Adnan Rajeh – Our London Family
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The speakers discuss the loss of family members due to actions related to Islam, including a physician's proposal to get into the system and the wife's failure to do anything aside from being a shh ha ha ha. They emphasize the importance of remembering the marchers and their actions to avoid future mistakes and the need to reward suffering for their deeds. The upcoming Darjna deity is also discussed, with guidance given on what to expect.AI: Transcript ©
Said that there are 5 types of shuhada.
And
another hadith, he kind of points out there's
a differentiation between the one who dies
and then those who
don't. And that on the day of judgment,
they'll also be seen as martyrs. And if
is anyone who passes away, anyone whose life
is taken for being Muslim or for being
someone who's you know, and he stands up
for what Allah
commands for them to stand up for. And
then,
he talks about different categories.
Someone who dies from a disease or a
severe illness.
Someone who dies
from, an attack being attacked or being stabbed
and mistreated. Al Ghariq, someone who drowns,
someone whose house burns or falls upon them.
Well, you know,
these are the different categories.
All
of them, by the way. Like, all of
them put together. You can just choose all
the the each one of them is basically
a and
so I've had them and all altogether.
But what I wanna talk about tonight
just briefly because it's yeah. It's June 6th
and and,
and this is a for me, it depends
on where where you were and how long
you've been here and maybe and whether you
knew the people or not, how personally you'll
take this this issue. And and I understand
that. I don't, you know, I don't think
that you should be should be different for
him. But, June 6 to me was a
very personal what happened was very, very personal
to me, extremely personal. I knew this family
very, very well.
I saw the brother Salman
twice a day for 5 years straight. For
every Maghrib and every Isha. For he was
there for every I don't think he missed
a Maghrib or Asia for the whole time
he lived in this city
ever. He was there for every Maghrib and
every Asia and El Mem. I saw him
every single day at least twice, if not,
three times at Fajr. I used to give
a halakha back at you know, on the
Sunday halakha that I give here after. I
started back in El Lim. And I used
to give it at the
kind of back part of the men's section.
And he said, give it there because his
wife, Alayl Hamha Yanib,
she wanted to, she Yanib, she wanted to
attend the halakhah. And I didn't I wasn't
given the microphone back in for
reasons I won't disclose today. I didn't I
didn't have the microphone, so I I had
to give it in a place where they
could hear me. So I would go and
sit right there so that she could hear.
So she would be right she would be
right behind the, she could hear me behind.
And she would bring a friend or 2
and to listen to it, but she she
was the only lady who attended this halakhofer
for 5 or for for 4 four and
a half years. And I taught her the
the little hamma yumna in school for 3
years, grade 5, 6, and 7. I I
was I was her Islamic studies teacher,
So I know this family very well. And
what occurred what happened to them is something
that is, anyway, when we say unimaginable no.
It's it's imaginable.
It's just it's unacceptable,
really. It's not it's not unimaginable. It's unimaginable,
but it's unacceptable what actually occurred to them
because they they didn't do any this man
was he was like me. He was a
he was a IMG. He was a physician
back from where he came from. And he
came here, and, he was a couple years
ahead of me. And he tried to get
into the system. He couldn't, so he gave
up. He did physiotherapy, and he made a
living off of it.
His wife and he went it was a,
was an advanced,
I think engineer,
and she was
advancing her knowledge.
They did nothing aside from just be good
people. Just be just like you. So everyone
in this masjid. If you're in this masjid
and you come here for Asia almost every
night, that's exactly what this family was. Because
people came to the Masjid every night, brought
their kids. They prayed their salawat. They attended
the halakat, and they, you know, they gave
their salakat, and they were part of every
and they just took a a stroll one
day. That's the only mistake that they made
in they took a they decided to take
a walk,
and and this occurred to them.
And
it's it's actually sunnah for us to remind
to to remember our marchers. They are shuhada.
They are the Hani, they they fulfill the
definition of the shuhada
in every way.
They are people who died for the sake
of Allah
Why? Because the reason that they were targeted,
the reason that they lost their lives was
because they were visibly people who obeyed Allah.
They made their Islam visible.
They didn't hide it.
And his wife were were her hijab. They
they were visibly Muslim. They were obeying Allah
visibly, and they were targeted for it. So
there is no way for you to define
their, you know, their the loss of their
life aside from shahad, from marcherism.
There's there's there's no other way for this,
and it's not one of the secondary categories
of shahada. No. It's the main category of
shahada.
Feast
for the sake of Allah
lost their lives. And it's sunnah for us
to remember our shahada. The prophet did this
once a week.
Once a week, he would go to, every
Saturday morning. Every Saturday morning, he went to
shahada. Uhud every Saturday morning to the day
he died
The only Saturday he wouldn't go is if
he was away on a conquest or he
was musafir. But if he was away even
when he was ill, even the last weekend
of his life, when he was too ill
to stand, they carried him to Makbari Tuhar.
They carried him because that was his sun.
