Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Go Big or Go Home Oshawa 11102017
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All praises to Allah.
All praises to Allah.
All praises to Allah who guided us to
Islam and Himan
in his Mubarak house.
And we were not to be guided. Was
it not that Allah Ta'ala had guided us?
Oh, Allah, to use praise as his commensurate
with the majesty of your countenance and the
greatness of your authority.
With any praise we can come up ourselves
with ourselves rather, we admit that you're the
only one who knows the true extent of
your praise worthy.
And made a peace and blessings of Allah
be upon his servant and master
his servant and messenger, our master, Sayed Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. May the peace and blessings
of Allah be upon him and upon his
noble companions and upon his pure wives and
upon his Mubarik and blessed family and progeny
and upon all those who follow all of
their way until the day of judgment.
Respected beloved
elders, brothers and sisters, youth group,
You've been a real,
You guys took a beating and came back
for more. I'm impressed. And I'm very rarely
impressed.
Welcome you to his house. This is in
Balakar,
gathering.
Balakar, whose gathering has little to do with
the words that are going to be said,
but more of this place to allah that
Allah
chose a place for everyone to be in
this Mubadik time, in this hour,
and he chose for you to be in
his house. And that means
Sahaba and I see that Rasoolullah
trained them and prepared them in a certain
way to deal with challenges that they were
going to see in the world.
He didn't use to tell them when they
were in Makkumukarama or in Madinah Munawara
that you guys will stay here
and you guys will pray 5 times a
day
and you'll enjoy yourself
and that's it.
You understand what I'm saying?
He trained them, Ravi Allah Dala Anhul,
to
do great work.
He trained them to do great work,
and he trained them to do big things.
Do you understand what I'm saying? Those same
Muslims
that are being
captured, tortured, beaten,
cursed at, sworn at,
in Makkamukarama,
killed in Makka Makarama, tortured in Makka Makarama.
He told them, Be steadfast, today will come.
Allah
will bring Allah to Allah will bring, you
know,
Egyptians to you. Every
one of the people that you know, the
Romans, the Persians, everyone you know, Allah is
going to bring them underneath their feet. And
in steadfast, he gave them what? He gave
them a vision. And in that sense, he
gave them what? He gave them a vision.
And in that sense, he gave them a
vision. And in that sense, he gave them
a vision. And in that sense, he gave
them a vision
He gave them what? He gave them a
vision.
He gave them a vision bigger than you're
going to be a doctor one day.
He gave them a vision bigger than you're
going to make 6 figure salary one day.
These are peanuts. These are not even wealth.
Even from a point of view, it's not
even wealth.
He gave them a big vision for this
dunya. And the vision he gave them for
the akhira is something beyond compared. There's nothing
in this world that you can make qiyas
with. With regards to the vision that he
gave them for the. So
go big or go home.
With all due respect. Grabbing your and calling
you telling you calling you a is probably
offensive because you're from India. So he said,
I'm not from Pakistan.
But that guy, he probably had no idea
what the difference is.
Probably hurt for a completely different reason. But
at any rate, it was a small inconvenience
to go through compared to what our
righteous forebears went through. And I'm not just
talking about the
And
it's because of these small sacrifices that a
person makes,
Allah
opens great doors.
It's because of these small sacrifices a person
makes, Allah opens great doors. And I'm not
talking about the dunya. The dunya, Masha'Allah,
he becomes a Sheikh, and he's an Imam,
and he's a Haqim of Quran, and he's
the representative of Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
in the house of Allah Ta'ala.
This is a great mitzvah if a person
understood what the value was for this. Then
people would come with guns and knives to
fight him for
it. But this is not what I'm talking
about. I'm talking about the of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala who lives forever in Jannah.
Of difficulty over here. Because your friends went
to Burger King and ordered a whopper. And
you know, you're like, oh man,
said it's haram and you know, another said
it's not, but I'm just gonna have some
ta poi and I'm not eating it. Why
are you going to turn that for? You
think you're going to go to Jenna because
of your
Why? Because you did something for him. You
showed your love to him. The Sahaba radiAllahu
anhu. Rasoolullah alaihi wa sallam.
He gave them a big vision.
Go big or go home.
This message in Oshawa. Go big or go
home. You all know where it came from.
You all know where it came from. Or
go home.
You all know where it came from.
Go big
or go home.
Islam is for Muslims. Islam is not a
racial
religion or whatever. Moving Hijra to a Muslim
country whichever one you like. Because
the amount of sacrifice you're going to go
through over here
is going to be a shadow or reflection
of the sacrifices that the Sahaba made in
because the hard work hasn't been done here
yet.
