asalamualikoum and welcome back to Allah Loves. So
we've really tried to juxtapose good deeds and bad deeds and how that falls into our
pursuit of Allah with when we fall short of that pursuit of Allah (swt) and how we use
our weaknesses to propel us towards having a stronger relationship with Allah and being
more worthy of the love of Allah (swt).
so we talked about this idea of calling out to Allah not just despite our brokenness but
with our brokenness.
of channelling our broken deeds towards Allah and hoping that they would be made whole into
good deeds that actually make us more beloved to Allah (swt) . And there is this particular
hadith that I want to come to now which talks about something that is beloved to Allah that
actually shows its physical affects on us.
The prophet sallallahu alayhi wa salam said "that there are no two drops more beloved
to Allah than a tear that is shed in awe of Allah and a drop of blood that is shed
in a noble struggle for Allah."
Then he said "and there are no two traces that are more beloved to Allah than the trace
that is left on a person in the cause of Allah (swt) in that noble struggle for Allah (swt) and in the course of
carrying out one of the obligations for the sake of Allah (swt) in the course of actually carrying out
an act of worship.
now obviously first you have to frame this in the context of the companions of the prophet
(pbuh). if you lived with the prophet then you have been through battle after battle
after battle.
so if you weren't killed in badr, uhud, or khandak, or one of those battles then you
probably had a wound, you probably had a limp, you probably had some sort of affect that
was left on you as a result of those battles. and so the companions would see someone with
a limp and the prophet mentioned that this person would not have this limp in paradise
anymore.
so this is comforting to people who were physically wounded for being muslims and suffering in
the cause of Allah (swt).
but for us, how do we take this and understand it in our capacity.
the prophet (pbuh) said that when a person is asked on the day of judgment they would
be asked "an jesmehee fee ma ablagt" they'd be asked about their bodies and what their
bodies were consumed in.
so the tears are obvious.
the tears are really meant to engage you in a more spiritual and deeper form of connection
with Allah in your supplication in your worship in your repentance. and what is specifically
mentioned here is in the capacity of repentance and in the capacity of acknowledging the awesomeness
of Allah (swt) as you are remembering him. and the prophet (pbuh) mentioned that an eye
that sheds a tear for Allah (swt) would not be touched by the fire, it would not face
any type of punishment form Allah (swt) by virtue of that eye shedding a tear.
The other part of that is when that brokenness actually has its affects on your body.
if any one of you have been to hajj and may Allah allow all of us to have a sincere and
accepted hajj opportunity, if you're in arafa and you see the people in their ihram garb,
in their garbs having not slept for days and having dust on their faces at times, those
bags under their eyes, because of that sleep deprivation.
just the way that everyone looks so exhausted and tired no one looks their best on arafa.
and the prophet (pbuh) mentioning that Allah loves to boast to his angels on the day of arafat and
says look at all these servants of mine that have come to me from all over the world, their
hair unkept their faces covered with dust, they're sleep deprived. and all they are asking
for is my mercy and my favor.
Allah sees that.
The prophet and his companions went through that, right, they went through those nights
and those days of struggling for Allah.
the struggle for service.
The prophet sallallahu allayhi wa salam mention that a person whose hair becomes grey in a
state of islam, a person who incurs some sort of an injury in the cause of Allah (swt).
all of these things are significant.
we look at the great grandson of the prophet (pbuh) when he passed away, Zain Al'abedeen,
he had marks on his back from the bags of charity that he used to carry.
When Allah talks about "'ather al sujood" the marks of prostration, which is obviously
beyond a physical mark, it is something that enlightens the faces of Allah's servants but you
see some people who literally have a mark of sujood on their foreheads, a mark of prostration
on their foreheads from all of the years they spent prostrating to Allah (swt).
All of these things are portrayals of brokenness.
we're not taught to hurt ourselves, i'm not telling anyone to go shed some blood from
yourself and say this is for the sake of Allah or to mess your head up a little bit and say
this is for the sake of Allah.
but think about all of the times Allah saw you struggling to pray. you know or maybe
you had an injury and you weren't hurting yourself but its becoming harder.
those elderly people that still struggle to do what they have to do for the sake of Allah.
The eye shed tears of brokenness and vulnerability.
the body shows signs of wear and tear and if its for something that's good, all of that
is looked at by Allah (swt) and Allah sees that and Allah knows that you're doing that
for him.
We ask Allah (swt) to allow us to cry sincerely for his sake not in a way that makes us feel
hopeless but in a way that makes us feel hopeful.
that the one who sees our tears will not let them drop in vain.
May Allah (swt) heal our brokenness, may Allah see us in our weakness and make it a reason
for strength and may Allah (swt) bound us closer to him through those moments when we
feel distant from him.
may Allah (swt) allow us to be used and consumed in ways that are good and ways that are pleasing
to him, Allahoma amen.
Jazakallahu khayran.
see you all next time inshallah.
salamualikoum wa rahmatollahi wa barakato.