Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 28 Ramadn Late Night Majlis 1443 Al ii GH 04282022
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Alhamdulillah.
By Allah's father we reached this Mubarak 28th
night of Ramadan.
We have so little,
time left.
We have so little time left. So many
days were gone, so many nights were past.
We ask Allah to accept from us the
best of them.
The only regret is those that we wasted.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept from us.
Not because of who we are but because
of who he is.
The
most generous of the generous and the most
merciful of the merciful, Amin.
As an interesting quirk of astronomy,
it seems that there is going to be
a an eclipse
on the,
on the day of 29th,
rendering it
near impossible for anyone to actually legitimately sight
the moon,
for an
Eid on Sunday.
But of course we don't say anything for
certain until
the window for the moon sighting has passed
and nobody has seen the moon.
And,
now's not a time or a place
in this particular
talk to get into the politics of moonsighting
or whatever.
But, it's good to remember the hadith of
the prophet
One way or the other, that the companions
are the allahu on whom would
be sad,
if the moon was sighted on the 29th
because they wanted another day of Ramadan,
which is kind of the opposite of what
some people do nowadays, but, that's a digression.
The companions were the Allahu on whom used
to be, sad
if the moon was sighted early,
because they wanted to have another day of
Ramadan.
And the Rasool
he's he said that the,
month of Ramadan
It
doesn't,
it doesn't have any deficiency in it, meaning
that however much eiba that you do on
29 days,
you'll get the 30th day prorated if that
was your
your intention in terms of reward.
So let people not slacken in their
devotion
and not slacken in their,
remembrance of Allah Ta'ala.
It's hard to be hungry. It's hard to
like lose sleep. Of course, all those things
is true.
But in so many ways, Ramadan is so
beautiful
that it's a time that the Ummah is
united,
to remember Allah ta'ala. Even the evil ones
amongst us, we,
have a little bit of shame and cut
back our evil a little bit.
And because of there's so much nur and
barakah and so much happiness
and so much khair
and so much focus,
that that's not there otherwise.
So, you know, let's hold on to it
and let's
benefit from it as much as we can.
And take a moment in our hearts just
to affirm our love for it. Because sometimes
those moments of affirmation, those moments of love
are
where the where the khair comes from. They're
like a wealth through which and many good
deeds will be drawn, later on.
It's my observation in the Muslim world is
that the, effect of Ramadan lasts for months.
That the masajid are packed for months,
and they don't wane down to their their
pre Ramadan attendance,
until well after,
well after Muharab.
However, in America I see there's a far
more precipitous
drop off,
and so let's not be like that. And
I'm not talking to you guys. I'm not
yelling at you. I'm talking to myself.
Let's not be like that. You know, let's
crack open the mushaf and read a little
bit.
And, let's
make the Hajjood and have a little bit
more focus and spend a little bit less
time
in things that really don't matter,
and spend a little bit more time on
those that do.
So today, I wanted to finish the second
part
of the
biography
of Saidna Ali Karamalahu wajahu alayhis salam.
To say alayhi salam after the names of
the Ahlulbayt is a custom of the Muslims
and it's not a shia thing.
It is a custom of the Muslims and
you'll find it written in books of the
Ahlus Sunnah for the Azwal Mutaharat and for
the,
for
the mothers of the believers and for the
family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Surat Safat in in the Ruwa of Nafir.
And the
amount of
mention of the love of the family of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in the
book of Allah and in the
So now the prophet
is more than can be repeated and that
should need repetition.
So there's nothing wrong with that at all.
In fact there's great khair and goodness in
it.
Before
reading
the small amount that's left in the chapter
regarding his life, I wanted to mention something
about his
virtue and about his
spiritual,
virtue and his spiritual station.
And it's a very heroic it's a very
heroic matter. And that is,
he was more focused on the politics that
preserved deen than the politics that preserved politics.
Meaning he was the Khalifa.
He was,
the leader of the Muslims. He had the
right to be the leader of the Muslims.
The Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam left
many isharat
toward his virtues.
