Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 22 Ramadn 1443 Late Night Majlis Set Your Face in Each Masjid Muhammad LI 04222022
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Alhamdulillah.
Subhanuulillah,
Allah Ta'al has blessed us
to reach these Mubarak last 10 nights of
Ramadan.
Allah Ta'ala blessed us last night to have
a night which is not only one of
the odd nights, but also the night of
Jum'ah.
Allah Ta'ala has blessed us to have these
nights masajid are filled again.
Allah Ta'ala said in his book,
Say,
My Lord
commands to justice,
and that You should establish Your faces
in every masjid,
and call upon Him, making your deen
purely and sincerely only for him.
Purely and sincerely only for him.
There is a little bit of a need
for some effort.
Sati and Wabi Jamaat will tell you about
that effort as well, there's need for that
effort too, insha'Allah, after the band there'll be
another band, insha'Allah you can listen about that,
And this is not I'm connected with that
effort.
There is some need for effort, which is
what? The masajid have been closed for 2
years,
either in full or in part.
The people have not been gathering in the
masajid. The people have been not been coming
to the masjid. Some people still aren't coming
to the masjid.
Some people are still disconnected from the Masjid.
I'm not here to tell you whether mask
mandate is good or bad. You have like
a whole Internet, you can argue with people,
you'll find an endless
parade of zombies to argue with
on both sides, arguments that make sense and
arguments that make no sense at all.
You can find them and argue with them.
That's aside from what I want to say.
What I want to say is what that
the effort has to happen, whether it was
right, whether it was wrong, whether it should
have happened this way or that way, or
differently, or the same, or whatever.
Forget about that for a moment. But there
needs to be some effort that the masajid
need to be filled again.
Because as imams, people tell us the things
that they don't tell other people. They share
with us the things they don't share with
other people.
So you have people
who haven't gone to Jumuah since then. People
who used to go to Jumuah every Friday.
Still until now, even though the massages have
been open, they still haven't come back to
Jumuah.
You have people who haven't gone to Taraweeh.
They still haven't come back to Taraweeh. You
need to help them, you need to bring
them, you need to say a kind word
to them, or even sometimes a harsh word
to them.
Whatever works, you need to bring them back
in.
There are some people who
didn't fast.
There are some people who still haven't fasted.
You have to tell them even though the
month is mostly gone now.
It's okay.
It's okay.
The Hafiz, he read the ayah tonight. You
all heard?
You all heard the ayah he read?
That Allah commanded the Nabi
I remember somebody once asked me, what's your
favorite eye of the Quran? I said from
aqeedah point of view, this question is very
problematic.
It's a very problematic
question.
Especially for people who've read Imuqalam, it's a
very problematic question.
I told them, I said, Phrase the question
a little bit differently.
Which ayah do you hear and it makes
you really happy?
It fills you with joy. Obviously, all of
them should be like that. When your iman
is camel, then all of your iman is
reach a stage of perfection, and all of
them will equally
make you happy. The ones that are
in your favor, and the ones that are
against you, the ones you understand, and the
aliflamim, and the hamim, and all of these
things, they'll all make you equally happy.
But for now, a broken person like myself,
miskeen.
What makes me happy when I hear hear
it? You know what makes
me
happy? Say, O my slaves
that have committed excess against themselves.
Meaning they committed sin, they did wrong things,
they wasted their time, they made bad choices,
they made a 1,000 bad choices, they made
a 1,000,000 bad choices. Everything in their life
has been a bad choice until now.
There's nobody whose bad choices are greater than
Allah Ta'ala. Allah is greater than all of
His creation. Nobody can make so many bad
choices that it's bigger than Allah or bigger
than any of His sifaat, any of His
attributes.
That someone should be able to say, I've
committed so many sins that it now is
no longer eligible for Allah's rahmah.
That it's no longer eligible for Allah's rahmah.
It's bigger than what Allah's rahmah can deal
with.
No, brothers and sisters. Good news is you
and me are not that important.
You and me, we're not that important. None
of these
people around us are that important.
That your sins will ever be so big
that they
outflank the mercy of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
What does that mean? Kunut with a ta,
there's Kunut that you do in the like,
the wither or fajr, if you follow a
different madhhab, right?
Not that, that's Kunut with a ta, with
the 2 dots. This is with a ta.
What does it mean? It means to give
up hope.
Yes. To become Ma'us.
To give up hope.
Giving up hope in the mercy of Allah
ta'ala is a sin that's bigger than the
sins that we think of as sins. It's
a bigger sin than drinking alcohol and committing
zina. It's a bigger sin than
missing a fast. It's a bigger sin than
any of those things.
Why? Because those things are sins of action.
You have a reason that you can give
to Allah
for committing them. A person says, I didn't
fast because the burger looked very tasty.
It's not a good reason, but it is
a reason.
The math doesn't add up. However much of
enjoyment you have from the burger doesn't add
up to the amount that you'll enjoy in
Jannah.
After all, everything Allah Taq commands us to
do or prohibits us from doing, it's for
our own good. It's in our own benefit.
There's no jump I say jump to you
say how high commandment in the Sharia.
This is the Ijma of all of all
of all of Allahu Alama. This is the
problem. Shaw'ulillahi Allah wrote it in in the
hujatullah.
Our students don't study the hujatullah anymore, Masha'Allah.
We call them Molanas, but they don't read
these books anymore. Right?
This is the Ijma, the consensus of all
the Ulamah, there's no ruling in the sharia
which is devoid of benefit for you. Even
though it's Allah's haft, if you wanted to,
He could have said, Go kill yourself.
It's his right. It's his right that we
should obey.
But from His manifold mercies, He never put
anything in the sharia, except for it's for
your benefit, my benefit.
You could say it tasted good. Okay. You
made the wrong decision, but this is still
there's some reasoning in it.
Why would you give up hope in the
mercy of
Allah Ta'ala is something in your benefit. Why
would you give up hope in that? That
doesn't make any sense. Only a person who
hates Allah Ta'ala would do that, or a
person who has
a that doesn't work properly, who has a
mind that doesn't work properly.
And this is how shaitan gets you. You
missed one day, okay. You may as well
miss the second one. You missed 3 days,
you may as well miss the 4th one.
You missed 1 year, you may as well
miss the next year.
All of your life has passed you by,
and you've been doing drugs, and you've been
drinking alcohol, and you've been committing Zina, and
you've been doing every XYZ sin under the
sun, and you will literally only have 1
minute left in your life. What will shaitan
come to you and say? It's a very
predictable
playbook.
Well, you already wasted your the whole rest
of your life.
What's the point now? What's the point now?
You know what the point is now? That
the person who in that one minute makes
a good use of that one minute, that
person is qualitatively a good person. The person
who makes bad use of that minute, that
person is qualitatively a bad person. That's a
really big difference. Don't listen to shaitaan.
Listen to Allah, listen to the Ahlullah, listen
to the ulama, listen to the Rasul Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Don't give up the rahma of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
All sins.
Istighraq,
completely. The the genus of sins.
Everything that can be called a sin, that
thing Allah Ta'ala forgives it.
He's the one who like forgives the most.
He's the most intense in His forgiveness. He's
the most intense in His rahma and His
mercy.
This is a good message. Mashallah. All of
you people are pious people. You're not only
did you comfort Taraweeh, you prayed all 20,
mashaAllah, despite whatever pamphlets or Internet post you
may read to the contrary. Right?
And you have beards, and you have topis
on, and
you're probably somewhat disgruntled that he's not speaking
Urdu right now, but maybe next time. My
charge for Urdu Bayan is like 10 times
as much. The must have wanted to save
money. Right?
You guys are already pious people. You already
know this. You are already the. You're drunk
with the love of Allah Allah mercy and
His forgiveness.
That's why you're here.
It has enchanted you, and it has mesmerized
you, and it has locked you so much
so that you not only went and prayed
and prayed with her, but even stayed for
the bayan afterward, even though it's really late,
and it's probably all stuff you've heard from
before.
What the effort that needs to be made
is first, we believe in it ourselves, we
can convince ourselves of it, then we have
to go and tell people as well.
We have to go and tell people as
well. We have to tell
the sinners of this ummah as well, and
we have to tell the pious people of
the ummah as well.
We have to tell the believers as well.
We have to tell the unbelievers as well.
I came I came on this is one
of the reasons I feel bad the uncle
was finishing his salat. He's probably great, Waleed
of Allah. He should make dua for me,
and I pull the chair up in front
of him and said, okay. No. We're starting
our bayan right now. Why? It gets too
late, then you guys will be upset as
well. Also, I came I came directly. I
went straight to the airport from Jumuah,
and my flight has been delayed again and
again, and I came straight from the airport
here. It's a job I have to do.
I just need to say what I need
to say and then inshallah, I'll go home
again. The point is is this effort we
have to say this thing to everybody, including
the people of this ummah, and the including
the people out of this ummah.
I deliberately got the flight that leaves at
3:30 so I can pray Asr and not
have to pray on the plane.
The the flight got delayed to the point
where our seat belts are on and we
can't get out of our seats when Assur
comes in, and then we land at 7:50
in LaGuardia. What am I supposed to do?
So I waited. There's turbulence for half of
the flight, a very narrow window. It's not
a long flight from Chicago here. It's a
very narrow window,
between
between the time that I could stand up
and the time that the prayer is no
longer
able to be prayed in its time.
What do you do? You get up and
you pray.
What do you do? You get up and
you pray. This whole thing, by the way,
the idea of dawah is like become this
like huge monster. People have misunderstood what Dawah
means.
Like, don't pray in public because it's bad
for Dawah because they'll see you and they'll
get angry. No. It's not bad for Dawah.
What does dawah mean? He needs to call
someone. What are you calling them to?
If you can't pray when it's time to
pray, what are you calling them to? If
you can't follow the sunnah of the Prophet
what are you calling them to? If you
can't tell people freely what you believe in,
what are you calling them to?
Nobody. Masha'allah, it's America. It's a free country.
Nobody wants to go from being a free
person to living in a closet. Nobody wants
that. Nobody cares. No one respects it. There
are a class of people who are like,
Oh, this is your religion? Oh, that's so
wonderful. I'll come to your multicultural day and
like eat a samosa, and that's it. They're
not they're not interested in Deen
in the first place. Their aqidah is something
else that everything is the same, and you're
just reinforcing it by
handing them a samosa by handing them a
samosa and not telling them anything about what
you believe in.
What do you do?
You make zikr
the stewardess.
The stewardess.
She asked, she's like, you know I was
raised a Buddhist. Are you a Sikh?
I said, no I'm not.
What are you? I'm a Muslim.
But we're the spiritual ones, you guys are
supposed to be the terrorists. What is this?
How come you're you like repeat things and
stuff like that? I'm like, yeah. It's like
about you have to keep your heart engaged
all the time. You have to remember all
the time. She's like, oh, wow. You guys
do that too? That's amazing.
You know what? You blessed this plane. I'm
glad that you prayed on this plane.
What is it? That's what it is. Right?
But you have to remind people you have
to remind people, you can't just like live
in a closet just because you're afraid someone's
gonna say something bad to you.
Allah ta'ala said what?
Not only do we have to bring our
face to the masjid,
right? The word waj, there's a couple of
things about it. 1, it means your face,
like as in this face that you have
anatomically.
It also means a direction.
Doesn't mean face. Even in Arabic, it actually
means face, but it means like, what's the
what's the reasoning for this? What direction is
this going in? Right? What's the direction of
the Masjid? The Masjid is built facing the
qibla, physically.
There's a qibla of
physicality, which is the direction of makamukarma.
