Yahya Rhodus – Knowledge & Wisdom Imam alHaddad #25
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We will take the next Hadith in this collection titled kudu from
Valley hain.
Have you heard that Radi Allahu Taala and who called Apollo
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
Min Hosni Islam and Marie Turku Mala Jonnie
translates as part of the excellence of a person's Islam is
his living alone. What does not concern him? This is a Hadith
narrated by Imam a total Mindy
and in a slightly different narration that comes from saying
it Zaman, Aberdeen that from his father, from his father, so his
father said in her saying, and his father say an element of Atala
that he says that the Prophet sallallahu sallam said in them and
FirstNet is some and muddy a little kuramathi melayani indeed
from part of the excellence of a person's Islam is for him to not
speak often, only speaking a little bit about that which does
not concern him this narration is in the collection of Imam Achmed.
A little bit about this hadith.
Yeah, this is a Hadith that we all have heard before, and that the
vast majority of us fail on a daily basis to put it into
practice if we're going to be honest with ourselves, but a
little bit about what the Allama have said about it because it's
such an important Hadith. It is one of these three or four Hadith
that the scholars say is that the entire Deen revolves around and so
the Imam Minogue mentions in his commentary on Sahih Muslim
that he mentions three Hadith and he says about these hadith is that
they are the three Hadith that the scholars have said is that the
deen itself at Islam, your daughter Ali, it the Islam that
your daughter Allah literally revolves around them. The first is
Allah hallelujah. You know what haram obeying? The what is
permissible is clear and what is impermissible is clear. Well bein
Houma or moron wish to be hot in between the two or doubtful
matters. Lie Lomonaco Athena Mina nurse that the vast majority of
people don't know them to the end of the Hadith. And so this hadith
al Halal vein what haram bein is the first the second is the Hadith
and Nima Rama vignette, the famous Hadith about the intention and
then firstly, Islam and Marguerite tautoko Malla Yanni.
So according to my Minogue, the entire deen and all of the details
of all of the other Hadith that revolve around these three
meanings, that's significant. If you really think about that, and
then
Excuse me.
Hmm, I would I would assume Diani as it he said that there's four.
So this is why some scholars say it's 1/3 of the deen and other
scholars too. It's 1/4 and so the scholars that say that there are
four Hadith include those three that were already mentioned. And
then they add to allow you know, I had to come to you hit barely a
fee him I humbled enough so then if you truly believe until he
loves that for his brother that which he loves, for his own self.
So when scholars saying that the entire Deen revolves around these
four Hadith, it tells us a little bit of something about our deen
This is the essence of what it's all about. This idea of having
clarity about the halal and haram the intention, and then not
preoccupying ourselves with things that do not benefit us that do not
concern us. So so many of the details of the deen fall under one
of these three are these four Hadith and that the fourth Hadees
that we just mentioned by Imam Dawood, that pillar there is an
opinion that instead of that one they include the hadith is
headford Dunya your book Allah, that detach yourself from this
world and Allah will love you was had mafia the mafia ad nurse you
have been a nurse and detach herself from what is in the hands
of people.
And people will love you. There's something about that people that
want what's in other people's hands is that they're not usually
liked and that when you detach your heart from what's in the
hands of other people is that oftentimes Allah Tada places love
in the hearts of people for you. So this is this is really amazing
this same Imam I will download as he has a beautiful statement that
I will call the odd mentions in his commentary on
and he says that
that he says that I wrote so meaning here that I compiled I
studied I learned I preserved humps amid elf Hadith 500,000
Hadith.
Now when the scholars mentioned numbers like this, because we also
that have a statement of a memorable hottie is that he
compiled he soluble hottie from 300,000 Hadith, and some of them
say up to even that 600,000. And we know that Imam Ahmed, for
instance, is is said to have memorized 1 million Hadith. What
this means is different chains. So the actual number of Hadith
himself where the meten is the actual wording of the prophesy
centum is significantly less than that. But when you talk about that
the different chains of narration, they get up to the hundreds of
1000s. And then according to a statement from Imam Ahmed 1
million, in other words, is that these are people that spent their
lives that learning in preserving the sunnah of our Prophet sighs
and imagine that 500,000 Hadith, and he says a Thabeet minha, the
ones that were that here, rigorously authenticated that are
that, that we're absolutely sure about our 4000 Hadith, okay, and
so that the various Hadith have different
that levels of strength and weakness. And that's a whole topic
in and of itself. But it is also important to note that the
conditions of the scholars were extremely stringent, they had very
strict conditions about what they would accept and what they would
not accept. And as I've heard, our teachers say, is that even weak
Hadith, that when we look at it from a historical standpoint, much
of a we accept in a Western sense of as history is significantly
that weaker than what we actually would call a weak Hadith. So a
weak hadith is weak in relation to that it hasn't, or a Saudi Hadith.
