Yaser Birjas – Being Watchful In Major And Minor Things
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The men's retreat and collection discusses the holy grail of Islam, with a brief recap of the main messages and a discussion of the meaning behind the term "the spirit of Jannah." The importance of the holy grail is highlighted, along with the struggles of the generation after the prophet sallahu alaihi wa sallam passed. The speaker emphasizes the importance of being careful with what one considers to be "offense" and reminds listeners to be careful with their words and actions. The importance of avoiding offense at certain times and not to be too lightly considered is also emphasized.
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So our greeting to them,
and all these announcements also apply to you
guys. Brother Omar Raza is there at the,
BRC North. He's the one who have all
the information about the men's retreat and also
the collection,
So if you're there,
make sure to talk to him.
Alright.
Ready?
Okay.
That's the spirit of Jannah. Still,
a few more hours until Fajr, Insha'Allah.
Hadith that we have tonight is very short.
It's still we talk about the concept of
Almoraqabah,
the chapter of on,
on surveillance
and watchfulness
and being watchful of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's
limits.
And this hadith number 63 and the other
saliheen,
says
and Anasir
In this hadith, Anas
reports the messenger of Allah, salallahu alaihi wa
sallam, saying,
you, means people in general,
you indulge in bad actions,
which are more insignificant
to you than a hair
while we consider them at the time of
Allah's messenger, sallallahu alaihi wasalam, to be great
destroying sins.
Anas is saying
to the people around him,
after the time of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, because you people are doing things, you
consider them lightly. Just like you do things
you don't even consider any any importance,
Means of bad deeds. Because at the time
of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi salam, we used
to call them almubiqat,
means destructive matters.
So what does that mean to jamaal?
How is that related to the subject of,
being observant and also watchfulness?
You see, nowadays, and subhanallah, if Anas is
speaking about this concept
of,
concern to what you do
in the generation right after the prophet, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
And the generation after the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam is including Hadith and Nabi sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam in the Sahih Kharas sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
He said the best of pea the best
people,
he said, is my generation
and the one that comes after them and
the one that comes after them.
So the one who came after the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was still considered his
generation.
And in that generation,
and as he says,
look. You guys are doing things.
You don't be considered to be of any
so dangerous to you. But at the time
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, we
consider them destroyers of good deeds, like major,
major issues.
And,
these things happened,
too early even sometime in the history of
Islam because it's a matter of, you know,
the the,
what do you call it? It's just like
the the the worship of the heart, the
heart,
really. You know, how much your heart is
attached to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to the
din of Allah
And obviously when there is when there is
a an incentive
to you,
it becomes more attached and becomes stronger.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, his
presence at the time of the Sahaba was
one of the greatest incentive.
Do you remember hadith palha
when he was walking and Abu Bakr said,
how are you doing today? He goes, I'm
a hypocrite today.
And Abbaq al Sadiq is just like,
What's going on?
He said, I'm sorry.
Is what's wrong with you?
He goes, well, we come with to the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. We listen to
him. He talks to us, and we feel
as if we're watching jannah and jannah with
our own eyes.
Like our iman is so high, we feel
already we're already over the clouds.
But then the moment we go home and
to mingle with our families, we figure a
lot of that stuff.
So Bakr said, look. I feel the same
way. And the prophet told him it's okay.
The hearts, they're always
at that similar energy.
So that's the time of Rasulullah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam. But when the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam passed,
when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam passed,
Anas, the narrator of this hadith right now,
he said,
When the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam arrived
in Madinah,
he
said, Like, Madinah becomes illuminating and shining with
light, which is why we call it.
Right? Shining.
Because everything was exciting.
People were so happy. Just the fact the
prophet is living amongst us is just exciting
thought itself. You could just go to the
masjid to see the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. You could hear his voice everywhere you
go. It was such a blessed
place.
He said,
Like, we barely buried him. We just finished.
We even taken dust of our hands still.
We start feeling it in our hearts.
Like, we missed him already in our heart.
We can feel it's not the same thing.
