Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Bringing Barakah into Our Lives
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim
Al Hamdulillah
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my dear respected are the MA elders brothers sisters are Salam
aleikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh, to all of you.
This life is a struggle as we keep hearing.
The point is, for all of us is how do we get through this life.
And
do as much as possible in that life. I
mean, I don't need to go into the details of the fact that this
world is a test. It's a transient world, it's a temporary place,
it's just a stepping stone for the hereafter the hereafter is the
real world. That's something that we all know about. The whole focus
now is about what we can do in this world, and how quickly we can
do these things so that we could do more of these things. And not
just that, it's not about what we do. It's about trying to do those
things which have the greatest potential and the greatest
benefits.
Think about it to yourself, I don't know if you've ever thought
about this, it doesn't matter. I mean, if you're in Ireland, or
Northern Ireland, that's not the point. It's not only Irma, who can
go down into the pages of history with great renown and remembrance.
Remember that
there are many other ways to do good things.
hamdulillah if you've been able to study the theme, and you've got
the title of a chef, or Molana, or whatever it may be, that gives you
great, greater potential. But if you're unable to go and spend so
many years to study your Deen in detail.
But you've at least studied your basics, and you're firmly
grounded.
There are many ways that you could still go down into the pages of
history and make a name for yourself. You know, what's so
strange today, that young young girls and boys, especially young
girls, they want to be famous.
They don't want to what they want to be famous for but they want to
be famous. That's the new thing nowadays to be famous. The Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that a time the Day of Judgment
will not occur until the time comes when people will be
respected, will be honored, because you fear them.
It mentions that the most seemingly fortunate person,
according to this world will be the will be the base born son of
the baseball,
basically people that had no class whatsoever.
But somehow they got famous. And now they are considered fortunate
in this world. They're not necessarily fortunate in terms of
the hero hereafter, but they are considered fortunate, rich,
wealthy starlike. So you've got to you've got this major influence
from that onto our young brothers and young young girls and boys,
that they come home and they say, I want to be famous. How do you
want to be famous? What do you want to do? I have no idea. I just
want to be famous. Why do they want to be famous because they
want this X, you know, ABCD X Y, Zed X, you know, whatever it may
be.
They don't know why they want to be famous. It's just a trend. Now
people who want to be famous and they have no idea how to become
famous, then they're going to find the easiest way. And the easiest
way to become famous today is to do the worst of things in this
world.
Now, there's nothing wrong with a young child wanting to be great
because he wants to help somebody because he wants to be a great
acronym, a great scholar, a great orator, a great scientist or
whatever. There's a purpose there.
The only idea the only addition to that is that they want to excel in
what they're doing. But if you just want to be famous, then
what's the point of that? So that's how a young boys that this
is a new trend. I've been hearing about it on the radio that will
these little girls want to be famous?
They don't know how to be famous. May Allah protect them. May Allah
protect our own daughters and sons.
Now, let us think regardless of what age we are, regardless of
what we've been doing in our life,
would you like to be remembered 300 years from now
in some Masjid in China,
because China is the next place, isn't it? Or India for that matter
or anywhere in the world?
And after your name, they will say Rahim Allah.
They will say, may Allah have mercy on him?
Do you want to be remembered?
Have you ever thought about that?
Have you ever entertained that thought?
If you haven't, then clearly we need to think about that. Every
one of us here has that ability. If they ask Allah subhanaw taala
and Allah accepts that you will be remembered in 300 years around the
world for Inshallah, good thing.
People will say Rahim Allah after your name.
Today we say Imam no we we read his book, Riyadh, the Saudi him.
And we you know, we make dua for him, whether we make dua for him
or not. Every time we read that book and benefits, we teach it,
somebody else benefits.
He is being rewarded. And he's in his grave, south of Damascus. The
thing is that think about Imam knowing this great scholar who
wrote this great collection of Hadith Korea, the Saudi Rahim
which after Fidel Ahmad is probably one of the most famous
people in the Arab world is probably one of the most famous
books in everybody's houses.
It's a collection of a hadith. Not only did he write that he wrote a
robbery in one of the most famous collections of 40 Hadith, the most
famous 40 Hadith collection belongs to Imam Novi, even though
he came so many 100 years after some of the other great Hadith
scholars like Buhari on that
and even though the some of these other great scholars wrote the
Erber in his Urbino is are very, is a lot more famous than this.
Not only did he write books for just everybody to read, but also
very scholarly works like a commentary of Muslim etc.
