Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Shahdah and Fridays Ribt 03172019
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In a number of places in the Quran,
he mentions an emphatic commandment
not to reckon those people who are killed
in the path of Allah Ta'ala as being
dead.
Rather, in one place, he says, indeed,
rather they are alive
and they are,
they are,
with their lord receiving provision.
And in another place, Allah to us says
they are alive, but you don't you're not
aware of it. You're not able to sense
how how that's true.
And the hadith of the prophet
extols the virtues of the shuhada so much
that the Rasool in the hadith says that
if it wasn't it wasn't for me being
held back in Madinah for other affairs, I
myself would have gone out in the path
of Allah and sought the Shahadah
in Allah Ta'ala's path. And
the,
the Darz obviously is not a fiqh Darz,
but
somebody asked me,
that, is it permissible in the Maliki school
to pray the Janaza to lukaib?
The Janaza for the the person who's absent,
meaning pray pray the of those who are
gave their life in the path of Allah
from far away.
And,
I said,
no. In the Hanafi and the Maliki school,
the
is not valid, but more
more
pertinent than that than the Maliki school. And
then in the Jomor, the shahid doesn't receive
a janaza.
There's 2 things that are different about the
the the the the burial of a shahid,
is that the shahid doesn't receive a janazah
and the shahid doesn't receive lusul. I think
in the Hanafi method, the shahid doesn't receive
lusul
either because of the hadith of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
that on the day of judgment,
their wounds will be fresh,
and they will pour out blood,
crimson red,
like they poured out blood in this world.
And the fragrance will be more fragrant than
mist.
And it will be like a badge of
honor for them on the day of judgment.
They'll be resurrected with their wounds intact, and
it will be something that people will will
will, envy them because of on the day
of judgment.
So we received the the news,
not too long ago. I myself was traveling.
Like, I received the news Thursday night, and
I left
to teach the in Dallas,
Friday, like, at time.
And,
you know,
I've just been traveling since then. I've been
very, like, disturbed by this thing that happened
in New Zealand.
The complete level of, like,
just, like, full ignorance.
Not just in the not just in the
shooter, but it brought up ignorance or highlighted
the ignorance of a number of people. And
then it does itself was a a a
cumulative,
summation of the ignorance of so many people
in our society.
The media repeating again and again, always whenever
some nut headed person will go and kill,
you know, school children or something like that.
They'll say, oh, this is jihad. Jihad this
to jihadi, this and that.
You know, it's a cumulative ignorance of our
politicians
speaking with forked tongues that they speak about
other people,
in one way and they're sensitive to them
in one way. But when it comes to
the Muslims treating them with a different standard
and,
giving kind of like a pass to those
people who who are open with their ignorance
with regards to the speech of the Muslims.
And
this is something that we should all understand.
It's not new.
It's not something to be scared about today.
Rather, he,
himself in his book, he's he asked a
question
that the, you know, the people do they
think that they're going to be left to
say
and they won't be tested.
And,
because we tested everybody who came before you.
And we know,
we we we we we wanna know who
are the people who are gonna be grateful,
and who are the
who are the people who are gonna be
ungrateful.
So the,
you know, this is this is a very
this is a very old silsuzla.
And in many ways,
this,
50 people, the reason we hear about them
is because it happened in a
it happened in a a country that is,
like, kinda in the sphere of, like, Western
European culture.
Otherwise,
the same numbers of people are getting killed
in China, Muslims, the same numbers of people
of Muslims are getting killed in Palestine, the
same numbers of Muslims are getting killed in
Iraq, Syria, and all of these places on
a daily basis. Some of them sometimes on
hourly basis, and nobody ever knows and nobody
hears and nobody gives gives gives a care
about that.
But that doesn't minimize, you know,
a person is a person, a Muslim is
a Muslim. This is a heinous act in
the sense that the way it was documented
and whatnot,
it kind of was jarring,
for the people.
One of the things that I think that
we should also remember
is this is that fine. I mean, it
happens. We don't shrink back from it, but
we're also not lambs.
Allah
Allah you know, a person doesn't know, like,
we've we had the the the the tafsir
of Surat Yaseen,
session
that that person, he warned his people and
they killed him for it. He said,
I wish it wasn't I I wish perchance
my people would have known how much my
lord has, forgiven me and how much my
lord has honored me. And so those people,
they they they gave their life for the
sake of Allah ta'ala. Nobody's going to regret,
you know, having Khatima inside the masjid in
in the state of Wudu. Each one of
those bullets, you know, like,
what does it mean? The other of Allah,
there's khair in it, there's good in it
for every every every believer.
There's a hadith of the prophet
that's narrated in the context of another
incident.
And the incident is that one of the
Sahaba radiAllahu anhu is narrating that the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said
whoever dies of plague, that person will be
written as if they are shahid in the
akhira,
as if they're a martyr in the akhira.
And so one of the Sahaba
they said that that because the the plague
the the affected sham in the time of
the Sahaba
or the on whom it would start like
a lesion. There would be, like, white lesions
in the skin, and they know this person
has plague in a couple of days. It's
just gonna it's gonna take them. And
And then I heard this hadith of Rasool
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he says now that
this now this white lesion inside of my
hand, he says, it's the most beloved thing
to me in the world.
And so everyone has to die one day,
so we're not, you know, we're not tripping
up about
about about that in the sense that they've
met a good end and a good death,
Masha Allah, who knows that the the the
what's written, you know, the qadr of a
lot are written inside the bullet that killed
a person.
It's an appointment to drink from the hold
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and it's
an appointment for eternal life. And it's an
appointment in it for the mercy of Allah
Ta'ala. And it's in it a ticket to
bypass judgment, and in it so many so
much khair is wrapped up in it. Those
people are not going to regret it.
And that doesn't mean that people can't be
sad about the loss or more of the
loss of those people. That's a very human
thing to be separated from someone you love.
