Nouman Ali Khan – Surah Al-Jumuah #28 The Man Who Interrupted The Prophet Muhammad
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The speakers discuss the meaning behind social media and distraction, including "tradney" in Arabic and "ENThamia." They also discuss distraction during busy professional career, the importance of not feeling distracted by others, and the negative perception of people speaking Spanish in poor neighborhoods. The narratives of the Karava and the Karava's impact on the economy and people in the city are also discussed. The speakers provide personal examples and explain that "any distraction" can occur when faced with a difficult situation. The segment also touches on sponsorship and the importance of learning the Quran in order to share its meaning with others.
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Which is why social media is so addictive.
A lot of times people end up on
social media for hours and hours because they're
escaping a reality that they don't want to
face.
Right? They're they they can't deal with it.
A lot of people end up at a
bar drinking because they can't deal with what's
going on at home or what's going on
with their life. They can't face that reality.
So when the reality becomes difficult, then human
beings want to find some comfort in,
you know, and some kind of distraction.
So it's not just, oh, they saw some
entertainment they ran towards it, put it in
its context. They were going through a really
tough time and in those kinds of times,
those kinds of things become all the more
attractive.
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Surat Al Juwaz,
aya number 11.
A rough translation is what I will start
with
and when they see
trade, when they see trade or
distraction.
They run towards it or they disperse towards
it.
They leave you standing.
Tell them what is in the what is
in Allah's possession is better
than
distraction
and better than trade or business.
And Allah is the best of all providers
boys.
Hey boys.
Hey you boys.
Yeah guys they're distracting
So turn this way.
Yeah.
Cool? We're cool?
I'm cool. Okay. Very good.
Alright. So,
InshaAllah, so as we as we wrap up
this, this ayah, I want to just start
with a little bit of vocabulary and then
we'll get into it. There are a few
keywords,
tijara, lahu,
infabbah,
taraka,
and then rizq. Those are the few keywords
that in this ayah. So we'll start with
tajara so you guys understand that word better.
The word tajara is one of those words
in Arabic that is very rare because the
ta and the jeem,
they don't really come together in Arabic in
the beginning of a word. It's the only
word in Arabic like that.
So usually Arabic words are made up of
3 root letters
most of them and
there's no other word that has Ta and
Jeeem together like that except for
The word Ittajara
which means to trade or to seek a
reward.
Any work you do hoping that you'll get
paid will be called tajara.
So that's the first basic meaning.
When you invest hoping that you'll make some
profit from it, investments are also called tajara.
So so far tajara is work, anything you're
hoping to get paid for, investments.
When something is a tajiv of something, that
means they're they're really good at it, and
they know how to earn from it. So
like an expert can also be called a
tajir.
Okay? Someone is tajir in something, that's their
trade. You know like their trade their trade
is so and so, their trade is mechanics,
their trade is cars etcetera etcetera. So that's
another meaning.
Most of the time, the word was actually
used for the guy that
sells wine.
In the old Arabic before Islam, they use
this word very commonly for the wine seller.
Which who was he was the one selling
the wine, he was also the bartender, he
was the one storing it and they used
to sit with him and he would pour
it for them and tell them stories and
then they would pay him. So he was
doing all the work.
Right? So from beginning to end. And from
it they kind of started using that for
anybody who makes money doing all kinds of
work. So it it kind of expanded in
its meaning. Anyway,
now this ayah,
another word that we're gonna see and I'll
just explain the word to you ahead of
time, is the word
actually commonly gets translated
distraction,
and you might see for example some short
Surahs you may remember
right? So is from this word
and it means it actually means the back
of your throat, the uvula, the thing that's
hanging in your throat dangling
that's actually called al theha
and luhwa is they have those grinders that
make the seed into powder, they make the
seed into wheat. Right?
When they drop the seeds in it, the
thing that's dropped in it that's actually called
the luhwa. So from it came the idea
that when you drop something deep inside like
this thing that's hanging deep inside and you're
dropping the seed inside the grinder and from
a team the idea that when you are
involved in an activity that you get sucked
into it. You just get pulled into it
and you kind of get lost in
it. Right? That kind of an activity is
called lahu. So for example, if you're, I
don't know, watching a movie, playing a game,
you know, you're just just scrolling TikTok on
your phone or something and you lost track
of time and you just you got you
get deeper and deeper in it, and the
world around you stops to exist.
Right? And when that happens, then that is
a form of
So from it came the idea of distraction.
