Hussain Kamani – Jumuah 06-09-2024
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The heart is the qwork that keeps humans desire and love. It is the only one that can stop a love person from becoming a love person until they stop doing things that make them happy. The importance of love and commitment to the Prophet's love for society is crucial for success in life. The speaker shares a story about a woman who lost everything and committed suicide, but ultimately lost everything for being close to the Prophet. The importance of love and commitment to the Prophet's love for society is emphasized.
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
The Insan is a very fascinating creation of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
At times when you look at the human
being, so small, yet the impact is so
global and so broad, so magnificent.
The small brain of the human being can
accomplish great things.
You read through the pages of human history
and there are these people who shine, who
are unstoppable, who had conviction, who harnessed their
energy to do things beyond what billions of
people who breathed the same air were able
to do.
How does a human being reach such high
potential?
How does one human being or a group
of human beings yield such great value?
There are so many factors that come into
play.
Naturally, Qabuliyah from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
Tawfiq from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
But if you look at the human being,
the Insan at the center of it, there
are some realities that you will find there
too.
The right foundation will exist.
The correct world view will be in place.
The right akhlaq will exist for that human
being.
If any of these things are out of
balance, their ability to benefit humanity begins to
tank.
So they have to balance these things very
carefully, ensuring they don't waste their time with
the wrong knowledge and they dedicate to the
correct knowledge.
That they're not just going with what they
think needs to be done, they're really carefully
balancing and reflecting on and studying and taking
from mentors and teachers what actually should be
done.
Someone hands off a vision to them.
You will find that their character is balanced,
where they have empathy and care for humanity.
They understand that the way they wish to
be treated must be the way they treat
others for meaningful impact.
Otherwise, if there is a discrepancy there, one
of these interactions will be inhumane.
And there will be dhulm on someone, which
will pull away whatever barakah was to be
in that interaction.
Fear is no way to manage a group
of people or to bring impact or change.
For that, there needs to be genuine empathy
and sympathy.
That you're able to wake up for another
person and raise your hands and cry in
front of Allah for the congregation that you
lead.
For the people that you are responsible over,
that they are a part of those moments
that your hands are raised, you have that
much mahabba for them.
You will find in these people that there
isn't an excessive amount of confidence, because that
will destroy a person.
And neither is there no confidence, because that
depletes a person of energy.
Their confidence will be just right, where they
understand what they're capable of doing, yet not
overflowing out of humility and reliance on Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
That, ya Allah, You guide me.
You hold my hand.
You take me where I need to go,
because I can have all of the qabiliyah,
but it will be nothing without Your hubuliyah.
All the capacity within the human being could
be correct, but if there isn't acceptance from
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, something is missing.
And one of the most important parts of
the human being's machine for this to work,
for this factory to output, is at the
center, tucked away, is the heart of the
insan, the qalb.
Until the heart isn't convinced, the human being
is limited.
There's only so much you can do.
For all of this to align, there is
a need to give undivided attention to the
qalb that lies at the center of you.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, He created this
qalb of the insan.
It's so powerful, so profound, because once it
finds its purpose, once it is purified, once
it learns to love in a meaningful way,
nothing can stop that human being.
No prison, no wall, nothing can stop that
person.
The hard thing is getting people to love.
Helping them understand that until you don't turn
inward, no matter how beautiful your voice is,
or your face is, or how strong you
are, or how skilled you are in a
sport, all of this doesn't mean anything.
No matter how much wealth you have, it
doesn't mean anything until first you have truce
with your own qalb, your own heart.
Otherwise, at the center of that person that
everyone is praising is a human being that
is quietly crumbling into non-existence.
That qalb, that heart needs to be firm.
يَا مُثَبِّتَ الْقُلُوبِ ثَبِّتْ قُلُوبَنَا عَلَى الدِّينِكِ O
the one who brings firmness in the heart.
Therefore, the act that is connected to the
heart is called mahabba.
If you turn to this wazifa of the
heart, this loving act, and you go to
the roots of that Arabic word mahabba, it
originates from three letters, ha, ba, and ba.
