Salamualikoum, welcome back to Allah Loves.
So this is a hadith that often comes up in fundraisers or something in regards to charity,
and the importance of service.
But I actually want you to analyze this because it opens the door for other hadiths and a
lot of other sayings about who Allah loves and why Allah would love these people.
We talked about ihsan very early on in this series, and we talked about this concept of
excellence and how Allah rewards excellence and how Allah loves excellence and if you
realize Allah defines excellence and ihsan, even though its primarily a relationship between
you and Allah, its how you treat other people in accordance with that excellence that you
seek with Allah (swt).
If you shift to this now, this hadith that the prophet (pbuh) "in 'ahab el nas ella Allah"
the most beloved people to Allah, "anfa'ahoum lel nas" are those who are most beneficial
to the people.
The most beloved people to Allah are those who are most beneficial to people.
Not the best of people are most beneficial, the most beloved of people to Allah are those
that are best to other people.
Why?
Because you amplify the attributes of Allah to other people.
You serve as a vehicle of Allah's love to someone else's life and that's the best way
to be part of earning Allah's love for yourself.
And so the prophet (pbuh) continues with this hadith "wa'na 'ahaba el 'amali 'llallah" and
verily the most beloved of actions to Allah, so the prophet is going to you how you are
the most beneficial to people.
number 1 - "an todkhela ala qalba akheka soroora" that you enter a sense of inner joy to the
heart of your brother's heart, or to your sister's heart.
That you bring them inner peace, that you bring them inner joy.
That you pick them up when their down.
when they have low self esteem you boost them up.
When their sad and depressed or anxious, you are a source of comfort and healing and tranquility
to them.
You bring them joy on the inside.
When you smile at them, you give them a reason to smile as well.
"an todkhela ala qalbi akheeka soroora" so you are emotionally available to people.
The same way that you seek happiness from Allah beyond all of the tangible things is
the same way that you are the most beneficial to other people.
You serve as a vehicle of Allah's comfort to people in the emotional sense in the same
way that you seek that from Allah (swt) and then the prophet (pbuh) mentions, one narrations
says "'aw takshef anho karba" if you remove a hardship from him, and if you think about
it, what do you seek from Allah, you seek the removal of hardship.
Thats usually when people connect to Allah the most.
Well what if Allah uses you to be the reason for someone else's hardship being removed?
"aw ta'ni anho dayna" or you remove a debt from that person, you pay off that person's
debt, or you relieve them from a debt "aw tot'emoho khobza" or you feed that person
a loaf of bread.
So you either remove a burden from a financial sense, or you provide for them.
The point of this is very profound that the prophet (pbuh), when he tells us about stories
of people that entered into jannah for what were seemingly small actions, they always
involve service to someone else.
The woman that gave water to a thirsty dog, the man that removed something harmful from
the road.
You always find that its those small deeds of kindness, those small deeds of service
that someone showed to someone else or something else, or even in the case of the man who removed
something harmful from the road to a community as a whole by just taking care of the environment--
all of those things always connect back to an outstanding reward.
Why is that?
The reason is, just as you are tasked with amplifying Allah's attributes to people, so
if you amplify love to people, then you will receive more love from Allah.
If you amplify mercy, you will receive more mercy from Allah.
If you amplify kindness, you'll receive more kindness from Allah.
Allah will never allow you to outdo him in his attributes.
Thats actually the most important point to take from this hadith.
Anytime you show kindness to someone, Allah will never allow you to show more kindness
to someone else than he will show to you.
If you show gratitude to someone else then Allah will never allow you to be more thankful
to someone else, than he will be to you (swt).
So all of these ahadiths "manla yarham, la yorham" whoever does not show mercy will not
be shown mercy, therefor whoever shows mercy will be shown mercy.
"irhamo manfe el 'arde, yahamkoum man fe el sama" show mercy to those on earth and the
one in the heavens will show mercy to you and so the most beloved people to Allah are
those who are most beneficial to people because Allah sees you as a vehicle, Allah uses you
as a part of carrying out that relief in other people's lives.
And Allah will never allow you to outdo him in those beautiful attributes, in those beautiful
things that he enabled you to do in the first place.
So we ask Allah to make us from the beloved to him and to allow us to serve him by serving
other people and to make us the channels of rahma or mercy and generosity and benevolence
in people's lives and the he use us for good all the time and not deprive us of it ourselves.
Allahoma ameen.
See you all next time inshallah.
Salamualikoum wa rahamato Allahi wa barakato.