Yaser Birjas – Isha Khatirah 16-12-2024
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The importance of protecting one's hand and potential dangerous actions during a phone call is emphasized, along with a brief advertisement for a sword-sallam incident. The narratives include swords and a man named Az-amin Awwam who showed pride in his actions. The speaker also discusses various narratives and actions of the Prophet, including a huge responsibility for the people, a crowd, and a wave of the Mushangals. The operator mentions a woman named Assalamoni who was born with the Prophet, and who died with Afied.
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If someone asks you to volunteer for something
good, would you raise your hand?
Even if you don't know what it is?
Like, I want ten volunteers.
Would you raise your hand?
But what do you know what I'm going
to say?
What if it was something dangerous?
Would you still raise your hand?
How fast should we respond to the call
to do khair?
That's the question here.
How fast should we respond to the call
to do something khair?
It doesn't matter how dangerous that is, right?
So we have in hadith, hadith number 91,
in Riyadh al-Saliheen, al-Mubadir al-Khairat,
the chapter on hastening in virtuous deeds.
Hadith Anas radiallahu ta'ala warada, anna rasoolallahu
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam akhada sayfan yawma uhud
faqal.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, on the
battle of Uhud, on the day of Uhud,
he grabbed a sword, he took up a
sword in his hand, and then he starts
calling, qal man ya'khudu minni hadha.
He said, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, who will
take this sword from me?
I mean, if you take a sword, what
do you expect to do with it?
Shawarma?
Of course not.
There's something much more serious to do with
the sword than that.
So, Nabi Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, who's
going to take this sword from my hand?
If you are in that position, and the
Prophet is offering a sword on a battlefield,
what does that mean, jama'ah?
You're going to go fight for it.
You're going to go fight, and it's going
to be dangerous.
So it's already risky, it's already dangerous, and
we know what happened in the battle of
Uhud, when that moment the Prophet says, look,
who can take this sword from my hand?
So, qala fabasatu aydiyahum, kullu insani minhum yaqul
ana ana.
He says, everybody who was there, they raised
their hands and said, me, Rasulallah, I'll take
it, I'll take it.
So how many people do you expect that
they were calling the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam to give it to them?
Tens of them probably, if not even hundreds
of them in that moment.
But then the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
he says, he added to the statement, qal
man ya'khudu bi haqqah.
Who dares to take it bi haqqihi, which
means basically take it with the right that
you owe it to it.
That there's a right, you owe it to
the sword.
And that which means to take the full
responsibility for that task.
Who can claim they can take the sword
with the full responsibility that comes with this
sword?
And that's when the people withdraw their hands
again.
Now they withdraw their hands back.
Because now they don't know what's going on.
There's a responsibility, there's a haqq.
Like they thought, I'll take the sword to
go and fight with it.
I can do that.
But now the Prophet is saying something beyond
that.
What could be the haqq that you owe
the sword?
Fa qala abu dujana, ana ya rasulallah.
Abu Dujana, one of the companions, his name
was Simak ibn Kharsha radiyallahu ta'ala anhu
wa rada.
He raised his hand, he goes, I'll do
it ya rasulallah.
And the Prophet, then he asked Rasulallah, What's
the haqq?
What's the responsibility that comes with taking the
sword?
Fa qala, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, it wasn't
mentioned in this narration over here.
It says, That you keep hitting with it.
Means fighting with it.
Like relentlessly, you continue to fight with it
until it bends.
I mean, I don't know how many of
you have held the sword in their hands.
But these swords are tough.
Steel.
And when you hit it, steel to steel,
it takes really strong, powerful muscles and hands
and impact to cause that sword to break
or even to bend.
Some of the sahaba like Khalid radiyallahu anhu
wa rada, in one battle he would change
tens of swords.
Why is that?
Because when he hits it, fa qala, he
just like smash it and he breaks the
entire sword.
This is how powerful he was, radiyallahu anhu
wa rada.
So Abu Dujanah, when he heard this, he
said, I'll do it, O Rasulallah.
Now, the story right now from the hadith
over here is that when the Prophet, he
says, Who is willing to take this sword
from my hand?
