Hadith Series – #33 – Don’t Be Nosey

Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, what? Keti Hola, como Kathrada. So that asking too many questions isn't good. Right? If you're asking too many questions, you're prying. You're being nosy. You need to know what you need to know, and be happy with that. This reminded me of a story one time when I was studying in Medina,

I had gotten a car Hamdulillah I was able to buy a car over there and go to my different lessons and classes and things like that. And somebody I knew saw me outside the mesquite one day with this with this car, and they started asking me all these questions. So they asked like, Oh, I see you got a car. I just said, Yep, I tried to keep my answers, very short and minimal. So to kind of send him the message that maybe you shouldn't be asking all these questions. And he said, Are you going here? And I said, Nope. He asked me maybe a few more questions. And then he eventually got the hint. And he said, I should probably stop asking you questions. And I said, Yep. Because the prophets Allah

has said, I'm told us that this isn't the way that we should be. We shouldn't be prying into other people's business. Maybe there's something going on that they're shy to share. Or maybe there's something they're not confident about. Let people have their privacy. Don't poke your nose into everything, and be ready for the things that people actually want to share with you. That's what we should do in a snap.