Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 1 Ramadan 1442 Late Night Majlis Sufis and Sunnah ESA
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The importance of honesty and showing one's slavehood to Allah's teachings is emphasized in the context of the "we" concept. The use of "we" in the context of "we" and the "we" concept is discussed, along with the importance of showing one's emergent weakness and emergent success. The importance of strong spiritual foresight and not being disrespectful is emphasized, along with the need for help to overcome challenges and learn the holy spirit's meaning.
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We've
reached another Ramadan,
and
we have
reached the grace and mercy of Allah
that the
gates
of the hellfire are
locked
and the gates of paradise are thrown open.
And the crier from the angel says, oh,
you who wishes for good, come forward.
And, oh, who you who wishes evil,
fall short
in your endeavor.
This is that month even a relatively cynical
person like me when I see
those same people
and I despair
in their isla and rectification. Allah tells all
of us
that he's the one in charge, not us.
And just like he has the ability to
destroy those things and those people who think
they're invincible.
Just Just like that, he has the ability,
Masha'Allah, to make those people that everyone else
has written off. And Alhamdulillah, a person loves
to be proven wrong about those things time
and time again. And it's nothing but the
the grace of Allah,
the Mahlafawl
of Allah.
Allah, show it to us in our own
lives
and, in the lives of the people, the
Ummah Sayed and Muhammad
and in the lives of all of mankind
by his father and his blessings.
Amin. So today, I wanted to
start our
Ramadan late night by,
reading excerpts
from a
small book compiled by,
my good friend
and,
learned brother, Mawlana Sheikh Tamim Ahmedid.
Allah
keep him in his protection.
Allah raise his rank.
Allah
suffice him,
all of his needs
and give him the happiness of both worlds.
From the many wonderful hadamat and services of
the dean and of the that he
has done, His newer publications
really,
it's it's a beautiful
project, him and his team, Hafez Kothar and,
the rest of them.
If it's late right now,
the kids, like, slumbered through
a difficult,
but
their father hid the fact that there he
was just as sleepy as they were because
Marshall Lawrence,
the central standard time we had to wait
for.
Our good brothers in San Diego, which is
about the
last set of people who are going to
be even able to see the moon to
see the moon,
and then rush, an hour later to
pray.
So if I don't remember your names, if
I just remember
right now and the rest of you I
don't remember your names, it doesn't matter whether
remembers
your name or not
as long as Allah remembers your name. My
lord is never
confused nor does he ever forget.
So they compiled this, small book,
called the Guardians of the Prophetic Tradition,
and it is a book,
with
a special
emphasis.
The subject is the
preservation of the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam,
and it has a special emphasis on
the
the service of the Sufis in this regard.
And this is one of the most bogus
allegations
a level that the people of Tasawwuf and
the people of Tariqa,
at least the good ones amongst them.
Somehow, this is a bidda'a. It's a represent
a reprehensible innovation,
and it's some sort of deviance and whatever
blah blah blah. Well, everybody else is off,
and have wasted
wasted significant portions of every single
chapter of the Sharia,
wasted
their
by not performing it properly, wasted their salat
by not performing it properly and playing with
the prayer times,
playing with the form of the prayer,
playing with the the the
the things that are said in it and
not said in it, etcetera.
They have
wasted the by
not starting their fast on time and not
breaking it on time. It's not starting the
month on time and with all sorts of
weird innovations and deviations
in the way that they,
practice the fast of Ramadan,
by watering down the Hajj, by watering down
zakat, and giving zakat to those people who
are not eligible from it
and taking it at rates that they're that
are confused,
etcetera, etcetera. There's not one bab of the
sharia which
modernity has not led people to arrogantly water
down, and then those people still,
turn to the ones who were the defenders
of the sunnah throughout the entire history of
the ummah and said, oh, you people are.
Why? Because they have tariqas or they their
have names. And the fact of the matter
is
that, we're a people of.
As a, we're a people of chain of
narration. When you say something, a person has
to write a right to ask, where did
you learn this from?
And that's all the the the meaning of
is that it's an attribution of your knowledge
to whichever or group of or tradition that
it comes from. So people can,
then
know how to evaluate whether that knowledge is
authentic or not.
And it's a type of honesty when someone
says that I learned from the the the
the the or
I learned from the
I learned. It's not sectarianism.
If somebody were to think say that any
of those that I'm Sunni or etcetera,
if for anyone were to say any of
those things with the idea that this is
what the truth is and this is what
guidance is and everything else is falsehood,
then that would be sectarianism.
