Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Riyd alSlihn Witr and The Fall of the Caliphate 03032019
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First, I wanted to acknowledge, Masha'Allah, Imam Naim
Muhammad
from the Masilul Mu'tman
in Pittsburgh, in the inner city in Pittsburgh.
He recently went to Gambia, and he
gifted us
this this this
this accepted from him
and,
make it a means of
and and accept it from him as his
portion of participation in this
project.
The second thing I wanted to mention was
that,
one of the young men who read the
from
me in
Darul Qasim
by Rasha Dhar,
he was he he was
mentioning that
this is a day, in the history of
the Ummah that is not
free from event.
This is the day in which the Turkish
parliament voted to abolish the caliphate,
so many years ago.
And,
he said that he wished that this was
something that was mentioned indeed,
that it was something that people at least
knew about. You know?
And so I mentioned it right now,
both as a sad occasion,
because the
sunnah is to
uphold the shara of Allah Ta'ala inwardly and
outwardly. And so it's outward manifestation on the
Umma wide level was indeed a
a,
discharging
of a Farlkifa'a Allah had placed on the
Umma and the Ottoman house. May Allah
have
mercy on them and reward them for,
their services to Islam.
Even though they weren't perfect,
nobody is. But by and large, they upheld
the honor of the deen,
and, it was from the time of their
father,
their forefather, Usman Ghazi, and his forefathers before
him.
It was this idea that they were going
to wield political power,
and military power in order to
reshape the world into,
into a place that was
molded in the image of
what
Allah desire was for this world.
They weren't Machiavellian
politicians,
rather they actually believed in the deen,
and they,
they tried their best in order to support
the,
the the the vision and the project of
Islam and to take it to places they
didn't go before and to be the the
the
the the help of every Muslim person,
of every oppressed person. And that's why for
the beginning first half of its history,
majority of its population were not even Muslims.
And, the non Muslim population oftentimes
benefited
greatly
politically, financially,
and,
and socially from the Ottoman Empire. There are
a number of
Christian minorities
that were persecuted in Europe, and they found
they they found, a protection
in the Ottoman house. They have so many
so many honors that Allah gave to them,
including which what? That the count Dracula.
People don't know this. Like, even, like, simp
like, simple things don't know about that. You
know, you can tell people. The count Dracula,
his brother actually converted to Islam.
Vlad the impaler,
his brother was actually a Muslim, and, the
sultan Murad tried to go after him, and
he was, like, a really sick guy. And
he completely
outflanked and outmaneuvered
the the the the the sultan's army.
And then his brother's like, I know him.
I'll take care of him. And Van Helsing
isn't the the the the vampire killer. It
was his Muslim brother, who was.
And
you look at you look at all sorts
of things, honorable things that the Ottoman House
did in the service of Islam.
It includes what? It includes that the accepting
the refugees from Andalus
that were kicked out by the Reconquista and
facing,
certain torture and death,
under under the, the Spanish inquisition that the
Ottoman Sultan set up print shops for them
so that not only could they come as
refugees, but they also have a means of
livelihood.
There are so many things. There are so
many things, that are are are are honorable
things that they did. Why? Because they believed
in the deen. They say that the sultan,
Sultan Soleiman
who was given the luck of not by,
his own people, but by his enemies as
Suleiman the magnificent
that he was so,
and so,
strict in in in following the Sharia
that, his was that when he when he
died, and he was this is considered the
apex of Ottoman power,
worldwide and in Europe in specific that that
when he he gave that when he died
that he should be caught he should be
buried with a copy of the Sheikh Islam
Abu Surufendis
fatwas.
So that if he goes in front of
Allah and Allah to ask him, why did
you do this, and why did you do
that? He can prove. He said that every
that I sent forth,
every single one of them were,
were in conformance with what the said. If
they told me something wrong, then ask them.
Otherwise, your hokum is we should listen to
the and every, every hookahum I gave was
in accordance with what the said.
And and that's just one example of a
long history that they had of respect
the from the time of Sultan Usman Ghazi
and his sheikh Aksham Sudin,
all the way to, all the way to,
the last functional sultan, Sultan Abdulhamid the second,
who is a great,
a
of the and a great lover of the
and a person who himself had a sheikh
and took and from his,
from his sheikh.
And,
you know, again, they weren't perfect. Nobody's perfect
after the the the Rasul
but they did a lot of that imagine
a person could travel. There was a time
that a person could travel from Algeria to
you
know, through the Arab world all the way
to Iraq, through Turkey, and through basically the
eastern third of Europe and not have to
cross the border, not have to be taxed
with their goods, not have to do any
of those things. There was, you know, Palestine
was was was free.
Syria was free of its
troubles. Iraq was free of its and its
troubles. That was there was that was there
was good in it. There was in it.
And, Allah
has not forsaken, returned his back on the
Ummah, but there's good to be had yet
inshallah. And there are people we pray that
Allah
that he'll
honor with,
the ability to, put up a society,
like that that will see those types of
good that even those people didn't see in
the past.
But if you want to build that society,
it's not going to be,
it's not gonna be by getting people elected
to, the congress. It's not gonna be by
making money. It's not the Khalifa outwardly has
fallen, but inwardly, it never falls.