It's not the same feeling. Imagine now,
few decades after the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, Anas is talking to the generation that
comes after him.
Because Anas when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam passed, can you guys guess how old
was he?
How old was he when when his mom
brought him to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam upon his arrival to Madinah
So by the time the prophet passed, he
was around
20.
But
he survived
until he became one of the last of
the companions of the prophet to pass.
Why? Like, I bet he passed a 100,
by the way, in terms of his age.
And
the they say the reason why because,
his mom
brought Anna to the prophet at some point.
Your servant, could you please make dua for
him? So Allah made dua for him, says
You Allah, give him long life.
And,
and
give him offspring.
And they said he buried almost a 100
of his offspring during his lifetime.
Like, kids and grandkids and so on. They've
had died in during his lifetime.
And also, was Sarfirsk, oh, give him provision.
So he was among the people who lost
it long, radiAllahu an. So that's why he
says after you can imagine,
perhaps, you know, 60 years later, 50 years
later
in life, Now the generation that comes after
that time had no connection to the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
They haven't seen the beginning of Islam and
the struggle they had to go through it.
So for them,
they take Islam for granted,
and that's why they were not as serious
as Anas wants them to be. Imagine if
Anas,
he comes to to our time today. What
would he do with Jema?
He probably would would invite us to Islam,
So imagine that. So what it means over
here is that you need in your heart
and your mind
to be careful what you consider to be
halal and haram. And if you guys remember
yesterday, last night, we were talking the class,
and we were talking about Imam Ahmed
how careful they were calling something haram
because they're they're so scared.
If Allah didn't call something haram, didn't call
something halal, they wouldn't dare calling it that
way. So they keep saying, well, I don't
know. I mean, I don't like it. I
wouldn't do it. But they don't dare say
haram, for example.
This is how much they watch what they
say and how they they,
and they they they put their words into
it. Can you imagine to be at that
level so careful? So in this case, instead
of many people nowadays, they say, it's not
haram, then it's okay. You can do it.
Who said that?
And don't get yourself indulged in matters to
be on the halal side simply because they're
just halal. Because the and the we talked
about is also in the,
the degree of righteousness.
Right? So that one of those things of
righteousness is people leave that which is halal
out of fear, that if they indulge too
much in it, the the the path to
the haram becomes easier afterwards.
Like if you consume everything halal, you'll never
start desiring something else.
And if everything halal has been used and
consumed, it's gonna start desiring something wrong and
something haram. So that's why you need to
be careful. Always watchful of what you say,
what you do. Don't consider this something to
be very light. You could probably say things
that you think is they're not not significant,
but to Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, they are
very, very dangerous statement.
So may Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, those who
listen to the speech and follow the best
of it, you're
Any question Ajamal?
Yes, sir.
No.
By the way, I could barely hear you
from there.
I I know you you you have a
very loud voice, so help me out, man.
Uh-huh.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
Okay.
No.
So what's the difference between
and haram?
Now,
like I said, the sometimes
they would be careful giving specific labels
if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not label
something in particular. But
these are now some of the major
like the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam when
he talked about
allah,
what do you call a kabar,
the major sins. And he counted 1 hadith,
10 of them. And the prophet salallahu the
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned also al kabar
in Surat,
Al Anam.
And the last the last portion of Surat
Al Anam or Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
counted. Many of it, this.
Come, let me tell you what Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala has provided for you. So these
are major sins. And I'll move your card
concern from some of the major sins as
well too.
And many, many people that think
all these major sins only like fornication, adultery,
drinking, alcohol.
It's much more than that.
Backbiting counts as one of them as well
too. It's something people take lightly these days.
Or mocking other people thinking it's okay to
do yeah. They're they're they're they're okay with
that. I mean, they don't have any problem
with this. Be careful
Ajima or maybe cursing or using the f
word nowadays and just like as if we're
saying salan to somebody.
Although the believers as the prophet mentioned,
the believer is not someone who curses or
someone who's vulgar.
So these things are serious matters, but many
people today just think it's a culture. So
who cares?