Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 1440 Ramadan Late Night Majlis Repentance 05052019
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It's the father of Allah that allowed us
to reach this Mubarak month, allowed us to
reach this Mubarak night, and allowed us to
pray the salat of taraweeh
and,
allowed us to,
inshallah, make the nia to fast tomorrow.
Allah, take us through all of its days
and all of its nights,
standing in prayer and in fasting.
Accept accept it from all of us.
One of the students of
the sheikh Waleed Manisi,
who is one of our master Korav, North
America,
and
Fakid of the Hanbali Madhav
mentioned that
Imam Ahmad used to
used to endorse and prefer to recite in
the first,
Isha of Ramadan,
the Surat Al Adaf
because
of the
recognition
of,
the recognition of this month being tied to
the
revelation of the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala on mankind.
And this is a great honor that Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has bestowed
upon,
not just this ummah, but on the human
race.
We live amongst, people
who
literally their akida is that we are a
type of monkey.
And,
the sad fact is,
their
argument is not all that far fetched.
But,
despite that despite that fact, Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala created us,
and the angels who Allah has endowed with
a superior
and unadulterated intellect which is not hampered by
hunger or thirst or any of the shahawat,
from early on made the calculation
that,
that the human being is going to cause
all sorts of mischief and spill blood. And
Allah ta'ala,
recognized at that time
in front of them a secret that he
knew.
I know something about them that you don't
know,
So
suspend your objections and keep them to yourself,
and,
let this this, this story move on.
And, so those who have visited Makkamukarama
and visited the Jabal Noor
know that
the land is sacred because
it is the land that Allah chose to,
give his revelation and his wahi to the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Undoubtedly, not only was it a honor for
him, Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, to receive the message,
rather it was what made him honored above
all of mankind.
But it wasn't just an honor for him,
rather it was an honor for everyone
from the jinns of Bashar,
from every human being,
who
walks around amongst
the creation of Allah Ta'ala looking and sometimes
acting like a monkey that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala should have bestowed this book through which
we learn the adab of the angels.
And so these stories were recounted for those
of you who have
of praying at Taraweeh. It was recounted through
the salat of Taraweeh.
And through that, we remember that the Taraweeh
is not
is not a a social event. It's not
a place to, make friends
and, form the,
bonds of a lifetime with your your community.
It's not there to promote,
politics.
It's not there to promote commerce.
It's not for any of those things, but
it's for the remembrance of Allah
and the the honoring of,
of that bond that Allah
extended
to, mankind,
that we should be able to have some
sort of a connection with him.
Who says in his book with regards to
the description of the believers,
that they are the people and their salat
are who are.
I heard
the tafsir of Saidna Abdullah bin Abbas from
none less than,
Allah Mahalad Mahmoud, who is the
former
Sharia court
justice chief justice of Pakistan
and the Ustad of Maulana Amin, nonetheless.
I heard from him just a couple of
days ago. He sat and gave the tasir
of that Abdullah bin Abbas
he, he said that
that that here
means sukoon,
and
mentioned something to the same
effect
with regards to,
the description of the believers as, that there
are people.
There are people who are.
Means silence and stillness. Sukhun means silence and
it means stillness.
That a person whose salat is silent and
their salat is still.
This is the person who has in front
of Allah
And they're also it's 2 sides of the
same coin. They're not really separate sifaat in
that sense.
Right? Means what? The thing that has no
meaning. The person who turns his back on
the thing that has no meaning.
That can only happen when the heart is
still and when they're silent.
And that's one of the reasons I'm so
happy that Allah has given us this rebat
and, given us this opportunity to pray here.
And there are undoubtedly places like it, but
they're few.
And they're unknown and unrecognized by our at
this point. Even though they were, known and
recognized by our forefathers
that,
the stillness in sukoon, the stillness and quietness
in the salat is what gives it meaning.
And it what what's allows a person to
make the dhikr of Allah to Allah, it
allows a person to remember Allah to Allah,
which is the the the actual meaning of
the core, or the core of the meaning
of the salat.
Right?
The salat prevents a person from
indecency and from sin, and the remembrance of
Allah is the greater part of it. I
mean, there's a number of meanings of what
means, but indeed, the one of the meanings
is indeed the fact that you're remembering Allah
in the salat is is is the greatest
part. It's the Akbar part of the salat,
and that's only possible
in silence and in stillness. So this is
a great
honor and a great,
Fadwa and grace of Allah that we have
this month, and that we have the salat,
and that we,
have the ability to
perform it in silence and in stillness,
with nobody coming, with nobody going, with none
of the commotion,
the 8 rakah parking lot, and the 20
rakah, none of that stuff,
has given us bara'ah from that,
so that we can attempt to make the
remembrance of Allah
Ta'ala.
