Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 3 Ramadn Late Night Majlis Don’t Be Weak 03132024
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We've reached this Mubarak 3rd night
of Ramadan.
The,
described
that there are people who will be freed
from
the hellfire and every night. It's not just
the last 10 nights or later to Qadr.
All of those have a special from Allah,
for those who come and present themselves,
in order to be forgiven.
But every night has,
every night has those people who will be
written, from those who are freed.
May Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, write us from
the of this Mubarak night.
May Allah accept from us our standing and
our listening and the recitation,
of our hafid.
And may Allah
make it a means for our betterment and
change for the better.
May Allah
make it for
make it a means for the betterment of
the Uma Siednu Muhammad
in this world and in the hereafter. Amin.
So continuing,
with the
concept of that struggle,
as
is described by
the sunnah of the messenger of Allah
We read and
say,
who narrates that the messenger
said
that the powerful, the strong believer
is better and more beloved to Allah to
Allah than the weak believer. And in both,
there is good.
He said, be
avid for that thing that benefits you
And seek help with Allah, and don't,
don't
be incapacitated,
overwhelmed by things.
If
something should afflict you, don't say, oh, if
I had only done this, then that would
have happened.
Rather, say, Allah
had meted out a particular measurement, and whatever
he wished to come to pass came to
pass.
Generally,
you know, the Arabic turns out to be
The wow is dropped.
But all of these are valid. You can
say
All 4 of them are are are valid
and have some sort of wedge to
them. But the one that seems to be
closest to the,
the strongest wording of Sahid is.
That Allah
said that Allah measured something out.
He measured out,
meted out a particular quantum for a thing,
and whatever he wished to to be, that
thing came to pass. Why? Because
this low,
this hypothetical
speculation,
it it opens up the work of Shaytan
and then also low
you have to Shaytan
that the, this low if so and so
happened, if this happened, if it was like
this, if it was like that, it just
opens the door up for.
This is,
a very,
like, solid foundation cornerstone for,
not only your saluk, but as, like, a,
you know, a spiritual traveler toward a traveler
on the spiritual path toward Allah to Allah.
But just as a human being, like, as
a living thing.
There's this kind of bizarre
confluence of a bunch of confused
influences on people
that make a person believe that being weak
sauce is somehow good.
And,
obviously, from the side of battle,
those people who are trying to manipulate you,
control you, use you as a cog in,
you know, the kind of the capitalist system.
I don't even wanna say it's a capitalist
system. It's, you know, capitalism. The idea is
that capitalism could have some sort of a
a good form, which is
very
well integrated with Islam as long as competition
is fair.
But those people who wish to have unfair
advantage over you economically,
politically,
socially,
and in other ways, what will they do?
They will encourage you to inculcate the habits
of a weak person.
And this is something that the hostile Kufar
have inculcated in Muslims, and this is also
part of imperial court culture from within the
Muslim world as well.
Remember the Ottoman Empire, the Mughal Empire,
the Safavid,
Empire,
you know, the the states in Maghrib in
the Maghrib, the states in Andalus. These are
not the aslaf
of Islam.
Who is the
salaf? The said that the best of
of of generations is my generation than those
who come next to them and then those
who come next to them.
Imperial court culture is something even, like, for
example, within Ottoman history or within Mughal history,
for example.
The generation of people who brought the who
brought the the power of the state
to new lands.
Because before that, the Balkans were not Muslim
lands.
Before that, you know, Islam had not reached,
so many places in Africa. It had not
reached so many places in Europe. It had
not reached even many places in Asia as
well.
The generations of people carried that
fiqhir to places. That fiqhir which included playing
5 times a day and it included reading
Quran, but it also included
a political order.
That group of people are different than the
ones who then sustain the order.
And so the way the state was when
the capital was in Bursa, it was very
or when the capital was in it did
not it was very different than what
Constantinople, and then it takes kind of a
set form.
Why? Because it's easier and more convenient to
govern a state that seems very large by
having pliant people ahead of thing at the
heads of things. Whereas when you have pliant
and weak sauce people at the heads of
things, you're not gonna conquer anything.
The messenger of Allah,
he
developed
competent men
that were people that he could literally
send
in every one of the directions. And
without any instruction, they would
without having to have, like, micromanagement, they would
have they would be able to implement,
his vision that he gave to them and
that they understood.
And, one of the I know it's really
stupid, so shoot me after we leave, and
I'll some 100 100 percent deserve it. There's
a movie called The Message. I don't even
particularly
recommend anyone watch it. And I think that,
you know, let's just say that, you know,
there's plenty that a person wants to, like,
say about it that that's suboptimal. There's plenty
they could talk about. But the one one
of the coolest scenes in the movie was
what? It's the beginning of it where there
are 3 horsemen. They they're riding together, and
then they go in, like, separate directions.