But you know somewhere in your head that
that's a that's a good thing. But that
doesn't mean that we have the right to
be lazy and complacent as well.
This is also a shameful matter that somebody,
a shooter, can walk into the masjid and
just kill so many people one after the
other and then go from the men's section
to the women's section, then go from 1
masjid to the second masjid. And one of
the reasons they were saying that the death
the death toll was so low in the
second Masjid
was one of the brothers. Like, he basically
turned around and chased the guy down and
put, like, the, you know, fear in that
that man's heart.
And he turned around and ran, and he
ran so fast that he actually dropped on
his guns. And so this, brother in the
Masjid and if you look at the picture
of the guy, he doesn't look like, you
know, Sheikh Islam, like,
you know, he doesn't look like he's gonna
win, like, the Imad Ghazali award for, like,
excellence and, like, knowledge or whatever. You know
what I mean? He just looks like a
really, really, really regular guy.
And so but he just he just he
just he just something happened. He turned turned
went after that guy. The guy's a coward.
You have, like, automatic weapons, and you're killing
women in the women's section. It tells you
something about what kind of person is, like,
shooting little girls and things like that. You
know?
So now, like, someone turned around and, like,
put his eye in his eye and chased
him, and he completely lost it. You know?
He completely, like, freaked out and ran. And
he dropped one of his guns and the
gun was out of ammo, and the guy
literally smashed it through his car window and,
as he was speeding off from the mustard
parking lot.
And so, this tells us a little bit
of something that that what that we are
okay. Just just because you're, you know,
has so many virtues, it doesn't mean that
people line up to get killed like animals.
Rather,
that struggle even if it's for a moment,
you know, there's so much in it. There's
so much
reward in it from Allah. Allah that I
was so pleased with the person for that.
And,
the the first moment of that struggle, Allah
forgives
a person's all of their sins, and then
every moment thereafter,
they increase in rank in a way that
their prayers and their fasting are not going
to let them increase.
And Allah commands the ummah in his book,
he says,
He says that that your enemies prepare prepare
for them,
what you're able to prepare in terms of
in terms of force,
thereby deterring,
deterring the enemies of Allah and your enemies.
We're the same people.
It's a deterrent because if that coward knows
that someone's gonna turn around and, you know,
look him in the eye and chase him
down,
he's and he's gonna lose it so bad
when the guy's unarmed, then imagine if he
he knows that the Muslims are not gonna
take this,
laying down. You know what I mean? This
is the shan of the ummah of the
prophet
People people think somehow that like, you know,
like we're the ummah of Gandhi, we're not.
With all due respect to Gandhi and like
whatever great work he did in his life
and amazing person he was, but we're not
the ummah of Gandhi.
We're not the Ummah of Gandhi. We're nonviolent
people when people are nonviolent with us, when
they come after us, when they come after
our children, etcetera, etcetera. It's a sacred duty
to protect yourself, not for your sake, but
for the sake of Allah because he commanded
us to do that, to protect your women,
to protect your children. I remember this. There's
a very famous scholar. I won't take his
name.
You all know who he is. Once he
went on a tirade
in in front of a large group of
people saying that, oh, you know, we Muslims,
we shouldn't fight back. We should just, you
know, and, you know, it's not, you know,
honorable to fight back and we should just,
you know, whatever. If someone wants to kill
us, we should be like, you
know, in
in this and the we should us whatever.
And I remember this. I remember this, must
have been like a teenage girl, 18, 19
years old, 17 year old girl. She's like,
but Sheikh, what if they come after your
wife and your children?
And he felt in that moment like a
complete, like,
like, no honor whatsoever.
And he's like,
well, yeah, then I would defend them.
Because I'm thinking in my mind, like, what
is this guy talking about? This is like
really horrible. What is he saying? This is
not the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. This is not the sunnah of
the Sahaba
What is the prophet in the in the
in the in the
what did he say? That the person who
is killed defending his
his his,
his property,
that person dies as shayid. The person kills
defending his honor. That person dies as shayid.
Person was killed defending his, family. That person
dies a shahid.
This is this is this is you know,
I'm not telling you to, like, go join
some nut headed group in, like, the backwoods
of, like, Iraq or Syria or whatever. I'm
just saying that the law of the land
affords affords people who who don't have criminal
records and, like, don't have, like, histories of
mental illness or whatever
to,
to, you know, protect themselves. That fine. Someone
comes in and does this. Who's prepared for
that? Nobody would ever be prepared for that.
They kill 1 person, 2 people, 3 people,
that's fine. By that time, there should be
something that happens in the Masjid. And this
whole thing about we have to hire security
in the Masjid, this is not the sunnah.
You understand what I'm saying? There are hadith
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam extolling
the virtues of the person who stands watch
and stands guard over the, over the encampment.
That the eye because what happens when you
stand guard, everyone else is sleeping. That's when
you need the the the person to stand
guard
the most. At that time, the eye is
deprived of its sleep. The eye that's deprived
of sleep is standing guard. Allah will make
jahannam
haram for make it haram for jahannam. This
is a this is a teaching of our
Rasul, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. You don't need
to hire security. You guys need to be
you guys need yourself be secure, and you
need to be securing others. Non Muslims should
see you. If someone's getting mugged or someone's
getting, like, harassed, they should see that the
the the the, you know, the beard and
the the turban is walking down the street.
Run to this person because you'll find protection
with them.
This is what this is what the this
is what the, what the highest ideal of
Islam was. In centuries of Islam, that's what
it meant to people. Muslim and non Muslim.
And so, fine, if you're a hot headed
person, if you have trouble controlling your anger,
if you're like, you know, you know, you're
probably just gonna end up shooting like more
Musalis than you are, the perpetrators,
then don't then know that about yourself and
don't do it. Allah will forgive you for
that, InshaAllah. But for those people who are
able to, there is there is
there is there is reward there is reward
in,
lawfully obtaining,
weapons for your own defense, learning how to
operate them safely,
practicing
the money you spend, you know, for for
your ammunition, the money you spend on those
weapons. This is enough a kafi, this is
not counted as your dunya. This is not
a waste of money. This is money you
receive the reward of, of of of spending
in the path of Allah Ta'ala for these
things.
