Nasser Barnes – All lives matter
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While creation look at other creation to get
ideas to create something.
Mankind look at fish. They look at crayfish
in order to get ideas to develop and
create submarines.
Mankind look at birds, to get ideas, to
create airplanes.
But our Allah
designed and fashioned everything without a blueprint.
We put our salams,
our greetings,
our salutations.
We pledge our allegiance.
We show our loyalty to one imam, our
beloved Nabi Muhammad.
And we beg of our almighty, Allah, to
grant his beloved to intercede both for you
and I on the day of Qiyam.
Upon us. Allah promises,
Allah vows
Once you are grateful for the favors and
Allah says,
I guarantee and promise I will increase His
favors upon you. May Allah make us of
His grateful servant.
I'm Mabai,
we can never count the favors of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala but the last favor is
that Allah has granted us Jamaatul Muslimeen
and their honorable listeners of the voice of
the cave to be alive on a special
and a special and auspicious day.
That is a blessing from Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
There are those who didn't wake up this
morning.
So let us be of those grateful servants
and grant and ask Allah, will Allah make
this a life changing Jumaa in our lives.
Whenever we say call Allah that is Allah
reminding us and when we say call Rasool
sallallahu alaihi wasallam then the advice come directly
from Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And this brings us to our topic and
our talk.
Each and every human being,
each and every life,
each and every soul is our opportunity to
leave behind a good legacy.
Every single person,
anyone we assist, anyone that looks at us,
our whole body as a Muslim
that is the call to Islam.
We might not speak the person's language
or we walk in the streets. We're driving
or sitting in our cars.
The passerby,
the one walking, the one we're dealing with,
the one who's parts parts of great. Each
and every soul that Allah has created
is a means for you and my legacy
when we leave this dunya. May Allah grant
us to understand it.
What do we mean when we say this?
We look at the perfect example when
he made dua and
he
says
make that when I'm no longer here
let others who speak about me let only
speak good and what is truthful.
A true believer's concern is not only in
this world and is not only for the
Ashraf. It is what you and I leave
behind for the others to benefit when you
and I are no longer here. Allah grants
us to understand it.
And the after effects they're off.
Allah
says, and on the day of,
it will be clear in front of you
in a book, in a record that will
be clear. No one can dispute. May Allah
grant you and I are authors of our
own books. Will Allah grant us to only
write that thing which will benefit us.
In order to leave behind and recognize good
in other people, in order to leave behind
this legacy,
I want us just to remember three things.
And we made dua, or Allah grant that
this be the life changing.
We have a great responsibility,
especially during lockdown periods,
in which very few of our fathers and
brothers are forced to attend the masjid, but
the message needs to go out there to
their homes.
My beloved fathers and brothers in Islam, who
are at home, when you're in the masjid,
we have a great responsibility
to take the message home in order for
this entire ummah to realize its purpose and
goal and objective.
Rasulullah
is no longer with us, but the legacy
he left behind is the responsibility
that you and I have up till the
day of Qiyamah.
The three things. Number 1,
we cannot recognize good in others if we're
not sincere.
In order to leave a legacy behind and
recognize
each and every individual is important whom you
and I deal with, that person, irrespective of
creed, irrespective of age, irrespective of color, irrespective
of race,
is my and your legacy.
Allah
has sent to the worst of people, they
became our guiding stars.
With that sincerity,
and Allah
on the and Rasulullah
on the authority of Abu Huraira
tells us this.
When he says the story of a prostitute,
she was, you know, living the worst type
of life we can only imagine.
She came by a well, and this happened
before Rasulullah, a s s, came to this
dunya.
So we know the story today because Rasulullah,
a s s, has recorded it in the
books of history. It's Sahaba recorded up till
today becomes
a lesson for you and I. So she
gave she took off a shoe, another narration,
a sandal, and then she put water in
it like a boot, and she put water
in it because she saw a panting dog.
Dog extremely thirsty,
trying even to suck up the sand around
the well just to get some moisture. This
prostitute, the evil type of person that you
and I can think that she must have
been, she gave water to put her shoe
down in the well
and extracted water only for this dog to
drink from that. As a result, forget the
sins.
Allah
has informed Rasul, and some say, we'll get
done on the day of kriyama.
Because of what? Of an animal you and
I consider to be an animal of najis.
But the creation of Allah
don't ever underestimate
an soul that Allah send to this dunya
because that soul will be part of my
and your legacy.
So Abu
says,
that is when she came past this well
place,
she found this dog extremely thirsty.
She then gave in Sahid, Musim, and Bukhari.
After giving this dog water, Allah
gazed upon her through mercy because she had
mercy for the creation of
After that, many authors, many scholars wrote
Many books also with the name
Students came to Imam Malik.
He says, yeah, Imam Malik,
aren't you worried? I mean, these people are
stealing new ideas.
Aren't you worried that
all these books are becoming famous, all these
books are becoming well known,
and people will forget the the original Mawatta?
Everyone is upgrading. They will start to forget
the original prototype.
Whatever you do for the sake of Allah,
those things will remain.
Whatever kitab you write with sincerity,
whatever sadaqa you give with sincerity,
those things will remain.
Do everything
since so sincerely
and solely for the sake of Allah as
Allah commands us in Suratul Bayhina.
We didn't order them to do anything
except that when they worship Allah
for their benefit, then worship Allah with sincerity.
Oh, Allah, make us of your sincere servants.
So in order to leave behind a good
legacy,
we need to recognize
that each and every individual we are busy
with might be part, and that's that is
our legacy.
Assist, help, treat them sincerely for the sake
of
Which brings us to number 2,
to leave behind a good legacy
and to
recognize
how other individuals are important in our lives,
irrespective of who they are. Don't seek fame.
We sometimes think I need to put my
name out there. I need to be famous.
I need to be the superstar. I need
to be that sports star. I need people
to know who I am in order to
leave behind a legacy.
Be humble.
The second
important fact and component
to leave behind a legacy is to be
sincere, is to be humble.
Don't be bothered by how many no's
because who knows the name of the prostitute?
She left behind
a legacy.
We might not be concerned about the name,
but do things
solely for the sake of Allah's sincerity.
Be humble in those things and Allah
will grant and elevate.
How do we know this? Rasulullah, a s
s s s, confirmed.
Rasulullah, a s s, in the authority of
Abu Hurairah,
Sahih Muslim
with the in the bar of sadaqah, giving
charity,
nothing. The more you give, the more Allah
increases.
Further on in the hadith, Rasulullah
says,
Whoever humbles himself, lillah,
for the sake of Allah.
Allah vows that Allah will elevate that person
on the day of qiyamah. Oh Allah, make
us of these people.
Someone knock on the door. We're sitting in
our cars at the on the traffic signal
is red, and we're waiting. When people come
in front of us, we turn a blind
eye. They're knocking on our window for assistance.
What do we do? We don't want to
take note of them. We know they're gonna
ask for money.
There is value in each and every one.
Not because I'm wearing a collar and a
tie should I think I'm better than that
person.
I want us to the example,
if someone were to give us a sweet
and it drops on the floor, on the
ground, we won't pick it up and eat
it. We say, don't worry. Okay.
Leave it. Here's another sweet.
Someone gives a 10¢ and it drops, we'll
leave it.
We will leave that money who says someone
else will pick it up. We meant for
them,
But if I were to give a R200
note,
if someone were to give us a R200
note,
and I fold it up,
I crush up the R2. Used to be
straight out of the wallet. I'm folding it.
I'm throwing it on the floor, and I'm
stepping on it.
And if I were to pick up the
R200,
note that's folded and dirty, and I say,
yeah. You take it. The person will still
take it.
Irrespective of how it looks in front of
him, he knows the value in what I've
just folded up.
That is each and every single person. They
look at the beggars outside
dirty. They look at the beggar outside with
clothes tattered and torn.
Folded up, and you find with enemies a
soul that will be part of our legacy.
We find value in the notes. And if
I open up my wallet and the $200
note and it blows, the wind picks it.
I will run after it knowing the value,
dodging buses and cars. I know the value.
Imagine a human being. Allah did not create
him a dog. Allah did not create him
an animal. Allah could have created him a
leaf. Allah created him a human being because
one day he'll meet you and I, and
we have the responsibility
of giving him Islam because that person is
part of our legacy.
Grant us true understanding.