And,
as was mentioned from before
that if there's any companion
who the sheer volume of his virtues being
mentioned by the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
is
easy to find in the books of hadith.
It's Saidna Ali radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
Part of it may be
an attempt by the ulema to counteract some
negative
some negative,
propaganda against the family of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam
by certain miscreant rulers from Ban Umayyah.
But, much of it is just in and
of itself on its own.
That he was there with Rasulullah salallahu alayhi
wa sallam from the very beginning.
And, the Rasul salallahu alayhi wa sallam, he
was there with him the whole time.
So much so that a person cannot love
Islam without loving Sayna Ali radiAllahu anhu, just
like one can say about the other. Khulafa
rashidun of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And because of his qarabah of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam because the intersection of
his sohba and his being from the Rasool
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's family
and being the the the one through whom
the Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's lineage is
preserved as well.
All of these things mean that a person
cannot love Islam without loving Seda Ali radiAllahu
anhu.
But,
see then, was the love placed in the
right place or not?
And, you see from his heroic virtues that
his reign
was not a reign of focus,
like the reigns of Saidna Abu Bakr and
Saidna Umar and much of the reign of
Saidna Uthman radiAllahu ta'alaan who was.
Rather, it was a time of tumult, it
was a time when parts of the empire
were in full rebellion.
It was a time when those,
Sabikun and Awalun from the Muhajirun and Ansar,
the the outstripping,
1st
grade and first line and first generation,
from the people who immigrated in the path
of Allah ta'ala and established Madin al Munawara
as well as their hosts, that they had
mostly gone
and passed from this world.
And those who were left were kind of
second rate people,
many of whom whose
spiritual terbia, whose the process of their, of
their spiritual upbringing and rectification
was incomplete or of an
of a nature inferior to those who came
before them And, whose ulterior motives made work
very difficult,
for people. That in that climate,
others made politically
astute moves that solidified their rule and that
solidified their grip on power. Whereas Saidna Ali
radiallahu ala'ala, whom he made astute moves which
solidified Islam,
as a religion.
That it was during his reign that the
first heterodoxy
in the history of Islam crept up, which
is the movement of the
who were a homicidal
movement of people who basically said whoever doesn't
do it, whoever doesn't agree with us is
a sinner and whoever is a sinner is
a kafir And whoever is a kafir, it's
halal to spill their blood and to take
their things and enslave their families.
Which sadly,
we see crop up in
today's thinking as well,
in a number of groups. ISIS is
a very famous well known group, like that.
May Allah forgive the sins and raise the
rank of anyone who fights them and opposes
them in word and deed, Amin. But there
are a number of groups that are like
that. The difference between them and ISIS is
it's just an issue of means.
That there are a number of groups that
if you don't follow my Sheikh, you're a
Kafir. If you don't follow my way, you're
a Kafir. If you don't adhere to this
particular wording, you're a kafir. If you
and and the implications to the sharia once
you make takfir of a person who is
obviously a Muslim and you label them an
apostate. The implications in the Sharia are very
clear. It's just that some people have the
arms and the means to enforce,
that those implications and some people don't.
And so they're basically ISIS but with less
lesser means.
And, all of them all of them, god
help us from them all. And very interestingly,
Sayna Ali even
though politically it was more important for him
to shore up his rule against
against the,
Saydna
and
the faction,
that he belonged to.
And certainly, ruling Damascus is a
far
greater political
objective than ruling some like no name part
of the desert between Iraq and
between, Northern Arabia.
But he's he he he was the one
who the Rasool
told him and said in the Umar
that after
I'm gone these people will come and when
you hear their recitation, you'll think your recitation
is nothing compared to theirs because of how
much Quran they recite. And when you look
at their prayer, you'll think your prayer is
nothing compared to their prayer when you see
how much they pray. But their recitation doesn't
go any lower than the throat, meaning it's
all just show.
None of it has any share in the
heart.
