Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Seek Forgiveness From Your Lord.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 Mubarik house on this Mubarik
hour, this Mubarik day, and we were not
to be guided, was it not that Allah
guided us?
Oh, Allah, to use praise as his commensurate
with the majesty of your countenance and the
greatness of your authority.
Oh, Allah, we do not limit you with
any praise we could come up with ourselves.
Rather, we admit that you are the only
one who knows the true extent of your
praise worthiness.
And may the peace and blessings of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala be upon His servant and
messenger, Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
May the peace and blessings of Allah
be upon him, and upon his noble companions,
and upon his pure wives, and upon his
Mubarak
family and progeny,
and upon all of those who follow all
their way until the day of judgment.
We had a,
unexpected,
guest come
last week,
who delivered
an excellent
reminder
before the Jumah Khutba.
Before that, we talked about Sayyidina Nuh
to Islam.
The Messenger of Allah, Sayyidina Nuh to Islam,
who preached to his people for
950 years,
who at the end of his
tenure as
a nabi to his people, as a Prophet
to his people, was
ordered by Allah
to
construct the ark, a construction that was not
something that happened quickly
or easily,
but took time, and it was their najat.
It was their salvation, those who believed. It
was something that those who didn't believe would
frown on and make fun of as they
passed, but that didn't
dim the faith of the iman of Sayyidina
Nuh alaihis salaam, because he knew, this is
my salvation.
Whoever shuns it, shuns their own life in
this world, and shuns their own everlasting life
in the hereafter.
And how? If this is a standard Allah
set forth for us, in istiqama,
in perseverance,
then whatever small problems we have or silly
things people bother us about in this world,
surely nobody is going to endure anything that
is as painful and as long lasting as
what Saydhanu
alaihis salatu alaihis salam endured. And if it
was worth it for him, it's worth it
for you and it's worth it for me.
There were two other
matters from his story,
that I wanted to
bring up and share, but because of the
time constraints, I was unable to. Because of
the time constraints I was unable to, so
we will discuss them in this,
gathering, and in this Jumakhutba.
The first is, oftentimes people come and ask,
Sheikh, I have trouble finding a job, make
du'a for me. Sheikh, I'm having trouble in
my house, make du'a for me. I'm having
trouble finding a place to live, or finding
a car, or finding this, that, and the
other thing.
Make du'a for me. Tell me a du'a
that I can make, that I can use
in order to have Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
open the ways and means for me in
this world.
And there's a concept for those of us
who attended the,
attended the halakah on Wednesday, in which we
talk about the fiqh and aqidah of Islam.
There's a concept that Allah
has 2 separate tracks in this world. 1
for those who believe in Him and accept
His messengers,
and
subhanahu wa ta'ala's messengers set out for them
in terms of of
of of of the matters of the limbs
and the matters of the heart. Those people
are referred to as believers, those people are
referred to as Muslims, those people are referred
to as the people of Taqwa, as the
people who fear God. And there are a
number of names for them, and it has
a
spiritual reality, and a legal reality as well.
Those people, the Nabi
is explicit that their track is different, and
those people who reject this track are different.
Those who reject this
track, when they do an act of piety
or an act of goodness in this world,
which is something that Allah
rewards for,
Allah, Most High, from His justice does what
to
them? He rewards them in this world, so
that on the day of judgment they come
up empty handed.
Why? If somebody rejects the question comes up,
if somebody rejects Allah
but they're generally an agreeable and good person
in this world, why is it that they're
going to be punished? Why do the Muslims
believe that they're gonna be punished on the
Day of Judgment? Why is it that the
Muslims believe that? Is it that that
Muslims are sadistic people, or they believe in
a sadistic reality, or sadistic,
providential reality for this world? May Allah forgive
us for somebody saying such a thing, and
not punish us for that which the fools
amongst us say.
No. It's not sadism.
What is it? It is that if you're
good to people in this world, but you
don't believe in Allah, ask for your jannah
from the people.
Ask for your jannah, for your reward, for
your eternal life, and for your salvation from
those who you're good to. They're the ones
who owe you.
As far as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
you shunned him, and you pretended like he
doesn't even exist.
Right? You shunned him, you pretended like he
doesn't even exist. This is like one of
the worst forms of disrespect that that can
happen. They do this like in military
training. They do this. It's like a psychological
game that people play with one another. They'll
give each other the silent treatment. They won't
talk to people. This happened a lot in
America, especially when African Americans were first integrated
into a number of systems, including the military,
government,
sports teams, etc. Nobody would talk to them.
People would shun shun them. They would pretend
that they didn't exist, give them the silent
treatment.
It's bad enough. You don't have the right
to do that to another Muslim in this
world. So hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
Any 2 people who leave speaking to each
other for more than 3 days,
Allah ta'ala won't forgive them until they forgive
each other.
Obviously, if one person violated the rights of
the other, then that's all on that one
person. But if people have a two sided
fight, and most fights are two sided, if
they don't forgive each other within 3 days,
Allah won't forgive them for their sins when
they ask His forgiveness until they forgive one
another. It's bad enough if you do it
to another human being. It's not permissible. And
the ulama say what? They say that the
bare minimum of you know, because not all
2 people are gonna get along. Some people,
if you speak with them for more than
2 or 3 sentences, you're gonna get into
a fight. It's probably best that you somewhat
avoid them, for your own mental well-being, and
for theirs as well.
But the bare minimum is what do you
say? You say, Salam. You say, Salamu Alekum
Wa Salaam.
If you afterwards say, How is everybody? Is
your mother well? Are your parents well? Are
the children well? Everyone likes you know, everyone
should love their parents and their children, you
know? That much if you cannot do that
for another person, there's something wrong with you.
You've like done dzum, you've disrespected and you've
oppressed your brother.
Imagine we're not talking about another person.
Some people we don't wanna talk to them
for good reason, because they're irritating. Right? We
just do it for the sake of Allah
What if somebody does that to Allah
How completely unbefitting is that? How How unbecoming
is that? How worthy of punishment is that?
Obviously, we don't go around to people and
say, You're worthy of punishment. We're talking about
for ourselves.
We should fear that, that we should ever
do something that's so wildly disrespectful to Allah
that we warrant his punishment.
So the question is, okay, if Allah is
just and he sends those people who don't,
who don't even acknowledge him. Right? Because salam
is what? Just an acknowledgement the other person
exists. It doesn't mean that you're having the
person over for dinner.
Allah bare minimum
definition of who a Muslim is not a
person who is perfect, not a person who
does, you know, pray 5 times a day
in the 1st row of the masjid. It's
not a person who fast everyday of Ramadan.
There are drunkards who are Muslims, there are
fornicators who are Muslims, there are thieves, and
liars, and cheats who are Muslims. Why? Because
at least they say, You Allah, I didn't
I'm not I'm not I'm not being the
best of friends to you, but at least,
you know, I acknowledge you're there. Just like
what 2 people say, salaam to one another,
at least I acknowledge you're there, what your
right is, and I acknowledge the fact that
I'm not fulfilling it. That's also It means
something to Allah ta'ala.
The aqeedah of the Muslims is what?
Is that the person who acknowledges Allah ta'ala,
Allah ta'ala from His justice,
will reward them for all of their good
deeds in this world. So they'll either have
money, or they'll have happiness, or they'll have
a nice car, or they'll have a good
job, or they'll have some sort of contentment,
they'll sleep at night, they'll have good health
to the day that they die. Even the
people who don't have those things, something else,
someone they love, their children, Allah will give
them the benefit because it would have made
them happy. Allah will give the ones they
love that benefit, the country that they live
in that benefit, etcetera, etcetera.
But the benefit of those good deeds will
be completely done in this world, and yawmukriama,
it's going to be them and Allah
They're gonna end up empty handed. They're gonna
show up empty handed. May Allah TA'b be
our protection. This is established very
explicitly from the hadith of the Prophet
And as far as the Muslim is concerned,
the system, the track that they're on is
what?
Is that your good deeds are not rewarded
in this world.
Allah Ta'ala will give you something to eat
and drink so that you can spend your
time in this world and get by.
Your good deeds that you do will be
rewarded on the day of judgement.
When the angels are standing,
arranged in in ranks,
and the the the nations are arranged arranged
in ranks bearing witness. Allah on that day
will show your good deeds to the people,
and it will be a matter of pride
for,
for for, the entire creation that look at
this human being. He was in this world
for some time, and he remembered
Allah and now we all have a chance
to celebrate and benefit from that.
This is why when he said, Well, how
come, you know, I pray 5 times a
day. How come I don't have a good
job like Bill does down the street? You
know, we I I fast in the month
of Ramadan. How come our countries are like
this, and other people's countries are like that?
Or, you know, how come I don't get
paid as much as the other guy? You
know, I pay my zakat, I do this
Why? Because this is from the basic teachings
of the Messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam. That what you do is not for
this world. It didn't come, the commandment didn't
come from this world. The benefit of it
is not from this world, and the reward
is not from this world. It's all for
somewhere else. It's all for somewhere else. Yes,
Allah didn't starve anyone to death. If they
starve to death, they only do so once,
and they were gonna die at that time
anyway.
Allah ta'ala literally in the hadith, it says
that, Allah ta'ala makes Itaam. He just feeds
you a little bit. He gives you a
little bit so that you can get by.
You know what happens, like, if you have
a a flight from one place to another?
You're flying from LA to New York, and
you change planes in O'Hare. You know? Some
airlines, they do these things less and less,
but some airlines still do them, and they
used to do them more often. If your
flight is delayed, they'll give you like a
$5 voucher.
They'll be like, Okay. Why don't you go
buy lunch or something like that? You're not
gonna buy anything in the airport to fly
out, but it's a
nice gesture. You know, it makes you feel
a little bit better. That you're on your
journey, and something difficult happened. So here's a
little bit something get by. You get to
your destination sooner or later. This is
an analogy for what it is. Allah cuts
you a voucher, Here, go eat something, buy
something, get your children married, go, you know,
whatever
thing, you know, if you like eating ice
cream, go eat ice cream every now and
then, you know, not too much because it's
not good for you. But, you know, do
whatever do whatever small amount you need. It's
the from
ta'ala. Why?
Because you said you made the announcement to
people by
that you say you love him, and he
loves you also. He loves you more than
you love him. So So he says, Here,
here. You're I see you're in pain. This
is a necessary process for you. I see
it's not easy. Here, take this
little bit and enjoy yourself. You don't have
to ease the pain.
The day we meet, that's the day I'll
make it all up to you.
What a wonderful and beautiful day will that
be. This is this is the concept. Right?
Sayyidunu
You say, how does this have anything to
do with his,
his story? You're rambling on a tangent again.
Well, in the story of Sayyidunu alayhi salam,
one of the commandments that Sayyidunu alayhi salam
is sent with, and that he teaches to
his people as what? He says to his
people,
Seek forgiveness from your Lord. When people come
to me and they ask, you know, I
need a job, or I need this, or
I need that, or I have the same
feeling myself, I'm sick,
I'm in difficulty, I'm this, that, or the
other thing. Right? What is the advice of
Sayyidina Nuh to his people? What is his
commandment to his people? Seek forgiveness from your
Lord. Ask him for forgiveness.
Why?
First off, he was always there to forgive
you.
Your sins don't hurt him or harm him
in the least. He was always there to
forgive you. He was always the one who
wanted to forgive you. He's happier when you
make his hadith of the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam. Allah ta'ala is happier when the
slave makes tawba,
than the slave is that Allah ta'ala accepts
it. He is happier to accept your repentance
than you would be to be forgiven.
There's another hadith of the Prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam. Amazing. So imagine a person is
in the desert, in the Badia, and they
hobble their camel, and it has all their
water provisions, food, everything.
There's no Taco Bell or Schnucks you're gonna
go to. It's the desert.
You'll die. There's no wells, no water fountains,
electricity, etcetera, etcetera. There's nothing. You must take
calculate how many provisions you need. If they
run out before the next stop, you better
move fast because sun comes up on you,
you're gonna die.
So, a man, he has all of his
provisions on a camel, he's in the middle
of a journey in the desert. And what
happens?
