Taraweeh Reflections – The Coolness Of My Eyes

There's a very interesting term that shows up

in the Quran,

specifically in this juz that we are in

right now, but in a few places in

the Quran, and it's something that we are

using in our duas as well.

And that is the term,

the coolness of my eyes.

And,

you find as we are in Suratul Muminu

and Suratul Furqan

that this shows up in 2 ways.

Number 1,

when you

look at the first verses of Surat Al

Mominoon, Allah says

That verily the believers are successful,

those who have humility

in their prayers.

Now if you were to open up a

book of tafsir,

you would find that in a tabari in

Ibn Kathir and most of the tafasir that

are based on the narrations of the Prophet

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

they will include a narration right under this

verse which is a very beautiful narration

That the Prophet

said, That

perfume or cologne, sweet scents,

and my wives have been made beloved to

me. Women have been been made beloved to

me, meaning I naturally inclined towards those things.

The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is saying,

he loves the smell of sweet scent, and

the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam loved his

wives. This was something that Allah put inside

of him.

And so there's a natural love that is

there. But he said,

but the coolness of my eyes was placed

in my prayer.

And if you read that just without going

into any deep hadith,

if you were just to read that without

an explanation,

it's very clear that the prophet sallallahu alaihi

wasallam is saying that look,

these are things that we naturally love, but

the way that I love my salah, the

peace of mind,

the joy that I find in my prayer

is greater than anything

worldly can offer you. And that is indeed

the state of the messenger, sallallahu alaihi wa

sallam.

Comfort us with it, oh Bilal. He longed

for the call to prayer, Zai'isha radiAllahu ta'ala

Anha, who describes the prophet salallahu alaihi wa

sallam as someone who was very present at

home, someone that was very active. Someone that

was extremely loving, sallallahu alaihi wasallam. But when

the call for prayer was made,

It was as if the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

wasallam did not even know his family.

He immediately jumped towards the prayer

So there was a joy

that was found

within his prayer.

Now I'm gonna go to the end of

Surat Al Furqan

with a dua for a moment. But what

is the meaning of

the coolness of my eyes?

There are two meanings that the scholars extract

from it linguistically. Number 1,

it

settles

when you stare at something because it captures

you.

So something captures your attention.

But something can capture your attention

because you're scared of it,

or because it's amusing,

or because it's beautiful in a worldly sense,

or many other reasons. But it captures your

attention. The point is is that your eye

falls upon it and your eye stays. Meaning,

you find something that is compelling and captivating

and you stick to it. So it speaks

to attention.

The second thing is

coolness.

Now, I don't want you to go down

the Google rabbit hole like I went down

the Google rabbit hole. Alright?

Where the Arab the Arabs would distinguish between

hot tears and cold tears.

And there was a theory in the tafasir

as well

that tears of grief tend to be hot

and warm, that tears that come out of

anxiety tend to burn,

and tears of joy tend to be cool.

They're they have more of a lubricating and

cooling effect on the eye.

Right? Whereas when you cry out of grief

or anger or stress,

you know, there there's a saying, hot tears,

cold fears. Right? So it's like something burns

you.

But they said that when you would cry

out of joy,

it's a gentle tear that comes, and it

feels good. It cools the eyes. Sheikh Asa,

when you look at me, do you cry

hot tears or cold tears?

Don't answer the question.

I'm

gonna assume, you know, Sheikh his office was

made beloved to him but his

I'm not gonna finish that. But

cold tears are happy tears, hot tears are

tears of grief. That's that's one of the

theories. The point is is that there's coolness,

comfort, happiness, joy, like it's a pleasant

look.

Now in salah, what the prophet is

saying that the inner peace that produces those

types of tears,

I don't find that inner peace and that

coolness and that joy in anything

like I find it in my salah.

Now, subhanAllah, you go to Surat Al Furqan

which is also in this juz, right after

Surat

Al Mominun.

When you ask Allah

to make from your spouses and your children

the coolness of your eyes and make us

imams for the believers, make us leaders for

the God conscious ones, for the pious ones.

So it's interesting because the prophet

is saying in the in the first narration

that I mentioned that the love that he

has

for his spouse is not like the love

that he has for his salah.

