now we're in our final session with our
discussions of some of the elementary
stages of the discussions of and
knowledge and the journey of seeking
that sacred knowledge as accordance to
Al im's guide to benefiting from which
is the introductory chapter
of and we spoke about the first category
of knowledge which every one of us must
know which is our acquaintance with
Allah and what its limitations are and
IM we separate our acquaintance with
Allah from delving
into the things that are spoken of by
Allah subhah wa ta'ala that are beyond
our understanding and our
imagination he also spoke about the
realities of w the realities of Salah
the realities of Zak the realities of
the
the things that are pertinent to our
daytoday objectives and obligations in
life must we must have intricate
knowledge of them as they arise he then
continues and
says As for the laws that relate to
buying and selling and marriage and
divorce so the imams have said he
says it is something that is stopped in
accordance to the one who seeks further
knowledge in it so if someone's going to
get married and they want to know what
what my contract what can I stipulate in
it what I can't therefore it becomes on
a need to no basis it's something
therefore that becomes obligatory upon
them uh a husband who intends on divorce
for example cannot just do it
haphazardly they have to have some
insight and some clarity on what are the
things and objectives of divorce what
the grounds for it are and so for and so
so on same with the sister who's seeking
and so forth It's not a knee-jerk
reaction rather it's something that is
knowledge based and based on an
understanding of what is the word of
Allah what is the sunah of his
messengeri wasallam and how it was
understood by the great
imams he also continues by
says it is a must for each of us this is
from the categories that we must
know
to know what is deemed Halal and be able
to distinguish it from that which is
clearly Haram because the prophet s alhi
wasallam says in the famous Hadith which
we all know which is also the fifth
Hadith in the im's 40 Hadith
collection is known is known between
them are the doubtful things but those
two Halal andam must be easily
identifiable by the one who
knows he limits it in fact in particular
to three things what we eat what we
drink and what we
wear so a sister must know the rules of
hijab a brother must know the difference
between Halal and Haram when it comes to
food and Slaughter and what is permitted
and what isn't it's not just something
that can be done remember we spoke about
those four things knowledge ignorance
and in between them is I think it's not
enough to say oh I think once you have a
question about something Halal Oram that
relates to those three things food drink
and clothe it's not enough to say oh I
think it's Halal you now must become
prepared and ready to delve and search
for an answer from a Muti or someone
more knowledgeable in you that relates
that knowledge to you in a coherent and
clear Manner and that's the mhab that is
the opinion
and how to live with your wife now
that's uh I don't know where you're
going to go for that but you're going to
have to ask someone somewhere somehow
right how to accommodate and live well
with your spouse in particular he
limited it to a man knowing how to live
with his wife now these are when we read
these words sometimes we miss out their
value it's not obligatory for a woman to
know how to live with her husband in the
sense that it become it's much easier
for a a a sister to develop uh that
level of trust and accommodation with
with the man in her life but Muslim men
are in a a point of
responsibility it's not just enough to
say oh we coexist together or we have we
live together or she's my wife you must
know intricate intricately
what her rights are what her duties what
are the duties you must afford her while
she does not have to know the same for
you in that detail is that does that
make sense you are responsible for what
are the limits that need to be set and
therefore the prophet wasallam when he
speaks to the people in the day he
says treat your women well he doesn't
say to the women treat your men well
right
the sisters are ready they're ready for
it brother be careful
now in another Hadith that is poorly
understood the prophet wasallam
says the woman was created from the rib
Eve was created from Adam
from if you try to straighten that rib
it will break people misunderstand this
Hadith IM clarifies this Hadith he says
that because her rip is bent it doesn't
mean she's crooked which is a
mistranslation you read the English
books what is it to say the woman is
made from a rib and the rib is crooked
which means like she's crooked like
she's not straight no what it means is
she's created with delicacy that if you
try to hammer her if you keep repeating
things if you keep badgering her abusing
her you're going to break AK you're the
one who's at fault not her for being
created that way does that does that
make does that clarify a little bit it's
not it's it's the prophet telling
sisters know exactly what it means it's
the prophet wasallam saying to the
Muslim
man don't be overbearing not he's not
saying the woman was created crooked
he's telling you don't be harsh don't be
abusive don't be forceful because it's
not going to work it's impossible that
it will
work it's impossible that a man by
shouting will change his wife's mind
it's impossible with violence that a man
will find love with his spouse
impossible you cannot have it so the
prophet is saving you the hardship he's
