Adnan Rajeh – Jummah Prayer – Outreach – The Way Of Our Prophets – What if
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It's over 300 days now. We have crossed
the 10 months
point
of this ongoing
barbaric genocidal attempt on the people of Gaza.
And as we continue to watch in
pain and sorrow,
the loss of life amongst women and children,
journalists,
politicians,
physicians,
as they continue to bomb schools,
hospitals, refugee camps, markets, and civilian homes.
We watch in a state of complete helplessness.
It's very sad to say, but that is
the case.
We are continuing to be helpless as we
observe
what is occurring as 2,000,000,000 Muslims observe what
is occurring within the holy land to these
people.
And
the question I want to ask today, and
the theme is outreach. I'm gonna talk about
and outreach because I think it is the
key for us to change this reality.
I'm going to start with a question. The
question is, have you ever asked yourself at
some point in your life?
I wish
I grew up during the time of the
prophet alaihi salatu wasalam. Have you ever has
that ever occurred to you? Have you thought
to yourself, I wish or I I wonder
I wonder if I had grown up with
the prophet
that would have been nice. Would have been
nice if I grew up in a different
time, a different place.
Now some of the Tabia ain't did this.
And obviously, they have the most right to
do this because they missed it just by
a little bit. And I missed it by
1400 years, so I can't really complain. But
they missed it by 1 generation. They just
were born like a year or 2 late
not to be able to spend time with
him, Alayhi Salaam. So they were in a
position to ask this question more than anyone
else, and they did. And we have within
what Imam Bukhari and Lani Abu Mufu admirates,
and it's also right Imam Abu Khari and
and others with an authentic chain of narration.
Where in
he
he
faced someone
asking this question. And the narrator tells us
that
walks into a group of and one of
them says,
if we we could have done the same
if we could have done the same. The
stupid and they're upset.
And the says that I I was surprised
why he got upset. The man didn't say
anything negative. He just he just said, how
beautiful those eyes. I wish me I could
have seen him like you did blah blah.
But they got upset and they said
He said, why is it that one of
you walks around asking for something that Allah
deliberately held back from them?
They're asking for for a situation that they
don't know. Had they been in it, how
they would have behaved.
I know people who are related to Rasulullah,
who stared at his face out of his
salatu wa sama for years and then Allah
threw them into Jahannam.
Is it not enough for you? Are you
not grateful that Allah
produced you into this world? All you know
is
He
has a point.
But nonetheless,
I grew up with a question in me.
I always wondered,
had I been there with the prophet have
had chosen me. Would he have
to Fulan. And you talk to Fulan. It
wasn't for everyone. I always wondered, had I
been there? Would he have chosen me, alayhis
salatu wa sallam, where I have been on
his side? I was just it was just
something I always wondered. If I was back
then, would I be able something since I
was a kid and always, you know, spent
time thinking about this. It it meant something
to me.
Now before I continue with this hold, I
have to make a point.
You see, the human being is discouraged
is discouraged and is frowned upon to use
low. Right? To use the what if. We're
not allowed to. The
prophet
says the word usage of the word low,
of the haraflow,
opens the the ways for a bliss to
get new. Well, whatever. What if I had
done that? Or maybe if we had noticed
this earlier. Or maybe if we had made
this decision earlier. Maybe if I had done
this no. No. No. Don't don't do that.
That's not that is something the human being
is discouraged to do. The prophet, alayhis salam,
told us. The Quran says the same thing.
The Quran points out every time a human
being uses it, and the Quran chastises them.
And they said, if we had any control
over this matter of our destiny, we wouldn't
have died in this battle. Tell them, if
you were sleeping in your beds in your
home safe and it was time for you
to die, you would
die.
The one who told their brothers what went
for a conquest with the prophet
Had they if they stayed back with us,
they wouldn't have died. Tell
them,
prepare
protect yourself from death when it's your time.
Believers who tell their their, their kin who
go for jihad and die. Had they stayed
with us, they wouldn't have died and they
wouldn't have been killed. May Allah make that
a a suffering in their hearts because Allah
is the one who grants life, and Allah
is the one who grants death,
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. A lot of verses in
the Quran that talk about this. Don't say
no, you don't have the ability.
But, he does.
I can't say low, neither can you,
but he can.
He can say he's the only one,
who can use
this prefix. He can use low. He's the
only one.
No one else can ever use it except
him.
Why?
Because he knows
what happened. He knows what is happening. He
knows what's going to happen. He knows what
did not happen. Had it happened, what would
have happened?
He knows that which did not occur. Had
it occurred, what would it be like when
it did?
He knows the hypothetical, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And we use it in the Quran every
once in a while, and I have to
tell you, the most terrifying verses in the
entirety of the Quran is when he does.
The most terrifying ayat in the Quran is
when he does subhanahu wa ta'ala. Because it
reminds you of something.
