Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Friday Blessings 12232022
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By the father of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
this Jumuah
which is one of the pillars
that holds up the creation.
Allah Ta'ala had decreed it
as a mercy for the believers
and as barakah for not just the believers,
but for the
entire creation,
for the Muslims and for the non Muslims,
for the animals, for the entire heavens and
the earth. In this Jum'ah will the day
of judgment be
established. And this in this Jumuah will
the prayers of the believers, regardless of how
cold it is outside
and how difficult the conditions might be and
how some people are excused from attending.
The excuse for attending Jumuah
when it extends to people, this is also
not a reason to quote unquote cancel Jumuah.
Jumuah is never canceled.
It's a gift. If the believers leave it
on the table, then no one benefits from
it. So when there are difficult circumstances
like this,
then the sharia orders us that those who
are able to
establish it, establish on, establish it on behalf
of those who are not able to. This
is a precept
in the sharia. People should remember this.
There's a hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam
about nama and his his bihi, the person
who sleeps for example through
the tahajjud or through the vikr that they
usually do in the night.
That that person receives the reward of it
anyway.
So if you're in ill health, if you
live a little further away than a normal
person, if your car
is unsafe in the snow, if your tires
are gonna slip and slide, you know, you're
rolling around something closer to a Prius than
you are to a,
like a, a, a, a Land Cruiser,
then it's okay. The sharia doesn't ask you
to come and like destroy yourself. It doesn't
ask you to come get into a car
accident, to freeze to death, to do any
of these things.
If there's a reasonable chance that something
of grievous bodily or property damage might happen,
You as an individual have
a
an excuse and a reason not to come.
However, if there are some people who can
establish the jama'at, they establish it, and they're
having established it will
suffice
on behalf of those who were not able
to establish it.
If some sort of
calamity should happen,
and Allah Ta'ala does what He wills. We
ask Him for afiyah, but He does everything
He does in a hikman known to Him.
That prevents even a couple of people from
establishing
the place.
Then
those who establish it in the other lands
and in the other masajid in the other
places will suffice for them. However, there's no
canceling jumu'a. There's no canceling hajj. There are
certain things that are the sha'ir of Allah
Ta'ala.
They do not get canceled.
This is something now I can say it
because we're a little bit further away from
the the the the kind of craziness of
the pandemic.
I'm 100%
not in favor of people coming with like
highly infectious diseases and,
you know, causing people harm.
So this is I'm not like an anti
masker, anti vaxxer, or any of those things.
But at the same time, I'm not Abdul
Maske and Abdul Vaxx
that ascribed holy and magical powers to these
things.
This is dunya that we live in. Allah
Ta'a tasked us to make decisions. It's in
those complicated decisions
that He'll see on the day of judgment
who's the one who loves and who's the
one who tried, and what are the different
ways that people tried.
So this idea of just shutting down Islam
for like months at a time, it's it's
a bad idea. It was wrong, it was
a mistake, it was wrong.
This area,
even
if 3 people prayed jumah over here plus
the imam. The jumah would have been valid.
They all could have forget about mask, They
could have doubled, tripled, quadrupled mask and stood
forget about 6 feet from one another. They
could have stood 10 feet from one another.
And the rest of you stay home.
In certain situations and situations like that, the
rest of you stay home.
If you're sick, if you have preexisting stay
home.
Don't come to the masjid and think, I'm
gonna be a hero.
You're gonna pull yourself down, and you're gonna
pull other people down with you. But it's
not an excuse for the juwan not to
be established if it can be established. If
it cannot be established without people destroying them,
their own lives and property,
and causing grievous injury and harm to themselves,
then then it's forgiven, then the people who
do it on behalf of those people who
those that did it on behalf of those
that couldn't stay open, then and only then
will they
receive that reward.
But the problem is what? Is that our
fuqaha are very few.
Our imams are all, employees, you know, that
get paid peanuts.
And if you want to have
peanuts
as the pay then don't be surprised when
all you get is monkeys. And Allah Ta'ala,
help us all. This was not the topic
of today's,
Jum'ah,
talk, but it is worth mentioning because
of the conditions around us.
There's a hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam narrated by Thirmidhi. It's one of
the great qawaid of of of Islam, conceptually.
One of the great pillars upon which the
understanding of the Deen rests.
Is narrated by Ubayi ibn Nukab.