And then one of them takes the message
of the prophet
to
Heraclius, the the the the Roman emperor, and
one of them takes it to,
Kisrati,
the the Shah of Iran.
And one of them takes the message to,
Mukulhas, the the,
patriarch of Alexandria
of the Egyptians.
And all 3 of them
it's a similar letter. All 3 of them
elicit very different reactions, and all of them
cope with them. It's not like they were,
like, on live feed or on Zoom or,
you know, okay. We have to, like, send
the telex back to Washington DC to see
what the state department is gonna say about
this or that. They just handled it on
their own. The prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
trained people to handle these things on their
own. Right? The companions were the all
kinds of things, all kinds of things that
they didn't have explicit instructions for from the
messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam. But
he he trained them to handle it on
their own.
He let Sayna not just let, but actually
ordered Sayna Ali radiAllahu anhu to be a
judge during his lifetime.
Sayidina Abu'ad bin Jabal radiAllahu anhu to be
a judge during his lifetime. He had other
people teaching the Quran during his lifetime.
Why? Because he trained people to what?
To figure things out on their own and
to, in fact, have their own insights and
they would share their insights with the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and he would praise
them for it for it. Whether it be
in some zikr of Allah ta'ala that they
make, whether it be in in in in
practices that they they make in even in
their ibadah of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
This is what this was not something that
somebody said, a praise of Allah that they
said because the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
gave it to them explicitly.
And what did the Rasool salallahu alaihi wa
sallam say? No.
Now perhaps someone nowadays, a knucklehead, if they
made something up, you really would be stupid
in a bidah.
But he trained them to the point where
they were the ones who understood the adab
or how to speak to Allah ta'ala, so
they said beautiful things to him.
This idea of one of the companions
who used to read the
in every single raka'ah.
It's not a sunnah because the prophet never
told anyone to do it. But somebody, their
their their
adab with Allah, their love with Allah, their
personal
relationship with Allah, led them to do this
thing. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam praised
it.
On top of that, he would praise their
fatawah that they would give when they didn't
have access to him
He would praise their prowess in military matters.
The khandaq that said not
Salman al Farsin
gave the the suggestion to dig.
He didn't say, well, how dare you, like,
you know, cook up schemes without me, you
know. You should listen to every single thing
I say and, like, of course, you should
listen to every single thing he says. But
he didn't stop them or stifle them from
from growth and from
taking, you know, the strengths that they have
and honing them and refining them and getting
stronger. And he didn't hold people back for
no reason as well.
So you see that when Khaled bin Walid
when Abdulah when Amr bin Asr
when they become Muslims,
very quickly they'll move up the the ranks
and he'll put them in positions of,
positions of command for the army. Why? Because
they knew what they were doing. They're competent
and talented people.
And what did he say
is the best of you in Jahiliya, the
best of you in Islam,
if you
at least take the time to go ahead
and understand the religion.
Now what do we have? We have imperial
culture.
Don't speak in front of your elders. Don't
speak in front of the king. Don't speak
in front of the emperor. Don't speak in
front of the governor. Don't speak in front
of the government. Don't speak in front of
this. Don't speak in front of that. You
know, just,
keep your mouth shut all the time. Look.
I'm the first guy who's gonna say a
person should observe Adam.
A person should respect the ulama. A person
should respect the masha'ib. But this idea that
somehow or another, you're supposed to stand right
behind the pilot while he falls asleep and
you see he's you're in the cockpit that
the plane is, like, about to crash and
you have so much other that you're not
gonna say anything.
This is what this is not the sunnah
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
This is what? This is imperial Adab.
Why? Because the emperor never wants to be
questioned. The state is never to be questioned.
Because it makes governance, centralized governance very difficult.
Whereas the companions of the Allah on whom,
how are they?
There was also someone makes a one of
them, Amir, and he's as a as a
joke, half joke says to them, he say,
hey, look, we started a fire now jump
into it. So half of them are like,
well, if you actually commanded us too, we
burn ourselves right now because you're the Amir,
the prophet said it on top of us.
The other half said no.
We, obey the prophet so that we don't
get burned in the fires. We're not gonna
let this if this is gonna be the
end, we're out.
The Rasulullah
said, what did he say? How dare you
question it? No. He said
There's no obedience to their creation in the,
in the disobedience of the creator.
You don't need Ijazah to do the things
that make you strong.
What did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
you don't need Ijazah from your shed from
that. You understand what I'm saying? What did
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam say?
He said, be abir eharas.
Be like greedy for the thing that
the thing that benefits you.
If you wanna be a Hafid,
sit and memorize the Quran.
