Suhaib Webb – Treasures From The Sunna Part Four
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Word life.
Welcome to our regular Friday program,
where we cover,
some hadith and what's called Usuluddin.
Usuluddin
are like these foundational hadith.
And this is very important because a large
number of us are feeling
understandably
emotional
and upset about what's happening in the world,
And now, the last week in France,
and there's a lot of frustration,
and
a a passion to defend
the honor of the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
And that's very important and understandable.
And one of the ways that we want
to defend the honor of the Messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is by learning
his hadith,
by learning his sunnah,
and then learning the understanding
that scholars had of
these hadith, especially these foundational hadith. Because I'll
give you an example.
How does a a born Muslim or a
convert Muslim
become inadvertently
an agent of Islamophobia
or an agent of the enemies of the
Messenger of Allah.
I can give you a very simple example
from a conversation that I had just a
few days ago.
That was a person who was telling me
that all of the Hadith
are fabricated,
that the system of the science of Hadith
is,
something which is like imaginary,
that Buhari shouldn't be trusted, Muslim shouldn't be
trusted. There's different Qira'at.
There's all these different things happening, so therefore,
I just reject it all.
So then I asked this person So there
there is, like, a system, like,
something I studied.
There is a
incredibly,
I would say almost like
compulsive system
on preserving
the Quran, SubhanAllah,
like incredibly detailed.
Even there are rules for how you should
be quiet. Like the Quran,
the science of the Quran doesn't only have
the rules for how you should pronounce the
letters and the words and read them,
but also there are actually what's called alwakf,
and there's called which what's called a saft,
So, like, the Quran the science of the
Quran is so in-depth.
The recitation of the Quran and Tajweed of
the Quran and the in the preservation of
the Quran,
that not only do we have rules for
how to recite the Quran, we have rules
for how you should be quiet.
And that person told me, like, I didn't
know that.
Then I said to them, are you aware
of
the position of the great huffal of Hadith?
Do you know what it is even
a huffal of Hadith?
Said I didn't know. I don't know what
that means.
Are you aware of what, like, for example,
Imam Behabi said about women narrators
across
history?
The
consensus
amongst the scholars of hadith about female narrators.
And he was like, oh, what? Like, they
can't narrate. They're not allowed allowed to narrate.
This is like patriarchy. I said, no. No.
No.
Imam Badhahebi said that there has never been
a female liar.
There has never been a woman who lied
as
a rawia
of hadith.
So as we begin to have this conversation
with someone who's passionate about Islam,
it became very clear that this person did
not have the basic knowledge and information
beyond what he or she thought he or
she knew.
And their their lack of knowledge
of the fundamentals and the essentials
of the uloom of Quran, the uloom of
hadith, and and the challenge of the Muslim
community coming out of of of a colonial
decolonials
decolonial studies is is to learn the Quran,
is to learn Arabic.
Right? If I wanna if I wanna fight
white supremacy,
let me learn the Quran. Let me emancipate
myself
from all of these things and be with
Allah
because it is not allowed to have 1
biddeen.
Like, we believe, like, you're not allowed to
have iman based on on a suspicion or
assumption. Iman has to be uncertainty.
So as we begin to have this conversation,
this person who had dismissed
the canonical,
text of hadith, the qiraat of the Quran,
the great Ruwat of hadith, the great Imams
of Hadith,
it became very clear that inadvertently
he or she was using
what he or she had learned
in the Western Academy.
And that he or she had very little
knowledge,
very little functional knowledge of the
usool of our deen, how our deen works,
how hadith were preserved,
how the Quran was preserved,
how in the the study of the Quran
we even had a science early in Islam
that was dedicated
just to the numbering of the Quran.
Just the numbers, SubhanAllah,
of verses.
So I said to this person,
you have become now inadvertently
an enemy of your own religion.
You have become inadvertently now an extension of
the colonial enterprise.
You have become inadvertently
a member of the fraternity of Islamophobes
because you don't even know the system that
you're denying.
You don't even understand the great system that
was put in place by our ancestors
who made dua for us to preserve your
iman.
So this is why learning is very important.
Learning is very important not simply so that
you can be controlled,
course, learning should discipline us as we're going
to talk about today.
But also, if I fail to fill my
vessel
with religious knowledge,
something will fill that vessel,
and I will become inadvertently
an extension of someone else.