Who is Ubayi
ibn Nukab? Ubayi ibn Nukab is one of
the canonical reciters of the Quran through which
the Quran is transmitted.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, if you became Muslim,
it's not like He would teach you kullhu
Allahu had personally. There are too many people
for that.
The first people who accepted Islam, He taught
them personally.
After a while, the people who
required special attention, he would teach them personally,
and then he would train them, and they
would teach other people.
So this idea of, oh, I don't follow
I don't follow, you know,
so and so or so and so. I
only follow Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
This is kind of like a silly attitude.
Why? Because even during Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam's life, Sayna Ali radiAllahu when it
was recorded that he would give him cases
to judge. Sayna Mu'adh, it was recorded that
he gave him cases to judge. Imagine if
they judged a case and then the people
said, Well, we don't accept this. We're only
gonna accept the judgment of the messenger of
Allah.
This is this is silly. If a person
doesn't understand why it's silly, I'll connect the
dots for you. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
deputed certain people to judge on his behalf.
So their judgment is his judgment. That's how
this works.
The companions, their judgment is the judgment of
the Messenger of Allah. That's how this works.
These kind of silly cop outs that people
get in order to try to avoid deen,
this is not right.
So Ubayb Nukab is who is one of
the canonical reciters of the Quran. It's mentioned
in so many hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam that
he said, Learn the Quran
from and he listed names, and he's one
of those names. And what does it mean
that Ubayb Nukab was one of the Quran
teachers? Is it because like nowadays like you
couldn't get into medical school or couldn't become
an engineer or whatever?
No. In fact, those were the best and
brightest and most trustworthy.
The people of the most Amana,
the people of the most Deen, the people
of the greatest intelligence he deputed to
carry the Quran and why not? It's the
greatest amana that Allah ta'ala gave to any
human being ever in the history of mankind,
in the history of creation.
So when he narrates a hadith,
this hadith is not something that
you need to have doubt in.
Ubay ibn Nukab mentions that the Messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sometimes,
and there are different narrations about the times,
but sometime in the night he would stand
up after having rested a little bit Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
And he used to say this thing.
He would say, Oh
people, remember Allah Ta'ala.
Remember Allah Ta'ala.
Because
the shaking, the quake has come, and another
one will follow it.
What does this mean? It's an expression that's
used in the,
in the Quran as well.
That the day of judgment is described by
the by Allah ta'ala in his book as
the the day that the Rajifa will come,
the shaking, the quake.
And then it will be followed by another
one that rides with it.
The other one that's with it. What does
this mean? This is an expression that the
Quran uses about an event that will happen.
That there is an angel that is deputed
to what? To blow into the qaran, into
the horn.
And that blowing into the qarn will destroy
everything, everything that exists.
And the only thing that will be there
is Everyone will be annihilated. Everyone is in
annihilation.
And nothing will remain except for the countenance
of your lord possessed of majesty
and of
nobility.
And then the the qarn will be blown.
This Israfil himself will be resurrected in the
order to blow the qarn again and it
will shake the creation once
more and everyone will come back together. And
this is when the day of judgment will
occur.
This is what the rasul salallahu alaihi wa
sallam said jatirajifa.
That first blowing it's it's it's coming.
It's like right it's already arrived. It's so
close. It's so near at hand.
A person says, how is it near at
hand?
It's been 1400 years.
The earth has been along for around for
a long time.
The person who is given the knowledge of
the Awalilin and the Ahireen knows that it's
near at hand.
He says,
Death has come with that which is? With
that which it contains, with that which comes
with it.
Death is difficult.
There are pangs that death brings with it.
The the the loss of life, the loss
of life whether it be cosmically like the
day of judgment or whether it be inside
the individual.
So the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam remembered this
and he reminded the Ummah, don't get stuck
fooling around right, right and left.
Don't get caught fooling around right and left
only to have this thing hit you when
you're unsuspecting
and catch you in a compromised position. There's
an expression we use in
a little bit more street in colloquial English,
catch you with something down. But it's not
appropriate for the Masjid, so I'm not gonna
say it now.
Don't let death catch you like that.
Unprepared.
Unaware.
Ubayb nukab
Radhiyallahu ta'ala Anhu said, At one such occasion,
I heard him say this because he would
say this.
On one such occasion,
I asked the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. He says, is it Inni Uqthir salata
alayk? Here the word salat, it's not in
the meaning that we use nowadays
in Arabic.
