AbdelRahman Murphy – Jumuah Khutbah 19-10-2024
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Allah is the Greatest, Allah
is the Greatest Allah
is the Greatest, Allah is the Greatest I
bear witness that there is no god but
Allah I bear witness that there is no
god but Allah I bear witness
that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah I
bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of
Allah Come to Prayer Come
to Prayer Come to
success Come
to success Allah is the Greatest, Allah
is the Greatest I
bear
witness that there is no god but
Allah
I
bear witness that there is no god but
Allah The Prophet, peace be upon him, during
his 63 years, 23 of which were given
to him in the stage of nubuwah, was
a person who, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, interacted
with many different types of people, companions and
personalities.
And all of these personalities, all of these
companions, we know them as the best generation,
the greatest generation, and we know them as
such because They were people that endured with
the Prophet, peace be upon him.
They lived their lives with him.
They struggled with him.
They celebrated with him.
They bore patiently with him.
They also were able to experience success with
him, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
And their lives are preserved, and the biographies
of their lives are preserved, so that we
can take some inspiration, some lessons, on how
we handle our situations.
Because if they were with him, sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, and they behaved in a certain
way, and they engaged in a certain way,
then naturally their lessons and their responses that
were certified by the Prophet, peace be upon
him, are the responses that we should take.
When you look at the experience of the
Muslims, particularly in the early stage of the
da'wah of the Prophet, peace be upon
him, what you find is that life was
particularly difficult.
It was very challenging.
And the Prophet, peace be upon him, he
could not have anticipated in his moment of
messengership, when Jibril came down and gave him
the divine revelation, the wahi, the Prophet, peace
be upon him, could not have anticipated.
And in fact, he was shocked when he
was told that your people will turn against
you.
And they will turn against you in a
way that you will not be able to
understand.
They will go against you in such harsh
actions, with such aggression, such oppression and tyranny,
that this is something that is only reserved
for the Prophets and for the followers of
the Prophets, peace be upon them.
And the Prophet, peace be upon him, when
he heard this, he was shocked and he
asked Waraqa.
He said, but these are my people.
I've been here from day one, they all
know me.
And Waraqa reiterated, he said, this is the
destiny of all Prophets.
This is how they are engaged, this is
how they are treated.
So you have now the Prophet, peace be
upon him, and he has to now go
back, and he has to engage with the
community and to teach them about Allah and
to try to really invite people to believe
in the truth.
And the beginning, as you could imagine, it
was not easy.
Because everybody who saw this message, when they
saw people accepting Islam, they also saw that
there was torture and torment that accompanied that.
So it wasn't like accepting Islam was exciting
or cool or comforting.
You know, there was not thousands of Muslims
yelling takbir when a person accepted Islam.
There were not videos on YouTube.
People didn't go live on their TikTok and
people saying, you know, mubarak, mabrook, we're so
happy for you.
That was not there.
When you became a Muslim in the first
decade plus in Mecca, you had to endure
a lot of difficulty.
So there's a special category in the books
of history, in the books of seerah, biography
of the Prophet, peace be upon him, there's
a very special category, especially for those people
that accepted Islam early.
Because it's one thing to be able to
come into Islam when things are all smoothed
out, in terms of being able to live.
But it's a completely different story when you
accept Islam and you're unsure about what that
means for your life and your well-being.
One of the individuals that we'll talk about
today was one of the first to accept
Islam.
One of the first ten individuals to believe
in the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam.
His name was Khabab.
Khabab ibn al-Arat.
He was a very interesting person, subhanAllah.
رضي الله عنه He experienced such a difficult
life.
His life, the majority of it was marked
by torture and torment.
To the point where he became a legend.
When he walked around through the city in
Medina, after the hijrah, people would look at
Khabab and they would stand up out of
respect for him.
Because they knew that this man is not
like other men.
This individual is not the same as other
people.
And so, his story interestingly enough begins in
a state of difficulty.
He was actually in the slave market in
Mecca.
This is something that the jahili Arabs they
had.
They had these enslaved individuals, people that were
stolen from their tribes and they were misappropriated,
co-opted and taken and put in this
market for sale.
And there was a woman, a slave mistress,
her name was Umm al-Mar.
And she went one day to the market
to go look for a slave to buy.
And she didn't just want this slave to
come help her with like her life, but
she wanted to exploit this individual.
And she wanted to make this individual work
for her and then barely give this person
any profit, any money whatsoever, and take all
the profit for herself.
