AbdelRahman Murphy – Jumuah Khutbah 06-05-22

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			in a foundational Hadith Lhotse a tradition or a hadith in which the prophet is also narrates on
behalf of Allah Subhan Allah to Allah, Allah tells us something very beautiful, he gives us a very
hopeful and incredibly optimistic teaching. When he says you have good Allahu Taala in our ignorance
on the RDB.
		

			This foundational principle is something that is mentioned in many different texts, you probably
have heard it in hobos before the Prophet SAW Selim tells us that ALLAH SubhanA wa, tada reminds us
or teaches us something critical about our relationship with Him. It allows us a glimpse, it allows
us a chance to have the answer to the question, how is my relationship with Allah? This is a
question that every person has whether or not they admit it. And whether or not they think of it
frequently or infrequently. Everybody wants to know, what is the status of their relationship with
Allah, this is something that we do even with other people. What's the status of my relationship, my
		

			wife, my kids, my parents, anybody with a relationship wants to know where they're standing. And so
Allah tells us out of His mercy, out of his favor, what the relationship barometer is for us, and he
doesn't have to do this. Because when you think of anyone in authority, at work, or in your personal
life, they don't have to give you an indication, they don't have to tell you. Right, then being an
authority means that they are in complete control. Allah to Allah is an absolute authority, and he
doesn't need to give us anything, but he gives us this so that we can know how we're doing with him.
And the answer to that question of how is a person doing with Allah? is how is a lot in that
		

			person's life and their end? Divani appdb that Allah says, I am to my servant, exactly how they
think of me.
		

			Whatever way the servant imagines Allah, then that is according to the commentators how Allah to
Allah will be in that person's life. Now, what does this mean? We know that Allah subhanaw taala is
not something that we can imagine we don't change who he is no. What this means is that the way in
which we imagine Allah actively in our lives, is exactly how we will see Him in every scenario.
There are some people that constantly see the forgiveness and the mercy of Allah subhanaw taala
around them at every turn, no matter what. They will always recognize Allah's generosity in every
situation, no matter how bad.
		

			On the other side, there are also people that exist, may Allah protect us that will always see the
negativity in the situation, no matter how fortunate it might be, you know, the famous English
saying that If life gives you lemons and make lemonade, right, that's kind of what this hadith is
alluding to. That If life gives you lemons, or in our case, if Allah gives you lemons, right, then
it's your job to see in the universe in the world around you. The favor of God the mercy of God so
that the sugar that you have then can make those lemons something palatable. But there are some of
us that no matter how much lemonade we're given, we turn that lemonade back into lemons that Allah
		

			Tada might send upon us favor after favor, situation that is full of protection and mercy and grace.
And because again of the negativity that we harbor within ourselves towards Allah towards God, then
we successfully extract all the sweetness from that refreshing cool lemonade and turn our life back
into the sour, bitter experience that lemons offer.
		

			So this is the beginning of this tradition, this hadith narration now, when Allah Tada gives us this
gift, I want to remind us all that this is something that is from Allah's generosity, that a person
doesn't demand this from Allah. But Allah lets us have this barometer so that we can know the status
of our relationship with Him. Ramadan is a month that gives us a chance to recalibrate that
relationship. It allows us the blessing and the privilege of being able to do
		

			This for 11 months of the year we get distracted for 11 months of the year. And how come with the
cathode, Allah Tada says in the Quran that you are completely and totally your concentration is
destroyed, your focus is decimated by what? By the cathode or by trying to gain more trying to earn
more trying to acquire more. So for 11 months of the year, we're so focused on acquisition, on
growth on progressions materially that we tend to forget spiritually that we have needs as well. So
Ramadan comes in it pauses, everything, don't eat during the day, right? Don't sleep, or at least
most of us don't sleep too much. Don't do anything else. Everything else that you focus on, do as
		

			little as possible and then dedicate the rest of your month to Allah subhanaw taala. Why because you
need to calibrate you need to reset just like when your phone loses orientation when you're using a
compass, or when you need to reset something to the factory settings to make sure what that it's
functioning properly. So Ramadan gives us that chance to reset and our ability to think of Allah is
cleansed during the month of Ramadan. Everybody is astounded I'll never forget, I met a security
guard who wasn't Muslim who was outside the masjid one time. And it was thought, time to break fast.
And so I go out and I see him and I say, can we get you a plate of food? And guess what he says? He
		

