Ighsaan Taliep – Jumuah 25052018
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Arab bucham, the insha kartum na azidan naqum.
It is a declaration of Allah. Subhana wa Taala is great Sunnah
of Allah's law that governs humankind and his creation,
that when you show gratitude for Allah for His favors. Allah's law
is,
Allah shall extend those favors.
Wala Inka, farutum
in Narada, bila shalid,
however, if you show ingratitude,
if you are mindless, you don't take heed
show
unconsciousness
towards Allah's favors.
Allah's law is,
Allah shall take those favors away,
not just take the favors away. Allah subhanaw taala says in
Narada Shari, indeed, my punishment and chastisement shall
be severe.
And upon introspection, this law is applicable in every facet of
life.
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we say no love in salaams and Salawat upon our noble Prophet,
our foremost leader, our beloved Nabih Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi
wa sallam,
for indeed he embodied for us and personified
the essence
of what it means for a human being,
the perfect human being, to be grateful of Allah subhanho wa
Taal,
that when he stood as a norm of his in devotion, in that virgin,
in bowing down in prostration in sujood, how many times Did you not
hear his beloved wife, our mother said,
having had to content herself
that he did not perhaps pass away during sujood by having to pinch
it
and witnessing and observing the tawarrum and the swelling of his
feet for the duration of his stand,
and he is referring to her, would be a father, Akuna abdan shakura,
if she asked him all your sins, if you would have, if you could have,
if it been, although they all have forgiven all of you had promised
you and guaranteed you
he would just say, Should I not be a thankful slave Aisha,
loving silence upon his noble family,
his companions
and friends and all those who follow His divinely inspired
Tariqah and sunnapath until the final hour, and we pray, Oh Allah,
SWT, each and every one of those people, we have this burning in
the heart to want to emulate him, to want to follow the essence of
his example
and the essence the hakritra of what he was and his method and his
sunnah. And not only, unfortunately, we have to say this
today, be fixated on the outward appearances and trappings of what
it is to follow a sunnah,
and then we have the essence of the Sunnah being.
We say this because
we did narid
a delani al Khabib
in asaqir, all of them, narib, this hadith of the NABI Mohammed
Salat,
when he said,
O Elisha, Hari Ramadan a it could mean A noun.
So how is it Allah subhanaw wa Taala chooses for us to be able to
just understand
at a glance what this Ramadan is about.
Just at a glance,
ALLAH SubhanA wa San says that its first 30s is
and then, now that it's mercy, compassion, mercy and compassion
and the second heart, second third is about forgiveness, munificence,
forgiveness, pardon. A.
And the last part of it is about gaining
salvation from the final minute.
So we're looking at the essence of Islam, essence of the Quran,
essence of our Creator. Created essence of the
Sunnah of Nabi Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam. It's
but mercy and compassion,
but forgiveness, but
to
the Prophet said
they say
that
on the path of knowledge, part of knowledge of the deen, it is a
central Hadith which is known as Al Hadith, Al Musa
and all of our ulama, that when they
bought on their journeys, that when they engage with their shares
and with their ulama, this is the first Hadith that they would be
given, the first One.
I need it
now we saw that
Rahman, I
those purveyors of mercy and compassion shall be shown mercy
and compassion
only. Those who embody and personify and who exude and who
show unto others mercy and compassion, those are the ones
whom the most compassionate shall confer with
compassion
and so these are the essential values of the deed of faith.
So when in the holy month of Ron, we know that they are very
specific gifts, mercies, untold gifts, infinite mercies, bounties
from our creators.
Devils
are chained and limited.
All the Talis lets the doors of Jannah being laid bare opened up.
Doors of the not being opened up.
And Allah has the first night of Ramadan. Allah Tana is next that
he frees from the fire of Jahannam, that that was, that was
that was due to go to the fire of Jahannam that was completely
worthy of being thrown into the fire jam. Those necks have been
and Allah has necks that are being set free every night of The month
of Ramadan.
We gain Ramadan. I
for
car
what
he
took
me
central
to the
holy month of Ramadan.
To
get Ramadan without the Quran is almost
without the Quran being at the center. It's almost like say this
futile exercise,
Quran is so central to
Ananta Ramadan,
incidentally, the.
Had this later, Abu a Muhammad Salla Salam saying that Allah's
previous scriptures in jealous have also been revealed in the
holy month of Ramadan.
So when we speak about Ramadan
and the Holy Quran in our Muhammad, sallAllahu, sallam was
described in this way about him. Kana abunas, the Prophet, was the
best
human being.
Was the
best human being,
the most
munificent, the most the most noble, the most honoring, the most
respectable
Ramadan, but the best that he was of this human being, the best that
he was was in the holy barn, Sheena real fayodari. So
when he would meet on his appointments with Jibreel and they
then revise the holy
well, it seemed to have the impact that this donor of the Prophet
saws was intensified within engagement, through this intense
engagement of the Holy Quran.
And this Holy Quran by its
own it is hudliness, it is it is the guidance for mankind.
It means that Allah is saying
that, as it was for the Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam, that
blueprint to provide this for the transformation of society, the
social, spiritual, economic, financial, educational, cultural,
operation of society as it was relevant then
that can't promises, the solutions,
in its essence, today, the
Rahman.
Can you have rahma, the essence of the Prophet, sallAllahu, sallam,
if they think in this month of
about the ummah of the Nabih,
can it make sense?
Rahm? Rahmah is sent a piece of Rama.
Is it possible for us to be engaged in Ramadan, and yet we are
not contemplative about the umbrella?
If we have to be
honest, and we look at the state of the
that is the very essence and the values of
that are missing,
that have been there
have been replaced compassion, one
man,
and I can't define the violent forms,
sectarian and factionalism and The all the most vile rejection of the
very
existent.
Clearly has guidance about that. Can we say that doesn't have
guidance in fact?
Goodness
or obeying?
Quran has been in it details about guidance and about material and
distinguishing hack from body,
evil from good. For.
And so when compassion is replaced by and hatred, what is how can
what is party? I.
And
so
reading the Quran, as many of our other man says, also allowing us,
obviously, to fulfill that requirement of reading the Quran.
But even in reading the Quran,
even in reading the Quran itself, we may find ourselves that we are
abandoning the Quran.
How can we what does that mean?
If the Quran is orderliness,
then simply reading the Quran without understanding
does not fulfill the requirement of hudalina,
because
the recitation and the and the butchering of the Quran does not
allow the Quran to penetrate your heart in terms of its Huda, Its
guidance.
So we may be actually reading the Quran,
or we may be butchering the Quran, but we're not
getting the message,
and that's a form of abandonment of the Quran.
And even if we do read the Quran with understanding, that we may
have a
acquisition of the language, or we may have access to a translation,
we may still even be abandoning the Quran. If we are reading the
Quran with understanding, but we're not
reflecting on it,
we're not contemplating on it, which always says,
don't they contemplate? Don't they reflect? Don't they ponder deeply
on the means of this Quran all, are those hearts going to be
locked?
So this is the challenge that we have, of the access that we should
have to the centerpiece of the holy Bhatta Ramadan,
the centerpiece the Quran, when we read it, it is as our naman says
Allah talking to us
like he SallAllahu alas was addressed by Allah
like Allah addressed the sahaba. This Quran is meant to address our
hearts.
And so
this is very, very important for us.
And when we talk about
Allah talking to us, then, of course, is also the situation of
us talking to Allah.
And how do we talk to Allah? How do we communicate to Allah.
We communicate to Allah in
the holy month of Ramadan
is our Ibadah is our worship.
Is every worship, every form of worship,
and especially the quintessential form of worship. I saw Prophet,
saw
them said
the muh, the quintessential form of ibadah, is dua by
asking Allah, rameha Rana, he says, a DUA to a valley at the
little well, if the car in Allah, well is the Canada,
it is the
the the epitome dua,
when you Speak to Allah and you're asking Allah, it is the epitome,
your
personification of humility and humbleness in front of Allah,
and your confirmation of your complete you
need
of Allah,
and that you completely defer
your matter and your face to Allah
in a sense of the what good
sense of reliance and trust and faith in Allah, because
it's Allah's will See to human beings and to Bashar, because
Allah says, with the Roni
falistha, jibuli, falai, Buli minu, be
see. Let them believe in me. Let them ask for.
Me. And so our Muhammad, sallAllahu sallam, speaks of, you
know, Allah, and he says that all NaVi salsa says there isn't
anything that is more honorable to Allah than his slave asking him
his needs.
And Allah, subhana wa Taala also never says in Hadith
but let me ask the person who doesn't ask Allah, Allah becomes
angry. For such Allah invokes Allah's Anger.
Your person doesn't ask Allah, it invokes Allah's Anger.
And every Solana says, also with Allah unto mo Kino Nabil ijada,
pray unto Allah whilst you are convinced and you have your king.
This is how I want us to to pray.
Therefore
Muhammad Sallallahu Abu Salam also says that
when you make dua,
Nabi Salima says,
Be Muni
in your prayers.
Be intense in your prayers,
Brothers and Sisters in Islam,
the holy month of Ramadan gives us many
these gifts and on our connection and our sila with Allah
the Quran
allows us to receive Allah.
Our ibadah, and especially our dua, allows us to
communicate to Allah. And
when we communicate to Allah,
it opens up for us. It allows us to into the deepest, darkest fall
inside our hearts, to expose ourselves,
and it allows us to be able to ask Allah subhanahu wa taala,
the ego is being set aside,
and we engage in Allah, in subservience and submission.
This is how Ibadah should be. This is the essence of ibadah, to be a
slave
in servitude Unto Allah.
All of this
is not
only or rather, it's not an end in itself. It's a means towards an
end. This situation of Ramadan is a means towards end. It's
not an end in itself.
It is an important part of transformation, our spiritual
development, but it is good,
and our relationship with Allah
cannot be complete without the fulfillment and of our
relationship to our fellow human beings,
our fellow
human
and therefore remember our beloved in the Quran
about how we relate to our fellow human beings,
if there is facade around us, and we are contented. Ibadah for
ourselves.
Allah says, what
to say? Ben and Lady, no one beware of
a
fitna
with a will sing down upon you
that will only afflict those unjust ones amongst you
exclusively while an Allah
know that Allah subhana wa Taala is severe,
Know the Hadith of the Nabhi salaam, when Allah sent a group of
Malaika to a certain location to bring Allah's adab to its
transgression in that society, the Malaika found a very pious human
being among them. They worked it and asked Allah, Allah, what
should there is a very pious man among them here,
but the transgression and the facade is around him.
Allah's response was, he thought that
start with him. He.
So the whole notion of this,
and it's concerned that it has for its fellow human being, for this
are to be able for the human kind. How can the Quran be Huda, for the
human kind? He who asked us to be in position of the Huda, do not
make
this is essence,
because it's just about transformation, about the present,
at the expense of
the transformation. Because says that is our photo of, okay. John
fleet, above the middle, balanced way the justly balance
that you carry witness bearish mind
goes on the day of Kiana.
We
the Prophet, shall be against us,
the essence and the spirit of the holy month of Ramadan. We come
together and have our love and our spiritual relations with Grace
more and more of that may Allah grant us, inshallah to
proclaim and proclaim
Ramadan, which is the essence of Islam,
essence of mercati and forgiveness and liberation for your man from
the fire of jahannam. Allah grant all of that for us.
You.