Ahmed Suleman Khatani – Seasonal Muslim
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beloved brothers
in Islam
already, we can feel the effects
of the departure of this great guest and blessing of Allah
subhanho wa taala,
the beloved and the blessed month of Ramadan. Already, to some
extent, we can see
the crowds in our massages diminishing
the level of masiyath and disobedience of Allah subhanho wa
Taala increasing.
This to a very large extent, my respected brothers,
is because we fail to realize the objective and the purpose behind
these occasions, or these periods wherein ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala
increases his mercy, Allah increases his compassion, Allah
Dalai increases the opportunities for us to gain his closeness.
Allah subhana wa Taala gave us this month of Ramadan.
The purpose and the object behind it is not so that Allah Tala is
only worshiped in Ramadan, but as is mentioned in the Quran, Allah
Kum tat tapun, so that you develop tapwa, so that you gain the
closeness of Allah. The point being that the khayda, the
Barakat, the blessings, the spiritual elevatedness That is
acquired in Ramadan has to permeate throughout the rest of
the year
once bishar khafi Rahmatullahi was told in nakomanyata of baduna
vayadhunati Ramadan, that they are a group of people that make
ibadahs, that exert themselves in Allah's obedience. In the month of
Ramadan,
his reaction to this was bisal ko mukho mun Laya arifun, Allah,
haqqan, illafi Ramadan.
He said, What a terrible people they are.
What was said to him, they are worshiping Allah. He says, What a
terrible people are, those people who only recognize Allah in
Ramadan,
what a terrible people. How ungrateful they are, whose Ibadah
and worship of Allah is seasonal in the Saleh al adiya abut
sanatha, kullaha a
the true friend of Allah, the true love of Allah, the One who is
truly close to Allah, the truly pious person, is that person who,
whether it is Ramadan or not Ramadan,
throughout the entire year, in fact, throughout his entire life,
He worships Allah,
like the poet says. A dunya kuluha, Shah rustaki, why do Fitri
him? Yo Malikai, Rabbi, him
for some Yom akal Adina for some yoga. Adna la Allah. Kafir din
tafu Zubi, WA Nasu, suvamu, wakat sum to an LED zati dari kuliha
wakat sum to an lat dahri
kulihakum Zakat fitrusyani.
He says this entire life of this dunya is one month of Ramadan.
The entire life of dunya is one month of Ramadan
and Eid al Fitr. The day when we will stop fasting. Is the day when
we meet Allah subhanho wa taala.
So this short he says, Yo Maka Adana. This short day, the short
period when Ganya is compared to Akira, it's insignificant.
It the life of this world, 60 or 70 years. For those who live that
long, if you compare it to the first day of akirat Kam, Singh
Alfa Sana, 50,000 years the first day this life is completely
insignificant, he says, For so
the short life Allah gave you the short day, fast
what he means by Fast, fast away from the disobedience of Allah.
Exert yourself in the pleasure of Allah. Tomorrow, you will be
making aid. Tomorrow you will be celebrating while other people
will be swimming in their own perspiration,
while other people will be in fear. You will be underneath the
shade of the ash of Allah.
Aisha Ravi Allahu Taala was asked about the ibadaht of Rasulullah.
Sallallahu alayhi wasallam. She said his Ibadah was not seasonal.
His Ibadah was with dawahm throughout the year. All the time,
there was a set amount by which he worshiped Allah, subhanho wa
taala. And this is what we have to aspire for.
On one occasion in the time of Rasulullah sallam, there was one
person.
He would make ribaud,
ask make Toba to Allah dala, then he would go back to sinning like
how most of us do. Then the next occasion comes again in mektova,
Allah AJ and told him, ya
ini vatahadim,
your example is like someone who starts putting up a structure in a
building.
Expends his time and energy to put up this building, then, with his
own hands, he destroys the building.
Then he starts building it again, and then he destroys it like a
person who puts a bucket in a well, and he starts pulling the
water up when it's about three or few, four meters from the top. He
says, My hands are painting. I'm feeling tired. Let me leave the
rope and relax for few minutes. Take his foot off the pedal.
