Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah You Gain Nothing By Cheapening Your Faith Hir 05132022
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All praises to Allah
who guided us to this, who guided us
to Islam and to iman,
and to his Mubarak house on this Mubarak
hour of this Mubarak day, and we were
not to be guided. Was it not that
Allah had guided us?
These are sentences that are read
and repeated ritualistically
both in the Arabic language and in English
if you are
in a place where people are so inclined.
However,
one gets the feeling from time to time
that they're spoken formulaically
and that they've lost meaning amongst certain people.
Judging others is not our job.
Even if we were to attempt to do
it, we're not gonna do a good job
at it.
Neither did Allah command us to judge others,
nor will we be able to even if
we try.
So leave that aside for a second. This
is just a reminder for each of us
for ourselves.
For me, for myself,
and for those who are here to listen
for ourselves.
That
one of the essential components of
any
act of worship,
When I say act of worship, in particular
in particular, we're talking about ritual acts of
worship.
For example,
if somebody
gives an act of charity,
gives a sadaqa to a poor person.
This is
not what I'm talking about. Why? Because you
give somebody money because they're hungry, they buy
food, it all makes sense. The entire transaction
makes sense to a person.
Whereas for example salat, it's not immediately obvious
how salat is helping you.
It's not immediately obvious that
Jumaa should be 2 rakas
instead of 3 or 4,
or that it should be on a Friday,
or that it should be prayed in a
particular way. The only reason we hold this
particular form of Jumu'ah for example,
is because we are told by the Messenger
of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam because we trust
him when he said that he is the
Messenger of Allah.
The salat is a ritual form of worship.
The fasting is a ritual form of worship.
One of the key components
of the validity and the benefit of any
ritual form of
any ritual form of
worship
in particular.
Other forms of worship in general, but ritual
forms of worship in particular
is the i'tikad,
the belief that a person, what they're doing,
it has some sort of benefit in it.
That it has some sort of holiness in
it. It has something some something sacred about
it.
Otherwise, if a person doesn't have this ayatikhad,
it doesn't have their this belief inside of
their heart that what I'm doing is actually
important.
What I'm doing is worthwhile.
What I'm doing is worth coming from work.
It's worth missing an hour or 2 of
pay. It's worth missing out on the company
lunch. It's worth missing out going on the
school field trip. It's worth all of these
things.
I'm getting something better from this than other
people are getting from what they're doing.
If you don't have that feeling inside,
then maybe it's
it is a waste of time.
And the Rasul salallahu alaihi wa sallam himself,
he chastised a man who
waits until the end of the time of
salat, until the time of the salat is
about to end and then prays very quickly.
And he described the quick prayer like the
nukrat al dikh.
Like the the dikh, the rooster, like the
rooster, the way it pecks the floor. It's
extremely fast move.
That the that he described the the the
rakah of
a person who's trying to just speed through
their salat at the end of the time
as like a rooster pecking a seed off
of the floor.
Obviously a rooster pecking the seed off the
floor is not going to inspire anybody. A
rooster pecking a seed off of the floor
is not going
to move somebody.
Nobody looks at that as ideal or as
something that stirs the heart to a higher
state.
It's in fact quite the opposite, quite mundane,
and quite uninspiring.
Brothers and sisters, the ta'lim and the magnification
of your deen and your rituals has to
do with
your practice and your belief. I cannot
bring that practice on your behalf, nor can
you bring that practice on my behalf.
That magnification, that tawqir inside of the heart,
the considering of these things having gravity, nobody
can do that for you.
It has to do with your connection between
you and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
It has nothing to do with how fancy
the recitation is. Has nothing to do with
how moving and stirring
the preaching of the preachers are.
Has nothing to do with how fancy the
masjid is.
The most Mubarak masjid in the history of
this Ummah was the masjid of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and the most Mubarak
time of that masjid was
what? The time in which it didn't even
have a roof. The time in which it
had no carpets.
The time where with in which they used
to make sajdah in the in the dirt
on the floor. If we were asked to
make sajdah in a masjid like that, we
probably would think twice. The imam would say,
Allahu Akbar. Then we'd look at the dirt
and say, oh my God. What am I
gonna do right now?
I prayed in masajid like that. Those thoughts
have crossed my mind as well. I'm not
going to pretend I'm better than anybody else.
But the idea is what? Still, the barakah
of 1 sajdah in that masjid was more
than the barakah of
a sajdah anywhere else.
The hadith are many about the virtues of
praying in the masjid of the prophet Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, but it should be sufficient
to the logic of a believer
that in that message was the Rasul of
Allah Ta'ala Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
That Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he's not the
father of any of your men.
And he's not like a normal person
that you have some respect for, or normal
leader. Rather he's the messenger of Allah. Allah
ta'ala sent him, and he's the seal of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
This is something every one of us has
to do on our own. Nobody can do
it on somebody else's behalf.
