Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 28 Ramadan 1441 Late Night Majlis Shah Abd Al Qadir Solace For The Broken Addison 05212020
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Alhamdulillah. We've reached this Mubarak 28th night of
Ramadan. Allah,
has given us so much and has been
so merciful to us and given so much
from his grace and his father. And we
ask Allah,
to accept what has
been done and forgive what has been,
short from our side, which is everything.
And may Allah
seal
the end of these days inshaAllah with khair
and with afiyah and with barakah
and by his father and by his karam
and by his minna. And it ain't over
till it's over. So, you know, if you
feel like you didn't do enough,
then, you know, we still we still, we
still got, you know, some minutes on the
clock.
And, it ain't over till it's over. And,
this is a principle, a great principle of
deen taught to us by the messenger of
Allah
that,
all
things are to be judged by how they
end. So
don't peter out quite yet.
Don't ever peter out, inshallah. Allah
give all of us
Don't ever don't ever peter out,
you know, inshallah, you can rest,
well once in your your in your grave
and once I'm in my grave with
a whole bunch of good deeds, and then,
thereafter,
never suffer again.
Until then,
you know, the nafs is waiting to destroy
everything you put in hard work for and
to mess everything up and to ruin everything.
And, may Allah
give us
the tawfee of being those happy people who
keep the nafs on the chain, on the
leash, and, know how to make it roll
over and do tricks.
So we continue speaking about shahdulqadr jaylani
We say shah, this is a custom of
the people of the tariq to,
the word shah has a Persian word meaning
king, which most of you probably knew from
before.
In order to acknowledge that these people are
the ones who
are,
to put it in,
Alhoth Abu Madyan Qadassallahu
Surahu Wa Ta'ala's
own beautiful words.
That the,
the leather,
the the tastiness,
and the enjoyment of life,
is not in anything except for indi,
in the company of those
people who are the the fukara, the travelers
on the path to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Those people are beholden to their poverty in
front of the
Lord. In reality,
they are the,
salatin, they are the the the sultans
and the sadah, they are the elite,
and they are the umara, they are the
commanders. They are the ones for whom Allah
created the existence.
I didn't create the existence except for the
creation, except for the jinn and the insan
and the jinn kind, except for to worship
me. This entire show is for those people.
Whoever they are,
are, Allah keep their shadows over our heads
and Allah
give us the and the tawfiq of sitting
in their khidma and that they should look
at us
with happiness
as a sign of Allah being happy with
us and, that we should have the of
giving, you know, whatever we have
for, their work and putting, casting our lot
in with their effort so that when they
enter Jannah one day by Allah's father, we
enter with them. And so if you ask
me, Malik Sanjar and, you know, Allah, you
know, whatever,
Mustafa'al
Billah and
Mufta'il Billah and, you know, whatever
Sarfic forms,
Billah,
different rulers and kings have. Some of them
may have been pious, some of them less
so.
You know, they don't really inspire much in
the heart. But, if ever
came,
came came to my town, you bet I'd
be there with my two hands,
in front of me,
ready to pledge my allegiance, you know? If,
if if any of these Masai Hu Ghazali
was was there, you bet I'd I'd be
at the doorstep, you know, if,
if, you know,
any of these great masha'i were there.
One would hope that Allah gave us the
tawfiq to be there. And, there would be
a lot of people who would be still
busy with
the Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat,
you know,
Twitter, Twitter, Twitter,
and,
you know, all of these different things with
Netflix and
YouTube
and all of these other
different things. And, you know, that's the
Allah created
Allah created the heavens and the earth and
he knows in his hikmah why he made
all of those things and all of those,
you know, all of that stuff. And, we
just ask him that, he keep our,
lot cast with
with with those that he loves.
Otherwise,
we wish good we wish good for everybody.
So,
the subsection that
Naiduhi writes is a ref the refuge of
the brokenhearted.
The Muslim society in the time of Sha'ab
al Qadr could be broadly divided into 2
classes. The first of these comprised of men
of substance
who were deficient in faith and virtuous behavior.
