Ahmed Suleman Khatani – Taqwa
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Allah,
minata AAM, I was Sharam. Ila masyam, minallah, minallah,
minallah kamak, ala SallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam
respected Allah akhiram, elders and beloved ones in Islam,
this human being, ALLAH SubhanA wa taala, has made him intrinsically
weak. Allah subhana wa Taala says in the Quran holy qal in San uda
IFA insan has been made weak.
And it is an indication of the weakness of this human being that
he is constantly afraid
of any form of difficulty, any form of worry, any form of
concern.
Person just misses his theory for one day,
and already we see the effects of the weakness of this Insan. He
can't speak. His head is raining. His whole tabiath goes off.
In fact, all this running about this rat race that we see the
commercial enterprise in the entire world. People exhorting
their children, get a good degree, get a good job, secure your
future, acquire the wealth of this world. All this effort that is
taking place throughout the entire world, behind it is the conviction
of this human being that by acquiring the wealth of this
world, I will acquire happiness, and I will be able to save myself
from the problems and the hardships and the difficulties of
this world.
That is why we hear so often a parent telling his child that if
you don't get money, if you don't get a good job, if you don't get
an earning, if you don't get a livelihood, you are going to be
destroyed. There will be no satisfaction and no joy in your
life.
Every form of difficulty, every form of problem, every form of
concern. If you look into Qurani Karim,
there are two words in which Allah has summed up every difficulty,
every worrying, every concern that a human being can have, whether
past, present or future.
And these two words, one is hope.
Khov,
the English meaning is fear,
in Quranic terminology, every concern, or the cathiet of the
heart, the state that forms on the heart of a person with the worry
about what lies ahead, what lies in front, that Quran refers to as
hope
and the other is frozen, which literally translated means worry,
grief or sorrow in Quranic terminology, every difficulty,
every problem, the caveat of the heart, the state of the heart,
pertaining to problems a person is presently going through, or
problems or losses or afflictions that he has faced in the past. The
Arabic terminology, the Quranic word for that is cousin. So in
these two words, all the problems and afflictions that a human being
faces past, present and future, Allah has summed it up, hope, the
future, poison the present and the past.
We are running behind this Vinya.
We are trying to acquire the wealth of this world in order to
save ourselves from cough and from prison, to save ourselves from the
problems and afflictions and the hardships of this world people are
playing.
Doing well ahead. But we find that the fact of the matter, my
respected brothers, is that even with wealth, people are sad. Even
with wealth, problems and afflictions are coming. The
wealthiest person in America, in one magazine I read, I'm not going
to take his name. We know his name,
he said that I am facing depression. What is the cause of
his depression? The wealthiest person of America, he says, I am
reaching the age of 50. Most of my life has already gone. There is
very little left. I have got so much of wealth, yet this wealth is
of no away to me with regards to extending my life. This is why I
am facing depression.
Now,
what prescription of the psychology of chasing after this
dunya is going to adjust this type of depression?
One is our experience. One is the dictates of society that acquire
wealth, you will be successful. Acquire wealth. You will solve
your problems. Acquire wealth. You will not be depressed. Acquire
wealth. You will not have to face the trials and tribulations of
this world. But the fact of the matter is that that psychology is
incorrect. It is defective.
The other is the nuskha and the prescription which is indelible,
which is la rebafi, no doubt in it, Allah says you are weak in
sun. You can't face problems. You can't face difficulties hope and
prison you are afraid of. So take my Nusrah, my prescription by
which you will be able to solve all your fears and all your
worries. What is the nuska in the prescription of the Quran Allah in
awliya, Allah him, wala hum, yanoon.
This word Allah,
if you literally translate it, it means hearken, put up your ears,
pay attention. Or, in contemporary terms, it's like you catch hold of
somebody and shake him. Why don't you listen to me. Listen to me.
What's wrong with you?
This is the equivalent of what Allah is saying, Allah, listen.
Listen to your Allah. Become the friend of Allah. Become Wali.
Allah. You will have no hope and no reason. All your problems of
the future, present and the past will be solved. Become the friend
of Allah.
Unfortunately, my respected brothers, when we hear this term,
Wali Allah, straight away, the mind switches off. Why? Because we
have taken this concept of Vilayat to be something unattainable
beyond our cities. Waliullah are very few.
This actually is because, generally this bimari, or the
sickness, is found amongst Muslims of Hindu
of indo Park origin, because of our Hindu background, we tend to
expect from a valley that he must perform miracles. Somebody flies
on a broomstick, or he walks on a water or he can cure a sick
person, then he's a valley of Allah. We are looking for miracles
for Wilayat.
But Wilayat is something Quran is not going to exhort or call us
towards, something that is unattainable.
In fact, compared to the whole world of kufar, Allah, say, if you
put the whole world of kufar on one side and you put one mean with
weak Iman, compared to the whole world of kufar, he is wali Allah.
He is a friend of Allah.
Now, who? Who are the friends of Allah?
How do we become waliullah? There again. Look at the Quran Allah.
Allah says in only yahu, illal, mutapun,
we can shed tears and
continue to express our grief and lament over the fact that how
little Muna, Saba, the Ummat today has with the Arabic language and
the language of the Quran, such beauty Allah has concealed in the
Quran, it is unimaginable
whenever the word in and Illah comes together. It creates a
meaning of absolute exclusivity in only Yahoo illalut, What is Allah
saying that my friends are only and only the people of Taqwa. They
are the friends of Allah, no one else, whether he has wealth,
whether he has status, whether he has position, no matter what he
calls himself, can ever lay claim to closeness and tall look with
Allah except a person of tapwa.
So Allah says, become mutaki, acquire tapwa. He will become the
friend of Allah.
Are become the friend of Allah nowon, there will be no hope and
no cousin. All your problems, present and fear, past and future,
all your fears will be addressed and will be solved.
Now the question is, who are the muttaqin? Who are the people with
Taqwa? If you look at Quran,
become wa Jannat in ardua keen Allah says, hasten, run towards a
Jannat, the breath of which is equal to the distance between the
heavens and the earth, or if that little mutt has been prepared for
the people of
taqwa, who are
the mutakin, who are the people of Taqwa al Nadine,
first condition of taqwa, Allah dala says, Those people who spend,
whether they are wealthy or they are poor, they spend,
unfortunately, most of us at this first hurdle, we already fall down
because we don't know how to spend.
We don't know how to exhibit generosity. If you go to the poor
man, he says, I don't have anything for me to spend in the
way of Allah. If you go to the rich one, he says, I've got too
many subordinates and too many responsibilities to worry about.
How can I spend in the way of Allah
janai Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam. Sahaba say he
was the height of generosity, and especially in the month of
Ramadan, his generosity would increase, they say ajwad, mean
he would become more generous in Ramadan than a blowing wind. In
the famous hadith of Salman Khan, see RadiAllahu Taala on the eve of
Ramadan. Look at the manner he exhorted his ummat, because this
Ramadan is training for us.
He said, If you will spend in this month, give the story to a person
who is fasting. Kana, Mok, Sera, chandrihi, white para, Allah will
forgive your sins and Allah will free you from Jahannam, what did
Sahabah asked lesakul, Luna yajiduma, you Fatiha rasulallah,
on Abhi of Allah. All of us, all of us don't have the financial
ability to spend freely on a fasting person.
Look at how beautiful our Shariat is. Look at the solution which the
master salAllahu alayhi wa sallam gives, He says, you act in Allahu
ha the Saab Allah will give the same Saab to a person who gives a
fasting person even a droplet of water to drink or a little bit of
Merle who gives him one date. Then also you will get the reward. What
is the message that when it comes to your Amal and your actions,
Allah does not look at kasrat.
Allah does not look at quantity. Allah looks at quality.
In one Hadith, it comes sabakar mun near the Alfi Dirham, Rabbi
Islam said, One Dirham, one Dirham, got more reward than
100,000
dirhams on the one side, if you have a small pearl on the other
side, you have 1000 tons of steel.
Even a simple person will understand
that the pearl is more valuable than the 1000 tons of steel. He
said, one diram, one side, 100,000 dirhams. Other side, this one
Dirham more valuable, sahabas. How is it possible? He said, This
person only had two dirhams. He spent one in the way of Allah. The
other one had millions. He spent 100,000 this person spent half his
wealth Allah values this more than what that person spends.
We know the famous incident at the time of Tabuk, where this is
clearly illustrated. Allahu talanu says that Nadi salal Islam
exhorted Sahaba to spend
this time I knew I had more well than Abu Bakr. Abu Bakr had very
little with him. I said, this time I will outdo him. I brought half
of everything I possess, my pile was very big. When Abu Bakr came
with his his pile was small. But NaVi salaried changed the
question. Normally, when somebody gives Chanda,
what do people ask? How much did you brought? How much Chanda did
you give? Nobody asked. How much you left behind? But the umbrella
to be taught the value of Amal
Navi salasam changes the question Omar, what did you leave behind?
He says, I left behind half I brought half. Abu Bakr, what did
you leave behind? He says, O Nabi of Allah, I brought everything I
left behind. The name of Allah and His Rasul Salaam.
US. Omar, on that occasion, he said, Abu Bakr, that is the day I
became convinced I will never be able to outdo you, Allah, those
who will spend with in wealth and in poverty.
First hurdle, most of us fell down. But never mind, we asked
some generous people, May we'll pass the first hurdle. What's the
next thing Quran says, walka, we mean and Vale. Those who will
swallow their anger, those who will drink up their anger, those
who will control and when they temper. Unfortunately, this month
of Ramadan, many of us have this psychology that because I am
fasting, it is a license for me to be angry.
What's wrong with you? Don't disturb him. Don't you realize
he's fasting. He's going to get angry with you. We defeat the
whole object of the fast. You. If somebody is stronger than us,
if we are afraid of him,
for us to control our anger. So far as that person is concerned,
that is not what is referred
to. Kavime means when you are in a position of authority to control
your anger
physically, you are stronger than your wife,
physically or financially, you are stronger than your staff and your
laborers.
This is the test for you. Allah says, if you are a person of
taqwa, control that anger of yours. And what will Allah give
you? Just to digress, when Hadith comes, the Vishal come send me
even, who the Allah you mean?
He said, a person who controls his anger, when, what type of anger,
when he is in a position to give them to it? He is the stronger
party. He is the superior party. He controls his anger each time.
He will do that, what will Allah give him? Allah will call him on
the day of judgment. There will be a Miss Universe competition. The
foods of Jannat will be lined up. Allah will say to him, you are in
a position of authority. You controlled your anger. Now choose
any of these you want, in exchange for that
one, control the anger, and then the next, rather maybe will pass
this one, the next one, even more difficult while afina and in NAS,
one is to control the anger, the other is from the heart, to
forgive the person we know. The famous incident Imam zamil Avidin
Ahmad Alaihi is making wudu his slave girl comes metal lotta,
metal container for the water. It slips from my hand, falls onto his
hand. He gets hurt. He gets angry. Looks at her with rage.
Immediately, she reads the verse of the Quran walqavimin al Zayd
muttaqi, people of tapwa, those who swallow the anger.
Immediately, he says, I am not angry with you. And she says,
Well, afina in us. He says, I have forgiven you. She says, Walla, who
you
Allah loves those who do good. He says, I have forgiven you and I
freed you also. This was amalan, the Quran,
like that, my respected brothers, we find Quran is repeat with
descriptions of who are the muttaqin? Who are those people
with taqwa, the first verse of the Quran after Surah, Fatiha, zakita,
the occasion of Juma to go into all the verses of the Quran
describing what is tapwa. Allah has given us one simple Amal, one
color of Islam which Allah is saying, do this properly, and
Allah will give you tapwa. And if you become mutki, you are the wali
of Allah. If you become the wali of Allah, all your problems are
solved. What is that? Amal, Fatima, Siyam, kama, kutivala, Min
kablikum, laala Kum says, fasting has been made for us upon you as
it was made for us on the nations before you. Lalakum, tat tapun,
what is the maksa the fasting? What is object of fasting? Allah
says we will give you. Tapwa,
unfortunately, my respected brothers, we see millions and
millions and millions of people are fasting, but very few become
mutati, the condition of majority of the Ummat before Ramadan and
after Ramadan is the same. In Ramadan there is little bit change
for the short while. And after Ramadan we.
Revert back to the life that we had before Ramadan. Tapwa is not
coming.
What Allah says is Haqq woman as Tapu, mean Allah hitila woman as
tapum in Allah Haditha, there is no one more truthful than Allah.
There can be no doubt in the Promise of Allah. Allah says, if
you fast, you will get tapwa. Why the woman is not getting tapwa, my
respected brothers, is because the fast that we are keeping we
mentioned earlier. Allah does not want quantity. Allah wants
quality.
Allah is commanding you to fast. What does it mean
we have regarded fast just to be an extension from food and drink.
What Allah mean? Halal before Ramadan during the days of fasting
for a short while, it is haram for us, so we will stay away from it,
and we have done our job. This is our fast. But if you look buchari,
Sharia Nabi Sam says lay sasya,
fast. Rosa is not an extension from food and drink. What is fast?
What is the Rosa, which Allah wants you to keep in namasya?
If you put all these Hadees
together, what is Rasulullah sasam saying, fast is not fast from food
and drink, the Rosa, which allows you to keep is your eyes must keep
Rosa. Your ears must keep Rosa. Your hands must keep Rosa. Your
feet must keep Rosa. Your heart must keep Rosa.
Javi Allahu taala, ANW
Sahabi a Rasulullah describes this. They learnt being from the
feet of the master sallallahu alayhi wa sallam himself, he said,
is our Sumter? Is our Sumter? Walisa, Anil, kadidi one maharim,
WADA Adel, John, waliakun, alaika, sekin, Wawa, Paul walatajab.
He says, When you fast, then let your ears fast, let your eyes
fast, let your tongue fast from lies and doing haram. Do not
become a source of difficulty to the next person. Let there be a
sense of tranquility and dignity about you when you are fasting.
Let it not be, let it not be that the day of your fast and the day
when you are not fasting is the same,
like the poet says, Ida Alam Nia Kun is Alam Nia Kun, FISA memini,
kasaunon, Wafi basari, radun, Wafi mantiti, sumtu, fahazi and minsomi
al ju Awa Zama, Asmaa, Fain, kutu ini, sumtu, Yomi sama. Sumtu ajib,
he says, If I do not restrain my hearing, if I do not lower my
gaze,
if I do not silence my tongue,
then the only share that I have got out of my fast is hunger and
thirst, even if I say to the whole humanity today, I am fasting.
Allah. Have not fasted. If my tongue has not fasted, I have not
fasted. If my ears have not fasted, I have not fasted.
These two, these two shawads,
the eyes and the tongue.
Ulama says these are very big zalims.
There's no limit. There's no limit to the shahwat. Every other
shahwat, there is a limit. There is a cut off point
sexual desire of a person also these limited.
How much can a person eat, how much he eats. That desire also is
limited.
But these two desires, the gaze, one of them, one wrong gaze and
already, already the spiritual, spirituality of the heart starts
to be destroyed. This heart is full with darkness. Person looks
at haram that one gaze invites him to the next gaze, and then the
next gaze. And there is no limit. Ravish rasa, said in the nazara
saga, mum in shuhum, at least, must move. He said, this, these
eyes, this gaze, is the most poisonous of the poisonous arrows
of shaitan,
at least for this one month. Lower your gaze. At least for this one
month. Do not look at haram and Word.
And harder than this is the fast of the tongue
for this one man, my respected brothers, put a lock on this
tongue. Stay away from rebirth. Stay away from swelling, stay away
from slandering. Stay away from hurting the feelings of others,
from swelling others, from venting your anger upon others.
This is the thing that is destroying the fast of the summat.
This tongue is such a is alim, my respected brothers, let us
understand more important, more important Wallahi and sitting on
the member of the masjid, more important than making 1000 khatums
of Quran in this month of Ramadan. Is to not make the event of
others, is to not speak lies, is to control the tongue. Ibadan is
in its place. But with our Ibadan, we have to control ourselves. In
the time of rasulallah, sallAllahu, sallam, we know the
famous incident those two women reach the verge of death as a
result of fasting. Navi salasam said, Send the bowl to them and
ask them to vomit.
They vomited first. Sahaba was surprised.
On the verge of starvation. What are they going to vomit? They are
hungry. Stomach is empty. Navi salasam said, ask them to vomit
when they vomit fresh fresh blood, fresh pieces of flesh.
Navi salaam
AHA
Jala said, ish DABU ma il
Allah,
He said, These two women, they fasted from what Allah made halal.
They fasted from what Allah made halal,
and they broke their fast on what Allah made haram,
food and drink, basically halal. Temporarily. Allah stopped you
from it. We are prepared to stay away from that, but that which
Allah made haram from before, fever,
slandering, bed, banking, lying,
our Tavia has become such many respectful brothers that the
consciousness of this guna has come out.
We are not prepared to hear one bad word about ourselves. Let
somebody say one thing negative about ourselves. And already we
are full with rage, but we have sat for one hour in the masjid
while fasting and talk bad about others.
This one is like this, and that one is like that for hours and
hours,
without a concern or a worry about what we are doing. He said, Al
Ziva to Asham in a Zina,
even a weak woman understands Zina is a reprehensible thing. Allah
swt is worse than Zina.
And what the greater problem is, is that if you will give this
tongue, this dalim rain, then it won't stop at back biting, it will
become swearing, then it will become tail carrying, and
eventually it will become Bhutan. We will start slandering people,
and we will start spreading false rumors about people. When a person
reaches this stage, Allah protect us. Nabhi Islam says a person who
is in the habit of spreading false rumors and of making Bhutan his
hastiya, his value in the sight of Allah is less than that of stools,
also human droppings, the filth of it. This person has less value in
the sight of Allah Tala, who is in the habit of carrying tales of
people, who is in the habit of spreading false rumors is who is
in the habit of slandering people.
Fast is not food and drink, my respective brothers, that is the
lightest fast,
Abu Ali Ahmad Al Ali used to say
a Sai mufit In Malam Yatta,
wainka, Naima, AFI Rashi. He used to say a fasting person is in the
Ibadat of Allah, as long as he doesn't make Levites. Even if he
is sleeping, he is making Ibadan. As long as he hasn't made Levites,
we have the Quran in our hands and we are making divas. We have the
tashbi in our hands, and we are making ribat. This is the thing
that is causing, sowing the seeds of discord and disunity movements.
So my respected brothers, Allah has given you a guarantee fast
according to the way you are supposed to fast, and we will give
you tapwa. What does that fast mean? The ears must fast. Don't
listen to gibat. Also,
in fact, rasulallah, look at how beautiful advice is.
In Saab. In Saab, if someone swears you, if someone swears you,
too, don't react. Saying is Simon, I am fasting. Don't listen to
music.
Stay away from that shaitan box. Stay away from that object of
shamelessness. Let the eyes fall. Do not look at haram. Let the
tongue fast. Put a lock on the tongue. Let the hands fast. Do not
be a threat and do not be a source of harm to anyone. Let the feet
fast. Do not go towards the dens of Christ and the hardest fast,
the greatest mujaga. Let the heart fast. What is the Rosa of the
heart. What is the fast of the heart that every other jazbah,
every other zeal, every other inclination of this heart has to
come out and in this heart must only be the jazba and zeal to
please Allah and His Rasool salaried
that is the fast of the heart. Sachi Mubarak, month we have been
given my respected brothers every moment, every moment is valuable.
The time of Ishtar.
One occasion, musali Salaam will mention this. Revise very often I
am mentioning it again so that we understand how precious the
moments are of this month. Once Musa Ali Salam asalatala Ya Rabbi
a have blessed me with
you made me your Kalim. I spoke dialectly to you. Did you give
anyone else this honor? Did you give anyone else something more
than this? Allah tells musani, Salam in nali. Abadan, okay, is
the man whom fish bishari, Ramadan, there are some slaves of
mine. I will bring them in the last stage of time. I will honor
them with the month of Ramadan. Faye das Muhammad Sallallahu,
sallam. Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam
will fast. Their lips will become parched and dry as a result of
thirst. Their faces will change as a result of hunger. At the time of
Istar, O Musa, you are speaking to me now, between you and me, there
are 70 veils when Nomad Muhammad Sallallahu Sallam will make dua at
the time of Istar, there will not be a single veil between me and
them. The angels around the ash of Allah commanded stop your test be
and say, Ameen to the dua of Istar of the Ummah, the Muhammad
Sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam. To this extent, Allah has opened the
doors of his mercy upon us, but my respected brothers, that fast has
to be hakiti fast. That fast has to be a fast, according to the
sharais and the conditions, if you look in the nations of the past,
Maryam, Ali, salam, you know the incident in azerbai in Siya, she
says, When they asked her, Who is this child, she said, I am fasting
Shime di shara, I am fasting the nations of the past. If they spoke
the truth also, they fast broke this ummat, even if we lie also,
our fast doesn't break
to that extent Allah has opened the door of his mercy upon the
Ummah, the Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. So let our fast
be a fast when we will keep such a fast, when we will keep such a
fast that the eyes will fast, the ears will fast, the heart will
fast, the hands will fast, the feet will fast. Then what will
Allah give us? The visa said Mansa who mansana fee, he must kill him.
Mo Mina, a person who fast the real fast. He stays away from
Guna, his eyes, his ears, his mind, his heart. Fast. What will
Allah give him? The visa says every day of such a fast Zo
wajahu, Kula, Latin, Miyata hora, in the night, Allah will make his
Nikah with 100 whores of Jannah, wabana, who kasran Phil Jannah min
Zaha bin wafid was
AHA Jumia for joy at fihi anzim, Mina dunya, and every night of
such a fast Allah will build for him a palace of Jannah out of
gold, silver, sapphires and rubies, which is so vast that the
comparison of this dunya with that palace is like one pen of sheep
with this entire dunya such a reward when it will be the real
fast. That is why my respected brothers, our elders are exhorting
us, in the month of Ramadan, take out some time, even if it is one
Asana, and go out in the path of Allah. Go out spend time in the
environment of the Masjid. Spend time in the environment of iman.
This is how our fast will become easy for us. It will be easy to
stay away from guna and from.
Son, it will be easy for the haqiqat and the reality of the
Rosa to come
is the person in the path of Allah even is sleeping, is hebat. And
what will Allah give us on this level terminate? The vistas, said
two Hadi says, months lo Anna, rajulan, Sama, yoman tatoa, if a
person keeps one Rosa outside Ramadan, not in Ramadan, outside
Ramadan, understand, my respected brothers, these Hades of Fadhil
and virtue is when the Rosa is actual Rosa, when we fast, like
how it was mentioned earlier. He said, If a person keeps one Rosa
outside Ramadan, mil al Arabi, zahaba, Lamya, stofi, tawaba,
hudu, Naomi ki sab on the Day of Judgment, if the whole earth full
of gold is brought in front of this person, Allah, will say, This
is too less. This is not enough reward for the one Nafil Rosa,
which he kept, for the one Nafil Rosa, which he kept. Mansama
Yeoman, man Sama, yoman fi Sabil in law. Fi rainI, Ramadan, boidan
in naam near tam in SEL mudamani, Jawad, that is just a Nafil fast.
What about a Nafil fast driving in a path of Allah. Abhisatam says a
person who fast while striving in the path of Allah outside Ramadan,
not in Ramadan, Allah will distance him from Jahannam, that
distance as it will take a fast horse rider to ride for 100 years.
This is outside Ramadan. What will Allah give that person who fast in
the path of Allah in Ramadan? We don't know if you will live to see
another Ramadan that is now. Some said, If my ummat had to know the
value of this month, they will wish that the whole year was
Ramadan. Let us take out some time my respected brothers go in the
path of Allah with this near one is to bring others, to bring our
lives on Deen for us to practice the Haki ki Rosa and Allah will
use us to bring others closer to Deen. Also may ladha ragi, one of
us Sofi, go after.