The ba has a shada on it.
That's where you get the word hubb from,
or the beloved is called hibb.
Mahabba, these three words, when you look at
them, aslan, they come in the meaning of
thabat, luzum.
So they would refer to thabat and luzum
means to commit, to anchor yourself down somewhere.
That you're traveling somewhere and then you find
a place and you say this is appropriate,
you anchor it down.
You put your pegs in the ground that
this is where I need to be.
I can't be moved from here.
This is important that my heart, its qalb,
its nature is qalb.
Like tumbleweed to just turn and twist and
go whatever direction the wind takes it.
But now mahabba stops the qalb from taqlib,
from moving around.
And it forces it to commitment that no,
I need to be here, I need to
stop, put myself in this place.
And this is one of the differences between
meaningful love and unfortunately a lot of what
we see in today's world in the name
of love.
What we see in today's love, whether it's
on the shows, whether it's in movies, or
unfortunately in our own families, is self-serving
partial commitments.
It's all about what I can take.
It's about what I'm going to get.
It's very shallow.
It's very temporary.
That I will stop wherever I see there
is a worldly benefit.
If someone will do something small for me,
I'll be with them.
But once they turn against me or do
something I no longer desire, I'm not interested
in that.
It's a tabi'i love.
And I say tabi'i here because the
ulema, when they look at love, they divide
it into two categories.
There is that which is tabi'i, which
is a'am.
Tabi'i means natural.
This sort of love is common.
It applies to human beings.
It applies to animals and everything else that
has ability to move and has a heart.
An animal loves too.
Today it loves this fruit, and if that
fruit of that tree continues to produce, it
will continue to eat from there.
And when the tree no longer produces, the
mahabba of that animal transitions to another tree.
And then from there, another tree.
It's a very fleeting form of love.
But then there is a second form of
love that goes beyond the tabi'a of
the insan, the natural, innate inclinations of the
human being, to what we call ikhtiyari.
There is a very conscious moment that a
human being commits to or an act or
a being and says, this is something that
I need.
This is someone that I need.
And that ikhtiyar is outside of the realm
of the haywan, the animal.
The animal cannot engage in that act of
ikhtiyar.
That ikhtiyar is only for the insan because
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave aql, qalb,
bayan, all of this to the human being.
Where the human being gets to choose.
The human being is able to engage in
a rational exercise.
So now the brain is constantly churning through
information that it receives through the different senses.
And it's trying to figure out what the
correct moral value is and where there is
a positive or negative moral value.
What kind of person should I be?
What interaction matters?
Which relationships have high yielding value and which
ones are actually meaningful?
What suits me?
What doesn't suit me?
We're always making those calculations.
And as we go through those aqli calculations,
now we are pushed to making decisions.
And as we make those decisions in life,
they have an impact on what we love.
So a person that is constantly making decisions
in their life that are net positive for
a dunyawi outcome, what they will love will
also be that.
Whatever takes them to that net positive dunyawi
outcome.
So they will love the car.
They will love the home.
They will love the vacation.
They'll love the new iPhone that's about to
drop in three days.
They'll love all that stuff because it has
so much value.
It brings joy and happiness.
They'll sit there and look at a person's
home and smile.
Drive up and down a street that they
have no business being in.
That they have dudes broke, but they're still
driving there looking at the houses and smiling.
What would it be like?
And there's another person who is constantly thinking
about the akhira.
وَذَكِّرْ فَإِنَّ الذِّكْرَ تَنْفَعُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أُذْكُرُ اللَّهَ ذِكْرًا
كَثِيرًا This person is remembering Allah, thinking of
the akhira.
They understand that today's accomplishments don't mean anything
if they're not tethered to the ultimate success
in the hereafter.
A person who's reflecting on every day as
a block that leads to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
That this step leads to the next step
and the one after that.
And ultimately all of this connects me to
my one true reality.
لا إله إلا الله And that I have
to stand in front of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And no friend and no teacher or no
student, no child will be with me.
It'll be me standing in front of my
Creator and my Allah will ask me.
عَنْ عُمْرِهِ فِي مَا أَثْنَهِ وَعَنْ شَبَابِهِ فِي
مَا أَبْلَهِ وَعَنْ مَالِهِ مِنْ أَيْنَ اِكْتَسَبَهُ وَفِي
مَا أَنْفَقَهُ Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
ask him, tell me about your salah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will ask him,
tell me about your relationships.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, all these questions,
all the duties that we have in this
world, one by one they will come up.
And I have to answer Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
And to answer Allah I need actions and
in order to have meaningful sincere actions, I
need a heart.
And for that heart to do its thing,
the mind needs to be processing things in
the correct world view.
And a Muslim's world view is the akhirah.
And as long as I'm thinking the akhirah,
the heart will be inclined towards that akhirah.
And when the heart is inclined towards the
akhirah, the a'mal, the actions that will then
come from that heart will also be akhirah
driven.
They will be driven towards the hereafter.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the Qur
'an, He calls us towards His love.
وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَشَدُّوا حُبًّا لِلَّهِ Don't just know
you're Allah, don't just say that I worship
Allah or I'm a believer.
Intellectually, ikhtiyaran, out of your own, you know,
volition.
Think about this, that what will I do
in this dunya or the next without the
love of Allah?
What if I show up to Allah and
Allah says to me that did you ever
love me?
Did you ever think about me?
Did you ever feel pain at my distance?
How did you feel at the end of
the week at the thought that you didn't
remember me this day?
When you were struggling, did I come to
your heart?
Did I come to your mind?
When the world was tugging you in different
directions, when you were crumbling under the pressure
of work and family and health, was I
with you or did you walk away from
me?
Because there is no existence without Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
All of this, the fact that this earth
remains exactly where it is without pulling inwards
or outwards and the gravity forces that hold
it in place are nothing short of perfection.
Then within that earth there is this beautiful
dunya we live in that has gorgeous trees
and canyons and mountains and beautiful gardens and
rivers flowing of all the colors that I
could enjoy exist within this dunya.
And then within all of that beauty, second
to none in this solar system, in this
galaxy, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the
beauty of this dunya created the insan.
Second to none.
And then within this insan, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, this insan could have been so
ajeeb.
It could have been so different.
There could have been a hundred million infinite
number of possibilities of what you and I
were and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave
that insan aql.
He gave that insan a qalb, a heart.
He gave that insan a tongue to speak.
He gave that human being hands and feet
to move around.
He gave that insan a forehead to do
a sajdah in front of him.
He gave that insan ears so we can
hear the mu'adhin say to us, Come
to success.
Everything out there is a little wild.
Come to success.
Come to salah.
Come to tawheed.
Come to shahada.
Come to allahu akbar, allahu akbar.
After all of this muhabba and after all
of this kindness, the insan is still conflicted
on who to love and who not to
love.
Ah, the irony of that.
How did this happen?
How did that happen?
Did we stop seeing?
Did we stop feeling?
Did we stop listening?
Have we become that blind?
You talk about magic and delusion and dajjal.
The West over the last 300, 400 years
has pulled off the greatest trick of humanity.
We've all been duped.
They casted over us the sheet of materialism
and made human beings forget about their creator.
Locked them into some fascinating little system of
there's this hamster that we, the pets, have
been put into.
Run, run, run with no outcome awaiting you.
Forget why Allah created you.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created you for
His muhabba.
He created you for His love.
And to teach you how He should be
loved.
To teach you how He should be worshipped.
To teach you how He should be remembered.
He sent to this dunya the most perfect
human being whose scent was more beautiful, was
more sweet than anything in this dunya.
Whose smile brought joy to the saddest of
hearts.
Whose presence brought warmth to those that were
outstranded and shivering.
Whose presence was light for a deep, dark
world.
Who entered into this dunya and came down
from the mountain and went to his wife
Khadija radiyallahu anha and said to her, I've
been granted the crown of prophethood.
It's time to do this.
And Khadija radiyallahu anha says, I'm with you.
