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