Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Open The Door of Goodness Makkah Mukarramah 03072017
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The visitors of the Haram Sharif of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala are the guests of Allah
Ta'ala.
They are the wafadurrahman.
They are the delegation of the most merciful.
They are in the path of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala from the time they leave their
homes until the time they arrive and the
time
they come back to their homes.
In a good state and having been enriched
from their experience.
What can I say about the institution of
the Haram Sharif?
That it wasn't started by Sayidna Ibrahim alaihis
salam, rather Sayidna Ibrahim is the one who
rebuilt it and reconsecrated it after its place
was lost
to the people after the flood of Sayidna
Nuh alaihis salam.
Otherwise, it is
a place just like the book of Allah
Ta'ala was sent down from another realm
and the wahi indeed.
Revelation of Allah Ta'ala was sent down from
another realm.
This is a place that's also it's Barakat
and it's Fuyud
and it's alignment with
the
celestial
barakat and tawadjuhat and rahamat.
Blessings
and divine attention and divine focus
and mercies.
All of them come down on this place
to the point where the one who makes
the lawf is receiving a reward and the
one who's praying is receiving a reward, and
the one who looks at the house receives
a reward.
So many of the time,
people like myself
often
talk about the dangers of looking at the
Haram or seeing the Haram.
It's such a beautiful and wonderful experience to
be able now to talk about
the nama and the shukr of Allah ta'ala
to see something that is beautiful.
Because the reason looking at Haram is Haram,
is because the eyes have a direct
line to the heart.
So seeing the the house of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala,
seeing the people praying and circumambulating,
seeing
your own presentation of yourself in the court
of the Rab Tabarakata'ala
in the court of the Lord.
It is a moving experience to say the
least.
And it's a blessing from Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
But like all blessings, it has a prerequisite
in order to benefit.
It has a prerequisite in order to benefit,
it has shurut.
What is a shard? A shard of that
thing,
a condition, a prerequisite is that thing
that you need to have in place before
doing something in order for that thing to
happen.
So just like you cannot drive if you
don't have a car
and just like you cannot
go to medical school if you don't know
how to read,
just like
you cannot go to the 5th floor without
passing through the 4th floor.
People who study quantum mechanics, I'm not talking
about electrons, I'm talking about macro level things.
Just like that,
there are certain prerequisites to benefiting from this
Mubarik place or from the oliya of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala or from the prophets or
from the Quran or from anything
in the deen of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Do you not see that there were certain
people that said in Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, his spiritual effect was so strong
that they they
even were on their way to kill him,
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And his and
his faith,
It,
affected them to the point where they didn't
leave this world except for from the highest
maqamah
highest maqamah of wilayah.
But there are also certain people like Abu
Lahab,
who is literally
a blood relative of the prophet salallahu alayhi
wasalam. He's Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wasalam's
father's brother,
and, he was completely impervious. He's immune to
any sort of spiritual benefit from Sayna Rasool
Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Why? Because those shurut and those prerequisites
were not fulfilled in him. So how is
he going to benefit from Sayna Rasool Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam? It's like a
a a person who's dying of thirst
and there's a, you know, a 25 gallon,
water container
2 feet away from him, but between him
and that water container is a foot thick,
iron wall.
Even though it's very close by, he's not
going to benefit.
And these prerequisites
are of 3
types. There are ritual prerequisites, like wudu is
a prerequisite toward
toward making salat.
There are
mental prerequisites
which are the Aqaid, the umaha tal Aqaid,
those most important things of Aqeedah that are
the conditions of iman.
And there are spiritual re prerequisites,
which is
the
the the, subject matter of Tasawuf.
And unfortunately we also see some people who
come to these Mubarik places,
without
one or more of these prerequisites.
A very simple example of the
ritual prerequisites,
the requisite amount of knowledge a person needs.
Our people from America, Allah ta'ala, forgive us.
We don't prepare for this journey at all.
We don't prepare for this journey at all.
We don't prepare for this journey at all.
The
some of them are, like, illiterate. People from
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, things like that from different
parts of Africa, they attend
classes and camps. They'll have, like, literally, like,
day long sessions, like, 4 or 5 of
them where they'll learn and memorize all of
these different and duas and things like that
in order to do the the
the
monastic properly, the the rituals of of of
of pilgrimage properly.
And we just think we're going to read
a book on the plane and then we
sleep through the plane ride as well and
we don't read that book and then we
mess up our rituals,
when we when we get here. And
that's, you know, something that that, you know,
it's not
How can I say it? Like, that's something
that's completely our fault. Don't Let's not at
that point blame the group leader or the
group imam or blame, you know, the the
government or
here or there or Let's not blame other
people for that. That's something we should know
about beforehand. We should study these things beforehand.
And, you know, no man will marry a
woman without seeing her picture,
at least no man in his right mind,
without knowing something about her, without knowing, you
know, what her interests are, without knowing, you
know, what her, you know, education she has,
this, that, and the other thing. Why? Because
when you love somebody, you wanna know about
them.
And there are certain
they
they their whole lives, they they they study
the Deen, They know they will never have
enough money or means in order to come
and see the Mubarak house of Allah Ta'ala
or see the the Mubarak court of Sayyidina
Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in Madinah Munawala,
but they study every single detail about these
things. Why? Because of their love, because of
their Mahaba.
And you know, it's one of those things
that I'm not bringing it up in order
to say bad about people. You you know,
you understand? I'm not bringing it up in
order to say bad about people because
sometimes the ways of the oliya of Allah
ta'ala,
of which I I I'm not anywhere near
except for Allah ta'ala by his father showed
me some of some of the people that
that that that showed the signs of his
love.
If you don't see them the way they
do things and the way they think about
things and the way that they conceive of
things, then how would we have known? How
would we have known? If we were able
to figure all this out out on our
own, there wouldn't have been a need for
wahi or for for the Rasool
even though he is the thing that
the entire,
the entire creation needs most.
He's the thing that the entire creation needs
most
But the thing is that, you know, so
I'm not saying this, you know, in order
to make tamqid on people. Rather, just remember,
you know, if you're on this trip or
you're not on this trip or you're going
or you're not going or whatever,
you gotta read up and that's how how
a person, you know, their their love will
make them want to know about the one
that they love. And this is an intersection
of what? Both fiqh and tesawuf in the
same place.
And aqidah as well. That you want to
know about where you're going,
what are you going to do,
what are the what is this the ritual,
significance behind doing something, what are the symbolic
significances behind doing something,
How should your heart be? What how what
should what
or conception should your mind make about that
that place or that thing when you're doing
it? Know, how are you gonna do all
of those things?
We need to know about that before going.
And this is something you see, for example,
people trying to kiss the ruckan Yamani or
people,
you know, for example,
sisters will go very close to the Kaaba
when there's zahma, when there's a a great
rush, and then people will push them around,
and then they'll scream and say, oh, look.
I'm, you know, a woman. How dare you?
This and that and the other thing. And
the fact of the matter is that that
at that place, the Mubarak place, the fokaha
have said that it's makru or haram depending
on the level of rush for our sisters
to go, so close to the Kaaba at
that level of rush. And you'll see actually
many of the Pais ulama
men, they'll make tawaf from afar just because
they don't want to be put into that
position.
And so, you know, if a woman gets
pushed, you know, and she looks at somebody
and says how dare you, she should know
as well that the the same crowd that's
pushing her is pushing that that person as
well.
Or people you know, there are a lot
of strange things that people do. A little
bit of knowledge or information would have,
would have helped.
And so that's the what? That's the,
ritual,
prerequisite of of going to
the,
house of Allah ta'ala or really any other
act of the deen is that you should
know about it. You should have knowledge first
and then do action. We're not people who
are action first and then knowledge. Action first
and then knowledge is like, okay, here, you
know, communism sounds like a good idea. Stalin
kills 10,000,000 people and like the economy of
half of the world is depressed and backwards,
and then we're like, hey, yeah, you know
what, maybe it's okay to have a free
market here and there. We don't we don't
follow that. That's the way of kufr, that's
the way of jahl, that's the way of
disbelief, and that's the way of what? Of
ignorance. To do first and then I shoot
first and ask questions later. That's not that's
not the prophetic methodology.
That's the methodology of tyrants and criminals.
So what do we do? We should have
the illni prerequisite.
We should also have the akhida, the prerequisite
and akhida. If somebody comes to the house
of Allah ta'ala
and thinks that Allah ta'ala lives there, then
his sajda and that same haram sharif will
be shirk, not just not just a sin.
It will be it will be polytheism. It
will be idol worship.
Not that I'm saying that that's something people
do, but it's just a an an example,
an extreme example because we know things from
their from their definitions. It's an extreme example
of what of somebody doing something without
having the the, the mental
prerequisites
straight in the mind.
What is the the the the black stone?
What is the point of the black stone?
What did the Rasool salallahu alayhi wasalam say
about the black stone?
What is the Mu'tazam, the place between the
door and the
the the black stone? What is its significance?
What is the significance of circumambulation, all of
these things. Some of these things are really
deep things. You're not gonna pick them up
in a 1 hour session, you know?
You have to you have to, you know,
spend a lot of time, you have to
visualize,
you have to know
what does it mean that you're coming to
the house of Allah ta'ala. I mean, Allah
Ta'ala is Malik Al Mulk. He is the
king of kings.
When's the last time anyone invited your due
to their house? Did Trump invite you to
his house?
No. Did Obama invite you to his house?
No. I mentioned
both of them so that people don't think
I'm being partisan. Did the king of any
country, any senator,
any congressman, any governor,
even the city council member if you try
talking to him, he'll probably call the police
on you.
Why? They don't have time for you. What
does it mean that you're going to the
house of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala?
If you were to go visit
a president, would you go there to shoot
the breeze?
No. You would take a petition, you would
ask for something, you would express your gratitude
for something, you would make a promise, I'll
do this for you, I'll do that for
you all. Okay. Fundraise for your next campaign.
You know Muslims, you know, we get treated
badly at the borders. Can you do something
about this, that, or the other thing? Or,
you know, I don't like American policy in
such and such country is, you know, not
really in our benefit as Americans,
or as as Muslims or whatever. Can you
change this? That you go there with the
maxed with a point.
You don't say, look, I spent
$2,000 in in tickets getting here or I
spent not that and, you know, and anybody,
you know, with our group, our group is
a wonderful group. Not that anyone with our
group said
that, but, you know, there are people who
are known to have this attitude. It's in
their back of their mind that look, I
I spent so much money getting here. I
deserve a certain
class of service or this or that.
Why? Because it's a consumer culture that we're,
oriented toward. Even more than that, I mean
for example,
to command that which is right and forbid
that which is evil, that's part of our
Deen.
But when you're in Haram and you're saying
Labake,
you're not here for
rectifying other people, you're there for your own
rectification.
You know, you
you know, you're going to end up,
you know, talking to the president about things
that you should talk to the governor about.
You know, you're, you know, if you're not
going to go to the visit the president
and say, hey,
you know, we need to,
you know, lower the sales tax in Illinois,
because that's not his job, that's not what
that's not you that meeting is not for
that.
Now, the Liqa of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and his Mubarik house is what? People people
like you and me, we're microbes or bacteria
and viruses, we're insignificant,
You know? But Allah
said come to my house
as clean as you can get. You'll never
be clean enough to enter, but as clean
as you can get come to my house
and petition me like the angels petition me.
And call on me like the angels call
on me and say Labbeik,
Labbeik means
You know people say Labbeik and the thing
is that it's a weird word in Arabic
language. It's a very strange word.
It's not it's not I mean, it's not
a literal usage. It's a it's a metaphor.
Linguistically, it's something very few people understand. People
say they don't know what it
means. It doesn't it means that not only
am I here right now, I'll always be
here. Every time you call me I'll be
there for you And if you knew what
Labbeek was, a person who has half a
brain would think like, you know, I'm a
munafiq for saying this because how many times
will Allah Ta'ala call us when we're in
public or when we're in private, when we're
hungry, when we're thirsty, when we're in a
good state, when we're in a bad state.
