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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Al-Rahma, to be compassionate. SubhanAllah. How beautiful it would be to be characterized as a person who has the greatest quality of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that he's labeled himself with Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim. Notice how the Qur'an begins Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim. With the name of Allah, the most compassionate, the especially compassionate and merciful. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given himself, kataba rabbukum ala nafsih ar-rahma. He has written upon himself that he will deal with mankind with a gracious mercifulness, a compassion to us. But he has made it conditional to those who are able to leverage that quality within themselves seeking it from him in their display and habit with other people. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam is commanded to say to us, irhamu man fil ard, yarhamukum man fil samaa. Show your compassion and your merciful conduct to those who inhabit this earth with you. Allah above the heavens will be the one who will send you his compassion. Ar-Rahimuna yarhamuhum ar-Rahman. In another statement the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam says, those who are compassionate, the mercy of the most compassionate will arrive to them. SubhanAllah. There is a chapter in the Quran that actually begins ar-Rahman, the most, the Lord of mercy, the most merciful subhanahu wa ta'ala. All of that is to encourage us to develop that ideal, that habit of taking on the divine attributes of Allah in our own life. And that's one of the great mysteries and secrets of my existence and yours. That the greatest way of worshipping Allah, of invoking Allah's mercy, of seeking Allah's blessing in my life is to actually see how has Allah referred to himself and to take
upon those characteristics in my life in expressing them internally and externally to others. So notice Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us to be from those who are generous. And he says that he is al-ghani, he is the one without need. Listen to this hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam where he says that Allah on the day of judgment will say in the hadith Qudsi, I was hungry and you did not feed me. SubhanAllah. I was disheveled and unclothed and you did not cover me. I was unsheltered and you did not shelter me. The sahaba they said, oh messenger of Allah, how can Allah, the Lord almighty, the creator of all things, be hungry? How can we feed Allah? How can this be? He said that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam responded that Allah said, I showed you someone who was hungry and you turned away from them. Someone who was disheveled and in distress and you did not cover them. Someone who was without shelter and you could shelter them and you turned them away. The one who asks do not push them away. And in that way you can speak proudly of the blessings of Allah to you by having first shown it and shared it with those who you were given an opportunity to help. And this becomes a very central issue in my life and your life. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam sent us the Nabi as an expression of his mercy. Allah says in Suratul Anbiya, I only sent you, oh Muhammad, to be an expression of my mercy unto mankind. Meaning that your very purpose, your very attitude, your very lifestyle was to show other people how to be merciful and conduct with everyone around them. In that way they will earn my mercy on the day of judgment and in the life that they live today. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in Surat Al-Imran, which is the third chapter of the Quran, Fabima rahmatin minallahi lintalahu, walaw kunta fadhal ghaleedha alqalbi
Ya Muhammad, how could it be other than the fact that I put in you mercy in your heart. Fabima rahmatin minallah, it is by Allah's leave, by Allah's permission that I put mercifulness in your heart, rahma in your heart for the companions who are around you. Walaw kunta fadhal ghaleedha alqalbi. Had you been hard hearted, sharp tongued, had you been a person who was quick in your comment, quick in your abuse of return, had your heart been incapable of being merciful and allowing them to come to you with their seeking of forgiveness and pardon for their mistakes, had you been a person who would not consider them if they made an error back into good judgment in your life, you yourself, Ya Muhammad, would have lost all of your followers. Lamfaddu min hawlik. SubhanAllah. Could you and I ever imagine that somebody like Abu Bakr or Umar or Uthman or Ali radiAllahu anhum wa anas sahaba that they would say we've given up on you, Ya Muhammad? Yes, they would have if the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasalam was not merciful in heart. And therefore when you with your family, with your father, with your mother, your brothers, your sisters, your aunts, your uncles, your friends, your neighbors, your Muslim, non-Muslim, that if you deal with people with a callous heart, if you become a person who's dark hearted, hard hearted, if you're a person who Allah describes, qasat qudubuhum, their hearts harden, fahiyaka alhijara, it became harder than granite and rock, wa inna min alhijarati lama yatafajjiru minhu al-anhar, and in fact that they are worse than these rocks because rocks may be split by water springs erupting and trickling from them, but what good is a dark heart, a hard hearted person? Compassion becomes the greatest quality of a believer. Wa ma arsalnaka illa rahma, I only sent you as an expression of mercy to teach how mercy should be practiced in society, Ya Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wasalam. One day the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasalam
was with his grandchildren, playing with them and hugging them and loving them and stroking them and kissing them, he was enjoying their company. There was one of the sahaba was sitting at a distance, al-Aqra ibn Habis radiAllahu anhu, he's a righteous man, he's one of the great sahaba, he was watching the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasalam from a distance and as the Prophet was praying he finally came up to the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasalam and he said, O Messenger of Allah, liy aashra awlaad, I have ten of my own children, this hadith is in Bukhari, ten of my own children and not once in my life did I play with them in this way, I wanted to raise them to be tough and rough and tumble men, I wanted them to be rigid and strong, but you're playing with these young beautiful grandchildren of yours in a way that's so soft and, O Messenger of Allah, what is this? The Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasalam said to him, what can I do with someone who Allah has emplaced a natural mercy in their heart? He said, O Messenger of Allah, how can I increase the mercy in my heart, how can I become better with my own family, with my children, how can I soften up? The Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasalam said, I don't know anything better for you except for you to find an orphan child, so he doesn't say go play with your own children, he says find a young orphan who you cherish and you nurture and you look after them, feed them and help them and if all you can do is to wipe on their head just to give them a measure of reassurance that everything will be okay even though they live in a dark time in their life, that maybe mercy will enter in your heart and therefore the key to increasing your compassion is to look after others, to look after other human beings but also to look after other animals. SubhanAllah in the masjid of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasalam you would have found cats would be able to come in and eat and enjoy company. In fact one of the greatest conveyors of the Prophet's tradition, one of the great muhaddith of the sahaba, his name was Abu Huraira radiAllahu anhu wa ardaa. Why was he called Abu Huraira
meaning Abu Huraira, the one of the cat or the cats. Why did the Prophet give him the nickname that he is the cat lover? Well he used to have in his sleeve a little kitten that used to live there, so even in his prayer the cat would sit there and he would care for it and he would feed it and he would walk around the masjid of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasalam. There's even narrations that in the masjid of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasalam that there was a cat whose name was Mu'izzah, the one who's been dignified and honored. The Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasalam said leave cats to enjoy company with you, it mixes with you and can live in your home and that their urine is not najis and so on. So we take from this that there was compassion extended even beyond the convention of human to human but even with other animals and with other people and it's recommended for us to be compassionate to plants and trees. In the masjid of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasalam when it was first built there was a jiz'a, a little day tree that was growing, sahaba came to cut it down so they could make the masjid bigger and the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasalam said leave it, don't cut it down, let it be where it is and the Prophet used to sit next to it and lead the prayers right next to it Sallallahu alayhi wasalam. Compassion is a way of life, rahma is the way of life, it is the greatest quality that a believer seeks to have. Never will rahma be added to something illa zana, the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam said, hilm, compassion, mercy, rahma, it will never be added to anything except it ennobles it, makes it better. So anytime you're going to say something think is this the most merciful thing to be said, think is this the kindest comment to be made, think is this a charitable statement to be said or written or tweeted or shared with other people because everything that you put mercy into will always become more beautiful. هذا وصل على الحبيب المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم. This is your
brother Yahya Ibrahim, wasalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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