And the two of them start this journey.
Ups and downs.
Lost a family.
Loss of life.
Torture.
Struggle.
It's so much easier to just give up
and do what we do.
Why don't I just bury myself in my
job.
And bury myself in my work and my
education.
But the prophet of Allah saw a dream.
That these followers of mine, this family of
mine, these human beings, need to be taught
what love is.
And I will show them how to love
Allah.
I will show them how to be obedient
to Allah and how for the heart to
be committed to Him, regardless of the thunderstorm
that surrounds you or the tornado that you
sit right in the eye of.
The love of a believer can never be
stopped.
You can't decrease it.
You can't cut it.
You can't stifle it.
It's so profound.
It's so powerful.
And the prophet ﷺ, over this journey of
23 years, he guides mankind.
And every person he touches, every person he
sees, those who believe in him, those who
join him on this journey, become an extension
to the legacy of Rasulullah ﷺ.
And through history, as you travel for 1400
years, whether it's in some Java island or
whether it's some Saharan desert or whether it's
some thick jungle in Asia, all of these
people, wherever they are, as they connect to
the Prophet of Allah, they become shining stars
and guiding lights for humanity to follow until
the Day of Judgment.
If you see one of them, you'll know
what you're looking at.
There are very few.
But when you see them, hold on to
them.
Because there are a lot of illusions in
today's world.
Reality is rare because not too many people
are willing to commit to it and pay
the price for reality.
Muhabbah isn't cheap.
It comes at a cost.
One of my teachers used to say to
us that you guys look at us today,
we sit here, give durus and lectures, but
there was a time in our life that
we were tested by Allah ﷻ.
And his exact words, Shaykh Mubeen's here, he
knows.
He said, حَمْنَ بَغَيْرْ دَالْكِ دَالْ كَايِيهِ That
there was a time in our life that
Allah really tested us.
What was supposed to be food wasn't even
food, but we had to eat it because
the heart and mind called for some food.
So we would dip our bread in there
and eat it.
It comes with a challenge.
Open Shaykh Abdul Fattah Abu Ghuddah صَفَحَاتْ مِنْ
صَبْرِ الْعُلَمَاءِ And look at the challenges and
struggles these ulama had to face.
Where they would sit together, four muhaddithun sitting
together, giants.
They're all sitting together, and no one has
any food, no one has anything to eat.
And they make an intention that maybe one
will go to work while the other study.
And as the next morning comes in, a
person comes and knocks on their door and
says, the leader, the king of the time
has sent a gift for you guys.
He saw a dream and Rasulullah ﷺ told
him to take care of you.
لا إله إلا الله The sacrifices of these
people.
Imam Bukhari رحمة الله عليه does wida' to
his mom and dad at the age of
16 in hajj.
And then he doesn't see them for decades
because he's dedicating his life to studying this
deen of Rasulullah ﷺ given to him by
Allah ﷻ.
Learn to love the Prophet of Allah.
We are in the month of Rabiul Awwal.
And this has been a month historically where
people rethought what their heart was doing.
They reignited that love for the Prophet of
Allah ﷺ.
It's where families got together before their children
were put to sleep, in particular in this
month.
And they would send salawat upon the Prophet
ﷺ.
They would open up a seerah book and
they would read through the biography of the
Prophet ﷺ.
Where every person would, you know how they
have November this month and beard month and
mustache month and, you know, dopey month.
Every month they're trying to revive some tradition.
Where Muslims in this month would say this
is a month for us to revive the
sunnah of Rasulullah ﷺ.
So use these days of this month to
connect with the Prophet of Allah.
Think about the impact the love of Rasulullah
ﷺ had on the companions.
Love is not something intangible.
I don't want you to think this is
some mystical, philosophical concept I'm speaking of.
In our deen, there are very hard, easy
ways.
When I say hard, I mean objective.
These are hard things.
They're not just soft ideas.
Very objective ways that you can increase your
love for the Prophet of Allah.
Nabi ﷺ teaches us, send salawat upon me.
For the one that sends the most salawat
upon me will be closest to me on
the Day of Judgment.
