Abu Taymiyyah – 10 Ways To Become Beloved & From The Awliyaa Of Allah
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Hello,
Hello, I'm sure you've all enjoyed our recitation
by our young brother, Ibrahim.
Abdul Rahim.
And,
now,
we request that you your lecture.
My beloved brothers and sisters, Assalamu alaykum wa
rahmatullahi wa rakatuh.
It's always a pleasure to see
so many brothers
attending these programs. Of course, I can't see
the sisters
wanting to benefit, wanting to
better the understanding of Allah's
religion.
The brothers of the Masjid are always trying
their utmost best
to arrange these programs for the community, so
I ask Allah, azza wa Jal,
with his lofty names,
to protect every single one of them and
to reward them with excellence. Ameen.
My brothers and my sisters, I don't want
to
speak too much
because a lot of us are fasting,
and I don't want to lose my voice
as well because I'm very very tired. I
did 2 Khudbas today.
In the Masjid,
mashallah, we have a lot
of people who attend,
for Jum'ah here.
There's very very light, short, concise
lecture that I would like to deliver
revolves around
a passage
taken from the kitab called Madarju Salikin
by Ibn Al Qayyim, rahmatullahi,
alayhi.
Ibn Al Qayyim, rahmatullahi, alayhi,
you could maybe call a specialist
when it comes to the heart.
Disease, the diseases,
the ailments,
the sicknesses of one's heart.
You could say maybe that the sheikh really,
really mastered
how to remove
these stains that our hearts become so affected
with.
Right?
There is a passage in this kitab that
I want to, insha Allahu Ta'ala,
go through today,
and we still won't be able to give
it its true justice. Because of that time,
I didn't actually realize that there's only
an hour left or so
for the iftar.
Ten ways, brothers and sisters, how we could
really become from the close,
beloved
service of Allah
How an individual can become from the Awliya
of Allahu jalafiyurla,
those individuals that are really really beloved to
Allahu Jallafiy'u'llah.
We always tend to ask the question, why
is it that I don't feel that connection
I'm
I feel that maybe Allah
is not pleased with me. I feel that
Allah
is angry with me.
This feeling, my brothers and my sisters, didn't
just didn't come out of nowhere.
Right?
Today, bi idni and of course because it's
the month of Ramadan,
it is the month where one can rid
himself of filthy bad habits,
and it is the same month, my brothers
and my sisters, that an individual
can introduce
new habits
into his life.
And that is because
the doors of jannah have been swung open,
the doors of hellfire have been slammed shut,
and the shayateen have been chained upright.
So the hearts are a lot softer.
Right? It's so much more easier
to introduce a good habit into your life
in this month.
So this is also a thought process behind
why I decided to go through this because
we all want to have that close connection
with the Almighty Creator, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So he goes through 10 of them and
I'm hoping, inshallah, if
we're not going to memorize it, we at
least write it down.
Right?
Unless you're like Imam al Bukharir,
who memorizes everything that he hears,
or maybe like Al Imam Shafi'i, who has
photographic memory,
then you are exempt from what I said.
So he mentions 10
points.
One thing I forgot to mention, my brother,
and I think this is very, very important.
In a lot of the lectures that I've
been delivering, we've been having people
from different walks of life, from different backgrounds
attending.
Some are still at very early days
of them practicing the deen.
Many sisters have been attending the programs that
might not necessarily wear the hijab
outside of the masjid,
or they might be wearing the hijab in
a way that
you, my friend, who comes to the masjid
all the time,
is not accustomed with.
So please take extra care in how you
look at them.
Don't start staring
down at these individuals who have attended the
Masjid maybe for the first time.
Likewise, when it comes to our brothers, you
may see a brother who might be dressed
a certain way or his hair is a
certain way, and you're giving him all of
these dirty looks.
Don't be the reason why this individual never
ever comes back to the Masjid, my brothers
and my sisters,
because of the way you look at them.
Recently I told a story when I was
in Kilburn Islamic Center,
that there was this brother
who used to come to the masjid. When
he was young,
he was booted out of the Masjid because
of some noise that he was making in
the house of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. And of course,
it may well be that due to our
cultural practices,
we talk to someone or we
deal with someone in a way that
is pretty problematic.
So he was booted out of the Masjid.
This and the same individual started clubbing
later on down the line, and I'll tell
you guys what happened in the club.
He went to buy
a drink or so and whatever else they
buy
from the bar,
and as he was walking towards his table,
he dropped the drink.
The bartender came running to him and said,
don't worry.
Don't worry about it.
He cleaned the place,
went back to the bar, and brought him
a fresh new drink, and said, here you
go.
Later on, the same brother said, look how
they treated me in the masjid,
and look how they treated me in the
club.
Alright.
Our
the way we treat people goes a very,
very long way, brothers and sisters. It really,
really does.
And the good treatment and the bad treatment
is something that isn't easily forgotten. People remember
this.
It could be that one interaction you had
with that individual that he never ever forgets.
Right. That he never ever forgets.
And the house of Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
my brothers and my sisters, is called what?
Baytullah in Arabic. The house of Allah.
It is not just for practicing people.
It's not just for the other.
The old man that we see
sitting on the front rows.
Right, is always in the front line. The
Masjid is not just for him.
