Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah Which Side Are We On 10212016 Masjid Dawah.mp4
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Your countenance and the greatness of your authority.
Oh Allah, we do not limit you with
any praise we could come up with ourselves,
rather we admit that you are the only
one who knows the true extent of Your
praiseworthiness.
And may the peace and blessings of Allah
be upon His servant and Messenger,
our Master, Sayyidina Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. May
the peace and blessings of Allah
be upon him, and upon
his noble companions, and upon his pure wives,
and upon his Mubarak, 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 fadul of Allah
Allah gave us the tawfeeq of saying the
shahada of La ilaha illallah, and Sayna Muhammad
Rasulullah
and together for his Mubarak vigor and his
Mubarak remembrance, this Mubarak hour, this Mubarak day,
this Mubarak month.
The month of Muharram is a sacred month.
Allah gave us a tawfiq to gather in
the sacred hour. This tawfiq is not something
that we generated from ourselves.
The only one who has the ability to
make something from nothing is Allah ta'ala. This
is our
This is one reason that the English language
is extremely deficient to describe the deen of
Islam. Because we say so and so is
creative, so and so has creativity.
The verb for creation,
in Arabic,
is only reserved for the use of Allah
Because
He is the only one who creates something
from nothing. Whatever creativity
people have in this world, if they are
good people, if they are people who
purify their gaze and don't look at the
haram and purify their ears and don't listen
to the haram, don't listen to lies, Don't
listen to enticement to do haram. They purify
their their their stomach that their mouth only,
that's what's haram in. They purify their tongue
that they only speak the haram. One of
the things we forget, just like when you
write an email, you can write an email
and cc it to another person. Just like
that, when your tongue says something to people
around you outside, a cc is sent to
your heart and all of it gathers over
there. So if your tongue is saying dirty
things, your heart becomes foul. And if your
tongue is saying beautiful things, your heart becomes
beautiful by the father of Allah Ta'ala.
All of these things, these are these these
things that affect the heart. What you do
with your private parts. What you do with
your hands. What you do with your feet.
They all affect the heart and then the
heart comes into a state. It tunes into
a station.
It tunes into a station. Like you have
a a radio,
your radio can tune into many different stations.
You can listen to an enlightened political discourse.
You can listen to a preacher preach, preach
the gospel.
You can listen to a fahesh song singing
about fahesh things. You can listen to country
music. You can listen to jazz. You you
can listen to a 100 different things. Same
radio. Everyone has the same radio. Everyone has
a heart. Same radio. Different stations that are
tuned into. What these people think is creativity
is what? It's a station that they're tuned
into.
So just like Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sent
his inspiration to his prophet salayahu alayhi wassalam,
Just like Allah
through the duas of the malahul a'ala, through
the duas of the angels, through the duas
of the saliheen
sends a good signal that is picked up
by those hearts that are in tune to
something good just like that. Those people who
eat the haram, look at the haram, listen
to haram, listen to lies, listen to deceit,
those things that those people who use their
hands and their feet for the haram, those
people who use their private parts for the
haram, when they wake up in the morning
and haram is the thing that makes the
most sense to them, that's not their own
creativity, brothers and sisters. That's a different station.
That station is being run by the shayateen
of ins and jinn, the shayateen of mankind
and of jinns. This is a the fadl
from Allah Ta'ala that he created this good
that even we struggle ourselves to tune into
it. The signal is not something we're making
ourselves. The signal is something given by from
Allah Even the struggle itself is made by
Allah and given to us, but that's something
that very few people will understand. Very few
people will be able to, make a drak
of that that that reality in the beginning.
What I want to remind myself, I want
to remind other people because this is a
very very beautiful opportunity.
K. This masjid is in a different place
than many other masages are in our community.
It's not in the suburbs.
It's not we're not exchanging,
fruit baskets with the neighbors here. You understand
what I'm saying? This is a this message
is in different place. This is a blessing
for Allah
also.
Why? Why is it a blessing? It may
not look like a blessing at first. The
reason it's a blessing is this. Let me
share a story with you.
I, myself, went to go study the dean.
When I went to study, I went to
very far, fun places. I didn't study in
Chicago. I didn't study in America.
