Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Sacred Months and Connection With The Messenger of Allh ICC 06262020
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The Sharia is a punishment for achieving good deeds and wealth, not just a punishment for those who do not follow the teachings of Jesus. The holy eye is linked to achieving the grace of Allah and the holy spirit is linked to achieving blessings. The use of "bringing" in the Bible is important for understanding the relationship between Allah and the world, as it is not just directed at the receiver of his actions, but also at the receiver of his actions.
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All praises to Allah, and may his peace
and blessings be upon his servant and messenger,
Saydna Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
May the peace and blessings of Allah to
Allah 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.
Alhamdulillah.
Praise be to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who
allowed us to gather again
in his Mubarak house
with the added blessing and with the added
benefit this week
that it is the 1st Friday of the
Mubarak month of Dhulqadr.
1 of 4 sacred months in the year,
1 of 4 months in which Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala has multiplied for the believers
the reward of good deeds
and has opened the door of
growth and opened the door of goodness
and opened the door of enlightenment,
enlightenment of the hearts and open the door
of progress
for the Ummah of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
This month then leads to the next month
which is Dhul Hijjah,
which is the most sacred month of
the calendar of the
year. And
is the most sacred day of the year
of the calendar.
The, Yomun Nahab,
the Eid al Adha, which is,
coming insha Allah very soon.
And in order for a person to realize
the sacredness of that day,
in order for the person to realize the
sacredness of that day, the heart has to
be what? It has to be alive.
I can tell you about there's a new
5 star
restaurant,
Michelin rated. Right? Michelin, not the tires. It's
the French
whatever. Right? So a very nice restaurant. World
class. Only rich people eat there. It opened
up in in in Cleveland
and it's a halal restaurant. And the owner
said, whoever comes to Jummah this day, all
of them, let them take a ticket outside
and
they can have a free meal on me.
That meal which would cost
$250, it's free on me, let them take
an equipment to eat.
This analogy by the way is not far
fetched.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala uses a very similar
analogy to
describe his book
that the the not Allah ta'ala, the messenger
of
salallahu alaihi wa sallam uses a very similar
analogy to describe the book of Allah.
He describes it as the Quran is the
That this book is like the invitation,
the dinner invitation
of Allah. So whoever is able to attend
it and eat, let them come and attend
it and eat from it.
If I had those tickets to give out
in the front, everyone would love to come.
Do you think a dead person is going
to be able to benefit from it?
We take the corpse to the restaurant.
Coronavirus or no coronavirus. No one's even gonna
let it into the building.
Even if you let it into the building,
what are you gonna do? You're gonna shove
food into the dead mouth of the of
the body? It doesn't work. You don't benefit
from it. So when we say a certain
day is the most sacred day of the
year,
when we say that something is filled with
Noor and
when we say something has has spirituality inside
of it. When we say that something Allah
plays great help and great embedded in a
certain thing,
what does that mean?
That means you'll benefit from it if the
heart is alive.
This is one of the benefits Allah has
given through the Sharia. That the Sharia is
not like,
rabbis have taught regarding the Torah. And I've
heard this from, rabbis with my own ears.
That what that it's God's punishment, an
onerous punishment that he made this halal and
this haram on us in order to, burden
us, in order to
punish us for this x, y, z, or
the other thing because he wants to make
things difficult for us. No brothers and sisters,
every single hookahum of the sharia, there's great
mercy in it from Allah
There's great benefit in it from Allah
Even imagine
a man who has to go through a
very difficult medical treatment like chemotherapy.
It will be painful. It will be very
expensive. It will make every hair in your
head fall out.
The person, you know, who laments having to
go through such a therapy,
he laments
slightly less than the person who wants to
have the therapy but cannot afford it or
doesn't have access to it. There's great mercy
in it from Allah
for for for all of us, for those
who follow the Sharia why. Because the person
is careful not to eat the haram.
The person who's careful not to look at
the haram. The person who's careful not to
earn the haram. The person who's careful not
to touch the haram. The person who's careful
not to listen to the haram. That person
Allah keeps their heart alive. That person,
that person Allah
keeps their heart
alive. That person is the one that when
these
days come, the faith and the divine effluence
flows onto his heart and illuminates it and
polishes it and gives them
goodness and blessing in this world and in
the here.
Amongst it, there is from the from
the divine effluence and from the divine blessings
that which comes down, which doesn't come down
in any other time of the year.
And this month, this month is the beginning
of it.
So I wanted to talk about,
a couple of things inshallah that are ways
that we can ramp up and amp up
our,
heart, you know, defibrillated.
Give it some,
shocks that the that the heart starts beating
again. Not the physical heart, but the spiritual
heart. I'm not going to talk about going
on Hajj.
It's,
for those of us who are outside, it's
not going to happen this year, most probably.
Don't say hajj is cancelled, hajj is never
cancelled. The The only one who can cancelled
Hajj is the one who made Hajj an
obligation.
But yes, the numbers of visas will be
slashed drastically from the outside, you can say
this much. Someone will make Hajj on behalf
of the Ummah of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
accept from them. And that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala reward us through their Hajj reward the
entire Ummah, from it and we have great
hope in the mercy of Allah and the
blessing of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala and follow
the grace of Allah ta'ala.
