Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Contentment is the Real Wealth ICC 12132019
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The speakers discuss the importance of seeking happiness and wealth, rather than just money, in finding one's success. They stress the importance of learning to be a positive person and taking care of one's struggles, as well as the negative impact of toxic headlines on one's behavior. The speakers also emphasize the importance of avoiding harmful things and not seeking things that are harmful to one's health.
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All praises to Allah, and may his peace
and blessings be upon his servant and messenger,
our master, Sayedna Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Allah says that he didn't create any creature
he didn't create any creature except for he
took the responsibility himself for providing sustenance for,
for it.
For providing sustenance for,
for it. And he said,
that the believers describing the believers in Sorbonne,
He said they're the ones that when they
spend,
they're not excessive. They're not waste total. They're
spending,
rather their spending is
something that is,
moderate,
in aid, in a way that makes sense.
And Allah most high,
declares in his book that I did not
create the jinn in the in that in
mankind
except for, in order for them to worship
me.
I don't want from them,
I I don't want from them any provision
nor do I want them to feed me.
Indeed, Allah himself is
the one who provides and gives provision to
all, and he's the one possessive of might,
and and the one possessive possessive of greatness.
And so the reason for mentioning these ayaat
is what?
Many of us, if you don't then make
for me. Many of us, if you don't
then make dua for me,
inshallah, the first lesson is what? Is that
Allah made certain things permissible and he forbid
certain things.
And it's hard for the the and for
the ego to let go of the things
Allah ta'ala forbid.
But as a matter of
belief,
most of us understand
that those things that Allah
has made forbidden for us are harmful for
us,
both in this world and in the hereafter.
It's sufficient for something, haram, for something unlawful,
to be harmful that it displeases the Lord.
The one who loves Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
should be heartbroken that he should,
distance himself from the one that he loves.
But after that, everything that Allah Ta'ala prohibited
in his book,
and prohibited on the time of his messenger,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
it is,
clear for the person who ponders and studies
how all of those things are harmful for
us in this world and the hereafter. And
the prohibition for those things is a mercy.
Whether it's eating pork, whether it's committing adultery,
whether it's a prohibition of lying, cheating, stealing,
any of these things, it's clear what the
benefit is for the believer in this world,
and it's also clear for the believer who
has correct belief what the benefit of those
things should be in the those prohibitions should
be in the year
And this is an important lesson for us
to take. And indeed, all of these, verses
of the Quran
reinforce this idea
that you don't you don't need to, and
you don't even want to,
seek those things that Allah prohibited
in terms of provision,
as a provision. You don't wanna feed yourself,
the haram. It's a poison.
You don't want to enjoy the haram because
it looks like enjoyment, but it's like the
enjoyment that a person takes when they're over
overdosing on drugs.
It's a small enjoyment and, it's a big
catastrophe and a big catastrophe and a big
loss, immediately thereafter
to the point where any person of sanity
and some constitution would not enjoy.
However, the second,
lesson that we should take from it also
is what?
Is that
the stress
and
the anger
and
the vigor with which people seek,
worldly gain,
seek money even from the halal, even from
those means that Allah made permissible,
sometimes it's misplaced.
The idea for our life in this world,
especially when it is connected to the idea
of seeking happiness, both in this world and
in the year after.
The idea is what is that we should
be seeking something that is sufficient for us.
What happens? What's the difference between a person
who has a $100,000,000,000 and a $150,000,000,000? There's
practically very little difference at all, but people
will literally die of heart attacks when they
go from a 150 to a100.
And when they go from a100 to a150,
they'll think that their tigers, flying in the
air. Practically, it makes no difference to to
them. The Practically, it makes no difference to
to
them. The idea of these numbers when we
get into the 1,000,000,000 and trillions, these numbers
don't even exist. There's not not even that
many printed notes in the world.
The idea at that point, all of it
is about what keeping score in a pointless
game.
It's about what? It's about keeping score in
a pointless game. And the Nabi sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, he has a number of very
beautiful statements that are comprehensive in their wisdom
and in their meaning.
And they are something that we should think
about and remember because,
we have even with our prayer 5 times
a day and our coming to Jum'ah and
our fasting in Ramadan
and our, praying the 2 eights and our
going on Hajj,
even with, our our,
disputes that we have with each other about
the intricacies and minutiae of, Islamic law and
creed on Facebook and Twitter, and, at tea
parties,
all over the world.
