Suhaib Webb – A Powerful Hadith for Those Who Suffer From Loneliness

Suhaib Webb
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The speaker discusses the cultural values of Sabaqaq, a race of individuals who surpass each other in accomplishments. They also mention the importance of avoiding the "feasibility of their loneliness" and the "immaterial of their loneliness" in society. The speaker also discusses the "immaterial of their loneliness" and the "immaterial of their" values.

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			Wow, this is beautiful.
		
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			The Prophet
		
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			said to the companions
		
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			Sabaqaq. The word Sabaqaq means to exceed,
		
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			to surpass,
		
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			okay? To excel. Sibaka is a race, right?
		
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			So when Sayidah Aisha beat the prophet
		
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			in a race
		
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			Sahih Bukhari says Sabakhtani Sabakhtani Sabakhtani like you
		
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			defeated me, you surpassed me, you passed me
		
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			by. Right? So the prophet alayhi salatu salam
		
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			says
		
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			sabaqal
		
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			mufaridun
		
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			mufaridun
		
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			from fard.
		
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			Fard with a Dal. Fard means 1. Fard
		
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			is someone that has no equal, like a
		
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			a unique person.
		
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			So the prophet is saying that the Mufered
		
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			has surpassed others.
		
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			Those people who are
		
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			alone.
		
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			You know, SubhanAllah, there is some really beautiful
		
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			commentary on al Mufarridun.
		
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			These Mufarridun
		
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			who have busied themselves with Allah's remembrance
		
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			have surpassed
		
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			everyone else. Meaning,
		
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			Sabaqa,
		
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			they have surpassed them
		
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			in achieving the mawfira,
		
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			the forgiveness of Allah.
		
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			Or they have surpassed others in the rewards
		
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			that await them with Allah.
		
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			Or they have surpassed others in drawing nearer
		
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			to Jannah.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			There are a number of the ulama
		
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			who say that al Mufaridun
		
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			are those people who are lonely,
		
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			and they occupy their loneliness with Allah.
		
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			SubhanAllah man. SubhanAllah.
		
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			There's another interpretation that I'll share with you
		
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			that I found also really beautiful because,
		
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			you know, a lot of times we talk
		
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			about young people, young people, young people, but
		
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			we we also have a lot of wonderfully
		
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			talented, brilliant, beautiful elderly people in our community,
		
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			masha'Allah.
		
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			And we can't forget about them.
		
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			A capitalistic
		
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			system,
		
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			commodifies
		
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			youth in a way,
		
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			that the entire
		
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			community finds its value through youth,
		
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			because once youth is gone, you can never
		
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			get it again.
		
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			But they will sell products to you that
		
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			promise you glimpses of your youth again. Remember
		
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			this, man.
		
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			We have to be very careful that we
		
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			do not allow these kind
		
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			of values to soak our lives.
		
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			There is beauty
		
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			in getting older, man. There is beauty
		
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			in being old.
		
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			And a society
		
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			which is so steeped in the material
		
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			may detest the elderly
		
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			because the elderly remind them of death.
		
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			Whereas our scholars say, the best way to
		
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			raise a child
		
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			is with the parents
		
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			and the grandparents.
		
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			The parents teach them how to live for
		
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			dunya
		
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			and the grandparents teach them how to live
		
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			for akhirah.
		
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			Allahu Akbar.
		
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			That takes us to the next hadith the
		
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			3rd hadith from Abdullah ibn Abbasrin