Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 29 1440 Ramadn Late Night Majlis Be Prepared 06022019
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That we reach this 29th,
night of Ramadan.
It's an odd night. It may be a
little Qadr,
so don't slow down and take your victory
lap yet.
That there are some people Allah frees them
from the fire in Ramadan, and that's every
night.
Even if the if it's tonight, then double,
don't slack. And if it's not, there's still
there's still some khair to be had in
this night, inshallah.
So don't don't start your pre Jandrat parties
just yet.
All of us
and a number of, I guess,
procedural notes. One is that
don't ask your imams and your mashaikh, is
it gonna be Eid
on the, on on Tuesday or Wednesday?
When they see the when they see the
moon, they'll they'll let you know. And part
of it is part of it is just
following the procedure.
It's just it's just following the procedure and
waiting,
not for Islam to happen on your schedule,
but to make your schedule conform to the
deen. And there's a lot of khair in
that. There's a lot of blessing in that.
And the the
oftentimes, the the desire to,
you know, the desire for to know these
things is not necessarily because a person doesn't
respect the Sharia, but it's because they're tense
in order to
do the good deeds,
that Allah has commanded them to do because
it's a burden, it's a responsibility, person wants
to discharge them and plan for them as
best as they can. But, Allah
in many places in the Quran even tells
Rasulullah,
you know,
don't don't try to
don't try to rush the process.
You know, it'll happen it'll happen in its
time.
And, having to have for that is itself
part of it's itself part of the deen,
and it it's a it burns. It's a
itself a type of,
but it's also there's in
it. And there's a saying amongst the Arabs
that,
that the person who,
who tries to make things happen before it's
their right time,
the punishment for that is that they'll they'll
be deprived of the thing that they want.
So don't don't, you know, don't,
don't don't don't don't don't try to rush
things, inshallah. Just be wait. Be patient. You
know, you can hit refresh on your
on your,
whatever,
your Twitter or your,
you know, your your web browser or whatever
on Chicago page.
And, you know, you can you can wait
for you can wait for it. It's okay.
And even people are, well, you know, you
know, one time they just announced after it
was over. It's like, okay. You read 20
extra rakas. Like, you you know, it's nobody's
house burned down or gonna die or, like,
it's not gonna kill anybody. It's actually good
for you, It's a nice thing. You read
more salat.
So, don't don't don't worry about it, and
don't fall in the trap either way because,
you know,
the astronomers are saying it's highly unlikely.
Well, if someone actually sees it, what are
you gonna do?
And on the flip side, you know,
if somebody didn't see it and, you know,
you you want it to happen really badly,
don't don't try to force it one way
or the other. There's kad in both of
them. The Sahaba
interestingly enough, they used to actually want it
to last 30 days And the messenger of
Allah had to,
had to tell them that the
that
the the
the the the the 2 months of the
2, they don't
they don't there there's no there's no deficiency
in them. Meaning that you'll get the prorated
30th day worth of anyway.
So, they they would want it not to
end.
For us, it's like, oh, lunch is so
nice.
So, you know, one way or the other,
just don't,
you know, just don't freak out. Just stay
calm. Stay calm. It's very difficult. Some of
us are very prone to freaking out. I
myself am very prone to freaking out.
You just gotta stay calm, get through it.
The same thing, Hajj, the same thing, everything
in life, your the of your children, that
every all these things people freak out about.
And, you know, everything is inshallah gonna be
just fine and if it's not freaking out,
it's not gonna help.
So, inshallah, make it easy for all of
us. The other procedural points which are a
reminder that people already know about from before,
make sure that you have paid your zakatul
fitter.
The
Maliki school, you can pay pay it up
to 3 days before Eid. And the zakatul
fitr in the Hanafi school, you're paid even
earlier than that. And, the zakatul fitr is
not discharged until it reaches the hand of
the of the poor recipient.
It does it's not discharged by putting it
in a mustard box,
and it's not discharged by,
you know, by by,
you know, just a transactional element of it
doesn't discharge discharge it. It's discharged when it
is reached in the hands of the poor
recipient,
the person who is a who
who's a recipient of it, whether they be
in your locality or around the world. So
make arrangements. If you haven't done so yet,
pay the money already.