It reminds you of something. It reminds you
that, yeah, he he knows.
He knows. See the question I asked at
the deen of the suhba. I don't know
what the answer to it is, but he
does.
You find in the Quran many times. I'll
give you an example. He says, subhanahu wa
ta'ala, for example, if you're
I'll give you some examples to understand what
I'm saying here.
We don't tell the story because people don't
know how to deal with these verses. People
don't know how to deal with these verses.
There's nothing there's nothing problematic with them. They're
actually very helpful to learn something, but people
shy away from telling them when you tell
a story.
See, the prophet, Ali, Esauza, saw in his
dream before the day of Biddle,
the army of Quresh. And the way he
saw, he saw them to be lesser than
they actually were. He saw the numbers to
be fewer than they actually were.
Now the breakdown of Bedir was was a
very there was no contest.
A 1,000 people with 300 on horseback
versus 314
with 2 on horseback.
There is no contest at all.
They had the same amount of people that
the Muslims did just on horseback,
and they were all on their feet. There's
no context. There's no context here at all.
And if you have another 700 in a
while, you're like them. But the father, he
saw to someone at that night when he
saw them in his dream, he saw them
to be way less than they actually were.
And that brought optimism.
And And when he shared that with the
Sahaba, everyone felt they they felt energized and
enthusiastic and they went. But the ayah says
the following.
And had I showed them to you to
be their actual number,
we're filled.
Would have turned on each other.
Didn't do it. That didn't happen. He didn't
see them to be more. They did not
fail. They did not terror each other. They
actually won by days the most important moment
of Islamic history.
But the whole but but calm down.
It could have been different.
It could have been different. I could have
showed you something different, and then the whole
story would have been not the same.
Oh, my a terrifying reminder for the people
of Badr. Yeah. You did well. You did
well.
But all I would have taken was just
to show the prophet
some more. And then he would have shared
that, and then it wouldn't turn out the
same way.
When
the confederates came to Medina the way the
story goes is that the Madi Medina has
2 only 2 entrances, 1 in the south
and 1 in the north. The north is
closed by the walls of castles.
So we know only influences from the south
and that's where they dug the trench. And
the Muslims had all the,
all the sand, all the all the dirt
and rubble on their side. So they were
holding the trench from the other side of
that rubble. They're hold the only Hanukkah people
to do that.
So what did the confederates do? They went
and they start to they tried to strike
a deal with Baruqah to open the gates
from the north. And then the,
an army of 10,000 people would enter from
both and the Muslims can't hold it. The
Muslims can't hold the north and the south
at the same time. It's impossible.
So the fear at that day was that
were
very close to betraying and open opening those
gates.
So Allah and they didn't. They didn't. But
these are what the verses.
And had the confederates entered from the south
and the north at the same time.
And then many of you were asked fitna.
What is fitna here? Fitna is to leave
your deen.
Fitna here is to give up Islam. With
fear because the sword is under your neck.
Right?
People would have offered it.
And they would have only hesitated just for
a little bit. Just a few people were
hesitant and then everyone else would just given
up.
That didn't happen. That didn't happen.
The gates in the north were never opened
and they won that battle and the bus
if Yan went back and it was a
day of victory for Muslims.
But had it been a bit different?
Had the gates in the north been open?
Yeah. Most of you would have given up
and hesitated for only
absolutely terrifying.
He says, subhanahu wa ta'ala, the verse at
the beginning of this khutbah.
And it is through
an act of compassion and mercy from Allah
that you were easy with them, that you
were that your heart found
ease with them.
And had you shown any degree
of difficulty,
Had you shown any degree of of cold
heartedness at any point?
They would have all left.
Abu
Bakr, and Usman, and Ali.
Had
had his heart in a little bit
less tender and it isn't obviously.
They would have left him.
You see, he sees every version of you.
So I stand up here with this galabiya,
nice,
nice haircut, a good lahiya, and paqiyya. I
seem
talking to you about Allah
seems reasonable to you. You're here at your
best behavior, dressed well, you're listening to Allah.
This is the version of us right here.
There are other versions of me and you
that we don't know, that we don't see,
that he sees
He sees the version of me
with a few changes to it. Just a
few changes to it. Not as comfortable financially,
not as comfortable
socially, not in the same country. He sees
the version of me that was in Gaza.
Had I been had I grown up there,
he knows whether I would have stood my
ground or not. I don't. I have no
idea. See the question I asked at the
minute of Zulfba, he can he can answer
it. I can't answer it. Haday bin with
the prophet, alayhis salaam, what would I have
done? I don't know. He does.
He sees it right now. He is watching
the version of you in every situation right
now. Because to him, subhanahu wa ta'ala, the
past, the present, the future, all the same.
The hypothetical, all the same.
It's all the same. He sees all of
it. Not in a way that is oppressive
where you don't get a chance. No. No.
No. He sees what you have done, what
you have done in different situation based on
what you are doing now.
Based on how you're living your life right
now. Receive what you would have done in
a different situation.
So that question
does have an answer. That question does have
an answer.
Just like he spoke with us, I have
been told them, by the way, your breaking
point wasn't that far away.
The only reason I stand here and I
speak to you about Allah and my faith
is still functional is because Allah
through his
through his because he has sat down
because he conceals
the flaws, and he conceals the sins. He
has
protected me from my breaking points. That's all.
Through his grace,
I am protected from my breaking point that
is there. He sees it. Isn't that shameful
that he sees my breaking point and I
know it's there. And I walk around acting
like my iman is strong. It isn't. It
It isn't. I'm just I'm just fortunate that
he has not yet presented me with a
trial that has within it my breaking point
that I wouldn't have my deen anymore.
And when you know that's the case, is
it not is it not shameful that you
not immediately use his grace?
Right now, use this grace period that you're
in right now to strengthen your iman, to
draw yourself closer, so that you may be
protected for a moment where you could lose
it all.
In their great
victory of Badr and the great victory of
Azab, the 2 most important victories probably in
the life of the prophet, alaihis salatu wa
sallam. Both times these verses are there. Just
say, by the way,
very easily you could have lost this.
Very easily this have could have gone the
opposite direction.
Very easily. Just remember that. So he did,
and they did.
And we do too.
You
see,
we are right now Muslims because Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. He some people, they wonder, well,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. He doesn't need to
force you to do anything, by the way.
These are really these are very poor arguments.
The law forces you to do. No. No.
He doesn't even need to force you to
do anything. Force you? Are you kidding me?
You don't need to be forced. You just
have to throw a couple of obstacles in
your way, and then things change pneumatically.
The fragility of the human psyche and human
being is is is pathetic.
Remember that Allah
sees how fragile I am. How easily he
could take me away from being on this
moon but to being somewhere else. It's not
that difficult. But he doesn't.
How do I fix this? I can't fix
this. I I can't. All I can do
is try and improve myself.
All I can do is try to be
the best person I can be today so
that Allah subhanahu imagine how beautiful is your
Multiamah. You come to Allah and said you
weren't there with him
But the way you lived your life, had
you been with him his time, you would
have been very bad.
And you would have been from
and you would have been from there at
brave ones who stood in his ground and
and and served people.
Or you could hear,
You can hear the opposite.
That the only reason you held on to
your ideas because it didn't really test you.
And no. Had you been in a different
situation, you wouldn't have done very well. So
let's not talk about that piece.
He knows, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the hypothetical. He's
the only one who knows it. He knows
my hypothetical and knows you. So I said,
had I been back there, would the prophet
alayhi salatu wa sallam have chosen me or
chosen you? He knows.
This is a question that is easily answered
by the almighty. He knows. I don't, but
he does.
And he's judging it not based on some
some Hebrew that we don't understand. No. The
judgment is based on your choices. Your daily
choices. What you're doing. How you're living your
life. How you carry yourself. It's what you're
doing today that dictates how you would have
been in different situations.
So if you would have liked to be
back then with
him believe that today.
If you would like to believe that had
you been in a situation that is not
as comfortable financially and socially as we are
in today,
Had you been with people who are suffering?
Had you been in a situation where you
lost everything? You would have stood your ground.
Where is that now?
Just be
be a good Muslim. Just be a better
person. If you are worried about your guidance,
if you're worried about your deen,
look, I don't know how much I can
put up with before I lose my deen,
call other people to it. That's the only
way to protect yourself.
The only way to protect yourself from losing
your Hidayah. From a moment, the I would
say I'm going to say this all the
time. Every time I go through a Museebah,
I am grateful for a number of things.
Number 1, that it wasn't worse than it
actually was. Everything can be worse.
If you're a logical,
rational human being,
he said, it didn't take away my deen.
I went through this difficulty, but my Islam
and iman is still strong. I didn't lose
my iman. Because that is the true problem.
The true trial in life is the one
that comes and it chips away at your
Islam and your iman. May Allah
protect us.
So thinking about this is what
allows us to reflect upon this hypothetical.
Say, you Allah, my iman is only as
strong as you allow it to be. Any
moment you can come and * it away.
Any moment, a few more difficulties, a few
changes in my life, I don't have it
anymore. I don't want to lose it. So
how do you protect it?
You help others.
You call others to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
You call others to his way. You do
that, he'll protect you insha'Allah. He'll continue to
hold on to your deen for you. He'll
never put you through your breaking point.
But remember that, and may that piece of
information
strike some fear in you.
And motivate you to be better than you
are today.
I hope that was a benefit
to you.