Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Fasting Ashura and the Help of Allah MACE 09292017
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All praises to Allah.
All praises to Allah.
All praises to Allah who guided us to
Islam and to iman and to his Mubarik
house on this Mubarik day of this Mubarik
month, and we were not to be guided.
Was it not that Allah had guided us?
Oh, Allah, to you is praise as his
commensurate with the majesty of your countenance and
the greatness of your authority.
Oh, Allah, we do not limit you with
any praise we can come up with ourselves
rather we admit that you're the only one
who knows the true extent of your praise
worthiness.
And may the peace and blessings of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala be upon his servant and
messenger, our master, Sayedna Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. May the peace and blessings of Allah
ta'ala be upon him and upon his
noble companions and upon his
pure wives and upon his robotic and blessed
family and progeny and upon all of those
who follow all of their way until the
day of judgment.
By
the
we have reached the
sacred month of Muharram.
This is the month in which all the
Hurdaj have returned.
In a good state,
in their bodies and enriched with the riches
of both the dunya
and of the deen
to their homes.
It is the 1st month of the
Islamic New Year.
The Hijra of Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
being the event which marks the 0 year.
However, the Hijra of Rasool Allah alaihi sata
wasalam
did not happen in the month of Muharram,
rather it happened on a Monday in the
month of.
Rather, the 0 year was retroactively
picked by Sadna
by
his and by his brilliant and genius
which the entire ummah accepts.
Even there's a section of the people who
claim to be part of the of the
prophet
and they curse but
they accept as each in this and on
many other matters.
That retroactively
from his caliphate, they marked the the 0
year from the hijra of Sayna Rasool Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
His having moved from
to Madinah Munawara.
There is a difference in English
between two words that are very similar.
Immigration with an I and immigration with an
e. Generally, we
spell immigration with an I in America.
It was a clever it was a clever,
differentiation
made up by Americans in the 19th century
or perhaps earlier
that
the idea before at least in the English
language, the idea before was what?
Was that nobody leaves their home except for
when their home goes to such horrible circumstances,
they can't stay anymore.
So they're leaving. Why? Because how bad things
are back home.
So Americans said, no. This is immigration with
an I. Come live in America. Leave leave
your homes in Europe. Leave your homes in
in in the mainland,
and come across the ocean because this is
a place where you're where you'll have a
better life. You'll have land. You'll be able
to,
start businesses. You'll be able to do all
of these things, and look how amazing life
is over here. And in fact, they used
to make,
propaganda,
for lack of a better term about how
amazing it was in America. Undoubtedly, it was
probably better for them economically to live in
America, at least many of them. But sometimes
they would inject some embellishments when people came
to America, they realized it's really not that
amazing. But, at least those of our forefathers
who came by choice, some of them were
forced in chains,
Allah,
be their recompense for that in this world
and the hereafter.
But at any rate, the idea is that
they said immigration with an eye. You're not
leaving because of how bad things are back
home, you're leaving because of how wonderful things
are where you're going.
And it's very interesting that this this differentiation
is there. And if I were to pick
a word for the hijra of Rasulullah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
it would be that
from the outside,
they left. Why? Because they were tortured and
they were punished, and they were given a
hard time, and their properties were seized from
them, and their homes became unsafe from them
because of the imaginations of the and the.
At the behest of shaitan, at the behest
of people's own nafs, at the behest of
people's own.
But because
they didn't know what they were going to.
Whenever a Muslim, whenever a person who says
goes from one place to the other, it's
always good for for them.
This is not because of propaganda because they
wanted to populate Madina Munawara.
This is because of Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam and his every word is wahi.
His every word is wahi.
He doesn't speak. Allah says in his book,
Suraj al Najam, he doesn't speak from caprice
or or from vanity.
Indeed, his speech is nothing except for a
revelation which is revealed to him.
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said in the
hadith
How wondrous is the affair of the believer
because his affair, all of it is good.
If he's in a good state, he shows
thanks to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and that's
good for him. And if he's in the
state of tribulation, he shows patience with Allah
ta'ala and that's what? It's good for him.
What did they know that by
leaving their homes and leaving their properties, Allah
will give them something afterward, give them such
a victory that not only will they get
back, but Allah
will literally open the doors of the treasures
of this world and the hereafter
up for them and throw them at their
feet.
