Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Jumuah ICC Reopening Prayer Patience Seeking Help 05292020

All praises to Allah.

All praises to Allah.

All praises to Allah who guided us to

this.

Who guided us to Islam and to Iman

and to his Mubarak house on this blessed

day of Jumu'ah.

And we were not to be guided. Was

it not that Allah had guided us?

Brothers and sisters, make no mistake.

This is a great

blessing and nahmah,

a blessing for which we were not thankful,

and a blessing which we had lost for

an amount of time that some may call

short but was painfully long for all of

us.

And a blessing that we

vouch in front of the Lord that we

will not take for granted again,

which is that he allowed us to gather

for this Jumuah,

This

Mubarak

hour of the week,

for which this entire building was made.

This Mubarak hour of the week for which

not just this building was made, rather Allah

says in his book,

I did not create the mankind

and the jinn except for to worship me.

And this is something that's known by anybody

who reads the book of Allah That anyone

who knows the sunnah of the messenger of

Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,

That this prayer is the foundation of the

the deen, of the religion, and this prayer

is from the highest forms of Ibadat.

Allah

taught the prophet

that Ibadah which was

before this only reserved for the angels. Literally,

santa Jibril alaihi wasallam came down and taught

the salat to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,

the place where it was first taught to

him in front of the, and masala haram

is literally marked. There's a place with, like,

discolored stones. You can see where, say, in

Jibril alaihi sallam taught the prophet sallallahu alaihi

sallam this salaf, and out of all of

the salawat, this is the most aqid, this

is the one that is the most rigorously

emphasized.

And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given it

back to us, and for that Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala is to be praised. How many

people from our community wanted to be here

and cannot be here right now? And how

many people wanted to pray this salatul Jum'ah,

and they cannot pray the salatul Jum'ah this

week.

So many people from my own colleagues and

friends, when they found out that Alhamdulillah, we

have this salat in this week, they said

make dua for us that we can also

have this salat soon. We ask Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala that when it's time to have

the iqama

and we put our faces on the floor,

that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept these suj

sajdas,

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept these subhanullahs,

and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept these Allahu

Akbar's not just from us, but from the

rest of our community and from the rest

of the Ummah of Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi

Wasallam. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he said, seek

help.

Seek help from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

Through what? Through your steadfastness, through your patience,

was salah. And through this prayer, Inalla hamas

sabireen. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is with the

people of patience. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says

that it's very difficult,

except for for the people who fear him,

those who have this idea inside of their

heart that a day will come that they're

going to meet him, and a day will

come in which they're going to return to

him. And this is, Masha'Allah, not going to

be a long Khutba for the common sense

purpose of what? Preserving the health of the

people. We're going to, inshallah, pray, relatively quickly,

and then ask everybody

clear out and, pray their sunnah at home.

But it's not something that's lost on us,

what's happening in this country around us.

There's a lot of work to do. There's

a lot of injustice out there. The,

gross and graphic killing,

of a black man.

In a pose that all of us are

familiar with as Muslims, especially those of us

who are familiar with the Palestinian cause.

We're familiar, we've seen that pose before, which

is what The same knee of the occupation

in the neck of our brothers and sisters

in this in the Holy Lands, in the

Sacred Lands. Not once, twice, we've seen it

dozens of times before. Now we see it

it's also here in our our our doorstep.

And it's wrong over there, and it's wrong

over here as well.

And there's a proper reaction, and there's an

improper reaction, and this is a very long

discussion, and maybe I'm not the person to

lecture anyone about it. But I can tell

you this, what I do know is that,

this Ummah, its role and function in society

is what?

Is Part of it is to rectify those

things that are broken.

And we start with our prayer.

That you seek help with Allah Ta'ala through

your patience and through your prayer. And from

that the help comes and Allah ta'ala allows

us to do something better. So we seek

rectification for our brothers and sisters overseas,

and for our brothers and sisters in this

country as well, who are suffering from, oppression,

who are suffering from dehumanization,

who literally now that we've seen, you know,

an African American person,

men and women, both of them literally being

killed with impunity in front of our eyes,

in front of video.

And the ones that get videoed,

we all know that statistically they must be

the minority.

That something has to happen about this also,

and so we mentioned this in the sacred

hour, in the sacred Khutba, that we also,

know it, and we speak out against it,

and whatever we can do within our means

and within the,

bounds of our sacred law.

And whatever we can do in a way

that's going to make things better, we're

committed to it, and it starts with this

prayer, but it's not gonna end there either.

Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give all of us

tawfiq