And
optimum time for it to be paid is
in the on the morning of Eid,
after fajr and before the Eid salat.
And this is one of the things that
in the Muslim world, the beggars usually line
the the route to the
the and we don't have that over here.
You know? It's like a gift of protestantism.
They take poor people and they criminalize being
poor and they put them in stock and
pillory and beat them. And, you know, Rasoolullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, allahu Alaihi Wasallam, allahu Alaihi
Wasallam,
so
that's something different about our society and our
our,
civilization.
So if someone ever asks you for money,
it's haram to say bad to them or
show them a bad face. If you don't
wanna give them money, you don't have money,
or you you if you have it and
you just don't wanna give it to them,
for whatever reason, just smile and say I'm
sorry, you know, or smile and give them
a dua, say Allah give you a halal
risk or something like that. And if they
make a face after that, that's their problem.
But,
you know, the the beggars used to line
their route to eat, then you could give
to them.
Obviously, we can't you know, many places we
live in, we can't do that anymore.
And it's not because poor people are not
there and that they don't need it, but,
we just, you know, made a crime out
of their poverty.
So find them and give them the money.
Or if someone collects it and distributes it,
then give it a couple of days early.
Don't just be like, oh, the it's best
to give it in the morning.
Know. That morning time is the best time
for it to reach their hand. It's not
the you know, if you can't get it
to them in that time, then don't, don't
delay it until then. And if nothing else
if you can't find someone directly to give
it to or you don't know someone directly
to give it to, then go online, Islamic
Relief or, another one of our dependable and
trustworthy,
Muslim organizations.
Pay it and pay, you know,
15, 20% extra on top of it, you
know, to cover their administrative charges.
Don't don't hound them while you take money
off the top. It's because they're doing something.
They're actually delivering it for you. And so
you don't have to go around, you know,
in the hood, like, in the middle of
the night asking, you know, who's Muslim and
how much do they make and that, you
know, you don't have to do those things,
you know, or you don't have to fly
over to a place where the the people
who need it are there. So just give
a little bit extra as well if if
if you send it through them.
Why? Because that is,
it is a purification for the one who
fasted in their fast from, Lahu and Rafa
from
idleness and from indecency
in the fast,
which makes it acceptable to Allah Ta'ala.
And it makes the for the poor as
well because,
this is,
a precept
that the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam taught us again and again, and he
himself will show it in the greatest way
on the day of judgment through his shafa'a,
through his intercession,
that if one of us makes it, we
all make it, and if one of us
is behind, then all of us are behind.
We we all lose. We all win, and
we all lose together.
And so
that that Eid should be Eid for them
as well. That Eid day should be the
poor and rich should all be rich on
that day.
Two narrations of about the zakat of fitr
that enriched them from have from the humiliation
of,
of having to ask or enrich them on
that day.
And then if you give that,
and then that night you spent it in
prayer,
for the brothers who are in.
Shame on you for listening to a band.
You should go back to, reading Quran or
making dua or praying. But if you are
gonna listen, then listen to this as well,
that it is a sunnah for whoever's HaTikaf
is connected to Eid, that they don't leave
when the moon is sighted. Rather, they stay
in their takaf until
the they pray the fajr prayer, and then
from there, they go straight to the
disheveled in a tikaf mode.
And this is a badge of honor for
you that is greater than the perfume of
the perfumed ones and the starched, kurtas of
the starched kurtas and the ironed suits and
ties and pants and, you know, $1,000
ouds,
of, pretentious middle class American Muslims because the
real oud is $10,000 total anyway. Anybody who
actually knows anything about oud knows that.
It's better than all of those things.
It's a badge of honor in front of
the Lord and those few disheveled and, disturbed
and sleepy,
ones
who gave up and made gave up their
comfort and made for the sake of the
lord in these days. When they show up
to the,
it's probably their, their that'll,
you know, make the day for all the
rest of us. So don't don't blow that.
Be one of those people because the rank
of those people is manifestly higher than that
of of the rest who benefit through them.
And, then you will be,
then you will be the manifestation, all of
us, them and us as well. All of
us, we we we will be the manifestation
of that
the person who purified has been successful, meaning
they paid their
and they went from their home,
saying the takbir
This is indeed you prefer the life of
this world even though the akhira is better
and it will last forever.
