Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah And Allah Is The Best of Providers ICC 02192021
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Allah
mentions
in his
book
a
methan,
a parable,
which is one of the most beautiful
parables
in the entire Quran.
Allah
mentions in his book,
Allah is the light of the heavens and
the earth.
And the parable of his
That it is like a lamp.
And this word the,
linguist
of the Arabic language say, it is a
loan word,
from the,
language of the Abyssinians.
That it's like a lamp and inside the
lamp is a candle.
And that candle is inside a
glass
case.
And the glass
radiates with light such
that it it looks like a brilliant star.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala describes
the light of that candle.
That that
light of that candle comes
from an oil. It burns an oil,
which is
harvested from a blessed tree.
And
it is harvested from, an olive tree which
is unlike those that we have in this
world.
Meaning, it's neither from the east nor from
the west.
The oil itself is so pure
It's so pure that in itself shines and
radiates with light
even if
the candle is not lit.
This is a very beautiful parable. This is
one of the most aesthetically rich parables of
the book of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Which comes
with an overwhelming literary style from so many
different,
from so many different perspectives.
And in terms
of aesthetic refinement, this is
from
those verses of the Quran that are the
most touching.
Allah
says,
Which is actually become a
an expression of the Arabs from the Qur'an.
Which is used by people whether they're Muslims
or
not. So When something is good, they say
this thing is It's like light upon light.
Meaning the oil itself is so clear and
clean. It itself radiates light even if you
don't ignite the lamp. So how much more
light
will this beautiful lamp which has a beautiful
candle, it has a beautiful glass case, has
beautiful
fuel that it burns, oil that it burns.
It's
It's light upon light.
Allah
guides to his light whoever he wishes.
And he strikes
a parable for the people.
And Allah ta'ala has knowledge over all things.
This parable is struck in order to what?
In order to grab the attention
of
the audience of the Quran.
Who is first
Then,
The close people and the family of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Then it's who?
It's the Quraysh and the Arabs. And then
after that, the message goes to everybody including
you and me. That we're all the audience
of the Quran.
So you can tell that Allah
brings this beautiful
parable.
What does it mean for the thing that
comes after? The thing that's gonna be mentioned
in its context.
Is it going to be important or was
it a waste of time?
Nothing in the book of Allah ta'ala is
a waste of time.
But the beauty of this parable is something
that can be appreciated by people of faith
and by people
without faith.
Because there are certain gems of the Quran,
only a person who thinks deeply and recites
and ponders over and over, that person will
reach it. And then some things are so
beautiful, the beauty of them is exposed to
the people. Such that,
it doesn't take a lot of
effort in order to
see what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is trying
to say.
Allah ta'ala mentions afterward,
There are certain houses that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala gave permission that they should be raised,
that they should be built.
And his name is mentioned therein.
And there are men who
exalt the transcendence
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and glorify the transcendence of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala in those places
by morning and evening.
And who are those men?
Who are those
Their
their description
is that they are such men
that they are not distracted.
That they are not distracted by trade,
nor by
buying things from the remembrance of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
And the establishment of the prayer and the
giving of zakat. We mentioned zakat
2 weeks ago and it's importance that they're
not distracted by any of those things from
the,
remembrance of Allah and from the establishment of
the prayer and the establishment of zakat, giving
of zakat. And they fear
They fear the day that
the eyesight and the hearts will turn upside
down.
The day of judgement is a day of
fear.
When you see somebody who you respected in
this world,
who you thought was powerful in this world,
who was rich in this world, who's intelligent
in this world, who seem to have it
together,
such that they seem invincible.
And you see such a person thrown into
the garbage can of the * fire and
burned.
It will turn a person's heart upside down.
When you see a person who meant nothing
to you,
who had less
importance to you than a piece of garbage
blowing in the wind.
When you see that person, Allah honors them.
Allah makes them beautiful and exposes their true
beauty from inside.