Now, Khabab was a very, very young boy
at this time, probably around 12 or maybe
even 11 years old.
Many of us, we have children around that
age.
You look across the masallah right now, you
see kids, young boys, 10, 11 years old.
Khabab was your age.
And he's sitting there in the marketplace.
And he had a dark skin complexion, he
was black.
And so she comes up to him and
she says, where are you from?
And Khabab, he responds, he says, well, first
she says, what's your name?
He says, Khabab.
She says, what's your father's name?
He says, al-Arat.
She goes, where are you from?
He says, Najd, which is that region.
She says, oh, so you're Arab, because she
was assuming he was from Abyssinia.
He goes, yes, I'm from Banu Tamim.
And so because of that, she was intrigued,
and then she asked him, what are you
good at?
He said, well, I'm particularly good at making
swords.
I'm a swordsmith.
And he became known later as like the
premier swordsmith in Mecca.
So she bought him, and she exploited him
to make swords on her behalf.
But interestingly, subhanAllah, and this is kind of
like one of the lessons that we'll take
from today, is that evil plans always have
opportunities where Allah inputs barakah.
People have evil plans.
It is what it is.
Hearts exist that are full of just pure
evil.
But what they don't realize is that in
their own delusion and arrogance, they have opened
up opportunities by which their evil will be
thrown back in their face.
Khabab became a beloved figure in Mecca to
everybody because of her purchase of him.
Otherwise he was unknown.
She bought him, she exploited him, and he
became the most resourceful and the biggest resource
for all of the Meccans.
Because why?
Everyone had swords.
He made them, and he also sharpened them.
So he became a household name.
Similarly to how, if somebody does good work
in the community, what do we do?
Hey, if you need someone to help you,
electrician, plumbing, use this person.
He became the trusted individual that he became.
Now, this happened for quite a while that
he was in this position.
And one day, actually the books of Sira
don't quite narrate how this happened, but one
day he came to know about the Prophet
ﷺ.
The Prophet ﷺ was preaching in the house
of Al-Arqam, Dar Al-Arqam.
And Khabab, he was very intelligent, very sharp,
even at a young age.
He came to know about this message.
And so he said, I wanted to go
and learn about it.
And one thing he did say, subhanAllah, was
that even from a young age, he was
so displeased with the immorality of the society
around him.
He was so displeased.
I mean obviously coming from a position where
he was a victim of exploitation, he understood
oppression.
But it wasn't just his own oppression.
He also saw the rampant theft and stealing
and abuse that was happening in Mecca, in
the absence of religion.
So he was searching, he was searching like
a pure heart does, for the answer to
all of these problems.
And Khabab goes and he meets the Prophet
ﷺ.
And before anyone could even know anymore about
him, he accepted the Prophet ﷺ and he
became Muslim.
In this stage, what was the status quo?
When a person became Muslim in a point
of tyranny, of oppression, of persecution, the Prophet
ﷺ gave them permission, the Muslims, the early
Muslims, not to disclose their Islam.
He gave them permission.
For the sake of preservation of your own
life, for the sake of preservation of your
faith, of this faith, of the community, you
don't have to walk out and say I'm
Muslim.
Because if you do that, you're opening up
a world of hurt.
And there's no need for you to do
that.
Allah does not ask you to, in an
undue way, hurt yourself.
Khabab was a very sincere soul though.
And he could not contain this newfound truth
that he had.
So he was very open.
He didn't go and announce it, but he
was very open.
If somebody had asked him about his belief
and who he was, he would say that
I believe that there is no God worthy
of worship except for Allah and that Muhammad
ﷺ is his messenger.
As soon as he started telling this, because
he was popular, customers would come, conversation would
happen.
Umm Anmar, she becomes aware now that her
slave has accepted Islam.
And this concerns her, because she's one of
the headmistresses of this entire idolatry faction.
So she sends her brother, Siba'ah bin
Abdul Uzza.
She sends her brother with a group of
thugs.
And they go and they talk to him.
And they say, Khabab, we heard something, but
we don't know if it's true.
In fact, we doubt it.
But we wanted to ask you in person.
He said, what is it?
They said, someone said somewhere that you worship
this new god, the god of Muhammad, and
that you're no longer a believer in our
gods.
And Khabab responds in the most beautiful way.
He says, hold up.
I never believed in your gods to begin
with.
He said, subhanallah.
He says, I disbelieved in your gods from
the start.
