died, or when she got divorced, and then next day, next day she gave birth, the idea is over.
There Aida is over, the morning is over.
And also if she is not pregnant, no one can approach her showing interest that he would like to marry her out of respect for the right of the husband who just passed away four months and 10 days or bat asuran washer.
Did you guys not the weather, Omaha Viva or
Zen had been to Josh they said Wallahi Maddie but three we had it I swear to Allah I'm not interested in wearing fragrance and who wants to wear any perfume. Her Alma Habiba just lost her father and she loved him so much after he accepted Islam, I was Sophia, and Xena she lost her brother.
So a father and a brother. But she deliberately touched the perfume. Like in the case of Mojave, where she applied it on one of her servants and the leftover she wanted. And she declared and Zen had been almost Selim heard that I'm only doing this in order to fulfill the commandment of the prophets of salaam three days and that's it. Sadness will be in the heart. Grief isn't the heart, but you have to comply with the command of the Almighty Allah. So that was chapter number 354. And as I said, it's consists of only one Hadith and it was pertaining the morning of the death of the husband. The following chapter.
We tackled some of it's a hadith way back
when we discuss the rights of the Muslim brothers and sisters on each other,
and what will maintain harmony love, compassion and mutual respect in the Muslim community.
In chapter number 355, watch these were the prohibition of malpractice malpractices in commerce and in marriage proposing
it is simply the prohibition of
by all have really bad,
the prohibition of teleca rock ban the prohibition of Al Byala. He the provision of ill health but to Allah health, Betty.
I know we're going to discuss all of that in the Hadith. But simply the word malpractices is a general word, but it doesn't describe the specific prohibitions which are mentioned in Arabic. They're Hareem by l by l have very little baddie.
But you will have the real baddie, I'll have other means a person who lives in the city, the city man
al Abadi, the bad one.
The farmers, the villagers.
The ahaadeeth will tackle the prohibition of
receiving the farmers, they bring in the fruits, vegetables, or grains, or the cheese and the milk. So we find some people meet them out of town, say I'll just buy everything from you. This is forbidden. We'll learn why the doctor rockband likewise, before the motions, whether they're coming from another town, or bringing goods from the village are the bad ones. So some people would
take the initiative and purchase everything from them before they enter into the marketplace. While they are on eBay, he is like
I was in the middle of a business transaction. I liked a phone and I was about to buy it. So somebody intervenes and says I had the same phone. I can sell it to you for a lesser price.
So I have to cancel my transaction. I'm still doing the negotiation. I cancel my transaction in order to buy it with a better price from another person. This is Albireo Allah Ya Akhi.
Okay. Or
if somebody says to the seller, how much did you sell it for? He says it was the last piece. Sorry. How much did you sell it to this guy for? He said, I told him ad it says I will pay 100 But you already told him he's taking the money out to pay. So in order to tell the seller, you know, cancel this transaction. I will pay you more this is forbidden on eBay or Alibaba he and obviously likewise, I'll head back to Allah MATIERE he Illa and he has an hour you robbed.
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I heard about brother Mustafa's daughter, a SHA, Allah. She's 20. She's young, she's beautiful. She's in a medical school that set I decided to go and propose to her. So I went and I met with Uncle Mustafa. And he said, Of course you come from a very noble family. Will we ever find somebody better than you? And so there was a negotiation. Okay, we're just waiting for the doctor.
To say yes, and the Father gives you a word. We are in the middle of the process.
Somebody else knew that I propose to hydro Mustafa's daughter, and I want to marry her. So it is pending. So he also takes his mother he goes to the same hydro massage and says I would like to marry your daughter. What are you supposed to do? Wait until maybe hydro Mustafa is not too happy with my proposal. So you will say you know cut that Allah brother, maybe inshallah you will find a better girl. In this case, the other guy or guys can all propose. But when there is a proposal that is pending, it's not permissible to do hutzpah proposal, while there is another proposal which is pending. And obviously, it becomes even a major sin, when the person have already given a
commitment, or sometimes Wallahi when the woman is already married, and somebody proposes to her family or to her that if you get divorced, I will marry you,
man Habiba Bratan RSLogix here. The punishment is very severe, for a person who drawing the relationship between a wife and her husband in order to marry her. So look we're talking about during mere proposals. If there is a proposal, wait until it is either accepted or turned down. If it is still pending, you step back. So the following Hadith we'll be discussing this matter, my dear viewers, the first Hadith which is agreed upon its authenticity, Mustafa canali narrated by nsmt Malik Roddy, Allah on Hadith number seven Tene 175. an heiress of of the Allahu Anhu called na Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam Ania via ha we are only din we're in Cana ha holy Evie he will omit
WHAT THE FUCK when Ali.