Even if they have no beauty, Allah gives
them such a beauty that everybody looks at
them as if they're the envy of the
world.
Your heart will turn, your eyes will turn
from up and down.
They fear that day.
So that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala may give
such men the recompense for the best of
those good deeds that they did. And that
he may increase
them
from his grace.
And Allah
will give provision to whoever he wills without
any account.
Brings
the in his tafsir of these
The kalam of Al Hakim at Tirmidi who
is a hadith scholar but not the one
who compiled the Jami at Tirmidi.
Muhammad bin Ali.
He says that this sentence,
This sentence, the is
out of place.
The normal way you would say this sentence
is how?
Is that the the would be at the
end of sentence, at the end of the
sentence.
So from the
reconfiguring of the order of this
sentence,
Hakim
is saying that Allah ta'ala is
showing the importance of the masjid, the house
of Allah ta'ala. Of these of these houses
of Allah, that he gave permission that they
should be raised.
And he gave permission that his name should
be taken over there and glorified.
He says,
He
says,
He said that it's narrated
that the shan, the importance of the house
of Allah ta'ala is what?
It's narrated that whoever comes and sits in
the house of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
it is as if they are sitting
in the gathering in which Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is there with him.
Of course we don't take this to be
literal.
It's an allegory because we cannot describe Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But in some way or
another, everybody who comes to the house of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala of this description,
Everybody when they sit in the house of
Allah, they sit with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And further, he says,
That just like that it's mentioned, it's narrated.
From what? From the Torah.
That it's from the hikmah that was given
in the Torah
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, blessed is his
name.
He said that my slave who visits me,
it's my responsibility
to make that's that that that guest's
hospitality.
This is part of our culture as muslims.
No matter what part of the world we're
from, we honor our guest. It's one of
our values that we share.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, the one who
came to visit me, it's my responsibility. It's
my responsibility to honor such a person.
And I will not be satisfied with any
iqram, with any honoring of that guest
short of jannah.
You go and you visit your relatives, maybe
they bring out a cake,
maybe they'll have something nice to eat,
Maybe they'll open a bottle of coke.
Maybe they'll open a bottle of juice.
And you say, this is nice.
It's not what I usually have.
You know, if you if you want a
glass of water instead of getting up and
getting it yourself, you know you can ask
someone who'll get it for you. Why? Because
they honor you. Because you're their guest.
What does Allah ta'ala open for his slave
who visits him in this way?
It's not juice and it's not coke.
It's what?
It's everlasting life.
It's freedom from want.
It's freedom from all difficulty.
It's freedom from all deprivation.
Yet. Yet.
And the reason for mentioning this is what?
Is that Jum'ah itself out of all the
times a person visits the house of Allah
Ta'ala is the most important.
And you see in this
few ayaas, these few ayaas,
the same language is used which is literally
used in the Suratul Jummah. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says in Suratul Jummah
O you who believe.
When the Adhan is called for the prayer
on the day of Jirma'ah,
rush,
strive
to get to the remembrance of Allah.
In the ayat of Nur, what does Allah
Ta'ala say?
They are such men
that they are not distracted by buying things,
by by by by trade and by buying
things from their remembrance of Allah. Here Surat
Al Jumaa is talking literally about the Jumaa
Khutba.
Rush toward the prayer
and leave
behind. As toward the remembrance of Allah. The
word zikr is the same word used. And
leave behind buying and selling.
It's better for you if you only knew.
And when the prayer is complete, then you
may go out into the earth and seek
the bounty of Allah ta'ala.
And remember Allah ta'ala much.
And indeed you will thereby be from those
of success.
And Allah then he belabors the point. He
goes over the point again. Because people still
don't get it.
He says that, there are such a people
there are such a people that when they
see buying and selling, when they see trade,
they will spill forth toward it, and they
will leave you standing.
Imagine that the Rasulullah
alaihi wa sallam on the mimbar.
