Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Longing to Meet Allh Hir 06032022
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Has allowed us to reach this Mubarak hour,
this Mubarak day once more.
To Allah ta'ala is all praise. Alhamdulillah, Allah
ta'ala has allowed us to reach this Mubarak
month, the sacred month of.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to him his praise.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala take the people who
have intended Hajj to the sacred lands safely.
May Allah
facilitate for them their monastic.
May Allah
accept their prayers on behalf of the
Muhammad
For those who have attended this
Friday prayer for the previous several weeks,
You will remember
that in order we discussed last week,
Allah
giving the commandment.
Seek help from Allah
through steadfastness,
patience,
steadfastness,
patience meaning
not being moved by difficulty
in pursuit of
whatever goal you are seeking
and steadfastness
meaning keep going. Whatever you're doing, keep going.
Some things,
they don't happen right away. Goals are not
achieved overnight.
If you want to do something big, sometimes
you're going to have to work and you're
going to have
to keep working for a long time without
seeing much result.
A person wishes to pay
a debt off.
They have to pay for 30 years, for
20 years.
After 1 month or 2 months, they say
I paid so much money and it hasn't.
Put a dent in my debt.
Just be steadfast. The time passes.
The time passes. A person wishes to lose
weight, A person wishes to gain strength. A
person wishes to do any of these things.
What do they have to do? They have
to keep at it.
And with the prayer, that you have to
be steadfast with the prayer as well.
Allah
in one place, after this formula, he says,
Allah
is with the ones
who are patient.
In another place, Allah
says And this is something very enormous. It
is an enormity. It is something very difficult.
It's a great
difficulty and it's a great burden and it's
a great stress.
Except for those people who fear Allah
Those people who inside of their hearts, they
have the conviction
that they will meet Allah ta'ala one day,
that they will meet Allah ta'ala one day,
and that it is to him, it is
unto him that their return shall be.
So this idea that we talked about,
the pack that the slave
makes,
that we don't worship anyone but you, and
we don't seek help from anyone except for
you.
This salat in which we ask Allah,
this summer that we have, I would say,
it's easy to say it say to somebody,
this is your formula. This is how you're
going to do it.
A person says, I did it for one
day. I did it for 2 days. Nothing
happened.
A person said that I did did it
for 1 week, for 1 month, for 2
months. Nothing happened. I've been at it for
40 years. Nothing happened.
Allah
himself, he mentions in his book.
It is an enormous thing, except for for
those people except for for those people who
fear Allah ta'ala.
What is the description of those who fear
Allah ta'ala?
Those people who inside their heart,
they have this conviction
that they were to meet their lord one
day.
Unto him shall their return be.
It is a sunnah
to read the Surah Al Kahf on Fridays.
At the very end of the Surah Al
Kahf.
At the very end of the Surah Al
Kahf,
That the person who has raja, the person
who has hope,
who wishes for
the meaning of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, let
them do good deeds. Let them do good
deeds and let them not
associate
in the worship of of of their lord,
anyone, anyone at all.
This idea of
having fondness for the day that you meet
Allah,
having hope for the meeting of Allah, this
is one of the fundamental cornerstones of
The lexicographers
of the Arabic language
find the word in the sound very peculiar.
And there's some debate and discussion and speculation
as to what its root is because it's
not clear cut.
So one of the opinion opinions of the
lexicographers
is that insaan is what?
The one who's forgetful by nature.
Knows best.
On top of that on top of that,
our forefathers, they built a civilization that is
based on the dhikr, the remembrance of Allah.
Everywhere you turn, there is a masjid. Every
day, you hear the adhan 5 times a
day. Whether you pray or not, it will
remind you, whether you want to hear that
reminder or not.
Pious people hear the adhan. Drunkards hear the
adhan.
People in the middle of sin, they hear
the adhan so much
so that it destroys the enjoyment of the
sin.
They had a civilization that was built on
the remembrance of Allah
Where are we now, however? We're far from
that civilization.
We live amongst the people who are heedless
of Allah and his rasul sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam and have made it a tacit agreement
that, look. We won't persecute you for you
following your religion.
However, don't mention it in any place of
any importance.
Don't mention it at school. Don't mention it
at work. Don't mention it in any government
function. Don't mention it to us.
And still,
this country that we live in, still the
mention of God occurs every now and again.
There are some places that are literally they're
militarily secular people. They made secularism into a
religion.
And even here,
to mention Allah
is to be not taken seriously
in almost any form in life with very
few exceptions.
This forum that we're in right now being
one of the most blessed of those exceptions.
So a person has to remind themselves about
this, that I will meet Allah ta'ala one
day.
Certain things will look bad in this world,
and they'll look good in that world. Certain
things will look good in this world, and
they will look bad in that world.
Rasulullah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
The person who loves to meet Allah
The person who loves to meet Allah The
person who loves to meet Allah
Allah
loves to meet that person. And the person
who hates to meet Allah ta'ala, Allah hates
to meet that person. What does this mean?
