Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 23 Ramadn 1443 Take Your Beauty at Every Masjid Muhammad LI 04242022
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By Allah's father, we've reached this Mubarik
23rd night of Ramadan.
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Ramadan.
The title of the talk,
the most beloved of places to Allah Ta'ala,
is taken from a hadith narrated from the
Rasul
that
That the most beloved of places to Allah
in the earth
are the
Masajid.
Someone would think
that sounds like
a relatively predictable thing to say.
Sounds really Muslim and Islamic y. Right?
It's Islam, so you're gonna say these messages
are good. Okay.
What can we learn about that?
Look at the other half, the other of
the hadith.
That the abhad, the most hateful of places
to Allah ta'ala Both means like hatred, spite.
The most hated of places to Allah is
what?
It's the aswaf. It's the bazaar. It's the
marketplace.
Now that's kind of weird. Right? Because most
of us go to the marketplace
all the time.
Some of us carry it with us in
our pocket. We say, look, Hadith, I'm not
going to the marketplace, so I'm gonna have
amazon.com inside of my pocket.
Think of that logic. What's the analogy of
it?
Because somebody might think, well, the worst of
places is the aswak. Like, why isn't it
like a a strip club?
It's dirty even talking about it in the
Masjid. Right?
Why wouldn't that be mentioned? You have a
reason. Sharia
sanctions reason to go to the marketplace.
It's not haram to go to the place.
It's not haram to go to the mall.
There are places where it's actually haram to
go. Strip club, you have no excuse to
be there. Ever. Never.
No no fatwa shopping
is gonna pay off for this one. You
never have a reason to go there. Why
is that not Haram?
Or why is that not the Abra Al
Bilal?
Why is it not mentioned as the Abra
Al Bilal?
The reason that Aswak is the most hated
of places to Allah is not because what
happens in the suk, what happens in the
marketplace is necessarily haram.
If you're buying
something halal, you're buying something necessary, the form
of the transaction is permissible,
the transaction is honest, you're an honest and
good Muslim,
the person you're buying from is an honest
and good Muslim,
the shop closes
at the time of salat, all of these
things.
Still, why is the mention of the aswaq
as
the most hated of places
to
Allah here. The understanding of this can be
taken from a small, very informative
snippet that was quoted by
the sheikh
Ali bin Uthman
al Jalabi, better known as Hajwari, better known
to our lower brothers as Data Ganj Bash.
People go and eat zardah for free at
the mazar, but nobody ever reads the book.
It's a good book. Kasr Al Majdub, it's
a good book.
He mentions that one of the masha'i said
that the aphaat, the calamities
of of money, are 3.
1 is that you use halal money to
buy haram things.
Your money is halal, but your chicken isn't.
The second is that you use your,
haram money to buy halal things.
You're selling alcohol at the liquor store. You're
running the strip club. I know of strip
clubs in America that are actually run by
Muslims, with iyadu billah.
Can't make the fear of the person, but
it's not
good.
Right? Money is haram
from gambling or from riba or from any
of these things.
The money is haram, but then afterward
is 100% certified,
beard, fist length,
and, white kurta go to Hajj every year.
And
these things happen like we've seen them before.
It's not normal. Usually, the people with white
beards are not usually like this, but it
does happen from to time. That somebody uses
the halal money and they use it for
a haram reason, and that's disgusting. It should
be clear to people why that's disgusting.
Those 2 are both understandable. The money is
haram, and you're buying halal things. The money
is halal, and you're buying haram things.
What's the 3rd the third thing he mentioned?
The 3rd calamity of the the of of
of wealth.
The 3rd calamity is you have halal money
and you buy halal things with it, but
it's a hijab between you and remembering Allah.
It's a hijab between you and remembering Allah
ta'ala.
It's a hijab between you and remembering Allah
that your money is 100% halal, and the
thing you're buying is 100% halal, and that
process somewhere in the middle you forgot
You lost Allah, so you lost everything.
If you understand
this concept, this idea, then you understand why
is it that
the marketplace.
Why? Why? Because you walk into the marketplace,
there's a 1,000 new things that taste wonderful
and look beautiful
and are interesting and are neat, and a
person thinks, how can I get this? How
can I buy it? Can I get it
on payments? Can I,
you know, pre order it? Can I reserve
it? Can I get it in my size?
You start thinking about all of these things
and in that moment, what happens?
In that moment, you forget Allah
Khaja Ubedu Lahra. Remember we visited him in
in Samarkand. Right?
He said that when he was a kid,
he used to remember Allah all the time
and he thought everyone did, like everyone was
like that because like why wouldn't you ever
think about Allah Ta'ala? Like, that doesn't make
any sense, does it? It doesn't make sense.
Right? She was like, that didn't make sense.
So I never thought, like, there are people
in the world that are heedless of Allah.
So then I
once I once, like, something happened and like
a bunch of mud splashed onto my clothes
and I was so angry and so upset
and then I realized, oh my god, I
forgot Allah Ta'ala for a moment, and then
I felt so ashamed of myself. I said,
look, all these animals and the birds and
everybody and look, this guy is walking down
the street. He's better. Everyone's better than me
because they don't forget Allah Ta'ala. Look, I
forgot Allah Ta'ala for a moment.
This is what the this is what the
ummah is built on, people
like that. The ummah is built on people
like that. That's what made the ummah what
it is. That's what made the ummah mighty
and powerful.
The idea is what is if you understand
the second part of the hadith that the
are hated to Allah not necessarily because something
bad is happening there or something haram is
happening there, but because of its propensity and
normal people to
make it very easy for them to forget
Allah
Then on the flip side, you'll also understand
something about the function of the masjid,
which is the masjid is a place that
you should
remember
Allah The Masjid is a place that you
should remember Allah
And just like going to the market is
not hated if you don't forget Allah when
you go there. It's really genius, the Rasool
Rasool It's a sunnah. You walk into the
marketplace
and you do all these things. There's all
these sunnah to make sure that you don't
forget Allah Ta'ala when you go there.
And we talked about this in the previous
couple of bayans. I don't know if everyone
was here, but like at Fajr time and
whatever, the idea that this is also part
of your deen, the way you transact. The
believer also has to make a living like
the non believer does. The only difference is
that the non believer, once he makes his
living, he's like, oh, look how smart I
am.
Whereas the believer says Alhamdulillah, look how generous
Allah is that he gave this to me.
That's the difference. Otherwise, both of them have
to make a living.
If you understand this about the Masjid, that
the Masjid is
the
place that you're supposed to remember Allah
You'll also understand that the masjid is the
analog of the marketplace, but the marketplace is
the marketplace of the dunya.
It's the Masjid of the akhirah.
Like, you know, what does that mean? Like
in the akhirah, do you have to go
to Jumaa?
How many rak'ahs are in Taawi, in the
in the akhirah?
No. There's no Tawhid. You don't have to
ever make wudu again. You don't have to
stand. You don't have to hear the Qari
sob recite. You don't have to hear a
fight. You don't have to hear you know,
think, should I put my heels on the
line or toes on the line or whatever.
After that, it's just iqram from Allah
forever. Forever.
Just like the masjid, there's a certain amount
of tedium that is involved in coming to
the masjid.
That tedium increases when it's the night of
fundraising.
That tedium increases when there's a ban after
fundraising.
Right? That's why the masjid is not full.
I actually was thinking when I saw all
the posters outside, I say, yeah,
You guys lost your mind. Don't put a
poster saying it's fundraising tonight. No one's gonna
come. They're gonna go to Masjid Hamza. They're
gonna go to you know, they're gonna go
to the other massages.
You gotta sneak you know, like in war,
you can't just tell the enemy you're coming,
you gotta like hide and bow, cancel, you
know. And then they're like, oh man,
Yeah. You're right. The girls do have to
learn Quran. Here's okay. But, like, if you
let them prepare, they're gonna they're gonna weasel
out of it. Yeah. I tried to weasel
out of it. I told Mona Kashif, I'm
gonna go upstairs and, like, read Quran, like,
while your fundraising is done. I'm not gonna
sit there. Because he told me after after,
you know, that that arrangement was made to
come that there's gonna be fund I'm like,
man, fundraising. Even I'm trying to weasel out
of it.
You guys are pious people, but there are
obviously some people who
think like me. Right?
The the marketplaces
like that for the akhira. It's TBM for
your akhira. It's something that will drag you
down in your afirah.
So if you flip the analogy the other
way around, this is one of the beautiful
things about Islam. Things make sense. Islam doesn't
work for you if you don't have Apple.
It doesn't work properly for you.
If you flip the analogy around, then what
is the Masjid?
The masjid is the bazaar of but for
the the Afira equivalent of the bazaar, the
Din equivalent of the bazaar of the marketplace.
And this is exactly what we heard from
our masha'if.
This is exactly what we heard from our
masha'if. Just like if a person wants something,
needs something, you go to the you go
to the store, you go to the marketplace,
you go to the mall. The mall, you
can dependably find everything at the mall. Something
or not. If you don't know where to
look for it, you can always start at
the mall. It's probably the easiest place for
you to go. What's good about the mall?
There's all sorts of different shops.
The Mas'id is like the mall, but for
the or it's supposed to be when it's
in its ideal form, it's like the mall
but for the Apira.
You can get your clothes there, you can
buy appliances there, you can buy a computer
there, you can buy jewelry there. You can
buy a new bicycle. You can buy a
lot of different you can buy real they
have kiosks where they sell real estate. You
can buy a house there. You can buy
all sorts of things over
there. The Masjid is like the bazaar of
the Aqira, and who are the shopkeepers? The
shopkeepers are the olema.
The shopkeepers are the olamah.
The currency in which you transact in the
masjid is what?
It's the currency not of this world, but
it's the currency of the hereafter.
What is the currency of the hereafter? The
currency of the hereafter is good deeds.
When we put our hands in the hands
of our
and took the
the the the path to Allah from them.
One of the things that we had to
pledge is that we we we acknowledge that
after death, nothing will benefit you except for
good deeds. Nothing.
Nothing will benefit you.
You're from Pakistan.
Good for you in America. You can go
get a nightcap. When you're in, the Kaabir,
angels don't
care. You're you're
you're white, black, tall, short. Don't they don't
care about any of it. You're a doctor.
You're a president. You're not it doesn't they
don't care about any of that stuff.
The only currency that works
for the dean the only currency that works
for the akhira is what?
Just like you're not gonna be able to
go back,
He
said,
what?
No. I had $10,000.
10,000 rupees is what? Like a $100 now?
Right? Or less than this? Less than it's
actually less than a 100. Allah
help our home help all the Muslims. Amin.
Right? No. If you bring 10,000 rupees and
try to buy something with it, even if
you try to buy a snickers bar, no.
They'll be like, what is this?
Take this back to Africa. Like, we don't
accept this here. Right?
What do you have to have if you
wanna buy something in America? What do you
have to have? The dollar. Nobody cares. Dollar
is king. Nobody cares about euros and pounds.
Nobody cares about rupees and none of these
things. Nobody cares about any of that.
The hereafter what's the currency of the hereafter?
Deeds.
Good deeds. Someone. Mawlana Saba, how come you
were standing up there raising money right now?
Ah, got you.
Right?
Then when you go to a different country,
when you go on Hajj and Umrah and
whatever, what do you do? You have to
go change your money.
Our
beloved imam Munzir Talib, who came and he
gave his heart, mashallah.
You can't say that he wasn't sincere. He
gave his heart to the Masjid,
Masjid when asking for money. What is he?
He's like a money changer. Right?
Because your dollars, he's telling you, look, you're
gonna need you're gonna you're going on this
trip, you're never gonna come back, you're gonna
need some
you're you're gonna need some currency on that
side. So I'm like a money changer. Change
your dollars and then take the currency that
works over there.
Take your currency that works over there. Who
are the shopkeepers?
The shopkeepers are the ulema, the people of
knowledge. This one will teach you aqidah, this
one will teach you fiqh, this one will
teach you how to recite the Quran, this
one will teach you alifbaatatha,
this one will teach you the memorization of
the Quran, this one will teach you tafsir,
this one will teach you hadith, this one
will teach you almul kalam, this one will
teach you all these different
all of these different sciences of the deen.
They'll teach you. They have, like, different shops
just like there's one shop that
sells clothes and one shop that sells computers
and one shop that sells
Bed Bath and Beyond nice smelling things and
whatever. Right? They're different shops.
Now the mall is going to be as
successful as the
the the how good the shops are.
The number of shops you can find and
the quality of the shops that you can
find. If you have a mall where everybody
just sells kitchen knives, is anyone gonna go
to that mall?
No. Because people if you need a kitchen
knife, yeah, but how many people need a
kitchen knife? Right? People have all sorts of
needs.
Now, what's the problem in America? What's the
problem not in America only, but the problem
since the time of the aslaf. Because
Rasul
the way he set the program, it worked
really well for a long time.
And then what happens,
sometimes good people rule and sometimes tyrants rule.
The
administration,
whether it's the government, whether it's the masjid
board, whether whoever it is. Right? Right? They're
like the like the mall
whatever, the the mall administration,
the people who make sure that the, you
know, that collect the rent from the shop
shopkeepers and they, make sure that the mall
is clean and they provide security
in the parking lot and they,
you know, provide public bathrooms and whatever.
The Admal administration, no matter how good they
are, no matter how good they are,
do people come for the Admall administration or
do they come to buy from the shops?
From the shops. They come to buy from
the shops. So already we know there's a
there's a
siyasi. This is not even a this is
not even necessarily a fiqhish, it's a siyasi
failure. When there's
some sort of tasadim, when there's some sort
of, like,
incompatibility
between the administration and between the shopkeepers, between
the administration of the masjid, whether it's the
government or whether it's a private entity and
then the and the ulama.
Good news, glad tidings, masha'Allah,
Mubarak Bad, that the masjid actually has an
alim as an imam. Most masajid in America
don't have ulama as imams. For those of
you who've been here from the nineties, most
masajid in America don't even have imams in
the first place. Oftentimes, they'll hire speakers or
reciters, but people who don't really have any
substantial amount of knowledge.
This is a problem that used to happen
in the past as well.
We mentioned Hajjaz bin Yusuf yesterday, how many
of the ulema did he kill? How many
of the ulama he killed because they wouldn't
give fatwa according to his tyrannical policies.
The last of the ulama he killed was
a disciple of
Abdullah bin Abbas
an individual by the name of Sayid bin
Jubeir.
His hadith come in the books of hadith.
He was a master, scholar of the of
the aslaf of the Tabireen,
and he was one of the mashaikh of
Basra.
And
he wouldn't tow the party line. Hajjaj called
them, told them, resend this fatwa, give that
fatwa, change this, change that. He says, no.
And Hajjaj says to him, he says,
you're so brave. He says, you think I
have any problem killing you? I've killed way
bigger people than you. You're like nothing. For
me to kill you is like nothing for
me. And what did he say? He said,
I know the others that you killed were
better, bigger and better people than me. He
says, they were better than me. All of
them forgave you before they died because of
their piety. I said, I'm not gonna forgive
you.
And he executed Saiedem Jaber,
3 days. Within 3 days, he himself, he
went mad and he he died.
He lost his he lost his mind. He
saw blood everywhere, and he would was just
caught saying, Maliwassaidin
Jubeir. Like, what? Leave me alone, Sayedin Jubeir.
And that's it. And
he died.
Now
the idea is if you want to build
the Masjid, the point of the Masjid is
what? The ideal masjid is what? It's a
place where
the sukha of the akhira comes alive.
You can come and transact in the currency.
You can earn the currency of the akhira.
You can exchange the currency of the akhira.
You can go to the bazaar of the
akhira and buy the things that you're going
to need in order to prepare for that
akhirah.
It is not a political center.
It is not a commercial center.
It is not a cultural center.
It is not a place that you go
to make friends and influence people. It's not
any of those things.
What is it? It's the house of Allah
Now,
that being said, someone says, well, you're saying
it's not all of these things. How come
they used to do so much in the
Masjid of Madinah Munawara?
There's a clue and a cue to the
answer to this question in the book of
Allah Ta'ala,
which is in the hadith in the eye
of the Surat Surat Al Araf, after one
of the ayaat that we
mentioned yesterday,
Right? What is the Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, progeny of Adam, alaihis salam, meaning all
mankind. Now if you read the books of
tafsir,
there's a very particular for
which this ayah
is revealed, and it's very strange.
And in the interest of time, I'm not
going to mention it because I thought yesterday
the talk was almost an hour. Today, I'm
going to cut it off at half an
hour because there was
know it. It's very strange actually itself will
be a 20 minute digression.
But suffice to say, I'm not going to
mention it right now. When you hear it
later, don't say that this movie doesn't know
what he's talking about and just made stuff
up.
Rather know that this is a principle of
tafsir that when there's shan al nuzul, a
reason for
being revealed, this is a principle of tafsir.
If you wanna learn the tafsir of the
Quran, this is one of the usul of
the tafsir of Quran,
is that if there is an occasion on
which an ayah is revealed,
that ayah has meaning with connection to that
occasion, but it's also true in general. But
it's also true
in general.
This is one of the beauties of the
Quran is that it has meanings on so
many different levels.
A relatively simple minded person will understand one
thing,
an engineer will understand something else, a poet
will understand something else, an artist will understand
something else, a parent will understand something else,
a person from this age will understand something
else, a person from the other age will
understand something else, and all of them can
be true at the same time. This is
part of the miracle of the Quran. So
few words, so rich in meaning.
So few words, so rich in meaning. Not
just so rich in meaning, infinite in meaning.
If the ocean
and there's only one ocean. How many oceans
are there? So Pacific, Atlanta, it's all one
ocean.
It's called panthalasia, you can look it up
on Wikipedia if you think I'm making it
up. Okay?
If the ocean
were ink with which to write
the words of my lord,
the ocean would have exhausted
before finishing writing the words of my lord
and even if we brought another ocean after
it. Now the can come up, the amount
of ink it takes to write the is
far less than an ocean worth of ink.
Right?
The point is, is what? It has to
do with the Why? Because
this is again another
aside that we don't have time for, but
because the Quran is not just the words
of Allah It's
the the the kalam of
Allah which is transcendent above physical things. The
words are just a marker that allow you
to connect with it. Otherwise, the haptikah of
the Quran is something far deeper. This is
why
that you came and heard even if you
don't understand the lick of Arabic.
Still, it has an effect on you, and
the one who understands Arabic still doesn't take
even like a drop of the ocean. Why?
Because Allah
is infinite, his infinite.
What we understand is very little. What the
greatest ulama understand all of them can come
together and still nothing compared to what the
Hatifa is.
So
yes. This this these ayaat have a general
meaning as well as a particular signification.
Take your beauty.
Literally means what? Take your beauty
at every every Masjid, at every Masjid, and
eat and drink and don't waste.
Meaning what? Make the masjid beautiful if you
like to.
Wear your nice clothes, wear your nice bagri,
your nice ring.
He asked me, how much are you gonna
you're gonna sell your fundraising
You guys also help me out. Give another
$10,000 so I can keep my my my
izat, you know? Don't don't don't be izat
me before I go back
to Chicago, right? The idea is what?
The idea is take your your beauty, look
look nice within the
you know,
That and eat and drink. Enjoy yourself,
eat and drink, but don't waste.
The tafasir of don't waste, there are a
number of different tafasir for it. One of
them is
wastage is what? That a person should consume
everything that they find delicious.
Someone says, ah, look, see, Moby is still
trying to cut me out. It's for your
own good, it's for your own good. The
coma is dying of diabetes and obesity, like,
it's actually more enjoyable to eat a little
bit less, right?
If
you understand that.
Some of us have learned this the hard
way, if you understand that. Right? But the
point is it's not that you're not supposed
to enjoy.
The point is that you're supposed
to enjoy, but everything
like establish your faces, the direction of your
face in every Masjid that there's an orientation
for the enjoyment that we have in the
life of this world, which is what? Which
is the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The point of the Masjid is not drudgery.
The point of the masjid is not that
a person should be down. The point of
a masjid is not that a person should
be depressed, and there's fun things outside and
you're like being deprived of all of them.
The point of the masjid is what? The
person who finds happiness in this place, that
person, the entire world burns down and they
lose their entire family and they say, Alhamdulillah.
There's a type of happiness that
reside so deep inside of a person, it's
unassailable from anything in this dunya. It's unassailable
from anything in this dunya. And you see
it happens, Allah test people.
That's the whole story about Sayna Ayuba
Look, Allah tested him. He took his family
away. He took his health away. He took
his
every he took everything from him. And and
and and shaitan said to Allah
that this this guy, he's just he's just
a good he's just good and he's just
thankful to you because
he has all this money and he has
such a nice life. Like, anyone would be
thankful. Not really.
He mentioned it.
In fact, more people are thankful to Allah
when they're getting beat up than are thankful
to Allah when they have
nirma, when they have blessing.
But he said, you know what? This guy,
he's just he's just he just acts like
a good guy because he has money, and
he's happy, and he eats and drinks. You
take it all away from him, and look
what happens. Allah took it all away from
him.
And his akhlaq forget about forget about his
iman. Like, you saw him say, okay. Well,
he's still Muslim at least. Right? Even his
akhlaq didn't get damaged
to the point where the
the
the wounds that he had were festering
and the
maggots that were eating at his wounds, one
of them fell out. He felt bad. This
poor maggot is gonna starve to death. He
picked it up and put it back in
his wound.
Kids, don't try this at home.
By all means, clean all the maggots out
of your wounds. I'm just saying that there
are some people Allata created, they really are
amazing, and don't try it at home.
You'll hurt yourself. Don't try it at home.
The idea
is what? It's not that you're trying to
Allah wants you to be deprived of any
benefit or any happiness.
Rather, it's
a happiness that lasts forever and it's a
happiness that's worth having.
It's a happiness do you think the people
who made their money out of harming other
people, do you think they sleep at night
happily? No.
The people who enjoy themselves
by harming other people, the people who enjoy
themselves through pointlessness and frivolity?
No.
What do they do? They end killing themselves.
There's a Swedish guy, I remember, I heard
a a news story on the NPR. He
was a DJ.
He used to do parties every single night.
They would pay him, like, over a $100,000
to DJ a party.
Look. I'll be honest with you. Sounds fun.
Maybe not to you guys because you're pious
people. To me, that sounds like a lot
of fun.
Right? Drinking is haram, so we don't do
it and I don't encourage it to anybody.
But I've seen some drunk people and they
look like they're enjoying themselves.
This is a very bizarre thing to hear
in the masjid from Mullana Saab, but they
look like they're enjoying themselves, and I'll give
another that it's not I'm not a 100%
off base. If wine was evil, it wouldn't
be in Jannah.
Allah made it haram, and it harms you,
and it's
is there because Allah forbade it, and the
harm it does to you in this world
is greater than the benefit. Don't drink. Don't
go anywhere near it.
But if it was in and of itself
evil, Allah
would not allow you to do it in
Jannah. Like, there's no murder. Someone's like, I
like killing people. Can I murder people? No.
But, Mullana Saab, you said that I can
do whatever I want in Jannah.
I said, look, one of the prerequisites of
entering Jannah is that Allah cures you of
your sickness. And this is a very sick
thing that you have inside of you that
you like to
kill people.
Allah will cure you of it. You won't
want that anymore. You won't want that that
sick thing anymore.
You'll be cured of it. You'll be normal
again. You'll be whole again. The thing that
happened to you, you hit your head against
the brick wall too hard one time or
whatever it was. Right? You'll be cured of
it. You won't want to murder people in
jannah. Why? Because murdering people is like really
bad.
This guy is every night party, every night
music, every night drinking,
drugs, all sorts of stuff and he seemed
to be in good health. It's not like
it was killing him or anything.
What happened before he reached 40? Somewhere in
his middle thirties, he killed himself. Why? Because
his life is completely pointless. And, you know,
they're obviously, whenever somebody dies this is a
weird thing that kafirs do is that, you
know, they'll treat each other like garbage when
they're alive, but when someone dies, oh,
Bill was so wonderful, and we're gonna miss
all of his jokes, and he was just,
you know, this and that. He was the
best person in the world and this and
that another thing. Right? And when he's alive,
it's like, oh, man, these stupid jokes again,
man. I hope you wish you didn't get
to tell us dumb jokes. Right? In Islam,
we're ordered. Don't talk bad about people so
bad when they're alive and when they're gone.
Instead of praising them, make du'a for them.
Instead of praising them excessively or making a
marfiya
eulogizing them, make dua for them.
So what happened? They're like, oh, you know,
his all of his parties, you know, the
one theme was, like, you know, life is
hard and I don't know what's gonna happen
tomorrow but, like, this one night, let's just
enjoy ourselves.
Allah is trying to give you the happiness
that's not just this one night, enjoy yourself
because you do that again and again and
again, then one day you realize life is
pointless in you.
Right? And then on the akhirah people find
something
unexpected. That's a whole another story. But even
in the dunya, people come to the conclusion
that this is not really happiness.
This is frivolity.
Allah made the Masjid so that you can
come and buy and sell and take those
that merchandise.
Indeed, the merchandise of Allah is expensive and
valuable.
That indeed the merchandise of Allah is is
Jannah itself.
You can come and transact in that merchandise
of Jannah. You pay buy that you buy
it, and people enter into Jannah
in this world as well.
Someone says, oh, now now he's talking weird.
Now he's talking you've been to the Roalda
Sharifah. Right?
That's not the only part of Jannah that's
in this world.
The ajwah tree is also a tree from
Jannah. A person, whenever they're in the zikr
of Allah
the Rasulullah
said,
There are that that state of jannah enters
onto a person. Why is it that you
wear a hram when you wear a hram?
Those are the adab of jannah,
that your hair is unshorn and your your
nails are not cut. All of these things
happen after Sayna Adam alaihi wasalam was sent
back to
was Pakistan was sent to this dunya, dunya,
dunya, dunya, right?
Dunya.
Nails,
hair, none of that. You're in your natural
state. That's your natural habitat, like fishes in
water. We're out of the water right now,
but that's what the water is. There are
certain states a person enter enters into. These
states are the
the the the the edenic states. They're the
the the the
that a person is in, and that's why
it makes your heart feel good for some
time. Taraweeh, does it feel good? Of course
not. You're standing, you're tired, you're sleepy, you
fasted the entire day. But still, when you
leave Taraweeh, even if you don't understand the
lick of Arabic,
you feel clean inside.
Not only Muslims. I've seen non Muslim pray
Taraweeh as well, and they describe the same
state.
When you fast the month of Ramadan, everyone's
like inside, they're like, oh, man. Fasting is
gonna be hard. Right? But at the same
time, people enjoy it.
Why? Because it may be hard on the
body, but for the for the for the
heart, for that couple of moments, you, like,
stop being a genre, you stop being like
an animal
and you be like an angel for for
a little bit. Allah made you to be
that way.
That's what the real happiness is, that's what
the true happiness is.
So the politics,
if we want to
go go further, the politics that are there
in the masjid are the ones that are
connected with getting you to Jannah.
The buying and selling is the buying and
selling that's connected with you getting you to
go to Jannah. Mullana Kashir Bichara, he should
take a break, but the madrassa he studied
in Benuri town. Right? What is there's an
entire mall around the Benuri town. Right? Go
to Hanafia Abrosht. Who's there? Where's the Karate
you guys here? You people don't know don't
know a damn thing about the Madars. Everyone
knows where a Hanafiyah brosht is. Right?
Right?
And go get
a roast beef sandwich. The closest thing you're
gonna get to a roast beef sandwich in
Karachi, you go over there and there are
bookstores and there's falooda and there's ice cream
and there's juice shops and there's, like, all
sorts of, like, the best stuff to have.
You know, you can you can get it
all around there. Why? Because those those shops
are
those shops are rented out to shopkeepers
and the rent from it goes to run
and support the Masjid.
That marketplace is you know, there's a nisbat
that it has it's different than the other
marketplaces. The nisbat that it has to what?
To what? To Jannah.
Right?
Obviously, you can still go and like, you
know, do something haram there or blow your
time and forget Allah. In that sense, if
you want to, you can even come to
the Masjid and forget Allah. I know a
lot of people who do that. They'll get
into shouting matches, they'll get into political fights,
they'll get into all sorts of things, they'll
fight about all sorts of things. You can
also forget Allah in the Masjid as well.
It's just
under normal circumstances,
it's less likely.
You wanna have a marketplace? The Muslims had
marketplaces. The greatest marketplaces that the Muslims had
were connected to what? They were connected to
the Deen. They're connected to the masjid, they
would pay for the madaris, they would pay
for
the the hankah. Hankah is a place where
a person goes to make the dhikr of
Allah, learn the dhikr of Allah, cut themselves
off from cut themselves off from those parts
of the dunya that makes a person forget
Allah, where a person who's spiritually ill can
get treatment
and make them restore themselves back to spiritual
health again. All of these just different institutions
are what? They're they're all like specializations of
the one same institution which is the Masjid.
That's a place where you pray 5 times
a day, and you do zikr. This is
a place where you pray 5 times a
day and you can learn different books of
ill. This is a place where you pray
5 times a day and you can
Treat the sick. Hospitals used to be built
around Masajid.
Right? This is a place where you can
pray 5 times a day, Mirza Al Hu
Beq, and you can learn astronomy.
The calculations that they had about the earth
that they made in the medieval times in
in those places, they're like accurate toward, like
1%.
The idea is what? You can have in
those days, in those old days, those old
Madars,
you can have someone who's an astronomer, someone's
a physician,
somebody is an engineer, somebody is a muhaddith,
somebody is a party, somebody is a faqih.
All of them are ulama. All of them
wear the same jubba, all of them wear
the same pagri, they wear the same turban.
All of them, if you ask them the
basic
they'll tell you, you know, all of them
if you ask them the they'll
tell you. All of them, if you ask
them about hadith and basic they'll tell you.
The specialized things, he says, I'm
of Deen,
and I specialize in
I specialize in astronomy.
Right? We read it yesterday, right?
It also has
with the book of Allah Right? This is
a of the that we've separated all of
these things out, and said, this part of
the deen we like and this part we
don't like, so we'll call this part secular
and we'll call that part religion.
That's not the way our fore fathers used
to understand it. It's not even a very
good way of understanding it in the first
place at all anyway.
So the idea is what is
that
that he he,
that he doesn't Allah doesn't like the people
who are don't don't be excessive, don't be
wasteful,
Don't be excessive, don't be wasteful. Enjoy your
things, build the masjid, make it nice.
You don't have to build it out of
gold. That would be wasteful because people would
be starving to death in your
but within
reasonable means make the masjid look beautiful.
It's mentioned that he once went to Madinah
Munawara with his Shaykh Shab'l Qadr Raipur
and he complained to the shaykh because he
was of a little bit more of a
political bent from his youth. He complained to
the shaykh about, oh, look how much money
they spent on this masjid because I could
have spent it on the poor, this, that
and the other thing, right? The Sheikh said,
it's because they made this place beautiful that
Allah makes the rest of the world beautiful.
Spend your money on the masjid. Right? These
are your daughters that are gonna go and
like sorry to go fall back in the
fundraiser mode. Right? But these are your daughters
that are gonna these are the daughters of
our ummah, the ummah, the prophet
that are gonna go here. Do you know
what their other alternatives are? What they can
do with their time? Do you want your
daughters to go to those places?
Do you want your daughters to be
or do you want them to, you know
because the person get get in where they
fit in, you know. Would you rather that
that your daughter teach
Quran to her own children to the other
children? Or would you rather she be the
next Jennifer Lopez? Like, is that what you
want?
You should be teaching Jennifer Lopez the Quran.
Right?
You meaning the sisters. But you know what
I mean?
That's how that system is supposed to be
working.
The point is is all of these all
of these different things,
said, spend be creative, learn things, advance things,
make things beautiful, make things nice, arrange your
social
occasions around it, arrange your political occasions around
it, arrange everything, eat and drink, enjoy yourself.
Just don't be wasteful in doing so. Why?
Because Allah doesn't like people who are wasteful.
Say, who who made haram? Who made haram
the beauty that Allah
put forth
for his slaves?
And the pleasant things from provision that Allah
made for you. The
the pure things, the pleasant things from your
from from risk.
They are for the people who,
believe in the life of this world. Someone
may say, well, the other people, the people
who don't believe they get it as well.
Insha Allah. Insha Allah, they'll also believe one
day as well.
But even if they don't,
for them it's taken without Haqq for you
and me, Allah made it for us.
And on the day of judgement, the people
of disbelief won't won't won't have any part
of it whatsoever.
They won't even be able to misappropriate any
part of it like they misappropriate it in
this world.
And the fun thing is what? You wanna
know what the haptic of the reality of
the dunya is? The Rasul
said that this dunya means nothing to Allah.
This dunya means nothing to Allah to Allah.
What
the wing of a gnat would mean to
one of you?
In general, they translate the word in in
Urdu as a
as a mosquito,
but this is a wrong translation.
I haven't seen
in the cities in Pakistan,
but you see it in the when you
when you're in the desert. It's a very
small insect. It's smaller than a mosquito, in
fact. Its sting is different than the mosquito
bite. The sting has a much more intense
burning type of itch than than the mosquito
bite, but it's smaller. Oftentimes, it's green and
it's it's actually much smaller than a mosquito.
So understand that forget about mosquito, mosquitoes are
too much. Even less than the mosquito, imagine
the wing of a gnat.
If you were to
buy, say, how can I how much can
I pay for it? You what? You're gonna
transact in it by the pound? Like it's
something completely worthless.
How much the wing of a knot would
mean to one of you? The dunya means
even less than that to Allah
And if it meant even that much to
Allah
even what the wing of means to you.
Meaning you even acknowledge that it exists.
That's all we do for it. That's the
only value. We acknowledge it exists.
If you have even the if Allah cared
about the the dunya even as much as
one of you care for the wing of
a gnat, he would not give even one
sip of water to a kafir.
Now to you and me, you say, well,
the dunni is kinda I get for Allah
doesn't mean anything, but for us, it's kinda
fun. Okay. Fine.
You
have ijazah to go eat and drink.
Take your your beauty at every masjid. Wear
nice clothes, have nice classes, you know,
have nice activities. Do all of it oriented
around the don't be excessive with it, but
do all of those things.
Say, who who who said that who made
haram the the beauty that Allah sent forth
for his for his slaves? It's for the
people who believe. And on the day of
and and the and the it's
not going to be for anybody else other
than for them.
This is the
the the idea that we should have for
the masjid.
The masjid should be not just
that because of our fiduciary duty, we run
him into the ground.
You should have a different scholar at every
pillar of the masjid masjid and every corner
of the masjid.
This is how the Haram and Sharifin used
to be.
Right? Hajjaj killed many of the ulema.
Abu Jafar Mansur, the the the first effective
ruler of Banu Abbas,
he was politically astute man. Even though he
was also he was also a butcher, he
killed a lot
of people. He was also a butcher. He
was also a very,
like, homicidal person.
However, he understood he understood that, look, you
have to have the ulema on your side,
otherwise, the population is
is not gonna side with you. Islam is
what makes the masjid work. Islam is what
makes the government work.
Although you're supposed to do it for the
sake of Allah, but at least he had
this much sensibility that, like, also, if you
wanna be king and you want to have
a country to be king of, you have
to the Islam has to kinda
work. So he honored the he honored the
ulama and ulama wouldn't accept his honor from
him because they're like, this guy is just
doing it for his politics.
But he understood this idea that you have
to you have to honor the ulama. This
system, it's a type of political sensibility that
the Muslim kings have had, and they lost
it when they lost it at the time
of of
colonization. Otherwise, in the Ottoman up until the
Ottoman era, the
Haram in every pillar in
in the
Masjid Haram, every pillar indeed, Masjid of the
Prophet
in Madinah Munawala, there was a scholar, master
scholar, they're teaching for people for free.
People from the entire world would come and
study. Muhammad
raised his rank so much he had he
would say people say I'm Madani, I never
called myself Madani, I'm from Faizabad. But he
was Madani Maisha. He taught the hadith of
the prophet
for 16 years
in the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam's Masjid. So
you think maybe who knows? Maybe it's like
the Dabli Jamata Alim, you know, he's sitting
with Fazali Ahmad, the 2 like desi guys
in the Masjid are listening to him, right?
That's what happens.
The 2, 3 desi guys in the Masjid,
everybody else leaves.
No. The great great masha'i from the world
used to listen to his dars. Ask
there's a the brother from Algeria, if the
brother from there's a brother I think from
Algeria,
that that I met earlier, I assume maybe.
I'm assuming he's from Algeria. Ask him, do
you know the name of the sheikh Abdul
Hamid bin Badis?
Sheikh Abdul Hamid bin Badis, if you wanna
send a letter in Algeria,
his pictures on the postage stamp, that's how
big of a deal he is.
Why? Because he had asked Hazrat Madini when
he was studying hadith from him in Madin
al Munawara, he said the French have overthrown
our lands
and they have destroyed the institutions of Deen
and
proliferating drinking and indecency and all of these
things to the point where a decent and
they humiliate the good people, the people of
ill and the people of good akhlaq, and
they're promoting all of the Badmash people, all
of the all of the people of bad
akhlaq in society,
and like, I feel like I can't I
can't spare my deen over there. Can I
just stay here instead?
Adul Nadir said, no. You have to go,
you have to learn your knowledge and prepare
yourself and you have to go back and
guide your people and you have to resist
them.
You have to go back and you have
to resist them.
And guess what? The French eventually
had to leave Algeria and they didn't do
it because they wanted to. They might pretend
they did, but they didn't. They did it
because they were forced to.
And who is considered by the Algerians the
spiritual leader of the resistance? Abdul Hamid
bin Badis.
Ask an Algerian if you think I'm just
Mullana Saab just spouting it off. Do you
know this guy who this They won't know
who Hazr They may not know who Hazruddin
is, but they know who Abdul Hamid bin
Badis is. The letters
still exist though between them, their teacher and
student. People used to come to him and
study from all over
the Muslim world.
That's what a masjid is supposed to be.
It's supposed to be an open place, it's
supposed to be a vibrant
place like that. That's what the masjid is
supposed to be.
Why are our cab drivers driving for the
Uber of the Kafirs? Why don't we have
our own?
No, Azat, you know, Masjid only for the
namaz darsid. We don't talk about anything else
here.
Okay. Like, I get the fact that you
shouldn't every Bayan shouldn't be about politics.
I get that. And about and most of
them shouldn't be about politics.
But there should be some circle of a
level of people who are thinking for the
ummah at that level. You know why there
isn't?
Because when I tell you, if you ask
me a about namaz, you won't believe
me. If you ask me about
you won't believe me. If I tell you
about anything, everybody will argue with me.
And I've actually had this, I've worked with
I've been imam in Masajid before.
Someone put in a message of contract that
you have to you have to you have
to,
show you have to show patience and good
character to everybody who comes to you.
I was like, look. I agree. Like, as
a general concept, you should show patience and
good character to everyone who comes not just
because you're imam, but, like, just as a
human being, you know, not even as a
Muslim only, as a human
being. I go, you cannot put this in
my contract. People come and they say all
sorts of rude things to the imam. I
remember once the masjid president said, you know,
we should have a certain modicum of customer
service. I'm like, customer
service, I'm not selling anything.
You're giving them money at Walmart, that's why
they kiss up to you. If you didn't
give them money, they wouldn't care if you
live or die.
There should be some sort of modicum of
dignity where a person, the knowledge and expertise
they have has some sort of respect, it
has some sort of authority.
Oh no, but our imam is you know,
he doesn't know what he's talking about, he
makes things up. Then get a better imam.
But that cost money, then pay for it.
The idea is this is the people who
are gonna say like, oh well, just the
namaz and that's it. Right? That's good. Namaz
is good. It's a lot. It's not something
unimportant. There are some people like, Oh, look
at that, that's nothing. It's a big deal.
It's the start of the journey, and it's
a big part of the journey, but it's
not the entire journey.
And anyone who will tell you it's the
entire journey, what are they trying to say
to you? They're trying to say to you
that the Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's mission
is a failure.
Why?
Because Allah said to Sayna Adam Alaihi Wasallam,
he said about him
that the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is the
Khalifa of Allah in the earth. The Rasul
Sayyidina Abu Bakr Siddiq is the khalifa of
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. People people talk about there's a
crew that likes to say, Khilafa, Khilafa, talk
about
They just talk about
and they should be talking
about And in general I have very little
opinion of most of those people.
I really have a very little opinion about
most of the people. Not necessarily because
they talk about the importance of khilafafaf, it's
part of our deen.
I think if you don't know how to
pray yet,
I think it's not immediately something Allah is
gonna ask you about.
And for every Muslim, for most Muslims, it's
something their obligation with regards to it is
to keep it in their heart and to
make iman that this is part of the
deen that if it's ever possible, that it's
a commandment of Allah to do it. And
when it's possible, then go ahead and do
it by all means. But if it's not
possible, getting into fights with, like, your local
imam and things like that, it's not gonna
help. It's not actually helping you to make
a khalafa.
You know, I tell those people, I go,
you don't even have enough like sophistication to
understand how to run a grocery store. It's
complicated. You know, you wanna run What are
the grocery stores that you have in New
York City?
Retail. Or whatever. Like, you know, like you
have Giant Eagle in Ohio, and you have
like all the vegetables. There's like $1,000,000 worth
of vegetables. How do you calculate when they
come in, when they come out? It's like
really complicated.
You can't talk about
like without being a joke, if you don't
even know how to run a
grocery store.
Right?
But here's the good news, masha'Allah. The
Khilaf of this Ummah never died. It didn't
stop with the Ottoman Empire.
You have the khilafa, you rule the world,
you rule the world. All of you rule
the world. Now what are you gonna do?
It's yours. Who said so? Allah said so.
What are you gonna do now? Go take
care of your kingdom.
Now it's when the, you know,
that, oh,
the the the the first bait of the
of Hafiz that that, oh,
Saki, the the the the barkeeper
pulled on a cup and fill it fill
it with wine and hand it to me.
Because in the beginning,
love seemed like it would be really easy,
and that's when all of my problems started.
Your you're a philosopher, this entire thing, it
all belongs to you. Now go run it.
Do something about it. But Sheikh, they don't
listen.
Well, maybe you're gonna have to think about
how we're gonna fix that, aren't you?
They don't give to the message. We're gonna
have to think about how to fix that,
aren't you? They don't come to pray. We
have to think about how to fix that,
aren't you?
But I can't do all those things at
the same time. Well, then maybe you should
make friends with the Muslim shopkeepers because they're
gonna help you get the money, and maybe
you should make friends with the Bili Jamaat
because they'll help people to come and pray
the masjid, and maybe you should make friends
with the molanas because
you don't know how to do a janaza
and, like, maybe you should make friends with
this because no one person can do everything.
We have this mentality, one person wants to
do everything. Right? Like, you know, that's like
works that's a good plotline from, like, Marvel
comic movies, but in real life, it's not
how it happens. The Rasul
if anyone could have done it, it was
him. And he still it's a sunnah not
to do that. It's delegate work to people.
Sometimes people used to mess up their job
too.
That's part of the system.
Messing up is part of the system. You're
not supposed to do it intentionally. But when
it happens, I mean, that doesn't mean the
system is broken. That's actually part of the
way the system is supposed to work.
This is the the the thing that we
have to think about about the masjid. This
is the thing that we have to think
about the masjid, is that it's going to
be this thing.
And this is the the glad tidings to
you. If you're upset with your imam,
don't worry. The masjid belongs to Allah. If
you're upset with your board, don't worry. The
masjid belongs to
Allah If you're upset with the guy next
to you, because he I don't wanna come
to Tarawi because he ate too much biryani
and he burps a lot.
People forgot adab, I think, during the lockdown.
It's like this this year is really bad,
really. I just I get stuck between 2
volcanoes.
And I'm like, god, just eat less, man.
Like, what's going on here? Okay. Just step
back a couple of lines and pray in
the masjid. Right? It's Allah ta'ala's house. It's
not like these people are not why you
come or why you don't come.
Can you believe these people fight with each
other? They don't even have Eid on the
same day. I go, you don't even pray
fajr, man. Just a conflict.
True story.
Guy was smoking a cigarette and talking about
and then he was smoking a cigarette, I
go, you don't even pray man. What are
you so but it's still wrong. I'm like,
I get lost, man.
I'm done with all of that. We should
all be done with all of that. You
make your connection with the with the house
of Allah for the sake of Allah If
you want if you want if you want
some change in the masjid, make it happen.
You don't need ijazit from from Molana Saab,
you don't need ijazit from from
the board. You don't need you already have
your jazits from Allah to Allah.
Make mashra because sometimes you think it's a
good idea and it may not be a
good idea, but after you make mashra and
you
you know, and it really is a good
idea, go do it. Go do it. But
don't look at the masjidah as those persons
are our persons or whatever. It's all belongs
to Allah
and so do you and so do me.
So
the the bond is there. The rest of
it is just that we have to now
work on the mandate that we've been given
in order to try to make it a
better place. Allah
reward you. You listen to the entire thing.
I wanted to end it at half an
hour. I really did. And now I did
what I said I wasn't going to, which
is we're at 54 minutes right now. So
we'll end right now. But
Allah give and revive this message and revive
all of our masajid into being the things
that we want them to be. And Allah
give us the patience to be connected with
the house of ta'ala so that we can
be from the people who are shaded on
the day that there's no shade except for
his shade.