so we covered
one chief from yemen that came to medina
to embrace islam
the most famous companion arguably
though from yemen is abu musa al-ashari
and his name was actually abdullah ibn
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this was a man
who came to the prophet saisam early on
before amrof before the year of the
delegation to embrace islam
and went back to his people and brought
a bunch of them back to medina with him
and accompanies the prophet salam and
becomes not only a beloved companion to
him
but distinguishes himself in his filk
meaning his scholarship and his
knowledge so becomes a person who is
looked to by the companions of the
prophet some four his filq becomes
distinguished in his eloquence becomes
distinguished in his ability in battle
so he was a mujahid fisa
and that's something that he would carry
forward and he was also a diplomat a
general and also becomes distinguished
for his recitation of the quran the
prophet salla sent praised the
recitation of abu musa
many different ways said to him he has
been given the zaboor
so he is someone who the prophet saisom
loves deeply and who excels in
recitation excels in remembrance and
excels in knowledge and in so many
different ways
the story of abu musa ruled
when it comes to
an angel
is a story that he narrates about
himself and a group of companions
and he says that we were traveling by
sea and they were clearly out
in jihad fisabillah so this was for the
sake of battle
and as the ship was sailing it was going
fast towards its destination
he said suddenly there was a voice that
was heard by all of us
and the voice said yeah
o people of the ship
stop and let me tell you of a judgment
that allah subhanahu wa or a decree that
allah
has placed on himself
so he said i looked to the right i
looked to the left i did not find anyone
and the voice repeated the exact same
thing consecutively seven times so
imagine the people on the ship are like
where is this voice coming from that let
me tell you
of a decree that allah
has decreed so he said finally when i
looked around
and i couldn't find where the voice was
coming from i called out and i said
who are you where are you
and he said the answer came
in
here
he said that the voice responded and
said that
allah has decreed upon himself that
whoever fasts for the sake of allah
on a hot day allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will nourish him on the day of great
thirst which is the day of judgment so
subhanallah if a person fasts for the
sake of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on a
difficult day a day where it is hot a
day where people will be thirsty allah
subhanahu ta'ala will make sure that
that person is nourished on the day of
judgment a day of great thirst
ever since the day that that angel
shouted that i never missed fasting on a
hot day now i want to contextualize this
a bit because it's very interesting
because you find many narrations from
the companions praising the easy fasts
fasting in the winter for example it's
the spoils of the believer why because
it's so easy to fast in the winter right
the days are short for fasting the
nights are long for prayer but there is
a unique reward as well to fasting on a
long hot day now the prophet saws said
in general
the prophet saws one day for the sake of
allah allah apparently i will distance
that person's face from the fire the
distance of a journey of 70 years and
another narration the prophet saws
the distance between the east and the
west and another narration the prophet
salla islam said the distance
the distance between the heavens and the
earth so fasting one day for the sake of
allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is
a great deed that brings about a great
reward but here you find the sweetness
of struggle the sweetness of doing the
hard deeds
doing the deeds that will require a
greater amount of effort and leaving
that gap of the struggle between the
easy deed and the heart deed to allah
subhanahu ta'ala and you're not
encountering a deed just because it's
hard you're not encountering a deed
because you think that you know there
should be unnecessary difficulty that's
placed upon yourself but you are
consistently acting upon deeds even when
there will be difficulty because of the
circumstances and that is the blessing
of fasting on a long hot day