And, you'll see people actually value your dua
as well. The masjid I went to and
taught the Tawiya in,
I don't even know if you remember, like,
a couple of years ago, there was, like,
this, like, like, whatever, like, right wing,
white supremacist group that said, oh, we're gonna
protest the Masjid. We're gonna do a Masjid
protest. And they all showed up, because Texas
is a open carry state, I think. So
they all showed up with their a r
r fifteens and with their rifles, assault rifles,
shotguns, things like that. And they literally, while
armed brandishing weapons, they made a circle around
the masjid to scare people from going to
Jawa.
And our, our, you know, the you know,
our masjid people were they're like, you know,
they're like handing them water bottles and stuff.
Right?
Which is like, okay, you know, that's their
shihad. They thought this is what good akhlaq
and this is what's warranted in that. I
respectfully disagree with this tact.
What happened, that same movement, the next masjid
that they did,
their protest against,
did it in the hood with African American
masjid. And so a lot of these brothers
are converts. They themselves are in the military,
so they brought their own AR fifteens to
the masjid.
You know what I mean?
And and when they saw a mass of
of of of Muslims
armed, what happened?
The the the entered into their hearts.
The jalal of of of of saying and
had entered into their hearts, that movement scattered.
The leader of that movement went into hiding.
They became so scared. They all cussed each
other out. What have you done? This is
this is, like, the dumbest idea. We don't
ever wanna do this again.
Why? Because they know if they because they
do those things. They do those protests hoping
someone's gonna provoke them so they can have
a legal reason to start firing at the
masjid and firing at the Muslims. Once they
know that someone is there to fire back,
those people fear death. Why? Because they don't
believe in the akhirah.
They don't believe it. Even the ones that
that that cry that that that, you know,
Jesus Christ is your Lord and savior the
most, they don't believe in the akhirah. They
don't believe in Jannah. This is the shia'ar
of this ummah that our people always
loved loved death more than other people loved
life, not because of any sadism.
In fact, our lives are very nice. Our
food is nice. Our clothing is nice. Our
culture is nice. Everything is nice. But when
we think about what Allah has prepared for
us on the other side, they wouldn't they
wouldn't back down. And this is one of
the reasons the entire world is scared of
us.
So, even though we don't they don't need
to be. The only one who needs to
be
scared of this Ummah is the person who
loves zulum. And the person who loves who
loves to harm innocent people, and the love
person who loves to cheat and steal, that
person should be scared of this. Oh, my
hope that they they never have a a
night worth of rest in this world and
the hereafter until they repent.
But the idea is what is that that
Jalal enters because what? That it's because they're
following, they're practicing the deen. That's the deen
of Allah Ta'ala. It's not the guns. The
guns guns don't win battles, weapons don't win
battles. They're for god's
Some of them, like, literally, they pick like
sticks and branches,
and they they fought they fought against, like,
a, an an army with swords with, like,
like, you'd imagine someone showed up to a
battle with, like, a baseball bat or something
like that. That's basically how it was.
So the idea is that those are not
what those are not the thing that that,
that that that that gives you any benefit
or any protection. Allah is the one who
protects the person. Hadith of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam that that the Sahaba radhiallahu alaihi
wasallam there are 2 big trees.
And so they all,
they all,
rested in the shade of 1 of the
trees while they're traveling,
and Rassoulullah
left the other tree to him that he
let rest in the shade undisturbed.
And so he hung his sword from the,
from the, from one of the branches of
trees he went to sleep. When he woke
up, he found a bedou and,
slipped
unnoticed
over him with his sword unsheathed, and he
says, who's gonna save you from
me now? And he said, Allah.
And he said that the hadith of the
man started shaking until he dropped the sword
from his hand, and Rasulullah
very casually picked it up and held it
over him and said, who's gonna save you
from me now? And so he pleaded with
him that be a noble and a generous
man with
me. And the prophet
he didn't kill
him. But the idea is what?
What protected him is Allah ta'ala. Literally he
said the name of Allah, he said the
divine name and that's that's
Allah protected him through that, not through his
sword.
But this is the deen of Allah, it's
a commandment of Allah, and this is the
sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
therefore there's barakah in it, there's khair
in it. It. Don't brandish it like a
bully, don't be stupid and irresponsible. If you're
gonna be stupid and irresponsible, then this does
not apply to you. Don't worry about
these things. But for those people who are
able to to do it and to control
themselves, this is also, something that needs to
be done. It's something that needs to be
done. And there's there's hate in it and
you watch. People are like, oh, look. You
know, everyone calls us a terrorist, and,
we don't wanna look violent or whatever. First
of all, it's better to be look violent
and, like, not be dead than to be
taken advantage of and and and and and
and cut to pieces and look violent. The
second thing is people respect strength.
As long as they think you're a punk,
like a pushover,
they will they will keep doing these things,
and they won't listen to what you have
to say about deen.
The day they know that these Muslims are
people that you have to respect them, you
know, if you value your safety or respect
these people,
then they'll wonder what is it that they
believe and they'll actually take that seriously as
well.
How many how many people have gone desert
storm 1, desert storm 2,
the whatever, the second Iraq war?
How many people have gone Afghanistan?
From the US army, they came back as
Muslims.
This was such a problem during the 1st
Iraq war. Even though the the Iraqi army
and the Iraqi
government, under Saddam is like they're socialist. They're
all it's like an atheist secularist government. They're
not real they're not very religious people. But
just that tangential brush with the people of
a Muslim culture, so many of those people
became Muslims that it became a problem. The
Pentagon developed an entire set of protocols and
rules
just to make sure that that the soldiers,
the second Iraq war, that that many soldiers
don't become Muslim. They would do weird things.