And this is why the Scholars say, as if you say that a hadith is so
here, and you can translate in different ways, but I like the
idea of rigorously authenticated, it's rigorously authenticated. Is
that can you have absolute certainty that the Prophet said
that? Or is it just an extremely high degree of probability?
There's a difference of opinion but suddenly said, No, you can
have certainty that the Prophet Yaqeen that the Prophet said it
sounded nice and and what a blessing. What a blessing. And if
we really think about the Edmond reject the science
of narrators, and that it was a whole science that developed to
ascertain where they upright were they not, and can we accept howdy
from them or not? Did they forge Hadith? Or did they not the whole
science, that there's nothing like it in human history? That is
something unique to the degree that it was done by Muslims to
preserve it in this way. Lest we forget that one of the three great
blessings of this deen is the preservation of isnaad having a
chain of narration back to the Prophet sallallahu sallam, and the
other two are Rob and Sab. Rob is grammar and sab are his lineage.
So anyhow, this is a very, very important Hadith. And it goes into
so many different areas of knowledge. And we'll be focusing
in the remaining part of speaking about it on that how it really
relates to you and I and the spiritual path. Because this is
what's really, really important is that you and I put this into
practice. Because if we would just take this hadith and really think
deeply how it relates to our our life, specifically our our
individual life. And we think about the things that we do, and
what percentage of the things do we do that? Are they really from
what are promised the lights on him that encouraged us to abandon
into leave? And to that not get into that we will then realize
that how we're oftentimes making ourselves susceptible to that the
insinuations of the Sheraton are being pulled into what is
displeasing to Allah Jalla gelato. So let's just take a bit of a
closer look. At this hadith min Hosni is Salam al Murray
Okay, I'll moderate here is a person, a person. And the word
Hassan means that the excellence of something the good part of
something. And then we have this word Islam. So we could speak
about Islam as the religion, the deen of Islam, which includes all
of the other different breakdowns of how we explain our deen. Or we
could speak about Islam in the very specific sense,
differentiated it from Eman and Sen.
So both are correct. We could talk about Islam as the deen or we
could talk about Islam, Eman and Sen. And usually that's where we
start, even though when you talk about faith, faith is where it all
begins. And then it leads to outward deeds, and then that you
after that reach a level of Sn. But Jen, for many people, there is
an element of faith, but oftentimes that it's just the
their willingness to submit outwardly that leads them to have
a higher degree of faith. Now it really is important to note that
and this seems obvious, but sometimes we don't understand this
correctly.
All of those three are actually interrelated.
So
there is no Islam without Amen.
Right? Because if you don't have belief at all, that if you are
outwardly submitting what good really isn't, if you're bereft of
actual belief. So belief is where it really all begins. And the
first pillar of Islam is to a shadow Nyla hidden lower shadow
No, Muhammad Rasul Allah.
So but at the same time is that your Eman is not complete, until
that you actually follow up with Islam in submitting outwardly. So
this is one way of breaking this down.
And by submitting outwardly, it actually strengthens your iman,
the greatest way to strengthen your Eman is to do what a lot to
others commanded do it's actually very easy. Sometimes we wonder how
do I attain strong faith, it's actually very easy. You do what
you've been told to do. Every time you pray, every time you prostrate
every time you fast every time you give Zakah every time you do
anything you've been commanded to do is that the light of faith
increases in your heart.
It's as simple as that, if you're persistent, and that your email
will grow stronger and stronger and stronger. And that the more
that we do, acts of goodness
is that the greater that you will build your spiritual immune
system, in the vast majority of people who end up having trouble
with their faith, if you really trace the way that they live, they
neglect many things that were they to have done them, it would have
been like a shield for them from even some of those intellectual,
that some of that intellectual onslaught that they've been
exposed to. And I've been convinced for years and that the
older that I get, the more convinced I am of it is that it
really is a spiritual problem. And it's hard. Yes, knowledge is an
important component of it. Right because the full the the more
you're grounded in authentic knowledge, authentic Islamic
knowledge, and you have an ability to understand the world around you
is that the stronger your faith will be but is that usually that
knowledge will ward off from you doubt positively reinforcing your
faith is done through things like putting your knowledge into
practice reflecting upon that the heavens in the earth. And that
pondering the book of Allah tomato data and the Hadith of our Prophet
salaallah it well, just like your Salam So, but the other dimension
of this is is sun.
