Yaser Birjas – Being Truthful Brings Peace
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And the second hadith, it's hadith number 55
from, the chapter of asuduk, truthfulness.
In this hadith,
the grandson of the prophet, he says,
I remember those words from the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. You know, when
Hassan died, when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam passed, how old was Hassan? Do you
guys know?
Close to 9, almost 8, 9 years old
when the prophet passed. So he's about 8
years old, you could say. So he says,
I can I remember
these words from the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam? Now he heard those words from his
from a grandfather,
Now did the prophet
exclusively give it to him? Like he talked
to Hassan and say, hey,
or was he speaking in general to others?
And Hassan was present, so he remember those
words. So we don't know.
But he said that I remember these words
from the prophet
in which he said,
He says, give up what is doubtful to
you
for that which is not doubtful.
Give up what is doubtful to you to
that which is not doubtful.
That hadith, by the way,
it's it's one of the major hadith in
Fiqh as well in in terms of also
the theory of
law in regards to how, to determine
the validity of something,
the continuity of a specific condition of a
certain, let's say, and so on. It depends.
So for example, I give an example for
this. If someone,
comes to the Masjid, and by the time
you get to the door of the Masjid,
you're now thinking about, wait a minute.
Do I have or I don't have? Do
I have or I don't have?
So what's the standard rule?
Make voodoo and just, oh, get over with
it? You don't have to.
What was the last certainty?
The thing that you have no doubt about,
having wudu or not having wudu?
Like, do you know that you had wudu
and you're doubting if you broke your wudu,
Or you're sure that you broke your Urdu
and your dad will be made Urdu afterwards?
Like, for example,
I know the last thing I did, I
used the bathroom, for example. So So now
I'm certain about what?
That I don't have udu in that moment.
What I'm doubting about is what? Did I
make udu afterwards?
I know that usually I always make udu
after I come back I come out of
the from the bathroom. I always make udu.
But in that instant, in that moment, did
I make udu or not? So I'm doubt
I'm I have doubt or not. Having or
not. So therefore, the standard rule is what?
You don't.
Because the certainty is that they use the
bathroom
and the doubt that you made or not.
If it was the opposite,
like I know I made
but I'm not sure if
if I if I use the bathroom or
not or if I lost my or not.
Then the standard rule that you do have.
So that just in general is a similar
to this to this,
principles.
But here the prophet speaking about matters of
taqwa and piety of the heart. That's what
it matters here. That's the the the the
piety of the heart.
Right? There are certain things our daughter, and
we we explain this hadith in details in,
the class on Wednesday. We talk about it
in details.
And we talk about Sabine Engel, Sabine Engel,
Sabine Engel, and all that kind of things.
So here, as a believer, I always needs
to stay,
I I need to remove uncertainty and doubts
from my heart
as much as possible. Like, I need to
fill it with lots of of certainty, Jema.
How do I do that? So the prophet
says here, and he gave us example.
Truth and being truthful
brings you what? Gives you peace of mind.
Being truthful
and the truth itself brings you peace of
mind. Why is that?
Because there's nothing to hide. I'm not hiding
my lie. I'm not hiding my insecurity.
I'm not trying to, you know, alter something
or even imagine and fantasize something never happened
just to make it sound like it happened.
So I'm not trying to fabricate anything.
I am I am telling the truth as
it is.
Whether people like it or not, whether people,
they wanna take it or not, that's not
my business.
My business is just giving the just telling
the truth as it is.
Should people if if people don't wanna believe
in it, that's their problem, not my problem
anymore.
But telling the truth makes you strong.
Makes you strong because you're not shaking. You're
not doubtful of what you're saying. So that
makes you strong, and you stay firm, and
that's what brings peace of mind.
Lying and falsehood
is doubt, or makes you always doubtful.
Why is that? Because you're worrying about what?
Being exposed
all the time.
You're worried.
Even if if it passes this time,
you're still worried about what? What if they
find out? What if someone investigates more? What
if this comes back again? What if what
if so tons of what ifs, and those
what ifs are the doubts
that will keep eating you up
until you say, kinda like, have no peace
of mind whatsoever.
So, yeah, you would like to have peace
of mind in this life? Then be truthful.
Have that self. Tell the truth and be
truthful. Because if you don't, you're gonna suffer
the the absence of peace of mind.
