Brotherhood in Islam

Brotherhood in Islam

Delivered by: Abu Usamah

Opening

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Insha'Allah we are now going to have some advice from Abu Usamah on the subject of brotherhood.

Introduction

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. As it relates to the fiqh, the different aspects of our existence, there is fiqh connected to everything in this religion.

And if a person was to comprehend the fiqh of these issues, he will find that he will be insha'Allah an effective student of knowledge. He will be an effective Muslim, successful Muslim. There is fiqh in the language of the Arabs.

Naeem says some of the brothers, they didn't complain but they were asking that you have to translate the words because you use so many words in Arabic. That's an ongoing criticism, we get lost and we forget. And we try to do our best.

But again, Ikhwan is important, it is imperative that the Arabic language is the key. And depending upon your level of sincerity and Ijtihad and hard work, if you get the Arabic language, the pearls and the treasures of the books of Islam will be open to you. So the language of the Arabs, the language of the Quran, it has some fiqh in it.

If we understand the fiqh of the language, it helps the individual to comprehend and understand the ayahs of the Quran. This issue of brotherhood is the same case. We are all brothers, one to another.

But the brotherhood that we have, many times we don't understand what is the reality of the brotherhood in Islam and as a result of that, we have a lot of the issues that are going on between ourselves. Issues of having bad opinions of each other, making ghibah, being arrogant, looking down upon brothers and feeling that because of whatever frivolous dunya reason, he's lesser than us or he's not worthy of some of the rights that we give to other people or some of the rights that we expect for ourselves. So we're going to give you a very easy, comprehensive class, inshallah, about this fiqh of the al-akhuwah in Islam.

Asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for his tawfiq and also asking him for the ability to apply and to practice, to understand what is going to be put forth, inshallah.

The Methodology of Brotherhood

When we talk about the brotherhood of Islam, again, we go back to the issue of the minhaj of Islam, the proper methodology. And we have to look at those people who are our example and we look at how they showed and exemplify the true meaning of al-akhuwah in Islam.

You and I, we are not the examples that should be looked at and taken for people who want to know how to practice brotherhood. But instead, we look at those companions of the Rasul sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who were not unlike us.

They were not like unlike us in that we have different tongues, languages, colors.

We come from different places. That was the same situation with them. We have Bilal ibn Rabah al-Habishi. We have Suheil al-Rumi, a Roman. We have Salman al-Farisi, a Persian. Despite these differences in their genes here and where they came from, they exemplified and showed to us the reality of this brotherhood.

We even have a companion that you all know about, a scholar from the scholars of the Jews, Abdullah ibn Salam radiyallahu anhu. He accepted the religion of Islam. And our mother, Safiyyah, the wife of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, she was a Jew prior to accepting Islam.

And Allah Ta'ala said about the Jews in the Quran:

"You will find those people who have the strongest enmity and hatred towards the believers are the Jews and the Mushrikun."

But when Abdullah ibn Salam embraced the religion of Islam, his being a Jew was not a reason that he was not embraced and pulled into the fold of this concept of the brotherhood of Islam. And that's what the Adawa of the Jews that we know, it has been explained in perfect detail of the Quran how they are.

But those people who embraced Islam from the Jews, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam taught the companions how to accept those people.

The Example of the Ansar

We have the situation with the Ansar. The Ansar, they constituted two main tribes, Al-Aws and Al-Khazraj.

In the times of Al-Jahiliyya before Al-Islam, they used to have massive problems between themselves over things that no one would consider to be worthy of fighting for. They would fight each other for hundreds of years. They had a fight for 200 years over a horse race that one of them lost back in the days of Al-Jahiliyya.

They fought each other. They would come together for their parties. And when they come together, they start drinking their khamr. One of the poets would stand up and he'll start making poetry about the horse race. And lo and behold, they're fighting each other. And then the fight will last a month.

The following year, two months. The following year, they may take a break. The following year, the same things happen. And on and on and on. Rasulullah came to those people, the Ansar of Al-Madinah. And he put between them this ta'leef of their quloob.

As Allah mentioned in the Quran:

"Remember the favor of Allah upon you when you were enemies one to another, and He brought your hearts together and you became brothers."

And another very important point, and this is critical, Ikhwan. And that is, there is nothing that can combine the hearts of the people and unite the hearts and the minds of the people and make them true brothers except the deen of Allah subhana wa ta'ala.

Allah told the messenger of Allah in the Quran:

لَوْ أَنفَقْتَ مَا فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا مَّا أَلَّفْتَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِهِمْ وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ أَلَّفَ بَيْنَهُمْ

"Ya Muhammad, if you were to spend all that is in the earth, all of the money that's hidden under the earth when the Dajjal comes, he's going to tell it to come out. That great massive treasure that's hidden in the Euphrates River from the signs of the hour, the people will come to that and they'll know this hadith as you all will hear, that the Euphrates will throw forth a great treasure. For every 100 people who come to this treasure, they're going to fight. 99 will be killed in the process and only one will be remaining alive."

Reference: Surah Al-Anfal 8:63

Despite the fact that the people know the hadith and they know about what's going to happen, everyone is going to say:

لَعَلِّي أَنَا الَّذِي نَجَى

"He will say, I hope or I think I'm the one who's going to be that one who doesn't die or get killed from the greed of the people."

So Allah told Rasulullah in the Quran, if you were to spend all of the money in the earth, you would not have been able to bring the hearts of these people together. But Allah brought their hearts together.

