Abu Taymiyyah – 17 Lessons FromTheStory of Musa & Khidr (AS) Detailed Manchester
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1st and foremost, again, I just want to
take a moment out to thank the administration
of the Masjid.
May Allah
bless them immensely.
And Mas'id Farqhan indeed is one of those
masajid that brings the four corners of Manchester
together.
Just now, mister Azar Ubaidah,
he was telling me, subhanAllah, how many
nationalities can we see sitting here?
You know, very multicultural,
so it's really really magnificent to see
how the Masjid is bringing together all of
these different nationalities as we are all from
the children of Adam.
Today you find Masajid, Somali Masjid, Pakistani Masjid,
Indian Masjid.
We need Masajid that bring everyone together.
Right? So may Allah
reward them
immensely. The second point that I want to
make my brothers and my sisters,
Sheikh, when he contacted me,
he wanted me to go through a small
treaties,
like a methan, a text
for this period between Asir and Mahrib.
To be fair and honest,
right, Sheikh had a point
to go through text, because, you know, we
have to try and balance it out between
lectures
and likewise lessons.
The reason why I'm mentioning this is because
there is
a very important point I want to make.
When it comes to our deen brothers and
sisters,
right, with lectures,
what does it do?
It increases your iman.
It's an iman booster. People always say, oh,
that was a wonderful
lecture. My iman went
up. Tab, how do we keep our iman
afloat, our faith afloat?
By learning more about Allah
Right?
Our only source of information that we have
with regards to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
through His names and His attributes, right?
The more you learn about Allah, Azzawajal, the
more fearful you become of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
The more you are in awe of him,
right? The more conscious you will be of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And this is what you normally find
in the text that are studied.
However,
my brothers and my sisters, I told the
sheikh that I want to go through a
passage from the Quran,
which has also been incorporated
into a hadith that the messenger salallahu alaihi
wasallam
related
the story of Musa
when he engaged and interacted with Khadir
Right?
And of course, there is nothing more greater
than going through the book of Allahu jalafiyarla.
And going through text is not the only
way
of gaining that consciousness of Allahu jalafi'rilla.
An individual may think that you have to
only go through books
and to completely overlook
the lectures.
No, the Messenger used
to give reminders on Thursdays.
He also used
to give Khudbus Friday sermons,
right?
And he used to explain the Quran to
his companions,
right?
So there are different ways of learning about
our religion,
and this is something that needs to be
emphasized,
right?
Whether it is done by way of a
text,
whether it is done by explaining a hadith,
whether it is done by doing tafsir of
the Quran,
Sometimes we hear that someone may be explaining
the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, this
is chaotic dawah,
Just because he has chosen not to go
through a particular text,
right? And this is, of course, wrong as
well. There has to be a balance. There
has to be a balance.
In a time when the companions,
they didn't have like text, but the messenger
salallahu alaihi wasallam would explain the Quran to
them.
Right. So even though the Sheikh wanted me
to go through a text,
right, that goes up all the way till
Maghrib, he said, I'm going to make sure
that I rinse every
right ounce of or every inch of energy
out of you now that you're coming to
Manchester.
But, alhamdulillah,
I chose to go through this hadith, which
is a little bit long, which we're going
to go through, and
then we're going to extrapolate 15 benefits,
right, in this time that we have. Last
week,
I did the same, but I only had
enough time to go through 10 when I
went to Dabi.
Hopefully today
it will be a lot more
explanatory, a lot more detailed
and
relatable that which we can take away and
apply almost instantly
in our day to day lives.
Right?
Imam al Bukhali
He brings this interaction or this engagement that
Musa
had with Khadir
in a hadith that he narrated,
and he chapted it as
Look at the way he chapter it, that
which is required
from a scholar when he is asked who
the most knowledgeable
person is,
that he credits this knowledge
back to Allah
This whole, the way it started, my brothers
and my sisters, as we will come to
know in a moment,
Musa alaihi wasalam, as the hadith goes,
right, to.
He says that the messenger
once narrated
that Musa alaihi wasallam,
Qama, Khateeb and Fiebeni Israel, he once stood
up,
and he began to deliver a sermon.
As he was delivering this sermon,
he
was asked, who is the most knowledgeable person?
Right?
His response was,
I am the most knowledgeable person.
Right?
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala decided to admonish
him,
decided to discipline Musa, alayhis salatu wa salam
simply because he did not credit this knowledge
back to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Right as Allah tells
us above every individual who possesses knowledge
there is someone who is more knowledgeable than
him, and above everyone is Al Aleem, Allah
who is most knowledgeable of everything, and that
keeps you, my brothers and my sisters, grounded,
keeps your feet on the ground, humbled.
The moment you begin to think that you
are something, my brothers and my sisters,
you
are, right,
taking a very dark
journey to
destruction.
Right?
We are nothing, my brothers and my sisters.
Right? If you want to know what kind
of individual you are, my brothers and my
sisters, or
on the face of this earth, what you
actually equate to, maybe go up the 15th
floor.
I live on the 15th floor, a building
that's maybe what 17 floors,
go up to maybe the 15th or 16th
floor and then look down.
You will see what little dots walking around,
who are human beings
that tiny,
right? This is what we are.
I even heard, subhanallah,
one of the great pious men of the
past, one time mention,
Right?
It amazes me how one can be arrogant.
And he came out of 2 private parts.
But then he's walking on the face of
this, on the face of this earth so
haughty, so arrogant, so proud. What is he
referring to? He came out of his dad's
private partner, then
his mother gave birth to him. So he
came out of 2 private parts, and then
he walks around being extremely arrogant.
Right?
So here, and by the way, I'm not
saying that Musa Alaihi Wasall was arrogant, Just
in case someone wants to clip this out
and put it on TikTok.
Right? TikTok is a Moshekelah Brothers.
I'm not even on TikTok. They're always clipping
videos out
making these,
Allah
admonished him,
decided to discipline him for not crediting
the knowledge back to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So Allah revealed to Musa, alayhis salam,
inspired him now to go and visit a
servant from amongst his many servants
that is at the conjunction of where the
2 seas meet.
So Musa
being so eager, even though remember, brothers and
sisters,
he's a prophet from the prophets of Allah
and not just any random prophet,
from the 5 greatest prophets, right?
He asks Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala after Allah
Azzawajal told him, who? He
is more knowledgeable than you. Go to him.
Oh Allah, how do I get to him?
Allah
revealed to him, take
a bucket that has a fish inside of
it.
And when you lose this fish,
where you lose this fish is where Khadr
alayhi salatu wasalam is going to be
Right. So he set out on his journey,
and he took along with him
his servant called Yusha ibn Noon,
right,
so they took this fish
with them
up until they reached the Sahara, this rock,
and they decided now
to sleep on this rock, they've been traveling
and as they were asleep,
Right? This fish
jumped out of this bucket that they were
carrying, and he slipped into the sea.
Right?
Saraba, and this is mentioned in the Quran,
Surat Al Kahf that we read every Friday.
Have we read Surat Al Kahf today, guys?
Alright. So it made its way into the
sea.
So they continued traveling
through the night and then through the day.
As around, you
know, noontime kicked in,
Musa
says to his servant,
right?
Bring us the lunch.
Indeed
we have begun to experience,
right, much fatigue
through all of this traveling that we have
been doing,
right?
Right? The ajeeb
thing in all of this was that Musa,
even though they were traveling for so long,
he didn't begin to feel any tiredness
up until this point,
right? Up until this point,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
wants to alert him that
he has maybe gone past
where he was destined to go to, right?
Or where he was on his way to
go to.
So after that SubhanAllah,
Do you remember Musa when we stopped at
that rock
and we slept?
I forgot that hood, that fish that we
were carrying at that point. Right?
This is what we've been seeking all of
this time.
Allah revealed to him that he should take
this fish, and the moment he loses this
fish,
that's where Khadir alaihis salatu wasalam is going
to be, right?
But they didn't pay attention.
After waking up, they continued traveling.
So Musa is saying that's where we're meant
to be. That was our destination.
So they went back. Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he tells us
So they went retracting their footsteps,
right?
When they came back to that place
that they had forgotten that fish at,
they saw this man standing there that was
covered in his garment.
Right?
Khadir
greeted Musa Alaihi Wasallam,
and then he said to him, how do
you guys give each other salaams from where
you're from?
How do you guys greet each other? Right?
So he told them, I
so he asked him is this Musa from
Bani Israel?
He said yes.
So right away, Musa alaihisaid wasalam was to
get down to business. Right? He says to
him, halal Tabirog,
is it possible for me to accompany you
so that you may teach me something that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has taught you?
Khadir alaihis salatu waslam responds and says,
You will not be able to be patient.
Right? You're not going to be able to
be patient with me.
Right? You wanna accompany me. Right? But I
don't think you're going to be patient.
Right? Khadir alaihi salatu waslam tells him,
oh Musa,
indeed Allah
has blessed me with knowledge
that you don't possess, and Allah
has taught you that which I don't have
or that which I am not aware of.
Right?
Musa Alaihi Wasallam responds and he says,
Insha'Allah
you are going to find me patient.
Don't worry.
Right?
And I'm not going to disobey you in
anything.
Anything that you ask me to do, you
will not see me going against
your orders
and your Commandments, I will be patient.
Right?
Even though it is not mentioned in the
hadith,
right, Allah Azzawajid tells us in His Quran,
How can you be patient about something that
you don't have any knowledge of? One of
the benefits that we're going to be taking
insha Allahu Ta'ala, when we go through the
15 benefits is,
that which helps
with patience, it's a coping mechanism,
it's to have an idea
of what you are getting yourself involved in
prior to
starting that journey.
It could be investments, it could be marriage,
how many people do we see pulling out
of marriages?
They want to jump ship, the grass is
green on the other side. This is not
what I signed up for, we're gonna come
on to that. And that is because
I see a lot of people smiling, I
think they feel like that.
Right?
It helps to educate yourself prior to what
you are about to start doing.
