Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 30 Ramadan Late Night Majlis Epilogue The Hearts Of The Believers Addison 05232020
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The last night of Ramadan.
I don't have,
any
material to read in this Majlis, but inshallah,
hopefully just to share
a couple of heartfelt thoughts that are
relevant to what we read. We read
Ibn Rajab's,
Waratul Ambiya,
Sharhandi
Hadith,
regarding the virtues of seeking knowledge of Saydna
Abu
Darda
as well as,
the life and times of Imam Ghazali
and Shablaqadr
Jelani,
as if Allah
in
an era,
anthropomorphize
the the the mind and the heart of
the deen,
in in these two
amazing individuals
who are not the only people
who carry this, nisbah,
but definitely one of a kind type of
people.
And, one of the things that I have
told people
again and again,
and that I feel very strongly about
is that Allah, this
ummah from the very beginning,
it never really functioned on money.
And it didn't really even function on numbers.
But there was not won by numbers. Was
not won by numbers.
Hunain, they had the numbers, but they, you
know, almost were defeated
and, etcetera. You know? Even afterward, and
Yarmouk and
these great battles, they were not won by
numbers.
So we don't have the money. We don't
have the numbers. We didn't even have the
technology.
This was one really
difficult chapter in the history of Islam that
the Crusaders to dislodge them from the sacred
lands.
One of the reasons it was so difficult
is because the siege,
the siege technology,
and siege warfare
was something that the Muslims seemed to always
be somewhat behind in.
And it was really hard for for for
the Muslims to dislodge
I don't think we're gonna have them going
for us until the yawmukriyama.
And even if we do, it's not gonna
work for us. Allah's
with us is different.
The one thing that we always had and
that we will continue to have until the
yomukriyama as long as Allah's father is upon
us
is that,
the people we had are one of a
kind.
You know, who is going to bring somebody
like Abu Bakr Siddiq?
Who is going to bring somebody like Amar
bin Khattab,
like Said Na'uthman and Said Na'ali,
who are going to bring these people like
Ghazali,
who even the rabbi
Musa bin Maimon
will benefit from,
even Thomas Aquinas,
will, benefit from, who is going to bring
these people like Shabdul Qadr Jelani
who is going to bring this
Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi that people will
find inspiration in his poetry
despite the the blindness of,
their hearts, even to the very existence of
the lord,
you know, who's gonna bring these people?
Who's gonna bring these people?
And
the
the thing that that pains me the most
is that the drought that the Ummah is
going through
is not an economic drought because I've traveled,
alhamdulillah,
I would say, in more at least easily
more than half of the countries in the
Muslim world.
And,
by a lie, I've not seen any lack
of wealth.
And, it's it's it's not a lack of
numbers. It's not a lack of money.
Yes. There is poverty in the Muslim world,
but that's because of our our own people's
gross mismanagement of what Allah has given them.
It's not because it's not there.
But the thing that, you know, the drought
and the famine
that scares me more than locusts and more
than failure of rain
is what is the that
we have no more men left in our
or they're dwindling very quickly.
And when I say men, I'm not talking
about males.
So this is not to exclude our sisters
either.
Rather, the people who will stand
and, make tasdik of their ahad with Allah,
the people who will stand
and,
fulfill their covenant with the Lord.
That's that's, you know, in the terminology of
the people of the tariq, that's what that's
what a rajal is, even if it's a
woman.
And this
those mothers
who,
who ask Allah's dua that their children be
the
the the custodians
of
the knowledge of the prophet
and that they be the ones who Allah
accepts their sacrifices from them. You know, those
men who,
you know, their himma is mun Saraf in
keeping the silsila of the salat and the
masjid unbroken,
and whose whose himan
encourages mun Saraf it's spent on, you know,
on taking the divine name and whose pride
and honor
the where the Lord isn't disobeyed openly and
publicly,
whose pride and honor is in having a
heart which is clean of anything other than
him, whose pride and honor is in stepping
on their own nuffs in order to keep
their parents happy, in order to keep their
family happy, in order to,
serve the weak, in order to serve the
poor, in order to say the the good
word, the one who,
if they wish to earn money, it's so
that they can,
so that they can
learn the book of Allah to Allah. If
they wish to have power and safety in
Amun, it's so that they can learn the
hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Not
those who learn the book of Allah and
the hadith of the prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam,
so that they can have power and money
and all of these other things.
