Ebrahim Gabriels – Muharram the perfect time for Reflections and Resolutions
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Alhamdulillah. Rabbi Lamin o Salatu was Salaam alayhim or Salin
Sayyidina, Wahabi na Muhammad in SallAllahu Alam.
Rabbi shramy
wahluk data melisanya kauli Abu mothers and fathers, beloved
sisters and brothers, beloved and honorable youth and children, I
greet you all with the universal greetings of love and peace and
mercy. Assalamu, Alaikum, warahmatullahi barakatu.
We thank Allah for all the favors that Allah has bestowed upon us.
And we thank Allah subhana wa Taala for the honor
to be again in the Jumuah. And
we thank Allah, subhanho wa Taala for the greatest favor, and that
is that Allah has chosen us to be part of the ummah of la ilaha,
illallah, Muhammad, Rasulullah, sallAllahu, sallam. We are not
Muslims by chance or by luck. In fact, Allah says in surah Al Hajj,
who ajata Berkun ye Allah is the one that has chosen you and
selected you to be a Muslim. Alhamdulillah,
wala shadu, Allah, ILAHA, illAllah, wahdahwah, Shari kala.
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 Ola na Sibi Yama, akhum, ala
ya Salatin, the people closest to me on the Day of Qiyamah, and the
people first in line to enter the Jannah Through the shafa of
Rasulullah Ali said to Salam, are those Muslimeen who have put the
most salawat and our beloved Nabi Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam, so
please join me in putting salawat and rasulallah. SallAllahu,
sallam, Allah.
Um salliya.
Allah, say
dinner
Hamina,
um salliya,
o um say Dina
muhammadin UmI
well saw being
with a after that, O beloved servants of Allah, Itta Allah,
always be conscious of Allah
and be obedient to Allah. For indeed, in the whole world, no one
is more happier and no one is more successful than the one that is
obedient to Allah and obedient to our beloved, Nabi Muhammad,
sallAllahu, Sallam wa Allah, ame tanzily, and know well that Allah
says in the Holy Quran, But lemme Shelton, your rajim, the
Baraka Levi
jalafi, Raja, of
him,
all sadaqah, may
Allah increase our love for the Quran.
Allah says the Quran, Glory be to Allah,
the one that has put in the heavens gigantic stars and
siraads, referring to the sun
and the moon. And Allah is the One
who has caused our nights and our days to come and go in succession.
Allah says that the night comes, the days come, in other words,
also week after week, month comes. Month goes a year comes. Year
goes, Why
Liman aradha yadda Kara, for those who want to take heed and take
lessons, for those who want to reflect, for those who want to
think deep, a.
And says, Allah, diman ara dashu Qura,
for those who want to thank Allah, 1445
is gone. Alhamdulillah, I've done much better. Or he wants to thank
Allah that Allah is giving them another opportunity. Allah didn't
take us away in 1445
I thank Allah that I'm still alive.
Hola Rasulullah, sallAllahu, Sallam
al qayysu, Mandan and NAFSA Hua abuth. Listen, please, my beloved
ones, to the words of Rasulullah Ali said waslam, the most
intelligent person is a person that always keeps an account of
himself,
WA Abu Ali, MABA ADAL mode. And the most intelligent person is a
person that works hard, extremely hard, for what is coming after
death. What is
coming after this? The Kabul, what is coming after death, standing in
front of Allah, the Deaf Qiyamah, that those are the most
intelligent people. They are working hard for what comes after
death, says Rasulullah, sallAllahu wasallam,
my beloved ones, we are now in the month of Allah,
shahru Muharram. It is the only month that rasulallah refers to is
the month of Allah, and
this is the perfect time to reflect
and to think deep and to say to ourselves, another year has
passed, and where am I in closeness to Allah, another year
has passed.
Is Allah set aside with me? What is my status by Allah? Is Allah?
Is Allah happy
with me?
If Allah takes me away tomorrow, am I ready to meet Allah? This is
the reason why we are in Muharram. This is the reason why we need to
reflect and think deep,
and this is exactly what Allah expects from us
to do at the entering of a new year.
So let us start with our reflections.
How do I perform my salah? How did I perform my salah in 1445, oh,
for all the years? Do I make Salah with with consciousness, in Allah,
with feeling, or is it just by the way,
do I consider Salah as serious as Rasulullah took it serious our
beloved mother say NA Aisha reported to us that the NABI Ali
satu waslam was the most loving husband
and gave all his time and spoke to her and made her laugh. But listen
to this. But if the what of the Salah gets closer, then the NABI
Muhammad changed 363 60 degrees. It is as a rasulallah doesn't even
know me,
understand now, in front of Allah,
our let us reflect Allah a sunna salah.
How do we make our sunnah salah? Just quick and finish and CLA.
Do we realize that the Sunnah Salah is going to help us on the
Day of qiyama, because Rasulullah says, if we are short in a far
salah, Allah, through Allah's mercy,
Allah will say to the Malaika, look in the Sunnah salah.
Do we realize that the NABI Muhammad said, any Muslim that
preserves 12 rakaatsu na Salah for the day, referring to the two
before Fajr, the four before dur. And most of the Muslims only make
two, four before dur, two after duar, the two after maghrib, the
two after Isha, then Allah will build a palace view in Jannah. I
How many of the salihim
made? Not 10 rakats extra sunnah salah. Not 100 not 150
not 200 1000 raka sunnah Salah between the day and the night.
A typical example is Rabbi Atul adawiya. She used to make 1000
raka Sun rasala, I'm not saying that you and me must do 1000 but
we must do much better. When Rabbi, when he was asked by
Rasulullah, rabiah, you are doing so much for me. What? What can I
give you? He said, rasulallah, just give me a time to think about
and then he said, Ya rasulallah, because of your status with Allah,
ask ALLAH that I be with you in Jannah.
Rasullah says, Rabbi, where'd you come from this request?
He said, Yeah, Rasulullah, I thought about it, and I thought,
if you're going to give me something of this world, is this
going to vanish? But that's why I'm asking for your companionship
in Jannah. You know what rasulallah said to.
Him. Now, okay, I'm going to make that dua, but you must help me.
You must help me. How many help me with catras to sujood? A lot of
sujood. What's it mean? A lot of sujood, a lot of sunnah, Salah.
But
there wants another important aspect that we need to reflect on
is how serious do we take the advice and the guidance and
instructions of our beloved Nabi Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam?
And my humble view is that we, as Muslims, we don't take Rasulullah
serious.
For example, Rasulullah says, Whosoever makes salatul Isha with
Jamaah, then by Allah. It is as you've stood half of the night in
ibadah,
and if you make fatal Salah in the masjid, it is by Allah as if you
stood whole night in ibadah. Allah. Now I can tell you, as an
imam of Cape Town,
I'm now imam for 36 years, it is still the same amount of people
coming to the masjid,
only 3% okay, let me be kind, only maybe 5% of the Muslim community,
not only Cape Town all over the world, are coming to the masjid
because the Muslims are not taking Rasulullah serious.
I've just heard that we have a janazah here today, and this
elderly father of us in this masjid, he was here for Fajr,
rain, or how do you say raining or shining? He had cancer chemo,
treatment. Of that chemo, he is here.
He is a man that took Rasulullah serious.
Allah must mean In another Hadith, the NABI Muhammad says, If you
could only understand and realize the secrets and the benefits of
being Fajr in the masjid, you would have come to the masjid,
even you had to crawl to the masjid, says Rasulullah, but
it doesn't make any impact on the Ummah, but inshaAllah, from the
day onwards, all of us prison is going to make a difference.
Another Hadith, Rasulullah says, a person that makes Salah in the
masjid is 27 degrees
better by Allah than making us Allah at home.
The time doesn't allow us.
But I brought the book with of the great Imam, Imam khazali,
Rahmatullah Ali, who was considered as a reformer for this
ummah.
He says it is stupidity
for a Muslim to choose one
upon 27
and as I said, the time doesn't allow us,
but I've worked it out.