No matter how pious your father is, he
cannot do it for you. No matter how
pious your sheikh is, he cannot do it
for you. No matter how pious your imam
is, he cannot do it for you. Everybody
has to bring the stawkhir and this gravity,
this magnification for themselves.
They have to make arrangement for it for
themselves.
They have to make choices in their own
life in order to foster and make this
thing grow inside. Because people often times will
say, Oh, Sheikh, you know, what do I
do? I'm not feeling I'm not feeling it.
I'm not feeling it. My iman is weak.
My iman is weak.
So we asked the mashaikh, what do we
say to somebody who says my iman is
weak?
They say your iman is connected
and is protected
by your own deeds.
So go
sit in the masjid for 10 days in
atikaf,
fast by day and pray by night, and
then tell me has something changed inside of
your imam? Obviously, it's going to change.
If it's not happening, if you don't feel
this thing inside of your heart,
it is as a man, it is your
duty to pick yourself up
and to do something to make that change
inside of your heart
rather than waiting
for somebody else to do it for you
or for something else to happen for you.
Even though the sisters are here in the
sisters section, yes. There are some good qualities
of men that you should also
engender inside of your heart.
Just like there are some good qualities of
women as well that men can take a
lesson from.
This is a good quality of a man.
Is what? Pick yourself up and make it
happen for yourself.
Because I promise you if you wait for
somebody else to make it happen, that somebody
else is not gonna
appear.
If you wait for a time for it
to magically happen, that time is not going
to magically appear. This Ramadan that passed, there
are people who used to fast everyday
and pray tawawi every night. This this Ramadan
that passed, there are people who didn't fast
even one day.
Not because of any sickness or any valid
excuse.
There are people who came in and there
are people who exited. There are people who
held fast and there are people who let
the rope slip from between their fingers.
And the people of belief are
Those people who what? Not just they held
on to the book of Allah ta'ala. You
must say,
they they held on for dear life. It's
an intensive and an emphatic form
that Allah describes.
The people of belief and the people of
success as possessing.
And I promise you as the days go
on,
you will find yourself in the same masjid,
you'll look to your left and you look
to your right, people may not may not
have these priorities. Insha'Allah,
fill our masajid with imam and fill the
ummah with imam and with righteousness with salah.
But if you find yourself in a time
and a in a place
where even the Imam himself is uninspiring.
Even the Imam himself you get the idea
and you don't know what's in someone's heart,
leave it to Allah ta'ala. But the idea
crosses your mind that the imam himself doesn't
care.
Still, this is about something deeper than that.
This is about your connection between you and
Allah ta'ala.
The ritual form of the prayer as long
as it's being observed. The imam made wudu,
he prayed 2 raka'as, he read the fatiha,
the ritual form of the prayer is being
observed,
The rest of it is Allah to Allah.
His responsibility
in between Allah and the imam or between
Allah and the jama'ah. Your job is what?
To come to bring your share of this
stawkhir, of this
veneration of the deen of Allah ta'ala.
Why do I mention this right now? Why
do I mention this? It's something that it's,
I think, worth mentioning inshaAllah, and, you know,
whenever. It's a valid reminder for a believer
whenever and wherever.
However, in particular,
something I've mentioned from before, I'm I don't
like bringing up politics or current events in
the hutba and in Jum'ah because
the Masjid people come to
remember those things that are eternal and unchanging.
But sometimes it's good for the believers to
take a lesson from what happens.
There was a Palestinian journalist who was assassinated
very violently, very brutally in front of the
eyes of the world. She was a Christian
woman. She had a blue press vest. It
clearly said pressed, and an Israeli sniper shot
her in the face.
It's one of the most disgusting crimes a
person could think of.
This woman herself, she claimed that her entire
reason for taking these risks and for doing
this job which was not a easy job
and definitely not a rewarding job in terms
of material reward
was to bring the truth to people
about what was what's going on in the
occupation in a time where even that suppressed,
and one can admire this.
And one can say about such a woman
that this was an admirable work she did
and it was an admirable
admirable goal that she had. And one can
say about such a woman as well that
her community can be proud of her.
She was an Arab. The Arabs can be
proud of her. She was a Christian. The
Christians can be proud of her as well.
However, as an emotional knee jerk reaction, many
of our Muslim brothers and sisters, she's a
shahidah.
She's a martyr. Allah yalhamuha. Allah have mercy
on her.
Brothers and sisters,
the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam forbade this.
Saying such things is not going to free
Palestine. I promise you. It's not going to
free Palestine. It will do not a not
a
darn thing
to help the cause of Palestine to be
free,
to end the occupation. It will not do
anything for that.
Such a statement also dishonors her memory as
well. Why? Because she chose to be a
Christian.
