Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah ICC The Return of Blessings With Christ ICC 10162020
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All praises to Allah
and may His peace and blessings be upon
His servant and messenger, our Master, Sayedna Muhammad
Allah most high High said in his
book, O you who believe, fear Allah as
He should be feared,
and die not except for in the state
of submission to Him.
And Allah Most High said in his book,
Indeed there has come to you
a messenger from amongst yourselves
upon whom your fairways heavily
and who
watches over you
vigilantly
and is with the believers,
kind and merciful.
So if the people turn away and say,
Allah is sufficient for me,
there's no God except for Him.
Upon Him I place my trust,
and he is the Lord of the magnificent
throne.
And Allah ta'ala speaks the truth.
So last
week, we spoke about
the return of Sayidna Isa alaihis salam as
a matter of creed.
And we spoke about certain matters of creed
that are connected with Sayedna Isa Alaihi Salam.
Namely,
the obligation to believe that he was not
crucified,
that he did not die, that he's still
alive, that Allah raised him up to the
heavens and that he will come down again
before the end of time.
This week,
we will
discuss
how he will come down and what he'll
do when he comes down.
So we narrate with an unbroken chain of
narration, a hadith of the Prophet
Although we're not going to read the entire
hadith
here today, we are going to read
part of it.
And we are going to read the second
part. And the first part of the hadith
essentially is an extensive description of the the
jaw.
Most of the details of that description we
have covered in weeks past.
And after
describing the Dajjal and the
extent of his,
mischief,
That when he is at the peak of
his mischief,
when the Dajjal is at the peak of
his mischief,
at the white minaret
to the east of Damascus,
Christ Jesus the son of Mary, alayhi mus
salam, may the peace of Allah be upon
both of them, will descend.
He will be wearing 2 white pieces of
cloth,
and the description of those 2 white pieces
of cloth will be that they will be
slightly
slightly tinged with yellow.
Something reminiscent of
the unbleached white that our forefathers used to
wear.
Something reminiscent of the
2 unstitched pieces of cloth.
1 wrapped around the lower part of the
body and one wrapped around the upper half
of the body which we not only wear
in Hajj
but also is the original,
in the native libas and clothing
of Semitic speaking people, Arabs, and others.
And he will have his arms to the
point that extent that even his palms
will be on the wings of angels, meaning
he'll be carried down by 2 angels from
the heavens. He'll be lowered gently.
And when he keeps his head down, if
he was to keep his head down,
it's as if his head was
had enough perspiration on it that it's about
to beat up with sweat.
And the commentators on this hadith mentioned that
the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
is
describing vivid detail
how clean he will look.
That his white clothing, he's coming down with
the angels,
how clean he will look, and how how
much how
much
there will be in his face, meaning how
bright, how much newer there will be,
on his face. That
That when his head is down, it's as
if it's about to perspire, meaning it's shining.
And if he were to lift his head
up,
then
that perspiration which was about to bead up
would bead up and roll off the softness
of his skin
like beads of silver and like pearls.
That
Allah will endow him with a number of
miraculous
qualities.
One of which is that
the effect of his breath
the effect of his breath will be such
that if it were to touch any kaqir,
anyone who denies Allah and his Rasul
That it will kill him. He will not
be able to survive.
That it will kill him. And effective his
breath will reach
around him in every direction as far as
his,
mobile eyes can see
And then he will seek out the Dajjal
because it is his
divinely ordained task to dispatch him. That he
will seek out the Dajjal, the false messiah,
until he finds him,
at the Bab of Ludd. And Ludd is
is again it's a place, a geographical place,
in Palestine,
and it is actually in specific, it is
the place nowadays where the Tel Aviv airport
is. It's actually like the Laud, l o
d d, airport I'm told, and Allah knows
best. But he'll catch up with him at
the Bab of Ludd, and he'll kill him.
Now imagine this, if the effect of the
breath of Sayyidina Isa alaihis salam is what?
That no kafir will touch except for it
will be the end of him.
And the Dajjal is the personification of kufr.
So in other hadith, it's mentioned in vivid
detail.
That the Dajjal upon Sayyidina Isa
lays eyes upon him.
He will start to melt and dissolve
like salt dissolves in water.