As against this, there was another class of
poverty stricken and downtrodden
people that were, however, endowed with faith in
a spirit of righteousness, moral strength, and uprightness.
These people sometimes feeling disconcerted and brokenhearted, viewed
the affluent with jealousy and mistrust,
and regarded themselves as deprived and discarded.
There may be some people this is striking
a chord with right now.
Shahblukhadir
holds out hope and cheer to these people
in one of his sermons. He says, oh,
empty handed, beggarly fellows, the world would appear
to be at loggerheads with you. You are
bare footed, unclothed, and unfed,
brokenhearted,
and ill starred,
evicted from every place and deprived of your
longings and fancies.
But do not say that God has reduced
you to poverty.
Uh-uh
turned the world against you, abandoned, maligned, or
persecuted you, did not assign the portion of
earthly pleasures due to you, or did not
bestow honor or fame upon you, nor is
it proper for you to complain that God
has granted his favors to others, made them
reputed and honored, although they belong to the
same faith as you and are the progeny
of Adam and Eve like you.
It is really so because you are like
a fertile land on which God is sending
down the rains consisting of endurance and resignation,
conviction and faith, knowledge and grace.
The tree of your faith is taking roots
sprouting forth its branches.
Its shade closing over you pushing out new
shoots and fruits
getting higher and bigger without your providing any
fertilizer to it. God almighty knows what you
really need. He has therefore assigned a befitting
place for you in the hereafter.
He has made you a lord in the
life to come where his bounties are countless,
inconceivable, and unheard of. As god has said,
nobody knows what delights have been stored for
your eyes in the paradise that he created.
This shall be your recompense for the faithful
performance of what has been enjoined unto you
and your endurance, resignation, and submission to the
will of Allah.
As for those who have been well afforded
in this world, they have been placed in
easy circumstances because they are like a barren
land, rocky and sandy, which neither stores nor
absorbs the rain, and it is difficult to
implant the tree of faith into it. It
has therefore been provided with fertilizers so that
the weak saplings of their faith may get
nourishment and push out the shoots of righteous
action.
Allah forgive us for being in this,
in this category. Many of us, I mean,
if you're listening to this on whatever SoundCloud
or whatever, you're probably
easily in the, you know, top half of
the socioeconomic
bracket of the world.
Majority of whom, you know,
probably never received a proper
education from a worldly perspective.
And we like to fantasize about being poor,
but really Allah has given us so much.
And despite what Allah has given us, our
faith is so weak,
it hangs by a string.
There are people, you know, you look at
those Mesakine
Rohingya refugees
that had to leave on, less than 24
hours, notice their villages, and walk on foot
through the jungle to go to
the border with Bangladesh only to be fired
upon and turned away. And, Subhan Allah, like
one of the most moving images I saw
was what?
Was,
a a Maktab class and a HIFS class
in in which the HIFS teacher, because they're
all a village, they're ejected together. So he's
in the jungle bare feet with the kids,
sitting in the jungle at nighttime. They don't
know where they are,
but, they're actually having their their Maktab class.
They're having their their Quran class. The kids
are reciting and the teacher is correcting them.
And I thought,
if there's any people who know why they're
here in the world and they're, you know,
they got their eyes on the prize, it's
these people.
You know, and it's maybe not so far
from what
is describing right now. That their faith is
firm
and people like us.
I don't wanna say us, people like me,
you know, every little thing,
you know, shakes shakes faith and every little
thing disturbs a person.
And, a person needs so much constant reassurance,
as if, you know, a person with, like,
spiritual attention deficit.
And,
subhanAllah.
Allah ta'ala have mercy on all of us.
Allah have mercy on all of us. Allah
forgives us on the day of judgment. It
will be a miracle of his of his
mercy and of his his grace and, nothing
less.
Thus, if the wealth, honor, and fame are
taken away from them, their tree of faith
shall waste away, and its leaves and fruits
shall wither,
although god intends to make it strong. Therefore,
my poor brethren, you ought to know that
the right of the wealthy does not have
deeper roots.
It lacks the strength which you have been
endowed with and it needs the riches and
earthly prizes for its nourishment.
