Saif Morad – Beautiful Manners In Islam Intro

Islam is to establish the oneness of Allah,

to worship Allah,

to direct

all of our worship, our submission to Him

alone.

Now part of this

is also

how we deal with other people.

Islam is not just our connection with Allah

Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Yes. We establish the oneness

of Allah. At the same time, that faith,

when it goes into the heart and we

have the mindfulness and we establish the rituals

of Islam,

this translates into how we deal with other

people, how we speak, how we behave. Right?

The mindfulness of Allah

that he is watching, he is hearing everything

that I do. So this translates into how

we deal with him 1st and foremost, at

the same time, how we deal with other

people as well.

So that's why you see there's this rich

tradition in Islam when it comes to good

mannerisms and encouraging us to adorn ourselves with

these beautiful characteristics.

From

the hadith is when the prophet

said that there is nothing that is heavier

on the scale

than good mannerisms.

So

what is

exactly? The scholars, they define

as when you do good towards other people

and you restrain your harm from them. So

you restrain harming them.

And

you have joy in your face when you

meet other people and while this might sound

simple it's not to be able to deal

with people consistently in this manner

and when the prophet

was asked that what is the thing that

enters most people into Jannah?

He said taqwa of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,

the mindfulness, the conscience of Allah establishing

the rituals, the commands, staying away from that

which is forbidden and the good manners.

And when he was asked what is that

that enters most people into the hellfire, he

said it is the mouth

and the private parts, because people are unable

to restrain themselves of how they speak about

other people, the bad language, backbiting, slandering, so

on and so forth, and also

indulging in that which Allah

has forbidden.

And in another hadith, the prophet

said

that the closest people to me

will be those with the best mannerisms.

And this is something that we have to

work towards. We have to strive to adorn

ourselves with these things that when people act

ignorant in front of us, you know, we

are still forbearing.

This is a sign of strength that a

person is in control of themselves.

That despite what's going on around them, they

are the ones who still choose for the

sake of Allah

to show the beautiful characteristics.

And you see in the Quran, there comes

a verse where Allah

says,

And just to give some context in this

verse, this comes after

a whole set of verses that Allah

establishes

proof of his oneness, that he is the

one who is worthy of worship,

and negating all other false gods,

and how they are unable to harm to

do anything. And after this comes this verse.

This verse deals with the mannerisms

where it says,

take that which is easy from people. You

know, when you deal with people that which

they can do, take that from them.

But at the same time, you know, encourage,

inspire people to act upon that which is

good. All the things that Islam encourages to

act upon that.

And turn away from the ignorant people. You

know, don't fall to their level. When they

act ignorant, when they act stupid, don't fall

to that level. Be better than that.

And this can only happen when a person

is sincere to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. They're

trying to play at excellence, at ihsan.

When this verse was revealed, the Prophet

he went to Jibril and he said, Yeah

Jibril, what is this? And Jibril

he replied and he said, Allah

is commanding you

to pardon, to overlook

those who have wronged you

and to give to those who have cut

you off. Those who are not giving to

you, you still give to them and to

maintain ties of kinship with those individuals who

have cut you off.

Alright. So you see, this is like the

pinnacle of iman, of faith, and it is

extremely difficult, but at the same time, that

is why the reward is so high.

The closest to the prophet

in Jannah.

You know, having it being the heaviest thing

on.

And during the time of Umar Al Khattab,

when he was the leader, Amir al Mumineen.

So there was a man by the name

of Al Khurr ibn Qaisin. This was one

of his confidants, somebody who was on the

shura because he was from Ahlul Qur'an. So

Umar used to have those people who knew

the Quran, who acted upon it. He used

to keep them close to him to seek

counsel from them.

So his uncle visited him one day, al

Hurr ibn Qays' uncle.

And he said, since you are, you know,

close to Umar, allow me to come with

you. And, you know, I wanna speak to

him, so, you know, take me with you

so I can talk to him. So Al

Khar took him, and then he went to

Umar, and he told him that, you know,

you do wrong to us. You don't give

us our haqq, and you are unjust towards

us. And,

he started getting angry.

And he noticed this, and he told him,

yeah, Ameerul Mumineen

Allah, he tells us in the Quran, he

commands the prophet

to You know, this verse

that take that which is easy,

you know, and command that which is good.

Encourage people to do good

and turn away from those who are ignorant.

And he said, this individual

is from the ignorant people. And him being,

you know, he could use his authority to

do whatever he wanted with this individual, but

when he was reminded of the command of

Allah,

he acted upon it right away. And one

of the great scholars by the name of

Abu Mohammed ibn Abi Zaid Al Mariki, he

said that, you know, I looked at all

the hadith regarding the good manners because there's

so many of them that encourage us to

adorn ourselves with the beautiful mannerisms.

And he said, I noticed that they go

back to 4 hadith. And the, they said

about this, that whoever memorizes these hadith and

establishes them in their life, then they have

combined

the good mannerisms and good characteristics.

And these hadith, we're gonna look at them

in more detail in the upcoming videos, so

we'll dedicate

one video per hadith.

But just as an introduction to what these

hadith are, the first hadith is when the

prophet

said

that that whoever believes in Allah and the

last day, then let them speak good or

remain silent, And this hadith encourages us towards

communication, master, to have control over our tongue.

The next hadith is when a person came

to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and

he said, give me advice. And the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said that don't get

angry.

So he repeated his request, and the prophet

kept saying that don't

get angry, and this shows

emotional mastery.

The next hadith is the prophet

said

that from the goodness of a person in

Islam, that you see signs of a person

improving in their Islam, moving towards Ihsan

is that they leave off that which does

not concern them. So this shows

that focus mastery that they know they have

clarity in where they're trying to go to.

They wanna get to Jannah. They wanna get

to Allah.

And finally, the hadith

that none of you will truly believe will

reach the pinnacle of iman until their love

for their brother

that which they love for themselves.

And this shows the pure heart,

that the heart is pure. It loves for

other people that which it loves for themselves.

And if we establish these hadith in our

life,

the way we deal with other people, our

family, in our communities,

you know, in our work, in our careers,

we'll transform these areas.

So we'll look at each of these hadith.

We'll break it down so that we can

go and implement it on a practical level

as well.

Until next time.