Even with all of these things, there are
some things that it seems that as a
community we miss out on. So the messenger
of Allah
said
in one such hadith, he said that
wealth
is not in having
a great amount of goods, just a large
number of things. Is like the goods that
you keep, like inventory to shop.
Wealth is not in having a great amount
of inventory,
rather,
true wealth is the wealth of the soul.
True wealth is the wealth of the soul.
What does that mean?
Are you rich or are you poor? Most
people in the room will reflexively answer that
they're poor. Maybe I'm like no different than
anybody else. That's why Allah chose me to
be, the imam because
like you are, this how Allah will put
in for on top of you. So I
understand you. I'm not talking down to you.
Although, I guess, this is very Romeo and
Juliet looking,
pulpit.
But,
if physically I'm talking down to you, but
like in the realm of ideas, I'm not
talking down to you.
If someone were to ask, are you rich
or poor? What would you be? Yeah. I'm
broke. I have nothing. I'm I'm poor.
Despite the fact that gave all of us
enough to eat, most human beings,
throughout the history of humanity,
probably 1000000 of years,
they struggled at times that they didn't have
enough to eat, they didn't have shelter,
war, famine, poverty, those types of things we
don't struggle with, alhamdulillah.
The funny thing is the strange thing is
that those people who struggle with those things,
many of them were content people.
Many of them were content people. I would
venture to say probably most of them were
content.
The issue is this is that wealth is
what? It's the wealth of the soul. It's
the contentment of the soul. And this is
a point that we mentioned in the Arabic
portion as well, that even the word in
Arabic meaning wealth. That even the word in
Arabic
meaning
the primary meaning of it is not necessarily
having a lot of stuff, but it's in
the idea of being free of need for
anybody else. Okay. The primary meaning of it
is not necessarily having a lot of stuff,
but it's in the idea of being free
of need for anybody else. Okay. So but
it's in the idea of being free of
need for anybody
else. The idea of not having need for
anybody else.
So even if you don't have a dollar
in your bank account, in fact, even if
you don't have a bank account, in fact,
even if you don't have a bank account,
it is possible. I'm not account, in fact,
even if you don't have a bank account,
it is possible.
I'm not necessarily recommending it. But just if
someone doesn't have a bank account, they're not
going to die. If you don't have a
credit card, you're not going to die. I
know people who don't have cars and they
you know, and their human beings.
Whatever it is that you have or you
don't have. If you don't need anybody else,
you're a wealthy
If you don't need anybody else,
you're a wealthy person.
And on the flip side, if you're the
$150,000,000
person, if you're the $1,000,000,000 person, and $2,000,000,000,
and $3,000,000,000, and $1,800,000,000
person,
But you need you need others.
The money is not going to make you
wealthy. It's
really irrelevant. You're still a poor person because
you still have a need. You still have
to spread your hand in front of somebody
other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
What did the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam say?
Al Rina. The true wealth is what is
the person who's wealthy wealthy inside.
So let every one of us look inside
of our hearts and say, is there something
really that we need all that badly?
Is there something really that we need all
that badly that we shouldn't, have sleep at
night and that when we wake up in
the morning we should have stress? For some
of us, it may be that.
Somebody may be ill and require some sort
of treatment or struggling to get through school
or struggling to fulfill some commitments or debts.
But for the vast majority of us, even
those things,
they're getting
done.
And the choices are ours to wake up
and say, am I, am I do I
have enough or am I still in need?
Do I still
need to go out work and
waste those, prayers inside of the master,
in order to get even more money even
though I'm already well fed and have decent
place to live? Am I going to waste
those precious moments and hours with our with
my children,
with my wife, with my mother and father,
with my brothers and sisters,
sisters, both in Islam and also the ones
that were born from the same mother and
father as me.
Is it really worth it? Am I really
in that bad of a situation that I
wanna waste those things? And lest, a person
think that this is merely one more exhortation
in a long line of impractical exhortations
with regards to the evil of this world,
from a person who himself lives in it.
Brothers and sisters, these things actually end up
making very practical problems for people after
Why?
Because
that desire
to have more,
that
lack of contentment
that makes a person who is rich. Allah
gave all of us so much.
Make that person who is rich with Allah
feel like they're poor. What does it do?
