Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Imms Log ICC Friday 12272019
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Tonight's talk is not gonna be all that
long.
I,
today was somewhat of a busy day
on top of the, Masjid fundraiser. We had
a blood drive
in the in the gym.
I think some of some of our, some
of our
younger attendees
haven't gone to the blood drive evidenced by
their spunkiness,
When you get a little bit older. But,
I'm a big believer in these types of
things. I'll ask you a question. I'm a
big believer in these types of things. Allah
rewards a person who is there to help
another person.
Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam said, wallahu fiyaunil
abdi makanil abdu fiyauni aafihe.
If a person,
if a person as long as a person
is there to help his brother, Allah is
there to help you.
And so I'm a big supporter of these
types of things. Complete way of life,
but the person who's putting on the blood
driver is not sitting in the
and the person who's sitting in the is
not making and the person who's making is
not,
you know, is not, you know, involved,
the political,
affairs of the Muslims, and the person who's
involved in the political affairs of the Muslim,
not, you know, doing some other thing or
another. And, all of these things are interconnected.
And it's true that a person
only has a certain amount of time in
the day and a certain amount of bandwidth.
And some people are better at certain things
than others.
But in general, we should have a holistic
out
And all of these things, whenever whoever is
supporting the deen and whoever is doing some
work of the deen,
and any service for the creation of Allah
ta'ala is the work of deen. We should
we should also have a part of it.
We should consider that to be our work,
not somebody else's work. That's our work, even
if only inside the
message, all the different services. And like there's
a lot of stuff people come to the
message for help.
Wouldn't
think of, like, you know, they wouldn't think
that this type of stuff is happening. Right?
Somebody is, like, feeling suicidal. They say, I'm
gonna kill myself, Sheikh. What
do I do? I feel like killing myself.
Like a normal person who comes to the
message for salat is not like
does it think about those things. Or like
people who call in weird parts of the
night and they'll say, well, Or like people
will call in weird parts of the night
and they'll say, well,
like I got a call 1,
Shay, my fiance is a Muslim. I'm not
a Muslim. And he never told me about
Islam, but I'm really interested in Islam. I
didn't get a call. I'm sorry I got
a text message. And
I'm like, who is this? What you know,
the number was like from a different state.
So I was thinking I have been in
non in different states before. So I'm like,
what's where are you even from? No. I'm
from the area, but, the number is from
somewhere. So I'm like, what's where are you
even from? No. I'm from the area, but,
the number is from somewhere. So area, but,
the number is from somewhere else. So, you
know, you text message somebody for like 45
minutes at night, and then they take the
through text message.
It's like an interesting thing, like nobody would
ever know that things like that happen because
you know, there are people's private issues. Right?
So today,
I got right after the right after Salatul
Jummah, we shared some of those stories, you
know,
right after Salatul Jummah,
I got a call
From a Muslim doctor in,
in a branch of the Cleveland Clinic. They
have like, what, like 15 hospitals or something
like that in their area. So it's it's
it's or something like that in their so
it's
it's closer it's actually close to the it's
closer to the other side of town. It's
on the other side of downtown somewhere. It's
very close to downtown, but it's like east
of downtown.
So the call was a Muslim doctor who
happened to be on, like, duty in the
neonatal clinic, like, the word little like babies
are, like babies who are really sick. And
so he said, there's a Muslim family here
who doesn't speak a lick of English. I
thought maybe they speak Arabic. They don't speak
Arabic either. They speak French and they speak,
Pulari. It's a language in West Africa
they had a baby that was born with
extensive brain damage, and there's nothing they can
do for the baby.
And they told them that we have to
pull the plug. There's no, you know, there's
no way that we can that this baby
is gonna
survive. And, so
the the husband and wife, they have another
really small son. He must not have been
like more than 2 years old. Can come
and, like, just be with them while the
while this happens, because they have nobody.
