Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 15 Ramadan Late Night Majlis Abu Bakr ii Addison 04162022
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The importance of proactive support for Halal Advocates and Halal advocates is emphasized, along with the need for people to do more to achieve their goals. The speakers emphasize the importance of proactive support for Halal advocates and promoting them through social media, as well as the importance of not giving things in a haphazard way and not giving things in a haphazard way to waste money. The importance of standing firm and not letting things happen when it is just a matter of what is right or wrong is emphasized, along with the need for people to be strong and firm in their actions to avoid conflict and avoid the need for fear or hesitation.
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Forgive
and have mercy, and you are the best
of those who have
mercy.
In some ways, this is the end of
the first half or or possibly even the
inflection point,
of Ramadan.
We have come very close to or possibly
have passed the halfway point of Ramadan.
So those who have any sort of intention
or idea to do something in this Ramadan,
well, now is the time to do it.
Otherwise, you're not gonna get a chance. So,
Allah
give us tawfiq that we get the money
of sadaqa that we, need to get out
out, that we say our prayers, that we
need to say, said we read our Quran,
we start, reading
through our adza and our sipas, that we
start saying our duas, that we start moving
our tasbi,
around because if you don't do it now,
it's not gonna happen.
Half of the Ramadan has passed. May Allah
give Tawfiq.
Before continuing with, our night's reading, I wanted
to mention
a couple of things. One is that the
work of the ummah doesn't happen by people
sitting around
and keeping their head down and being consumers
in their Islam. And by being a consumer
in your Islam, it doesn't work. It is
enough for salvation inshallah.
Hopefully, it's enough for salvation,
but it's not what the deen of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala is,
and it's not what will preserve,
Islam, that Islam that we all benefit from.
People oftentimes lament the follow the ummah
and wonder why it wasn't or it isn't
like it used to be in its glorious
past. And the fact of the matter is
is that the reason it's not like that
is because the,
people,
in the old days used to do service
with hopes that the people in generations afterward
would benefit from them and they would receive,
the adjar for it even after they entered
into their graves.
The people nowadays, they take the service and
they take and benefit from the,
services of those people who passed in the
past And, they're very miserly with the benefit
and they don't think about anybody else.
And, this is
a really really bad attitude to have.
So whatever institutions of Dean need to be
supported, support them.
Whether it be something as small as a
local effort, that that you need to have
done in your place, your local maktab,
your local scholars,
your local,
other simple things people don't think of. Masha'Allah.
Halal Advocates
is a
service that we've,
we've been putting out for the Muslims of
North America.
For those who listen from South Africa or
from England, it's like the
American,
attempt to, make a or an HMC,
in this, in this land.
Whatever those simple
services are that are necessary for a society
and a culture and a community to thrive
on
actual
Islam on not just I pray 5 times
a day and hide in my closet,
and
an incognito Muslim
but, that Islam that actually thrives and survives
because if you're not eating halal, you're not,
you're not really practicing your Islam,
in any way that, is something you can
be proud of.
That, those services, whatever they are, if you're
not able to read Alif Batatha, if your
community doesn't have a person that you can
call and contact and ask your questions,
If your community doesn't have somebody who you
can sit in their company and receive
not just guidance
because not everything is information,
but upliftment.
That you can come and have some sort
of spiritual upliftment,
have some sort of good company that that
affects the heart in a good way. If
you're not making those things happen, then your
Islam is on the decline
that,
that we
support those things anyway. And in this month
of Ramadan, whatever money you get out,
you go ahead and and and support those
those efforts in order to make this,
deen happen. Allah
give. If you wanna support Halal advocates,
you may do so by going to Hafsa
athfsaa.org.
Hfsaa.org.
No. I don't receive a commission or a
salary nor have I ever received any financial,
financial,
compensation for the work I've done with them.
And, it's funny that we have to mention
these things, nowadays because
people think, you know,
They think because I would never do anything,
in my life, except for for money that
everybody else is like you. Not everybody is
like you, Alhamdulillah.
There are people who do things for the
sake of and when we ask the money
for the money, so we can get the
projects done and take them further than we
did before.
Otherwise,
It's our attempt to see that all of
the services that we dispense that we don't
have pay to play for any of them,
whether it be like this one or whether
it be vikr, whether it be halakat, whether
it be question answer services, etcetera.
But, again,
life is interesting and it's a jungle out
there. And if it wasn't like that, it
wouldn't be a test and no one would
be able to claim that they did something
for the love of Allah to Allah if
it didn't require some sort of sacrifice.
