Hamzah Wald Maqbul – The Dogs Bark and Caravan Moves On Ribat 09242017
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Muhammad by the father of Allah
since the last time we met and the
last time we had dars in this, place,
of the Mubarak Hadith of the prophet
and the last time we sat for the
Dhikr of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
We have
had intervened between that time and now Ramadan
and 2 Eids Hajj and a whole lot
of other stuff.
All of these things are the the and
the of Allah
for which we should show thanks and we
can never truly show thanks. Allah
give us these gifts again and again. Vouch
safe for them.
Vouch safe for us these gifts again and
again,
and accept them from us,
and and give us the the the blessings
of them in this world,
where we need them. And in the hereafter
where we need them even more. Amen.
Also between that time and now and before
that time and after this time.
There have been a number of
huge catastrophes and debacles that have happened in
the Muslim world.
The most noteworthy of which is the expulsion
of
430,000
or more
refugees,
Muslims from
the,
Arakan state
in,
Southwestern
Burma
that are now living refugee camps,
that are in the most horrible of conditions.
They have
now traded in the place of danger
to their lives and their persons,
in security in terms of their food and
lack of shelter, lack of medical care.
And, this is a catastrophe that weighs heavily
on the hearts of the Ummah.
Yemen right now, which is the first nation
to completely enter into Islam,
And the nation that has the honor of
having entered into Islam during the life of
Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam without any fight,
without
any armed conflict,
without any argument.
They themselves
preachers came to them, they accepted the deen
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the rulers themselves
gave up their hukum and their rule
to Allah and His Rasul SallAllahu Alaihi Sallam
on their own. Sayyidina Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
sent, Sayyidina Ali radiAllahu ta'ala anhu and Sayyidina
Mu'ad bin Jabal.
Goes it like that.
He said, Sayid Ali said, Mu'adh ibn Jabal
radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma
to be governors and judges over them. And,
Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and wisdom is Yemeni. Faith is Yemeni and
wisdom is Yemeni because of the strong wisdom
that their people had and the strong faith
that their people had in Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. It takes a lot of iman to
give up your own hukum for the sake
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And the armies of Yemen were
the armies of the conquests of Islam.
The army of Yemen was allotted. What the
system was after
passed away.
Abu Bakr
who had to deal with all of these
different problems.
He had to deal with the apostasy
of certain people,
and the denial of the prayer of certain
people, and the denial of paying zakat to
certain people. And so what he did was
he very systematically,
1 by 1, subjugated all of these different,
all of these different threats. And the tribes
of the Arabs, literally after defeat in battle
would be brought to brought to him in
chains.
And what did he do? Instead of punishing
them or executing them or enslaving them, which
is what a king of that time would
have done because he was functioning not on
the manhaj of kings
nor was he even functioning on the manhaj
of the ulama. He was functioning on the
manhaj of Nabuwa prophecy.
The prophecy that was left from Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam taught
him this prophetic method. This is the most
superior of methods. There's a number of ways
of getting what you want done done. This
method is something that is different than the
methodology of kings or even of scholars because
those are based on some sort of in
the first condition, a utilitarian approach and the
second condition, a rational approach. This third approach
is the approach of what? It's the approach
of,
it's the approach not of of of of
the mind nor is it the approach of
what works, rather it's a the approach of
wahi of revelation.
So what he did is that these entire
tribes would be brought and changed to him
Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Ta'ala Anhu
and he
would
stand in front of them or send the
sahabah radiAllahu anhu to stand in front of
them and preach to them that your life
is short.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants something from you.
You've already been humiliated in your worldly status.
Look at you, you're in chains.
Why do you want to be humiliated in
in in in the akhirah as well? Make
toba from the nonsense that you were doing
from before.
And as a kafarah, as an expiation for
your sins,
for your apostasy,
for your having impeded the message of the
deen.
Not only should you accept Islam right now,
but you should now dedicate for the rest
of your life that you will be, in
the service of that same deen that you
fight against.
And one is the the quality of the
words.
And the second is the the spirituality
and the nur and the power of
of of the ones saying it and the
ones who said it. That they said something
that they themselves believed.
They weren't selling something to somebody like a
door to door salesman
might sell. Rather, they themselves are the first
customers.
And so the people believed them and accepted
that from them.
And so what happened was
Abu Bakr Siddiq would take these armies and
take a senior member of the Sahaba radiAllahu
anhu and he would the whole tribe would
make toba together
and he would send one of the senior
commanders of the Sahaba that you're the commander
over this tribe. You now take them and
go take the deen to this place. You
take them and take the deen to that
other place.
The Yemeni's the Yemeni the army of Yemen
went in the direction of Sham of Syria,
and and the army of Yemen went in
the direction of the Maghrib.
It's the quality of these people which saved
Islam.
Because you will see the armies of the
the armies that went to the Jazira, the
armies that went to Iraq.
Right? The armies that went east,
they were from other tribes of the Arabs,
people who had
very uneven temperaments.
Amongst them are many pious people,
but amongst them also were troublemakers.
Those troublemakers will end up causing a civil
war
in the Muslim Ummah during the later time
of the sahabah radiAllahu ta'ala
anhu. They will make people who disagree with
one another, they themselves will add like spices
and and and chilies and peppers to the
the the the the the small differences between
them and push things until they get to
the brink of war.
Otherwise, the army of Sham, whoever whoever the
governor of Sham was, the army of Sham
was always loyal to the last man. They
were the army of Yemen.
Even Mauritania, as far as Mauritania, as far
as the Futuhat, many of the Futuhat in
Andalus,
they were done by the the Yemenis. Other
armies actually went and participated as well. But
the most loyal troops and the ones that
established the caliphate of Banu Maya, Abdul Rahman
ad Dahil, which gave stability
and gave a a type of order to
Muslim rule, which is very chaotic in in
in Spain.
That was the army of what? That was
the army of Yemen.
These people gave so much so much so
much,
sacrifice and so much service for the deen
of Allah ta'ala.
Look what's happened to their nation now.
It's become like a battleground that the it's
a proxy war between different foreign nations that
are pumping huge amounts of arms, huge amounts
of weapons, fighting one another,
bombarding the place.
The really,
it's such a horrible situation right now. Yemen,
the port city Hudaydah, the cranes are all
bombed out. They're destroyed.
So International Red Cross.
Imagine this is the Jazirat Al Arab. This
is the the Arabian Peninsula.
The international red cross now And by the
way, the home of
some of the most wealthy nations in the
world, Muslim or any other,
otherwise.
The cranes are bombed out in the in
the port city.
And because of that, they can't unload these
ships that are filled with aid and with
medicine.
The Swiss government
It shouldn't be the Swiss government. It shouldn't
be Muslim government. The Swiss government gave a,
gave a donation that we will donate cranes
for you to unload the the
the
aid. They're not they're not they're the fighting
parties are not even let letting them install
those cranes.
So the aid is in ships, and it
can't reach the people.
Yemen is not a very super wealthy country.
It had issues from before the war even
started. It had issues especially with its water
supply that it had it didn't have a
sufficient water supply for it to to support
its people, sustain agriculture, and all of these
things. All of this is completely exacerbated to
the point where every family, every home, people
are losing their family loved ones in the
rebels of bomb bombardment. They don't have enough
money to feed their families. People are dying
of malnutrition. Mothers are dying of malnutrition.
