Omar Suleiman – Keep Good Company
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The transcript describes the story of the Prophet servicing the young man who had a vision and was eventually passed away. The young man was a man who used to sleep in a home of the Prophet and had a heart for the future. The young man was eventually found in a hospital and eventually led to a loss of life. The message is to keep the company of people who are focused on achieving good and forbidding evil, pushing one another towards the truth.
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Keep the company of productive people.
Righteous people are of categories.
But specifically, productive righteous people.
Keep their company.
Where Allah Azawajal says وَاصْبِرْ نَفْسَكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ
يَدْعُونَ رَبَّهُمْ بِالْغَدَاةِ وَالْعَشِيدِ يُرِيدُونَ وَجْهَةً Keep the
company of those who are calling upon Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala night and day.
Seek patience through them.
Keep yourself resilient by their company.
And there is a story I'll end with
here.
It's a story of Ibn Abbas Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
One of my favorite stories of a young
man who had a vision.
Ibn Abbas Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the cousin of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, loved by the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He used to sleep in the home of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He used to be behind the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam on his camel and on his
horse.
He was always with him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
From the age of 10 to 13.
Shadowed him Alayhi Salatu Wasallam.
Brought his wudu.
It was very traumatic for him when the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam passed away.
But he also had an eye and he
had a heart that was looking for the
pleasure of Allah.
So when everyone came back to Medina, after
the death of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
all these sahaba that had gone on journeys
were all there in Medina.
Tells his friends, 13 year old friend, 13
year old Ibn Abbas.
He says, hey, the ashab, the companions of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam are everywhere today.
Let's go seek knowledge from them.
They're all here in Medina.
Let's go ask them to narrate to us
their ahadith, their time with the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Let's get something for them.
And his friend is narrating the incident.
He says that, I told him, you know,
you go ahead and do that.
I'm gonna keep playing and you know, and
relaxing.
Let's go play with the pigeons instead.
Ibn Abbas says, I let him go.
I left him.
I went and I started to sleep on
the doorsteps of the companions of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Collect ahadith, collect fiqh, their knowledge, their jurisprudence.
Years later, they've grown up and that man
is walking by and he's still playing with
the pigeons as an adult.
And Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with
him, has become the first university in the
history of Islam.
He's saying, you know, that young man knew
better than I did.
He got it.
It clicked.
Keep the company of productive people.
Keep the company of people that are goal
-oriented.
Keep the company of people that are trying
to get ahead.
Work with them together.
We are all in loss except for those
of us who enjoin one another, push one
another towards the truth, push one another towards
enjoining good and forbidding evil.