Abu Taymiyyah – Emotional Khutbah Destroying Your Ramadhan On Eid
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My dear respective brothers and sisters,
it is my sunnah every year
to mention this statement in the last Khutba
of the month.
This very profound touching statement of
Ibn Rajab alhambari ramanulmaiyah
in his wonderfully written book,
Latay from Ali when he said,
How is it that the believer
does not shed tears
because
of Ramadan about to depart.
And he does not know as to whether
he is going to have another opportunity
to reach another
month
of Ramadan.
My beloved brothers and sisters,
we have lost a lot of loved ones
with this pandemic
that has struck
the world
in the last couple of years, the last
2 years should I say.
We lost a lot of our
elders,
We lost the youngers.
We lost those who were extremely, extremely dear
to us.
If
this is not a reminder to us, my
beloved brothers and sisters,
For us to benefit from the remaining days
of the month of Ramadan,
then when will we ever wake up to
a reminder?
When will we ever take heed?
This is why my beloved brothers and sisters,
the statement of
the Prophet
Muhammad which is extremely, extremely profound, should really
be on the back of our minds
as we
continue to live
in the remaining days of Ramadan,
if Allah
even allows us to finish it.
What did ibn al Juzirahmatullahi
When the horse
reaches the finishing line,
it needs an end.
What does this host do, my beloved brothers
and sisters?
It exerts all of its efforts to win
the race.
And then look what he said,
Falahatakunilkhayluaftanamik.
Don't
let the horse be smarter than you.
Don't let the horse be smarter than you.
Meaning, the horse now exerts all of its
efforts as it's reaching the end of the
race.
We are now reaching the end end of
the month.
Does a smart individual now really let his
guard down?
Does he really take his foot off the
the gas?
Or does he exert all of his efforts?
That's what a smart individual does.
One of the most common questions that we
are receiving
on the different platforms of social media
is, I feel like I have wasted my
rahman. I feel like I haven't done much.
I feel like I could have done more.
Hassan Abbasir Rahmatullahi
You don't know when you will be able
to acquire
the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And
it could be in the last hour of
Ramadan.
However, it is down to us
to really put that effort in and to
really work harder
to exert whatever we can in these final
days.
The people who are upright, they strive more.
They strive much harder
in the end of whatever act of worship
they're doing.
And then
what they do at the beginning.
So my beloved brothers and sisters,
if the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told us
about the salah,
When you do pray,
then make sure you pray the farewell prayer.
What is the Ferval prayer? Is that a
6th salat? No it's not.
Meaning make sure that you perfect it. Look
at the man who's on death row.
When he's given a couple of moments to
do whatever he wants.
That prayer that he prays, is it going
to be similar to the prayers that he's
nobody been praying?
No. He's going to make sure that he
perfects it.
We've been told to make our prayers lighter
because we might not necessarily be able to
reach another prayer.
And there's only once a couple of hours.
How many hours between Dhuhr and Asr? 3,
4 hours?
And then from Asr to Umrah, a couple
of hours.
We are being told to pray it
as best as we can.
If that's been said about the salah,
then my beloved brothers and sisters,
right,
how about now there being 12 months between
this Ramadan and the next?
There's been
holes in the gatherings
around the Iftali table.
We've lost a lot of loved ones.
And it's extremely extremely painful.
I have lost 3
young relatives,
all under the age of 25, for those
who think you have 70 or 80 years,
still maybe remaining.
All of them under the age of 25.
2 of them were stabbed and 1 died
in a car crash.
I say this not that you feel sorry
for me, now Allah,
their time
came.
La istaghloona anusaratiloonaistaqdimoni
was written down.
However, we as individuals who witnessed this, what
do we do about it?
He tells
us when they oh, when Allah, Azzawajal, addresses
those people of regret,
Didn't we give you enough time
to come with righteous actions?
To do what you had to do?
And didn't a Nadir come to you? If
you translate Nadir literally it means a wana.
The scholars of tafsir,
they had their own different interpretations
with regards to what this nadeer was.
Or what is intended by this nadeer is
wana.
Some of the scholars they mentioned mawtul aqarib,
the death of your relatives
that wakes you up from your heedlessness.
When you visit that grave, my beloved brothers
and sisters, and it is something that has
been highly encouraged and recommended,
And you're looking at this grave
under your feet.
Your loved ones have been buried
8 feet down into the ground.
What is the reason behind it? What is
the objective of us visiting these graves?
Messenger
said,
I initially prohibited you from visiting the grave.
Now I say to you go and visit
it.
Why? Fa'inaa to the Kirukum Bilakhira. It reminds
you of the hereafter. Waduzahidu
Fitunya.
And also as mentioned in another narration, it
causes you to overlook the pleasures of this
world.
O Allahi brothers,
when you're standing on top of that grave
and you're looking down,
you're not going to be worrying about which
car you want to buy money down the
line.
Or what house you want to be taking
out for mortgage,
or what other other haram you want to
maybe be engaging in
a year or 2 down the line.
It gives you something called Bissarul Amal,
which basically means
thinking about what's going to happen
in the near future, what's going to happen
tomorrow.
This, my beloved brothers and sisters,
is what every single one of us should
really be worrying about in these remaining days
that we have.
This opportunity, this lifetime that Allah threw our
way.
That Allah
has chosen for every single one of us
here today.
Every single year. It strikes me, walahed, and
it scares me.
Before the month of Ramadan, people that we
know they depart and they leave,
and they're no longer here.
They didn't get the opportunity to, what, breathe
in the month of Ramadan.
We've been given that opportunity.
Let's try, insha Allah,
do something about it.
A very, very important point that I would
like to,
speak about in this part of the Khutbah
is that which Ibn Nurajib Rahmatullah, alayhi, made
mention of
when commenting on the statement of Aisha Radiallahu
Ta'ala Anha.
Aisha Radiallahu Ta'ala Anha, she asked the messenger
Alrightyin, I am to aid you later in
later to Utadir Ma'ahu Lafi'ahi. If I come
to know when later to Utadir is, what
do you advise me to say?
And he told her
the dua that every single one of us
has memorized.
O Allah You are afu. You
left apart and so pardon me.
Something that is extremely extremely important,
that could go a very long way in
us being forgiven
in these remaining
days of Ramadan
is that which pertains to
clearing our hearts.
The grudges that we might hold in our
hearts towards
our Muslim brothers and sisters.
And when I say Muslim brothers and sisters,
I'm also referring to our own family relatives
that we may have cut off and not
spoken to for a very long time.
Ibn Nur Raja, or Ahmedulayhi,
alayhi, again in his kitablatayf al Ma'adif,
He says,
and A'fu is
from the names of Allah.
And Allah loves the pardon.
He loves for his servants to forgive and
pardon one another.
And look what he says, here comes the
catch.
Faiza Azza
Ba'Abuhamalambawhin
alhamgafweth.
When they pardon and they forgive one another,
it is then when Allah
is going to pardon and forgive them.
It's something that I've been mentioning a lot
in the month of Ramadan.
When I think Ramadan, one of the first
things that I think my beloved brothers and
sisters is aafoo.
We're going to be begging Allah, asking Allah
Azza wa Jal raising our hands, You You
Allah forgive me.
We want to be treated a certain way.
The question is, are we ready to treat
the people like that?
Over sometimes the most trivial and pathetic of
things,
we cut people off. And we don't speak
to her.
And it's a galaik. Isn't that so, my
beloved brothers and sisters?
Every now and again, I hear something like,
my brother is not speaking to me. You
know why?
I did tell him about my child getting
married, but he wasn't the first to know.
He knows, but he wasn't the first to
know. And because of that, he's cut him
off.
Things as pathetic attribute as that.
And the examples are many.
Family ties are broken. Layat Qur'an Jannah Daka'tiran,
as the prophet said. The one who cuts
his family ties is not going to enter
into Jannah.
So we want to be forgiven. And yes,
my brothers and my sisters, every single one
of us wants to be forgiven.
We are carrying a lot of baggage with
us before the month of Ramadan, and maybe
even in the month of Ramadan.
We didn't withhold from some of the fields
that we were previously engaged in. And the
door of repentance is still open.
It is still open. We just need to
ask Allah
However,
just today I came across a fatwa of
Shethim Nafimih Muhammadullah Alaihi.
Waheedan taqid
that Allah
Right?
Will not forgive those who have shahina and
badda
between themselves,
who have enmity and hatred towards one another,
they will not be forgiven.
And if you look at the hadith of
the Prophet when he falls in line with
that, When he said, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
Ir hamu turhamu
illafiru yufarlakum.
Have mercy on the people,
and Allah will have mercy upon you. Forgive
the people and then Allah Azzawajal will forgive
you. Joabim Sha'at.
O Allah brothers and sisters, I'm not going
to stand here and talk as if it
is easy
to pick up that phone call and to
make that call. Or to pick that phone
up and to make that call.
We have to bite
our tongues
and step on our ego.
Wakayram al Lari, Yahweh Salaam. And the best
of the 2 is the one who starts
with the salah.
And see how you feel as soon as
you put that phone down.
I've been collecting some of the acts that
would really soften up an individual's heart. And
you know what one of them is, my
brothers and my sisters? It's an asshole.
Especially when you initiate it.
Even when you feel like you've been what?
Wronged and oppressed.
To just turn the page,
to forgive and forget.
Ibad ali Majidun.
Hassanal Basir Rahmatullahi Alaiem.
SubhanAllah.
One of my favorite examples when it comes
to this topic.
We know how difficult it is to stand
in the middle of the night.
Right?
And even more difficult to stand up in
the last step.
That's when the sleep gets more sweeter.
And when we do wake up, and rightfully
so, we have so many requests
that we want to make to Allah
It's perfectly fine.
Right? If we don't ask Allah when will
we ever ask Allah
Especially at this time?
Right?
And when he does end up waking up,
you know the kind of du'ai we make?
Allahummaqfaamalullamalai.
Oh Allah, forgive those who oppress me.