I'm not asking you to go on Hajj.
I'm not asking you to read 200 like
those who are before us in this,
I used to do in the day in
a 100 and
the like.
I'm not asking you to wake up for
tajjud
as is the,
the
affair of the salah king of the righteous
even to this
day. I'm not asking you even at this
point yet to fast, but something very simple
something very simple, which is what Allah to
Allah gives the in his book.
Oh you who believe
The hadith,
it is or sorry. The eye of the
Quran has a a commandment in it,
and it is narrated,
in the amongst other,
collections of Hadith
from Abu Masood
sitting place, the gathering place of said
He referred to this ayah,
this bashir bin Saad. And he addressed in
great humility and great respect the messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. That Allah himself
commanded us to invoke,
blessings of peace upon you and to pray
for you.
So how are we supposed to do that?
Upon hearing this question, the messenger of Allah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam became quiet for so long.
It became awkward. He became quiet for so
long that the narrator mentions Abu Masudi mentions
that we wished he didn't even ask the
question. Why? Because it seemed like it put
the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
in a awkward position.
Meaning is what? The messenger of Allah salallahu
alaihi wasallam, he was never one to want
to be the center of the show.
He was never one to say greatness about
himself. There are so many ahadith of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that show
that,
That he loved humility. He loved to be
humble.
Once a woman came to ask him a
question sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
she was shaking out of fear out of
awe.
The great chiefs of themselves.
They said, I'm gonna ask you a lot
more. He said that if you asked me
to describe him, how did he look? He
said, I couldn't describe him to you because
since the day I said,
I didn't have the courage even to, like,
look him in the eyes of Allahu alaihi
wa sallam. I was in such odd.
So
a woman, he he she literally, the
prophet said to her,
Oh, poor woman. Call me yourself. Call me
your shaking.
Said, don't you know that I'm the one
who used to take the
old and still pieces of bread with me
and I used to,
heard the the the flocks
in the mountains around.
Meaning what? This is his humility,
his humility. So at this question,
Allah commands us to invoke blessings on you.
He became silent salallahu alaihi wa sallam for
so long,
out of his humility.
He said that
what say these words. This is what we
refer to as the salah Ibrahimia,
which we say in the the our our
own prayers and there are a number of
correct narrations of it.
And then he says to say salaam, you
also know how to say salaam.
You know how to say
There are a number of different, narrations of
it. Like, again, like the,
It's also known and it's also something that
we recite in our
prayers. Now, brothers and sisters, what's the point
of this salat and salaam on the prophet
He neither needs
our dua nor is it like the bizarre
objection people have nowadays
that well we only worship Allah, why are
we gonna mention the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam again and again?
And answer to this question is what?
Is that when you say Allah who
is this, who is this utterance in this
sentence addressed to? What does Allah mean? Does
it mean, oh, Muhammad? No.
What does Allah hooma mean? Allah hooma means,
oh, Allah.
You are making dua to Allah. This is
your connection between you and Allah.
Allahumna saliyehala Muhammad.
Oh Allah,
send down your blessings and your mercy on
Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
This is your connection between you and Allah.
And so you see that the the the
Kaaba which
is in the middle of the Mas'ul Haram,
which is in the middle of
we face it. It's we face it. It's
the most noble and noble directions a person
who faces it when they say their prayers
Allah
increases the barakah in their prayers and in
their thikr and in their restitute.
And he definitely doesn't live in a house.
However, because we're in time and we're in
space, Allah made certain times blessed, and certain
places and certain things blessed, so that we
this is our way
worshiping Allah ta'ala.
Just like the penguin isn't asked to fly
and the eagle is not asked to swim
in the depths of the earth. Everyone of
the creation of Allah ta'ala
is given away worshiping Allah that's appropriate for
it. Those that are in time and space
are given an appropriate way of worshiping Allah
Ta'ala through that time and through that space.
And just like that, the human beings were
given an appropriate way of worshiping Allah.
And that is what the tafsir of La
ilaha illa for us is what? Muhammadur Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
That when we show our connection with the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, what are we saying?
We're saying, you Allah, you sent us a
message and we hear and we obey. You
sent us a messenger, we hear and we
obey. This is our way of showing Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala our submission and our loyalty
to him. And as time goes on and
muslims take tawheed for granted and they take
the Quran for granted and they take this
the the the dean for granted and the
prayer for granted and the masjid for granted.
You see this arrogance enter into their heart
that they say, well, you know, whatever is
in the Quran, I'm gonna do it and
whatever the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
I'm going to, you know, if I agree
with it or whatever, I'll take it and
if not, I'll say this hadith is not
sahih, etcetera, etcetera. Whereas this is never this
is not only never the Quran or the
companions or the deen of the companions or
the Allahu on whom or the salihin or
the ulema or the aliyah. This is also
not the deen of the Quran itself, which
commands
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give all of us
to fear.
And the salat al salam of Allah to
Allah on say Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam, and
that we hold fast to his honor and
to his reverence and to obeying his every
commandment.
And we renew that vow and that and
that covenant with every time we send salat
Islam, Anhul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam again and again.
And we will talk inshallah,
in subsequent weeks about some of the other
aspects of the benefit of these salat al
salam and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam.