Yusuf Gassiep – Naseegah Segment #08
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The speaker discusses the importance of taking the right advice when facing a situation, even if it may not be immediately appreciated. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's advice is to fast before night and distribute dates as redemption for one's actions. The speaker emphasizes the importance of problem solving instead of problem-makers and offers advice on how to change one's life and relief.
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From time to time,
our counsel,
our advice
is often sought from family members
and friends.
And as a Muslim, we have a duty
to advise
and give good advice.
As the prophet said,
this deen is established
on sincere
advice.
What would we do
if someone
came to us in a
state
of panic,
a state of anxiety,
a state of confusion.
This happens in the life of the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. A man comes to the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, this hadith is found
in the Sahih of Imam al Bukhari
and Sahih Muslim.
A man comes
to the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
claiming that he is destroyed.
The prophet
inquires,
you know, why
he he feels like he feels what what
what what happened to this individual,
and he sees that he had * with
his halal wife during the month of Ramadan.
He had * during the month of Ramadan,
and we all know from
sunrise
to sunset,
it's fasting
and staying away
from
*.
This person believes that he
has
destroyed
his relationship with Allah
But what the prophet
does
is so amazing.
The prophet
puts
hope in this person's heart.
The prophet
gives him
a
solution.
The prophet asked him, can you
free a slave?
The man says he's unable to do that
financially.
Then the prophet
offers him the opportunity
to redeem himself by Allah
by fasting 2 consecutive
months.
Once again,
the man is unable to do that
physically.
And
so the prophet
tells him to,
you know, sit down. He sits there,
and
in the presence of the prophet
comes this huge
basket of dates,
a gift to the prophet.
The prophet
gives this man an opportunity,
gives him the dates,
and says to him, distribute these dates
as redemption
for what you have done
during the month of Ramadan,
during the day where everybody knows that one
cannot be intimate with your spouse.
The prophet gives him the dates and tells
him to distribute it, and he says to
the prophet
in all of Madinah, there is no one
poorer than me.
And the
prophet
laughs
and says to him,
give it to your family
to eat.
This is the type of hope and the
type of advice
that we need to give each other.
Sometimes we
become
excited
at the pain of other people. The prophet
never fed off the pain of others,
but rather,
he seek out a solution
for their problems.
And so we ask Allah
when we are consulted
that we answer
wisely
and we are
problem solvers
instead of problem
makers.
This Ramadan,
do more.
SANSAV,
changing lives through development and relief.