If you go to the Indian subcontinent,
already,
and
all of these great, they did what they
did.
If you go to West Africa, Sheikh Islam
Dan Fodio and Omar Tal and, all the
different,
you know, they already established things. The hard
work is done. The heavy lifting is done.
All you have to do get a house
close to the masjid, walk to the masjid,
walk home, say your 5 daily prayers, and
get on with your life. Done already. You
don't have to go through those sacrifices. Why?
Someone else did it for you already. You
can live your life,
with ease and with peace, and you can
enjoy the the
the, you know, the blessings of what somebody
else did and what somebody else established. And
to continue something to keep it going is
a lot easier than starting it from the
beginning.
Armies that conquered Cham, and armies that conquered
Yemen, and armies that conquered Iraq, and armies
that conquered Egypt,
and armies that conquered Central Asia, and the
Indian subcontinent, and East Africa, and West Africa.
If you read the history of Islam, you'll
see every single place where the armies of
the Muslims arrive.
2 groups of people arrived before them from
the Muslims, from the of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
One is who is the traders,
the people who, went to do business. And
the second is who, the people, the the
people, the people, the
who went there to do and to make
the of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And the
2 of those things are all of those
things, they're they're they're together. You You see
Rasulullah
gave a beautiful sunnah for every single thing
that a person does, including how to do
business.
So Walmart, which is making 1,000,000,000 of dollars
off of things like having a return policy,
these were things that are unknown from the
world. I mean, a person thinks of like
things from Wahi, from revelation. Okay. Fine. You
know, Surah Paha, that's revelation. Right? Sheikh read
it in salat. That's what we think of
as Wahi. There's a lot of stuff that's.
Right? The idea of having a dictionary,
this completely comes from.
The first dictionary was was,
the idea of the dictionary was first, promulgated
by
in a debate that he had in the
house of Allah
with, with, Nafir bin Azraq, one of the
imams of the,
in order to prove to him that he
understood the meanings of the words of the
Quran better than the did. And so would
say, what does this word mean? Because the
words of the Quran are difficult. Right? It's
not like every Arab walks around saying
and some and all these things. You don't
use those words in regular speech. It's like
it's a very high level of vocabulary.
So,
so so this this this,
arrogant man would ask Abdullah bin Abbas, the
nephew of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
the cousin of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam,
what does this word mean? And he would
tell him what it means. And then he
would say, it comes in this eye of
the Quran and, in this,
speech of the Rasool salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And he says, what's your proof? And who
do you quote a line of poetry from,
Arabic from pre Islamic Arabic poetry in order
to prove it?
Where did the dictionary come from?
Why?
Preceded the first English dictionary by at least
a 1000 years. He preceded the English language,
much less English dictionary, by centuries. Right? There
are so many things like that.
They come back from
they come from why a person takes it
for granted. Right? The fact that we wear
clothes, the fact that we have speech, all
of these things. You think we, human beings
invented these on on their own? There's dolphins
and gorillas that have brains bigger than ours.
And that have the ability to learn these
things, but they don't have the ability to
teach them.
All of this is something that what? It's
something that Allah gave us. It comes not
from this world. It comes from where our
is. Where is our homeland?
You're not from Canada.
You're not from the east, and you're not
from the west. You're not from, from from
Pakistan or Hindustan or Arabistan.
You're not from any of these places. Where
are you from? You're from Aljannah.
Speaking,
speaking language. Right?
There are a lot of things we take
for granted that come from a different realm.
People don't think about it. It doesn't come
from here. There's no human being who has
smart enough to invent these things themselves. One
of them is what?
You're gonna laugh at me. One of them
is a return policy.
You know how you return stuff. Right?
All sales are final. All sales sales are
final. Every culture has this idea. All sales
are final.
What happened to Rasoolullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said what? He said, if someone buys something
from you.
Right? What did he say? Sahabi
who explained it.
He opened up a shop.
He's buying and selling, buying and selling, buying
and selling. Somebody brought something from him, and,
you know, after several months, he bought something
from it, and then he brought it back.
So I don't want it anymore. Give me
my money back. So the Sahabir will be
a long time who probably gives him his
money back, and then he starts taking shop
down, taking all the merchandise down from the
shop. So what are you doing? He says,
I'm taking my shop down. He says, why
are you taking your shop down? He says,
I had no need to run this shop.
The only reason I ran the shop is
because I heard the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam say,
whoever, you know, somebody's unhappy with some merchandise
that they bought from them, whoever,
returns their money to them without giving them
any hassle, it's a I guarantee, I promise
that person that Allah will give them in
in return.
