Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 8 Ramadn 1442 Late Night Majlis Taking the Sunnah Personally Addison 04202021
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The holy spirit is essential for entering people's hearts and empowering them to be part of the holy spirit. The importance of hearing stories and reciting the holy spirit's teachings is emphasized. The speaker discusses the history of Islam, including the story of the second mashaikh and the use of the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala as a reference. The importance of protecting Islam's people and owe them debt is also emphasized. The speaker advises not to give up and join the winning team.
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Alhamdulillah, we reached this Mubarak 8th night
of Ramadan.
The first is
almost over now we only have 2 full
nights left.
Allah
give us from his rahma.
This world is in need of Rahma.
This world Rahma is
draining out of it day by day.
And because of it, mothers and fathers are
not showing any mercy to their children,
and children are not showing mercy to their
parents, and brothers and sisters are not showing
mercy to each other.
So who's gonna show mercy to their enemies?
Allah
give
Rahmah to us
and,
allow us to also be
conduit through which that Rahma,
reaches other people. I mean,
in the
today, our Mufti Saab who leads the. He
read,
he read, with his other, who is his
partner tag team,
the end of Surat Yunus and Surat Hud.
And,
this Quran to hear this Quran and to
listen to this Quran is fave.
It's the outpouring of the divine
grace onto the hearts
for those who understand it and those who
don't understand.
But the that come on the one who
understands,
are greater and superior to the that come
on the ones that don't understand.
And you have to
you have to understand you know, you have
to appreciate
what does it mean for a person to
hear
the stories of Sayidna Musa alaihis salam,
Sayidna Harun alaihis salam,
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people of a that were enslaved and dejected,
standing up to Firaun.
What does it mean when Allah
describes him being drowned in the sea?
That this day we we we will save
you, but not the salvation of the hereafter.
We will save your body
so that it can be a a sign
for those who come after you.
What does it mean to hear the stories
of Ad and Samud?
And Saidna, Hud and Saidna SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
Saidna Shoaib and Madyan,
that these people stood up to their aqwam
and they had nobody with them. All they
had was
Allah. But, you know, if one of us
were to say that to ourselves or someone
were to say that say it to us,
we would, to our own friends and relatives,
say you're delusional. You should save yourself.
What does it mean to hear their stories?
It is itself a type of faith
that pours onto the heart of the believer
that you know that it's possible that somebody
can have this message enter into their heart
and be able to proclaim this message as
well
and be,
that broken,
enslaved person
who looks eye,
to eye with the oppressor
and takes them on
and wins.
This is the message of the Quran.
And the wonderful thing about the Quran is
you can't change it because all sorts of
people come afterward with this quote unquote hikma
or that one or whatever.
And, you can hikma all you want. These
are all the stories of the Quran. If
you don't like it, deal with it.
But it's not gonna change.
And this Ummah needs that faith. We need
people to listen and hear those stories
and Anwar, of them to enter into their
hearts.
And indeed the Nur of hearing these stories
entered into the heart of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam and in the hearts companions radiyaAllahu
ta'ala Anhu.
And that's how they were able to look
their Abu Jahals and their Walid ibn Muhgira
and their Umayyah and,
etcetera in the eye and,
take them on
and win.
And that's how afterward the companions radhiallahu anhu
literally mowed the lawn with every tyrant,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Nobody heard
about them,
except for, they knew that their days were
numbered,
and nobody heard about them from the people
seeking justice except for they had hope in
them. And there are a great number of
people in the world who still have hope
in this Ummah that are not from it.
And,
we need this this faith to enter into
all of our hearts.
May Allah
make us people who live and die,
with this faith inside of our hearts and
raise from the Ummah people who have the
backbone to take on
the pharaohs and the Hamans
and the Ad and the Thamuz and the
Madians,
that have
completely choked off and tortured this world, for
long enough.
And may Allah protect us from being bearded
and hijab and niqab,
you know,
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So we continue,
the,
the
the apparent and manifested sunnah
of the of the lofty noble,
anecdotes of the and
their explicit
their explicit,
pronouncements,
regarding the supremacy of the sunnah of the
prophet
in the Sharia.
So
we read, relates that his Shaykh Hajafariduddin
Shaker Ganj
said,
there is no Dhikr or wafifa greater than
the book of Allah.
