Ali Dawah - April 01, 2019


PROPHET (saw) MESSAGE TO TAXI DRIVER - SH ABU SAFIYYAH


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

155.54073

Word count

466

Sentence count

33

Harmful content

Hate speech

2

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Summary

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Jummah Kutbah on who are the unknown gems in society and what they do to earn their place in the society. The best of these gems are those who don't even know who they are, yet they do their best to earn the pleasure of Allah.

Transcript

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00:00:00.280 We strive to earn the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we strive to earn the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, regardless if the people know of you, or if they do not know of you.
00:00:12.620 This is a lesson for our ikhlas. We should not strive to have our names mentioned by the people in this.
00:00:20.580 Allah jalla wa'ala knows you. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows who you are. 0.72
00:00:24.220 And in fact, once I was sitting with one of my mashayikh, and he said, if it were to be said to the people in a particular town,
00:00:36.680 if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala were to take out the best of these people, the best of these people,
00:00:42.420 don't think for a second it would be the mashayikh that are known, or the imman, the masajid.
00:00:47.100 It would be these unknown gems in the society.
00:00:50.100 These unknown people whom Allah, whom most people do not even bear an eyelid to.
00:00:55.360 But it is they who are closest to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. 0.94
00:01:01.400 Once there was a, and this was a story that one of my mashayikh told me,
00:01:06.600 and he knows of the people.
00:01:08.440 A man, I think this is in Qasim,
00:01:18.040 a man came to another man's house, he knocked on the door.
00:01:22.400 Okay?
00:01:23.160 He knocked on the door.
00:01:24.920 So of course the inhabitant of the door, he opened it.
00:01:27.400 And it was a strange man there.
00:01:29.260 And he said, is your name so and so?
00:01:31.960 He said, yes.
00:01:32.700 He said, I have been sent here by the minister of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
00:01:40.860 I had a dream in which Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam came to me
00:01:44.900 and told me, go to this person, go to this person and give him my salam.
00:01:51.080 Give him my salam.
00:01:52.100 And the man, of course, he broke down.
00:01:56.880 He broke down, of course.
00:01:59.720 And literally the messenger asked him,
00:02:03.180 what is special about you?
00:02:04.680 He looked like someone completely normal.
00:02:06.940 Completely normal.
00:02:08.300 He was a taxi driver.
00:02:09.760 Someone completely normal.
00:02:11.400 You know, you would not see anything kind of unique about him.
00:02:14.260 Something that really singles him out.
00:02:15.580 And he said, six months ago,
00:02:20.020 my neighbor, who's married and has multiple children,
00:02:24.520 he died.
00:02:26.080 He died and he left behind young children.
00:02:29.200 The moment he died,
00:02:30.580 I took it upon myself as a responsibility
00:02:32.480 to cut my wage in half.
00:02:36.040 At the end of the month,
00:02:38.020 I divided my wage in half
00:02:39.640 and I put it underneath their door.
00:02:42.340 Subhanallah, they don't even know it was me.
00:02:43.660 And I have been doing this ever since.
00:02:49.220 Brothers, do we not know if the fadail of the orphans
00:02:51.320 and Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
00:02:54.060 and the one who looks after the orphans
00:02:58.400 are like this in Jannah?