Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Ugly Duckling Complex Hir 07152022
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All praises to Allah Ta'ala and may His
peace and blessings be upon His servant and
Messenger, our master Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Allah Ta'ala
said in his Quran,
Turn away
from the one
who himself turns away from
our remembrance
and wishes for nothing except for
the life of this world. This is the
utmost limit of their knowledge.
Turn away from who?
The one who doesn't wish to make our
remembrance
and
only desires what?
The life of this world. Material things. Materialism.
What is materialism?
What I can see,
taste,
smell, touch, this is the only thing that
exists.
Other than that,
it doesn't there's it's all pie in the
sky in July. It's all your imaginary friend.
Not only does this make bad physics, bad
mathematics,
bad chemistry, it also makes bad philosophy
The easy and quick
example I give to people is what? The
number 0.
Tell me something, have you done long division
before? Have you?
Can you do long division with Roman numerals?
No. You have to use what they call
Arabic numerals. Right? You have to use Arabic
numerals. Muslims,
we feel proud.
The numbers, the digits. Right. The right. What
they call Arabic numerals. We feel proud as
Muslims that, macha'at, this is our contribution
to society. You can't do the calculations for
anything, electricity,
architecture, any of these things. You can't do
calculations for any of these things using Roman
numerals.
And the linchpin that makes quote unquote Arabic
numerals
work is the idea of 0. If someone
says 0, 0 is a philosophical
concept, the symbol.
It represents something, it's a philosophical concept. Otherwise,
by definition, you can't point to 0 anything.
Someone who says if you can't see it,
taste its imaginary friend and all this other
nonsense. This is People who have no training
in philosophy whatsoever, they're the only ones who
say silly things like this.
People who say stuff like that, turn away
from them. Don't make them your teacher. Don't
make them your
teacher. This is an entire discussion in Arabic
that can you say, can you say about
a person who is
not a believer in Allah Ta'ala?
A person who doesn't have any deen that
Fulan is a'atil. Can you say that? Fulan
is a'atil. The person is a rationally thinking
person.
And the answer is no. There are other
words that we use. Fulan is k is
he's he's clever. He's dahi. He's there's you
words for clever cleverness that we use to
describe such people. However, you cannot say that
that person is intelligent. Why? Because even if
a person knows how to build a Tesla
from scratch, that's a relatively
impressive feat.
If they can build a Tesla from scratch,
say, I can go into the forest and
and, you know, 3 days, I'll have a
fully functioning electric car with a battery that
that runs.
Wow. That's really amazing. If you can do
that, but you don't realize that you and
your Tesla and the forest and all of
these things, some, you know, there's an entity
that made them
as well. There is something missing. There's a
gap in the person's
way of thinking.
This materialism,
there's a gap in the way of a
person's thinking.
Now,
the commandment of the Quran is quite clear.
The Quran, as a point of a creed,
we believe is something that has no extraneous
information in it.
It has no things that are optional for
a person to believe as true. In fact,
there are many things in the Quran. We
may not ourselves understand them, but it is
a foundation of our faith
that we have to believe whatever it means.
All of it is
true, just the way that the Lord intended
it when he revealed it on the heart
of our Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Rules may have exceptions, but the exceptions do
not negate the existence of the rule. The
rule is what?
Turn away from the one who himself turns
away from our remembrance,
and they have no desire except for what?
Except for the life of this world, except
for material things. Why? Because this is the
utmost limit of their thinking. They can't think
beyond anything that, oh, if I get a,
you know, education, I can get a job.
If I get a job, I'll get money.
If I can get money, I'll be able
to eat and drink
what I want. I'll be able to buy
the clothes that I want. I'll be able
to impress the people that I want. I'll
have this house that I want, etcetera, etcetera.
And you can see how this cancerous form
of thinking is completely destroying the entire it's
destroying the world. It's destroying the economy. It's
destroying politics. It's destroying the environment. It's poisoning
the water. It's poisoning the air. It's poisoning
the land.
