Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Hour of Power Ribt 03242019
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So we continue today with the,
chapter regarding the virtues of Jumu'a
and the different
Sunnah acts,
that are connected with it.
And,
we start
So hadith narrated by Sayna Abu Hureiro, the
Allahu Anhu,
in which,
Takrar is made of the virtue of taking
a bath on the day of Jumuah, which
we talked about from before.
And there is
specification made that the
Sifa or the the the the description of
that bath should be. The description of the
bath that a person,
takes from Janava in order to
lift
the state of major ritual impurity from a
person.
So the person who makes that, rusol,
in in the first hour,
that person,
makes that rusul in in the first hour
and then goes to
that person for them, is the reward as
if they had
sacrificed a camel.
So there are a number of different opinions
of the the
the lexicographers
about what
the word Buddha means,
but
there is a there's a weak opinion that
it may mean,
a head of cattle, but in general, the
they say that it means a a camel,
which is a major sacrifice.
So a person will receive the reward of
having sacrificed a camel for the sake of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And then the person who
bathes such a bath
and then,
leaves for Jum'ah in the second hour,
that person
for them is the reward as if
they had sacrificed a head of cattle,
thus indicating that whatever the possible,
meaning of the word
is in the dictionary,
the meaning here is, for Buddha is probably
just a camel and not the cattle.
And then the person who,
makes the bath
in the 3rd and then leaves for July
in the 3rd hour,
that person receives the reward of having
sacrificed a
a ram, a horned ram.
And then the person who bathes such and
then leaves in the 4th hour, that person
receives the reward of having sacrificed a chicken.
And the person who,
makes a sacrifice,
or sorry, who bathes and,
then,
leaves in the 5th hour,
That person,
it's as if they sacrificed
a just an egg.
And then once the imam
comes out,
the
angels will enter the masjid
in order to listen to
the reminder,
the dhikr, literally the remembrance.
And
refers
to the as
dhikr as well.
And and this is an indication that it
is
a it is a
a a message that is
sacred.
It is a message which is
delivered best in ritual expressions.
This is perhaps
a
and
a sign as well,
confirming the preference for the,
for the Khutba to be
in the Arabic language, and for it to
be short and sweet, and for it not
to be a a a a platform for
people to freestyle.
Rather, it is a platform for
those values that we know are part of
Islam and those virtues that we know that
are part of Islam, that they should be
delivered with
the 2 Sifaat that the Fokaha mentioned that
constitute a valid Khutba, which is wawd and
irshad.
That there should be wawab in the sense
that there should be some attempt to convince
someone of doing something.
It should be,
it should not be expository
like, I've seen many hotbas,
are delivered with the same
boring,
delivery
that a university
lecturer would let deliver,
lecture material, some sort of technical material, nor
with the same boringness that
stats and facts and figures are,
communicated,
in a corporate setting.
Rather, it should be wild.
It should be persuasive.
There should be there should be, there should
be a persuasive style of delivery. And the
other sifa of the Khutba,
is that it should have Irshad in it.
Irshad means what? It should guide to something
better. You shouldn't be persuading people about why
the, you know, Blackhawks are a better baseball
team than the Bears,
but,
it should be something that has
an element of guidance, something that will guide
someone to, something, which is better,
but it transcends that. It transcends just to
talk.
It transcends just like a normal band. Rather,
there's a ritual significance because the angels won't
come to it if it's just talk like
the talk of people.
Rather, there's some transcendent in Rani and Rouhani,
some light infused and spiritual,
quality to that specific talk that happens in
that specific ritual format on that specific day
that the angels are attracted to.
So,
you know, the first kind of low hanging
fruit from this hadith is
reaffirming the,
the the the necessity of the bath. Not
only for the reasons we mentioned last week,
because everyone gathers together and you don't want
to have a densely packed,
gathering in which people smell bad and bother
one another,
But also because
the ritual purity of a person,
opens their heart and readies it for the
reception
of the Anwar that come down and the
tajaliat and the rahmat of Allah ta'ala's,
that come down on that on a gathering
To prepare the hearts in order to drink
from the the light and the mercy and
the manifestations
of,
God's beautiful and and majestic attributes that come
down on that on that gathering. So that's
number 1. The second the second
low hanging fruit is what? Is it from
this talk about, like, the different sa'at, the
different
hours in which a person, attends the Jummah?
The idea is there
that the sunnah is to come early.
And the earlier you come, the more reward
you get.
Now
that's something everybody agrees about,
and, that's something that you're not gonna find
a difference of opinion. Although, you'll find a
great amount of difference of opinion as to
what the word sa or the word hour
here means.
What we know it probably doesn't mean is
like 60 minutes to the tee.
Why? Because the Arabs were not rolling around
with Rolexes or swatches or,
you know, Apple Watches or Samsung Watches or
whatever type of watches that we have or
clocks that we have, that wasn't a thing
back then.
Rather,
even if there was a definition that was
working in those days that made an hour
close to what we would consider, like, the
exact 60 minutes.
That was not
that was a usage at best was approximate
by the Arabs,
because it's not like they're rolling around with
whatever hourglasses and things like that.
So the word,
it it can it can mean obviously, it
means
precisely an hour in the modern language, but
it just means an amount of time that's
not super long.
Again, depending on what's happening, 60 minutes is
a long time, and it's not a long
time. If somebody told you to wait, you
know what, Taco Bell for being burrito at
60 for 60 minutes, you'd be like, that's
a really long time.
But in general, as a part of your
life, it's not it's not that long. It's
just a portion of time.
And so,
here, what it doesn't mean is the clock
time,
as precisely
because that wouldn't make sense in in parts
of the year.
The, different
the have to do with what? They have
to do with, you know, what are they?
So one of the is that if you
would divide the day up into 12 portions,
no matter how long or how short the
day is, then,
from the time from the time of the
break of dawn
until,
until the, until the time or the time
the sun rises, either way, until the time
is at high noon, then it would be
6 hours
winter or summer.
So, there's another narration of this hadith
in.
Here, there are 5 different that are mentioned.
There's there's a narration in in which there's
a 6th one, which is between the between
the
ram sorry, between the chicken and the egg
in which, it's mentioned as as if a
person were to,
sacrifice
a, like, a small bird.
Like, some people leave, like, what, pigeons and
pheasants and things like that. It's smaller than
a chicken, but it's bigger than a it's
more valuable or bigger than an egg. So
that would indicate that that that this is
six portions of the day. Some of the
have had, like, objection with regards to this.
And their objection is this isn't, you know,
like, it's not recorded as a regular practice
of the
and the masha'if of the aslaf that they
would, like, read Fajr and go to the
go to the Masjid, or they would stay
in the Masjid from Fajr, or they would,
you know, go to the Masjid at the
time of in the beginning of it and
stay in the Masjid since then. There are
people who do that.
You'll find such people in the Haram and
Sharifa, and part of the reason for doing
it is just because of the difficulty of
finding a place to, like, sit and things
like that. But,
you know, it's not a normal it's not
like a weekly practice of people.
Not just like you and I people, but
like the the old mashaikh. It's not their
it's not their, practice. And the other thing
is it's, you know, a normal person,
it's quite possible for them to
come to the masjid at that time, and
then they'll have to go to the bathroom
and whatever. They're fight therefore nullifying them having
showed up with
with with,
in the first place.
So there are some, you know, I guess,
linguistically, this is the
low hanging fruit that a person could interpret
this hadith through that.
But there is, you know, there there is
some some discussion with regards to whether that's
what this means or it's not what it
means.
But that's since this is not a fit
class,
we don't really need to go too into
too much
into too much detail,
with regards to the different up wall. Suffice
to say that the point is is what?
The point is is that that the earlier
a person comes in general, the better. There's
another call, the call of Malik, for example,
with regards to this, the opinion of Malik
of what does this hadith mean. He means
there are 6 there's like 6 time portions
that are from the time that the sun
comes to Zawwab,
the time of high noon until the time
that imam
takes the pulpit, which is a much shorter
time. And it seems more,
it seems more
in line with the practice of our aslaf
that they would come, like, before the the
the, you know, they would come before, like,
well before the time of the,
the time of the first adhan.