The house of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
for every individual
who considers himself
a Muslim. And likewise, a non Muslim is
able to come to the house of Allah
to seek guidance,
to learn about Al Islam.
The Masjid is a center for just about
everything you can think of.
Right?
So we want to be individuals who are
welcoming.
Individuals, my brothers and my sisters, who don't
make it uncomfortable for others.
Right.
So what are these 10 things, my brothers
and my sisters, or these 10 points that
I have written down here that will make
us, Insha'Allah,
from the beloved servants of Allah
and it will also cause us to have
love in our hearts
towards Allahu jalafiyalah.
Number 1, my brothers and my sisters,
Reciting the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
with contemplation,
with reflection,
trying to understand
what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala intends with his
speech.
And then he gives an example.
The same way
an individual
really goes out his way to understand a
book that he's reading or a book that
he's trying to explain to others.
Right.
I'll tell you guys a story.
My friend one time told me that he
was on the flight to one of these
gulf countries,
and on this flight
was this Muslim brother Khaleji,
right,
from the gulf areas,
who had
Richard Dawkins book,
the atheist.
And beside him, he had
a dictionary.
And the brother says to me, I looked
at him, and you could see he was
in deep thought, really trying to understand
what Richard Dawkins
was trying to say, this atheist.
Right? This individual
born and bred in a Muslim country, my
brothers and my sisters,
where you have
every Islamic
material,
right,
at your disposal, so easy to find and
accessible.
Alright.
So he's got a dictionary and it keeps
going back and forth, back and forth, back
and forth, back and forth.
It's like, subhanAllah, every sentence he needed to
go back to the dictionary, really going out
his way.
So he asked him, what is it exactly
that you're trying to
accomplish by reading this book? He goes, I'm
exploring my thoughts and ideas.
You never know, I might walk away with
something different.
Right?
So he asked him, have you read the
Quran?
Because, yeah, we grew up reading the Quran.
Have you ever tried to understand
what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is trying to
say?
And the brother said no.
So you're putting all of this time and
effort in trying to understand Richard Dawkins, this
atheist,
right, who's anti
religion,
but
the religion that you were born in,
you haven't given it a chance.
A lot of the answers that we look
for, my brothers and my sisters, especially when
we go to these universities,
right,
and by the way, these universities, they are
breathing grounds
for kufar,
shirk, feminism,
liberalism,
Secularism,
right, all of these different isms, and of
course, the Rainbow team are extremely active,
right?
These universities
are breeding grounds for all of this.
Am I wrong to say this, my brothers
and my sisters?
I am someone who went to university. I
was doing civil engineering.
One of the reasons as to why I
actually decided to leave,
because I went there for 1 year, and
then the
opportunity of going to Medina, it presented itself,
and I just wanna make it clear. I'm
not trying to tell everyone anyone to drop
out of university,
if I get your mothers and fathers chasing
after me. I'm
not saying that.
I got accepted. That was one of the
reasons why I went, but also another reason
was my brothers and my sisters,
I would see orientalist. Orientalist who
are non Muslims, who learn about our religion,
not so he could become guided or become
Muslim, no.
So
that they could target vulnerable Muslims
who
are uneducated
about their religion. I would see them roaming
around campus
targeting these kind of individuals,
right? I'm like,
I'm here.
Yes. I spent
4 years in a in a in a
Yemen.
However,
these guys are here learning my religion. Maybe
it's time for me to take this opportunity
and to start learning more about it.
Right?
They would walk around university campus targeting individuals
on the edge
and that unfortunately is the case with many,
Right?
We don't have the ammunition to fortify ourselves
when the doubts start coming from every direction.
Right?
Allahu alaazim.
I did a tour around the country, 27
universities. Manchester was one of them. 27
universities, I went round. I would deliver a
lecture about Surat Yousef, but I would try
to make it relatable to the student,
the university student.
Right? And just about every single one of
these university, someone would come up to me
and goes, yeah, man.
Some of these classes I'm taking is a
problem.
Right? Some of these classes I'm taking is
a problem
Because I don't have that foundation,
these doubts when it comes my way, I
really struggle to repel it.
Right?
My brothers and my sisters, Wallahi laddi laa
ilaha ghayro.
The Quran has the answers that we are
looking for,
Whether you realize it or not.
Right. Whether you realize it or not.
I get academics calling me, right? Individuals who
are very good at philosophy
and all of these different isms.
They know how to respond back to it.
However, they want, you know, the Islamic side
of things, so they say to me, can
you give me, like, maybe a verse or
a hadith that I could link it with,
or a statement of a scholar of the
past, so I could give that Islamic spin
to it?
Right.
SubhanAllah, I say to myself,
you have a lot of these
Western
Theolian,
these, Western
individuals who are very, very well versed
when it comes to Islamic Theology. Right?
Who might say a number of things, and
then we glorify these terms, but Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala really told you that. And the
mister Lai Islam Atala over 1400 years ago,
and the scholars have spoken about this a
very, very long time ago.
Right.
It always makes me appreciate
the knowledge that we have studied
whenever I get into some of these discussions.
And then likewise, my brothers and my sisters,
right?
Sometimes we
ask questions as if,
right, Islam is some human being.
What does Islam say about this? What does
Islam say about that? What's the position of
Islam on this? Why don't you ask me
what does Allah say?
