Abu Taymiyyah – Emotional Khutbah Murdered Infront of Him
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My beloved brothers and sisters,
it wouldn't be far fetched to say
that everyone here
is either someone who has lost a relative
to a stabbing,
to a shooting,
or knows someone
that has lost a relative
to a stabbing,
a shooting,
or a killing.
My brothers and my sisters, what we are
seeing
in today's day and age
is
something that I don't think has been seen
before in the UK.
The amount of killings that are taking place,
the amount of murders, homicides,
it has
gone through the roof.
It has absolutely
gone through the roof,
and this is absolutely
heartbreaking.
Whether this takes place with someone who
you are close to
or someone who you've maybe never met before,
we as Muslims,
as the Messenger Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam told us,
The believers
are like a building,
each part strengthens the other,
it holds the up together.
In another narration we are told,
if a part of it is aching,
the rest of the body
will also be going through pain.
Right?
And I'm going to read out to you
guys Insha'a.
A mother messaged and she said,
I saw your post about the Khutba in
Birmingham
on murder.
Will you be recording this for youtube?
I can't get to Birmingham.
My son lost his dear friend
in front of his eyes
because someone
stabbed him to death.
He's 17 years of age,
and I don't know how to help him.
I feel like he's losing his trust in
Allah
He believes,
but is questioning.
He's questioning Allah since the loss
of his friend.
Please, please help me
with any guidance you can offer me.
So that he can come back to us.
As I was standing in the office and
having a conversation with my uncle,
he broke down into tears.
Right? He broke down into tears.
This is what these killings are doing to
our elders,
to our parents,
who are begging for this to stop.
Some of us we think that
we are only going to have issues with
the law.
My brothers and my sisters,
taking the life of another
has become so cheap,
right?
Where are we when it comes to what
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is telling every single one of us in
the Quran,
with regards to murders,
with regards to killings. When you look at
many of the major sins,
and the crimes,
and the sins that one may engage in,
you search it in the Quran, my brothers
and my sisters. You will struggle to find
the kind of threat
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions,
when he speaks about taking an innocent life.
He says in the Quran,
Whoever
intentionally
takes a soul,
This individual's
reward is none other than the
And he will abide in their eternity.
And Allah
anger. His wrath will come down upon this
individual, and he will be cursed, and Allah
has
prepared
a very painful punishment for that individual.
My brothers and my sisters,
we know the kabah, right? Many of us
have gone and performed umrah. Some of us
have performed hajj. Do you know what the
Messenger
said about the kaaba?
And the sanctity
of a believing
human being,
Hajar and Hajar.
That you destroy the Kaaba,
you demolish it,
you now take it apart,
and you
take
every part of that Kaaba,
one after the other.
It is less of an issue in the
eyes of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, than when
you take the life of a Muslim.
The messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, in another hadith
that was narrated by Tabrani,
he mentioned,
Whoever
harms
a Muslim.
It is as if he has done of
the Kaaba. It is as if he has
destroyed the Kaaba. In another hadith, the Messenger
he
tells us,
That the whole dunya perishes,
that the whole dunya is destroyed,
is less in the eyes of Allah
than taking the life of a Muslim. My
brothers and my sisters, I want you all
to really just picture this. Would you, in
your right mind,
go to the Kaaba and decide to maybe
kick it,
decide maybe to hammer into it? Would you
even think about
punching the house of Allah
This Kaaba, when you see it, my brothers
and my sisters, it humbles you. A lot
of us, we recently saw this very well
known famous rapper
who went to perform umrah, and he broke
down upon seeing the Kaaba.
I have taken drug dealers
to the Kaaba, the house of Allah
Some of them were on their knees. Some
of them, they broke down into tears. The
most arrogant of people, those who were running
drug dealing industries,
they broke down the moment they saw the
house of
Allah We are being told that the sanctity
of a Muslim
is far greater than anything that we see.
One time the messenger
he said the following with
a raised voice.
He who has believed
with his tongue. However,
the faith hasn't yet entered into his heart.
Messenger
says,
Do not harm a Muslim.
And also don't degrade them. And then the
messenger said,
And then do not follow their shortcomings.
Whoever tries to nitpick
the shortcomings of others, Allah
will come after an individual, and He will
embarrass him. He will humiliate him. He will
expose him even if he is inside
of his house, in the middle of his
house, away from everyone, Allah
will humiliate that individual. Abdullah ibn Umar Radiallahu
Ta'ala Anhuma was listening.
And then one day, my brothers and my
sisters,
he went to the Kaaba, and Abdullah ibn
Umar he said,
How honorable are you? And he's speaking to
the Kaaba.
How great is your sanctity?
As for the believer,
He is more honorable,
He is more sacred than you, the Kaaba.
This This is what Abdullah ibn Umar radiAllahu
ta'ala Anhuma
is saying. My beloved brothers and sisters,
Allah he
reminds us in the Quran,
Remind them, O Muhammad,
about the virtues and the blessing of Allah
upon them.
You used to be enemies with one another.
This is the verse that came down
pertaining to the 2 great tribes,
Os and Khazraj.
They used to kill and fight with one
another, just like we have today, right? Fighting
over the most pathetic and trivial things.
Fighting over postcodes,
because I'm from this area, or I'm from
that area, or maybe because I live in
this particular
block of flats.
You take the life
of that Muslim.
You take the life of that Muslim.
Is not just
the law that you are up against.
You are up against the law of Allah
You went out to stab him. Even if
you die, the messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he
tells us the following.
When 2,
they square up against one another, and they
are both
carrying their knives,
or their saws, or whatever it might be,
to kill the other. Both the killer and
the one being killed
are in the hellfire.
And messian sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he was
asked,
I understand
that the killer
is going to be in the hellfire. What
about the one who was just killed?
He
said,
He also had the same intentions.
He also wanted to kill. However,
the other managed to get the fatal blow.
My brothers and my sisters, before someone misunderstands
what I'm saying, I am not saying that
if someone
here has died, maybe due to a killing
or due to a murder, he's going to
be in the hellfire. That's something that we
cannot judge. This is all under the will
of Allah
However, we are being told all of these
narrations,
all of these ahadith,
all of these verses,
just so we understand the severity of this
matter,
just so we could embed within ourselves
the severity
of this crime,
of taking someone's soul, which is not a
light matter that should be taken easily.
The messenger
he also told us about taking the life
of an innocent non muslim.
Just because we are speaking about Muslims, that
doesn't mean one can go and take the
life
of a non Muslim. We are told about
the
and also
the He who
enters the territory
of the Muslims,
and he's under contract
to maybe carry something out, a project or
whatever else it may be.
Or someone now who has entered into the
lands of the non Muslims,
taking that type of individual's life. We are
told as the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
mentioned in the authentic
Whoever kills this kind of person who's referred
to as a
This person
will not smell,
he will not smell the fragrance of a
jannah, let alone anything else.
And you can smell
the jannah, my brothers and my sisters,
40 years away.
This is pertaining to a non Muslim, my
brothers and my sisters. Then how about taking
the life
of someone who
has adorned himself with Al Islam?
My beloved brothers and sisters,
in order for us to solve the problem,
we have to try and identify the solution.
What is it that may cause us from
time to time to have the urge
to take someone's life?
Right?
Earlier, we mentioned this very, very serious hadith,
when 2 Muslims, they square up against one
another.
Right?
Each one of them wants to take the
life of the other.
Falqatil walmaktulafinnaah.
Both the killer and the one who killed,
they are going to be in the hellfire.
So he was asked, why the one who
was killed?
He was
eager to kill
the one that he squared up to.
He also wanted to commit the crime, and
we know the famous hadith, right?
Right?
One's actions are judged based on his intentions.
Every single one of us have memorized his
hadith. He wanted to do the exact same
thing as well.
You pick up that knife,
you pick up that weapon to take that
person's life,
just so you understand where you are heading.
What is it that causes us to at
times have this urge
to commit this kind of crime, because we
will not be able to solve this problem
if we can't identify
why this is actually making us want to
do this particular crime.
