Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah The Month of Generosity Increase
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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 Mubotic 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 his 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
subhanahu wa ta'ala be upon his servant and
messenger,
our master, Sayna Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
May the peace and blessings of Allah ta'ala
be upon him and upon his noble companions
and upon his pure wives and upon his
Mubarak family and progeny and upon all all
those who follow all of their way until
the day of judgment.
Brothers and sisters,
the moon has been cited for Ramadan and
other countries that are east of our lands.
And it seems
that after just a few hours,
the month of Ramadan will start in this
locality as well.
Allah
give us the of reaching this Ramadan.
What is this Ramadan?
It's a hadith narrated by a number of
Muhaddithin.
You'll find it in the Muhammed of Usat
of Imam Tabarani amongst other books
that Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam once when
he was ascending his pulpit,
he said Amin three times.
The people asked You Rasoolullah,
What did you say Amin to these three
times?
He said, The angel Jibril alaihis salam came
to me
and he said, Whoever
reaches the month of Ramadan and that person's
sins aren't forgiven that month.
That person is truly cursed. Say, Amin. And
Rasulullah
alaihi wa sallam said, Amin.
He said, Whoever
reaches the old age of their parents,
both of them or just one of them,
and through their service isn't able to be
forgiven by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that person
is truly cursed, say, Amin.
And Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam said Amin.
And the third,
whoever your name,
whoever your name is mentioned in front of
that person doesn't say
be, sahad, and salam, on your name. And
because of that, they don't manage to be
forgiven in this life. That person is truly
cursed to say, Amin. And Rasool Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam said, Amin.
The idea with these three things, the common
thread that binds these three things is that
they are a source of barakah, a source
of blessings, a source of forgiveness, a source
of reward, a source of the pleasure of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that is so intense
and that is so
effluent and is so overwhelming
that even a person of moderate to low
spiritual
power, and moderate to low spiritual stature,
and moderate to low practice of the deen,
even those people when they take from these
sources, it's almost impossible that a person should
take from one of these sources
and not be forgiven in completeness and totality
and accepted by Allah
Only the few people who are the worst
of people who are the worst of people
will manage to
engage with any of these sources without being
forgiven. And such a person is truly cursed.
May Allah protect us from being
amongst them or of them or with them
or in favor of them or have the
company of them, or that they should be
amongst us, or that we should be amongst
them.
On an occasion like this, it's a hadith
narrated by imam Behati
from saydas Salman al Farasir radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
On an occasion like this when the Rasool
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was gathered in his Mubarak
Masjid with his noble companions, may Allah ta'ala
be pleased with them,
he himself mentioned
a great list of the virtues of Ramadan.
He said,
Indeed, a great month, a magnificent month,
its shadow literally its shadow has been cast
upon you. Meaning, there has come to you
a great month.
You are on the the verge of entering
into a great month, and he mentioned a
great number of faba'il. He granted a great
number of what? Of virtues of this month.
The number of virtues is too much because
if we speak for too long, mashallah, then
people have to go to work and the
masjid boards will say, okay brother, you don't
come to our masjid again and whatnot. So
we're your guests. We respect mashallah, the rules
that are there in every masjid.
And, alhamdulillah, you don't wanna hear me talk
for too long anyway. But from amongst the
virtues that Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned
in his long hadith.
He said Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said,
shahruun shahruun muwasa.
It is the shahru of what? It is
the month of generosity.
Shahruun yuzadu fee hirizkul mummin.
And it is a a month in which
what? The provision of the believers is increased.
It is a month of what? It is
a month of generosity,
and it's a month in which the
provision of the believer is increased.
Anyone who has small children, anyone who has
small children,
what's the thing? What's the thing that you
do for the children? You have to teach
them about the deen. It means more than
just saying, okay, kid, don't eat pork, alcohol
is haram, you can't have a girlfriend, you
can't have a boyfriend, you Allah. No. That's
it. We'll go to a conference like twice
a year. It's not like that. You have
to teach them every single part of the
deen. So what is one of the things
that the salihim, every generation, Khalaf and Ansalaf,
from one generation to the next, they they
do. They take the kids
our young ones in the back. I don't
know how's your you know, don't answer in
front of everybody, but, you know, sometimes maybe
your father gives you a dollar bill. Don't
look around. I'm talking to you. Right? Your
father maybe gives you a dollar bill, says
go put it in the Masjid donation box.
Go give it to our poor person.
Go,
you know, give it to the food bank.
Why?
Because you want the child to become accustomed
to doing the deeds of righteousness.
So they go and they put it in
the box, and they look back at baba
or mama, and then baba and mama smiles
at them. They smile back. The heart becomes
mustateness. It becomes
accustomed to and starts to love what? Acts
of piety. So that maybe that person,
that child themselves will become a mama or
a baba or
grandmother or something.
And when they donate, every time they'll feel
the same warmth that they felt because they're
elders. They trained them to to do this
act of piety.
So look at the rahma, the mercy of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
This is something very important. You know, people
because people who don't,
think about things for a living. Right? Often
times we forget this, that there's sloganeering and
then there's reality.
There's sloganeering and then there's reality.
What is sloganeering?
We, you know, we our religion teaches about
a God of love and a God of
mercy. And oftentimes those people,
they end up being the most cruel and
the most harmless of people to the weak
and to the poor and to the oppressed.
And they say, oh, look. You're Islam. You're
Islam is so rigid and has so much,
difficulty, and harshness, and punishments, and all of
this. We teach about a God of love,
a God of mercy. What is Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam saying?
He's saying that
it's or Muhammad. Allah ta'ala, the same one
he sent his prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
who commanded us to be generous in this
month, and whose sunnah that were commanded to
follow us to be generous in this month,
what is it? He himself is saying that
this is the month in which Allah wishes
for you to be generous.
And this is the month in which what?
Allah ta'ala is the one he's giving you
He's literally giving you the thing that you
can be generous with.
How ironic and strange is
it? That Allah his tarbiyah for his creation
is what?
More more
soft and more merciful than what? The tarbia
that a parent gives to their own child.
How strange is it that the tarbia and
the the the nurturing that Allah gives his
slave
is what more soft, and more,
a kind, and more merciful than what a
parent gives to their own child.
Imam Ghazali
he actually mentions in his ikhya his disdain
for people who eat more in Ramadan than
they eat outside of Ramadan.
And the reason for his disdain was what?
He said the point of fasting is what?
So that a person can learn sabr. It's
a hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
That that to fast is learning half of
patience.
Right? Sabr what so a person can control
their own nafs, they can control their own
ego. So his his his his idea is
what? If you eat more while you're fasting
than you eat when you're not fasting, then
what are you doing? You're just coiling up
and and and and and letting your nafs
hit its desire in like a controlled burst.
In many ways, that's kind of more dangerous
than dissipating it out throughout the day.
From the ulamaam, mashallah, they have differences of
opinion amongst themselves. No one of them is
sometimes right or wrong. Each of them is
looking at an issue from a different angle.
We can benefit from all of them. There's
a lot of benefit in what Imam Ghazali
said as well. From amongst our mashaikh in
the Indian subcontinent,
the Sheikh Mohammed Ashraf Alaihtani
he mentioned. He said, look, Imam Ghazali has
a very good point when he says this.
However, how is the believer going to implement
eating less in Ramadan when Rasulullah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam himself said what?
This is a month in which the provision
of the movement believers increased
is increased. How are you gonna go against
the the tandoor Allah ta'ala wrote for his
creation?
This is what from the generosity and love
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for his creation.
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam says in the
same hadith.
He said what? He said that the person,
manfatarasa
iman, the person who gives for the iftar,
for the opening of the fast of the
one who fasted,
that person he mentions
3 benefits. That that person receives malfira. Allah
ta'ala will forgive them their sins for this.
And he mentions what?
That that person will be manumitted from the
fire.
Means what? To manumit a slave, to free
a slave. That that person in the fire
is the slavery that Allah
had written for that person based on their
deeds.
But because they gave to, the one who
is fasting, in order for them to open
their fast, Allah will free them. Say, this
is fasting, in order for them to open
their fast, Allah will free them. Say, this
fire that you deserve to go through, that
I deserve to go to, Allah will free
us from it. Why? Because we gave for
the one who is fasting for them to
open their fast.