The Arabs would say, مَنْ أَحَبَّ شَيْئًا أَكْثَرَ
ذِكْرَهُ Whoever loves something, remembers it abundantly.
You know, when I visit Muslim countries, you
will find an old, frail lady or old,
frail man that's sitting at some store under
a shutter, selling some, you know, small, humble
products behind.
The guy probably doesn't know too much about
business or finances, doesn't have some advanced degree
from Kellogg or anything like that.
But he's sitting there and doing salawat upon
the Prophet.
Allahumma salli alaihi wa sallim.
Allahumma salli alaihi wa sallim.
La ilaha illallah.
How simple and beautiful were these people.
How simple.
They would have these dusty books with thin
paper full of du'as they would read
every morning.
You guys know what I'm talking about?
They don't know what's in there.
A lot of times, unfortunately, bid'at as
well.
But that's not the point.
The point right now is their commitment, their
devotion.
That they knew what had to be done
and they did it.
This nation has learned too much and that's
come at a cost of us losing our
actions.
We've become too smart for ourselves, unfortunately.
A part of love is intellectual, but so
much of love, going back to the origins
of that word, involves just committing that I'm
gonna do this.
The Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam said, One
of you cannot be a complete believer until
I am more beloved to him.
Hatta akuna habba ilayhi min walidihi wa waladihi
wa an-nasi ajma'een.
Until I am more beloved to him than
his father, than his child, and all of
mankind.
And the muhaddithun say, Why did the Prophet
of Allah mention father first, child second?
Even though naturally, the child is loved more
by the father than the father will ever
be loved by the child.
Everyone loves their child more.
No matter how much the children say, Baba,
I love you more than you love me.
It's nonsense.
The parent will mi'ah fil mi'ah,
always love their child more.
Intahal kalam.
That's it.
But why is there taqdeem here?
Because every human being has a father, not
everyone has a child.
So Nabi salallahu alayhi wasalam, the message appeals
to everyone.
Hatta akuna habba ilayhi min walidihi wa waladihi
wa an-nasi ajma'een.
You need to love the Prophet of Allah.
You live in a world where prophets are
not loved, they're not even mentioned, people don't
care for them, they barely care for God.
But a Muslim's identity lies in that.
You cannot be robbed of this.
Because if your Prophet is taken away from
you, your revelation is taken away from you,
then how do you know what your world
view is?
Where will you find examples?
Where will you anchor yourself when your ship
begins to rock?
Who will you go to?
Whose life will you reflect on?
Whose legacy will you take from when you're
sad, and when you've lost someone, and when
you're in pain?
Turn on the TV and look at these
bozos?
You're gonna go look at what these people
have to offer?
A'aturuku sunnata habibi liha'ul a'il
humaqa' For these fools?
Am I going to leave this rich legacy
that people lived and died for?
That on their deathbed, Bilal radiyallahu anhu is
saying that, ah, what a beautiful day, finally
I will be with the Prophet.
This is muhabba, my friends.
You don't know how difficult life must have
been for Bilal after the Prophet.
But love isn't quitting.
That's what Bilal teaches us.
Love isn't about quitting.
It's about commitment.
Thabaat wal luzoon.
It's about sticking firm that if I loved
him, I will live by his legacy.
And 1,400 years from now, a group
of ragtag Muslims will gather together in Carrollton,
Texas, and remember my story of love.
That tomorrow I will be with the Prophet.
Every day since he left, I had to
remind myself what I was doing and why
I was doing it.
So I conclude today's khutba with this reminder
for us all.
Look for true love.
Look for love that is connected to its
root.
Look for love that involves change in your
life, that is more than just words and
thoughts that results in actions, that you can
lean on when your heart is at unrest,
love that motivates you and encourages you, love
for Allah, love for his Prophet, love for
the Quran, love for the righteous, love for
standing in front of Allah, on the Day
of Judgment.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept from
us all.
Rizwanullah ta'ala alayhim ajma'een.
Aqeem al salam.
Aqeem.
Aqeem.