Those people who don't live for this world,
those people who don't, you know, see Teslas
and houses and, you know,
have a sort of attraction that was reserved,
you know, for what? For the mesmerizing,
attraction
of the idea that the lord is pleased
with a person, and one day a person
will look at Allah
and know inside of their mind that they
cannot even understand what that is, but know
inside of their heart that there's nothing more
that they want greater than that.
Those people whose life and death,
as mun Sarif, is spent
on on on that himma, on that courage,
and on that desire,
Once those people leave
the ummah, then the ummah is
going to be, that group of people who
show the
what real deviation and what real crookedness is.
And, as long as those people are here,
we will be the pride and joy,
of not only
the believers and not only the uliya and
the ulema,
and not only the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, but the lord himself when he said
to the angels in response to their question,
will you place there in those people who
will do nothing except for
cause mischief and spill blood? And he said,
I know what you don't know. You know,
those people who will live inside the tafsir
of these words of Allah
The knowledge of the that the angels didn't
have.
And, you know, by logical,
deduction,
the knowledge which is only with the lord
has a has has a honor and a
shutoff that that that's,
above the knowledge which is shared with the
angels because that thing which is, only
and for the for the lord
is,
something in which,
are not are not
are not
allowed to come into it. Something sacred and
holy. It's forbidden for all and sundry. It's
only for, the elite.
So, you know, that that that's that's a
thing, you know, and that's one of the
the reasons that this Ramadan is so awesome,
is that
by boycotting the dunya, boycotting eating and drinking,
sexual desires, you know, for those people who,
a lot, I'll give them a high rank.
Those people whose, you know,
on their own heart and on their own
nafs is so strong
that they forbid themselves even to desire,
those things,
the halal things, even to desire
the carnal pleasures, and to desire food and
drink, and to desire,
dunya in this, in this fast day, much
as to desire the haram.
For those people,
there are a couple of gasps
of air that they can, you know, oxygenate
their spiritual brain with again.
And there are a couple of moments of
clarity where
the person who is drowning in the ocean,
can think about, you know, the fact that
you can make a whole life for yourself
on land once you save yourself from this
predicament that you're in. And, you know, we're
all in it together. I'm not saying I'm
better than anybody else. I'm, in fact, if
anything else, I think one of the reasons
that perhaps some of the things I say
resonate people resonate with people is that I'm
going through the same thing everybody else is,
and maybe,
I'm able to
express it a little bit better than the
average person would, or express it in a
vocabulary that's a little bit more like SAT
friendly or whatever.
But,
the point is that we're all we're all
going through it. You know? We all have
to remind ourselves and remind each other.
And, I'll tell you this is that those
people whose ilm has the most barakah in
it are the ones who sacrifice the most
for it. I have a a a there's
a brother who studied with me in in
in Madrasa when I was in Pakistan. I
was recently contacted him by him, through WhatsApp.
So I graduated from Madrasa in
2,007.
And, now it's 2020, so it's been 13
years.
And so a, a classmate of mine in
Pakistan,
he said, oh, you know, brother so and
so?
He was from whatever,
repressive country in Central Asia.
He,
he just got in contact with me recently,
and he asked about you. Would you like
to talk to him? I'm like, sure. Yeah.
Why not?
So, this brother, very, you know, very sweet
person. He always was a very sweet he
was a handsome person, beautiful, and, inwardly and
outwardly,
very studious,
and a very,
you know, pleasant human being.
He was a, he he was a person
who loved knowledge and he lived in a
place where,
you know, the opportunities to study weren't there.
So imagine that if you wanna go to
Pakistan and study from from
from Central Asia, what do you have to
do? You have to smuggle You have to
do the opposite of what people are doing,
which is you have to smuggle yourself into
Afghanistan.
And then from there, you have to smuggle
yourself out out of Afghanistan.
And so he did it.
And,
he went over
land, not knowing how he's gonna get to
Pakistan,
but he just heard from the elders that
there are big Madars over there and they'll
welcome you with open arms. And God bless
the Madaris of Pakistan,
If there's any hikma in Pakistan being a
failed state, it is that the Madaris welcome,
the students of knowledge with open arms even
if the military dictatorship shall,
declare illegal for them to study. Alhamdulillah by
Allah's Fadl.
I studied illegally.
There was a law in Pakistan,
banning foreign students while I was there.
