Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Du’s of Raslullh continued 07232022
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The other thing is I wanted to congratulate,
those of you who have come as travelers
of Musafirim,
for the, you know, I mean, just the
people
came to Darce, first of all, but those
who came and left their homes for,
the attendance of the Darul Qasim
ethics
seminars and gatherings.
And your suffer. This is the suffer of
the Muslims
seeking knowledge and visiting the pious and the
righteous. There are many people, amazing people just
in in America.
And if you don't have a passport, you
can go visit them. So you should do
that while they're still alive,
lest a person wait until they passed away
and they say, Hamzah is making things up.
You can go visit them. And to all
of these people, you can go visit them
inshallah and benefit and make cut somebody out
of the loop. But you go if you
want to be forgiven, meet somebody who Allah
has forgiven, shake hands with them, you'll also
be forgiven.
And, the, you know, it's you can't light
a torch except for from a torch that's
itself already lit.
So go go find go find these people.
Spend your money. You know? You get tired
sitting at home and,
you know, cooped up or whatever. So go
go out and go go out and, you
know, and you'll eat something on the way,
and you'll have fun and you'll crack a
joke and you'll all of these things will
happen on the way. But, go out and,
you know, meet and see these people. It
will make your
iman fresh again, inshallah.
Come in
Come come in and come
forward. It's hard to come forward.
Abu Bakr Sadiq
who he it's narrated from him that he
said to the messenger of Allah he requested
or he asked from him,
to teach me, such a dua that I
can,
ask this dua in my
prayer and in another in my prayer and
in my house, in my home when I'm
at home.
And the messenger of Allah
said, say, oh, Allah, I have transgressed my
soul,
many transgressions,
or in a a
great transgression.
And no one forgives,
sins except for you. So forgive me such
a forgiveness that comes only from you, and
have mercy on me. Indeed, you are the,
all forgiving and all merciful.
And
then
he mentioned something. He says that there are
two narrations of the wording of the hadith.
Right? 1 is
and 1 is
that I've done
numerous transgressions or I've done a great transgression.
He says, so it is
it befits the person asking to
combine these two narrations.
And so what does he mean by combining
these two narrations? Ibn Al An mentions and
he says,
So this is what should be done for
every time you have, like, a dua that
has, like, different narrations.
A person should do both of them, should
combine them together. And so then he mentions,
So the way you do it is that
you not that you say in one breath,
as seems to be indicated by the words
of that but rather you say it once
with one wording and then once with the,
other wording,
in order to in order to get
are Hamza you know, Hafez Hamza who led
the?
I remember when he was at IFS, they
used to have, like, a morning announcement so
that he was the announcement guy while I
was there. Like, the student they'd have a
student read the announcements, so they'd have have
them read the duas in the morning. He
used to read these duas in the morning
as well.
So Abu Musa Al Ashari who narrates from
the prophet
that he used to,
call upon Allah with this du'a. Oh, Allah,
forgive me my,
my sins
and my, ignorance and my excess in my
affair,
and, all of those things that you know
about, those negative things that you know about
from me. Oh, Allah, forgive me. Those things
that I did in seriousness and those things
I did as a joke.
So many people joke around about so many
things that are really not funny. So forgive
me those things I did in seriousness and
those things I did joking,
or that my my seriousness and my my
my joking
and my,
mistakes
and those things that I did on purpose
or the the the intentional things from me
and all of those things that came from
me.
Oh, Allah. Forgive me,
that which I put forth and that which
I held back. Because sometimes you're not supposed
to do something, you do it. Forgive me
that. And sometimes you're supposed to do something,
you you don't do it. Forgive me that
as well. And that thing that I did
secretly and that thing that I did openly
and that thing that you know about me
better that came from me. He says that
you're the one who puts puts people forward,
and you're the one who holds them back,
and you're the one who has omnipotence over
all things.
And it's hadith of both Bukhari and Muslim.
So
is
what? That Allah is the one who gives
people a tawfiq to do good things. If
he raises ranks and he puts people forward,
he gives them leadership, he give them wealth.
