Mustafa Khattab – Generosity 1 1
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The speaker discusses the highest form of generosity, manners, and the Prophetios Alaihi Wasallam's example of being hungry for 3 days and not getting enough food. The speaker warns of the potential disgrace of being invited to eat with others and not being invited to eat with them. The speaker also describes how the prophet's behavior was similar to that of the world.
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So by generosity, we're not talking necessarily about
financial generosity.
And financial generosity of course is one time
that it's one of the lowest types of
generosity. The highest form of generosity is manners.
The way you talk to people, the way
you deal with them, this is the highest
form of generosity.
And the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam
said in the hadith that you cannot
contain people and be generous to them with
your money, all the people in the world,
but you can give only so much. But
you can be generous to everyone through your
manners,
the way you behave to work here.
So we mentioned the story a long time
ago. This guy, he went to some people
to,
ask them for food. He knocked on the
door, they came out, and they said, what
do you want? He said, I'm hungry. I
need food. They said, we don't have nothing.
Them out. So he said, you guys can
afford food. At least you can afford some
manners. Okay?
Because you don't have to pay money for
manners. You know, it's for free. Okay?
Jabir Nkadat said, for 3 days, we didn't
eat no food, nothing. And the prophet was
the first among us, and he was suffering
like us. He didn't eat nothing for 3
days. He was digging with us, and this
is how the prophet behaved with the sahab.
If they went hungry,
he went hungry like them. If they had
to work to get changed, build a masjid,
he was the first in the life.
And when the food and the water came,
he was the last to eat. He was
not the first. He was always the last.
So he said, I came to the prophet
and I saw the stones on his stomach.
Ayun was hungry.
So he came to the prophet
the prophet was digging in one side and
then Jabber and his companions were digging on
the other side. So he said, while we
were digging, we came across
that rock and we couldn't get around it
because it was so huge, and it is
very
solid and very tough. You can't you couldn't
get through it.
And he saw I saw hunger on the
face of the prophet. He was so hungry.
So he said the prophet
came and he took the axe and he
he hid the stone
So he went to his wife and said
that the prophet
had been hungry
for 3 days, so we want to to
make some food for him. He himself was
hungry, jabbing the competitor to the prophet,
but
So invite the prophet
and a couple of his friends, like 3
or 4 of them to come and eat.
And don't
disgrace us in front of the prophet and
his companions. She say, basically,
don't invite a lot of people because if
they show up and there's nothing to be
this is gonna be a disgrace for us
in in in the whole community.
So when Jack grabbed the banana. I came
to the process and I said,
my wife has a little food and we
have some barley. We would like to invite
you over with, you know, 3, 4 of
your companions.
And he whispered to him. He didn't talk
like, you know, in the microphone. No. He
spoke to him in private.
And I would imagine
if I were in the place of the
prophet and I've been hungry for 3 days,
and somebody comes to me, we'd like to
invite you over, and my wife took, you
know, a little something.
Would you bring, you know, 3, 4 of
your companions to eat with us? And I
say, why 3, 4 of my companions?
You know, why don't I go with you?
You and your wife, the 3 of us
can eat
the the goat little goat or chicken and,
you know, the bread and kalas. We have
a little party, then we'll leave. But no.
What the prophet did
was
he called at the top of his mouth,
you know, voice. And he said, oh, people
who are digging the chinch. And there were
over a 1000 of them.
Brother Jack, you know, love, you know, bless
him and his wife, they prepared foods for
you, all of you. So please come over
and eat. So Jeffers said I stood there
and I was shocked. I didn't know what
to say because my wife
just told me that all the 3, 4
guys. Okay? That's it. And don't put us
to disgrace. And now the problem is, he's
inviting everyone more. He says, what am I
gonna do? So
inviting everyone what he says. What am I
gonna do?
So the prophet
told him, go. You know, prepare the goat.
Slower it and cut it, and but don't
cook it until I come and
grind the barley and don't bake it until
I come.
On the way, he was talking to himself,
Jabir Abdul Dan. How will I talk to
you?
So he was sorry to himself on the
way, this is gonna be a big day
of a day that we live
in infamy. A day of disgrace for me
and the family. Okay? So he he went
to his wife and he told her, the
prophet has been fighting that everybody.
So she told him you are so and
so. She she basically
was not, too happy about what she heard.
But he told her, well, I told him.
I told him in advance. It's only a
few guys. Please come and eat. You don't
have to invite the the whole tribe, everybody.
So he knows. So she said, if the
prophet
knows, he will take care of it. Okay.
And they ate all the leaves of bread,
and when they left, it came back. The
whole goat came back and all the bread
came back. And Jabber was swearing by Allah
that this is what happened.
And they came in twenties, and when they
finished all of them,
and every time I broke each, the whole
meat and the bread came back.
And this is not new.
Musa Alaihi Salam had the same miracle and
raised Alaihi Salam. Jesus, something similar happened to
him. So it's not only the prophet,
the blessing, the food, and the the fish
and the meat that the people ate. So
he said after everyone ate
and they were happy, they ate to their
full,
they started to leave by the blessings of
the prophet, salam, and the generosity of Jabir
Abdul Nava Bilal Abu Anhu. And