Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Diagnose, Triage and Treat
AI: Summary ©
The importance of evaluating one's actions and identifying one's actions as positive or negative is crucial for happiness and productivity. The need for proper deeds and the desire for an adventure experience is also emphasized. distraction during our day-to-day activities can lead to negative emotions and health issues, and it's important to take initiative and listen to natural beauty. Different distractions can have negative consequences such as thoughts of a fictitious person and negative emotions, but it's important to take initiative to find people who actually help us.
AI: Summary ©
Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said in
a Hadith
Sahi
sahi.
The one who loves for the sake of
Allah Ta'ala
and hates for the sake of Allah Ta'ala
and gives for the sake of Allah Ta'ala
and withholds for the sake of Allah Ta'ala,
that person has brought their iman to some
perfection,
to some completion.
There are a number
of
Hadith of the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam like that.
That if your good deeds make you happy,
If your good deeds make you happy and
your sins make you sad. Doesn't say that
he didn't say that you don't commit sins
at all.
It's going to happen.
It doesn't mean it's okay, but it is
going to happen. There's no one who can
escape it.
If your good deeds make your make you
happy in your sins,
make you upset,
then this is a sign that you're a
believer. This is a sign that you're a
believer.
This is a very
basic
an usuli, a principled understanding of a person's
iman, their faith.
What is iman? Iman is the thing that
you will
be given eternal life and salvation on the
day of judgment in exchange for it.
This is a very basic principle by which
you can evaluate how is your iman doing.
Do you have it or not?
And how is it doing?
Because it's just saying
got you into Jannah,
then there are many people even the who
are the and the the lowest
and the worst part of the fire, they
all said the same
on their tongues. There's a speech on the
tongue that has to be said and there's
also a state in the heart that has
to accompany it.
This is how you can evaluate the state
in the
heart.
The question that we should ask ourselves is
which thing is it that we are involved
in right now?
Which
good deed is it that we do?
That we are not
deriving some sort of happiness from it.
Is our prayer something that we find something
good with it?
Is our prayer the shield that protects us
in the day from evil?
Is our prayer the thing that holds our
tongue back from speaking evil? Is our tongue
or is our prayer the thing that is
Pushing and pulling us away from
indecency.
Do we feel any different when we fast?
Do we feel any different when we give
sadaqa? Do we feel any different when we
spend on our family, our children, our wives,
our parents, our relatives,
on the Masjid, on whatever it is.
The sins that we do,
the mistakes that we make,
do we feel bad about them? Or do
we know inside our head that this is
wrong, it's a sin, but inside our heart
we're indifferent to it?
The in the head is that this thing
is haram, the inside the heart is this
thing is benefiting me and it's helping me
somehow.
If a person sees that there is something
wrong in the system, something
dislocated,
dysregulated,
You now have this ability to diagnose that
this needs to be worked on. There needs
to be some sort of help that's
sought for this.
Not everything requires another person to help you.
Some things you know, you woke up in
the morning, you have a sore throat, you
have a headache, you know, you're you can
take the thermometer, you're running a fever.
You know, maybe it's time to call in
sick from work and take a day off
because I'm not feeling well.
If you have some other sort of bizarre
symptom that you never had before,
that I can only see orange,
Maybe you should go to a doctor.
But not everything requires another person. How some
things many of us know something is wrong
just by some sort of simple self awareness.
If you feel yourself in this state,
then you have to do something about it.
Why? Because it means that the problem is
jeopardizing
your iman. It's jeopardizing your iman.
And just like a sick person,
a person becomes ill. Everything tastes different.
Things that may
be good for you, they don't taste good
anymore.
Things that you perhaps like to eat, you're
not able to eat anymore. Perhaps, in fact,
your entire hunger is gone.
Perhaps your hunger will be gone for so
long until and until or unless you get
that sickness treated,
you may actually waste away and become emaciated
because of your lack of desire and inability
to eat that thing that otherwise would have
sustained you through your day, that you otherwise
would have enjoyed.
The issue is this is that until you
treat what the actual sickness is,
you're never going to get better.
The treating of sicknesses, some of them are
just get some rest at home.
And some of them require that a person
go to a hospital and see a doctor
and get a particular medicine. And some of
them require more radical intervention.
Every one of us, none of us is
obliged to know everything.
