Ebrahim Bham – Accountability – A reflection on Ismail Haniya
AI: Summary ©
AI: Transcript ©
My dear respected elders and brothers, we are
all aware
that during the course of this week, we
saw
the assassination
and the martyrdom
of the leader of Hamas,
chef Ismail Haniyah Rahim Abu Allah. May Allah
elevate his status.
And, obviously, when we did
hear about it, there was a feeling and
certain emotions
and emotions of disappointment,
sadness,
a certain degree of frustration,
and a certain degree of perhaps we have
not been able to do
more. So this
different frustrations
came to the fore,
and I thought that we will discuss it
in today's Jummah talk. What exactly
how do we, as Muslims,
think about such things that had happened? Firstly,
you and I must remember
that whatever we do in this world, it
has consequences.
Everything that we do in this world,
we are going to account for it in
the year after.
Whether it is a Muslim, whether a non
Muslims,
everyone that does something,
he's going to account for it on the
day of kiamat.
Therefore, Laqalla says in the holy Quran,
Be careful about the promises that you make,
the agreements that you make.
Allah
will question
What you hear,
what you see,
what is in your heart, Allah
will
question
you.
What did you do?
What did you do? What did you see?
Why did you see it? What did you
hear? Why did you hear it?
Will question
him. You have that even the things that
you and I that we do, which you
and I take for granted.
You know?
The very famous incident that comes in a
hadith that Nabi Karim saw a went to
the house of Abu Ibrahim and
Nabi Karim saw a came out of his
house when nobody there wasn't people who used
Umal we declare. Abu Bakr came out. Umal
came out. Abu Bakr and Omar all came
out.
Why did we come out?
There's nothing in the house to eat. Let
us go to Abu
Yeeb
Ansari put in front of them
3 different types of kajur dates.
And then he made bread,
and he slaughtered a small sheep, and he
presented
the food in front of Nabiya Karim
When Nabiya Karim
started eating, Nabi Karim
after he ate started crying.
He gave us meat. He gave us 3
different types of kajur,
and
Whatever Allah gave you in terms of
Whatever Allah gave you, Allah will question you.
He gave you a car, Allah will question
you. He gave you food, he will question
everyone, whatever he does,
will question him whether he be a Muslim
or a non Muslim.
And that is why
the person who believes in this,
he believes in accountability,
his whole life will change.
Whoever believes in an Asharaman,
whoever believes he's going to be held accountable,
his life will change.
He start thinking that I have to worry.
What am I gonna do? If I do
right, Allah will reward me. If I do
wrong, Allah will punish me. That is why
in our deal,
every step of our life, we have been
taught to remember.
Even in our duas we do, even normal
duas,
we sleep.
Allah, in your name, we live and we
die.
The day you get up in the morning,
we say, will love. We thank you, you
gave us life, but one day we're going
to you.
Even when you make a temporary journey,
you say, well, thank you. You gave us
the car to take from one place to
the other.
But so teaches us everything. So a person
who believes in this, his his life will
change. And,
yes, sir, it is not only a religious
necessity,
it is a logical necessity.
To believe in accountability
and to believe in
It is a logical necessity.
Why is it must happen?
Why must it happen?
It must happen because
in this world, we see people doing things
that are wrong.
There's no one who can stop them, apparently.
They get away with murder.
Literally, they get away with murder.
So now if Allah is just,
if Allah is just, and
If there is not going to be justice
in this world, then where is this gonna
happen?
There has to be a day if Allah
is,
you know, Allah is hard. Allah
is. Allah is.
Then if Allah has all these qualities, when
is those
going to become a reality?
Africa, what happens? People steal 1,000,000,
and they're still running and they're still politicians.
They're still in public office.
You see it happening.
So here, this world is not a place
where Allah rewards
or Allah punishes. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it
doesn't happen.
And half the time in today's time, it
doesn't happen.
So then what is going to happen?
The one who does right is
equal.
Don't you think about
it.
Has to come.
It will happen one day. Maybe not in
this world. It will definitely happen in the
year after.
And therefore, in this world, you can hide.
In the year after, you can't hide.
On that particular day, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will take into account with regard. You know,
when Allah put our deeds on the scale,
was
Allah didn't leave anything small. Allah didn't leave
anything big. He rest covered everything.
Someone kills people, kills 39,000 people, you think
Allah won't take into account.
Yeah. You can you can hide. Yeah. You
can hide.
Allah is not unaware of what the does.
Allah knows. Now we need to understand this.
That is what we need to understand. We
must never feel that people who do wrong
will get away with it. Therefore, whenever we
do wrong, we must ask for forgiveness.
So now after understanding this,
then we see a person who was still
doing the polls of this
week. So we feel sad sometimes. But, you
know, first of all, let us see who
he was.
Everyone who met Ishmael Hania, I was reading
in the Twitter. So I I I I
took the I said, let me just read
this out. Someone wrote a a tribute to
him. He says,
the loss of Ishmael Hania is not so
much a political or national loss.
