Safi Khan – Soul Food 23 February 2024
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The speaker discusses the misunderstandings of one's success and the importance of finding a connection to people and values. They emphasize the need to prioritize one's values and find value in one's behavior. The speaker also discusses Bilal's actions during the Kaaba and the importance of not being too busy with one sheet to cover one's body. They also mention the importance of knowing one's values and finding one's own legacy.
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But you didn't do anything. And, you know,
one of the ways that the,
they talk about this so profoundly is human
beings have this kind of tendency to feel
really great about themselves
until they realize their own weaknesses, and everyone
finds about their own weaknesses in very different
ways. So for some people, it's when they
get old.
For some people, it's when they go through
certain losses in their life, loss of jobs,
loss of health, loss of, you know, perhaps,
like, sanity to a certain degree,
you only realize at that point how truly
dependent and weak you really are. Because when
Allah gives you certain small,
you know, blessings in your life, you you
get your 1st paycheck. Right? You get married.
You buy your 1st car.
You pay your rent for the first time
in your life. You graduate with a certain
degree. Like, Shaytan comes into your life, and
he's like, man, like,
now you're like a biomedical engineer, dude.
Like, no one can stop you now. You
you paid your 1st month's rent.
Like, you're a big boy now. Like, you're
not a kid anymore. Like, you start feeling
really good about yourself until you realize, like,
there's no food in your fridge.
And you're like, oh, man. Like, I thought
I thought I was it. Right? And then
I realized I'm I'm I'm eating, like, you
know, cream cheese and bagels for the next
3 way 3 days. Right? I'm eating dalchajal
for the next week and a half. I
mean, that's when you kinda come back to
Earth.
And so Allah, he completely takes you to
this kind of realization. He says,
You are my creation.
I created you. You didn't create yourself. He
says,
Okay? I created you from males and females.
Alright? From a male and a female.
And the scholars, they talk about this. They
say that this is proof that everyone comes
from Adam and Hawa. Right? That the belief
in your creed is to literally believe that
you came from 2 human beings.
You came from Adam alaihis salaam and his
wife Hawa,
and this is where humanity started. And Allah
talks about this in other ayaats in the
Quran. He says,
you know,
you came from one singular
source
then Allah created for you pairs
and from you became, like, several different people,
men and women and children, what and and
whatnot. And so he he teaches you all
about this. And so he says,
And here's where Allah begins to kind of
specify a little bit. He says, we also
created you from
peoples and tribes, nations and tribes. Right?
It's not possible
for
8,000,000,000
plus people in the world to all just
stay in one group.
It's not possible. You know, like,
we have this ability nowadays
to kind of, like, oversimplify things.
Why can't we all just be together? Right?
Like, the reality is,
homeboy, like, have you ever gone to another
country?
If anyone's gone from the US to visit,
like, a foreign country, you'll realize why we're
all different people.
The cultures are vastly different. Anybody ever been
overseas before?
Good. Anyone been to, like, back home? Right?
What's it like? You go there and you're
like,
where's the line? Right? Or the first time
I went to the first time I ever
went to Umrah. Right? Like, I put my
order in at Carl's Junior and Hardee's.
Right? I will never eat Carl's Junior and
Hardee's ever again. I'm just tired of it
now, by the way. If you if you
go to Umrah, by the way, don't eat,
like, the the the random, like, American chains,
bro. Like, eat the local food. It's so
much better. So, anyway, the first time I
went, I was, like, an amateur. I was,
like, a noob. So I went to, like,
Carl's Junior and Hardee's, and I, like, put
in my order, and I was, like, this
nice little American kid
waiting
in line. I was like,
man,
where is this line? Right? Like, when are
they gonna call me up? And then I
saw, like, 8, like, Arab aunties, like, basically,
like, bulldozing through me and picking up their
order. And, like, I was waiting for, like,
20 minutes, and I went to the front
of the line. I went to the counter.
I was like, Habibi, I put my order
in, like, 20 minutes ago. Where's my food?
