Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Ashura and the Legacy of the Prophets Hira 07292022
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By the father of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
we are
very near to the
day of Muharram
called Ashura,
10th of Muharram.
It's a sunnah of the Rasul, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, the fast on that day.
And it was indicated by the Rasul, sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam in the last
year of his Mubarak life Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
that he would prefer that the people fast
if they fast that day. The
day before
with the day of Ashura, 10th of Muharram
or the day of Ashura, 10th of Muharram
and the day afterward.
However,
the question that I get year after year
from people
is, if I cannot fast 2 days,
should I just not fast at all? And
the answer is no.
There's some
leeway in this issue.
Obviously, doing the thing that the messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam indicated preference for
is superior.
However, there's nothing wrong with just fasting on
10th.
The Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam did it
after all every year of his life.
There's nothing wrong with fasting any of the
days of Muharram
as they are from the sacred months. There's
nothing wrong with fasting any of the days
of the sacred months with the exception of
the Yom An Nahar, the Eid al Adha,
and the 3 days after the 2 days
afterward, and then a little bit lighter,
dislikedness
for most people to fast the 3rd day
after their Eid al Adha.
And it's important also to understand what Ashura
is about.
Ashura is a Mubarak day that was interestingly
enough something that there was barakah both
understood by the
people of the book as well as the
Arabs of Jahiliyyah.
This is also a proof that in Jahiliyyah,
there were some collective remember remembrance and memory
of the Arabs also being
connected with the deen of Allah Ta'ala
and that the tribes of
Mudar
were also descended from Said Ibrahim alaihis salam.
They had certain peculiar customs
that
showed that they had some sort of connection
with the deen even through their idolatry.
They include circumcision.
They include a number of different things.
One of those things is what is that
they fasted on the day of Ashura even
though they didn't know why.
And the Rasul
interestingly enough, when he went to Madinah Munawwara,
he asked and he saw that the Jews
are also fasting on this day, and they
told him that this is the day that
Allah Ta'ala saved Musa alayhis salam from Fir'awn.
He said,
we have more right to Musa alayhi salam
than you do.
This didn't mean that that's when he started
fasting the day of Ashura.
This means what?
That he confirmed that this is something that's
good. It's Mubarak, and it's a part of
our tradition more than it's part of the
tradition of others.
Without making this into a sectarian
or a
inter religious polemic,
The Ambia, alayhi wa sallam, belong to us
more than they belong to anybody else
as long as we follow them. And if
we don't follow the teachings even of our
Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, then what claim
do we have to
be connected to him sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
So this fast of Ashura is a very
Mubarak thing. It's something that people should keep.
It's indicated in a hadith that it's fast
as a kafarah for the sins of a
year.
And in particular,
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wasallam look at what his
reaction was when he saw that.
YAHUDA of Madinah
fasted on that day.
His reaction was what? That we are more
right over Sayidna Musa alaihis salam.
The help in the mother of Allah Ta'ala
that came down, that was for us. That
was not for you.
That was for us.
It was not for you. It's for you
if you still keep obeying Allah ta'ala, if
you stop listening to his Anbiya alayhi salam,
if you reject Sayna Isa alayhi wasalam, if
you reject Sayna Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasalam,
if you stop following the commandments of the
Torah,
if you stop believing in Allah Ta'ala,
if you accept the ways of this world,
they belong to us more than they belong
to you.
A young man who used to attend my
halakah,
he's been sending over the last couple of
days
pictures from Mas'id al Aqsa and from
the various Mubarak sites in Palestine.
He sent me pictures from the Masjid Al
Khalil.
They refer to that city as Hebron in
English.
There is a cave
in which the
mazarat of the Ambia, alayhi Musalam, Saidna
Ibrahim. Saidna Ishaq alayhi salam alayhi salam.
Saidna Yaqub alayhi salam and their wives, it's
there in that place, and they built a
masjid around it.
That's the Masjid Al Khalil.
The occupation
forced their way into that Masjid,
and they built a wall in the middle
of it.
They
now appropriated part of it.
They built a wall in the middle,
and they said this part you guys can
have this part is ours. So he said
such and such percentage, like, 47% of it
is theirs and 63% is ours.
I said, I feel all of it is
ours.
I said, do you wanna know another proof
that all of it is ours?
I remember when I was a teenager, a
settler by the name of Baruch Goldstein,
he broke into the masjid in the middle
of salat with automatic weapons. He opened fire.
He killed he killed dozens of people
while they were praying.
And
when the Israeli soldiers heard the commotion,
they broke into the mustard, and they saw
the Palestinians trying to stop this guy unarmed,
and he's completely armed to the teeth. And
they opened fired on fire on the worshipers,
and they killed almost as many as
Goldstein killed just in order to save him
while he was murdering people, while they were
praying salat.
