Abu Taymiyyah – LAST CHANCE ! DEATH IS INEVITABLE RAMADHAN 2017
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Brothers and sisters,
very quick reminder
not taking more than 15 to
20 minutes,
to remind ourselves firstly
and then our brothers and sisters. Secondly,
Why? Because the reminder, it benefits the believer.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he says in the
Quran,
Remind for indeed, the reminder it benefits the
believers.
But before I speak about some of the
points that I want to, insha Allah,
bring to your attention about these last few
days that
remain
in the month of Ramadan,
I just want to maybe all of us
to think about and pose this question to
ourselves.
This prayer that we prayed right now, Salatul
Asr, that we prayed a couple of minutes
ago.
Did we pray this prayer
like that which of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, he mentioned the Hadith.
If any of you stands up for the
prayer, then pray your farewell prayer.
Did we feel like that we prayed that
prayer as the farewell prayer?
The prayer that
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he told
us to perfect in the best possible way,
simply because we're not going to be or
we might not be able to reach another
prayer.
And I've mentioned this time and time again,
a lot of lectures I've given this month.
One of the points that I try to
stress a lot is this point.
Pray the farewell prayer because we might not
be able to get another prayer.
Some of these things that are happening around
us brothers and sisters,
if the Greffel Tower, the tower that was
burnt down in West London
wasn't a big enough reminder,
a couple of days later,
we ended up having another reminder.
Some of the calamities, the
fatalities that took place in Finsbury Park.
A couple of days after that, some of
the things that happened brothers and sisters around
us is a reminder to all of us
that we might not be able to reach
another Ramadan.
If the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam And
brothers and sisters, pay attention to this hadith.
If you told us about the salat,
in every day we pray 5 daily prayers.
Between each prayer is just a couple of
hours.
And on top of that, we have been
told to pray the salat muhdiya'in,
the farewell prayer.
How about the month of Ramadan?
Between this Ramadan and the next Ramadan,
it's another 12 months.
Don't you think that's ola foremost
that we try to take opportunity of these
remaining days
because we might not be able to get
another Ramadan? There's a high possibility we could
pass away.
It's
all, you know, very easy to say with
our tongues
that death is inevitable
and that life is not guaranteed. It's very
easy to say with our tongues.
But how many of us actually live it
as a reality?
We live
that
death could happen to us anytime, just like
it happened to some of our brothers and
sisters. Finesse Bih Park was the Masjid I
grew up in.
Them two Masjid that you have in there
as a young kid, we used to go
there nearly
every single week in the month of Ramadan,
every single night.
It was our local Masjid,
Could have happened to any of us.
We never know in the next few days,
someone might run up on this masjid.
Someone might do something crazy outside the masjid
in a car park.
What guarantee do we have, especially with all
these crazy stuff taking place from these far
right racist
groups that are going after Muslims. Every now
and again, we receive a video.
The other day I received the video on
of a guy who has a hammer
threatening the Muslims. Anybody that comes near him,
he's gonna hit him right here.
The safety how he used to be is
not the same. And this is the reality
that we need to make ourselves aware of.
So our point is brothers and sisters,
we have
a couple of days remaining. Let's put it
in this way. When a person, he's running
a 100 meter race, that 100 meters,
we all know how much he wants to
win.
He's going to try his utmost best throughout
that race.
And in the last few meters, he's going
to try even harder.
Some scholars like Ibn Taymah Rahimullah Ta'ala and
Ibn Al Khaym, they mentioned.
It's about how it finishes.
The ibra is how the race finishes.
We have a couple of days. This is
the time when we should be burning ourselves
out.
We should be trying our utmost best, whatever
energy that we have, especially throughout the nights
to try and do as much as we
can. This is why insha Allahu ta'ala I
want to mention a couple of points.
Four points of how we can practically utilize
these last few days.
The two points, the first two points are
both mentioned
in one hadith collectively.
For those who don't have work and they
don't have commitments,
one of the things that we could really
try to do in these last few days
is not sleep throughout the night.
The second point,
to aid and assist our
family members in doing the righteous deeds.
And both of these points they were mentioned
in hadith. Aisha
she said,
The hadith is in Bukharian Muslim. That when
the last 10 days entered, the prophet salallahu
alaihi wasallam,
he would tighten his belt, figurative speech.
Or maybe in Somali terms, he would tighten
his Ma'awis.
Some of the scholars, they mentioned that he
would up his game in the last 10
days. Some of them they mentioned that
he would leave his wives to the side.