So you could have Iman and Islam and be deficient in our sun.
But if you keep working on your iman and your that Islam it will
lead to our sun. And then the more that you live a life of our Sun,
the more that your Islam and your Eman will also be reinforced. So
the reality is that they all go hand in hand.
They're all interrelated. And this is very important for us to that
think of it as such. So here the prophet is speaking in the context
of escena Minh Hosni is Salam as
part of the excellence of a person's Islam. And for that the
grammar students is that what is this men as men in Tibet idea, or
would have been a little Baniya clarifying that. What type of that
host in Islam are we talking about? Or are we saying that part
of that the excellence of a person's face as its faith as it's
been translated here, Islam brother
Is his leaving alone that which does not concern him, anyhow, is
that Islam really we can look at it in two ways is that it really
relates to submission. But there's an outward dimension of that. And
there's an inward dimension of that. And the outward dimension of
Islam is that having a Suriname to the outcome of the Sharia, to the
legal rulings. And so, one of the things we absolutely have to
understand is that the entire deen is based upon submission.
And this is extremely unpopular in the modern world talk about
submission.
Like the vast majority of people, if you talk about submitting to
something, that most people that the you know, much of the premise
of the modern world is built upon the opposite of that doing what
you want to do when you want to do it.
But we have to understand is that the alcohol is completely on the
opposite side of the spectrum, then the whole lot. The HELOC is
volatile, it's fickle. It just whatever happens happens, it's the
same word for wind, the wind blows through something, the leaf just
goes through, every which way. Right where is the intellect is
about restraint. The article comes from the word a Paul, which is
that camel hobble is that thing that they would put on the camel
so that they didn't roam too far, that now some people were on top
of there that go through. And so it's about restraint, it's about
being grounded, it's about being balanced. So they're on opposite
sides of the spectrum. And that part of the intellect too, is also
the about submission. And this is one of the great fruits of the
intellect is that you use it to put yourself in a state of
submission.
Because the reality is, is that we are in submission, whether we
realize it realize it or not, is that which one of us has a choice
on whether or not we can read or not. Which one of us has a choice
whether or not we can blink our eyes or not. We are in submission
in reality, to the forces of nature around us that no one can
defy gravity and part of the Pfitzner of modern technologies
because that we can manipulate the world in ways that are
unprecedented, it gives us the sense that somehow is that we are
special. But any form of technology that is divorced from
submission to Allah to be adequate to Allah will be a great fit.
So for us, this whole affair is about submission, we submit at the
level of belief at the level of practice and at the level of
having good character at every single level. Our deen is built
upon submission. Yes, that saying that does not mean that it's
irrational, on the contrary, is that we have a rational basis for
what we believe what we do by way of practice and what we that do by
way of good character. But there's a very different, it's very
different when you talk about using the intellect to understand
revelation,
and then allowing the best part of the intellect to really come out
as opposed to seeing everything else through the lens of the
intellect. Those are two very different things. We have to put
things in their proper place. And then there's an internal
dimension. So there's the outer dimension of submitting to the
account of the Sharia.
And, yes, that when you talk about the different rulings, they differ
whether they be related to the A Baghdad the acts of worship, or
they relate to the mama lat dealings and Nika and other
rulings. But in the end still, is that we have to understand the
underlying purpose of the Sharia is to refine our soul to prepare
us to know Allah Jalla Jalla Allah, every single individual
ruling is an edit minute adab it's in its reality, that it's a form
of etiquette, that the more etiquette that we have, the
greater chance we will have to be accepted in the Divine Presence,
because you can't enter that into the Divine Presence of Allah
without having
the aroma of the science of Sn refer to it as veils, that between
someone being in the Divine Presence and that where they are
in the most basic of states that there's 1000s upon 1000s of veils
is that as we progress that in our deen we want to pierce through
those veils pierce through those barriers pierce through pierce
through those veils, but every single one of them relate to
every single one of the time of the shittier relate to Adam, but
Islam also has an inward dimension. And this is the inner
dimension of submitting at the level of the heart. And getting
back to this idea of that submission being unpopular.
This is part of the common thread of people that choose
to be in a state of disbelief is that many of them deep down within
themselves is that I'm just not going to submit. It happens very
suddenly, they can be very nice people that you might get along
well with them, they might be generous, they might have all
types of good character traits.