It means the one who has the love
and the fond hope that one day my
rod that I worshiped, that I prayed 5
times a day. Okay. Some people didn't pray
5 times a day. Some people only prayed
in Jum'ah or they skipped this or they
skipped that. It's not okay. I'm not justifying
it. But I'm saying it's still not according
to the preponderant majority of the ulama, it's
still not kufr.
This
in front of whom you put your head
on the floor in a way that you
never did in front of anyone else and
you never would want to in front of
anyone else.
This Allah for whose sake?
You said I'm not going to eat the
things that other people eat. I'm not going
to say the things that other people say.
I'm not going to commit the indecencies that
other people commit. I'm not going to enjoy
certain pleasures that other people enjoy. A person
should have fondness of meeting that Allah
that Allah who says who says
He commanded the rasul
to say to the people,
oh my slaves
that have committed excess against themselves,
don't ever give up hope in the mercy
of Allah.
He's
the one who forgives all sins, categorically
forgives all sins.
Indeed, he is the one who is
the most forgiving and the most merciful.
If this is the promise and the description
of Allah for the sinner,
then how much should the righteous person love
the meaning of Allah
Oftentimes,
why this this psychology of
children,
they become traumatized by negativity,
so they remember negativity. They grow up,
and they have these kind of childlike
impressions on their psyche.
So as children,
they'll probably never forget
the one time that
their parents hit them or that someone yelled
at them or that their Quran teacher was
mean to them or whatever.
Right?
Even though all of the parents and teachers
and whatever may have actually shown great love
to that child,
We as human beings, we're like that.
So we remember, okay, jahanam is really bad.
A person burns forever. Very scary. We remember
that, and you should remember that.
But that's not the only thing that happens
on the day of judgment.
On the day of judgment, Allah will forgive
people. He'll forgive more people from the believers
than than he punishes.
If a person is going to be astonished
on the day of judgement or something, what
do you think they'll be astonished by?
By Allah's forgiveness or by Allah's punishment? They'll
be astonished by Allah's forgiveness. If you read
the Quran and you read the hadith of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, you'll see
very clearly
that that's a day that we'll see the
believers will see the mercy of
Allah that outstrips all things.
A person should love the meaning of Allah
Now despite all of that, if a person
runs away from remembering meaning Allah Ta'ala, runs
away from it,
if a person avoids it,
if a person puts it off, what does
that mean?
The one who loves it? To meet Allah
Ta'ala on that day, Allah Ta'ala loves to
meet them, meaning what? Allah Ta'ala would treat
that person as a beloved one who is
coming to meet them.
Otherwise, Allah Ta'ala does what he wishes.
Allah Ta'ala does what he wishes. There's no
issue of him
not wanting something to happen and it doesn't
happen.
And the meaning of the person who hates
to meet Allah
that Allah hates to meet them,
if Allah truly in the literal I shouldn't
say truly, if Allah in the literal sense
because not everything in the book of Allah
and the hadith of the prophet was meant
to be taken literally.
If it literally meant that he hated to
meet them, that means that meeting would never
happen.
The meaning of Allah hating to meet that
person is that he will treat that person
like one that he hates to meet. He
will not listen to their pleas. He will
not honor them on that day. It's like
an uninvited guest that showed up, and you
ignore them.
Why wouldn't a person want to meet Allah
that
Allah promised that one day all sin will
be forgiven?
The one who
holds desire inside their heart. If you wanna
be from the former category, the one who
holds the desire inside of their heart.
For the lika, for the meeting with his
lord.
Let him
work righteous deeds
and not associate in the worship of his
lord anyone.
This work, righteous deeds,
this is one of the reasons that a
person should do good deeds.
Is what?
It is something that helps to keep alive
the desire to meet Allah
inside the heart.
That desire which if it dies, it will
cause the entire plant to unravel.
People oftentimes ask,
is this far? Do I have to do
this?
What type of attitude does this betray?
This betray is an attitude that a person
doesn't see benefit in the deeds that they
do.
However, every single one of us knows,
the day you enter into your grave,
nobody is going to give a damn about
what car you drive,
what your house is like, what food you
ate, what TV shows you used to watch.
No one's gonna care about any of those
things, including the person who's entering into their
grave. In fact, if a person
has a care about any of those things,
it's probably going to be anxiety.
It's probably not going to be a good
feeling.
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he taught
his own family, the members of his own
household.
Right? Go home and try to teach something
about the deen to your wife, see how
it goes.
If there's any sisters here, you know, go
home, try to, married sisters, go home and
try to teach something to your husband about
the Deen, see if he really wants to
hear it from you.
Rasulullah
went to his home. He asked
that such and such animal was slaughtered. Is
any part of it left over? She says,
yeah. It's all there except for one,
one leg of the animal we we gave
to someone who came to ask.