He gives them a maqam in Jannah. He
gives them all of these things. The macherazon,
he holds them back from things that that
that they should have or that will benefit
them or that they want. And so instead
of being a hater, instead of being jealous
when you see something from somebody,
Or instead of being hurt, how come I'm
not able so sometimes you're not jealous, but
you're like, how come everybody else is successful
and I'm not?
Instead of any of those things,
just remember that it's a sign that it
comes from Allah. It doesn't come from you
and me.
And so remember Allah, forget about the
people.
Otherwise, everything I do in the day, I
remember so many people were better at it
than me, but somehow or another, they've dropped
out, on this side or on the other
side. Is the one who puts a person
forward, and he's the one who holds someone
back. Make have your connection with him, and
you'll get what you want.
And don't make have your connection with him.
Even if you get what you want, it's
not a benefit. It's gonna be a curse.
It's gonna be. It's gonna be,
it's it's gonna be
crossed. It's not gonna end well.
Prophet
said in his dua,
oh, I seek refuge in you from the
evil of the thing that I did and
evil of the thing that didn't do.
And it's narrated by Muslim. Ibn Alan mentions
that there are 2 opinions about what the
second part means. What I didn't do is
those sins of omission,
And, also, there's an opinion about what I
didn't do and meaning the sins that are
bad. Like, I didn't do them, but I
should I should be proud of myself or
that I should be impressed with myself
or conceded
about about, you know, not having committed sin.
That a person should look to Allah as
the one who gives the tawfiq to hold
back from sin.
He said that the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam from his dua was just
ask, oh, Allah,
I seek refuge in you from the,
from the zawal of your blessings. Zawal is
what? It's the sun is at high noon.
So it's the zenith.
It's not readily
it's not really readily understand understood from people
why that would be a bad thing. But
the problem with the zenith is what? Then
there's no nowhere else to go but down,
that you've already passed that you're over the
hill now. You know? That your blessings you
know, that the time of enjoyment of them
is gone, and now they're just gonna decline
and decrease and then disappear.
I seek refuge in you from the Zawal
of your, of your blessings, and from the,
the
the the the the the the afiyyah you've
given me, that I'm I'm in a good
state. I'm not sick. I'm not in pain.
I'm not suffering. I'm not I'm in I'm
in a happy state,
that that that you should switch that out
away from me.
Or that your vengeance or your spite should
hit me,
hit me suddenly and without warning.
All of us have sins that if we
were to be taken to account for,
in the moment,
they would just leave a person, like, struck
by lightning.
So seek we should seek refuge in Alaa'ala.
It's one of the reasons and one of
the names is a sub word. People do
stupid things that they deserve to really get,
like, zapped right then and
there. But Allah gives a person a chance
to do something better. So you used to
seek refuge in Allah
from the,
from the the the the the instant striking
of his spite.
And
from any part of your anger, I seek
refuge in you from any part of your
anger.
Refuge in you,
from inability
and from laziness.
From what?
In in laziness. Thank you.
From inability and from laziness
and from miserliness
and from
from from the old age decrepit old age
in which a person cannot do anything,
and from the
torment of the grave, oh, Allah, give my
soul its taqwa, its fear of you,
and purify it. You are the best one
who purifies it. You are the its master.
You're its guardian, and you are its master.
Oh, Allah, indeed, I seek refuge in you
from knowledge that doesn't benefit.
So this is a discussion. Right? You hear
some of the say about, like, well, knowledge
is not useful unless you,
you know, put it into action, and some
of them are saying that the knowledge itself
is superior to the action.
You know, one of the shades of that's
the base between these two attitudes is what?
Sometimes people
learn information, but it doesn't ever translate into
any sort of change inside. Because
is not just information.
Is like a type of realization. It's a
holistic realization that comes into
a person's heart. Knowledge that doesn't benefit is
a curse. If anything,
smartphones have taught us that. You know? I
remember growing up. You know? There's this idea
that the more you read, like, the better
person you are. And now I read stuff
all day, and everything I read seems to
just make me dumber.