What's inside of the heart that Allah gives
a mandate? You know, everything we everything everything
in life is like a story. Right? We
tell each other a story that Donald Trump
is president. What if tomorrow everybody woke up
and said, you know what? He's not my
president.
He gives a hook up. Nobody his his
secretaries don't listen to him. His military doesn't
listen to him. His staff doesn't listen to
him. His son-in-law doesn't listen to him.
None of these people, you know, listen. Then,
you're just president in your own mind. Right?
And so then we talk about mandate. Where's
the mandate from? The mandate of his presidency
is from the fact that he won the
election. I'll beat on a technicality, but he
did win the election.
That's why he can show his face in
front of the column and say, I'm the
president, and people listen to me and people
don't like him. Well, whose mandate is
is,
is is is is supreme,
in existence.
Allah mandate is supreme in existence,
and the khilafat from Allah
is something that is not
it's a sun that never sets.
And,
indeed, even in the Ottoman times, the sun
was the emblem of the Khalafah. The rising
sun was the emblem of the Khalafah. People
don't know this, but
the the the there's a actual zikr ceremony.
Like we said, for rebat after after Darz,
we sit and make zikr
after Darce
and like, half the
half the crew pieces out, which is fine.
But, like, you know,
so that's a very simple, like, zikr gathering.
There used to actually be a a set,
like, zikr ceremony for the the install installation
of a.
The sheikh of the tariqa of the
would come from Konya Sharif to Istanbul,
and they have, their over there, and the
would assemble, the would assemble, the would assemble,
the would assemble, the dignitaries and high, functionaries
of government would assemble. And I'm told it
was, like, a 4 hour it was, like,
the weird it took, like, 4 hours to
to read. And in in the in the
process of it, the sheikh would would install
the the Khalifa with 2 objects of the
the caliphate.
1 is the sword of their forefather,
Usman Ghazi
was buried in Bursa, and the other is
the the of the Rasul
himself.
Istanbul has 2, not just one, has 2
of them. 1 is in the firkal Sharif,
masjid,
and the other is in the Fatih district,
and the other is
in, the top copy of Palace.
Both of them are shown at some point
or another during the year. But the idea
is that that's how they were. They're a
lot of people.
They understood even in this in this,
in this ceremony that the mandate doesn't come
from an election by the people. It doesn't
come from a constitution. It doesn't come from
from any of those things. It comes from
who? From Allah
And it was with the name of Allah
that it would begin,
and with the name of Allah, it would
continue. And so that of the is a
very special place.
It's a very special place in
Istanbul. And one of the special parts of
it is that the
the the headpiece on the dome,
it's not, it's not it's not, the crescent
star or the crescent sorry, the crescent moon.
Rather, it's actually the shams. It's like a
circle with, like, rays of light emanating from
it. Why? Because they consider the
the in the earth and the of his
to be a light to all people.
And, that was their, you know, that was
their contribution, and they're gone. And, but the
mandate is undimmed.
The problem is that we don't have a
it's not that we don't have a caliphate.
Although outwardly,
yes, they're in a political, like, political science
sense, there's no no person who rules with
sovereignty
by the law of Allah and his rasul
salallahu alayhi wa sallam, ostensibly, so it seems.
But,
at least over the entire Ummah at least
over the entire Ummah, there may be local
places that do, but over the entire Ummah,
there aren't. And even the local places seem
not to be doing such a great job,
although nobody's perfect, and we should also accept
that as well.
But the mandate is is is is irrevocable.
So the problem is what?
The problem is not that the problem is
not that the caliphate's been gone for a
100 years. It's all Allah gave it to
us, and we're not doing anything with it.
We're not doing anything with it. Everybody's trying
to buy Tesla. Everybody is trying to, go
on vacation. Everybody is trying to do x,
y, and z.
And,
you know, they're all,
using strange filters on their Instagram accounts.
Meanwhile, the Filafat of Allah Ta'ala is in
your hands, and you're not doing anything with
it. And, yes, I get the fact that
you and me sitting in whatever on Westmore
Myers Boulevard in Lombard, Illinois.
There's a lot of stuff we're not going
to do,
but this is also part of the Khalafah.
This is the more important part of it.
If we lose the government, it's okay because
even the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam lost
battles. Even the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
imagined his his camel, uh-uh, was the fastest
camel of the Arabs. And so what would
happen is the Bedouins would come with their
camels from the desert.
Their Bedouins would come with their camels from
the desert, and they knew the prophet camel
was the fastest, so everyone would try to
race with it. So one day, one of
the one of the bedrooms there the the
the Sahaba would get psyched. They would get
stoked when the camel would win every time.
And so, like, one time, his camel lost
and they came crestfallen into the,
you know, back to back to Madina and
he's like, why are you so depressed? And
he said, oh, the your camel lost a
race, you know. The prophet saw some left.
He said he said he said this is
the way of the dunya. Everything things go
up and they come down again. Imagine if
the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Salam,
you know, at least the the outward dunya
y things are subject to it, then nobody
else is gonna be immune.
But what is the thing that never falls?
The sunnah of the prophet,
Iman,
Hassan, all of these things,
Islam, these things, they don't they don't fall,
they don't wane. And that's why
the most, like, singularly profound experience of his,
the the
the
It happened when outwardly it seems like things
are going the worst.
But,
but but Allah told the prophet that things
are just fine. Don't worry about it. So
the mandate is
there,
forming government right now. Does it seem to
be within the
reach of anyone in this room?
