Suhaib Webb – Riyad alSalihin (Part Two) Conclusion of alNawwawi’s Intro & The First Chapter
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Welcome back. Every Tuesday,
to our our reading through the book
of,
Imam and Nabi
before we,
continue our our reading of this book,
it would,
it's compulsory upon me to remember.
Doctor Youssef Qaradawi
visited him in his home,
spent time with him.
I remember one time I came dressed in
this Elzhar outfit,
and he saw me. He said,
So this and Ricky, the American guy is
wearing a Egyptian outfit.
He made me take a picture with him.
Then I said to him,
I was joking with him. He took picture.
I said, our picture is haram.
But more importantly,
doctor Youssef Khardawi is what we call a
mujaddid,
a revivra of the deen.
The hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
related by Imam Ibrahim Majah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ba'atharatsikullimiti
sanah.
Every 100 years, meaning of the hadith,
Allah will send someone to the Ummah to
revive its deen for them.
Thank you. Thank you so much.
This idea of Tajdeed is not something new.
It's not like something modernists
are making up.
Imam Sayna Asiyuti Rahimullah.
He has a poem about who he considered
to be up until his time. Imam Asiyuti
dies 9 11 after hijri.
So he wrote a poem
about the different mujaddids
throughout the history of Islam. Imam Abu Alaa
Al Mawdudi,
he led the jinnaza
of Al Alam al Mauduri
in Pakistan in Lahore, subhanAllah.
In his book,
the revivers of Islam, you should read it.
It's like 4 volumes if you speak English.
It's called
revivers of Islam by Mawdudi. He mentions there
also this idea of Tajdid
and the mujaddid.
Sheikh Qaradawi,
the reason that we say he's a mujaddid
is that he
Everybody, of course,
has their shortcomings. But that's that's not the
place to talk about so much shortcomings now.
Sheikh Yusuf
Rahim Wohullah,
you will not find one dariyah
except some way or another he or she
has been influenced by the work of doctor
Youssef Al Qadawi. He wrote more than 180
books.
The second is,
and I don't wanna make it too complicated.
But Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi,
he did what a mujed did does. Because
we have to differentiate between tajdeed and tavdeed.
Tavdeed is to destroy.
So, sometimes we see people with the name
of revival actually,
They say like, Tajdeed Tajdeed. I wanna revive
Islam but then there's no Islam left.
As a shout to be.
So saydna imam,
Qaradawi,
how do we know that he is a
mujaddid?
Mujaddid?
How do you root your ideas in Sharia?
And then you
you establish them with their evidences. This is
something that doctor Yousef Qaradawi
Very rarely you see him say,
The second thing is that doctor Yousef Qaradawi
introduced ideas and terminologies
even though they had their
origins
in the academic
tradition of Islam,
he brought words
that no one ever heard before. Like
for example,
Firkah Aqaliyat,
which of course because so many Muslims came
to Europe and America and other places, then
you had this massive group of people who
became Muslim.
Muslim. So, doctor Youssef Khaldawi
based on the idea of tariel Fatwa Bismayin
wal Makan wal Ahwal al Ashkas, a famous
idea in the books of
and that a can change according to time
and place. So, Sheikh Yusuf and
I used to read the Mawfakati Shaqta Hajar
al Awani in Egypt, Ala yar hamu.
They
together
presented this idea of fiqh for Muslims that
are in their numbers are minority.
Fiqh aqaliyah.
Later on Sheikh Tajayat TahaJabir told me, I
wish we didn't call it fuka aaliyah.
Because aaliyah,
first of all the mushtaq is wrong. If
you know tasrifilifa'al,
you see the problem. This is not the
time to talk about that now. The second
thing he told me is the word aqaliyah,
it doesn't have izzah.
Right? It doesn't have like a sense of
pride and honor. And Islam
So always even those people when you meet
them, they're in their nineties,
they're still
interrogating their ideas, masha'Allah.
The other is that, doctor Yusuf Qarabdawi,
even though he's coming at the end of
sort of an era of Sheikh
Abdul Adaraz, Sheikh Mohammed
Abdul Adaraz, like some of the great scholars
before,
who revived
the idea of al Maqasid,
Maqasid al Sharia.
But Yusuf Qaradawi
is perhaps the first person to write about
the
for the masses.
To teach the masses. To care about the
the masses of the Muslims.
Not just the
scholars.
So we say
Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi put himself in difficult positions
because
anytime you take a position between Efrat and
Tafrit,
you're gonna have enemies.
Anytime you try to be in the middle,
the most difficult thing is to balance the
structure.