Like, I'll tell you an example. I was
at community college once. Okay? There's a the
the mailman,
his name was Woody,
African American gentleman. His name is Woody, and
he's the mailman. I've I see him in
his postal uniform, and I see him at
community college every now and then.
What would indicate to me that this man
is a Muslim? Nothing.
So one day he comes to me, what
he go comes to me, he's like, hey,
yo, are you a Muslim? I'm like, yeah.
He was a young Muslim too. I'm like,
that's interesting. I never see you at Jummah
before, brother.
What's going on? He's like, yeah. No. I'm
not really keeping up with it. I go,
how did you become Muslim then? He said,
I went to fight in the 1st Gulf
War. Okay?
And,
I,
you know, we
trained some of the Saudi soldiers.
And so one weekend, I'm like, hey, what
do you guys do for fun? And they're
like, oh, we'll show you something real special.
You have to stay quiet. You know, it's
not allowed, but we'll show it to you.
He's like, oh,
okay. So he said that they they,
they they they,
drove him past the checkpoint. They dressed him
like up as an Arab Arab because African
American, they probably think it's like Sudani or
something. Right? So they put him in the
car and they drove, and he didn't know
where that he sees that. They didn't tell
me where they're driving. They drove him to
Makkumukarama from, like, Dammam or something like that.
Okay?
And then in the middle of the night,
before they let him out of the car,
because he has nowhere no idea where he's
going, what's happening. They said they put a
blindfold on him, and they led him into
the Haram up to the roof where he
can see a clear view of the Kaaba,
and then they opened the blindfold. He and
the Tajali of, like, seeing the Kaaba, like,
came over his heart. He said, I didn't
even know what was happening. What I'm seeing,
what's going on, I have no idea. I
just knew in that moment, like, something is
right. And so I said that I said,
like, you know, I wanna become a Muslim.
And so he took the shahada there in
the in the Haram, like, you know, looking
at the these types of things happened. The
country gone, like, no. This cannot happen anymore.
So they made all these rules like, okay.
If you're a Muslim, you can pray, but
you have to pray on the base. You
can't pray in the local masjid. You can't
this. You can't that. Why?
The thing is that that, you know, when
they see you as, when they when they
see you in in some,
context of, like,
being a human being rather than being, like,
some spineless, like, godless person that's not worthy
of respect,
then then these things the the heart will
be open to some
some sort of,
some sort of consideration to them. There are
still people who are not gonna accept it,
but many people will.
And, you know,
however, if you if you want to, like,
you know, follow the sunnah of Gandhi, then,
you know, good luck with that. That's not
in the whole reading the Hadid and the
Fazil and Zikr and these things. They're not
gonna you're on a different line at that
point. Allahu Adam, what the result is gonna
be of it. It's not something that that,
you know, with all due respect to Gandhi
j, it's not something that I I I
I,
you know, that I recommend.
More than that, just know that this is
gonna be part of the package. No one's
gonna treat you fairly instead of whining about
it. It was one thing I to be
honest with you, I'm not very excited about
this,
expression
Islamophobia.
It reminds me of homophobia.
It doesn't it seems like so, like,
just out of place.
But now that it's become, like, common currency,
what are you gonna do about it?
So don't whine about Islamophobia.
That Muhajin and Ansar are buried in like
the fields in Uhud and Badr
and, you know, by the khandaq and like,
you know, by
and by all of these places, by Yamama,
all of these places far flung in the
east and the west. Why? Because people hate
There are a lot of people who do
And those people, their own progeny and theirs,
their offspring will benefit from it.
So if you want to carry it, just
kinda get past that part.
Right? It's fine to call out someone for
being unfair or being unreasonable or whatever. That's
fine. But inside of your heart, don't be
like, well, it's not fair. Why is it
like this is not fair?
The trade off is that the creation may
give you some hard time, but the creator
will love you. That's the the trade off.
We all knew about that. So just accept
that
and seek seek what you seek through the
creator. Don't seek it through the through the
creation. Otherwise, you'll always be unhappy as a
Muslim.
You'll always be unhappy as a Muslim. These
types of things, they happen from time to
time too,
to remind us about it. It's not about
photo ops. It's not about, like, whatever. Like,
oh, look. All the, now all the all
of the, like, you know, all the like
us now because they're, like, coming to the
masjid and, like, giving condolences and things like
that. Most of the most of right now,
they're reveling in the limelight. They're making this
thing about them. It's not about them.
You understand what I'm saying? It's not in
fact, many of them are the ones who
enable enable this type of stuff to happen
in the first place. So it is what
it is. I'm not saying to be, like,
bitter about it, nor am I saying, like,
you know, you should get on the train
with them. Just know this is a part
of the thing and part of the thing
and and and move on Move on with
your work. The work is not in gonna
gonna be in having, like, 40 candlelight vigils.
It's gonna be in what? That the teaching
of the deen, the learning of the deen
and the implementation of the deen, it should
it should continue,
unimpeded.
And if Allah, this is also part of,
you know, this is also part of our
deen. The the desire for,
the wish for that a person should wish,
you Allah. I'm gonna go anyway one day.
You Allah, you should that that you ask
Allah with sincerity that that Allah
take you as a shahid in his path
one day. And this is something that the
Sahaba radiAllahu and whom the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam used to do. And this is something
that's the same
who used to ask for fervently.
This is something that a person should wish
that this is and they should fear that
my
my my person, my nafs is not worthy
of such a sacrifice.
You Allah, if you honored me with this,
what a favor it would be for me.
That my entire life, people do so many
stupid things in their life, they waste their
time, they're late to things, they, you know,
spend the whole day watching cat videos instead
of working or doing things that they should
have done. We all could have been great
people by now, but we
lived wasted so much of our life in
mediocrity.
But if Allah gave us this Shahada,
imagine how,
how how how much nobility and worth and
value you would have and how much honor
you would have through it. A person should
ask that Rasu Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that
the person who asked Allah Ta'ala for shahada
with sincerity.
That person
that person Allah will write for them the
rank of the even if they die of
old age in their bed.
And so this is this is part of
the as well that this is should be
a person should have desire for this. And
the irony is what? The irony is what
is everybody has this mindset
when they go about their day. You're not
gonna be able to kill 40 people. All
of them are gonna line up to, like,
bust your head. Right? It's gonna stop much
quicker. This is the irony of all of
these things is that the the the the
the and the the desire for struggling in
the path of Allah, it's not violent. In
fact, if more people did it, there would
be no reason to go out in the
path of Allah.
Right? The Rasul Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam gave
the the the forecast that one day, he's
told the because he used to be afraid
in Madina. He used to be afraid that
army is gonna come anytime now, they're gonna
attack Madina or their assassin will slip in
and try to kill the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasalam. They were afraid, they're on guard constantly.
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he gave them
the the glad tidings in their in their
in their,
darkest hour and their most fearful hour that
what?
You people are afraid right now. Watch. A
time will come in your lives that a
woman can come go from, like, whatever Yemen
to,
whatever other other place on the other side
of the Arabian Peninsula.
And, she'll fear nothing except for Allah and
the wolves that that may be in the
path.
There'll be nothing for her to fear. There's
all of it will end because of because
of your and your sacrifices.
And so, that and that's happened. That's happened.
Forget it. I mean, don't forget about it,
but, you know, put to to the side
the struggle of the Sahar. That's happened in
this country. There's so many places you go
in the hood where it used to be
run by drug dealers and whatnot, and the
Muslims come come in and now there's safety
over there.
Harvey is not the same Harvey it was
before Muslims went and lived there. Look in
Brooklyn,
uh-uh, Imam Suraj's,
Masjid. They used to they used to pack
heat on the way to on the way
to the Masjid. There would be gun fights
just to get out of the Masjid. They
would open the door and the drug dealers
would fire at them because, you know, Muslims
are gonna try to dislodge them from there.
And so they would like basically, like, they
would like have gun fights just to get
in and out of the Masjid.
The cops wouldn't go to that go to
that neighborhood. Now it's, like, one of the
most vibrant it's, like, a complete, like, commercial
corridor, and it's not, like, only Muslims out
there.
Muslims are minority or the Masjid is very
prominent
because it was built out when nobody wanted
to live there. But the shops are all
owned by all sorts of different types of
people. Everybody benefits from it. Everybody benefits from
it.
You know, so I'm not telling you to
get into gun fights with people. Please don't
get into gun fights with people. I'm just
saying that what?
We should be prepared. There's no shame in
it. That's kinda a jeeba irrational fear that
people have about that. They should just get
over it now. And,
you know, learn how to use these things.
Don't just be a gung ho trigger happy,
like, I'm next, I'm gonna draw on somebody
or what. No. If you're that kind of
person, please don't do please don't do any
of this. But if you're if you're a
person responsible, go learn how to use it,
you know, take classes, spend money on, like,
practice ammunition, practice rounds, you know, see what,
you know, what what works for you or
whatever.
Go, do target practice and things like that.
With the with the with the prayer that
Insha'Allah, I never have to use this, but
if I do then,
you know, that may Allah use me
in order to protect
the Ummah and to protect his creation from
the of the Valimin
So that people can again look at this
Ummah and place their hopes in this Ummah.
Muslims and non Muslims, they place their hopes
in the Ummah that there as long as
these people are around, Zulm, there's a limit
to how much Zulm can affect them.
It was a long chapter title. It's a
chapter regarding the virtues of the day the
Friday
and the,
obligations
of Friday
and the the
the,
on Friday and wearing
or applying a perfume on Friday
and going early to the masjid on Friday
and
making dua on Friday and making, sending peace
and blessings on the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
on Friday and
explanation
of what the
hour of prayers being answered
is,
and the
recommendation
of making plentiful,
remembrance of Allah after the salat on Friday.
So
in Jahiliyyah,
the name of Jumu'ah wasn't Jumu'ah.
Jumu'ah was called Jumu'ah
by the, by the Muslims
and by, Allah and His Rasul
and
it means there's a meaning of in it.
And one of the luhat is also
with
a fatha on the meem.
And it's, has the meaning of
of like,
and
They also follow the same.
So
the name of Jum'ah
in Jahiliyyah was something different. In fact, all
the names of the week were different in
Jahiliyyah. The
names of
in Jahiliyyah, the names of the week, Sunday
was
and Monday was
and,
the name of Tuesday was Dabbar,
Wednesday Jabbar,
Thursday,
and Friday was Aruba,
and Saturday was Shabbar.
And then they changed to the numbered
days that we have now, and Jumu'ah was
then called Jumu'ah. But you'll see in like
Jahili poetry, you'll see the old days of
the names used sometimes in order to fit
the wazan because they're they're different numbers of
syllables or whatever. But,
the the virtues of Friday.
Allah most high said,
once the prayer is completed,
then spread out in the in the earth
and seek the
from the bounties of Allah and remember Allah
to Allah,
plentifully
perchance that you may be people of success
and people of happiness.
So this fantashirof
al ard,
there's a difference of opinion. Is it for
Istih Bab or is it for Jawaz? The
waj for Jawaz is what is because there
was,
there was Tahathir from
before that that that that that,
that the the the the the Jummah Awal
is going on that you shouldn't do anything
else. You should leave,
leave your leave your
business and transactions, etcetera, etcetera.
Then afterward, the the the the
according to that interpretation is for Jawaz. It's
means it's permissible to leave the masjid.
Whereas it's also a,
it's also a
poll that,
that
that it's for Istikhbaab, that it's recommended that
a person leave after Jawa and then go
go about the rest of the business, that
they don't turn it into a Sabbath
and just take rest on that day. And
so in like Mauritania, once the salam is
done in Jo'an, like within 90 seconds, the
whole masjid is empty.