Now, you might think mashallah, he
worked so hard, he had such a long life that he did all of this work
in. The question I want to ask you is how many years did he live in
this world four
was born in 631. Much after Buhari in the Buhari Muslim all of these
were died in around 200 And something so he comes three 400
years after them.
He was born in 631.
And he passed away in 676.
How many years does that give him?
Everybody's whispering talk loudly. 45 years so hon. Allah
when I saw that for the first time I just like wow, 45 years and he
made a name for himself.
Most people live more than that. In general, the average lifespan
is about 70. Most people live more than that. 45 years old. And what
he left behind the solder kajaria The investment possibility, the
investment everything Subhanallah is just amazing.
And he's this is not an exception. There are many like that. In fact,
if you look at some of the big names, some of the big names, all
the way from Imams of Madonna hip to great writers and her digital
Islam you will see that the lives didn't have to be very long.
There was a secret ingredient in their life, which is called Baraka
blessing.
So let's look at Imam Shafi. For example, you will know he was 45
years old when he died. Imam Shafi he's an Imam, people follow him.
You know maybe about 1/5.
About 1/5 of the Muslim world, probably a chef is
because there's more Maliki's than chef is technically speaking, and
then just 100 more 100 views on that. But Shafi is like the third
greatest group though they're probably very famous when it comes
to scholarship.
Imam Shafi was born in 150.
He was born in 150. He passed away in 206.
How old is that make him 56 It's a bit more but that's about it's not
that much more compared to what we consider 56 People still got lot
to live.
So make your intention. Make sure to ask to Allah, that may Allah
subhanho wa Taala make each one of us those who are remembered for
something good in 100 200 300 until the Day of Judgment, so that
even though we
left this world, but this is being this is being given to us the
reward of this has been given to us. This could be in the form of
doing something of building something of helping something of
writing something of just providing some kind of benefit,
some kind of breakthrough, some kind of ease, whatever it may be,
it could be in any facet just has to be with the right intention.
It has to be with the intention of wishing well for others to do
something for others if loss, sincerity Naseeha these are the
factors that we're speaking about.
Allah subhanaw taala can give baraka in everything. There are
some aspects of our life where Baraka is extremely important. In
fact, the whole thing just lives on Barack if there's no Baraka
then it's destroyed. Marriage is a very important. Marriage is a very
important aspect of Islam in which Baraka is very necessary, because
many times you have totally incompatible people come together
and they live together and make a perfect units.
Who will live in this world together? And not just in this
world, but they will continue to live in the hereafter Inshallah,
if they're both in paradise together. Who will you be with in
paradise? You will be with your wife, if I'm talking to the
brothers here. And if I'm talking to the sisters, you will be with
your husband, not with your mom or mother or father, son or daughter.
I mean, you can visit them of course, but the partnership is
going to be with the husband and wife in paradise.
It's a very it's a very important relationship. But the prophets of
Allah says Dr. To a married couple was what BarakAllahu look what
Baraka lake where Jamar Urbina Kumar behave, may Allah bless you.
May Allah shower His blessings upon you. Twice the word Baraka is
used in this and may Allah join you and unite you together in
goodness in here. That is the ingredient
that the baraka comes with Nikka and Allah so if there's more
Baraka, the better it becomes. The way to bring in Baraka is to do
everything right and according to the Sunnah, then you've got
greater chances of the blessing being there. You can't buy the
blessing from anywhere it comes from Allah.
What does Baraka mean? Baraka could come from
barocco Ibn, which means it's famous in the Arab world that when
camel become stubborn, it's a very stubborn animal. When it becomes
stubborn and it sits down, then you won't be able to move it. It's
like barnacle able, that camel has just sat down. So I'm going to
move anyway, it's become firm and established.
It could come from that it could also come from berakha. Bilka
means a water reservoir place where water collects an expense.
The whole point of this is to show that when Baraka is in something,
Baraka is not a tangible product that you can show to anybody you
can present Baraka on a plate brother, this is baraka. It's
something that is within something, and it's manifest
within something else. Baraka is a secret ingredient that Allah
subhanaw taala puts in something, if it's less, it becomes more
abundant. If it's already abundant, then it becomes even
more beneficial.
I'll give you an example. People are talking about a certain
restaurant or a takeaway, everybody's going on about it. You
go there one day, or you know, you spend a lot of money, but you did
not enjoy the food and the food is really good, but you didn't enjoy
it. Everybody else did. What's the problem? The cook didn't cook
well, that day, the chef? No, it's an aspect of Baraka, the money
that you spent didn't give you your what you consider to be
worthwhile. Sometimes you spend a small amount of money. And the
benefit that you see back from that is a lot greater.
