Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah The Irreconcilable Enemy MSI 02182022
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The importance of planning for war and strategizing based on owners' terms and actions is emphasized. The "has been" concept is discussed, where one is too afraid to get burned and should leave early to avoid negative consequences. The speaker emphasizes the need for individuals to make decisions and strategize based on their own terms and actions, and the importance of finding people with positive attitude and a strategic approach. The success of peace campaigns and peace planning is also highlighted.
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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in his book,
As for the person who fears the day
he was gonna he's going to stand in
front of his lord
and
forbids, prohibits,
puts an embargo
on his own
from its desires,
on his own ego from its desires.
This is the description of the person who
their abode will be paradise.
One of the problems that we have
is that we've made a deal with enough.
We've made a deal with the devil,
which is what?
You don't be too hard on me, and
I'm not going to be too hard on
you.
You leave me alone for certain things,
and I'll leave you alone for certain things.
And this is,
in my understanding,
exactly the opposite of what
the teachings of the Quran are,
which are not from this world from above
the 7 heavens and above the.
This is the opposite of what the teachings
of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said.
May the peace and blessings of Allah be
upon him and upon his companions and noble
family and upon those who follow their way
until the day of judgment.
This is the opposite of what I read
in the seerah of the prophet
The
Nabi
who
used to wake up at night and pray,
not out of obligation, but in order to
be what?
Abdi Shakur,
in order to be a thoroughly grateful slave
of Allah
That Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
who when the people complain there's nothing to
eat and we have to work, we have
to dig the khand up, the ditch for
the defensive Madinah Munawwara.
And there's nothing to eat to the point
that we have to tie our stomachs with
stones.
Are we not on the hap is Allah
not on our side?
This is the subtext of the question. Are
we not on the is Allah not on
our side? And the rasul
lifted his Mubarak shirt, and he showed that
he had 2 stones tied to his stomach.
Don't fight it. Accept it.
It's the heart.
If you can't do it and if I
can't do it, don't don't fight it. That's
a separate issue.
That's a separate issue.
But accept that this is the truth.
Forget about you and me for a for
a second.
Accept that it's the truth.
This is a a a very simple sabak.
It's a very simple lesson about
a person's spiritual journey to Allah, that
one of the simplest,
one of the simplest stations of of sainthood
with Allah
is what?
Just to bear witness to the sainthood of
the righteous. To say what? I couldn't be
like that.
But whoever Allah gave this good to, this
is a good thing.
Someone says, look. He's making things up now.
Right?
Have to be him.
So Sahih Hadith, you don't even have to
look in the the the big books you'll
find in that
a Bedouin asked the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
A man loves a people but is not
able
to be like them. Was not in the
past be able to be like them,
and is still not able to be like
them.
Have to be him.
Rasulullah said
because he said this when he saw the
the senior companions in Madinah Munawara. He's just
a simple Bedouin who came in from the
desert.
What did the say to him? Says, a
person will be with the one that they
love.
The teachings of the Quran, the teachings of
the sunnah are what? Is that a person
has to make
a person has to make
against his?
A person has
to make against shaitan.
There's no truce.
When someone is trying to destroy you, you
don't make peace with them.
You may even have a ceasefire with them.
And this is a very very subtle difference
in understanding people need to have, which is
what?
If, for example, you come home all pumped
up, say, Moana Saab says we have to
make war on the nafs and you don't
sleep all night because you're praying the entire
night and then you sleep through fajr,
That's not how war happens. How does war
happen? There's planning. There's strategy.
You engage on your own terms. You don't
get baited into a trap.
The person who is fighting war is not
the person who is so angry that they
just punch their fist in every single direction
and then they get tapped out in 15
seconds and then afterward they get destroyed. There's
some strategy that has to happen with it.
However,
even though physically, your struggle is not
like the freak out of an animal.
Physically,
economically,
in terms of planning, in terms of time
management, there needs to be some strategizing
that happens.
However, there is one place in which when
you're at war with something or with someone,
the enmity and the hostility never ceases,
and it never abates. Which is what? Inside
of your heart. And so when I say
we made peace with shaitan. When I say
we make peace with the nafs,
I'm not talking about physically that you're not
punching shaitan and beating him down right now.
I'm not talking about with your nafs that
you're not beating yourself up right now.
What am I talking about? In the heart,
we have become complacent.
We have been complacent with the idea
that our
goal in life is just to do the
bare minimum and ice skate by. And we
see as individuals, it's caused us harm. And
as a community, it's caused us harm. And
as the ummah, it has caused us harm,
which ironically ironically
is what prevents the Umma from actually ice
skating by and having a nice life.
This is the irony of ironies that when
you're weak about your iman, you don't progress.
When you're weak about your deen, your deen
doesn't progress. When you're weak about your community,
your community doesn't
progress.
And this Khutba is far from me yelling
and screaming at you guys. It's something about
myself that I'm giving. This is one of
our masha'if, the genius of our masha'if in
saluk was what was that they said, Hazrat
Moana
said he said, if you find because the
way of the vocabulary was what?
