 فشرف بل اشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا بدا بدا وياله من شراف عظيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ولا عدوان إلا على الظالمين وأسلي وأسلم على من أرسله الله رحمة للعالمين سيدنا والنبينا محمد وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد أسلي وأسلي أسلم ومؤمن who believes in Allah and the Day of Judgment today in the kind of time that we're living and in the kind of society that we're living in the person will feel a strange amongst his loved ones the people who he loved his own family members he feels like a stranger and the reason for that is because he wants to call to the people that which will benefit them their worldly affairs and that which will benefit them in the hereafter but the real reason is because for you to call the people to that which is beneficial for them in the hereafter and that which is beneficial for them in this world you would have to go against the people's whims and desires in the minute that you start to wage war against the people people's whims and desires you start to realize that your enemies are more than your allies and you become a strange the most closest and the most beloved people to you become your enemies they are the ones who expose you and they are the ones who mention your shortcoming and your faults and they are the ones you are thinking about and they are the ones who you are concerned for الإمام ابن رجب الحمبر رحمه الله الإمام ابن رجب الحمبر رحمه الله he read a book and he called it كش في الكربة كش في الكربة في وصف حالي أهل الغربة كش في الكربتي في وصف حالي الغربتي removing the distress from the people who are strangers he called it a distress removing from them a distress ابن رجب describes in that book of his and by the way that book he wrote it patain into a particular hadith which we are going to come to which is بدا الإسلام غريبا وسيعود غريبا كما بدأ فطوبا للغرباء دهديت إمامه الإمام مسلم إبن ماجأ الأحمد أجري رحمه الله they are narrated in their books on the authority of Abu Huraira رضي الله تعالى عنه and we will be speaking about that بإذن الله الكريم this hadith and extract benefits from it ابن رجب wrote that book on that particular hadith but when he was writing in his book he was trying to describe the creation the human beings how they are and he gave a description about them and he said about them ففوتينوا بالدنيا وزهرتها that the people have been tested with the dunya and its glitters and its glamour وصارت غاية قصدهم and the dunya became their ultimate objective their ultimate goal لها يطلوبون وبيها يرضون for the dunya they request and for the dunya they become pleased ولها يغضبون and for the dunya they get angry ولها يوالون and because of the dunya they give an eagence وعليها يوالون and because of the dunya they show enmity towards one another فتقطعوا لذلك أرحمهم and because of the dunya they have cut the ties of kinship وصفقوا دماءهم and they spilled each other's bloods ورتكبوا معاصي الله and they committed the disobedience الله سبحانه وتعالى بسبب ذلك because of the dunya and its glitters and its glamours so the people of the strangers اهل الغربة they are the ones who are who are fighting with the people's desires for the dunya that they have لذلك الله سبحانه وتعالى said in surah to whood ay 116 ay 116 الله سبحانه وتعالى says and a group who remain who prohibit from corruption في الأرض on this earth and Allah then says إلا قليلا they are only little who do that من من أنجيناهم those who we saved ألمام ابن القيب رحمه الله when he brought this book in his kitab مدارج الساريكين the description of these people who protect this earth from corruption who are literally number who are the remaining righteous people who Allah saved ابن القيب said فإن الغرباء في العالم هم أهل هذه صفة المدكورة في العية ابن القيب said the strangers in this world they are the ones who have that description that is mentioned in this ayah meaning this ayah is actually talking about the people of أهل الغربة and there is a hadith which أحمد ابن حنبل الإمام الأجوري ابن المبارك البيه القينيس كتاب زهد الكبير ابن عساكن تاريخ الدمشق on the authority of عبدالله ابن عمر ابن العاص in which a messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم says طوبة للغرباء طوبة للغرباء طوبة means prosperity in this dunya and in the hereafter أزمان من نوة برحمة الله he said in his شبح سحم مسلم for who the strangers the companions they asked ومن الغرباء يا رسول الله who are the strangers the prophet gave them a description my beloved brothers and sisters the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said أناس صالحون قليل في أناس سوء كثير they are a people who are righteous they are little in the midst of a large amount of evil people من يعصيهم those who disobey them are more in number أكثر من من يطيعهم are more in number than those who obey them so the description that the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم gave pertaining to them was what they are a righteous people but they