Whereas in Pakistan, that's when the taravi starts.
It's you'll you'll you'll be pinned and you'll
be hemmed in. You may you're gonna be
there for another 15, 20 minutes at least.
So,
which is wonderful as well. And so the
I've been
I've been
that, some of our aslaaf, they were they
they reported their experience that when you whoever
conducts business after Jum'ah,
then they experienced that Allah will put barakah,
like 70 times of barakah
in that transaction. Right? Allah ta'ala says
that,
that once the salat is done,
then go out into the earth and seek
Allah's fadhu,
meaning go and trade and do all the
things, take care of your stuff that you
need to take care of. And remember Allah,
Allah, plentifully,
perchance you may be
happy and successful.
The best day that the sun has risen
over is Jumuah,
and it's in Adam
was created,
and in it he he entered into Jannah,
and on it he
was
extracted from Jannah.
So
there's some
disagreement about the
this hadith that is saying Adam being
removed from Jannah, is it a fadhila?
Some some say no, but it's just mentioned
because it also happened on that day.
But some of them say, yes. It is.
Why?
Because we we
don't see it as something that's Adam alaihi
sama's fault. Rather, it's something that had to
happen because of the divine predestination.
And if it wasn't for it, then there
would be no occasion for the rest of
mankind to exist. There would be no occasion
for the rest of,
for the rest of,
prophets to exist, for the Oliya, for the
Salihin, for the people of Dhikr, for the
Mujahidin, fisabil, all of these people.
And their existence is the reason the universe
is there. If one believer, you know, if
there's like a 100 captives,
they're just in order for the existence of
1 believer to have relevance, then that makes
all of their existence to have a reason.
So this is a very deep, this is
a very deep understanding,
and, it's a very mature understanding.
Right? It's a very immature, like, this lagoon
man, if Saddam didn't get kicked out, then
we wouldn't have been in so much trouble.
Well, you would not only would you not
have been in so much trouble, you wouldn't
have been, period.
And,
you know, it's it's like it's like one
of those types of weird things to say,
like, oh, if god exists, how come he
lets babies die of, like, cancer? And it's
like, well, a, that doesn't have anything to
do with god existing or not. But b,
it's a very immature understanding.
Baby will go to Jannah forever. Baby is
gonna be in Jannah. They're not gonna be
like, oh, yeah. I wish I was in
Lombard for another 40 years. Right?
Or Naperville for that matter.
Right?
Yep. You know, the person who thinks with
Basira or sees with Basira,
that person, you know, with vision, not just
like like eyesight, but like actual vision
with clarity, that person sees all of these
things. That's in Adam Alaihi Wasallam, it was
predestined, it wasn't even his fault, it had
to happen some way or another. And,
looks so much came
from it.
You all have an opportunity to read Ria
al Salihin and then Allah will be pleased
with you and you'll be forgiven and you'll
be like his oliya and then you'll make
dua for people and then they'll be like,
Masha'Allah that was wonderful.
Right? That's good. There's Fatihib will be had
nafsan,
should be happy about that.
So this before we continue the next hadith,
there's another narration of the same hadith that's
mentioned in, it's mentioned
in the Muslad of Imam Ahmad and in
Tirmidhi,
in which these three things are named and
also along with it is also the Yom
Kiyama.
The Yom Kiyama will also be on a
Friday.
Narrates from the prophet
that the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said,
whoever makes wudu and makes a good wudu,
perfects their wudu and then they come to
Jannah, meaning what? Do your wudu from home.
Or if you're not at home, if you're
coming from school or work, wherever it is,
do your wudu before you come to come
to the masjid.
There's more reward in it. Okay. If you
did it, then you can do that masjid
too. Right? If you do it at rebat,
there's gonna be a line 7 people. You're
gonna miss your prayer. If it's a masjid,
most of them are gonna wait for you.
The other ones, maybe.
Right? Maybe, like, if it's Isha or whatever,
like, a someone stretch out, say, if Adil
read, like, half of Zipporah in the first
rakah or whatever. Right? But, like,
my brother, you're gonna miss it. It's the
sunnah to do it from before you come,
Insha'Allah.
There's more reward in that. So so he
emphasizes this for Jum'ah. Also, whoever makes wudu
and then
makes his wudu good, you know, he makes
it well, I should say.
It makes it in a beautiful way. He
makes a hsan in it.
He perfects
it. Then,
comes comes to Jamoa.
And then they he's listened he listens and
he's silent.
Means what?
Means to listen and means to be quiet.
People are like, oh, can I take notes
during Jawa? No. You cannot take notes during.
But, like, then that's the only way I'll
remember. I said, look. Take Take the your
phone. If you really, really need to, like,
if it's some sort of, like, mind blowing,
like, Imam Ghazali is giving or whatever,
take your phone and record it. Hit the
record button before the event starts, and then
record the re record the khutbah
and,
you know, turn the recorder off after the
salat is over.
And then and then, like, you know, you
can take notes at home. But you cannot
take notes during
the, and you cannot be typing stuff up
on your phone during the, and you cannot
be live tweeting before the. But Sheikh, the
people will benefit from it. Yes. The the
people will also benefit from you, I don't
know, giving a $1,000,000 instead of, like, praying
5 times a day, but that doesn't mean
that you don't pray 5 times a day.
Is the time this is what Allah wants
from you. He doesn't want the $1,000,000 from
you. He wants you to pray, Jua'at this
time and listen to the Khutba. Right? That
you should make istima and then soft. You
should listen and you should be quiet.
If you, you know, if he wants a
$1,000,000, he'll ask for it, and if he
needs a $1,000,000, he'll make it. Just need
you for it.
So don't know. No no no stranger.
So the thing is
we're in, like, rebat right now,
and so I'm just saying it like it
is so people get the memo. You know
what I mean? If you're in the masjid,
what if it's the khutbah and someone else
is typing something up on the phone? Right?
You can't say anything to them because you
also have to be quiet to listen to
the khutba. Just ignore them.
If afterward,
they'll listen to you, then you can after
salat, if you get a chance, you can
remind them, you know, you're you know, officially,
this is actually haram to whatever. You're
destroying the reward of your own Jummah by
doing this.
But most people are like snowflake to the
max, suffering from chronic, like, stage 7 snowflakeiosis
and,
terminal
case of, like, you know, whatever,
snowflake ilea, and that's it. It's done. So
just, like, just make
help the ummah and, like, move on. You
know? But because you're here, that's why that's
why I'm saying it. Don't go around people
and be like, what's wrong? What are you
doing?
It should come back like that. Like, don't
know. Don't do that. This is like a
wholesale experience. I'm just telling you to hook
them right now, then use your mind. How
are you gonna be able to convey that
information to the in a way that benefits
people rather than
bothers them or alienates them or whatever else.
So,
that that person listens and that person is
quiet.
Allah if he does that, do all those
things, make the wudu does it well, comes
to Jummah, listens to the entire
and is quiet for the entire. Allah, that
will forgive for that person what's between
that Friday and the next Friday and three
extra days.
That's the kafar for all of your sins
in those times.
The Ulema always gives a standard disclaimer here
that this is the minor sins, the major
sins, the only way that they're forgiven is
through Tawba.
But,
you know,
there's a secret. This affects all of those
things. There's like
a secret in it that it also makes
your Tawba more palatable,
and more more acceptable.
Thus a person should
a person should, look forward to that forgiveness,
and it's 3 days more. So if a
person prays Jummah all the time, then they'll
be in the positive. The Ullama write about
what if someone doesn't commit a sin between
1 Jum'ah or the other, is it just
a waste of time to go? They say
no,
the amount of sin that would have been
forgiven,
that much reward is written for the person.
So at any rate,
it's
a win.
It's a win, it's not a fail, so
a person should do it.
The one who is playing playing around with
the rocks, that person has has has not
been insaf.
That person has not done istima in soft.
That person is not listening and they're not
staying quiet.
What,
what does it mean playing around with the
rocks?
Yeah. In the in the old days, the
the masjids didn't have carpets. They used to
just pray in the desert. So there's rocks
in the sun. Right? So imagine you're listening
to the you're listening to Khutba and you're
just playing around with the rocks with your
fingers.
Rasulullah SAWS says even that much of distraction
means you're not listening. Are you listening?
Right? So do we have rocks over here?
So what's the equal equivalent here about of
playing in the rocks?
Like running your fingers through the carpet. Right?
So that's why it's not a good job
it's not a good thing to do. Right?
Right? You get it?
Okay.
This includes it this includes if the what
if the khatib is, like, saying some crazy
stuff. Right?
As long as the crazy stuff ain't like
kufr or invalidating the khotra somehow.
This includes that. You think man, the Sahaba
used to used to have to listen to
like Hajjaz bin Yusuf and Marwan bin Hakam
bang on for hours. Hajjaz, his kutba wouldn't
end until Asir is already in.
And he was already a Hafiz of Quran
anyway.
Imagine like Gaddafi. They think Gaddafi Gaddafi was
a Hafiz.
Would have been nice if he, like, you
know, did a little bit better job porting
the HIFS into, like, practical application.
So Gaddafi was a Hafiz. He said he
would do weird stuff like that. He'd come
show up and he would give, like, a
really, like, super long,
and then he would read Surah Surah Al
Baqarah in the first, rakka and Surat Alimran
in the second one and it'd be like
super long salat. Right?
Because, Jummah, you don't do it for for
the imam, you do it for who? For
Allah. Even in the old days, like, you
have to make insati even if if the
imam is so far away because in the
old days they didn't use to have microphones
and speakers. Right?
So you still have to make insati if
you can't hear the chutba.
In many cases,
not being able to hear the chutba is
actually quite a mercy.
Now this is at this point, I want
to submit for your consideration that the the
the of the subcontinent that have this system
where they, like,
do a very short Arabic. It's a hadith
of Bukhari that the the understanding of the
khatib is that he should make the salat
long and short.
So this follows that sunnah as well and
it also
spares people
from having to be irritated from
substandard Khutbas.
And you know, human beings are different type.
Someone's gonna be annoyed by somebody. So let's
just all try to get along and have
a very short khutbah and then if, you
know, they don't if they're they're not feeling
your
your ban or whatever, you know, you you
you go easy on them.
Allah knows best. There are people like, well,
people don't understand Arabic. Well, the band isn't
the local language.
They'll understand that.
But,
Allah knows best. That's fine. If other people
don't do that system, I'm not gonna get
up on them and, like, start yelling and
screaming. I'm just saying that some people, I
think, irrationally, like, shout this down. I don't
think it's that bad. I think there's a
there's a lot of wisdom in it. I
know Allah knows best.
Interestingly, I've mentioned this before, Muradu al Hajj.
I asked him, I said I said, in
America, they give the the Khutba in English,
not in Arabic cause they say nobody understands
Arabic. Is this good? Should we do that?
He's like he's like, why don't you just
have a short in Arabic and then, like,
just give a talk before that separately in
English? And I'm like, that's what they do.
That's what, like, that's what the Hanafis do.
They're he's like, yeah. That's good. You should
do that.
So don't say it's a basic thing.
So the prophet
also narrates from the Sinai Uhura also narrates
from the rest
of that he said that the 5 prayers
from one salat to the next.
You know, a person is, like, wondering, who
wonder we're gonna pray Isha, once they're praying
Isha, then they're like, when we're gonna pray
Fajr. From one salat to the next, it's
a expiation for sin.
And then from one Jummah to the next
is an expiation for sin.