Relax. Then he'll go back. Start pulling the rope again. He can
carry on from now till kyama, like that. He won't get one bucket of
water also.
So in Allah, some told this person that, what are you doing? He says,
Ya Rasulullah, I realized thereof My ways now so far, Avani, wala
Adim, now I will build, but I will not destroy the building that
taqwa, that piety, that closeness of Allah, subhanho wa taala, that
sweetness of ibadah,
which we experience in Ramadan, my respected brothers, has to
permeate the yet,
one person came to Rasulullah, sallAllahu, sallam, he said, Murni
Bill Islami,
amalan la assalu, Anhu Ahad And Badat.
Murni bin Islami, Amram la asald.
This hadith,
which I have just mentioned, will translate it just now. Alamai
Kiram says this is one of the Hadith on which the foundation of
deen is based.
So important is the meaning that is found in this hadith.
One Sahabi came to rasulallah, and he says, On the behalf of Allah,
command me with something in Islam.
Command me with something in Islam, after which I don't have to
ask anything more. Give me some concise advice, which I can hold
on to for the rest of my life, which will preclude the need or
the or the requirement to ask anything more. What does
Rasulullah say to him? Qul Aman to bila? Thum
say, I believe in Allah, then have his tikhama persevere.
This is what is required by respected brothers. We are to
persevere even if it is little bit AHA bul as the one oh in kala,
Asmaa said, the most beloved actions in the sight of Allah dala
is that action which is dawam, which you will hone on to even if
it is little.
Islam doesn't require you that in Ramadan you make 10 khatam, and
for the rest of the year you don't open the Quran.
Islam does not require you that in Ramadan you come to the masjid,
and once the Hilal of E decided for the next 11 months, you are
somewhere else.
This is when you are making a mockery of Islam.
In the verse of the Quran was mentioned Omar of the Allahu gal
and on the member of mercy, the Navami, he recites, in the living
Allah.
Verily, those who say our Rabbi is Allah, then they have ista Ahmed.
Omar explains histamine. He says, Wallah.
He the lahi vita atihi wa Nami Yau Hu Rogan,
he says, Don't be cunning like a wolf.
Don't be cunning like a fox.
That your worship of Allah is seasonal, is the karma means
persevere and Amal
do not only on occasion, worship Allah Tala and then exhibit
cunnings Run away in the next big night and the next big occasion or
the next Ramadan, you come back to Allah.
This is why, my respected brothers, because, to a very large
extent, our Toba and our Ibadan is seasonal. This is why the
sweetness and the ecstasy which Allah has kept in his Ibadan, his
worship, we are not experiencing that because we do not persevere
on the Amal,
regardless of circumstance, regardless of situation. We have
to persevere on the Amal, then Allah. Allah will give us that
sweetness, that sweetness in his ibadah, which Walla you will not
find in anything else. Abu Salim and zarani Rahmatullah used to
say, lay him a little lady him. Allah, zoom in as love with he.
Love with him.
Walla, walla ma Lael, mAh Bab, Tul, bakat, dunya, walatul,
munajaat, le sat minute, dunya in namahimin al Jannah, as Hara HUM
laho, Taala le oliahi
used to say, Allah has kept that sweetness, Allah has kept that
ecstasy. Allah Tala has kept that enjoyment in the night, in the
ibadah, the Allah which the people in the dens of vice, in the places
of haram, do not experience,
he is to say, if it were not for the night and the sweetness of
tahajjud and the sweetness of crying before Allah Tala, I would
not have even desired to remain in this dunya. There's no other
attraction left for me in this world. How many Sahaba of
rasulallah Sallam on their dead bed? Whether it was the beloved
grandson of Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi, wasallam
Sayyidina, Imam Hussain, RadiAllahu Taala and who on the
night before he passed away, or whether it was mahasin Jabal
RadiAllahu Taala Hu or whether it was Ahmad bin Asad Yallah on so
many Sahaba on the occasion of Juma. There is no time to go into
the details each one of them, when the time came to leave this world,
what are they saying? They are saying, Ya Allah. Ya Allah, if it
were not for the sweetness of fasting. If it were not for the
sweetness of your Ibadan, if it were not for the sweetness of
tahajjud,
we would not have worried that we are dying and leaving this world.
But the only pain and concern is that we will no longer experience
this sweetness and this ecstasy,
he says,
Abu salimah, darani, Rahmatullahi. He says, Let the Tul munajaat,
that sweetness of getting up in the dead of the night and talking
to your Allah and crying before your law, he says, that is not of
this dunya. There is nothing in this world that can compare with
that. He says that is of Jannat.
That sweetness is from Jannat, which Allah Tala gives in this
dunya, to those who will persevere in Amal, to those who are the
friends of Allah Tala. What greater example can we present
than that of the master salAllahu alayhi wa sallam himself?
His multivain state is such
re Allah come what is the crux of the verse of the Quran Allah is
saying, O Muhammad, sallAllahu, alaihi wasallam, even if you
wanted to anger me, you could not anger me.
You are forgiven already, past future. There is no way you will
earn my anger that multivariate status. Yet. Husayn, who says, One
night I saw Rasulullah salasam in Salah,
Salah Nabi ya sal Allahu, alayhi wa sallam, alaylatan. He says, I
came and stood behind him, and I said, Allahu, Akiva,
Allah, rasulallah wa alayhi wa sallam was reading Surah Batara.
He says, I taught in my heart yarkov indal niya, after 100
verses, he was going to rumma mother. He passed 100 verses. Then
he says, I taught in my heart,
you slowly behalf. He wrote at him,
he will read half in this record, half in the next record. We know
how long Surah Baqarah is, almost two and a half. Shivaras,
summa, mada. He carried on. Then I said here, Kahu after at the end
of Surah Baqarah in me, guruku, sabta.
Tahan Nisa, he finished surah baqarah and Sada, Sura Nisa
fakara, aha, you read Sura Nisa Summa, Tahara Imran. Then he
started Sura ala Iran, and he read that Surah also 1/5 of the Quran
in one rakat of Salah. And how was he reading? He says he
was
reading, pausing slowly when he came past an ayat in which there
was tasbih praising Allah Dalai praised Allah. When he came past
an ayah of Jannat. He may go off of Jannat when he came past an
ayat seeking protection from jahannam. He sought Allah's
protection from Jahannam like that one first of the Quran would get
out like that.
Then he says, Allah SWT went into ruku and he began saying
Subhanallah Rabbi Al aveen fakana ruku, oh ho Nahum in qamihi. He
says the length of his ruku was equal to the length of his Qiyam.
Then he said Sami Allah, William and Hamidah stood up in coma. He
says he stood for a long time, almost as long as his ru then he
went into sajda, and he began saying Subhan Rabbi Al Adi Swaha
na Rabbi Allah. And he says the length of his sajda was the same
as the length of his Priam
Sahaba say his Mubarak feet would swell as a result of standing so
long period in Salah before Allah, he
used to save joy, let his salah.
Allah has kept the coolness of my eyes. Allah has kept my enjoyment.
Allah has kept my lesson. Allah has kept my ecstasy in Salah. You
my respected brothers, this type of Salah and this type of exertion
in Ibadah is impossible, unless and unless there is ecstasy, there
is enjoyment in it,
Abu rahana, as the RadiAllahu, Anhu goes out in the path of Allah
for a long time,
and then he returns.
They say, separation makes the heart grow fonder.
The wife was waiting. She beautified herself. Husband is
returning after a long time.
He asks her permission. Let me read turakat salah. She gives
permission. He starts the turakat salah. She is sitting next to him,
perfume, new clothing. Long time he hasn't seen his wife yet.
Turakat salah, and the next thing is Azam for Fajr.
He makes salaam ready to leave for the masjid wa Rajat, what time?
Amala, namin, Kana,
Abu Rehana, you slow in the path of Allah. Then you return. Now you
tied yourself in Salah. I am your wife, don't I have a share? Don't
I have a right?
