Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 12 Ramadn Late Night Majlis Stop Running GH 04132022
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Alhamdulillah. We reach this Mubarak 12th night of
Ramadan.
The days are slipping past.
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, give us tawfiq. Allah
ta'ala make us from the Utakah of this
night those who it's written for them that
they will be
delivered from the punishment of the hellfire, Amin.
We
heard in these, late night majalis
this year and in years past as well
about the stories and struggles of many
of the great Mashay, leaders,
soldiers,
scholars,
warriors,
and different
people who made
love of Allah and his Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam the goal of their life,
and who passed their days and nights
in
the remembrance of Allah Ta'ala,
and in
sacrifice in order to please Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
I wanted to,
talk tonight
about what does that mean for us, because
we're not the
that
watches history,
like other people watch things on Netflix
because it's Ramadan, so you can't watch Star
Wars, you can't watch Lord of the Rings
or Harry Potter or God knows what.
At least you shouldn't be. You shouldn't be
wasting Ramadan on those things.
But just because you shouldn't be wasting Ramadan
on those things, okay, let's like listen to
some oliya stories
And, then feel good about ourselves and go
back to sleep.
Go back to our segmented lives. Go back
to our separated and clustered lives.
Our lives which we have
comfortably
insulated from the rest of the ummah,
that we have insulated
from the Nadar of the Mashaikh and the
Ulamah,
that we have comfortably even insulated nowadays from
the glances of our elders and our parents,
from the glances of our,
companions
and our peers,
from the glances of our children,
from really anybody,
so that we can be
what seems to us alone,
even though you're never alone when it comes
to Allah
This is
like two sides of a coin.
At the same time, it's a very scary
thought.
At the same time, it's a very inspiring
thought.
At the same time, it's a
thought that might debilitate a person with the
burden that it carries.
But at the same time,
Allah being with you
wherever you are
is perhaps one of the most hopeful
and one of the most joyous
and one of the most encouraging things that
a person can think of. The difference between
the person who
sees it as a burden versus the person
who sees it as a joy,
is the difference between the one who loves
Allah ta'ala and the one who doesn't know
Allah ta'ala's love.
Don't get me wrong. The one who knows
Allah Ta'ala fears him.
But the fear of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
in and of itself is
an appreciation
of
the
power and the might of the Lord.
That if you cross him,
it's not going to be a good end
for you. But why would anyone ever want
cross Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala?
The one who
ordained for himself mercy,
the one who forgives all sins,
the one who is always forgiving and always
merciful.
That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala being with you,
what does it mean?
It means that when Banu Israel,
who Allah ta'ala himself
mentions that nobody believed in Musa, alayhis salam,
except for a small group of people from
his qom, and even that mostly because of
their fear of pharaoh.
That
those people,
when they saw
to their front the sea,
and behind them,
the host of pharaoh,
coming for them.
They said,
And what did Sayna Musa, alayhislam,
say? It's one of the most beautiful and
one of the most powerful and touching.
It's very simple and straightforward
to the point expressions in the Quran. And
the entire Quran is beautiful.
He
says,
That, no, indeed with me is my Lord,
and he'll show me a way.
He'll show me a way.
And Allah literally separated the seas
for him and for his people,
that every single one of them was saved.
Not one of them was harmed by Firaoun.
And
the entire host of Firaoun,
all of them were
drowned in the water,
and that's the end of their story,
at least in this world.
So we see that the maiyah of Allah
ta'ala, allata being with you wherever you are,
this is a really
like it's a good thing. It's a thing
that should give you happiness. It should give
you joy. It should give you promise.
It should be the thing that brings you
comfort
every single day of your life. And importantly,
on the day that your money won't be
able to bring you comfort. You could be
a billionaire, trillionaire.
The day your disease cannot be cured,
your money's not gonna give you any comfort,
and that day is coming for every single
one of us.
You know, people tell me, oh look, it's
bad. They see genes. We have diabetes and
we have,
you know, heart condition and this and that.
What, do you think Chinese people don't die?
White people don't die?
Black people don't die? Everyone dies.
This is the condition of
being
being created.
The sun will die one day. The stars
will die one day. They have abnormally
long life times lifespans. The entire universe is
gonna die one day.
What? Do you think other people don't die?
