Abu Taymiyyah – Coronavirus & Last 10 Days of Ramadan
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My brothers and my sisters,
another Ramadan,
another 30 days
that is about to get away.
Have we benefited from our Ramadan?
This is a question
we need to be asking ourselves
as the 21st night is about to kick
in.
We know from the famous hadith of
She said,
Ramadan. If the last 10 days kicked in
from the month of Ramadan,
the the messenger
would do the following.
He would tighten,
as they say in Somali,
his Or in Pakistani, they say the,
the lower garment.
The messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam would tie
it. This is as figurative speech,
meaning he would up his game.
And he would also bring life
to his night.
And he would also wake up his family.
His pure,
immense wives,
the greatest of women to walk on the
face of this earth.
So we know from this hadith, my brothers
and my sisters, that he used to up
his game. He used to do better than
that which he used to do in the
first twenty.
This reminder that I'm about to give my
brothers and my sisters,
I want also the sister
who is not going to be able to
fast and to pray
in these last 10 nights to really pay
attention to it, pay a lot of attention
to it.
And the reason why I say that is,
year in year out,
sisters are messaging and saying, what can I
do?
Because I can't pray and I can't fast.
I feel like I'm missing out.
There is a lot that you can do.
The brothers can benefit from it, and also
the sister who might not be able to
fast and and pray
can benefit immensely from this.
Why my brothers and my sisters do we
strive so hard
in the last 10?
When the horse is about to reach
the end of the race,
it exerts all of its efforts
in order to win the race.
So ibn al Josi says to you,
Don't let the horse be more intelligent, be
more smarter than
you.
If you didn't do well,
welcoming the month of Ramadan,
perhaps
you can do better
bidding it farewell.
It's about how the race finishes.
As Ibn Taymiyyah
mentioned,
What really matters is that you finishing the
race
in a complete manner,
in a complete manner.
Doing it as perfectly as you can, as
you're getting to the end of the ibaadat.
Not the deficiency
in the beginning of that act of worship.
Ibn al Qayyim
in his kitab,
he mentions
The people who are upright in their religion,
they
strive harder at the end of the ibadah
than they would
in the beginning of it.
Hassan al Basir
yukfarlakama
mother
For indeed you don't know when you are
going to attain the mercy of Allah
Ramadan. It could be that this is the
last hour of the month of Ramadan.
So keep going my brothers and my sisters.
Do not lose hope.
There is still time. Do not feel heartbroken
thinking that you have missed out.
You can still immensely
benefit from it. You can attain
that forgiveness from Allah
This is what we're trying to do. Right?
In the month of Ramadan, we fast.
We're praying in the nights
on Laylatul Qadr as it came in the
hadith,
Whoever fasts, whoever stands in the night, and
whoever stands on laylatul Qadr
with iman
and htisab.
Iman
He believes
firmly in the reward of Allah
and also
and seeking the face of Allah through that
which you are doing.
Your intention is only for Allah
You will have your past sins forgiven. We
wanna be forgiven, right, my brothers and my
sisters?
We don't want to be from those
who the messenger
made du'a against, and Jibreel said,
May the nose of that person be dragged
in the sand.
It is a figurative type of speech that
the Arabs use,
meaning destroyed destroyed
is that person.
When the month of Ramadan kicks in,
it departs,
and it hasn't been forgiven.
So my brothers and my sisters, strive your
utmost best.
I constantly keep receiving messages
on the different platforms of social media,
being asked,
when is?
When
is?
You know my brothers and my sisters, what
Ibn Khaym
he mentioned,
He says,
If
was in any of the days of the
year,
then I would have stood up
on every single night
of the year
until I catch the night of al Qadr.
And then he says,
If that is the case, then what do
you think
about the last
10
nights?
Year in, year out, we see that the
are extra packed on the other nights,
especially on 27th.
The 28th night comes, you find that the
mezr is half empty again.
How can you say with surety
that Laylatul Qadr is going to be on
the 27th or 23rd?
It is
more expected that hopefully it's going to be
on these nights, but we can't stay with
surety.
As it came in the hadith of Irbad
ibn Samit,
the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said,
I exited my home to inform you about
when the night of alqadr is going to
be.
The messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he saw 2 people arguing, involved in a
disputation,
argumentation.
That peace of knowledge that the messian had
disappeared. It was raised.
And he said, perhaps, this is better for
you.
So Ibn Kathir
has a nice benefit. He said,
disputations and argumentations, what it does is
it kills off the benefit.
Point of the matter is my brothers and
my sisters, we can't say with surety
when Laylatulqadr
is going to be. This is ibn al
Qayyim saying, I will stand
every single night of the year,
so I can catch later toqadr if I
was told that the night of al Qadr
would be on any day, any day of
the
year. It has been
specified for us even more. It has been
narrowed down for us
the last 10 nights.