And maybe I choose to disregard my entire
religion
based on what I thought I learned at
Sunday school or what I thought I may
have taken in a small course or there
or what I heard from this YouTube clip
or this YouTube clip or these scholars were
fighting. And this is also
I'm pleading with the scholars and the teachers,
man, get to the people and teach the
people, stop fighting each other,
Right? Stop, stop going after one another. Get,
get on the ground
and educate a thirsty Masha'Allah, especially young
Muslims
across the globe.
So that's why this text is very important.
One of my teachers, doctor Mustafa Imara,
was a teacher who taught me hadith. He
was from Al Azhar, and he told me,
in America, this is one of the books
that you should teach.
That this book, Masha'Allah,
will really
help people.
It's not perfect, right? It's not gonna solve
all of our crisis,
but it will certainly help people gain a
functional literacy of Islam.
That's very important. You wanna have functional literacy
of your religion, man. Because if you're not
functional, you're dysfunctional.
And this this book, Al Muhtaram and Kanuz
As Sunnah and Nabuiyyah
from, Sheikh doctor Muhammad Abdullah Duraz, who actually
spoke more than he spoke French, he spoke
Arabic, Masha'Allah. He wrote in fact, his entire
PhD thesis was in French.
An Egyptian, Azharih, he died in the early
fifties in Lahore, Pakistan.
But this book actually is a summary of
a summary
of Jami'ul'osul
of Imam ibn Athir,
and then after that came what's called Taysir'osul,
of Azazabi Azabidi, and now comes
Sheikh Mohammed Abdul Adaraz. The the original text
of Imam Ibn ul Athir is massive.
It's massive. But Sheikh Abdul Abdulaz, he made
it in one volume
to give people
not only the texts,
this is important for you to understand this,
Not just to quote texts,
but to show you how the texts
are understood,
how we arrive to a proper understanding of
a text,
and then also the mechanics involved in preserving
the text. The mechanics of Islam are found
in this book in ways that are like
remarkable.
Because everyone can have a daleel.
Like anybody can go online and find hadith,
and find verses of Quran,
or find fatwa.
But we want also the scholars
are those who understand the
and the the the methodology
that has been passed to us from our
tradition
on how to understand and engage the test.
So one of my teachers one time, someone
came in and he started arguing with him.
And he said to the teacher, bring your
Dalil, bring your, so our teacher, he presented
his Dalil. And then the brother said, I
don't agree with this Dalil. What's your the
sheikh, he said, what's your Dalil? He brought
his Dalil. It actually was the dalil dalil
used to disprove his position.
And then the sheikh, he said, I don't
have a problem with your dalil. I have
a problem with how you understand dalil.
So we take this takes us now to
the 2nd hadith in this important series, every
Friday at 11:30.
Shall we plan to meet and read a
little bit from this book until we finish
it, InshaAllah.
Well, Yahya ibn Abi Kathir is one of
the great Tabi'in,
Right? One of the great students of the
companions of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
His name is Abu Hatim. He was known
as an imam, he was known as someone
who is Siqa. Siqa means someone that you
can rely in rely on in his narration.
And he died around 129
after Hijri,
Rahimullah.
He said,
And,
Abu Salamah ibn
Abdurrahman
is the son
of Abdulrahman
ibn A'ouf.
SubhanAllah.
So one of the beautiful things when you
study early hadith studies and the Quran
is that after the Sahaba, you start to
run into their grand, their sons, and their
daughters, and their grandchildren.
So you see that the Sahaba, and this
is very important for us to think about
as converts for like myself,
the Sahaba weren't just like a sudden burst
of
religious transformation,
but they were able to impact their offspring.
You know, they say about Abu Bakr radiAllahu
anhu.
His his Islam was so real
that his father,
his mother,
his wife,
his children,
and and some of his children's children accepted
Islam.
So he used to say that Abu Bakr
is the house of iman, like his family
is the house of iman,
radiAllahu anhu. So Abu Salama is the son
of Sayrunah
Abdulrahman ibn A'ouf radiAllahu anhu.
So Yahya ibn Abi Kathir, he says that
I asked this hadith is related by Buhari,
a Muslim.
He said that I asked
the son of Abdulrahman
ibn A'ouf and
I asked him what was the first thing
revealed or
Quran. What was the first thing sent
by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
in the Quran? The word Quran
is very important.
Right?
Some some ulama, as you know, this is
what you you miss when you when you
when you don't engage deeply.
But usually if you ask somebody what's the
meaning of Quran,
they say to
recite
to recite.
But also in the famous,
poem of a nebula,
lem taqra
Rahima.
The word taqra means to stick,
to bring together.
Allah calls the menstrual cycle of a woman
or the 3 clean periods of the woman
depending on which fiqh you follow as
because the blood sticks.
