The Caretakers of Orphans - Sayed Ahmed Qazwini

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Ramadan 2021 - Night 6 (4/19/2021)
The Caretakers of Orphans - Sayed Ahmed Qazwini
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[0:10][Music] muhammad respected brothers and sisters the arabs of jahiliyyah were obsessed

[0:42]with their lineage which family you came from who's your father your

[0:50]grandfather this was very important in that society and it was important

[0:54]to other people meaning people they judged you and they valued you

[0:59]and treated you based on which family you came from as long

[1:02]as your father is alive your father was your protector your father

[1:06]was your guardian your father was the one that cared for you

[1:09]as they say they used to call the father the he was

[1:13]like a tent over his children and that's why in arabia there

[1:17]was a particular group of people that suffered and struggled greatly and

[1:21]that was the orphans an orphan growing up without especially their father

[1:27]they struggled a lot because usually they were neglected in that society

[1:31]they were marginalized not only that they were sometimes even stigmatized kids

[1:35]when they used to see an orphan come to play to play

[1:41]with them they used to say don't play with this child because

[1:43]he's an orphan so they look down upon a child that was

[1:46]orphaned and even after they grew that stigma continued with them that

[1:53]this person is an orphan and that's why they were seen what

[1:55]they were seen as second-class citizens and not only that but they

[2:01]were seen as vulnerable and weak and that's why an orphan was

[2:04]usually oppressed by his own family members either one of the uncles

[2:10]or the family members would usurp his money the money that he

[2:12]has inherited from his father they would put their eyes on the

[2:17]money of the child and they would use serpent and steal it

[2:19]or sometimes a young girl when her father dies she would be

[2:23]forced into marriage because the father figure isn't there to protect their