But if a person is just being honest
about where they receive their knowledge from, not
only is it not sectarianism,
but it is from
the, the the the the truthfulness and the
of
the sunnah of the prophet
that a person should
rightly attribute
where they learn their knowledge from. And it's
from the humility of people that they don't
walk around as if they are, you know,
signed some sort of, like, multimillion dollar 10
year contract with Islam that only you know,
they only have the rights to represent Islam
and everybody else is an idiot, which is,
unfortunately, a sickness that many people walk around,
with. And, you know, this is the age
of the self. This is the century of
the self. It was supposed to end at
the year 2000, but, Michelle, we're, like, 21
years, 21 years under the 2nd century of
the self.
This,
you know, it's a it's just a dog.
You know, keep it on a chain. It's
gonna ruin everything.
Very short order. Give it 30 seconds. It'll
ruin,
40 years of of work,
in your dunya or in your deen.
And so this, you know, Nafsa has basically
gotten
people to the point where they'll walk around
and said, well, I follow Quran and I
follow this you know, I've I'm the authorized
representative of Islam.
I'm the authorized agent of of of God,
walking around in the earth. Whereas some people,
the from before, there were people who were
people of the earth. They were people of
the land, of the soil,
and they were humble people like Rasoolullah was
humble and like his companions, or the allahu,
on whom were humble and aslaf were humble.
And they used to attribute their knowledge to
its source, and they used to not walk
around,
you know, bending about,
and
claiming that they're the ones following the sunnah
because they're afraid if they made any mistakes
in what they did or what they said.
A lot that would take them to task,
for it because a person who makes a
big claim and then falls short, that person
is
worthy of exemplary punishment.
Whereas the one who
makes a moderate claim,
and is humble,
The one who humbles himself for the sake
of Allah.
Allah
raises that person. That person is a Mubarak
person. That person is beloved to Allah ta'ala.
That
a person,
That a person should bend his neck over
in humility
and walk humble and humble themselves in front
of the Lord.
And this is really what Ramadan is, like,
so wonderful about. It gives you so much
opportunity to show your slavehood to Allah.
You walk around like a slave, you know,
people are gonna think you're soft or people
are gonna think you're a you're easy pickings,
you're easy target.
Ramadan gives you this opportunity
that you can do so,
without,
you know, compromising your your position in in
in in the world.
And,
that's the point of all of this, is
that to to show that really, no, those
people who,
use all these other nispas to show where
they receive their ilmen, their knowledge from, where
they learn from.
That these other nispas that they use, whether
it be the
and the other
of the the the the west, like the,
etcetera,
The the people who had these,
that they weren't just you know, they didn't
open up a new shop,
and they're not competitors with the sunnah. Rather,
they are the ones who did the work
of preserving the sunnah of the prophet
through the centuries.
Someone might say, well, there are other than
them that did it. That's fine. You know?
Nobody's making big claims. But I'm just saying
they they did the work as well.
Nobody's making claims. Someone else did some good
work. We also were happy.
Former
grand Mufti of the Islamic Republic
and one of the teachers of Mufti Taqi
and Mufti Rafi,
And,
one of the also himself,
a great
sheikh of the Tariqa, a grand Khalifa of
Hazrat
Molana Ashaaf Alayton.
Such a great man, a man who wrote
so much in the defense of Islam
in every single
branch of learning, a genius.
A man whose books even in Urdu most
Urdu speaking people cannot understand
because of their their brilliance.
The great
alim.
He had 2,
Khulafa.
1 was Moana Tamim's,
Sheikh
Moana
Hakim Akhtar Sab
and the other is this Mufti Rashid. Mufti
Rashid used to say to his students that
the sign of Ikhlas, the sign of
of Ikhlas, the sign of sincerity
in a a scholar, in a.
It's this subhanallah, this tradition is so beautiful.
The word is used as
a a a derogatory term in the subcontinent
now for somebody who's, like, some sort of,
like, backward sectarian hack. And if you look
at the word itself, what does mola be?
It's a nisbah to the mola. It's a
person whose connection is with the mola.
Who's the mola? Allah is the mola.
Allah is the mola. Allah is the lord
and protector. The is the the the people
of God. That's literally what the what the
word means.
This is the
said that
the sign of sincerity in the is that
he sees
another,
scholar doing the same work as him,
and it makes him happy. It makes him
happy.
