Hamzah Wald Maqbul – To Love the Ummah is an Act of Prophetic Faith 03182017.mp4
AI: Summary ©
AI: Transcript ©
My parents recently came back from a trip
to Turkey. Allah
give them many more chances to
have outings and enjoy themselves now that their,
small children have become
very big.
My father told me something very interesting, which
was that wherever he went,
again and again, people
would bring up the fact that
in Ottoman Turkey, in late Ottoman Turkey,
when the Ottoman Empire
was faced with the allies,
the enmity of the allies,
They were somehow politically
bullied into
taking sides with the Germans
in World War 1, which is a decision
that,
suffice to say, hindsight is 2020. We're not
gonna go into that. But,
when they were,
you know, faced with the enmity of the
allies,
the Russians needed access to the Mediterranean, which
could only come come through the Black Sea,
the Golden Horn.
So the, British
and Australians, New Zealanders, etcetera,
they,
along with,
as much must be shamefully noted,
their
Indian conscripts, colonial conscripts,
attacked the
the the the
straight
at Gallipoli
that
leads into
the passage between the
Mediterranean and the Black Sea
with overwhelming force.
The Turks even to this day, they would
remind my father as they remind me also
when I visited that the Muslims of the
Indian subcontinent at the behest of the ulama,
they send great amounts of money.
Obviously, not as governments because the British,
colonial government is not going to,
want something like this to happen.
But the the regular people at the behest
of the the
the the,
They sent large amounts of money, to the
point where chests of,
of
jewelry, like personal jewelry from
women, their bangles and their necklaces, their rings,
etcetera, etcetera,
they were all sent to Turkey
in order to bolster the, the exchequer of
the Ottoman state, Sultan Abdulhamid,
the last functional,
the last functional sultan of the Ottoman state.
And Sultan Abdulhamid
very publicly acknowledged the help of the Indian
Muslims
and, also,
even the children of the Indian Muslims.
My father was told by these Turks,
again and again in different places in Turkey,
you know, just last week,
that that those those children, they even wrote
letters to the Ottoman Sultan in which they
expressed their their their support,
and they, mentioned their prayers for,
the the those who defended the the the
Muslim homeland,
from the attack of,
of of hostile
foreigners.
And so that help and that sympathy and
that support
was something that even to this day, the
people remember. And why shouldn't they remember it?
We live in a time where everybody is
looking after themselves.
People,
you know, in English, they say, I'm just
looking out for number 1,
even though
we're such fools because number 1 is Allah.
It's not the self. That's the biggest delusion
of the nafs is to think think that
that it's number 1. Allah to Allah is
number 1. He's
he is the the the the one, the
unique,
the single,
the everlasting,
the one who was never born,
nor did he beget, and there never shall
be anyone like unto him.
So,
obviously, people will remember because it is the
human nature, especially in age of materialism,
that people don't do stuff for one another
except for in,
you know, except for if the unless they
think that there's some sort of material benefit
that they're gonna get from it themselves.
And
so,
when someone does something like that, it's a
spiritual act. It's a transcendent act. It's an
act that transcends mundaneness
and materialism,
and it's something really worthy of remembering through
the ages and through the generations.
And the fact of the matter is even
the people who did the act, their sons
and grandsons have forgotten about it, but the
ones who are the recipients and the beneficiaries
of the act,
you know, they haven't forgotten it. There's still
the warmth and the love in their hearts,
knowing that there's someone who loved them for
the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And, the reason I wanted to mention this
is that we live in a time and
age where
people are, you know, you know, they're telling
one another to, like, grow up and become
realistic. Nobody in another part of the world
cares for you or cares about you. Why
should you care about them? They're happy to
see you go to * as long as
they have a, you know, a car in
the garage and and, you know, they're paying
their bills. They couldn't give a damn about
you.
And the fact of the matter is to
love one another for the sake of Allah
ta'ala. Everyone from this Ummah who says La
ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasoolallah.
To love one another for the sake of
Allah ta'ala is part of our Aqidah.
