Ahmad Saleem – Friday Khutba 25-10-2024
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The death of only two individuals in Q----
The transcript discusses various news, including predictions and shaping of the church, the importance of not reciting the Q opinion of the church, and the importance of learning from shaping the church's shaping. The Qover is the consequence of the death of only two individuals in Q----
The death of only two individuals in Q-----
The transcript discusses various news, including predictions and shaping of the future, and the importance of not being like them. They also touch on the shaping of the church and the importance of not reciting the Q opinion of the church. The sermon emphasizes the importance of following the Qwork and avoiding harms, and the Qwork is the consequence of the death of only two individuals in Q.
The transcript discusses various news, including predictions and shaping of the church, the importance of not reciting the Q opinion of the church, and the importance of learning from shaping the church's shaping. The Qover is the consequence of the death of only two individuals in Q----
The death of only two individuals in Q-----
The transcript discusses various news, including predictions and shaping of the future, and the importance of not being like them. They also touch on the shaping of the church and the importance of not reciting the Q opinion of the church. The sermon emphasizes the importance of following the Qwork and avoiding harms, and the Qwork is the consequence of the death of only two individuals in Q.
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
the Most Merciful.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
the Most Merciful.
Allah is the Greatest, Allah
is the Greatest.
There is no god but Allah.
There should be no doubt in anybody's mind
that Allah is the Greatest.
That the events that display themselves on the
fabric of this universe and this earth today
for all of us, that doubt should not
be there that we are going through a
very difficult time.
As a matter of fact, we are going
through a time of fitna, a test.
And the word fitna in the Arabic language,
as many of you may have already known,
is to take something that was very precious,
such as gold, which has impurities in it,
and you put it in fire to remove
those impurities.
And that process is called fitna tul dhahab,
i.e. the cleansing of the gold.
And the trials and tests that we are
going through are just the beginning of what
may come, as Rasulullah ﷺ has told us.
And to sit down and enumerate, and if
you do remember the last time that I
was here, we talked about the fitna of
Dajjal.
And we talked about how that is the
greatest fitna.
But between that Dajjal and our fitna, there
are lots that are going to take place.
Ali, as it is mentioned in Tirmidhi and
many of the seerah books, a story, although
the story has some da'af, but the
meaning of the hadith itself, as the ulema
have said, is absolutely accurate, because it is
verified by every single ayah of the Qur
'an.
And the story is that Ali, he was
sitting, and Rasulullah ﷺ was in the majlis.
And he turns to Ali, and he says,
He says, Indeed, there is going to be
these great trials that the ummah is going
to be inflicted.
i.e. this is about to happen.
Something that is going to happen.
As soon as Rasulullah ﷺ, Abu Bakr, Umar,
and after that, رضي الله عنهم أجمعين, after
that fitna began.
All the trials and tribulations of the ummah
from that time till today.
فقلت, i.e. Ali ﷺ says, I said,
How do we get out of these trials
and tribulations?
How do we get out of these fitnas?
Now, obviously we are living in a very
rational time, where everything is through rash.
What is the hikmah?
Why did Allah say this?
Well, this hukum of Allah doesn't make sense.
I need to be able to, before I
submit, I need rationality, I need rational proofs.
If we were there at the time of
Rasulullah ﷺ, we would be asking such questions.
But Ali ﷺ whose tarbiyah was done at
the hand of Rasulullah ﷺ, he's not concerned
about rationality.
He knows that whatever Rasulullah ﷺ says is
true.
And he says, مَلْ مَخْرَجُ مِنْهَا How do
we get out of it?
Today, that is the number one question we
need to ask.
We have so many debates, everyone has their
own solution to how to get out of
it.
We have to protest more, perfect.
We have to do this more, perfect.
We have to do this, we have to
boycott this.
Everyone is presenting solutions.
What is the solution of Rasulullah ﷺ?
To get out of this fitnah is what
we need to hear.
He ﷺ says, قال, كتاب الله It's the
book of Allah.
You want to get out of this fitnah?
By holding on to the kitab of Allah.
Now, as we go through this hadith, it's
going to enumerate a few things.
But I want to pause and reflect on
the state of ummah, and our connection with
the kitab of Allah.
First, in this entire audience, I see that
the hall capacity says 597, plus the sisters
at the back and the children.
We would, by the time the Jummah, at
the end of Jummah, we would roughly be
around 6 to 700 people easily.
What percentage of these individuals can accurately recite
Surah Al-Fatiha without mistakes?
We don't need to go far.
We don't need to become an alim.
Just something we need for our daily five
prayers.
Surah Al-Fatiha to recite it without lahan
jali, without major mistakes.
Add to that, how many of us would
have a deeper understanding of that Surah Al
-Fatiha, or even just the translation.
We don't need to go far.
We have left as an ummah at wholesale
Qur'an.
We have jumped on to every single type
of solution to fix the gap, to fix
the space, fix that emptiness that can only
be filled by the Qur'an.
You say there is a halaqa about tafsir
of the Qur'an, 10, 15 people will
show up.
You say we're having a halaqa about heart
connections, heart talk.
Everyone's gonna, Oh, it's hard, my heart is
aching.
That heart talk ain't gonna fix you, if
you don't connect with the Qur'an.
Right?
Again, we have to be realistic about this.
There is no way, no matter how high
the maqam of an alim, the kalam of
alim is going to supersede kalam Rabbil Alam.
It can't happen.
When I hear ayahs from the Qur'an,
if I am not moved, greater than the
way I'm moved by the words of a
scholar, then we have a problem in that
equation.
So Rasulullah ﷺ says, Kitabullah, it's the book
of Allah.
Why?
Fihi naba'un ma qablakum.
It has news for the people that came
before you.
Notice how the hadith did not say, Fihi
khabarun.
There's a difference between naba' and khabar.
Khabar, kullu naba'in khabar.
Walaysu kullu khabarin naba'.
Every news, khabar is news.
Naba' is khabarun azeemun zu fa'idah.
It is a great news, i.e. it
has an impact in your life, and it
is beneficial to you.
When you get that news, it provides you
benefit.
Just a quick reflection.
Fihi naba'un ma qablakum.
Surah Al-Baqarah has 286 ayat.
115 ayat, they speak about Bani Israel.
That's almost 40% of Surah Al-Baqarah.
The first surah that you are introduced to
in the Quran after Surah Al-Fatiha is
all about how not to be like them.
How not to be like them.
Be careful, they were given the book, they
were given this, they broke their promises, they
did this, they did this.
All of that, how not to be like
them.
Fihi naba'un ma qablakum.
And khabarun ma ba'dakum.
And now this is different.
Over here Rasulullah says, and you're going to
get information about what is going to happen
in the future.
There are predictions in the Quran about what
is going to come.
Some of those predictions are wadih kashshams.
And others, they are clear like the sun.
And there are others, ma bayn astutur.
They are between tadabbur.
You have to ponder.
And when you ponder and reflect more, you
get to understand more.
Okay?
Wa hukmu ma baynakum.
It is the criterion through which you and
I, if we have issues amongst us, Kitabullah
is there as a criterion to rectify that
issue between us.
Wa huwa alfaslu laysa bilhazl.
It is a decisive criterion.
Yafsilu bayna alhaqqi walbaatil.
It separates between that which is haqq and
which is baatil, non-righteousness.
And it is not hazard, it's not a
joke.
It's content or not a joke.
It's a matter of serious understanding.
Man tarakahu min jabbarin qasamahu Allah.
And this is related to the leaders of
the Muslim Ummah.
That if they stop, if they stop using
Qur'an as the source of legislation, qasamahu
Allah.
Allah will sever them.
If you read the tafsir of this, and
if you read the sharh of this, it
says, Allah will sever them from His rahma.
Allah will sever them from mi'zza.
Allah will sever them from karama.
Allah would sever, i.e. the leaders and
then us, vis-a-vis.
We all know the shaheed that we had
last week, very famous.
When he passed away, that same week in
the khutbah in the morning, I viewed over
200 khutbahs in the last 24 hours after
his death.
And only 2 khutbahs talked about him.
Over the 200 khutbahs that were live streamed
on YouTube in major masajid across the Muslim
world, only 2 people spoke about him.
So when we leave Qur'an as a
legislator, then this is the consequence.
And then Allah SWT says, من ابتغى الهدى
And if somebody wants to seek guidance, في
غيره You choose any other source other than
the Qur'an, أضله الله You will be
misguided.
You may gain some religious knowledge, but it
won't be accordance to the Qur'an and
the sunnah.
I remember when I went for my studies,
and this is right after we attended the
Ilm Summit in 2008 with Sheikh Waleed Bisyouni
and some of the mashayikh at that time
in Houston.
I got motivated and I said, I need
to go and learn.
And when I went there, my teacher, they
met me, and almost all of them, they
said, how much Qur'an do you know?
Can you recite Qur'an properly?
I said, no sheikh, but I want to
learn this amazing book.
And he's like, one of my sheikh, he
says, من الذي حملك عن الكتب وتركت القرآن
Why did you get involved in the books
and you can't even recite Qur'an?
Today, you have people who are graduating from
in these lands, graduating from madaris, ma'ahid,
they're graduating from institutions with a degree in
five years, and they have read tafsir of
taftazani or madri'ish, and then you ask
that guy to lead the salah and he
can't even recite surah al-Fatiha.
Ajeeb, our priorities as a community is off.
In the past, they would say that somebody
who would get a status within the community,
they said, whosoever would memorize and understand surah
al-Baqarah, فَقَدْ جَدَّ فِينَا i.e. if
you understood surah al-Baqarah, then you would
get the status of being like an elder
in the society.
Today, you have so many hufaz of the
Qur'an, they don't even understand anything.
And it has become a status symbol.
When I go to new communities, they will
be like, assalamu alaikum, my name is Abdul
Basit, I have a son who's a hafiz.
How does that have any value to you?
Then Allah SWT says, sorry, Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam says, هُوَ الْحَبْلُ اللَّهِ الْمَتِينُ This Qur
'an is the rope of Allah SWT.
If we hold on to it, that's why
Allah says in the Qur'an, وَاعْتَصِمُوا بِحَبْلِ
اللَّهِ جَمِيعًۭا Hold on to the rope of
Allah SWT, collectively, وَلَا تَفَرَّقُوا And don't divide
yourselves in the community.
Then he says, Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, وَهُوَ
الذِّكْرُ الْحَكِيمُ You want wisdom and remembrance, and
you wanna be remembered, reminded of wisdoms, you
will find them in the Qur'an.
وَهُوَ صِرَاطُ الْمُسْتَقِيمُ Through the Qur'an you
will find the straight path.
وَهُوَ الَّذِي لَا تُزِيغُ بِهِ الْأَهْوَى This is
the book, if you understand it in the
Arabic language, your desires, your nafs, is not
going to be able to come and deviate
you from that.
وَلَا تَلْتَبِسُ بِهِ الْأَلْسِنَةِ No tongues are going
to be able to convolute the recitation of
it.
The greatest mu'ajiza is that if you
go to Kenya, if you go to any
of these places, if you go to Ethiopia,
if you go to Pakistan, if you go
to India, China, people who have memorized the
entire Qur'an with proper tajweed, with proper
recitation, they don't know what the meaning is.
But their tongues are in...
If any Arab comes and recites, the ajam
will correct him.
They may not know the meaning, but the
tongues, they are...
يَعْجَدَ اللِّسَانِ Once you know the Qur'an,
it becomes impossible for you not to read
it correctly.
وَلَا يَشْبَعُ مِنْهَا الْعُلَمَى And the scholars, they
cannot get enough of the Qur'an.
It is mentioned if you read the stories
of the ulema of the past with the
Qur'an.
For example, Ahmash.
It is mentioned about him that he told
his daughter that I...
He pointed to a pillar of the masjid.
And he was about to leave this earth.
And he was smiling.
And they said, why are you smiling?
He said, I smile because I know that
underneath that pillar, I have finished the Qur
'an 400 times in my life.
Recently, there is a sheikh in Morocco.
And he is well-known, and his video
has been circulating online.
He has listened to the Qur'an cover
to cover of hufadh, more than 7000 students.
اللهم صلي على محمد Imagine the iman of
that person.
The ulema, they can't get tired of reading
the Qur'an.
May Allah make us from that.
And then, ولا يخلق أن كثرة الرد You
don't get bored.
You don't get bored at all of repetition
of the Qur'an.
And then it says, ولا تنقضي عجائبه And
it has amazing things in the Qur'an
from the time of Rasulullah ﷺ till today.
People can't stop writing enough about the Qur
'an.
Just yesterday, صفوة الآثار It's a printed copy
of a tafsir from the ulema of Najd.
And صفوة الآثار, I came across this because
my own shipment was lost.
So I lost my copy and I was
looking for a PDF version.
And I had forgotten that just for Surah
Al-Fatiha, Shaykh Al-Dawsiri, just for Surah
Al-Fatiha, he has dedicated a Mujallad Kamil.
Over 400 pages on just the tafsir of
Surah Al-Fatiha.
And then in the end of it he
says, وها أنا اختسرت الموضوع I could write
a lot, but I said people are gonna
get tired of 400 pages, so I did
a summary of that, which I had to
say about Surah Al-Fatiha.
May Allah ﷻ allow us to truly connect
with the message of the Qur'an.
أقول قولي هذا واستغفر الله لي ولكم ولسائر
المسلمين فاستغفروا فإننا نغفروا بسم
الله والحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على من لا
نبي بعد In the end we finish the
hadith, it says, من عمل به أجر If
we act upon the Qur'an, Allah ﷻ
gives us أجر.
There's a beautiful kitab written, it's called, قرآن
التدبر والعمل It's a consortium effort of multiple
scholars, over 20 scholars that put together.
And if you're in Arab, mashaAllah it is
translated, it's very easy to read.
If you're not in Arab, there are few
translations that are coming out, I think just
30, few of the surahs are out there.
But it is beautiful because one page you
read, and in the bottom it says, here
are the three things you have to put
in practice today with this page of the
Qur'an.
هذا العمل الذين أعملوا به This is what
the Qur'an tells, this page tells us
to put into action.
It has taken away your thinking.
Just follow and say, I read this page
today, what are the points of عمل I
need to do?
You follow those points, and bismillah.
وَمَنْ حَكَمَ بِهِ عَدَلٍ And if we use
the Qur'an as a source of legislation,
then there is no greater justice.
وَمَنْ دَعَى إِلَيْهُ هُدِيَ إِلَى صِرَاتٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ And
if we become callers to others to come
to this Qur'an, Allah with the barakah
of that calling will take you to صراط
المستقيم.
And then Rasulullah ﷺ, in the end he
says, خُذُوهَا Take it, take this, don't leave
this Qur'an, take it.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us
from those who hold on to the Qur
'an.
In the end we ask Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala on this blessed day to send
salutations on Nabi Muhammad ﷺ.
اللهم صلي وسلم على نبينا محمد وعلى آله
وصحبه وسلم تسيم الكثيرا We ask you Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala on this blessed day
of Friday to protect every single one of
us in our imans.
We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that you know what is in our hearts.
We come to you on this Friday with
weak imans.
And we hope in your mercy and your
rahma.
O Allah do not deprive us on this
day from your rahma.
O Allah let not anyone of us leave
this masjid except that you have forgiven all
of our sins.
And you have confirmed the protection of iman
of every generation to come إلى يوم القيامة
يا رب العالمين We ask you Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala that we have not honored
the Qur'an the way it was supposed
to be honored.
O Allah do not hold us accountable for
that.
We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
on this blessed day to connect our hearts
with the Qur'an.
And make us from those people who recite
the Qur'an day in and day out.
We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to give us the tawfiq to recite surah
al-kahf today.
For those of us who have recited, Allah
puts barakah in them and provides them the
nur that was promised.
And for those who haven't recited, Allah gives
them the tawfiq to recite before maghrib.
We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that our brothers and sisters in Gaza, our
brothers and sisters in Sudan, our brothers and
sisters in Kashmir, our brothers and sisters in
Bangladesh, our brothers and sisters in every single
part of the world are suffering.
O Allah ease their suffering.
We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to protect their bloods.
We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to protect their sanctity, to protect the sanctity
of our sisters in Gaza, protect the sanctity
of our sisters in Sudan and all other
parts of the world.
We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that all of these affairs are in a
simple term, kun fayakoon.
O Allah make ease for our brothers and
sisters with your kun fayakoon.
We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that our ummah has suffered for too long.
Do not let our sins be the cause
of that suffering.
Please provide ease to the ummah of Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wasallam.
And provide every single one of us the
tawfiq to carry on the banner of Quran
and the banner of la ilaha illallah Muhammadur
Rasulullah to every corner of this earth.
We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that we become a source of providing hidayah
to the people around us.
And we become a source of blessing and
rahmah for the people of America.
We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that our ummah is going through difficult times.
Allow us to be from those who worship
you with true sincerity in these difficult times.
And make us from those when you make
ease for us that we are the ones
who come to the masjid and fill the
masajid in those ease times.
We ask you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to protect the maal, the money, the health
of every single one of us here.
And provide us shifa and kamilah if anyone
is suffering with any diseases.
And we ask you Allah that if anyone
of us has lost any of our relatives
and if anyone of us has lost any
of our fathers and mothers and grandfathers that
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala raises their ranks
in the qabr.
And makes their qabr a piece of paradise.
And provides them the nur and hidayah of
light.
And makes every single one of us who
have left behind a mother, father or grandfather
that you become from those where Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam says, وَلَدٌ صَالِحٌ يَدْعُو لَهُ
Give us the tawfiq to make dua for
our parents if they have been deceased.
And to provide sadaqah jariyah for them if
they are deceased.
أَقُولُ قَوْلِ هَذَا وَأَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ لِي وَلَكُمْ وَلِسَاءِ
لِلْمُسْلِمِينَ فَاسْتَغْفِرُوا فَإِنَّهُ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ وَيَقِمِ
الصَّلَاةِ إِنَّ الصَّلَاةَ تَنْهَى عِنِ الْفَحْشَاءِ وَالْمُنْكَرِ وَالْبَغْيِ
أَعِذُكُمْ لَعَلَكُمْ تَذَكُرُوا JazakAllah khair.
JazakAllah khair.
We'd like to thank Sheikh Ahmed Salim for
giving us a wonderful khutbah today.
He will also be our guest for Friday
Night Lights tonight.
The Sheikh will be discussing parent based on
Iman, how to raise confident compassionate believers for
generations to come.
Also, tomorrow Saturday, October 26th and October 27th
from 1.30 to 6.30, he will
continue the journey of Mysteries Unraveled, Tahrir of
Surah Al-Kahf.
Please check our social media pages for registration
link.
Babysitting will be available.
Join us this Thursday, October 31st from 6
to 9.
We have a fun evening with family events.
Please, as we stand in solidarity with our
brothers and sisters, we celebrate their rich cultures
and give out prizes for the best Palestinian
Lebanese outfits.
Come join us for that.
CLIC is also taking part in competing in
goodness competition, where faith-based communities compete to
collect food for our neighbors.
Please bring non-perishable food items to CLIC
now through November 2nd.
We also have five medical schools in Houston
that will be hosting their charity week here
at CLIC on Sunday, November 3rd from 4
to 6.
Bring your family for fun activities and our
guest speaker will be Sheikh Kamal El-Mekki.
You are cordially invited to join Clear Lake
Islamic Center in collaboration with El Maghrib for
their Thanksgiving and Ummah trip with Sheikh Ammar
El-Shukri.
And last but not least, please donate to
your Masjid.
Your contribution is still needed.
Jazakallah Khair.
Salam Alaikum.