So the true people of Tasso'af and Tarika,
they're not like little kids who are like,
oh, my dad can beat your dad up.
Or they're not like, you know,
rabid sports fans
that need to have meaning in their life
so they end up
like, you know, the meaning that they're supposed
to have by
service to their fellow man and by,
slave hood in front of Allah
and by sacrifice for the sake of Allah
and by taking burden on themselves so that
the rest of the creation can be comfortable.
And those things that that that are supposed
to give a person satisfaction,
they find it from, like, I don't know,
watching the Blackhawks make a Dutch touchdown, you
know, during the world series or something ridiculous
like that. Right?
So,
no. You know, the Sufis themselves are not
haters. If somebody else is not a person
of Tarifa, but that person
got the job done,
that person
did great service for the hadith of the
prophet That person did great service in protection
of the the ummah of the prophet
They did great service in,
or in any one of the other branches
of learning,
or for the orphans or for the weak
or for the poor or called a great
number of people to Islam so that people
repented at their hands and,
had forsaken the worship of anyone
except for Allah. The Sufis would be the
one who who the real Sufis, the real
people of Tarifa would be the ones who
would be happiest for them and who would
love them the most and would be the
1st to praise them and would be the
1st to, support them and would be the
1st ones to stand with them and to,
honor them.
So we don't say that there's any any
exclusivity or whatever. We don't make claims.
No need to make any claims. But the
the the book is a beautiful book in
as much as it recalls,
certain great
services in the preservation of the sunnah of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, not only
in teaching and learning, but also in practice.
Translated from.
Allah
accept
Allah selected our beloved master, the messenger of
Allah,
the leader and master of humanity,
as an exemplar and role model worthy of
emulation for all times and all people until
the day of judgment.
The revelation that was revealed to him abrogates
all previous revelations, and his sublime way supersedes
all ways.
Human beings are creatures of imitation.
We learn through example. Due to this, people
adopt various role models and personalities whom they
idolize and imitate.
But we should ask ourselves, whether actors, musicians,
or athletes,
are these people really worthy of emulation?
And who has selected them and appointed them
as perfect role models of morality and examples
for mankind?
Attaining Allah's pleasure and divine salvation depends solely
upon emulating and following the way of Sayidna
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in his way
alone.
When the Jews and Christians claimed that they
were the children of God and his beloved
ones, Allah revealed these verses.
If you truly love Allah, then follow me.
Allah will love you and forgive your sins.
Allah is forgiving and merciful.
The love of Allah and His forgiveness and
pardon,
which is the purpose and essence of all
existence, is dependent upon following His beloved Messenger
What else then should a believer strive for
on his journey to Allah other than the
emulation
of the beloved Messenger
When Allah Most High himself has selected the
beloved Messenger
as the exemplar, then there can be no
doubt that His will
be the loftiest,
most sublime example for all humanity.
Verily in the messenger of Allah
you have the most sublime example.
For he,
who yearns for the pleasure of Allah and
salvation on the last day and remembers Allah
in abundance.
If we look at any internal or external
actions of the sacred Sharia,
they are explicated by his example, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
Whether it be prayer, fasting, charity, Hajj,
Taqwa,
Sabr,
Tawakkula An Allah,
meaning piety, patience, or reliance on Allah. It
is only through His teachings that we even
know Allah and only through His example that
we learn how to worship Allah Most High.
This book is simply an anthology of the
words, anecdotes, and utterances of some of the
pious predecessors and saintly scholars of Islam regarding
the importance and significance of following the way
of the Messenger
It is essential for every Muslim to understand
that no one has ever attained the love
of Allah except through the complete adherence
to and obedience of the beloved messenger
and by following his way internally and externally.
Equal to our emulation of his way and
our adherence to his path will be our
connection with Allah. The more we adhere to
the sunnah of his messenger
the more we will be loved by Allah
and guided.
Those who are for those who are fortunate
enough to
be connected to,
our teachers and our teachers' teachers,
they were pioneers and forerunners,
in the preservation and implementation of the prophetic
tradition. They lived and died as lovers, teachers,
and guardians of the prophetic tradition.
Moreover, their saluk and tasolef was nothing but
the prophetic saluk.
Saluk is an interesting word. It's, a a
a
a word meaning to,
travel on a path,
and it is used, in the terminology of
the Sufis, for those who didn't know,
as
the the the metaphor for traveling on the
path,
toward Allah Ta'ala and with Allah,
for the people who who wish to dedicate
their lives to
making the lord happy, which is really the
only
useful,
reason to live in the first place.