Two people can have the same thing. But the one who is blessed
in whatever he's got, is going to do a lot more with that. So it's
about not just being of benefit to oneself, but to others as well. A
person two types of people with knowledge, it's
in speaks about a person said that they have two great aroma in his
city. One of them, it says that his knowledge, these were two
Hanafi fuqaha said one of them his knowledge was just like, just
amounted to a corner, it literally says a corner of the knowledge of
the other person. But he would not go to the other person because of
some because of some aspects, his behavior and so on. Despite the
fact that this man had greater knowledge than this other scholar.
The benefit that was taken from this caller was a lot today in the
books you will find his name and not the other person's name.
So it's not about what you can do or what I can do. It's about what
Allah will do with whatever we do. It's about acceptance, isn't it?
Is whatever we do a small amount of, I mean 10% of the knowledge of
the other if we say even 50% Whatever it may be,
but this person's not
He is live today. And I only found out about the other person because
of this story. But when I open the books are fixed, I don't find this
other person's name,
even though he had more knowledge, so it's not about abundance, in
terms of in terms of worldly abundance, it's about what Allah
puts into there and what you can do with it.
Allah subhanho wa Taala always works from behind the veil, except
when it comes to, in some exceptional cases like the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam putting his finger into something, and
suddenly just water is spouting out from there. The whole Army
uses it. We're talking about a, a bowl of food, a pot of food that
was prepared literally for one or two people or three people maybe,
but the whole army eats from that, and it's still the same. That's
that's really manifest that's with the Prophet salallahu Alaihe
Salam. And I'm not saying it can't happen to anybody else it could.
But for the most part, Allah subhanaw taala works behind the
veil. Otherwise, things become too magical in this world. And that's
not really normal for this world. We work according to a system of
cause and effect, though Allah is behind every single cause and
effect we believe we believe that Allah occasions every single
instances of one of those, but there is a predictable way that we
work in this world. But Allah subhanaw taala can change it
prolonged, adjusted, manipulated as he wishes because He is in
control. If that animal in whose stomach unicity is Salatu was
Salam entered from the from the central from the central control
Allah subhanho wa Taala he tells that stomach not to work anymore.
And and unicity is Salam is totally safe and sound in that
stomach. Despite the fact that who not even the person not Not, not
any one of us can shut down our internal system and say, okay,
don't digest let me get this thing else, we will have to try to
extract the thing, through whatever means may be possible
before our stomach starts working on it. Allah subhanaw taala is in
control of everything. If he wants, he can take our acceptance
in our ability in whatever we have, and turn it into an
acceptance. That's the main thing isn't it all boils down to an
ability being accepted. And what's very interesting is that in
Arabic, the word for ability is called Media.
Ability is our media.
That's one of the words and the word for acceptance is kuliah. And
they share the same route terms of golf balance, if we can have our
club and each and every one of us has some ability, whether that
means even being a good painter, to be somebody good with cars, to
whatever it may be somebody making good money, mashallah share
markets, wherever it may be, right or somebody being able to do
something else. Every one of us has a copy in here. Have we ever
asked Allah that Allah accepted from us? Allah one of these things
that I can do accept it from us. Make me somebody who will be
redeemed allow me to do something for the sake of people and for
yourself. That benefits.
I hope you've made this dua by now.
I hope you feel that this is something you can all do. Because
that's the whole point of this.
Everything Do not underestimate yourself.
And do not underestimate Allah because you can only be under
estimating Allah if you think that he can't do it.
Allah subhanaw taala says that I am with the servant as he thinks
of me
as an end Vani AB dB,
I am with my servant as he thinks of me, within reason, you know,
there are probably people who may want Allah subhanaw taala to have
something appear immediately that's asking for obviously
absurdity that's absurdity. So that's not obviously included in
this, but Allah could have anything happen anyway. But do not
underestimate Allah subhanaw taala.
Another person that we speak about
is the famous Imams as early
Imam Hassan Ali is probably if you can sit down to say one scholar
from all of the scholars that have passed, who was extremely
comprehensive,
accomplished in every single aspect and probably one of the
most celebrated and one of the most studied and studied scholars
today, especially in Western academia as well as Muslim lands
is Imam Ghazali I know you've got to you've got a group of people
that don't like him too much. But even even a Tamia Rahim Allah
despite I mean, he said he didn't he did not agree with some few
aspects of of his in terms of his narration of some weak Hadith and
so on. And certain certain other aspects of Sufism and so forth.