But if someone knocked on my door and
I gave him an * or a piece
of bed and I gave it to him
with kindness,
that would have been the response of Rasulullah
alaihi sallam.
I recognize
his or her importance.
Because of that, I humbled myself for you.
Not thinking I'm a Muslim and you're not.
Not thinking that I live in a posh
home and you don't. Not thinking that you
look dirty and scruffy.
I humble myself before you. It might just
be my actions towards you that Allah subhanahu
wa'ala can change.
Let us not forget the the perfect example
our beloved Nabi Muhammad.
Don't ever forget that example.
And trying to give dua. We know the
history. We know the story. Children pouting, throwing
Rasool with stones.
Blood of our Mubarak, body of our beloved
Nabi Muhammad
soaking down in his sandals.
When Malaika came down and said, yeah, Rasulullah,
just give us the command. We'll wipe them
out. There'll be no history of them. Don't
worry, you, Rasulullah.
Rasulullah had the opportunity there to avenge the
way. But what did he say? It might
just be of their progeny that will worship
Allah.
Any beggar, any human being, anyone that comes
to you and I, that is a soul
of life that Allah has granted him or
her. It might just be from his or
her progeny. Allah makes Muslim due to your
and my good actions.
When that child becomes Muslim or that that
gives birth to a Muslim child, then Allah
will record it in my and your legacy.
That when we're no longer there, we'll perpetuate
rewards. Will Allah grant us true understanding?
Thirdly,
in order to leave behind a good legacy
we've been touching on
is to recognize the importance in each and
every one.
It's to look at each and every person
with value,
not with those who will benefit you and
I. We only tend to be kind. We
only tend to be generous. We only tend
to be loving and compassionate with those people
who we know we might get some benefit
from. They're in our circles.
But what do the rest of the world
have to do to get into our circles?
What should they do?
Should Islam not be the the only it
is the only solution,
but then should that not then our actions
be a guide to this only solution?
The only way that can happen is if
we interact with each and everyone.
And, again, we take the perfect example of
our beloved Nabi
In Surah,
Jews the 30th Jews.
When Allah
says,
means to frown,
and turn away.
And the word Abbas, if you look in
the
in the,
definition of Abbas, it's not even to bring
the 2 eyebrows close to each other. It's
just like a start of it.
Just when we frown, some people will frown
different, but it's just like a a vein,
a a a lump that just it just
it just forms here between the eyebrows. Not
even as a full frown. The face doesn't
even get chance to change it, only that
frown in front of the forehead.
So Rasulullah,
he
says he's busy with someone
speaking to some. And then one narration, commander,
another narration, someone of Quraish.
So Rasulullah is speaking and Rasulullah is paying
attention to this person because this person is
of extreme importance to beloved Rasoolullah
Like you and I, we're sitting in our
cars, and we're having a conversation with someone
with someone right there next to us in
the passenger seat. And even my dear beloved
fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters in Islam,
etiquette as well with a cell phone.
Sometimes we're on the cell phone, and that's
a dialogue we and a discussion we're having.
But there's someone in our presence.
There's someone right in front of us.
There are show that respect to the person
in front of us because we're showing more
respect to someone who's not even in our
presence.
It's just on the other line.
So Rasul Islam speaking to the person.
And then a blind man came,
He comes to Rasulullah
in order to know something for more information.
And while he's talking, a blind man.
And while he's talking to Rasulullah,
Rasul Sam is paying attention to this person
that he's speaking to, alaihis
salam. The blind man, he cannot even see
Rasul Sam frowning.
Rasul Sam didn't even tell him yet. Just
hold on. Rasul never got the chance to
say not now. Rasool Somm didn't tell him
or instruct him, come to me in 5
minutes.
This person came. He interjected the
this conversation Rasool Somm, a blind
man might not see, but he can hear.
That's why he's speaking to Rasul Islam. He's
waiting for a response so he can hear.
But because he's coming forth, Rasul Islam just
that bulge in in front of the forehead.
And as as if
and then Allah revealed the
verses. Why are you frowning on the blind?
Why are you frowning and turning away?
Just because a blind man has approached you.
You do not know that he is coming
to you. Maybe he's coming to you to
ask.