So we read a last excerpt, or possibly
second to last excerpt from this.
Under the subheading,
it is essential to know the etiquette and
principles of a position before ascending to it.
So we mentioned from before that
the love of leadership is itself a sickness
and a disease, whether it's the love of,
being imam in the salat or giving the
khutba or president of the masjid or political
leadership or, any any other type of leadership,
the coveting of it is is haram. And
we know that the actual leader leadership itself
is not haram because the Rasool was
the the the sovereign ruler and the sheikh
of this ummah. And after him said, Abu
Bakr Sadiq and after after him, the rest
of the and
a number of righteous people assumed,
all of those facets of leadership, some at
once and some in different parts. But the
the haram sin, which is haram like eating
pork and drinking alcohol, The sin is to
covet the leadership,
in your heart. And,
so
the the person who takes heed will, in
their heart, turn away from it. But, you
know, I'm part of the, and I'm not
absolved from its sicknesses.
And, I know my own sickness, and I
know the sicknesses of my people. This is
not enough. Nobody is going to take the
lesson from it. So if you have to
still covet being a big shot,
then,
you know, then know, these small pieces of
advice so that you don't damage yourself as
much as you would have otherwise. And who
knows, maybe will change something in the hearts
and, some will come to it both for
for for you and for the people that
you lead.
Every person wishes to ascend, to a certain,
rank, within the deen. That person must acquire
first the knowledge and etiquette and principles of
that rank. Said,
learn,
try to have understanding of the, of of
what you're going to do before you,
before you take a a position of leadership.
After a person becomes a leader or sends
to a lofty position,
shyness will prevent him from studying from anyone.
He will thus be deprived of acquiring knowledge.
And this is true. It's difficult once you're
in in control. If you say something
and any Tom, Dick, or Harry will come
up to you and correct you in front
of everybody,
it becomes a fitna then. Because if you
are not humble, then it's it should be
obvious to everyone why you're jerking. You're going
to drag yourself into the hellfire because you're
now being obstinate in what's wrong. But it's
difficult still because even if you want to
accept the correction from somebody,
the way political leadership works or the way
leadership works is that when you're,
the aura of invincibility that you have in
front of the people that you're leading is
compromised, then they're they're also they become lethargic
in listening to you afterward if they know
that you're a person who's gonna make mistakes
again and again.
And, a person who's really perceptive will see
if they see if a leader makes, you
know, like, accepts or admits a mistake
even,
though it costs them, like, some political position.
A perceptive person will actually know that this
person is doing it because of their honesty.
The problem is people are as perceptive as
a sack of doorknobs,
most of them, and you need the that
most of them to follow you in order
for your your leadership to be tenable.
Those few,
gems and,
rubies and diamonds and emeralds,
of people that are, like, perceptive enough to
know, who's honest and who's not,
you know,
they don't vote, you know, in as many
numbers as the people who elected Trump are
voting. So that's just you know? So you
have to learn beforehand because if you're gonna
learn on the job, you're gonna harm other
people through your stupidity, and your status itself
will, become a 5th night, will prevent you
from following the Haqq.
Subhanallah, what a valuable piece of advice given
to given by Sayedna Omar Radiallahu anhu. We
ought to embed it in our hearts. It
is related that he saw a person buying
and selling. So he asked him, did you
learn the rules and regulations of buying,
and selling? The person said no.
Said to him, first go learn the rules
and regulations,
then come to our marketplace.
And this is this is obviously you know,
this is a month, and it's not like
being imam or giving. This is just, like,
being a normal person, you know, learn the
etiquettes of being a normal person. Unfortunately, people
don't do that. So people would be like,
you know, on the tour you know, 27th
night of Ramadan, 29th night of Ramadan, Sheikh,
is it true if I marry someone that
I have to do this or my husband
has to do that or my wife has
to do this? And, you know, people have
been married, like, you know,
for years and they're asking these questions. Sheikh,
is it true that, you know you know,
whatever, this type of credit card transaction is
haram or not? And they ask after the
fact, we covered this in the 1st majalis
where we, went through the, went through the
Muftasir of Akhdarri. Ask haram to do anything
before you know the hookahum of it.
Uh-uh. So this doesn't, you know, when we
say leadership, I'm not just saying, like, if
you're a miral muminin, you should go take
Sheikohim that dar al Qasim. I'm saying you
should take Sheikohim that dar al Qasim. You
wanna be a normal person. If you wanna
be a real you probably, you know, you
probably need to cut the Netflix out and
and and learn a couple of things before
you before you, aspire to that. Or even
having your idea of the heart that you're
gonna be able to help anyone without knowing
that knowledge. So it applies to all departments
of life, including education and training,
establishing a bond with a Sheikh,
calling people to Allah and reminding the Muslims
about their deen.
The etiquette and rules of all of these
have to be learned first in order to
carry them out correctly.
Saidna Hisham
said my father
used to assemble the people and say to
them. So Hisham bin Hisham bin Urwa is
is one of the
great narrators of hadith. Arwa is Arwa Zubair.
He's one of the
of Medina. He's the younger brother of Abdullah
bin Zubair, but he was born after Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam passed through this world.
So his elder brother was a Sahabi, and
he's not a Sahabi.
And Hisham bin Arwa narrates from his father
what's the specialty of his father.
His
father, is a nephew of Saida Aisha. Right?
Because Saida Aisha,
her sister
was Asma bint Abi Bakr
was married to Zubair bin Awam. So is
her nephew, therefore her Maharam.
So she taught him Deen herself and she
taught him the hadith of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam herself. And you know, Sidha
Aisha radiAllahu anha is one of the 4
one of the 4, hadith narrators that narrate
in a
hadith in a volume, that is disproportionately large
compared to the other hadith narrators because she
had such a long life after
Rasulullah and she saw him from so close,
and she saw those things about his life
that other people didn't see. And Hisham is
one of the one of the main narrators
from her. This is one of the reasons
that, you know, this whole thing about the
age of Sayeda Aisha
at the time she married the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, she was 7, and when
the marriage was consummated, she was 9. Now
this is something people freak out about, and
I agree it's culturally, it's not it's not
normal where we we live.
But a couple of things. One, it was
culturally normal in that time, and nobody seemed
to have complained about it.
And,
Sayeda Aisha lived a long time after the
prophet
and she used to dissent with the opinions
of of of Sayida Umar and with her
own father too
after the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam left
this world.
So she had every chance to complain about
it, and she never uttered even a tangential
complaint.
Saying the Umrah, she would she would she
would
dissent with his opinion, and he would he
would not have the jur'a to say anything
to her.
And that Saidin Amr alayahu anhu.
And so, it's it's a fact. And even
the mushrikeen of Quraysh never said anything. They
objected a lot about a lot of things
the prophet
did, but this was something they never objected.
Like, they objected about his his marriage
to Zaynab bin to Jahsh after,
after Zayd bin Harifa, his adopted son, had
divorced her,
that the Messenger of Allah
married her
at the command of Allah ta'ala
through the nasa of the Quran
and not by his own doing.
And,
they they really they really objected to it.
They said, look, he's marrying his daughter. He's
he's he's he's marrying his daughter-in-law. He's married
his daughter-in-law.
Allah says, he's not his
daughter-in-law. Zayd was not his son. He was,
he was a
a a boy that he raised,
but he wasn't his biological son.
So they objected to that, but nobody ever
objected to say the high fat
And the reason this is something to bring
up
because a lot of people say, oh, look.
There's so many different opinions. I'll pick the
one that makes me happy. They you know,
this is like a methodology for for many
people in their fit as well, which is
not a rationally, it's not a very robust
methodology, although it is very convenient
or seemingly convenient at times. The problem is
what? Guess who narrates the the hadith about
the ages of the the
at the time of her marriage and consummation?
Well, she narrates it. Guess who narrates it
narrates it from her?
I don't know. Yeah. Orwa.
And Hisham narrates it from his father
in Bukhari.
So, basically, if if he doesn't understand the
hadith of
nobody does. So it's actually just a a
thought in the entire science of hadith.
And,
we don't need, you know, people to come
afterward and tell us, you know, that whether
our Aslaf knew what the prophet did or
said,
they they knew, hamdullah, just fine. It's us
that we're we're concerned with. So at any
rate, Hisham bin
said, my father,
he used to assemble us and say, oh
my children,
acquire knowledge because while you may be juniors
today, there will be a time when you
will be appointed as seniors and leaders.
He says, oh, my children,
acquire knowledge because while you may be juniors
today, there will be a time when you
will be appointed as seniors and leaders. Something
similar to this is reported about Said Abdallah
bin Abbas
as well, that he used to sit and
learn,
learn from the elders of the Sahaba
and people would be like, why, you know,
what's the point? You know, why are you
learning all of this stuff? All Abu Bakr
is still there, Umars, they're all still there
And and,
and that same person will say then, I
saw the day when all of them were
gone, and then the only one with their
knowledge is
Abbas. And this is funny. There was a
there was a there was a visitor once
came to us from Pakistan. Molana Tamim, Mufti
Abdullah, Molana Bilal, a number of us were
all together,
and,
he visited from Pakistan to, collect some money
for his madrasa,
back home. And so,
I you know, we were taking him around.
We were everyone was in town for, like,
a retreat or something like that. And,
so we were taking him around, and he's
like,
you know, you guys are you guys are
you know, one day you guys will be
like the akabir and the senior mashaikh of
this, you know, of this country.
And then, you know, like, stupidly, I'll, you
know, like, I'll speak for myself at a
near, like, no, Sheikh. We're not worthy. I
say, we're not worthy. We're not worthy. He's
like, no. No. I I understand that you're
not worthy. He goes, that's everyone knows that.
He goes, but whether you like it or
not, however worthy or unworthy you are, it's
still gonna happen anyway. You may as well
prepare for it.
And and that's the thing is, you know,
this is not I don't think this is
takavor. You know? Tomorrow, there's an eventuality.
Tomorrow is gonna happen,
and some of us may not live to
see it. But, you know, probably,
the younger ones will see it tomorrow that
the elders won't see.
So the ones who prepare for that that
day, not out of wish to put themselves
forward,
but just so that the knowledge and the
piety and the practice doesn't and the how,
the doesn't get snuffed out before that tomorrow
comes. That person has hoped that they'll receive
some reward for it. Not because they wanna
push themselves forward, but because they just want
to guard that thing, for for the eventuality
that that statistically speaking, the elders will probably
leave before the youngers will. And so the
people who are a little bit younger should
take from their elders.
You know, you should do these things. You
do your and connect it with the day
of Eid. Why? Because if you you know,
when the elders are gone, if you don't
do it, then nobody else is gonna do
it because nobody's gonna be impressed with it
today. But one day then, you know, the
kids are gonna look at you like, you
look at, you know, you look at all
the babas nowadays, and
that day, you know,
that's gonna be all we have as an
oomah, better or worse.
Just imagine how humiliated that sheikh and senior
will feel despite people revering him when he's
asked a question and he cannot give an
answer because of his ignorance.
Allah Allah forgive us and give us tofiq
still the benefit from our elders while we're
still there. Is here and our, Sheikh and
our other elders, they're all still here. We
can still travel to different parts of the
world and see our our and
and and,
see the, and the,
and we should take from them because the
day will come where, you know, our memories
will be the only thing left of them,
in the world,
if Allah gives us life till then.
Every leadership
every leadership that has no knowledge in it
has more humiliation in it than sitting in
garbage,
than sitting in Kanesa, than sitting in the
Kanesa.
The same word.
Right?
I find it I find it appropriate,
to quote an important subject
which was presented by,
Sheikh Muslikhul Ummah, the Sheikh of the the
the author.
He says, now that I've grown so old
and realized there's no time to acquire anything,
I've come to realize the thing the thing
that prevents man from acquiring excellence in everything
in anything is his pride.
After all, this is what prevents him from
humbling himself before an expert.
We get experts in every era, from whom
we can acquire
expertise. However, pride prevents people from humbling themselves
before such people.
Consequently, they will acquire nothing and remain totally
ignorant. When a person leaves aside his pride
and his haughtiness, he's able to acquire something.
The famous, saying is that water flows to
the low lying area. It flows from up
to down.
Imam Bukhari
writes under the chapter,
the chapter regarding shyness and and and and,
in knowledge.
A shy person and a proud person, those
are 2 people who will never be able
to acquire knowledge. The shy person will be
blocked by their shyness and their proud person
by their arrogance. Said the Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala
and has said, how excellent are the women
of the Ansar?
Their shyness did not prevent them from acquiring
understanding of the deen,
meaning that they would ask questions,
about personal things, like, you know, about the
menses, like, when does it start, when does
it end.
You guys are not
you know, or, like, you know, you you
probably even if you sat in a fit
class, it would go in one ear while
out the other. Then once you get married,
you're like, shit. Does the period start at
this time? Or that you
know?
But yeah. You know what I mean? But
but the the the ladies, you know, they
were not they were they were not shy
even though those are very personal questions, but
they were not shy. Why? Because it's part
of the deen to ask those questions. And
so the prophet would have said, Aisha,
answered them for her. And so she she
she praised them. She said, how wonderful are
the, are the women of deen? Their shyness
did not, prevent them from acquiring knowledge.
The statement of
is based on, absolute wisdom and insight.
It ought to spur,
women to study deen and acquire understanding of
it.
Men
too, Hamza adds. Women must set aside their
customary shyness and modesty and acquire knowledge of
deen while preserving their chastity and purity.
The objective of is
to show that modesty is undoubtedly a department,
or a branch of deen and of iman
in an excellent quality.
Nonetheless, it must not be resorted to in
situations which deprive a person from good. We
learn,
from the above that knowledge is not possible
in the presence of
a type of pride or, on the other
side, a type of shyness.
In, his course of, the course of his
Sahib Bukhari lessons, the Sheikh Muslihuddin Muslihull Uma
used to say, in such a situation, even,
shyness stems from pride, which is a very
deep and subtle point. So even in such
cases, even the shyness stems from pride and
thus prevents a person from humbling themselves before
the person who has the knowledge that they
need. In a case like this, shyness or
modesty will not be a praiseworthy quality. Instead,
it will be disparaged, and we seek, a
a refuge from Allah most
high. So inshallah, we will, end our reading
over here. This book has a really excellent
section that it kinda takes a tangent from
here with regards to the,
the the the
Deeni education and Tarbia,
Sufik Tarbia of our sisters.
How how how it should be given,
given adequate attention.
And,
you know, maybe sometime we'll go through that,
but not today. But it's worth worth noting
that
and his,
Khalifa,
they gave special,
attention to the Tarbia women in a time
when it wasn't being given in in,
in the Indian subcontinent.
There were individuals
who who definitely were exceptions to the rules,
but by and large, women were not being
taught to read. Women were not being taught,
the oolum.
And,
you know, part of the reason for that
was because of the protection of modesty and
which I think is important.
And nowadays, I think there's an because the
pendulum extremism is like a pendulum. If it
goes too far one way, it will go
necessarily really hard the other way.
And, that's what's happening now is that somehow,
like, Haya itself is being attacked as some
sort of, like, evil, and it's not like
that. But there is a special there's a
special tradition that we have,
in order to preserve the haya and the
honor,
and the spirituality
of, the interaction between brothers and sisters, which
is not an impediment to their
acquiring knowledge.
And it's not an impediment to their acquiring,
sufic tarbia, and it's not an impediment to,
them
acquiring a high maqam in the deen which
they,
which is also their haqq, like it is
for every brother. And he actually used to
say that Aisha
explores a number of different facets of her
her state and of her knowledge and of
her instructions and commandments,
in order to talk about that. And it's
worth learning maybe some other time when it's
more appropriate, when the majlis is more appropriate.
Inshallah, we'll read those
those excerpts as well. Allah
in
this, 29th last odd night of Ramadan, maybe
even last night of Ramadan,
give,
give the the and the decision of his
father to come down on this and
to
every good that it it does to accept
it and to increase it and to augment
it, and every evil that's,
that that's harming it, that he his and
his, his order comes down that it be
lifted.
And,
every,
every thing that he's unpleased with, that he
remove it, and everything he's pleased with, he
increased it and that he write, that all
of the people of even
people in a state like ours, that all
of us, Allah Ta'ala,
writes down his command from his and his
and
his
that, that he, that he accepts us and,
gives us a good destiny and a good
faith,
and our families and our loved ones, a
good destiny and a good faith in this
world and the hereafter.