Waleed Basyouni – Friday Khutba 22-11-2024
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The Great Greatest is a culture where pride and arrogance is a core strength. Humility is defined inside the heart, used to reflect on actions and language, and is essential for achieving humility. Humility is also a fruit of forgiveness, patient behavior, and a culture of forgiveness. Humility is crucial for individual relationships and achieving humility.
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Allah is the Greatest.
Allah is the Greatest.
There is no god but Allah.
As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
One of the main character of the Muslim,
of the people of paradise, is humility.
And humility is a great character trait.
To have that sense of humility and to
be down to earth.
To be an easy person to be approached.
An easy person to deal with.
You know, when you feel that there is
no distance between you and that person.
And when we look at the people of
Jannah, the Prophet ﷺ says, لَا يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ
مَن كَانَ فِي قَلْبِهِ مِثْقَالُ حَبَّةِ خَرْدَرٍ مِّن
كِبْرٍ Even if you have as much as
the mustard seed of arrogance, that will be
enough to prevent you from entering paradise.
Not a pound or two, just a mustard
seed.
The smallest amount will prevent you from entering
paradise.
The Prophet ﷺ said, إِنَّ أَهْلَ النَّارُ كُلُّ
جُعْظِرِيًّا جَوَّاظٍ مُتَكَبِّرٍ Which it means that the
people of hellfire are those who are arrogant.
Those who are arrogant and not arrogant.
Arrogant and mean as well.
And the Prophet ﷺ was the best example
for us when it comes to this character
trait.
He was so down to earth with all
the quality and the special quality that he
had ﷺ.
And in the contrary, in the opposite, the
best example was given to us for an
entity that it is filled with arrogance is
Iblis, the Satan.
Actually the first thing the Satan, one of
the first thing that we know about him
that how arrogant a Satan is.
He said, أنا خيرٌ منه, I'm better than
him, Adam.
I was created from fire and he was
created from clay.
So those who are arrogant, those who don't
have sense of humility, actually are in the
same category, in the same character traits of
the Satan.
And those who understand the importance of humility
are in the same category of the Prophets
and the Messengers and the follower of the
Messengers.
Humility is not just talk.
It's a character trait.
Humility is not a polished exterior.
It's basically a way of life.
Humility is not just cheap words that you
use.
That day I was listening to somebody was
saying, you know, with all sense of humility,
I feel like I'm the only one who's
correct in this.
What kind of sense of humility is that?
It's just not an empty words that it's
said.
By the way, humility before it is words
and actions, it's actually comes from the heart.
You have to have that sense of humility
inside your heart.
And that will reflect on what language that
you use, what action that you take.
Humility and arrogance are the opposite of one
another.
As the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
بَقَ الْكِبْرُ بَطَرُ الْحَقُّ وَغَمْطُ النَّاسِ كَنْ فِي
صَيْحِ مُسْلِمِينَ اِحْتِقَارُهُمْ The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, arrogance is what?
Is rejecting the truth and looking down upon
others.
You see other as nothing.
Especially when you become more expert, and you
have more experience, more knowledge, more power, more
money, more fame, more position, and you start
looking down upon others.
That arrogance.
And al-Fudayl ibn Iyad said, when he
was asked, what is humility?
How you define humility?
قَالَ يَخْضَعُ لِلْحَقِّ وَيَنْقَادُ لَهِ وَيَقْبَلُهُ مِمَّنْ قَالَهُ
When you submit to the truth, to what
is right and correct, and you follow it.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in many verses
in the Quran praise the believer for being,
you know, have that sense of humility down
to earth.
For instance, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said
in surah al-Ma'idah, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ
آمَنُوا مَنْ يَرْتَدَّ مِنْكُمْ عَنْ دِينِهِ فَسَوْفَ يَأْتِ
اللَّهُ بِقَوْمٍ يُحِبُّهُمْ وَيُحِبُّونَ أَذِلَّةٍ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
أَعِزَّةٍ عَلَى الْكَافِرِينَ Allah said, O believers, whoever
among you abandons their faith, Allah will replace
them with others.
Then He described those others by saying, one
of the things He said, they will be
humble with the believers.
And Nabi ﷺ said, in the hadith reported
by al-Imam Muslim rahimahullah, قال, وَمَا تَوَضَعَ
أَحَدٌ لِلَّهِ إِلَّا رَفَعَهُ اللَّهِ Anyone who will
be humble toward others, or with others.
Those who have that sense of humility with
others, that character trait, Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala will elevate them in this life and
the hereafter.
And in Nabi ﷺ said, the one that
I hate the most, and He mentioned among
them as in hadith al-Tirmidhi, and the
arrogance ones.
And Nabi ﷺ said, the best among you,
the best of manners.
And humility is one of the best character
trait that you can ever have.
Look at the Prophet ﷺ how down to
earth he was ﷺ.
One time, somebody came and said, Ya Rasulullah,
give me my money.
I lend you money and you late.
Then in Nabi ﷺ, and he was very
mean and rude to the Prophet ﷺ.
Umar radiyallahu anhu was about to strike that
person because of how rude he is.
And Nabi ﷺ said, No, don't do that.
You should have asked him to speak, to
ask nicely, and you should ask me, ask
me to pay him back.
I should have paid on time.
That's a great deal of humility from him
ﷺ to admit that and to say that.
قَالْ هَلْ لَأَمَرْتَهُ بِحُسْنِ الطَّلَبِ وَمُرْنِي بِحُسْنِ الْأَدَاءِ
Ask me to pay in a better way.
I should be better.
Should have paid earlier even, or better way.
And Nabi ﷺ said, Don't praise me.
And he doesn't like to be praised in
his face ﷺ by the companions.
He will not let the companions even walk
behind him.
He said, If you walk either in the
right or the left, but not behind me.
I'm not a king.
People walk into the gathering, they will not
recognize the Prophet ﷺ by a chair or
a distinguished throne or distinguished clothes or anything
or a crown or anything of that nature.
He were like any others.
A woman was shaking when she was giving
salam to the Prophet ﷺ.
Nabi ﷺ said, Don't worry.
You don't need to worry.
إِنَّمَا نَبْنُ مُرَأَةٍ كَانَتْ تَلُتْتُ السَّوِيقَ لِلنَّاسِ فِي
مَكَّةٍ You know my grandmother used to sell
bread for the people of Mecca.
Don't worry.
I'm a simple person.
Can look at how sense of humility ﷺ.
When he shakes somebody's hand, he will not
leave the hand until the person leaves first.
Some people you give them salam, he give
you the tip of his fingers.
Give you salam like that.
It means how ﷺ demonstrate that.
You know, work with the companions, carry the
stones on his shoulder ﷺ in the day
of Al-Ahzab.
Eat with the companions, whatever kind of food
that they have.
He will go visit the sick, the weak,
the poor, the orphans.
Attend their funerals ﷺ.
He will never feel bad to walk with
the orphan and the little girls.
She asked him, Ya Muhammad, and he said,
what do you want?
Where do you want me to meet you?
وَإِنَّ الصَّبِيِّ الْجَارِيَةِ The young girl will come
and imagine, the Prophet ﷺ standing with the
companion.
تَأْدِ الْجَارِيَةِ The young girl will come and
she pull the Prophet ﷺ from his sleeve.
تَأْخُذْ بِيَدِهِ To the side to talk to
him and he will listen to her ﷺ.
That's a great deal of humility.
And that's Muhammad ﷺ.
Jabir said, I was sick and Nabi ﷺ
came all the way to my place walking,
not riding ﷺ.
Look at his house, nothing in it so
exaggerating in any type of clothes or nothing
in his house actually you can look at
to fulfill your eyes with.
Like nothing expensive or anything of that nature.
So simple.
وَمِنْ أَعْجَبْ مَا قَرَأْتْ فِي هَٰذَا One of
the interesting hadith in Sunnah of Abu Dawud,
that Nabi ﷺ once was drinking from a
bowl full of water.
Then Nabi ﷺ next to him a kitten,
just a little cat.
And it was looking to the water, so
Nabi ﷺ give the cat the water to
drink from the bowl.
As in a great deal of humility.
That's something we should ask ourselves.