telling you listen your wife is not like
you can't iron her out like a piece of
metal it doesn't work she's someone who
needs to be dealt with and spoken to and
catered For in a different way than you
would with another man see if my brother
R and I we we have a problema we just
have some words together what's wrong
with you what's wrong with you okay we
yell at each other we're happy okay
let's go play some basketball or
something right let's go do theas it's
over but with a sister is not the same
especially with your
wife it's
different why did he talk to me that way
he hurt my
feelings right it's now and you find at
times with the sister it's no longer
about what happened but how she felt one
of the things uh we talk about in we do
a section called The Art of Manliness
it's actually my next course uh next
time I see you probably maybe next year
the course will be called The Art of
Manliness how what every sister needs to
know and what every brother needs to
know right and a part of it we talk
about the character of M as a man right
how we W how M was a leader they're lost
in the desert what he does you know all
these kind of things and one of the
things that's key is that for many
brothers we assume that because a
conversation went and nothing happened
that it's
forgotten sister
oh we had the argument was 2 weeks ago
no the argument was two weeks ago but
the emotions are still very much present
she's still thinking about it she's
laying there next to you and she's like
yeah I remember what you said 5 months
later you do something little you didn't
park the car right or you forgot to pick
something from the store you never care
about me remember what you said from
this year last year year before what you
my have my mom and on our wedding day
and oh the whole story comes out right
so the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam he
orders the men to know how to live with
their women but doesn't order the woman
to learn how to live with the man you're
responsible so Al IMI confirms this he
says part of the you must know to be a
man a husband before you get married you
need to have the talk someone needs to
sit you down and tell you this is what
is important in your life these are the
things that are
necessary how to live with your
women if he has a wife or if he is about
to get
married and the and the rights that are
endowed in that
regard meaning the people who are of
our what are parents responsible for now
this is under
religious obligation of knowledge this
isn't secondary knowledge what does a
father what does a mother what are they
required to
teach mother fathers and
mothers to teach their young children
meaning prepubescence it is not enough
to wait until that you feel oh they're
going to understand things better no it
becomes obligatory in stages from their
young age to begin to to teach
them what will come to them once they
are at a level of maturity so your child
needs to know what is tar before they
are obligated for to perform tar they
need to know the rituals and the rights
that we perform before they arrive it
this
is it is an obligation is it an
obligation upon the child or the parent
the parent right so now now you're not
just responsible for your education but
you're responsible
legally spiritually ritually religiously
for your children's education so when a
father or mother does not fulfill the
religious training of their child well
in the m and according to Al IM and all
of those who follow in the path they
understand that you have committed a sin
it is that is of a higher religious
order that you have neglected an
obligation a personal obligation as
personal as the other obligations that
you fulfill in worship of
Allah you have neglected an essential
Duty in your relationship with Allah so
what are we responsible to
teach now IM and now we changes the word
from to the
word the
governor because I with my children am
like the king to his country look at the
Precision of his words look at the he's
no longer now talking about father and
mother he's saying no the father and
mother now take the role of a governor
in the life of their children you are a
so when the prophet s wasallam
says all of you is responsible he's not
just talking about the king or the sulan
or whoever he's talking about a father
in his home a mother with her children a
teacher in his classroom an IM in his
Masjid he's talking about those who are
given responsibility from that
Duty they become they are the ones
responsible for their
children
to teach
them and all those
obligations and to teach them even
before they are at an age of
obligation to teach them equally the
sinfulness and the prohibition of
premarital activity of adultery of
homosexuality of a of theft and and
usurping others
property and anything that
intoxicates and lying and cheating and
backbiting others all of these become
obligations so if you have not sat with
your 10 12 13y old son or daughter I'm
not saying you sit with him and you say
okay here's what you need to know but
taught them the way I just showed you
remember the W the essence of its
meaning it's a a comprehensive system of
life it's not it Just rules and
obligation this is halal this is Haram
it's showing them in your conduct
approving what is in their conduct
protecting them from that which is
sinful all of the imams in our era they
tell you that a father who does not
protect his children from viewing on
television that which alludes to the
Haram has fall Fallen ill into this so
when you rent a movie and you're
watching something
sinful you're watching TV or you permit
