Ebrahim Gabriels – Delivering Muharram talk
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The sermon on the importance of increasing the number of people attendingn't just for pride or pleasure, but for change and a return to reality. The sermon also emphasizes the need to act as a generator of pride and change, and to use the hasn't been fast to plan for the Great War. The importance of showing the best of Islam to others, not just those who may not know, is emphasized, along with the need to change one's character and attitude towards others to achieve Islam. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of fasting and addressing one's pride, and encourages everyone to make a fasting meal and address one's pride.
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Similar rahman, rahim Alhamdulillah, Rabbi Lamin o
salatul, Salaam alaiil Mursaleen, imam in muttaqin, Sayyidina wa
Habibi na Muhammad bin Salallahu Salem,
honorable IMC hafiq, Mahmoud Khatib,
the Honorable Imams of the masjid Shah Abdul, Rahman, Alexander, and
Shaykh for art Isaacs, all the respected ulama, my beloved
mothers and fathers and beloved sisters and brothers and honorable
viewers, I greet you with the universal greetings of love and
peace and mercy. Assalamu, Alaikum. Warahmatullahi wa
Barakatuh
Alhamdulillah, from Alhamdulillah,
we thank Allah, subhana wa Taala
for gathering us here tonight in majli kuts
and as we've made Salah in Mazal qutz Tonight, may Allah grant soon
we will make making Salah in Al Quds in Mazal aksah
in a free and a liberated Mazal Aksha. And
we thank Allah, subhanaw taala, for all the favors that Allah has
bestowed upon us. And we thank Allah for the greatest favor that
Allah has bestowed upon us, and that is Allah has made us part of
the ummah of la ilaha, illallah, Muhammad, rasulallah.
We can't thank Allah enough that we are part of the ummah of
rasulallah. We don't even want to imagine our life would have been
if we had to live in kufr and shirk. But we say million and
billion times Alhamdulillah for the niama of Islam. When I say
Allah, ILAHA, illallah, Shariq, Allah, we be a testimony that no
one has got the right to be worshiped except Allah alone. And
we also be a testimony that our beloved Nabi Muhammad, sallAllahu,
Sallam is the final and the greatest message of Allah Al
qawil, the one that said Ow nasibi, Yao Mel, Qiyamah, Akhtar
hum ala ya Salatin, Rasulullah says, salallahu, salaam, the
people closest to me on the Day of Qiyamah, and the people first in
line to receive the shafa of Rasulullah to enter the Jannah are
those Muslims Who were the most consistent in putting Salawat on
our beloved Nabi Muhammad. SallAllahu, sallam,
maybe we should take that as one of our first resolutions for the
new year, that we're going to increase our Salawat on our
beloved Nabi Muhammad. This is a reminder game. Just imagine if you
put 100 Salawat in Rasulullah every day, Sala alai, salam, then
Allah will put 1000
mercy from Allah on you, Allahu, Akbar.
So let us increase our Salawat on our beloved Nabi Muhammad, sallam,
and so that we can be first in line to receive the shafa
Rasulullah on the day of Yom al Qiyamah,
Allah says in
the Holy Quran, Rajiv, rahman, rahim, right at the beginning of
Surat Al ambiya, I believe nahi, Sabu, wahoon, filatim ma aridun,
wa, Colin, nabiu, salaam, Minister, WA, yaw mahu fahu wa mah
boon. Rasha says, Whosoever two consecutive days are the same,
then you are a loser.
Now, if two days are the same and you a loser, what about two years
being the same? So we need to change. That is why Muharram is a
time to reflect.
Baharam is a time to be critical about ourselves.
Maharam is a time to plan the way forward. Maharam is a time to
think deeply about self improvement
and coming back to reflect. I We part of the reflection in the
month of Muharram is that we should say to ourselves,
if Allah had to take me away in the last year 1438,
would I have been ready to meet Allah? And
I think most of us will say, No, I'm not ready yet. So this is a
time to decide now, this year inshaAllah, I'm going to get
myself ready to meet Allah, because it might be that Allah is
going to take us away this year.
Does anybody get anybody here and outside the masjid God guarantee
that you're still going to be alive in five years time. No, we
not do. We don't even have guarantee that you're going to be
still alive tomorrow.
And that's why Allah says to us in Quran, yeah, I will let in the
haka to Kati wala, tamutu na ILA wa untu, Muslim moon, oh, you
believe fear Allah in the way that you ought to fear Allah.
Allah and do not die unless you are in a complete state of
submission and obedience to Allah
Ramatu. Mean, I want you on the night of 10th maharam, I want you
to remember the secret of this ayah. There is a deep secret of
this ayah, Allah says, And do not die unless you are in a complete
state of submission and obedience to Allah. The secret of the ayah
is that Allah wants us to live every day in total obedience to
Allah, because you do not know which day Allah is going to take
you away. That is why you need to live every day in total submission
to Allah.
Coming to the Ayah inazir has Abu Allah says to us in Surah Al
Ambia, and we need to take Allah very, very serious.
The Day of qiyama, the day of reckoning, the day when we are
arguing to stand in front of Allah waiting for judgment is getting
closer and closer, but people generally are unconcerned about
the day of Yom al Qiyamah. They are heedless.
What must mean
talking about the word unconcerned, lots and lots of
people are unconcerned of what, of what Allah thinks about them.
Lots and lots of people are unconcerned about their children.
Many of our children, they don't make salah, but we are
unconcerned, as mothers and fathers. How can you be
unconcerned about your own children?
We are unconcerned about the level of spirituality, about of our
children.
We are unconcerned about the alach, the character
of our children. Yes, here in South Africa and beyond South
Africa, 30 years ago and 40 years ago, children had the best of
character. But why is it changed? Because mothers and fathers have
neglected their duties towards the children our beloved. Nabi
Muhammad says, the best that you can give to your child is
beautiful character.
Says, imagine the NABI Muhammad says, Alisa was salam, akrabun,
Nasi, Leia, Majlis, the people nearest to me on the day of qiyama
are those people who had the best of character. You know, I'm almost
saying this almost every day.
Last year, only last year I learned this beautiful Hadith, an
important hadith of Rasulullah Ali said to Islam. And I'm so happy
and I'm so grateful that I've learned this hadith. And the
hadith is Rasulullah was us. Ali said to assalam, ya rasulallah,
man ahabu, ibadi, la illAllah. Ya rasulallah, who of all the people
in the world are the most beloved to Allah. And
Rasulullah said, ah San hum, Hulu Ka, those of them who are the best
of character. Now, who of us don't want to be the most beloved to
Allah? If you want to be the most Beloved of Allah, change your
character. Change your attitude towards your wife, towards your
husband, your children, your sisters, your brothers, all the
people in the world. And that is the advice of Rasulullah Ali said
to us, salam, that you display the best of character. Waholic in
nurse, Rasulullah says, waholiki Nurse, not Wahoo Muslim, mean
waholiki Nurse, display the best of character to all people, says
the NABI Muhammad Ali said to Salam, the
right Muslim, mean
Muslim. Muslims today
are not even concerned
about their prime responsibility.
What is our prime responsibility in this world? Our prime
responsibility is to deliver the message of Islam.
I think it's a high time that we in South Africa must admit that we
have neglected this duty of spreading the message of Islam,
the Nur of Islam, the Nur of the Quran, the Nur and the beauty of
Rasulullah, sallAllahu, Sallam Wallahi. I promise you
many people around here in South Africa,
they have got no idea what the dean of Islam is about. I'm just
going to give you an idea. I was once traveling to Johannesburg,
and I was sitting to an African lady,
and I'm always worried I have the opportunity to speak to her about
Islam,
and maybe the devkiyama Allah is going to keep me responsible that
I didn't tell her anything about Islam. So to start off the
conversation, I asked her, Are you from Johannesburg or Cape Town?
She said, from Johannesburg? I said, No, I am from Cape Town, and
I'm a Muslim,
and we as Muslims, be.
Eve that there's no there's not a god for Christians and a different
god for Jews and a different god for Hindus and a different there's
only one God, and we believe in that one God and Prophet,
Muhammad, is our beloved prophet, and the Prophet of Allah. You
know what he said to
me, are you speaking the truth? Don't you believe in Muhammad
because I am a gospel singer, and I sing in the church. God is God,
and Muhammad is not God, although it is a truth that says sing, but
in the context of her understanding, See, Think, see
things and see beliefs that we as Muslims believe in our beloved
Nabih Muhammad, lestul Islam. Now there are millions of people
around the world. Why do they believe that way? Because we
didn't deliver the message.
Mean the good news about delivering the message,
our beloved Nabih Muhammad says, if me or you are the cause in the
Sabha, that one person embraces the deen of Islam. Khirumin afiha
is better than the whole world and all the wealth and diamonds and
gold of the world. Muslims are striving so much for money and
forgetting about the deen. If you are the cause that one person
comes to the deen of Islam, it's better than all the money and all
the wealth in the world. The other good news about delivering the
message is
we are not accountable in front of Allah and responsible for the
results. We are not responsible for results. We must just deliver
the message. And that is important, because some people
think, if I'm going to call a person to islama, how is he going
to understand? No, that is not your worry. You must just deliver
the message. And millions and millions of people are waiting for
Muslims to deliver the message. So tama to mean my time is limited,
but I want to make that my Muharram message to each and every
brother and sister in Cape Town in South Africa and all over the
world that we as Muslims need to follow our beloved Nabi Muhammad
Ali said to Islam, because Allah says to Rasulullah, sallAllahu,
sallam, kulhadi, sabili Abu Ila alabasi, ratin Anna, wamanitaba,
ani ya rasulallah, Saye to them, This is my way of life, calling
people to Allah with knowledge I and my followers, this is our
prime responsibility in this world, and this must be inshaAllah
for the year forward and the years to come that we as Muslims here in
South Africa, we need to deliver the message in Yoruba Lamin now,
what must mean.