You are naturally going to acquire a large
number of enemies. Rahimullah,
Sheikh.
So he presented the idea of aluwasatiyah.
The role of the Islamic academic tradition to
be an inspiration not simply blindly followed.
The importance of Ijtihad
in the modern era.
The Shia he created
with a number of other luminary scholars.
The Majlis of Fatul Oropi.
Right?
The European Fatul Council and now, alhamdulillah, I'm
lucky to be part of the International Union
of Muslim Scholars.
Sheikh
is behind a lot of these great works,
alhamdulillah.
And he paid the price. His children were
put in prison. SubhanAllah.
His Some of his family still are in
prison for no reason. No charges. SubhanAllah. People
suffered.
So ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to grant him
His edger
in an amplified way and to bless him,
insha Allah,
and to unite him with the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
The most important book any American Muslim can
read
after the Quran and Sunnah
is the book of Doctor. Youssef Kharadawi, Islam
Between Rejection and Extremism.
You should read that book before you join
any group.
Take Beyate any Sheikh.
Go anywhere to study.
You should read that book. It should be
taught in Muslim high schools in this country.
Islam between
extremism and rejection.
It's one of the most important books written,
subhanAllah, in the last few years.
So we say, Raheem Muhullah,
doctor Yusuf Faridawi,
ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to illuminate his grave, insha Allah.
Even though we can say that one of
the heads of the revival of Islam
has passed,
his metaphoric children
are still around, Alhamdulillah.
Carrying this revival, this idea of awakening an
ummah.
And bringing dignity and unity to the Ummah
of the prophet sallallahu
alayhi
wasallam.
InshaAllah now we're gonna move on to
Uriyadu Salihim
of Imam An Nawawi Rahim Muhallaha.
The Sheikh, we stopped in his introduction, he
said before we were interrupted Alhamdulillah
He said,
In my time, we had to memorize books.
I don't know now what's going on with
TikTok.
But our Sheikh from Senegal, if you wanted
to study a book, you had to memorize
it, and you had to write it. I
had to write the Quran.
Now, if we told people to write the
Quran,
they're gonna call 911.
In fact, he used to tell me in
synagogue, if you wanted to get married, you
had to memorize the Quran and the Muwata.
I told him sheikh nobody's gonna get married
in this country, man. We can't even memorize
the 40 hadith.
Why is it American Muslims, we have so
much wealth, but we're so stupid?
We have so much wealth but we're so
ignorant. But we're arrogant. Like the last time
I was here. Allah bless the brother. He
just cut me off. Like, I know more
than you bro.
Like, respectfully. And then people say, oh, the
sheikh is arrogant. But you box people in.
You force them to be rough with
you. Trying to be nice, trying to be
friendly,
just keeps cutting off the darts.
That's our problem in this country.
We bought into American exceptionalism as a community.
So we don't really study, like, you go
to Senegal, you go to West Africa, Mauritania,
you go to Egypt, man. People study the
deen. People who who have very little
they don't have Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube TV,
and satellite dishes,
and No, man.
But their drive for the akhirah is greater.
That's scary because the more blessings we have,
the more we will be asked
why did we not use these resources for
Allah?
So the problem isn't it's hard.
The problem is we're hard on the deen.
So the sheikh, he says,
After he gave that beautiful introduction, Imam An
Nawawi says, And I considered you know, I
thought about an ajma'a.
Muqtasarad
Together together. When he says ajma'ah, that means
that he's taken it from different sources. As
we're gonna talk about again.
Muhtasuran.
A summary.
Min al hadithasahihah.
From authentic hadith.
And here And I want to make a
very important point here. He mentions the goal
or the purpose of the book.
What's the purpose of riyal salihin? So now
whenever you study riyal salihin or whenever you're
reading it, maybe as a family, it's a
great book to read at home with your
family. Masha'Allah.
Is,
mushtamilan.
That the reason I wrote this book is
that it will contain everything a person needs
on the path to Allah.
The path to Al Akhira.
That's the purpose of the book. So if
I'm studying Rial Salihin and I get caught
up in
debates and arguments about issues,
I've I've missed the purpose of the book.
So that's why I'm telling you now, we're
going to go quickly through the book.
We're not going to go through a fiqh,
we're not gonna spend a lot of time
talking That's not why he wrote the book.
He wrote the book,
So that we can live a life for
That is going to bring together
the the etiquette.
Because malayutimulwajibuillaabefahuwa?
Wajib. There's a great axiom that says, whatever
let you complete an obligation became obligatory.
When the people came to the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallamah, and they said, what's the
best way to get to Al Akhirah? What
did he say?
To obey Allah and be good to people.
So, he says, this book also is going
to contain those things that are related to
inner and outer etiquette.
Al akhlaq.
Jami'aalitargi
bi w tarih.
And that this book is gonna contain a
hadith that inspire us
to have hope,
but also inspire us to be responsibly cautious.
To bring about a sense of fear.
He says, as well as the other etiquettes
of the siddiq. The tzadik and our epistemological
framework
is the one that's on the path to
Allah.
The one who seeks Allah.
So now we understand the purpose of the
book.
To be
a reminder of the character and etiquettes
and things that we need to be hopeful
for and responsible for,
if we're trying to live a life
that is centered about
or towards the hereafter.
Allah says, Who wants the akhirah and strives
for the akhirah,
and they believe, he or she believes,
then they are already rewarded. SubhanAllah. Like it's
already done. They don't have to worry about
anything.
Then akhlaq.
How do I treat people? How do I
treat my wife? How do I treat my
children? How do I treat my husband? How
do I treat teachers? How do I act
amongst brothers and sisters? How do I carry
myself?
As well as, prioritizing
things that I need to have hope,
hoping,
and then things that I need to be
fearful of.
Tarahim
and Tarahim basically means like, how do I
live a responsible life?
And the other characteristics
of those
people who
are traversing the path to Allah.
In short, Imam Anawi
he did something very important to Riyad Salihim.
He did tasiratasaww
from Manazir
Al Arifi.
Rial Sarihin actually
is the daleel
for the Sufis.
The Sufis who are Sunni.
I know that term is a little bit
misunderstood sometimes.
Because Imam Nawiuhukan meant ahatasawwuf.
He was from the people of Sufism. But
he was a fakhi. He was a alim.
So in this book, Riyadh Salihin, if you've
ever studied, for example, or
or the
of Al Qazari.
Basically, what
Imam and Nawawi is doing
is providing the evidences
for those etiquettes and characteristics
that make up
the Mersin.
The person who lives
as though he or she worships Allah so
they can see him.
And that's important because in his time there
was a lot of bida.
Right? People in the name of Tasawwuf were
doing weird stuff.
Then there were people who were completely rejecting
this path.
So Imam
Sayyidina Imam An Nawawi understands that to unite
the Ummah
is to bring them
To bring people back to Allah and His
messenger.
That's a great lesson for anyone involved in
dawah. If you want to settle disputes in
your community, if you want to unite the
hearts of the people,
bring them to the book of Allah.
Bring them to the words of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi waarhi wa sahabhi wa salam.
Then he says, Rahimu Hala
min ahadith zuhid.
So then he starts explaining like, here's examples
of like the certain sections of the book
that I'm gonna
I'm gonna touch on. So hadith related to
being indifferent to the world.
Living responsibly.
Not living for opulence.
Living
to die.
Not dying to live.
What
are you all that? Nufus
Hadith that talk about how do we train
our soul.
What
and how do we refine our character?
Become better people.
As we're gonna talk about today,
Jabir ibn Abdillahi al Ansari insha'Allah in his
hadith.
How even in his
in his late years, man. He traveled to
Damascus to learn hadith. He was very old.
He wanted to improve himself.
An arrogant person doesn't feel the need to
improve themselves.
So, tahdib al akhlaq, like I need to
refine
and work on myself, and improve my character.
In hadith they talk about purification of the
heart.
Now, how to remedy those illnesses.
And then how do I how do I
bring my limbs into conformity?
How do I make sure that I'm using
my eyes for the right thing, my hands
for the right thing?
Everybody wants to be beautiful. Why though?
People talk about I hope I hope I
look good. Why? Oh, stuff for love man.
Just Yeah, exactly.
You want to look good for bad. Ishtima'unaqedainmuhar.
In Islam to bring 2 opposites together is
not allowed.
So I like it when,
you know, I have some young relatives, man.
Big Muslim family, Masha'Allah.
On my wife's side, not on my side.
Well, the man will have 6 pack, man
will look good. That's fine. I get it.
It's great, but why?
He said man, so I can get Oh,
stuff for Allah. Sorry. I said, yeah exactly.
Sorry. Right?
Stuff for Allah.
You got stuff for the Lord, son.
But the point is
when you when you want something that's got
that
Instagram glitz,
ask yourself why.
That's what he's gonna talk about. Like, how
do I how do I bring
how do I bring my talents? Nothing wrong
looking
nice.
Allah is beautiful, that's beauty. But why?
Why do I want to be there? Someone
wants to study knowledge. One time I was
an Esar with an American brother. He came
and stopped me.
