Seerah - Semester 4 - Lecture 2 | Shaykh Assim Al-Hakeem | Zad Academy English
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Kind: captions Language: en [Music] Academy was [Music] Alhamdulillah. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam used to avoid foul speech. So you would not hear him use obscene words or any type of profanity. How would he use such words when he's the one who said the hadith Allah does not love rudeness or intentional rudeness. using such obscene words is something that is not liked. So anything that is related to profanity or obscene words or even actions this is something that Allahel does not like. And this is why when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam used to speak he used to avoid saying things that may shock the listeners. The prophet says in a haditham, "When one of you wakes up from sleep, let him not dip his hands into the vessel until he has washed it three times, for he doesn't know where his hand spent the night." The Muslims did not have faucets so that running water can be used to wash their hands. They had buckets. So when people wake up from sleep and they want to wash their hands or faces, they have to dip their hands into the vessel. To do so, the prophet says, "Don't do that. You have to pour the water first. Wash your hands three times. Then you can do whatever you want from the water in the bucket because your hands are clean." Why? Because you don't know where your hand spend the night. Where did my hand spend the night? This was better than saying because your hands may have touched your private part may have come in contact with your anus and the likes. So the prophet did not use such words and rather used better words so that it would not be offend offending anyone. Sometimes the prophet used to use oaths. Why? He's the most truthful, honest individual who had ever walked the earth. He could never lie. He never lied in his life. So why would he swear? Why would he use an oath? This is to emphasize whatever he's about to say and to give it more weight and value. One of the oaths he used to frequently use, he used to say by the one whose my soul is in his hand. Who's the one whose my soul is in his hand? It is Allah. So the prophetat wasam used to frequently use this phrase to make an oath as in the hadith of him talking about it's best for a man to go and gather some firewood and sell it rather than ask people for charity by the one whose my soul is in his hand by the one whose my soul is in his hand. No one who will be injured on the battlefield except that he will come on the day of judgment with the injury. The blood looking like blood, but the smell is the smell of musk. And in so many hadiths that we can see that he used to frequently use this type of swearing. Now sometimes the prophet would useatam a third person pronoun when it is something that is bad. For example, the prophet was talking about when people are carrying a funeral, a dead body to its grave. So the prophet is teaching his companions that they should do this in a fast motion, not to walk slowly with it. No, rather to take it quickly. Why? Because the prophet says if the deceased was good, the burial uh uh the funeral itself would say, "Come on, come on, hasten and take me to where I'm going because it knows its destination and what awaits it in the grave." Then the prophet saysam and if it is not a good soul it would say that is who the funeral or the dead body or the whole thing it would say doom or woe to it. He didn't say woe to me as if he's speaking about himself. No, this is a third person pronoun because it's an evil thing. It says, "Woe to it. Where are you taking it?" Because it knows it's going to a pit of fire. May Allahel protect us. Likewise in the hadith reported in Muslim when the son of Adam goes and prostrates to Allahawel then the devil Satan takes aside and weeps and he says woe to him where actually Shayan was talking about himself. He should he should the hadith would have should have said woe to me. But the prophet is not narrating things about himself. So he uses a third person pronoun. Woe to it or to him. The son of Adam was ordered and commanded to prostrate. So he complied and he will go to Jenna. And he that is himself and he talks about himself and I was commanded this is the prophet talking about shaitan now. So first he says woe to him but now as he is quoting he says I was commanded to prostrate and I refused so fire will be to me or I will be uh admitted to hellfire. And in the Sah Bkari and Muslim when the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam offered Islam to Abu Talib when he was on his deathbed and he continued and persisted that he says the shahada. The hadith says and the last thing Abu Talib said was he is on the path of Abdutalib. He did not say I am on the path of Abd. So the prophet sallallaihi wasallam switched it to the third person pronoun. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam sometimes used high loud voice when talking and sometimes used it uh uh in a low type or level. It depended on the situation. So in the hadith of al- mdad when a guest and his companion came to the prophetat wasam and the prophet hosted them in his home when he came while they were asleep al mdad wasn't asleep but he was pretending to be asleep he said the prophet made the salamisatam in a low voice if a person was awake he would have heard it and when people were asleep he would not be uh annoyed or disturbed by his voice. And this is one of the best forms of etiquette because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam cared for his guests. And finally, the prophetat wasallam was the most eloquent of all those who spoke. And his words were so sweet and his performance was so quick and whenever you heard him speak, it would captivate the hearts of anyone who was listening. And when he spoke it was detailed in the sense that you can understand each and every word. Even if you want to count it, you could have counted. He wouldn't spit it out so quickly that you would lose words and you would not be able to understand. And he would not pause for too long like some people when they speak and they would speak like that. This is boring. When people speak like this, you can't understand them. And when they speak like this, you can't even understand them. But the way the the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam spoke was so clear. The pauses were on time on on spot and he would never address things that did not concern him and he would not speak about things. He did not anticipate the reward from Allah who met the prophet before she was and he became a Muslim. She speak she says and describes when he kept quiet he reflected dignity and when he spoke he would raise his head and his face would be radiant from a distance he was the most sallallahu alaihi wasallam handsome of men and up close he was the sweetest in character. He spoke kind words and he paused. When he uh spoke, he did not speak without uh seizing. When he spoke, it was as if sallallahu alaihi wasallam when he spoke he it was as if the words were like pearls on a thread. It all fits in the same place coming off one after another. [Music] to [Music] Fore! Foreign! Foreign! [Music]
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