And then the third thing as if that
wasn't enough.
The third thing, because a person can be
forgiven, but the forgiveness may not be equivalent
to the amount of sin that a person
has. So the first thing is the forgiveness.
The second thing is what? An insurance policy
that your sins will not destroy all of
your good deeds. And the third thing is
what? That the one who the one who
gives to the one who fast to open
their fast will receive the reward of the
one who fasted
without decreasing from their own reward one bit.
Imagine a person feeds a person who is
fasting. Allah knows best whose fast is better.
Allah knows best whose fast is accepted. Allah
knows best whose fast he's pleased with.
Maybe you and I are not the best
at controlling ourselves. Maybe you and I may
have said something in the day that we
shouldn't have said, or looked at something or
someone that we shouldn't have looked at, or
listened to something that we shouldn't have listened
to.
Maybe our fast wasn't complete and perfect like
it needed to be, just by your assumption
in your Hasan al Adhan, you yourself believe
that the person that you're giving to is
a good person, an upright person, a righteous
person from the ahlulah, a wali of Allah
ta'ala,
a friend of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Everyone
who says, la ilaha illallah Muhammadu Rasool Allah
is a friend of Allah ta'ala even if
they're a sinner because Allah doesn't give this
la ilaha illallah
and accept it from someone, except for it's
because Allah loves them.
Except for it's because Allah loves them. If
you think this is a grandiose and demagogic,
overstatement
on my part because I'm whatever, a mosque
preacher.
Go read the akhidat the Hawiyyah. Literally, it's
one of the points of the akhidah. It's
not a fiqhih issue or something that's talked
about and and discussed in bayans or whatever.
This is a point of belief of the
Muslims that everybody everybody who says
in
a way that's accepted by Allah to Allah,
that person is a wali of Allah, that
person is a a a a a a
person of Allah to Allah's friendship and a
righteous friend of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
This
this good opinion you have. Why? Because
all deeds are nothing except for according to
their intention. When you make that intention for
another person too, open their fast and you
have this feeling about this person that this
is someone who Allah loves.
You will receive what? You will receive the
reward of that person's fast as you think
of it, not as it is. As you
think of it from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
when you do this.
The sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, when they heard
this, they were poor people. Right? This is
a hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. Protect yourself from the fire. Right?
Protect yourself from the fire even if it's
like the sadaq of half of a date.
That wasn't just a figure of speech with
them. The sahaba radiAllahu anhu, amongst them there
were those even from the household of Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam who were so poor
that they had a date to eat on
certain days.
And their sadaqa was what? To split it
in half and give it to somebody. Say
the Aisha
she mentions that a poor woman came to
her and asked in the name of ta'ala
for sadaqa. She said, I only had 2
dates. So I gave one. Imagine this, the
beloved wife of Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
She said, I had 2 dates.
And what did she do with it? She
said, I gave one to her and I
kept one for myself. She said, this woman
had 2 children. I I she told Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam, I saw her do
the most amazing thing, which is what? Which
is that she took that date I gave
her and she split it into 2 pieces
and she gave one half to one child
and one half to the other child. The
children were crying out of hunger and she
herself was patient with her, with her hunger,
with her lot. She didn't benefit from it
one bit. Rasulullah
heard about this and he praised that woman.
He praised that woman for the the the
fortitude of her character and and the nobility
of her character in taking care of her
children.
Brothers and sisters, Allah gave you and he
gave me
what? A lot more than 2 days. He
gave us a lot more than 2 days.
So the sahaba
they have the objection that maybe some people
in this masjid have, which is what they
are They said, You Rasulullah, how are we
gonna afford to feed somebody? We don't have
anything to eat ourselves. When are you gonna
give someone half a day? That's not even
that's barely opening the fast, much less much
less filling a person up.
We may also think about that this economy
is tough, this is difficult, I'm between jobs,
I'm this, I'm that. How are we going
to fulfill this this
sunnah that the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
laid
out? He said, I'm not saying that you
have Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam in that
hadith. He says, I'm not saying that you
have to
give someone their fill. I'm saying what?