It means that there are some people who
have a whole bunch of zeros in their
bank. We're talking about 0. Right? The whole
long parade of zeros after a number in
their bank account.
And their storehouse is filled with tons of
grain and on the other side, miles away,
someone may be starving to death. How does
this make any sense?
How does this make any sense at all?
Life is a game and the money is
there so that you can keep score.
You know what they say? You know what
they say? What what what what they say?
They say, this is a local saying. Maybe
some of us are from different countries so
we don't pick up these subtleties of the
language. Right? They say you play stupid games,
you're gonna win stupid prizes.
Play stupid games, you're going to win stupid
prizes.
The commandment is that our knowledge should be
taken from who? From the people who have
it, a holistic understanding of
what it means to be alive, what the
point of being alive is in the first
place.
You seek knowledge from who?
From those people who
are not just clever in 1 or 2
particular types of things.
Rather people who have some sort of holistic
understanding of what it means to be alive.
Someone may say, Well, Sheikh, I heard this
one person, Mashallah, he quotes hadith and he
quotes the Quran, and he talks about deen
and but he thinks that the world is
flat.
Okay, then don't go learn geography from him.
Someone might say, Well, Sheikh, you know, all
of this knowledge of technology and all of
these sciences and whatever are developed by people
who are themselves materialists.
Look,
there's rules and there's exceptions.
Is eating pork halal or haram? It's obviously
haram, right?
What if you're starving to death? Okay, then
eat when you're starving and then when you're
done. This is gross. Don't eat it anymore.
It doesn't mean that somebody is starving to
death no and and they can eat pork,
therefore pork is not haram for everybody forever
until the day of judgement.
It doesn't mean one time I starved or
I heard somebody else was starving to death
like in a different continent.
And so, you know, since I heard that
like 4 years ago, every day I have
a ham sandwich. That's not the
life of a functional intellect.
It's It's ascribed to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, Allah knows best about the takhrija
of the hadith.
But the meaning is true,
that wisdom,
wisdom
is the lost property of the believer wherever
he finds it he has more right to
it. If you lost something, you're walking to
school or whatever, you walk into the park,
you dropped
something and then like 2 weeks later,
you're walking along the same path and you
see the exact same thing. You know it's
yours. It's not anybody else's.
It's okay. You pick it up and put
it in your pocket. Maybe wash it, wipe
it off. It's yours. Right? You have right
to it. Wisdom is the lost property of
the believer. Wherever he finds it, he has
the right to?
He has more right over it than a
person who doesn't believe.
However, however, there's a difference between this precept.
And on the extreme, being like the ugly
duckling,
where we're so thirsty for
learning something from somebody else, so thirsty to
learn the customs and habits of other people
who obviously
have lost a plot on the most important
things with regards to life.
That like the ugly duckling. You know the
story? The ugly duckling, the ugly duckling walks
around and asks every animal, are you my
mother? Are you my mother? Are you my
mother? This
discussion has a particular munasaba. It has a
particular occasion for me to mention it, which
is what as a society we have completely
disconnected ourselves from,
from the knowledge of the the deen,
from the knowledge of Allah and His Rasool
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, from the knowledge of the
rational sciences, from the knowledge of
the book of Allah, the sunnah of the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, the Arabic language, any
of these types of things.
So much so that now we believe,
now we believe what?
That
the leaders of the Muslims are completely incompetent.
I'm saying intellectually. I'm not talking about people
who are leaders in countries. We're talking about
the imams in the masajid.
We're talking about the people that we refer
to as sheikh, that these are somehow
backwards witchdoctery people. Some of them really they
are.
I've seen it. You may have seen it
as well.
Some of them they are.
But as a group, as a jama'a, as
a congregation,
we have to also understand
that the development,
the cultivation, the seeking out, the support of
such people, this is
our job collectively.
Obviously, the butcher is not going to stop
slaughtering animals.
The baker is not going to stop making
bread and cake and the candlestick maker. You
can figure out he's not going to stop
making candlesticks,
But they get together, and what do they
do? They say we're sick and tired of
this. We're sick and tired of ourselves not
knowing what our deen is so that every
person gets a TikTok video.