So the Quran is something that brings things
together.
That's the other meaning mentioned by scholars, that
the Quran is something that brings us together.
It makes us whole.
It
gives us a feeling of wholeness.
Sheikh, he says
and and,
we relate this with suned back to the
writers, Sayedna Buhari.
Was lucky to collect one of the shortest
asanid in the world.
Some say the shortest sunid in the world
to Sheikh Abdul Ahmed Ketani from Morocco. Allahu
Akbarah. I I plan to write about all
my trips, you know, to different countries, but
My my my visit to Morocco really was
such a great, great experience for me and
an amazing opportunity to see people in Morocco.
So he says, I ask
says
I asked the son of Abdul Rahman ibn
A'ouf what was the first
thing revealed in the Quran. And
Abdul Rahman ibn A'ouf, his son,
Abu Salamah says,
Of course, this is the 74th chapter of
the Quran.
And immediately,
Yahia, he responds and he says, but they
say, I mean, the Sahaba and the and
the ulema,
salihin, just as Ayman has mentioned now in
the comments.
Allah bless you. Masha'Allah. You're very inquisitive, and
you're listening. Ayman, Allah bless you, man. He
said the same thing. He said, but they
say the first thing that was sent was
Iqra,
The son of Abdul Rahman ibn A'off, he
said,
the great Sahabi. And Zariq, I I said
the same thing to Jabriq ibn Abdullah.
I had the same exact conversation you're having
with me.
And Jabir, he said to me, I'm not
telling you anything except what I heard from
the messenger of Allah,
salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Who said?
Jawar to be hira shaharan.
The prophet said, I spent a month in
hira, and this is the month of Ramadan.
And when I completed this month,
imagine what this moment means to you, man.
As a Muslim, this moment that we're talking
about, we went through the first hadith with
the hadith of Aisha. The first hadith says
that the first thing revealed to Sayna Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam was iqra. This is the
opinion of the majority of the ulama. Why
would the sheikh didn't bring this hadith?
Why would Bukhari bring this hadith right after
the hadith of Aisha? To throw you off
and sometimes to teach you. Because when you
you read this hadith right after the hadith
of Aisha that says the first thing revealed
to the prophet was iqra, People like, oh,
man, these ulema. What do you mean it's
the ulema who put both hadith in front
of you?
If Bukhari was gonna hide something, he wouldn't
put this hadith here.
If sheikh doctor Muhammad Abdullah Duraz rahimuhullah
would wanted to hide something from you or
me, why would he put the hadith here?
We need to be very careful about having
a bad assumption of our ulema. Again, this
is the outcome of a post colonial headache.
We come from a community
who historically,
our ulema, were great people, and we honor
them.
We respected them.
And not only the ulama, in general, we
had a good assumption of fellow Muslims.
So how could this cause me now to
have a bad suspicion of them when they're
the ones who put it in front of
me? Like, one person recently reached out to
me. They said, you read with different kira'at?
I said, yes. They said, well, you know,
all this kira'at I saw,
professor, he was saying this means that the
Quran isn't preserved. I said to him, where
did that professor
get his information about the
He got it from the ulama.
If the ulama
are are scholars the earliest scholar, the Sahaba,
and those ancestors of ours
who held the din better than us,
if they were up to something, then why
would they have preserved it? Because they knew
that they this is the the truth that
we now we're not understanding correctly. Why would
the sheikh put this hadith right after the
hadith that says,
Because he's trying to make you and I
think a little deeper, and to take us
somewhere
very important that's gonna open up many, many
issues of functional religious literacy. That's why al
Bukhari, alayirhamu,
he put this hadith as did Muslim
right after after the hadith of Aisha.
We have to be very careful
that the Western world who has its suspicions
and its problems with its religious teachers,
if I'm constantly being furnished
with that kind of education,
If Netflix is in my mind more than
the Quran,
if Call of Duty is more in my
mind than I have exposed at least to
the the the Quran.
If certain type of songs are more exposed
to them than the Quran,
then of course I'm gonna have a bad
suspicion of religious people
because I'm exposed to heathenry.
And heathenry now is becoming the source of
my, of my mind.
This is how I begin to, like, think
about things.
And the irony
of all of this
is that in the name of critical
thought,
capitalism offers you freedom
in a way
that allows you to be uncritical of evil,
but highly critical of any claim to
the knowledge of God.
Tolerant
towards sin,
restricted and upset and angry
with faith.