And,
you know, the of the made with
the
and,
they said that we'll keep this bhai hamza,
regardless,
of what, the Valim,
tyrant of our time says, and we'll teach
him. And there were some madars who actually
said no to me, and I don't hold
it against them because nobody wants to go
to jail or see their institution imperiled. So
I I well, I don't I don't say
this in in order to say anything bad
about them. All I can say is that
the who took me in.
Give them a refuge on the day
that there's no refuge except for his.
They told the the fellow students that don't
even make him go outside to
get his food.
Let him stay inside the the four walls
of the of the boundary of the madrasas
so that nobody can say anything to him.
And, one might think like, oh, it's just
because he's an American. No. They did for
the other poor students as well that came
from God knows where. They didn't have the
heart to turn them out.
So this friend of mine, he calls me
by WhatsApp.
And without any
pain or anguish or anger inside of his
voice.
He asked me, what were you doing? So
I said, I just go places. I give
band, and I record bands and, like, you
know, teach, like, little classes and, like, write
little tracks of this and that and, you
know, try to keep myself busy.
So, alhamdulillah, I'm glad that you're doing good
work in America.
Allah guide people to the deen through you
and email, you know, whatever nice things he
said, he said. So I said, what have
you been up to?
He said, when I got back home,
I was arrested promptly,
and a court sentenced me to prison for
10 years
for going to study the dean.
I heard that and I said,
these people,
they're probably listening to your conversation, so I
won't say anything. All I have to say
is I have dua in my heart
and you can guess what it is for
them.
He says no, Bay Hamza, don't say
that. He said,
in
prison,
Allah gave me the tawfiq memorizing the Quran.
Otherwise, there wasn't a hafiz before I left.
And he said, in prison,
there was another brother with me who wasn't
a Muslim,
and they gave him dawah.
He was a foreigner from somewhere in
Africa who overstayed his visa or something like
that.
He said I gave him dua and he
accepted Islam at my hands.
He even taught me a little bit of
English. He
said,
they commuted my sentence after 6 years
on the condition that
I'm banned from ever being an imam in
a masjid or ever teaching Islam publicly.
So what does he do now?
He actually translates books from Urdu into Persian.
The of the
you know the the works of the canonical
sufi poets of the Persian language
etc. And, he says that I've already translated
over 20 volumes of work
and, I'm working on
Moana Asafali Tanvi's,
Kalida Masnavi right now.
Those are Tanvi's
commentary on the Masnavi.
And he had he had no bitterness in
his voice at all.
It's good to think about these people and
remember them sometimes if, you know,
if you think you're cool or you think
you're you're good or you have some
frustrations about things in life the way they
are, the way they aren't, or the way
that you think that they should be.
That there are those servants of Allah Subhanahu
If their hearts aren't like a proof
of the barakah that's there in Islam,
then I don't know what is because I
don't know where we're gonna find people like
this.
It's hard enough to find somebody who's taken
care of and well fed and
given opportunities that's happy.
But to find this happiness in people,
that have to to go through so much
and give so much just in order to
be
barred from any enjoyment
or fulfillment in their life.
It's a proof that
their heart is alive with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and isn't in need of the creation.
And so inshallah, if anybody has Himma, inshallah,
help them remember such people and make dua
for them
not only for them so that they can
go back and say there's some pious person
somewhere, pious full on somewhere else in another
land.
And I can go back to being a
slob. I I can go back to my
Netflix and YouTube and
Snapchat and Instagram and all of these things.
But maybe
maybe that, you know, I can try to
work a little harder and bring some of
this ilmen to my own life and bring
some of this haal into my own life
and do that struggle that those people, are
literally
shackled and chained,
that they would love to do. They would
consider honor and privilege to do to make
some of that struggle for those of us
who have the
opportunity
to do some service for the deen, to
live some of that deen in our own
lives instead of taking it for granted or
taking it as a,
a burden to take it as a privilege
and an honor
and to bring it into our own lives
and to make some arrangements for our children
to receive
that thing which was snatched away from our
fathers.
Allah
give all of us so much.
Don't cry for the
for the end of Ramadan. If Allah
gives us
to see out its last moments and he's
pleased with us and he accepts from us,
and that the tawajah of his kubulia and
his acceptance comes down on us on the
Mubarak day of Eid, then there's nothing to
be sad about at all. Allah
accept from all of
us.