I was a slave.
You bought me.
That doesn't mean that I have to believe
in your garbage.
But he said, I do believe, right?
You got that part wrong.
But the part you got right is that
I do believe in Allah, and I do
believe that the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasalam
is his messenger.
When they heard this, and it probably had
something to do with how the delivery happened,
they became infuriated.
And they took whatever they had, iron bars
and rocks and stones, and they absolutely pulverized
him, beat him unconscious, lying there in his
own shop as a successful, popular swordsman.
If you walked by his shack, his tent,
you would just see a body lying there
with blood flowing.
Subhanallah.
The next day comes.
He gets up.
A couple days pass by.
The same crew comes back.
Have you changed your mind, Khabab?
He said, my mind about what?
My sword?
They said, no, about Allah.
He goes, no.
They do the same thing to him again.
They beat him over and over and over
again.
And they increase in the torment.
I know there's kids here, so I don't
want to give the descriptions.
But it gets really bad.
Very bad.
They heat up iron.
It gets horrific.
Methods of torture that you cannot even imagine.
Sounds familiar?
Subhanallah.
The Prophet Isa sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he comes
to know about Khabab.
And Khabab does not complain at all.
But at some point, every human being is
human.
At some point.
And we're all inspired by his strength.
We're all inspired by his ability to endure
and to be able to take this beating.
And we read about the companions.
And you think to yourself, man, what a
generation of people.
I can't even deal with a small difficulty,
let alone being bullied and harassed and beat
up in public and left for dead over
and over again.
But there's a narration that comes in Sayyid
al-Bukhari, which is very interesting.
And the narration is Khabab narrating about himself.
And he says, one day after being beaten
enough, we went to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam.
And he was sitting by the Kaaba.
And he was sitting, and he had his
cloak with him.
And he was sitting and just kind of
resting on his cloak, sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And they went to him and they said,
Ya Rasulullah, will you please not pray for
us?
Why is this happening?
We are on the right side.
We accepted you.
And as a result of accepting you, we're
being beaten.
Ya Rasulullah, Matan Nasrullah, O Messenger of Allah,
where is the help of Allah?
You told us that if we accepted, Allah
would protect us.
You told us that if we...
They're not challenging him.
They're genuinely curious.
Because every human being, at some point your
humanity will show.
It doesn't matter how pious a person is.
These are the best of generations.
This is Khabab.
He's one of the first companions.
He fought in Badr, Uhud and Khandaq.
People used to stand up to honor his
piety.
And he's asking the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
this question, that a lot of us, after
12 months, are probably asking the same thing
internally.
We're too afraid to verbalize it.
It hurts too much.
We see the occasional comment online, where is
the help of Allah?
Where is the help of Allah?
The fundraisers, the prayers, the qiyams, where is
the help of Allah?
Listen to what the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
responded.
The Prophet peace be upon him, he said,
there were people before you.
There were a people before you.
Amongst them, they would be taken, and they
would be thrown into a ditch that was
lit ablaze.
They would be taken, and they would be
a ditch that was a fire, and they
would be thrown into there.
There would be others, that would be taken
and apprehended, and there would be a saw
that would be applied to their body, cut
in half.
There would be others, that would be taken,
and they would have iron combs, that would
separate their muscle from their bones.
And the Prophet peace be upon him, he
finishes with this incredible line.
He says, وَلَكِنَّكُمْ تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ He says, but you're
being hasty.
You're being hasty.
If you're in this, you have to be
in it for the long haul.
You cannot think that this is going to
turn around overnight.
So Khabab ibn al-Arad subhanAllah, in his
very early stages of being a Muslim, his
devotion, his dedication, unquestioned.
But in a moment of human weakness, which
we all have, he is given this powerful
lesson by the Prophet peace be upon him,
which is, number one, we do not separate
supplication to Allah for a response.
We do not make those things conditional upon
seeing the response.
The Prophet peace be upon him, when asked
this question, he didn't say anything about your
du'a is working or not working.
That was the assumed, that was the assumption.
You keep praying, you keep begging, you keep
making du'a.
Maybe you're making up for lost time.
Maybe there's a point as a collective, where
your du'a has to reach, and because
you've been negligent for so long, you're making
up for that debt that you have.
You keep pushing, you keep going.
And then subhanAllah, look at what he says.
He says, instead of focusing on your tribulation,
which is real, he goes, there are people
that came before you, who experienced this tribulation.