I didn't study in a university or college.
I didn't study dean in a university or
college. I studied biochemistry in a university, and
then I went to go study dean in
very difficult places to live. I went to
Mauritania where you had to get your water
from a well. I went to,
Pakistan
where the the high temperature in the summer
would get 50 degrees Celsius. That's something around
a 124 degrees Fahrenheit.
If the fan shut down while you're sleeping,
you will sweat so much that it will
cause your eyes to burn.
For some reason or another, these places are
the ones where you will find the people
with the most class to study from, and
Allah Allah knows best what's in the hearts
of the people. Allah knows what's best what's
inside the hearts of people. When I was
studying in Mauritania, the thought crossed my mind.
Okay. To get to the this place I
was studying in, you have to drive 6
hours on road and then 6 hours off
road. Have you ever seen a Toyota Land
Cruiser before? No. Right? They drive them around
on freeways over here. The vehicle wasn't made
for a freeway. If you wanna drive on
a freeway, you should. You have that much
money, buy a Lexus instead. You're wasting the
Land Cruiser. The car vehicle could drive up
the side of a mountain literally. It's a
very well built vehicle.
And that's what we did. You have to
drive up the side of a mountain for
6 hours to get to the to get
to the madrasa. It literally it was such
a windy path that it takes just as
long to walk as it does to take
go by car. Because on your legs, you
can go through, jump things that you can't
do on a car. That's how far away
it was.
The thought crossed my mind that what if
I get sick? What if I get sick
and I need to go to a hospital?
In 12 hours, I could die.
Right? The ambulance sometimes the ambulance here, if
it's late by just, you know,
half an hour, 20 minutes, person is having
a stroke, a heart attack, person gets shot,
something like that. If the intervention isn't isn't
quick enough, the person will die.
Right? So I thought if I get sick,
what what's gonna happen? I'm just gonna die
over here. It'll take 24 hours for a
vehicle to come here even if we order
it. And there are some people here that
don't have enough money even to order the
vehicle if they had the choice.
I could die over here.
Right? I could die over here. Then I
thought, You know what? You can die in
the city. People die in the city as
well. Forget about the ambulance. People are inside
the hospital, inside the emergency room. When the
emergency happens, they still die. Whose choice is
it? The doctors?
No.
Whose choice is it? The ambulance? No.
Whose choice is it? It's Allah ta'ala's choice.
The same Allah ta'ala that gives life and
death in the city, He also gives it
in the Badia, in the desert. What's the
difference? Why is the desert a blessing? It's
a blessing because that hijab hijab that was
between you and Allah
the hijab of, oh, the ambulance is here,
oh, the hospital is here, oh, the doctors
are here, Oh, I have this resource, that
resource that I can depend on. The only
one you could have depended on in the
first place is Allah ta'ala.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't have ambulances
in hospitals and make plans for things. We
should always do that. We do that. If
not for any other reason, it's the sunnah
of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. The problem is not having the ambulance
in the hospital.
The problem is depending on the ambulance in
the hospital whereas you weren't commanded to depend
on them. You were commanded to depend on
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So the blessing of being here is what?
The blessing of being here
is this the the the low, the dizziness,
the the the the stupor, the drunkenness that
the entire country, whether they're Muslims or not,
the the drunkenness and the stupidity that the
entire country has been lulled into, that they
think that this party is going to help
me or that party is going to help
me, or voting is going to help me,
or not voting is going to help me,
or or or rich people's money helps them,
or poor people's poverty. All of this this
is all nonsense.
When the hijab when the the the veil
between you and Allah ta'ala is lifted, and
you understand that he was the only one
you had in the 1st place anyway. He's
the one who gave you the money, and
if he wants the money, we'll help you.
And if he wants, the higher maqam is
the one who doesn't give the money and
he helps them anyway.
What's more miraculous?
The fact that fa'alan has a a pharaoh
has a huge army that he can chase
Musa with? Or the fact that say the
Musa can touch the the water and the
sea parts out Allah Ta'ala's commandment.
That's a case in which the honor of
the one who had nothing is higher than
the honor of the one who had something.
