 He has some dust on his clothes, this man is absolutely pristine. La wa la ya'rifuhu minna ahadun, and none of us knew who he was, hatta jalasa ila nabi ﷺ fa asna da rukba tayhi ila rukba tayhi, until he sat in front of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and sat in front of him until his knees touched the knees of the Prophet ﷺ. So here the ulama, the muhadithi and the scholars of hadith are telling us that this person who is Jibril ﷺ he's teaching us adab with Allah's Messenger ﷺ, how do we sit before a teacher and adab with the Prophet ﷺ is extremely important and if we breach adab with the Prophet ﷺ it is as if we have breached adab with Allah swt, because the Prophet ﷺ he said, He said, Whoever obeys me obeys Allah swt, whoever disobeys me disobeys Allah swt. In Qitab-ul Shifaq, Qadi Iyyad mentions an interesting story that he was that Abu Ja'far al-Mansur, one of the Abbasid caliphs was in Masjid al-Nabawi and he was speaking to Imam Malik Ibn Anas. Of course we know Imam Malik Ibn Anas, the eponym of one of the great schools of fiqh, one of the great schools of jurisprudence and Al-Mansur he was beginning to raise his voice, he was becoming angry with Imam Malik and Imam Malik he did not debate, he did not engage in jidal, he thought it was haram to engage in polemical discourse or debate. So he did not respond but the caliphs' voice kept increasing and increasing and they're standing in the Masjid of the Prophet ﷺ. So Imam Malik he says to the caliph, he says, lower your voice and Al-Mansur has taken aback, this is the caliph. And he said to him, Imam Malik said to him, haven't you heard Allah swt, those who lower their voice in the presence of the messenger of Allah ﷺ, those are the ones whose hearts Allah swt has tested for taqwa, for them is forgiveness and a great reward. When people would come to Imam Malik Ibn Anas in Medina, when students would come to study with him, he would ask them, what do you want to study? If they said fiqh, he would say, Bismillah let's begin studying fiqh. If they said hadith he would go and take a shower and he would wear white clothes and he would tie his turban and he would put some musk on himself and he would burn some arood. Why? Because he's going to engage with the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ. This is the type of adab that they had. Ibn al-Mubarak he relates an interesting story that one time Imam Malik was teaching al-Muwaqta, his book of hadith and in the middle of a long narration for the messenger of Allah ﷺ, Imam Malik he began to become seized with some sort of pain, sort of wincing in pain in the middle of the hadith and this would happen over and over again, 16 times he would wince in pain in the middle of the hadith and then after the hadith he said hurry hurry come come and they came he said look between the back and my thawb and they looked they had seen a scorpion had lashed him 16 times but he's not going to break the hadith, he's not going to interrupt the words of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Imam Malik was flogged by authorities and the man who was flogging him was actually a descendant of the Prophet ﷺ. So one of his teachers after he said what were you thinking when you were being flogged he said at the crack of every whip I would ask Allah ﷺ to forgive this man. Allah forgive him, Allah forgive him, why? Because he's from the family of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. This is the type of adab that we're talking about. Imam Malik relates a story of Saeed ibn Musayyib one of the great tabi'i that Saeed was leaning on the wall one time and a man came to him and said ya Saeed I have a question for you. He said yeah go ahead it's about hadith and Saeed he immediately straightened himself up fixed himself fixed his clothes and the man said relax relax it's just a simple question about hadith and Saeed said Astaghfirullah you want me to talk about the Prophet ﷺ you want me to quote his words while I'm reclining like this this is an important issue we're speaking the words of the Prophet ﷺ. So the hadith continues so this man he sat in front of the Prophet ﷺ his knees were touching his knees and he put his hands on his thighs now this is interesting because the Sahaba cannot address the Prophet ﷺ like this they don't say ya Muhammad they use a title of the Prophet ﷺ say ya Rasulullah labbaik ya Rasulullah may my parents be ransom for you a messenger of God this is how they would address our master Muhammad ﷺ. So why is this person addressing him like this according to the Ulama they say that Jibril ﷺ is posing as a better one he's posing as a better one to conceal his identity or the Ulama say that this prohibition does not apply to the Malaiqa wallahu alam and then he says akhbirni al-Islam tell me about Islam al-Islam in the Ulama say here that Islam here is the exoteric or the exterior the lateral aspect of the religion. So the Prophet ﷺ he says Islam is that you witness there is no ilah what is an ilah a deity an entity that has the intrinsic ability intrinsic ability independent ability to help and or harm you there's nothing like that whatsoever except Allah there is no ilah except Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah there is either strength no power whatsoever except by the means of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and