He was trying to busy himself with these
and he would also encourage his family members
to stand up in this
last few days. Also you have the hadith
of
That when the prophet
prayed with them
on the 23rd night and also on the
25th night,
On the 27th,
he called out his family
and he woke up his wives
to pray on this day.
Specifically on this day. So some of the
scholars they looked at this and they said,
it is most hope that on this night,
it is most likely to be later to
Qadr, on this night. And also you have
the hadith, the narration of
It was mentioned that the laylatul khadr is
on his 27th
But again brothers and sisters, there's other narrations
that some scholars they feel that it could
have been more on the 23rd and 25th.
So in order to get out of all
this and
the disputation
and to, you know, argue with one another,
especially in the last 10 days of when
it will be, is to really strive on
every single day.
Just to get out of his khilaf
because even after
mentioning this generation in Buluq Al Maram, you
will find he said,
The scholars have differed
with over 40 views
of when laylatul khadr could exactly be.
So this is the scholars.
This is the scholars,
the people of knowledge, those who dedicated their
lives
with ilm,
who differed and they have different views
on what leaders of Qadr could be. This
is why I always say to the brothers
and sisters in Mahavirat,
you'll find that in America they will say
to, okay we have morning.
In the other side of the world we
have an evening, we have a night.
So if it's 23 over there, then it's
24 here. When will later be?
This is a some of the
questions that gets posed.
This is why the scholars, they say a
person, he strives on every single day of
the last 10 days. But he ups his
game even more because you find the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam he said,
Try to look for it in the last
10 days. Then you have another hadith that
specifies it.
Try to look for in the last 10
days. Whoever becomes lazy, whoever becomes weak, then
don't let the last 7 days slip away
from him. Then another hadith,
try to search for it in the odd
nights of the last 10 days. So they
said the last 10 days, you up your
game.
You get to the last 7 even more,
you even get better
and stronger in your ibadat.
Then you get to the organized and even
bigger and stronger.
Just so you don't end up missing out.
Also, you find brothers and sisters, as I
mentioned, these are the days when we try
to burn ourselves out.
If we have the ability and we don't
have other commitments that prevent us from this,
that we don't sleep, the night is very
very short.
You have the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
who as Allah tells them,
His past and his future sins, they were
forgiven. He was walking on the face of
this earth knowing he was guaranteed aljannah.
And that he doesn't have any sins.
And on top of that, look how he
would burn himself out
to such an extent where aisha would say,
why are you doing this to yourself?
His feet have become so swollen when Allah
has forgiven your past and future sins.
He will say,
shall I not be a thankful slave?
A very thankful one because shukor is Sirqatul
Mubalaka, there's a difference between saying shakir and
shukor.
It's like saying the sometimes,
we call an individual kadab straight away. There's
a difference between kadib and kadab.
Kadab is excessive liar. Shakir and shukur shukur
is an excessive. Someone who excessively thanks Allah
azza wa jal.
The point is, brothers and sisters,
if this is the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam
who had all this glamour around him, us
masakeen,
people who are so daith, we sin. None
of us is perfect. We make
mistakes all the time.
Don't know you think brother and sister, nahlu
We should be doing this more than anyone
else.
And it's a form of showing gratitude to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in your prayer.
To be thankful, one of the ways to
be thankful of all the blessings that Allah
gave us is through the prayer.
Because of the relation of this hadith.
Some other ways to thank Allah very quickly
is by your tongue.
Through your tongue as well to say, Alhamdulillah,
for whatever Allah gave us.
Also then to do sajjatashukr.
Have we ever done sajjatashukr? Is it part
of our lives?
That anytime when a new blessing came to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he would
hasten.
Glad tidings came to him, a good piece
of news, he would hasten during his day,
he's a shukr.
So I shayhi, the brothers and sisters,
To spend these times as much as we
can in Ibadah and to wake up our
families as well.
Another important point I wanted to mention brothers
and sisters, still related to this is,
sometimes you find when we're praying with the
imam, we we get very very tired.
And some people might feel embarrassed to do
this, to pray sitting down.
Ibn Qudam
he
said, Ajma'ulullah,
there's no khilah between the scholars. That is
permissible
for a person when it comes to the
voluntary prayers and nawafil to pray sitting down
even without a udur,
even if it doesn't have an excuse. The
imams taking very long. We wanna have that
ajal, that beautiful ajal the prophet told us
about.
Whoever prays with the imam until he finishes,
he gets the reward of praying throughout the
whole night.