Right? To prepare yourself mentally
and physically,
right, to what you're about to embark on.
We're gonna come on to that inshallah.
So him
and Khadir
they began to walk together
on the seashore on the coast, right? They
didn't have a safina, they didn't have a
ship with them.
As they were walking
As they were walking brothers and sisters,
a ship came close and they recognized Khadr
So they offered to let them board the
ship
without charging them.
Right?
So they go on the ship, they board
it.
As they were there, standing on the ship,
Musa alaihi wa Salam al Khadr,
that's
this bird came and it began
to sit on the side of the ship,
and it began to peck on the water.
Can you guys imagine a bird now pecking
into the water as they do, right?
You'll see them floating on the water and
they start pecking, in order to quench their
thirst.
Right?
So he did that once or twice as
the hadith mentions.
You know when this bird starts pecking onto
the sea,
does it reduce from the sea that is
pecking from?
Not really, right?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent Musa to Khadr
in order to benefit from him.
Khadr
is telling him that,
you know how much of the sea has
been reduced by the pecking of
this bird?
No matter how knowledgeable we are, the knowledge
that I possess and the knowledge that you
possess,
doesn't take anything away from the knowledge of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. The same way the
pecking of this bird
doesn't take anything away from
the sea.
Right?
How many a time my brothers and my
sisters we ask ourselves,
why is this happening to me? This shouldn't
be happening to me. Right?
Our knowledge is very very limited. We don't
understand why it's maybe happening for us
in this way.
We think that it's always bad for us
but Allah
There is
There is stuff that Allah knows that we
don't know of, brothers and sisters.
We just have to let Allah
execute His plan.
But we're gonna come onto all of this,
insha Allah, I'm getting a little bit too
excited, you know.
It's coming out from time to time.
Right?
So just out of the blue, Khadir
took a couple of steps forward and he
decided
to pull out a plank of wood from
this ship that they were on.
I imagine yourself now you boarded a ship
and you start getting a hammer and you
start digging through the ship, would anyone in
their right mind do that?
This is exactly what Khadir alaihis salatu waslam
started
to do. Right?
So most of the alaihi wasallam becomes shocked
at what he's doing, and he says to
him, right?
Right? They let you both for free, they
didn't take a charge.
Right?
They didn't take any money off you, and
then you decided to put a hole inside
of the ship. What are you doing?
Right?
Then I say to you that you are
not going to be able to be patient.
Right? Musa
said,
don't hold me to account for that which
I done out of forgetfulness.
For those who read
Surat Al Kahf regularly or those have memorized
Surat Al Kahf,
Right? As I'm going through this hadith, there
are parts that come to mind. Right?
Some of these parts of the hadith, my
brothers and my sisters,
right? Our Qur'anic Ayat.
The verses have been incorporated into what the
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was explaining.
When we look at the Quran and his
tafsir my brothers and my sisters, the way
the tafsir of the Quran is done, tafsirul
Qur'anibil Qur'an Quran. There are steps, I can't
just start thinking, oh, this is what I
think or this is what I thought today,
right? Let me start
uttering about the Quran,
what I think. No, it doesn't work like
that.
Right? There are steps that the ulama mentioned
in the books of Usul Al Tafsir,
the first step is Tafsirul Quran,
explaining the Quran with the Quran, There are
parts of the Qur'an that are maybe, let's
just say in Surat Al Baqarah,
that explain that which is at the end
of the Qur'an,
right?
And then the second step is where
the Quran is explained by way of hadith,
by way of the
you can't think that
I'm going to separate the Quran from the
hadith, no, they go hand in hand with
one another
That's why if you don't know hadith, it's
going to be very very hard now to
explain or to try and understand the Quran,
they go hand in hand with one another.
Right? The Quran was coming down upon the
Prophet
and then he would explain it to his
companions.
And then you have what?
Explaining the Quran with the statements of the
companions,
right? And then tafsirul Quran explaining the Quran
with the tafsir of the Tabi'ayb,
as they took the Quran directly from the
companions,
and then you have the Arabic language as
well. So there are usuls that are what
followed, it's not what I think or Abu
Tamia thinks or
what my mollisab or my Sheikh
told me about this is what he means.
Okay? I need to ask him, where did
he get this understanding from?
When you look at a lot of these
liberals,
they'll just come to the Quran and they'll
start explaining the Quran however they want.
Doesn't work like that.
I was watching this
I don't want to say the name because
I don't want you guys to get exposed
to it. Right? Where they sat down conservative
Muslims
and liberal Muslims.
The video went absolutely viral, it was on
YouTube.
Liberal Muslims,
you saw it.
Mashallah.
You Guys on YouTube.
You had conservative Muslim, they had liberal Muslims.
They would ask them questions such as,
is the hijab mandatory?
So you had a liberal
think she was what?
She was a
was she homosexual?
Homosexual. Right? Because we have to be careful.
She might be transgender and I'm you know?
And I need to, you know,
be careful with the pronouns and
so anyways,
she's wearing hijab as well but she identifies
as homosexual,
right?
And then she goes, no the Quran
doesn't say that the hijab is mandatory,
based on who's understanding her understanding, and understanding.
And then she goes, when I went through
the tafsir of the Quran, she started reading
Quran in English, it just said, you should
wear the hijab.
She has no knowledge of a sulfuric,
no knowledge of hadith, no knowledge of the
Quran,
but she saw
a very
how can I put this right?
A translation of the Quran, because the translation
never gives the Quran its true justice.
Right? It never gives its true justice. In
the Arabic language, certain types of wordings
and phrases,
what it does, it tells you because of
this phrase now or because the word has
been maybe worded in this way, it shows
Amr that this is now mandatory and sometimes
it's Sunnah. There's a whole science that is
studied,
And you can only understand this if you
know the Arabic language alongside Usul al Firk,
which are the tools that you need in
order to understand the Quran.
And this one I said to myself, ah,
this is why knowledge is so important.
So important.
May Allah blessed those 2 brothers,
One of them was called Jad,
and I forgot the other brother's name, who
really stood up for Islamic values and morals,
and they held their ground.
Taib.
So he said, they let you board for
free, and now he's decided
to put a hole in their ship,
right, in order to drown them
The next one is Where's the huffad?
Am I wrong?
That's an imrah he sent.
Where's Sheikh Bukhari or he's praying?
5.
And then he said to him,
Right?
Well, we already mentioned it, right?
He said to him,
Right?
Don't hold me to account for that which
I've done out of forgetfulness.
So the prophet
said, the first strike
was out of forgetfulness
because he told him don't ask me any
questions, right?
Don't ask me any questions,
just listen to what I'm going to tell
you. The first one was
forgetfulness.
So then they got off the ship, they
began to walk.
Musa
and Khadir, they run into a young child.
Khadr
grabs him, and he pulls his head off
his body, kills him.
Have you killed an innocent soul who has
killed none?
Right?
Sent. Right? Indeed, you have carried out that
which is extremely evil.
Right?
He
made a hasty judgment about what Khadir has
done.
You can say and
2 different ways of reciting it.
Right? Didn't I say to you that you
wouldn't be able to be patient, O Musa.
So then they continued walking.
Right?
And they run into a group of people
who lived in a village,
ahlakariyah.
They requested to be hosted, and
they refused to host them.
They refused to host Musa and Khadr Aleem
Sattusam
And then after this interaction with the people
of the village that took place,
they saw
this wall that was on the verge of
collapsing.
Ahed Khadir
noticed it, he went towards it, and put
it straight.
He said to him, if you want, you
can take money for this. You can charge
them for straightening up the
the wall.
This is when Khadir alaihis salatu waslam harinoff.
This is indeed the moment that we are
going to separate from one another. Khadir says
that to Musa.
So the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Yarrhamu
Allahu Musa,
may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala have mercy upon
Musa.
Right?
I wish that he was patient so that,
you know, we could hear about
the rest,
right?
And that which was going to take place
between them both.
There's another narration that says,
Right? If only he was patient, then he
would have seen
amazing things from his companion, meaning Khadir
In the Quran, my brother, this is not
mentioned in the hadith.
Right?
Khadir alaihis salatu wasalam then explains to him
as to why he did everything, and I'm
going to quickly mention it inshallahta'ala.
He then goes on to explain,
right? Now he explains to him as to
why he did
all of these things,
Right? He says to him, as for the
ship that he put a hole in, it
belonged to some masakin,
some needy individuals
who used to work on sea,
So I wanted
to fault this ship,
and that is
because
right?
There was in front of them a king
who would seize
every ship by force,
Right? So Khadir alaihisattu wasalam,
the reason why he put a hole in
there is, once now it reaches the shore,
once the king sees that there is a
fault inside of the ship, he's not going
to take it.
Does that make sense?
So he wanted to fault it, that's why
he he did that.
2nd time,
As for the child that he killed,
Allah tells us that he parents that were
both believers,
however, we feared that
He would be the cause that they apostate
from the religion
Sayyid Mujubeiri said,
Sahib Jubeiri says that the meaning of this
is
that he was feared that because of how
much they loved their son,
it will lead them now to follow
their beloved son to them into al kufr,
into renegating from the deen of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
That's why he killed him.
Took him off the face of this Earth.
Now this is number 3. Right?
As for the wall that he straightened up,
even though they refused to host them, He
could have easily turned around. Okay. You guys
refused to host us. Forget about you guys,
right? We're not going to do you any
favors. Let the wall,
come down.
Let it crumble,
right? Allah
tells us that this wall belonged to 2
orphans
that lived
in this village,
and under it was buried a treasure
that belonged to them,
to these 2
needy
sorry, these 2
Eitam, these 2 orphans,
and their father was righteous, and because of
the righteousness of their father,
Allah
wanted the day
grow older,
right?
After reaching the age of puberty, they would
take this kens,
this treasure that was buried
underneath this wall
that was about to crumble.
Maybe had it crumbled,
the people in the village will start fighting
over this Khens
that would be unraveled from the ground, right?
How often do we find that?
You've got uncles
who are looking for ways
to seize that inheritance
away from their own nephews and nieces.
Very, very common as someone
who does a lot of inheritance distribution. You've
got an uncle who's here, and then all
of his family is back home, in Pakistan,
or in India, or in Somalia.
Right?
If he passes away tomorrow, he's telling me,
I fear
that my own brothers and sisters are going
to seize,
right, all of my properties in the land
that I possess back home,
and nothing is going to be left to
my own children.
Right? So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wanted
for all of these treasures to remain buried,
so once they grow older they can take
it.
Right?
Before Insha Allahu Taala, I start mentioning these
15 benefits my brothers and my sisters, and
I'm going to give you guys a break
in exactly
5 minutes.
How long have we been gone now for?
I think it's only half an hour. Right?
Has been half an hour, because we finished
late.
None. So let's give another 15 minutes, inshallah.
Was Khadir alaihis salatu wa sallam a nabi,
or was he just a righteous man?
This is a discussion that the scholars have
amongst themselves.
Right?
They say, or they put forth arguments such
as how can one of the greatest Prophets
go to another mata sikhid knowledge.
Al Hakim, this is not something that
should be strange at all. The Prophet
at times would seek the consultation of his
own companions, right?
There was times when
when Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu would
say something
and it would be different to what the
messenger salallahu alaihi suggested Allah would send down
revelation
agreeing with Umar ibn Khattab
So this is not a solid argument.
The majority of the scholars, they say that
Khadr
was in fact a Prophet.
What's the evidence for this?
After he explained
why he did all of these three things,
right? What is it that he said?
I did not do this out of my
own accord
Right? I didn't do it out of my
own accord, meaning
all of these calls that I made,
right, all of these decisions, all of these
moves
were due to the revelation that was coming
down upon me.
And this is now the explanation for that
which you weren't patient for, O Musa.
Right?
Like when you think about it now, for
him to take the life of a young
child, how does Khadir
know that he's going to become a disbeliever
when he grows older? And because of his
disbelief now, his parents are going to follow
him upon kufr
due to the amount of love that they
have for him. This only can be done
by way of
revelation, right?
15 benefits my brothers and my sisters.
From this wonderful
story that Allah
has mentioned to us in the Quran, some
of these benefits have been taken from the
great Imam, Al Imam Asiadir Ahmadallahi, Alayhi, Alayhi,
Alayhi, Alayhi, Alayhi, Alayhi, Alayhi, Alayhi, Alayhi, Alayhi,
Alayhi, Alayhi, Alayhi, Alayhi, Alayhi, Alayhi, Alayhi, Alayhi,
Alayhi, Alayhi, Alayhi, Alayhi,
and other scholars,
and some were out of contemplation.
Benefit number 1 my brothers and my sisters,
Everything that you see taking place happens for
a reason.
Alright. I'll say that again. And I'm hoping,
inshallah, you guys have your pens and your
papers.
Right?
Unless you're like Imam Buhari or Imam Shafiya,
or Imam Bukhanefa,
that's just able to take everything in,
the moment they hear it, then you're okay
not to write it down.
Brothers and sisters,
these benefits that we write down, right, will
come in handy maybe 10, 15 years down
the line.
I still go back to benefits that I
wrote
maybe 10 years ago when I was seeking
knowledge
and because I need it now,
I search on my phone because of Icloud,
right? I have Icloud.
Up until recently, I was making Dua for
Steve Jobs that Allah guides him to Islam.
You guys have Steve Jobs?
And one time I said in a lecture,
someone put his hand up and said,
just to let you know,
Steve Jobs passed away.
Are you allowed to make du'a for someone
who has passed away? Upon kufr? No.
I was making dua for him all the
way up until recently.
Right? Why was I making dua for this
non Muslim
that Allah guides him to Islam? It's because
of these iPhones.
The notes, you know, the notes on iPhones
ask for Galaxy guys, I have no interest
and I don't know anything about it.
Right?
I'm a loyal Apple fan.
Right? That's the only phone I've ever had
since these phones came into existence, and I
will continue to have it, and that's not
free promotion for Apple.
So Mohandas needs to cut out.
Does that make sense?
These notes that we write down, even if
you lose your phone, you can what? Retrieve
everything that you had on your phone by
way of Icloud.
Right? I've got pages on there, benefits from
2,016,
2015, 2014,
all the way up until this year.
And every now and again I go through
it and I take it
out The poet he said,
It is a must, the Talib.
The student, he carries with him scrap paper.
He writes when he rides and he writes
when he walks. This is a serious student
of knowledge
or someone who really wants to improve himself
and take away benefit.
Because we're living in the 21st century, I
changed it up a little bit
so that it can be relevant and relatable.
Instead of saying Kunashin, I changed it to
it's a fresh way of saying iPad,
instead of Kunashin,
so it rhymes.
Meaning we carry with us these gadgets, and
we note down the benefits whenever we hear
it, because no one's gonna carry scrap paper
with them today,
right?
On the notes and ask for Galaxy. I
don't know what you guys have on there.
Write down whenever you hear these benefits,
and then later on, what do you do?
You collect like for like benefits, and you
put them all somewhere,
right?
So the first benefit my brothers and my
sisters, everything that you see taking place happens
for a reason.
Right?
Khadir
he put a hole in that ship.
There was a reason for it.
Right?
This is just
a very, very small example of
why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allows things to
take place,
which we at times may not be able
to comprehend.
Likewise, the fact that he took the life
of this young man,
and also why he decided to straighten up
this wall,
even though he could have easily
chosen not to, does that make sense my
brothers and my sisters?
So if this is happening now between
2 human beings, Khadr and
Musa,
and he's telling him after he's done all
of this that there is a reason for
it,
What does that show us, my brothers and
my sisters, when we go through calamities and
hardships?
You may not see the good in it,
my brothers and my sisters.
Wallakin.
Wallahuyaalamuantum
lataalamoon.
Allah knows and you don't know, my brothers
and my sisters.
Right?
In the month of Ramadan, I went to
visit one of my friends.
And then his mother walked in and she
said, Muhammad, I'm not fasting today.
I said to auntie, why are you not
fasting today?
She said, because I'm angry with Allah.
I'm not exaggerating. She said, I am angry
with Allah
Why is she angry with Allah
Right. Even though normally she carries out acts
of worship,
from the appearance, she's trying her utmost best.
But the reason why she said she's angry
with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is because of
all of the different trials and hardships that
her children are going through. She's old enough
to be the grandmother of some of us,
my brothers and my sisters.
She has grandchildren.
Does that make sense? She has grandchildren.
Some of our children are going through hardships
and difficulties in their marriages.
Because even though I pray,
I fast,
right?
Why is Allah making me go through all
of this? I reminded her,
auntie, you know this house that we're sitting
in? It is the biggest house that I
have visited here in Leicester.
That I've personally visited, of course, there might
be bigger houses that are a lot more
spacious, but it's the biggest house that I've
personally entered into
here
in Lhasa.
I said, auntie, I don't think you've ever
woken up,
except that there was food in your fridge,
and if there isn't food in your fridge,
you have the finance to go and buy
food.
You have all of this, right? And you're
upset at Allah
Right.
This life is a life of what? Test
and trials.
You can't expect to
have a life that is going to be
filled with
flowers and bliss and no. There are trials
and tribulations,
right?
The most severely tested people are who? The
Prophets, those like them and then those that
are like them
One is tested in accordance to how much
he adheres to his religion.
Ayub alaihis salat wa sams on time I
gave a Khutba on this, right? I think
it was last week in Coventry,
and we extrapolated some benefits from the story
of Aayb alaihis salat wa sama in the
Quran.
Some of the scholars of tafsir, they say
after,
I believe it was 60
years of
living a life of
extravagance.
Allah gave him so much.
Right? He had so much, my brothers and
my sisters.
Children, wealth, health,
servants,
right? And then Allah
took all of that away from him,
so quickly,
right?
SubhanAllah. First he lost his wealth, then he
lost his children,
right?
And then brothers and sisters, he lost his
health.
It didn't stop there. Everyone abandoned him, forsaked
him,
except his wife and some of the Mufassirun,
they mentioned 2 of his relatives that would
come and visit him from time to time.
The reason why they abandoned him because of
this strong smell,
this odor
that would come out of his body due
to the
skin disorder that he was suffering from.
Right?
And even then he wasn't ungrateful.
Right? He wasn't ungrateful.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi was telling me, told
us what?
Look at those who have less than you.
Don't look at those who have more. That
will make you so much more thankful.
Some of us are complaining about the council
flat, brothers and sisters.
Many don't even have a roof over their
heads. Look at what's happening
in Syria and Turkey,
right? Well, like one of the uncles that
I was with
after the Jum'ah went to eat,
he was saying that he went,
right, and he visited
what was happening there, because even though they're
living in very difficult circumstances,
one thing I took away is that they
have Yaqeen,
have certainty of Allah
Right?
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
Whenever you begin to,
right, feel as if you're being deprived, look
at those who are less fortunate
than you. Everything that happens, my brothers and
my sisters, happens for a reason. Let me
ask all a question.
How many a time have we been in
a situation
where we thought that this was the best
thing for us?
To make it even more clear, I'll give
the example that every single one of you
guys can relate to.
Right? There's this sister that you so badly
want,
Princess Charming.
You're telling yourself, there isn't a sister
on the face of this earth that is
better for me than,
this lady here,
right?
Bushra,
right?
And this lady here,
you try everything in your power now to
acquire this lady to get married to her,
And then to make things even worse,
right? It's not happening, right? It's not happening.
To make things even worse,
your best friend
comes and he snatches her from under your
nose.
Does it happen with ashadabada, my brothers and
my sisters?
Tell you guys a similar story that one
time I came across.
There was a brother who asked for their
sister's hand in marriage.
As the wedding day was getting closer and
closer,
he one time came to the house, and
he saw her sister walking past.
Guess what?
He dropped the sister that he wanted to
marry, and he said, I want to get
married to her sister.
