Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Find A Reason Be Forgiven Hir 04222022
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Alhamdulillah by Allah Ta'ala we reached these Mubarak
last 10 days of Ramadan.
Last night was the night of 21st.
This Ramadan, it's easy to keep track
because
the night of Ramadan will match with
the calendar date of April
and the Gregorian calendar.
So last night was the night of 21st
and tonight will be the night of 22nd,
and yesterday was the 21st calendar day of
April, and today is the 22nd calendar day
of
April.
Allah
give
us these last 10 nights of Ramadan are
the most holy and sacred of
the nights of Ramadan.
And in them is contained the laylatul Qadr.
And this Ramadan from the very beginning, it's
a hadith
narrated by Tabarani,
that the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
ascended his
pulpit
and said Amin 3 times.
The companions
asked
him, salallahu alaihi wasalam, what is it you
were saying Amin to?
And he said, Sayna Jibril alaihi salaam came
to me,
and he said to me,
whoever reaches Ram Avan,
and they aren't forgiven,
that person is cursed.
That person is far from
Allah Ta'ala and far from Allah Ta'ala's mercy
and Allah Ta'ala's favor,
from Allah Ta'ala's grace. Say Amin. And so
the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said Amin.
And then the second thing he said, whoever
reaches the old age of 1 or both
of their parents,
and they're not able to serve them in
order enough to
be forgiven. That person is truly cursed.
Say, Amin. And the Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Amin.
And the third thing the Sayyidina Jibril alaihis
salaam said is what? Whoever you're mentioned in
front of them, and they don't say salat
and salaam on you,
Because of which they are forgiven.
That person is truly cursed. Say, Amin, and
the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, Amin.
The Qadr Mushtaq, the thread that's common between
these three things is what?
There are things that are so easy. There
are things that are so easy to receive
forgiveness through, so breathtakingly
easy. Only a person who's cursed will
be able to get through them unforgiven.
And these are the
gifts of Allah Ta'ala's Fadl, the gifts of
Allah Ta'ala's grace, that we did nothing to
earn, and that we can never do anything
to repay.
Ramadan comes
whether you're a good person or not.
Ramadan comes
whether you invested in Bitcoin or not.
Ramadan comes whether you have the job of
your dreams or not.
Ramadan comes if you're a black or white,
if you're a man or a woman, if
you're a convert, if you're Arab, ajan, if
it doesn't matter, Ramadan comes anyway. It's nothing
you did and nothing I did.
However, there's so many opportunities in Ramadan in
order to be forgiven, and these opportunities
intensify. They intensify
when? In the last 10 days.
And these opportunities intensify within the last 10
days
in the Laylatul Qadr.
And the fact of the matter is inshallah,
inshallah, by Allah tawlas fa'ala, everybody who is
a Muslim, everybody who has any hadl or
any share of Islam, at least you
pray. Even if you just pray isha and
you pray fajr.
The intensity
of laylatulqadr
is that this is enough for a great
deal for you in this world and the
hereafter.
People like me have made a profession in
order to scare
you into praying more and giving more zakat
and being a good person and don't do
haram and this and that and the other
thing. But Alhamdulillah Masha'a, you guys probably already
figured out we're going to Jannah anyway. Insha'Allah,
I mean all of us go.
Insha'Allah, all of us go.
So okay, you know, this is bad form
with Allah ta'ala. Allah chose you, gave you
hidayah, gave you better common sense. You should
pick a better way for yourself. But if
you think I'm going to Jannah anyway, InshaAllah,
you probably are gonna go to Jannah anyway.
InshaAllah.
A person should never feel like it's like
for sure, for sure.
This itself is, A, it's a sin and
it's bad form with Allah Ta'ala, and sometimes
that feeling becomes so offensive to Allah Ta'ala
that he takes it away.
But Allah Ta'ala is not out to get
you. He didn't bring you into his house
in order to humiliate you. The fact that
you're even here, it's a good sign insha'Allah.
We have a good opinion of Allah ta'ala
without ever taking our deen for granted and
without taking his gifts for granted.
But the day the day your jaw opens
and your mouth marvels when you're in Jannah
and you see the ranks
of the awliya of Allah Ta'ala and the
people who Allah Ta'ala loved, and you see
how much Allah Ta'ala gives a person, you're
not gonna say I wish I'm in Jannah
anyway, I wish I went back and like
slept, you know, for another hour.
What are you gonna wish? You're gonna wish
you could go back and do another good
deed.
Why? Because you see how little it takes
from you here and how much Allah Ta'ala
gives for you there. Nobody walks into the
car dealership. Even if you have no if
even if you have no intention to buy
a car.
Even if you have no intention to buy
an expensive car, you're gonna go buy the
cheap model.
Nobody walks into the dealership except for they
see the nicest car in the place and
it's all, like, you know, in the center
and has all the bells and whistles and
the features and things like that. Says, nobody
says that, yeah, no, I don't want that.