It is of the essence that we should
recite it as much as possible because its
spiritual blessings are more than anything else.
Hakim Ummah,
Hazratanvi
comments, this is exactly in accordance with the
Sharia and the prophetic way. This is in
sharp contrast with the method of many ignorant
Sufis who give more importance to the value
of value of Wadhifas of of of, litanies
of of duas, which are important, but, not
more than the Quran
to who give more importance to the value
of of their particular Sufi orders, over the
book of Allah.
I would add
there's a hadith,
which I heard so many times mentioned by,
my own sheikh,
Sayed in the feast Allah
give him,
his mercy and forgiveness and, immerse him in
Rahma,
who, would mention so many times the hadith
That Allah Ta'ala said whoever
the recitation in the Quran in my remembrance
preoccupies them from
making dua, from asking me for things.
That person while they're reciting that Quran,
on top of the reward of reciting the
Quran, it give them the best, that, anyone
who asked could have asked
for. And so, the recitation in the Quran
is truly,
you know, the highest the highest of orad
in Avakar
for reasons including the ones that that that
we just mentioned before,
coming into the,
the reading for tonight,
along with other ones, as well.
And,
this is something that,
you know, will be
emphasized by the true,
and anybody who tells you, well, you know,
like, we don't need to do all of
that stuff because, you know, I listen to
and then,
get up and start dancing or whatever,
then, that person, you know, they're not they're
not telling you what the said. They're not
telling you what the said, and nobody's, you
know, objects to hearing the of the mashaikh
and being moved by them. But, you know,
that's not your bread and butter. Your bread
and butter is gonna be the the book
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And if any reason is there for the
poetry of the later mashaikh
being impactful, it's because of how,
it reminds us of the the Quran, the
book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, not because
of anything different,
from it.
Hajjamoreenuddin
Tirsti, Rahamu Laha Ta'ala,
said one will never reach the court of
the divine majesty except for through the salat.
And after this, he gave a lengthy talk
on the virtues of the salat.
Hakimu Uma Hazratanri
comments, the ignorant Sufis who claim to be
followers of Hajjah Muina Din Chishti and deem
Salat to be insignificant
should take heed of this statement of their
Hajjah,
of their sheikh.
And, you know, Hazratanru says this also being
a person who
considers Hajj Mohinuddin to be, from from the
as well.
And then there's a new subtopic,
of the strict adherence, anecdotes of the strict
adherence, of the to the sunnah.
Relates
from a place called Osh,
which is,
an Uzbek speaking city
in, modern Kyrgyzstan.
This is from the
from the facade of the the the Russians
that they drew the borders deliberately in order
to,
you know, put a whole bunch of Uzbek
speakers in Tajikistan and then,
Kyrgyzstan and a whole bunch of, Tajik speakers
in Uzbekistan, etcetera. Basically, to split people up
and,
make them gerrymander lines in such a way
that, no no cohesive nationality can form in
one place.
Everybody has Islam, so, inshallah, this, plot backfires
on them. But Osh, where Hajar Khutbuddin Bakhtiar
Kaki is from is, in Kyrgyzstan.
And,
a
fun fact, a,
jamat, like, jamat.
Jamat actually from Ash came to Dar es
Salaam one time.
And I asked them where they're from, and
they said we're from Ash, and I immediately
remembered that, my sheikh told
me that that's where
is from.
So I said,
this is one of your forefathers, had fiqr
of Deen,
and brought Deen to our fore forefathers as
well. And now you're visiting us for the
same sake of Deen. Allah
bless you. And, a lot of those, you
know, brothers and sisters who are in the,
former
Soviet republics, you know, they're not really in,
you know, in a great situation
in terms of the government, laying off of
them, for their deed. I don't know what
the situation in Kyrgyzstan is, and I'm not
commenting on it in particular. But,
many of our brothers and sisters in Central
Asia,
in general, which includes,
Eastern Turkestan, which is under Chinese occupation.
They're not they're not doing well.
And,
it behooves us to
make dua for them and to send money
in order to, support,
their families as much as we're able to
do so lawfully
and, to lobby as much and push as
hard as we can in order to,
be
in order to to to do something to
affect some sort of change for their protection.
