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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
Wasalatu wassalamu ala ash-shaytani anbiya wal-munsaleen.
Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi salam.
Tasliman kathiran kathiran.
From now on, my brothers and sisters.
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said in Surah Al-Hujurat.
A’udhu billahi min ash-shaytan al-rajim.
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Ya ayyuha alladhina amanu la tuqaddimu bayna yadehi allahi wa rasulihi wa attaqullah.
Inna allaha sami’un alim.
Ya ayyuha alladhina amanu la tarfa’u aswatakum fawqa sawti al-nabi’i.
Wa la tajharu lahu bilqawli kajjahri ba’dikum li ba’d.
Anta habata amalukum wa antum la tash’urun.
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said which means,
O believers.
Do not proceed.
Do not go ahead in any matter.
Ahead of the decree of Allah and his messenger.
Do not proceed in any matter before a decree from Allah and his messenger.
Which means, wait for what Allah said and his messengers have said.
And then do it.
Don’t precede that.
Don’t try to preempt that.
And fear Allah.
Surely Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing.
And then Allah says again.
Allah repeats this word of command.
O believers.
Do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Nor speak loudly to him as you do to one another.
Or your deeds will become null and void while you are unaware.
You will not even know but your deeds will be wiped out.
Now, what is being taught here?
If you see this beautiful.
The Hadith of the Holy Quran.
Is the issue of Adab.
The issue of respect.
An attitude of deep and great respect.
For Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala and his Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
So, my question to myself is, why is this so important?
Why is it so important that Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala,
not only is He commanding the believers, which means inshallah us,
to lower our voices and not speak loudly to the Rasul,
like we do amongst ourselves?
What’s so important and why is that?
And the answer to that is, that for everything, to benefit from everything,
there is a system, there is a method, there is a way.
If you want to benefit from that system, you have to follow that way.
Otherwise, you will not be able to benefit.
The way of benefiting from Islam is through adab, through respect,
deep and abiding respect in the word of Allah and in the teachings of Muhammad Rasulullah.
And if you don’t do that, then we cannot benefit from Islam,
we cannot benefit from the kitab of Allah,
we cannot benefit from Islam.
We cannot benefit from the teachings of Rasulullah .
Now think about this, that Allah is saying,
if you raise your voice above the voice of the Nabi ,
Allah will wipe out your deeds.
What does that mean?
If somebody lands on the Day of Judgment,
and may Allah protect us from being that person,
and you land up there on Jai’f Judgment,
you spent your whole life doing all kinds of good stuff,
you went for Hajj many, many times, you gave a lot of sadaqah,
you prayed, you did all kinds of good things.
But when you reach before Allah ,
nothing is there, and your book of deeds is blank,
because you did not show the respect for Rasulullah ,
which was his due.
Now, what happens to somebody who has no deeds?
He goes to Jahannam.
The Prophet said,
I am the one who has no deeds.
I am the one who has no deeds.
I am the one who has no deeds.
I am the one who has no deeds.
Now, when this ayat was revealed,
Sayyidina Omar ,
he was a man with a very deep commanding and powerful voice.
He started, when he would then, after this ayah was revealed,
whenever he would speak to the Prophet ,
he would mumble.
He would speak in a very low voice, and he would mumble.
So, Nabi asked him, what’s wrong with you?
Why are you speaking like this?
And he discovered that he had put
pebbles into his mouth.
And he said, Ya Rasulullah, Allah revealed this ayah that if my voice goes above your voice,
then I will go to Jahannam.
So, I am trying to keep my voice down.
Another beautiful narration with regard to this ayah is Thabit bin Khays ,
who was a chieftain of the Khazraj.
And he was a true believer.
He was one of the great Sahaba of Rasulullah .
After this ayah was revealed,
Thabit bin Khays stopped coming to the Masjid of the Nabi .
Right?
He stopped coming to the Masjid of Rasulullah .
Now, so obviously he was somebody who Nabi
loved very much.
He was a prominent person.
So, you know, when he was not there, people missed him.
So, Rasulullah asked somebody, what happened to him?
Where is he?
They said, Ya Rasulullah, somebody went and checked with him.
So, they said, Ya Rasulullah, he is in his house.
And he is constant.
He is constantly crying.
The whole time he is only weeping.
So, because he says that I speak, my voice is loud.
