Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Makki Masjid Holding Fast to the Sunnah in Adversity 11112016
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And,
keep there. Shoutout was over our heads. They're
a source of qaraqa, and I consider both
of them to be my elders and my
teachers.
And,
keep them as a source of benefit for
us as long as we're here.
So we're gonna talk about something. The topic
was set a while ago,
and the date was set a while ago.
And none of us thought we would be
here in the circumstances that we're in quite
right now when we set the date.
When said, hey. Can you come talk? I'm
not gonna mess it. Most of us are
asked to come and, you know, I I
said, why don't you come along with us?
I said, okay. I had no idea we're
gonna be sitting here,
the way we're sitting, under the circumstances we're
sitting in right now.
And the fact of the matter is this
is the sunnah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, or
wathikha ayanamwudawu
habayin a Nas. These are the way time
and days flow. Sometimes someone is up, sometimes
someone is down. Sometimes something you expected to
happen happens.
Sometimes something you didn't expect to happen happens.
And the fact of the matter is this
vicissitude,
this going up and going down,
these changes that happen,
these
happen
around the world. This island that we're in,
they seem to happen. They seem that things
go up and go down. Things seem to
change. The passage of time, it passes over
us, and we feel it, we're affected by
it. But this is one of the things
talking
about, the aqid of the habil, or one
of the things we learned from
learning the of the Muslims is that time
affects us, doesn't affect Allah There's no good
day or
everyday is a good day.
There's nothing good or bad. There's nothing that
affects Allah that he wanted something to happen
and it happens one day, and he wanted
something to happen and it didn't happen another
day, or he didn't want something to happen
and it happened another day. It doesn't work
like that with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
His will overpowers
every other will. Every other will, everything that
happens, happens with Allah
knowing it would have happened before he created
the heavens and the earth, and through his
power and through his will. It happens like
that. We cannot understand that will of Allah
that he understands it.
We are command to what? We get the
sacred sharia, the sacred law he gave us,
And our heart is supposed to like the
people who are just and hate the people
who are unjust.
Like the truth, hate the falsehood.
Like the people who are honest, hate the
cheaters.
Like the people who are clean,
hate the people who are dirty. This is
his commandment to us.
One of the things that happened in the
experience I had with the Muslim actually one
time
was very intimately connected with the circumstance we're
in right now. I don't want you to
get it wrong. I'm not telling you everything
is going to be okay. We know for
a fact that, in doing it, everything is
not okay. There's a place, a lot of
freedom for everything to be okay. Where is
that?
Chicago,
New York,
Good job?
Okay. Things are pretty okay over there. All
of it. Right? But that's not the place
that things go wrong there as well. The
only place that everything is meant to be
okay is the jannah.
This dunya?
Whoever is telling you everything is going to
be okay is dunya, that person is telling
you.
Whoever tells you if you practice Islam, everything
is gonna be okay, should look at the
life of the prophet
who practice Islam much better than you and
I ever will.
The place for everything to be okay is
not in this element. It's somewhere else. It's
not in this world. It's somewhere else.
So things I'm not here to tell you
everything is going to be okay. I can't
make that promise to you. But what I
can tell you, right, is that what this
thought was mine. Whoever's thinking about the future,
this thought's always crossed their mind. This whole,
mashaAllah, Becky, message we made, this whole auditorium,
beautiful auditorium. First time I've been here, first
time seeing it. It's a beautiful,
facility.
All of these things that we're building,
and now we have these crazy people.
Right? They're gonna ban every Muslim for coming
into America.
Right? Newt Gingrich is talking about making a
house committee on un American activities, which means
what? They're gonna make a list of everybody
who's Muslim, and they're gonna write their name
on there, and you're not gonna be able
to get a job. They're a duty like
economist in the McCarthy area era. If you
don't know what that is, I suggest you
look it up because it's very relevant. These
things happened in America not too long ago,
and the living memory of people who are
alive still today, some of which actually serve
in the government right now and are willing
to serve very soon in the government. K?
You think about all of these things, a
person wonders, what should I do?
A couple of years ago,
The.