Again, telling the truth is not contingent upon
people accepting it. No.
It's about in itself, it's a value, and
you're gonna have to you have to adhere
to it. People take it from you or
not, that's up to them, not up to
you.
Any questions you may?
Yes, sir?
Yes.
But but you forget what though?
Like, you know, for example, if I did
2 or 1. Okay. So you're doubtful if
you do 2 or 1. Right? So the
question, if I was making sujood and I
made a long dua,
it was so long that I lost count
of how many sajdah I did.
So is is that my second sajdah, or
is it one sajdah? Is it one sajdah
or second sajdah? So now,
you're doubtful. Right? So what do you do
in this case?
What's the most certain thing right now in
this situation? What I usually do
Well, it's it's that doesn't matter. I'm not
talking about right now. You already need to
make sure that you do 2 sides the
first. Right? That's what matters right now. So
even if you, you did,
if you haven't fixed that sides the first,
we have we have a problem.
So what is your certainty right now?
Your certainty is you have 1. Yeah. You're
certainty is you have 1.
Because sometimes yeah. I wanna be done. I
know. The third one What what bear with
me.
If you're right now making sajdah
and you're thinking, is that my 2nd sajdah
or my first sajdah? My 2nd or first
sajdah? So for sure, this this could be
could be a what?
1.
So you're doubting if you have done the
second or not. So in this case, what
do you need to do? Do another. Do
another surge there. Whatever came out to be
a 3rd surge there afterwards?
If that if if you would like to
remember, oh my god. That must be the
3rd one. Because now I remember, in the
first sezdah, I made this dua, and the
second sezdah, I made this dua, for example.
So that must be the third one right
now. In this case, you do soju soju
the sahu, and you're fine. You're fine. But
what if my my I'm I'm making so
do it now, and my surgeon, I'm saying,
oh my god. Is that the second sergeant
or third sergeant?
2nd or 3rd? So what is it in
this case?
We assume this must be what?
Must be 2. But you still need to
do anyway.
So these 2, tell inshallah to fix that
part with the Nazarjan. Now if you're doubting
the the sujood, if this is my 3rd
sejood or 4th sejood, 3rd sejood or 4th
sejood,
Go make voodoo. That's better for you.
He must have slept probably, honey.
No.
Like if someone is asking you about somebody
or something.
Well, I mean, the prophet's also the question
about if someone's asking a question, they need
to be truthful with their question so at
least be able to answer them and give
them the the correct answer. If they're not
being truthful,
whatever answer they get does not necessarily mean
it's a it's a correct answer.
Because the answer only comes out in accordance
to what? Your question.
That's why when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
he heard 2 people arguing in the masjid,
and he came out to them sallallahu alaihi
wasallam to come to try to rule between
them. So when they came to him,
the the prophet says,
You're coming to me for arbitration and for
judgment.
He said,
Some of you are more eloquent than others.
So when they speak, they speak nicely better
than other
ones. And I'm gonna be judging based on
what I heard.
Not based on what the the truthful facts.
Because I don't even know if the truth
was was was,
given to me. So he said,
I only rule based on what I hear
from you.
If I rule for you something that is
not yours and belongs to your brother
That's a piece of fire.
Take it or leave it. So, again, if
any is gonna be if someone goes to
a mufti and ask him questions,
don't try to hide. If you're really looking
for for the honest answer,
just say it and give them the truthfulness
about the situation.
Now obviously, the Mufti usually is responsible sometimes
to investigate
to investigate and ask questions to get to
know exactly what the person really means so
you can give them the right answer. But
one thing that people really don't understand,
the difference between fatwa
and arbitration or takim, like the prophet mentioned
this hadith over here. So they come to
the imam, and they said, my wife, she
did this. My wife, she said she said
that she said, what is the outcome on
this? And the sheikh says,
That's not right. She shouldn't be doing that.
So he goes and he flies all the
while. The road says, look, the I asked
the sheikh and the chef said so and
so.
These issues are not fair to a matter.
These are now legit litigations.
If you claim your spouse says something,
if the wife comes to to compare about
her husband, and she claims he did something
or said something,
or, the other one. Again, that's not a
fatwa question anymore.
You have to ask the other person. You
have to investigate
If you wanna ask them, give the answer
to begin with.