This happened one time, these ayat came down
with the companions radhiallahu anhu, it never happened
again.
This is their virtue, it's not that they
were infallible. It happened one time
that a caravan came with goods,
and beating drums, and people went out and
saw, Okay. What is there to buy and
sell from this caravan?
And they left the Rasulullah as well as
standing, except for 12 of them.
And Allah says,
they they they left you standing.
Tell them, what Allah has with him is
better than distraction,
and better than trade. And Allah is the
best of providers.
The ayat of Nur, what is it?
It's literally the same thing.
Allah ta'ala gives provision to whoever He wants
without any accounting.
Allah is the one who is the best
of providers.
The same the same ending in both of
these
tracks of ayah.
Still still
there are people amongst us, and this is
not to be right because it's not everybody.
There are many people who come like this
with the intention, I'm going to
as the guest of the Lord, and I
know he's gonna serve me something better than
coke, and better than burgers, and better than
manzaf, and better than biryani.
There are people who come, they look forward
from one week to the other that this
is the best day of the week because
this is the day I'm the guest of
the Lord.
There are people who come because they know
in the 2 raka'as of Jumaa, I will
get something that I cannot get from Microsoft,
and Amazon, and Walmart,
that I cannot get from republicans and democrats,
that I can't get from black people or
white people or brown people or purple people.
There's no planet in this world that has
it.
The only place I can get it from,
the only one I can get it from
is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They look forward
to it. To those people,
you're in this crowd right now,
This is this day is literally it's an
Eid for you. And I say Eid you
enjoy it one time in this world, you
will enjoy
it a million times
in the hereafter.
But still still
we have people who what?
Looking at their phones.
We have people who what?
Looking away, talking to one another. We have
people who what?
Complain and say,
Sheikh, I gotta get to work. Cut the
jumah footba from 15 minutes to 10 minutes.
Cut it from 10 minutes to 5 minutes.
I have to go to work. What is
the what is the what is the and
you know I get that. If I stood
up here like Hajjaj bin Yusuf and give
Khutba until like it's time for madhrib,
That's wrong, there's like a lot of wrong
things happening.
But between 10 minutes and 15 minutes, 15
minutes and 20 minutes, nobody is going to
die.
And what is the what is both sets
of ayaat? The ones that are in general
about the visitation of the house of Allah
ta'ala.
And the ones in specific about Jum'ah.
What do they say?
Distraction
in business.
They they they describe the people, the
the people of God who come and this
is their Eid Mubarak for them.
That they're
the
ones,
That they are such men.
They are not distracted by trade, by buying
and selling things from the remembrance of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
This is something very important. This is not
to say that okay that the khatib should
be irresponsible
and
you know you can tell oblivion. No.
But at the same time a person should
remember that the book of Allah ta'ala was
written for each and every one of us.
We should ponder over its words
and fear a day
that those words that are used
in the Quran
to describe how a believer is supposed to
comport.
That if we violate those things, we're going
to have to meet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and give
Such a day, we're going to have to
give answer to him. Such a day when
a person is not going to,
They're not going to be allowed to to
to talk in their defense.
Because the conviction is a foregone conclusion.
They're not going to talk. And they're not
going to give be given permission to talk
so that they can make an excuse for
themselves.
These are the words of the Quran. We
ponder over them. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give
us tawfiq
that when we come,
when we're here, whatever our niyah was, we
were literally were doing 2 minutes ago.
But now we make
we make a renewal of our intention. That
this is a Mubarak moment.
This is the most Mubarak moment.
In the most Mubarak place,
on the most Mubarak day of the week,
in a sacred month, in the month of
Rajab Al Haram.
And this is a moment that we renew
our intention, that there's something we came for
from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And that inshallah
we will get it and we'll take it
with humility.
Thereafter inshallah it will all be done very
soon. And you can go forth and seek
from the bounty of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give it to all
of us. Allah give all of us
tawfeeq.