The infrastructure is bombed out of this place
to the point that the water is no
longer getting purified properly. So now Yemen has
become the, like, epicenter of a huge cholera
outbreak.
So the mother you know, a new mother
will give birth to a child. She herself
will be emaciated,
and she cannot breastfeed the child because she's
too hungry to produce milk, and so she
will mix water with formula for the child.
The water is not treated. The child will
get cholera and die.
This is not just happening 1, 2, there's
tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people
this is happening to right now.
And,
you know, obviously one of the reasons I
know this is because of my work with
Islamic Relief, but
aside from that, right? Aside from that, a
person's heart breaks because these are the
civilizational centers of Islam. These are the places
where the hidayah of Allah spread
to the world.
These are the places where literally, you know,
a lot of things that even people from
more wealthy countries, they look down on Muslims
and they say, oh, look. You're unhygienic. You're
this. You're that. Who's the one who taught
your forefathers to wash themselves
after using the bathroom?
Look, not just not more than 200 years
ago.
In Europe, people used to bathe not once
a not once a day, not twice a
week, not once a week, not once a
month. Queen Victoria is famous. She used to
bathe twice a year.
Literally, there are so many things people learn
from
the Muslims. If they want to accept it,
that's good. If they don't want to accept
it, that's fine also. The mathematics that you
need in order to, you know, in order
to use a GPS, the mathematics you need
for all of these things. And I'm not
the person who's like, oh, look. You know?
There was a
scientist in the middle ages, so Islam, therefore
Islam is amazing. But the fact of the
matter is that Islam gave benefit to people.
Some people, the benefit was in the dunya
and the akhirah, which are the people who
accepted the deen and the people who didn't,
the benefit is in the dunya. They've accepted
from the deen. They've benefited from
And we're human beings. Nobody is disconnected from
the other person. Any Muslim who is gonna
get up and say, oh look, the west
has given nothing to the Muslims except for
grief.
That's not a factually correct statement.
First of all, Mauritania is further west than
England is. But aside from that point, right,
that's not factually correct anyway. Why?
Where do your hajjaj go to Hajj on
camels anymore? They they fly on planes. There
are surely there are some Muslim engineers that
that work at Boeing and Airbus, but there
are also a lot of people from other
faiths as well. Look at the air conditioners
that people, you know, use in the hotels.
These are all these are what these are
human beings. We benefit from one another. That's
one of our best traditions that we do,
that we benefit from one another. We help
one another. We benefit from one another's knowledge,
we teach one another better ways of living
and things like that. And so this is
also a sunnah of rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
when a catastrophe happened. Imagine if it was
the other way around.
If in Burma, the Muslims had rioted and
kicked the, you know, like, hundreds of thousands
of Buddhist
refugees out of the country.
Nobody can call themselves a follower of Rasool
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam if they're going to
say, oh, yeah. They deserve it and this
and that and the other thing. Maybe some
people commit a crime. They deserve to be
punished for it. How can you punish women
and children? How can you see how can
you see,
the pain and suffering of of innocent people?
Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam used to be
moved from the pain and suffering of guilty
people.
That used to that used to cause him
takleef. It used to cause him difficulty to
see that.
He used to weep about kuffar going to
the hellfire. Imagine how much he wept for
the people of this ummah that will go
to the hellfire even if for a temporary
time.
To not feel for someone's pain and suffering
is bad enough, people that you benefited from,
people that you got good from, you got
khair from. Look at the entire nation of
Sham has been leveled before our eyes.
Look at the entire nation of, of of
Iraq was leveled before our eyes. You don't
have to be that old to remember these
things.
Mosul Mosul is
a city of of of that gave great
things to the the the Muslim Ummah and
gave great things to the world.
Mosul itself, you see, it's just in the
last couple of months, it's been completely leveled.
It's been completely demolished.
It started from the demolition of its central
master, then it went to the entire city
is completely like trashed. It's it's gone. There's
over a 1000 years of history. There's literally
thousands of years of history that that's gone.
The the most sacred place in the entire
city of Mosul was the mazar of Sayidina
Yunus ibn Mathur
alaihis salam, the prophet Yunus alaihis salam. And,
it was destroyed. It was destroyed. We're not
even going to how how are you gonna
blame? Everyone wants to blame America and Russia
and China and all of these other people.
It was Muslims who destroyed it. Idiot Muslims.
But it was Muslims, they destroyed it with
their own hand. If you show disrespect to
a nabi of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala like
this, then you shouldn't be surprised when the
entire when the entire city gets
trashed. Why? Because the judgment of Allah comes
down on people in this world collectively, and
it comes down on people in the akhira
individually.
Wataqhu fitnatalatussi
bandalatheena walamum minkum hasatan. Fear the punishment that
doesn't afflict only the people who committed zulum
amongst you.
All of these things are
happening. That's one layer. It's a very legitimate
reason for a person,
if they look at these things in a
vacuum, to be very depressed.
Now add another depressing,
another depressing level to the pyramid.
There's all these kind of, like, scandal y
type things happening around us.
So people are like, oh, this happened, that
happened, he said, she said, he did, she
did, all of these different types of things.
And, oh my god. Now,
the sky is falling, and this is gonna
happen, and that's gonna happen. Whereas the fact
of the matter is that
oftentimes these things as I mean, they're not
good. They're not something that you should go
and get a birthday cake for. But at
the same time, they're other people's personal problems.
There are other people's private problems.
If someone came to your house and stole
something from you, that's one thing. This is
an issue between 2 other people that's not
really any of your problem.
But no, it was, you know, a shaykh
was involved.
Even if whoever was involved was a sheikh
or not, Allah knows best. But even if
the person is a sheikh, it's not the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Right? No. It's
not your problem.
There's no one individual after Sayyidina Rasulullah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam upon which this ummah is
contingent.
The people who are closest to being out
to that level were the Khulafa Rashidun and
the sahaba radiAllahu anhu, and they've passed.
And Sayyidina Abdullah bin Mas'ud radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
said very brilliantly,
A person who wishes to take a sunnah,
let them take the sunnah of the ones
who have already died. Because the living, you
don't know
what their affairs, what they're gonna end on.
Because you and me are not people who
know the reb.
You pray 5 times a day and you
make budu and you make vicker a lot
and stuff like that, you still don't know
the reb.
You saw a dream last week in which
you predicted accurately the winning lotto numbers for
next week, you still don't know the reib.
It was one thing Allah showed it to
you. You still don't know the ghiba.
Someone can completely pull the wool over your
eyes. You might think person is the most
pious person in the world, turns out he's
a fraud tomorrow. You might think the person
is a fraud, then you see something from
them that, Oh my goodness. This person was
actually a waliyah of Allah.
You have no idea what's inside of people's
hearts.
Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam chastised the sahaba
about this radhiyallahu alaihi wa sallam. On the
number of occasions, who are you and I?
There's no alama, fahama, bir,
Sheikh Murshid Mawlana Mufti of our time that
that we'll be able to know all of
these things. Even some people, Allah shows them
some things, they know some things that's what
they know is less than what what they
don't know like a drop is less than
the ocean.
The deen isn't contingent on any people and
any people.
This is more depressing. Why? Because the people
don't understand that these are not even real
problems. These are issues that happen. You just
found out somebody is a human being.
