Continuation of the explanation of "… So call upon Allah with your most sincere deeds. One of them said: O Allah, if You know that I had a woman who pleased me, so I sought her, but she refused me…"

The Shaykh : So when one of them says, while they were in the cave, meaning with the most sincere good deed you performed, and you felt that you performed it, and you were desiring what is with Allah Mighty and Majestic, then this hadith contains the permissibility of seeking nearness to Allah through a good deed. And the previous verse contains the permissibility of seeking nearness to Allah by one of the names of Allah Blessed and Exalted is He . And here . And there is another prescribed seeking nearness established in the Book and the Sunnah, which is the Muslim seeking nearness through the supplication of his righteous brother, in whom he perceives righteousness and hopes that his supplication will be answered. This is also prescribed. And whatever else of the forms of seeking nearness that became famous in the later generations, due to their distance from the Book and the Sunnah in knowledge and practice, has no basis at all, and none of the mujtahid imams said anything about them. I have detailed the discussion of these prescribed and non-prescribed forms of seeking nearness in my private treatise on seeking nearness, so one may refer to it if he wishes to expand. So one of them said in the hadith of Ibn 'Umar that she was a relative to him . He says there . And this is clearer than the hadith "she pleased me." What is the extent of this approval and wonder? He said . And the effect of this intense love will appear in his fear of Allah Mighty and Majestic when he restrained himself from her . Meaning, as compensation for her giving herself to him, he would give her money in return. And this money was one hundred dinars, as it came in some narrations of the hadith of Ibn 'Umar. He says there . Here he says . Here there is a general statement, and there there is a detail. And so, the story can be gathered in its entirety from the collection of narrations that came in it. This first supplicant said , addressing his Lord : "If You know that I turned away from this girl, and more than that, that I left the money I had offered her in order to satisfy my desire with her, so I left all of that." Meaning, for Your sake and out of fear of You. But he feared that he might be mistaken in thinking that he left it out of fear of Allah. And so he says . Meaning, the rock that had blocked the mouth of the cave moved by one-third, the distance in which they could exit the cave. He describes here the extent of his service to his parents, whatever patience it required. Until he would bring the vessel containing the milk, and if he found them sleeping, he would not wake them, preserving their rest and sleep. Rather, he would remain standing until they woke up, combining their rest in sleep and drinking the milk. In the hadith of Ibn 'Umar, he details this part of this hadith, saying . Meaning, he went out in search of pasture and greenery and grass, and he went far from the village, contrary to his habit. He did not return until it was evening. He said . So this is a very precise description of his psychological state between the right of his parents and the right of his children. He said . So he was hesitating between waking them in order to start giving them to drink before the children, and in this there is disturbance for them if he woke them. And on the other hand, the children were crying with hunger. So it is as if he is saying: What do I do? Wake them? No, they must take precedence over the children. Leave the children? The children are crying and weeping. He said in the hadith of Ibn 'Umar . This is the struggle in the path of pleasing the parents. He says in his supplication and his addressing his Lord . Meaning, the second one. And the third said . In this hadith, there is a benefit: there is no specification of the amount of work in the hadith of Ibn 'Umar, but here there is a specification that he worked until half the day. . Here there is also brevity and concision. So what was that money? Its explanation came in the hadith of Ibn 'Umar that it was . Meaning, the wage of that man, which was a *farq* of rice. A *farq* is a small vessel. His wage was this *farq* of rice. So when this worker did not accept this wage and left angry, this master, the owner of the land, said . Meaning, that *farq* of rice, until I gathered from it cows and grazed them. This is what the man saved from that *farq*. He saved and accumulated cows and their herders. So he says in the hadith of Ibn 'Umar . And his right is the *farq* of rice. . You are telling me: Take … from the cows. . He says here in his supplication . So he accepted that. He says . This is a very important point. The man left his wage with him, which was a *farq* of rice, and did not agree with him … with the blessing of Allah Mighty and Majestic in this money. So he returned to ask for his right. What is the right? A *farq* of rice. He says: I gave you all that I saved from this *farq*, and if I had wished, I would not have given him anything but his right, meaning this *farq*. Meaning, he was able to not give him what he had saved for him in this long period, but he saw from his own generosity that he should offer him all that resulted from that first money. So he says . There he says . Here he says . Ibn Hibban narrated it in his Sahih with this wording, and in it, as you saw, are some benefits that were not mentioned in the hadith of Ibn 'Umar. And in the next lesson, if Allah wills, there are other hadiths in this chapter. So we suffice with this amount, and praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.