Can you see how
the dynamics completely change when you say what
does Allah, the Almighty Creator,
has to say about this particular issue?
And then sometimes you're not told the reason
as to why you have to do this
or why you have to stay away from
this.
And that is because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
the Almighty Creator, my brothers and my sisters,
has governed us with a Sharia
that is best for every single one of
us,
whether we see the good in it or
not. You know my brothers and my sisters,
I speak to atheist, right?
And every atheist that I speak to has
different morals
and ways of looking at life,
right, which is different to the other.
This guy says to you, yeah, this is
something that I should do. This is something
I should stay away from. You ask him
why? He goes,
you speak to another atheist,
very, very different as to what he sees
morally acceptable
and what he doesn't.
I promise this is with me. It's very,
very important.
If I ask you today, my brothers and
my sisters,
cannibalism, does anyone know what that means?
When a human eats another human, what do
you guys think of that?
Okay. Should we do it? Should we not?
Anybody want to eat human beings here?
He said he's discussing.
Allah said, would you love to eat the
flesh of your brother when speaking about backbiting
you dislike it, Sahir?
Did you know my brothers and my sisters
that up until this very day there are
some places around the world where this is
perfectly fine
It's perfectly fine.
Why do they do it? You probably will
ask them the question and they'll say,
I had the Internet.
Right?
Did you know, my brothers and my sisters,
that
smoking weed,
right, was unlawful
in just about everywhere you go in America,
however, now in a lot of states,
in a lot of states,
it started being legalized.
It's shifting.
Whatever was maybe totally unacceptable before, and likewise,
a lot of the other colorful things as
well, right, in a lot of places,
When it was unacceptable,
as time went on, it started becoming a
lot more acceptable.
So you speak to an atheist. He says
to you certain things are perfectly fine, and
these things we need to stay away from,
but based on what?
You speak to another atheist, it's completely contradicted
to what the first one said.
This is why my brothers and my sisters,
we are left with no choice
except
that we
refer to an external entity
and that is none other than Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala who governs us with a Sharia
which tells us what we should do and
what we shouldn't, otherwise, the world will become
chaotic, and this is why it's chaotic,
because everyone wants to do what they wish,
and they want to accept life in a
way that they desire.
That's why we have the situation that we
do,
right? Same when you look at the law
of the land. If everyone did whatever they
wanted,
how do you think the world or the
country would be?
Imagine now there was no traffic lights, everyone
could just go in and out and before
that, right?
We are in need of a sharia that
governs us, that tells us what we should
do and we shouldn't.
Does that make sense my brothers and my
sisters?
Not so long ago, we came across
this article, I believe it was on the
independent, and also,
the daily mirror and the daily mail,
about pork and alcohol. Does anyone remember?
Does anyone remember the article, the news article
that was speaking about bacon and alcohol?
Come on, guys. Am I the only one
that reads the news?
Brothers and sisters?
Let me read out to you guys.
The article stated bacon and alcohol increase stomach
cancer risk.
Even 1% of that, you are at risk
of stomach cancer.
It was on The Independent, an official
news outlet.
Now we're going to believe in the deen?
We needed 1400 years for somebody to come
along and tell us, oh, we shouldn't eat
bacon,
or you shouldn't drink alcohol.
Right? Even though Allah told us it is
harmful, yes, there might be some benefits to
it. Right?
Alright?
Allah already told us.
But we didn't accept because, oh, it doesn't
make sense to me, but why is everybody
doing it? Or why this, why that?
Allah told you.
Right?
Otherwise, there will be
It will be chaos, my brothers and my
sisters.
Right? From my brothers and my sisters, I
went on a bit of a
There. But the shayid me, my brothers and
my sisters.
When
you look up the meanings of what Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala has uttered in his book,
wallahi ladhielahi lahi lahi ru, you will grow
in your love for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
We just need to open up that Quran
and learn what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala intended.
I'll give you guys another example, my brothers
and my sisters.
Put your hand up if you're looking to
pursue a sister.
Are you guys engaged?
There's quite a few, Masha'Allah. Quite a few
prophets. May Allah give you righteous wives and
our sisters
did I say wives? Wives
only, guys.
Women.
Nothing else. And may Allah give our sisters
righteous
husbands.
When you come to know about a sister
that has this characteristic and that characteristic and
then this trait and then that trait,
what does that do to you?
What do you wanna do next?
You want to get to know that sister
even more now. Right? It's a potential.
It increased your desire
to have this lady, sahih.
Not that I'm trying to compare
this lady to Allah as our wajan, my
brothers and my sisters, not at all. Right?
But the more we learn about what Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is saying,
the more this increases our love for Allah.
Right?
And we'll speak late, inshaAllah, about the only
source
of knowledge that we have with regards to
Allah, Azza wa Jal, little bit late, insha
Allahu, as this is one of the points.
I haven't seen anything
that feeds the mind and the soul
and protects your body,
right,
And also guarantees you happiness more than looking
in the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Right?
SubhanAllah.
What I'm going to suggest to every single
one of you guys, because it's one thing
giving a reminder, and it's another providing
practical steps
to what we say.
Have you guys heard of the tafsir of
Ibn Kathir? The abridged version is translated into
English.
