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

Wow, this is beautiful.

The Prophet

said to the companions

Sabaqaq. The word Sabaqaq means to exceed,

to surpass,

okay? To excel. Sibaka is a race, right?

So when Sayidah Aisha beat the prophet

in a race

Sahih Bukhari says Sabakhtani Sabakhtani Sabakhtani like you

defeated me, you surpassed me, you passed me

by. Right? So the prophet alayhi salatu salam

says

sabaqal

mufaridun

mufaridun

from fard.

Fard with a Dal. Fard means 1. Fard

is someone that has no equal, like a

a unique person.

So the prophet is saying that the Mufered

has surpassed others.

Those people who are

alone.

You know, SubhanAllah, there is some really beautiful

commentary on al Mufarridun.

These Mufarridun

who have busied themselves with Allah's remembrance

have surpassed

everyone else. Meaning,

Sabaqa,

they have surpassed them

in achieving the mawfira,

the forgiveness of Allah.

Or they have surpassed others in the rewards

that await them with Allah.

Or they have surpassed others in drawing nearer

to Jannah.

SubhanAllah.

There are a number of the ulama

who say that al Mufaridun

are those people who are lonely,

and they occupy their loneliness with Allah.

SubhanAllah man. SubhanAllah.

There's another interpretation that I'll share with you

that I found also really beautiful because,

you know, a lot of times we talk

about young people, young people, young people, but

we we also have a lot of wonderfully

talented, brilliant, beautiful elderly people in our community,

masha'Allah.

And we can't forget about them.

A capitalistic

system,

commodifies

youth in a way,

that the entire

community finds its value through youth,

because once youth is gone, you can never

get it again.

But they will sell products to you that

promise you glimpses of your youth again. Remember

this, man.

We have to be very careful that we

do not allow these kind

of values to soak our lives.

There is beauty

in getting older, man. There is beauty

in being old.

And a society

which is so steeped in the material

may detest the elderly

because the elderly remind them of death.

Whereas our scholars say, the best way to

raise a child

is with the parents

and the grandparents.

The parents teach them how to live for

dunya

and the grandparents teach them how to live

for akhirah.

Allahu Akbar.

That takes us to the next hadith the

3rd hadith from Abdullah ibn Abbasrin