Ahmed Suleman Khatani – No Small Sunnah P2
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So we also my respective brothers. We have to analyze ourselves,
those of us who engage in the work of Daoud and Talib also,
especially
that lot of times we point the weaknesses of people out, the
faults of people out, caution people, etc. What is the
motivation behind it? Have I really divested myself of worldly
considerations. Or do I want to assert my authority? Or do I want
to show how pious I am?
You have to keep on removing that coat. You have to keep on removing
that male, that dirt from inside us.
This was the imtiyaji. Sipat Ami Ali, Mr. Abu Salama as alokum
alaihi, mean Ajit, I don't want anything from you
in ajria, illa, Allah, I want everything from Allah.
Imam buchani. Para hood is mentioned about him, if he gave
someone a debt, if he lent someone money, then if he then, if that
person was walking in the street, he would walk the opposite side of
the street.
Someone asked him and why you make so much taka look like this. He
says, I don't even want accidentally that I must walk in
the shadow of that person,
because tomorrow, on the Day of Judgment, Allah, Allah must not
tell me that you took shade from that person in exchange for the
for the for the for the death that you gave him, for the good deed
that you did for him. To that extent, they would make FDA that
in no way I want any benefit whatsoever from a person who I
advised or I assisted in any way,
the more we bring this state nayatiness that this
when we remove from our hearts any desire of repayment whatsoever.
The more Khalid, since sincere, our Amal will become, the more we
will be able to draw from the treasures of Allah. So according
to these are these three things will become very, very scarce. One
is Harald sustenance. The other is a friend who
will be a true friend who will provide comfort for a person
without any worldly consideration. And the third thing, which will
become very, very scarce, is practice on sunnah.
Person may ask the question that, what do you mean by practice on
sunnah? To some extent, kyama is near now we can see the other
signs are there, and Sunnat is present. What
is meant by this, by respected brothers, is that, to very large
extent, in many parts of the world, we see
that
sunnat also has taken on the label of rusum and customs, people
actually have decided, according to their culture or the way,
certain customs and certain rituals, if these conform to
Sunna, then they practice on it in the name of sunna. And if these do
not conform to Sunnat, then they abandon it.
But their practice is not because of any real love for a sundla
Sasana, but more because it is a ritual or a custom. That is what
it meant by practicing on sunnah will become scarce
next chapter non conformity to the Sunnah is a sign of deviation.
Sayyidina Imran in Hussain. Radiallahuta narrates that
rasulallah Islam said by the oath of Allah, if you do not obey me,
you will deviate by the oath of Allah. If you do not obey me, you
will deviate.
So the more we will move away from the Sunnah of rasulallah Islam,
the more Dalai lat and deviation will come in our lives. Allah
protect us. Note, Islam is the combination of the commands of
Allah and the Sunnah Rasulullah sallam, discarding any one of the
two who lead a person off the highway to salvation, a Muslim can
only be true in his faith after implementing the Sunnah of NaVi
Salam Islam in every aspect of his life,
entry into Jannah. Saydinabu Sahib kudri Ravi Lam relates that NaVi
salaam said, the person who consumes Halal practices upon the
Sunnah and does not hurt people by his evil actions and habits will
surely enter Jannah.
Repeating this, a person who consumes Halal practices upon the
Sunnah and does not hurt people by his evil actions and habits will
surely enter Jannah.
Note, whoever is particular about these aspects will enter Jannah.
Sahabah is one's meticulous observance of the Sunnah. Zayd bin
Asmaa. Rahim Allah relates that once he witnessed Sayyidina
Abdullah bin Umar,
while the buttons of his garments were open. Zayd Rahim, Allah
inquired the reason for this that Sayyidina Abdullah Abu Asmaa, who
informed him that on occasion he witnessed dawis lazu performing
Salah in this.
Anna.
