Allie Goder – Our Love for the Masjid Lockdown
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Dear respected brothers and sisters in Islam,
Assalamu alaikum
We praise
and we glory for Allah
who send peace
and blessings and salutations
upon our beloved prophet,
Nabi Muhammad.
Alhamdulillah.
As Muslims, as believers,
there is absolutely no question
that we
dearly love
the Masajid,
the houses of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
It is in fact
a sign of our iman and a sign
of our Islam
that we love the Masjid,
says Nadeem Muhammad
But when you see
a person
frequenting the masjid,
contributing to maintaining the masjid,
then you can give a testimony, you can
testify
that that person has iman.
SubhanAllah.
1 of the categories
1 of the 7 categories
of people
will find themselves
under the shade
of the arish of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
and the rest of mankind
will be suffering
and in a state of panic and trauma
on the day of
qiyama. 7 categories
of people
will find themselves under the shade of Allah
a day
when there will be no shade except the
shade given by Allah and his.
One of those categories is
A man who
when he exits the Masjid,
his heart remains behind.
That is how much his heart loves the
Masjid.
The body exits but the heart remains behind
waiting for the body to return and then
connect again with the body, SubhanAllah.
So our hearts are in the masjid
patiently waiting for our bodies to return.
That is how much we love the masjid.
SubhanAllah.
A hadith
reported by Abdullah ibn Umar
he says,
He says, I saw the messenger of Allah
making power
around the Kaaba.
Before we proceed with this hadith,
we've said that we love the Masjid,
every Masjid on the face of this earth.
And
more than any other Masjid
on the face of this earth,
we love 3 masjids
more than any other masjid
in order of preference.
In 3rd place,
we love
Baytul Maqdis.
In 2nd place, we love Majidul Nagawi.
And in 1st place,
the location on this earth that is the
most sacred location
is Beitul Haram
that houses the Kaaba,
the most sacred place on the face of
this earth,
and that holds first place in our hearts
in terms of love for the masjid.
So continuing with the hadith,
since Abdullah ibn Umar radiAllahu ta'ala that he
saw the Messenger of Allah making move around
the Kaaba.
Waqulu
and
the messenger of Allah was saying as he
was making on the Kaaba,
addressing the Kaaba saying to it, how pure
you are?
And how pure is your fragrance.
And how great you are.
And how great is your sanctity.
And then the prophet of Allah continues and
say and says,
by the one who
the soul of Muhammad
is in his hands, meaning by Allah
Certainly,
the sanctity of a believer,
of a Muslim, of a believer
is greater by Allah
in sanctity
minqi, than you, and you the Kaaba, SubhanAllah.
So as sacred as the Kaaba is,
every single Muslim
is greater in sanctity than the Kaaba.
Malihi,
the wealth of a believer.
The life of a believer.
And that we have none no thoughts and
no assumptions
about a believer except that which is good,
Allahu Akbar.
So
my dear brother and sister in Islam,
our
Jannah is at stake.
Our Jannah hangs in the balance
if our iman is lacking
in a certain aspect.
Say
Nabi Muhammad
Again, the same words by the one whom
my soul is in his hands.
That
you will never enter Jannah. You will not
be able to enter Jannah
unless
and until you
have proper and complete
iman.
And you cannot have proper and complete iman.
Unless and until
tahabbu,
you truly and genuinely
love each other. SubhanAllah.
Take a moment, process this.
That your iman
cannot be complete
if you genuinely
if you do not have genuine love in
your heart for your next Muslim brother or
sister.
And if you don't have the genuine love,
then it means your iman is lacking
and if your iman is lacking, that will
compromise and delay
your entrance into Jannah. Allahu Mafadda. May Allah
save us.
And then the prophet of Allah continues and
says,
Shall I not indicate to you
indicate to you a matter, a thing.
That if you do this thing,
you will
love each other. You will develop and foster
this genuine love for each other.
And what is that thing?
Afshus salaam beinakum,
spread
the salaam.
The greeting of salaam, the universal
Islamic greeting of Assalamu Alaikum.
Assalamu Alaikum Warahmatullahi
wabarakah.
2,
spread this salaam amongst each other
and this will foster
love. It will cause the love to grow
and strengthen amongst you, oh, believers, Subhanu wa.
And this greeting is so important
that Allah deals with the specifics of this
greeting in the Quran
where Allah says in Surah 2
An Nisa,
verse number 86,
that when you are greeted with a greeting.
You are greeted with a greeting.
Then you respond to that greeting
with better.
So if someone says to you,
then you endeavor and strive to respond with
better.
Oh, oh,
at
the very least,
return the exact same greeting, SubhanAllah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
takes account
and reckoning of every little thing. So even
that greeting subhanAllah
will be accounted for and reckoned for on
the day of qiyama,
whether you or not you responded
with the same or better, or whether your
greeting was lacking, subhanAllah.
And that is
why this is one of the acts of
worship where
a sunnah
is actually more rewarded
than the 4th.
The sunnah being to greet first and the
4th being to respond.
And says Nabi Muhammad
The one who always greets first that is
his habit or her habit, such a person
will be saved and free from kibber, from
arrogance and pride, SubhanAllah.
But the question the big question is,
how true are we to this greeting?
Is this greeting we are greeting each other,
but is it bringing about this genuine love?
Yes or no is the big question.
How true are we to this greeting?
Where are these words coming from? These words,
peace be upon you. Because what are we
actually saying to our Muslim brother, to our
Muslim sister when we say Assalamu Alaikum?
We are,
in essence, saying to
our Muslim brother or sister
that I give you a guarantee
that
from my side, as far as it is
within my control,
no harm is going to reach you
from me, not from my lips,
not from my hands, not from my thoughts.
Now,
again, you ask yourself,
how true am I
to those words when I offer those words
to my Muslim brother and sister. Assalamu alaikum.
And that will depend on whether this actually
brings about this love or not, SubhanAllah.
And this is the very definition of a
Muslim.
Al Muslim.
A true believer. The definition of a believer
is the one who the rest of the
Muslims are safe
from any potential harm of his hands and
his tongue.
SubhanAllah.
So now bringing this into context.
We spoke about the Masjid, our love for
the Masjid.
We spoke about
how as sacred as the Masjid is,
but every single believer
is more sacred than the Masjid and even
the Kaaba Allahu Akbar
SubhanAllah.
So bringing this all into context,
we have
for more than 2 months been
deprived from attending
the Masajid,
and that or those 2 months actually coincided
with the month of Ramadan, a month in
which we frequent the masjid even more, SubhanAllah.
So it was indeed
a tremendous
missing.
And may this be an encouragement and a
wake up call for us
that those of us who perhaps
have not taken a full advantage
of the masajid
when we were able to freely go
whenever
at any time for all the okat for
and we did not take full advantage of
that.
May it be a wake up call? May
we seek Allah's forgiveness
for not having attended the masjid as often
as we could have and should have
and may we make the intention here and
now InshaAllah.
Firstly, make du'a that Allah brings back that
niyama
of having the freedom of going to the
masjid at any time
and then when Allah does bring back that
freedom inshallah, that niyama,
that we make intention that we're going to
improve our attendance
of the salawat
and not that once the masajid are open
again, it's back to normal That for the
5 times farotsala, we only have 1 one
and a half or 2 safs and the
balance of the masjid is empty. Subhanahu wa.
And for those
who have been attending the masajid,
taking full advantage,
you will always have those people who they
are like the pillars of the masajid.
Whenever you go, they are always there. When
you pull up with your car, the car
is there in the parking lot and you
always see them there, subhanAllah. It's guaranteed that
if I go to Masjid, buta fulla and
buta so and so, he's definitely going to
be there. For those, subhanAllah,
instead of their physical bodies not being in
the Masjid,
they earn the exact same reward
of having performed salah in the masjid in
Jannah'a, Subhanahu wa'ala.
Coming back to putting this all into context.
So now
we've all heard and we all are now
aware
that the restriction has been partially lifted.
We are now
being given the
right of way
to attend the masajid
for congregational prayer for Jumaa
with certain restrictions and certain measures in place.
The reality is
that
many masajid are going to take advantage,
and they're going to return back to the
masajid
for Yumara,
for the 5 times daily solar.
And there are going to be many other
Masjid
who have taken the decision
that they are going to delay
the reopening of the Masjid
given the current situation,
given the nature of the virus that we
are currently,
dealing with and struggling with,
and they've taken the decision to delay the
opening of the Masajid.
Difference of opinion is the nature of insan.
The Sahaba
differed with regards to the words of Rasoolullah,
what it had meant.
The greatest of scholars,
the
Imams of the former Dahi
biffed with each other on
many
on many issues
and some of them were students of the
other,
but the difference
was always in a dignified and respectful manner,
Subhanahu wa'ala.
And so here again,
we find ourselves differing
on the matter of returning or not returning.
No matter what opinion you hold, I'll humbly
love you are within your right.
The most important thing is that we do
not allow our differences
to cause us
to lose our respect for each other,
to cause us not to act in a
dignified manner,
to cause to be the cause of compromising
our love for each other
which will then inevitably compromise
the completion of our iman, which will compromise
our entering Jannah,
SubhanAllah.
So let us not allow
Shilpan who has now been unfitted.
It does not allow Shilpan to take advantage
of this situation,
to take advantage of our love for the
masjid to cause us to compromise our iman
and our love for each other and thus
compromise our Jannah.
SubhanAllah.
I refer you back to the very first
hadith
or of the first hadith that we mentioned
and that is
that the sanctity
of a believer
and that you think nothing of your fellow
Muslim brother and believer except good,
that that is more sacred
than even the Kaaba.
SubhanAllah.
May Allah, guard and protect us.