Every one of us at some point or
another has to ask questions. The person you
ask questions from also has another person they
ask questions from, and that person also has
somebody else to ask questions from. Nobody knows
everything.
Even the great olamah of the amsar, they
will consult with one another when they're not
a 100% sure about something.
Even when they think that I know this
is the right answer, I just wanna make
sure that there's nothing I'm overlooking. They consult
one another.
So one of the good things, one of
the the good qualities and characteristics of the
believers that Allah Ta'ala
prayed praise the the the ummah for. And
there's a lot of hikmah and benefit in
it.
The point is this is that you have
to
look at this one thing as actually being
a bigger problem than it is.
This one thing being what? That a person
does no no longer drive some sort of
happiness from their good deeds. And I'm not
saying that you have to be in the
state of bliss. You say, Allahu Akbar from
the time I said Allahu Akbar until the
time, you know, I say assalamu alaykum wa
rahtulla. I feel like I see, like, trees
and waterfalls and
glitter and sparkling from the sky, unicorns flying.
You don't have to see all of that.
You don't have to feel like that.
It should be enough for you that what?
That
you have this feeling inside of your heart.
That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala ordered the ones
that he loved
to establish this prayer, and I was able
to do so. And this is this is
a good thing, even if it was difficult
for you.
But if the thought starts to cross your
mind, which is what?
I'm wasting my time.
This is a problem.
This is a problem. Right? That we we
have people like this. Muslims undergo all of
these things.
There's a previous,
sovereign ruler of a Muslim country.
He tried to ban people from fasting
in the day
on Ramadan. And he said this is a
old this is a old superstitious practice. It's
going to die out within our lifetimes.
Our country cannot afford to fast. We need
to be more economically productive.
And I'm thinking, you know,
one thing is obviously what he said is
haram. It's actually kufr.
But the point is not to analyze, you
know, like the the the the righteousness of
particular politicians who have been dead for a
while now.
The point is is what?
Is that if you yourself these thoughts come
to people sometimes.
They know in Ramadan it benefits your health.
You know in Ramadan you see barakah in
the money Allah gave you and in your
family, in your property, in your relationships. You
actually feel that there's some sort of benefit
from this. Again, out of all the benefits
a person
experiences from
their obedience to the Lord.
If a person were only to feel this
benefit that this was something Allah told me
to do and Alhamdulillah, I was able to
do it on the day of judgment. You
feel happy that you'll be able to submit
this for the
acceptance of the Lord.
I didn't do it perfectly but I tried
my best. I was at least from amongst
the people who prayed. I was at least
from the people who fasted. This feeling itself
is a very important feeling. In fact, this
is the It shouldn't be for a believer
the chief source of happiness. All the other
things are like bonus that Allah puts on
top of it. When that feeling is gone
and you truly start to feel that this
is a waste of time, this is a
problem.
This is what? It's a problem. When you're
in the salat and you're itching to do
something else,
it's a problem.
You're itching to go run eat to meet
your friends to watch a movie to watch
this to watch that whether it's halal, whether
it's haram, whatever it is you're itching to
run away it doesn't mean you should be
praying 24 hours a day.
But even if a person were to pray
very quick for rakaz
And now I'll play
and I'm done, you know.
At least this idea that this is my
3:3 minute and 21 second meeting with the
Lord.
You should see some value in it. You
should see some value and it's some benefits,
some barakah in it.
And on the flip side, the sins that
people do,
whether it's transacting in Haram money, whether it's
dishonesty, whatever it is, big or small,
Whether it's in eating the haram and drinking
the haram.
Whether it's through your mouth and with your
tongue and in your stomach or whether it's
with your private parts that you consume the
Haram or with your eyes or with your
ears.
These things a person should not see good
and benefit in them.
A person should see whatever enjoyment that they
have in them as somewhat problematic.
A person should see that as somewhat problematic.
Problem. It means your iman is weakening, and
it might be gone. And at some point,
it's been dead for a while, and you're
moving on.
A person has to then diagnose
that there is a problem, figure out is
this something that I can take care of
myself. Again, you don't have to go to
the hospital for every single thing.
Sometimes you just need a day of rest.
What is your day of rest for your
iman?
You should fast for a day.
Why? Because everything that makes the nafs happy,
Everything that makes the physical
disposition of a person happy, all of them,
they will
be the opposite effect for your for your
spirit.
