Ebrahim Gabriels – Delivering Muharram talk

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.