Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Cut Off From All Else ICC 03052021
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All praises to Allah. And may his peace
and blessings be upon his servant and messenger.
Our master, Sayna Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasalam.
Allah most high said in his book,
Mention the name of your lord.
Honour the name of your lord.
Cut yourself off
from other than him
completely,
emphatically.
Brothers and sisters, more than half of the
Mubarak and holy month of Rajab has passed.
And we have in front of us and
then after Ramadan.
I don't
know what will happen with regards to Ramadan.
Will the masajid be open again?
Will we have salatul tarawi again? Will we
be able to hear a fathom of the
Quran
again?
Many of us, the only time we have
and the only opportunity that we have to
hear a fathom of the Quran is in
Ramadan.
So what does it mean to miss this
opportunity once and then afterward twice?
So
even though it's the responsibility
of every believer to prepare,
Prepare not only for this but prepare for
death, prepare for Hajj, prepare for marriage, prepare
for
living in a house, prepare for your business,
your work, all the other things that are
necessary in order to live a good life,
and a life with which the lord is
pleased.
Also like this, it's our
responsibility
to prepare for Ramadan and that responsibility is
all the more dire
given current circumstances.
Last year, many of us lost a great
amount
of opportunity
because of having things on autopilot.
You can't think have things on autopilot.
Allah
rewards things according to intention.
The things you do on autopilot, one should
fear in front of the lord. One should
fear in front of the lord that they
will receive no reward for it at all
anyway. Why? Because there's no intentionality
in it Or at any rate very little.
Don't you see?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
tells us that we set the
we set the skill pants
on the day of judgement,
to justice.
The last hadith of Sahih Bukhari is what?
We mentioned it last week in the hutva.
That there are 2 utterances
that are very light on the tongue
and very heavy in the scale pants.
And that are very beloved to the most
merciful Al Rahman.
Exalted above blemish
and to him be praised
and to Allah be praised.
Exalted above blemish is Allah
who is the most magnificent.
One of the reasons Bukhari
left
this hadith at the end. Because it's from
the literary style of the Arabs, that when
you have some speech or some writing,
that you put something very important in the
beginning and you put something very important in
the end.
Why did he choose this hadith at the
end?
The hadith is there at the end as
a rad, as a refutation against the
against the rationalist philosophers who said this is
a metaphor and that's a metaphor. So no,
there's actually gonna be scale pounds on the
day of judgement, and deeds will actually be
weighed. And this hadith is a proof for
that.
What's the hikmah? What's the wisdom of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala weighing deeds
rather than counting them,
rather than measuring their width and their depth
and their height.
What's the wisdom in weighing the deeds? Weighing
is an intrinsic property, you cannot visually assess
it.
Something may be very large and weigh nothing.
It may have negative weight. Imagine if you
fill a hot air balloon with hydrogen.
Other than being a safety hazard, it's not
gonna It's gonna have negative weight. It will
actually lift lift up off of the ground.
Whereas you can have a very small block
of lead
which is extremely heavy. It's more dense than
most other materials. Gold, silver, more dense than
most other materials.
What is the density of your deed in
the scale pan?
What is it that gives your deeds weight?
It's the iqlas, the sincerity,
it's
the fervor, the niya, the love, the mehabba.
The love of Allah ta'ala with which that
deed is infused, which makes it worth it.
Otherwise people go hajj after hajj, it means
nothing to Allah ta'ala. The angels when that
person says, the angels say,
You're you have no Hajj. We don't accept
your. Your is return to sender.
We have to have more intentionality.
We have to have more intentionality anyway.
This Ramadan, we have to have more intentionality
to make sure it's not wasted.
So
the remaining couple of hootaba that I have,
I wanted to talk about the preparation for
Ramadan
and explore various aspects of it.
Means what?
Cut yourself off from all other things
So that you can be connected with him.
And this is a rule
that is
reiterated again and again in the Quran, in
the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, and in the wisdom tradition of Islam.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in his book,
he
describes what the way shaitan makes the dunya
attractive is through what? Tasyin, it's the zenatul
Hayatul
It's what? It's a beautification.
It's like putting lipstick on a pig however.
What's the problem? Shaitan has gotten very good
at it.
Shaitan has gotten very good at it. They
have dog shows, they make dog look nice.
Now they have shows, they make a man
look like a woman, make a woman look
like a man.
At some point, you know, they actually
become very good at all of these weird
deceptions that they do.
Stop looking at those things. Stop wasting your
eyesight on those things. Stop wasting your ears
on those things.
Shut your shut your TV off.
Shut your TV off.
Uninstall
the apps on your phone, your Netflix app,
your YouTube app. YouTube unfortunately, some phones you
can't even uninstall it. What do you do?
Take it off of your home screen, get
rid of it.
Get done with your Spotify. Get done with
your Apple iTunes,
music account.
Get done with all of these,
different things that you listen to music from.
Right now right now we're not having a
fiqh discussion. In general, I don't discuss fiqh
from the Jumafutla because there's not enough time
to discuss any issue properly.