I was in the moon signing meeting in
in, ICC,
and I was told that he's here. I
I shot after Saul, shot
straight over, and I saw that, strangely enough,
he was unengaged and unoccupied. So I had
about an hour to sit with him, which
is something maybe even if you went to
the building, you wouldn't get that opportunity.
One of the things I asked him was
what? If I really feel a strong urge
to leave,
looking at personally,
If I had the opportunity, I would bail
on all of you like that.
Very strong urge to lead.
I asked him. I said, I don't see
a future. I'm afraid that this boom, the
shadow of the people of this boom, some
of them hate Islam so much.
What if we're doing all of this work?
What if we're doing all of this work
to build all of these things, build these
institutions,
make these buildings
What happened in the of Al Al Usos?
It's really studying there right now. Right? Even
Hazem, his house is one of the greatest
of the of the history of the Ummah.
Right? It's filled with crosses and with icons.
What happens if that's gonna happen to you?
What's the point? Who wants to work so
hard to build something up? And what happens
all of it gets passed afterward? I asked
them to be violent for it. I wanna
leave. And the reason I wanna leave is
what? Because I'm afraid that this all this
work is going to be wasted.
And very simple answer for me. And a
very simple answer for me. It's a very,
direct and tied with what we wanted to
talk about today, which is what? How it
follows Sunnah, the prophet
in
America. He said, what?
He said,
you do your job.
You're born here. You're raised here. You're a
Muslim.
You have some male. You do your job.
Teach, learn,
tell people about the dean in a way
that maybe someone from another place isn't able
to do.
Maybe you have access to the community in
a way that other people don't. Maybe you
can speak to Americans in a way that
a foreigner is not able to do so.
So you do your job. Then after the
decision of whether your work
survives in this world or not, that's Allah's
job. You do your job and let Allah
do this.
You understand what I'm saying? You do your
job, let Allah do his job. Why are
you worried about the outcome?
Why are you worried about what's going to
happen tomorrow? Do you wanna know what's going
to happen tomorrow? If you die, I'm not
die,
In
front
of
all of all of the angels, in front
of all of the jinn, in front of
all the nations of the earth. Allah
will hand you your book of deeds in
your right hand.
The angels will hand you your book of
deeds in your right hand with honor, and
he'll forgive you. And he will enter you
into his mercy, and you will have eternal
life, and you'll have everything you ever wanted.
What does it matter to you that day?
What happened on earth? What didn't happen on
earth?
What does it matter to you on that
day? What happened on earth? What didn't happen
on earth? And then the joke of Mullah
Nasruddin.
Mullah Nasruddin was one of our ancient rama,
and he used to teach the Deen through
jokes. Most of them were about how not
to be a a a good Muslim. So
one of them jokes as well that he
was looking under a a stream light for
something he lost, and so some people saw,
masha'Allah, and
is looking for his he must have lost
something. Let's help him move forward. So they're
also looking at the streetlight. I feel like
I feel like 45 minutes, an hour.
They're like, let's see. Where did you see
your the thing you lost? Where did you
see it last? So it's not over there.
Like, you know, the computer's out there. So
why are they going under the light?
He says, well, he has a starboard that
I can't see, do you?
It's not really that funny of a joke.
It's
What did you think the benefit of it
was? That you're going to eat and drink
and enjoy yourself? That's not the point of
Islam. InshaAllah, all of those things will happen
for all of us. It won't happen for
all of us. It will happen for some
of us. Most of us, it will happen
for it. But that's not the point of
your Islam. Even if it happens for you,
that's not the point of your Islam. The
point of your Islam is what? That it's
a contract you get entered into with Allah
That you enter into this submission and this
is not and Allah
and you can turn a light on the
other one. So why are you looking for
why are you looking for the the the
reward over here for something that he promised
you the reward is going to be over
there?
So if you want to know about him,
the the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam had to follow the sunnah of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, it's something
very simple. Right? It's something very simple. It's
something that perhaps you didn't need,
people to come from the outside to tell
you about it. But what we need to
remind one another, that can
remind one another because the reminder, it benefits
the believers. So we remind one another. This
is something very simple. How do you represent
the prophet
how do you represent Islam?
