Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Love for the Haqq Hir 06242020
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Gentlemen, come forward.
You're gonna spend the exact same amount of
time in the masjid one way or the
other, you may as well get more reward,
right?
Why leave, why leave, why leave it on
the table? Come forward.
Come forward. Come forward.
We are in the last
week of.
The Mubarak month of Al Qijab will start
next week.
There is a great possibility
that Thursday,
next Thursday will be the 1st day of
the Hijjah.
Life was mentioned in the talk before Jumuah
last week. The first 10 days of the
Hijjah are the most Mubarak and blessed of
dates in the entire year.
And
Rasulullah
himself
used to
command
to the ummah
to strive in order to show your slave
to Allah in these days
through acts of obedience, through acts of worship.
In addition to the
general prescription of acts of obedience and acts
of worship, there are 2
that are
particularly
worthy of mention.
One is that the messenger of Allah
used to fast in these first 9 days.
And he used to
command
people to fast in these first 9 days,
and he used to then put even more
emphasis on the
8th of Dhul Hijjah, the day of Taruiyyah.
And even more than that on the 9th
of Dhul Hijjah, the day of Al Afar.
There's a narration attributed to the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
in which it's mentioned that the fast of
one of these days
in reward
is
like the fast of a year and other
than it.
Obviously, this doesn't preclude or preclude the fast
of Ramadan or,
other obligations.
But some random day, you fast, you may
not receive as much reward. In these days,
if you fast, the fast of any of
these 9 days is like fasting a year
otherwise. Why? The whole idea of slave women
is not that you do what you like,
what you want rather.
You hear and you obey. This is what
pleases Allah
In addition to this, the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, it's attributed to him
in the same narration.
That
the person who fasted on the 8th of
the Ijja,
in addition to this
enhanced reward,
that it will be an expiation for sins
for 1 year.
And in addition to that,
on 9th, it will be the expiation of
2 years' worth of sins.
Obviously,
kafarah of sins does not
negate the necessity to make kovah.
It does not negate the necessity to repent
from one's sins. However,
this
is a great prize and a great treasure
from Allah
Often times,
creatures make a living for themselves by scaring
the daylights out of wonderful and average Muslims
like yourselves,
by telling them about all the punishment and
all the jahannam and all of these things
that a person's sins will garner.
And indeed those things are very horrible and
very terrible. You should protect yourself from them.
No doubt.
However, on the flip side on the flip
side, everything that has some very harsh and
negative reality on it, there's another side of
the coin that there's great positivity as well.
That for the person who wants to straighten
up and fly right, Allah
has put great
great amounts of help
in this deen.
And so a person maybe this wasn't the
best year for them in their life. Maybe
they feel bad about something, they regret something.
Repent for your sins. If you did bad
by somebody else, you have to fix that
up. There's no shortcut about that. The only
shortcut about that is what? Just don't do
it in the 1st place. Be careful how
you deal with people.
After that or in tandem with that,
if a person doesn't feel good about something,
these these are opportunities, and Allah has hidden
hidden them around every corner. There are days
in the year Allah has hidden these opportunities
in. There are certain relationships you have with
different people Allah has hidden these opportunities in.
There are certain places Allah has hidden these
opportunities in, like the masjid.
Take the opportunity, avail yourself
on it. Then even further, even greater than
the fast of these first 9 days
is what
Is the actual sacrifice of?
The actual sacrifice of which is done on
the
Yomun
Nahar. There's
between
refer to the 10th of Dhul Pijja.
That Allah
and his Rasul
instituted a sacrifice on that day.
And if Allah ta'ala,
we remember from the hadith, that he doesn't
love that the slave should show his slave
would at any days more than he loves
that the slave should show his slave would
in these
first
10 days of the hija.
Then the Rasul
in a different narration,
he mentions that
there is no deed more beloved to Allah
in these 10 days than
The spilling of blood of sacrifices.
Again,
the idea of slavehood is that the slave
does what the master commands.
Every
year, we hear people saying, well, instead of
making a sacrifice in this day, what if
I give this money to charity? What if
I build a shelter for, like, lost dogs
and cats? What if I donate to my
political,
favorite political cause and they'll, like, restore this
and that? And it'll be better this way,
it'll be better that way. Do all of
those things. By all means, don't stop eating
it.
However,
the worship of Allah the dictate of it
is what? Is that the most beneficial
and the most
reward
and the most honor, and the most love
in the eyes of Allah in these days,
after the fara'il, after the obligations that are
already well known, the regular obligations on a
slave,
is what? The spilling of the blood of
sacrifices that a person should give a sacrifice.
He considered this sacrifice to be wajib that
a person who is able to do so
must do so. It's an obligation if he
misses it, it's a sin. For no reason
if he misses it, it's a sin.
