Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 4

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 and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Peace be upon you all. We are on the advice and the beautiful story that Syedina Hatim al-Atham, may Allah be pleased with him, gave to the people. And on the fourth of them, he said, But I have read in the Qur'an that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, In Surah Al-Hujurat, Allah said, Verily and truly the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the one who is the most righteous and pious of you. Allah is truly all-knowing, all-aware. Therefore, he said, I have learnt piety. I have learnt piety and righteousness so that I may become the best of men in the sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. My brothers and sisters, we have learnt in this deen of ours, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah has blessed us with this beautiful deen. And the first and foremost thing to understand here is that all benefit comes, only from practice. And practice is done only by those who consider that practice to be beneficial and worthwhile. So therefore, we have to ask ourselves, Do we really believe that Islam is the best way of life? And if the answer is yes, and of course the answer is yes, then we must practice Islam. Not talk about Islam. Not think about Islam. Not write. Not write about Islam. Practice Islam. Because Islam is like a martial art. It's like a physical exercise. It will not benefit you. Knowing about Judo will not benefit you. Doing Judo will benefit you. Knowing about lifting weights won't benefit you. Actually, lifting weights will benefit you. Right? Muhammad Ali, the greatest athlete of all time, the boxer, Rahmatullah Ali, he used to say, I don't count, I don't count, I don't count, I don't count, I don't count my push-ups from the time I start. I start counting from the time I start feeling pain. He said, because that is the time the benefit starts. Yeah, I start counting only from the time that I start feeling the pain because the benefit starts from that. This is very important for us to understand. That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us this beautiful deen. And in this deen, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us that the best person in the sight of Allah is the one who is most, who has the most taqwa, the one who is most conscious of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the one who wants to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala more than anything else in life. Right? So, the desire to please Allah and then the effort to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, this is what gives us benefit, not anything else. The rest of the stuff is what Allah has given us. It belongs to Allah anyways. What are we going to, you know, feel good about? My money doesn't belong to me. My life doesn't belong to me. So, I'm proud of what? So, we must think about this and remember this. See, the thing about this, look at, look at, look at, think about it like this. Many times I see, especially in people who have recently within quotes come to Islam. So, could be reverts, would also be Muslims who have suddenly, alhamdulillah, Allah has given them hidayat, so they start coming to the masjid, they start learning something and so on. Almost the first thing they do is they start looking down on others. First thing, immediately. Oh, look at this fellow, look at that fellow, this fellow, you were sitting in the pub with that fellow, you were sitting in the bar with that fellow yesterday. Suddenly now he's become an evil person. Why? Right? He was your greatest buddy and friend. Please understand this. The one who looks down on others, who was the first one? Iblis. What did he say? That's all he said. He did not say Adam alayhi salam is evil. He just said I am better than him. That's it. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala put him in hellfire. So, understand this. We are not better or worse. If I feel I have hidayah, it is minallah hitahal. It is not because I deserve it, it is not because I am such a great person. Allah knows why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala chose me or Allah chose you to give you hidayah. Allah knows why He chose you to bring you to Salatul Isha today in this masjid to pray with the jama'ah. So that you get the reward for half the night of Salah. Allah knows why He will wake you up in the morning tomorrow to bring you back to the masjid for Salatul Fajr so you get the reward for the whole night of prayer. Allah knows. The other person who is sleeping is just another person, just like you and me. There is nothing special about me, there is nothing special about you, there is nothing special about anybody. It is the only and only the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that He chooses you. So have humility, be humble and do what Allah has told us to do. Now you might say, okay, that's fine, but what about my friend who is going on the wrong path? Number one. You should be concerned, I agree. But number one, stand in the night pray tahajjud, go in sujood and cry tears for your friend. If tears are not coming, you are not sincere. Cry and make your tears come. Ya Allah help my friend. Ya Allah, you helped me, now help my friend. Number one. If you say, no, no, this is too much trouble, then keep quiet. If you cannot cry in the night for your friend, you have no right to talk to that friend. Forget that. Weep in the night. This is what the Nabi did and you are not better than the Nabi. Weep in the night for the friend for whom you think or you say you are concerned. Number two. Treat him with the greatest love and the greatest honor and win the heart. Right? Number three. Show him the right way by your example. At the time of salah, you pray. If he doesn't pray, no problem. Don't ask him to pray. You pray. The reason I'm saying don't ask him to pray because if you ask him to pray and he says no, then he becomes a kafir. And you are the reason why the man went into kufr. He was not denying the salah until you forced him. Right? He was not praying, but he did not say, I will not pray. But you try to grab him, leave me alone. I will not pray. Now what happened? So because of you, that's why even at the time Ramatul Ali said, do not make the correction worse than the sin. There's a famous story of Manan Ilyas Ramatul Ali who's the man who started the work of tamleek in India in Nizamuddin. And the story is that Manan Ilyas had this person who was a supporter of his and was a good friend of his, who was a very, very wealthy, a millionaire businessman in Pakistan. So he had Pakistan in those days, there was no Pakistan. It was pre-independence. So, you know, in Punjab. So this man, he came to visit Manan Ilyas in Nizamuddin in Delhi. Now he was a very nice man, a good man and so on, but he had no beard. He used to shave his beard. Now this is a sunnah muwakka of Rasulullah . It is a hukum of the Nabi Ali . So when Mohd. Manan bị під мяс Hoof Bawaal in a adsorption contest for matrimonial property to anyone whatsoever, that means only some R attract sometimes toınail who 소 Teraz And Ilyas always used to use R in Hadith since he was two years old . And he came to Got.... instructions, a barber is called and this man, they put a chair for him in the courtyard of the masjid. He sits there, the barber comes and puts a cloth and he shaves his beard in the masjid. The people are absolutely shocked. They say, not only does the man not have a beard, he is getting his beard shaved in the masjid and this is with the permission of Maulana Ilyas, who is the head of tabligh. But they can't go and ask Maulana Ilyas, they are afraid to ask him so they keep quiet. Second day, third day, fourth day, fifth day. On the sixth or seventh day, when the barber comes, this man tells him, no, no need, go. And he does not shave after that, he keeps a beard. Maulana Ilyas never told him, he did not even tell him one day, don't do this, it is the sunnah of Muhammad . Why do you want to begin your day with removing the sunnah from your face? Don't do it. He didn't say anything. Just example and just courtesy including this. Now, I'm not telling you if somebody comes, he drinks, you supply him with alcohol. No. I'm just saying. Let us not allow ourselves to be like this. Let us not allow ourselves to be like this. Let us not allow ourselves to be like this. Our akhlak to become a problem for other people to come into Islam. Just because you think you know something, don't become, you know, oppressive and start ordering people around. No. Be kind, be nice, be polite. Say what you have to say nicely. And, as I told you, if you are really interested in the Hidayah, in the guidance of your friend, it must begin with your tears before Allah. Because Allah said, Laa taadiya haleeeee bertukajettakeellul. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent this to Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam He said you cannot guide whoever you want Allah can guide who He wants So if the Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is being told you cannot guide what about you and me? If you really want guidance ask Allah and Allah promised to guide inshallah Allah will guide So as Hatim al-Hassan says Rahman Tullali Let us try to increase our honour before Allah by becoming more and more obedient to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Obedience to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala means to follow the orders of Allah according to the sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam There is no other way Follow the order according to the sunnah Not follow the order in your own way No Allah said Yes I will pray and I will pray the way I like to pray No no no There is no you like to pray You pray the way Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam prayed So follow the order of Allah in the way of Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to help us and guide us to do that which pleases Him