This word was used even for the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
right from the same origin right so
the Sahabi Abdulayb ibn Maktoum he was a
relative of the Prophet
a distant relative from the in laws side
and he was also blind
And he came somehow to ask the Prophet
a question, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And the
Prophet had a rare opportunity to talk to
one of the leaders of Quraysh. The leaders
of the Quraysh, first of all, you can't
get a hold of them easily. But if
you do get a rare chance to talk
to them, you should take full opportunity
and speak to them as as best chance
you get. Right? So, the Prophet is taking
this opportunity to talk to one of the
leaders about Islam, and Abdullah ibn Umaktoum who's
one of his family members, who actually because
your family, you have access.
So you can talk to him anytime.
But he came and he interrupted the conversation,
and But he he's also blind. But the
thing about being blind is that when you're
blind, your other senses are more sharp.
Right? So he's blind but he's not deaf,
which means he can hear that there's already
a conversation going on. But it didn't matter
to him, he was so
feeling such a need of urgency to ask
the Prophet whatever question he wanted to ask,
so he interrupted the conversation.
Now the Prophet
did not want to interrupt him
and say, Hey, Abdullah, let me finish this
and I'll talk to you. Just give me
a minute, I'll talk to you. Even that
much the Prophet thought would be too harsh
for Abdullah.
It would be too much for him because
he would say I came all this way
to ask the Prophet
and I've now and he would feel bad
I interrupted, I didn't realize or he would
get the wrong idea and say oh, I'm
not that important
Right? So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam did
not want to make him feel bad,
and he didn't wanna lose the opportunity of
talking to the Qurayshi leader. Now he's he's
stuck in this situation where if he talks
to Abdullah ibn Umaktum, the Qurayshi leader will
be like, Oh I guess you're busy right
now, I'm gonna go, I have other things
to do. And he's gonna walk away, the
opportunity is gone. So So the Prophet was
stressed about what to do,
and when he was stressed there was a
bulge on his forehead, this is this is
called Abas
like when these lines show up on your
forehead and this comes together this is Abas
and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam just
kind of turned his head just a little
bit. You know when you do in frustration?
But no sound came out of his mouth,
no word was said, and by the way
why wouldn't he say a word because if
he says a word who's gonna hear
it? Amdulillah will hear it and he's gonna
feel like something is off and if he
just does this is called Taawaha
right? Then he's gonna notice
he's gonna notice that so he's gonna feel
hurt So he's not even doing that, but
Allah captures that and says,
He frowned,
he turned his head. But the thing about
turning your head or even turning your face
a little bit is, Abdullah
whose feelings are supposed to be hurt
can't see it.
So there's no way he could get hurt
but Allah captures that still and says nope
not even that much
right? Now this is Rasool Allah SAWHAN and
we're not worth the dust of his feet
but I can tell you in being in
a position of public speaking
one of the things that's been very very
very difficult is somebody comes and asks me
a question.
And they come and ask me a question
and they tell me that their uncle,
when they were 5 years old, they took
them for a walk, and then they said
this, and then their cousin said this, and
their brother said this, and also this other
time their grandma, she was cooking food, and
then they keep going. Right? And they're they're
telling me the entire because they they say,
before I ask my question, I need you
to understand the background. It all began when
I was 5 years old.
And then by the time I was 7,
and then one time in 9th grade, and
then one time, and the day I got
married, and then after my first baby, and
then okay. You're almost ready for the question.
Hold on. And as they're doing that, the
people behind them are like
and now I have to make a choice
about
can I just can you please get to
your question? Because even if I say can
you please get to your question? What might
they feel? Oh my god. He has no
patience for me. He doesn't wanna hear what
I have to say. How rude. I listened
to so many hours of you. I have
gone to sleep I have gone to sleep
for 10 years listening to you, and you
couldn't even hear about my uncle.
You know? But in my head, I'm thinking
if I am not going
to cut this short, then the other person
is gonna think I'm being rude to them.
Right? And then there's a few 100 of
you. There's one of me. Right? So if
I give each of you one minute,
right,
just one minute, that would be how many
minutes? That'd be 400 minutes,
and
each one of you would feel like I
only got one minute,
and I would feel like I'm almost dead
because
So when you're in a position of any
kind of leadership, sometimes you are and this
is not just in public speaking. Parents for
example, 3 of your kids come and talk
to you at the same time,
And you have you can't talk to all
3 of them because you only have one
mouth.