He's like, yeah, man. Your food's been ready
for the past, like, 15 minutes. We didn't
know where you were. I was like, how
am I supposed to know if my order's
ready? He's like,
you just come up. You just come up
and get your food. And I was like,
but there's no, like, call out system. All
the so I was so naive because I
was functioning off of, like, my world. Right?
I was like, yeah. America. Right?
Like,
eat bald eagle. Right? I was like I
was like I was, like, functioning off of
that that reality when I realized that, man,
like, Allah has made humanity
into so many different types of people.
Right? And you can't expect everyone to be
the same. To want everyone to be the
same is actually ignorant.
To to think that everyone should think the
same way that you think,
everyone should be the same way that you
are. I mean, this is ignorance. This is
this is completely Jahala. Right? Because
Allah has created people from so many different
from from so many different roots. Right? A
person may not have any contextual understanding of
your life and where you come from, and
you might not have any contextual understanding of
their life and where they come from. So
Allah says,
that Allah has made you from nations and
tribes.
And here, by the way, Allah addresses
nations and tribes.
Meaning, that at that time, there were certain
Arabs at the time of the prophet
that they were extremely,
like, really loyal to their nation. Right? Like,
the Yemenis.
The Yemenis at that time, like, they'd be
like, oh, yeah. I'm from Yemen. You're all
like, Yemen. I'm from Yemen. I'm from the
south. So they, like, all rolled into one
group. And then you had,
and you'll find that in, like, Medina and
Mecca till this day when you go. When
you go to Medina and Mecca, you'll find,
like, tribes still, like families. Right? Y'all know
people who are like family tribes. Like, they
just roll with their family. Like, oh, where
who who are you? And they'll tell you,
like, their family name. And so Allah addresses.
Allah addresses their tribes because all these people,
they have different things that they they they
they affiliate with. And I want you guys
to think about your lives. Like, who do
you affiliate with? Like, do you affiliate with
your family?
Do you affiliate with your your friends,
your workspace,
whatever group you belong to? Like, everyone belongs
to something. Right? I always I always like
to ask people. You know? Like, the the
greatest litmus test of, like, finding out what
a person, like, kind of wants to be
known as is when you ask them who
they are, like, they say their name, and
then the next line that they drop is,
like, their their thing.
Right? So if I'm like, hey. Assalamu alaikum.
Who are you? They're like, oh, I'm Youssef,
and I'm a student at UTD. I'm like,
alright. UTD, bro. Like, this guy, like, rolls
with the UTD crowd, like, through and through.
Okay? If I'm like, hey, Who are you?
And sister's like, oh, I'm I'm in a
oh, cool. I'm from Arlington. I'm like, oh,
dang.
She's Arlington. Right? Like, that's the first thing
she said after her name. That must mean
something to her. Right? It's not just random
that a person decides that the the second
thing after my name that I want you
to know about me is that I'm from
Arlington. It's like the Denton people. Like, the
first people to call out u n t.
I'm from u n t. I'm like, okay.
How have you be relaxed, bro? You like,
I get it. You combine your prayers for
a living. Like, you you you you you
are like a UNT through and through. And
so
these are things that people just naturally drift
towards, and Allah, he addresses that
that the you you're a you're a person
who has affiliations. That's cool. Right?
But he mentions here,
that there's a purpose for all this. At
the end of the day,
the the reason
why he made
you diverse
is
so that you can get to know each
other. And we'll talk about this inshallah. I
wanted to actually
pause for a second in our conversation, and
I wanted to give everyone a chance. Remember
I told you guys I wanna give you
guys, like, chance to, like, live tweet today.
So I'm gonna give you guys a chance
to talk to the people around you, and
I wanna get some thoughts from y'all today.
The first question I'm gonna ask you guys,
and this is gonna be really critical thinking
here, is
what gives rise to the feeling of superiority
in regards to one group over another?
Where do you guys think that stems from?
Like, what's, like, the essence of that
that that mindset of a person
who
thinks that,
like, oh, I'm better than you because of,
like, this and this and this or, like,
because I belong to this or because I'm
from that people or I'm from this thing
or that thing. Where does that stem from?