Everybody says, this is this looks really neat.
It captures everyone's attention.
Even the people with turbans and beards, your
attention. You're like, hey, that's really nice.
Allah ta'ala mentioned
the Surah Tayasim. We just read it, I
think yesterday in the tarawi that I'm reading.
Right?
That this poor man,
he stuck up for
the emissaries
of
Islam amongst his people.
And they they they they murdered him, they
killed him.
It's haf, it's actually not even mentioned in
the Quran. It's just that he mentions that,
he
told them what's good, and then it's implied
that it didn't go well.
The part of him being killed is not
it's not mentioned.
But the first sentence right after he dies
is mentioned.
The the first thing he says after his
soul leaves and then he realizes what happened.
So, I wish my people just knew. I
wish my people knew. I really, I wish
my people knew.
How much Allah Ta'ala has forgiven me? And
how much
How much Allah Ta'ala has
honored me, and given me so generously? How
much Iqram my Rab has given to me
because of this thing.
Nobody who dies on iman will ever wanna
come back to the dunya.
Forget about the oliya and the the,
great, great ones. Even the simplest of people
who is their Islam is flat out uninspiring
to a normal person.
Just this La ilaha illallah a person carries
with them inside of their heart. Nobody is
going to die and then say, I want
to go back to the dunya, when they
realize how much this thing was worth. This
thing that we take for granted and that
we give no attention to,
and that we plan for our money and
for our vacation and for our real estate,
and for our investments, and all of that,
and we take for granted this thing is
gonna be in our back pocket always, a
day will come, none of that stuff is
gonna matter, this thing is going to be
more precious than life itself. We underestimate what
the value of that is. On that day,
on that day brothers and sisters, you're gonna
wish, riyu muqdiama, you're gonna wish that Ramadan.
Look at this opportunity Allah gave us, we
could do a little bit more.
You're sleepy and I'm sleepy. Your children are
sleepy and my children are sleepy as well.
They're here. Abdullah, are you sleepy?
He's like, No, I'm not sleepy. Masha'Allah. Allah
give you more Himma and courage. He's sleepy.
Okay? He's sleepy.
Your wife is sleepy, my wife is sleepy.
People are tired, people are hungry, people are
all of these things just a little bit
more. Ayam maduda.
There's they're just very few days. There's just
very few days, and they're going to pass.
2 Jumas from now, you're gonna have lunch,
inshallah.
These days are gonna pass. Even if you
fast, it's not gonna be the same, is
it?
These days are going to pass one way
or the other.
Whether you spend them in Ibadah, they're going
to pass. Whether you spend them watching TikTok
videos, and watching Netflix, and watching YouTube videos
about kitty cats, and pushing yarn across the
screen, or whatever, all of these days are
gonna pass one way or the other.
Allah ta'ala gave us these very few days
whoever
cannot do something in them in order to
be forgiven, which is very easy, just very
easy. All you have to do is ask
Allah Ta'ala with sincerity. All you have to
do is ask Allah with sincerity to forgive
you. You're forgiven. Everything you do after that
is what? It's just icing on top of
the cake.
It's very easy, but you have to come
forward and you have to do it. There
are a couple of things I wanted to
mention, Insha'Allah, so that this talk doesn't
go overboard.
One is that the tarawih is there. If
you cannot spend the nights, the entire nights
in the masajid,
then you can at least pray
in jama'ah, you can pray your tarawih in
the masjid, as much as you're able to.
If you can pray the entire 20 rakahs
with the 3 rakahs of wither, then that's
wonderful.
If not, whatever you can pray, pray it
something is better than nothing. This is not
a 5th pronouncement, this is just advice.
The second thing is this, is that if
you can stay in the masjid for the
night, even if you cannot do eretikaf formally,
like, stay for the entire 10 days or
stay for a couple of days because eretikaf
has a set form. It's a act of
worship. Like salat has a set form, like
fasting has a set form. You cannot, you
know, there are rules for all of those
things. Even if you cannot do atikaf and
the Jummah talk is not a time to
teach fiqh in general, nor is it an
effective one even if you choose to make
it. So learn how to make it atikaf
from people, it's not just kind of freestyle.
But if you can't do it, you still
stay in the masjid for the night. If
you can't stay all the nights, Friday night.
If you don't have work tomorrow, stay in
the masjid tonight. The nights are not all
that long. Stay in the masjid, and then,
go have your suhoor or bring something from
the grocery store with you, and then, you
know, pay your fajr and then go home.
All of these things do them in order
to what? In the hope that your net
is going to be cast and Allah Ta'ala
will send something your way. You know like
a fisherman puts the net in the water?
The net doesn't generate fish. It doesn't make
fish.
The fish is something Allah sends.
But if your net is in the water,
how many catch fish are you gonna catch?
