Johari Abdul-Malik – Stay Hungry
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Today, walhamdulillah,
I
want just to share very quickly a reminder
to you and to myself
that today we have
demonstrated to the entire world, walhamdulillah,
including
human beings and jinn,
that
the ummah of Rasulullah
is the greatest
Ummah in the history
of humankind.
That walhamdulillah,
we as an Ummah, not as a nation
state, not as a government,
not with no army, with no navy, with
no national treasury, that, alhamdulillah,
we are the greatest
ummah in the history of mankind.
And we are, alhamdulillah,
believing in Allah
in a way
that Allah has commanded us
and we follow Allah's command.
We obey Allah's laws
without
any police department.
There's no muhabarat
that travels around to see are you fasting.
There's no one checking your bank account to
see if you pay zakat.
Well, alhamdulillah,
you do it because you want to serve
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
This is amazing
that, alhamdulillah,
every Muslim around the world will fast
as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam fasted.
They will pray as the prophet prayed.
They will give zakah, alhamdulillah,
the way the prophet
and his companions gave zakah.
In a world that today, subhanallah,
is filled with all kinds of technology,
that's still the Ummah of Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
Thank you, Aki.
My voice is powerful, but not that powerful.
I think we might need some technical
assistance.
That the Ummah of Rasulullah
has
demonstrated
that we are
worthy
to be
the Khalifa to Allah fill art.
And when we say Khalifa, what do we
mean?
I'm talking about the Quranic
definition
of Khalifa.
The Quranic definition of Khalifa.
That body that would convey the message, La
ilaha illallah
Muhammadan Rasulullah,
from 1 generation
to the next generation.
That's what makes you khalifa.
Not because you're in charge of a government,
not because you're in charge of
a military, but because you are in charge
of preserving the salah, and the zakat, and
the siam, and the hajj, walhamdulillah,
believing in Allah. This is what makes us
the one who would carry the burden
to the next generation.
Well, alhamdulillah,
Allah has empowered us.
Empowered us as an ummah that we are
all fasting
the same way
all over the world.
Whether whatever method you follow, alhamdulillah,
from dawn until sunset the same way.
SubhanAllah,
With all of our races and ethnicities and
languages, everyone, subhanAllah,
following in that way
makes us
powerful.
Our prayer, alhamdulillah,
our spending in Allah's cause,
our reading as
a global community of the Quran
from the beginning to the end,
every day in Ramadan,
reciting Allah's book, standing in the night,
you should be proud to say I am
part of the ummah of Rasulullah
Now,
I just want
to remind you, maybe you forgot.
In Ramadan, you had some interesting experiences.
Maybe if you were a young person, you
were sitting there, and you had piece of
pizza you were saving
for suhoor,
and then you look at the time, and
the time passed, and the pizza is talking
to you.
Abdulla, just eat me just a little bit.
And you say, no,
Allah, not Allah sees me, alhamdulillah,
when they came to the prophet
and the prophet was asked by a man
whose garment was exceedingly white, and his hair
was exceedingly dark, and there was no sign
of travel on him, and none of us
knew him.
And he asked him, what is ihsan?
He said, it is to worship Allah, as
if you see him,
knowing, walhamdulillah,
that you don't see Allah but that Allah
sees you.
Our children, walhamdulillah,
have learned to have this relationship of taqwa
with Allah, that they obey Allah
even when no one sees them.
Now you know the United States incarcerates more
of its own people than any other nation
in the world.
They need
Islam.
Because if those people had accepted this devotion
to Allah, they would obey the law in
public
and in private.
Well, alhamdulillah,
in this month you have been able to
master your impatience.
Therefore a month, walhamdulillah,
you've been able to cool your passions.
In a month, you have been able to
tighten your relationship with Allah, such that it
empowers you to do it and say things
that are right, no matter who doesn't like
it.
Walhamdulillah.
From this month, Allah has promised us a
reward
without limit.
Our du'a,
subhanallah,
without limit Allah can answer
it. Do you know, subhanallah, there's no
people
that came with the prophet, except that the
prophet asked them to do something
that would benefit
them. The poor people came to the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam, and they said, You Rasoolallah,
we're following and we're doing what you ask
us to do,
But how can we get the reward that
the rich people get?
Because they can give lot in zakat.
In Ramadan, people gave a lot of zakat.
Maybe some people they said, Imam, I don't
I can't give that much.
But Allah, in his mercy,
walhamdulillah,
gave the Prophet
something that he gave to us.
