Ismail Kamdar – Jumah Khutbah – Consistent Small Deeds

			Salam Alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
		

			a hamdulillahi Rabbil alameen wa salatu salam ala rasulillah amin will begin by praising Allah
subhanho wa Taala and asking Allah to send his peace and blessings upon the final prophet Mohammed
even up the last of Allahu alayhi wa salam and all those who follow his way with righteousness until
the last day. So before I get into today's topic,
		

			which is about the importance of having habits of good deeds, I just want to give a brief reminder
about the last few nights of Ramadan. hamdulillah Ramadan is almost over we have less than a week.
if Allah wills this may be the last Juma of Ramadan. We don't know until Thursday night when we
search for the moon. But inshallah you know, these last few nights is the time when we should be
searching for Leila kobada. And one of the mistakes that many of us make is after the 27th nights,
you know, for the 28th and 29th night we don't take it too seriously. In order the number of people
coming to the masjid decreases, the amount of people doing ibadah decreases. Remember that the 29th
		

			ninth especially, also has a high chance of being Lila lucado. So just as we push ourselves to do
more ibadah on the 27th night and the 24th night, do the same on the 29th night as well. Right don't
allow yourself to get lazy. force yourself to be someone who's doing a bother until the end. Why?
Because this is the month when sins are forgiven. This is the man who Allah has put so many systems
in place for the forgiveness of sins. And I want us all to think about this. Which of us here can
say I don't need my sins to be forgiven? While you don't have any sense that need forgiving? Which
human beings consider nobody to Allah has given us Ramadan, and Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
		

			sallam has said about Ramadan, the man sama Ramadan Manawatu Saba
		

			zombie man coma ramadan bancomer ramadan Manawatu Saba Whoopi Rolla Houma Dakota mommy zombie one
comma let me know what is about
		

			Coca Cola Sumo logic. Whoever fast the month of Ramadan Allah out of Eman hoping for reward ALLAH
forgive whoever prays the nights of Ramadan out of demand and hoping for reward Allah forgives the
person whoever prays the night or later Okada out of environment hoping for reward Allah forgives
the persons so what excuse Would any of us have to leave Ramadan with since our our company Allah
makers from those who are forgiven in this month and remember the special to our to earn that
forgiveness that we can make in these last few nights Allahumma inaka who taheebo Africa Annie, Oh
Allah, you are most forgiving most progeny, you love to pardon you love to forgive, so forgive me
		

			Pardon me. So, this is a very powerful one, where we are talking about loss of a halo of dollars,
forgiveness, and Alicia has no love for forgiving, unless you have a hand or $1 if you wanted, he
could have made us perfect, he could have made us angels, he could have made us such beings that
never commit a sin. But Allah loves to forgive and it is nobody doing sin and then making istikhara
who is there for Allah to forgive. So Allah has purposely created us as flawed beings. And it is out
of his mercy that He has given us Ramadan and he has given us to go further and he has given us the
Ravi and he has given us past and you've given us charity and all of these are means to which our
		

			sins can be forgiven.
		

			So today inshallah I want to talk about a very important Hadees and this continues the series of
Juma lectures we've been giving on her thesis. Last time I was here we spoke about the Hadees not to
cause harm to yourself or anybody else, La da da, da da da. The time before that, we spoke about the
Hadees in which Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam gave you advice to his cousin Abdullah even
abus rajala and who about the father about destiny, adjusting Allah subhanho wa Taala. Today we'll
talk about the Hadees and is different durations of this hadith we go with the narration of Ayesha
Raja haka, in which she said that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam advise all of us to do as
		

			much good deeds as possible. And then he said, Nobody is going to enter agenda because of the deeds.
Nobody is going to enter agenda because of the deeds. Why?
		

			Because none of us are perfect. None of us are worth the agenda.
		

			Think about which of us can say I deserve eternal happiness.
		

			Which man can see I deserve
		

			which person to see I deserve rebels of mine.
		