Good for you. Do you want a PhD?
Should we get you
a Twitter account with, like, a 100,000 followers
that you're such a genius that people will
benefit from your wisdom? You just found out
someone was someone was a human being.
Otherwise, everybody has problems.
Some of them, they're better hidden than others.
Allah himself is a sataar.
Does that excuse bad things people do? No.
But it doesn't mean also that if somebody
someone accused somebody of something that this is
like the end of something, we need to
spend all of our time and our all
of our attention on these things.
Especially what happens in the bedroom, this thing
is especially protected by by the deen of
Allah ta'ala That don't get into it. Don't
go there.
The accusation of zina, in case people forgot.
May I remind
everybody
that the accusation of in this sharia, in
the sacred sharia is haram to make,
unless you have 1 of 3 khala'in.
Either 4 witnesses witness the act happening like
the thread goes into the eye of the
needle.
Which as far as I can tell, like
legally has never happened.
Legally, there's I mean, maybe it's happened like
people saw it happened, 'Auudubila' but legally, I
don't I don't recall any reading any case.
I don't know. I'm not saying it's not
I myself in my reading have never heard
of any case where 4 witnesses brought a
shari'a,
shahada,
a legal witness in front of a judge
saying that we saw this, and because of
that, this evidence was established. And And I
think it's on purpose. It's not really it's
known it's never gonna happen.
Or the second is what? That somebody comes
in front of a judge
and under no duress and in the in
in in the right frame of mind,
admits to having committed.
Don't even have a judge over here, by
the way. There's no in America.
Maybe if the got together and appointed somebody,
that person would be the They would be
like the, you know, it wouldn't be like
it wouldn't be like Coke, but it would
be like whatever. Shasta Cola of being a
hobby.
You know,
the masjid is doesn't wanna pay whatever 50¢
a can. You wanna pay 45¢.
So, you know, we can have that. That's
something we should do. That's a shame also.
That's something actually worth being depressed about that
our people can't get together and do these
things. Alright. We don't even have that.
We don't even have the Shastaqadi.
So,
there's nobody even to take the there's nobody
even to take the the witness to.
And I don't know. I'm not like a
a I'm not a a person who is
an exhaustive
of the entire Sharia, but my understanding, at
least according to the Hanafi and the Maliki
schools, is that if if the sin of
Zina is committed in in,
in a place that there's no jurisdiction, there's
no judge.
Like outside of the Arab Islam or a
place where there's no judge and there's no
jurisdiction,
then it's the the the sin remains, the
spiritual
blackness from that sin remains,
but there's no legal recourse.
So even if they go and travel to
a Muslim country and appear in front of
an actual Qadhi and that person admits still
the punishment, there's no jurisdiction for the punishment.
Or the third is what? According to Malik
and I don't even think the other I
don't think Imam Hanifa accepts this. But according
to Malik, if a woman shows up pregnant
without having been married within the amount of
time that rationally would,
substantiate her being pregnant, that that was that
that's a proof of zina according to Malik.
If none of these three things happen, the
sin of accusing a person of zina is
in many ways worse than the sin of
zina itself.
Why?
This is other people's business.
Don't you know exposing your own sins is
haram, exposing another person's sins is haram.
If one person committed a crime against another
person,
then there should be justice, there should be
recourse, and that happens at the hands of
authorities.
If 2 consenting adults commit a a sin
with one another,
then that's theirs to hide and tell yomukriyama.
There's a difference between them. People say, oh,
sheikh, it's a power issue. You know, sheikh
has more power over students and what okay.
Fine. If it's not a 5050 issue, it's
a it's a whatever 7525
issue, what is it? The where does the
blame lie? At any rate, if a person
does enters into a sin with their own
volition,
that's what we're talking about.
So I'm not saying that a person who
has been who has been abused, for example,
if somebody somebody takes another person, locks them
in a room and beats them up,
that's something you call the authorities. It should
be taken care it should be prosecuted. Why?
Because it's completely under duress. Something that people
did even under pressure, but they did from
their own free will. Those things, they don't
they they they don't have
any purview in the public that they should
be brought up.
Bringing those things up is not a shia'at
of our civilization.
It's a shia'at of the civilization of who?
Of those people who say what?
That everyone falls short of the glory of
God.
And so if you accept the son of
god as your personal savior, then god lives
inside of you and now you'll live a
holy and sacred life.
At the same time
at the same time, the most judgmental at
the same time what?
The ones who are the furthest from the
obedience of god. Those people who consider forget
about zina. They consider the relations between a
husband and a wife to be a sin
as well. Those are the ones who commit
the most zina
in the world. They're the proponents of zina.
When you talk about chastity as a public
value, they say this is backwards,
this is medieval, this is patriarchal, this is
oppressive, this is this, this is that, this
is the other thing.
How dare you say that
that men and women should dress modestly? How
dare you say men and women should be
separate? This is a cause of backwardness in
your countries. What does backwardness mean?
Statistically, more people in the Muslim country know
who their fathers are than other places.
This is a backwardness, alhamdulillah, I'm happy with.
This is depressing why these are not issues
for you guys to for you guys to
worry about.
You should be cautious in who you take
your ilm from.
If you have any reason, Imam Bukhari one
time, he was he went and traveled a
long distance.
Anecdotally at any rate, Mufti Husayn and the
kind of
will tell you whether the story is true
or not. At least anecdotally,
they tell the story about Imam Buhari that
he he went to hear hadith from an
individual
and,
traveled so far. It's not like, you know,
I'd be upset if I went to hear
hadith from someone I sat on the, whatever,
the CTA line and went all the way
downtown and then had to switch buses and
things like that. We're talking about from one
country to another country on foot. And then
he saw that that person was, giving food
to the or trying to get the horse
into the barn and he faked like he
had food inside of his hand just to
get the horse to come. He said, if
this guy is gonna lie to the horse,
I'm not gonna
I'm I'm not gonna I'm not gonna hear
hadith from him. That's fine. If you have
a doubt about a person,
you not learning from somebody doesn't mean that
you're like, 'Yeah. This person is like a
murderer or is he going to jahannam or
he commits zina or he does this, that,
or the other thing.' If you feel uncomfortable
with someone or you have some sort of
doubt, then a person should be very careful
about who they take their deen from.
Just because you choose not to sit with
somebody as a teacher, doesn't mean that you're
condemning them to whatever. You should have in
your heart a good opinion of that person
unless you have you know, unless they explicitly
do or say something wrong in front of
your eyes. But if there's some benefit of
the doubt or ambiguity,
it's okay to like say, I'm not gonna
study from this person, but like at the
same time, have have There's no bond for
them. You don't have the right or the
duty to be judge, jury, executioner or even
have to have an opinion about everything.
When it comes to people's personal matters, specifically
the the the what happens in a person's
bedroom, you don't even have the right to
have an opinion about it. You're not even
supposed to pay attention to it. This is
the the the values of Islam.
And again, the the the civilization that we
live in, they love to see celebrities and
successful people,
beautiful people,
young people, wealthy people, people whose lives are
going really great. They love to see those
people's lives get destroyed and ruined.