In front of the non Muslim, you represent
Islam by representing the beliefs of Islam. What
is the belief of Islam, the the most
important belief of Islam on which it's built?
That there's no god except for Allah
The one who created the whole world for
nothing. The one who is above the
of the the the the the the the
the the the eyesight.
The eyesight cannot see it even though you
can see the eyesight.
That Allah that even your even your intellect
does not need to fathom who he is,
what his reality is. That he created the
the the universe from nothing. This is not
biased guy in July
nonsense.
This is something that's very rational.
This is something that's very rational.
Who's going to understand who better? Does carpenter?
Tell me. Does the car carpenter understand the
table and just build or does the table
understand the carpenter understand the table? Does the
builder does the table understand the carpenter?
The carpenter understands the table, and the way
the table will never be able to understand
the carpenter.
This is not a for
our understanding of Allah. In fact, the table
probably understands more about the Carpenter than we
understand about the
that sounds to say.
How can you improve the existence of god?
Okay. Tell me something. Okay? Tell me something.
If I take,
if I take, like, a rag of rancid
meat and throw it in a damp cellar,
Okay? Will that rat spontaneously turn into a
rat?
No. That's what they used to believe in
the Middle Ages, by the way. They used
to believe that that
spontaneously turns into rat. Then someone was like,
okay. Well, if we keep watching, we'll see
the rats coming from the outside to eat
the the meat. It's not it doesn't turn
into a rat. It's silly. It's dumb to
believe that. Right?
So and I tell you, what's dumber to
believe that?
Piece of meat?
What's bigger? Piece of meat or the whole
universe?
The whole universe, the piece of meat is
a subset of the whole universe. What's dumber?
To think that the piece of meat can
turn into a rat?
Or to think that nothing can turn into
everyday?
This is this is not like, because you
can't prove god is. It's not. It's actually
a very simple proof that god exists. It
is nothing within the realm of causes and
effects
exist except for no effect exists except for
not positive to
happen. Right? This is a belief that that
people who didn't believe in Allah Ta'ala in
the past is to have that the universe,
the physical universe that we live in, it
existed forever and it exists in cycles, self
repeating cycles.
Self repeating cycles. This is what the Hebrews
believe. Right? That reincarnation level universe goes through
these cycles. Because, as of now, they don't
believe in Allah. They believe in this kind
of
blue space alien Marvel superheroes that, like, show
shoot lightning bolts and stuff and, like, talking
elephants and stuff. But they don't believe in
Allah
At least their don't. Maybe some of their
philosophers do, but their regular rank of the
folk that worship idols don't really understand Allah
that way.
Now
they believe that the universe exists forever. This
was their way of getting bad at someone
like a Muslim who said that, look. Nothing
you don't have something that exists for nothing.
Everything has to come from somewhere. So maybe
the universe just goes in this kind of
cyclical repeat group cycle. Okay? And that is
not just the Hindu that believed that. Every
atheistic philosopher believed that. That was part of
atheism, part and parcel of atheism who believed
that the physical universe existed forever.
Then what happens?
They realize that the Big Bang happened.
They realize what happened. The Big Bang happened,
meaning there's a time that the universe didn't
exist and then it all of a sudden
exists.
Now tell me something. I feel a little
bit ashamed saying this in front of our
elders.
Some
of them won't even get it. But for
those of you who went to middle school
and high school over here
okay? Colloquially, what does the word mean?
It doesn't have a good meaning, does it?
I'm glad we're not speaking the message right
now. It's a very bad meaning.
Okay? The one primal act, which is the
which is the what? The the the origin
of the universe.
The origin of the physical universe,
that's a very honored and ignoble
thing that happened. You come from it. I
come from it. Our existence is tied to
it.
Why is it that they gave it such
a disrespectful name?
Because it's very frustrating for them to find
out that, what, All of this stuff came
from somewhere, and they can't say it came
from nothing?
So this is all nonsense. Right? What do
we represent when we represent Islam in front
of in front of non Muslims, we represent
what? That there's one God who created everything.
Right?
He necessarily exists.
Prophet.
Good people go to Jannah, bad people go
to Jannah. This is stuff that people believe
anyway. The churches are filled with people. The
synagogues are filled with people that believe this
anyway that believe this anyway.
The things about, like, the holy trinity and
one being 3 and god being a human
being, the stuff that most people don't even
believe this anyway. Did you know that? John
Adams and John Quincy Adams.
Right? The 2 presidents, the father and son,
the 2nd and 5th president of the United
States. Both of them were Unitarians. They didn't
believe Jews was the son of God.
Both of them are buried in a crypt
in the basement of the Unitarian church in
Quincy,
Massachusetts, which is named after
John Quincy Adams.
They didn't even believe any of that stuff
anyways. This is something people know about anyway.
We have to represent these beliefs to people.
Now, if you're not going to spend the
time in order to learn the I of
Islam, how how are you going to represent
Islam to other people? It's somewhat of a
problem, but if you spend a little bit
of time to learn these things, it's not
really that difficult, and they're not really all
that,
you know, all of that, like, nonsensical,
are they? They make a lot of sense.
Now what will happen? Sha'itam comes to people
and says what?
Shaitan comes to the people and says, oh,
you know Muslims? They abuse their women. You
know Muslims used to have slavery. Do you
know Muslims this? Do you know Muslims that?
And Muslims are terrorists? And Muslims are this,
that, and the other thing? What you have
to do is you need to be able
to tell people, like, this is what Islam
is. All that other stuff is a sideshow.
If someone comes to you, I believe it's
too much for a person to pray that
time today. Sit back up, mommy.
What is it? What is the what is
the thing that makes you Muslim?
It's the belief that one god and prophet
sallallahu alaihi and sallam these basic things.
But they're still Muslim. Right?
Don't allow yourself to get minor down in
these high issues when you talk about Islam
to a non Muslim.
Stick to the
coral issues.
How is it that you represent Islam to
a non Muslim? Through representing the beliefs of
Islam.
And we also had to represent Islam to
one another as Muslims. How is it that
you represent Islam to a Muslim? Through the
representation of the sunnah of the
prophet is wonderful,
that's not how we represent Islam to people.
Your western that you go to, your group
that you belong to, your language that you
speak, your color, your all of these things,
these are wonderful. They're fine. There's nothing wrong
with them.
People say, oh, look at these different method
hubs. They just divide up the no. They
don't.
No. They don't. They have a special place.
They form a specific function in our intellectual
tradition, and as long as they're within that
context, they're very good.
How do you represent Islam
by representing the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
This is something that's very important.
The sunnah
are we gonna pray before and after zur?
That's part of the sunnah.
You have a beard on your face. That's
part of the sunnah.
How do you dress? That's part of the
sunnah, but that's not the whole sunnah.
What is the greatest sunnah?
What is it?
Place, every sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam has a level that's assigned to it.
So there's some sunnah as if you don't
do them, you're not Muslim,
Although we call the.
There's some sunnah that are part of it,
you don't do them, it's a sin.
There are some sunnah that you if if
you,
do them, you're rewarded, and if you believe
them, you're not punished.
All of them have their place. You have
to study the in order to know these
things.
Now tell me, what is the benefit of
practicing the sunnah in this time and in
this place for?
What is the benefit of you practicing the
sunnah to an?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
Allah says to the prophet, sallam, regarding
the people of that
Allah
is not going to send down his torment
on them as long as you are amongst
them.
And Allah is not going to send down
his torment on them as long as what?
As long as they're seeking forgiveness for their
sins from Allah
You're practicing the sunnah of Rasool Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. Is this
the protection of this place from Yahaba, Allah
Now if somebody is a deserving person and
if somebody is critical
mind, a critical eye. Not like saying bad
about critical, saying bad about everything, but critical
as in okay.
No cloud of understanding here and and and
and drafting with precision.
You'll see, isn't this somewhat of a stretch
for you to say that
our practice of the sunnah of the prophet
is somehow bringing the prophet
to life in this place?
Did anyone honestly think about that or was
everyone just like, okay. Just nod. The food
is like in an out there.
Did anyone think about that? You should think
about it.
Think about it. You're gonna blindly accept everything
everyone says. It doesn't mean you have to
be a jerk and, like, say, oh, this
guy's lying, but think about it and ask
questions later on. You should think about these
crazy.
