Shadee Elmasry – Bukhari Class #2 1of1
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Mala Mala
Mala Mala Rahim.
hamdulillah Alameen
last Sunday or Saturday more barik
ala Sayidina, Muhammad Nabil, meanwhile early he was happy he
was when he was looking at human behavior you know, Medina
terracotta Mahajan Vela later kind of hurry her lazy one healer
headache from my mouth.
So hamdu Lillahi Rabbil aalameen. We're here tonight, despite the
call.
It's kind of hard to get out of the house when it's the school but
that's very commendable.
So last week we had begun with the class and began with the first
Hadith. No one has the hadith of Revelation, or the beginning of
Revelation. How do you say that and why?
And we had gotten through some of it.
It is the longest Hadith I think we're going to cover. So that's
why it might take us to finish up this week with it tonight in sha
Allah.
And just a brief summary.
We said that the prophets I said on this particular hadith is
narrated by our Isha, or other law and her who actually wasn't there
at the time wasn't even born yet. But this is something the Prophet
SAW said I'm related to her later, indicating that it's an important
event, and that it's something that should be preserved for
posterity.
And you'll find many of the traditions that come through say
that Aisha, oftentimes
I've not been narrated by other other companions, and she had sort
of like a
type of access to the Prophet Muhammad SAW Selim being his wife,
that many of the other Sahaba may not have had. So
this theme and this hadith we see one, the narrator of the hadith is
Aisha, and then the main woman in the hadith is the first wife of
the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu wasallam, is see the Hadiya. And
this is the first Hadith in the book that in every genre, chose
from the Sahel Buhari.
So I think it's poignant that we see these two particular women on
the lawn whom
without them, we would have not known how this actually all
started with Mohammed salah.
These two pictures are a woman. And so it's very important that we
understand that this Islamic tradition,
this Deen this reseller, this mission has been transmitted to us
by the most biased men and women, whoever lived
and so someone wants to embody the reseller, this particular Sara
mohammedia.
Allah saw him helped us a lot was salam. Then the two should embody
this piety, this penitence, this
level of total war and returning to Allah subhanaw taala.
sha Allah, Allah may come from those who exhibit that.
And we mentioned last week, that prior to the
occasion of God Hara, that the prophets I send them did have what
we call Yaja salt in Arabic, which means
for lack of a better word, premonitions
that were indicative that later on he would become a prophet.
And of course, he was aware of them.
He knew that the rocks and the inanimate things would give him
saliva as he walked by. He saw them ama that followed him the
cloud that followed him, he worked with his uncle to Syria, Sham,
bilenda, Sham, and he was there when the height on Rohit mentioned
to him that
your nephew here exhibits all of the signs of prophecy, you know,
hastened quickly back to Makkah. Otherwise, there might be people
who might hurt him. So he was prepping for all of this that was
happening. So he had some idea. But as we can see, in his reaction
to Djibouti, and it, he said, it was not something that he had
absolute certainty about at the time.
And so like many of the hundreds that we said the Hanif is the one
who tried to find the true dean of Ibrahim Alayhi Salam.
So I've never seen the Prophet Cyrus and him being described as
Hanif because we know that he has a special status and
that he is protected from error and sin and is infallible from
both before prophecy and afterwards, but he did do or adopt
some of the practices that they did such as this type of
seclusion. So he did seclude himself, as we see from the Hadith
on many occasions from the
the foolery and the triviality of Moroccan society at the time,
which was one of the few settlements in the whole Arabian
Peninsula. As we mentioned, last week, most of the record peninsula
was nomadic Bedouin tribes who
were constantly on the move, because they had to find water
number one, and had to find the color or the area where their
animals could graze. So this dictated that they had to be
traveling a lot and moving from one place to the next. But Morocco
was different Mecca made its fortune, by way more or less of
the annual pilgrimage to hajj and they were established traders
going as far as Syria and Yemen, north and south to trade even with
other civilizations even not Arabs.
So I think we left off
when
the archangel Gibreel Allah He said I'm came to Mohammed sorry,
Solomon said a Quran,
read or recite.
And then he responded back, Matt, and he caught it, that he is
unlettered
that he did not know how to read or recite. And in those days,
reading and recitation were more or less synonymous. And it was
known that or even being learned is kind of also a sin synonym for,
for reading a recitation, when the Prophet SAW I send them said,
Salah Kakaako Quran,
right, the one who should lead the prayer is Accra aku which means
the most well read, it didn't necessarily mean the one who has
the best recitation of the Quran as many people might think, but
rather, the one who is most versed in understanding the Quran. In
other words, the most well versed and understanding the religion to
begin with, not the one with the most beautiful recitation, that's
why the football hat they said the one who has the most right to lead
the prayer is the one who has the best knowledge of the,
of the legal rulings of the prayer itself. But in those days, that
was synonymous with someone who had an understanding of the Quran
itself. So there wasn't this kind of
divergence between readers and writers of the Quran. Like today,
we say how fallen caught it, you know, say he's a cleric is a
quarry. Which means that, you know, he reads the Quran, but he's
not really highly, or he's not cheerful, he's not that learned.
And so, we have many, many people memorizing the Quran and reciting
the Quran quite beautifully, which is,
which is a good thing, which is a beautiful thing. But at the same
time, many of those people don't really know what they're reciting
and what what they're actually saying, and what the meanings that
that they're saying. And they've been restored, I think has a hover
effect where he said that the Sahaba lived in a time where it
was
called either Colorado coffee or
alcohol.
That those who are have a well established understanding of the
DNR many, and those are just merely researchers are few. And
then there will come a time cathedral Kurata
where there'll be many researchers merely reciters and then there'll
be few folks, there will be few who actually have a grasp and have
a strong understanding of what it is they're reciting.
And, you know, this has been upon us for quite some time now. Not to
take away from people who have memorized the Quran or recite it
beautifully that is, that is
it's much a little bit something that we have to do and whether one
reads the Quran with understanding without understanding they are
rewarded, or Medjool rune as that hadith has come, but at the same
time, the Quran was not meant just to be recited for purely
recitation. Yes, we are Madame bloon btw that what he that we
take it as a devotional act to it Stila to recite it, but not merely
for recitation.
And even that word Tila, by the way,
is specific to
more or less the Quran we don't really say hello to Hadith out
hello to kitab. You say hello to the Quran. So Tila means reciting
something wider from memory or from actual pages of the book. But
with the
attention that the actual recitation of itself is a bad
is an act of worship.
Whereas when we say taught to corrupt, it doesn't just mean
you've read it, it means you've read it and you understood it,
you've imbibed it.
So you wouldn't say caught up to kitab.
You wouldn't say I've read the book, unless you
really read the book.
And Kira had also has this meaning of not just silent reading by
herself, that would be closer to tila. If it was an act of worship,
or what they call Motala. Utah, that means that you've looked
through the book by yourself. I'm not the you know, people don't
used to say karate Kitab or other Kitab unless they've actually read
it and understood it. And that means they read it with someone,
someone who understood it themselves and then they got that
understanding. So that means they were taught the book.
Right? Like they say, they don't use it too much here in the in the
US, but in the UK, they'll say I read for this degree, I read for
law or I read for history or which was something I don't like to say
that here.
But in the UK, it has that meaning like I've read for the thing means
that I've just kind of sifted through it like, you know, my
Facebook status update, but rather I've I've read it and fully
imbibed and understood it that clear. Ah, so once you realize
that the drivers are selling a crop, right, it means
from what you have learned and to recite, and to read all of those
meanings come alive.
And then that's what the prophesy said themselves, man, no, because
I am not one who is lettered and learned in the sense that the
Prophet SAW Selim understood from him.
One may ask the question, well, obviously didn't Jubilee know that
the prophesy seven was going to answer that, or he wasn't being
able to, to, to give him the response he was looking for? Of
course, he did, right, because he sent from Allah subhanaw taala,
also Allah to us holding that he is the messenger of God Jibreel to
the Messenger of God, Muhammad Sallallahu sallam, so he knew
that. So why did he ask?
Herein lies a very important point. And we see it also in what
he did after. So he said, No, no, because I am not someone who reads
oversights. And then the Prophet SAW, he says, I'm said, for
accidentally forgotten, he had developed a mini jet.
So he took me for attend, he grabbed me. And it also means to
bring him close to him.
Until Bella, I mean, that means until I was exerted in such a way
that I was, you know, completely
exhausted
after he did that.
And then he asked to get then a second time, the third time, so
three times this happened.
So one question is, why did he ask if you knew what the answer would
be? A number two? Let's suppose you didn't know what the answer
was B, why did you have to do it a second. And then the third time
so I've never done I'm gonna has an interesting thesis here. He
says the reason he did that is,
this is showing us the idea that we had mentioned as a last point
last week, the idea of deep and tarbiyah
deep topic, similar words. And then the third T, therapy,
the therapy and therapy, so that deep,
not really very good English translation for it.
Because the word
if you look it up, it means adequate.
It can also mean bells letters, which is like high literary form
and style. So when someone said,
you know, I've, I've read data, or I've studied debit means that I've
studied sort of the literary tradition. So I've studied the
Jaffas and mobile read and what didn't, I do and wrote and so you
have some idea of that high literary tradition. And there used
to be the person who would train and pre modern Islamic societies,
persons who train the,
the children of the household,
you know, like you, like sound of music they call their governess.
Remember that?
The government's Don't you have a governess? Pride and Prejudice to
write? She asked her, do you have a governess? She said, Oh, no
governance.
So the governance or the debt
is the person who trains the young people in the house. Their teacher
If
you didn't have like classroom that's coming, you know, that came
with Dewey and later on. But before you had tutors so the tutor
was often referred to as the editor,
the one who would teach the child or the student at that,
in other words, to actually ingrain them and make them
come out with the good character and the very human like
attributes. But it was understood that that can be cultivated. It's
a type of cultivation. And it takes time. And it's done through
reading through understanding through understanding the ideas of
people who came before them.
So to be
initiated into that whole understanding of benefiting from
others thoughts, which come in the form of books, that was the type
of edit they were referring to. So someone who has ended up in the
sort of Arab vernacular today it means someone who has a little bit
of class someone who's well mannered behaved, but that idea of
well mannered behave comes back from the idea that one is culture.
One has been cultivated one has been trained in the fine arts, so
forth.
And we mentioned the Hadith, the promise was said and he said at
Devaney, ropey fascinator Devi, that Allah subhanaw taala, he is
the one who was Michael at Dieppe, he was the one who trained me and
He gave me the best type of deep of training or discipline.
And this is a market contrast, in my opinion to
kind of the idea behind Islamic education versus Western
education. If you read the classic philosophers education in the
Western canon, they talk about autonomy, and that it's very
important that the child has this idea of autonomy and autonomy
means they're an autonomous individual. And they are not
beleaguered or burdened by tradition of inherited tradition
from their parents or from whoever, and that they can be
creative thinkers and make decisions by themselves without
falling back on the tradition of those who came before them.
Whereas in our paradigm, the whole idea is Oedipus deep. And many of
our scholars they said, one of the main issues we have to deal with
the OMA is there's a lack of edip that we've lost this idea of, of
deep of disciplining, and training and cultivating.
So to me, there's obviously a market contrast between the two,
does not mean that Islam says there's no autonomy doesn't mean
that we say,
you know, it's always fall back on your traditions, don't think for
yourself, rather, for one to actually graduate to that level of
critical thinking, there has to be a basis by which they can embark
first,
much as the great scholar on sidewalk, he said, Cliff, high
Walker from Mercer, stand where they stood, and then proceed.
Or when Newton said, I stand on the shoulder of giants, say
meaning, I mean, do you completely understand the canons of tradition
that came before you, and then proceed, but outright dismissal of
all of that, and saying that it's burdensome and and that it puts
people in a position where they can't make their decisions or be
critical thinkers, I think that's something that we'd have to
disagree with, at least from my point of view.
And our dean is the dean of Accra. It's the dean of reading and
recitation, understanding and
knowledge. Some definitely a knowledge based
paradigm. Everything's based upon knowledge.
So three times that you breathe it, Saddam was asking the
question, knowing what the answer would be and of the less having
the same reaction grabbing the Prophet. So I said them without
any further I mean, just until he was completely exhausted, this was
a type of deep or therapy and therapy is a similar word, from
malapa europei.
Which means
comes from the same word as we will be or rob which means Lord.
And so it means to instill someone with traits that will kind of make
them
in a sense, someone who has some of these aspects of who will be
but in a human, in a human sense, because we say
if we just say love by itself, then we mean Allah will mean the
Lord but if we have any offer, we qualify.
Hey, what's something so we can say Rob will bait Robin Manziel.
So the Lord of the house or the Lord of the place, then it becomes
it, then it's okay to be to be human in that sense. So mean
someone who has sort of autonomy and
sovereignty over a particular thing.
For human beings, it's unlimited sets, whatever they have, you
know, the roof of the house or of the business or whatever it might
be, or last panel data, it's look, look, look, look means
unqualified, absolute,
means it's qualified. So therapy is also this meaning of
training discipline.
They also use it for animals, right? I don't think they use the
word deep for animals. But when you say, to be, and that can apply
to training a horse, you know, to ride a horse or to
a hunting dog and things like this, people used to train animals
for good reasons for a purpose. Now, we train animals to do circus
tricks, and entertain people, which has no basis whatsoever. And
in our tradition, we see that movie Blackfish with the killer
whales, and shows you
the ends that this
these societies will go to, to entertain ourselves, even at the
detriment of human beings and animals at the same time.
So the idea of training,
and even the Quran says to only move on mocha livina, to Alamo. So
the dogs that were trained as hunting dogs, and you train them
or teach them or they learn, learned behavior, how to go after
the quarry or the prey, and bring it back. And it said, if the
hunting dog is trained, when you strike the acquiree, or the prey,
it will go and bring it back without eating from it. That's how
it's supposed to be trained. Without biting into it and killing
it or eating from it.
So this tarbiyah applies both to, to both human beings and to,
to animals. And then the last one, we mentioned, therapy,
therapy actually means to ascend.
And so in our understanding of demon tarbiyah for human beings,
in particular, there's a type of ascendancy.
So, we think that someone who was more adept or
or has gone through this type of training, they started at a
particular point, and then they're ascending to a higher point.
Not physically, but spiritually.
So spiritually ascendancy is something you can draw very easily
from, from this hadith.
Okay, so that answers the question, why he did it? And he
knew the answer, what about three times? What about three, three is
significant as well.
And the problems are seldom in his style, even as a teacher.
Oftentimes, you'd mentioned something three times.
Like when?
Or he would let people ask the question three times. Someone
asked him about Hajj, according to Armenia rasool Allah, should we
make Hajj every year?
And he didn't answer him back. Then he asked a second time he
didn't answer back, yes, a third time. And after the third time, he
said, No, come to now. That was how they said yes, then it would
have been something we don't have to do when you cannot whether to
decode, and it's outside your ability.
When the man asked him, I will send you
give me advice.
And the prophets I send them said letter. And then he said, I'll
send you once again that the third time is saying that he said, Don't
become angry. So when he said, give me advice, don't become
angry. And the question was asked three times in the province, I've
answered three times. So you could say in the spiritual pedagogy of
the Prophet Muhammad SAW racism or the his style of teaching, that
three was significant, and it's significant here. And some of them
said that the first time that you hear something, it kind of grabs
your attention, but they may not necessarily penetrate
your understanding. You might have to say, what was that that you
said? You heard what they said, but you want to, you want to hear
it again, because you've grabbed your attention, but you're not
sure exactly what it was or how it was to be meant. Then the second
time
it's beyond grabbing your attention the second time you
start to understand what it is. Now you've understood what it was
then
The third time it's contemplating what it is not just understanding
but thinking about, well, how do I apply this? How do I put this in
my life? How do I go about this? So the three times is significant.
So after the third time he let him go
for mazzani For call and then he gave him the first way.
It Bismillah Bica loving Holla Holla Italian send me a camera or
a Google Chrome
so here, maybe there's another question, why didn't he just give
him the way from the beginning?
Right, he could have just grabbed him or said to him,
you know,
like one Djibouti went to Mariam Alayhis Salam. And he also
appeared in the form of a man just like this. And then she saw him in
her chamber and didn't know how he got there. And she said, in the
Olympic gold, Rahmani Quinta clear, then he said to her
immediately caught up in the mana Rasulillah, pick, the
lemon Zakia mediately said, I am a messenger from your Lord. And I'm
here to give you the news of this baby that you will have this son.
He didn't do that when the Prophet Muhammad SAW said
he did this three times. And then he gave him the way. And then he
gave him the first.
There's also a trivia concept in here at that deep concept in here.
The alumni have talked about it. And it's a duality that they call
a binary attack LEAH What the * yeah.
Definitely, I mean, emptying out. And Tanzania means embodying
bringing in.
So it means does Leah, that hot lamb yet that might water and
Talia same word, but substitute the heart for the heart for the
heart.
Definitely comes from Hulu. Same word, emptiness to empty out to
remove.
And so
this goes back to the sort of the nature of man of the human being
and that they have a spiritual side and they have a physical
side.
And part of
becoming more
in tune with your spiritual side, is not to let your physical side
get in the way of that.
And the physical side can get in the way of that when it's
satiated, when it's given what it desires. Whether it be terms of
food, or carnal desires, or even things that like
leadership and status, prestige, these are all things that are kind
of slows one one's down, slow one down or impedes a little bit one
being in contact with a more spiritual side. And so one can do
all the setup they want, one can pray all they want. But if they're
doing a lot of haram, same time, or makuu their prayer is not gonna
really work for them. Nor is there still a lot of noise there's
again, or is there a hatchet or is there hunger? So it definitely is
more about what you don't do. So the Haram side of things,
straining yourself leaving things not doing things. And the Tallia
is about doing the right things. So our deen is both. It's not just
about doing the right things. It's also about avoiding the wrong
things.