And Cleveland Clinic apparently hires a full time
imam,
and that that imam is in, like, on
vacation or something like that. So the the
the the,
you. Know about this message. Can you kind
of come help? So, like, in basically, on
my way to go and give blood,
I got this call as well. So we
sucked out a pint of blood. Can you
imagine this the the the people at the
blood bank, they're like,
I sat down and Sheikh Yaz from Akron,
he was here. He wanted to talk about
something. They're like, Your pulse is too high.
I said, of course my pulse is too
high. I just got done screaming at everybody
from the member, then I came down, and
then I screamed at everybody to give the
messenger the money.
So they're
like, okay, just chill out for a little
bit. If your pulse comes down a little
bit, then we'll take the blood. So I
sat I sat, I chilled out. They took
the
and, then I headed to the I headed
to the Cleveland Clinic.
And,
you know, can you imagine that? Like, it's
like literally the baby is this big. I
said, how old is the baby? They said
they said, like, 3 days, 2 days, something
like that.
And the poor thing was born with, like,
very extensive brain damage. The head was swollen,
and the eyes were swollen of the poor
baby.
Living
baby. She was very cute. She was very
like, you know, precious little thing. And I
was just thinking like, you know, this is,
my own children when they were born. Like,
maybe it'll remind you guys of your nieces
and nephews, brothers and sisters, little brothers, little
sisters, just a small baby. You know?
And this poor mother was just crying.
And,
the doctor who had called me, he said,
go drive your car into the valet,
valet. Just drop it off at the valet.
We'll cover
the charge of, like, parking the car. But,
like, they want you to be there when
the plug is pulled and they've been waiting
for
one of the nurses volunteered even though her
shift was over, but because she spoke French,
she volunteered to translate. Because I don't speak
Polari, and they don't speak Arabic, Urdu, or
Punjabi, or English for that matter. You know?
So they they spoke French, and, the nurse
spoke French as well. So she translated.
And so the the the brother the father
of the baby was was saying that we
just, you know, we just wanted someone here
to make dua and to like, you know,
read, you know, read something while while this
is happening
And, maybe to say some things to us.
And so I told them, it's a hadith
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. I
pulled it up,
lest I, you know, read the hadith incorrectly.
And so I'll share it with you right
now. There's really there's a lot of hadith
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam having to
do with dealing with the loss of the
child.
But, you know, I was, like, literally
looking up looking looking it up on the,
while driving.
And
so,
you know, which is not really the safest
thing to do. But,
essentially the hadith is as follows.
Let's see.
I thought I took a screenshot, but I
didn't. It says,
Al Asha Ali Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu. And Nurasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
So hadith of Tilmidi,
and,
it's narrated by Abu Musa Al Ashari radiAllahu
anhu. He said that when the when the
child of my slave or when the child
of a slave dies,
Allah says to his angels, did you did
you take, the the child of my slave?
And the angels say, yes. And he says,
did you like did you pick the fruit
straight out of his heart? Did you take
the fruit of his heart?
And they say, yes. And he Allah asked
the angels then, what did my slave say?
And, they say, he praised you.
And,
he said,
that we belong to Allah
and, to Allah we return.
And so Allah most high says to the
angels built for him a a house in
Jannah and call it the house of praise.
Call it the house of
harm. And it's really interesting, you know, like
this,
this, brother from like magic, he speaks Polari.
Polari, most of you probably have never even
heard of the language before much as you've
heard the language or know anything about it.
So this nurse who's French is not really
all that great. It was like high school
Spanish level.
And I'm telling her I'm telling her I
I said this part that Allah asked the
angels, what did my slaves say? And he
said they he praised you and he said
that we belong to Allah and to him
to return. And she's translating these words in
the in the,
And the the, the brother says, in Arabic.
He said, in He understood exactly what was,
you know, what was being said to him
even though it was coming through, like, all
of these, like, whatever, 3rd hand 3rd hand
languages. It's a language translated by somebody who
doesn't know the language they're translating in. So
So, you know, this is a hadith of
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
that,
there's so many hadith like this about the
dealing with the loss of a child.
Prophet
Essentially, what it is, is that when like
a little baby dies, you know, the babies,
especially those babies that died before the
becoming morally responsible, before becoming an adult and
responsible for their for their own actions. Obviously,
you know, the most of the the those
children, they're not even held to account on
the day of judgement. So when the baby
dies, you know, the those children, they're not
even held to account on the day of
judgement.