It separates them from their deen. It separates
them from their family.
It stresses them out. It makes people work,
more than they absolutely need to. And that's
not everybody here. I understand there are some
people who are hustling just to get by.
And your struggle is not something that I'm
talking down to. In fact, your struggle is
Mubarak. There's blessings and Allah rewards it. If
a person is just struggling to keep their
head above water, that struggle is a noble
struggle, and there's great reward in it. But
if you get to a place in your
life where those things are taken care of,
you have a system of taking care of
those things.
Then after that point, to waste your time
with your children
in order to get more so that the
the the logo on your car will say
Lexus instead of Toyota even though, you know,
the engine is the same in the middle
of the 2 of them.
This makes very little sense in the but
worse worse than that, it also makes very
little sense in the dunya.
Those hours with your wife and kids, you're
not gonna get them back. And the worst
thing is what? Because when you're out at
the job, you have to say please and
thank you to every math case in the
world. You have to silly people and put
up with the silliness of silly people. You
have to wait at at the back and
call of your customer because the customer is
always right. Even though the customer is not
always right, but the customer is always right.
You have to take that stress on top
of you, then you walk into the house
and
who are you gonna unleash
the the the negativity on?
Not on your customer, because if you do,
you ain't gonna get no more customers.
You're gonna unleash the negativity on your wife
who loves
you. She may not be perfect, but she
loves you. For that reason, our sisters also
work so hard. You're gonna unleash that negativity
on your husband who loves you.
He's definitely not perfect, but he still loves
you.
Your children who look up to you, your
children even when they're
even when
they're ill behaved, even when they took crayons
and,
you know, ruined the walls and spilled
the most
red food coloring ist, drink all over the
white carpet. And even when they didn't listen
to you and even but still inside, you
know, nobody, to love except for you. You
could but still inside, you know, nobody, to
love except for you.
You could have spent those moments with them.
And instead,
what do you do? You
take the time that should be big to
spend with them, and you cut it down,
and then you change the quality of it
from something that's at least neutral, if not
positive, into something that's what? That's negative.
This is very harmful. It's not worth it.
It's not worth what does it come from?
It comes from that desire to drive Alexis
because your cousin has a Lexus, or your
brother has a Lexus, or your neighbor has
a Lexus. Who cares what they have, what
they don't have?
And this is another,
a small point I wanted to mention. Nowadays
toxic masculinity. The all of them have written
a lot over the centuries about what,
what positive masculinity
is.
What what how to be a man in
a positive sense. And there's actually a lot
of fame and good that even the sisters
can gain from that.
But there's been a lot written about this
this topic that how to be a man.
And it doesn't come from just something that
made out. Rather, these things, they actually come
from the teachings of the messenger of Allah
And
so, especially
our, young Islamic school boys, you should listen
to these things when you have a, you
know, when you have the idea for what
you wanna be and how you wanna be
and who you wanna be in the future.
What did the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam say?
He said being being being tough, being being
strong. This part of iman.
Iman.
Meaning what? What is Badada? Badada is part
of your faith. Badada means what?
It means
being tough
and not going after, like, luxury all the
time, not being soft.
So if you want
to get a car, what's the difference between
the Toyota and Lexus? They literally have the
same engine inside of them.
One is a little prettier than the other.
Remember, as a man, your beauty is not
in how pretty you are.
Being pretty is like suitable for for women,
for them to show their beauty to their,
family members,
in their
homes and in their private places, in their
private lives. That's something that's good.
For a man who's pretty, this kind of
decreases him from his manhood, it could completely
destroy his manhood for for him. What is
the beauty of a man in? In strength.
By selling yourself for the dollar, constantly. It's
earned by a completely different process.
Allah
give
us the,
toffee of imbibing this Badada.
Allah enter into our hearts, the, the, the,
the, the,
are struggling, may Allah give us what's sufficient.
May Allah,
free up our minds and our hearts for
those things that they're meant for, for the
love of one another and the love of
our families, our wives, our children, our parents,
and for the love of Allah, his Rasool
salallahu alayhi wa sallam in the service of
his deen and the service of Allah's creation
as a way of honoring him. Allah ta'ala
give all of us so much tafikusallallahu
alaihi wa sallam alaasinha Muhammad ba'ala alahi wa
sallamihi wa sallamihi.