We might get tired and it's you know,
very easy for us to maybe just get
out the prayer and and leave.
But you have this virtue that we might
miss out in. And what better is to
get the reward of being able to,
you know, get the reward of praying throughout
the whole night and
on that day of late Al Qadar.
So if you get tired, as the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said, it was in
Hadid, Hadid Imran al Hussain.
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said,
Whoever pray standing up, then this is more
virtuous, this is more preferable.
Whoever plays sitting down, he gets half of
the reward of the person who's standing up.
And whoever prays
while lying down, he gets half the reward
of the person
who is praying, sitting down.
So don't feel embarrassed just because the people
are going to look at you and they're
going to think, okay this guy, why is
he so lazy for? Why is he praying
sitting down? The prophet shalallahu alaihi wasallam
never left of 2 prayers from his voluntary
prayers. Raka'at al fajar. The 2 raka'at that
a person he prays before fajar.
And also tahajjud.
While traveling
and also while
residing on a normal day. That's 2 prayers
he never used to leave off
because of the virtue that comes with it.
The 2 rakaaatahwalfajr
is better than everything in a dunya
and that which comes with
it. Is
better than a dunya and everything in it.
But there would be times when the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam become, you know, tired,
become lazy
and he would pray sitting down.
So this is a prophet shalallahu alaihi wa
sallam, shouldn't be feel ashamed or should feel
tired and because of it or what the
people think,
of what the people think, we let these
great rewards slip away from us. And you
know one thing, brothers and sisters that the
scholars mentioned, you can find with the salif,
one of the ways that a person will
find utter enjoy, utter, you know, inner peace,
inner peace in his heart, the moment he
stops caring about what people think, even though
it's off topic, but feel like, let me
mention this.
The moment you stop caring about what people
think,
it's one of the means of, you know,
gaining inner peace.
You feel enjoyment, you feel contention in your
heart.
So why Imam Malik Rahimullah Ta'ala said,
Try to rectify that which is between you
and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And Allah is
the order will rectify that which is be
you between you and then us.
You and the people.
Aisha radhiallahu ta'ala Anha, she used to say,
pleasing the people
is an objective you can never meet.
The moment you stop caring and everything that
you do, you don't care about what people
say. Between you is just pleasing Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. That's all you care about.
You find that it will come agile.
It will come to you quicker.
Being
from those who, you know, ends up obtaining
this inner peace that a person or that
most people they crave and they strive to
achieve.
So as we mentioned,
not to let that great virtue slip away
from you
is to by pray even if you can't
pray sitting down, and this is something that
is perfectly fine.
Another point I wanted to mention brothers and
sisters, when we look at Surat Al Alaq
and Surat Al Qadah, when
one who ponders upon the Quran, he will
see that. So the way the Quran has
been arranged,
sometimes you find that some chapters, if you
look at the chapter after it, or you
look at the chapter before it, there sometimes
seems to be a correlation, a connection.
And this is a very nice Latifa.
When we look at Surah Al Alakh, you
find that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us and teaches
us that
of
how the Quran came down.
Surah Al Qadar teaches us when the Quran
came down,
how and when.
That's one of the many connections. The other
point I want to really drive home is,
Allah says to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
Do not follow Abajal.
Then He says,
Prostrate to Allah
and get closer to him. And get closer
to
seek closeness to Allah
When we look at the next surah as
well,
what is the best opportunity
of getting closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and how and when?
When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, prostrate to
him and get closer to him, the second
story talks about Laylatul Qadr.
The night
of Al Qadr
is the best opportunity that a person could
have in gaining closest to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And speaking generally, the late,
the night.
And also in the sujood. We have this
in other hadith. Just to show you also
that the sunnah explains the Quran and there's
a very close connection. You have a hadith
with your prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
he
said,
The closest that the servant he gets to
his Lord is while frustrating.
And you do that on Why? Because you
are engaging in
Not the hadith that you have also to
show you when is the closest that the
Lord He gets to the servant.
The closest that Allah now before you mentioned
the servant to the Lord, that Allah gets
to the servant is the last part of
the night. Then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
he said,
If you can be from those who
spend quality time in the night
of praying and being engaging in Ibarat,
then let it be
it. So that's another beautiful latifa that I
wanted to,
mention.
The third thing is, especially to our brothers
who are doing atikaf,
and just generally speaking is to seclude yourself
from the people
as much as you can.
This is not as some people might put
it forward a to be a Sufi thing.
