[SPEAKER_00]: No, what it feels like anyone who has been in debt knows the misery of debt and may Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala allow everyone that is suffering from the burden of debt to be relieved of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah my amin.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know what it's like to be at the mercy of another person and how humiliating that can feel to have your stakes rest upon whether or not someone else is going to show you some mercy.
[SPEAKER_00]: To be at the mercy especially if someone that you don't particularly like may be or an enemy or someone that just makes you feel little.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one likes to be in that situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us always independent of his Machloup of his creation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah Mamiim.
[SPEAKER_00]: However,
[SPEAKER_00]: When the Prophet ﷺ was seeking refuge in Allah from these things, he was not seeking refuge in Allah from these things because of the worldly consequences of these things, which is very powerful.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you look at the Hadith, the Prophet ﷺ is really seeking refuge in Allah from Su'ala-hlak, from bad characteristics, from bad traits.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not looking at the worldly consequences of these things as much as how those worldly circumstances lead to ahirah consequences consequences of the year after.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meaning if I am lazy, I'm not doing what I need to do to better my situation in the year after.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I am
[SPEAKER_00]: Stingy, that I'm not spending in a way that will elevate me in the hereafter.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I am cowardly, then I am not showing the courage that I will be asked about on the day of judgment.
[SPEAKER_00]: That these are things that have ahirah oriented consequences.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hereafter oriented consequences.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, what about debt?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet ﷺ was a man.
[SPEAKER_00]: who could easily never have a debt.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's probably no one in the society of Medina that did not need to worry about debt like the Prophet ﷺ, not even Abu Dahlah, not have been over the Allah-Tahd, or it's not have been above the Allah-Tahd.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because if the Prophet ﷺ had a debt, all he had to do was this, and then everybody would pay off his debt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who would not respond to the Prophet ﷺ saying, I have a debt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yet in his humility, some Allah Almighty who has said them, he died in debt, but not ralabat to dain, so I'm going to make this distinction first.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a difference between owing someone $3,000 or $300 and owing them $100,000 or $200,000 or $200,000.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a difference between a debt that is crushing you for years and years and years and years and a debt that, you know, it's smaller, it's more manageable and the Prophet's life sums debt was manageable debt and that's from his wisdom sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that though he lived the life of poverty he did not addi his salatu sallam take on debts that were not manageable so till the last day of his life
[SPEAKER_00]: He used to, for example, Sola Lahari, who was Selam-du Business with some of the people of the book in Medina.
[SPEAKER_00]: He actually owed, he ponded his shields of the Lahari, who was Selam-du a Jewish neighbor at the day of his death.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was managing those types of relationships with society and teaching the Umma Hal to transact.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Rala Ba to Dane refers to a debt that is insurmountable.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's just really over your head.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he could have even done a way with that too, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: at why he seeks refuge in Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'ada from debt so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: I settle the Allah on him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Instead to the Prophet's Allah, he was said to him, Yad al-Sulullah, I'm amazed at how much you do is t-a'ada you seek refuge in Allah from a dain from debt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's on one hand, you can easily do a way with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: On the other hand, the Prophet's life thumb does not take on unmanageable debt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yadasaullah, I'm surprised how often this comes up in your drought and the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said in Nahu Mangarima that when a person is in debt, had datha for kathab.
[SPEAKER_00]: When they speak they'll learn how to lie.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wa wa ada for achlaf.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when they make promises they'll start breaking their promises.
[SPEAKER_00]: What a powerful hadith.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's our teacher sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's saying that the greatest consequence of debt and being in a compromising situation in a vulnerable situation is not the humiliation when you get that phone call or when you have to meet your debtor and the debtor starts to become rougher with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's that you might take on the ahlak of Nithak, the characteristics of hypocrisy to get yourself out of that situation and you might get good at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You might actually get good at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yes, brother in Charlotte, Tata, you know, oh, I was waiting on one thing and then you make up stories about why you're late on paying the person back.
[SPEAKER_00]: You make up stories to delay.
[SPEAKER_00]: You start lying and getting good at lying.
[SPEAKER_00]: You start making promises and breaking those promises more frequently.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so you take on half of the characteristics of a monathlete of a hypocrite while trying to get yourself out of a worldly situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you see how profound that is from the Prophet ﷺ?