The word salat had a particular meaning at
the time of revelation, and then after revelation
it takes a particular meaning. It means it's
like rich this properly set form of the
ritualized 5 daily prayers
and Nawafil.
Right?
This means something else. It doesn't mean that
they pray to
the nabi. That's not what it means.
In
this context, what does it mean?
It means my prayers to Allah, my duas
to Allah to Allah on your behalf.
Note that there have been Christians that spoke
Arabic for centuries before
the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, for centuries.
When they talk about their salawat, they use
the same word. They use the same word
Allah as well.
Back when
the people who now consider themselves to be
the flag bearers of Christianity were worshiping Zeus,
and Thor, and Odin. The Arabs were Christians
from that time.
The word salat means what? It's like dua,
like a dua that you ask Allah ta'ala
for something. And indeed even in our religion,
making dua to Allah ta'ala is a form
of worship, asking him for something. Say, Yeah
Allah, I want a new Tesla and I
want a big house. This is also a
form of worship.
You're asking Allah, you're not asking Elon Musk
or whatever, right?
This is a recognition that He's the one
who gives and He's the one who provides.
So he says that I, he goes, he
goes, I, I make a lot of dua
for you.
I I make a lot of dua for
you. Why?
Because they loved him salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Why wouldn't you do that to someone who
is good to you?
Someone who is good by you? Why wouldn't
you do that?
He said, I I I send a lot
of salat and salamani. I make a lot
of du'a on you.
He said that, how much should I how
much should I limit that? The idea was
what?
Some of my dua is for you and
some of it's for me.
I remember when I was in college,
a very,
nice young man but somewhat naive.
He says, I love my mother so much.
I told her, I said,
if if on the day of judgment you
were gonna go to Jahannam,
I would say, You Allah, just put me
instead of you.
The sentiment is admirable from a particular angle.
I told him though, But you don't understand
what jahannam is.
Jahannam is that thing that's so scary that
even
that there's nobody who's gonna be able to
do say that on that day. So just
make du'a for yourself and your mother.
Every difficulty of this world, you might say
that but that's going to be something that
will overwhelm everybody.
But this sentiment was what the companions radiAllahu
anhu used to have for the Rasool Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. This sentiment is what everyone from
the Ahlulah used to see for the Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.
This is why people used to follow the
sunnah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
This is why people used to grow beards
and wear turbans. This is why people used
to enter the bathroom with their left foot
and leave with their right and enter the
masjid with their right foot and leave with
their left. This is why people used to
say their duas before eating, sleeping, making love,
any of these things.
This is what carries a person.
If a person understood what this meant, it
would make them want to dance. It would
give them ecstatic an ecstatic feeling.
That type of feeling,
that social media and TikTok and commercial advertisings
and shopping malls and governments and armies and
intelligence agencies and all sorts of different
capital intensive ventures are there to make the
ummah forget about.
That he said
to say, Anas bin Malik, oh my dear
son, and know this is my sunnah, and
whoever loves my sunnah
loves my sunnah, not practices it, practices a
higher rate than that.
Says, This is my sunnah. Whoever loves my
sunnah, that person has loved me.
And whoever loves me will be with me
in Jannah.
That a person will be with the one
that they love.
And so this salat was part of their
thing that they would do it selflessly. They
thought that this is something we love him
so much. This is will make us happy
that Allah gives him more.
Whereas nowadays we have the attitude of what's
in it for me, What's in it for
me? Of course, they're going to jannah, you
know, and then you'll see and you hear
from people ignorant things, ignorant things.
Like, oh, he's just a human being. He's
just a human
Muhammad.
That Muhammad the the the man, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, he's a man, of course.
We don't ascribe to him godhood or divinity.
He is a man but unlike other men,
just like a stone a ruby is a
stone but unlike other stones.
Someone says this is excessive.
This is your fanaticism.
You're trying to get donations for your cause.
This is why you're saying all this. Okay.
Open the Quran. Read it.
What does this mean? The prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam has more right to the believer
than he has over himself
and his
wives are like
their mothers.
The the
wives of the prophet
are like your mothers as far as the
prophet to describe him as your father. This
is not proper. Why? Because his maqam is
much greater than the father of every believer.
He's the one on the day of judgment
to take a sip from his
to take a sip from his house
forget about Sinovacs
and Novavax
and
forget about
Moderna and Pfizer.