So which
intelligent person, my brothers and my sisters, and
this is sarcastic,
would just wake up on maybe the odd
nights,
or just maybe wake up for 1 night
and then sleep for the rest.
Mu'adashi
said,
Who is Abu Sahaba? He was from those
who took knowledge from Ibn Mas'ud,
Abdulai ibn Mas'ud and
also Abdulai ibn Abbas.
Abdullah
ibn Abbas. He was from the most tremendous
of the Tabi'in.
You know what she said about him?
He would pray so much
that the only way they can get to
his bed is by crawling.
And this is exactly what the messian salallahu
alaihi wasallam used to do,
My brothers and my sisters, isn't this so?
He would pray so much in the night
until his feet would become swollen.
Aisha
she would say to him,
why are you doing this to yourself?
Hasn't Allah
forgiven your past and your future sins?
Allah tells us in the Quran, right?
Allah tells us in the Quran,
Your past and your future sins have been
forgiven.
His response would be,
shall I not be
a thankful slave?
This is how he showed gratitude to Allah
And then we
deficient
Muslims
who sin regularly,
we want to also be heedless in the
last 10, my brothers and my sisters.
So how can a sister who's on her
menses
benefit from this hadith?
Messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
Aisha said about him,
right?
He would tighten his ma'wis, his lungi, his
lower garment,
meaning he would up his game.
He would bring life to the night.
And he would wake up his family as
well.
How can a sister
of this kind benefit from this?
The way she can benefit from this, my
brothers and my sisters,
is by waking up her family members.
The one who encourages and indicates others to
do good, directs them to doing all of
these khairat,
all of these good acts.
It is as if he gets that reward
as well.
So encourage your husband.
Don't use it as a night to just
go to sleep,
but encourage your household.
Wake them up.
Maybe even send
messages around encouraging
others to wake up in this night.
Call some of your family members that might
be a bit heedless. Encourage them,
admonishing them
to wake up and benefit from these days.
Even
How is it
that one doesn't shed tears,
that Ramadan is about to depart,
and he doesn't know as to whether he's
going to be able to return
to this Ramadan.
Lastly, my brothers and my sisters,
would any of us have expected
in their wildest dreams
that the are going to be closed,
that we wouldn't be able to stand in.
Did that ever cross our minds, my brothers
and my sisters?
Did it ever cross our minds that so
many people
are going to pass away before the month
of Ramadan, many of them Muslims?
How can we be heedless, my brothers and
my sisters,
If the shayateen
have been locked up,
and also my brothers and my sisters,
the shayateen of the inns,
they are locked in their homes as well.
So we don't have an excuse. How can
we be heedless on these nights?
So encourage
my sister,
your household.
Encourage your husband.
It came in the hadith of
that the messenger said,
May Allah have mercy upon the man
who woke up in the night,
who woke up in the night to pray.
And he also woke up his wife, and
she prayed,
And if she refused,
he would take water, and he would sprinkle
it on her face.
And may Allah have mercy upon the woman
who stood up in the night and she
started praying.
And she also woke up her husband.
She would take water, and she would sprinkle
it on his face.
And my sister, this is something that you
can still do.
Because
as the messenger
told us,
if the one who was praying, or he
was doing an act of worship,
and then all of a sudden now,
he can't do that because of traveling
or because of a sickness,
he still gets the same reward.
He would get the reward
of that which he would normally do when
he was
perfectly healthy,
and also while he wasn't traveling.
Can you see my brothers and my sisters?
My sister
have glad tidings
that you can still attain an immense amount
of reward.
The second thing that I want to mention
today, my brothers and my sisters,
is something that is very, very dear to
my heart.
And we're going to stand over the hadith
of Aishatah
And this is something that every Muslim
needs to do,
and it's something that
you, my beloved sister,
that's not a rabao, that's not able to
pray or fast,
can engage in a zaw.
The hadith of Aisha
She said to the Messenger
She said, O Messenger of Allah,
if I come to know
when the night of al Qadr is going
to be,
What do you advise me to say?
Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam responded back, and
he said,
Oh Oh Allah,
indeed you pardon.
And you love to pardon.
Forgive me and pardon me.
This hadith was narrated by
the 5 other than al Imam al Tilmidi
My brothers and my sisters, there's a number
of benefits that we can take out from
this.
And Ibn Rajab in his
there's 2 things that I'm going to mention
with regards to this hadith that he mentioned.
And they are my 2
most favorite quotes
from this wonderful kitab called
Lapayf Al Ma'arf.
