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The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was a shepherd,
and he said that
all Prophets were shepherds at some point.
And when you shepherd your flock,
you have to tolerate all sorts of things.
And one of the things that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam tolerated very well
was the question that was asked
that seemed inappropriate
or was asked in an inappropriate way.
The young person that came forth
and said something or did something
that was really out of place.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam encouraged you
to come forth and to ask your questions
about deen, about the religion
so that your ignorance does not get the best of you.
And then somehow end up translating
into the ignorance of a larger group of people.
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And so in that process you see a lot of incidents
where people messed up
in the presence of the Prophets SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
right?
And in messing up in the presence of such a great man,
it's easy for people to easily get disrupted
or get disturbed and think that this is the end of it all.
So you have these incidents of the bedouins in particular.
And usually when you have the narrator of the
hadith
emphasizing that a bedouin came forth
what he means is that the bedouin
is not going to be as refined with their mannerisms
in the presence of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And so they're going to interrupt him
in the middle of his khutbahs
they're going to interrupt him while he's talking to people
they're going to maybe approach him more abrasively.
And all the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would do
Is he would finish his train of thought
which is very interesting about his personality
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
he wouldn't stop in the middle of his khutbah
but he would continue to talk.
And then after he finish the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam would then ask who asked the question
who was the one that had raised their voice
who wanted some sort of clarification.
So he did not lose the entire gathering.
And at the same time, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
did not let that person's question go to waste.
And so the famous story
of the man that asked the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
when is the hour?
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam waited,
until the end of his khutbah,
and then the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
where is the person who asked me about the hour?
You also see the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
you know, in hadith
picking off dried snot from the mimbar
and he peels it off himself SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and he says, you know
isn't there a better place for people to leave this?
So you had a person that actually had left dry snot
on the minbar of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
you have the story of the man who walks in,
and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was leading the companions in prayer.
And this man did not know yet,
of the prohibition of speaking in the salaam.
So when he walks into the prayer
he says As Salaam Alaikum to the people
and no one responds to him.
And he gets really agitated that no one is responding
to him when he says salaam to them.
So he continues to talk and he says, what's wrong with you?
And none of the companions are responding
to him and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
after the salah, he says
where's the person that asked the question
about why no one was responding to him,
and he validated him, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He said that it used to be permissible to say
Salaam
and to talk in salah in a moderate way
the way that you would in tawaaf or
something of that sort, but
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
has prohibited it.
And of course, the famous story of the bedouin who came
into the Masjid and who urinated in the Masjid.
Now, before he urinated in the Masjid,
he was praying behind the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And he had a general unkempt look and appearance
that the Sahabah
were a little bothered by the way he was carrying himself.
And he already felt unwelcome in the masjid. And as he was
praying behind the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
at the end of the salah, he said
allahumma-rhamnee warham-muhammada wala tar-hum ma'ana ahada
O Allah Have mercy on me.
Have mercy on Mohammed and don't have mercy on anyone else.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, he turned
around and he said that you've made something so expansive
so narrow and limited
the mercy of Allah can cover everyone.
And then he goes to the corner
of the Masjid and he starts to urinate.
So this actually happened before he started to urinate.
So he just starts urinating in the Masjid.
And the Sahabah are about to rush this man
and take him out.
I mean, this is the Masjid of the Prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says stop
and even says SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, let them finish,
let them finish and don't scare him any further.
Let them continue to do his thing. And then
after he's done the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
he orders the companions to take some buckets
of water and to pour water on the place that he urinated.
And he simply says to the man, he says that these places
these Masajid are places for the remembrance of Allah,
and it's not befitting that a person urinates
in these places. And the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam turns to the companions and he says
innama bu'ithumu yasireen, wallam thub a thu muasireen
that you were sent to bring ease
to the people you are not sent to bring hardship.
And on that note, since it's Ramadan,
one of the most beautiful stories that you find
is the story of
Salamah bin Sakhr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
was a young man who used to say,
qun tu usibhu minan-nisaa maa la yusibu ghayri
He said, look
I loved women more than other people, loved women.
So I had an issue where I loved women too much
and I could not restrict my desires
my shahwa in the month of Ramadan.
So he said, when Ramadan came around
I told my wife that you are to me, like my mother's back.
This was called the dhihaar.
This was a prohibited form of divorce or pre divorce
that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la speaks about
Surah Al-Mujadila
and the woman that pleads, the surah
about the woman that pleads
but he pronounced it on her at that time
because he wanted to basically make her not like his wife
as a means of stopping himself from being intimate with her.
So that didn't last very long.
Some of the time went by and he says
that one night I saw some of her leg.
He said fallam albath an-nazawta alayha
and he said, I could not hold myself.
And of course we know what happens next.
He was intimate with her.
So he says, the next day I woke up and
I went and I told my people what happened and
they were looking at me like you're in trouble.
You know?
There is no way that you're going to get around this.
So I said to them will come with me to
Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
to the messenger of Allah
so that we could see what's going to happen in my regard.
And all of them said la wAllah
They said, no way you go by yourself.
So I went to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and I told him what happened and
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said
anta bidhaak ya Salamah?
Did you really do that Salamah?
And he said, twice, Ya Rasulullah
I actually messed up twice O messenger of Allah.
And he said, I am content with whatever
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la orders in regards to me.
So go ahead and take a decision.
And you're going to find me ready to undertake that command
from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam them says, okay,
free as slave.
He said, walladhi ba'atha bil haq he said
by the one who sent you with the truth, he said
I don't possess a neck other than this neck.
And he struck the surface
of his neck saying to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
I can't free anyone else's neck, because this is all I have.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says then,
okay, in that case
go ahead and fast, two consecutive months
mutatabi'in
So I said to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
what happened to me
in the first place happened to me because of my fasting.
Remember he just told the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
tell me anything and I'll do it.
And now he's making excuses. As the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is telling him things.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said fine.
You know what?
Feed 60 poor people with a wasq of tamar of dates.
So he said Ya Rasulullah, walladhi ba'atha bil haq
we are the hungriest people.
I swear by the one who sent you in truth.
We are the hungriest people.
And we pass nights
upon nights without having food for ourselves.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, what does he do?
He goes, and he gets him the dates himself
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And he says, go out and feed 60 people and then
feed yourself and your family with the remaining dates.
So here he comes back to his people.
And instead of being destroyed, like he thought
and they thought he was going to be
he's carrying all of this food for them.
And he says to them, when I came to you people
I found nothing but doom and poverty.
But he said, when I went to
Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
wa ja'tu indahu asa'a wa husna ra'ii
I found with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
expanse and a good opinion.
And that's something that was consistent
with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
that when you went to him after having messed up,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was not going to doom you
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was going to find a solution
for you and put you at ease
while also giving you a course of action to come back to
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la and get back to the right place.
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