Faaik Gamieldien – Does Allah need an intermediary #02
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The importance of speaking to Allah in relation to his presence in front of his grave is discussed, as well as advice given by shrooming women and men. The speaker emphasizes the need for shrooming and showing intentions in order to be accepted by Allah. Examples of shrooming are given, including people who commit to sh Yo, sh academic behavior, and do things like du points.
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All right, so I made a very brave
statement.
I said if you ask the Prophet ﷺ
to plead for you in front of Allah
while he's in his grave, it's shirk.
Why?
Because if you stand in front of the
Prophet's grave in Medina, who is closer to
you, Allah or the Prophet?
What is Allah ﷺ?
How close is he to you?
He's closer to you than this vein here
that runs from the brain downwards.
What is it?
No.
What is this vein called?
Aqrabu'in?
Habli'ul Wali.
Then this vein is in his stomach.
So the Prophet is there in the grave.
You're standing in front of him.
Where's Allah?
Who's closer to you as you're sitting here
in front of him?
Allah is the closest.
He's always the closest.
There's nobody closer to you at any moment
in your life than Allah.
So what are you doing?
You're standing in front of the Prophet ﷺ
and you're saying to Allah, Oh, wait a
minute.
It's important.
I paid a lot of money to come
here.
There's my Prophet here.
I'm going to ask him to leave today.
But you're not aware.
You don't know what you're doing, you see.
Cause you're in a kind of a state.
Isn't it?
So you raise your hands.
So forth and so on.
So remember, who's the closest to you?
Nobody can be closer to you.
Physically, mentally, in every single respect.
And that is why your first thing that
you should do is to speak to Allah.
So let's look at Abdullah in New Bayt.
Prophet buried him.
After the burial, his son said, Make dua.
Please make dua for my father.
So Omar ibn al-Khattab was called the
Prophet aside and said, Why did you do
this?
You know the Spaniards are munafiq.
You know he was the chief of the
munafiqs in Makkah.
Don't make dua for him.
Don't make dua for him.
Prophet smiled at Omar and said, Calm down
Omar, calm down.
Even if it means I must stand here
to ask Allah 70 times to forgive me,
I will ask Allah 70 times to forgive
me.
What is this?
So you're going to say, make 70 times
for munafiq who's already in jahannam?
Prophet said, you don't know, I don't know.
This is the last we can do for
you.
So after the after the Prophet made dua,
and made istighfar for him, Allah revealed the
following verse in the Holy Quran.
This is addressed to the Prophet ﷺ.
Prophet ﷺ, Allah says to the Prophet, Even
if you ask me to forgive, ask Allah
to ask me to forgive him.
Well, you don't ask me to forgive you,
Omar.
If you ask me to forgive him 70
times, Even if you ask him
70 times, I will never forgive you.
So there are certain instances where Allah ﷻ,
you should know beforehand Allah will not forgive
you.
The second instance that is also shirk, ar
-riyā'u shirk.
ar-riyā'u shirk.
Prophet ﷺ said, riyā' is shirk.
What is riyā'?
Riyā' is to show off to people what
you do for Allah.
You do what you do, because people must
see that you do it, and they must
talk about the fact that you do it.
That's shirk.
Why is that shirk?
He didn't care.
You're not worshipping for the sake of Allah,
you're worshipping for the sake of people.
Oh, I see, I sit in the front
row, whatever, whatever, you know, I do, they
know I, you know, built a masjid, or
they know I'm a very generous man when
it comes to the deen, et cetera, et
cetera, et cetera.
And if you always talk about it, that's
shirk.
Why?
Because you're, you're, it is it.
Whatever you do should be between you and
you and who?
You and Allah.
I spoke about the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam earlier.
And I listened to the lectures, local lectures,
and I recently listened to a lecture about
the fact that the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam is alive and is covered.
We know that.
But then this man went, this person went,
way overboard, way overboard.
And I think it's because when I listen
to him, listen to him, he didn't go
to Ayatul Qur'an.
Nor did he quote hadith from the Prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
But his words were sweet and beautiful and,
you know, inviting.
He was putting the Prophet right up there,
you know.
Allah did this to those people who, you
know, what Allah says do not, you know,
do that to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam, you know, give him the highest status,
et cetera, et cetera.
This is what the Prophet says about himself.
This hadith is in Bukhari.
3, 4, 4, 5.
Very important hadith.
The Prophet himself says, and you know Bukhari
means that he said it.
3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5.
Hadith 3, 4, 4, 5.
If you do nothing else when you go
home, look up this hadith.
What does this hadith say?
لا تطرونين Let me say something.
Don't exaggerate my status.
Don't exaggerate my status كما أطرأتي النصارى ابن
مريم Do not raise my status as the
people of Maryam.
Who are they?
The Christians.
Like the Christians raised and exaggerated the place
of who?
Isa.
Isa ibn Bakr.
What did the Prophet say?
Don't raise my status.
Don't do what the Christians did.
And today they call their God.
They call their Prophet a God.
Then the Prophet says.
Now the Prophet describes himself.
He says, don't raise my status.
So what is his status?
How did he describe his own status?
He describes his own status now in one
sentence.
He says, don't raise my status.
فَإِنَّمَا أَنَا عَبْدُهُ I am only the servant.
Servant of who?
Servant of Allah.
He says, I'm only the servant of Allah.
That's my status.
I'm the servant of Allah.
فَقُولُوا So say, oh Muslims.
What must you say?
عَبْدُ اللَّهِ وَرَسُولُ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ The servant of
Allah and the Messenger and his Messenger.
How?
The humblest man ever.
And he didn't want his ummah to go
down the same way as the people of
Isa did.
Because that is, that will lead where?
It will lead us to make Allah and
the Prophet on the same level.
And that is Shirk.
I want to say a few words.
I don't have much time left.
But I want to embrace this point.
I don't know if I'm going to live
till next week or tomorrow.
My boy is worried, you know, if I
make, if I do all this research and
I think, what if my dad tries to
use me?
And I do feel guilty that I should.
Maybe I've done these pictures a long time
ago.
And I feel sometimes when I do my
research, I think, phew, I've done so little.
But you have to, you have to come
straight down to the truth now.
No more.
This way and that way.
So what does Allah say about dua?
What does Allah say about?
The Sahaba asked the Prophet, Ya Rasulullah, Is
Allah far from us or is Allah near
us?
Should we raise our voices when we speak
to Allah or should we talk in a
soft voice?
And Allah revealed the verse.
يا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم فإني قريب
I'm close to him.
I'm with him wherever he goes, every step
he takes, every look he looks, every hand
he shifts, every foot he moves.
I'm with him.
That is what our Prophet said.
I'm servant of Allah.
I'm with his daughter.
Fatima asked him, Oh my dad, oh my
father, while he was dying, please, you are
the messenger of Allah, will you put a
good word in for me?
I've told you my father and you also,
Prophet ﷺ said, I will not be given
special permission to ask for whatever you want
to ask me.
Because even I will not go to Jannah
on the basis of my deeds.
I will also like you go to Jannah
on the basis of what, Prophet?
Allah's mercy.
How?
All of us will go to Jannah only
by the mercy of Allah.
And he was who?
He was beloved.
Beloved of Allah ﷺ.
And he says, أنا بشر مثلكم.
He says, Allah ﷺ says, He tells him
to say, قل أنا بشر مثلكم.
I am a human being like you.
يوحى إليك.
The difference between me and you, says Muhammad
ﷺ, the difference between me and you is
I received revelation and then you received revelation.
خلاص.
I'm a messenger of Allah and I received
revelation.
إذا سألك عبادي عني فأنت مخلوق.
There's another verse about the Prophet ﷺ.
All right.
About five minutes left.
There was a question asked to Shaykh al
-Ghazali that this man wrote in the letter
said that Allah looks at your intentions.
Not at the deeds you do.
Allah looks at your intentions.
People say that.
They say all the time.
He didn't mean, he meant good.
But he killed the man.
He meant good, but he stole the food
and the money because he needed food.
Imam al-Ghazali says, غير صحيح.
Not correct.
فالعمل المقبول دينا يجب أن تتوافر فيه أولاً
and be الصالح.
If you want to do something, says he,
in the Sharia of Islam, in the Deen
of Allah ﷻ, your action will only be
accepted by Allah if you do two things.
The first is, you have a sincere intention.
