Rania Awaad – The Prophet And The BoyS Dead Bird

He enters into the home of this family,

recognizes that this child is grieving and in

distress. Something is wrong.

He's not doing well. And as busy as

the prophet is and as so much is

happening in the ummah and taking care of

all the matters of the ummah, he still

recognizes what's happening with his child.

And then he asks the people of the

household what's wrong with the child,

and so they tell him.

And then the prophet, our beloved salallahu alayhi

wasalam, approaches the child with so much gentleness

and asks the child

in a very beautiful hadith.

Do you know this hadith that I'm referring

to?

This companion, this Sahabi, he was very young,

but we still call this Sahabi because he

lived to his contemporary, the prophet, so all

of us suddenly lived in the same time

period, but he was a child. And in

this narration,

we learned that his name is Abba Omid,

and the prophet goes

to him and says,

Yeah, What did

the do?

And the if you can listen to the

name,

you see that they're rhyming.

And you also understand that the prophet sallallahu

alaihi wa sallam, his eloquence

is able to take

right there on the spot. Take the name

of the boy, rhyme it with the name

of

a little bird.

He had learned that the boy had lost

his pet bird,

and that's why he was so sad and

upset, and he clearly showed it.

And when the prophet heard this from the

family members, he didn't just dismiss it and

go, oh, it's just the pet. Moving on.

No. He actually was tuned into the child

and was able to what? Go to him

and look at how he actually asked the

question.

He asked him, oh, of our maid, what

did the nulai,

what did the bird do?

Not what did you do to the bird.

Right?

And so and nor did he dismiss it

and nor did he belittle it, nor did

he minimize it, nor did he blame him.

And this is really important when we talk

about children and we talk about their emotions

and we talk about how they're doing

and being tuned in with them.

Validation is what we saw the prophet

do in his and his interaction with where

he validated him without blaming.

He essentially, in the in the question, having

the way he asked it, there was a

validation

in that this is okay. It's not your

fault, hence, is using what did the bird

to, and now what did you do to

the bird.