It's not a Sufi thing.
What did a prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
used to do? In the month of Ramadan,
he would climb up the mountain for a
couple of hours
and he will seclude himself from the people.
He will seclude himself from the people. He
would engage
in reading the Quran
as the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Azim
Abbaas radiya in another hadith. He told us,
Jibril used to come to him and he
used to, you know, revise the Quran with
him. So prophet assalam used to cut off
from the people
and he find the more
you are is places like maybe the masjid,
it's very hard to kind of cut yourself
off from the people but you have to
go out your way to telling the people
to leave you alone.
We don't come and do it iatikaf to
socialize.
Especially in these
last few golden moments that we have.
Rather to cut off from the people to,
you know, be in your corner,
And if someone does try to take away
from your time
to really tell him that
this is the time that you have for
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to really engage in Dhikr, in a dua,
especially, which is the next point. That brings
me to the next point.
Point number 4, brothers and sisters,
is the issue of dua.
She said to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, you Rasool Allah, if I come to,
you know, in agreement with Laylatul Qadr,
What do I say? What do I read?
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, say, Allahumaynaq
A'afoo. O Allah, You are someone who loves
to pardon.
To hit Bul A'fa, you love to pardon
your servants.
Pardon my sins.
Also something that we learned, brothers and sisters,
all of us we want this pardoning.
We want Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive
us. There's an incentive there
that we all
are striving especially in these last few days.
But when you look at the insan,
most of the time you find that he
wants something but it's very difficult for him
to give.
We want Allah to pardon us but are
we from those who find it easy to
pardon others?
How many people are upset with us? Or
how many people
are we upset with?
And it could be over the most pathetic,
meaningless, worthless of points.
Why didn't he call me to the wedding?
Wallahi, this
is I believe is insane.
Family ties are broken. Why? Because
not just because he never called him to
the wedding,
but even in some case you find
he didn't call him, maybe he didn't tell
him 3 months before the wedding time.
He told him maybe a couple of weeks,
that's not good enough.
I see it with my own eyes.
Family ties are broken.
The closest of those who are
in your family. Those who the prophet said,
The one who cuts his family ties, this
person, he won't enter into a jannah.
Allah
says,
These are the people that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala has cursed, he's deafened them and he's
blinded them.
Pardon and forgive. Don't you want
Allah to forgive you? Look at the incentive
behind it.
The connection between the ad,
doing something and also the Lord giving this
person something.
So this is brothers and sisters, we they
say, you know, on later turqadr on the
on these days,
see, we don't wanna specify this
night
as a prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
used to strive in so much and he's
last like no other. They say on these
days it's easier
to reconcile between those who have problems amongst
themselves.
Why? Because they are the best nights. The
rahmah is coming down.
So when the malai can come down, the
rahmah and the blessings, everything is coming down.
So these are the times, brother and sister,
that we as people even though it's going
to be very tough,
very very tough. You know he's the one
that wronged you but he's so empathetic and
you shouldn't be keeping silent for more than
3 days.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam told us, the
best of them
is the one who goes and starts with
the salaam.
You wanna be from the best of them,
then here it is.
And the last point,
brothers and sisters,
is just generally engaging in dua.
Khutba that I gave her, I pointed out
a beautiful point that
our sheikh and the prophet's masjid, Sheikh Abdul
Razaqal better he mentioned that Ramadan has a
special relationship with the issue of dua.
When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentioned the ayat
of siam in Suratul Baqarah.
Then Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala said what?
The third one,
Then the one after,
So you have 3 ayaat,
and in between is the eye of a
dua.
Says the lateef and I is beautiful fayid
that I mentioned the special relationship he has
with the month of Ramadan
to really engage in dua.
We might not get this opportunity again as
time and time again we have mentioned. Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
3 people don't have their dua rejected. Until
he breaks it.
Misconception that people have, they believe is only
at a time of iftar
and even then you have the likes of
Ibn Uthayim who say there's a waf in
the hadith, there's a weakness in the hadith.
Like every person who's fasting has a dawad
that is mustajab at the time of breaking
his fast.
Some scholars have disputed the authenticity of the
hadith, but one thing that's very for sure,
and that's an authentic hadith,
the one who's fasting
until he breaks it. You have 18 hours
with all the problems, the issues that we
have in our lives.
Our kids are on the streets. Every now
and again I'm hearing a story.
Recently, a family member, I hear about something
crazy has taken place.