We have to be very careful. Of course,
I'm not I watched, something Netflix tonight with
my wife, the the Chappelle interview with David
Letterman. It was amazing. Right? I'm not saying
we give up on on leisure,
but I should not allow these things to
become what puts what Imam Mark Manley likes
to talk about, the furnishings in our minds.
I have a certain lens,
a Quranic lens. And one of the outcomes
of postmodernity
is that we have zero
patience,
or tolerance,
or trust
to learn religion.
But we will bend over
backwards
to be accepted
by irreligious people.
Just like just take a step back
and and and see where you are,
and see what matters to you, and see
what moves you, and question your value system.
I play games too. Like, I'm not gonna
lie. Like, we all have gonna have our
fun and enjoy life,
but we we need to be careful too.
Especially when I start to, like, have constant
negative
towards religion.
That could be to to other experiences, parents,
bad religious leadership,
corruption,
then that that's there, that needs to be
treated.
But why would he put this hadith right
after the hadith of Sayeda Aisha radiAllahu Anha?
For a number of reasons that it's really
actually very interesting Insha'Allah.
So the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says
When I completed
this time in
this time of the this month, Ramadan,
I
descended
and suddenly I was called. I heard myself.
Yeah. I heard Yeah, Mohammed.
Somebody called me.
I looked to my right,
I didn't see anything.
I looked to my left, I didn't see
anything.
I looked behind me,
I didn't see
anything. He said then I looked up and
I saw something. And if you understand Arabic,
he says
He doesn't say I saw this thing. He
said, I saw something, like,
incredible.
Does anyone know who he saw?
A lot of people here.
Does anyone know
who he saw?
He saw Sayna Jibreel.
So
the
few times that the prophet
good job, Ayman. Some of the ulemas said
that this is one of the few times
the prophet
saw Jibreel in his true form.
Why do you think
see people answering? Why do you think Aisha,
great job.
Why do you think
in the beginning of this moment,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allowed the prophet to
see Jibril in his true form?
The very beginnings of prophethood.
Why?
This is like overwhelming.
Why?
Like why would that happen?
He said, you know, everywhere I looked I
saw him. Another narration, like, everywhere I looked
I saw him.
Why why
Why is it very important
that in the very beginning
he's already a believer. Right? He's a prophet,
alhamdulillah, but you're close. You're close is very
good answer.
Because if you know that that has your
back,
you won't be scared.
If you know that this is gonna support
you,
And Surat Tahrim Allah says Allah is the
friend of Muhammad,
alayhi salaam. And Jibril is the friend of
Muhammad,
alayhi salaam.
So here we learn something, and this is
kind of the theme of the early part
of prophethood,
is how Allah
looks after the emotional needs of us.
Specifically, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
but also
we as the Ummah of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
And then he says,
He says, I I looked at him,
and I was so overwhelmed. I couldn't stand.
You need to be careful. There's a translation
of Buhari out there
that says, I wanted to throw myself off
a mountain. This is not found in the,
earliest
existent copies of Bukhari. This is the addition
of a scribe.
And that's why I said, like, it's very
important to study,
And it's very important, just an hour a
week, if you spend an hour a week
in this text with me
and you take notes,
InshaAllah
you'll benefit, and you'll find yourself slowly growing.
You're not gonna I'm not gonna have all
the answers for you, of course not. But
I know that, Masha'a, this text will really
provide you
a lot of information. So for example, when
I read Bukhari to my teacher,
and I asked him about this,
Right? The prophet, it's impossible for us to
believe that the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he would have reacted that way because at
that moment, he's a prophet
and it's not found
in the narration of Bukhari that comes from
people,
as well as the early existent
text of al Bukhari.
The greatest narrator of Bukhari in history,
2 of them were women, Alkanza,
and the other one was Fatima of Herat,
Afghanistan. I don't know how many of our
brothers and sisters are here from Afghanistan. May
Allah bless Afghanistan.
Incredible
ancient beautiful culture.
Imagine that the greatest
known person to memorize all of Bukhari was
Fatima from Halat, Afghanistan.
SubhanAllah, people used to go to her and
she would read Buhari to them and they
would write it.
So in those in those narrations,
we don't find that the prophet was saying,
I wanted to throw myself off a mountain.
He says,
I I couldn't
I couldn't stand up.
So I went to Khadija
I went there, I said
cover me with this cloth, this cloth.
And then it was revealed after
This hadith, alhamdulillah, we're gonna take a few
a few points, Insha'Allah.
I think that will help you.
And that the first one is,
as Ayman in the comments mentioned, Allah bless
you, Ayman. I'm so happy to see the
way that you're listening, man, and and Aisha
also.
