hey my brother why do you have a beard
even goats have
beards goats have
beards good to see you right quick first
question for everyone out there how do
you pronounce your last name is it I
don't want to say anything well if you
bring the T and the Z together T and the
Z together yeah very fast
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it's all right we'll leave it to you to
pronounce inshallah okay now on the
topic of Da what I really really wanted
to talk about is if the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam was here
today how would he be giving
da it's a tough question that's a very
good question of
course I believe that the prophet
sallallah
wasallam if he was alive today his da
would have been a DA of building trust
before he made the call what does this
mean we know the famous story when he
was on the mount yes and he said if
there was an Army behind me would you
believe me they said yes of course
you're the trustworthy this shows the
establishment of trust between himself
and the Arabs in Mecca so true so he was
saying I'm an authority concerning trust
I'm someone that you believe in I'm
someone that you trust exactly and then
he said fear the N fear the fire don't
worship yourselves your ego don't
worship creation but worship the one
that created you now some people use
this as evidence to say yes we can stand
in the public sphere and say oh people
oh
people listen to me who who are you
compared to this prop exactly the
prophet the Revelation came to him at
the age of 40 he had 40 years to already
develop agreed but we should not fall
for the Trap and say oh I have to be
extremely trustworthy before I give any
doubt right so it's a unique balance
what it means is at the same time when
you're making the call be the call don't
be a human doing be a human being be
that which you believe in so we know we
have to be trustworthy individuals we
have to be people that people look up to
us honest people honest caring
compassionate we need to raise the moral
bar now because we have to show how
profound our tradition is like take the
rights of the neighbors it is a
neglected practice in our society before
you move I'm the biggest hypocrite I'm
the biggest hypocrite on this I no we
all are we all are so from that
perspective we suspend the rights of the
neighbors and the rights of the
neighbors includes Muslim and non-muslim
to the point where the Prophet sallallah
alai wasam he thought that the angel
Gabriel would have
legislated right that we have to give
some of our inheritance inheritance to
the neighbors and if you read The Works
of Al gazali and many others they wrote
manuals on rights of neighbors and this
includes psychological State emotive
State physical state for example if you
see your next door neighbor say he is
Joe blogs and he walks to work he's you
haven't seen his wife for a few months
he's growing his stubble his tires all
over the place he's got lots of beer
cans and that's a change in his
character you have a level of
responsibility to inquire if
everything's all right what happened
what can I do how can I take care of
your Social Psych ological and physical
needs wow do you know what's actually
scary is there's been a recent epidemic
in I'm not sure if it's only in
Australia but there's been cases whereby
neighbors have died and people don't
know until 6 days later because of the
smell that comes out of the house so
this teaching that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam is ever more
so necessary today as it was 1400 years
ago so truly it is important we live in
a fragmented and individualistic Society
now and so the teachings of the Prophet
wasam teach us not to be fragmented as a
society and not to be individualistic
thinking about me myself and I I'm all
right jack love for your brother what
you love for yourself but that's
interesting because the love for your
brother here according to the like IM
and others that this means
human it means human too regard Muslim
non-muslim yes human beings inia people
in general so if we want to love for
others we love for ourselves then we
must must take care of our fellow human
beings obviously primarily this means
that we should give them daah because
that's the greatest form of love we have
love of Allah and love of the messenger
but being good to your neighbor is a
mechanism towards that do you see it
starts off in the community then it goes
Global and that's the obligation of but
it goes to show that we have to be
trustworthy not only trustworthy but
follow a prophetic character the prophet
was the most compassionate he was he was
the walking Quran as taught so whatever
he acted was in Quran in God's scripture
and he was the most compassionate person
he would say to aa oh aa be
compassionate when there is compassion
in something it elevates it when it's
removed from something it degrades it
makes it ugly and this shows that we
have a compassionate tradition but
sometimes when we look at each other it
looks like there's no there's no
compassion left that is like Subhan
Allah there's there's a beautiful Dua in
the Quran where Allah says you know the
the the Believers they say
oh oh God do not put hatred in our
hearts between those of the Believers
because it's so important that we should
love one another of course and that's
what stems on to loving the rest of
humanity and there was no one better
than that than the prophet peace be upon
the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam
said in a Hadith that you will not enter
Paradise until you believe and you won't
believe until you love one another and
also concerning compassion the prophet
Sall wasam said that if you're not
compassionate to the
creatures on Earth then the one who's in
the heavens won't be compassionate to
you won't show Mercy to you be Mercy to
people and that includes Muslims and
non-muslims Allah will show you Mercy
because the prophet peace be upon him
what did what does God call him in the
Quran and if a mercy to and what is
everything except Allah which means
everything that exists the prophet pey
upon him was a mercy to it so I think
Mercy compassion
gentleness these go hand in hand with
The Message of Islam this is Da combine
the two and inshallah the da will be
easy let's end on this the Quran speaks
to the prophet and says if you were not
soft-hearted with them meaning the
companions they would have run away from
you this means that being soft-hearted
and compassionate is a mechanism for
allowing people to flock towards you not
for them to run away wow that's so
beautiful
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yeah