Abu Taymiyyah – Emotional Khutbah The last Few Days Left in This World ramadhan
AI: Summary ©
AI: Transcript ©
My dear respected brothers and sisters,
from the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is that he has given us this opportunity
to be able to breathe
in the last 10 nights
of this blessed month.
But you know what the sad reality is?
With all of these opportunities
and chances that Allah
keeps throwing away,
we may well not take advantage.
Ibn Rajiv Rahmatullahi
in his wonderful kitab, Latayf al Ma'arif, he
says,
Oh you
who has wasted his life
doing nothing.
Oh you who hasn't taken advantage
of all of these opportunities
that Allah
has thrown his way.
He then says,
That which you have missed out on throughout
your lifetime,
Try and catch it
on these nights of Al Qadr.
Fa'inna tuh sabu wilrimur.
Indeed,
if you take advantage
of these great nights,
you might be able to acquire
that which takes a whole lifetime to acquire.
That's from the rahmah of Allah
Right?
And here,
we are speaking to every individual.
A lot of the time,
those who are not practicing,
or those who don't normally come to the
Masjid
throughout the year,
when these narrations
or statements of Allah azza wa jal are
mentioned, they begin to feel like second class
citizens.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala when he said You
Yuhalladeena Aminu Kutib Alaykum Musiyam
which you've probably heard a 100 times
and for a 100 and months time,
who was Allah
speaking to?
Oh you who believe
fasting has been has been made an obligation
upon
you. The same way it's been made an
obligation upon those who came before you, so
that you may acquire a taqwa. Right?
Who is this verse speaking to?
Anyone who considers himself a person of Iman,
a person of faith.
You see yourself as a Muslim,
as someone who believes in Allah.
No matter what sin you have fallen into
from the major sins that is seen as
despicable and abhorrent,
Allah
is speaking to you.
How many messages have I received in the
last couple of days, a brother or a
sister saying,
I feel like I'm not taking advantage,
or someone said to me that it was
related to Alqadr a couple of days ago
and I fell asleep. I feel like maybe
I've wasted my chance.
There is still time.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is speaking to every
individual who considers himself
a person of Iman.
Whether you're a drug dealer,
whether you're into prostitution,
whether it might be the worst
of despicable sins that you are involved in,
You ayyuhallatheenaaminu.
As long as you have a tuhid,
you consider yourself a Muslim who's holding on
to his faith.
No matter what the sin is Allah azza
wa jal is still speaking to you
and the door of repentance is still open.
The messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam he said, manqamiramalaman,
woman samiramalaman,
woman yakumlaylatulqadr.
In all of these three narrations that which
they have at the end is the following,
imanan wahtisabaahufirullahumatakaddam
minthembe
Whoever fasts, whoever prays, whoever sons on the
night of Al Qadr,
men min al Fadil Umum.
This manhia which means whoever,
again, is not just speaking to that Uday
or that old man who comes to the
masjid and sits in the front row,
or the regular to the masjid. It is
referring to every individual
who considers himself
a person of faith, a Muslim,
no matter what this individual is involved in.
It is Min al Fadil Umoun from the
wordings that indicate generality
as is very well known in Al Sulfiqh.
Whoever does this with Iman,
believing in the word of Allah, wahtisaba
and he does this seeking the face of
Allah azzawajal,
Allah azzawajal will forgive his past sins.
Every single one of us is in need
of that, my brothers and my sisters.
Year in year out, it may well have
been the same exact story.
Where we treat the month of Ramadan,
right, as a guest,
comes along and then we bid farewell to
it and then we get back to whatever
we were doing.
The month of Ramadan as you've probably heard
so many times
it is an
institution. It is a madrasah.
It is like a boot camp,
where an individual introduces good habits into his
life, and he gets bad, he gets rid
of these bad ones.
In the regular household you find that in
the month of Ramadan,
we switch off Netflix,
we switch off the TV,
and then the child might ask, why dad?
Oh, it's Ramadan.
But then on the day of Eid,
as soon as the Day of Eid kicks
in, we're back to doing whatever we were
doing.
Right?
This is not the objective of Ramadan.
La'alla kuntitakoon,
so that we might become pious individuals who
are conscious of Allahu Jallafi'u'llah.
We are in a training period, an induction
period,
like you have when it comes to work,
right? Induction period for 2 weeks, and then
you continue to work.
I've seen
at the beginning of Ramadan a screenshot
of a sister. It was put on Twitter.
She sent a text message to her boyfriend,
and she said, As soon as Ramadan kicks
in,
I don't want you to talk to me
till the day of Eid.
And then everyone's commenting, Mashallah.
She's going to stay away from her boyfriend
for 30 days, Allahumabarik.