Falan in Islam, x y z is haram,
and then the next YouTube video,
40 minutes, some dude in their basement with
books behind him.
X y z is Wajib, every Muslim has
to do it. And then the next guy,
x y z, only do it on Tuesday.
And the next guy said, don't do it
on Tuesday.
And then the next guy says, do it
in the you're facing north. And the other
says, do it facing south.
And then the person sits and says, well,
you know, all of this stuff is just
nonsense. It's better that I don't waste my
time with it. This is not the case.
This is not the case.
There's a saying in Persian.
They they say that when you are faced
with a
situation like this where everybody is cackling, it's
like listening to jackal, listening to the jackal
say to the hyena,
Did the Rehman Sultan Bood? Did you know
my father used to be king? Who's the
king in the jungle? Is it the jackal?
No. Is it the hyena? No. They just
sit together and they they they talk nonsense.
Right? When the lion comes everybody knows. Okay.
This is the king of the jungle. If
you mess with him, you're gonna you're gonna
pay the consequence.
But it's a silly, stupid thing that we
listen to all of this cacophony of sounds.
A day will come, we'll see that there
is something that was hakken, there was something
that was baatan.
It behooves us to figure these things out
before that happens.
We ourselves are commanded to what? To seek
knowledge.
And the primary, the cornerstone of seeking knowledge
has to do with finding those people who
have knowledge.
Again, we live in a time and a
place, even the imams and the masjid don't
want to learn anymore.
Who do we want to have as imam
in the masjid?
The person who recites the Quran
operatically,
like they're like they're a musician, like a
singer.
I have no qualms or problems with somebody
who recites the Quran in a beautiful voice.
It's nice. There's nothing wrong with that.
But I have met those muhaktiqulama
in my life, the people who have memorized
more books of ill than a person can
carry, the people who really are geniuses in
a way. If I described their genius to
you, you wouldn't you wouldn't believe me in
the 1st place. So why waste my time?
Not one of them recited the Quran beautifully.
Some of them some of them, actually, if
you prayed behind them, you would say, can
we find somebody else to pray behind?
It's fine. Find a reciter who recites well
beautifully.
Listen to the recitation of the Quran. The
point of the Quran is not to
beautify it. The point of the Quran is
to what? Understand it. If you're doing that,
then the beautification has some sort of benefit
to it. If not, what did you turn
it into? You just turned it into a
song like any other song in the radio?
And the vacuum, what happens is that
you know, the occasion for even discussing this
topic is what?
We have ignoramuses, many of whom are not
even Muslims. They'll talk about things. This is
what's wrong with society. That's what's wrong with
society.
This is, what's wrong with Democrats. This is
what's wrong with Republicans, Liberals, conservatives, etcetera, etcetera.
And then we have people in our community
who treat such people like they treat mbi'ah,
like they treat what?
The prophets.
What did the rasul
say? Take
what I'm teaching you and spread it to
the people. Tell the people about it, even
if it's just one eye of the Quran.
I don't want people I don't want to
see people who have no business talking about
these things,
Telling me what such and such rabbi said
about Islam. Telling me what such and such
non Muslim said about Islam. Telling me what
such and such non Muslim thinker tells about
gay marriage or about abortion or about any
number of hot button topics.
When I see that they have no connection
with any sort of
teaching of Allah
or his Rasool, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in
the Quran, in the sunnah, in the deen
of Islam. Something wrong has happened at this
point.
Yes. You may not say that Jordan Peterson
is a Nabi. If you did, you would
be a kafir on the spot.
Please don't ever say anything like that.
However, we all have to think about ourselves.
What is it that, you know, how is
it that we're dealing with the deen?
Are we making tableeg of the Rasul Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam's message? Are we making tableeg of
the message of pop culture figures?
Are we making tabligh of the message of
our favorite
reporters, or our favorite sportscasters,
or our sports stars, or our favorite musicians?