Just give them the taste of milk.
Oh, tamra
or you give them give them, just one
date.
Oh,
or that you give them just a little
bit of water to drink.
This is what gives a person this reward.
Is what? Just a taste of milk or
just one date or just a a a
sip of water. This is all all you
need in order to receive this reward.
This is one of the the teachings we
received from the masha'if.
Some of us, mashallah, teach it to our
children and our young ones. Sometimes we grow
up over here, nobody tells us any of
these things. We had to travel halfway across
the world and study from the ulama in
order to learn these things, which is what?
When it's iftar time, and there's a tray
of dates sitting, you know, you don't sit
and wait to be served. You pick up
the tray, and you walk all the way
up and down the masjid giving the dates.
I've seen literally people almost almost get into
a fight. The 2 people are trying to
give the person the same person a date.
Why? Because each of them wants the reward
of Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that
he described. Because what do you think? It's
only the one who buys the dates that
receives the reward? The one who serves it
is just as important because if someone buys
it and no one serves it, the date's
not gonna be eaten. All of them partake.
All of them receive the the reward. They're
not I don't even say their partners in
the reward because each of them gets the
full reward separately.
This is a common sense that people had
in the deen. Nowadays people don't have this
common sense anymore. This is one of the
greatest sunnah of Islam, is to feed people.
Ashush Salam wa ata'imutaam.
You spread salaam, and you feed people food
to one another.
Allah ta'ala himself, he says in his book.
That the the the food of the people
of the book is lawful for you, and
your food is lawful for them. So people
said, qas, this means this, that, and the
other thing I can eat here, I can
eat there. Suspend that discussion for a second.
How come nobody ever talks about the fact
that your food is halal for them?
You can feed other people as well.
In this Ramadan,
you can feed the believers. You feed the
people who fast, you'll see even more reward
for something that's a sunnah anyway.
Something that's a sunnah and a commandment of
the lord anyway, you'll feed you'll receive more
reward for that in this Ramadan, in this
month.
And all it takes is what? It doesn't
take that a person be a millionaire or
a billionaire. It just takes what what you
have even if it's just your own effort
to to serve the people at the time
of Iftar, you'll receive all of that reward.
You'll receive all of that reward from so
many people.
Rasulullah SAW Alaihi Wasallam continues in the same
hadith.
He says what? He says, woman, the person
who feeds the the one who fasted until
what? Until he,
man ashba'a saiman, the one who feeds the
person who fast until they're satiated. You feed
them their entire fill. There's a different reward
for that.
Right?
You can do something simple if you can't
do the higher thing, but the ones who
do the higher thing, that person has a
different reward. Qualitatively different reward. The person who
feeds the one who fasted until they're completely
satiated. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala writes for that
person to reward what? Rasulullah informs
him that that person will drink from my
*. That person will drink from my *.
That person will drink from my *. What
is the *? For those of you
wish for a a quick refresher from Aqidah,
the howl of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam is a watering place that he will
have. It is a a a watering place
that literally will be 100 of miles in
circumference.
It will have
a drink in it that's wider than milk
and and and and sweeter than honey. And
it will have pictures that are numerous, rasool
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says, as a
metaphor, as numerous as the stars.
And there are specific people from the Umma,
not every Muslim will drink from it. There
are specific people from the Umma who will
drink from it. And those are the ones
who are true to Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, true to his sunnah, and true
to themselves that they didn't
practice deen and then leave it afterward. Rather,
when they entered into this deen, they held
houw. And Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam said
about his hawb, the one who drinks from
it, they'll drink such a drink and they'll
never thirst again.
Now we know from the, a hadith of
the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam that they
drink from the hawdis before the day before
judgment begins.
So if someone drinks from the the hawth
such a drink that they'll never thirst again,
what does that mean? Is it possible for
them to go to jahannan?
Absolutely
not. Absolutely not. These deeds, they're for us
to do and for us to ask Allah
to accept. If he accepts from anybody,
any one of these deeds, forget about a
lifetime of deeds, any one of these deeds
can save a person. The only the only
shakr, the only doubt that we have afterward
is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accepts from
us. Because our deeds are not just like
cash you deposit in the bank. Our deeds
are what?
