Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 27 Ramadn 1442 Late Night Majlis Laylat al Qadr and the Divine Grace UC Columbia Station
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This is
the Mubarak 27th night of Ramadan.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave us the sa'ada
and the happiness of being able to reach
it. Allah gave us the tawfiq of being
able to reach it and for that we're
more indebted to him and we're more in
need of,
his worship and his prayer
than a sinner is, or a drunk person
is, or a drug addict is, or a
thief is, or an adulterer is. They need
to
get themselves out of the hole they dug
themselves into through their sin,
to escape punishment.
We owe a debt to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala the more we pay it back.
The more we try to pay it back,
the more we struggle to pay it back,
the more in debt we are.
And so this is a great
Fadl and mercy from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that we've
been invited to his Mubarak house, and we've
been given good company, and we've been given
from every sort of risk,
every sort of risk. There's food to eat.
There's things to drink. There's a nice warm
place to stay inside. It's been very cold
in these parts. Chicago is about the same
temperature as Cleveland. Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, is
given from every good. Masha'Allah.
And, we we gotta keep that way. We
gotta stay that way.
These are a couple of reminders
for those good deeds that are going to
give you a lot of mileage.
A person can start them in this night
and then make intentions to,
keep with them for the coming year and
for the coming days of one's life.
And even the intention, if the intention starts
in a Mubarak time and in a Mubarak
place,
then it's hoped that the thing that starts
with good and that starts with baraka is
going to end with good and it's going
to end with baraka.
It's It's gonna end with good, it's gonna
end with baraka, well,
umurubil
sawatin. Just like the niyyah, the intention is
the starting of something and that is a
stamp on that deed that shows how it's
gonna end.
Just like that, how the thing ends, umurubil
khalatim, all actions will be judged by the
way that they end.
The way that they end also is a
sign of what the nature of that
deed or that thing is.
So we have to, also be concerned with
how those things end.
And one of the most important things one
of the most important things that a person
needs to focus on in their life. And
this is something very direct it's not just
like a random talk.
It's very directly focused,
on
what the point of this Ummah Centre is,
this masjid that we're in here,
which is I'm suspending the normal reading from
the madras, the, you know,
for for the sake of an important message,
for myself and for others.
It's very relevant to why we're here. What
this place is, what it represents, what the
intentions, the ideas are behind it,
which is that you have to
keep yourself
in good company. That's your choice, you have
to do it.
Abliluk at the people around you, these are
the type of people who are
going to spend the night in the Masjid.
In an era where spending the night in
the Masjid has been abandoned. Literally this year
even the Haramain Sharifayn didn't have a khatam
of the Quran.
Of course we don't blame them for that.
We accept that the reasons that they gave
that they're not doing it for are for
the welfare and health of people,
Allah
knows what's in people's hearts and we have
no reason to,
judge somebody when there's a reasonable excuse to
give them. But the fact of the matter
remains that still there's something Allah gave us
in this masjid, like which used to be
a church a couple of weeks ago in
Columbia Station.
That even even in the Haramain Sharifain, it's
not it's not there.
Even in the Haramain Sharifain, it's not there.
The Kaaba Mu'adhama,
the tatsis of which was laid by
Sayna Ibrahim alaihis salam, Sayna Ismael
alaihis salam,
That it's a holy and a sacred place.
And the fina of the Kaaba, the the
the the the hallowed,
area around the Kaaba,
hundreds of prophets are buried there.
The place that the where you make tawaf.
The Anbiya alayhi wasalam whose aqwam were destroyed.
They came there and they lived the rest
of their lives out in that place.
There is almost no Nabi that came,
except for he made Hajj of that house
as well.
To the point where the Mufasirun write that
Sayyidunu He
made hajj and made tawaf around the house
of Allah Ta'ala in the ark.
And that Sayyidina Musa Alaihi Wasallam came and
made Hajj
around that tawaf around that house.
What do you think they were doing for
40 years
in the wilderness? I remember I mentioned this
from time to time. Maybe you've heard it
from me before. There was a mustashnik, there
was an orientalist,
professor,
that I had in University of Washington. He
was very nice to me,
and he actually mentioned this to me, but
he nobody's gonna accuse him of being a
Muslim. Definitely, if you took his class, you're
not gonna be under the impression that he,
follows any, form of Islam that we recognize.
But, he mentioned this to me. He said
this, he goes, I'll tell you 2 things.
He goes, that one of the names of
the Mount Sinai in the Bible is Mount
Horab. He goes, if you look at all
of the references to Mount Horab in the
old,
in in the old books, it's it's clear
that it's in Hijaz. It's not in the
Sinai Peninsula.
And the second thing is this, he goes
he goes, when
the Mufassirun
write
that, said Musa
made Hajj of the house while Banu Israel
was wandering in the desert.
He goes, it's not far fetched at all.
He goes, it's literally it's very it's actually
not far fetched, it's very probable and possible
that in 40 years you can walk. It's
a very short distance to go from one
place to the other.
That the what they write about, you know,
that the
that you pass through in order to go
to where
the
took his mikat, you know, for Hajj and
for Umrah,
that they say that that so many thousands
of Anbi took,
took Ihram from this place.
This is something that is not far fetched
at all. He says, I don't find it
far out of all of the things, he
goes, I don't find this thing to be
very far fetched.
That place, that holy and sacred house, Tati,
the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam visited for whatever
reason this year Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave
us the tawfiq to read the entire Quran
in this place.
And
those people didn't get that tawfiq. That Madina
Munawwara
Allah
gave it a greatness that nobody else is
going to ever
be able to even aspire to. But in
this sense, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us
something that they didn't have. This means something.
Even the the the the dua.
Right? I'll be honest with you. I was
like I was pretty near tap tapped out.
It was a long dua You
know?
But the only thought that came to my
mind when like when I was getting to
that point
was that Allah
Wa Ta'ala sent like a list of things
he wanted to give you,
and you're tired of hearing what he wants
to give you and he's not tired of
giving.
Right? This is a, this is what our
mashaif tell us that when Allah puts the
dua in your heart,
it's a sign that he wants to give
it to you.
The fact that if he didn't want to
give it to you, he wouldn't have even
allowed you to ask.
That's what you did Moshekh Musa and who
else? There's some people, Masha' Hafiz Ibrahim and,
Baha'i Hussam and, like, Masha'Allah, some of the
people we went to visit the Haram Sharif
uncle, we went together, Junaid. We went to
visit the Haram Sharif together, Masha'Allah. In in
in,
in the previous,
times before I started wearing niqab, Masha'Allah, I
became more religious and started wearing my niqab.