I think I may have said it before
here, Allahu Alem.
Ten volumes.
Alhamdulillah, I've been getting a lot of people
messaging me because I said it in other
lectures.
Right? And they said this Ramadan we're going
to do it. Guys, I don't like reading
English books,
but that was the sweetest English book that
I've read. Even the way it's written is
not like in old ancient English.
You will love it, my brothers and my
sisters.
It's a £140.
Some of you guys spend a 100 100
of pounds on Balenciaga trainers.
Right. It is the sweetest £150
that you're going to spend.
Right.
Still have how many days to learn Ramadan?
Yeah. Maybe another 20 or so. Guys, if
you can buy it, and then you dedicate
a part of your day to start reading
a bit of it.
Right? One of these YouTubers,
every single one of you guys know,
I told him,
go get this kitab.
Right? Because I already had it at home,
but he was picking up dust.
He goes, just reading Suratul Fatiha, it blew
me away.
I looking up its meanings.
My brothers and my sisters.
Tafsir ibn Kithir, it is the abridged version.
Tafsir ibn Kithir, it's in English, 10 volumes.
It is green volumes, my brothers and my
sisters.
Alright. Reciting 1 verse with contemplation
and trying to understand its meanings, it is
a lot better than doing a whole khatma,
where one reads the whole Quran
without understanding
anything from it.
And it is more beneficial for the heart.
Right?
And it is more effective
with one trying to taste the sweetness of
the Quran, my brothers and my sisters.
Number 2, my brothers and my sisters,
Seeking closeness to Allah
through a nawafil,
carrying out the voluntary superrogatory acts, my brothers
and my sisters.
Right.
Because this will lead an individual to a
level
of
a level that he refers to as al
Mahbubiyyah, which is a daraja.
Badal Mahaba.
A daraja, a level, a status after
the love that one can acquire from Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Even higher.
Alright. We know the famous hadith, hadith al
Qudsi.
One will keep on getting closer to Allah
Azza wa Jal after the obligatory acts by
doing the superrogatory voluntary acts.
My brothers and my sisters, you know in
the month of Ramadan,
we are engaging in a tarawih.
Right?
We pray the night prayer.
And I know it gets very very tiring,
but what is it that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
is encouraging us with?
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in this month wants
us to become from the best of people.
The
most virtuous,
the most virtuous
act after the obligatory prayers is what?
Salah to Layl, the night prayer.
Right? So Allah azza wa Jal is training
us my brothers and my sisters,
so that after that we can become from
Ibadur Rahman.
You know the sifat to Ibadur Rahman,
if you look at the end of Surat
Al Furqan, Surat Al Furqan, not mazir fukan
guys.
Surat Al Furqan, a chapter in the Quran,
right? At the end, it lists
a number of qualities
and traits and characteristics
of the best of people.
One of them is
Those, my brothers and my sisters, spend their
nights
in prostration
and standing in prayer,
right?
No one's going to say, my brothers and
my sisters, that standing up at night is
mandatory or if you don't do it, then
you are bad. No.
Like what I say to the people all
the time, my brothers and my sisters, if
we're not waking up at night, we are
really,
really missing out.
Right? We are really, really missing out.
Right? It is that time, my brothers and
my sisters, when one draws away
from his bedside,
away from his family, his loved ones,
and then he prays to Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala, comes with a feeling that you cannot
point towards, my brothers and my sisters. And
then the du'a that you make.
You really want something that you're struggling to
acquire?
Try qiyamulay my brothers and my sisters. The
dua that one makes in the last 3rd
of the night, specifically,
as Imam al Shafi'i mentioned, it is like
the,
it's like the arrow that doesn't miss his
target.
It's when Allah comes down, right?
So this night I pray that we are
engaging in my brothers, don't look at it
as a burden.
You are now training. The month of Ramadan,
I look at it as a madrasa, as
an institution,
where we are now looking to introduce nihas
so we can continue it after the month
of Ramadan.
Right?
I recently came across a Twitter post, my
brothers and my sister,
where her sister was saying, she screenshotted her
text message to her boyfriend.
You know what she was saying, my brothers
and my sisters?
I said in the Khutba today,
as soon as Maghrib kicks in, I don't
want you to talk to me.
I'll see you on Eid.
Right? I'll see you on Eid.
And everyone's commenting,
some are saying Ramadan Muslims, some are saying,
this is not how you do it, some
are saying, oh masha Allah, she's gonna stay
away from her boyfriend for 30 days.
And after that she's gonna go back to
him, right?
In the last 10 nights we planned, the
filth that we want to do on the
day of age, imagine that. Does that not
happen, guys?
In the last 10 nights, the most greatest
nights of the year, we are planning which
car I want to take her on, which
hotel room I need to book out,
what I need to do, what I need
yeah? Which restaurant I need to come on,
Wamsa Road,
and which car to rev?
From that road.
Right.
May Allah protect us from that road. I
mean,
unless you're just going to eat and you're
going out, guys. Nothing else.
No offense to anyone who's got a restaurant
there.
My brothers and my sisters,
right, we are being trained.
Not that so we could go back to
our bad ways after the month of Ramadan,
no, it's an institution.
It's all it's a lot easy now to
better ourselves and then we continue it after.
After number 3, my brothers and my sisters,
So being someone
who's always remembering Allah
whether he might be with his tongue, whether
he might be with his heart, with his
actions,
in whatever situation he might be, then he
says,
the portion of
receives
or acquires is in accordance to how much
dhikr he does.
My brothers and my sisters,
what if I told you guys there are
people on the face of this earth,
whenever they need something,
it comes to them straight away
without them even asking Allah Azzawajal for it.
This is no myth, brothers and sisters.
Right?
This is no myth.
This is no lie.
And you know why brothers and sisters? Because
Allah says,
Be someone who remembers me and I will
make mention of you.
Right?
Even without uttering anything because they are always
remembering Allah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala treats this individual in
a way where you are always remembering me,
so you need something, here you go.'
Right.
There are people like that, my brothers and
my sisters. Is it difficult, my brothers and
my sisters, while we are driving to keep
our tongues moist
of Allah's remembrance, to say astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah,
astaghfirullah.
By the way, these brothers, they have Quran
class, that's why they're leaving.
No one stared down at them.
These guys are leaving the class.
They're going for their Quran.
Weird.
Babe, are your brothers and sisters with me?
There are people like that.
You know there's that hadith, you know, which
has easily become one of my favorite hadith.
If you feel that you are someone who's
struggling
with these acts of worship, it's becoming too
much of a burden,
right, a man came to the messenger sala
'alaihi wa sama, he said,
right, all of these obligations have become too
much for me.
Give me something or tell me something, oh
messenger of Allah.
Was Was this individual wanting
for the messenger
to remove some of the obligations from, no,
guys, give me something that will help me
with these obligations.
He
said,
keep your tongue moist of the remembrance of
Allah
and perhaps that will help and aid and
assist
some of these ibaadat acts of worship that
might be a bit of a
burden upon you.
Right?
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
Something that is so easy but the benefits
are so many.
Ibno Kaimi has a whole where
he speaks about the, you know, the benefits
of remembrance and so on and so forth.
Number 4 my brothers and my sisters.
Here he talks about
prioritizing Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala over everything else
that you love.
Right.
We love football, don't we?
Man United fans,
I forgot. The blue half and red half.
Time of the salah kicks in, my brothers
and my sisters.
80th minute.
It's one one.
There's only 10 minutes left till the end
of the game, guys.
This is when it gets extremely, extremely interesting,
and the time of the salah kicks in.
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. What does Allahu Akbar
Allahu Akbar mean?
Allah is the greatest. Allah is the greatest.
There's nothing more greater than Allah. Azawajalimam
Shafi'i would say, if you really want to
know your position in in front of Allah,
See what moves you.
Right?
See what moves you, my brothers and my
sisters.
Right? We might say with our tongues that
Allah is the greatest. Imagine now my brothers
and my sisters,
someone said,
place for Man United.
Give me your name, guys.
Ronaldo.
Oh, he's left, isn't it? He's gone to.
Rashford.
Calm down. Calm down. Calm down.
That child has gone out of control.
Sit down.
My brothers and my sisters, let me ask
you guys a question.
If someone said, Rashford is more greater than
Allah, how would you react?
Right?
There'd be a reaction, sir, tables will be
flipped.
It's unacceptable.
Right?
This is what we say with our tongues,
my brothers and my sisters, with our actions.
When we choose this football match or this
non Muslim now that we are
sitting in front of this TV,
I always mention this my brothers and my
sisters,
when the World Cup game is actually conflicting
with Ramadan nights,
or the Euro games. We don't have any
World Cup or Euro now,
but we might have some, Allahu Adam, Champions
League champions league nights, right, or some football
games and then a time of the salah
is kicking in.
And you choose them over Allah,
What are we actually saying with our actions,
my brothers and my sisters, with our limbs?
Are we not saying my brothers and my
sisters that Rashford is greater because I've chosen
him over Allah?
All this game that you are playing on
FIFA,
your mom is calling, Muhammad, Muhammad, and you're
like, woah,
She's telling you go pray, but you're still
what?
Playing the football game.
You might not say that this football game,
or this FIFA game is greater than Allah,
but our actions show that, right?
Or this Netflix, or this series Hollywood, Bollywood,
Somaliland,
Right?
That we are so glued to
in a time of the salakic thing, guys.
Right?
Whoever wants a pure clean heart,
then let him always put Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala first.
Right?
But when you don't, my brothers and my
sisters, it's only a matter of time before
you're hurt by it. It says,
Anyone now who loves other than Allah, give
us that priority, give us that precedence.
It's only a matter of time before he's
hurt by it.
This is why all of these girls are
messaging on Instagram saying, brother,
I'm heartbroken.
Right? Why?
Because
she chose not to leave her boyfriend,
and eventually you're just left heartbroken.
You prioritize other than Allah azza wa
Jal for Allah azza wa Jal and this
was the end result my brothers and my
sisters.
Right? And as with anything,
I know it's extremely extremely tempting.
All of your friends are going out on
Eid
to enjoy themselves.
The sharia doesn't say
don't enjoy yourself.
You can do as much as you want,
brothers and sisters. It's a day of happiness,
it's a day of food, eating, and drinking.
Right?
Or in Urdu they say
Right?
It's a day to enjoy yourself,
but then your
sir,
I learned it from you.
But brothers
and sisters, right,
they are inviting you to that which is
haram,
and it's getting very, very tempting.
But then my brothers and my sisters, you
turn it down,
and you go running back to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala for firoo il Allah.
See what that does my brothers and my
sisters to your heart. See what it does
to your heart.
Right?
When you are someone who prioritize Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, almost instantly, brothers and sisters, mark
my words.
They're inviting you to haram and you say
no that is a red line because Allah
the Almighty told me not to do so.
See what that does to you almost instantly
my brothers and my sisters.
See the impact that it has on your
heart.
Right.
So here he's mentioning that the 4th point
is putting Allah first, especially in situations like
that,
see what it does to you.
You're only someone for the sake of Allah
except Allah is going to give it out,
which is better.
Try it, guys.
Number 5.
Right?
He says my brothers and my sisters, number
5, exposing your heart
to the names and attributes of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Right.
Our only source of knowledge, my brothers and
my sisters, that we have of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is none other than His names
and attributes.
Earlier I gave that example of Princess Charming,
right,
that you are now pursuing for marriage.
You're pursuing her because masha Allah you heard
that she is x, y, and zed,
and then
as you continue your pursuit, you come to
know that she does this and she does
that, even more better,
it causes the love that you have for
her to intensify,
agreed,
And then as you're getting closer to
the wedding night,
you come to know Masha'Allah, she prays at
night, you've hit the jackpot.
Right?
And that increases the love.
Again, I'm not trying to compare this lady
to Allah
my my brothers and my sisters.
Allah Azza wa Jal has so many names
and so many attributes. Right?
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala my brothers and my
sisters, the almighty provider,
Ar Razaq.
I believe, my brothers, if someone just
understood this name and the attribute that comes
with this name, he would never ever think
of eating haram.
He would never ever think of cheating the
government. I know I speak about benefits fraud
a lot. Wallahi, I'm not getting paid by
the government, guys. Allah, I'm not.
I I only see I only speak about
it because I've seen too many households break
down.
Too many.
I think I said it last time around.
One brother,
he heard me saying this in one of
the masajid unless they came to me after.
He said 5. He did this with his
hand. 5 families that are advised about benefit
fraud. They will eventually lead you to separate
away
from your spouse. He goes, no, I love
my wife.
And then eventually what? They separated and that
is because they always used to say with
their tongue, I'm single, I'm single, I'm separated,
I don't have this, I don't have that,
and eventually ended up happening. And we gave
this reminder about Al Bala'umuqalumbal
Mantik, how that which we say an ata
is directly correlated with what ends up happening
or the calamities that come our way.
Anyways, going back to the point, my brothers
and my sisters,
the more we learn about Allah, the more
we strengthen our tawhid, our monotheism
of Allahu jallafi'ula,
the more we will have
that fear and awe of Allahu Jallafi'u'llah.
You ask me why don't I have the
connection with Allah?
Why is it
that I don't move a muscle when Allah
says something?
It is simply maybe because my brothers and
my sisters we haven't learned enough about Allahu
jalafiyyurllah.
Today the Khutba was about
April fools day. Right?
Mockery, making jokes, and whatever have you, my
brothers and my sisters.
Sometimes you advise an individual who's doing these
memes
and there's mockery about the religion in TikTok
videos, he goes, Akhi, man.
Not a big deal. I'm just having a
bit of fun.
Stop making it a big deal. It's just
a bit of banter.
Sahir.
Guys guys, sorry I keep hearing noise from
this.
Are your brothers and sisters with me?
And that is because the glorification and the
veneration we should have in our hearts for
Allah
is not there.
How does this evolve my brothers and my
sisters? When the more we learn about Allah
You respect that multimillionaire
my brothers and my sisters because of what
you know about him. How he made his
money, you begin to respect him, oh, he
came from nothing, and now look where he
is.
You respect him. Right?
Because of the position that he holds.
Right? If a multimillionaire
walked in, my brothers and my sisters, we
would react differently.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala provided for him and
everyone else, brothers and sisters.
Why is it that we react like that?
Right? Or why is it that we are
not moved by anything that Allah
says? So our only source
of knowledge that we have of Allah
is His names and attributes and what He's
told us, right?
So the more you learn about these names
and attributes, the more you begin to love
Allah, and this is exactly what he's saying,
because it is impossible for you not to
increase your love in Allah, for Allah, azza
wa jal.
Number 6, Sheikh Hamad, how long do I
have?
Yeah. I've got to think about 15 minutes,
sorry.
Okay. 10 minutes,
Sheikh is sitting there writing notes, but he
already knows it. He's just showing you guys
how to
take notes.
He's probably memorized all of this. He was
actually Sheikh Mohammed
in Hajj. Sheikh, let me please. Sorry to
say this in front of you.
This is back in 2000
Sheikh, do you remember?
Back in 2015,
I believe, or 16,
where we just run into each other in
Hajj, you know where the tents are in
Mina?
And he said to me, Abutaimia,
put a lot of time and effort into
going through the works of Ibn al Qayyim,
Right? The heart and everything.
Right?
Talks about everything. Now we are taking what
the tawhid, we're taking a class in tawhid
guys.
What we're going through today is perhaps maybe
due to Sheikh Mohammed's good deed and his
advice that he gave me.
I began to read books after books, statements
of the statement of Ibn Al Khaym of
Mutaimia. Used to give a lot of consent
to it based on what the sheikh told
me.
Books of Al Makaim changed my life, guys,
and this is what we're going through right
now.
Number 6, my brothers and my sisters,
Recognizing
the favors of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala upon
you and all of the blessings my brothers
and masters that Allah showers upon us.
Allah has done this for me and then
I'm going to disobey him.
He has never left me a single day
without food in my fridge.
I've never gone to sleep, right,
hungry my brothers and my sisters. This is
how we should think.
That's never ever happened to me and then
I'm going to disobey him.
Isn't this exactly
what Yusuf alaihi wasallam done, my brothers and
my sisters?
When she locked him up, you know, the
wife of Al Aziz, and she said, hey,
Telek, let's get it on,
inside of that chamber that she locked him
in.
How did he respond, my brothers and my
sisters, muhadharaat,
lectures can be,
constructed
about just this incident here.
Kalam a'adullah, he began to seek refuge in
Allah
and look what he also said,
Indeed, my lord,
right,
the scholars of tafsir,
they differed. Was he referring to the favors
of Allah, the favors of
Al Aziz who was so good to him?
But either way my brothers and my sisters,
either way,
right, when the sin presented itself
Allah
did so much for me.
He showered his favors and his blessings upon
look where I was, look where I now.
He was, my brothers and my sisters, right,
thrown inside of a well where nobody could
see him and then eventually they found him.
And now you see him being nurtured in
a palace,
and I'm going to disobey him.
I'm going to what?
Do that which
is displeasing to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And
the other meaning is what? Now I'm going
to stab my master in the back after
he brought me into his house and cheat
on his wife.
Right? So this is exactly what he began
to do.
Allah did all of this for me and
now I'm going to disobey him.
Right. And when we sit down, my brothers
and my sisters, and we start counting the
blessings of Allah and we're still going to
fall short because Allah said,
If you try to count the blessings of
Allah, you'll never be able to do so.
We began to count alladidasami,
alladida, is that not going to increase your
love for Allah as the wiched my brothers
and my sisters?
Right.
You know there's a verse in the Quran
that always touches me, right.
Shirkab Nur Athaymin comments on this. This verse
came down in the Battle of Uhud. You
disobeyed Allah after He showed you what you
really wanted.
Alright. Sheikh Abdul Athimin gives a couple of
examples.
A young girl who's making du'a the whole
year, You Allah, grant me a righteous husband.
And in the day she gets married, instead
of being thankful,
on the wedding day, brother, sister, we throw
it all back in Allah as the wazhu's
directions.
Blast the music.
Everyone go crazy, gender mixing, whatever have you.
I miss my prayers as well because I
have makeup on my face just one night,
one night.
Right. Same, likewise with the brothers, equal rights
before the sisters get upset.
Instead of being thankful to Allah,
my brothers and my sisters, how we react.
Oh, one is making dua the whole, Yay
You Allah grant me good grades, good grades,
good grades.
His scores is first everyone gets together and
they throw a party
music, R and B whatever have you
You disobeyed Allah after He showed you what
you really wanted.
Alright.
Number 7 my brothers and my sisters, he
says
to break down in front of Allah
says that this has been ajib,
right, out of all of them. It's just
from the most
amazing out of all of the points that
have been mentioned.
He
says,
this is not someone that you can't you
can put into words, he says.
You can't put this into words to break
down in front of Allah azza wa jal,
right, with humility,
right,
He says you can't put this into words.
Make this a habit where
constantly
I seclude myself,
right,
and it's just me and Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala
and then I break down in front of
him,
right.
You know my brothers and my sisters,
got a couple of more minutes, I'm gonna
quickly finish up insha Allahu ta'ala.
This du'a that we are going to be
uttering
especially in the last 10 nights, what is
the du'a Allahumaynaqaifuan?
When you look at the dua, what is
he instructing her to ask Allah?
Ask Allah to pardon you. This is what
he's telling her. This is Aisha
who's been working so hard for the last
20 days, and now on top of that,
right, you have to ask Allah to forgive
and pardon you.
Ibn Rajabi comments and he says,
He says the only reason why he told
her to do so
after working so hard in the first twenty
is because the smart and intelligent individuals, my
brothers and my sisters,
they work so hard and then
they don't get deluded with themselves. Oh, I've
done so well.
Let me now take a break. No.
They run back to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
the same way the smart sinner does. What
does a smart sinner do guys?
The smart sinner after he sinned, what does
he do? He breaks down in front of
Allah Azza wa Jal, You Allah forgive
me. He committed zina, You Allah forgive me.
He breaks down into tears. He says, this
is the way of the person who's been
working so hard, done so many righteous deeds.
He takes time out, my brothers and my
sisters, and he breaks down, you Allah forgive
me.
This is from the ways of the oliya,
my brothers and my sisters, that is not
mentioned enough.
You Allah forgive me. This is after he's
been doing so well.
Right.
Breaking down in front of Allah Azza wa
Jal, I still haven't done enough. You Allah
accept this from me.
Or I'd love to go into the issue
of how the salaf, the people of the
past, they were so terrified of their actions
not being accepted.
Imam al Dhabhi comments on one of these
statements, he says,
Anyone, anyone,
right, who doesn't have that fear that he
might be from the people of the fire,
then this person is dulud, he is deceived.
Indeed, he has made himself safe of the
punishment of Allah. Number 8, my brothers and
my sisters.
Sheikh, tell me exactly how much I have,
4 minutes. 4 minutes.
Number 8, my brothers and my sisters,
right.
He says secluding yourself with Allah
right?
Especially
in the last 3rd of the night.
Right?
Especially in the last third of the night
when Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala comes down,
interacting with Allah
having that conversation.
The people get bored of you brothers and
sisters.
They think when is this annoying guy going
to stop whinging?
You have Allah azza wa'inna ashqobati wa'azinirullah,
I'm only going to
complain and show my surah to
Allah Especially in the last 3rd and you
read His kalam, His speech, His Quran,
you stand in front of Allah
in a manner that is
humble brothers and sisters
with servitude,
right,
and
then he concludes his night with istighfar and
repenting.
Right? How would you behave in front of
the head teacher, in front of your boss,
my brothers and my sisters?
You would behave or you would treat them
like royalty. Right? Allah subhanahu
wa
ta'ala.
Also, Ibn Rajabi says,
From the things that really cause one to
increase in his love for Allah and he
brings about the love of Allah for him
is loving to be alone,
especially in the last 3rd of the night.
Right?
And when we say alone, my brothers and
my sisters, before we would say staying away
from people, today we need to move away
from our phones.
Because it's more than just the people that
we'd hang around with. That's why they say
Facebook friends. Right? Too many friends we have
on there that will constantly distract us especially
if our notifications are on.
Number 9, my brothers and my sisters,
to sit and congregate with
the righteous individuals
who are truthful,
the truthful ones.
Right? And you try to take away, you
know, the best of their speeches and what
they have to give.
Right?
Sitting with the righteous, my brothers and my
sisters,
As imam ibn al Qayim, he mentioned in
his kitab I ghathatul lafan, it changes sick
things for you.
Very, very quickly,
you have someone with doubts, you now have
certainty
because he's able to remove these doubts. Number
2,
someone who shows up to someone who's sincere.
Number 3,
someone who's heedless to being someone who's mindful.
Number 4, being someone who loves the dunya
to someone who chases after the hereafter.
Number 5,
being someone who's arrogant to being humble, as
we see right here, brothers and sisters. Right?
And number 6,
someone with bad intentions,
right, to someone who wants good for the
people, who wants to advise them sincerely.
And when you sit with the people of
Kufr and Innovation,
what does it do, my brothers and my
sisters? It puts doubts in your heart.
If Sufianath Thoreau would say
Whoever hears an innovation,
then let him not relate it to the
people around him because it will put doubts
inside of their hearts.
Likewise, when we are in these university environments,
right, and we're hanging around with these non
Muslims who are filled with doubts or have
a particular agenda to strip you off your
faith and they're giving you doubts after doubts
after doubts. That's exactly what's going to happen,
my brothers and my sisters.
Right.
And last but not least, my brothers and
my sisters, number 10, Sheikh, we are finished.
Yeah.
Eliminating
anything that comes in between you and Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Every link between us and the prohibited, my
brothers and my sisters, needs to be
eliminated and terminated.
Anything that is pulling you towards misguidance
needs to be removed from your life. It
is a step to being saved from the
fire.
Right?
Anything that is now causing you to sin
brothers and sisters, and we've said it many
many times.
Right?
Take a pen and paper,
this Ramadan,
and write down all of your sins and
what is causing these sins.
And perhaps that's the first step now to
eliminating this from your life.
Ibn Qayyim
said, the more one permits means of temptation
to remain in their surroundings,
the more they are at risk of poisoning
their faith.
Sulaiman alaihis salat wa sama, and I'm going
to conclude with this.
Did you know he became distracted from the
Asr prayer? You know what distracted him?
Finally branded horses.
Guess what he done? Anyone here with a
Tesla?
Put his hands through.
Any imagine now, my brothers and my sisters,
would anyone here put his Tesla up for
auction
because he busied him from the salah?
Surayna, and I'm saying you should. Surayna
he ended up slaughtering all of these horses
that he had because it distracted him from
Aspreyah.
What do we learn from this? What is
it that is distracting me from Allah?
Is it this? Okay. I'm going to remove
it. Is it the phone? It might be
time to refer to the chat phone,
especially in the month of Ramadan, guys, for
a set period of time.
You know the brick phones we used to
have back in the day with snake on
there?
It might be a start my brothers and
my sisters. I ask
Allah to bless every single one of you
guys for taking time out to benefit from
this lecture, and to sit in front of
his miskeen.
I ask Allah azza wa jal to allow
us
to be from amongst those who take away
maximum reward, Allahu a'alam, whether we will get
another Ramadan.
As I was driving here with the brother
to Mizzi Al Furqan, Manchester,
there was a collision on the M6.
Four cars
completely written off. An ambulance came, not just
an ambulance, but the helicopter came
to pick up one of these casualties.
It missed us by a couple of moments.
Right,
that could have been us brothers and sister,
it could have been you.
We don't know whether we will get another
Ramadan,
Right? So make
the most of what you have.