Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 2 Ramadn Late Night Majlis Salik’s Enemies 03122024
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As for the one who fears the day
of standing in front of his lord and
forbids his soul, its vain desires. Verily,
paradise shall be his eternal abode.
The or the
forbidding of the nafs, its desires is the
of the nafs.
Struggle
is done against an enemy. The 4 principal
enemies of every salic to Allah
are the nafs, a person's own
self, their lower and more base desires,
and the shaitan,
the satanic
in insinuation which drives a person
purposely,
constantly toward kufr, toward disbelief in Allah
Whereas the naf drives a person constantly toward
arrogance.
Will,
through a predictable
hierarchy of
through a predictable hierarchy
of tricks.
Push a person toward Kufr if they're if
he's able to, and if not, toward
sin and decency.
And if not, to abandon
acts of obedience and good things that a
person does that are of benefit.
And if he cannot do that, he will
just bother a person and make it harder
for them to do whatever they're
trying to do. The third principle enemy,
of a of the Saliq is the dunya.
The dunya that doesn't allow a person
time or space or
ability
to do the things that they,
need to in order
to rectify their
relationship with Allah
make their saluk.
And, the 4th is
the,
the
vain desire of a person or the
intrinsic,
disposition that a person has to do things
that don't really make sense,
to
act
on things that don't make sense, that are
not in conformance with the apple, with the
with the intellect,
rather to do things just for the sake
of doing them.
And we have now,
a great number of people who have,
made into their way of life. It's their
love.
It's,
something that they wanna push just for the
sake of pushing it. I remember
when I,
I worked at a Islamic charity
Islamic charity,
there was a guy in the in one
of the departments
who didn't seem very Islamic at
all. And,
I remember he put up a post,
saying that it's time for all of us
to get together and fight against Sunni supremacy
and to center voices of Shia
and,
Ahmadiyya and the nation of Islam and this
and that in order to thwarts bigoted Sunni
supremacy.
And I was like, this makes no sense
whatsoever
because
the one thing that Shias and
and
nation of Islam and all of these groups
have is to agree to disagree. They don't
even themselves rationally fit in with one another
altogether.
But this is a sickness that happens inside
a person when their aqal is so hated
by them.
It's so hated by them that it's no
longer,
no longer a trusted wazir
or a trusted minister
of the heart rather it's the most despised,
citizen of the kingdom and the faculties of
the entire kingdom are used to
despair and derange,
and, detract from the Akkal. Even the Akkal
itself is used against itself,
as we see in stupid and incoherent,
statements like this.
And so a person has to make against
that, and everybody likes doing something for the
sake of doing it. Everyone's done something dumb
in the past when asked why did you
do it.
They say, well, I don't know.
I just did it.
Did it make any sense? Can you explain
what benefit you got out of it? No.
So these are the 4 principal enemies of
the salic toward Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And a person's
is what is a fight against all of
them.
Now when we say
you're fighting against yourself, so it doesn't look
like you're fighting against anyone at all because
the entire battle is
theoretically happening internally. But it is a a
a separation or segmentation of a person's spiritual
makeup, and you fight against it. And again,
like I said from before, you'll never completely
kill your nafs if you do that suicide.
You'll, like, actually die. But,
you at least have to subjugate it to
the point where it doesn't have the upper
hand.
Just like that until the, return of Sayidna'eesa
alayhi salam, the people of this Ummah will
never have completely the upper hand over the
people of disbelief.
But there have been times in the past
and there will be times by Allah Subha
in the future also where the kuffar are
subjugated to the point where they're no longer
allowed allowed to or able to meddle with
the affairs of the Muslims to such a
point that they, that they
places in in the book.
The person who,
fears the standing in front of his lord
and forbids his nafs,
from his.
Indeed,
Jannah, is from its vain desires. Indeed, Jannah
will be his eternal abode.
So, narrates from the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
Allah says,
when my slave,
draw near to me by a hand's breath,
I shall come to him a cubit. So
hand's breath is from the tip of
the middle finger
to the wrist.
So if my slave comes to me, a
hand's breath, I will come to him a
cubit. Cubit is from the tip of the
finger until the
elbow. So it's many times longer.
And if my slave comes to me a
cubit,
then I come to him in arm span.
Arm span is, roughly in most
more normally formed human beings roughly equivalent
to the height of the person.
And if he comes to me walking, I
come to him running.
So this
second, the second
text,
from the Kitab and Sunnah that we look
at indicates to us something that the point
of
is not necessarily in general,
whoever the enemy is, whether he's internal or
external.
Whether, it's purely in one saluk or it
has some sort of other
societal or civilizational,
import
That whatever whatever
the jihad the person is waging is,
the point of it is not necessarily that
you're just killing something, but you're giving something
up in order to get something better. That
a person sacrifices or goes through some difficulty
and what Allah gives a person back in
its
place
is much more than what a person gave
up. So it's in your interest.
It's in your interest. It's in your interest
to come,
and make mujahada in these nights in Ramadan.
Why? Because
The person who stands these nights in prayer,
meaning in particular, the salat of Tara we
whoever stands these nights in prayer, Ramadan,
Allah
and hope in in
in faith in Allah and hope for reward
from him. Allah to Allah will forgive,
whatever came before,
in sin. So you do something
and you get something much bigger back. That's
the point of, all of this.
And the the third text,
that that,
I wanted to share for tonight's
portion,
was,
from Sayid Nabu Hurei radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
and it's a narration of Muslim.
So, Sayidina Abu Hurair, radiAllahu, who's a hadith,
both the Bukhari and Muslim.
He narrates that the prophet said that the
hijab
that, covers the fire is every desire a
person has.
So it looks like your desires you follow
your desires. You come closer and closer to
them until once you actually embrace your layla,
you'd find out that she's the hellfire.
And the hijab of Jannah is what?
All those things that are disliked by nafs.
The nafs dislikes death. The nafs dislikes,
going without. The nafs dislikes hunger and thirst,
and it dislikes silence, and it dislikes obscurity,
and and it dislikes,
not having status amongst people, and it dislikes
all sorts of things.
But those things are the the the hijab
and jilbab and khimar
and niqab and burqa'avwat
of Jannah, that a person will keep doing
those things with the aim of the the
pleasure of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, and they'll
keep fighting against the thing inside them that's
telling them that you're a loser, you're wasting
your time, you're you're wasting opportunity, you're destroying
your life, you're wasting your life, etcetera.
A person will keep suppressing and and and
fighting against that voice
by doing these things that,
bring them closer to Allah to Allah until
what? Until when they embrace their layla, then
they enter Jannah. That's that's what the nateja
and the the result of that is.
And,
says that,
it's hajibat, the word of hijab is used
from the narration of Bukhari,
whereas it's huffat, it's kind of surrounded,
which is the word that's used in Muslim.
It says that they effectively mean the same
thing.
And,
those are the 2
those are the the the the 2 narrations
of,
of the 2 Sahihain.
Allah give us to fear the Rasulullah
Alaihi Wasallam.
If you look at his own life, a
person who wants to follow the sunnah of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, a person who
wants to follow
the tasul of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
look and you'll see
that that you make sense
of those things that were,
that were done by the prophet
through the lens
of this, that we celebrate.
That we celebrate, in our the cultural manifestation
of our.
So, you know, people say, and,
I'd like to go to spiritual things that
are not so dry. Right? So let's go
to.
Why not? Let's go to.
Modi Hamza also likes.
Right?
I have transgressed the sunnah of the one
who gave,
life to in prayer to the night to
the point where his 2 Mubarak feet, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, will swell with edema.
That he,
he tied
stones to the side of his stomach
in order
to what ward off the pangs of of
hunger.
And in particular, right, there's a story of
the handak, which is
Remember we say people try to, like, separate
the 2 of them. Then it's all the
same. It's all the same thing. They're different
flavors of the same thing.
And so
what are they doing? They're digging the ditch,
which is really hard. And the enemy is
coming. It's hard physical labor. And the companions
will be allah one who haven't eaten or
drank or whatever, and they're digging this ditch
and they're under, like, a a clock because
this huge army is gonna come and,
like, basically raise Medina to the ground and
killed all the men and enslaved the women
and children. And so they have to dig
the ditch very quickly.
And,
and there's nothing to eat, there's nothing to
drink, and they're like, hey, aren't we supposed
to be like God's chosen people because we're
the only ones who carry tawheed and these
guys are all idol worshipers and supposedly God
hates all that stuff and whatever. Right?
Which is very interesting. It's a very pagan
like line of thinking.