Note, upon analyzing this, we notice that besides the Sunnah
that are related to acts of worship, what we call Sunan Huda,
the Sahaba, replicated Nabi Salaam in his coincidental actions and
personal habits as well
what we call Sunan was zawahi. There's two types of sunnat for
classification purposes. One is what we call sunnats that are
related to acts of worship. For example, navisa said, Sallu,
Kamara e tu Muni, usal ni he said, Make Salah like you see me making
salah. That obviously is what we call sunnaul Huda sunnats, or
practices of the Sunnah as Lala Salam, that pertain to acts of
Ibadan.
Then they are those sunnats, which are normal daily practices like
what we mentioned earlier, putting your shoes on to the right foot
first. People are putting shoes on all the time. It's a personal
habit of people. It's part of the mundane acts that take place in
life on a daily basis.
This these type of sunnahs are what we call Sunnah zawahi.
The Sahaba vasudharasu would not distinguish between the two. In
fact, this classification of Sunanda, Huda, Sunnah zawahi, etc,
came much after that because of weakness of the Ummat sunnah that
come out of the lives of people, so at least those sunnats which
pertain to acts of Ibadan to keep them alive. That is why the ulama
of that can classify the Sunnah Buddha. Sunnah was a wife, but the
Sahaba of rasulasana, their attitude was whatever they saw
Rasulullah Sasana do, whether it had to do if on one occasion,
Allah rasan, perhaps and that, again, he may have been feeling
hot, so he had one or two buttons open in his garment. Sahabi saw
that. So immediately, immediately, he doesn't question, why? What way
Allah the Swiss razam, I saw him doing it, so I have to do it.
That was the that is actually
an expression of their true and sincere love that they had for
Rasulullah sallallahu, sallam.
This denotes genuine love and total adherence to the Sunnah of
Nabi SallAllahu, alaihi wasallam,
digressing one very, very important point that comes to mind
on the basis of this is that the form as ahib, whether it is Hanafi
Maliki, Shafi Hanbali, which obviously we are all familiar
with,
this is not
something that should become a contentious issue, nor is it a
basis for arguments or for long, long discussions, when you go to a
doctor,
eye specialist,
ophthalmologist, ophthalmologist, or you go to a lung specialist,
pulmonologist, whatever it is and you've got a intricate eye problem
or a lung problem, or a liver problem, or a thyroid. Called
endocrinologist, whichever specialist you go to, he tells
you, why do this? Do this, do this, do this. You don't start
asking questions. Did you know which book you found this in?
On what basis are you? Are you telling me this? I went to another
endocrinologist. He says this, what the doctor will tell
you, if you know so much don't humble me. Then why are you coming
to ask
me in the medical field or in any other specialization field of this
world,
we accept and realize our limitations
to become a Fatih. Fatah had been Islamic jurisprudence, etc.
Requires grounding in certain sciences, life in the medical
field, or any other field, economics, etc. They are grounding
in certain sciences. They are required before a person reaches a
particular level,
an ordinary person who hasn't been through that process, for him to
start questioning and for him to start digging, obviously he's not
going to harm the other person is going to harm yourself.
So that is why we should be very, very careful and cautious in this
regard.
Very simple explanation
is that Allah loved every practice of Rasulullah
in Allah Tala, anything his beloved Nabis Lawson did, Allah
Tala wanted to keep it alive in this moment. If sometimes he
fastened his hand above his navel
that shannath Allah wanted to keep it alive. Sometimes he fastened
his hand below his navel. Sometimes he fastened his hand in
Salah on the side. So Allah Tala inspired these various Imams
towards one particular direction. So at least one group of the Ummat
till qiyamat would be keeping alive. That particular sunnah,
another group will be keeping alive. The other sunnah, another
group will be keeping alive the other sunnah.
He.
Are not issues or arguments.
Whether you say Amin loudly or softly, your namaz is still made.
