Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Prepare for the Last Ten Days Hira 04152022
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The ADIT season is the last 10 days of the ADIT season, and the fourth Sunday of the ADIT season is the last 10 days. The ADIT season is the last 10 days of the ADIT season, and the fourth Sunday of the ADIT season is the last 10 days of the ADIT season. The importance of planning ahead and praying at home to be prepared is emphasized, along with the holy land's constant oppression and massings of Islam. The speakers stress the need to pray in the presence of a Lord and avoid distractions, and to create a plan to achieve goals. The holy culture is emphasized, and the potential risks of the Rasool and salallahu alaihi are discussed. The importance of not being afraid of the sunGeneration and the deception of the minimalist is emphasized, and the speakers encourage people to spread their hands and ask for help.
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Alhamdulillah. By Allah ta'ala's Fadhu, we've reached the
Mubarak 2nd Friday of Jumu'ah.
Allah
has the 2nd Friday of Ramadan, I should
say, or the 2nd Jumu'ah of Ramadan. Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala fill it with barka and
with noor. There are only 4
Jo'as in this month
that we are going to
receive, and we don't even know if we're
gonna receive all of them.
So we should make the best of them.
The significance of this Friday
is such that
this is the last Friday before the la
the last 10 days of Ramadan.
The ashalaaluwakir
of Ramadan will start from
Maghrib on Thursday.
From
Maghrib on Thursday.
Maghrib will be the night of 21st of
Ramadan,
and the Asharawahir
of Ramadan will start from Magrib on Thursday.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, it was his Mubarak
Sunnah
to make your atikaf in these
last 10 days.
And one of the reasons for their atikaf,
the retreat inside the masjid was
in order to find Laylatul Qadr.
Laylatul Qadr is
that Mubarak night that is mentioned in the
Quran
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent down the
Quran.
The question comes,
what does it mean for the Quran to
be sent down in one night
if the Quran was sent in ayat
portion by portion, bit by bit over the
23 year
nubuwa and prophethood of the Rasool, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
And
the meaning of
is what?
Is that
a copy of the
rasam of the Quran.
The written form of the Quran
was kept in
the. The first thing that Allah created was
the pen and the tablet and he commanded
the pen to write everything that was and
everything that is and everything that shall ever
be.
And
a transcript of that Quran was kept in
this in the
heavens.
And
the laylatul Qadr is the occasion where Allah
ta'ala commanded that it be transcribed and it
be sent down into this world.
And this was an event of such immense
barakah,
of such immense barakah
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said that it's.
What is it? It's a day like other
days,
But what you get out of it is
not what you get out of other days.
And for that reason,
the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wanted to make
sure that he was free from any sort
of distraction
in the Masjid inside the house of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
focused on his worship.
Why?
Because for example, if your favorite store, somebody
goes shopping at Walmart, somebody goes shopping at,
the mall, somebody goes shopping
at Cabela's, somebody goes shopping. God knows where.
Everybody has some favorite store that they buy.
There's a farm tractor supply store or whatever.
If your favorite store or the place that
you go shopping has a sale one day
in the year,
that every $1 you spend will give you
a $1,000 in credit. That's not the day
to do your taxes. That's the day to
get to that store. That's the day they're
get there early because there are other people
thinking like you, they're going
to exhaust all of their inventory. Allah ta'ala,
his inventory doesn't get exhausted.
However,
the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, there's a logic,
there's a system to the Deen. He wanted
to be there and free from any other
distraction,
from any other distraction.
And he also encouraged his family to
utilize that time and to be free from
any sort of distraction.
It's narrated that the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's
description in these days was jada or shaddal
mizar.
That he became very serious
and that
he tied the waistband of his lower garment
or he tied the waist of his lower
garment tight.
This can both mean
that he was serious and he was ready
to work hard. Why? Because when you tie
your waist, it makes your
your back straight. It makes you ready to
work.
Some of the ulama also mentioned that this
is a
a metaphor
for staying far away from
relations, the relations that are had between a
husband and a wife. Why? There's time for
that, but this is not the time for
that. This is a time for what?
This is a time for engaging with Allah
So that if you reach that tajalli, the
hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
is very clear. Every Jum'ah,
this Ramadan, last Ramadan, I read the hadith
and the Khutba of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. It's so simple, but the simplest
things are where the barakah is oftentimes.
