 As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim Wa s-salatu wa s-salamu ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala wa sahbihi wa salim Ya Rabbana lakal hamdu kumayin baghi l-jalali wa jhi tawa'azini sultanik Allahumma fdha halayna fudhu hal'alifin Allahumma alimna mayan fauna wa anfaana bima alam tana ya'ur-Rahman r-Rahimin Today insha'Allah we will have some headlights on Hadith 34, 35 and 36 insha'Allah To start with Hadith 34 So on the authority of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, he said, I heard the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam saying, Whosoever of you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand. And if he is not able to do so, then let him change it with his tongue. And if he is not able to do so, then with his heart, and that is the weakest of faith. In this Hadith, the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam informs us that it's obligatory to reject what is wrong as much as one is able. So this Hadith enjoins the good and forbids the evil. All prophets, may Allah have his salam upon them all, all prophets enjoin upon people what is right and forbid them from what is wrong. So they make lawful for them the good thing, and they prohibit from that the evil. When the prophets of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam used to be personally attacked, nothing would change. He would do nothing because that's something they are trying to abuse him personally, he wouldn't care. But when the prophets of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam are violated, then you can see in his face, you can hear it in his voice. And in fact, righteous people become really agitated when they see an evil. So first of all, you have to make sure that you are not rejecting the act of evil for any personal reason. This is a rule. When this is achieved, then you have to stop the evil by any means. If you are in a powerful position, if you are, let's say you are a manager, you are a principal, you are a mayor, you are a king, then you do change the evil thing with your hands. You can do anything you want. If you don't have the power to do it by hand, then speak about it. Let words do the work. Advise using words and when you use words, you remind the one who committed the wrongdoing, you remind him of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and you remind him of the Akhirah. You remind them of the punishment that will face them as a result for doing evil. And of course, the least you can do if you cannot make the change by hand or by word is to make dua silently and by this you let your heart do the job. Now if someone knows that rejecting the evil by hand or by words will harm them, then rejecting the evil with the heart is obligatory. So don't harm yourself. Now, if someone's heart does not reject what is wrong. This shows that a man or the faith, the faith of this person has gone from his heart. Because a good heart immediately feels the evil and immediately reject it. So Rehra-RaziaAllahu Anh narrated that the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said someone who is present at an act of disobedience of Allah and his messenger and disapproves it. So someone is present at a place where there is a disobedience of Allah and his messenger, but he doesn't like it. He disapproves this evil act. This person is as if he is someone who is not present at the place where this disobedience happened. If someone who is not present and likes this disobedience, he is as if he were present at it and he will be punished. Same thing as those who are practicing with disobedience. He also said that any people among whom acts of disobedience are done and who are able to change that wrong action but do not do anything, do not change anything. Then soon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will involve them with punishment. Similarly, Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says any person who is among among whom acts of disobedience are done and which they are able to change but they do not change, then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will strike them with punishment before they die. So Allah would not leave them without punishment. There is disobedience. A person who is present, a person of faith who is present should change that disobedience, should disapprove that disobedience. So never fear comfortable when you see an evil act being carried out. You have to prevent the evil. You have to do that for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And one of the etiquettes to observe when enjoining the good and forbidding the evil is mentioned by Ibn Taymiyya when he said let your enjoining of the good be in a good manner. This is very important and you're forbidding of the evil not to be in an evil manner. So you are doing something good. Do it in a good way. Do it the correct way. Don't do it in a wrong way so that it will change to be an evil action. So sometimes you have all the right to in a situation that happens but you say bad words, you say you got angry, then things will be against you. They will not be the same as what should be because of your behavior. So you have to choose the good way to know how to do something that leads to something good. So a good thing should be done in a good manner, not in an evil manner. So may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guide us and give us inshallah the courage to be able to change what should be changed in the best way possible. So inshallah we'll move to our next hadith. Abu Hurayrat, may Allah be pleased with him, said that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah be pleased with him, said, La tahasadu, wa la tanajashu, wa la tabagadu, wa la tadabaru, wa la yaba'adukum ala bay'i ba'adu. Wa kunu ibad allahi ikhwan. Al muslimu akhun muslim, la yazlimhu wa la yakhzilhu wa la yakzibu wa la yahqir. Al taqwahahuna wa yushiru ila sadrihi thalath marrat. Bihas bimri'in minal sharri an yahqirah akhahu al muslim. Kullul muslimi ala al muslimi haram. Damuhun wa maluhun wa ireduh. So on the authority of Abu Hurayrat, may