Imam At Tahawi who's
Aqidah,
Masha'Allah. I just taught for like the 8th
time in the last
a couple of years.
Masha'allah, he
he mentions as a point in his aqidah
that
everyone from the Ahlul Qibla, everyone who meets
any minimal definition of Islam,
every single one from the Ahlul Qibla, all
of them are the oliya of Allah Ta'ala.
All of them they're friends of Allah Ta'ala,
the ones that Allah Ta'ala befriends and guards
them.
So a person needs to be careful how
they talk about such people. To hate them
is to incur the hatred of Allah Ta'ala
and to love them is to incur the
love of Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala.
To pray for them is nothing less than
the prophetic
sunnah
that Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam who used to
pray all night and cry not for himself
He is the one that Allah Ta'ala forgave
him any mistake that he would have made.
He obviously is already divinely protected Masoom from
committing sin, and his mistakes are described by
the ulama as possibly doing something of less
virtue when he could have done something of
more virtue.
Even those theoretical and and hypothetical mistakes,
both in past and present and past and
in the future were already forgiven
by Allah Ta'ala by the text of the
Quran. So who was he praying for when
he was up at night,
all night in tahajjud?
It was for us,
who was his duas for it was for
his ummah,
who was his, what was his
Hajj when he stood for 5 and a
half hours in Arafat
during the hot part of the day standing,
in a desolate plain,
without his head covered with the sun directly
bearing down on him. It was for his
ummah. Who did he save his dua for?
It was for his ummah. Who did he
save his shafa'ah
for his intercession on the day of judgment?
It was for the sinners of the ummah,
not the Abu Bakr's and Umar's who are
going to go
to Allah Ta'ala with
the,
the honor of having been there at the
battle of Badr to defend the prophet
Alaihi Wasallam, in
person. Not the Sayyidna Uthman who's going to
be a veteran of the Battle of Badr
like Sayyidna Ali radiAllahu anhu who was there
to take the oath of fealty with the
prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam when his own family
mocked him and jeered him and his own
uncles turned their back on him. He was
the one at the age of 9, that
he, stood up and took the the the
noble hand of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
in his own noble hand. Those people they
already have it made anyway. Who did Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam save his Shafa'ah for?
For the people who said La ilaha illallah
and they took it like a birthright. But,
of course, I have La ilaha illallah. I'm
an I'm I am Pakistani. I'm an Arab.
Of course, I'm going to Jannah.
And so I can just say it, and
I'll be forgiven for all the other
bogus nonsense, baqwas type things that I'm gonna
do in my life.
You know, I have it made. You know,
those people will say
and the way that their their, you know,
grow up is, you know,
a a betrayal of the sunnah and the
way that they get married is a betrayal
of the sunnah and the way that they
live their life is a betrayal of Sunnah.
They work in in jobs that are a
betrayal of the Sunnah. They they're everything from
the way they look to the way they
act to the way they interact with the
ones they love and the ones that they
hate. All of it is a betrayal of
the Sunnah. And they they'll die in such
a way that
that, shows very little trace of Islam on
them. Those are the ones who say Narasool
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam used to cry
for. That that people like us make treachery
of the sunnah of Saydna Nabi sallallahu alaihi
wasallam.
Treachery with good akhlaq, treachery with,
living to serve other people.
We're the ones that he used to cry
for, sallallahu alaihi wasallam. It's his Mubarik tears
are we are the ones that keep us
in iman,
and we're the ones who turned our back
on his sunnah. He we're the ones that
he used to cry for and he used
to make dua for. Now tell me something,
a person who says, why should I give
a damn about someone in a foreign country?
They don't give a damn about me. If
we had to wait for Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam that we should be pious that
that our piety should earn his concern. All
of us would have been sunk and this
Ummah would have died away a long time
ago. It would have been devoid of Barakah
and it would have been devoid of mercy
and it would have been devoid of a
chance for the sinner to,
repent and walk the path of righteousness after
having been a selfish person.
Why? Because we wouldn't have made it. Our
duas would have instead of being for each
other, they would have been against one another.