He would go every Saturday, and he was
and that was the time where he said,
And I I I and I am following
you very soon. Usually, the dua is different,
and he changed it. That one day because
it was right before the day that the
the week he died the month he passed
away, alayhis, on
Monday. And he he saw that he was
there Saturday, to to visit them. So remembering
our marchers is something that's important for us
as a community,
to remember the fact that they carried something
on our behalf, that they
they took on the punch for all of
us.
They took they took it, and they absorbed
it. It went it hit them. It it
it took their lives. It took their ambitions
and their hopes and their dreams and their
future. And it took away it took them
away from their loved ones and their family.
And
and remembering,
Yani, them, what it's supposed to do for
us. It's supposed to keep the legacy alive.
It's supposed to keep the commitment to to
what they represented
ongoing, to keep it strong, that you don't
forget it. The prophet, alayhis salaam, when he
visited the shuaddah, it was to honor their
sacrifice.
It was to honor their bravery and their
courage and the fact that they did what
they did that day. It was a hard
it was a hard day. These people stood
their ground and they lost their lives for
it. So the prophet never forgot this sacrifice.
And for me, when I think about the
this family, this fact
I don't I don't like saying they it
could have been us. It was
us. It was each and every one of
us because nothing that they did is something
that you can say, well, I wouldn't do
that. Or I I don't there's nothing. They
didn't. I know them. There was nothing. They
were just they just they're normal.
So when you when you remember them, you
remember them so that we continue the legacy
of of of of our deen,
of of being Muslim and practicing Islam and
being a part of a community and kinda
standing our ground. And that's why we remember
them. We remember them so that that continues
to be who we are. We don't we
don't allow what we don't allow their their
their lives and and and their deaths to
go in vain,
to be forgotten, to be put aside, and
for us to continue to
to continue as if it didn't happen. No.
It has to mean something for us. Think
about it. It has to mean something to
us. And if that's how it's supposed to
be for us in terms of these these
4 individuals,
who passed away 3 years ago, imagine
all the Muslim
children and people who are dying every moment
for the last 9 months.
When people when people pay the price of
being Muslim with their lives, with their blood,
It's supposed to be, for us, a reminder
of the of the of the value of
being Muslim and the importance of holding on
to Islam and continuing the legacy and continuing
to practice and protect
and stand for what is right. Because the
moment you don't you you allow yourself forget
it and you allow their suffering to go
in vain because you wouldn't be okay with
your suffering going in vain. Because if you
suffered for the sake of Allah, if you
suffered because you were Muslim, if you were
suffering because you were just a person who
who carried Islam and and and practiced it
and you suffered, then you wouldn't be okay
with your Muslim brothers and sisters to completely
overlook that, over forget about it or or
or or sideline it as a no. You
want it to be central in there because
it's your life. It's what matters to you.
So treat people the way you would like
to be treated had you been in their
I mean, in their shoes. What would you
have wanted had you been may Allah protect
all of us. Yeah. I mean, all of
you. Had it been you, what would you
have wanted for us to do after you
if you were yanked out of of this
world
way too early?
If you were separated from your family for
not for no sin that you committed? How
would you want your Muslim brothers and sisters
who are who are a part of your
community to behave after you? And that's what
it means to remember martyrs.
Remembering shawada, that's what it does. What it
what what what would they have what would
I have wanted if I was in his
position? And then I continue that moving forward.
And that's what we owe them, really.
We
we owe them that. We owe them to
to honor their memory through
continuing
to, you know, to to be a stronger
community, to to strengthen ourselves here within this
country, and to perform proper dawah, and to
educate, and and to allow
Aiyadh, the next generation, to to never think
about this again, to never fear standing at
a street light wearing
galdabi or wearing a hijab or feeling that,
yeah, by doing that, you're somehow breaking a
norm or or playing a risk.
And that that's our job here in this
and I want to share that with you
tonight and and make du'a for them. May
Allah grant them
the the the highest ranks in Jannah. May
Allah shower them with with mercy. And may
Allah allow us to continue to walk the
the path that they walked in their lives.
And may Allah unite us with them on
the doors of Jannah. And may Allah grant
within the hearts of those whom they left
behind serenity and tranquility. Allahumma. I mean, tomorrow,
the, Jumuah is, is is 3:15 here. I'll
be giving it, at UWO at 12 o'clock.
And Eid
is,
is is Sunday.
So tonight is the first night of the
first,
10 days of the Hijjah. We, as of
this moment, you are now in the first
10 days of the Hijjah. We will the
hadith you'll be hearing over the next few
nights. We'll be talking about the and the
of these 10 days. They're the most important
most important 10 days of the year. If
the last 10 nights of Ramadan, the most
important last 10 nights of the year, these
are the most valuable 10 days of the
year. So make sure you, you think about
your your your plan of of good deeds
and and and reward.
And, I need to fast if you're capable
and give
and perform a lot of dhikr and read
the Quran
as much as possible as that is the
sunnah of of the night of Jo'a and
these and these 10 nights. May Allah grant
us, the of these 10 nights, and may
Allah accept the Hajj of those who perform
Hajj and grant us the ability to perform
Hajj in the year after.
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