Trendsetters, Revivers, and Strangers | The Firsts | Dr. Omar Suleiman

I want to welcome you all to this and hamdulillah it's been a very long time since we've had our weekly classes and so tonight inshallah we embark on one of those journeys I told myself that the next class that I would do would be an eight week or a ten week but this one's probably gonna be about three years so I'm Sharla brace yourselves and I hope that we are all consistent and it's really a I want to frame the series in this first class that we have tonight in shamaton and framing it in different

ways framing it because if we only study history to admire people then we're never going to be a part of making history ourselves and if we see a hadith of the prophet salallahu salam where he talks about these amazing distinguished human beings on the day of judgment and we don't aspire to be amongst them then we're not reading those a hadith properly and so what is this idea of the first and this idea of Savio and forerunners which is only one category of firsts so what we're gonna do in shout Lata throughout the next couple

of years at least I would say is we're going to take different people and different groups and study them only in the context of them being the first so what does that mean so if I if we do a haka on Badal while the Aloha I know the first wasn't we're not gonna do the biography of the lad but only the implications of him being the first more than in diving deep into that if we do a halaqah on new hotty's that I'm the first messenger of God then we're only going to study the implications

of him being the first Rasul and so on so forth if we talk about the first in regards to those that did incredible things throughout Islamic history we're going to talk about them within that context we might talk about groups at times so if we talk about the first mahajabeen the first to migrate to flee with their religion then we will talk about them in that context and there are also first that exists in the Quran and the Sunnah as categories for us to aspire to so the first person to enter into paradise with the

prophets of Allah Messala the first person to be dressed on the day of judgment the first people to be brought near to Allah on the day of judgment all of these different types of firsts as they exist within the hadith as well as categories that we can aspire to also so it's a long series and we're not going to go chronologically but instead diversifying shout lots out of the different ways in which we talk about these firsts and be the night I pray that it will be beneficial so we start off first and foremost asking

a lot for for this to be a blessed series and for us to benefit from it and as we hear the first that we cannot become we ask a lot to allow us to follow in their footsteps and as we hear of the first that we can become we ask a lot to make us amongst them Allah I mean and so tonight we're gonna do five categories a first as they exist within the Quran and the Sunnah and yes you have to take notes if you weren't intending to to get the full benefit of the

series and so the first group that we have within these categories are asaba corn Assad buffoon asabi kun the forerunners and so start off with them and how Allah talks about them these are people that are forerunners to good they rush towards the good when they hear about it or when they see it they don't wait for anybody else to leave them that way they don't drag their feet they don't look around they immediately rush to do good and there are different ways in which allah subhanaw taala talks about these people in the Quran Allah

says Allah EKU sati Runa Phil farads these are the people that rush and compete for good they are in constant competition with one another and in constant competition with themselves challenging themselves to get to higher levels and the prophet sallallaahu hani who ascend them said daddy do that are not a slightly high rush to do good deeds and so this is generally the category that the scholars refer to as looool Himba people that have higher ambitions that are driven that do not wait for an environment to drive them nor do they wait for anyone else

to outdo them but instead they are self motivated and driven because they know that this is pleasing to Allah and so they rush to be amongst those who would be the first to please their Lord and they're described in in two ways and the scholars talk about why the Quran mentions as a buffoon asabi kun Allah al mukarrama the forerunners the forerunners verily they are the ones who are closest to their Lord on the day of judgment so why would Allah mention the Sabaton twice and what's the difference between them and us how will he

I mean the people of the right hand see there are three different categories that Allah mentions in regards to people on the day of judgment Allah mentions the people on the left not all of you the people on the left as in on the day of judgment the people on the right inshallah all of you may Allah make it all of you and you as well the people on the right and Allah says that the majority fall within these two the people on the right the people on the left and then Allah mentions this small

group of people of a Sabbath one of forerunners they are not to the right or to the left but they are directly under the shade of a loss of Hannah Montana they're directly under his throne and the Prophet sallallahu wasallam mentioned seven groups of people who were lost in Canada Anna would shade on his under his throne on the day of judgment and you know we're not going to go into detail but the point is is that there's this small group of people that outdo everybody else and they are chosen amongst us hobbly I mean