But we have to realize is that the edit of the heart, because correct
belief is the hack of Allah is the hack of Allah. And that's why the
only unforgivable sin is shook, that all of the other cook can be
overlooked, Allah can forgive them. But the right of Allah
cannot be free. He has said he's not going to forgive. That's his
hack, is that we believe in him as we are supposed to we that
attribute to Him what we're supposed to attribute to Him
subhanho wa taala. And that, at that level, is that that there is
oftentimes that a struggle that people have within themselves, and
most people might not even ever know. But oftentimes it gets back
to this idea of submission, where people are resisting.
Whereas someone internally if they're willing to submit, all
this leads to the greatest beauty of all, because we're in
submission, but we're just supposed to be aware that we're
supposed to consciously be in submission, not just to what's
happening around us, but to the Lord of the Creation who created
everything that was happening around us. So this other meaning
of Islam relates to that this internal submission that we're
supposed to have that goes along with our outward submission in
conformity to the outcome of the Sharia. And then the second part
of this is topical who malah Yanni Salman Hosni Islam and marine part
of the excellence of a person's Islam is his talk, Taka yet
Sirocco is to leave to abandon something.
And it's to that leave alone.
Man malah. Yeah, any that which does not concern him? I know.
Yeah, ni is to be concerned with someone.
Recall, I recall the famous story where that Imam Malik was asked
about how old he was. He said, Yeah, Nick. Right. That doesn't
concern you. While you asking that question. That doesn't concern
you.
And nowadays, we live in a time where people are so sensitive, if
you're a little bit hard on them that they get very emotional. But
traditionally taught to be it was not something that was easy.
It was not something that was easy. And that, yes, we're not
talking about any type of abuse, because you mentioned these
things. And people, they all of a sudden think about stories of
abuse. Put that aside, no one is justifying any type of abuse. But
the whole purpose of Tobia is is that you refine yourself. And I
was reading a book lately might have been in the narcissism
epidemic, it was talking about raising royalty. We're now parents
are just like raising royalty, where they're afraid to even say
no to their children.
And don't discipline their children, or that are worried that
if I do this, that my child's going to do this. And yes, you
have to be wise and how you discipline your child but that
it's very important to discipline you are doing your child in a
major disservice that if you don't discipline them,
and the in the context of how we got in this conversation of
seeking sacred knowledge. If that are places where we come together
to learn, people are so sensitive, that you can't be leaving a little
bit hard on them, then then how are we ever going to improve that
we should all be happy? If people point out our faults happy.
But the vast majority of people get very sensitive. If you point
out their faults, we should be happy. Mm hmm. and resolve Zadie
mentions the analogy of the same way that we will be happy if you
had a scorpion crawling on your back. And it came up your shoulder
and someone flicked it off. Right? That even if you didn't care for
that person too much that are you going to be like, Oh, why'd you
touch me? Right? No, he just flicked a scorpion off of your
your your shoulder. We should thank him. Actually remember one
time we were sitting in Mauritania at night. And there was we were
one of our nights off and there was a brother that kind of had his
arm out like this and like quite literally, a scorpion just came in
between his arm and his body. Right and then it was actually a
regular sight to see scorpions in the desert from de la never got
stung, but I saw someone get stung. And it's it's a lot of pain
Subhanallah
I just remembered a story. I don't know if it's appropriate while
live streaming to tell, but
I'll tell
you.
So there's a brother who got stung.
And it hurt, it really hurt like he was in a lot of pain. You know,
speaking to the Sonam Robinson Hush.
I was just saying, as city dwellers, we're not used to
bearing pain.
Right? The way that people out in the desert are because they're out
there on the elements. There's not there's no doctors really, other
than basic kind of desert medicine.
And, and he was just like,
it's all about the heart. You have a strong heart, you have courage
in the heart, you'll be able to bear pain
is that I know someone who was traveling in the desert. And he
was someone who was a donkey driver. Basically, he had a whole
bunch of goods of people that was their mode of transportation that
they were very few cars early on. And they actually bring goods from
the city on the backs of donkeys, and you have a whole bunch of
donkeys with him. And he said that he was bitten by a snake a
poisonous snake on his pinky toe.
And that instantaneously. Is it he then no, this is gruesome as well,
I was hesitating, whether he's gonna say this or not. But he
grabbed an axe
and chopped off his pinky toe.
And he say banded, stopped the bleeding, managed it up and kept
walking.
