Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah The Abrahamic Path of Sacrifice ICC Cleveland 08052016.mp4
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All praises to Allah.
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, of this Mubarak
month. And we were not to be guided,
was it not that Allah had guided us?
Oh, Allah to you is praise as is
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're 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. Our master, Sayduna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
May the peace and blessings of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala be upon him and upon his
noble companions and upon his pure wives and
upon his and blessed family and progeny and
upon all of those who follow all of
their way until the day of judgment.
Brothers and sisters, by the humble of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, we have reached the
end of the 1st 3rd of Dhulqada.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in his
divine calendar, in his celestial
calendar that he sent down to the mbyah
alaihi wasallahu alaihi wasallam and down to our
Nabi sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
Out of the 12 months of the year,
he made 4 months
sacred.
Those 4 months of
the month that we're currently in.
The month in which the pilgrims will make
Hajj of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's sacred and
blessed house.
And Muharram,
the month in which the pilgrims will return
to their homes.
And then after that, Allah ta'ala made one
satellite month that's detached from the other three,
which is the month of Rajab, which is
2 months before
the the month of Ramadan.
This is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's ancient system.
This is a system used to be observed
here in Jahiliyyah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made his blessed house,
the Kaaba,
as
a
a place where the people gather together and
come together in a place of safety and
a place of security.
We do not say that only say that
Ibrahim Alaihi Salam or say that Ismael Alaihi
Salam or say that Nabi Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam made Hajj of the house of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Rather, the commandment for Hajj was something that
was established with sayydan Adam Alaihi Salatu Wa
Salam,
and it will not be abrogated until the
It will not be abrogated as long as
the people are
are alive, and as long as the name
of Allah is taken, as long as people
say
in this world, until the Yomul Qiyama, it
will not be mansukh, it will not be
abrogated. In fact, this is an item of
our aqidah. This is a point of our
aqidah. Whoever reads the aqidah
which is a small and basic formulation. The
most basic formulation of the creed and the
belief of the Muslims,
which is agreed upon
by every side of this ummah, by every
madhab from the madhab of firth, from every
madhab from the madhab of aqeedah,
all of the people of the sunnah. This
is an agreed upon work and agreed upon
summation, summary of the beliefs of the Muslims.
One of the beliefs of the Muslims is
what? Is that the Hajj is not to
be abrogated.
It is not It is not waived as
an obligation for this ummah.
Not by the justice of a just ruler
nor by the tyranny of a tyrant.
Every in every year, there are some people
who are, obliged and obligated to go and
make Hajj in the house of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. For those of you who are
familiar with the history of the Muslims, you
will know in the in the middle ages,
there was a
heretical, radical sect known as the
They took over Hijaz with They
destroyed the Kaaba stone from stone and they
stole the black stone. They took the black
stone to their base in Bahrain
on the eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula,
and they built another Kaaba over there, and
they put the black stone in it, and
they called the people, Come make Hajj in
our Kaaba now. None of the Muslims obliged,
and the Muslims fought them, and they eventually
retook 16 years. That there was no The
was broken stone from stone.
16
years. No black stone. 16 years.
The the the is
completely destroyed.
They called the people to make Hajj in
their Kaaba in Bahrain, nobody went. Nobody went.
And as the Muslims took hijaz over from
them, and as their political hegemony
started to,
implode in on itself, what they did is
they said, fine. We'll give you the back
stone back, but you have to give us
a ransom. A
a
large payment in order for us to give
it back to you. So some and some
some wealthy private individuals,
they gathered the ransom money together. They paid
the ransom money, and the black stone was
thrown into the Jamir Masjid of Kufa
in in in in Iraq
in a bag shattered in pieces.