So instead of having the model where society
is such that those people who give service,
burn out
and get thrown,
kept their get waterboarded, thrown underwater until they
drown, and then we're,
left with a society filled with, clowns that
only dance when you, pay them to.
Then we should probably take proactively those steps
in order to support those efforts.
And, in order to support those people and
in order to support those institutions that provide
meaningful,
work for us rather than waiting for YouTube
ads and for Facebook ads and for,
you know, $25
$50 $100 a head chicken dinners,
rubber chicken dinners, halal rubber chicken dinners,
in in which, you know, your favorite celebrity,
imam, who barely knows,
what cause they're raising money for,
comes because he was paid,
$4,000
or $10,000
to speak at that,
event
and,
you gave, you know, $50,000
to the Marriott so you could raise $80,000
for whatever cause it was that you were
raising. There has to be a better way
than any of these things. And the cause
itself, then God knows, you know,
what oversight there is,
what benefit there is. If there's any sharia
oversight,
this is another problem. Everybody is saying that
they are zakath eligible and very few very
few causes are actually properly zakat eligible. Very
few of them even bother to know what
that means. Most of them, they in house,
certified themselves. I certify myself also that I'm
the, you know,
2,000 and,
17
Olympic,
100 meter dash champion,
and, you know, who said you know, what
what what's your proof? It's because I said
so I feel that way, And my research
tells me that I did win the 100
meter dash,
in the 2017
Olympics that were held in Crown Point, Indiana.
You know, instead of any of that nonsense,
just proactively give before someone forces you to
give something in pressure.
Use your brain and use your mind, use
your
heart,
and proactively support those things that need to
be promoted before being put in a corner
and getting hit up,
by a by a bandit or by a
highway robber.
Only to waste money and squander money,
in places that it's not efficient. And so
one might say, well, don't say it's a
waste or a squander. Yes. You know, spending
money in a way that's inefficient,
maybe there is some khair in it. But
everybody knows that, doing things the right way
is superior to doing things in a haphazard
way, and we would never accept haphazardness for
our own duniya.
Why should we accept it for the din?
So we continue
with this reading from the Tasgirah Mashal Hichisht,
about the life of Saidna Abu Bakr Siddiq
continues.
He is the very zenith of, the height
of a person's
model for how the journey to Allah to
Allah should look.
Having attained the pinnacle of divine proximity and
association,
in the very beginning of the Hijra, he
received this absolute announcement, which we mentioned yes
yesterday, which was that Allah praised him. He
says,
that he was the he was one of
the 2. The second of 2 was the
Rasool
when the 2 of them were in the
cave when he said to his companions
he said to his companions, said, Abu Bakr
Siddiq, do not
grieve.
Indeed Allah is with us.
Thereafter for 10 years he remained in the
companionship of the Nabi Akram, the most honored
prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
acting as times as his vicegerent and representative.
What can a humble man such as myself,
meaning Sheikh Zakaria,
in the 14th century, right of Sayid Nabu
Bakr Siddiq's excellences and lofty status.
Never can any pen render,
justice to this subject.
And, when, you know, he said that he
represented the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, it's
not only, it's not only in the salat,
in so many things in so many things.
Remember the first Hajj that happened in Islam.
The first Hajj that happened in Islam was
in the 9th year of Hijra. Rasulullah
did not attend to it personally.
Rather, the emir of Hajj was saying Abu
Bakr Siddiq
personally,
took the Imara of Hajj in his, last
year and he passes away,
very shortly
after that that Hajj
but the first time that Hajj was sent
out, said Nabu Bakr Siddiq who
was
was the Rasul's
representative in that as well. So you have,
2 pillars that the Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam by a very clear,
command that, he sent Abu Bakr Siddiq to
be his representative in them at times. You
see also then, zakat when the Rasool sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam passes from this world
and
the Arabs, from amongst them, there were those
who apostated,
and from amongst them, there were those who,
said that we're,
still Muslims,
but we're not gonna pray anymore. And from
amongst them, there are those who said we're
Muslims and we're gonna pray, but we only
paid zakat to the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. We're not gonna pay it
to you. Abu Bakr Siddiq radiallahu anhu said,
well, hey. If they give me even a
thong strap of a sandal less than they
used to give to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam in zakat, I'll declare war on
them.
And this was very shocking for the companions
radiAllahu anhu even said that Abu Bakr Siddiq
Radhila Said Naamr radiAllahu alfaruk
may Allah be pleased with him. He questioned
how can we fight a people who say
and,
he was chastised very harshly by Abu Bakr
Siddiq at this,
at this, statement.
And, Abu Bakr Siddiq radiallahuhan who said, are
you were you a tyrant in Jahiliya only
to be a coward in Islam?