There's also a tibla inside the heart as
well, that everything has to be facing, that
everything has to be oriented toward. That's the
effort that we need to do.
So I was asked by some brothers in
the Masjid, Mullana Kashif Masha'Allah,
facilitated this entire
program and I wouldn't have come if you
didn't ask me. To be very frank with
you, I don't really travel in Ramadan
except for things that are very important. But
when the Don says something and makes a
request, you really cannot say no, can you?
Right? These people are like in the akhirah,
they're you'll see what their maqam is. Muhanna
Kashif is a graduate of Benuri town.
The most important thing many people have never
heard of before Masha'Allah. You heard of Harvard
and Yale and Princeton,
right?
But I'm not gonna make an analogy between
them because it's not right.
Name how many shuhada can you name from
the professors of Harvard and Princeton that gave
their life for the sake of Allah or
for the sake of anything good even?
They're afraid to even tell you how many
genders there are in real life.
True story.
True story.
Laugh about it over here, laugh about it
outside, you'll lose your job and get expelled
from school.
It's a true story.
I cannot even count how many of his,
Masha'ikar Shohada, Masha'Allah. I had the honor of
meeting some,
learning from some of his teachers, Masha'Allah, as
well. This is a very high nisbah.
This is a very high nisbah. When people
like this ask you for something,
then
you you need to oblige.
So he connected me with the brothers in
the Masjid, they said, What do we want
to do? We want to have a youth
program.
What else do you want? Islam is a
youth program.
Islam is a youth program.
Said Abu Bakr Sadiq
who was in his thirties, he was the
first person to accept Islam. Said Namr ibn
Said Namani who
was
not even 10 when he accepted Islam.
Sayed Namr ibn Khattab
Masha'Allah, we have people who've done hifs and
like stuff like that. We say Namr ibn
Khattab
He was,
12 years younger than the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, so he's in his twenties.
If you want to have a youth program,
Islam is a youth program. Masha'Allah. Islam is
a youth program.
The elders that are that are truly are
elders in Islam, they're people who have
been doing what they've been needing to do.
They got what they needed to do done.
Otherwise, standing up in tahajjud, a weak body
cannot do it.
Speaking the Haqq, a weak mind in a
weak body in a weak constitution cannot do
it. Standing for what's right, a weak mind
in a weak body in a weak constitution
cannot do it. The Rasool Sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam recognized this. He said that the believer,
the strong believer is better and more beloved
to Allah Ta'ala than the weak believer. And
there's good in both of them. We don't
want to say ill about anybody,
but there's good in both of them, but
the the the goal that you're looking for
is what?
The goal that you're looking for is Saidna,
Abu Bakr and Saidna Uthman,
Saidna Ali
In every field of of of of life,
the best, the toughest, the strongest, the most
patient, the most perseverant,
the strongest inwardly, the strongest outwardly, the most
good looking, they're the best. They were the
best of the best.
The question that that that that that they
asked is, can you have a youth program?
On we're gonna have a youth Iritikah program
on Friday night. I said, okay, let's talk
about youth stuff as well. And also, can
we have a theme in both nights
of what
of community building, of building a community.
And so this is what happened, the community
has
communally
fallen a little bit behind. Anybody who's been
on a diet before or started working out
before, you know sometimes you fall off the
program, sometimes you eat the wrong thing for
one day, 2 days, 3 days, you put
on a couple of pounds and now you're
behind.
You have to get back in the game.
It's difficult. It's not easy.
But you have to pull yourself together.
You go to the gym. You try to
pick up the weight. You can't lift as
much as you're able to before you, stop
going to gym for a couple months. Okay.
You have to go back a little bit
and work a little bit harder, but you'll
get back on the program. Right?
You'll get back on the program, but you
have to like,
pull down and and and do it. This
is something we should recognize. This is something
we have to do right now because the
Masjid don't have the same,
don't have the same,
crowd and they don't have the same energy
that they did before the disruption from, the
illness. Sometimes you fall out of your workout
or out of your diet because you got
sick. It's not a matter of right or
wrong. It just is what it is. Again,
I'm not here to discuss why these things
happen, but the fact that they happen should
be something that all of us agree upon,
and it's something that we need to do
something about.
The topic that I gave for tonight's talk,
And hold fast
to the rope of Allah Ta'ala, all of
you together,
and do not separate.
Hold fast to the rope of Allah
All of you together, and do not separate.
This is an emphatic expression.
Means what?
Right?
Is to stop something, or to forbid something,
prohibit something, to stop something from happening.
Ismat means what? It means infallibility,
unassailability.
'Asima in the Arabic language means like a
capital city, because in the old days the
capital cities were fortified, Right? Masha'as and the
brothers I went to Uzbekistan with they they
we went together. Right? You saw the fortress
and the
the
the citadel of Bukhara. I mean it's like
big walls.
There are big big walls and they're like
slanted in a weird way and it's not
easy to attack it's not easy to get
into when the door shut.
What is it?
Hold fast together to your deen. Don't let
anything else come in and water it down.
Don't let anything else come in and
and and weaken your grip. If you're trying
to pick up a weight
and you have a phone, will you pick
up the weight in the phone in the
same hand? No. You'll put the phone in
another hand. If the weight is heavy enough,
we have some brothers who either work out
Marshall. Right? If the weight is heavy enough
that you have to pick it up with
both hands, and you put the phone in
your pocket, or put it to the side.
Why? Because it's gonna compromise your grip. Even
if you're strong enough to carry the weight,
it will compromise your grip.
Get it out of there. Don't let anything
get in between. Don't let anything get in
between. Don't anything let anything weaken your grip
for the,
for the deenah for for the habal, the
rope of Allah
And if you,
read the tafasir, you'll see there are a
a number of different tafasir for what is
the rope of Allah Ta'ala. What is this
a metaphor for?
