Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Tawakkul AMDA MI 03012019
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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 Mubarak house on this Mubarak
hour of this Mubarak day, and we were
not to be guided, was it? Not that
Allah had guided us.
Oh, Allah to you is 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 can 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
be upon his servant and messenger,
and our master, Saidah, Muhammad may the peace
and blessings of Allah be upon him and
upon his noble companions and upon his pure
wives and his and blessed family and progeny
and upon all of those who follow all
of their way until the day of judgment.
I
remind myself and I remind all of the
brothers to fear Allah
because the fear of Allah
is the cornerstone
of every wisdom
and the first step in every success.
Nothing is more pleasing to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
than that his slave should be constantly in
his remembrance.
And
nothing is more harmful
and more
disgraceful
and more deleterious to the slave than the
secret conversation he has within his own heart
in which he plans or he accepts the
rebellion against Allah
or the sin against Allah
or the ignoring
or the flaunting of Allah
sacred commandment.
Allah
give all of us.
Brothers and sisters,
there is
a secret in
the trust in Allah
that
not only is a spiritual virtue
that brings you benefit in the afirah, if
it was a spiritual virtue that only brought
you benefit in the afirah, it in and
of itself would be sufficient as
a a a virtuous act that a a
person should place their trust in Allah.
Rather Allah
and his messenger
time and time again link the trust in
Allah
with a person's
risk, with a person's provision that they receive
from the lord.
This
secret is what explains why
firstly, the prophet
and his most senior companions,
especially from the Muhajirun.
A majority of them were by trade and
by profession, what? They were business people. They
weren't people that used to work jobs. They
were what? They're business people. They were not
employees.
And this also explains why
wealth is not generated by what? Wealth is
not generated primarily through
working jobs in general.
Rather, the wealthiest people in society are who?
They're usually business people.
The
the the the tajir, the businessman, that person
is a profligate except for the one who
fears Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Often times they
figure out highly unethical means in order to
make money, but it's not necessarily the case.
It's not always the case. In fact, our
Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is an exception.
Saidna Abu Bakr Siddiq radhiyallahu ta'ala an who
is an exception.
Saidna Abdulrahman al Nua'af was an exception. These
people are all exceptions, and we have exceptions
like that in the Ummah until this day.
And what is the secret that makes business
more,
profitable than
working a job?
The secret is what? Is that you have
to have trust in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Do you understand? It's a spiritual virtue. I've
seen this in people. I've seen this. The
righteous businessmen, the one who fund Masajid, the
ones who fund,
Madares, the one who fund Zawiah, the ones
who fund,
those people, you know, the poor and things
like that, the ones through whom the greatest
donations
come for, you know, causes like relief causes
in humanitarian disasters, etcetera. I see these things
because oftentimes, I'm the one who's put in
front of the qaum in order to ask
for the money. So I know where the
money is coming from and I know where
the money is going, in a way that
most people don't.
It's oftentimes what? It's those business people. Now
tell me something, if you run a business
if you run a business, if you're a
business person,
You're always stressed out. You always have to
worry about who if the employee is going
to show up to open the shop, if
they're going to close it properly, who's stealing
from who? Is the the shipment coming on
time? Is it going out on time? Are
the things delivered on time? Are they not
delivered on time? Whereas an employee doesn't worry
about any of these things, do they?
Employee shows
up, clocks in, clocks out, and they're done.
They clock in, they clock out, and they're
done. For the time that they're on the
clock or for the the the the the
matters that are relevant to their contract, that
employee will worry about what they're doing, and
once those things are fulfilled,
the the the the connection between them and
the business is severed. It's finished. It's done.
Go home.
Relax. Take a load off, etcetera.
Again, there's nothing wrong with that. This is
not haram in any way shape or form,
but it's a different model of of working.
Whereas the the the person who's the owner
of the business, that person never gets
a a a a minute of rest. That
person is constantly under stress. They're worrying about
what's happening with the business constantly.
The issue is this, is that if a
person is
running their business mindfully,
that stress becomes overwhelming
And this is one of the reasons that
those people oftentimes,
as a matter of necessity, they have to
learn what it means to trust in Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
It's not because they're businessmen. It's not because
they're making money. It's not the topic of
the khutba is not like, okay, go quit
your job and become a businessman. The topic
is what? It is
how a person can learn to trust in
Allah Ta'ala, and what the mechanism of that
trust in Allah Ta'ala is, is that person
becomes very quickly overwhelmed with all the things
that are happening around them. Here's another example
of a person who is very different in
their circumstance, but in this sense, very similar
to a business person.
