Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Prepare for the Last Ten Days Hira 04152022

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.