You don't know how to read then you
don't repeat.
Don't wait for somebody else to tell you
to do it. If a perfect wonderful like
maktam ferry flies along and, like, says, I'll
give you 3 wishes and you get, like,
you know, a perfect setup that you can
learn everything and the best fighter in the
world and the best teacher. Wonderful. 100%. I
tell them don't wait.
Start.
Do start. Do what you need to beforehand.
Don't wait for permission from other people.
You're not even supposed to do certain things
you don't even wait for permission for your
sheikh for.
The that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala made upon you. You
don't have to wait for ijazah from your
shaykh to learn them.
Whether in tasulaf, whether you're a style and
deen, you don't wait for ijazah from anyone.
Allah commanded to you. It's not something that
you make mashrawa for and it's not something
you make.
It's tikhara for.
Just go do it.
And the thing that's harming you, that's harming
your deen, you don't hang around and just
say, oh, well, you know, I'm gonna, like,
do the thing that's gonna harden my heart
and destroy me because my parents said so
or because my sheikh said so or because
my staff said so because this said so
because that said so.
Obviously, a person shouldn't jump the gun. You
should have some patience with certain things. Sometimes
you just don't understand how it is in
the beginning. But after a while, if you
see it's not working out, it's not going
anywhere,
you, yourself, it's not good adab. It's not
good adab. You're not helping the sheikh out,
for example. You're not helping the government out.
You're not helping the Amir out. You're not
helping out your king. You're not helping out
your country and your watan and all of
these other things that, like, become, like, almost
like false gods that people are destroying themselves
in order to serve in some sort of
false idea that being weak sauce in front
of these things is somehow or another making
Allah Ta'ala happy when it's not.
You're not helping anybody. Someone's, oh, I wanna
get married. What what? But I have to
wait for my 7 sisters to get married
before me.
But is there a hadith about that? No.
I use you know, and the people think
that these things are piety. They're not piety.
What they're not piety whatsoever.
There's 0 piety in them, whatever whatsoever.
If you can wait and it's not gonna
impact your deen, you have the option to
do so. If it's gonna impact your deen,
you're an idiot for doing it. If it's
gonna impact your health, you're an idiot for
doing it. You need to get a job.
You need to straighten out your life. You
need to do whatever you need to do
in order to take care of yourself.
In order to become stronger. In order to
be become better. In order to avoid harm.
You have the ijazah not only ijazah to
do, you have the commandment from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala to go ahead and do it.
And don't then be incapacitated. Don't be ajis
afterward.
I can't do it.
Why don't you memorize?
I can't.
Why don't you study? Oh, it's so hard.
No. I'm too I'm a sinner.
You know the thing is that even if
it is hard and even if it's difficult
for you and even if you are a
sinner,
trying was still good
if it was something you needed.
But the fact that a person said I
can't at that time and made an excuse,
that's the sin that even the previous sin
and even the previous weakness,
it cannot even make an analogy to it.
That's the thing that a person deserves to
get slapped in the face for.
I thought he what did he mention in
the in the beginning? What is it?
When somebody says you should make Tawba and
then say, oh, yeah. When Allah guides me,
then I'll make Tawba. I said, don't say
that
because it's a sign that you're one of
the wretched ones that are destined for wretchedness.
Wretchedness is what
Right? It's not just someone who's having a
bad day today. It's somebody who's gonna have
a bad day forever.
The day of judgment will be a day
that starts and it never ends. It's gonna
be a bad day. That person will have
a bad day forever.
Don't wait for any of those things. And
what are you supposed to do? You're supposed
to do those things that benefit you. Why?
Because Allah loves it. That's not an act
of selfishness to be strong.
It isn't.
Why?
What is the first line of the hadith?
That the the the
the strong believer is better and more beloved
to Allah than the weak believer even though
there's good in both of them. So if
it's just not happening, it's just not happening,
you're weak, don't give up. Don't feel bad.
Allah Ta'ala still has love for you because
you believe in him.
But don't think that somehow or another you
can physically make yourself stronger. You're giving up
the opportunity. This is a pious move. It's
not a pious move. You can mentally make
yourself stronger. You need skills.
You need to know how to read, write.
You need to know how to speak properly.
If you can't speak properly, you can't understand
what people are saying to you. And you
can't you can't con you know, you cannot
convince other people or persuade other people of
things as well. How are you gonna make
if
you talk like a moron?
How are you gonna convince people to give
up sin if you talk like a moron?
The first
is not to grab the stick. You don't
start from 0 to stick. You what do
you do? You you you you talk to
people first nicely and then, you know, harshly.
If you don't know how to do either
of them, then what how many people are
you gonna beat with your stick? Your stick
will break very quickly.
