Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Listening to Good ICC 02122021
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The importance of Allah's name is discussed, including its relation to culture or state, and how it is used to indicate faith and attitude. The use of "has" in the context of personal history and the importance of habit and habits for success is emphasized. The importance of finding good people for one's progress is also emphasized, particularly in the context of eating and playing sports. The speaker emphasizes the importance of hustling and finding people who are good at certain aspects of life, such as eating and playing sports.
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Brothers and sisters,
Allah describes the people of iman
with
a very specific description.
By specific,
meaning that he describes them in such a
way
that precludes any other possibility.
Allah Ta'ala says in his book,
that the believers
are none other
than those
that when Allah Ta'ala is remembered
when Allah Ta'ala is mentioned,
their hearts tremble.
What does this mean?
That the believers are
nobody
except
for
the following.
The believers are the people who go to
jannah.
The word mu'min, the antonym for it is
what? Kafir.
The mu'min goes
to? Jannah.
Anyone who has iman in his heart goes
to where?
Jannah.
And the kafir goes to where?
To the fire.
How is that believer described?
When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is remembered
or when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is mentioned.
Both of these meanings
are correct for the
word here, for zukirah.
Their hearts tremble,
their hearts shake.
Brothers and sisters, this is a condition. If
it's not our condition, we have a problem.
The divine name has
so much barakah wrapped up in it.
The divine name has so much nur and
light in it. The divine name is
respectfully and reverently referred to in Arabic as
The
utterance of majesty.
In the jalala of the the very name
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is itself exceptional.
When
you have a fat hour, an alif on
a on a lam in Arabic,
what is the default pronunciation?
That it should be pronounced lightly.
But for the name of Allah, it's not
Allah. It's what? It's Allah.
For the name Allah,
it's what?
It's tafhim.
It has fakama.
It has gravitas to it. Why? Because this
is the name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Our forefathers used to be people that used
to say, Allah Allah.
And it used to mean something to them.
How does it mean something?
Literally, the one of the one of the
expressions for saying the name of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala,
Which is prevalent in the Muslim world is
that it's what it's
It strikes the heart
like a pickaxe strikes rock
when mining.
Like a shovel strikes the ground when digging.
Why? Because when the pickaxe strikes, yes, it
hits hard and it breaks the rock. That's
how you get to the gold.
When the shovel
hits the ground
and you dig
one scoop of dirt after the other, what
happens eventually?
Eventually, one day you'll hit water.
And this is what's meant
by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Surah Al Hu
Ta'ala to chastise the Bedouins.
Don't say that we're believers. Say that we've
submitted. We've accepted Islam. We've entered into Islam.
And this imam, this faith hasn't entered your
heart yet. It requires work. It requires effort.
What is the price? What is the manzil
that we're trying to reach? What is the
destination we're trying to reach? That we are
those people when Allah ta'ala is mentioned, their
hearts
tremble. We are those people
that when someone says fear Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, no matter who it is, whether the
person is sincere or not.
We don't think about the person,
we think about Allah. Sometimes
people say that, They say it to you.
They say, If you're Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
they're just disingenuous. They're just trying
to deflect.
To the person
that the deflector is more important, that person
will remember the deflector.
To the person who Allah ta'ala is more
important, that person will remember
Allah. This is not something that you know
like I wake up and today I feel
really pious and like today I wake up
and I don't feel pious and so like
maybe I'm not a believer. No. It requires
work. It requires effort. Just like a person
who digs 1 scoop of dirt or 2
scoops of dirt, that person is not going
to hit water.
And the hearts are different. Some people, their
hearts are very soft and very sensitive.
A little bit of work and you see
that person starts to cry.
Some people, their hearts are like rock.
And the rock runs very deep.
And we don't say that one person is
better than the other.
No.
Maybe the person who does a little effort
and cries,
that person will do a little bit of
effort, have a little bit of a cry
and that's it. They gave up.
They said, I got it made.
Whereas the person who has sincere love for
Allah, That person will make 40 years of
effort digging at the rock inside of their
heart with that
one day I will hit the water. And
when they hit it, those people are
the ahlulah. What do you think, said Umar
radiAllahu ta'ala, who was a pious man before
he met the Prophet
Our history is replete with
the hard if this is bigger they are,
the harder they fall. The hard tawba
of those people who put in great amounts
of effort in order to reach something,
and the more effort they put into it,
the sweeter the result was.
And when our
signs are mentioned to them and when the
particularly the signs, the verses of the Quran
are read to
them, it increases them in faith.
And they're the ones who trust in their
Lord. The promise of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
that if I keep the sacred law, if
I keep the sharia, it will be better
for me.
Not that, Oh, you know,
That's not a hadith. Even though we act
like it, it's not. It's not a hadith.
It's not an eye of the Quran,
that it's permissible to do in America what's
not permissible in every other place.
What they call exceptionalism, which is not very
exceptional at all.
Rather know that we trust that if I
don't transact in the haram money, if I
don't eat the haram, if I don't look
at the haram, if I don't listen to
the haram, it will be better for me.
Even though in the short term it may
give me some difficulty.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
In a hadith narrated by Hakim,
the Habib gives,
his,
endorsement for it, For its seha, for its
authenticity.