Why do you think where do you think
that stems from? I want you to get
to talk to the person near you, and
I wanna get some thoughts from you guys
inshallah.
Go ahead inshallah. Talk and we'll reconvene in,
like, 3 minutes. Go ahead, Bismillah.
Alright. What do we think? Bismillah, what do
we got?
Let's get some thoughts here. Why why do
we think like, where does this stem from?
Where does this kind of obsession with,
because, again, at the end of the day,
I want you guys to know this that
this is not like
a this is not like a common day
issue. Right? I mean, it's not even like
a
past century issue. The the the idea of
prejudice
and superiority the feeling of superiority of other
people has been a prevalent thing for a
long time. Right?
You know, it it it was back in
the day of prophet Nuh alaihis salam, prophet
Hud alaihis salam, Thamud. Right? I mean, these
these are the tribes of people who, in
certain regards, felt better than other people because
of the wealth that they had or the
accolades that they had or whatever. So where
where does it come from? Right? I mean,
you guys still see it today to a
certain degree. I mean, how many of y'all
have ever visited certain spaces where you definitely
picked up on a vibe of, like, okay.
Yeah. Like, there's, like, this certain kind of
aura here. Right? Like, if I'm not this
type of person, then I'm not really
I'm not really welcome. Right? I feel kinda
strange. Right? Because I'm made to feel like
an outcast, essentially. So my question is, where
does this come from? Where do you guys
think it comes from? Anybody wanna share?
Yeah. Go ahead.
Mhmm. Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Right. Yeah. And and
and you bring up, like, a I think
this hits home for a lot of people.
I think I was traumatized. One single tear.
Like, just
people didn't pursue the medical field.
And everyone who's premed right now is gonna
be super quiet because you'd feel like, oh
my god. I'm the bad guy here. No.
No. No. I I again, the the the
conversation is actually to bring about the the
awareness that all of these things have their
beauty in in society. Right?
And what she was kinda mentioning here is
a cultural component of how in certain cultures,
certain careers are looked at as almost like
elite. Right? Like, superior
to other careers because
either those are noble and honorable and other
careers may not be because
they're just not looked at it in that
regard, right, in that per in that in
that particular, you know, society or that particular
culture. And, again, it has a lot of
trauma involved with it. Right? I mean, you
have no idea how many people and I'm
sure you guys have witnessed this and experiences
with circles of social life and whatever.
How many people have been scarred because of
this stuff? Right? Like, they feel they feel
so low in value because they didn't become
a certain thing that everybody else, like, was,
you know, aspiring to become, or their parents
put them on this pedestal, and you weren't
really successful unless you basically became a certain
person in a certain career field. And if
you didn't become that person in that career
field, then you're just kinda like a mediocre
human being. Right? And, again, a lot of
this stuff comes from a very cultural understanding
of what success is and what success isn't.
Right? Very good. Very good. Anybody else?
Anybody else? Why do you where where do
you think this stuff stems from? Miss Mila?
Yeah?
Right.
Yep.
That's powerful. That's extremely powerful. What she said
was so beautiful. She said,
not understanding
what true value is. Right? Because, again, at
the end of the day, every human being
is looking for some sort of value.
Right? Everyone wants to be valuable to a
certain regard.
But when a person may not really understand
what true value is, they will try to
make up their own value however way they
can. Right? And this is why, by the
way, there's a hadith of the prophet that's
so profound. He says,
that Allah does not look at your your
your sur. Right? Like your your your image,
your appearance
nor
nor does Allah look at your wealth.
Allah rather looks at your your what what's
within your hearts and what's what what you
do with your actions. Right? And if you
think about it, this hadith is so timeless
because the first two things that the prophet
mentions are 2 things that human beings have
put on a pedestal
that are almost, like, untouchable.
Right?
They they they think people think that if
you are wealthy
or if you're good looking. Right? And he
says,
Allah doesn't look at those two things. And
to this day, think about it. What does
society
they they they hunt? What does society
prize over anything else? Money and beauty. Right?