She had an opportunity to be a Muslim
her entire life. She chose to be a
Christian. And now what are you doing? You're
saying the benedictions of the Muslims on her?
This is dishonoring her choice as well.
And most tragically, what does a person do
when they do something like this?
The Israelis assassinated this poor innocent woman for
trying to tell the truth to the world.
Why is it? Because of our emotional outrage
we assassinate our own deen.
Our own deen? Allah ta'ala said in his
book, in his Quran.
In
indeed Allah doesn't forgive that a person should
associate partners with him.
And all other sins below that, in the
absence of that sin,
Allah ta'ala may forgive to whoever he wills.
This is the book of Allah ta'ala.
This has nothing to do with this woman
in particular. This verse wasn't revealed just for
this woman. God knows what the secret of
people's heart is. When you read Aqidah, the
Muslims, their books of Aqidah are replete with
this. There are people who die with iman,
and they're
sincere. There are people who die with Islam,
and they're fakers. There are people who die
in other religions. They carry some secret inside
of their heart. We're not commanded to speculate
about that.
The point is she died on her Milah.
Leave her
to her Milah.
And leave her to her Allah ta'ala to
be judged. I'm not saying ill about Have
I spoken ill about her? No.
I'm not saying anything bad about her. I'm
saying she chose to be a Christian. She
died as a Christian. Leave it alone.
What is the connection between what I talked
about? About
the and the veneration of Joah in this
matter.
You're happy that your deen has some sort
of meaning to you.
If it is so cheap that because of
emotional
distress or because of
political fervor. You're willing to throw your own
deen under the bus. You're willing to throw
the value of your own iman under the
bus to the point where you
make the milah of somebody who worship Salman
versus the milah of somebody who worship Allah
alone and without any partner
equal.
This is something I cannot help you with,
you cannot help me with, except for what
there are imams and there are imams and
masajid that we see that they're equivocating about
things like this. There are people in their
emotional outbursts. They're equivocating about things like this.
All I can say is what am I
gonna stand up and make takfir of people
or am I gonna stand up and say
this person's bid on that No. The truth
is clearer than than than the light of
day. This doesn't require any sort of specialist.
You know and I know. You understand and
I understand. Maybe there are some people who
disagree with me.
It's very clear. A person is free to
choose what they want to. You're not going
to be able to straighten out every sort
of every every mess, every dumpster fire that
happens in the ummah. All I can tell
you is that there are certain very simple
realities of Islam. Everybody is mukallaf. Everybody is
morally legally responsible to understand.
And this is one of those realities that
you're responsible to understand and I'm responsible to
understand
that the only thing the only thing that
makes you eligible for salvation on the day
of judgment is your iman, your faith in
Allah and His Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in
the form that was brought by the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. That's the
only thing we have. And just like it
will look bad, if I stand up in
front of a crowd of people, especially of
different religions, if I say what I say,
it will look bad.
The Christians will say, look at this guy.
He's a hate preacher. I'm not a hate
but they'll say it anyway. They'll
say it anyway.
We know they'll say it anyway. It'll look
bad.
Maybe I'd be best to shut up in
such a situation rather than cause a problem.
Maybe. I don't know.
However, I remind you I remind you, there's
another majlis, there's another gathering that we're all
going to have to attend as well
called Yomu Qiyamah, in which the Awaleen and
the Ahireen, the ancient ones and the ones
who come after, all of them will be
there. The insaan, the jinn, all of them
will be there. The angels will be there.
The creation of Allah Ta'ala, which you never
thought existed, all of them will be there.
In that majlis, if you equivocate about your
iman, I promise you it's going to look
a lot worse than
saying that a Christian is a Christian, they're
not a Muslim.
And that we don't say the benedictions of
the deceased of the Muslims upon people of
different religions.
I promise you it's going to look very
bad in that majlis.
A person's iman is what?
They're remembering that day that's going to come
one way or another whether you like it
or not. And keeping it inside their heart
that what I say today is going to
be replayed on that day.
And I'm going to have to own up
to it. So let every person
say something that will look good on that
day, that they'll be proud on the of
that on that day. That the Nabi salallahu
alaihi wa sallam will be proud of on
that day. That your forefathers will be proud
of on that day. That forget about all
of all of the creation that Allah Ta'ala
will be happy and proud of and boast
in front of his angels about on that
day. And let not a person say a
word or do a deed that they'll be
ashamed of on that day. If it happened
from any of us, it did definitely happen
from me. We all ask Allah ta'ala. Allah
ta'ala, you forgive us before
the slips that we made. And that you
shore up our book of deeds and you
erase from it from it those things that
we repent for right now in this moment.
And that you write in its place good
deeds, and give us a tawfi to do
the acts of those people that you love.
But if you see other people not taking
that route, don't take that route with them.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give all of
us tawfiq.
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