Tamara Gray – Hub f sabli llh Story of Salman Al Farisi and Abu Darda
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The speaker discusses a story about someone who shows up at a friend's house and tries to convince them to eat. The story is about a desire for a longer one, but the speaker emphasizes the importance of being mindful of others' actions and not just being a fool. The speaker also mentions a long line between being a fool and being of service.
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Salman al farisi, who shows up at his friend's house, Abu darda,
whose wife is just fed up with him. He she's just like this man.
He's just his. He doesn't eat, he doesn't sleep. I don't know what
to do with him. She was just frazzled, trying to figure out,
you know, how to bring him back to Earth, so to speak. And Salman
Pharisee, he stays the night, and he his friendship with him is
really made clear when, in this friendship, he like he's he's,
first of all, he invites him to eat. Abu Dhabi invites Salman, in
fantasy, to eat, may Allah please open the bowl, and he says to him,
or Salman Pharisee is going to eat, but Abu Dhabi is fasting, so
he says, No, you come down and sit here and eat with me. And then
when it's time to sleep, Salman fantasy gets up. He's not going to
sleep. He's just going to pray. Abu tarda that does. And so Salman
pulls him down, and then he tries again. He pulls him down. Now in
this story, I just want to make sure I underline that in the last
third of the night, he gets up and he starts praying, and he Salman
fares, gets up with him. So it's not like this story is in any way
discouraging from tahajjud. It's quite the opposite. It's a story
of tahajjud and a desire for a longer one, but Salman Pharisee
shows how fisibilid shows that actionable love for sudden for Abu
Dharr da when he is concerned about his physical health and his
family relationships,
and he helps him come back to Earth, so to speak, and reminds
him that everything has a right upon him. And then their
relationship is very long, and we see them writing letters to one
another and continuing to encourage one another and also
scold one another, sometimes in and in what they felt they could
be doing, the other could be doing better. And all of this is part of
that. So I want you to think about somebody that you love.
Okay, think about somebody that you love. How are you doing in the
thinking about how to help them spiritually?
On one hand, there can be if there's this feeling that, well,
what are they doing for me,
which isn't harmful, that is hopeful. Dunya,
but then there's the question of the risk, if I am
in loving someone, how can I serve them, and what can I do for them
and really wanting to help them? That I think we feel like there's
a risk there somewhere,
somehow, our culture has taught us that we have to be really careful
not to over love people,
because they'll walk all over us or they'll hurt us. But here, I
mean, and I'm not talking about being foolish. I'm not talking
here about knowing someone is hurting you, or knowing someone is
spending all of your finances or No, no, no, no, I'm not talking
about that. I'm not talking about being a fool. But there's a long,
a big, thick line between being a fool and being of service and of
actionable love.