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and welcome back.
Alhamdulillah.
Today's edition is the 16th in the
fourth level of the prophetic noble a
hadith and today inshallah we'll get to
study together hadith number 15 on two
separate episodes. So the first episode
in hadith number 15 is this episode is
this episode inshallah.
The hadith is narrated by the great
companion Abu
who narrated that the messenger of Allah
may Allah's peace and blessings be upon
him said do not envy one another. Do not
artificially inflate prices.
Do not hate one another. Do not forsake
one another. Do not undercut one
another. And oh slaves of Allah be
brothers. The Muslim is the brother of
his fellow Muslim. He doesn't wrong him,
let him down or despise him. Tawa,
righteousness or piety is here. And he
pointed may the gate peace and blessings
be upon him to his chest three times.
Piety is here. Piety is here. Piety is
here. Then he added, may peace and
blessings be upon him. It is sufficient
evil for a man to look down on his
Muslim brother. The whole of a Muslim is
sacred to another Muslim. His blood, his
wealth, and his honor.
Let's begin with how the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam said.
By the way, this is a sound hadith which
is collected by many collectors of
hadith. But this particular version is
collected by Imam Muslim and others as
well. Uh the first prohibition in the
hadith which is
do not envy one another. Is there such
thing called envy? Because we hear some
people in the media say I don't believe
in envy. What do you mean you don't
believe in envy? Do you believe in
Allah? I believe in Allah. Do you
believe in the angels? I do believe in
the angels. Have you seen them? No. So
why do you believe in angels and jin and
hereafter? Because Allah the almighty
said so. Belief in the oneness of Allah
in his presence in his lordship that he
is the creator. He sent the messengers
and revealed the books would require us
to believe in the unseen which Allah the
almighty have made it known to us. So
you have made known to us uh the
presence of the angels, the presence of
the jin. He had made known to us that
there is something called we recite in
the Quran.
That is chapter number 113 which is
known as surah alak or the dawn. I seek
refuge in the lord of the dawn
from the evil of what he has created.
And the last verse
and from the evil of an envir whenever
he envys. So there is
or do they envy people for what Allah
has given them out of his bounty.
So envy is there. What is envy? What is
hassad?
Hassad or envy means wishing that
somebody who is blessed with something
and he feel that how come he is blessed
with it. You wish that he would lose it.
It will be taken away from him normally
so that you will get it. And sometimes
he would lose it even if you don't get
it. It doesn't matter. Just to be happy
to fulfill the wish that the person
who's blessed, he got a nice car, a
brand new car, a nice house that he
would lose it any way or form or shape.
Car accident, house is burned, it
doesn't matter. From inside there is
fire in his heart because he feels sad
that some people have been blessed.
Normally colleagues, co-workers,
classmates who are doing very very well
in education and unfortunately relatives
and neighbors who are supposed to wish
well for others, for their neighbors,
for their family members. Unfortunately
many uh envy them.
What is this? They envy people for what
Allah has given them out of his bounty.
Hassad is a major sin and it is evil.
Unfortunately, it may affect the person
who's been envied negatively and that's
why we have been taught how to protect
ourselves against evil eye envy and
hassid. How? Number one, by reciting on
regular basis such as
and by saying upon seeing something that
pleases you which is yours. If you're
happy with your house, you're happy with
your kids' performance, you say
that stemming from the lesson of
and if it is something that belongs to
others.
Somebody bought a new car. He got oh wow
wow how did he get this? Wow. Instead
say mashallah
because the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam said to
somebody who happened to envy another
person was very healthy and he felt very
sick upon being envied. He said
he should have said Allah oh Allah bless
him in it. So is it okay to wish to have
something similar to what others have?
It is perfectly okay. Okay.
But what is not okay is to wish that
they would lose it so that you will get
it or they would lose it so that you and
them will be even of not having the
same. That is called and this is not
permissible. It's a fire that devours
the heart of the envir
but it is not called
in Arabic. Rather it's called
literally they may call it
but it means as the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam has said
is forbidden except in two conditions.
When you see somebody whom Allah bless
with plenty of wealth and he dispenses
his wealth in helping people assisting
the poor taking care of the relatives
spending and hal say I wish I was as
rich as him in order to to do good deeds
as much as he does. Okay. No problem.