He stops to take rest in a place.
There's nothing to tie a camel to in
the desert, so they hobble the camel, they
tie its legs together, so, you know, it
can't get that far. You You sleep for
an hour or 2, the camel is not
gonna get that far. So, what happens? He
wakes up, and he sees, camel's gone, food's
gone, water's gone. I'm in the middle of
the desert, not looking good. I don't see
tracks in any direction. Right? When it's windy,
the tracks are all covered up. I don't
know what to do. So he exhausts himself.
And anyone I've been lost in the Badia
before, it's a very authentic Arab experience.
I recommend everybody who wants to say claim
you're an Arab, go spend some time in
the Badia. Anyone who knows what I'm talking
about, when you're lost in the Badia by
daytime,
all four directions look exactly the same. They
all look exactly the same. You have to
be a very skilled person to be able
to know where you are just by looking
around. It's very difficult. It's not easy. And
if you're lost in the Badia at night
time and there's no moon, it's not like
you're lost in the desert. It's like you're
lost in space because you cannot even
see the sand in your feet. It's very
scary experience. People die like that. Even even
Bedouins, when they when they lose track of
where they're going, they people die like that
if they're not like really mega experienced about
what they're going. Someone goes through this,
and then what happens is, they're searching for
the camel, searching in vain. Allah knows if
they're going closer or further away,
and then what they do, alas, the sun
rises, what what can they do? They can
just go and sit
in the shade of a small, in the
shade of a small plant, just to die.
That's it. I'm gonna lay down, close my
eyes, I'm exhausted.
There's nothing that tells me that I'll wake
up, and
I'll have life with me when I wake
up.
So what happens is that he, he is,
Sahih Adi is the Prophet that such a
person, imagine if they, they do that,
they, she rest in the shade and they
close their eyes, not expecting to wake up
again. And what happens is that they, not
only do they wake up, and they see
the camel standing right in front of them,
and they scream out of happiness,
Oh Allah!
I am your master, and you are my
slave.
Why did he say that? Just because he
wants to say, Thanks to Allah
but his happiness overwhelms him, and so he
says like kufr instead of thanks, that he
would have never said it otherwise. But he
only says it
because the extreme happiness
completely, like, messed up his whole, you know,
ability cognitive abilities and his his ability to,
you know, communicate between the brain and the
tongue, etcetera, etcetera, overwhelmed him.
And then,
comments that, imagine how happy that is. Allah
is even happier than that when a slave
makes toba to him. Money, when he seeks
forgiveness for his sins.
So what does it mean, Astaghfirurabbakum
innahuqanagafara?
He always wanted to accept your tawba in
the first place.
What happens is, because of your status as
a believer in Allah
when you commit a sin in this world,
just like your good deeds are saved for
the day that they'll count, your sins are
punished over here so that they don't they
don't get saved for the day that it
counts.
This is an act of love from Allah
And so a
way that you can be punished is your
risk. Your provision that you're given from this
world,
it will be cut. Your it will be
cut. Your quota will be it will be
cut more and more and more, the more
sins that you commit. Why? So that
there is evidence, it can be said that
you were punished for your sins. That another
person won't say that this is unjust. You
Allah, this is unjust. You have been punished
for your sins. That way you come
without the sins burdening you
in part or in whole, whatever Allah ta'ala
does for you. So istighfar to constantly
evaluate yourself and to think about what you're
doing in the day and what you're doing
at night, and how your your deeds affect
other people, etcetera, etcetera. This is a process
we should constantly be doing. Why? Because it's
the
right of Allah
A fringe benefit of it is what? Because
the ambi alayhi wasallahu alaihi wasallahu alaihi wasallam
knows that if someone was gonna worship Allah
because he deserves to be worshiped, it wouldn't
have taken
950 years. So out of mercy, he says,
Okay, look, there's this other benefit also.
Right?
Allah ta'ala will send
the the rain from the heavens upon you,
in in in droves. The clouds will come
in droves, and they'll rain down upon you.
If you don't have rain, you'll die. Right?
California is a state, it's it's it's completely
parched. It's completely parched. The Muslims have
have a prayer. It's called
the where the people come. It's similar to
Eid, but instead of Eid, you come
The is what? That you wear your most
downtrodden clothes. You forgive one another before you
come. Everybody thinks about what rights they've taken
from another person, and they they return the
rights they have to other people. They seek
forgiveness from one another, and they show up
early in the morning just like Eid, and
then they go out just like Eid. And
in this pathetic state, they seek forgiveness from
Allah
Instead of saying, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, everybody
comes to the salat, Astaghfirullah,
Astaghfirullah.
The the khutbah is Astaghfirullah instead
of Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu
Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu
Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu
Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu
Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allah.
You seek forgiveness from Allahu Akbar, You pray
this prayer, and then the it's masnoon, it's
mustahab for the
imam 2, remind the people about what? About
the virtues of seeking forgiveness to Allah ta'ala.
I've seen it again and again, time after
time it works.
It even worked in California. It worked in
California. They have a drought that's 4 years
going on. The Muslims,
raised a
Muhammed Tahir Anwar, he's
a friend of mine, and he led the
salat, and it literally rained that afternoon.
And all of the people who hate the
haters who hate on Islam, they say what?
They say that, oh, look, the Muslims must
have coordinated it with the weather report. You
know? So someone in Twitter responded to that,
and he gave a snapshot of the weather
report, you know, a screenshot
from his phone. It was sunny for the
next 7 days straight. That's it. It doesn't
surprise me.
It doesn't surprise me even if a person
who doesn't
follow Islam, when they seek forgiveness from Allah
in this world, I know it will rain,
it does I have no doubt that it
will rain because Allah this is the system.
You seek his forgiveness, Allah ta'ala rewards you.
This is the way it works.
Remember it, remember it. It's so simple, there's
2 ayahs from the Quran, surah Nur, and
most of you probably have memorized it because
it's from the juztabarak.
Remember it and think about it in your
life.
How is it something I can apply?
The second thing I wanted to mention in
passing was what? There are 2 members of
Sayyidina Nuh Alaihi Salam's immediate family that by
the nafs of Quran, it's established that they're
going to be punished in the fire when
iyabhu billah. 1 is his wife and one
of them is his son. He had a
son, the mufasilin said that the name of
that son is what? Yam.
Alright? Yam is a Semitic word meaning what?
It means water or ocean. And they say
the reason that it means,
water or ocean
is because he is the son who, when
say the Nuh called him, said that the
rain is coming right now. It starts off
as a drizzle. He said, Allah told me
now that this the flood is happening. Come
on to the
ark. He's embarrassed because he's like, I don't
know if this is happening. They're gonna make
fun of me, etcetera etcetera.
And he's pleading. Sayyidunur is pleading with him,
he's pleading with him, and he doesn't he
doesn't listen to his father. And what happens
is, completely like a flash, you know, without
him understanding or having a chance to react
to it, the water comes, and it separates
between the ark and between his son, and
his son is drowned.
And Allah Ta'ala, he mentions and he he
says specifically that he's that
this son this person you call the son,
he is a bad deed of yours. He's
a a corrupt. Alright? Non,
a a non rectified or a non functioning
or a a defective deed of yours.
Why is this mentioned? What's the benefit of
it? It's not just a linguistical,
you know, so you so okay. Yam is
another name for ocean. Right? Why do we
when you don't have water, why do you
call it Tayamum? It's the same. It's the
same word. Right? That you're trying to make
like you have water, but you don't have
water. Right? For those of you who know
asarf.
Right? What is it? What is the point?
The point is this, if being immediate family
member of a nabi like Sayyidunuh alaihis salatu
salam doesn't come in handy,
then why is it that every Muslim believes
that somehow they're going to go to Jannah
for free just because their parents are Arabs
are from Pakistan,
sallallahu alaihi
through out the history and throughout the ages.
Every single alum who teaches the deen with
haqq
has always taught that you will benefit from
the piety and the righteousness of others, but
you will not make it by that. You
will make it by your own tongue saying,
and
by your own limbs working hard, and by
protecting your own eyes, and protecting your own
ears, and protecting your own heart, and protecting
your own limbs, protecting your own time, you
will make it by trying yourself.
