Ghibbat…
Some Hadiths: Part- IV
By
the grace of Allah, I continue the subject of my Friday sermon on
“Ghibbat”
- backbiting, thinking badly of a person, being jealous of him, and
seeking to harm him only for the purpose of having the satisfaction
of seeing others spit on him and dishonour him.
This
is a subject that must be developed again and again for the education
of all people in general and especially for our members of the Jamaat
Ul Sahih Al Islam. If you analyze this subject in depth, you will
also find that in our society that we are living today, there are
problems between brothers where you see a brother humiliating his own
brother, whereby he takes him as an inferior person. If someone knows
his own person well, then he would never consider others to be
inferior. Hazrat Massih Ma’ud (as) explained this in this way, that
you need to implant in your thoughts the idea that you are worse than
others, and thus you will see how, Insha-Allah
this remedy will actually work.
On
top of that, Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) said that a person should not
consider someone else as inferior, because when you analyze your own
being, you will find that it is you who are inferior, and if you have
some honour it is just because Allah is doing Pardah
Poshi with you. If you have
any status, any rank, any knowledge, any intelligence, or you have
money, beauty, lots of children etc., then, it’s just by the grace
and blessing of Allah.
When
someone understands this well, then when he sees someone who is
inferior to him, he will be ashamed and shall not consider him as a
lowly person, and this is a reality whereby when you sees the other
person, and you think that despite his difficult situation he is more
advanced than you in the field of sacrifice, sincerity and striving
to spread the Deen-e-Islam,
etc. So, you are ashamed, and you seek divine forgiveness and you
never again dare to consider him as an inferior being [of low
status].
So
take this into account. If you really have deep love for Nabi Kareem
(pbuh) you will think about it. This is the tarbiyyat
which Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) has given us after pondering lengthily
on the human psychology with the help of Allah (swt). This pure being
came [on earth] more than 1400 years ago; such a being for which the
entire universe was created; look how much efforts he did for
insignificant people like us. When he woke up, he prayed [invoked
Allah in duah]
and he used to mention illnesses one by one and that too openly and
he provided the remedies for each malady. And if after listening to
this you only state that these were indeed great advices which he
gave, this is not sufficient. When you look at the sacrifices he
made, you would not dare to neglect these advices.
No
other prophet in the world had surpassed Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) in
the efforts he put for his people. So ponder over this a little and
then with all respect you will bend and submit [to the will of Allah
and to the truth in all advices of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh)]. This is
because it is in obedience that there is always an enthusiasm which
manifests from the heart. And when your heart falls completely in
love with Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh), then it becomes impossible that you
do not accept his advices.
So
do not only look at these advices in the light of his knowledge but
also perceive the love which he had [and showed] to Allah and his
Ummah.
Look at the mercy which is present at the foundation itself of these
advices, and then when you will bend and submit, you will do it with
such obedience which will make you win the love of Allah and His
prophet (pbuh), and it is because of this very love that we are alive
and it is this very love which is our final aim. So the pathways to
this Muhabbat
(love) have been made easy for us [i.e. through these advices and
obedience].
Then
Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) said that “Taqwa
is here”. Which means that the
position [or stage] of Taqwa
is the heart of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh), and then he said that the
Muslim, the very fact that he criticizes his brother, that alone is
an evil. So, I already mentioned this before and I say it again, that
if a Muslim criticizes his other brother and humiliates him, then
that is enough to bring about destruction. Which means, be careful,
do not consider your brother to be inferior and do not do any
humiliating treatment on him, because that itself is enough to bring
about a destruction that comes from Allah. There are three things of
a Muslim which is illicit (Haram)
on another Muslim: his blood, his honour and his possessions
[property/ wealth/ riches]. On the subject of blood, crime was a
rarity in the past, but today you can witness [by reading the
newspapers and watching the news] how many crimes there are; murders
are committed like animals are being brought to the slaughterhouse to
kill them, and all this is due to several factors such as revenge,
jealousy, or drugs, etc.
The
2nd
and 3rd
points are his honour and his wealth. Dishonouring one’s brother
and robbing him of his property has become common in all families,
societies, and countries. If we don’t change ourselves completely
and we don’t make ourselves pure of those completely, we will not
have the ability to gain the upper hand over the whole world. If we
ever receive some blessings, it is because of those few of us who
have completely purified ourselves from these evils.