[2:28]children so this was how jahaliyah was with orphans when islam came

[2:33]islam came to protect the rights of orphans it put guidelines on

[2:37]how to treat the orphans and put an end to this oppression

[2:41]that's why you see in the holy quran allah azzawajal tells us

[2:45]some laws about how to deal with a yatim with a orphan

[2:50]for example in one verse allah azzawajal he tells us about how

[2:54]to socially deal with an orphan allah says in the holy quran

[3:01]they ask you about the time about the orphans how do we

[3:06]deal with them the holy quran says that do not let them

[3:16]feel that they are different because like it or not an orphan's

[3:22]life will never be like the life of a child who lives

[3:23]and grows up with his father with his mother when the father

[3:27]isn't there the child will have certain needs that he will be

[3:32]denied of the talk the father takes the child to a doctor

[3:34]when the when the child is sick but when the father isn't

[3:39]there the son that child has to look for someone else my

[3:42]uncle he has to look for his aunt he has to look

[3:43]for a friend for a neighbor when he comes to the masjid

[3:48]the father is holding the hands of his child anywhere the father

[3:50]goes he takes his children with him so that's why the arabs

[3:53]they used to see him as a tent but this poor orphan

[3:56]he does not have his father with him so he will have

[3:58]certain needs that he is deprived of the holy quran says you

[4:04]believers you try to what compensate for that need assalah compensate for

[4:10]that need don't let them feel different and mingle with them mix

[4:13]with them like your brothers brothers and sisters treat them as you

[4:17]treat anyone and especially during the time of jahalia when they like

[4:23]i said an orphan was looked down upon and stigmatized the holy

[4:26]quran said no socially you have to treat them like any other

[4:29]muslim in the community so this was one law that allah azzawajal

[4:34]spoke about in the holy quran regarding the itam the orphans number

[4:38]two in another verse allah gives us the laws of the physical

[4:43]property the wealth of an orphan allah says in the holy quran

[4:52]and do not approach do not come close to the money the

[4:58]property of an orphan unless it is in his best interest why

[5:00]does allah hazard say that because during the jahalia what would happen

[5:04]the father dies this is a young child he inherits money from

[5:08]his father right but he's a child he needs a custodian he

[5:11]needs a guardian his uncle would come his cousin would come right

[5:15]and with the pretext of taking care of that child they would

[5:19]take the money they would spend most of it 90 and then

[5:22]10 percent they would spend on the child so that's why they

[5:26]would be happy when they see a child as orphan because this

[5:29]was an opportunity to take his inheritance allah azza says in this

[5:34]verse this is haram do not touch the money of the orphan

[5:37]unless it is in his best interest you cannot spend one dollar

[5:41]one dime for you you want to be the guardian you want

[5:45]to be the wesley you want to be the wali fine but

[5:46]you have to make sure that you are keeping the interest of

[5:50]the child and mind in fact taking the money of the child

[5:56]is amongst the kabat the money of their team if someone spends

[5:58]a dollar of it allah says in another verse in the holy

[6:02]in the holy quran and those individuals that eat the money of

[6:19]their team they go and they unjustly take it they are eating

[6:23]fire in their stomach allah azzawajal will punish them for this and

[6:27]don't think this was just during the jahali up until this day

[6:31]brothers and sisters especially in the middle east i hear stories of

[6:33]a father that dies and the uncle comes and with the pretext

[6:37]of taking care of the child he takes the money for himself

[6:40]that brother was what his brother that died was wealthy so he

[6:42]takes most of the money and he leaves you know the the

[6:47]crumbs the crumbs for that poor orphan so this was number two

[6:50]the quran said it is haram to touch the money of the

[6:55]orphan unless it is in his interest this was number two financially

[6:58]so number one we said socially number two we said financially and

[7:02]number three emotionally and psychologically the holy quran says when it comes

[7:11]to the team be very careful of his emotions do not disturb

[7:15]him do not bother him do not disappoint him don't make him

[7:20]cry why because this child has enough to deal with he's lost

[7:24]his father she's lost her mother he has enough sorrow and pain

[7:27]to deal with so much grievances that they have now you come

[7:31]and you want to upset them no when you know a child

[7:34]is an orphan you have to be extra sensitive with this child

[7:37]because there is so much sorrow in this child's heart yesterday i

[7:41]saw a video clip they sent of a young child in iraq

[7:47]he seemed to be about 10 years old so there's this reporter

[7:50]who's doing an interview with him on camera he tells him why

[7:54]did you leave school he left school he said because i have

[7:57]to make a living i said my mother died and my father

[8:02]died and i have younger brothers and sisters that i have to

[8:04]take care of them so i have to go out and work

[8:07]he goes and he collects garbage i don't know what he collects

[8:09]some stuff and he goes sells it for such a cheap price

[8:13]so he says because of that i cannot work anymore and then

[8:16]the child started to cry he said i wish i could you

[8:20]know follow my mother and i could be also in her grave

[8:22]with her i don't want to live in this life anymore can

[8:25]you imagine what type of life this orphan has to live so

[8:29]the quran says be extra careful with their team make sure you

[8:34]never disappoint them you never yell at them you never make them

[8:37]sad you never make them cry because they have enough to deal

[8:41]with that's why there's a hadith thank you brother thank you so

[8:52]much thank you there is a hadith from rasulullah or afan from

[9:00]ali where the imam says it's a very very touching hadith and

[9:05]a powerful hadith the imam says it the throne of god shakes

[9:19]allah doesn't want to hear that's the last person allah wants to

[9:23]hear crying because he's been through so much pain and then allah

[9:30]says who is this person that's making this your team cry who

[9:33]has the audacity to make this your team cry and then the

[9:37]prophet said allah azza says whoever hears their team crying an orphan

[9:46]crying and then he goes and he quiets that child he gives

[9:50]them some candy he gives them some money or he just gives

[9:53]them love and affection allah azzawajal will give this person jannah paradise

[9:57]the ultimate grand prize of allah paradise to the one that quiets

[10:02]their team so be extra careful and sensitive with the team the

[10:07]holy prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam tells amir al-mu'min whoever men he says

[10:17]whoever wipes his hand on the head of their team this is

[10:22]a sign of affection of love of mercy anytime you see a

[10:26]yatim just go and wipe your hand on their heads the prophet

[10:30]tells imam ali whoever does this allah will give him for each

[10:33]hair of that child for each strain of hair allah will give

[10:38]him allah azza will give you so much nur on the day

[10:43]of judgment just because you are showing this mercy to these atoms

[10:48]and that's why when you see the life of rasulullah the holy

[10:53]prophet was very sensitive he was very caring he was very kind

[10:56]he was very merciful and affectionate with atam jaffar when he died

[11:02]the brother of imam ali and the cousin of rasulullah when he

[11:05]was killed he left two young orphans one of them was abdullah

[11:09]ibn jaffar the husband later of say the zainab the prophet went

[11:23]to the house of jaffar his wife opened the door he told

[11:27]her where are the two sons the the two sons the two

[11:32]orphans now of uh they came out the holy prophet he hugged

[11:35]them and he started to wipe his hands on their head abdullah

[11:38]jafar says i never forgot that even as he grew he says

[11:42]i never forget the day that rasulullah did that to us that

[11:45]was so important for us he's telling them you've lost your father

[11:49]but i am here for you so this is a sign of

[11:52]mercy that rasulullah would always show to any team he would see

[11:56]and one reason mothers and sisters that rasulullah was so affectionate with