This is what people are commenting.
This is not the objective my brothers and
my sisters of Ramadan.
We get rid of bad habits, and then
we continue it
till after the month of Ramadan.
My brothers and my sisters, do you think
that Allah only wants us
to pray
the night prayer in the month of Ramadan,
tarawih only in the month of Ramadan?
No one being trained
to become from Ibadur Rahman. If you look
at Sifatur Ibadur Rahman, right at the end
of Surat Al Furqan.
Allah gives a whole list of the awliya
from their traces that they pray at night.
Here Allah is training us in the month
of Ramadan.
Right? Likewise, sadaqa.
Allah doesn't just want us to give in
the month of Ramadan and then stop.
Again, one of the characteristics right at the
end of Surat Al Furqan.
Likewise, in the month of Ramadan, we are
taught self discipline.
When we are harmed or when someone speaks
to us in an ignorant way,
right,
we tend to at times respond in a
very
harsh manner, right?
Or we repel it with the exact same
evil.
Again, we are taught if someone comes and
abuses me in the month of Ramadan or
tries to insult me, we tell him listen,
in this time, in this time.
I'm fasting, I'm fasting.
Right? And we learned this again at the
end of Surat Al Furqan. Waiza khatabahuwaljaherun
khanu salamah.
So Allah Azza wa Jal is training us
in this month my brothers and my sisters
to become from the best of the people
right after.
You know what's really really sad my brothers
and my sisters, this is so sad, right?
While there are individuals
in these days,
in the Masjid begging Allah for forgiveness,
Some of us are planning
all of the filth that we want to
engage in on the day of Eid in
the most greatest nights
of the year.
All of the evil things that we want
to do on the day of Eid, we
are planning it right now.
What rahmah do we want after this my
brothers and my sisters?
With this great opportunity that Allah is giving
us but we just throw it back against
his direction.
Right?
My brothers and my sisters,
there is a very very important
aspect
of Ramadan that is not mentioned enough.
Everyone here, everyone here
has memorized that dua
that the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam taught
his wife Ayesha When
she came to him and she said,
If I come to know when Laylatul Qadr
is,
what do you advise me to say?
What did he teach her? Allah may naka
a'afoo went to hibbul a'afaa?
Fa'afaaani,
right?
We've heard this du'a a million
times, O Allah, You are a'afoo,
You love to pardon, so pardon me.
Right?
We want Allah's forgiveness,
We are drenched in sins,
and these sins are causing us to be
spiritually dead and empty.
I know this and you know this.
We've been waiting for this opportunity for Iman
to go up and for us to continue
this after.
Right? However, there's a very very important aspect
brothers and sisters.
We want the forgiveness of Allah, right?
Look what Ibnur Rajah of Rahmatullah a'layhi mentions
commenting
on this dua in his kitab lataifil Ma'arif.
Very, very touching.
So much so that I had to memorize
it.
He says,
al Afoo women Asma'illah.
Afoo
is from the names of Allah.
It is Him
who overlooks the sins of His servants.
He who erases
the traces of these evil sins
that we have been carrying out.
Wahu Yuhibbul A'fu, Allah loves the pardon.
Wahu Yuhibbul YIbadi and Youfu Abaadhumanbad,
and He loves
for His servants to forgive one another
and then look what He says and here
comes the catch
that which we struggle with so much.
Once they pardon and forgive one another,
that's when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is going
to forgive them.
Once they forgive and pardon one another, that's
when Allah
is going to forgive them.
Ibn Uqaymi says, Inna baynaqawabein
Allah ikhataya
la yaalamuaylalla.
Indeed there are sins just between you
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala that nobody knows
about.
Faiza ara'taanyaghfirullah
wakfafiranal
khalq
orfa'afafanal
khalq.
If you want Allah to forgive you then
be someone who is ready to forgive others.
What goes around comes around treat the people
the same way you like to be treated
It's not just a nursery rhyme that they
taught us in primary school.
It is an Islamic concept,
right?
How many
siblings are we not speaking to? Forget about
others,
or individuals that are not related to our
siblings,
Some of us are not even talking to
our parents,
or we've cut off our parents,
right?
We are not speaking to our parents, my
brothers and my sisters, because we feel like
they've wronged us.
Right?
Irhamu
turhamu ilfiroo yulfarlakum
as the Messenger salalahu alayhi wa sam said.
It is contingent
conditional to you forgiving others if you want
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's forgiveness.
Why are you not speaking to your sibling
is a question that you need to ask
yourself.
Wallahi, some of the cases that I come
across, Muhammad is not speaking to his brother,
Abdullah. You know why?