Everything you see out in society
focuses on these two things when it comes
to value. Right? You either have to make
money. You either have to be, you know,
associated with money, or you have to be
of some sort of, like, visual attractiveness
to to general society. And if you don't
have those two things,
then no one's gonna bat an eye when
they walk by you on the street. You're
not gonna be valuable.
And so this is why, subhanAllah, like the
sister mentioned, right, people are looking to fill
these voids however way they can. But when
the prophet speaks and he says,
what's hard is that human beings are people
who y'all ever heard the phrase, like, see
it to believe it. Human beings, unfortunately, have
been this reality there's this optically, then I
don't really care. Right?
Like, if I don't see it optically, then
I don't really care. Right? So if I
can't see a person's beautiful
or if I can't tell a person's wealthy,
then I'm just gonna, like, gloss by.
I don't really care. Like like, so what
if you're, like, a good person internally? Like,
I don't really like, I can't see that
right away because guess what? It takes work
to get to know a person when you
can't see something on their on their sleeves.
Does that make sense? Like, how many people
have you met in your life that are
so beautiful,
but it took time to get to know
that beauty?
Because it wasn't on the exterior. And how
many times
have we misjudged a person who we saw
as beautiful?
Right? Like, on the exterior. Like, wow. Like,
They have everything put together. Like, it looks
like they're happy on the outside. It looks
like they're wealthy. It looks like they're,
like, like, their pictures on Instagram look incredible.
Right? But when you get to know them
more and more and more, you see there's
a lot of a lot of things that
are troubling once you get to see the
things that the average person doesn't see about
them. And that's why the prophet said that
when you want a breath a breath of
fresh air
and you finally find what Allah values,
you will begin to truly
not prioritize
the things that humanity always values, which is
looks and money.
You will start looking at people's hearts.
Like, yeah. Sure. Like, you come in with,
like, your, like, $500 outfit, but, like, can
you hold an honest conversation with somebody?
Like, can you can you sympathize with somebody?
And and and think about it. Like, this
whole, like, you know, Sheikh Omar posted about
this, like, the other day.
It was, like, maybe, like, a week ago.
But he said, like, right now, because of,
like, the Ghazan crisis,
this should be, like, the turning point
to us completely,
completely
pushing away, like, celebrity culture.
Like, how many how many of us have
truly found out about, like, where people's
standards and morals lie when it comes to
the Palestinian situation
in regards to, like, celebrity culture and life.
People who chose to speak out about it,
people who chose to stay silent about it,
and people who chose to even support the
opposite side. Right? And it could have been
people that we actually were like, oh, like,
I like what they do. Right? Like, I
appreciate their talent or, like, their art and
blah blah blah. But then you realize, like,
man, this person cannot speak up one time.
They couldn't speak up one time about
13,000 children dying in Gaza?
They can speak up one time about the
genocide in Palestine?
Yeah. Sure. They can stand up on a
Netflix special and just, like, kill it on
the comedy circuit, but, like, they can just
say one thing. They can tweet one thing.
And now because of that, I realized, like,
where I stand with this person. Yeah. Like,
their comedy was great. They made me laugh
for, like, 3 years
straight, but now I see where I stand
with them.
Allah values what's within the hearts.
And what they do with those actions from
from the heart.
It really teaches you a lot about who
people are. SubhanAllah.
Right? Very good. Anybody else?
Where do you think we we we get
this from? Yep.
Please.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. For your group because you feel
you have a reason. Yep. Because you have
something over the other group. Grass is always
greener.
But Yeah.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yeah.
That's so interesting. He mentioned a very interesting
element that I think, you know, is is
very it it is very you know, it
it jogs the brain a little bit. Everybody
wants something that they don't have. Right?
So it's so interesting. Or hey. I mean,
even when you look at, like, race. Right?
What what what's like that what's like the
joke that everybody makes about, like, desi culture,
at least, like, from, you know, my cultural
background appearance wise? Everyone wants to be fair.