Allah calls us to do something and we
don't answer. And so the subtext in saying
Labayk is what? It's a complete helplessness. You
say that you're the master, I'm the slave.
I'm saying Labayk, I can't even Labayk.
So you
Allah, you you give me the ability to
labayk.
You're the one that labayk came from you
and it goes back to you, honor me
by by by letting it pass over me,
over my nothingness.
You know, that's that's something you have to
think about that, you have to understand that
the person who comes with an intention that
I'm gonna go back and still transact in
riba, I'm gonna go back and still lie
and cheat, lip off, mouth off to my
parents,
you know, ignore my my children, ignore my
brothers and sisters, ignore ill, not study those
things that I've been saying. Yeah. It would
be nice to have some escape fantasy to
go to some foreign country and study whatever.
You know, Allah didn't command everyone to become
a alim, but he did command everybody to
be able to learn to read the Quran
in its original text, which none of us
can do. Not born Muslims, not converts, none
of us. There's a time when people used
to accept Islam. They would sit for hours
and hours, days, weeks, months and learn how
to read the Quran. People don't people don't
do it. They themselves, you know, it's not
their fault. People don't tell them that it's
important anymore.
And then once they find out it's important,
you know, they you know, people are not
doing it nowadays. People born in Muslim families,
my father is Mohammed, Sayed, Sheikh, Mufti,
blah blah blah, lineage of Jafari and Ansari
and,
you know, from this Muslim country and from
that Muslim country, and if, you know, whatever,
and we're wonderful, and we're this and that.
People don't learn they don't bother to learn
how to read the Quran, they don't bother
to, learn how to do their salah, they
don't bother to sit in the majalis of
of zikr, they don't bar bother to sit
in the sufah of the masha'i regularly,
that once a week I'm gonna I'm gonna
dedicate once a week as part of my
deen, like I pray 5 times a day.
Forget about, you know, like I'm gonna dedicate
time for that. People don't even self love,
pray on time. And then if you're gonna
come to this joint and be like,
what does that mean? What does it mean
when a person doesn't intend to abandon
their own desire in favor of Allah's
call and then they say Labbeg.
A person who doesn't like Trump at home
and says bad about him, who doesn't like
Obama at home and says bad about him,
that's one thing. What do you think if
you walk into the White House and you
say bad about him? It's something even worse,
isn't it? It's a categorically
it's a categorically,
greater insult that will have more
repercussions and and ramifications.
So these are just these people, little people,
little microbes, bacteria that that think that there's
something. You know, we're just these little bacteria
and they're bacteria like us. We think we're
something in this world. We're all gonna die.
4 years is not a long amount of
time. 8 years is not a long amount
of time. What do you think about the
one who existed bef you know, before time
and the one who who al Baqi, he
will be here forever.
And and and and there's nothing like unto
him, and he created everything from nothing. If
you show up in his court and you
front like that, what do you think what
do you think the the
the consequence is gonna be? And it's really
scary. I'm not
dogging on other people. I'm thinking myself, how
am I gonna show face in front of
Allah ta'ala?
You know, Labbeik saying Labbeik and, like, what
plan have I made in order to
execute that and not leave those things that
that he forbid me from and not answer
the call again. You know, the the deen
calls us to so many things. It calls
us to so many ideals. It calls our
nafs to things. It calls our mind to
things. It calls our body to things. How
are you gonna how are we gonna fulfill
the? A person who says in anything but
utter humility,
anything but utter humility that, you Allah, this
in like the sahaba made
They literally said to Rasulullah,
imagine the gall the gall of a person
to say it. You know, when nobody believed
in him, they said, if you
ride your horse into the ocean, we'll ride
in after you.
If you ride your horse into the ocean,
we'll ride in after you. They said this
to to to
no 1400 years of this and that, nor
for Madhavs and Baghdad and and the Lucia.
No, you know, huge, like, 1,000,000, 4,000,000 people
coming from Hajj from all the nations of
the earth. There's just a few.
Just a a small band of people
that the mushrikeen thought we'll just deal with
this and it'll be done. You know, imagine
the goal that they have. They said if
you ride into the ocean,
Yahrulullah will ride in behind you. That's Labbeg.
Now, oh, Molana Saab, this is difficult. Oh,
Molana Saab, that's difficult. Oh, how come the
sheikh make things? The sheikh make all these
problems. The masha'if don't make the problems. They
tell you what the problem is. They don't
make the problem. Do you understand what I'm
saying? I'm eating pork, don't eat pork. Molon
Sab, why you make such a big deal?
What you were doing was harming you. I'm
just letting you know that. I'm not making
it up.
They said if you ride your horse into
the ocean, we'll ride in behind you. The
person who comes with this type of Labbeik,
their Ummrah is Mubarik Mubarak Mubarak Makboul.
They have a high Maqam with Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. That person is as if he
is he is he is the, like, you
know, just a chosen one from Allah ta'ala's
creation.
You know, he's the the loved one from
Allah
creation. He's the one that that that people
literally should rush to shake their hands and
rush to kiss them and rush to hug
them and rush to to to to to
pray with them and to ask for their
duas and to benefit from what Allah gave
them. Because what Allah gave them is
not something created and perishing.
Allah gave them from his own love and
his own love existed forever and will exist
forever. It's something that once it's given, it
can never be taken away by anybody.
We buy it People, why do they waste
so much money insuring things? Weird movie stars
and
sports players, they
insure, like, specific body parts and all this
other nonsense. Because human being
hates to be in this world, this fleeting
world where things can be taken away at
any time. So he he wants to or
she wants to,
feel like there's some permanency or something, you
know, that can protect them from change, and
nothing can protect you from change. This life
is the waves the waves of
of of time in a circumstance
that the person who's happy today is sad
tomorrow
and the person who's sad today is even
sadder the next day. It it all of
these things, everything that's good will all all
perish except for what? The thing that has
a connection with Allah to Allah who is
alive and never dies.
That person, that is beautiful.
But imagine also then a person
brings the the the
the fake Le Baik.
You don't you don't fake Le Baik. You
don't do the Le Baik fake. You don't
do that.
You don't ride goofy on this on this
mountain, my friends.
It's a bad thing. And, you know, if
someone
did that and they hear this, don't think
I'm making fun of you or saying bad
about you. We're all in the same boat.
We're it's like the struggle is real. It's
the same struggle all of us are going
through.
And, if a person didn't make Tawbah for
it and go again, insha'Allah,
you know, in a different way. And it's
not just Hajj and Umrah, it's every salat,
it's every dua, it's every tasbih, it's every
time you say
It's every time every every one of these
things we know we're not
Indeed, Allah
is pure, and he does not accept anything
other than that which is pure.
This is something that's really, like,
it's part of the essence of deen. And
this Hajj al Amra is such a beautiful
thing because it physically tests you to your
limits. There's no way you'll be able to
make a perfect Hajj. There's no way you're
gonna be able to make a perfect Umrah.
The only one who could do that
was Sayna Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. His
companions tried doing it, and they would ask
for a dispensation, and he would say, if,
Allahu alaihi, do do you know, ease up
on yourself inshallah in certain ways
and and don't feel bad about it because
nobody can do this. The point is to,
push yourself to the point that that you're
you're at the edge just to show Allah
to Allah. 2 things, 1 to show that
you would give everything you had for him,
and the other is that once your your
own,
power and strength runs out, once your own
devices run out, your own strategizing and your
smartness and cleverness run out, then you get
to be lifted by the
power of Allah to Allah's help. And then
you get to bear witness to the power
of Allah Ta'ala's help that he doesn't leave
people behind. It's mind boggling a person thinks
all of these Manasik, how am I gonna
finish them? How am I gonna do them?
I came from halfway across the world. I'm
jet lagged. I'm tired. I have to do,
you know, I'm I'm, you know, Americans men,
we drive from one side of the Walmart
parking lot
to the other. How am I gonna walk
all of this way? I'm tired. I might
sore. I mean, literally, you see some people
in the best of health, and they get
broken in half in this process.
And then you see the other people,
and and you see them like old and
and and
hunched over and with,
you know, diseases
and with
injuries, and Allah ta'ala lifts them such a
way that they they move they move like
angels. They move through the the corridors and
the halls of the Muslim Haram like angels,
masha'Allah.