The day that the day that your sickness
that
has no cure comes to you. What do
you think money is going to give you
any comfort? The day that your beloved separates
from you. Do you think money is going
to give you comfort? Do you think if
you have the Olympic world record that you're
the fastest
100 meter sprinter that your
health or your physical body is going to
give you comfort that day, the day your
beloved tells you I don't love you anymore,
or the day that your beloved tells you
I love you forever and their eyes close
and they never open again, you never see
them again.
There is a day where every single comfort
will fail you, the comfort and the love
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that you feel when you realize that Allah
ta'ala is with you, that's never going to
fail you.
It's never going to fail you in this
world while you're well and while you're sick,
while you're dying and while you're living,
while you're in a state of tribulation and
when you're in a
state free of any
bad effect.
When you're in the grave,
before your judgment, during your judgment, after your
judgment,
Allah ta'ala's ma'iha with you is something to
be happy about.
But look, the issue is this is that
if you want to accept it inside of
your heart properly, you have to accept it
wholesale.
Allah ta'ala has no shariq. Like we mentioned
from before.
Not only is tawheed that we should say
that we worship nobody except for Allah, meaning
there's no God for us
except for Allah. It also means that we
ourselves are tawhid for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
That we are nobody else's. We don't belong
to anybody else's.
We don't belong to the job, don't belong
to our family, don't belong to our country,
don't belong to our relatives, don't belong to
our money, don't belong to our club, don't
belong
to our whatever stupid political party,
don't belong to any of those things. What
do we belong to? Who do we belong
to?
We belong to Allah Ta'ala.
We don't belong to our or madhab. All
of those things are
what if they're understood properly,
they're also instruments
by which we can make our Allah Ta'ala
happy with us. And if they themselves become
an end, they themselves
become one of the stupidest ends possible. A
person can enjoy themselves if they're gonna waste
their life doing something for someone other than
Allah There are a lot more enjoyable
ways of doing it.
The point is that we're supposed to be
for Allah alone and without any partner.
And in order to
walk that path, it's like
more complicated than just
listening to m p threes. It's more complicated
than just saying, oh look, this masjid is
so beautiful. I feel so spiritual
when I'm here because the tiles are so
nice and the dome is so beautiful and
like,
this is a building I can say that
I'm proud to be a Muslim inside.
It's more important than being able to say
to a non Muslim, hey, you know like,
you know Muslims invented like this thing in
astronomy and invented this thing in physics or
chemistry or whatever and,
this and that. It's more it's more than
just any of those things.
It's more than being able to say, well,
I'm from this country or I'm from that
country. It's more than saying the Arabic language
is so beautiful or Ramadan is so wonderful
or,
you
know, the Hajj is like this or like
that. It's more than any of those things.
If you want to make it more than
those things in your life,
you have to actually arrange your life
in a way that's compatible with that and
mashallah mashallah,
so many of us have such a nice
and
make our dhikr. Or we're even more pious
than that. We make our adkar on our
fingers.
And
so many of us have a med hub
and so many of us have spent time
and bothered to learn something. So many of
us have,
you know, made good friends and
checked the right boxes when it comes to
our affiliations in fiqh and in aqidah and
in tasawaf and in God knows what. So
many of us have done all of these
things, masha'Allah.
But still we haven't taken the steps to
what? To practically live such a life that
Allah
is with us whenever we are and wherever
we are, that we live our life for
him at all times.
So many of us still have, like the
Yahud and the Nasar have one day a
week which is their sacred day. So many
of us have a time that we, are
Muslims in a time where we shut Muslim
off and we do God knows what, what
else other things. So many of us have
a place that we retreat to when we're
tired of being a Muslim.
When we're tired of being only for the
sake of Allah ta'ala because it's a burden
for us. We have a place we can
retreat to where that doesn't,
exist, it doesn't bother us anymore. We can
rest, relax, recharge. And then later on we'll
go out and be pious again.
But this is not really the way it's
supposed to work. This is one of the
reasons actual tasolef versus storybook tasolef or like
groupie tasolef or like social friends, make friends
and influence people type of tasolef,
why they're all so different.
Because the real walking on the path of
path to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, it involves
something that is such a burden that it
destroys you, crushes you. That Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, it's related that that that you'll find
Allah ta'ala where you find the brokenhearted.
Why? Because
just like Allah ta'ala said in his book,
quoting,
the queen Bilqis of Saba,
the queen of Sheba.
That
the kings, you know, their custom, their habit
is what? When they enter into
a place with an army, if there's an
invasion, what do they do?
They
make entire mischief out of that place and
they make the most honored of the people
of that place. They try to humiliate them
the most. Look what's happening. Look what look
what happened. All of these countries, masha'Allah, in
the Muslim world,
great metropoli were trashed in front of our
eyes.
Nobody seems to think about it. Nobody seems
to care. Okay, look, even Ukraine, it's happening
to them. We feel bad for every human
being who suffers,
especially those who suffer,
from being innocent. So just because
when it was our turn to get trashed,
nobody,
gave any sympathy,
It doesn't mean that we've become
dead hearted,
that look, you know, these are also there
are innocent people who are just trying to
pay their bills and get through life,
who really don't have any,
horse in the race. You see their homes
are being destroyed. You see family members are
being separated, sometimes even killed,
and what not.
Breaks your heart, you know. It makes you
feel it makes you feel bad. What happens
is that when an invasion happens from one
place to the other, whatever side you're on,
if you believe in it or think it's
a conspiracy or agree with this country or
agree with that news station or whatever. At
at at any rate, the objective of an
invasion is what?
It it ends up carrying out facade,
mischief in a place. It completely disrupts any,
type of system over there.
And it takes those
people and those places and those things, those
symbols and those,
functions of society that are the most important,
and it targets them. It hacks them to
pieces. It destroys them.
And,
this is this is the way this is
the way these things work.
That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, what do you
think then? What do you think if this
piece of wisdom is mentioned in the Quran?
Then Allah ta'alhu is the malikulmuluk.
It's one of Al Malik is one of
Allah ta'a's name is the is Al Malikul
Haqq. He's the true king. He's the king
of kings.
The embodiment of kingship is only there in
Allah
truly.
That if Allah enters into your heart,
what happens?
All of your other plans, all of your
other worries, all of your other ideas, all
of your other dreams, all of them are
going to get trashed. And the more the
more precious
that plan was, the more precious that dream
was inside of your heart heart, the more
hard it's going to have to fall.
If you want to carry Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala's love and his dhikr inside of your
heart, this is what you have to do.
Easy for hamza to say, hard for hamza
to do.
It's easy for all of us to say,
it's hard for all of us to do,
but this is the work of our life.
This is the point that we're here.
The point of Ramadan is, you know, the
point of Islam and the point of Ramadan
and the point of all these things. It's
not so that you can eat samosas and
pakoras once a year. So that you can,
you know, call your local congressperson and have
a photo op with them.
That's not the point of all of this.
You can eat all of those fried foods
any day of the year you want to
and there are other more
efficacious
ways of
connecting with your local
branches of government.
In fact one of the interesting things with
all of,
you know, these things that have to do
with deen is that often times the people
who flock to the masjid oftentimes the people
who are
trying to get involved with like Muslim political
things is they're losers that have no other
way of,
you know
mustering any sort of constituency because if they
walked into a normal democratic or republican party
meeting, they have no status. They have no
say. They have no clout. They have no
economic clout. They have no political clout. They
have no social clout. They have no intellectual
clout.
So, okay, look at all these other, you
know, people who just come to the Masjid
in order to worship Allah Ta'ala because they
all gather in one place. If I can
hang out here long enough and, like, win
an election, now I have a reason that,
you know, senator Bob or Don or
Bill or whatever,
you know, Smith or x y z,
congressperson or mayor or or council person, councilwoman,
whatever pronouns they may use or may not
use, that now they have to pay attention
to me for 15 minutes and I feel
important about myself. That's not the reason for
any of these things. That's not the reason
for any of these things. If this is
the stuff that you live for, oh, look,
the first Muslim, you know,
congress, you know, person, the first Muslim
this, the first Muslim that, if that's the
reason that you live,
that's not, I mean, that's like a really
failed reason to be connected with the deen.
Alhamdulillah, masha'Allah, Muslim got elected to congress. I'm
not against that. I don't think it's a
bad thing or that it shouldn't happen nor
do I hold my hand back in support
of those people
who, you know, who that's happened for as
long as as long as they're there to
work for the deen. But as an identity,
it's complete, it's a complete waste of time.
There are other ways to do things in
the dunya that are more efficacious and there's
only one way to do things in the
deen in which, you're gonna get benefit in
dancing at the gay pride parade is not
one of them. I'm sorry, you know, if
that's what, you know, if that's what
makes people feel bad or whatever, but I
know there are people who will, you know,
go to these events even in Ramadan in
order to promote
Muslim politicians and think that this is what
they're doing for Islam, this is not what
they're doing for Islam. What you what you
do for Islam is first what you do
for yourself, which is what?
Vacate from inside the heart.
All of these things other than Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, all of these hopes and all
of these dreams other than Allah ta'ala.
And that only will happen by what? By
learning something about the deen because there are
a 100 people who have in their imagination
that this is what Allah wants, this is
who the prophet
is. Well, if the prophet was alive he
would x y z. How do you know?
You don't know any of those things until
you sit and read the books of hadith.
You don't know any of those things until
you sit and read the Quran, tafsir, you
read the books of the sharia. That's how
you understand those things.
Once you understand those things then the heart
becomes conformant. Even then a person may read
and understand all of those things, but even
then they still may not have let go
of
the the other dreams that they have inside
of their heart. And at this point there
are 2 ways to be rectified.
1 is,
from your own from your own choice
that you put in that hard work of
making mujahada against your own self.
You keep telling yourself this is not what
I want. What I want is my love
to be pleased with me, what I want
is my Allah to be pleased with me.
What I want is Allah ta'ala to accept
me. What I want is that that same
Allah ta'ala that I call upon and I
say and the one who I say that
that Allah ta'ala who I call on his
name
everyday so many times in in all of
my salat and in all of my vigr,
that that what I want is also for
him to say that this slave, this slave
is mine. Just like we say to Allah
ta'ala that this Allah is mine.
That's one path.
And that's the superior path.
The second path is what? Sometimes some people
they kinda make half they they muster kind
of half of an effort.
Or maybe one of their forefathers was a
pious person who said, you Allah, you know,
make my progeny into awliya.
And so what will happen is Allah ta'ala
will turn their lives upside down by one
thing after another after another after another until
they become completely hapless, completely witless,
completely,
completely without any
resort to anything other than
Allah ta'ala.
Completely confounded. They have no idea what they're
gonna do in life.
And oftentimes this becomes very painful. People lose
basic physical faculties. People will lose
the ones that they love in their life.
People will lose their their dignity. People will
lose their honor. They will lose their
means of,
of livelihood. They will lose their family members
and their near and dear ones.
They'll lose every single thing
that it takes for them to break
and then to turn to Allah ta'ala and
say, you Allah, I have nobody but you.
And those people are very fortunate and blessed
people. If you need people like that you
should ask them to make dua for you
because the place Allah ta'ala took them
despite their lack of planning, that place is
a place he only takes the ones that
he loves.
But it should be obvious to people that
this is not the way of the Rasulullah
and it's not the way of the companions
rather they took on the and
they took on these
struggles in order to
purge the heart of Allah other than Allah
ta'ala
voluntarily and on their own.
And that's why they denied themselves what their
desires were,
in terms of their food, in terms of
their drink, in terms of other things.
This is why they denied themselves,
their their desires in terms of luxury.
This is why Sayidna Umar radiAllahu ta'ala who
was still taking
inside the masjid,
despite being Khalifa,
that,
I remember hearing
Hassan. He gave a he gave a talk.
In which he was describing the simplicity of
of the deen and the simplicity of the
Sahaba radiallahu anhu,
in which he said that, 2 ambassadors and
emissaries from the Persian emperor came to Madinah
Munawara to see what's going on.
And when they got to,
when they got to Madinah Munawara, they asked
where is the palace of the
Khalifa?
And it was Ustadji's majlis mashal, those people
are, you know, they're people who have a
love of
the the way of the dara'ish
and the love of the way of the
faqara and of those mendicants, those people who
kinda give up the the the life of
this world for the sake of the akhirah.
Even though every person in the majlis isn't
perfect, but in general they love those people
who
take that path and who
tread it
well.
So you can hear in the recording a
laugh. How ludicrous is it to ask where
is the palace of the Khalifa When
has and who is the Khalifa?
That he is the one
that
these emissaries were looking for him.
And
the people said he's either in the Masjid.
If he's not in the Masjid, then go
to such and such place outside of the
city.
He
takes the livestock from the from
the government treasury. He takes the livestock out
to graze,
in such and such place so you might
find him over there. So he found him,
masha'Allah, and the livestock was grazing and he
was, you know, he was enjoying his qaylullah,
his midday nap,
sleeping in the dirt.
These are those people who Allah 'az madad
comes down down for. This is the whole
purpose Allah created you and me. This is
the whole purpose Allah created you and you
and me.
It's so that we can
taste the glory of that state.
So that we can taste the honor and
the nobility of that state. So that we
can be colored in the beauty
of the dye of that state.
Such a dye that no matter how many
times life washes us that color doesn't run,
it doesn't go away.
Allah ta'ala says in a in his book,
in a very powerful ayah in the Surah
Tawba. Surah Tawba Surah Tawba Masha'Allah. Which surah
is that?
That's the surah that doesn't be begin with
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. It's the only surah by
the consensus of the Quran
doesn't begin with Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. You just
start reading it.
And that surah has in it,
a number of very harsh realities.
Even those there's a mercy in them, however.
But it's not going to be, you know,
molly coddling. It's not going to be
self esteem where everybody goes home with a
participation award. It's not gonna be like that.
I mean in some sense you can say
yeah, everybody does go home with a participation
award. Not everyone, just those who participate.
You have to do something.
Surat al Tawba
pushes
and gives the examples of those who do
things and who Allah sends his help, and
those who sacrifice and who Allah accepts from.
And it also gives examples of those who
didn't try, those who wasted their opportunities until
it was too late
and they destroyed themselves
and they became an example for mankind of
what not to do and how not to
be.
He says,
in his book he says,
Say,
if
your fathers
and your progeny,
if your parents,
and your progeny,
and your,
brothers, your siblings,
and your spouses, your wives, and your husbands,
and your families, your extended families, your tribes,
and that money which you earned,
and that business that you're afraid,
will
be wasted, that it those deals that won't
get done.
If all of these are more beloved to
you than Allah and his messenger and then
struggling in his path,
Then wait until Allah brings his command.
And indeed Allah does not guide
the
of,
the profligates, the the people of profligacy, the
people who
commit sin without shame.
This is a very powerful statement. This is
a very powerful statement.
And we also have to think about this,
that okay fine,
It's good. You're like you you guys are
already like 90 97th percentile pious to the
level of pietitis because you're listening to
late night majlis,
on the night of Ramadan. You're probably already
praying your taraweeh. You're probably already doing so
many great and wonderful things.
But what's the point? We have to keep
struggling to eliminate
those spaces in our life
in which we absent ourselves
from being with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Whether
it be the domicile that we live in,
those domiciles that are far from the masjid
and that are far from any other Muslim,
that we don't have Muslim neighbors, that we
don't have Muslim friends, we don't we cloister
ourselves from them.
We have to look.
We have to eliminate, pull those bubbles out,
in our in our din. Like, you know,
when you put a screen protector on a
phone, there's a bubble. What does it do?
It obscures the the image below.
So you have to take a, you know,
in the old days when they're the plastic
film ones, you could take
a credit card and like push that bubble
out
so that it sticks. That where is the
bubble? Where is the bubble in our money?
Where are we putting our money? In places
that are haram.
Our money is stuck in banks. Our money
is stuck in
doubtful,
transactions. Our money is being spent on stupid
things, paying for companies that neither love Allah
or Hisr Rasool, salallahu alaihi wasalam, being pumped
through Amazon in order
to go to China,
to buy those things that are built with
the slave labor from our brothers and sisters.
Our money, what is it being spent on?
We gotta push those bubbles out that are
there inside of our money. We gotta push
those bubbles out with what goes into our
ears and what goes into our eyes. We
gotta push those bubbles out with what goes
into our
stomachs.
And then and then you have the ability
to say that I'm what?
I'm a person who is completely self centered.
I'm a person who's completely self centered that
I've
done for myself what my deen is, and
I don't care for anybody else in the
world.
There's an entire journey after that. You have
to rectify yourself,
and you also then have to worry about
what is my neighbor gonna do? You have
to worry about what is my
brother and sister gonna do? What are my
parents gonna do? What are my children going
to do?
That the way the demographic shifts in the
world are going
in just a couple of decades, maybe 1
out of 4 people in the world will
be Muslim. Maybe 1 out of 3 people
in the world are going to be Muslim
because everybody else
drank shaitan's Kool Aid
and completely annihilated their own nestle, their own
progeny.
Muslims are the only ones
that
are still, you know, having children and eating
meat and doing this kind of weird, the
simple
fitri things that normal people do and that
they like doing and that they enjoy
doing. Well who's gonna who's gonna feed them?
Who's gonna feed them halal? Who's gonna teach
them alifbaatatha?
Who's gonna teach them Surat al Fatiha? This
whole Covid occurred
and already we see the masajid are cut
off from people and I see people are
irritated. This idea of like coming together it's
still like difficult for people.
That people still their dispositions haven't recovered from
from what happened.
All of these things are going to require
struggle and sacrifice. If we're gonna be those
people who look I eat the right halal
and I wear the best clothes and I
wear the best perfume and I, you know,
my money is in the halalist,
account and my, you know, politics are the
halalist,
of politics and my this is great and
my that's great.
That we have all of those things,
lined up but we're not contributing to making
any of those things happen.
We're just a consumer. We're just a end
level consumer.
We don't worry about how is it that
these systems work. How can I contribute
to these systems? How can I myself put
some skin in the game? Put my neck
on the line.
Be not just a person who eats and
drinks the fruits of these things but be
the one who goes out and feeds people.
Whether it be literally feeding people food
or whether it be
coordinating and helping and giving money to those
people who are working in the Halal industry.
I put the
fundraiser for Hafsa the other day, you know.
How many people, enjoy eating, hand slaughtered meat?
And then afterward they turn a blind they
turn a blind eye to supporting the the
effort. Why? Because it's not as emotional. It's
more of a rational pitch. It's not as
emotional of a pitch as maybe someone who
comes to the masjid and says, oh, you
know, if you build this then Allah will
build you a house in Jannah and if
you, you know, feed this one orphan then
you're gonna go to Of course, those things
are all important. Those things are all good.
But the point is is that in order
to
look to a tomorrow that actually will not
be a catastrophe, we need to make these
things sustainable.
We cannot just give based on emotional pitches.
We need to sit down and we need
to think about what needs to happen.
We need to sit with like minded people.
We need to devise a strategy. How are
we gonna make it happen? You do this,
you do that. You know, the billionaire has
to pay this much, the millionaire has to
pay this much, the person who has a
$100,000 in the bank has to pay this
much. The person who has 10,000 in the
bank or 1,000 in the bank in a
large family, maybe they're not gonna pay with
their money. Maybe they're gonna do some other
work in order to make it happen. But
we need to get together with like minded
people and figure out how these things are
gonna work. And the cornerstone of all of
this is what is that we need to
live together. We need to
be able to
live a life where when you open your
front door,
your gaze falls on the masjid and the
masjid see from your masjid your house can
be seen.
That your gaze falls upon another Muslim and
another Muslim's gaze falls
on you. Do you know how many how
many society societal ills are solved
just by being in a place where you
know people and they know you? And do
you know how many sick diseases of society
are possible
just by being in a place where you
don't know anybody and nobody knows you?
Those things are really uncomfortable and they're difficult,
and sometimes they're gonna cost even more than
something more luxurious and something that's more easy.
Those are
the decisions we're going to have to do
if we want to live in
a society and in a civilization, in a
community that is based on and
that's what this aya that we read is
calling us to. It's to struggle in the
path of Allah in order to make the
world a better place.
And again
if your
parents, if your progeny, if your spouses, if
your, you know, fraternity and your,
siblings,
if your tribe, if the money you earn,
if
the business that you wish to execute, all
of them are more beloved to you than
Allah
and his rasul and struggling in his way,
then wait see what's what the what the
hukum of Allah Ta'ala is going to be.
If that's the case, if you like hearing
about the the olema and you like hearing
about the oliya and you like hearing about
the Ottoman Empire and you like hearing about
the
and you like hearing about all these things,
but you don't wanna put skin in the
game yourself,
Then Allah describes
such people also in Surah
Surah to Allah Imran.
As what? As you Hebuna
and as those people who love to be
praised for those things that they don't they
never they didn't do themselves, they don't do
themselves.
That you want to be associated with this
Islam, which is this like super beautiful thing,
but you yourself, you don't wanna actually do
it. That's not that's not cool. That's not
cool to be like so
like unapologetically
muslim or whatever the * it's supposed to
mean. Like you know you're so like excited
about islam, but you're excited about it just
to the point of talking about it and
exchanging stories
just to the point of some sort of
like communal identity,
you know, that that subs in for race,
but you're not actually excited about doing it.