This girl is, of course, heartbroken. What did
she do? She went to a magician in
order to have a magic spell done on
him,
right?
The ghayra, the jealousy led to her now
falling into Al Kufr,
magic,
right?
Allah tells us his kufr and swords al
baqarah.
Right?
She of course didn't think to herself, you
know what? This is probably happening
because Allah has got something better in store
for me. No.
That was in the case, I want him,
he's not going after my sister.
Right? That's serious, my brothers and my sisters.
Anyways, going back to the incident I was
relating.
You're heartbroken.
You really wanted you really badly wanted bushra.
It didn't work out for you.
Years go by, Allah
blesses you with a lady
that has qualities and characteristics that the mind
can't imagine.
Right?
This is when you say, if that didn't
happen, I wouldn't have this today.
There are brothers that I know, they will
say, Wallahi, the divorce that they went through
was the best ever thing that ever happened
to their lives.
Right? Because you could have indeed been in
a more difficult situation, especially if you had
children
with that lady that you divorced.
How many cases do I know? Right? They're
battling out in court over custody rights.
She just wants to rinse him.
She knows that a law is on her
side,
but I want him to suffer.
Let him spend all of these 1,000
just so
she can throw a dagger through him.
When you went through a divorce, there's no
children there,
everything happens for a reason,
Allah protects us from a lot of evil,
my brothers and my sisters, and at times
we don't actually see it.
Right?
Even ibnutayin my brothers
and my sisters,
he says
If it wasn't for these trials and these
difficulties and the hardships, adversities that come our
way,
then the servant would be afflicted with,
right,
the disease of arrogance, and I don't think
any of us want to meet Allah Azzawajal
with arrogance, even a mustard grain of arrogance
A mustard grain of kibr that you have
in your heart, you know, entering the jannah,
as the messenger
said. He says the diseases of kibr,
self amazement,
even firaouni characteristics
and traits,
and hardness of the heart, that which will
be the cause
of him being destroyed in this dunya before
the hereafter. And then he says,
wamin rahmati arhamir Rahimeen.
From the mercy of the Most Merciful upon
this individual,
right,
that Allah causes him to go through all
of these hardships and difficulties. How is rahma?
You're probably thinking to yourself.
Right?
Right?
In order to keep your feet on the
ground, brothers and sisters,
To keep us humble, to Allah, it's a
huge reminder.
Does that make sense? It is a huge
reminder.
Right? To keep us on the ground.
How many a time have I seen people
who are filthy rich,
Right? You sit down with him and you
feel so small when the way he's speaking
to you and speaking about you or the
way he's,
you
know, portraying himself,
and then he ends up losing everything.
He's sending me a GoFundMe page, please Akhi,
I'm in a difficult situation.
Put this on your social media.
Right? I'm thinking to myself, subhanAllah, you know.
More you begin to
read about some of these gems and pearls
of the great scholars, like this one, subhanAllah.
Begin to realize why Allah
may choose certain things for others.
Right?
So like we said my brothers and my
sisters, the first is what
Everything
happens for a reason.
This is just a small example of
this point that we're trying to make, this
Qissa of Khadir if
you're struggling now to understand,
right, why Khadir
took this decision
to kill this young man,
but then he informed Musa
for the reason why,
right, apply the same now,
right,
for everything else.
I wouldn't be sitting here, my brothers and
my sisters, if my friend wasn't shot, and
Allah knows best.
Right?
When I sometimes contemplate and reflect on
the occurrences
across 20 years
I was in London,
right? A friend of mine was shot,
and I was at his funeral,
You guys heard of Universal
TV? Somalis,
Universal TV, very well known TV channel.
Happened to come to this funeral,
and it recorded me while I was crying.
By Maghrib time, my mother is receiving phone
calls
from across the world. Oh, was your child
part of this gang?
Was he part of this gang?
And then I got pulled into the office,
Taal,
come sit down, Muhammad.
And they told me to watch myself on
the news.
Right? And this is when they took the
decision to move me out
to Lestar.
When this happened, my brothers and my sisters,
it was the reason why so many brothers
left the streets.
Many went to Egypt.
Some went to Medina. Some moved out.
Everything happens for a reason.
Even though from the apparent brothers and sisters,
it appears as if,
how can Allah allow someone who's so young
to be killed in such a brutal way?
Right?
Everything happens for a reason. Another example,
car crash.
A mother and her 3 children,
she's the only one that comes out alive,
and the rest of these young children who
still haven't
experienced life,
they've passed away.
The atheist will ask,
right?
If there's really a God, why is he
allowing this to take place?
Atheists always ask this question,
right?
The problem of evil they call it, which
is discussed in university settings.
Why didn't God stop this from taking place?
My brothers and my sisters, who can answer
this question for me?
Everything happens for a reason, but I want
a more
of a deeper answer
based on what we just took.
Guys, the story of Musa and this incident
now of these 3 children dying in a
car crash,
and the only one that lives is the
mother
right?
The story of when Musa
saw Khadr
killing this young man? What was the reasoning
behind it? The Prophet told us, walauaasha,
laarhaqabawahi
Had he lived, he would have been the
reason as to why they started violating against
the laws of Allah
You never know. Allah could have been protecting
his mother from all the trouble that these
3 kids would have brought her later on
down the line. Agreed?
You know how many times I've heard a
parent say, right, I wish I never had
you as a child
the parent is extremely worried,
what happened to my child, he's still not
home yet at 12 AM,
1 AM he's not home
Has he been nicked? Has he been taken
by the police? What's happened to him? Is
he alive? Is he not?
The parent can't go to sleep peacefully,
years go past like that,
and that is because the child has become
so astray.
All that trouble,
right? That the parent has to go through.
Allah could have been protecting his lady from
that, right?
Everything happens for a reason, my brothers and
my sisters.
Right? There's a sheikh that I know, that
taught Sheikh Abu Sam, and Sheikh Abu Sam
was telling me,
right, that his Sheikh actually ran away from
a war zone in Africa, and then when
he came to Medina, he became a Sheikh
in the Haram.
The African Sheikh, he's teaching the Arabs.
Right?
Imagine that, brothers and sisters, that war was
the reason why it comes there.
A lot of us here, my brothers and
my sisters, where are our parents from?
They are from countries,
right,
that were struck with wars afterwards, are they
still Catholic?
Do you guys agree with that?
I'm looking at some of our nationalities
here
right? They went through wars,
and because of the war, you moved,
and now you live here,
you're making good money, you're educating yourself and
your children,
they are going to now become professionals, and
you're helping out your brothers and sisters when
you send money back home to them, right?
Right? Do we not send money home?
Exactly.
Allah
works in the most amazing of ways, we
don't see it. You probably think in this
of all these wars that are taking place.
Why?
You will understand later why.
That's the first benefit, my brothers and my
sister, we're going to take
a 5 minute break, and then we'll take
the remaining 14, Insha Allahu Ta'ala, right after.
Yeah? It is 24 past, please brothers, 5
minutes.
If you need to do star jumps quickly,
stand up,
Get the blood circulating again, and then we're
gonna take the remaining 14, insha Allahu Ta'ala.
That will perhaps help us in this world
before the hereafter.
What was the first benefit, brothers?
Everything happens for a reason.
Everything happens for a reason.
The aqdar
that which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has decreed,
right,
is at times that which you can't point
to comprehension.
Only later on it might appear to you
that, subhanAllah, if that didn't happen, I wouldn't
have this today.
So let
Allah
Right? Execute.
That which he has decreed for us.
Right? And be patient. Be someone, my brothers
and my sisters, who is patient.
And with patience Allah
will open doors
that the mind couldn't imagine.
Right.
Number 2 my brothers and my sisters, is
not being hasty in passing judgments,
Right. Not being hasty
in passing out judgments.
Musa
more than once
contested
that which
Khadir
did, right?
How could you do this?
Right?
They allowed you to board
the ship
without taking a payment from you, and then
you decided to fault the
ship that you're on
Why would you do that?
And then after he said to him, after
he killed that young man, indeed, what you're
doing is so evil.
Right?
I think this is very, very important, my
brothers and my sisters, especially for someone
who is now starting their journey in seeking
knowledge.
You learn a little bit here and there,
what happens, you begin to think that you
are Sheikh al Islam.
Whatever you have studied is either that way
or the highway,
agreed?
Not realizing that at times there are
different angles that people look at things,
different perspectives,
all that which is required of you is
to ask why?
What is your perspective on this?
It says,
obey the nose. When we was in the
car,
right? I'm gonna read that what the brother
messaged me, right?
Out of the blue, I haven't spoken to
his brother for months
out of the blue, he messaged me the
following,
What
is wrong with you
so and so?
That's the first thing I get, what is
wrong with you?
When I read it out to his father,
he was in shock, because what did you
do?
He says to me, rectify your methodology
and fear Allah
because you're going to meet Allah
tomorrow,
and then you will be presented your actions.
Up until now I don't know what he's
talking about
Right?
And he says, the people are looking at
you the same way
one sits in front of his Sheikh.
They are taking
from you that which you are doing with
the actions up until now. I have no
idea what he's talking about.
Tell you my brothers and my sisters, what
have I done?
Am I someone who
is perfect? No, I'm going to make mistakes,
right?
At times I'm going to fall short, At
least have a conversation with me.
There are certain issues, my brothers and my
sisters,
right, that are not carved in stone.
Sometimes
some of us may see an individual,
right, or someone in Dawah
making a particular move.
He has a certain judgment call.
He sees things a certain way. I'm not
talking about Al Musa Lamat,
but it is something that is open for
interpretation.
How we're going to maybe carry this out.
He sees that to be
better than maybe what you might think, and
he has his reasons for it.
And you're thinking to yourself, how is this
individual behaving like this? Ask him why,
Right?
Don't just take whatever
you see as a perspective,
right?
Like
gospel as they say.
And then I said to him,
what happened? Wallahi, I was not planning on
mentioning this today in the class.