It's narrated that
the nafs, the the the physical disposition of
a person,
and the ruh, the spiritual disposition of a
person within their spiritual makeup.
They're like 2 co wives. If you make
one of them happy, you're gonna make the
other one upset.
The hadith is the the narration at any
rate, I don't have the takrids in it,
so you don't have to attribute it to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, but there's
a great deal of wisdom in it. Not
the least of which is every you know
most everybody would be afraid to tell this
to their wife at home because just the
idea of some sort of fictitious someone else
having a second wife is gonna cause that
much of a problem.
So
when you're eating,
when you're resting,
when you're enjoying yourself,
during all of these things, physically speaking, during
all of these things, imagine that your your
your spirit is what? It's fasting. It has
nothing to eat or drink.
It's physically obviously, it's not physical thing in
the first place, but it's become weak.
It's become tired.
It's become dizzy. All the things that you
know that you feel like when you're
not doing when you haven't eaten for a
long time, all of that is happening to
you spiritually.
People can feel this. This is why a
person knows that there's something wrong. This is
why people go to therapy,
they're go to a psychiatrist,
they go to get help from other means
in order to suppress this
feeling of unease inside.
This is obviously where people should read Mantik.
They should read logic. I'm not saying that
every single person who goes to therapy or
goes to a psychiatrist or is on medicines
or whatever. It has somehow has a spiritual
problem.
A,
you
a, you know, another need for,
you know, getting help or therapy or whatever,
it's not necessary that I'm talking to you.
But even then,
a person is made up of a body,
a person is made up of a mind,
and a person is made up of a
spirit.
If you were to put
harm on one of those 3, it will
necessarily drag the other 2 down.
So if a person has some sort of
like, went through some sort of traumatic experience,
whether recently or in their childhood or whatever,
because of which they need some sort of
psychiatric help or they need some sort of
psychological help.
Not being okay in your in your spiritual
life, not being okay in your physical life
is not gonna help you get over those
things. It's actually gonna put more weight and
more strain.
Imagine a person is getting some sort of
very invasive treatment
for for a difficult disease in the in
the in the hospital.
And someone were to, you know, you know,
someone were to, you know, trip that person
and they fell and broke their leg. Do
you think the leg is gonna get better
sooner if they're getting some like chemotherapy or
would it be better if the person was
otherwise healthy quicker?
These things, they all work together. You're a
whole being. You're not separated one thing from
another.
So knowing this, knowing that this is gonna
cause you disease inside of yourself,
Then the first line of,
the first line of treatment is what? You
treat yourself by doing what?
By by sitting and reading a juzah of
Quran.
Someone says, I don't read Quran very well.
Read the surahs you know. Someone says, okay.
I read them. You sit and you say
some number of times. Brother, that's bila. It's
not I didn't say it's a sunnah. This
is a treatment for a for a for
a difficulty, for a illness.
Sit and focus for some time.
If that's not doing it for you, find
something else that will do it for you.
Fast,
pray a certain number of rakat,
take money out, and give it in sadaqa,
even though you didn't want to. Otherwise, you
wanted to do something else with it.
Say something nice to somebody else. Do something
nice for somebody else. All the sadaqa, the
most important sadaqa we can do, it starts
at home.
Do something nice for your wife, for your
husband.
Do something nice for your children, for your
parents.
Find these ways to treat it. If it
doesn't get better after that, then go and
seek help.
Go and seek help. Otherwise, what is it
now you know, like, nowadays we have access
to so much entertainment.
What is entertainment? It's just distraction.
We have access to so much distraction.
And people distract themselves in so many different
ways.
And some of them may even not be
haram. Some of them are haram, and some
of them are like very haram.
But they all kill hours and hours of
the day, days and days of the week,
weeks of the year, years of a person's
life.
What did they do if a disease is
not treated? Is it going to get better?
Is it going to get worse? It's progressively
going to get worse. It's going to be
even more and more difficult to treat the
further a person goes on.
And the distraction will distract a person
entertainment will do what? It will distract a
person from from
understanding what that problem is and trying to
treat it
until one day it manifests in a bizarre
way, in a way that's socially and culturally
unacceptable.
Because there are there are sins that a
person does, but they can still be functioning
in the community.
But once the person, you know, their wife
finds them cheating with another woman or with
the God knows with the whatever nowadays. Right?