He said,
I wanna come to Esar
so I could be famous. And then he
mentioned some famous Imams in America.
I I said that's not why you come
to EZR, bro. You don't come here to
be famous.
You come here to learn how to be
a better person. How to how to increase
your Ibadah.
He's like, what? I was like, yeah. Exactly.
We're not aligned.
I'm shocked. Then he got mad at me.
You asked me a question bro.
He says,
And other
sections
that are gonna elaborate
on the objectives and the goals of the
arif. The arif is the one
who brings together 2 things. The word adif
means to know. You lose something in the
English because the word adif is to smell.
Arfon Nasir. It's one book we have in
the Madiki method.
Arf and Nasir, the nice smell.
So I like to tell my small students,
Arf, arf, you know.
Arf arf. Like a dog, sounds like a
dog. Oh yeah, arf arf. Okay. Do you
remember?
Farf.
That's why What do you call the
In the chapter in the Quran that talks
about like
the plateaus. What's that chapter called?
Al A'raf, because it sticks
out. It's from the same word.
What do you call a custom in Arabic?
The same word. Because that smell,
it sticks out.
Plateau,
sticks out.
The habits of a people,
Sticks out.
So now the Adif is the one
who everything around them stuck out and reminded
them of Allah.
So just as like when you smell something,
maybe you wake up in the morning, said
man,
did my mother make aloo paratha?
You're from Pakistan?
We ask Allah to help the brothers and
sisters in Pakistan, SubhanAllah. 30% of Pakistan is
underwater, man, in Afghanistan.
I know for me as a convert, is
that turkey bacon?
Beef bacon?
So you smell it, you smell it, you
smell it, and then after a while you
arrive to what's called tazdik.
Tazoro wazdik.
And you say, Oh man,
that
is Mashallah. If I'm from Somalia, that's Aiyun.
I know about Aiyun.
Somalis, masha'Allah.
The best tea in the Muslim world is
in Somalia.
Don't get mad at me. The Somalis here
right now.
I can rock with you.
I was the Imam in Boston. I ate
the bananas with rice.
I know about it, and the sambusas.
But subhanAllah
wake up, is that a yun?
They have a sweet in Samali called eat
me.
Wallahu akbar,
can you get any better than that?
Nobody can do keto.
So, SubhanAllah.
You smell it, you smell it, you smell
it.
Oh man,
that is beef bacon, halal bacon, mashallah.
At the moment you know it, it's called
tasdikh, that's why it's called 'arf.
So the 'arif
is the one who metaphorically
becomes familiar with all the signs in this
dunya.
As to Sawarat,
and the conclusion of that,
So just like you smell something and you
know it, the if it's from the same
word, the if it's
from The one who their heart My teacher
say their heart smells.
And they know Allah,
so they conclude,
Allah you did not create this for nothing.
So save us from the hellfire. Let us
use this purpose correctly.
So that's when the sheikh, he says,
So one of our teachers should say there's
a difference between
the one who knows a lot of riwayat,
this this this, this person said this, I
can argue with you about this imam, that
imam, this sheikh, that But you never see
them at fajr.
SubhanAllah.
Maybe you live next to the masjid.
That's not to judge them but we should
be careful of this behavior.
But the adif
is the one who has
and has the but
translates that into reverence and good character.
To be a good person,
not to feel that their knowledge makes them
better than somebody.
Then he says,
Sheikh he says, So therefore I have
determined to only mention
authentic hadith,
What does he mean by
So I'm only gonna mention those narrations
that are very clear. That's why I said,
I'm not gonna get into fiqh. I'm not
gonna get in too much into aqidah.
The purpose of this book
is tazkitan
nafs, and
to head to the hereafter.
Those things, masha'Allah, you have great teachers. This
area has so many
great, great scholars.
You're only imam, but you can benefit from
Unless it's like really important or somebody asks.
Mubafan
said, the narrations that I'm taking
to bring about
this text are from famous books,
which are authentic and well known.
And last week, or 2 weeks ago,
we started to talk about the sources of
riyal salih.
It's very important, like for example the 40
hadith of Imam Anawi, he didn't write that.
Abu Abu'abr al Salah, he wrote the first
23 hadith.
It doesn't take anything away from Imam Anawi,
it's just you have to be aware of
like history of a text.
So, you can appreciate the text. And in
the end of Riyadh Salihin was a 40
hadith was finished by al Hafid ibn Rajib
al Hanbali. So actually, when you read in
the 40 hadith, it's been peer reviewed by
3 great people.
That's how you should think about it, right?
Also, Yahad al Salihim,
Saniye Mamanawi,
he relied on 2 very important books.
The first,
al Jama' Bayn al Sahihain
of al Hafid Muhammad al Mufattuh
al Hamedi.
He died around
466
after hijri.
What he did is very important
and it's actually printed now, mashaAllah.
He took Sahibuhari and Sahib Muslim and he
listed it by sahaba.
Each hadith radiAllahu anhu. Then he said like,
Abu Hurairah image in this
hadith And then he said, but here, in
Farah Davidih Bukhari, in Farah Davidih Muslim.
Bukhari, this is his wording.
Muslim, this is his word.
And ancient scholars used to memorize this book.
Because if you memorized it, you basically memorized
Bukhari
and Muslim, and the infuraat Bukhari in Muslim.
And it made it easier for people.
Made it easier for them.
Although sometimes, subhanAllah, rahimohullah,
he made a few mistakes. Allhumaydi
was Sayna Imam Anawi,
in copying from the text,
he followed
some of those mistakes.
That doesn't take anything away from them.
But what what we should appreciate
is our teachers,
our imams now even, they're not superheroes man.
People make mistakes.
The second text we talked about that he
relied on
is a Tarhib Tarhib.
4 volumes. Masha Allah, it's a good book,
alhamdulillah,
very beautiful book
by Al Hafat al Mundari,
Rahimullah.
The bigger challenge is in his narrations from
Because sometimes for example, there's in
the narration
that the writer of a tarrib
tarrib narrated,
and he followed him in that iskat.
Left something out that's in the hadith.
We'll talk about it as we go through
the text I'm gonna show you, so you
can write down notes.
I don't want it to be too too
theoretical for
you. The second
is that Imam al Nawawi,
he tried his best to mention
from Bukhari and Muslim.
So sometimes Al Hafid Al Hamaidi, he would
say
Muslim. Sometimes Alhamedi, he would say, this is
agreed upon between Bukhari and Muslim, but actually
Muslim he didn't narrate. Or sometimes he'll say
this is agreed upon between Bukhari and Muslim,
and Bukhari he didn't narrate it. But sayyidina
imam Anawi, as he mentions here, he says
Muslim.
He followed him in this.
And here we can see
how
much concern the ummah has for the sunnah,
man? Like who would pick that up?
How did someone discover that? They were reading
rial salihin and they themselves were ulama? He
said, No, no, no. That's not the narration.
That that narration Muslim didn't narrate
it. That narration is Bukhari.
Wait a minute. That narration
is Muslim but not Bukhari. So it shows
you how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
Many of us we think about the preservation
of the Quran
Amongst the 'ulama, the preservation of hadith is
how you see preservation of the Qur'an. Just
think about that for a minute. The people
of hadith, like your imam here.
Imam Farhan.
The second challenge, as I mentioned, with the
tariq or tariq
is that Imam al Goongari, he was like
a walking encyclopedia man.
Masha'Allah.
So he would narrate from everybody.
Everybody.
So sometimes,
Imam al Nawawi rahimahullah.
He will narrate from him
and if in the narration it says, Bukhari,
Muslim, al Bazar, ibn Abi Shaiba, Malik,
so on and so forth.
And no, he wouldn't mention anyone else. He'll
just say, Arawahul Bukhari, you a Muslim. But
the problem is the wording of the narration
of al Mundri
is from a bazaar,
or from a turmidi,
or from imam Abu Dawood. It's not the
wording of who?
Bukhari
and
Muslim. That's the problem.
So as we go through the text, and
now mashallah, there's prints that have been printed
in Arabic, where at the bottom you can
find these footnotes now.
People Alhamdulillah, there was a great PhD done
in Saudi Arabia like almost 30 years ago,
that talked about this. And then like, as
people continued,
you know, to make printings of Riyadh Salihain,
They put this at the bottom in the
footnotes.
But SubhanAllah,
it doesn't take We have to be We
have to realize like, modernity and secularism is
a monster. You cannot make a mistake.
Islam doesn't have cancer culture.
Islam has redemption.
That doesn't mean that people shouldn't lose their
post, of course, if they violate certain ethical,
moral,
shortcomings,
absolutely. We're in the middle. We don't need
to define ourselves by the right or the
left. Alhamdulillah. We're prophetic.
But subhanAllah
We have to be more patient with one
another. We don't need to adopt
the rigidness
of trans modernity. It's brutal. It's brutal.
It destroys people. It gives them no hope.
Look at the Quran with Abu Sufyan and
hint.
Allah said if Abu Sufyan and his wife
repent, they are Muslim.