So the messenger of Allah peace be upon him forbade that a person in the city should make a deal on behalf of a villager on commission even if he is his real brother, full brother. They share the same parents.
And as I said, the hadith is collected by Imam Bukhari and Muslim. Here's a question for you. What is so wrong with that? Where is the big deal? What is the problem? The problem? The problem is that would affect the community. In what sense? It will Jack the prices. Yeah, and in the States, I think on Sunday, there is something called the flea market, depending on where you live, will you visit it in taxes on on Sundays. Sometimes also on Saturdays there is the farmers market. There is also the flea market where people, particularly the farmers, bring their fruits, bring the watermelon, the strawberries, they bring their sweet corn they bring their gains cherry tomatoes and they don't have
a sharp but they have a permit to display their items or on their pickup trucks for a few hours in this parking lot. Obviously we wait for
them all week round, because the prices will be higher price than if you buy it in any of the big stores. No need to mention names or the grocery stores, it will be a higher price. And it is fresh, though. It's not been in the fridge, or hasn't been stored for weeks. Let's finish. So we like that. Imagine if the farmers are on the way. Were on their carriages, or like the Amish, or on the pickup trucks. And I need them. I work for one of these big department stores say how much tomatoes you have. I have like 500 keys. Okay occasion? How much would you sell them for?
Even if I buy it for the same price, which he would normally sell it in the market.
But by now I am going monopoly because I've taken the goods. And now I'm going to put them on a higher price definitely. But we the ordinary people, we like to go to the farmers market and pick our own fruits or vegetables. And we know that the price is way lesser during the whole week we'll buy from you guys. And also sometimes the farmers are naive. They don't know the prices nowadays have been jacked, doubled and tripled because of the inflation. So they come in the maybe they're selling it for the old prices. So I'll have other the person who belongs to the city will buy it for a very low price and sell it for three or four times the price. As far as how much profit margin
you're making. This is not the issue. The issue is, is you're depriving the common folk, the ordinary people from getting a break from buying at a lower price. You buy a wholesaler and you sell retail and you make your profit. Leave the farmers alone with the people so that the farmers can benefit and we can benefit as well. That's why the prophets Allah Salam say, don't say but you know, we're cousins were four codons, like the farmer who's coming in because we share the same uncle will share the same or who are in those he said, even if he's a full brother, leave him to sell his goods to the ordinary people. So you can profit and they can get a break on the prices. And may Allah
bless you in your business do not also intervene with the little bit of saving that people may make, because of buying from Al Baghdadi, the bad one, the farmers, the villagers, sometimes they may
chars or fall.
They make handicrafts, and they come to sell them. If you buy it for 10 bucks, they're very happy. But if this guy buys everything, and he puts him in his shop, he will put a price that 100 bucks 10 times more. I could have bought it from them for 10 and they're happy. You know, you already have your business. That is the whole idea and the hikma behind the prohibition of receiving the caravans of the baboons or the villagers or the farmers and picking up the food from them at a low price then reselling it or sometimes act as a commissioner say you were about to sell the one pound of tomato for $1. Yeah, oh my god. It's way more expensive than that. Just keep them here. I will put them in
my fridge and have a big walk in fridge or cooler and I will sit at you for three or four pounds.
dollars per pound. Yeah, you can do that because people anyway they're going to buy but you hurt the common people. That's why it is forbidden.
The following couple of Hadees will be simply reiterating what we mentioned earlier, so I'm just going to quote the Hadith without further explanation. Hadith number 17 176 and Abdullahi Umar Radi Allahu Anhu McCall. Allah rasool Allah He sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Loretta Tanaka will seal our heart You better be ill as well work
with the Falcon ally.
The Messenger of Allah peace be upon him said in this hadith don't you meet the merchandise till they arrive in the market? Now you already know what is meant by this brief statement.
It's not only the merchandise it is the emotions the sellers the villagers.
The following Hadith
Hadith
Tip number 17 177 And it is also agreed upon its authenticity. Abdullah Abdullah Abbas Radi Allahu Anhu Maha kala Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam Loretta telep Coco Roque banner wala here we have we all live added for all of our woes. Man lay a B who have Aaron Lee bed in Karla kulula Who simsa Whatever.