Meaning what? That the deen of Allah is the only thing that can unite the people. The fact that we get behind that Iman and we're united with his movements. We don't proceed him. We get under the authority of the Khalifa or the leader of the Muslims. We worship one Ilah. We have one Kitab. We have one Qibla. All of these issues. The Akhuwa in Al-Islam. Loving for your brother what you love for yourself. And what has been legislated. In this baad, these are the things that unite the people.

Money Does Not Unite People

As for the money, Wallahi money does not unite people. As for where you come from, we've seen recently that people's colors and their jinsiya, it does not unite the people. Look at this man, Saddam Hussein.

Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. The dawah of Saddam Hussein is that he's a baati. And the baati dawah is a dawah in which they believe that the Arab people, they're better than everyone else. Pan-Arabism. They believe that. The Arab who is a Jew is better than the Muslim who is a non-Arab.

So what happened to Saddam's Pan-Arabism when his brothers in the Arab world allowed the enemies of Al-Islam to use their bases, to use their airspace, to use all of their resources in order to get the man. Where was the brotherhood of the Arabs? So the money, where you come from, geography, all of those issues, your language, all of those issues. When it really comes down to the crunch, when it's crunch time, you will find the people forsaking you if that's what your brotherhood is predicated upon and built upon.

Whereas if people are Muslims and they're practicing this religion and they're practicing this concept of brotherhood, when the going gets tough, you can rest assured that your brother is not going to forsake you. As we saw with the companions of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.

الَّذِينَ قَالَ لَهُمُ النَّاسُ إِنَّ النَّاسَ قَدْ جَمَعُوا لَكُمْ فَاخْشَوْهُمْ فَزَادَهُمْ إِيمَانًا وَقَالُوا حَسْبُنَا اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ

Allah revealed this ayat in the incident of Suratul Ahzab.

Reference: Surah Aal-e-Imran 3:173

In Suratul Ahzab, in the incident of the Ahzab. When all of the Arabs came together in order to extinguish the light of Al-Islam. The first time in the history of the Arabs who cannot agree on anything.

If the guy didn't like you, he'll break the bear and he'll leave you alone. They couldn't agree on anything. But for the first time in their history, they all decided to come together to extinguish the light of Al-Islam.

So Allah revealed this ayat showing the quwa of the Iman and the brotherhood of the Muslims. And He said in that ayat, those people, the companions. When the people said to them, the Jews of Medina, the troublemakers from the Munafiqeen, they said to the companions:

إِنَّ النَّاسَ قَدْ جَمَعُوا لَكُمْ

"All of the people have come together in the Ahzab to get you."

Allah Ta'ala said that did nothing but increase them Iman. And they said:

حَسْبُنَا اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ

"Because we have this Iman and we have this Deen and we have each other."

So we're with the حَبْلِ اللهِ الْمَتِينِ that will allow us to defeat these people. So it is this Akhuwa of Al-Islam, Ikhwan, that we want to explain to you in the hopes that we will learn how to practice these issues again. Or how to practice these issues in our lives.

The Three Pillars of Brotherhood

The scholars of Al-Islam, Ikhwan, asked, after reading the book of Allah from the beginning to the end, that process is called Al-Istiqraa. From Qara'a, the word Qara'a, Iqra'a, Istiqra'a. And the wazin of Istaf'ala.

Istiqra'a means that you read something from the beginning to the end, and then after reading it all, you extract a benefit, right? The three levels of At-Tawheed. There is no ayah in the Quran that tells us الأَسْمَاءُ وَالصِّفَاتُ، الألوهِيَّةُ، الرُّبُوبِيَّةُ. But when you read the Quran from the beginning to the end, those are the three concepts that come out. Similarly, as it relates to the brotherhood of Al-Islam.

When you look at the Quran, the scholars after making this Istiqra'a, they said that Al-Islam, the brotherhood, it has three arqan. Three pillars that the brotherhood is built upon. And the pillar, as you all know, it is the most important aspect of any structure.

The arqan of Al-Islam are five. The arqan of Al-Imam, there are six. If one of the ruqn of the arqan of Imam of Islam is lost, weak, then the person's Islam and his Iman is also going to be lost or weak.

So these three arqan are the most important aspects of this brotherhood. And they get these arqan from Surah Tawbah. The first dalil is an ayah that is a tremendous ayah in the Quran known as ayat-us-saif.

Ayat-us-Saif - The Ayah of the Sword

A little information, trivia information. You want to have these trivia games that we play with our children, our wives, with each other when we're traveling.

A trivia question, which ayat of the Quran abrogated more ayats than any other ayat? The jawab, ayat-us-saif. Prior to ayat-us-saif being revealed, Allah ordered Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to be patient, to overlook them, to not fight them, don't engage them, be patient, ask for their forgiveness, continue to give dawah and on and on and on. But when the ayat-us-saif came down, that was the ayah that abrogated all of those ayahs about being patient and holding back and not fighting the kuffar.

In ayat-us-saif, Allah told Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, if the sacred months, the four sacred months, if they pass by, the months where you can't kill and fight people, unless they kill and fight you. But don't take the initiative. If the four sacred months, if they pass by, then kill the mushrikeen, whatever you find them.

Kill them and seize them, and lie in wait for them on every roadway. But if they make tawbah, and they establish the salah, and they give the zakat, then leave their way. So Allah Ta'ala gave the aman, or the safety and the security to the mushrikeen when they made tawbah, when they made salah, and when they gave the zakat.