[12:00]orphans was because he himself was an orphan rasulullah was born without

[12:07]a father his father died when his mother was pregnant he never

[12:11]saw his father abdullah so he grew up in arabia as an

[12:17]orphan unfortunately people they used to look down they used to call

[12:20]him their team and even when he began to preach islam people

[12:23]they use this against him we follow the you know the arrogant

[12:27]people of quraish we follow this yeti we follow this arrogant who

[12:30]doesn't have a father so this this was a stigma that they

[12:35]held against rasulullah he was born without a father so the prophet

[12:39]had felt what you know he had tasted what it felt like

[12:42]to grow up without that father figure with you he had tasted

[12:46]that bitterness and not only did he lose his father when he

[12:49]was six years old his mother amina tells him let's go and

[12:53]visit the grave of your father in medina because rasulullah is in

[12:57]mecca and abdullah was buried in medina so she tells him let's

[13:02]go and visit him so they go on a trip rasulullah is

[13:04]excited now he's going to go and visit the grave of his

[13:07]father for the first time he goes to medina he visits the

[13:11]grave of his father abdullah and then they head back to mecca

[13:15]in the middle of the way they stop in an area called

[13:20]between mecca and medina his mother gets sick she gets so sick

[13:22]that she can no longer continue the journey she gets worse and

[13:26]worse her health deteriorates until amina his mother dies in and he's

[13:30]all alone far from his family rasulullah dies he's sleeping next to

[13:35]amina they come they see him he's sleeping a six-year-old boy next

[13:41]to his mother now he's lost his father and mother this is

[13:45]so difficult brothers and sisters rasulullah turned to see no parents so

[13:49]he went back to mecca who was it it was his grandfather

[13:53]abdul muttalib that cared for rasulullah abdul muttalib loved rasulullah so he

[13:59]cared for him and he was very merciful and kind with rasulullah

[14:06]until rasulullah was eight years old so two years after abdul muttalib

[14:09]now is on his deathbed he's about to die subhanallah from one

[14:15]caretaker to another rasulullah abdullah abdullah is on his deathbed all his

[14:21]sons are in front of him he asks rasool allah muhammad who

[14:23]do you want which one of your uncles do you want to

[14:27]you know to live with who do you want to take care

[14:30]of you so the holy prophet he looked at the faces of

[14:34]subhanallah even radha hadith the abu lahab even from those days he

[14:37]hated rasulullah when abdullah was dying the prophet used to go and

[14:42]stand next to him abu lahab would keep on removing him he

[14:44]would tell him move away from abdul muttalib even from those days

[14:48]he used to hate his nephew muhammad so anyway he looked at

[14:53]the faces of his uncles until he looked at the face of

[14:57]abu talib the father of amir al-mu'min and he said i want

[15:00]abu talib he chose him so he went and abu talib cared

[15:05]for him and this is where allah azza says in the holy

[15:08]quran he tells him about allah tells him how much he gave

[15:11]him he gave the prophet he says rasulullah weren't you an orphan

[15:19]but every time you lost someone i found someone to come and

[15:22]protect you and care for you when your father died your mother

[15:24]was there when your mother died i i brought abdul muttalib to

[15:29]protect you abdul muttalib died finally the greatest care taker of rasulullah

[15:33]was abu talib he loved him so much he used to treat

[15:38]him just like his own son even when he used to travel

[15:41]he would not keep him back in mecca because he would be

[15:45]afraid that somewhat something may happen to muhammad he used to some

[15:47]i even read it on hadith when he used to sleep he

[15:50]used to tell muhammad to sleep next to him when he was

[15:56]a child this is how much love he had for the holy

[15:59]prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam so this is the affection of rasulullah towards

[16:05]orphans look at imam ali imam ali one of his traits was

[16:08]that he was very affectionate caring loving and merciful with the orphans

[16:12]in fact there is a poem in arabic that is attributed to

[16:17]amir al-mu'min alaihi about orphans and how much he loves for them

[16:20]the poem says the imam says the pain that i have for

[16:37]an orphan is the greatest pain i really feel sorry for the

[16:42]orphan because at that young age they lose their father their caregiver

[16:45]the father is supposed to spend on the child but they lose

[16:49]that father the father is supposed to take care of them but

[16:51]they have lost their father so that's why this really breaks the

[16:54]heart of amin anytime he would see a team habib narrates that

[17:00]imam ali was the khalifa they brought honey from somewhere they brought

[17:05]large quantities of honey assal to amir al-mu'min ali anytime they would

[17:11]bring something they would bring money they would bring food right away

[17:14]the same day he would give it all out and that's why

[17:17]they say the day he became khalifa he entered baitil mal filled

[17:22]with money and he emptied all of it people came by the

[17:25]thousands by the flocks they took it until baitum was empty not

[17:30]a single durham or dinar was remaining and then the imam he

[17:34]vacuumed it and he prayed two like us to allah azzawajal when

[17:37]it was empty so they brought the assal the honey habib he

[17:41]said the imam formed two lines one line for everyone and a

[17:47]special line for the orphans he says the orphans they all came

[17:51]the orphans of el-khufa they came to amir al-mu'min in alayhi and

[17:55]the imam himself he would feed them with his own holy hands

[18:00]said the imam he took so much of his time so that

[18:03]he would feed one orphan one after the other allahu akbar so

[18:07]one of his companions asked why are you doing this you don't

[18:12]have to do this you're the khalifa now the imam said the

[18:17]imam i am the father of the eta who do they turn

[18:19]to if they don't have a father they come to the they

[18:22]come to me i am the father of the eighth and that's

[18:25]why when imam ali alayhi salaam was struck by eben muljam the

[18:31]orphans all came by the house of imam ali they were crying

[18:33]our father because imam ali used to treat them like their own

[18:37]like his own children so the hadith says that this companion of

[18:40]the imam he says that when the people saw that imam ali

[18:45]is feeding the orphans with his own hand some of them said

[18:48]wallahi i wish i was an orphan just so i can be

[18:52]fed from the holy hands of amir al-mu'min what a blessing girls

[18:56]that imam ali feeds you with that honey isn't it a blessing

[19:00]some people they said i wish i was an orphan just so

[19:03]i can receive this blessing in sha allah you all receive the

[19:06]blessing when we receive that drink from how the author insha allah

[19:11]on the day of judgment imam ali is the sati he is

[19:14]the one that gives everyone the drink from the pool of al-qauthar

[19:18]in paradise paradise insha allah to allah so amir al-mu'min was so

[19:23]affectionate look at his he reminds them about the obligations and then

[19:32]he says be careful do not neglect the time do not forget

[19:38]about the atom take care of them and then he said make

[19:45]sure you don't neglect them you don't forget about them you feed

[19:48]them every day this was always on the mind of amir al-munidha

[19:52]the soft and affectionate heart of amir al-mu'manin and that's why we

[19:58]have a hadith that tell us one of the greatest that you

[20:02]can do you want to do a mustahab a good act rewards

[20:05]you take care of your team find a team somewhere in masha'allah

[20:11]we have so many we have so there's so many in iraq

[20:12]and lebanon and afghanistan pakistan and india and all these countries and

[20:16]take care of him now either by sending him the money and

[20:19]there's institutions that even do that you just give them the money

[20:24]and then they provide for the atom or bring them in better

[20:28]yet bring them into your own house and raise him like your

[20:33]own child there's a hadith of the prophet he says the best

[20:39]house of the muslims is a house this is a blessed house

[20:42]where there is a team being taken care of you raise ayatim

[20:46]in your house this is the best house of the muslims and

[20:51]obviously the famous hadith of the prophet you've all heard he says

[20:54]one day he told his companions me and the caretaker the caregiver

[21:01]of the yatim of the orphan are like this meaning he is

[21:03]with me in paradise he will be with my you know in

[21:07]the same level of rasulallah in paradise because you are taken care

[21:10]of by a team someone that has lost his father or his

[21:15]mother now the prophet says if you take care of a team

[21:18]and normally a team right you will be with rasulullah imagine if

[21:24]you are the caretaker of rasulullah himself what will his position be

[21:29]on the day of judgment brothers so i ask you if you

[21:31]take care of a normal average child of the street the prophet

[21:35]says that you will be in jannah with me imagine if you

[21:40]are the caretaker of rasulullah himself what is the status of abu

[21:44]talib it is beyond our comprehension brothers and sisters abu talib the

[21:49]caretaker of rasulallah his status is beyond our imagination and one hadith

[21:56]says about abu talib and tonight is the seventh of the seventh

[22:00]night of ramadan this is when we remember abu talib he died

[22:03]on the seventh of ramadan so we commemorate this great legend number

[22:24]one he said sulbun anzalek is the loins that conceived you number

[22:33]two the womb that carried you and number three wahedron and number

[22:38]three is the lap that took care of you that raised you

[22:41]after you were an orphan and then jabra'il explained as for the

[22:43]first one abdullah conceived you the second one is your mother amina

[22:48]who carried you and third one was your caretaker and that was

[22:55]gave him protection and him and uh the father of rasulullah and

[23:01]his mother they gave all of them the allah gave them protection

[23:08]from nara jahannam to put all of the iman of human beings

[23:15]on one side of a scale and he puts the iman of

[23:19]abu talib on the other side he says the iman of abu

[23:23]talib would be heavier allahu akbar not only did he protect rasulullah

[23:28]he believed in rasulullah not only did he believe ali says his

[23:32]iman was greater than the iman of all humanity may allah azzawajal

[23:41]grant us the ability that we can also follow in the footsteps

[23:44]of abu talib cared for rasulullah he was the caretaker of rasulullah

[23:49]in sha allah we can become we can care for the cause

[23:53]of rasulullah the faith the religion of rasulullah we can support the

[23:59]religion of rasulullah in the same way supported rasulullah himself muhammad

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