How?
You know when you read the verse sometimes
it's like how?
Because I You know, you don't really like
them because of what happened to Saydna Hamza
at In the in the context of that
murder.
But Allah gave them the door of redemption.
That's why Shokeh, Ahmed Shokeh, when he talked
about the prophet alayhi salatu salam, he
said
So, Sayyidina Isa, your brother, he he caused
people to come to life who were dead
by the will of Allah. But you, Muhammad,
you brought generations of people to life
through hope in Allah. Laatakanatumurahmatullah.
One time, Sayyidina Ali
Karamallahuwajah
and his time as Khalifa,
someone was His son was very bad
and as they were bearing him, you know
people were making
And then, subhanallah.
Some people said, no. Don't say Rahimohullah.
That that kid, he was very bad
at the at the grave.
So they brought
him to Sayna Adi.
Sayna Adi said to him, those people are
a bigger inner enemy to you than Shaitan,
man.
In fact one of my teachers should say
it is shirk,
theoretical shirk
to restrict the mercy of Allah
based on the parameters of a dunya.
What you want? Adhibu ma yasha? Subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
So Imam Manawi doesn't take like anything away
from him.
And there's etiquette in this. That's why Al
Hariri,
in his mullha, he says,
Al Hariri is gonna hear about him maybe
later tonight, in Molhat al Arab. He said
after he wrote the poem in Arabic, he
said, You know, if you find mistakes in
it,
then fix them,
shore them up.
But blessed is the one who he has
no mistakes,
the transcendent. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So, be patient. Oh man.
1 imam, he gave a talk and
he used some word, I'm done with this
imam. You're the one who lost.
You know I was praying one day I
said salaam to the imam and he looked
at me weird. It's imams, tahidah, s'am tudu
masjid. Life is over.
Be patient,
man. Read the story
of Madik with Nefeh.
The mola of ibn Umar. Nafi, he was
harsh.
His origins weren't Arabic. He used to speak
with Allahjah. So he's even hard to understand
his Arabic. But he was a scholar, and
Malik would go to him
and bother him until finally like he got
through his toughness.
He was very tough.
He said like, you know, finally
he
he became like nice with me. It took
time.
So Imam Anawi
Rahim Muhullah,
he's a human being, man. Be patient.
How many of us, subhanAllah, he died when
he was like, some say 42, some say
52 years old. Who could write one book
like imam al Nawi in alifthah?
Like alimin al Hajj.
We studied in Darah Ifta. It's an unbelievable
book, man. Somebody was yesterday
talking about Sheikh Qaradawi.
He said, masha'Allah, Sheikh Qaradawi, he wrote more
than a 180 books. Can you write one
book in Arabic? Oh, man. I don't know
Arabic, bro. Like, what are you doing then?
Like, do you see yourself?
Just worry about yourself. Be as impatient with
yourself as you are
I'm I'm I don't have that issue. Just
saying in general.
If the right is at war with Muslims,
the left is at war with Islam.
Then he says,
walasadulalabwabmilalqurani
al-'Aziz And he said, and I added to
it chapters
with verses of Quran, be ayatin kareematin
with noble, honorable verses
of
the
Quran.
He said in that times, I'm going to
clarify certain things that need maybe
need to be defined. He means here words.
And most of the time, Sayyidina Imam Anawi
took these definitions
from al Mundri, what he did in the
Taribatari.
In fact, you will find it sometimes verbatim.
Certain words.
And I'm gonna explain you know some words,
some delicate words
that need to be people need to pay
attention to.
So next week we're gonna mention the sunnah
to Bukhari and Muslim.
17 people.
Adham al Sheikh of the of the cream
Kitani, Abraham Kitani,
Ibn Sheikh Abrahiel Kitani.
And the story of how I got that
suned, and I went to Morocco, it's a
funny story. SubhanAllah.
I had to find him
in Fess.
Being from Oklahoma in fest trying to find
somebody,
people got you start looking at you like
you're kinda weird, man.
You know, big country redneck in fest, man.
Speaking
Arabic.
But everybody was so friendly.
So he said from Bukhari and Muslim. Then
he says
Here we learn something that Imam Anawi, he
wrote this introduction before he finished the book.
He
said, And I hope,
you know.
Insha'Allah.
That
when this book is done, sa ikhanlimatani
ilalkhayrat
That it will be like a driver to
somebody
to good.
And it will be like
a belt
that holds that person back from the qaba'i
wa mohiliqat,
from evil and destructive qualities.
Wa ana, he said then he says,
And I asked my brothers, is it Imam
Anawu talking to us and sisters?