In another ayah, Allah Azawajal, He said, the first ayah is ayah number five. The second ayah is ayah number eleven from surah al-taubah, surah al-bara.

Allah said in the second ayah, if they make tawbah, and they establish the salah, and they give the zakat:

فَإِخْوَانُكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ

"Then they are your brothers in the religion."

Reference: Surah At-Tawbah 9:11

So these ayahs establish these three arkan, that if an individual makes the tawbah, and he establishes the salah, and he gives the zakat, then he has to be embraced as your brother in the religion. We have to briefly explain this, so that we can shed light on the importance of these three issues. These three arkan of our brotherhood.

First Pillar: Tawbah

The man makes tawbah, he's our brother. He establish the salah, he's our brother. He gives the zakat, he's our brother.

Does that mean that hajj and siyam is not a part of that? Doesn't mean that. But these three things are the arkan that have been mentioned and designated by Allah الْجَبَّارُ الْحَكِيمُ جَلَّ وَعَزَّ What is the meaning of, if they make tawbah, Ikhwan pay attention.

What is the meaning if they make tawbah? Tawbah consists of two things. One relates to the kuffar who make tawbah, and the second one relates to the Muslim who makes tawbah.

The Tawbah of the Kafir

The first tawbah is the tawbah of the kuffar. If a kafir embraces the religion of al-Islam, he's your brother. If he was a white man, if he was a Jew, if he was George Bush, if he was Margaret Thatcher, if he was any kafir who used to kill the Muslims, the guy in Israel right now. If he announces his Islam, after doing all that he's done to the Muslims in Palestine, we have to embrace him as our brother because he made tawbah.

Allah's Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said:

الْإِسْلَامُ يَجُبُّ مَا كَانَ قَبْلَهُ

"Islam wipes away what came before it."

Reference: Sahih Muslim, Hadith 121

So whatever the individual did prior to Islam, he killed these many people, 99 people and then another one. But he made that tawbah, he embraced Islam. We have to accept him as a Muslim.

Unfortunately, in our societies in America, here in Europe, we grow up hating people, having racism towards people. We grew up in an extremely racist environment. Part of our religion was hating white people, and they hated us as well. You come to the religion of Islam and it takes some time to detox, and to get that stuff out of your head.

And to refrain from referring to white people with derogatory terms. Crackers, white boys, and they call us as well niggers, and so forth and so on. That's in Islam.

The Tawbah of the Muslim

As it relates to the muslim, we know of a muslim who committed zina. We know of a muslim who smoked crack. We know of a muslim who left salah, didn't wear hijab. We know of a muslim who's doing something kabira from the kabair. And then he makes Toba to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

Prior to his Toba, we boycotted him. Prior to his Toba, we had a problem with visiting him and giving him salams. Prior to his Toba, there was something between us and him because of the crime that he committed.

But that man makes Toba with his conditions. And after that Toba, to the best of our ability, it appears that he's sincere. We have to embrace him back into the fold of the brotherhood.

And we can't boycott him anymore. And we can't have between us and him a problem.

Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith 4250

So how are we going to continue to ostracize him and alienate him and he made Toba to Allah. So that brings us to this question right now. Those of us who have a problem with another brother for some problem that has transpired between us and it has existed for over three days, you're not understanding the concept of brotherhood in Al-Islam.

The man made Toba, give him a break, bring them back into the fold of the religion. So that's how we understand that first aspect, a Toba for the Mushrik and a Toba for the Muslim. Once they make Toba, we start giving them their rights.

Second Pillar: As-Salat

As it relates to a Salat, Ikhwan, that ayat of the Quran, if they make Toba and establish Salat and they give the Zakat:

Third Pillar: Az-Zakat

The Hanabilah, Al-Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin Baz, Al-Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen, Al-Imam Ahmed, and a riwayah to him, and other people from the Hanabilah, the humbling of that. They use that ayah from Surah Toba to prove, if a man leaves Salat, he's a Kafir.

Because the ayah said, whoever makes Toba, establish the Salat, gives the Zakat, then he's your brother in the deen. They use that ayah to prove, if a man is not praying, whether it's out of negligence, or he says, I don't have to pray, or praying is haram, or something, he's a Kafir. We don't agree with that position, even though it has its delil.

But it is Marjur. Allah said, the Prophet says:

"The Ahd, the difference, the contract, the distinguishing factor. The difference between us and them is the Salat. So whoever leaves فَقَدْ كَفَرَ he has disbelieved."

Sunan At-Tirmidhi, Hadith 2621; Sunan An-Nasa'i, Hadith 463

If he leaves the Salat, being negligent, lazy, then he's falling into a Kabira from the Kabair. But if he makes istihlal, and he says, I don't have to pray, then he's a Kafir. He goes outside of the religion of Islam.

"The Prophet صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم says: Whoever faces our Qibla and prays our prayer and eats our Zabiha, then he has the rights of the Muslims and upon him are their obligations."

Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith 391

So here if a person establishes this prayer, he becomes a Muslim. Zabiha, the way we eat, he eats and practices that.

Whoever does this, then he has rights. The Muslims have rights over him, and he has rights over them. So that establishes clearly that once the Salat is established by the Muslim, then this is a proof of his Iman.

The fact that he would drop down, and he would prostrate to Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى is from the awdah, from the clearest manifestations of his Iman, in most cases. So he has to establish the Salat.

Third Pillar: Az-Zakat

As for the Zakat, Ikhwan, you know many places in the Quran Allah تَعَالَى has ordered us to establish the Salat, and with that comes the Zakat. They go hand in hand in so many ayahs of the Quran.

Reference: Surah Al-Hajj 22:78

The Story of Abu Bakr and the Murtaddeen

As it relates to this brotherhood, everyone knows historically that the khalifah of Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم and the Siddiq al-awwal of this ummah, Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه ruled over the ummah after Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم after his death. And he ruled for two years and a few months. Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه he came at a critical time.

One of the things that happened during his time that established him as the most knowledgeable and the best of the companions was the incident of the murtaddeen. Those people who apostated. They made rida.

Ikhwan, pay attention. These people apostated during the time of Abu Bakr. They did not say we just believe in Allah. They did not say we're not going to make salah. They did not say one of us is the messenger of Allah. They did not say we are people who are more wiser than Rasulullah. We're going to take the Bible to learn from the Bible. They didn't say that. They believed in all aspects of Al-Islam.

All they said was since Rasulullah died, we're not giving any zakat anymore. We're keeping our money because we need our money. We're not going to render the zakat to him as we used to do with Rasulullah.

We want our money. Abu Bakr said, Wallahi, I'm going to fight him. All of the companions came together.

Abu Bakr is the most wisest, the most knowledgeable, and the best from amongst them. But despite that, they don't have to follow his position if he doesn't present the dalil. It is not a dalil, ya Abu Bakr.

Anta afdal minna, ya Abu Bakr. How many times did Rasulullah say, Jittu wa ja'a Abu Bakr wa Umar. Zahabtu wa zahaba Abu Bakr wa Umar. Amantu wa amana Abu Bakr wa Umar. How many times we have? All the time we hear that. But his statements alone, not a dalil in the religion.

So they took him to task. Abu Bakr, how can you fight people who say, La ilaha illallah Muhammad Rasulullah. They're doing everything in the religion. They're just sinning by not giving the zakat. Abu Bakr said, Wallahi, I will fight anyone who withholds from me the uqal. Just the piece that ties up the camel's leg to keep him from moving.

If they used to give that to Rasulullah, they refused to give it to me, I'm going to fight them. If they give me the camel for zakat, but they hold back the uqal that ties his leg up, I'm going to deal with them. Because they have to give us even the uqal.

That's the deen of Islam. So they were called the Murtaddeen. When they didn't give the zakat, they're not our brothers, we're going to fight them.

Ikhwan, a very important point as it relates to the Murtaddeen. The Murtaddeen, they were not the people of Medina. They were not the people of Mecca. The people of Medina, they are in the masjid of Rasulullah, and they're around the ulema of Rasulullah. They're with all of those ulema getting trained and they're learning. The people in Mecca, they were also around the ulema in Mecca.

Abdullah bin Abbas and other than him. The Murtaddeen, they were the people who lived far away in the badiyah, in the desert. Which teaches us something.

When you live far away from the markets of the Muslims, and the masjid of the Muslims, and the Muslim population, at a time when you should not practice uzla, there's a time when we should break off from the people. Other than that time, you should connect yourself to the people.

As he says, salallahu alayhi wa sallam:

"The believer who mixes with the people and he's patient with their harm is better than the believer who doesn't mix with the people and he's not patient with their annoyances."

Sunan At-Tirmidhi, Hadith 2507; Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith 4032

Wallahi, when we mix with each other, as Dawood said, we're going to annoy each other. The man he makes salah, Al-Imam Al-Aamish. Al-Imam Al-Aamish, his name is Sulaiman ibn Mihran.

He's one of the tremendous scholars of Al-Islam. They say that Al-Aamish was the first person to start really putting together the hadith in the place that he came from. Al-Imam Al-Aamish.

They described him as being a bit anti-sociable because he didn't like dealing with the people. Al-Imam Al-Aamish had a dog that he used to put in the front of his door. In his door.

When the people want to come to get the hadith, his dog would start barking and keep the people away. The people came one day, Al-Imam Al-Aamish was crying. They asked him, why are you crying? He said, the one who used to order with the maruf and prevent the munkar, he has died. My dog died, prevent me from the people.

He used to make the salah. And after the salah, he made the dhikr. He was a man who was really on this dhikr. People would come to him. We came all the way from the other side of the dunya. We want to ask you about this hadith. Al-Imam Al-Aamish would just look at the people and just continue to make the dhikr. As if to say, how can you interrupt the man after he's doing his salah and then he makes his dhikr.

So we're going to get annoyed and we're going to annoy people when we come together with them. But that annoyance, we just have to be patient with it. So the murtadun, those people who passed away, they were the people who lived in the desert, in the badiyah.

They were far away. And when you live far away, you're going to have problems. Men beda jafa.

Rasulullah said, whoever lives in the badiyah, in the desert, far away from the people, he's going to have, he's going to be rough. He's going to be coarse.

So that's how we understand, very briefly, those three arkaan of the Akhuwah of Al-Islam. At-Tawbah. Establishing the salah. In addition to that, giving the zakat.

The Three Levels of Brotherhood

After that, the brotherhood of Al-Islam, it has levels. Three levels. We'll start off with the lowest level.

First Level: Not Making Adhaa (Harm)

The lowest level that everyone has to be upon. Everyone has to be upon. Ikhwan, from the other.

And the person who did it, he doesn't mean it. He doesn't mean it. He comes with sincerity, inshallah.

From the other that we suffer from, is this example, a real living example, is we leave after everyone make efforts. You brothers remained in the class, you pray maghrib, and then I gave a talk, you remain, and you stay, and you made isha, and you left. That is tough.

Everyone is making jihad an effort. I left the masjid yesterday, a brother who I never met before, my brother, Ahifullah. He's more than me, younger than me.

He came up to me, As-salamu alaykum, Ahi. What's going on? He said, look, I went over to that other place, and they said that, they are talking about you, that we shouldn't come here. في متكلم انت

You know, they talking about you. What are they saying? They told me to ask you, what are they saying about you? I said, Ahi, I didn't want to make them fear of the brother. This is my brother, and he seemed sincere, and he seemed nice.

But I couldn't help to sit there, and in my mind, voices were going off in my head. I had light bulbs here, light bulbs there. I said, Ahi, what sense does that make? Someone says that في متكلم ان

Go ask him, what is being said. Let them tell you what's being said, and then come to me, and I'll tell you what I believe. And I'll tell you what my position is.

But this is the nonsense that we're dealing with right now. You ask one of them, what's being said? Such and such is being said. What's the delil? I don't know.

And Ahi, busy yourself with learning about the Arkan of the brotherhood of Al-Islam, the Tajweed of the Quran, the 40 Hadith of Al-Imam al-Nawawi, the Usul al-Sunnah of Al-Imam Ahmed. That's going to be more beneficial to you. So it is

the other.

As it relates to the lowest level of the brotherhood that everyone has to be upon. The highest level is up to you. But the lowest level, every single brother and sister, we have to be upon this level of brotherhood.

And that is, that we don't make other. That we don't annoy each other. We don't annoy each other to the best of our ability.

"Those people who make other, and they annoy the believing men and the believing women, and they accuse them of what they didn't do, they have carried on themselves a book, a book that is Athim, and an Itham that is great, that is Mubeen."

Reference: Surah Al-Ahzab 33:58

This ayah was revealed because of our mother, Umm Abdillah Al-Fumairah bint Siddiq رضي الله عنها . When the people said that she committed zina, coming into Al-Madinah late at night, with Safwan Ibn Mu'attal رضي الله عنه

Allah revealed that. You people are making other to Rasulullah by saying that about his wife, to Aisha by saying that about her, to her father Abu Bakr, to the believers who love her and look at her as their mother.

"They are our mothers."

Reference: Surah Al-Ahzab 33:6

How would one of you feel if someone came and said, your mother is a zania, simply because your mother was the last one to leave the grocery store. Your mother is a zania because I saw her leaving the grocery store and then the owner came out and closed the door. You're going to have a big problem with that.

So here, this ayah was revealed. Concerning the other of the believers, The believers have different levels. And other to certain people is not like the other to other people.

Making other to Rasulullah is not like making other to me. Making other to our elders is not like making other to each other. Making other to the yeteen, the orphan, is not like making other to the non-orphan.

When the people say this about Aisha, Wallahi they're making other to Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم. That your wife, you didn't have enough rajula, and enough hikmah, and enough basira, and enough farasa to know that this woman is not a woman who was saliha, and she falls into khyana.

When those people say that the companions disbelieved after Rasulullah, except five or six, that's other to Rasulullah. Because what you're saying is, he didn't know who was around him. Muawiyah, he chose to write down the revelation. Muawiyah is a non-Muslim, he became a kafir, a murtad. Rasulullah allow a murtad to write the revelation. You're making other to Rasulullah before it even hits that individual.

Practical Examples of Adhaa

From the practical real life examples of other between us, is the husband who smoked cigarettes and then he wants to be affectionate to his wife or his children.

That's other. Your breath smells like cigarettes and that's harmful. Who would want to live with an individual who his breath smells of cigarette smoke? Always he has bad breath, stinky breath.

And the smoke from the cigarettes. Those of us who used to live in Al Medina or if you visited Al Medina, if you want to travel from Al Medina to Mecca, we can all go and get a GMC, a big GMC. What do you guys call it? You know, Broncos,

big ones.

A what? A what? I don't know. The big one, the big one. You don't see them here. It probably cost a bundle to put the petrol in those here. Anyway, it's 10 of us. So we decide we'll pay 50 riyals so we can have our own.

Because if you share with the Muslims who come to the place where you rent it randomly, if it's three of us and seven Muslims, we're in our ihram and we're going three and a half hours.

And then suddenly we're smelling the smoke.

What are you doing? And then we start to fight each other because they're killing us with the smoke.

From the beginning of the trip to the end of the trip. The Muslims are the biggest smokers. On our airplanes you can smoke. Jordanian Airlines, Egypt Air, on our planes you can smoke. But on the airplanes of the kuffar, the restaurants of the kuffar, you can't smoke. So that's either.

Two people they come from the Arab world, they come from a Muslim country, and they come to America and they want to study in the university. And the university where we are is very expensive, Bradley University. You want to be a muhandis? You go to NJIT, you go to MIT, or you go to Bradley University.

Cost a lot of money. So we decide that we're going to put our monies together and we rent a two bedroom apartment. When we become roommates, one of the brothers, he wants to bring a dog into the home.

So the dog is always jumping on the other brother. The dog is always in his clothes. The dog is urinating, akramakumullah, on the rug, on the carpet where we pray.

How can you have to get rid of the dog? Don't you know the dog is man's best friend? That's what the brother said to the Muslim brother. Yahi, that's aza, aza. The other brother, he brings his girlfriend.

He has a girlfriend, and she comes to visit. So we don't know which dog is akhbar. All of that is aza, ikhwan.

