Abu Taymiyyah – EMOTIONAL KHUTBAH The Masjids Might Close Again!
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Muhammad
My dear respective brothers and sisters,
there is people from amongst us
who ran away with the reward
while this pandemic was going
on. When the masajid closed down,
there is individuals, there is people from amongst
us who inshallah
received an immense reward.
Who are these people?
The messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he said in a hadith,
When the abd,
when the Muslim, the servant of Allah he
becomes sick,
or he travels out,
then for him is the same reward
of that which he used to do
when he was healthy
and when he was residing.
What is the common feature to our situation?
That which we are currently living,
the masajid were closed down.
When an individual becomes sick or he travels,
my brothers and my sisters,
he doesn't have the ability of what he
was able to do before.
And the same applies
when the masajid were closed down,
we weren't able to do that which we
were doing previously.
So these types of individuals who used to
have a relationship
with the house of Allah
their reward continued.
The ujur,
the greatness in that which they used to
do,
Insha'Allah
continued to be noted down
in their records of good deeds.
With all of these articles my brothers and
my sisters,
on the different news outlets,
who constantly keep telling us that there might
be another pandemic.
The masajid might close down again,
we might find ourselves in lockdown once again.
My brothers and my sisters,
this opportunity, this nama that we have,
wallahi could be
the reason why we either get prevented from
entering into aljannah,
or we are given the permission to go
inside.
This great reward,
this great blessing
that has been
open up to us once again,
the Messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he said in a hadith as narrated
by Al Imam Muslim,
The prayer that a person prays in congregation,
it is multiplied
by 25
times, then when he prays in his house,
and when he prays in the sukh, in
the markets.
And then the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam
said,
And that is if,
he makes wudu in his home, he perfects
it, does his wudu properly,
and then he leaves the rasalah.
And the only thing that has caused him
to leave his home was none other than
the salah.
There's not a step that one takes,
except that Allah is raising him in rank.
And a sin is removed from him,
for every step that he takes, all the
way up to the Masjid.
And if he prays the they
keep making dua for that individual,
as long as he remains
in his place of prayer.
Allahumma sali alaihi, Allahummarhamhu,
they ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to raise you in rank, to forgive you
from all the sins that you have.
They ask Allah Azza Wajal, O Allah have
mercy upon this abd, upon this soul.
And they will keep doing that as long
as you remain in that place.
My brothers and my sisters,
let us contemplate on that blind man,
who came to the Messenger salallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
The blind man my brothers and my sisters
that came to the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam,
This man says to the Messenger sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, You Rasoolullah,
I do not have anyone
who can take me to the masjid, I'm
a blind man, look at me.
The messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam
gave him the permission to pray at home,
And when he was
walking back to his home, the messenger salallahu
alaihi wa sallam called him,
he said come.
And he asked him the question,
Can you hear the azaan?
Can you hear the azaan?
He said, Naham,
He told him to answer the call of
prayer.
This is a blind man my brothers and
my sisters,
a blind man who was told to answer
the call of prayer.
Where do me and you stand?
These blessings that we have,
that we might not necessarily
see much of it,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can take it away
in a heartbeat,
If Allah willed, He would have taken away
their hearing and their seeing, their sight.
Indeed Allah azza wa jal is capable of
all things.
You know my brothers and my sisters,
a year and a half or so ago,
I saw a video
of a crippled paralyzed
child,
who every single salah
calls to the masjid.
And it was going viral all over Twitter,
and people were commenting feeling so sorry for
that child.
You know my brothers and my sisters,
I try to count
the amount of seconds that it takes him
to get up,
11 seconds it takes him to get up
from the ground.
Crawls to the masjid, when he enters into
the masjid,
11 seconds it takes him to stand up
from the ground,
and then walks towards the early sufuf, the
front rows,
and then he prays and then he goes
home again.
This is the kind of effort
that some people are making to go to
the masjid.
Where do me and you stand?
Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he says in
another hadith,
Messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
the intention came into his heart
that I ask for somebody to collect logs
and wood.
Then I ask
somebody to do the azaan,
and then someone leads the people in prayer.
And then after I've appointed an imam to
lead the people in congregation,
I go to the homes
of those
who don't attend the masjid,
and I burn their homes.
This is the messenger of salallahu alaihi wa
sallam, it crossed his mind
to carry this out.