I know so many people, they got the
COVID
original.
They got the
Delta.
They got 2
doses of the vaccine. They got the booster.
They got the omicron, and they still got
it another time. They ran out of names
to give. Again, I'm not anti vaxx, but
things happen.
The dunya, everything's gonna fail at some point.
Right?
Whether you whether, you know, you trust the
vaccine or not, that's
it's gonna fail at one point. Right? Regardless
of what your point of view about that
is.
But this is the inoculation that will not
fail.
The one who drinks from that house of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam never thirst
again. Now tell me, will you go to
Jahannam?
Is there any is there any of the
ulama that wrote, you know, that the person
will go to jahannam, they just won't be
thirsty. They'll just feel like, Masha Allah, I
don't you need something to drink? No, I'm
good. The fire hurts but I'm good.
That's again a misunderstanding what the fire is.
That Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he's the one
his shafa'ah,
if it was visited on on on Hitler
Stalin, if it was visited on Iblis and
on Firaun, they would have been forgiven. Forget
about you and me. Obviously, I'm not saying
it will be. In fact, we know by
nusus it's not visited on any kafir.
But that Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that's his
Shafa'alu. Tell me something.
Does a person not have taaluk with the
Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
Which one of us were here that the
Angel of the Lord came to us and
revealed to us the Quran?
0.
Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was the one,
he brought the message and the rasool sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam was described in the message
to be also part of the message.
That He doesn't speak from
caprice, from vanity.
Rather the things he says, that's
a revelation that's revealed.
That Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, that Allah
ta'ala Himself says,
Send your salat and salaam on him.
So this Ubay says,
I make a lot of dua for you.
I send salat and salaam upon you a
lot.
How much should I send it though? The
concern is what?
That maybe I'm disobeying you by doing this
so much that I'm neglecting my own du'a
for myself.
Why? Because the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, his
model was not that you kill yourself, you
know, and give me all your money and,
like, starve to death while I enjoy myself.
This is the model of leadership, sadly, that
a lot of people look up to nowadays
even more sadly in the Muslim world and
amongst Muslims. This was not the model. The
model is what?
You be successful and in your success is
my success.
So, he had this question. I want to
ask this question.
We should all ask this question.
He said that, he said that, he's Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, What? You can do
as much as you like.
So I said to him, How about like
a quarter of my duas for you? Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, it's however you like
and if you did more it would be
good for you.
He said, how about half of my dua?
He says, You can do as much as
you like, and if you did more, it
would be good for you. How about 2
thirds of my dua? He says, Do as
much as you like,
and if you did more it would be
good for you. He said, What if all
of my dua that I would make was
only for you? All of my dhikr that
I made, all of my dua that I
made was all salat and salaam upon
you. What did He say salallahu alayhi wasalam?
If you were to do that, if this
was to be your practice, it would suffice
you, every one of your worries
And it would
see all of your sins be forgiven
What does this mean?
This means something very special. What does this
mean? This means that
the salat in salam and the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
A, is not prophet worship. I've heard this
thing from people, this is one of the
most akbaah, one of the most disgusting things
that a person could say. How do you
say salat and salam and the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam? The Masnoon Riwayat.
There are a number of forms, long and
short. But the the most virtuous of them
is the one that's transmitted to the sunnah,
Allahumma.
What does that mean?
No. Means You Allah.
Why do we not say You Allah in
Arabic?
Because You is for It's for calling someone
far away.
Allah is not far. Allah is near.
Says, you Allah
send salat and salaam
on Muhammad and on the family of Muhammad.
The al means not just a family, but
there's a hadith of the prophet
Everyone who fears God is from the Al
Muhammed Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
If somebody says, Oh, you just made this
up in order to discredit the Ahlulbayt. I
have a proof from the Quran very simple,
right?
Does it mean the the family of Firaun?
No. In fact, we know that many members
of the household of Firaun including his wife,
Asiya
alaihis salaam and including Sayyidina Musa alaihis salaam.
They're not included in that.
But it's the people, his henchmen, the people
who obeyed him.
It's addressed to whom? To Allah ta'ala.
There are 2 things. 1 is it's a
validation that, You Allah, you sent me this
message. I revere it. Allah Rasul Ayn, like
the Arabs say, that I take it on
my head and on my eyes.
I'm subjugated to it. I accept its authority.
I revere it. It's more beloved to me
than other than it.
