Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 21 Ramadan 1443 Late Night Majlis Ibn Al Hajj Ghazali And Khatam Dua Addison 04222022
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Alhamdulillah.
By Allah's father, we've reached this Mubarak 21st
night of
Ramadan,
the first night of the last 10 odd
nights.
Rasool Allah
was asked by our mother
said,
If we feel like this might be,
what should we what should we do? What
should we say?
And he said
ask Allah
Oh, Allah.
You are the one who forgives,
so entirely and so completely,
And you love such a complete forgiveness,
so forgive us completely.
So this is the word of the in
these nights
that the one who loves Allah and Allah
loves
him, the person will repeat this dua
with sincerity
and with humility
and with
desperation in front of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah, you are
the one who loves,
you're the one who forgives completely and you
love,
such a complete forgiveness, so forgive us likewise
completely.
And so I was reading from the Mad
Khala of Ibn Hajj.
Ibn Hajj is the grand sheikh of Khalil.
He is a great Maliki scholar
of,
Mamluk, Egypt,
and
he
was
a man who was very focused on
the correct observance of the sharia and the
correct following of the deen
and preventing
zany and kooky
Bida'at,
or impais heretical innovations from watering down
people's deen.
Because
what happens is many of the customs of
the sharia,
the
people
pervert them in such ways that
makes them
perhaps fancy
and perhaps attractive to people,
but also causes them to lose
whatever benefit
that was intended through them. So he wrote
this book,
taking the air out of the tires of
all of these kind of weird bila'at of
his time. Some of which, persist to this
day, some of which were unique to that
time, some of which are actually a lot
worse nowadays.
And so I was reading what he had
to say about the the duas,
for the katham night.
And he actually has a lot to say
about about them and he wasn't a real
big fan of the
ceremonialization
of the katham Dua,
given that, people are going to
be
having these duas starting in the coming days.
So I wanted to share a couple of
excerpts from that long
from that long tract
that, that he gave
and they're out of order so I'll share
the second part first and the first part
second.
So after describing
the operatic and theatrical
types of dua that people put up on
khatams,
He says very simply,
And so he says, unlike the the the
duas of the pious predecessors,
he says that,
nowadays the duas that happen at the time
of katams
are
like
recitation of Qasaid,
of like poetry
and
Kalam Sajjad, rhyming prose,
that sounds more like song and music,
and that actually will
actually enchant a person with its rhythm and
its flow.
And it is
empty
of hushuah,
of humility,
and humbleness
and desperate,
crying out
to
the
master,
most generous master,
exalted is he above blemish and transcendent is
he.
He says that, Allah says in his book,
and who is it that answers
the
desperate one when he,
calls out in desperation.
He says Allah didn't say who's the one
who answers the,
answers the cry of the kawwal.
You know what a kawwal is? Kawwal is
like what what they used to call a
munshid back in the day, like
and Aziz Miah and Sabri.
Didn't say that that that he didn't describe
himself. He described himself as the one who
answers the call of the desperate one who
calls out to him, cries out to him.
He didn't describe himself as the one who
answers the, the the the call of the
or of the musician or of the artist,
or of the,
poetry singer.
And,
you know,
many of us are going to
go to khattams like this. Some of us
might ourselves be doing khattams like this. And,
we have very highly
produced and fancy,
television level production type khatams
in which people will actually take the duas
that are not from the kitab or sunnah,
from somebody else, from some
full on sheikh and such and such prominent
masjid who has a beautiful voice. And they'll
literally write their duas down to the point
where they don't even understand what they're asking.
And when that whatever big famous sheikh cries,
then they'll also
they'll cry exactly the same way because it's
all just a copy. All of it is
just a copy.
And,
the point is following the sun of the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. It's
not following these kind of people who are
more
more like TikTok stars than they are like
actual,
actual olema or people who should be
emulated.
And governments keep in big masajid, even sacred
masajid, they keep,
imams that will never say the haqq and
Imams that will in fact spout Batil and
falsehood
in order to keep them happy.
And those people sometimes they recite the Quran
with a beautiful voice,
but their
role in the ummah nowadays is not to
wake the ummah up rather to put the
ummah to sleep.
And I really dislike I really dislike,
peep, you know, the listening of those reciters
and I dislike even more the emulation of
such people.
Because the Quran is the Quran and it's
the Haqq and the point of the Quran,
the reason it was revealed is for you
to recite it, not to say, oh, did
you listen to this guy? Did you listen
to that guy? This guy and that guy
are completely irrelevant.
In fact, Malik
actually,
disliked,
over
upper, operasizing
the the recitation of the Quran. That's a
completely, like, different discussion.
But,
you know, it comes to the ridiculous point
where, you know, I get called the khatams
and the hufaz will like, you know, take
a little vacation from their mad hub and
they'll do like a qunut,
like but not in the time of and
they're like khatams and they'll have this, like,
super long dua. They don't understand more than
half of what they're saying. I remember,
I was in a katham one time, and
God bless them. They're good kids. They only
see other people that think they think that
are righteous, and they're trying to emulate them.
And that's why we're here to say don't
emulate them. It's not righteousness. Your intentions are
good, but you gotta learn the knowledge.
So, you know, someone is making dua and
he's like,
oh,
And I just I was just like, Gaza,
man. It's Gaza. It's not izzah, it's Gaza.
He forgot the dot. And,
uh-uh Bichara, his like other half is like
laughs about it to this day.
And the thing, if you don't understand what
you're asking, like, what point is there? Right?
Allata'ala is not like gonna be impressed with
you making Nakala of like Sheikh Abu Fulan
or whatever. Like, allata doesn't care about that
sheikh nor does he care about the sheikh
he learned from nor does he care about
the entire humanity is like not even
an atom in front of Allah ta'ala. Like
those things don't impress him. What impress what
Allah ta'ala loves is your humility.
What Allah loves is that you ask with
desperation and with humility
and with the with knowing how small you
are and how great Allah to Allah is.
That's the secret of the dua.
And so,
Ibn al Hajji asks, because I'm not here
just to, like, knock on people or down
people. Although sometimes it seems like it because
people are really sensitive to criticism nowadays. A
little bit of the snowflakeiosis
has affected people's liver,
nowadays. But,
that's not the point. The point is to
say what what's bad so as to not
do it, and then also to say what's
good, which is what we should
replace it with. So that if you are
one of those who follow or if you
have a choice of where to go, that
you not
spend your night with these like, you know,
weird operatic and highly ritualized
I wouldn't even say highly ritualized. I would
say highly, like, stage produced,
khatam ceremonies.
But,
follow the
follow the way of our
and the way of the sufi I kiram
who are the actual who are the actual
progenitors. The the good Sufis are the actual
custodians of the sunnah of the Aslaf,
So now from the same
section of Ibn Hajj's Madkhal, but a little
bit earlier,
He quotes a Muhammad Al Ghazali or, Imam
Ghazali or.
That's in his book that's called the the
book of Avkara and Duas. He says that
the, salaf some of the salaf, they
it's
been said how much they disliked this Kalamu
Sajjad, this, like, rhymed prose fancy sing songy,
way of making dua.
And,
he says, for for he says that some
of the salaf, they passed by someone making
dua like this.
He says, are you
are you making this
and making this show of fanciness to Allah
to Allah? Like, is that what you're trying
to do is impress Allah to Allah with
whatever your fancy words
and your exaggerations?
He says,
That that some of the aslaf, they passed
by Habib Ajami. Habib Ajami was a Persian
convert as his name
seems to indicate and as is actually true
if you read his,
his biography. He's one of the great mashaikh
of the tariqa from the time of the
salaf.
In the tariqaqadiriyah,
he takes the
he he takes the,
khilafa from
al Hassan al Basri Radhiyallahu ta'ala Anhu
who takes it from Sayidna Ali
and from a number of the companions
that
the Ummah has bore witness to his
spiritual greatness,
that Habib Ajami was an associate of
of Al Hassan al Basri,
and, it's said about him
that,
once the the goon enforcers of Banu Umayyak
broke into his dwelling,
when Al Hasan al Basri was visiting. And
This is one of his karamat, one of
his miracles,
that,
the these soldiers, they basically asked where is
Hassan al Basri,
and he replied, he's right here.
And they they couldn't see him.
Allata masked him so that these soldiers couldn't
see him. And so they said, don't mess
with us. Don't play with us. Where is
he?
And, he said he's right there. And, upon
repeated,
abuse and, questioning, he kept telling him he's
right there. But
Allah protected, protected him from their sight,
and they basically threatened him. They said, you
know,
you joke with us like this again, we'll
kill you. If you see him, let us
know. And he just said he's right there,
and so they left.
Al Hassan al Basri then asked him, he
said that the the shari'a gives,
the shari'a gives
permission
for somebody who fears like a great
or danger to life or limb,
gives permission to lie in such situations.
Why did you tell them that I was
right here? Obviously,
Allah Ta saved me, but, like, why why
didn't you take the sharai dispensation?
He said, I'm aware of the dispensation of
the Sharia. It was just,
it was just I had too much,
shame and humility,
in front of Allah to Allah and awe
in front of Allah ta'ala to to lie.
And, this is the type of person he
was, and he was a great sheikh of
the tariqah and a great person of this
ummah. And even though unlike the rest that
were of the noble lineages of the Arabs,
he was just basically a pious convert, but
his heart was was with Allah ta'ala and
so he reached this maqam.
So, Ghazali
mentions in his book of Adkar and Dawat
that people from the salaf,
and he didn't name who it was, but
but somebody from the salaf passed by somebody
doing this, like, long sing songy, type dua.
And
he says he says, are you who are
you trying to impress with your exaggerated, like,
type of speech? Are you doing this to
impress Allah to Allah? Are you, like, doing
this to show off in front of Allah?
He he says that I I bear witness
that I saw Habib al Ajami,
make dua once, and his dua was nothing
more than than
For those of you who don't know Arabic,
it's breathtaking how completely simple this sentence is
to the point where you may not even
hear an Arab speaking like this ever.
Allahumma ja'ala jayeedin literally means, oh, Allah. Make
us good people.
Make us good people.
Like, it's not
it's not anything fancy, but the humility and
the sincerity was there. Can you imagine this
this this person doesn't, like, you know, he's
he's not even a native speaker of Arabic,
and so he's just like trying to make
dua as best as he can, and it's
just so simple.
And, he's saying, oh, Allah
make us like good people.
Oh, Allah do not disgrace us on the
day of judgement.
Oh, Allah, give us the tawfiq to do
good. You know, allow us to do good.
And he said that this man was such
a pious man
that he was known amongst the people
for the barakah in his in his prayers,
in his duas, and supplications.
So he would say this
and the people would just say Amin.
The people behind him would just say amen.
And I tell you,
if somebody like this
was making dua,
I would be more interested in sitting in
their majlis and saying amen
than the person who imitates the stooges, of
tyrants,
than the person who imitates the, operatic performance
artists
that, may get,
10,000 or a 100,000 or a 1000000 hits
on on YouTube or on TikTok or on,
Instagram,
or, you know, lifestyle shakes that are, you
know, like getting out of there, like, expensive
cars and saying, hey, kids. Remember to pray
5 times a day.
Or, like, whatever or, you know, people with,
like, hit artist type of recitations.
Inshallah Inshallah, their recitation is good and Allah
accepted and, you know,
forgive us for our own shortcomings. I'm not
any sort of gold standard in sincerity myself.
But the the idea is that
that's not where the baraka is. That's not
where the baraka is. The baraka is in
the person who
spreads his hands in front of the Lord
and asks with humility and asks with desperation,
with it terar,
like a person who is on a sinking
ship, like a child asks something from their
parents,
not knowing anyone who can help them except
for Allah,
not understanding anyone who could help them except
for Allah.
The people who ask those duas, their duas
have a lot of in them, they have
a lot of barakah in them and we
should seek them. And those duas don't need
to be long
and they don't need to be,
super hype and they don't need to be
sing songy,
and they don't need to be operatic,
but they do need to be sincere. And
we ourselves should practice and cultivate that that
habit. We have done enough to hype up
the hypee
sing song, rhyming,
mujahah and munavam,
types of duas. We've done enough for that.
That's gotten its airtime.
Now let's take a little bit of time
in order
to cultivate this ability to ask allata in
desperation and humility
and see, you know, see which which has
more barakah and more ked in it.
Allah accept your dua and my dua.
Allah accept
your dua and my dua, Allah make us
from the atakar of this Mubarak night,
Allah make us from those whose sentences in
the * fire which are well deserved,
those from whose sentences
in the hellfire which are well deserved get
commuted in this Mubarak night and that get
freed from the,
torment of the hellfire in this Mubarak night.
And may Allah write for all of us
a good destiny. May Allah accept from the,
the the tarawee of those who are praying
and may Allah accept from the of those
people who are cut off from,
everything else in order to,
grab hold
of,
the remembrance of Allah to Allah and not
let go like a person who's in the
middle of the ocean doesn't let go of
a a life raft knowing that they're,
if they do so, that they're going to
sink. And if you're listening to this in
etikaf, inshallah,
okay, you listened.
Now go ahead you can skip the rest
of them. Go ahead and go back to
your etikaf and ask Allah
with desperation.
And listen to
talks
and this type of thing just the same
way you go to the bathroom, just the
bare minimum that you need to. Otherwise, hold
fast hold fast to the remembrance of Allah
and to the dua and calling on Allah
ta'ala
during these days. They're very short days and
they'll be over very soon. They pass like
every other moment passes.
The moment of pain passes and the moment
of pleasure also passes.
All moments pass and all you have,
from them
is
what your niya was with Allah in those
moments. If it's heedlessness, then it it's like
ash. It all blows away into the wind
and you'll never see anything
again from it. And if it was
a moment of
sin, all you will have is the the
burning hot iron that will will brand you
and burn you,
for the rest of your existence,
after the few days of this world pass.
May Allah
be our protection
that we seek forgiveness from him for such
moments, and we turn to him in repentance
from such moments and ask him to put
distance between us in such moments that we
should ever come close to them ever again.
And if you did good and you did
khair and you remembered this time and and
you spent it with you and your just
the
2 just the 2 of us, then you'll
see that you'll have something good to hold
on to. If you're an etikaf if you're
an etikaf, it's bogus to waste that time
with other people. Just like imagine a a
a bride
on her wedding night. It's
time to, you know, leave the party
and, and to be with, the one she
loves. And she's just texting the whole night.
She's just texting the whole night. Is that
is that a sign of love? Absolutely not.
It's absolutely not. Even if the groom doesn't
leave her, but it's not it's not good.
So spend that time with Allah
and tell other people, you know, we'll hang
out on Eid. We'll hang out after Eid
inshallah.
I'll come to your house. We'll have lunch.
You know, haven't done that for a while.
But for now, just take your time out
as much as you're able to and cast
your net,
into the water so that the fadul of
Allah ta'ala, when it comes down with this
that you can get a great portion. Allah
accept it from you and from us and
give you and from, give give to you
and give us from what you get as
well.