Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Sisters Ramadn Bayn Decatur IL 06112016.mp4
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and those of us in good health to
read the salatul Tarawi.
May He allow us to make a drak
of Laylatul Qadr
Hadith to the Messenger of
Allah
Subhanahu
Wa
Ta'ala.
Allah
Subhanahu
Wa
Ta'ala.
Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah. Allah will,
for that person forgive their their sins whatever
came before.
And obviously the the minor sins are forgiven
just by the act of fasting, and the
major sins are,
forgiven
when a person makes tovah and repents for
them,
on the occasion of their having fasted.
And he gives the same beshara and glad
tidings
for
the one who stands in the nights of
Ramadan in prayer. And the Uleman say that
this is the salatul tarawee.
And he gives the same Bishalah to the
person who stands the laylatul Qadr in prayer.
May Allah give us the ability to find
it, seek it and to to find it
and that all of these things be accepted
from us. Say, Ameen.
So
what I wanted to talk about because there
are a lot of complaints that people have
nowadays,
especially
given how hot it is outside
and especially given how long the fast day
is,
and especially given how
short the night is,
and the fact that people have other obligations.
They have to go to work. They have
to go to school. They have to tend
to their tend to their day to day
lives.
I wanted to talk about what the point
of the fast is in the first place.
So because a person when they
know the
value of something, the true value of something,
then they're more willing to pay the price
for
it. As a salesperson,
in order to be successful, you have to
believe in
yourself,
your ability to sell the product you're selling.
You have to believe in the product that
it's actually a good product, and you have
to believe that the price is a fair
price.
And, if somebody were to ask you for
$1,000
you'd say, I'm not going to give you
$1,000 That's a lot of money. If someone
were to tell you that there's a
very nice and beautiful house,
it's 4,000 square feet and it has this
many bedrooms, this many bathrooms and it's newly
built and everything is professionally done and it's
only $1,000
then people even if they didn't have the
$1,000 they would run race to go borrow
the money from somebody in order to buy
that. Why? Because the price is very good
price for what you're getting in return.
And the fast itself is what? And in
order to understand what the value of the
fast is,
a person should
understand first of all what a human being
is. So human being is
for the purpose of understanding the value of
the fast will make the mithal or the
the likeness of a human being like a
radio.
Like a radio. Radio has 2 bands. It
has a AM band and the FM band.
And the quality of whatever you're hearing on
the radio, the quality of sound of whatever
you're hearing on the radio is is part
of 2, you know, there's 2 different sides
to what the quality of what you're going
to hear is. 1 is how good is
the radio.
If it's, you know, piece of garbage radio,
or very old and the speakers have become
loose then the clarity of the sound of
whatever you're gonna hear, from the other end
is very low.
And on the flip side, if you live
very far from the radio station
or the radio station itself is not putting
out a sound of, you know, something with
a high quality sound,
or the radio station itself is putting
out something that's not pleasant to listen to
or not,
you know, pleasing to a person to, to
hear, then from that side,
shortcoming as well. So in order to have
a good experience, you have to have a
good radio and the signal that's coming from
the station should be a good signal. It
should be a signal of something that you
like.
And just like that, the human being, their
spiritual
apparatus has 2 bands in it.
There's 1 one one,
Puwa behemia in every person and there's one
Puwa melekiya in every person.
Behemia means what? The word behemia in Arabic
means an animal, like a dumb animal. Not
in the biological sense. In the biological sense,
all of us are animals. Right? Because we're
not plants or fungus. Those
fungus. Well, some of us have our moments.
But biologically speaking, we're all animals. We're not
talking about it in that sense. Behemoth is
an animal like a like a a dumb
animal and the literal meaning of the word
dumb.
Dumb doesn't mean stupid. That's a metaphorical meaning
of the word dumb. Literally the word dumb
means mute person who's not able to speak.
So a behemoth is a dumb animal like
a cattle or
or a camel. It's unable to speak.
So we have Akua behemia. There's a certain
type of,
a certain type of,
you know, reality,
to us that we share with animals.
And, that's why biologically we also consider ourselves
to be animals.
They have a 4 chambered heart. Other mammals
have a 4 chambered heart. We have a
4 chambered heart. They have blood vessels.
They have veins and arteries. We have veins
and arteries. They have a brain. Our brain
is maybe bigger than theirs by a little
bit, but its function is largely the same.
You know, they have, you know, even to
the down to the musculature and to,
you know,
many fine details,
with regards to the anatomy of of other
animals. We share a lot of a lot
of the same stuff.
And, you know, we're animals like they're animals.
When they get hungry, they wanna eat. When
we get hungry, we want to eat. When
they have other desires they wish to fulfill,
they fulfill them just like human beings do
as well.
And this is part of the way Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala created every person.
So you have this apparatus, this behemi, this
animal apparatus or animalistic apparatus inside of you.
It's not good nor is it evil. It
just is what it is. Right? It's not
good nor is it evil. It's not immoral.
Nobody
says that a snake that eats another
animal like a rat
or you know sometimes many snakes actually eat
other snakes which is kind of creepy. But,
watch it on YouTube I guess when Ramadan
is over if you like. But, you know,
you're not gonna say that this snake is
immoral for eating. Why? Because when an animal
is hungry,
it eats. It's not good or bad. It
just kind of is what it is. And
so we have all of us have that
inside of us.
And all of us also though have an
angelic nature inside of us which differentiates us
from the animals. And part of the angelic
nature is what is that we have knowledge.
We can think of things on an abstract
level that transcends
physicality.
When somebody says to you, what is 2+2?
Just the fact that you can ask this
question in an abstract manner,
it means that this question is a philosophical
question.
Right?
The fact that we have any number other
than 1 is actually a philosophical
concept.
Really, you know, what is 5? 5 is
just 5 ones. The thing that exists is
the 1. The 5 is a philosophical
construct that we made up.
But the angelic nature allows a person
to function at a level of abstraction which
transcends
physicality and transcends
material
and it also allows a person to,
ponder over
ponder over, you know,
moral issues, what's right? What's wrong?
It allows a person to empathize with another.
And that if you see something wrong happening
to another person, you intuitively know that it's
wrong,
and you intuitively sympathize with that person even
though you may never go through that same
problem,
ever in your life.
This is part of the angelic nature and
spiritual nature Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave to
each person.
And the relationship between these two natures is
like the relationship between the AM and the
FM band in radio.