Literally, the the,
Suraka
Suraka Tublu Malik, the Bedouin
Bedouin tracker.
Bedouins were not wealthy and rich people then,
nor are they today. They're very simple people.
They're simple minded people. When they come into
the city, it's very strange because often times,
they don't know how to do things that
city people are accustomed to. So there may
be a you may be in a a
city,
and there's a bathroom
very close by, and you'll see the bedroom
urinating in the street because the idea of
using the using a, like, a separate lavatory
for a bathroom is not normal to that
person. So these people are not enfranchised people.
Surahat al Khattablaumalik in the reign of Sayna
Amr radiAllahu ta'ala and who? He
said that when I was tracking Rasulullah salallahu
alaihi wa sallam, before I became Muslim,
in order to what? In order to drag
him for a reward of a 100 camels
to the mushrikeen of Quresh.
And Allah prevented
me from coming anywhere near him. And Rasulullah
told me, put my arms down and gestured.
Come. Let's just have a talk.
He asked me how many,
how much did they promise to pay you
for bringing me, back to, for bringing me
back to them? He said a 100 camels.
Rasulullah
said to him he wasn't even a Muslim
at the time. He said to him, what
what would you say if I told you
that one day, if you stick with me,
one day, Allah ta'ala will give you the
bangles,
of Kisra, of the Persian emperor to to
wear.
He said, I I guess, I don't know.
Like, what what is he supposed to say?
He didn't even believe in the prophet
at that time. Maybe someone who believed in
Rasoolallahu alaihi wasallam at that time would believe
that what he's saying is true, but would
have no idea how is this even possible.
The day came, the the the scepter and
the the the cloak and the crown and
the bangles, the rings, the entire imperial,
wardrobe
was because Rasulullah promised
him it was he was dressed up in
it. And in the court of say, Muhammad
radiallahu anhu in front of all the Muslims.
Where?
In Madinah Munawara.
In Madinah Munawara, he he he walked back
and forth, vaunting as if he's the Persian
emperor.
Outwardly looks like, man, everything because of my
deen, it was so difficult. I had to
give everything up. I had to do this,
that, and the other thing.
And why me? Why us?
And they had to leave
their homes. They had to leave everything they
loved. It wasn't like today. Today, we move
around. A person will move around 3, 4
times before they die. Some people move 10
times. Some people live their life on the
road. It's become common. In those days, those
are tribal people. You're live literally leaving everyone
you know and everyone you love.
They were leaving the house of Allah ta'ala
but what they didn't know still it was
better for them. Still it was better for
them.
And brothers and sisters, literally just like that
hijrah of the companions of Rasool Allah salallahu
alaihi wa sallam which we celebrate, which we
celebrated literally, saying Amr alaihi wa sallamahu from
his ijdihad of all of the events that
happened during the life and the nabua of
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam And in the
history of his ummah, he picked that event
as being the 0 year, the 0 year,
even though it bisects the Nabooah, the prophet
hood of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
almost evenly.
He picked that event in order to mark
the what? The beginning. The beginning of the
the the keeping of time. Just like that
brothers and sisters, remember, whatever you give up
for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
it's not the part that you lose, it's
the part that you keep.
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he was informed
that an animal was slaughtered in his house
by
and
he asked what is left behind.
And so she said just to cut if
the shoulder
used to like eating the the shoulder from
the the the
the front leg, not from the back ones
because it was further away from the najasa.
And
was very particular about cleanliness in a way
that most people aren't.
So she said, I saved that part that
you like for you and the rest of
it, we gave it away for charity. That's
the only part that's left.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, what did he do?
He told Saydai Shaulayhi Wa Ta'ala Anha.
He said, no.
That's the part we lose. The rest of
it is the part that we keep. Why?
Because it's Mahfouz, it's preserved with you with
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Don't you see how in the Quran, people
read Surat Yaseen, some of them every day?
Some of them read Surat Yaseen everyday.
That there's a a story. The story of
the Hijra, by and large, at least on
a on a wide level, it's a story
with a happy ending.