Children, they're not even held to account on
the day of judgement.
That those children on the day of judgement
have like the angel who'll be like they're
like they're like baby sitters. And so he'll
say, go take them, take these little souls
into into jannah now.
And when they're at the gate of Jannah,
they'll raise a hue and cry. They'll start
screaming and and and making a big fuss
in the middle of Yom Kiyama.
And the angels say, Allah, what do we
do with them? They're they're making a fuss
now. And,
what's the fuss about? It's that we're not
gonna enter into Jannah without our parents.
And so Allah says, okay, fine. Tell them,
take their parents with them.
And so there's a hikmah, allata'a has hikmah
and and all of these things. You know,
has hikma in all of these things. It's
really bitter sometimes hard to understand.
So this this
father and this mother, poor thing, she was
crying and their baby is there, and the
baby is like, has the tubes inside, the
breathing tubes inside of its throat. And they
said, please just make dua.
And so the dua of the messenger of
Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam, just because the
doctors say the baby is gonna die, it
doesn't mean that the doctors have like, you
know, the angel of death on speed dialer.
They they don't know. Nobody knows. And so
the hadith of the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallam is what? Is that if a person
ever gets to a point, you know, the
the question was asked of the messenger of
Allah, is it okay to pray for death?
And he says, no. Don't don't pray for
death. Don't ask for death. But if you're
if you really get pushed to the point
where, like, it's really hard to go on,
then then you're allowed to ask Allah.
Oh, give me life as long as life
is good for me,
and take me away as long as,
being taken away is good for me. And
so, we we we made dua and that
was one of the duas that we made.
There are so many duas of the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam to deal with,
you know, being in a situation like that.
And so,
you know, even though it was a baby,
the baby is not, like, morally responsible or
anything. The sunnah is that when somebody is
dying, the
the person who is dying while they're dying
is that you make the that you instruct
the the person dying
You say. And the with the Masih, don't
tell the person.
Don't say.
Just just gently repeat it. You don't have
to keep saying
constantly. Just like every minute, every 2 minutes,
just say
until the person passes.
Why? The shaytaan comes to a person when
they when they're dying.
Force the person to mess everything up.
Right? Why doesn't Shaitan do it while you're
alive? Because if he does it while you're
alive, you see Shaitan while you're alive, you're
gonna freak out and run to the masjid,
and you're gonna become a pious person real
quick. It's a let's do some zikr, man.
I don't want any shaitan again.
It'll be a proof. Even the kafar, they'll
be like, wow. Everybody's, you know, sees this
shaytan just like it's written in the Quran.
Right? So shaytan will come like that hard
right after end.
And you'll see weird things to a person.
You'll see, die die
isn't the religion of the the Christian so
good? You know, you should
this religion of the Nasala. You should accept
this religion of the yahoo. There's really no
God. There's this. And they'll say all these
things to you and try to just mess
with you knowing what your weakness is.
And so what happens is the other man
mentioned that when a person is dying and
you say, you say to him, say, la
ilaha illallah, the person would be saying no,
no. What he's saying is he's saying no
to the Sheydan. And What he's saying is
he's saying no to the shaitan.
And it's looks like to everybody else that
that person committed kufr,
and that's not what's happening.
That's not what's happening. So the adab is
what? Because you you know, you may see
somebody who's dying at some point.
Next to their bed and just every couple
of every couple of minutes, every minute, every
minute
and
half, just repeat softly.
And so the baby, obviously, the baby is
not gonna say. Or is the baby morally
responsible for any of these things. But the
sunnah for
you know, even for a little baby. It's
not a fun process. They pull the breathing
tubes out of the baby's, throat, and the
baby couldn't breathe anymore. You can see the
chest, like,
constricting, trying to, like, get a breath in
and just slowly, like, you know, like, every
time that would happen, I would put my,
my,
hand on the baby's head.
Why? Because when, you know, when a human
being feels the touch of another human being,
it calms them down a little bit. The
baby's mother is, like, completely, like, out of
it. Struggling just to take care of her
other child who must have been around 2
years old. And so every time you see
the baby struggling, you know, and you just
put your hand on the baby and just
try to
provide it with some sort of comfort and
slowly feel the the the warmth of the
body of the child go away.
And the child died, you know, the child,
is dying right in front of your eyes.
And, what you do is you sit and
you say, and,
you know, you just you you don't know
you don't know what to do or what
to say except for you just have to
trust that this is a hikmah of Allah
ta'ala,
you know, in his creation that he does
these things for a reason. And one day,
we'll know what the what the hikmah is.
Will know what the hikmah. Who knows? Maybe
the child
grows up and,
you know, like life is difficult and who
knows who would stay on the path of
guidance, who would go through what difficulty.
The difficulty of this world is hard enough
to swallow. Imagine the difficulty of the which
lasts forever. And so you just have to
go through these, you know, you have to
go through these types of
not like, oh, look, you know, I have
a turbine, so, like, this becomes easy. It's
not easy,
You know? You you feel like almost numb
when you're done with it, like dizzy and
numb and like you don't know what's going
on,
in life. But it's a reminder like, I
wanna I wanna have this type of phone
and I this type of car and this
type of
house and this type of job and so
and so has this many followers on Instagram
and all this other nonsense. And then you
see the mother of the child is like
literally right there. She cried so much that
she doesn't have any tears left
left to cry. And her baby, passed away
right in front of her. And when I
was about to when I was about to
you know, I asked permission, you know, the
the father of the baby was like, you
know, will the the jammer you know, like,
you know, how do we take care of
getting Janaza and and this and that for
the baby. I said, call the Masjid there,
like, it's all streamlined processes. Like, where do
I get the from and whatever? I said,
this is, like, the Janaza
every week. They'll help you with all of
these things step by step. Here's the phone
number. Just call them and take care. Don't
worry about any of those things.
And,
you know, I said and I I said
that, you know, I asked for permission to
leave when everything was set and done.
And he says just one more thing. He
says, can you just tell me something else,
you know, about,
you
know, something that the dean teaches that that's
going to that's going to make us feel
better.
And this is one amazing thing about the
people of iman and the people
of faith is that, Allah
That Allah whoever, you know, makes the zikr
of Allah brings some sort of calmness and
some sort of solace to the hearts. That
they want to hear about
Allah They want to hear about Allah's mercy
and they want to hear about Allah ta'ala's,
rift and his kindness to his creation. And
it does make them feel better in the
most difficult of circumstances.
You know, there's some people that like their
food is laid at like the restaurant and
they freak out and they they lose control
of these people. Literally, their baby died in
front of them and you see them, they
just said, can you just tell us a
little bit more about the deen?
And so,
you know, I just mentioned the same thing.
There's a hikmah of Allah to Allah. Everyone
believes
everybody will leave one day. You know, it's
really sad when someone dies young or when
this accident or gets sick or whatever. Everyone's
gonna leave. Nobody here is gonna live forever.
Nobody before lived forever. Who would wanna live
in this duniya forever anyway? Know, you're memorizing
it before I memorize it. If you have
kids to raise, raise them. If you have
bills to pay, pay them. Pay your debts
off.
A while? So I mentioned something amongst other
things. I mentioned something that one of my
Asata's one of my told me.
Something that one of my Asat is one
of my told me.
His name is
Mohammad Hassan,
and he is
a he's from Maywatt.
Do we have any decent people here?
You was you was in Maywatt. Is Maywatt
like a really developed part of India?
Is it like a wealthy part of India?
People from India and Pakistan don't know where
Miwadis.
Miwad, their language is,
is not has no there's no there's no
it's not a written language because of how
poor and backward of an area it
is. And, you know, although this is not
like a talk about my what, but like
the point is, is like it's a really
desolate backward
So the shayfish from my what. And but
for whatever reason or another, his grandfather was
one of the original
disciples
of. One of the
great from the past of India. One of
his ideas was
that, like,
we'll go to one of these places that
people know nothing about Deen and we'll like
revive the Deen there. So they say, Miwacha
is such a backwards place. If you ask
the people what your religion is, they'd all
say their
Nobody prayed. Nobody fasted. Nobody even knew how
to say salaam. They used to agree to
each other like the Hindu's do. But
But if you ask them what's your religion,
they'll all say we're Muslims.
