WEBVTT 00:00:00.850 --> 00:00:04.799 In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:11.679 The life of the predecessors between words and deeds 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:14.679 Trust and depend on God 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:21.379 Omar bin Al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, met some people from Yemen 00:00:21.379 --> 00:00:24.379 He said who are you? 00:00:24.379 --> 00:00:27.379 They said: We are the trustworthy 00:00:27.379 --> 00:00:31.379 He said, “Rather, you are the ones who trust.” 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:35.880 Rather, the trustworthy one is the one who throws a seed into the ground 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:38.920 And he trusts in God 00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:41.920 On the authority of Abu Al-Aaliyah, may God have mercy on him, he said: 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:46.920 The companions of Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, gathered to meet me 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:50.420 They said, O Abu Al-Aaliyah 00:00:50.420 --> 00:00:52.920 Do not rely on anyone other than God 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:56.899 God will reward you with whom you trust 00:00:56.899 --> 00:01:00.899 On the authority of Saeed bin Jubair, may God have mercy on him, he said: 00:01:00.899 --> 00:01:04.400 Trust in God is the sum of faith 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:08.030 Hatem Al-Asam, may God have mercy on him, said 00:01:08.030 --> 00:01:10.030 I have four women 00:01:10.030 --> 00:01:12.030 And nine children 00:01:12.030 --> 00:01:17.379 Satan does not aspire to whisper to me about their livelihood 00:01:17.379 --> 00:01:22.879 A man asked him: “On what basis did you base your trust in God?” 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:26.450 He said about four qualities 00:01:26.450 --> 00:01:29.950 I knew that my livelihood would not be eaten by anyone else 00:01:29.950 --> 00:01:32.450 So I reassured myself 00:01:32.450 --> 00:01:35.950 I knew that my work could not be done by anyone else 00:01:35.950 --> 00:01:38.450 I'm busy with it 00:01:38.450 --> 00:01:41.450 I knew that death would come to me suddenly 00:01:41.450 --> 00:01:43.450 I take the initiative 00:01:43.450 --> 00:01:47.450 I knew that I was not without God’s eyes wherever I was 00:01:47.450 --> 00:01:50.299 I am ashamed of him 00:01:50.299 --> 00:01:55.299 Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal, may God have mercy on him, was asked about trust 00:01:55.299 --> 00:01:56.799 And he said 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:01.180 It is the interruption of anticipation by despair of creation 00:02:01.180 --> 00:02:02.680 And he was told 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:06.180 Anything that is true is trusting in God 00:02:06.180 --> 00:02:07.180 He said 00:02:07.180 --> 00:02:09.680 To trust in God 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:16.180 And there is no human being in his heart who desires to answer him with anything 00:02:16.180 --> 00:02:18.180 If so 00:02:18.180 --> 00:02:22.469 God provided for him and he was trustworthy 00:02:22.469 --> 00:02:26.469 Al-Wazir bin Hubayra, may God Almighty have mercy on him, said: 00:02:26.469 --> 00:02:28.469 I pondered what God Almighty said 00:02:28.469 --> 00:02:31.469 There is no power except in God 00:02:31.469 --> 00:02:34.469 I saw three faces to it 00:02:34.469 --> 00:02:36.469 One of them 00:02:36.469 --> 00:02:40.469 The one who says it disowns those around him and his power 00:02:40.469 --> 00:02:43.569 The order is handed over to its owner 00:02:43.569 --> 00:02:44.569 And the second 00:02:44.569 --> 00:02:49.569 He knows that there is no power for creatures except in God 00:02:49.569 --> 00:02:51.569 He is not afraid of them 00:02:51.569 --> 00:02:54.569 Because their strength is only in God 00:02:54.569 --> 00:02:57.569 This requires fear of God alone 00:02:57.569 --> 00:02:59.699 And the third 00:02:59.699 --> 00:03:03.699 It is a response to philosophers and naturalists 00:03:03.699 --> 00:03:07.699 who claim powers in things by nature 00:03:07.699 --> 00:03:13.729 This word makes it clear that there is no strong person except in God 00:03:13.729 --> 00:03:17.710 Certainty in God 00:03:17.710 --> 00:03:22.770 On the authority of Abu Darda, may God be pleased with him, he said 00:03:22.770 --> 00:03:26.770 Oh, I would love for the bags to sleep and have breakfast 00:03:26.770 --> 00:03:29.770 How can they deceive a fool's sleepless nights and fasting? 