But the first thing that was revealed was
Iqra. We have a system for this. You
wanna write this down if you can, maybe
someone can write a comment.
There is a system when it appears that
text may contradict each other
or narrations
of sound authentic hadith
may contradict each other.
And that is called
with ta.
Alif. Ta'aold
ba.
Ta'a'ard
al'adillah.
Ta'a'ard
al'adillah
is one of the fields of subjects
that we study
in. There is an entire
year
dedicated
to understanding. Can you imagine in Al Azhar?
A year, all's we studied were what looked
like were con
contradicting texts.
So the 1st semester, you learn the theories.
The 2nd semester
you have to apply them. You have to
solve the problems.
It's like so dope. It's it's amazing. Right?
Masha'Allah.
So there's a system for this called Ta'arud.
And Imam Mashokani,
he says something, Ta'arud means contradiction.
Good job. Excellent question. Tawab means contradiction.
Tana'ot.
Right? Two opposites, 2 contradicting contradicting evidences.
Because the first evidence we studied,
say to Aisha, and if you have a
chance go to YouTube and watch this this
series. Why do they do 4 of these?
Right? The first is on how revelation started,
what's revelation, the different types of revelation, the
malaika.
My concern
is that one of the challenges of Muslims
living in secular society
is that we are naturally going to be
consumed by the concerns of not of secular
society.
But if we're not careful, we will be
so consumed by the concerns of secular society
that we will spend our time adopting those
concerns
and not pay attention to learning our deen.
And if I don't have a flashlight, I
can't shine light into the cellar, man.
But there has to be a balance.
So
means that we look at a number of
things. Number 1 is the is there, like,
a historical
difference? So did this happen first or this
happened first? A. It's 1. I'm gonna give
you just a few.
The second was called.
Maybe the person narrating this
didn't hear
it from someone else.
So this is what that person knows.
And here you're gonna see something remarkable, and
this is what Bukhari is trying to teach
you here. That Jabir ibn Abillah,
he didn't know,
like, he didn't hear from others
that,
sorry, that,
Jabrilah,
excuse me. He didn't hear the other narrations.
Jabir becomes Muslim later on.
He didn't hear the narrations of the Sahaba.
They said iqra was the first thing revealed.
So Jabir ibn Abdillah is saying, I'm narrating
what I know.
And Bukhari is trying to show you the
great honor that the Sahaba
had for the prophet. So this type of
happens
when a Sahabi
doesn't have the information
that other Sahaba have. Happened a lot because
they didn't have email, they didn't have social
media, the the way of communication wasn't necessarily
the same. Jabir ibn Abdullah is the last
Sahabi to die in Medina.
A lot happens.
A lot of people left Medina.
So when Jabir says,
I'm not gonna
say,
Actually, what Bukhari is trying to show you
is that Jabr ibn Abdillah
knows when it's not time to get into
theory. He knows when it's not time to
get into ijjihad.
He knows when it's time to say, this
is what I heard from the messenger of
Allah, and this is what I know from
the messenger of Allah, and that's why I
stopped.
Incredible.
Was the jumuhur of the ulama?
This is one way to explain this.
They said, no. The opinion of Sayeda Aisha
is the strongest opinion. Why? Because it's Aisha.
This is something remarkable
that when it comes to these type of
ahadith,
the wives of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam are often given given preference because there's
wives, they live with him.
They know things
that other people don't know.
SubhanAllah.
So here here you start to unpack something.
It wasn't just sloppy, oh, this Hadith says
this, the second hadith is I don't understand
what's going on. No, man. You gotta dive
deeper, man. You gotta take some time and
be patient.
Nobody complains when the song is 5 minutes
longer than it should be because the remix
is
but
postmodernity
makes us impatient for spirituality.
It makes us impatient.
So you gotta check yourself. I gotta check
myself.
I have to make sure, like, am I
being impacted in a way where I have
zero tolerance for this kind of stuff in
religion, but I'm patient all day long
with the mistakes outside?
That's one way. So the first
is that
Jabri
Abdi lama kanyahifhadal
khabra.
He didn't hear it from the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. He says, I didn't hear
it from the prophet.
This is what I heard from him.
The second combines
the historic
historical
or chronological
order.
And that is that if we take the
other narrations, and this is the third way
to deal with
seemingly contradictory evidences, is to bring all of
those Ahadis together on this issue.
And that's called sabr wa taksim sabr wa
taksim,
You gotta take with seen, not sod. You
gotta take your time. You gotta do your
research. You gotta make sure even
you gotta put in work
in any of these narrations that talk about
Sultan Hudathir and Iqra and the beginnings of
Wahi,
you bring them all together.
