Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Prepare for Corona But Fear Only Allh ICC 03062020
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Lake,
you're from the people of Jannah, and you
should come sit forward. Come.
Come forward, inshallah.
Allah give you in your life.
Inshallah, and you honor this world for the
next.
All praises to Allah.
All praises to Allah. May his peace and
blessings be upon his servant and messenger, Sayna
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Allah
describes in his book in a number of
places the virtues of trust in Allah
And trust in
Allah is
by definition
not
to let go of
means.
It is not to ignore
the world of causes and effects,
which Allah
has
set around us,
in order to be the parameters of this
test of us. But it is to understand
that every cause
and every effect,
its efficacy is only and only related to
entitled will of Allah
Even in the world of world of causes
and effects, everything has a proximal cause and
has an effective cause, has an original cause.
The original cause of everything is Allah
This is mentioned in the books of Aqidah,
in particular, in the books of kalam that
Allah Ta'ala is Musaddibul Asbaab.
The heat of fire
is because of the will of Allah and
the cold of ice is because of the
will of Allah
A person who's a physicist or a chemist
can describe these things in great detail.
But ultimately,
why why are they the way that they
are? Why is it that if you drop
an object, it's gonna fall down and it's
like a fly up in the sky? It's
only the will of Allah
There's no rational necessity. Even by the rules
of logic, there's no rational necessity that gravity
has to pull something rather than push it
away.
These things are all by the will of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And this is the
meaning of the hadith of the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
There's a hadith in which the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam, he said that there's no contagion
in sickness.
The point of it is not to say
that
the mechanism
of contagion
doesn't work. In fact, the bedouin asked the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam, you're
saying that there's no contagion, but we see
that when a a camel has mange
and it enters into a flock,
that the other camels will catch the mange,
when that happens.
So what does that mean?
One of the narrations is what? Is it
the messenger of
Then who gave the mange to the first
camel in the first place?
Now maybe there's some very intelligent and well
read and erudite,
listeners
that will say, well,
it's a bacteria or it's a virus, and
it evolved from this to that to this
to that to this to that. At some
point or another, you will come back to
a point where you cannot explain why things
are there, why things exist.
Even if you say the big bang caused
the entire universe to happen, what caused the
big bang?
Nothing happens in this world. Not from that
primal cause nor to any other efficient cause
thereafter,
except for through the will of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
This is what the messenger of Allah salallahu
alaihi wa sallam was
teaching us. This is what he tried to
teach us.
Some people get the message, some people don't.
So this coronavirus, because of which people are
acting like fools,
They are running and screaming.
They are buying pallets of face masks.
They are buying,
gallons of hand sanitizer Lysol to the point
where, you know, you you have, like, a
limit. I went to Costco yesterday. You have
a limit on how much bottled water you
can buy as if the coronavirus is gonna
cause the entire plumbing and and water system
to collapse in in in Cleveland.
You have a limit on how much Lysol
you can buy as if you're going to
disinfect your way into living forever. When you
spray Lysol and stuff until you attain immortality?
What are you gonna do with it? Are
you gonna spray Lysol on the angel of
death? And he's gonna say, oh, you got
me. Now you can live forever.
What kind of messed up person would wanna
live in this dunya forever anyway?
Spray your way into living forever. You're going
to act like a fool because of your
fear.
It's very interesting because irreligious people, they look
at the Muslims and they look at people
who believe in Allah in their market.
They say, oh, look, you know, you don't
eat during Ramadan and so the productivity of
your countries goes down and that's why we
have more GDP than you do. And you
know, you spend all this time praying 5
times a day, and that's why, you know,
like, religion makes you inefficient and, like, you
know, I pay 5 times a day, so
I'm a more efficient worker
than you and
blah blah blah x y z. You don't
drink at parties and so you're not social
and because of that we don't have coherence
and cohesion in our group and all this
other nonsense.
And those things themselves don't really make a
whole lot of sense. There's
very worldly explanations to,
to to show why they're not true.
However, more than
that more than that, sometimes Allah will send
mankind,
such a
predicament, such a circumstance
in which it shows how completely
like emperor's new clothes the sensibility of materialism
is.
So you have entire countries that are gripped
with panic, nations that are gripped with panic.
Why?
Because of something which is a cousin of
the common flu. 1000 of people will die
every day because of lack of
but no one's gonna come together in order
to feed them.
People die because of basic diseases that can
be prevented. No one's gonna come together because
of feeding them.
3000 people were killed. They were murdered in
in
in in in haram, in crime,
on the day of 9:11,
in the twin towers.
They made a war on terror.
12,000 people die every year from that time
until this time because of alcohol. Where's the
war on beer?