I said,
go ask them what do they think of
this man. He said, I already know he's
celebrated as a saint. They celebrate they have
a celebration every year for him.
If this is not a proof if this
is not a proof that they have no
share of any of that.
They have no share of master Al Aqsa.
They have no share of the master Al
Khalil. They have no share of Saeed Ibrahim
alaihi Islam. Do
you think the MBIA alaihi Muslim were people
like that that would celebrate something like that?
Absolutely not. It's ridiculous.
If you think they were like that,
then you yourselves
have underestimated and insulted them because they weren't
people like that.
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said what? He
said that we have more right to say
the Musa alaihi salaam.
We have more right to the najat and
the mother of Allah ta'ala that came down
to him and his people.
When they said, they
see behind them the armies of the hosts
of Firaun,
and they see in front of them the
sea.
And they said, that's it. The jig is
up.
Time's up. It's all over now. It was
good while it lasted.
Said that Musa alayhis salam says, kala. No.
Categorically, no.
My
Lord is with me. He'll show me a
way through this. He'll show me a way
through this.
And what happened? The Wahi came to say
to Musa, alayhis salam, to strike the
sea with your staff,
and both sides separated like mountains,
leaving a dry path, not even wet, not
even muddy, a dry path through the middle
for from which that he escaped, and there
people all escaped.
This madad was from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
for who? For the ones who remember him,
for the ones who trust in him, for
the ones who obey his order, for the
ones who stake their hopes in him. You
don't even have to be perfect. Was the
Banu Israel perfect?
Absolutely not. The stories are
almost unbelievable.
But still, as long as they kept praying,
as long as they kept believing,
as long as they kept making toba, still
the madad came to them, nabi after nabi,
victory after victory, miracle after miracle, it came
to them.
Just like that for us.
Even if you're not perfect, shaytam comes and
whispers in your ear something
that look how much of a slob you
are, how much of a
how bad you are at what you do,
how bad of a Muslim you are, etcetera.
Why even try? Why not give up? Right.
Does any anyone here ever build a calf
and start worshiping it?
Did anyone ever hear say I'm not going
to obey the deen until you show me
Allah?
Did anyone ever here receive manna and salwa?
Allah sent down food and provision for you
when you were hungry from the sky.
And then you say, I wanna eat dal.
We're bad, but we're not that bad. Right?
If they can be told by Allah Subhanahu
Wa
Ta'ala, keep seeking help from Allah through your
prayers and through your patience
because Allah is with the people who are
patient.
You and me can be told that as
well. Keep praying. Keep waking up for fajr.
If you missed it today, make it up
and then wake up tomorrow.
Keep asking.
That mother belongs to us as long as
we have the taluk with Allah
That we look at him and we don't
look at the creation. Don't worry about the
seed. Don't worry about the army behind you.
Worry about Allah
Whoever
fears Allah
Allah gives them an exit from their problems.
People say this is all pie in the
sky in July. This is religion is the
opiate of the masses.
People are just saying this to each other
for political reasons and for fundraising and this
and that and the other thing.
Tell me, my brothers and sisters. Maybe maybe
who knows? Maybe somehow I'm using all of
this to make money and stashing massive wealth,
you know, that you don't see right now
or that you see right now.
Maybe I'm wearing, like, a $10,000
turban. Who knows?
One day.
Keep keep hope alive.
The bigger question is what?
How is it that all of us are
in this masjid? How is it that Islam
made it all the way from
the far side of the Maghrib, all the
way to Indonesia?
The people who used to live in the
archipelago, the Southeast Asian archipelago, they literally used
to eat people.
Do you think some one day, like, some
Arabs showed up and said, hey. You know,
there's no god except for Allah, and your
idols you worship are, like, bogus. And they're
like, oh, cool. Cool. That makes sense.
That one was made island to island.
If you think the same thing about India,
go see what's going on there right now.
If you think the same thing that's happening
in any land in the in the world,
do you think it's easy? Forget about the
non Muslims, even the Muslims. You think it's
easy to practice the deen in a Muslim
country right now? There are Muslim countries.
Quickest way to go to jail is to
keep going to Fajr every morning.
However, somehow,
the entire nations of the earth are
gathered together in Wood Dale for lunch break.
It didn't happen except for through Allah Ta'ala's
madad.
Even my $10,000
turban.
If you guys get something out of it,
which is against all odds, and I get
something out of it, which is against all
odds. This is not a proof against it.
This is a proof that this thing works.
So why wouldn't the Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam want to fast on that Mubarak day?
There are a number of aatar related about
the barakativ.
Ashura, I don't have time for them.