And,
that he described them in great detail. There's
a great amount of hadith of the prophet
that describes the and
the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that wasi
that he gave was when you see them,
fight them,
because they are the worst of the creation
under the covers of the heavens.
Meaning,
they're just really bad people and there's great
reward in fighting people like this because they
make everyone hate the deen,
and they themselves are a perversion of the
dean and the dean will not collapse because
of any external enemy but the dean will
suffer damage because of people like this that
is not gonna suffer at the hands of
any, external enemy.
Because this is itself a type of nifaq
and that's the indication that such people will
legally be Muslims but they'll be complete Munafiqin
inside.
And this is something observable that there are
people who are ready to make takfir of
one another over issues, but they don't learn,
they don't know a lick of Arabic. They
don't know how to recite the Fatiha properly,
some of them,
and they never bothered to learn any of
the books. They just learned 1 or 2
issues or 1 or 2 slogans and then
they could call everybody else a kafir or
say everybody is a munafiq.
You know, you don't, oh, you don't preach
about the khilafa, oh, you're a munafiq. Oh,
you don't preach about
this, your munafiq, you're not
bad to my sheikh, you're a munafiq, or
you're not you don't follow Look, you know,
someone may not even follow
the sharia
in any systematized as they may not follow
madhab or they may have certain wrong
understandings about deen or they may even be
an open sinner, But the
taught us that the value of if this
kernel of iman is there in somebody's heart,
it has value and it's a value that's
greater than the things of this world. And
that we are to observe that value and
we are to give it its due
while calling wrong things wrong and calling mistaken
things mistaken. But no, these are the people
who will pick,
who will pick,
the slightest of errors, whether real or imagined,
out of a person and because of that
they'll completely x them out and cancel them.
That this person is not even a a
Muslim anymore and they're not even, they don't,
they're no longer worthy of treatment with any
sort of human dignity.
And,
he fought them instead. And fighting them was
a very tough battle because they're very battle
hardened warriors
And there's nothing to be gained by defeating
them. They have no cities, they have no
money, they have nothing to be gained by
defeating them. And they were equally antagonistic to
both sides. So he could have just left
them and like let the fight against them
be taken up by saying the Muawiyah. You'll
remember Radhi Allahu Anhu, you'll remember the Abdulrahman
ibn Mujjam,
you know, the the the the the cursed
man who
assassinated Saidin Ali radiAllahu on whom that he
was
He was supposed
to be 1 of 3, that person would
assassinate Sayidina Muawiyah, 1 person would assassinate Sayidina
Amr bin Aasur radiAllahu anhuma, and 1 person
would assassinate Sayidina Ali Karamalahu ajahu.
Well, Sayidu Muawiyah radiAllahu anhu he used to
pray,
salat and maksuura.
He literally prayed it under armed guard in
a separated part of the masjid.
And it's not heroic. The sahabah
didn't really appreciate that about him, that this
is almost like it's a bidah.
But in his defense,
you know, in his defense,
he saw Khalifa, their blood being shed right
before the eyes of the ummah.
And Islam never asked a person to throw
themselves into destruction just for the sake of
it. You know, if your death has some
sort of objective behind it, whether you attain
it or not, as long as you tried
and it was a reasonable thing, your death
has meaning. But just to spill your blood
for no reason,
Islam doesn't ask that of anyone. And anybody
who's gonna blame him for that, let them
go and spill their blood, you know, somewhere
to show, to illustrate their point. Otherwise, the
living have no,
no right to talk.
The person who saves himself, how can you
blame such a person?
The idea is that
he was in the maksuura,
the assassin couldn't get anywhere near him and
for whatever reason the plot also failed with
Saidna Amr bin Aas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, and
I imagine that if an assassin assassin came
anywhere near he was also with guards.
Said Nali radiallahu alaihi wa'ala Anhu wasn't like
that, he was still on the tarteb and
the najah and the the way of the
old
khulafa, the khulafa rashidun. Like the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, he didn't have guards.
