Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Nikah is From My Sunnah Islamic Center Pittsburgh 12092016.mp4
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All praises to Allah,
All praises to
Allah. All praises to Allah who guided us
to this,
who guided us to Islam and to iman
and to his Mubarak house on this Mubarak
hour of this Mubarak day, and we were
not to be guided. Was it not that
Allah had guided us?
Oh, Allah, to you is praise as is
commensurate with the majesty of your countenance and
the greatness of your authority.
Oh, Allah, we do not limit you with
any praise we can come up with our
selves. Rather, we admit that you are the
only one who knows the true extent of
your praise worthiness.
And may the peace and blessings
Allah be upon his servant and messenger,
our master, Sayyidina Muhammad
May the peace and blessings of Allah Ta'ala
be upon him and upon his noble companions
and upon his pure wives and upon his
Mubarak and blessed family and progeny
and upon all of those who follow all
of their way until the day of judgment.
Brothers and sisters,
He came with a complete way of life,
and the name of this complete way of
life
is Islam.
Allah says in his book in adina and
Allah in Islam.
Imam Tawiyrahima
Allah Tabarakahu Ta'ala in his
Aqidah Tawiyya which is an exposition of the
beliefs of the says
that the deen of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
it's a very beautiful expression near the end
of the book, that the deen of Allah
ta'ala
in the heavens and in the earth is
one deen in Islam. That's it. It's the
same deen in the heavens. It's the same
deen in the earth. No other deen exists
with regards to Allah accepting him.
The name of this deed is what? Al
Islam.
The word Islam contrary to what many of
our spokespeople say in the media or repeat
to one another in Sunday schools and other
venues, the meaning of Islam is not peace.
It has the same root, as peace.
But the meaning of Islam,
It means what? It means surrender.
It means what? It means surrender, that you
give up. This is literally the the sign
that a person makes when their hands are
made, start their prayer. It's a sign of
what? Surrender, of giving up.
Allah
the reason for putting this down,
the Usui reason
for putting this down.
This revelation sending it down from above the
7 heavens, from above
the and the
and the magnificent throne
was what? It's mentioned in the first revelation
that Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam received.
Read in the name of your lord
who created mankind from a clot of blood.
Read and your lord is the most noble,
the most generous,
the one who taught mankind by the pen,
the one who taught mankind that which he
did not know.
Is not a for
only the past. It's not a negation only
for the past for those of you who
know Arabic grammar.
But in this context, it means
the past, the present, and the future.
What is that knowledge if everybody
came together from all of the universities with
all of their PhDs,
all of their laboratories,
all of their journals through which they can
share information with one another. All of this
knowledge could have been exchanged and people could
have had lives not just a 60, 70
years, a 100 years, a 1000 years, a
1000000 years,
life that never ended.
If they were to collaborate all of them
together forever,
they still wouldn't have understood
what comes down in the Wahi of Allah,
His Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And the Wahi and the deen of Islam
is 2.
One is the Quran, which is
beloved.
That Wahi which is preserved word for word,
And the second is what? The sunnah of
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, which is that
This is the text of the Quran
that the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam doesn't
speak from his own vain desire.
Rather everything he says is a that
is a revelation that is revealed to him.
Literally, the word is used by Allah subhanahu.
It is not but a revelation which is
revealed to him
So when Rasulullah
tells us something about the deen,
that which the Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam
gave you, then take it. And that which
the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam forbade you from
it, stop.
And fear Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Fear Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. This is a
these are direct commandments from the book of
Allah.
So if the person who wishes to gain
benefit from this path must submit to that.
And the person who wishes to argue with
that,
that person is not going to gain anything
from this path. That person will constantly
be in a state between iman and Kufr
until one of them wins out inside of
their heart.
This is something described also by iman Taha'i
and his as well as the other scholars
of of of and of deen in general.
Now we throw the word around
a lot
to the point that we've thrown this word
at one another
so much we've become sick and tired as
a community of hearing it. So So someone
says
roll your eyes.