And whoever has, the ability,
to do whatever they can in order to
protect them. It's a debt that that that
that we owe them,
because those are the people who brought Deen
to our forefathers and those Turks worthy.
The the the defenders of Islam, not just
in the Indian subcontinent, but in the entire
world. Those were the armies that, defeated the
Mongols. Those were the armies that defeated the,
the the the the Musharikin in our lands,
where our forefathers came from.
And those were the armies that,
you know, protected,
you know, protected,
Anatolia and the Ottoman Empire,
from
attacks from the from the west and from
the north.
And, their their their their forefathers did great
service for Islam.
And, we're now benefiting from their mouthful lot
right now. It behoves us to at least
acknowledge that debt and to, do whatever we're
able to even if it's very little.
Even dua is not a small thing. Dua.
Prophet said that dua is the weapon of
the believer. We should at least pray for
them, and we should at least mention them
and acknowledge them and not try to pretend
that the problem doesn't exist. It does. And
we should at least you know, we owe
them at least that much to to just
acknowledge that that that we owe them help.
Relates. One time we were sitting with our
honorable Hajjah meaning their his Sheikh, Sheikh Muina
Dean Chishti.
When the time of arrived, Hajjar got up
to freshen his and
unintentionally forgot to make halal, of his fingers,
meaning of
to run his fingers through his fingers to
make sure that he wiped the
the
the the part of the fingers that touch
each other.
He heard a voice from the unseen saying,
oh, honorable one, you make claims of love
for our messenger, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam and
consider yourself from his ummah,
yet you abandoned his noble sunnah.
After that, Hajar took an oath saying that
he would never leave out of sunnah of
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
until the day he died.
Hajjah further narrates
that I was with Haja with meaning our
sheikh, Muinuddin,
one day, and I noticed that he looked
very concerned and depressed.
I asked him how he was feeling to
which he replied,
since the time I had forgotten to do
hilal of my fingers, I've been worried about
how I will face the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the master of all
creation on the day of judgment.
Hakimu Uma Hazratanvi
comments,
notice the amount of fear and concern felt
by Hajjah due to forgetting, the Hilal of
his fingers, which is not even an emphasize,
not a Mu'akadah Sunnah. It's,
Mustahab, it's a light Sunnah. Can
it be conceivable that that such people will
be, neglectful of the Shari'aq? This is an
interesting story for a number of reasons. One
is that see how he took the Sunnah
personally.
That he
remembered the day he's gonna meet the Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and
thought about that day
and thought about the sunnah that the prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam delivered to us, that it's
going to be an embarrassment, you know, if
you meet him sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and
you expect his shafa and you left his
sunnah out. Like, how how how embarrassing will
that be?
And that's one problem I think that people,
they don't feel any
sort of tie to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam like as if they're strangers or if
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was somebody who
just like
like,
you know, someone who just did something pro
form a and it wasn't out of love.
You know, the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
I don't know if you noticed. If you
haven't, maybe you should read the seerah again.
He wasn't personally recompensed for
anything that he did. Rather, he passed from
this world with very little.
And
in general,
his concern and worry for the Ummah,
was something that didn't seem to have any
sort of worldly recompense associated with it, That
he would pray in the night until his
feet would swell, and the people who would
listen to his duas would hear
that he is concerned about the ummah, that
he would cry and weep for his ummah.
Let's say in the Jibreel alayhi salam, he
would cry and weep for his ummah and
ask Allah
to forgive them and that he would be,
you know, distraught when meeting Jibril alayhis salam
after hearing that some people from the Ummah
would go to Jahannam,
and he wept ceaselessly after that. And then
saying that Jibril came back with the glad
tidings that the that Allah
saw your broken heart
and gives you the concession that that nobody
from your ummah will go to jahannan forever
and that, all of your ummah won't be
wiped out at once. Rather, if Allah is
to punish them, He will preserve part of
them and send His punishment down on part,
etcetera.
These you know, that all of his duas
that he would make that for us, that
wasn't something he did for, like,
for some of the sort of pro form
a job description.
That was out of love.
And if that's not enough on the day
of judgment, his is what will get people
in the Jannah, saints and sinner alike.
And
that's again
because Allah made him to love.