That's fine.
The kitab is not there for except for
those things that that you're able to do.
Is not gonna ask you about those things.
What you're able to do is make du'a,
Allah, that you raise inside the ummah, you
know, a peep a person and a group
of people who are able to who are
able to fashion,
fashion our life in this world in a
way that is harmonious with the the the
order of the of of of the heavens.
And that that's a beautiful thing. Everyone should
love that thing. But even if people try
their best, it's never gonna be a 100%.
So don't worry about that,
if you're not able to do it. And
if you're able to, then what are you
waiting for?
But if you're not able to do it,
then these things are
these things are the the the khilafa of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and they'll
never they'll never wane. Their benefit will never
go away, and you'll receive, you know, that
is only result of keeping this one. That
the hadith of the prophet
should keep being read, that the Ayat of
the Quran should be keep being read and
taught memorized,
and that the, name of Allah should keep
being taken,
and that the heart should be filled with
the the ahuwal,
and Maqamat, and the states and the stations
of,
of of of Islam that are
shown to us through prophecy
and shown through us through the the living
example of the the the the Mubarik Sisla
of this jama'a that connects us to the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
But that's the actual Khalifa,
and the people who understood that were able
to salvage the broken pieces of the state
when it was shattered before in the past.
And it's there's been many times that the
Islam Islam has been politically very, very highly,
highly unfunctional,
dysfunctional.
But the people understood that they they understood
the map by which you can And for
the rest of us whose Iman is in
the dunya, then Khallas, we have a hijabi
sister in the congress, so go celebrate.
I don't have a problem with her. You
know? I mean, some things she said I
don't agree with. Most of the stuff that
she said, I'm actually excited about, and I
I pray for her protect her and give
her,
give her
and protect her from her enemies and from
those people who wish to intimidate and scare
people to speak the truth. But,
you know, that's not,
despite being a supporter,
that's not that's not how this thing is
gonna get fixed. This thing is gonna get
fixed by people and by being,
the unwire of
inside of their hearts, imbibing this ill inside
of their hearts, and, inviting inviting the zikr
inside of their hearts to the point where
it becomes more beloved to them than their
own choices for themselves, to the point where
people would rather go and see the house
of Allah than buy Tesla, to the point
where people would rather, have, you know, masajid
and hamukhas
and duroos and khatam of Bukhadi rather than
talking about stocks and TV shows and all
this other stuff.
And this is our small and very,
very weak
attempt to participate in that, and we ask
Allah to Allah accept and give Tawfiq. Otherwise,
the the the
the services of all of the you know,
the Khalifa Rashidun, their state fell apart, but
the Sahaba, their services are still were benefiting
from them.
Not because of the political state, but because
of the deen that they left behind. Said
now, Omar ibn Abdulaziz, he reigned for, like,
2 years. And in those 2 years, look
at all the things that he did. You
know, the the of the hadith of the
prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the entire project
started from that time until this time.
Abu Hanifa was actually the actually, Islamic government
actually killed him.
They they they put him in in in
a well
in solitary,
and he wasn't dying. Rather, he still kept
teaching darshan from the bottom of the well.
You imagine a person who's in solitary for
all that amount of time, most of us
will lose our mind.
I mean, for I I I'll be honest
with you. You know, I'm not trying to,
you know, show, like, you know, how Sufi
I am. Like, little setbacks happens. I get
I get really upset.
When people get really upset, little setbacks happen.
They get really upset. Just today, we're get
getting off the plane from Detroit,
and, there were 2, like, elderly Arab, ladies
who were, you know, they had, like, a
connecting flight with Royal Jordanians. So they're sitting
on their wheelchairs
and 2, like, grown men,
you know, get out of the way. Get
out of the way. They're yelling and screaming.
So I I was like, what's wrong with
you people? These are old women who are
trying to sit in a wheelchair, like, you
know, what what's wrong with you guys? And
then they looked at me, and I had
my, like,
like, hip hop purple jacket on, and they're
like,
I don't wanna deal with this. And so
they just kept going. But the idea is,
like, sometimes some something so small that's an
impediment.
It frustrates the the mind out of a
person.
It happens with pious people as well.
So imagine that Abu Hanifa
who
narrates hadith directly from the Sahaba
and, who is the Imam Al Adham, and,
you know, he's in solitary.
Instead of losing his mind, what does he
do? He finds a way to keep teaching
Darce.
Why? Because there are people who understood the
celestial order,
the the order that Allah has set from
the all
the way down to the Farsh. They understood
it. They understood his place, and it has
nothing to do with, like,
you know, like, outward stuff. But, like, as
long as he's still giving Darcey, he's like,
he's king.
As long as he's giving Darcey, he's still
sultan.
He's the khalifa of Allah Ta'ala in a
way that Banu Abbas and Banu Umayyah, you
know, they could fight each other to the
death and they'll never be able to understand
it. And so he's just he's not dying,
so they finally poisoned him.
Right? So tell me something that, like,
those people, like,
if it were if they gave up or
if they thought that, you know, the person
who's on the seat is gonna, like, make
all that much of a difference,
then what would what would we have had?
So, you know, don't worry about any of
that stuff.