And a dua or a a love that's
based on reciprocity
is not a love at all. In fact,
that's, you know, if you can't treat your
enemies with reciprocity, you're not even a human
being, you're an unjust person. Rather the sunnah
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is
anyone who says La ilaha illallah wherever they
are, whatever color they are, whatever level of
pie to your practice, they have all of
these things, whatever race they are, whatever socioeconomic
class they're in, even if you know if
you had met them, you wouldn't have gotten
along with them. The fact that you feel
in your heart the sweetness of love, is
that fact is also a part of the
sweetness of something else and that's iman. And
so this idea that we have to love
the Saydna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and we should hear the stories, hear the
Akbar, the news about what's happening to the
people of Syria, what's happening to the people
of Burma, what's happening to the people in
Somalia
that are going through this epic drought,
that's killing animals and killing children? What's happening
with the people in Nigeria?
What's happening with the people in in all
Afghanistan and Central Asia? The the Muslims that
live, in the western lands of of China
and the Muslims that live in the Central
Asian Republics
in the Indian subcontinent. What's happening with black
folks
here in the country? What's happening with white
folks here in the country who accepted La
ilaha illallah. What's happening, you know, instead of
throwing labels that this is immigrant, Islam, and
indigenous, and all this other stuff. I mean,
obviously, those labels, if you use them as
a in a matter of fact sense, that's
great. That's wonderful. But, you know, people some
people use them. There's, like, you can feel
poison inside of their,
inside of their tone as if they're trying
to separate between us and them. If you
don't look at every other Muslim and see
a part of yourself in them, right, which
is conformant with the Sahih Hadith of the
Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Al muminum
Miratul mumin. The believer is the mirror to
the believer. If you cannot look and see
yourself in another believer and see something to
love and see something to have sympathy for,
then you should go to a doctor, go
to one of the mashaikh of this, you
know, of this ummah
and and and ask how can I get
this treated? How can I how can I
how can I be healed from this? How
can I be whole again? And if, you
know and the thing is, like all other
spiritual virtues, they require some effort to acquire
and they require some effort to upkeep and
to maintain as well. So go, like, listen
to these people, talk to these people, hear
the stories of the people who are doing
well, as well as the people who are
suffering. If you can't materially participate in alleviating
their suffering, then the suffering,
then
the more important thing is that we make
Dua for one another. And if materially you're
unable to help everybody, it doesn't mean that
you should hold your hand back from helping
somebody.
This idea that we're 1 Ummah and that
we love each other for the sake of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. This is an this
is like a act of worship,
like salat, like fasting,
like praying paying zakat, like paying sadaqa, like
building the Masjid. People think that the only
service they can do for the deen is
becoming a doctor or becoming a Masjid president
and those things push those things to the
side. Those things you're not supposed to seek
them. If you seek them, they'll destroy you.
Those things if it happens, it happens.
But these are the the the primary virtues
and the characters of the heart that will
make a person Nabi like, that will make
a person like the Ambiya alai Musaat waslam.
If not,
you know, if not in a complete way,
in a
way, at least in a
way, if not, you know, to the level
of superiority that the MBIA, alaymusalam, have then
at least at some level it will be
some qadr mushtarak or common denominator between us
and between those that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
loves.
Know that loving the Ummah of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam near and far across generations
in the past and in the future and
the present.
Loving the Ummah, Sayidna Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Loving the people of La ilaha illallah. Keeping
their hirma and their sanctity.
Not making fun of them. Not mocking them.
Because to mock the thing that is holy
in front of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
itself an act of blasphemy,
which may even take a person out of
Islam even though the qadi and the mufti
are not there to give the fatwa of
kufr. And what's the benefit if Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala considers you a kafir because of
your istighfaf and your your,
Istihza, because you're making light and mocking
something that he considers holy.
You know, so instead of mocking and treating
another Muslim with sanctity, not just with respect,
We should treat all human beings with respect.
But treating another person of La ilaha illallah
as if this person is holy, he's sacred.
