Seerah – Putting others before ourselves

Auto-generated transcript: Fajr Reminders series by Sheikh Mirza Yawar Baig. Then Omar realized what was happening, so he went there, he cleaned the place, he milked that goat, he made some food, and then he took the food to the lady. He made some bread or something, made the food, and he gave it to the lady. And when he gave the food to the lady, she said, you are not the man who comes here every day. So he said, how do you know? She is blind, she can't see him. He said, how do you know? She said, because he knew that I have no teeth. So he used to soften the food, and then he would feed me. Sayyidina Amar wept. He wept and said, Swaharlal, what? Swaharlal, what? What kind of man was this? Now who was he emulating? Muhammad , he was a person. Another incident, very famous. Sayyidina Amar found some stranger who had pitched a tent, and he was sitting outside the tent, looking very concerned, very worried. And from inside the tent they could hear sounds of a woman in pain. So Sayyidina Amar went there, Adela Anu, and he said, what's happening here? So the man said, go away, who are you? Sayyidina Amar said, no, tell me, I want to help you. He said, I am a stranger here. There is no one to help. My wife is in labour pains. And she was doing her work. And she was in pain. And she was in pain. And I don't know what to do. I have no help. And that's what the sound you're hearing is, she's in labour. Sayyidina Amar Adela Anu went home, and he said to his wife, Umm Kulthum, bin Ali bin Avitalib, Adela Anuma. People say that Sayyidina Amar Adela Anu struck Sayyidina Fatima Adela Anu and broke her arm. And that Sayyidina Ali and Sayyidina Amar were enemies. Then tell me, how is it that Sayyidina Ali was the wali who married his daughter, Umm Kulthum, to Sayyidina Amar Adela Anu? How is it possible? Nobody can have, make any harf and mini statement on the integrity and honour and courage and bravery of Sayyidina Ali bin Avitalib Adela Anu. Nobody can say he did it because he was afraid. Nobody can say he did it because he was afraid. If Sayyidina Ali was afraid, who is not afraid? If Sayyidina Ali has no honour, who has honour? A man with honour will give his daughter in marriage to somebody who breaks the arm, who strikes his wife and breaks her arm, and the wife is no ordinary wife. The wife is the daughter of the Rasool alaihi salatu was salam. The Sayyida of the women in Jannah. There is not any ordinary woman. Please understand this. People make up stories. May Allah have mercy on them and forgive them and forgive us. The Sahaba were a very different breed of people. They were people of Waqar and order. So Sayyidina Amar Adela Anu married the daughter of Sayyidina Ali bin Avitalib Adela Anu and her name was Umm Kulthum. Bin Talib bin Avitalib. So he goes home now and he says to his wife, do you want to earn the pleasure of Allah? So she said, of course. So he said, this is the issue now. There is this lady in labour. Do you want to come and help with that? He said, of course. So she said to him, you take some, they used to have this date powder, dried date powder, which you would cook like a porridge. So he said, you take that. He took her utensils. She took some hot water. She took some cloths. And they went there and she went inside the tent to help with the delivery. And Sayyidina Amar is sitting outside the tent. He lighted a fire and he started cooking that food. And then from the inside, they heard some sounds and the crying of a baby. And the lady, Umm Kulthum Adela Anha, she called out and said, Amir Bhavaneer, tell your friend that he has a son. That is when this man got a shock. He said, you are the Amir? He said, yes. He said, yes. He said, yes. He said, yes. He said, yes. He said, yes. He said, yes. He said, yes. You are Umm Kulthum Adela Khattab? Yes, I am Umm Kulthum Adela Khattab. The Amir, the Khalifatul Muslimin, he's cooking food himself. He could have given the food to him and said cook. Cooking it, food himself for this person. And his wife, the daughter of Sayyida Fatima and Sayyidina Ali, Khadiyah Al Hanuma. You can't get bigger than that. The granddaughter of Rasulullah , the daughter of Rasulullah , imagine, which, what rank, we talk about rank, we talk about this birth, which this birth? This is the granddaughter of the Rasulullah . She is delivering the baby of this woman. Some strange woman, nobody knows who she is. One day said, My wife had an amor of Abdel Khattab and his servant, going out in the night they hear some, another tent outside, children crying. So he went there to investigate, there is this lady alone and she's got two, three kids and they are all of them are howling there. She said, they say, what happened? She said, there's no food. But he said that somebody cooking on the fire. He said, no, I just am, I mean, boiling some water to, you know, to, you know, to drink, you know, to drink it. water to, you know, to make them feel that some food is cooking, I hope they go to sleep, so I don't have to do anything more. Sayyid-e-Rawwara Rathir-Anand goes to the Baitul Bal, he takes out, again, that dead porridge, takes the bag of that, puts it on his shoulder. The servant says, Yeah, I will over it, I am here for this. And the servant, give it to me, I'll carry it. He said, no. You cannot carry my burden on the Day of Judgement. This is my burden, this is my responsibility, I have to carry it. He takes it there, he lights a fire outside that tent, and he's cooking the thing. He says, the fire was not burning too well. His servant says, he blew into the fire and says, Abar was a huge big man and he had a big beard. The servant says, I could see the smoke filtering through his beard. The smoke of the fire is flowing through his beard. He cooks the fire, food, gives it to them. He says, feed the children. Then he goes and sits down. And the lady is feeding the children. The servant says, Abhinavabhani, we have finished our work. We did all this. Now we can go. He said, no, no, no. He said, I heard them crying. I want to see them laughing. Man goes to collect zakats. They go to the mosque. They go to the mosque. They go to the mosque. They go to the mosque. They go to the mosque. They go to collect zakats. So they go to this man. Think about this. Today we ask questions. May Allah have mercy. I don't go into somebody's heart to check what it is. But at least from the way the question is asked, it seems as if the person is trying to avoid paying zakat. What is the minimum I can pay? So when they go there, they calculate and one baby camel is due. One small camel. So he has got one one-year-old camel. Then birth in this couple of years and says, actually I wish I could take this home. Then he says, my concert dates are 16 euros for this kind, but this is the total cost that we can pay. The in-house charger does not charge me, but you said this is not a problem, because the parrot has it here. So the in-house cover says, OK. When it comes, he says, OK, I will take this. my responsibility. I cannot take anything more. I cannot take anything less. This is what is calculation. According to the calculation, this is what you are supposed to give. That's all I can take. I can't take more. So the man is pleading to give more. The man says, please take this, because what is the good of this small baby camel? It's a liability. It's not a, it's not, it's not an asset. What's the point? I'll give you this other one. He said, no, can't take it. He said, what shall I do? He said, go to ask Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Now this man, he was living far away. Then waving camera there and said to him, okay, tomorrow or day after, one day later, he said, Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is going to be camped near this place. He's coming for some other thing. He will be, then you go and meet the Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. If he agrees, I will take it. So the man goes and he meets Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He says, this is the situation. I am supposed to be giving this small camel, but you know, I would like to give more. Can you please permit me? Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam accepted. He says, may Allah Ta'ala reward you and give you dua. Giving more. Think about this. What are the benefits of living by these values? Putting others ahead of ourselves. I remember one day somebody told me this wonderful story. They said that, Amulala Bahududdin Rahmatullah Redhi, head of Jamaat-e-Islami, somebody came to him and said, we have established an orphanage and we want you to come and inaugurate it. So he said to them, what you have done is haram. I will not inaugurate something which is haram. So they were shocked. He said, we established an orphanage, you are saying it is haram? That is not haram. He said to them, what has the orphan lost? Has he lost his food? Has he lost his shelter? What has he lost? He says he lost his father, he lost his mother, parents. They said, what are you giving the orphanage? Food? Shelter? A sense of greater loneliness because he is stuck there with a bunch of orphans? They said, our custom is to give food to orphans. Our custom in Islam is to take the orphan into our home, give him a home. He lost his family, he needs a family. He lost a father, he needs a father. He lost a brother, he needs a mother. He doesn't need food. Food he will get. We are supposed to be an ummah. We all know that. Our proper ways we know too much. How many of you or how many of us have not heard this hadith when the Prophet said this ummah is like one body, if the head pains, the whole body knows. Don't you know this hadith? How is it that we talk about Ghazza, we talk about this starvation happening here and that starvation happening there. And then in the masjid when there is a function, we throw a food. Because we overfill our plates. We can't eat it, we throw it. How is it possible? Tell me. That's why I keep saying, just knowing is not enough.