Yaser Birjas – Being Watchful In Major And Minor Things

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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?