Right? So you decide to pick one of
them. And what are the other 2 feel
all of a sudden?
All of a sudden they feel it, Oh
yeah? Okay. Yeah. Listen
to her first. Yeah.
She's the favorite.
Right? Or you hear in the background
you
hear
whatever.
You hear that, just on the little bit
of you know.
So there's this difficult position he was put
in
and Allah even captured that and said for
a moment
you got distracted from
the blind Sahabi because you were trying to
get the message across to the leader.
I don't want you to worry about the
leaders ever more than I want you to
worry about the weakest of your companions. They
are my VIPs.
That's not my VIP. Those are my VIPs.
In the world's eyes, the millionaire, the billionaire,
if I had a chance to give bawa
to Elon Musk, or if I had a
chance to talk to Jeff Bezos about zakat
or something,
you know,
That's a huge opportunity. And then there's a
guy who doesn't have a job,
who's, you know, he's he's trying to make
whatever money he can driving an Uber. He's
not making his expenses, and he has a
question, and all of a sudden, I'm like,
what's gonna be a bigger benefit to Islam?
If I can get Jeff Bezos zakat money
or if I can,
you know, talk and Allah is teaching a
powerful lesson to the Prophet
that he, you know,
and Allah says
and the one who came to you rushing,
Allah mentions
You know how hard it is for a
blind person to walk fast?
Allah acknowledges that.
And he says,
and he's afraid that he might disobey Allah.
He's got this full of fear of Allah.
And the more you are mindful of Allah,
the more Allah is. Allah says,
You remember me, I will remember you. So
Allah is now remembering him
and he says,
you got distracted from him,
you got too busy that you couldn't give
him attention. And it's not like the Prophet
wasn't giving him attention, he was
just a head of turn of a head.
But the standard is very high for our
Messenger and
if that's the standard and we say you
know we I hear sometimes I hear things
and I just say, really? Do you really
believe that? Because people say, bro we have
to follow Quran and Sunnah.
Quran and Sunnah. Quran and Sunnah. How many
times do you hear that? Quran and Sunnah.
I was like, okay.
What do you mean by Quran and Sunnah?
Well, you know the miswak,
the beard, the beard size, let's check the
beard size to make sure that it's on
the sunnah,
let's make sure that you know the clothing
and you know what some of those things
can be argued but there are some things
that cannot be argued.
There are multiple
variations of how to interpret some of those
sunnah of the Prophet
fine, But there are some things that are
inarguable
how to treat people, there's no ambiguity.
Sunnahs of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Where are those sunnahs bro?
Where did those sunnahs go?
That's not Quran? That's not Sunnah? You know
so we also get distracted by certain things
in the the face of other things and
we've we've come up with our own you
know we have to do the greater good
and you can do a lot of bad
things and hurt a lot of bad a
lot of people because you're worried about the
greater good
you know so this this anyway so that's
a side note buddy about lahu, lahu actually
means to get distracted
by something that keeps you from something more
important.
Right? It keeps you from something more important.
It's happened sometimes to me like I'm going
to a doctor's appointment or something
and I'm not gonna get a chance to
get this appointment. It was like 6 months
waiting or something and I got a chance
and I have a work meeting. And what
happens with me with work meetings is I
don't know what it is. I have to
drive while I'm having a meeting. I can't
I can't sit and have a meeting. I
have to be walking, driving, doing something.
And the more the more intense the meeting
is, the more straight I drive.
So I missed the exit because I'm having
a meeting, and I'm like, what? What did
you say? I'm like, oh.
There goes the meeting.
That's also Lahuhu. Lahuhu because one thing distracted
me from
something else. That's that's the meaning of the.
Okay? So there's just some vocabulary that I
want you to know
and
to be shayin also means to fall in
love with something.
To actually fall in love with something, like
you're just completely enveloped in it. You know
like you lost in love, the idea of
lost in love? You just fell and fallen
in love?
That's how it's used actually in Arabic.
Just the same way this word is used
in when you just play when you're playing
with something and you're just engrossed in the
play you're lost in the game like some
of you are gamers I'm a gamer I
don't know any other gamers here there's a
few Alhamdulillah okay good it's okay it's okay
we'll have a support session later on
Right? When you're really in the game
and then doesn't matter who the family member
is, they walk in front of you.
Like you have one hit left on the
boss. It took you so long to get
to that one hit. He's crushed you so
many times. You've almost broken the controller 6
or 7 times now.
