Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 3

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the 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 upon his family, and peace and blessings be upon him.
Peace be upon him, and much, much peace.
And then, we are looking at the advice of Fatima al-Assam, may Allah be pleased with him, which he gave.
And this is the third one.
He said, I know that in this world, things which are dearest and most precious are looked after properly.
Something which is most precious, most valuable and dearest to you, you will look after it properly.
He said, I know this is the case with all our things.
And then I read in the Qur'an, and Allah said,
مَا عِنْدَكُمْ يَنْفَذُوا وَمَا عِنْدَ اللَّهِ بَاقٌ
Allah said, whatever you have will end.
But whatever Allah has is everlasting.
And Allah said,
وَلَذِيَنَّ الَّذِينَ صَبَرُوا أَجْرَهُمْ بِأَحْسَنِ مَا كَانُوا يَعْوَلُوا
Allah said, and we will certainly reward the steadfast according to the best of their deeds.
So Fatima al-Assam says that, whenever I saw something
which was of great value,
which was of great value,
to me, I spent it for the sake of Allah.
So that it will remain for me forever.
Anything which was most valuable, I gave it away,
so that it will remain for me with Allah forever.
Allah also said in the Qur'an,
لَنْ تَنَالُوا الْبِرَّ حَتَّىٰ تُنفِقُوا مِمَّا تُحِبُّونَ
وَمَا تُنفِقُوا مِنْ شَيْءٍ فَإِنَّ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهُمْ مِنْهُمْ
وَاللَّهَ بِهِ عَلِيمٌ
Allah said, you cannot reach the level of birr,
you cannot reach the level of piety,
until you spend in the path of Allah,
that which you love the most.
حَتَّىٰ تُنفِقُوا مِمَّا تُحِبُّونَ
There is virtue and there is sawab in spending anything,
whatever you have, alhamdulillah,
spending that in the path of Allah ,
including for example, things which you may not use,
I'm not talking about trash,
but I'm saying things which you may not use,
maybe say older clothes and this and that,
you give in the path of Allah, alhamdulillah, no problem.
But that is not what Allah is saying in this ayah.
In this ayah, Allah is saying, that which you love the most,
give it in the path of Allah if you want to reach the level of albirr,
the level of closest closest for Allah .
So it's not a question of what you give,
because everything you have in any case belongs to Allah .
It's a question of your niyyah.
It's a question of what is closest to Allah .
It's a question of what is closest to your heart.
So we have, alhamdulillah, beautiful stories from the seerah
and from the ayat of sahaba,
Abu Talha al-Ansari , when this ayat was revealed,
Abu Talha had a garden, he had a date orchard,
which was so thick that when you go inside,
it would be cool even in the summer.
So Rasool Allah sometimes used to go in that date orchard,
he would go and sit there.
There was a well,
this well had a wall around it.
So Nabi would sit on the side of the well on the wall,
and sometimes he would take water and drink from there.
There are several beautiful stories.
This date garden also had a wall all around it.
So one of the stories of this thing,
Nabi one day, he went by himself,
nobody knew where he went,
he was missing for a long time,
people got worried what happened to the Rasool .
So they went searching for him.
Abu Hurair then remembered,
that usually he would go to this date garden of Abu Talha al-Ansari.
So he went there, he tried to find a way inside,
he couldn't find a way,
he only found one way where there was a freshwater stream
that would come out from this date garden.
So for the stream to pass,
there was a little like a drain, you know, hole.
So Abu Hurair crawled in through that,
and he saw Rasool Allah there,
he was sitting there, he was sitting there.
He was sitting on this side of the well.
Abu Hurair said, Ya Rasool Allah, we are missing you.
Nabi said,