And just like Allah made your mother to
love you and your father to love you
and like people who loved you, you know,
He made them that way and then you
love them back.
Khaja has
a
personal connection with the sunnah that he felt
ashamed. He remembered that day that he's gonna
meet the Habib sallallahu alaihi wasallam and what
is he gonna say that he wasted his
sunnah.
And the second thing I wanted to note
was that a similar story like this happens
to Fuday bin Ayyab,
that
he in his wudu, he washed one of
his limbs twice instead of 3 times. Then
he saw in a dream the Rasool, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam say to him lovingly,
my son, I didn't expect this from you.
And, again, washing the limbs three times is
not nearly far,
and it's it's not even a.
But,
was
so mortified
that
he, would read for some time after that,
a 100 or 200 rakas of nafal as
a kafaras expiation for his
oversight.
And, you know,
someone might say about Muinuddin Chishti that maybe
this is some sort of tall tale of,
like, Desi people or whatever.
If you do, that's a zulm on your
part, and,
I don't have anything to do with it.
But if someone does, they do it, you
know, like, what can you do about it?
You're not gonna be able to say that
about Fuday bin Iyad, he's literally the narrator
of Sahih Bukhari.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
tie us with those people who love the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and who the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam loves
and who love Allah and who Allah loves.
Sheikh Rukh Nadine mentions about his master and
spiritual mentor
who's an ancestor of
but,
like from from centuries before the establishment of
the Darulam and Delban.
Sheikh Rukh Nadeen mentions about his master and
spiritual mentor, Sheikh
that my honorable Qutub, I mean his sheikh,
was so adherent to the sunnah and sharia
of our master, Sayidna Muhammad
that he would not lapse in its injunctions
internally or externally in the least.
Even in regards to others, if he noticed
that they transgressed the Sharia or sunnah in
any way, he would announce that he's absolved
of them and cut off all ties from
them. He would also not allow them to
come close to him.
Sheikh Ruknuddin said, my honorable
even in his extreme old age would perform
100 rakahs of on the night of Bara'ah
and stand in full Tarawee prayers in Ramadan,
complete all his morning and evening and he
would not miss a single day of this
routine.
He was also very strict on the path
of Azima,
on taking the harder route when,
faced with a choice between difficulty and difficulty
and ease.
He was very strict on the path of
Azima and was not concerned with,
resorting to concessions.
This was especially so if it were raining
or if there are winter storm. For in
these instances, he would exert himself against his
nafs and perform proper ablutions and even more
prayers.
In short, it was so astounding how Hazrat
would implement the Sharia to such an extent
that his works seem to be beyond the
ability of a normal human being.
And, you know,
seems like a very interesting personality. If you
read I mean, there's,
a separate Tabaka about him. I believe
that, I'm not a 100% sure if we
had it if we talked about him in
one of the previous majalis,
in the previous years. If not, we should.
But,
he's he's a person of remarkable spiritual insight.
But
that's how you become that person.
Because every sunnah of the prophet
is like a key that opens another window
to the,
spiritual world
And without it, you're completely shut out. You
know? Without it, your
your your, you know,
conception of spirituality is
limited to listening to episodes of the Joe
Rogan Experience or Jordan Peterson or some of
this other Baquas type stuff that,
stands in for, you know, pseudo spirituality. Maybe,
you know, like Hitler leaving Bayonne for, like,
2 hours straight without blinking or whatever. It's
shaitanic spirituality that people have.
Without the sunnah, it's all.
Hazrat Khaja Uthman Harwani
said,
food was being prepared to be brought. So
Hazrat Khaja, may Allah
enlighten his grave,
said,
place the food on the on the on
the on the on the
table spread, and we will eat of that.
The messenger
did not partake of his meals upon a
table and chairs, though he did not forbid
it either. Therefore, if someone does so, there
is no harm. But the messenger of Allah,
salallahu alayhi wa sallam, his companions, and his
noble family,
Allah be pleased with them. I'll I'll always
ate, upon the spread on the floor and
we will do so as well.
Comments notice that even the Sheikh considered it
permissible
to partake of meals on a table
due to it not being from the way
of the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he did not adopt it as a practice.