It's all irrational.
There's no objectivity in all of the any
of these things.
What ends up happening?
There's like a slightly like slightly more efficacious
version of the flu that comes. All of
a sudden everybody's acting like a fool. And
you know, we're human beings. Muslims, we're human
beings. We're not like superstars. I said, now
my feet don't touch the ground when I
walk. We're subject to all the same fears
that other people are as well.
And I myself am not telling you there's
no efficacy in this virus. I can't promise
you you're not gonna catch it. I can't
promise you you're not gonna die from it.
I can't promise you that. I could tell
you something to make you feel better and
you would feel better and you would go
home and be happy, but the problem is
that's not in my hands.
But what I can tell you is a
couple of things.
One is this, statistically you're probably not the
ones who are gonna die from it.
The second is this, is that the sunnah
is what You should take the asbaab.
You should take the the the precautionary measures
that have to do with the world of
causes and effects.
Don't sneeze into your hands and rub them
all over the place. If you see someone
sneezing and coughing, obviously, has a fever. I'd
If you see someone sneezing and cocking, obviously,
as a fever,
I'm telling you myself, the sun has to
say salaam. Malik Rahim Allahu Ta'ala. He considered
it he didn't consider it sooner that you
have to shake hands with everybody. Considered it.
He didn't consider it as sunnah that you
have to shake hands on everybody.
It's
not that if you refuse to shake hands
on somebody, you've like,
irrigated their right in the deen or like
insulted them or whatever. If you see somebody's
obviously ill, you can just say salam and
that's it. If If they don't understand, that's
you know, they should educate themselves, that's not
your fault, that's not really your problem.
Take the asbaab,
Wash your hands with soap. I'm not a
big fan of sanitizer. If you are, go
ahead and like goop it all up all
over your hands.
All over whatever, you know, you want to.
However, the doctors say the best way of
using it is. You can ask them. Don't
ask me about it. Ask them. I'm a
theologian.
I'll tell you about the more, tazilah. You
wanna know about diseases? Go ask somebody, not
just any doctor, ask somebody who is an
immunologist or somebody who deals with infectious diseases,
and get all the information that you can.
If you have a fever,
if you have a cough,
by all means, don't come to Juman.
Stay home. Rest. Get better.
Someone might say, well, Sheikh, I wanna get
the reward of coming to Jawa'an. Inshallah. Inshallah.
You'll get the reward of all the people
that you'll prevent them getting sick. You'll get
the reward of curing them, and you'll get
to stay home as well. I'll post the
chukla on SoundCloud. Don't worry about it. You
can click the link through,
ICC's Facebook page or whatever,
or you can listen. There's a whole YouTube
filled with khutbaat better than mine. You can
do you can do any of those things,
you'll benefit insha Allah. You'll you'll be okay.
After all of these measures that you take
that are rational measures,
Then lead the result on Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala because there are people who will prepare
for these things as well as they're able
to, and still they're gonna get sick, still
they're going to die.
The
doctor who raised the first raised the alarm
in China about this disease,
The Communist Party officials trying to quell it,
trying to shut him up in order to,
what, not cause a scare for economic and
political purposes.
He was just trying to help his people.
And, you know, human beings, this is their,
disposition that they don't like people who tell
the truth.
So after punishing him,
and he's the only one working without any
help from the government, he himself was treating
the, patients. He himself got the virus and
died. Sometimes you do what's right, these things
happen.
What is the promise of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala?
The promise of Allah
How wondrous is the affair of the believer?
Indeed, his, affair, all of it is good.
When good
affects him, he's thankful to Abba and his
mistakes,
and it's good for him.
That when he's affected by afflicted by harm,
by something he doesn't like, he's patient and
it's good for
him. And in particular, there is a, there
is
a hadith
brings it in
his
with regards to the description of the different
types of and patience that a believer goes
through.
Which is what? Allah
That if I Allah ta'ala says,
the Lord of mine and majesty, if I
test my slave
with a,
a tribulation and here in particular, the word
tribulation, it's very clear that it means sickness.
With a tribulation,
and then thereafter, he's patient, and he doesn't
complain about me to anyone who visits him.
What does complain hear me? It doesn't mean,
oh, this hurts. Oh, I can't breathe. Oh,
I'm suffering. Oh, I'm scared. That's not what
it is.
If you can go without saying those things,
this is a very high Maqam with Allah
Ta'ala. But just to mention these things is
not a sin.
What does it mean not to complain about
Allah? It means that you don't say to
people, why me? I don't deserve this.
Allah knows what everybody deserves. If everyone gets
what they deserve, they all go to the
hellfire. Nobody enters into Jannah except for through
the mercy of Allah
except for through the fuddle of
Allah This is much as a point of
that that's agreed upon by all Muslims.
So don't say why me?
The one who created
you said, if you said
that in sincerity in your heart,
then everything he gives you is good for
you. So don't say, why me? Unless you
want to
throw yourself out of the circle of that
mercy. Throw yourself out of the circle of
that grace. That's what it means not to
complain
to, those who visit. Just don't say, why
me? Why did Allah make me sick? I
don't deserve this.
I will
replace for him.
A flesh that's better than the flesh that
he lost
and the blood that's better than the blood
that he lost.
And if I should give him a cure
from that sickness eventually,
I will cure him in such a way
that there's no sin left against him in
his account. Imagine that. All of your sins
are
forgiven
because of
a
marginally more severe case of the flu.
People die from that, like, abnormal flu as
well by the way, and they actually die
in greater numbers so far in this country
than they do by corona.
It comes for that too.
That if I make him well again, I
will make him well in such a way
that what? That all of his sins will
be wiped clean. And if I take him
back, meaning if he dies, if I take
his soul back from him,
then I only take his soul back into
into my mercy.
Now I know nobody here wants to die.
If you do, insha Allah, the Bensina Clinic
offers like mental health services. You can go
and avail yourself. That's not normal for a
person to wanna die.
It's nor is it ayah.
Nobody wants to die, and the companions didn't
wanna die.
They wanted to give their life for the
sake of Allah, but that's different than the
morbid like, just kind of,
love of dying, kind of morbid and dark
love of dying for its own sake. Nobody
likes to
die. However, put that aside for a second.
Just think
inside of your mind, inside of your heart.
Like, when the Lord says that if I
take him back, I
only take him back into my mercy. What
does that mean?
Is that a good thing?
Of course, it's it's a beautiful thing.
It's something that has more tenderness and more
kindness and more care in it than than
your mother the first time she touched you
after you were born.
It has more love in it than your
first kiss that you gave to your husband
or to your wife.
It has more generosity in
it than Bernie Sanders giving you free health
care.
It has more it has more joy in
it than all of the Disney and Netflix
and entertainments you can think of as duniya
combined.
It tastes better than a halal steak or
halal cheesecake.
All of these things that you know, all
of them are just there in order so
you can
have an idea that there's something that's like
this but not like this in the sense
that it's completely
better than all of these things put together.
The one who gave you those experiences that
you measure against in the 1st place only
gave them to you, so that you can
know it to look forward with him. This
is the meaning
Jannah, you'll go to Jannah. Something looks like
something but it's not really that thing.
Right? You'll eat one of the fruits of
Jannah. Obviously, this is not a fruit, it's
a Kleenex box, right? You eat Take a
bite of one of the fruits of Jannah.
You'll be like, oh, look this fruit. I
used to eat it in the dunya.
I used to eat I used to eat
like an apple in the dunya. I used
to eat a banana in the dunya. You
take a bite out of it, but you'll
once you bite it, once you taste it,
you'll say, it's not like the one that
I used to have in the dunya. Every
bite will
be amazing and intense in its flavor. And
then you'll take a second bite, and it
will be amazing, and it will taste different
than the first one
If I take him back, he comes back
into my rahma, into my mercy.
So don't act a fool.
Cover your mouth with your cough but you
don't have to go and rush around to
try to buy a pallet of face masks
that you're not going to use.
That the angel of death will come and
take you away to the Ashira and you'll
have like 10,000 face masks sitting in your
basement.
That you'll have 20 gallons of hand sanitizer
when you go to Allah Ta'ala and you're
gonna be asked what did you do with
that. There are literally people they're literally my
brother-in-law is a respiratory therapist
which is like the front line of people
to deal with this, this type of issue.
What did he say? He said, we cannot
find face mask for our own hospital. Why?
Because people are busy,
hoarding them.
This is foolishness.
This is dishonor. This will be punished on
the day of judgment, and it makes you
it makes you look stupid in front of
other people.
Have some honor. Have some class. Have some
dignity in front of other people.
No one here is going to live forever.
There's no one no one is telling you
not to,
take those precautions that you need to in
order to protect yourself. If this thing comes
to us, inshallah, we'll we'll we'll deal with
it just as well, if not better than
other people.
You look there's a map. They did a
survey of and I I know this is
true anecdotally from my own experience growing up.
They did a survey of countries in Europe
in which, people wash their hands. What the
frequency of people washing their hands are. Netherlands
is somewhere like 50%,
50 something percent. England is like 60 something
percent. You know the only two countries that
were above 90%.
Bosnia and Turkey.
Can a person think of why that is?
