Jumuah Kutbah presented at the Green Lane Masjid on March 31, 2017.
Ahsan Hanif – Know Your Religion
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The importance of learning one's religion for achieving Islam's ultimate reward is emphasized. It is crucial to pursue knowledge and learning from the Prophet sallua alayhi wa sallam, as it is crucial for fulfilling Islam's teachings and finding the right source of information. The importance of finding out who is a Prophet and what is their religion to gain knowledge is also emphasized. The segment ends with a call to contribute to a food bank service and a message to encourage viewers to donate generously.
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I will religion culture everything which is good every virtue and every act of goodness it is within Islam, from prayer to fasting charity to making a pilgrimage, to being dutiful to your parents and good to your neighbor and kind and hospitable to your guests to speaking and having good conduct all of these issues and more. And the list goes on and on. It is part and parcel of this beautiful religion of Islam. But when we look at all of those many actions and many deeds that form part and parcel of our religion, then we look at where we all began. The single commandment with which this religion began the first revolution of the Quran. The first commandment that was given to the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, as he sat alone in the darkness of the Cave of Hira. And the angel Gabriel Ali Salam came to him with the first verse of the Quran. I don't think that there is a single Muslim in this Masjid or listening to me right now, except that they know which verse I'm referring to. We've memorized the surah and we've heard the story so many times that has become ingrained within us. The vs ikura this Mirabella, the holla read in the name of your law that created it is that first commandment that I want to focus on in this hotel, the commandment to read, it is a commandment to seek knowledge is a commandment to education. It is recommendation that we
learn. We learn our religion, we learn what we need to know to live our lives as Muslims, we learn what we need to please Allah subhanho wa Taala in the hope that a larger will will show His mercy upon us and enters into the highest of rewards Jenna paradise. But in order for us to understand this commandment and the way that this religion began, let us also take a look at the context in
It was revealed. Why did a large villager not begin this religion with the commandment to pray with the commandment to fast or give charity or the commandment to make pilgrimage and Hajj because the Arabs of old used to make a type of pilgrimage that they had become accustomed to? Why did a large village will begin with a commandment to seek knowledge and to learn? The Arabs, as we know, the vast majority of them were an illiterate nation. They were a people who were not accustomed to reading and writing. Yes, they were amongst them, those who educated and could read and write, but the vast majority of them were educated. They weren't people that could read and might, including
our own profits all along while he was sending them. Your even solarzero agenda, reveal the first commandment to seek knowledge and to learn. Why because the Arabs and their practices, the Arabs, and the way that they would live, the Arab and their customs and traditions that had overcome them. The Arabs and the religion that they had chosen for themselves and their children was based upon ignorance. The Arabs would trace their ancestry back to the Prophet Ibrahim Ali Salim, they you know, and they knew that the Kaaba was built by his son is married, they understand and then they understood in the new, the sanctity, and the sacred nature of the Kaaba. These were things that were
not lost upon them, they would trace this back amongst themselves and within the gatherings. But over time, those teachings of Ibrahim alayhis salam had become corrupted. And ignorance had replaced knowledge. And because of the way that the Arabs were, that they could bury the daughters, for example, alive in the ground and not think anything of it, that they could go and make tawaf around the cabin, naked men and women and not think anything of it, that they could have these practices which today when we look at, we can't even begin to understand how any community or society will think that there is a Sharia revealed from Allah subhanaw taala that is a way to attain a las
pleasure and is an is an is an is rewards. But the Arabs thought so because of the issue of ignorance that had become prevalent amongst them. So Allah subhanho wa Taala revealed at the very beginning of this religion, a commandment that still applies to me and you today, just because now we are literate. We are a people who can read and write we are educated, we go to school, we graduate many of us hold qualifications and degrees. That is not the type of commandment that Allah is only referring to. It is not just the command to be able to read and write, or to seek education in its conventional means. But Allah azzawajal is commanding us to know our religion. That is the