This is one of the reasons in our
deen, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam never
asked for more.
Never asked for more. All he asked for
for barakah and what he had.
Allah ta'ala, if he gives you what you
have, if it's enough, it will be better
than having better than having money, it'll be
better than having wealth, all of those things.
Why? The wealthy will give and
the people who had little with baraka. They
have no liability in front of Allah ta'ala
on the day of account, and they will
get to the maqam of Jannah faster than
the people who had the means.
Obviously, if you need to take the means
again, it's not haram to take the means
in order to do what you need to
do. If you need to protect your family,
if you need to earn a living, if
you need to protect your community, if you
need to build a masjid, by all means,
gather the wealth, gather the means, gather the
dunya you need to in order to get
that done, that will not be counted as
dunya against you. It will be counted as
part of the deen. But what you're forbidden
from doing and what I'm forbidden from doing
is putting your trust in the money, putting
your trust in the means, putting your trust
in the dunya. And this is a sickness.
This is an illness. This is an illness
from which people people, like, people people who
are in that that
that that that condition of not having the
the means.
They're actually spared from a sickness that the
people who are not in that condition are
spared from. There's a a hikma in everything.
You wanna follow the sunnah? Right? You wanna
follow sunnah?
We rip each other about having beards and
not having beards. These things are part of
the sunnah as well
You wanna follow the sunnah? Nabi sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam's prayer to Allah is, You Allah.
You Allah. Make the the maisakim the poor,
the people who are destitute, make them beloved
to me, and give them the
company of those people and make me one
of them.
Allah offered him, if you wish to. Alright?
Say that Jibril brought him the offer that
Allah offers you if you wish to. You
can live forever and you can be a
king. You can live in this ummah as
a king. He says, no. I'd rather live
as a slave. I would do my job
and leave from this world because this world
is not the the the homeland of any
person who Allah tested for Jannah. This world
is stopover at the airport. This world is
not a place that you build forever.
Now coming back to the situation that you
are you are in, that I am in.
Okay? One of the things that irks me
to no end, there are some preachers who
have made a living by dividing people.
There are some preachers even even amongst us,
they have beards and they wear turbans or
some of them wear suits and ties. Some
of them speak much more eloquently than I
do. Some of them are even more educated
than I am. But they made a living
by dividing people,
by getting one group of people to hate
another, and this is something that bothers me
to no end. Okay? One of the things
that they've made their money, made their living
by doing is making.
Indigenous population of Muslims resent the immigrants. And
shaitan also made that immigrant population
resent and disrespect the indigenous population, the African
American population, the the the the Caucasian population
of those who entered into Islam. Whereas Allah
Ta'ala's commandment is very clear
in
his
book
in the The believers are what? They're nothing
but brothers, full brothers, and full sisters to
one another. So if you see some sort
of gap between them, then make islah. Then
do what? Then then heal that wound.
Heal that that, you know, that break that's
there. Fix that break between between them. This
is the job of the Anbiya, alay musaatu
as salam. This is the job of the
prophets too. Fix the the the gap and
the the the break the wound between people.
I'll tell you something.
The same kufr the same kufr, disbelief. You
know? We in Islam, we have this idea
that what? It's
a hadith of the Messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. Khufr, disbelief is 1 milah.
We don't say that this is better than
that
The atheist, the person who worships the trinity,
the person who worships 1 Allah but denies
prophethood, or the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
the person who believes in a nabi after
our prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, whether he's
from Qadian, or from Chicago, or from God
knows where. All of these people, they're all
in one bracket with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
They're all the same. The same kufr that
traumatized you,
immigrants. It's the same kufr that traumatized you,
African American community.
It's the same kufr traumatized all of us.
Do you understand what I'm saying? It's the
same kufr, it's the same system.
Our shaykh that we read hadith from by
Allah's Fabbalah
If you go four links up in our
chain of narration, one of our, his name
is what? Muhammad Hassan Nanotui. Right? For those
of you who have gone and studied in
the, Dar al Qasim, Sheikh Amin, he's come
here to give talks before. Right? He named
the Dar al Qasim after who? He named
Dar al Qasim after our shaykh that our
son meets up with. K?
The same the same British and the same,
Europeans that enslaved the forefathers of our African
American brothers and sisters.
They're the same ones. They came and they,
hung our in the Indian subcontinent.
They're the same ones. Asim Nhanotu
was a refugee. He was wanted by by
the colonial administration.
It came to the point where he was.
He was in a house,
hold in, in a masjid.
The British soldiers surrounded the masjid,
and the jig was up. He said, I'm
gonna give myself up because I don't want
them to start shooting at the house of
Allah
and blood and all of these things. They'll
desecrate the house of Allah out of this.
Love of Allah Ta'ala. He said, I'm just
gonna give myself up. He said, he's a
guard. He made his peace with Allah Ta'ala
and he walked out of the masjid.
The soldier he sees says, you know where
Qasim Nanotui is? He said, You know what?
He was just here not too long ago.
And he just walked away. This is the
favel of Allah These things happen.
This is the favel of Allah Ta'ala. And
this is also the the maqam of our
mashaayf that Allah
spared them from ever speaking a lie, even
in that situation in which lying becomes permissible
for people to save their lives. This is
the same these are the same people. They
did that to us. These are the same
people that did that to us as immigrants.
They're the same people who did that to
us as an indigenous population. They are the
same people. Now the question I have as
an outsider, as a guest who comes to
Masjid Dawah not but 1 or 2 times
in a year,
is what? One of the reasons that there
are several reasons you see that in America,
the African American community has accepted Islam and
embraced Islam in a way that the Caucasian
community hasn't.
One of them I can think of is
spiritual reason and one of them I can
think of is a material reason. The spiritual
reason is what? It's because our forefathers were
enslaved. Our forefathers were all Muslims. Our forefathers
were enslaved. That's everybody. Even if you're from
Pakistan or India or a white convert or
whatever, this those people who were enslaved and
brought to and changed to this country, those
people are all of our forefathers.
Our forefathers were brought to this country in
chains.
And if I have something to complain about
as someone from the subcontinent
that they did this, they burned down our
madares, they assassinated our ulama, they hung them
from the the the the gates of the
walls of of Dili and of Lahore and
of all of these different cities of Agra.
If I have this complaint
then I have this complaint against the same
people about our forefathers they brought from Africa.
What they stole from our forefathers from the
subcontinent was small compared to what they stole
from our fore forefathers from Africa. In the
sense that you have people who come here,
it's one thing to steal somebody's books. It's
something to burn their library down to kill
their family to do all of this. Imagine
what does it mean to steal someone's name
that a person should know their their fathers
for 4, 5, 6 generations, and they don't
know what their family name is. They don't
know where they're from. They don't even know
who they are. This is a type of
theft only shaitan can think of. This is
a type of theft only shaitan can think
of. Even the the the the dude on
the hood who's dealing drugs and and and
and and killing people and gang violence and
* and all of those things, that that
dude never even thought about doing something this
evil.
Never thought about doing something this evil.
Those forefathers of ours, they made dua.
They made dua undoubtedly like any person of
iman would that, you Allah, these people have
done something to me that I can't resist.
They've controlled me and they've done something to
me in this dunya. So evil I can't
do anything. I don't know how anything is
going to work in my my my favor.
I don't know how there can be any
khair for me in this dunya anymore.
But what did they make dua for? They
made dua, You Allah, from my lineage, from
my progeny, don't remove iman.
That's why we're here.
That's why we're here. That's why all of
us are here.
Right? The same dua that our forefathers made
from another side of the world is the
same dua that our forefathers made from the
from the other side of
world. The material reason is what? Is that
any person any person you see all these
very angry people, they support their political candidates.
You know, for legal reasons, we have pledged
not to take political sides, but they support
their political candidates, some of them with firearms,
and they're very angry people. If anyone has
a reason in this country to be angry
about anything, it's the African American community.
In fact, it's a sign of their hillmen,
of their saber, and their superior character that
they don't have anger in this country.
It's a sign of what? It's a sign
of their superior character that they don't have
more anger than what they have. One of
the reasons that
people in great numbers in the seventies, in
the seventies, in the sixties, in the eighties
entered into Islam is what?