This clearly shows their high level of reverence
and adherence to the sunnah of the prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi
And this is another important point which is
what is that,
the Sufis understood again that every sunnah is
a key to opening a window into the
unseen
and into receiving the fuyud of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Those through which
the
is held at bay
and there are still some baraka maintained in
this world.
And so they don't look at it with
a legalistic angle.
Otherwise, if the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam himself,
it was a sunnah to look at everything
from a legalistic angle,
then,
there would be no need to forgive or
to strive in Allah's way. The world would
have been over,
because of one dua from him. Rather Allah
sent him as a mercy and we benefit
from that mercy.
And it behoves the person who benefits from
that mercy,
to pay it forward.
Rather than to be selfish that when someone
does something against me, I may dwell against
them and don't forgive anyone, and I'm never
gonna forgive you, and I'm never gonna I
hear these things from people. It's not good.
Not necessarily because
everybody deserve forgiveness. Sometimes some people deserve not
to be forgiven,
but it's not about them, it's about your
connection with Allah, it's about your connection with
the Rasul
And when you think of the Prophet
and you still say to someone, I'm not
going to forgive you, then you're you kind
of miss the plot.
Otherwise
Allah Ta'ala said about Rasulullah
Allah is not going to destroy them as
long as you're amongst them.
And there's a great secret in this, that
the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
are a source of mercy even for the
enemies of Islam.
And the presence of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam is a source of mercy even for
the enemies of Islam.
And there's undoubtedly some hikmah of Allah in
us even being spread throughout the nations as
diaspora
that there's someone in Lombard, Illinois praying and,
you know,
somebody in,
you know, whatever Iowa and
Indiana, even India, even Ohio, even Ohio has,
there's mercy in Ohio. Hard to believe for
those people who are
familiar with the Ohio,
great state of Ohio. But,
you know, there's some there's some hikmah in
all of these things as well. It behooves
us
to be people who carry that that state
with us and forgive one another
not because we, you know, we deserve forgiveness
but because,
Allah and his Rasool
that was their way and we benefited from
it as well. And only a punk is
gonna benefit from something and then not pay
it forward.
Allah give us all Tawfiq. I think there's
a new subsection that's starting up instead of
diving into it, we can cut today's masjid
short.
Allah give us tawfiq, Allah
revive the sunnah of the Messenger of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Revive the shawkh and the longing and the
desire of that sunnah among
us. Allah give us the desire even if
we don't forgive one another, at least that
we should desire to be people who forgive
one another.
Even if we're not people who make our
wudu correctly like the prophet did, or pray
the way the prophet
did, or dress the way the prophet
did, or eat on the dust of Khan
like he did
Any other sunnah,
no matter how great or how small one
may think it is, every sunnah is great,
although some are greater than others.
Allah bring every one of them, large and
small, first into our hearts.
There's no harm in bringing it into your
heart,
into loving it inside your heart, and inside
of your heart accepting it
as being superior to all other ways.
Once that happens, then you'll see,
slowly but surely,
the
impediments and obstacles to following once soon after
the other will break down.
As long as you think of it as
something optional or,
you know, something that, you know, you're very
smart and clever and you'll pick and choose
whatever part of it you like or whatever.
It's not gonna happen.
Islam itself is not gonna happen. Farther is
not gonna happen.
You know, it's hard to pray 5 times
a day and fast and stay away from
riba and stay away from and stay away
from all these things are difficult.
They're very difficult things to do.
And, you know, if things are not right
inside,
you're not gonna be able you're not gonna
make it.
Just open your heart up to something better.
When you open your heart up to the
sunnah of the prophet,
that's when the fiyud pour in, when the
nur pours in, when the barakah pours in,
when the madad pours in, the tafik pours
into your heart. And then you're able to
do those things that normal people aren't able
to do.
But until then, we're just fooling ourselves.
So be a loser like me.
Admit you've lost. Give up.
Join the winning team. Everyone wants to do
things their own way and,
you know you're not going to beat Allah
so just give up and join the winning
team. It was the best decision I ever
made,
and I'm not really perfect at it, but
it was the best decision I ever made.
Anything good I ever had, I received from
making that decision.
And, Allah
give us all to make that decision and
live by it and die by it. And
if we give ourselves up for the sake
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, don't be surprised
if one day Allah gives you a you
better than the you you gave up in
the first place.