The The idea that somehow just because I'm
not happy somehow does it means God doesn't
exist. Well, God maybe God exists and he
doesn't want you to be happy. I don't
know like you know what I mean? It's
a very pagan line of thinking but it
affects people. Shaitan brings it to people and
pagans eat it for breakfast. In fact, Christians
eat it for breakfast all day. This idea
that somehow God doesn't love you, you know,
it's a sign that God doesn't love you
because you're not making money or whatever. There's
a whole, like, theology of America has been
built on this. They even say it to
this day. They're like, oh, if God really
loves Gaza, like, then how come it's getting
bound into the ground? And if, look, God
loves the Muslims. How can we won such
and such a battle? I don't know. Maybe
because you're homicidal maniacs and God wants you
to go to *. This is not a
argument. You know? Bring some sort of moral
argument, some sort of argument based in virtue.
Don't bring the dunya as your argument,
with regards to the higher realm. But at
any rate, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he, you know, they they said, well, aren't
we God's chosen people? And, you know, like,
look, you know, we're so hungry that we
have stones tied to our stomachs in order
to stave off the hunger. And the messenger
of Allah said, this Mubarak shirt and there
are 2 stones that are are tied to
it. Now you tell me,
as wonderful as the is,
have you heard me saying bad about it
in this or any other majlis? No. Right?
As wonderful as it is, what's the point
of singing it if you don't wanna, like,
even forget about doing it. Okay? Things
to do things is difficult. A lot of
things the prophet did, I'm not doing them
either. So, you know,
you
can kind of, like, very easily rip me
back if I if I go down that
line. I'm just saying why do why don't
we cultivate it? Why don't we celebrate it?
Why don't we at least make dua to
Allah ta'ala?
Right?
Make dua
like a like a long shot dua that
that give me these things.
No. Rather, we don't want them. We actively
don't want them. And so it's a it's
a a a a a a deep
and destructive defect in our iman that we
neither cultivate these things nor do we aspire
these things nor do we celebrate them. In
fact, even when we read the
the verses,
we intentionally don't really talk about what that
means. We don't quote it and, you know,
we use very nice voices to, you know,
recite it with one another, but we don't
ever talk about. We don't ever quote it
in our day to day life, which is
kind of what literature is supposed to be
for. Right? It's supposed to kind of be
a reflection of
your own experiences in life, but somebody else
said it in words better than you. We
don't use it or inter inter inter intersperse
it into our
own daily lives and in our into our
own daily practices.
Right? Then Muhammad
and the rest of the more well known,
verses that every day he has probably heard
on PTV at some point or another. Right?
That, that the that he was the one
what was his
That the,
the mountains, they tried to seduce him
by,
saying, if you like, we can be returned
to gold for you.
But he was the one who showed them
who the real mountain is.
That that was his that was Mujahda against
the dunya that he was offered all of
these things and he didn't take them. And
who's offering them? Allah, not shaitan.
You and me, Shaitan is like, hey, you
know, like, $5
an hour extra, you know, at work and
just, you know, go and sell your honor
and dignity. Sure. Sounds like a deal. $5
an hour, that means, like, after, like, 3
years, I'll be able to, like, you know,
pay my home off, like, you know, several
payments earlier or whatever. Right? This is not
shaitan offering him the,
the the dunya rather Allah to Allah, but
still Allah to Allah wanted to show something
to the Ummah through it. That you don't
need those things in order for stuff to
happen.
You need who? Allah.
And his
his own aestheticism, his own,
emphasized
that,
that that
there isn't you but you have necessity.
But the the Shire,
Busir
says that that that the temptation of necessity
cannot
attack
successfully attack what infallibility.
Right? The rasulullah was almost completely incorruptible. So
these types of things they don't work on
him
And so you see that in his life.
He used to do things like he used
to stand in the night in prayer even
though it wasn't far until his feet would
swell. He used to go through hunger, he
used to fast, and And he used to
go out in the path of Allah and
fight even though people would have fought on
his behalf.
He He said that my my
risk, my,
my provision
was placed for me in the shade of
my spear,
which is very interesting because the spear is
not the
weapon of the elite classes of soldiers rather
it's the weapon of the
of the,
the lowest rank of infantry.
Why? Because the the shaft of the spear
is made out of wood. It's cheap. The
metal is the expensive part. The sword is
expensive. Even to this day, if you think
it's expensive to get a sword nowadays, imagine
how difficult it must have been back in
the old days when they didn't have
modernized manufacturing,
means at their disposal,
and they didn't have techniques that are now
known to people, at their disposal
and the
access to just ridiculous amounts of raw material
from the world that are subsidized because of
slavery and theft.
It was very difficult. A good sword was
very hard to come by and, they would
be used and survived for generations and generations,
and they would be repaired and and used
again if something happened to them. But even
then the prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he had armor,
he had a helmet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he had,
he had swords, many swords, not just one,
he had many swords, alayhis salatu waslam which
were named. He had a bow sallallahu alayhis
salam. He had the entire the entire kit
of gear,
and he bought it with his own with
his own money and he Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam, kept a riding beast. All of
these things he kept them ready and he
practiced them and he trained them and he
went out in the path of Allah ta'ala
and he had the patrician amongst his companions.
The the noblemen amongst his companions all of
them did it and he encouraged people to
do so and he talked about the reward
of all of those things.
And so,
see how these things they all these pieces
they fit together. The person who tries to
separate them one from the other that person
has done an injustice and a disservice to
the sunnah of the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. Look through his Mubarak
life, the Mahazi that he participated
in, the battle of Badr, the battle of
the Fathav Makkah Tabuk,
the in Hamra, and then after the day
of of of Badr,
the the siege of the handak, the battle
of Hunayn which is mentioned in the book
of Allah ta'ala. Look at his fana. You
wanna talk about his sufic virtue.
That Allah Ta'ala, he took away from the
prophet
his action and he attributed it to himself.
So that you are not the one who
threw when you threw it but Allah is
the one who threw, which is an honor
that Allah ta'ala attributed the action of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to himself.
And it's an honor above the other prophets
even though Allah ta'ala says,
that Allah said that we read the verse
tonight
that that David slew Goliath.
But when it comes to the battles of
the prophet that you didn't threw when you
threw. Rather, Allah is the one who threw.
This is, Fana.
This is the same Fana that all
the goofed up and tooty, fruity,
fresh and fruity,
Sufis talk about
with their, like, weed smoking circles.
They talk about,
you know, like, you know, down, down, down.
Let's play the whatever and everything. Right? But
the context where's the context?
What's the point of talking about a person's
if they're
not going to be able to show it,
in the midan of, of, between
Haqq and between Baathil.
Right? We're not talking about, like,
Machiavellian
politics,
but we're talking about what in the defense
of the weak
and the defense of the the the helpless,
the defense of women and children and orphans,
those people who have nobody to protect them,
those people who are,
and all of those things that we hold
sacred. If a person cannot stand up for
those things, then they really are a weak
person. If they at least acknowledge their weakness,
there's still some good in them. But if
they're gonna pretend like somehow that's their what
they're doing is a genuine thing and what
the people who have the strength to stand
for the sake of Allah and they expend
and they sacrifice their strength for Allah to
Allah's sake, that person is doing the work
of Shaytan. Why? Because they are empowering
the people of Baatil by,
disbarring anybody from vying against them. And such
people are a curse. And such people, no
matter how beautifully they recite the Quran,
they're not reciting the Quran. The form is
that of the Quran, but it doesn't go
anywhere
beneath their throat. And they're singing a lullaby
Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's Sunnah and you
understood something about his fiqh and that of
his companions radiallahu anhu, you would know that
they trained themselves, they struggled, they trained themselves,
they denied, they fought their their their nafs,
its desires, they fought their enemies internally to
the point where they had a grip then
on their external enemies.
And, it's something that's missing. It's something that
we need to revive in ourselves. And we
start with this,
If the enemies of Islam knew what it
was, they would
send their, missiles and their, drones and their
target,
heat seeking
weapons against it, but they're completely blind.
Made them what
made them completely blind
in this world and they're he's going to
make them literally blind in the hereafter that
they don't know that this is where these
things come from.
It's not just only for getting out of
speeding tickets. Rather, Allah says that we put
a barrier in front of them and a
barrier behind them, and we've covered them over,
and they're not able to see. They have
no vision whatsoever. They're not able to see,
what's going on. So to
the person who made it to
and to the person who fasted on this
day and fought against their nafs,
not looking at the thing they shouldn't have
looked at and not
listening to the thing they shouldn't listen to
and not talking about the thing that there's
no benefit in talking about, not tasting the
thing that they shouldn't taste. May Allah accept
your your
and may Allah return,
in Baraka from it, such a imam that
you taste the sweetness of it in your
heart and give you the of doing such
deeds that are worthy of, a person of
the Ummah of Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.