Sadullah Khan – 12th Post Witr Talk Ramadaan 14442023
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The speaker discusses the importance of ease and simplifying things in modern times, as it is essential to avoid causing division among oneself and others. The speaker also provides insight into the historical precedent of the saying "just make things easy" and how it is not just a statement of intentions, but also a way of making things easier.
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We continue our theme for this blessed month
of Ramadan.
To
Jihad, moral guidance from everyday experiences.
The prophet
once explained to his companions
in a hadith documented in the Sahih of
Imam al Bukhari.
Said
sometimes I start my prayer
and I intend to prolong the prayer,
but when I hear the crying of an
infant
in the background,
I then shorten my prayer
because I do not want the child's crying
to be a cause of distress
for the
mother. This incident
indicates the prophet's concern
of not bringing
any unnecessary
difficulty
on people.
And thus even in his prayer,
and he reminded us as also documented in
the of imamal bukhari
I have been sent to you to make
things easy.
I have not been sent to make things
difficult.
And all of this is in keeping
with the preference for ease over difficulty
as Allah himself testifies in the Quran.
Allah says,
Allah wishes ease for you.
Allah does not wish difficulty for you.
If Allah wants ease for us,
then why do some of us have the
tendency
to make easy things difficult?
An anecdote
worthy of reflection,
a car engineer
innovated a prototype model of a specially designed
car.
He worked in a hall
especially designated for design
in a workshop.
And when he eventually completed the model,
he wanted to take the car to be
displayed
in the main showroom
of the company.
He then realized
that the car could not pass through the
doorway of the showroom or to the showroom
because the car was about 1 and a
half centimeters too high.
So one manager said,
let us chip off
part of the entrance,
let the car go through, and we can
always,
you know, shape it up or,
you know, plaster it up and mend the
wall afterwards.
1 of the directors said, let's rather remove
the roof of the car
and reconnect it after we put it through
into the showroom, and we can weld it
or screw it or whatever and put it
back in the showroom.
One of the cleaners of the car was
there, and he came to the fore, and
he apologized
for interjecting. And he said, if I may,
if the car if the car is about
1 and a half centimeters
too high on top,
why not deflate the tires at the bottom
and the car would move through the entrance
without damaging the roof or without breaking the
wall?
Sometimes,
if you look carefully,
it's simple and easy.
Over 2 and a half 1000 years ago,
Confucius, as quoted in the Analects,
is reported to have said 2 and a
half 1000 years ago, by the way, life
is really simple,
but we insist as people
on making things difficult.
The question we ask,
because we see it happening so often around
us,
even in religious circles,
why would anyone want to make something more
difficult than it needs to be?
Why not keep simple things simple,
and if they are simple leave it as
it is?
Or why not work towards
simplifying things that may be somewhat difficult?
Making things hard
when they could be easy
doesn't make us good.
It makes us weird.
And when we turn simple things into complex
matters,
it doesn't make us intelligent.
It makes us problematic.
It is mind boggling
that we as
modern human beings and specifically in the 21st
century,
We have access to massive amounts of information,
and we have an explosion of technology
unfolding on a daily basis, innovative technology.
Yet
it's ironic
that simplicity
is still difficult
to manifest.
Making things
unnecessarily
difficult
does not attract people.
In fact, it repels people.
And this is evident from the saying of
Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
A crucial nasiha he gave
to one of the first governors he sent
out, Mu'ad bin Jabal.
He sent Mu'ad bin Jabal and
another companion Abu Burda, he sent them to
Yemen to a place called Janad.
So
Mu'adh
asked the prophet, give me some advice, and
then Rasul gave him 5 or 6 points
of advice.
And he concluded the advice to both
Abu Burda and to Mu'adh with this advice.
The final point was,
Make things easy
and do not make things difficult.
Glad tidings
give glad tidings to people. Motivate them, inspire
them, and do not repel people.
Cooperate with each other and make sure that
you don't cause division amongst yourself.
Remember
that Allah
abundantly rewards
those who make things easy
for themselves and will also make things easy
for other people. Hadith documented in the Sahih
of imam muslim
Rasulullah
said,
who makes things easy when people are in
difficulty or make difficult things easy. Allah will
make things easy for them in this world
and in the hereafter.