Adnan Rajeh – Post Isha Khaterah 15-07-2024

And the theme, moving for the next maybe

2 weeks or so will be the the

significance of Masajid. And the reason I wanna

talk about this a little bit, and I

know I've talked about it before, is

to help encourage,

give you some ammo to encourage people to

attend masajid in general, not necessarily any of

this one, but any masjid. And also, to

prepare ourselves for

August. August is usually the month I try

to make it the, the outreach month where

we,

yeah, everyone

has a has a,

an obligation of bringing at least one new

person to a masjid that never came before.

And I think a a good way to

be able to do that, usually they're not

gonna be converts. They're gonna be someone who

is a Muslim just as distanced

as to maybe know the significance of masjid

and the importance of them and maybe what

what lies within these walls and why it

is that we we emphasize having these spaces

and and and we we come to them

often. So that's why I'm gonna narrate a

a bunch of a hadith. I'll talk about

that, giving giving you something to work with

And this is a very short and simple

hadith, and you've heard it before, and I

think inshallah you'll hopefully find it a little

bit, helpful.

He said the most beloved spaces on earth

to Allah are his and the most unbeloved

space spaces to Allah on earth are the

markets.

And it's not

it it doesn't mean that, they're always gonna

be like that. Like, you will find a

masjid as I said in the Surah in

the earlier in the salah, there are Masjid

there'll be a masjid that's not the most

beloved space to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That

the person who who who who built that

message, built it with the wrong intention, the

people who are taking care of it are

not taking care of it with the right

intention. It's not spreading the proper knowledge. It's

not helping people, so it doesn't turn into

that. But in general, this is what Allah

this is a general rule, the rule of

thumb. Like, it's like markets. Some markets

won't be, yeah, any horrible places. The that

that is they are filled with deceit and

lie and and and backstabbing and lack of,

of of

and and lack of,

of honesty. No. Some of them are. But

the general rule that he's explaining here, alayhis

salatu wasalam, is that Allah loves places where

people come together with the sole intention of

being close to Allah

and they're trying to improve themselves. He does

not like places where people go and behave

in a selfish manner, and people are just

trying to take something for themselves. That's kinda

what he's trying to explain here, alayhis salatu

wa sallam. So there are places where you

go and you're just trying to * as

much as possible for yourself. And there's a

lot of deceit going on. There's a lot

of selfishness. There's lack of of any any

piety remembrance there. So doesn't like those places,

but he likes places where people come in

and they remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They

perform services, and they serve one another, and

they're kind to one another. That's what he's

looking for,

in in the spaces. So the most beloved

spaces to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala are the

spaces where this happens, but you have to

make sure that these spaces are that's things

these things are happening in them. Like, we

have to ensure that these spaces are having

these things happen in them. Like, we have

to make sure that these spaces is or

spaces where services are being are being offered

and people are showing kindness and tenderness and

brotherly love and knowledge appropriate knowledge is being

spread and we're taking care of each other.

And it's selfless rather than or else it

turns into a market

or it can turn a message easily into

a market. Well, I've seen a session being

worse than markets. Well, I'm not badgered by

by how much money people are asking me

for in the markets. I can walk into

a market and then someone come and said,

do you want something, sir, in this place

like I don't want? But sometimes in the

masjid, they'll stand up and they'll keep on

asking you for money until you give them

whether you have it or you don't. So

be careful. We have to be careful with

how we run masjid and how we make

make people feel when they're in a masjid.

If you walk into a place to to

buy a shirt and the person who comes

in the place asks you, do what you

want, and you say I'm good, and they

keep on asking you, do you need any

help? You're gonna start you'll leave.

You'll leave. I don't want help, but I

just wanna walk around and browse. I just

wanna look.

This is this is important.

People have to come to a masjid and

feel the way Allah

wants them to feel because he let this

this that that allows the space to be

the most beloved space to Allah. What happens

and it has to be according to what

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves where the people

where his servants, they come here. They come

to a masjid and they find solace and

they find

companionship and brotherhood and they find love and

they find knowledge and find support and they

find what they're looking for. They they find

what it is that allows them to come

again and then they find that surface that

they have to find. There has to be

these places. If they're not designed that way

then

how different are they from a market?

They're not that different when when we don't

treat them that way. And I think I

think with as simple as what he said

alaihis salatu wa sallam is here, I think

as profound as it is as well. Okay.

There's a lot that he's tried to explain

to us that we just have to listen

to. I hope that was a benefit to

you.