May Allah most high inspire us with the
same determination that they had and bless us
to live and die on the sunnah of
his beloved,
sallallahu alayhi wasallam, Ameen.
So then,
sheikh Tamim, he brings a number of
anecdotes of the,
the mashaikh
and their,
their determination to following the sunnah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
For verily, Allah has said in a hadith
Qudsi,
I swear an oath by my honor and
glory. If they come to me from every
path and seek entrance through every door, I
will not grant them entrance,
to my presence until they enter behind you.
Abu Zinad,
who is one of the narrators that Malik
narrates from the in the amongst other,
signs of his great status as
a great scholar from the scholars of the.
He said, I have not seen anyone more
knowledgeable in the sunnah than Qasim bin Mohammed
bin Abi Bakr,
And a man would not be considered a
man until he knew the sunnah.
And so he said that what? He said
that I had not seen anyone more knowledgeable
in the sunnah than Qasim bin Mohammed bin
Abi Bakr Siddiq
and
that a man would not even be considered
a man until he knew the sunnah.
This is something very important. A man would
not be considered a man until he knew
the sunnah. We chase after all of this,
even Muslims. You know? We're not I'm not
saying that these people are not Muslims. I
don't begrudge them their status,
their legal status as Muslims. And
anyone who has that legal status, we also
believe that that there is with that, legal
and outward observance,
of any amount, minimal amount, that there's also
some iman with it as well. So we
don't we we grudge them,
that they are Muslims or that they're, meaning
that they're they're they're legally people who submit
to the will of Allah to Allah and
that they're people who believe in Allah. But
look at this. He said, a man would
not be considered a man until he knew
the sunnah of the prophet.
If I'm reading the right.
He's kinda like my window into
Persian poetry,
the Persian poetry of the
He said that the knowledge of deen is,
3. It's it's,
meaning knowing what's and haram, what,
is the responsibility
the rights and the responsibility of every soul.
It's, tafsir, meaning the Quran, it's subsidiary of
sciences and understanding what is the Quran trying
to tell you. And it's hadith, meaning what
the sunnah of the prophet
says whoever doesn't read these 3, whoever is
not learned, it doesn't take a a
basic syllabus in these 3 and learning. That
person will walk around Chabiz. That person will
walk around like a filthy person amongst mankind.
And the bad part is that not only
is that true, but this age, we idolize
such people
because they drive a particular car or have
a particular job
or have, you know, particular numbers or badges
or counts
on their social media accounts or whatever. That's
why
this is a month.
Just delete all these apps from your phone.
If you wanna, like, become a big TikTok
star, you can do it in Shawwal. Right?
I'm not even gonna, like, get into whether
it's halal or haram or not. It's just
that, like, it's that world in which
this reality,
that a man would not be considered a
man until he knew what Sunnah was.
This itself, you know, the obscuring of this
reality itself is like a
beyond,
beyond understanding, and its harm is a harm
beyond,
what most people comprehend.
This is Yusuf bin Musal,
narrates that
Imam Al Oza
the great imam of the people of Sham.
He said, I saw my lord in a
dream in which he asked me, oh, Abdul
Rahman, do you enjoy the good and forbid
the evil? I replied,
yes. Only by your grace, my lord. Then
I said, oh, my lord, give me death
upon Islam.
So Allah replied,
and upon the sunnah.
Uzza was
a great imam of the salaf, and no
one's going to accuse him of having impure
or,
adulterated spiritual experience.
And if you're going to impugn his spiritual
experience, then God help the rest of us.
Abu Uthman al Haydi,
said,
he who allows the sunnah to govern his
nafs in his words and deeds will speak
wisdom,
and he who allow who allows his base
desires to govern his nafs will speak misguidance.
Allah says,
and if you obey him, you will be
guided.
A great
well known personality from the,
from the Tabaqat of the Sufia said,
he who guards his eyes from lustful glances,
withholds his nafs from unlawful desires,
establishes his inner heart with continuous meditation of
Allah,
his external with the strict adherence to the
sunnah, and habituates himself with only consuming lawful,
then his spiritual foresight never misses.
This is also important for us as well.
It's funny. Like, kinda is like
a news cycle that seems to get shorter
and shorter on Muslim social media where some
big
full on star falls and the other full
on star falls, the star rises and falls,
and then this happens, that happens, the other
thing happens.