First do it, then talk about it.
Hasid al Basir al It's very famous about
him that he once wanted to give a
a a a talk and encourage people to
free slaves, and then he realized I'd never
freed a slave before. So he held his
tongue, worked, saved up enough money to buy
a slave. He freed him, And then he
opened his mouth
in front of the people and how Mubarak
his words were that that hundreds of slaves
were freed on that day because of the
author of his sincerity.
If we were to wait for sincerity like
that nowadays,
Allahu alaam, what would happen? So the dispensation
of the sincere ones to people like myself
is what? Speak about speak about the things
that you haven't achieved and attained. Perhaps one
day perhaps one day, the shame will enter
into your heart,
and
you'll walk the walk because you opened your
mouth and everybody was witnessed in front of
you. Everybody will witness you in this day
and everybody will witness you on the day
of judgment.
So this is what? As men, because is
far on what? On every
sane
adult
free male.
As men, we also have to talk about
these things. We have to talk about these
things
with our children. We have to talk about
these things with our relatives.
We have to talk about these things even
at the peril of great
threat of physical harm. We have to talk
about these things with our wives as well,
which is what you cannot make this compromise
with your enemy. If you make a compromise
with somebody who's open
aim,
open goal is your destruction,
then who does that help? Does that help
you or does that help somebody else?
The companions if
you were to think about their if you
were to remember their
it would send shutters down your spine.
And I'm not saying that I do it.
I'm not even saying that you do it.
What am I saying?
The mindset that they have, first, we have
to understand it in order to ever be
able to come anywhere near it.
And if someone were to tell you so
and so billionaire multi billionaire Bill Gates, if
I were to give you 1% of his
wealth, would you be happy with it?
Of course, you would be happy with it.
It would be money beyond our
imagination.
There are people who have treasures big bigger
than Bill Gates and Elon Musk in this
world.
So Imam Mohammed
the companion of Abu Hanifa, he said that
if the kings and princes of this world
knew the treasure that we had, they would
bring their armies with their swords to fight
us for it.
There are certain things that are nice, but
there are certain things that are valuable more
valuable than others.
If you believe
in the value of what Allah gave to
his
and what he gave to, the righteous into
the, you have to accept this that this
is a war. You have to strategize. How
is it that I'm going to keep fighting
it? How is it that I'm going to
keep protecting myself?
And why is it that making a deal
with the nafs, making a deal with the
devil is not in my interest ever?
Strategy and ceasefire? Absolutely. Do it all day.
Maybe you guys are better at it than
I am. In fact, almost certainly you are.
But the idea that somehow you can make
it make make peace with the nafsir and
you're going to ice skate by,
it doesn't work that way. Rather, what is
the,
what is the the model that was proposed
by Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wa Salam? It's a hadith of Abu Hurair
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam once said, the person
who fears.
Right? If you know that you're going to
be judged one day, if you know that
you're going to have to stand in front
of Allah one day, if you know that
you have enemies that are out to destroy
you, if you know that there's dangers, if
you know that there are problems, you can
forecast that there's something ahead that might be
a problem.
The metaphor that the messenger of Allah
said is what? Is means
the first part of the night. So the
Arabs, because they didn't live in Chicago, Illinois
where it's, like, 25 degrees outside,
the peril was not the cold. It was
the peril. The peril was the heat and
it was
the sun. And so what they would do
is they would travel
at night times at nighttime oftentimes in order
to avoid being burned by the sun because
direct sunlight at high noon, I've lived in
the Badia before, it literally can burn you.
Literally can burn you.
To the point where the sunnah is
to delay
a little bit from its time.
Because the difference of being at high noon
and the difference of even being, like, an
hour and a half later, it can actually
literally be the difference between burning and not
burning.
So the Rasul
constructed a metaphor that you're traveling, you're going
somewhere,
and so you should leave in the early
part of the night.
Is
the early part of the night.
Why?
Because you're afraid of getting burned.
If you leave at the last part of
the night, what is the fear? The fear
is you'll be traveling and you will not
have reached your destination yet, and then the
sun will come up high over your head,
and you're going to burn.
The person who is afraid of getting burned
will leave in the first part of the
night.
And the person who leaves in the first
part of the night, the sultan the Rasulullah
said,
will
reach his destination.
Meaning what?
You have to plan.
Because in this metaphor, the sun is your
enemy. The sun wants to hurt you. The
sun is not going to accept love or
money. If it comes up over your head,
you're gonna get burned. I'm gonna get burned.
So how do you deal with it? You
plan ahead.
The person who's afraid
will leave early. The person who in in
the early part of the night. The person
who leaves in the early part of the
night, that person reaches their destination.
And then the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam said something
very important.
Indeed.
The sila'a, the merchandise of Allah is
expensive.
It's not cheap.
If it was cheap, everybody would do it.
If it was cheap and easy, everybody would
do it. The mushrikeen of Quraysh wouldn't have
freaked out about it.
If it was easy, people would have taken
it left and right. If it was easy,
you would see the masajid packed
at the time of Asr on a Tuesday
just like they're packed on the Idain.
It's not cheap.
And this the merchandise of Allah is what?
It's Jannah.
It's Jannah. This is by the way, you
know, it contradicts a a tahrif,
a spurious a spurious misinterpretation
because there is tahris and and and and
there's tahris and
manna.
Tahris means to change something. Like, the people
in the before us, they would change the
words that are in their scripture to a
different word. There's another type of tahareef which
is what? They keep the same word, but
they change the interpretation.
This is a a misinterpretation of the latter
type. The former type, the Quran is protected
against it. The latter type, it happens all
the time. That people that people say what?
That Islam, the deen is easy. If someone
says there's a hadith of Sahib Bukhari in
which the Rasulullah
in the din of the Yusuf, go look
in indeed the deen is ease. Go look
in Fatul Bayri, the canonical
commentary on
Sahih Bukhani. Hafiz ibn Hajjr says the meaning
of this is what? Is that Allah made
the sharia of this ummah easy compared to
the sharia of the nations that came before
us.
He himself says otherwise for somebody to think
that the deen is easy. This is absolutely
silly. Like, it's like they're not paying attention.
There will be a struggle and you have
to plan for it. I have to plan
for it.
How is it that we can pull ourselves
out of this complacency of pact with the
devil that we've made?
There are a number of things that we
can do. There's a very short amount of
time, but I wanted to share 1 or
2 of them.
One is that a person has to keep
good company.
Keeping good company doesn't just mean that I'm
going to sit with my relatives, I'm going
to sit with my friends who don't drink
and that pray on time. That's good. Please
keep doing that. That should be the minimum
bar of every person.
That you don't keep unnecessary company with people
who stain your your
your soul with their bad state.
Because people affect one another.
If you're inside strong enough that you're able
to affect other people,
then do that with intention of dawah, but
those are people are not your company.
I heard from my own that
who
is a man known for his efforts in
Dawah in a legendary sense perhaps unparalleled in
the last century.
That he himself when he would go out
to preach to people the amount of time
if he would go out for 3 days,
the amount of time that he would spend
preaching, he would spend an equal amount of
time in the Masjid and Atikaf afterward or
in the with
the afterword. Why? In order to purge in
order to purge the effect of
meeting with people who are heedless of their
deen on his heart.
Obviously, we're not to that point of sensitivity,
but we say what?
This is a that's even
alluded to in the Quran.
That just like this world has a physical
cause and effect, every action has an equal
and opposite reaction.
The spiritual world is even more ordered. We
think of it as a magical thing. It's
not. It's even more ordered than the physical
world is.
And to think that you will sit with
people who their heart is dead to Allah
and his Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and it's not gonna deaden your heart even
just a little bit, this is this is
irrational.
On the flip side, because not everything is
negative, there's two sides of the coin. Every
negative has a great positive on the other
side of the coin. If you sit with
those people whose iman
burns like the light of the sun,
it will also illuminate your heart as well.
But the thing is this, you have to
go and find those people. You have to
sit with those people and it has to
be regular. It can't be like, look. I
made Hajj one time and now I'm done.
Just like attack on your heart is regular,
just like that the purge has to be
regular. The treatment has to be regular.
What are things that we have to do?
We have to sit in the circles of
knowledge.
And this is the fun part. If you've
been going to the Masjid for a long
time,
you've heard everything under the sun. In fact,
this talks says,
heard this,
like, before you were born, 18 years before
you were born, you know, 40 times, which
may be true. You probably heard it from
someone who explained it better than I do.
Sit, take notes,
remember the hadith,
remember the words of the hadith,
scrutinize.
If you already did all of those things,
find somebody who has more knowledge than you.
Don't say I graduated from madrasah or I
received such and such ijazah from this and
that shaykh, or I've been to this many
conferences, or I've been going to Jumuah for
40 years.
Said Namusa alaihi salam.
Allah gave him. Allah alerted him to the
fact that there's somebody in the world who
knows more than you do.
From
the
The story is described in the Surat Kaaf,
which is a sunnah to read on Fridays.
And so what did he do? He went
out and sought that person
to spend only what seems like a short
amount of time with him. But if that's
what you have to do, that's what you
have to do. I, myself,
regularly attend dars.
I need to attend dars as you've already
been able to tell.
We need to find those places and find
those people which will renew this clarity inside
of our hearts. It's not enough. It's not
enough just to sit and say I said
my shahada and I pray my 5 times
daily prayer,
and I'm going to somehow get a pass.
And whatever is less than that is definitely
not enough. And whatever is more than that,
you have to have a regular program
in order to plan for the day that
difficulty will come because only a fool shows
up on the day of battle and expects
victory. The victorious are only the ones who
are
wise enough and sagacious enough to plan from
before.
Allah give all of us