Sadullah Khan – Smile ~ it is sunnah
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The speaker discusses the importance of humor in the context of one's life, as it is the most powerful and most misunderstood aspect of human nature. The speaker uses examples of popular figures, including the Prophet Z Lucknow, who used to laugh and cry at people who were outcasting him. The speaker also discusses the importance of laughter in the context of one's life, as it is the most powerful and most misunderstood aspect of human nature.
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Islam is a comprehensive way of life,
and its precepts and rules and regulations
addresses all dimensions of human nature.
Life,
as we ought to know by now,
is much more than working and striving,
weeping and crying.
There is plenty
more to
life.
Lighter avenues as well.
As they say, there's a time to laugh
and a time to cry. And remember what
the Rasul told, There's
a time for something here
and a time for something else. A time
for this and a time for that.
As a reflection
of many different types of extremities we find
among some of us,
There are those who avoid humor altogether.
And they, in fact, consider humor as un
Islamic.
And
they used a quote of the prophet
to justify that. The prophet said hadith documented
If you knew what I know,
you would laugh less and cry more.
Isn't it advice?
It's not the law
banning you or preventing you from laughing
or smiling.
Now prophetic traditions like these are well known.
But the
unintended
impact of such traditions
have been construed or misconstrued by some,
in such a manner
that some people forget
and others even refuse
to have a sense of humor altogether.
Indeed,
the more religious some people consider themselves,
the less likely they are to smile,
and the least likely they are to laugh.
Some people wear their religiosity
with such
suffocating self awareness
that it robs them, and even those around
them,
the ability to positively relate to other people
in a pleasant manner.
You see?
Seriousness
is not a sign of piety.
It's merely
an expression
of unpleasantness.
On the contrary,
Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wasallam was described by his cousin,
His father's brother Hadith, son Abdullah bin Hadith,
who knew the prophet all his life said,
Hadid documented by mama Tellmideh, I've never seen
this is the cousin of the Rasul.
Said, I've never seen anyone
more smiling,
more regularly smiling,
more constantly smiling
than the Prophet of Allah.
No.
The Prophet
though we know when he laughed,
he had the habit of not laughing loudly
or with his mouth wide open.
He used to laugh with a smile almost.
You know in the Quran, Allah makes reference
to Soleiman
Remember in Surat An Naba?
Where he
picked up the communication
of the of the ant.
And they said, let's move out of the
way before Suleiman and his enemy, his army,
temple us. And the Quran documents Suleiman's response,
alayhis salam. Very famous, well known part of
the Quran.
He smilingly
laughed.
And that was a sunnah of many of
the prophets. Their laughter was more a broad
smile
than an open loud laughter.
But smiling, they did.
And laugh, they did.
So the prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, made
a warm, gentle,
friendly, inviting disposition. Imagine a person you see
constantly smiling.
He mourned and he cried. He smiled and
he laughed,
depending on the situation as it warranted it.
And he witnessed the laughter of those around
him. And he even inspired
and motivated laughter
and humor
amongst his companions.
An example of this is Suhaib Arumih, one
of his companions, was a foreigner in Islam.
He had a great sense of wit, a
man who traveled much.
And the prophet
enjoyed joking with him.
So once Shuhayb
had an ailment in the eye, he had,
you know, some infection in the eye.
And he was eating some dates. And then
Rasul jokingly
said to him,
Rasool said, are you eating dates with an
ailing eye?
And he wittily
remarked and jokingly said to Rasulullah,
He
said, don't worry you Rasulullah.
No problem. My other eye is okay.
So he's making a joke. You know the
prophet is making a joke. So he responded
jokingly, my one eye is damaged, but my
other eye is good. Because you don't eat
with your eye. Then Rasul was making a
joke.
Then there was a lady, very well known
tradition.
When a lady came to the prophets,
or rather, there was a man first,
who came from the desert. He was a
Bedouin.
And the Rasul loved him a lot. And
he wasn't the man who was best looking
among people. And people should ignore him. But
the Rasul should love him a lot. His
name was Zaheel bin Hizam.
Zaheel bin Hizam.
So he used to sell things in the
market, come from the desert, sell stuff.
And one day while he was selling things
in the market, the Rasulullah Salaam came behind
him
and closed his eyes and said, take a
guess who it is.
And eventually the person turned around,
it was the prophet. So the prophet grabbed
him and he said, who will buy this?
And he said, You Rasulullah, I'm worthless. He
said, no. Nobody will be able to afford
you.
See, a person was outcast by the people,
but the Prophet said to him. So someone
said, You Rasulullah, Tamzah, do you make jokes?
He
said,
I do make jokes. But even in my
jokes, I don't say anything except what is
true.
That brings me to another very famous incident
of a lady
who came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
And this is documented by Imam Atirmidi.
An elderly woman came to the Rasul, said,
Yeah Rasul, I'm an elderly woman elderly woman
like me. Will I enter paradise?
And the Rasool
said,
No old person will be in paradise.
No old person will be in paradise. The
lady left, but she was upset.
So the prophet said, no.
Haven't you read the Quran?
That we will create you anew in the
in the in the heaven. You'll be live
revived in such a way as if you
are a new creation,
young,
compassionate,
and amicable. So no old person will be
in paradise while in paradise.
Everybody will will be young. So no old
people will be there. And then she smiled.
Then there was Auf bin Malik. There's numerous.
He's sunnah Abu Dawood.
You
know, he was rather a very big man,
rather huge man.
So
it was the, expedition of Tabuk, they say.
And he came into his his he made
and he found the Rasul was alone in
his tent, small tent that Rasul had. So
he's a very big man. And he came
into the tent, he put his head, he
said, you, Rasulullah,
can I come in? Rasul said, yeah, come
in. The whole of you, not only the
part of you. And he said, then I
came in everything of myself.
You see?
What we are trying to say from all
of this is that Rasulullah
This is the kind of disposition he had.
Sometimes the image we have of the Prophet
is an image of either cultural
background or assumption of the prophet, which is
not what the prophet really was.
Let's go to the prophet's wife, Said Aisha
Hadith documented
in the sunnah of al Nisayih.
We asked her to describe the prophet, and
she said these words,
She said, the prophet was the most lenient
of people,
the most generous of people. He was like
a man among other people,
except
he used to laugh
and smile.