He's coming to you to ask you to
purify his soul. He's coming to you for
something that he finds important between me and
him.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala informing Rasulullah, don't
mix with those whom you think
are more important.
But give each and everyone their due. In
other words, treat each and everyone just as
important.
Why?
Today, we speak about the story that was
part of the legacy of Rasulullah alaihi wa
sallam.
In the following very interesting story,
a lady,
black Abyssinian lady, she was a slave girl,
and she's known.
She's known for one thing, for cleaning the
masjid of Rasulullah
She's known for that.
Cleaning the the masjid of Rasulullah
And whenever a time she saw something wrong
in the masjid in Nabawi,
she saw some dirt, she saw that she
used to pick up something clean. Clean what?
Palm tree leaves.
Day tree leaves, those those are the the
the mat of Rasool Islam's masjid.
Some sand, obviously, there'll be a lot of
sand, desert area.
But she always used to keep the masjid
clean.
Oh, neat and tidy. And when she does
this, she should say,
She says, one of the wonders a a
scarf is one of the of the wonders
of our lord.
How this scarf has saved me from Kufr
and, saved me from disbelief.
She always used to say this poetry, this
rhyme.
How the wonder of my lord because of
this cough.
Because it saved me from disbelief.
Now this said in Aisha
our beloved mother, always used to hear she's
seen this a lot. Where? Rasoolullah Assam's house
was part of Masjid al Nabawi.
So where did this woman live? This lady,
this black Abyssinian
slave girl also lived. Rasool was specially constructed
a little house for her,
a room with a low ceiling.
So one morning, Rasulullah
he comes to Majin An Abuwe, performs salah.
He attends to the affairs of the Ummah.
He goes back home. Rasul Sam comes later,
salah time, attend to the affairs of the
Ummah.
3rd walk, attend to the affairs of the
Ummah.
And the authority of Abu Hurairah in Sahih
Bukhari.
This hadith comes forth.
And it says,
A black woman used to live and reside
in.
She passed away one evening.
Listen to the response of Sahaba Radhanu Ajimain.
She
passed away, You Rasulullah, in the depth of
the night.
In the middle of the early hours of
the morning, You Rasulullah,
she passed away.
And we didn't want to disturb you, Rasulullah.
We didn't want to interrupt your sleep. So
what did we do? We handled it. We
handled the janaza.
Make sure she got the ghusul adaf. We
buried her. Rasulullah replied.
Why didn't you tell me?
Why didn't you come knock on my door?
Why didn't you inform me?
And thus,
it also gives the impression in the Arabic
language,
the way the sahaba
responded to beloved Rasulullah, a s s salam,
in a manner that Rasulullah felt that they
thought, she's not even worth still waking you
up. Yeah. Rasulullah.
No. She's not important. That's why we didn't
stop bothering.
Rasulullah
says,
Tells him, show me where you buried her.
Show me where she's lying.
So Rasulullah
Then Rasulullah went to her and
he performed
So Sahaba thought, the best of people, our
guiding stars, already made.
They already made the alhamdulillah. The lady
in the Masjid passed away. We can we
can only imagine the good place.
We can only imagine the good places, lady
will get alhamdulillah.
But now we have confirmation the good place
because Rasoolah made it he went out of
his way to go find the dum insulah.
Alaihi salatu wa salam.
Why?
Ibn Hajar
explains to us. You see, the Sahaba didn't
know the history of this important person.
This lady,
Abyssinian slave in in Abba in Abyssinia,
Ethiopia as we know it today. She was
a slave for important people.
Then her master
used to travel a lot up and down,
up and down, and she used to go
with she used to assist the master. She
used to be the cleaning lady. She used
to be the help of the house.
So this Abyssinian girl went with them on
their travels.
On this particular day, the daughter was with,
and the daughter had a wisha,
like a red scarf.
And this wisha,
the scarf or shawl,
she used to love so much because it
was expensive. It was made of a thin
red leather.
So now she's shown prestige
because the master that she was working for,
high class people had status in the community.
Then one particular day, the daughter was playing
with this and this shawl, and she fell
asleep,
and she just threw the scarf on top
of her. What happened after that? A bird
came flying over,
and the bird looking down on the scarf,
this leathery red scarf, probably looked like meat,
came down, took the scarf, and flew away.
When the little girl woke up, the first
thing she looks for is her scarf.
So where's my scarf? Where's my scarf? And
she looks everywhere around everywhere. And everybody starts
looking.
Who naturally do you think they would blame?
The slave girl, the servant.
And they interrogated her. Where's the scarf?
She tells him truthfully,
I saw a bird come and the bird
took it. They felt insulted.
So you couldn't come up with a better
lie than that?
You couldn't and they interrogated her, and they
searched her, looking everywhere on the bone and
in the process harmed her and hit her
in order to find give us the truth.
Tell us did you sell it? What what
you gotta do with it? Where you hiding
it? What's your purpose? What? Tells us, tell
us, tell us the truth. And she screamed
while they are hitting her. In order to
get the truth out of her, they're harming
her. And she's screaming and shouting until Allah
came to her aid.
What happened? You know, that bird came back,
realized it was not meat and dropped it.
And as that shawl dropped
right in between them, subhanallah,
they now know she spoke the truth.
She insisted, I told her I'm speaking the
truth.
Out of embarrassment,
the master,
her owner,
didn't set her free. So you don't have
to work. You're now a free person.
Which was good.
But now she's in the middle of nowhere.
She has no family. No friends.
What does she do now?
She hears of a messenger in Madinah.
All people
like her,
those who are poor, those who are oppressed,
they're flocking to a religion in which there's
no oppression and no racism.
She now tries her utmost, and she does
everything she can. And she goes to Madinah.
She finds our beloved Nabi Muhammad
She sits in front of him and Rasulullah
alaihi wasalam himself
then,
makes her Muslim.
She then embraces Islam right in the prison
of our beloved Nabi Muhammad
Rasul alaihi wa sallam looks at her.
And while gazing at her, subhanallah,
he can see
that she has no one.
He looks at her and he says, subhanallah,
this lady went through a lot.
He looks at her and he says, what
will happen to this poor woman? She just
embraces Islam, and I tell her, let she
go off. Where will she go to? Who
will be there to assist her?
What guidance will she get there? Who is
where is she going to stay? What will
she eat?
So Rasool Salam looked at her and automatically
knew the things that she went to. He
looked at her. Guidance from Allah.
You can see that this woman, there's
no one, nothing. She don't know where to
go from there.
Rasool Sam now constructs a small little tent
in Majidu Nabawi with a low
ceiling,
and that's where she lived.
And whenever she was there, because she was
so grateful,
she saw something wrong with the masjid, then
no one employed her to be the cleaner
of the masjid. She did it out of
her own.
And when she did it, she says how
strange.
How strange is it, oh my lord, because
of the scarfs. Because of this scarfs.
That Allah saved me from Kufr.
But the Sahaba didn't know that story.
They didn't know how important she was to
rasulullah
They didn't know her background.
Like you and I, we do not know
people's backgrounds.
We do not know how that person is
feeling the moment. We're frowning.
We sometimes turn a blind eye, or we
pay no attention
to someone.
Had we changed our mannerism with them, had
we changed our ways with them, they might
have turned to Islam.
So what did this woman do?
Whose name today, we don't know in history
of another person Rasoolan went out of his
way for.
He did it for this woman.
And, subhanallah,
we also don't know her name.
Nabi Musa, alayhis salatu wasalam, we know the
story.
We know the story when Firaoun
wanted to harm and kill all the boys.
Nabi Musa, alayhis salatu wasalam, was a infant,
a little baby. His mother then put him
in a basket.
Flow down the river Nile.
The question is, who made the basket?
We don't know.
But you see, that person was important enough
to weave a basket
to save Nabi Musa that's recorded in history
until the day of Qiyamah.
From this lady who left Abyssinia
with sincerity,
she looked for Rasulullah alaihis salam to turn
to this deen.
She was humble, stayed in the masjid, cleaned
the masjid. How do we know she was
humble? Sahaba didn't even know my name.
What happened to her?
She left behind a legacy that's recorded in
Sahih Bukhari
for you and I to take lesson from
because Allah gave her that importance.
May Allah grant that we have sincerity.
May Allah grant us to be humble in
front of each and everyone. May Allah grant
us to recognize and respect each and every
living soul.
Because they are our legacy we leave behind.