But
in this time that we are living now and by the grace that Allah (swt)
has poured out on us, I expect you to reflect a little on everything
I told you [in my sermons on the subject ] even often, and you try to
put them into practice. And with the words of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh)
purify yourselves, your intentions and create such a society which
will become an example in this field, and it is at this point that
you will perceive what you have gained or lost, and each of you
will have Jannah
(paradise) with all of this. It is because before (this), you lived a hellish
life with these lies: the pleasures you took in “Ghibbat”
(backbiting), in criticizing others, etc. In all of this there is a
fire that ignites in your heart and which then comes out like snakes
on fire.
So
if you hear this advice, and put it into practice, all of these fires
will be eliminated. And you will be at peace and this will become a
Jannah and
the whole family, all of society will be at peace and as for you, no
Maulvi, no animosity, no government will be able to do anything
against you. If you decorate yourself with the morals of Hazrat
Muhammad (pbuh), then the world will have great respect for you.
Then
it is mentioned not to be jealous. Allah neither looks at your
riches, nor at the beauty of your faces. If Allah does not look at
these things, why do you worry? You don’t have to worry that
“So-and-so is more handsome [or
pretty] than me or has more wealth than me”.
What Allah (swt) looks at is who is closest to Him. So why are you
worried? If Allah is close to you, then He will certainly decide in
your favour; He will not judge by taking into consideration someone’s
physical beauty or wealth; He will not judge according to who is more
beautiful and richer than the others. What He will judge and consider
is who has more Taqwa
[than the others] and has purified himself completely.
So
the one who has more Taqwa
in his heart, it is he who is richer in the sight of Allah. Sometimes
you ask yourself the question, how do you know if Allah is looking at
[your] Taqwa
or not? But the person who has Taqwa
in the heart, he will know. Sometimes there are poor people, but they
have Taqwa,
and this type of people receives a lot of honour in this world. Who
was poorer than Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh)? In his house there was
nothing to sit on, and for days and days fire was not lit [to prepare
food]. But despite this, many people abandoned all their possessions
and presented themselves at the door of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) and
with his link of poverty that they earned thanks to him, this even
became a source of honour for them. Kings have left their kingdoms
and came to Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh). Alhamdulillah.
So
look at Taqwa;
then if you analyze the advice of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) with honour
and you put it into practice, then you will benefit from all this; a
complete benefit. Then he said not to look for the faults or
weaknesses of others and not to ruin the transactions of others. And
he ended by saying that a Muslim is a brother to another Muslim, and
from there you can start your journey of progress and give up evil.
May Allah help us in the accomplishment of all these duties. Ameen.
ANNOUNCEMENTS :
1.
Insha-Allah,
the Jamaat of Kerala will hold its Jalsa Salana on 22 to 23 December
2019; and the Jamaat of Tamil Nadu will do their Jalsa Salana on 29
December 2019. The Siraj Makins of Tamil Nadu will also hold their
Ijtema also the day before Jalsa Salana. I pray that Allah bless
their programs and fill them with success, in terms of blessings and
tarbiyyat
for all our members.
2.
Speaking of our members, we do not forget those who are sick and who
are in great difficulty, in their personal lives and for the cause of
the Jamaat too, where they go through great difficulties and problems
only because they believed in the advent of a Khalifatullah and they
joined the Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam. A special thought for our
brother, Naib Amir
Hariz
Sahib
and his
wife Razia
Sahiba - they are suffering due
to their health. We pray for them, as well as for our brothers and
sisters in Madagascar, the Comoros and Mayotte; may Allah pour His
immense blessings upon them, accept their sacrifices and reward them
for their great patience in the way of Allah.
There
are our other members who are sick. We pray for them, may Allah
restore their health and comfort them and strengthen them physically,
morally and spiritually in His Deen
and in their everyday life. Ameen, Summa
Ameen, Ya Rabbal Aalameen.
---Friday Sermon of 20 December 2019~ 23 Rabi’ul Aakhir 1441 AH delivered by Hadhrat Khalifatullah Munir Ahmad Azim Saheb (atba) of Mauritius.