Fariduddin Athar
has
a small nazm with regards to
the virtues of silence.
He says that, he says,
That the the the job, the occupation
of a person of a kal is to
stay silent.
And the the occupation
of a jahil, of an ignorant person, is
to forget.
And the forgetfulness here the meaning of forgetfulness
is not necessarily somebody who has a bad
memory. Because fine, if I say, hey, what's
the atomic weight of sodium? You know? I
don't know. Do you know?
I know, but that's because I'm a little
bit of a chemist or chemistry geek. If
you ask me what, like, h is, maybe
I wouldn't know. And you're the physics guy,
and you'd nail me on that. Right? Hbar
or whatever. Right?
So
that's not what what's being talked about here.
Here, the the
the forgetfulness is what? It's the opposite
of that a person should have the remembrance
of Allah in their heart, and they're distracted
from it even if they know it memorized
the entire periodic table and all of the
universal constants, by heart,
that forgetfulness voids and destroys the the the
point of all the rest of the forgetfulness.
And a person who remembers Allah, you know,
they can always pull out the periodic table.
That's not a big deal. They can take
a look at it. That's not that's not
what forgetfulness is. So,
for the,
I wanted to,
take a look at a number of texts
that I prepared for,
for this purpose through the month. The first
one I wanted to look at was actually
a,
a Malek effect text
by the name of the Matan al Akhwari.
And for those of you who are like,
what have I gotten stuck in? I'm not
Maliki, and he's gonna force me to read
this. The point of this is that the
introduction the introductory part of it, we're not
gonna read the fiqh part. The part, Insha'Allah,
you can read during the rest of the
year. The introductory part of the text is,
basically,
has, like, a page and a half of,
like, what every
every person needs to know in order to
have their head on straight.
And people have treated these types of things
as, like, the parsley of, like, ilm, like,
the part of the meal that you throw
out and then you eat the steak or
whatever. And the the fact of the matter
is that these are the things that are
the the the the the the framework through
which a person will,
have the the knowledge be beneficial
to them. Because in the first sippara, in
the first, we read about, Iblis
and his,
shenanigans, his antics that got him also thrown
out of Jannah. And unlike Sadna Adam alaihis
salam, he's not going back.
And,
the idea is what is that people have
obsessed themselves with information now to the point
where,
you know, Muslims also will go to somebody
who doesn't even believe in Allah and take
their word for what, the deen is and
what it isn't over that of, the people
who are actually practitioners of the deen,
because of a sickness that's in their heart,
which is very Iblisian. And when I say
Iblisian, it doesn't mean that they're murdering people
or committing zinai in the streets or whatever.
Although we'll get to that one by one
day at some point. But in the beginning,
what is it? It's just this arrogance that
you think that just because I know something,
or I think I know something, that it
obviates,
the need for the ilm to,
manifest itself in some useful way inwardly and
outwardly. So it's a small tract. I wanted
to read it. We're obviously not gonna get
through the entire thing today, but,
I wanted to,
read it and, InshaAllah,
get through it in the next couple of
days, InshaAllah.
So he says, all praises to Allah, the
Lord of the worlds. And may the peace
and blessings
of Allah be upon our master, Sayed Muhammad,
the seal of the prophets
and the imam of those who were sent
with God's message. This is the first thing
that a legally
responsible person is obliged to do is to
correct their iman.
And so we see already off the bat,
this is why
you should probably take the tahawiyah.
And this is why the first chapter of
the rasala is, is aqidah.
And,
this is why,
you know, this is why,
Sheikh Amin also has
spent so much of his time,
in in the study and the teaching of
Aqidah, and so many people have turned their
back on it.
And people say dumb things like, oh, it's
so complicated, and you know, the Aqidah of
a Muslim is simple that we just believe
in 1 God. Okay. Yeah. All of that
is great. Wonderful.
The thing is that a person has to
correct their iman.
If they're praying their whole life and they
have like, Masha'allah, 5 foot long beard, and
they're wearing a Kaab, and Hijab, and Jilbab,
and kebab, and all these other things.
It's not it's not gonna it's not gonna
help, if what's inside is fasid. And what
what the meaning of tasihullah,
iman is what? Is if you have a
doubt in your heart
that I'm just doing this because the imam
in my master is a pious guy, and
like he looks like a good guy, and
so I'm gonna just do what he says.
Or because, you know, I can't get a
ristah if I don't. Or because, you know,
no one's gonna marry me if I don't.
Or if, you know,
who knows, you know, if I die, you
know, I don't think anything is gonna happen.
But if Allah is there, so I should
already be prepared and things like that. If
a person has all of these things, or
any of these things inside of their head,
then the first thing they have to do
is correct it.
And so people have this idea that the
tradition is like,
just shut up and do it, and don't
think about it. And,
you know, all of our pre modern texts
are against that. Yes. If you're an 8
year old child,
how old are you? 7. Okay. If you're
7 years old. Okay. You may not have
all that many objections. So there's no need
to go through, like, really long through all
of these things.
There's no need to, like, self
flagulate yourself with dumb objections that you don't
have naturally.
But if you have an objection, if you
grow up and you're like, hey. You know,
I've been doing this Islam thing for a
while and this thing never made sense to
me, you know, and I just don't get
it, then that's not a failure of Islam.
That's your job. Your salat, your siyam, your
zakat, your just to figure that out first.
And then afterward, you know, proceed with with
with what's next. And so if a person
is like, well, the dean didn't teach me
this, it didn't teach this. It's your own
it's your own it's your own responsibility to
figure it out. That's why all that I
created you. That's why he gave you money
and made you good looking and, you know,
gave you a car and made you so
smart and all of that other wonderful stuff.
So you figure all of that stuff out.
So that's the first thing that a person
has to do before making wudu and all
these other things.
Then afterward,
a person has to know the knowledge with
regards to that which by which they rectify
their individual,
individual obligations,
like the, rulings with regards to prayer and
with regards to ritual purification and with regards
to fasting.
So that's the number 2. And there are
so many places a person can do it.
Darul Islam,
Darul
Qasim,
you know,
Daral, you know, there's a 1000000 and 1
places a person can go to. And if
there isn't, then get in your car or
walk to somewhere that you do. Again, that's
your next thing that you have to do,
before,
obsessing about how you should move your finger
in the shahudur and any of these other
things. Or getting into like huge Facebook disputes
about what you think about a particular TV
show. Or, you know, what your idea is
about a certain political candidate or whatever. That
stuff is all just nonsense. It's just a
circus. It's gonna keep going on again and
again until you die. And then you'll have,
like like, your
sahifa will be filled with circus. And unfortunately,
circus doesn't do anything for you on the
day of judgment.
And so the people who chased after the
dunya, at least they enjoyed themselves and they
knew that they're going to take a beating
on that side. Whereas there's a lot of
people who just followed the circus and thought
they were doing something for the deen, and
they really didn't.
And so then he says
And it is an obligation on the person
that the limits Allah has placed on them,
that they should stop
before transgressing them.
That the commandment of Allah should make you
stop and the stop what you're doing, and
the prohibition of Allah should make you stop
what you're doing.
And that a person, should repent to Allah
That a person should
repent to Allah turn back toward Allah before
Allah becomes angry with them.
Which means what? The anger of is not
like, you know, like with with you and
me, you know, you poke a person once,
twice, three times. You get angry, stop poking
me. That's not what, the anger of Allah
is. Allah when he's pleased with somebody, that
means he's pleased with them forever. And if
Allah gets angry with someone, that means he
gets angry with them forever. That a person
shouldn't do something so stupid that after their
doesn't help them, after
their
none of these things help that person afterward.
And that person just becomes, you know, they're
just like like the the only difference between
them and Abu Lahab is that Abu Lahab
at least has a surah about him. Otherwise,
they're in the same boat.
And and this is, something that people should
fear from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And he mentions this in clarity. In fact,
this is probably for today's lesson. The the
I mean, I didn't wanna,
like, trash the other,
part of what he said. This is the
the the one lesson the sentence that I
wanted to,
get from today's lesson and and share with
myself and with other people. That he he
mentions that a person should repent to Allah
before Allah becomes angry with him,
or her. And as long as you're repenting
and you're struggling with your sins, Allah is
not gonna be angry with with with you.
Once you take it for granted,
and you stop struggling, then the door is
open and it could happen at any time.
He says that the conditions of a Tawba
of valid repentance is that a person should
feel bad about what happened and that a
person should intend not to go back to
the sin,
and for the rest of their life,
and that a person should stop doing that
sin in that very hour,
If that person is actually doing it right,
if
they're wearing that sin right now,
like literally, if they've donned that sin as
their garb,
they should stop it right away.
And,
look,
the condition of is that a person should
make intention not to go back to it.
It doesn't necessarily mean that if a person
goes back to the Tawba is invalid.
But they should at least have the intention
not to go back. So how convenient is
it on the first night of Ramadan to
make an intention not to go back to
sin? It's really hard to go back to
sin right now. It's very easy to make
this intention.