ثانية الصورة المشروعة that what you do must
also be in line with the Sharia.
Look at the Surah.
Very good intention, man, but I didn't mean
to swear at him.
No, no, no, no.
I had a good intention, man.
I didn't swear at him also, but I
still had a good intention.
فالعمل المتفق ظاهره مع الشرق He says, if
it appears that a person outwardly is doing
something very good, but inwardly he's not a
good person.
And he gives two examples.
He says, the munafiq, outwardly, he may be
a good person, may be in a good
trade.
And inwardly also wants to be seen of
other people.
Inwardly is a munafiq.
Outwardly, he commits shirk by doing what?
By showing off what he does, what he
gives.
So, the alim says, he says, فلماذا
تستحي من وصف القبوري بشرك He says, having
told you all this about the closeness of
Allah, the place of the Prophet ﷺ.
He says, why are we so scared to
describe people who go to graves to make
du'a as shirk, mushrikun?
Why are we afraid of that?
When the Nabi ﷺ describes a person who
shows off as also a mushrik, why are
we scared?
Man goes to a grave and he makes
du'a for the person in the grave.
يا ولي الله Oh, wali of Allah.
I want this and that and that and
I got cancer and I got this and
I got that.
So, he says, now the end of, not
the end of this.
Now the two lessons coming.
He says, it is wajib for the learned
person.
Wajib means faqh.
He must do it.
عن يالم خادم توصلات He says, to regard
all these turning away from Allah to somebody
else as contentious.
You should look at it as, look at
it as spitterment.
That you turn away from Allah and you
turn to somebody else for asking what you
have to ask Allah.
Du'a is ibadah.
Just a du'a.
Just a du'a.
I'm just asking.
I'm just asking.
Nabi ﷺ said, الدعاء مخل عبادة And in
the hadith he said, الدعاء هو عبادة Prophet
ﷺ said, du'a is ibadah.
Not is, look like ibadah.
No.
Du'a is ibadah because du'a is
made for who?
To who?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Allahumma.
What do you say?
Oh Allah, Allahumma.
And he says, the people of knowledge should
exert themselves in teaching those, teaching those who
are astray to come to the haqq.
One of the worst sins a Muslim can
commit is to see his brother doing something
with his Sheikh.
Maybe, you know, he's not doing Sheikh, he's
always blatantly going against the sunnah.
And you say, Oh, it's my neighbor.
Oh, it's my brother-in-law.
Oh, I work with him.
Oh, he's my boss.
Oh, he's my whatever it is.
He says, you must tell the people what
the truth is.
What do we do today?
We say, it's alright, man.
Leave him alone, you know.
It's okay, leave him alone, you know.
And he says, it is haram for us
to leave al-jahl, the ignorant person.
Destroying his aqidah, his faith in Allah SWT.
And we're just, what is this?
What is this?
He says, what crime is greater, he says,
than a doctor who knows his patient is
very very ill.
And he does not tell him that he's
got a it's got a terminal illness.
And does not tell him that he has
the medicine for that terminal illness.
He says to his to his patient, but
that is alright, man.
We want him to find nothing wrong with
him.
Is there a greater sin than the person
we commit?
So the greatest sin that we commit is
we see the person is ill.
He's ill in his what?
In his iman.
And we say to him.
So may Allah SWT give us that strength.
To inshallah, I know it's not easy, I
know I've gone through it, I know, I
know, I've gone through so many times, I
stand here and I think, Alhamdulillah I've come
to the conclusion that the best thing is
to tell the truth.
In a very nice way.
Now you know the truth, you know where
it comes from.
So you can tell him, what I'm saying
to you my brother, is in the Quran,
and it's in the sunnah.
You're going to tell him to listen to
the statement.
Whatever you must try in your capacity to
save people from going away.
From going to Jahannam.
Imagine you save one person from going to
Jahannam.
Imagine you save him from Allah SWT one
day, and this one man comes and he
says, Ya Allah, He saved me from Jahannam.
I'm going to Jahannam?
Please let him also.
This dunya is nothing my brother.
Nothing.
One of everything, the friendships, the scaredness, you're
scared, you're afraid.
It's nothing.
It's nothing compared to the Akhira.
It's nothing compared to that one deed can
turn your Akhira into Jahannam.