Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Give and Withhold for Allh MSI 01072022
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By Allah to Allah's father, we gathered here
in this Mubarak house, in this Mubarak hour,
this Mubarak day
in the company of the,
in the company of the,
from amongst whom are people who
know and teach the sacred law
and keep its boundaries
in word and indeed.
We
came to this Mubarak reminder.
The Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
The one who loves for the sake of
Allah,
and the one who hates for the sake
of Allah,
and the one who gives for the sake
of Allah,
and the one who withholds for the sake
of Allah,
that person has perfected their faith.
Brothers and sisters, there are a lot of
things about our deen that we talk about
that have to do with ritual performance, and
they're important things.
A person must learn how to
make their wudu correctly. A person must know
how to keep their tahara correctly. They must
know the division of things that are clean
and unclean,
which things are pure and which things are
filthy.
Of course, the Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said in a hadith, it's a first hadith
of the Jami of Imam
Allah
does not accept a prayer that is performed
without ritual without ritual purity,
and he does not accept charity that's given
from
illicit
wealth.
And then after the tahara, the salat itself
is the greatest wird that anybody drew close
to Allah ta'ala with.
It's the greatest of good deeds. It's the
greatest of acts of devotion.
It's the greatest way
to receive light and more inside of your
heart. It is the greatest vehicle by which
the salik, the traveler on the path to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reaches their goal.
But brothers and sisters, there are a lot
of things about the deen
that are not connected to ritual performance or
at least don't seem like they're connected to
ritual
performances
at first glance.
Part of this is an issue because we
live amongst the people,
Their is that there's a separation between church
and state.
There's a separation between what's secular and what's
religious.
If you want to put a charitable, they
think that or they say that, they claim
that.
What is spiritual is your own business. You
deal with it on your own.
Don't bring it into the public sphere.
We agree on what's material. Let's
keep our discussion on the material level.
I say being charitable. Why? Because the subtext
is what? What's material is real and what's
spiritual is fake? It's your pie in the
sky in July. It's your hocus pocus, almagokas.
Keep it inside your homes. And in your
private houses of worship,
discuss it.
This has led to facade. It's led to
mischief
that has poisoned the earth
and poisoned the water and poisoned the air.
It has led to the
exploitation of the weak by
the strong,
of the poor and the destitute,
by those who are obscenely wealthy
to the point that we have people in
this country
that are worshiped because of how much wealth
that they have.
You will see young men and young boys
tweet about Elon Musk
as if he is some sort of Wali
or Nabi or even a good person.
Even though what is he?
He's a money hungry person of sub average
intelligence. If you listen to his interviews,
they're not literally like a reptile who knows
how to speak English.
Absolutely no care or sense
of any sort of virtue, whatsoever.
No care, no sense for the poor. No
care, no sense for deen. No care, no
sense for Allah or his Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi
Wa Salam.
No care, no sense for any sort of
common human virtues that we have.
And people worship the man only because of
how much money he has.
And he is the timfah, the
walking
embodiment
of The person who
gathers money and is constantly counting it, he
believes that his money will make him live
forever. That if we can dig a hyperloop
into the ground, somehow, it will cause all
of mankind's problems to disappear.
Brothers and sisters, this idea of somehow material
wealth and material success causing
history to come to an end, and mankind
living in some sort of harmonious state.
This is the same nonsense that shaitan has
been,
pushing on people,
and telling them to turn away from the
Rabb Tabarak or Ta'ala from day 1. We
all know happiness can be there in poverty,
and we all know residence can be there
in wealth.
We all know that.
We know that happiness
may be connected or related to a person's
material,
needs being fulfilled,
but it is essentially not in material things.
Where is it? It's a state that we
carry inside of our hearts.
Brothers and sisters, the hadith that I read
in the beginning of this talk,
that the person who loves for the sake
of Allah and hates for the sake of
Allah.
And the person who gives for the sake
of Allah and withholds for the sake of
Allah, that person has completed their iman.
This is a really important hadith.
The Rasul
well known is that when he first came
to Madinah Munawwara, the first thing that he
established was
the masjid, the house of Allah
Less well known is that the second thing
that he established was what? The marketplace.
He asked Anfah radhiallahu ta'ala Anhum, where do
you guys buy and sell?
They say the Jews have a market. They
set the price. We buy and sell in
their market.
He didn't say anything bad about them.
Good for them. They have their market. That's
their right. Let them buy and sell in
their market.
Why don't we have our own market?
Why don't we have our own marketplace?
Why don't we buy and sell based on
our our own values?
What happens is that this discussion when we
poured it into khutbaaz usually ends up becoming
unnecessarily negative.