That's hassad in a good sense. Or
somebody who recites the Quran with a
melodious voice or who have studied the
dean and he's teaching people to say
mashallah I wish me or my son would be
like him so that we can do the same good
deed and teach people that too is okay
brothers and sisters. The next
prohibition is an what is anes or the
price inflation? Do not artificially
inflate prices. That is, and it means do
not increase prices for one another
artificially. What do you mean
artificially?
In simple
and in brief,
when somebody is selling an item
and somebody is showing interest, he's
in the marketplace and he wants to buy
this phone. So he says, "How much is
it?" He says, " $1,100."
While he's thinking about it, somebody
will pop up and point to the same phone,
say, "Sir, how much is the phone?" He
says, "1,100." Say, "I I'd like it. I
want to take it." So he says,
"Unfortunately, Mr. So and so is
thinking about it. He's looking at it."
Oh, no, no, I would pay even 50 bucks
extra. I will pay $100 extra. and
whether he actually wants to buy it or
he's artificially making it up, making a
deal with the seller in order to tempt
and allure
the candidate, the buyer in order to buy
the phone and pay for it the current
price right away. So this is called
najes where the person is not actually
interested to buy but he's artificially
inflating the price in order to convince
the person who's about to buy to buy
without double thinking about it. That
is forbidden as well. Then he also why
because it leads to deceit, deception,
mischief and later on when people find
out about it, it causes discord. And
bottom line when you study the hadith as
a whole, you realize that it's all about
blocking the means. Blocking the means
which leads to hatred. Blocking the
means which lead to excuse me, discord.
blocking the means which may lead to
causing problems in the entire community
where people start hating each other for
what they have done of deception to
others type. So a nash is absolutely
forbidden. Do not hate one another. Do
not despise one another. Do not do
anything which may stir up rank or
hatred or discord.
Hatred is something sometimes you don't
have control over it. When you see
somebody drinking, I hate what he's
doing. But if the person repented, I
start liking the same person. Okay? Do
not do things which may lead to hatred
and discord among your own selves. So
after you used to be
brothers, sisters and friends, something
stupid that you did like you know you
were talking about this person in his
absence.
The person who was listening to you
shared with the person that you told
about him. Do you think he will be happy
with it? That would lead to hatred. You
tricked a person in a trade or business
or sale. You sold them something for
overpric. while it's not worth that much
that would lead to hatred. So when the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said
do not hate one another meaning do not
act upon the things which would lead to
hating one another. Then he also said
sallallahu alaihi wasallam and do not
forsake one another.
What is do not forsake one another?
It may be understood as whenever you see
one another due to discord,
disagreement, an argument, you tend to
give your back to the other person. Back
in Arabic, the back in Arabic means
so that's why I said do not forsake one
another by turning your backs to each
other, turning away from each other so
that you don't have to say salam, you
don't have to talk to him. He did you
know and then the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam when he said
there is the uh physical and the literal
sense of it and there is a metaphorical
sense which is do not develop
conflicting ideas and views which
eventually would lead again to
turning away from one another hating one
another or cutting ties and severing
relationship with one another do not
undercut one another. That's another
very interesting uh prohibition because
a lot of people do sometimes on purpose
and sometimes unintentionally.
Somebody is buying an item and he
finished the deal again will talk about
the phone. Too many shops in the same
street they sell phones. So somebody saw
that you're buying a phone from his
neighbor and you concluded the deal. So
he asked you how much did you pay for
it? So you said 1,100 said wow that's
too much. I can give you the same for
only 1,000 or you know what I have a
better phone for the same price. So in
this case you intend to take the
business from another person. He's a
competitor. But if it was before doing
the deal and you're announcing your
prices and people come to you and do not
go to others, it's okay, you know. But
when you allure a person to return the
item, to cancel the deal with the seller
that he sold you an item and he made the
deal in order to buy the same from him
with a different price. That is called
undercutting one another and that two is
forbidden for the same reason. Then
finally the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam orders us by reminding us we
are all the servants of Allah to be
brothers to love one another for the
sake of Allah. And he said every Muslim
is sacred entirely. His wealth his money
his life his honor and that should be
protected. I will address this inshallah
in the following session. And he
emphasized that piety stems from the
heart. If we learn these lessons and we
believe in them and we tend to stay away
from what the prophet have forbidden and
adopt the beautiful manners that the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam have
instructed it stems from here and it
reflects on our actions and behaviors.
May Allah guide us to what is best.
We'll continue next time. Until then,
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