And like that everyone who follows the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, everyone he commands us
to obey and to listen and to take
from,
Allah rasul
ayn.
And Allah Ta'a is pleased with that. Why?
Because you didn't speak to him in this
world directly.
The only thing you know about him is
what this Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam told
you. So this is your way of showing
reverence to him salallahu alayhi wa sallam through
the Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
This is why he's ola bil mummininemin and
tusihim.
So I went over today for a couple
of reasons. Many people have the day off
or have some flexibility.
And because of the road conditions, I knew
everybody is going to be late anyway and
I didn't want people to miss Jumay if
they made the way out. I will read
one more hadith and translate it insha Allah
then after that weekend, pray and I ask
for forgiveness for going over if anyone expected
that it was going to be,
on time. 15 minutes is what I gave
over. May Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la make it
easy for all of us.
And Ausudibee Aus RadhiAllahu Ta'ala Anhu Qalaqalar Rasulahi
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
The Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said from the
most virtuous of your days is Jua'a. Meaning
the most virtuous of your days is Jua'a.
This Jua'a that we're in right now.
This is a sunnah. So say salat and
salaam upon my name on this Mubarak day.
Why? Because your your salat is shown to
me. Is shown to me.
Someone asked You Rasool Allah. He says, kalu
You Rasool like. Okay fato'aradu
salatunna alaykawakad
That when you're when you're gone, how is
the salat and salam gonna be shown to
us?
He said, salallahu alayhi wasalam,
That indeed Allah has made haram on the
earth.
The
prophet salayahu alayhi wa sallam. The point is
is what?
Is that your salat and salaam has two
things. One is the aspect of dhikr to
Allah Ta'ala that you're talking you're addressing him
and you're making dua to him
for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Someone
says what's in it for me? Good question.
What's in it for you? You remember the
hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
that whenever a person makes a du'a for
his brother when he's not present,
Allah sends an angel to say
and for him as well.
This is one of, like,
the one of the best like weapons that
every believer has ever been given. Why? Because
if the you made dua for yourself, God
knows if you're
worthy of being answered.
But who's the If anyone was worthy of
being answered,
then the Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam, wouldn't
he be worthy?
So if it's answered for him, then what?
It reflects off of him and it comes
on to you.
This is like a no brainer. It really
it's a no brainer.
The second thing is what? That the Nabi
salallahu alaihi wa sallam when you send salam
to him, even after his passing, even after
his passing,
He's alive. This is not something that's like
some sort of weird like spooky shirt thing
that everybody likes somehow someone put this like,
poison in their mind and make them think
about that. Doesn't the Quran itself say? Doesn't
the Quran itself say about Fir'an?
That everyday he's shown his Maqam in the
hellfire.
That's who that's firaoun. Doesn't the Quran say
about the shuhada?
That don't say that they're they're dead rather
they're alive and they receive provision from They
receive risk from
ta'ala. Whose maqam is higher?
Why is it something so difficult for people
to believe or understand, or they have to
think somehow they're shirk in it or what?
There's no shirk. Shirk would be like what?
Praying salat to like somebody, or to a
stone, or to an animal, or to the
sun or the moon or whatever. This is
what? Making du'a for rasoolallahu
alaihi wa sallam to Allah ta'ala and sending
salaam to him.
And he said, he answers the salaam himself.
He answers the salaam himself that the bodies
of the Prophet salaam alayhi wa sallam, Allah
ta'ala made them haram that the earth doesn't
digest
them, that the earth doesn't rot them,
that whenever someone says salam to him, the
angels bring the salam to him salallahu alayhi
wa sallam, and he responds to that person
by name.
If the dua is accepted
or not,
if it said mindlessly because a person has
a 1,000 things that they do in the
day.
That part of this salat al salam you
or my I may not get benefit from.
However, when you say salaam to somebody and
they say, well, alaykum salaam to you. If
you're salaam to him salallahu alayhi wasalam isn't
accepted, will his salaam to you return respond
respond and his response in his salaam back
to you? Will it be ignored by Allah
Ta'ala? Will he say it mindlessly?
Absolutely not. This is one of the great
gifts Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave to this
ummah. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala enrich us
through it. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala send
prayers of blessing and mercy, and barakah on
Sayyidina Muhammad, and on the family, and the
folk of Sayyidina Muhammad, just like he did
on Sayidna Ibrahim and on the family and
folk of Sayidna Ibrahim.