Right. But I've been seeing this
reoccur,
right,
time and time again with brothers who have
gone abroad, they're seeking knowledge,
they've learned a little bit here and there,
and now they've become extremely opinionated
at that which other brothers are doing back
home.
I'm not saying you can't have your own
view, you are entitled to whatever view you
want,
but the moment start the moment now that
you start making all of these negative remarks
about
someone who might be a lot more senior
than you or a lot more experienced than
you. Right?
And you start maybe even defaming him.
Right?
Because you've not understood.
Maybe 4 or 5 brothers that I've engaged
with
over the last couple of weeks,
after
having a conversation with them
and showing them
the perspective of others, they said, oh, SubhanAllah,
you're right.
So I said to his brother,
what happened?
The response I get was, ahiwala, we need
to have a sit down
or a call.
Insha'Allah.
They brother Aqsa, just tell me what was
the issue?
And then I explain to Mahi.
If you want to maybe put forth a
particular view or a perspective,
then put it forth in a manner that
is what, befitting.
And they said, Sahay, I'm sorry. I should
have approached it better. I'm going to call
you one of these days, zakhi, inshallah.
And then I sent him a screenshot of
the second benefit
that I wanted
to mention today.
Right.
And then later on, it was about some
picture that he saw. Someone took a selfie
with me,
right? As many people do. You guys know
this.
Sometimes someone says, how can I take picture
with you? I don't want to say no
to the brother.
I don't know what that brother is upon.
He could be a drug dealer.
He could be anything
does that make sense?
Am I wrong to say this? He could
be a drug dealer, am I going to
ask him? Okay, so what do you do
from the moment you wake up?
Or which message did you go to?
Yaqi, you like, there there's a lot of
things that happen.
Right?
Just ask
and learn
to say why
or what is your reasoning for this? Don't
be mustaajil.
In Samani, they call it Saif Labut,
when the guy just takes out what? His
sword, and he starts cussing people, he starts
cutting people up take it
easy
As the Poet says, take it easy.
Don't be hasty in placing blame on your
brother.
Perhaps he might have an excuse
that you are not aware of,
right?
So what I wrote down here,
you know, sometimes I just get these
thoughts,
you may enter into a discussion
with ideas that you already set on.
Right?
You are not someone who's looking to maybe
improvise or explore
the other perspectives that are out there,
and this is a problem for a student
of knowledge, you never learn like that.
If you just hear one thing, you take
it as gospel,
you carve it into stone, this is what
I'm going to follow,
and you're not open to maybe improvising some
of these issues that are open for this
interpretation. I'm not talking about matters of aqid
that are what?
From the or soul of our religion.
We're talking about things that are open for
interpretation.
You know the scholars of the past, they
would say
If you want to know the mistake of
your Sheikh, then go and sit elsewhere.
Perhaps he might give you a perspective on
something that you weren't previously aware of.
Right? And when you do behave like this,
and you start maybe approaching the matter in
this very hasty way,
that person will just look at you and
think, this guy is just another rookie,
right, inexperienced,
immature,
right, who's lacking basic etiquettes.
Does that make sense to my brothers and
my sisters?
That's why in a voice note, I forward
I forward it to this brother that I
sent to another
couple of brothers.
I'm not saying you can't have a view.
Just ask for the perspective of others. That's
the basic right that he has over you
you've just started seeking knowledge right now you've
gone abroad you've heard a couple of perspectives
right just ask
Likewise, at times, my brothers and my sisters,
our parents may ask us to do certain
things,
and you're thinking, Dear Zabakhiri,
you know, my parent here is back home,
or he comes from back home,
Somalia or Pakistan, he's out of date or
he's out of touch with reality.
One thing you'll never be able to get
over those who are older than you, especially
your parents, is experience.
Not that I'm saying everything they say is
going to be
100% right or always in line with what
Allah, azza wa jay, blessed Allah alaihi wa
sallam said, but they have experience over you,
even at times when it comes to marriage.
They may say something to you that,
you know,
doesn't make sense to you.
And you might be someone who is knowledgeable,
right? You're not seeing that perspective.
It's just important to just
lend it to your ear. Take it seriously,
he's got experience over you.
Alright.
Benefit number 3, my brothers and my sisters.
What was number 1?
Everything happens, phrase number 2.
Don't be hasty in passing out judgments.
Take it easy.
Right?
Benefit number 3,
right?
After he killed a boy, you've killed an
innocent soul?
Musa Alaihi Wasallam said to Khadir, you've indeed
done something that is extremely evil. He's saying
this to the teacher.
Right?
What do we take from this my brothers
and my sisters, taking an innocent life is
something that is extremely,
extremely, extremely evil. It's not a light matter.
Right?
I'm sure a lot of us, my brothers
and my sisters,
we saw a video of that rapper called
DJ Khaled, when he went to the Kaaba.
Upon seeing the Kaaba, what was his reaction
my brothers and my sisters?
Manyakhvirooni,
What happened the moment he saw Kaaba?
He began to cry. Why you guys acting
like I don't know?
He began to cry, he burst into tears.
Looking at
the house of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
This man, my brothers and my sisters, who's
openly involved in sin, making music videos upon
seeing the Kaaba,
he broke down into tears.
Right?
What did the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam
tell us?
You guys seen the Kaaba?
Would anyone ever think about punching the Kaaba,
or striking the Kaaba, or looking to dismantle
the house of Allah
Even if your close friend tried to do
that,
right? You're going to take him out.
Right? This person is not in his right
mind, the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying
that the Kaaba is destroyed
and then each part of the Kaaba is
removed, imagine now the Kaaba being destroyed,
right?
That crane is brought and it is smashed
and then each part is moved out of
the haram,
it's been walked out with,
this is still not as bad as taking
the life of a Muslim.
Why do you have Muslims
killing and stabbing one another?
That is because they haven't understood,
right? The sanctity
of a human being
that claims La ilaha illallah. I'll tell you
guys something my brothers and my sisters, right,
that the mister Rasam told us.
If 2 Muslims they square up to one
another
with their swords or with their weapons,
Fal Qatinu and Maqtulufinar,
both the killer and the one killed is
in a hellfire,
both of them are in a hellfire.
So companions, they ask, we understand the one
who killed, what about the one who was
killed?
Next time you think about carrying a weapon,
right,
to square up to your Muslim brother, remember
this hadith,
Both the killer and the killed is in
the Hawfiyah.
So he asked why?
I understand the one who was killed, but
what about the one who was killed the
one who killed isn't alpha, what about the
one who was killed?
Messenger salaali is the one that he say,
He was extremely eager in wanting to take
the life of the killer.
Isn't this exactly what he wanted to do
when he squared up to him with a
knife or with a weapon?
Except that a killer got there first, Sahih.
He had that firm determination
to carry out the act.
So both of them are in the Hellfire
the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is telling us,
right?
We take it so lightly.
Right?
Something so trivial in our eyes.
Number 4, my brothers and my sisters.
What we learn from this, my brothers and
my sisters, is weighing the pros and the
cons,
and taking the lesser of the 2 evils,
right? Write down, taking the lesser of the
2 evils,
Taking the lesser of the 2 evils.
Khadir alaihis salatu wasalam was inspired, he had
revelation sent down upon him
to take the life of this young child,
Sahih,
and that is because he knew
what he would do when growing older.
What was going to happen for those who
are paying attention earlier?
Once he grows older, what is he going
to do?
He's going to disbelieve and also his parents,
because of how much they love him, they're
going to follow him into this belief, Sahih.
Which one is worse?
What Khadir
done? Or this child now growing older, and
then being the reason why another 2 Muslims
they renegade,
which one's worse?
Allah says
being trialed in your religion,
walking on the face of this earth, and
then your religion has been trialed is far
worse than
having your soul taken away from you. And
of course, my brothers and my sisters,
no one here can go and just take
a life because I think when he becomes
older,
he's going to do x, y, and z.
No, my brother, you're not a Prophet.
Just in case someone is thinking that he
should use the story of Khadir
to take the life of someone who's causing
havoc on the face of this earth.
That's not your right, my friend.
Also just in case we have channel 4,
I want to take things out of context.
Right? Are you guys with
me? Taking the lesser of the 2 evils,
this is a very important legal maxim.
Right?
And we learned this in Qawad Al Fakhir,
Weighing the pros and the cons, sometimes you're
in a predicament
where you have 2 evils and you have
to pick 1 of them. What do you
do? The Sharia says
that you have to take the lesser of
the 2 evils. I'll give you guys a
couple of examples insha Allahu Ta'ala that I
didn't go through
last week in Dabi because I ran out
of time.
1st example that I want to give you
guys, and I want you guys to give
me the answer.
I taking a lot of different topics here,
and with the Quran, you could do that.
Right?
Comes in.
You have a masjid,
and they have this imam that smokes outside.
As soon as he leaves, as soon as
he finishes leading his side, he goes outside
and starts smoking.
You have the imam and the masjid,
may Allah protect our imam, Sheikh Mohammed. Imagine,
after finishing a salah, he's standing there, you
know.
No. I don't think anyone will respect him
after that. Right? So imagine now you have
the imam of a masjid.
Maybe I shouldn't use that as an example.
Astaghfirullah, it's too be late. But the imam
goes outside,
and then he what? He starts smoking.
Right?
To make it even worse, he lights up
some weed, and he starts smoking weed outside.
And this is actually one of the example
the scholars mentioned that I took from.
Under this Ka'id, I wanna explain in Qawaida
fakhir.
Right?
However, his tribe, they run the masjid
and they are what?
Qabaliyun
The individuals who are fanatic
over the tribe, they're not going to have
this individual now being taken out.
He might have Quran, mashaAllah, he's got a
lovely voice, but somebody like that, is it
befitting for him to be reading a salah?
Not at all, especially if he's doing open
sin, right?
There are
another group of individuals who come to the
Masjid,
and they request for him to be removed,
right?
Him being removed from the Masjid is either
going to cause a war in the Masjid,
or is going to lead to the Masjid
being closed down because the authorities are about
to get involved.
