Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 27 Ramadn Late Night Majlis Be Taken Ecstatic Transport 04072024
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The speaker discusses the importance of finding the right time for one's spiritual journey and finding the right place for one's success. They emphasize the importance of cultivating a state ofause and finding the right time for one's actions. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of finding the right time for one's faith and finding the right place for one's success. They stress the importance of avoiding the "has been through" mentality and finding the right place for one's success. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of finding the right time for one's success and finding the right place for one's success in life.
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I would like to congratulate
Rafal and the congregation
that both recited and listened to
the,
Quran
in the state of in in the state
of
consecrated
prayer.
May Allah accept us from them. May
Allah accept us from them. May Allah accept
it from them and from our teachers and
our teachers' teachers
and then unbroken chain to the Rasool Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
This is
a great blessing and is the great vehicle
of knowledge from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for
the Ummah say the Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
This was
something that was inaugurated in the time of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Then afterward, Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam cut
the congregation out of fear that it would
become farther. It would become an obligation on
the on the ummah. But he didn't stop
people from praying. He just said pray separately
on your
own. Then after he left from
this world,
said, because he understood the sunnah and he
understood what the prophet
did and why he did it.
He gathered the congregation again. Why? Because that
danger of it becoming far had not passed
with the Rasool salallahu alaihi wa sallam passing
from this world.
And no one from the companions of the
Allah who contested it.
None of them contested him about it. All
of them
joined. All of them endorsed it.
Where does this cut off of the Quran
come from?
It's narrated in Sahih Hadith that say that
Jibril alaihis salam used to come to the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he would read
the Quran to him
In the month of Ramadan, whatever had been
revealed up until that point, and in the
last year of his Mubarak life, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam say that Jibreel came and he
read it
twice. This is a noble sunnah. It didn't
originate in this world. Rather, it's also a
gift that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent down
from
the heavens, from above this world that we
live in. And with it came an immense
amount of barakah.
You and I live in a time where
people no longer have shout and no longer
have longing for these things anymore.
This era is an era in which you'll
find many people who are but you'll find
very few people are.
If you were to translate both terms, both
both expressions,
into English,
a person could perhaps say that both of
them mean the same thing. They mean a
person is crazy, but there's a world of
difference between them.
The Majnoon person is the one who doesn't
know that 2 plus 2 equals 4 anymore.
The manganoon person is the one who walks
into the places where he should be wearing
clothes without clothes on and walks into the
places where he shouldn't be wearing clothes with
his clothes on. The person who,
you know, is cautious where he can be
relaxed and the person who's relaxed where he
should be cautious. The person who's on guard
when he's safe and the person who's heedless
when he's in danger. Whereas, when he's in
danger, where's the person who's on guard when
he's safe and the when he's safe and
the person who's heedless when he's in danger.
Whereas the person
is what?
The person who their has turned toward Allah
ta'ala with such intensity, they forget all of
the other things that the people who are
thinking about this dunya usually think about.
So
as time goes on, you see the number
of
decreases.
And the intensity of their jaz decreases. What
does jaz jazmin mean?
Right? Anyone know where's any anyone there's the
zombie students here, we have some academy guys,
and we have some people at the desk
up top. Anyone raise your hand. Who's who's
who's studying right now?
Anyone? Yeah. What's the Arabic word for gravity?
Did they teach you in the in the
Hidayah?
You didn't learn Newtonian physics in, in in
Shadalafai or anything? No?
The word for gravity in Arabic is.
Means for something absorb or attract something.
So Jaz, a person who enters into a
state of Jaz.
This is an ecstatic state. This is a
state in which a person,
This is a state in which a person
their Rouhani and spiritual faculty
overwhelms their physical faculty to such a point
to such a point where they now their
spiritual faculty becomes dominant over their physical faculty.
Anhu
to recite and read the Quran and to
enter the prayer and to make the dhikr
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and forget their pain, forget their suffering. That
from amongst them, there are those who have
their legs amputated and they didn't need
they didn't need anesthetic. Why? Because they're in
a state of just it was the state
that allowed them to rush into battle with
such ferocity against people who are trained, well
armed, outnumbering them, outgunning them, outmanning them, outstrategizing
them, and still
make it through and break through the enemy
ranks in such a way that the enemy
was the one who feared them rather than
the other way around, which would have been
what a person would have expected by the
conventional
wisdom wisdom of this dunya.
Jazb is what made the companions on
whom
their armies march,
a complete day's march when a person only
has one date to eat, and Jazb is
what makes the companions march when even that
date runs out.
This is something
that there's discussions about these things in the
books of Tasawwuf.
In Tasuluf, we're talking about the spiritual path.
There
are complementary states. They're opposite of one another,
and both states are,
both states are meritorious, and both of them
should be cultivated.
So the
opposite state of Jad Abizwat is Sahm, is
being
sober. Their sobriety and there's ecstatic
ecstaticness,
exuberance.
A person must cultivate both of them, but
every person will have 1 or one of
these 2 dominant in them. Very few people
will have the of being able to balance
them out.
What I say is that you shouldn't be
in all the time, that you love the
Quran so much that you can't get to
a job interview properly.
You should love the Quran that much. But
if you get to that point where it's
starting to mess with your responsibilities in the
dunya, you also have to learn how to
control it.
I'm not saying to cultivate jabb so much
that it should be out of control.