Whether legitimately or otherwise, they love it. It's
something salacious. Everybody, like, they they they kind
of, like,
relish the misery that look, you know, somebody
else is miserable as well in this world,
and they're very happy about it. We're not
like that. We're the ummah of people when
we hear about another Muslim or another person
and we hear about another Muslim doing well,
we ask Allah to give that person barakah
and give them more.
When we hear about a
bad person
or a non Muslim
doing well in this world, what do we
say? We say, Allah, just like you gave
him good in his material possessions, give him
good in his,
spiritual,
in his spiritual wealth as well.
Make his make his heart also conformant to
the good state that he has outwardly.
That's who we are. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam didn't use to say bad about people,
wish bad or wish ill for people.
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam until unless he was
required to by the commandment of Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala. So this is even more depressing
that we have actual stuff we need to
take care of
And now people are obsessing about, like, things
that
are really none of their business or at
the maximum,
issues of secondary importance.
That our sisters are literally, like, dying of
cholera or they're being abused at the hands
of, like, hostile non Muslim men,
or or whatever in in in nations of
the earth. And this is the thing that
this is the only thing that we can
and we're like, oh my god. I heard
so and so made eyes at so and
so, and they exchanged WhatsApp messages. The sky
is falling. Come on. It's none of your
business in the first don't even read those
things. If you are a judge, then by
all means, evaluate all of those things. If
you're not a judge, you're not in a
position to worry about those things, don't read
them. If you don't wanna study with that
person, don't study with them.
If you wanna warn your friends, don't study.
I would rather not study. Go ahead. But
don't make a big deal out of it
like the sky is falling.
The pyramid we go higher there are many
people in this ummah while we're busy worrying
about the first two groups of things. There
are people who have gone in this ummah,
People identify as Muslims that haven't prayed for
years.
This should cause us concern. This should cause
us grief. Why?
Don't you know Hadith of Rasool Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam?
That one of you will not perfect their
belief until they love for their brother what
they love for themself.
Right? You have to what you like for
yourself, you have to like it for other
people. Right?
So if you what if you if you
like that you have
a sword, then you should like that the
other kid has a sword. If they don't
have a sword, like to play with,
plastic sword, then you should share with them.
Otherwise, you don't have proper iman inside of
your your heart. Right?
And also Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
Whoever deliberately
like wastes the salat or waste the salat
that person,
That person
that had the chance to pray and didn't
pray,
that person who wasted the salat, that person,
it's as if his entire
family and wealth were all destroyed in one
day.
So who would wish that for somebody else?
If you don't have concern, well, they don't
realize their problem.
This is a sign. There's an oksan. There's
a deficiency, an aiba, like a blemish or
a
imperfection inside of the iman of a person.
People should worry about these things.
People get real excited.
There is so and so Muslim won the
Nobel Prize, and so and so Muslims number
of Muslim PhDs, and a quarter the doctors
in America are Muslims. And this is Muslim
and that's Muslim. And they send around WhatsApp
messages about all of these things. This is
ridiculous.
If getting Nobel Prize and PhD is
a sign of, like, the righteousness of your
path, then atheism is the way to go.
And what does that mean? That means that
the those weird, you know, couple of Norwegians
who sit together and pick who the Nobel
Prize goes to or sweet Swedish people who
pick the who the Nobel Prize go to,
those people must be gods.
Right?
Because the only person who who legislates what's
good and virtuous and what's not is that's
the function of divinity. It's not the function
of of the people from the mundane realm.
And there are some people who worship worship
those people.
That's also and some of them many of
them some of them, you know, they also,
they're buried in the Muslim cemetery as well.
That should be a cause of concern for
us.
Some of us have these have these issues
ourselves. That should be a cause of concern
for us.
The fact that people are are
are wasting the prayer
is a greater cause of concern
for the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and the
Sahaba radiAllahu ta'ala Anhum that a lot of
the things that we fret about
That a lot of the things that we
fret about. These are different layers of problems
that we're dealing with.
A person said, well, Sheikh, what was the
point of coming to this thing? You gave
us some pizza and some cake. Actually, it
was Imran Tasim who brought it all out
to Ijazih Ilkhair.
It was his hustle at least.
Did you just bring us here just to
depress the heck out of us so that
we're you know, we don't know what to
do and, like, now we have this cake.
We just ate cake so it makes us
feel worse
about all of it. The fact of the
matter is that the ummah is not at
rock bottom right now.
Ooma has been in worse situations than this.
A 100 years ago, what's the year right
now?
Right? It's 19 2019.
That was a while ago. It's 2017.
So a 100 years ago, what what what
what was going on in the Ummah? The
entire Muslim world was occupied by
by what?
Occupied by colonial powers?
There was no con almost no free country
in the Muslim world.
What was happening at that time?
The caliphate is disintegrating.
Masdul Aqsa is
going to transfer into the hands of the
Kuffar.
A time of complete and great humiliation in
the Ummah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
outwardly.
What happened before that? The Mongols invaded. They
sacked Baghdad. People thought that this has been
the seat of the caliphate for so many
centuries.
Maybe the sack of Bardad is like a
sign of the end of times.
What happened? The Crusaders, they took over the
holy land. They spilled so much blood. Literally,
100 of thousands of people they killed.
Their their kingdoms won't be removed from the
won't be removed from the, from the Darul
Islam
except for after great effort, over a century
of effort.
Multi generational
it was so bad and they were so
entrenched. It was multi generational planning that removed
them from there.
They went back to their own countries and
they said, we went and we lived in
this place. It was amazing.
They like eat spices in their food and
they,
you know, they actually like, you know, whatever.
They have grooming. They like they they remove
their body hair and they, you know, bathe
every day and they do this and they
do that and they do the other thing.
They learn lessons from
from from from the Muslims. They it was
something that kind of helped them up their
game. The Muslims had to go through such
bitter conflict generation
after generation of of of of of people
had to literally put in their their effort
in order to
remove the blight of, of the the farinja
from the the the farangi from the from
the sacred homeland of the Muslims.
There were stuff that happened. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam died.
Can you imagine what does that mean? The
entire Arab the entire Arab, Arabian Peninsula started
rebelling against Islam.
There was a time that the the armies
were so overstretched. We mentioned it before. It's
worth mentioning.
Imagine that he had the old men, the
the like the the Babas, the people who
are too weak to go out in battle.
He had them put on armor and stand
guard at the gates of Medina because it
was so weak. It was so undefended that
even forget about an army of the other
tribes. Even the Bedouin raiders, like small time
thieves could have overrun Madinah if they if
they had known that it was completely undefended
at that time.
So they would see and see there's people
in armor from a distance, like standing guard
at the at the gates, that there is
a garrison still protecting Medina. There was nothing.
There's nothing at all. Said Abu Bakr himself
used to take turns standing guard at the
gates and armor,
despite the fact that he was old at
that time. He was in his sixties.
So many times
Rasulullah SAW Alaihi Wasallam during his lifetime in
the battle of Uhud.
The Bushriqin said that that we we killed
we killed Muhammad Ali Saath wa Salam ahu
Billah.
What calamity is that? In the middle of
losing a battle or feeling like you're losing
a battle to hear what? That Rasool Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam who you love more
than your life itself, who promised one day
we're gonna conquer Sham. He promised one day
we'll conquer Iraq. He promised one day we'll
conquer Yemen. He promised all of these things
will happen and in the middle of the
battle to to to to find out that
he's he just killed some of the sahaba
radiAllahu anhu went into such shock.