But on the phone, especially. You know? Like,
if I read a book that's different, I
have a different you know, I read Khalil's,
you know, monastic, and I read the, you
know, whatever,
commentary on the Akhida of Merciful Morena. I
feel like I feel like, wow. Something good
happened to me. I feel like a better
person.
Then I read, like, Twitter and Facebook. My
own tweets and my own Facebook posts,
and I feel the dumber for it.
And then if I, you know, if I
don't feel dumber for it, then I read
the comments and that just destroy you know,
like
so I seek refuge in Allah to Allah
from nothing and and not just
Try to avoid it as much as you
can. Sometimes it's not avoidable. Sometimes it's really
hard to avoid, so you don't have the
to avoid it. But sometimes you do have
the to go go ahead and do yourself
a favor. Don't kill yourself. Be go easy
on yourself. Just just let it go.
I seek refuge in you from knowledge that
doesn't benefit and from a heart that doesn't
fear.
And from that is never satiated. It just
wants more and more.
And this is one of the this is
another thing. You know? I don't know.
The occasion for me writing it was that
I received a question, although I don't wanna
beat down the question. The questioner asked a
legitimate question. It was
admittedly somewhat of an awkward question. But, about,
you know, whether such and such, you know,
act, which is perhaps nonconventional according to traditional
norms,
between husband and wife, whether it's halal or
not. But then, you know, I said, look.
Sometimes sometimes
people get bored of, like, normal things. Okay?
They literally, they'll say that this thing is
vanilla.
Let's just keep the discussion about ice cream
now.
Let's just keep the discussion about?
Ice cream. Ice cream.
Hey. If vanilla ice cream doesn't taste good
to you anymore and you have to go
get some, like, whacked out flavor from some,
you know, one place or the other, Maybe
you should lay off the ice cream for
a couple of days
or for a week or for a month.
Then afterward, the vanilla ice cream tastes good.
It tastes tastes really you know, vanilla ice
cream tastes great. You know? Vanilla ice cream
tastes wonderful.
Chetan makes people do all kinds of you
start with, oh, I have to
organic this and that from such and such
artists in place and what it's fine. It's
not haram or anything. Right? And then they
keep going, keep going, keep going. One day,
people be like, they're eating, like, bacon ice
cream. You ever heard the hadith of the
prophet that the person
who is the most severe torment in the
hellfire is Amr Biluhay
who brought the idol of Chobel from Sham
and placed it in the Kaaba
with.
Sometimes I think probably number 2
is whatever screwed up weird, like,
like, deviant weirdo that put bacon in ice
cream. So the one thing that can't be
haram.
And there's the scoop. There's, like, out of
20 flavors in the ice cream shop, and
the scoop goes in. Here. * it. All
of this is haram now.
Even the vanilla became haram because of this
one thing. You know? Like, this don't go
there and tell it now you cannot enjoy
yourself until there's bacon in your ice cream.
Just vanilla is good. If it doesn't taste
good, then maybe you should lay off the
ice cream for a couple of days. You're
not gonna die.
It's good. It tastes good again after a
while.
Some people are like, vanilla, what taste nice?
Allah give you guys that, I mean, ladies
who haven't had it. For the rest of
us, you know,
when you get to that place, then just
lay off the ice cream for a little
while inshallah, you'll you can everything can reset.
All of it can reset in your mind.
It just takes a while. And the worst
you go into the bacon, the harder it
will be to reset. But you can. You
still you're not
you're never, you know, completely shot. You can
always
get better. You can always get better. Maybe
hard. I'm not gonna say it's easy, but
it's you know, you always get better,
And that's that's that's what you know, he
says, that's
that's
like a that's a deep dua that, you
know, that, like, not not not get stuck
in that place, you know, that the nafs
just keeps wanting more and more and strange
and weird and, like, all kinds of things
until it just destroys you. The nafs are
supposed to have that craving
for stuff,
including ice cream, which is beneficial for you
and
for mankind, but then it just you you
know, it you get to obeyed so much.