Now not most of us couldn't do that. But think about that, if
that if there's no doctors, you're dead like it. You know, you if we
used to leave it like sunrise in not get to the city until sunset,
or you're talking 12 hours. Now we were a little bit slower. Some of
them could walk faster. But my point is, there's no doctors,
right? When you get to the cities, there's clinics, right? There's no
one can help, you're gonna die. If that if that venom spreads in your
body, you're dead. Right. And so he made a good decision. Now he
chopped off his pinky toe. And he must have been very accurate with
the axe. But anyhow, his point was is that, you know, this thing, you
know, takes courage, right? This thing takes courage. And if you
have a strong heart, you'll be able to bear these things. And but
even speak like this now, it's almost like we should just put
diapers on our children that are like 10 years old. Let's put
diapers on them and let them you know, I mean, like we treat them
like royalty. No, they gotta be tough. We got to toughen them up a
little bit. I'm totally serious. We got to toughen our kids up a
little bit. We're too easy on them. Right. And I'm not saying
that we hurt them or harm not, that's not come on. Don't take my
context, my statements out of context. But that, you know, I
think that we should still send children to places like Mauritania
and stuff like that, and just even the thought of, Oh, my God,
they're gonna die of malaria. Right? There's just these thoughts
that people have like, that. They're going to die of malaria,
or they're just going to just, you know, yeah, I guess it's more
dangerous in some ways than being here. But we act as if like, our
society is like, totally safe. Like, seriously. Right. Just, I
would like to see some comparative statistics, you know about the
things that you could potentially die from in Mauritania, or that
you could die from driving down the street here. I mean, I would
think that it's much more dangerous to get in a car here
than it is to die from a snake bite in Mauritania. But anyhow,
and that's what they used to say to us there that, don't worry.
There's only been one student that all of the history of Mahabharata
has that ever died from a snake bite. But we used to see poisonous
snakes like literally if they bite you, you're dead. You're gonna
die. If you don't do something about it very quickly.
But there was something there was a there was a beauty about it. The
Mediterraneans never complained.
I don't ever remember seeing them complain. The only Martinez that
used to complain were the ones that used to live in the Emirates
or Saudi, and come back to visit for the summer. Oh, they complain
like crazy. Right?
But like they never complained. Brian, if any of you think about
it, many of you like if you like your parents, like do you ever see
your parents complaining? Like your parents? Do you ever did you
ever see your parents complaining? But traditional people, they
didn't really complain too much. And that it was something in
sometimes their lives were hard. But and I'm not saying we force
ourselves but there's something about the modern world and there's
a lot of factors that are creating it, where we all have just become
hypersensitive to anything
and
If we do not put ourselves in a position, and we got into this
topic about tuttavia, where that we learn to refine our character,
we learn to experience a bit of discomfort. I have a book
upstairs, that
did a study on all of these places that were disproportionately
successful. In other words, it was like a tennis club that had a
disproportionate amount of Wimbledon winners, and so forth,
and so on all these different areas. And one of the common
threads that they found is that the accommodations of whatever
they were students, or apprentices or athletes, were very simple.
That was one of the factors. And it said in his book, that
psychologically, what that did was to create this sense of Oh, you
haven't made it yet. Whereas if things are too easy, you get this
sense that oh, I don't need to striving towards I, you know,
already, I already have it, I've already have something
where if you don't have that drive,
you know, there's only so much that you're going to ever actually
achieve after that.
Now, let's kind of get back to this. How do we get into this
topic? I apologize.
What are we talking about my synonymous of yada, yada? How do
we get into that more tenuous store?
Your business?
Okay, so topical mela Yeah, honey. So let's look at a little bit here
about what this means. And that what actually, we can actually
think about, and the opposite, what actually does concern us.
And the main definition that the scholars give for that What does
concern us is, first and foremost, the hereafter,
and anything that we need to do now to get there safely and
successfully. And secondly, that which is a necessity for us to
live here in this world.
Those are usually the main two things that they mentioned.
And that anything other than that
is, you know, there's a few gray areas there that are close to
things that we need, or that are necessities. But really anything
other than that is things that really don't concern us.
And let's go into a conversation now about what that doesn't mean,
of course, because you hear people say that means oh, what does it
mean that we're supposed to be hermits and not be concerned about
society? No, that's not what it means at all? No, that's something
that does concern us, obviously, is the state of people. But I
think that at very least, that we should pay as a cat on the amount
of news that we watch or read.
So for every that, for every 40 minutes of news engagement, we
make to offer to 2.5 minutes, two and a half minutes.
So every 40 minutes, two and a half minutes, we make dua
just pays a cat at least. And if we want to, you know, increase
that ratio to 10%. Okay, for every 40 minutes, is that four minutes
of dua. But my point is like if we're only learning about what's
happening in the world, and we're not following up with actually
doing anything about it, something that we can do in the first and
foremost thing that we can do is make dua and this is one of the
common misconceptions do do is not just raising your hand one time.