Anything you need to do, go ahead and
do it. The kuffar literally,
they say they're mowing the lawn with
over the heads of our children.
Do you know how difficult it is to
figure out how to operate planes and,
vehicles and how how how difficult it is
to do calculations with regards to fuel and,
you know, kinematics and all of these other
things that are involved in all of those
things. People say, oh, look. You know, the
angels are gonna help us. Angels are not
gonna help you because you didn't prepare anything
for yourself. The is
be
the Go figure all those things out. Don't
sit at home playing Fortnite.
There are real things happening in the world.
Gather those skills that you need to in
order to be able to do something for
yourself and do something for the the prophet
You wanna do something for the prophet
At
least figure out those skills you have to
do to take care yourself, to take care
of your wife, to take care of your
children, to take care of your mother,
to take care of your sisters, to take
care of your your your own house. Then
afterward, you'll have an ability to think about
taking care of bigger things.
That's your
mental strength, your physical strength, your spiritual strength.
All of these things do what you need
to in order to in order to be
strong. One of the most amazing things I
read,
was
the the there's a in Tunis.
He does of,
of of
text and of,
the soul of text, Sheikh Nizar
Hamadi. He has a Facebook page. Blows my
mind how such, like, wonderful, learned, and amazing
people can be wasting time on the same
Facebook as some of us. But he has
a Facebook page. One of the most amazing
things he wrote. He wrote, a couple of
days ago. He wrote that, you know, if
you're in a land that has no scholar
in it, like the Ulema in the past
said, it's it's wajid for you too, get
up and make hijra to a place where
people where there's someone who has of the
deen that questions you have that they can
be answered properly.
Chicago is horrible.
It has a 1,000 things bad that I
can say about it and within every one
of them, a 1,000 other things I can
elaborate that are even worse.
Including about the Muslim community.
But one thing I'll say, at least there
are people here that you can go and
ask questions about your deen and get some
sort of satisfactory answer about.
About. He said, if you're in a land
that forget about there's no alim. If you're
in a land in which there's a alim
who's corrupt, it's wajid to make hijra. If
you're in a land in which the alim
is not corrupt, he's sincere, but his ilm
is not enough in order to suffice what
the needs of the people are, what your
needs are. It's wajid to get up and
make hijra and look how bizarre it is
nowadays. People will get up and make hijra
for their worldly needs, and they even the
idea of making hijra for the sake of
their deen is, like, completely evacuated from their
head. I'll say there's even one one step
worse. Most of the Amuls that are in
the masajid over here, they think making hijra
for your duniya is making hijra for your
deen. That's not what it is.
The idea is what? That's also something you
need in order to have strength.
If you need to do that, go ahead
and do that. You don't need jazz it
from anybody else.
If somebody sitting like me is telling you,
oh, look, you know, just stick with me.
Don't go somewhere else where you can go
and learn more. The person is a fraud,
is a charlatan. Leave my company. Leave the
company of anybody who sits in my position
and tries to stifle you and put put
you down. Why? For the love of Allah.
It's not a selfish move.
It's for the love of Allah. Because Allah
ta'ala,
he said that that Rasool salAllahu alaihi wa
sallam said that Allah ta'ala, the believer who's
strong. In all of these ways, the believer
who is strong is better than the weak
believer and we're beloved to Allah than the
weak believer.
Even though there's good in all of them.
Allah
give us all,
Allah
give us tawfiq, open the doors for. May
Allah
give us power and our strength over our
own incapacities.
May Allah
give us the strength also from, you know,
when you try to do what's right, when
you say the haqq, when you try to
make yourself stronger, when you go work out,
imagine,
strong believer, first thing that probably the Lahiri
like school will come to is like, yeah,
the believer who can bench press £300 is
better than the believer who can bench press
200
pounds. And both of them inshallah there's khair
in them because of the iman. Right? So
if you try to go on the roads
to bench pressing £300, I'm sure you can
do it.
You might strain yourself. You might injure yourself
on the way there.
You might have tweak a shoulder or something.
Don't be like, oh, you know, if I
only didn't do this, if I no. Just
go do your rehab. Take it easy for
a while and say, and
keep at it inshallah.
And it's not just there for it's for
all of these things. I think something's gonna
go wrong every time.
Every time. And the weak sauce are gonna
be like, oh, if you're just weak sauce
like me and you live like a a
mole inside the dirt, like a rat inside
the dirt, you would have been okay right
now. No. That's not what it's all about.
Rather
say,
Allah ta'ala measured. He wanted something to happen
in a particular way and whatever he wanted
to, happen, it came to pass. Don't ever
feel bad about it. You knew you were
doing something in order to better yourself. Not
all of us are gonna make it in
this world, but all of us who are
trying