Nadim Bashir – Community Ethics Surah Hujurat Tafsir Verse 2-3
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The importance of showing respect and community in Islam is emphasized, especially in the second verse of the verse of Islam. The speaker emphasizes the need to show respect in front of prophet's words and during conversations. The importance of showing respect for Allah's actions and actions is also emphasized, even in the absence of clear messages. The speaker stresses the importance of showing respect for Allah's actions and actions, even when the message is not clearly stated.
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So right now in Fajr, we are just
taking 1 or 2 ayahs of Surat Al
Hujurat,
and just trying to learn from the Quran
and from this very beautiful Surah.
And this entire Surah is primarily talking about
adab,
and respect, and
more than respect, I would say community affairs
and how to be and how to socialize
with each other in the best way possible.
And everything begins with respect of Allah and
his prophet
Okay. That's where it all begins. Even before
we have respect for each other, even before
we respect each other's rights, first comes the
rights of Allah and the rights of Rasulullah
In the first aya of the surah, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala talked about the rights of
Allah and his prophet
And the most important thing is that we
never move forward.
We never move forward
of them. Meaning that we can never ever
bring up what we think is right above
what
thinks is right. When people would come and
say that perhaps
should give such and such
Allah
said,
You're not allowed to move forward in front
of in terms of your opinions, in terms
of how you think,
everything, the as they say, the buck stops.
Where? At
Allah The next important aspect of showing respect
to Rasulullah
is in the second verse. Allah says,
Again, Allah
begins the verse by addressing you and I.
Just like in the very first verse, Allah
was addressing the believers.
In the second verse, Allah is addressing now
who? Again, the believers. And he says,
Do not raise your voices
above the voice of Rasulullah
And do not raise your voices in front
of the prophet alaihis salam, or don't talk
to him
out
loud, the way you talk to each other
with a high with a high voice.
Because if you do this,
this could wipe out your deeds, and you're
not even aware of the fact that your
deeds have been wiped out. Then Allah says,
Anyone who suppresses
their voice
in front of
these are the people
that Allah has tested their heart
for
For them is ultimate forgiveness,
and a great reward from Allah
So these are the only 2 aya's we'll
cover today. Let's talk about these 2 aya's.
First thing is, that Let's go back to
aya number 2. Do not raise your voices
in front
of
What does that mean? There was a a
well known hadith, and a story that is
mentioned, that there was a delegation that came
to the prophet
and the name of the delegation was Tamim.
And Umar and
Ubaka
they both got into a small discussion.
And what happened was that Ubaka
wanted
a certain person from that tribe to be
their leader. Because the prophet alaihis salam, he
sought out their opinion that who do you
think should become the leader of this tribe.
So Abu Bakr said, I believe this certain
person should become the leader of their tribe.
Umar
who said, I disagree.
I think this person should become the the
leader of the tribe. And
and
he got upset, and he says, that you're
just trying to contradict me and oppose me
for no reason.
You know that my opinion is right in
this. And
and began to go back and forth, and
it got to the point where Rasulullah
is sitting right there, and their voices
were raised.
And as soon as their voices were raised,
this is why this aya was revealed.
You are not allowed to raise your voices
in front of Rasulahi
salallahu
alayhi wasallam.
And this, by the way, put Ubaka radiAllahu
an and Umar radiAllahu an in their place,
and they had so much consciousness
and awareness
going forward.
That later on it is mentioned that sometimes
when Umar
would talk to the prophet
he would suppress his voice to the point
that at times
would have to ask Umar again that what
did you say? Can you repeat your voice
Can you repeat what you said? Because these
people had so much fear,
and so much of Allah
that they wanted to make sure that they
do not say anything
in front of
that is disrespectful,
and they wanna make sure that their voices
are not higher than the voice of Rasulullah
Then there was a person by the name
of Thabit ibn Akais. Thabit ibn Akais was
a person who had, by default,
he had a high pitched tone.
And whenever he would talk, he would talk
out loud.
So one time there was a few days
where he did not show up to the
masjid.
Said, that go and inquire about your brother,
where he is Where is he? They went
home, and they saw that he was sitting
by himself, and he was like, you know,
he was in a state of shock, and
he has no idea what to do. They
asked him, why are you sitting over here?
He says that I, by default, I have
a loud voice.
And how do you want me to go
in the company of the prophet alaihis salam,
and talk, and my voice would out would,
you know, would would supersede
the voice of the prophet
in terms of volume.
And at that time, they came back to
the masjid, they informed the prophet
and the prophet said
that tell him that don't worry about it.
And not only that but even
said, that I am perhaps from the people
of Jahannam.
And to which
told him that, Tell
that he's not from the people of Jahannam,
but rather he is from the people of
Jannah.
So go ahead and tell him to come
back to the masjid, and be around everyone
else. These are people who had so much
consciousness and awareness of Allah
And that is why
it it is mentioned that going forward, they
always had a very high level of respect
for the prophet
In fact, many ulema say that perhaps
based on this aya,
they were so conscious that even when Rasulullah
would ask a question.
In order to ensure the respect of the
prophet alayhi wasallam is maintained,
that is why a lot of times their
response to any question of the prophet alayhi
wasallam was what?
That perhaps Allah and his prophet they
know best. We don't know anything.
Because they want to make sure that they
don't cross any line of respect when it
comes to Rasulullah
So even
it gets to the point that the prophet
has passed away.
He he has passed away.
Inside
in the time of
He sees 2 people inside the masjid of
the prophet
And they're talking to each other, and their
voices are raised.
And comes to
them and he reminds them of this ayah,
and says that keep in mind that Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wasalam is buried right here.