In conclusion, I want to say
once again
that may Allah subhana grant us that we're going to work hard on
our character and our attitudes. We need to change our attitudes.
You
know, when I was in hajj, now with
Shahab Rahman and Sharia, one of the DUA that we've made, Oh Allah,
grant me to be the best husband in the world,
God be to be the best father in the world. God be to be the best
grandfather, the best uncle the best everything. That is the
reason why Allah has created us. Liyabhum, ayukum, ah Sanu, Amala,
to teach you Who of you are going to be the best.
Now, what must mean in the last two minutes that I have over,
I never ever forget to remind the Muslims my brothers and my
sisters, out of love and concern, I never forget to remind them
about the Salah.
And the reason why we need to do that, all of us is because there
are too many Muslims that are neglectful with the Salah, and
that must be of great concern to all of us, because our beloved
Nabi Muhammad says, Malaki Allah, the only salah, lam yahba Allah,
any person that leaves this world whilst he or she was neglectful
with the salah on the Day of Qiyamah, Allah is not interested
in all your other good deeds.
You could have gone for Hajj every year and given sadaqah to the poor
millions,
and it's really of great concern. Know what must mean our beloved
Nabi Muhammad says, tarahu Salaam,
a person that leaves the Salah is male, own, is cursed by Allah.
No, the Tariq Salah that rasulallah is referring to is not
the person that don't make doer and don't make ASR. Rasulallah
doesn't even speak about that person. Rasulullah is referring to
the person he makes DUA and Asr tonight as.
Out of Time. Allah says in the Quran fawail musalim,
a whale a valley in the fire of Jahannam, for people that make
Salah five times, but out of time.
So may Allah grant that all of us, we first concentrate on our
children and our grandchildren and make sure that each and everyone
in our family makes salah. Allah says to us as mothers and fathers
and sisters and grandmothers and grandfathers. Yah iwala, Manu Ku
amphusa, Kumu Ali Kum Nara, oh, you believe Save yourselves and
save your family, save your children from the fire of Jahannam
May Allah grant that this year is going to be a great year for the
ummah of the NABI. Muhammad Ali said to Salam, we had a difficult
year last year, and especially in the month of hajj, the last month
when so many of our sisters and our brothers and our children have
been massacred and murdered in Rohingya, we make dua tonight and
tomorrow, tomorrow, when we're going to fast, and we appeal to
everybody to fast tomorrow. You know,
you must allow me to say, as a person and as a brother and as a
Muslim, I feel very disappointed if a Muslim don't fast on the 10th
of maharam. I must be honest. Rasulullah says to us, if you fast
on the 10th of maharam, Allah will forgive the sins of a whole year.
And
still, you don't take note of Rasulullah, and
that's why I use the word tonight, unconcern. You're not even
concerned about the words of Rasulullah. Ali said to uslam,
you're not concerned about your sins that you've done for a whole
year, and Allah is prepared to forgive your whole year. So
tomorrow, everybody should fast, and we expect everybody also to be
at a salatul istiq Tomorrow morning at chakarud of Pasik.
Inshallah, we're going to appeal to Allah to send down the rain.
And we ask everybody tonight and tomorrow to keep on making istiff
ishtiqar as Allah forgiveness for your silly sama Ali, Kumi Darrah
Allah speaks about Nabi Nuf when he told his people make istikhar
Allah is the most unforgiving, and Allah will send down the rain. And
maybe that should be another resolution for the new year that
we increase our istiqfar. Malayti Farah, whosoever consistently asks
Allah for forgiveness. The Nabi Muhammad says Allah will remove
all your worries and all your problems and all your concerns,
and Allah will give you rizq so much sustenance you wouldn't
expect so many rizq from Allah, but because of the barakah of
yourself, humbling yourself and asking Allah forgiveness in
abundance, shukran for the opportunity, and shukran for
listening to me. And once again, we make Noah for each and every
Muslim in this world. Allah subhanaw, grant you, Inshallah,
this year is going to be the best year for us and for the Ummah at
large. And may Allah subhana unite the hearts of the Muslim ummah,
masallah Muhammad, Alhamdulillah, mean.