Is because they said, when I was in
chains, you did with us what what you
wanted to. When my forefathers were in chains,
you did with us what you wanted to.
Now the chains are gone.
You could not keep me clamped down. Allah
ta'ala made his decision through his Qadr, through
his divinely ordained
predestination, through his providence that you cannot keep
me down anymore. I am from now on
free.
And * no I'm not going to take
your name. * no. I'm not gonna dress
like you dress. I'm not gonna eat like
you eat. I'm not gonna wake up in
the morn I'm not gonna eat the halaam
that you eat. I'm not gonna wake up
in the morning like you wake up in
the morning. I'm not gonna go sleep at
night the way you went to sleep at
night.
Why? Because that's pure evil, and it's leading
to where? Jahannam.
And our forefathers on both sides, they were
not Jahannamani people.
Our forefathers on both sides, they were not
Jahannamani people. This is a blessing that we're
here. Why? Because when you see why is
there a Pete's Fresh Market in in Villa
Park and in Lombard, but there's not a
Pete's Fresh Market over here, you know, that
you see like every 2 miles. There's not
a grocery store in every 2 miles in
this part of town.
Why is it that the streets are clean
in another part of town? Here, the streets
Why is it in
Elmhurst when you get pulled over by the
cops? When you get pulled over by the
cops, if you're if you're black, there'll be
6 cop cars that are there up on
you because you ran a stop sign. Mhmm.
There was a brother there's a brother there's
a brother came to visit me from Seattle.
I was explaining to him. Seattle is very
different than over here. I was explaining to
him. I said, these these suburbs that we
live in, the taxes are
astronomical. And the only reason is so that
we can have cops to harass black people
and keep them out of town. Walahee,
15 minutes after I said that, the coffee
shop we were sitting at, young black man
runs out. 6 cop cars come. They tackle
him, hold him down as if this guy
is, like, some sort of mass murderer or
whatever.
Who knows if he even did anything? If
he did something obviously, he didn't do something
to have people their their guns drawn on
him and this and that like like it's
a animal that escaped from the zoo.
Now tell me something. This is the same
thing that's happening with us as an African
American community in this country. It's the same
thing that's happening with us as as as
immigrants.
When a brown skinned person does something, it's
terrorism. When a white person gets guns and
explosives and plans to blow up places of
worship, it's
not even if that place of worship is
a church even if that place of worship
is a church, it's still not terrorism.
Right? The same the same the same kufar
that's doing this to us
as immigrants, same kufar is doing it to
us as African Americans,
same kufr that does it to us as
as converts to Islam. It's the same kufr
that does it in our countries.
Let me tell you something. The name Baghdad,
the name Raqqah, the name Mosul, the name
Damascus, the name Aleppo,
these were names that used to be benchmarks
for civilization.
Now their names are synonymous with getting the
the the the crap bombed out of you.
Now their names are synonymous with getting bombed
back into the stone age.
Why is that? It's the same Kufr that
did it to all of us. Now people
are like, oh my goodness, Sheikh. You came
here. You are you supposed to be a
a scholar? Why are you talking about politics
from the from the member?
Could give less of a dam about the
politics. I don't care who wins president. I
don't I don't I'm not trying to run
for nothing myself. What's the theological angle in
this? Because the Jum'ah is supposed to be
a occasional vicar remembering Allah.
The thing I wanna say, the thing that
I'm reminding myself and reminding other people is
why is it despite knowing
the putrid and disgusting nature of this Kufr
and the people who promulgate it, the people
who propagate their system, most of them don't
even understand. They don't even know what they're
doing.
They're like lemmings working in a system. They
they have no idea what they're propagating. They're
just propagating the system. They have no idea
where it started, shaitan, and where it's gonna
end, jahannam.
For them,
we make dua for their hidayah. For us,
what what is wrong with us that this
is still the system that we put all
of our hope into?
What's wrong with us? This is still
our our our children, we still have hope.
All of us have hope. My son become
a doctor, my daughter become an engineer, my
son become a a lawyer, go to university
for,
go to school for 12 years, go to
university for 4 years, get a bachelor's degree,
get another four years, get a professional degree,
do an internship, do a residency, do all
of these things, pay taxes. And, you know,
this is the hope. This is our hope.
