Shadee Elmasry – Class #3 1of2
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ago they learned we learned it and I'll be a lot more Sunday was no
more Radek.
Let's say, you know, have you been our karate? So you didn't know
Mohammed and never give me water early he was happy he was Where do
you keep it humanitarian behavior Naomi Dean Takahashi did a lot of
work and hurry her,
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So
from then on, we finished the first Hadith,
two sessions
that we could have probably to give it its, its full do we could
have done several more lectures about it. Because one of the
things about the Hadith of the Prophet commissar send them isn't
that he is will try and kill him with the idea when Al Kalam which
means that in a few utterances, a few words, much meaning can be
conveyed.
And one of the things that the the Arabs used to boast about, even
before Islam is their eloquence.
And there was no one who was more eloquent than the Prophet Muhammad
SAW, I said,
and the Arabs used to say and the Jezza to better go to an ages,
that eloquence, rhetoric is conciseness.
Higher color federal government called lower than the best speech
is that which is literal, but it's meaningful.
So
many of the Hadith of the prophets are settled and there are a few
words in it, but you can spend so much time on all of the
ramifications and the
the
the attendant meanings that that can be inferred from there, how
are interpreted them and even some of the difference of opinion and
so forth. So to really avail oneself of the meanings of the
primary source texts for us, which is known in the Quran and Sunnah.
The more one is well versed in obviously the language and then
also the Islamic disciplines of creed or theology, and fifth and
also look, and Hadith masala and medilink, from bellezza all of
these things, then the more meanings that will become
accessible,
and the Quran very much like that. So the accessibility of the Quran
is going to be based one on your ability to
be a receptacle for those meanings. So that that involves a
spiritual aspect. That's why people who
are distracted who are sinful or things like this, the Quran
doesn't come alive to them, and it doesn't feel like that much of a
miraculous book. Because they're, they're veiled from it.
And the same thing with the Hadith, the Hadith itself also,
being the most eloquent, eloquent speech a human being can pronounce
can come up with also will be inaccessible. In some aspects,
it's up to those people who who approach it in the proper manner.
So we asked last month how to make us of those people.
So the next hadith is taken from kitab. Amen.
The title there is the hello to Eman or the sweetness of faith.
And this hadith is narrated by NSMB Malik
are the law on first Hadith Waseda Isha next Hadith, nsmt, Malik and
MSFD Malik was one of those Sahaba, who spent 10 years
as in his own words, 10 years serving the Prophet Muhammad SAW I
send them and he is the one who narrates that the prophets why
Selim never said to him for anything that he did. Why did you
do it for anything he failed to do? Why did you fail to do it?
For let me also know who you're shooting for. And the mere fact
that I will check in on your family man.
And he was a young man, he was a boy 10 years of age, and he served
the province of our southern for 10 years. And he was the one who
after the passing of the prophets lie, Selim, he remarked,
we did not wipe our hands from the dirt of burying the prophets I
send them except we no longer knew who we were, we didn't recognize
ourselves and diplomatic
medicine numeric, his mother told the prophet so I said to make the
Ark for him.
You know, for a long life and to have knowledge and to be
have wells that he can give in charity. So the prophets I said
have made this do out for him. And he lived 99 years. So he died
about 99 years of age, you had a long life. And it said that he had
hundreds of children.
Based upon the height of the province, I sent him and he was
also someone who gave much charity from the balaclavas.
Prophet Muhammad salah, and he was also the keeper of the sandals of
the Prophet Muhammad SAW said him after his death. So I sent him and
it's a nomadic, he would say that people would come to me and they
would just come so that they can have, I will take out the sandals
of the proper size seven so they may see them. So he kept this
safekeeping, as did many of those Sahaba issued under under capital
border, which is the cloak of the Prophet size LM and she remarked
that people will come to to look for the border and where it
linguistische fat so they can be healed, forwards, not the words of
the Ottoman after anything like that, or worse.
So those people who say that, you know, don't be involved with the
relics of the Prophet Muhammad sorry, send them and that's been
shaken.
That's not the team that I know.
So when someone loves something, they love everything about that
thing. And they want to know all the little details about it.
If
mobs and swarms of mobs accompany Justin Bieber when he surrenders
himself to the police, right, because they love him so much. We
can't have the sandals or the cloak or sing the praises of the
Prophet.
They should support that guy. I agree with that.
So
and it's now it's on the line, I'm in the visa or send them call.
So that when they couldn't if he was at a holiday with an email,
and you're Punahou Rasool who have the Elohim in mercy well, that
when you hit ba ba, Boo in less than
one year, UCLA and Yahoo, different gouffre, Camellia,
Corrado and yoga in
America, it's a problem. So I said and said three things. If they're
an individual, he will taste the sweetness of faith.
I would say find, because the word washer that
doesn't really mean taste. It's fine.
Even though it has a meaning of taste, which is though,
that Allah and His messenger are more beloved to him than
everything else, that he loves a person not loving Him for anything
other than the sake of Allah and to hate or despise to return to
disbelief just as he would hate to be thrown into
the fire, not a fire the fire
so here, this hadith of the Prophet Muhammad SAW I send them
probably the first thing that jumps out at us is
this word that the province has sent him describes Halawa
sweetness
Hello just means that it means something that sweet or pure good,
has all those meanings. Last week, we talked we talked about Tesla
and Talia, same word, same root word, Talia meaning to
me
to provide something with something good after being
emptying of the bad to fill it up with good that's definitely and we
said totally the opposite, which is to empty oneself of all
negative negativities and distractions and so forth so they
can be prepared for the Talia.
So it says if here it's describing at the Halia state.
What's it like, if you've reached if you've done some stuff here
you've emptied yourself?
Right? You actually empty yourself of emptiness. Because negative
things make you empty. But you need to be in a state to receive
the meanings. So what's it like when that happens? What are some
of the sides so the Prophet sighs me said the last three things.
Man couldn't Nephi so he says three things in someone he didn't
say a man he didn't say a woman.
He didn't say a believer he said in a person you will find these
three things. And then what
we said was are the means to find.
Like we shoot same word which then we had.
These are similar meanings washed.
And the interesting thing about the word wash or that or if you
use different verbal nouns, it has different meanings. So the same
word wash or that can mean Majida was done and it was you that was
you done. Whatever we look to the witch dad or the woods, it means
to find something by feeling
and sometimes it's used to do
Did you know like a euphoria, like was dead, like you found something
but found something and it has made you almost devoid of your
senses because of the level of happiness, that you finding that
thing.
So, here the finding this means to me, it's not so much a
intellectual exercise, like I couldn't give you like a
algorithm or a transcript of how to go about finding it. But it's
something that's there, and it's palpable.
Now, sweetness is a physical thing, generally speaking. So when
we say something is sweet, it means something that we can taste,
right? We don't say I see sweetness, or I hear sweetness,
except in a metaphorical sense. But we've talked about tasting
sweetness.
So the sweetness of faith means it's a thing that can be as if it
can be tasted.
Most of the automatically said the sweetness here is something
metaphorical can't be real, can't be physical.
The compiler of this hadith actually said it can be real can
be physical. And he used a few examples. He said that would be
led of the Lord robot who was enslaved. And they sought to have
him denounce Islam and to denounce the prophets. I send them. They
took them to
a very arid, Southern place outside of Mecca, and they laid
them on the ground and put this huge rock on him. You know, if any
of you have been to
the Gulf in the summer, just even stepping on the ground has taught,
you know, when it's really hot.
So they put this huge rock on him and they wanted him to denounce a
snap. And all you could say was I had.
So another gentleman I said, He's saying Have I had is indicative
that you didn't feel the pain.
Physically, he didn't feel the pain. In fact, he was tasting the
sweetness of the faith.
He was completely
oblivious to whatever state of pain that someone should have been
in in that state. How because he said, How else can you explain it?
How else can you explain that state? And you have the rasa or
the dispensation? He could have said what they wanted and doesn't
take away anything from his Eman. Right, we have that dispensation.
But he didn't take that. And he insisted.
And he was a couple of other examples.
One of the Sahaba was guarding during the Battle of the Trench
when the Confederates had assembled and they were about
10,000, strong, and people in Medina were maybe 3000 maximum.
And they, they built a trench that protected them from their open
side, which was on the southern side, I think.
So they got to the trench because some of them tried to cross all of
the horses couldn't make it over some tried filming and so forth.
So all the mannequins the courage Confederates could do was to try
to strike them with bow and arrow. So one of the people who was
standing guard he was praying and then
you know, the century on the other side, hit him with with an arrow
on his leg. But he continued to pray, hit him with the second hour
continue to pray.
And then his companion sort of you know, startled him and said, you
know, what, are you doing the shooting arrows in you? He was
like well, I didn't feel it
he was so into his prayer Salah that the pain of the hour or the
didn't even penetrate him. So again, that spiritual sweetness
translated into a type of even physical sweetness
and it said that one said it would be pierced by an arrow during
battle he would said because you have to remove it. He said let me
pray in the removal while I'm praying because then I won't feel
it
that was there anesthesia removal while I'm praying
so this how that we could reach according to him, they'll be
jumping off the dial, even a state a physical thing, we can almost
really feel it within yourself. Obviously a high level Amen. And
it's has to be accompanied by a very high spiritual state.
Yes.
So in sort of what
there's no
and sort of defer to her is she is one of the names it's called the
Shafia. The the Quran or the chapter that heals one of the
Sahaba even use that they're returning from
an expedition and they came across a town that wasn't
Muslim yet. And they asked them for the alpha, which is to let
them come and be their guests, which was our custom. And they
refused.
And so the Sahaba you know, they have to go camp out somewhere. But
then they found someone from the village came running back and
said, our chief is ill, maybe you can help and so forth. And they
said back while you want to give us, you know, our right of giving
us being guests, but anyway, they went, and he read Surah Fatiha for
him and he was healed.
And when they went back to the prophesy send them, he said, How
did you notice that it's a fatty heart. He said, I felt like the
right thing to do. And the father said and acknowledge that so it
wasn't something even heard.
From the prophesy Selim. But one of the names of Tatiana thereafter
was a chef.
So this Hala, it's a strong type of feeling can even be physical.
And then the prophesy seldom mentions three
attributes.
I say attributes and not size because it's been putting a fee.
So it's something in someone it's the state.
First one,
first two talks have the word loving them.
And the third one has something that's akin to love the opposite,
which is hate. So none of the three are actions. If you notice,
none of the three are something you do.
Physically didn't say, whoever want to taste sweetness of faith
will be the one who prays the longest or faster most days, or
gives the most in charity. None of those things I mentioned.
The first that the love for Allah is spot on to Allah and the
messenger. So I send them is more than anything else.
So it says if that is an essential element of Eman
that you love Allah subhanaw taala and the Messenger of Allah
subhanaw taala more than anything else.
So someone else before the class, how was it? What does that love?
What's that about? How does that happen?
People who I think who we often confuse love with other things.
And in our times, we confuse love with lust, we confuse love with
deriving some type of benefit, things like this. And then we
think that's sloth love.
Love is
having a inclination towards something.
But based upon seeing in that thing, something that draws you
in a true sense. And it's talking more to your heart to your spirit.
It's not talking to
your carnal desires, or your lower desires or your passions. That's
not love. It's something else.
Memorization says that this love is based upon recognition of
beauty.
So people like beautiful things or love beautiful things, right? If
we see like, people pay millions of dollars for a picture of
painting a drawing or something that because it's, it looks
beautiful to them, but there's a meaning attached to it, that they
find to love. And so people are willing to pay a lot of money for
that.
People tend to their gardens, and to their backyards and things into
their homes in a manner that they try to beautify it people the way
they dress. No one really tries to dress in an ugly way. Right? The
the fashion critics will say they're saying but people don't do
that purposely. Right? They think they're trying to dress in a
beautiful manner. So that's at least from a physical aspect, but
from an internal spiritual aspect. To recognize beauty in character
is what we're talking about here. The reason we love people like a
lot like the Prophet sites elemental Sahaba even though we
haven't seen them, right, so it's not really based upon physical
description we have some things about how the problems are setting
Mr. Look based upon his Shala and that's not the real reason. The
real reason is recognizing beauty and character.
When you hear about the prophets, I send them and it said about him
kinda interested enough. See, he were no mechanical. Yeah, who
else? Oh, yeah. Who else
want to hear about him. So I sent him that he would never seek
retribution on his own personal account, but he used to pardon and
forgive
people a person in a sound state of heart. That's a beautiful
meaning.
We cannot be helped but we are attracted and inclined to that
meaning even
So you may feel that you are incapable of, of implementing that
within yourself. But nevertheless, you recognize that's a beautiful
thing.
And so if we think about in terms of a form of a human being the
most complete
human being in terms of all of those attributes and all of those
inner realities is Mohamed Salah salah. No one can even compare
loners even close. And so then our love for other people will be in
as much as they're following or living up to that ideal Mohamed
salah.
And it's enough of an honor for the province very seldom, that he
is joined in the same sentence with Allah.
Like because it says that a new group along with us will have the
means that Allah and His Prophet are more beloved, didn't even
separate them. So it was as if the meaning is, if you love Allah
subhanaw taala then you must love the Prophet. So I said, and if you
love the Prophet, so I said, we must love Allah. You can't claim
one and then
this claim then the other one. Otherwise it would be
hypocritical. So if you love Allah, you love God, you have to
love his prophets, and all his prophets
melesa Then more than anything else, more than anything else.
The Prophet SAW Selim, he recognized this and he asked Alma
one day, he said
when asked about love for him and remarked that you are more beloved
to me, except my own soul set myself
and the province I sent him showed his dissatisfaction with that
answer, almost realized, and he said, No, even more than my own
soul. I'm gonna province I said, I'm not instead now. Now you
understand.
So that level of profit, so I send them something, they all had the
grades on all of them, of the law normally would follow him and do
everything like the province I said that we mentioned, I don't
know if was here somewhere else, where he would go to the places
where the profits are, so there wasn't market with black x with
tar. And when they excavated and I was told by people who have seen
this with mill excavated in Mecca, that they found the places and
Medina where he, where he did that still was there.
But of course, they fought some mental work
when you're hit by Mara, there you go. Hibou, inland Illa heeta,
Allah, another love and to love a person
and not to love him except for Allah subhanaw taala.
didn't mention it in the commentaries I saw when I looked
at the wording.
And you hit ba ba, right? It didn't say believer didn't say
Muslim. Didn't say man didn't say woman it said means man, but it
means like human being person in this sense. So that meant to me
that part of your sweetness of the man
is to love people.
That's what it says. And you're able
didn't say believing person didn't say Muslim didn't say good Muslims
didn't say bad Muslims, any of those things. Person
human beings
so part of the man is loving humanity in general.
Someone who's who thinks they love Allah Spano Tata, but somehow
hates human beings, right and reviles them all the time, doesn't
like them, and keeps complaining about all the people of our time
how terrible they are. And it's so terrible here. All these people
are so terrible and yada yada yada.
He didn't understand how
to love the person. Now you're Hibou in Lelli lab, why do you
love them?
You love them for a long time.
This is where we hear a lot of strange stuff. When people talking
about doing something for the sake of Allah or loving for the sake of
Allah or despising elbowed the Fila despising for the sake of
Allah, people make all sorts of claims. Now I'm doing it for a
lucky few civilians. Everything is peaceful.
And it's a nice thing. It sounds nice. We all like to justify our
actions and say peace I mean, that's for the sake of Allah. It's
not for anything else so forth.
But what does that actually mean? What does it mean you say I do it
for a loss
or I do it out of love.
For our last panel,
members, it says
that,
in actuality,
you're kind of doing it for yourself a little bit, even if you
claim you're doing it for a loss.
Because if you are looking for a ward, from a lost battle to either
some type of reward, it's going to come back to you, then it's a
little bit for yourself.
And he said, That's a commendable state, if that's what you're
really doing. If you're looking for a word from the last battle
that even though it's has an effect on you, then that's a
meaning of doing it for Allah, but it's not the most complete,
right?
The most complete is not even looking towards either the reward
of Allah subhanaw taala, or the punishment or the wrath of the
last panel time.
So it's kind of doing things just because
it's the thing you're supposed to do. So right thing.