But he could not he could not
reject the benefit and he taught he praised them in terms of what
he was able to achieve.
That Imam has early.
There's probably no university out there which hasn't studied some
aspects of his life. Whether that be his theology, his
Philosophy his spirituality is Sufism, his soul will fit. I mean,
in every subject he was studying, he would written here contributed
an original contributions.
Imam Hassan, he was born in 450 Hijiri.
And he died in 505. Visually,
that again makes him 55 years old.
But believe me the amount of work that he has left behind, he's been
given the title Hoja.
Hoja means AppAddict ik proof, it means irrefutable proof. But in
for a person it means if you want to stand somebody up to prove
Islam, to prove the deen and prove the existence of Allah, this man
is sufficient. He is the Hoja in that sense.
55 years old, that's it
so we have no no Imam No, we have 45. We have Imam Shafi yet
56. And we have Imam Ghazali at 55.
And there's a few more there's lots of more.
Allah subhanaw taala works behind the wheel. Now I know on this
trailer that they've made for this, they've they've they've
taken the story of Abu Huraira the Allahu and just to explain what
Baraka is all about, you know, if most of us many people use credit
cards now, so you can't really see Baraka in that anymore, right? But
you can still see some Baraka but but the fact is, you know, if you
go with for a wedding shopping, for example, and you go to Oxford
Street, right, or Green Street, right, so you know, for,
right, and
you know, it's somebody's wedding, so you go there, and you've got
about maybe 300 pounds in your wallet, or in your purse for the
girls, you know, for the women, and you're spending this is really
nice, you you spend, you spend, you spend, you spend, and you're
collecting all of these bags, and after about two or three hours,
you haven't been focusing on how much you've spent all together,
you've just been spending and marshalling the money has just
been coming. It's just appearing in your body to your purse, then
what happens is after a few years, you're a bit like you've come back
to consciousness now, right? And you've started thinking, how much
have I spent? So then you look I've got all of this stuff. Let me
check how much you use check your purse or your wallet, and you've
got 23 pounds 50 left. Now you've only got 23 pound 50 left.
But until now it was just coming out endlessly. You're just
mashallah pulling out and you had enough each time.
Allah works behind the veil. I remember one person told me that a
great scholar had come to England and he was driving him around.
He was driving him around. And he said that when I got in the car, I
immediately noticed that I hardly had enough petrol in the car.
Right, but then afterwards, in engaged in I said, I'll take care
of it, you know, they had to probably travel an hour somewhere
at least. And he reckoned that as soon as he gets in, he'll find the
next petrol station and stopover. But after it got in his thought he
became engaged in conversation with this great scholar. And He
completely forgot about it completely forgot to just engage
in this discussion. After an hour. He realized, though, what's
happened I looked, and it's like almost as if it hadn't moved.
He knew his car he'd forgotten. But Allah subhanaw taala had
stretched it. The Prophet sallallahu sallam said use the
last part of the night to tell us the night to travel. For in a lot
of the YouTube in little toto I've been laying the earth becomes
constricted contracted at night. Have you seen some times when you
travel from here to long distance somewhere and you find that you've
gotten there a lot faster than normal? Like, hey, we're here
already. I was expecting psychological expecting another
hour or two. That's Baraka. This is just aspects of Baraka
manifestations of the baraka we're talking about.
There was a person in Scotland, he was from a science background. I
don't know exactly which discipline he was in. But he went
to Jamaica for months for the first time to Pakistan. very
personal, very inquisitive nature, once always find out the
background of things. So he said he went to Pakistan, he was in
Rhode Island. Right? And he said a Gemma had just come back. One of
the groups had just come back and they had they had been out on
infantry giammattei call it right, which is walking jemar and in in
the jungles of Pakistan all over, you know, from village to village
through thick and thin they'd been going, they'd come back and they
were giving their brief about about about their journey. And he
said that he was listening, and he said that they started explaining
that during one evening, they weren't able to get to the next
village and when it gets dark, there's no street lighting. We're
talking about an overgrown area, and he said that suddenly
But it became very dark and they had no way to go and they knew
that this was not a very safe area in terms of it was cliffs and so
on. So now they felt that they couldn't stay there because you
know, one wrong movement might get them somewhere whatever they got
stuck in a position like that. The lamp, the oil in their lamp, the
kerosene or whatever they put in there had diminished. So now what
did they do? That amuse that Amir said let us make dua
that someone intends to do our let us make dua that Allah subhanaw
taala give us some outcome, give us some outlet out of this. So
they will I mean, you can imagine the DUA that they must have made
at that time. So they made the DUA and after they finished the DUA,
one person had an idea he said you know what, just we got no other
they were thinking What should we do now we made the DUA one person
said I've got an idea let's put water into this thing, and
inshallah Allah will Bismillah Wolcott dal Dosco you know,
Bismillah Boricuas medalled or Bismillah cocaina the schedule
lado right Subhan Allah look at the yaki and they had just put
let's try it out, put water in there and will lighten inshallah
we'll work that desperate, what are you going to do?
But But listen, so they did that and he started working.
It started working and mashallah they got through. Now this person
who's sitting is from Scotland, science background, right? He's
inquisitors. How does this happen?
How is this possible and he'd never seen a London one of those
lanterns with the weeks before. He'd never seen one before. He
went out into the market in Lahore the next day. And he went and he
saw that they were selling something like a Lenten he went
started inspecting it.
He started inspecting it, he opened it up, he opened the
cylinder up. And what he discovered is that the wick
doesn't touch all the way down to the bottom.
So now water is heavier than then a sir is good than kerosene,
kerosene, petrol is very light. When they put the water in
apparently this had gone up and it had become lit. The thing is that
who's going to think without a scientific degree that a water is
heavier, there might be some in there, so on so it's lower, who
would have thought of that? Allah gave that that inspiration to that
person, the other person may have even thought, I don't know what's
going to happen with this. But they decided to do it. And it
worked out.
Allah subhanho wa Taala works from behind the veil. So don't expect
that you make dua when a you know, an M six, or whatever it is right
next to me straightaway, it's normally not going to happen, it
can happen. But normally, that's not going to happen. But Allah
will give you something that you want, that will benefit you.
That's about worldly possessions and Baraka barakah in wealth gives
you the ability to take your wealth a lot longer. To sorry, a
lot. It gives it gives it a great potential buying power, in terms
of the contentment and the satisfaction that you feel with
whatever you have. Have, you noticed that our lives have become
so devoid of Baraka, despite the fact that we have an abundance of
things. We have an abundance of things, things are available at
our doorstep, things that are available at our fingertips,
literally 24 hours a day, we can order whatever we want the latest
one, have you noticed sometimes that you get the latest phone or
whatever it is, and it's just there, you can't even bother. It
doesn't give you that same happiness as you first got your
little Nokia about 10 years ago.
No offense to Nokia, but you know what I'm talking about.
It's just that because things are just so easily available now. And
it's so abundant. They don't seem to give us the same satisfaction
anymore. That's just talking about worldly things. You have so much
yet we still want more. This country is talking about austerity
measures. People are frightened. I mean, compare us to a third world
country right now. They have nowhere, nowhere, nowhere close to
anything that could even happen to us. Unless it all turns around
completely. We're talking about just being you're not allowed, you
won't be able to enjoy yourself as much and that is tough for us.
Where's the baraka God from our life.
The whole thing is about Baraka that's worldly things. But I think
we need to focus on our entire life being filled have been full
of Baraka. So it takes us beyond this world.
It takes us beyond this world. That's what's important for us,
that Allah accept something that we're able to do that we do we ask
Allah for Tofik We ask Allah to guide us We ask Allah subhana wa
Tada to accept and turn something into something great. You could
have, you know, 10 different people doing the same thing, but
one of them may be accepted by Allah subhana wa Tada.
I know of my own teachers, we used to wonder
because when you contrasted them to other people you knew from your
family or friends or whatever, who made a lot more money than your
teachers who are teaching at the mothers at the doll room. And you
saw that your teachers were taking their whole families, for Amara,
and sometimes even Hajj every year, like how do you do it?
Whereas we know people who are making a
a lot more money, tangible money, they're making a lot more, but
they hardly get to go even once every 10 years, despite the fact
that they want to go. And these are the people casually, they're
getting time off. That's America in your life to be able to go
hide, you got lots of money, but you got no time off.
Psychologically, you can't free yourself from your commitments.
That means is America problem. Baraka means that you've got
something going, you can still work for your dean.
So the person who is able to work for his world, and at the same
time work for his dean.
And he can do both. That means he's got Baraka in what he's
doing. But if you want to do something, and I believe me, if
you're sitting here, I believe you want to do something for your
deen. But the reason why you can't do it is because you don't have
the time or you don't know what to do. So when you don't know what to
do, ask Allah for Tofik go and consult the aroma. These are my
capabilities, what can I do? But more than that, ask Allah subhanaw
taala.
And if you've got the time you know what you can do, but you
can't do it because you keep putting it off. Because you've got
this, that or the other coming along, then do some severe, some
serious dua to Allah subhanaw taala
the ways to gain Baraka in our life. The Allama have mentioned
looking at the Quran and Sunnah, where Allah subhanho wa Taala
links Baraka with certain actions.
Some of the following Taqwa is one of the most important things while
may yet ducky La Jolla Jana Houma. kraja were Zuko in high school. I
gotta say
that when Whoever fears Allah, whoever has taqwa, Allah subhanaw
taala will provide them from where they did never, they never
anticipated. They never thought that you would come from their
Allah will make a way out for them. This is just about
personally just gaining something. Clearly if you have Taqwa not only
will you have for yourself, but you will be able to give back to
the community and will be accepted by Allah subhanaw taala Taqwa is
very important. In fact, there was one pious person and just like
right now in these last two, three years, prices have just shot up
doubled in cases of many things, basic essentials like wheat and
sugar and flour and so on and so forth. Rice.
He had somebody talk to one of these pious people and he says,
You know what in the markets that are the prices have become really
high,
he said, and Zulu hubby taco.
Rich, reduce them. Bring them down with Taqwa. The more people have
Taqwa these will be brought down. A person who has Taqwa will never
be in need. A community that has Taqwa will never be in need
because Allah will provide for them. That's the promise of the
Quran. That's the promise of the Quran.
So Taqwa is one of the things number two that something I mean,
taqwa is something that you have to inculcate. So it seems
something more difficult for us to do because it's a collection of
things. It's, it's an approach of life. It's the way we behave, it's
the way we do things. But Allah give us Tofik to strengthen us in
our Taqwa Ramadan is coming in this time for Dakhla number while
they say that the prophets of Allah was dua in this month of
Rajab, which we have just entered was Allahumma barik, Lena Raja
Bashar burn while believing Ramadan, again a very appropriate
dua for this time. The whole point is that when Ramadan comes you
want to be free. You want to be free of your major
responsibilities so that you can read more Quran you can recite and
you can be in the masjid longer, and you can do things for the sake
of Ramadan, you can change your lifestyle. Now, if we still have
the same responsibilities, same projects that are looming over our
head in Ramadan as well we won't be able to change our lifestyle.
It'd be extremely tough. The Prophet sallallahu sallam said, Oh
Allah bless us in bless me as in the month of Rajab and chatburn
and allow us to reach Ramadan. The whole point of this I think, is
that we get many of the things that are necessary to do for us
you know, our responsibilities may be projects some certain things
that still have to be done get them out during this month May
Allah blesses during this month so we can do that when it comes to
the month of Ramadan. It's easy for us. So if it's a project at
work, if it's something in the home that needs to be done, it has
to be done you're just putting putting it off putting it off.
Eventually it will get into Ramadan, do it beforehand.
If there's something preparation you have to make for certain foods
or whatever, some certain ingredients that have to be in the
freezer. And so you know, women have certain things like that,
because the baraka in food company is really manifesting Ramadan. I
don't know where all of these great great foods come out in
Ramadan Iftar time everybody's everyday it's a new cuisine, you
know, some sickly oily stuff, right? Every day that you have
problems in taraweeh them, right. But seriously, I mean, haven't you
seen great foods come out in the month of Ramadan? That's just the
you know, that's just the knock off from everything else so Han
Allah
right? But that's that's Baraka May Allah bless us in these months
so that we can reach Ramadan and be free for the worship. May Allah
excepto it was. Number two is reciting the Quran. Kitab Mobarak.
Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the Quran that it's Kitab when
unzila who in a coma Baraka it's a book that we have
revealed to you which is full of blessing. There's a hadith which
says that that person who is so busy with recitation of the Quran
that it keeps him away from his other responsibilities, Allah will
fulfill those responsibilities for him.
Now, clearly the only person that's going to be able to going
to be able to avoid all not avoid, but leave the responsibility side
with such Taqwa that I'm going to recycle and Allah will have them
fulfill for me, it's going to happen too.
But there has to be a level of Taqwa with that. Remember,
whenever we mentioned, a hadith of this nature, there are a number of
components that have to come together. It's not just about one
thing, when Allah says that solid prevents prohibits prevents you
from an chastity immodesty and from evil things evil deeds, well,
obviously, the solid he's talking about is a very specific one, not
just a normal salad that we pray, there is a specific salad that
will have that particular benefit, every salad will have a certain
level of benefit. But the higher that is a salad in the meaning
that Allah subhanaw taala has intended by it, then that is the
kind of impact it will have. So don't try to don't consider that
these fabrications just because we can't understand them, or we can't
get our heads around them. So reading Quran is a great source of
blessing and Baraka.
Another thing is to not be greedy for wealth, to do it for the sake
the intention to be more sincere, not just for amassing wealth, then
Allah subhanho wa Taala will benefit you more in what he
actually gives you, you will feel it takes you a lot longer, a
longer way, you will also feel that you are content. And if Allah
gives us a richness of the heart, then that is the true richness of
the miracle as it's called.
And finally, I mean there's a number of things there's a number
of things but in the interest of time, one of the most important is
is still far it's normally our sins that remove the baraka from
our lives. So it's thick, far brings it back and it's thick for
probably brings it back faster than our doing since Take him
away. And Allah knows best. Because it's step four is really
Allah loves it. Allah loves it hasn't bacillary Rahmatullah. He
is one of the great debater in
somebody came to me sitting in his Majelis with his students, you
know, with his, with his companions, and somebody came into
the modulus, you know, he was also known for giving spiritual
counsel. So he was brought somebody somebody came in and
asked him that I've got a problem. And my problem is that in our
area, there's a major drought, you know, what can what can we do is
that a stock fear or a backhoe make so far.
So then, short while later another person must have come who's
complaining of poverty this time, just in a very bad state, they
just don't have enough and in a very
bad state. Again, he said, Make It Stick far. seek forgiveness.
Another person, his story was, uh, his complaint was that I don't
have any male offspring. I I just am not we're not being blessed
with a male offspring. Make us the far
right. You know, some people they will keep having children till
they get the male offspring. They're not happy with Allah. I
mean,
I don't want to discuss it too much. But the it's really a sad
ending. In fact, what happens with some people is that they start to
consider the wife to be an accursed person. And I've seen
cases where they've come to me and they've said, This is what's
happening to me, because I can't bear a male child yet. And my
mother in law father, you know, everybody's on me, they're showing
me to people and you know, like, I've got some possession or
something Subhanallah, complete to Allah at the end of the day, be
happy with what you have. The daughters bring baraka and this is
a marked difference, you will feel that when you have a daughter you
will get more Baraka then when you have a son not to put the sun's
down, right. But normally, and I've seen this myself, when you
get a daughter your income just suddenly increases somehow. Well,
Allahu Allah, I don't know how that happens, but it's a promise
and it will happen.
Daughters bring Baraka
so this person comes to know me last he said, make us the farm, if
that's what you want, you know, because sometimes you want a male
offspring for just purposes of being looked after because girls
will normally get married. So there are valid reasons for
wanting a male offspring as long as it's not to the detriment of
the female offspring. Another person comes he said that we've
got a wet well in our area, I've got a well and it's all dried up.
What can I do? Make us the farm? Now the people sitting around him
they're wondering that everything is thick forest thick fire. I
mean, Disney got a better answer to these things. So after they've
gone away, they confronted the chef has an basally and he said
everything is stick far. You know what's he said? Look, I didn't say
any of this from myself. This is not something I made up myself.
This is directly from the Quran.
Certainly
Allah subhanho wa Taala says for call to stop Pharaoh Rob Beckham
in the hookah Farah
make a stick far to your Lord seek forgiveness.
He is the oft forgiving your silly sama Allah committed rara. He will
have the skies the heavens shower, the blessings upon you shower, the
rain upon you. Mirada in abundance, where you did come be
unwinding, we're burnin and he will extend you He will give you
He will add to you wealth and children
were janela come and Hara and he will give you your rivers. And
apparently coincidentally all four had the right kind of the same
kind of things that were being asked and has an embassy with this
penetrative insight into the Quran, his response was the same.
Baraka
and finally to finish as I told you, these people who live for a
short amount of time, but do so much that is not something that as
I said is far and few. That is far and few. But there are many like
that some of the most famous names so far we had no way which I'm
sure everybody's heard about Imam Shafi, which pretty much
everybody's heard about Imam Ghazali that everybody has heard
about rocky Muhammad Allah say I mean
one more person I'm wondering Abdulaziz
he is out of the budget Didim the prophets of Allah and Hadith
related by a man but without said that at the turn of every century,
at the end of every Islamic century, Allah will have a person
who will renew revive the deen for it.
Now, there are other ma have listed Imam Hassan he was
considered the revival of his century Imam Shafi was considered
revival his century as well. So both of those were revivals as
well. And then you had a number of others, but the one Reviver who
goes down into history as being probably the most comprehensive
one. When I say comprehensive, we're talking about Imam Shafi.
Yes, in terms of work on sunnah and so on. He was the reviver but
when it comes to Islamic rule,
as in terms of being a ruler, and Amir, he was not that because
that's not that's very difficult to combine. But the one person who
is the ruler, the Ameerul, Momineen, the Khalifa, he is also
a great scholar, and His work of revival extends into a very
multifaceted spectrum of things is Omar Abdulaziz.
So he is considered one of the most comprehensive revivals, and
after him nobody's been a revival like that, until maybe the MADI
Rahmatullah when he comes.
Allahu Allah, but that Omar Abdullah says definitely in terms
of history, he's the only Reviver that said the Buddha at the turn
of the century, who had pretty much everything.
He was born in 61 Hijiri
61 hugely.
And he passed away in 101 Hijiri.
How many years is that? That's 40 years. He only ruled for two years
and some months.
He wasn't even supposed to be the next Khalif but still a man
ignored that America's children were not old enough. The other one
was in war, you know about him. And somebody whispered in his ear,
he said, Okay, fine. Omar Abdulaziz, the cousin becomes the
Hadith. In just over two years, it sorted matters out, he sorted them
out too much. The omegas didn't like it and poisoned him. But he
died at the age of 40.
He only took him two years to sort the whole land out. So much so
that there was nobody in North of Africa to accept sadaqa because
everybody was decently well off. Now we get four year terms.
Right? And we can't do anything you need eight years. This is a
man of just over two years and he sorted everything out. Because
there's Baraka in what he's doing. There's not only Baraka in what
he's doing this Baraka in his thoughts, almost of nardil as he
is when he becomes the Hadith he is taken, he has to spend the
whole night overnight, the bearing Solomon, Abdul Malik, so you know,
he's it when somebody dies in your family, you don't sleep much
because there's a lot of things to do, especially when you have to
bury them and he comes out of the grave, you know, after the burial
and everything like that. And it goes to the masjid gives his first
inauguration, whatever he is by arm that Allah and He reminds
everybody of the ACA and so on and so forth. So it's, it's about mid
morning, it's about mid morning. Then he comes off the member and
everybody's there. Everybody's there. Muslims, non Muslims, lots
of people out there, right? You can imagine. He comes off and he's
going towards his house and his young son, he's 40 years old. So
you can imagine how many his son must be what 20 Maybe, or maybe
even less. His son follows your son where you're going. He says I
am going to take a nap. I've been busy. You've been you know, really
busy. I've hardly slept and you take a nap. Then after that, I'll
get back and we'll do it said how can you go and take a nap when
these people are waiting there?
to give their complaints because they're things have been
confiscated by your predecessors. They're waiting for their
complaints to be heard. How is it that you can leave them and go? Is
there how can you guarantee your life until thorough that you will
come back and sort the matters out? This is his son speaking to
him. When you've got Baraka, your son will tell you right things.
May Allah give us our children like that, that help us in this
path? May Allah give us Baraka in our children, because seriously,
can you imagine? Then he grabbed hold of his son, he embraced him.
He said, Oh Allah, all thanks to Allah or praise to Allah that has
given me a child who can help me in these matters. Then he goes
back onto the member. And immediately this Christian man,
old man with gray hair, he says, So and so son of Abdullah of Walid
and Abdul Malik, or whatever he confiscated this land of mine,
there was proof for it and everything. And he just began to
hear all of these complaints and sought people's matters out from
the first day.
That's Baraka, Allah will give you strength in what you do, Allah,
Allah will give you people who will help you and assist you. May
Allah accept us all for the service of his faith, make Torah
gods of salaat as frequently as you can, at least once a day that
Allah accept us in some way or the other. And may Allah give us
perpetual reward in some way. It doesn't have to always be with
money, it could be with something else. So it as long as you've got
the zeal, as long as you've got the this in your mind, Allah will
accept it. And Allah will make our actions and our acts and other
aspects conducive to that may Allah subhanho wa Taala accepted
for me May Allah subhanaw taala exhibited for all of us here, all
the brothers and the sisters who are here, may Allah subhanaw taala
accept us all for the service of his Deen. May Allah guide us right
in everything that we do. And may Allah subhanaw taala give us this
fervor that Abu Bakr Siddiq or the Allah and had for others to help
others and to focus on our hereafter working with that 100
hamdulillahi rabbil aalameen