Imagine that.
One day a man walked by
and he had Hazr al Basri making this
dua.
In the morning, he went up to me
and he said, tamalneitu andi kuntumi maldalamek.
I began to wish that I was from
those who wronged and oppressed you.
He said, why do you do this? Why?
Why do you keep making this dua? Said,
famine Aifa
wa Asruhaifaajra'alullah.
Whoever pilots
and rectifies,
then indeed his reward is with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
One of those acts of worship, when the
reward has not been limited,
the other is patience and also fasting, and
the third is what? Al Afu, to pardon,
and to forgive.
Which is not easy, and perhaps because of
that, the reward has not been limited to
anything.
Another benefit that we can derive from this
hadith that is extremely, extremely relevant, especially the
end of
the month of Ramadan.
Ibn Nur Rajab again in his kitablatayf al
Ma'arib, he says,
says the only reason
why the Messenger
told his wife Aisha to ask for forgiveness.
You know why?
Because the smart and intelligent individuals,
they work hard, which she has been doing
for the first 20
days of Ramadan.
And then after that they don't see themselves
having accomplished much.
They see that there is room for improvement.
They don't become deceived by their hard work
and their righteous acts.
And then what do they end up doing?
For your
They rush back and return back to Allah
like a sinner.
What does a smart sinner do brothers and
sisters?
A smart sinner, when he commits a sin,
he rushes back to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and seeks forgiveness.
He's saying that this is the state
of those who have been doing righteous acts.
This is the characteristics of the Awliya.
Did we ever think about it like that?
Sometimes we get deceived. Right?
We stood up on every night of the
last 10 nights of Ramadan,
and then, alhamdulillah, might be now safe for
another year.
We might take a back seat.
The people of the depaz, they would beg
Allah Azzawajah for forgiveness on top of the
righteousness
that he would come with throughout the month
of Ramadan. You Allah forgive me.
And he's been doing righteous deeds throughout the
whole month. He's begging Allah
the same way a sinner would beg Allah
for forgiveness.
Look at the level of piety.
This is that what we should be aspiring
for, especially in the end of the month
of Ramadan. Not taking a back seat.
Treating it as if we have some sort
of guarantee to meet another
on Ramadan.
And you know what's even more worst than
that my beloved brothers and sisters?
And ask our eyes to forgive every single
one of us.
It might be that these nights
we are planning
all of the filth and the evil that
we want to be engaging in on the
night of late.
On these blessed nights we are planning
maybe which hotel room to book out. Which
car to rent out.
Right? All the filth and the evil that
we want to be doing on the night
of 8.
Some of you guys may have seen some
of these viral videos of us going to
South Wall Broadway.
You also have a road on Birmingham called
Lady Poole Road,
Edgware Road. Wallahi, it's as if you can
see that the shayateen have been released.
We know that the shayateen are locked up
right in the month of Ramadan.
On that night you can see as soon
as it's announced
that aid is going to be the next
day, that night,
some Muslims are going absolutely
out of control.
And that's really painful.
Really really hard to see.
Because you're destroying everything that you've been working
hard for.
Right? It's these nights that we might be
planning instead of now sitting down as we
mentioned,
begging Allah for forgiveness the same way a
sinner does. This is after having committed righteous
acts. We're planning all the filth that we're
going to be doing.
And then on the way to the 'iis
salah,
some of our,
especially our sisters, we might dress as if
as well. Some fancy dress party.
Going to the Masjid.
Going there to maybe what impress.
And some might be going to the Masjid
in order to maybe pick someone up.
To pick a sister up in a Haram
way.
It is easier to tear down a building
than to build it.
How long did this mess did take to
build?
And how quick would it be now if
we brought a crane to tear it down?
And to conclude, my beloved brothers and sisters,
Hassanal Basir Rahmatullahi, alayhi.
Sorry. Alim Nabibari radiAllahu ta'ala.
He would come out on the 9th of
8th. You know what he would say? He
had raised a shari.
Halmin matboulinfanum
alni.
Is there anyone whose Ramadan has been accepted
so we can congratulate him?
And is there anyone who has been deprived
of the reward so we can pay our
condolences to you? Who would you pay your
tazeeah to or your tazeeah?
You'd pay it to someone's,
relative, right, who's passed away? Sahih.
He wants to pay his condolences to the
one who's maybe wasted this Ramadan.
Because
he's destroying and ruining everything
on the night of 8.
If you left off certain apps
and certain things in the month of Ramadan.
The month of Ramadan is an institution. It's
a madrasah.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants us to become
better people. This is why sometimes we hear,
switch the TV off is Ramadan.
Only for the month of Ramadan brothers and
sisters, or stop listening to music is Ramadan.
Only for the month of Ramadan.
Do you think Allah, Azzawajal, only wants you
to pray in the night in the month
of Ramadan and to read Quran in the
month of Ramadan?
La, he wants you to become trained
in leaving these certain acts and to do
certain acts of worship,
and then to continue this all the way
up until you meet him. So you have
a very high position in Jannah.
This is what Ramadan is called.