Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 2

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. And after that, we continue with the Hikaiyat, the teachings and the advice of Hatim al-Assam, may Allah have mercy on him. And inshaAllah, may Allah Ta'ala guide us and give us hidayah and give us the wisdom to follow these beautiful Hikaiyat for our own benefit, inshaAllah. So the second piece of advice that he gave the people and gave us, he said, I have read in the Quran that Allah said, وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ وَنَهَى النَّفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوَةِ فَإِنَّ الْجَنَّةَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَةِ He said that, Allah said in Surah Al-Naziat, But as for the one who feared the standing before his Rabb, and stopped himself from evil desires, certainly Jannah will be his abode. Now see the beauty of this ayah, وَنَهَى النَّفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوَةِ He stopped his nafs from the desire. We are not talking about evil actions. We are talking about the desire itself. So obviously there is first a desire, then there is a thought process of how to fulfill this desire, and then only will you come to the action. So we are not talking about the action. I'm saying right in the beginning, desire itself, cut it. وَنَهَى النَّفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوَةِ فَإِنَّ الْكَوَاسِ فَإِنَّ الْهَوَةِ Meaning stop nafs, his own nafs, عَنِ الْهَوَةِ About the desire, from the desire. desire, from the desire. And so, Hathim al-Hassan says, I know that whatever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says is true, therefore I have restrained myself from worldly desires and I have become steadfast in my devotion to Allah. See, the thing which occurs to me always whenever I read these things, I read about the Sahaja and I read about these people, is the focus on the action. It's not what they know. We also know this, don't we know that evil desire is bad, we should not have any evil desire? No, this is not, you know, some special knowledge that is given only to some people. We also know this. But does it make us stop ourselves from those desires? That is the question. The question is, does it make us stop from those desires? Right? We know that sitting in a halaqa, sitting in the masjid when the khatira is going on, and sitting in the back with your face in the phone is a bad thing. Right? But we do that, we don't do that. Coming up, coming in front and sitting in front here is a good thing. Do we do that? We don't do that. Right? So, alhamdulillah, some people when they are reminded, they do it. May Allah bless them. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala raise their darajat. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala take the adhesive on the bottoms of the others, which is making them stick to the chairs. Alhamdulillah, the adhesive of two came out. Third one is still there. I know your names. You want me to call you by name? Good. Come without being called. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Come and sit and listen because this is beneficial for you. Wallahi, I'm not saying because I'm saying it. Forget me. Remove me from the picture. If I'm telling you my story, don't listen to it. Go home. But when I'm telling you about the kalam of Allah, when I'm telling you about the teachings of Rasulullah , this is beneficial for you. It's good for me also. I don't, as far as I'm concerned, if nobody listens also, it's fine. I will still say it. But what's the point? I'm here. I'm sitting. I don't know. I'm listening. I don't know. I don't know. So, come and listen. Alhamdulillah. JazakAllah khair, you came. May Allah bless you. May Allah subhanAllah raise your darjahat. May Allah subhanAllah protect you from all the evil that you know and you don't know, inshaAllah. Right? Shall I make dua also that May Allah subhanAllah kill all your phones and erase all your data? InshaAllah. No, I won't make that, don't worry. InshaAllah. So, very important. Very important. See, the whole, the whole issue of Amal. Think about it like this. Here is Hasib al-As'hab al-Ahudalal, he's saying, I start myself even from the desire, right? See, Islam, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Allah said, O you who believe, enter into Islam completely. So first and foremost, the ayat is coming to the believers. Who are the believers? Who are the first people who received this ayah? The Sahab of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the best of the best. So Allah is saying to Abu Bakr and Umar and Osman and Ali and Talha and Zubair and all these people, enter into Islam fully. It doesn't mean they were not in Islam fully. Point being, even for them, there is a wisdom in this. Allah is saying, enter into Islam fully and completely. So what about people like us? Now, why is this important? Think about this. Why is it important? Because, for example, if you are not doing, now, Ezuddin, for example, right? He is doing, he is a wrestler, Mashallah, Mashallah. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala always give him victory, Inshallah, right? So now when he is learning wrestling, some of the, he says, okay, I am, I am learning to wrestle. But he doesn't turn up for the class. When he goes there, halfway he leaves. The coach is telling him something, he won't do it. The coach says, eat this, he won't, he eats something else. Don't eat this, he eats that. He does not do it. Now, he says, I am a wrestler. You are not a wrestler. You are not serious. You will never learn to wrestle. You will never be able to win, because you don't follow the system completely, right? For everyone, I mean, somebody going to the gym, you want to lose weight, gain weight, what, there is a system, there is a process, and whether it is physical exercise, whether it is sports and games, whether, say, for example, I want to become a doctor. Very good, fantastic. You know, you should become a doctor. Then what do you do? You have to go through the whole course, right? You do medicine for three years. It's enough. I have studied. I know enough. You try to practice medicine, you go to jail. Because the whole course is for, you know, whatever number of years. I do halfway. No. In life, anything you do halfway will not give you the results. You have to do it fully and completely. And that's what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying about the deen. He says, Allah said, enter into the deen completely. Don't do things halfway. I do this. I am doing something. I am doing something good. I am doing something bad. Now, this good and the evil mixed together, what is the result? No. Be fair, be just, be honest, have integrity, speak the truth, don't tell lies, don't deceive people, eat halal, earn halal, don't eat haram, don't earn haram, and so on and so on. Alhamdulillah, you also have a beautiful life yourself. Plus, you will be able to benefit, and in the akhirah, you will get the reward from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And that's what Hatim al-Assam, Alhamdulillah, is saying. He says, I know that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala speaks the truth. So that's the question we ask ourselves. Do you believe that, that Allah speaks the truth? So if Allah is speaking the truth, then if Allah is saying something, this is true. Then what must I do? I obey Allah. I obey Allah. I do not obey anybody else. I don't obey my own nafs, my own desires. I don't obey somebody who comes and tells me, oh, this is okay, forget it. This is a different type, different. No, no, no, no, no, no. I take didn't there's something if you understand what I said is similar, what it means, why you do not obey? I just want to ask you, my dear friends, is there any parent who is concerned about their children? Had a they can get custody, you must have tried to get custody and you could not take it. But when he comes, he goes in peace and does the details for your children. And when he enters, a new law in the 90s? No. It's the same law from day one till the end of time. We follow it, Alhamdulillah. You got to do something. You got to follow somebody, right? Anybody who's doing anything is following somebody. There's nothing new. Aristotle said this 2000 years ago. Nothing is new. Everything is repetition. Each person is doing what somebody else did before that. So if you are going to follow somebody, follow Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam because he is the best of the best. When you have the example of the best of the best, why would you follow anybody else? Why? It makes no sense. Follow the best of the best and the result will always be the best of the best, inshallah. Right? So we ask Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to give us the wisdom. Alhamdulillah, Allah has blessed us with this deen. Allah has blessed us with Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has blessed us with great scholars and with ta'im. And with the Sahaba and with all the Salafi Salihin, the pious predecessors. Let us follow their example because they are the best example.