And Allah Subhanahu wa ta’ala prescribed punishment for somebody who has a loud voice
and whose voice goes above your voice.
And therefore, he said that I am sure that I am a person who is going to go to Jahannah,
who will go to the hellfire.
So, they came and reported this matter to Rasulullah .
And Rasulullah smiled and he said, go and tell him.
Go and tell him.
You are not among the people who will go to the fire of hell, but you will be among
the people of Jannah, of paradise.
Now, after that, whenever Sabit bin Qais would pass by, people would say, there goes a man
from Jannah.
Now, we see in this beautiful story, the kind of care that the Sahaba took with regard to
the Rasulullah .
With regard to the word of the Rasulullah .
I ask myself and I ask you to ask yourself, what is our attitude?
And why do we behave the way we behave, especially in this country?
When Dars of Quran is going on, people go and sit and the end of the room, leaning against
the wall, their feet extended towards the Qibla, towards the Imam, and they are sitting
and they are saying, Imam, what attitude is this?
And then playing with the phone, face to the phone, you know, distracted.
Please have mercy on yourself.
There’s a wonderful story of Imam Malik bin Anas .
Imam Malik was a man who was the student of Rabia.
Rabia Turai, the great scholar of Islam.
And Malik’s mother used to say to him, he was a little boy, he was maybe five years
old or something, his mother would tie an amama on his head every morning, and she would
take him to Masjid al-Abiya Sharif for Salatul Fajr.
And after Salatul Fajr, he would stay in the Masjid and sit with the teacher, with the
Rabia Turai, and he would study with him until Zohar, and then his mother would come
and take him home to eat and so on.
So here is a person who is a little boy, right, and he’s not even having breakfast in the
morning.
Can you imagine?
I mean, this is the degree of seriousness that a man has.
People treated the deen of Allah, and that is the reason why Malik bin Anas became the
kind of scholar that he was.
So people who studied from him, from Imam Malik, used to say, we learned more adab from
Imam Malik.
Then we learned.
And now we know that we need to learn more knowledge from Imam Malik.
And he was the one who taught us the knowledge of the Quran, and the knowledge of the Quran
itself.
And that doesn’t mean that they did not learn knowledge, meaning that the amount of importance
he gave to adab was much more than the importance he gave to learning things, learning bits
of knowledge.
Now there’s a beautiful story about him, that when he used to give Dars of the Quran and
he used to give Dars of Muwatta, that book is so beautiful, so authentic.
Then when later on when Imam Bukhari came along and he made his book, which we know
as Bukhari Sharif, Sayyar Bukhari, he took the entire Muwatta into Bukhari.
That is how authentic and how correct and beautiful is Muwatta.
So Imam Malik used to give Dars of Muwatta.
And he would, they say that he would, before he came for the Dars, he would have ghusl,
he would bathe, and then he would pray two rakats of Salah, and he would ask Allah’s
help in teaching the book of Rasulullah and he would come to the Masjid and he would teach.
Now one day he’s sitting there, he’s teaching and people saw that his face completely lost
color, he went white.
His voice started, you know, he was saying, he was saying, he was saying, he was saying,
he was saying, he was saying, he was saying, he was saying.
Now they could see or hear from his voice that he seemed to be in intense pain.
But he didn’t say anything.
And the people were afraid to say, ask him or interrupt him.
So they also kept quiet until the whole, the explanation of the Hadith which he was giving,
until that whole thing finished, whatever time it took, and then Imam Malik collapsed.
So they rushed to him to see what happened.
And they, they left.
They left.
They left.
They left.
They left.
They left.
They left.
They, they, they, they, they left.
And then they discovered that a scorpion had gone up the back of his shirt and had stung
him 30 times.
Now here was Imam Malik.
He was being stung by the scorpion, again and again and again, and with intense and
severe, severe pain.
But he did not allow that to show anywhere, except what was out of his control.
He did not stop the Dars.
He continued to teach until he finished the dars and then whatever happened happened.
So anyway they treated him and then they asked him, they said,
Ya Sayyidi, O our leader, O our teacher, why didn’t you just tell us?
Why didn’t you indicate in some way that you are in pain?
He said, I was speaking about the word of Rasulullah .
Now this is the level of adab.