so they are necessarily part of the believing group of people but at the same time they have excelled even beyond the majority of the believers and those that would enter into paradise from the mercy of a loss of Hannah hoteles that every every Moltmann will eventually enter into Jenna every moment will eventually enter into Jenna but these are the people that are the first to Allah shade on the day of judgement and these are the people that are the quickest to their Murata to their stations in paradise so Allah mentions them twice Assad buffoon is

a buffoon to the forerunners of the forerunners and the scholars talked about this usage of language the forerunners the forerunners some of them said they rushed to Allah in this dunya hence they will be rushed to Allah in the ocula they rushed to Allah in this life and so they will be rushed to Allah in the hereafter and so you think about the people getting out of their graves on the day of judgement and the angels that drive them to their place that literally the Sabbath and the Shaheed the driver and the witness amongst the

angels that take you to your place no one wakes up on the day of judgment and you know is able to pull up an app that tells them where to go there's no ways or Google Maps on yellow p.m. you wake up and you are taken to your place and so these people may Allah make us amongst them they are driven to allah subhana wa ta'ala right away meaning the angels just immediately escort them and they rush them to a lot quickly right and so they find themselves immediately in the protection of Allah and they

know it and so in this dunya they rush to Allah in this world they rushed to Allah in the hereafter they are rushed to Allah ok so it's a beat that's one way of looking at it very beautiful a very beautiful way of looking at in a practical sense some of the scholars divided it into two they said Saba : are of two types the forerunners are of two types one of them is that they are the first to respond to good so it refers to eachother refers to the response time and so Allah mentions

in the Quran la está women come and inform in Kabul alpha T or Partin una Tierra de madera jetan mina ladina antico minbar do what I tell you that those of you that embraced the faith early on before the fat before Mecca comes under the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the most inconvenient times under duress and fought alongside the prophet's life salam were driven out of their homes with the Prophet SAW I saw them spent their money in the cause of allah subhanaw taala lost everything for this those of you that joined first are

not like those of you that joined afterwards that the Muhajiroun the the early believers are unlike anyone else and a loss of henry todd has reserved the special rank for them what could attend why the Lord Krishna but Allah does not exclude anyone everyone has their own customized reward from God so even you know some someone might say that's not fair I wasn't in Mecca and you know I couldn't be like Hamza well you might have been like Abu jihad so say it ham did not that you know a lot knows where he puts you

what time he puts you in and how he puts you in this time but the point is is that there are these people that immediately accepted the prophets I said I'm or were very early on an accepting faith and facing the consequences of that for us that also means when you hear of a good when you hear of a good when someone calls you to good weather that someone comes in the form of a human being or it is the angels that prompt you towards good or it is hearing the verses of allah subhanaw taala

or hearing that internal pull that fitfully inside of you that calls you towards good that natural disposition towards good what is the wait time that it takes for you to answer how long does it take for you to actually activate right when you when you hear it do you run or do you hesitate and one of the one of the beautiful things that we find from the from the pious predecessors that they mentioned when Allah talks about dunya when he talks about the worldly life in the Quran Allah spent on mansions from Sufi Monaca be

huh walk patiently walk on the surfaces the way that Allah has decreed for you to do so when Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala talks about the the Hader though logic you Satya Runa feels a lot they are people who rush towards that good so what's the hesitation time is there Tara dude is there hesitation in that same suit on certain hadith because you might say well I couldn't be from amongst those who were who were from us hobble Mahajan oh and I couldn't be from amongst those first believers so where do I stand when Allah talks

about the believers and the hypocrites on the day of judgment Allah mentions the Weaver's responding to the hypocrites that are asking them on Llorona Navitus minoriko you know wait for us and give us some of your life Piaget Rock'em felt a me Senora and they tell them go back to where you were where you where you're coming from and find a light over there and most of the scholars say that means go back to the dunya go back to the world if you want and try to Kindle your light there because you Kindle your lights