What did
mention?
He who guards guards his eyes from lustful
glances,
withholds his nostril unlawful desires,
establishes his inner heart with the continuous meditation
of Allah. It's
a dhikr of Allah inside the heart silently.
His external with the strict adherence to the
sunnah and habituates himself with only consuming the
lawful, meaning halal.
Right? Again, why is it that, you know,
the
who
are concerned with
rather than the
optional crew,
are constantly talking about halal even though this
is, like, the easiest way of getting eggs
and tomatoes thrown at you in
most popular gatherings of Islam. So what and
habituates himself with only consuming the waffle,
then that person's spiritual foresight never misses. This
is the thing. If you want to be
a Muslim, it's not gonna be easy. You
need great help from Allah
and you need that spiritual foresight.
You're only gonna water it down and destroy
it. You're gonna shoot yourself in the foot
as a Muslim,
by not observing these things, by not guarding
the eyes from lustful glances and withholding the
nafs from unlawful desires,
by not establishing
the inner heart with the continuation meditation of
Allah and throwing away anything that
that waters that down. Rasulullah
comes
he had a gold ring one time, and
he looked at at it a couple of
times on its on his Mubarak hand
and it looked good. He was beautiful
Everything
he made the ring look beautiful,
but it caught his eye a couple of
times. They took it off and threw it.
He took it off and he threw it.
And, you know, sometimes we also need to
do that. We need to take whatever the
equivalent is that our eye keeps, like, focusing
on that distracts our hearts from Allah. Just
throw it away.
Whether it's halal, whether it's haram, just store
it just store it out.
Well, there's in it for us. The entire
dunya
is as a hadith mentions.
The entire dunya is cursed except for the
the remembrance of Allah.
Why would we trace it? Why would we
trade the thing that's
blessed in order to obtain the thing that's
cursed? It doesn't make any sense.
And his external with the strict adherence of
the sunnah
and habituates himself with only consuming the lawful,
then his spiritual foresight never misses. Why would
we why would we leave the appearance of
the prophet
Why would we leave the? Why would we
leave having a beard? Why would we leave
having, the hem of the pants above the
ankles for the brothers?
Why would we leave, you know, covering a
person's nakedness with loose and modest clothing for
men and for women?
The shaitan comes in, you know, the the
ears of our sisters and so, you know,
tells them all sorts of ridiculous things that
if you don't dress a certain way, you
know, no one's gonna pay attention to you.
And if you don't pay attention, no one
gets gives you attention. You're not gonna get
married, and this is not gonna happen. That's
not gonna the fact of the matter is
if you're a beautiful person,
inwardly and outwardly,
you know, you make the clothes look good.
And if you're an ugly person, inwardly and
outwardly, you make the good looking clothes look
bad. It's all shaitan. It's all shaitan.
The person who adheres to these things, their
spiritual foresight never misses. May Allah
make you and make us,
all from amongst those people by his father
even if we don't deserve it, Amin.
Abu
Said,
the one who adheres to the path of
the sunnah, Allah will establish his heart with
the light of recognition,
and there is no station nobler,
than that of adherence to his beloved
in his commands, actions,
character, and
ways. Repeat read that read that again. Abu
Abbas said, the one who adheres to the
path of the sunnah, Allah will establish his
heart with the light of recognition,
and there is no station nobler than that
of adherence,
to his beloved
in his commands, actions, character, and ways.
And, this is the Tasawuf we signed up
for, and this is the Tasawuf that we
love. And anyone who brings anything other than
this is,
you know, mislabeling their product,
is, adulterating the product,
and is, trying to pull a scam on
you. And, we have nothing to do with
them. They have nothing to do with us.
And,
we, we call foul. We cry foul if
anyone
ever tries to, in the name of the
tariqah,
sell you anything other than the pure and
unadulterated
sunnah, the prophet
inwardly and outwardly. Allah
give all of us tawfeeef
Allah keep us steadfast
on Islam. Allah
let us live and die with the light
of iman inside of our hearts. Allah,
give us
the chance to
repent from our sins
and to embrace the path of righteousness
and to have what's left of our lives
better than what's past
and give us
the shahadatein of as
a light on our tongue and lips at
the time of passing from this world, and
a light in our heart, in our life,
and in our death, and in our graves,
and in our
and in our, radiant maqam in Jannah forever
and ever by his father.