Allah be pleased with him, he said that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah be pleased with him, said, do not envy one another. I'm going to read the translation and then I will go point by point inshaAllah. So do not envy one another. Do not forbid against each other. Which means do not inflate prices for one another. Do not hate one another. And do not turn away from one another. And let none of you sell against the sale of other. So do not let... So none of you sell against the sale of another. But rather be slaves of Allah. Be brothers amongst yourselves. A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim. He does not oppress him. Nor does he fail him. Nor does he lie to him. Nor does he hold him in contempt. Taqwa, or piety, is right here. And he, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, pointed to his chest three times. It is evil enough for a man to hold his brother, his brother Muslim in contempt. The whole of a Muslim is inviolable or is sacred for another Muslim. His blood, his property, and his honor. So let's talk about this hadith in more detail inshaAllah. Now, this hadith, as we've seen, focuses on the concept of brotherhood in Islam. It lists several categories that the Muslim should not fall into in regards to his relation with his brothers. So let's start with the first one. The first category is, do not envy one another. Ibn Rajab, who said envy, he gives a definition for envy. Envy is for a person to hate for others from his kind to surpass him in anything that is praise worthy. So this is set in the nature of mankind. In fact, envy is dangerous because it means that a person is unhappy with the decree of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And it leads that person to be always in a state of wariness and anxiety. Envy actually is the first sin that was committed in the higher world by Iblis. It is also the first sin committed in this dunya by Qabil, who was envious of his brother and thus killed him. So this is how envy is shown whether in the sky or on earth when it first started. The envy of the sky is done by Iblis. The envy of the earth, the first envy of the earth was done by Qabil, who killed his brother. If I want to talk a little more about envy, we find that there are two types of envy. The first type is the prohibited one. It's the malicious envy, which means to wish someone to lose the blessings that he has by transgressing against him in speech and action. And this case shows how bad the one who envies is. The person who practices envy cannot accept that blessings are granted to anyone other than himself. He feels jealous. He feels jealous of everybody. Anyone who is better than him, he cannot stand it. He feels jealous of him. Some people even wish that the blessing is to be removed from people, even if they themselves do not get it. And this is the worst type of envy. And Abu Dawood narrated that Prophet Muhammad SAW said, beware of malicious envy. So Sayyidna Muhammad SAW is warning people, because he knows that there are people of Sikh hearts and envy is one of the illnesses of the heart that should be worked on, that should be treated. So Sayyidna Muhammad SAW said, beware of malicious envy, because malicious envy eats up good deeds like fire, eats up kindling. It's so dangerous. The second type of envy is the good envy, which is called in Arabic Al Ghipputah. And this type of envy means that you are happy that other people are enjoying their blessings. And you make to Allah that Allah SWT would keep their blessings and grant you similar ones. And this is actually a good type of Al Ghipputah, there is nothing wrong with this type. Now the second category that the hadith talks about is do not bid against each other. La Tanajashu. What does this mean? What does this word mean? And La Tanajashu is to artificially increase the price of a product. For example, you want to buy something for $100. Then someone speaks so highly about it and offers 130 without intending to buying it. He doesn't have the intention to buy it, but he does that. You have to pay more to get that item. So the hadith says, Sayyidina Muhammad SAW says do not inflate prices for one another. This is not acceptable and Prophet Muhammad SAW orders that no one does this. La Tanajashu. The third type is wala tabaqabu. Do not hate one another. Wala tadaabaru and do not turn away from one another. So sometimes incidents happen, people have dispute, sometimes it reaches to the point of fighting about something. And Sayyidina Muhammad SAW is saying, La tabaqadu. Do not hate one another. Hate is what the shaitan tries to put between the believers. And it is mentioned in the Quran. Allah SWT says, إِنَّ مَا يُرِيدُ الشيطانُ أن يُقِعَ بَيْنَكُمُ الْعَدَى وَتَوَ الْبَغْضَى Shaytan only wants to cause between you animosity and hatred. And what happens normally when someone hates another person, he boycotts him, turning actually your back to one another is similar to something known as Hajar boycotting. And the Prophet SAW said, It is not permissible for a Muslim to boycott his brother for more than three days. It's not permissible for people not to speak with each other for more than one three days if they have a dispute, if they have a problem with each other. They meet and each one of them turns away from the other. So if they meet, they would not look at each other. But Sayyida Muhammad SAW goes on and says, The best of them is the one who starts the Salam. He is the better person, the one who starts the Salam. And it was said that once Sayyidna Omar, may Allah be pleased with him, met Sayyidna Abu Bakr and he did not give him Salam. But Sayyidna Abu Bakr was worried what's going on with Omar. So he went to Sayyidna Muhammad SAW and he told him. And when Sayyidna Omar came, Sayyidna Muhammad SAW asked him, Did that really happen to Omar? And he said, Yes, Ya Rasulallah. Wa khairuhumal ladhi yabda'u bi salam. The best of people is the one who starts the Salam. In this case, even there is no dispute. So this is a general rule. The best of people is the one who starts the Salam when both people meet. And I