Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah You Are Not Forsaken ICC 02222020
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All praises to Allah, and may his peace
and blessings be upon his servant and messenger,
our master, Sayed Muhammad
There is a short Surah in the Juz'amah.
Many of us memorized it in Sunday school
or or Islamic school or,
whatever,
you know, our teachers taught us or our
parents taught us,
whichever country or state or locality that we
grew up in.
And those of us who don't have it
memorized, at least have heard it many times.
Takes an oath
by
the morning time,
and by the night
when it covers over. And by the night
because things in the morning, they start to
move. The earth comes alive.
And in the nighttime,
things generally,
calm down and become tranquil and peaceful.
By the morning and by the night.
When it becomes calm, when it becomes tranquil,
when it covers over the day.
Your lord has not abandoned you nor does
he hate you.
And the reason Allah sent
this, this is one of the first things
that was revealed to the
prophet that after
a a a long time, Rufasdeen mentioned a
number of different,
opinions that are there from a number of
different narrations,
of
3 days, 4 days, 13 days, 14 days,
40 days. For some time, the
did not receive any ayah in the Quran,
and he missed his connection with Allah
He missed this meeting with Sayna Jibril,
And it's narrated as well that Un Jameel,
the wife of Abundaha,
the 2 whom are in
another short and very well known surah of
the Quran.
And her name is Aurad bin Harb.
She is the sister of,
Abu Sufyan,
and she was a particularly
nasty woman,
a particularly
rude woman,
who didn't take any,
lose any opportunity to empty the bile of
what was in her heart on the prophet
Know that from the there
were those who disagreed with the prophet
but carried out their disagreement in a way
that was honorable by their own culture. And
then there were those who,
just showed how disgusting they were inside.
So this Punjabiul came to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam was
during this time,
and she said, oh, Muhammad,
we make salat al salaam even though those
people, mister
chants,
your shaitan hasn't come to you for 2
or 3 days now.
It seems that he's abandoned him and he
he hates you now. Just to bother the
prophet
And, so when the when the,
revelation finally came back to the prophet
Allah says to him,
your lord has doesn't hasn't abandoned you, and
he does not hate you.
And
he gives him a number of other glad
tidings on top of that. He says that
the the the end
will be better for you than than the
beginning of this matter.
The end of this matter will be better.
It will be will
everything will be clear why that was the
the best thing that could have happened.
And that your lord will give you so
much. Your lord will give you so much,
such a generous
giving
at that time that you will be pleased.
You'll say I took the right path. I
made the right decision. All of it was
worth it.
It's not just that you're going to get
what you missed.
So that one of us might say, well,
some of us enjoyed this world and some
of us will enjoy the hereafter. I'd rather
take my my payment upfront with cash.
It's not like that. Rather, there is nobody
on that day who was about to say
that it was a good idea to take
your enjoyment in this world and leave what
was there, on the the day of judgement.
Everybody will be
convinced and intimately aware fully and completely aware
of why
they got the good deal.
So these glad tidings were given to the
messenger of Allah
at that time.
And there are a number of very potent
lessons for all of us, and these are
lessons that we already know, but we need
to remind each other from time to time
because we get mired in deep
difficulties and annoyances and the the the tragedies
and struggles and the pain and suffering of
this world.
It's difficult
to turn down a job
that you know will pay you more money
because it has to do with transacting.
It's difficult to say no to somebody,
to a face that's beautiful,
or to a
a
a a a business transaction
that you know is going to make you
money, or to some party or invitation
or invocation that's going to be fun for
you, that you're going to enjoy,
That you see other people enjoying and you
want to enjoy with them. It's difficult.
And that person gets tired at some point
of resisting.
What happens is spiritually naive people, they think
what? They think that, well, if I was
in that situation, I would be wonderful. If
I was president, I would, like, solve all
these problems. And if I was king, I
would solve all of these problems. And if
I was,
you know, if I if I was strong
enough, then I and I was at such
and such time, and such and such place,
I would have protected all of these people,
etcetera etcetera. And when that person actually gets
to that position, you know, they look around
and this this I don't wanna break a
nail, and they walk away.
It's difficult. It's difficult. That's real. That's a
very normal human thing. That's not the sign
of being an evil or crooked person.
The instinct for a person to not want
to suffer, it's one of the most basic
instincts a human being has. If they don't
have it, some of us think that that's
a sign of hiding. It's not a sign
of it's a sign of mental illness.
If you want to harm yourself and you're
quick and avid to harm yourself and give
yourself trouble.
Right? That type of masochism, it's not an
it's not healthy.
However, there are certain choices we know we
have to make for the greater good, and
making them again and again, it weighs down,
it burdens a person.
Nobody likes to suffer.
So we see also in this,
in this short Surah of the Quran, the
Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam the difficulty
of
of adhering to Allah's plan rather than our
own. What's our own plan? I said, La
ilaha illallah, I went to Jannah and made
dua
bada bing bada boom, gotta you know, now
this thing should start happening right now. Otherwise,
Shaykh lied lied to me and Islam is
not real and, like, you know, we have
to get in the real world blah blah
blah.
Brothers and sisters, that's not Islam.
There's no one more pious than the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. There's no
one whose duas are more,
accepted than the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
But he himself understood. He understood that Allah's
way of doing things is better than our
way. Allah's plan is better than our plan.
When Allah ta'ala makes things happen, he makes
them happen in the best way.
And the day will come when you will
see it, you will behold it, you'll make
You'll bear witness to it that this is
the only way it could have happened. It
had to happen this way. Any other way
wouldn't have been
there.
You'll say it with your own tongue after
seeing it.
That
the person who took this path, their end
is better for them in the beginning.
Your Lord will give everyone of you one
day so much that you will be pleased,
you will be happy with him.
You will say, all of those difficulties, all
of those things I had to say no
to, all of that sober impatience I had
to go through, you'll say it was all
worth it.
It was a deal I if I had
a chance to, if I had a chance,
I would cash in on that deal again
and again and again.
And the particularly
touching point,
which is mentioned by Portubi and Histasir of
this,
Surah, is that it's narrated from the messenger
of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
It's narrated from the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam
that he said, I will not be pleased,
I will not my riva will not be
fulfilled until on the day of judgment, until
the last of my ummah enters into Jannah.
So in this ayah are so many glad
tidings that are wrapped into one. Anyone who
dies on imam, the prophet
will keep asking, keep asking. He's the one
who Allah promised him that you will be
given one day until you're pleased. He says,
I won't be pleased until the last of
my my entrance into Jannah.
All of it will be worth it one
day, brothers and sisters.
Islam is Islam. It's not Burger King where
you have it your way.
You said
Allah
commanded you to a certain set of
ideals,
a certain set of behaviors,
a certain set of norms, a certain set
of customs and cultures that we don't lie
to each other, we don't cheat each other,
we do things that are beneficial, we don't
do things that are harmful,
we don't judge people based on what they
what they look like. Rather, we treat everyone
with a basic modicum of human dignity and,
thereafter,
based on how they behave rather than how
they look.
We are people who are, people of chastity.
We're people who are people of purity. We're
attracted by the same things that other people
are attracted by, but we don't act on
those things. We we don't act on on
those, animalistic instincts rather than we act on
our angelic instincts.
And one day, it will pay off even
though it's difficult in the middle, and it
will pay off so much that you'll be
pleased, you'll know, you'll yourself bear witness with
your own eyes why this was the best
way of doing things. In fact, it was
the only way of doing things, But it
doesn't happen on your schedule,
it doesn't happen by your arrangement, it doesn't
happen by your plotting and planning. Rather, Allah's
schedule is better than all others.
Rather, Allah's plan is better than all others.
Rather, when Allah does something, it's better it's
better for the people of
than if they had chosen what to do
themselves.
They will come to be pleased by how
much he gives you. And then Allah
reminds the, reminds the believers
of his
blessings upon them. He reminds the prophet of
his blessings upon them. Now look what happened
in the past. He goes in the past.
Did all of these things for you if
you really had it in for you or
if you really forgot or didn't care, he
wouldn't have done these things. So did he
not find you as an orphan
and then he gave you protection?
Did he not, find you,
without guidance, meaning without the Sharia and then
he gave it to you?
He gave you guidance, he gave you a
system by which you would have benefited in
this world and the hereafter.
Did he not find you destitute?
And he gave you he provided you with
provision.
So out of shukr, out of
thankfulness to him,
when you see the,
when you see the orphan, treat him well.
Don't treat him badly. And when someone comes
and asks you for something,
don't shut him down. Don't be mean to
him. Don't be rude to him. This is
part of the the kind of the Protestant
work ethic that underpins the ethos of the
society, that poverty is considered to be a
sin.
It's not something universal amongst the Christians, but
in particular the Protestants, they consider the sign
of virtue with with allies is what is
that he give you material success and the
sign of wickedness is that he gives you,
poverty, which is completely perplexing. It makes no
sense whatsoever
Because Sayedid alaihi wasalam who they say is
Allah himself.
He was a poor man. All of his
disciples and his companions were poor people. The
people who carried the message of said
to the world century after century.
The vast majority of them were poor people.
But for some reason this land stigmatizes
it, stigmatizes poverty as if it's some sort
of curse.
If someone asks you for something, whether it's
you or in a Muslim country, don't say,
oh this guy's a drug addict, maybe he's
a drug addict, so do your business.
Allah is not gonna ask you why did
this person use drugs?
Don't say all these people didn't get an
education, they don't work hard. I worked hard.
Allah knows what actually happened, but even assuming
that's true,
That's not what you're supposed to do. That's
not what you're supposed to say.
If you want to give, give.
If you don't want to give, it's a
sunnah of the Prophet
not to turn anyone away completely
empty handed. Say, may Allah guide you. May
Allah ease your suffering. May Allah ease your,
your your your trials and your tribulations.
Allah improve your condition.
May Allah give you a pure and illicit
provision,
Don't turn anyone away empty handed. If they
don't like the du'a, that's their bad,
but you at least give a du'a to
the person who's asking you. You don't show
crooked face, You don't show anger. You don't
show displeasure.
You don't show mockery. All of these things
are haram, and they're a sin unto the
lord. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he said to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
to the best of his creation, not to
you and me.
Did I not find you poor?
And then I enriched you.
If this is a reminder Allah gave to
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
then it's true for every single one of
us. We were all destitute. We were all
broke if it wasn't for the father and
grace of Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala. Don't ever don't ever shut down and
and turn away with harshness, the person who
asks. If you wanna give, give. If you
don't wanna give, don't give. But don't ever
show any negativity to those people, that's not
our way, as Muslims that's not our way.
And ask for the blessings of your Lord,
then remind people of them, speak about that.
And what does this mean? This doesn't mean
that you, you know, the whole blesses the
Lord, talk about them with people, It doesn't
mean that you post a picture of, like,
every extravagant meal you have on Instagram
or of your new car or of your
jewelry or of your clothes or of your
beautiful face. Masha'Allah Masha'Allah
or of your, you know, of your your
car,
houses all of these things, every material well.
If you did it once or twice,
okay whatever you know I won't say haram
but this is not what's meant by
the the Ayat the greatest the greatest blessing
Allah gave to the prophet
was what?
It was in Abu'a, his prophethood.
So tell the people tell the people I'm
sent by Allah and Allah sent me with
the following message.
And the greatest blessing Allah gave to you
and to me is also the nabua of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Because from the creation, it is the thing
that Allah has chosen as the means for
us to have eternal life and to have
salvation.
Remind yourselves about it. Remind your wives and
your children and your parents
that the greatest blessing Allah sent to us
is what?
The nubu of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Why?
You could say if it wasn't for that
we would have been eating pork and getting
drunk right now being high.
You could have said that it would have
made your mother and father not be married
when you were conceived.
You could have said that it would have
not built the great massages of of Pakistan
Andalus and of Nazareth and of Egypt and
Syria and of Iran and of Tashtashband and
Samarkand
Bukhara. You could say all of those things
and they're actually good answers.
But the most important thing to say is
what? If it wasn't for
sending Rahmatullah
then none of us would have made it
on that day.
We none of us would have had any
dignity in this world, and none of us
would have made it on the day of
judgment, on the day that the fire, the
fuel of whom is been in stone, it
will be filled with the nations of the
earth.
Nations of the earth that considered themselves
great, they will burn in the garbage heap
of the hellfire, and Allah save us that
day.
If you want to post something on your
Snapchat and on your Instagram and on your
Facebook and Twitter, post that. Go ahead and
post it.
If you want to talk about something with
your parents and with your friends, mention
it. Mention it. There's nothing wrong with it.
If someone turns their face away, that's their
own
ill fate. Otherwise, the great kings and conquerors,
princes, sultans,
soldiers, warriors, scholars, poets,
all of the great men that made up
our civilization.
People who are smarter than you and I,
people who worked harder than you and I,
people who are more beautiful than you and
I, and people who made it, not just
in the Afirah, made it in the dunya
in a way that you and I can
never comprehend.
We're the ones who you're you know, our
names my name is Khalil, but you call
me Jim. Not those people. No. The people
who people named their own children because they
saw them.
Those people were the ones who,
they never used to sit except for the
saint and the sinner amongst them would weep
at the joy of the mentioned of the
nabua and the
prophet
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala increase us in our
our our nirma,
this worldly and otherworldly, spiritually, physically, materially
in our individuals and in our families and
in our society.