The FM band is obviously superior. This happens
like in happens, like, in Chicago, for example,
there's a news station that has a that
runs in,
an AM and it runs in FM. I
don't remember what the what the, what the
frequency
of the station is. But if you listen
to it in the AM, it's the exact
same station and you flip it to the
FM. All of a sudden the quality of
the sound, increases manifold. Even though for a
new station, you don't need to have, like,
super high quality sound, You can understand exactly
what's going on,
you know,
in the AM but the clarity of the
sound is much higher. So just like the
AM and FM bands, there's a hierarchy, there's
a superiority of 1 over the other. Just
like that, the 2 natures
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave to a human
being, the animalistic nature and the spiritual nature,
there's a hierarchy between them. And the hierarchy
is what? Is the relationship like the relationship
between a rider and his horse.
That the horse
the the rider rides on the horse. The
rider is superior to the horse. If the
rider should die, the horse is not going
to know where to get food from. It's
not gonna know where to get water from.
It may die of exposure or starvation.
It may itself get lost in the desert
or not even have enough understanding in order
to,
look for where
it might be able to escape or what
route it might be able to escape from
the desert is.
But at the same time the horse is
doing most of the work.
The rider,
unlike the horse is intelligent, he can think
ahead, he can make decisions, and he can
plan for the benefit both of the horse
and of the rider. So your spiritual apparatus
is like the rider.
Your animalistic
apparatus is like the horse.
And one
strange, you know, issue that human beings have,
one strange part of the human experience is
that sometimes we kind of misunderstand
this relationship and the way this relationship is
supposed to be. And so the rider thinks,
why don't I carry the horse for a
while? And if you ever
were to see something like that, a man
picking up a horse,
it would look very ridiculous.
And the the rider was meant to ride
and the horse was meant to carry. If
the rider starts carrying the horse, he's gonna
break his back. It's gonna kill him.
But we we do that sometimes. We get
to we this is a tendency that happens
in human beings that that we tend to
get that way. And so what happens if
anyone here is familiar with horse riding and
I can't claim that I'm super familiar with
it but if anyone's familiar with horse riding,
they know that the horse is not just
born tame
and they won't naturally grow up being able
to be ridden by people. They have to
be trained and they have to be broken.
They have to be trained and they have
to be broken. If you don't break the
horse, if you don't give it,
give it a training that will,
that may be harsh at times but that
will teach that horse how to,
you know, how to be able to sustain
the rider.
That horse might throw the rider from its
back and kill him. You guys remember from,
you sisters remember from some time ago, not
too long ago, there was, the old Superman
movies,
the actor who played Superman, Christopher Reeves.
It's very interesting. He played Superman in the
movies, and he was just a normal man
in real life, and Allah taught everybody
that there's no such thing as Superman. He
was riding a horse and he was thrown
from the horse. He broke his neck and
he lived for a couple of years
completely paralyzed and finally he succumbed to
the the effects of his injuries and he
passed away. And so what happens if the
if the if the if the horse is
not broken,
the horse may do something like this that,
it cannot control itself when it's startled and
it will arrest the rider from it and
it will cause
a death to its rider or severe injury
to its rider. And that's the mythal of
your behemi, your your your animalistic
nature and your,
spiritual nature. That the spiritual nature is meant
to be the rider. It's meant to direct
the beast of burden.
The the the the Puah Bahimiya in every
single one of us. It's meant to direct
it,
in a good direction. In a direction that's
beneficial. In a direction that's,
you know, brings happiness in this world and
protects a person from harm in this world
and will ultimately,
win for a person's salvation and everlasting life
in the hereafter and everlasting happiness in the
hereafter.
And if that relationship gets inverted,
in any, you know, in any way, what
ends up happening? That neither the rider is
going to survive, the rider is gonna injure
himself nor is the horse going to have
a future without a rider.
And, that's exactly what happens. And so this
process of fasting is what? This process of
fasting is a weakening of the
the resolve of the,
of the the animalistic nature and a strengthening
of the
resolve of the angelic nature. And the 2
of them, they will have in their resolve
a,
you know,
a a a a type of
semi antagonistic
relationship.
This is the meaning of the hadith of
the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that
the Deen and the Dunya are like 2
co wives.
So this is a gathering of sisters.
I assume that no woman who is married
or really
unmarried would like enjoy that her her husband
get another wife. Right? So this is something
the prophet
said, what? The deen and the dunya are
like 2 co wives. If you make one
of them happy, it is necessary that the
other one will be upset.
And if you make the other one happy,
then the first one will be upset with
you. It's not something that like, you know,
I don't think it's part of the human
condition that anyone would anyone would, like,
look forward under normal circumstances. There may be
some exceptions, but under normal circumstances, I don't
think it's a a situation that anyone would
look forward to that my husband marry another
wife and then like to see that he's
serving her and he's doing all these things.
He doesn't do anything for me. He doesn't
clean up my house. He doesn't say these
nice things. So no nobody would be happy
about that. The din and the dunya are
going to be like that and that's an
Ishara
Latifa.
It is a subtle,
a subtle gesture in the direction and a
subtle allusion to
the fact that your
maleki and your behemi nature, your animalistic in
your
angelic nature, there will be some sort of
antagonism, mild antagonism
between them. And you can teach what happens.
It's a hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, I believe it's the last of
the 40 hadiths that Imam Nawawi
narrates in his Arba'i Nawawiya.
He says,
That none of you will perfect your belief
and tell their
their desires are conformant to that which
conformant to that with which I came. That
none of you will perfect your belief until
your desires are conformant
to that with which I came,
And so the idea is what? Is that
when you break your animalistic
desires,
you break it in the sense that it
no longer, it no longer will have its
own free will.
Rather, its will and its happiness
will be only when this the the spiritual
and the
angelic side of you becomes happy.
That's when you know that you have
perfected your iman in Allah and His Rasool
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam? Because there are people who
their physical disposition is aligned to and congruent
with what the sharia of Sayidina Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam teaches. There are people physically
when they hear the name of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, it makes them happy.
There are people physically when they hear the
call to prayer, they feel the happiness that
Allah Ta'ala is calling me to his meeting.
There are people who physically,
they feel happiness upon the side of the
Kaaba or and upon the side of the
masjid of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
There are people physically and psychologically,
they will feel uplifted when they hear the
sound of the Quran being
recited.
There are people who are physically,
you know, there's a reaction inside of them,
right? There's some people that they see a
woman in hijab or they see a man
in a beard, they physically have hatred like
it's a visceral
gut reaction of hatred or annoyance or anger
or fear when they see people like that.
And then there are people who have
have a very viscerally positive reaction. They see
the beard and this is the sunnah of
Sayyidina Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. They see a
woman covering in in modesty and they say
this is a pious person who Allah and
His Rasool
love. They see pork and they they they
say, oh my some people they lick their
lips and their mouth will water and some
people they will vomit in disgust.
You know,
it's one of those things that that if
you if you break your knaps and you
train your knaps, you can make it conformant
to
what your what your mind, Right? Your mind
There's a difference between your mind and your
brain. Right? Your brain is a physical
apparatus. It's a it's a it's a
anatomical feature of the human body.
The mind is the spiritual apparatus
and they may have some connection with between
the 2 of them, hopefully they have some
connection between the 2 of them. But the
mind is a spiritual apparatus which is the
rational thinking part of of of your your
spirit,
that that that you need to be able
to I need to we all need to
be able to bring the
physical body to heal underneath the mind. And
what happens when you don't? Right? What happens
when you don't is people then will,
you know, commit zina and they will,
have children out of wedlock, and those children
will be born and raised without anyone taking
care of them. And people will become, you
know, drink and they'll do drugs and they'll
become addicted to these things. They will they
will make all sorts of poor choices that
will make the animalistic apparatus
happy.
And even though the mind knows better that
this is not gonna turn out good for
me, like, within, like, 24, 48 hours, this
is going to cause a lot more harm
than the benefit that it brings.
But because the people weren't able to break
the animalistic
apparatus,
in front of the spiritual apparatus that Allah
gave them, they'll make these poor choices again
and again. And you don't have to even
believe in the afilah to understand why these
choices are poor choices.
And when the afilah comes then we'll realize
how truly poor those choices were.
Wal akhiratukhayrun
wa abuka baltukhirunal
hayatunya
wal akhiratukhayrun
wa abuka
That, nay indeed you prefer the life of
this world even though the akhirah, even though
the hereafter is more intense and it lasts
forever.
Even though the afirerah is more intense and
it lasts forever,
both in its good and
in its punishments. May Allah protect us from
its punishments.
The idea is what is you and I,
we need to break the animalistic
self
and what happens, right? The nafs is what?
The nafs is like that. The more you
feed it, the more it will grow.
And
the less you feed it,
the the the more pliant it will become.
And we do not believe like, you know,
many eastern religions believe
that the body and the physical nature of
the soul, and it's not just Eastern religions,
I should say, it's like
like Aryan
or Indo European religion believes that the body
is inherently evil, right? This is something that
the Christians believe.
They believe that the flesh is born of
sin, that man is born of sin, that
the flesh is inherently evil and it only
drives a person toward evil. As Muslims we
have a much more balanced view of this
issue.
That the flesh and
the physical apparatus of a person,
if you make it your master, it will
always pull you toward bad decision making.
Bad decision making pulls you toward evil. It
will always lead you toward bad decision making.
Not because
it in and of itself is evil,
but because it's just a bad decision. So
if you're a snake,
you know, eating anything that moves, it's not
a bad decision. It's a very rational decision
because you're a snake. If you're a human
being and you try to behave like a
snake, that's a bad decision.
And that will also lead to something that's
immoral for you as a as a human
being.
So what do you need to do?
The the the nafs, which is what we
talk about the the the spiritual apparatus of
a person that's more
intimately connected with the animalistic nature.
The nafs is not something you can do
without. Okay?
If we believe the physical nature was evil,
then the most logical thing for a person
to do, and the most
morally upright thing for a person to do
would be to kill themself,
to commit suicide. Why? Because you're evil. By
killing yourself, you purge your evil from this
world.
And indeed there are,
there are several
traditions that
that, that actually advocate for that. Right? There's
a religion in India called Jainism
and the highest the highest, virtue that a
person can can do from amongst deeds and
Jainism is that you strip yourself naked, you
walk into the forest and you starve yourself
to death.
Death because you kill yourself and starve why?
Because you don't wanna harm another living being
in order to sustain your life. We don't
believe like that.
Dunya khulatatlakum
wa antukulatul
lil akhirah Allah ta'ala's Messenger salallahu alaihi wa
sallam told us what?
The dunya was created for you. Go eat
and drink from it. Go enjoy it. It
was created for you. But remember that you
were created for the akhirah, you weren't created
for the dunya. So we don't have this
we don't have this extremism. Right? Like even
in Christianity,
for example,
you know, their highest
forms of of of devotion to God involve
celibacy,
they involve
vows of silence, fasting, monasticism. These are things
that are actually forbidden in our, in our
religion.
And people people did those things why? To
totally kill and destroy
their nafs because they thought that the nafs
was inherently evil. Now tell me something, if
the most morally upright and virtuous of of
this Ummah,
if all of us became celibate, then there
would be the next gen next generation of
moral morally upright people. Nobody,
like, we we genetically,
like, you know, give the Darwin award to
piety. So piety is a baquasi
nonsense type of
of of genetic predisposition.
And so let's just like, you know, remove
them from the gene pool. And that's actually
what's happened in in in in some society.
In fact, that's a different topic. I don't
wanna go down that that that that road.
But the thing is that what? That,
you know, if everybody were to do that,
if they were to be celibate and withdraw
from society and not participate in society anymore,
then what would happen? The marketplaces,
the hospitals, the streets,
the governments, the the,
schools, all of these things would be left
to the people who have no care about
the the afirah at all. And what will
that do? It will perpetuate an evil future
for us.
And this is not the sunnah of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, this is not
the way of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. And honestly, this is the easy way.
This way is easy, it's a cop out.
This is one of the reasons why fasting,
the said, Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Asir radhiallahu
alaihi wa ta'ala an hooma. He asked the
Prophet
about fasting, and the Prophet
told him to fast on the Ayam al
Abir on the white days, 3 days every
month. He says, I can do more. He
says, You Rasool Allah, I can do more.
So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told him,
fast
every Monday Thursday.
He said, You Rasool Allah, I can do
more. What did he tell him? He says,
fast
every fast
of Dawud alaihis salam which is every other
day.
And the idea is that the person who
fasts every other day, they'll have written for
them the reward of having fasted
every day. Because fasting every every other day
is actually harder than than than fasting every
day. If you fast every day, your disposition
will become accustomed to it. You'll adjust your
schedule that you'll sleep at certain times and
you'll wake up at certain times and you'll,
you know, you'll eat certain food. You adjust
yourself to it. And so the difficulty is
gone. The path of our Nabi salallahu alaihi
wa sallam is harder than the path of
monasticism.
Because even if it's difficult to live a
life of celibacy, and it's difficult to live
a life
of of abstinence and it's difficult to live
a life of
of of, you know, of fasting every day
and it's difficult to live a life of
withdrawal from the dunya. If you did it,
you will eventually become accustomed to it. Sooner
rather than later, you will become accustomed to
it and that will become your life for
you. But the Nabi
his sunnah
is is is even more narrow and more
constricted and more difficult,
of a path to take than that path.
Why? Because we have to
we have to get,
the upper hand
of the angelic self over the animalistic self,
and then we have to go and and
and uh-uh bring that
angelic nature into society in order to make
it better.