If your company says to you
that you can either work from home
five times per day, or you can come into the offices and work
from office. But if you come to the office, we will give you
27,000 for every time you come in, 27,000
per day, plus five five times is 135,000
now look at the other one. If you work at home, you get 1000
per time, 5000 for the day. And I've worked it out quickly for the
for the week, that person that goes to the office, 945,000
and Rand for the week, for the month, for the month, not a year,
3,750,000
the other person that works from home, he gets for the month,
140,000
look at 140,000
to 3,000,750
Do
you blame Imam hazali To say that you are so stupid? I won't use
that word,
but the reformer of this ummah, Imam Ghazali, said it
might miss mean,
there are so many areas that we need to reflect on, but time
doesn't allow us.
So I'm just going to conclude maybe with two.
And the first one of the last two is, how is our relationship
in connection with the book of Allah?
Are we included in the following words of Rasulillah Ya Allah,
nurse is a man on Al quranu fi word in one few word in hayu, a
time will come upon my people, says Rasulullah, the Quran will be
on the one side of the world, and they will be on the other side of
the world. How do we fatim to the complaint that Allah records the
Quran, that Rasul is going to say that if T Yama in naqmita Doha the
Quran, you.
Sa O Allah, my people, they have abandoned the Quran.
My dear ones,
allow me to ask tough questions,
how many times did we open the translation of the Quran
to show Allah
that we honor and we respect and we appreciate the greatest book
that was sent to us?
Just yesterday, I saw a video of yusha Evans. This is a non Muslim.
This is a
born Christian.
He says,
the first time he read the Quran,
and he wrote Suratul Fatiha, and then he read Alif lame, Dalai,
Kalki tab Allah says, this is the book. This is the book, la Rahi
bafi. And there's no doubt in this book, he said it took him three
days to read the whole Quran. Today, he is a born Christian, but
he's calling people to the deen of Allah. We had a lady in Portland's
where I come from.
She was a priest in one of the big churches in Cape Town.
A long story short, she embraced the deen of Islam.
She got married to a brother of Pakistan. I said to her brother,
brother, please, you don't do what other people are doing. She said
to me, Sheik, you don't need to worry. I'm not embracing Islam
because of him. I'm embracing Islam because of Allah and
Rasulullah. The point I want to make is she died in covid. I met
the brother six months ago, the Pakistani brother, Allah. I don't
know why. He told me. He said to me, Sheik, in the five years that
my wife was a Muslim, she read the Quran, the translation of Quran 14
times.
Where are we?
We need to reflect
what must mean.
Allah subhanahu wa wants us,
for example, to be closely connected with the Quran. And I,
because of time, Allah says in surah Luqman, for example. And I
want to ask a question, how are we connected to this ayah in
nalavina, Amanu wa amilu salihat, lahun JANA to Naim Khalidi,
nafiya, wai haqqa, how are we connected to this word, to these
words of Allah? Allah wants us to understand it and live it. Allah
says, Those people with iman, and they do good deeds for them. They
are Jannah to Naim.
One day, I read some of the tafsir of jannudan, Jannatul. Naim, your
palace in Jannatul. Naim has got 3000 doors. We've got no idea what
Allah has prepared for us. And then Allah says, holy Deena, fear
you're going to be forever in Jannah,
not 500 million years, not 500 billion years, not even 500
trillion years forever. What? What Allah, haqqan in Allah also adds
to say, the Promise of Allah is the truth.
What must mean
Allah's reflection
and his most probably one of the most important ones
that we need to think deep about
is our preparations for the Day of Qiyamah,
the day when we going to stand in front of Allah and we're going to
wait for judgment.
Yamah, yakum, munasu, Lira, mean the day when people going to stand
up in front of Allah. Abdullah ibn Masud Anu once led this Allah, and
he read this ayah, and he collapsed because he was thinking
and visualizing standing in front of Allah the Day of Qiyamah. The
word must mean, allow me to say
that I am concerned about the amount of hours that we put in to
receive our results on the day of Qiyam al Qiyamah. And the reason
why I use that phrase the amount of hours because, for example,
here in Cape Town now, the matriculants of this year, they
are putting in so many hours, and even the parents so many hours to
succeed at the end of the year.
How many hours do we put in
for the day of Kiyama?
We get special tutors for our children in mathematics, in
physical science, so that it can pass at the end of the year. How
many tutors do we get our children so that it can pass the day of Yom
Kiyama?
In 1992
i My time is actually over, but I'm going to take another three
minutes to wrap up. It's not enough. But quickly, in 1992
I went with the Ulama delegation when the problem started in
Somalia,
and one day we made Salah in the masjid in Nairobi in the city
center.
And the people come. So many people come for duar Salah. So
they give 20 minutes. And in the 20 minutes, one of the Allah will
stand up and give advice. And that day, I was so fortunate. Was
there.
He says, ALLAH says in Quran, amhasi, Batum and tatul walamma,
ya Allahu. Just simply going to Jannah? Listen to this. This is
the way he translated it. And you haven't shown Allah yet that you
are serious to go to Jannah. I'm
going to repeat that Jamaat to must mean so that all of us can
remember it first me, do you think that you just simply going to
Jannah? Allah has prepared the Jannah for all of us. But do you
think that you just simply going, and you haven't shown Allah yet
that you are serious to go to Jannah?
And then he said, The Deaf Qiyamah, you're going to open your
pages your book, first page, salatul, tahajjud, your name is
not there. Sunnah, fasting, your name is not there. Salatu, Doha,
your name is not there. Involving the community not there, then
Malay can ask, no, what did you do with all your time? So Jamaat must
mean
our resolutions, because that is a topic, reflections and resolutions
quickly. The first resolution is that I would advise myself first
and then your honorable selves, is that every day, from day to day
onwards, make at least 100 times. Istikhar, a staff illallah, Oh
Allah, please forgive me. And part of that meaning is, Oh Allah,
please forgive me for the time that they've wasted. And Allah
will forgive us.
Secondly,
make a decision today to spend more time with the Quran. Thirdly,
make a firm intention to abandon all wrongdoings.
I was so proud the last time that I was here in majidur. Majidur
Kutz,
I spoke about * and addiction to *. I'm so
proud of one of the musalis here that same day, he texts me, he
said to Shaykh, I've got that problem. What should I do now?
That is the spirit of a Muslim
that you admit to your wrongs and you are prepared to change. I also
want to say to the smokers, this
is a time to quit smoking.
Make that decision.
All wrong doings.
Make a decision today,
my dear ones, this is the fourth one that you going to implement
the advice and guidance of Allah. You know what Allah says to all of
us. Nobody's excluded. Yana amanuth, Guru, laha, vikran,
katira, oh, you believe. Remember Allah. Remember Allah in
abundance. I haven't got the time now, but I can advise you. Almost
a year ago, I told the Jama importance at the Fajr, the Fajr
family, brothers, Allah says to us, remember, all in absence, when
are we going to start? When I went home, I said to myself, Ibrahim,
you told the people, when are you going to start? So I'm just
sharing something personal, because I'm speaking now to my own
brothers and sisters. So personally, I decided almost a
year ago that I'm going to do 1000 times. La ilaha illallah, and up
till yesterday, I did it. So that is my advice to your honorable
selves, and I'm sure that the committee and the Trust Board and
Shah abrahman would allow me next year, also Muharram, I come back
just to check up and follow up who started with 1000 times and
implement the words of Allah, subhana wa Taala must mean we end
of with the best of words
Allah says to us here I will live Taku la wala, Tandur, nafsimah,
oh, you believe
fear Allah and
let each And every person look into what you have sent forward
for tomorrow, the day of qiyama, that every person look into your
paper reasons for the day of qiyama. And then Allah says Again,
what takula, Allah in Allah, Habiru, Mata ama lun Indeed, Allah
is well informed and well acquainted with whatever you do.
Another way to put it, Allah knows each one of us in detail,
Rasulullah, Muhammad, Alhamdulillah, mean. Lastly,
mouth, I just want to announce and also remind that Gaza is still
bleeding, still bleeding,
and inshaAllah. Next we.
Thursday. Thursday coming. We have our Palestinian program here at
masala. I'm asking everybody to fast on Thursday for the people of
Gaza and come and break your files here Thursday night. And
Inshallah, we've applied to have a March next week, 20th of July. And
this time, we're going to march to the American Consulate inshaAllah,
Muhammad, Alhamdulillah, Muhammad, hamilah Abu.