This is one of the greatest of the abandons and those of our Prophet
that our teachers used to say is that we're this sunnah to become
widespread in the OMA things would change just by the Sunnah, because
the Prophet used to do this regularly throughout the day, and
every single night, he was weeping before his Lord.
I know with a high degree of I know with certainty, actually, my
teachers do this every single night. There's not a night that
passes, whether they're home or whether they're traveling, whether
they are rested, or whether that they are that whether they are
tired, whether they are sick, or whether they're healthy, every
single night, they have a weird
of turning to Allah subhanaw taala in weeping for the sake of the
Ummah, not just for one minute or two minutes or not just a quick
dua, that's good, but it is something that they do where it's
prolonged for an extended period of time.
And that things would change if we really did that. So that is the
son of dua, so when people ask, is there anything else I can do
besides dua? Well, let's do the single most important thing.
First, that almost no one is doing. And then we can talk about
the next steps. And yes, there are outwardly very clear things that
we can still do that for the condition of people worldwide, but
also that we can't neglect the local people as well. And that, so
these are all things to consider. And so we absolutely have to have
concern for every single human being Muslim. And that all that
not just even human beings, creatures that Allah subhanaw
taala has created. But we have to also realize is that we can only
do so much. So it's a mistake to that not do what we can do. And
it's a mistake to be overwhelmed, such that we end up not doing
anything or becoming burned out, because we don't focus on what it
is that we can do. Anyhow, is that leaving that which doesn't concern
us? This relates to speech. It relates to action. It relates to
what we look at, and it relates to what we think about.
It relates to what we say of course, there's actually a hadith
that are prophesized them said and it's interesting, it's on the
authority of older men Hasselbeck Kalama. Whoa, man Amelie. Whoever
considers that the words that he says from his actions? Hello Can
ammo Allah FEMA Yanni is that his words will be few and He will only
speak about that which concerns him. And those no doubt, our
cannamd is from our achmad, the things that we say is that what we
say is the things we say are from our deeds. And so first and
foremost, what do we say?
That just if you just again, that one Hadith, that failure called
hater, odious mode, whoever believes in Allah on the last day,
let him say good or remain silent.
Just remain silent. Think about and I'm not making any claims. I'm
the worst of everyone here. Think about the things that we talk
about, like what use is it? And that worst, yet we end up harming
people and pushing people away. So how does
that think about if we really would sit and think about all of
the things we talked about during the day? How many of those things
really concern us.
And then in relation to what it is that we do,
that we should know, this doesn't mean that we don't take vacations
that we don't take time off, and that we don't relax and things
like that? Of course you do. But is that our teacher give a
beautiful principle. He said, You have to be gentle, in your
seriousness, in serious in your gentleness.
So when it comes time to be serious, where you got to get work
done, the principles that you remain gentle, in times of
seriousness, and in times of leisure, or that relaxation, is
that you remain serious.
And what it means by remain serious is not that you're
frowning, no, you're relaxing. But you realize, oh, there's a certain
amount of time that I'm going to do this. There's a degree that you
protect yourself from going too far.
Because it's very easy when we start relaxing to go too far.
And I used to always remember this. The irony is that this when
we were in school, Subhan Allah in Yemen, y'all Latif, every moment
of your day is regimented.
Everyone stayed up to Fontana, as we were classmates, every moment
of your day is regimented. You're waking up well over an hour before
Fajr you required to pray 30 minutes of tahajjud 30 minutes of
OData. before Fajr enters Fajr enters about another 20 to 25
minutes of Epcot you praise lots of pleasure, another 20 minutes of
Earth car, then you have a class until sunrise. Right after sunrise
you go and you press off the Doha you have a short break and there
was different breakdowns at different times but then they
would actually have us run we exercised in the school. We used
to run around the inside of the school and then they'd sit us down
and give us like a little pep talk. And that reminds me know
have someone give something of inspiration. And then boom, we're
off to the next class. And then right after that 510 minute break
next class three classes in the morning. Then that says now about
930 We have breakfast then we have breakfast yet
we have breakfast and then we have it's about 10 o'clock when we
finished breakfast and low horse at about 1145 or 12 and we're
supposed to be in the masala before the dawn
like the good students were supposed to be in the masala Yeah,
so that was so you would only have like about an hour and a half to
sleep.
And that you'd rest a little bit, maybe do some homework, do
something else, wash your clothes, whatever else talk a little bit.
