Yaser Birjas – Jannah Is The Compensation For Patiently Losing Sight
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The speaker discusses the importance of the gifts of sight and guidance in the Islam of Islam. They emphasize the importance of the gift of sight for individuals and how it is a gift that is difficult to navigate through in old age. The speaker also discusses the loss of sight and the need for patient guidance and practice of patience.AI: Transcript ©
We're still studying the chapter of our sober
patients from Radha Salihin.
And hadith number 34.
Mamun Nuhr
bringing a hadith in regards to one of
the,
individual
personal,
you could say calamities
or catastrophes that could happen to anybody.
And how should people react to it and
what do they get if they do so?
And that is in regard to the gift
of sight.
The gift of sight.
In this hadith, the Messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam said,
when I afflict my slave in his 2
dear things,
like his most beloved two things, and he
means by that his eyes, his sight.
And and he endures patiently.
I shall compensate him for them
with Jannah,
So what does it mean here? So prophet
says,
If I test somebody in regards to their
2 dearest things or 2 beloved things and
I mean by that the site.
Why is that so important, Jema'ah? It's one
of the greatest gifts when Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala,
he spoke about the creation of Adam or
the creation at least of mankind. After all,
Jesus Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
It is He who had created you and
He brought you out from the wombs of
their mothers, no nothing.
And Then he said, and he gave you
the gift of sight, the gift of hearing
actually, the gift of sight, and also comprehension.
Mean understanding through these tools and instruments.
So as you can see here, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala mentioned sight as one of the
gifts.
And when Allah speaking about people who have
guidance, he says what? He says what?
That they see. Right? And those who don't
have guidance
as if they don't see, they've been blind.
Like, they will not see anything even though
they have sight.
They have they have eyes, but they see
nothing with it. So it's a it's a
great gift
and,
losing it is a great loss. And even
when it comes to guidance, Allah
spoke about the people who turn away from
the gift from the gift of guidance. What
are all about them?
Those who turn away from Allah
guidance in this dunya, they have a constrained
life.
When
on the day of judgement they will be
resurrected,
blind, they won't they won't see. And And
they will say,
My Lord, why am I, blind when I
used to see in this dunya?
Because we have given you we've given you
the all the evidences and the proofs and
the ayat to see guidance through it but
you you chose not to. So therefore we're
gonna forget about you.
So the gift of sight is very important
here. And here, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
that if Allah
if Allah tested somebody
by losing losing their sight.
Because of what? Many reasons.
Could be because of disease, because of illness,
accident,
could be old age,
cataract at some point and so on. And
back then,
even subhanallah, as simple as a cataract surgery
was a big deal. They didn't have that
luxury of doing it back in the days.
So many people would lose their sight even
though it's probably preventable.
But they lose their sight. When we say
lose their sight, we know that
blindness is not at one degree.
And some would have 90% blindness, some have
70% blindness, like different categories. But the point
is unable to see.
And if a person is unable to see,
what does that mean in jamaah?
It's difficult to navigate in this life, subhanAllah.
Hard, especially if they were able to see.
I mean, there's difference between somebody
born like this
and someone develops that in old age.
When, alhamdulill, you have the luxury of waking
up and not worry about anything. You walk
straight to the bathroom, you go to the
kitchen, you get your food, you go here,
you go there, they have no problem with
that.
But then at some point in your life,
you have to be guided by somebody. Someone
had to hold you and to show you
the way. And you have to relearn
to
live like that.
So you have to depend on your, on
your, of course, physical touch to navigate through
your life and so. So it's difficult, there's
not always difficult.
So people might when they when they lose
their sight, they might lose their mind with
it.
They're unable to to, to navigate in this
life. So the prophet says here, whoever been
tested with that and they show and they
exercise patience, he said, salallahu alaihi wasalam,
and say he remained patient.
Meaning he didn't say anything wrong. He didn't
object to Allah's
He was he was taken as well.
Well.
I will compensate
him for them
with Jannah.
And
obviously,
this is from the sign of iman.
And in this society, those who don't have
faith or iman, don't believe in the akhirah,
They see this life to be the only
life.
They don't have that kind of connection with
these things.
So if they if something they lose from
this dunya, they probably lose their their everything
with it. And for them, that's the whole
world.
So therefore, they might even hurt themselves as
a result of that. But here as a
believer,
for them,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chose to take, you
know, those beautiful
two things from me, the sight.
To Allah belongs everything. And they remain patient
and they ask Allah to compensate them with
Jannah. So they exercise
patience. And there are many, many people from
the Sahaba who
reportedly they in old age, they lost their
sight as well too, in old age. One
of them is Asma'a Bintu Bakr Siddiqui Allahu
ta'ala.
When she was very old, she passed a
100 years old actually,
and her son, Abdullah ibn Zubayr,
was killed by the tyrant Al Hajjaj. He
was crucified in the entrance of Mecca.
Then at some point she
she was asked to go and and go
there and she was blind at that time.
And she stood there even though she couldn't
see him. But she would say: Isn't it
that time for this knight
to step down from his right?
And
eventually they buried him afterwards. The idea is
that,
subhanallah,
that test could be for anybody.
Could be for the righteous
and the non righteous.
And if someone now is tested with that,
doesn't mean I cannot I cannot
defend myself or I cannot go to the
doctor to see if I can,
remove this illness. No, we're not saying that.
Feel free to go and and fight that
with the Qadr of wellness.
It's okay to do that. But if there
was no repair to it,
protect all of your side, But if that's
the case, then our patience
will be the thing that we need to
exercise. May Allah
protect our side for
us and keep us all safe. Any
question,
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