In in that case, you see that this
the you know, like, for example, if
Masjid whatever has their Jum'at, the Imam comes
on the on the pulpit to give the
Khutba at,
for example,
1:30. Okay? So then the 6 different or
5 different,
5 different, like, portions of time,
are literally 5 minutes apart from one another.
However,
one of the sad parts,
about,
I guess, Jum'ah in America
is with
very few exceptions,
if you show up on time, you'll almost
be guaranteed a place in the 1st row.
And the difference between that and between,
between being in the, you know, the middle
of the message and the back of message,
oftentimes it's just minutes.
If you just come a couple of minutes
earlier, you could have had a a place
in the Safa'uul.
So even if we were to be easy
on ourselves and take the the
opinion in which it's easier to max out
the entire, the sorry, the maximum reward, still
almost nobody does it.
And
we, we ask Allah to Allah for guidance
and for help.
But
the point is, it is a big deal
even for just the orderliness of Joanne. Just
coming a little bit earlier, makes a person
makes a person able to have a much
better place in the masjid than a much
better experience in the masjid. Then at any
rate, whichever the two opinions a person takes,
The point is that it's better to go
earlier.
And then the the the last the last
thing that he mentions is what
When the when the angels come
sorry. When the angels, when the they've Jumuah
is there, the angels
stand and they record who comes in. So
there are number of different that
are that are, similar to this.
And another another wording,
to that that's narrated by Muslim that when
the imam sits on the mimbar for the
azan to be called,
the,
angels will close their record books, and they
will come in order to hear the
the the the dhikr. So the the the
narration we read right now, it just talks
about the angels listening to the chutba.
But,
in in the other narration, when when there's
mention of the books being closed,
it indicates that somehow
the the reward of the Jum'ah or one
part of the reward which is,
administered through the Malaika,
that's closed for a person.
So we talk about the the validity of
an act, we talk about the acceptance of
the act, and we talk about the reward
of an act, and they're different. They're they're
they're at times, they may be even disconnected
to one another. That a person who can
do an act that's valid, but there's no
reward in it.
What they get out of the validity
is merely the
that they're no longer
morally,
culpable for having skipped it or not do
done it, but they're not gonna get any
they're not gonna get reward out of it.
Allah sees who came to Jum'an who didn't.
And the the fact of the matter is
is that the obligation of Jum'ah is discharged
as long as you can catch the imam
in the last of the, of the salat.
And according to Hanafeez, if you can catch
the imam before the salam. But this,
reward
that's administered to the angels. There are a
number of rewards that are administered to the
angels, that the angels gives them
gives them,
this ability to act as like a conduit
of barakah and of nur, and a protection
in a person.
And this is this is
mentioned in a number of different ahadith.
It's mentioned in a number of different ahadith
regarding different things. Like, for example, one of
the the things that the,
you know, like the rewards of making zikr
after the salat. Right? That a person as
long as they sit after the salat, the
angels,
they stand and make dua for a person.
Oh, Allah forgive him. Oh, Allah have mercy
on him. So what's the point of that?
I mean, is there anything in it for
me? So who cares if an angel makes
du'a for me or not? The point of
it is what? Is that Allah
created those angels sinless,
and their their prayers for you, they're they're
created as a means through their prayers,
as a means to be a means of
of your forgiveness and your mercy,
and those the benefit of that forgiveness, the
benefit of the mercy. You may not know
when you're, enjoying it, but you're enjoying it,
during your life. So there is some benefit,
through the Barakat of the angels that is
missed for the person who,
for the person who,
comes into the Masjid after the
the,
imam is seated on the on the mimbra
and the pulpit.
And there's another rewire,
that is
narrated by
Ibn Khuzaima. Right? That the every
gate or door,
some masjid have more than one door.
That at every door of the masjid,
Allah has
has written
sorry, has commanded that 2 angels stand there
and they write, they record who comes in.
Meaning that they not only record the
the the names of those who come in,
but they also record the
the, they also record an order. So the
person who comes earlier
receives more reward, and the person, who comes
later, the reward is diminished or the names
are
are somehow they're they're they're put in order
like that,
which also is
a good admonition for people to
come early and to get the Safa Awol,
etcetera.
There's another, narration that's in the.
That when it is the day of Jumuah,
Allah
dispatches angels with
books of light and with pens of light.
Meaning that the the the the again, here
the reference to Nur is,
it's an indication of some sort of or
barakah.
I guess nowadays because everything is digital also.
So one can, like,
understand how that's, I guess, possibly some kind
of technology, but I don't think that's the
like, it doesn't impress me that the angels
are recording the names on iPad. So,
you know, the the Nur here, I think,
is is is more properly referring to some
sort of Baraka and Rahma rather than rather
than just some tech.
Ibn Khuzaima, there's another very thorough,
narration,
that he gives.
So some of the angels say to the
others
because they notice who's there and who's not
there.
It says,
That,
Who what what has kept so and so
behind?
That everyone is supposed to be there at
the jama'ah.
What has held up so and so?
That,
oh, Allah, if if so and so who
was supposed to be here was isn't here,
if they have been misguided,
you Allah, guide them.
And this is, this is also one of
the the
the indications that what?
That the deen of Allah Ta'ala is very
difficult without divine help a person is not
going to make it. And, people think that
they struggle and hustle through their deen in
order to make it. The fact of the
matter is is that your struggle and hustle
is very little.
The Hadith of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
from,
from Sahib Bukhari that if my slave comes
to me a hands of breath, I comes
to come to him a cubit, and if
he comes to me a cubit, I come
to him an arm span, and if he
comes to me walking, I come to him
running.
Meaning our
our effort is very little.
Without that much help from Allah
nobody's gonna make it.
And, this is one thing that it really
is depressing when you see, like, Muslims doing
stupid things. And unfortunately,
like, if there was ever, like, if we
had, like, a century by century competition in
the Ummah of, like, stupid Muslim tricks,
I'm pretty sure we'd we'd, like, we'd win.
It would be, like, no competition. And there's
been pretty dumb stuff that's happened in the
past. People don't read history. They think everyone
in the past was pious. There's some pretty
messed up, like, customers in the in the
past.
If I tell you about some of the
dumb things people used to do, you'd be
like, oh my goodness. Thank God we're not
alive at that time. But you know what?
To be honest, they probably say the same
thing about us too. And I
slightly
think that they're more correct than we are.
Although there's a lot of dumb to go
around. So,
so so
the point is is what? People see Muslims
doing stupid Muslim tricks and they get real
bent out of shape. Like, oh my god.
Islam is over. It's all gonna collapse. All
our kids are gonna become,
you know, apostates after, like, 50 years. No.
Muslims are interesting people. You see the people
with the most wild and craziest of, like,
lives and things like that. But them having
at some point in their life, having prayed
at some point in their life, you know,
having Muslim relatives and parents and things like
that,
a lot of really, really weird people will
make Tawba before they die.
Like, people who don't really you wouldn't expect
it from them and people who, like, genuinely
you would like, the thought crosses the mind,
they really don't deserve this.
But still, they make toobah before they die.
And that's all I see when I see
someone like, you know, who is just like
a a hyper foregone case. I was like,
whatever. I'm like, inshallah, this person, you you
know, something catch up with them. They'll make
toba before they die. Who's gonna over overwhelm
the the deen of Allah to Allah? Who's
gonna overwhelm the haqq?
And so, this is this is another, like,
you know, it's a
small piece of hope for for such people
as well. That the angels notice who's supposed
they know who's supposed to be here and
who's not. And
they say what has held up so and
so, but they're not being, like, judgmental. It's
not like church lady.
But but for those of you who are
familiar with the work of Dana Carvey,
it's not it's not church lady. What what
is it? It's out of concern that so
and so should be here. They see the
being
being, coming down on this majma and they
see them being distributed between the believers and
they say so and so could really use
this. They should be here. So
If if he's misguided,
then then guide him.
And if he's if his poverty has prevented
him from coming, there are people like that.
I mean, like, you'll see, like, weird, like,
Meskeen people, like, come come to this country,
no language, no skills, no nothing. And they,
like, end up working at a 7:11, you
know,
like, 7 days a week,
you know, for like 20 years.
Dunkin' Donuts for 7 days a week for
20 years or something like that, you know.
And worse yet, they'll get like a promotion.
And that's like the only job that they
could ever have that they can make a
decent living. They don't wanna give it up
just to go to Jamaa,
or for other things as well. So many
times, like, you know, I I I remember
so many times, like, I've been traveling at
a airport or whatever, and you'll see someone
will say salaam to you, and you're like,
wow. This guy should be at Jo'an. Like,
you know, in the hour of Jo'an. You
remember kid? You remember you guys want you
guys remember one time you guys prayed and
Baba took you to Dunkin' Donuts and the
guy in the Dunkin' Donuts is like, did
you all come from
And I said, yeah. And then he became
so happy he just gave us like a
free box of donuts.
You remember that? The bechara
the question arises, why is he happy that
you guys went to Taraui? If he loves
Tarawi so much that he give us a
box of donuts because you guys went, don't
you think he'd like to go?
Right? So people have weird circumstances. They can't
go. Some of them have love like that.
Some of them completely forget after some time.
They harden their heart. They'll go, well, you
know, so Islam stuff is not really that
big of a deal. Not necessarily because they
really believe that, but because, like,
it's too much for them to deal with
the fact that, like, oh, this is the
hour I should be sitting in for in
the masjid then, like, you know, which is
dumb. Don't ever do that. Like, if you
can't if you can't or even if you
don't want to for any reason ever, like,
practice the deen,
don't be like, oh, this is not good.
Just say it's good. I'm not doing it
right now. There's a lot of there's a
lot of secret tied up in that. That
that in of itself is like a a
a great station of
of of of and the noses of Allah
to Allah just to know what's good is
good and not to deny it. But at
any rate, there are a lot of fuse.
These angels are like, look, if the Allah,
if he's,
if he's misguided,
then guide him. And if he's so broke,
he can't make the give him more. Uh-uh.
Uh-uh. You know, make him make him free
of need, uh-uh,
for for the money that that that or
for the the the provision that he needs
that that's holding him back from Jeremiah. And
if you're sick if you're sick in any
way, in the body, in the mind, whatever
it is, if you're sick,
then then then cure him from his,
from his sickness. And so hadith
both narrated by Bukhari and Muslim,
Abu Dawood, Tirmidhi and Nesai, who have no
headband,
and all of the narrator from
narrates that the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, he once mentioned the Ummul Jumaa,
and he
mentioned that in it is a saa, again
a portion of time,
not necessarily 60 minutes.
And as you'll
see from the from the rest of the
of the hadith that it's it's
by the context, it's obviously not 60 minutes.
And so that there is there is a,
a a a portion of time in Jumuah,
that
a Muslim
slave in the
state of submission to Allah
will not will not
find that state or be in harmony with
that be in harmony with that that that
amount of time,
while they are standing, praying, asking Allah to
Allah for something except for Allah will give
it to him. And he he made a,
a gesture with his hand as if to
indicate it's a very small amount of time.
As if it's a very small amount of
time.
So,
this is
a hadith of,
this is a hadith that that is very
important,
and,
you know, the Ulema, they mentioned a a
number of issues is that is, you know,
that that they had differences of opinion about.
So is it
every Jum'ah or is it a Jum'ah in
the year?
Is it a
time,
that is known or is it unknown hidden
like laylatulqadr?
Is it
a time that moves,
like it changes switches up every Jumuah or
not.
There's a number of different things. Basically, the
summary of all of it is that that,
there are 25 different
about what this
what the reality of this this
is, this time of of the prayers being
answered.
Aisha, Miriam?
Miriam.
No. It's all good. I'm gonna Fatima your
Baba is saying the same thing too. Come
I'm so proud of you guys. You guys
came to theirs today
Come, you guys sit in the in in
front of the screen too.
So the
the 25 different opinions with regards to this,
it's a bit overwhelming at first.
However,
the Sufi has, like, a way of dealing
with all of this. It's no problem. It's
not a big deal. If you don't know
what time it is,
Sufi has a way of dealing with all
of these things. So I'll give you an
example. Okay? My sheikh, he told me he
says, I know you're going to America. Nobody
prays 5 times a day in the Masjid
over there.
He he goes, you guys live so far
away from the masjid. I hear whatever peep
people come and go and say. So he
says, at least try to pray in the
Masjid. And and and he says, that way,
could be any day of the year.
If you pray
in in the masjid, you know, and you
make sure to get
then you're gonna hit the jackpot one way
or the other and you'll be covered.
So according to that line of thinking,
which is how Sufi thinks. Right? It's by
any means necessary. Everybody is, like, everybody wants
to, like, you
know, you know, some not not job shot
up a masjid, so everybody wants to go
and buy a gun now, which is wonderful.
Like, I you know, I'm not even particularly
against it in in the case of, like,
those people who have, like, you know, basic
common sense, gun safety, you know, good good
aim and, like, you know, whatever. I mean,
in in some way, I'm not, like, you
know, absolutely deprecating it. But what's the what's
the idea? By any means necessary. Right? Like,
I'm not gonna let someone come and shoot
up my, you know, shoot up my mustard.
Good for you.
Don't. But,
this is, this is also,
when it comes to your din,
this is a thing as well.
That, you don't know what time what what
the hour is gonna be in Jawaan. No
problem. We're just gonna, like, make sure to
do the whole day properly.
And we're gonna look at the different
and see what are the possibilities, the the
greater possibilities, and we're gonna we're gonna
we're gonna focus in and zoom in on
those and make sure not to waste them.
Why? Because if you catch it 1 Jummah
even in a year,
then then that's it, you know. That's the
way that's the way this thing works is
the person who catches the fable of Allah
ta'ala, the face of Allah ta'ala,
That person,
you know, all of their problems are solved
in 1, you know,
in in one instant and,
they're switched for
for solutions,
in fact. They're not just solved, they're switched
for solutions. It had the fadl of Allah,
how does it work? I was looking up,
I was I was looking up the
the afire for
the,
the band in in Minneapolis about the shafa.
And so, there's a bunch of, just
regarding yomukriyama.
And so there's one of the one of
them is that there will be a person
who goes to * the hellfire for some
time.
And after burning for a while, they'll be
pulled out.
And then then Allah Ta'ala will start asking
him, did you do such and such thing?
Did you do such and such thing? Did
you do such and such thing? And Allah
Ta'ala will pick up small his small sins,
relatively smaller sins,
and not mention the big ones.
And, he'll admit, like, you know, very broken
heartedly admit all of them and things like
that, and he'll be put through this, like,
really harrowing,
you know, whatever questioning.
And then at the end of it, Allah
will say,
I forgave you your sins,
and I I I've exchanged in their place,
good deeds and reward.
And,
and and through that, you'll through my mercy
because I did that for you, you'll reach
a.
And so then the person will be like,
yeah, Allah, I did this and that also.
He'll start to confess his the sins he
wasn't asked about the big ones that he
did.
So so this is this is this is
this is this is part of the the
the understanding of the the the the the
person who's a true,
traveler on the path is that when you
hit the the jackpot, it's gonna be big.
So if if Allah
sees you and you you see him,
Right? To worship Allah as if you see
him and if not, at least to know
that he sees you. If Allah sees you
and you see him
and he were imagine you were to, like,
literally have, like, a phone conversation or text
WhatsApp back and forth with one another that,
that this is gonna happen. At some point,
this is gonna happen.
Okay? What are you gonna be like? Can
you tell me the exact date because I'm
busy with other stuff? No. The other of
the phases that you should come to the
table before the dinner is served and not
the other way around.
The other of the phase is what? Is
that you should be ready for it. You
should be prepared for it. That's how how
it seem it's it's worthy that the slave
received the the the phase from the master.
Not the other way around.
Not the other way around. Because if you're
the ones saying, hey, give it to me
now and, like, you make
of it, then it's no longer it's what
what should be a
a a a a an event which should
engender sugar and thankfulness in in in a
person
turns into a a a show of, like,
brattiness
in front of the lord. And that's not
that's not right. So this is why this
is why this is a a a a,
you know, this
this talk about the the the the hour
of acceptance in Jummah. Like the little like
a lot of things like this. It's it's
like
somewhat hidden. Maybe some people through spiritual intuition
know about it, some people don't, maybe they
don't at all. A lot a lot knows
best. I'm not gonna say anything about that.
