We’ll continue from Hadith number three from the 40 Hadith on mercy and those that show Mercy this is a Hadith which is narrated fromd in which he says from the prophet Sall wasallam and this is the same wording that we heard in the last Hadith in which the prophet wasam was kissing his
Grandson alassan Ali and that was in the presence of Mimi who was sitting and he said I have 10 children and I have never kissed a single one of them and the prophet he said that whoever does not show Mercy will not receive mercy and so this is a very general
Principle that we’re going to delve into some more there’s another Hadith that illustrates this point which is found in and this is in the from this is he relates that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that he stood up to pray and we stood with him a nomadic Arab so
A better when Arab said loudly while in prayers oh Allah grant me and Muhammad your mercy and don’t give it to anybody else okay can you imagine just me and the prophet nobody else don’t get nobody else needs it don’t give it to them just the two of
Us no one else upon completing the prayer so the obviously the guy is in the he’s in the prayer and he’s making this Dua so but the prophet he’s obviously saying it loud enough that the prophet can hear so what he says afterwards to the to the bedin he
Said you have constricted you have narrowed you have restricted you have limited something that is so vast what is it that is so vast the meaning Allah’s Mercy um and that meaning that the prophet was talking about the mercy of Allah this is coming from the narrator who’s the narrator you probably
Forgot when it’s a Hadith a good guess is Abu H so that will be the right guess that was Abu who is the one but there’s a general principle here that Mercy attracts Mercy this is actually found in social science right so this is outside of the domain
Of Hadith that has anybody heard of the attraction principle what it means is that if you are positive what will end up happening to you in your life which type of people will you end up with you’re going to be surrounded by positive people because the positive
People want to be with a positive people if you’re a very negative person what kind of people will you end up with you’re going to end up so this is like the Hadith I think it’s ma that whoever uh the prophet he said that whoever says
That that all of the people are ruined everybody’s destroyed nobody’s good oh the people from that country they’re no good the people from this country they’re no good right um then that individual is the most destroyed out of all of them why because the person who finds something wrong with
Everyone right then there’s something wrong with him that’s exactly right so so this is one of the point very famous he said that oh person who’s complaining of a malady but you’re not actually sick be beautiful yourself and you’ll see the beauty in other people and
That’s why you see that the people of IM the people of belief they find friends no problem I mean this happens all the time people come to a new place and they’re like I haven’t made any friends I haven’t met anyone you know whereas there other
People what do you do the first time you move into a new place what do you do the same day you go straight to the Masjid then we’re like where the Halal restaurants where’s the grocery store then we start meeting people after then somebody’s like oh I’ll drive you there
They’re like oh let me give you the directions right then you start making connections and you start making friends why because what do you have in common you may not have the same color complexion you might not have the same Heritage same language same background but you have one thing in
Common so when you have when you show Mercy to other people it attracts Mercy that is vast this is especially in the case of family life right so people they often wait for the other person in the relationship to show that so you know uh it’s like you know know the the famous
Uh saying they say you know my relationship with my spouse is give and take right I give and she takes anybody heard that right and then other people there’s another saying they said oh you know our relationship is psychological right my spouse is psycho and I’m
Logical so this is this is how we view the world we’re all biased right we’re waiting for other people to give us love we want to receive we want other people who consider our feelings we want the other person to listen we want them to prioritize us but we don’t want to be
The first one to do it but if you follow this Hadith and apply it to your personal relationships then you’re not going to have any problem in being the one that shows mercy and by being the one that precedes the other in showing Mercy what will inevitably happen then
The person like wow he was thinking about me she was thinking about me so then they will want to automatically reciprocate isn’t the words of the Prophet isn’t it true haven’t we experienced that in life that when you and sometimes int even in a professional
Cont you go to a restaurant you have a problem you go to a store you have an issue if you approach it in a very kind and a gentle way and a lot of store employees they’re not used to people talking to them with respect right people they get abused by because people
They think that oh they’re just there to get knocked around but when you speak to them with kindness they will bend over backwards and they will try to find a solution they will try to help you alhamdulillah I have witnessed this in my life you know difficult situations
You know like when I was in Egypt and I was I had to keep extending my Visa because I’m a student there and then you have to go back to the dreaded building you know the mug right so you have to go to the central government building but
Then you know you just and some people they start arguing and they start fighting and things get very tense but I figured out a different solution in Egypt I said all you have to do is smile and you tell you know I came from America to study Quran and they’re like
What and they’re like Al sub and then like you see the hearts they melt right because you’re approaching a different way and the same a lot of people they go to Muslim majority countries and they approach it with aggression but in reality you there’s a there’s an energy
That you can tap into which is based on mercy and in this case the mercy was restricted because when he made Dua he limited something which is vast so what does this teach us also in Dua what type of Dua should we make we should make it wide so for
Example you’ll notice the imams here we make Dua we say oh Allah heal those that are sick from among us and then what do we add afterwards and all of those who are sick right among the Believers so we say oh Allah uh give Victory and assistance to our brothers and sisters