So put the fift issue aside.
Cut yourself off from everything other than him
means what? Any sensory distraction that a person
has, cut yourself off from it.
Any beautification of anything. Some things are it's
just to eat a turkey.
Don't watch cooking shows.
Cut yourself off from other than him
completely.
So that what? So that you can have
a chance to appreciate what is Allah ta'ala
trying to say. What is the rasul sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam trying to say? How is
this lifestyle that is prescribed to us
in the Quran, in the books of hadith,
in the books of
How is this actually unfold? You have to
get used to it a little bit. You
cannot just expect it to, you know, snap
your fingers and say, okay, now I'm practicing.
Where is my happiness? It doesn't work that
way.
Mawana Rumi
says what?
He says, It's
It says, Line of the Maslavi,
shut your eyes, shut your ears,
Shut your your lips. Stop the tongue from
moving.
Afterward, if you can sit like this for
some time,
if you can sit like this, make this
into your habit,
that you shut all of these things.
If you don't feel and if you don't
bear witness to the light of the heart
of the truth coming up from inside of
you, then you can say afterward that these
these people are all just making this up.
It's all just a joke.
You have to cut yourself off from these
things.
What does Ramadan do? It makes it fun
for you to cut yourself off first from
food and drink, and then from the
sexual,
desires.
This is what? This is
The 2 most basic carnal desires that a
human being has inside of him is what
or her?
Is the desire for
food. And then built upon it is the
desire for
physical intimacy.
If you can get these 2 in in
in in in grip, if you can get
these 2 under control, if you can handle
these 2,
then what happens afterward is the other ones
they also weaken and then they become controllable.
The point of Islam is not to destroy
them. Otherwise, the Quran would've had a surah
that said, what? Go kill yourself.
It doesn't.
We don't have celibacy.
You're you know, lucky for you, your clergymen
and your priests are allowed to get married,
alhamdulillah.
We don't have that in our deen.
What do you do? You're commanded to control
these things.
Afterward, what is the that's the song of
the Umoon. What's the song of the Husus?
Ghazali rahimullah writes,
The psalm of the elite the fasting of
the elite people is what is the fasting
of the eyes. Make sure
pretend or imagine,
conceive as if your fast is broken by
looking at the haram.
Conceive that your fast is broken by hearing
the haram.
Conceive that your fast is broken by
touching the haram.
Conceive that your fast is broken by smelling
the haram,
by walking to the haram.
This is
the higher level of fasting, the fasting of
the elite. And then afterward there's the song
of the hussus on hussus which is what?
Conceive that your fast is broken by thinking
about the Haram.
These things are difficult, they're not easy. If
someone can keep this fast for more than
5 minutes, I'll come after salat and shake
your hand.
I'll come after salat and ask you for
your duas. But there are men from this
ummah who had this ability, they had this
power.
And you only get to it by building
yourself up, by struggling, by trying, by practicing.
Merely hearing these ideas and entertaining inside of
your heart the idea
that this is a good thing, That this
is something I should do. This is something
I should try. This is something everybody should
try. If I tried it, I would be
a better Muslim and I would be a
better human being.
Once this thought enters into your heart, this
is a sign of your friendship with Allah
ta'ala.
And if you attempt to do it afterward,
one thing is just to have a good
opinion. If you attempt to do it afterward,
this is a level higher than that.
And if Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives you
success,
then
Mubarak, blessed you are my brother that you
will eat in Jannah and a 100 people
will eat with you and because of you.
A 1000 people will eat it with you
and because of you. From the grace of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and from his father.
This is the way this entire Islam works.
This is the way the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam overcame his challenges and adversities in life.
And this is the only way any of
us are going to be able to overcome
them. So think about it. It will hurt.
A person literally, your thumb becomes your thumb
becomes
anxious.
It fidgets
because it wants to doom scroll.
Keep scrolling until
God knows what. And there are algorithms that
will keep giving you pointless content. Pointless content
that you could die and it will still
be sending content to you.
Let it go. Let your thumb be anxious
a little bit. Let your thumb fidget a
little bit.
Let the reward centers of the brain
be a little bit anxious.
Cut your brain off from dopamine
for a couple of days.
For a month, for a month and a
half, for 2 months.
Give a little bit of anxiety to the
dopamine center of your brain and to your
thumb
and to your eyes.
Why? So that your ruq can live,
so that your qalb can live, so your
spirit can thrive, and so that your heart
can grow, so it can regenerate the part
of it which is dead, which for many
of us is more than what's alive.
So that
you also
can live such a life
that on the day of judgement you can
say in front
of the creation.
In front of the nations, in front of
the humans, and the jinns, and the angels,
and the creation
other than that of Allah ta'ala which we
have no idea about.
But you can also say, I spent my
small amount of time in this world
trying to do one good deed after another,
after another, after another. Until me and Allah
we became friends.
Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, give us Tawfiq. Nobody
will reach that except for through thinking about
it and through planning for it. Allah, Subhanahu
wa ta'ala, give us Tawfiq. He
said to Muhammad