Just like a person shouldn't be so sober
that they no longer have any shout to
hear. They no longer have any desire or
longing to hear the Quran. They no longer
have any desire or longing
to stand in prayer. They no longer have
any desire or longing to hear the adam.
They no longer have any desire or longing
to fasten the month of Ramadan, but they
only do it. They're so sober that they
only do it because abstract, they know it's
some sort of commandment from the lord, but
they no longer have any desire for them,
for those things.
The sunnah is what to put these things
in balance. The reason I'm talking about Jasban
more than I'm talking about Sahu right now,
about
ecstasy
and exuberance more than I'm talking about sobriety,
is because we live in an age where
people, their just has become so weak for
all things spiritual
that you have people who have absolutely no
longing and no desire for anything good, anything
spiritual, anything related to Allah alaihi
wa sallam, and they masquerade around his infant
sobriety. There's a difference between sober, and there's
a difference between dead.
There's a difference between being sober, and there's
a difference between being dead.
Take these moments. There's a time for everything.
There's a time for everything.
This is the time that you should feel
the love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala fill
your heart. I know in this crowd,
there are good people.
Whoever is here is a good person. At
the same time, I know also in this
crowd there are sinners. There's somebody who's addicted
to something haram. There's somebody who's addicted to
eating something haram. There's something addicted to drinking
something haram. Someone addicted to listening to something
haram. Someone addicted to watching something haram, someone
addicted to somebody who is haram for them.
And if there are people who are not,
at some point or another, that was there.
This night, this night, this Mubarak night in
the last 10 nights, the odd nights, the
27th night, the night of the khatam,
the night of Dua.
This night, there's an appropriate thing for every
time. There's an appropriate season for all things
just like you're not gonna go snowboarding in
July.
Just like if you get married in your
new event web on your wedding night, you
take your bride by the hand.
Sisters, your husband takes your by by by
the hand and you look at each other's
eyes and you don't say, hey, you know,
if we don't get along and we get
divorced, do you want half the house or
should I just pay you?
That's not the time for that discussion.
That's the time to what? Sit and think
about how you're gonna be happy together. Sit
and think about how you're gonna be happy
together.
There's no guarantee that it'll happen,
but
no bother. This is the time that you
think about what how you're gonna be happy
together.
Just like that, this night is the thing
that you should think about how you're gonna
be happy together, not with your
bride.
And or your groom for the sisters who
are listening.
He made such a beautiful dua. Dua.
The people who are looking for someone that
they they they get what they're looking for.
I mean, that's done. Right?
Put that aside now for the rest of
night. This is the night that you remember
your love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The shaytan that disrupts that process, Allah ta'ala
locked him up.
How much of a Khamis your nephew is.
If you're not one of those guys, please
make the offer me.
I mean it, seriously.
But for the rest of us, you realize
that it's a depressing realization.
Allah sent the presence of the angels and
the
from the.
Why? So as to what inside a person
that if the heart even has a little
bit of life in it, a little bit
of life in it, that life also will
be moved on this night despite yourself. Just
like Shaytan will draw a person to evil
despite their lack of desire of doing evil.
A night's like
comes down. The angels and the
from the
come now to this place which is otherwise
bereft bereft of
to witness the put over here because what?
It's actually worth it's worth taking a road
trip from Jannah to come to this place
on the mark like this because of how
much Allah
put in there.
So
open your heart up
and look at the beauty of a map
like this
And say, yeah,
Allah, you're so beautiful,
and I have nothing to give you.
And you're so forgiving and merciful,
and I don't deserve your mercy. But you
literally revealed the surah saying that tonight you're
going to give up
to everybody who asks.
In nights like this, you give to everybody
who asks. In nights like this, even if
I myself and the complete Khamis and like
not deserving of anything, look how full the
masjid was. At least somebody or another is
a biased person in the gathering.
And you said about the people who make
your
They are such a people, the one even
the one who keeps their company, that person
will never be retched again.
For this, we praise you and we enjoy
it. Just like you guys had your and
your
and
all this other stuff. This is the time
to enjoy this right now. Cultivate that ability
inside of your heart to enjoy.
The of jazbus are what? The how when
it comes down.
Right? People say that, Michelle, that imams, the
mushack, they say stuff and who do a
lot. And people who do like this all
the time, they kind of get from context
what they kind of mean, but they don't
know exactly what those words mean.
So
what is phase? What is phase? P h
a s e? Is it trigonometry?
Is it engineering?
Right? The phase with the bomb. It's not
phases in Arabic. Right? Following a few bullets
for something to outflow outflow,
to pour out.
Something
the effluence of something like a river
flows.
Rest of the community
and other people may not even overdo or
whatever.
Right? But these are the
in
every label to the Muslims we have it,
That that that, me and Mohammed Bakshi said
that your
the river of your mercy, my my my
my my lord, that is constantly flowing at
all times.
If even one splash of it, one like
spray, like, you know, you stand at the
river bank and the water kinda hits a
rock and jumps off like a drop of
water. So if even one drop of it,
like,
jumps off and hits me, that everything I
ever wanted, everything I ever wanted, everything I
ever hoped for, everything I ever dreamed,
I got.
Now imagine imagine.
Right?
Right? I cannot promise you tonight's little color
how am I supposed to know.
But the
hadith says specifically what the person who stands
the nights of Ramadan
in prayer. Meaning what?
Right? Taraweeh. You stood. You prayed your Taraweeh.
It wasn't even that difficult.
You stood you stood in in in faith
and what what does mean? Expectation.
Now it's not good
from one point of view for a person
to have expectation, like, you owe me.
But in some sense,
wants you to want it from him.
Because if you didn't trust him, he's gonna
give it to you.
That you it's like as if you don't
trust Allah to Allah. Like, he's not gonna
fulfill his work. Maybe there's something wrong with
my intention. Maybe I didn't do this right.
Okay. Yeah. Maybe you didn't do a 100
things right. Maybe Ruby wasn't proper. Maybe your
salat wasn't proper. Maybe you thought about this.
Maybe
you thought of that. But nobody came to
the message and say, yes. I'm just on
the way to rob a bank, and I
had to use the bathroom. Right? People came
in general for something good. Right?
You made it. What is the reward for
standing with the?
Right? And the third the third part of
the
that the person who stands on the in
faith and in expectation,
in good hope and expectation of reward from
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. All of their sins
that came from before, all of them will
be forgiven.
So if you have expectation, you should also
have you should also
have some good hope. You should have imam
also in your heart that I've been forgiven.
Allah ta'ala is the one who's not like
his creation. Someone says, well, I'm a bad
person.
The more Khabece you are, the greater Allah
ta'ala is for forgiving you.
Is Allah greater or less great?
So that means the more the worse you
feel about all the dumb things you've done,
the worst I feel about all the dumb
things I've done. And I've done a lot
of very dumb things in my life.
That's the greater the worst you feel, the
greater Allah is by that you believe he
is by forgiving you. This is also part
of the of
Allah Now for the rest of the night
now for the rest of the night, cultivate
cultivate this judgment. This is the time that
it should these nights like these are times
that they should overpower your your your your,
sobriety.
When you have a job interview, right, don't
be like, I'm gonna wear my turban and
I'm gonna wear my jubah or whatever if
unless you're, like, interviewing the imam and a
Muslim or something. Right?
Go ahead. As long as you're covered, you're
out on work, whatever suit and tie or
whatever you need to for your job interview.
Right? Don't let the judge overpower you, otherwise,
you'll be, unemployed.
I don't know. In America, we, you know,
it's not a socialist country like Canada is,
so we don't get benefits. Right? I don't
know. Maybe you guys, it's okay if you're
unemployed. Like, you know, rainbow rainbow color stock
bag is gonna send you a check every
year, every month or whatever. But for us,
you're high and bad. You don't get anything.
If you have to, you know, if you,
you know, you you're way too much of
your cholesterol is too high. Right? Then go
ahead and, like,
you know, cut your diet. Not because it's
not because, you're fasting or whatever, but for
some very duty of your purpose because your
sobriety tells you you have to take care
of these things in this world. But those
thoughts, this is not the knife for those
thoughts.
And if you want to cultivate the state
of Jazbu, if you want to cultivate
the state of you have to look for
when and where the how comes down, when
and where the faith of Allah comes down.
The out flowing of Allah's grace is not
water. It's not like a dam broken river
will
come and and and flood you with physical
water.
It's like that but with what?
With
the
that Allah gives. The that Allah gives. The
divine grace that Allah gives. Those things that
Allah gives a person that they that he
loves.
Those things that make a person's sub are
increased. Those people those things that make a
person's,
spiritual
power increase. Those things that make a person's
dunya increase, and those things more importantly than
that, that make a person's after that increase.
How do you cultivate that?
How do you cultivate that? How do you
find where the how is gonna come from?
How do you cultivate where the phase is
gonna come from if this all of this
talk is
kind of alien? Many of us are very
accustomed to it. So I apologize if I'm
repeating something that like you already know about.
But maybe there are some people amongst us
that that we could use the reminder, and
maybe there are some people who never thought
of this before.
The three conditions like we were discussing maybe
with with the brothers from before for the
faith to come for the how to come
down on a place
is what
zaman, makan, if one.
It has to be a time.
It has to be the right time. And
it has to be a time. All made
a season for all things. All made a
time, a month for everything. All made
an hour for all things. All made a
Minute and a second and a moment
for
all
things.
If you see like a child playing with
like fire or like a really sharp knife,
that's the time to be scared.
It's okay. It's appropriate, actually.
If you're on the evil battle and you
look at the enemy, that's not that's not
a good time to be
scared. The danger actually in the eve of
battle may actually be even more than the
danger that's there, like a kid playing with
a knife or with with a pair of
matches or whatever.
But one of them, it's appropriate to be,
afraid, and the other one is not it's
not appropriate to be afraid at that time.
If you want to, for example, I don't
know, pray on night,
it's more appropriate to do so in the
first 10 days of the Hijjah in the
month of Ramadan while you're at Hajj,
while you're in Ithaca. It's appropriate to do
those things. Whereas, perhaps, for example, like, if
you're already chronically fatigued and you have to
go to work tomorrow and it's like the
middle of, I don't know, like, Jamal Al
Ula or something.
And, you know,
it maybe not be appropriate at that time.
At that time, it may actually be better
for you to sleep.
So what's the first condition for the faith
to come down? It has to be the
time. The correct time frame.
What are the times that the faith comes
down? The month of Ramadan.
Right? The sacred.
Right? The the the sacred days, the the
e day, and the 2 nights of the
e day, and the days of the e
day. Right? What are the times of faith?
The hour of the day of.
These are the times that you should look
for the the the faith. You should look
for the holidays times. You should seek it
out. Search for it in these times.
There are also times that are personal to
you maybe other than somebody else depending on
what your circumstances are in your life.
What's a time that's personal that may not
be shared by 2 people?
You
obviously, you guys are wise people, so you
don't have a girlfriend. Maybe someone did at
some point, but they've already made trouble for
that. Right?
So you wanted to propose marriage to a
girl, and she completely, like, broke your heart.
Or vice versa for the sisters listening that,
you know, a brother, completely brother, not a
brother because you're not gonna marry your brother.
Obviously, not everyone's your brother.
It's important to remember that, by the way.
In fact, most people aren't your brother at
all. But, the point is is that you
wanted to marry a man, and he completely,
like, shattered your expectations and blew you off,
and you feel like, horrible.
You wanted something so bad. You failed the
test that you thought you would pass.
You studied so hard for it. You wanted
a job. People texted me. I wanted to
buy this house. Somebody else swooped in and
made an offer before I could send mine
in, and I lost it. It's okay
to sign you were meant to live in
that house, inshallah. If it's meant for you,
you'll get it one day.
If not,
you know, it wasn't meant for you. It
wasn't meant for Wala, we mean it. I
mean it. I mean it. If it's meant
for you, you'll get it one day.
So many stories we can tell such a
short amount of time. This night is not
about story time. I wanna kinda get to
a point and then get people
give people time to,
do what's of more benefit in a night
like this.
But there are the point is there are
certain times as I mean, there are certain
times that are personal. They're not necessarily on
the calendar, like on the Islamic calendar or
whatever. Right? They're personal times for you. And
those are the times
that that that that that the how will
come to a person.
When a person is completely at their wits
end,
you've tried everything, everything, and you're completely at
your wits end, then you turn to Allah
in prayer, you'll see this is the time
of faith comes to you.
Right? The people before you, the ambiance, the
people with them before you were shaken to
the point where they,
that where they where they ask in exasperation
when will the help of the Even the
the most people with the most amount of
they asked in exasperation, when will the help
of Allah come? That's the point at which
the help of Allah is is is buried.
It's
nearby.
When is the Mubarak time that you're going
to receive face? Remember this.
When the jig is up and you're almost
gone from this world, you know that the
clock is, the hope is done
and you're dying.
Don't waste that moment.
That's the time 100%
for judgment. Right? That's the time that's the
time you're like you're like on that time
at that moment, you're like a bride who's
I'm saying this to the brothers. The sisters
can understand. I'm saying this to the brothers.
Think about
that.
It's interesting. You know, in the Muslim world,
I'm not saying this is a sunnah. This
is a cultural practice of the Muslims.
I'm not saying I'm not commenting about it
that it has any sort of like standing
or whatever. I'm not commenting about this. But
oftentimes what happens, the passed
away in the past. People would go and
remember them,
or go and remember them or go big
du'a at their graves,
to Allah
for them This is a the thing it's
the Muslim world, a lot of it happens
over there. I'm not talking I'm not telling
you to do it or not or whatever.
I'm saying this is the thing that happens.
You know what the you know what the
word they they they give for the death
anniversary of the is in, in the Persianate
Islamic lands? They call it Urs what does
Urs mean in in Arabic?
They call it Urs what does Urs mean
in Arabic?
You don't know?
Urs what does the Urs mean in Arabic?
It's like a wedding.
It's like a wedding.
Why? Because the understanding which is very much
a sound understanding of Islam. Again, whether you
want to go and like celebrate or so
or not, I'm not talking about that right
now.
But the understanding is what? Is that this
is a time of and this is a
time of great happiness.
Why? Because the person who Allah sent to
this world,
you only had one job. Really, you only
had one job is to have you not
in battery.
All the rest of it, no matter how
bad you bleep everything up,
it can be fixed. It will be a
day will come, it will be fixed.
But this is what you only had one
job.
Imagine you only had one job.
Not your boss, not your parents, not your
mom who touched up. Right? No.
No. Sent you with only one job, and
you're like, you know what? The end is
near.
You see the light, and I might actually
pull through. I'm actually gonna pull this off.
This might actually work for me. This is
a time of immense faith. If you get
to that moment,
don't remember
despair and despondency.
Remember what? Remember what? Remember Allah Ta'ala.
Push down your push down your sobriety and
let the judgment come out outside of you
that this is the day I'm going to
go to Allah to Allah. I may not
be perfect. I'm definitely far from perfect, but
at least I have with
me.
Let that well up and pass from this
world in that state In that state of
not Majnu, not being not Majnu, not being
Majnu, but being
Majzu.
So like that, this is a long discussion
Inshallah, but I'm saying that some of the
some of the moments that the faith comes,
it's not if the faith comes, it's not
going to be, it's not going to be
calendar, it will be for yourself personally.
Read the books of the hadith of the
Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Read the read the read the read the
sit around when they read the the
the prophet mentioned all of these things to
the to the to the,
Umma. He mentioned all of these things to
Saba alaiwahu.
He was the one who taught us to
how to talk to Allah to Allah, how
to deal with Allah to Allah, Learn all
of these things. What are the what are
the the the
the how coming down, the coming down. The
second is the correct
Now tell me, are you supposed to read
the Quran in the bathroom?
No.
Now, say the Musa alayhis salam, it's very
interesting. He's narrated that he asked
Say the Musa alayhi salam asked Allah, are
you near near nearby that when I made
Dua that I shouldn't speak in a great
more ways?
Or are you far away?
That I should shout out. Why would Allah
be close
because
Allah Why would Allah be far because they're
sick of euthanasia?
Both of these realities, there's some portion of
them with, you know, with you between you
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Did Allah ta'ala say to say to the
musa alaihi salaam? He said that I'm I'm
the companion of the one who remembers me.
Whenever you whenever you remember me, I'm with
you.
So why is it then that you're not
supposed
to read the Quran in the bathroom?
Because this is not the place for that.
It's not that Allah is in some sense,
like, unaware of what's going on over there,
that you're not a slave or you're not
a servant in the bathroom,
or when your clothes are dirty, or when
and in some not in some sense, in
an absolute sense, you're supposed to remember Allah
even in those moments as well.
This is one of the most incredible things
about,
Islam. Islam is so incredible.
Really a faker couldn't have made it up.
Can you believe there's actually even for doing
it?
I know it's not something that the baba
and jachar are gonna like like for a
person to mention in the masjid. But I
remember when I was in Dora Hadid, it
was extremely hot, Lahore summer day. The days
in Lahore used to get, like, 50 degrees
Celsius.
We don't do the Celsius system in America.
It's like a 127 degrees Fahrenheit or something
ridiculous like that. Can you imagine 50? 50
Celsius, it broke 50 Celsius for, like, you
know, the the hardest season in the traditional
planter's calendar, the dry summer before the monsoons
come.
And so, like, you know, I was, like,
coming in and out of consciousness to sweat.
I was burning my eyes.
You know? And so you can't sleep at
night. It's so hot. So you drift away
even in class.
And so I drifted away in class and
then the the the the person who's reading
the,
you know, he all of a sudden, he's
reading reading reading reading reading reading
How did this happen here? Then I realized,
okay, he's reading a hadith.
Let me tell you something. Whoever remembers a
lot to Allah at that moment,
that person remembers a lot to Allah.
It's difficult to remember a lot to Allah
always.
Remember your lord inside your very being such
a way that's even more subtle than than
than speech that a person says on their
tongue.
And never ever behave this up. Never behave
this up. Means you have to be making
all the time even while you're using the
bathroom, even while all of these things. There's
a for going to the bathroom at the
end of the day. Right? And even though
you don't say the words that we're on
in your tongue, but something is
happening inside our heart. You're still not excused
from remembering a lot to Allah during those
times. You're not even excused from remembering a
lot to Allah.
Never never heed this. Never heed this of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Right? But that being
said, even though that's a reality, and we
affirm that reality.
But if you're looking for the faith, don't
look at look for it in those times
and places.
Where do you look for it?
In the house of Allah ta'ala. Where do
you look for it? You're going to Hajj,
you go to the you
go to Madinah Manawara. It's more inside the
masjid than it is outside of the masjid.
It's more
more inside the Haram than it is outside
of the Haram. It's more inside the Mubaythan
it's outside the Mubaythan it's outside the Muwahib.
When you go and keep the company of
pious people, why Why?
Because those are that's those are Mubarak places.
When you go and sit in the presence
of the,
those that's that place becomes Mubarak because of
people as well.
They say that when wherever his his car
comes to pass by, you know, it would
affect people. People have no idea who he
is, But he would pass by them and
it like, they would never forget
it. They would like they would like it
would change their life and then they would
ask years later, oh, this guy, I saw
him that one day that I started praying
or whatever.
And
who is he? And they'll say that this
is who he is.
How does a person generate that inside of
him? There are some people
that they they project the out of them.
It's, you know, it's like it's like contagious.
Just like everything that a sick person who
has a contagious illness touches becomes sick. Just
like that, a person can cultivate such a
state of iman inside of them that they
even touch kufr, and when they touch it,
that kufr becomes part of this.
This is the thing.
I'm not there yet. If you are, please
make no offer.
There's a lot of journey beyond what we've
talked about so far. This is just the
beginning of it.
We're just here to sit and imagine it
right now and ask a lot for help,
and a lot of I will get from
his father one day.
What is the that's Mubarak?
It can be personal for you as well
just like the. Right? Something is Haram Shaniq
that's set for everybody Mubarak.
What is a Mubarak,
place for you as well? The place that
you the place that you did a good
deed.
And what's the place stripped of that barter
kind? The place that you committed a sin.
Obviously, these things are not these things are
not
so you can let it go in one
ear and out the other if you don't
find it reasonable or if you don't wanna
agree with it. But people share their spiritual
experiences.
If there's some benefit from it, I think
there's nothing wrong with taking the benefit.
There is a, one of the great from,
Morocco,
Sidi Abdul Aziz Al Tabaf.
He wrote his book on Khabib, which is
a very interesting book, and, I don't recommend
really everybody reads it. But at any rate,
He talks about his Mokashofab, the things that
he saw and the things that he experienced,
his dreams and things like that. He's very
wise men.
So one of the things he he said
that I would see I would see wherever
a person commits a good deed, I would
see like a thread of light connect that
place
to Jenna.
So a person prays in a place again
and again. A person makes sense that it
prays again and again, means a Quran and
a place again and again, says,
and says
and the place again and again.
Then that place gets lit up.
The angels love it. It looks beautiful to
them. Just like you go to, like, something
lit up, like, you know, like, the mall
at Christmas time. Of course, we're not gonna
celebrate Christmas. We don't we have to be
like you have to be like, look, they
really did a good job decorating
it.
It's but this is the opposite. This is
the of what?
This is the of like of of the
the. It It becomes beautiful to them, because
of how many good deeds a person does,
and those places become a bar for you
as well.
And he said, also then I saw that
wherever a person commits a sin, there's a
black thread that connects that place to Jannah.
And then when so many of those threads
come and the angels don't even go to
those places, It's like it bars them from
entry, and then what happens? Those are the
places where the shouting of refuge from the
angels.
Otherwise, light and darkness don't come together in
one place. Wherever the light comes, the darkness
doesn't have any ability to exist in those
places.
And he said, I saw that those those
black threads can be cut through what?
To toba. A person makes toba, it will
be cut. You can remove this is the
thing about the ummah of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
You did a a a 100 years of
of sin. Make to by one moment, all
of it's gone. All of it gets swept
away like a flood, like a torrent. Nothing
can resist it.
You do your acts of piety in a
place, that place because just like the angels
cannot come. It's a refuge for the
where the the the blackness of a person's
sins has concentrated just like that, where the
light of a person's good deeds have concentrated.
Those places
can't come. It burns them. They can't come.
They can't come anywhere near those places.
The only that that can come in that
place is you when you carry your nafs
with you.
And the can do a lot of damage,
but at any rate,
a person has some control over it. A
person has the ability to have some control
over it. So this is some discussion be
about the zaman. Think about which sorry.
Think about which place which place is a
Mubarak place if you want to seek. It's
those moments of jazz those opportunities for jazz
and for,
for for for the how to come down,
for the faith to come down. Where can
you seek it? And then finally is what?
It's the that
you should have a good company.
Be very careful who you keep company with.
We right now Islam in this era
for a number of reasons that we don't
have time to discuss right now, has become
the cult of dawah.
What do I mean by the cult of
dawah? Obviously, everyone should make dawah. We should
that stuff. That's that's great.
But what do I mean when I say
cult of dawah?
Now what happens, we become so sensitive to
other people's feelings,
so sensitive that we have this fake imagination
in our head heads that there's some type
of a flock that you can have that
are so amazing
that no one will ever be angry at
you. Who have more better a clock than
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Anyone wanna
raise their hand?
Because even then, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, some of the things that he did
drove people quote unquote away from Islam.
That's the way Allah made the universe.
So be careful. Now that I've lifted the
burden from you that you're not the fault
that people leave Islam and people leave the
Masjid and whatever. Obviously, don't be an idiot.
Don't be a jerk. Don't, you know, make
Islam horrible for people. Try your best. But
you're gonna make some mistakes and other people
are also, you know, going to themselves have
some portion of default for not accepting the
message.
I've relieved the burden from you that you
now are only burdened to be responsible for
what you can do and for fixing the
mistakes that you made. You're not responsible to
be perfect all the time, and you're not
responsible that everyone should be guided and if,
you know, because your clock have to be
that wonderful.
Now that that burden has been lifted, it's
your job to also cultivate the company of
good people. It's your job to also cultivate
the company of good people.
Don't keep the company of people who are
heedless of Allah
so much that you also become heedless.
Part of it means like, yes. Okay. Don't
hang out with crack addicts.
Don't hang out with drunkards. Don't hang out
with people committing xenat. You know, restrict yourself
to people who only accept 2 genders and
your your own gender or like, you know,
a Maham or a spouse of the opposite
gender.
But even beyond that, there are people who
are Muslims, and it's permissible for you to
talk to them, and it's permissible for you
to hang out with them. But the state
that they have is so filled with the
heedlessness of Allah Ta'ala. So so filled with
the rafla of Allah. So filled with the
love of the duniya that the the the
evilness of that state. And it is an
evil state. I can say it's an evil
state without
saying that the person is an evil person.
But the state is an evil state.
A person may have a broken leg, but
the rest of them is okay. But that
doesn't mean that you're gonna wanna, you know,
say here, like, hold this, like, you know,
really expensive thing for me. Because what? They're
likely more likely to drop it than a
person who's
possessed of their full strength.
And what you're giving them to carry is
not like a computer or a phone or
a laptop or whatever. What is your what
are you giving the person who to carry
that you keep company with? It's your
Didn't the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam say,
that a person is, you know, on the
deed of the ones that he loves.
So be careful. Be careful who you spend
time with.
People who are completely heedless, even if they're
your relatives, even if they're your very close
relatives and loved ones. If this heedlessness pervades
them and they show no desire or want
or or or attempt even to purge it
from their hearts, don't say you're a kafir,
don't say sheikh said you're one of the
wafilims who I hate you now. Don't say
any of these things. You don't have to
tell everyone everything.
That level of sincerity, only Allah should have
it. You should never have that level of
sincerity with any other human being. Don't be
up and down, movie duty, everything.
There's some things they don't even know.
There's some things they should know, but there
are a lot of things also that they
don't need to know.
For For the sake of the Lord, don't
tell your wife everything.
But sheikh, I was telling the truth.
Especially when it's true. If you want to
stay married and stay happy, don't tell your
wife everything.
It's a very selfish act to tell all
the truth to someone all the time. Nobody
can handle that burden. The only one who
can handle that is.
So instead of that throwing it in someone's
face and be like, oh, look, you know,
you can, you
know, and I'm out. Throw up the deuces.
I'm out of here.
No. You don't have to say anything to
them.
But
keep company cultivate the company of the people
who have the state of remembrance of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala with them. Why?
Because that is the 3rd ingredient that's necessary
for the how to come down.
If
the only person you know is, like, whatever
Sheikh Talam,
and he has, like, already, like, the whole
mess to this channel, like, keep his company.
Then don't expect that you're gonna go be,
like, best buddies with him. And, like, you
know, like, oh, shoot. So they have to
keep the eye out of the righteous, so,
like, let's hang out on Saturday. He doesn't
have time to hang out with you on
Saturday.
But company with somebody in a spiritual sense
is very different than company with somebody in
a
a kind of a more normal social sense.
I'm not talking about social company. You know,
you can keep company with whoever you want.
Someone someone's like, you can keep company with
with with, you know, you can keep company
with Imam Bukhari. Read
Sahih Bukhari. You're keeping company with them.
You read their books, you keep company with
them. You wanna keep company with Imam Ghazali,
read his book. Someone says Arabic,
read the translation,
the company the effect of the company will
be diluted.
But the company is so strong
that even through the dilution, through the barrier,
the hijab, or the translation, still some light
will get through. Just watch.
What does that mean for the one who
wants to keep the company of the prophet
How do you keep company of the prophet
as wonderful as Imam Ghazali's company would be.
Can you imagine how amazing that would be?
Imam Abu Hanifa, the great mashaikh, how amazing
it would be to keep their company,
But even better than that,
That not only do you keep his company
because you remembered
him. More importantly than that, he remembered you
back. You said, Assalamu Alaikum.
Assalamu Alaikum.
And the prophet said to
you. Who's salaam is worth more? Your salaam
to him or his salaam back to you.
His salaam back to you. And he'll remember
you. You may even be heedless, but he'll
remember you on the day of judgment, the
person who gives the most salaam to the
prophet. You're
the guy sitting in Toronto while the whole
rest of, the neighborhood was
waving rainbow flags
and talking about, like, imaginary genders.
But you are the one who was you
are the ones who who was sending sought
Islam on me.
And who remembers you even more, even better
than the prophets of Allah. This
is separate benefit is that he gives he
returns your Islam. It's a separate benefit that
Allah sends blessings
on you 10 times at the bare minimum
for every time you invoke lessons on the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Sometimes you'll be in a situation like that.
As we go further and further toward the
end of time, it will become more frequent
or you'll be the only person who have
no good company.
Imagine you have a wife, you have kids,
you have bills to pay, you know, Toronto,
you don't have the only place you can
get a job is in, like,
somewhere in Yukon or whatever.
You're not gonna say, oh, you know, like,
let's let's
hang out with the Moanas tonight because there's
no there's polar bears.
You know?
There's like
a musk ox and like,
like, winter pairs and things like that up
there and like a lot of snowiness.
If you find yourself in a situation like
that, then what? Your good company is what?
If you find out tomorrow every shayef you
knew was a complete fraud.
So,
this comes up. He's actually cracked either.
He got busted.
On that day, you can be disappointed in
me, but you're not
alone. You're not without hope as long as
you have
But I can't play PlayStation with the prophet
We can't talk about the weather. We can't
talk about cryptocurrency.
That's not what this is about. That company
is something else. You have to develop some
sort of spiritual sensitivity to understand what the
benefit of that thing is. You'll feel it
eventually, but the thing is you have to
develop it a little bit.
That's the whole point of this talk is
that how to find that faith that you'll
feel
it. Once you feel it, what will happen?
The recitation of the Quran
is very liable to be much sweeter than
you. Everyone has a different attitude by the
way. Some people, their jazbah is like just
a small slightest thing will overwhelm them.
Some people in a lifetime of obedience and
they'll just taste a very small amount of
this.
Allah taught created everybody differently for a different
hikma. Imagine that. Two people on the day
of judgement. One of them was from the
day that from the day that they opened
their eyes to the day that they died.
And another person felt very little bit of
the judgment, very little bit of the but
they both did the same amount the same
amount of deeds. Which of the 2 of
them is more worthy of reward from Allah?
The one who had less does why? Because
they did what what they needed to do
with less enticement.
But this doesn't mean again that you should
not cultivate it. It's a tool. There are
many tools in your in your journey toward
Allah Ta'ala.
One tool is your apple, one tool is
your learning,
these are all tools in in in your
journey toward Allah
But these are the three things. Now I
want you to just to wrap up, this
talk which has already gone on too long.
I want you to think about it. Right?
What were the three things that I said
are the conditions for the how to come
down? It still only comes down by Allah's
grace. You don't make it happen. You just
prepare for
it. But Allah, you know, is generous. He
doesn't, like, leave you high and dry. Usually,
the bigger barrier is the lack of preparation
rather than the law that I'm not giving
because he gives to everyone who asks.
Black, white,
Arab, non Arab, rich, poor, old,
young,
pious, impious. He gives to everybody.
So all three of these conditions, the zaman,
the maqam, the ifwan.
Right? Are they not here in this place
right now?
That you're in the house of Allah on
the 27th night, the Khatam night of Ramadan,
surrounded by other people who look for this
that are not there to sleep. If someone
was only here for the kulfi, kulfi ran
out an hour ago.
Maybe there's some stragglers who will leave after
the band when they realize that, oh, dang.
No more. I'm out. But then what will
happen?
Is
it's it's the right crew. It's the right
time. It's the right place.
So not only spend the night in worship,
but enjoy it.
Allow yourself to feel that faith and allow
yourself to let that how come down. I
myself am the 1st guy who likes to
chitchat with people, and I'm the 1st guy
who likes to joke, and who's the 1st
guy who likes to have a good time
and eat and drink things and all of
that. But the thing that you should want
to eat and drink in this night is
what? The zikr of Allah ta'ala, you should
want to enjoy its sweetness inshallah.
So when
some, Hafiz stands up
to read more Quran or to read some
or
if there's a corner that's a little bit
secluded and you know, you you like, you
know, you wanna read some more Quran
or if there's a corner that's secluded, you
want to make the dhikr of Allah ta'ala.
If there's a corner that's secluded that you
want to close your eyes and your ears
and just let open the tap, the faucet
inside of your heart and just start asking
allah for the things that you want and
the things that you need.
Then do that. This is the time for
it and enjoy it inshallah. Feel that enjoyment.
May Allah
give all of us from his and from
his and from his from his father in
this Mubarak night, in the Mubarak
moments and days and nights of our life.
And may Allah
make the best part of our life what's
in front of us and make Allah
make the best days our last days and
our best moments our last moments and our
best words our last words. Made Allah illaha
illallahum
Subhanahu
Wa Salam been accepted from us and give
us a death better than our life and
give us a time in the grave better
than our death and give us a resurrection
better than our time in the grave and
give us a gathering better than our resurrection
and give us a drink from the home
of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
A drink that is cooler than ice and
sweeter than honey and whiter than milk and
more fragrant than musk. Such a drink that
the one who drinks from it will thirst
again. May Allah give us a
an accounting better than our gathering. May Allah
excuse us our sins and not even ask
us about them. May Allah
order the angels to give us our book
of deeds in the right hand, and may
Allah order the angels to escort us with
gentleness and with love across the Siraf. May
we cross the Sirat like lightning. May Allah
make us for those
who are allowed
to enter Jannah
forever and ever and have a Maqam in
Jannah forever and ever from
any and be called from any and all
of the 8 gates that we can enter
from any of them that we desire. Allah
gave us all of those things not because
of our deeds or because of who we
are, but because he's the one who said
ask and I'll give because he's
Allah.
May Allah give us all of those things
because of who he is, not because of
who we are. May Allah give all of
those things to our parents and to our
ancestors and imam. May Allah give all those
things to our masha'if and their masha'if the
way to the connecting us to the prophet.
May
Allah give it to our children and our
progeny until the day of judgment and to
for with imam inside of their heart. You
Allah, if you decree that the that that
that imam should end, then let it end
with them and let not us any of
us see any of them,
live in the hellfire forever and ever,
completely
separated and disconnected from your father, You Allah.
You Allah,
you Allah
make all of these things give all of
these things for all of those people that
we love for your sake and give all
of these things for all of those people
who love us for your sake. You Allah,
give all of these things to everybody who
who helped us along our way in our
path to you. Whether it's somebody who taught
us
or whether it's someone who even gave us
a ride to a masjid, we completely forgot
that it even happened. We forgot their name.
We forgot the time. We forgot the place.
Whether it was a person who even just
gave us a word of encouragement that carried
us a little bit further along our journey
toward you.
May Allah, give all of these things to
give all of these things to all of
the people who are serving the deen. Give
all of these things in full measure and
and and in orders of magnitude to the
ulama and to the mujahideen in your path,
You Allah, give all of these things to
all the people who believed in you from
the time of Sayna Adam alayhis salam until
the last person who says Allah, Allah leaves
from this world. You Allah, give all of
these things to all of them, you Allah.
Whatever whatever we should ask for, but I
can't think to ask for it right now.
Yeah, Allah, give it to us, and whatever
we shouldn't have said or shouldn't have asked
for, forgive us for it and give us
from your knowledge. You choose for us. Your
choice for us is better for us and
more beloved to us than our choice for
ourselves.
You gave us this Mubarak night that we
live to see it. Give us tawfiq now
in the last last couple of, minutes and
hours that are left in this night that
we should do something that makes you happy
with us.
And we're not able to do it, so
you make it happen, you Allah. You give
us still a couple of words, those couple
of deeds because of which you become happy
with us, you allah, and because of which
you become happy with us, you allah. In
this moment, this is a beautiful night. This
is a night
that's dear to us and beloved to us
in the same intensity that our own wedding
nights would be dear and beloved to us
even though it's different than that. But in
intensity, it's even more intense in some ways.
Yeah. Allah, no matter how messed up we
are,
we love you, and we ask that you
love us as well. And then we said
that there's no god except for you and
that you are our own. So we ask
that in this remark, may you also say
to us
forever that you're, that that you're also my
slave.
And that you put that seal on us,
and that seal stays with us until the
day we die and the day we