Its power over a person becomes so much
that it just gets them to destroy themselves.
That's not that's not cool. That's just weird
and scary and creepy.
And that I should get to a point
where I make dua,
and it's just not it's not it's not
answered,
which is a great plug for
Hafsa and for heating eating halal.
That's also part of the. If you're the
Sufi guy who's like, yeah, and, like, $100
shawl, but, like, halal is not spiritual enough
for you, you're a dajjal, you're shaytan. The
good news, you can still make
That's the good news.
But, right, so hadith a Muslim. Right? That
the person
But the person, he
raised he spreads his hands in front of
the in front of the heavens,
and he says, oh oh, my lord. Oh,
my lord.
And his food is haram, and his drink
is haram, and his clothes is har haram,
and his
he he was raised nourished on haram all
of his life. How is Allah gonna answer
that
that quest so that's that's what he says.
He says, I a lot the used
is eating just, like, questionable garbage stuff and
making up, like, kind of, like, fictitious,
optional narratives in your mind in order to
justify it. It's like leave it alone.
Leave it alone. Don't don't don't go there.
From Ibn Abbas. May Allah be pleased with
both of them that the messenger, Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, said
or used to say, oh, Allah,
it is to you that I, that I
surrender,
and it is in you that I believe,
And it is upon you that I trust,
and it is to you that I turn
in repentance.
And it is
through you that I
vie and that I that I,
that I that I vie or that I
argue.
If I get into an argument, it's it's
for your sake,
which means, like, it personally has certain amount
of bandwidth. Right? So you should for your
personal things, you should go be easy going.
Save your argument for the things that are
and
for the for the pleasure
of Allah. Right? Here
means
that I get I rule
I rule. My rulings are are
in your direction. You're the things that you
showed me. That's what I rule by. Here,
Hakamtu, the difference between Hakamtu and Hakamtu is
that because there's people in the difference between
and is that
because there's people involved. It's an interaction between
people.
So
so means it implies that it's
that that that you're you're doing this
with people.
So
forgive me that which I put forth that
I shouldn't have and that which I held
back, which I I shouldn't have, and that
thing which I hid, and that thing that
I did publicly, which I things that I
shouldn't have. You're the one who puts forward,
and you're the one who holds back, and
there's no god except for you. And it
is added in certain,
in some of the narrations.
And there is no power,
to avoid sin
nor or no there's no,
force that can help a person avoid sin
or power to establish God's obedience except for
in Allah
except for through him.
It's narrated from her that the prophet, he
used to call on,
with these
words.
Oh Allah, I seek refuge in you from
the
from the torment of the grave,
from sorry, the punishment of the grave and
from
the the the torment of the fire
and from the evil of wealth and of
poverty.
And both of them are evil.
Obviously, like, when you hang out with, like,
real, like, people,
then
generally speaking,
the faction is away from being rich.
But the idea is both of them have
some sort of evil in them. One of
the reasons the first lesson you were taught
is that not to desire wealth is because
it's a very common trick of the nuffs.
But the idea is that that both of
them have some sort of evil and both
of them can have some sort of good,
and you have your own proclivities.
And so you should want them for what
whichever one you want, you should want them
because it makes sense for you,
in your journey toward Allah that everybody one
of them will help more than the other.
Which one it is? You don't know.
But you also, you know, kinda kinda look
out of it. Have to make an educated
guess and then seek seek it. Sometimes you
look educated guess, and it's wrong. Allah, I
won't give you the thing that you're seeking
one way or the other,
which is fine. But, you know, our job
is to keep trying and to serve Allah
to Allah with whatever we have. Allah's job
is the he's the master. He makes the
decision. He makes things happen, and he's the
one who orders, and his orders are fulfilled.
So he does his job really,
like, amazingly. So you just, you know, keep
doing your,
keep doing your job.