Allah Subhanahu his messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam, how
did he train his companions that said, Abdullah
ibn Umar
is making tawaf around the Kaaba, and he
looks at it and addresses it and says,
how holy are you? How great are you?
How sacred are you? And I swear by
Allah subhanahu ta'ala that every single believer,
even if you and I don't think they're
such a big deal, I swear that every
single believer is more holy and more sacred
than the Kaaba. And one of my Maktab
students, I said this hadith to them and
or said this to them, and they really
went home and their father asked them,
you know,
what did you learn in Maktab? He said,
the Sheikh said something strange today. So what
is it? He said he said that every
believer is more holy and sacred than the
Kaaba. And he goes, is it really true,
Baba?
And his father said, well, Sheikh said it.
It's true.
And so he came to me and he
was so happy. He said, this is just
one thing that you said to my child,
you know. I I feel like the entire,
like, Maktab process was worth it because he's
he he said it in such a way
I know he'll remember it for the rest
of his life. And this is the training
that Sayyidina Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wasallam gave. So
imagine how happy Allah Ta'ala will be with
the one who shows concern for the people
of the Ummah
near, far, all of them. Imagine how happy
Allah Ta'ala will be if the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam saved his shatha and his duas,
his tahajjud,
his concern, his worry, his tears for the
people of the Ummah. Regardless, I mean, he
knew that the people are going to be
like this. They're going to betray his message
and his sunnah and they'll ice skate by
life knowing that La ilaha illallah will confer
them some benefit in doing kind of the
minimum, the path of least resistance. He still
didn't allow that fact to obscure his love.
If
being a person of reciprocity
that I only do good to the one
who does good to me is one of
the values and one of the shiyam and
the signs of being a person of Kufr.
Then know that loving the Ummah of the
Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam even though you may
know inside your heart that they will never
give reciprocity, that they'll never,
reciprocate, that they'll never do the same back
to you, then this is the sign that
your heart is like the heart of Sayyidina
Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam at least
in this small way. And know that whoever
is like Sayyidina Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, whoever loves his sunnah will be with
him, and the one who will be with
him will be in Jannah because that's where
the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was was
created to be, and that's the one for
whom the Jannah was created in the 1st
place in all of its nirmah.
So never be a hater,
always love those
prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam's ummah. Always love the
people of La ilaha illallah. Don't worry whether
they love you back or not. The reward
is not from them rather it's from the
Allah who created them and the Allah who
loved them enough to give them the gift
of La ilaha illallah. Such a gift that
You Muqdiama
people will come with sins like the mountains
and a small placard with the with the
kalima of La ilaha illallah Muhammad
will be placed in the scale pans against
them and it will outweigh all of them.
Even if a person commits
fornication and they should steal and they should
do all of these things, this is
something that there's no physical creation in this
universe.
Only the world of meanings can contain what
its true magnitude is. There's no physical creation
in this universe that can contain contain its
true meaning and its true form and its
true,
magnitude and its true reality.
That to love that and to love the
people of that, that's an active iman and
it's an active faith and it's something that
will take people to Jannah and it's from
the khuluq of the best of this Ummah
and from the khuluq and the good character
of the first people of this Ummah and
it's something that we will carry with us.
And if other people don't wanna carry with
us, they carry with them. That's their problem,
but we'll never,
let it leave from our hearts. We'll never
let it leave from our hearts just like
those people who gave, for the sake of
their brothers and sisters in defense of their
homeland, in defense of their their honor, in
defense of their lives, in defense of their
security, and in defense of their safety,
even those who didn't have any money to
give, they sent their duas, they wrote letters
and they sent their duas and their their
their feeling.
Trust me, the love is not forgotten in
this world and even if no one in
this world recognizes that love, that love will
definitely not be forgotten on the day of
judgment, and it will definitely never be forgotten
or wasted by Allah Ta'ala or his Rasool
or those that he loves or those that
they love. Allah
make us amongst those that they love, that
we should have love and concern for the
Ummah of Saydna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that
he give us the opportunity of making service
for the Ummah of Saydna Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam and that he make
us live and pass from this world,
as part of the Ummah of Saydna Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam