Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah A Treasure From the Treasures of Paradise Hira 09232022
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The speakers discuss the importance of not being guided and praise Showidna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's actions. They also talk about the concept of "has been there for a long time" and how it is used to mean something is a perfect thing. The difficulty of achieving perfection is discussed, with the speaker emphasizing the importance of everyone becoming one of the people of loss and the plan of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, which is to die trying and not give up.
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Alhamdulillah who guided us to this, who guided
us to Islam and to iman, and to
his Mubarak house on this Mubarak hour, this
Mubarak day, and we were not to be
guided.
Oh Allah, to you is praise as is
commensurate with the majesty of your countenance and
the greatness of your authority.
Oh, Allah, we do not limit you with
any praise we can come up with ourselves,
rather we admit that you are the only
one
who knows the true extent of your praiseworthiness.
And may the peace and blessings of Allah
Ta'ala be upon our master Saydna Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. May the peace and blessings of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala be upon him,
and upon his noble companions, and upon his
pure wives, and upon his
Mubarak family and progeny, and upon all of
those who follow all of their way until
the day of judgment.
Brothers and sisters,
our connection with the
Quran
weakens from time to time.
We're in the lull,
the antipode on the other side of the
year from Ramadan.
It's been several months, and it'll be several
months.
But it's good to
open the mushaf and take a look again.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says so many things
in it
that are overwhelming
and
like
should be mentioned again and again whenever you
see something that's overwhelming in
its responsibility.
On the flip side of the coin, it
also is a promise of
overwhelming help and overwhelming
support, overwhelming power from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
You see, we vastly overestimate
our own abilities
to do things in life.
We vastly
overestimate
our own
value.
We vastly overestimate
our own reality
when in front of Allah Ta'ala or in
front of other living things.
And this is always a mistake. We always
pay for these things.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said in his book,
That
you do not wish for anything. You do
not desire anything.
Except for it's because Allah desired that you
desired that thing.
What does this mean?
A wish or a whim is something that
requires
seemingly no effort on your part.
In fact, when a person sits down and
says, I wish this happened and I wish
I was a billionaire and I wish I
was president and I wish, you know, electricity
was free and I wish that, you know,
everybody in the world got along and etcetera
etcetera. We roll our eyes at such a
person. Why?
Because it's as if the wish is something
that's completely empty.
It took no effort from you
to make that wish, to make that desire.
And it's such a light
action.
It's such an action devoid of any gravity
or any weight
of any practical consequence
that we roll our eyes at each other
and say,
it's as if you did nothing at all.
Someone for example owes you money.
It's a very good practical lesson in theology,
mashaAllah. Someone owes you money and they say,
you know, I intended to pay you back.
I intended to pay you back.
Say what? So your intentions are between you
and Allah ta'ala. I just want my money.
If you paid me back and you didn't
intend to pay me back, I don't care.
If you intended to pay me back and
I didn't get my money, I don't care.
Why? Because these things, they mean so little
to us.
However,
that light action that we don't really take
very seriously,
that takes as if it takes no effort
at all in order to muster it.
That light action,
even that you cannot do except for Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala desired you to do it.
The idea of it doesn't enter your mind
except for Allah desired for that idea to
enter into your mind.
That action doesn't happen except for Allah Ta'ala
powered it, sustained it, made it occur, and
without it, it's not good to happen.
Now,
oftentimes
there are people
who subscribe to a worldview,
a particular worldview, and they hear about this,
they say, well, if all of my actions
are going to be contingent on Allah desiring
them and Allah Ta'ala willing them, then what's
the point of me putting it in any
effort into anything at all? This worldview is
called Kufr.
If you subscribe to that world view, then
indeed there's really no point in you putting
in any effort into whatever at all.
If you're if you're destined, you know, kullumu
yasaru limaqulika lahu. Then hadith of the Prophet
that everybody will find a path facilitated for
them,
which leads to that thing that they were
created to be. That if Allah created you
to be from the hellfire, me from the
hellfire, will Iyadu billahi Allah ta'ala be our
protection?
Then what's the point of fighting it? There's
no point in fighting it.
And there are some people who don't really
fight it all that much, and that's going
to be what their reality is. Now if
you inside yourself right now feel like, well,
yeah, if there's no point, why am I
even here at Jum'ah? That's a bad sign.
If you inside, when hearing this, this piece
of information,
realize the only buddy, the only one who
can save you from that fire, the only
one who can make the decision that doesn't
take you into that fire,
that doesn't take you into Jahannam, that doesn't
take you into damnation.
The only one is who? Is Allah ta'ala.
Then you will strive in asking Allah ta'ala,
seeking from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that He's
the one He can make a decision.
The decision doesn't
cost him anything, it doesn't burden him anything,
it doesn't bother him anything. And he himself
says that whoever asks from me, I'll give
to them.
It's not just something I'm making up. Allah
Allah said in his Quran his himself he
says in words more elegant and eloquent than
anything I could make up.
That when your Lord said,
call upon me so that I may answer
you.
When my slaves ask you about me, tell
them I'm very nearby,
and I am the one who answers the
call of the caller upon me when he
calls upon me.
So let them call upon me, and let
them believe in me so that they can
fulfill fulfill their objective from this life.
Is what? It's the opposite of misguidance,
meaning being lost, and it's the opposite of
what? Failing to fulfill your objective in life.
Failing to fulfill your makzat, the objective that
you have in doing something.
Let them call upon Me.
Let them call upon me, and let them
believe in me so that they can fulfill
the objective of what their life is. What
is your objective? Your objective is salvation from
the hellfire.
This all builds up to what?
To the one thing that I wanted to
mention in this
Khutba, which is something that
hopefully will be a practical use for people
in their life.
1 of the avkar of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala that comes from the sunnah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
Which is described by the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam as
that it is a treasure from the treasures
of paradise.
Culturally, we've turned this utterance into something that
it's
really not meant to be or wasn't originally.
It's become a rump of what the actual
meaning of it is.
Now it says, A'hu lahuwata Allah billah. Meaning
this thing I that you just said or
that I just saw in front of me,
this thing is disgusting.
But that's not what it means. That's not
even what the words mean.
But culturally, this is what we've turned it
into. Something you say when something is disgusting.
But that's not what it means.
In fact, it's very interesting Imam Tawai he
actually makes an entire point in his
aqidah
discussing this. He says regarding the slaves, he
says,
He's talking about you and me, the slaves
of Allah Ta'ala. Allah Ta'ala did not burden
them
with anything more than they can bear.
And he didn't give them the capacity to
bear anything more than what he burdened them
with.
First of all, this is a very important
this is a very important concept just right
off the bat before he mentions about
Which is what? That the entire universe, everything
in it is fine tuned.
You don't see like
gaps or overshooting the mark in the creation
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Why is the mention of the orbits of
the planets
given? Because it's one of the few things
in the created world
that seems to have some sort of
permanence and some sort of balance, some sort
of eternity in it. The
peripatetic philosophers, the people whose philosophy was built
on the,
on the ideas of Aristotle, they actually believed
that the stars
moved in the exact same way forever and
will move for ever in the exact same
way. We know that this is not the
this is not the case.
We
know it's not the case that all of
the system will break down one day. There's
only x is a finite number, number of
times
earth will go around the sun, and we
know necessarily cannot happen forever.
However, it's the closest thing in the creation
that we can relate to, to something that
is
eternal. Something that is precise, something that's harmonious,
something that's in balance.
And we don't say that anything in this
created universe is permanent. However, what we do
say is that everything Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
meets out and measures is completely precise.
Completely precise. There's not too much of it,
and there's not too little of it.
That there is no power that anybody has.
There's no movement that anybody has. There is
no rules or trick that anybody has.
To escape the
disobedience of Allah
except for through His enablement.
There's so much sin around you, there's so
much sin around me.
Our Asat is our Messiah, he used to
say this, that we heard from our elders,
there's no army in the world that will
save you or stop you from committing a
sin.
The liar, there's no army that's gonna stop
him from lying. The thief, there's no army
that's gonna stop him from stealing.
The the the Fahesh person, there's no
army that's going to stop them from there.
Faesh.
There are some people, they'll do all of
these things anyway. They'll do all of these
things anyway despite knowing that they're gonna get
caught, and despite knowing that they're going to
suffer consequences for it in this world and
the hereafter. There is nothing that will stop
a person from
any sin, except for what? Except for the
fear of Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Except for the fear of Allah Subhanahu wa
That there is no
force that anyone can bring, no power that
anyone can bring in order to establish the
obedience of Allah
except for by His enablement.
Except for by His enablement.
A person struggles to wake up for Fajr,
a person struggles to fast, a person struggles
to pay their Zakkaf, a person struggles to
hold their tongue back from backbiting,
A person struggles to, you know, do the
things that they're supposed to do. A person
struggles to stop from the things that they're
supposed to stop. It's difficult. It's not easy.
It should occur to some of us because
we overestimate our abilities.
We overestimate our abilities. It should occur to
some of us that these things that we
do like showing up to jawa, this is
not a small matter.
These things that we do, abstaining from eating
pork, abstaining from eating haram, abstaining from
consuming the money of riba, these things aren't
these are are not small matters.
It's like a fish swimming up the river.
The only way it's possible is what? The
only way it's possible is by Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala's aid. And then when you realize
the aid of Allah
is literally the entire universe exists between the
kaf and noon of kun fayakun of Allah
It's not something that he said in the
past and then the wheel is just running
downhill.
There's no wheel and there's no hill. There's
only Allah.
Every instant, every moment. It's between the kafanun
of Kun.
And if that utterance was ever removed from
the
creation. None of it. None of it has
any ability to exist on its own.
This is again not a rhetorical flourish that
I made up. Pahawi
himself says,
Nobody is free of need from Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala even for the twinkling of an
eye, even for an instant.
And whoever falsely thinks inside of their head
that anything is free of need from Allah
in any way, shape, or form, even for
the twinkling of an eye, that person has
disbelieved. They don't know who Allah is.
What they think is Allah is something other
than who Allah is. That person has disbelieved
and they've become one of the
people of perdition, of loss.
One of the people of destruction.
The point is is what?
Is just like all of these things seem
so difficult for us.
Allah Ta'ala is the one who made them
difficult.
Allah Ta'ala is the one who made them
difficult. He knows He made us the way
we are in terms of our own weakness
and inability to to do things. And He
also
made them fardh.
And He also, jallahu alaaha, He's the one
who
nothing He does is dul.
All of these things, if you plot all
of these points together,
map all of these points together,
it leaves us with a particular picture. If
you
wish to spend a little bit of thought
in connecting the dots.
Which is what?
Which is that Allah
made all of these things such that there's
no way through this difficulty and through this
test, except for that a person should make
du'a to Allah
like a baby cries for its mother.
Babies don't even know how to make an
eloquent plea, oh my mother, know, my whatever
my,
I'm suffering hypoglycemia
and my glucose levels will tank and if
I don't get milk within the next this
many minutes then I might suffer retinal damage
or God knows what. You know, like your
doctors will tell you all about he doesn't
know any of those things.
He doesn't know them, cannot express them, none
of it. The baby just cries. The mother
comes.
Take the name of your Lord, mention the
name of your Lord, honor the name of
your Lord, and cut off from everything completely.
Even the person says, Allah.
What is it? It's not really a dua.
You're not really asking for anything.
You just call on Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah Wa Ta'ala helps you.
And if you called on Allah so many
times people are like frazzled. They're like, you
know, all this pious stuff. This is great.
You know, it sounds wonderful in storybooks and
whatnot, but I tried it. It doesn't work.
I cannot give up alcohol. I cannot give
up zina. I cannot give up *. I
cannot give up, you know, haram money. I
can't give up this. I can't give up
that. I cannot give up transacting
in haram because I tried it one time
and, like, I damn near became homeless, or
I was homeless for 10 years because of
it, this, that, and the other. Whatever thing
the person puts out. Did it occur to
you this is also Allah Ta'ala's plan that
you go through all of those things? And
you still don't give up? Did it occur
to you also that sometimes some people the
plan of Allah Ta'ala for them is what?
Is that they will never surmount the challenge
in this world.
And their victory is what? It's to die
trying.
Imagine on the day of judgement, someone comes
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah Ta'ala is
the one who says that the person who
dies when they're making hijrah, then it's Allah's
responsibility to fulfill their reward.
That a person, when it's shown in front
of everybody, because people, everybody, we judge one
another, for some people the, you know, person
who doesn't pray is a bad Muslim. The
other person doesn't pray, but the person who
doesn't eat halal is a bad Muslim. The
person who doesn't fast is a bad Everybody,
Allah made your
test difficult in different ways. For some people
one thing is easier than it is for
another.
Imagine that person on the day of judgment
when it's revealed how difficult their test was,
how the amount of summer they had to
do just to fail the test
was something manifold so many times more than
what another person had to do in order
to pass.
And they never gave
up. They never gave up. What better expression
of love for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
there than that?
Somebody who says, you know, like my father
you're the someone's father was like separated them
for, you know, like 20 years. And then
finally when they meet again, they say, you
know, I never forgot you. I sent you
a letter every single day. Go find it
at this address and they'll see, masha'allah, there's
like, every day for the last 20 years,
this their son wrote a letter. Don't you
think the father will be happy with that
person?
The idea is what? Don't overestimate your abilities.
This is itself
a recipe for failure that's greater than all
other failures are.
When you have this thought, shaitan comes to
you or your nafs comes to you and
says, this is pointless. Stop trying. Give up.
Say what? La hawla walaquata illa billah. If
I fail today, I'm gonna try again tomorrow.
If I fail tomorrow a minute, try again
the next day.
I don't know. It's not in my power
whether I'm successful or I fail.
But at least my intention is what? That
I'm going to die trying.
And you don't know what happens. Sometimes Allata
opens up doors and you'll reach somewhere where
you never thought it was possible. Some of
us are there right now. If you think
about 20 years before what was there in
our life, we wouldn't have thought that the
thing that we have right now is possible.
Everything that's impossible otherwise is only possible through
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. May Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala give all of us tawfi to die
on iman, and to die on this Mubarak
struggle, and may He accept it from us
and have mercy on us for our weaknesses
and falling short and screwing things up again
and again, and always give us another chance.
May He always give us another chance and
take us in a way that pleases him.