It's not because they're the most wealthy or
powerful nations, or even the most educated by
Western convention.
So now it's a blessing of the sunnah
of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Do all of those things, but don't act
a fool.
If you want to fear, fear Allah. Why
should you fear Allah?
Allah?
The one who fears his Lord. The one
who fears meaning literally the day he's going
to stand in front of his Lord and
give account. That person, Allah, will give him
2 gardens as as a reward for it.
The one who the one who fears the
day he's going to stand in front of
Allah
That
one Their final and final and eternal abode
will be what?
Jannah. That's the reward. That's the fear in
which there's there's nothing to be afraid of.
That's the fear in which there's peace and
safety and security.
Being afraid of like, a virus that, you
know, that's going to come and it's gonna
go and it's gonna do what it's gonna
do whether or not, you know, you go
through some sort of panic attack or,
you know, you act a fool or you
buy a pallet of face mask or you
don't. You know, this is this is, itself
a type of punishment from Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala himself he says
in his book. He says what?
Don't be like those who forgot Allah
They're busy worrying about
the proximal causes and they forget about the
effective cause.
They're busy worrying about this like details of
like what's happening right here and right now,
and they forget about where it's coming from
and where it's all going to return.
He caused them to forget themselves.
He caused them to forget themselves that they
end up acting a fool. They end up
destroying their,
own lives by their own hands because of
their own fears.
You weren't meant to fear anybody else. You
weren't meant to worry about anyone else. It's
a hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam narrated by
the
This is by the way, this is a
very emphatic expression. Very few hadith are narrated
like this.
He said what? He said, the one who
makes all of his worries and all of
his fears into one worry and one fear.
Into one worry, one fear. The worry and
the fear with regards to his.
Is Allah not enough for his slave?
Is Allah not enough for his slave?
And the slave here, if you read the
tafs here, the first meaning
of of his slave is who? The Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Wasn't Allah enough for
him?
His own people turned on him. All of
the Arabs turned on him to the point
where they said,
All of the people have have gathered together
to destroy you, so be afraid of them.
And he said,
Allah ta'ala is enough for me, and he's
the best discloser of my affairs. He's the
best one that you trusted.
The recitation of Kisai and the recitation of
Hamza and Abu Jaaafar from the Asharar.
Is Alaihi Salamahu biqafin Ibadahu?
And the tafsir of that is what the
Ibadahu is? Who is the prophet salayahu alaihi
wa
sallam?
Was Allah not sufficient for his Prophet salaihi
wa sallam?
When Sayyidina Musa alaihi wa sallam is pinned
against the sea,
and the host of pharaoh are bearing down
on
him. And the reek of heart from his
people said to him,
That's it. The jig is up.
It's over.
They got us now.
What did he
say?
No. Indeed, my Lord is with me. He'll
guide me. He'll show me a way out
of this. He didn't say he's going to
split the,
ocean open, he's gonna split the sea open
and we're gonna go through.
Why?
He didn't know that. But what did he
know?
What did he know? He knows that Allah
will take care of you. Split the sea,
fly in the air, go underground, pharaoh trips,
breaks his nose, whatever it is. Allah ta'ala
will make it happen.
Isn't Allah ta'ala enough for
you?
And then the people will start to make
you afraid of everything that's less than Allah.
Tell me something, the virus is in the
world of causes and effects, the virus is
a cause. It's the proximal cause, it's the
cause that touches you, that you can reach
out and touch. Don't touch it because then
you'll get sick, but you understand what I'm
saying.
Who's the ultimate cause?
Who's the effective cause? All of
the other causes and effects all cascade down
below him. He's the he's the top
of this chain. Everything begins and returns to
him.
They try to make you afraid of all
of the stuff that's underneath.
Just as it's silly to be afraid of
laj and 'azza, the companions rhodiola on whom
with their own Mubarak can't smash them into
into pieces and burned their temples down.
Imagine how amazing that must have been to
see. Imagine what an honor that was.
Just like they weren't afraid of those
stone and wooden idols and statues and temples.
Just like that. Don't worry about any of
these other things. Worry about Allah Ta'ala. He
will take care of you. Allah Ta'ala. He
will take care of you. Whatever happens to
us in this world or doesn't happen to
us in this world between political parties and,
weird laws and candidates and diseases and economies
and stock markets and all of these other
things.
Then Rasulullah
said, the person who their heart is constantly
back and forth between the different concerns of
this world,
Allah ta'ala, it's not his, you know, it
doesn't bother him which value you die.
Be amongst those who fear in Allah fear
Allah and place their trust in Allah to
Allah. May Allah
give us this because
indeed whoever trust in Allah to Allah, he's
sufficient for him.