Right?
The first point that I've written down my
brothers and my sisters
are these music videos.
Right? Who constantly
glorify,
venerate, popularize
stabbings and shootings.
Acting as if,
they are that type of person when in
reality, they don't live that kind of life.
Who's the victim in all of this? Us
who are listening to them.
Trying to be like them.
Behaving and conducting ourselves in that particular manner.
Right.
Imagine now, a music video
from some kafir guy,
has now inspired you to become from the
worst that are people in the eyes of
Allah
because of a music video.
Behaving and acting like them.
The second thing my brothers and my sisters
is
not lowering your gaze.
Think about it for a moment. Normally when
we speak about lowering the gaze, the first
thing that comes to mind is what?
Looking at the opposite gender, right? Is that
the only time one should lower his gaze?
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam one time said to
his companions,
Stay away from sitting on the roads.
Stop sitting on the roads. Why are you
guys always there?
This is also extremely common. Right?
Just hanging about
under the block of flats, right? And we
think that's a cool thing to be doing,
just sitting around.
They said to the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
This is something that we have to do,
O Messenger of Allah. This is where we
get together,
and this is where we have our chat.
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, right?
If it's samas now,
then do the following.
Make sure that you give the road its
right.
You know what the first thing that was
mentioned?
Ghadul Basar.
Lowering your gaze.
Allahi Alaikum my brothers and my sisters, how
many
murders have we heard about?
How did it start? He looked at me,
what you looking at?
The other person looks at him and then
a fight takes place.
And these fights may continue for years on
end.
Right?
That kind of screw face that we think
is so manly,
walking around
having this kind of face.
You think
that smiling is a weak thing to be
doing, right? Or that person's moist, maybe smiles.
When the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam will
say,
right?
Do not belittle any good deed,
even if it is meeting your brother with
a pleasant face.
Look what the kuffar
have venerated and popularized, my brothers, to be
cool and to be manly is to have
that kind of face.
Wallahi I know brother, he has a big
scar across his face.
Right? A big scar across his face.
It all started with, what you looking at?
Right? And then things just went on from
there.
Number 3, my brothers and my sisters,
retaliation.
Right.
Again,
that which has been so glorified in our
hearts and made to be such a,
high status thing. Right?
To retaliate.
When sometimes the better option may just be
put your head down and just keep it
moving.
Someone that you don't know, right, looked at
you and you can see this individual is
trying to instigate a problem.
And what it could lead to, and what
could end up happening,
right?
I have
a lecture that I gave on my YouTube
channel, my brothers and my sisters. It's called
7 steps
to control your anger. We won't have the
opportunity to go through all of this.
And I gave an example of a companion,
who ended up killing another. You know why?
He said, Oh, the anger got the better
of me. I got angry.
Right?
And they are 7 prophetic steps
in how to deal
with one's anger.
One bad move, my brothers and my sisters,
we could be spending what? How many years
in prison?
30 years?
40 years? And it all started with what?
I couldn't control my anger. He looked at
me, and he shouldn't have looked at me,
and I retaliated.
Right?
My brothers and my sisters, I want you
guys to really take this away. If you
didn't take anything away from the khutba other
than this one point,
how many a
time do we put our lives on the
line for our friends?
Right?
Just so what? They could think good of
us. Just so they could say positive things
about us. Right?
Or you could have a particular reputation in
the area.
You know what I witnessed with my own
two eyes?
Individuals burying their friend that has just been
stabbed
or just been shot.
As soon as they bury them,
they are sitting in Pepe's,
eating chicken and rice, lemon and herb flavour.
Wallahi laddi lalahi lalahi raah. They are sitting
in Pepe's and you know what they're speaking
about?
Oh,
which football game is on next?
He has a whole chapter
speaking about
how
the following is just bound to happen
As soon as you die, your relatives
will just forget about you.
Right?
Couple of days go by, they will live
their lives
as if we never existed.
Forgotten.
He has a whole chapter, and this is
just bound to happen.