for them something sinful that does not
show them that this kind of relationship
this kind of habit this kind of behavior
is not our culture is not our faith is
not acceptable in our religious
community our broader Community than you
have
fulfilled that sinful Behavior avior
between you and Allah subhah wa
taala we ask Allah subhah wa taala to
grant us protection from this
Allah
also to
instruct their
children that reaching p pubescence and
reaching that puberty where a person
becomes
obligated
that that begins upon them a new mode of
life one of the things that we sometimes
forget is that we forget to prepare our
children for that boundary that we
forget to teach them that as soon as
these lines are crossed you're no longer
just you know little Ahmed or little
Omar you're now a man before Allah
you're now a woman before Allah your
word has to count your actions have uh
uh reasons and and statements behind
them must be verified and fulfilled in
accordance to your vows and your
statements that is taught to you by
Allah and taught to us by Allah through
his messenger Muhammad sallallah alai
wasam so you must explain when that
boundary comes that life has changed and
now that there is an obligation that is
set upon you and train them for it he
continues to
say
it is also obligatory to look into one's
wealth and to see how one spends it on
one's family and children and how one
fulfills their needs in that which is
best upon them for it is something that
can earn them a reward between them and
Allah subhanahu wa taala and the best of
wealth that can be spent on their CH on
their children
and to and to send
them to spend on your children the
greatest dollar or ring it that you can
put in your children's life is to put it
as an investment in that which will
teach them the Quran and that which will
teach them and that which will teach
them
ethics right those are the greatest
Investments That IMI pushes us
towards
he continues and says also from the
obligations that we must be aware
of
what and the clear evidence from the
Quran that it is an obligation upon a
father to save his to educate his
children about theal and theam all these
things that we have spoken about is in
where Allah
says oh you who
believe save yourself and your family
from Hellfire it's not enough to save
oneself so if a man in his home says I'm
going to pray but you guys I told you to
pray you do whatever you want it is he
has not saved himself he has destroyed
himself it is not enough to say I told
you you do it on your own you now become
responsible for their fulfillment up to
that age of
what up to what
age puberty now this is important and
IMI he talks
about the young because don't get
confused and say oh well my dad didn't
teach me yeah you're 25 years
old you're supposed to do things on your
own you're a person now no it's your
parents responsibility up to that age
where now you become responsible and
therefore you see in the Quran Allah
shows us this in the tragedies that were
experienced by the prophets of Allah
L
andam their wives married to prophets
rebelled and were destroyed New his son
his son disbelieved in Allah and got off
the ship of Salvation and drowned in
front of him his own son his his Blood
and Tissue you don't say how could the
prophet of Allah no not you know his son
didn't listen to that he died no because
his son reached what age an age of
obligation before that age of obligation
new was giving everything he could to
teach him about the truth once you reach
that level where you are now accountable
for yourself and one's family has given
you the father and mother The Well of
your life has given you everything that
you need you're responsible of yourself
do not ever look at someone and say oh
look their daughter 18 they're not
wearing hijab no she's her own person
don't look into yourself and say oh look
what's happened to my life or my family
or my children no it's your
responsibility from a young age to set
the rules and the limits and the tone
and the Halal and theam but once people
reach a level where they are oblig
obliged between them and Allah subhah wa
ta'ala it is between them and Allah
right so therefore there's this clear
wording that is used by Im so that
there's no confusion
in that
matter and this is a wonderful statement
if you can make note of it
insh he
says about this verse save yourself and
your family from
Janam the meaning of this Ayah as taught
to us by the prophet s alh
wasallam teach them in their young
age
that which will save them from teach
them
about about about about about teach them
the things that they can use to save
themselves from the from
Janam and this is the apparent outer
meaning of the Ayah and this is the
meaning of the words of the Prophet
muhammadh
wasallam all of you are responsible for
that which is in your care which you
have duty of care
over the second level of knowledge so
that's the first those are the
obligations knowing Allah knowing Salah
knowing the obligations of worship
teaching our children knowing about the
names and attributes of all those kind
of things we must know the second level
of
knowledge he
says it is to
learn
that which is an obligation upon the
community that if some of the community
fulfill it and others don't then it is
accepted from everyone in our community
you must in our community in your
community here in qual lumur there must
be people who are dedicated to
memorizing the Quran and its entirety
and leading the prayer with it there
must be people who travel
abroad to learn the of this religion if