There are people that came before you.
You know we talk about Salahuddin, may Allah
Ta'ala give us a Salahuddin.
We talk about Salahuddin Al-Ayubi, rahimahullah, and
we talk about his impact on the liberation
of Masjid Al-Aqsa.
But one thing that's not talked about is
the century before, that was required to prepare
the community for the liberation.
I'm not here saying that all of our
efforts are in vain.
It's actually the opposite.
There comes a time when people must realize
and think, not like those who are rushing,
but they must think like Khabab.
They must change their framework.
And they must say what?
I'm not going to rush the answer of
Allah, I'm going to be part of the
answer of Allah.
I want to be part of the solution.
I'm not looking for the solution, I'm a
part of it.
And so Khabab, subhanAllah, his life continues.
And he's able to make hijrah to Medina.
The Prophet, alaihissalatu wasalam, gives him the ability
to make hijrah, gives him permission to move
to Medina.
And this is something that again, the Quraysh
in Mecca don't want people to leave, so
they try to make him leave, but he
escapes.
And now he has his first experience at
freedom, his first experience as being a free
individual in the city of the Prophet, salallahu
alaihi wasalam.
And what you find, subhanAllah, is that Khabab
went from being the lowest of the low,
a person who had to endure struggle, who
was bought in a slave market, who had
to literally endure all methods of torture that
people can't even imagine of.
If you read the descriptions, it would make
you feel nauseous.
And he became now a person that was
elevated in society, elevated in status.
There are narrations that talk about Umar radiyallahu
anhu, because Khabab actually, interestingly enough, he lived
a very long life.
A lot of the companions that converted early
on, accepted Islam early on, they sometimes did
not live to talk about their tales.
Khabab is one of the few companions that
was one of the first ten, who then
lived long enough to tell us all about
his life.
He lived all the way up until the
end of the Khilafah of Ali radiyallahu anhu.
He lived all throughout that.
And so during the time of Umar, whenever
Khabab would walk in as an elderly man,
Umar himself would stand up.
And everybody would feel shy.
Khabab of course himself would try to remind
him, no, please sit down.
And Umar would say, there are only two
people that I know living today, that their
presence, it is wajib upon me that I
must stand.
It is Bilal and it is you.
And what's the correlation between Bilal and Khabab?
Both of them were tortured slaves.
Both of them were tortured slaves that stuck
firm to their belief in Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
They didn't let the persecution shake them.
They didn't let the persecution rattle their heart.
In fact, because of the persecution, they understood
it as a reason to dig their heels
in and to dig deep.
And so Umar said, my respect as a
leader, as a grown man, is secondary.
When I'm in a gathering, I stand up
and honor you and Bilal because you are
our teachers.
There used to be times, subhanallah, where the
companions would get together and talk about the
torture that they had endured.
And they would tell, almost like old veterans,
you know, like they tell their battle scars
and their stories and they talk about, I
was here, I was there.
Khabab, one day, people were going around the
circle and they were talking about the torture
that they had endured.
Khabab radiallahu anhu, he sat quiet until finally
the circle got to him.
And he said, I don't want to show
you guys the torture that I've had to
go through.
And all of them said, no, you know,
we were there together.
We understand.
We're all in this together.
You don't have to be shy.
He goes, no, I don't think you understand.
They said, no, you don't have to be
shy.
We all went through bad things together.
So Khabab turns and he lifts up his
shirt and in his back there are actually
pieces of his back that are missing.
This came from two decades prior when one
of the punishments that Umm Anmar would do
is that she would cook hot coals on
the sand and lay him down upon them.
And this excruciating pain would only be stopped.
She would say, just renounce your faith and
I will stop it.
And instead of screaming anything that would go
against Allah, he would just bear the pain.
And subhanallah, when he lifted his shirt and
showed these scars, the narration says that Umm
Anmar himself became lightheaded and fell down as
a result of witnessing the dedication and the
punishment that was endured because of it.
Brothers and sisters, the reason why I decided
today was an opportunity for us to learn
about this legend and our tradition is for
a few reasons.
Number one, is that it's good for us
to know about the generations before us and
what they did and what they had to
go through.
It's good for us to appreciate that truth
always has tests.
This is the reality.
It's good for us to reflect on the
fact that just because we accept something as
being the truth does not mean that our
life will be easy.
In fact, at the end of his life,
listen to this, Khabab became a millionaire.
At the very end of his life, Khabab
became one of the most wealthy companions alive.