They're up to craziness, they're up to, you
know, absolute mischief,
fighting and hurting and hammering each other's faces
over the most dumbest of reasons. Sometimes
we've tried and we've tried and we've tried
with the issue of a dua,
especially in the last part of night.
So Vihan al Thawri mentioned a very beautiful
benefit and I'm going to conclude with this
insha Allah ta'ala. He said,
Addu'afitil
kalaylati ahabbu I rayamin as salat. Sufianath Thori,
the great tabiye. These are names, brothers and
sisters, that we should be memorizing and we
should be
knowing. It's very okay. We memorize the names
of Ronaldo and
Messi and Pock back and all of these
other famous footballers that we know. These are
the salif that we need to try to
be like.
The greatest of the terabiyyaayn al Suhra. He
said,
a dua in this night is more beloved
to me than praying.
This is his position. This is what's his
view.
And then he mentioned also,
Having excessive dua is more preferable
than the prayer where there's no dua in
it.
But also if a person combines with 2
that has had a khair on adim.
So while you're praying in the last part
because there's a specification
of was mentioned.
But also on top of that, a person
is not oblivious
of making du'a.
So you're already in the last part of
the night which is a means of istijaba.
It's a means of istijaba.
Then in your sujood also,
you make dua. You have
on top of Istijabah. Your dua being accepted
and then there's another great means of your
dua being accepted.
In your sujood,
strive to make dua.
For indeed your dua will get accepted straight
away.
So you're on later to qadr.
You're on the last part of the night.
Then on top of that you are a
sajid,
you are frustrating to Allah.
Ibn Taym Rahimullah Ta'ala says,
there's not a time that a person
make his dua
except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave him the
success to do so, so that he can
respond back to him. But you find most
of the people they don't make dua.
Someone has become so difficult amongst the people.
Living in this country makes you so,
you know, attached to the creation
of them doing things for
you. They could be one du'a that you
make.
That you turn to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
for.
Allah is shy, He's generous, that when a
servant, He puts His hands up to Him,
that He sends him back empty handed. So
to combine between the 2, in the last
night of the day, when you're done here,
you could go and pray as long as
you
This is actually a point that I wanted
to mention. It just came to my mind
now. A lot of people, they tend to
ask this question. They say, I wanna pray
with the imam. I wanna get that reward
that we mentioned.
Whoever prays with the imam until he finishes,
he gets the reward of praying throughout the
whole night. But they say, I wanna go
pray at night by myself as well because
I'm secluded, I'm by myself, it's better for
my Ikhlas.
Find as many aqwal pertaining this.
Find different scholars have taken different views and
Abdul Karim al Khudayri took this position is
a very close one when you do jam
Abdi Adillah
and it's a more technical,
fiqh issue
that might be a bit technical to understand,
but I'm just going to mention, I'm going
to conclude this In shaa Allahu Ta'ala.
You have a number of Hadith,
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam he said,
make the last prayer that you pray the
witter and his command here.
So when the prophet
commands something,
then we know that the asl of it,
the base ruling, the origin of that command
is that is why we have to do
it.
So now if the prophet told you to
make the last prayer
your witter,
that means you can't pray another prayer after
that if you pray with the imam.
And there's another hadith where the prophet said,
You can't pray 2 wither in the 1
night.
So what the scholars they say is, and
it's a very so you could, you know,
get the,
you can get the you can get the
reward of by praying by yourself and engaging
and praying the last part and also praying
with the imam.
That when the imam now, he finishes his
witter,
that a person he stands up
and he turns into sheikh.
So while the imam is praying 3, he
ends up standing up after the prayer it's
done. And he'll get what is mentioned in
the hadith.
You now pray till the imam finished. So
you go under the hadith
and then you go pray at home
and then when you're done with the prayer
that you're praying, you pray your witter. Whether
it's 1 raka'ah, whether it's 3 raka'ah, whether
it's 5 raka'ah, that's entirely up to you.
Prophet
Whoever wants to do with her of 5,
so he wants to do 3, so he
wants to do 1. He can most certainly,
do so, inshaAllah.
We ask Allah
to benefit us from this short reminder
and to make us from those who really
benefit from these last 10 days.
And we ask Allah azza wa jal to
give
us another Ramadan as well.
You know, we ask Allah azza to give
us this other Ramadan. We know the virtues
of this being able to reach the another
Ramadan, the salaf. They used to ask Allah
for 6 months
to accept their Ramadan for 6 months. Then
the next 6 months they would ask Allah
to help them reach
the next Ramadan.