There's a narration of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa
sallam
in
in the
Oh my dear son, if you are able
to wake up in the morning and go
to sleep at night and your heart has
no for anyone. What is is the opposite
of
the opposite of the class. Yeah. That you're
able to see in your heart that you
wish well for everyone. You don't wish no
for anybody.
Anybody, including for a non Muslim.
You win for Trump? Yeah. You win for
Trump.
Yeah. Really excused you.
The man is a powerful person. Everything he
says is a lie.
Disrespectful
to women, disrespectful to minorities,
when we flip on it up. All these
horrible things. How how how can we feel
good for such a person?
Maybe maybe tomorrow, the man will have a
change of heart and will make nova from
his his ways. Maybe he'll say die die
in the law before he dies.
Well, what if you'll never do any of
those things? How do you feel good for
him? How do you wish how do you
Nasee have heard?
At least you make do Allah restrain the
man from making himself in a deeper hole
that he's already in.
From Allah restrain the man from
harming another person or saying bad about another
person or abusing another woman or for doing
all these crazy, horrible things that him and
his people around him do.
That much we can have for everybody. The
prophet said that if you're able to wake
up in the morning and go to sleep
at night and you don't have this vicious
ill will toward anyone, then do so.
Right? Then he says,
Oh, my dear son, and know that that's
my sunnah.
Right?
Along with 2 raqas before
Hajar and or along with, you know,
whatever, 2 or 6 or 8
after something along with keeping up here and
along with brand new jobs and along with,
you know, all these other things. This is
sunnah as well. In fact, it needs a
greater sunnah than some of the things that
we mentioned.
He said, if you're able to do this,
my dear son, then do so. Right? Then
he said, oh, my dear son, and know
that that's from my sunnah.
Is that the proof for what I said?
You got the proof for what I said?
And then in a different narration,
and whoever brings my sunnah to life, that
person has loved me. And in another orthographic,
variant,
and whoever loves my sunnah has loved me.
And what's the last line? The last line
is beautiful, brother. It's a is useful to
all of us. Not that Barack Obama think
he holds.
Real.
Well, men had been kind of mine for
Jannah.
The one who loves me,
that person will be with me in Jannah.
So all the details regarding the and regarding
regarding the and
the and how we represent, this is stuff
I can't I can't go over in such
a small time. This is your job to
learn all of these things.
I see that the
students coming, going from the Masjid
and benefiting, and I'm sure you're learning these
things every day.
See the value in these things. Learn them.
But what I can share with you in
a small amount of time that we have
is what is know that this is something
that that our forefathers, they were all
engrossed in. And I say forefathers, maybe somebody
in the crowd and also knew that Islam
as well as, oh, my
family. The bonds of of the a family
spiritual bonds of family. The iman are stronger
than the the bonds of blood
of familial relations in blood. Why? Because those
will die in this world, whereas in all
the the the
the familial bonds of Iman, they will live
forever. They will live forever. So who your
forefathers were? Know what they were here for?
If you are here to what?
To make money,
know that you're in for a very horrible
ride.
The best case scenario is that you will
have to come to a point where you'll
have to choose between your dean and your
money.
And if you lose your gain for the
money, you lose it for a very cheap
price. Many people will not even have that
option. They'll just lose both.
If you're willing to make that choice, then
you will lose both.
That's something it's an understanding that a person
what is inside that has a lot to
do with what their outcomes are. Benjamin
Franklin said that the person who is
the whole if you're willing to give a
little bit of your deed for a little
bit of your money,
you'll see that both of them will vanish
before your eyes.
And even if you're gonna keep your money,
the angel of death doesn't care. The angel
of death doesn't care if you're a platinum
member on American Airlines. The angel of death
doesn't care what car you drive. If you're
a doctor, the angel of death is not
gonna call you a doctor. It doesn't matter.
You're gonna have everyone be one day or
another. This is a star reality, everyone.
Even
our Qudil and young brothers
and and the people that are in their
seats, even you, you're gonna have to die
on here. For a long time, but it
has to happen. I'm not trying to, like,
be a bummer or nothing on you guys.
It's just the fact it's gonna happen. What
can I do?
I could make it a different way, I
would, but I can't.
So it's better to come in terms with
all of that.
Now, something that's very interesting is that people
want to live a certain way, people want
a certain set of things for themselves, and
Allah wants something different for them.
And sometimes, Allah makes a choice for you,
something that you wouldn't have chosen for yourself,
but it's better for you.
But it's why it's better for you.
The mushi'in, they had a caravan
of goods that they were bringing back from
Syria to.
They're the ones who jacked the the the
Sahaba
They some of them, they took their land,
their property, their money, their wealth, and they're
making hijra. This was their chance to get
what was theirs back. So they leave from
Malina Munawala to chase after this this caravan.
And what happens? The caravan is lightly guarded.
They'll hit it, they'll get the money, and
then they'll be out.
Right?
To summarize,
what ends up happening? The the Mushihid in
Mecca you know the story. Mushihid in Mecca,
they send an army to go and divert
that army of the Sahaba.
So the army is much more hard to
fight. They're well armed. They have a lot
more sting to hit inside of them. There's
no money there.
And so what happens? That the caravan makes
it makes it seemingly out of the ring
range of the Muslims, and now the Muslims
are stuck fighting with this army.
And Allah says in this in his book,
you know you know, you want you wanted
to get the the money, but Allah has
a higher
Allah has a higher objective
that he wants from you because you're concerned
about what? That you're going to hit them
to get what you want back, which is
a legitimate concern.
And Al Aqdah's concern is what?
That he wants to make the he wants
to make the hakmad of pessimism.
There are some people there are some people
in this, including the Sahaba from that time
until this time, they're attracted to the hap
a mysterious attraction.
They're attracted to the hap, the mysterious attraction,
but they don't even care about the money.
They they they want that's what they want.
They want that Allah manifest
the hap using them.
This is from the case of Yemen,
how few people have it nowadays, how wonderful
the experience it is. Those people allowed to
use them to manifest the Haqq. What was
the reward for them being in there on
the day of the day?
It wasn't even really much of a fight.
It didn't last that long.
It wasn't a complete route. In fact, after
the battle started, very shortly after the battle
started, the Mushriqim attacked him in Iran.
It wasn't really even that much of a
battle
in terms of in terms of, like, the
the great clashes of of of history.
70
70 early,
army of a 1000 from the Mushnikim were,
killed and then they tuck tail and they
ran.
They tuck tail and they ran less than
10% of their their army. They tuck tail
and they ran. What was the benefit of
that?
Those people who showed up on that day,
the Qalal Abdul Mahajid al Ansar,
outnumbered and outgunned, no armor, only 2 or
3 horses.
Some of them had no weapons. Some of
them just got, like, tree sticks
as their weapon. Some of them just their
bare fists.
What happened? What was the reward for those
people to be there in order so that
the could be manifest? That
Allah said, what do you know about the
people who were there at Badr that Allah
said look inside of their hearts and say
to them, go. Go. Do whatever you want
out of this day, you're forgiven.
It's a narration in the the,
in the the, in the chapter with regards
to nabi,
which is a masala effect I don't wanna
get into right now. But nabi is like
a kind of fruit drink that the Arab
used to drink, like infused fruit water that
they used to drink. If you leave it
out too long, it becomes alcoholic.
So what happened, there was some nabi during
the caliphate that said, It
was sitting around for too long.
He didn't know
when the Ansar comes to visit him from
a long journey,
and so he sees this bowl and he
hands it to him and says, you drink
it. He drank the whole thing. Neither of
them knew that it become it become strong
by that time. It become harder.
We see that the society now become drunk.
It's a genuine misunderstanding.
I
said, I don't really want to apologize.
I didn't know, but I'm the miracle. I'm
gonna have to punish
you. I have to punish you for having
drunk it. This is our sacred law.
So Ansari says, oh,
okay?
Don't you know I was there at the
damn bada?
And then my sister said,
do whatever you want. I have to stay.
You're forgiven.
So now he says, I know. I was
there too. You'll forgive me.
What is that? What is that? That's a
reward much more than any other reward a
person takes it off.
About. That is why Allah accept a person
after that. Do whatever you want in this
world and the hereafter you're entering. Jannah is
merely formality.
That's what happens. That's why Allah has said
about the world.
That's not just something that happened with them,
that happened with every single generation of Muslims.
What can I tell you? What can I
tell you?
Muamani's
father, Muamani Allah, and all of him in
his mercy.
From there either his direct students or the
students of his students.
One very interesting thing pardon me, inshallah, for
saying this, but one very interesting thing, inshallah,
pardon me for saying this, about the experience
of being desi is that we're oftentimes
we're we kind of act like and we
think of ourselves as a bunch of losers.
Is it not true?
Who's proud that you should walk up in
front of everybody in Suleya and Indian?
Right? What happens? You know what happens in
university,
Our elders are not like this. Right? What
happens with us in university, you see like
a basic person walking down the hall. There's
a mutual basic basic repulsion. They, like, kinda,
like, walk the other way. Let's the white
person see 2 of us standing together and
associate with one another us us with one
another. Why? Because we have this inferiority complex
to be losers. Let
Let me tell you something. Our masha'a and
our elama,
our academy, they weren't losers. They were punts.
They didn't take they didn't take nonsense from
people.
They didn't take nonsense from people. They had
a type of dignity you only have when
you're connected with alijah Rasool Allah, alijah said.
So when the British, they pushed
literally, pushed the entire infrastructure of the whole
empire out of the way, where the people
who set up stood up in front of
them.
Who was he? He was a person he
froth the British.
He was in a mustard one time.
Right? Why? Because they're unjust. They came they
came without in an unjust way. These people
stood for the sake of Allah.
He was in the Masjid one time. They
they surrounded the Masjid. British army surrounded the
Masjid. He thought, this is it. He's going
to fight all these people.
What am I gonna do?
What am I gonna do?
If they start firing, they're gonna damage the
mustard. The blood will spill on the floor.
It will be a desecration of this holy
place. So he calmly got up and he
walked out of the mustard.
He was accosted immediately by his soldier. You
know where Casa Nada 3 is? He says,
you know what? He was here just a
minute ago, and he just walked away.
What is that?
That's not Kevlar armored.
That's not a helicopter gun ship giving you
cover
when you escape. That's what that's Allah giving
you cover.
That's what that's Allah
giving you cover.
The Hindus and the Muslims in India and
Pakistan, they get get along so well, they're
gonna get along very well today. Right?
He has the conspiracy where he negotiated with
the Hindu leadership that they will call the
Ottoman army.
Right? The army of the the real caliphate,
not the bogus one that's getting mowed down
right now. Right?
The the army of the caliphate, the thing
will come and it'll
kick the British out of India, and the
Hindus are ready to submit to their role,
to the rule of the Turks.
The weak he presented his his,
secret conspiracy
with the signature of all these leaders,
barely made it out of the Indian self
conflict with the British pursuing the Maisha.
That we did,
the the
army of the shari from Mecca, the current
king of Jordan, they sold out the caliphate.
It just so happens, the mother of Allah,
you make a plan, Allah makes a plan,
but look at these people. There was people
who just stopped lying down.
What happens is that that letter never makes
it to Istanbul
and Sheikh Mohammed and his student who, Mohammad
Hussain Abd al Din, they spent 4 years
in solitary confinement
in the Crusader prison, fortress of Malta
as the most dangerous prisoners of what? Of
the British of the British Empire.
Well, they never learned martial arts. They didn't
have a gun. They didn't have any what
did they have? They had this idea. Right?
They had this idea. They had these teachings
of this deen that Allah sent down from
above the Sabhasa, Allah from above the Arshadim.
That made them dangerous to every foul person,
to every tyrant, to every oppressor, to every
liar, cheater, thief. It made them dangerous.
They had to be locked up.
They had to be separated from the people.
Why? Because these movies
when's the last time you saw movies like
this? This guy's in shape.
This guy's this guy's a tough guy. This
guy's in shape.
You know what? Guess what? They were afraid
of it.
They had dignity. Why? Because they carried the
message of this deen. And Allah protected them.
Allah protected them. They went into the jaws
of the beast, and they made it now
okay.
That was being talked about that they read
they read the hadith of his imangi.
Right? He's the boss. What happens if India
receives its independence?
India receives its independence.
Okay? There's a ceremony that happens.
Do you know to this day in in
India, now it's probably less because of the
the the government they have for most of
the history of India, the
received diplomatic protocol for this reason. Right?
A ceremony.
What is a ceremony? We want to honor
you for your services to your to the
whole land.
This is something that my that I read
from whose father was a student of. He
said, I heard this from my father.
He says he said, my grandfather was there
at that ceremony. They called group of the
Radha,
the representative of them. That for your services
to the whole land and receiving independence
and throwing off the
the the colonial yoke.
Right?
White supremacists who came with overwhelming money, army,
weapons,
battle, tactics, cheating, lying, all of these things.
You people you people put your neck out
on the lines so that we can be
freed up. So they honored them. They gave
them a a a prize, like a certificate
or or a prize,
and they gave them each a cash
award,
and they gave each of them what?
A house and a rail pass that you
can ride the the trains
first pass for free for the rest of
your life.
So how did how did you not have
to
accept the reward? What did he what did
he do?
He returned everything.
He returned everything to us. We don't need
your rail pass. We don't need the house.
We don't need the money.
What we did, we did for the sake
of Allah
we're waiting for the reward for him.
What we did, we did for the sake
of Allah
and we're waiting for the reward from him.
That's why a type of dignity that nobody
does do not get touched. There's no uprising
in this dunya
that can that's
it.
There's nothing you can give him in this
dunya that he'll say, you know what? That
that that this was I need it I
need it for this. I'll do some service
like like what I did for this thing
in the dunya.
The only
that that will suffice him as well, that
Allah
will show these people who saw his face
in Jannah.
Right? But they see a lot of Jannah,
and that's when they'll say, you know what?
All this is worth it.
So choice you have, choice I have is
what?
Learn the akhai, learn the sierra, learn all
of these things. Wonderful.
You learn all of these things. You don't
learn them. It's a fail from the get
go. It's like the Mercedes Benz has no
gas in it. It's not going it's a
nice car. It's not going anywhere.
Learn all of those things, and once you
learn them, you know, that
this is the path
that Allah has given to those He loves
and those He honors and those He protects.
So if you want His love and if
you want to be honored and if you
wanna have His protection,
take up this path.
If you want to still stay the same
person that you were before,
if you want to still go down the
path that I'm just here to make money,
I was on my way before 911 haqqah,
which was another sadma, was another
thing that happened in this country that completely
sent the Muslims into shock. I know some
people shave their beard, take off their job.
Some people didn't go to the Muslim for
a year.
The person who makes from a sin, he's
like the one who never committed a sin
in the first place. They came back and
what's done is done. We should take a
lesson from him. But they gave up all
of these things
let me tell you, there are some people
in this country also redoubled their faith, redoubled
their
redoubled the understanding
that you're not gonna be able to get
by, so don't try. You're not gonna be
able to ice skate by without without going
through hardships. Don't even try and embrace the
hardship. Allah
reward you. Allah reward
you. Right?
Allah gave me in exchange for the you
know, in exchange for a what?
In
Your destiny is higher. Your destiny is higher.
I'm not saying don't become an
but what your destiny is something higher than
that. That's something you do during the day
in order you know why they call
it.
It's
gonna be actually when he became a Hakim.
Akim is a a traditional doctor, a traditional
medicine system, and she had a license for
becoming a Hakim.
He practiced it, but that wasn't what he
did with his life. What did he do
with his life? He didn't know the deen
of Allah.
Right? So if you're gonna do, go do
it, there's nothing wrong with that. But that's
not your that's your that's your you're gonna
become a double antibiotics, and that's it. Done.
Right?
That's not
that's not what you were made before. You
know? You're it's like a a it's like
the lion behaving like a donkey.
Right? Your back is gonna hurt because we're
made to be ridden by people. You're meant
to be king.
You're made to be what?
You're made to be king.
This is your destiny.
Allah all of us need. Don't forget to
accept
mashi'am, please forgive me for speaking for so
long. Please forgive me for speaking so long.