I myself, part of my studies, I had
to go to the Badia. I had to
go to Mauritania. I actually lived out in
the desert in a in a tent. I
actually used to get water from a well.
There are many and
that that are very far and isolated from
from from the dunya. They're wonderfully learned people,
and they're people who don't wanna deal with
politics and fighting and money and all of
these things. They live very simple life. They
worship Allah and,
you know, the rent, you know, is not
like, renting an apartment in Washington DC or
New York City. It's something that the less
you take from the dunya, the more less
you have to put into it, and you
can focus on the akhirah that all of
us are going to, whether we're, you know,
wherever we live, whether we're in in New
York City or DC or not. So we
went out far away
to a place to go and study
and it was 12 hours by or sorry,
7 hours by by car and then 7
hours off road.
If you take a if you take a
a 4 by 4, you have to go
up the mountain through a very zigzaggy pass,
and you'll realize,
you know, that
Toyota Land Cruiser wasn't built for driving around
on freeways.
Or if you wanna walk the the the
path is more direct, it takes just as
much time
Because a person on their legs can go
in places where,
a a a a vehicle large motor vehicle
cannot go.
So what happens is when you're sitting there
in the Badia, when you're sitting in the
desert, there are snakes, there are scorpions, there
are all kind of weird animals, there are
all kind of weird insects. There's something that
they call hab hab. They call it in
English a camel spider. It's about as big
as your hand, and it can jump about
4 feet off the ground, and it's incredibly,
toxic venom.
Will, it won't kill you, but it will
give you a bad time. And they're completely
attracted to fire. So at nighttime, if you
light a fire, they literally when you're sitting,
they'll run and jump over your head and
go into the fire. It's a very
creepy experience.
Now when you're sitting there, you realize, look,
if something happens to me, if I get
bitten by something, if I trip, if I
break my leg, if this happens, if that
happens,
then and it took me literally 7 hours
just to get to the road.
How how long will it take me to
get to a hospital?
It will take a long time.
These are the moments when a person learns
all of the Masnoon Duas for protection before
leaving the house.
This
is the moment where a person,
their hadith and nafs, what they talk about
inside of their selves is not like, I
wanna take a picture of this and put
it on Instagram so that my followers can
know what I ate for lunch. You didn't
eat any lunch. It's the badia.
Right? This is the hadith and nass is
what? What are you speaking with when you're
inside of your heart? What is the intimate
conversation of your heart? It's with Allah
You Allah help me with this. You Allah
protect me from that. You Allah help me
with this. You Allah protect me from that.
This is the first level of of of
realization.
Then upon thinking, because you have to walk
a lot
from place to place, and when you're walking,
there's no car stereo, and those were the
days that nobody had cell phones. And if
they did, it's the bad idea. No one
gets reception anymore.
Right? And they didn't have these hyper fancy
phones, so your mind is not being blasted
constantly with fluff and nonsense. Rather, you get
to think about things, which many of us
in this room remember such a time. Some
of us still preserve such a time in
our day, by Allah's falo.
You realize what?
That the
the need you have for Allah
when you're in the Badia is absolutely no
different than the need you have for Allah
when you're in the city. You could be
having a heart attack right in the middle
of the in the emergency room of the
hospital,
in the cardiac whatever intervention room. The doctors
will tell you what what it's called. I
don't know what it's called. Right? Whatever the
most prepared place in the entire hospital to
accept you for whatever issue you're having.
If Allah wishes you can die, you can
die from such simple things. A person can
have a wound somewhere, a blood clot moves
into the circulatory system,
the small clot moves into the heart, the
only way they'll find out how how you
died is after they do your autopsy. There's
no way they'll even know what happened, during
the during the the the the issue itself.
You need to trust in Allah
just the same in both situations.
So there are certain things that
teaches us certain mechanisms through which Allah
teaches
us how to have this trust in him.
We all need it equally.
If we think we don't need it, just
like that employee clocks in, clocks out, if
all the things that the the owner of
the business is stressed out about, if any
of them happens, the business will collapse. And
if the business
collapses, the owner also loses his livelihood, and
the employee also will lose their job.
1 is stressed, the other isn't stressed. It's
the same way with us, those who are
in Afiyyah Ni'mah. Those who are are are
are free of affliction. Those who are living
in a state of blessing.
Versus those people who are in affliction, going
through difficulty, going through want, going through poverty,
going through whatever.
They're the same. Their need for Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is the same. The acute and
critical need for Allah is the same. 1
is aware
and because of the awareness they have the
other person is unaware. And because of their
unawareness, they they they don't have they're heedless
of Allah
And the strange thing is that we think
about trusting in Allah as being the the
need and the necessity of those people who
are powerless.
But the fact of the matter is the
tawakul in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the trust
in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the greatest
source of income that any businessman has, and
it's the greatest source of strength that any
any any any person any person has in
any way shape or form. Political, military, whatever
it has, spiritual, whatever it is. Right? The
opening,
the opening,
some of the opening words of the,
surah Surah Al Anfal. What is the topic
of Anfal?
It's a surah dealing with and
much of it has to do with with
what? With victory and and taking the battlefield.
The believers are none. They're none except for
those that when Allah ta'ala's name is mentioned,
the hearts,
tremble with fear.
And when our our our,
our signs are rehearsed and and and and
and remembered and recited in front of them,
It increases them in iman. It's not just
like in one ear out the other.
And they're the ones who what? Their trust
is in their lord. And what does that
mean?
There's
a bait in the
He he writes he writes what? He says
he he he writes,
When you do your tawakkal, when you trust
in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
if you're going to trust in Allah, when
you're going to trust in Allah,
the motor, the vehicle, or the medium of
that trust in Allah is while you're doing
work.
Doesn't mean just sit back, relax,
do nothing, and I'm trusting in Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. People like this used to come
to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. There
are group of people, they came ready for
hajj. The messenger of Allah
saw them, the the state that they came
unprepared state, and he asked them, what have
you prepared for this for this journey? They
said, we came to trust in Allah
He said, you didn't come to trust in
Allah You came completely unprepared, and you're just
going to beg and ask for, handouts from
the rest of the caravan? This is not
this is not this is not trust.
If you're going to trust in Allah
the way you trust in Allah
is what? Is while you're doing the work.
That's the way you trust in Allah
Allah. You try, you struggle, you do the
best.
Struggle. Do your work.
And all of your inside the internal state
is what? Is is leaning on
Allah
the one who's possessed possessed of of of
of might, of brute force.
Where is the tawakkal? Tell me, is it
in your hands?
Is it something that I can, you know,
hear, like, pass the ball, I can pass
it to you, pass it back to me,
like, maybe, you know, Europe, they like playing
soccer. You can kick it back and forth
to each other. Where is the Is
it inside of your nose or inside of
your ears? It's inside of your heart.
It's inside where? It's inside of your heart.
Do the work and inside know that my
work is not what's making this happen. My
trust in Allah is the connection between my
heart and Allah ta'ala, that's what's making this
happen. Why? Because Allah ta'ala told me, my
Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam told me.
Listen to what the secret of Al Kasib
Habibullah. This is a a a statement that's
attributed to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Anyone who's been to the, like, for example,
the Sultan Ahmed Masjid in in Istanbul,
in Constantinople, you'll see that it's actually written
in in the in the rear, the anti
tip of the wall main exit. It's written
in in in in big calligraphy against the
black background that the one who earns, that
one is the beloved of Allah
The one who earns for his wife, the
one who earns for his parents, the one
who earns for his children, the one who
earns for his dependents and his relatives overseas.
Our sisters often time end up doing that.
Our, you know, single mothers or, the ladies
allata open the risk on them, they earn.
Sometimes they even give to their own husbands.
It comes in the hadith of
the
prophet, that that that that someone knocked on
the door and the Rasulullah
asked who is it?
And she's and it was a woman. She
said Zainab. And so there's so many the
prophet has, like, so many Zainabs, like, that
that that that that are in his, like,
social circle,
including his daughter including
granddaughters, including
a lot of people. His wife. He had
a wife,
he had a wife Zainab. Rasulullah said,
hey,
Zawaneeb, which of the Zainabs are you? And
so she said, I'm Zainab, the the the
wife of Abdullah bin Mas'ud. Abdullah bin Mas'ud
was completely,
he was a completely, like, simple man. He
had very little money. He's actually, his wife
had more money than he did. So she
asked the question, can I give zakat to
my husband?
