Lessons from Hatim Al Asamm – 4

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 and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions.
Peace be upon you all.
We are on the advice and the beautiful story that Syedina Hatim al-Atham, may Allah be pleased with him, gave to the people.
And on the fourth of them, he said,
But I have read in the Qur'an that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
In Surah Al-Hujurat, Allah said,
Verily and truly the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the one who is the most righteous and pious of you.
Allah is truly all-knowing, all-aware.
Therefore, he said,
I have learnt piety.
I have learnt piety and righteousness so that I may become the best of men in the sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
My brothers and sisters, we have learnt in this deen of ours, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
Allah has blessed us with this beautiful deen.
And the first and foremost thing to understand here is that all benefit comes,
only from practice.
And practice is done only by those who consider that practice to be beneficial and worthwhile.
So therefore, we have to ask ourselves,
Do we really believe that Islam is the best way of life?
And if the answer is yes, and of course the answer is yes,
then we must practice Islam.
Not talk about Islam.
Not think about Islam.
Not write.
Not write about Islam.
Practice Islam.
Because Islam is like a martial art.
It's like a physical exercise.
It will not benefit you.
Knowing about Judo will not benefit you.
Doing Judo will benefit you.
Knowing about lifting weights won't benefit you.
Actually, lifting weights will benefit you.
Right?
Muhammad Ali, the greatest athlete of all time,
the boxer, Rahmatullah Ali,
he used to say,
I don't count,
I don't count,
I don't count,
I don't count,
I don't count my push-ups from the time I start.
I start counting from the time I start feeling pain.
He said, because that is the time the benefit starts.
Yeah, I start counting only from the time that I start feeling the pain
because the benefit starts from that.
This is very important for us to understand.
That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us this beautiful deen.
And in this deen, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us
that the best person in the sight of Allah
is the one who is most,
who has the most taqwa,
the one who is most conscious of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, the one who
wants to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
more than anything else in
life.
Right? So, the
desire to please Allah and then
the effort to please Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, this is what gives us
benefit, not anything else.
The rest of the stuff is what Allah
has given us. It belongs to Allah anyways. What
are we going to, you know, feel good about?
My money doesn't belong to me. My
life doesn't belong to me.
So, I'm proud of what?
So, we must
think about this and remember this.
See, the thing about this, look at, look at, look
at, think about it like this.
Many times I see, especially
in
people who have recently
within quotes come to Islam.
So, could be reverts, would also be
Muslims who have suddenly, alhamdulillah, Allah has given
them hidayat, so they start coming
to the masjid, they start learning
something and so on. Almost the
first thing they do is they start
looking down on others.
First thing, immediately.
Oh, look at this fellow, look at that fellow,
this fellow, you were sitting in the pub
with that fellow, you were sitting in the bar with that fellow yesterday.
Suddenly now he's become an evil
person. Why?
Right? He was your
greatest buddy and
friend. Please
understand this. The one who looks down
on others, who was the first one?
Iblis.
What did he say?
That's all he said.
He did not say Adam
alayhi salam is evil.
He just said
I am better than him.
That's it.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
put him in hellfire.
So, understand
this.