And finally there's one hit left, and your
mother just walks right by,
and she doesn't just walk right by. They
just they pause for a second.
I don't know I don't know what it
is, but I think the women in our
families,
they know
when to come in front of you.
If you're watching a football game
and it's tied
and there's 30 seconds left and the other
team is marching towards the goal line and
they're already in the penalty, they're in this
area,
that is when your wife will just come
right in front of you,
Do you want some
chips? And you do this, and she'll do
this.
Then you do this, and she'll do this.
It's a test of your iman
and the stability of your marriage.
When you become really busy with something and
you get distracted of all other things you
don't remember any anything else in Ramastufi
himaadamajadwahu
you,
you completely drowned yourself in something
with, you know, with no consequence of anything
besides
it so this is actually the meaning of
lahu okay so now Fadbu we'll talk about
a little bit later I'll come back to
that but I wanna give you the narration
first. So behind this
behind this surah or behind this ayah, there's
a story, there's an event. And for starters,
I will tell you that there's possibility
according to some murals narrations that this happened
3 or more times. So it didn't happen
one time, it actually
happened multiple times. And to set the stage
for this, I'll just read through it and
whatever part needs explanation, I'll give you some
more details. Okay? So this is from Sahih
Muslim,
and then Nabi
Musul used to stand and give the khutba
on the day of Friday.
A caravan came from Syria.
Okay?
So people rush towards the caravan. So we're
not getting the details yet, all we know
is a caravan came from Syria, peep the
prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam is giving Khutba,
and people got up and they ran over
to the caravan. Now, just so you understand
what a caravan is, it's a bunch of
camels, donkeys, horses, whatever with carts, and they've
got, you know, wheat, barley, fruits,
you know, they've got clothes, they've got jewelry,
they got all kinds of stuff that they're
gonna sell. It's like a bazaar.
Right? And they're coming and they brought they
brought all these goods with them and what
they usually bring with them are women that
dance and sing or children that dance and
sing like a little circus. They're gonna do
some fire tricks. They're gonna do some somersaults,
entertainment.
They bring a whole
show with them.
Right? So they do that and they bring
that in the middle of the city. There
are some places in the city in Madinah
that were specified for that, and that was
the time for you to go catch some
good shopping.
So people went towards it until only 12
people were left.
So the Prophet SAW is giving Khuba, everybody
runs off only, how many? Twelve people are
left, some narrations say 11, some narrations say
8, some narrations say there's a virus.
And,
then
there so there are, some narrations even say
40.
There were 40 people left but the point
is a bunch of people left we don't
know the number and then Mufassirun got into
a debate who were the 12 that were
left And then Qurtubi for example mentions, these
were the 12, somebody added a 13th, somebody
added a 14th. I won't go into those
details because that's not what Allah focused on.
But the the event itself, the major details
is what we're gonna focus on. Okay. So
anyway.
So
so anyway, Wa'anafihim and Jabir radiAllahu anhu says
12 people were left, I was among them.
That's why he's narrating and he's saying I
was among them. Fa'unzilat hathihil ayaa latifil Jumu'ah
then this ayah came which is in Surat
Al Jumu'ah when they see trade and they
see distraction
they rush towards it, they run towards it
and they leave you standing
So this is related to that incident when
they went off running off the Jummah.
So the guy who brings the caravan, the
business guy that runs the caravan his name
is Dihyah.
Now Dihyah, you might know him from seerah
studies, some of you that may have heard
his name before. He's the person that when
Jibreel alaihis salam used to come in human
form, looked a lot like Dihyah.
Okay. So Dihyah is is kind of related
to some other incidents in the Sira too.
Anyway, so he he comes, he's the one
who does the business and he brings this
trade caravan with him from Syria.
Now this is the important part.
He came from Syria at a time of
great hunger and high prices.
This is the important part now. So this
caravan didn't just come anytime, it came at
a time of great hunger and high prices
according to the narration of Sahih Muslim. Now
why is that important?
It seems pretty clear that this happened
after
Uhud. Some people argue that this happened after
I would strongly disagree because of this, because
of this statement. This happened after uhud. Let
me tell you why. When the Muslims came
back from they became the Muslim
community basically came into 1,000,000 and 1,000,000 and
1,000,000 in wealth.
They had wealth they had never seen before,
after what incident?
Khaybar. Okay?
In fact, the the ayaat that discussed what
happens after Khaybar, talk about and in Arabic
means the distribution of wealth.