Do you know of any kafir whether return
policy before that?
Absolutely not.
They're making money from it because it's good
business it's good business idea, and it has
because it has misman Rasool Allah Subhanahu Wa
Salam.
But the reason for it is not so
that Walmart can make a $1,000,000,000 and that
superstore can make a $1,000,000,000.
That's not the reason it's a sunnah.
What's the reason it's a sunnah? What's the
reason for the barakah? Because Allah ta'ala knew
that these people who carry
they're going to go with the wind in
all of the different directions. They're going to
Africa, Central Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, all of
these places. They're going sham. They're going to
go into the lands of the Romans. They're
going to go into all of these places.
And they're also part of the test is
that we also have to live in this
world as well. X Men, Marvel X Men
characters that we fly around, die idle, and
shoot like fireballs and
thunderbolts at people and say, you have to
believe him on. Otherwise, you know, you can't
like control thunder like me. It doesn't work
that way. Right? Otherwise, it wouldn't have been
a test. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a
test whatsoever. How are we going to show
Allah ta'ala our love if we don't have
to suffer anything for his for his sake?
So this is what a tool that Allah
gave us that we can go and do
this work for his deen,
and make a and like, you know, make
enough to make a living,
and also more importantly, make ourselves a house
forever, a place for
ever in Allah and his pleasure in Jannah
with his with the people that he loves.
That's what the point of all of these
things were.
Trained his with so many things. All of
these things, how are you going to learn
them in one talk that, you know, shouldn't
last really longer than it shouldn't have been.
This talk has already gone on too long.
You can't learn it in one talk. It's
not good to be exciting. It's not good
to have somebody come from out of town.
It comes from what? Coming, sitting at the
feet of the ulama
day in and day out learning
and learning, you know, like,
and and having to memorize lines of poetry
and having to, you know, sit the kids
sway back and forth and they're, you know,
repeating the
whatever 17th just like for the 30th time
this week. That's how it happens. You learn
that way. That's the way you learn these
things. If you were smart enough to be
able to figure out for yourself, then what's
the point of the Quran being revealed?
There's no point in There's no point in
revelation if you think you can figure these
things out yourself. And one of the foundational
stupidities of the age that we live in
is that we have a really large number
of people in our
who think that I'm going to use my
brain and figure out everything on my own.
Whereas you were to figure out how to
make an airplane on your own, and how
to make a car engine that burns less
fossil fuel on your own, and how to
make a new antibiotic that's going to defeat,
you know,
drug resistant super bugs on your own. You
weren't meant to make a on your own.
Showed
us the path forward, the way forward. Right?
The road
forward, which is what? Go big
or go home. In their case, it's like,
you know, Tareq bin Ziyad. You heard the
story about Tareq bin Ziyad. Right? There's a
hadith in the
Malik. The story is a long story, but
at any rate, the the part of it
that's that's relevant is that the prophet
said that I saw,
I saw 10,000 people from my Ummah sailing
on ships in a dream. I was sailing
on ships that had so much majesty and
awe. The ship sat on the on the
sea like a king sits on his throne,
and they all went out in the path
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And that that that
group of people was who
the the say that that group of people
is Taar Af bin Ziyad and the army
that conquered and those see.
The story goes that they took the ships
across from the the,
from
from from Morocco and Mazrib
to, Jabal Tariq, right? Gibraltar
and Burned Bin Ziyad burning the ships behind
because
we're gonna go big and we're not even
gonna talk about going home. When you say
go big or go home,
it's
like it's just not like. It's like
the go home doesn't actually exist as a
as an option. It's just a rhetorical
device.
Right? Why? We're gonna burn the ships. We're
gonna do this thing, or like, we're just
gonna do this thing.
This is the only the only choice we
have. Why? Because you have 2 options. You
can either do it on your own, in
which case what?
In which case, you're a foreigner in this
land. You don't have any money. You look
different than other people so they can literally
like identify you,
as a different person. Someone might say, well,
okay. My name is like, whatever, standard Gordon.
I just took Shahada last week, so I
can put on a suit and get by.
Well, guess what? Your wife is gonna wear
a hijab. They're gonna they're gonna figure it
out. Okay? You look different. There's no way
you can hide. There's no way you can
there's no place for you to run to.
There's nothing else you can do anyway.
And there are a group of people in
this land. I live on the other side
of the border. Trust me. They're all very
well connected with one another that absolutely hate
our team and who have made it a
stated goal of theirs in public and in
private. What does it mean?
Right? A curse beyond every ham is the
person who talks garbage about you behind your
back. And the is the person who talks
garbage to you in in your face. Right?
There's a group of.
The one who his his
trait is that that person gathers money and
is constantly counting it, and they think that
their money is going to make them live
forever. They literally have 100 year plans on
how they're going to completely eradicate the bean
from this land and from other places in
this world. And they're good plans. They're better
than plan at planning than Pakistanis and Arabs
are. Trust me. Than Indian people are. They're
really good at their planning. Okay? So one
one option we have is we can do
it our way, and we're up against a
pretty
steep set of
odds.
The other option is we can do
and the benefit of that is what? It's
difficult on the nafs, but you receive the
help of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And the
only card that you that you can win
this game with is
Allah ta'ala. It's the card that beats every
other card.
Or you could quit, and then you go
to Jahannam forever.
It's fun while it lasts maybe for some
people, not really. You can quit and that's
it. You're done. There's really no other option.
And the issue is this. Look.
One of the reasons that I get called
to speak at different places is oftentimes because
more popular and, more talented speakers are, like,
booked or their, you know, honorarium is too
expensive. So they say this guy is, like,
back up. You can get him. Why? Because
I don't tell people what they want to
hear,
nor do I tell things to people that
are going to endear me to them. But
the fact of the matter is, if you
actually honestly read our history, and you read
the history of the Sahaba, you
read the history of of all sorts of
different people who carried this Islam, this Deen
to all of the different lands of the
world, you'll realize none of them made it
easy. We have it actually very easy over
here. None of them made it easy. The
Indian subcontinent,
you know, you people are going to Hajj
and their ships are getting hijacked, and their
women are getting enslaved and like, you know,
like Hajjaj or like you can go from
Pearson
to like
Jadda or Madina Munawala, like relatively
not relatively, absolutely unmolested.
Right? We don't we don't have it that
bad. I remember reading I told you in
Ramadan, I, like, had a little biographical pieces
about the different.
There's a biographical
piece about,
uh-uh, Mia jimur Muhammad Chanjani
is one of the
of of of * Saab,
about how he was,
he went to he went to, visit the
grave of 1 of the mashayef,
and that graveyard was taken over by hostile,
Hindus. They literally destroyed the,
they they took the graveyard by force, kicked
the Muslims out, destroyed the graves, and they
built a temple over it. Right?
That stuff is not happening over here. And
those are not things in the early part
of like the Muslim history in the Indian
subcontinent. That's after the Muslims have been there
for like centuries and have and all of
these things. What is it? Why is it?
It's because everyone who says,
and everyone in that specific because it's the
highest truth.
And everything underneath it, anyone who says any
sort of truth, always people oppose them for
it. Even truths that don't have to do
with the dean. Right? Anyone here knows Socrates
is? Socrates is a philosopher. He's a Greek
philosopher. The western tradition celebrates it. In the
way that western tradition celebrates people, which is
what?
Beat the snot out of them while they're
alive, and once they're dead, say, oh, there's
such a great man.
He was a man who used to he
was a smart guy. He used to go
around and tell truth to people. He used
to point out this hypocrisy, that hypocrisy. You're
saying this, but you're doing another thing. This
thing doesn't make sense. You're actually pretending to
wish well for people but you're really a
thief. He just went around telling people so
much truth, and so all of Athens says,
this guy has to die, and they gave
him a glass of poison hemlock. This is
just drink it on your own, kill yourself.
Otherwise, we're gonna come after you and kill
you. And it's, you know, the poison is
gonna be less,
you know, painful for you than what we
have in store. And then afterward, you're gonna
become a big hero of Western civilization. Right?
Why? Because anyone who speaks true,
people are going to oppose them. Being nice
and having good adab and good
doesn't mitigate this at all. Because who had
more,
good adab than Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam?
Who is nicer than Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam? Who is one who loved others and
was loved by others more than him Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam?
The the the uncle said, Khadija radiya wa
ta'ala Anha, he's the one who said to
him, he said that this is the same.
Now Musa came down and say, the Musa
alaihi wa sallam is gonna come down on
you. I wish my life was long enough
that when when our people oppose you, I
would have been there to help you. I
wish I had that opportunity to help you.
Even
if they're gonna oppose me? They all laughed
him. Says,
nobody came with this thing that you came
with except for his people are going to
oppose him for it.
Nobody.
So this is something you have to kind
of accept.
You don't go out of the sunnah to
not go out of your way to
earn people's ire is to be as nice
as you can in order to reduce that
as much as you're able to. But the
sunnah is still to know that what? It's
gonna happen. People are gonna give you flack
about it. And you think it's Stan and
Gord on the street? Those guys are mostly
gonna like that one guy, whatever,
smack your, head and grab your dopey from
you. He's probably right now like, whatever, like,
you know, working as a multicultural minister for
Trudeau and he probably remembers, there's this one
packy kid and you know, I'm not packing.
Stop it. You know like, you know, he's
like, he's one packy kid. I knocked his
hat off his head and that like, you
know, then I change my life afterward that
I'm not gonna be like that anymore. Right?
They're gonna Who's gonna oppose you? Your own
family members and relatives.
Your own neighbors. The person you were nice
to. The person you gave money to.
It happens. What are you gonna do? Be
a special snowflake and cry about it? Allah
tells us to send you to Jannah forever
for a reason eventually, right?
You know it's part of the deal. It's
part and parcel of the deal.
How are you going to The only option
right now is to what? Ask for the
help of Allah ta'ala because in terms of
rational means, there's this is a a a
fight, there's no way you're gonna win. This
is a struggle, there's no way you're gonna
win it. But by that same rational assessment,
the prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam shouldn't have
won, his sahaba radiallahu alaihi wa sallam shouldn't
have won, his son shouldn't have gone to
or to, Egypt or it shouldn't have beat
the Romans. It shouldn't have beat the Persians.
It shouldn't have beat it shouldn't have gone
into the Indian subcontinent for so many centuries,
and Spain for so many centuries to the
point where even though the Spanish kicked the
Muslims out of, and Lucia, they still can't
get rid of all the Arabic words in
their language, and they still take kailula, therefore,
like following more sunnah in their day than
many Muslims do. They can't you can't do
anything about it. It's there. You can't get
rid of it.
Why? Because the help of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala was there with it. There are three
things that you're going to need in order
to help the help of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. This This is not because I'm a
smart person and I thought about it and
figured it out, this is completely the teachings
of the wahi of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala And it's
a tried and tested formula that's worked again
and again and again and again. The first
thing you need is to have some basic
modicum of knowledge. Knowledge is not gonna get
done by reading Wikipedia and Google. Hey, youth
group guys.
You're not gonna get the knowledge from Wikipedia
and Google. Wikipedia is not a Muslim and
nor is Google.
Do you understand what I'm saying? The guys
who write the Wikipedia article and the Google,
search whatever things, those are machines.
Just machines. And more likely than not, the
people behind the machines are not even Muslims
in the first place.
You're going to learn it from what? From
our martial venerable and saint like, or lama,
like Milana Shaker and one of the other
martial of the different nations of the world
and the different Madaheb and the different,
whatever,
know, schools of thought that populate all of
these wonderful
white stone, green trimming massages of the GTA.
You're gonna have to go to one of
them and you're gonna have to learn. You're
going to have to learn
how to pray. Well, I already know how
to pray. Well, you know, tell me which
book you read from and the book which
is like a classical book because they didn't
invent Salat
You have to learn more than
the
Sharia, which is the the the manifestation of
the dean on your limbs, you know, your
actions. Okay?
It breaks into 3 into 3 categories.
1 category, category number 1 is what? Your,
praying and fasting, giving zakat, and things like
that. Everyone's like, yeah. I know that's Islam.
Okay?
What is a good Muslim? A guy using
the masjid praying all the time. Right?
He asked, does anyone know so and so?
And someone who's sitting there says, yeah. I
know him. He's a good man. He's like,
do you really know him? He's like, yeah.
He's a good guy. It's like, you just
see him in the mustard all the time.
Right? He goes he goes he goes, have
you ever have you ever traveled with him?
Have you ever done business with him? Have
you ever lived with him?
No. Just see him in the message, and
that's why you think he's a good guy.
Right? Why? Because he's a part of the
deed. It's an important part of the deed.
It's not the whole thing.
First is your and then is your.
How are you supposed to transact?
Right? So the kids ask, well, why is
it haram to buy a lottery ticket? Why
is it haram to, you know, buy life
insurance? Why is it around to buy have
a mortgage? These are good questions. You should
ask them. You should learn the answers to
them. Why? How are you supposed to get
you know, how are you how are you
supposed to then buy things, sell things? How
are you supposed to use a credit card
properly?
Is it a jayas to use whatever air
miles and points and all of these other
things? You may think you know the answer,
but until you actually go to the and
learn them, you don't know. You have to
admit, you don't know. I don't know myself.
I ask people quest these questions all the
time myself.
Often times I have an idea of what
the answer is. I go and ask the
people who are more learned than me. More
often than not, they'll say the exact answer
that I think that they're going to say,
but you still have to ask. Why? Because
I think the the prophet
narrated in
Whoever says an opinion about the Quran from
their own opinion. Not like something they learned
but from their own opinion. Talks about the
Quran by their own opinion. That person's wrong
even if they happen to be right. And
so someone says, how is that possible? So
my graphic analogies.
The analogy I give is for what? Imagine,
somebody's on an airplane. Okay?
So the airplane is, you know, like, if
you live in Mississauga, so you're taking a
flight from Calgary, so you're coming from the
west,
or sorry, you're taking a flight, you're coming
from Montreal. So Mississauga is East of the
airport. So you say, instead of going, you
know, to the airport and then having to
drive back eastward to my to my house,
why don't I just open the emergency exit
and jump out of the airplane?
Two reasons. The less lesser reason is you're
probably not gonna make the jump accurate.
You'll jump and you'll probably land somewhere you
don't wanna be. But let's just say for
instance, you actually did land right in front
of your door. What's the problem
with that?
You're gonna die.
It's gonna kill you. It's a dumb idea.
Don't do it.
So you have your
you have your you have your
How are you supposed to get married? How
is the husband supposed to be, you know,
with his wife? And then you call,
Mona Shaker in the middle of the night.
And, do I have to cook dinner for
him? He said, I have to cook dinner
for him, and it's haram for me to
not cook dinner. Yeah. And, you know, did
you know, do I have to pay for
her like medical expenses? Because I heard some
sheikh on Google said it.
Learn these things before you get married, then
you don't have to fight with your wife
about these things. There may be other things
you'll fight about, but those are more easy
to take care of.
Right? This is something our elders told us.
They said that whatever you do, if if
you have fight with your wife or with
your husband, sisters, brothers, if you have fight
with your wife, don't put aya to the
Quran, hadith of the prophet in
your fight. Leave Allah and his Rasool Sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam for afterward when you hunt
to make a stefar while the fight is
going on. That's just you 2 nafsas.
That's nobody else. That's just the 2 of
you. We have to learn the law of
these things so you know how to deal
with one another. You know?
It's important.
And it's not something that like, you know,
you're gonna go learn from women's studies department
at the university,
or from like some
whatever
bro like,
website or something like that on on the
internet or like whatever like male,
whatever man man manliness like podcast you listen
to. You'll learn it from them. You learn
it from the.
Those are three things. The 4th thing is
what? You have to learn your.
Has anyone heard of the
before?
Who here thinks it's a very advanced book?
Raise your hand. Be honest.
The
It sounds pretty it sounds pretty complicated. It's
a pamphlet. It can fit the whole text
that it can fit on one sheet of
paper front and back. Okay? I teach it
in 15 15 instructional hours. Mawana Shaker probably
doesn't wanna teach it because he wants to
do other things.
But if you come to him, maybe he
does wanna teach it. Maybe he's been making
and he secretly desires that someone come in,
like, I went to Madrasa for, like, 8
years, and everyone thinks I just went like
this and, like, learned the whole time. He
actually learned the entire Sharia and and all
of these things. Maybe he wants you to
teach it to. Right? Go to him and
say, you know, be honest. The
the beliefs of a Muslim are what make
them a Muslim, and they're, like, really important,
and I never studied them before. So can
we at least read the from
you and learn the basics of our of
our of our.
Heart.
That's something that you're not going to be
able to get from an entertaining from
an outlandish gesticulating
speaker who comes once a year.
They're very entertaining. The idea is what?
The zikr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
something that the tongue. Right? This is part
of the theory of the deen. That the
heart is like a a city. Like, the
old cities that have different gates.
Right? They used to lock the gates at
night so that they could defend the city
from the enemies.
The city the heart is like a city
that has gates. What is the gate for?
It's to let good stuff in and keep
bad stuff out. So the gates of the
heart are what? Every everything you see, everything
you hear, everything you taste, and eat and
drink,
everything that goes into the stomach. Right? Everything
you smell, everything you touch,
everything you walk to and walk back from,
and everything that your,
what's between your two legs interacts with, and
what's between your two jaws, your tongue. Someone
might say, how is the tongue? The tongue
is saying words outward. I can understand the
ear. It's coming into the heart. How is
it the tongue the tongue that's shooting words
outward? How is that affecting the heart? On
a on a, email. Right? Everything your tongue
says, there's a cc that's sent to the
heart.
You think you're
cussing somebody else off? All of that garbage
is going inside of your heart. What do
you think that when you die, the
angel of death is gonna be like, you
have 30 seconds to think of what your
last words are gonna be.
No. Everyone's like, yeah. When I die, I'm
gonna say, and
I'm gonna judge Nasr.