Tafamanhu,
anybody who benefits from it, Youdu'ali to make
du'a for me. I ask Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
to bless Sayyidina Imam Ali.
And his parents.
And he says, and
his teachers.
Was Sayri Ahbab
and those beloved to him,
wal Muslimina Ajamayhi. And all of the muslims.
He says, Wa hasbi Allahu.
He says,
Wa Allahi
You Timari
Wa Illahi Tafwiri Wastinari.
Says upon Allah I rely and upon Allah
I put my trust.
Alhamdulillah we finish the introduction alhamdulillah. Everything else
is going to be easy.
And these glasses, by the way, I have
a 3 year old
who destroys my glasses.
She has a PhD in a
in destruction of glasses. So I had to
pick these up from CVS. I'm not trying
to look
like I'm not my age or something.
It's not a midlife crisis, bra.
This book is made of 20 chapters.
These 20 chapters, as we said earlier,
Sheikh he says
that there are going to be a path
to the hereafter. So you wanna think about
each chapter as like something we should all
work on. Me and you.
As we look at this book, we don't
want to take this book as like theory
every week. This is like we're going to
the gym.
We're gonna get like an hour in of
intense training.
Then throughout the week, we interrogate ourselves.
In in simple terms, we ask ourselves, how
am I living?
Based on what I heard.
So the first chapter, Bab Al Ikhlas.
Why would he start with Ikhlas?
Why would he start with sincerity?
It's the key to everything.
To Nasheikh, he says
the bab.
Bab means door.
But here bab Assalamu Alaikum.
Bab
means door, but here it means
a chapter. One of my teachers, Masha'Allah,
when When I was reading
with
him,
He
said, why? Why? Why did they call it
Abweb?
And Fosul
Fosul, Babb Fosul in Arabic, chapter, section, chapter,
section. I said, you know, I'm stupid. I
said, yeah, Babb means chapter.
False looking means section. Duh.
Sheikh said, la la la la la. Because
Jannah has
There are 8
abweb to Jannah.
So, every time someone sits to study knowledge,
the ulama were smart like Sheykh Yusuf Khardawyurabanihim.
It's not just about the knowledge, it's to
remind us of the hereafter, to remind us
why we're living.
So, they will call it babb to remind
you and I of intention.
Make the intention for Abwabujana.
Make the intention for Allah.
Number 2,
he told
me, a bab
is an entry to someone's home.
So he said to me something so nice.
The word bab in the books of il
contains all of the etiquettes of the teacher
and the student.
Because
if we visit somebody's house, how do we
act?
As soon as we enter their door,
how do we act?
We act with etiquette.
And if we receive a guest in our
home, how do we treat
them?
If somebody visits us we should honor them.
Sayna Ibrahim with his guests.
So, he said the word bab also contains
everything
that encompasses
the etiquette of the student and the etiquette
of the teacher.
SubhanAllah in one word.
So, Sidna,
now he says,
The section on being sincere,
and being present.
To make sure my Mia is present in
worship.
In all that I say and do,
whether open or in private.
There's two points that need to be made
here quickly.
The first is,
there's a component of this
title which is obligatory. Like for example, some
acts of worship we have to have our
Nia, like salah, fasting, the month of Ramadan.
But then, also there are components
of our life
where niyyah,
sincerity is not
obligatory,
but is commendable.
So when he says he
means both.
Those things that we have to have intention
for like prayers and fasting,
and those things where it's commendable.
In public or in secret.
And he mentions 3 verses from the Quran.
Karallahu aza wajalbaadawudbilahiminashaytanarajim.
And this is a point for people also,
For students of knowledge.
That Imam Anawi, he didn't read with Hafs
al Asr. This is a mistake now in
prints of books. Everything's printed
yani alhamdulillah, it's Quran. But why is that
a problem? Because now everybody thinks the only
thing in the world is haf's.
Like one time, mashallah, I went to 1
Masjid,
and they
only would allow me to give the hubba
on Arabi.
So I gave the khutba and Arabi.
Then I led the salah and I forgot
because before I was reading
with Shawba and Asim reviewing. So I read
with Shawba.
I forgot.
Afterwards, one guy said to me,
man, your khutba, your arabia is so good,
but you don't know how to read the
Quran?
I said, I just gave the whole khutba
out of it. I don't know how to
read the Quran? He's like, he he told
me, how is this possible?
How did you do that? I said, no
no. It's a different I I made a
mistake. I didn't make a mistake but
I forgot.
So, actually the kira'ah
and the time of imam Anawi, the most
popular kira'ah in the Muslim world, who knows?
