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Some people spend their entire lives
trying to come to terms with injustices
that were done to them.
Why was I caused so much pain by this person?
Why did I have to go through this?
And it's understandable,
because sometimes there is no explanation,
that you can logically come to in this life.
Others take the pain that they experienced
and decide to be a pain reliever for others,
when they recognize that same pain.
In the case of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he went through every type of hardship that you can imagine.
And because he went through
every type of hardship that you can imagine,
he recognized that hardship.
Who was rejected more than the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam?
Who was poorer than the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam?
Who knew emotional vulnerability
more than the Prophet,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
knew every type of pain and vulnerability.
And because of that, it made him better equipped to care
for people that otherwise would have
no one noticed them when they were in that pain.
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Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la mentions.
haqqun lissa-iliwalmahroom
that the people who pray at night
they have in their wealth, right
for those who ask
and those who don't ask those who are forbidden from asking.
And what that means is there are people that
will ask you when they're in pain, when they're in need.
And there are people that will be forbidden sometimes
from their dignity, from their sense
of shame that they don't want to ask for help.
And if you are a person that prays at night
and pays extra attention to your Lord, when others sleep
then that equips you to have a greater lens to
pay attention to people
that others are not paying attention to during the day.
And so the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam excelled
at haqqun lissa-iliwalmahroom
at being there for those who had asked
and at being there for those who were prohibited
from asking by their circumstances.
And one of the things that Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
mentions is that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
relieved the people of three things.
He would never degrade people or abuse them
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So when the Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
would mention people
he wouldn't speak about them in a denigrating way.
The second thing is that the Prophets SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam would not look after people's awrats
their private matters and their shameful things.
You know, sometimes when you ask about people
you're asking in an underhanded way, you want to know, Oh
have you heard about this person?
What's this person up to, and you go searching
for their awrat to go searching for their faults.
And the Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would never ask
about a person in a way of tadabbur awrat
going after their private matters or unveiling
some of the shameful things that they do in private.
And the third thing is that the Prophets SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallamsome would never speak except
in matters that he hoped to be rewarded for.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
would not harm you with backbiting or gossip.
And even more than that
the Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
would not provoke a conversation perhaps
that you would be shamed in.
But instead the Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
would ask about people in a way of concern.
So when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam noticed you
missing then he would ask about you not in a way of, Hmm.
Have you heard about that person
but have you heard about that person?
Are they okay?
I haven't seen that person, the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam also would see things
in people that others would not see,
Abu Huraira radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu has this narration
where he says
that I used to be so hungry, that I would sometimes pass
out in hunger and I would tie stones to my stomach.
And I would be too ashamed to ask anybody
for anything. Abu Huraira
radiALlahu ta'ala Anhu homeless for some time.
He was from ahl-al Suffa
and he could not ask people for something.
And he felt barred
by his dignity and his modesty from asking people.
So what did Abu Huraira radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu do instead?
He asked questions to people, hoping
that they would notice that something was off about him.
So Abu Huraira radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu said I went
to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
And Abu Bakr is Abu Bakr
He's a man radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
that's experienced some of the most difficult moments
with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
He's a man of generosity, a man of nobility.
He's the best person after the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
So Abu Huraira radiAllahu Anhu said
I asked him a question about the book of Allah
I asked him a tafseer question.
And he said, I knew the answer, but I was hoping
that Abu Bakr would look at me and notice
that I was hungry. Instead, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu as amazing as he is.
He answered the question
and he went on his way
So Abu Huraira radiAllahu Anhu said
I went to the next person. who is the next person?
Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
and I asked him a question about the book of Allah
and I knew the answer, but I was hoping he noticed
but he didn't notice at all. instead Umar
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, And he is who he is.
He answered the question and he moved on.
So Abu Huraira radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu said
while I'm in the state of despair
and I am asking these questions that are not relevant
to my hunger, hoping someone will notice, the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam walks by.
And I want to pause here, by the way
sometimes you see people that put out cries
for help and you ignore those cries for help.
Sometimes you might see someone tweet something
or write something or post something that's not ordinary.
And you let it go.
You just overlook it.
But if someone's acting or speaking
in a way that's not ordinary, if you love that person
you should be concerned and ask about that person.
The Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam walks by Abu Huraira
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
and he looks at him and he smiles at
Abu Huraira radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu and he says Aba Hir
So he shortened his name, which is a means
of putting him at ease SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
by calling him
by a shortened version of his nickname.
And Abu Huraira radiAllahu Anhu say labbayka ya Rasullilah
Here I come O ya Rasullilah, here I am.
What is it ya Rasullilah?
He says, follow me.
So Abu Huraira radiALlahu ta'ala Anhu says
I followed the Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And the Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
took me to this person's house.
And we were served with Laban.
The Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
took that pitcher of Laban, of yogurt.
And he let it go around the room to everybody else.
And I was afraid that nothing would be left
for me until it got to me and
the Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said
drink O Abu Huraira. And he said, I drunk and the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, keep drinking.
And he said, I kept on drinking, drinking
drinking until I could drink no more.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said Aba Hir
I said labbayk ya Rasulillah
here I am O messenger of Allah.
He said, are you full? Abu Huraira radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
said I'm full ya Rasulillah
So then the Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam took
and he drank from it as well.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would see in you
pain or hunger or despair or need when others would not
because he's been there SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
He's been hungry before.
He's been rejected before.
He's been that person that no one would take in before.
And so the Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
made it a point to be a comfort
to those that were in that similar situation.
And one of the most touching stories
in that regard is the situation
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was more
familiar with than anyone else, which is the death of a
child. There was a man that used to come
to the gatherings of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And he had a child, a son
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam loved a lot.
And this was a child that was frequent in the masjid.
And this man loved his son.
And he would bring him
and the Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would
play with him.
everyone would play with him and the man goes missing.
He stopped coming to the masjid.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, where is he?
And he asked again, out of concern.
He said, Ya Rasulillah his son.
He said, what happened to a son?
So the son passed away
Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, immediately.
He says, let's go visit him.
He goes to the man and he sees the man and intense sadness.
And he says, you know what happened?
And he says, my son died.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam tells him
aren't you pleased that
on the day of judgment, that you will find your son standing
in front of every gate of Jannah that you want.
And you can enter in any gate that you choose.
subhanAllah
The man was shocked.
He said, of course ya Rasulillah, of course
the messenger of Allah.
And he says to the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
is this just something for me?
Is this for everyone Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
This is for everyone.
This is for the entire ummah, this gift.
But subhanAllah.
Think about the Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
looking for that man.
He looked for hunger.
He looked for sadness.
He looked for rejection.
He looked for those who would not ask so that he
could be a source of relief for them, because that is
the epitome of the ihsan
the excellence of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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