Don't worry about those things. Allah Allah will
create a pea a people to deal with
that, and Allah will create a people to
do this. And if we have tawfiq from
Allah, we'll have people who do both of
them. That's very rare in any age. And
the only people,
the person who loves it and wants it,
Allah will give it to them generally.
But,
you know, don't be don't be so deluded
to think that that that one is contingent,
that that both of them are equal in
in in their importance. 1 is contingent on
the other. That's contingent on this, what we
have in front of us, the books that
we have opened up up in front of
us. This is the filafat of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam that his hadith should
keep being read. And so, you know, person
of understanding should go home, sleep sleep well
at night, Insha'Allah.
And their concern and worry should be for
these things. It's impossible that people, stop that
they start taking the name of Allah Ta'ala
and that it doesn't affect them. That they
start praying and it doesn't affect them. They
start they start reading hadith of the prophet,
and it doesn't affect them. Rather, it's a
great aid
for people,
and, you know, even if we have one
off type people who are, like,
doing zikr and reading hadith and reading Quran,
and they're kinda, like, messed up, whacked up
people,
that's the exception. That's not the rule. The
rule is that this thing doesn't touch people
except for it makes them better.
So, you know, what happens is we have
an entire full of people, of kids delinquent,
and he's about to go to jail, and
he doesn't study, doesn't read anything. The last
thing they do is they send them to
they send them to Madrasa. That's not a
new thing, by the way. This has been
happening for centuries. It's not the only set
of people who go to Madrasa, but it
is a contingent of people that are there.
There are people in all of the Madras
everywhere in the east and in the west.
The only reason they're there is like they
they killed someone or they robbed someone or
they're the cops are looking for them. And
so they know that Madras is a good
place to lie low because the police are
not gonna look for you in the rows
of, like, students, you know,
memorizing, you know, Surat Al Hizab or whatever.
Even those people from the barakah of the
Quran, even those people from the barakah of
the hadith of the prophet
even those people by the barakah of the
zikr of Allah,
one day it will come like a sledgehammer
down. It will break their stone of their
hearts into pieces,
and it will overwhelm them. And and those
people also become
But the issue is what?
Right?
Islam. If that's what it will do for
those people, then the prophet, sallallahu, sallallahu, sallallahu,
sallallahu, sallallahu, sallallahu,
sallallahu, sallam,
said that the people are like are like,
like metal, like different metals have different qualities,
they have different qualities. And the ones of
you who are the best in Jahiliya will
be the best in Islam. So if our
criminals are delinquents, this is what this,
kitab of allata'a and the sunnah of the
prophet does to them. This is what the
zikr of allata'a does to them. Then imagine
what it will do to wonderful people like
you guys
who get good SAT scores and, like, you
know, get whatever good driver discounts for your
car insurance and, like,
you know, all these other wonderful things about
you guys. Imagine what it'll do for for
for people like you. So Allah
give so much to
feel.
Go
ahead
inshallah.
So, Sayidina Ali
it's narrated from him
that
that the the wither is
means what?
Means like,
means like
So Hatam here is is the,
Islam.
Sorry. Sorry. The master in the meaning of
the
So hatam, like, hatam and Maqdiya, they're basically
mean very similar things.
Right?
And so hatam here, it means it's not
like decisive.
It's not decisive. And this is something that
Khair we'll we'll we'll get to it. So
he says that it's not it's not decisive,
and and the the reason that Nawi
brings it here when you look at the,
when you look at the chapter title, there's
a chapter regarding the encouragement toward the sultan
wither. An explanation that it's a it's a
emphasized rigorously
emphasized sunnah and the explanation the details regarding
the time in which it should be prayed.
As it it's as if Nawi is saying
is like a proof that it's not logic.
So, before,
the Hanafi students of knowledge have a heart
attack,
and before you wonder now, oh great, this
is unrecording, will Sheikh Amin like expel expel
me from Darul Qasim for reading this?
What does what is the context of Hatam
here?
If you want to interpret text, you have
to accept that there are different
possibilities of interpretation.
Hatam means that it's not something that
there are Sahaba
whose opinions
were that it's wajib, and there were amongst
them those whose opinions were that it's not.
So the context of Hatem here is what?
Is the,
the context of Hatem here is like an
apida sense that, you know, there's not just
one goal,
regarding it.
Now,
obviously, the the are going to interpret it
differently
because, that's according to their methodology and according
to their.
But then again,
the who is not a hudjah in their
madhab.
To my knowledge, and, you know, I may
be wrong. You can go ask Sheikh Musa
Ferber or,
Musti Tahakkaram or one of the our Shafei
scholars, Shafei Olamah or Sheikh Ali or Moana
Yaqub Abdulrahman in in Dar es Salaam or
whatever. You can ask them about it. But,
so this wouldn't it doesn't seem to me,
at least according to the very cursory knowledge
of the school I have, this wouldn't be
approved for them. But he says,
like the 5 daily prayers. The 5 daily
prayers are far for whoever doesn't believe it
has, like, left Islam because they denied something
necessarily known about Islam. This is not it's
not set like that that set.
Hataam, I read the entire entry in in,
Lisam al Arab of Hataam. One of the
meanings of it is black.
So,
like, Hatem, one of the meanings of it
is like a crow.