[SPEAKER_00]: That he's saying, yeah, I'm not doing this because I want people to, I don't like the feeling of having my ego bruised a bit in this world, or some of what comes with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's because when people become accustomed to compromised and vulnerable situations, then eventually they start to compromise of their dean and they start to compromise of their achlaught, of their religion, and of their characteristics to get out of those situations.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's why the Prophet ﷺ, another profound Hadith, anadith of the Allah ﷺ, that the Prophet ﷺ told a man, shall I not teach you some words that if you say them, Allah ﷻ will take care of your debt, your dain particularly, your debt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if it is like a mountain,
[SPEAKER_00]: wa ahdini bifad liqa amman siwak.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, Allah Makfini bihalāliqa and haramik wa ahdini bifad liqa amman siwak.
[SPEAKER_00]: O Allah suffice me with your halāl, with your lawful.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that I don't resort to the unlawful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aqfini bihalāliqa and haramik.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me have enough halas, so I don't fall into Haram.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's my reason, not because you're giving me more halal income, so I can have a bigger house, so I can have a nicer car.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, okay, to ask a lot for those things, but my main concern is that I don't want to be in a situation where I have to dip into Haram.
[SPEAKER_00]: And your father will be Fadliqa, and this is a hard one to translate.
[SPEAKER_00]: And bestow upon me your favor, your bounty, so that I don't need anyone
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to keep needing you, I just don't want to need anyone else.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why am I bringing this to the discussion for us?
[SPEAKER_00]: When you see those ahadith where the Prophet ﷺ teaches us to seek independence, you know, he made the Sahaba take bayat to him, allegiance to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah, us al-Nasah, shaytah, that I will never ask anyone for anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: even if one of our whips or something in our hand fell when we were on top of our horses and camels we would get down and get it ourselves so that we don't ask someone else to get it for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a mindset.
[SPEAKER_00]: that the strong believer is better than the weak believer.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a mindset that you seek a position of strength.
[SPEAKER_00]: Aliyad al-Aliya, Haydom aliyad al-Sufla, to be the giving hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: The upper hand is better than being the lower hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a mindset for a community.
[SPEAKER_00]: Al-Arabana al-Ajjana, Fithnat al-Ladina kafaro, all Allah don't make us a Fithna, a tribulation for those who disbelieve.
[SPEAKER_00]: They see us in weakness.
[SPEAKER_00]: They think that they're beating us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And because they think that they have power over us, then they feel even more invincible at immune to having to believe in Allah because look, we're crushing the believers.
[SPEAKER_00]: We seek positions of strength as individuals and as communities first and foremost so that we don't resort to that which is depleting to a loss of Hannah Hwataada.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because a lot of knows that sometimes when we're vulnerable and we're compromised, that's when we will compromise our faith and that's when we might do things that are very dangerous.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there is no greater example.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's one of the least flattering stories of a Sahabi that you will find that I'm about to share with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's certain our tradition for a reason.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's actually shared by the man who is guilty.
[SPEAKER_00]: How to live in Abhi Belta, will the Allahul-Tadad.
[SPEAKER_00]: How to live was one of Ahad Bedir, the veterans of Bedir, the cream of the crop of Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: The best that you can think of of the companions.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when the Prophet ﷺ was about to go to Mecca for the conquest of Mecca, how to look around and he didn't have tribesmen in Mecca.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't have family in Mecca, meaning if things go wrong,
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no one from the Kufadra, the disbelievers in Mecca to say, okay, we'll protect him.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know this was a bad fallout, but at the end of the day, these people put tribe over creed.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll protect our tribesmen, and we'll take care of the path of had no one in Mecca.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in his moment of feeling vulnerable, like I'm going back to Mecca, I don't have anyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: He did something horrible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Horrible.
[SPEAKER_00]: What did he do?
[SPEAKER_00]: The prophets of the Lai Selam confided in a group of companions about his plans to go to Mecca, how to took those plans, wrote them in a letter, called one of the disbelieving women, and gave that letter of the plans of the Prophet's Lai Selam to go to Mecca, to deliver to the heads of Qur'aysh.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's treason of the highest order, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's really compromising the mission, compromising the Prophet's Lai Selam, putting the Prophet's Lai Selam in a very bad situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so the woman takes the letter.
[SPEAKER_00]: She puts it in her hair.
[SPEAKER_00]: She wraps up her hair over it.
[SPEAKER_00]: She puts her kebab on top.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she makes her way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jabriya Adiya Salam comes to the Prophet so Allah wa'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'a'
[SPEAKER_00]: Yadasaura Allah sent someone to go stop her and get that letter back.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet said, some calls, Adi, Makhdad, and Azubayr, Wadi Alahatah Al-A'an-Hum, and he says, go to this particular place.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's this woman, she looks like this and that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she has a letter in her hair with the news of what I plan to do in Mecca, make sure that you get it from her.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they go quickly to that garden.
[SPEAKER_00]: They find the woman.
[SPEAKER_00]: They tell the woman, give us the letter.
[SPEAKER_00]: She says, I don't have a letter.
[SPEAKER_00]: I need all the law on who says, look, we can do this.
[SPEAKER_00]: The easy way or the hard way.
[SPEAKER_00]: We really don't want to do this the hard way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Give us the letter.
[SPEAKER_00]: She takes it out from her hair.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's not even Muslim.
[SPEAKER_00]: Takes it out from her hair.
[SPEAKER_00]: She gives them the letter.
[SPEAKER_00]: It comes back to the Prophet's life.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you are half the right now, I mean, you could deservedly be killed.
[SPEAKER_00]: You almost put the entire community at risk because of your own compromise, your own vulnerability, your sense of insecurity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Shaped on, played with his head and that manner.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Prophet ﷺ calls Haltep.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to be a thought of the Allah on who is standing next to the Prophet ﷺ. I didn't make that.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a bit or there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Prophet ﷺ says, yeah, Haltep, what did you do?
[SPEAKER_00]: Haltep says, yallasu Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought about all of you, and you have people in Mecca to take care of you.
[SPEAKER_00]: If things go wrong, this person has his tribesmen, and I wanted to have a hands-with-corrace in case things did not work out so that I would be protected too.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Yadahsallu al-Allah, I knew that Allah would give you victory in the anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: and that they were not going to be able to overcome you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it sounds contradictory, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: But he's saying to the Prophet ﷺ, but Yadah-sallallahu alaihi.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did not do that out of any allegiance to Qufur, out of any wanting disbelief or out of any getting out of Islam.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a moment of weakness.
[SPEAKER_00]: I regret it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hate that I did it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But y'all also Allah, don't think I did that because I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet's life, some looks at how Tha been, he says, he's telling the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, you are onward, it might be, that Allah looked to the people of Beather and said, Erma'u al-Mashit-Tumfaqadhahfar al-Lahul-Akum.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do as you will, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has forgiven you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so Allah has forgiven you, Allah has helped him, seek Allah's forgiveness, and go back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Subhan Allah.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Prophet's life, some could have killed him, and he would have been justified.
[SPEAKER_00]: What was how to love your love and who's thinking?
[SPEAKER_00]: He got weak.
[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes when we get vulnerable, that's when Shafan finds his easiest way into our heads.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's when he finds us in our low points.
[SPEAKER_00]: In our low points, when the money is tight, how our money becomes so tempting.
[SPEAKER_00]: When we feel like we've been wrong, it becomes so easy to wrong someone else, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that how a lot of injustice, perpetuates in society?
[SPEAKER_00]: Someone wronged me, so I'm going to wrong somebody else.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how cycles of abuse take place in families, entire families.
[SPEAKER_00]: My parents abused me, I'm going to abuse my children too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because, say, fawn praise on those moments of insecurity and vulnerability, however.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me just put one thing aside with hath of all the Allah-Hutataan who.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one of us ever went to bedish.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, how to committed a grave crime, but he had a grave, a great deed on his scale that's unlike anyone else.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, we don't count on getting the forgiveness, that how to, but all the Allah wa Ta'ala and who got, but we learned the lesson of how to, and we learned the lessons from these Ahadith.
[SPEAKER_00]: That first and foremost, when we make draught to Allah, Allah, Allah put us in a position of strength.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not because we enjoy arrogance.
[SPEAKER_00]: If that's your intention when you're making the derailleur because I don't want to be talked down to, I don't want to feel less.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not the right intention for these derailleurs, dear brothers and sisters.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you suffocate to get yourself out of these situations.
[SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, if a person ends up in a situation of weakness regardless, that we're not a people who believe that those who are wealthy, a lot of loves and those who are poor, Allah hates.
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're being tested with your position of strength.
[SPEAKER_00]: Others are being tested with their position of weakness, but you seek a position of strength.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that you don't find yourself in a position of compromising your faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: Recognize the tricks of Shafan when he comes to you and tells you, your weak, your in-depth, you've been wronged.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's your turn.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: A little bit of this, a little bit of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for those of you who have never been in that situation, may I lost some kind of desire to keep us all out of that situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: make that the intention for the derailleur of bin-ralla-bete-daini wa-kahari-rijab, that Allah protect us from being in a position of being overburdened by debt or subjugated to man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not because it's going to hurt my ego, but because it might hurt my afial.
[SPEAKER_00]: I might develop bad qualities and characteristics and traits I don't want to develop.
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah SWT protect us from ever-resorting to Haram as a means of curing our harm.
[SPEAKER_00]: May Allah SWT protect our character, protect us in this life, elevate us in the next life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Allah SWT will be the best of us in the next life.