First thing that I want to mention my
brothers and my sisters
is when he said,
Al
Afoo is from the names of Allah
And it is him, Allah
who wipes away the sins
of his servants,
and removes any remaining traces of these sins.
And Allah
loves to pardon.
And he loves to pardon
his servants.
And he loves for his servants
to pardon one another.
And then my brothers and my sisters, here
is the catch.
He
says,
If they pardon one another, then that's when
he pardons them.
And Allah
pardoning
his servants is more beloved to him than
punishing them.
Let me repeat that again so it resonates.
If they forgive and pardon one another, then
when that, then that's when he forgives them.
My brothers and my sisters,
we wanna be pardoned. I mentioned the 3
hadith earlier. We fast.
We pray. We stand in the night of
al Qadr.
From the rewards that we're trying to attain
is what to be forgiven.
You've done all of that,
but imagine my brothers and my sisters, you're
not forgiven, you're not pardoned simply because
you weren't able to pardon
those who oppressed
you. And this is a reminder to myself,
my brothers and my sisters first.
Sometimes being oppressed can be very very difficult
to forget.
Or being spoken about can be very very
difficult to forget. Especially
when that individual, he laughs in your face,
and then shows pure hypocrisy.
Showing you that he is totally with you
in that which you do, and that which
you say, and that he agrees with you.
And the moment
he turns his back, he brings out the
knife.
This is even something that is common among
students
who are pursuing that sacred knowledge.
Unfortunately,
that can be very, very difficult to just
overlook and pardon.
And this goes in line my brothers and
my sisters what the prophet
said.
Have mercy,
and Allah Azawajid will have mercy upon you.
Pardon and forgive one another, and Allah
will forgive you.
You know what we learned from this my
brothers and my sisters?
Treat
others the way you like to be treated.
We can't expect
to always get what we want,
and then we don't treat the people the
same way.
And what goes around comes around.
This is something that our sharia, my brothers
and my sisters, really pushes.
And there's a number of examples that I
can mention,
but I'm not going to do that because
of the nature of our
speech at this moment in time.
If we look closely at this hadith, my
brothers and my sisters,
who is the one that is giving this
advice
when he said
to Aisha Say,
Allahumma,
oh Allah,
indeed you pardon.
Tohibbul
a'fa'ani, you love to pardon,
fa'fa'ani,
so pardon me.
It is the messenger saying this, who is
he saying this to? He's saying this to
Aisha.
My brothers and my sisters,
this is not any ordinary person
that he's saying this to
from the most righteous of those to ever
walk on the face of this earth,
He's telling her to ask Allah for forgiveness.
She's just been working so hard
in these 20 days,
these 20 nights that have just surpassed,
and on top of that, he's telling us,
seek forgiveness.
You know, Ibnur Raja
says, my brothers and my sisters, and again,
it's one of the most favorite quotes from
this kitab
by Ibnur Rajabi says,
He only commanded her
to seek forgiveness, and to ask to be
pardoned.
After working so hard
in the first 20 days.
Because he says,
the real servant of Allah
the smart and intelligent one,
he works so hard.
And then at the same time, he doesn't
see himself having accomplished anything.
But rather,
he rushes back to Allah
the same way a sinner would do
upon committing a sin. My brothers and my
sisters, when a brother has committed zina, or
he's committed murder, or he's committed a major
sin, What does he do? He sits alone
and starts begging Allah for forgiveness, right?
And he cries his eyes out.
Ibn Rajab is saying to us that from
the way of the awliyah
is
to do so many righteous actions,
to really work your utmost best.
And then after you've done all of that,
you beg Allah azza wa jah for forgiveness.
This is the way of the wali, the
way of the awliya, the saints, and those
who are very close to Allah
Remember, my brothers and masters, what I said
earlier.
Who is he advising? Who is the prophet
making
or sending this advice to? He's telling
Aisha He's telling her to beg for forgiveness
after working so hard.
Another thing that one can engage in,
and also my sister,
who might be on her monthly,
who's not able to fast and pray,
is
to seclude yourself with Allah
You might not be able to pray or
fast, but that is something that you can
do.
And every single one of us can do
that.
Ibn Razi,
he says,
from the signs of those who truly love
Allah
And this is also how you attain
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loving you as well.
It is to love,
to seclude yourself with Allah
especially
when it's pitch dark in the middle of
the night.
Is that not something that we can all
do, my brothers and my sisters? Where we
can attain the love of Allah
and we ourselves, my brothers and my sisters,
we increase in love for Allah
That is definitely something that we can do.
And while we are
in seclusion,
especially
in the darkness of the night,
we are crying to Allah
begging him to forgive our sins.
And we can also utilize this, especially you
my sister, is to make du'a to Allah
This is something that you can't still do.
In the month of Ramadan, it is a
month of rahmah,
the month of mercy.