And the reason that black is hatem also
is because it's like, it doesn't there's no
ambiguity in it. You know how it's not
black and white. Black is, like, completely, like,
solid, like like, it's there's no ambiguity
in it, whatsoever. So as an extent
extension of that, like, Hatem, one of the
meanings of it is like a crow as
well,
because it's because it's jet
black. It's solid.
He says, well, I can send
that rather than he
he,
he made it a sunnah and he said,
indeed Allah is
is
is an odd number. With her the word
with her, one of the meanings of with
her is odd number.
So one is a odd number,
and he loves the things in odd numbers.
This is why, generally, things that have to
do with the the sunan there usually come
in odd numbers.
Quran. So the part that's narrated from the
prophet
in this in this author doesn't seem to
indicate anything regarding hukum of wither either.
Rather, the prophet
said what?
With her is 1.
Sorry. Allah is with her, and he loves
the things that are with her. So pray
the with her prayer,
oh, people of Quran.
So again, if you look in the Ibn,
Ibn Alan's commentary, he's a Shafi'i.
He says, well, look, see the Alu Quran
is not the entire Ummah. Right? It's every
not not everyone in this room is a
Hafiz, although Chicago maybe me I'm the only
one who's not a Hafiz here, me and
Humayun.
But,
everybody is,
you
know, not everybody is a Hafiz, so they're
like, Not everyone has to read it. Rather,
it's a sign of your
it's a sign of your
your,
and your your your religiosity.
On the flip side, one could understand it
the other way around as well because the
Quran is for everybody. Everybody reads some part
of the Quran.
Everybody has to read the for their prayers,
unless they're gonna pray every single salat in
JAMA'a. And even then for the, they still
have to read from the from the in
order for their prayer to be valid. So
I I I don't know I don't I
don't know legally that
this is that clear of Hajj
either way,
but it definitely can be interpreted and was
interpreted that way. So, you know, whatever your,
you know, meaning appeals to you, if you
wanna be from the Ahlul Quran, it's a
good thing. Everyone should want to. The point
is everyone should pray with her. And so
there are many Sahaba
whom,
who would refuse to out and say that
it's it's actually like
an obligation
because of, certain ambiguity,
and certain certain reluctance that they had in
saying something was
Wajib
without,
an unambiguous
proof, but it was one of those things
amongst the Sahaba
whom none of them used to abandon it.
They never used they thought that the abandoning
if a person is, like, abandoning even with
her, that this is, like, really a bad
thing. So the Maliki school, it's also considered
sunnah al kadah.
However,
yeah, Ahmad
ibn Abi Zaid, he actually used the word
wajib for it several times in the
in the in the Risaleh,
as if as if he's as if he
also is cognizant of the,
he's cognizant of the the
the idea that's in between,
what's wajib and what's what's not wajib.
And,
although the the Maliki's callers later will explicitly
say that it's not, but even Abizaid is
like the.
The fact that he would speak of it
or use the word
or for it,
is itself a, you know, it's a sign
that it's like Mu'akaddah unlike the other,
Sunan.
And, even according to the Maliki
scholars,
from the Sunan Mu'akada, it is the one
that has the most emphasis,
more so than
more so than the the the eclipse prayer,
more so than the drought prayer, etcetera.
So, Sida Aisha narrates,
and it's important
to know that her narration carries weight because
the prophet
spent most of the nights, with, you know,
at home,
not outside of the house.
That she said that
would pray the wither prayer
every night.
Sometimes you would pray it in the beginning
of the night. Sometimes you would pray it
in the middle of the night. Sometimes you
would pray it at the end of the
night. But the last the the the the
last time in which it could be prayed,
is the late part of the night before
the morning.
So as long as you do it before
the crack of dawn, that's the time for
the winter prayer. Go on.
So, Sayna Abdullah ibn Umar, may Allah be
pleased with both of them. He said that
make the last of your prayer in the
nighttime,
wither,
the the the wither prayer.
And,
this is a recommendation.
Like, always, there are people. So I prayed
my wither. Can I pray something else afterward
or whatever? It's to, like, intend to pray
your wither first and then to pray something
else afterward.
But if it's one of those things, like,
I don't know if I'm gonna get a
chance to pray again
or not, then when you're done praying whatever
you pray after,
then let the last part of it be
the winter. And then afterward, if you wanna
pray again, that's fine.
But the the idea is that that you
you don't intend if you make a solid
plan that you don't intend praying on praying
anything else before it. Go ahead.
Yeah. So
who narrates the messenger
said, pray your wither
before,
before the the
rises, before the crack of dawn.
So,
narrates the prophet
He used to pray,
his his tahajjud at the nighttime.
She narrates that the Messenger
He used to pray his tahajjud prayer,
and it was
in front of him between him and and
the qibla.
So when
when there was nothing but the witter
was left,
he would wake her up and she would
pray the wither prayer.
He would wake her up and she would
pray the wither prayer. Go ahead.
Well, he
is not the salat. I'm sorry to
say the and it shows the I I
I apologize.
It shows the how small the
the Hundra was,
that she would be she would be sometimes,
sleeping between him and the. And,
when he it was time for him to
pray the with her prayer, he would wake
her up, and then she would make and
she would pray.
Go on.
On. I probably I did the I had
to do the on the plane today. I
couldn't because I was out of town, so
I did
come come here. So sometimes it's not as
fresh in the mind as when you come
early and you just sit in the same
place and read. Go on.