Like Sayid Abu Bakr radhiallahu alaihi wa hanhu,
he didn't have guards. Like Sayid Nabu Bakr
he didn't have guards. He would go and
like,
you know, think about problems while
herding the the livestock of the and sleep
in the dirt. Or he would sleep in
the masjid.
He hadn't, you know, like him, he didn't
have guards until
the insurgents entered into Madinah and seized the
place. Saina Ali who walked in the streets
like
normal people did.
And,
the Khawarij hated both sides but Sayidina Muawi
never fought them. The entire brunt of that
fight came on Saidin Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
And this is one of the reasons we
say he's from the Khalafar Rashidun, Saidin Muawiyah
is a Sahabi, but he's not from the
Khulafa Rashidun.
They say,
Ali radiAllahu anhu took the responsibility of the
Ummah not only in its politics and its
economic affairs, its worldly and temporal affairs, but
also in its spiritual affairs.
Whereas Saidin Mu'awiya aliallahu,
his point of view was like, look,
other people will deal with that stuff but
there's nobody more suited than me to handle
the politics, which may have been true because
he was a very good politician at least
after the assassination of Said Ali radiAllahu anhu,
it may have been true.
But Said Ali radiAllahu anhu, he took this
fight and he said, this is what I
want because
the deen of Allah and its preservation is
my my goal. That's why the tariqah is
transmitted through him. It's not transmitted through Sayyidina
Muawiyah even though we don't speak ill of
him, and we consider him to be a
companion.
But the tariqa isn't transmitted through him. The
tariqa is transmitted through Saydna alayhiallahu anhu, this
is one of his heroic virtues.
That he took all the pain, he took
all the hardship. Finally, they literally
Their their, swords are the ones that
that spilled his blood.
And
one might say this is politically untenable and
this is politically unwise and this is politically
blah blah blah whatever whatever. But to say
nali, that's what he's here for.
He was,
you know, he grew up in the house
of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He
wasn't there to see the deen being wasted.
Think about that in our time in our
age.
People raising money
for their organizations saying it's zakat eligible and
it's not zakat eligible.
People
motivating and pumping people up in their talks
with side stories that have nothing to do
with the deen. People more excited about their
own talks and their own projects than they
are about
establishing the deen of Allah Ta'ala
in the congregational salat, blowing off the salat,
blowing off fasting, blowing off eating, drinking halal,
blowing off all those parts of the sharia
that the rasul salallahu alaihi wa sallam came
and established.
Blowing off the dhikr of Allah ta'ala.
Giving people every and each weird and awkward
and like baseless dispensation in the book. Why?
So that, you know, for the sake of
dawah. But not for the, to dawah to
what? God knows what. Not to the deen
that Allah and His Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
preached.
And then
excommunicating and cutting off those people who are
still Muslims,
who you're not gonna make money from, who
you're not going to have any glory from,
but who are still people of la ilaha
illallah,
and not keeping ties with them.
Why? Because it's politically untenable.
We've seen so many muslims throw other muslims
under the bus just because of the the
stigma that they they faced as, oh look,
they're gonna call you terrorists. Oh look, they're
gonna call you this, oh they're gonna call
you terrorists
anyway. You could be handing out a dozen
roses to orphans on the street corner. They're
gonna call you a terrorist anyway.
But we see so many Muslims ready to
throw,
their own deen, their own identity, their own
dignity, and that of their brothers and that
of the Ummah the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam and that of the sharia the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam under the bus
in order to make others happy because it's
politically untenable.
And look, you know, Islam has hikma. Islam
has hikma, hikma. Hikma is what? Hikma is
doing what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam commanded
us to do. Doing what Allah commanded us
to do in the best way.
It doesn't mean that it's like a get
out of jail free card that we can
like, you know, like cut off and like
throw parts of the Sharia away because it
doesn't fit our political,
sensibility at any time. If you had that
option, then what's the point of of of
revelation? What's the point of the Quran? What's
the point of of
nubuah, of prophecy? What's the point of any
of them? If we could Of any of
those things we could've figured them out on
our own. So you see, Sinai radiAllahu anhu
is a man of heroic
virtue
precisely because of that. Precisely
because he considered the preservation of the dean
of Allah ta'ala, and he took the mission
of the prophet, salallahu alaihi wasalam, personally. He
considered the preservation of the deen of Allah
as a personal matter.
He literally was raised by the prophet, sallallahu
alaihi wasallam as a son. He wasn't gonna
watch the sharia be wasted and nor was
Saidin Abu Bakr Siddiq before him, nor was
Saidin
Uthman
before before them. That's why they're the khulafa
rashidun of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and they're the masha'ikh of the tariqah, and
they're the ones that we look to.
And they're the ones that we that that
we love. All 4 of them, they're the
ones that we love and
we don't get caught in other people's sectarian
bickerings or or or or silliness afterward.
Rather, we follow their way because this was
their priority.
Azar Sheikh Zakaria
gives a couple of anecdotes inshallah we'll close
out with in
the,
in the end of his chapter on He
says
that
said, several days would
several days would pass without us having anything
to eat, nor would Rasool Allahu alayhi wa
sallam have anything to eat.
I was walking along the road when I
saw a dinar laying on the ground.
I was uncertain whether to pick it up
or leave it.
Finally, I picked it up because we were
in dire straits of want. I bought some
flour and presented it to Fatima, telling her
to bake some bread.
She began to
knead the dough.
Her weakness was so much that the hair
from her forehead began falling into the basin.
Finally she baked the bread.
I went to Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and
explained this incident to him.
He said eat it for it is rizq
which Allah ta'ala had bestowed upon you.
Sayna Ali radiallahu anhu said several days would
pass without without us having anything to eat,
nor would Rasool Allah, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
have anything to eat.
I was walking along the road when I
saw dinar laying on the ground.
I was uncertain whether to pick it up
or leave it.
Finally, I picked it up
as we were in dire straits of want.
I bought some flour and presented it to
Fatima, the daughter of the Rasulullah
alaihi wasallam, asking her to make some bread.
She began to knead the dough.
Her weakness was so much that the hair
from her forehead was drooping into the basin.
It was falling into the basin.
Finally, she break the baked the bread.
I went to Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and
explained the incident to him.
And he said eat it
for it is risk which Allah has bestowed
you.
So if you have to go through any
difficulty for the sake of Allah ta'ala, don't
don't worry. It's not a humiliation.
There's and honor and dignity in it inshallah.
A day will come, it will look real
good inshallah.
A day will come, you'll be proud of
it, people will wish I had a deed
like that as well.
Saidin Qais bin Abi Hatim narrates that Sayin
alayhiallahu
anhu
said, if there is taqwa then no act
is insignificant.
How can any deed accepted by Allah Ta'ala
be insignificant?
Allah Ta'ala says in his
Allah accepts from no one except for the
one who fears him, who has taqwa, who
has fear of him. So Saeed Nadi radiAllahu
anhu said, if there's taqwa, no act is
insignificant.
How can an accepted deed be insignificant?
He would say
Whoever is contented with the decree of
Allah will be rewarded for his contentment
even though the decree will come to pass
whether a person is pleased with it or
not.
Whoever is discontented with Allah's decree, his deeds
will be destroyed and go unrewarded,
while his discontentment will not change the the
the decree of Allah ta'ala.
And part of this people, oh it's not
fair, it's not this, it's not that. Look,
the master is the master, the slave is
the slave. If you get to debate with
him about whether you like it or not,
then you're not master and slave, then you're
2 equals,
then you're 2 peers. If you're peers with
Allah then go make your own jannah and
save yourself from the hellfire. Go ahead and
start preparing. Maybe you start working out, maybe
you hit the gym,
you know, Start eating less carbs and you
know, eat more protein and and I don't
know, like
I
start eating kale
and, I don't know, have some super foods
and nutrients and you start raising money and
start up an incubator and get, you know,
Silicon Valley funding and r and d and
get an education and whatever. You do all
these things, you know, that people are doing.
Maybe
you'll be able to figure out this issue.
If not, if you're a masekeen like me,
then
Allah ta'ala, his decree will come to pass
one way or the other.
You can either rebel against it and get
shut down,
Or you can be content with it and
know that the fact that you're content with
it, it itself is a sign that it's
be in your favor. That what's gonna happen
is in your favor. It's gonna benefit you.
It's gonna be good for you.
And if you, you know, if you rebel
against it, you know, you can punch your
fist into the brick wall, or punch your
fist in the wind, or see see what
any of it gets you, whatever
it earns you. Otherwise, Allah ta'ala, he didn't
create anybody
who asked him and he said no.
That's not how Allah ta'ala is. This entire
heavens and the earth, he created it from
nothing,
and he gave everybody something to eat and
something to drink. If there's not a sign
in that that Allah's generosity is beyond all
bounds, that he made so much beauty in
the world that even the most broke person
can go outside and watch the sunrise and
take a breath of fresh air,
or you know, enjoy the beauty of a
child or enjoy the beauty of,
you know, tasting something or if your tongue
is burned, you can enjoy the beauty of
the sight of something natural. Or if your
eyes are blind, you can enjoy the beauty
of
hearing a, you know, a bird chirp, or
you you know, if your ears are deaf,
you can enjoy if you have no if
you completely live inside of your head, and
you have no sensation of anything whatsoever,
just the breath that you take, the oxygen
that comes in, and the carbon dioxide that
goes out, and the heart that beats,
all of these things, there's so much beauty
in every one of them that you know
that is more generous than than you can
imagine, than you can fathom, that he's not
going to create you and then have you
love him and then not give you that
love back.
That's stuff that like, you know,
some stuck up girl from like middle school
that, like, said no to you to go
to the dance. That's what she does.
Entities like that, beings like that don't create
the heavens and the earth.
Created the heavens and the earth from nothing.
His
beauties and his virtues are far beyond anything
you and I can imagine,
And, Allah is not like that. That's not
what Allah is like. Rather, if you love
him,
he gives you a love back that no
comparison between the two can ever be made.
Who said that the world is carrion. The
world is carrion like a dead animal, like
a carcass sitting in the in the in
in the wild from an animal that just
died. Said Nali radiallahu anhu said the world
is carrion and its lovers are dogs.
Because that's what happens, like wild dogs, jackals,
they eat carcasses that are laying by the
wayside.
He said that the world is carrion and
its lovers are dogs.
Whoever loves to take anything from this world
should therefore
spend time with dogs.
It's very creepy how
how much foresight there was in this. Allah
protect us from being
from being dog lovers.
Inshallah, it's okay. You don't have to, like,
curse a dog when you see it. But
I'm saying this kind of weird
relationship people have with dogs.
It is it is really bizarre. It is
really bizarre.
And whoever has this lust for the dunya,
God help us. God help us from the
jackals and the hyenas of this world.
Explaining this statement,
Allah Masharani
said that the meaning of the world in
this context is,
in reference to those things that are in
excess of one's needs.
Saidna Ali Karamalahu
Wajahu narrates that once Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam explained to me, oh Ali regarding you
2 groups will be destroyed.
1 will be the group of those who
become extreme and fanatical in your love and
they will praise you for such things that
are not in you.
And the other group will be those who
harbor malice
for
you. And, they'll slander you for those things
that are not in you, as well.
Allah give us the the love of
him
and the love of his rasool, salallahu alaihi
wasalam,
and the love
of the companions and the family and the
wives of the rasool, salallahu alaihi wasalam, and
the love of the ulema who are their
successors and the masha'ikh and the salihin
who carry inside of their hearts some part
of his Mubarak house Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
May Allah give us their true love and
give us the happiness of
being shown in the fullest sense
the truth of the hadith of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. A
person will be with the one that they
love.
Allah Allah give us all so much stuff.
Iqsa Allahu Ta'ala, Rasuulahi Sayyidina Muhammadu Ala'alahi wa
sahmi hijmain.