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When You Thought He Cursed You | Meeting Muhammad ﷺ Episode 16
Imagine upsetting the Prophet ﷺ and being cursed by him. What is the impact of his words in the sight of Allah?
Transcript
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Generally speaking, to be criticized or to feel like you let down the person you love most is really tough. And so, if you're parents, you know that there's usually the one parent that less frequently disciplines the child and when that parent gets mad, it's different. Or you have the teacher or the friend that you really, really admire and you don't want to let them down and then you upset them for the very first time. Now, this is going to be a really hard one to come to terms with. Imagine being cursed by the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam or thinking that you were cursed by the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And I'm not talking about someone that was an enemy of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam that became Muslim later on. I'm talking about you're a Muslim living in Medina and you did something that upset the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam apparently made du'a against you. How do you even recover from something like that? Now, when it comes to the enemies of Islam, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam generally speaking, even with them, he said SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, lam ubaith la'anan wa innama bu'ithtu rahma. I was not sent to curse people, but instead I was sent as a mercy. So, it wasn't the habit of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to even curse the enemies. And when he did SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam specifically, they all ended up in the same ditch in the battle of Badr because the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would rarely do that. Instead, even when people came to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and said make du'a against our people, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam instead would supplicate for them to be guided. Now, I want to share a few stories because these are different now because you're in the community. And this one is particularly near and dear to my heart and it's not well known. Anas ibn Malik radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, he said that there was an orphan girl with Umm Sulaym radiAllahu ta'ala anha. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam saw her and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said to her, wow, Antihiyya, are you her? Meaning he hadn't seen her for a long time SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So, he said, are you her? He said, laqad kabirti, you've gotten so much older, la kabira sinnuki, may you not get older. And that was an expression, right? It's like if you see a young girl and you say to a young girl, you know, your friend's daughter or whatever it may be, you say, wow, you've gotten so big, you need to stop growing on me, right? It's an expression of amazement. And a lot of these expressions, of course, have different meanings in the way that they're used and in the formal sense. So, this poor young girl thought that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam just really made dua against her. So, she goes home weeping and Umm Sulaym radiAllahu ta'ala anha sees this young orphan girl and she says to her, ma laki ya abuniyyati, what's wrong with you, oh my daughter? And she says, da'a aliyya nabiya Allah, the Prophet of Allah made dua against me, he supplicated against me, I'm never going to grow again, I'm never going to get older. And she thought that because of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's dua, one of two things was going to happen, either she was going to die or she was going to stay her age and not get any older. Now, Umm Sulaym radiAllahu anha knows something is wrong here, right? She is very close to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, she knows that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam loves the orphan, she knows that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam plays with the children. So Umm Sulaym radiAllahu ta'ala anha said, I need to go figure out what happened. So she throws on her hijab and she goes rushing to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and she's coming to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam with such urgency that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam sees her coming and he says, ma laki ya Umm Sulaym, what is it, oh Umm Sulaym, what's wrong with you? And she said, ya Rasulullah, you invoked a curse upon my orphan girl and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says, Umm Sulaym, what are you talking about? She says, you cursed her and so now she says she's never going to grow up. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam started to laugh and he said, ya Umm Sulaym, don't you know that between me and my Lord is that anytime I say something that could be a curse to anyone amongst my ummah that doesn't deserve it, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la will actually make it a source of zakat and wa qurba yawm al qiyamah, a source of purification for them and a source of coming
close on the day of judgment. So even if it was just an expression and even if it was to be taken at its formal meaning, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying, look, Allah Azawajal has granted me this with my ummah that if I say something towards someone in my ummah, one of the believers, and it doesn't apply, that it's going to actually be a source of reward for them. But what about when he actually curses you SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam? So this is another story that probably most people have not heard and it's one where the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam actually invokes a curse or seemingly invokes a curse in a very serious situation and it involves Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha. Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha says that after one of the battles, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam had one of the prisoners and he brought the prisoner home and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam told me to watch that prisoner and he said, be careful and don't lose sight of him. So this is very serious, right? This is post-battle and you have the prisoners of war, people are very dangerous, it's in a war time and Aisha radiAllahu Anha has been told, don't lose sight of this prisoner. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam leaves, Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha says, some of my friends came over and we started to talk and as we were socializing, she said that I completely forgot about the prisoner. By the time I went back to the other room and it's not a big house, he was gone. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam comes back and he looks in the in the room and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam notices that the prisoner is gone. He says, Aisha what happened? She said, Ya Rasulullah, my friends came over and I lost sight of him and so I couldn't hold on to him. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says, Qata'Allahu Yadak, may Allah cut off your hand. And that was an expression once again and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam immediately leaves out of the house going to look for the prisoner. Now this is a serious situation, right? This is a man that's on the loose that literally was just in battle with the Muslims and could do something. Now Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha, she's at home and she just heard the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam say, may Allah cut off your hand. And again even though it's an expression
she knows her husband, she has witnessed his miracles SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So she is in complete fright that something bad is going to happen to her. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, he comes home and he sees Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha in the living room and she's looking at her hands and she's turning her hands over and she's watching them. And as Tuqallibu Yadayha, the narration says she's looking at her hands and she's watching them turning them over. Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says, what are you doing Ya Aisha? She said, Ya Rasulullah I'm looking at my hands to see which one of them is going to fall off because of your dua against me when you said Qata'Allahu Yadak. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said, Ya Aisha don't you know that if I say something like that to someone in my ummah that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will make it a source of purification for them. You don't have to worry about one of your hands falling off. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam actually made dua. He said, Allahumma fa-ayyuma mu'minin sababtuhu fa-ja'al dhalika lahu qurbatan ilayka yawmul qiyamah. He said, Oh Allah, if there is any mu'min, any believer that I curse in the midst of anger or in the midst of an expression, fa-ja'al dhalika lahu qurbatan ilayka yawmul qiyamah. Make that a means of them coming close to you on the day of judgment. So even in the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's anger with you, if he used one of those expressions, even that was a mercy from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
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