Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Imm Mahd and the Circumstances of the End Times Tawheed Center FH 01282022
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Alhamdulillah.
I would like to, before beginning,
make a couple of comments.
One is that, there was a time, I
think, you know, a month or even 2
weeks wouldn't go by except for I would
come to Detroit. It's been a very long
time, so I'm genuinely
humbled and, honored to see,
so many faces again and then also to
see so many new faces. I know it's
been an interesting time. Everybody has interesting stories
of what's happened during this time. Alhamdulillah, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala brought us together again
in in in happiness.
And we ask Allah to do so,
for us once more,
on the day of judgment.
For those of you who have attended my
courses from before,
although I do have a profane propensity to
give
very fiery and hot air sermon,
and,
Bayan type presentations.
Generally, when we have a
program in this hall, that's not what this
is.
It's generally packed with content.
And,
people are here to study, take notes, and
to learn.
And,
it's something that you can think about
and, reflect over later, ask questions about later.
And I genuinely recognize
that much of the content that we're going
to go over
in this presentation,
which is not strictly speaking the signs of
the day of judgment,
but the signs of the end of time.
So these are those things that happen before
the day of judgment.
If we had 6 more hours for the
program, I would have
added that as well. I have that presentation
ready,
but there's a certain amount of,
cramming that you can usually
put into,
into a weekend. And so inshallah, we can
save that for another time.
And if you can learn it from someone
else or hear it from someone else, that's
wonderful.
My
goal, my desire is that everybody listen and
learn. If it's the first time
that you're hearing this then listen carefully.
If you've heard it before, take notes and
share these things with other people as well.
If you wish, I don't have a problem
sharing my slides or my notes with you.
Alhamdulillah. Masha'Allah by Allah Subhil.
The things that are gathered together are from
a number of different books, but none of
it is any original material on my behalf.
The legwork was in reading different books and
gathering things together,
but
I will strive to give the reference for
everything that I that I quote and that
I tell. And in that sense it's arranged
not necessarily as a
does this mic work?
I'm trying. I don't know if you can
turn it on maybe.
Anyhow, I'll let you guys figure out how
to place.
So
it's arranged
in some sense, not necessarily in a story
format, in a story
narrative format,
but
by which books you'll find which things in.
And we'll connect the dots together because, at
some point or another, we're a tradition not
of
storytellers,
but we're a tradition of
knowledge and in in in so many ways
precise
and exacting scholarship.
And this topic is a topic in which
you'll find all sorts of
solid material and all sorts of half baked
material as well.
And you'll find somebody who will tell you
about a hadith in which, you know, Hitler
is mentioned, and this is mentioned, and that's
mentioned. Not all of those things are, you
know
mind's lowering it a little bit. Not all
of those things are, you know, from sources
that are
that's okay.
Not all of those things are from, sources
that are going to be indisputable.
The point is not necessarily to wow you
or to entertain you, but to give you
the information
that's solid, that's beyond dispute. Why? Because those
are the things that unite us as an
ummah.
Differences of opinion, there are many of them.
There's a mercy in it, etcetera.
But the point of this presentation is
to teach aqidah, teach those things that we
all agree upon.
And then the things that we disagree upon,
we have, inshaAllah, plenty of time and those
are left best to the ulema,
best to the scholars.
So before starting, what I wanted to talk
about tonight,
which is the
knowledge transmitted to us from the Rasul, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, and his companions about the
Imam Mahdi.
I wanted to finish the
topic of the Khutbah which is what the
way the Rasul salallahu alaihi wa sallam described
the world would be
before the Mahdi comes. So there are 3
or 4 hadith that were left. I was
somewhat surprised
that,
I managed to go 6 minutes over the
the the time I was told of, like,
12:12:55
or whatever, and still, like, the Khutba was,
like, 11 minutes long, or the bayan was
11 minutes long. I don't know how that
worked out, but inshallah, we'll go through these
quickly inshallah, and it will,
kind of set the stage for the rest
of the, tonight's program. And then inshallah, come
tomorrow with 4 hours of material and,
inshallah, it will be a benefit for all
of us.
That the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said that time will pass by quickly.
Long periods of time that used to seem
long to people, they'll pass by quickly.
Those of you who are students of knowledge,
I don't know. I don't think I've met
the young man who made the introduction, read
the, like, whatever bio from 15 years ago.
But,
by the way, he pronounced words in Arabic,
it seems that he's studied something or another,
and also the
the, young colleague who recited beautifully,
for us tonight.
Raise your hand to either of you guys
in the crowd. Right? When you're when you're
in Darsh, does time fly or does it
does the hour take forever?
The hour takes forever. Right?
Part of that is because there may be
some tedium or some difficulty
what you're doing. Part of that is because
there's barakah in the time. For those of
you who've been, like, in the village before
or have been, you know, you
you know, waiting from one salat to another
in the masjid or whatever, you know that
there's barakah in the time.
And as time goes on as time goes
on, that Baraka is going to be gone.
Years of people's lives will pass by. They're
not going to know what they did during
those years. They're going to be watching 1
kitty cat video after another on YouTube and
the years will pass people will not know.
And knowledge will be taken away. And the
rasul salallahu alaihi wasalam in another another hadith,
he said that the way it's going to
be taken away, it's not gonna just disappear,
the books disappear one day. It's not gonna
be like a rapture.
Rather, what's going to happen is the people,
the old people of knowledge will pass away,
and the people who are left behind, nobody
bothered to learn anything.
And how does that happen? That happens when
people don't make Ihti'mam. They don't they don't,
you know,
make it an important goal of theirs in
life to preserve knowledge as a society. Not
everybody can be a scholar, but everybody can
learn something,
and everybody can contribute toward those people supporting
and, and and honoring those people who
really are just the walking miracles of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, that the ayat
of Allah ta'ala are shown in the sudur
of the people who,
who believe.
And that's going to happen. What's gonna happen,
those people are gonna go away. There's nobody
left that that that bothered to learn from
them. But Tawhid Harun Fittam
and tribulations will,
become preponderant over people and people will
give in
to shuh.
They'll become miserly, they'll become cheap.
Nobody wants to share with one another. You
know, husband and wife will split expenses. Nobody
wants to spend on their children. Nobody wants
to spend on their parents.
Nobody wants to spend on the masjid. Nobody
everybody wants to say pinch every penny and
say, well, if I invested in this much,
then I can entire retire
this much earlier. Look, all of that stuff
is important.
But shuk is what? My my own Ustad,
Moana Hassan that I read a number of
books from books of hadith from I read
the back to back to,
volumes of the Hidayah from.
I read the Mishkat Al Masabi from I
read Tirmidi and Abu Dawood from
he said,
our grand
Ahmed Ali Lahori
used to say that being in love with
the dunya doesn't it doesn't mean you have
stuff. It's what that you're willing to do
things that are haram in order to get
things.
Otherwise, if you pay your zakat and if
you pay your, you know, your dues to
people and you take care of the people
that you're supposed to be taking care
of, if you're a billionaire, you're not considered
to be a worldly person. In fact, even
if you own the entire world, you're not
considered to be a worldly person
Until the line crosses from something that makes
sense to love, which is by its nature
irrational,
that you no longer pay zakat on your
money, which people don't.
People, in fact, have abused zakat so badly.
And they say something is zakat and it's
not zakat. Nobody bothered to learn the account
of zakat.
They abused this zakat al fitr. They abused
the salakat. They abused all of these things.
They don't pay them on time. This is
also a type of shirk. In fact, it's
one of the worst types of miserliness.
And he said sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and
there will be a lot of haraj. They
said, you Rasool Allah, what is Haraj? He
said it's it's it's it's the shedding of
blood. It's killing murder.
And and and they said,
Muslim. So the first hadith we mentioned indeed,
khutba.
And the second one we just mentioned, the
the third one is that the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
that the last hour, the day this here
it does mean the day of judgment. That
the day of judgment will be began as
long as there's somebody in the earth that
says Allah, Allah.
The reason it's
worthy of mentioning at this time when talking
about the Mahdi is what?
This is an Usuli principle
in Islam, which is that Allah ta'ala said,
I did not create the mankind
and the jinn except for in order to
worship me.
And worship can be a number of things.
We say, well, you know, if you,
you know, if you
intend to drive to the Masjid, you know,
with it, then even the Tesla you buy
is like an act of worship. Right? Which
is true
if that's really your intention, if that's really
why you're buying it. It is true a
lot of the Awl count it as a
as a nafakafisabililah
from you. But there are 2 types of
there are 2 types of worship. There's one
which
is and one is
the thing that's
haqiqatan.
It literally is an act of worship. And
the second is those acts that lead to
an act of worship.
Buying the Tesla is the latter
the actual salaf itself is the the former.
And by rational necessity,
anything that talks about the ibadah of Allah
ta'ala
is going to talk about the actual acts
of worship first and primarily and secondarily or
in a peripheral sense about the other things.
And so here we see a couple of
interesting things.
One is that Allah ta'ala said he didn't
create the mankind in the jinnic supper to
worship him for ibadah, for salat, for the
reading of Quran,
for
what's mentioned in this hadith as what?
As Allah Allah.
There are people I've seen this, like in
America, it's kind of weird. There are people
who made like a profession for themselves, not
really a profession, I would say a part
time hobby.
Going around giving khutba saying that making dhikr
is a bida or Here's
a hadith of Muslim in which literally the
Rasulullah alaihi wa sallam is mentioning just taking
the name of Allah ta'ala.
Right.
Allah ta'ala says in his book, he says,
take the name of your lord.
Mention the name of your Lord, honor the
name of your Lord, and cut off from
everything else cutting off. Which sounds like what?
It sounds like you're sitting in a dark
room, shutting the lights off
and saying Allah Allah.
It's not a bidah. It's actually literally in
the Quran. It's literally in the hadith of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
That when there's nobody left who can even
say Allah Allah anymore.
Then the Maqsa, the point of the whole
universe existing will have been finished and the
entire thing is going to collapse in on
itself.
The reason I said it to Ulsuly principle
is what? Look, Today is neither neither the
perfection of Ibadah, which is the Rasul salallahu
alaihi wa sallam, nor is it the the
absence of it which is the day of
judgment.
It's somewhere in the middle.
However much you want today to mean to
you,
the barometer by which you can measure it
is what? How much worship did you do?
How much salat did you pray? Did you
fast? Did you sit and sit down and,
you know, close your eyes and focus and
say, Allahu Allah, did you make dua? Did
you do all of these acts of worship
that the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam told us
are the ways to attain the the Lord's
pleasure. The other things are okay. They're good,
you know, and sometimes they're necessary as well.
But these are the things that everything else
is there to serve. At the end, this
is the this is the the the purpose
of why people were created.
And so what will happen is that this
thing will
start to shrink shrink, get truncated. It will
start to
it will start
to wither away, and it will start to
melt melt away to a certain point. And
when it goes below a certain kind of
critical level, it's going to unleash all of
these things that that that are going to
happen as the
precursors to the day of judgment, the signs
of the end end of time.
And in fact, the Imam Mahdi's coming, which
we'll talk about very shortly,
is help from Allah. It's madad from Allah
in order to drive that away, push it
away a little bit further.
Just like the Rasul salallahu alaihi wa sallam's
his
being sent to this world was what? It
was Allah ta'ala's mercy, like hitting a snooze
button on the alarm
of day of of the day of judgment.
So we also have a choice. We don't
have a choice when the Mahdi comes and
when he doesn't. We don't have a choice
when the Dajjal comes and when he doesn't.
But we do have a choice of how
much worship we do. And it's true. Go
to the Haramain Sharifayn until
relatively recently. You would see people worshiping by
day night.
You'd see the masjid doesn't empty out. People
come and We ourselves who are bored and
find worship tedious when we go to those
places, we ourselves are excited to spend a
great amount of time in the worship of
Allah ta'ala.
And you see that even in places in
the Muslim world. There are places in the
Muslim world like that,
where you can pray, literally pray rakka after
rakka and you'll still leave and half the
masjid is still full of people who are
praying.
This is something it's a good thing. This
is the reason Allah gave us money. It's
the reason why we have a masjid. The
basketball court is wonderful, but, you know, the
reason we have the masjid and the basketball
court is what? So that the
establishment of the dhikr of Allah ta'ala can
be made.
That the Abu Huraira the allah one who
said that the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam said.
And this is something, you know, when we
talk about ilm being raised up people like,
oh, yeah. How sad. You know, like but
then if you have
a a dars in which ilm is being
taught,
mashallah,
you know, people, mashallah, come. I'm I'm very
happy that this many people came, but to
be very frank with you, if I were
to put up a a a master calligraphed
copy of the hilya sharif of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam illuminated with gold, and
I told you this is from the Ottoman
era and, you know, Sotheby's, like,
appraised the value of it at a $100,000
and I'll sell it to you for a1000.
You know, the people someone would buy it.
I know somebody would buy
it. Alhamdulillah, somebody would buy it. It's worth
buying.
I'm not even saying it's bad. It's worth
by my own shushaykh,
He was a master khatta. He was a
master calligrapher. I appreciate these things.
But if I were to say
that the hadith that's written on the hilya
sharifa,
In order to learn it, it'll cost you
a $1,000 even though the hadith is worth
much more than the piece of art.
Because it resides in the world of meaning,
not in the world of, aesthetics.
Very few people, if anyone, would be willing
to pay for it.
And if I told you it was free,
still very few people would be able would
be willing to sit through sit through it.
Sit through being able to read it and
it's a difficult vocabulary and things like that.
This is this is how what we live
in. But what everybody is interested in is
what? It's politics.
So here here you go. Right? Here you
go. Abu Hurair radiAllahu Muhammad said that the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
there will come out such men,
near the end of times
that,
they will,
they will basically trade or sell
the,
dean for dunya.
Those things that should be sacred, they will
they'll give them up in order to get
some part of the material world.
And they will wear in front of people
hides like
the hide of a sheep
in its softness. Meaning, they'll look really they'll
look really
soft and pleasant.
But and their tongues will be sweeter than
honey, but their hearts will be the hearts
of wolves.
Meaning what? And the thing is, to be
honest with you, this can, you know, this
can refer to political leaders. There are also
a lot of olamah, quote unquote olamah. People
who have, like, they can prattle off information
in ways that move the heart, but the
hafitha, the reality of the knowledge doesn't sit
inside the heart.
And the the definition of what is knowledge,
what is knowledge, this is something
almost completely missing from the Western tradition. The
discussion of what the nature of knowledge is
and it's something that was discussed by our,
masha'i from the time of the salaf, from
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam at the
time of the salaf.
Sinks into your heart, it's not it's not
considered a elmoo
in the tradition that we come from.
And so there are a lot of ulama
like that also, quote unquote They have the
degree,
they talk the talk, they memorize their tajweed,
their is really and their is
really,
super
out. And all of everything the turban is,
like,
a $20,000
turban and like a $100,000 jubba, everything is
all the boxes get ticked, but it's like
the lights are on but nobody's home.
And
one of the things that was mentioned at
the end of this hadith is that the
the punishment for these people is what such
a tribulation that it will leave even a
person who's like
relatively, like calm and collected and and wise
in their assessment of things, like wondering what
am I supposed to do.
The ulemar, the people that are the warahatulambia,
they're
the heirs of the prophets.
If the doctor is the one prescribing you
the poison, then what are you supposed to
do? If the children can't trust their own
parents, then who are they supposed to trust?
It's really a severe trial. It's a severe
tribulation.
And the fact of the matter is is
that the people who bother to, like,
I don't know, try and practice these things
and learn these things, they will
find a vote. They'll be able to taste
the difference between what's real and what's fake.
But there'll be a lot of people who
are gonna be like, you know what? This
is a very professionally
doctored and very professionally
PR, professionally
tailored experience
for YouTube,
for Facebook,
for Instagram,
for TikTok.
Right?
And
the people who are not, like, attuned to
these things, they don't think about these things.
They'll say, look, there's no more no one
more pious than than this person. There's no
one more learned than this person. All of
it has to do with metrics. All of
it has to do with making money. All
of it has to do with politics. All
of it has to do with all of
these things, and you would never know.
And that's the day once you learn that
lesson the hard way, that's the day you
realize and you know the importance and the
value and the wilyah, the sainthood of those
people who sit and teach Alif Batatha to
the to the children.
That that's something that's completely
difficult work
and but it is the thing that will
propagate Islam to the next generation, and there's
very little that you you'll get compensated for
things like that in the dunya. There's no
glory in it,
in this world at any rate. But it's
what is something done for the sake of
Allah ta'ala alone and without any partner. There's
no labeling. There's no branding in it.
There's no celebrities in it. There's no famous
people in it.
There's no,
you know,
virality in it. There's none of those things.
So the Rasool
said that they're gonna be people.
Outwardly, their
their their hives will be like the the
the skin of a sheep, how soft it
is. And their tongues will be sweeter than
honey, but their hearts will be the hearts
of wolves. They just look at you and
me, the average rank and file Muslims, as
a commodity to be consumed.
Allah
ta'ala will say say to such people,
are the are they,
Abiyyah Yar Tarun?
These people, their their their their,
their arrogance. Is it is it with me
that they're being arrogant?
Is there
their,
their bravery in doing this thing and messing
with with with with with something? Are they
are they brave now to mess with me?
I swear an oath indeed indeed I will
raise over them such a fitna such a
fitna that will leave even the most forbearance
of them,
completely confused as to what's going on.
And finally, I wanted to share
about the time, the signs of the time,
the the
the Dajjal will come. Because the Dajjal, Imam
Mahdi, all these things will be very close
in time to one another.
He says that
the sign that the sign of his coming
out,
the antichrist,
the false messiah,
will be people having left
commanding to that which is right.
That they know that the salat is far.
They know that, you know but those they'll
meet with their relatives, with their friends. They
won't say anything to anyone, and they'll think
that the maximum piety that I I have
to do is what? I'll just slip out
quietly and pray myself,
and I won't say anything to anybody
after that. Why? Because, you know, it's modernity
and, like, to each its own and live
and let live and all of these other
things that are alien to our that are
alien to our tradition. Yes. Live and let
live. If you like to eat, you know,
somebody likes to eat gulab jamun and the
other guy likes to eat kunafa, live and
let live. You don't have to make a
big deal out of that. But these things
are not kunafa and they're not gulab jamun.
What are they? This is the deen of
Allah Ta'ala.
And the
forbidding that which is wrong, when you see
the people leaving that.
That that people will see the spilling of
blood as a small
affair, as a small matter. People will get
killed and say, oh, only 1 person died,
only 2 people died, or like this is
what happens in such and such country. This
is how such and such country is. This
is how so and so people are. Right?
People
be be very frank in this country. In
this country, somebody dies.
If it's a black person who dies, people
are like, oh, these people, they're just meant
to die. Right? Is it right or is
it wrong?
Morally, it's very wrong, but it is unfortunately
the way people think about things like that.
And the blood of every human being.
Everybody is a spirit just like another person
has a spirit.
And they have
they have everyone has a nafs like the
other person has a nafs and everyone has
arru and arwa are like similar to one
another and everybody has bones in which Allah
created
flesh and limbs. And if anybody has a,
a lineage that they should boast about, then
what is it? It's that all of us
are the descendants
of of of earth and of water.
But we say, oh, these people, they're like
meant to die. These people, they're meant to
work. These people were meant to suffer. Right?
So that people will will make light of
the spilling of blood.
That people, when they waste when they waste
when they waste sovereignty,
that the government no longer does what's in
the interest of people
and more than that, they no longer do
what's in what's the commandment of Allah ta'ala
and his Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
When we rule, we rule by the mandate
not of the people but by the mandate
of Allah ta'ala.
Otherwise, if you rule by the mandate of
the people and the ideal government is anarchy,
why should you tell me what to do?
Why should I tell you what to do?
Why should I have to stop at the
red stoplight? It's somebody else's rules. Right?
It impinges on my freedom.
Right? It impinges on my freedom.
Well, the problem is what? It's gonna like
blood will be spilled in the streets and
things. There's a lot of problems. So the
the hookm is what? It's a mandate from
Allah to Al and his rasul sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam and his ambia alaihi wasallam.
But what what will it be turned into?
Neither will it be used for to fulfill
the divine mandate nor will it be used
for the benefit of the ra'i'ah
of the people.
Rather, it's just something that people will waste
in order to enrich themselves, in order to
ingratiate themselves, in order to pump pump up
their own egos.
Wa'akaluribah,
and they will eat the the money of
usury.
And they will fortify their buildings. They'll make
really fancy buildings.
And they will take,
they'll drink wine and by extension intoxicants.
And people will listen to singing
songstresses.
The women who sing songs.
And the men will wear,
silk.
And, they will,
make it hard.
I'm forgetting what this word means
precisely.
But the treasures of of Firaun will be
openly displayed.
If you read the news, you'll know how
creepy this is, by the way. They just
had, like, a big parade or whatever when
they moved from 1
I I don't wanna, like, mention particular nations,
but I'm not picking on anyone. Every
country in the Muslim world has its share
of all of this stuff. But,
this is specifically mentioned in in in this
author of Saidin Abdullah bin Abbas radiAllahu anhu
Mas'ut's a manna, we have to mention it.
And people will be quick to break their
promises to one another.
And people will study for other than deen.
If I told you the greatest Muhadith in
the world was sitting somewhere
and the greatest Faqih in the world was
sitting somewhere
and the greatest Quran are sitting somewhere.
I promise you from our own community,
people would rather go and read Islamic Studies
from a non Muslim at the university.
And when you actually read when you actually
read the riulm, you'll see how it's not
just a matter of
bigotry, but how really weak their,
foray into,
Islamic learning is.
But what is it? People say, you don't
have a degree. How are you gonna eat?
How are you gonna live? How are you
gonna go do go become a doctor, become
an engineer, go do a degree in
management finance, become a computer programmer.
The knowledge of this deen is to serve
the Lord.
The purpose of it is not to not
to make money. You will make money on
the way. Everyone has to make money. But
if that's your purpose, then what are you
you're learning for the sake of other than
Allah ta'ala, which is not a good thing.
It's not a good thing. We know that
this is a reason that people enter the
hellfire, and it's a reason that that this
entire world will be stopped at barakah and
get to the point that, that we're about
to describe.
Mazayyan al Masajid
and the people will spend money on
on beautifying masajid.
There is a degree to which it's matluob
that you should make the masjid beautiful.
But what is being mentioned in this hadith
is what?
People would rather go to a masjid that
the prayer times are not at the right
at the right time.
They would rather go to a masjid that's
financed on riba. They'd rather go to a
masjid in which the
the imam
or the person giving the khutbah is
a person who is aqari in the operatic
sense, not in the usuli sense.
And is not a person of not a
person of ilm and fiqh, but a person
who just tells people things that make them
feel better or tells stories fluff to pass
the time and not offend people.
They'd rather go for that experience rather than
going to a place where you can
see the deen being practiced, where the dhikr
of Allah Ta'ala is being made, where the
sunnah of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is
being
being fulfilled. They'd rather do those things.
And it may not be people in this
room, but there are a lot of people
like that. And more importantly, because why talk
smack about people who are not here right
now?
More importantly, all of us have a little
fraction of this tendency inside.
When you see something beautiful, you're like, that's
cool. Right?
When you see a nice building,
it makes you feel nice. Right? You see,
like, a brand new shopping mall. Who here
hasn't thought about that? That why is it
that, you know, shopping malls are so nice,
we can't build a masjid that's nice?
You're like local high schools in in town
are huge buildings. The Islamic schools look like
miskeen, like they look like the diseased goat.
You know? Why is that? The Madars people
are sitting on on woven straw mats.
Whereas even a community college, like, I've not
seen any Madrasa in the Indian subcontinent that
has a library bigger than than an average
community college in America. Why is that? A
person wonders why is that? And the fact
of the matter is truth is not in
buildings, truth is not in bricks, truth is
not in calligraphy,
truth is not in any of those things.
Truth stands on its own.
The Haqq is a sifa of Allah ta'ala
ultimately.
So,
Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala who mentions, he
says, they make the masajid beautiful
They've destroyed and they have,
desolated the hearts.
And people don't, you know, they cut off
their kinship
relatives.
Did I say the I right? Who's the
Hafiz? Right? That is it Are you like
Khosat Hanalada? Literally describes
of of Quresh that that, you know, in
the most stern of terms,
that you turn away and that you
make facade, you make mischief in the earth,
and you cut your your kinship ties from
one another. Like, this is a tintal of,
like, of of of complete,
of complete, like, debauchery of like really bad
people.
But it will become common. People to say,
yeah, you know what? My mom, you know,
she she I have issues and I'm not
gonna talk to her anymore. Yes. There are
some people. Like I've seen some people suffer
a lot like they're they've suffered,
you know, what do you tell what do
you tell a woman, like, who tells you
my father raped me?
This is not a normal thing. A normal
person, when hearing a sentence like that, should
be very disturbed.
It happens very rarely but it does happen.
What do you tell a person like that,
you know. What do you I tell them,
I say, look, if you can't see them
anymore, if you can't meet them anymore, don't
meet
them anymore. But you for you, the Birul
Walidayn is what? Is that still you ask
Allah to guide them and and, you know,
turn them away from this thing and forgive
them for Allah's sake.
But the point is even then, you know,
you don't let go a 100%. Say, yeah.
You just write the person off, khalas, done.
But this is going to be what what
happens near the end of time and we
ourselves see that this is something that becomes
more and more common with time.
This Ibarra is there in a hadith indeed,
Muwata Muhammad Malik as well with a even
stronger sun.
That you'll see that people there will be
so many there will be so many Quran
fancy Quran reciters and there'll be so few
people who,
understand the deen. Here, fitta is not just
the the in the it's it doesn't mean
the legal sense, which is
a a meaning of the term that comes
a little bit later.
But here it means understanding, which includes the
law. It includes
that includes,
it includes a kind of a holistic understanding
of the deen rather than just fancy recitation.
And people will wholesale stop
enforcing the the the limits of Allah. Ta'ala,
and here is also specific
a specific reference to the corporal punishments,
that are prescribed by, the Sharia,
the sacred Sharia for certain
types of transgressions, like for
being intoxicated
and for,
adultery
and for,
the wrong
the wrongful accusation of adultery
and the like.
That people will completely abandon it. And it's
one thing you know, look, the Muslim world
went through a lot of difficulty.
Colonization was not easy for any part of
the Muslim world. Even the parts that were
not colonized, they
they hung on barely.
And so a person might say they were
majbur. They were, like, compelled to, like, abandon
parts of the sharia.
Allah knows best. Allah will judge people.
But it's our that Allah forgives the people
who come to him in repentance.
I have no, like, need to, like,
consign people to the hellfire. But what's wrong
with what's wrong when you're sitting in Farmington
Hills,
Michigan?
You and I are neither
asked by anybody nor would it be valid
even if we were to try to enforce
a Hud punishment. You see someone drunk in
the streets and you try flogging them. It's
it's not without the sovereign the the the
wilay of the sovereign state, you can't even
do it.
What skin off of it off of your
back is it to say that this is
the the punishment that's prescribed by the book
of Allah and the sunnah of the prophet
But we see people that are like they
say this, popular people get invited to conferences
and things like that. Oh, you know, we
should have a moratorium on the hudud, and
but nobody's been forcing them in the first
place.
What benefit do you get by saying things
like this? But things like this, ridiculous emperor's
new clothes type of types of things like
this will be said by people, and they'll
be taken very seriously, in fact.
And you'll see that men will start to
behave and imitate women and women will start
to behave and imitate like men imitate men.
And men will go to other men for
their sexual fulfillment and women will go to
other women for their sexual fulfillment.
This will become a normal thing for people.
You can't talk about it anymore. You can't
even object to it anymore. I don't know
if there's any jurisdiction that's left,
a significant jurisdiction that's left in which there's
not some sort of prohibition
or criminalization
of,
even a person in a professional capacity telling
somebody who thinks this is normal, that it's
not normal, even though everybody knows it's not
normal.
Don't worry about whether people do it or
not. These are personal failings of people.
I have yateen inside my heart. Somebody who's
a mubtalah who's being tested by a lata'a
with this, interaction and they don't even have
enough strength to resist it. Right? Who am
I to judge? I don't resist so many
things myself.
I'm not saying it's okay but I'm just
saying there have been people in this Ummah
since relatively early who indulged in these things.
Some Muslim countries,
they probably indulge in these things probably at
a rate higher than they do in America.
If you live in those countries, you'll know
that.
However, nobody said it was normal. Nobody
considered it a good thing.
At the at the very maximum, someone would
think of it like, you know, like smoking
cigarettes. Like, everybody knows it's bad for you,
but some people just do it.
So the rasulullah was saying that when this
this becomes,
open,
Allah
at that time
send over them the Dajjal, the false messiah.
That
they will be placed over them until
until Allah takes vengeance from them.
So this is the the the kind of
the portrait of the way things will be
at the end of time. And I want
to move on and get through the material
that we're supposed to get to tonight.
But
what I wanted to just point out is
how
we see things like virality,
how we see things like social media influencers.
Right? Social media influencers are not just
a non Muslim phenomenon. We have them in
the Muslim community.
How we see people who are not scholars,
who are not trained in Deen,
and some of them very conveniently say we're
not scholars,
but they're still giving khutbas.
They're still the ones that are being, you
know, looked up to, when it comes to
deen. They're still the ones who put themselves
in the places where they get looked to
for deen.
This is a problem.
That the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he
very explicitly said
the the people of knowledge are the heirs
of prophets. And in particular, it's the people
of knowledge who practice what they what they
know.
Not the people of information. It's the people
of knowledge. It's not it's not it's the
olema. It's not theahlulahlulumat.
And this is affecting us. It's affecting people,
and we think of it as innocent, and
it's not innocent at all.
What it's doing is it's getting us to
a place where
Islam is no longer a way of life.
It's no longer a deen. It's no longer
a belief. It's no longer a conviction in
the heart, but it's, like, become like a
quasi race, like a pseudo race.
We're like,
I support your right to wear a hijab
and you support, you know, like my right
to marry another man or something like that.