And
if we look at one of the sound
narrations of this, it says,
after fatr al Wahi,
that this happened
after revelation
stopped. Oh, snap.
So if revelation
stopped,
another narration of the prophet that talks about
Mudethir being sent to him, not from Jabri
ibn Abdullah,
from another Sahadi.
It says that after revelation stopped,
I returned to the Gharihira,
and then this happened,
then I went home. I went to my
wife's saydah Khadija. One of the narrators said
she poured water on him.
Number 2, he said cover me, cover me,
cover me.
How amazing was Khadija, man?
Those people who are married,
we were all married, my wife's my best
friend, hamdulillah. I love my wife more than
anyone in the world, Masha'Allah.
But
I know if I came home a few
times like this,
my wife might be like, hey.
I don't know, buddy.
How
incredible
is Sayida Khadija,
and how incredible is Sayyida Muhammad
that she doesn't
accuse him of losing it, man.
She doesn't she doesn't question him.
The second time, so the strong opinion
as mentioned in the other narrations that say,
after revelation stopped, meaning after Iqra came to
him, alayhi salatu salaam.
Then he returned back to Harihira.
And then again,
this experience happened, but this time he saw
the angel,
and he runs home.
And she covers him.
So this is a different
time.
The first one is iqra,
the second is
Why though?
Is about knowledge. Right?
Like, Allah taught you.
Some said
because Muhammad
is the apex of human beings.
That's why Allah says,
Muhammadan madam Yalem. A Naboo, a prophet that
he didn't know before.
Allah said, you didn't know before because Sayyidina
Rasool
is the greatest human being.
But after he taught him,
and this touches on kind of the
educational
philosophy of Islam,
That cognition
is only part of knowledge.
Other part of the knowledge
is to act.
And this is where sometimes we need to
emancipate ourselves, man, and delve into
our own religious
understanding and our religion's approach on things, so
that we have an emancipated mind.
People ask me, are you liberal? Are you
conservative?
I'm a prophetic moralist.
Wherever prophetic morals are,
that's where we should
be. But I understand this.
If you think
the neoconservatives
like you,
you're a fool.
Yeah. If you think you can dance with
the devil and not get burnt,
man.
I'll leave it
at
that. Nobody should be under any illusion.
Muslims always trying to be cute, man.
But I also like to tell people, we
have 2 foundations
in Washington DC.
Two foundations, 2 Muslim foundations in Washington DC.
Neither of them are independent. Neither of them
are really ran by the community.
The Catholic
church has more than 40 foundations in Washington
DC. Well, we're gonna start building power.
We're too busy fighting to build.
If if Nuh alaihis salatu salam was arguing
with people about what kind of wood to
make the boat, they would have never built
the boat.
They would have talked about it. We we
like to talk big, but do we build
power?
Do we put money into building power
to protect our community, to protect ourselves, to
protect our people? Sayed ibn Musayib, the great
Tawiyin, he said, there's no good in a
person who doesn't collect enough wealth to protect
his community.
But we like to talk.
So why would
why would
Sultan Mudezir come? Because Sultan Mudezir says, come,
stand and do your job.
After we taught you,
we taught you. Iqra,
recite.
We gave you the knowledge,
but you can't sit.
It's not time for that.
You covered up.
Get up
and get busy.
Get up and warn. There's something very beautiful
here. Allah didn't say
He didn't say warn and give good news.
He said warn
because the state of the people of Mecca
was so bad,
you just had to bring it.
Warn them
because they are committing shirk.
Bring it.
So now I learned, I went and studied,
I I went to this university, I I
went to Madrasa, I I attended this lecture
of this sheikh, I listened to Suhayib tonight.
What are you going to do tonight
after this halakah
to improve your life and the lives of
people around you? If you don't do anything
to improve your life, or the life of
the people in your circle of influence, I
failed you as a teacher.
And you failed to understand.
Because after Sultan Al Adak comes,
now it's time to get busy, man.
And magnify
your Lord.
Remind them that Allah is greater than anything
they know.
Remind them of
anything they think is amazing.
Allahu Akbar. That's why when you pray, you
say Allahu Akbar because you just gave up
on everything else.
You just muted everything else that's why it's
called
because now everything's haram on me. Allahu Akbar.
I can't even talk
because Allah is
Akbar. And now we see people killing people
saying Allahu Akbar.
Like, really?
We're above this.
We're beyond this.
The word
has
two meanings.
Number 1 is clothing.
So we see Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
is is starting to teach us about salah.
Allahu Akbar is
teaching us about Tahara
to be outwardly pure. So takbir
is
a internal
internal
purity
that I recognize
everything around this celebrity,
this bronzer,
this dude working out with tats and big
muscles,
this, you know, 401 k, this
Bitcoin mind that this dude has, this startup
that this guy has, this, this, this. Allah
is bigger than all that.
Whatever I'm scared of, Allahu Akbar.
So the mind
is pure.
Again, think about the ethos. So the ekra
deals with the internal cognitive furnishings.
Is not talking about external responsibility.
And then in the in the beginning
of clean your mind, clean your clothes.
Be theoretically
clean, cognitive clean, intellectually clean, and be physically
clean.
Again,
this balance between 2.
The other meaning of as mentioned by imam,
is that is your heart.
The Arabs call the heart the
because just as you have a on you
all the time and you have to keep
it clean all the time and you have
to make sure it doesn't fade,
you have to look after your soul, man.
Look after your heart.
It's gotta be washed every day
in ancient Arabic.
There's 2 here.
If you say
this means
sin. Leave sin.
What means,
idolatry.
In shirk.
Shaitan. Allah says the filth. Like, Shaitan tries
to bring you into shirk.
Then he says
to and all of this happened before
salah was made
Why would the narrator say that?
This is what's called You
study hadith long enough and you read hadith
to teachers, you're able to recognize, oh, this
is
like I'm throwing myself off a mount.
Here, this statement,
I actually put a line under it in
the book.
This is called
Indiraj
Zierat
Tawrawi.
Exactly, masha'Allah,
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Why would he say that?
Is number 1 to say that
takbir in the verse means aqira,
and
means like general purity. So there was no
relation between this and salah. That's one meaning.
The second thing is that because salah is
so important,
that oftentimes you find in hadith sahabo use
it as a point of reference
because it was so central to the establishment
and growth of Islam.
So today
we took the hadith of Yahya ibn Abi
Kathir. He died in,
a 129
after Hijri
that he narrated from the son Abu Salama
of Abdulrahman ibn Auf,
and of course, Abu Salama is one of
the famous 7 of Madinah. For those of
you who have Marik, he's Abu Salamah, the
son of Abraham ibn A'ouf. He's one of
the seven great fuqaha
of Medina, which
which Imam Malik based his madhab, and, of
course,
Abu Salama died 93 after Hijri.
And then from Jabir ibn Abdillahi radiAllahu anhu
was the last Sahabi to die in Medina,
this discussion about what was sent first, iqra,
moadathir,
what happened,
the idea of between the evidences,
the different ways, I only gave you 3,
but there's more. To deal with evidences that
seem like they contradict,
number 1, right, we said is to,
see if there's, like, a historical precedent. Number
2, does the narrator know of the other
evidence?
Right?
And so on and so forth. Then we
talked about the hadith itself as narrated by
Sayid Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallamah,
the emotional love we should have for one
another as a community,
the greatness of Sayidah Khadija Radiallahu Ta'ala Anha,
the beginning of Surah Muldathir, the meaning of
of and their knowledge has to be met
with responsibility.
Responsibility is met with action. What's the first
responsibility with our knowledge? Is to improve our
lives, to become better people man.
To work on ourselves.
It's okay to make mistakes. Nobody should ask
anyone to be perfect.
It's by redemption that we truly understand Allah's
mercy.
Right? It happens.
And then after that,
recognizing Allah's transcendence,
purifying our hearts and our clothing and our
lives,
and then avoiding sin and avoiding shirk,
and that was before, as he says in
the narration,
salah was revealed,
made an obligation
upon the prophet,
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And Sayna Jabir ibn Abdullah,
he actually died 78
after the migration of the Prophet. Next week
Insha'Allah,
let me look and see,
which Hadith we'll be reading. We'll be reading
from the 3rd Hadith. And as you can
see,
I believe that this text is very important
because it gives you
a lot of information
about
how text work
and how we understand text and how we
engage text.
Next week insha'Allah we'll pick up the Hadith
from Sayna Umar Muhatab RadiAllahu Anhu, we'll talk
a little bit about Umar and his Islam.
If you have any questions we can take
questions. If not, I try to keep it
short and to the point.
Feel free to share with others. We really
appreciate that. If you have any questions, we
can take them now, InshaAllah for a few
minutes.
What is the text? The text is called
Al Muhtar
Min Kunuz
as Sunnah Nabawiya
of the great Azhari Sheikh
doctor Mohammed Abdullah Duraz, who died in Lahore,
Pakistan
in the early fifties.
Really, he and his father were exemplary
great scholars.
Unfortunately, there's not a translation. Maybe somebody can
help me. We can take the notes from
these classes and we can take, you know,
the translation and kinda work on it in
the future. Maybe we can do a community
translation
on Google Docs,
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Is Christianity shirk? Absolutely Christianity is shirk because
it believes that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala occupied
a physical space.
It believes that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala walked,
breathed,
slept and moved, had a spatial reality and
for us as Muslims that shirk, right? Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is beyond time,
beyond space.
Yeah. So, Sofia, it's a great question.
Sayyid ibn Musayid,
the great great scholar,
early scholar, one of the greatest scholars of
the
students of the Sahaba.
He used to say there's no good in
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What was the first thing he said to
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And he said to him, it was
Then
he said, I thought it but
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Can you tell about the non obligatory prayers?
Yeah. We know that the prophet said whoever
pray certain sunnah prayers,
Allah will build them a house in paradise.
Those prayers, the 2 raka'at before Fajr,
4 raka' before Duhr, 2 raka' after Duhr,
3 raka' after Maghrib,
and 2 or 4 after Salatul Aisha.
Halasihan.
It's easy, hamdulillah. And the witter.
How do we respond to people who are
rejoicing about them? Should tell these people they're
disgusting people. Like why would they rejoice about
this man being beheaded in France? The prophet
he didn't rejoice,
you know, when he had the opportunity with
Ta'if,
he didn't rejoice on that.
So, you know,
some people you just don't need to respond
to. Right?
Like some people we don't need to respond
to.
Yeah. We're still doing lives of the prophet.
We have also Lacey, the first one. Again,
it started with a new group, and then
we have part 2. But it's all recorded
so you can find it on SWISS
there, Alhamdulillah.
Any other questions InshaAllah?
Next week, we're gonna spend, I still have
to put up something about envy so we
can finish up our series on the spooky.
I really appreciate everybody involved and then next
week Insha'Allah we're gonna do a special series
on death and dying.
What happens when people die,
do not resuscitate issues, things that families need
to think about.
A lot of questions people have about communicating
with dead relatives and so on and so
forth.
We'll continue,
to speak on that.
Yeah. It's a simple question because Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala can command us to do good
but decree evil.
Right? We believe this that Allah's decree can
be in opposition to his command and that's
the test of life. So
SubhanAllah, if you think about it, Allah commanded
everyone to believe, but he decreed that Abu
Jahl will be a Kafir.
So
the command of Allah and the decree of
Allah, and unfortunately, Muslims sometimes we don't know
this, right? That the command of Allah and
the decree of Allah can be
in contradiction.
And that's where the test is. I look
around me, the whole world's evil, everything's bad,
but Allah commands me to be good. Do
I believe more in the world or do
I believe in the command? If I believe
in the command, then this means I worship
Allah as though I see him even though
I can't see him, I know he sees
me. That's Ihsan.
That's what it says. Those who believe in
the Lord, they can't see. Those who believe
in the unseen. I can't see the one
commanded me to do good, but I can
see all this evil.
But I'm gonna choose the one that has
commanded me to do good and not let
this evil get to me because I know
that the promise of Allah is true true.
This is the height of Ihsan.
That's why the prophet said to worship Allah
is though you see Him.
Even though you can't see Him, you know
He sees you. Evil is part of life.
Any other questions inshallah? So every Friday at
11:30,
super good to see you guys as always
inshallah, I hope we're able to serve you
in a certain capacity. We'll continue to read
from, Alhamdulillah,
the book,
Al Muhtar min Kunuz
Sunnati. An Nabawiyah, before we leave,
just wanna say a special prayer for the
Muslim brothers and sisters in France.
Facing a lot of challenges, man. A great
history of Islamophobia.
The second thing is wanna pray for my
family. You know, I have like
a lot of love for the Southern California
Muslim community.
My history with the Muslims in Southern California
starts at my conversion.
And, you know, the fires and everything that's
happened in Southern California,
we make dua for you, Insha'Allah.
We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to bless
you, to protect
you, to protect your homes, to protect your
family. And then finally,
one of our dear brothers, he was the
janitor of the mosque that I was an
imam in in Boston for years, Hajj Muhammad
is actually in intensive care with COVID-nineteen
on a respirator.
Please keep him in your Dua, Hajj Muhammad
from Morocco
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Afikum. Assalamu alaykum wa hamtulla.