A person can teach you many things. A
person can give you money, wealth, they can
build the masjid for you. If you don't
come and pray in it,
their efforts are not going to help you
at all. If you don't implement that knowledge,
that teaching is not going to help them.
Don't pretend like there's somebody or another in
your family, or in your friends, or from
amongst the community members, or in your lineage
which is going to vouchsafe you,
uh-uh divine salvation or benefit. If you don't
try on your own, you're not gonna go
anywhere. And this doesn't mean that your efforts
are what makes it happen. They're not. Just
like the net is not what makes the
fish. But if you don't put in the
net in the water, you're not gonna catch
any fish. This is a very stark realization
all of us have to come to terms
with. We have to come to terms with
to stop blaming other people for our problems,
and start
empowering ourselves and trying our best. Your job
is to try. If it happens or if
it doesn't happen, that's Allah's job. You let
Him do His job. You focus on doing
your own. May Allah
give all of us tawfiq. May Allah
make all of us amongst the people who
seek His forgiveness, and that He opens up
the doors of His bounty and His nima
over us, in this world, and in the
hereafter. May Allah
give us the presence of heart that our
heart wakes up, and that it takes responsibility
for its own salvation, so that we can
be of the people who
benefit from the efforts of others, rather than
be those who are deluded by the positive
efforts of others. There's a
couple of small things I wanted to say
before we,
you know, before we go ahead and finish
the first khutbah and start the salat.
There is a crisis in Yemen right now,
of a political nature, that's what the news
reports. Unfortunately, none of us in this room
are of the political wherewithal to be able
to do anything about it. If you are,
go ahead, please help. Most of us are
not, if not any of us. But the
thing that's overshadowed that I'm more concerned about
is that there's a crisis in Yemen right
now of a humanitarian nature. Yemen is a
country that doesn't produce a lot in the
first place,
and all the products that are exported and
that are being made internally,
all of that production is completely stifled right
now, and the people need to eat and
drink something, the people need medicine, the people
need some help. It's a,
it comes in the rigorously
authenticated hadith of the Prophet
time and time again. That the Wabi salawu
alayhi wa sallam loved the people of Yemen.
Yemen has so many beautiful qualities. One is
that it's the the the the the first
country to enter into Islam. Right? The tribes
individually or individuals would accept, Yemen as an
entire country, they entered into Islam, and it
wasn't conquered. It wasn't conquered. Rather, in the
tradition of the people of Madinah, the Ansar,
who are also tribes of Yemen, originally.
They're tribes of Himyar originally.
They what? Accepted
and the Messenger of Allah
They called the Prophet
to send them governors and judges, and they
entered into the silm, kafatan, without having to
be coerced. The Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
loved the disposition of the people of Yemen.
Why? Because they're loyal people, and they're God
fearing people.
In general, this is a culture that they
had, and he recognized it again and again.
There were a set of
tribal Arabs who had accepted Islam,
and they came to the prophet salallahu alaihi
wasallam and said, Okay. We accepted Islam. Give
us some sadaqa. We need money.
The messenger of of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, if he was asked for money, he
would give it. If he didn't have it,
he
would apologize.
So, he said to them, you know, to
console them because he didn't have anything to
give them. He said, What? He said, Would
you like me to teach you some knowledge
that's better
than money?
And they said, No. No. Thanks. Go ahead
and keep your knowledge. Right? As if he's
like powering them off,
And people are fresh in their iman, sometimes
they make mistakes. Maybe later on they showed
their iman up, but this is not a
nice thing to do, you know? So they
said, no, no thanks. They left. And so,
say, Abu Musal Asheri. Right? He was he
was imagine, he's the only Sahabi who made
3 hijras. He made hijra from Yemen to
be with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam during
the persecution in Makkamukarama.
That's how much he loved him, once he
saw him and accepted Islam. Then he made
hijrah to Habasha to Ethiopia, then he made
hijrah to Madinah. Alright. And he was what?
He was Yemeni, he brought his entire tribe
into Islam.