Individuals, however, died. They gave their lives in
the middle of it. You don't know. Are
you the individual who is going to live
happily ever after? Are you the individual Allah
will take you back before he takes other
people?
We hear the news of people who are
our own age, younger than us, dying in
a car accident, dying from cancer, dying from
this disease or from that disease, people losing
their wealth, their money, entire nations, entire nations
of the ummah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. We see them destroyed before our
eyes. It seems like it happens. A new
one every every 6 months, every couple of
months, it happens. A person wonders, what what's
going on? What's going on? Whoever Allah chooses
for this difficulty and for this tribulation, and
whoever Allah doesn't choose, that's his choice.
Is not to be asked about what he
does. Rather, the creation, they're the ones who
will be asked by him.
In Surat Yaasim,
Allah ta'ala tells the story about a man
who comes to the aid of
of of not just 1 nabi, of 3
mbiah alayhi mus salam
who are calling their people toward the deen.
He's the only one who accepts their their
their their their, dawah, their,
call and their claim.
And he stands with him and he's not
a person of Makam with his people.
The person comes from way the outside. He's
not the person with the CEO with the
penthouse office downtown.
He's just one of the the simple people.
He comes from the furthest away. Those are
often times the people who give the most
sacrifice.
And what what happens,
it's not even explicitly mentioned in the in
the text of the Quran, but it's understood
what happens. That because he stood with the
the the haqq, and he stood with the
ambiah of Allah,
his people killed him.
And what even the mention of his his
his his his his his murder and his
killing is not is omitted from the Quran.
All it is is what? That it jumps
straight to what? The when he dies and
his spirit comes out and it meets with
Allah's
angels.
What does he say? The first comment he
makes,
I wish I wish my people knew. I
wish my neighbors knew. I wish my family
members knew. I wish my relatives, my children,
everybody. I wish all of my people knew.
Your is what? Your is not the people
who follow the same religion as you.
This is a a a common mistake actually
in in in the Urdu language. Your is
not your your your your people you follow
the same religion as. Otherwise, in the Quran,
why are all the saying to their people,
say, no,
who they're saying to and
is saying to Thamud You Komi. They obviously
didn't ever accept his religion. They were never
on the same religion.
But your kom is who the people you
share your values with, your cultures with, You
celebrate the same holidays with them. You wear
the same clothes as them. You like to
eat the same food as them. Fine. Your
pizza may have like halal pepperoni and theirs
isn't. But it's, you know, that you have
something in common with them. You say, yeah,
later call me Al Amun. Well, that my
people knew. Yeah, later call
How much my lord has forgiven me? How
much my lord has honored me? When you
say we make a for somebody, when you
honor a guest, what does it mean? They
sit you in a nice place, they feed
you. If you ask for water, they'll run
and get water for you. If you ask
for so, you know, anything in the house,
a person makes a quran for you. If
you ask for anything they're able to do,
they'll run. They'll they'll hasten in order to
provide that for you.
That's the ecom of the creation.
Imagine what the ecom of the creator is.
Imagine what the ecom of the creator is.
This hijrah has a connection with these days.
And further than that, according at least to
the local North American moon sighting,
the 10th of Muharram is coming on Sunday.
The 10th of Muharram, the day of Ashura
is coming on Sunday. The day of Ashura
was a day celebrated by the mushrike and
Jahiliya as well. And it was also but
they didn't know why they celebrated it.
And the 10th of Muharram was a day
celebrated also by who? By the Jews in
Medina. And they knew why. They celebrated it.
They told Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam what?
They said this is the day that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala gave Najat. He saved Banu
Israel
from and from their enemies.
And they said we fast on this day.
Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam used to
fast on that day anyway.
But he said what? He said I have
more I have more right. I have more
heart to say the musa alaihi than you
do. Why? Because the person who shares the
genes with somebody,
they have some closeness with them. But it's
not complete closeness.
Why? Because the 2 sons of Adam alaihis
salam, the 2 of them are brothers, and
one kills the other. How many times do
we see a father and son? They go
on different paths. Two brothers go on different
paths. People from the same family, from the
same tribe, they go on different paths.
The nisbah,
tama, the complete and fulfilled,
connection that 2 people have with one another
is when it is inside of the heart.
When it's inside of the heart. Not the
lub dub physical heart, but the spiritual heart
which is the seat of intentions, where all
intentions come from. If you're a smart person
and the heart is good, it will use
your smartness for good things. If you're a
smart person and your heart is evil, it
will make nuclear weapons and it will,
argue falsehood and lie and cheat people and
trick people and do all of these things.
When your nizba is connect complete inside of
the heart, this is a complete connection that
2 people have with one another. So Rasool
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said what? He
said that my nispah with Musa alaihi salam
is complete.
Your nispah is not complete. It's partial. We
accept the fact that you have, perhaps, a
genetic relationship with him.
But my nisbah is complete because of how
our connection is with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
because of what we do in this world
and what we did in what we're going
to do in the hereafter, what our is
going to be in the hereafter.
Don't you see the
from the from the, hadith regarding
that
found said that Musa Alaihi Wasallam in such
a high in Jannah that when he crossed
his Musa Alaihi Wasallam himself said, I didn't
know that anybody was able to go further
than me.
Said that Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam hearing
about what? About this fast of regarding the
celebration and the shukar, the thanks to Allah
ta'ala for saving the
believers on that day. Would say the Musa
alayhi salam, Rasool Allah sallallahu alayhi salam out
of his ghayhi for the deen. Out of
his ghayhi for the deen, he said what?
I have more right to Musa Al Islam.
And what is gaira? Gaira is a a
a a virtue in Islam that has no
word in English.
There are 2 words, there's no one word
translation for them in English, and that's maybe
why nobody has any here and nobody has
any.
Is that feeling a person has for
something that's close and special to them. A
person would feel bad if someone said a
woman was unjustly
uh-uh robbed
in the street in in in the street
in front of the masjid. You would feel
bad.
If someone said your mother was unjustly robbed
in the street in front of the masjid,
naturally, there will be a a difference in
how how you feel.
That difference is what? That difference is that
feeling is called what? It's called hira. Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had hira for the
deen. And we also should have for the
deen. Don't you see how Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, he gave najat to say the Musa
alaihi wasallam on this day and how salallahu
alaihi wasallam used to fast on this day,
and how he said salallahu alaihi wasalam whoever
fasts on this day. I hope from Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala a good hope that it
will count for them as an expiation for
the sins of an entire year.
You fast on that day and make tawba
for your sins, Allah ta'ala forgives you. He
has no need to punish anybody.
He has no need to punish anybody. It's
a Sahih Hadid, that Allah tells us, oh,
son of Adam,
do all the sins you want. Sins so
much that it's fills as far as the
eye can see.
The eye can see other galaxies
light years away.
Maybe someone their facade will fill the universe
with with with destruction one day. He says,
oh, son of Adam,
make your sin so much like the oceans.
Make your sin so much that it goes
as far as the eye can see.
Ask me for forgiveness and I'll forgive you
and
it doesn't bother me one bit.
Fast on this day, Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said,
and and and I have good hope that
Allah accept it from you as the expiation.
Make Tawba, repent for your sins. Don't just
keep doing them.
Feel bad about them. Stop doing them. Fast
on this day and hope from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala that what he will forgive you
the the sins of a year. The
say
that doesn't maintain only that on this day,
say the Musa alaihi wasalam was saved by
saved by, saved from
and from his host.
Rather, it's a hadith of Rasool wasallahu alaihi
wasallam which is
is You can tell the stories of there's
nothing wrong with it. If they say something
which is against what's in the book of
Allah Ta'ala or what Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam says, then we know it's wrong. If
they say something that's in conformance with it,
then we know it's right. Between those two
things, if somebody listens to one of their
stories and they're they benefit in their deen
without changing their deen, then there's nothing wrong
with that. The say that the
don't just say that that this is the
day Allah gave najat to say, no, Musa
alayhi salam. Rather, this is the day Allah
saved say, say, no Ibrahim alayhi wasalam from
the fire, and this is the day that
say, no,
knew alayhi wasalam, that his ship after the
flood, it came to rest. And then say
this is the day that said, that Yunus
alayhis salam, is is comes back to land
after being inside of the belly of the
whale. This is the day of Fatah victory
and nazar from Allah Ta'ala, Allah Ta'ala's help.
When the ummah their back is pinned against
the wall. Don't you see this this
not just of Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, who is the best of it,
But this entire tradition of the deen, starting
from saying, Adam alaihi islam through the stories
of all of the mbiah alaihi wasalam. Always
the deck is stacked against us in the
dunya except for one thing, that we have
Allah ta'ala on our side.
If you can use the help of Allah
to Allah, you will be successful as an.
I give you I give you glad tidings.
If we turn our back on Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala,
then there is no way in the world
of causes and effects and physical things that
we are going to have help from him.
So if you see
more than 400,000
refugees thrown out of their homes in Burma,
if you see the largest cholera outbreak
in the entire world happening in Yemen.
Child mortality rates through the roof in Yemen.
If you see people are dying of malnutrition
in Yemen and there's no no
major source of any sort of aid getting
in or even allowed into the country, if
you see sham,
and we only can cry in front of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, completely destroyed.
If you see the entire populous of halib
is completely gone, and the people who live
there are strangers in its streets. If you
see,
the destruction of Mosul, and and and the
destruction of many of the great cities of
Iraq, if you see all of these things,
Somalia, all of these places, Afghanistan, if you
see all of these things happening in front
of your eyes, if you see that many
large countries in the Muslim world, swaths of
the Muslim world, especially the Arabic speaking world,
where a person cannot practice the deen without,
military or dictatorship or tyranny getting up on
their back. If you see even over here,
right, the the the ridiculous things that are
happening, the ridiculous things that are happening, the
ridiculous ways people are expressing satanic sentiments,
like that of
brother being separated from brother based on the
color of their skin. If you see all
of these things, remember Allah gave help to
the people who stood by his deen and
stood by the hap in the past. And
Allah, this is our our our that he
never changes.
You'll never find the way Allah deals with
people that it that there's a change in
it. You'll never find that it transfers from
one thing to another. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is the same. We change, he doesn't change.
If you know he gave
victory in the past, this is a key
that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi wa sallam gave to
us to unlock the help of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. If it wasn't for his nubua,
we would not have known. Right? That Allah
ta'ala is the one who said
Be thankful for the help that Allah gave
to those people who made themselves worthy of
it.
Maybe the mazid, the ziada, the increase, it
will come on us even if we're not
exactly worthy of it in the same way
that they are. Anyone who says
has a special maqam with allah ta'ala, maybe
we didn't we didn't,
give that that maqam its proper heart. But
shushukr to Allah ta'ala. The days are not
that long. You know, skip your lunch. That's
essentially what it's going to be. Skip your
lunch on the, on the day of Sunday.
Wake up,
wake up. You're not gonna go to work.
Most of you wake up late if you
want to spend the day reading Quran. Don't
waste the day watching television or listening to
music.
Spend the day with, you know, reading Quran.
Try to pray your prayers inside of the
masjid. And when the moment before you're about
to eat, when any other person say, oh
my god. You guys don't get to drink
water? Your religion is really hard, man. Right?
When everybody else is is is is, you
know, their their animal self would have taken
over at that point. Just a minute, 30
seconds before it's time for the adhan.
You're the one at that time that you're
focused on who? On Allah Ta'ala. That's the
that's the that's the bonus round. Ask for
Allah Ta'ala, whatever you want to ask Allah
Ta'ala. Ask him in any moment. That's a
very Mubarak moment. Ask him in that moment.
Ask him. Everything is big and small. It's
all equally, easy for him.
Ask him for all for the help that
we need. In mace, we need and we
need as an ummah. We need as an
America. We need as a people. We need
the help in that moment. You know, you
won't I promise you, nobody at that time,
at that moment, when they're asking allata is
gonna say, oh, I wish I'd eaten lunch.
Nobody. Most of us, we probably could miss
a couple of meals and it would be
good for us even in the in the
in the in the world of like, physical
things. Nobody will wreck, you know, at and
when you're going through the day, you might
be like, it's difficult. Really? Honestly, the most
difficult part of the fast is before the
fast begins. Your shaitan is getting up in
your head. Once the fast starts, most people
don't even feel hungry anymore. Nobody regrets it
while they're fasting.
Do do it for the sake of Allah
ta'ala. Allah ta'ala accept it from you.