And the prophet said, no. You can't give
zakat to your husband. But whatever you pay
for around the house, it's gonna be considered
a sadaqa with Allah
This is not a, you know, this is
not a matter to be ashamed of.
This is a matter to be proud of
whether you're a man or a woman, husband,
wife, mother, child, whatever. The one in the
house who's bringing the bread home.
Right? The one who's bringing the bread home,
the one who earns that's the beloved one
of Allah
is don't say this person is engaged in
the dunya of this that as long as
you're not doing something
says
what?
Listen listen to what is the secret of
Al Kasib Al Kasib Al Kasib Al Kasib
Al Kasib Al Habibullah. What is the secret
behind the reality of what? Of the one
who earns is the one who is beloved
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
That when you're when you're when you're doing
your work, right, when you're relying on Allah
on doing your work, do the work with
your hands, but inside your heart
become hopeless that my work is going to
do anything.
Become hopeless. Who knows someone will build up
a business tomorrow, it will be gone.
Somebody will fill fill I there was a
college mate of mine who was in Uzbekistan
in the peace peace corps.
And he said that that he they used
to receive their money in the local currency,
and they had to transport a lot of
it. He said I had a suitcase full
of currency because of the the, like, the
low value of the currency.
During the and he said I was had
this briefcase full of cash and I'm worried
is someone going to check it? Is someone
gonna steal it? Is someone gonna ask for
a bribe? What's gonna happen? Is it good
you know? Is am I gonna get harmed
on my way home before I can get
home with this, like, bag full of cash?
And he said, in the middle of the
in the middle of the long bus ride
from the capital city where he received the
money to, like, wherever he was doing his
Peace Corps work, there was an announcement made
on the radio that all the old banknotes
are
useless.
And,
you know, and, they're only gonna be like
you can only exchange, like, something like $40
or some ridiculously
small amount, pitiful amount. You can exchange them
for new banknotes. The rest of them, there's
a limit. We're not gonna give new banknotes
to anyone. So what did he do? He
said he said, I was so relieved. I
was so stressed about it. He said, I
wiped the sweat from my from my forehead,
and I opened my the bag up full
of cash, and I started throwing it in
the bus. Is it the entire bus? Everyone
was, like, laughing, like, how funny it is
that this guy is throwing cash everywhere inside
of the bus. Anything can happen. If you
think it cannot happen, ask the people who
are in Yemen. Ask the people who are
in Iraq. Ask the people who are in
Sham.
Ask the people who are, you know, who
who who are are in the camps in
in in Bangladesh that came from Burma.
Ask these people, did they think before the
happened inside of their life that these masha'kal
would happen? You literally have people, refugees that
are going to those places that they used
to give money to as sadaqah. You have,
like, a Syrian doctor who opened up a
medical clinic in Somalia. Imagine that he had
to go as a refugee to Somalia even
though 10 years before maybe he himself was
giving money to the Somali refugees. This is
something this
is
the These are these are the the the
this is like everyone gets their turn. Everyone
from Banu Adam gets their turn at some
point or another.
Trust in Allah
and while you're doing it inside of your
heart, disconnect, sever the the the the connection
between what your hand is doing and what
comes in your pocket and make the connection
in your heart between Allah ta'ala and your
trust in him and what comes inside of
your pocket. This is the this is the
this is the secret if a person wants
to be successful in this dunya, if a
person wants to have risk, if a person
wants to run the masjid properly, don't come
in like a customer. Don't come in like
an employee that I clocked Juwah's fart. Clock
in, clock out. And I don't worry about
where the lights are coming from and who
vacuums the floor. I don't worry about any
of those things. Is it going to be
open next week? I don't worry about who's
going to you know, we have someone to
lead Tarawi now. Who's gonna lead Taraweeh in
40 years' time? These questions, these are all
things the person who is trusting in Allah
ta'ala. They wonder about how is how is
Islam going to work. Who's gonna take care
of our ladies? Who's gonna take care of
our children? Who's gonna take care of our
elders? Who's gonna take care of the the
the people who are new to Islam? Who's
gonna take care of any of these things?
Who's going to take care of the ulama?
Don't just clock in and clock out and
it's somebody else's job.
Trust in Allah ta'ala and engage yourself inside
of that work with your because of your
trust of Allah, not despite it.
Allah give all of us so much.