And it could be that that du'a at
that time
gets accepted.
The next thing that I want to mention
is, that also my sister, you can engage
in,
and this is something that is universal,
that brothers
and sisters who are fasting,
who are praying can also do is a
sadaqah.
It is to pay charity.
As Ibn Abbas
he mentioned,
the messenger
He was from the most generous of people.
And he would even be more generous
in the month of Ramadan.
He would be quicker in giving charity than
a passing win,
As I mentioned.
If we look closely, my brothers and my
sisters, at the life of the messenger
Aisha
she said,
One time the messenger
he entered upon us, and he said,
is there any food that is in the
house today?
The response was no.
So the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, what
did he say?
Saw
him. She says.
He came on another day,
and he asked,
is there anything that you have?
The response was,
We were gifted with a type of food
called hayse. It's something that is very humble
that they used to eat in the past.
He said,
He said, show me, indeed I woke up
in the morning
while fasting.
He didn't have anything to eat, so he
fasted.
He wanted to eat that. Point of the
matter is my brothers and my sisters,
even though this was the state of the
messenger
and his wives,
on a normal day,
he was still the most generous of people,
especially even more generous in the month of
Ramadan,
quicker than a passing wind.
And this is something that every Muslim can
benefit from.
Fassar,
a man who's fasting,
and a woman who's fasting,
and a woman who's not fasting at all.
And there is something that you can do.
You can sign up to one of these
websites.
There is this maybe with this website called
83 years.com,
and also crisis aid. They have this
option available where you choose
how much you want to pay on every
single night of Ramadan, and they just take
it out of your bank account.
There's many websites like that. You can always
pay that to a struggling masjid at this
moment in time as
well. And one of these masages is like
mister Al Furqan,
who definitely needs your help.
And imagine my brothers and my sisters,
how much reward you would get
paying
some sadaqa
that will be in accordance to every single
night of the month of Ramadan.
And it's very important that I point this
out,
and one of our brothers called Salab al
Abbas just pointed this out in one of
the groups
that one of the sheikhs was asked this
question
about paying the sadaqa on every single night.
Does that mean my brothers and my sisters
we become complacent,
or we take a seat back and we
think that what we've committed is totally sufficient?
I don't need to pray, I don't need
to do any more good deeds.
That is not
the situation of a true believer, my brothers
and my sisters.
As we mentioned earlier about
What
did
He says because the smart and intelligent, the
true servant of Allah.
They work so hard,
and then after they finished,
they don't see themselves having accomplished anything.
The same way the sinner would beg Allah
for forgiveness. You've done so good, cry like
the one who committed a zina or any
other major sins. Cry your eyes, I'll ask
Allah to accept it from you.
Because the believer, my brothers and my sisters,
that's how he runs himself.
Imam
Si'idi, when he talks about those who are
taking the path to Allah in
the hereafter,
He says, there are those who structured
There are those who structured their lives in
a way where
they would worship
Allah between alkhuf,
fear of that
action not being accepted, and also
hope of the action being accepted.
So you remain on your toes.
This is the way of the aliyah.
They do the obligatory acts and the voluntary
acts, while at the same time they still
see that they are falling short, they are
falling deficient,
and that they can do better.
So do that, hope for it to be
accepted,
while at the same time you have fear
that you won't get any of this accepted,
and that just pushes you on to keep
doing more.
And the next thing that I want to
mention my brothers and my sisters,
also to my sister who may not be
fasting or praying.
Feed the poor,
and also look after your neighbors, especially in
times like this,
where a lot of people are struggling financially.
This is an advice
that the messenger
gave to
Abu Dharr
And pay attention my brothers, especially you guys.
This is an advice that the messengers given
Abu Dharr
He said to him,
narrated by a Muslim.
When you cook soup
try to cook a lot of it
and then go and gift it to
your neighbors.
Look out for them.
This is normally seen as a female thing.
Right?
Messenger is advising
And this is something that you can still
do, my sister,
who might not be able to fast
and pray.
I ask Allah
to make these last 10 nights
the best 10 nights
of our lives.
My brothers and my sisters, they should really
move us what's happening around us.
The coronavirus
is a big reminder to us all. Like
I mentioned earlier, who imagined in his wildest
dreams,
last Ramadan,
when it departed,
that
before this month
started,
so many people have passed away. So many
Muslims have passed away.
They are 8 feet down into the ground.
That should really give us the reminder
that
we might not be able to get another
Ramadan.
Who would have imagined in their wildest dreams?
And I'm going to conclude with something that
I mentioned earlier,
that Ibn
Rajab said,
How can a man not shed teeth?
How can a man not shed teeth?
And he doesn't know as to whether
he has a return to Ramadan remaining in
his life?