But the problem is this, the thing you
say at that time is not what you
choose to say. It's the thing you've been
saying your whole life. So if you've been
saying, Allah Allah, you'll say Allah at the
time of your death. If you've been saying,
if
you sat everyday for after
and face the qibla, turn the lights out,
and say
you know, like for an hour everyday,
that's what you're gonna say at the time
of death inshallah.
And if your gut reaction is like, what
the? And you're gonna say different colorful,
vocabulary
words,
you know,
at that time at those times, then that's
the thing. Imagine the the person is hadith
of the prophet whoever the last
speech is person will enter Jannah. So you
guys are smart people. Who what about the
person whose last word is the f word?
Where is he going?
I mean, I don't know for sure, but
it doesn't sound like a good idea.
If you think about it logically,
it sounds like it's kind of scary. It's
like a bad thing.
Right? So all of these things, the zikr
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the hope is
what? Other than remembering Allah ta'ala all the
time because the zikr of Allah ta'ala is
more more, something that's even more subtle than
just what you say on the tongue. Right?
Allah says in his book,
Remember your lord
inside of your very being,
in a way that's even more subtle than
speech. Right? So that means that the of
Allah has a state you carry with you
inside of your heart. It's not just like
what your tongue says. Right? But the idea
is because everything the tongue says, you're getting
the cc to the heart as well. So
that's a good place to start.
If you have the vicar of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, the primary benefit is what? Is
that your khatima, the way you pass from
this world, it becomes more and more secure
that it will leave on.
Whereas if you were a, even if only
you only remember him 5 times in a
day, that's a very small amount of time
compared to the rest of your time. And
not everybody dies while they're making salat.
But not only is the benefit that what?
That that that you you will you will
secure your passing from this world on imam,
which is your ticket to salvation forever in
the hereafter.
In addition to that, we're talking about the
path forward for us as a community.
Every place where the dhikr of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is made. Imagine it's like, you
know, this this the stakes that you tie
a tent with, you drive them into the
deeper and deeper and deeper. And those places,
they can't come out from
the the the permanence
of the deen in those places become
deeper and deeper and deeper until what happens?
The land becomes something like what our homelands
have become,
which is people can do crazy things. They
can fight. They can kill each other. The
kafar can try to kick the Muslims out.
They can't even be successful at kicking the
Muslims out, but they're never gonna be able
to kick the Islam out. Wherever you see
left and right, the remembrance and the reminder
of the deen will be there forever.
Nobody can assault it, nobody can assail it.
The state of
the right? Because we have all these kind
of nut headed groups running around in the
backwoods in Syria and and and Iraq and
whatever. So Mehdi is gonna bring that okay.
We have these people that's wrong. What they're
doing is wrong. You don't say a lot
of work and, like, cut the heads off
of people who,
you know, did nothing. That's harm killing people
very hard. Right?
The state that they're trying to make and
the caliphate they're trying to make,
The true kingship of Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, where is it going to be
seen?
In Mecca?
In Medina?
Where? In Jerusalem?
In the Arab world? Where? Pakistan?
Where?
Anyone?
It's gonna be on
when no one will be accepted except for
his sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And no one's
will be like his, and no one's honor
will be like his. Then the people will
see this Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
has he has a unlike any other. There's
no way to show that to a person
in this world.
Where will you see who is Abu Bakr
and who's Omar? In Madinah Munawarra, when like
whatever the Pateri TV station makes like a
YouTube,
you know, TV drama about, like, you know,
his life.
No. That's all great. Well, it's not really
that great here. But the thing is that,
like, whatever. It's not like, you know, it's
wonderful the things he did. The things that
both of them did really. They're
wonderful. That day, when you see entire nations
of people being thrown into the garbage heap
of the hellfire and burned as if they're
garbage, as if they're nothing.
That day, you'll see what the value of
these people was, what the kingship of these
people were. Reason Allah gave them power in
this world is so that they could spread
this dhikr of Allah Ta'ala and this deen
and the message of this deen to other
people. Why?
Because their state is done. It's finished. It
doesn't exist anymore.
But does that mean that they were defeated?
Absolutely not.
Everywhere, everywhere a person carries la ilaha illa
with them in their heart.
Everywhere, not like the like, you know, just
like saying Sunday school. Like, no. Really, like
the person who carries
with them in their heart, that's a place
no one can touch it. You can't even
you can't harm a person's
that's inside their heart even by killing them.
It will still live forever. There's nothing you
can do to it. It's an impenetrable fortress.
It's something once it comes to a place,
you can't get rid of it. You can
spend money. You can oppose the person. You
can call them a packing even if they're
from India. You can do grab their Dolby.
You can do you can harm them, beat
them. You can do whatever you want. You
can't
Sure.