So now, let me put forth the situation,
you have someone who's leading the salah
that smokes,
and does sins openly, the moment he finishes
with his prayer,
leading the Muslimen.
You've got that,
right? You can't remove him except by causing
a war in the Masjid, which may potentially
lead to bloodshed,
or the house of Allah Azawajal
being closed down,
because of this fiasco that is going to
place
due to the authorities getting involved.
What should we do here, guys?
Shall we leave him in place or should
we start a war? Or you'll get Keep
him.
Keep him.
It's the lesser of
the 2 evils.
The sky that comes in extremely extremely handy.
Here's the predicament, we don't have a third
option.
Jamil.
Right? Even less than the evil, even more.
Right? Akhiv, you're gonna sin. Go and do
it in private.
Stop smoking weed outside of the masjid.
Does that make sense?
Otherwise, it can get very boring.
A father has a daughter.
2 people they ask for a hand in
marriage.
Right?
One of them has the correct aqeedah.
However,
he falls into some haram.
Right?
Even though he has the correct akhida, and,
you know, he follows the sunnah of the
best generally speaking,
however, he has certain sins that he carries
out.
Another, my brothers and my sisters, or the
other person that asked for his daughter's hand
in marriage,
he's someone who propagates innovation,
However, he doesn't carry out these sins,
right?
And the situation is that you have to
pick 1 of the 2.
Which one should I give my daughter to?
1st.
Why the first?
This guy has,
oh, he's a nice, he's etiquette, but he
just has but
he has good etiquette and manners. And he
doesn't do any of these haram things that
the person upon to hate does it, or
akhida does?
Which one is was
or sins?
Good.
Abdulai ibn Abbas
he said,
Innovation is more beloved to Iblis than what?
Than sinning.
Why is that?
Because the person who's doing bidah, innovations in
the deen, he thinks he's getting closer to
Allah.
But the guy who sins,
right? He'll say to, please make dua for
me, man. Even the guy who's sleeping around,
committing haram, your adviser goes, please.
I'm sorry.
May Allah forgive me.
But the other guy doesn't.
Agreed?
Right? And this guy is just going to
consist, and he's going to continue.
Right? So this is one of the example
that the ulama mentioned, like
Another example, oh, I love this.
Lying, is it Haram?
Yes. Type.
There is someone inside of your house that
some gangsters are trying to kill.
He's hiding inside of your house, they come
knocking on your door, They were like, where's
Muhammad?
Should you lie here?
Yes. Because if you don't lie, they're going
to take his life. Which one's worse? Them
taking his life or you lying?
No.
Without a shadow of a doubt. This is
what?
Are
you gonna hand him over? I'm not allowed
to lie.
Take his life.
Someone is praying,
and then the samosas and the
and also the other nice foods have been
placed in front of him while he's praying.
Right?
And now he really badly wants to pray,
wants to eat this.
Which is going to cause his Khushuah, you
know, his concentration in the salah,
to disappear, to diminish.
However,
he has to pray right now, otherwise, the
time of the salah
is going to finish.
Which one's more important, praying on time,
or you now praying without Khushuah?
Because generally speaking, what did the messenger tell
us?
Right? If the time of the salah kicks
in, but then the dinner is presented,
which one do you do? You eat first,
the messengers told us, and then you go
and pray. But there's still time left. But
now there's only a little bit of time
left, and you have to pray on time,
otherwise the time is going to finish.
But you are praying now,
while your stomach is rumbling.
Which one is the lesser of the 2
evil for you now to pray without
or for you to pray outside of his
time?
Is less?
Without kushu.
Without kushu is the lesser of the 2
evils.
Does that make sense? Because your salah is
so valid,
except now, that you're doing it in his
proper time, delaying the salah to outside of
his time,
is very dangerous guys, it's actually from the
major sins.
Right? It's actually from the major sins.
Praying whenever you want, I'm going to pray
when I get home.
9 to 5 there are 3 prayers,
that you might have to pray, especially in
the winter, agreed?
Dhuhr, Asir and Maghrib,
so He says, I'm going to pray when
I get home, my brother says, Hajjalaij, it's
actually from a major sense to delay all
of that prayers till after when I get
home.
Right? This is serious sin,
Tlaib.
And I was going to mention this, but
we have little kids here.
Nima asked you guys a question.
Eating najasa, is it allowed?
Impurities.
Eating najasa is allowed?
No.
But now my brothers and my sisters, you're
in a situation where you're going to
lose life.
I remember there was a situation where
Yeah.
There was a situation that was presented where
they done a, a heart implant
to someone who's about to die, and the
only heart that they could find that would
function is the heart of a pig.
Otherwise, he's going to lose his life, nothing
else is going to work here. This is
what the doctors
concluded with.
Hey, brothers and sisters with me.
Heart of
a
pig
brothers,
Khazir
is haram, even his heart is haram,
but now his heart is going to save
a life.
Which one is the lesser of the 2
evils, to use the heart of a pig
or to allow this life to
be lost?
It's haram, but to save a life. Agreed?
This example that is mentioned by I
think is very very important and very relevant
as well.
For anyone who might feel
make sure you get the other benefits online.
No? Example my brothers and my sisters,
someone who was in a haram relationship,
He was carrying out a zina.
Right?
We're talking about someone who,
right,
had the means to carry out this major
sin,
and then he separated away from
being in this haram relationship.
However, he finds himself in a predicament where
his sexual desires spiral out of control,
and this individual has previously tried and not
some random individual goes, Wallahi, I think I'm
going to fall into zinag, I'm not talking
about that one, we're talking about someone what
the means,
right? This individual now, wala, is getting
very very tempted and has because of what
he was falling into before
to commit this haram.
And he has to relieve his desires,
otherwise he may fall into a zina.
That's what we're talking about.
Alright.
And also this is one of the more
correct views of Imam Ahmed Ahmed Ahmed
they talk about how if this one is
this in this predicament of,
he's going to fall into a zina,
however, that which may prevent him from a
zina is what?
Right? Which means *
Which one is worse my brothers and my
sisters?
A zina or the other zina?
And by the way brothers and sisters, no
one take this out of context. We are
talking about someone who's going to fall into
haram, he was falling into haram, and now
he stayed away from it, and now it's
getting very tempting.
Not just some random individual who, oh, Allah,
I think, oh, no, we're not talking about
that.
He has to what he are in this
case, lesser of the 2 evils.
What's number 4 guys?
Taking the lesser of the 2 evils. We
just took some kha'id alfakhi as well. Number
5 now, my brothers and my sisters.
Number 5.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protects your off
Allah protects your offspring through your righteousness.
Alright.
Allah
will protect your offspring my brothers and my
sisters through your righteousness.
What's my evidence?
The 3rd incident,
when he saw that wall that was on
the verge of collapsing,
straighten
it up, and what did Allah
say? That is because their father was righteous.
So Allah wanted to protect them and also
their wealth, Sahih.
Why was this mentioned? To give us a
huge lesson.
They say that his name was Kasih, this
righteous man.
And he was from the righteous.
SubhanAllah.
Some of the scholars, they mentioned that,
that this righteous man, my brothers and my
sisters,
was
7th generation
ago,
he was the father of the 7 generations
ago,
like he was there as a father, he
had children, and then they had children, and
then and these guys were 7th generation.
And because of his righteousness they were protected.
Because of his righteousness they were protected, SubhanAllah.
Alad Khuliha my brothers and my sisters,
right? I had an email the other day,
of a sister saying to me, where did
you study?
I really want to do Tarbiah of my
child, I'm getting very worried about him, and
then she tells me that her child is
only 2 years of age.
It's like masha Allah, the mother is thinking
about her child, you know, even while it's
still at the age of 2,
right? And I thought I was good
but what can we actually do to work
towards
our children being righteous,
or Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala protecting them? I'll
give you guys 4 Quranic Advices,
4 Quranic
instructions from Allah
If you want your children to turn out
righteous,
take this my brothers and my sisters. Number
1.
Right?
Work on yourself.
We got drug dealers saying, my brothers and
my sisters, I want
a righteous lady, I don't want these girls
that I have as girlfriends.
Like drug dealers say this to me. Because
she's not wife material,
she's not wife material,
the drug dealer is telling me this,
Right? And he goes, I can't find a
good wife.
The pure are for the pure, and then
the evil, and the filthy are for the
filthy individuals.
Have you heard the saying before, you'll always
find the person that you're like?
Right? You work on yourself, my brothers and
my sisters,
you'll find someone that
is good as well
and then eventually the children
will grow up in a positive,
righteous environment
are your promises with me?
So what's the first one? Work on yourself.
When we talk about parenting, a lot of
the time, the young people, they switch off.
Brothers, the smart individual is the one who
thinks about
his children before he's even married.
What do I mean by that? By picking
the right spouse by picking the right spouse
that is you working towards the direction the
children
will go in, if you got some road
girl,
right? Let's just say you marry a road
girl,
where do you want your kids to grow
up in it, guys? Or how do you
want your kids to turn up?
That was the first one. Number 2 guys,
Right?
Pray around them.
Pray around them, brothers and sisters.
Kids as young as one and a half
years of age,
they know how to pray.
Anyone want to disagree with me?
One and a half years of age they
know how to pray. Of course not with
Khushu and
I'm gonna
do the ruku properly and the sujud, probably
no, but they know the actions of the
salah,
Where did they get it from?
They got it from their parents because the
parents pray in front of them. And even
even think about it, my brothers and my
sisters, the hikmah,
the wisdom behind why the messenger of salaat
is that
the most virtuous prayer.
Right? That one can pray
other than the obligatory prayers that you do
in the Masjid, is your sunnah prayers that
are at home.
Right? The sunnah prayers you prayed at home
is better, the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam
told us. Why? What are the hekim behind
it?
So the people in your household, they get
accustomed and used to seeing their father praying.
Does that make sense? They are visual learners.
And likewise, kids as one and a half
years of age, my brothers and my sisters,
they know how to access
YouTube videos.
Right?
They know how to access Omar and Hannah
brothers,
sisters.