And we need to still mix with the
people, and we still need to, go to
work, and we still need to have children,
and raise children. We still I mean this
is a superiority. Imagine
the Christians and the Muslims as well but
for different reasons. We hold up Sayyidha, Sayyidha
Maryam alaihis salam
as being a model of virtue, as being
a model of virtue. And the Christians specifically
one
of the virtues of Sayyidha Mariam
that they hold up is what? That she's
the virgin Mary. That she's the virgin Mary.
That she was
a virgin.
Even though according to their tradition, she marries
and and according to rewaiyat and our tradition
as well, she gets married after saying that
Isa alaihi salam, is born. But she was
she was a virgin up until that point.
He was born from a virgin birth, alayhis
salaam.
Now tell me whose maqam is higher? Whose
maqam is higher? Right? The one who was
who never who never
consummated a marriage,
and she was a virgin until a certain
point and then afterwards she get she got
married and lived a normal life. Or somebody
like Saydai Aisha
who was 18 at the time of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's passing away from
this world.
She was what? She was 18 at the
time of the prophet. She was a teenager
when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam passed
away from this world. And her she married
him and her marriage was consummated.
And by the text of the Quran, she
was not allowed to or able to marry
anyone else and she lived until a great
age, until a great age. She lived until
her sixties,
Who whose virtue is higher? The one who
who was a virgin after who was a
virgin after having never
consummated a marriage or the one who had
who had experienced that life and experienced that
that experience and then afterward had so much
control over their nafs that that that she
never, went back to it and never complained
about it ever in her life. This is
the difference between the path of Sayna Muhammad
Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam and
the other paths. It's more difficult. It requires
more control over yourself.
And this is what the fasting does. The
fasting, what does it do?
It's like breaking the horse. You don't let
the horse run wild. You don't let the
horse order you around or take you wherever
it wants to go. You're the rider. You're
the one who should tell the horse where
to go. And when the horse acts up,
it needs to be it needs to be
sent back to training. It needs to be
sent back to being broken. And this happens
to every single one of us that when
the year passes by,
our nafs
you know,
month by month, day by day, week by
week, the nafs gets a little bit more
out of tune with what it's supposed to
be doing.
And so now in this time, we say
to it what? We say to it, pipe
down. We're sick and tired of hearing you.
Always saying I wanna eat this. Always saying
I wanna do this. Always saying I'm
arguing with so and so, and I'm having
a fight with so and so, and I'm
upset with so and so, and I'm jealous
with so and so. And, my you know
you know,
obsessing about obsessing about material things and obsessing
about, you know, so and so clothes and
so and so's car and so and so's
house and all of these things. This is
nonsense.
These things are all perishing. They're all perishing
from this dunya.
Nice car the nicest car you buy. You
can buy the most a 100,000, 200, $300,000
car. It's not it's not nobody's going to
pay even $1,000 for it in 10 years.
That's the way this that's the way this
duniya works.
It's not even something you have to, like,
wake up the yama in order to understand
that that's the way it is. You have
to be able to reorient yourself and focus
on those things that last forever
in order to understand how important they are
and in order to stop focusing on those
things that are going to perish because you
know, the thing that's finite
is nothing in comparison to the thing that's
infinite. If any of you have taken calculus
before, you do limits or whatever. Sometimes you
do a limit of a fraction. Right? So
you end up with a with a with
a with a fraction.
The numerator of which is in is, infinity
and the denominator of which is a finite
number. Or the numerator of which is a
is is a finite number and the denominator
of which is infinity?
If you have like 2 over infinity and
then 4 over infinity, which one is a
bigger number?
2 over infinity or 4 over infinity? Which
one is a bigger number? Both of them
are 0. Both of them are basically they're
they're they're they're they're infinitesimal.
It doesn't matter anymore. Right? So what does
it matter if you drove a Toyota or
you drove a Lexus in the Denia?
Does that actually have anything to do with
your worth as a human being? Has absolutely
nothing to do with your worth as a
human being.
There are people, forget about driving cars, there
are people who don't own cell phones, there
are people who are in refugee camps somewhere
in the world. Right? The person who has
quality,
He he he he doesn't care about what's
the way you look. He doesn't care about
your body, your physical,
makeup.
He doesn't care about your
wealth. How are you gonna impress Allah to
Allah with your with your car? He made
the entire heavens and the earth from nothing.
How are you going to impress him? He
doesn't care about any of those things. But
what does he do? He looks inside of
your heart and if he sees somebody
whose heart he he loves, then he he
has
and it comes in the hadith of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He has
he has he's been soft and he's delicate
and caring and nurturing
for for that person, with that person.
We have to understand that these are things
that, you know, people might say, okay, we
came on a Friday, a fast day. We
have other things to do. It's not like
this guy is giving us news flash that,
that,
you know, your, you know, your heart matters
more than your property and your wealth. But
the fact of the matter is still we
have to remind one another and we have
to say it to one another again and
again. And it's an act of piety to
say it again and again to yourself and
to say it to others again and again.
Why? Because the counter message is being said
again and again and again. The counter message
is being said again and again and again
both on the tongue and and and through,
subtle isharah, like through microaggressions
that, that are perpetrated on people of, of
belief from the dunya and from Shaikhan,
you know, throughout the day, through advertising and
through subtle innuendos people make, comments people make,
things people say
by non Muslims and by unfortunately Muslims as
well. In fact, some of the the the
most fierce advocacy
of
of of materialism
happens from Muslims, maybe from our own relatives
sometimes.
And the fact of the matter is we
have draw a line. You don't have to
get into an argument with your relatives but
inside of your heart you have to draw
a line. You have to say no. I
no. I refuse to,
be one of those people
who values my own self worth based on,
like, material things. I refuse it.
And if there's a,
you know, the a really beautiful example of
why
your value is not based on your materialism,
it's Ramadan,
because you don't even drink during the day,
you don't indulge any of your shahawat during
the day, you're not supposed to look at
the haram, you're not supposed to listen to
the haram, you're not supposed to see the
haram. On top of that, the couple of
hours you have in the evening, right, you
spend listening to the book of Allah
which was revealed for free, and it was
propagated for free and it was taught for
free, and it's read in the salatul Tarawih
for free. This is one of the most
disgusting
and ugly innovations that that that we've picked
up as a community this time is that
now they even paid the the the the
the Quran reciter for
a salary for reciting, which is Haram according
to majority of the, majority
of the Ulema. It's nothing wrong with giving
a gift to somebody
or recognizing that somebody spent their time,
you know, preparing the recitation of the Quran
and Salatul Taraweeh.
In fact, it's good because we have to
have common sense that if we starve the
people who who bring us this benefit, then
we're not gonna have that benefit anymore. But
contractually to say, I will recite
and you have to give me this much
money and I'll recite in that. This is
something that is completely
it's completely haram. And it's very interesting. People
a lot of people, if you tell them,
well, what's the difference between giving someone a
gift the end of it at the end
of the recitation of the Quran versus just
writing it down in a contract. And the
subtlety of difference between the 2 of them
is like the difference between someone's wife and
someone's girlfriend.
For a person who's not who doesn't, you
know, not attuned to spiritual,
matters, the 2 of them may look very
similar. You go out to dinner with 1,
you go out to dinner with the other,
and you have this relationship with 1, and
you have this relationship with the other. Even
though one of them is something that Allah
Ta'ala sanctions and and and blesses and is
happy with and is pleased with and the
other is part of the road to
Indeed, it's a gross,
indecency.
And what an evil path it is, what
an evil path it is.
But there's a difference between these things. And
you, you know, when you're fasting and in
the month of Ramadan,
you realize that despite your
turning away from the dunya,
saying that Salman al Farsi radiAllahu ta'ala who
narrates in a long hadith regarding the virtues
of Ramadan,
that it is a
a a a such a month
that the risk, the the provision of the
believer is increased in it, which is completely
counterintuitive.
It's the month in which the person turns
away from the dunya the most. Right? Your
coworkers, when you tell them I fast, like,
you fast from sunset to sundown?
No. Actually, it's from dawn to sundown. What
does that mean? This means, like, an extra
hour and 50 minutes.
Okay.
But you guys at least can have water.
Right? No. No. Not even water?
Don't you die from that? Well, apparently not
because we're doing it and we're not dead
yet. So,
you know, like, for for a person like
that, it makes no sense whatsoever. They think
that you're not gonna make you're not gonna,
you're not gonna make more money in this
month. You're not gonna have more provision. You're
not gonna enjoy yourself more. In fact, you
know, whatever
forecast analysts will say that the GDP of
nations should plummet in this month. Even though
they actually go up, there's more risk of
business. This is like the holiday season. This
is like the from Black Friday to to
to,
whatever, Boxing day season in the Muslim world.
The businesses do more,
the people make more money, people eat more
than they eat in this month. It's a
hadith the hadith of the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam is very clear about it and
Allah makes Tasneel of it in real life.
It is the month in which the provision
of the believers actually increased.
It's increased. Why? Because the dunya was created
for your service, you were created for the
akhirah, you were created for the service of
Allah
You do what you were made for and
the dunya will come to you. And this
is something that is actually empirical evidence for
it in this month.
And so,
if you, if you cannot keep that behemi
and that
animalistic
nature in check, you cannot break it, you
can't tell it. Look,
you're not the one who runs things. You're
not even the one that that that that's
benefiting us
from the 2 from the 2 of us,
right? The 2 of you inside,
right? The animalistic nature and the angelic nature.
You're not the one who makes this ship
run because
this is what happens, you know, people to
be practical. We're the ones who make all
the money and you guys are praying all
day, this is nonsense. No, it's not like
that at all. It's not like that at
all. And the month of Ramadan is a
proof, it's a proof of of that. That
that's the time that you cut off your
animalistic nature the most and that's the time
that you enjoy yourself most in this world.
So imagine how much benefit it will be
for the akhirah.
Right? That's the time that you put the
put the,
animalistic nature in check. And let me tell
you something about the animalistic nature. Like we
said, we're not like the Christians. We're not
like the people of the Indic religion that
believe that the the the physical body is
evil and that the highest moral virtue is
to kill it or destroy it. Rather, we
say, when a person works on the nafs
long enough, fasts for enough months, prays enough
tahajjud,
makes enough zikr on their tongue and inside
of their heart, and does all of these
things enough
wakes up for fajr again and again, one
day will come, your alarm won't go off,
you'll wake up anyway because that's just your
animalistic nature becomes accustomed to that. The one
who reads the Hajjd everyday, that person impossible
for them to misfajr.
Right? Your nature will become like the hadith
of the Prophet SAW. Your hawaii will literally
become your desires will become
the greatness of the deen in your life
and you'll start seeing great results. But if
you never get there and you're always
struggling with your animalistic
nature, that struggle Allah indeed rewards you for
it. But that struggle is not the the
the the goal of Islam. That struggle is
the prerequisite
for living the life that the Sahaba and
that our pious
predecessors lived. And if we keep
bringing a very weak game in that struggle
against our own selves, how will we make
it to
the other levels where the help of Allah
Ta'ala will come down for us? How will
we make it to the other levels where
we will build civilization?
If our greatest,
what you call
aspiration in life is to become a doctor
or to buy a certain type of house
or to buy a certain type of car,
How will we make how will we make
civilization like our forefathers did?
Right? We have a our civilization at one
time used to make everything. Right?
The literally the mathematics needed in order to
run your GPS, it's all
by Muslim ulama that the the the the
the research that they did and the the
uh-uh work they did on mathematics in order
to be able to find the qibla from
different parts of the world. We had civilization
and now what do we have? Now we're
all chasing the dunya.
How weak is our civilization? There's not one
airline in the entire
world that I've ever seen that even has
a lota on the airplane. That's how how
how weak our civilization has become
in order to implement its values. We cannot
even clean ourselves properly in public places after
using the bathroom. How are we gonna be
able to so it's a Sheikh. How am
I gonna have a lot on the airline?
You know how much an airplane costs? A
Boeing 787
costs cost 100 of 1,000,000 of dollars just
one airplane, and you cannot run an airline
on an airplane. You have to hire staff.
You have to hire, you know, you have
to have international trade
connections, you have to have this license from
several different governments, you have to have blah
blah blah all of these things. Yes. How
are you gonna build anything on that level?
How are you gonna reach tawfiq from Allah
to Allah with anything on that level? How
are you going to train people who memorize
over a 100,000 hadith, mathir, and sanit? That
person is like a walking computer. How are
you gonna
how are you gonna have nation states in
which in which the poor are taken care
of? How are you gonna have nation states
in which the rights of minorities are taken
care of? How are you gonna have,
a masajid in which the the adhan is
called and in which people learn about their
deen and they learn about, about the material
sciences of this world. How are you gonna
have that complete way of life that's implemented
like our forefathers implemented it if we cannot
even get our own nufus under control. This
is a shame of the time we live
in. Even our ulema,
Allah forgive us and
forgive them as well That that even our
ulama are people that that right now the
pool of the dunya has attracted them so
much that they're struggling with these things. How
can we get there until we break the
nafs itself? And when you understand that that's
the price you need to pay in order
to receive the help of Allah Ta'ala and
receive the tawfiq of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
then you realize
that fasting for a couple of days not
such a big deal, it's not such a
bad thing.
Now that's the concept I've
spoken about. I'm pretty sure it's not a
new concept to anybody, and I'm pretty sure
that,
you know, it's not a a surprise for
anybody what,
what was said. But the bonus round on
top of it is what? Is that we
are just like physically, if you're if you're
in hot heat, you'll start to sweat. If
you're in extreme cold, you'll start to shiver.
You get affected by by by external,
environments. Right now we've talked about the radio.
We're not talking about the station.
Right? That there are stations out there that
are putting out different signals that are affecting
our spiritual apparatus as well.
Now we've talked about, you know, how the
spiritual self should break the physical self so
that it can ride the physical self and
the physical self will then carry it to
do these great things and will serve it,
and it will become part of part of
the, person's physical nature. Right? Because there are
certain people, people a lot created them with
different dispositions. One of the things that we
have a mistake about regarding piety
is that we think that piety,
nowadays, we follow the Christian model of piety
which is what? That a pious person is
someone with a strong angelic self and a
weak animalistic self. Which is whereas this is
obviously a type of piety that's mashaAllah, if
Allah gives it to us, it's it's a
great blessing.
But the piety of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam and the sahaba radiAllahu anhu wasn't
like that. The piety of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, the sahaba radiAllahu anhu was
one of a person having a strong
animalistic
nature and a strong spiritual nature. And they
were but both of them were in harmony
with one another. They weren't fighting with one
another that one day I feel like I
wanna be Hafiz of Quran and the other
day I'm trying to, like, stop myself from
overeating or the other day I'm trying to
stop myself from indulging my other desires. Right?
No. The the desire has actually become that
person has that same type of physical animalistic
desire but they have the desire for good,
not for evil. That that, you know, they
have the desire for good and not for
evil. That's what that's what the the the
piety, the Sahaba Radiallahu Anhum was and it
has a superior superiority
over the the piety of a person who
has a strong angelic nature and a weak
animalistic nature even though there's khair in that
as well. But coming coming forth going forward
from that,
right, that there are
spiritual influences around a person all over the
place. There is something mentioned in the Quran.
Right? Al Mala ul A'ala. Right? And it's
mentioned in the hadith of the prophet
Alaihi which is literally
translates to the highest council which is what
the angels that are that are in the
highest part maqam of Jannah, that the angels
are very numerous in in type and in
nature and in rank. And it comes in
the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam that there are angels, they have ranks
higher, some of them are and higher ranks
over the others. The angels and the spirits
that are in the highest rank in the
creation of Allah Ta'ala and they're called Al
Mala Ul A'la. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala assigns
to them
that that if he has a commandment in
the world, if he wishes he makes that
commandment happen directly himself and if he wishes
some of them he gives to them that
you make this thing happen in the world.
And so what do they do? They have
they they have a spiritual presence that they
focus
on the world that inspires people to do
what's good and to do what's right. The
wahi was the inspiration that came on the
heart of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam directly
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
But there are other types of inspirations that
come. That's why when you sit in the
company of a pious person,
that person's how will spiritually inspire you. And
there are certain people who actually literally, even
though physically they're very far away from the
but they keep the company of the because
in spiritual matters,
physical distance doesn't mean anything. Physical proximity may
be a hijab. You may have a person
who lives in the family in the household
of a pious person and their proximity is
a hijab between that person between themselves and
the piety of that person. And then maybe
people are physically far from the the the
Haram Sharif but their
heart is with Allah ta'ala making
in a moment.
Or their heart is with the Rasul
in a moment or in every moment.
And
that's the the the the spiritual world. Right?
Just like you can have a conference call
of, like, 15 people
at the same time from disparate parts of
the the the world that they're they're together
even though they're physically apart, but somehow they're
together.
A person's heart may be like that. The
more control you have
over your animalistic
self,
the more open the receiver of your heart
is to receiving the signal of the
That is the signal which
that that that incites and excites and drives
a person toward doing what is good.
And if the receiver, the mirror of your
heart is polished and clean, it will receive
that inspiration by day and by night. It
will receive that inspiration by day and by
night to the point where a person may
be physically a human being but they're doing
the work of an angel in this world.
And there are also
Right? And
in his own book
literally says that they also have a wahi
that they have.
And and it's not like the wahi of
Allah ta'ala. Rather this is the wahi of
shayateen.
This is the inspiration and the revelation of
shayateen. And there are people literally walking around.
Some of them they have beards and they
have topis and they have hijabs and niqabs
and god knows what. But because the receiver
is tuned to the wrong station,
even though their their brain tells them zinai
is haram
eating don't eat the haram, don't be a
glutton, don't be
a materialistic person. But they walk around in
the form of the pious
but their heart is like the heart of
a crocodile or the heart of a snake,
that they're just walking around,
receiving this this signal inside of their head
to do to do, you know, just to
be a snake, just to be a reptile,
just to, you know, feed yourself and to,
just not live for anything other than than
your own gratification and to do evil things
and evil thoughts. Now tell me something, all
of us,
Our rational
faculty
teaches us that there's no benefit in going
to the hellfire. Right? But if your if
your your radio station is tuned to the
wrong if your radio is tuned to the
wrong station
and it's receiving the wrong signal, even if
you wanna do what's good, what's gonna end
up happening?
You're gonna receive constant suggestions to do what's
bad. It's either today or tomorrow, you're gonna
follow one of them, if not all of
them.
And even if you're a person, may not
be a half of the Quran, may not
be from a super religious family, may not
be have the super best company in the
world, may not,
you know,
just be a person who tends to work
like, you know, piety like other people do.
But if you're constantly receiving
good encouragement
in your heart
in the spiritual realm. You're constantly receiving good
encouragement and you're constantly receiving good suggestions. What's
gonna end up happening? Good is gonna start
looking good to you. You're gonna do some
good. You may not do as much good
as another person. You're gonna do something good.
You're definitely not gonna do anything bad by
it, are you? Not gonna harm you in
any way, is it? Even to love a
good deed in and of itself is a
good deed. At least it will teach you
the love of good deeds. And this is
this is what exactly what fasting does, Right?
That hour before iftar,
what is a person thinking about? Right? If
a person is not thinking about dunya, they're
not thinking about all of these. This is
why it's Makru actually did talk about
food, especially as the time when we start
comes because that's like that's like spiritually that's
like your best hour of the day. That's
like a really beautiful time.