And that is,
he said, when you finish the salah,
say, Subhanallah,
33 times, Alhamdulillah,
33 times, Allahu 'Aynbar,
33 times, Subhanallah, aye lahi Allah.
And Allah is gonna give you a great
reward,
like the reward the rich people get.
SubhanAllah.
The poor people, they start making the adkar,
And then after a few days they come
back to rasulullah,
and they're sad.
They said, you Rasulullah, we have a problem.
Now the rich people are doing it too.
How can we keep up with them?
They're giving money and they're making the dikr.
How are we gonna keep up with them?
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in the riwaiyah,
he said,
Allah will reward you based on your sincerity.
They say, subhanallah, we're strict.
If it's about sincerity, when we we don't
have nothing,
we gave up our food in Ramadan, we
gave up money in Ramadan, we gave up
everything. If it's based on sincerity, then subhanallah,
even a poor person has a chance.
And so for us, Muhammaduillah,
from our sincerity,
we ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to help
us to continue
after the month of Ramadan
has finished.
The prophet
said, anyone who fasts the month of Ramadan
and completes it,
and follows it with 6 days of fasting,
it would be as if they fasted all
year.
That means I know that we're eating today.
I love eating today. Subhanallah.
The sooner to eat before you come to
the prayer,
just eat.
I love it, but
in a day or 2, subhanallah,
I'm gonna go back.
Because I've become habituated to waking up in
the middle of the night.
I've become habituated reading the Quran. I've become
habituated in spinning in the lost cause. Now
that I have the habit, subhanAllah.
Just keep going.
That Allah
might reward you with the best in this
life
and the best in the hereafter.
Alhamdulillah. It was having me. Bye bye.
I just, beloved brothers and sisters, I want
to congratulate you.
It has been, for many of us, a
great month.
And I want to tell you
2 short stories.
2.
The first story is about a child I
met
last Eid,
Donald Nur, Islamic Center.
And I went over to him after
the Eid prayer, and you know, you're shaking
everybody's hands.
And I said, how do you feel? And
he said, Alhamdulillah.
It's kind of sad, you know, that sad,
Alhamdulillah.
Not not the not the Alhamdulillah.
He was like, Alhamdulillah.
So I said,
well, why you say it like that? You
know, and your parents, they look at you
like, come on, say it the right way.
He said, you know, hamdulillah.
I said, you seem a little sad. He
said, yes. I'm sad.
I said, well, why are you sad?
He said, because Ramadan is over.
Now you think for a child Ramadan is
over,
they'd be happy.
Right?
Not like you.
I said,
well, why why are you sad that Ramadan's
over?
He said, because in Ramadan,
I get to have dinner with my family
every night.
And now that the month is over,
we go back to the way we used
to be.
He said, in Ramadan,
every night I see my friends.
I
pray a little and then we go and
play a little.
Every night,
every
morning in Ramadan, my parents wake me up,
and we have suhoor together, and we spend
family time. It's just us. No TV, no
radio, no cell phone, no text message, no
Facebook, nothing. Just us.
He said, for me that's Ramadan.
And when Ramadan is over,
we go back to the way we used
to be.
And so I'm inviting you,
don't go back to the way you used
to be,
especially for your children.
Keep them we live in America very isolated.
Maybe if you are
back home, a down home, you open the
back door and you run out and go
and visit and play with your friends and
your grandmother and your uncles are there. In
America, you can't do that, you're afraid just
to go in the hallway.
Ramadan is an opportunity
to create the gatheredness of the ummah.
And so I'm inviting you parents to inconvenience
yourselves
after Ramadan,
to continue the relationship with Allah
and that relationship with our community.
The second story is to tell you about
a woman I spoke to
who received some zakat al fitr.
When she receives a call to tell her
that she's going to be a recipient
a recipient of zakat al fitr,
she broke down and started crying.
She said, I stayed up all night.
I couldn't go to sleep
because
I'm an old woman and I'm a widow,
and I don't have any
sustenance.
So I just
stayed up all night praying to Allah in
Ramadan
that somehow
Allah would bless me to have a few
dollars just to fix my car and pay
my rent.
She said, I apologize that I'm breaking down,
but
I'm just so grateful to the ummah of
Rasulullah
She said, tell the brothers and sisters who
gave this fadaqa,
tell them, alhamdulillah,
I'm making dua for them,
that Allah might bless them and their families
because they care for an old widow like
me.
That's who you are.
And so I'm going to tell you today,
you were hungry in Ramadan for taqwa.
