Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 1

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophets and Messengers.
Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family and companions,
peace and blessings be upon him and his family and companions,
and many, many more.
And then, my brothers and sisters,
one of the great scholars of this religion
was a man by the name of Hatim al-Assam,
may Allah have mercy on him.
Hatim al-Assam, may Allah have mercy on him, was a student of Shaghiq al-Balqhi,
may Allah have mercy on him.
He was a contemporary of Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal
and Bishr al-Hafi and others.
And he was a great scholar.
The reason he was called Assam, which means deaf,
his name was Hatim, he was called Hatim al-Assam, Hatim the deaf.
The reason he was called Assam was,
see the akhlaq of people.
See the akhlaq of people.
He was a great scholar.
So one day, this elderly lady comes to him with some soil.
And as she sat down in front of him, she passed wind.
So she got very embarrassed, obviously.
But what happened, happened.
So she started to speak to him and she was saying,
yes, share something.
And he looked straight at her as if he can't hear anything.
She said, sheikh, salam alaikum.
Sheikh, salam alaikum.
Ah, what did you say?
So he pretended to be deaf.
So she felt, alhamdulillah, this man is deaf.
He did not hear what, the sound I made.
Imagine, see the beautiful akhlaq, right?
He doesn't want this lady to feel embarrassed.
This is taba'i.
I mean, sometimes if you sit down, if, you know,
wind comes out, what are you going to do?
You don't do it deliberately.
But it's embarrassing.
So to prevent her from feeling embarrassed,
he pretended to be deaf.
And not only at that time, he pretended and continued
to pretend to be deaf until that lady passed away.
Ajeeb.
So Hathim al-Aswami, he is a wonderful story, inshallah.
We'll talk in detail.
One of the stories of him, which I, inshallah, will do a whole series of lectures on it,
is this question that he came to his, he spent almost 25 or 30 years with his sheikh,
Sheikhi al-Balki Rahatul Ali.
25 or 30 years.
And then he went away, wherever he went away, to Iraq and something.
And then when he came back after a long time, he came to meet his sheikh.
And his sheikh asked him,
What did you learn from me?
What did you learn from me?
And he told him, I learned seven things from you.
So the sheikh said, you wasted your life because 30 years you spent from me,
you learned only seven things.
And then he told him those seven things.
It's a fantastic story.
I won't go into it now.
Inshallah, I will do it in due course.
But amazing story.
So Hathim al-Aswami, there are some beautiful hikayats.
There are eight of these.
What we call timeless lessons.
Lessons which have, there's no time boundary on this.
Inshallah, we'll talk about the first one today.
He says, I have found that everybody loves somebody.
Everyone loves someone.
Your wife, children, property, friends, this, this.
We love you, name, fame, money, whatever.
Everyone loves something.
But I know that as soon as this person is laid in the grave,
the loved ones leave him.
The loved ones part company with him.
Consequently, he says, I have cultivated love for good deeds.
Consequently, I have cultivated love for good deeds,
so that when I die and pass into the grave,
my loved ones will also accompany me into the grave,
and I will not be alone.
And this is the meaning of the Hadith of Rasulullah ,
where he said that when a man dies,
what happens?
All his aaman come to a close.
Everything leaves him.
Except three.
And what are those three?
One is, what are the Saleh?
A child who is pious, who makes dua for him.
And number two is Sadaqah Jariyah.
Something which he has done, ongoing charity,
which continues to benefit him.
And third is Ilm-e-Nafiah.
Any Ilm, any knowledge that he had, which was beneficial,