That's the time that your heart is the
cleanest because the animalistic nature that hijacks your
opportunity to be a good person all the
time, it's been weakened. It's like, you know,
you can't kill it. But as far as
being alive, it's like in the weakest state
that it's gonna be at. And that's the
time that your heart will receive this, this
good signal and this virtuous signal from the
and
from from from from all of the good
things, from the recitation of the Quran. That's
why the recitation of the Quran, the Taraweeh,
is right after
right after a person opens their fast. You
just eat a little bit and then you
go to
because the good message of the Quran, when
you're full and you're sitting on your couch
and slouching on your sofa
and,
you know,
comatose because your animal nature is satiated,
at that time, spiritually you're very weak. It's
like that polar opposite. And if someone tells
you to read the Quran or somebody tells
you to give sadaqa for the poor, somebody
tells you to do something
like that,
you know, what are what what are you
gonna do? I mean, you're
you're you're comatose. You're completely
without any sense at that point. Whereas this
is a time where spiritually you're of the
most heightened sense and you're most in tune
to
receive those suggestions
and for them to to to help you
to become the better person that Allah Ta'ala
wishes for, you know, that Allah Ta'a commands
for you to be and that you wish
to be yourself.
And,
you know, when you understand what the what
the the benefit of it is, then maybe
a person shouldn't complain so much about how
long the fast day is or how late
the is
because,
you know, literally you're, you know, you're not
making
a sacrifice. A sacrifice is when you give
something for you lose something, you know, for
the sake of someone you love or something
you love. Here you're giving the animal nature
and Allah is giving you the the the
giving you the spiritual nature in return and
as a bonus you get your animal nature
back but in a much better state, in
a better much better condition than than than
what you, gave it up in in the
first place. And that's that's something good, that's
something worthwhile in this world. And Yom Ubdi
Yama
when you know Allah Ta'ala will show the
accounting of whole nations
in front of the
arranged ranks and array of angels
and jinn and mankind and Ambiya alaihimusaatu
Wasallam. Even Shaitan is not going to be
exempted from showing up on that day. If
because of your fast Allah Ta'ala forgave you
your sins that came before, nobody will regret
that. That's actually
the greatest,
triumph that a person can make on that
day. That day a person will forget all
of his hunger and thirst of this word.
Hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
the person who will go to the fire,
who had the most benefit and enjoyment in
this world,
which is a lot more benefit and enjoyment
than any of us are having. Trust me.
He will be asked or she will be
asked, you know, did you ever see a
good day? I said, Wallahi, my Lord, I
never saw a good day in my life.
And the person who had the most,
the most
difficulty in this world from the people of
Jannah.
And we're not we don't have any difficulty
compared to them. Astaghfirullah, Allah Ta'al forgive us.
Yesterday I raised I was at a fundraiser
for
Islamic Relief,
raising money for people in Burma.
Astaghfirullah, Allah Ta'ala protect us and forgive us
our brothers and sisters over there. No country
from the Muslim world speaks up for them.
And in fact they shoot at them when
they try try to come to the border
of Bangladesh or when they try to go
to Malaysia or Indonesia.
These people are literally taken out of their
homes and herded into camps.
They are they call them camps, they're prisons.
They say ostensibly
the prisoners,
sorry the guards there are there for the
protection of of of of know, our of
of, Burmese Muslims.
And what what's the reality? The reality is
that guns aren't facing outside. They're facing inside
to shoot anyone if they try to leave.
And they're subject to regular humiliation. In an
entire camp with a 100,000 people in it,
they have clinics that are only allowed to
run for 9 hours,
in a week. And those the people in
that camp, they're not allowed to go to,
any of the regular hospitals. If they get
sick of people's children, they die because even
though there's a hospital within walking distance,
they're not allowed to get go to the
hospital. They're not allowed to marry without government
permission. The government put a ban on them
that you cannot have more every couple cannot
have more than one child. They're literally literally
ethnically cleansing these people.
And you know
people who suffer trauma more than that, someone
who felt like that will be called Yomotiyam
and asked by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
You know, did you ever see a hard
day in your life? Say, Yeah, Rabi, I
never saw a hard day in my life.
Why? Because the reward from Allah Ta'ala that
they will make a person forget all of
these things. And that's the goal that every
one of us should should set and keep
for ourselves.
So the the talk is over. I just
wanted to mention also,
because I brought it up and that's the
reason that I've come today to Decatur,
is that, I'm raising money on behalf of
Islamic Relief
for the poor in over 22 countries,
places like Burma, places like the Horn of
Africa, places like South Sudan,
places like Syria,
where we're helping
not servicing at all,
and in their resettlement in places like Germany
and other places where, you know, these people
who come basically to spare their own lives,
you know, and who gladly go back home
if there's a home to go back to.
That these people are being treated like the
riffraff of the earth and we know they're
not the riffraff of the earth. They're our
brothers and sisters, they are us and the
only difference between them being the situation they're
in and we us being in situations that
we're in
is that, the Fadl of Allah
Otherwise, we're no smarter than they are. We're
definitely not more pious than they are. We're
not more hardworking than they are. It's just
the Fadl of Allah that He gave us
what He gave and He gave them what
He gave and Allah didn't command us to
feel guilty about having a good life
and He didn't command us to kill ourselves
because other people are having difficulty. But what
He did command us to do is to
feel some sympathy with their plight in whatever
we're able to give that we should give
it. So Insha'Allah,
I will be in the,
I will be in the Masjid
tonight raising money. If there's anybody who's not
gonna be there at that time,
or
and wishes to, give some
donation of Zakat or of Sadaqa,
Islamic Relief has an 11%
administrative overhead, which means all
expenditures that Islamic Relief
has,
89%
of them go to,
go to our projects and 11% of them
go to running the administration
of
the corporation, the non profit corporation in America.
But that means that it's guaranteed that 89¢
of your dollar that's spent is going
to reach the poor. In reality it's more
than that because some people donate for the
general fund for the administrative costs and some
people donate for the other specific funds. But
if you wish to be very scrupulous regarding
your Zakat calculation, you can you can, you
know, you can
see that, you know, if you pay from
zakat that 89¢ on the dollar is counted
for salatakat and 11¢ on the dollar is
counted as 89¢ on the dollar is counted
as zakat, and 11¢ on the dollar is
counted as a sadaqa for sustaining this,
this work.
And,
you know, the or Aleman mentioned that there
are different benchmarks or gauges,
based upon which your zakat will receive more
reward and less reward.
One of them is that
a husband and wife cannot give to each
other and parents and children cannot give to
each other. But other than that, the most
reward for zakat is to give to a
relative and the closer the relative the better.
So if you have a poor brother or
sister,
if you give to them you'll receive more
reward than giving
to to a cousin
so long as they're actually,
Azigoth eligible.
And then the second benchmark is what is,
piety
that if you give to a more pious
person, you receive reward rather than giving to
a less pious person. And the 3rd benchmark
is need.
Is that if a person, you know, is
struggling and cannot pay next month's rent and
another person if you don't feed him today,
they'll die of starvation.