And saying that Omar radiAllahuan who knew at
that point that I need to just stay
calm and just keep keep quiet. That this
is not something we're gonna argue about.
And so you see the salat of the
companions or the allahu on whom, the zakat
of the companions or the Allahu on whom,
the Hajj of the companions or the Allahu
on whom, and there's probably more than that.
But even
a unlearned person like me, just off the
top of my head, you see that these
are
very clear very clear indications of,
the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's very direct
representation
in these, pillars of deen without which Islam
no longer remains Islam.
Hadar Sheikh Zakariya
continues,
in his attributes and characters,
he was unique. On the occasion of the
Iritad,
of the leaving of,
of the certain tribes,
from Islam at the passing of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he displayed unparalleled courage which
stunned even the brave Umar radiAllahu Anhu had
cautioned against immediate action.
Rejecting the proffered advice of caution, Abu Bakr
Siddiq radiAllahu anhu taunted Omar for his indecisiveness
in dealing with the apostates, and he thus
said,
Islam, were you a tyrant in Jahiliyah only
to be a coward in Islam, like we
just mentioned.
Umar radiAllahu anhu's testimony is ample evidence for
the lofty status of Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu's
knowledge, virtue, generosity, munificence,
piety, forbearance, patience, humility, intelligence,
and expertise in the interpretation of dreams, and
knowledge of genealogy, prose and eloquence.
So you see, Mashallah, this is an important
point to pull up that, oftentimes people yak
on about their own.
Don't be so,
you know, so ready to trust your own
nafs.
The readiness to trust your own nafs itself
is a sign of stupidity and ignorance in
the spiritual path. If you're a learned person
and you studied a particular issue,
to the point where you feel like you've
reached
in that
issue, this also doesn't mean that, somehow you
you now are free from,
having the shadow of those more learned and
those pious,
and senior to you from over your head.
Here said no more
in this,
in this particular instance, the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam had already passed
and Omar Radiallahu Anhu his favail and his
virtues are so many,
from the bristle sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's own
mouth. We'll discuss them
shortly when we finish the chapter on Sayyidina
Abu Bakr Siddiq radiAllahu anhu. Suffice to say
that he was the one about whom the
messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that
if there was a Nabi that come after
me, it would have been Umar.
Yet, he understood that Abu Bakr Siddiq
knew more than him and so he held
his tongue at that occasion.
Why? Because trusting your nafs is something that
only stupid people do, and Umar
was not a stupid man.
He was a man who was very knowledgeable
about this spiritual path, and he truly was
worthy of being a Khalifa of the messenger
of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And for that reason,
he, in the presence of the one who
was senior to him, that was plainly senior
to him, he held his tongue and,
knew to prefer,
the opinion of Abu Bakr Siddiq over that
of himself.
Saidna Ali,
said whoever narrates a hadith to him, he
would take a precautionary measure and put the
narrator,
under oath except for Abu Bakr Siddeep, he
was far above this measure. Meaning that Sayna
Ali when someone would ask him a hadith
of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did the
Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam actually say this to
you? He would make him take an oath
by Allah that yes, he actually said this
to me except for Abu Bakr Siddiq. He
said that this man's station is so high
that there's no
you know, he's beyond, this making any difference
to him because he would never lie at
all in general and he would never lie
against Allah and his Rasool
This is actually something,
that's reported about Abu Bakr Siddiq
that he actually
had a compilation of
direct hadith that he heard from the messenger
of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
that he compiled
a collection of it and then he afterward
had it burned
because of because of his caution and his
taqwa and din for a number of reasons.
But this is
the this is the
the way of the elders of the Sahaba
radiAllahu on whom that they're extremely, extremely cautious
when it came to, what they would
what they would relate, on on the authority
of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam lest they get anything wrong.
This true and devoted companion and successor of
the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam embodied in himself
every excellence and qualification to the degree of
perfection.
A few anecdotes
pertaining to the abundance of his worship and
the force of his faith,
which in fact are the basis of the
tariqa of the Chishdis, will now be presented.
Ibnu Asaka records the narration of Ibn Sirin
in which appears that Abdurrahman, the son of
Abu Bakr radiallahu an who had not yet
embraced Islam, joined the Kuffar on the Battle
of Badr. On the day after he had
later embraced Islam, he said to his father,
and Badr, you are in my line of
action. Literally, you came under my sword several
times. However, being my father, I turned away
from you. In other words, although he was
in a position to slay his father, Abu
Bakr Siddiq, he did not do so due
to his
consideration of filial
piety, his piety toward his father.
Abu Bakr
upon hearing this replied,
if you had come in front of me,
I would not have hesitated to dispatch you.
That had you come under my sword once,
I would not have hesitated to kill you
at all.
And no Abu Bakr Sadiq radhiallahu anhu that,
you know, who is it that's saying this?
This is not like
a tough guy who speaks bombastically with people.
Abu Bakr Siddiq
is the one that said Aisha radiAllahu Anhu
is afraid
that if he's made imam,
he's so soft hearted, he's going to weep
so much, people are not going to be
able to make out his recitation of Quran.
But he's the one who said this to
his own son, and it wasn't for lack
of love of his family that he said
this.
Abu Bakr
who was originally a trader, according to historians,
he possessed 40,000 dinars.
Each dinar is a gold coin of approximately
4 grams.
You can do the math.
At the time of entering the fold of
Islam, he had 40,000
dinars.
He continued to spend his wealth for the
sake of Islam until finally he brought whatever
he had left to the messenger of Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam in a campaign for jihad in
the path of Allah. When the Nabi Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam inquired of the provisions that he
had left for his family, he replied, I
left for them Allah and His Rasool Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Saidna, Omar
who was always awaiting an opportunity to surpass
Abu Bakr Siddiq in an act of virtue.
On this particular day, he had brought along
with himself a considerable amount of wealth. Rasoolullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam asked him, what have you
left for your family?
Umar Radhiallahu Anhu replied he had left half
of what he owned for his family. The
other half was a contribution toward jihad in
the path of Allah Ta'ala.
He was under the impression that he would
surpass Abu Bakr's Siddiq, but on this day,
when he learned of Abu Bakr radiAllahu Anhu's
answer, he understood that he would never be
able to surpass him all the days of
his life.
Precisely on the account of these manifold excellencies
of Abu Bakr Siddiq radhiallahu anhu, did Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam say that besides Abu Bakr,
he had compensated the favors of everybody.
Any good that a person had done to
the Rasul SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, Rasul SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam in this life had already
recompensed them for the favors that were done
to him,
except for Abu Bakr. As for Abu Bakr's
favors to the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
on the day of judgement, only Allah will
recompense him.
Which is a great
testimony, which
is a great testimony, which is a great
testimony from the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, rank of Abu Bakr Siddiq. This is
why it chops me so hard when people
are
quick to dismiss the efforts, and quick to
dismiss the knowledge, and quick to dismiss the
iman of the companions radhiallahu anhu.
That someone comes 1400 years later and read
like a translation of Sahih Bukhari or whatever
translated
abridgment of Sahih Bukhari
and, or at least claims they did. Probably
didn't read it, either.
Read some part of the translation of, the
Quran,
which itself was a haplessly written translation.
And then afterwards starts to pontificate and speak
ill of the companions or the Allahu Anhu.
What type of mahrami? What type of spiritual
deprivation from the higher realm must a person
have inside their heart that they speak,
in such a in such a nonchalantly
ignorant way,
about the one who the messenger of Allah
sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam said.
As for everybody else's favor, I recompense them,
in in this world,
except all of them except for Abu Bakr
Siddiq radiallahu anhu.
His favors to me will be recompensed on
the day of judgment by Allah.
The strength of his imam.
Hafiz Ismaili,
Hafiz Ismaili is one of the canonical narrators
of Sahih Bukhari, and he's a great
he's a great,
Muaddith. If you read, for example, the fatrobar
of,
Hafiz ibn Hajar Askalani,
you'll see his name mentioned,
quite a bit. There are a number of
very interesting anecdotes about Hafiz Ismaili,
who used to be starkly anti Kalam,
in the beginning of his career after having
mastered hadith, only to have a very interesting
turnaround in his life, which was narrated by,
Abu Bakr, Ibn al Arabi, and then also
from through him by, Shataibi in his,
Ihtislam,
of how Hafez Ismaili,
learned to love the moteqalimin
and and accept their their their, method of
aqidah.
At any rate, we digress. Hafiz Ismaili narrates
that, Sayna Umar Radiallahu Anhu said,
when the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
passed away, the episode of apostasy occurred in
Arabia and the people of defective faith refused
to pay zakat.
I went to Abu Bakr and said, oh,
Khalifa of the messenger of Allah, be tender
with the people and win over their hearts.
Terror has struck them.' Abu Bakr Siddiq
replied, 'I was hoping for your aid.'
during the time of Jahiliyyah, you were very
strong and hard, but in Islam you have
become weak.
In which matter should I win over their
hearts? Should I win them over by means
of fabricating poetry or by bewitching them? Alas,
alas, the messenger of Allah has passed away
and Wahi has ceased. I swear by Allah,
I shall struggle against them as long as
I have in my hand the strength to
bear a sword.
If they withhold from me even a shoe
strap,
a sandal strap that they used to present
to the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, I will
surely fight them.
This,
shiraqunal
is a metaphor amongst the Arabs for something
of
pitiful value,
of small value.
Saeed Omar
who commented,
I found Abu Bakr firmer and stronger than
myself. He paved the path, and this simplified
for me, affairs during my own Khilafa.
And this brings up another
brings up another interesting point,
Which is that,
what people often times mistake for good character
is just being conflict averse.
There
are 95%
of times in your life where you should
avoid conflict.
Where you should be soft to people
and you should
be patient with people.
Every now and again in life, there are
certain situations
where it's a matter of wrong and right.
People know it's wrong and right. It's just
a matter of choosing what's wrong and right.
At that time,
if somebody
if somebody you find them
being weak wisted,
having a weak backbone,
and ready to capitulate when it's a issue
that's a very simple issue and it's plain
that it's wrong and right. It's not an
issue of ichtihad. It's not a difference between
the midaheb. It's not a difference of opinion.
It's not a political issue. No. It's just
straight up a wrong and right issue.
That people should know better.
And that there's no excuse for not knowing
any better. At that point, anybody who,
tries to water down your resolve, anybody who
tries to weaken your resolve in doing what's
right, that person, no matter what their intentions
are or what they think they're doing, they're
doing the work of shaytan. And they're not
good people to keep around you, especially at
times when you're vulnerable and in weakness and
you need firmness. On the flip side, when
it's time to make a a a a
a decision,
that requires
that requires firmness and resolve, those people who
back you up, know that those are your
companions to jannah. Just like when it's time
to keep calm, those people who keep calm
instead of, flying into
a flame,
burning fury,
that they keep you calm. There are people
who will help you to jannah just like
that. The people who help you keep your,
resolve firm.
When it's time to keep firm resolve, those
are the people you want to keep around
you. And, god help us. There are many
people who their entire, you know, their entire
thing is about
just watering things down and just sapping your
himma and your courage when it's time to,
stand firm.
And, they think that they're on something and
they're really on nothing. They think this is
akhlaq and it's just akhlaq of shaytan,
and it's not a good thing. It's not
a good thing.
And, look, if you don't know whether this
is one of those times to stand firm
or one of those times to,
circumnavigate,
that's fine to admit that. But there are
things that happen in life when people are
just doing things that are wrong,
and,
you just, you know, you just have to
make sure that you're on the correct side
of the line. And this is one of
those examples from the life of the companions
or the aloha on whom. Allata put them
through all sorts of different things.
And all of those, things that they were
put through, they've been, recorded and narrated and
related to us so we can know what
to do at what time. That when the
Bedouin is rude to the prophet
and he's and he grabs him by his,
shawl and says,
O Muhammad, what have you given for me
or whatever,
sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam
in such a rude tone as if he's
on a first name basis with the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
It was, an offense against the person of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam Rasool Allah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam forgave it.
But when it's an issue that has to
do with halal and haram,
then there's no softness in these things.
There's no softness in these things. This sharia
doesn't belong to your uncle, or to my
uncle, to your mamu, or to my mamu.
That we can, say, okay, well this person,
let's just cut them some slack in this
and that person will cut them slack in
the other thing or whatever.
Yes. If there is slack to be cut,
ask the
Yes. If there is a different, interpretation from
someone's words, take the charitable interpretation.
At the end of the day, however,
if people are standing for things that are
just open and shut wrong,
anybody who tries to water down your, firm
resolve in saying the hack and saying the
truth and stopping from stopping people from doing
what's wrong. Those people are doing nothing but
the work of shaythan even if they think
they're, themselves,
doing something good and doing something beautiful and
have the most beautiful of intentions. May
Allah protect us and save us. And this
is also part of the of
the Abu Bakr that
he was a true faith one. He had
enough knowledge to be able to discern, the
difference between one and the other, and he
had enough faith to stand even though nobody
else stood with him. May Allah
give us from the favor of his hal.
Obviously, we cannot be like him, but we
can get something that, that Allah gave him
by the barakah of Almaru Muhammad Ahabba. That
if you love him inside of your heart,
Allah Ta'ala will give you a little bit
of, of what he gave him.
And such people, again, these people were like
rivers of,
of of of of Nur. And if even
1 or 2 drops splash on, people like
myself,
people who are in darkness and people who
are in ignorance and people who are in
confusion,
1 or 2 drops of these rivers of
nur, if they splash on us, we also
become light. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make
us from the fortunate ones.