Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 24 Ramadn 1443 Uthmn Ghan i GH 04252022
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Fadhu we've reached this Mubarak 24th night of
Ramadan.
Allah Allah Allah brought us to these Mubarak
nights.
Allah Allah Allah brought us to these Mubarak
nights
and he served
salvation to us on a plate.
May Allah Ta'ala make us from the fortunate
who have the good sense to take it,
to eat it, to consume it, and to
make it our own while we still have
the chance.
While we still have the chance, while we
still have the time.
People think of Ramadan as a month where
you go hungry, but I think of it
the other way around.
I think the rest of the year
running around,
doomscrolling
through social media,
going to going to work, going to school,
you know,
focusing on so many other things.
Sometimes we malnourish the ruh,
and the ruh starts to become emaciated. It
becomes hungry.
And this Ramadan is,
it's the time for the ruh to
not just feast, but
to bulk up,
to eat those things, and to consume those
things
that will make it strong, that will give
it power, that will give it life.
And, the fear that I have is
of those days where the ruh may go
hungry again.
Of course this
is,
you know, this is our choice because the
things we do in Ramadan, we can do
them outside.
Of course, the amount of madad you receive
in Ramadan is not always there, but masha'Allah
right after Ramadan,
people fast their 6 days. Right after Ramadan.
Less than a month will pass after Eid,
and then you'll be in Dhulqada and Dhul
Hijjah, the sacred days and the holy days.
And then Muharram is also a sacred month.
And
still you have Friday.
Still you have
the fast days of Monday Thursday,
still you have
so many things, you know, times and places.
You can still crack open the most often
read. You can still pray tahajjud
you don't have to pray 20 rakaz of
tarawih you can just pray a couple of
rakaz
in the night like little baby rakas. It's
a taslir, the diminutive form of rakah.
Someone saw Imam Jannaid in
a dream after he had passed
and he asked what did Allah do with
you?
And he says Allah forgave me.
And, he says that
once our life ended
all of the elegant discourses and all of
the elegant words and discussions that we used
to talk about in the Majlis are all
gone. And the only thing I have left
in my account is rukay aat.
Just a few small
small rak'ahs that we used to pray in
the night.
Allah give us a couple of them as
well, Amin.
So these nights are the nights of Olam,
Allahumma
innaqaafuwun
tuhibulafa
fafafafuwani.
You Allah. You are the one who forgives
completely,
and you love this complete forgiveness.
So
forgive me completely. Amin.
Masha'Allah.
The last couple of days I was traveling
so the bans were long because I was
in a in a masjid.
And, masjid committees don't appreciate brevity.
They feel like they have a fiduciary duty
to get their money's worth out of you.
So,
they ask you to give, like,
4 bands
and don't sleep.
So
we did that and we did long winded
speeches so that the people,
can listen to
what functionally could have been said in 5
minutes or less.
But today, inshallah, we'll revert to our shorter
form,
of talk tonight, and we
start
with get getting back to the Tariq
Mashaikhishsht
Hazrashayikh Zakaria,
reading about Saidna Uthman ibn Athan radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu. So the convention in Urdu is they
refer to him as Usman e Ghani.
Usman the the the the rich one, the
wealthy one. Why? Because he
spent his wealth in the path of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. He was an extremely wealthy
man in Jahiliyyah and he had good business
sense and he was also an extremely wealthy
person in Islam as well and he spent
everything that he had for the sake of
Allah ta'ala.
So he's referred to as Uthman
al Ghani but I don't see the Arabs
refer to him like that
as frequently or at all. Whereas in our
lands in the subcontinent he's referred to as
Uthman Ghani.
May Allah ta'ala be pleased with him.
Sayna Uthman
who was the 3rd khalifa of the messenger
of Allah,
he assumed the rims of the caliphate on
Saturday 24th Muharram,
on a Saturday I should say, in 24th
year after hij Hijra in the month of
Muharram.
