The Branches of Faith - 15 - Modesty

Yasir Qadhi

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🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In the 15th part of the 22-part series on eeman, Shaykh Yasir focusses on haya. He bases his talk on the famous hadith reported in Sahih Muslim: "Faith has over seventy branches, the uppermost of which is the declaration: None has the right to be worshipped but Allah; and the least of which is the removal of harmful object from the road, and modesty is a branch of faith. This makes us understand that Allah loves Haya. Ibn Al-Qayyim mentions that just like the body has its life, the life of the heart is its modesty and bashfulness. Therefore Haya is one of the main characteristics of Iman. Muslims should possess both an inner and outer modesty. This is reflected in behavior, speech and appearance, and includes being mindful of God at all times. Modesty in Islam is known as haya, a word, which describes both shyness and a deeper modesty that is based on faith. A sense of haya should affect a Muslim’s conduct before God, before others and even when one is alone. Citing numerous ahadith, Shaykh Yasir expounds on one of the most beautiful topics in Islam which when embedded in an individual automatically raises him in humbleness and eeman - haya. May Allah (Glory be to Him) to help us doing the righteous deeds and to grant us sincerity in words and actions and always set an example of Haya.

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0:17.0	Oh, ah, uh, uh, Ahh. Ahhah. Ahhah.
0:25.0	Ahhahh. Ahhah. Ahhah.
0:28.0	Ahh.
0:31.0	U.S. O'S. God al-Aah al-Aihihihihihihi woman al-a-ma-baabad. So we began with the Hadith of the Prophet, Allah Oahu al-A-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-Lah al-L them is la I la al-Lah law. The lowest of them is to remove
0:46.7	something from the sidewalk that is irritating people and then our Prophet
0:50.4	of Allah who al-A-Huhlle was said,
0:52.4	well-haya u sh oh surebhatum,
0:54.6	min-shu-a-bil iman, and haya, which is modesty,
0:58.7	and shyness and bashfulness and decency,
1:01.8	haya is one of the branches of Iman.
1:05.0	And so by the explicit testimony of the Prophet
1:08.0	Allah Allah O'Alah al-Iah
1:10.0	or modesty is one of the branches of Iman. Now what exactly is haya? The word haya, it has the same root as the word life.
1:19.0	Hayat, you added time it's the same root. And I'm Nakhkaya mentions that the life of the heart just like the body has
1:26.2	its haiat so the life of the heart is its modesty and bashfulness it is haa And so haya is one of the main characteristics of
1:36.0	iman. It is mentioned in a hadith and so I'm Muslim that once a man was
1:40.2	criticizing his friend, his brother, by saying he's, you're too bashful, you're too shy,
1:45.6	you don't get anything done. And the prophet says some walked by, and the prophet
1:49.7	of the sallam said, do not rebuke him, for Haya is from Iman, and Haya brings nothing but good, and Haya
1:58.0	what Haya is good, the more Haya you have the better it is and it is well known that amongst the Sahaba Uthmanibin Afan was the one who had the most Haya and it is authentically narrated that once the Prophet was in his house and he was lying down casually and his shin was exposed.
2:18.0	And Abu Bakr came and sat down, Omar came, sat down and the process, he said,
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