Allah Ta'il literally says that your deeds are
like what? Like a crop that you sow.
So just by putting the seed in the
in the ground, does it mean that the
crop is gonna get harvested? No. You put
it in, and you have to keep watering
it. You keep asking Allah, please accept. Please
accept. Right? You don't, you know, you don't
wanna walk over it with your boots and
crush the plant by doing something like what?
By telling, you know what I did last
Ramadan? And, you know, showing off your deeds
or, like, you know, say, I shouldn't have
done that or whatever. You what? You plant
the seed in the ground and you keep
watering and watering and watering. Any one of
these deeds if a person if a person
waters it properly, you will harvest enough to
to what? To literally make your a
happy day on a day that on a
in a time that it's a sad day
and it's a it's a destructive
and a catastrophic,
day for for many of Allah's creation, it
can be the happiest day of your life,
the happiest day of my life. Any one
of these deeds and every other good deed
you do on top of that on that
day will just be.
It's just going to be light upon light.
These deeds are a precious gift from Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, and they're from the greatest
of Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam's sunnah.
Do you know? Do you know? Do you
remember that there are people in this ummah
this Ramadan?
That there are people in this ummah this
Ramadan? Some of them are are literally our
friends and neighbors in this country, and some
of them are people around the world in
places where there's catastrophe.
Places like Syria, places like Iraq, places like
Yemen, places like Somalia, Kenya, Eritrea,
places like,
the West African Republic, like Niger, places where
literally there is famine and there's war on
such a large scale that there are people
who have nothing to do with famine, nothing
to do with war, nothing to do with
extremism, nothing the children, women sitting at home,
old people, retired, and they have nothing to
eat and drink except for what? The love
that comes from those people who Allah Ta
gave to those people who Allah Ta didn't.
Did you know that many of these people
are more pious and righteous than us? Did
you know there are people from this very
Ramadan,
they'll dig their suhuran and their iftar from
the garbage.
I've seen it before.
Many of us have seen it before. They
will sort through the garbage, and they'll *,
something to eat from the garbage for their
suhoor and iftar. And you know what they
say? I hate my life. This is horrible.
We need lower taxes.
We need to change the government. They don't
care about any of those things. You know
what they say? They say before they eat,
and they say alhamdulillah when they're done.
Imagine a person who has a life like
that.
Imagine a person who lives because this life
of this dunya is just a few hours.
It's done faster than anyone thinks it's going
to be done. Everybody who's in their grave,
all of them were sitting like us at
one time, and it's over faster than a
person thinks. Imagine that person when they returned
to Allah Ta'ala,
and that person did that. They ate from
the garbage, and they went through hunger, and
they went through difficulty,
and not once from the time they were
they were children until the time that they
entered their grave did they ever utter a
complaint against Allah Ta'ala. Imagine when Allah Ta'ala,
when they meet with him, what their maqam
will be with him.
Imagine how much they loved him, jallawala, in
order to live a life like that. And
imagine how much Allah Ta'ala loves them when
they return to him. And if they did
so much for Allah Ta'ala,
and we're the weak creation, we're makhluk.
Imagine the khalik who's all powerful, omnipotent,
the one who can reward in a way
that no eye has seen, no ear has
heard, and never has entered or occurred to
any heart. Imagine what kind of reward Allah,
ta'ala, will give to them. And imagine if
people like you and me,
Allah knows who's who. If you're at that
maqam, please make dua for me. Make There
are people like that in every gathering of
muslims.
Make du'a for all of us, inshaAllah. It's
one of the hikmas, the wisdoms of Jumaa'ah
is that we receive the amin of someone
like that who's in the gathering.
Imagine if we feed a person like that,
what will Allah ta'ala give us? What sins
will Allah ta'ala forgive?
What what what what difficulties and obstacles will
Allah ta'ala remove from our lives? What will
Allah ta'ala do for us? This is one
of the greatest vehicles to receiving the pleasure
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah ta'ala give
all of us tawfiq. Walillahalhamdwassalahuasamu
aarsulhiayna