Zia Sheikh – Ramadan 2015 Khatira Day 27
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The importance of keeping people under consideration when they wake up is discussed, as it is important for everyone to wake up at 1 pm and go home by the time they are about to leave. The Prophet's rule of melon was revealed to the Prophet, but it is still applicable in the day and age. The importance of dress in Islam is emphasized, including the importance of avoiding embarrassment and being aware of what is being said. The transcript also discusses the verse "by the day of judgment" being written in surahur on the Day of Jury, and the importance of being aware of what is being said and not hearing or seeing.
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Today inshallah I'm going to be covering a
couple of ayats from Surah Al-Ahzab and
then one from Surah Fusilat.
In Surah Al-Ahzab the mention is made
of an incident that took place where the
Prophet a.s. had invited people to come
to his house at the time that he
married Zaynab bint Jahsh r.a. Now whenever
we are invited to a place we should
keep in mind the etiquette of going to
the place and then leaving the place.
So we should not come too early to
the invitation and we should not stay too
late.
The gracious host who feels embarrassed to be
very vocal and tell the people okay time's
up you need to leave, he will sit
and he will not say anything but he
will feel hurt by the fact that people
are sitting and sitting and sitting and not
leaving.
So this is actually what happened in this
incident with the Prophet a.s. where he
invited the people and the food was served,
some people came early and then the food
was served and then people continued to stay
until late at night.
The Prophet a.s. at one point got
up to give a hint to the people
that it was time for people to leave,
you know it's getting late but still three
Sahaba continued to sit and chat and talk
upon which these verses were revealed.
Allah s.w.t. says يَا يُهْلَذِينَ آمَنُوا
لَا تَدْخُلُوا بُيُوتَ النَّبِيِّ إِلَّا أَن يُؤْذَنَ لَكُمْ
إِلَى طَعَامٍ غَيْرَ نَاظِرِينَ إِنَا O people of
Iman do not enter the houses of the
Prophet a.s. except when you are permitted,
when permission is given to you for food
but غَيْرَ نَاظِرِينَ إِنَا not waiting there, don't
wait for that food to be served, come
at a time when the food is about
to be served, don't come when you've been
invited for dinner, don't turn up at lunch
time or three or four hours before and
expect the host to receive you graciously, come
at the correct time وَلَكِنِ إِذَا دُعِيْتُمْ when
you are invited فَادْخُلُوا enter فَإِذَا طَعِمْتُمْ and
once you've eaten فَانْتَشِرُوا then spread out وَلَا
مُسْتَأْنِسِينَ لِحَدِيثِ and do not engage in what's
called استئناس استئناس means to chat for a
long time overnight and this is not permissible
in sharia except for when a husband and
wife want to talk at night, this is
permissible, in fact even encouraged for them to
talk at night, but other than that, to
talk for long hours at night in such
a way that the Fajr could be missed
and backbiting occurs and things which are wasteful,
wasteful conversation occurs, this is not permissible.
So this is what is meant here, فَانْتَشِرُوا
وَلَا مُسْتَأْنِسِينَ لِلْحَدِيدِ So basically everybody should think
about what the situation is like, for example
if a person is inviting you on Sunday
and tomorrow everybody has to go to work
and now it's 10 o'clock and it's
really, most people would want to go to
sleep early so that they can sleep and
then wake up early in the morning, so
you should keep that under consideration, if it's
a weekend maybe there may be a little
bit, the attitude may be a little bit
relaxed, but still you need to keep in
mind that still everybody has to wake up
for Fajr, so if you leave at 1,
2 and then go home by the time
you go to sleep it's 3 and you
have to wake up at 5 for Fajr,
so most people are going to oversleep, so
again all of that thing needs to be
kept under consideration.
So these are pretty much universal rules, now
Hyderabadi's you need to wake up, when you
go to a Hyderabadi's house if you come
on time you have to wait for another
hour for people to turn up, and then
when you're about to leave they say well
the biryani is not served yet, remember when
you're invited to a Hyderabadi's house the last
thing that is served is Hyderabadi's biryani, so
probably if a person is not aware he's
going to be burned on many occasions, he
eats to his filth and then they say
well the biryani is still to come yet,
so you always need to save some space.
So the ayah goes on to say, This
kind of action, it harms the Prophet ﷺ,
it hurts him, but he's ashamed of you,
he's shy to tell you, he doesn't want
to say that to you, and this is
what any gracious host will feel that somebody's
at my house, I cannot tell him to
leave, so anybody would be shy to tell
his guests to leave, so this was the
same with the Prophet ﷺ, and then Allah
says, Allah is not shy of the truth,
that's why He revealed these verses, specifically revealed
for the Prophet ﷺ, but also applicable in
this day and age.
Going on, the ruling of hijab was revealed
to the Prophet ﷺ, what used to happen,
obviously in those days there were no bathrooms
in the houses themselves, so the women had
specific times where they used to go and
answer the call of nature, and the hypocrites
used to lie in wait for them and
basically tease them and harass them as they
were coming and going.
So verses were revealed where the Prophet ﷺ
was told, Allah
ﷻ told the Prophet ﷺ, O Prophet of
Allah, tell your wives and your daughters and
all of the believing women that they should
draw their jilbabs over themselves, what does that
mean, that basically they should wear clothes which
makes them recognisable as Muslim women and therefore
this is better for them, they will be
recognised as Muslim women and then they will
not be harmed.
So the wording is, first of all the
word jilbab, very important to understand, many people
they say, well there is no mention of
the hijab or the women's clothing in the
Qur'an, the word here is very clear,
jilbab, and the definition of jilbab is something
that covers a person from head to toe,
and if you read the hadith which I
mentioned about the women covering themselves when the
ayat of hijab were revealed, they used to
come to the masjid completely covered from head
to toe, and according to some riwayat, as
if they were black crows, covered from head
to toe and basically no body parts were
showing.
So the word jilbab itself, it indicates the
covering of the whole body, and then the
second thing is that a woman recognised as
a Muslimah, who is wearing modest clothes, she
will automatically get a level of respect from
respectful people, people who have some shame, some
hayat, they will realise that this is a
sister who is modest, I shouldn't tease her,
I should not harass her, so that is
the automatic reaction when a person sees a
woman who is modestly dressed, and while we
are on the subject, we should also keep
in mind that the ruling for dress is
applicable for men also, men have to also
be dressed modestly, and they should be wearing
loose fitting clothing, and this whole concept of
wearing tight jeans and stuff, this is against
the principle of Islam, and especially it's always
been brought to my attention, the issue of
people wearing the jeans and then them slipping
back, and then people going in sajdah, and
basically everybody can see what's going on in
the back, so it's what you call the
plumber style, plumbers when they come to your
house they have that situation going on too,
so you need to make sure that first
of all if you are wearing pants and
a shirt to make sure that the pants
are not coming down, and the best thing
I always say is keep like a jalebiya
in your car and over your regular clothes
just put it on so that you don't
have this problem, many people I know they
started implementing it after I said it, so
a loose jalebiya just keep it in your
car, just put it on over your regular
clothes and you are set, you are covered
properly, and of course the same applies modesty
is not just for the masjid, modesty should
be outside also, so many people say well
you know there's no real Islamic dress in
Islam, the Prophet SAW dressed a certain way
because that was his cultural time, and that
may be true, but if you think about
it the dress that the Prophet SAW wore
was the most modest dress, okay, it is
more modest than any other dress that we
wear, the westernized clothing of the pants, the
jeans and so on, it is more modest,
it covers us properly, it is loose fitting,
so both men and women have the same
ruling when it applies to dress.
The third ayah that I want to talk
about is in surah Fusilat, it is mentioned
that three men got together and started having
a discussion, one was from Quraysh and two
were from Faqif, they were discussing that does
Allah SWT hear everything, does he hear everything,
so one of them had an opinion, he
said maybe if we whisper, Allah SWT will
not be able to hear us, okay, so
this debate was going on, if we talk
loudly, if we whisper, does Allah SWT actually
hear us or not, so in surah Fusilat,
Allah SWT describes, he says, وَيَوْمَ يُحْشَرُ أَعْدَاءُ
اللَّهِ لَلنَّارِ فَهُمْ يُعْزَعُونَ Allah describes that on
the day of judgment, everybody is going to
be gathered and then the body parts, hands,
feet, skin, eyes, every body part is going
to bear testimony against the owner of that
person's body, so Allah says in that selection
of verses, وَمَا كُنْتُمْ تَسْتَثِرُونَ أَن يَشْهَدَ عَلَيْكُمْ
سَمْعُكُمْ وَلَا أَبْصَارُكُمْ وَلَا جُلُودُكُمْ وَلَكِنْ ظَنَنْتُمْ أَنَّ
اللَّهَ لَا يَعْلَمُ كَثِيرًا مِّمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ Okay, Allah
SWT, okay, if you think he's not listening
or he's not hearing, he's not seeing, then,
okay, put that to the side for a
minute.
What about your own body parts that Allah
SWT is going to make speak on the
day of judgment, they themselves are going to
testify against you, so where are you going
to hide on that day?
So this is basically, this verse was revealed
when these people had this discussion going on
which was related to Allah SWT hearing or
not.
Of course, we know that Allah, He is
Sameer, He is Basir, He is all hearing
and He is all seeing and He sees
everything that is going on, He knows everything
that's going on, even the, as the riwayat
suggest, that in the darkest of nights, an
ant which is walking on a black rock,
Allah SWT hears the footsteps of that ant
and He sees that ant moving across that
black rock, this is how Allah SWT knows
what is going on and not a leaf
falls without His permission, not a drop of
rain falls without His knowledge, this is the
knowledge which is, which Allah SWT has.
So we need to be aware of that
whenever we are engaging in any action which
is the disobedience of Allah SWT, we should
make ourselves aware that Allah SWT is watching,
His angels are watching, everything is being written
down with the command of Allah SWT and
of course, we will be held accountable for
it and even our body parts are going
to be testifying against us on the Day
of Judgment.
I pray that Allah SWT gives us sufiq
to understand and practice what is being said
and heard.