Niqab. But, you know,
in those days we went and that's what
we would say. You see people walking around
with their, like, little Duaa books and they're,
like,
and they're yelling and screaming
slogans
and this and that. And it's not, it's
not the sunnah, it's the sunnah in
The sunnah in Tawaf is that you make
dua, and there's no set dua for for
majority. Most you can say that the Rasulullah
used to read the dua
between the rukan and the Maqam
between the between the the the the the
the rukan Yamani and the black stone.
Other than that it's it's just dua
and I I remember I went and asked
Sheikh Amin for dua one time before a
sufahr for Hajj or for Umrah
and, I asked him for du'a and for
advice.
He says make du'a for whatever you
you, you you think of at that time
Because
being there is a gift from Allah
and he puts Ilham in the hearts of
the people who are connected with him to
ask for the thing that you need.
He puts Ilham in your heart to ask
for the things that you need at that
time. He sends you there because he wants
you to get what you want.
So we're called into the court in order
to be presented with these gifts. Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala doesn't tire of giving to us.
Even if we tire of receiving, that's our
own weakness. But what is there? What do
you and me have to complain about? Allah
Ta'ala gave us this huge list of things
that He wanted to give us. Alhamdulillah, aamin,
aamin, thumma aamin.
Allah Ta'ala give to us again and again.
Increase our istaa'ada,
our ability to receive.
Allah Ta'ala increase our ability to receive because
we're never gonna tap out his ability to
give.
So this is something to think about that
it's your duty and it's my duty to
keep good company.
Good company doesn't just mean who you hang
out with once a month or once a
week.
Good company is the people you see when
you open your eyes in the morning, and
the people you see, you know, last before
you close your eyes in the evening.
Good company means the best of the companies,
the Ahlulah, the Ahlul Masajid,
the people of the Masjid are the people
of Allah Ta'ala. How are you gonna make
it to the Masjid 5 times a day
or even once a day, if you don't
live next to the Masjid?
We gotta think about, like, not going to
Masjid like church anymore.
And that's one of the reasons that this
place we mentioned that was one of the
reasons that this place was attractive.
How long have we been talking?
How long have we been talking about this
idea?
Years before before I came to ICC. I
remember remember we all sat together, we put
together so many majalis. I put together even
a PowerPoint and like all that other stuff.
Pleading with people, whoever takes this idea, it's
a good idea.
That we have to live together. Right? The
Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and his companions, they
made Hijra Madinah Munawara,
so that they could live together, they could
live around the Masjid. The Masjid became the
focal point of their activities. Doesn't mean that
you can't have a barbecue. It doesn't mean
that you can't do all the other nice
things that people like doing, that I like
doing myself,
that are not, you know, that are and
are pleasant. But the focal point of it
should be the house of Allah Ta'ala. Part
of it is what? You have to
you have to keep good company. You have
to keep the company of truthful people.
One of the things that that that that's
unfortunate about the age we live in is
that there's a lot of platform given to
bogus people.
Bogus people are the ones who
want to, keep subjecting to themselves subjecting themselves
to the things that will hurt them.
They want to keep subjecting themselves to in
the speech that they speak, in the songs
that they listen to, in the way that
they show themselves, in the way that they're
seen, and the way that they show themselves
to you, in the way that you see
them.
Why do we traumatize ourselves with those things
again and again? You know it's bad for
you. I know it's bad for you. Stop
stop keeping that company.
There are people who want to,
feed you a
a vision of life,
which is a completely a tunnel vision that
doesn't benefit you at all. It just benefits
them. I know so many corporations. When a
person gets a corporate job, what will like
the big corporations, people like, oh, I'm gonna
work for this corp or that corp. I
don't wanna take names not necessarily because it's
a secret, but because I don't wanna say
one's more evil than the other. They're all
they're all evil.
Why? Because even if they're the most ethical,
humane, wokest corporation, what are they gonna do?
They're gonna say, well, we have this campus
and we're gonna
store your car at like, you know, 64.3
degrees
and it's gonna be very comfortable and well
taken care of, and we're gonna wash it
every hour on the hour, and we're going
to, you know, you have the most ergonomic
chair to sit in, and the most, like,
ergonomic type keyboard, and there's a fridge, and
you can have as much Coke and Pepsi
as you want. Oh, that's bad for you?
You can have as much organic,
double, triple certified, GMO,
fair trade, but then whatever,
you know, level 7,
you know, ambrosia drink, you know, that's like
all the new thing that cost $7 a
drink. We use a fridge full of them.
You have as many of them as you
want. And when you wanna work out, there's
a gym on the campus, and when you
want a massage, you can have a free
massage. And when you want to have this,
you can have this, you can have that,
and then we have a retirement plan, we
have a pension plan, we have a vacation
plan, we have this plan, we have that
plan.
Basically what do they wanna do? They wanna
cocoon up your entire life.
Cocoon up your entire life that you spend
as much time as possible
there,
convincing you that your happiness is with them.
And the fact of the matter is they
don't give a damn about you. If you
weren't making more money for them than they're
paying you, you and them would have nothing
to say to each other.
They don't give it. It's literally all about
the bottom line. You know it, I know
it. It's not gashaka.
You know, this shaykh is making things up.
No. There are sheikhs that make stuff up,
maybe I'm one of them too, who knows?
But this is one of those things I'm
not making it up. You know it's not
it's not like a shock.
But still, we subject ourselves to the company
not only of those people who wanna like,
give us these kind of stupid dreams that
are in their benefit and not ours, and
we know it.
We also wanna
keep company with other like stupid, like, rubes
who've like fallen for that
for that con.
And this is part of what's really jarring
and disturbing about modern living. Modern not meaning
like 2,021, 2021,
modern meaning like philosophically modern living.
Is that in old days even even people
who weren't religious,
forget about Muslims, even people who weren't religious,
they understood that
their happiness came from their family.
It was expected that a son would be
like his father, would look up to his
father,
you know, father would do anything for his
son, for his daughters, his son would, you
know, the one person that he held in
most esteem more than anybody else in the
world is his father.
Nowadays that type of relationship between father and
son is considered,
it's considered to be a type of oppression.
So every Disney movie you've ever watched is
reliably, predictably like clockwork. Go ahead and think
about it back in your head. It's always
about how a son doesn't want to be
like his father.
Which okay, it does happen sometimes.
But it's not all the time nor is
it nearly half of the time. It's a
very rare exception, it's not a rule.
Think about this, what is the what is
the you know, who benefits from this? From
breaking the bonds between parents and children?
Who benefits from breaking the bonds between husband
and wife? Who benefits from breaking the bonds
of family?
Family is a type of structure and authority.
It's a necessity for efficiency
because life is rough, you know. Life in
the jungle is nasty, brutish, and short.
So we need to protect each other, we
need to be there for each other, we
need to specialize in work so that we
can increase efficiency,
and we need to share those efficiencies with
one another, so that we don't spend all
of our day like foraging through the woods
for berries and
nuts, which is, there are some people who
still live like that.
Admittedly few, but there are people in the
world who still live like that. Many of
them are cannibals by the way.
So it's hard to get Hafsa certified
outlets in those places.
Right? Is that you don't wanna live that
life. You don't wanna live that life. Why?
Because family is like something really important.
And the dismemberment of the family, who benefits
from that? Well, what's the structure of efficiency
that's going to gain from you reorienting
your,
your lifestyle
away from a family? You could either go
back to the jungle which very few people
are
willing to do nowadays.
Who's going to benefit from that that that
kind of that dismembering of the family? Like
if family is taken apart, like imagine,
Kmart goes out of business because Walmart like
beat them out of business or whatever. So
they have a big closing sale, and then
who's gonna go buy from the Kmart all
the stuff that's left over at a discount,
and who's gonna buy the Kmart building and
do something with it. Right? Like there's a
Kmart in in whatever, Parma, Brook Park, whatever
that's like halfway between your old apartment and
between ICC. Right? Who benefits from that?
Right? In that case, maybe Amu has like
some sort of cash and carrier gas station,
whatever. He'll buy all the stuff that is
in his gas station, and he'll sell it
off at a discount, and somebody will buy
the building and open their own whatever. Somebody
will do this. Who benefits from all of
it? 2 groups benefit from it, the state
and and corporations,
which is like, they are quasi state organizations.
I have no problem with the state, the
state is necessary. It may be a necessary
evil, but it's still necessary because without the
state there is many mafasid, there are many
types of mischief that would occur in society
that, need to be avoided. So
that's fine, but one should realize what the
benefit of the state is, and what capacities
the state will overreach and become tyranny. The
state is good at
organizing defense from like invasions from other countries.
It's good at like setting speed limits and
like,
like red light cameras. You know, people shouldn't
be running red lights. I've got a ticket
or 2 in my life, but I deserve
it. I just fess up and pay. You
know, I don't try to hire hire a
lawyer. I said, this is kind of bogus,
I should have stopped,
right?
But the state, what they're not good at
is providing you with
human fulfillment as a replacement by family.
The state is not good for good as
a family for you.
Corporations are not good as a family for
you.
These are such
foundational
foundational, like, realizations or understandings,
and they are the understandings that made this
country great in the first place.
They made this country great in the first
place that people used to have very strong
families.
You and me probably know people who we
went to school with, especially those of us
who grew up in this country
that were upright people.
You know, that had strong I remember
the school I went to, there were several
children
that both of their parents were school teachers
in that school only and only because they
cared for their children so much that they
wanted to make sure that their children were
raised right. So they said, what is a
way that we can take care of our
children in the best way possible? They went
and became school teachers in the in the
in the school, and the the the year
that their children, their last child graduated from
from high school, all of them without exception,
all quit and got real jobs.
Intelligent people, Stanford graduates, these types of But
what was it? They lived in a time
where people didn't drink the Kool Aid of
like, this kind of, bogus and nonsense lifestyle
of believing that somehow like a corporation or
or the government is going to hand you
a check or that somehow if you, you
know, enough people will like, I don't know,
whatever re TikTok you. I don't I don't
even know how it works. Uninstall it from
your phone right. It's like Chinese spyware. I
don't know why people have it. I don't
even know why people have Twitter and Facebook.
This is like even
dumber than that, right?
They knew that that's not gonna that's not
gonna bring anything productive or healthy
to you.
So they invested their time, and you know
what? All of those people, their children, some
of them were not even nice kids, some
of them were very spoiled, and I think
even immoral kids, but all of them were
very bright.
And all of them, many of them actually
were morally upright, much more so than than
the average person in school.
And many of them went on to become
very capable people, they went to Ivy League
Schools, they have positions in government, they have,
you know, the ones who went the corporate
route, they did really well at it.
Now for me it's kind of sad to
see that all this human potential is wasted
that they're gonna In the end they're still
gonna be crushed into that same machine.
They're gonna be sent into that same grinder.
How are they supposed to know better? They
neither know Allah and His Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam nor did their forefathers.
You and me we know better.
This talk that I'm giving right now, I've
not yet had to make reference any ayah
of the book of Allah
nor any hadith of the Prophet
But I'll tell you what the munasaba, the
connection of it with deen is.
Is this that you have a very fundamental
understanding
that you cannot be a good alim, you
cannot be a good scholar until you learn
how to become a Muslim.
You cannot be a scholar until you learn
how to become a Muslim.
You can I know people like this, they've
literally memorized books of fiqh, they memorized books
of hadith, they memorized books of like memorized,
memorized?
But still they don't have the tawfiht of
praying 20 raka'as. They can't do it. They
can't bring themselves to do it. How will
they understand what the meaning of that knowledge
is?
There are so many things I learned about
them in the books of fiqh, and then
afterward I thought like we should probably practice
them in under in order to understand what
they know.
Any masala fiqh, if you ask the faqih
who can umaboo platter
prattle off like a lot of details about
it, versus somebody who's actually been through that
experience before, the person who's been through that
experience before will always have more insight.
In order to be a good scholar, you
have to first learn how to be a
good Muslim.
In order to be a good Muslim, you
have to first learn how to be a
good human being.
You cannot be a good human being alone.
You have to have family.
I mean you can. There are people like
if someone was like born and raised like
in the jungle by wolves or whatever and
then they came back into the,
you know, into civilization, and Hussam taught him,
like, I, Hussam,
you,
you know,
wolf boy. He says, wolf boy, want food.
You know, like, and then later on, like,
2 10 years later, he's, like, you know,
comes to the masjid. Yes. There you can't
okay. He's learned how to be a human
being.
Now, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala opens the door
for him to have spiritual awakening that he's
not gonna have when he's like busy like
fighting over a piece of meat with the
other wolves.
Allah ta'ala says that, He says, Quraysh, look
at you out of all the out of
all the
Arabs. Out of all the Arabs,
there are Bedouins that walk from place to
place not knowing if they're gonna find a
well with water in it.
Not knowing if they're gonna find even just
a little bit of shrubbery so that their
herds don't die.
Right?
There are people who are getting picked off
and destroyed
because of scarcity, because of war, because of
all things all around them. And they're the
ones that sit in their own
and there's nothing will grow there. You couldn't
grow anything there even if you have all
the water in the world, you couldn't grow
any. You pour zam all over, you can't
grow anything. That land is like salt, it's
Nothing will grow in it.
Yet they sit in that place and the
entire All the tribes of the Arabs would
bring
rizq to them. And then after
Rasulullah Sallallahu Wa Salam's Mubarak Be'ath Mashal, literally
all the nations of the world bring Azzaq
to them.
Allah ta'ala is trying to tell them. We
read that in the juz'amma tonight, right? Masha'Allah
Tafsir desert Masha'Allah for Sheikh Musa. Masha'Allah from
Sheikh Musa.
Allah
to ask Let them actually worship the Lord
of this house.
The The one
who fed them when they were hungry. And
fed them from so that they don't have
to worry about hunger anymore.
And the one
who gave them security from fear. That they
don't have to worry The
people of the Kaaba, you know. People don't
come to the Kaaba to make war. People
come to the Kaaba to make peace.
People don't come to the Kaaba to hate.
People Lovers come to the Kaaba.
People go make dua for the house of
Allah and it's like it's like a wedding
in Lahore Mashallah. They're like pouring
like like real notes to the left and
right, giving
street sweepers and cleaners and, you know, so
the guy the Bangali shopkeeper is smoking cigarettes,
someone will give him 20 riyals. Radi, when
he went with us to,
Umrah.
He's not here so we can, you know,
he's also mazook.
Accept for him. He's giving out 10 rial
notes to everybody. He gave a 10 rial
note
to the the Jawazat guy, like, on the
way out of the airport,
and,
the Jawazat guy, he literally he like he
he he did it he's like what is
this guy, crazy? Like, he points to the
camera. I don't think he knew he was
an Arab. Right? So he points to the
camera that there's a camera watching us. He
points to it and he he he wags
his finger like no. He points to the
camera and he goes like he made a
Ishaa'a'a, like they're gonna take us both to
jail if if you do this, you know,
again.
Radi muskim, like, he's just he's just people
come. They're, like, so happy. They're just like
it's like this is how, you know, it's
a wedding in Punjab. There's people throw money
all over the place. Right? Why? That's what
people come for.
So after after Allah gave you all of
that, then just like, you know, it's your
duty to, like, worship Allah
Allah and to, like, think about bigger things
than other people. Or thinking about
if you're so insecure that you think nobody
loves you, that you have to get the
reassurance from, like, you know, like, whatever, 15
likes on Twitter,
then go ahead, you know, like patch up
your broken self, you know. When you're done
with that, when you're ready to be a
human being,
I don't think it's gonna help you patch
up. I think it's gonna actually make it
even the hurt and the brokenness even go
deeper. But if that's what you need, go
ahead.
When you're done and you're ready to be
a normal human being, it's enough for you
to say to your father, to your mother,
I love you. To your children, I love
you. To your wife, to your husband, I
love you.
To your friends, to the people in the
masjid.
If you have none of those Some people
have none of them. There are people entire
people lost their entire family. I met people
like that. Their entire The earthquake that happened
in Balakot in in in, Pakistan 2005.
There are people, their entire village was swallowed
up. Only 1, 2, 3, 4 people survived
from that.
They literally lost everybody that they knew. They
live in a new place, they'll never see
their home again, all in a moment, gone.
You can always tell Allah to Allah, I
love you.
It's kind of awkward when you say it
like that, but that's the thing. You you
you can say it in how many ways
you can say it?
The house of Allah, always a place that
you can have that love. How are you
gonna know what that even means if you
never loved your mother, if you never loved
your father?
If you I mean you can learn those
things if you're in that circumstance.
But the normal easiest route to learn those
things is what is to have that model
inside of your family. If that dynamic isn't
there, something is very wrong. If you sold
that dynamic in order to get a job
at some corporation or in order to, you
know, watch some more TV or in order
to buy a, like, a fancier phone or
in order to, you know, do any of
those, you know, those types of things, boy,
like, someone sold you, like, some bad goods.
Right?
The day of judgment is described as the
It was one of the surahs we read
last night.
Is what?
Is like when somebody sells you something, you
think it's one thing and it's the it's
really the other. You bought like a new
pair of like wrap around like Oakley
glasses for like $300 at the whatever at
the mall, like the Ray Ban store or
whatever. And you got home and you noticed
that they're not Oakleys, they're Jokleys.
Like we used to get from the Redondo
Beach swap meet, you know?
Or Tijuana, man. Mashallah, you're already there, right?
You swap meat city, Mashallah.
That's like the Makkah of like swap meats.
You get home and you paid the Oakley
price and you got the Jokley product, you'll
be like this is a rip off and
you can't it's too late, you can't get
your money back.
That's the point of projects like this, is
that every group of believers, it's a farlkifa'ah,
that you should get together with other people,
build your houses next to each other, live
next to each other, pray with one another,
make friends with one another, invite one another
to your houses, forgive one another when you
do bogus stuff to each other.
And the best forgiveness is not the one
that like the person comes and says I'm
sorry. If someone ever says I'm sorry to
you, you should forgive them. The fact that
they even bothered to say I'm sorry is
like means that this person is like walliy
of Allah ta'ala. The willayah has different darajat.
Obviously the highest darajat are the people who
are not gonna
be bogus with one another in the first
place. But trust me, if someone has enough
like moral courage inside themselves to say sorry
to you,
chances are that that person is already like
above the 85th percentile.
You're not gonna find people like that easily.
It's really it's not even human to to
to not forgive someone if they actually come
and say sorry to you.
The forgiveness of the sunnah is to forgive
the people who don't say I'm sorry.
For what? For a higher benefit. Because your
goal is not to
is not to ingratiate other people and be
like, okay, like I'm like I have to
get you into Jannah. You say sorry more
for your own success than you do for
theirs.
Why? Because we have to be with no
matter how bogus the people in this room
are, this is who this is who we
got. You're not gonna go on
Yomu Kiama and look for a representative Jim
Jordan to get you into Jannah. It's not
it's not gonna that's not gonna those people
are not helpful.