Imam Malik and the other imams, they didn't
consider it to be farr, they didn't consider
it to be wajid. But Imam Malik
considered it to be so emphasized, such an
emphasized sunnah
that it is a rigorously emphasized sunnah. It's
a sunnah mu'akala to the point where even
if a person
doesn't have the money to make the year.
Because the amount of reward,
sacrifice
is not commensurate with the amount of money
you're going to spend, and if you spend
that money on any other day, you're not
going to receive the same reward.
Here, we see some sort of intersection between
this this practice
and this id, and the zakatul fitter and
the evil fitr.
And in general,
the
the the the the theory and the principle
behind the two deeds of Islam
is what? Is that every other holiday that
every other people in every other home celebrate
has to do with
something somebody else did or something that happened
somewhere else externally.
The New Year is
the Earth making a trip around the sun.
You didn't do it, and I didn't do
it.
Christmas is when somebody was supposedly born even
though they weren't born that day.
You didn't do it, and I didn't do
it. Perhaps nobody did in real life.
George Washington's birthday.
That's his birthday, not yours. The 4th July.
Who here was, you know, present to clamp
the flag and fight the British and,
you know, take one for the team? You
know, team freedom,
None of us were
were. Not democrats, not republicans,
not the guy across the street from you
who has, like, like, 7 flags up on
his house. None of us were there and
has, like, 20 flag stickers on his Dodge
Ram. None of us were there. None of
us. None of us were there. We're celebrating
something, what, that somebody else did. Many of
these things, we benefit
from them, we show sugar, we show thankfulness,
but it's nothing that we ourselves did.
And in fact, to take excessive pride in
things like this is a sign of mifak.
It's a sign of hypocrisy
according to our deen.
Allah describes the hypocrites
as
people The people who love to be praised
for the things that they didn't themselves do.
It's America. It's America. What did you do
for America? I gotta need to put you
since you dropped out of football in high
school, you haven't done anything for, like, anybody
around you. What have you done? Why are
you you know, like, we're all proud of
being here. We're happy with what Allah gave
us.
Bad things, we accept them as bad, but
good things, we also accept them as good.
There's nothing wrong with that.
But don't be proud of something somebody else
did to the point where you yourself start
to think that this is a a a
virtue of myself. No. You do something for
your neighbors, for your country, etcetera.
This is one example. There are a number
of examples. People are like that with the
ummah as well.
Of course, you should be proud of the
ummah. Of course, you should be proud of
the Quran. Of course, you should be proud
that you worship Allah Ta'ala
who created the heavens and earth from nothing.
Of course. That's fine. It's really wrong with
that. But don't start to think that just
because I am a Muslim, that I I
am the prophet that I am the that
I am any of these people. Don't start
to think just because you worship Allah ta'ala
that I am Allah. Some people have this
problem, actually. It's not a good thing.
It's not a good thing. The theory behind
the Eid the theory behind it, the celebrations
of the Muslims is what?
You fasted from Iran.
You paid your zakaf al fiddler. You showed
up early in the morning
crying
out to Allah ta'ala, saying the Takbir Allahu
Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar
Of course, what you get out of it
is more than what you put into it,
but the idea is that you have to
put something in in order to get something
out.
Just like you put the net in the
water, a fisherman puts his net
in the water in order to catch fish.
The net doesn't make fish
exist. You know what I mean?
Allah is the one who made the fish,
Allah is the one who sent it to
your net. But at the same time,
there's this thing in Hajj which is what?
Going back and forth between Safa and Marwa?
It's a commemoration of something that one of
the great women of this ummah, Saydah Hajar,
our mother
did, which is she needed the water for
the baby,
but she didn't just stand still and say,
Allah send me a bottle
of Pellegrino.
She made
She went back and forth between Safa and
Marwa. Now tell me, anyone here who knows
about hydrology
or about meteorology or physics or chemistry. Does
going back and forth between 2 mountains generate
water? Does it make a well up here?
Does it make a spring up here? Absolutely
not.
But Allah
loves for the
slave to make Sahih to hustle.
The thing you hustle for, you'll see the
results of that thing,
whether it's good or whether it's bad.
Some people hustle to kill the competition.
Their business will make money.
Some people hustle because they're an idiot, and
they're just following the cues of someone else
who's goading and prodding them. They'll see the
result of that as well.
Some Some people hustle for the sake of
Allah, they'll see the result of that as
well.
Allah loves for the slave to make Sahid.
So just like that, what you put in
is very little. What you get out of
it is going to be a lot more,
but you have to put something in in
order to get something out, and the person
who puts in more will get more out
of it.