But then you're in the masala I get about by 1145. And then you
play softball block. And then when we were there, you would do a
hisbah of Korans. You read a Joseph Koran, with your family or
your family, their like family, your room. And there was like in
the room, there was basically the room was probably something like
I would say,
maybe like 17 by
1314 feet, you had 10 people in it. And all you had was basically
just a place to sleep. A very thin mat, and like a little thing that
you could put your books on, in a little bit of closet space. That's
it. It's all you need. What else do you need in public bathrooms?
How does what else do you need your students
and 10 people in the room?
And air conditioners? That didn't really work too well. And there
was a fan or Hamdulillah I remember when I first came for
more tests, like this is so easy. This is Jonnie luxurious.
And then that you'd have lunch
and the teach our teachers were adamant don't miss lunch, right?
Don't miss your time to sleep don't miss your time to eat when
it's time to eat. When it's time to sleep, usually less time to
study you study what you have to do everything but the knifes never
wants to do anything in his time. So we would finish let's say Lola
was it like 1215 1230 there was a there was a brief Oh rod after
Doha, sometimes some people get up and give a talks after by the time
we would finish
the Quran are probably about one o'clock 115 you'd finish lunch by
about let's say like 131 45 You have about an hour or an hour and
15 minutes before also
and that's time where you're supposed to be reviewing your
classes Ossur combs you're in the masala again before the dawn a
class you're doing Oh rod right after Ossur you have another class
and then you have about 25 to 40 minutes between them and whether
it was summer or winter and then you have to be 20 minutes before
the in the masala to do where the Latif 20 minutes before and they
would literally that half he will standing there that you would get
in trouble if you weren't not in the masala and then they said
there's no drinking water does good from the time you enter into
the masala in till after salata Isha of doing tests me and Mattoon
so I'll explain what that means. Basically like 40 minutes after
Isha no water right? You can't get a sip of water
to try to train you to toughen you up. Right like any harass you Why
do you drink water before you can go a little bit without water?
Right nowadays we keep our waters next to us and just drink all day
long and so forth. And any okay water is good for you, but Yanni.
So, we will do the word Latif. We do this so far. Pray slaughter mug
we have a fit of a class of fit we do fit twice a day between Maga,
Misha the dawn of Isha immediately from the class of FIQ. That
ultimately mama had dead. And that goes on for about 15 minutes. We
pray slaughtered Aisha immediately after slaughter Aisha tells me in
Mattoon, whatever is it you're supposed to be memorizing you
spend 20 minutes that that recalling to someone who's
checking to make sure you've done what you're supposed to be
memorizing.
And then right after that you have dinner Dinner lasts for about 30
minutes. And then you have to be back in the Masada for a mandatory
review session for about another hour and a half. And then about
1045 1030 1045 You're done for the day.
And why is students went right to sleep. But your naps at this point
is done. So it's free, wants to just relax. But if you relax too
much, you don't get to bed till 1130 You're getting up at like 245
Three o'clock in the morning.
Like you're gonna be really tired the next day. So even if you went
right to sleep, usually the max that you're gonna get is about
four and a half hours asleep.
But the amazing thing was, you could do it, there was some Baraka
the food, it's like the same food day in and day out. There's only
like four or five different types of food, you never get sick of it.
And that the sleep you could sleep for three or four hours and have a
full day with like a 45 minute nap. And like you you could
sustain that. Maybe rest a little bit more on your day off. But even
your day off was not really a day off. You're just doing other
things.
And subhanAllah
you would see people like come from the outside and just crumble
when they first tried to get into this dark tube. They could they
panic, because it's just like it's just they just a side of them
comes out that has probably never ever come up before.
cuz it's just too hard for most people. And like, literally, if
you weren't out of your room, they lock the door.
They lock the gate, you can't get out.
You did it and they punish you and they just made you stay there
until near Fajr time, then they let you out
once a week
you could not leave down and within his house sets up the
fatass house was literally like his daughter Mustafa.
The corner plot like right next to it, like his house was because he
used to go over to his house for his father, may Allah preserve her
use invite us over for Iftar sometimes during Ramadan, like,
like not, like right near that. He says once a week he go visit his
family. You couldn't leave it without permit, you had to get
permission to leave.
And then you have to come right back.
There's no way to get out. Yeah. But the point is, is that like
that this was good. Those were the best days, honestly, my entire
life. Ever. Those were the best days of my entire life. Ever. Were
those days, I would not replace them for anything in the world
ever. And I wish that I could have spent five times the amount of
time I spent. There were the best days ever,
ever.
And subhanAllah. Right? That we need this, we all need this. And
we have to in the absence of a school that does it.