Everyone wants to be, like, lighter skin. They
even, like, advertise us on commercials. Right? Like,
fair and lovely.
Wow. Like, I have had conversations with lie.
I kid you not. I've had conversations with
people when it comes to, like, marriage. Like,
oh, that person's like,
no.
Like, the kids you'll have with them is
like, no. They're gonna be dark skinned, and
you're like, what on earth? Like, where's the
stem? Like, when you break it down to,
like, a math, you actually think about how
crazy that statement is. Like, oh, that kid
you're gonna have or, like, that person, like,
yeah. They're, like, darker skinned than you. You're,
like,
interesting. Right? Like, cool. Cool observation. Right? It's
so interesting, and and and there's actually a
hadith about this that's very profound because,
again,
this proves that
it it can happen to the best of
people. There's actually a story in the life
of the prophet that involves
a Sahabi by the name of,
Abu Zar al Ghifari.
Okay. Abu Zar al Ghifari radhiallahu ta'ala. We
call him radhiallahu ta'ala because he was a
Sahabi of the prophet
When he saw Bilal radiallahu an one time
who was an Abyssinian
he was a former slave of a man
by the name of Umayyad bin Khalaf.
He was an Abyssinian slave prior to his
Islam.
He, after accepting Islam
remember we talked about this, last Thursday,
that one of the things that Suraj al
Hajarat actually teaches us is that we don't
call people things that they wouldn't want to
be known as. Right? Like, this is just
what they do not want to be known
as. We don't call them that. And this
is a part of, by the way, of
slander, of of of of backbiting.
The prophet said, backbiting is mentioning your brother
or sister, right,
in a way that they would not want
to be mentioned. It's not about telling the
truth or lying. Right? It's about mentioning them
in a way that they would not want
to be mentioned. So Abu Dharr al Ghifali,
one time when he saw Bilal,
he actually called him to, like, purely identify
him. Not, like, out of pure, like, prejudice,
but he called him the son of a
black woman one time. The famous
story. He called him the son of a
black woman.
And so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he
heard this.
He heard this, and he turned to Abu
Dharr al Ghifari, and he was annoyed.
It was clear. There was, like, there there
was there was very beautiful, like, hints in
that riwayyah that shows the prophet was a
little bit agitated by this. So he turned
to Abu Dhar al Ghifari radiAllahu anhu. He
said, you are the man who's still leaving
trails of of Jahiliyah behind you. He straight
upset it to him.
He goes, like, by that statement, it proves
that, like, you know, there there's still that,
like, that that that trail.
Like, you stop and shed it completely.
Because a person who accepts Islam,
what Islam does for a person,
it helps shed
the bad habits off of you. Right? Like,
if a person,
like, before they began to practice and really
grow closer to Allah, they were a person
who, like, backbit Allah. Right?
They've become Muslim. Doesn't mean automatically overnight they're
just gonna stop.
No, man. Like, you're a human being. Like,
this is something that is gonna take a
lot of training and a lot of a
a lot of consistency to help you get
over certain habits.
So what Islam does, it is that it
helps you shed these bad habits. So in
Abu Dharr Ghifari, he addressed Bilal radiAllahu an
as this particular description. The prophet he said
that this is proof that you haven't shed
that old
completely yet. You still got work to do,
which means that a Muslim is not a
perfect human being.
Just because you said
does not mean that, like, you're automatically like
the saint.
Right? Like, you're like, siddhi now. Like, you're
you're you're, like, close to Allah. No. No.
No. You're trying to get better.
You're trying to grow closer,
but these things you still have to watch
out for. Okay? And there's another story where
a group of people, they came to the
prophet and they said, You Rasoolallah,
who are the most
honorable
of everybody?
And the prophet, he says,
atqahum.
He said the people
who are the most noble of you are
those who have taqwa, who are the closest
to Allah. And then they go to the
prophet, and they said, You Rasoolallah, you know
we didn't ask you about that.
Like, we're not trying to, like, ask you,
like, yeah. Like, of course, like, people who
are close to Allah are the people who
are the the most pious and the greatest
of people, but, like, we're trying to get
at something else.
And so the prophet he says,
He says, if you wanna ask me who,
like, the greatest or, like, the most noble
person was, it was prophet Yusuf.
He was the son of a prophet, who
was the son of a prophet, who was
the son of a prophet, who was the
son of Khalilullah. Who's Khalilullah?
Anyone know?
Ibrahim, right. Yusuf was a descendant of Ibrahim
alaihis salam
and so they go to the prophet and
they say You Rasoolullah
we didn't ask you even about that
and so
the prophet he says
he says,
then
you what do you want me to what
what were you asking me about? He said,
are you asking me about, like, the lineage
of, like, you, like, the Arabs specifically?
Because, again, like, the Arabs in Mecca and
Medina, they used to live off this stuff.
Like, yeah. Like, my dad.
Right? Like, my dad was this and this
and that and that. Like, this is the
family that I come from.
And they said, Na'am You Rasool Allah, tell
us about, like, the most noble of, like,
the Arabs.
And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he
says fakhiya
rukum fil islam.
He said that the best of you
in Jahiliyah
are the best of you in Islam, meaning
that like those of you who have, like,
the best manners and the best morals when
you were when before you were Muslim, those
are the same people who are the best
of you now that you're Muslim.
Like,
nothing like, if you think that your wealth
and your tribalism made you better than other
Muslims now that you're Muslim, get that out
of you. That doesn't matter anymore. I don't
care if you're, like, from Peshawar or, like,
from Sindh. I don't care if you're, like,
I don't care if you're from, you know,
Karachi or Islamabad. Like, get that out of
your system, bro. Like, that's not what defines
you as a Muslim.
What defines you as a Muslim is if
you're the best person in your morals and
your manner from that area, then you'd be
the best person after Islam. That's all that
matters. Okay? And this is why Allah he
mentions here, he says,
that the best of you in the sight
of Allah
are those who are the most God conscious
of you. Okay.
And this is why the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, he
gave that very famous speech.
After he came back to Mecca,
he said to the Ummah, he said,
oh, people,
Allah has removed
from you,
like, the slogans
of jahiliyah,
like what you guys used to pride yourself
over. And by the way, the reason why
the prophet was a person who could speak
about this over everybody was because he obliterated
those stereotypes.
Think about what the prophet did in his
personal life. Who was the first wife of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam? What was
her name?
Khadija Radiallahu Anha.
Khadija radiallahu anha was a widow,
a woman who was married who her husband
passed away.
Khadija radiAllahu Anha had children already.
Khadija radiAllahu Anha was from a tribe
that was not the tribe of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and he still married her.
This was something that was like, if you
look at it as a Muslim, you're like,
he broke barriers already even with his marriage.
He broke barriers.
This woman was not from his tribe.
She was actually from a status that was,
like, in terms of, like, wealth above his.
Her family owned businesses.
The prophet
didn't come from a father or a mother
that was, like, extremely wealthy.
In fact, his mother Amina did not have
money
to give in terms of, like, babysitting. That's
why Halima Saadia radiAllahu the the the the
woman who took care of the prophet
when he was a child, Halima,
she was the she he she was the
only one who would take him because Amina
didn't have any money to give to her,
so she was kinda stuck with a last
resort.
So when you think about what the prophet
did was he broke stereotypes.
You look at the story of Bilal radiallahu
ta'ala Anhu. Y'all know the story of Bilal?
The story of Bilal radiallahu anhu was notably
the first person to call the Adhan in
the Muslim Ummah.
And Bilal radiallahu an, when he climbed the
Kaaba, the prophet told him to climb the
Kaaba. Right? That was not just some random
command the prophet gave Bilal. Why do you
think he did that? He told Bilal to
go climb the Kaaba to give the Adhan.