It was on the battle of Uhud and
they have seen what happened in the battle
of Uhud.
And now on the battlefield, and he's given
them a sword, which means you're going to
use this to fight, which means there is
a chance this person to sacrifice their life.
But they all said, I'll take care of
it, O Rasulallah.
They all rushed to do good.
No matter how risky that is, if it's
for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, I will do it.
But then when the Prophet added that disclaimer,
you do it with the responsibility that comes
with it, the huge responsibility that comes with
it, that's when many of them, they wanted
to know, what is the responsibility?
Am I up to that task?
And when the Prophet explained it to them,
they realized that means you're going to have
to go probably solo in this huge crowd,
the wave of the Mushrikeen, as they were
coming towards the Prophet, which means you're dying.
That's what it means.
And Abu Rujani says, I'll take care of
it, O Rasulallah.
And the other narration that explains that, He
took it, and he cracked the skulls of
the pagans with it.
Like he was just throwing it, and then
he destroyed them, basically.
Another narration, him, radiyallahu anhu wa rada, he
was very well known for al-asbat al
-hamra, his red bandana.
When the battle field, in order for him
to mark himself, like he's saying to the
enemy, I'm not afraid of you.
Like he's marking himself with a red bandana
around his head to be noticed, to be
seen.
Like usually in the battle field, what do
you do?
You hide in the trench and try not
to be seen.
But this man, he's putting a red bandana
on his head.
Like he's telling the Mushrikeen, I'm here.
I dare you to come to me.
And he would go, radiyallahu anhu wa rada,
He would basically walk and ride his horse,
and he would be kind of like a
flamboyant, and he's showing off in that moment.
The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he says,
That kind of style, Allah and the Messenger,
they abhor this, they don't like it.
Except in these moments.
Because that's to show, of course, you know,
pride from the non-believers, and of course
to encourage the people and boost their morale.
And that's what he did, radiyallahu anhu wa
rada.
So, also part of the story, another narration,
Az-Zubair bin Awwam, radiyallahu anhu wa rada.
And Az-Zubair was also one of those
brave people.
One of the bravest men of Sahaba, radiyallahu
anhu wa rada.
But he, when he saw Abu Dujanah taking
it in his hand, and realized, you know
what, I want to see what he's going
to do with it.
So in the battle, he was fighting around
Abu Dujanah to see what is he going
to be doing with that sword.
He said, I've seen wonders.
That sword made wonders in his hand.
He did a lot of things with it.
He said, until in one moment, he came
closer to a knight, or someone was wearing
all the armors of a soldier, and was
calling the mushrikeen and inciting them and encouraging
them and inspired them to go and fight.
So as he came close to it, and
he raised the sword to finish that soldier,
then that soldier turned around, appeared to be
a lady.
And she was Hind, according to the story,
Hind bint Utbah, the wife of Abu Sufyan
himself.
The lady who went after Hamza, radiyallahu anhu
wa rada, and she did what she did.
So Abu Dujanah, as he was about to
bring the sword down, he just kind of
like stopped and he paused.
Why do you think he paused?
He's not going to use the sword of
the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, to kill
a woman with it.
He said, no.
He said, no, I'm not going to disgrace
the sword of the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, to kill a defenseless woman.
So he withdrew and he went away, radiyallahu
anhu wa rada.
But that's just to show you how Abu
Dujanah, radiyallahu anhu wa rada, what he did
with the sword of the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam.
And this man, he lived with the Prophet
to witness al-Khandaq and Mu'tah and other
battles until he died with Abu Bakr as
-Siddiq, radiyallahu anhu wa rada, fighting the apostates,
al-Murtaddin, on the Battle of al-Yamama.
The Battle of al-Yamama against Musaylima al
-Qadda, Musaylima, the imposter and the liar.
So we see that how in this hadith,
when the Prophet offered them a good deed,
they all wanted to be first to take
it.
So next time, inshallah, when you're offered to
something good, participate.
If you have the time and the energy
and you can, why not?
May Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, make us
among those who always rush and hasten to
do virtuous deeds.
Any questions?
SubhanakAllahu wa bihamdik ashra la'int astaghfiruka tubalik.
Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu.