Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 29 Ramadn 1442 Late Night Majlis May Your Khatm Be Blessed ESA
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We've reached this Mubarak
29th night,
of Ramadan.
Was a blessing.
It was
an honor from Allah that we didn't deserve
to witness this month, to fast this month,
to pray in this month,
to
make it to the masjid, the house of
Allah in this month, to pray Jum'ah in
this month.
And now it's nearing its completion.
So
we ask
to accept what has
passed
and to forgive what
has fallen short
and to
give us the that
whatever good we gained,
that we hold on to it and that
we move forward with it and that we
progress with it
and, not that we fall behind.
And, for those couple of people who are
punctual listeners,
I apologize
for this recording being made available so late.
Our local master had their tonight.
And it was,
you know, it was not only a, a
finish, but it was,
it was
a a a a to end
all. And so we got out very late.
We got out very late for the masjid.
And,
there's some in it as well. I was
hoping to read, one last time from,
saviors of the Islamic spirit. But to be
honest with you,
talking about Molana Rumi is something that,
I felt uncomfortable about about that it was
beyond my scope even to contain
or to convey
the meanings of,
so casually with so little preparation.
And so now the time is short until
the end of suhoor
and on the theme of khatams because the
the the Quran,
its recitation in the local masjid was completed
today.
Just like that, this Mubarak month is about
to complete.
It's possible that the moon will be sighted,
tomorrow evening and that Eid will be, the
day after, and that this is the last
night of Ramadan.
And
it's possible also that we have another day.
More likely, it's probable
that we'll have another night a day night
of
and Allah knows best.
But,
whoever and wherever and whatever we get in
that day, there's a lot of catching up
to do,
for for us. And,
I guess my only
message for tonight to myself and to,
those, you know, few, souls who are out
of their,
good opinion,
and desire to seek something of benefit,
will listen,
is
a verse of poetry
in
Persian, which I heard,
recited in one of the talks of my
own Sheikh
and my own
Hassan.
Give him a long life and protect him
from his enemies
and protect him from
the eye of jealous people or
from the eye of a person who wishes
to create facade in this world
and give him even more
even more than the
wonderful Tawfiq Allah has already given him.
And you may have heard me mention him
in
other talks and whatnot. It's a very,
very special person to me that,
he
was mentioning in the context of not
making a fitna for yourself, not subjecting yourself
to the ideas of stupid people again and
again. Yeah. Okay. You wanna be intellectually honest.
Go and hear people's
arguments and, see the arguments against them and,
you know, go through all that. But once
you've satisfied yourself and settled on
Iman, the path
of safety is to not continuously torture yourself
again and again. Stab yourself in the,
in the chest and in the leg and
in the arm and in the hand and
in the ear and in the tongue and
every other part of your body,
just in order
to make sure that you would heal if
you if you hurt yourself. Inshallah, you'll heal.
You already know that that's the way the
system works, so don't do it again and
again.
And he mentioned he mentioned what there's a
principle greater than,
just being able to argue with others.
And that principle was,
elucidated in this one verse of poetry,
in Persian. And And to be honest with
you, I I've heard it many times before
in Bayan.
And, however, I was not clear on this.
I'd love to know exactly what it was.
So I called up,
Sheikh Tamim or I contacted Sheikh Tamim,
and he he was kind enough to,
clean it up and, you know, tell me
what the exact wording was. And I think
sometimes, you know, poetry,
goes through different channels, so it has slightly
different wordings anyway. But the meaning of the
same, and we'll take Sheikht Hamim's version given
that he is,
closer to a native speaker of the Persian
language.
And the verses,
It's a bait. It's,
a verse attributed to
who, if you you'll remember from last year's
was actually a native speaker of Persian despite
being a full blooded
sayyid
descendant of the
from both sides of the family. But he
grew up in more remote part of Iran,
and he was a native speaker of Persian.
And, when he
when he saw in the dream the command
of Rasulullah
for him to go to Baghdad and start
preaching to the people,
One of
his one of his, I guess,
concerns that he said to the prophet
in a way that kind of, like, you
know, like, very lovingly mimics
something that Sayidina Musa alaihis salam said to
Allah when Allah commanded him to go to
Firaun.
Sayidina Musa, in his case,
he had a speech impediment, which was not
he it wasn't congenital, but he actually was
because of an injury
that he,
incurred as a child being fearless. He was
playing with
coal, and he it said,
said that he
bit onto a hot coal,
and,
being tough and able to handle the the
pain and whatnot and being a child,
he he injured his tongue.
And so he said that, you know, they're
going to mock the way I speak. And
so send my brother to speak on my
behalf.
Some something almost lovingly that reminds you of
that that
in his dream. He said to the that,
you know, I'm a Persian. I don't speak
Arabic very well.
Like, how are they gonna listen to me?
There's a great over
there. Like, how are they gonna listen to
me? That's the that's the caliphate.
And,
the
Rasulullah,
you know, in the dream, he put his
Mubarak,
his Mubarak
saliva in the mouth of the
of his grandson, and,
then he woke up and
Allah gave him this ability to speak in
Arabic.
But, you know, we forget sometimes that he
actually was a native speaker of Persian. And
so his
speech used to leave people spelled bound
by the 1,000 and tens of 1,000.
And, commoners would come and listen, and
scholars would come and listen, and Sufis would
come and listen. All kinds of people would
listen.
And it would cause them to rectify their
lives and to abandon sin and
to repent from their wicked ways and to
dedicate their lives to something better.
And so once,
a lady in his used to have all
kinds of commoners. And once a old woman,
she heard his talk,
and she's she praised him and said,
you know, you you spoke very well, and
you're very intelligent. You're very eloquent, etcetera, etcetera.
And so he replied to her praise with
this bait,
with this verse.
He said,
He said that,
you know, the
summary of which is what
that if you wanna, you know, if you
if you wanna say something, then, like,
don't praise it right now. Don't praise me
right now. Rather,
let me bring my iman
to,
all the way into the edge and into
my grave.
Let's go with our iman all the way
to the edge of our grave and into
the grave
and get our iman there safely.
And then he says, then we can say
then I'll say, yes. I did do a
good job. You're right in complimenting me.
That I did good. Then you can say
I did good, and I can say I
did good in this
in this
in this,
health or fitness
in this,
intelligence, cunningness, and cleverness
of ours
that we were we were able to, like,
get something out of it.
And so this being the night of a
katham and being possibly the last night of
Ramadan and definitely near to the end of
the of Ramadan,
don't take any of it for granted. Not
the Ramadan, not your life, not your iman,
not your,
you know, your reward. None of that stuff.
Don't take any of it for granted until
you enter the grave with La ilaha illallah
on your lips.
May your eyes and your mouth and your
nose be filled with the sweet fragrance of
Jannah on that day. And maybe it may
be it may be a Mubarak day and
Eid Mubarak for you and for all of
us.
And those of us who are left behind
will
cry, and may those who go on ahead
of us, be filled with joy at meeting
you, in that Mubarak
state
of having
not only won, but attained victory in a
life that will last forever.
And so, just a couple of
advices that these moments are still left in
Ramadan. They still have a fast tomorrow and
quite possibly a fast the day afterward and
quite possibly another night for those who are
in. And for those who are
not in a tikaf, still you have a
night to make a tikaf if you wish
to, and you have a night to
worship Allah
from wherever you are, whether you're in or
outside of the Masjid.
But, go ahead and pray a couple of
more.
Go ahead and read a little bit more
Quran.
You know, read another.
Read another.
Read you know, if says that's too much
for me to read, read it in Arabic.
Someone's like, says it's too much for me
to read. Read another page.
That's too much. Read another. You struggle. I
remember those days when I used to struggle
through,
being able to even read an ayah. It
would take, you know, it would take me,
you know, a couple of minutes, and I
just kind of fumble and mumble through it.
Go and read another ayah.
If you say, I don't know how to
read Arabic.
It's okay. Just open the mushaf
all the way to the beginning.
The first surah of the Quran is Surat
Al Fatiha.
And all the way to the top right
hand
of where the Quranic texts
begin. This is the first verse of the
Quran.
And the first letter in the Quran is
an alif.
It's just a straight line up and down.
You can't do anything else.
Just open the mushef and look at that
straight line up and down. So this is
alif.
Yeah. Allah, I read this one
letter of the Quran, the first letter.
You from your Mehibani, you from your Fafal
and from your Karam,
from your grace,
from your mercy, from your generosity,
you give me the reward of this alif,
and you give me the reward of all
of those things that come afterward.
Because you're the one who doesn't turn away,
the one who asks in sincerity,
You're the one who loves the person to
be humble
in front of him.
You're the one who loves the one who
bends his neck with humility in his court.
What can be more humble than a person
who is unable to present anything else in
the royal court?
So they present an alif.
And a day will come when you realize
that that alif is
worth more than the dunya and what's in
it.
That that alif,
which is also the first letter in the
divine name,
Allah.
Like the the the Jamba tree,
straight up and down. There's no crookedness in
it, whatever
whatsoever.
Some
man of god, some saintly
person, he planted inside my heart,
and then he watered it with the water
of
until
it grew in every vein, in every,
appendage
of my body.
That alif,
Inshallah,
may it be a reason for your salvation
and for your forgiveness.
May it ward off every evil,
all of your days in this world
and all of your days in the grave,
and may it be a lantern and a
torch that lights your
grave. And may it be a guide that
takes you safely
through the passages,
of the gathering
house of the prophet
that even a person who loved that alif,
I promise you
that love, if it's sincere, it will be
accepted by Allah,
and it will be something that entire nations
will be envious
of. Maybe it may it be a proof
in your
trial on the day of judgment,
crossing the Sirat. And may it be your
key,
that you put into any one of the
8 gates of Jannah,
that you can enter
with whoever and whatever you like.
Again, you don't have to do a lot.
Just do a little bit with sincerity and
do it with love, with full and utter
conviction that inside this alif, there's
more than any job at Google or Microsoft
or Amazon.
That there's more in this alif than any
Bentley or Rolls Royce or Tesla.
That there's more in this alif than taking
vacation to Cancun or
to Tahiti or to Hawaii.
That in this alif,
there is, more status than being,
any
manager or district manager or CEO
or president or king
of any country, be it in North America
or South America or Europe, Asia, any other
continent or island that or peninsula that masquerades
around as a continent.
In this alif, there's more than
anything that an economist
can forecast
or anything that, people who count stuff can
count or people who measure things can measure.
The article in the BBC, they just measure
the depth of, like,
some large part of the ocean, and they
have, like, clear data about it.
There's no scanner. There's no scientist. There's no
laboratory. There's no technology
that's ever going to be able to understand
how much and how much
beauty and how much majesty
and how much help
and how much light is tied up in
this one alif.
If you believe it when you look at
it
and you make the sound of a from
if you make the sound of a from
Allah, I promise you, even this alif can
be enough to get you through this world
and the hereafter.
Wouldn't it be nice if you open the
musshuff and just took a look at it?
Wouldn't it be nice if you use the
same tongue that you used to say all
kind of strange things and some things maybe
maybe you shouldn't have said and that I
shouldn't have said
That you used to
talk smack or that you used to tell
jokes or used to tell your
wife or husband or children or loved one
I love you or you used to say
something nice or witty
or you used to cunningly argue your way
out of having to pay a traffic ticket
or, you know, in a court case, you
know, win a court case or to
nail an interview and to get a job
or to maybe screw all those things up.
That that same tongue, which you're so proud
of, that you could do all these things
with. There's nothing in the world that,
that can compare with it
being able to say,
this alif
and this, Allah and this,
that this is a treasure you'll keep with
you, that every Muslim is rich. You know,
people think that, like, oh, look, it's Arabs,
they must have money.
Right?
Every Muslim is rich,
but your wealth is not in your bank
account, and it's not under your mattress.
Even though some of you I know you
guys are stashing a lot of money under
your mattresses. I've never seen your name register
on the robot donor list, but you guys
have something that you're hiding somewhere or another.
I'm not even asking for it,
but it's there. But know that that's not
your real wealth. Your wealth as a Muslim,
even if you're the king of England, the
queen of England,
your wealth as a Muslim is not stashed
under the throne or in the crown jewels.
Where is it? Point to it.
It's inside of your heart.
It's this divine name of Allah which resides
inside the
crown
of
So go ahead and embellish it and decorate
it. Get it ready for Eid,
because it will be the light that will
lead you in the procession of celebration.
That you'll be from the people whose
whose light will be,
proceeding in front of them.
And then on the right hand side
someone said, what what is the left hand
side gonna be dark? No.
Yamin here means barakah.
Every side up and down, top right, every
every side is barakah for a person who
passes on iman,
that your light will proceed in front of
you
and on your every side.
And even the angels will say, glad tidings
to you.
You'll go into such gardens under which
rivers flow.
The key
for all of that and so many things
more than that that can't be described in
words.
All of it is, you can find it
in that alif inshallah. So go ahead and
crack the musaf open and take a look
at it with that much love
or with more.
And, may it be Mubarak, may Allah accept
it from you inshallah,
while we while we all still can before
the last happens, which is not the of
the Quran or the last of Ramadan passing
but
the of our lives.
Make that a good one and make it
on and on iman
and on salama
except from all of us. Anybody who wishes
to contact, you're welcome to get in touch
with me, hm at
rebat.org.
I do my best to answer people's queries,
although I admittedly cannot get to everybody.
But go ahead and reach out. And,
if you, make it
before,
I do.
Also, go ahead and reach out. And,
trust me, you won't need
my email address on that day.
Allah,
keep us all, together and happy in this
world and the hereafter. And
Allah The
one who makes it from amongst us will
take their brother by the hand and not
leave him behind.