for the hereafter in this world and so when whenever they are wandering they're calling out and they're saying LM neckla man come wait a minute weren't we all together we were all sitting in the same places we belonged to I mean we knew each other right we were all we were all what meaning what happens LM not going miracle Carlo Bella well a kanakam fatum tuum and Fusako what our agustin water tibetan it's really interesting the order potential and physical you corrupted your size you spoiled yourselves the prophets lies someone he made the call initially

in Mecca people some people thought about you know I need to respond because this is truth some people thought about what wait a minute what about my idols my businesses my prominence my corruption my authority so it wasn't about a recognition or a failure to recognize the truth in the prophet sallallaahu English on them it was about what are the consequences of actually accepting this truth and so you know you had the elbow buckets and you had the Abu Lahab who were like hold on if I submit to this that means my money my prominence

my corruption my subjugation who people in the name of these idols all of that is gone and so Tara busting water tibetan refers to the holding back you hesitated sofa tantrum and for second refers to the act of corruption of self tara busting water tablet or means you were just about to accept it and then you held back you got cold feet so the hesitation is condemned as well and allah subhanho wa taala when he taught in the beginning of certain had eat a lot of talks about people that corrupt themselves and then a lost

pants out talks about the difference in ranked in accordance with how quickly people responded to the call then when Allah talks about fast forwards to the day of judgment and unlocks about this conversation between believers and hypocrites Allah mentions two reasons that the believers give to the hypocrites that they corrupt themselves which refers to the evil or they hesitate it to the good they thought you know what I'm gonna do this tomorrow so there can you imagine there were people in Mecca when they heard the prophets lice on them there were people who probably went

to bed at night and said you know what tomorrow I'm gonna go to Muhammad's lie some and accept faith and I'm gonna change this I'm gonna I'm gonna leave this and then they woke up in the morning and said no never mind and because of that they never became Sahaba they never they're forgotten or put behind there aren't companions there are people that existed like that in the ranks of Abu Jaffa right there are people that were swaying between two and they would hesitate imagine if a little table may Allah be pleased with him when

he went when he heard the message that that next time when he read surah taha right in the house of his sister and recognized this as divine revelation if all my would have said you know what this is I'm gonna go home take some time think about this for a few days he might have decided tomorrow to go kill the prophets why he's on them again but all modeled the Alondra said that I'm going to the prophets Lysa know I'm gonna respond so the head the lag time in responding to good is what's actually being

spoken about in terms of soo bahk in terms of Assad people in a Saba : if you're in a race you can you know pace yourself run a little bit slower so that you can end it and you know in the right way but if you decide to just sit it out for a little bit and say I'm gonna take a break for 10 minutes I'm just gonna sit on the side you're not winning that race you know and you might just quit so constantly in that pursuit of a loss of Hannan wa'ta'ala so this

is the first one in regards to e job asabi porn in regards to response time the other one the scholars say Assad buffoon is a buffoon they said the first one asabi corn in al fayed the second one asabi pone who run away Mina's shock who run away from evil so the first group are the forerunners to good the second group are the first to run away from evil okay to abandon and evil and that's why some of the scholars say the forerunners are mentioned twice Allah says in the Quran and certain Aleph in alladhina

techo either a mess a home party from min ash-shaytani to that kuru that verily those who are pious when they feel an impulse from the shape on they immediately remember to that kettle that you that home mobile Ceylon and so their vision is sharpens they have deep insight they say no I'm not falling for that so the shape on strikes them for a moment mess settle you know some some people the shape on gets in and mess some thought you film in a shape on an impulse strikes them Shaitaan says look and they go no

no to that cattle nobleseal and they remember God and so they remember all on so suddenly they can see properly right so they're able to overcome that and they are able to remain focused and so they are saab you gone away from evil right for runners to good for runners away from evil some of the scholars mentioned some other beautiful interpretations just for the benefit of it administered in rahim allah tala saudis a buffoon is a buffoon Aladin asunder little kibble attained the forerunners the forerunners those who prayed towards Jerusalem and Mecca because they're a

special group of people and he expanded that concept of mahajan because he said the best of the Mujahideen are the best of the people of Mecca are those who accepted the Prophet slice I'm right away the best of the unsub the best of the people of Medina are those who sacrificed in the first 16 17 months of medina which is when the muslims were still praying towards jerusalem so he said establish and a Saba : both of these people if you think about the early converts of Mecca and the early converts of Medina they're both

sadly : is what he's saying they're both 4runners because both of them sacrificed everything both groups sacrificed everything so if you're in Mecca and Islam has grown down okay fine after the conquest after fat Mecca if you're in Medina near the unsought maybe if you're one of the later converts in Medina you're waiting this out a little bit to see how it goes but those that accepted within the first 16 17 months of Medina which is when the Muslims were still praying towards Jerusalem asabi Cohen asabi Cohen chemically mousseline rahim allah tala some of the

scholars said asabi kun asabi born those the forerunners being the first who get to the massage it the first ones to the message and that'll be a category that we talk about and they said that the well at home corrosion feasable allah and those the first ones to go out in the path of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala so the first as you know as a practical way for us as well okay so these are Assad before the forerunners the second category of firsts are the trendsetters the trendsetters jabra bin Abdullah while the allahu taala annually

reports that there were some desert arabs poor bedouin arabs that showed up in front of the prophets line salam and the companions and they had you know they were barely clothed they only had a little bit of wool to cover themselves they had no food they clearly were we're malnourished and you know think about the site right you're in medina communities getting established and then you have these group of people there the assumption from the hadith is they're not muslims they are unknown to anyone not from any prominent tribe so you know how if you're

from syria and there's a syria fundraiser if you're from Pakistan there's a Pakistan fundraiser from Palestine or from Somalia but then it's like another group we always struggle with the Sahaba they saw this group of people the Prophet sallallaahu idea he was seldom looked at them and he and he told the companions to sub the pool hurry up and spend on them in charity job it'll be a law and who says that the prophets I some saw the hesitation and the slowness in the pace of the people so he said the Prophet slice almost disappointed

his face looked clearly disappointed now this wasn't as a cap or mandatory but the Prophet slicin was he expected a quick response he said look at these people during their need quick goron spend on them and the prophets like some saw that they weren't really that motivated so he he looked disappointed sallallahu and he was some of then he said one of the unsought came to the prophets lie some with a purse full of silver and he put it in front of the prophets lysosome so some of the companions saw that so then they all

started to go home and they started to grab their bags and put jewelry and put their coins in and come to the prophet sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam he said until you could see the prophets lie sums sadness turned into joy on his face he went from disappointment to being pleased so lala haria some scene suddenly the pace that he's used to from the companions like this is what I expected to view this is the pace that we're used to if you're at a fundraiser you know there's always that you know if you've never done a

fundraiser you might not really get the implications of this but if you're doing the fundraiser and you're looking out at people's faces and then you start off with that amount and people are like man who's gonna be that guy who's gonna do that and then the first hand goes up and then other people okay you know it's it's natural human instinct right but there's something about this so this person was not just a Sabbath he set the trend because the implication of the hadith people were doing what he did when they started to come and

they started to bring their there their gold and their silver so the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam captured the moment and he said man son nothing islami sunnah 10 husana pharaoh mina b ha Varda who cootie bala who Mithra a demon army lebih ha well a young Muslim in Aurora him Shia the prophet sallallaahu re wa sallam said whoever introduces a good practice in Islam now in Islam here does not mean introducing a foreign practice into Islam it means a practice that's already within Islam writes about causes an established practice in Islam so he introduces

a practice that is already within Islam in that he's the initiator of it ok Pharaoh Mila B ha badda who and it was followed after that person now badda who can mean in that moment 10 seconds later can mean 10 minutes later it can mean 10 years later the point is you did something and someone after you came after you and said I'll do the same thing was motivated by your doing and did the same thing the prophet sallallaahu alayhi wasalam said that they would have the reward of the one who followed it without the

reward being diminished in any respect and so both the initiator the one who set the trend as well as the one who did it after that person have the same reward and it does not diminish the reward of the follower in any way whatsoever so this means that if you are looking in the lifetime of the companions of the prophet slice' them and someone did something good and we do it as a result of that we use that practice as a trend that was set within the faith that that person gets the reward every time

so if someone cleans up the Mazda then they remember the woman that used to clean the Mazda if someone removes something harmful from the road and they remember the unnamed person and the hadith that removes something harmful from the road if someone gives water to a thirsty animal remembering the story of that unnamed person who did so that person tilma think about how amazing that is tens of thousands of years later sitting in their grave and is receiving a reward from Dallas Texas because someone did it and remember thought about that person see how amazing

and that's why the prophets why some said it does not diminish that person's reward in any way whatsoever okay so it's it's just this this idea of continuing that reward there are other forms of trendsetters that the prophets lie son mentioned within the same category he said on another hadith immiscibility allahu taala and mandela Faden fella who left myth flew a DVID he whoever guides others to an acts of goodness will have a reward similar to that of its doer the scholars here mentioned that this is a person who is who is not even you

know who is suddenly who's setting an example in a very subtle way it's not setting a trend in a very obvious way but in a subtle way but someone sees that and someone starts to act upon that good finally the prophets lysozyme said Mandara Allah Buddha whoever calls people to good meaning you actually call people to good so you're the one to actually preach it right and you call people to do something good can allahu you know miss Luo Judean and Tobiah who Lyon posted Erica Mena Judy him Shia that he would have the reward

equivalent of those people who follow that guidance so if you if you you know hi document element Quran or a lemma the best of you are those who learn the Quran and then teach it so you learn something good and then you speak that good you actually say it and people take that advice that and I'll see how from you you set the trend you get the reward of course you have to try to practice it yourself but it started and initiated from the guidance that came from your mouth from from from calling people then

means example data means you actually called and the point is is that you set the trend and so the people follow you in that trend and you have the reward of that as well so those those are the first two categories the first ones are the forerunners second ones are the treads trend setters the third group are the strangers and Laura ba alvorada the strangers and the strangers are described in different ways within the within the hadith of the Prophet slice on the Prophet SAW said that some of our Eva was say you do not

even come about that Allah will hold about that Islam started off as something strange and so it will return back to being something strange fat Alba so there's a valley in Paradise assured glad tidings to the strangers glad tidings to the strangers the strangers are people who follow unpopular truths the strangers are people who adopt unpopular truths ok so it's actually bucking a trend here you're actually the trend setter is the one who sets the trend in good the stranger most of the the explanations of this alladhina you'll see who know faster than us those

who rectify themselves when everyone around them or when people around them are becoming corrupt so they don't actually follow the trend of corruption so think about this in a systematic way you think about the forerunners forerunners to good for runners away from evil and then you think about the trendsetters they set good and people follow them and then you think about the strangers they stay away from negative trends that have become dominant okay and so they too are rewarded by virtue of that abdullah bin omar with the allowed side on who he narrates that the

prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam took me by my shoulder and he said to me kun said Dounia Kanaka Hari our hobby Lusa be be in this world as though you are as though you were a stranger or a wafer what kind of no I'm not well the allahu anhu ma cool and so even all not a allah be pleased with him and his father would say either i'm say to fill out some totally the salah what you got a spotter unpolluted Mossad if you if you go to sleep at night and do not expect the

morning and if you wake up in the morning then do not expect the evening and so it does refer to this idea of urgency as well that typically people follow popular corruption out of pressure and because they do that in a way to fit in or to go with the flow in regards to what they feel like will give them what will rectify their worldly affairs or give them a smooth sailing in regards to their dunya but if you're thinking about your hereafter and you're putting that in front of you then you will not be

afraid or intimidated or pressure to sacrifice something that will elevate you in the hereafter because of something that is dominant in this in this life okay so these are the the strangers al Horeb out there are different a hadith the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that indeed the religion will creep into the Hejaz just like a snake it will return back into the Hejaz referring to at medina that when people end up in in there in corruption that the religion will return in its pure form and creep into that and the prophet salallahu alayhi