But even then, Sayyid Nai Salihullah will catch
up with him and strike him with his
weapon,
And say to him that Allah
had written this strike in my favor before
He created the heavens and the earth, and
you will not be able to escape from
it.
Then a group of people will come to
Isa Alaihi Salam
that Allah
through him protected them.
And all of the difficulties
all of the difficulties that they,
went through,
all of the sacrifices that they had to
give,
all of the hunger, thirst, fear, anxiety,
stress
that they had to go through in combating
the dajjal.
All of it when they see his Mubarak
face
it's as if he'll wipe all of it
from their face, that they'll be happy again.
And the ill effect of all the difficulty
and struggle they went through will be wiped
from their face.
And he will in fact inform them
about the different
places in Jannah Allah has prepared for them
because of the difficulty that they went through.
And while they're in this gathering of happiness,
Allah will
inform Sayna Isa,
indeed, I have
sent out
from my slaves
those people
who nobody has a chance to even lift
2 hands against them, meaning nobody is going
to be able to fight them.
So take my slaves that are with you
and fortify yourselves in the
mountain of Tur.
The mountain of Tur is the mountain on
which Sayidimusa Alaihi Salam
first
received Wahi
revelation.
It is known to be in the, Sinai
Peninsula. It's a known place.
And so all of them will go up
the mountain and fortify themselves.
And and
will come upon them, and they will rush
down from every high place.
And
Yajuj and Maduj are described in the Quran
as 2 ancient warlike tribes of human beings.
They will be human beings.
They will be what? Human beings. I know
there are a lot of weird crackpot theories
that circulate around on the internet
and on YouTube. And we all know everything
on the Internet is true. Right? You always
everything you see on TV and the Internet
is true. Right? That's the best place to
learn your song. Right?
Unfortunately,
because we haven't invested as a community in
known and trusted and respected
methods and channels to learn our deen. People
have these crackpot theories and,
unfortunately unfortunately,
oftentimes believing the wrong things with regards to
the deen of Allah has a deleterious
effect on the
psyche of a human being more than what
they think.
And,
we have to deal with the problems then
afterwards. But, if somebody has heard this, then,
no, it's wrong. There are number of a
hadith in which is very explicit, the Messenger
of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And the Quran itself to be
fair describes them as people,
as human beings. But they are especially ferocious
and they're especially,
warlike people,
people of very few scruples. And they're described
as the denizens of the hellfire by the
prophet
Meaning Jahannam was made for people like that.
And so these intense and fierce warlike people
who by the mercy of Allah Ta'ala because
of the terror that they used to wreak
on the ancient ones, by the duas of
the people, Allah If you read Surat Al
Kahf, and we don't have time to describe
in in detail, but if you read the
Surat Al Kahf, which is what we described
in Khuttabat past
as being the and the litany that the
Messenger of Allah
prescribed for a person who wishes to have
protection from the dajjal and who wishes to
have protection from fitna in general that they
should read on Fridays.
So those who haven't read it should go
and open the book of Allah and read
it. If you want your son to read
it, then he should see you reading it.
Instead of telling him you read it, he
should see you reading it.
And that
Surat Al Kahf then describes the that
an ancient world conquering king from amongst the
righteous people,
Allah sent him to seal these people up
in response to the prayers of the people,
for protection from them, That they will at
this time be
released,
and their savagery will be something that the
people are completely,
unprepared for. And they will come rushing down
from every high place.
In Arabic is,
like when a person is going downhill, what
do you do? You shuffle your feet. You
take very fast rapid,
steps. You shuffle your feet really quickly. That's
what what that means.
And the the first of their army when
they passed the Lake Tiberias,
which is a place that perhaps many people
in this community is not that different is
not that far from their ancestral homelands.
That when they pass the Lake Tiberias in,
in in the in the Holy Land,
The first of them will drink from it,
and their army will keep passing and drinking
from that lake to the point where they
exhaust it. And the last of their army
will say, there used to be a time
when there was a lake here. Meaning, they'll
completely,
use and completely consume everything that that was
there. And consumption is unfortunately
a
sickness and a disease that characterizes,
our age, so we're, well
familiar with it.
And their armies will siege.
And at that time,
the prophet of Allah and his companions that
are with him will be sieged on the
mountain of Thore.
And
the siege will be so harrowing and so
difficult
that they will get to a point where
just ahead of a bull would be more
valuable to them than a 100 gold coins
would be to one of you. Meaning, a
100 gold dinars. Right? Each dinar is is,
what, 4,
4 grams.
And,
so,
you know, it would be it it would
it would be it would be over
$1,000 probably.
And so who here is like, I'm gonna
go spend $1,000 on the bull's head.
Nobody.
Why? What are you gonna eat? You need
the eyes, you're gonna eat the tongue. Most
of us would probably spend $1,000 not to
have to eat the eyes and the tongue
and the brain.
Maybe some of us are, you know, from
the old country have the habit of digging
in, nothing wrong with that. But the point
is it's not
something you spend that much money on, and
it's not the choicest of meat. But the
point is is that they're going to be
sieged, and because of the siege, there'll be
such scarcity of of of food and drink
and other basic essentials
that if they had the money, they would
have spent it on even a bull's head.
And something interesting as a cultural note from
the the
cattle, camel,
goats, sheep, buffalo, etcetera,
those animals that are that there's zakat against.
The cattle as far as eating the meat
is concerned, traditionally, with the Arabs and with
most Muslim people is considered to be the
the cheapest and the lowest quality. Although, we
don't think of it anymore
like that. So this idea that you would
pay a 1,000,
gold coins for a bull's head is
a metaphor,
for the emphatic nature of their dire poverty
and starvation in this siege.
At that time,
Isa alaihis salam and his companions,
their hopes will turn to Allah. This is
a very important expression that has to do
with a number of the and the circumstances
that are described in this hadith,
and in the hadith regarding the end times.
That there will be those points where people
have completely exhausted all of their means.
They have no idea how they're going to
deal with
the the problem in front of them, So
they turn their hopes toward Allah
which is the only hope they have at
the time,
but it's the only hope anyone ever had
in the 1st place no matter what means
they have or don't have at their disposal.
They'll turn their hopes toward Allah
And Allah will send upon these armies
a nagaf. Nagaf is a parasitic worm
that infests
the
nasal passages of camels and of goats and
sheep. It's a very small worm.
That Allah will send them
send a nagaf on them. And the commentators
on the hadith mentioned something which is a
concept that we've talked about previously in Khutba
as well,
which is the nagaf is extremely small worm.
Here you have the most ferocious army of
human beings ever known to have existed.
And
they sweep out of nowhere and siege Sayyidina
Isa alaihis salam and his army that just
got done dispatching the dajjal.
And here there's this nagaf, it's like this
like it's inconsequential
thing.
But when Allah sends it down on them,
the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentions
that
he gets up on them as if it's
a predator and they're the prey.
And when they die, it's so savage in
the way that it it it kills them
that they all die as if it's like
one death, meaning they're all it takes them
all out at one time.
Then,
the Prophet of Allah,
Isa, alaihis salam, and his companions, they come
down from their fortification on the mountain to
the ground,
and they look at the land around them.
And they don't find
even a hand's breadth worth of space
except for it is filled
with the the
the the the
the
the leftover remnants of their bodies
and their bodily fluid
and the the filth,
that comes with,
just a large group of people being
eaten alive by parasites.
And
it's disturbing.
And we know that it's not only disgusting,
but it's also itself a safety hazard.
And so the Prophet of
Allah and
his companions, they turned their hope toward Allah
You Allah, what are we gonna do about
this? What can we do? You know, like,
what
what what way out is there for us?
And Allah will send down birds,
that are described by the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Buqd is a type of camel that has
an especially long neck. And so they will
be like the necks of the the meaning
very large and powerful birds. And they will
come and they will piece by piece take
these
bodies away and throw them wherever Allah wills
them to throw them.
Then Allah
after their bodies are are are are taken
away, He will send down such a rain
that no house,
neither a solid built house nor a tent,
made of hair,
will be left behind except for it it
will be hit by that rain. And,
the earth will be cleansed like the cleansing
of a mirror.
Then it will be said to the earth,
sprout forth your
fruits
and return
your blessings.
Then Allah will command the earth to bring
forth its fruits and to go back to
its old blessings.
And on that day,
entire band of men will be able to
eat from 1 pomegranate. It will be large
enough to feed them.
