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When Jibreel Would Meet Him | Meeting Muhammad ﷺ Episode 24
| The Prophet’s ﷺ generosity was boundless, and at no time was this more apparent than in Ramadan. Between his nightly meetings with Jibreel (as) and his increased worship in the Holy Month, the Prophet ﷺ was consumed with giving as much as he could. |
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. This is no longer the beginning of revelation when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was intimidated or impacted by Jibreel Alayhi Salam by way of fear. Now you're at a point where the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam misses Jibreel Alayhi Salam. In fact, he asks Jibreel when he takes a long time to come to him, when he doesn't visit him as frequently, why is it that you don't come to me as often? Wamanatanazal illa bi amri rabbik And the answer comes from the heavens that the angels are not allowed to descend. And Jibreel Alayhi Salam is not allowed to descend except by the command of the Lord. Otherwise Jibreel Alayhi Salam would always be with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam because Jibreel loved the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam loved Jibreel Alayhi Salam. Now, if you're in Medina and you're around the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, you knew when Jibreel Alayhi Salam was coming to him even outside of revelation because of the reaction that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would have. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam Here we are in the last 10 nights and you're hoping that you're one of those blessed people that would receive the mercy of your Lord and that the angels will come to your home and particularly amongst them will be Sayyidul Malaikah, will be the chief of the angels, Jibreel Alayhi Salam. Now the impact of that religiosity on you is to increase you in two things, qaleelan mina allayli ma yahja'oon wabil ashaari hum yastaghfiroon wafee amwalihim haqqum ma'loom lissa'ari walmahroom Right? It's supposed to increase you in praying at night, increasing in istighfar, seeking forgiveness, and increasing in charity. Now imagine the impact on the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam when Jibreel Alayhi Salam was visiting him every single night in Ramadan. We already know what the qiyam of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was like in the nights of Ramadan, that he would stay up all night Alayhi Salatu Wasallam, especially in the last 10 nights. But what was the impact on the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam during the day? Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhuma, he says,
kana nabiyu SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam ajwad an-nas He said the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was the most generous of all people. And he would become even more generous in Ramadan, heena yalqaahu Jibreel when Jibreel Alayhi Salam would meet him and Jibreel Alayhi Salam used to meet him every night in Ramadan to revise the Quran with him, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhuma says that when that would happen, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's generosity would become karreeh al-mursala like a hurricane of generosity. So let's first start with ajwad an-nas, that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was the most generous of people and connect that to what we've already talked about with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and specifically what it means here. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was the living example of a person who gives with their right hands in a way that their left hand doesn't even know it, right? That means that the right hand gives with such openness that the left hand can't restrain it and the right hand gives with such sincerity that no one else sees it and the only person who would know it is the one that's impacted by your generosity. Well, in the case of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, everyone was impacted by his generosity, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and he had an open hands and an open heart and you would have thought that he can't get more generous than he already is. Anas ibn Malik radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he said that there was this man that came to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and he kept on asking the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam kept on giving him to the point that he went back to his people and he said, oh my people, embrace Islam for this man, Muhammad SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam gives wala yakhshal faqr, and he's not afraid of poverty. The man has no fear of poverty, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And you'll see this, that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would do this, especially with those whose hearts needed to be attracted to Islam a little bit further, the previous enemies of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam So Safwan ibn Umayyah, for example, who the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam gave a hundred camels and then another hundred camels and then another hundred camels until it was 300 camels in total.
And you'll see that Bilal radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu who suffered alongside the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam he describes these moments that when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would get something, he would immediately try to dispose of it SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in charity to a point that sometimes Bilal radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu would get tired because of how often he was trying to run with the charity of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and give it to those that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam had dictated it be given to. Abu Dharr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu says that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, if I had gold equal to the mountain of Uhud, it would not please me that any of it remain in my possession for more than three nights, except for that which I would need to be able to repay my debts. SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam So he preferred SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to keep on giving and giving and giving and giving. Omar bin Al-Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu recounts this beautiful incident with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam that this man came to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and he asked him to give him something and Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam looks around and he has nothing, right? And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam doesn't want to send him off without anything. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam tells him, he says, look, I have nothing left, but go ahead and purchase what you need on my expense. And when I get something, then I'll go ahead and I'll pay it off. So he's even giving people credit SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam because he doesn't have anything to give at the moment. Now, obviously Omar radiAllahu Anhu sees this and he doesn't want the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to be burdened with this. So he says, ya Rasulullah, I'll take care of it. Allah has not burdened you with what is beyond your means. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam showed in his face that he didn't like those words that Omar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu said. And then a man from the Ansar said, ya Rasulullah, anfiq wa la takhaf min dhil arshi iqlala O messenger of Allah, give and do not fear from the Lord of the throne any type of poverty. So Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam smiled and he was clearly pleased with the Ansari's words over the word of Omar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. And he said SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, bihatha umirt. This is what I was commanded to do. So you could not get more generous
than the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam already was. And if you saw the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in his normal behavior, then you would think it doesn't get any better than this. But heena yalqaahu Jibreel. But when he saw Jibreel Alayhi Salam, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam even exceeded standards that he had set for himself SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And the scholars mentioned something so beautiful about this. They say that when you have a righteous friend, when you have a righteous person in your presence, when you look at them, they remind you of Allah. When you have a righteous companion, when you're around them, you want to do more righteous deeds. So when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would look at Jibreel Alayhi Salam, when he would accompany Jibreel Alayhi Salam, it was like having that righteous companionship where you wanted to be inspired to do more. And that was the impact that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam had on everybody else around him. Sallu alayh, sallu alayh, SallAllahu alayhi wasallam.
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