			None of us we all are sinners. We all have our faults. So, which of us can say we deserve gentle
cannabis? Another Hadees Rasulullah sallallahu Sallam commenting on this idea he said that you will
only enter Jannah because of Allah's mercy. Again, it comes back to Allah forgiveness. That's the
week agenda, unless mercy and forgiveness, but then wants to do Lastly, somebody told Aisha Raja has
something that she can do is something that all of us can do, that can help us to earn our mercy.
And he said, under a hug when a man is Allah, or the woman who follow Allah, that the most beloved
actions to Allah are those that are done regularly. Do them every single day, even if they are very
		

			small actions. And this is the topic I want to speak about today. The importance of each and every
one of us developing good deed habits, habits of good deeds, good deeds that we do on a daily and
consistent basis, because these are the deeds that are most beloved to Allah after the word about
after the compulsory actions. So before I go into those type of good deeds, I reminder, this does
not mean that you must only do some small deeds and you can avoid what is compulsory. Rather, it's
talking about what is extra, you still have to do what's compulsory in this country the stated that
the thing that brings us closer to Allah, what what is the what is the actions that bring us closer
		

			to Allah, the compulsory actions, the YG was one of the people's reactions.
		

			The five pillars of Islam, the Shahada, praying five times a day, fasting the month of Ramadan,
discharging our car once a year, going for Hajj once in a lifetime, those five are a must.
		

			Remember, these five things are a must. These five things are the pillars of Islam. You let go of a
pillar of Islam your Eman begins to crumble. So before we discuss what's extra, let us make sure
that we have what minimum in place. If any of us are not in the habit of praying five times a day,
let us rectify that this Ramadan and then make it a habit to pray five times a day. Because this is
the one thing the one action that can truly save you on the Day of Judgment. Because the first thing
that Allah will ask you about on the Day of Judgment is
		

			the first thing they allow ask you about on the Day of Judgment. Unfortunately, for many of us, we
have again ritualized the Salah, and we've come up with our own version of Islam, we think we only
have to pray on Juma. This does not exist in any version of Islam. Five times a day is minimum. And
when you say five times a day is minimum, to follow the procedure for follow her for foster, three
for Margaret, for for a shop that is minimal. If you are not in the habit of praying five times a
day, start with debt. Once you finish, build that into a habit, then you add in the winter, then you
add in the sweetness. But start with that start towards minimum. Because this is you know the main
		

			action you're going to be asked about on the Day of Judgment did we pray five times a day.
		

			Allah created us to worship Him. And this is the main way of worshipping Him that He has prescribed
the thing five times a day, so do not take it lightly. It is so important that the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said about it, man taraka hufa kotkapura whoever abandons praying five
times a day has disbelieved. And the owner might have different interpretation of this idea.
Nonetheless, the wording is so strong. If you make any of us all of us feel, you know, just avoiding
this bad habit of missing sign up. It's something that the problem is associated with Cooper. He
said cafaro is a means of leaving the religion when you stop praying five times a day. If you are
		

			not in the habit of being five times a day, start today, make this a habit. Right. And the other
Pillars of Islam are just as important. This is the god the fasting the Hajj, make sure that all of
this is in order. And this is the minimum that is needed to get into Jenga. And we noticed through
another Heidi's were one of the big ones. He came to a pseudo last of the level I think he was lm.
And he asked Rasulullah what is Islam? What does he need to do? And the proper slaw is I'm only told
him three things believe that there is no god except Allah and that Muhammad is His Messenger, pray
five times a day and fast the month of Ramadan. Now the scholars say why didn't he mention the cow
		

			Hajj, because this individual could not afford the cow Hajj, and we know that God, only obligatory
upon the person who can afford it. So this man he asked the Prophet Oh rahula if I only do these
things, I pray my Salah I believe in Allah and His messenger. I passed the Ramadan
		

			intergender What did the prophet SAW said? He said, Yes, yes, you will enter the jungle. That is the
minimum requirement, praying five times a day, fasting the month of Ramadan. And if you have well,
Sokka and hydrous. Well, these are the minimum requirements for entering into Ghana. So let's get
that in order first. Now, once you have that, in order, going back to the Hadees, that we mentioned
at the beginning,
		

			the prophet slow Islam had mentioned that
		

			the thing that brings us closer to Allah are the ones you bought, and then the optional acts of
worship. Now many of us think that when we start practicing Islam, we have to go all in, you know,
we have to you go big or go home, we think we have to be this super pious guy who does good deeds
all day long. And it must be massive good deeds. So some people when they first get into the
practice of Islam, they think that they need to pray to family all night, or they need to fast every
day. They know they need to recite the entire Quran once a week. They feel like they have to do
these things. Otherwise, I'm not a good Muslim. Now, and what happens when you set such goals like
		

			that?
		

			What happens? You can't sustain it.
		

			And you end up losing hope in yourself, you end up thinking that I'm not good enough. I'm not good
enough to be a Muslim. And you end up thinking this is too hard.
		