He says, Yes, you have a right, but I was not aware of you. She
says, I was sitting right next to you. How could you not be aware of
me? Look at the response. Lam yazel, Yahuwah, fiva wasafa,
Allah, Janetta Hu minnaimiha Wala gatiha Washa, watihatul. Ma he
says, I said, Allahu Akbar, and Allah transported my heart to
Jannat. I saw the rivers, I saw the streams, I saw the palaces of
Jannat, and my heart was floating in Jannat till I heard the Azaan
prophet.
That is why Allah's Qassam, I was not aware of you. Allah had taken
me to Jannat in my salah
such Ibadan, many respected brothers, is only possible
when that ecstasy and that sweetness Allah Dalai gives us
jalabi, rasulallah, Imaan, zakat to Amal Iman manwali, a alayhi wa
sallam Nadiya, he who is happy with Allah as his Rab, with Islam
as his deed and his religion, and Muhammad sallall Islam as his
Nabi, his life is brought in conformance to Shariat,
then Allah will give him the taste of the sweetness of iman in this
dunya.
Allah used to say there is one Jannat in this dunya. There is one
Jannat in this dunya till you do not enter this Jannat, till you
don't experience the sweetness of this Jannat.
You will not experience the sweetness of the Jannat of akirat.
And what Jannat that is that Jannat and that ecstasy which
Allah Tala has kept in his ibadans,
my respected brothers, why we don't experience that? Why is that
sweetness no more there for us? Why is Allah, Ibadah the burden
and has become difficult for us all. I explained there are one or
two reasons for this. One is our failure to stay away from guna and
sins. Very clearly, this is brought forth in the hadith of
rasulallah. When he said in another Iblis must move. He said,
guard your gaze. Lower your gaze. Allah hasn't given you these eyes
to look at the daughters of others. Allah hasn't given you
these eyes to look at haram. He says, The gaze, the eyes, the
sight, is one of the most poisonous of the poisonous arrows
of shaitan. Allah, say, Pelli, Nazar parli, Nazar par dil ke
dunya ka ujati On the first wrong gaze, looking at haram, the inside
the spirituality, the darkening of the heart of the person, starts.
And then what do the sulas Ram say? He says, If you avert your
gaze, if you lower your gaze, and there is temptation in front of
you. Allah will give you that sweetness of iman, which you will
taste in this dunya.
Somebody came to Ibrahim in Adham Rahmatullah, and he
said to him, I find it hard. I find it hard to get up at salah. I
find it hard to make Ibadat of Allah at night. What was his
response? What would be our response? Sleep longer in the day
or Don't tire yourself. No. What was his response? He said, latahi
vinahar.
Latahi vinahar
Yuki mukavein, he said,
Do
not disobey Allah in the day.
Do not go towards haram in the day, when Allah is giving you the
opportunity to stand in front of him at night, because this Mokka,
this opportunity of standing before Allah at night, is an honor
which Allah gives, and the one who will sin openly is not entitled
and is not worthy to that honor.
Somebody came to Abdullah bin Masood Ali Allahu taala, and the
same complaint, I find it hard. I find it hard to make the ibadahs
of Allah. I cannot experience that sweetness in worshiping Allah.
What was the response of Abdullah bin Masood Adi, Allahu, taala, Hu
akhatu Kum Zulu, your sins because you are disobeying Allah over and
over again. That is why you are finding it hard to worship Allah.
That little exertion on the one side towards Ibadah is there, but
my respected brothers, unfortunately, this attempt to
stay away from Allah's disobedience is not there amongst
us.
Yet Allah has kept is that Allah has kept dignity. Allah has kept
honoring his Ibadah in his worship.
Imam Ahmed bin humble of the Allahu. Taala Hu Rahmatullahi is
to make dua Allah humma is an evitatik. Allahuma izanni vitae,
wana tuzilani vi masyatiq, he would say, Oh Allah, give us honor
to making your Ibadah through serving your deen wana to zilani
vi mak do not disgrace us by being disobedient to you.
Let us stay away from Guna. Ibrahim bin Adam Rahmatullahi to
say, allahumman, kulli, min, zulil, Masya, ILA, ijta O Allah,
take me away from the disgrace of guna to the izrat and the dignity
and honor that you have kept in your Ibadan in one as it comes
Allah. Tala says, * Aziz. * Aziz, famil Arad al izah, for
literal Aziz. Allah says, I am Aziz. If you and ijzad then obey
the exas and that being Who is Aziz, stay away from Guna, and
Allah will give you the sweetness of Ibadan. Stay away from Guna.
Allah will give you the sweetness of his worship.
One tabi, 60 Hajj. He made 60 Hajj. One after the other. One day
sitting in the hathim, and he's thinking,
I have made 60 Haja, I've come to this place so many times. I don't
know, I don't know if Allah has accepted me. It from me or not.
And then he dozes off in his dream, a voice calls out to him
that you would not call.
All to your house someone over and over again, unless you love him
and have accepted Him. So why are you worried whether your Hajj is
accepted or not? If Allah had not accepted your * would not have
called you here again and again. The proof of the acceptance of our
Amal, the proof of the acceptance of our Ramadan, my respected
brothers, is that, after Ramadan, we stay away from Guna. After
Ramadan, we stay in the worship of Allah. Allah will give you tofi to
come closer and closer to him, my respected brothers, if you will
persevere, if you will stay away from his disobedience. That is one
cause of his The other thing very respected brothers ulama say, the
reason why we find it difficult to worship Allah subhanho wa taala,
the reason why we find it difficult to bring ista Kamath in
our Amal
is because of weakness of Yaqeen, because there is no effort that is
made on Iman, The talks of Jannat, the thoughts of Jahannam in this
Mubarak month of Ramadan, the famous hadith of Salman, palsy,
RadiAllahu da on the eve of Ramadan, Janabi, rasulallah, Islam
exhorted his Sahaba, beg Allah for Jannat in this month, seek Allah's
protection from Jahannam In this month,
we have to understand my respected brothers. The exhortation and the
command was not just to ask for Jannat, not just to verbally seek
protection from Jahannam,
but if you look at Shariat, what is required, Hassan, basi,
Rahmatullah used to say mankala ini, ohibul, Jannah. That person
who says, I want Jannat, I love Jannat, but he is not doing the
Amal of the people of Jannat is a liar.
That person who says, I fear jahannam. Ya Allah, save me from
jahannam. But he is doing the Amal of the Jahannam is he is a liar in
his claim that he fears Jahannam,
the example is like one person many years is coming to the muli
Saab, Melissa, make dua, I get children. Make dua, I get
children. Give me tawis. Do this. Amal, do that? Amal, what must I
need to get children?
One day he crossed the muli sabs mind. Asked him, Why are you
married? He says, No, I'm not married. So the man is says, What?
What sincerity do you have in asking me? You never made any
effort whatsoever. So you don't really want children. You are just
asking,
Allah, protect us from that being our situation, also my respected
brothers,
we may have forgotten Jannat and Jahannam, but Jannat and Jahannam
doesn't forget us. Allah means to say he exhorted Sahaba, latan,
Saul, Ali, matain, never forget the two great things Sahaba said.
Woman, Azim, aanya, Rasul, Allah,
una we of Allah. What are the two great things
he said, Al Jannat, avanna, Jannat and jahannam. Never, ever forget
them.
Every day, Jannat calls out to Allah Ya Rabbi etini, the ALI Wabi
ma Watney, fakat, kerahari, waistavaraki was Sundar. To a Hari
ishtaq Every day Jannat is making dua to Allah. Ya Allah, my silk is
gone too much. My gold is too much. My silver is too much. My
pearls, my emeralds, my my maidens, my rivers, my trees, my
palaces, my enamour, my streams are overflowing. Ya Allah, where
are my inhabitants? Send them to me. Jannat is making the DUA
Jahannam is making the DUA
Allah. Ali Sallam taught us what it means to ask Allah for Jannat,
what it means to ask Allah protection from jahannam. In that
hadith which I mentioned in the beginning, he said, utilkum Wah
Abu minan Nari, Jo dakum, final, Jannat, alayana, mutali, buha Wai
nanayana, muhariboha,
he said, Seek Jannat, with everything that you Have, Jo
dakum, give everything you have for Allah's Jannat. Don't just
give lip service your life on Jannat, finish yourself for Jannat
like a father tells his son on the eve of his last exam for his
degree, what does the Father say? My son? Burn the midnight oil. Do
what you have to do. Don't fail.
Allah many times more is his compassion and love for his
ummats. Oh my ummud. Finish yourself for Allah's. Jannat Wah
Abu Mina, Nari jokum, and finish yourself in running from Jahannam
fainna, Jannat al mutali, buha Wah inan Nara, laiana, muhari Waha,
because the one who truly desires Jannat will never rest. The one
who truly wants protection from Jahannam will never rest. Do not
fall into the deception of this Vinya. Finish yourself for
accurate. Finish yourself for Jannat. Everyday, when Hadith
comes in and this, we
will terminate some says, inaudible. At the time of Sehri,
at the time of dawn every day, Jannat is opened up. Allah versus
Jannat is Daddy. Tivan Lee Ali become more beautiful,
become more fragrant. For those who are coming to you, Allah says
that cool breeze, that cool breeze that you experience at the time of
sahih, is the breeze that is coming from Jannat on the Command
of Allah that Jannat must become more beautiful and more fragrant.
Sometimes those who finish themselves for Allah. Such an
effort was made on Sahaba. Such an effort was made on Sahaba, when
they gave everything for that breeze of Jannat, Allah gave them
in dunya also. And as ginnadara, the Allahu Taala and who on the
field of Ohad, he says to Saad of the Allah, anhu, wahan Liri il
Jannah. Wahan Liri il Jannah. How beautiful is the smell of Jannat?
How beautiful is the fragrance of Jannat in meriham, sad Allah
custom, I can smell Jannat coming from Zayd bin Hari salad, he sent
where Saad bin Rabia look for him and ask him what condition he is
in Zayd in harissa, fine sad in Rabia. Ravi Allahu, taala,
muwadihi, ramak on the last gasp of life. He says, Nabi Islam sent
me. Allah rasoat sent me to ask you what condition you find
yourself in. He says, say to my Nabi. Say to my Nabi. Ini Aji,
Duni, Aji, duri Hal Jannah, I can smell Jannat. I can smell Jannat
right now, may Allah reward him more than any other. Nabi was
rewarded. Give my Salaams to him and say to my brothers of the
Ansar, say to my brothers of anzar, Lala, come in Khun wahi Kum
Ainun, tatraf, there is one hair on the body of Muhammad salasam is
harmed, and you are still standing tomorrow in Allah spot, I am going
to hold you responsible. Do not let one hair be harmed on the body
of my Nadi while there is still life in you, that Jezebel and that
zeal and show for accurate Sahaba Iran had my respected brothers
when the correct effort was made, Jannat and Jahannam was not talks.
Quran was not an irrelevant message, the desire and the shock
and the dua for Jannat and Jahannam was not lip service,
my respected brothers, if we take no other lesson, take this lesson
of Ramadan exhorted his ummah, beg Allah for Jannah, great protection
from jahannam. Our Ibadan should not be seasonal.
Ramadan has come. Ramadan is gone. We don't know if you will live to
see another Ramadan. Let the sail in. Ramadan permeate, bring its
department in our lives, those Gunas which we stayed away from in
Ramadan, after Ramadan stay away from them. Also that Ibadan, which
we made in Ramadan, make an attempt after Ramadan to make that
Allah will give us that sweetness and ecstasy in his ibadah. There's
no easy solution when respected brothers, the Ummah has to come
back to the masjid. We have to adopt the envilamat of masjid,
Amal of masjid, those same Amal of Hidayat, the janav rasulallah,
established in masjid and abumi in the time of rasulallah Islam. Our
masjids have to become Abad with those Amal, the Amal of dawat,
calling to Allah's greatness, the way of rasulallah, talking about
Jannah, talking about Jahannam, Talim in our homes. These are
those aamal, the Allahu. They are like the shepherd no Ali Salam
being given to this ummat again. The tide is against us. We can see
around us my respective brothers, the doors of Allah's mercy are
open, but the Ummat has to come back to the effort of eDay and
come back to the Amal of Idaho, may Allah give us sofiguha.