everyone stays and no one goes everyone
is
responsible everyone is held accountable
but if some go that meet the equilibrium
and meet the requirements of the
community it is accepted from everyone
inshallah so what are these things that
he mentions he
goes to learn that which will obligate
upon them their religious
studies
learning the language and the and and
the morphology of the language and so
forth and knowing what's uh what is
agreed upon in the community and where
there's disagreement all of these things
come into that second set of obligation
others he said they went to the opinion
where they
said that it is an obligation upon the
community to also meet the worldly needs
if you don't have enough female
gynecologist you need female doctors if
you don't have enough female teachers
you need female teachers male teachers
you need male teachers Engineers to
build Bridges you need it becomes a
religious Duty even though it's in a
worldly sphere it's not a religious
action but it becomes necessary for the
Fulfillment of the aims of everyone in
the community one of the most
significant statements that IMI made
and I forgot to mention it so I would
like to go back to it so please excuse
me on that
inshallah is from the first step of the
Sacred knowledge that is obligatory upon
all of us and I forgot to read this
paragraph out to you from the first step
of knowledge he
says the knowledge that relates to the
heart
spirituality the knowledge that relates
to purifying our heart from
har it is to know the detriment of the
illnesses of envy and arrogance and
pride and what is similar to
it and others they
said the knowledge of the of the
limitations and the reasons
asbab and the
cures
is an obligation upon
everyone everyone must know what is
Hass everyone must know what is envy and
every one of us must seek to learn how
to cure it within
themselves other than
said that if someone feels within thems
that they are prone to jealousy of
others it is sinful for them to remain
unknowledgeable of how to remove
jealousy you cannot see within yourself
that you have an anger problem you come
home and you're angry you yell your
voice is loud your wife says your
neighbor say your father says your
mother says why are you so angry you got
to learn to come down you got to take
control of yourself you you got to stop
this this is too much it's going to
destroy our home it is f upon you as
Salah IS F it is fed upon you in equal
measure according to IM and the that you
find the treatment for it that which
will remove Anger from your heart that
which would remove jealousy from your
heart that which would remove uh lying
from your
tongue eyes that look at sinful things
you cannot just sit and say Allah help
me yeah Allah help me no you must be
active in Seeking a cure whether it's
physical
or
spiritual whether physical or spiritual
it could be you go to an anger anger
management session how to control my
anger you have
to because those ailments of the heart
are the things that destroy the ailments
of the body the outer body and therefore
the prophet Muhammad s alai wasallam
said in the in the body there is a place
that if it is pure and if it is settled
everything is settled it's the heart
that spiritual proverbial heart so he
continues and
says if a person is able to cure
himself without seeking a particular
cure it's enough he won't be asked by
Allah why didn't you learn about the
Hadith and what the measures to take to
stop looking at pornography or to stop
hearing sinful vulgarity to restrain
yourself from anger and mismanagement of
the rights of others if he develops
techniques that aren't religious based
it's enough Allah will free him but if
he doesn't develop secular or worldly
ways to control these
things
it's to purify
himself as much as it is a compulsory
upon him to not commit adultery it
becomes so compulsory upon you to not be
angry as it would be to say to someone
this is Haram everyone knows to cheat on
one's spouse is Haram no one doubts that
but everyone doubts oh do I have to you
know remove anger and jealousy yes with
the same gravity this is how the imams
of look at those disastrous moments and
anyone who's acquainted with our Muslim
Community ities knows that there are a
lot more homes
destroyed because of Anger mismanagement
of one's anger
hostility uh
inadequacies than of someone cheating or
or these other things that pop up there
are more homes destroyed from the issues
that relate to the heart than there are
that relate to the issues of theab the
major sins very few men will divorce
their wife because she's the
Thief but many may divorce a spouse
because she's always talking bad about
people she always makes me feel bad she
can't restrain her tongue she's always
looking to what other people have and
telling me I want the same as them she's
always jealous of other I can't live
like this I feel like I'm
drowning this is this is the reality of
what you find same with the
sisters he doesn't talk I don't know how
to talk to him every every time I talk
he yells every time I ask he's angry the
CH children don't want anything to do
how could I I I need a divorce right
those are the things that destroy homes
more than this person has committed this
sin this person has stolen someone's car
no those are secondary further away
we'll return now to the third step the
third religious obligation and the third
step of sacred knowledge of the of
the which is
this is completely voluntary so the
first two were obligations one
obligation on us as individuals and the
second obligation on us as a community
