What did Abu Hanifa do about his neighbour who drank and sang at night?

he said if Allah has gifted you with risk then dress well so let it be known not in a boastful way but don't appear as though you are you know like in this like homeless kind of state almost and by the way I'm not speaking about I know in Islam there is a tradition of the Mystic Wanderers you know like the Great disheveled kind of wandering Mystics the Great sufis and the great who I don't

mean them who just became Hermits and just adopted they had a way of their own but this is for people who are living in just being part of society but they've got the blessings from Allah but they don't adopting them they're acting as though you know they're struggling we're all they're making it look like that so this was an amazing side of his that look he how he was trying to intervene and and help and um yeah you know there's I've I think I've shared this I have shared this story before I'll share it again

there was a neighbor in uh I don't know whether this was in Baghdad or doing kufa because it might have been in Baghdad as well because was there for a little while as well now because he was you know the supervising kind of manager as well for the project when they were building constructing the city now he had a neighbor who really dislike religious people couldn't stand them you know you get some of those people

unfortunately some people religious people like that oh you know with the where they've found religion yet not found it but you get other people as well that hate religion sometimes they hate anybody to do with religion and so this person was a Muslim it was a Muslim but he just hated he felt they're just religious they're just judgmental bigots one may say some of that hasn't changed in some people but and he was a neighbor of Imam incessant alcoholic see this is another thing that those

people who think that day and age was like some kind of um I don't know like Taliban kind of era it was never like that people always just had the like people weren't as involved in judging like maybe they judged but they weren't as involved in being able to stop you know like people think and all this it wasn't like that people just did what they did and sure maybe people frowned on it maybe people judge them but they didn't have this like all the you know people would stop you or people would this is back then in the turbine's time

so you've got Imam of hanifa's neighbor was a known drunkard oh garlic and here not only that he would sit out at night time at outside on his kind of ledge he'd sit out at the front of his house and he would sink awaken in him so he'd think like since I'm awake I must keep everyone awake and he would sing and he would often you know what he would sing this uh uh poem that uh

he said that they wasted me they let a guy like me go to ruin like me they let a guy like me go to ruin for what they just wanted me to be a number in an army just to fill a like a gap on a military field like basically they just want some military expansion so we just need people like cannon fodder like we'll just waste them so he says like what he's saying is I'm so much greater than this and these people have wasted they haven't recognized the value in me he

would sing this every night and you are different songs as well but this poetry but this often because well known did Imam of hanifa land at his yard um

drinking alcohols Haram grab him beat him up dude no hanifa used to say everybody should we need to stop change the real monk herbal I mean he's the Imam he's the he's the caliph has been begging him to take up the job as the chief judge this is how much Authority he would wield so how he could easily get get him kind of I'm taught a lesson and what's this

alcohol no neighbor of mine should be drinking alcohol no no you know the neighbor he has so many hokuk in Islam and here to be fair The Neighbors in the wrong because he's oppressing you disturbing your peace he's going out of his he's you know what to be fair if he was to call the local shorter police to say you better shut him up because he's disturbing the peace at night he was in his right to do so because he's a neighbor and it's disturbing but still no Just Smiles and that guy can't stand him up

that guy's like I can't stand these religious folk they're just hypocrites what happens one day this guy gets into trouble with the authorities as often in other trouble would often be not far behind them he gets arrested so what happens is one one night Imam realizes yeah it's awful it's been awfully quiet since the past couple of days where is a how come the neighbors not singing so he thinks you know what in the morning I'll just check up on him he goes to check up the guy's not there

so he asks about he says you know I've not seen him around it's been a few days now they say oh him so yeah he's been taken away by the local the authorities and they've got him in a cell Imam turns up at the local and what would have been there you know like a primitive police station in that day and age not just this is a celebrity of a figure turning up he turns up and the person the local Shruti is like

what the hell what's that they are oh am I in trouble what's going on so he says uh can I help you and he says he says I have come here to ask for a favor he says that what's the favor he says that I hear that such and such has been arrested and they say yeah they say he says over what they say like you know he did some some it wasn't a major issue some kind of delinquency he did and we've banged him up is a waste anyway Imam says he says could you do a favor and release him and allow me to take some responsibility for

him so they're really surprised what the hell that for that guy that guy's just a waste of space of course they say of course you know if you want to take him he could take him but he's it's a waste of space and they release the person and he comes out and he's and as he's walking out he sees Imam and he's absolutely confused what him and Imam says to him

he says a young man photo is a young man he says did we let you go to waste Allah you know honestly this this is it isn't it you know these people legends that they he says to him that did we attack that did we let you go to waste that ass

am Allah but you know that you you do kindness to people it conquers the hearts this person was so he had like an existential profound moment honestly they they say he felt so embarrassed in his way in that that he radically transformed his life

he was so indebted and it just hit him the sincerity and the compassion that yeah this guy came to to save me you know it's like that me like what the hell this guy who I used to always annoy so it's amazing a lie these people you know they these are the Heroes and Legends of Islam that we learn about them in an attempt to to inspire us

and there's a a poem that Assam Allah he says assami these are titles that don't increase them in any in anything like they don't benefit them you know we mention them so we may find some pleasure in it here

it's this is uh honestly there's wow so these were you know the stories of of Imam and there's so many funny stories as well about Imam and I wanted to share it because I thought look yeah he's he passes away in 150 hijri he's buried uh in Baghdad he's buried in Baghdad I believe and there is a um a site that's set up structure a structure um of with his with Imam of hanifa's Tomb this in the same year that he passed his