 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيد المرسلين سيدنا وحبيبنا وشفيعنا وقائدنا وقرت عيوننا سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبي إبسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا فتوحى العالفين اللهم علمنا ما ينفعنا وانفعنا بما علمتنا يا أرحم الرحيمين إن شاء الله today we will be starting with حديث number 31 in which أبي العباس سهل ابن ساعدي رضي الله عنه قال جاء رجل الى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فقال يا رسول الله دلاني على عمل إن إذا عميلته وأحبني الله وأحبني الناس قال زهد في الدنيا يحبك الله وزهد فيما عند الناس يحبك الناس so أبي العباس سهل ابن ساعدي نساعدي رضي الله عنه reported that a man came to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and said to him oh messenger of Allah guide me to such an action which if I do Allah will love me and people will also love me so سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم answered him and he said have no desire for this world Allah will love you and have no desire for what people possess and the people will love you so when we detach ourselves from the worldly life when we renounce the worldly life Allah will love us and what does this mean that we have to be poor no does this mean that we have to ask people no so when we renounce the worldly life Allah will love us and when we detach ourselves from what people possess Allah will love us too how does this work the Arabic word for زهد means asceticism it does not mean to renounce oneself from this life it does not mean to live poorly it means to have the worldly life in our pockets but not in our hearts because once we have the wealth in our heart then we do not spend it because we will think it will finish or it will decrease when we have this wealth in our pockets then it means we are not attached to it and we do not love it and this encourages us to spend it for the sake of Allah without any fears that it will finish that it will decrease because Allah has promised us that whoever spends for his sake then he will multiply the words for him and there are so many hadith that indicate this also so the Quran mentions it the hadith mentions it that spending for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to be rewarded multiple folds ten folds or even more so imagine you are spending five dollars for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى when Allah is giving you fifty dollars instead ten folds so when we die we are not going to take anything with us no wealth, nothing, no money, nothing so we are leaving everything behind and this is enough reason to make us understand that our hearts should not get attached with anything in this dunya because we are leaving everything behind us الفضائب نعياد رضي الله عنه said the essence of asceticism is being content with Allah سبحانه وتعالى with whatever Allah سبحانه وتعالى give us and of course this does not mean only wealth it means health it means knowledge it means everything that we might have and whatever He deprives us from is also we have to be content with that so if someone is a real believer He would know that Allah سبحانه وتعالى when He prevents something so His prevention is a real giving for us when Allah gives He knows what's good for us and when He deprives us from anything He also knows what's bad for us so whether He gives us or whether He deprives us is the best for us we might not see the difference and so many times we ask Allah and we make dua that we want this thing Allah to happen we want it to happen and when it happens we would say we wish it did not happen but if it did not happen then we would think why we did not get it there is no why we have to be content with whatever Allah سبحانه وتعالى decrease so content is asceticism and it's full with certainty in Allah سبحانه وتعالى it means fully interesting Allah سبحانه وتعالى with all our affairs with all our matters so in this hadith Allah سبحانه وتعالى wants us to look up and to ponder upon the reality of this lowly life the dunya should not be our biggest concern this life should not deceive us should not take us away from Allah سبحانه وتعالى should not take us away from the right path this dunya will vanish one day and we will be left only with our deeds we're going to meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we will be living with us only our deeds what have we done in this dunya one of the companions says اليوم عملن بيلا حساب وغدا حسابن بيلا عمل today we do a lot of things we are not rewarded we are not punished but in the day after there won't be anything our deeds will be scaled فمن وجد خيرا في اليحمد الله so whoever finds good then we should thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى and whoever finds other than that ومن وجد غير ذلك فلا يلومن إلا نفسه he should not blame anyone except himself because he deviated from the right path he did not follow the orders he did not accept the right path that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم has chosen so this dunya should not deceive us it will vanish one day and we will be left with our deeds only Allah puts us on this earth so that he may test us we all have tests in this dunya and at the end of the test there is always someone who passes the test or someone who fails it so we want to be of those who are winners at the end we want to meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى and he is content with us this is our goal in this life it's not the dunya it's not the wealth it's not the money it's our love to Allah سبحانه وتعالى it's our holding to the rope that we have in our hands this rope is the rope of Quran and the rope of the hadith and the sunnah of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we have to go tied to it there are so many tests around us so many arrows are headed towards us we can see that in our daily lives go to schools and see the information or the ideas that are implemented in the minds of our children we have to be careful we have to reverse these ideas so our goal is to meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى and he is content with us the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said whoever makes dunya his preoccupation then Allah سبحانه وتعالى will place his poverty in front of his eyes make his affairs scattered and nothing of the dunya comes to him except that which has been decreed for him nothing no matter how hard he works if he did not get anything decreed for him then it will not happen and whoever makes the hereafter his preoccupation then Allah سبحانه وتعالى places freedom from what's in his heart so he gathers his affairs and dunya comes to him despite being reluctant to do so so who is that person that person is the one who accepts what Allah سبحانه وتعالى has decreed for him so we have to understand the purpose of this dunya and that we are here on a test so we don't want to be attached to this dunya we want to pass this test we want to keep our focus on passing this test safely also if we look at the beginning of the Hadith we find that a man came and asked Sayyid محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم a question so this Hadith is also about seeking knowledge so we have to seek knowledge we have to seek knowledge and we don't stop at a certain age we don't say okay we are 50 but that's enough we keep seeking knowledge as long as we are alive because the more we learn the more we find how ignorant we are we know nothing there's so many things that we have to learn and we cannot master everything but we have to learn we have to keep learning as long as we are living we have to keep learning we have to learn and we have to know what to learn we have to learn about good and beneficial things things that will make us winners in the day after these are just these are just some thoughts about this Hadith and we move to the next Hadith in which Sayyid محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم this is Hadith number 32 عن أبي سعيد سحدي بن ماليك بن سيمان أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال لا ضرارة ولا ضرار أبي سعيد سعيد بن ماليك بن سيمان الخدرير رضي الله عنه قال that the prophet of Allah the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said there is no injury there is no harm nor return of injury of return of harm لا ضرار ولا ضرار is an evidence of the miraculous nature of the speech of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم we mentioned this earlier several times that the words of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم are simple expressions with comprehensive entailment so this Hadith is 4-5 words but what so Sayyid محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم used a very short sentence a very short sentence but it carries deep deep and great meanings there shall be no harming so no harming to any individual if a person did not harm you even if he harms you you go to people in charge and you tell them you don't harm anyone so there shall be no bringing harm to anybody so how can you harm yourself you can harm yourself physically or spiritually you can harm yourself by being away from the correct path you can harm yourself by being away from the teachings of sayyid محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم you can harm yourself by being away from the Quran you can harm an individual due to recklessness so you are liable to pay compensation for that person or for the family of that person there is no harm so harm normally is not repelled by a similar harm for example if someone is poor he cannot gain haram income because he is poor no there is no harm, no injustice no battle for anyone so if something is harming you as we said you have to justify that you can harm him you have to go to authorities you have to go to the judge and that person will get your right from this person who harmed you so there are different examples if you are building a house you have to focus on not harming the neighbors and you cannot build your home immediately next to theirs and you cannot block their views you cannot block the light that comes into their house there are rules for doing it so you do not harm people you cannot always understand that our freedom ends when others are being harmed we cannot say I can do anything I want no, there are rules so we ask Allah SWT to guide us not to harm ourselves nor any other person but to enlighten our path so that we are protected by his divine heart by his divine care so as we just mentioned there are or harm is of two types it's not only physical but it can be emotional it can be anyone emotionally by hurting with bad words and sometimes the effect of hearing a bad word is more powerful than a hit with a slash with a stick or something and for this we noticed in previous hadiths سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ساد من كان يؤمن بالله واليوم الآخر فاليقل خيرا من أول يسمد whoever believes whoever has a complete belief in Allah and in the day of judgment then he would say good words or he would be silent he would say good things or he would say anything and no harm and no harm will not cause harm to anyone and no one is supposed to harm us it's a peaceful way of living okay now insha'Allah moving to hadith number 33 عنيبني عباسي رضي الله عنه فالنبيس صلى الله عليه وسلم قال لو يهط ان الناس بدعواهم للدعا رجال أموال قوم ودماءهم لكن البينات على المدعي وليمين على من أنكر so even abbas رضي الله عنه narrated that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said were people to be given according to their claims some would claim the wealth and the blood of others but the burden of proof is upon the claimant and the taking of an oath is upon the one who denies beautiful hadith so this is a major hadith in islamic jurisdiction and in trying to resolve problems in societies there are problems but Islam did not leave a single thing without covering it so the sharia came to protect the wealth and the life the dignity and the honor of others and this hadith indicates the role of Islam that it plays in trying to preserve the rights of others so this is very related to the previous hadith this hadith shows the reality of this life there are bad people who seek to take people's rights and we just mentioned that this life is not where everyone will live in harmony as there will always be problems there will always be tests and the results of these tests are winners or losers so winners are highly compensated in the day after while losers will realize how they were bad to themselves how they harmed themselves how they hurt themselves and how they mistreated themselves in this dunya and of course in akhirah so the deeds in the dunya led to their misery in the akhirah now if we look at the hadith we find that this hadith derives the principle innocent until proven guilty so if someone makes a claim against anyone this person so the person is automatically given the benefit of the doubt until the person brings an evidence so if someone makes a claim against you you are automatically given the benefit of the doubt that you can say things against him until that person brings evidence so it's not as a society of kais no there is order there is a system there are rules so bringing a proof was usually done by the witnesses however in our time many more things can be added to prove something fingerprints video recordings camera recordings DNAs and a lot of the list goes on so it's not just claiming something to get it no there are rules so the Islamic court of law follows a certain procedure so claimants make a claim against a defendant and when this happens the judge asks the defendant if the claimant is telling the truth and of course if the defendant denies then the judge asks the claimant for proof and if the claimant has no proof for his allegation then the defendant has to swear an oath that the allegation is not true okay سبحان الله يعني everything is under control so this preserves the rights of people some people whose hearts are attached to this dunya might give a false oath so they would swear but they know themselves they are lying and they know that they are not truthful yet they make that oath and for those الله سبحانه وتعالى says in the holy Quran لا يؤخذكم الله باللغوي في أيبانكم ولكن يؤخذكم بما قدموا الأيبان الله will not impose blame upon you for what is meaningless in your oath but He will impose blame upon you for what you intend for what you intended of oaths never swear on something that you know you are not 100% clear or sure about it but there are people who may refuse to make an oath even though they are telling the truth because they don't want to bring Allah's name in a petty matter Allah's name is so magnificent so great we don't we don't just throw oaths here and there there's so many people who would say wallahi we did this, wallahi we did that wallahi do not make oaths so from this hadith we realize that Islam did not come for spirituality only but it also came to solve man's problems in this life so if there is any issue between people there are rules to solve these issues but always remember never lie in a court of law never give false testimony because this is a major thing you know that the court of law in this dunya is nothing compared to the court of law in the day after in the day after we will all be standing in front of Allah and he will be asking us about every single thing every single word that we have said everything is recorded long records long records so we have to be careful we have to know that Allah SWT is always over watching us and all our deeds are being recorded for us everything we do in this dunya will be scaled in the day after so we ask Allah SWT to guide us we ask Allah SWT to make us content with whatever he gives us whatever he deprives us with everything that we have يا ربنا لك الحمد والشكر والنعمة والرضا يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلالي كما ينبغي لسلطانك و حتى نقوم with next week I would leave you by sending your Salam and my Salam and salawat to our beloved prophet سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته