Ahmed Suleman Khatani – TIME IS A VALUABLE COMMODITY
AI: Summary ©
AI: Transcript ©
Oh,
Lady Jala Shams, a woman as In Ali Talamo,
other,
you for say,
respected Allah,
my Karam elders, beloved brothers
in Islam.
Many of us, to a very large extent, will have acknowledged in
this past week,
or have been exposed
on a global or international scale,
to the acknowledgement of what we refer to as a new year
2021. Has come to an end in
the year 2022
has started.
What is the reaction to this? What is the acknowledgement of this?
And more importantly, as Muslims,
as people of iman,
as those who have in front of them the constitution of the Quran
and the sublime
guidelines of our noble master Janabi Rasulullah, sallAllahu,
alayhi wa sallam.
What should our reaction be to this?
Unfortunately, alamay Kiram mentioned
they say we have what we call a maghlb mentality when a nation is
overpowered
and when a nation has lost its respect and dignity and it is
ruled by others,
then we find that to a very large extent,
the mindset, the goals, the objectives, the values of the
valid nation, that which is ruling over them, that which is
controlling not only their governments, but their economies,
the media, etc.
This has a negative, in fact, impact upon the mahluk nation,
that which is overpowered.
It tends to color their thinking, their values,
and they tend to lose their balance. In fact, instead of
providing guidance from Quran and Hadith,
they become the guided,
and in many instances, their actions are totally and completely
devoid of logic. Also,
the whole world celebrates New Year,
and obviously, they do not have cover in front of them. They do
not have Jannat in front of them. They do not have Jahannam in front
of them.
They do not have
this conviction of accountability in Allah's court. Ya Allahu, Amin
al hayatid Dunya A
says they know the apparent what is in front of them of the life of
this world. When it comes to akhirat, they are Rafi. They don't
have the Quran. They don't have Muhammad, Rasulullah, sallAllahu,
alayhi wa sallam. So their reaction is different,
and the sad, ironical reality of the situation today is that,
instead of providing them with the correct direction, we are taking
our cue from them.
They celebrate New Year. Obviously, just for clarification,
we should understand that for us, first January or the night of the
31st of December, Midnight does not, in reality, constitute the
changing of our year.
Our year is Muharram
as an ummat. We follow the lunar calendar, but the sun belongs to
Allah and the moon belongs to Allah. The verse of the Quran from
Surah Yunus, which I recited in the beginning Allah. Allah says,
hual ladi, Jala sham Sadhya, Waal kamaranura, wakatha, Rahu,
manazil,
Allah Dalai says it is Allah that created the sun as a bright.
A source of light.
Allah created the glowing of the moon.
Allah dala set both these upon set phases. Kadda, Rahu, manazil,
Lita, Alamo, Ada desab, so that through this, through these
phases, through the Eclipse, through the movement, through the
waxing and waning of the moon, etc, Allah says you are able to
calculate the movement of time, and you are able to bring about
calculations. In makalabil, Haq, Allah has created this with Haqq,
with the truth, not in vain. In the FID Ali kalahaya, till nekomi
kadalika, fasil, Aya, Tila, komi alamoon, in this manner, Allah
elucidates His signs for a nation of understanding, for a nation of
knowledge.
Time is gathered, or the movement of time is calculated by the
movement of the sun and the moon. So the sun's role in this the so
called solar calendar. Its role in the calculation of time, in the
changing of years, etc, is acknowledged by the Quran.
And since we are living in a society where the time of mukhana,
when we talk about new year, people wonder. They look at you
with a confused expression on the face, what new year are you
talking about? As an ummat? Our new year is mukharnam, but the
environment around us affects us to such an extent that we tend to
take our cue from the kufar. We tend to take our cue from those
who are not following the constitution of the Quran or
Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. Nevertheless, my respected
brothers, what is supposed to be the reaction to new year?
One year has passed, a new year has dawned. The people of batil,
the night of the 31st of December is spent in masyat is spent in the
disobedience of Allah subhanho wa Taala is spent in Zina, in
sharaab, in celebration.
Behind this is what?
Why are they celebrating? Why have the shackles of haya and shame
been shed off.
They are celebrating. Human
logic tells you you celebrate when you gain something. You celebrate
when you have achieved something. The entire psychology of Islam
belies this mentality. The movement of time in Islam is not a
gain.
New Year is not a cause for celebration. You haven't gained
something. What is the reality? The reality is that you have lost
something. One year is gone.
Keep in front of us the sublime sage, advices of that great sage
of Islam, that great pillar of Islam, Imam Hassan, Basri, Rahima,
Allah,
He says, mamin yomin. Not a single day dawns. IllAllah, wahoya Kul
except that that day says yabna Adam ini, khalkhun, Jadid, wana,
FEMA, tamal, FIA ghadan, alaika, Shahid, familia Masta,
tatain,
arji ilaikum. Abada, the value of time, he says, Every day, every
day that dawns, that day addresses you and says, Oh Ibn amo Insan,
inni, khalqun jadid, I am a new creation of Allah. Yesterday is
lost today. Allah has given you an extension. Allah has given you a
new day. Waana, FEMA, Tamil, FIA and alaika Shahid value me. Why?
Because the manner in which you will populate me, the manner in
which you will utilize this new day that Allah has given you.
Radhan, alaika Shahid, tomorrow, on the Day of Judgment, I will be
a witness in your favor, or I will be a plaintiff's plaintiff against
you. Familia,
so exert yourself in Amal value this new day, which Allah has
given you. Why vahini in the hub to learn arji, elaykum, abada,
because once I am gone, once I am gone, once the time has passed.
And this is the point, my respected brothers, the movement
of time is not again. It's a loss. We haven't gone one year ahead.
Have gone one year backwards. Hasan Basir, Rahim. Allah
describes it like this. He says, almotu ma akhudun, minawa, sikum,
wadunya, tutmi waikum. He says, more than death has caught you by
your forelocks. It is in front of you.
And this life, this precious time which Allah has given you, whether
you are 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years of age,
how many years have passed? How many days have passed? How many
months have passed? How many opportunities to earn your have
passed? How did you spend them?
Whatever is gone, are you going to get it back?
Whatever was wasted? Are you going to be able to utilize it again?
Almotu Maku dun, minawasi Kum the flag post, the stop point mod is
in front of you, and that is not negotiable. Wala kumia, do? Yum.
Wala Kum, Mia du yom, latasta, kirunaan, Hussain, walata, stakti
mun Allah says there is a promised time. Miad, there is a yom, there
is a time. There is a down to the millisecond. It's already ordained
before you were created, before you even came into this. Dunya,
it's already ordained the time of your departure, the time of your
moth, the time of your death. Latakirun, anusa, Atan wala at
Stak di moon, no extension will be given to anyone.
Every passing moment is valuable. Every passing moment has a price
tag on it every passing year is an Amana. It is a trust the passage
of time, or the milestones by which the movement of time are
realized acknowledged. My respected brothers are not a cause
of celebration, like the poet says in
what a says, pagal, foolish Insan, you are celebrating the passage of
time. You get happy. Birthday came. You get happy. You celebrate
New Year has come. You get happy you celebrate. Inala nafra, the
best passage of time has become a cause of celebration. Yet,
interestingly, someone asked kefaya Rahu with dunya ke fayyaf.
Rahu, bid dunya, Manya, Muhu, yadimu, sanatahu, wa sanatahu,
Yadi mu
ama Hu vahu, yah demo
Aja laho ke fayyaf, Rahu mania, kudu, huillahi wa haya tu Hila Mau
tihi. He says, Why do you celebrate every day has cut off
one a portion of the next month of your life is lost. Every month
that moves the portion of the next year of your life is lost every
year that passes, a portion of your entire life is lost. How do
you celebrate when every moment that you are living is taking you
closer to your moth How do you celebrate when every moment of
this life is taking you to that two foot by four foot hole in the
ground that is what that is, sandhukul Amal, that is a
representative of your actions. That is a representative of how
this life was spent, how this time was utilized. My respected
brothers, time is a Mata. Time is a valuable commodity, more
valuable than gold, silver, diamonds, rands, dollars, more
valuable than any investment any of us have the propensity, the
bounty, the grace, the Mercy of Allah, subhanho wa taala,
represented in this time which Allah has given us, in this life
which Allah has given us, this is our greatest commodity. This is
our greatest asset. Preserve this asset, value this asset. Utilize
this asset. Do not waste this asset. Abdullah bin Mubarak Rahima
Humla presented a compilation of Ahadith in which there were 40,000
Ahadith,
40,000 Ahadith. And
then he said to his students, there is one Hadith of Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He said, If you practice on this one
Hadith, it is as if you have practiced upon the 40,000 Ahadi if
you understand the message of this one Hadith. So they asked him,
What is that hadith? He said, Rasulullah.
Allah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam said, niyamatan, niamatan
magbunu, fihima, kathirum minan nas he said there are two bounties
of Allah. There are two favors of Allah. There are two great assets
which Allah has bestowed humanity with.
What is the sad tragedy with regards to this? What is the sad
irony with regards to these two assets? He said, majority of my
ummat will be oblivious of its value until it is too late. They
will not value this. They will not value these two niamhs until it is
too late. Majority.
What were the two assets? He said, asikha to Al Farag, asikhatu al
Farag, asikhatu al faraq Kaan Lena, listen with the ears of
iman. My Nabi said, My ummat will not value their health till
sickness has overtaken them, and my ummat will not value the free
time that they have till occupation overtakes them, till
eventually, Mort will overtake them, till that time now, when
Mort is staring them in the face, then they will realize how
valuable that time was, one two in the morning, sitting in front of
that shaitan box, looking at Zina taking place hours and hours spent
in front of fribales football matches and cricket matches and
wasteful wasteful activities that have absolutely no benefit, hours
and hours reading novels, wasting time getting involved in
unnecessary financial expeditions, getting involved in unnecessary
deals, utilizing time In this, utilizing time in that and with
what attitude, with what attitude, as if this is a commodity which
can be wasted, waste the time, no problem.
When are we going to realize? When are we going to put brakes? When
are we going to ask the questions that we are supposed to ask,
even the systems of battle, even the systems of battle. If you
look, when one year gets finished, a new year starts, they have a
financial audit.
This big, big business enterprises do not go ahead.
We'll see in the newspaper also. We'll see in the media also, 2021,
Major Events, what occurred? What lessons can we learn? What has
passed, what mistakes took place, financial, business houses. They
have an audit.
They draw up balance sheets. They draw up reports. How was the last
year spent? What can we do different in the next year? At
least? Take that lesson
2021. Has gone. One year has gone. How was that year spent?
Did I please my Allah?
Did I go closer to Allah? Is my heart brimming over with the love
of Allah in this last year?
How many Salah became Kada?
How many Salah was away from the Masjid. What type of Salah Am I
performing? Am I regular with my Fajr Salah with Jamaat? Am I
regular with my five times Salah with Jamaat? Have I given my time
for Deen? Am I striving in the path of Allah? What have I done?
Has this year been spent in Haram, in treachery, in lies, in deceit,
in Riba,
in maiming others, in usurping the rights of others, wherever I spent
it in a manner, where I was on halal, where I pleased Allah,
Tala, where I benefited humanity, where I went closer to Allah. Take
the order, take the time, do the reckoning, because the day is
coming. What did my Nabi say? La tazulu kadamar Abu din. La tazulu
kadamar Abu din, like a quagmire, like a magnet. He said, Your feet
will be stuck on the ground on the Day of Judgment. No one's feet
will move. Hata yusal and arbah until four things are going to be
asked two of it pertinent to what we are talking about. An umrihima
afana, one Shab shababi. He FEMA ablah. My Nabi said, Your feet
will be locked on the ground. You will not move till Allah questions
you on that day. How was the life spent?
How was the time spent that youth, that health, that time, those
opportunities we gave you to earn your akhirat and to earn your
Jannat, your feet will not move until every second of that time is
exposed. How was it utilized? Time is not a commodity that we can
afford to waste. Allah's system of hissab is complete. Bala warna,
lade, him yet to Woon kiraman, Kati bean ya la Muna, mata faloon
ya la muhai, Natal, ayun, wama tuk, feud, Mael fidom in coal in
La, la de hibun, at how many verses in the Quran Allah.
My angels are with you. Everything is being recorded.
Every second, every moment of your life is being recorded, and that
record will be opened up
on this one verse, ma Yelm in Kohl, every statement you utter,
every statement you utter, maelidhe, except with you. Allah
says rocky buna at my angels are attentive. They are waiting. They
are recording Ibn Abbas Radi Allahu Taala and Huma in the
tafsir of this verse. What does he say? He says, yukteb
Kulu Kalaam Ibn Adam min He
said, Every word you utter is being written down, whether good
weather, evil, even nonsensical speech, even what has nothing to
do with actions that is also being written down, hatta, yukta, the
hub to akaltu wa
Sharif to somebody said, I ate, I drank, I walked, I talked, I left,
I entered, I went out, I saw this. Everything is recorded. Everything
is recorded. Big, big industry drew a trial ordered when one year
finishes, my respected brothers, that day is coming when this
entire youth will be questioned, when this entire life will be
questioned, when every moment will be questioned.
The movement of time, New Year is not a celebration. Time is not
advancing. Time is receding. Time is not advancing. Time is
receding. No one, not you, not I, has gained another year. The fact
of the matter, my respected brothers, is that we have lost one
year. One year is gone.
Take the trouble of going to the graveyard. Take the trouble of
standing in front of those graves and look at the plaques, look at
the names, look at the dates, and ask ourselves this question, Allah
out of His Mercy has given us 2022
Allah out of His Mercy has given us another solar calendar year.
Next year, am I going to be here? How much more opportunity do I
think I have? How much longer can I continue with this dishmani and
ADA with my Allah. How much longer am I going to stay away from the
Masjid? How much longer is my duty and distance from the Quran going
to continue? How much longer is my tashkil going to be made to go in
the path of Allah and I'm going to continue to delay? When am I going
to start preparing? How much of this dunya do I need to gather?
How much am I clinging on to? How much longer is the ringing of
coins going to blind me to the reality of this cover in this
grave? These are the questions that need to be asked, because one
of the greatest
one of the greatest traps, one of the greatest traps and
machinations
and bedevilment of Iblis, of shaitan. Ulama. Tell us is that
when you start asking these questions, shaitan will not tell
you, don't make Toba, don't repent, don't change. Shaitan will
not tell you when you hear the Azaan make Tova and rush to the
masjid and start regularizing your Salah, regularizing your Ahmad,
shaitan will not tell you. Don't do that. What will shaitan tell
you? Shaitan will tell you, delay it. Delay it. You got another
chance. You got another opportunity, like what they say in
Arabic, the word Sofa, sofa in Arabic means delay. Don't do it
now. Do it later. You've got a chance. My respected brothers, you
and I need to realize we don't have that extension. We don't have
that chance now. Toba is not something to be delayed. Change is
not something to be delayed. New Year has come. We have lost one
year. This coming year. Don't lose it. Don't waste it. Don't think
we've got indeterminate time. Now is the time to change as an online
Ibrahim, Devil ASAP.
Daman barakatu. He gives one maybe mundane example where he explains
this. He says, sometimes you set your alarm clock for Fajr, Salah,
the clock rings nowadays, mashallah, with the type of
technological advancements, they got a snooze button. And even in
that deep sleep, you are conscious of the snooze button, you do a
quick mental calculation. There's still 15 minutes left for
ecommerce, wuzu, toilet quickly in my car will take me five minutes.
I got another 10 minutes, so press the snooze button.
Few minutes later, alarm goes off again, again, and quick mental
calculation, why? Because, what is the problem now that few minutes
extra sleep, unfortunately, sweeter than the sleep of the
whole night also.
So you'll press the snooze button again, and if.
You carry on like that. What happens eventually that Salah
becomes Kada?
What so far, shaitan didn't tell you, don't go for Salah. In fact,
shaitan told you, set the alarm, set the alarm, make the intention,
but delay.
Delay. What is the harms of delay? As a mahisu, sabrahma tulali in
his higher to Sahaba,
he mentions one incident of the Banu abstribe Wabi sa Abdullah bin
Wabi sa Abusir RadiAllahu Taala narrates that in Mina we were
here. We were near Masjid khayf, near the first Jamara. This was
the early days of Islam before hijrat Allah's rasulallahu alayhi
wa sallam came towards us. He was mounted on a camel. Zayd bin Hari
saradi Allahu talano was sharing the camel with Rasulullah.
SallAllahu sallam, nabiha Pak salal Islam gave us the dawat of
Islam, he says, amongst us from the Banu abstraev was meh Sarab in
Mala absi.
He was very impressed by the Dawah. Da Rasulullah, sallAllahu
sallam. In fact, he said Ali for Bill Allah Laya, the Haran ruhatta
Ya kulam.
He told his people, I take kasama Allah. This man's speech is so
impressive that his religion will become dominant and it will reach
the four corners of the world. Let us follow him. Our people said,
Listen, we came for Hajj. Now, let us finish what we came for. We'll
consider his matter. We'll see about it. In other words, delay,
delay, masuk maisara. Listen to His people. But on the way back
the journey back to Banu abs, they passed by fidak. So he told his
people that in fidak, they are the Jews. Let us go to them and ask
them about this person. Is he a true Nabi of Allah or not? Nusa
ELO hum? So they went to the Jews. The Jews brought their scriptures,
and in their scriptures was the description of the last prophet
and Nabi Yul Umi, all Arabi, yar Kabul, Jamal, yajit, asi, ubil
kisra,
obil Kasara, Lisa, bit Tawil, wala, Bil kasih, wala Abu jadwala
Be sab fear ini he humra, musharrabul alone, this much
David, what was the translation of this? That the last prophet will
be from amongst the Arabs. He will be unlettered. You will find him
mounted on a camel. He will suffice with very little of the
means of this world. He will not be too tall nor too short. He will
be of moderate height. His hair will not be very curly. Will not
be straight. It will be between the two. In the white of his eyes,
you will see red lines. His complexion will be fair and
luminous, and there will be a tinge of redness. This much they
read, and they realized that this was the exact physical description
of the person that had given them dawat. So maisara said to his
people, what doubt can they be now this is definitely the NABI of
Allah. Let us go back to Him and accept Islam. Let us go back to
him and become his followers. Let us go back to him and help him in
his message of dawat
Allahu, Akbar, shaitan comes into the occasion. What is what shaitan
says in the voice of his people. Listen maisara, what you saying is
okay, but we're going back now. Let's go back. We'll see next
year. So far, delay time we think is an expendable commodity. They
went back. They got involved in other issues. The years passed,
each time mesara made intention some obstacle, then another
obstacle, then another obstacle. What happens Allah's rasulallah
makes Hijrah, then finally, may Sara meets Rasulullah, sallAllahu,
Sallam on the year of his farewell Hajj, 10th year of 10th year of
Madina munovara, 10th year of Hijrah, the last year of the life
of Rasulullah sallallahu, sallam, when may Salah meets Rasulullah
sallallahu, may ask him, do you remember me? Rasulallah says, Yes,
I remember you. And he relates to him the incident may Salah accepts
Islam in the hands of Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam. And
then what does he say? The harms of delay. The harms of delay. The
harms of delay. Listen with the ears of Iman and kadamata, AAM
tunafar al ladi, kanamahi Ya rasulallah, my people for the Banu
abs that were with me when you first gave us the dawat of Islam,
most of them in the intervening years, despite having this
intention to come to you and accept Islam, they passed away.
They passed away. Ay namad, khalom ya rasulallah. Where are they now?
They passed away. They lost the opportunity. They let the time
slip by. Where are they now? Allahu, Akbar, fakhal and Nabi Yu
SallAllahu. I.
He wasallam Manka, man Mata, Allah hayridi, Islam. For who of in NAR,
this is Allah Sunnat, and it will not change the one who died on any
religion besides Islam. For who of in NAR, they are in Jahannam,
forever and ever.
How do you quantify that loss? How do you quantify that delay? How do
you justify that delay? This is why ulama have written Ahlu
taswife, aktaru Akhi naar Ahlu tasweep, they say majority of the
residents of Jahannam will not be the people who just openly
challenged Allah no ahluth tasweep, it will be those who
delayed, those who fail to realize the value of time. New Year,
whether solar calendar, December, January, whether Islamic calendar,
mukharam. New Year is not a celebration. New Year is a wake up
call. New Year is a time of reflection. New Year is a time to
take audit of the past year. New Year is to rejuvenate our
intentions for the new year. New Year is not is a time to make our
minds up. Make our minds up of the reality of moth and death that
there is no cause for delay in lanaf Come to complete that poem,
which I mentioned earlier in Lana fraum, madayne, minal ajari, the
poet says, you are celebrating the passage of time. Yet every passing
day is taking you closer to your AG, to your more to your death.
Family. Enough. Sika Kabal al mauti, mujta, hidden. So he says,
quickly, without delay. Start doing Amal. Start preparing
family. Nanasika, Kabal, Maud before Maud, mucha, hidden. Why?
Fain, NAMA River, Amali? Because true profit and loss is not the
size of your bank balance. Is not the wealth that you have amassed,
which in most instances you won't even have the courage to spend.
You leave it behind no true profit and loss is your Amal, is the
actions. Is the preparation that you have made for your Kabal, the
preparation that you have made for the day when you are going to meet
Allah Fain,
NAMA River, he
says, Every time a new year comes, you start celebrating again. But
realize, please, realize, please, wama here, il la seyful, il hatfi
and Todi that New Year, that first of January, that first of haram,
all it constitutes is a sword that has slashed away one year of your
life, which you are never, ever getting back. So one have Hasrat
regret over the way many in which you wasted the past year. And
learn from that regret. Learn from that regret. Allah, your stove,