And it's not like that the Hakanbatel,
they're not like you don't trade them equally
because they're, you know, it's like apples and
oranges. There's no real interaction between them.
And again, if as a community, we don't
have the we don't have the ability to
have the upper hand and straighten these things
out by force. Allah ta'ala
will not
burden a soul more than it can bear.
But, like,
at the same time
He said in a in a verse he
says in the in the world of the
heart,
I didn't see that the the British were
able to colonize.
Meaning what?
Inside of your heart you're free.
You can think and say whatever you want
to. Any evil that's there, it's because you
accepted it. Sha'ban can't even get into there.
That I didn't see inside of the world
of the heart, you know, that there's a
caste system.
It doesn't matter how poor you are.
People say, oh, look, Sheikh Sheik Ubar Haman.
This means there's no such thing as ulama.
This is a very foolish understanding. The point
is what the word Sheikh in the subcontinent
doesn't only mean here.
In the Siyak, it means a caste. That
there's no caste system that we have a
priestly caste that that,
you know, is over other people, and you
you can't
think or feel things in your heart
that anyone can ever stop you or restrict
you from it.
It's when we accept these things into our
hearts as being okay,
that's when that's when the foolishness happens. You
guys are all familiar with the emperor's new
clothes, the the story of the emperor's new
clothes,
right? That, the emperor you Yeah, Momo Yamher
Masha'Allah. I'm gonna tell a story just for
you, man. Right?
The
there's some like
tricksters, you know, hustlers. They're probably where from
where where I'm from.
Right? So they walk in and they pose
as tailors to the emperor and they say
we have this like set of clothes that
has a special quality that only smart people
can see them.
And so they weave their their hustle so
well
that the emperor is now like afraid to
admit that he can't see them because he
doesn't wanna look stupid.
And everybody else in the court, they don't
wanna look stupid.
So basically what happens is they sell him
this magical set of clothes at an exorbitant
price and then the emperor
actually goes out wearing these clothes which are
not clothes at all. Right? He goes out
and he humiliates himself. Everyone's like, oh look,
they look your clothes look beautiful, they look
wonderful, it's fashion, fashion, this and that and
the other thing, right. Which is actually kind
of not all that far fetched because people
the way they dress nowadays, right?
And then somebody like, you know, the village
idiots, like why isn't he wearing any clothes?
And then the whole thing kinda, like,
falls apart. We get to that point. Why?
Because we're afraid of what other people will
think, and we you know, when somebody else
goes along with a fraud, we go along
with it as well, and it becomes like
a kind of like a fake truth that
we
we all accept.
Whereas it's not true at all.
Look, you know, if you want to marry
someone of the same gender or you want
to pretend you're a gender that you're not
or any of these things, that's fine. I'm
not gonna beat you up. I'm not gonna
make fun of you. I'm not gonna, you
know, mock you. I'm not gonna, like, whatever,
like, make your life any more difficult than
it needs to be.
But at the same time, like, I'm not
gonna pretend that it's okay. You're still a
human being and whatever, but I'm not gonna
say that, like, yeah, you know, like, just
like a man and a woman, you know,
they have children and you're the same thing.
It's not the same thing.
It's not and but what is it? It's
the emperor's new clothes. There are doctors who
come and tell me. They say we're forced
to give treatment to people that are biologically
one gender according to the gender that they
identify as. There's biological differences. We're actually harming
the patient. We could get our medical licenses
taken away from us if we don't do
it. That's what I mean by the emperor
new clothes. We have to have, you know,
some
circle in which we remind the haqq to
one another.
And we say it and we say, look,
I can't do anything about what's going on
outside. If you can, if one of you
becomes the president, then power to you. Do
whatever, you know.
Make the world a better place. Right?
For the rest of us, you know, like,
what are we going to do? People say,
you know, Hakam Sheikh, you don't tell people
this, tell people that. I said, people don't
even believe me when I tell them how
to make I'm
gonna tell them about this, that, and the
other thing, you know.
But the thing is you can always accept
it inside your heart. Nobody else can attack
you inside there. Once you purge it from
there, then
then bad times bad times are over the
horizon.
So we read the first, the first this
the first set of Athar.
These are narrated in Ibn Majah.
And Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn ibn ibn Hanafi'ati
who is a son of Sayyidna Ali radiAllahu
anhu but from a mother other than Sayyidina
Fatima.
An Abihi,
Muhammad bin Hanafiya
That the Mahdi will be who? He will
be from amongst us, meaning the family of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And he'll
be such a man that the transformation of
of him being just from a normal person
into being the Imam Mahdi will happen, like,
overnight.
Like, he won't know he may not himself
even know who
that that this is who he's destined to
be, but when the time comes, Allah to
Allah will
will transform him and make him,
worthy of this mafam.
This is important. People say why is this
this is important. Why? Because there's a whole
bunch of people who claim that they're the
Mahdi. This has been a trope in, like,
Islamic history, like a comic
comical trope in Islamic history. Sometimes not so
comical. Right? Abdullah bin Tumart from the, Masmuda
tribe of Berbers claimed that he was the
Mahdi and he made takfir of anybody who
didn't accept it and he killed a great
number of people.
And the Ullama had mentioned that how could
he be Mahdi? He's Masmudi. He's from the
Masamidah. He's not a he's not from the
Ahlbayt to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Nowadays, there's a confusion between who's the Imam
Mahdi and who's the Imam Mahdi. That's that
might be from another family. But the Mahdi
alaihis salam is from the the family of
the Rasulullah alaihis salam.
Says Ibn Usayb alayhi wa sallam. Says that
we were talking about the Mahdi or
recite, you know, mentioning to one another what
we knew about the Mahdi.
And she said, I heard the messenger of
Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam say,
the Mahdi will be from the progeny of
Sayyafatim radiAllahu ta'ala.
Said that Alastair Malik radiallahu anhu said, I
heard from the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam that he said,
we,
the descendants of Abdul Muttalib,
shall be
the leaders, the foremost people from the people
of Jannah.
And then he named a number of people.
He said, myself
and Hamza,
the son of Abdul
Abdul
the brother of Sayna Ali who was shaheed
in the battle of Mu'ta.
Wal Hasunu al Hussainu
Sayyidashababi
Ahl Janati
and the Mahdi. That he mentioned that the
Mahdi is
from his family and that he will also
be from the
Right now we're gonna someone might say, well,
who is the Mahdi? We're gonna get to
it. We're gonna read these hadiths
in order and we're gonna get to it.
Like I said, this is kind of in
a the hadith are clustered according to narration
order rather than in order in in in
story order, and I did that on purpose
because if I wove it into a story,
it's very easy to get carried away and
go on tangents and to exaggerate things. I
want to give you what what what has
been handed down from the books of Hadith,
and the rest of it inshaAllah we can
talk about if we have time.
When Abdullah ibn al Harithi,
ibn jaz in his Zwedi,
bin Jaz al Zubaydi, he meant he narrates
that the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam said,
a people from the east,
meaning east of the Arabian Peninsula, a people
from the east will come
and they will be the ones who prepare
who prepare for the Mahdi his rule.
They'll prepare for the Mahdi'is rule.
This is important. It will it will,
I'll mention it in kind of conjunction with
the next couple of hadith.
These 2 hadith are connected to one another.
Abu Hurair radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu says the Messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam prophesized about the
end of time. He said when the great
battles
of the end of time happen,
Allah Ta'al will send a group of people
from the Mawali. The Mawali
literally means like freed slaves.
Then it will go on to mean converts
to Islam from amongst outside of the Arab
tribes,
but what it means essentially is non Arabs.
