Shadee Elmasry – Bukhari Class #10 2of2

Man, eating, I saw a dog man saw a dog eating dirt out of thirst. So,

he took off his hoof and continued pouring water till his thirst was

quenched. And then Allah showed his appreciation and enjoyment of

paradise.

So, he said that the

given that human beings are the stewards of the earth, then that

means also that all the creatures in it are entrusted

to him to attend to their needs to

provide or at least maintain an environment that sustainable for

these animals to continue to exist, so forth. So, and that does

not contravene the concept of sphere, which is that they have

been put there for also our benefit in our use, but again, in

a sustainable manner, much in the same way that the trees and the

ocean and the environment, all of that

is to be maintained, and for human beings used, but not in a way

that's abusive, or would lead to its eradication, or extinction,

which is kind of what's happening now. So.

So, then this man, when he saw the animal, thirsty,

he took his hat off,

basically, his shoe, or his type of, you know, whatever he's

wearing on his foot to walk around in, and basically, he ruined it,

in order to quench the thirst of the animal. Right, because imagine

taking your shoe and then

you know, getting water out of the river or the well, it's gonna ruin

it. So he did that, because there was a higher, more moral

imperative at stake, namely, that this animal shouldn't have to eat

the dirt.

Because it's thirsty. And you can make the argument that it wasn't

necessarily a life and death situation, either, I don't know,

may have wandered on and found something else, or may not have

necessarily been close to death. That Hadith doesn't indicate that.

But nevertheless, the man took it upon himself to

take care of this animal in that way. And so he didn't hesitate to

do that.

And therein lies the meaning or the secret of

why for the simple act, such a great Ward entered into paradise.

So our accident are not really about

the, the quantitative aspect of it.

Right, it's not about, you know, someone could have opened up

a kennel for stray animals and feeds 1000 dogs and cats every

day. But it's like a blip for him. And he may he may do it, because

he gets his name on the name of the kennel versus this person

may have been the only coffee he's had. Maybe the only thing is that

he happened. Nevertheless, he didn't hesitate to do that. So is

that meaning in this in this man's heart by which this great award

came about? And we know that the hearts are Mahad another Allah,

that the hearts are what Allah is looking at, not other humans are

either etc Komatsu, Kumala, cambiando Ada colluvial Doesn't

look to your forms or your bodies, but he's looking to your hearts.

So the act is merely an indicator of what's in the heart. So it

wasn't so much by the act itself. Right, but rather by what was

behind it. Right. So his feeling of

compassion for this animal. Right. And also, it is.

The important aspect, really, the secret of our acts and how they're

accepted and how they're rewarded is the sincerity with them.

So there was no absolutely no, you can you can't conjure any type of

material gain for this person when he did this. It doesn't mention

other people watching him and they thought he was a great guy as a

result. And, you know, people don't want to marry their

daughters to him, and none of that is there. But rather, no one has

seen him. This came from ye revelation. So he did it in the

middle of nowhere. Maybe in the desert in the forest. No one saw

him no one ever will know what he did. But number, but that is an

indicator, it's closest to sincerity. So he was completely

sincere. In his performance of this well, it seemed to be a

trivial, act, a trivial thing. The flip side, there's another Hadith

that most of us know

of the woman who kept a cat and she kept her and she said, the

Hadith says Neither did she feed it, in order to leave it to eat of

the vermin or of things that it can eat. For cattle.

Oh, no. And then Allah put her into hellfire.

Again an animal, right, but her abuse of that animal, right? It's

not the act itself, but the meaning behind what's in that

heart of abusing that animal feeling that you can have province

over this animal. Right? And that's what happens when people

get into this state they become they think their God. Right? They

say, Well, I can make this thing live, I can make it die, I have

the power over it. That's what's really despicable, right? Because

there are certain things that are only for less volatile for, for

God. So acuity at will Allah when Jeanette you know these attributes

of magnificence and all that's only for Allah, when you start

claiming that for yourself. Right? Then you're contravening your

natural state of God, you're a slave, and you're in a slave would

servanthood to God. And that's the actually the prime and the highest

that you can achieve.

But if you have ambition, to rule over people, to overcome them to

kind of feel the power the need to set their course in life, then

you're encroaching on territory that's not yours at all. And this

is when people get into all sorts of trouble with that.

Can we say that because of the urgency of the job?

That was nice one of the commissioners.

Yeah, I mean, you can infer that but I think ultimately, it's

his sense of compassion and his willingness even to sacrifice even

something we may consider to be trivial, but nevertheless, is

willingness to do that for a greater purpose. And that's a

general principle in the Sharia that, you know, they give the

standard scenario if you're praying on the side of the river,

even a form of prayer and then someone is drowning in the river.

What do you do? You continue to pray that the person