But the point is that there that that
that there's a that you should, you know,
you should prepare yourself, you should make, you
should be in your nice clothes, you should
show up to receive the the face, and
it happens on terms. Even though he's even
giving you dropping you a hint of when
it is, where it is, etcetera, etcetera.
So the last, hadith of the
Bab, and
Muslim. Sorry. There's one more hadith in the
Bab. So Abu Burda,
ibn
Musa Al Ashari,
He said that once, Abdullah bin Umar
asked me,
did you hear your father,
Abu Musa Al Ashaari
Did you ever hear your father
tell you anything from the messenger of Allah
with regards to the affair of the hour
of Jumuah, meaning the hour of the the
in which prayers are answered?
He replied to him, yes.
I heard him say I heard the messenger
of Allah
say,
that it is between
when the imam sits on the,
on the pulpit until the time of the
salat is finished.
And this
is, this is, I guess, one of the
reasons why it's good to be there for
the entire khutbaaf,
because what when's when are you gonna have
a chance to make dua?
It's gonna be during the Khutba. Right? It's
gonna be when the imam is sitting. It's
going to be,
when the,
imam sits between the 2 Khutba's then, that's
another
time to
make dua. It's gonna be in the often
times the imam makes in the as well,
that that a person should,
want to be there for
it.
He he narrates that the messenger of Allah
said that
from the best of your days or the
most virtuous of your days is the day
of Jumuah.
So make sure to make plentiful,
send plentiful salat and salaam upon me.
Make your and say your salat and salaam,
and peace and blessings on the on on
me on that day,
because your,
salat will be,
it is,
it is, it is, shown to me.
And so the,
you know, the there Ishqal comes at all
of the,
everyone who says salat and salam to the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he hears it.
Hafiz ibn Hajar
alaihihtami. Sorry. Not, ibn Hajar alaihtami who is
the, he is a great
and also a of the
after Nawawi, he's the one who sorts basically
and makes the
of the Shafi'i Madhab. So he's a very
big name and he's a great Muhadith of
of Makkamukarama.
And he's also the Ustad of the Sahib
Dali al Falihin.
Dali al Falihin is written by ibn Allan,
and so ibn Hajar Hatami is his Ustad,
as well as Ustad of Muladhil Qari.
His most famous Ustad and hadith.
I'm sure some of the Ustad will disagree
about that, but he's he's pretty big time
he's a pretty big time sheikh.
So he made Tasri,
he said that, he said that,
who sends salat and salam to him,
at the
at the Muwaja Hasharifa
in Madinah Munawara,
He hears the salat in Islam
himself personally without without means without any means
in the in the middle. And for those
who don't give the salam their present with
him in Madinah,
then the angels will the angels will convey
it to him.
And there's a whole then discussion with regards
to,
regards to what does that mean, meaning, like,
the the which one does he hear,
from our Akabir from our Akabir, Masha'if, and
our Ulema. There are those who say that
that includes the entire the entire Masjid Masjid
Nabooi of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And the reason I mentioned this is because,
the presence of Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam is a place that a person has
to have adab, and it's very dangerous for
a person who lose Adab over there, perhaps
even more dangerous than anywhere else including the
Masrud
Masrud al Haram.
And it's explicitly mentioned that raising your voice
in that place is a reason for all
of the the the reward for your your
deeds being invalidated invalidated.
You wouldn't even you wouldn't be aware of
it. So in that sense, this is a
not a complete, but a partial with kufr.
That if a person commits kufr, one of
the problems with that is that it invalidates
the the the reward of the the the
good deeds that a person does from before.
So it's very dangerous. The reason I mentioned
this is that sometimes, like, for example, okay,
if, you know,
if, if,
Baha'u'llah was going through Muwaja Hasharib, he's a
relatively normal looking guy. Right?
You know, people wouldn't notice him from the
next guy maybe. You know? Whereas, if I'm
wearing my turban and I walk through, they're
like, this guy is like, this guy must
be Bida Accenture. I know this guy is
like me in the Wafaa on the grave
somewhere or another in the world. Right? So
they get up on you, and they'll cause
a fight and a ruckus and a commotion.
And that's that's,
that's bad in the sense that that person
will start a ruckus and commotion, and you
don't wanna be responsible for their
for their syncing their own good deeds, and
you don't want them to to to bait
you into getting into it with them. Because
once you get into it with them, you're
just as bad as they are. And,
and I've been told this, you know, this
is not a sectarian,
jab at, like, you know, Salafis or whatever.
You know what I mean? I've been told
by a number of students of knowledge and
a number of scholars as well that, that
they say that those people are,
you know, they're not the most learned of
people standing there. And oftentimes, they behave really
poorly. So this is just it's just it
is what it is. And if there are
some that are there that are doing a
bang up job, a lot of that will
reward them. But, like, you know, people have
had this,
experience with people who are just, like, rude
or they'll say racist comments or they'll say
something stupid, like, at that point, and you
don't wanna get into it with them. So
if that's you, then when you go to,
when you go to the holy places, then
make sure to say salaam from a distance
Insha Allah. Even if you have to stand
outside the walls or if you have to,
just sit in a different place in the
Masjid,
undoubtedly that's the most, the most virtuous and
akhwal
place to do it, but it's not worth
worth it to mix it up with them.
Unless the person have this thing like FOMO,
like weird religious FOMO, like I don't get
up into the thing and I don't, like,
say what I need to say up right
up in the jaw and, like, you know,
grab the gates and, you know, scream
or whatever, then, like, somehow, like, some has
been done for done to me. That's not
how our used
to used to do this.
Who used to who used to teach in
the message of the prophet during the Ottoman
times when the police was, you know, was
not like as, you know, gung ho as
they are, in in in later decades.
He,
he used to he used to say from
the back row
out of his out of his shame in
front of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
What exactly he has to be ashamed about
doesn't really register with me,
you know, given that they
were
the heroes of this Ummah and constantly
planning and plotting in order to,
you know, in order to make the rectification
of the Ummah and that it should get
the upper hand. And Allah gave them so
much,
and they really were the. But this is
a that comes over a person
that
that, that, that they,
you know, that they don't come and push
themselves forward.
And there's more beauty in that sometimes, you
know. There's a type of ugliness and kind
of constantly trying to be push yourself forward
all the time.
And there's a time and place to push
yourself forward, but it's the exception, not the
rule.
So, you know, don't feel like you're you're
getting
cheated out in anything or that, you know,
you should, you know, you're you should demand
your money back for your or whatever,
for your
the
this is this is the whole you should
keep it in mind, especially if you're a
person who knows that that could go wrong
somehow. That just stay, you know, or go
through, say, your Islam quickly when you when
you walk through the line, and then the
rest of the lengthy whatever,
things
you would like to say. Just find a
quiet place in the masjid and face
the the the Maqam of the messenger, Raul
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and say it from there,
and he'll hear Insha Allah. And Allah hears
everywhere anyway, which is which is the the
most important of things.
But a person wishes that the Rasool Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam out of the love that's part
of iman, that he should hear without that
he should hear without a medium, and that
he should respond directly to you while you're
there. And this is a cause of happiness
for the believers.
The hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
whoever visits me,
then that person,
that person,
it becomes incumbent for them. My,
my intercession, which is sufficient for a person
to wish to visit Madina Munawara. In that
sense, it could be even more beneficial to
a person than the Hajj itself.
And definitely than the Umrah, for those who
are it's not not a far to Umrah.
Know who he writes this by the way.
Now he writes that that, that the visiting
of the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
is
the most the the most
act act most worthy of reward after the
after
the the the if a person does it
properly.
It's the most worthy of acts. Interestingly enough
that it those lines apparently were cut out
of, like, the,
you know, government funded editions of different kingdoms
from the Muslim world.
You win some, you lose some, what are
you gonna do about it?
But the point is, well, no one cut
it out from here, so we mentioned it
here. Right?
So and this occurs to me that there's
a number of people who actually come to
the darz regularly who are in Umrah right
now. So if they listen from the whatever
while they're on an airplane or in a
bus or something like that, they can remember
this as well.
Give everyone so much tawfiq.