Hamzah Wald Maqbul – New Years Day Fajr Exhortation ICC 01012019
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The concept of "order" in the universe is based on the way humans are structured and not on random elements. The speaker explains that the universe is ordered and people can see signs pointing towards the existence of the order, but the point is to say that people can see the signs that point towards the existence of Allah subhanahu waGenerationala. The importance of remembering these things and thanking Allah for providing blessings and benefits to us is emphasized.
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This is a,
a great blessing of Allah Ta'ala that
we made it to this
masjid and to this
on the morning where the ghafileen,
the people who are heedless,
of Allah and Hisr Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam in this
hour, they're deprived of their. They're deprived of
their senses. They're deprived of their,
of being awake much less of being aware
of what's going on around them or understanding
anything on a deeper level.
And it's it's very interesting, the keeping of
time
and the keeping of the passage of years,
this is something that human beings have been
doing since
since the very beginning.
In fact, the keeping of years and the
dating of history from a particular date, this
is something that the Muslims did first.
If you look at the year, you say
it's 2020.
It's supposed to be 2020,
the
year of our Lord.
The Muslims started the calendar in the Hijra
first,
and then after the Christians are like, hey.
That's a good idea. We should do that
too.
Why? Because there's a type of that that
that that that passed with them. They used
to run the Gregorian sorry, the Julian calendar
from before,
and,
that was the calendar without leap year. This
is why the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas
on 7th January instead of on 25th December.
There's like a long convoluted story. But basically
what happens is you see the Muslims have
dated their calendar from Hijra and then they're
like, oh, we should date our calendar from
the birth of Christ alayhi salam. And so
they tried to figure out what year that
exactly was and they were they were unable
to figure it out precisely,
and that's why they say that Sinead
forget about being born on the 25th December.
He wasn't even born,
in the 1st year of,
of the, the common era. There's being no
zero year in that calendar. So
this idea of counting years, there's nothing wrong
with it. In fact, in some ways the,
the Kufar in which they came learned it
from this.
However, the point of counting the years and
the point of,
knowing the
the the number of years that passed
and what
the astronomical measurements of these things are.
All of these things have order. Right? What's
the whole point of
mentioning,
you know,
all of these types of
references to natural phenomenon that
are occur again and again in the Quran.
The point is that they themselves are not
a point.
They themselves are pointing toward a deeper meaning,
which is what? The fact that the universe
is a universe of order
means that there is some meaning deeper to
existence than just random stuff happening.
So if anyone here has studied thermodynamics,
they know that that the the universe,
it's
a matter that underpins the physical world that
all systems
of order will tend to go spontaneously without
the need for intervention from order into chaos.
From what? From order into chaos.
That's why you have a car and if
you leave it outside for 50 years it
will rust. You never leave a rusty,
you know, piece of metal outside and it
turns into a car. Why? Things go from
order
to chaos on their own. You don't need
to have any outside intervention. If you want
to reverse that process, you have to invest
energy into the system in order to do
it. However, despite all of that, look human
being is a wonderfully complex and ordered
organism, as are all living things.
The solar system is ordered everything that
it's like
meted out in discrete quanta of of time
in a space and of measurement and of
counting, etcetera.
All of these things, they're there and there's
like a kind of like a dichotomy between
the two. That why is everything spontaneously go
to chaos, yet we still see that over
order overwhelms the universe.
And the overwhelming of the order,
against the universe means what? That there is
some power that provides order that has higher
order than the
the the the spontaneity of things toward chaos.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is there. He created
the universe from nothing. Anytime a person sees
order, that's what beauty is. Beauty is order.
Person feel meaning in life that I'm not
just like some monkey running around,
you know,
a person feel meaning in life. That I'm
not just like some monkey running around,
you know, eating things and turning them into
feces. But I'm actually There some point in
me being around, point in me being alive.
And ultimately,
it points to what all of this order
points to Allah. Allah ta'ala is the one
that you cannot see, you cannot hear, you
cannot
touch.
The
visions don't see him, but he sees the
visions. However, through the order in the universe,
people can see the signs that point towards
the existence of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And this is the point of all of
it. The point is not to say that,
oh, look, you know, the earth made a
lap around the sun, let's all get drunk.
That's not the point of it. Or, you
know, you say, okay, we're Muslims so we're
not gonna get drunk because drinking is Haram,
but we're gonna go and party for no
reason.
What's the thing to celebrate when you see
this order? It's not that we're ignorant of
the order. In many ways our forefathers were
more keenly aware of the existence of this
order than others were and they taught other
people about it as well.
The point is is what you take a
Ibra, you take a lesson from it. What
does it mean? Is that
right? Within Nujubu Kaderat.
Is what are what is the point of
all of these, other sets of observations that
that certain Surah's
begin with or certain
Surah's
mentioned?
It's that when that order breaks down.
Right? When that order breaks, when Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala stops sustaining that order in this
dunya,
then you know that how how needy you
are for Allah
help. My sheikh
said my grandfather my my grandfather,
he died in.
The imam read the
and he,
he started to like scream as if he
sees it in front of him and he
died. He that's it. He entered the masjid
and he exited the masjid as a corpse.
And this is the way our forefathers
were.
Abdulah Abu Wahab, he's one of the narrators
of hadith from, Imam Malik Rahimu Wa Ta'ala.
You'll find his hadiths are narrated in all
of the suhasata.
He died. Same thing. I forget particularly which
Surah, but it was read in front of
him. And just the fright and the fear
of that order being removed from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala in this world, it overwhelmed him.
This is the reason Allah ta'ala This is
the reason that we thank Allah
and the person who wishes to take a
remembrance and a reminder from Allah ta'ala or
the person who wishes to thank Allah ta'ala
for him providing these blessings and these benefits
to us. And the day Allah ta'ala removes
it from the world, the world has no
way of existing on its own. The world
has no That's order has no way of
exerting itself on its own. Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, the day he he wishes, what's gonna
happen? If I if I yank the the
the tasbih hard and the string breaks, what's
gonna happen with all the pieces? They're all
gonna fly in every single You cannot There's
no longer The test b has no use
anymore. Right now, we'll count you to a
100. Right?
Once it's broken, it has no use anymore.
You won't be able to find the beads
much less, use them to counter to do
anything with it. Right? This entire universe is
like that. This is the point of remembering
these things. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
give you tawfiq. This is also part of
our, correct that we should thank Allah ta'ala
when we're walking out of the door that
there are some people who are completely heedless.
Just like an am, like cattle, they come
and go, they eat and drink.
Allah give them Hidayah, maybe if they get
Hidayah, they can be better than us. But
for right now, we're the ones Allah brought
into his house on this morning. This is
a great blessing from subhanahu wa ta'ala.
If you're thankful I'll increase you. Allah ta'ala
give us increase. And by the barakah of
us having prayed the salatul fajr inside of
the masjid, may Allah
also give to those around us, Muslims and
the the the people of other faiths that
they should also come and take a lesson
from this order as well. And may
Allah make us benefit through this system rather
than be destroyed from the system in this
world and the hereafter.