It's not about a personal, doesn't come personalized. And this state
can only be reached by someone, I think, who stops seeing themselves
in in the equation. To begin with. There's no more ena to begin with,
there's no more I and me, as long as there's a recognition
spiritually of an eye of a me of I'm doing this and I'm getting
this and I deserve this and I'm entitled to this. And I should be
getting this and this person shouldn't be talking to me like
this. So it's all centered around your own self identity, seeing
yourself you will not get that state
only when you let go of yourself. Right it's no more I
and its whole
right, one of the vicar of some of the Sufis that people had an issue
with when they use the word Hola. They said he was not a sentence
means he
right you can say hola you can say that. Allah you can say all these
things What's this whole
but they realized these people that it's either Anna or Hawa to
either me i Hola means our last no more No, no more me. I'm looking
completely towards Allah. And the hola which is a pronoun means he
but it symbolizes you're leaving the ANA, leaving the me part of
it. And then you going towards a last panel to add. So it actually
became one of their, their their ethics, one of the remembrances of
how they remembered the last panel.
So that level of love doing it purely altruistically,
not for anything that could come back to you. That's something else
that few people can really claim. Well, there's always some type of
ulterior motive. And you can intend one thing but the actual
motivator and by the thing that's pushing to do something, could be
something completely different.
So
loving humanity, for the sake of Allah loving a person, obviously,
our love will be different depending upon the person, the
more that we see beautiful traits in them, then the greater love we
will have.
But you can actually love someone and dislike that same person from
different aspects.
Right? Just look at your relationships, there's things you
have either a spouse, or you have children, we have a brother, have
a sister, whatever, friends, there are certain things that you like
that you love about them and certain things that you're not so
crazy about.
So there's a sort of mix of both love and this like, in the same
person.
So to love certain aspects of something, right at the same time,
to dislike certain aspects of love, doesn't mean that you know,
love, love, love that thing. And that's how we have to look at
human beings because there's always one aspect that is going to
always
be there, no matter how despicable you think they are. And that's
their very humanity and they've been endowed with a soul. That is
from Allah subhanaw taala. In the same way, you are no different.
And that's a basic level.
Right when when the the funeral, walked by, and it was a Jewish
person and the prophesy centum stood up, and they said, Why are
you standing? He said at least that Nuff said, Is it not enough?
There's not a human being so
there's a hormone there's a sacral sanctity, to the human being, no
matter what their status is, what's going on inside what their
actions are. It's always there. That's why when we do humanize
people, right when you do humanize our enemy, to the extent we no
longer see them as human, that is not Islamic ever, you know, in the
wisdom of our ancients, both in the in the Muslim faith and other
faiths that say, you know, don't hate your enemy too much.
Because one day
enemy could be a friend.
And the province I said, I'm taught us how to do that.
He had many enemies. They were enemies of his he wasn't, you
know, he didn't have that feeling towards them. But like Hindi been
talked about who arranged for the assassination of his beloved uncle
Hamza, and that's then eight from his liver.
What can be worse? Can you imagine someone do that to a relative of
yours? Would you ever forgive them? Could you even imagine that
can even see that he did.
Right, and even spoke to her talk to her? He did some lawyers.
So you have to be able to learn to see the humanity and everyone.
That is the minimum. And then there's no one who's completely
evil. I don't care what you say. There's no one who's completely
evil. There's little inevitable some people and then there's good
P who's good is more than his evil is a good person.
And he was evil is more than his good isn't evil person. But at
least for now, it can change.
Right? So
you know, our scholars, scholars, this is not like a CLI. It's not a
battle between
good and evil in terms of, you know, we have the heroes and the
good people on one side, and we have the evil people. And the
other side. And you know, we're here to battle it out.
Bolton, that's kind of a very simplistic way of looking at
things. Nowadays, especially in the days we live in now times a
fifth in times of tribulation and strife. One of the definitions of
fitna is, you can't tell where the good is where the evil is. Because
there seems like a little bit on both sides, whatever. Whatever
battle it is, whether it's a physical one or
any other type of altercation or quarrel, people disputing there's
going to be a little bit here and a little bit there. That's fitna,
where you can tell. So then you have to look to what's really at
stake here. And it's no fools.