If you're from Syria, you have to know
this, man.
Especially if you're from Damascus.
Through Hisham and through
the
most popular khaira in the Muslim world.
In fact,
one of the early Muslims said to him
that I believe this riwayyah back to the
Prophet is going to be Like there'll be
nowhere in the Muslim world, nobody reads it.
It. Like, everywhere you go, you'll find people.
Now, it's hard to find people who read
with,
Riwait,
Ibn Amr, the. But it's super close to
hajj. That's why our students, when they finish
haps, we teach them
But it's printed in haps, and there's not
that many differences, but just an FYI.
1st verse from Shul Tubayina.
Allah said, They were not ordered. Allah
Subhanahu
Wa Jal Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala did not
order them to do anything except to worship
Him.
In Arabic we have something called hal.
We have it in English too but it's
a little different.
Hal is used to show
the state of something.
Like I gave him salaam but I was
angry.
It's always
man's suvyan.
And said,
It's always gonna be Mansoor.
But it's meant to show the
state of a person at hand.
We don't wanna talk about if nobody will
come
next week.
But, the point is,
is showing their state,
the condition of their heart, and their actions
were with
Something important here that most of the ulama
said this verse proves that and zakah are
part of the because
the aps. The next verse, laniyahalallahu
moha warahdi ma'amuwwaha
wa rakihinaruha
taqwaamikum.
Because the people of Mecca, they used to
go and throw
the bodies of animals on the Ka'bah.
They thought like this is going to bring
us closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So some of the new Muslims, because it's
easy to be influenced by the society that
we live in, said we should do the
same thing.
And this verse came.
Like the blood
and the sacrifice that these people have made
is not what reaches Allah. What reaches Allah
is taqwa and
niya. The last verse
Allah says that if you show or hide
in your heart, whatever Allah is gonna know
what's in your heart always.
This takes us to the first hadith, and
we have 6 minutes.
The son of Abdulaz,
the son of Uzza,
the son of Abdulla,
the son of Kurt,
the son of Raha,
the son of Adi,
People tell me it's hard to know all
the names of the Sahaba. You know the
names of the Kardashians.
Why ain't that hard?
You know the names that
whatever rap group is there or you know
the codes to
whatever video game
is popular, how come that's not hard? Because
when something's
hard because we don't love it. But when
we love it, it's easy. That's just how
life is.
This is the first hadith. The hadith of
intention.
Let's talk about Ikhlas. And the next week
we have to move quickly.
The word Ikhlas is from a word as
I heard from Sheikh Abdul Hamoud from Ib.
I don't know if Ib from Yemen, but
my teacher is from a place called Ib.
We used to have,
we used to have al seed
in the mornings. It's
really nice, al seed.
Masha' Abdullah Hamood
Hafidahullah.
He used to say to us that Ikhlas
is from the word
To clean, to purify.
So what do you see when you go
to like Hijaz,
and you wanna buy expensive honey? What's written
in Arabic? Asul what?
What?
It's been purified.
Purified
honey.
So the heart is purified
with a khalas.
Imam Abuhamad al Bazari,
he said that there are 2 types of
ikhlas.
The first
is ikhlas
related to being near Allah.
Like
And he said that, it's made up of
3 things.
Whenever I do an action,
I do it to be near Allah. Meaning
Allah's mercy and forgiveness.
Number 2, tawdim amrihi.
I do it out of respect and love
for the command of Allah. It's the
opposite of trans modern society, to respect the
sacred.
And the third is tijab lida'wati.
It's responding to the call of Allah.
So the first part of Ikhlas is Ikhlas
in worship means,
I'm doing it to be near Allah,
I have
reverence for the command of Allah, and I've
answered this call.
The second part, and this is where I'm
gonna stop,
is
Is why?
Why am I doing this act?
And he says in Minajal Abideen
for the hereafter.
For the hereafter.
Next week, we'll continue
We're gonna finish at least probably a half,
if not all, the first chapter of of
Riyadh Salihin
As we said earlier, we're not gonna get
into a lot of the side discussions
that
sometimes because the purpose of the book wasn't
that reason.
He wrote the book for Tuskeet and Nafs,
and to to travel to Allah. As
he said, To ask Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala
again
Ask Allah to
we talked about in the beginning, visited
him in his home,
that benefited a lot from him.
Ask Allah to forgive him, to illuminate his
grave,
and to allow Awlada Sahaba
to continue
with Sahwa
to continue this effort insha'Allah.
Ask God to bless you. Barakalahu feequm next
week insha'Allah 7:30.