know that Abu Bakr is better than me. And that's why I was silent. I did not say the Salam. I wanted him to say the Salam, to start the Salam. So the best of them is the one who initiates the Salam and the one who gives the greeting. Another point. And let none of you sell against the sale of another. So we have this case here is undercutting in trade. So undercutting in trade is something that is warned against by Sayyidna Muhammad SAW. What's undercutting? Examples about undercutting is that A sells B something for about $450. C came by and tells B he would sell the same thing for $40. So another merchant came and told the buyer that he will offer it $10 less. This is called undercutting in trade. And this is not allowed. Again, another example is that A sells B something for $25. Then C comes and says he would buy it for $30. So A asks for the item back. So these things, these two examples are undercutting examples. And they are not allowed. Sayyidna Muhammad SAW warned against undercutting in trade. So do not undercut believers and also non-believers in trade. Why? Cutting the non-believers in trade has many ill effects, a lot of them. So many bad effects. And the most important of which is not so the non-believers would not trust the Muslims. And that would give a bad image about Islam. So it's not allowed. Then Sayyidna Muhammad SAW goes on. So don't do this. But rather be slaves of Allah and brothers. Be brothers amongst yourselves. So that the purpose of brotherhood is to help one another in worshipping Allah SWT and attaining piety. Otherwise it is artificial. It's not through brotherhood for the sake of Allah. So Sayyidna Muhammad SAW wants people to be brothers. Helping the brother is not necessarily when they ask for it. And this is very important. So brothers do not wait until they are in debt and then they ask for money from each other. No, if you feel that your brother in Islam needs some money, just give him the money. And we will talk about this in more details in the next hadith. How we should treat our brothers and sisters in Islam. The Prophet SAW says here, help your brother. Help your brother. So help your brother whether he is oppressed or oppressive. What does this mean? They said, we help him when he is being oppressed. But how do we help him when he is oppressing? He said, and Sayyidna Muhammad SAW says, just do not let him go in his oppression. Advise him. Ask him to be away from oppression. Get him out of oppression. And this is how you help your brother in Islam. So a Muslim is the brother of a Muslim. He does not oppress him. He does not fail him. Nor does he lie to him. Nor does he hold him in contempt. And Allah SAW mentions how the relation between people should be. In one of the ayahs Allah SAW says, A very precise, a very detailed ayah. So oh, you who have believed, let not a people, people, radical other people. Perhaps they may be better than them. And with this, better in front of Allah SAW. The same thing, not let women, radical other women. Perhaps they may be better than them. And do not insult one another. Do not call each other by offensive nicknames. So these are guides for brothers in Islam, for the relation among brothers in Islam. Sayyidina Muhammad SAW says, So sayyidina Muhammad SAW says, Taqwa or piety is right here and he points to his chest three times. He points to his heart. What does this mean? Taqwa, piety is right here and he points to his heart. So piety is all in the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW. And if we want to have piety, we should connect our heart to the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW. And Allah SAW says in another Surah, The most noble of you is in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you. It is evil enough for a man to hold his brother Muslim in contempt. The whole of a Muslim is invaluable. So the whole of a Muslim is sacred. It's invaluable for another Muslim. His blood is sacred. No one is allowed to kill any other person. His property. No one is allowed to steal the money, the land or the property of any other person. And his honor. No one is to be problematic to any married couple. No one to interfere with them. No one to interfere with their affairs. No one is to backbite other Muslims or to look with an evil eye at any Muslim woman. So these are important categories that Sayyidina Muhammad SAW has talked about and has urged us Muslims to follow. Now moving to the next Hadith, we will see an implementation of this Hadith in the next one. In the next Hadith, we will see a translation of this Hadith in the next Hadith. In the next Hadith, we will see a translation of this Hadith in the next Hadith. We will see a translation of this Hadith in the next Hadith. Amazing Hadith. Subhanallah, this Hadith is easing someone's distress. This is the title of this Hadith. So this Hadith is a real manifestation of how to implement through brotherhood. As if it is a continuation to the previous Hadith, Subhanallah. So Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet SAW said, he who removes from a believer one of his afflictions, one of his difficulties of this life in this dunya, then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will remove one of his troubles on the day of judgment. Imagine that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is taking care of you on the day of judgment when no person cares for any other person. A person would run away from his parents. So a person would run away from his siblings, from his parents, from his spouse, children, his clan and his people. And he who finds relief for a hard-pressed person, okay, so this person is rewarded. The first one, whoever removes an affliction or whoever helps someone who is in a difficulty in this dunya, then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will remove one of his troubles in the day after. The second one, the second case is anyone who finds relief for a hard-pressed person, Allah will make things easy for him on the day of judgment. For example, you lent a person some money and you both agreed when the money will be returned. So