Zia Sheikh – Ramadan Reminder Day13
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The transcript discusses the history of Munte's movement, including its negative impact on society and the importance of avoiding bad behavior. The conversation also touches on the idea of people being harmed by actions and the need to appreciate people who don't make the most out of them. The conversation ends with a discussion of the importance of avoiding bad behavior and the need to appreciate people who don't make the most out of them.
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As I mentioned a couple of days ago,
the large portion of Surah At-Tawbah refers
to what happened in Ghazwat Tabuk, before that,
after that, and during Ghazwat Tabuk.
And it also mentions a lot of things
that the Munafiqeen, the hypocrites, said and did
during the course of what happened in Ghazwat
Tabuk that Allah SWT exposed.
And the purpose of Allah SWT mentioning obviously
those things was so that as Muslims we
learn from those bad habits and we make
sure that we don't practice those bad habits
as Muslims.
Understanding that those habits are actually habits of
the Munafiqeen, the hypocrites themselves.
So there are a few verses that I'm
going to point out.
Allah SWT mentioned in Ghazwat Tabuk that the
Munafiqeen actually excused themselves.
And they basically presented excuses to the Prophet
and said we cannot go, we're sick, my
wife's sick, my children are sick, and so
on.
And they stayed behind.
And in the meantime, they kept up with
the news of what was going on with
the Muslim troops that had gone to Ghazwat
Tabuk.
Whenever they got the news that something good
had happened, Allah SWT says that this was
displeasing to them.
And whenever they got the news that something
bad had happened to the troops, they said,
you know, thank God we didn't go.
So if any good happens to you, this
is bad for them.
They don't like it.
They dislike it.
And if anything bad happens, they said, we
took care of our affairs before and it
was good that we didn't go with these
people.
وَيَتَوَلَّوْا وَهُمْ فَرِحُونَ And they turned around and
they were happy at the fact that they
didn't participate.
What do we learn from this?
There's something in Arabic which is called Shamata.
Shamata means that when you see somebody in
a good situation, you become jealous and you
don't like that good situation for the person.
And on the other hand, if you see
that person in a bad situation, you become
happy that he's in that bad situation.
With the Prophet ﷺ, he forbade that do
not become happy at somebody's misfortune.
Allah SWT might save him from it and
he might involve you in that same predicament.
So this is known as Shamata and this
is what the Munafiqeen did.
As members of a community of Muslims, we
need to make sure that we are happy
at somebody's happiness.
At a wedding, at the birth of a
child, at a graduation, at an achievement.
We show happiness and we show appreciation for
that person.
And when the person or any community member
is at a loss, he has a loss
in the family, a death, sickness, we show
our concern.
This is what a community is about.
And unfortunately what happens, the bigger communities, the
bigger it grows, people just become faces in
the crowd.
And you tend to kind of lose touch
with people, that personal touch and finding out
if a person is missing for a couple
of days.
Where did he go?
Is he okay?
Is his family okay?
And so on.
And this is something that we need to
make sure that we are aware of.
And that's why the Prophet ﷺ, he mentioned
five rites of a fellow Muslim.
And according to another Iwaya, six rites.
What are they?
If you think about them, the majority are
just interacting, saying Salam, visiting.
When someone invites you, go to their house.
And when a person is sneezing, you say,
pray for him.
And when a person is sick, you go
visit him.
Following the funeral, making sure you participate in
the funeral.
If you look at all of these activities,
what are they?
These are basically all social activities that gel
a community together.
So that's why the Prophet ﷺ said that
these are the rites of fellow Muslims.
And this is something that we should all
try to participate in.
The second selection of verses I want to
talk about is related to the fundraising or
the collections that were taking place before Ghazwat
Tabuk.
The Prophet ﷺ instructed people to donate whatever
they could for the sake of Allah ﷻ
so that the troops could be funded.
So people like Abdur Rahman Ibn A'udh,
who was rich, Uthman Ghani, who was rich.
Basically they did what they could and they
provided a lot for these donations.
And other people, they didn't have so much.
For example, a person who is known as
Abu Aqeel.
It's mentioned in the Iwaya of Bukhari.
Abu Sayyid Al-Qudri reports that Abu Aqeel
had nothing to give.
So what he did, he worked all night
and in the morning he had purchased a
collection of dates.
And half of them he gave for the
sake of Allah ﷻ for the troops so
that his donation could be accepted for the
sake of Allah ﷻ.
Now when the Munafiqeen, they saw what was
going on, the people that were bringing lots,
they said that these people are doing this
to show off.
So when people did a lot and they
brought a lot, they said that they are
doing it to show off.
And then when Abu Aqeel brought his donation,
they said, what does Allah ﷻ want with
this donation?
This is nothing.
So they belittled it.
So again, we have a tendency that when
people do any type of deed, we have
a tendency in our hearts to maybe think
bad about that person.
We should not have these kinds of thoughts
or misgivings about people.
We should always think good about people.
Especially when people become a little religious, Shaytan
kind of provokes them and prods them to
kind of looking down at other people.
And then when you see a person, for
example, who doesn't come to the masjid, he
suddenly starts coming.
So you start thinking, what brought him to
the masjid now?
Maybe some calamity happened or tragedy happened and
now suddenly he comes to the masjid.
Or when people who don't usually come the
rest of the year, they start coming in
Ramadan, you start looking at them and say,
oh well, these people, they never come and
now it's Ramadan and they start coming again.
Or you see a lot of people coming
for iftar, you say, oh look at these
people, they're just coming to eat here.
And they never come for the rest of
the time.
So these kinds of thoughts are typical of
what the munafiqeen used to have.
We should never belittle anybody's actions.
We should think that maybe Allah SWT might
accept that person's coming to the masjid one
time and he might reject all of my
salat and my siyam and everything and I
might get punished instead of going into Jannah.
Think of the story of the woman who
used to pray tahajjud and used to pray
and yet she tied her cat up and
she didn't use to feed it properly and
that became the means of her entering into
the hellfire.
And on the other hand, the woman who
was a fahisha, a woman who used to
do evil acts and evil deeds night and
day and she just gave water to a
thirsty dog and that was sufficient for her
forgiveness.
So Allah SWT revealed about the munafiqeen when
they said these things.
This is again towards the end of the
tenth juz.
Those
people
that point fingers and make accusations against those
people that are doing ita'a, that they
are going out of their way to do
ita'a for the sake of Allah SWT
and also making fun of those people that
can only find the fruits of their efforts.
Like Abu Aqeel, he came with his earnings
throughout the night and he donated them.
They ridiculed them.
They ridiculed these people and made jokes about
them.
Allah SWT responds to that and says, Allah
is joking about these people to these munafiqeen.
Allah will ridicule them too.
And they will have a painful punishment.
So this is again something we should never
belittle anybody.
We should appreciate everybody's actions, whatever they do
for the sake of Allah SWT and whenever
we see them doing any good, we should
always be appreciative.
The third story also in this selection of
verses is related about a person whose name
was Abdullah Dhul-Khwaisarah.
And he was a person, when at the
end of a battle, the spoils of war
were being distributed, he came to the Prophet
SAW and said, He told him, be just.
Just imagine somebody comes up to you and
tells you to be just when you're distributing
something.
So it means, basically it's indicating that you're
not being fair.
You're being impartial.
You're being partial to somebody else.
You're giving more to somebody else and less
to somebody else.
So obviously, the Prophet SAW was displeased and
his face changed.
And he said, who is going to be
just if I'm not just?
I'm the Prophet of Allah.
Of course, I'm doing the best that I
can to be just.
Umar was standing there and he said, Ya
Rasulullah, give me permission and I'll just slice
this person up for saying what he just
said.
The Prophet SAW said, No, don't do anything.
I don't want people to come after me
to say that I killed my own people.
So this is not something that is appropriate
for us to do.
So Allah SWT revealed verses about this incident
too.
وَمِنْهُمْ مَن يَلْمِزُكَ فِي الصَّدَقَاتِ فَإِنْ أُعْطُوا مِّنْهَا
رَضُوءٌ وَإِلَّمْ يُعْطُوا مِّنْهَا إِذَا هُمْ يَسْخَطُونَ There
are some people that accuse you about the
issue of sadaqat and charity.
If they are given from it, they are
pleased and if they are not given, they
become displeased.
So again, this is a habit of munafiqeen
that they are always looking for ulterior motives.
They are looking for something to get out
of whatever they are doing.
And if they don't get anything, then they
are displeased.
A mu'min, he does everything for the sake
of Allah SWT and if Allah SWT blesses
him with something, he is pleased with it
without his intention of getting it, and then
this is something that Allah SWT will give
him barakah in it.
But if a person is doing things for
ulterior motives, then this is something that Allah
SWT does not like.
So this is another habit that we need
to try to avoid, doing things only for
the sake of Allah SWT to please Him
and not for ulterior motives.
May Allah SWT give us tawfiq to understand
and practice what has been said and heard.