And how is that possible? That's how you'll,
you know, behold the the the help of
Allah to Allah. The mushahada of his Musaada,
that's how you're gonna get it. Is how?
Is through through giving everything that you have.
This one very beautiful thing that a person
will very rarely pray their salat like that
because they gotta go on and do other
things in the day. This is a time
you get to give it give it your
all and that's why it's so special. See,
but you have to have that that that
preparation in your mind. You have to have
that spiritual preparation.
You have to have that spiritual preparation. Are
you gonna move through the
Haramain Sharifaim looking at beautiful people? Are you
gonna move through the Haramain Sharifaim looking at
the shops? Are you gonna move through the
Haramain Sharifaim looking at people's phones?
Such bad habits.
Such bad habits. A snake,
you know, what is it gonna do? It's
just gonna look for like a mouse to
eat.
If you put a piece of art in
front of it, it doesn't see any of
that.
If you put a piece of, you know,
if you put, you know,
a beautiful,
and wonderful person in front of the snake.
Snake doesn't care who's beautiful, who's not beautiful.
Snake doesn't care who has akhlaq, who doesn't
have akhlaq. The snake doesn't care about, you
know, it doesn't care about the value of
something or it's just looking for a rat
to eat and then it's going to go
slither back into its cave and go to
sleep again.
I want I mean, we have to understand
that. I mean, Allah forgive us and I'm
talking about myself, if someone sees sees this,
you know, don't be like, oh, why Milana
Saba was beating up on everybody all the
time. I'm just talking about myself, Wallahi.
You know,
maybe by me talking about my own experience,
someone else will get benefit as well. But,
you know, we, you know, we have to
we're just so conditioned to do all this,
just to fill our stomach
and,
enjoy our enjoyments
and just, you know, and we think it's
all fancy. Right? We use phones instead of
rats.
Or we use money instead of, you know,
we eat money instead of rabbits. Or instead
of a duck,
we'll, you know, buy a house. But there's
the same
just petty things
that are really not that big of a
deal. You know, houses, there's 100 of them.
Food, you eat it every every single day.
In fact, most of us are eating it
so much it's literally killing us. And but
the thing is it's like those same, like,
stupid, like, 3, 4 things and we think,
oh, look, we're so sophisticated because the home
is so nice or that car is so
nice or the food is double, triple organic.
It's just it's the same thing. It's like
a snake is like, oh look I ate
a really nice rat today. Everyone's like, dude,
what kind of existence is that? What kind
of what kind of life is that? We
have to have preparation. We can't come here
like with the eye of a reptile, with
the eye of a snake, that we're just
like here to fill our stomach and go
to sleep. That's going to be totally like
a barrier to getting any benefit at all
whatsoever.
It's going to be this like really
and it's like when you step back, you
know, and look at the bigger picture,
it's so lame. You're such a loser for
that. I mean, there are literally kings,
and princes that have killed people,
and killed you know, destroyed cities, destroyed the
lives of people. There are people who have
done all these things just for a little
bit of money that they're not gonna spend.
It's all gonna be there. You know, this
is interesting the the
says in his book that in the end
everything is for those who fear him. The
the people fear Allah everything is for them.
The dynasties of the Sasanian and Parthian emperors
of Persia
and not the the the Achaemenid
emperors of Persia,
Sham. Right? The the Ptolemaic
dynasty that ruled over Egypt, the pharaonic dynasties
that ruled over Egypt, all of these, you
know, Musharic kings of India, Buddhist kings in
Central Asia,
amassed huge Manichean kings of Central Asia. They
amassed huge amounts of wealth. The Mongol armies,
they they they churned
through the steppe of Central Asia, and they
literally ran roughshod over
over the world.
All for what?
That one day the salahiyat, the money, the
gold, the silver, the jewels,
the the the know how, the technical know
how, all of it will one day come
into the service of Islam. All of it
one day will come into the service of
Deen.
All of it one day will come into
the service of the Deen.
All of it you will see all of
this entire dunya, what's inside of it, All
of it one day will come into the
service of the Deen of Allah and His
Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Everyone is trying to
look out for number 1 and think about
themselves. They're trying to think think think about
themselves and like what's my benefit? I have
to live my life. I can't just, you
know, Islam. Everyone in Islam is doing well
and I'm the one who dies, you know,
poor and hungry and and alone and God
knows what. Right? So let me tell you
something, everyone's gonna die.
Even if you're beautiful, even if everybody loves
you, even if you live healthy your whole
day, and you have the the house that
you want, and you marry the person you
want and you get the car that you
want and you get the money that you
want, the respect from people and
you get to study and you get to
do everything you ever wanted to in your
life is just wonderful and beautiful, you're still
going to die.
Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam passed from this world. Who
do you think you are?
Sayyidna Nuhalayhi Salaam did dawah for 950 years.
He still passed. Sayyidna Musa Alaihi Salaam, Allata
parted the Red Sea and drowned his enemy
in front of him. Allah Ta'ala saved him
and his people. Still though, at one point
you're gonna leave from this place.
We're busy looking out for ourselves for the
security and safety. You're not gonna get it
here. The Haram Sharif is like one of
this beautiful place because it reminds you a
little bit of like a sneak preview of
that safety security. That's why it's Haram and
Aminan. It is a secure Haram
and
the one who enters at that person is
safe and is secure.
You
know, enter enter into it,
in in in in in in in in
in in in a in a whole way,
free from any harm,
Aminina,
with assurance that that that that you can
rest, relax, no one's going to do anything
to you. These two places, that's what they
are, like a sneak preview for Jannah. And
they're for what? They're not for eating and
drinking and enjoying and relaxing and all it's
for of it's for the worship of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The Darul Aman is going to be on
the other side.
Whatever difficulty, whatever you go through, don't be
these petty people who are just there to,
like,
ingratiate themselves. I'm not saying everyone has to
quit and become, you know, go to Madrasa
and say, allah, for the you know, until
they die of starvation or whatever. Keep doing
what you're doing, but know that you're a
piece of a larger puzzle in this world,
which is glorious, but it's nothing compared to
what? It's nothing compared to what Allah Ta'ala
has created for the people who love him
in the in in the afira.
And that little perspective, to the outsider, it
may change very little
from their observing because you're still gonna go
to work every day and you're still gonna
go to school and you're still gonna do
the things you do. But what is it?
It's a mental prerequisite to getting benefit from
this place and from any other part of
the deen. And to Allah Ta'ala, it makes
all the difference in the world. To Allah
Ta'ala, it's more a difference than there's a
difference between a shark and between a dolphin.
To Allah Ta'ala, it makes all the difference
in the world. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give
all of us dufik to
understand these things, to change our lives for
the better. Allah ta'ala make the best part
of our life what's in front of us
and make the best day of our life
our last day and the best moment of
our life the last moment and the best
speech our last speech La ilaha illallah Saydna
Muhammad Rasoolallahu
alaihi wa sallam And may he accept it
from us and give us a death better
than our life, and may he give us
a time in the and in the grave
better than our death, and may he give
us a resurrection better than our time in
the and may he give us a gathering
better than our resurrection.
May he give us a drink from the
hold of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
May he give us the shafa'a of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. May he give
us a judgment better than than our than
our gathering, and may he give us a
maqam forever with his oliya,
and for the ones that love him and
that that he loves,
in Jannah.
This place is such a beautiful place,
just a cab driver. Imagine he was patently
uneducated person. And just a little reminder I
wanted to share before signing off that he
said that he said that,
you know the problem with this ISIS and
with all these other crazy groups, you know,
going around marauding and killing people in the
Muslim world. He said, don't they know that
the messenger of Allah salallahu alaihi wasallam said
that to break the Kaaba
How holy and sacred is the Kaaba that
to break the Kaaba stone by stone?
To break the Kaaba stone by stone is
less of a big deal with Allah
than spilling the blood of another Muslim.
And so I thought that was the message
worth sharing. It's a reminder we're sharing. Allahu
Ta'ala give us all so much tofiq,