00:03:29.770 --> 00:03:34.770 And there is an atom's weight of righteousness from a person of piety and certainty 00:03:34.770 --> 00:03:38.770 Better, more likely, and greater than the likes of mountains 00:03:38.770 --> 00:03:41.770 The cult of the diaspora 00:03:41.770 --> 00:03:45.280 Ibn Masoud, may God be pleased with him, said 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:49.310 The certainty is that you will not please people by displeasing God 00:03:49.310 --> 00:03:52.310 Do not thank anyone for God's provision 00:03:52.310 --> 00:03:57.310 And do not blame anyone for what God Almighty has not given you 00:03:57.310 --> 00:04:01.379 Sustenance is not driven by keen greed 00:04:01.379 --> 00:04:04.379 He is not rejected by the hatred of a hater 00:04:04.379 --> 00:04:09.569 God is blessed and exalted with His story, knowledge, and dream 00:04:09.569 --> 00:04:13.569 Make the soul and joy in certainty and contentment 00:04:13.569 --> 00:04:17.569 He turns worry and sadness into doubt and discontent 00:04:17.569 --> 00:04:22.019 On the authority of Khalid Ibn Maadan, may God have mercy on him, he said: 00:04:22.019 --> 00:04:27.139 Learn certainty as they learned the Qur’an until you know it 00:04:27.139 --> 00:04:29.139 I am learning it 00:04:29.139 --> 00:04:32.560 Al-Hasan, may God have mercy on him, said 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:37.560 No servant is truly certain of Heaven and Hell 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:41.560 Except humility, reverence, humiliation, and uprightness 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:44.560 He was frugal until death came to him 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:48.660 Bilal bin Saad, may God have mercy on him, said 00:04:48.660 --> 00:04:52.660 Whoever does not work on certainty should not bother 00:04:52.660 --> 00:04:56.740 Loving 00:04:56.740 --> 00:05:00.759 People's love for each other 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:05.139 Yahya bin Moaz, may God have mercy on him, said 00:05:05.139 --> 00:05:11.139 The truth of love is that it does not increase through righteousness, nor does it decrease through cruelty 00:05:11.139 --> 00:05:16.459 Ahmed bin Hanbal, may God have mercy on him, was asked about love for God 00:05:16.459 --> 00:05:21.459 He said that you should not love him for the sake of worldly greed 00:05:21.459 --> 00:05:28.699 The servant’s love for God and God’s love for the servant 00:05:28.699 --> 00:05:30.699 And the reasons for that 00:05:30.699 --> 00:05:35.310 On the authority of Abdullah bin Masoud, may God be pleased with him, he said 00:05:35.310 --> 00:05:40.379 God gives money to those he loves and those he does not love 00:05:40.379 --> 00:05:44.379 He only gives faith to those he loves 00:05:44.379 --> 00:05:48.949 On the authority of Amer bin Abdul Qais, may God have mercy on him 00:05:48.949 --> 00:05:50.949 He was saying 00:05:50.949 --> 00:05:56.949 I loved God Almighty with a love that made every calamity easy for me 00:05:56.949 --> 00:05:59.980 And my satisfaction in every issue 00:05:59.980 --> 00:06:05.459 I don't care if I love him what I have become 00:06:05.459 --> 00:06:09.459 On the authority of Abu Yazid al-Bistami, may God have mercy on him, he said: 00:06:09.459 --> 00:06:13.500 This is my joy in you and I fear you 00:06:13.500 --> 00:06:16.720 How can I be happy with you if I believe in you? 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:20.720 It is not surprising that I am your lover and I am a poor slave 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:25.720 What is astonishing is your love for me, and you are a powerful king 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:32.740 Love and veneration of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace 00:06:32.740 --> 00:06:36.470 Omar bin Al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, said 00:06:36.470 --> 00:06:41.470 When the Prophet of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, separated from women 00:06:41.470 --> 00:06:43.470 I entered the mosque 00:06:43.470 --> 00:06:46.470 Then people were throwing pebbles 00:06:46.470 --> 00:06:48.470 And they say 00:06:48.470 --> 00:06:52.470 The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, divorced women 00:06:52.470 --> 00:06:55.569 He said, “So I found a profit.” 00:06:55.569 --> 00:06:59.569 The servant of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace 00:06:59.569 --> 00:07:02.569 Sitting on the pedestal of the drinking establishment 00:07:02.569 --> 00:07:05.569 So I called, Rabah 00:07:05.569 --> 00:07:10.569 Ask me to humiliate you with the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace 00:07:10.569 --> 00:07:13.600 Rabah looked at the room 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:17.600 Then he looked at me and said nothing 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:20.629 Then I said, Rabah 00:07:20.629 --> 00:07:25.629 Ask me to humiliate you with the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace 00:07:25.629 --> 00:07:28.660 Rabah looked at the room 00:07:28.660 --> 00:07:32.730 Then he looked at me and said nothing 00:07:32.730 --> 00:07:35.730 Then I raised my voice and said 00:07:35.730 --> 00:07:36.730 Oh Rabah 00:07:36.730 --> 00:07:42.759 Ask me to humiliate you with the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:46.759 I believe that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:49.759 He thought I had come for Hafsa 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:58.000 By God, if the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, ordered me to behead her, I would behead her 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:07.550 I raised my voice and Anrqah motioned to me, so I entered upon the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace 00:08:07.550 --> 00:08:16.699 