By the way, you'll get a lot of,
like, you know, prosperity gospel, you know, protestant
work ethic type Muslims,
that will be like, well, there's nothing wrong
with having money and blah blah. Of course,
there's nothing wrong with having money. There's wrong
with having money like Sayidna Omar alaihiallahu anhu.
Be the power most powerful man in the
world and still sleep on your side, you
know, in the woven straw mat of the
masjid, then you're you're the hero, you know.
You're the you're the king of the oliya.
Why? Because your faqara is only your poverty
is only for Allah and in every other
way you're endowed with riches, and you then
wield them in order to,
establish
order
and beauty in this world.
But, you know, this kind of secret that
you profess to love Allah but secretly,
you know, your love of Allah is only
manifested when, you know, you're you're you're given.
It's like the you know, that came to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and asked
for sadaqa. If he gives to them, they're
happy. And if he doesn't have anything to
give to them, then they, start to cop
an attitude. Allah protect us from being like
that. And the fact is, the sad fact
is, I just ask Allah don't ever test
me because,
you know, I know enough about myself that,
I worry. You know, I worry.
And, you know, at any rate, one of
the gifts of being in such a poor
state is that it engenders, hopefully, inshallah, some
sort of humility in front of the lord.
That, those kind of weird thoughts that we
have sometimes when we read about spiritual things
and start thinking that we're cool. It reminds
us that not all of us are cool.
Allah
take pity on take pity on us.
Allah
take pity on us. And, you know, this
whole kind of prosperity gospel Islam, protestant work
ethic Islam,
Allah Allah protect us and protect our children
from this weird type of worship of the
material world. Allah protect all of us from
it. The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he loved
the Masakin. He loved those people who are
poor.
Those people who are poor.
Those people who Mezkina is what? The person
who wakes up in the morning and doesn't
know how he's gonna eat for the rest
of the day and how he's gonna sleep
or where he's gonna sleep at night. Allah
and asked for the love of the messakeen
and the company of the messakeen and asked
Allah to make him one of the messakeen.
And, you know this is a spiritual quality
and a spiritual grace of the messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam which has been endowed
to the Anulwan, Anul Haqq
of this Ummah.
And yes, communally poverty is
not good. Communally
weakness for the Ummah is not good. It
is a sin, in fact.
When we don't have enough money to pay
for our madaris and our masajid and
those institutions we need in order to protect
our faith and our deen and our honor.
This is a a sin and this is
a laxity on behalf of the ummah.
But as an individual,
it is well known to anybody who knows
anything about the spiritual path that Shabdulqadr is
not just, you know, putting people to sleep,
and, you know, getting people to
leave the wealth for the man or whatever,
using religion as the opiate of the masses.
Rather, Shab Lokeadr is preaching to them a
spiritual
verity and a spiritual truth which is known
by all those who have ever traveled the
spiritual path, which is it is much easier
to get to Allah to Allah through poverty
than it is through wealth.
And, in order to wield wealth properly, a
person has to go through the mastery of
poverty first.
And wealth is an exception,
not not a rule. It is an exception
that is not to be coveted, rather it
is to be avoided because precisely in its
avoidance will Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant a
person the ability to wield it properly.
Sayidna Umar, radiallahu, on whom himself,
when he, was the Khalifa was Khalifa was
foisted on him by Sayid Nabu Bakr's siddiq
radiallahu anhu. And he protested against it during
the last moments of Sayid Nabu Bakr's life.
May Allah Allah be pleased with all of
them.
And then Sayid Nabu Bakr's ruh slipped from
this,
from this
transient,
abode,
into,
into the barzakh.
At that moment, the people turned to him.
And, you know, it's a moment of horror
for him. The drain blood drained from his
face as if, you know, people are coming
to kill him and they came what to
put their hands in his hands and to
take Bea from him. And all he reassured
himself with the only thing he could say
to calm himself down and reassure himself from
the terror that he felt when they turned
to him,
was what is that I heard the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam say
that whoever seeks this affair, meaning power and
prestige,
leadership,
all of these trappings of of of of
wielding the dunya. So whoever seeks this affair,
Allah
will humiliate him through it. And whoever it's
foisted upon his shoulders, Allah
will aid him in it.