			goes, Oh, no, I don't want to take away from your food. I want to make sure that you have enough.
And I started laughing. Because I said Brother, if there's one time of the year that Muslims never
have to worry about food, it's Ramadan. It's if thought there's always enough it's a miracle of
Allah that there is always enough provision in the month of Ramadan. Subhan. Allah surprisingly,
that everybody gets to eat. Why? Because not because there's magically more food not because the
rice multiplies in the tray. No, but because our perspective, our needs, our desires are limited
more so then than they are every other day. And so surprisingly, the same plate that we can eat by
		

			ourselves now can feed four people, the same sandwich that we could normally take in inhale in 30
seconds. Now we call another brother or two other and say Come share, And subhanAllah after three
bytes, we say what I'm full actually, I can't have I can't finish this. So that security guard was
under the impression that I don't want to take away from your food and I told him when it comes to
our perspective in this month, there is no such thing as taking away food. Right? The generosity of
Allah cannot be kept. The generosity of Allah cannot be limited. Especially we learned this in the
month of Ramadan. The second thing we learned in this hadith, that Allah Allah says in there in
		

			Divani appdb. When am I who either that Karani and I am with my servant.
		

			When they make mention of me, so long as or when they make mention of me, this is another
interesting statement. Because we know that Allah subhanaw taala is with us at all times. We know
that Allah Tala is never we are never hidden from him, we know that he has knowledge of all of our
actions or deeds are statements. So what does it mean when Allah says that no matter who you are as
a company, that I am with him when or she when they remember me, it means that when a person wants
to have ALLAH SubhanA, Allah has presence in their life on good terms, that action is necessary.
		

			If a person wants to have a lot in their life, they have to take action here the action is to make
mention of something to say something to talk about Allah subhanaw taala to even say the word or the
phrase and Hamdulillah that all praise and thanks to Allah. But this statement can also be replaced
with other actions. Just making a statement about Allah is one action but there are many others. It
reminds me of the hadith of Abdullah bin abbess, where the Prophet SAW Selim once took him aside and
he said, let me give you some advice. Yeah, well then, in your early Mecca kalimat. Let me teach you
some some some words and he told them the first thing he says, For the lawyer for the Protect Allah,
		

			and Allah will protect you. It's a very interesting verb. We never think about protecting God. Why
because God is not in need of protection. What is being meant here is that if you preserve and
protect who Allah is in your life, then you can take comfort knowing that you will always have a
protected state with Allah in His in your life. But the minute that a person forgets about Allah and
their life, then their status with Allah begins to tumble before their very eyes. Whether it's
Hakuna who can levena Salah and sat home and fossa Han. Allah says, Don't be like the one who
forgets Allah. Why? When you forget Allah, you will instantly then start to forget yourself.
		

			All of your morals and your beliefs and your virtues will start to crumble before your eyes. Why?
Because nothing holds them up anymore. Nothing stands behind them, like the backbone that is Iman
That is faith. And so here in this hadith, the Prophet SAW Selim is telling us that Allah is telling
us that so long as you make mention of Allah, He will always be with you in your life. But Ramadan
is the month perhaps more than any other year that we remember Allah We mentioned Allah, we read
more Quran, we spend more time in the masjid, we spend more time with people. And we give up so much
for the cause of being able to attain that status. But Subhan Allah, I don't think anyone here would
		

			disagree that in the month of Ramadan, you attain a sweetness that cannot be replicated by any other
acquisition. In fact, you only attain the sweetness by giving things up. You don't eat you don't
drink, you barely sleep, you donate more money than you do rest of the year. All these things you
give, give give you don't take anything. But what do you achieve at the end of all that giving is
that you've attained something that you cannot replicate, try. Try to replicate it at the Tesla
dealership. I know they don't have dealerships online, right? Try to replicate it when you sign up a
contract when you close on a new house, try to replicate it when you go shopping for clothes or get
		

			new bags and try try to replicate that feeling every other way possible. You can't do it. It's not
possible. Right? Going shopping at Northpark mall will never compare with going to Hutch.
		

			Right? It never will. And so Allah Tada is saying that the only way that you can gain this exclusive
feeling is by mentioning me. Okay? And then Allah continues and says something even more powerful in
that got on the fina FC heat that kind of to hoof enough see, when this person remembers me to
themselves and I remember this person, myself. Right there is a place for solitude and individual.
		

			Personal worship of Allah.
		

			Right, it is necessary. There are some things that you can you can gain in the company of others.
But remembering Allah when you are by yourself gives you access to things that you can gain in the
company of others. Write reflection can only be attained in solitude, you can't reflect at a MAVs
game. You can't reflect in a gathering of people you can't think deeply about your life and your
decisions and mistakes and hopes and fears and aspirate. You can't think about those things. When
you're with your friends. You have to be by yourself, you have to be in a state of reflection.
Right? As they say that you can't see reflection or reflection and a pot of boiling water, why
		

			there's too much motion. There's too much commotion. When you're with people, there's too much going
on by yourself is when you're able to attain this beautiful state of reflection. We're in Zeca,
Ronnie Fiammetta and the kind of two who female and played him in him. And when this person
remembers me or makes mention of me in a gathering, than I make mention of them in a gathering that
is better than the one that they are in. So we just said that you have to remember a lot in
isolation in private. But guess what? The Hadith also then tells us there are certain aspects that
you can only gain through community. You can't make it on your own. You can't attain spiritual
		

			success, the pinnacle of eemaan by yourself, Idina slit autonomous docking, if you want to be part
of those that are guided, you have to realize that you're part of a collective, you're part of a
group. And this is another thing that I belong gives us Ramallah and gives us the last 10 nights
where you sit by yourself in the corner of the masjid or you're at home reading Quran making dua it
gives you the solitude but it also gives you the Iftar time with your community. It gives you the
tunnel we prayer it gives you the Aisha Salah it gives you all of those opportunities that again you
cannot replace.
		

			So we learned so far in this hadith, that our status with Allah is critical and us knowing who we
are with Allah is critical that you need to have alone time you need to have community time.
		

			And then Allah subhanaw taala continues well into Katara but you may be Shiburin took her up to La
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greater, when at 10am Shi T to who had will attend that and if they come to me walking I will go to
them running this last part of the hadith is absolutely mind blowing. And that is that if you look
at every scenario when Allah to Allah tells us when they do this, I do this
		

			If my servant he or she does x I will do Y. What is the formula that we find here? What is the
pattern the pattern is no matter what you do, Allah Tala always returns more. No matter how much you
give Allah to Allah will always give you more back. This is a guaranteed equation, when it comes to
knowing who Allah subhanaw taala is, never ever do you get less than or equal to what you give
Allah. And this is a very interesting, interesting paradigm shift because we are taught in
capitalism in the dunya in the material world, that I work this many hours, I get paid this many
hours. Right? We we rely on that what reliability we need that that's how contracts are written. You
		

			work this much you get this much you take this many credits, you graduate with a degree you do this,
you get this. But with Allah, you cannot quantify, and you cannot limit the amount of return, you're
going to get back from Allah subhanaw taala. All you know is that it's going to be more than
whatever you gave forth. And this is the last lesson that Ramadan teaches us about this hadith, that
this investment that you've given Subhanallah the scholars asked the question, why is Ramadan only
one month of the year? Why can't Ramadan be two months or three months of the year. And some of the
scholars they wrote about it not being sustainable. You can't do 30 days more than once a year, it's
		

			too much. But some are like that they wrote and they said because one month of giving devotion to
Allah, the amount that Allah gives you back lasts you the other 11 months of the year, that whatever
you give, the return is so much greater. It's like concentrated Iman.
		

			And so in this devotion to Allah this month of devotion, it's important that we recognize that
starting you know, this week, up until insha Allah in the next Ramadan May Allah Allah grant us that
		

			that we are part of a divine transaction. That this is something that we need to realize that we are
in the privilege of having that everything you did in Ramadan did not end. Your prayers did not just
simply cease. Your Quran recitation did not just simply pause No, it was an investment. And just
like when you invest in anything in life, you start to see the returns and the returns give you a
feeling of hope, a feeling of gratitude.
		

			So you see now that after praying five times a day for 30 days, somehow praying five times a day now
and so well is even easier. You see that having a relationship with the Quran for 30 days, it's
easier now to listen to the Quran being recited, it's easier to open up the most Huff yourself and
start reading. You see that after giving sadaqa especially last 10 Nights. Now you don't feel so
foreign when you walk up to the donation box. Now it's like a familiar friend. It's like a
experience that you're used to now all of this are the fruits of the work that you did the last 30
days. And this fruit, this harvest is meant to carry you through until the next year. We ask Allah
		

			subhanaw taala to grant us that and more. We ask Allah to Allah to grant us the ability to practice
everything we've learned. We ask Allah to Allah to accept from us all of our fasting and our praying
and our Quran and sit in charity Akula Cody Hello stuff for Hola Hola. Hola, como Elisa Illa Muslim
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			hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah, Karim, Allah, Allah, He was such a huge
amount in Europe. There is a very beautiful moment that everybody has during the month of Ramadan.
And hopefully that moment is tied to making dua. That moment maybe it's on the odd nights 27th
night, maybe it's by yourself at home, who knows when it was but everybody engaging in some form of
dua to Allah subhanaw taala, where the heart just opens and maybe the tears are shedding and the
emotional floodgate is just rolling. And you're talking to Allah about what you're talking to Allah
about your regrets, your fears, what you hope for, what you're thankful for all of these emotional
		

			conversations with your Creator and your Sustainer. Now, the Hadith that we mentioned, during this
cookbook is all about having a good expectation of Allah, what's called Hueston of them Billa
thinking well of Allah, right. The prophets all sudden has other Hadith where he tells us about the
importance of having positive expectations of Allah. One of the narrations is very forceful, very
powerful, in a good way where the Prophet SAW Selim says, or Lucha, went to Mukhin runnability java.
He says, Make dua to Allah and be absolutely certain in the response that it's coming. Now many of
us are wondering, okay, it's been six days, right? It's been 10 days. Where's the response? This is
		

			something that takes some practice, but this is something that Ramadan also teaches us. The response
of the DUA that we make to Allah does not always come in the way that we want it.
		

			nor the way that we expect it. So instead of searching for the exact response that we were hoping
for, one way that Ramadan teaches us the patience, the trust, all of the things that we learned that
month, is that we have to become better at looking for the responses of Allah in languages that we
didn't think.
		

			What does that mean? We asked for risk, oh, Allah grant us risk give us more sustenance. And instead
of seeing all of a sudden magically checks, more money, more money, more money, oh, hamdulillah do I
was answered? What do we see, we see our home filled with happiness. Maybe we see that our families
getting along better. Maybe we see that something good happened, right? Maybe my insurance rate went
down or maybe something different. But it wasn't just in the form of getting more cash. These are
all forms of risk. And in this we trust that Allah Tada is giving us not what we want, but what we
need. So we're asking Allah to give us Oh Allah give us give us give us and maybe in preparation of
		

			your heart or your soul, instead of giving you exactly what you wanted Allah to Allah knows better
than you what you need. Right? And so it's not about asking and then waiting. It's about asking and
then observing. Looking around, seeing how Allah was giving is so different is so much better and
perfect than anything we could have expected. And this moment of realization is something that
everybody can have every single day you can look around at your life. You know, we ask Allah Allah
protect me, Oh Allah, keep our family safe. And you're driving on the road and you just barely
missed a car that could have hit you.
		

			How many of us in that moment, think to ourselves that was ALLAH protecting me? How many of us are
convinced that this was the answer to my drive on the 27th night that in a moment's notice, my
family could have been gone. And just because of something a yellow light, or a warning in my car,
some signal that popped off beeping telling me you're swerving. My family is saved. Many of us
attribute that to chance or ourselves, but we don't realize that that was hola todos answering of
our dua. Right. Not every draw is being answered in the language that we expect. We just have to get
better at look looking and finding those answers. We ask Allah to Allah to grant us Sophia, we ask
		

			Allah Tada to allow us to be cognizant of those answers we ask Allah subhanaw taala to accept all of
our deeds. We ask Allah subhanaw taala to accept and to give she fat to everyone who was sick. We
asked Allah parents to give mercy and forgiveness to those who have passed away we asked the last
parents audit to answer and to grant us responses to all the deposit we made. We asked less farmers
to book on happiness in our homes. We asked the last parents audit to protect our Eman and faith and
to grant us greatness in our faith era. We asked you Oh Allah to grant us the ability to follow the
messenger Muhammad SAW Salam in his actions and his teachings. I mean me Hello, Bill Alameen in
		

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