And there's more reward to giving to the
latter than giving to the former even though
both are valid recipients.
And so if you, you know, wish to
know why this is a good deal for
you,
even if it's 89¢ on the dollar, then
I tell you that Islamic Relief is reaching
those people in the world that have nobody
to reach them and nobody to reach them.
Nobody to help them. There are literally places
where people are left to die and, whatever
we give them they get and whatever, you
know, we don't give there's nobody else who
cares for them. And, can you believe this?
You know, there's one thing, you know, everybody
I I hope inshallah,
you know, we can get the envelopes out
from from from the car. I'll give them
to you.
But, you know, the bare minimum, my request
is everyone who's able to afford to do
so,
that,
500 something 518
sorry. From 516 to $788,
which it depends on the country. But
anywhere between $516 and $788
depending on the specific country you choose because
of different costs of living, you can sponsor
an orphan for a year.
And our Nabi
himself was an orphan
and, the the tawajah of Allah, Allah's rahman
has been experienced again and again on the
orphans of this Ummah that they end up
becoming some of the greatest people of this
Ummah.
Imam Shafi'i was an orphan, Imam Malik was
an orphan.
Many of our many of our great olema
and mashay for orphans.
And,
you know, you can sponsor an orphan for
that small amount of month. It comes out
to something like, say, it's 40 something dollars
a month
to sponsor an orphan. Can you believe there
are orphans on on the waiting list?
There are orphans. And they literally come to
Islamic Relief because it's the largest Muslim charity
in the world. And,
and and they have because of because the
sheer size of the operation, the ability to
reach disasters and emergency situations
quickly. And so people have the option of
going to the Red Cross or going to,
you know, some other European
or Western
aid agency,
which really all many of them, all they
are just like missionary work by other means.
Right? Because they're not missionary work toward Christianity,
although some of them are that as well.
But they're missionary work toward materialism,
And they
they they don't wanna go to them. When
they see the Islamic Relief
banner and they see the the the message
with the 2 minarets and the logo,
many people are actually illiterate, right? That's why
they say we wanna we wanna go to
the Masjid people, we're the Masjid people. Can
you believe that the children they come to
us and they're orphans on the waiting list?
So the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam who
said, Ana wali umandawaliye lahu. I am Thee
the the guardian
sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam out of his or her iman
and ghayra for this deen. Then let them,
you know, let them let these children know
that there's still someone from your brothers and
sisters who care, That that you don't have
to be on the waiting list, that we'll
take care of you. You don't have to
go to, somebody who's gonna demean you and
humiliate you and try to rest your iman
away from you in order to receive will
help. Uh-uh Allah Ta'ala is the one who
gives help and we're happy to participate in
that process as well. So inshallah,
you know, maybe if we can have someone
go to the car and get the envelopes
before the sisters leave,
from the trunk, you can fill those out
and then check them.
Even if you don't have your if you
if you don't have your money or you
don't have your your,
you know, checkbook or card or soon.
But
just
to, you know, just to, soon.
But just to, you know, just to
take the take advantage of the opportunity because
the majlis in which
the mention of Allah and His Rasool Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam and the Mubarak mention of his
deen,
was made and the Mubarak mention of his
book was made Jallawalla.
And so this is a majlis of iman.
And, just like a person when they go
to a party, they like to enjoy. That's
the enjoyment of this majlis is that while
the iman is in your heart, you should
also take the opportunity to,
to, give yourself the happiness of having implemented
some of what what you,
what you learned. And even if someone is
in the room that doesn't have $516
or doesn't have $1,000 or whatever to give
for the sake of Allah Ta'ala.
This is the Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he used
to go for sadaqa, he'd actually particularly go
to the women and collect sadaqa from them
as well separately.
And he his sunnah is what? That you
should,
that you should
protect yourself from the fire even if through
half of a date. And the idea is
that half of a date is not going
to feed the world. But what is it?
It's not about the world, it's about you
and me. And what is it about you
and me? That He wanted us to have
the tarbiyah that whenever anyone asks for the
sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala we never
say no. If we have very little, if
someone is broke, then let them give the
quarter that they have in their pocket. And
if somebody doesn't have a quarter in their
pocket, let them not leave before making du'a
sincerely to Allah Ta'ala for, you know, for
the success of this work and for those
children and for those refugees and for those
oppressed people all around the world, you know,
that are living living these difficulties. Let them
at least not grudge them giving a dua
because the miserly person is not the one
who couldn't give $10,000. You know maybe some
of us can't give that. You know I
can't I can't give that.
I don't have that to give.
But the miserly person is the one who
who did who couldn't even give anything. Who
couldn't even give a dollar. Couldn't even give
a dua
at the end of it. So let Allah
Ta'ala inshaAllah
count us amongst the generous inshaAllah so that
he can also have his generosity toward us
and not count us amongst the miserably that
we give whatever we are able to inshaAllah
before we leave. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give
all of us so much stuffy.
Q and a, or is that that it?
Let me find out.
Yeah. Just grab the the pens.
Yes.
Just hand you just hand it through the
door. Slide under. So, inshallah, we'll slide the
the the, envelopes
through the door, inshallah.
If anyone wishes to give inshallah, you're more
than welcome.
And you know, if you don't give to
if you don't give to this, then give
to somebody inshallah, give to the Masjid, give
to your relatives. Don't let he
was the most generous in this month,
and he used to give everything he had
anyway. So the question comes up, what does
it mean that he was most generous in
this month? It means that he used to
give everything he had anyway, and this month
he would give even more quickly. People don't
know this about the Prophet
Alaihi Wasallam. I don't know, Isa, if you
knew this or not. Nabi alaihi salatu salam,
if he had any money above and beyond
his means or his needs for the day,
he would, he would,
go and give it, he would find poor
people and give it to them. He would
never sleep with saving any money.
And if he sometimes what would happen is
he would go look for poor people and
nobody would take the money because they didn't
need it because he trained them also not
to ask.
And so if he had money he couldn't
give away,
he wouldn't sleep in his home that night.
He would sleep in the masjid that night.
So
in in Ramadan he would be even quicker
in giving like that. Obviously I'm not telling
you to empty out your bank accounts.
Because, you know, maybe maybe, you know, the
life we lead is not, you know, it
is not conducive toward that.
But, you know,
just became malai yudra kukuluu lai yudra kukuluu.
It's a precept of our sacred law that
the thing that you cannot do completely, you're
also not allowed to leave completely.
So, inshallah, if you have something to give
from your generosity, give. May Allah give you
a long and happy life
and protect you from all sorts of ills
and difficulties and put Barakah for you and
your and your parents and in your children
and in your brothers and sisters and your
spouses and in all of your homes inshaAllah
and make you people who are beautiful in
this world and beautiful in the hereafter.