And its peels
and its the kind of membrane and shell,
will be large enough that people can take
shade in it.
And
this is really interesting that the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam mentions this. That
he says that Allah will say,
Go back to your old blessings.
And Allah knows best how the ancient people
would have interpreted this. But we know now
from
archaeology, paleontology
that
the earth used to be filled with megafauna
and megaflora.
There used to be huge plants. There used
to be huge animals at some point in
the earth. It's not like a fantasy. It
actually happened. And we're not only talking about
the time of the dinosaurs, even the early
human beings, they had woolly mammoths and mastodons
and like beavers bigger than a human being
and all of these like aurochs. You know,
the aurochs, the modern cattle are domesticated aurochs.
The actual wild auroch is much bigger than
the
the the cattle.
And many of these species, human beings actually
hunted them to extinction.
And so the messenger of Allah is very
interesting, he uses this wording.
Allah commands the earth, go back to the
old barakah that you used to have.
And then,
he mentions that that that even the plants
will become bigger again. They'll become mega flora
again, that he mentioned this huge, pomegranate and
the likes of it.
That milk, there will be barakah, especially in
milk.
Until to the point where the
milk giving she camel will give enough milk
for a huge group of people to drink
from. And the milk can the the milk
giving,
cow, the dairy cow will give enough milk
for an entire tribe of people which is
less in size than the fiam.
And then, a a a milk giving
goat
or sheep
will give enough milk
for a group of people, a large group
of people, but less than the the size
of a tribe.
And this is itself a special sign of
barakah because we know the Messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam loved milk, and the
drinking of milk is a metaphor in the
imagery of the sunnah
for the,
aboriginal
and the organic nature of a human being,
for the fitra.
Because it's the first thing a child drinks
from his mother.
And even nowadays, you know, after all of
this nonsense about milk being poisoned and fat
is gonna kill you and etcetera etcetera, now
what do bodybuilders and weightlifters do? They eat
whey protein in the day and they,
protein before going to sleep, both of which
are derived from milk. That's how you, bulk
up muscle and burn fat.
And,
all of this will be there in its
organic form. You don't have to buy it
in, you know, whatever chocolate milkshake flavored boxes
from amazon.com.
You can get it in its its original
form which is the most healthy, and it
will be enough for everybody.
In this state, they will live.
And this hadith doesn't mention
but in other hadith, it's mentioned that Sayyidina
Isa Alaihi Salam will live in this state
and he will die in this state.
That the earth will unlock its barakah. There
will be harmony between human beings and will
be harmony between human beings and between the
earth.
And he will live a natural life, and
he will marry, and he will have children,
and,
he will perform Hajj and Umrah, take the
ihram.
And it's even mentioned that
there's a place reserved for him in the
Hujla Mubaraka
where Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in the Sheikha and said,
Abu Bakr said, Amr are
buried. That there's a place reserved from him
for him in that place which is where
he would belong and where it would be
the most proper that he should be buried.
So next time the evangelist come to bring
good news to your house and says, Jesus
is coming. Are you ready?
You can inform them how ready you are.
That this is a tradition handed down to
us by our forefathers.
That it's enough that it's important that they
should be mentioned from the Manabir of the
Masajid.
And he will leave a Khalifa behind him
according to the hadith of the prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam, a person by the name
of Muqadd. And Allah knows if it's his
name or if it's towards something else.
But Muqadd will rule then a complete reign.
And then after he passes from the earth,
this thing that is described in this hadith
will happen, which is a pleasant wind will
come.
A pleasant breeze will come, and it will,
it will take the people through
their place inside their armpits,
and they will,
then all die.
Every believer and every Muslim will die,
and no one will be left on the
earth except for the most evil of people.
And they will be people who will,
indulge in
sexual
desires and carnal desires in the manner of
indulgence
of
donkeys.
That you don't see donkeys getting a room,
but they do what they wish to do
in public, in the city, in the open.
And those are the most horrible of people
and upon them will be, last hour of
this earth be established.
We will then, finish this discussion in a
later.
Allah has honored us
with, the help of Sayedna Isa Alaihi Salam
on top of the greatest honor of all,
sending the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Allah make us worthy of us worthy of
us and give us his help at that
time and every time between now and then
when we call upon it.