the third are voluntary anyone can do it
man or woman young or
old and these things
are delving into the study of the
principles of our faith the and the
looking into
how we can share our faith with others
how we can further and write
books writing it down preparing
presentations going to extra classes
learning secondary things past what we
already know studying the of the Prophet
Muhammad s alaihi wasallam you know
doing these kind of things that are
extra to what is the basic forms of
knowledge but here's what's important Al
IM makes a section where he says that if
one has not fulfilled the first
obligation which is personal obligation
then the third obligation is null
unacceptable if you don't consolidate
your knowledge of the essence of what
makes you a Muslim you're wasting your
time by looking at these secondary
theoretical things or things that relate
to uh things that are not part directly
of your life and your worship with Allah
subhanahu wa taala so therefore he
confines you and says no go back and
learn the essence before you go into the
secondary issues
inshallah he begins the chapter
of excuse me we're going to look at the
manners of a teacher and he begins by
talking the manners of a teacher because
in this next chapter we're going to talk
talk about is the manners of a student
and I want to join these two together
because it shows us the ethics of what
we seek to be as people who are teachers
to others you say brother I'm not going
to sit on a stage like you to teach
others about Islam but you forget that
you have a son who's sitting in the back
seat while you drive your car every day
you have a son who and a daughter who
live in your home who you are their
primary teacher that's your job for the
first five years of your child's life
they will learn more than you in them
than the rest of their life University
PHD doesn't matter what they do those
first five years they absorb from you
emotional
intelligence how to react to
situations how to live how to confront
challenges how to get along and interact
and teamwork with others who to be close
friends with who not to be how to speak
speak to Elders how to speak to younger
people sometimes we forget that when we
bend over a child and we're speaking
down to them and we're angry with them
they're looking up at this giant
monster you know when you have to see
you know this little three-year-old
four-year-old and you're 5 foot 7 5'8 to
them they're under a two feet and
they're looking up at you and you're
this overwhelming presence
allahar we forget that we are Prim the
primary teachers for the youngest people
who interact with and depend on us for
their very survival and because they
depend on us they can't voice their
concern so all of a sudden you're
yelling stop crying and they stop crying
you think oh good I got them to work I
stop crying but it's only because they
know they need you for food and drink
and if I don't stop crying they're not
going to help me in life
and what you've done is destroyed any
semblance of
trust that that child now understands
that when I'm old enough to speak my own
word and I don't need you to feed me
inside their mind they will not react to
you in that same way okay I'm going to
be quiet no they're going to say I'm out
the door I'm going to live my own life
I'm going to do my own
thing you are a teacher you are the
beginning of
scholarship he says now from the man
from the manners of a
teacher
said I would
love that everyone that I
meet that they learn
it and that no one would say they
learned it from me I don't want anyone
to say oh look what he's contributed to
Islam now this is the first step of
finding a competent teacher someone
who's not in it to be better than you a
teacher's aim a good teacher is that
they want to teach you so that you
develop tools to become better than them
that's what im shaf is saying I want
that the students that I'm teaching the
people that I'm living with the likes of
Imam Ahmed that when I'm talking talking
with them and what I'm teaching with
them I wish that they never say I
learned from a shaf that they gained to
such a degree that now their teachers on
their own and no one says I learned
anything from him this is compare that
to the words of Al IMI in our last
session of telling us who not to study
with the one who's angry if you go and
learn from someone
else he continues and says Abu Yu now an
IM nawi is quoting from Abu yusf who is
the student of Al IM abif now Al IM nawi
does this intentionally our Scholars
they tell us that he intentionally
narrates from the opposite which is the
of IM abif to show you his humility in
accepting the truth from whoever Abu
yusu said and he quotes
him he would say to those who study with
him seek with the knowledge that you are
seeking seeking
Allah by Allah I tell you I share with
you I never
once in any time I sat and taught at any
time except that I made
the that I am humbled before those who I
teaching and I wish that from those who
are teaching will those who will correct
me those who will say no you made a
mistake there and they correct
me what should a what should a teacher
begin to teach
first he
says he should
begin first thing you
teach generosity
returning others favor when they give
you
favor and the refined
etiquet and a and a pleasing disposition
happiness always exude happiness and and
a smile upon one's
face and forbearance forgiving
others and patience when tested
and to be scrupulous not to seek from
others things that someone has something
you don't look to it and you want
similar to
it humility before
Allah
tranquility humbleness and
honor lowering oneself for
others submissiveness to
Allah and not to be too loud with one's
laughter and to be always joking
around and always to be present with the
religious uh etiquet that we are
taught that are seen by
others and that are within within our
capacity to fulfill now look at all
these characteris this is he saying the
primary goal of a teacher is that the
things that your students are going to
see from you are alud
generosity giving giving to
others reined character a happy
disposition always smiling and
content forgiving those who have hared
you forbearance a patience when when
enduring the harm from others
to always be scrupulous and not seek
what others
have humility before
Allah to be tranquil in one's
personality to have awe in the eyes of
people that people respect
you but yet to be submissive to
Allah not to laugh too much and not to
joke too much and to fulfill all of
those obligations in in public and also
in private with one
students and he continues to say and to
be from those who are
cleaning and helping to
clean you see something disorganized fix
it you see paper on the ground pick it
up to always have a good scent and to
clean and to to cut and to trim one's
hair and and to have a a a pleasing
appearance and to
fulfill and to to always have a a
pleasant uh appearance so all of those
become o the first things that IM nawi
says should be apparent from one who is
teaching others he continues to
say at the same
time
what
to show humility before Allah for Allah
says don't ever think of yourselves
better than others it is only Allah who
knows who has true
TAA and the best of you is only the one
who has tawa before Allah subhanahu wa
taala and also the prophet am
said which is that famous Hadith that a
person will live a life that they're
just an arm length from Jenna but
perhaps before their time they will do a
sin that lead them away into Janam so he
says even though you seek to have all
these characteristics in you and show it
to others always remember that it is
Allah who knows who is truly Pious
between them and Allah subhanahu wa
taala
he continues to
say Do not humiliate knowledge what does
that mean it means don't give it to
those who don't deserve it now the
scholars were very very strict with this
some people they don't deserve to learn
it and there's at times you know for
myself and others sometimes you'll have
a student whose parents are forcing them
to Quran class or or they're not
interested it is better for you to honor
those who came interested by kicking out
the one who isn't interested to
honor because knowledge should not be
forced upon
anyone and the imams they would expel
from their circles those who were not
worthy of receiving it so a man comes
and asks IM Malik how is Allah Allah is
on
how what does it
mean IM Malik put his head down the is
Rose above the above his throne in the
heavens what does this mean IM Malik put
his head down and when he put his face
up he looked
angry and he
said Allah has informed us of
this how nobody knows
it to question and to delve into these
matters is heresy
get out of my M you're not permitted
here I'm not going to receive your
questions anymore you're not even going
to sit and listen to what I have to say
right so you have to honor knowledge you
have to preserve it for those who seek
it also he
says
he says from the etiquette of a value
teacher is that if he's doing something
permitted it's Halal it's something
Halal but someone from a distance seeing
him might think it's Haram or even Mak
not even it doesn't have to be Haram or
even Mak dislike
it becomes obligatory upon him to say
And to clarify the matter uh for example
many of you know you know me and my wife
and my kids if you see me all of a
sudden walking in KL holding hands with
someone that isn't my
wife it's my sister right could be my
sister Amina she came from Canada she's
visiting and she comes and she hugs me
from the whoa what's happening Brother y
what's going on
that's not his wife I know what his wife
looks like that's not her and I see you
and I see that there is some confusion
that is set in
you I cannot just say who are they to
judge
me I'm not doing anything wrong I'm it's
Halal it's my sister who are they to
look at me and and think any not I'm not
going to explain myself to anyone no
you're wrong in our Dean you have to the
look of impropriety is sinful even if it
is not impropriety even if it is not
Haram if you and this happened to me in
Perth by the way I pulled up brother you
know uh sister sitting next to me
everyone knows what my wife looks like
yeah we've Liv Perth so long brother
pulls up at a red light and then he he
sees this lady sitting at you know it's
not my wife he look I said it's my
sister he was oh okay brother right it's
only natural this what the prophet
wasallam did visited him in the m and
the islim and late at night he walked
her home as he's walking with her home
two men from the ansar from a distance
far away they see the prophet they know
the prophet wasallam but they see a
figure of a woman you know shorter
dressed in women's clothes they don't
know who it is in the night they don't
know who it
is they saw they looked the prophet and
they began to walk away quickly and the
prophet said stop come here come
come here you have to see who it
is this is the wife of your Prophet
Muhammad wasallam they
said oh messenger of Allah we never
think something bad of you or Muhammad
wasallam he
said maybe now you don't but circulates
through a human being the way blood does
maybe it's not in your heart now the
thought is somewhere else but maybe
it'll circulate and come to your heart
maybe it'll be a thing oh yeah yeah I
saw brother y yeah he had this uh yeah
he was holding hands what he was driving
and there was yeah someone with him who
all of a sudden on Facebook and
Twitter right UFO sightings that's it
that's how gosip begins right Islam
seeks to prevent it so even if it is not
a Haram thing even if it is Mak and
there's some doubt and you feel others
saw it and it's not clear you have you
have to go to them and clear it
up he then continues and
says the
knowledge that one
imparts and the one who sits to learn
from you should be protected by you and
he says that a good teacher is the one
who seeks to protect his students from
misunderstanding or wants to answer the
questions and to show them that you know
he wants to clarify the issues and he
reports the statement of Abdullah Abbas
who is the cousin of the Prophet
Muhammad alai wasallam and the most
knowledgeable of the Quran of the
Prophet wasallam where he
said the people I love and honor the
most jalisi is the one who sits to learn
from
me who comes to study from
me if I was
able if I could protect my student from
a fly landing on their face I would do
it for them I wish for them the best in
everything that I have this is how the
um and the scholars of Faith thought to
teach those who study with them and
therefore Allah says to the
prophet lower your wing of humility to
those who are believers be merciful with
those who love one another for the way
of Allah subhanahu wa
taala also he
says
said Allah loves the scholar who is
humble and Allah hates the scholar who
thinks highly of
themselves
and the one who humbles himself to Allah
Allah grants them wisdom that they would
not attain without that
humbleness so those are just a few words
of im nawi as they relate to this the
the the the qualities of a good teacher
and what they seek to teach with we're
going to end inshallah
with some of the knowledge and some of
the qualities of a good student and
alhamdulillah all of us are students you
and I we seek to learn more about our
faith and the prophet s wasallam begins
this by telling us as we mentioned the
importance of the heart and we began our
journey this morning with talking
about truthfulness andas sincerity to
Allah which both take root in the heart
and when the heart is pure the rest of
the actions of the body are accepted as
as in the Hadith of the messenger
Muhammad s alai
wasallam it
is beneficial for the student to free of
his
time for his
study so that he is not uh distracted
from his study due to necessities and
other things meaning that when you come
to study something just say you're with
us here today and I know you have
children and so forth don't just put him
with someone who you think can manage no
put him with someone who you know you
don't have to keep checking on and that
your heart will be distracted half the
day wondering I wonder what if oh my God
what if they got into the belon oh no
you have to set yourself that when
you're going to study and you're going
to dedicate time for it that you make it
to the best of your
ability also he uses the
statement of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi
wasallam where he speaks
about and San came to visit him
sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he came
from a distance and the prophet was
laying down in his Masjid and he was
laying down on a on a reddish uh you
know brownish kind of garment
is like this a
cloak that was reddish Ruddy in color
brownish in color and as came
said I've come to
learn and the prophet wasallam sat
up and prepared His Garment and said
greetings to the one who has come to
learn which emphasizes the point that
the student comes to knowledge and
knowledge doesn't come to the
student and the imams they would refuse
to go to teach and they would say if you
want to learn you come to learn right
the IMs IM Malik IM Ahmed the mul and
these they would say come to the palace
and teach they would say no I'm in that
mid oh but the ground is not clean and
the no if you want to learn you want
your children to learn you
come knowledge is come you come to it it
does not come to you
all right that was the statement of the
great imams in that
regard also we hear the statement of
which is found
inl knowledge cannot be acquired with
comfort you guys are sitting I know
you're back you're like oh man it's been
an uncomfortable long 5 six hours and
you want to stretch and you want to take
a walk and yes sometimes it gets a
little bit uh you know distracting and
this and that but without with comfort
of body you will never
learn you have to give something from
your wealth from your time from your
effort from your body from your comfort
that will that will give you in return
that which will be blessed in knowledge
and this was the way of
the they would come from distances to
the prophet Muhammad sallallah alaihi
wasallam questions and they would come
to seek it directly from him and from
the most knowledgeable that they could
share
with of the most uh important statements
as well that relate to acquiring
knowledge for us as students
is Dua and asking Allah to make our
knowledge beneficial so you find the
prophet s wasallam would
say oh Allah bless us with knowledge
that is beneficial meaning one that I
can put into practice one that I can use
in my life let me learn from this Quran
something that I can Implement abdah is
reported in the he says we used to Le
learn 10 verses then 10 verses 10 and