This is our hope. Is what? It's this
dunya.
Why is it why is it our hope
that we can be a cog in someone
else's system? Well, sheikh, are you against education?
No. I'm not against education. I went to
university myself. I went to American University. I
have a degree in biochemistry. I say people
should learn all of these things. What I'm
what I have a problem is when you
put your hope into it. So, Sheikh, what's
the difference? The difference is what? We have
our own children,
immigrant children and African American children, convert children,
whoever it is.
Our own children grow up age 18, doesn't
know how to read a lick of the
Quran,
doesn't bother learning the Arabic language,
doesn't bother to learn the deen, doesn't bother
to learn what the Nabi salallahu alaihi wa
sallam said, doesn't bother to learn the fiqh
of this deen.
Every masjid in this in this city, out
of out of hundreds of masajid, maybe today,
10 or 15 of them, the Khutba will
be given by a person who is a
person of,
a person of knowledge. Not just knows more
than the average person, but a person who
has some sort of formal qualification.
All the rest of them, it's mercenary Khatib
getting up and just, like, you know, he
freestyling. Just freestyle. Just whatever comes in, whatever
sounds good. You say what you wanna say.
People saying all sorts of ridiculous things. Why?
We did no investment no investment in this
deen whatsoever.
We did no investment in this deen. The
person who was an immigrant, they changed their
name from Mohammed, and they have a nickname
that everybody else knows them from. The person
who in the seventies used to say, man,
don't call me by my slave name. Don't
call me. The slave name don't seem so
bad no more, does it?
And so what? What happens? The rest of
the community said, these people just sell outs
like everybody else.
These people just hustlers like everybody else. They're
just here to make a buck like everybody
else. I can't trust them. They don't have
nothing to give to me. The
prophet's character was so noble.
Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was such a
person. He was never asked for anything after
after Iqaba came down on his noble heart,
salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he was never asked
for any material thing except for he gave
it.
Except for what? Except for he gave it.
That was that was the importance of the
the dunya to him. If he didn't have
it, he would apologize to people and make
dua for them. If he had something, he
would give it. He would just give it
to them. Now tell me why is it
that knowing all of this after knowing all
of this, what have we made our long
term goal? What have we made our long
term investment? Who have we cast in our
lot with? The same that did did did
the same thing to our horrible things to
our forefathers that we cry about, and we
feel entitled because because of the that has
been done on them.
Those same people we cast in our lot
with them again. We cast in our lot
again with with with them. And when I
say cast our lot, it doesn't mean we're
gonna buy a t shirt and say, I
love I love the man. I love the
I love COINTELPRO.
I love this. I it's not it's not
that. It's in little choices we make every
day. It's in how we present ourselves in
front of one another. It's in what we
spend
our our days doing, what we spend our
time and and day doing.
It's in how we interact with one another.
It's in what our hopes and dreams are.
If If I were to ask somebody and
nobody could lie to me, who here wishes
to be a millionaire?
Everyone, illaam insha'allah, including myself. I'm not trying
to act like I'm better than nobody else.
Everyone raise their hand. Even though the money
you know the money doesn't have any worth
at all, the money used to be exchangeable
for gold. It's just paper with the picture
of a dead catheter on it.
Those are the people, You'll
run away from them. If they try to
grab a hold of you, you'll run from
them. Wallahi, you'll run from them.
You'll run from them.
Some of them were the people, they themselves
were the ones who enslaved our forefathers.
We wish to have their picture in our
wallet, carry them with us by day and
night like we were supposed to carry the
vicar of
Allah
Remember your lord
in humility
and in fear by day and by night.
Not the remembrance only of the tongue. You
should do that also. But this is the
remembrance that beats inside of your heart. It's
an it just happens. It just happens. Just
like a person doesn't think every time they
breathe or think every time their heart beats.
That remembrance you carry with you by day
and night, and you remember him
When you're awake, and just like that, you
remember him when you're sleeping as well.