Don't transact with China. Why? Because they have
3,000,000 of our brothers and sisters in internment
camps.
Why? It's an inconvenient, inconvenient, and unpleasant reality
to mention
but it needs to be mentioned. If you
can't mention it, then a person has to
question
how much forget about Islam, how much humanity
they have left inside of their hearts.
That men are taken, women are taken.
They are assaulted in every every single way,
every which way including sexual assault.
That the women and children that are left
in the homes, that the men are taken
in, held indefinitely in these concentration camps.
The Chinese government literally will send men to
live in those houses
as a guest, quote unquote, and they will
literally have instructions that they're instructed to sleep
in the same bed as the women sleep.
And they stay for weeks at a time,
and they come every month. And this has
been happening for years at this point.
So yes, typically, this type of talk, what
does it entail?
Don't buy and sell Chinese goods.
Don't buy and sell goods from
India. In particular,
that faction of Indians because there are so
many Muslims in India. Maybe some of us
here present have businesses.
Maybe some of us know. People who are
not Muslims, but they're upright, good people.
They at least have some sort of human
value, human dignity with them, and we transact
with them. That's okay. That's permissible as well.
There's nothing wrong with that as well.
But we also know that there's
actively promote
genocide,
the beating of minorities,
the disenfranchisement
politically, economically,
and
as human beings
of religious minorities, including Muslims, including Christians, and
including others. We know that.
So usually, these talks have to do with
what? Don't go and shop at their
stores.
If you're
a store owner, don't buy from their wholesalers.
And this is a good message. It's a
it's a message that needs to also be
said.
However, look at the flip side of the
coin.
Whenever there's something that's extremely negative,
on the flip side, there's always something that's
just as positive, if not more.
Which is what? When the is
mentioned
that the person who
withholds, doesn't
transact, doesn't give to a person for the
sake of Allah.
What's mentioned before that?
Giving for the sake of Allah, Subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Transact with your brothers, transact with your sisters.
Every good that you can buy in China,
you can buy somewhere in the Muslim world
and it's made better.
Every good that you can buy
from an idolater
who has a stated and openly stated mission
to destroy Islam and to abuse our women
and our children and our weak,
and to disinherit them from their land and
their forefathers.
You can also find a Muslim that's selling
the same thing, if not better,
in the country, outside of the country,
from Turkey, from Bangladesh, from Pakistan,
from any place you can think of.
You can find another marketplace to transact in.
Anything you
buy from Walmart.
Someone said, well, what did Walmart do?
Imagine,
Al Asabile al Farda is a hypothetical. They
did nothing.
Okay. Go ahead and transact there. Why wouldn't
you wanna buy something instead of buying it
from Walmart, from your brother, from your sister?
I'll tell you why. Because we're petty people,
and we lose the plot.
What ends up happening because we know each
other as a community,
we know that somebody said something at somebody's
wedding 20 years ago
about somebody else who's a friend of somebody,
because of which inside our hearts we're
completely constricted.
Because inside of our hearts, it burns like
acid.
It burns us. It kills us inside.
I swear to God, I'll never transact with
that person again.
I'll never do this with that person again.
I'll never do that with that person
This is a very normal thing. This happens
with human beings.
There are maybe some of you who feel
that way about me, there's maybe some of
you who I feel that way about as
well.
What's the good thing about coming Jum'an is
that we see each other
and it's not about the Khutba, it's not
about the Bayan, it's not about any of
it. It's about Allah Ta'ala. You worship him
and somewhere in between, you know,
the beginning of the Khutba and Assalamu Alaikum
Warahutullah, the Baraka comes down on the jama'ah,
that the wajuhat of Allah Ta'ah's mercy They
come down on the jama'ah and people are
forgiven, and they forgive one another. And that's
what makes Jum'am Mubarak.
And we are supposed to forgive one another.
The Rasul
look at this because he he he not
only gave us the instructions, he was also
the practitioner of these teachings.
What did he say
In the chapter of the Muwata about du'a,
Malik
narrates from the prophet
that he said that every prophet was given
a du'a that would have been accepted,
a du'a that would have been accepted.
Imagine children, they fantasize about these types of
things. What if you rub the magic lamp
and the genie came and give you, like,
3 wishes or whatever wish you want? I
would wish for more wishes or God knows
what people would wish for. Right? That
That the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wasn't given
by
a jinn.
Some sort of fake thing that children joke
about or talk about.
Aqidah problems notwithstanding.
Right?
No. This is who? This is the Rasul
Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Salam.
And this is who? Allah Ta'ala who created
the heavens and the earth from nothing.