And then from 1 Ramadan to the next,
from 1 year to the next, it's an
expiation for sin. And this is this is
a a a this is a great blessing
and it's a great,
glad tiding. And from the of the hadith,
it seems that what? That the expiation is
greater. Like, the expiation between from is
like of a certain amount and then, like,
it's like bigger from Jummah to Jummah and
then it's bigger from
Ramadan to Ramadan.
And then there's also a person can,
a person can, like,
extrapolate from there that what's after what's after
Ramadan to Ramadan on the docket.
Hajj.
Yeah.
Abu Huraira and Sadna Blaib Nur alayahu anhu
man. Both of them narrate that they heard
or that they heard that from the messenger
of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam when he's
standing on his own puppet,
when he's standing on his own mimbar.
Say that
certain
certain people,
groups of people who are not taking
seriously, they need to stop missing
They need to stop missing
Otherwise, Allah will place a seal on their
hearts and then afterward they're they're they'll enter
the state of ghafah, they'll enter the state
of being from the ghafilim,
which is in the Qur'anic terminology, it's the
opposite of being from the people of dhikr,
from the people
of God's remembrance.
That remember your Lord inside of your very
being.
In humility and fear,
and in a way that's so subtle that
it's even more subtle than than than than
speech.
And by day and by night, and don't
ever be from the don't ever be from
the heedless.
So this ayah indicates that what the
halal of ghafla is like the opposite
of dhikr, of remembering Allah Ta'ala.
That's the punishment for missing Jumu'at,
that for missing for missing Jumu'ah after Jumu'ah.
And there are a lot of people who,
you know, oh, I got work, I got
school, I got this and that.
I know a brother who actually stopped talking
to me because I told him that he
couldn't miss Jamad just because of, medical school.
I mean,
Allah forgive us all and give us all
Hidayah, but what are you gonna do? You
know?
We live in a country where
where,
where you live in a country where there
are legal accommodations for these, albeit sometimes they're
very uphill.
But, you know,
everyone will, you know, make their choice what
they make, and they have their reasons for
making their choice, and then they're gonna have
to abide by them one day. And I've
made my choice and I'm happy with it,
and I pray that other people's choices work
out for them.
Said that the messenger
said when,
one of you, the day of Jum'ah, if
one of you comes to the day of
Jum'ah or comes to the Jum'ah prayer, I
should say, let
them
let
them
take
the ritual bath.
That the messenger of Allah said,
the ghusl on the day of Jum'ah is
necessary,
on every on every,
on every adult
on every adult, everyone who's adult according to
Sharia not turned 18, but
like everyone who's hit the age of puberty.
So
the the hadith says use the word
and the word has a technical meaning in
the
And because of this, some of the, I
guess, some of the some
somewhere or another has said that that that,
you know, that you you have to take
a bath on Jummah.
But I think the majority of the and
the of the have at least the ones
that I know,
they the the the the Hanukkah Shabbat Malik.
It's not an obligation. Like, if you don't
take a shower on Jummah, it's not a
sin, but it's just really, really emphasized.
And one of the reasons for the emphasis
of it and perhaps one of the reasons
that it may be wajib on certain people
is that in Madinah Manawala,
like, they would work their fields.
They would be like blacksmiths
and, like, you know, they work hard during
the day and it's already hot.
And then the masjid is a space where
people are crammed really tight together. Right?
It's funny. Churches are huge. Some of these
cathedral churches are huge. They but there's nobody
in there. They're all sitting in pews and
on benches,
and those used to be filled at one
time even they're, like, empty now.
And the way that this spaced out, there's
like the same space doesn't really contain all
that many people. Whereas in the Masjid, you
have a lot of people crammed into it.
You know, you have, you know, the masjid
have, like, the fire.
The fire department will make them put the
fire occupancy, and you're like, you snicker.
This is like
has more people than this. Right? And what
about Jomah? So everyone's crammed in, and so
what happened is that it would smell it.
It would start it would start to become,
like, overwhelming.
Right? And so this is one of the
reasons for the the
is what? That people should not smell when
they come to the the masjid.
Why? Because if someone smells bad, you're smelling
their body odor, then it kinda takes away
from the spirituality of the whole of the
whole scene. So it may be it may
be,
what you call it may be Wajib on
the person who's actually excluding such an order
that they're gonna bother people.
Problem is if you're that guy, you usually
can't smell it because you already became used
to it. Right?
So everyone should just everyone should just wash
up for for Joanne. There's a difference of
opinion amongst
the is the whistle Jum'ah
is a out of honor of the day.
In that case, even if Jum'ah is not
still
sunnah to to to, make the or is
it
for is it for in preparation of coming
to the Masjid?
And so, the the what I said was
in, according to the the latter the latter
opinion.
For what?
Uh-uh-uh.
What do you have in your?
Yeah.
That the who,
narrates that,
whoever makes wudu for then
that's enough for him and that's good.
When Nirmat, right? Uh-uh, like
but like it's a similar
expression I guess, that the person who makes
the wudu for Jo'a, then that's enough for
him and it's good, it's great.
And, whoever makes,
then for that person, know that is there's
more virtue in it, there's more blessing in
it.
And this
is a typo.
It's
Yufariko.
So
we have very
what are you gonna do? It just dawned
on me. It's too far removed. Sayna Salman
Farsi
who said that Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said, a person
is not a man is not going to,
may Husul on the day of Jumaa,
and then clean himself as much as he's
able to clean himself
and then oil himself or
or, perfume himself
from the perfume of his
house,
and then go out,
to Joanna and then
but not cutting the lines
or not, like, shoving himself into this, like,
small gap between 2 people.
And then afterward, the person doesn't pray except
for,
pray what Allah has written for them to
pray,
and and is not,
meaning like the sunnah before
and then the person is, and the person
will not listen to,
the imam when he starts speaking
except for,
he will be forgiven,
the the minor sins between him and between
the next Jumuah.
Allah
give us