And then the messenger of salah alaihi wa
sallam swears by Allah
and he
says,
By the one whom my soul is in
his hand.
If one knew my brothers and my sisters,
that in the Masajid,
and they would distribute,
they would distribute.
What is this?
It is a very tender type of meat.
A bone that has tender type of meat
on it.
All the other, you know the meats that
we don't eat are removed from it.
The meat that is between the ribs
was to be distributed in the masjid, everybody
would go there.
Allah we see it in our masjid,
how packed the masjid becomes athuor time because
there is a walima in the masjid.
And this is my brothers and my sisters
for what?
Some meat in order to fill our stomachs,
that we're going to defecate out into the
toilet,
with all these reward that we get,
for just coming to the house of Allah
My brothers and my sisters,
some of our sisters who are watching or
maybe attending are wondering to themselves,
I'm missing out
by not being
able to attain such great rewards.
Walaqin,
who said that this is only limited to
a man,
even though it is the man who must
attend the masajid.
With all of these evidences, clearly shows how
much of an obligation it is.
Our sisters can take inspiration from the hadith
of Abi Hurairah.
When the messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
May Allah have mercy upon the woman
who wakes up in the night
in order to pray.
And after she's prayed, she wakes up a
husband,
so he can engage in prayer as well.
And if he refuses,
she takes water and she sprinkles it on
his face.
Yes, this hadith is speaking about the night
prayer.
But we know my brothers and my sisters,
encouraging,
advising,
one to go and do that good,
He is the Musharik, the one that participates
in that reward as well.
As the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
Never does a person direct to good,
except that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is going
to reward him for it as well, and
he won't take anything away from his reward.
That takes me to Allah's point today my
brothers and my sisters.
These blessings that were taken away from us,
Why does this happen?
And I want everybody here to just really
think about this
when walking home.
Ibn Qayyim Rahimullah Wa Ta'ala he says,
Never does Allah azza wa Jal take a
blessing
away from an individual.
Except,
it is because of them
leaving of the taqwa of Allah In
a nutshell,
doing what Allah
told you to do and to stay away
from the things that Allah told you to
stay away from.
And also
harming others,
being bad towards them.
These are the blessings that are taken away
from individual because of these two things.
Think about it for a moment,
what is happening around the world today? And
what could possibly happen
when this new second wave arrives,
that just about every news outlet is speaking
about, which could possibly happen
with the way things are going.
This hadith that is so profound,
the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam he said,
There's never a time
when filth
becomes so widespread.
There's never a time that that happens, so
much so, that people begin to publicize it.
They profess it openly.
Except that a plague will be sent down
upon them, and all types of diseases.
Something that the previous people were never afflicted
with.
I really my brothers and my sisters,
want us all to ponder upon this point.
Has it ever been witnessed
the kind of filth today that is being
propagated in our communities,
that is being so normalized?
Our Muslim parents, and brothers, and sisters
are at war
with their schools, with what they wanna propagate
to our young children.
You know my brothers and my sisters, and
we're not gonna get time for this, I
really wanted to read out stats
about *.
So much so that this is becoming
a pandemic, worse than the coronavirus.
Of all of these stats on my phone,
of how today my brothers and my sisters,
you know how you have the games industry,
the games that our young children they play,
it's around something like 1 point
4,000,000,000 dollars industry has become.
And * today,
by 2,025,
it is expected to reach a $1,000,000,000.
It is expected to become
a
$1,000,000,000 industry.
And then I was reading the stats related
to our young ones,
how today
those who have reached the age of 25,
something like 90%.
They don't see it to be something bad,
to be discussing and propagating and, you know,
openly to talk about it.
This is the pandemic
that today
our kids
could
find themselves
in a war with.
And that just leaves us my brothers and
my sisters to just
really work on ourselves,
to return back to Allah
Another does a person make tawbah from a
blessing that has been taken away, except that
Allah
returns it back to him.
As mentioned by Ibn Taym And
to conclude,
Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam he said,
And this is the cure for all of
our problems.
Messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam said, There's never
a time
when
al Reena, which is a form of riba,
usury, becomes widespread.
And you begin to chase the tails of
cows,
and you become satisfied with the dunya, the
lands and the crops that you have,
and you leave of the correct form of
Allah Azzawajal will send down upon you humiliation,
and he won't remove this humiliation
until
you come back to your religion.