Stay hungry.
You are hungry in Ramadan to be in
jama'ah.
Stay hungry.
You are hungry in Ramadan for peace around
the world and justice when Hamdila stay hungry.
You were hungry all day in Ramadan for
the love of Allah, and you were hungry
to be near to Allah
Stay hungry.
And you were hungry in Ramadan to walk
in the footsteps of
stay hungry.
Stay hungry, walhunri la, not for the things
of this world,
but for the love of Allah and His
rusul and His
ummah. Oh Allah, guide us among those whom
you have guided. Protect us among those whom
you have protected. Take us as a friend,
you Allah, among those whom you have taken
as a friend. Oh Allah, we ask for
your mercy and your peace on those who
are suffering, you Allah, around the corner and
around the world. Oh Allah, we ask that
you help us to become emissaries of your
peace.
You Aziz You Gafar
You Rabbil 'alamin
Wasalatu
Wasalamu Arbursulihi
Kareem Wa'ala alhi Washabijmaine
Amin.
Takbir.
Takbir.
And and by the way,
I'm glad I'm glad I got to see
you. Yeah. Yeah. I'm glad. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
I
love everything. Quick. Quick. Quick. Come on, Moon.
You get everywhere, man. You are everywhere. Alright,
man. I love it. Let let's take another
one. I was I was looking to wait,
man. Oh, okay.
Okay. This is more this is time, man.
Yeah.
Yeah. No way.
I I look I'm just like Moroccan, but
I'm salam like Sudan.
Sudanese. Yeah.
Is there any Latinos speaking for
Are you saying if Latinos? You say if
you can speak
do you want?
Salaam. Okay. Let's first speak English then.
Assalamu alaikum.
Assalamu alaikum.
We have a Spanish speaking television
station here,
and if there are any Spanish speaking Muslims
in the house,
if you will come to the library, Bismillah,
for a short interview
to share with the Spanish speaking world
how we celebrate
Eid in our community, Biddnilah.
If you're Spanish speaking,
inshallah, if you'll join us in the library
for a small
Alright.
Alright. Waijzalullah. You're ready for filming?
Somebody.
Please. How's the family, man? I'm good, lad.
How many babies now? 2. 2 alive. So
far. So far.
From
Okay.
Hey. I love the laugh. Yeah. I know
that's kids and
Alright, man. We're gonna be on Instagram, man.
Watch out.
Everybody, but where's back home?
Where's back home? Bavez. Bangladesh. Everybody in Bangladesh
is gonna see this. Mhmm.
One one name with this guy. One
Alright, man. We're going to Bangladesh, man. So
you just gotta be right.
Stay
The Samsung Galaxy. Yeah. Galaxy. One more. One
more. Yeah.
Then close a little bit.
Alright. I'm the nurses. I love it if
we get that. I'll accept it.
I can't even Come look a lot. Mel
accept it for us. Alright. So My handsome
What's up? I'm denied. That's a healing thing.
You could look like dirt, man. He'd be
like, my handsome brother. You know, I had
We used to go to go to school,
bro. Oh, yeah. He was always a a
student, man. I mean, this guy was fantastic.
When
by the time by the time you saw
him Yeah. Before then And this guy was
it was it was a road. You know,
he he used to cut the lights on
and say, Hassan, hurry up, man. You you
it's too slow.
I'm way in the back with a b
minus. I'm hungry. I'm hungry now. I'm hungry
now. I'm hungry now. I'm
Alright. So what's on tap, man? I'm trying
to finish college.
Try, don't try. Just finish college. I'm finishing
college. That's
it.
I got the I got to get this
guy right here. I got to get him.
You you know who this guy is? Do
you know who this is? I like it.
Do you know who this is? Nobody. You
know who this is? You know who this
is?
Nobody.
Not you.
This is Matthew Bray's son. Marshall. Love Marshall.
I love Marshall. It's Matthew's son. He don't
take much time, brother.
He's the one he the one he was
he give that talk on the ear. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mhmm.
Muslim Prison Project back in the day, day
day 1st, National Muslim Prison Project.
I used to go to his father's house.
And because I'd be calling on the phone.
Right?
And, phone just keep ringing and ringing and
ringing. I'm like, man, this brother need to
get an answering machine.
Right? I get to the house. He's there.
Right?
I said, I
you know, I loved it, everything, brother. You
know? Because, I mean, he he was back
then, he was actually great. And I was,
you know so I was, like, sneak it
in. Oh, brother Mabdi. You know? Hey, man.