So the lowest level is not to make aza to each other. I don't want you worrying about my business, so I shouldn't worry about your business. Why are you sitting with the brother asking, how can he afford more than one wife? What is he doing? Why is that your business? As I don't want you to worry about my business, I don't worry about your business.

Don't make ghib of me, I don't make ghib of you, and on and on and on and on. So this is wajib upon all of us. Rasulullah told the individual who has nothing to offer, he said, if you don't have anything to offer, then do the ma'ruf by holding your ego from the people.

You always have those people on the fringes, ikhwan. They're on the sidelines, and all they do is criticize. Well, they shouldn't put the door right there. The door should have been over there. And they shouldn't have spent that much money. But what are you doing? He's not doing anything.

Well, the administration are there like this, and they shouldn't have done this. Ya Azim, what are you doing other than making adha and criticizing? Do good by being quiet. If you believe in Allah on the last day, do good by being quiet.

That's the least you can do. So the lowest level is al-adha.

Adhaa During Salah

From the adha is during the salah. During the salah, not turning off the cell phone. Especially in light of the fact that you brothers have an imam. By Allah, I was making wudu yesterday, and I heard that recitation, and I looked up and I said, Subhanallah.

The brothers at this masjid have an imam like that? MashaAllah. When I came out and he started to read:

I actually felt, why didn't he read from a longer surah? Rasulullah used to tell Bilal:

"Ya Bilal, make the adhan, and make us comfortable, because we're about to pray."

(Sunan Abi Dawud, Hadith 4985)

He used to find comfort in the salah. He told the people:

"The prayer has been made a cooler of my eye."

(Sunan An-Nasa'i, Hadith 3940)

If that brother reads the way he reads, MashaAllah, then how was the recitation of Rasulullah? Can you imagine praying behind Rasulullah?

I was a new student in Medina, I didn't know the difference between Alif, Baa, Taa, Jinn. If they would have fallen on my head out of the sky, I wouldn't have known that's an Alif or Baa, Taa.

I used to pray behind the Imams of the Haram, Ibrahim, Akhdar, Fafajr. Wallahi, I didn't know what he was saying, but I used to cry because his voice was so nice, and I was unmarried, and I needed to get married, and only Allah was going to help me. So I used to feel sorry for myself.

And I used to listen to that recitation, and I said, Wallahi, standing behind Rasulullah, how would it be? And he told the Ummah, Take the Quran from four people. The first one he mentioned, Ibn Mas'ud. The fact that he mentioned him first, from the fiqh of the language, when something is mentioned first, in the Quran and the Sunnah, usually it's more important.

The first one he mentioned, Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud. And take it from, And take it from, Who will come Yawmul Qiyamah. And all of the Ulama of the Dunya, will be raised up, and they will have their Jama'.

Mu'adh Ibn Jabal will be in front of them with the flag, because he will be the Imam of the Ulama of the Dunya. And the fourth one, Salim, the Mawla of Hudhaifah. They described their recitation, as being the recitation that will cause the heart to become soft.

So what other is, being in a masjid, where you have an Imam like that, and then the telephone goes off. The person is in his Salah, and he's thinking and contemplating, and he's considering, and he says, Okay, Rasulullah told us, when you're going to pray, he said, stand up and extinguish the fire, that you created for yourself. From our actions and deeds, we created a fire.

We're going to go to the hell fire, if we don't get it together. The Salah that you pray, is one of the ways that you can extinguish that fire. So when a person stands up to pray, that gives them incentive to be really in this prayer.

But he hears the telephone, and then the Shaytan, his name is Khanzak, his job is just to make Tashreesh, on the Musallim. He comes, and now he starts to say, after the telephone, you left your lights on in the car. We have to get back, because the dinner is getting ready.

And it's fitna. So we have to all be on this level of our brotherhood.

Second Level: Loving for Your Brother What You Love for Yourself

The second level, is a bit higher, and a bit more difficult to practice. And that is, loving for your brother, what you love for yourself.

The Prophet, says he صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم :

"None of you believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself from good."

(Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith 13; Sahih Muslim, Hadith 45)

I don't want you to make ghibah of me, so I shouldn't make ghibah of you. I don't want you, you don't know me, I don't want you, before meeting me and getting to know me, I don't want you to have su-adhan, I'm after your money. I don't want you to think like that, so I shouldn't think like that about you.

If we don't have this, we don't have complete iman.

"None of you believes, until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself."

So if you want the complete iman, part of being a mu'min, is to love for your brother, what you love for yourself.

A Muslim, he may not love for his brother, what he loves for himself. This is the iman in Al-Islam. Prophet, he says صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم :

"Have wara, have wara, awareness, you will be the one who is the most abid, the most abid, you're the real abid, the real abid."

(Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith 4217)

Have some wara. Oh, I doubt that. So I'm going to leave it alone. I don't think that's a good thing, so I'm going to leave it alone. This is al-wara.

What do you think about what Shaykh so-and-so said about Shaykh so-and-so? Wallahi, that's not going to benefit me, so I don't think anything, I don't have anything to say.

That's wara. Even if I have an opinion, I'm not going to say it, because I don't want my word to go here and there, and I don't want to be a fitna for you, and I don't want to become a part of a situation. That's al-wara.

If you have a wara تَكُونُ أَعْبَدَ النَّاسِ. You'll be the one who's the most abid. And have kinaa, you will be the most thankful.

Al-kinaa is when you're satisfied with what you have. You're satisfied. You want to be مَسْتُورُ الْحَالِ

You want your awrah, All I want is my awrah to be covered. My thawb, it can come to the half of my saad, or it can go a little below that. But I don't need a thawb that drives all the way 20 feet behind me.

I want more, more, more. Whatever you have, if you are content, then you are really okay.

"It is not being rich having a lot of money. Nice car, big house. But being rich is being content with what you have."

(Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith 6446; Sahih Muslim, Hadith 1051)

Because the nature of Ibn Adam, as the Prophet says, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, in this hadith al-qursi, that Allah say:

(Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith 6436; Sahih Muslim, Hadith 1048)

Allah sent the money down. You all have some pounds in your pocket. If we put it all together, we have 2,000 pounds or more. Everyone who's sitting here, you have money in your pocket.

Allah said, We gave you this money that you have so that you can establish the salah and so that you can give the zakat. That's what the money is for. To build the masjid, to eat, to come, to be able to pray, to get a car, so that you can establish the salah, establish your deen.

You use that money so that you can get married.

"Whoever gets married, he completed half of his religion, his iman. So let him fear Allah in the rest."

(Shu'ab al-Iman by Al-Bayhaqi, Hadith 5486)

He needs money to get married. We revealed and we gave you this money for the establishment of the salah and to give the zakat. We didn't give you the money to worship the money.

"They are destroyed. The one who worships the dinar and the darham and his clothes."

(Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith 2887)

And he said in that hadith, And if Ibn Adam was given a valley, he would want a second valley. And if he was given a second valley, he wants a third valley. And nothing is going to fill up the body of Ibn Adam except dirt. And Allah will forgive whoever makes tauba.

Third Level: Al-Ithaar (Giving Preference)

So as it relates to the issue, Ikhwan, of loving for your brother, what you love for yourself. This is the second level. The third level and the highest level is a concept that we want to share with you, a new word.

And it is called الإيثار

الإيثار - alif and then the yaa and then the thaa and then the alif and then the raالإيثار add this word. You know taqwa, masjid, hijab, jilba, lihya, kitab, qalam, shams, nur, hidayah, rasul, sahabi. You know all of those words.

Add this to your Arabic vocabulary. الإيثار

الإيثار means to give precedence or preference to your brother over yourself. You have a haq. You have the right to this thing. You have the right to drink it. You pour it for yourself and you have the right to drink it.

But you make i'thaar and you say tafadhal.

When Allah mentioned about the muhajireen and the ansaar, He said in the Quran about them:

"And they give them preference over themselves even though they were in need of that."

(Surah Al-Hashr 59:9)

Allah praised the Ansar, the Muhajireen. And then he mentioned these people from the Ansar. He said about the Ansar, And those people who lived in Medina, and they believed before many of them in Mecca, and they believed. They love those people who make hijrah to them. And they do not put anything in their chest against them from what they have been given.

They are from Quraysh. Rasulullah said about Quraysh:

"They have to be the Umara."

When Rasulullah died, Al-Ansar came together, and they were going to choose Sa'd ibn Ubadah or Sa'd ibn Mu'adh as their leader.

Abu Bakr, the most knowledgeable one, with Umar and the rest of them they went. Abu Bakr said, you can't do that. Rasulullah said:

"The Umara are from Quraysh."

(Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith 3495)

That's what Allah gave them when they used to make jihad. Rasulullah would give a lot to the Muhajireen, and wouldn't give a lot to them. So Allah said in the Quran, And those people who lived in Medina, they love the people who make hijrah to them.

And they do not have anything in their hearts for what they were given.

And they give them preference to have two wives. You choose whichever one you want. What we'll do is, I have two wives. The one who can't cook. The one who has a long lisan. The one who her family gives me all the trouble. I'll say, you get her. She's a good sister.

فَوَفَّقَهُ اللَّهُ

That's the ethar of our companions, ya ikhwan. The companions of Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم

The Six Rights of the Muslim Upon the Muslim

The last thing, ya ikhwan, in the last two minutes concerning the brotherhood of al-Islam. The brotherhood of al-Islam, it has huquq. Rights. We have rights over each other.

Arkaan, three. The darajat, three. The huquq of the brotherhood, six.

And they come to us from the hadith:

"The rights of the Muslim upon the Muslim are six: When you meet him, give him salams. When he invites you, answer the invitation. When he seeks your advice, give him advice. When he sneezes and says Alhamdulillah, say Yarhamak Allah. When he becomes sick, visit him. And when he dies, follow him."

(Sahih Muslim, Hadith 2162)

Right 1: Giving Salams

Abu Huraira used to go to the souk, just to practice this hadith. When Rasulullah told his companions:

(Sahih Muslim, Hadith 54)

"You will not enter Jannah until you have Iman. And you will not have Iman until you love each other. Shall I not teach you something? If you did it, it would force the love between you. Spread the salams between yourselves."

They said, what is it, Ya Rasulullah? He said, spread the salams between yourselves. Abu Huraira would go to the marketplace and he would say to everyone he met on the way:

Today, if we had a person who did that, people would make fun of him. They'll make istighfar. They'll make fun and ridicule him. Oh, here he comes, here he comes. Abu (السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ - as-salamu alaykum) here he is. And all the man is trying to do is force the love between us.

And Juan, I see some of you in the audience looking like Dhul Khawaisira here, like this. We don't want to offend anybody. You could come afterwards and I'll apologize. Lighten up. We're all brothers in here, Inshallah. That's how Dhul Khawaisira here was. He used to come to the people like that. Give some sadaqa, Inshallah.

So the salams, Ikhwan has some fiqh connected to it. From the Ashraf of the Sa'ah is the salam will only be with the ma'rifah. We'll only give salams to the people we know. That's all. I give salams if I know you.

If I don't know you, I don't give salams. If the sheikh comes, we'll give him salams. We don't give the other people salams.

So it has a lot of fiqh. Who starts the salams? The young and the old, the standing on the sirah, and so forth and so on. Boy kind of people are not giving salams. Kuffar in salams, giving the woman in the street salams. It has a fiqh, deserves a khutbah, deserves a dars.

Right 2: Answer the Invitation

Second thing from the huquq of the Muslims is, if he invites you, answer the invitation.

Even if you're sa'im, one of the shuyukh of the responsible people here, he invited us to his home. One of the brothers went, and they put the spread out. The brother invited him to eat, he said, ana sa'im.

One of the brothers told him, then salli. He thought he meant to pray. Rasulullah said, if you're invited, and you're fasting, then you should pray.

You should answer the invitation, and you should pray. But the prayer here is, to make dua for the people. So even if you're fasting, you should answer the invitation.

That's from his huquq. He cooks all of that food for you, and you don't come.

Right 3: Give Advice When Sought

From the huquq, if he seeks your advice, give him advice. But it's like being a judge. If it's not fardul a'im, be careful.

Ya akhi, I need your advice. I have a wife, I've been married for 13 years. She's a good woman, but she burns the rice constantly. I have six children by her. I can't take it anymore. Ya akhi, divorce her.

Right 4: Say Yarhamak Allah When He Sneezes

Number four, if he sneezes and says, Alhamdulillah, we say, Yarhamak Allah. If he sneezes, and he doesn't say Alhamdulillah, we teach him, we let him know. If he doesn't say it, then we don't say, Yarhamak Allah.

Even the Jews used to do this with Rasulullah. They used to sneeze, so that he can say, Yarhamak Allah. But he used to say, Yuslihullah banakum. May Allah rectify your affairs. But he didn't say, Yarhamak Allah.

Right 5: Visit Him When He Is Sick

Number five, if he becomes sick, then go and visit him.

This is something that, Wallahi, an ibadah from Al-Islam that we are negligent in is visiting the sick, and the rewards that come along with it for you, and as well in the recovery, inshaAllah, for the marid. When he has people coming to visit him, that puts him in the state of mind to get well. We can nurse our brother back to health with the dua:

"As'al Allah Al-Azeem, Rabbul Arsh Al-Azeem, yashfiyak."

You say it seven times, brother going to get well, inshaAllah. He can't get that without you coming, giving him ruqya with the Quran. Just your mere presence.

In America, ikhwan, I don't know how it is here, I went to one hospital here when our brother Sirat Abdul Malik was sick. May Allah have mercy upon Sirat, and put him in Jannah.

I went to the hospital, your hospital is not like our hospital. In our hospital, you have a room, and there are two people, and there's a curtain. Usually when no one's there, the curtain is open.

You may talk to him, you may not talk to him. We find that the Muslim is in the room with his Kafir partner, the kuffar come to visit their relative. They come in with balloons, they come in with fruit, they come in with candy, they come in with dolls, cars.

They close the curtain for privacy, and the Muslim is over there by himself, wondering:

أَيْنَ الْإِخْوَةُ؟ أَيْنَ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ؟

"Where those brothers at in the masjid? Where they at?"

And it's so bad, that the Kafir, one of them opens the curtain, and he says, can we borrow that extra chair you have over there? And the Muslim is upset. Where are my brothers at?

When the sister has a baby, where are the sisters at in helping her, cooking for her? In her country, she comes from Eritrea, Somalia. She comes from a Muslim country, where when the woman has a baby, she becomes an Amira, because she gave us a new individual in our Jama'at.

In the Muslim country, the woman, the Muslim woman, the Arab woman, she sits on the bed for 40 days with her legs up, eating mulukhiya. For 40 days, she's just the Amira, taking it easy. Her sisters, the neighborhood are taking care of her.

Her husband brings her here. She gets married here. After having the baby, after the next day, the second day, when she comes out of the hospital, she's in the kitchen cooking.

40 days in her country, after two days here, she has to start taking care of the newborn child and the other children. Where is visiting the sick?

Right 6: Follow His Funeral When He Dies

Finally, yakhwan, if he dies, we follow him. Which goes to show, even after death, the believer has haqooq. Even when he's in the ground. When he's in the ground, Rasulullah said:

(Sunan Abi Dawud, Hadith 3207; Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith 1616)

"Breaking the bones of the dead person is like breaking his bones when he's alive."

We can't make autopsies on the Muslims if there's no justified reason or cause. His body is an amanah and it is haram. It has a hurmah.

Breaking his bone while he is dead is like breaking his bones while he is living. We go to the graveyards, we don't walk over the graves, on top of the graves. He said:

(Sahih Muslim, Hadith 972)

"Don't sit on top of people's graves and don't pray towards the graves."

Don't use a grave as a sutra. They have haqooq, and they are in the graveyard.

When we go to the graveyard:

It's the dua again, we make dua for them, but these six come in this hadith from the haq of the Muslim.

Helping Each Other as Oppressor or Oppressed

And the Muslim is that we help each other ظَالِمٌ or مَظْلُومٌ. There are a lot of rights.

So we're gonna stop here إِنْ شَاءَ اللهُ. And I don't know, we went over the time, but I think that was the question and answer time, I believe.

Closing

End of Khutbah

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