We have to gently impose these things on ourselves. But my whole
point of going in that whole tangent was that
ironically, on the days off,
is that you would see how you feel. Sometimes you'd eat a little
bit too much. You eat different types of food, you know, you're
joking too much. And you don't feel good. And you're like I can't
wait till the 32 the schedule comes back. Because it all would
begin that So Wednesday night there was a class usually on a
helmet Dean. That's like our only night off. And we have a class
which is illuminating, which is a great class to have. But then
Thursday's off, there's no classes on Thursday. But usually Thursday
morning you're doing some type of service community service or some
this time you wash your clothes and things like that. The the
moated Thursday night.
And then Friday morning, they weren't classes either, but Joomla
but then come the author of Joomla and then McGraw, the classes will
start again. But I used to remember the feeling like it's
like I want Ossur of Joomla to come because now we're back in the
schedule. Because even though it's hard on your knifes your heart and
soul and your spirit feel good, your Spirit loves it. And then
when you're allowed to indulge, you realize, oh God, that doesn't
make me feel good. That makes my heart heart. But this makes me
feel very different. And anyhow, that Poland will fit in one other
than will fit current and we'll end on this note.
Is that
that also abandoning what doesn't concern us relates to what it is
that we see.
We need to guard our eyes.
Obviously in relation to the Haram in relation to the home we have no
choice. There is very few there's there's no quicker way to ruin
your heart even though by the scholars say there's no major
wrong action that you can commit with your eye.
But is that it? If you do a minor sin persistently it becomes a
major sin. But it's the quickest way to ruin your heart. By letting
bad images haram images get into your hearts what obviously refers
to that. It obviously refers to that gazing upon the opposite
gender with desire. But
it also relates to like, just gazing at things we're not
supposed to be gazing at.
And that the our Prophet was very determined. When he walked, he
would look straight ahead.
And he would either look down, or sometimes he will look up solid
license. But he didn't walk and just
look around here and look around there. He was determined. He was
determined. And there's a lot of people that are just, you know,
follow these as they say in Arabic. I just I was oh my god,
look at that. Oh, what's happening? Oh my God, look at
that. Just just all over the place. That's not how we are.
We're determined. When we want to go somewhere we go somewhere. And
that when we drive, we should just mind your own business. someone
cuts you off. Oh, maybe we're having a bad day.
But you don't need to drive by people. I mean mug people and look
at this and what's this person driving? Oh my God, look at that
car and what's this? Oh my god, what are they building over here?
Right
is that we should be determined people, if there's something that
we need to look for we look but otherwise, is that we save
ourselves unnecessary sensory overload. We live in a time of
massive sensory overload. And it affects us in very subtle ways. So
that part of this headaches relates to only really looking at
what we need to look at. And then thicker. And this is the hardest
one
is only thinking about what concerns us.
Because sometimes we're just thinking and all of a sudden, our
minds
just takes us somewhere. And it's not a benefit. If it's unlawful
harass, you have to cut that off. Right? But sometimes it's just how
is that going to benefit us.
And if you just take this one Hadith,
and apply it to some of the decisions that you even see loved
ones of yours making, in terms of how they spend their time.
The comments that they make on social media, we always like to
pick on social media, but it's really true like, like, special.
Like, how is that going to benefit you? How does that even concern
you? Like, what are you doing? You're not going to be asked that
question when you go to the grave.
We should really think about these things. So this hadith is really,
really an important Hadith. And that it's not that we're going to
be able to implement this overnight, but we should take this
very seriously. And we should remember to rein ourselves back,
to rein ourselves back without imposing something on ourselves
that we're not ready to do slowly, gently, that we work on this and
we work on this and work on this very least we read the Haram from
our lives and we slowly try to only focus on what really is
important and make content about everything that we do.
Has anybody sediment Allama to allow the light to Anand and Abdi
in Yeji Allah shokudo Vimala Annie, the sign that Allah has
turned away from his servant is that he makes him preoccupied with
that which does not concern him. So it's not a good thing. If this
has become our dominant trait, that we're just concerned with
everything that doesn't concern us. It's a sign we need to rectify
our state with our Lord jelajah in to focus on what really does and
when we make our concern the concern of the hereafter Allah
Jalla Jalla Allah will take care of all of our other concerns may
not have adequate data that lets us to make our concern a concern
to arrive to the hereafter safely and our concern to draw near to
Allah subhanaw taala to bring goodness to creation to help
people in every way possible in relation to their deen and duniya
Muhammad Amin and to bless us in all of our different affairs and
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