The Messenger of Allah in this hadith
which is narrated by Abdullah Hina bass and it is a sound Hadith said
the caravans carrying the merchandise should not be met on the way to purchase from them and then in the city should not sell
for a man in the desert or from the desert. Those one of our TV inside he asked him as of now best Herbalife numbers, what do these words really mean and imply? He said he should not work as an agent or as a commissioner on his behalf. And I've also explained the meaning of these couple Hadith when I was given the short of Hadith number 17 175. Now it is time to take a short break and ponder over what we discussed. And it will be continued in sha Allah when we return back we just gotta take a short break and we'll be back in a few minutes please stay tuned
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Ibrahim from Morocco, welcome to the TV as salaam alaikum.
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wa rahmatullah wa barakato. I have a question with regards to I have one of my brother here he is suffering from waswas
normally he always find it difficult sometimes he spent a lot of time he's always worried he's always you know depressed about this. So I told him Look, if you go to the toilet just you know just wherever you see that you know that saw you I saw that this is nice. Just try to make sure you clean that place unless you don't know just leave it like that. So I was asking was I correct you just tell him to do that because this boy this man spent so much time inside the toilet trying to do this. And then he's the nominee tells me that I'm always worried that when I went and registered me perhaps I go to the masjid and then it will remain in the masjid. You know, people and this thing it
will keep on you know, affecting me until I told him just don't worry. I'm I was I correct to just to tell him that Ibrahim, what you've told him is, is very correct. Alhamdulillah Shaka, Allah was was a respect of Tahara and purity begins with a very small thing. And when the person pays attention to it and focuses on it, it keeps growing until it becomes
so huge it effect
It's not only the life of the person who's having this was Versa, but the life of those who are around him as well. And salatu salam said in the sound Hadith there are many other Ebuka Isla malah here EBO leave that which puts you in doubt to that, which keeps you certain.
And the folklore have taught us to consider the original condition. So if the original condition is Uttara, then you are in a state of purity or less if you're certain and you've seen and have you examined by self there is some impurities
which have either soiled your body or your clothes. But thinking or assuming or maybe because I sat on the toilet seat, I'm not sure whether to clean it up thoroughly or not. It's done. It begins with when I make a move do I keep forgetting did I watch this on first or the arm first? Did I wipe all my hair or I just went straight to why to wash my feet. And we managed to sort this out and get rid of the worse was a respect of Tahara and your respect of the prayers and the number of records and the number of searches through when I advise some of the viewers just record yourself on the phone video you will do as well as your Salah when you do that once and a couple times you realize that it
was all whispers and you've done perfect will do and if you've done perfect salah, now you are assured it will simply whispers from Satan. So, the treatment is that you should not act upon any doubts or act upon any whispers only what you are certain of and certain from when you have seen physically the impurity soil in your bodies or your body or your clothes. Then you need to clean only the spot which was soiled and you move on. Thank you Brahim from Morocco, as salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah cat
city from Germany Welcome to Ask Allah
so Allah come share how you were a concilium Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh Alhamdulillah I'm doing great
I'm sure have question if the sisters living in the West and she wants to study in a university but unfortunately the university most of them if not all of them in Germany for example. Like for this free mixing and she wants to stay in this university so that if she has she's married and has children, but she will be divorced or she will be become a widow that she has with this study degrees that you can go to work with a
job. So can we go to this mix University is she married currently?
No, she's not matter. They are here even in mixed environment or university we mix with people at the stores at the shops the restaurants at the train station, the bus station in the plane at the airports. So I can definitely study at a school and I have nothing to do with the boys. I will hang around with girls and a take my study as an opportunity to be an effective barrier among Muslim girls and non Muslim boys and girls. So I do not believe nor do I think that just going to school because it is next is haram itself because we are mixed with people with the opposite gender everywhere. Yeah and he said where do you work? You work or you study
when I at least I'm faced with school hamdulillah but I want to go to work and shamba Okay, where can you find a job where Masha Allah only boys only practicing people only nice guys working no gods is it possible in Germany is it that available? Or the chances are very few
it's just a very few unfortunately okay. And by the way the hook mature talking about the sister applies to you and to men as well. Like if you think Oh men should women should not study because the school is Mexican then men too. Right? Why do you only think it is forbidden for women? If you think that Alhamdulillah nowadays, even for me as a man I can obtain a degree and post graduate degrees Master's and PhD all online.
You know if you obtained a degree and he did not work for
yours then you're at the age of 50 or whatever. And he said I have a PhD in communications mashallah, now you want to apply for a job or Vodafone or T Mobile or whatever, you're outdated bro. You graduated 20 years ago your PhD is outdated. So I don't want to say or slow you down from seeking knowledge or obtaining a degree. But your aim and goal should be always that this is something beneficial. I will be helping myself I will be helping others encase that in this is one of the reasons I don't have anyone to look after me at least I can support myself I can work from home with my degree. So what you need to look into number one, what is the possibility of
earning a degree from home number two, when I graduate if there is a possibility where I can work from home and after COVID Masha Allah, Most people work from home now, even the bankers, the telecommunications and so on. But if this is not possible, nor is it available, Muslim woman wearing your hijab you go to school whenever it is necessary, obtain your degree, and you limit your interaction with the opposite gender to whenever it is necessary. Barack Allah if you consider
Abdullah from behind a Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.
Can you hear me Yes, I can go ahead
shares if someone does something that he doesn't know if it's governor or not, doesn't mean that he's not certain.
You have to be specific actually. Lucky if you've done something which you don't know whether it's wrong or not, what are you supposed to do?
Ask right.
Abdullah Can you hear me?
Abdullah
in Hajj and Hodges just around the corner
after we return from our fat, and before we leave for Mecca, he stayed mashallah for a couple of days in Mina. So many people come to me and ask, I want to give Vidya Vidya Ania ransom expropriation and it is normally for a violation that you've done in hajj, you pass the McCart without haram escape thrown the stones you didn't spend the night in was deli for you violated any of the restrictions of a haram. Yeah, honey. So I asked him or her
This video is for what to rectify what ma I'm not sure but just in case maybe have done something. There is no such thing. Intimate Amma Lavinia so I want to give the video and offer the sheep or goat because I did not sleep in was Delica for innocence that makes sense. If you do not think you've done anything wrong, there is no failure. But I just want to get something for you savvy law then it's not called failure. Rather, it is called sadaqa.
We've already given the Hajj and people who are not performing Hajj, give the oath here. And you if you have violated any of the previous restrictions or skip any of the words you bet you give a failure. Other than that, you just give general charity. Somebody did something he's not sure whether this is COFRA knockoff, how am I supposed to know ask say say sure. I did this and this and that or I have said this and this and that or somebody will say So look into and say yes, Baraka love you come but overall, the person hamdulillah frequently repents, frequently renews his shahada, the deities and the most beloved zyk to the Almighty Allah is La ilaha illallah wa de julio Cherie
Keller the home Alcala will handle your hero you meet who who Allah collision cardio, if somebody was out of the fold of Islam said it and he believes in it, he or she becomes Muslim. If somebody have violated anything what you perceive a shirt and say that he returns to the fold of Islam. Salam Alikum
that would be the final question because we have a very short time for this episode. We'll take just discussion Mohammed from the USA and in sha Allah rabbit after Mohammed Scotian and Santa Monica.
Polycom salaam hear me. I
mean Same to you. Okay.
Yeah, Chef Michael question is what to do when I give a proposal to my parents regarding a girl and they rejected saying that the girl has a stepfather and assistant
Mother and the girl was brought up by all non men like, stepfather and stepbrothers. So is it right for my parents, that we should only look at the family for marriage?
Type, the religions perspective when it comes to marriage, it's not only the partner is not only the bride or the future wife nor only the husband or the future husband, the guy. It is two families merging together. So yes, it is necessary to consider the family as well. But a woman being raised by Steve or a foster father, mother, let's say that she was an orphan. What is wrong with that? You know, is it forbidden for orphans to get married and orphan girls to get married? No. If she's good, and as the father or mother or the foster family, who is a handler, there is a very good, that should not be an obstacle, it shouldn't be a problem. And that's why my answer is general. And you
really, really need to have a local Imam to intervene and to speak to the parents and see the source of their objection. It shouldn't be simply that because she doesn't have parents or parents died when she was young. That is not enough. Execuse May Allah subhanho wa Taala guide us toward his best brothers and sisters inshallah To be continued Next time until then, I leave you all in the care of Allah who luckily had our stuff little lady welcome. Or SallAllahu ala Sayidina, Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa Salam. Salam alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
God is
going
to be the best and give his best religion to them. So why did they know that forgiving all about and in paradise? We're shipping comes fire and stones sending letters to the cheapest
forgetting about how bad guys were shipping cars, fire and stones, selling their best and cheapest