And you are not allowed ever. Don't you
dare ever even for a second even
for a second. And I'm wrapping up. Even
for a second, don't you dare don't you
dare forget. Don't you dare let yourself be
heedless. That type of remembrance, that's the one
we we don't make dua for. Yeah. Allah
give me that type of remember. I'm not
claiming I have it. Allah give it to
all of us. I mean, maybe someone says
I mean, Allah will accept for all. Allah
give it to all of us. That type
of remembrance we hold is sincerity inside of
our heart that we have that remembrance of
these dead pictures that goes with us in
the morning when we wake up and when
we go to sleep at night. Right? I'm
not saying don't have money.
I'm saying don't keep that in your heart.
Don't make that your goal. Don't make that
your desire.
And what we should have been doing is,
You Allah,
You Allah, make me a person who never
misses a salat again. You Allah, make me
a person who never forgets you again. You
Allah, make me a person whenever there's some
sort of whenever there's some sort of opportunity
to represent, instead of representing the city, or
instead of representing my job, or instead of
representing my corporation, or instead of representing my
sports team, or make me represent your oliya,
make me represent the Sultan of your oliya,
Sayyid no Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. We
should have asked Allah, ta you Allah, make
my progeny a progeny of of a profound
of Quran.
Make my progeny muhaddithin
and
Make my progeny those who struggle in your
path.
Make my progeny those who call to your
path. Make my progeny
those who those who you love and those
who who who you who who you give
your you give your your friendship to. You
Allah, accept everything I have from me. You
Allah, make me live only for you, and
when I die, give me the death of
Shahadah.
Who made that dua?
Who makes that dua? Who cherishes the hope
that you know, there's a hadith of the
Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, the person who
who asks Allah to Allah with sincerity,
cherishes the hope inside of their heart that,
You Allah, that You give me shahada one
day.
Allah ta'we'll write for them
the reward of being a shahid even if
they die of old age in their bed.
Where is that? Who's the one who who
does it themselves and teach their children to
do that? It's not for a lot. Maybe
I won't even get invited back. Forget about
the regular messiah. I probably won't even get
invited back to give no more if I
if I mention Shahadah one more time.
That's that's that's the that's the treasure our
forefather gave or our forefathers gave us. And
after that, you're not gonna wanna be called
Jim no more or Bob or Mike or
whatever in front of other people.
You're gonna be proud. What is it? Who
are the people who inspire us? Right? Muhammad
Ali
who died. Neither a Hafiz of Quran nor
a shaheedf
in the in the outward sense, nor a
a, a, nor a, nor a. None of
those things.
But what what why did we love him?
Because he made it, he he showed us
a path to, like, be, American Muslims and
adjust and integrate into the society around us?
* no. * no.
A person who integrates into insanity is insane.
A person who integrates into crime, that person's
a criminal.
The reason he inspired us, after the end,
they made a big show out of it,
like a big, like, star speck
spectacle, like, Rose Bowl parade out of out
of everything.
That's that's Allah knows best. That's not the
reason He inspired us. The reason He inspired
us was what? When Batil asked to stand
up and give your life for the sake
of Batil.
Right? Falsehood.
What did he say? He said, Ain't ain't
no Vietkharg ever call me a nigger.
Where is that
feeling? Where is that sentiment gone?
Immigrants, where is that sentiment gone? African American
community, where is that sentiment gone to?
All the other African American leaders,
they were saying, what? Finally, they're gonna let
us fight in integrated units. We can fight
in an integrated unit with MASA.
He's gonna love us now. He's gonna respect
he'll expect he'll accept us now.
He said, man, I don't even wanna be
accepted by these people.
These people are they're they're disgusting and they're
doing something disgusting. I don't even wanna be
accepted by these people.
I don't wanna go and do what they
did to my fore forefathers, go to travel
across the ocean, go to someone else's house
and do it. I don't wanna do that.
Where's that sentiment gone?
Are we so attuned to like, oh, Bill
Clinton said something really nice about him, so
like now he's important to us.
There's a sort of ghairah and there's a
sort of pride that we have in iman.
It's connected with Allah and His Rasul
We don't hate anybody else. We wish guidance
for everybody else, but if we have to
pick sides, we know which side we need
to pick.
To die on the right side.