If you go to this day to the
Kaaba and you look at the black stone,
you won't be able to because there'll be
too much rush. But if you see a
photo of it, what it is is it's
obsidian glass. You'll see it's shiny. It's not
like a rock. There are only small patches
of it that look like a rock. That's
the fragments of the black stone. The the
artisans and smiths did the best that they
could. They made fashion silver nails, and they
drove them through the pieces that that were
remaining of the black stone to make it
one piece, and they put it in melted
glass so it would hold together, and that's
what the people go and make the out
of this day. It's not all the black
stone when you touch it.
What's the lesson, however? Even in these 16
years, when there was no black stone, and
indeed there was no mastulul haram, and there
was no ka'ba either. The Hajj didn't stop.
The people still came and visited the house
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. The people still
made tawaaf around the the the the the
the place where the Kaaba should stand. The
people still went to Arafat even though there
are very few and it was at the
peril of death, oftentimes that people did it.
The
the the will confirm to you this fact
that the was never cut off, the was
never broken.
I myself,
when I was in the university, I took
classes in the Near Eastern Languages department. They
have people who teach Arabic that are not
Muslims. They're not anywhere close to being Muslims.
And they have very strange ideas about Islam,
many of them.
One of the teachers, he said, have you
ever read the tafsir bin Kathir?
From the the the tafsir that he gives
for,
Surat Taha, Surat Kasas. He mentions that the
say the Musa Alaihi Salam, he made Hajj
when he was,
when he was wandering in the desert.
I said, yeah, I read that. He says,
you know what? I'll tell you what? I
think it's true. He says, I think that
the Mount Sinai
a
He says the Horab is if you look
in the in in the books of Tharif,
Horab is not in the Sinai Peninsula. It's
where it's in Tabuk. It's in it's in
the northern part of Hijaz.
It's by it's it's in the area that's
that's close to what's now Tabuk. He says
that, I believe that this is a ancient
tradition that's not something just that the Arabs
used to keep. It's an ancient tradition that
that was kept by all the
to Islam.
The name of the valley of Baqah. Baqah
is an old name of
Some of the say it's just
The min becomes a
ba. The min becomes a ba. And some
of the say that, no, it was called
Why? Because the the the root in Arabic
language
means to cry. That this is the place
that makes tyrants cry. Anybody who comes with
and with arrogance into this place,
will break them in half. This is why
the is a surah of
the
Quran. That a person with takabur came with
his elephant, and he tried to destroy the
house of Allah Ta'ala, and Allah Ta'ala destroyed
him. To this day, for the person who
goes on Hajj, the barrier between Muzdalifa and
Mina,
it's a a barrier of a stone's throw.
It's called.
That is the place where the adab of
Allah ta'ala came down and the army of
Abraha was destroyed.
This place is a sunnah to this day
that when the Hajjaj walked through this place,
they shouldn't walk slowly rather they should seek
refuge in Allah Ta'ala from his adab, and
they should go through it quickly as quickly
as they're able to as quickly as possible.
These ancient rights are established from the time
of Sayidna Adam Alaihi Salam.
The mufassirins say Hajj alaihi
Salam
made Hajj of the house during the flood
in his boat and he made tawaf around
the Kaaba in his boat. If someone finds
this far fetched and difficult to believe, you
can look up the the the historical pictures
because
It's in the the navel of a valley.
It's the lowest point of a valley. So
when it rains, all the water drains down
to where the Haram is.
And you'll see that the the the in
Ottoman times, there's actually photos, pictures of the
entire,
sun, the
filling up with water and people swimming around
the the Kaaba literally,
and making tawaf this way. That said, Nannu
alayhi salam was commanded by Allah to take
his ark and to make tawaf from the
Kaaba. This is an an ancient right, and
it's a right that is not propped up
by any government.
If the government stopped this day, if the
government stopped this day, do you think that
the red light will be be red and
the green light will be green anymore?
No. If there's nobody to give, you know,
to run the power plant, then the traffic
lights won't work anymore. The speed there won't
be any speed limit the day the cops
stop
using their radar. There won't be a bank
the day that the central reserve stops lending
money to the your neighborhood friendly or unfriendly
bank, depending on what your is regarding that.
There won't be any,
there won't be any, water running in your
faucets the day the government stops doing any
of these. All of these things will they'll
disappear. The day the government stops paying checks
to the teachers, there will be no school
to go to anymore for the children. What
will they do? They'll come to the masjid
and they'll learn how to read Quran,
which is what they used to do before
the government paid the paychecks to the teachers
who are teaching this day.
All of these things are running through what?
Through money and through the organization system of
governments,
and through the systems of power.
The Hajj, the visitation of the house of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is definitely aided by governments. But if the
governments disappear and the governments have disappeared at
several points throughout the history of Islam, both
before the
and after
the Even if that aid should stop,
the
the the visitation of the house of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, it never stops.
It never stops. If you watch the they
have literally a camera or several cameras
aimed at it. The the the Haram of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Literally, the never stops.
Even during the sacred hour of Jummah, when
the is being given, still there are people
coming in and circling the house of
Even on the day of the Eid, when
the Eid Khutba is being given, there are
people circling the house of Allah
The only time that stops is for the
Fard prayer. For the Fard prayer 5 times
a day, it stops and everybody engages in
salat. And as soon as
even for the it doesn't stop. For the
of the people who died, still people are
making tawaf around the house of Allah
As in this heavens,
that's how it is in the earth. As
in the of
Allah in
the heavens, The angels are constantly praying and
making
around the tibla, which is the point in
from which the barakat and fiyu of Allah
distributed. The rahmat of Allah distributed through the
through the through existence, and through all of
the forms, and shades, and dimensions of existence
Allah created.
Those few that we knew, those few that
we know about, those few that we can
imagine, and those many that we never thought
about and we could never imagine. Just like
that's happening in the heavens, this is a
faggle and barakah of Allah
in the earth. He gave us the the
the the the permission
and the honor to be able to fulfill
these rights as human beings, as as physical
beings, as animal like beings, that we can,
for some small part and for some small
amount, participate in this heavenly and celestial
ritual that Allah
made the order of his entire existence,
run around and follow and submit to brothers
and sisters. And he chose his elect and
select servants to establish these rights and to
establish these rituals.
Say that Ibrahim Alaihi Salam,
Say that Ibrahim Alaihi Salam,
the patron of this
Imam Abu Hanifa
according to most of the ulama was not
Abu Hanifa because he had a daughter named
Hanifa.
Rather, he was Abu Hanifa. Why? Because he
was Abu Hanifa
He was the patron of the milah of
Sayna Ibrahim Al Hanif.
He was the patron of the of He
was the patron of the of He was
the patron of the
of And the
was the paragon,
the prime example, and the prime exemplar of
the of Sayna Ibrahim Alayhi Salatu as Salam.
This is the that we carry. It's the
that many people make the claim that they
represent, but very few people are actually able
to represent. It is the claim to carry
the of Sayedna Ibrahim that many people,
claim to represent,
but we're the only ones by Allah to
Allah's Fadl who we actually represent it.
Don't the yahood claim that they are also
the of Ibrahim alaihi salam? Don't the Nasara
also claim that they are the of Ibrahim
alaihi salam?
The Muslims also claim that they represent the
of Sayna Ibrahim alaihi salam.
Just look at this Eid which is coming
up in front of us. This Eid is
a sacred day, it's a holy day for
all of
us. It's a holy day and a sacred
day for all of us as Muslims. The
other two parts of the millah have forgotten
about it. They've forgotten about it. If you
read,
Jewish theology,
if you ask a rabbi next time there's
an interfaith discussion,
they talk about the
occasion of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala commanding said
that Ibrahim to
sacrifice his son.
They talk about it. In Hebrew, they call
it
the Right? In Arabic means to tie something,
to bind something. Right? The is the the
the binding or the tying of
The the the tying of him to be
sacrificed.
Obviously, the there's 2 opinions amongst the Muslims
that was it or was it The Ishaq
alaihi
salaam?
The primary opinion in the mashhur and the
Mu'tamid opinion amongst our ulama is that it
was Sayna Isma'il alaihi salaam. Sallam. There is
an opinion that is narrated by the sahabar
of the Allahu Anhu as well that it
was supposed to be Sayna Isha Alaihi sallam.
At any rate, it's irrelevant to the moral
of the story. And when talking to the
yahud and the nasaara about this, don't let
them catch you up on this point which
is a detail. The detail is not relevant
to what the moral is. It's important, but
it's not a key, part of what the
story is, and it doesn't teach you the
lesson that the story is trying to teach
you. Why? Because they say, the reason it's
Ishaq Alaihi Salam is because of his birthright
and whatever, and the covenant goes with this
one, with that one. We're saying fine. You
will concede this point for the point of
argument.
That's fine. We'll conditionally say, okay, even if
it's Ishaq, alayhi salam, it doesn't affect the
story. What is this story? Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala commanded Ibrahim, alayhi salam to sacrifice what
was dearest to him.
Allah commanded Ibrahim alayhis salam to sacrifice what
was dearest to him.
And what did he do? He came with
with camels and with with with with livestock,
with animals, with property,
sacrificed more and more and more, and tell
the the vision, the dream, the commandment became
clear to him that what does he have
to do? He has to sacrifice
that which is dearest to him, his only
son. Sacrifice what? His only son.
Now,
this is the ancient world. This is ancient
times.
Nowadays, if you become hungry, what do you
do? You go to Giant Eagle,
you go to Taco Bell, you go to
this place, that place. There's food everywhere.
For those of you who've lived in the
Badia before in the desert,
even if you want to drink a cup
of tea, forget about a meal. If you
want to drink a cup of tea, it's
difficult enough where you're gonna get the tea
from. It's all the way in China. Fine.
Here's the tea right there. What do you
have to do? Go out, chop
wood, take a piece of cloth, tie it
because it's not like there's trees out in
the in the desert. Right? You have to
take a and bind up brush essentially.
That brush, you have to start a fire
with it. There's no matches and there's no
lighter. It's very difficult to start a fire.
Then when the fire is going, if you
have a kettle, if you get water from
the well, if you have the tea leaves,
then you can make the tea.
It's a very difficult process that's just for
a cup of tea, imagine for a meal.
Now imagine a man is what? Sayna Ibrahim
alayhi salatu was over the age of 80,
first when he has his son, when he
has Sayidna Ishmael Alaihi Salaam. If you say
Sayidna Alaihi Salaam,
then he's even older than that, and then
give even even 14 years for the child
to become an adult. So someone is nearing
a 100 years of age. Someone is nearing
a 100 years of age, what is he
going to do if he sacrifices his own
own son? When he the day he becomes
sick, he's not going to be able to
eat or drink anything?
He's not going to no one's gonna be
there to help him, to serve him? This
is a death sentence.
This is not what bothers Sayedid Ibrahim, alayhis
salam,
as much. What bothers him even more or
what pains him even more, alayhis salam, is
what?
But it's the sacrifice of the deen because
he had hoped that Allah Ta'ala will put
in the in the seed of this child.
That Allah will make from this child the
people who carry the risala, the message of
amongst
people so that it will not die, And
that everything that these children do through their
and through their salah and through their
and through their iman, it will be a
a a a a. It will be a
treasure of of reward for say that Ibrahim
and pride and happiness for him on the
day of judgement.
All of this he's being asked to sacrifice.
Ask the rabbis about the akedah. What what
will they tell you? They'll say, well, many
of our rabbis say that,
Abraham failed the test because God told him
to do something that was unjust, and he
should have said to God, no. I'm not
gonna do it.
Is this are
the there to teach you? They'll say this
to you. This is not something I'm making
up.
Are are they there to teach you about
Allah? Are they there to teach you to
ignore Allah? Are they there to make you
love Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala? Or are they
there to teach you to hate Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala? Are they there to make you
believe in his justice,
to believe in his uprightness,
to believe in his order, to believe in
his mercy? Or are you there to believe
in making tawakkul and trusting on him? Are
they there to make you question the one
thing that you should never have to question,
and to disbelieve in the one thing that
you should always be able to believe in?
Brothers and sisters, with all due respect, obviously,
our,
our our brothers and sisters from the,
we give them the due respect that every
human being gives, and we always say that
every human being should be treated with a
basic modicum of respect and with rights. But
in the Midan, in the field of theology,
this is completely
bankrupt.
This is if you're
are you this is your expectation from them,
then what do you expect from your from
your regular people?
What do you expect from them that their
with Allah will be? No. Rather, what do
we say as Muslims? We say, Sayna Ibrahim
passed the test.
Sayidna Ibrahim passed the test because Allah
is the only one who has the right
to be loved for who he is, and
his order is to be obeyed because he
is the one who gave it. And Allah
told say to Abraham
to sacrifice
to sacrifice who? Sacrifice the one who is
dearest to him, and he did it. He
did it, and Allah
accepted that from him, and Allah loved him.
What is the of the believers? What is
the the descriptor of the believers?
Right?
So, the people who come after the and
the Ansar, Allah says in his book, their
description will be that they are the people
who say, oh our lord, forgive us and
forgive those who came before us in faith,
and don't put in our hearts ranker toward
those who believe. Oh our lord, indeed you
are most kind and most merciful. And what
is the sifa of the people of Kufr?
What is the description of the people of
Kufr?
Every time an of people enter into the
* fire,
they will they will curse the people who
came before him. This is why this is
our aqidah,
that the best of generations are the ones
who are are saw and and and took
Islam and deen from the prophet
Then those who came after, then those who
came after. Anyone who says
doesn't have love for those people who came
before,
that person, there's a There's a crookedness inside
of their imam. So look, what is the
real? The same story that
have, the same story that we have.
What is
their Their is that that saying that Ibrahim
was wrong, and Allah was wrong.
What is our taweel? Allah is right and
he can never be wrong, and sayin Ibrahim
stay stuck stuck with Allah
and he's right. What? We have love for
those who came before us and we follow
in their path. Not only in the correct
interpretation of the story, but more than that,
those people who claim that we are the
With us, it goes even further than that.
Because the Eid is not something that we
celebrate.
The Eid is something we do with our
own hands.
Understand that the Eid is not something we
celebrate.
The Eid is something that we do with
our own hands.
Who is the person who knows more about
basketball? The commentator on ESPN who knows the
stats of every single player or LeBron himself
who knows how to dunk the ball?
You can talk about the game on TV
all you want. If you don't know how
to play, you don't know how to play.
Brothers and sisters, the dean, this is one
of the unique and strange blessings of this
dean.
We're not commentators.
We're actually playing the game right now ourselves.
And this ummah by Allah's even if I
as an individual am not good at it,
there are many people in this ummah that
are very good at it by Allah's and
their source of inspiration and barakah for all
of us.
The Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
The one who finds the ability to sacrifice
on the day of Eid, and that person
does not sacrifice,
there's no point in that person
attending our Eid prayer, attending mussala,
to say
the in the morning, and to hug people
2 times and 3 times, and all of
these things. No point. No point at all.
Why? Because this Eid was a Eid for
Sayid Ibrahim alayhi salam. Because of his sacrifice,
Allah accepted from him.
Allah doesn't accept from anyone except for the
ones who feared him.
For the person who Allah accepts his sacrifice,
for that person it's
For the person who doesn't even give the
sacrifice in the first place, what are you
there to celebrate, brother? Why are you here?
You showed up to the wrong place. You
showed up to the wrong
place. Allah
asks from all of us great sacrifices.
The deen is not easy. The deen is
not easy.
Is this easy?
Struggle in the path of Allah ta'ala as
is this right that you struggle.
Is his right small or is it great?
It's not just great, it's absolute. It encompasses
everything in the heavens and the earth. It's
impossible to fulfill.