However, the last thing I wanted to mention
is this,
is that one of the primary distinguishers between
the people of Iman
and the people of Kufr
is that Allah
he describes the people of Kufr as an
am.
As what? As livestock.
There is no thing that moves on the
earth
nor
bird that flies in the air, except for
there's some likeness between you and them.
If you read the tafsir of this ayah,
the mufasirun are very clear that it goes
both ways.
So what's the teshbihav,
the kafir? What is which type of animal
is the kafir like?
Like livestock.
What are livestock? They're domesticated.
A cow and a goat and a sheep
is never gonna do anything cool
like an eagle does
or like a shark does
or like a wildebeest does. It's not going
to be graceful. It's not going to be
strong. It's not going to be intelligent. It's
not going to be any of those things.
All it does
is it eats, sleeps, eats, sleeps, and then
one day it gets used for something. Either
it's milk or it's hair or it's skin
or it's
meat.
A lackluster existence
followed by
not the most honorable end,
not the most exciting and useful
end.
Not the great climax of a meaningful life
according to most people.
If you look at the animals in nature,
one of the primary ways that
taxonomists
distinguish between types of animals is by what
they eat.
So amongst mammals, carnivora is 1, like, it's
one clade of mammals, those mammals that eat
meat.
The herbivorous mammals are one clade.
There are some animals that are
scavengers.
They'll eat dead carcasses.
What's common between them? Are any of them
beautiful? Are any of them inspiring?
Are any of them things that kids say,
oh, I wanna Baba, get me, like, a
stuffed animal of of that for either. I
wanna give it a hug. No. They're gross,
and they're creepy,
and they're weird.
And you see them when you see them
and when the other animals see them, they
see there's an ominous sign of something bad,
that this is something bad has happened here.
You see, the more specialized an animal is
in what it eats,
the more discriminating it is in what it
eats.
You see, it brings out certain characteristics and
qualities that are special and superior in that
animal.
And then on the other side, what do
you have? Livestock. Whatever you throw in front
of the thing, it eats it.
And from amongst the livestock that humans keep,
the most disgusting livestock, bar none, is the
pig, and it literally will eat everything.
They castrate pigs by tying bands around its
around their testicles. It suffocates it from blood
flow to the point where it shrivels up
and dies. A brother told me, who was
a convert, he said I once saw at
one of my friends pig farms growing up
that that shriveled up and fallen off pig
testicle
fell off. I saw it fall and another
pig walked over and ate it.
Now tell me something, brothers and sisters, to
make a long bian short
because people have to get to work.
As humans, is it a good thing for
us to do to eat everything and to
consume everything?
No.
As Muslims, it's even worse for us to
be that way. Everything you see, you eat
it.
Really? Everything you see, you have to eat
it?
The Rasul
gave all these law laws about what is
halal and what's haram.
Do we have to eat everything?
We say, is it haram or is it
just makru?
Do you really wanna eat something makru? What
if tomorrow I you know, the Sheikh Fath
the grand Mufti of, like,
Fulanistan
has this big fatwa,
saying the shriveled pig balls is, like, halal
to eat.
Or it's just my crew. It's not haram.
Do you wanna eat it? There are some
people from the umah. When they see a
kaffir eating it, they'll say, I wanna eat
it too.
Don't be that person.
Eat what's pure. Eat what's clean.
Practice leaving practice leaving the
halal sometimes
so that you retain control. Eat what's healthy
for you. Eat what you can afford.
Buy from the farmer or from the producer
who whose ethics you believe in and whose
ethics you agree with.
Don't be like that that eat everything. And
there's more things that that we than just
eating and drinking. What goes into your eyes?
Don't be like livestock watching everything that comes
in through your phone.
Don't be like livestock listening to everything that
every idiot says. Oh, so and so, he
has a new idea about Islam. Don't don't
be like livestock. Drink it in through your
ears.
So and so musician who is
putting some stupid song about nothing.
Don't listen to it.
Don't touch everything.
Don't use your private parts for everything.
Choose. Have some discrimination.
Specialize.
Be who you were meant to be. You
can be different. You can be special, unique.
Not everybody has to be the same.
But don't just consume everything that you come
across.
Why? Because this is the law of the
If others can do it, if Jews can
do it, if Christians can do it, if
a Kafir can say, I eat organic,
it's good for you. At least in theory,
it's good for you.
If a kafir can say, I do intermittent
fasting, you can do real fasting.
Rather, like the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
we have more right to this than others
do. May Allah
give
us. May Allah
accept from, us the fast of,
Ashura. May Allah make it a Mubarak day
for us and make me make it a
day of help and madad,
for the
for all of us individually and us together
as in this world and the hereafter.
So you can take a couple of