that Muhammad ﷺ is a messenger of God and that you establish the prayer that you give the zakah the poor to and that you fast Ramadan and that you make Hajj if you can afford to do so so this man Jibril al-Islam he says that's true and Sayyidina Omar says Sayyidina Omar says that surprised us he's asking the question and then he confirms his answer who does this man think he is of course he's Sadaqa of course he's Sadaqa this is a Prophet ﷺ Sayyidina Omar doesn't know who this man is at this point. Now tell me about Iman in the Ulama say the vertical dimension here the esoteric dimension the Prophet ﷺ he said in Hadid Bukhari Muslim al-Muslimu man salim al-Muslimuna milisani bi yadeh wa yadeh as he said the Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hands his speech and his violence other Muslims remain safe that's the Muslim the true Muslim but then he said as he said in Hadid al-Tirmidhi al-Mu'minu man aminahu al-Nasu al-Dima'ih wa amwalihim awkama qala alaihi salatu wa salam but the Mu'min the person of Iman the Mu'min is the one whom humanity humanity and Nass all of humanity trusts with their blood meaning their lives and their wealth he's not going to violate their lives and their wealth that's the Mu'min. So the Prophet ﷺ he responds by saying qala an tu'minu bi la an tu'mina bi la what is Iman that you believe in Allah ﷺ so this is above tashada an tashada al la ilaha illallah it's more than just witnessing there are some people who accept the rational proposition that Allah is one there is one God but their Iman is incomplete because they don't have qabool and idhan they don't have acceptance and submissiveness towards Allah ﷺ and this is extremely important just accepting the rational proposition that God is one is not enough that's what shaitan does you don't think shaitan knows that Allah is one you don't think shaitan knows the Prophet ﷺ is Rasulullah of course he does but why is he a kafir he's not mu'min Muslim no why is he a kafir the Quran says he's kafir why because he doesn't have qabool and idhan he doesn't accept he doesn't accept that and he doesn't have submissiveness towards Allah ﷺ this is al-Iman and then he can continue to believe in Allah ﷺ and you believe in his angels and there are millions of angels according to the hadith of the Prophet ﷺ but we know the names of the major angels and we believe in them Jibril alayhi as-salam Gabriel Mikael or Mikael alayhi as-salam Michael Israfil who blows the trumpet Surafil Israel right Azriyya the angel of death Malikul Mout kiraman katibin the recording angels Malik the angel who is in charge the keeper of the hellfire Ridwan the angel who is the keeper of of Jannah and other angels Munkar and Nakir the angels who will conduct the inquisition in our graves according to the sound hadith wherever your ajab is you say well if I'm not in my grave what if they incinerate my body at the end of your coccyx at the end of your tailbone there's something called al-ajab that's the seat of the human being that's the first thing that grows in the fetus the body the flesh grows around it wherever that ajab is on earth that's where the inquisition will happen and the angels will ask us three questions three questions there's no ehtilaf about these questions the angels are not going to ask you what is your madhab the angels are not going to ask you what is your country of origin what is your race they're not going to ask you these questions what are they going to ask you the questions that are very important the most important there's no ehtilaf about the angels man Rabbuk man Rabbuk who is your Lord Allah swt and who is your Prophet Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam what is a religion al-Islam these are the questions we believe in the angels what kutubi he we believe in his books we believe in the Torah and the Zabur and the Injil and the Quran and many other books that were revealed to the prophets most of them we don't know their names and we believe in the messengers and according to the hadith in the hadith so we don't insist upon it there's 124,000 al-anbiya and 313 of them al-rusul they receive a shari'a and they implement the shari'a according to the permission of Allah swt and the last day why is it called the last day because there's no night that proceeds from this day the day of judgment so then he says what tu'mina bil qadri and that you believe in the qadr and notice how the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam answered this he said and tu'mina bil la wa malaiqatihi wa kutubihi wa rusuli wa yawmal akhir and then he repeats the verb what tu'mina bil qadri what is it repeat what tu'mina bil qadri that you believe in divine decree why does it repeat the verb according to the ulama because this is something difficult for people to to conceive of the qadr the divine apportionment the divine ordainment the decree of Allah swt however you want to translate it min azaliya that was determined by Allah swt in pre-eternality and then we have qadr the playing out of that qadr in space-time this is difficult for people to wrap their heads around and people who dive at ta'muq they dive as imama tahawi says in his creed into the qadr this is impermissible ultimately we won't understand it's like explaining calculus to a toddler they'll get some numbers one two three four and then it's an exercise in futility they're not going to understand it we're incapable of understanding it and their ulama warned those who dive into the qadr and want to dive and understand the secrets of the qadr they're going to become an extremist they're going to adopt one position which is hulu either of the jabar ea the determinists who say that everything is determined and I have no volition whatsoever so Allah swt can never put me into jahannam or they get the other extreme another hulu where they say they become of the qadr ea I have absolute volition I can do whatever I want and Allah doesn't even know what I'm going to do both of these positions are extreme positions we accept the qadr we accept it as a super-rational aspect of our religion our our akal has to make such that to it our akal has to make such that to it it's beyond our comprehension and this is why the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he repeats what khayrihi wa sharrihi it's good and it's evil qala sadaqta that's true qala fa'akhbirni alil ihsan tell me about al ihsan so we have the horizontal horizon we have the the vertical aspect now we have the transcendental or relational aspect of the religion what is al ihsan and ta'bud Allah haka anna ka tarah in lam ta'kun tarahu fa'inna huyarak the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said it is to worship Allah swt as though you can see him as though you are raptured in the beatific vision of Allah swt the rukia of Allah swt the rukia haqqun the ahla jannah the vision of Allah swt is a reality for the people of paradise according to Abu ja'far atahawi wa rheemahullahu ta'ala and there's many ayat and a hadith that go into that we won't go into it now but he says to worship Allah's though you see him and if you can't see him then know that he sees you one of my teachers use the analogy like you're driving down the street and a police man the police officer is behind you and you know he sees you so that's called mushahada witnessing you know that the police sees you mushahada and then you have muraqaba vigilance so what do you do when you drive the same crazy way no you don't pull out your cell at least that's illegal in california i don't know my florida you turn on your blinkers you make a full stop but the better analogy is like a child who's into some mischievous things and then he sees his father looking at him mushahada and then muraqaba and so he stops what he's doing not out of fear of the whip or getting a ticket or going to jail but because he loves his father and he doesn't want to displease his father this is a better analogy so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he says to him the one being questioned knows no more than the questioner no one knows the sa'a they ask the concerning the hour when will it be say the knowledge of it is only with my lord it's only with Allah swt so tell me about its signs and this interesting because usually when we hear the hadith jibreel we hear about islam iman and ihsan and usually that's where the hadith ends but the hadith continues it continues tell me about the sa'a tell me about the signs of the sa'a and tell him that a slave girl will give birth to her master a slave girl will give birth to her master and the urlama say this is an indication of filial calcutrins or disrespect of parents and then you will see the barefoot naked destitute shepherds competing in the construction of tall buildings there are some muslim majority countries today we're not going to name drop but 50 years ago or so they were Bedouins living in tents and now they have high rise buildings that put the seer's tower to shame it's dwarfed according to these buildings competing in the construction of high buildings hassan al-basri on the great tadi'i he said he walked into the living quarters of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in medina where the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam actually lived he was a 10-year-old boy at the time hassan al-basri he said he could reach up and touch the ceiling with his hands this is where the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam lived khair al-khalq al-laa the best of creation and then so this is interesting because the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he told us of things to come towards the end of time he even predicted things to happen during the lives of the sahaba once the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was on Jabal-Ukhud sound hadith and he was with Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman and the mountain started to shake and he said Uthbud-Ukhud inna ma alayka nabiyun wa shahidan said nabiyun wa saddiqun wa shahidan said be still O Ukhud for verily upon you is a prophet a truthful one and two martyrs meaning Sayyidina Umar and Sayyidina Uthman one time the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he saw Ali in Zubair in Medina they were sitting and they were laughing and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said one day you two will oppose each other on the battlefield and you will be in the wrong and he pointed to as Zubair ibn Awam many years later at the battle of Jamal after the passing of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Zubair was walking his sword is unsheathed Sayyidina Ali sees him from a distance he says remember that day we were sitting and laughing in Medina and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that one day we're going to be on the posing sides of the battlefield and you will be in the wrong today is that day Sayyidina Zubair's face turned pale he sheathed his sword and walked off the battlefield the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said to Sayyidina Ali this is found in the tariq tariqul khulafa Imam Sayyuti mentions this in his book that the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he came to Sayyidina Ali and he said there's two people that are going to have that are going to have a terrible punishment in the naar in the hellfire the fair-skinned man who hamstrung the naqatullah the shee camel of salih alayhi wa sallam the bani thamud and the man who's going to strike you here and this and he grabbed his beard sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is going to be saturated with blood Imam Ghazali says in kitabu dikhur al-maut wa ma ba'ata book 40 of the iqya that when Sayyidina Ali was walking out of the masjid in kufa after fajr a man jumped in front of him from the khawaraj and struck him on top of the head and immediately blood rushed down the face of the prophet of Sayyidina Ali radiallahu anhu and and saturated his blood his his beard with blood and Sayyidina Ali fell back and he said fuz tu warabbil kaaba fuz tu warabbil kaaba i have triumphed by the lord of the kaaba i have won by the lord of the kaaba sadaqa rasulullah sadaqa rasulullah the messenger of god has spoken the truth the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam predicted the martyrdom of Imam Hussain in a hadith at tabarani he was in the sleeping quarters of umasalama and umasalama said that he would wake up and he was disturbed and he'd fall back asleep and then he'd wake up agitated disturbed and he'd fall back asleep then wake up again very disturbed and she said fiyadihi sharifa turbatun hamraa yuqabbiluha i saw in his hand he had some red soil and he was kissing it he said rasulullah what is this and he said that jabil alayhi sallam has informed me that this son of mine is going to be martyred in the desert imam hussain radi allatah and i asked jabil alayhi sallam to bring me some of the soil of that land this sound hadith in our books and these are about the sahaba at his time he told suraqa bin malik who had chased the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam during the hijrah and he'd fell fallen from his horse three times and the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam says to suraqa bin malik do you want something better and he said yes because he was coming for a hundred camels right hundred camels dead or alive that was the bounty on the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam so the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam told him do you want something better he said yes he said kafa biqa idha labista siwara kisra how is it for you that you're going to wear the bangles the bracelets of kisra and he said man kisra who is kisra he said malik al-faris the king of persia to the simple better one man suraqa bin malik many years later over 20 years later when the muslims had conquered persia al qadisiya and the treasures of persia were in the masjid sayidina umar he calls suraqa bin malik up to the minbar and he puts the bangles of kisra on the arms of suraqa bin malik and the entire masjid erupted sadaqa rasulullah sadaqa rasulullah sadaqa rasulullah when the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam was living in mecca he wanted to go inside the kaaba and the holder of the key was a man named urthman ibn talha and this was a time obviously when there was great persecution of the sahaba and this the kaaba was surrounded by these asnam these idols so the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam said to urthman give me the key so i can go inside the kaaba and urthman said no way so give me the key no way perhaps you'll see that key one day in my hand and he said over quresha's dead body many years later at fatah mecca the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam comes into mecca and he has the key in his hand and he opens the door of the kaaba destroys the idols and he puts it into the hand of urthman ibn talha who became muslim radiallahu ta'ala anhu the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam also has hadith that are called eschatological hadith hadith of the end of time to aakhir is zaman and there's many of these and they're quite interesting we don't have time to go into much of these very very interesting hadith the prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam said at the end of time there's going to be al harj and the sahaba said what is al harj and he said massive bloodshed the one killing the qatil doesn't know fima qatala doesn't know why he's killing and the maqtul the one being killed doesn't know fima qutila why he's being killed i talked to a man who was in the american military this is a true story he came up to me after a lecture one time non-muslim he was catholic very young man he approached me with tears in his eyes he said i have to tell you something i said what do you want to tell me he said i've killed many of your brothers well god forgive me i said you