			Remember, something Islam is not too hard. We made it too hard on ourselves. So once they were these
three young men, who went to visit the wives of Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wasallam Salaam to
learn about how the prophets Larson would worship in fiber. What kinds of acts of worship would he
do when he was on his own? And when the wives of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam explained to
them the worship that the Prophet slicin needs to do? They felt he was very little. Right? This is
how the
		

			people who are young and just started practicing Islam. How do they feel like it's too little. So
they talk to themselves. They rationalize, they said, Maybe because he's a prophet, he doesn't have
to do that much. But we need to do more. Because you know, we young listeners, we need to do more.
So one guy said, I'm going too fast every day of my life. And the second guy said, I am going to
pray chiamo Lael, tahajud, all night, every night, I'm not going to sleep at night. And the third
person said, I'm never getting value, Virgin for life.
		

			When the prophet SAW some about what these people said, he got on the member, and he gave a quote,
and he said, I've heard people saying things like this, understand that I am closer to Allah than
any of you. But I pray sometimes, and I sleep at times, I for some days, I don't pass in other days,
and I'm married to any woman, that Rasulullah was and had many wives. And then he said, This is my
friend. And whoever abandons My way is not often
		

			meaning in Islam, we are not supposed to push ourselves to that extreme.
		

			We need to be balanced and moderate, in the kind of ibadah we take on and this is why when I deal
with young people, and try to get them into the religion, I adopt a very gradual approach, step by
step, start with the solar, if they accept the solar, and then they start putting solar in, bring in
the fasting, then xhaka, then have step by step. So this Hadees helps us with it. Because the Hadees
we talking about today, the prophet slice them said that the most beloved actions to Allah are the
ones you do on a daily basis, even if they are small. What is a small action you can do on a daily
basis, there are so many, there are so many, but the point is to find one, just take one as to make
		

			it a habit in your life. So it piles up on the Day of Judgment. For example, reciting Quran for 10
minutes again,
		

			this is something that is humanly possible for almost all of us to take out 10 minutes a day, every
day of your life to recite.
		

			recite it and to reflect on its meaning. Now, you're waiting, but he's only 10 minutes of karate.
Oh, Allah gonna accept that for me. Again, back to the IDs. Allah loves the action that is
consistent. Even if it is more 10 minutes of Quran think about it like this. For every letter, you
recite how much reward do you get?
		

			Who knows? How much reward you get for every for every letter chain? chain rewards a letter? How
many letters Can you recite in general? That's
		

			2000 a few 1000 letters, times 10 maybe getting like 80 90,000 rewards per day furusiyya monitor
Cora.
		

			Now what if you do that every day for 40 years?
		

			We looking at rewards in the trillions
		

			that just seem small anymore.
		

			Now imagine you've got your mountain of sins, and you've got trillions of rewards for reciting Quran
for 10 minutes every day, Which do you think is going to outweigh the other on the day of judgment?
		

			You see, we think it's more these good deeds, but they pile up if you made it a habit and you stick
to it every day, the good
		

			deeds pile up. Think about charity. You take our 10 random date and give it to charity. At the end
of the year homeless charity Have you given someone do the math for us?
		

			Yes, right now times that by how many years you end up living Allah give us so long like
		

			you end up in the millions. Right? And you remember when you give charity Allah gives it back to you
10 times over. So you gave to charity everyday in your life. It piles up to the million Allah will
send it back to you and this will enter your after advisory. Did he work for charities, not just
time scale? The the Quran states that depending on your intention and the quality of charity, it can
be anywhere between times 10, two times 700 then you work for your charity, anywhere from 10 times
to two times 700 when we talk about the reward for good deeds is always multiplication.
		

			It's always been multiplied in a huge way.
		

			So
		

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please move the car?
		

			Okay, so getting back to our topic.
		

			We're talking about good deeds, right? I'm giving you a few examples. Each person can take one. And
you can try and make this one goodie that happened in your life. That good deed could be reciting
Quran for 10 minutes a day, it could be giving 10 grand in South Africa every day, it could be
		

			throwing two rockets of Nuffield solar every day. It could be sitting off the salah and reciting it
as be super Hanover to the three times 183 times about four times. These are very small goodies.
They're not going to take a lot of time.
		

			But they pile up on the day of judgment and they are beloved to Allah. So we as individuals who want
to earn our mercy who want to agenda, we must try and build these kind of habits in our life. These
kinds of habits are the ones that will surely stand out the Day of Judgment if it is done for the
sake of Allah subhanho wa Taala. I want to mention two stories from the Hadith of the gulags while
he was alone, which ended about to Sahaba. Right, so two stories about Sahaba who excelled at good
deeds, which you may think are small, and because of those good deeds, they were given the glad
tidings of Jenna in this world. Now, some of us may think the direct 10 Sahaba were given the glad
		

			tidings of gender, national mocha. Everything is only those 10 but the ashram wabasha, the 10 who
are given the glad tidings of China, they will tell you were given it in one city, meaning in one
sitting, the Prophet slicin pointed to those tents the harbor and said they are going to agenda but
there are many other Sahaba who are given Blair Titans agenda to not just abstain from amongst those
who had given the glad tidings agenda, but was not part of the Ashleigh Bashara was beloved, even
Robert rajala, who
		

			is authentically underrated. Rasulullah sallallahu I think he was alone. He said that when he saw
agenda in a dream, he saw the agenda of Omar Raja Raja and the agenda of Romania.
		

			And he heard the footsteps of Bilal Raja agenda.
		

			Right, so he mentioned three Sahaba Vani. Omar, who is already from the ashram Oh, Bashara, Mesa
Mesa, Alain de la who was from the answer of Medina, and she was one of the greatest of the answer
of Medina, her son was honestly but Malik was one of the greatest scholars of Islam. And the third
name was Bilal even raba, who was
		

			one of the first converts to Islam, the first Muslim.
		

			But why do you think the prophets laws have heard his footsteps in judgment? The Prophet sallallahu
Sallam asked him, Why did they hear your footsteps agenda? What are you doing? That the others are
not doing?
		

			And you may think it's something big right? Maybe it was the Battle of butter, where he killed me
I've been holla maybe you're giving us an you'll be the first magazine we read was the torture in
judo. He said, How did I know he mentioned something small, something small but consistent,
something small that he did every single day. What did he say? Florida who said the only thing I can
think of is that every day after I made to do a pre terracotta filter,
		

			how much to rock out of the pizza.
		

			That's not a big deal. to us. It's not a big thing. You know, we think I just to rakata just don't
sit on my phone, wait for the exam to go. you'll stand outside the mercy of the wait for the exam to
go. But these two records every day after, after every time you need to do it piles up.
		

			Most Beloved actions to Allah are those which are consistent, even if they are small meeting have to
regard or not feel as something small. But Bilal mentioned it as something that he did and the
progress don't confirm that that is the reason for hearing his footsteps in gender, a small deal.
And this is a man who did great deeds. This is a man who GRP Sabine de la these are the men who
endure torture for the FISA vilella This is the first this is the man who was there for Brotherhood
in the conquest of Makkah. But when it came to talking about the agenda, it was these two rockets of
Salah
		

			another Sahaba. And the beauty of the next story is we don't even know the name of this hobby.
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he was sitting in the masjid with the Sahaba. And he told
him the next man who walks into the door is going to gender.
		

			So always the hobble turned towards the door. And they were expecting a move back aroma is one of
the the famous about walking. But one of the one of the guy who walked in was someone completely
unknown. He was just, you know, a regular with Sally, you know, one of the local businessmen who had
become a Muslim. He was so happy because he met her.
		

			But we don't know his name. He wasn't somebody who has a high social status, you know, that somebody
famous. So one of the Sahaba, who was sitting there, and who heard Rasulullah phalodi. Some status
was Abdullah even Omar hora de la Mancha. Right, the son of Omar, Abdullah, Abdullah. Abdullah was
very curious. And he's wondering, what is this guy doing? That the prophets have said that he's
going to gender? No. So he decided to follow that guy, and spend some time with him. So long story,
but to cut it short, he spent the day with this man with the Sahaba. And this man lived a very
normal life. He wasn't fasting extra. He wasn't playing much gamble. He was making up just before
		

			one or two or four rockets. He didn't have any extra vehicles he was making. He went to work, did
his business came home, spend time with his family? He did all the veggie burger. Remember that?
praying five times a day. There's no such thing as as a hobby. You didn't pray five times a day.
There's something you never even thought about. Right? He did all the basics. He couldn't find
anything extra. So he's Look, he's what he's observing. This man has been to do this man's house.
And he can't think of anything extra that this man did. That made him a person of Jenga. So finally
decides to just ask him, he said, he told him listen, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
		

			pointed to and said that you're going to gender? What are you doing? That makes you a person of
gender.
		

			And this method, I don't know. I'm just a regular businessman. I'm just a normal guy. I don't know
what what I'm doing. So we got to think he couldn't figure it out. This and then also you're sitting
ntk. Finally the man realized something. And this is amazing point. Man realize there's one good
deed he was doing everyday that most people don't do. And he called a blog up and he said, Listen,
there is something I'm doing this what is he said every night, before I go to sleep, I make sure I
have no ill feelings in my heart towards anybody. No hatred, no jealousy, no animosity towards
anybody
		

			of DDoS attacks, if that's what you're doing every country to have that pure haha.
		

			And yeah, I'll bring up another point that many of us are unaware of. When it comes to ibadah. When
it comes to acts of worship, many of us think acts of worship only as physical acts.
		

			What this man was doing was not a physical act, it was an internal act of worship.
		

			Remember, there are three types of acts of worship, the ones we do with our bodies, like praying
salah and making tawaf. Right. These are things you do with your bodies, the ones we do with our
tongues, like talking about the freaking zikalala recycling. But the third type that many of us are
unaware of, is the body of the heart,
		

			sugar.
		

			Right, avoiding feelings. This is the bottom of the heart. These are things we do inside ourselves
which we are rewarded. When you think of a good deed, you are rewarded for it, even if you don't do
it. When you think of a sin and you find that thought and you don't act upon it, you are rewarded,
this is internal internal ibadah. When there is hatred in your heart for fellow Muslim and you think
about it, and you purify your heart and you get rid of that agent from your heart, this is a bother
This is an act of worship. When there is a difficulty in your life and you are patient. Internally
you are impatient with a difficulty. This is a bother. This is an act of worship, when they are good
		

			things in your life and you live your life in a state of sugar in a state of gratitude. This is
ibadah remember ibadah and worship is not only done physically it is done.
		

			ternary as well. And that's what this meant that he did one good deed, which many of us consider
small, which many of us don't even think about when we think about good deeds. You know, when we
think about good deeds, we think about solar, we think about deca, we think about fasting, we think
about reciting Quran, how many of us think about purifying our hearts.
		

			How many of us think about, you know, removing jealousy from our hearts. One small deed, the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam said that Allah loves deeds are consistent even if you have small every
night before going to bed. This man did one small thing, and that was making sure he did not have
any hatred or jealousy towards anyone. And it piles up on the Day of Judgment, everyday doing that
piles up on the Day of Judgment until he meets Allah with all good saline with a pure heart. And
that is a means into entering gentlemen.
		

			So, my reminder to each and every one of us here today, in these last few nights of Ramadan, let us
take the time to build good deed habits in our life. Let us take one act of worship and turn it into
a habit. Whether it's reciting Quran, make it a habit to recite Quran for 10 or 15 minutes or even
five minutes a day. Don't leave it only for Ramadan. Don't leave it only for Ramadan. Don't be the
kind of person who when it comes you close the Quran. You don't open it again until the first of
Ramadan next year, or someone passes away. Don't do that be the person who is connecting with the
Quran all year round.
		

			Or maybe can be sadhaka you certify every day of your life no matter how small it is. It doesn't
matter it's beloved to Allah no matter how small it is. It can be something else can be smiling at
people, smiling is
		

			the time to smile and greet people on the Rasulullah. After Salama Bina can spread this alarm
amongst your spread peace amongst your going around greeting people with Islam make that a habit. It
seems small but it piles up it's beloved to Allah. Do not think of any good deed to be too small.
		

			At the end of Surah garrioch Allah subhanaw taala says whoever does an atom's Word of God will see
it.
		

			And whoever does the Athens work of evil will see it. Right. Whoever does a mustard sees what a good
or evil will see it, meaning no good deed is too small. And don't think of any sin as too small
either. As we reach the end of Ramadan, we ask Allah to accept our order from us. And to forgive us
our sins are to make our fasting and our pm a means of forgiveness for us, to help us all to get
there go further and to earn the reward of doing good deeds for 1000 months. And we ask Allah to
help us to build habits of good deeds that are accepted by him. And to make this a means of us
entering into China.
		

			Remember not to treat any good deed lightly. Take the time to build them into habits. May Allah give
us all the ability to practice on what to say to Africa, Juana de la bella means Salam aleikum wa
rahmatullah wa barakato.