All of the troubles I think we're having now it's a, it's a problem
of souls striving to satiate their lower desires, all across the
world, all across the board, was the Central African Republic, or
whether it's in Middle East or whether it's in Burma, or whether
it's in any place in the world, I think all of that strife goes back
down to one thing, people lose their sense of humanity. And they
become no better than the very animals that are mentioned, look
or
write as well as Seferian happens, the lowest of the low, when you
stop, stop acting like a human being. When you stop using the
faculties who've been done with as a human being, and then you
descend into something that becomes purely animalistic. That's
what happens.
But even that, even when that happens to someone, it's, it's not
necessarily a permanent state, they can be lifted from that. If
you don't believe that people can get out of that state, then you
really don't believe in Islam, to be honest with you. Because we had
people like that before. Were in the States, and Islam took them
out of that lifted that made them into something completely
different.
Right. I think we can do that a few weeks ago, we said Omar
radula, one who we used to bury his daughters alive. And I'm the
night he became Muslim. He was on his way to kill the Prophet side.
So what can be worse than that?
And he came back Muslim hours later.
Really curious.
Like, identify?
How do you actually build that passion?
Was it like a miracle? Or was there a transition for him? I just
don't understand that. Because no matter how hard I try, I find
myself always going back to
some of my old seats. I keep trying to push myself forward. But
it's hard to build that empathy and compassion when you've been
trained to be defensive.
Maybe you should stop try.
Walmart, he didn't try. Really. He wasn't planning on it just
happened. He was on his way. Someone told him I'll worry about
your sister first because she's reading from the Quran and she's
Muslim. So he went to his sister's house and her husband and the
husband had somewhere and they were reading from the Quran, they
tried to hide it but he figured it out. And he got even violent with
her.
And after he calmed down, she said he said let me see what you're
reading.
And she said, Well, you're not in a state where you can read you
have to make the huddle you have to take a bath or wash up.
So he did that. And then he came back and he read from the pages of
thought
while high mountains and now they could call inlet F growth and
demand Yaksha
right. So he read those those verses and he was affected.
That time is far too much. Allah Allah Allah turned his head
around. I think the verses of Quran
partially did that but I believe that when he went to the Prophet
sorry, said
them, right because he didn't say that, you know, in Allah when you
read the verses you didn't claim as Islam then he went to the
prophesy, so them first and when he knocked on the door because
they were the shop I think there was not an outcome. So when you
knocked on the door and they said Who's that? And he says, Oh Ma,
people like that.
On her was a big deal. He was like, you know, it's like someone
knocking on the door now and it's like you know
someone you know, I don't want to say name but someone you'd never
expect to come to the masjid. So, Allah Hamza, even Hamza he was,
you know, there were two Muslims. When they became Muslim, the whole
situation changed in Mecca for them. They said when hands on all
became Muslim, we were able to go to the kava, and no one bothered
us. They form two lines, hands in front of one arm in front of the
other, no one bothered them. They were like the heroes, you know,
the chivalrous knights of Mecca. So they set up. So Hamza is the
one who spoke. He said, Well, if he wants good,
but he wants something else, my sword is here too. So he was ready
to warn armor walked in. And he asked to see the Prophet SAW
Salem. I think that's the moment when he realized the one thing you
have to know that people have of Eman, people don't have sweetness
of the man and read it more than the prophesy Salem, they can
change people just by looking at
one another. They used to say can you will not be the another, you
can change someone just by looking at them. If one of the people have
a lot out of just looks at you.
Right? It can change your whole life. Just like that.
There's, you know, we're all very much into really this self help
guru stuff and 10 STEP program and all that. I'm not denying any of
that works. But also we have to make allowances for something
that's even
beyond that. So it doesn't necessarily have to be the 10 step
program. Things can change just like that. One of the signs of
pain he was
filleted denial, he used to be
a burglar and used to climb up the trestle trusses of the house and
steal things from people and things. So one time he was doing
that, and then he heard someone reciting Quran or we heard a voice
saying
and I'm yet Nina Nina, and then when tuckshop will move on
politically.
So the verse was like in the form of a question is it not time for
those of the leaf for their hearts to be reverent towards Allah
subhanaw taala and you heard that in changed.
He said better? Now's the time he went down and he never went back
up and became one of the greatest people of Islam.
So I think we'll stop here because it's time for for attention
shallow. We'll start again after this.
Basically, make
changes
to defend Islam and
yeah, more or less, yes, that's true.