That's brother. Right? And we can turn it
into a joke.
Do you joke about Allah and
and
His deen?
The fact of the matter is is that
because of the lack of education about that
many of us have.
Right? To say
to say I don't know with regards to
a matter is part of a man's deen.
Our
used to say they used to treat.
Maliki, said that
to say that I don't know is a
shield of the the the the person of
knowledge. He said that you should teach your
students to become accustomed to saying I don't
know. He even Imam Abu Hanifa
is very, very
well known. The The one who carries the
luck of an imam al Avam, the greatest
of imams.
He says very clearly, there are 9 messiah
life. I've I've studied them for
my entire life. I I can't give the
the the Joab, the response for what the
meaning of these 9 messiahs, what is dahid,
and what is, you know, there's a number
there's a number of messiah that he he
said that about. This is this is these
are our elders. These are the people who
knew the Deen. By the testimony of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, they knew the Deen better
than than what what we know it.
But because of our inability to say, I
don't know, we throw these things out and
then a damage happens. A damage happens, people
stop taking the deen seriously.
So we have said
to those things that are just differences of
opinion amongst the so much that people have
become sick and tired of hearing this word.
But the fact of the matter is there
is something called
and it is something reprehensible innovation. It is
something
warned us about, and it is something that
has crept into our deen. But the that
have crept into our deen are things that
nobody talks about. Why? Because many of them
have turned into cultural norms.
Now tell me something,
what is the best time to pray your
salah?
Divorce from any
external
circumstances like traveling or extreme heat or extreme
duress or anything else. Right? What's the best
time to pray your salat? The best time
to pray the salat is what? It's the
beginning. It's the first time.
Is anyone
wish to argue with that notion?
Right? We have exceptions to rules. Every rule
in the Sharia has exceptions. The exception is
when someone has studied usul, we know that
the exception doesn't teach you anything about the
rule. The rule is what? Is that the
best time to pray the salat is? In
the beginning time.
What's the best time to, when a person
dies?
The best time to wash the body and
to shroud the body and to bury the
body?
As soon as possible. Right? As soon as
possible. Fine. If there's some sort of something
is stopping you from doing so. There's permission.
If the legally, you have some problems or
whatever. You're not legally obliged to go and
heist at the morgue and then make a
getaway with you're not, you know, you're not
obliged. But that's an exception. That's not the
rule. All other things being equal, the best
time to bury the body is what?
Is what? Is when the body is when
the person died as soon as possible.
Now there's a hadith in the in in
the of the prophet
in which he mentioned. He says, 3 things,
when the time for them comes, they should
not be delayed.
3 things, when the time for them comes,
they should not be delayed. One of them
is what?
The salat when this time enters.
The second is the person who dies, the
after they die. And the third thing is
what?
A woman when she becomes ready for marriage
that she should be married.
The fact that we
automatically throw up all of these,
curtains in our mind, the hijab comes up
in our mind, the defense mechanisms come up
in our mind, this is a problem. This
is a.
I'm not accusing people as individuals, you're a.
You're this and that. No. I'm just saying
this is problematic.
This is not in line with the idea
of Islam.
There may even be exceptions to this rule.
You understand what I'm saying? There may be
exceptions to this rule, but exception doesn't teach
you anything about the rule.
The Hadith of Rasulullah
When a man comes to your house
when a man comes to your house
and proposes marriage to your daughter
and you're pleased with his akhlaq,
you're pleased with his aflak and his deen,
then you should what? Marry your daughter to
him. You should do what?
Say, son,
when is your when are you gonna finish
your PhD in engineering? No.
Son, when you have a 6 figure job,
come back to me.
No.
Son, which neighborhood in which city in some
country halfway across the world do you, you
know, do your forefathers come from?
No.