Which we were
not we were not commanded to do. Allah
ta'ala, the children,
all of them, they're probably huffaz anyway. But
they all should at least read
the
jaws. What are the people asking about? They're
asking about that
occurrence, that news, which is adheem,
which is grand in its scale.
The naba adheem is what?
That somebody by the name of Muhammad ibn
Abdullahi, sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
From the people of Makkah, from the Alullah,
the He came, and he said to the
people that, Your God is only one God.
And he cleansed the house of Allah ta'ala
of idols, And He took those people who
are literally in Jahiliyyah,
and He crushed under His feet all of
the nations of the earth
that were people of Dhoom, that were people
of Kufr, that were people of shirk, and
that were people of superstition.
So much so to the point that even
if we are forwarding TikTok videos
about the deen,
and about those things that we're taught or
should be taught about by the deen.
Trust me, the enemies of Islam have never
forgotten and have never gotten a proper night
sleep ever since that Naba' al Din came.
And amongst them, those people had goodness inside
of their heart, they accepted it.
And those people who are fair, they respected
it.
However,
everybody everybody understands this is something that nothing
will ever be the same. Why is it
that Naba'alim
captures the attention of those people? It doesn't
capture our attention.
Why is it other people talk about it?
We don't talk about it.
There's a massive campaign
to what? To entertain ourselves to death,
to entertain ourselves to death,
so that we don't remember it, we don't
think about it, we don't talk about it.
There are a hundred excuses that we that
our enemies make
in order to get us to stop thinking
about it and stop talking about it, even
though this knowledge this knowledge is the life
of the heart. It's the life of the
mind. There's nothing more interesting than it. There's
nothing more interesting than what the Rasool sallallahu
alaihi wasallam taught, the ideas that are taught
in the Quran.
There are literally, like, you know, there are
pieces of software and apps in the phone
that will entertain a person to death in
a way that's
unimaginable, even like 5 years ago.
All in order to what? Not get people
to think about these things.
Brothers and sisters, push those things aside. Push
those people aside. They're not as important as
you think they are. They're not even important.
I say, Sheikh, well, if they're not that
important, why
are you going 2, 3 minutes over the
time of your khutbah right now on this
Friday talking about it? Why? Forget about who
it is. The names and the faces, the
forms will change. The problem is the same,
however, that we ourselves have to work on
our hearts. We ourselves have to connect with
the people of Ilm. We have ourselves have
to connect with and with hadith and with
the book of Allah, the sunnah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, with the dhikr
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. If it's boring
today, do it for 40 days. I promise
you by the time the 40 days is
over, it's not gonna be boring anymore. You'll
start to feel the benefits. You'll say, shirk,
I saw a dream in which I saw
something in the future and then it actually
happened. I I said that's very normal for
a person who prays their prayers on times
and makes the zikr of Allah Ta'ala is
careful not to eat anything haram. These things
happen. How do you think our forefathers
or do you think the Persians just invited
them and say, come destroy our empire?
That the Romans were like, marhaban bikum yarmouk
here, and we're just going to switch out
our Roman garrison for a falafel and shawarma
halal stand now. It doesn't work that way.
If our enemies are bitter to us today,
they were even worse back
in those days.
Allah's help comes with the people who take
this path. We have to believe that that
belief will motivate us, and when we motivate,
get motivated, the person who puts in the
effort, they receive the prize, the reward no
matter what their color, no matter what their
language, no matter how tall they are, how
short they are, how fat they are, ugly,
but beautiful, any of those things. Allah makes
things happen for them. Allah ta'ala make it
happen for us as well. Allah ta'ala make
us people of this remembrance. Allah ta'ala make
us people of this zikr, Mubarak, and of
this il sharif. Allah ta'ala, accept it from
us and give us a tawfiq of acting
on it, and make it a source of
honor for us in this world and a
source of salvation for us on the day
of judgment. RasallAllahu ta'ala a Rasoolihi Sayidina Muhammadu'ala
alihi w sahabi Ajmain.
Inshallah, you can take a couple of minutes
for your sameness.