And Allah didn't put any any difficulty in
the deen for you. Meaning what? Not that
the deen is easy. The deen is difficult.
But the reason there's no haraj is because
he's the one who's there to help you.
Look at the story of Sayna Ibrahim Alaihi
Salam.
He takes his son
to,
sacrifice him. Sayna Ismaila Alaihi Salam says to
his father, oh my father, when you bind
me, make sure you bind the the ropes
tightly, and bind me facing down
so that you don't look at my face
and feel mercy and hesitate in in executing
the command of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Shaitan tries to tempt to say that Ibrahim
and he doesn't take it. Say Shaitan tries
to tempt say that Ismael and says your
father old man is crazy. He's gonna kill
you. You know that?
Or sorry, the mother of Sinai Ishmael and
the grandmother of our Nabi alaihis salam,
and she doesn't take it. What happens?
That he binds and he says, bind me
facing down so that mercy doesn't overcome you,
and you involuntarily are unable to fulfill the
commandment of Allah
Then what does he do? He he he
runs the knife over the throat of his
son. He actually runs the knife over the
throat of his son, and he says,
He runs the knife. Can you imagine that?
He runs the knife. He actually runs the
knife over the throat of his son. Mufassareen
said that Allah ta'ala, it's a miracle that
Allah ta'ala made his throat hard like copper,
like metal, so that it wouldn't go in.
But he actually runs the knife through the
throat
of his son. Right? It says
say that he's running, he's saying
when he's cutting the throat of his son,
and the angel Jibril comes down at that
moment. And he says to him
to get his attention. And
says
he's not paying attention. He's just so engrossed.
He's so engrossed
in the act that he's doing. The act
of sacrifice.
And then afterward, Sayna Sadat Jibril says
again to get his attention.
And Sayyidna smiled and realized, hey. I'm not
dead. And he says.
He says what? He says.
This entire this entire thing we reenact in
our own lives. It's not the sacrifice of
Sayedna Ibrahim. He did his sacrifice.
They did their sacrifice, now it's time for
you to make your sacrifice, time for me
to make our sacrifice.
The one who does it.
The son of Adam in those 3 days
because the holy months, the
are the most sacred months in the year.
And from amongst them, the most sacred month
is the month of Dhul Hijjah. And from
amongst them, the most sacred the most sacred
days are the first 10 days of Dhul
Hijjah. And from amongst them, the sacred most
sacred day is what? The 10th of Dhul
Hijjah. And in that day, what is the
most sacred act a person can do? It's
a hadith of the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam that the son of Adam
will not do any action. More beloved to
Allah ta'ala on the tenth of Dhul Hijjah
than spilling the blood of sacrifices.
That that sacrifice will come. It will be
made to live again, and it will come
and bear witness on your behalf on the
day of judgment.
With its with its horns and with its
hair and with its hooves.
It comes in a narration. That what?
That that literally that the the hasher. The
people who have to walk long distances to
the place of judgment. That the people sacrifice
will literally ride the the animals that they
sacrifice
on the on the day of beef. On
that day, it will be something that will
aid them and will lighten their load on
that day. It will come. Every single hair
on the body of that animal will be
counted as a good deed. Every drop of
blood from that animal will be counted as
a good deed. The horns will be counted
as a good deed. Every part of that
animal will come
as a good deed.
And that blood that is shed from that
animal,
it will it will find a place with
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Meaning, Allah will accept
it so quickly. It will find a place
with Allah Ta'ala before it even finds a
place on the earth for it to land.
So oh, Yeah. Oh, you who believe, oh
gathering of the believers, oh gathering of the
Muslims, be happy about that. Be happy about
that. This is
This This is the reason Imam Abu Hanifa
and his companions, they considered the the sacrifice
on the to
be to be from the wajibat of deen.
This is the reason that the other imams
all considered it to be a very heavily
emphasized sunnah. It's a wajib that's very easily
fulfilled by the one who wants to fulfill
it. May Allah give all of us tawfi.