# What is the reward of sitting in a gathering of remembrance? *Gatherings of remembrance: even the passer-by who sits is not deprived* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/2/ - Date: 2016-12-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Islam in the 21st Century | Mufti Abu Layth | Ha Meem Foundation (3:57–8:12) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBvWBHOIzW4&t=237s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/ **Topics:** Individual hadith explained; Character and virtue **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Gatherings for remembering Allah bring tranquillity, mercy and forgiveness, even for someone who only happened to sit with them. ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth thanks his hosts and begins with the hadith that no people gather in a house to remember Allah, recite His words and study them together except that tranquillity descends on them, the angels surround them, mercy covers them and Allah mentions them in a greater gathering. He adds what he calls the significant ending of a related hadith: when the angels report on a gathering and Allah forgives them all, some angels mention a man who was not meant to be there and just happened to sit down, and Allah says that whoever sits with such people will never lose out. ## Sources and names cited - report: no people gather in a house of the houses of allah reciting the book of allah and studying it among themselves except that tranquillity descends upon them - report: they are the people whose companion is not deprived - dhikr ## Transcript (machine tier, 3:57–8:12) [3:17] Islam Abad where he memorized the whole Quran and then he went to Karachi and yes Pakistan is not only known for kebabs and roties but we have real great Mah in Pakistan and Indo Pac so from there alhamdulillah he went through the whole D naazia program and then afterwards just to add top of that mallah he did a 2-year Muti program so alhamdulillah after qualifying he came back alhamdulillah he did his Masters he's a teacher uh presently I'm told that he's doing a degree in Psychology alhamdulillah so we really need to [3:57] support these type of people alhamdulillah mallah so s if you just take over for inviting me to come here to share some some moments and perhaps some words and Thoughts with you uh the package you spoke of is in the [4:36] car I'll deliver that later on so but we're reminded of a Hadith and I think it's always a good Hadith to begin a gathering with uh in which the prophet Sall alhi wasam teaches us that that that people that people do not Gather in a house really meaning a place a house or Place committed to the remembrance of Allah the worship glorification of [5:08] Allah that that they do not recite his words and then study it amongst them or try and learn or take benefit from these words except that t that Tranquility will descend upon them and that the angels will envelop this this whole they will kind of surround this whole uh [5:41] environment and that the mercy will completely immerse these people and that these people that they have glorified the name of Allah they have made remembered Allah Allah is surely remembering them and has remembered them in a gathering much greater so that is an awesome inspiration for us all that to be a part of any of these gatherings and there is another interesting Hadith which I like to sometimes bring up at the beginning as well and that's related some people say it's perhaps part of the same Hadith in which the Angels they then go up and [6:21] and they speak to Allah and they say that I've come from this Gathering and it's a very popular Hadith but the ending of it is actually much I find is extremely significant in the ending of the Hadith the prophet Allah subhana tala says to the angels that tell the that let it be known that I have forgiven these people that that I have I have given to them granted them each and all of what they have ask but what's interesting then is some [6:57] some of the Angels say that that he that there's somebody that just sat with them who wasn't really meant to be there he was somebody with alternative plans but he he passed by and he thought what the hell am might as well just sit down or or unfortunately might be stuck there thinking damn I'm stuck I need to get out but I'm just I'm just going to sit in what about him cuz he's not objectively he's not meant to [7:32] be so Allah says that even him there such a people who sit for my remebrance for my glorification for this Dean anybody who sits with them will never lose out so that is some amazing words of inspiration passed to us in this Trad people we are in defining times anybody I mean make no mistake about that this era that we are ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment QBvWBHOIzW4/s/2. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/qbvwbhoizw4/s/2/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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