But they didn't even know
literally, they didn't know how to say lahi
lahi lahi lahi. And it's difficult for a
person to imagine that, but there are places
like that in the world where people are
so backward, you know. So the Sheikh basically,
he went and preached to them and they
were so ignorant, like, they were like, whatever.
Like, we don't even get what you're talking
about. Finally, what he would do is you
take his money. He had he owned he
owned some land he inherited from his father.
And so there's a little bit of income
that would come from it.
Much money. And it's not a lot of
money. So
be like, okay. He'd go and he'd be
like, I'm hiring people. And so he'd just
hire people for the day, masjid and teach
them alif ba ta and like you teach
them basically how to pray and all these
other things instead of like making them work.
Out of his own pocket, he would pay
for it.
And the
the and,
out of shukr to Allah ta'ala,
you know, for for, the deen being revived
there, they go and they they also will
go in the other adjacent areas and preach
the dean as well. That's why that's why
the name of Mewati is now like even
brother Idris from Cleveland knows about Mewati now
is because of that.
Was one of the original companions of Milan
Elias, one of those guys that he hired.
For his whole life to the point where
he became his hair became great. He would
just sit in the madrasa and sit in
the classes.
And so the Sheikh, his,
his was what? His was that he would,
wake up at, for Tahajjud,
praise Tahajjud, and then pray Fajr, and then
he would review all, like, review, like, different
books he's gonna teach in the day until
10 in the morning. And then from 10
o'clock, and I kid you not, until 1
in the morning, he'd teach classes, one after
the other.
He would teach classes one after the other
from the most introductory of books all the
way, to the big books of hadith and
the Hidayah, the big advanced books of fiqh
and usul and things like that. And one
of the special and unique,
characteristics he had is they said that no
matter how stupid of a student is, whoever
sits with him, they'll learn something.
It's an art because some students are not
the sharpest tool in the shed. If you
have a smart student, they'll learn the thing
even the teacher doesn't know. But the idiot
student, it's very difficult to teach them.
And the mashaikh used to consider teaching the
dim witted and the dull students to be
an act of piety because it's harder.
But it's a sign you only do it
for the sake of Allah because that person
is not gonna make you famous or whatever.
And so, what happened is that this sheikh,
he had like this ajeeb like quality because
they're villagers and they're farmers and they're from
the village. They're not from like a high,
scholarly class or princely class of people.
And, so he would explain things very simply.
So he says, like, imagine you took a
train. Right? So we don't take trains in
America, so you can shift the analogy to,
like, a plane. Plane from Cleveland to London.
Right? From Cleveland to Amman. From you know
what I mean? And
there's no direct flight. So what happens? The
plane will stop somewhere. It'll stop in JFK,
in New York City. Right?
Somebody's plane stops for 12 hours.
Not. If your layover is long or short,
it doesn't matter.
Destination is bad, that matters. And so he
used to say this whenever people, you know,
these types of things would happen. People
come and ask, you know, because people respected
the Ullama on those days, they would come
and ask him for duas and the same
way, you know, words of consolation.
So he says that that's, you know, maybe
somebody's connection is a little bit faster than
the other, but the destination is the thing
that people should think about. So whoever lost
a loved one, you know, from amongst us,
all of us have lost a loved one.
If we didn't, we'll lose 1 or we'll
be the one that's lost.
Everybody, this is the way the dunya is.
Love whoever you want, you're gonna you're gonna
be separated from them one day. That's just
the way Allah created this this creation.
Love whoever you want, one day you're going
to you're going to be separated from from
that.
The dean at least gives us this, consolation
that from the Baraka of your man, all
of us will be be together again one
day. All of us will be together again
one day. Allah make
that. Allah make us
all come to the same good destination,
and and Allah to Allah,
give us