You're gonna catch 0. So you should have
some weird you should have some amount of
Dhikr, Quran,
Ibada, prayer, something that you do every night
which will act as a net to catch
the Fadl of Allah Ta'ala because there are
people out there,
Laylatul Qadr could be every night of the
year, it's not gonna affect them. They're they're
barakah proof, they're nur proof,
they're khair proof,
they're people who were the relatives and neighbors
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. There's
no greater source of barakah and noor that
Allah Ta'b put in his creation than him
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, but they went by
completely unaffected.
You have to have something in order to
catch something. You cannot just be like, hey,
you know, I'm from Pakistan, so I'm of
course, I'm gonna go to Jannah. It doesn't
work that way.
Or from wherever. I'm 'alabi, I'm 'ajami, I'm
'alabad, I'm just you name whatever, plug and
chug, whatever you want to in there. Right?
You can't it doesn't work that way, even
though oftentimes we assume it does.
The second practical note is what?
Is that the idul fitr is coming up
when it comes.
In order for the to be an for
you, you have to give the zakatul fitr.
There's a difference of opinion, Imam Abu Hanifa,
Imam Malik, they considered it to be wajib,
that it's this is from the
from the obligations of deen.
That a person who has the ability to
pay according to Abu Hanifa, the person who
has the nisaab for zakat, according to Malik,
even if you
only have the whatever $7 for zakatul fitr,
and you pay it, and then you can
also receive it afterward. You still pay you
still have to pay
it. And it's not just
for adults, it's for everybody.
Man, husband, wife, children, everybody.
And what is it? The reason Allah ta'ala,
his Messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam explained to
us, the reason it's legislated is what? Is
it's a purification for your fast from Allahu
wa Rahfath.
Those times in the fast because the fast
is also an active act of worship. Those
times in the fast that you weren't
on the ball, your mind was not where
it's supposed to be, your tongue was not
where it's supposed to be.
Those times times that a person thought of
indecency, those times that a person talked about
indecency, etcetera. This is a way of what?
Purifying the fast. Just like you clean something,
like a shopkeeper will dust something before showing
it to a customer or polish it.
So that your Ramadan should be acceptable to
Allah ta'ala.
You and me do it, but Allah ta'ala
only accepts from who He wills.
Allah Ta'ala does not accept from anyone except
for the one who fears Him.
So this is a favor from Allah He
gave us a way of this being accepted
from Him.
Is not rendered by putting it in a
box.
Listen very carefully.
Zakatul Fitr is not because the day will
come if you don't say nobody told you.
If this is important, you need this to
happen for you. I'm explaining how you're gonna
make it happen.
Zakatul Fitr is not rendered by it being
put into a box.
Zakatul Fitr is rendered by what? It being
received
by a poor person.
Not by the Masjid,
not
by a relief organization,
not by
a person with a beard, not by some
Islamic y person, not by a woman with
a fancy hijab, not by any of those
things. By what?
By being received in the hand of the
poor person, poor Muslim who is eligible to
receive zakatul fitr.
This means you have to think about this.
How are you going to give it? The
point of zakatul fitr is the purification for
the fast inwardly.
Outwardly, the point of zakatul fitr is so
that the poor people can celebrate Eid.
If you think that putting money in a
box
in the morning at the time of Eid
prayer is helping any poor person celebrate that
particular Eid, that's not how time and space
work.
Right?
I'm broke. I need to celebrate Eid
because I'm not friends with
Doc Brown from Back to the Future and
I don't have a time machine.
I need that money
at least on the morning before coming to
Eid Salat
in order for me to be able to
attend the Eid
with some peace of mind.
Rasulullah SAW Alaihi Wasallam said in that narration,
Enrich your poor, so that they don't have
to humiliate themselves by asking.
Enrich your poor, make them rich on this
day as well.
That they have, like, $100 in their pockets
so that they can
have Eid also with their kids.
This requires thinking on your part. If you
put the money in a box, it will
not be distributed in time by the time
the Eid Salat is happening
and
it will count as a sadaqa for you,
but that thing about Zakatul Fitr
purifying your fast and making it eligible for
acceptance and making your Eid the Eid Mubarak
it is not going to happen.
So I I don't know what the arrangements
in this masjid are, but most masajid, what
they do is what? Is that they will
look for poor people and they'll pay in
advance, and
they cannot do anything with the money that's
there at the time. If they can, if
they cannot, you talk to them, you make
sure that your zakatul fitr is distributed. I
made arrangements for my zakatul fitr you also
make sure that your zakatul fitr is distributed
in a proper way so that your Eid
also can be an Eid Mubarak. May Allah
accept from us all, InshaAllah you can take
a couple of minutes for your sunnahs Barak
Allahafiqas Salamu Alaikum Waikum Waikum Waikum Waikum Waikum
Waikum Waikum Waikum Waikum
Waikato.