Into such shock they just sat down in
the middle of the battlefield or they they
just they bounced. They're like, there's nothing else
for us here anymore, we're just out.
And there's some of them that stayed and
fought.
They all learned a lesson from that day
actually. There was a lot of khair in
it.
If any of us were to say it,
we make takshir on on that person, but
Allah is the one who has the right
to say it. That Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam is nothing except for just a messenger
of mine. And there have been other messengers
that came from came before him.
If he were to die or be killed,
would you tuck tails, turn your heels and
run away?
Whoever tuck tails and runs, whoever turns on
their heels and runs doesn't harm Allah to
Allah one bit but Allah to Allah to
Allah to Allah to Allah to Allah to
Allah to Allah to Allah and stay firm
on this thing. Allah Ta'ala will reward them.
And so the sahaba radiAllahu anhu, all of
them there is khair in them. They learned
the lesson that day that the proper way,
the way of revelation
is what? Is that even if the most
the
most insane of catastrophes comes down on you,
you don't turn heels and bounce.
Rather you just keep going.
And this is also,
what happened when the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam
actually passed away and said that Umar alayhi
wa han who went into shock. These 2
ayat this ayat was the the thing that
brought him out of that shock when Abu
Bakr radiAllahu anhu read it to him. He
said that he read it to me. It's
as if I never heard it before that
time he read it to me.
This this this is also,
epitomized by Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam the attributed
to him that if you're planting a tree,
and the
is coming,
just keep planting it. You just keep going.
Whatever happens, you just keep doing what you're
gonna do. Even if everybody else is,
committing indecency, if you're a decent person, you
just stay on your decency.
They do what they do. You do what
you do. The snake is always going to
have venom in its fangs. It's also always
gonna attack things.
Right? The lion is always going to be
brave. The jaquah and hyena are always gonna
be the way that they are. If you're
a believer, you always whatever happens, whatever doesn't
happen. You know, if someone says you have
5 minutes to live, you just keep going.
If the time for the salat comes in,
you don't even, you know, you you're not
even going to live until the end of
it. Just start your prayer, the rest of
it. You do your job. Allah does his.
This is important to understand.
This is important to understand.
Our president just gave a speech in the
UN a couple of days ago
in which he
called names to other world leaders, and he
promised that he's going to if this happens,
I'm gonna demolish such and such country and
whatever. Right?
And
you know something's wrong.
He said all this stuff about North Korea.
North Korea is not known to be like
the most even keel like place in the
world where, like, things happen very normally or
regularly.
Usually the statements that come out of Pyongyang
are
pretty crazy.
Okay?
The North Korean ambassador,
he said about that speech,
he said that the dog will bark the
dogs will bark, but the caravan moves on.
This is all nonsense. We don't we don't
we don't care about all this nonsense
talk. And you know something's really messed up
when the North Koreans are sounding a lot
more like they sound like that sounds straight
up wise, man. That sounds like
some, like like, roomy level of Hikma, man.
And, he said the dogs will bark with
the caravans the caravan moves on.
And
the reason I named names and brought that
up is what? It's because there are people
in this world, by the way.
They will seem to have a lot of
power.
They will seem to have a lot of
clout. Everybody listens to everything they have to
say. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala doesn't sees doesn't
look at your the your the way you
look and he doesn't look the the way
your body is, but he looks at what's
inside of your heart.
And if he if if that's something that's
good inside of that heart, Allah ta'ala will
have mercy on that person. And there are
certain people that may look like they're really
big people, but to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
that person's
worth is less than what you would think
about like a beetle,
eating dung.
The dog will bark,
the dogs will bark, the caravan moves on.
Don't
don't
invest your heart on the dogs barking.
Don't be the one who's left behind. Be
part of the caravan that moves on.
One of the beautiful lessons from the the
eclipse that happened right before we left for
Hajj. Some
people literally left on the day of the
eclipse.
I was downtown in Chicago. I was in
the middle of a deposition,
in the in the federal,
federal
courthouse, for some consulting work on on a
case that that that's going on.
And I didn't think like I didn't put
2 and 2 together that the eclipse prayer
the eclipse is gonna happen during the deposition.
So I asked them. I said, can I
have some just a couple of times? I'll
a a little bit of time, I should
say.
I'll just pray,
you know, the 2 rakas, the sunnah that
you should pray for as long as the
eclipse is and it's a very long prayer.
At least I'll pray something rather than completely
ignoring sunnah at any rate. Right?
At least according to Malik. I don't know.
What's the Hanafi
opinion of the regarding the cliff's prayer?
Yeah. Can't remember.
Okay.
Don't ever say in front of, like, non
students of knowledge or non I don't know
or can't remember. Say, I'll look it up
and get back to you.
I may not teach you ill, but I'll
teach you how to be a moldy. Okay?
Don't ever say I don't know or I
have to say, I'll look it up and
I'll get back to you. So this is
is a difference of opinion. I'll look it
up and get back to you.
So
I thought it's a sunnah of prayer.
Then, like, in the middle of the the
eclipse prayer, the thought crossed my mind
that like,
yo man, this whole thing could just go
down right now.
I'm thinking of all the stupid nonsense that's
happening in the world.
And the sun literally disappears in the middle
of the day.
And all of this could go down at
any time.
And it reminds everybody
that elections can happen,
businesses can succeed and fail,
drama can happen, scandals can happen, successes can
happen, failures can happen.
Whatever fun and games are happening down here,
the system above And I'm not just talking
about the solar system.
And I'm not just talking above in a
directional sense.
But meaning there are higher orders of meaning
and higher of reality
that that that that that that supersede this,
like, small existence that we have.
The system above doesn't stop for any of
it.
It doesn't change for any of it. It
doesn't care who's down on the uh-uh-uh below.
Don't you know Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
the Arabs used to think that the eclipse
it was their superstition that eclipse happens when
a great person dies.
And after Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's
son said Ibrahim alaihi salam. Ibrahim, the son
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam passed away.
Eclipse happened. Many people,
they became convinced that Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam must be a special person because
of this. He gathered everyone together in the
masjid. If he was a charlatan, he would
have taken this opportunity.
He gathered everyone
every opportunity to, like, show how amazing he
is. He gathered everyone in the in the
masjid and said, this is not because of
this and that. This is what? This is
a sign of Allah ta'ala. This doesn't have
to have to do with you and me.
It's a lesson to all of us. It's
a lesson to all of us.
Whatever happens in the bottom, people are racist,
call each other names, they cheat each other,
they lie to each other, they're pious, they're
everything.
Whatever happens in this, like fun and games
happens in this realm, the system above doesn't
stop.
The system above doesn't stop. It doesn't change
for anybody.
Right? You won't find any sort of transfer
or change in the the sunnah of Allah
Ta'ala the way Allah Ta'ala. Allah Ta'ala Himself,
He doesn't change.
Allah, the sunnah of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
doesn't change. Allah Ta'ala doesn't change. This is
one of the cornerstones of our our our
iman, a cornerstone of our aqidah.
I've taught mashallah aqidah at Tahawiyah in so
many places. It's also online in the SoundCloud.
If you haven't read it, if you don't
wanna read it from me, read it from
somebody else. Read about what our beliefs are
for, regarding Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. These are
basic things people don't know about.
Whatever happens,
the dogs will bark, the caravan moves on.
The caravan moves on. Don't be stuck with
the dogs.
This means what? There are certain things in
life we're gonna have to react to.
You get into a car accident, you break
your leg, you have to go to the
hospital.
Overwhelming majority of things that you do in
your life have to be proactive.
Oh, you who believe, fear Allah ta'ala and
let every soul look for what it prepared
for tomorrow.
And fear Allah ta'ala and know that Allah
ta'ala is all aware of that what you
do.
You have to make a plan for tomorrow.
And this is not just like tomorrow,
Monday, 25th
of of September.
This is the tomorrow after the sun sets
on this dunya and it's done.
You have to make a plan for that.
Otherwise, you're not you're you don't know where
you're gonna end up.
If you want to do some of that
and that's you thinking for yourself. And this
is one one great sunnah that's lost on
us.
Planning for yourself, it will
lead you to one way
of behaving and one way of living.
That's fine.
It's a saying among Arabs, the person who
saves himself, no one can blame them.
No one can blame them. If someone makes
an announcement that, like, you know, the first
three people out the door are are saved,
I'm gonna shoot everybody else.
Whoever like makes the dead run, the sprint
to the door and gets out, no one
can say like, oh, how come you hey,
man, I wanna survive.
It may not it may not be pretty
or whatever, but no one can say why
did you do that. Everyone knows why. Everyone
understands why a person would do that.
Thinking for yourself
is one way of thinking and it's one
way of living.
This is not the prophetic methodology. This is
not the prophetic way of living. This is
not the prophetic way of
being.
You think for what? You think for everybody.
You think holistically,
for the ummah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. You think for your parents, you
think for your family, you think for other
people.
When it comes to matter of deen, you
prefer yourself over others. When it comes to
matters of dunya Allah ta'ala makes in praise
of the Sahaba radiAllahu anhu, specifically the Ansar
radiAllahu anhu that they prefer other people over
themselves
even though poverty
dire poverty may be their lot.
Which means what?
Sometimes speaking the truth is bad for you
yourself,
but it will be a source of for
the ummah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
Sometimes it's good just to keep your head
down and get through.
But if everybody does it,
what will happen?
The entire system collapses.
So you have Muslims living in places like
Syria.
You have Muslims living in places, like different
places around the world. They're literally the majority
of the people there.
And they're all being,
they're all being basically taken for a ride.
There was a time if everybody said, no.
We're not going to accept this, then things
wouldn't have been that way. But everyone knows
if I'm the first one to raise my
head, if I'm the first one to raise
my voice, I'm the one who's gonna get
picked off.
Why me?
The irony is the person who is what?
Thinking for themselves?
That person, the entire society is a society,
all of them are going to get trashed.
And the person who is thinking for the
society, all of those individuals are going to
be be They're gonna do well.
It's not even all of them have to
be that way. Just a contingent, a sizable
contingent of every society. If they're not gonna
take nonsense no more, it's it doesn't work.
The nonsense is not going to work.
How many how many how many, the plantation?
How many masters were there? How many slaves
were there on a plantation? Slaves overwhelmed the
overwhelmed the masters in numbers.
There were actually times in the history of
America where slaves were like, yo, this is
bogus. We're not doing this no more. Completely
overrun the they had to call the military
and it becomes a huge conflagration. It becomes
a huge mess that that that requires all
of this effort in order for them to
to to to mop up. Why?
This is part of the human condition. Sometimes
one person will come and order everybody. Around
50 people will listen to what they do.
That person will screw everybody over and they'll
they'll,
take everything. Those people, just a fraction of
them, if they got together, they could have
overwhelmed them. But this is the the the
magic of shaitan
that when he puts in your in your
ear, this thing that about selfishness that everybody
becomes a loser. Everybody becomes a loser. Everybody
loses.
This way of thinking is not the prophetic
way of thinking. This way of thinking doesn't
have any profit in it.
A person thinks if I'm the first one
to raise my voice, I'm gonna be cut
off, I'm gonna be destroyed, I'm gonna be
you know, it's not gonna be good. In
fact, this is an argument that the Quraysh
made.
If we get rid of all the gods,
all the Arabs are going to
oppose us and we're
we're gonna get unseated from the Haram Sharif.
Did it happen?
One person from Quresh is ruling over Spain.
1 person from Quresh is ruling over,
Damascus,
an empire that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean
all the way to India. One person from
Quresh is this and from that.
Literally, the entire world is filled with Sayyids
and with Parashis and with Ansaris and with
all of these people. Did it happen?
No. Everything worked out. Everything worked out in
the end. This is an insinuation shaitan puts
inside of your head.
If you want to if you want to
what? If you want to be successful in
your future, that caravan that's going to move
on either with you or without you, people
need to think about about things at in
this prophetic way, in this societal
at the societal level.
What do they need to do?
When the Muslims were unseated from the the
the holy lands,
from Sham,
from Edessa, and from,
Antioch, and from
from, Lebanon and from Jerusalem
and from all of these different places, and
the Crusaders built these huge fortifications that entrenched
themselves in those places.
There was a a
a a Kurdish,
ruler,
Ahmad Adira Zengi, who what? He gathered together,
like, different
warring factions and tried to, like, put aside
their was
complete. He put his son on the throne,
Nuruddin Zengi. What was complete.
He put his son on the throne, Nuruddin
Zengi, one of the most pious one of
the most pious and,
unknown
people in the ummah, amongst the Awam, amongst
the masses. Maybe the Arabs know a little
bit about them. Very few people have heard
of sahaddinayubi.
Sahadinayubi is like a fruit from that tree.
What did he do?
Aside from being the best in his politics,
aside from being the best in his tactic
and having a powerful army and all of
these things that we think are what you
need in order to be victorious.
And they're not what you need in order
to be victorious. Otherwise, the Muslims are a
5th of the world's population. They're probably more
than a 5th of the world's wealth, but
they're what? Each one of them is the
one who's trying to just save themselves and
like because of that all of them are
herded together like slaves.
Like Banu Israel. Like Banu Israel. Allah told
us their stories not to make fun of
them but because
because Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam told us
that we're gonna follow their method, we're gonna
follow their way before the end of time.
What did what did what did Nur Din
Zengi do?
He literally was known during his reign any
person who was an achieved person in elm,
in knowledge.
Any person who was an achieved person in
any branch of learning. That person from the
different parts of the Muslim world because Nur
ad Din Zengi was like the emir of
Damascus and Halab of Aleppo and things like
that. He was was a small area. It
was not anywhere near the entire ummah. Right?
What did he do?
He he he called any any alim as
a standing offer that he'll pay he'll pay
them generously to what? Start teaching the deen.
He had madares constructed everywhere. Maqtabs constructed everywhere.
Why?
Because you have kids, their names are Mohammed
and Ahmed and Khaled and whatever
and go ask them. Go wander the streets
of Schaumburg and wander the street of Glendale
Heights, wander the streets of Villa Park and
Glen Ellyn. This is Chicago, Sharif. Forget about
what's happening in North Carolina and in Texas
and and and and, Nevada and in Idaho
and other places. Forget about that. That's like
a completely another thing. Go wander the streets
and and and and and whatever in in
these places and Divan and whatever. Find one
of the children of the Muslims. Find one
of the children of Tawhid.
Ask them what do you want.
I wanna drive this type of car. I
wanna wear this type of shoe.
I want to do this. I I you
know I want I want this type of
money. I want this type of job. I
wanna be a doctor. I wanna be an
engineer.
I like Netflix rather than cable.
I read this on Facebook. I'm going to
the Blackhawks game. I'm going to the and
I'm going to the Bulls game. I'm going
to the Bears game. Whatever.
Sheikh, are you saying Bears is haram? No.
I'm not saying it's haram.
Nor is it haram to be a doctor.
Nor is it haram to,
have money.
Allah Ta'ala didn't create you for those things.
Nuruddin Zengi understood
what
Muslim lands are filled with people like this.
Until this problem is taken care of, if
you think on a communal level. Right? Because
the strength of a nation isn't based on
how many people they have.
It's based on quality.
If everyone in your country is completely illiterate,
then how are you going to be able
to do anything? If everyone in your country
is completely self centered, how are you going
to do anything? If people are like, you
know, smoking cigarettes and throwing the pack into
the street, your country has more problems than
like has solutions for the world.
Muslim countries are filled. Forget about Muslim countries.
Our own just this
triangle bounded by 355 and by 294
and by 88
and by,
290. Right?
Filled with filled with all filled with this.
And we're not saying this to judge other
people or look down on other people. Those
are our people. Those are our children. Those
are our younger brothers and sisters. Their parents
are our brothers and sisters.
Their grandparents are our own uncles, our own
aunts.
What is it? You have to make Islam
have all of these things. How are you
gonna do it? Yeah, man. The rich people
should
build,
you know, they should build madrasas so that
those kids can get educated. Guess what? They're
not doing that and they're not gonna do
it anytime soon.
So many places. I was just in just
in in a local masjid. I gave Khutba
for support for the refugees of Burma. Literally
somebody in the middle of Bayan interrupted the
Bayan. Sheikh, you went to Hajj. Why don't
you talk to the Saudi authorities so that
they can pay for these refugees?
He said, If Saudi authorities are gonna pay
for the refugees, then why are you supposed
to go to Jannah? You should go to
Jahannam, then you have no function in this
in this world.
If the rich were going to take care
of it, they would have done it by
now.
That boat sailed a long time ago. There's
a time in this ummah that the wealthy
people used to care about these things. There's
still some specific places where they do.
Here, they don't care.
What are you gonna do? Say, I guess
we're all going to jahanam now.
Are you gonna give up? Remember what did
we talk about the prophetic sunnah? Is it
to give up?
Even literally if the sword is coming down
on you, you still whatever your job is,
you keep doing it.
If you said La ilaha illallah, then start
Muhammad Rasulallah. Allah knows where you're gonna end
saying it.
They're not going to do it. Somebody has
to do it. Somebody has to do it.
Nur ad Din Zengi understood that what? That
through this ilm and through this tarbiyah that
the Deen gives, Allah Ta'ala will give victory.
He literally lived his entire life. He was
a pious man. He used to consult the
ulama on every single thing that he did.
Not just people that, well, Sheikh, well, you
know, there's this imam in the masjid and
he told me that voting was haram.
You're an idiot. You're not even looking for
you don't know what ilm is. You don't
know what an alim is. You're not even
looking. You're not even whatever. I forgive you
because who's going to be able to figure
all these things out? But trust me, there
are, like, people who are actually
like carriers of the knowledge of prophecy. They're
literally Even in America, you'll find them if
you look hard enough. They're there.
You can find they exist.
Well, Sheikh, well, I thought someone, and then
they had a scandal. Okay. It's not that
guy then. Go somebody else. Go look for
him.
Sayina Salman al Farsi radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu,
he looked his whole life, he went from
1 monk to 1 priest to 1,
a bishop to 1 pla He said, Some
of the people I found are extorting many,
some of them are abusing women, some of
them are doing this. I just stayed and
made their if it was a righteous person
until they died. If not, I would you
know, if I found something crazy, I would
just go return their to the people after
they died and then go find somebody else
to read from.
And the last person he stayed with, he
said, Go to the city of Tayma. You'll
find the nabi of the Ahl al Zaman
over there. And tell me, did any Rasul
go to Tayma?
No.
He was on his way to Taymah and
what happened?
He was treacherously
enslaved
by the caravan that he was in and
sold to the Jews of Yasserib
as a slave.
But he got to the place that he
needed to go, right?
So if you see somebody who's, she's so
and so, you know, he did this and
then scandal and whatever. So I'm not gonna
listen to Ullama anymore. No.
That's not how this this thing works.
That might be how it works if you're
like an Uber driver and you're looking for
like,
I don't know.
Or if you're like a, you know, at
the at at at you know, you're a
businessman who sells, like, cars and you're trying
to move up in, like, corner of the
Dodge market in Glendale Heights. That's not how
the deen works though. How does the deen
work?
You keep doing what you're supposed to do.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will literally drag you
to Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in chains if
you're sincere.
This is the Tartib Nur ad Din Zangi
did this. He never sought the fruits of
what he did. Rather he laid the foundation.
Some of these things literally
they'll take centuries
for them to bear fruit. You will do
something
and it will bear fruit after you're in
the grave. You won't even you won't even
know you won't with your physical eyes you'll
never see the fruit of that.
The fact that all of us are here
in this room as well. I love mashallah.
I love these gatherings,
It's a fadhu from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
They're not maybe, like, the biggest, like, most
sold out gatherings in the Chicagoland area. There's
a decent number of people. But what I
love about it, if you look at all
all the people in the room, almost nobody
has any connection with anybody else.
It's not this is like usually like people
of, like, social circles that don't intersect.
Actually, do you know who that is? Absolutely,
I have no idea. Mostly, just give me
a sec.
He's a nice guy.
The idea is what? Is that even gatherings
like this, they are the fruit of somebody
else's dua and somebody else's labor. Several people
that they intersect in ways that nobody could
have made happen but allata'ala can make them
happen and Allah ta'ala makes them happen.
One of the most depressing and irritating things
about the people, the ummah, the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam who have left the prophetic
methodology right now.
And unfortunately these bad habits are worse in
certain aqwam than they are in others.
It's the complete lack of patience.
The complete impetuousness
that I did something right now, why isn't
anything happening?
I did this. How dare you don't how
dare you not listen to me?
I did this and it failed, so therefore,
ergo, this whole method doesn't work.
Imagine
saying the Salman and Farasi, the persistence one
to the other to the other to the
other and then enslaved and then
But what happened? There's always light at the
end of the tunnel.
You may not even see it with your
own eyes. You may not even see it
with your own eyes but there's always a
light at the end of the tunnel. How
many people Does this Salman al Farasir radiAllahu
anhu, he made it to Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam. I promise you, Yo Mu'tiama, if Allah
ta'ala gives us his from his Fadul and
we enter into Jannah, you will literally millions
of people who look for him, sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, and never found him in this world,
but they'll find him in the hereafter.
Both in the past and in the future,
there's a hadith of the prophet
is narrated in the Muwata. Right? A snippet
of which is what? That he spoke to
the,
he spoke to the people in their graves
that will never that the and he's referred
to them as his brothers. And the sahaba
radiAllahu anhu said, are we not your brothers,
You Rasulullah? He says, no. You're my companions.
Meaning you have a rank higher than that.
But my brothers that I'm addressing right now
is those people who who will have believed
me,
believed in me completely and never seen me,
would have given everything they had just to
see me once.
The fruit of that will happen.
You you have to do your job though.
You can't just give up. The dogs will
bark. The caravan moves on. You have to
keep going. You have to keep doing those
things.
So
someone says, oh, the whole,
you know, 400,000,
refugees in Burma, blah blah. Go go go
back home. Go call your uncles and your
aunts. Gather the money. Send it through whatever
reputable organization you can. You did what you
can. The next time you have opportunity, do
it again. Until then, keep making dua. That's
done.
Yemen, same thing. That's done. If you can
do something,
who was there? Were you there when we
went Humayun, maybe you were there? Or Imran
Pasa Rafay, you were there. Rafay, you you
know you know, he went to, Yemen?
You know what he said inspired him to
go?
He randomly showed up to Usman that day
that we were collecting for Bani's for Yemen.
And and he heard about it and he
said for I went home depressed and I,
fell asleep and I saw a dream that
I should do something about it. I asked
the people about the the the medical,
whatever, caravan of aid that medical mission going
to Yemen.
Information.
Because the guy just thought he assumed that
I I I I'm going. And he said,
okay, send me my passport, like, tomorrow, and
it just all happened.
If you can do something, do it. Now
it's done. He went, he came back. He
he he he did it. Okay? Now we've
done the reactive stuff. What's the proactive stuff?
Whoever doesn't know Arabic, go learn Arabic.
Whoever has children, put your kids in Maktab,
put your kids in the HIFS class.
Whoever doesn't have study your ilm as if
you're in the middle of the jihadvisa billi
Allah and the gates of Jerusalem are in
front of you and you have to drive
the the the Frankish hordes out of,
out of the gates just with that much
fervor except for this is what you're gonna
invest in Quduri and you're gonna invest it
in the Hidayah.
You do that. You make effort for that.
You go teach somebody else when you're done.
Teach 10 other people when you're done.
Or go do something else with your life,
but do it according to what you learned
from that knowledge, according to what you learned
from that ilm.
These things, whatever it is, whatever that proactive
thing you have to do is, sit in
the majalis of that that we remind each
other of these things. Sit with the olema.
Do those things and do it again and
again even after it's boring, even after the
the, entertainment
and fervor, Islamotainment
of the Bayan is over. Still keep keep
keep doing those things. Keep doing those things
with the yaqeen that what? One day this
is going to pay off. One day this
is some Sheikh, you know, I'm not the
brightest,
bulb in the set, and I'm not the
sharpest tool in the shed. And, I can't
afford to take Arabic classes, and no one
will teach me and whatever. Go be a
go go volunteer. Go be a Hafsa inspector.
Inspect the
local,
the the local,
halal meat store or the local,
restaurant.
With the yateen that every person who eats
from that place, the thing that's halal and
tayr. If he's a Muslim, allata will increase
the nur in his heart. And if he's
a kafir, allata will chip away at the
khim in his heart, the the rust at
his heart. Maybe one day he'll have hidayah
from this, that every bite a person eats,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will,
give me reward for it.
Invest yourself in those things.
That's not your that's not your job, that's
your work.
Your job is what you do in order
to pay your rent. Your work is what
your life is all about, it's all for.
If you're listening and if your Islam is
on a part time level or a part
time engagement when you feel like it, it's
not an everyday thing that you do service
for the ummah of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam,
then maybe now is a good time to
think about what you should do for the
sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give all of us
Tawfiq. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, enlighten our hearts like
he enlighten the hearts of our aslaf
and bring within them the changes that are
necessary to change the world around us to
give the ummah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
a better today in this world and to
give the people around us and our neighbors
and our friends and the people who love
us and we love them and the others
as well to give them a better life
in this world and to give the ummah
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam a
better eternal life in the hereafter.
Allah
bring that light and that change in our
hearts despite the fact that we admit that
we did nothing to earn it, despite the
fact that we admit that we've wasted so
much of it, despite all of that fact
that he give from his fadl and he
give from his rahma and from his karam
because of who he is, not because of
who we are and because of his love
for rasulullah salallahu alaihi wasalam, even if we
were the ones who didn't do the actions
that make us beloved in his eyes, and
we seek refuge in Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
from our bad actions and from the evils
of our own souls. Yeah, Allah, whoever is
doing the work of the Ummah, the Rasool
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Instead of
us wasting time looking at the barking of
the dogs,
you Allah show us the person who you
love and who's doing the real work so
that we can
cast our lot in with those people so
that we can serve those people so that
we can be,
the the the the the ones who do
the of those people,
You Allah, whoever it is, whatever the people
in this world pass around certificates and and
and
money and degrees and titles and win board
elections and God knows what. Whoever,
you give the title to, who you give
the medal to, you Allah, every one of
us here, it would be our honor that
we should do that person's service.
It would be our honor our honor even
the slightest khidma that we should be able
to carry their shoes like Sayyidna
Abdullah bin Mas'ud radiAllahu ta'ala and who carried
the shoes of Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam that you show us whoever
those people are, that person is in the
zaman, that we can work work with them
and for them and not work against them,
you Allah. You Allah, in our own lives,
whatever we need for Islah, our lives are
a mess.
Our lives are totally disconnected. Our lives are
a complete mess. They're totally in shambles.
You Allah, forgive us for our sins and
our shortcomings and our complete incompetence in doing
what we need for our own islah much
less for the islah of the Ummah. You
Allah give us that we that that that
we we make rectification
in our lives and make rectification in the
ommah of the prophet
and be part of the solution rather than
being part of the problem.
You Allah accept our as weak as it
is and as broken as it is, and
give us a new life that our tomorrow
is better than our today, and what's left
of our life is better than what has
passed from our life. And that the best
of our days are our last days, and
the best of our moments are our last
moments, and the best of our words are
our last words. And make it
and accept it from us and make our
death better than our life and make our
time in our grave better than our death
and make our questioning from easy
and make our
resurrection better than our time in the grave
and make our,
hashar and gathering better than our resurrection
and give us to drink from the haud
of Sayna Rasoolallahu
alaihi wa sallam and make our our judgment
better than our gathering and give us from
the shafa'ah of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and
let us enter to Jannah with your Aliyah
even though we don't deserve to enter Jannah
with your Aliyah and make us cross the
Sirat like lightning, even though we don't deserve
to cross the Sirat at all much less
like lightning. Because you're the and
you're the one who,
if a person asks you answer and you're
the one who fills dua fulfills duas, you
Allah. Give us all of these things. You
Allah, give a better future for the Ummah
of Sayna Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and
protect our masajid and protect our khanqas and
protect our zawiyah and our maracas and our
madaris
and protect our our libraries and protect our
ulema and protect the and the and protect
our sisters and protect our elders and protect
the weak and the sick amongst us and
protect the refugees, protect those people who have
nobody else to protect, that we ourselves have
failed to protect, you Allah. Protect our children,
protect the ones that we love, protect our
brothers, protect everybody, you Allah ta'ala.
You're the you're the his and haseen of
the of this ummah, and you're the the
the the wali of this Ummah. You Allah
protect us.