know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the Qur'an that if qoba is made and there's requisites of it he'll forgive every sin he said yeah but i killed children i killed children i said why did you do that he said i was ordered to i said so what why did you do it i don't know i don't know the qatil doesn't know why he's killing well the man in afghanistan who was teaching in a masjid and he left the masjid for a minute and there was a bomb that was dropped in the masjid you see these things on satellite television this is not going to make the corporate media and all the children perished and they asked this man they interviewed him why did they bomb this masjid he said i have no idea they're looking for so and so they named they named drop you know this person i've never heard of him really the one being killed doesn't know why he's killing the one killed doesn't know why he's being killed he said sudden death will become common sudden death like bombs and bullets did you know in the 23 years of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he fought many ghazawat military expeditions according to abul hassan al-nadwi rheem allah ta'ala how many casualties were there in all of the military expeditions he puts number 1,018 and these are men on the battlefield 700 enemy 300 muslims 1,018 in one shot 100,000 people perish at haroshama on impact 100,000 people subhanAllah 100 million people died in the 20th century 100 million people in the 20th century we're supposed to be getting more humane with our technology right i thought the pre-modern man was violent what's going on how are we using technology 100 million 55 million world war two alone al-harj massive bloodshed sadaqa rasulullah he said the nations will invite each other and he used the word umam the umam will invite each other to the slaughtering of muslims like they're inviting each other to a banquet this hadith sound hadith one of the companions because these are Arabs right they don't take these things lightly so what we're going to be slaughtered we must be very small in number right you are many many many on that day but you're like the scum on the ocean the froth on the ocean there's nothing to you you're one-dimensional you're superficial people the umam we know the united nations when we talk about united nations we're talking about us israel france britain what happened 1924 after the dissolution of the aleman empire in the beginning of colonialism what have these countries done to the muslim majority world i'll let you do the research because i'm almost out of time he said rain will be burning acidic fornication will be open fornication is open right everyone's pornified right it's a multi-billion dollar industry now it's becoming mainstream with this haram 50 shades of haram whatever it's called women will walk around naked yet clothed when you sound kasi hatun women walk around naked yet their clothes and you see you'll see many types of alcohol many different types of alcohol divorce will be rampant now muslim community is 60 percent divorce is halal sometimes people just can't live with each other it's the most odious halal but i know people i do counseling i know people in their 20s muslim couples in their 20s been divorced 20 two three four times in their 20s already what's happening he said they're going to be dual income families the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said he said a woman will help her husband earn not out of necessity if you have to do it then you have to do it but that's not what he said he said a mother will abandon her children harasana dunya just out of covetousness for dunya they just want dunya so bad they'll abandon their children put the children with a nanny who doesn't really care put the children the child in front of the video games so they can play god of war and grand theft auto and they go shoot up to school you wonder what's going on with these children in suburbia why they had a good upbringing men will dress like women women will dress like men people will wear musical instruments on their head and dance around like pigs and monkeys i go on the subway it's called the bar in the bay area and you see them plugged in and just say hello hello just dancing around plugged in you know that's that's the reality of some people we're out of time Allahumma barakah al-muhammadin wa al-al-muhammadin kamadrakta al-ibrahim wa al-al-ibrahim fil al-alameen innaka hamid al-madjid Allahumma innah nas'aluka binuri wa chikal kareem wa bi haqqik alayk husn al-khatimah ind al-mamat lana wa ri'ahbabina wa lijimi'il al-muslimin ya arham al-rahmeen Allahumma hadina fee man hadayt wa aafina fee man aafayt wa tawallana fee man tawallayt wa barik lana fee man a'aqayt wa qeena sharrama qaqayt rabbana la tuzikulubana ba'ad idh hadaytana hasana wa qeena aada ban'ar la ilaha illa anta subhanaka inna kuna mina al-dhalemeen la ilaha illa anta subhanaka inna kuna mina al-dhalemeen la ilaha illa anta subhanaka inna kuna mina al-dhalemeen al-qulub al-absawath abit kulubana anata atik wa sallallahu ala Sayyidu Muhammad album al-alihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi wasallam walhamdulillahu rabbilalameen Allah commands the number and the goodness of the heart, and He forbids evil and the near and the near. May Allah bless you and remember you. Raqimus Salah.