then we would see how we would apply
them how we would use them in our life
and then we take on 10 more verses how
how we can apply them how we can use
them into our life and that was the
habit of the messenger Muhammad
sallallah alaihi
wasallam you find also many of them many
of the and
the would make Dua for their teachers
where they would
say oh Allah don't let me see anything
bad from my
teacher because in part of knowledge you
want that the person you're learning
from that Allah blesses them what good
is learning from someone and in your
heart you say I wonder if they're a good
person or not you ask Allah oh Allah
cover the cover their shame all of us
are shameful all of us between us and
Allah all of us even the the greatest of
the Great have their zah have their
mistakes have their moments and you say
oh Allah cover the shame of my teach
even if it's there oh Allah hide it if
it's there oh Allah forgive it right
right make Dua for those who teach you
and ask Allah subhana wa taala to give
them and strength and protect them uh
institutions such as jaim and the you
have in this country and those who
authorize the Halal from what Isam and
those who work to give you Clarity why
do people you know love to visit
Malaysia many reasons but because you
know alhamdulillah you come to a place
you know if it doesn't say no Halal it's
opposite right everywhere else you look
is it Halal show me a Halal sticker here
it's opposite you know you go to most
restaurant if it's pork and they have
thing it says no Halal we're not Halal
the other ones are Halal you have that
Clarity and that confidence someone did
it someone that you forget to make Dua
for someone who at times when they make
a mistake you hold them accountable too
much and I want to end with this quote
of Al
IM and IM was one of the great Scholars
of Hadith and he was one of the profound
imams where he
said my dear brother my dear sister may
Allah let you and I be pleasing to Allah
this is his Dua in
beginning learn know my dear brother may
Allah bless you and I to please
Allah and may Allah make us from those
who fear Him and who are Pious to him as
he
deserves that the bodies of the scholars
are poisoned pieces of meat you know
when someone back you they're eating
your flesh but when you backbite the
scholar it's poisoned it's not just
eating flesh it's poisoned
flesh and Allah has set the
precedent and Allah has shown the
precedent of those who seek to rip down
the scholars what he does to those
people
Those Who attack the scholars with their
tongues
unjustified without evidence without
reason just with hearsay and backbiting
and I think not I know but I think or it
could
be that that type of
person Allah will trial them give them
the
B before their
death before they die their heart will
have died the IM in their heart will
lesson no one who is critical of the
without
reason or who blows a small reason into
a big reason except that that person has
missing Iman in their
heart because those who guard Islam are
the inheritor of the Prophet Muhammad
sallah alaihi wasallam you have to
understand this not because someone is
it means they're better than you between
you and Allah but the likelihood that
inshallah they have tawa and knowledge
that makes them better than just someone
who is a worshipper is likely and we
always think of our as what is best and
you always make Dua for the and those
who teach people good that those the
ants and the fish make Dua for how could
we humble people who learn from them not
ask Allah subhah Waal to bless us
through them through the knowledge that
they give us so a way to preserve our
heart and our IM is to guard what we say
about others you always hear these
offhand comments oh no no no he doesn't
know allahar no no no uh you know he
does B what just like that b
oh no no he's uh this he's that offhand
comments that we think are just simple
things when in fact a statement just one
word that a person doesn't pay attention
to its significance will pull people
down into the depth of jahanam as is
mentioned by the prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alaih may Allah honor the
scholars of this land and this nation
and this country Allah may Allah protect
the institutions that protect the faith
of those who believe in Allah subhah wa
taala in this blessed country Allah may
Allah subhana wa taala unite us upon the
H upon the truth and may Allah cover the
faults of our imams and our may Allah
subhah waala cure them of their ailment
and their sins and make us and them
better for
it may Allah subhah wa ta'ala put the
love of the Quran in our hearts and the
love of the Sunnah and the tradition and
into the into the hearts of us and our
children may Allah subhana wa taala
allow us to practice what we speak and
to make our hidden better than our
public may Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala
allow us to adjust our families before
others may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala put
the love that we have with one another
as reason for us to enter J with
Muhammad s alai
wasam it's now 6:00 and this was the
advertised time that we were going to
com uh end uh if anyone wants to remain
behind for questions I will make myself
available for 15 minutes or as as people
need inshallah and for for those who
would like to leave on time you are more
than welcome and with honor to depart
inshallah so if there's any questions
you can send them forward or ask them if
they're not then we will all depart
early and I can see you tomorrow at my
talk or future engagements
inshallah