Adnan Rajeh – Post Isha Khaterah 15-07-2024
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The speaker discusses the importance of the "arbreach" concept in the culture of Islam, as it is often the only place where people are not trying to be close to Islam. The speaker explains that the most beloved spaces to Islam are the ones where services are offered and people show kindness and brotherly love. The speaker emphasizes the importance of listening to people and finding the right balance between the types of services and the types of support.
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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.