They know how to access videos.
How even to go on Instagram and start
scrolling. Wallahi Arifun.
They know this and they pick this up,
are you promises with me?
You know when we hear the hadith,
this hadith, right, what the Messenger
said, every newborn is born upon the fitra,
meaning the natural disposition, Tohid.
But it's the parent that turns him into
a Jew, or into a Christian, or into
Majusi.
Is it only limited to these 3?
The child might even be turned into a
Netflix star,
or into what? A movie addict,
Right?
And that's simply because the parent is glued
to the TV.
Series after series, Hollywood, Bollywood, Somaliland, Khudar.
They're watching this all the time. The child
is watching his parents and they're going to
do the exact same thing.
That make
sense?
So what's the first one? Rectify yourself number
2.
Prayer amongst them, what's the evidence for it?
Surat Ibrahim.
Is that did I say it right in
the beginning?
No.
Oh Allah make me from those who established
the prayer,
and likewise make our children and offspring like
that as well.
Right?
Sometimes when you're quoting, it's different when you're
leading.
So that's the second one. 3rd one my
brothers and my sisters is to make dua
for them.
Right?
As Allah
mentioned. Also the verse is Surah Al Farhan,
To
To make du'a for them, the Allah makes
them righteous. The du'a of the parent is
accepted when he makes the first child.
And then my 4, my brothers and my
sisters seeking refuge
in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
from the accursed shaitan
with regards to our children.
Right?
Four things, if you want your children to
be rectified.
SubhanAllah, when you come across some of these
statements like,
whenever he used to pray at night and
then his child
would be sleeping, he would look at him,
and as he's looking at him he would
say,
because of you I'm praying at night,
right? And as he's reciting,
or should I say, as he's praying,
he would cry and then recite the statement
of Allah Azzawajal,
not while praying, sorry.
Right? While crying, he would recite the verse
of Allah
His father was righteous, so
he's rectifying himself, he's doing more,
just so Allah protects them later on.
Every time he wanted to pray the night
prayer, he would look at his child and
he would say
so
I'm only praying so Allah Azza wa ji
rectifies you,
and preserves you,
and then we recite the statement of Allah
Their father was righteous.
So whenever you begin to fear for your
children, my brothers and my sisters,
right?
Then do these four things.
Number 6, my brothers and my sisters
Yeah.
So Sheikh he asked what are things that
qualify or that cause you to become
Number 1, we shouldn't ever claim to be
righteous individuals, we should always do more, because
we don't know as to whether
it is being accepted or not. We worship
Allah between houth
and between hope and fear, so we do
Righteous Deeds as much as we can and
we hope for it to be accepted.
Yeah.
Number 6, my brothers and my sisters,
right, who is more virtuous, Khadr or Musa?
Musa
he's more virtuous,
right? Without a shadow of a doubt is
more virtuous than khadir,
however, he was humble,
right? And he went out to take knowledge
from someone who is less than him,
he was sent to Bani Israel, Musa
and still he sets out on a journey
now to go and take knowledge from Khadir
Alaihis salam. Oza number 6,
the humility of the one who's more virtuous,
right? With those who are less than Him,
or less virtuous than Him. This is very
very important, sometimes my brothers and my sisters,
pick up a little bit of knowledge and
we think we've made it,
right? Or we don't sit in gatherings because
we don't want the people to think that
we are in need,
right?
Sometimes the shaitan can creep in like that,
you're someone who leads a salah,
but now if you sit people are gonna
say, oh, the imam sitting there, why is
he leading?
When he's in need of this knowledge,
Number 7 my brothers and my sisters,
our number 6 was
the humility of someone who's more virtuous
with someone who is less than him.
Musa was more virtuous,
he took knowledge from that or from the
one who was more less than him.
Number 7,
you might be
so knowledgeable
in a particular field,
you are amazing in fiqh,
or you're amazing in qiraat, along Barik, we
have a lot of brothers
that are amazing in qiraat here.
Right?
Masha'Allah Tabarak Allah, you've become extremely knowledgeable in
the science of hadith, or in fiqh, or
in qira'at.
Right?
That shouldn't stop you now from taking knowledge
from someone whose expertise lie elsewhere.
Does that make sense?
This is very, very important here.
I'll give you guys an example that is
a lot more relatable, I'm now
a civil engineer,
right? And I've become not just an ordinary
civil engineer,
someone who's top of his game or someone
who's like the best of doctors,
you are only good at that.
The shaitan whispers, Akhi, you are a doctor,
you're so knowledgeable in this field or in
this sector, how can you go back to
school by sitting in a masjid?
Right?
Right? Back to square 1,
scraping your knees, taking knowledge, no man, that's
not for me.
Right? You're not better than Musa
and still he humbled himself to take
the expertise
that he didn't have from someone who did.
Does that make sense? Because there was that
wish Hadir
had, that Musa didn't. That's why he said
to him, Allah taught me things that you
are not aware of, and you have things
that I am not aware of.
Does that make sense?
And the messenger said,
Mujahid
told us about our ego, he said,
but 2 people don't learn, no one was
shy and the one who's arrogant.
Number 8, my brothers and my sisters,
number 8.
What also we benefit from this, my brothers
and my sisters, is having the correct manners
with
the teacher.
Right? How to address him?
Musa
when he was sent to Khadr,
how do you speak to him?
Is it possible for me now to accompany
you, so that I can learn that which
Allah has taught to you?
He didn't say to him, Listen, I've been
sent to you, give me the knowledge. No,
it wasn't like that. He humbled himself, Is
it possible for me now to acquire this
knowledge from you?
Right? You'll be surprised my brothers and my
sisters,
when we acquire knowledge, it's very different to
acquiring civil engineering or mathematics or whatever have
you.
Yousef ibn al Husayn
said,
With Eticus you will understand knowledge.
Adorning yourself and beautifying yourself with the best
of etiquette,
this is how you're going to what? Acquire
knowledge my brothers and my sisters, you will
need to humble yourself,
to address that teacher in the best possible
way.
Azhur I Rahmatullahi said, Can Abu Salaamat Al
Kufi, you married ibn Abbas?
He says Abu Salamat Al Kufi used to
have arguments with Abner Abbas.
Ibn Abbas, the cousin of the Prophet, who
had
so much knowledge with regards to the Quran,
the Prophet
made dua for him.
He says he was deprived of so much
knowledge,
Because of how he used to address ibn
Abbas.
As a teacher, my brothers and my say
it can get very irritating.
Right? If someone is not asking in the
most befitting of ways, right? You're thinking, when
is the guy gonna stop? When is he
gonna get out of my face?
As opposed to someone who's very gentle,
right? Who ask in a very very nice
way,
respectful.
Even if Na'adbal Bari says,
Someone who has good understanding, but he has
he's very bad at listening.
We have
2 ears and one tongue for a reason.
We've got 2 ears, so you can listen
more, so can speak less, that's why you
have one tongue,
not 2.
He says,
The good is not going to outweigh the
evil here, or the bad here.
Even Ibnujrej said, my brothers and my sisters,
Oh, this knowledge that I acquired from 'Atha,
it was only because I was nice and
gentle towards him.
Right?
Abdulai ibn Ahmad,
Right? You can find it in there, he
says,
used to like arguing with Abdullah ibn Abbas,
he used to hold back from giving him
knowledge,
As for another, he used to be so
nice to him, right? When asking questions, they
used to honor him with knowledge.
Number 9, my brothers and my sisters,
number 9. I'm nearly done, brothers and sisters.
I'm very very happy. I managed to 9,
still got another 7 8 minutes, inshallah to
Allah.
Musa alaihis salatu was someone sent to who?
An Israel. Right?
As he was teaching them, guiding them, directing
them,
right?
He chose to go and travel
over staying with them.
And I think this is very very important
my brothers and my sisters.
Sometimes what happens is you pick up a
lot of publicity,
everyone's singing your name,
you become big in the Dawa scene, or
you become somewhat big on TikTok,
a satanic app,
where you pick up so many followers so
quickly,
and people are listening, you're giving a reminder
every now and again,
right?
The opportunity presents itself now to go and
study,
might well be that you go abroad, but
then the shaitan, Zuzma'akhi, all these people need
you,
like you are some Messenger that has been
sent,
they need you, 'Akhir, don't go,
you're benefiting everyone,
right?
He left giving dawah to go and study.
And Allah
honors the individual who leaves
something for the sake of Allah or who
does something for the sake of Allah Azza
wa'a This is why I really really rate
brothers
Right? I really rate brothers even though
they got Dawah pumping.
And I told a couple of brothers this,
like one of those brothers
I mentioned him, his name is Sarab Dahad,
really commended him for this.
He was teaching, getting a lot of publicity,
people liked listening to him, Masjid will get
full,
and then he got accepted in Madinah, Oh
it's hard brothers and sisters, it's hard.
To leave all of that,
Allahu'ala will happen later on,
He left everything to go and study,
and I will guarantee you my brothers and
my sisters, you leave or you do that,
when you come back see how Allah will
honor you,
right? Don't let the Shaitan get to you
just because of a bit of publicity that
you picked up.
What was number 9?
I think you guys getting tired now.
He left Bani Israel that he was giving
dawah to, in order to go and seek
knowledge.
Number 10 my brothers and my sisters,
right?
The 'alim that Allah
teaches an individual is of 2 types.
A type of knowledge that you can acquire
with hard work,
and there's a type of knowledge that is
Wadladdunni
you have a whole
lot
Allah
gives it to whoever He wills, what's my
evidence for us? Us?
You might have all of that hard work,
you might read a lot,
right?
However, understanding
is granted
to you by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Right? There are people my brothers and my
sisters, they have,
right? The zeal and the energy to memorize.
They put in the time,
but it just doesn't seem to be happening
for them. So you need to beg
Allah, You Allah, allow me to memorize this.