He was an ab a former Abi sunian
slave. There was a story that literally mentions
that when Bilal
went to on top of the Kaaba to
call the adhan for the first time, the
people who are around,
like, the people who are around, the non
Muslims at that time, they said, like, if
our if our fathers saw
a black man
climb the Kaaba
to call people to prayer,
they would be, like, tossing in their graves
to see this site right now.
Like, the like, that's the stuff that they
would say, but the that's exactly the reason
why the prophet did it.
He wanted to make sure that this image
is burned in people's minds,
That a person from an Abyssinian descent who
was a former slave
climbed the Kaaba to give the event to
call people to prayer.
This was who Bilal was.
And
Bilal radiallahu an, you know, it's really incredible
story about him.
If you wanna talk about like the love
that Bilal had for the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, after the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam passed
away. Right. Bilal radiallahu an by the way
did not continue to live in Medina. There
was a story of Bilal radiallahu an one
time after the prophet passed away sallallahu alaihi
sallam. When he was giving Adhan,
he said that,
when he was going through the adhan
When he reached Ashadu Ananda Muhammad Rasoolallah, he
said that his voice could not continue.
He said, like, literally, like, my voice stopped.
I could not continue because my heart could
not handle saying, Muhammad
in the city of a man
who
honored me,
who gave us so much.
So Bilal radiAllahu an literally he left the
city of Madinah to move somewhere else, and
he continued to live Islam in another city
after the passing of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. So but you think about, like,
what he must have done for Bilal
to feel that way about him.
He gave Bilal a status that Bilal
had never had before in his life.
And that status was not a status that
was like, oh, you're Abyssinian, so you're better
than the Arabs. No. No. No. He said,
Bilal, you're a Muslim.
You're a Muslim.
You will receive a status as a believer
that you never had before you didn't believe
in Allah,
And that is what made Bilal radiAllahu anhu
who he was.
And this is why he says
And then finally
he says at the very end
Allah is the one who is all knowing
and he is Khabir. Khabir comes from what?
Khabir comes from the word Khabr which means
what? News like being informed.
So Allah is the most well informed. Why
you guys think that this is the name
that Allah uses to
address him self in this particular ayah because
the they say, because certain people, they may
carry themselves in certain ways
in this dunya
as such and such, but Allah really knows
who they are.
Like, a person
may carry themselves in a way that they're,
like, lofty. Like, I'm like a I have
power. We all mentioned this. Right? This person
has power. Human beings, they they they they
thirst for power.
Your brother mentioned, like, a person wants to
feel that, like, that that that power over
other people because I have something that you
don't,
but Allah being Khabeer
is the one who truly knows
who you actually are. You could have, like,
$10,000,000
in the bank,
and you could be the poorest person
in your heart.
You could be the most beautiful human being
on earth, but you could be robbed of
beauty of Aamal, of deeds. You don't do
anything with your life, but, alhamdulillah, you look
all pretty.
It looks nice when you're up there,
but there's nothing to you. There's nothing more
to you than than than literally that
and this is why the Prophet would literally
honor people
who
didn't have much when Musa'ab ibn Umar
passed
away in battle
in the battle of Uhud.
This famous Sahabi who was wealthy,
The prophet used to say that there was
nobody like Musa Abi bin Umar. He used
to wear clothes that nobody could find. Y'all
know, like, those dudes that, like, don't have
tags on their clothes. Right? Like, where'd this
guy get that from? You're like, yeah. I
got a custom made. Right? Like, no one
knows where their clothes are from. That was
Mus'a'a ibn Umar. And then when Mus'a'a accepted
Islam, all of that was stripped from his
mother literally took all of that away from
him.
And he went to to to the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam with nothing. The companions when
they saw him, they cried. They're like, Mus'ab,
look look look how he had everything and
all of a sudden he has nothing. And
the prophet, he would say, he would smile.
He said, look at a person, Musa Abi
bunn Umar, who left everything he had for
Allah and his messenger. And so when Musa
Abi bunn Umar passed away in the battle
of Uhud, it was mentioned that when it
when it came to covering his body,
the sheet
that was there to cover his body, if
you pulled it too high up, it would
show his feet. And if you pulled it
too far down, it would show his head.