This is also
a a good opportunity to mention that this
is narrated by Saydah Aisha
People have this whole thing. You know, like,
this is like the big Internet thing, like
the big gotcha comment that, like, every,
whatever, hater, ex Muslim,
Zionist,
whatever,
anti immigrant, this and that type of person.
At the end of it, when they haven't
you know, their arguments all run out of
gas,
they're like, oh, yeah. Well, you prophet married
a 9 year old girl. And then some
Muslims were like, well, actually, according to this
one re rewire, she was this and that
she was she was the correct rewire is
that she was,
9 years old at the time of the
consummation of the marriage.
But look at the look at the argument.
Okay? I'll give you a a a
an argument that will
help you to understand what I'm about to
say.
So once when I was in Ohio maybe
I mentioned this in this Darsa as well.
Like, you know, some woman turned out the
whole issue. She was trying to, like, give
me the good news of the of the
gospels or whatever. And so
I I Ohio people are cute. Like, they
still believe in, like, Christianity. So, like, I
kinda I kinda, like, appreciate that. Whereas over
here, like, they're all, like, they're still, like,
done with that. Right?
So, so she you know? So I'm like,
okay. Well, you know,
is not for another, like, hour and a
half, so I'll educate this. You know? So,
she's like, well, I don't wanna be offensive
or anything,
but, like, maybe,
like, Mohammed thought he was talking to god,
but it was really the devil.
And I'm like, oh, great. Like, at the
end of everything, all the this is the
last thing she has to say.
And so and she's
even though it's a horrible thing to say,
but she was trying to be nice about
it if, you know, if you if you
can be nice about something like that. So
I'm like, look.
I'm like, you believe that, you know, Jesus
Christ died for everyone's sins and that he's
the son of God and, like, the trinity.
He is God. Right? Yeah. Right? Right? I
go, what kind of devil came to
came to him
and said something to him that got, like,
a 1000000000 people to stop drinking and to
stop committing zina and to stop eating pork
and to, like,
take care of, like, orphans and stuff like
that. I even Christ couldn't do that for
you guys. I go, but some devil came
came to the I go, does that how
the devil works? Like, explain you explain to
me how is that is that possible.
Right?
So this is the same thing that I
say, like, look at the things that are
narrated
by
the
If this is really some sort of, like,
lurid and, like, creepy, whatever thing that's going
on, what is the product of, of their
marriage,
right, that she taught, you know,
an of people, a 1000000000 people after a
1000000000
people that,
that, you know, you that that that you
should seek refuge in Allah
from the torment of the grave and from
the
the the the punishment of the hellfire and
from the evil of wealth and
of poverty. That's not what, like, weirdo abusers
do. You know what I mean? Like, they're
more into the more creepier aspects of stuff.
Whereas the say the,
you see all
the like what we've read,
from her. All of it is, like, filled
with hikmah. Right? That's the prophet,
you know, you know, he he was constantly
making and asking for forgiveness from the things
that he he did and from the things
that he didn't do. He's read the narration
just, you know, a couple of minutes ago
and whatever. You look at the product. Like,
what's the
what's like, what came out of all of
this?
And then you can judge. Okay? Like, was
this how how good was this or how
bad was this? How horrible was this or
whatever? And then look at also people, all
sorts of consenting adults that, like, fill out
some sort of online form that's notarized by
people before they have any sort of relationship
with one another and see what they come
out with, you know, what they're posting on
their social media or whatever and how beneficial
it is for themselves or for others. You
judge them who's
unpiding righteousness and who's just filled with hot
hadith and
Hassan. Narrates from his uncle.
There are only 2 hadiths that he that
are narrated from in the in the and,
this is one of them. The other one
is has to do with, like, mentioning that
he heard the prophet read qaf, al Quran,
and majeed, and salat once.
That,
he said that the prophet used to say
he used to say, meaning he used to
make du'a Allah ta'ala o Allah,
indeed, I seek refuge in you from,
from from the from
detestable,
denoucable
character
and deeds
and,
vain desires.
Are there any questions?