And it's generally acknowledged that avoiding the wrong has a
higher precedence than doing the right.
Man, a token man who fetched any boo
Salallahu Salam said the Prophet said what I have forbidding you to
do avoid it. And he didn't give any qualification here. He just
said avoid it.
Whereas when he said when I'm off, to be fair to be he must have
awful but when he talked about what you're supposed to do, that's
right. He said do as much as you can.
So it was qualified, second part. So the Talia, do the right things
was qualified. I'm attacking a year, which is the emptying out
it's more absolute.
And hence, it takes precedence over doing the right things. So
the first part here they refer to as the definitely one the Gibreel
is and took the province by sediment and grabbed him and
brought his body next to his wasn't just a physical
interaction. There was a spiritual one at work to where there was a
destiny. Yeah, there was a
Eating out
that was happening in order to prepare the prophets I send them
for what was coming next which was the Talia which was the way which
was the Quran.
People often ask, you know, I read a lot of Quran but it's not
penetrating me I'm not really like getting out of it, I get tired of
it, I might get bored. Gotta snap.
Usually the problem is, you are trying to do that earlier and you
haven't really completed the tackle yet. You're trying to bring
the sweetness in, but you haven't removed the bitter.
You haven't taken enough time emptying out being yourself before
Allah subhanaw taala completely humble
completely humiliated even before Allah subhanaw taala before then
you can receive the sweetness of those meanings because they will
not penetrate an arrogant heart.
Yes.
If it's for clarification is fine with
that concept.
In this instance,
what is being a deep and is there a parallel between this in this
chest was a
good question.
Question was, so what is being emptied out here with the Prophet
SAW Selim Is there a parallel when early on when he was a child? When
Shaka southern his chest was his heart was taken? Yes, it's the
same thing. Similar.
What is being emptied out here. As we said the prophesy seven was
sinless. And he didn't have lustful desires either in like
other human beings, but remember, this is an example for the OMA for
the community that's coming later.
In the same Hadith, which we'll go over in a little bit, hopefully
tonight, we'll get to it.
So the beginning verses of Surah 10 with death here, right with the
America.
Who is that talking to? It's addressing the prophets, I send
them so purify your clothes, and the ridges, which are a metaphor
for that the idols leave them prophesy said I've never worked on
them to begin with. So why is this verse addressing him in this way?
Same answer, this whole experience, right?
With the evidence that our issue is the one who's narrating it, not
someone who was actually there, who was there at the time or alive
at the time, gives us the idea that this experience is for the
Ummah, for us, for us to take lessons in.
And the province I said did have his own type of directory as well,
he did have his own type of spiritual ascendancy. But his
starting point is already higher than what any of us could ever
aspire to. His starting point was already higher than the highest
point that that any human being has ever reached, sit Delia,
namely that of Abu Bakr Siddiq, so acknowledge that the highest for a
human being other than a prophet was a city Lea to reach the Muslim
the status of Sydney Abu Bakr Siddiq, which would have still
been lower than this, when he started here and in the cave of
his solo Goolwa. Right prophesy prophethood cannot be aspire to
Allah chooses people for that, but something less than that. So there
is a parallel type of ladder system, if you will, for people
who are not profits, but it follows this in,
in concept in meaning if not in letter.
We have a few minutes right to Lasha.
So then the wind came after the Prophet SAW Selim was here, before
he was made ready to receive that, that revelation.
What's the lesson in that for us? lesson that for us is that we too
have to be prepared.
Right? Prophesy suddenly says in
the head equivalent of a hat and then if I had other fatahna, doula
that you will find in your days there are never hat there are
these spiritual breezes that come in the form of inspiration.
So avail yourself of those spiritual reasons as they come.
And the way that one avails themselves is to be spiritually
prepared to receive them. And the way to spiritual prayer to receive
them is you do as the prophets Lawson did here. Remember, he
began with the seclusion and thought and hot Hara, which was
something he did. It was kind of initiative he took, he went and he
did
Start sort of detachment, at least on a physical level to lead to a
spiritual detachment from the from the dunya. And then Allah ennobled
him and gave him a spiritual, definitely a stronger one that
came from Allah subhanaw taala namely in the form of God, coming
to him and grabbing him, which was not the initiative of the Prophet
Muhammad sorry. So that means for us if we avail ourselves, we take
the initiative, we take a step like in the hadith of Cozzi, you
take a step to Allah subhanaw taala he will come running to you
then there's some of this fireball that some of this
these spiritual downpours that have come to people may come to us
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