What did Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam say? If
you're pleased with his deen, then marry marry
your daughters to him marry your daughter to
him. Otherwise, what? There will be facade in
the earth. This is another hadith of Rasool
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that when marriage becomes
easy, zina becomes difficult.
When marriage becomes easy,
zina becomes difficult. And when marriage becomes difficult,
zina becomes easy.
If somebody were to write a shalah, a
commenter a commentary on this statement.
Right? Meaning what? What does it mean zina
becomes easy?
People are swiping left and swiping right.
This is literally literally what the hadith of
Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi sallam is talking about.
Now tell
me now tell me something.
Okay?
If somebody is
doing something, raising their hands one time in
the salat or raising their hands several times
in the salat, is this a one way
or the other? No. It's a difference of
opinion. If somebody is saying amen out loud
after their fatiha,
is this a bida? Or someone's saying it
quietly, is this a bida? No. It's a
difference of opinion. Both opinions come from the
salaf
Both of them have directed unbroken chains of
narration from Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
But if a direct command of Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam regarding something that is so important,
Nabi alaihi salatu san said regarding marriage that
it is half of your deen.
That this this marriage, this nika is half
of your deen. And for the other half,
what? Fear Allah.
Fear Allah.
If something so great, so momentous, and we
so casually kick it down the road
look.
The
the
is
what? The is that the first. You get
the first. You get the knowledge first, and
then you act upon it.
We don't have this idea in our in
our,
in our, you know, conception of that
ignorance is bliss.
Ignorance is never bliss. It's always superior to
no.
Right? This is a rhetorical question. Are the
people who know and don't know equal? It's
not a question as in, like, yeah. Let's
think about it. No. It's a question meaning
what? Of course, they're not equal.
The intention of a believer is greater than
the what? Than the action itself.
And the interpretation
of this is what? Is that the intention
can more properly be ascribed to yourself as
for what happens?
That's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who does that.
Obviously, the intention also of
but the intention resides in a locust closer
to you than the actual action does. Allah
is the one who makes things happen. The
the ones who makes things happen and the
one who makes things not happen. There's no
one who could stop something from happening if
he wishes it to happen and there's nobody
who can make it make it happen if
it wish he wishes it to stop.
These things are very important. Just our conception
of them is important.
So if a person says,
Sheikh, that's wonderful, but I'm in x y
z circumstance.
You're in x y z circumstance. I'm not
browbeating you. You didn't get married when you're
14. You're you're horrible. You're just that. Everybody
has their circumstance. No one of us is
is perfect. Some of us are better that
at hiding our imperfections than other people are.
That's the only difference. There's no hadith in
the the prophet, sallallahu alaihi, sallam. The Bu'un
is the one who doesn't sin.
But the idea is what?
If you have to compromise because of your
circumstances
outwardly,
Right? Nobody's circumstance makes them comp compromise inside.
Inside this world, this universe that's inside of
everybody's heart, inside of everybody's chest, this is
something in which there's no slavery, there's no
apartheid.
It can't be colonized
by the British or by the French.
There's no there's no,
coalition of forces that can desert storm what's
inside of here.
In here,
you're the king. Allah gave you this
that in here you can choose whatever you
want. And you will be accountable for first
what's in here,
afterward what's outside.
And if what's inside here is clean,
whatever happens on the outside, you'll be okay.
Is this a rhetorical flourish
by a professional,
demagogic
preacher who makes his money by whipping people
up into a religious frenzy?
Allah himself
says in his book.
Is the day that nobody will be served
neither by money nor by having many sons.
Nobody will be helped except for by having
a
clean
heart, free from blemish, free from any sort
of
fault, any sort of defect. A heart that
is in line with what Allah
commanded
from it. That's something that requires neither money
nor does it require any sort of external
power or force.
The clean heart,
that's where clean actions come from. If you
think that the heart is going to be
confused, and then from that, there's gonna be
good and useful actions on the limbs, is
not from our and experience shows that it's
something that's not it's not even possible.
Right? Right action only comes from right understanding.
Right understanding only comes from a right heart.
So the first step is what? We should
say, yes. This is a problem.
This is a sunnah of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam that our,
our ummah has strayed from, and it's a
sunnah that we should come back to.
We prepare our children. We prepare our children
for what?
We prepare our children for a bachelor's degree,
law school,
medical school,
pharmacy,
master's degree,
PhD, all of these things. Is it Haram?
Of course, it's not Haram.
And could be if you choose to use
it in a haram way, but it doesn't
necessarily need to be. And even the the
the wish or desire that your children should
make risk enough to live a decent and
a honorable life, there's nothing wrong with it.
The desire to gather money, even though it's
not praiseworthy, it's also not haram.
So I have no objection with that. But
tell me something, which which thing is closer
to bringing you happiness?
Having a whole lot of money or having
a stable life at at home with your
family?
Having a stable life at home your family
is definitely. It's definitely
closer to
something that's going to bring you happiness. Not
just in this world, but in the hereafter
as well.
Three things, a person's when they die cuts
off except for in 3. One of them
is what? Having pious progeny that does good
deeds after you're done.
Some of us,
you know, I don't want to point fingers,
but some of us are actually corrupt people
by the standard of the Sharia.
One of our children, right,
becomes a Hafiz of Quran. 1 of our
children gives. 1 of our children becomes
a, an of deen. 1 of our children
becomes someone who helps somebody else, the children
who sinned, their sin belongs to them.
And that the one child who does something
good for us, Allah
will serve his deeds to us
in our grave to the point where even
if we die on fist and fujur, the
angels will treat us with honor. Why? Because
of who we left behind.
This is something that a common sense thinking
person would think. This is, like, really important.
This is, like, something that, is more important
than building a masjid. Some people say, I'm
gonna build a masjid and the of that
masjid will come to me afterward. That's a
wonderful thing. It's a wonderful idea, wonderful thought.
Let me tell you something.
Having a pious child is better than building
a masjid.
We have unfortunately,
because the materialism
of the culture around us, another which has
crapped up, is that we value material things
more than we value people.
Is this a demagogue flourish again? No. I
have for this as well.
It's narrated in the Sahih Athar that
said
He stood in front of what? Not ICP.
In front of the Kaaba.
And he says to the Kaaba, addresses the
Kaaba.
He says, how sacred and holy are you?
How great are you in the eyes of
Allah
And by Allah swear an oath, every believer
every believer is greater and more sacred in
the eyes of Allah
than you are.
This is this is the the the deen.
You know how nowadays you watch TV? Right?
They will never show the even the coffin
of a a of a white person on
TV. I have no problem with white people.
I'm not saying this to be whatever. Right?
I'm just saying that this is the the
the the the model that we operate under
even though it's not spoken, but there's a
model of racial supremacy in the the society
around us. If you didn't notice,
They'll never show it. TV executives have been
fired for just showing the coffin. Forget about
the body. They'll show the bodies of Muslims,
Africans all day long. No problem.
But they will never show the body of,
why? Because there's a there's a sacredness in
it. This is something praiseworthy, not because they
discriminated against one person versus the other, but
in the sense
that
that we've honored
This is something that's
this is a good thing in the sense
that every human being has this honor, should
be given this honor. This is something that
our people used to have, that we used
to honor people more than we honored buildings.
Let me tell you something. If you want
to leave behind the
a pious child is what? A pious child
is one of the best ways of doing
it. If your your goal is to get
into Jannah, just one pious child will get
you in. Imagine if you were to have
3, 4, 5. Imagine if they are to
have pious progeny, etcetera, etcetera. We have people
in this Ummah, by the way. To this
day, I've met people. 13, 14, 15, 16
generations, her father of Quran.
We have people like that. It's not something
that happens randomly. It's a vision that's passed
from one generation to the other.
This is more valuable than any building. Can
you imagine what the worth is of that
heart that carries the book of Allah
inside of it?