That whoever fasts
the month of Ramadan in faith and hope
for reward from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, all
of his previous sins will be forgiven.
And whoever
stands the nights of Ramadan in prayer,
in faith and hope for reward from Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala, good expectation of reward from
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
His sins will be forgiven. And whoever stands
there, laylatul kadr
and faith in Allah Ta'ala and hope for
reward.
Expectation good expectation for reward from Allah
His sins will be forgiven. And these things
are not only are they not mutually exclusive,
it's like a a mum and huzus.
Obviously, if you stand every night
in prayer, you're gonna also hit Laylatul Qadr.
So what's the point of mentioning Laylatul Qadr?
The point of mentioning the Layla is that
this offer is even more emphatic. It's even
more intense. It's even more pronounced
for this one night.
Allah There are certain people he decrees will
be freed from the fire
in Ramadan,
and that's every single night.
The most intense of those are the last
10 nights. The most intense of that night
is what? Is Leila Tulkadr. How unfortunate how
unfortunate would it be
that a person should spend it and pass
it in heedlessness.
So these last 10 nights are coming instead
of talking about them when they're here.
It's good to talk about them from beforehand
so that we can make a plan and
we can execute that plan. We can fulfill
its goal rather than
hearing about it at another time and then
feeling
remorse or regret or say, oh, next time.
So that several months can pass and you
can forget about it for that next time
as well.
Allah ta'ala give all of us tawfiq. If
you cannot come and stay the entire 10
nights in the masjid,
that's okay.
That's okay. It's not far.
However,
you should make a a plan to the
extent that you're able to. That if you
can get some days off, take some days
off from work.
If you can't get any days off from
work,
at least make sure make sure come. Try
to pray your Maghrib in the Masjid. Try
to pray your Isha in the Masjid. Try
to pray your fajr in the masjid.
Try to spend some part of the night
inside of the masjid.
The masjid is free of distraction.
That same 2 rakas that are, like, excruciatingly
painful uphill battle for you to pray at
home when you're at the Masjid,
It's easier for you to pray
them. Even for our sisters, it's good if
you're out of the house. Take the kids
with you to the masjid. That way they
learn what it means to be a Muslim
and it gives their mothers some free time
as well.
Many of our massages also have ample
arrangement for the ladies as well.
Make some sort of a plan. If it's
if that one night has more barakah and
in it than a 1000 months,
then even a small amount if you add
to your
routine or to your repertory. And it only
happens when you plan. These things don't happen
by the wayside. You don't say, well, you
know, like, I was just walking walking home
one day and I became a doctor. It
doesn't happen that way. Anything worth happening,
anything worth doing, and I was walking home
and all of a sudden I became a
businessman to overlook, like, 10 different
locations in my business or whatever. It requires
some sort of plan, some sort of work
toward it.
But make the plan, you don't have to
make it grandiose.
You know, have your brain run away with
you. You make such a big plan that
it collapses underneath you or you have to
lose your job or you get into a
argument with your wife wife and with your
kids or with your, relatives, your parents or
whatever.
Just make a simple plan of something that
you can do.
That if you hit that night, when you
hit that night,
it will be something that you can cash
out.
Just like people become fanatical about bitcoin and
they become fanatical about crypto and they become
fanatical about the new hit stock or whatever.
And, oh, if I only put in a
$100, I would have come back with
15,000 or something like that. Okay. Good for
you. This is something that's a better deal
than that.
It's narrated that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam used to read the subbihisma rabbi kal
a'la in the salatuljumaa.
That it's a reminder that the akhirah is
better. It's better than this,
world. What's there is better than what's in
this world. Abuqa and it lasts
forever. Allah to Allah give all of us.
It is also worth mentioning.
It is also worth mentioning. I mentioned this
despite
despite my
dislike of mentioning news and current events in
the Khutba.
Why? Because the things that people go through
on a daily basis, it's like a merry-go-round.
One king comes, the other one leaves. It's
always big news. It's the same thing that
happens over and over again. Most of us,
it's irrelevant to us.
