Abu Taymiyyah – The Ummah is suffering & you’re busy speaking about Biddah, Shirk & Tawheed
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May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accept our prayers,
also our fasting
and also our du'a that we made in
the month of Ramadan.
As it is not hidden from you, the
day of Eid was a day of happiness,
a day of enjoyment,
a day when the family they get together,
they enjoy themselves, a day of eating and
drinking.
Even the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told us
about the day of Eid.
The day of Al Fitar that just passed.
The day of Al Naha, the next Eidah
comes. The day of Ayam Al Tashrikh.
They are the days of celebration, the aya
for the Muslimen.
They
are days of eating and drinking.
Some of the scholars
people like
Nur
Athimin they hold the position that the Eid
it lasts 3 days. But that's an opinion.
Brothers and sisters, there's specific thing that I
want to speak about today inshallah wu ta'ala
that I personally feel it is crucial,
vital,
and, very much important.
Allahu ala brothers and sisters.
The situation of some of our Muslim brothers
in the Middle East.
Most of us we were able to celebrate
without any problems. Our kids were happy. We
were able to go to Toys R Us,
WH Smith, and buy the Batman and the
Spiderman for our kids.
It means the world to us for our
kids
to be happy especially on the day of
Eid. And for them to be happy on
this day, it's a magnificent thing that we
all try to do.
Brothers and sisters,
I know it's a day of happiness these
days
and I apologize for gate crashing the party
but
there is a lot of our Muslim brothers
and sisters
our kids
in the Middle East they didn't even have
a loaf of bread to eat on the
8th day. Let alone be happy and get
gifts.
You know we as a Muslim Ummah, as
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi was telling me told
us
The believing brother with his other brother they're
like a building.
Each part of the building strengthens the other.
It came in another hadith.
If one part of the body is going
through pain, going through suffering, then the whole
body
begins to suffer from a problem in the
sickness.
So we as Muslims
are like 1 body
and it's very very hard brothers and sisters
not to or to have
to be able to celebrate Al Eid
without having this thought
of our Muslim brothers on the back of
our mind.
Just before the day of Eid there was
videos going around of some of our kids
being
pulled out of the rubble. Bombs were going
off. They are suffering. They have nothing to
eat. Just they were collecting for the orphans.
Some of them who have no parents. Their
parents have passed away.
Brothers and sisters,
the point I'm trying to insha Allahu Ta'ala
is get to
until when are we going to see this
taking place?
When will Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reinstall the
happiness?
And there is a back into the Muslim
Ummah.
It's very very clear. Wallahi it is no
rocky science, it doesn't require intelligent person to
come, a person of intellect. So I cannot
understand
what the change should be.
Ibn Uthimur Rhamuwwala Ta'ala told us in Majmar
al Fattawa
I haven't seen anything
that feeds the mind
and also the soul.
And it also preserves the person's body
And it guarantees happiness.
This is what everybody wants right? Happiness
in our personal life and also in a
Muslim
Ummaha. Then constantly looking
into the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
There is not a problem brothers and sisters
except that he was discussed to us in
the Quran. Allah tells us.
Allah tells us, Never did Allah send down
the sickness
except that He sent a pure religion.
If we want the happy life that we
are looking for, whether it is between our
families, husband and wife, father and son, mother
and daughter,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells in the Quran.
2 conditions are mentioned. Whoever
from the male and the female,
he does good deeds
and he is also a believer.
This person we are going to give him
a happy life.
We can try whatever means
in order to solve our problems.
And the people have tried.
They have protested enough.
They have signed as many petitions.
Is the situation of the Muslim Ummah changing?
Is it getting better? Is our problems being
solved?
We have tried every means, and we are
going to carry on trying every means. But
the math is very very simple. I never
said this to you, rather it is the
prophet Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that told us
for any problem that comes down what to
do. Allah tells in the Quran in a
very very simple way.
We will give them authority upon the face
of this earth.
Just like the people before they were given
authority.
And these people they will also
be established and given authority
upon the face of this earth. When will
this happen?
When the people know they start singling out
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala with Tawhid and they
stay away from shirk.
Someone might be wondering now okay do we
have anyone in the community who watches statues?
Is this something that is common in our
society? Is this something that we even see
taking place?
Brothers and sisters
that is not the only form of shit
that takes place
in our society and that is very widespread.
From the most common problems that people call
me about
and they are currently suffering from suffering from
issehar.
Some people are possessed. Jil possession.
Something very very common. I don't know exactly
here. But in Lesta in certain places, it
is very very common. Going to a magician,
taking something that is called the ta'weez.
Also the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam explained
to us. It is very very common in
our society.
The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told us
It's a form of shirk that Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala will not uplift the Ummah suffering
until the people they remove these things.
He told us whoever hands their talisman
you will see this in many communities.
Whoever hands these talismans, these Ta'weez and Somali
they've got a white threadbare, curly, cross my
mind.
Whoever hangs this,
this person has fallen into ship. Brothers and
sisters wallahi,
time and time again a person is suffering
from jinn,
he's suffering from magic. He calls me the
first question I tend to ask them, do
you have a ta'weez around you?
And guess what brothers and sisters, sometimes in
the back, sometimes in the clothes, sometimes it
is somewhere in the house.
The possessed individual they can't hide the alarm.
Difficult for them. The Iba'ada becomes difficult upon
them. How do we expect any sort of
problem to be solved in our lives? When
the means we have taken it is from
the worst of the things. And you know
brothers and sisters wallahi
I've worked with brothers pertaining this
95%
of these things that's are wrapped up that
the people give to each other. As long
as you wear a mashallah you're fine. He
has the names of Firaun.
The names of kaman, Ta'um, Abu Lahd,
Iblis.
The most recent one that we opened it
has in there. We are worshipers of Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
These are kabakana things brothers and sisters that
is very very common in our society.
Likewise, calling on to other than Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Sometimes the problem happens, we might call on
to Ali Radiallahu an. It is still
a Jahiliya trait,
a ignorant trade that we still find in
our communities.
Brothers and sisters of Allah we can try
whatever we want.
The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa Salam, he told
us when the problems will be taken away.
And now brothers and sisters just check with
me this hadith.
Do you not find a lot of the
people they are engaged in that which is
mentioned in the hadith?
I'm not saying anyone has fallen into it
here, but you just judge for yourself.
He told us,
Once you start dealing with Riba,
interest based
or Riba based transactions
and you start chasing the dunya
chasing the tails of the cows.
And you have now become satisfied with that
which you have in the dunya, Your crops
and your fields that you're working for.
And then the Prophet said, wa ta'alaqtu min
jihad. You have left of a jihad
And there's many forms of a jihad. The
Ibni Taimaqimullah Ta'ala mentioned in his kitabzad and
Mi'al.
Jihad and ness is one of them, which
is to stop yourselves from the Muharramat.
The fitin, the shubaat, and the shawwat, you
prevent yourself from it. You control yourself when
there's a temptation, when there's a yaw that
you want, when there is a transaction of
haram
that you know money could come out of
it very very easily, but you know it's
just haram, you stop yourself from it. And
then you have the other forms of a
jihad that was mentioned.
What will happen? The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
told us,
Allah
will send down upon your humiliation until you
come back to religion.
No no no brothers before someone gets the
wrong impression, I am not trying to encourage
the people to go and fight.
To go and join Aizdawullah, I'm not doing
this.
Rather what we're trying to say is the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told us until
you come back to your religion.
The Maasi that might be in our lives,
remember brothers and sisters when we sin other
people are suffering.
Zaynah bin Jashar radiAllahu anhu. She said to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
Will we be destroyed and amongst us other
salikhun?
The prophet said,
no. When evil
becomes so common and widespread amongst the people,
everybody will be destroyed.
When the earthquake comes and it takes a
country or it takes a city, is it
going to call the rightist guy okay listen
I'm coming get yourself ready leave? Wallahi's going
to come and he's going to take everyone.
Brothers and sisters, wallahi we can try as
much as we can.
We need to
nakif end the Khudoodillahi subhanahu wa ta'ala. There's
many temptations that we know ourselves that we
are falling into that we need to stay
away from. If only we looked at the
shahada,
and we studied it properly, which a lot
of people don't know. What does the nasa
part of the shahada mean?
What Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told you you
do it straight away.
Whatever he said you believe it straight away.
And everything he criticized
he warned against
he told us that it's haram we stay
away from it straight away.
This is what the latter part of the
shahadah means. Now we ask ourselves, when a
command comes down do we submit to it?
Are we from those that mentioned in the
ayah?
We have submitted to it, we listen and
we obey.
Brothers and sisters,
The Tawhid should come first before anything else
if only the people use as the poet
mentioned.
You know brothers and sisters,
I personally believe
that the Muslim Ummah is suffering
because we have gone away from the fundamentals
of our religion.
Learning a Tawhid, studying it, putting a lot
of effort into it, teaching our children from
the names of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
Awal.
What does that mean?
If you look now in our Quran and
likewise in the sunnah of
was telling you find
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala should be given
precedence to everything. When we wake up in
the morning what do we say?
We have woken up upon the
We wake up upon Tawhid. We go the
sleep on Tawhid.