are little they are little in number and they live in a place where there are a large amount of evil people the people who listen to them who take their advice who take their guidance are little and those who disobey them are large in number and no doubt that's going to happen because this individual is fighting against the people's women's and desires and of course the حديث which I mentioned before إمام المسلم that mentions in his صحيح إبن ماجه إمام أحمد in his Muslimate الإمام الأجوري by the way he wrote a whole book he has a book on it الإمام الأجوري رحمه الله he brings another حديث on the authority this time on the authority this time on the authority this time on the authority this time on the authority this time on the authority it started strange Islam started it started strange و سيعود I will go back to كما بدأ the way it started strange فطوب للغربائ a prosperity and good for the strangers these are the غربائ إبن رجب الحنب رحمه الله in his Kitab كش في القربة في وصف حالي الغربة he says و لهذا جاء في أحاديث نصف منحية أجهزة تفقية موتعددة مدحل متمسك بدين في آخر الزمان يتبعه the one who is holding onto his religion في هذا العالم الأخير وانهو كالقابده على الجملي ويصبحت على شخص who is holding onto hot charcoal هذا هو السبب why the praise has come in regards to this individual ما رجب is trying to say is that it's a time of حالة الغربة زمن الغربة it's a time that person feels strange he is alone his loved ones, his friends have now turned on him I want you all to insha'Allah I'm going to read on you the statement of الإمامه بن القيّم الجوزية رحمه الله في his كتاب مدارج الساريكين on the fourth volume page 22 he says والله his statement يستحق أن يُكتب بما يدهب these words they deserve all of them to be written in ink of gold and if a person in the course of their life while studying and whilst giving دعوة they place the statement of his in front of their eyes and they consistently look at it it will lie without a shadow of a doubt is a تصليح it is something that gives you warmth in your heart tranquility and reassurance that there's nothing to worry about ابن القيّب رحمه الله he says فهؤلاء ذوز خم الغرباء they are the strangers الممدوحون المغبطون those praised worthy ones who the people will the day of judgment they would want to be in their place وليقلتهم في ناس جدا وليقلتهم في الناس جدا and they are very little in the people the غرباء very little in the people سمو غرباء the reason why they are called strangers is he says فإن أكثر الناس على غيره هذه الصفاد because the majority of the people are not upon their description a stranger is what the reason why they are called strangers is why the reason why they are called strangers is because the majority of the people are not of the description they are and a stranger is when he is not what the rest of the people are he doesn't hold the same characteristics as the other people and then look what he gives you an example he says فأهل الإسلام في الناس غرباء the people of Islam are strangers in the people they are strangers a sister is wearing a hijab the people are looking at her غريب a person wants to pray the salah when it comes in and he prays on the street sometimes it has to pray because the salah entered he is a غريب people are looking at him as a stranger the religion of Islam is غريب but then what's more even غريب والمؤمنون في أهل الإسلام غرباء والمؤمنون في إسلام are even more of strangers وأهل العلم في المؤمنين غرباء and within the believers the أهل العلم the people of knowledge are even more of strangers and then look what he says after that and amongst the people of knowledge أهل السنة والجماعة are the what are even more of strangers which أهل السنة which أهل السنة ابن القيم describes those which ones are the ones who are strangers my brothers اللي pay attention as I said before these words they deserve to be written in ink of gold ابن القيم says وأهل السنة الذين يميزون من الأهواء والبداع فهم غرباء the people of the sunnah who are distinguishing the whims and the desires and the innovation who are distinguishing in it show exposing the innovation exposing the desires of the people they are very غرباء pay attention he still goes on to say in what ودعون إليها الصابرون على أدى المخالفين هم أشد أهل هؤلاء غرب غربة and you know what's even more of strangers now from within those ones is the ones who are calling to it the sunnah who are calling to the sunnah الصابرون على أدى المخالفين who are patient upon the harm of the opponents هم أشد هؤلاء غربة they are even in a most they are even more of strangers ولكن but هؤلاء هم أهل الله حقا but the truth is they are the people of Allah truly they might be strangers in this world but they are the people of Allah فلا غربة عليهم really there's no strangersness to them وإنما غربتهم بين الأكثرين but they are only strangers to the majority الذين قالوا الله عز وجل فيهم the majority in which Allah has said regarding them وإن تطلق أكثر من في الأرض يضلوك عن سبيل الله سورة الله العام آية 116 الله says and if you obey the majority of the people on the earth they will misguide you from the straight path فأولئك هم الغرباء من الله تعالى the majority are truly strangers from Allah ورسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ويدينه and they are also strangers and they are also strangers from the messengers صلى الله عليه وسلم and his religion وغربتهم هي الغربة الموحشة and those majority their strangers is the strangers that is loneliness وإن كانوا هم المعروفين المشارعوا إليهم even that though they are the well-known ones on this earth and the ones that the people point towards meaning the majority انتها كلامه with the statement of ibn al-qayyim finishes there this speech and this statement is it's weight is very heavy والله the statement of ibn al-qayyim رحمه الله is a tassli as I said it gives you that tranquility and that that insha'Allah that you either have to choose between you have to choose between either being the غريب in this world or being the غريب from Allah and his messenger that being the case the true believer my brothers they are strange in their religion and the reason why they are strange in their religion is because they are holding onto their religion correctly so when they hold onto it correctly it makes those who are what those who are not holding onto their religion correctly see them as غريب and those who are holding onto the sunnah become غرابة strangers because those who have now fell into following desires and innovation see them as غريب strangers also the one who is عقيد is perfected and is following the correct عقيد those who عقيد has become corrupt and those who's عقائد has become deficient and tainted are now looking at those who are holding to the correct عقيد as strangers those who are praying the salah correctly who are perfecting their prayer as they should do are being seen as strangers because of the people tainting their prayer and the way that they should pray so when the people divert from the straight path and they take a path other than the path of the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام they then turn towards those who are holding onto the path of the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام as a stranger ابن القيب رحمه الله he says and this is a description he gives to us when he is getting into the people who are the غرباء so if you want to be from them you need to look for these characteristics in you و من صفاتها اولا الغرباء الذين غبطهم الهبيب صلى الله عليه وسلم the characteristics of the strangers is what التمسك في السنة they hold onto the s gonna of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم و إذا رغب عنها الناس even if the people do not desire anymore they hold on to the s even if the people are not in love with the s و تركوا ما أحدثوه و يتركوا من ذلك التي يمتلك الناس و إن كان هو المعروف عندهم even if the innovation has become the common thing the common trend وتجريد التوحيد والتخيطات من الناس غورباء والسيخون they purely come with توحيد فالله تبارك و تعالى and they strip it from shirk و إن أنكر ذلك أكثر الناس even if the majority of the people reject that concept from them and also from their characteristics is what وتركوا الانتساب إلى أحد غير الله و رسوله they leave off attributing themselves to anyone besides Allah and His Messenger لا شيخا ولا طريقة ولا مذهبا ولا طائفة they do not attribute themselves to a teacher and they do not attribute themselves to a path and they do not attribute themselves to a methodology and they do not attribute themselves to a group بل هؤلاء الغورباء منتسبين إلى الله بالعبودية له وحدهم they only attribute themselves to the غورباء to Allah تبارك و تعالى with servitude them alone and to the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلمة by following him with that which he has come with سبحانه و تعالى صلى الله عليه وسلمة ابن القيّم then goes on to say و هؤلاء those whose description I have given you هم القابضون على الجمري they are the ones who are holding on to the hot charcoal حقا really ابن رجب الحمبلي رحمه الله يسانين كشف الكربتي page 320 these are quotes and statements that one needs to write and to memorize these quotes if he can and to understand them and to live by them إن شاء الله و تعالى ابن رجب الحمبلي he said و إنما ذل المؤمن آخر الزمان لغربتي بين أهل الفساد من أهل الشبوهات والشهوات the believer has become humiliated in the آخر الزمان just before the hour لغربتي because of him being a stranger between the people of whims and desires and the people of doubts فكلهم يكرهوا all of them dislike him و يوديه and they even harm him لمقالفة طريقته لطريقتهم they harm him because of him opposing the path in which they were up on و مقصوده لمقصودهم and the fact that he has an objective opposite to the objective that they have و بوباينته لهم فيماهم عليه and the fact that he has taken a path other than the path which they are up on they hate him they harm him because of that أهل الشبوهات والشهوات the people of whims