was a young man when he embraced islam
and he came later on in the life of the
prophet saws but he would rise to be
this person who is known as shabihal
malaika a person who resembles the
angels not necessarily in his appearance
or even in his character but
specifically in his worship and he gives
this example of how that worship of
allah manifested his household in the
first place by talking about how the
prophet saws actually gave dawah to his
father
he said that the prophet salallahu came
to my father and he said to him
oh her saying how many gods do you
worship so he said seven total sit and
fil
six of them on this earth and one of
them in the heavens so he says basically
i've got these idols and then i've got
this one god that i deem supreme that i
can't see so the prophet saws said which
one of them do you put your greatest
hopes and fears in which one of those
gods do you give the greatest
consideration to so he said the one
that's in the heavens that's the one
that i have the greatest reverence for
the prophet salaam said to him then why
don't you worship the one that's in the
heavens and leave the ones that are on
the earth and subhanallah that made
sense to him and he became a muwahid he
became a muslim a monotheist and a
muslim so imran comes into islam
around the time of khaibar so we're
talking about about six years after the
prophet salisam had come to medina and
immediately falls in love with this
religion and dedicates himself to the
prophet salla sallam and dedicates
himself to this idea of worship of one
god and it became to the point that he
gains this reputation amongst the
companions of the prophet saws as being
a zahid as being an ascetic and being a
scholar who's only interested in two
things he's interested in knowledge and
he's interested in worship so it's
ibadah that's all that you knew imran
ibn hussain or the allah and
and that's the way that the companions
viewed him now when um
would become the khalifa he would
actually appoint him to a government
position he'd sent him to basra and the
people of basra loved him they said that
no one has ever come to us from the
companions of the prophet saws that's
better than this man but imran asked um
to be excused and to basically just
teach the people but at the same time he
didn't want to hold office we also know
of him that he avoided all fitnah he
hated all types of division and disunity
in the muslim ummah he said i will never
use this tongue against another muslim
or throw an arrow against another muslim
so when the people come to him and ask
him to do this or do that
would shut his door and exert himself in
ibadah exert himself in worship now one
of the things that we also see from him
though is that
despite him being a great worshiper and
a great ascetic that didn't mean that he
used to come out looking like a person
who was in rags and a person who had
abandoned this world physically in fact
there's a narration that
had come out to the people and he was
wearing this really nice rope
the robe had a special type of stitching
and embroidery it had special buttons on
it and when they asked him about it he
said it's because i heard the prophet
saw islam say that when allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala blesses a person with nirma
allah loves
to see the effect of that blessing on
his servant so detachment from this
world is not that you wear raggedy
clothes it's not that you inflict
poverty on yourself it's that you attach
yourself only to allah and in the case
of imran
who lived with the prophet saws an
attachment to the messenger of allah
and he in fact is one of the narrators
of the hadith where the prophet saws
the best of my ummah is my generation
and then those that come after them and
then those that come after them and
subhanallah because he was so young when
he embraced islam he lived long after
the prophet saws and he never stopped
longing for him especially when he
remembered ibadah worship with the
prophet salla sallam one of his students
a great tabari
he said that one time
he and i prayed behind
and after the prayer imran grabbed my
hand and he said this reminded me of the
prayer of the prophet saws this took me
back to that time of praying with the
prophet salallahu
now of course
everyone around the prophet's islam was
in a certain state and if imran
distinguished himself from the allah and
who even amongst the companions went
around the prophet saws
then how was he at all other times and
you might recall a very famous narration
of alhamdulillah
going to abu bakr and then abu bakr al
hamdulillah may allah be pleased with
them going to the prophet saws and
complaining that maybe they were
hypocrites why because
they couldn't maintain that same level
of vikid that same level of remembrance
of allah that same state of mind and
state of heart when they were with the
prophet salla sallam and then with their
families after they left the presence of
the prophet salallahu now what did the
prophet saw islam say to them he said
listen
first of all
it's you know you have to have a time
for this and a time for that
uh as long as you're not sinful when
you're away from the prophet salla islam
it's understandable that you're not
going to be able to maintain the same
state of heart and mind in the absence
of the messenger salallahu that you had
when you're sitting in his halaquas when
you're with the prophet saws
and the prophet saws said to them that
if you were to maintain the same state
in my absence that you do in my presence
the angels would shake your hands in the
streets how does this apply to amazon
imran actually aspired to be in that
state imran actually aspired to be in
the same way that he was with the
prophet saws even when the prophet saw
islam had already passed away
and some time passed where imran of the
allah became ill for an extended period
of time
and he took inspiration from the story
of
islam the prolonged sickness and worship
and patience
and then one day his student
visits him and he sees him very sad so
he says to him what's wrong he says that
something was happening with me
and allah took that blessing away from
me he said what is it he said
that for an extended period of time the
angels started to come to me
that i would come to my house and they
would greet me at my door and then they
would even come to me when i would lay
in bed and they would greet me at the
head side of my bed so the angels
sullivan they were giving salaam to me
and i was giving salaam to them as well
and this was happening from every
direction hello what a blessing from
allah subhanahu wa to add to only happen
to this one companion where the angels
are saying salaam to him and he's saying
salaam to them as well he said but it
stopped after i
did al-qaed which is a medical procedure
that the prophet saw some generally
disliked so he said when i did al-qaeda
the angel stopped coming to me so he was
very sad about that
said i told him that inshallah they'll
come back to you and subhanallah
sometime after that
was in joy and he said to allah
they came back to me but don't tell
anyone of this until after i die i don't
want anyone to know of this blessing
that allah has given to me
until after i pass away
and subhanallah it stayed that way until
he passed away rally allah and there's
something very special about this that
the prophet saws was not just giving a
random example if you are in a state of
vikir you are in the presence of angels
whether that's in a gathering or whether
that is as an individual
and when this person
is able to maintain that consistent
remembrance of allah then allah blessed
him with the consistent presence of the
angels and for us the more we remember
allah the more the angels are going to
be present with us