Now, Masha'Allah, we have some Arab brothers and
sisters here. We have some non Arab brothers
and sisters sisters here, we have some non
Arab brothers and sisters here as well.
And this is a trick of shaitan to
make division between people.
And sometimes our Arab brothers and sisters are
are not fair with us and sometimes we're
not fair with them.
It's the truth.
But the fact of the matter is that
the Maqam of the Arabs the
the Maqam of the Arabs over other people
is
mentioned by the head the the Quran itself.
Allah ta'ala says
that that the Quran being sent is a
vicar. If you look in the books of
tafsir, the meaning of vicar here is shut
off.
It's honor. That this is an honor that's
sent for you,
You Rasul. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ira Rasul.
Rasul. And for your people. Who's the qaum
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam? The
qaum of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
is the Arabs.
The ummah of the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam is all of us, but if you
look in the Quran,
all of the when they say,
the qumah
of of of Sayna
Hudha alaihis salam is who? It's Ad.
The ones who believe amongst them and the
ones who disbelieve. That's his Qom. That's his
people.
The Qom of Salih alaihi sallam is who?
It's Samud.
That's his people.
The Qom of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam
is who?
It's the Arabs. It's the the Croatian is
the Arabs
and Islam the
the kind of Islam flying high in the
sky. Sky. Do you think the Christian Arabs
didn't benefit from it?
Of course they benefited from it. Of course
they benefited from it.
The entire Qom of the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam benefited from Islam whether they accepted
iman or they didn't.
The Munafiqin, they all benefited from it as
well as the believers did.
And so what is it? The honor of
the Arabs? It doesn't make halal in the
haram and haram in the halal. It doesn't
mean that someone's allowed to cheat you or
steal you or behave poorly with you, but
we should accept this fact. We should mention
this fact out of love for the Quran,
out of love for the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam that there is an honor in
in in in Arabness.
On the flip side,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala brought all of these
nations into the deen.
As an Arabi, you should be proud of
it, you should not resent such people.
And there are many examples of why that's
the case. This hadith is a beautiful example,
which is what That at the end of
time, the Arabs will be the brunt of
whatever happens to the Muslims, the brunt of
it's gonna happen to the Arabs. It's just
the way it is.
These two things will not be separated until
Yom O Piyama.
And so what is the Rasool, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam say saying that the people who
come to the aid of the, of of
the Arab at that time will be who?
They'll be Moali. They'll be like, you know,
black people and Pakistanis and Indians and Bangalis
and Malaysians and Turks and, like, all of
these different people from these different Aqwam.
And the Rasul salallahu alaihi wa sallam described
them how as they'll be the the best
cavalry and they'll be the ones with the
best armament and weapons.
And who are they, you know, Ayuh al
Arab. Who are they? There to help. They're
there to help you guys.
They're there to help you.
They're there for Allah made them. Musakhar Allah
subjigated
them to your service, to your benefit. Why
shouldn't you be happy about it? You should
be happy about it. It should be a
source of pride for you. You shouldn't resent
such people. Rather, you should see their their
progress in Islam and you should be happy
about it, alhamdulillah.
That this is an honor that they how
much honor they bring, this is how much
more honor your your honor will increase as
well.
And
Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
be him a deen. Allah, ta'ala, use such
a people and he will assist and aid
the deen through them.
Don't let Shaiban
make his wasawas between people and divide them.
Rather, alhamdulillah, we're, we're we're people. We're different.
All of us are different in our culture
and in our tongue and in our habits
and everything, but Allah brought us together for
mutual benefit for one another. Don't listen to
the person who speaks ill of the Arabs.
Don't listen to the Arabi who speaks ill
of the of the of the other nations
of the earth. That's not that's not what
this deen is about.
Continuing that those are the people who are
going to be the the
the the ones who are there to aid
the Imam Mahdi alayhis salam at the end
of time.
And Abdullahi, yani ibni misrudin radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
Can someone in the mixer just turn the
gain a little bit down? Just so we
don't get that Freddy Krueger effect in the
back.
And so this hadith is next set of
hadith are,
then narrated,
I believe in, Abu Dawood.
That JazakAllah Khairun for that.
The next set of hadith are learned in
Abu Dawl.
That
salamah radiAllahu ta'ala.
No. No. I'm sorry.
Where are we?
There we go.
'Abdulla bin Masood radiAllahu, one who narrates that
the prophet said,
even if
the life of the duniya is completely gone
and there's only one day left, So that
day definitely,
will not pass. Meaning, even if Allah needs
to make it longer in order for this
to happen, he'll do so. But that day
will not pass until
he,
raises,
in it, a man from me or in
a narration from my family.
His name will be my name. Meaning what?
Muhammad
alayhis salatu wa sama. And the name of
his father will be the name of my
father. Meaning he will also be Muhammad bin,
'ibnu Abdillah.
And then
in the hadith of 1 of the narrators,
it's mentioned the narration that he will fill
the earth with justice
and with fairness and with justice and fairness
just like,
the world is filled with transgression and with
tyranny.
In the hadith of Sufyan, uh-uh,
says that,
the dunya will not go away or it
will not not
expire until
such a man will
rule
over the have sovereign authority over the Arabs
from my family and his name will be
my name.
Ali radiAllahu who narrates it, the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam said, even if there were
only one day,
from all of time, only one day left.
Allah would indeed
raise a man from my family,
who would come and fill it with justice
just like it was filled with tyranny.
When
sorry,
it was narrated from her that she said,
I heard the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
say that the mandi will be from my
family from the progeny of Fatima radiAllahu
ta'ala anha.
Al Mahdi yum minni.
Ajmal jabhati.
Akmal Anfi.
Sayyid Abu Sayyid al Khudr radiAllahu anamunari. It's
at the messenger
a broad forehead,
that it's not gonna be covered with hair,
rather it will be a broad forehead,
is
when it describes the nose, it means something
very particular that's a long nose
that's thin. It's not a fat nose or
a thick nose. It's a long nose that's
thin but it has a high, bridge
in it. There's a bit of a bridge
in it near the top of the of
the nose. So this is a physical description
and this is a description that the commentators
say was considered to be a sign of
of handsomeness amongst the Arabs, meaning he's gonna
be a handsome man. He's not going to
be a man of of ugly countenance,
unlike who? Unlike the Dajal who we'll talk
about tomorrow. It'll be the opposite of him.
That he will fill the earth with justice
and fairness just as it was filled with
tyranny and with transgression
and he will rule for 7 years. And
this is mentioned in this hadith.
Now for those who wanted to, you know,
hear
a little bit more of a narrative, this
hadith of Tirmidi is a bit of a
narrative of how
who okay. So we know that the Imam
Mahdi, obviously, by this point is from the
family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Right?
And we know
that he will be a handsome man, and
we know how long he's going to rule,
And we know that he's going to come
and things are gonna be really messed up
and he's going to,
straighten them out.
Okay. So here's a narrative account narrative account
from Sayedid Umsalama radiAllahu anha with regards to
him.
That what will happen is a a great
ruler will die
And
successions
are a time of strife.
They're a time of uncertainty.
One might say, well, like, you know, that's
something in the Arab world, you know, that's
something with Muslims, that's not here. We have,
like, whatever. Okay. Well, now you saw the
weird guy with half his face painted blue
with, like, horns or whatever
stealing Nancy Pelosi's laptop or whatever. Right? It's
a problem. Succession is a problem.
So what happens is that there'll be there'll
be some some strife at the time of
succession,
And a man from Madinah Munawara,
Zadahullah Wusharafan,
he will he will flee from Madinah because
he's he's he's gonna be a person that
people respect and they'll come to him,
like, to kinda, like, mediate this, and he's
gonna wanna, like, not have any part of
it. No involvement at all with it. So
he'll flee from Medina and go to Makkah
Bukarama.