Government people, corporate people,
Elon Musk is not gonna help you get
into Jannah.
Unless there's a very dramatic turn of events
in the future, but currently as it seems,
it's probably not where you're gonna look for
if you have if you have any sense
about you right now.
You're not gonna what's what's this other guy?
What's this,
you know, Bill Gates and
the the other Jeff Bezos and their, masha'Allah,
recently wealthy ex wives. Dude, you gotta hit
if what's his name? Bezos' ex wife has
any sign, you gotta hit up Melinda Gates.
She's she has some money to
to put out. You know, Uma Sinner might
Yeah, man. Some of that vaccine money or
something. I don't know. Just look into it.
Right?
Those are not people you're gonna you're not
gonna get anything from those people, like, on
that day, like the way it is right
now. Even if they convert to Islam and
things like that, you know. There are certain
people you're gonna get something from. You forgive
each other. It's good for you. If somebody
is a jerk to you, still who are
you gonna Are you gonna marry your children
to
their children or are you gonna marry your
children to each other's children in this room?
Nobody wants to think about why can't it's
like it's like a villager type of thing
to think about, like who are my children
gonna marry, right? We're with America. We're gonna
become professionals and we're gonna make money. We
don't have to worry about those things anymore,
right? Because it's really easy to like go
through those things because that's not a big
deal. As long as you get into Harvard,
the fact that you end up with a
spouse that completely makes your life into a
living *. Male or female. Right?
That's not a big deal. We can overcome
that as long as we have degrees and
money. Right?
I'm not saying don't get degrees, don't get
money. I have degrees and money myself, Masha'Allah.
But I'm just saying that that's one thing,
this is another thing, this is another issue,
it's another problem that requires a solution. I
promise you if you're poor, I've seen poor
people with families that are, like, stable, you're
a lot better off if you're a poor
person with a family that's stable than you
are as
a wealthy person who's, you know, all their
human,
interactions are so completely shattered and jagged
that, you know, you cannot get through any,
you know, any day without like so many
different types of pills.
I apologize if I'm saying this in a
bad way, maybe I should like be more
sensitive about it. Because some of us in
this room are in that position right now,
or have been in that position at some
time, and I don't say that in order
to,
discount or mock or make because I've seen
that happen. It's pain, you know.
And then you're like, shoot, there needs to
be a better way of getting through life
than this. Some people, it's not their choice.
We ask a lot to help them, and
we we we fully, 100%
appreciate the work that the doctors do with
them, and we appreciate the the services that
that that they benefit from and say that
this is something that needs to,
you know, happen for those people. But every
person knows
better than having the top cardiac surgeon,
do your 7 bypasses in the world is
perhaps maybe 10 years earlier if you started
taking a walk, you know, once every 3
days and stop eating 7 cheeseburgers
and a 2 liter of Coke daily, that
may have been a better
solution to this than saying Alhamdulillah, Masha'Allah, like
the top surgeon in the Mayo Clinic or
the Cleveland Clinic, I'm sorry, has,
you know, done my 7 bypasses. And Alhamdulillah,
Masha'Allah. I have this, like, new artificial heart
that doesn't have a beat. It's pretty cool.
You wanna see it, you know, like Alhamdulillah.
Those people who got it, it's a Ni'mah,
it's a blessing. We thank Allah for it.
But you you should see why one is
a more common sense solution than the other.
So, this is a time these things require
a lot of help, there's a lot of
like
machinery in society stacked against you ever thinking
about these things.
Why? Because if you're happy with your family,
and you're happy in your neighborhood with your
neighbors, and if you're happy with one another,
and if the salat is the coolness of
your eye, you may not buy an iPhone
every year.
You may not buy a new car every
3 years or 4 years.
You may not, you know, you know, spend
$10 a month on Amazon Prime or how
much is it? It's more that they upped
it. Right? $16
a month on Amazon Prime, and you might
not spend $25 on Netflix a month, and
you might not spend however much the the
nice Verizon or ghetto people like me, T
Mobile, you know, their their their unlimited plan.
You might not you may stop spending money
on those things a year and you really
don't need it anymore. Like, one thing is,
like, oh, I'm gonna cut back and be
a real, like, Zahed, you know, I'm gonna
be real like, do without the dunya. One
thing is, like, you realize you've been paying
for this thing for like years and you
just haven't been using it because you just
don't want don't want it anymore. You just
realize it means nothing to you.
That instead of having to binge watch like
some, you know, weird obscene,
Netflix special about like, you know, oh, look
at this child and her 4 dads, or
whatever, right? Instead of having to binge watch
those series,
you actually have a child and they come
home and say, oh, Baba, I love you.
And you're like, okay, it's time to go
to Maktab and you go with them to
Maktab, and you walk with them and you
walk home and that's it.
How many times? You guys all know, you
know my temperament and disposition. I've never been
one to try to like
she you know, project some sort of public
persona of whatever.
You know me, I get upset about things.
I get upset about a lot of things
and I work with people who do things
that justifiably upset me about stuff. So what
about the people who unjustifiably upset me about
things?
All of the stress that I have to
deal with, all of the difficulty that I
have to deal with.
I come home if my children give me
a hug and say, I love you to
me. All of it is gone.
All of it is gone like that. And
all of you know what that is, know
what it means. Yet, yet, there are people
in this very room,
it's very possible if they make slightly different
decisions,
that they may work so many more hours
at their job,
just in order to pay off the house,
just in order to pay for going on
a trip every year, just in order to
this, in order to that, they will miss
that small window of time in their the
lives of their children, in the life of
their marriages, in the life of their relationships
with their parents because your parents not gonna
be around forever either.
That small window in your relationship with those
people that you take for granted and think
will be like that forever, you'll miss that
window and then
the the the the bird will be out
of your hand.
Because your kids look at these this chotu
is like sleeping on the carpet in the
back. See that, everyone say, See? He's like
he's like, oh, Mando, look at me. Right?
At this age,
at this
age, you can wake him up for fajr.
You can throw water in his face.
You can be like, if you don't go
to Fajr, you're not gonna get candy, you're
not gonna get gum, you're not gonna go
to the park, you're not gonna this, you're
not gonna that, And he'll get up.
And if you do it like that for
like 4 5 months, it'll become a habit.
Later on, he might choose to abandon it.
Allah protect him and protect all of us.
But
if he chooses to not abandon it, it
will be easy for him to take the
path of righteousness. You will have made it
easy for him. Or you can let him
sleep through the fajr.
And when he's 18, you're gonna be, by
the way, you know your balayr, you know,
you kinda should've been praying for the last
3 years. So you have to make up
tada. Forget about tada. He's not even gonna
wake up for fajr tomorrow. Even if he
hears a Bayan Sheikh Musa, like, route the
whole crowd and everyone's crying and the khatamdua
and everything. And he wants to wake up
for Fajr in the morning. How is he
gonna do the do do that?
It's like an extraordinary type of mujahideh. I
remember when I first started waking up for
Fajr. Forget about, you know, like forget about
praying 2 sunnahs, people like pray 2 sunnahs
before Fajr. Are you joking? Are you kidding
me? I'm gonna pray sunnahs, but you were
lucky I made a prayer Fajr, man. You're
lucky at me, you're making
at this point.
I couldn't even I couldn't even I couldn't
even read the fatah out loud if you
wanted me to at that time.
14, I started wake waking up for I
couldn't even read the out loud if I
wanted to at that time. I must have
been 19 or 20 before. Be be brutally
honest with you. Even though
as a Farihin, as a person who talks
a really big game as far as like
Dean is concerned, I know how shameful it
is. It's it's shameful.
I must have been at least 19 or
20 before I seriously considered the possibility of
forget about even going to the masjid. Seriously,
even consider the possibility that, like, I'm gonna
pray 2 rak'ahs that I don't have have
to have to pray before Fajr.
It's hard.
If you don't have those habits from before
but now it's just a habit.
Now it's one of those even if the
alarm doesn't go off, I'm gonna end up
waking maybe waking up 10, 15 minutes after
the sun rises at maximum because the body
is not able to sleep at that time
because it's a habit.
If you give that to your, you know,
there's a limited window that you can do
those things in every relationship. Every relationship is
not gonna be like parents and children.
But there's a relationship, you have a window
of certain things that you can cultivate with
your parents.
With your parents it's the other way around,
that there are certain bonds that you can
make with them later in life if Allah
gives them the He gives you both Tawfiqah
being together with them. That they wouldn't have
listened to you when they were younger, but
when they need you they're gonna they're You
can show them certain types of kindness you
weren't able to because of your weakness and
because of their strength at that time.
You have to spend that time because you
can't get it at any other time, you
definitely can't get it after they pass from
this world.
Your children, when they're little, you have to
spend that time with them, and your kids
are not there for you to be friends
with them. For God's sake, stop trying to
be friends with your kids. You're not cool,
you're not gonna be cool, dad.
They should love you but they're not they
have their own friends, other little kids. Don't
be like a loser that like, you're trying
to like relive your,
middle school that no one would talk to
you so now I'm gonna talk to my
kid. That's don't do that.
They don't need you to be their your
friends. They need you to be their parents.
But there's only a limited amount of time
that they're gonna listen to you because this
masa 8, 9, 10, 11 is gonna turn
into like 17, 18, it's gonna turn into
23.
They're gonna go to MSA, they're gonna go
to school, they're gonna learn what paradigm and
narrative means, and they're not gonna wanna listen
to anything from you anymore, and the chance
you had to make that quality connection is
gonna be gone.
Why should everyone have to fight the uphill
battle? Fight the uphill battle alone, where we
can all do it together.
You and me, we all know we're gonna
go to Yom Kiyama one day.
These are literally those basic things that we're
gonna get judged on.
And as smooth talking as you know, Hussam
is, and as smooth talking as Sheikh Musa
is, and as Masha'
Tech and
multimedia and social media savvy as Atiyah is,
you're not gonna fight against like government and
corporations.
After the French revolution and after like
Nazi Germany,
basically there are 2 big boosts that change
the way world governments work. Basically all the
world governments realize nazis are up to something,
on to something good. So they fight against
them because nobody wanted to be ruled by
Germans or whatever, but like then after they're
like, we gotta become like them, otherwise we're
gonna go out of we're gonna get become
extinct. And there's a new wave of this
happening right now. Look at the way China
runs its government, look at repressive governments from
the muslim world. How they're using technology, how
they're using data, how they're using all these
things in order to completely have an iron
grip, make society like a prison.
Never in the history of humanity has such
a small group of people been able to
completely restrain, like animals and leashes and chains,
restrain such large groups of people.
If you plug into that system, you see
that it's literally like human beings are being
fed into
a slaughterhouse, that there's cows going into a
building, and boxes of ground of coming out,
of ground beef coming out of the building.
Put 2 and 2 together, you don't wanna
be in that line.
You don't wanna be in that line. You
don't have to boycott modernity in order to
do that. You just make a couple of
very small steps, build your houses together, tell
your kids instead of having insta minsta, we're
gonna just have a real barbecue. Would you
rather see someone else a picture of someone
else's dinner, or we can have the dinner
ourselves, inshallah.
You can't do it alone. You can't do
it every single time alone. So you pool
your resources in order to in order to
do it, you know, with some sort of
efficiency. Because at some point or another, other
people have to, you know, people have to
go to work, and earn a living, and
do all of these things.
If we do it together we have a
lot it'll be a lot easier, it'll be
a lot more fill fulfilling. Alata will be
more pleased with us,
because deen is not supposed to make you
into some sort of spiritual warlord that like,
I'm like the pious guy, and to *
with the rest of society, I'm gonna be
the last man on the hill standing.
People have that mentality. Those people, they they're
designed for defeat.
Success happens what?
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he says that, you
know, that that that you know when the
companions radhiyallahu would put their hands together
to take bay'a with the prophet
to give the oath of allegiance.
The only thing I can think of from
my life that resembles that is like after
like or like before a sports match some
sort, where 1, 2, 3 team. Right?
The expression is what?
Allah's hand is
that we don't mean that Allah it's not
a it doesn't mean that Allah has a
body or something like that.
The Arabs understood exactly what this meant.
What does it
mean? That when you take your hands, and
you put cast your hands in together, you
cast your lot together,
then who's with you in that pledge? Who's
with you in that covenant?
Allah.
Now, theoretical, I know we're not you know
people they accuse the Ashayra and the Maturidi
of speculating about Allah ta'ala and, that's a
bad thing. It is a bad thing, so
we're gonna go out on on a limb
here. If somebody wants to use this against
me later, it's gonna be recorded and you
can splice this out inshallah, use it against
me.
Theoretically speaking, if there was a sports match
between 2 teams, you know, Allah Ta'ala was
on one team and the other team didn't
have Allah on it.
Which team is gonna win?
I'll tell you it's actually not speculation, it's
the nasa the Quran.
No, indeed. The party that's with Allah,
they're the ones who will be the overwhelming
victors.
They're the ones who are going to achieve
success. They're the ones who are gonna achieve
happiness.
They're going to be the ones that achieve
felicitousness.
And
Allah
covenant is with who? The ones who make
covenant with
one another.
So it's great rugged individuality,
you know.
God bless America. Alhamdulillah. You're all individuals. Don't
let anyone else take your guns away ever.
No one Don't let anyone else you know
take away your rights. You know, hamdulillah, masha'Allah.
Out of my cold dead hands, etcetera, ad
nauseam. All that stuff's great. Wonderful.
And
you have your rugged individualism, and you're gonna
be a maverick and all that other jazz.
That's fine. Within reason, it's it's cool. It's
okay.
But don't be so individualist
that the Rasulullah
alaihi wasallam,
he mentioned that, don't stray far from the
jama'a. Why? Because
the wolf always eats the the sheep that
strays far from the flock, which is true.
If there's a flock of sheep, domesticated
or or wild,
rams or something like that.
If the wolf attacks the flock, what will
happen? A ram, if it's charging at full
speed with horns and things like that,
it can really it can, you know, 2
or 3 of them if they butt that
that that that, wolf, they can mess it
up pretty bad. They can kill it.
They can break a leg, if you have,
if you're a wolf and you get a
broken leg,
you know, it's not like you're gonna get
like 2 days, 2 weeks paid vacation from
work, and like, free visits from Cleveland Clinic,
and but but then your doctor Ibrahim will
like assess you initially, and then your MRI
is gonna be looked at by Hafez Forkhan,
Doctor. Forkhan, and that's not how that works.
If your leg is broken, you're gonna starve
to death because you can't get to any
food. Right? That's it. That's game over.
There's there's no more to the story.
So the wolf is not stupid enough to
attack the flock head on. What did the
prophet notice? He noticed this which you don't
have to be Muslim to have noticed, is
that they always attack the straggler,
the one that's weak, the one that's sick,
or the one that's dumb enough to not
be concerned where's the rest of the flock,
and strays off mindlessly, innocently.
How lovable. It's it's lovable, you know, whimsical.
I'm going and smelling a flower while everybody
else has taken the beaten path. I'm traveling
the path, let's travel to bed, it has
made all the difference.
English poetry is so horrible. Anyway,
you're doing this thing that like our society
idolizes,
which is fine. Go right ahead and do
it. If everyone's jumping off a bridge, please
be my guest, don't jump off the bridge.
But that doesn't mean all the time you
should be separate from the flock. The flock
actually has some benefits in it as well.
Why? Because the wolf always eats the the
sheep that strays from the flock. The Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said that.
Who's the wolf? Look in any book of
comment, the wolf is shaitan.
The one who wants to be unique and
different, that person will be unique and different.
The entire Ummah is gonna go to Jannah,
that person will be alone in the *
fire.
So don't listen to some crazy person on
YouTube, and who's like, Oh, you know like
all the ulema, they didn't understand the deen,
and I understand it. And like I'll tell
you, Mike, you know in the Quran when
it says that you can't eat pork, this
doesn't mean that it's haram to eat bacon.
This means that, you know, we should cut
government spending and not have, you know,
pork items, you know, like, you know, tacked
on to, like, stimulus bills. That's what it
means. All the mullahs don't know what they're
doing. They just, you know, they're just eating
their halwa. Right?
No, man. It's okay. That's that's interesting. That's
weird.
That wheel. Good day. I wish you well.
Good luck with that. Let me know how
it turns out. We're gonna stick with what
the Jama'a says, and what they understood. Why?
Because Allah is with the Jama'a,
and the Prophet said stick with the Sawad
A'avan,
and,
in fact what we know is that the
person who strays from the flock, generally this
is not a good sign. It is possible,
maybe that person understood something that nobody else
in Cleveland understood, but it's a very small
possibility.
We're gonna do our homework, do our due
diligence, and in general that's not a good
sign.
The problem we have over here is that
there's no jama'a, and there's not been any
effort to think about making a jama'a for
so long.
Cleveland has so many Muslims in it. It
has so many Muslims in it, and it's
a more well established and an older community
than Chicago is.
The masjid I go to for Taraweeh
in Lombard, which is not the city of
Chicago, it's like some like
random, like, complete, like, nondescript suburb.
That it you know, you it's not even
like flyover country, but there's no freeway that
goes through it, you know?
Lombard,
the masjid that's down the road from my
house, one of like 7 masajid.
That masjid, you want to know about the
tarawih that we have over there?
There's one main tarawih, the khatam is going
to be day after tomorrow on 29th.
Mufti Azim Mufti Min Hajj is doing the
khatam that's gonna be on the 29th. His
brother Mufti Azim is doing another khatam in
the building behind it.
And in the basement there's a khatam that
was,
in a different qira'ah, that was done in
10 days.
And in every room of Dar es Salaam,
there are there are there are 30 classrooms.
Every room there's a different tara'wih going on.
One finishing on 10th, one finishing on 7th,
one finishing on 20th, 1 finishing on 15th.
Every day they have a different khatam that's
that's finishing their khatam dua in in,
in that masjid. It's like a Disneyland of
of like, but like instead of like Mickey
Mouse, starawi.
There is one Masjid
on North Avenue, down the street from my
house,
in which
there are literally
10 times the number of tawihs
that are happening in that one masjid
than the entire Cleveland.
This is not an issue of resources, this
is an issue of priorities.
Those people are not more pious than you
and me, those people are not smarter than
you and me, Those people are not more
good looking than you and me. Those people
are not more wealthy than you and me.
In fact in fact, that that community is
median,
earning of that community is lower. It's actually
a lower income,
demographic. They're barely able to pay for their
own masajid,
and they're barely able to fund their own
masajid.
The only difference is that there's a difference
in vision that some people, not everybody, not
even a majority of people, a very small
number, just like this is a small number
of people in Cleveland,
a small number of people in that community,
they got together, they said that this is
a vision that we wanna have for our
future, and then they fought with each other
and they made 2 groups, and 4 groups,
and 7 groups, and 19 groups. Sheikha, you
lived in Chicago as well. You know it's
not
like Disneyland or a fairy tale or utopic
by any stretch of the imagination. The one
common denominator is there's a small group of
people that's like 2% of the population, Muslim
population in that place,
that made a decision that they wanted to
have a vision for the future, even if
they thought about what that vision is gonna
be
incessantly since then.
But they made that and it's made all
the difference.
You have the chance to do it over
here and you have a chance to bypass
all of them as well. You have a
chance to bypass all of them. I can
tell you, I can tell you, you can
do it very quickly in fact.
These things are very normal things wherever Muslims
go. If Muslims were able to thrive in
Andalus,
back in the days when you couldn't call
YouTube video of like the Tarawih in Madinah
Munawara.
If they can have huffah, then books about
you know, Shatibiyah,
and the jazariyah, these are all books written
in Andalus about the tira'at, and things like
that.
It's literally
one one principality
in Spain,
In which they had an emir one time
that really like himself was a Hafiz of
Quran, and really like the Hafiz of Quran,
so he made an institution for whatever the
recitation, and it just became the culture in
that place. All these Quran came from there.
In Spain Spain is not even Muslim anymore.
Ask mashallah,
these are it makes me cry because you
know shateba
There are some
pig eating, kaffir eating hamon over there right
now on
the turba of our Akabir. Ibn Hazem
to fiqh? Those were grand showdowns that they
used to have with one another. Ibn Hazm's
house is like,
was usurped by some kafir. There's like some
sort of bed and breakfast there right now.
Al Baji, ibn Abd al Baru, he was
the qadi of Lisbon. God knows even where
their graves are anymore. They destroyed the graves
so nobody can visit them anymore.
But the legacy still lives on, they're still
alive, they're even more alive than the people
that are here, you and me are alive.
Because I promise you the Quran through which
your sanad went through, all of them they
read their books.
Abu Bakr shaate bibhdapari is like, he's blind.
He's blind.
Wallahi sees with more Nur and with more
basira
than any of us do.
The point is is that these are not
far fetched things. We can do these things
ourselves. It's just a matter of wanting to
have vision. It's a Mubarak night. I feel
bad. I've spoken already way too much. I
apologize. I just realized that that what have
I done? It's a Mubarak night. I wasted
too much of people's night time. But let's
make some sort of,
some sort of decision inside of our hearts
and some sort of intention and conviction.
Look, the Sheikh Musa is sitting here. He's
been here for 11 years, Masha Allah. He
doesn't want to be in this position.
But he's here. Allahu put him in this
position.
Look at him and say that inshallah, he's
going to be our Amir in this project.
We're gonna make this project come to pass.
Masha'Allah. Hafiz Ibrahim,
Bayusam,
Milana Elias, who was here last night may
show up still. They started already started teaching
the Maktab kids. They already started teaching the
kid kids HIFs.
Right now we import huffaf
to Cleveland when we want to look Jibril
is sitting here. Where are you from? You
from Cleveland?
Heck no, man. I'm from Detroit, from Motown.
Right? Insha'Allah,
I promise you forget about one day in
the distant future. Within our lifetimes, we'll see
the kids will go from Cleveland to go
and lead the the hif the the Taraweeh
in other cities.
They'll compete with one another. Masajid will have
23 Taraweehs. They'll compete with one another to
lead the Talaawis in the basements. There's gonna
be so much Quran read in this city.
While the cities of the east are abandoning
the book of Allah
so that they can have shopping malls, and
Netflix's, and all this other stuff, no problem.
Allah give them hidayah, and may they return
to the deen in a beautiful way. If
they don't want it, we want it. We'll
take it. We'll accept it.
We'll send our kids just like from Chicago
kids who are who follow the Quran, go
to weird like
Panama and like Venezuela
and like,
you know, weird parts of South America and
other places in order to read the Quran.
My hometown, Blaine Washington, I can't believe it
has a masjid. We grew up there, we
never thought that. I used to go across
the border to go to Canada to go
to Jum'ah. Now there's a masjid literally, it's
like 7 houses from my house.
How is it even possible? Chicago sent them
to huffad this year. Cleveland, why should Chicago
Chicago is they're just eating hot dogs and
deep dish pizza. They have nothing on you.
There's nothing there that you guys don't have
except for you have it better. Cleveland let
them send a haf is also people can
think of Cleveland Sharif and all of a
sudden. We'll
remember the time people, Leila used to go
out to McDonald's after whatever the khatam, right?
They have nothing on you.
You just have to want it.
If If somebody else is hearing this, and
they're from somewhere else, they have nothing on
you. You just have to want it. Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give us tawfiq. Allah Ta'ala
from the barakah of this blessed night. If
it's the Laylatul Qadr, if it's Khayrum alfishaar,
if it's more
beautiful with Allah ta'ala and more
Mubarak with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and better
with Allah Ta'ala than a 1000 months. May
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accept with the Amin
of those 1000 months and the prayers of
1,000 months, this dua of ours, that we
make this place a holy and a sacred
place, that we make this place a place
where the book of Allah is read by
day night, That the name of Allah is
taken by day night. The hadith of the
prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is read with sunad
by day night. Not to argue with people
and, you know, prove that I'm right and
you're wrong, but for the love of Allah
and His Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. The barakat
of those places, the the the those, those
beautiful names and words come down on this
place and protect it from calamity, and protect
it from tribulation, and protect it from from
evil. This evil which is about to engulf
the the world.
Because people are not heedless of Allah and
nothing happens, you know. You're not gonna have
a society where, men are marrying men and
women are marrying women, it's not gonna have
any consequence. Promise, I promise
you, you're not gonna have that and it's
gonna go without any consequence. These things are
all gonna fall apart. You and me both
know that there's no future. You don't have
to be a medical doctor in order to
know that there's not a future in that.
And when those things start to collapse and
fall apart,
life is gonna become very hard for a
lot of people. It's gonna happen and it
might happen in our own lifetimes.
This is the only thing that we can
hold fast to, that when the flood of
all that facade comes, this deen is the
ark that's going to save us from that
flood. Allah give us tawfiq to build it
according
to That we build it according to the
plans that were handed down to us by
Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And it's exact details
according according to the the knowledge of revelation.
That we can build it and it can
save us from the flood of this world
and the flood of the hereafter. In this
Mubarak night Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give us
a toffi, even if it's not late at
Tawqa Dar Allah Ta'alaqin,
all he has to say is yes, that
I accept this Amin, and I accept this
prayer, and it will come to pass. May
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept it from us.
Amin.