# Allah Loves Honor | Episode 15 **Author:** Dr. Omar Suleiman **Series:** Allah Loves **Published:** 2019-05-20 **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abo5heb9clI **URL:** https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-honor-episode-15 **Topics:** Allah, Faith ## Description There is a protective honor that Allah loves that is distinguished from jealousy and doesn’t descend into suspicion. It’s not envy over this world, but motivated by the pursuit of the hereafter. ## Transcript **[0:00]** Salamualikoum, welcome back to Allah Loves. So once again we're taking a quality that **[0:19]** usually has negative connotations but in this situation it actually has some good connotations. Before I get back to the hadith that we started speaking about last week, I want to actually mention another hadith about envy, about hasad because it's tied to jealousy but it's not exactly the same thing. The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam mentioned that there's no **[0:38]** envy except in two situations. When you envy someone who Allah has given knowledge and they spread it or Allah has given wealth and they spend it in Allah's cause. Why? Because you would not envy them in a way that you would want something, you would want the money for the sake of being rich or you would want the knowledge for the sake of being praised. **[0:55]** But you envy the good that they're able to do with what Allah has employed them with and you don't wish them bad but you wish that you could again build yourself up to a place where you could also do the good that they are doing and spread it inshallah ta'ala for a noble goal and from a noble intention. So you're not envying over this dunya, over this **[1:15]** world nor are you envying in a way that fits the envy of the shaytan, that fits any type of satanic envy or any type of evil intention or wishing evil for anyone else and that speaks to your priorities of seeking the hereafter. Now the word jealousy is a little controversial **[1:32]** because there really is no word for ghira in the English language that really fits it. You could translate it as honour or you could translate it as a sense of protective jealousy and in the same hadith in Abu Dawood that I spoke about yesterday, in this hadith Allah subhana wa ta'ala mentions or the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam mentions that there's **[1:50]** a type of ghira, ma yuhibbuhu Allah, that Allah loves and a type of ghira that Allah hates. The type of ghira that Allah loves is the protective honour and jealousy that is based upon solid grounds. The type that he hates is that which is all based on suspicion. So **[2:06]** let's talk about this for a moment. When you see someone being harmed for example and I want to talk about ghira and why it's actually important for us to have that sense of ghira. When you see someone being harmed, when you see your sister being harmed, being taken advantage of or being harmed, you know there's this clip of Malcolm X, Al Hajj Malik al Shabazz **[2:26]** rahimahullah speaking about the black woman in America and talking about how she's the most disrespected person in America and you could see the outrage that he has about the protective nature, about how we will not allow anyone to disrespect our black women here **[2:41]** in America. Now if we took that same thing, I want you to think about how you feel when you see your sisters that are being offended, that are being taken advantage of, that are being assaulted anywhere in the world. If that doesn't drive a sense of outrage and honour in you, that's a problem. If you see your brothers from the Rohingya that are being **[2:59]** racially discriminated against or the Uighurs or whatever it may be, you see brothers who did nothing but live their lives in a noble way and did not seek to harm anyone but because they're Muslim, they're being harmed, they're being abused, their dignity is being taken away from them and you are driven out of a sense of honour that disturbs you and it disrupts **[3:17]** you and you actually want to help them, you're moved by something. When you have ghira for religious symbols for Allah and his messenger salallahu alayhi wasalam and you know I'm not talking about when people, when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is disrespected and people take to the streets and break windows and burn tires and harm people. That's not **[3:33]** because of love for the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, that's because of a sense of culture and disrespect and a very false sense of honour. But you should be driven to something where you feel disturbed on the inside and you want to instead uphold the image of the Prophet peace be upon him in a noble way that fits his noble image salallahu **[3:51]** alayhi wasalam. Likewise a person should feel that ghira for their family, they should feel a sense of protection, protectiveness, honour. Men, women, a woman should be protective over her husband, a husband should be protective over his wife in a way that they would not like that that person be abused or harmed. Someone might say well this is the language **[4:11]** of honour killings. Absolutely not. Honour killings are of the most hated things in Islam and that's not an honour for Allah because it's the greatest violation of Allah that a person hurts an innocent girl or an innocent woman or even a woman that does something wrong, a girl that does something wrong in a way that is such an atrocious manner. So **[4:29]** no, that's not from the sunnah, that's not from Islam. Honour killings have nothing to do with Islam and they're motivated and driven by something other than Allah and other than the Messenger salallahu alayhi wasalam. But the honour that we have for our sisters, for our brothers, for things that are sacred is a good protective type of honour, one that **[4:49]** causes us to act in honourable ways to uphold the honour of something or someone else. And that is something positive in our religion and something that Allah encourages in us so that we can always have that to tap into, not to be suspicious or become abusive or to become harmful or to be driven to lowly things. But instead to uphold the nobility **[5:09]** of noble things and that means the sanctity of what Allah has sanctified including the honour of people and the dignity that Allah has bestowed upon human beings, especially those that are beloved to us. So Allah loves healthy pride and protective jealousy, a great **[5:24]** sense of honour. We ask Allah to give us those things without letting them become means of transgression and to only keep within us that which is positive. Allahuma Ameen. Jazakum Allah Khayran. See you all next time inshaAllah. Asalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu. ## Other Episodes in "Allah Loves" - [Allah Loves Beauty | Episode 30](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-beauty-episode-30.md) - [Allah Loves the Acceptance of His Gifts | Episode 29](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-the-acceptance-of-his-gifts-episode-29.md) - [Allah Loves Being Prophetic | Episode 28](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-being-prophetic-episode-28.md) - [Allah Loves Generosity in Trade | Episode 27](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-generosity-in-trade-episode-27.md) - [Allah Loves the Unnoticed | Episode 26](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-the-unnoticed-episode-26.md) - [Allah Loves Your Mother | Episode 25](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-your-mother-episode-25.md) - [Allah Loves Love | Episode 24](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-love-episode-24.md) - [Allah Loves The Mosques | Episode 23](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-the-mosques-episode-23.md) - [Allah Loves Cleanliness | Episode 22](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-cleanliness-episode-22.md) - [Allah Loves Punctual Prayer | Episode 21](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-punctual-prayer.md) - [Allah Loves Consistency | Episode 20](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-consistency-episode-20.md) - [Allah Loves Due Diligence | Episode 19](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-due-diligence-episode-19.md) - [Allah Loves Forbearance and Deliberation | Episode 18](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-forbearance-episode-18.md) - [Allah Loves Humility Without Disgrace | Episode 17](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-humility-without-disgrace-episode-17.md) - [Allah Loves Gentleness | Episode 16](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-gentleness-episode-16.md) - [Allah Loves Healthy Pride | Episode 14](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-healthy-pride-episode-14.md) - [Allah Loves Independence | Episode 13](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-independence-episode-13.md) - [Allah Loves Strength | Episode 12](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-strength-episode-12.md) - [Allah Loves Beneficial People | Episode 11](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-beneficial-people-episode-11.md) - [Allah Loves Justice | Episode 10](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-justice-episode-10.md) - [Allah Loves Patience | Episode 9](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-patience-episode-9.md) - [Allah Loves Trust | Episode 8](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-trust-episode-8.md) - [Allah Loves Tears and Traces | Episode 7](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-tears-and-traces-episode-7.md) - [Allah Loves Those Who Are Trying | Episode 6](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-those-who-are-trying-episode-6.md) - [Allah Loves Sincere Supplication | Episode 5](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-sincere-supplication-episode-5.md) - [Allah Loves Angelic Praise | Episode 4](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-angelic-praise-episode-4.md) - [Allah Loves Excellence | Episode 3](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-excellence-episode-3.md) - [Allah Loves Repentance | Episode 2](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-repentance-episode-2.md) - [Allah Loves Piety | Episode 1](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-taqwa-episode-1.md) - [Allah Loves: Series Introduction](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/allah-loves/allah-loves-series-introduction.md)