The first command in the book of Allah
is the Tawhid.
The first prohibition in the Quran
it is to study from shift.
When a person or a baby newly born
baby he enters into this world,
Again Tawhid. A person is dying
again a Tawhid.
Our whole life, brother says, is a Tawhid.
When we worship in Allah as the wajan,
if we are not doing it with sincerity,
solely for Allah what is the salat? The
janaza.
The sadaqa.
Whatever we are doing, if it is not
connected with al Islamat, a tawhid,
nothing is being accepted from us. Our whole
life problems is a Tawhid.
And likewise it is the Amrul that we
need to especially our children
that we need to take very very seriously
and teach them and put a lot of
effort into it.
Brothers and sisters another point I want to
mention Insha'Allah
and it's more relevant for the youth especially
so please pay attention.
Is this kind of mentality
that some of our youth might have
or the shaytan might be whispering in a
person's ear?
And it applies to everyone generally as well.
Walillahi alhamdual milli, I stood in the month
of Ramadan
on Laylatul Qadr. I worship Tawha Azza Wajal.
I am sorted for the next 84 years.
Because I stood on Laylatul Qadr I
am fine.
I don't have any issues. I can relax
now.
Brothers and sisters,
making yourself relaxed
after the month of Ramadan is not exactly
what I mean but I'm talking about
dropping your Ibadah levels that you were on.
Or even to an extent where a person
thinks Khalas Ramadan is done, I'm going to
go back to my old bad habits or
my filthy ways I was upon.
Me
as a person who
had a past
what all of the youth tend to do
especially in the last 10 days
is plan their Eid.
Especially with the weekend coming up, it was
weekday now. Mostly you will find that everything
the action packed days are going to start
on the weekend.
I don't know if you are aware brothers
and sisters.
Recently in Birmingham
2 sisters
in the month of Ramadan they were drunk.
2 men came out of the Masjid. They
got into an accident one of the sisters
died
in the month of Ramadan.
Just before the end of it.
The question I want to put forth inshallah
to
anyone who has the mentality
That inshaAllah a day just for one day.
Just for one day. And this was a
sheyta of us. How many times have you
heard this from our friends?
Listen, Akhi, nothing's gonna happen. Just one time.
We go to the club or we go
to the shisha ba. We're just going to
do it for one time.
And this is what shaykh found onto who?
Our father and our mother, Adam and Hawa.
He swore to them I am a sincere
adviser to you just do that one time
and this will be here all the time.
So brothers and sisters that one time
that you want to do Masih of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala or you want to disobey
Him, you want to go against His command.
We've seen it before brothers and sisters.
A person died on 8 day in haram.
People have died with the shisha bar in
their mouth.
Imagine Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala takes the shisha
pipe, sorry. Takes your soul, why you have
a shisha pipe in your mouth?
Or you decided to go to the club
one time
thinking that I worked hard in the month
of Ramadan, now it's just for one time.
And you're jumping up and down upon that
song that's being sang or song
and then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala takes your
soul. Or you decide to take something whether
it's a drug, weed, alcohol, whatever it might
be just for one time.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala takes your soul.
Brothers and sisters, the guy that knows and
the guy that doesn't know, they're not equal.
You know there's a verse in the Quran
that is very very powerful and I ask
you know brothers and sisters
to look up the tafsir,
to memorize it, to ponder upon this
It's right the end of surpah.
Whoever now turns away from my Quran.
This person
fa'eemla lahu ma'isha tambanki, this person we're going
to give him a depressive life,
a depressive life.
You must be wondering okay how might be
going through depression?
How about yourself?
Did you go against the command of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and because of it you
lost your job? Or because of this you're
not getting any success in your life?
It doesn't stop there.
He will say, You Allah, I used to
be so and I could see. Why have
you called me today and I am blind?
Our verses came to you.
What was right, what was wrong. You knew
that you doing this action is wrong, but
you carried on doing it.
Your ayah came to you.
Phenency, you put it to the side.
And today you will be forgotten.
You'll be left, you will put it aside.
Brothers and sisters, walaheed,
if you want a happy life, and this
is why I started the khutba with it
is very very simple.
People are suffering maybe because of our sins.
We want the happiness maybe in our marriage
to be solved.
None other do the righteous action. Maybe you're
doing something haram.
There's problems in your household, maybe there is
something that you've been doing for a very
long time that is against the sharia.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us here.
Depression and the happy life.
How to get the depressed life and how
to get the happy life.
And brothers and sisters,
the Masjid is kindly asking to donate generously
with the projects that they're doing.
They are in need of your help so
ever
can InshaAllah Ta'ala help them, then please help
them InshaAllah Ta'ala.