And on top of that I'm sorry to
cut you off again. On top of that,
even when I do the proper,
there's a lot of things that are mistakes.
And oftentimes, people who are listening or people
who are present will look up the mistakes
and send them to me afterward, and I
appreciate that. And I try as best as
I can to make the corrections in the
in the next
as well.
And
then
beat the the the beat the beat the
the the the break of the morning by
with your wither, meaning
do your wither before the the dawn breaks.
Go
said, whoever of you, fears that they won't
be able
to wake up in the last part of
the night,
they won't be able to wake up for
their.
Let them pray in the beginning.
They're with her in the beginning part of
the night. Meaning, just pray them with their
after you're done
after you're done with your Isha.
And whoever has desired to wake up, in
the last part of the night, then let
him say pray his wither in the last
part of the night. And then the Rasul
mentions why.
He says because
He says because the the the the the
salat in the last part of the night
is,
meaning it's witnessed.
And so the idea is what? Is that
in the last 3rd of the night,
the angels of Allah Ta' has special angels
that come down. It's not only on the
little Qadr,
although it's more intense on that on that
night. But it's not only on the
last 3rd of days, the 3rd 3rd of
the night. There are angels that come down
and there's a special,
a special, you know,
divine
outpouring of the divine grace that happens at
that time.
Meaning you make dua anytime Allah will hear
it and he'll listen.
But if you make dua at that time,
the acceptance will be more and the benefit
will be more and the fact will be
more.
And,
when,
nafahat, I'm sorry, the the the the the
cool winds,
that that are that come from the divine
and the and, sorry, the,
the that the the the the godly and
the
divine and spiritual
outpouring of grace, it happens at that time.
And so
it's a time that you're going to
want to be awake. And this is, again,
this is why it's a sunnah to go
to sleep right right after a shot.
And,
there are places in the world where
societies are built like this. In order for
people to the civilization, they take it as
a a priority
that, that they should go go to sleep
right after Isha in order to be able
to wake up at that time. Unless you
don't, if you stay up half the night,
if you stay up till midnight, then you're
gonna kill yourself because you're not gonna get
enough sleep or gonna sleep through the day.
And ignoring your your your obligations in the
day are,
is,
you know, that's not also not a good
thing. That's also not part of deen. This
is saying your deen is an imbalance. So
the only practical way of doing it is
to pray at this time and then go
straight to sleep. That's why
talk to other people,
as a and people like,
big deal. It's not a sin. So what?
And he's a blow through it. There's a
there's a there's a hikmah in it for
you. There's a benefit in in in in
avoiding the things that are and doing those
things that are.
And,
Sheikh Hashem,
who comes, he has programs sometimes at and
other places.
And, he,
his
accepted Islam in the seventies, and he he
has a very,
interesting
life that Allah has given him.
And he's a very spiritual person, and he's
a person who took all of these things.
He, you know, he saw the old masha'ikh
and he took these things and he seems
to have,
enacted them in his life. And
Allah knows best, you know, of people's secret,
but we have, you know, we have a
good opinion of him. And we've seen him
and spent enough time with him to to
feel like, you know, he's for real.
This is one of the things that a
lot of the people notice from him, which
is what his deen is. His deen is,
like, something he doesn't apologize to people for.
And nowadays, people think this is like bad
akhlaq
or bad adab or whatever because, you know,
you should be
you should be, like, you know, the greeter
at Walmart with regards to your din.
Well, the greeter at Walmart doesn't make a
whole lot of money nor are they considered
super important in society. And although they are
people and just because they're humans,
we know that they're people of worth, but
nobody marry their daughter to the greeter at
Walmart or their son to the greeter at
Walmart.
If if if things were ideal,
you know, then why is it that we
should cheapen our dean like that?
Again, this is not a pat chat at
them. Those people,
help them,
and whatever they're doing is, the point is
nobody would want life to be like that.
And then life happens the way it does,
and we deal with it. And Allah's choice
for us is better than our choice for
ourselves. But that doesn't mean that we stop
choosing what's best. So
what what happens with him? Wherever he goes.
Oh, Sheikh, come to my house for dinner.
Oh, we have this dawah. We have this
gathering. We have this talk. We have this
bayan. A 100 people will be there. A
1000 people will be there. 10,000 people will
be there, etcetera, etcetera. This person wants to
talk to you. That person, they're going through
a crisis.
Anything all kind of weird things people threw
out him. And you know what he says
to them? He said, I have an appoint
I'm sorry. I can't come. I have an
appointment.
What's the appointment?
The appointment was with the and
he takes it seriously, and he just doesn't
care.
Why would you care?
Right? If Donald Trump asked you to that
that that I wanna meet you in order
to award some whatever,
you know, we're gonna fund Rabat,
you know,
for the next 20 years. Be there be
be here at, like, you know, whatever time
of day or night. You bet I'd be
there.
You bet I'd be there.
I would I would read the, blow it
on his whatever the orange thing on his
head is
for my own protection and the protection of,
like, the alamin
from whatever is in that thing.
I'd be there.
And he's, like, pathetic guy, he's a he's
a guy. You can see his. Like, it's
just, like, so
level of. Like, once he's out of office,
how depressing it's gonna be for him. How
depressing it is for him right now. Michael
Cohen is, like, his, like, his, like, closest
confidant, said that he never expected to win.
Now he's really flustered that he actually won
the presidency or whatever. Right? So and that's
for someone like that.
So the one who imagine they have the
the they keep the appointment of Allah,
that's like a thing for
the right? Like, the the mipat of Allah,
that's like that's the description of said in
Musa al Islam in the Quran.
That's like
that's like that's like, that's like that's like
that's like from
the There are people like that. I mean,
he's not it's not like you invented it
or anything. Right? There are people you see
people we've seen people who are like that
that are very, very,
and very strict in their
and in their
and, you know, when they say them and
how they say them, etcetera, etcetera.
And, like, those people, you can see there's
something that they have that other people don't
have. And if you wanna skip out on
it, then, you know, good for you. You
know, tell me how it works out.
Write me a postcard from wherever you end
up. It's fine. You know what I mean?
But this deen is not gonna work. That
work of the is not gonna happen until
we have, like, an army of people who
are reading to Hajjul every night.
And how important did they take
it? It's one of his commands to or
his instructions to his commanders in the field
was that the night before battle, if anyone's
not reading the Hajj, then they're not or
not reading Quran or making zikr or making
dua or something like that. He says,
expel them from your ranks because
one of those people are gonna be the
ones that end up being the reason we
fail.
And those are all the people we've invested
our hope in now, and that's kind of
sad.
Forgive all of us.
So this is one of the things,
especially for those of you who have an
ability to keep a regular schedule,
just do it.
It's the who's more important than than
whose
and meeting is more important
than All of our all of you know,
I did this when I was an imam
in Rockford.
The youth, they came for quote unquote.
So the 1st night there, you know,
80% of them are playing basketball and watching
movies in, like, the Islamic school classrooms or
whatever.
So I gathered all of them together.
I go, I want you to look at
each other. Look to your left. Look to
the right. I go, I want you to
listen very carefully. You're a loser,
and your friends on your left and right.
I'm not just talking about the guy right
next to you. Like, the entire line, they're
all losers.
They're not gonna do anything for you. They're
not gonna help you out when you're down.
They're not gonna they're they're not gonna you
know, they'll they'll leave you in a in
in an instant when you when you need
them.
I go and even those were good to
you in the dunya, what? Are they gonna
go into the grave with you? I go,
this is a chance you have the the
the night off or the week off from
school or whatever because they had summer vacation
at that point. I said, go you know,
you can do something in this time and
make some, connection between you and the,
that will save you when you enter into
your grave. It will save you on the
and good things will happen from it. So
I go, if you're gonna play ball and,
like, watch movies and stuff like that, I'm
just gonna kick you out of the masjid.
And if you're but if you you wanna
stay also, like, you can do a lot
of good with it. And, strange strange is
funny because a lot of people when they
hear of stories are like that, they're like,
oh, look. This guy is driving people away
from the deen. Guess what? All those kids
had a very spiritual,
and they would horse around and play and
whatever. I get that. Like, you know, their
kids, it's not like I'm a 100% on
task all the time.
But, like, every 15 minutes, 10 minutes, 15
minutes,
you tell them,
you know, you tell them, okay. Now I
want you know, pick 1 random person from
them. I want you to lead 4 raka'az.
And you, you know, if they did his,
they'll read something longer. And if they don't,
who who amongst us is praying for rakas
of tahajjud every night? You know? There are
some, but but but not a not a
lot of
people. So,
you know, that's something that
that's something that that you you know, it's
not just for the, you know, whatever Rockford
and Chris School kids.
It's for all of us, all of our
friends, all of our things, the things that
we sacrifice this this time for and these
things for. They're all losers. They're not gonna
do anything for you. Nobody's gonna do anything
for you. Nobody cares. This if there was
ever a time where people used to have
some wafaa for one another, it's gone now.
Everyone will abandon one another at the first
opportunity.
If you don't, people consider you to be
stupid nowadays. So if you're
at home, you have a regular schedule, you
don't travel, you don't have, like, weird
shifts swinging around from here to there. You
know? If you're, like, for example, a mother
who is,
you know, who, you know, has a set
schedule, you take the kids to school at
a certain time. You pick them up at
a certain time. All these things can be
all these things can be planned out.
And you need to take advantage of of
this stuff,
you know, if you're able
to. Why? Because the prophet said
The the the the the prayer at the
last time, even the angels of Allah sends
them to bear witness. What are they witnessing?
It's not your namaz that's the important thing
that's happening at that time. It's not your
salat that's the important thing that's happening at
that time.
Right? Who cares
about your salat and my salat?
What's the what's the thing that they're bear
witnessing? They're bearing witness to is what? It's
the, nafahat
that are coming down on you.
That's the thing that the angels say to
each other,
like, come. This is the thing we were
looking for. It's happening right now. Come bear
witness to it. It's a it's a it's
like a
sight to be witnessed. It's a matter of
awe and it's something to see. So if
that passes over one of you,
you know, that's that's like a good thing.
Please make dua for me as well and
make dua for each other as well that
we we have tafik for that. If you
have people like that, that's what the the
the the in which, you know, you have,
like, 4 hour zikr ceremonies where people are,
you know, like, there's, like, the shamsa on
top of the dome and, you know, like,
you're all that good stuff happens, what, on
the on the backs of this. Right? That
the mandate is first that you should that
Allah gave you the. Now do something with
it. This is the first thing that you
do with it. And with it I'm not
saying if you're not doing this, then you
don't do the other things, that they happen
together. It's organic process.
But, like, you know Mhmm. Like a baby
grows,
you're not gonna be like,
oh, I'm gonna grow one arm first and
then the second arm. That would be like
freakish, and the the baby would die even
if it tried growing that way. All grows
together. But at the same time, you know,
there's a difference. Like, fingers are important. Everybody
loves fingers. Say, you have the fingers that
you have. Even if someone lost them, at
least the the ones that you have. Someone
has no fingers, say, at least had fingers
at one time.
And if you don't never had fingers, then
say I'm gonna make sabr with this, like,
tragedy, and Allah will give me something in
the for it. It's good. Right? But no
one's gonna say that the finger is more
important than your heart.
I'd you know, or that your your your
liver or whatever. All of it is important,
but some of it's more important than than
others.
And nobody there's nobody I've never seen anyone
get up and give a ban about, like,
oh, look at the like, not in this
side, at least. Look at what happened, the
catastrophe that's happened to the ummah, that nobody
reads the Hajjid anymore,
in my block,
whereas everyone's gonna bang on about, oh, there's
no more. Is
there. You're already Khalifa. You're already Khalifa. All
of you Khalifa,
go. You say you say, Sheikh Hamza gave
me Khalifa on on whatever on on the
night of 3rd Sunday, the night of 3rd
of,
of March. Yeah. Khilafa, go go tell everybody.
Go. I give you this is my Ijazah.
I give it
to you. I'll sign the paper for you.
Go do it. Right? You have the mandate.
Now go do it. Right? So this is
this is also part of that khilafa. Nobody
laments the collapse of this part.
And I'm not saying like, oh, do this
and don't do that until this is done
or whatever. I'm not saying that. Right? They're
not
they don't they they work synergistically with one
another. They don't it's not like, you know,
one is gonna pull you away from the
other. Whoever claims that they're they're you know,
you have to do a one or the
other or whoever makes,
discord between the 2 of them, you know,
this person is not carrying the message of
the prophet
because all of them used to do all
of it at the same time, and there's
no there's no, like, hadith you Rasool Allah,
you know. I wanna,
you know, do x, y, and z, like,
do jihad fees
and, you know, defend Islam and, you know,
make the world a better place. But, like,
the Hajjid is really, like,
grating on me a lot. There's no there's
no hadith like that. Is there?
The ones who can do it did it.
The ones who couldn't, when they couldn't, they
didn't do it. Most of them did both
at the same time. Nobody complained like, oh,
one thing is graining on the other, that
there's some sort of discord between them that,
like, you know, the and the are ready
to beat each other up, and the, you
know, the general public is like, what's going
on, dude? That's not how that's not how
if if you that's happening, you know something's
gone wrong in the in the mix.
So this chapter regarding the virtue of the,
which is the morning prayer,
and the explanation of what the minimum is
for it, what the maximum is it for
it, what is, like,
encouragement to
to,
pray it regularly.
So we narrate from Saidna Abu Hurair who
said,
my Khalil
he gave me the following bequested advice.
Khalil means what?
Means
to mix.
So the khalil is the one whose love
has mixed in your heart to the point
where the the 2 cannot be separated anymore.
And so what does that mean about the
Maqams, Ibrahima
What does that mean about his Maqams,
to Islam?
There's actually an an objection that the
had when you read an.
So we can't really say that he's Allah's
khalil because what does that mean? You know?
And we say, you you know, stop being
a hater. If said it, then we accept
it. But it's that's what that's what that's
what Khalil means. I I I actually before
I looked it up, I I mistakenly thought
that Khalil is the person who you keep
you mix with their company. No. It's the
Khalil is the one whose Mahaba is mixed
in your heart tell you cannot separate from
one one from the other. So he said
my Khalil Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said to
me, he gave me the advice, the request
to fast 3 days every every month.
To fast 3 days every month, which is
again, it's like it's actually the out of
the 3 sunnah prescriptions of fasting, fasting, it's
the least of them.
The middle
middle one being right Mondays Thursdays and then
the maximum being every other day.
So that he he gave me the the
the bequest that I should fast,
3 days every month.
And that I should pray at least 2
rakas and dua, meaning after the sun rises
off of the horizon. The is
is is is is the the morning after
the sun has risen,
and that I should that I should pray
my wither before before I go to sleep
in case he didn't wake up. So this
is the specific
instructions for him.
And all 3 of them are,
all 3 of them are the minimum
performances.
Right? The
minimum sunnah fasting is 3 days a month,
and the minimum
is
what? Is,
2 2 rakas, and then he'll mention the
other narrations for more than that. And the
the minimum for wither is that you should
at least pray it before you go to
sleep. The best is to pray it at
the end of the night, wake up again,
and pray it,
at the end of the night. And,
all 3 are the minimum. And one of
the reasons for that is what that said,
who is
one of the students of knowledge. He was
one of the.
And then afterward, his life is engaged,
in in what?
In in teaching and learning.
And so the point is that perhaps,
that
engagement was more profitable for him spiritually,
but it didn't mean that he should give
up.
He should give up, he should give up
the Ibadat,
and Allah
knows best.