Are we like our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ?
What demonstrate that character traits in our actions?
I'll share with you few inshaAllah in the
next khutbah.
May Allah ﷻ bless us with the best
of manners.
أَقُولُوا مَا سَمَعْتُمْ أَسْتَغْفِرُوا اللَّهَ لِي وَإِكْرَمْ فَاسْتَغْفِرُوا
حَمْدُ لِلَّهِ وَحْدَهُ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى مَنْ لَا
نَبِيَ بَعْدَهُ وَبَعْدٍ This part of the khutbah
is the action items.
Number one, a humble person can always ask
for help.
Arrogant people don't ask for help.
The more you demonstrate that you can ask
other to help you, that shows that you
are a humble person.
And Nabi ﷺ asked and consulted his companions.
Two, they are quick to forgive others, difficult
to offend, and content to what on Allah,
and whatever happened to them, they are always
show sense of, you know, I'm content with
what Allah ﷻ decreed upon me.
But the point is that they are quick
to forgive.
Arrogant people don't forgive.
They hold grudges.
Humble person is patient.
Don't get frustrated with the weakness of others.
If you want to know you are humble
or arrogant, see how frustrated you get with
others.
Be patient.
The more patient, the more great sense of
humility you have.
Also, a humble person is a peacemaker.
In fact, we need humility to maintain peace
in our lives.
So many times we feel like saying, my
way or no way at all.
I'm not gonna even say the highway.
No way at all.
But rather a better way, a way that
leads to peace with others, or to ourselves
and others.
وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ Another point that
you look at, a humble person knows when
to be quiet.
He doesn't get angry not because he's not
talking, not in front of the microphone, not
in front of the camera.
I don't mind to be behind the scene.
I don't mind to be not mentioned.
Arrogant people always want to be in the
front.
And by the way, this character trait, it
goes to individual, and it goes also to
community, it goes to organizations and so forth.
It's a culture.
Actually, the smarter you get, the less you
speak.
Another thing that about humble person, sees their
own weakness and can, you know, really admit
them.
Admitting to mistakes means refusing to use other
people as scapegoat, to avoid responsibility.
Arrogant people always do that.
Humble people, people's sense of humility, will have
no problem to say, You know what?
I'm sorry.
You know what?
Alhamdulillah.
You know, this is something I never in
my life thought, it's something I can praise
myself with.
Because I don't think it's worth praising.
It's not something to praise you.
It's like you say, You know what?
I pray.
Oh, what's so big deal?
Everybody should be praying.
I pray my five daily prayers.
It's not that big deal.
That's right?
Something like that.
So I always thought that saying sorry, it
should be something given, there's no need to
worry about.
Then actually I found as I grow older,
not everyone can say sorry.
Since a lot of people would not say,
would never pronounce it.
And I dealt in many cases where I
reconciled it between people, husband, wife, people in
business, organizations.
They're not willing to say sorry.
It's so hard for them to say it.
I can see it in their faces.
It's so sad.
A humble person, happily serve others.
Don't do it to be seen.
They do it knowing their reward will come
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
إِنَّمَا نُطْعِمُكُمْ لِلْوَجْهِ اللَّهِ لِنَرِضُمْكُمْ جَزَاءً وَلَا شُكُورًا
Finally, I want to say, Humble or humility,
it doesn't mean that you think less of
yourself.
Humility means that you think less about yourself,
not of yourself.
Humility and being humble, it doesn't mean that
you don't speak up, that you don't take
initiative, that you don't lead.
That's not humility.
And I hope that we don't mix between
these concepts.
Humility is a character trait, will bring so
much goodness in your life, in your relationship
with your spouse, with your children, with your
friends, with your community, with the society at
large.
And it's something unfortunate we don't see promoted
lately.
And one of the missing ingredients when we
talk with each others, when we deal with
each others.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, grant us
the best of manners.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala forgive our
sins.
May Allah grant us and our children the
best of manners, and make us among those
who Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bring peace
and justice to the holy land, and to
Gaza, and to end this war, and to
bring peace to everywhere where there is a
conflict in the world.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala help those
who are helpless, those who are abused, those
who are unjust treated.