Narrated by Ibn Khuzaima, narrated by Behati,
and others.
The Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said what?
He said in Hadith
That the believer it's a beautiful hadith.
It's a beautiful hadith
that the believer
will never
satiate, will never be satisfied
When he hears good,
he will keep wanting to hear good
more and more and more. He will never
be satisfied from it. He will never tire
of hearing the Quran. He will never tire
of hearing the hadith of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
Yes. Our forefathers used to sit and read
the books of Hadith.
Sometimes in this very Masjid, we can barely
we can barely sit through 1 or 2
ahadith of the prophet
being read without interruption. People used to hear
Bukhari, people used to hear Muslims,
people used to hear the Sahasita,
not just 1 hadith or 2 hadith. And
not just the ulama,
the Awam used to come, people used to
come, families from the villages would come.
To the jamia umawiyah,
they would come to Salihiyyah, to the different
Madars of Damascus, the different Madars of Cairo,
the different Madars of the different metropoli of
the Muslim world.
To hear the kalam of the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
There was a time, you see the Haramih
and Sharifay?
Now it's become plastic.
Now people ask each other,
which hotel did you stay at? How was
your buffet?
There was a time there was no hotels.
Not long ago, people who are alive now
remember that time.
There was a time there's no buffet. There
is of course food to eat but there
are no buffets. No one asked about what
buffet you went to.
But what they did have is in the
Masjid Al Haram.
You know those old pillars?
Some of them they still kept, they're beautiful,
the new part is beautiful as well.
Madina Munawara. The pillars of the old Masjid.
At every pillar was a different scholar, was
a different alim from
the Darum Islam.
And people used to sit and listen to
them.
People used to sit and listen to them.
Lecture about fith,
lecture about
hadith, lecture about tafsir,
lecture about atida, lecture about 'ilmul kalam.
Yes?
For centuries continuously people used to listen to
those things. Why?
Because of the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's pronouncement.
The believer will never satisfy, will never be
satiated from it.
And the problem is what? We're not in
that situation. We're not in that condition. Even
this kukbah right now, someone's looking at their
phone.
Even this kukbah now, somebody sits and they'd
face away from the khatib.
If you don't want to listen to the
khateem,
what are the khateem you want to listen
to?
If you don't want if you don't like
the imam in this masjid, go to the
imam that you like.
If you
don't like one thing, go to the one
that you do.
But you have to sit and make a
habit out of all of these things. And
the thing is, we know this is true.
Anyone who's played sports before, anybody who's lifted
weights before, anyone who's gone running before.
That's the first time you play,
you're not very good at the game and
you're not gonna enjoy it as much. The
first time you go to the gym, you're
gonna lift the bar and you're gonna come
home and be complete wreck.
The first time you go for a run,
you're not gonna be able to run a
marathon.
You have to put in a little bit
of work. And then you see those people,
those cross country runners, they're like a little
bit wonky in the head because they go
out for a run for fun.
You see those lifters, they're able to lift
so much weight that it bends the bar.
They all started from somewhere.
You see those kids playing basketball, playing
soccer.
And then one day they become professionals and
they do things without even having to think
about
them. You have to put in a little
bit of effort. Now tell me, that person
who's in great shape, that person who can
bench press £400.
That person who can run a mile in
less than 4 minutes or 5 minutes. That
person who can
play ball until
the different teams of the NBA will fight
over him.
Do you think it wasn't worth it for
them? They're gonna say, I put in too
much time, it's a waste. No. They got
good at it.
They got so good at it that it
was beautiful.
And you know what? There is someone good
at everything.
Not just a person, the creation of Allah
ta'ala.
A fish is good at swimming.
A bird is good at flying.
A pig is good at eating filth and
acting disgusting.
What were you made for?
Were you made so that in front of
everybody
People will say this person was good at
watching TV and good at looking at their
phone.
Trust me. I'm not judging you. The TV
and the phone are just as entertaining to
me as they are to another person.
But this idea that a person will have
this attraction to the haqq, to the good.
You have to hustle, you have to get
out of your house, You have to go
and find those people, find those places, find
those lectures, find those
find those
find those people who will say the good
word. You have to find them, you have
to take your children, you have to sit
and listen.
And our forefathers did it, this is how
they made the civilization that they did.
This is why the Haram and Sharifain were
filled with malama, whereas now they're filled with
shopping bags.
And it's not haram to go shopping,
but how sad would it be to trade
one for the other. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
give all of us tafik. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala make us from amongst the people
who wake up with the haqq and go
to sleep with the haqq. That the haqq
is in our ears, and it's in our
eyes.
And the haqq is what we read, and
it's what we write. And the haqq is
the thing that we love. And the haqq
is more important than all of those things.
Haqq Allah that this haqq is takes up
residence in the heart and it pushes out
everything else that it's our love. It's the
thing that gives us happiness. It's the thing
that gives us comfort. It's the thing that
gives us solace. So that every breath of
our life including the most precious which is
our last one,
that it has this divine name in it,
Allah Allah. That we be the people
Their hearts tremble when Allah ta'ala is mentioned.
And that when our
are are are seen and witnessed and rehearsed
and heard and recited,
It increases them in faith.
And that we through the barakah of those
2 be the from the ones that have
trusted the Lord.