Sheikh Khul Islam and Taym Rahmatullahahi,
my brothers and my sisters, at times he
would struggle to understand certain things,
and Ibn Nukayim says,
I witnessed Ibtimiya at times when he would
go through difficulty understanding certain issues,
right? Just couldn't understand, he would run to
Allah
to make tawbah,
and to ask Allah for forgiveness.
Zakalakhair.
And he would seek,
right?
Ease from Allah
to remove this difficulty from him.
You go straight to Allah, Sheikh Usamtaimi says,
Whoever works hard and he seeks aid and
assistance from Allah,
and he keeps asking Allah for forgiveness,
and he works hard,
It is a Master Allah gives him, that
which the mind can't imagine, But you have
to have, my brothers and my sisters,
a period,
right, of your day, and perhaps even the
last 3rd of the night, You Allah, I
am
skin. Right?
You Allah help me,
make me understand this, grant me beneficial knowledge,
and you will see those opening up, my
brothers and my sisters, that the mind couldn't
imagine.
I would love to talk about Maozimzim as
well and how this can, you know, open
up doors. Number 11, my brothers and my
sisters,
being patient with
the toughness and the roughness of the one
who's teaching you. And at times you might
even be rude,
right? What did Khadir alaihi salaat, I really
like this better, right? What did Khadir alaihi
salaat or some say to Musa?
Don't ask me anything, imagine if somebody said
that to you
imagine someone told you to shut up
I'm not going to say that Khader told
him to shut up. No. He didn't. But
imagine someone did. In other words, right, he
told him, mister, don't ask me anything.
Shh, keep quiet.
Up until I explain to
you. Right?
Well, brothers and sisters, I'm gonna quickly share
something with you guys, right? When I went
to Medina,
I heard about the most deadliest
memorizing
circles ever
in the whole Arabian Peninsula,
they make you read a hadith backwards.
And you let's just say you have a
poem, right? And the poem is 30 lines,
you have to go 30, 29, 28.
It tells you, Jump 5, come back 4,
go 3, up until you
It was hard, but that really solidifies, so
I went up to the Sheikh who runs
it
and at the time, Amraro, I'm just being
honest with you guys,
I gave off the impression as if I
was deserving to be in his Halakah
and he picked up on that. I was
like, Sheikh, I did this and I did
that, you know, can I come I'll be
able to hack it, don't worry Sheikh?
I said, Yeah? Alright.
Wallahi, brother, says he made me cry.
Absolutely
humiliated me in front of little kids.
Right?
He goes, Go memorize a 150 hadith from
Baruch Hu Muram and then come back to
me.
So I did that, I came back, I
was like, Yeah, now he's gonna let me
in. I was like, okay, come sit down,
he brings maybe an 11 year old, he
goes test him,
he wants to see that
as to whether
you're going to let your ego get in
the way.
He was like, test him.
I'm expecting, oh, he's gonna test my memory
or what the Hadith say it. How many
times has Abu Huray
narrated
a hadith and he's 150?
I
was like, Sheikh, I didn't come here for
this. I thought he was gonna test the
memorization,
because get out of here.
Come back next day, Wallahi, humiliation, till I
actually cried, brothers and sisters, in front of
the people, some random guy started speaking from
his ex students.
He was like, Akhay, you're not fit for
this, I can get out of here.
Imagine a student saying this to me,
But allahi, brothers and sisters, whenever I see
him now, I'll go kiss him on the
forehead.
Right? I go kiss him on the forehead
even though he's the only Sheikh in Medina
ever humiliated me.
Why? Because he taught me something that no
one else
did. He taught me how to solidify
a hadith when memorizing it. Even though now
my memory has become weak because you're busy.
But at the time,
right,
We would read like 200 hadith
like that.
You make a single mistake, you are restart
again,
at time.
So that's something well, he actually taught me
how to solidify,
that's something that I took from him that
no one else taught me. Maybe Sheikh Bukhari
will tell us whether in Mauritania they do
it better,
because they are the people of memorization in
Mauritania.
So you have to be patient brothers and
sisters, the poet he says,
Whoever's not patient for an hour, he will
drink ignorance for the rest of his life.
Wallahi, I used to walk with the Sheikh
in the Haram, people would give him dirty
looks.
Because why are you with him? Akhir, there's
so many teachers, go to them.
Why are you with him for?
And I'm like, yeah, why am I with
him?
Later on, I understood why.
And these guys, I was giving him dirty
looks, you know, one of those looks that
would walk away and
are people who we humiliated,
or he refused into his halakah,
who weren't patient.
Allah,
Sheikh Abdul Rahman Rashid, and he's the one
that reads on Sheikh Abdul Mas'in Abad, what
has been reading upon him for the last
10 years. The guy that you might hear
in the lessons is him.
And if you're not patient my brothers, you're
going to miss out a lot.
So bear it in mind when a shaykh
is tough with you, he has something that
you really need,
so be patient. Right?
Number 12, my brothers and my sisters, and
I mentioned this earlier, a big cause of
being able to remain patient
is to have an idea of what you're
getting yourself involved in.
Without even asking,
right? Without even asking, Musa
said, don't worry, I'm going to be patient.
You're gonna find me patient, don't worry, I'll
be with you.
How can you be patient about something that
you have no idea about?
Right?
It will make it so much more easy
for you. Normally
when they walk around, they're trying to tell
you something.
Are you brothers and sisters with me?
Right? When it comes to marriage, when it
comes to investment, you have to prepare yourself
mentally.
That marriage is not going to be all
rosy.
How many times we find marriage 1st month,
Oh, I think it's trying to jump ship,
the grass is greener on the other side.
I never signed up for this.
I had my single life,
I was enjoying myself,
and these guys are uneducated by marriage,
you have to tell you there's not I
remember my dad one time said to me,
listen, there's not a single house that is
free of problems,
is he wrong, brothers and sisters?
There's always going to be arguments,
So have that when you prepare, oh, now,
okay, it's happening, what my dad said. What
I took in the marriage course.
Me and Sheikha Muhammad Ali done, we told
them everything. We scared the living dailah out
of them, right? Just to give them worth
a heads up.
Likewise, investments, even Medina, brothers who go to
Medina, they say Britain has the biggest dropout
rate from Medina.
And I think you know why?
You know why?
When we go for Amra, where do we
stay? We stay in the Hilton, we stay
in Zam Zam, we stay in these big
hotels, Clock Tower, you think, oh, it's going
to the Haram in and out. That's what
life in Mecca and Medina is. It's a
very different story
when you actually go there to study.
So have some insight, ask. Likewise, when you
make an investment, ask.
Be ready that you could end up losing
everything. Are you going to be able to
be patient if you lose everything?
Number 13, my brothers and my sisters,
the rest are very quick anyway, inshallah.
Following the footsteps of Musa,
by it my brothers and my sisters you
will attain Aljannah.
You know, Sheikh Abshir, Sheikh did this,
Shaikh these are like literally less than 2
minutes, less than 2 minutes, they're very quickly.
Yeah.
You can acquire Jannah through Zakat, through Sadaqah,
through fasting, through praying, there are different doors
to Jannah.
But the messenger of Allah told us
He the messenger of Allah told us,
Whoever takes a path in seeking, not Allah
will make his path to Jannah a lot
easier.
My brothers and my sisters.
This will bring you utter joy and happiness,
right?
I receive on average maybe a 100 messages
either by email, Instagram and Twitter,
everyday. Problems after problems after problems.
And at times I say to myself,
well, the solution to all of this is
if we just studied a little bit.
Many people think that when you start seeking
knowledge, this is like a profession,
a career path,
right? And I only want to or I
only should seek knowledge if I'm trying to
become the next big Mufti.
Right? People choose engineering, they choose medicine, they
choose
mathematics, right?
And they look at seeking knowledge the same
way. It's not like that, my brothers and
my sisters, we can't function
in this world. We can't navigate around the
fitna to shubhahat and the fitna to sha'at,
except with beneficial knowledge.
You need
knowledge no matter who you are, whether you're
a doctor, a multimillionaire,
otherwise you may well find yourself in depression,
and joining that long list of people who
are messaging and saying, Brother, help me.
Brothers with blue ticks are messaging me on
Instagram, who are rappers, some even footballers.
I'm not gonna mention any names. They're saying,
Brother, I feel this, you know, emptiness. What
can I do?
Right?
Number 14, my brothers and my sisters,
Allah Azzawajal referred to those who are working
on the ship,
right, they would work on sea, right, as
miskeen
someone might still be,
right,
eligible for Zakah, because Allah mentioned, right?
From amongst those
8 that were mentioned are Masakin
He may have something that helps him get
by, but it's still not enough and he's
eligible for a Zakah,
right? So don't judge
a book by its cover, you don't know
what they're going through,
right? Oh, this guy has got this and
khalas, he must be all right, no.
Number 15, my brothers and my sisters,
there is a big Ka'id, just how we
learned a Ka'id
earlier, and know your Jews,
right?
Dealing or doing something that,
right?
Let me rephrase this one. Let me give
you guys an example to make it easier.
Let's just say there is 3, 4 people
who have invested into a company.
One of them
makes a move because he fears
that all of the money will be lost,
He makes a particular decision,
he saves it, but there is a small
loss.
The other 3 investors,
are they allowed to turn around and say,
Akhi, it's your fault that we made this
loss. No, he was protecting the wealth, so
he had to take that decision.
So sometimes you can do something with the
wealth of others
in order to
protect. What's my evidence what he did? He
put a hole in the ship
which
protected the rest of the ship from being
taken away from taken away by that tyrannical
oppressive ruler. That is benefit number 15, my
brothers and my sisters. 16 is
that if Allah
if you do something out of forgetfulness, you
can't hold him to account, Allah doesn't hold
him to account.
The first one was out of forgetfulness, right?
Some people, because he's done something out of
forgetment, they hold it for the next 10
years, and he telling you,
(3:5)
And last but not least, number 17,
saying, Insha'Allah, and that's exactly what he done
my brothers and my sisters,
or Insha'Allah Perhaps Allah
will protect you from some misfortune.
We did more than what we wanted to
go through. We done 17.
Alright? May Allah bless you.