That person, the doctor when he dies in
this world, you think the angels are gonna
call? The angel of death is gonna say,
doctor Saab, please come with me. Of course
not.
But the half of the Quran is still
a half of the death, he's still half
of the and he's still half of the
Jannah. Do not the angels say to the
to the person. Right?
Read like you used to read in the.
Keep reading, and you'll keep ascending
in rank, and your rank will be at
the last place that you that your your
recitation stops.
This is something that lives forever. We give
no thought to this whatsoever.
We plan for which university we want to
go to, we plan for which major we
want, we plan all of those are great.
We should plan for all of these things.
Planning is a sunnah of Rasool Allah Sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
People think that just haphazardly going through life,
this is this is not
this is not
is to make a plan and then to
trust in Allah
But what I'm trying to say is what?
We plan for
the
do you do you do you do you,
like, say,
Musa Alaihi Islam chastises
Do you seek to substitute the lower thing
for that which is which is greater, for
that which is better?
This is something
for your for your also but for your
it's so important. It is so important. But
we don't think about it. We don't plan
for it at all. We don't even think
about it. We don't even wanna think about
it. We don't have a talk with our
son. Son, you're gonna be a father one
day.
And Allah knows why we have we never
have this talk with our daughters.
That my dear, the most important thing you're
going to do in this world is be
another one day.
The most important thing you will do one
day,
is
what? Is to be a mother.
We feel embarrassed. Right? Because we're gonna go
in front of other people, and they're gonna
say, oh, you're gonna get your daughter married.
That's very village, type outlook.
Brothers, this is not a village type outlook.
This is Jannah outlook.
This comes down from Wahi, from the revelation
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, both in the
book of Allah
his Rasool Sallallahu Wa Ta'ala
and whom said that Abu Hurayra Radhi Allahahu
Anhu was appointed as the governor of Bahrain.
Bahrain was in the old days not this
small island nation, but it was everything from
what? From Basalah until,
Oman.
So it's all of the
the
and and Bahrain, Qatar, what we call the
Emirates nowadays. Right? The the the eastern part
of Oman.
The,
Saidin Abu Hureira was appointed governor over that
area. And when he first arrived, one of
the one of the people who was running
the affairs of state as a mushira, as
a part of his privy council,
said these people who since they live close
to the Persians, They have the etiquettes of
the Persians. And one of the etiquettes of
the Persians is when the food is served,
don't eat all of the food on your
plate. Leave a little bit of it on
the side because if you eat all the
food on your plate, you look like you
look like you're you're needy or you're hungry.
It's a sign of weakness. So just I'm
giving you a tip because you're new here.
Okay? Fine. He gave him a tip.
Right? Be pleased with him. What did he
say?
Do you want me it's so beautiful. That's
I the may Allah be pleased with them.
What did he say? He said, should I
leave the sunnah of the one that I
love salallahu alayhi wa sallam for these idiots?
We should ask or should we read the
sunnah of our Habib Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
For a people who
they're blinded and deaf. They're describing the Quran
as blind and deaf. They have no idea
where they're going. They have no idea. Their
solution, their alternative, we've seen our alternative. Where
does it lead? Our forefathers, what did they
achieve? And their their alternative leads to swiping
right and swiping left. Is this what we
want to do is follow the path that
we know what the end of it is?
Allah
give us Tawfiq. Allah
give all of us, those of us who
are in a marriage right now. Allah
make of that marriage. Allah make it a
beautiful marriage. Allah make us people who love
one another so that Allah will love us.
May Allah ta'ala give everybody, whoever has children.
May Allah ta'ala make those children and make
them a source of good in this world
and a source of good in the hereafter.
May
those of our young people who are looking
to get married, may
make it easy for them. Please, parents, make
it easy for them. Facilitate facilitate for them.
Look at this as something that their children
also will be. What? Something that's
in the account of your
for the better. In this world and the
hereafter, Allah
give all of us so much