Sometimes he said it loudly or sometimes I am simplifying it,
blame and self. Sometimes he said it softly. Allah Tala inspired
Imam mohanipa to prefer the soft one. Imam shapi to prefer the loud
one, so that both sunnats of the sunnahs doesn't stay alive,
because any practice of Nami, Sala Islam was beloved in the sight of
Allah. So every of his practices, throughout his entire life, to
keep it alive in the Ummat, some and some section of this ummat,
through these Imams of shirk, were inspired in a particular
direction. The point we are trying to make by respected Brothers is
this is not an issue for arguments.
Or why you doing this? And why am I doing that?
And it should be like this, or it should be like that that we hear,
especially if we shovel in the path of Allah dala. You go to
different places. Sometimes you now, we were in Nigeria.
There is mostly monarchies in salad, the person when they stand,
their toes touch each other. So some of the saddest started
getting upset. Why the surah wants to make his toe touch my toe. So
when this discussion prepared, I said, Do you know that there is a
hadizalam that Navis
nadaslam said, when you stand in Salah, let your shoulders touch
your shoulders, and let your toes touch your toes.
Satya was very surprised. He comes in Hades. I say yes, he comes in
Hades. So then why we don't do it? Because, obviously, that's why we
don't like to go into this discussion. Because in the next
question, why the anaphis Don't do it?
Answer to that also is very simple. In one Hadith, it comes
then Nabhi saw him said, shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip, knee to
knee and toe to toe. So obviously, knee to knee is impossible. Try
standing with the next 12 person where your knee touches his knee.
Almost impossible to do that. So, you know, vahanipa was of the
opinion that this was an expression to emphasize closeness,
that there should be no gaps in the self.
Sometimes in your expression, you adopt murbalava, you stress
something so you you don't literally mean that. Imam alipa
was of the opinion that he is not literal, because knee cannot touch
knee is difficult. So he went in that direction, that as long as
the shoulder touches, the shoulder is good enough. Imam Malika Ali
was of the opinion that in their Hadith, touch toe. Touching toe is
mentioned in one Hadith. So it should be there,
so both things come alive in ummats.
So these are not issues for arguments. These are not issues
for dissension. Shaitan, you will always try and play discord in
dissension and arguments amongst us.
We should, if you are in belong to a particular Muslim, follow that
properly, because whatever is Indian Muslim also is extracted
from the Sunnah of Rasulullah. And so far as others, you must
understand, they are much more important issues today. People are
dying without demand. Muslims are becoming murtad. Our masjids are
empty. Deen is coming out of the lives of people, and we are
arguing over whether Amin should be said loudly, Ani should be said
softly.
So these are, this is actually
the plot of the people of bakht to turn our attention away from what
we are actually supposed to be doing. And they say, agar karne ke
kaam nee karenge. Agar karne ke kam nee karenge, tupid na karne ke
karena, if you don't do what we supposed to be doing, we start
doing what we're not
supposed to be
doing. Allah Tala and NaVi Sala Islam curses upon the forsaker of
sunnah. Umwalla relates that nabisha Lal Islam said, I have
invoked listen very carefully to this hadith. Narisha also said, I
have invoked curses. And Allah Tala has also invoked curses on
the following six people
and every navies dua is answered, every Nabis dua is answered. Hence
my classes are accepted in favor of these people. They are
number one, one who adds anything to the Quran Majid. Number two,
the one who denies three destination, that is taqdi. Number
three, a man who oppressively assumes control of the affairs of
my ummah so that he may disgrace the honored servants and honor the
despicable ones. A man who oppressively assumes control of
the affairs of my ummah so that he may disgrace the honored servants
and honor the despicable ones, has earned the curse of Allah in the
sola of Islam number four, one who legalizes that which Allah is
prohibited. One who legalizes that which Allah is prohibited. This is
something we have to be very, very careful about
if you are involved in guna and sin.
Lot of times, because of our pride and our arrogance, we try to
justify our own.
And then we enter into a very, very dangerous territory, because
sometimes, in the zeal to justify the wrong that we are doing, we
enter into a territory where we start legalizing that which Allah
has prohibited. Then we reach the brink of kufr. And also
several things happen if you are in the habit of legalizing or
justifying the wrong that you are doing. First thing that will
happen is that Allah Tala takes away from you the topic of ever
making Toba, of what you do.