Right?
Running away from God's fate
right into God's faith.
And,
the people of Mecca will recognize him and
they'll put him out into the spotlight in
front of everybody
Even though he he's like, no. I don't
wanna I don't want this. You know, I
don't wanna do
this. And then they're going to,
give him the oath of allegiance, meaning say
that you're the one that that that we
choose to rule after, after all of the
succession, not any of the contenders. They're all
jokers. You're the one we wanna follow.
And they will all give him their oath
of allegiance,
between the black stone and between
the, Maqam Ibrahim,
meaning in the most sacred place in the
entire Masjid Al Haram.
And
a army will be sent in order once
this they find out this has happened, an
army will be sent from the north
in order to destroy in order to destroy
him. Like, oh, look, you know, the you
know, these,
they're probably call them terrorists. Right? Because that's
any Muslim you don't like is automatically terrorists,
you know, and they have words for Hispanic
people and for black people and for Native
Americans and for, you know, all kinds of
other people they don't like. But for for
us, you know, they'll probably, yeah, we're gonna
go get the terrorists. Okay, class. They're gonna
come from the North in order to cut
cut down these pious and righteous people,
and the entire army will be swallowed up
by the earth,
in an open a part of open desert
between
between Makka and Madin al Munawara, between Makkamu
Adham and Madin al Munawara.
It's interesting the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam describes this army that there will
be people in it that are just there
because of their hatred of deen, and there'll
be people in it who are just there
to do their job,
and they don't think about, like, moral issues.
And there'll be people in it that actually
think that, like, this person must be a
charlatan, like, how could he really be the
Mahdi and we're just there to put down
fitna. Because,
you know, we've see all of us have
seen like fakers and we're just we don't
have any mood for that. Right? And the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said
he not all of them are gonna go
to, like, Jannam.
If a person participated in that army not
knowing what was going on and with a
good intention, Allah will give him that. And
if a person was just doing their job,
they're not going to be judged the same
way as the person who did it out
of hatred of Din. Everybody will be raised
according to what their intention was but the
point is that the army will be swallowed
up. People will say, wow, maybe this is
the actual Mehdi.
Because the army getting swallowed up by the
earth is kind of a big deal.
At
that time,
This
is a really interesting part of the hadith.
It's a hadith of Tirmiddhi.
Okay?
This is a hadith of Tirmiddhi
That at that time, the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he mentions
that,
the Abdal of Sham will come to take
Be'ah to give the oath of allegiance to,
the Mahdi, alayhis salam, and the Asa Abu
Ahlil Iraq will also do the same. Now
who are the Abdal of Sham and who
are the Asa'ibuhlil
Iraq?
These are two stations of wilayah of sainthood.
People say, oh, man. We got him now.
He's talking all this hadith now. He's talking
this kind of weird hocus pocus Sufi stuff.
Right? It's a hadith of Tirmidi.
I tell you, you go look in look
in the commentaries of the hadith of Tirmidi.
Go look in the ancient commentaries, look in
the middle of classical commentaries, and look in
the later commentaries.
There's another there's another,
author in which he explains Someone asked for
the Abdal al Sham.
The word Abdallah is a plural of the
word badal or badil or abdali.
All three of those words give the meaning
of what that when that there's an exchange
going on. Says
Nala mentions that these are such a people
that they're stationed with Allah ta'ala. Allah gives
them this station. It's not something you can
do by like reading a lot of namaz
or whatever. Right? By praying a lot and
being real pious. Rather you pray and be
pious. There there's certain people Allah picks them
and He raises them into these stations
and then when they get to that station,
that person that person their duas become answered
and they they are used by Allah Ta'ala
for things
in regards to the service of his deen
that are that normal people don't have to
fear from.
And the reason that idea of Badalah exchange
is there in the name is that whenever
one of them dies,
Allah Ta'al will raise another one into their
maqam, into their station. And And this is
if you look at the the footnote,
right, there's a footnote
at the end of the
Yeah.
Let's see.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. The second footnote over there.
This is like Hafiz ibn Hajjar and like
all these other people. There are authorities in
hadith basically that are explaining what I'm saying
right
now. And so at any rate, the the
the the the the the the the the
the the the the the the the are
these people
and there's a certain number of them 40
or 70 or whatever, you know, like there's
a lot of detail to it. But the
idea is that these these are who the
people of the rasul, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
is referring to.
And
they are in the ummah right now as
we speak and it's a form of madadah,
it's a form of aid that Allah gives
to the ummah that there are certain people
who are given
extra help,
unnatural, supernatural help. You and me may not
see them because we're, like, busy at the
mall or whatever, right, Or watching kitty cat
videos on YouTube or whatever.
But they're there,
and Islam didn't make it as far as
it made made it just because, like, we
throw really good fundraisers or because we have
good like samosas at like our iftar parties.
You know, there's some there's madad from Allah
Ta'ala. This deen didn't reach all of the
places it reached and it didn't survive all
the trials and tribulations that survived without Allah's
madad.
And so the idea is what? Is that
once that that army gets swallowed by the
earth, all of these people will then themselves
and it's not like they're gods, they're not
like Superman, Marvel characters or whatever. They have
madad but they're still also believers.
That those abdaw will they'll come they'll come
to, they'll see it. It will be clear
as day that this is our guy and
they'll come to take Be'a with him.
And the the Asa'ib al Anil Iraq is
those people of that Maqam of sainthood but
from Iraq they're
referred to a different name. Usbah is one
of the meanings of Usbah is the best
of a people. The Usbah of a Qom
is the best of that Qom. That the
oliya of Iraq are referred to on the
tongue of prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam as the
Asaid and the oliya of Misra are referred
to as the Nujabah
in a different in a different hadith. But
this is something that amongst the Muslims wherever
they are, Allah Ta' gives his mother. There
are certain people who Allah gives a special
help to. Insha'Allah, you find those people and
you benefit from them. If it's one of
you, insha'Allah, make du'a for me.
They'll
all come and they'll take the oath of
allegiance with him.
You always have haters from your own family.
What are you gonna do? Right?
If the Imam Mahdi isn't free from it,
then what are you you and me gonna
do? Right? Just gotta cope with it. So
what happens is that the Rasul sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam said at this point, somebody who
who kind of is jealous of him or
resents him from Quraysh, she'll himself be from
Quraysh,
but his maternal side of his family will
be from the Kalb tribe.
That he will call, his akhwal, he will
call his maternal family basically to back him
up. And 12 chieftains of the tribe of
Kalb will will bring their contingents, their armies
with them
in order to fight fight them.
And Allah will give him victory over over
them as well.
Over them as well. Right? Quraysh is the
family of the prophet is also Quraysh. So
all of Quraysh should be happy. Look, this
is our guy, but
sadly, that's not how that works.
You and me, let's not be petty like
that either. Right? When we see one of
our relatives doing good, you know, even if
they have some things that are not good
about them or whatever, it may
Make it better. Don't be a hater.
Don't don't be don't be a don't be
alligator. Don't don't do that. It's not it's
not nice.
So
and during his rule, the people will,
make amal. They will practice according to sunnah
their Nabi sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
And this is an interesting,
expression.
The jaran is the
the the front side of the neck. And
so what happens is, like a camel, when
it drinks and when it's relaxed,
it will sit down and it will lay
its neck,
like, against
the ground.
So the point is that Islam will be
in such a good condition that it if
it was a camel, it would lay its
like neck down and relax
because of
the all the khair that this Mahdi brings
into the world.
Again, it's not gonna be for free, there's
like strife that happens. But once all those
things clear up,
the people will return to their deen and,
the people of Islam will feel the the
the goodness of of what that means.
That he will rule for 7 years as
was mentioned in the narration before and when
he passes away the muslims will pray his
janazah.
So we have 3 more 3 more hadiths
inshaAllah. If we have time we can have
question and answer and if not then inshaAllah
we can
regroup for tomorrow.
This is the last narration. These narrations are
all from Abu Dawood.
Abu Ishaq narrates from Ali radhiallahu anhu that
he once looked at his son, Sayyid al
Hassan radhiallahu anhu alaihi was salam.
And he said that indeed, this son of
mine is a Sayyid, he's a leader.
And this is a reference to another hadith
of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
in which the Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
Munsasidna
al Hasan radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu playing.
And he said,
in nabnihadah
That this son of mine is a leader
and insha'Allah,
it's my hope that and it's very likely
that Allah, ta'ala, will use him to
make reconciliation between 2 great groups of my
umadat 5 that are
opposed to each other. This is a reference
prophecy of the Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
that when Sayna Ali was
assassinated and the people of Iraq took Be'a
with Sayna al Hassan as Khalifa,
He negotiated with Sayyid Al Mu'awiya and he
gave up the Khalifa just so the civil
war would end.
And Sayyid Ali Allahu Han who called him
a Sayyid, he says that just like your
prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam called him a
Sayyid, he says I'm saying he's a Sayyid
and I'll tell you something else as well.
That it's from his from his,
loins that the Mahdi will will will come.
And the Olamah mentioned that this is as
if he's saying it's a gift
for him being
solely faced and having no ego at all.
That the hookahum was given to him and
it was rightfully to make reconciliation between the
Muslims. That this is this is a honor
that he was he he's given by Allah
to Allah, which is nice,
That this is this is an honor that
he was he's given by Allah ta'ala, which
is nice. Right? Like,
there are very few things that Allah is
more pleased with than a person who
goes between 2 people who are fighting and
reconciles between them. And there are very few
things more hateful to Allah than a person
who causes 2 people to fight when they
were they were okay before with one another.
So that's something we can learn from it
as well.
But
what happens, he says that he says,
who says that,
that from his loins will come forth
a man who will be of the same
name as your Nabi and he will he
will be similar to your Nabi alaihis salaam
in his character,
even though he won't exactly look like him
physically.
And then he mentions
a number of things, until mentioning that he
will fill the earth with justice.
And so I wanna I wanna you know,
this is not like the point of this
is not a sectarian
rant or whatever, but I wanna point something
out. People should know this, right.
The that that call themselves the they
they
they believe almost all of them,
believe what?
That the Mahdi is from the line of
saying that Hussein
And here is
a a a sound narration, which is what?
That he's not going to be from the
line of Sayyidina Husayn that the person they
consider to be the Mahdi is not the
Mahdi at all.
That he's going to be from the lineage
of Sayyidina Hasan radiwa ta'ala anhu. And this
is something to keep in mind, not to
get into fights with people, but I think
oftentimes our people don't study our own
literature well. And, the reason the reason that
they consider the Mahdi to be from the
line of Sayna Hussain is purely political
because they're the people that they consider to
be their political leadership,
were not from that line.
But the athar indicate that the Mahdi will
be from the
And that these political things were, introduced later
on. But this is our belief that you'll
be from the lineage of Sayyidun Hasan alayhi
And and so this hadith is narrated by
Chimili.
That,
Sinha
Abu Sayedal
Abu Sayedal Khudir radiAllahu anhu said that we
were afraid,
you know, that something shouldn't, like, kind of
blindside us after the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam leaves. So we started asking questions
about what will happen later.
And so, he said that the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, indeed, in
my ummah is the the Mahdi. The word
Mahdi is has the same rudas, by the
way, as the word, like, huda, hidayah, guidance.
Mahdi is the one who's rightly guided or,
like, fully and completely guided.
That that that he says that indeed in
my ummah will be, the Mahdi.
An imam who's filled with guidance,
he will, when he comes out, he'll live
for 5, 7, or 9 years, and this
is a doubt of the narrator. The narrator
wanted to be honest and say I don't
remember the number exactly. We know from the
other narrations that it's probably 7. But this
is the amount of hadith is that if
you don't know or if you don't remember,
you just admit, you know, that I don't
know I don't know exactly. I'm my memory
is shaky in this matter.
And we said, what what does that mean?
Meaning what are these 579?
He said
meaning years.
These are years that I'm mentioning.
And,
a man will come to him and say,
oh Mahdi,
give me give me. Meaning he needs he
asked for, like, for for for assistance, for
monetary assistance.
And, he will he will give to him.
He'll fill his, like, you know, like a
person has
the the, like, the, the
well, how would you say this in English?
Right. The the the front of their their
their their garber, their tunic, that they would
be able to fill it up and carry
more wealth than they're able to carry, which
is a lot of wealth.
It's a lot of wealth. And it also
indicates it may not be Bitcoin or NFTs,
but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna get
into that right now.
Everyone feel free to jump me on the
way to the car after the program.
So,
he'll give him as much as as much
as he's able to carry. Meaning what?
That with the guidance and with the amal
and the sunnah, Allah Ta'al will restore Baraka,
which is what happens whenever people take the
path of righteousness.
And this is the last hadith and,
it reiterates and reemphasizes
those things that we mentioned from before.
That the
last day,
will or the last hour will not be
established until the earth is filled with transgression
and with enmity.
And people just enemies of one another, a
transgression and with enmity,
then a man will come out from my
family
and he will fill it
with justice and with fairness
just as it was filled with,
transgression and with enmity.
And so this is a setup for tomorrow.
And the
kind of
spoiler is what is that the dajjal, that
this year, this period of time in which
there is
justice and there is goodness in the earth.
It's a limited time.
Allah helps the Ummar
basically pull itself together,
so that when the Dajjal comes it doesn't
scatter it.
They're somewhat prepared, they're pulled together, and they're
able to, like, regroup with one another and
face that
face that fitna. But before the Mahdi passes
away, the dajjal will be raised,
which was described by the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
as the the, sharu fitnatinyun talarw, the most
evil tribulation that anyone has ever, anticipated.
And, you know, we'll talk about him in
detail tomorrow.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reward you for listening
carefully. Like I said, I tried not to
make this into, like, the whole story book,
yell and scream thing, but to give you
the information straight from the books of hadith,
the reputable books of hadith, and merely to
explain what's what's there. And those things I
know that people are gonna have a hard
time digesting. I gave the references as well
if somebody needs the notes. I haven't translated
this today's portion yet. Tomorrow's portion, most of
it is translated, so I can share those
as well.
But I wanted to give these things to
you so you can think about them. What
does this mean and how close are we
to that era? You know, the things we
mentioned in the beginning of tonight's talk, How
much do you does it seem to describe
the the time and the age that we
live in?
And,
you know,
you know, what does what does all of
this mean, so that we don't get caught,
by all of these things unaware?
Because the people who study and the people
who have the knowledge, Rasuulullah
gave us all the answers to the exam
ahead of time.
If we then get caught unaware and unprepared,
and we failed the exam anyway, we have
really no one to blame but ourselves.
But alhamdulillah, mashallah barak to all of you
gathered here to hear
what the Rasul salallahu alayhi wasalam had to
say about these things. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
make it a source of barakah, and Allah
ta'ala push away fitna,
from us and from our families and from
our children, and, give us a tawfiq to,
live according to the sunnah of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and
always with our tongues moist and our lips
moist with the dhikr of Allah ta'ala,
MusallAllahu ta'ala, or rasulhissaidu Muhammaduallaahu
Sa'bihajmain.