Should know that. They know it for sure.
That's why they don't like
the idea of committing zina and like, you
know, getting drunk and like, rich stealing from
the poor and racism and all these other
things.
They know this wherever it comes.
There's nobody who can nobody could do anything
with it. There's no one historically who was
ever able to oppose it no matter what
they threw at me.
And someone says, oh my goodness, I'm just
trying to make a living. This movie is
obviously trying to like make me resurrect like,
you know, some sort of, you know, social,
political, spiritual edifice that like, you know, the
foundations are in this world and the building
rises all the way to the here after.
And, you
know, unfortunately, we don't have any other options.
Other options aren't good options. Unfortunately, Allah to
Allah, his help is there for the people
who want to do it. So I apologize
if I didn't give you a convenient
solution that makes you feel good. I told
you, you have to now hit up Ma'am
Shakir and learn the
and like the whatever
from him. And you have to, like, you
know, sit and make the dhikr of Allah
to Allah which he would be to instruct
you about. And you're gonna have to, like,
you know, you know, make this masjid, you
know,
packed
more and more and not just like 3,
4 guys that assur. But you're a nice
house in the other part of town. Sell
it and buy like an apartment
in a cheap, you know, cheap part of
town. Why? Because it's next the house of
Allah. Imagine Allah to Allah. Imagine this. Right?
Imagine Allah to Allah. When did he command
how do you command people to treat their
neighbors?
Said that the angel Gabriel kept telling me
to honor the neighbors so much so that
I thought that before I leave this world,
he's going to say that the neighbors receive
a share of inheritance as well. Meaning that
they're like becoming relatives.
So if Allah
commanded,
the people to honor their relatives their neighbors,
then what do you think is the commandment
of or what do you think the the
reality is of being the neighbor of the
house of Allah?
You'll be forgiven for all kinds of nonsense
just because you're the neighbor of the house
of Allah to Allah. You understand what I'm
saying?
And so a real estate agent will tell
you that the price of real estate has
to do with 3 things, location,
location, location.
So if a capper will pay $500,000
for a condominium that otherwise would be worth
$100,000
because it has a view of the seat
or the view of Lake Ontario or whatever.
Right? So a person who has iman, what
should he wanna do? Right? The elders, they
already bought their house. So I'm talking to
you guys, right? The kids. When you have
a choice, where do you wanna live? Where
do you how do you wanna live near
the master of their far from a
4th green, green stripe on your jacket.
Where do you want to live? Of course,
you want to live near the master. If
you're the neighbor of the house of Allatahala,
you know Allatah is going to take care
of you. Right?
So the good news is you have a
choice. Monday, Allah to Allah will give you
the choice where you wanna live. Make a
good choice inshallah. The person who's next to
the house of these are always
taught us that we receive the help of
Allah ta'ala.
And if Allah is helping you, then like
these things become very I mean, I don't
wanna say they're easy because they're not. Anything
becomes easy. Everything becomes easy. He created the
whole heavens and the earth from nothing. He
doesn't care about like which party wins the
next election. It doesn't bother him like whatever
weird orange headed weirdo sits in the white
house and all these other It doesn't bother
him at all. It's not it's not a
big deal. Right? So this is a reminder
first for myself, and then for other people.
If you're don't have courage inside of your
heart, if you're not brave, Islam is not
gonna work for you.
But the problem is what. All the other
ways lead the agenda. So you may as
well take a little bit of courage, encouragement.
You know, if you can't do the whole
thing, at least do the small part of
what what was talked about that you can
do and ask Allah for help. The one
who makes
I'm a makes action on what little they
know, Allah will teach them more and he'll
give them more actions.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give all of us,
his help. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect this
masjid. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect all the
masjid in this land and in all other
land. Allah ta'ala protect everybody
who walks on this earth with La ilaha
illallah Muhammadu Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
inside of his heart And make every heart
of every believer that contains
a mighty fortress, an unassailable
fortress. And
invest those people with such power in their
hearts, and in their minds, and in their
bodies, and in their limbs, that that people
will be attracted to them. And people will
be,
will be
horrified from their enemies, and people will listen
to them and not listen to their enemies,
And the people will love them and the
people will hate their enemies. And the people
will join them and they'll separate from their
enemies. And the people will help them and
oppose their enemies. Allah make us amongst those
who help them and Allah make them amongst
them. And Allah never make us the ones
who love their enemies or the ones who,
the ones who support their enemies or become
one of their enemies. Allah give all of
us all of this and whatever else that
we should have asked for that he knows
in his ilm, from his father and his
minna. He's
give us all of what we should have
asked for even more than that.