A person will not be compelled to use
such a wish for anything.
The Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam definitely will
not be compelled to use such a wish
for anything.
If a person is in a position like
this, you
will discover who that person is.
All the politeness, all of the fakery that
many people usually have
or people usually keep, that will all disappear
at that moment. Right? You'll discover what does
that person truly
have inside of their heart. What do they
want? What do they love?
What did he say,
He said every every nabi was given
a a a dua that was accepted. And
he said, I
I I save my dua. I'm I'm keeping
it for the for my on the day
of judgment.
I'm keeping my dua for my on the
day of judgment.
In the same bab, Malik narrates a hadith
that says, Abdullah bin Amr
passed by
the quarter of a particular tribe
much later on, after Rasulullah
Alaihi Wasallam
left this world.
And he was asked by a person of
that tribe,
do you know where in our
quarter
the messenger of Allah
prayed?
And he says, yes.
And he pointed in a particular direction.
And he said, do you know what those
things are that he asked for?
He said, yes.
He asked Allah
that
this ummah not be all destroyed at once
and that this ummah not ever perish,
that somehow or another it just dies off
on its own.
And those two prayers were answered for him.
And he asked the third thing, which is
what? That this ummah not fill one another's
blood and that dua was not answered.
A couple of things to notice. 1 is,
again, the du'a's for the ummah.
All 3 of them. There's a common thread
between all 3 of them.
The second is, Alhamdulillah, this Ummah is marfum.
Allah ta'ala gave a great great measure of
mercy to Ummah, something unlike what anyone else
has been given and what anyone else will
ever be given. And what anyone else will
ever be given. And what anyone else will
ever be given.
The Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam his dua'at wasn't
answered,
which is what that the people of the
sunnah not spill one another's blood.
Even in that, there's a secret, there's a
benefit and a gift for us, which is
what?
We know that if you love the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam, if you want to keep
the sunnah,
then don't don't do these things. Don't harm
one another. Don't have ill will toward one
another.
When you talk bad about your brother, your
sister,
it's like you're killing them. Someone says, well,
they did something bad or they're bad people.
Maybe do offer them, inshallah, that they change.
And if you need to say something in
order to stop them or stop someone else
from being harmed, go ahead and say it.
But even then, do so in a measured
sense. If somebody is, you know, this so
and so person is a homicidal maniac and
they're standing on, you know, on the corner
with a sword there,
tell people there's a maniac on the corner
with the sword, exit the mustard from the
other side. But if you don't like how
his hair looks,
sallallahu alaihi sallallahu alaihi wasallam, it was something
that it was his desire that we not
do this.
And he's not pleased with it, and him
not being pleased with it is a sign
that Allah ta'ala is not pleased with it.
And even despite all of that, the rasul
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam still hasn't
a dua that he's saving for the ummah.
Why? Because he didn't give up just because
he reached the limit in this world of
what he could do.
Now what does this have to do again
with our topic? What this has to do
with our topic is what?
As an act of worship. Now that we
all know each other, we're annoyed with one
another, we're happy with one another, whatever it
is. We all know each other.
Now we have an opportunity to what? To
transact with one another, to buy, sell, and
trade with one another,
to live our lives with one another,
not as a an optional separation of church
and state, but as a way of life.
And the fact that you don't like a
person or that you know a person sells
the same, you like to for, like, a
dollar more than the other store down the,
down the way
means that what? You have certainty of yateen
inside of your heart.
That that dollar that you give is going
to be for
the sake of Allah ta'ala.
That that a little bit of difficulty that
you go through, this is going to be
accepted by Allah
because you're doing it for his sake. There's
no other motivation that a person could be
doing something like that for.
That anger that a person feels
to toward the one he knows, and that
slighted him.
That anger is genuine.
Overcome that anger.
Who knows which person it's going to be
greater with Allah Ta'ala than
the tahajjud that night.
Keep praying tahajjud. Don't give it up. But
who knows it will be greater than than
which deed that we think is great inside
of our eyes. And on the day of
judgment, when things are weighed inside the scale
pan, then we'll see.
What is virtuous and what is not?
What is great and what is not?
Which thing is accepted by Allah in sincerity
and which is not?
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give all of us
so much stuff. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give
help to our brothers and sisters in Turkestan
and in the Indian subcontinent,
in Sham, in Iraq, in Yemen, and all
of the other places in the Muslim world
where they're under buckling under the pressure of
and under the pressure of cruelty. Allah
give help to every Muslim who's trying and
struggling under the pressure in the of their
own nafs or their environment in order to
keep
the light of iman
shining inside of their heart until the day
we meet our Lord.