So much wealth that we had to now
figure out how to distribute it evenly, and
who's it gonna go to, and basically for
the first time the vaults were filled. For
the first time we had serious amounts of
money that happened after Khayr.
Why would this not have happened after Khayr?
Because he's coming at a time of what?
Hunger and great heavy and high prices.
So so what does that have to do
with Uhud?
The people of Makkah, the Sahaba,
they left basically all of the practically all
of their assets, their property, their businesses, they
left them in Makkah, they moved to Madinah.
So they are basically
refugees.
They don't have any economic benefit that they
bring to Madinah other than being able to
work, but they don't immediately they don't have
any jobs. Now Madinah itself is not a
booming economy, it's basically a farming economy,
and very basic economy. So they're not very
rich people. And they decide that they are
going to sponsor
and give alms to the people of Makkah
the Muhajirun.
And the ones that gave them home, Allah
says about them
They gave them preference over themselves even though
they themselves were starving.
So what Allah says, means, they weren't doing
so well themselves.
There wasn't a lot of wealth to go
around, and now they're already poor to begin
with, and they are now sponsoring, and housing,
and giving hospitality
to the people of Makkah. That was the
situation of the Muhajirun
and the alsar. Now, even then
the they have every family has a head
of household, right? So the man of the
house if you will. The man, the father,
the older sons etc. They're the ones who
work on the farm, they're the ones who
do the trade, they're the ones who go
to the well, and do all the, you
know, the heavy work, the labor outside that
makes them some money.
And you should also know that swords and
shields
and you know, bow and arrow, those kinds
of things were extremely extremely expensive,
And you would spend your lifetime saving to
get a to get a shield.
That's why you know when you read about
the story of Badr and we didn't have
we had like this many shields, we had
like 12 12 swords and 15 this and
5 horses and you get those I'm butchering
the numbers but you get the idea we
didn't have much We didn't have much because
those things are extremely extremely expensive.
You understand?
So the people who did have that stuff,
it was kind of like their life savings
that they had.
Now we go into
And
in 70
are killed,
And the vast majority of the companions that
are killed are actually from Madinah.
They're they're actually
which means they are the heads of households.
And those sahaba that are killed, what are
they wearing?
Shields,
whatever they have. And what do they have
in their hands?
Sword. Basically what they have in their hands,
and on their bodies is the life savings
of their family.
Okay. So when they die,
and the Muqans come and they take everything,
they take everything. So they've taken people's life
savings,
and they've also the people that we've lost
in Madinah are the people that were the
breadwinner,
the earner for the family. 70 heads of
household have disappeared,
and 70 families life savings have disappeared.
In a city that's already struggling economically, you
understand?
So now what's happened in Madinah? Madinah is
basically going through an economic bankruptcy.
Okay. The economy is collapsing.
We're in very very bad situation.
And in that bad situation, prices are high,
somebody comes and is trying to sell some
goods that are not available, they're not they're
not producing as much as they used to
produce because they don't have as many workers
anymore.
You know, people are struggling. And so when
a caravan like this comes and now the
caravan came, and I told you 2 things
with the caravan, they will bring and we
will read what they what they brought.
I'll read this next part so it'll explain
itself.
And He had what people needed of wheat
and barley and basically essential grocery items.
He's saying, he had they they came with
essential grocery items. Why would people run towards
essential grocery items unless those grocery items are
not no longer easily available?
You understand?
So they're running towards the bread, the wheat,
or the rice, or the barley, or whatever
they can catch because that stuff is not
easily available.
And I also told you they brought with
them, you know, singers and circus tricks and
all that other stuff. When the situation is
really bad in somebody's life,
then it's a really an attractive thing to
distract yourself from all the stresses in your
life,
and just get away from it all for
a little bit.
Right? Which is why alcohol is so addictive,
Which is why drugs are so addictive.
Which is why video games are so addictive.
Which is why social media is so addictive.
A lot of times people end up on
social media for hours and hours because they're
escaping a reality that they don't want to
face.
Right? They're they they can't deal with it.
A lot of people end up at a
bar drinking because they can't deal with what's
going on at home, or what's going on
with their life. They can't face that reality.
So when the reality becomes difficult, then human
beings want to find some comfort
in, you know, and some kind of distraction.
You know, if you're if you're going through
a really depressed time, or you for example,
you you were really working hard on some
exam, and you failed your exam, you find
yourself watching something all night,
can't sleep,
distracting yourself because when you're left alone to
your thoughts you have to face the reality
of your failure and it's too hard to
face so you just let me just watch
something let me watch something then you put
your phone down you wanna sleep again, you're
like, no, let me just watch something again,
watch something again. This is lahu, isn't it?