Rather than that making the Tawba cheap, that
means that the toba is like very easy
for a person to make. So you'd just
be a person would be just kinda dumb
not to do that.
And so he mentions in the last,
the last, sentences, and it's not permissible. It's
just in and of itself a sin to
delay Tawba. It's not permissible for a person
to delay their repentance.
He says that, that he says, don't let
anyone say,
oh, I I'll make, Tawba when Allah guides
me.
People say stuff like this. Don't say it.
And I literally for right now, you are
addicted to heroin. If you don't shoot up
heroin one more time, you'll die.
You you know you know, like, some addictions,
like, alcohol is actually like that with some
people too. People who quit alcohol, cold turkey,
they'll literally die. Right? So imagine a person
who's addicted to heroin like that. If they
don't shoot up one more time, they'll die.
Okay?
Let the person at least
say right now, I don't wanna do it.
If I go back to it, I'm going
to reduce the dose in order to, like,
get done. Make a plan in your head
whether or not you think that there's a
chance for that plan to come together. Right?
Make a plan in your head in order
to do something. It's like it's like for
example, like a plane is crashing.
A person will
look for the emergency exit. They'll look for
the the the, they'll look for their flotation
device. They'll they'll try to make a plan
even if there's a possibility that the plane
might crash and all of it's a waste
of time. Why? Because you would be stupid
not to to
at least plan for the one possibility of,
like, surviving this wreck.
But why is it that the the the
the
the the the life that is limited,
a person will do that for it, but
nobody will do it for the life that
lasts forever. So he mentions this. He says,
don't be one of those people who's like,
oh,
that, you know, I'll make tawba when Allah
guides me. You know? I'll make tawba when
Allah Allah guided you right now. Just make
the tawba. Even if you know that you
can sustain this toba for the next 30
seconds and, like, afterwards, it's gonna become very
perilous and difficult, then at least for those
30 seconds, live like a Muslim. Who knows?
You know? The barakah of those 30 seconds,
maybe all that I will answer your answer
your prayers. Maybe all that I will take
you in those 30 seconds and the and
the the seal of of being a a
a one of the repented will be,
put on top of you. And even if
even if you're even if you dispense with
all of those things, this idea of a
person saying that I'll make tobu when Allah
guides me. He says, Just the fact that
a person would say that is from the
signs of a person being wretched, and the
signs that Allah plans to send such a
person to the fire and a sign that
Allah has blinded that person.
Alright?
Right? And literally, it's it's it's the the
the text of the Quran.
Says about the kuffar, if we wish to,
we we would strike their, eyes,
blight their eyes.
And so they'll, like, search around and try
to find the path to go down.
A rhetorical question, how are they gonna be
able to see anything? If if their eyes
are struck, they're blinded, how are they gonna
be able to see anything?
Now
why a person may say, I know all
of this stuff. Why why is this being
mentioned? These are the things that a person
should know before even
getting into the Facebook fights much as before
learning about, like, how many arkhan there are
or how
to pray their salat properly or, like, you
know, how many, you know, what's the proper
way in my madhhab of praying with her
and, like, you know, no other way is
valid. I have to repeat my prayer after.
Any of those things. Those things are all
wonderful.
Right?
I I love all those things also. Right?
But this is one of those things we
have, like, a ommah people.
A good percentage of them can competently get
through the prayer from beginning to end, but
almost none of them have listened to these
things. And those who have listened to them
are some sort of, like, elite. They don't
mention these things to one another. This idea
of, like, you know, just a simple thing
of the that a person, it's it's a
it's a sin to delay their toba,
and it's a sign of being of being
deprived of the divine grace that a person
would even say that, you know, I'll make
when Allah guide. Allah already guided you. You
already know it's it's wrong. Just say I'm
not gonna do it again. Just try your
best. If you know you're not gonna be,
you know people are like, oh, look. What
a joke. So and so made a toba.
What a joke. They're not even gonna last
5 minutes. Oh, you lost 5 minutes then.
Do it for 5 minutes. Is 5 minutes
better than than than than,
you know, than anything else? Who knows from
the barakah of those 5 minutes what Allah
would doors a person, Allah will open for
them. So Allah
make us from amongst those people
who He guides and make us from amongst
those people who accept and submit to these
things that tap out in the in the
face of Allah's hook them and his command.
Even if we're not really very good at
it, but that we keep trying again and
again, until Allah
gives us,
gives us tawfiq,
that Allah guide us that we not be
from the ones that will will repent when
Allah guides us, but that we repent from
this very moment and who knows from his
father and from his grace where he'll take
us.