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Bismillah alhamdulillah wa sallam wa la Rasulillahu aleyhi wa sahbihi a'Bay.

Today short, we're going to look at a very beautiful Hadith that is reported in

Bukhari and Muslim and extract and derive some benefits from it.

It is reported by Abu Sainin Al Khudri.

There a prophet, Allah, O sallam, said,

III yaqoom wal jiruzef al-Turukat.

I warn you against sitting in the alleyways.

Now, back then they didn't have massive mansions.

Most people's houses were one large outer room and one inner chamber.

That's about it.

Even the house of the Prophet ﷺ was like this.

They didn't have a living room.

Where would they sit when they wanted to have friends and talk?

They would literally sit outside their house.

We would call it a veranda, but it wasn't a veranda.

It was literally in the house, in the streets.

So at our Prophet ﷺ said,

I warn you against sitting in the alleyways.

They said,

We have to have our gatherings, our majlis.

We're also going to meet.

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