Because when
so and so came to ask for Muhammad's
daughter's hand in marriage,
his brother
was not the first one to know. He
came to know about it, he was number
3.
Because he was not number 1, he's cut
him off.
Over the most pettiest of things,
the most trivial of things, we are cutting
people off.
You know what the Messenger Salahi was saying?
Whoever boycotts or forsakes his brother,
doesn't speak to him for a whole year,
it is as if he has spilt his
blood.
Likewise, this whole road man mentality,
where we just beat people up, right?
Or we rob them, or we just harm
them, or we think we can say about
others, whatever we think,
right?
And we hold these grudges
amongst ourselves, forgetting that this individual now that
you're fighting with,
or that you've cut off, or that you've
harmed, is a Muslim
in the eyes of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala,
not realizing exactly what we're playing around with.
You know people always ask how can I
soften up my heart?
Right, I'll tell you guys what it is.
One of those
mechanisms
to softening up the heart is to pick
up that phone, to make that call to
that individual who you're not speaking to,
and to bury the hatch.
And
the best from amongst the 2 is the
one who goes and starts with the salam.
You want Allah to raise you? You want
to walk around with Izzah,
with honor?
As the Messenger
said, never does an individual pardon another except
Allah Azzawajal will increase him in honor.
Wama tawadhahadunillahi
laa rafa Allah Azza wa raised him because
of his humility,
right.
My brothers and my sisters
let me address this, right?
A lot of us might be feeling like
I've not benefited from the month of Ramadan,
and there's only a couple of days left.
To conclude,
Ibn Jazir Hammatullahi
he tells us not to be like a
certain animal.
He says,
He says, you know the horse, the horse,
when it gets to the end of the
race,
it exerts all of its efforts in order
to win that race.
Agreed.
Likewise the 100 meter
racer,
one who sprints
right to the end.
He exerts whatever he has.
I remember many many not many years ago,
maybe a couple of years ago, and he
was on the BBC, I mentioned in a
Khutba,
and his video went viral. There was a
race,
right?
2 guys were reaching the finishing line.
The one who was losing,
as he got to the finishing line he
dived
And he ended up winning, even though he
was losing, but he dived
to get over the line.
And he ended up winning that 100 meter
race or that 200 meter race, I can't
remember exactly,
exerting your efforts. So he's telling us, ibn
al Josi,
don't let the horse be more smarter and
intelligent than you.
If you did not do well,
welcoming the month of Ramadan, perhaps you will
do better bidding it farewell.
Because what really really matters
is how the race finishes,
right?
As Ibnutaymiyarataymiyyah
mentioned,
Hassan al Basir Rahmatullahi
said
try to perfect that which remains
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will forgive
that which has gone by.
Right?
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
allow us to be from those
who take the reminder and they act upon
it. Right?
Allah knows best as to whether we will
get another opportunity.
Stop telling yourself I've got 50 years ahead
of me.
Right?
None of us have a guarantee.
Not so long ago, I think it was
like a week ago, I was driving to
Manchester,
right?
I've been travelling my brothers and my sisters
up and down the country for the last
10 years here in the UK.
I've never
ever seen
a helicopter
on a British motorway, never.
Four
cars they collided with one another it missed
us by a little bit,
That could have been us,
that could be you tomorrow. We have no
guarantee to live for another 24 hours,
Right? Helicopter came to take one of the
casualties.
Right? How many people were sitting with us
around the ifhtari table
last Ramadan that are not with us today,
my brothers and my sisters?
Whenever I break my fast, you know I
remember my younger brother,
right?
Many of you guys know stabbed in the
neck,
passed away. You know how old he was?
24 years of age.
We sat around the Iftari table.
He's not sitting there today,
right?
And you know what he's probably wishing?
He's probably wishing as Ibn al Jazir Ahmad
Tullahi 'alayhi mentioned,
If it was said to the people of
the grave, make a wish.
You know what that wish would be?
One day in the month of Ramadan.
One day in the month of Ramadan,
that guy who was telling you
to go and spend
your time walking around on the streets of
Milton Keynes while the Muslims are praying,
wallahi laddi laa ilaha ghayruh,
this guy has absolutely
no goodness in his heart for you
because this individual is not looking to benefit
you. If he's pulling you away from the
most greatest nights of the year, what khair
does he want for you my friend?
If you look at the Arabic language, how
to say a friend is what, sadeek.
And the root letters are what, sad,
dal and kaf which means to be truthful.
The guy who doesn't advise you is not
a friend.
The one who eggs you on is in
fact your enemy.
To go and do haram that one is
your enemy.
The one who advises you is the one
that you should really really keep close,
right?
And he's not a friend if he's pulling
you away from the house of Allah on
these days.