if you know that at the end of the period that you agreed upon, that person is still poor, he doesn't have the money, he doesn't know where to get it from. If you relieved him of this debt, then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will make things easy for you on the day of judgment. Subhanallah. Then, Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam goes on and he says, he who covers up the faults and the sins of a Muslim, Allah will cover up his faults and sins in this world and in the hereafter. So a believer should be primarily concerned actually with his own faults and should not look at other faults. But if someone comes to know of some sins or of some faults of a person and he hides, he conceals that person. He does not talk badly about him to people. Look at this person, what he did. Look at this person, how he acted or so concealing this person. What will happen? Allah will cover your sins. Allah will conceal your sins in the world after, in this dunya and in the world after. Then Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, Allah supports his slave as long as the slave is supportive of his brother. So loving your brother for the sake of Allah, just for the sake of Allah. So loving your brother for the sake of Allah makes you help that brother when he is in trouble, when he has any trouble, when he has any problems. And you will feel happy to help. You will feel very happy to relieve the pain of any person, to relieve the stress of any person, to hide the problems of any person. Your heart will be happy. So Allah supports his slave as long as the slave is supportive of his brother. So loving for your brother, what you love for yourself brings about the help from Allah SWT. We've seen in previous Hadith, we had the same thing, how your relation to your Muslim brother should be. You should love for him, what you love for yourself. And this is having complete faith. This shows that the faith of this person is complete when he wishes for others, what he wishes for himself. He has good manners, he doesn't have envy. He doesn't mind to see the good blessings happening to his brother the same way that happens to him. And then Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam goes on. And he who trades the path in search of knowledge. Allah makes that path leading to Jannah easy for him. Subhan Allah. And what does this mean? This means that seeking knowledge is obligatory upon all Muslims. In fact, the first words that were revealed by Sayyidina Jibril Alaihi As-Salam to Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam were, Iqraq. Iqraq. Read. And indeed reading is an essential part of attaining knowledge. So the more you learn, the more you find that you know nothing. That you have to learn more. That you have to seek for more information, for more knowledge. And in Surah Al-Fatih, in Ayah 28, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says, only those who have knowledge truly fear Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. So the commandment for us is to read, is to learn, is to seek for knowledge. Seek knowledge. And to expand our understanding. Some scholars used to say, whoever acts upon what he knows, من علمة بما علمة. من عملة بما علمة. أورثه الله علم ما لم يعلم. Allah will teach him more things he did not know. So when you learn something, do not get proud that you know it and no other people know it. No. The one who gave you the power to learn it can easily take it away. Some people have Alzheimer's. They lose all that information. They lose all the knowledge. They lose everything around them. So when we learn, we learn for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala only. So the Hadith goes on. The people who assemble in one of the houses of Allah. Majda مع قوم في بيت من بيوت الله. Any group of people who get together. Why? يتسلون كتاب الله و يتدارسونه بينهم. Reciting the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Learning it. Reading it. Teaching it. إلا نزلت عليهم السكينة. There descends upon them the tranquility. وغشيتهم الرحمة and mercy covers them. Mercy envelops them. It protects them. It guides them. And it softens their hearts. وحفتهم الملائقة. The angels flock around them. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions them in the presence of those near Him. وذكرهم الله في من عنده. So imagine that you go to a gathering. Where you go there just for the sake of Allah to learn about the Quran, to learn the Tafseer of the Quran and to learn the jurisprudence of the Quran that's mentioned in the Quran. So just to learn, to have more knowledge about the Quran. To memorize the Quran. To understand the Quran. Then these things will happen. Tranquility descends. Mercy envelops. Angels flock around the group. And Allah mentions this group in the presence of those who are near to Him. Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam ends this Hadith by Sayyidin. وَمَنْ بَطْطَأَ بِهِ عَمَلُهِ لَمْ يُسْرَعْ بِهِ لَسَبْعَ And he who lags behind in doing good deeds his noble lineage will not make him go ahead. So our lineage will not help us. We are the daughter of so-and-so. We are the son of so-and-so. So we are proud of our lineage. We can do that in this dunya. But this will not help in the day after. Only our actions will help us in the day of judgment. So actually this hadith is, as I just mentioned, it is a manifestation to the previous hadith. When Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam talks about something, he makes it super clear. With this inshallah we will stop here today and we will continue next week inshallah, or next Tuesday inshallah. And before we leave we just say يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلالي وجيك معظيم السلطانك يا ربنا لك الحمد والشكرا والنعمة والرضة يا الله make us content with the way you are handling our affairs. And keep our relations with our brothers, with our sisters in Islam strong يا الله. And until we meet again next week inshallah, I would leave you by sending your salam and my salam and salawat to our beloved prophet Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته