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Our mother, Aisha | Episode (8) | O Aisha, beware of despicable sins

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0:00 Our Mother ‘Aishah, may Allah be pleased with her.
0:09 “O ‘Aishah,
0:12 beware of the sins that are considered trivial.”
0:18 The lofty status that ‘Aishah, may Allah be pleased with her, enjoyed
0:23 in the eyes of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,
0:26 facilitated for her a magnificent Prophetic upbringing.
0:30 ‘Aishah, may Allah be pleased with her, capitalized on this status
0:35 by frequently asking the Prophet, peace be upon him,
0:39 about everything that was unclear to her,
0:41 and then she translated that into a practical reality,
0:44 adhering to this upbringing
0:47 so as to be a role model for the women of the worlds.
0:51 Among the aspects of the upbringing of the Prophet, peace be upon him,
0:55 for ‘Aishah, may Allah be pleased with her,
0:58 was his warning to her against taking minor sins lightly.
1:01 This warning
1:03 stems from the far-sighted vision of an educator regarding those he educates;
1:08 he elevates them from the rank of merely avoiding major sins
1:12 to the rank of being cautious of minor ones,
1:14 which could potentially destroy their perpetrator.
1:18 ‘Aishah, may Allah be pleased with her, says
1:21 that the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said to her:
1:25 “O ‘Aishah,
1:27 beware of the sins that are considered trivial,
1:30 for they have a seeker [who will hold you accountable] from Allah, the Almighty.”
1:34 Narrated by Ahmad.
1:36 Al-‘Ayni, may Allah have mercy on him, said:
1:39 “The ‘trivial sins’ (muhaqarat) is the plural of ‘muhaqarah,’
1:42 which are the sins that the one who commits them deems insignificant.”
1:45 The reason the perpetrator deems them insignificant
1:48 is that he views them as minor sins,
1:51 while he is [already] avoiding major sins,
1:53 so he reassures himself that they will be forgiven by his avoidance of the major ones.
1:58 This is one of the ways Satan approaches a human being.
2:02 Ibn al-Qayyim illustrates
2:04 how Iblis approaches the Muslim by making minor sins seem trivial to him,
2:09 by saying to him:
2:11 “What harm is there if you avoid major sins, regardless of the minor ones you commit?”
2:15 Or, “Do you not know that they are expiated by avoiding major sins and by performing good deeds?”
2:21 He continues to make the matter seem trivial to him
2:24 until he persists in them.
2:26 Thus, the one who commits a major sin while being fearful, anxious, and remorseful is in a better state than him.
2:33 For persistence in a sin makes it worse than the sin itself,
2:35 and there is no major sin with repentance and seeking forgiveness,
2:39 and no minor sin with persistence.
2:41 The Prophet, peace be upon him, said:
2:44 “Beware of the sins that are considered trivial.”
2:48 Then he gave an example of a group of people who landed in a barren land,
2:53 and they were in need of firewood.
2:55 So one began to bring a stick, and another brought a stick,
2:59 until they gathered a large amount of firewood,
3:02 then they lit a fire and baked their bread.
3:06 Likewise, the sins that are considered trivial
3:09 accumulate against the servant while he underestimates their significance,
3:13 until they destroy him.
3:15 Thus, the Prophet, peace be upon him,
3:18 in his upbringing of ‘Aishah, may Allah be pleased with her,
3:22 wanted her to be mindful of these trivial sins
3:25 so that she would not fall into them.
3:27 And if she did fall into any of them,
3:30 she would remedy it by abandoning them and seeking forgiveness for them.
3:34 Ibn Battal, may Allah have mercy on him, said:
3:37 “Trivial sins, when they accumulate,
3:39 become major sins through persistence and continuing in them.”
3:44 Upon this, the Prophet, peace be upon him, raised the Companions,
3:49 and this upbringing bore fruit among the Companions
3:52 in the form of a refined sense of self-accountability,
3:55 to the point that Anas Ibn Malik, may Allah be pleased with him, said:
3:59 “You perform deeds
4:02 that are finer in your eyes than a hair,
4:05 [yet] we used to count them during the time of the Prophet, peace be upon him,
4:10 among the destructive sins.”
4:11 Narrated by al-Bukhari.
4:14 Al-Bukhari, may Allah have mercy on him, said:
4:16 “He means by that the destructive ones.”
4:19 The Companions used to discuss the subject of minor sins and view them as grave,
4:24 despite them being the furthest of people from major sins.
4:28 Ibn Battal, may Allah have mercy on him, said:
4:31 “They only counted minor sins among the destructive ones
4:35 due to their intense fear of Allah,
4:37 even if they had no major sins.”
4:40 This perspective on the level of sins that a Muslim falls into
4:45 stems from the level of faith he possesses.
4:48 For the more his faith increases,
4:50 the more he views disobedience to Allah as grave.
4:52 And the more his faith weakens,
4:55 the more he views sins as trivial, even if they are major sins.
4:59 The difference between the two states
5:01 is that in the state of faith,
5:03 one looks at the greatness of the One he has disobeyed,
5:05 so he views the sin as grave.
5:07 And in the state of weak faith,
5:10 one looks at the size of the sin, so he views it as trivial.
5:14 The Prophet, peace be upon him, described this state, saying:
5:19 “The believer sees his sins as if he is sitting under a mountain,
5:24 fearing that it might fall upon him.
5:26 Whereas the wicked person sees his sins like a fly that passes by his nose,
5:31 and he waves it away like this.”
5:33 Narrated by al-Bukhari.
5:35 We are today in a virtuous month,
5:38 in which Muslims are keen to perform good deeds and increase them,
5:43 just as they are keen on the validity of their fasting by avoiding things that break it.
5:47 They ask about the minutiae of matters,
5:50 until it sometimes reaches the degree of obsessive questioning.
5:54 Yet, some are negligent—
5:57 I do not say only in minor sins,
5:59 but even in major ones.
6:02 Is it not time for our women
6:04 to hold themselves accountable in matters of dress and adornment outside the home?
6:10 And is it not time for our men
6:13 to hold themselves accountable in their financial dealings,
6:17 with the prevalence of usury and gambling in our time?
6:20 And is it not time for all of us
6:23 to scrutinize the harvest of our tongues,
6:26 protecting them from backbiting, slander, and belittling others?
6:32 We will continue in a future meeting, if Allah wills.
6:35 And praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
6:40 Our Mother ‘Aishah, may Allah be pleased with her.