command that Allah is giving to us. So throughout the honor, and the son of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that issue and that concept of seeking knowledge and learning. It is repeated in many times. Its virtues, its rewards, is placed in position in this religion. The people have knowledge and their status in Islam. It is something which has been preserved in the Quran and the Sunnah, something oft repeated Why? Because it is so integral to the way that we live the worst of people on normal piano, the ones who will suffer the most loss as Allah mentions in the Quran, are those people who will come with deeds and actions, but they will be nullified. They will bring them
on yo piano thinking that they have attained the last pleasure that they have done good that they lived a life of obedience, but because of the ignorance that they had, they didn't even realize that they were displeasing Allah, that their actions would not be accepted by Allah. Allah Luna Bo Camila serene Armada, Allah de novo Lhasa homefield, hayati, dunya
una una Sana, say to them, shall we not inform you, of those who will suffer the most loss on your piano? There are those whose past street in this life, all the while they were thinking that they were doing good, a normal piano, they will think that I have deeds I have good, Allah will reward me. But in the sight of Allah, they will be worthless, they will not be anything in the skills of Allah, because those people don't have knowledge as to what pleases Allah subhanho wa Taala. This doesn't mean that this isn't something meant to say that each and every single one of us should therefore become a scholar of Islam. Notice that in position that Islam places upon us, that all of
us need to become qualified scholars of Islam. But what this hookah is about and what Islam does tell us and obligate upon every single one of us is that we need to learn from our religion, what we require to please Allah to worship him to live a life, that in which we please Allah subhanho wa Taala our Prophet told us sallallahu alayhi wa sallam follow me for you got an alacrity Muslim, to seek knowledge. There is an obligation upon each and every single Muslim, for you to know what you require your religion, the rulings that allow you to practice your
Religion that's an obligation upon you to know how to pray, to know how to give the car to know the rulings of hands when the time of Hajj comes upon you. These are rulings that you must know it is an obligation upon you. If you want to go into business you need to know the halal and haram of business. When you go into marriage or you want to issue divorce, you need to know the correct and incorrect way of those issues and matters. That is an obligation that Allah has placed upon you. And that simple effort of learning and wanting to learn seeking knowledge going to reputable sources of knowledge. It is something which is praised in the Quran and the sooner our Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam men Salah Costa Rican meltemi Sufi here in the Sahel Allah hula hoop era Jenna whosoever traverses a path upon which there is knowledge, Allah will make it easy for them to reach the path of gender. Allah will make it easy for you. The Heidi's doesn't speak amount of scholar. The Hadith doesn't speak about an Alamo Mufti. It says any person who trades upon that path of knowledge, anyone who wants to learn who goes to the local Imam and asks them a question, Who goes and researches who studies a verse of the Quran, who studies the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, any act that takes you closer to Allah through knowledge, it is included in this
hadith. Our Prophet told us a long while he was seldom, or in alma ekata letaba juniata
that the angels of Allah lower their wings out of happiness and pleasure for that which the student of knowledge accomplishes. When you try to seek knowledge and learn, even the angels of alemannic drive for you, we all know that of the Hadith. And we've heard that many a time those people who come together to learn the religion of Allah to study the book of Allah in the message during another place, the angels come and they surround them, and the lessons is tranquility upon them. All of these ahaadeeth and verses are to show you the importance of the single concept. From that first instance, when that verse of the Quran was revealed to our Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam for
the next 23 years of his life. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would dedicate himself to this ideal of knowledge, teaching knowledge, seeking knowledge, teaching his companions, encouraging them to go and give Darwin teach others because he understood the importance of it in our religion. It is because of this that a large will praise His knowledge in the Quran. When he speaks about the most important concept in our religion, the issue of the heathen worshipping Allah alone, a large religion chooses the testimony of the scholars, and he paces the testimony of the scholars alongside his own testimony subhanho wa Taala. And the testimony of His angels shahidullah, who and the hula