You're not excited about actually, like, praying. You're
not excited about actually making dhikr. The idea
of reading the Quran, like, kind of turns
you off inside. So, oh, brother, this is
a drive. Go easy on people. It's, you
know,
don't be hard on people and this the
end of time and it's like this and
it's like that. All of those things, some
of them may actually,
you know, be be actually legitimate statements
of the fuqaha or of the ullama or
even of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
but so often
it's kalima tuhaktanurida
biha batil
that, a word of truth that's being used
to mask
a very destructive type of falsehood,
which is what
firar, just like running away from from those
things that a believer,
should
should love.
And the thing is that look, you know,
if you're not
the type of person who loves to recite
the Quran, force yourself to recite the Quran,
you know, for a 100 hours and then
see, you know, how does it change?
How does the feeling of reciting the Quran
change for you versus what what, you know,
what it felt from before? If you're the
type of person who doesn't enjoy,
you know, nafil prayers, you know, force yourself
to pray. Go go pray with those who
enjoyed the prayer. Force yourself to pray for
a 100 hours, however many raka'at that you
get out of it. See, do you feel
the same way when you're accustomed with it
or not?
Once you become accustomed
to the dhikr, once you become accustomed to
the recitation of the Quran, once you become
accustomed to giving, once you become accustomed to
forgiving other people, once you become accustomed to
hearing crap from people while you're serving the
deen, and going on knowing that you do
it for the sake of Allah and not
for their sake. Once you become accustomed to
these things,
you'll then know what does it mean actually
to be a Muslim. You'll know what it
is that you're supposed to be loving.
Otherwise, before it's all a fairy tale.
People like, you know, like okay fine, if
you're into football then you watch Rudy and
this is your spiritual experience. And if you're
into Islam, just like hear some oliya stories
and that's like what,
you know, what drives you. Like, you know,
we'll hear a nice story from a good
storyteller. Maybe he'll bring some embellishment and they'll
compete with one another in order
to find the more,
bizarre
and and rosy worded, far flung,
fabrications
about Allah and his Rasool, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, about the mashaikh and the oleman, the
oliya just in order to, you know, pump
you a little bit more. It's kinda like,
you know, you've been smoking weed for some
time now and it just doesn't do it
for you. So let's, you know, jump into
cocaine or into heroin or something like that
just so you can get that next high.
That's ridiculous. That's not that's not the point
of the din in the first place. It
really isn't.
That let's let's what's the next nasheed? I
love listening to nasheed.
But if you're doing it in order to,
you know, because the actual din is like
quote unquote dry, people say this is kinda
It's so dry, you know, it's so dry.
If you're doing it in order to, because
you find like what the actual deen is
to be dry,
then that's really problematic. If you listen to
nasheed because the words move you,
because when the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is
praised, you already love his sunnah so much
that it moves you. When Allah has praised
you, you already love Allah Ta'ala so much
that it moves you. When the,
you know, calling to that which is right
and and upright and and and praiseworthy conduct
is,
is mentioned, it moves you because you already
have a love for those things.
Then there's great khair in them. But if
it's just like, oh look it sounds beautiful
and like, you know, everything else is just
dry for me,
that's a problem. It doesn't mean that you're
a kafir or even a munafiq or whatever.
It just means that this is a problem.
You have your work cut out for you.
You gotta, like, do something in order to
change it.
And may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give us
all tawfiq, you know, in many ways this,
tonight's majlis is just me ragging on myself
for those things that
I I know I need to work on.
All of us need to work on it.
It's a long road but it's a road
that we all know it's it's it's it's
worth taking and more than that it's necessary
to take because if we don't take it,
you know, we're gonna have we're gonna have
a lot of problems.
So, you know
I extend my hand out that, if you
want Insha'Allah let's take it together.
Let's go on this road together. May Allah
help us to, carry each other,
and to help each other and to support
one another and to encourage one another on
that road and to give each other advice
should we falter
on that path. Rasalallahu ta'ala Rasulihi Sayidina Muhammadu'alaalahu
wa sahabii jmain, Allahumma rabbi wafik.
You Allah give us tawfiq. You Allah be
pleased with us. You Allah accept us. You
Allah make us from amongst those that you
also
say to them that this slave is mine
just like we say to you, that this
Lord is ours. WassaAllahu ta'ala russullahi Sayna Muhammadu
Allah Alaihi wa sahabi hijmain.