He brought his entire tribe into Islam.
And so he was there and he says,
You Rasool Allah, can I learn
that knowledge from you? Can I benefit from
you? And the Nabi
salallahu alaihi wa sallam was so happy with
him. What did he say? He said,
That, iman is Yemeni, and hikma wisdom is
Yemeni.
That's what he said, Out of praise and
love of that quality and spirit in those
people. Not just because of one person, Because,
Wallahi, the people of Yemen, they formed the
armies that the conquest of Islam happened by.
Everything,
everything west of Egypt, it's all of their
hard work and their effort.
Sham, it's their hard work and their effort.
One of the reasons politically Sayyidina Muawiya was
ascendant over Sayyidina Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu has
nothing to do with the person of Mu'awiya
into, the person of Sayyidina Ali, may Allah
ta'ala, be pleased with all of them. It
was why? Because Muawiya had the army of
Yemen, which was very loyal and would accept
and obey commands come * or high water.
And Sayna Ali was
shackled with the armies of other tribes. We
don't wanna mention them to say bad about
it, but they're seditious people. They weren't people
who would listen to orders, nor were there
people who followed orders. Rather, they were always
cooking up some other type of business. And
it's something if you study history, it's very
clear.
If anybody is from the west, all the
way to the east,
the the the the the people who are
right now, the most populous Muslim country in
the world is what? It's Indonesia.
No army of Islam entered Indonesia. Only preachers
from Hadar Amot went to Indonesia.
Right? People who are from the Indian subcontinent,
the southern part of India knew Islam before
the northern part did. Why? Because it was
traders from Yemen. To this day to this
day, it is a tradition amongst the people
of Hadheromot
that they go and they go you know
how they you know the Jamaat Tabligh, you're
familiar with that. For centuries, they go their
entire life and they preach for the sake
of Allah
Their people their cities entire cities in Hadaromot
that are Madars. Literally, all all it is
is the entire town. They earn money, and
the center of the town is the,
is the madrasah and the uramas
are sponsored to teach and learn there, and
they send people out to preach Islam and
to come back in. This is something it's
a very great service they did for Islam.
Allah is the one who rewards for it
weekend. But we mentioned it. Why? That this
is the hour of need of these people.
After the salat, after the salat, there will
be brothers, inshallah, with boxes
that will take collection, inshallah, for Yemen.
Brother Muqshan, he's here, and there are other
brothers who are here. Insha'Allah, they'll take collection
for it. If you don't have the money
right now or would like to write a
check and give it later on,
give it give it to me personally or
2,
brother Abdullah, brother Marcin, or one of the
trustworthy members that they can funnel it together.
All the money is going through Islamic Relief,
it's not gonna go to any political organization
whatsoever,
it's all accounted for, you can get a
tax receipt for it if you wish, and
it's something that it's the least we can
do for our brothers and sisters. The regular
people who are not part of one faction
or the other, or one tribal grouping or
the other, or one sectarian grouping or the
other, they just want to feed their families
and have medicine for their children. So this
is something we ask, and it ties into
the last thing I wanna say, which is
tied into the first thing I said, which
is that you seek refuge in Allah ta'ala
and you seek His forgiveness. One of the
best ways of seeking His forgiveness is what?
Is to follow a bad deed with a
good deed. So, give for the sake of
Allah and then ask.
A brother of ours has been missing since
last Sunday. Brother,
Mohib,
Diab,
whose pictures are plastered on the doors of
the masjid, he's been missing. We pray Allah
bring him back to his mother and bring
him back to us, Bil afiyah, in a
good state and in a happy state. It's
something
that all of us, you know, should be
praying for. Give for the sake of Allah
Help your brothers and sisters in another place
where you can, And make du'a, inshaAllah, when
you're giving
this sadaqah. Whatever it is, don't anyone leave
without giving something, even a dollar, even $5,
even $20. Don't think it's something small. Give
and make dua to Allah ta'ala that He
that we're trying to help our brothers with
their problem, that He also solve us with
our problem as well. Allah give all of
us tawfiq. (QS. Alhamdulillahiqarahqatahualaydina
Muhammadan