So I ask you to remember this, I ask you to ask yourself, and I ask myself,
if we want to benefit from the knowledge of this deen,
the way our Salaf-o-Salihin, the pious predecessors benefited from the knowledge of the same deen,
same knowledge, same kitab, same Rasool, same hadith,
then we have to follow the beautiful example
of the Prophet Muhammad ,
of the Salaf-o-Salihin, of the pious predecessors, of the great scholars,
of this deen that we have before us.
If we can do that, then we will benefit.
If we cannot do that, if we insist on behaving the way we behave,
showing a complete lack of interest, distraction, showing a total lack of other
behavior which is bordering on insulting with respect to Allah and His Rasool ,
then believe me, my brothers and sisters, there is no hope,
there is no chance of learning anything beneficial in Islam.
And on the Day of Judgement, fear the fact that Allah
may wipe out the deeds of the person who behaves with disrespect.
Raising your voice above the voice of the Rasool in today’s context means that when a hadith comes before you,
you say, yeah, that is there, but in my opinion.
But in my opinion is one of the doors of Jahannam.
So please, when a text comes before you, when an ayat of the Quran comes before you,
or when a hadith of Rasool comes before you, accept it with submission.
That is the position of the Muslim.
Sama’i anna wa ataana, we hear and we obey.
We don’t argue, we don’t contradict, we don’t raise our voice against it.
We don’t say, but in my opinion.
There is no but, there is no in my opinion.
My opinion is nothing compared to the opinion and the word of the Rasool .
My opinion is nothing compared to the Kitab of Allah .
And if I don’t think that, then I have left Islam.
As simple as that.
So, no opinion.
Follow the book.
Allah said, do not proceed, do not precede in any matter.
Do not proceed.
Proceed in a matter before a decree from Allah.
Don’t precede Allah and His Messenger.
Meaning, wait for the command of Allah.
Ask Allah for guidance.
Don’t try to rush and form your own theories.
Look for the answer in the Kitab of Allah.
Look for the answer in what Rasool taught us.
I want to close with this.
For example, and this was the attitude of the Sahaba.
For example, when Allah revealed,
Allah said, O you who believe,
send peace and blessings upon the Messenger .
Verily, not only believe,
but also send blessings upon the Messenger .
O you who believe, you also do the same.
When this ayat was revealed,
from the ayat of Surah Al-Ahzab,
the Sahaba did not then start singing poetry
or doing something and saying,
this is my way of expressing.
They asked the Messenger .
They said, Ya Rasool Allah, how should we send salam on you?
How should we send this salat and salam on you?
And Rasool taught them the durood
which we know as Durood Ibrahimiya,
which is the durood which we recite in Tashahud.
Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi Muhammad
kama salli ta’ala Ibrahima wa ala alihi Muhammadin naqamidun majid
Allahumma barika ala Muhammadin wa ala alihi Muhammadin
kama barikta ala Ibrahima wa ala alihi Muhammadin naqamidun majid
In the first one, there is no Sayyidina.
Sayyidina is what we put as a way of showing greater respect.
So it is Allahumma salli ala Muhammadin wa ala alihi Muhammadin
and so on to the end.
Alhamdulillah, Rasool taught the Sahaba this durood.
He taught the Sahaba this salat and salam
of way of sending salat and salam on him .
The Sahaba asked.
They didn’t proceed before the matter.
They said, tell us how to do it.
This was the way of the Sahaba.
So let us understand this.
We ask and we proceed.
We ask Allah to tell us,
the Prophet in this case not directly,
from the hadith we know this,
from the ayat of Allah ,
we know this,
from the kitab of Allah ,
we know what Allah wants from us.
We follow that strictly with submission.
And second thing is,
when the kitab of Allah comes before us,
when the ayat of Allah comes before us,
when the hadith of Allah comes before us,
hadith of Rasool come before us,
we do not say in my opinion.
We do not raise our voice over the voice of the Rasool .
We do not say in my opinion.
We don’t say, yeah, those days, old days,
we are now in new days.
That was the Middle East, it was Arabia,
we are in America.
We don’t say any of those things because we fear Allah.
If we say those things, then the fear is,
the danger is that Allah may wipe out our sins
and may completely and totally destroy our aaman.
I don’t think you want this.
I don’t definitely don’t want it myself.
I ask Allah to make us among those
who live our lives in a way that pleases Him
Jalla Jalaluhu
and where Allah
will forgive us when we meet Him.
And may Allah bless the noble Prophet and his family
and those who are with him in the mercy of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
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