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When You Were Embarrassed | Meeting Muhammad ﷺ Episode 19
When you messed up in front of the Prophet ﷺ, it may feel like you could never recover from it. This is how he would respond to your mistakes.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was a shepherd and he said that all prophets were shepherds at some point. And when you shepherd your flock, you have to tolerate all sorts of things. And one of the things that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam tolerated very well was the question that was asked that seemed inappropriate or was asked in an inappropriate way. The young person that came forth and said something or did something that was really out of place. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam encouraged you to come forth and to ask your questions about deen, about the religion, so that your ignorance does not get the best of you. And then somehow end up translating into the ignorance of a larger group of people. And so in that process, you see a lot of incidents where people messed up in the presence of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, right? And in messing up in the presence of such a great man, it's easy for people to easily get disrupted or get disturbed and think that this is the end of it all. So you have these incidents of the Bedouins in particular. And usually when you have the narrator of the Hadith emphasizing that a Bedouin came forth, what he means is that that Bedouin is not going to be as refined with their mannerisms in the presence of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And so they're going to interrupt him in the middle of his khutbah, is they're gonna interrupt him while he's talking to people. They're going to maybe approach him more abrasively. And all the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would do is he would finish his train of thought, which is very interesting about his personality SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. He wouldn't stop in the middle of his khutbah, but he would continue to talk. And then after he finished, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would then ask, who asked the question? Who was the one that had raised their voice, who wanted some sort of clarification? So he did not lose the entire gathering. And at the same time, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam did not let that person's question go to waste. And so the famous story of the man that asked the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, when is the hour? And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam waited until the end of his khutbah. And then the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
where's the person who asked me about the hour? You also see the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, you know, in one hadith, picking off dried snot from the minbar. And he peels it off himself SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and he says, you know, isn't there a better place for people to leave this? So you had a person that actually had left dried snot on the minbar of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. You have the story of the man who walks in and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was leading the companions in prayer. And this man did not know yet of the prohibition of speaking in the salah. So when he walks into the prayer, he says Salaam Alaikum to the people and no one responds to him. And he gets really agitated that no one is responding to him when he says Salaam to them. So he continues to talk and he says, what's wrong with you? And none of the companions are responding to him. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, after the salah, he says, where's the person that asked the question about why no one was responding to him? And he validated him SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. He said that it used to be permissible to say Salaam and to talk in salah in a moderate way, the way that you would in tawaf or something of that sort. But Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la has prohibited it. And of course the famous story of the Bedouin who came into the masjid and who urinated in the masjid. Now, before he urinated in the masjid, he was praying behind the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and he had a general unkempt look and appearance that the sahaba were a little bothered by the way he was carrying himself. And he already felt unwelcomed in the masjid. And as he was praying behind the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam at the end of the salah, he said, Allahumma arhamni warham muhammada wala tarham ma'ana ahada Oh Allah have mercy on me, have mercy on Muhammad and don't have mercy on anyone else. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam he turned around and he said that you've made something so expansive, so narrow and limited. The mercy of Allah can cover everyone. And then he goes to the corner of the masjid and he starts to urinate. So this actually happened before he started to urinate. So he just starts urinating in the masjid and the sahaba are about to rush this man and take him out. I mean, this is the masjid of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says stop. And he even says SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
let him finish, let him finish and don't scare him any further. Let him continue to do his thing. And then after he's done the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, he orders the companions to take some buckets of water and to pour water on the place that he urinated. And he simply says to the man, he says that these places these masjids are places for the remembrance of Allah. And it's not befitting that a person urinates in these places. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam turns to the companions and he says, innama buAAithtum muyassireen wa lam tubAAithum muAAassireen that you were sent to bring ease to the people. You were not sent to bring hardship. And on that note, since it's Ramadan, one of the most beautiful stories that you find is the story of Salama bin Sakhar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. Salama bin Sakhar was a young man who used to say, kuntu useebu minan nisaa ma la yuseebu ghayri He said, look, I loved women more than other people loved women. So I had an issue where I loved women too much and I could not restrict my desires, my shahwa in the month of Ramadan. So he said, when Ramadan came around, I told my wife that you are to me like my mother's back. This was called dhihaar. This was a prohibited form of divorce or pre-divorce that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la speaks about in Surah Al-Mujadila, in the woman that pleads, the Surah about the woman that pleads. But he pronounced it on her at that time because he wanted to basically make her not like his wife as a means of stopping himself from being intimate with her. So that didn't last very long. Some of the time went by and he says that one night I saw some of her leg, he said, falam albat an nazawtu AAalayha And he said, I could not hold myself. And of course we know what happens next. He was intimate with her. So he says, the next day I woke up and I went and I told my people what happened. And they were looking at me like, you're in trouble. You know, there is no way that you're going to get around this. So I said to them, well, come with me to Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to the messenger of Allah so that we could see what's going to happen in my regard.
And all of them said, la wallah They said, no way you go by yourself. So I went to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and I told him what happened. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Anta bi dhak ya salama Did you really do that Salama? And he said twice ya Rasulullah I actually messed up twice, oh messenger of Allah. And he said, I am content with whatever Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la orders in regards to me. So go ahead and take a decision and you're going to find me ready to undertake that command from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says, okay, free a slave. He said, wal ladhi ba'athak bil haqq He said, by the one who sent you with the truth. He said, I don't possess a neck other than this neck. And he struck the surface of his neck. Saying to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam I can't free anyone else's neck because this is all I have. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says then, okay, in that case, go ahead and fast two consecutive months, mutatabi'een. So I said to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, Ya Rasulullah, what happened to me in the first place happened to me because of my fasting. Remember he just told the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam tell me anything and I'll do it. And now he's making excuses as the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is telling him things. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, fine. You know what? Feed 60 poor people with a wasq of tamar, of dates. So he said, Ya Rasulullah, wal ladhi ba'athak bil haqq We are the hungriest people. I swear by the one who sent you in truth. We are the hungriest people. And we pass nights upon nights without having food for ourselves. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, what does he do? He goes and he gets him the dates himself SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam And he says, go out and feed 60 people and then feed yourself and your family with the remaining dates. So here he comes back to his people and instead of being destroyed, like he thought and they thought he was going to be, he's carrying all of this food for them. And he says to them, when I came to you people, I found nothing but doom and poverty. But he said, when I went to Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam wajattu AAindahu as-saAAa wa husn al-ra'ee I found with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam expanse and a good opinion. And that's something that was consistent with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
that when you went to him after having messed up, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was not going to doom you. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was going to find a solution for you and put you at ease while also giving you a course of action to come back to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la and get back to the right place. Sallu alayh Sallu alayh SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
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