However, it is worthy of mention as Muslims,
as people of iman, that that same Masdul
Aqsa that's going to be mentioned tonight. Tonight's
the gonna be the 15th night of Ramadan
and the 15th juz of
the Quran, Surah Al Isra.
That that same Masjid Al Aqsa
at what's become a yearly, a yearly circus.
The occupying forces in the holy lands and
the sacred lands have entered in with their
armies, with their boots, and desecrated the Masil
Al Aqsa again, and they've been doing it
for years on end. They've been doing it
for years on end. They've been firing munitions,
they've been shooting people, they've been firing tear
gas, stun grenades, flash grenades inside the Mas'il
Aqsa.
This should be a source of pain inside
the heart of every Muslim and a reminder
to all of us that Islam is not
going to be easy. Just like the Rasool,
salallahu alaihi wasallam and his companions had to
go through some difficulty
in order just to be able to pray
their salat, in order to have the simple
practice of their deen
be something unimpeded.
We see this as a sunnah of Allah
Ta'ala again and again that he test people
as individuals and he test this ummah.
And those people who live literally have been
living now for so many decades. Gaza is
an open air prison.
People are not allowed in. People are not
allowed out. Medicine is not allowed in. Building
materials are not allowed in. Academic exchanges are
not allowed in or out. People are literally
starved to death, and you have children. This
you see, the small children that we have,
my own son is right here. We have
children waiting at military checkpoints. We have several
people with heavy machine guns checking small children
in order for them to come and go
from kindergarten, from 1st grade, from 2nd grade.
It's a reminder, and you know it, you
know it, that in this week, over 20
extrajudicial
killings before they entered into Masjid Al Aqsa
at Jum'ah time.
Over 20 extrajudicial killings happened
in
a country that's not technically a war zone
where the government kills its own people. Because
they're Muslims, they get away with it. Our
own country, if you look at the news,
it's a massacre. What's happening in Ukraine is
genocide. It's this. It's that. It's horrible. I'm
not happy about any human being who suffers
ever.
I'm not ever happy about even my own
enemies when a innocent person especially suffers.
I'm never happy about it. We're not happy
about
it. We're upset about it.
But we ourselves, remember, don't be blind to
this fact.
That when 20 people suffer, they say it's
genocide
on one side, And they say, this so
and so person who perpetrated this is a
war criminal. Maybe he is.
We should revive the ICC court. Guess what?
You know why America is not a signatory
to the ICC court? In order to protect
Israel, who's been doing this for years.
It's a reminder to us that these are
challenges, these are tasks.
If these things mean something to us, if
our iman means something to us, we're going
to have to do something a little bit
more in our Islam
than just trying to keep our head down.
Make it to Jummah. Make it home. Is
it far? Do I have to? Do I
not have to? And then think you're going
to ice skate by. Because this is a
calamity. It comes to everybody's head when nobody
does anything about it. So it's worthy of
mention. And maybe some other people than me
know better how to solve these problems than
I do.
But as a
as the least of the believers,
I feel it's my duty to what? At
least mention that this is something it's not
right. It's not something to tuck under the
ground. It's not okay. Other people ignore it
and pretend like it's not happening. It's happening.
You should know that it's happening and it's
wrong. And at this,
you know, these Mubarak days of Ramadan, the
least believer can do, which is actually quite
powerful, is at least spread your hands. When
nobody is looking, spread your hands in front
of the Lord, and ask him, you Allah,
do something about this. Help
help these people, help our people, help our
ummah, do something about this, and make me
one of the people who does something about
it.
We're afraid to ask this dua. Why? Because
Allah may grant it to us.
Don't be afraid of it. It's good. Be
a good person.
Allah doesn't burden a soul with more than
it can bear, and Allah will not burden
you with something that's not going to be
good for you if you're a person
of ask Allah, help me to be able
to be someone who does something for this,
to raise money for those people who have
nobody to feed them, to say something to
our,
congress people, to do some sort of movement,
some sort of action which will bring light
to these events and will do something to
alleviate and to ameliorate the situation. Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala do good by us in our
dunya and on our akhirah as individuals, as
a community, and as a ummah in this
country and in every place where the Muslims
live.
InshaAllah, we'll take a couple of minutes to
read our sunnahs and then hear some announcements
and then have the khutbah barakkal Afikl.