You have to show respect,
and not only that, you cannot raise your
voices in front of
Even the fact that the prophet has passed
away,
yet when they're sitting inside the masjid, they
are that conscious and aware of the fact
that the prophet is buried over here. And
based on this, the olema they say, by
the way, they say that even when people
come to do their ziyarah
of the prophet
you you know, we all know that journey
when people go to Majin Abu'i, they enter
through Babu Salam, and they go, they enter,
they exit through, Babu Jibreel. So usually they
say that even at that time when you're
going to send your peace and blessings
upon
there are a lot of people, subhanahu, they're
making noise. They're making noise. The ulema, they
say that you are in front of
And at that time, you should keep your
volume down. You should not be saying anything
out loud because Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
is present there. So that is why, you
know, this is just it shows you the
the level of respect that we need to
have for Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam. And
just another tangent here, the they say, is
that
if Allah is telling us
not to raise our voices in front of
Rasulullah
they
also say based on this, and they do
basically means that they would derive akham and
suggestions
based on certain verses of the Quran. So
they say that based on this ayah, we
also learn
that whenever
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sams ahadith are being
mentioned to show respect in front of the
words of the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
This is why there's a very well known
story of Imam Malik
of how much respect by the way, if
you say that life of Imam Malik
he was known as imam
He was known as the imam of the
place where the prophet made injera, meaning, meaning
Medina.
And he has so much reverence and respect
for Rasulullah
that one day he was giving a daruss
of hadith.
And during that time, his students noticed
that the color of his face
had changed over and over again. Some books
of history mentioned that his face The color
of his face changed 15 to 17 times
during the dares of hadith.
The students, you know, they were very cautious
of their teachers. And wallahi,
you know, in America, I've said this many
times.
You don't really see respect
here in America, to be honest. If you
really want to see how people truly show
respect to their and
so forth, go overseas.
Wallahi, you will see that students
are sitting in front of their teacher, and
a lot of times they don't even make
eye contact to their teacher. This is how
much respect they show. Anyway,
Imam Malik
while he's given the dares of hadith, this
is this is what's, this is the situation
he's going through. His stew the students noticed
this, they came back to Imam Malik after
the daras of hadith was over, and they
said, you know, our teacher, we this is
what we noticed. You know, if there is
everything okay? He says, can you please, you
know, go behind me and see what's going
on?
When they lifted up the shirt of Imam
Malik,
they saw that there was a scorpion that
had got stuck in the shirt of Imam
Malik. And it has stung him over and
over again,
while he was giving the Darce of hadith.
Look at the respect
he had for
The the students said, you know, our teacher
Our dear teacher, you should have just stopped,
and we would have removed it, and you
would have continued.
He said Look at his response. He says,
I don't wanna stop the of the hadith
of
for my own inconvenience.
I
mean,
today,
we hear we see that sometimes the is
going on,
but people are sitting on their phones.
People are just, you know, they're they're dazed
out.
When the Ulema did say that when you
hear
when we when we hear these words,
first of all we show respect by listening.
Number 2 is, when we hear Rasulullah's
name, what do we say?
We have to send our peace and blessings
upon Rasulullah
And that is why even Allah says in
the Quran, And the Ullman, they say that
this means that even when you refer to
the prophet alaihis salam, you refer to him
in the in the best way possible. Even
Allah
has so much
respect for that
often,
whenever Allah wanted to address the prophet
he always addressed him
as Go and study the Quran. Anytime Allah
wanted to address the prophet
alaihis
salam, Yes. The name Muhammad is mentioned 4
times in the Quran, but none of those
times is a time when Allah is addressing
So
if Allah
has this much honor and respect for
Then think about us, when the hadith is
being mentioned, when we hear a
and we hear
we
need to have the highest level of respect.
Then Allah
says, Those people who suppress their voice in
front of the prophet
These are the people that Allah has tested
their heart.
Or
Allah has tested their hearts for Taqwa.
Meaning that Allah has put them through a
test,
and they have passed their test, and now
as a result Allah
will grant them
Taqwa. Meaning, that first you show respect. First
we show respect to Allah,
and his prophet
and then Allah will grant us.
A person cannot really believe that I will
not have respect for Allah and his prophet
and I will have No. First you show
respect to Allah and his prophet
and as a result, Allah will grant us
taqwa. And then Allah says,
For them is a For them is forgiveness.
Why forgiveness? Because the ultimate, the greatest One
of the greatest blessings
that Allah can give you and I, especially
in the
especially in
the is the fact that Allah
says, you are forgiven.
If Allah
tells us this on the day of judgment,
we all are saved.
If Allah says, I have forgiven you. That
is why the the word of
and this this honor, and this reward of
forgiving is often mentioned in the Quran. Because
there is no reward better than the forgiveness
of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, especially in the
And then Allah says, when Allah forgives,
then after that comes what?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, Allah will forgive
us, and they will come after that a
great reward. So that is why all the
time, these 2 aya they teach us that
we always have respect for Allah and the
prophet
Whenever we hear the Quran, if I come
and I see someone reading Quran, I have
to show respect to that Quran. When some
you know, this is why I mean, we
all are we all have flaws, and we've
all made mistakes in these kind of things.
But the ulema, they say that even when
the adhan is going on, even when the
adhan is going on, to stay
quiet. Because that is showing respect to Allah.
Most certainly Allah. And then after that we
find in the adhan the name of Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So this is showing
respect to Allah and Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam. The adhan is this is the call
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And then right
after that, we're making dua
for Rasulullah alaihi wa sallam too when we
say,
So this is why we show respect to
Allah and his prophet
and Allah will grant us.
Allah will grant us
and as a result, Allah will great give
us a great reward. May Allah
make us from amongst those who are the
recipients of Taqwa, who are the recipients of
his and
who are the recipients of his great reward.