He was appointed by the decision of the
the shura,
the committee that was brought together to consult
on who to succeed,
who to succeed the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
after Abu Bakr and after Umar radiAllahu anhu.
According
to
Hafiz,
ibn Athir.
Sorry Hafiz,
ibn Abdul Bar
who wrote the Isaba of Himarfa to Sahaba.
I apologize that's not even Hafez ibn Abdulbar
that's just Hafez ibn Hajar.
Saidna Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala An who was born
6 years after the year of the elephant,
the Amun Fil, which is the year that
the Rasool salallahu alaihi wa sallam was born
in. So he's older than Sidon Amaradi, alaihi
wa anhu, but younger than Abu Bakr Siddif
and younger than the Rasool, salallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
He accepted Islam as a result of the
efforts of Sayidna Abu Bakr's siddiq radhiallahu anhu.
And so other than Sayidna Ali and other
than Sayidna Amar radiallahu anhu, I believe all
of the Ashar Abu Bashirim Biljannah, they all
accepted Islam at the hands of Sayna Abu
Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. That once the Rasool
sallallahu alaihi wasallam called him to the Deen,
he took these people and spoke to them
in great seriousness,
1 by 1, and his
conviction had a profound effect
on those people. So those early
great sahaba from the Muajarin
radiAllahu ta'ala, anhum. They accepted Islam through Saidna
Abu Bakr Siddiq radiAllahu ta'ala, anhum.
When he accepted Islam, the messenger of Allah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam gave his daughter Saydul
Qayyah alaihi salam or radiAllahu ta'ala anhu to
him in marriage.
His Mubarak name is Uthman
and his title is Dunurayn.
Dunurayn
means the one possessed of 2 lights.
He was thus titled because the messenger of
Allah salallahu alayhi wasalam's daughter Ruqayya was
married to him and then after she passed
away
alayhi salam, then the Rasool salallahu alayhi salam
married his daughter Kofoum,
alayhi salam to him.
There is no man other than Sayidna Uthman
radiAllahu an who had who had the fortune
of marrying 2 daughters of a nabi
after
the passing of Sayad Al Qayyah or
The Rasul salallahu alayhi salam is reported to
have
said that I was commanded by Allah to
give my daughter Khouthoum,
to Saydna Uthman ibn Affan
in, in marriage.
When Saydna Khouthoum, the daughter of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam
alaihi wasallam radiAllahu ta'ala Anha also passed in
the 9th year after hijrah.
The messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi wasallam said,
if he had another daughter, who needed to
be married, he would have given her in
marriage to Sayidna Uthman radiAllahu anhu.
And this is a great hudja in the
face of
the conspiracy theorists who speak ill of the
companions radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
That the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he there is no father better than him.
And a father is very a good father
is very sensitive and protective of his daughters.
He has no weak spot that's more sensitive
than his daughters.
A man who has any humanity in him
whatsoever
would protect his daughters. That's why it was
so abhorrent
the practice of Jahiliyah for them to bury
their daughters alive. It was a sign that
there was no good left in that age
anymore.
And the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he
himself was the father of so many daughters
and he was a good father to all
of those daughters.
And there's a secret in this that the
father who has many daughters, allata' gives that
person barakah, allata'
those daughters are rahma for him. I remember
in our own chamkah we're talking about the
tarif, masha, he just I remember in our
own chamkah, there was a baby was born
to 2 people who are in etikaf. One
was the grandfather, the
dada and the nana of the the the
baby. The paternal and maternal grandfather both of
them were in the khantha and performing a
itikaf.
So someone someone asks Hazrat who should be
the one who buys the sweets to distribute?
Who
who who do we have the right to
hit up to buy the sweets to distribute
in celebration of this baby being born?
And the the the sheikh without skipping a
beat, he says the nana, the paternal,
grandfather, because there's a sunnah of being I
said the maternal grandfather, the the father of
the mother of the baby.
Because he says there's a sunnah in being
a maternal grandfather
whereas the Rasool had
no
had no
paternal grandchildren.
But that's there's a specialness about that that
bond between
a father and the daughter.
And
what shahada do you want to have? What
witness and what tazkiyah?
What vouching for somebody's good character do you
want to have higher than this?
That the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam
married his daughter to him and then she
passed away alaihi salam and then he married
another daughter to him and she passed away
alayhis salam and then he said if I
had another daughter to marry I would have
given her to this person.
So this is a great hikmah of Allah
ta'ala that the precious umma of the Rasool
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
the one he trusted his daughters to. Allah
Ta'ala trusted the Ummah of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam to him and he treated
both of them with equal kindness.
His genealogy is as follows.
Uthman the son of Afan,
the son of Abilaas, the son of Umayyah,
the son of Abdul Shems,
the son of Abdul Manaf.
His ancestry links with, Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam through Abdul Manaf who had 2
sons.
Abdul Shams
was one of those
sons,
and
Hashem isdi,
brother of Abdes Shams.
Rasoolah salallahu alaihi wa sallam was the progeny
of Hashim. Sayid Al Uthman was the progeny
of
of Abdus Shams.
And this is also something that people it's
important to realize. Right? Out of the 3
Khalifa we mentioned thus far,
Said Abu Bakr, Saidna Umar and Saidna Uthman
the closest in in the closest in family
relation and lineage is Uthman radiallahu anhu.
The clans of Quresh that Saidna Umar and
Saidna Abu Bakr Siddiq are from are distant,
whereas
the the the clan that Saidna Uthman is
from is close to the clan the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is from.
And again the conspiracy theorist minded
people who based their aqeedah on whack job
conspiracy theories,
they will portray as if there's some sort
of, like, beef between Banu Umayyah and Banu
Hashim, which is absolutely not the case at
all. In fact, their
branches of Quraysh were very close to one
another. They used to intermarry very, frequently and
they would politically make alliance with one another.
Saidna Busafian
radhiyallahu alaihi was reported to have encouraged Saidna
Ali radhiyallahu anhu to take the caliphate quickly
after the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam passed away
and Sa'dan Ali told them, like, look, this
is not
your guys' Quraysh politics as usual. We have
a different way of doing things.
And, naturally naturally they were allies to one
another.
Naturally they're allies to one another and naturally
they were in close,
they were in close
proximity and close relationship with one another. And
you'll see that play out, in different parts
of Islamic history.
And, yes Yazid was
from Banu Umayyah
and he,
was
responsible although not directly but he was
he was in charge of the army from
a distance
that assassinated Saidna Hussein. And that's a despicable
act for which you won't find any decent
person to be good of him really until
the day of judgment except for people who
want to throw stones at at him for
it.
But he's one person.
The entire clan of the Banu Miya
wasn't like that.
And,
Sayna Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala who definitely wasn't like
that rather he was the son-in-law of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He's part of the
family of the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Like
we said that Rasuul Sallallahu Alaihi wa sallam
described the day of judgment as being the
day that
nobody's relatives will be able to benefit them,
but I'll be able to benefit my relatives
and no one's in laws will be able
to benefit
them except for my in laws. I'll be
able to benefit them.
Sayidna Uthman who was an embodiment
and a treasure house of modesty, of Haya.
Sometimes they translate haya as modesty. Sometimes they
translate it as shame. Shame not in the
sense that you did something shameful and then
you feel shame, but shame as in a
person is sensitive to not do anything immodest
because of the the the shame that they
would feel that they're they're they do feel
shame from the slightest of things.
And this modesty and shame is not in
front of the creation, rather in front of
Allah ta'ala.
It's said that even when taking a bath
in an enclosed bathroom, his modesty did not
allow him to,
completely
expose his nakedness rather he would wash himself
from
from underneath a simple cloth.
In the presence of Sayid Abu Bakr and
Umar Rasoolullah
would
also honor the modesty of Sidna Uthman radayallahu
ta'ala Anhu by straightening out his attire when
he was in his presence.
That Sidna
Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, this is
his closeness and his respect for Saidna Abu
Bakr and Umar, his two closest friends,
that he would be without taqaluf, that he
would he would sit very casually with them
like brothers and like friends sit.
But then the formality of
Sayidna Uthman who
whose shameless his awareness of muraqabah of the
presence of allata ta was such that it
didn't allow him to
to be casual, to let his guard down
at any time. The Rasool salallahu alayhi wasallam
respected that and he would actually observe it
when he would be, when he would come
to the Mubarak presence of the prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam that he
affirmed it that this is also a type
of a type of the remembrance of Allah
ta'ala and this is a good thing and
he would also observe it with Saydna, Uthman
radiAllahu anhu. And the uliya of Allah ta'ala,
they have their different states.
Somebody's sainthood will make him happy every all
the time. Some people's sainthood will make him
cry every all the time. Some people's sainthood
will cause them to go and mix with
the people
and take harm from them. Some people their
sainthood will cause them to
flee from people and be alone.
The forms are different, but the love is
the same. It's the love and the remembrance
of Allah ta'ala.
Tilawah,
the recitation of the Quran in ibadah, worship
in abundance were his special characteristics.
He was one of the original hafad of
the Quran,
and he's the he was one of the
original hafad of the Quran,
that
memorized it with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
And so in terms of the maqam of
the hifth of the Quran, his
his station is preeminent amongst the 4 Khalifa.
It can be said that that that the
others memorized it later,
but Sayidna Uthman ibn Affan was the one
who, as it came down, he would memorize
it and he was one of the authoritative
canonical
Quran teachers of the Sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
And, he was one of the the narrators
of the qira'at come through.
Even on the day he was martyred he
was fasting.
He would sleep for a very short amount
of time in the early part of the
night and spend the rest of the night,
reciting the noble
Quran.
He would complete
the entire recitation of the Quran sometimes in
one night.
In spite of being extremely wealthy, his dress
was generally of a very cheap and inferior
kind,
but he was very generous in charity. That
he made a lot of money, but he
didn't spend it on himself, he spent it
on others.
It was his practice to emancipate a slave
on every Friday.
Can you imagine that? I mean,
slavery doesn't exist anymore and, alhamdulillah, masha'Allah, you
know,
without the discussion of the I d the
fact that the slavery in Islam is radically
different than what they called slavery in America
which is,
a separate discussion that we're not gonna get
into right now. But
still, you know, to emancipate a slave every
Friday,
it takes no small amount of money and
it's not any sort of like small deed.
It's a great deed.
It said that,
some of the slaves came to say, Al
Hassan al Basri
from the the Imam from the Tabireen.
And they said that,
please, we implore you,
give a bayan about
the,
the virtue of freeing slaves so that we
can also receive our freedom.
And Sayid Al Hassan al Basri agreed, so
they waited. Next next Majlis, will he speak
about it? No. Next majlis, will he speak
about it? No. And he just left it
and they gave up hope. They thought maybe
it came in one ear and out the
other.
And, then sometime, like,
more than a year later,
he, told the people about the virtues of
freeing slaves.
Everybody in the madras wept. They freed their
slaves, and they paid money for the freeing
of slaves. So these original slaves that were
now free men
who received their freedom,
they came to thank, Al Hassan al Basri
for reminding the people about the virtue of
freeing the slave.
And
they said why did it take you so
long though? Like we thought you had just
completely like
like you buried our request in in the
earth and like, you know, ignored it. Why
did it take you so long to speak
about this?
And he said
I felt shy that like, you know, I
don't I don't you know, I will I
have never freed a slave in my life.
I felt shy and hypocritical to speak about
something I haven't done myself
and it takes a lot of money. So
he said I started earning money and saving
money so I could save up money in
order just to free 1 slave. And then
I thought once I've done it now I'm
gonna speak Allah and put barakah in it
because I do it myself.
And but the idea is like look it's
not something that you can do easily
But he spent a great amount of money
on the manumission of slaves.
When sometimes he failed to observe this Mubarak
practice on Friday,
he would compensate
for his omission by freeing 2 slaves the
next Friday.
Allah ta'ala raise his rank.
In view of the extreme difficulties which the
most honored Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and
the companions
Radhiallahu and whom experienced on the, campaign of
Tabuk.
The name of the Jayshul Usra,
the army of hardship,
is famous for this expedition,
exhorting the Sahaba radiallahu anhu to contribute the
rasul, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said,
whoever contributes for this army will receive Jannah.
Sayyidna Uthmanu
presented 10,000 gold coins, 10,000 dinars,
seated
on his mimbar on his Mubarak pulpit, the
Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
transferring the coins from one hand to the
other, after today it does not matter if
Uthman does not render any act of virtue.
The Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said to
Usidna Uthman radiAllahu anhu, Every nabi will have
a or every nabi has a close companion
and my close companion in Jannah will be
Uthman.
He says after Nabi Ibrahim and Nabi lut
alaihi wasallam,
alayhis salam, Uthman was the first person who
made hijra with his family.
That all the other Muhajarin that left their
home for the sake of Allah did so
alone. That Sadna,
after Sadna Ibrahim and his wife Sara alayhis
salam and
his
his nephew Saidna Lut alayhis salam,
that they they they made hijra as a
family after them. The first one to make
hijra as a family is Sayidna Uthman.
It's
it's it's I don't know. It's very difficult
to
explain these virtues like how how much they
mean.
How much they mean that he trusted his
entire
family to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam's promise.
There was another, but someone said, well, he's
married to the prophet's daughter, so, alayhi wasallam.
So,
you know, what else is he gonna do?
Well, there are other people who are married
to the daughters of the Nabi
who did something very different.
The,
you know, the husbands, Atba and Orteba,
of the other two daughters of the prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
they actually they actually divorced. They actually divorced
their daughters in order to,
humiliate their Rasulullah
And then on this side you have,
you have,
you know, the son-in-law who made good
and who made good on his
bond with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And you know imagine that that he presented
10,000 gold coins in order to arm the
jayshul usra
And the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was
seated on his Mubarak mimbar.
He said that,
he said that that after today, it doesn't
matter if man doesn't render any other act
of virtue.
And did he render another act of virtue?
Of course. He rendered so many. And this
is there's another point to notice and that's
worthy of mention here as well, is that
the Asha lalambushilin bil Jannah, the 10,
the 10 companions who are promised Jannah,
whose names are mentioned in the books of
Akida.
They include the 4 Khalafar, Rashidun,
and they include Sa'id bin Zayed, Talha and
Zubair and
Abdulrahman bin Auf Sa'id bin Abu Waqas,
and Aminu Habihil Uma Aburbaytatubnuul
Jarrah
They're not the only 10 that that the
prophet
gave the bishara the glad tidings of Jannah
to. There are others as well. It's narrated
through Sahih and
well authenticated chains of narration. The difference between
these 10 and the others is that
these 10, the glad tidings and the bisharat
was repeated so many times. It's gotten to
the point of tawatur, so it's not only
an issue of hadith, but it's also an
issue of of aqidah.
And so this is, you know, a proof
of that that this is one of the
manifold times that allata and then Nabi salallahu
alaihi wa sallam gave the bisharat of of
of Jannah too.
Sayidna Uthman the glad tidings of Jannah to
Sayidna Uthman radhiallahu anhu.
Once Sayidna Uthman radhiallahu anhu had contributed
substantially for the army, his contribution was loaded
on the back of several
camels.
On this occasion,
the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
raised both of his hands toward the heavens
and supplicated. And he asked, oh, Allah, I'm
pleased with Usman.
You too be pleased with him. And the
companions radhiallahuhanhu
also repeated this dua.
And Allah
raised people from this ummah
that also they give for the sake of
Allah That their love of Allah is greater
than their love for the wealth that they
amass.
That
their heart is connected with Allah
as well. And Allah gives them the tulfiq
that on top of their own personal ibadaat,
which are great,
that they also have the ability to
funnel
support
to the deen of Allah
so that they can through
their charity
receive that reward that they couldn't do through
their own personal piety alone, while not ignoring
their own personal piety. Imagine every one of
those slaves that he
freed. That slave prays, that slave says Bismillah,
that slave says Alhamdulillah,
they may not even be per perfect people
but they're people of deen and of iman.
Iman. That all of that is written those
lifetimes worth of,
of good deeds are written for them. That
all of the people from the Jayser Jayserul
Osra that he equipped, all of their good
deeds are written in the
book of deeds of Sayna Uthman radiAllahu anhu.
All those people he taught Quran
that the Quran that he he used to
recite himself in his own private devotions also
he taught them and that it's, the, you
know, the qira'ah of the people
of Sham of,
ibn Uamir,
from this qira sada'ah,
they narrate, their qira'ah from him that, all
of that is now in his book of
deeds from amongst a number of other things,
from amongst a number of other things.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala raise such men
from the ummah. And so if you're not
wealthy, don't beat yourself up. You have a
sunnah in the in the companions
from the ones who
made patience with their poverty and still did
great deeds. And if Allah gave you something
then don't try don't follow the sunnah of
the the the poor,
companions radiallahu anhu and then hold fast to
your money.
Hide like a secret love of your own
wealth that you hold fast to your money
and say, oh, look, I I'm following the
sunnah and I'm I'm following the oliya
and look, you know, look how cheap my
my clothes are. It's not because you're zahid
because you turned away from the dunya, it's
just because you're cheap and you wanna hold
on to your money. No. If you wanna
do zuhud, hold on to your money so
you can spend it for in the sake
of Allah ta'ala.
Allah gave you this provision
and your path the exemplar for your path
is somebody else.
So don't hold on to it and don't
be miser, a miser with it like the
same way that that a sick person's
intestines hold on to constipation. Don't be like
that. Let it go.
Let it go. You'll feel better. It'll be
good for you.
May you'll receive the duas of the righteous
and you'll receive the duas of the believers
and you'll also receive the shabash of the
rasul salallahu alaihi wa sallam watch.
It's a hadith of the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam that you're that the deeds of
the ummah are shown to the rasul salallahu
alaihi wa sallam on a weekly basis. And
whatever good deeds there are, he praises Allah
ta'ala for it. You know, you're
you'll receive your as well, that same Nabi
who,
You know, you're you'll receive your shabash as
well, that's saying Nabi who salallahu alayhi wa
sallam who raised his
tarf to the to the heavens and said,
oh Allah, I'm pleased with
Usman. You'll be pleased with him too. If
Allah gave you some something, you know, if
Allah gave you something more than what your
needs are, you give it as well. May
Allah and his rasool salallahu alaihi wa sallam
be pleased with you as well.
And there are so many things. There are
so many things to give to, masha'Allah. Ramadan,
there's more fundraisers you can than you can
shake a stick
at. Give give give a little bit to
all of them insha'Allah.
Give to all of them. Don't give to
mine. Give to other peoples insha'Allah.
But give give to something to people. Support
support those people who are doing good. We
have some of the olamah mashallah. Some places
they have no no support from any any
quarter.
We have entire states where there's only 1
or 2 mashayth that are doing work and
they receive no quarter and no support from
anywhere.
Give to them as well, inshallah. You know,
arm that jayushulu'usra,
that that that is struggling in the path
of Allah ta'ala with nobody
and, with nobody to help them, that you
be the one that helps them as well.
May Allah ta'ala give you, also that reward.
May Allah and his Rasool, salallahu alayhi salam,
also be pleased with you.