In Gaza then you say and in every place because otherwi and some people they still get offended you know why didn’t you mention this place or that place and we are deficient this is our fault right that uh you know um unfortunately there’s too many places
In which the umat is is suffering and so we’re we’re negligent this is the reality I include myself we’re negligent the next Hadith is narrated from he narrated that the prophet wasam said that this is the famous Hadith I’ve always mentioned to you guys but I mention the the that I always mention
One this means that you can think of the Believers in their showing Mercy to one another showing love to one another and showing kindness to one another as one body if any limb is ailing the entire body triggers sleeplessness and fever this is found in Al bukari it’s found in
Muslim it’s found inan andb haban the one is so there’s different wording right there’s one another one is so it says as one body the other one is like the body another one says like the example of the body but they’re all similes right so this is a different
Aspects of Bal but it’s the same meaning so this had it shows how we can create a society in which it is filled with mercy and love and fraternity how there can be Muslim Brotherhood and in reality the Islamic Paradigm is based on human Brotherhood it’s not limited we don’t
Limit Mercy only to Muslims this is how vast and merciful the teaching of Islam is that it encompasses non-muslims as well and of course so if the society is premise based on Mutual concern in which a person does not go to sleep while their neighbor is hungry so it’s going to
Foster connections it prevents a society from having individuals that feel isolated that feel disconnected and it also establishes social responsibility and to be honest I hope I don’t offend anyone it’s too early in the morning to offend people but if you find a lot of the Western countries are better at that
How many of you have been driving in the middle of the night 4:00 a.m. and you get to red light and you stop at the red and you’re like why am I stopping on the red light I have been in that experience have you guys had that experience like
There is no car for like 10 miles why am I stopping in this red light there’s no camera nothing but for some reason I just can’t run the red light I I can’t it’s it’s too hard it’s not possible you know when I when I travel
To some other countries I turn into a monster you don’t want to see me then then I’m like oh you know I got to get to this that tiny spot before the other car gets to that spot right so it’s like a game it’s like you’re playing go-karts
Right it’s like almost like a video game why the reason is and the same thing with littering you’ll find that in some of the Muslim societies people they just throw it they’re driving they throw it out the window and this has nothing to do with religion it has to do with social
Responsibility has anybody seen the videos of Japanese school children what do they do they clean the bathrooms of their schools what happened when there were sports games in Japan international sports games what happened they clean up the stadium there are paid employees Yan they’re people to do that and I I
I’ve been to Japan several times because I had business in in in in Japan I’ve seen most of the country in in Nagoya I’ve been to Osaka and Tokyo and of course the old cities Kyoto and I have never seen any place in the world like Japan
People are so responsible that you will never ever see any Trash anywhere because the moment that something is there someone will come up and pick it right this is just a small thing they’re bigger things right other than that do you know they don’t have trash cans in Japan anybody know
Why where does it go where does how is it so clean and there’s no trash bins you go to Singapore their trash bins right I know there a couple of community members they they have rubbish but but but in in Japan they don’t why because because people believe that
It is their individual responsibility to take their own trash carry it with them on the subway on the train until they get home and then dispose of it that is their that is their ethos I mean that’s their culture and their religion and their way of thinking so
This is this is very important and this is what we see from the Hadith that we should have that in their mutual love in the affection between us um and the first one of course in mutual Mercy there’s another thing that we have to speak before we conclude which is that
The beginning of is it doesn’t say so what is the connection between mercy and so the word is what does m what M what does that mean I know everybody knows that it’s not an Arabic thing what does m mean believer so that means the connection is between
Mercy and imman everybody with me so there’s a connection with faith so that means that a society that doesn’t have mercy that doesn’t have empathy that doesn’t have love that doesn’t have kindness and concern for each other doesn’t have what on a societal level individuals have IM but on a societal
Level then Iman is not governing the inter the social interactions right so what does it have what effect does it have on the individual then you leave your house and you go in the streets and you interact with people what does it do to the faith of a
Person it causes their faith to be corroded it erodes the faith of the of the Believers we find in another Hadith that an Malik said that the prophet wasam Said right this is very famous another one one of you would not be a believer unless you love for your brother or for your neighbor that which you love yourself and the last Point here that we can benefit from the Hadith so what that means is that if one part of the body is Afflicted then the entire body has sight effects and that means that it doesn’t matter the prophet doesn’t say if it’s the heart if it’s the lungs if it’s a leg he said that
Even even one limb even one tiny part the smallest limb of the body can trigger the whole body to be afflicted which is intense and causes pain and affliction to the whole body and so this is why believe it or not I get people from the community they said why are you
Guys keep talking about Palestine keep talking about these places we live in America we should just talk about America I don’t know if you guys get this feedback we get it all the time and then we go back to what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam told us about
The person who is not concerned with the Affairs of the umah right so it’s our duty an obligation to be concerned and at the very least to make Dua for our brothers and sisters wherever they are we ask Allah subhanahu waala to heal and alleviate all of the suffering and
Difficulties of all of the Believers within our community and throughout the World For
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