When a person gets booked, you know, for
fraud in jail, which he was built up
to by smaller frauds that they got away
with that no one said anything. By eating
the money of Haram in a way that's
not illegal in the whatever in DuPage County.
When a person gets to a point where
it's socially no longer acceptable, then they say,
oh, you know, Shaykh, can you help me
with this, my brother, this, my son, this,
my father, that. I'm going through this difficulty.
I'm going through that difficulty. It's difficult at
that time to help. We never tell a
person to give up hope.
Even if you're dying, you're gonna die in
1 minute. I said at least say la
ilaha illallah again. At least make your repentance,
salallahu ta'ala, whatever you fixed or broke in
this world, even if you cannot fix it,
always Allah Ta'ala, Allah Allah Ta'ala will accept
from you. But it shouldn't take a genius
to see why this is not the superior
way a person should want to live.
This is not a superior way that a
person should want to be a believer.
A little bit of forethought, a little bit
of, of process, Those things that you think
are not going to be fun because one
of the reasons a person doesn't want to
take the path of righteousness is that they
think this is not going to be fulfilling
for me. It's better I want to eat
what I want to eat.
I want to consume what I want to
consume. I wanna have a big name. I
wanna have big fame, and that way I'll
be happy. I don't want to pray all
that much because it sounds boring. I don't
wanna fast all that much because it sounds
difficult. I don't want to give that much
charity because it sounds like, you know, I'm
gonna be broke and I won't have stuff,
you know, the nice car that I want
or whatever.
Don't be a fool.
This is foolishness.
Those people are not happy in the next
world with.
They're not happy in this world either though.
That's the the the the the
the the the strangest thing. That there are
people on their deathbed, the amount of contentment
that they have, There are people who spend
literally
100 of 1,000 and 1,000,000 of dollars in
the year. They don't have that contentment.
It's a type of foolishness. And no matter
how happy they may look, everyone is gonna
die one day. Right?
There's no person who's on such a great
diet and so much exercise and so much,
you know, financial portfolio trust fund well balanced
that they're going to live forever.
What kind of sick person would wanna live
forever in this world anyway?
So I wanna live another 4 years to
see who the next clown who gets elected.
What do you like what are you what
is it that you're gonna get out of
it one way or the other?
Take the initiative and know that this is
going to be what makes me happy.
That at the end of this process at
the end of this process
because like the sick person, the thing the
good food doesn't taste good anymore to them.
Why? Because they're
what?
They're sick. Right?
That when I get better, the salat will
actually feel nice.
When I get better, the fast will feel
nice. When I get better, there are people
in this Umma. Not like random one person
like, you know, like walking around in Syria
or Iraq or some other place. Like in
this Jamat right here, they literally if they
had like $5 in their pocket after their
needs were fulfilled.
After they spent, you know, paid for rent
for the people that they're obliged to take
care of in the Sharia war. If they
had $5 it would give them more happiness
to spend that $5 on their brother in
need or on their sister in need than
it would in just indulging themselves, you know,
getting an extra, you know, how many, you
know, I some of the brothers see me,
I'll go to Starbucks and, like, drink drink
a coffee after jama'at, you know. So I'm
not, like, being I'm not saying that it's
it's wrong, but I'm just saying like
if we were to 1 week miss Starbucks
after Jumah. Right? Because we gave to somebody
else. Would I be upset? Would you guys
be upset? Of course not. I'd seen your
face you would not be upset. You would
actually be happy that I I had opportunity
to do this. It will feel good. I
promise you, it will feel good. The problem
is not that it's a bad thing or
a stupid thing to do.
The problem is what? When you're sick, the
thing that's good, it doesn't taste nice anymore.
When you get better, you will see that
those things that are actually helpful and beneficial
to you, they will feel good again. Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give us tawfiq. Allah Ta'ala,
any of us that is sick whether physically,
mentally,
or or or or spiritually, Allah ta'ala give
us the tawfiq
of being treated and getting treatment and finding
those people who help us to get the
treatment so that we can come
on
the
day.
The day that no one's benefited by wealth
or by
progeny. The only one who will benefit is
the one who brings a heart free from
all of these sicknesses and can offer it
to Allah Ta'ala. Meaning, an imam that's free
of all of these sicknesses we can offer
it to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And in
exchange for that Allah accepts all of us
and gives us all from his love and
gives us everlasting life in the maqam in
Jannah forever and ever where we never worry
about anything ever again.