He, may God be pleased with him, said to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, “By God, you are more beloved to me than my own self.” 00:08:16.699 --> 00:08:24.399 When the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, went out to Badr, he consulted the Companions for a while 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:31.550 He was informed of the arrival of Abu Sufyan, so Abu Bakr, may God be pleased with him, spoke, but he turned away 00:08:31.550 --> 00:08:39.419 Then Omar, may God be pleased with him, spoke, but he turned away, so Saad bin Ubadah, may God be pleased with him, stood up 00:08:39.419 --> 00:08:48.460 On his authority, he said, “By the One in whose hand is my soul, do you wish, O Messenger of God, if you commanded us to go into it?” 00:08:48.460 --> 00:08:55.980 We would have taken it by the sea, and if you had ordered us to go to the ponds of Al-Ghamadi, we would have done so 00:08:55.980 --> 00:09:03.690 Omar bin Al-Asir, may God be pleased with him, said: “No one was dearer to me than the Messenger of God.” 00:09:03.690 --> 00:09:11.460 May God bless him and grant him peace. There is no time in my eyes for him, and I could not bear to fill it 00:09:11.460 --> 00:09:19.409 My eyes are from him out of reverence for him, and if I were asked to describe him, I would not be able to do so because I could not fill it 00:09:19.409 --> 00:09:26.669 My eyes from him and when Urwa bin Masoud came to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace 00:09:26.669 --> 00:09:33.750 At the time of Hudaybiyyah, when he negotiated peace, he made the Companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, look at him 00:09:34.070 --> 00:09:41.830 He, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “With my eyes.” He said, “By God, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, did not snort.” 00:09:41.830 --> 00:09:50.789 His excrement fell into the palm of one of the men, and he rubbed it on his face and skin, and when he commanded them 00:09:50.789 --> 00:09:58.830 They hastened to command him, and when he performed ablution, they almost fought over his ablution and if he spoke 00:09:58.830 --> 00:10:07.389 They lowered their voices before him and did not look at him out of respect for him, so Urwa returned 00:10:07.389 --> 00:10:14.909 To his companions, he said: What people, by God, I have been sent to visit the kings and I have been sent to visit you 00:10:14.909 --> 00:10:22.789 Caesar, Kasr, and Al-Najashi, by God, if I ever saw a king venerated by his companions, he would not 00:10:22.789 --> 00:10:30.809 The companions of Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, venerate Muhammad. By God, his excrement suffocates 00:10:30.809 --> 00:10:38.610 Unless it fell into the palm of a man among them, and he rubbed it on his face and skin, and when he commanded them 00:10:38.610 --> 00:10:45.809 They hastened to command him, and when he performed ablution, they almost fought over his ablution and if he spoke 00:10:45.809 --> 00:10:53.980 They lowered their voices before him and did not look at him out of respect for him and what he was 00:10:53.980 --> 00:11:00.620 On the day of Uhud, the people were defeated on the authority of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and Abu Talha 00:11:00.620 --> 00:11:06.860 May God be pleased with him in the hands of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace 00:11:06.860 --> 00:11:14.470 He was attacked by the protection of God, that is, he was a shield against him himself, and Abu Talha was a man 00:11:14.470 --> 00:11:22.230 A strong archer would break two or three bows that day, and the man was passing by 00:11:22.230 --> 00:11:30.179 He had the quiver of arrows and said, “Give it to Abu Talha,” so he honored the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace 00:11:30.179 --> 00:11:37.580 May God bless him and grant him peace, looking at the people, Abu Talha said, O Prophet of God, may my father be sacrificed 00:11:37.580 --> 00:11:45.500 You and my mother do not have the honor to be hit by an arrow from the people's arrows. We move without moving 00:11:45.500 --> 00:11:52.720 Al-Bazzar, may God have mercy on him, said: He was Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, may God have mercy on him 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:59.639 God Almighty never mentions the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, without praying 00:11:59.639 --> 00:12:06.080 May God bless him and grant him peace. I have never seen anyone with greater reverence for the Messenger of God 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:13.789 May God bless him and grant him peace, and I am not keen on following him and supporting what he brought even from him 00:12:13.789 --> 00:12:19.789 If he cited something from his hadith in his question and believes that it was not abrogated 00:12:19.789 --> 00:12:27.149 He acts on anything other than his hadith, and he makes judgments and issues fatwas according to it, and he does not pay attention 00:12:27.149 --> 00:12:34.259 To the words of other created beings, whoever he may be, may God be pleased with him 00:12:34.259 --> 00:12:41.700 Every speaker uses as evidence his statement: There is no one in it but God and His Messenger