And when people came to him, they would
tell him, look at you, look at the
reward.
Allah is rewarding you for your patience.
MashaAllah alaik.
They were so happy for him.
And they saw him and he was crying.
He was crying.
Why would a millionaire who had gone through
all this difficulty and torture start to cry?
And they said, why are you crying, O
Khabab?
And he said, I'm crying because I'm thinking
about all of my brothers and sisters that
went through what I went through, but they're
not here to experience the ease that Allah
has given me, and I'm wondering if this
is a test.
I'm wondering if I failed.
Did Allah accept me or not?
I know He accepted them, but did He
accept me as well?
This is the mindset of the companions.
When we choose to take an action, whether
it is boycotting, whether it is resigning, whether
it is standing up, whether it is advocating,
whether it is donating, when we choose to
take an action, we cannot assume that just
because that action is correct, that it will
go easy.
That's not the condition of a good deed.
A good deed is good because it pleases
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, not because it's
simple or smooth or easy.
In fact, sometimes the good deeds will bring
difficulty.
Sometimes standing up and saying something will bring
difficulty.
It might put you in the office at
HR.
It might put you in a situation where
you donate, but you wanted to buy something,
but you realize that putting food on the
table of somebody who needs it is more
important than me having three or four things
that I don't need.
But that difficulty is a badge of honor.
If Khabab taught us anything, it's to understand
that your tests are badges of honor that
will only shine on the Day of Judgment.
In this life, no one will see them.
In this life, nobody will appreciate it.
But on the Day of Judgment, those who
dealt with tribulation as a result of their
principle, Allah will bring them to the front
of the line and will announce their sacrifice.
The second thing that we learn from Khabab
is that one story that many of us
maybe know him from is that Khabab was
not just a martyr in the sense of
living his life going from torture to torture.
In between his difficulties, especially in the early
stages, he was also a teacher.
He was a teacher.
You know the story of Omar bin Khattab?
Here's the irony.
Omar was one of those people that supported
the torturing of new Muslims.
When Omar set out that day, that fateful
day, to go and take the life of
the Prophet ﷺ, he was distracted by the
fact that he found out his sister was
Muslim, Fatima bin Khattab.
When he went to her house, her and
her husband were learning Quran.
Who was the teacher that was teaching them
Quran?
Khabab.
Khabab.
Isn't that so interesting?
Khabab never saw the persecution and the difficulty
that he had to endure as a reason
to stray away from the knowledge of Allah
ﷻ.
In fact, what the narrations tell us is
he saw those moments of connecting with Quran
and Salah as the recovery from the difficulty
that he endured.
Many of us, we go through something tough
and we look for ways to unwind, we
look for ways to get, you know, to
recover from the difficulty.
And at the bottom of that list is
Quran, Salah, and Dua.
Up top, ice cream.
Second, hanging out with friends.
I just can't think about, I have to
do this, this.
Then we do all of that, we say,
I still feel empty.
And then we sit there in our house
at night and we look and the Quran
is staring right at us.
The prayer rug is looking at us.
Longingly.
Why don't you come spend some time?
Subhanallah.
Khabab did not use his life of difficulty
as a reason to drift from Allah.
No.
He used it as a reason to come
closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And the last thing that we'll share about
Khabab, subhanallah, is that his experiences that he
went through, they were not memorialized as they
were happening.
You know, it's 1400 years later, we're in
Dallas, Texas, 2024.
A place that the companions probably never even
imagined Islam would ever make it to.
And we're talking on a Friday for 30
minutes about this one individual named Khabab.
May Allah be pleased with him.
And we are inspiring ourselves.
We're learning and feeling motivated to really understand
what these people did.
But there were no khutbahs about Khabab in
Mecca.
There were no lectures being given about him
in that moment.
The appreciation and the recognition for the greatness
that Muslims endure, it's the sunnah of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala that that appreciation comes
long after they're gone.
Just because your dedication is not being recognized
in this very moment, that you don't see
it as being successful in this second, because
it's not being applauded or praised, does not
mean that Allah does not appreciate you.
Allah is the only one who appreciates you
when other people don't, when people don't see
it.
People catch on way later.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala rewards you instantly.
People give you very little praise.
Allah gives you so much in good deeds.
People forget about you after they praise you
once.
Allah ta'ala has written it in your
book which will be preserved for eternity.
Don't ever do the right thing for people.
Do it for Allah.
Don't ever make the right decisions to impress
people around you.
Don't ever endure with difficulty to see what
people will say about you.
Because those people will always be short-lived.
The praise will be not enough and not
accurate, and you'll be forgotten very quickly.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, as He
says in the Qur'an, will never ever
underweight, or never ever give up on your
good deeds.
May Allah ta'ala make us as dedicated
as Khabab and the early companions.
May Allah ta'ala give us the ability
to endure through the difficulties that we have.
Even though they're not as great as their
difficulties, may Allah give us the strength to
endure as the difficulties of Khabab radiallahu anhu.
May Allah ta'ala give us the ability
to be patient, like the Prophet ﷺ advised.
May Allah ta'ala give us the ability
to wear the difficulties that He has given
us as badges of honor.
That they shine bright on the Day of
Judgment, and illuminate us to Jannah.
SubhanakAllahu bihamdik nashadu wa la ilaha illa anta
nastaqfiruka wa natubu ilayh.
Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen, wassalatu wassalamu ala rasulil kareem,
wa ala alihi wa ashabihi jama'een.
Brothers and sisters, the ayah that we read
in the beginning of the khutbah, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala tells us from Surah Al
-Ahzab about individuals that prove that they were
being truthful.
Because Islam and Iman, at the end of
the day, it's all a claim.
When we say that we believe in Allah
and His Messenger, we're making a claim.
We're proposing and hoping and promising that this
is the case, but we don't find out
really if we pass the test until the
Day of Judgment.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the
Quran, He gives us examples of those people
that made that claim and subsequently passed the
test.
And that's why He says, مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ From
the believers, those people who made this claim
of Iman.
رِجَالُ That there are individuals, men and women
both.
صَدَقُوا مَا عَاهَدُوا اللَّهَ عَلَيْهِ That they have
confirmed, made tasdiq, of the claim, the promise
that they have made to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala in that moment.
And the tafsir all comments on this one
moment, they say, what is the moment?
What is that time when the claim is
proven to be true?
And all of the commentators said, it is
when they pass away.
May Allah ta'ala allow us to pass
away in a good state.
May Allah ta'ala give us that the
last words that we say are, لا إله
إلا الله محمد رسول الله May Allah ta
'ala make it so that when we pass,
it is a confirmation of all the belief
that we uttered during our lives.
And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, He
continues, He says, فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ قَضَى نَحْبَهُ That
there are those people that their moment was
fulfilled, وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَنْتَظِرُ And there are those
that they sit and wait for that opportunity
to prepare and to show that to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, وَمَا أَبَدَّلُوا تَبْدِيلًا And
Allah ta'ala tells us that these people,
no matter whether they had to wait or
whether their time had come, their hearts had
never changed.
They remained consistent on that path.
Brothers and sisters, if we want consistency and
ثبات, as my mother used to tell us,
subhanallah, you will die the way that you
live.
If you want consistency and strength and ثبات
at the moment of death, then you need
to have consistency and strength and ثبات in
the moment of life.
May Allah ta'ala give us that just
like Khabab had.
May Allah ta'ala forgive our brothers and
sisters who have passed away.
May Allah ta'ala accept all of the
shuhada' in Gaza.
May Allah ta'ala accept all of the
martyrs in Gaza.
May Allah ta'ala give our brothers and
sisters relief and strength and victory, Ya Rabbil
Alameen.
May Allah ta'ala all of the brothers
and sisters across the world that are suffering
at the hands of oppressors, may Allah ta
'ala uplift the oppression from them.
May Allah ta'ala give them relief and
victory and strength, Ya Allah.
May Allah ta'ala make us a relief
for them, that we do whatever we can.
May Allah ta'ala allow us to never
forget them, to remember them every moment in
our du'as.
May Allah ta'ala make our donations for
them greater than our donations for ourselves.
May Allah ta'ala make every dollar that
we give heavy in the scale.
May Allah ta'ala allow every intention that
we have to put food into the mouth
of those who need it.
And give shelter to those who have nothing
above their head.
And give water to those who have dry
thirsty throats.
And to give medicine to those who are
sitting sick while we are healthy.
May Allah ta'ala give comfort to those
who are uncomfortable while we sit comfortable.
May Allah ta'ala give help to those
that are calling and no one can hear
them.
May Allah ta'ala give strength to those
that are weak and no one is helping
them.
May Allah ta'ala take care of them
in a way that only He can.
Al Fatiha.