Zia Sheikh – What is Hayat e Tayyeba

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The speaker discusses the three qualities of the Prophetipping, including satisfaction, blessings, and a boon. They also mention the importance of the word "naha" in the title of the book and the significance of the "naha" in the context of the title. The speaker emphasizes the need for understanding and the importance of the "naha" in the context of the title.

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			this Hayatun Tayyiba with Qana'ah.
		
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			Qana'ah means satisfaction.
		
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			He'll be satisfied with what Allah SWT gives
		
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			him.
		
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			This is known as Qana'ah.
		
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			And the third opinion is also from Ibn
		
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			Abbas.
		
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			It means Sa'ada, meaning good fortune.
		
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			Allah SWT will bless him.
		
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			And Hassan al-Mujahid and Qatada RA they
		
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			say, La yateebu li ahadin hayatun illa fil
		
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			jannah.
		
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			What Hayatun Tayyiba means is that he will
		
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			get Hayatun Tayyiba in the hereafter, meaning he'll
		
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			get paradise.
		
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			And Tayyib, this word Tayyib, the only place
		
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			that the word Tayyib is justified to be
		
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			called is Jannah.
		
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			The best place to be called Tayyib is
		
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			Jannah, so according to their opinion it refers
		
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			to Jannah itself.
		
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			And Tahhaq said it means al-rizq al
		
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			-halal wal-ibadatu fil dunya.
		
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			He says that it means rizq halal and
		
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			the fact that he gets the tawfiq to
		
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			worship Allah SWT in the dunya, that is
		
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			what is meant by Hayatun Tayyiba.
		
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			Ibn Kathir RA, he sums everything up and
		
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			says the actual correct opinion is that al
		
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			-Hayatun Tayyiba tashmulu hatha kulla.
		
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			It includes all of these things, all of
		
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			these things that the various sahaba and the
		
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			tabi'een have had the opinion of, all
		
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			of these things are included in Hayatun Tayyiba.
		
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			And that is proven by a hadith that
		
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			Imam Ahmad narrates from Abdullah ibn Umar that
		
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			the Prophet SAW said, Qad aflih man aslam
		
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			wal-riziqa kafafan wa qanna'ahu Allah bima
		
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			ataah.
		
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			That the person who became Muslim, he submitted
		
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			himself, he became successful.
		
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			He is successful and also he was given
		
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			sustenance which was sufficient for him and Allah
		
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			SWT gave him qana'ah and satisfaction with
		
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			what he gave him.
		
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			A person who has these three qualities, he
		
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			is the one who has become successful and
		
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			this is what Hayatun Tayyiba is referring to
		
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			according to Ibn Kathir RA.
		
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			So again to summarize, whoever does any good
		
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			deed, whether male or female, while in the
		
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			state of iman, Allah SWT says, falanuhyiyannahu hayatan
		
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			tayyiba.
		
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			Most certainly, the wording is very powerful here.
		
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			There is taqid, there are two forms of
		
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			stress in this word.
		
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			The word nuhyiy would be sufficient in this
		
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			ayah.
		
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			We would give him a good life, but
		
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			there is a noon taqid at the end
		
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			and a laam taqid at the beginning, lanuhyiyannahu.
		
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			That means most certainly we will give him
		
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			a hayatan tayyiba, a very good life and
		
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			we have already discussed what a good life
		
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			is.
		
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			Walanajziyannahum ajrahum bi ahsani maa kanu ya'malun and
		
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			the ayah goes on to say, most certainly
		
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			we will reward him, give him the reward
		
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			or recompense him with the reward in a
		
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			better way that he used to do.
		
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			So the reward that Allah SWT is giving
		
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			us for making a small sacrifice in this
		
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			world is eternal bliss, eternal paradise, eternal happiness,
		
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			never ending.
		
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			So obviously ahsani maa kanu ya'malun, it is
		
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			much better than what we could have received
		
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			in this world.
		
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			So as the Prophet SAW mentioned in a
		
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			hadith qudsi, a'adattu li'ibadiyassaliheen maa laa
		
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			'inun ra'at wa laa'udhunun sami'at
		
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			wa laa khatara ala qalbi bashar.
		
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			I have prepared for my pious slaves what
		
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			no eye has seen, no ear has heard
		
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			and no person can even imagine in his
		
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			heart what that jannah is actually like.
		
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			This is what I have prepared for him
		
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			and this is really what jannah is about.
		
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			We really don't know what it is like.
		
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			We cannot even imagine and the descriptions that
		
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			Allah SWT has given us in the Quran
		
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			and the sunnah, these are simply just to
		
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			give us an idea.
		
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			Otherwise, the example that we need to understand
		
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			is that if you talk to a baby
		
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			that is in a womb, that you are
		
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			going to go into this world and in
		
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			this world there are going to be cars,
		
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			there are going to be aeroplanes, huge buildings,
		
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			oceans, rivers, fruit and vegetables and all these
		
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			different kinds of things, you are going to
		
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			see them in the worldly life once you
		
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			come out of this little world that you
		
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			are in.
		
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			The baby is not going to understand anything.
		
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			So this is the case with us.
		
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			We are in the womb of this world
		
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			and what Allah SWT has prepared for us,
		
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			we cannot even imagine and that is what
		
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			this hadith is talking about.