So you will die with that sin. And if persons more takes place with
that sin that is a very, very great VAWA, a very great receiver.
There's one one sin, one one sin. If you look in Hades the
azawapala, if you don't make Toba from it, you'll never be able to
make badass
and visa says mantaraka, Salah, hatta, mada, vaktaha, summa, kada,
aliha, ADIVA, finari, Haq bud Waal ha Hadith, he said, if a person
makes
one salah, one Salah Kazaa, and thereafter he makes the Praza not
he doesn't make the Kazaa, he makes the kala, but he doesn't
make tawha from this Allah doesn't forgive him. Then,
for that one salah, for the one salah, he will be put into
Jahannam for 28,800,000
years. 28,800,000
years, a figure we can't even imagine. But that is what is found
in the khadijahs.
Allah is very forgiving. The person raised his hands in Toba,
Allah will forgive. That is our yakim. Humble ourselves, ask Allah
forgiveness. Allah will forgive. But if you are going to justify
the wrong that you are doing, then how are you going to get tofi, to
make Toba
if you are doing something wrong, our weakness, our shortcoming, is
dead. Keep making a step far.
Somebody points it out to us. Lot of times, the person pointing it
out to you got his own motives, but we shouldn't worry about that.
Somebody points out, keep silent.
Don't try and justify, because
the moment you put justify. One is tofiq of Toba goes away. Second is
your iman is in danger because you are trying to make halal. What
Allah is made halal.
And third,
as we can see in this hadith of rasulallah sallam, that you invoke
the curses of Allah and His Rasul salaam upon
very, very important aspect, some weakness. We have some our nerves,
we fall and pray to some wrong in our life, which for some reason or
other at this point, and we can't get out.
Then, don't I am purposely, intentionally not mentioning some
of the common wrongs, because we know what they are. We know what
the Haram things that have become common in the lives of Muslims
are.
But and this, unfortunately,
that karahat That dislike for Guna, one very simple example is
like, for example, the shaitan box of TV. You will hear people
standing outside the masjid and discussing what they saw on TV.
People
will be in the courtyard in the precincts of the masjid and
discussing and not people. We're not talking about people that are
far away from being we're talking about people that are regularly in
the masjid. So in other words, we become so habitualized to
something that is haram
that even the perception now that it is wrong has come out.
So then when is that person ever going to get tofiq to make over
when is he ever really going to regret what he is doing?
That is why we have to be very, very careful in this regard. This
may sound and just read it as something that is not taking
place, but it's very, very common nowadays, this attitude of
legalizing and creating a perception that the things with
Allah is made Haram is halal.
The fifth category, one who unlawfully dishonors my family
members, that is anybody who speaks against the Elevate of
rasulallah
has invoked the curses of Allah and His Rasul salaam Islam upon
them. And the sixth category is one who discards my sunnah. That
is that person who does not attach value to Sunnah of the visala
Islam has invoked the curses of Allah and His Raso Salafi, sunnah.
Note, the gravity of discarding the Sunnah is evident from this
hadith. The thought of being cursed by Allah and yamila is
enough to make one shudder with fright. If this is the result of
forsaking sunnah, it certainly is a tremendous disadvantage one who
revives the Sunnah
say, then Aham bin ao from yalama relates, then the vishvam said,
the person who revives the Sunnah, which has fizzled out, will
receive a reward equal to all.
All those people who practice on it thereafter, without any deficit
occurring in their reward.
Ummul, meaning say dinner. Aisha, radiallana reports the Navis.
Rasam said, one who is steadfast in my sunnah will enter Jannat.
One who is steadfast on my sunnah will enter Jannat. And Hadees
prior to that, if you revive a Sunnat, this is actually one of
the special qualities of this ummat. We were given this work of
doubt and belief. One occasion, was giving a ban to all the
people. He says, When you say subhanallah, when he says
Subhanallah, Allah, fills the space from the earth to the first
heaven with reward. Once, one 3000 people were listening. Then he
said, all of you say subhanallah. So 3000 people said, SubhanAllah.
Then he said, There is no limit or shortage the treasures of Allah.
Allah has given each one of you reward equal to space from the
earth up to the first heaven. And Allah Tala has given me the reward
of 3000 Subhanallah
why? Because, on my saying, on my encouragement, you said this one.
So this work of dawat that was given to this ummat
encourages a person who doesn't have Salah in his life, he starts
making salah. You will go in your cupboard. You still get the
reward. Malayasa rafirani is 10 years of crying. How many Darul
numbs, how many ulama fukkaha mufti, and how many millions and
millions of people in the six continents of the earth,
all the shab gujaris that are taking place, all the flicker of
Deen on a daily basis? What What reward is going towards him,
because Allah used him to bring a light.
So this is actually like a wholesale business. There is no
limit. There is no limit. Jamaat went now to Nigeria. Here. Jamaat
goes this country, that country. It's like opening up branches. No
wholesale business. Go to that country. Speak to some people,
men's suspect is your deen, your branch is open, your till register
is working there.
Then in America, Europe, Asia, adalwalla, sayi kafa ilihi Ni
said, encourage somebody towards something. You will get the same
reward,
so we can realize what a great deprivation we are bringing on
ourselves by not engaging the work of doubt and to
believe great reward we can earn like this.
Note, being steadfast means that a person always seeks the Sunnah
method so that he may practice upon it unfortunate are those
deviant individuals who only acknowledge the importance of
farais and vajrabad actions and lend a deaf ear when it pertains
to the Sunnah of Nabi salad,
adherence to the Sunnah will not be deviated. Say. Then Abu huraida
Ram relates the Namibia said, I am leaving behind. I am leaving two
things behind in this world after my departure, which, if you cling
onto you will never be misguided. These are the book of Allah and my
sunnah. Note, this hadith means that by adhering to the Quran and
Sunnah, a question will never deviate, especially in today's
times when trials and temptations are surrounding the Muslims from
all sides. Adopting the teachings of Quran sunnah will ensure one's
safety,
adhering to the sacred sunnah in the times of irreligiousness.
Sayyidina, Abdullah bin Masood Aloha related, one who clings on
to my sunnah when my ummah is caught up in worldly temptations
is like a person, person holding a burning coal in his hand. The
jihad of the Zaman and respected brothers, when to practice upon
being is like burning holding a burning coal in your hand is
whatever the circumstances to hold fast onto the true way of life of
rasulallah. Note, when the ummah will become materialistic and
focus all their resources on acquiring material benefits, the
sacred sunnah will imperceptibly live their lives. A person who
attempts to live his life in conformity to the Sunnah during
such a period will be faced with an arduous task, as you will have
to oppose the norms and trends of society, and this requires
overwhelming courage and determination. To illustrate this
point by way of example, if a woman is living in an environment
where women do not Don the hijab, Islamic veil, she will find it
very difficult to uphold this aspect of deed. If a man lives in
an environment where shaving the beard is the trend, he will be the
object of people's ridicule if he attempts to grow his beard. Thus
we realize that this prediction of Navis navsim has proven to be so
true. Nowadays, somebody decides to enact a marriage. According to
sunnah, He alone knows the difficulty in grief experience.
Such people should relish the fact that they are treading the
straight path and the endeavors will shortly reveal reap
tremendous rewards.
Two years ago, we were in Indonesia, in Jamaat, met one
brother Indonesia is a.
A principally Muslim country. 95% of the population is Muslim
because effort of Deen didn't take place.
Find that conservative estimates last 2030, years, 20 to 25 million
Muslims have become murkadil such effort of masania Christianity is
taking place amongst them,
we find that one of the causes of these things is when practice on
sunnah, practice on the basic of Deen comes out of the lives of
people. No effort of Deen, no environment, Mahal, of dawat in
the mercies, etc.
One person we met,
regular Sati foment also. He says that he took his wife, naswara
Jamaat, and when she came back, she put the hijab on, and she put
the hijab on. He says, For six months, we're not talking about
non Muslims, talking about Muslims. He says, For six months,
no one in the entire town spoke to her. Also,
they boycotted her completely
six months no Muslim woman spoke to her because she wore the vein.
Find that many, many ahadis received that this is a sign of
kyama, the true Deen people will actually oppose it.
We were in Turkey last year.
We know Turkey now can't even pick up a newspaper. What you see in
the newspapers, sometimes pictures of naked women, etc, words in our
newspapers, shamelessness every direction you look in Istanbul.
What was even more shocking, lavansati
was telling us, he says that 90 years ago, 90 years ago in Turkey
in Istanbul, if one woman, if one woman, came in public with her
face exposed, just her face, she came without the veil, her face
was exposed. He said that it would the news would spread like
wildfire in that whole locality that there is a certain shameless
woman living there.
Now, what an effort barthi has made, what an effort barthi has
made that now within nine decades later, to wear the veil, to wear
the veil, we know what an internationally the veil, that
scarf, became such an international issue in Turkey, and
yet, just 90 years ago, if a woman came in public with a face
exposed, it was regarded that such a woman should be ostracized. She
is a shameless woman. It's impossible that such a thing can
take place in Turkey, 90 years ago, and now such a reversal. That
is why deen is something we can never be complacent about. The
effort of being has to take place all the time, or Masjid. We have
to bring them alive and make them Abad with Amal of Masjid. We can
never become complacent and feel that we've reached a certain
level. MashaAllah about masjid, madrasas, ulamas, everything is
preserved. Look at history. Unfortunately, we don't want to
take lessons from history. Buchara, Samarkand. These were
centers of Deen. What people said that 100,000 150,000 students
taking sitting in the dust of Hades at one time
and Allah brought a situation where to take Allah's name was
regarded as a crime. People were locked up.
Month of Ramadan. People were brought food. If they didn't eat,
they disappeared. The family never heard from them again. To that
extent. So deen is something we can never, ever take for granted.
The effort the deen has to take, we have to make Kadal appreciate.
Allah has given us such an environment where to practice on
sunnah is easy. There's no Absolutely, no restrictions, no
prohibition, if you don't make Kadar LA, seva take it away. In
shakoptan la, azidang wala in kafam inhabila shadin la says, If
you appreciate my favors, our increase, and if you don't
appreciate then my
Azhar, my chastisement also is very severe, so very,
very important. I expect that there is an object behind reading
these various ahadis and the importance of practicing on sunnah
inshallah over the next few days. Other chapters you will read where
we will deal with the more practical side. One is mashaAllah.
Lot of times you like to hear Vyasa vizhakaras, but when it
comes to actually practicing there, Shaitan says, you know,
that's not for me. We'll see later on. The main thing is to practice.
One is listen one hour long. You don't practice on one thing.
Rather do the one practice and don't listen to the wala wa lair.
More is we have to become living, walking, talking, muhammadis
to learn and Sunnah, something has to be learned. That is why third
point of Kabri, Ahmed Zika, that point is stress for what that
practice of Deen will come when AYL takes place. Unfortunately,
nowadays, the perception is to read Quran or to make Zika, we say
he is ibhad, but to learn Deen, we feel is not ibhadra, but that is
superior.
For Keith Warrick, Alaa, shaitan, with alkyya. Abu Asmaa said, one
person who has the knowledge of deen is hada on shaitan. Then 1000
1000 worshippers.
So to acquire the knowledge of being is very, very important.
Even in Attika, part of this learning, learning and teaching,
is also evaded. It's very, very important, my respective brothers,
that we like we said we should go back with something. If I've got
10 sunnah in my life, Inshallah, by the end of this period, I will
go back with 100
sunnah. I like your story. It's one. Level, we have these ones.