Illa Illa, who was eager to call him bill best, Allah has borne witness, the man has the right to be worshipped except Him, and the angels bear witness to this. And so to the people of knowledge, the scholars of Islam, a lot chose them and he gave them that platform and that station and the honor because of their place in this religion, because of what they do and what they strive to achieve. And that is to learn the religion of Allah subhanho wa Taala. Our Prophet told us salallahu alayhi wa sallam, that when the scholars strive to attain the truth, and they strive to reach knowledge and attain knowledge, even if they make mistakes along the way, allostery wants them they have a reward
for the errors that they make, the mistakes that they make, the one that they do, so long as their intention is pure, for Allah sake and for seeking the truth of lost all he wants them. That is the position of a scholar in this religion. Our Prophet told us Allah Allahu Allah, he was seldom that the station of the scholar over the over the worshipper. For me an Arabic, the worship is the one who spends his time doing good. They pray, they give charity, they fast, they don't waste their time they're worshipping Allah subhana wa Tada. But the station of the scholar above the one who worships Allah is like the pace of the moon over the stars. Because a person who worships a lot does good and
they have light and they have reward, but it is limited to themselves. It is only for what they achieve themselves. But the one who seeks knowledge and learns and teaches and spreads it to others. That person is like the moon, their light, exposes others, it reaches others, it helps and guides others. So the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told us in the hadith of Abu Mohammed Al Baghdadi rhodiola one in the Lucha mela eco wahana semi avati one arleen Hector Nam lotta Fujiwara Rotella. You soluna Allah mwalimu national hero, Indeed Allah and His angels, and all of the inhabitants of the heavens and all of the inhabitants of the earth to the front
To see, and to the ant within its whole, all of them make dua for the one who teaches others good. All of them supplicate to Allah, that Allah should show His mercy upon such people. The point of this, my dear brothers and sisters, is to show you the importance that each and every single one of us needs to learn our religion. We need to learn our religion and know our religion. It is what makes us different to the pagan Arabs of Mecca. It is what differentiates Islam from other religions, that our religion is based upon knowledge. It is based upon the certainty that we find in the Quran, and in the authentic son of a prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And for that reason, a
large religion says in the Quran, you're very lucky to live in a man whom income will levena madora jack, Allah raises the station of those who believe amongst you and the people of knowledge in ranks. He raises the station because they spend their time and they sacrifice their days and nights, their comfort and their rest, to come closer to a larger region learn his religion subhana wa tada alarge xojo praises the scholars in the Quran in another verse, And he says, in America la mina Ribera de la jolla. Indeed it is truly only the scholars of Islam who fear Allah. Why is it only the scholars because they are the ones who know most about a large soldier. They know what law through
his means. And it's actually which they studied the on earth and they understand it and they contemplate it. They study it in the context of the Sunnah, and they study it in its overall over in its overview, and because of this, they're able to come closer to Allah subhanho wa Taala. So the companions of our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, what are the Allahu anhu much man, they would spend their days and their nights seeking knowledge, each and every single one of those companions, even though they may not be famous as scholars are prolific narrators of Hadith, they will all students of knowledge, each one of them would come and they would spend time with the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam learning about their religion. If they had a question and they needed to know even though our Bedouins and how many ahaadeeth do we have in the books of Sunnah, that a man came whether or not Arabi, a Bedouin came from the desert, and they would come to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. These were people who didn't live in Medina, they weren't familiar with the ways of the people of Medina. They weren't people who surrounded themselves with the companions and the people of knowledge. But even they understood that what they needed to know about their religion, they had to go and ask, they had to learn. So they would come and they would ask the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam they would seek the knowledge that they would they needed in order to live as Muslims in order to please Allah subhanho wa Taala. So the companions will strive and they will seek knowledge, or Marathi, Allahu Allah, whatever companion, they will take it in terms. One day one of them would spend in the company of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, whilst his friend went and worked and under living another day, the two of them would swap, and each and every evening they would gather together, and the one who spent time with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would relay the knowledge that he learned that he benefited to his companion. This
is what the companions used to do. There were companions who dedicated themselves to knowledge about hora de la noir one, while the blue Jebel Abdullah live in mushroom, Abdullah abass, radi Allahu anhu and many, many more, who would give off earning a living, they would suffer the consequences of poverty and difficulty, hunger and thirst, simply so that they could go and study and learn with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that he would sacrifice their personal comfort to study with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, not just during his lifetime, but even after his death. The Companions like Abdullah abass, Abdullah bin Omar, and others from amongst them, those only spent a
short amount of time with a prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam giving to the young age. Even after his death, he would go to the Senior Companions, they would spend time with Abu Bakr and Omar earthman, and Ali, and other Senior Companions, and they would seek knowledge they would learn, and he was those companions who will then go and spread themselves across the Muslim world, and they will teach many other wheat scholars, and those scholars will pass on that tradition. from generation to generation. Scholars would travel across the world spending years upon years, simply to gather and compile the Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, they will travel from
one continent to another, one country to another 1000s of miles, on horseback, on foot on donkeys simply so that they could take a single Hadith from a narrator. They would study and traverse the world, they would spend their nights awake using moonlight or a candle, or go to a place where they could find some light to write down the knowledge that they had. When one of them would travel from one country to another. They would require a convoy of camels or donkeys to carry the books in the Scripture.
That they had written upon so much was the knowledge that they had. And they would travel and they would do this simply to learn about this religion, to seek Allah's pleasure through seeking knowledge. And they will do so they will spend this knowledge they would spread this knowledge to those who came after them, generation to generation, century upon century. In our time, a large zildjian has blessed us. He's blessed us with so many things, from amongst the greatest of those blessings is how easy and how convenient it is to seek knowledge, how accessible knowledge has become, through the power of the internet, through all of this technology that we have at our
disposal, how easy it is from the comfort of your home, to learn about your religion. Yet despite that, it is unfortunate to see that there are many Muslims, people that we know within our own lives, our own family, friends, neighbors, people that we know within our community, that their knowledge of Islam is very little, and that is from the signs of Yama, Yama. Our Prophet told us a long while he was seldom in the ministry in the ministry, and the appeal in
the Hadith in Bukhari and Muslim. From the signs of Yama, Yama from the signs of the hour, is that knowledge will become less, and ignorance will become prevalent, just as it happened in the time of the pagan Arabs, that even though they could trace their roots to great prophets of Allah, they were people of ignorance of that their knowledge had become twisted. Their knowledge was no longer the way that their forefathers had been practicing. It is something which will happen to our own as well. We have the honor, we have books of Hadith, we have access to all of this knowledge, yet we have become despite our level of academic education, and our literacy, we are still England when it
comes to our religion. And that is a problem. The fact that someone can come out on the internet, any person and quota Hadeeth and we will become mesmerized, simply because someone can quote a hadith or see a verse of the Quran. We are people who no longer know where to find reputable sources of knowledge. We don't know who are the qualified scholars from the unqualified scholars, we don't know how to distinguish between truth and falsehood, in the most important issue to us, our religion, that's a problem. Our Prophet told us a little while he was tell them that from the signs of Yamanaka, Yama, Yahushua Omen fiac. It is a man deathless, Nan suffer Hola, lamb yaku Luna min
Cody Hayden Berea, they will come a group of people towards the end of time, who will be young in age foolish in the way that they think, why are the union agent foolish? Because they think that they can study all of what the scholars strive for decades upon decades, years upon years to acquire in a single city, or they read a single verse and think that they know everything, or study a single How do you listen to a single lecture, and I think that they have become qualified scholars of Islam. They are foolish in the way that they think they are all alone, I mean, totally hidden barrier. And they will quote from the statements of the best of creation, who is the best of our
profits on a long while he was selling them. He himself is warning us that these are people who are quote for my sins, they will quote you from Hadith, they will tell you it is an old Buhari and Muslim, but they don't understand what they're reading. They don't know they haven't studied, they don't know the principles by which to acquire that knowledge. They don't have the comprehensive overview. They don't have the benefit of the context of those of those Hadith and those verses of the Quran. So they simply, quote, copy and paste. And because of that, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, the man will not go deeper than the throat. It is all verbal. It is all speech, in
his own words, saying talking, but it doesn't go beyond that into their hearts. They don't have that deep sense of Eman. They don't have that fear of a large religion. They don't have all of those benefits and rewards that the Quran and the Sunnah see that the scholar the true scholar should have and should acquire. It is something which we need to address. All of us. Each and every single one of us has a responsibility within our own souls and within our own families and within our own children, that we inspire. And we make a serious effort to seek knowledge of this religion, to learn about our religion. Because if this is our situation, this is the way that we are then what about
our children? And what about their children? And what about their children? How long will it be before and this is from the science of human piano? That our Prophet Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that he won't be established until people seek to worship idols. People will worship idols from this Omar Lecter Qureshi used to because of the ignorance that will become prevalent. So learning and seeking knowledge in a small way, in a way that's easy and manageable for you to simply go and learn and to ask and to find out how to distinguish between truth and falsehood when it comes to issues of religion. There is an obligation upon every single one of us, and it's an obligation
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I chose this topic today in light of the text that took place in London last week. It is something which disturbs me and worries me that there are people from our religion or people who claim to be Muslims, however you want to term it. There are people who think that they can do x like what happened last week in London, and claim that it is justified in Islam claim that it has a part and part it is part and parcel of our religion, claim that there is some text in the Quran and the Sunnah, that justifies such actions, and a greater problem. And another problem that I also find deeply worrying is that there are many people who sympathize to that. They may not perform it, they
may not justify it, but they sympathize with those people who do it, both of those issues and the serious issues. And both of them show a lack of knowledge and understanding of our religion. The fact that there is not a single, qualified, reputable scholar in the world today, for many madhhab and for many groups that says that those actions are justified. There is not something which the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam himself practiced, even though how do you want him to perform such actions he could have done so. And there are even narrations in the books of history, MC era that say that the companions or times even proposed it. When the Muslims came to appa to give the
pledge of allegiance, the people of Medina Kingdom saw and they gave the Pledge of Allegiance of APA. One of those narrations in the books of Sierra says that after they gave that pledge of allegiance to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam, they heard a calling a shout, a calling morning the people have arranged that this pledge was taking place, and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, this is the call of shapen disperse, meaning that the people operation will become aware of what's taking place and they'll attack the Muslims. So someone said O Messenger of Allah, these are the animals the time of Hajj pilgrimage, everyone was in Minar, sleeping during the
night, all of the leaders have arranged all of the nobleman all of the arch enemies of Islam. He said, O Messenger of Allah, it will be so easy for us to go and kill them all in their sleep. It's done. Kill them all, and it's all over. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam responded, we will never order to do this, rather return to your homes. That narration shows that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had the opportunity had the thought have the consultation advice, but the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is showing us that it's not a part of our religion, the Quran, the sooner the scholars of Islam, all say the same thing. And when we find people that still
sympathize with that, that's an issue that we need to address. But the root issue in all of this is what I've said today in today's football, we no longer know how to distinguish between truth and falsehood. We don't know our religion, and we don't know where to seek our religion from. And we can only do so much from this pulpit from this minbar from this misschien it is the onus and responsibility of every single person here. I'm alone will ask you about it on normal piano, what you did with the knowledge that you sought, your feet will not move on your piano until you can answer this question before the loss of Hannah Montana. So as a large soldier that he gives us that
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