wasalam said that the religion will cling to it just like the female mountain goat would cling to them the peak of the mountain and then the Prophet SAW Allah says in Nadine about the Arriba well Jerry Fat Albert in Horeb ah alladhina use Lagoona Macedon awesome embody insanity this hadith is until MIDI and there is some debate about it but it still establishes secondary evidence and gives some explanation to the concept of a deep here the concept of being strange the prophets lie sometimes that indeed the religion began as something strange and it will return

to being something strange and so a valley and paradise for the strangers who correct what the people have corrupted from my soon thereafter me and so the what about here refer to people that that rectify that corruption as well so there's an act there is an activity to that as well and a lot mentions this idea that the majority is not always good that this idea of the majority is not always good and there are two ways to look at the majority the prophets lie seldom mentioned the majority in regards to the majority of what

the OMA is upon okay and the prophets like some talked about this idea of clinging to the Jumeirah clinging to the group but the majority as in popular trends when in total excitement filled Allah mentions that if you follow the majority of what the people are upon what is found on this earth you little look on is severe then they will lead you astray and so this group is the strangers and they are number four and the last group are armed sorry they're number three so what are the three categories now for runners trendsetters strangers

for runners trendsetters strangers okay the fourth one now are the Reviver 'he's a language that did al mujaddid the one who revives and it's it it constructs itself on the previous hadith that i just mentioned this idea of a person who corrects and rectifies what is lost from the student of the Prophet slicing them and brings it away from corruption the Reviver is a very interesting concept in the dean because the prophet sallallaahu hani of a sudden in a lie about Lee Harvey he'll see coolly me at asana menu Jeddah duel aha Dean aha that

Allah sons at the top of every 100 years at the top of every century a Reviver that revives from the religion what is lost of it that revives from the religion what is lost of it this is interesting because number one is this one person is it a foul or is it Gemma is it plural is it singular or is it plural there are some people that have tried to you know restrict it to the singular and so you know they've been books written so you try to identify who's the Reviver of each century and

in the Arabic language here this this hadith is not restricted only to the singular and so it could be that there are Mooji Dean that there are survivors that exist in one century and the scholars mentioned in two ways number one they revived different elements of the religion that are lost different elements of the religion that are lost and so all might have been advertised easily Mahalo who is the only agreed-upon Mujib did in history in the sense that you know no one assigns a mujaddid other than all motive bin abdul-aziz those that consider this

a singular person no one revives them agenda other than him in his century I'm gonna bin abdul-aziz revived notions of Justice that were lost in this religion he revived and either he revived the sense of justice right he revived the practices of his grandfather almond Rohith orbital the alongside I know in establishing justice in the Ummah and bringing it back to a very to it to a very special place right after it had lost this way but there are two ways here there could be different revive errs and different lands and there could be different

people that revive different elements of the religion the point is is that you find things that are lost amongst the people that are good practices from the student of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and a person can actually revive something of it so salahuddin rahim a lotta four examples no one would argue not amended but is he the only mujaddid of his time right and there's some some general and this is where you get math abysm at its strongest if you if you call a chef or a mujaddid but not ahmed or abu hanifa but

not malik what are you suggesting right and so this idea of touch deed this idea of revival are people that notice things that are missing from the sin of the Prophet slice them and they bring it back to life and as a result of that they bring they bring the religion back to life in that region or in amongst their people and in guiding something good and guiding towards something good and this is actually somehow something that we should all look towards by the way this idea of tragedy this idea of revival in the macro

sense but also the micro sense if you find a Sunnah missing in a context and you decide to revive that good practice right then that is a form of tibs deeds you find something missing that could be conceptual or it could be something very basic to be something very basic right but the point is is that you take that initiative to say let me revive one of the sinners of the prophet sallallaahu Hardy who is on them in my context okay something simple or something macro something conceptual or something that's very practical but let me

take it upon myself to be amongst those Mujahideen to be amongst those survivors the last category are the distinguished and larceny El Mycenaean moistening are not people that necessarily lead because they're the first to do something nor are they reviving something that's necessary law necessarily lost but they do something so well that they are distinguished in that good deed they're distinguished in that good and as a result they are chosen amongst a people because of how well they do something because they set themselves apart and this is sort of the opposite of the lore about