If someone, 39,000
people, then people are still fighting.
Where did you see this happening?
They locked themselves up. But anyway, this is
something has treated people of different temperaments.
Now they have this particular temperament of continuance,
ajeem. You sometimes wonder
how did you give them that particular type
of salah?
How did you give them that bravery
In continuing, Allah
knows what regard to it. So they said
the man used to walk amongst the people,
shake hands with everyone,
smile, buy from the shopkeepers, although he was
the president, and he used to play with
the children. He used to be everywhere. He
used to be in the local masjid.
Tarabi time, because he was a hapiz, he
used to read the the the Hajjid
and the Tarabi prayers.
He was a person who played
with the children.
He played the Karabe players and delivered the
Friday sermon.
Anyone who saw him saw his humility.
He was like a brother, an elder, a
neighbor, a friend, an uncle of a family.
His
math
martyrdom is socially painful for us, the person
wrote. He said, politically, there will be someone
else who will take his place.
Sheikh Ahmad Yassin when he passed away? This
person took his place. Sheikh, Smal Alaniya took
his place. So if someone dies, someone else
will take the place. So that, on one
hand, that will happen, but the people feel
that he was a good people's man,
Now we feel sad.
Sometimes you can feel sad.
Nabiya Karim saw Islam felt the pain of
people who left. We also feel the pain,
but we don't mourn martyrs.
Let me say this again. We don't mourn
the martyrs.
So
What
a what a
They are very, very fortunate people.
Do not say
They're alive, but you can't you can't recognize
their life.
Or you see, to give your life in
the path
of something noble has always been cherished,
has always been looked upon as something great.
People object. The Islam,
the person who kills people and who becomes
a martyr, you're gonna give him so much
reward. He's gonna get who? And so you'll
get this and that.
Everywhere, every culture, every country,
it always celebrates people who have given their
life for the country.
I mean, how many times you see just
recently the British prime minister was was criticized
because he didn't go to the memorial or
he didn't spend enough time for the memorial
of the British soldiers and the allied soldiers
who gave their life in the World War
2. He was criticized.
So they pay homage to whom? To people
who gave their life for the sake of
the country.
When you go to Australia and New Zealand,
there's a day called the insect day
where they pay who makes the people who
give their life for Australia and New Zealand.
So to give you a life as people
pay tribute to a person who gives his
life for the sake of the country or
for the sake of the noble cause.
And there is reasons with regard to, you
know, heaven, for the sake jihad is a
very I want you know, heaven. For the
sake, jihad is a very I one day
we will talk about it, the whole thing.
There are different stages of jihad. But one
stage is to fight
for a noble cause.
And when you do so, there's an objective.
You put fear in the hearts of your
enemies that there is a deterrent. They can't
attack
you.
Why don't you fight for the people who
are oppressed within your community?
Now that is the these are some of
the objectives. I don't have the these 5,
6 objectives, and that has been mentioned within
the holy Quran. So there's an objective with
regard to it. But the people who live
and give their life for the sake of
the cause,
I'll give you 3 or 4.
One of the things is this,
that the shahid
will intercede for 70 people of his own
family.
A shahid will intercede for 70 people in
his family.
It pick everyone to shame.
2nd second thing with regard to a shahid.
Hadith Mahan,
a shahid will see his place in Jannah
before before the blood reaches the
knocking a person on the wheelchair. There was
no trace of his body.
But look at this.
My.
The pain
a Shahid gets
by getting killed
is even less than the pain you get
when an end bites
Even less than the then,
end,
you know, keep keep biting you. So Shahid
feels even less pain than that.
That there is
very few
that is made mentioned in the hadith
that
mention is made that a person even in
even in a person who does evil deeds
will want to go back to all because
he will say, Allah, I made evil deeds.
Give me a chance to go back. I
want to rectify. And I would say, you
you got no intention of rectifying.
Where no opportunity is gone. But a shahid
and one had this 10
times. That the the
the reward,
the joy I got
when I gave my life in your past,
let me go back and enjoy that particular
type of that particular
So these people are not people that we
we we we mourn.
They are fortunate people, brothers.
Can you imagine?
And this is why I just made mention
of 1 hadith that comes in in in
in.
So Nabiya Karim said, Allah has kept for
the shayid six things.
Allah has forgiven him from the first drop
of blood.
Allah shows him his place in Jannah.
He is spared from the adab of the.
He is kept safe from the day of
judgment and the horrors of the day of
judgment.
He is adorned with the garment of iman.
He is adorned with the garment of iman.
He is married to the wives of Jannah,
and he is permitted to intercede for 70
of his relatives.
Subhanallah. Right? I may be challenging. We also
need I'm not saying you must just go.
There's there's a place for shahadab. There's a
place for jihad.
You can't go.
What great baboon and famous we are doing?
Allah gave us, we're giving it back to
Allah to
hear
on these things. Yes, we do feel it
with sadness, but we must never become despondent.
Full. It's so beautiful.
It is so, you know, soft. We don't
mind sleeping on it.
On a mat made of springs.