Hamzah Wald Maqbul – The Deen Is Not Easy Masjid Hamza Long Island Ramadan 2014
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Words.
Allah says in his book, struggle in the
way of Allah
as is his right that you should struggle.
And is the right of Allah Ta'ala great
or is it small?
So what kind of jihad are you supposed
to do in the path of Allah Oh
my god, he's talking about jayware. I'm not
talking about fighting and killing people, so whoever
you guys are listening, you guys calm down,
inshallah, go back to sleep.
You had a hard day at work, you
you deserve some rest. Right? We're not talking
about that right now. What is this jihad
that you do
You think it's gonna be easy or is
it gonna be hard?
It's difficult.
It's difficult.
It's very difficult.
Allah
said what? He said, he's the one who
who had. He's the one who selected you
for this. He's the one who elected you
for this. And when he says kum, when
he talks about you all, the first person
who's the first audience of the Quran? The
first person that the Quran addresses. The first
person the Quran addresses is the prophet
because he is the ummah.
From him then everything else goes to the
rest of the ummah. He is the representative
of this Ummah. He's a representative of Allah
to the Ummah, and he is a representative
of the Ummah to Allah ta'ala. And what
a what a wonderful representative Allah Ta'ala sent
to us to represent him, and what a
wonderful representative this Ummah has to represent us
in front of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
That he he he he's the one who
chose you just like he chose the prophet
above the other prophets. He chose this ummah
above other umam,
and
he
says,
That he didn't make anything difficult in this
deen for you.
He didn't make anything in this deen difficult
for you. And this seems to be somewhat,
paradoxical
because the Haqq of Allah Ta'ala is great.
So that means that the deen is very
difficult.
It's very difficult. It's not easy.
The thought that the deen is supposed to
be easy, this is tahrif. This is a,
improper,
and in spurious interpretation
of the dean. Anyone who says that the
dean is supposed to be easy, that person
has told you something wrong. The deen is
not supposed to be easy. The Nabi
says in the Sahih Hadith.
He says,
The whole hadith in fact because we have
some time
Right? The Nabi
says
That the Arabs, they used to travel at
night.
They used to travel at night for obvious
purposes. Anyone who's been to, like, Hajj and
Umrah before, you know that it's really hot
over there. And if you're not in like
a like a air conditioned airplane, it becomes
a little bit difficult to travel.
It becomes so hot, It it I mean,
really really literally, you you could die. It
could kill you. A person who leaves the
house without their head covered. Right? Without their
head covered, the sun the light of the
sun directly at midday, it hits you. It's
like someone punched you in the head. It
feels really bad. It's really difficult to travel.
So the Arabs, they travel at night. That
was their custom. So he says the person
who is worried and concerned about
his journey, that person when he leaves, he'll
leave in the first part of the night.
He'll leave in the first part of the
night. And the person who leaves in the
first part of the night, that person will
arrive at the the state the the place
that they're traveling to. They'll arrive at their
destination.
Right? And what's the opposite of that? Is
it the person who's dillydallying
around and after reading Maghreb, you know, he's
just gonna chill and eat, then hang out
with his friends, then read Isha, then hang
out some more, then check, you know,
you know, some stuff on his phone, and
then hang out. And then maybe, like, you
know, later on in the night, say, okay.
Let's go now. The problem is is that
if you don't have enough time and you
leave your home too late, if you're traveling,
traveling, traveling, and you're in the middle of
the desert and the sun comes up, you're
you're gone. You're you're you're toast. That's it.
There's nothing
left for you. You don't have enough water
in order to be able to feed your
camel. If your camel gets tired, you're gonna
die. Right? This is the the metaphor that
the prophet
put forth for this life. And then he
says something amazing. He says that, no, very
the merchandise of Allah is expensive.
Right? The Nabi
is a businessman.
And the Sahaba
who are businessmen, they're really good at it
as well. Right? They're extremely good businessmen.
So what did he say? He says that,
verily the merchandise that Allah is selling is
what? Is it expensive or is it cheap?
It's expensive. It's very expensive.
You know how much it cost? So how
much does it cost? How much do you
got? That's what it cost. If you don't
give all of it, you're not gonna be
able to get that that that merchandise.
How much you have? That's how much that
that that merchandise cost.
And if you don't give the price, then
don't expect to get the merchandise. He says,
No, verily,
the,
the merchandise of Allah
is expensive.
Means like extremism.
Right? Hulia and hulu, they're they're from the
same root. I mean, it's it's excessively expensive.
It's like luxury. It's like really not cheap.
It's not, it's not something affordable to everybody.
Right? And what is the
It's what? It's Jannah. If you wanna go
to Jannah, right?
You want to go to Jannah, you want
Allah to enter you into his into his
rahma, into his rihmah, into his rihmah, into
his rihwan, you want Allah to
forgive you your sins and then you eat
what you wanna eat and you wear what
you wanna wear and and
all these other things happening. You expect all
of these things? Why why do you expect?
Do you think Allah is gonna send you
to oh, yeah. You know, yeah, Allah ta'ala,
you know my, my dad's from Pakistan. So
thank you. I'm just gonna go to Jannah
with everybody else now. It doesn't work that
way.
You're an Arab or whatever. I used to
go to Masjid Hamza, you know, and so
everyone else seems to be there. So I,
you know, I guess, you know, I'll just
show myself in. It doesn't work that way.
You're gonna have to give for every single
thing you do. The deen is not going
to be easy. The deen is not easy.
When Allah says
it's like the context of the from the
ayah is very plain. It's the the the
idea is what? Do it, don't complain about
it.
Do it, don't complain about it. Why? It
would have been it's so difficult. It's,
din properly, it's overwhelming.
It would have been impossible and it would
have caused the person to be,
despondent
and pessimistic about the future and and pessimistic
about the ability to,
actually implement the deed in their life and
in the,
lives of those around them. Except for what?
There's only one small thing that we have,
you know, that that's in our favor, is
that Allah is on our side.
Other than that really we don't have anything
else, but Allah is on our side. Is
that a small factor or a big factor?
That tips the entire scale plan. That tips
the entire scale plan. It totally is a
game changer. It means even someone who is
as as as,
sarcastic and and depressed and like pessimistic as
myself,
even someone like myself has has to be
optimistic, has to say, yeah, no, this thing
could work. This thing could We could make
this work. We can make this thing happen.
But all the other things, don't be confused.
Just because Allah is on one side, it
doesn't mean that the other stuff that's difficult
is does isn't difficult anymore.
It just means what? Now you have to
make your and your connection with Allah that
much deeper and that much stronger because that's
all you got. That's all we got. That's
all we have. We don't have money compared
to what money other people have. We don't
have talent compared to what talent other people
have. We don't have, political power compared to
what other people have. We don't have military
power compared to what other people have. I
mean, like, look what's happening in the world.
Right? There's Gaza. It's like taking over, like,
the all the news channels and all of
the, Internet websites with news in them. It's,
like, all over the place 247. It's basically
a small strip of land. It's probably smaller
than than the the suburb that we're in
right now. It's probably like a quarter of
the size of the suburb that we're in
right now. And they have no economy whatsoever.
And they have a bunch of essentially, like,
souped up bottle rockets. When they shoot a
a rocket over Israel,
the rocket that intercepts and, like, destroys the
the the rocket they shot is like $1,000,000,
whereas the rocket itself probably cost like like
100 of dollars. And it's just so imbalanced,
so one-sided.
They're just bombing the smithereens out of them,
and that's the it's a great metaphor for
the position that the believer is in.
It's a great metaphor for it. We have
so few,
so few,
resources
in everything. Even our countries are run by
people who don't care about Allah and they
don't care about the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Oftentimes, the Muslims, their own countries are a
bigger enemy to them than the,
than than the non Muslims are, which is
case in point of why many people are
many Muslims are in America right now. The
deck is completely stacked against you except for
what? The one trump card you have is
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is on your
side.
And this changes everything, but it changes everything
in a way that's still it's not like
irrational changes everything.
When you think about it, you have to
understand
if Allah is not we don't make Allah
happy with us, if we don't get on
board with Allah if we don't make our
connection proper with Allah
the rest of all of this is not
gonna work. Nothing none of the rest of
the Palestine rallies are not gonna work, sending
relief money to somewhere is not gonna work,
you know, praying 5 times a day is
not gonna work, memorizing the Quran is not
gonna work. If you haven't made Allah
pleased with you, if you haven't fixed your
your broken relationship with Allah
and if you haven't made peace with Allah
if you know, it's not gonna work, if
you don't remember Allah in your prayers. Right?
Uh-uh. Allah
says that verily
the prevents a person from
from indecency, and from from, wrong wrong deeds.
And the remembrance
of Allah is greater.
You know that that salat itself, it's not
useful to anybody except I mean, the tafsir
of this gets much deeper, but it will
take us then off the topic. But, you
know, the the from the very surface, at
least scratching the surface meaning of this, it
means what? That the salat itself is not
as big of a deal as the remembrance
of a that you have in the salat.
Whatever you do, whether whether it's Hajj or
Umrah or get a, you know, degree in
this, or get a job in that, and
pay money for this, build a masjid, help
orphans, all these If your taluk with Allah
is not strong, all the other factors around
being who you are and being who we
are, the deck is completely stacked against us.
And it's not just Muslims are not in
that boat. In this country, African Americans are
in that boat, poor people are in that
boat, people you know, like, everyone's in and
really, what it is is it's a, a
disease. Like, all these sicknesses that Kufr causes,
by greed and by callousness, not caring for
other people, by selfishness,
by thinking that, you know, well, I'm, you
know, I'm I'm I made myself. I'm the
one who pulled myself out from the bootstraps
and made myself, and I shouldn't have to
share with anybody. This kind of mindset that
everybody has around us, and they think that
the the mindset of, like, helping other people
and taking care of other people is stupidity
and is communism and is evil and we
should fight it and whatever. Right? This type
of mindset,
the first victims, the first ones in line
to be victim of it may be the
Muslims, but it's something that everybody, like a
cancer, the cancer eventually will kill itself. Why?
Because the host that it keeps, it kills
the host. Once the host is dead, the
cancer doesn't do anything useful that will perpetuate
its own life. It will don't totally destroy
itself from the inside out, and this is
something that not only Muslims know. The deck
is stacked against us, but if you read
the Quran, the book of Allah
one time after another after another, it tells
the stories of all
the
and it tells the story of our Nabi
salallahu alayhi wasalam, how Allah
will intervene on behalf of the righteous, and
he will save them. He will bail them
out from one thing one after the other
after the other, and, like, mysterious and, like,
miraculous ways in ways that you wouldn't even
think of and I wouldn't think of. But
to get back to the track, the dean
is not the dean is not going to
be easy. And there are people and there
are preachers who will tell you it's going
to be easy. There are, in fact, preachers
who have made an entire career for themselves
and a brand for themselves in this country,
and their entire theme and their entire message
is what? Is is is based on, like,
what Christians do in megachurches. You know what
a mega church is? You don't have so
many of them on this side. They're more
like in the south and and other, but
they have them here as well. You see,
Christians used to go to like very mainstream
churches, Catholic churches,
Episcopalian,
Methodist, whatever. They used to have these mainstream
Lutherans. They used to have these mainstream denominations
that were trying to move with the Christianity
that their forefathers gave them from before.
Now we come into an age where nobody
cares about Dean anymore,
and the social pressure to conform to,
din on them has been completely removed. And
they have replaced in the place of chastity.
They've replaced zina. In the place of self
control, they've replaced it with indulgence, with drinking,
with with, you know, drinking used to be
considered so bad among protestants in this country.
There was a time that drinking actually used
to be outlawed. There are still counties in
the South. They call them dry counties. There's
still a few counties in the South where
there's, like, really fundamentalist protestant, populations
where,
where it's it's illegal to buy and sell
liquor. In fact, Jack Daniels is a brand
of whiskey, and if you didn't know that,
that's good.
It's a brand of whiskey, very very,
expensive whiskey that's made in in Kentucky, in
a county in Kentucky. The very county that
it's made in, they can't sell it. They
can make it. There's no logins making it,
but there's a logins selling it because the
people in that county don't want people drinking
because they know what happens. Fathers will drunk
and beat their wife and children. They don't
want that nonsense happening in their in their
county. Right?
All of that though has changed. Right? In
most of America, because they left their deen,
the, self control has been replaced with indulgence.
It's been replaced
with with with drinking and with, just,
you know,
unabashed and shameless
pursuit of greed. Right? Family has been,
replaced with being selfish to the point where
people don't take care of their own children.
They have this elaborate court system by which
the court enforces, like, child support payments and
this and that. Because people cannot take care
of these things in house. They can't take
care of them inside of their own families.
Whereas, that's what traditionally they used to do.
The courts used to not get involved in
these things. Still in the Muslim countries, oftentimes
courts don't get involved in these issues because
people have enough decency to take care of
them on their own. Even though there are
some cases where rare cases that they don't,
but by and large, they usually take care
of these things within their extended families. They
don't let these things come out. You see
that the entire society has left that. And
now what happens is when people go into
churches
I remember when I was in college, I
was the president of the MSA in the
University of Washington.
There was a a Lutheran pastor
who, he would come and read Jum'ah with
us, and he would be he's really interested
in Islam. And I would take him to
meet some of the Ulema and things like
that, and he's really interested in Islam. And,
what happened was eventually the the Lutheran church,
like, transferred him somewhere else, you know. And
I think it's because they thought, like, this
guy is, like, you know, he's he's about
to go off his rocker. We need to
get him out of wherever he is. Right?
So he he until he was there, he
used to come to Jummah every week. I
told him one time, he would get up
this time slot, he would pray with us.
Right? I told him. I said, listen, man.
We we're reading like
in
our prayer. You know? I'm just letting you
know so that afterward, you don't feel like,
oh my god. Like, you know, they I
said something that was offensive to my religion,
you know. I explained the whole thing to
them. This is what we say in our
prayer. If you don't, you know, I'm just
letting you know. You should know before you
do it so that you don't feel, like,
bad afterward. Because no one forced him to
pray. He would start praying on his own.
So I was just, you know, giving a
warning. And he goes like, no. That's okay.
That's okay.
So one time I took him to hear
a one of the had a I took
him to listen to
And
afterward he was like, his eyes were so,
like, wide open. He said, man, you guys
can say all that stuff? I said, yeah.
You're and people don't like, you know, say
you know, like run away and like riot
and get upset?
Say no. It's I mean, it's just the
book of Allah. It's the hadith of the
prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. It's the truth,
you know? Whether they follow it or not,
the people accept it. This is the Haqqiq.
You cannot just change change the deen for,
you know, people just because they're not gonna
like it. He's like, no. No. No. No.
We can't say any of that stuff in
church. They teach us in seminary.
Don't tell people this is unlawful. You'll go
to * if you do this. This is
something God will punish. Because the next Sunday,
the entire church gets empty when we say
stuff like that.
Wallahi, that was how that was like in
the nineties that he said that. Right? The
same thing, the hadith of the prophet
you will follow the people who came before
you, hands breath for hands breath, and tell
if, you
saw them go into a lizard hole, you'll
go into a lizard hole also just because
they did it. And then the literally in
the the Nabi Sultan used to he used
to be, he wasn't like a foul mouth
person or excessive in his speech. He wouldn't
say stuff like this except for if it's
like the hop, then there's no other way
to say it. There's a in which he
says, and to to you follow them until
the point where if one of them committed
zina with their mother, you would do it
also just because they're doing it. And then
he was asked who's asked
would you mean the the Jews and the
Christians? And he said, who else do you
think I'm talking about? The exact same thing
is happening. Exact same thing is happening. The
person who says the haqq, nobody will listen
to them. Nobody will listen to their talk.
People will be like, this guy's gonna cause
division in our community because people will be
upset and offended that he's gonna say something.
And, yeah, if you're doing something haram and
someone tells you it's haram, damn sure they're
gonna be offended. Of course, they're gonna be
offended. It's not gonna be it's not gonna
you don't just tell somebody, you know, what
you're doing is taking you to the fire,
and they're like, oh, thanks. You wanna go
out go get a like, go have some
ice cream afterward? It doesn't work that way.
People feel bad about it. That's the way
it is. The Nabi saw someone to the
people of Quresh, and they were offended like
nobody's business, man. He was telling that the
most important and most beloved thing to them
is their forefathers, and he's reading the Quran
and, like, it says, you know, their their
forefathers were people and they had no idea
what was going on, and they're they're in
the fire. And you're going to the fire
too if you keep doing what they were
doing. Man, they were upset. You're sure they
were upset. The Rebbe was the nicest person
in the world
And and but the message was so heavy,
it made them upset. And he didn't deliver
it like a like a jerk.
Right? He delivered
it like a very,
nice person, and very thoughtfully, and with a
lot of wisdom. But still, no matter how
much Hikma you use, Hikma is not an
insurance policy against people not liking what you
have to say. Because if that were the
case, then why would the Quran have kicked
the prophet out of of Makkamukarama?
It doesn't work that way. Right? But now
we I see this. I see the Muslim
community moving in a certain direction whereby people
just wanna hear what they wanna hear, and
they're not concerned with with what does Allah
and his Rasul salallahu alaihi wa sallam say.
They're not concerned with, is this something that
the Sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala would have done? The
people who made it to Jannah, is this
what they're saying or is this something completely
new? Nabi salawasam said what? He said there
will be a people who will come afterward
and they will talk to you about deen
such things that neither you have heard before
nor have your forefathers before heard before. So
I warned them and I warned you
that that that that you shouldn't let them
misguide you and you shouldn't let them put
you in a tribulation with regards to your
deen. This is what the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam said. And my point here is
not necessarily to write as I say to
the Arabs, they say, don't look at the
destroyed one and and and and and remark
how destroyed they are. But look at the
one who made it, and then think about
how did they make it. You know? So
the point is this is that we see
this is happening,
and there's no need afterward to be like,
oh, who is sheikh talking about? I heard
he has beef with so and so. Don't
worry about it. That
That's not what that's not what we're talking
about right now. Right? Whoever you're thinking, I
know he's probably or she's probably a 10
times better person than I am. So you
just cut that one off right at the
past. But what I'm talking about is what
are we gonna do? Are we gonna go
down that mega church path? Right? So they
have these mega churches. These are the ones
that are filled.
No law. No, you can't do this. You
have to do this. You have to do
that. No talk about take alcohol out of
your life, and drugs out of your life,
and and out of your life and, like,
homosexuality
out of your life. And all these things
are open and shut things that they're evil.
No. We what we're gonna do is tell
tell motivational inspiring stories to make you feel
good about yourself, you know, so that it's
kind of like a chicken soup for the
soul every Sunday. Totally non threatening. We're not,
hey, we're not telling you to change yourself.
You just, you know, come as you are
and just let it all hang out and
enjoy yourself and whatever. And then just keep
coming every Sunday, make sure there's ATM in
the lobby, make sure to keep, you know,
you know, keep the keep the solid bar
open, and, the rest of it, you know,
just, you know, keep doing what you want.
It's all music. That's what it is. Right?
There's music, there's singing,
there's dancing,
there's every type of, activity in the church.
You have like a social, you have social
for kids, you have social for elders, you
have this, you have basketball, you have every
single thing in the book, you just won't
have any deen over there. That's all. And
we see masajid are opening like that. There
are
The that are most praised as being the
most quote unquote active in the entire America.
You will see that. You'll see are literally
built where the basketball court is bigger than
the place where you pray.
Really literally, there are some masajid I've seen
in America,
they're the size of a Walmart, and their
parking lots are the size of a Walmart
parking lot. And the place that is there
to pray, it's like half the size of
my living room.
It's true. It's not there to we're not
don't laugh about it. One day people will
people have probably already have said that about
this masjid, and they'll say it again. They'll
say, this mustard is not in tune with
our needs. It's not sensitive to what we,
you know, what our community needs, which may
be true. I don't know. But, like, the
in their one proof they'll say is look,
they don't have any, you know, basketball court,
they don't have this, that, and the other
thing. As if the basketball court is the
thing that makes a masjid a masjid. What
is the thing that makes a masjid a
masjid?
The most important thing that happens in the
masjid. It's salat. That's it. My you guys
have
the blessing of being in the shade of
That's why you can say that quickly. There
are a lot of places in the country,
trust me, it's a it's a wave. It
sweeps. You probably will hear it in other
places and whatnot, but it's a wave that
sweeps utter nonsense.
It's utter nonsense. They'll say, no. The you
know, Saat is not the most important. We
have to have it a social center and
this and that.
No. The most important thing is the Iba,
the the slave comes and he joins with
Allah ta'ala. Right? If you want to go,
right, if you want to, if you want
to go and make peace with somebody, you
go to their house and you ask for
forgiveness. If you wanna keep good relationship with
somebody, you go visit their house. If you
want to show respect to someone, you go
visit. This is the house of Allah ta'ala.
And the way Allah ta'ala has said you
show me respect and you make peace with
me is that put your face in the
floor. That's the that's the way to do
it. You do it his way. You don't
do it your own way. This Allah ta'ala,
you do you do it his way. It's
gonna be difficult. And there are people who
are going to show you a path that's
going to be the easy way out, and
that's exactly the same thing, you know. It's
exactly the same thing in a 100 different
messiah of fiqh.
Right? You will see that people will have
a tendency, and there's no age, and there's
no place that's more intense than the age
we're in, and the place we're in. There's
like double effect right here that if there's
ever a difference of opinion on any issue,
right, any issue,
And one opinion involves doing more
more
and one opinion involves doing less
you will see always everybody will be convinced
by proof of the lessibada
argument. They'll be very easily, hey yeah, that
makes a lot of sense to me. And
they'll run from like
doing more
as if like it's like
like the grim reaper, like, on acid who's
like, you know, just just
just waving around his, like, sigh and, like,
just just he's just there to, like, kill
you and just run for your life. That's
it. Run. As if that you know, if
you had to act fast the extra day
or read an extra rakah
of of salat or, like, you know, not
eat from a certain place or this and
that. All these same things as shaykh, how
can you say there's difference of opinion. I
said, okay, fine.
Difference of opinion, no problem. I agree. I
mean, I know about difference of opinion.
These guys all they're like, man, this guy
doesn't even reach a lot. Right? He saw
like a Shia and whatever. Right? I know
about difference of opinion. I know about difference
of you think I don't know about difference
of opinion? And we're cool. We never, you
know, we never we never get into a
fight about any of that. So I know
I know what difference of opinion is. What
I'm disturbed by is what? Is when you
see a pattern.
You know, someone's like, no, no, no. I'm
just analyzing the proof, Sahi. Okay. Fine. Let's
analyze the proof. This time you did the
one that involves less Ibadah and less Taqwa.
This time the one that involved less Taqwa.
This one the one time that that involves
less work. This one the time it's easier.
This one the time the opinion that's easier.
I see a pattern emerging here. There was
no imam from amongst the 4 imams who
said, you know, people say, man, Hanaf, real
hard, and Shafi'i madhab is real strict, and
this madhab is real strict, that one's easy.
There was none of the imams who said
that I'm gonna make my fiqh easier or
hard.
Right? It's not like the imams or the
ulama
of today or in the past were like
oh, I wanna make it easy for the
ummah because I'm revealing a Sharia to them.
Who does the Sharia belong to?
It's Allah. Allah is the one who send
it down. The imams are just interpreting it
in a rational consistent framework, and their frameworks
were different. But the goal of every one
of them was what? Was to do what
Allah and his intended
for this ummah, and to figure out what
Allah and his intend for us when they
say something, what they mean for us through
it. And they do it in a consistent
fashion. In a consistent fashion. Treating the text
in a consistent fashion. That's all it is.
So sometimes it comes out, they come out
with a fatwa that may be easier or
sometimes harder. That's completely incidental. That's not why
they did what they did. Uh-uh. May Allah
be pleased with them. The deen is not
supposed to anyone who says no, we should
make it easy on the people.
What are you the one? Did you reveal
the Quran to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam? Are you the one who, for 20
for 13 years preached in Makkah and then
10 years preached in Madinah? You wanna make
it easy on people? This is this is
ridiculous. This is utterly nonsense. This is very
scary actually if somebody has says things like
this and thinks things like this. It's not
your or my It's the of Allah ta'ala.
I'm telling you, Allah said what? He
said, Strive in the path of Allah as
is his right to strive. That's difficult.
He the
Nabi
said
what?
Nay, verily the merchandise of Allah is expensive.
Nay, verily the merchandise of Allah Ta'ala is
in Jannah. And he the the the list
of ayaat and hadith which bear and bear
witness and testify to this, fact that living
a good life is not going to be
easy, they are beyond beyond number. They are
beyond number. And this hadith of the prophet,
he said, what is it?
That the the hijab literally, the hijab of
the hellfire is what?
Things that you desire.
Right?
The outside covering of Jannah is things that
you desire.
The things that you desire. Beautiful people, beautiful,
cars,
money,
respect,
people to love you, people to get along
with you, being lazy and getting what you
want without having to do any work for
it.
Being able to,
say something everyone listens to whether or not
you're right. All of these kind of sicknesses,
these are all sicknesses of the heart. These
are all things that a person will desire.
A person will desire all of these things.
And they will keep going, say, from the
hijab. Right? The the girl looks beautiful because
she's dressed really well, but you can't see
her. From far away, you you attracted and
you keep going closer and closer and closer.
You get your done and your wedding night
and whatever. You lift the veil and you
see, oh my god, she's hideous.
She's horrible.
It's not funny because this veil, when you
lift it, it'll be the fire when she
embraces you. You won't be able to let
go at that point.
You won't be able to let go at
that point. She'll have you. You're toast. You're
done.
And the hijab of of of Jannah is
what? The
Right? That the hijab of Jannah is all
those things that a person's hate hates.
Controlling yourself,
being patient,
being hungry,
being tired,
giving up what you want, giving up what
you desire, having to sit back while everybody
else is enjoying themselves and you you don't
enjoy yourself, having to take a back seat
and listen to somebody else, having to respect
other people, having to wait your turn, having
to do what's right even when no one's
there to catch you, having to do what's
right even when it hurts, and when nobody
else is doing what's right. All these things,
nobody likes to do this. Nobody's like, oh,
man. I wish when I grew up, I
get, like, fired from my job,
just because, you know, like, I wanna take
Jawa off. Nobody says that. Even though imagine
the reward you would receive from in front
of Allah ta'ala. Right? Allah is going to
take hisab. He'll take
a a a a accounting from you in
front of all the in front of all
the jinn, in front of all the ins,
in front of all the animals, in front
of all the angels, everyone will be watching.
Everyone will be watching. Imagine how nice it
would look, you know, because everyone knows how
much we love money. Right? Imagine how nice
would it look that you're the videotape is
being played over and the boss is like,
sorry, you know, you don't come on Friday,
you're fired. So listen, man.
Allah ta'ala has commanded me to be there
on Friday. I'm gonna be there. And then
just, you know, I can't there's no there's
no way I can't. So okay. You gotta
get lost, you know. That's it. Imagine, this
is you're gonna be able to say, say,
I gave you whatever I I loved. I
I sacrificed it for your sake. Obviously, a
person shouldn't want to do that, you know.
It's not the sunnah of the prophet to
want trouble. But when difficulty comes, it comes
from Allah ta'ala. And he sends it for
a reason, you know. And so imagine how
how wonderful it would be looked that you
have a sacrifice. You know, some people, for
them it's difficult to sacrifice something like that.
But for some people, there are certain people
their love for Allah ta'ala is so deep.
They they they dream about the day that,
you Allah, that I could show in front
of the rus of Ashhad that this was
my life. They they they said you either
please Allah or you give us your life,
and I gave my life for the sake
of Allah. And there are some people when
they hear this misal, this example,
they'll say like, man, this guy is crazy.
He's extreme. Don't invite him to the Masjid
ever again. He's crazy. I don't want my
kids listening to him. I don't want nobody
listening to him. He should be deported to
whatever country he came from. He's crazy. You
know? But like this is not the way
it works. Right? The the nabi wasn't like
that. The nabi
he taught. He gave used to teach the
sahaba that
you should desire,
you should desire that your life one day
be given for the sake of Allah Ta'ala.
And he told them the of it so
much.
Who says that when people would die in
their beds at home and they wouldn't die
on the battlefield. He said, I the Nabi
taught us how much the virtue of giving
your life for the sake of Allah ta'ala
is to the point where if someone wouldn't
die,
a a a shahid. He said that I
used to think maybe this guy is, like,
not really a good guy after all. And
he said only after the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, passed away off of the battlefield,
and then Saydna Abu Bakr after him passed
away off the battlefield, then I then I
realized this is Allah's, Qadr. He gives it
to some people, and he doesn't give it
to others. It doesn't necessarily mean anything bad
about somebody if the if that's how they
die. And it's a hadith of the prophet
also that if somebody sincerely asked Allah ta'ala
for Shahada that you Allah, sincerely you give
me the tawfiq to give my life for
your sake, Allah will write for him the
reward of the martyrs even if he dies
on an on a bed, if he dies
in old age on his deathbed. Now there
are some people who are going to shutter
and say, man, you're crazy. I'm not trying
to die right now. I'm trying to, like,
get a job. I'm trying to enjoy myself,
live my life. I don't even know why
I came to the masjid. You know, my
friends dragged me. This guy is crazy, and
and like he's just talking some nonsense and
I some people are this is this is
the reaction some people have. Some people they'll
their their their their show, their longing
with for Allah and their love for Allah
is so deep to say Allah, you know.
I would do that if I had the
chance to do it. If I had the
chance to do it in a proper way,
you know. We're not talking about crazy people
who go and, like, blow themselves up and
kill civilians and whatever. Right? It's not what
we're talking about. There's an entire Sharia that
gives us the
of all of these things. Right? But if
there is a way that this is it's
clear to you, Allah, this is in his
deen. He he that this is what you
need to do. Yeah? You need to save
somebody else's life. You need to save the
life of your family. You need to save
the life of an innocent person, and you
put yourself in harm's way, and you pay
the price for it. Not not out of
any reason because you wanna be a hero,
or because, you know, you know, your parents
will yell at you if you don't, or
because, you know, you saw it in a
movie, or whatever.
But why? Just because you know Allah will
love you for this. You know Allah will
love that from his slave, and that Allah
accepts the sacrifices that people make for him.
Even even if you just do it, Allah
ta'ala, you know, if you do it for
the sake of Allah, how wonderful would that
be? A person has some iman would have
shuk and say, you Allah, this is I
would love to give this for your sake
and to make you happy. Right? The reason
I'm bringing this talk up and the reason
I'm talking about all of this, someone might
say, man, this is end of Ramadan. Why
is this guy talking about all of these
things? Nabi Salam says that the Shayateen are
chained up in this month. Right? And there
are some brothers who come to the Masjid,
especially when they talk about, like, the moon
sighting, which would make you think, like, I
don't know if that hadith is sahi or
not, but it's sahi inshallah. It's the shayateen
are chained up. The
right?
The the the the the the the the
the kafir shayateen, the kafir jins,
more or less, you know, the really the
the hardcore, the hardened criminals, the lifers, they're
all they're all chained up during this time.
Right? They're in the hole at this time.
And, you know, when you eat less
in the daytime and, like, the fast is
so wonderful because, like, Muslims eat more in
Ramadan,
but, like, because the fast is almost, like,
18 hours or something like that, there's only
so much you can eat it during the
time. You know, your stomach expands but, like,
they you cannot put more than a certain
amount. You have no choice but to be
hungry for most of the time. Right? And
and and when you eat less, what happens?
And the Nabi salaam says that you constrict
the pathways through a shaitan and with satanic
thoughts flow through your veins. And when you're
hungry, you're more inclined to,
think about the and you're
less,
interested in the dunya when you're fasting and
you know you're not gonna eat anything. That's
why the sunnah is to not eat too
much. And I know it's ironic. You don't
look who's saying it. But, you know, I'm
just a messenger.
I'm a messenger. It's an. Right? It's a
it's a it's an amana that we say
it. Right? And it's something we all experienced
it before. When you're fasting, when you're it's
like you read and then someone's trying to
talk nonsense with you and joke about something
stupid or backbite or whatever. You're like, look,
man. I'm I really don't need to hear
this right now. This is this like, go
do something, you know. Go go go go
play in the street. I don't need to
hear this right now. Right? You don't you're
even though usually, you know, a person might
be like, oh, really? That guy did this
and that. You may wanna jump in, but
at that time, you're not interested in it.
Right? We know that. We know that the
salawat, you know, a person who just read
20 rakaat of Talawi,
something or another good must have happened. Right?
You leave when you leave the talawi, even
if you don't understand the lick of Arabic,
you know, it's just and
the train just comes and leaves. Right? It's
you know, Allah forgive us for not having
taken time to understand his book inshallah. Mufti
Farhan is here. You guys, you know, he'll
direct you to who can teach you Arabic
and who can whatever. That's a ban I
gave last night, so I'm not gonna, like,
browbeat
people again about it. But, you know, you
still you feel clean when you're done with
tarawih. You feel different. You feel clean, like,
you just took a shower spiritually, you know.
And it's the last 10 nights of Ramadan.
And, you know, who knows? It might be
Leila Tulkadir. Allah knows what Leila Tulkadir is.
If there's a time in which you're in,
like, peak spiritual condition. Right? You know, peak
physical condition, you go to the gym and
you'll max out on the bench or whatever
when you're on your t peak position. Right?
If there's a time that you're in peak
spiritual position, it's times like this.
And so this is a time we have
to gather together our
strength and gather together our courage and look
at reality
for what it is instead of deluding ourselves.
Because the fact of the matter is if
you go to, like, whatever megachurch or Muslim
equivalent of megachurch, and you seek that easy
and fun loving deen in which you don't
have to change anything about your life and
you gotta be the same wonderful snowflake of
a person that you already are and never
change and never become better And you never
have to sacrifice anything for Allah ta'ala, not
your life, not your job, not even minutes
of your time. And you just eat what
you want and drink what you want and
watch what you want and touch what you
want and, listen to what you want, and
say what you want, and whatever, and enjoy
yourself. Right? If there's ever a time that
you would have the courage to be able
to, like, look and see that that path
is not a good path, and the path
of struggle and sacrifice is a good path.
Not because we're masochists, that people who love
pain for the sake of loving pain.
Right? But why? Because we see that a
little bit of sacrifice right now will result
in a lot of benefit in this world
and an infinite amount of benefit in the
Right? Nay, verily you you prefer the life
of this world even though the is better
than this world and it lasts forever.
It will last forever. This world will end,
that will last forever.
You see that look look. It's expensive, but,
you know, what's expensive? Right? Is a $1,000
a lot of money? A $1,000 is a
lot of money. It is a lot of
money. I don't know. Maybe like Muftifa Khan
making them bing,
you know, so it's not a big deal
for him. But for the rest of us,
you know, it's a lot of money.
$1,000 is a lot of money. Right? What
if someone said I'll give you a house
for $1,000? You'd be like, sure. Even if
you don't have the money, you'll go borrow
it from somebody. We have a house in
this part of the country probably cost you
what? Like, half a $1,000,000 or something. People
live in, like, condominiums and apartments their whole
life. It's so expensive. Right? It's a lot
of money, but, like, it's like the deal
is amazing. Right?
This is the time to put your mind
together and your spirit together and understand the
deal that Allah and his Rasool
are putting forth to you. It's it's just
a offer you can't refuse. It's a utterly
amazing deal.
Stop playing. Stop being kids. Stop being cowards.
You know, myself first and all of us.
Just stop stop being cowards about it and
stop playing and stop trying to, like, fool
yourself into thinking that
reality is different than what it is. That
you'll do you won't change anything, and you
won't sacrifice anything, and you won't struggle anything,
and you're still gonna go to Jannah just
because, you know, just because, you know, you
are who you are, and you deserve to
go to Jannah. Stop thinking that. It's not
real. It's not true. It's not gonna happen.
Is the Right? It's the Right?
Right? Is the is
the is the
person who thought he was buying one thing.
When he gets home, he realizes what he
got was junk. Right? That's the day that
you'll realize that what you spent your life
and what I spent my life purchasing,
if we don't follow this path, we'll realize
that that day that this is the day
that we spent our entire life buying junk.
This is utterly useless. Now we have a
problem. We have certain needs. They're not gonna
get fulfilled and we're gonna pay for it
now. What will,
may Allah protect us from that. This is
the time for the sake of Allah Ta'ala.
We remind one another that you should be
you should not be a coward. Right? A
Muslim can a coward can never be a
good Muslim.
A coward, someone who's,
is is is afraid, that person can never
be a good Muslim. In order to be
a good Muslim, you always have to have
you have to be brave. You have to
have some. You have to have some courage.
You have to see what other people see.
You have to see further than what other
people are able to see. The people can
only see the dunya what's right up in
their face. You have to look a little
bit, not even far, a little bit down
the road just to see that that this
style of life will be good for the
next 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years,
and then like a 1000000 years down the
road, you're blind to it. But there's gonna
be 1,000,000 after another after another after another.
They're just gonna keep coming. If you cannot
see the big picture, you're gonna make stupid
decisions in this life. This is the time
that all the the blinders and all those
things that are are giving this myopia,
to us that not don't allow us to
see beyond what's what's in front of us
and think to ourselves, oh, maybe there is
no god, as if like everything can create
itself from nothing. Maybe there is no Jannah,
as if some cause in this world you
can do something, there's no consequence for it.
Everything in the physical world, there's a consequence
for it. Do you think that that that
that in the spiritual world it's not going
to be like that? As if you think
that like, you know, like, oh, the Nabi
maybe it was just something that was good
for a previous time. If something made sense
back then, it makes sense today. There's no
we're not special.
We're we're people like they were people. What
worked for them will work for us. What
didn't work for them will not work for
us. Those people fighting over, like, you know,
they fought over gold and silver and we
fight and, like, go crazy over like cars
and iPhone. But it's the same pattern, just
in particulars are are different, but the pattern
is perpetuating itself again and again. All those
things, those are little fibs and little, like,
lies that we wanna tell ourselves in order
to justify
living a slack life.
And it doesn't work, and usually a person
is too much of a coward to confront
that. This is a time you gotta be
brave. Right?
You have to step up. You have to
step up and not be afraid. That's what
the whole story of Quran.
They're not giving you sweets for free, bro.
They're not giving
you and stuff for free.
There's like lessons in it. Right? What is
the lesson?
Keep building the ark, but they're making fun
of me. Don't worry. If they're making fun
of you today, one day you'll be laughing
at them. You'll be in the boat, they'll
be drowning. You'll be like, you remember 950
years, You made my life a living *,
now your life is *. Sayonara suckers. Right?
That's literally the Nabi Sal Nabi Sal has
a very different disposition to say, Nabi Sal
has a read. Right? He says he says,
destroy all of them. They're so horrible, and
their kids they when their kids are born,
they grow up to be horrible as well.
They're just horrible people. There's nothing good about
them whatsoever.
Destroy all of them, and like leave no
left standing on this earth. Right? Allah did
it. He did it. He showed he showed
them. Sayyidina Musa alaihis salatu aslam in.
Right? He showed what's up. He showed every
single and that's small examples, shows them in
the dunya,
just so we can, like, be like, you
know, if Allah Ta' didn't show us a
couple of examples in the duniya, we'd be
like, well, we don't know if this is
gonna work out or not, you know? But
like Allah to ask, okay, look, this is
how it works. Here's like a little small
example.
The real deal is gonna be on the
day of judgement. But here are small examples
so you can see how it'll work, so
as to give you some comfort also. Right?
So that you won't be afraid, you won't
be unsure of yourself.
Like Allah says to Sayna Musa
when the sorcerers have thrown their staffs and
they become like, you know, they have their
little special effecty thing that they have, and
it's like, oh man, these sorcerers, they put
on a really cool looking show. They have
really good good special effects and, like, you
know, this is a kinda like Independence Day
and Terminator and all these other stuff. This
is the same battle that's happening nowadays. Faraun
didn't die. That died. There's a whole list
of them. There's a whole of them. Just
like when we transmit Sahih Bukhari Sahih Muslim,
there's a chain of narration with the
There's a chain of narration that starts with
the,
with with these,
with the
and with the home
of and that
is
undisrupted. It's a connected chain of narration. It
will keep going until,
until the Dajjal comes to this world. It's
something that's that's the that they're going through.
Right?
Just like that. Right? They think that the
the he he was the only that had
like special effects? The special effects that we
have nowadays make it for own special effects
guys look like amateurs, makes them look like
ax. These guys have, like, these special effects
that are utterly amazing. Sayna Musa alaihi wasalam
is like, oh my god. I didn't know
you could do that. Like, he's amazed by,
like, what their sorcerer is doing, the big
show they put on. Allah says, listen, this
is nonsense. This is all baqwas. This is
just like CGI or whatever. This is not
real. Step up, you throw your staff, you'll
see what the difference between the hap and
the ba'tid is now.
That's all of us. That commandment is there
for all of us. Right? See, you know,
like this night, see the,
the the the clarity Allah has given, and
and and how how Allah has, lifted the
blinders and moved obstacles for the heart just
to accept this fact that I'm going to
have to struggle in order to be a
good person in this life, and I'm going
to have to struggle in order to make
it through in a way that Allah is
pleased with me, and I'm okay with that.
I'm willing to accept that. I may not
be perfect, I may not make the right
decision every single time, but like I'm gonna
keep on it. If I screw up, I'm
gonna get back on the path. If you
know, it'll be 2 step forward, 1 step
back, but I'm gonna see keep going in
the right direction, keep heading again and again.
And I'm not gonna let anyone like a
thief come and steal my iman from me
when he tells me there's a song and
dance about how the deen is supposed to
be easy and about, you know, how you
should compromise everything and don't change. You're wonderful.
You're Pakistan. Of course, you're going to Jannah.
You don't need to change anything about yourself.
Right? That we're not we're just not gonna
accept that. We don't have to dog them
or say bad anything bad about anybody else.
We're not and that's not what we're about.
That's not what we need to do. We're
concerned everyone.
Right? You've the first commandment is what? That
you save yourself from the fire, and then
you save your immediate people. You don't have
to go around and, like, make a campaign
and crusade against other people. If you're doing
what's right, people will naturally be attracted to
what you're doing because they'll see the results.
But whatever it is that we we, you
know, we make this promise with Allah ta'ala
and with ourselves, and we renew it again
and again and again, you know. We renew
it again and again. So all of you
have heard this before, you all know this.
It's not like any news flash that I've
given to anybody, but it's good. We should
remind because very the reminder benefits the believers.
Right? That we take the reminder and every
time we we just make Tajdeed. We renew
our iman again, and we renew that promise
with
Allah again, and we renew that that that
that request from Allah for help. That that
it's difficult, but if you're on our side,
it becomes easy. It becomes possible, it's something
that's within our grasp by your help, that
that we renew the the the sincere and
humble request to Allah that he, that he
help us and that he give us the
ability in order to to to have that
that that goal and that prize, and that
he be pleased with us before we leave
this world, so that we can be, in
in happiness forever and ever. May Allah
give all of us so much.
After you well, you got the, like, the
chair, like, he's gone on too long or
what? No. No. It's like it's like if
he wants a question, we can ask him.
If someone wants to ask a question, go
for it, but try to make it on
topic, and don't make it one that's gonna
cause a fight in the masjid, like, after
I leave. Sheikh, this mustard no. No.
No. No. No. No. No.
Yes.
There's a hadith of Sahih Bukhari in the
din al Yusur, or in the din al
Yusurun that the the the din is ease.
Right?
So,
obviously,
this is an entire tradition, right, that we
come from.
And so the hadith of of of of
the Mustadrak Haqim, it's
according to the Sahih Muslim, according to the.
It's a very it's a very strong hadith.
It's a it's a Sahih hadith of the
highest rank.
That the baraka is in following your your
elders. Not necessarily someone who's old,
but, like, somebody who is the people, the
great masha'ik that came before us starting with
the Sahaba, the Tabi'in that you don't come
up with a different din with what they
what they had. So whenever, the question comes,
what does this hadith mean, what does this
ayah mean? The first thing you do is
you go what? You go and look it
up. You know? There's books about this that
they transmit what the the salaf the the
the salaf, right, who's the sahaba, the tabi'in,
the tabi'at tabi'in. Not like a guy in,
you know, in a masjid who's gonna be
like, you know, he's gonna yell at you
for, for, like, not saying Amin out loud.
Those are different. We're talking about this actual,
the the pious first generations. Right? That that
that,
that, hadith, if you look it up, it's
a hadith of Bukhari.
If you look it up in the Hafiz
ibn Hajjar Askalani,
his commentary on Sahih Bukhari. This is like
the canonical, like the entire ummah, Hanafi Shafayeeb,
whatever, whoever you are. Even if you're even
if you're a Shia and you wanna look
up a hadith in Sahih Bukhari, that's the
first book you go to because it's the
universally acknowledged gold standard in the interpretation of
of Bukhari.
He says that he says very clearly that
the meaning of this hadith is that the
deen is easy when compared to the Ummas
that came before you. Because the that came
before you, you know, if they spilled,
impurity on their clothing, they would have to
cut that out and rip it rip it
out and throw it out, and then sew
a patch on it if they keep wanted
to keep using that piece of clothing. Or
if they didn't read their salat in the
masajid, it would have been unacceptable.
Whereas, we're allowed Allah made the entire earth
of Masjid for us.
Or if they,
for example,
there are certain sins that if they committed,
they would have to kill themselves as a
punishment in a kafara for that. I mean,
you may have to, you know, like, what's
the worst that had happened? You know, somebody
went on, had a burger when he was
supposed to be fasting, and they have to
go and make make make up 60 rosaas.
It's difficult, but it's also not killing yourself.
Right? It's very far away from that. And
there's people going
going on jihad for 70 years,
you know, continuously. And there's all these difficult
and, you know, that that difficulties that people
went through in the before us. And,
compared to them, this this dispensation and this
is something that Nabi says again and again.
It's the easiest one out of all the
dispensation prophetic dispensations that came down to this
earth, that out of all of the sharias
that came to any any prophet, the sharias
by far in a way, the least work
and the most reward for it. And the
idea is that it's gonna be at the
end of time. It's gonna be a time
when holding on to the deen will be
more difficult than other times, and for that
reason Allah has made it easier for us
and put more Barakah in it for us.
But, he says very very clearly, he says
as for the person who,
believes that in an absolute sense that the
deen is easy, he goes this is something
like no one would believe.
Someone something no one would believe. Otherwise, if
You know, who's the person who's our example
in deen?
The prophet
Right? If deen was supposed to be easy
in absolute sense, go read a book and
say what kind of easy is this? This
sounds like it's like most, you know, difficult
thing in the world, you know, it's it's
it's it's you know, he his was what?
Was don't let the difficulty of Islam,
like, make you into a callous person.
To the point where you go around and
make life hard on everyone just because that's
because you just become harsh. Right?
Follow the deen and struggle with it, but
still stay a soft person. That's the one
of the many gifts that the prophet gave
us. Right? So if there's two choices in
Islam,
in Islam that Allah is pleased with both
of them, then the sunnah is to take
the easier of the 2 of them. But
also is the sunnah is what? If there's
2 choices, 1 Allah is pleased with, and
one he's not
pleased with, even if the difference between them
is the difference between living a a a
life and wealth and luxury, and dying,
you you're a a a you you know,
you see there's there's the the
the are like what? I mean obviously in
the Sharia there's dispensation if someone puts a
gun to your head and says like leave
Islam and, or I'll kill
you. Leave Islam. No problem, bro. You know?
But, like, you know, sometimes it's like that.
Sometimes a person is in such a situation
that they have 2 choices. 1 is much
easier than the other one. And, the sunnah
in that case, the Nabi salawam, every single
time he would pick the most difficult the
more difficult one, if it was a question
of making Allah pleased with him or angry
with him. If there was if it was
all the same in terms of Allah ta'ala,
then yes. The the sunnah is to to
go easy. And the the sunnah is also
if there's a choice between two things, is
to go easy on other people and to
be hard on yourself.
But but
that that even that harshness itself, that's something
that a person shouldn't ever forget. You know,
that's kind of the point of the talk,
ever forget or push it out. Because there's
some people are gonna try to tell you
that, no. They use the text that talking
about being easy on other people or relative
ease versus absolute ease. They're gonna try to
say that it has a meaning that it
doesn't. That's not the case at all. There
is going to be difficulty in the dean
in some way or another, and that's what
we, you know, we have to come to
terms with.
So there's a couple there's a couple of
issues. Right?
How do you get people who are not
otherwise not
prone to kinda coming to the Masjid or
prone of, attending programs to
kinda come to the Masjid or whatever.
Dua. Right? Or proselytization
toward Islam. And Islam is very different than
Dua amongst Christians. Right? Christians, they're evangelists, meaning
they're bringing good news to people. They're gonna
go save people. Right? With us, it's not
about saving people. Right? Saving and destroying people
is Allah's job. It's not our job. We
don't save anybody. Right? Rather, a word that
we use for dawah that's used again and
again in the Quran is what is and
Tabligh. Right? Tabligh means what? That you're a
messenger and you're like a mailman. You deliver
the message to the to the recipient. It's
a sunnah that the message should deliver it
in a nice way.
Right? Instead of being the paper boy that
throws the paper and smashes the window in
someone's house. Right? That you go and you
do it with Adab and with with with
with with with with with conviction and sincerity
and with politeness and whatnot.
Right? But whether a person accepts it or
not, this is not your choice, my choice.
This is Allah ta'ala's choice.
Allah says,
you do not guide whoever you will, rather
Allah guides who he wants to, and he
has more knowledge about who he guides. And
this is specifically,
according to Mufasrin, one call of the Mufasrin
specifically
sent down in regards to the uncle of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Abu Talib,
who the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam loved
dearly. He loved him so dearly. He was
devastated when he didn't die an iman.
And, it it's it's a lesson to show
you
that that
sometimes this is Allah's choice.
If you're nice to a person, or if
you're mean to a person,
you can understand that they didn't accept the
the message from you because you're mean to
them, because their focus was on the meanness
and not on the message. But sometimes when
you do all you can do to deliver
the message properly,
and you deliver it again and again, and
you deliver it in a in a in
a in a open way, and you deliver
it subtly, and you deliver it,
explicitly by telling people this is what what
has to happen. And then after you deliver
it in subtle ways by and
by being nice to them. You do everything
you can. Right? At the end of the
day, a person has to make peace with
the fact that there is going to be
a number of people who are just not
gonna accept it. Right?
And this is important because if you cannot
make peace with that, you will always feel
pressure to bend your message
and and and shape it in order to
make it suitable for other people. And we
have to accept the fact that that, you
know, there is going to be the time
and place we live in right now. The
deck is really stacked against us. There's gonna
be a lot of people who are just
not gonna accept it. Whether they're non Muslims
or whether they're Muslims for that matter.
And that doesn't allow us, you know, because
it's not our message. We cannot bend it.
If it was our
that we were revealing on our prophet, then
we can bend it for other people. It's
an Amanah from Allah Ta'ala. You can tell
people. You tell people, listen, if you don't
wanna follow it,
that's between you and Allah Ta'ala. That's really,
you know, I I can't do anything about
that. Right? At least accept it in your
heart. If you don't wanna do it on
your limbs, there's still some,
something we can do. But if you don't
accept it in your heart, then I can't
do anything for you. It's not something I
can help with, you know. But my door
is always open for you. But the thing
is that we have to be able to
accept the fact that some some people are
just not gonna not gonna listen. And we
have to be cool with that. We cannot
let that be,
something that that,
makes us, makes us, like, you know, anxious
inside or is, like, kills us inside.
And that's very difficult, especially, like, you know,
Desi culture is very conflict averse. It's very
conflict averse. Like, people go, like, to very
long lengths in order to not get into
some sort of, like, spat with people. People
are extremely sensitive about a lot of things,
you know. And the fact of the matter
is that, like, this is part of Islam
is that you're gonna have to accept the
fact that there there's some things that people
are gonna do are wrong, and you have
to say that they're wrong. And they're very
few. You know, the differences of opinion amongst
the alamah are so many that really most
of the time you can just get away
with, like, not bringing up an issue. Right?
But certain things are just they're just, like,
patently wrong. Your riba is wrong. Drinking is
wrong. Smoking is homosexuality
is wrong. There will come a time you'll
see before all of our eyes, there will
come a time there'll be many massages in
America if you say that. They'll kick you
out. They'll literally kick the Muslims will kick
you out of the masjid. It's already starting
to have you'll see that. Right? Allah protect
us and and protect the Muslims, but it's
something that you're the writing is on the
wall. Like, what like we said that you'll
follow the people before you, just like the
Christians have gotten to that point now. It's
something you see that there are already people
who are, like, waiting to collapse and cave
in on this issue. But these things are
wrong. You you know, you you cannot make
them right because you love somebody.
Because if that was possible, Allah Nabi would
have done it for his his own uncles.
Abu Bakr on the day of the Fath
of Mecca. Right? He,
came, he brought his father Abu Quhaifa. It's
a hadith of Hakim that he brought the,
Abu Quhaifa to,
the prophet to accept Islam. It was a
hot day. Prophet says he's a sheikh of
Quresh. If you had told us, we would
have gone to him. Abu Bakr says no,
he needs the the reward for coming to
you. And so he put his hands in
the hands of the prophet and
said that Abu Bakr started crying. And the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam asked him, why
are you crying? He says that he says,
well, lie this day, if I could have
put your uncle's hands in your hands instead
of my own father's hands, I would have
done it because I know it would have
made you happier. And the prophet started to
weep and he says, yes, you're right. It
would have made me happier.
He he cannot lie. You know, he's not
trying to be mean, but he cannot lie.
That's what he was both of them wept
on that day because of that. That's how
much it was. But the the they're the
the the the they're
the the the the beautiful example Allah gave
for us is that they they didn't,
you know and some people should
accept the fact, you know. If you're not
like a good people y person,
maybe you should let somebody else do the
preaching. Because some people have like a magic
way of war with words, like whatever they
say,
it just ends up being offensive, you know.
If you're like one of those people, keep
reading your salat, keep doing your thing. Don't
don't be like obstacle in other people's path
of guidance. You don't have someone more go
out call Mufti Farhan. He's a handsome guy.
He's a well, he's good spoken, well spoken,
this and that. Go and tell him to
talk to whatever. Don't don't you get in
there, like, mess up the thing. That happens
sometimes. Right? So you don't have to mess
up everything. I know some people are like
that. They mean very well. But just just
every they have this magical thing about them
that they just really upset everybody they they
they talk to. You know?
So if you're that guy, then you don't
have to, like, you know, maybe your thing
is more to, like, do it Ibadah or,
like, study Ilm or something like, you know?
But,
you know, the end of the day, as
as as much as you try
with the Hikma, you have, an ability to
modify how you deliver the message. You don't
have an ability to deliver the message. And
we know this is the hadith of the
prophet as time goes on, you go closer
and closer to the end of time, less
and less people will become less and less
receptive to, this message. And it's something that,
like, we shouldn't give up and be pessimistic
about, but we know it's gonna happen anyways.
So, you know, don't don't put that burden
on you. That's Allah ta'ala's responsibility. That's not
ours. Ours is just to deliver the message
in the best way that we can and
leave the rest up to Allah ta'ala.
For, having us, inshallah, everyone. Please keep us
in your
make all of us of the people who
are are are freed from the fire in
this night and the people who are written,
in the book of Allah that he's pleased
with with them until the day that that
we meet. And then, for after that forever,
in Jannah, may Allah
do that for all of us and may
Allah ta'ala bless our families and our children
and our loved ones and may Allah ta'ala,
you know, give the best of reward to
our prophet
and to the for
delivering this deen to us and for our
forefathers in Islam and to the and
that made sacrifices in order that we could
study and that we could learn about Islam
and that we could, share it with each
other and that that that may Allah, you
know, reward all of those people on our
behalf the best reward that anyone could could
receive. And may Allah also,
you know, make us strong so that when
we all meet each other on the day
of judgment, that they're proud of us for
having continued their work rather than,
disappointed with us for having dropped the ball.