And when you get thrown into prison, my
brothers and my sisters,
for a couple of days, they write on
Twitter, right,
on Facebook,
hit the road soon,
we miss you.
And the only person that comes and visits
you is who?
The only person that's going to do that
1 and a half hour trip
to visit you is none other than your
mother,
right.
The mother that you belittled,
the mother that you disrespected,
right, the mother
that you ridiculed,
that you took very unseriously,
right?
Backwards, she doesn't know what we're dealing with.
Right?
Well, her brother one time told me
that he was leaving his house to carry
out a shooting
across the pond,
and his mother was grabbing onto him, begging
him don't.
Up until this very day the brother is
practicing, right? She has arthritis.
In the cold, she's being dragged on the
floor,
right?
And he is just what?
Pulling himself away.
Our parents are going to be the ones
who have to endure that pain,
right?
That will have sleepless nights
going through so many difficulties.
Right?
Abdulai ibn Umar radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma, my brothers
and my sisters,
He was one time doing tawaf around the
Kaaba,
and he saw a man that was carrying
his mother
on his shoulder.
He came to Abdullah ibn Umar and he
said to him,
have I fulfilled
the rights of my mother?
Have I fulfilled the rights of my mother?
He's carrying his mother,
doing tawaf around the Kaaba, brothers and sisters.
Right?
He said, no, you haven't.
But you've done great. You've done amazing.
Right?
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
out of his mercy,
due to doing something little he's going to
give you that which is so great.
SubhanAllah,
he's saying to him, this is something very
little but Allah
swore you immensely for it.
And then he said to him,
you haven't even fulfilled.
Right?
Some of you youngsters may not necessarily know,
right?
When a woman goes into labor,
she starts having these contractions.
I personally didn't know what a contraction was
until I saw my wife in labor.
It really got me emotional knowing that this
is what our moms have gone through.
And then I remember this hadith.
You haven't even paid back one single contraction,
the pain that they're in.
They might have
3 or 4 contractions
in the space of what 10 minutes?
Right?
Unbearable pain.
And this man is carrying,
right? His mother
on his shoulder.
And they are the parents who beg us
time and time again,
Muhammad,
don't leave.
Abu Bakr, stay at home.
Come home early, and we laugh at them.
We disrespect them. We look at them as
if they are absolutely nobodies.
Right?
If that's the case with him, then what
about us, brothers and sisters?
What about us?
And what's even worse than us, subhanAllah, is
that we
insult them. Minal kaba'ilishatmurraju
li waliday.
From the major sins is that one insults
his parents.
Right?
Disrespects them like that.
So, the Sahaba, they became confused when they
heard this.
Is that even possible that one is going
to insult
his parents?
And in the messenger of Allah alaihi wasallam
told him about something,
right?
That was very different to what we are
going through in today's day and age.
He said, Naham, when someone insult someone else's
parents,
it is as if he is insulting his
own parents.
Because amongst them, it was unheard of for
someone now to disrespect and insult his parents.
But today, we actually insult them.
Or we kiss our teeth the moment they
ask us to do something,
or we respond back in a way.
In the Quran, it says,
Don't don't say off to them.
That's off. You know, off is something that
you would say when, you know, taking something
out of your nails, when it's stuck. It's
not coming out.
Today, we kiss our teeth.
Right? To conclude, my brothers and my sisters,
Abdullah ibn Abbas
he was approached.
Right? He said
I don't know of anyone,
or should I say I don't know of
any action,
that brings you more closer to Allah
than being dutiful
to your mother.
Right? I don't have anything like that.
This is why you tend to see my
brothers and my sisters. Right?
We go through so much misery in our
lives, maybe because of our relationships with our
mothers and our fathers.
It could be one du'a that they make,
which opens so many doors for you that
you may have thought would never be opened.
And it could be one du'a that they
make against you. Even if they don't utter
it because of how bad they feel and
how you're treating them.
Wallahi, your whole life
ends up going downhill
so be extra careful with how you deal
with your parents
they will come once upon a time
right, or there will come one day,
when you will miss