It would show his face, and that is
how little Musa'aba had when he died.
But you think about what Musa'aba
died as.
He didn't die as a person who had
all those things.
He died as a person who had barely
one sheet to cover his body when he
passed away, yet he had the prophet standing
right next to him making dua for him
when he died.
Who do you wanna be, man, when you
pass away? When Sheikh Mikael and I did
that session last week together,
he left us with a beautiful question.
Like, what do you wanna be known as?
Like, what is your legacy when you die?
Do you just wanna be a person who
was known to have, like, this job? You
know, sister mentioned
there were there were this person in that
profession or this person in that profession or
that.
All that stuff passes away with you, man.
What continues is
subhanAllah you think about the prophet sallallahu sallallahu.
There's no Muslim who dare utters this man's
name without saying Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam after
they mentioned Muhammad.
There's no person who mentions Abu Bakr as
Siddiq without saying RadiAllahu Anhu
after saying his name.
Like, that stuff lasts centuries
and so truly when you see
that's what actually lasts with you.
That's what stays with you.
So all of these things and, again, we're
not gonna be able to address all of
these things in one session, but I wanted
to get the ball rolling
to start thinking about, as young people, what
we prioritize in our lives,
and this comes through social life, through family
life.
You know, the people we choose to spend
time with, the people our families choose to
affiliate with, the jobs that we choose to
pursue, the careers that we want in our
lives,
the neighborhoods that we live in,
the the the the items in terms of
monetary value that we buy,
these things
are things that human beings may prize themselves
over.
They pride themselves about these things,
but is it really what defines you at
the end of the day? You're not gonna
be buried with any of that stuff,
and a 100 years after you pass away
when possibly the people who you worked with
and their children forgot who you were,
the people who you who will remember you
are the people who are like, yeah. You
know what? Like, I remember. My grandmother
spoke really highly of this one friend that
she had.
She would always be there on Monday nights
with her, on Thursday nights with her.
Roots,
What's gonna happen in a 100 years? We
don't know. We don't know what's gonna happen
to Kalim in a 100 years, but think
about, like, your grandchildren. Your grandchildren may talk
about a story of their grandmother,
or your grandchildren may talk about a story
of their grandfather
who used to always frequent this one place.
They used to try to get closer to
Allah every Monday,
every Wednesday
with a scholar named Sheikh Mikhail. Right? Like,
Raimo Allah. Right? He may no longer be
with us, but I remember they used to
always be there.
That's what I remember my grandfather for.
Yeah. My grandfather drove like a like a
Porsche.
Bro, who who the who cares?
This person
was known to frequent the Masjid, and this
is what they were known for. Think about
what you wanna be known for,
and this is what inshallah will leave everybody
with. We ask Allah
to make us of the people
who truly, truly
put our value
where
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, would be pleased with
us. We ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to
allow us to be people who
never allow our values
and the things that we aspire for to
be things that come at the expense of
being close to our deen. And we ask
Allah
to make us of the people
who value
what Allah values. We ask Allah
to allow us to be people
who are able
to shrug
off the the temporary nature of this dunya.
We ask Allah
to not allow us to be people who
are ignorant in the things that pride ourselves
over in this dunya. We ask Allah
to allow our legacies
to reach far beyond the limitations of this
world, and we ask Allah
to allow us to be people who make
lasting impressions upon
this Ummah and allow us to go closer
to the deen. We ask Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala to forgive us for our mistakes and
this in ranks in this life and the
hereafter and rewards for our actions and our
iman.
Insha'Allah next, Thursday, we're gonna be going over
verses 15 and 16, and that, inshallah, is
gonna be talking a little bit about true
belief,
hypocrisy,
the idea of how do you know that
you're growing closer to Allah, what are the
steps that you take to actually ensure that
you do that. We'll inshallah cover those topic
next Thursday.
Is gonna be in Masjid,
in just a few minutes. So I don't
wanna delay that. Everyone can walk over to
the Masjid to pray.
We'll see you all next Thursday.