So it happens when people are in difficulty.
So it's not just, oh, they saw some
entertainment, they ran towards it. Put it in
its context. They were going through a really
tough time, and in those kinds of times,
those kinds of things become all the more
attractive.
They become all the more entertaining. And, you
know, I used to I used to work
in a very
weird neighborhood in New York when I was
in high school in 17/36.
It was in it was in Queens, New
York. You might know Queens from Peter Parker
in Spider Man, but Queens is a crazy
place. Queens has
neighborhoods that are entirely Greek. It has neighborhoods
that are entirely,
Puerto Rican,
and neighborhoods that are entirely Dominican. Those are
two different things. And in neighborhoods that are
entirely Bangladeshi, neighborhoods that are entirely Indian, neighborhoods
that are entire like and you walk into
one of those neighborhoods, and you feel like
you just walked into a different country.
Each one of those neighborhoods is like that.
There's entirely Jewish neighborhoods, there's Arab neighborhoods, Steinway
Street is all the Arab neighborhood, all the
signs are in Arabic, everybody talks to you
in Arabic, you wanna go into a restaurant
nobody's speaking in English,
you could do you know, it's great and
then you go to some other neighborhood everybody's
talking in Spanish,
you know, so I used to I used
to because you know I don't come from
like a wealthy family everybody in my family
had a job so even in high school
I had a job I used to work
at a shoe store
in, in Queens, in New York, in in
the Puerto Rican neighborhood, in the Spanish neighborhood,
right, where everybody spoke Spanish
and
I used because I was the guy they
they look at the shoe and they say
you have a size 9?
Like, and I have to go run downstairs
to the warehouse, find the size 9, come
running back up. Right? So sometimes I I
was pretty decent in Spanish, but then sometimes
they just go.
And I'm like,
no.
Like could could you please repeat that? I
I didn't understand and they're
They're like, you live in America, you don't
speak Spanish, what's wrong with you?
So But anyway,
the reason I bring that up is because
the neighborhood was very poor man. It was
a poor people weren't doing well in those
neighborhoods,
right?
But in those neighborhoods, they listen to bachata
and merengue and hip hop all
day,
and they are like
they'll buy a car, they'll buy like an
old car,
but they're gonna
like shine it up
and they're gonna put rims that cost more
than their rent
on each tire.
And if they bought a Honda Civic or
something, they'll put a giant sticker that says
Civic on top. Everybody knows it's a Civic,
bro. They're gonna put your name or something
else but
they'll put that and they'll drive extra slow.
And they'll put the back in the 90s,
they'll put the bumpy on the car like
you know?
Roll down the street
and you look at that and why are
they so
obsessed with this? And then people would come,
they make you know, those are minimum wage
jobs. I had a minimum wage job, we
know what we make. Barely make enough to
pay the rent and stuff And the shoes
they were selling were, like, back in the
day, these were, like, high end, like, you
know, Jordans
and, like, you know, like expensive sneakers. Right?
In a poor poor neighborhood. And people come
and they literally buy they'll get paid on
Friday, and on Saturday they're buying the most
expensive sneakers.
Right? They're blowing their entire
paycheck
on a pair of sneakers. Why though? Why?
You're not gonna live in your sneakers.
But you know
what? The reality of poverty, the reality of
living in a difficult life is so harsh
that when I look at these expensive sneakers,
I get to feel like I have something
of value
I have value
because everything around my life has
no value. I can't afford a nice place,
I can't afford, you know, a decent apartment,
I have to live with 8 of my
cousins or whatever, but my car, the rims
it got man, it's like you live out
of your car.
It becomes an extension of yourselves. And by
the way, even if you get really nice
rims, you can't look at them. You're driving.
It's for other people to look at.
So the perception of me will be I'm
doing well
or I have some kind of status or
position or prestige. And this is an abhorrent.
By the way, people in in higher society,
they have their own problems,
right? They have their own way of showing
prestige and distracting themselves from what's really going
on in their life, right? So people will
say, oh, I have, I'm going through a
lot of depression, I need to go shopping,
right? Life is really hard I need I
need a new Chanel bag
right? So
they'll do that because this is also this
is also
a distraction anyway
so and then let so the the the
people needed these essentials
and he would do the duffle like the
drumbeat
and the you know the hand drums and
stuff
the so that people would know that he's
arrived.
Fannazalah and by the way I did read
that part Fannazalah and the Ahjazalah and the
Ahjazal Zayd This is a location in Madinah
where the market used to be held that's
called Ahjazal Zayd So
people left except 12,
and they they were in the Khutbatul Jum'ah
so they broke away from it and they
went towards it.
So another narration now
mentioned in Adarul Kutni
At the time the Prophet was giving us
a khuba on the day of Friday,
when the
caravan
all all of a sudden the caravan showed
up
It was carrying food
and it just it landed at Baqir
in another location.
So it seems from the narration one time
it comes to Akhjaz's Zayd, another time it
comes to a location called and Baqir and
Nip will be called Baqir also. Right, and
so that it sets up in different places.
From this and other evidences, people derive that
this happened multiple times.
On multiple Fridays the the you know the
the bazaar came and set up. Okay.
This is important.
So Abu Dawud in his
means narrations that are
means there's some break in the chain. So
it's not coming directly a, narrated to b,
narrated to c. There's some break in the
chain. Okay? But regardless, this narration seems to
be a really good explanation of what happened,
so he's mentioning it despite that.
He says, why would they allow themselves to
leave
listening to the Khutba
because of that?
And everybody knows that the Sahaba and the
status that they have, it seems
that given the way they are, and the
character, and the morals, and the manners that
they have, they wouldn't have done that. So
why would they do that?
So he's gonna explain that through a narration,
okay.
So this is these were the names but
anyway,
This is pretty cool.
In the beginning when when Jum'ah first came,
the Prophet
used to pray 2 rakah and then give
the khutbah just like we do in Eid.
Before
the
2 rakah used to be first and the
khutbah used to be second. Okay?
Then
and just like it was there was the
day of Friday and the prophet was giving
the Khutba
and he had already led the Jumu'ah
prayer. The prayer was already done and now
he was giving the speech. Okay.
So a person walked in when he started
his speech and said, By the way,
Dhahya is here. He brought a caravan.
The caravan is here guys.
Somebody walked in and just kind of announced
it. And when Dhihya came, his people came
with doves and drums
people left
People
left
because
they didn't think that leaving the speech of
the Prophet
has any harm on the prayer.
So the Prophet is giving a talk, but
it's not mandatory attendance.
It's just, you know, like if you're sitting
listening to a lecture, you got a phone
call and you walked out. I wouldn't be
like, hey, where are you going? What lecture
is going on over here? Because it's not
part of the thing. Right? So they didn't
think it was part of the prayer which
is why they walked away.
Okay. So
then Allah revealed this meaning Allah could have
revealed beforehand
don't leave the Khuba. He allowed this to
happen and then he revealed it because he
wanted the Sahaba to experience this this incident
where so many of them thought it's harmless,
yeah we'll just go get some things for
our family no problem
and after this ayah came the Prophet
decided that he's going to give the Khuda
first
and then lead the Jum'ah prayer.
So the switch happened after the coming of
this ayah. Okay.
And he delayed the prayer.
Now what happens after this ayah came?
So the next Friday, and the Friday after
that, and the Friday after that.
And then after that no one would leave.
If
their nose started bleeding.
Or anything that happened. Somebody's nose started bleeding
and they're still,
I'm not moving.
Allah gave the aya, they walked away. I
ain't walking away.
Okay.
Oh no matter what happened,
after this prohibition
until they would ask the Prophet permission.
How are they gonna ask permission? They would
have to interrupt the Khuba.
So he says
meaning the finger that is next to the
thumb meaning your index finger somebody who had
to leave would be like
like that to the Prophet
which means you know, inshallah my nose is
bleeding,
I think
I think I need to go
you know, or I think I broke my
pinky or something.
They raise their hand and they just raise
their finger like this and the Prophet
would say would do
and the Prophet would
just indicate with his hand and he can
go and that became the adab of the
Khutba
like if you were gonna get up and
go you can't just walk away you would
just
like indicate to the Prophet quietly and the
Prophet would give you just a gesture by
your hand. It's okay. And then you could
walk out. Right? So, like, immediately
how it how it transformed the culture of
the sahaba
and their their collective culture.
They became just this these people of adab.
So among the hypocrites there were those for
whom the Khutba was really hard to listen
to, like they didn't want to hear the
Khutba, the hypocrites.
Well, Julu Surfin Masjid, then sitting in the
Masjid.
I gotta sit here and this be over
already? You know
by the way the Khuddas of the Prophet
were whatever we have, whatever records we have
of any Khuddas he's given those of you
that are interested in Arabic there's a book
called Khutubur Rasool
it's a nice collection of whatever Khutbas we
do have, not all of them are Khutbatul
Jum'ara some of them are just public speeches
but if you actually take a survey of
them they don't last more than 2 to
3 minutes.
They're not long speeches
at all.
They're just very short speeches, Unless the records
are just on the summary of what he
spoke,
it could be the case too, because the
narrations aren't a transcript of his speech.
Somebody's remembering the key points of his speech.
It could be like that too. Right? So,
but they don't seem like they're very long
speeches at all. Anyway,
Waqana is a is a stat that Ar
Raulun Milam Muslimin So when
one of the Muslims would just kind of
raise their finger for what purpose?
To get permission?
The hypocrite would stand right next to him.
And then
and he would kind of walk right next
to him hiding himself with him until he
could get out too.
Sounds like those kids in school
that like kind of duck and they leave
with the other kid.
Allah
revealed also Allah knows the people that slip
out behind an excuse.
Allah knows those people too
right so that's mentioned in Surah
As Suhaili said even though this narration is
Mursal
it makes it he feels compelled to believe
it because it retains the integrity of the
Sahaba
radiAllahu anhu wa bihi
Okay. Says it has reached us they did
this 3 different times
Every time it would come from Syria. Ah
those Syrians
and then it would every time it would
be right at the time of Friday prayer.
And now it's as if Allah is saying
because He said
trade and distraction,
trade or distraction. Those are 2 separate things,
but one way to interpret it is as
if them looking at that trade opportunity and
going to it amounts to nothing more than
distraction
compared to what they were leaving.
So actually
an alternative term for trade was used as
distraction.
Had it been at any other time there
would have been no sin in doing so
The fact that you are walking away from
the Prophet makes this a big deal.
This this is why it became a big
deal and that's why the ayah was revealed.
Okay. Now,
this is just a little bit of a
poem, very famous among Arabs. I'll read it
to you. So the word mal, anyone know
what mal means?
Mal means money but malah the verb means
to incline
to incline. So it's a play on words.
So you hear Malmala over and over? It's
using both meanings. It says I see people
inclined towards someone who has money
and whoever doesn't have money people don't move
towards him they move away from him.
In Arabic means to go, but Dhab also
means gold.
Means gold. So,
so why does
and have the same spelling? It's actually because
the Arab philosophy is gold doesn't stay with
you
It go somebody gonna kill you, or you're
gonna die, and somebody else gonna take it,
you can't keep it. It's gonna go.
Interestingly,
Fabbah in Arabic, Fabbah means to break apart
and leave.
Fabbah,
and fibba
is silver.
Similar idea you can have the silver but
it's gonna
break apart and leave. You're not gonna keep
the wealth it's gonna go okay so Fabbba
and Fibba, Zahaba and Zahab right?
I saw people they go
they go towards someone who has gold.
They do to someone who has
and whoever doesn't have Dhab well people Dhab
from him.
I see that people
break off and run
they go towards someone who has silver
and someone who doesn't have Fiddha
and people then break away from him you
don't have many people break away from you
it's like you know some of you guys
you live in you know Europe and then
you go back home for vacation or a
wedding
or aqiqa
or your mom's forcing you to marry someone,
whatever
whatever your situation is.
For when you go back,
everybody looks at you like you just came
from you just you were you had climbed
up one of the trees of Jannah, and
you came and you probably have some leaves
of Jannah in your pocket.
So they come to you like so you
got a lot of money, right?
They're always like
let's hang out with him or they're gonna
take us to the expensive restaurant. I wonder
what and when you're unpacking your suitcase to
take out your smelly clothes,
they think that you have a treasure chest
of giveaways for the village.
So they come towards you because you come
from the land of Zahab and Finba,
right?
And then if you decide you're gonna move
back and you're not, you know, you're not
gonna live in Germany or Canada or Australia
or the US. You're just then people are
like,
nah. I'm gonna I'm gonna zahab from you
because you're no longer zahab, bro.
Then your zahab days are over.
The golden days are gone.
Right? So anyway,
the but the idea is that, you know,
trade and money is in fact attractive. Now
let's get to the actual the heart of
the matter. I've read the the narration to
you, but the main lessons I wanna discuss
with you in regards to this ayah.
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