Is it the Deen of Allah Ta'ala? Is
it the book of Allah Ta'ala? These are
the 2 most prominent
If you hold fast to the book of
Allah ta'ala, you're going to hold fast to
the Deen of Allah. And if you hold
fast to the Deen of Allah Ta'ala, you're
gonna hold fast to the rope of Allah.
That's a discussion maybe for another time it
should be had, but that's not what I'm
trying to focus on in the limited time
that I have.
Hold fast to the Deen of Allah.
Hold fast to the rope of Allah, all
of you
together.
The Qur'an doesn't have any repetition in it.
There's not one letter that's excessive or useless
in it.
Every letter, forget about the words, every letter
of the Qur'an is there for a particular
meaning. So this is a double emphatic statement.
The idea that you should hold fast to
the rope of allata together,
and not separate.
This idea of a jama'a,
this idea of a jama'a,
this idea of having
a gathering or a congregation of people,
by which
you practice the deen of Allah This is
such an important idea. It is literally what
describes our aqidah. It's literally what describes our
creed.
The aqaid of Islam are the most important
thing. If you say there's no God but
Allah, and Muhammad is His Messenger, but by
Allah you mean
a white man that lived in Chicago in
the late 1900,
and by Muhammad, you mean
a black man that lived in Chicago, like,
30 years after him or whatever.
This is not gonna work.
You can say La ilaha illallah as much
as you want. It's not gonna work. It
doesn't count.
Why? Because your tasawr, your conception of this
idea, your aqidah regarding what does La ilaha
illallah Muhammadur Rasoolah mean, it's messed up. It's
wrong.
It's wrong. It doesn't fit.
Without having a correct aqidah, your salaf gets
messed up. Everything in the deen gets messed
up.
So what do we refer to as the
canonical and authoritative recension in description, and expounding
of our aqidah as we refer to it
as the aqidah of the
Hold fast to the rope of Allah altogether,
and do not separate. The first thing that
we hold fast to the rope of Allah
together and not separate on is what? Is
our belief.
Where are you going to learn that from?
Where are you gonna learn that from? You're
not gonna learn it from the jumahukhba, I
promise you
People are saying you're gonna learn it from
the Quran, and this is correct However, what
I will caution people is what? If you
don't know Arabic, you're not gonna learn it
from the Quran.
If you don't understand what the words of
the Quran mean, you're not gonna learn it
from the Quran. Even our brothers who call
themselves Arabs, many of them, they don't understand
the language of the Quran. The language that
they speak is as far from the language
of the Quran as Hebrew and as Syriac
is.
This is not a Mubalah, this is not
an exaggeration.
Who are you going to learn it from?
You have to learn it from the ulama.
This is what the meaning of Ahlul Sunnah
wal Jama'a is. That, okay, we follow the
sunnah. People understand following the sunnah.
That means in general. There's some details that
should be expounded upon also. Again, not enough
time.
What does jama'ah here mean? Does it mean
a democratic majority?
Let's have a vote today in
Muhammadi Masjid,
on how many genders there are.
Look, the jama'a said it, where
the right? What does it mean? That's not
what it means. Hint, that's not what it
means. The jama'ah, if you look in the
books of Akhida itself,
the jama'ah is the Sahaba
And then those people in the generation
after them, that took from them and practice
their deen.
We refer to them reverently as the Tabi'in,
as the successors of the companions
Now, Hajjaz bin Yusuf, the famous homicidal
maniac enforcer of Banu Meyat,
killed so many people. Killed more Sahaba than
I can count, forget about the other people.
Is he a Tabiri?
He'd say, look, I was a Muslim, and
I I met the Sahaba. I even killed
a bunch of Mullah,
Probably one of the most horrible things that
a person could ever do. I swear to
God there are drunk people and fornicators on
the day of judgement will be like, at
least I didn't do that.
Is he a tabi'i? Is he part of
the jama'ah? No. Because he would look at
the companion and say, oh, I understand the
Deen better than you.
Who are the Tabireen? They're the part of
the next generation that not only were Muslims.
We won't say he's a kafir, we just
will say he doesn't understand Islam properly.
And he's crazy. But in terms of zakidah,
he doesn't understand Islam properly.
The jama'a is every single generation from that
time until now, that has understood
the deen properly, from the tabi'in, from the
tabi'at tabi'in. It's a living group, it still
exists.
They are the ones who represent the Prophet
in his Umma. And if you think, Look,
this movie is just making this up in
order to make his Roti, and his Biryani,
and his Zardah, and his khatam, and his
nazar and niyaz, and whatever.
Rasulullah
what did he say? Who did he say
the
Who did he say are the
Who are the heirs of the Prophet
There's a ulema. He didn't say it's the
mujahidun, even though jihad fisabilillah
has such a great maqam.
He didn't say it's tafad, even though memorizing
the Quran has such a great maqam.
He didn't say that it's the people of
fasting, and the people of dhikr, even though
those things have such a great maqam.
What did he say? This is the people
of knowledge. You saw the the the This
is one of the beautiful things. We should
go and visit visit different places in the
Muslim world. We saw the Madaris, Mashallah. Samarkand
was like, one of the wonders of the
world. It was a great city of
of Central Asia. The deen that came to
the Indian subcontinent,
came from those people.
And in many ways, Allah in his hikmah,
he chose that that those lands would be
destroyed by the Mongols, and they would be
destroyed by the communists. For some reason or
another, their tradition was preserved in our lands
in a way that it wasn't even preserved
in their own, and for that we should
be thankful to Allah
In Samarkand, what are the
in
the most beautiful buildings I've ever seen in
my life I saw over there. I'm talking
about just material brilliance. Nothing having to do
with Islam.
What are those buildings though? What are those
buildings? The main square of Samarkand is the
Registan Square,
And there are 3 buildings, all 3 of
them are Madars.
And they face one another,
and they're beautiful,
and they were the pride and joy of
that those people. What does it mean?
And to make your face
established, not just to show face, but to
establish your face, that your face can be
reliably seen in the masjid, and it can
be facing the direction that the masjid faces
inwardly and outwardly.
What does that mean? That means those people,
even the craziest of them.
Timur Lang,
in Uzbekistan, don't say anything bad about him
because he's a national hero for them. They
don't like that when you say bad about
him. But outside of the,
you know, outside of the spheres of Uzbeks,
he's more or less known as also a
homicidal maniac. He was basically a person who
killed as many people as Genghis Khan did,
except for he was like, he had a
janaza. He didn't die in Kufr, like, outwardly
at least. And
he had iman in his heart for his
own good We have no reason to believe
he didn't.
At least the sacred law restrains us from
casting aspersion on his faith at least, even
though he was crazy.
What did his grandsons His sons didn't really
rule appreciably after him. What did his grandsons
and his
descendants?
Who also ruled our lands. Right? Babur, Zahiruddin
Babur was also a descendant of Timur Lang
from his tribe at least. Right?
The the Mughal emperors in our lands, as
well as Mirza'ul Ubbek, the first and the
greatest of the
Madars, the Raghastan Square, was built by Mirza
al Ubbekt. We conquered the world. Imagine that,
he conquered Damascus.
Why is it that the turban of the
Prophet
is sitting in the Badshahi Masjid and Lahore?
He conquered Damascus and he conquered Baghdad, he
brought
the the the takadusat and tabarukhat of the
Rasul
to Central Asia and to the lands, Because
at one time his capital was Samarqanden, at
one time his capital was also Lahore.
Right?
Imagine that. There was a time when
Syrians and Iraqis
and Turks, all of us were the
same country.
And no small amount of blood was spilled
in order to make that happen, whether it
was good or bad. That's not what I'm
here to talk about.
The idea is that after they conquered as
much of the world as they knew and
that they respected, everything further than that was
all barbarians anyway. They didn't really care.
They didn't really care.
Timur, they say that he had a change
of heart before he
died, and he made Tawba from fighting Muslims.
And so he said, I'm gonna go and
conquer China. And it was the Qadr of
Allah Ta'ala that somewhere in what's modern day
Kazakhstan on the way to go to China,
Allah Ta' took him back,
and that never materialized.
But the whole part of the world that
he actually wanted to conquer, he already had
conquered it.
He nearly destroyed the Ottoman Empire in the
process as well, but he had already conquered
it.
Now his grandsons inherited this free huge empire
with basically all the money in the world.
What did they do? Hey, let's build a
madrasa.
That's the only thing they knew to do.
That's the only love that they had in
their heart. That's the only deen that they
understood. Do you understand what that means?
Like, if you and me had enough money
that we never we didn't empower, that we
never needed to care a day in our
life about what anyone else says, not your
boss, not your mother-in-law,
not your stupid relatives, not your smart relatives,
not the people in Muhammad Ali Masjid, some
board member, you know, like once told you
that you couldn't do this in the masjid,
and you're like, you know, you
flip him the bird and say, I'm gonna
build like a Masjid across the street that's
like 7 times as big, and I'm gonna
hire Mullana Kashif, and I'm gonna hire all
of his friends, and like, no one's gonna
come to your Masjid ever again,
except for, you know, because, you know, they
they can't make it for us or whatever.
And that's it.
Right? What would you do, when you have
that much money that you could do that?
People are not gonna build Masajid. Why? The
heart has gone a different way. Even the
even the Ulama and Masha'ik and Tablis and
the Sufis and the
people of piety and righteousness,
nowadays, the sickness that's there that's heartbreaking, it's
not that we're weak outwardly.
We've done that before, we do weak okay,
because if you're strong inside, you're never really
weak.
The enemy cannot conquer you inside of your
heart. You can be in jail, in solitary
for 40 years.
They can't break you inside if you're strong
inside.
The Sheikh Yusuf of Makassar, he was a
great Sheikh of, the Shafi'i school, he was
the Shafi'i Mufti of Makkamukarama, he was actually
a prince from
Indonesia.
Makassar is a
kingdom in Sulawesi.
He was a prince. The Dutch overthrew his
father's empire while he was in Makkumukarama,
basically being one of the, like, alpha ullama
over there.
And so he went back to fight them
and to
to free
his homeland.
And they put him in jail, and they
took him to their penal colony, which was
Cape Town in South Africa, just like the
British used to send people like Australia or
whatever. Right?
And they put him in the hole for
decades.
Solitary confinement.
No light.
Just enough food to survive. That's it.
They finally let him out when he was
an old man and figured he can't do
any any more harm.
Well, that's another story. We can't do any
more harm anymore. We may as well take
him out. You know when they went inside
and they lit a torch and saw what
was there? He had written the Quran on
the walls
incomplete again and again.
As an old man he came out, and
his fiqh was what? How can we make
this Deen thrive? How can we make this
Deen thrive?
He composed small
and their Indonesian,
their
Malay language,
about basic akhida, basic fiqh, basic things about
the deen, so that the workers, when they're
working the fields or when they're working the
mines, the the slaves, because they were brought
as slaves,
that the slaves can sing these and the
Dutch will think that they're just like songs
that they're singing while doing work, they're actually
learning the Deen of Allah
One of the mashaikh,
the Sheikh, they call him Tuan Guru, the
big guru from amongst their mashaikh.
He actually got a job
as
a,
working in the jail.
Why?
So that the people so that the people
he could make dawah to them, he converted
like most of the jail to Islam.
The British found out when they overthrew the
Dutch that this is going on. They said,
We have to get rid of these, 2
or 3 of these Mohammedan preachers. They're going
to make the entire control of this land
untenable for us.
What was what was the thing? He was
a prince, he was a king.
Not like you and me, like you go
to TGI Fridays, and they bring you a
cake with
a candle on it, and you're like prince
for like 15 minutes. No. Like a real
prince. Like a real
king. What was their effort? What was the
thing when they had money that they wanted
to do?
They wanted to establish this deen, and they
understood that the jama'ah starts from what? It
starts from ilm, it starts from knowledge. It
doesn't start from bricks, it doesn't start from
land.
Right? We're not Hindus, that we believe that
the land is sacred, without the land, you
know, like we're nothing or whatever. Right? Egyptians,
the ancient
Egyptians, pharaoh. They never they had the most
powerful army in the world for 1000 of
years.
They would go and they would fight battles
in other lands, and they would come back
because they considered their homeland to be sacred.
Whoever died, they would bring their bodies back.
They considered
they considered it to be a profanity for
a person to be buried outside of their
homeland. They never left. Whereas Allah
He Himself, He tells
that the
the
earth is
wide, it's vast.
Go around, visit different places, move from one
place to the other. You're here in America,
I'm sure everybody came here, mashaAllah, in order
to serve the Deen, right?
If not, if not, you don't have to
tell anybody.
You can change your niyyah right now.
It's okay. There's nothing wrong with that.
The things are going to be judged by
the way that they end. If something funny
happens in the middle, that's what tawba is
for.
The idea is that now that we're here,
if you want to do community building,
I could have stood up and said, Who's
gonna give $10,000
and fleece you guys dry? I'm also a
good fundraiser.
I could have stood up and told you
oh, yeah, you know, like,
this school and that
expansion in the parking lot and city, and
we should get someone involved in politics, and
someone should be involved in the senate, and
someone should become city council, and somebody should
go to Harvard, someone should become Princeton, someone
should become a lawyer, someone should become a
doctor. All of these things are good. I'm
not saying that any of them are bad.
Am I saying anything any of them are
bad? You're still Are you still involved in
politics?
No. But you were at some time. Did
I ever say like that's bad? No. It's
good.
Get your guys elected. People, honest people who
will like have sympathy for the poor and
concern for justice and, you know, make the
world a better place. Do all of that
stuff. The thing is, that's not a foundation
anything is built on. What is the foundation
built on? The foundation is built on what?
It's built on this im, the jama'ah starts
from what?
The of the The of the masjid starts
from what? It starts from this
From this what? From this knowledge. This knowledge
is what made
the unbaked clay
bricks of the Mas'ud
into something that has more barakah than the
like super, like multibillion dollar building that's there
right now.
This knowledge is the thing that made the
masajid,
the Muslim world
into unassailable fortresses, that kufr couldn't get through
them. Now what is it? We built our
masajid like the yahud and nasa'ah have built
their churches, and they've built their synagogues.
It's primarily what? A non profit corporation,
it's a 501c3,
we're concerned more than the sunnah, we're concerned
about bylaws and keeping books in order. Why?
Because we're gonna get sued. What if you
get sued in the court of Allah What
are you going to do?
The problem is what? The contracts are all
written in a language none of us speak.
If you wanted to have a feel good
bayan, you came to the wrong masjid tonight.
All of us have to learn this knowledge.
What do we have to learn first? We
have to learn the Arabic language.
We have to learn
Good. Learn Urdu, inshallah. I've said every student
of knowledge, even an Arab, even an African,
even a Turk should learn Urdu.
Everyone should learn Turkish, everyone should learn Persian.
It's if you wanna be a man of
the ummah, you have to learn these languages.
But the idea is what? If you don't
taste if you taste the sweetness in Urdu,
wonderful. If you don't taste the sweetness in
Arabic, something's wrong.
Quran and Arabic
We sent it as an Arabic Quran, in
order for you to be people of for
you to be people of rationality,
logic.
Aqal is the thing that allows you to
recognize that 3 is bigger than 2.
If the aqal is not working, nothing else
works anymore.
We sent it down as an Arabic Quran,
so that you can be people of aqal.
You have to learn your basic aqayd, you
have to learn your basic fiqh, you have
to And the people who can teach it
to you, they're not gonna teach it to
you in in in jumahutba. I have yet
to see a jumahutba that will teach you
how many shares a daughter inherits from
the father if there are no siblings or
if there are siblings?
How about a half sister from the father's
side or from the mother's side?
People even the father of the Quran, they
read the ayaat.
It's funny,
when they don't read the books of faith,
and they try to remember the ayaat, they
always screw up those masal. They always screw
up those masal. You have to learn them
from somebody.
It's not easy. It's hard. It will humiliate
you.
You as
a rich person, or as an elder, or
as
a respected person, or as a strong person,
or as a popular person, you will be
humiliated because somebody dumber looking than you, somebody
who's an immigrant, somebody who is born here,
somebody who's a different race, somebody who's a
convert, somebody who's poor, somebody They're going to
excel in this from you. It's gonna require
you coming out of your comfort zone, but
you have to do it. You have to
be able to look somebody in the eye,
and say, you have
more knowledge about the deen than I do.
This is why I'm telling you, I'm not
exaggerating when I I said, Mu'akash, if you
didn't ask me, I wouldn't have come. But
if you asked me, I can't say, No.
Why?
The people of knowledge have a in this
deen. If you don't understand what that is,
then you don't understand the deen. You do
not understand the deen of Allah if you
don't understand what the of these people is.
If you cannot humble yourself in front of
somebody who has something Allah gave them more
than you,
and say, Well, my experience tells me this,
my experience tells me that, I've been around,
I know English, I know Math, I'm a
doctor, I've been in this country, I've been
in that country. I you know, those things
don't teach you anything about Islam.
Was Sayd Abu Bakr Abu Bakr siddiq because
of his experience?
Was Umar
because of his experience? Was the Prophet
the Prophet
because he'd been at the business for 40
years already?
Absolutely not. Literally, it came from above the
Saba Asamawat and above the Arshah alim. It
doesn't exist in the solar system. It doesn't
exist in this galaxy.
It doesn't exist in this universe, it came
from somewhere outside.
If you cannot humble yourself in front of
it, what good is it? What good are
you?
Iblis.
Iblis. You know what they call him
in in in English from Latin? They call
him Lucifer. You know what that means?
It means angel of light. What a sweet
name. Right?
Iblis had a name,
that the angels used to call him.
They used to call him Azazil,
which means
the 'Izzat of Allah.
The Aziz, the one who Allah gave 'Izzat
to. Why?
Because he was the
He himself learned knowledge. He was the disciple
of the angels.
He could boast that there's not one hand's
breath of
space in this
heavens and in this earth except for that
I've made sajdah in it to Allah Ta'ala.
Now,
people in Muhammadi read a lot of sunnahs.
Like, I waited 10 minutes to start the
bayan. 3 quarters of the masjid already left,
and still people are reading the masjid to
the point I had to put the chair
down.
No offense to anybody.
But surely, even with this superior
number of knuckles that the people in Muhammadi
pray, nobody can boast that there's not a
shibr of space, a hand's breath of space
in the heavens and the earth except for
I've made sajdah to Allah in it.
And he stayed in this state for
over a 100000 years,
but there was something inside of his heart,
and the angels could not see it. It
was something so deep, and it was something
so subtle,
the only one who knew it was there
is Allah
and Allah exposed it. And where did it
come from? This inability to what?
Physically to do sajdah, but what does the
sajdah mean? Because this is one of the
thing, I think like, many of us were
born as Muslims,
so we just like go through the motion.
You don't know what sajdah means. Like you
don't know what it means if iman was
so powerful that he subjugated you so badly
that you had to make sajdah in front
of him. Right? For us, like haram, I'd
never do it. I'd die. Right? Okay. Put
take the ibadat part of it out.
Just somebody has so much power over you
that you either make sadja to him or
you die.
Like, we don't know what does that mean.
If you understand what a sadzah is, then
you should know that when you do it
in front of Allah Ta'ala,
you're even more humble
than that.
And Allah definitely didn't tell Iblisah
to worship Sayna Adam
But to what? Just lower yourself, humble yourself
in front of
him. Right? Because the ummas that came before
this ummah, it was allowed for a person
to make sajdah to somebody out of respect.
This ummah, because of the shubha of shirk,
being a danger for this, for for the
people of the last times, it was made
haram for us. What does it mean for
him to make sajdah? Just
accept in your heart, He's better than me.
If you accept that he's better than you,
Allah will make you better than you could
have ever been.
If you accept that the Prophet
is better than you, if you accept that
the Ahlulbayt, their family is better than your
family, if you accept that allama are better
than the people that that don't have knowledge,
people like me.
If you accept that the pious are better
than the impious like me, what happens? Allah
gives you a naseeb of what they got.
From the barakah Again, this is not just
me making up stuff, right? It's a hadith
of
Man will be with the one that they
love.
You're here. They're here. You love them? Allah
closes the gap.
You go from being like you know, you
go from being a 100 miles away from
their maqam to what? That you
you lower yourself and you can go and
touch their feet.
And don't do it in real life, but
I'm saying like in the world of meanings.
Right?
In the world of meanings.
You actually closes the gap between you and
them. If you can't do that, if you
can't do that for the ulama, if you
can't do that for the people of piety,
if you can't do that for the house
of Allah ta'ala, if you can't do that
for the ummah, if you can't do that
for the deen of Allah ta'ala, you're not
gonna go anywhere. But once you do what
happens, something that was closed before in your
heart, it opens up, and it brings you
a new world, it brings you a new
life. All of a sudden, the ayat of
the Quran becomes sweet for you to listen
to, all of a sudden they're filled with
wisdom, they're filled with hikmah, all of a
sudden you want to hear them again and
again. This tendency becomes so strong that there
are people who don't understand a lick of
Arabic, they themselves still cannot get enough of
hearing the book of the book of Allah
How much more sweet will it be then
if you understand what it means?
How much more sweet will it be if
you study them again and again? How much
more sweet will it be when you hear
every the the
So, it's Nadalie radiAllahu who narrates it from
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that it
doesn't get old from repeating it again and
again.
Its
wonders, they never cease. Meaning every generation, every
people will find something new about the Qur'an
that they didn't know from before.
It's not that they know more than
the aslaaf, but the Qur'an is the gift
that keeps on giving. That only opens when
you can like humble yourself.
You wanna build a community, we have to
have some order.
We have to have some order.
Democracy is
a convenient myth.
It has its limits.
Even in the American constitution, it has its
limits.
In reality, it has its limits. Everybody was
born equal, but then through
what they choose and through what Allah chooses,
then we're not equal anymore.
We're not equal anymore. By being able to
recognize that inequality, and benefit from those above
you, and to benefit those below you, that's
how a society works.
If you want to say, No, janab, I
don't have to listen to movies.
Okay, then like,
I guess no more Sahih Bukhari, like
what are we supposed to do now?
I just read a translation of the Quran
and understand Islam myself. Well who translated it?
The translator is not he's himself like an
angel or a prophet or something like that?
This is ridiculous.
This doesn't make any sense.
Forget about it's not Islamic. It doesn't make
sense. Even even a kafir who has a
sound aqul will understand how it doesn't make
sense. And you know what happens when people
say, you know what, I have my opinion,
you have your opinion.
What are they saying? They're saying there's no
order in Islam. It's anarchy. What does anarchy
mean? Anarchy doesn't mean that,
it doesn't mean that there's like people are
burning buildings.
Like, Masha'Allah, if anarchy is like a political
theory that you don't need government, you don't
need one person telling you what to do,
everyone can live on human decency.
There's some credence to this theory. If you
wanna see a proof to the credence of
this theory, look at Pakistan.
My own my own beloved homeland, Jiwaj of
Pakistan. Right?
I love Pakistan, Mashallah. If I I was
I wanted to just stay there, the masha'i
said you have to go back to America.
I really I wanted to stay there.
There are so many parts of Pakistan completely
lawless, completely there's no police, there's no nothing
no one's gonna enforce anything but still things
happen. People get married, they wake up, the
masajid
function, people you go to work, you know,
the food, you know, the poor get fed,
the economy still runs, May not be Germany
or Switzerland, but the economy does run. Masha'Allah.
People that have a livelihood. No one starves
to death in Pakistan. Right? Nobody starves to
death over there. Right? So there's some credence
to it, but, look,
the idea is what? If you come to
a man and say that there's anarchy, that
there's no hierarchy in in Deen.
What are you doing? You're saying the the
only hierarchy I respect is of the United
States government?
The only hierarchy I accept is of the
UN.
The only hierarchy I accept is at work.
The only hierarchy I accept is of the
57 genders they tell us about at school,
which hierarchy is it that you accept? That's
your deen.
That's your God.
And I'm not saying anything bad about America.
America, we have such a beautiful system with
checks and balances just because the founding fathers
of this country understood why you cannot make
the the government in your deen into your
deen, into the only one thing that you
respect.
They understood that.
Why is it that all we can do
is worship the state or all we can
do is worship money and worship power, but
when it comes to something that has to
do with the mihrath of Allah and His
Rasul
the mihrath of the Rasul
and the deen of Allah that we cannot
respect it,
This is the first foundation.
So, just like Mashallah, the end of the,
Bayan of our beloved brothers in Jamat, there's
going to be a tashkil, which is what?
You have to pray 5 times a day.
Right? Make a commitment to do that. You
already made it. You don't have to make
it. I'm not gonna ask you for it
right now. You already made it. If you
didn't, you should.
You're already fasting Ramadan. That those commitments are
already done.
Just like just like all of those other
commitments, you also have a commitment. You also
have a commitment to seek knowledge.
To seek the knowledge of Deen. You have
a commitment, it's a fard on Ummah that
someone has to seek the knowledge of the
Deen. Everybody has to know the Masayla of
Salat.
Everybody has to know if
the hafiz prays
a 3rd raka of tawawi, does he have
to make a 4th one or does he
just make such a subhu? Does he have
to repeat the the the qira'ah that he
read in the 3rd raka'ah or does he
not have to repeat it? The masala salat,
everybody has to learn. The masala if you
the masala is fasting, unless you're so sick
you can't fast, you have to learn it.
The masala of marriage, if you want if
you want to get married one day or
you're already blessed, masha'Allah,
with, the with marriage, masha'Allah.
You have to learn the Messiah of those
things and you're not going to learn them
from the Internet and from Sheikh Google or
from the Jumah Khutba or from being a
Muslim for a long time or from being
Pakistani or Indian or Arab or any of
that. You're not going to learn from any
of those things. You have to sit in
the halata,
tell be able to tell someone which book
you read and then you have to read
it again and again. You have to read
it like 5, 10 times
until you have mastered it. Why? Because any
compromise in any of those things, it's like
imagine a person like, you know, just skim
through the driver's
ed book and then like, you know, Oh
yellow, which one is that again? Is it
stop or is it go?
You're not gonna get your license. It doesn't
work that way.
You have to learn alifbaataha.
If you don't know that, just start with
that. You have to learn tajweed, how to
recite the Qur'an properly.
And tajweed doesn't mean having a nice voice.
Right? You have to learn the Arabic language.
What does it mean? Alhamdulillahi
Rabbil 'Aalah mean. What does that mean?
You know, like, you have to be able
to break it down. Wasira is what word.
You have to do those things and it's
not gonna happen quickly. It's not gonna happen
in a weekend. It's not gonna happen 40
days or 4 months. What is it? A
commitment for the rest of the of of
your life. This is the tashqil. That everybody
make a commitment
that I'll sit in that the the dars
of the ulema at least once a week
for the rest of my life.
If you're sick, make it up afterward.
I'm going to sit in the Darzadu alama
once a week for the rest of my
life.
Anyone here graduate from madrasah?
Any of our brothers who are madrasah graduates?
Mashallah,
mashallah
This applies like for normal people the tashkilah
is once a week for us it has
to be more
When you graduate, you have your dastar bandi
from Madrasah, and they give you Ijazah. Ijazah
is not saying that you're aalam, this is
Ijazah now go become aalam.
Now you have permission now go become aalam.
All of us, I sit in Darce once
a week religiously, I don't know how can
I explain, I kinda wanna like show off
or like riya or whatever? I sit in
Darce still.
I sit in Darce still. I still ask
questions about things people might find banal.
All of us have to sit in Darce
once a week. You're a Hafid al Quran,
you still have to sit in Darce once
a week to learn the other basics of
deen, to learn also the Qur'a, to learn
all sorts of things, you have to still
sit in Darsu, you know.
More than that, if you become a king
then make the madrasa and just sit there
full time. But until then, you have a
job, you have kids, you have a wife,
she doesn't understand. You have a husband, he
doesn't understand. You have kids, they don't understand.
You have parents, they don't understand. I get
it.
Once a week everybody can do
Now mashallah, zoom and,
Google Hangouts and
WhatsApp and Telegram, patanika. You have all of
these things at your YouTube live or YouTube
dead or whatever. You have all these means
at your
disposal. You have to do it religiously.
What does it mean religiously?
Like this is your Din, if you don't
do it, you're not following your Din.
I have so much more to say on
the topic, but I've already worn you out
and you've been pious people. Inshallah, we will
continue with the topic tomorrow,
insha'Allah. And then for the,
the the young,
young people, what ages did we say, what
ages did we say for the youth?
13. What's the cap?
Okay. Yeah. Okay. Anybody who's like of age
of respectability, you're welcome to attend. But if
you get offended,
I warned you.