So the Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
There are a number of different narrations of
this hadith. The upshot of all of them
is what? If you're able to make a
sacrifice on this day
and you don't make a sacrifice on this
day,
there's no point. It's like a it's like
a double emphatic statement. There's no point in
that person double, triple emphatic. There's no point
in that person coming anywhere near the
malsalab
Eid. Meaning, you can get nice clothes,
you can
wake up in the morning, get a you
know, take a shower, wear your perfume,
get your nice car, get it washed and
detailed. You can do all of that.
You might even get up and give the
Eid Khutva.
But if you didn't put something into the
system in order to get something out, all
of it is just a joke.
This is not, you know, me saying this
to deprecate other people.
This is all of us have to remind
ourselves
that if I'm not putting anything into this,
if I'm not struggling at all, if I'm
not doing my
these acts of worship that are there for
these 10 days or just the basic parts
of the din even,
then showing up with nice clothes, you're like
kind of you should feel a little goofy
doing that. And you should know that the
Eid is even more Eid for the person
who puts in more sa'id, the person who
puts in more Haslal.
The hadith of the prophet mentioned the virtues
of the sacrifice
in great detail. I will mention them again
next week inshallah and in great detail. However,
the point is that
you don't want to figure out how to
play football in the middle of the match.
Before it starts, you should have an idea.
Okay. This is our goal. That's the other
goal. We want to kick the ball in
this one, not into the other one. Or
depending on which football you're talk talking about,
you can replace the word touchdown for goal.
It's okay. It's just a metaphor.
You should know before before, like, stepping on
the pitch that the first day of Lajidja
is probably, depending on the moon sighting, is
probably going to be on Thursday.
Check with your local alumni and with whatever
Chicago Hillal moon sighting committee for more details.
And remember this also that the commemoration of
this sacrifice,
which was instituted by our father, Sinai Ibrahim
alayhis salam.
Although it existed from before as well, there's
a great amount of detail that we don't
have time for.
That this sacrifice is the sunnah of our
father, Sayyidina Ibrahim alayhi salam, and there's a
very important story that we oftentimes underestimate, which
is mentioned in the Quran with regards to
them.
Which is that when he was just a
boy, he saw the people worshiping idols. I
don't need to
explicate at great length why that's a bad
thing in this group, insha Allah.
And he knew it was wrong.
And most of us are familiar with this
story, that he waited until his people went
out for some festival or celebration that they
had,
and he stayed back, and he destroyed their
idols, except for the large one. He put
the axe in the hand of the large
one so that when they came back and
they asked asked who did it, he can
then sarcastically, satirically say it's the large one
who did it. All of them responded,
you know that it can't
they can't do any of that. Like, why
are you making a fool of us? And
then he said, well, why do you worship
something that's so
completely
unable to do anything?
This is what one of the most fundamental
of realities. It's a very emperor's new clothes
type of situation, and he said the truth.
Everybody knew the truth, both moshiki and Anze
and Ibrahim alaihis salam.
But there's a special element in this story
which we should take inspiration from, which is
what?
Everyone knew the truth, nobody wanted to say
anything because it's going to be very detrimental
and difficult for them.
The difference between Sayyidina
Ibrahim and between the rest of them is
not that he knew the truth and they
didn't. All of them knew.
The difference is that he loved the truth.
What is love?
It's something that is doesn't operate within the
confines of, like, rationality.
Julia tells Romeo that come meet me 3
AM at my balcony in the middle of,
like, a part of town. You'll get killed,
and if you even get seen.
What does he say? Hey. Listen, baby. That's
not, like, safe. You know? Like, let's just
text each other. No.
If he did, it wouldn't be a an
inspirational story, would it?
He actually shows up at the balcony. Not
that I recommend this, but I would say
it's a metaphor.
Why? Because of love.
Sayyid Ibrahim alayhis salam, it was his love
of the haqq, of the truth that made
him do this.
This love is
dissolving from people's hearts the more engrossed they
are in the dunya, and the more engrossed
they are with those things that distract them
from the remembrance of Allah
But the love of the Haqq is what
makes you a good person.
The love of the Haqq is what you
should think about, and you should remember because
all of us have problems, including
first starting with myself.
That we should just remember, take this occasion
to remember that there are some people who
love Allah Ta'ala, Al Haqq is one of
Allah Ta'ala's names as well, that they love
Al Haqq
more than we love money,
more than we love our phones,
more than we're concerned with our property, real
estate property, taxes, inflation, stock market, bitcoin, all
of these things.
That there are there are some people that
Allah
love that Allah loved and he allowed them
because of that love to love him
more
than any of these things. And they're good
people. They're better people than us. Our love
of those people and our love of their
actions also makes us better people. It makes
us good people, and it's a starting point
for us to take that journey as well.
Without that commitment, one must question what the
point of any of this is.
Allah make us amongst those who are in
love with the Haqq and who are drawn
to the Haqq and who prefer the Haqq
over all other things.