Gave a beautiful
reply. He said, what? He said, that that
leg that you gave for the sake of
Allah, that's the only thing that's going to
be left for you. The rest of it
that you consume, it will be gone in
this world. That leg will be waiting for
you on the day of judgment.
This is a term this is a term
of the discipleship at the Be'a that we
took with our
in order for them to see it as
worth worth their time to teach us.
That they made us agree
they made us agree that on the day
of judgement, nothing will benefit you nothing will
benefit you except for your own deeds.
You being associated with the laddhat, you being
associated with the shirk, you being associated with
the movement, you being associated with the masjid,
you being associated with x, y, and z
identity, all of it is going to be
it's gonna be meaningless on the day of
judgment. All you have with you to take
with you on that journey is your good
deeds.
We should remember that. We should remind ourselves
about those things. We sometimes forget about those
things. It is a long journey, and we
don't pack for that journey. Why are you
gonna pack with your with you for that
journey? It's not your car. It's not your
wallet, your credit card,
your debit card, your phone,
tap to pay. None of that stuff is
gonna come with you. You know and I
know.
Look, Marshall. Even religious people, they
often have deluded themselves about it. My beard,
my turban,
none of it is going to help if
I don't have any good deeds.
If I did it for the sake of
Allah, it will help me.
If I did it in order to look
good or look, you know, like shayhi in
front of everybody inside the masjid,
it's not going to help me.
None of these things are going to help
me. The only thing that's going to help
me is what?
My good deeds. It's all you get to
take with you. So a person now says,
do I have to do this? Do I
have to do this?
Is it fun? Do I have to do
this?
It's a long journey. Who gets to consume
the provisions they take with them on the
journey? It's you.
The whole airport is stuck with people who
are have excess baggage right now. Many of
them
are from the same countries that we're from,
and they load way too much stuff inside
of their bags. And then they argue with
the person, you know, like, oh, you know,
can I have this kilo, that kilo, and
then they throw something away? Why?
Because you need stuff. You need to take
things with you, provisions for for your journey.
Bay Allah says, you take as much as
you want with you.
This is a blessing from Allah This is
a blessing from Allah You take as much
as you want with you.
You want to take 2 rakahs with you?
Take 2 rakahs. You want to take 4
with you? Take 4. You want to take
1 juz of Quran? Take it with
you. You wanna take half a juz, take
it with you. If you wanna take nothing,
and then on the, you know, on the
journey, you find yourself coming up short. You
find yourself hungry or thirsty
on that day. You find yourself naked and
exposed on that day.
Whose fault is
it? It's not Spirit Airlines. They're not going
to charge you for a carry on. Allah
says, take as much as you want with
you.
Take as much as you want with you.
This is from his generosity. This is a
favor that Allah
did for us.
The only person who's going to be able
to make that preparation for that day is
who?
The one who remembers that day and thinks
about how is this going to look in
front of
Allah The one who is more concerned with
how is this going to look in front
of Allah than how is this going to
look in front of
My parents or my in laws or my
children
or
my boss at work or my friends at
school
or my neighbors
or these people or those people or the
rich or the poor or news or politicians
or any of those things.
It's only through this conviction that a person
actually generates nur inside of their inside of
their hearts. That nur is such a thing,
it moves people. When people see your convictions,
it moves them. That's not why you do
it, but interestingly enough, oftentimes, the reason that
people make bad choices
for themselves in their life and for their
deen Is there concern about what other people
are going to say about them?
Interestingly enough, if you do something that's correct
and you do it with conviction,
you will make a better impression on those
people than you will
by caring about what they have to say.
I wake up in the morning, someone says,
Hamza, you should go east. So okay.
Hamza, you should go west.
Hamza, you should go north. You should go
south.
You should stay right where you are.
What am I going to do?
If all of them are equally going to
upset somebody or another,
then prioritize.
Who is the if you're gonna upset someone
in everything you do, any
will,
choose not to accept the only one that
matters, who is Allah
Ta'ala. Now, yes, Allah Ta'ala commands us to
be kind to our parents and to our
family and to,
the ulama and to the poor and to
several groups of people, and there's a particular
way of doing that.
But you don't do it for their sake.
Whose sake do you do it for?
You do for the sake of Allah.
Give us all tawfiq, Allah make us from
amongst those who love to meet him. May
Allah receive us on the day of judgment
like he receives the ones that he loves.
May Allah
give us the ability to do good deeds
so that our bags are full with good
things to take with us into the grave.
May Allah spare us and forgive us for
our sins that those sins shouldn't come into
us with our grave.
Come with us into our graves and torture
us. May Allah
make us of those who the entire creation
marvels at on the day of judgement and
saying, we wish we were like this person.
And Allah spare us from being the person
that the entire creation watches and sees what
happens to them on the day of judgement
and says, yeah, Allah, don't make me like
that person.