and desires and the people of doubts my brothers and sisters who are listening the issue of giving this name and title to a people and saying it was something that the self used to do at their time meaning the غربة was even present at the time of the self the strangeness to be a stranger in your community and in your people is something that the pious predecessors also they felt and they were going through الامام الالكائي و ابقاسهم هبط الله هي الالكائي الاسكتاب و صوله اعتقاده الاسولة والجماعة ابن الجوزي الاسكتاب ابن عيما الاسمهاني انسكتاب حلية الأورياء و طبقات الأصفيا ان البيه حقيقي انسكتاب ملاقب الشافعي with the chain of narration which is Hassan اذا بمدهة بالسير على بالوبلاء السيوط المفتاح الجنة they all considered it to be the author of a statement which is Hassan لا السفيان الثوري رحمه الله he said استوصوا بأهل السنة خيرا فإنهم وراباء استوصوا بأهل السنة خيرا give farewell to the people of the sunnah with good فإنهم وراباء for verily they are strangers because all of us are aware my brothers and sisters islam it started off with individuals and a minute and a very small amount of people and the day of judgment when it comes it will go back to exactly how it used to be like the message صلى الله عليه وسلم دار الأرقم and a small number of people islam will go back to that بدأ الإسلام مغريبا إسلام started off strange we were amazed with what the prophet was doing his movements, his actions everything just looked strange and everything is going to go back to that سفيان الثوري the statement is also again حسن أبو العام الأصبهاني الإسكتاب حلية الأوريا والطبقات الأسفية ابن الجوزي الإسكتاب تلبيس وإبليس اللالكائي إسكتاب أسولة اعتقادها لسنة والجمعة and the statement is أثر which is حسن إن شاء الله تعالى السعود that سفيان الثوري you said to you سفيان الثوري you said to you سفيان الثوري you said to him إذا بالغاك ع الرجل بالمشرق أنه صاحب سنة if it reaches you that in مشرق there's a man of the سنة there فبعت إليه بالسلام sent to him a salam say somebody go to him and give him my salams convey my salams to him وإذا بلغاك عن آقرة بالمغرب and if you find another one in مغرب you see أنه صاحب سنة that he's a man of the سنة فبعت إليه بالسلام sent to him a salams فقد قل أهل السنة والجمعة because really the people of the سنة and the جمعة are very little الإمام ابن مفلح رحبه الله الإمام ابن مفلح رحبه الله إذا بكود الأداب الشرعية ابن مفلح he's a student of شيخ وليسام ابن مفلح ابن مفلح you are not ابن مفلح you are مفلح you yourself are مفلح you're successful yourself you're not the صلب مفلح but you yourself are مفلح ابن مفلح very knowledgeable individual a great scholar and he was very strong in the حمبلي مدهب very strong الفروع الفروع as a book with الفروع and he's also a book a very four volumes four volumes book on معنز and etiquette very strong book he started the first volume page 263 he says يبغي أن يعرف أن كثيرا من الأمور يفعل فيها كثيرا من الناس خلاف الأمر الشرعي pay attention to this he said it is needed it is required that one knows that the majority of matters a lot of the people they do it in opposition to the to the شريع legislation so he's trying to say to you it is required from every single one of us to know that the majority of the people in their affairs they do it in opposition to the شريع pay attention ويشتهروا ذالكة بينهم and then that that opposition becomes famous well spread ويقتدي كثيرا من الناس يبهي في فئله and a lot of people then start to follow them in this action so it becomes well spread and it becomes well known and it becomes the والذي يتعين على العرف مخالفة في ذلك قولا وفعلا ولا يثبطه عن ذلك وحدته وقلة الرفيقي وقلت فرضوعين تفقد رائعة تفقد رقم على المجموعة الذين يعلمون يفعلون ذلك وضعون كتابة السُنة الرقم كلها الان بسبب ذلك ويرجع� ومجموعة سواء كتابة السُنة الناس who knows انه يحبن إلاهم بطريقة ویکيش طريق هل تعني ون يحبن انتظر في ذلك because he feels like he's alone on this or he has very few who are going to follow him in this He shouldn't be fooled by the majority basically And he should not feel inferiority complex That I am alone, I don't know what I'm going to do لا تغطر يا عبد الله But slave of Allah سبحانه وتعالى do not be deceived by the majority of the people who are doing it Don't be deceived by them Don't be نعوذ بالله من الخدلان Or Allah do not humiliate us in this dunya الإمام يونس بن عبيد رحمه الله الإمام يونس بن عبيد رحمه الله سبحانه وتعالى He said أصبح من إذا عرف السنة عرفها غريبة وأغرب منه الذي يعرفها الإمام يونس بن عبيد رحمه الله He said It is very amazing He's trying to say to us It's become a time which is amazing at this moment The one who would actually go And call the people to the sunnah today And what is more amazing and fascinating is The one who would actually accept that sunnah when he's called to it It's actually strange It's actually shocking that you even find a person calling to the sunnah nowadays And what is even more shocking is what The one who when he calls to the sunnah Those who would obey him is even more shocking