Even then aid him in it means what?
It doesn't mean that it's fun, but it's
a very hard task,
and will help
will help him in it.
Azar Sheikh Zakaria
he mentions in the
which is really beautiful that he gives the
biographies of all 4 Khalafarashidun
because they're all mashaeikh of the tariqa. He
gives in the in the Tabaka about Sayna
Umar
He says that,
Saidna Abbas ibn Abdul Muttalib,
sorry, Ibnu Abdul Muttalib, he mentions RadiAllahu Anhu
that he saw Saidna Amar radiAllahu Anhu in
a dream.
And,
he said that he saw him with sweat
on his brow
and he asked him, Yeah, Omar, what has
the Lord done with you? And he says
that, I just finished giving my account to
him and he says, well, how did you
find
the accounting when? He said, I found my
lord to be most merciful. Meaning what?
That, that it was even even then he
needed Allah's help to get through it. It
wasn't something to be in and of self
desired, but it may be a means to
something better,
through great difficulty. So,
Shabd al Qadr isn't preaching pie in the
sky in July. He's telling people, look, don't
be don't be people who are ungrateful for
this blessing because your worth has nothing to
do with what other people think of you
and it has nothing to do with this
like chimpanzee like shell that that you carry
around with you. If you think that this
is what your worth is then you're an
idiot. You're dumber than animals are.
You really are an idiot. And I I
I you know, stuff relies from a lot
of calling people idiots. It's rhetorical
rhetorical,
device but the issue is this is what?
One chimpanzee can do like more strong monkey
tricks than the other one or like has
more shiny stuff than the other monkey does.
Come on. Give give me a break. You
know, all of us.
That everyone is nafs. You have nafs and
I have nafs.
My nafs is like yours and yours is
like like mine. And
we have different spirits. Everyone has a spirit
and we all have different spirits and,
bones
which are clothed with flesh and,
limbs. And if anyone has a,
a lineage that they wanna brag about, then
it's what? It's all just,
thin. It's all earth and it's water. That's
all it
is. This is this is a a reality.
It's a verity
and you can't be like, well, I'm like
the thinier thin. Like, I'm the earthier earth
than your earth is and I'm the waterier
water than you are or I'm the, you
know, look, my limbs are better than yours.
It's really stupid. It's really dumb.
And I'm saying this not to, my pious
listeners
who could have been watching Netflix right now
but they're listening to some movie rant about
these things.
You know, you're obviously good. I'm saying it
to myself that, yeah,
Hamza,
what
are you gonna do with all of those
things?
Eventually, you're gonna go into your grave and
you're going to go to the same Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and the only thing you're
gonna have on that day is your 'amal.
Shabdul Qadr Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala exalts his
rank amongst the oliya and everybody who says
what he said from before him and after
him. They're only giving us good advice. It's
something just for our our our own good.
He says, as for those who've been well
afforded to this world, they've been placed in
easy circumstances for because they are like a
barren land, rocky and sandy, which neither stores
nor absorbs rain, and it is difficult to
implant the tree of faith in it. It
has therefore been provided with the nourishment,
fertilizers that
that will nourish the weak saplings of their
faith,
to push out shoots of righteous action. Thus
if wealth, honor and fame are taken away
from them, the tree of their face shall
waste away and its leaves and fruits shall
wither, though God intends to make them strong.
Therefore, my poor brethren, you ought to know
that the faith of the wealthy does not
have deeper roots. It lacks the strength which
has been endowed to you. And it needs
the riches and earthly prizes for its nourishment.
If these gifts were, to be taken from
them, their faith would be,
taken away and give give way to blasphemy
and they would join the ranks of infidels,
apostates,
hypocrites,
unless, of course, Allah bestows upon them spiritual
light and illumination,
endurance and resignation of their faith. And, subhanAllah,
how how true, Shabdul Qadr was in his
speech. My own experience is what is that
wealthy people, many of them have love for
this tariq, for this path, and have love
for Allah and have love for the Deen,
but so few of them have tawfiq. So
few of them have tawfiq. The pool of
these things, there's so much, so few of
them have tawfiq. So few of them have
tofik. They have tofik like,
you know,
they have tofik like an amputee has tofik
in, like, you know, becoming an NBA basketball
player. I'm sure it it is possible and
maybe someone will make it, but,
it really isn't it really isn't the ideal
place to start from. Allah have mercy on
all of us.
And the worldly pleasures.
Shab al Qadr did not preach asceticism nor
did he exhort people to give up worldly
possessions.
What he emphasized upon in his sermons was
that these should be
made use of by man to the extent
that he needs them, but he should never
allow them,
allow himself to become the slave of his
desires and temptations,
nor should he hold the earthly gifts dear
to his heart. Explaining the purport of, the
hadith which runs,
verily the world has been created for you
and you have been created for the hereafter.
He says, do not try to obtain your
share of worldly gifts in a way that
you have to keep standing before it like
a beggar.
You ought to be like a sovereign who
keeps himself seated while gifts are presented before
him. Subhanallah, look at the dignity here. Look
at the dignity of the Allah, forgive us.
We've humiliated ourselves. Look at the dignity here.
This is why he's a king. So, do
not try to obtain your share of worldly
gifts in a way that you have to
keep standing before it like a beggar. You
ought to be like a sovereign who keeps
himself seated while gifts are presented before him.
This world acclaims those who stand and wait
at the door of God Almighty, but it
demeans those who
wait upon it. Meaning, the world itself will
honor you for standing at the Lord the
the doors of the world door of the
Lord,
But if you stand at the door of
the world, this world itself will humiliate you,
for it.
Allah is a,
a beneficent and a a a a beautiful
and a loving,
master. And this world is such an abusive
and cruel,
master that has no loyalty
and, has no mercy.
In another,
sermon, he says he says he says, this
world acclaims those who stand and wait at
the door of god almighty but it demeans
those who wait upon it. Therefore, get your
share of the worldly benefits without demeaning yourself
or compromising your dignity and this is what
Allah also expects of you. In another sermon,
he says, it is perfectly lawful to lay
hands on the world and its gifts, to
possess it or even to accumulate it for
commendable purposes. But it is forbidden to set
your heart upon it.
You may allow it to you may allow
it to stand at the door of your
heart but it is prohibited to allow it
to get inside that door.
For it shall not bring any honor to
you. SubhanAllah how beautiful this is. It says,
you may allow
it to stand at the door of your
heart but it is prohibited to allow it
to get inside the door for it shall
not bring any honor to you.
Critique of kings.
Shab al Qadr did not sermonize and admonish
the populace alone. He fearlessly performed the duty
made incumbent,
by the sacred Sharia,
of enjoining the right and forbidding the wrong,
whenever he considered it necessary.
He publicly denounced the actions and policies of
the kings, nobles, and officials. He bitterly criticized
the faults of the great ones without the
slightest consideration of their power or position.
Hafez, Imaduddin
Iblukathir, a historian of his time, so the
Sahib Tafsir ibn Kathir,
has made mention,
of it in these words. He admonished all,
the caliph, his wazirs,
the king's
jurists,
meaning the folkaha, the elite and the laity
to adopt,
the righteous course and to forsake the things
that were forbidden.
He openly criticized unsparingly
everyone to his face and his discourses.
He used to denounce the authority sternly if
any tyrant was appointed to public office by
them. He never cared for anyone if he
saw the commands of the Lord being overstepped.
Stepped. Ibn Kathir writes that when the caliph
Al Muqtafil
al Muqtafil 'Amrillah
appointed Abu Wafi'yahiya,
a man notorious for his cruelty as the
Qadhi.
Abu Wadhir, admonish the caliph in these words.
You have appointed a man notorious as the,
most tyrannical
to give rulings over the Muslims. What would
your answer, be tomorrow on the day of
judgement before the lord of the worlds and
the most merciful?
Ibn Kathir further says that when the caliph
came to know of the admonition of Abdulkadir,
he burst into tears
and immediately dismissed Abu Wafaa from the office.
SubhanAllah.
Allah,
give those, even tyrants, a high maqam, who,
at least there was some khair in their
hearts that the spiritual power of
the aliyah, you know, could take grip of
it anywhere rather than be being hardened hardened,
you know, on the namoodaj of
of,
you know, Abu Jahal and Abu Lahab, like
some of the people that we have, today
with.
Abdul Qadr,
also vigorously condemned this worldliness of the scholars,
Fukaha
and,
Sufiya, who were prepared to accept an office
or act as entourages to the rulers.
He held this class responsible for the waywardness
of the kings and ruling chiefs. In one
of his addresses, he rebuked these elements
thus. 'Ah, you are the fellows who have
misused your knowledge and wisdom.
What have you to do with your predecessors?
You are the enemies of God and his
apostles,
salallahu alayhi wasalam.
He says you are the enemies of Allah
and his Rasool, salallahu alayhi wasalam. You are
no less than the the brigands, tyrants, and
hypocrites. How long will you persist in your
pious fraud? How long will you continue to
don the shroud of assumed piety for the
sake of your kings and rulers? How long
will you remain a slave of power and
position, passions and desires?
Verily,
you and most of your kings are tyrants
and traitors unto the lord and his bondsmen.
Oh, god our lord. Either degrade these transgressors
and humiliate them or make them repent from
their sins. Either mortify the tyrants and efface
them from your earth or let them mend
their ways.
On another occasion, he addressed a religious scholar
in these words. Are you not ashamed that
your avarice
has forced you to serve these tyrants and
crave,
for the, emoluments declared unlawful and prohibited by
the sacred Sharia?
How long shall you hold on to your,
mean pursuits? The kingdom of the rulers to
whom you are playing a second fiddle shall
shortly
be no more. And then you shall be
presented before God Almighty,
who is eternal and omnipotent.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give us rectification.
Allah Ta'ala give us the
tawfiq
to appreciate,
the gifts that Allah gives us in our
circumstances.
Like Sayedna Umar says said
that I wake up in the morning, I
don't know if being in the state of
blessing or tribulation, you know, which one to
ask for because I don't know which one
is better for me. Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
give us make us.
Make us people who,
appreciate
that the lord's choice for us is oftentimes
better than our choice. Not often, it's always
better than our choice for ourselves. And we
should always You know, we never We're not
fatalists. We don't, like, you know, accept the
things the way they are
as an excuse for, like, not making them
better in the future. Allah gave everyone 2
eyes and 2 ears and a heart and
a brain.
So we keep trying to figure out what's
best and keep striving for it. But, you
know, that we should know that whatever ends
up happening, it's for the best and that
we should appreciate it. That Allah
gave us what's from the best and we
should have, yakin,
that a day will come,
when when when we'll bear witness to that,
You know? And I'm right now putting myself,
you know, in a precarious situation because people
will say, well, why don't you do that
then? Well, maybe maybe I should and maybe
we should we should all do
Allah help us. It's not easy. I know
it's not easy. May
Allah give us the tawfiq that we speak
the haqq,
that first we learn what the haqq is,
We understand what the haqq is, and that
we train the nafs in order to,
speak it not for its own sake,
or to get, you know, more Twitter or
YouTube
subscribers, or Twitter followers, or Facebook,
or, you know,
whatever, InstaMinsta,
but for his sake.
Only for his sake. So that there's an
effect in it. So that if there's even
an Adam of iman inside the heart of
the person that we admonish, that that ruhaniyah
and that spirituality,
it it strike it with so much electricity
that it jump starts the deadness of that
heart and the people actually have the tawfiq
of,
of of coming back to the deen. Allah
give all of us from his father. Allah
give all of us from his father and,
revive what has died from the ummah of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and shower
his mercies, on it so that we can
continue to perform,
all of those functions,
that the Rasool, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, loved
for us to perform,
amongst God's
creation. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give all of
us tawfiq. Make a lot of dua in
this Ramadan, Insha'Allah. I will as well for
all of you. You also make a lot
of dua in this Ramadan. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala give all of us so much tawfiq.