Right? But here, the believers say, place in

our spouses and in our children the coolness

of our eyes.

SubhanAllah, there's a narration to Abu Saeed al

Khudri radiallahu ta'ala anhu, of course, is a

great companion of the prophet that he was

asked, is this something in this dunya or

something in the akhirah? Is this in this

life or in the hereafter?

He said, no. This is in this world

when you see your family

in the worship of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

in the obedience of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

So it's not, you know, for example, a

beautiful spouse

or beautiful children and that type of captivating

happiness where you look at them just out

of joy, admiring their beauty, or just pleased

to have them, or grateful to have them,

or something that's worldly in its nature.

When you see your spouse or you see

your children

doing something that is pleasing to Allah

So there's a connection here. The same

that produces joy inside of you,

when you see it in your spouses and

in your offspring, may Allah

grant us righteous spouses and offspring, Allahumma ameen.

When you see it in your spouses and

offspring,

it also produces the coolness of the eye.

So you said, alhamdulillah.

You see your child praying. You see your

child worshiping Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. You see

them implementing lessons

that you tried so hard to teach them,

and now it finally

settled inside of them. What a joyous sight

that is. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant

grant it to us.

2 more usages of this word.

When Asiya

alaihis salam saw Musa alaihis salam,

what did she say to Firaoun about keeping

him?

Does anyone know?

It's actually very beautiful.

Let him be the coolness of my eyes

and the coolness of your eyes. Let's keep

him. Let him be the coolness of my

eyes and the coolness of your eyes. And

this ties to the qadr series, by the

way. Those of you that have been following,

in the very first episode, we talked about

a narration from mister Uddh radhiallahu ta'ala Anhu

where he said, the believing soul on the

hadith

of that righteous souls

are naturally attracted to one another. Ibn Mas'ud

radiAllahu anhu said, if you walked into a

gathering and you're a mumin, may Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala make us from the believers,

and 99 people were hypocrites and only one

of them was a believer,

your soul would naturally incline to the other

believer in the room. That there is something

that is majestic, that ties the souls together,

that makes the righteous have an affinity to

one another, and you can love someone for

the sake of Allah

the very first time you see them.

What does Allah say about Musa alaihi salam?

See, it's not just like Asiya said, he's

a cute baby.

Asiya had seen many babies before.

Asiya had seen beautiful babies,

but she looked at Musa alaihis

salam, Maybe he can be the coolness of

my eyes and the coolness of your eyes.

Allah describes Musa alayhi salam,

That I dressed you with a special love

for me.

And so the righteousness of the soul, the

purity of the soul of

alayhi salam

recognizes the beauty, the purity of the soul

of Musa alayhi salam. And when she sees

Musa alayhi salam, she's immediately

captivated and sees Musa alayhi salaam as

as the coolness of her eyes. The last

thing, dear brothers and sisters then, is how

Allah describes the promises of Jannah.

And so no soul knows what we have

prepared for them of

of the coolness of their eyes as a

reward for that which they used to do.

If looking at a flower in Jannah

would captivate you for a 100 years. When

you see it, a flower in Jannah, and

you have all the time in the world.

You don't have to get anywhere. You don't

have to worry about anything. You look at

a flower in Jannah, and you could stay

there for a 100 years compelled by its

beauty.

And it produces joy.

What is it like to see the Prophet

in Jannah?

Talk about hurratuaim.

What's it like to see Rasool Allah sallallahu

alaihi wa sallam in Jannah? What's it like

to see the family and the companions of

the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in Jannah? What

I mean, what are your eyes gonna do

when you see them there?

On top of that, of course, all the

rewards and the the delights of Jannah, the

homes, the palaces, and everything else.

But more than anything else,

imagine

the

if Allah grants you the ability to see

Him.

May Allah

allow us to stare at Him night and

day in paradise while He is pleased with

us. And that's why the greatest gift in

Jannah

is seeing Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. Not anything

that you drink or eat,

not anything that you do. The greatest gift

is being given the ability to see Allah

Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And everyone in Jannah sees

Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.

But some people see Him

more than others.

May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us the

highest level of paradise to where we could

look up, and we could see Allah, subhanahu

wa ta'ala, day and night in paradise, and

of our hearts in that.

of our hearts in that.