in terms of you know you know the what about our people that don't buck two popular trends when that popular trend is an opposition to truth as they as they as they know it and listening are people that aspire that aspire in ways that other people would not and so they always go the extra mile with that good if now cai-you Mahim allah has a very beautiful way of tying the hora back to the mark standing in this regard the strangers to be distinguished you know tell him o allah said that the that that when

a person would have embraced islam the muslims the muslims become horrible in the sense of the broader a broader humanity right so they they especially if you're talking about in the context of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam but the point is is that as some they submit themselves they end up you know they embrace what what alienates them were they embrace this religion and as a result they're persecuted so the muslims become horrible in that sense and then he said that the muttaqeen people of piety become horrible amongst the muslims the maitake become horrible amongst

the muslim mean when they stay away from because taqwa refers to talk in marathi it refers to leaving off sin when they stay away from sins that have become popularized amongst the muslims not interesting so they become horrible and you know this if you're in a you know in a muslim context at times even amongst your families right if you don't do things out of consciousness out of you know truly feeling like this is sinful then the pressure sometimes that you'll get from other muslims is more severe than anything that you'd get from people that

are muslim because it's like what are you trying to say about our culture what are you trying to say about our practices what do you mean are you are you implying it's like threatening them because are you saying my islam is insufficient your islam is sufficient right and so that pressure sometimes that you get for not doing things that that have been popularized even amongst muslims that takes you from from front from disbelief to to believe but from Islam to tuck one from the from from the external declarations and practices to a place of piety

and god-consciousness that no I'm not I'm not comfortable it doesn't mean you're a jerk it doesn't mean that you're rude with people it doesn't mean that you are condescending or judgmental develop develop pride it's that I'm I'm not okay with this and I'm going to abstain because taqwa refers to abstinence abstaining from sin I'm gonna abstain from this so you become a varied even amongst the Muslims amenable to ibrahim al Assad and the marceline those who excel the distinguished are what about even amongst them it's a team they become strangers amongst the muttaqeen because they

go above and beyond in doing good that other people will not and so they they set themselves apart you can't become a Marcin without being I'm with Turkey right and by the way this is it sounds very basic right but some people really miss this in practice how because they excel in some ways and then you know the sins of the tongue so if you think about that that woman the prophets lice I mentioned who was the Companions came to her and they said about her that this woman praise her night prayers she fasts extra

days all these different things what I can took thee do you honor huh but she has an abusive tongue to her neighbors so she had X on in one way but she didn't even have taqwa with her tongue and some people think that having a son and some things absolves them of having taqwa and everything you can't to become a true person you have to become amatetti first so you reach a level of taqwa and then out of that taqwa the same drive that caused you to stay away from what has been popularized causes you

to long for what has been neglected of good see that it's the same thing because it's Allah that makes me when other people say go ahead and it's a lot of that makes me long for what other people are not even longer and so the moistening set themselves apart with good distinguished themselves with good deeds even amongst the maitake and you know I'll end with this concept and half of the Bernardo brahim a lot of comments on this very beautifully he says and this has nothing to do with quantity nothing to do with quantity the

distinguish the distinction here has nothing to do with quantity but it's all quality because he says Allah says in the Quran Leah become a you come Asin Ramallah na octoroo am Allah that Allah may test you to see who amongst you are the best with their deeds not the most with their deeds Asano is different from Aqsa Alma de bin abdul-aziz only prayed to dark eyes every single night in with the Amanat he did not pray more than to he never exceeded two but as his wife said his two were nothing like all of your

Theon put together the two dark eyes of Alma de bin abdul-aziz were just out of this world literally out of this world so it's not the play it's not the quantity but the quality then that longing that longing and so the moistening then become distinguished even amongst the 115 when I said Allah and your John and I mean they lost animals how to make us amongst them Ilana I mean and so what are the five categories let's go through them insha'Allah Ayane the forerunners number two the trendsetters number three the strangers number four the Reviver

is number five the distinguished okay so these are the five ways in which you become one of the first they lost parents how to make us amongst them Allah Ameen and inshallah Tata from this week onwards we'll start to actually go through names and categories and things that we can start to implement in our lives and I pray that it's a benefit to us all I mean you