Johari Abdul-Malik – Taqwa See Somthing..Say Somthing
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The speakers remind people of the seasonality of Easter and encourage them to use the season to achieve their goals. They also discuss the impact of Allah on society and the upcoming hospitable guest. The speakers emphasize the importance of not feeling satisfied with daily activities and experiences, and provide tips for doing things freely. They also mention upcoming events and programs, including a postcard with a message on community involvement and emphasize the importance of investing in housing, food, and clothing.
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Walhamdulillahirabbalalameen.
Beginning the khutbah praising Allah
and thanking Allah, walhamdulillah,
for this blessed month of Ramadan.
That Allah
has provided for us this period,
that we might acquire
something
from our guests.
That we, walhamdulillah,
in the experience of living into the month
of Ramadan,
that we might take something from it
that would fuel us for the rest of
our year.
This month,
shahr Ramadan,
is for us, walhamdulillah,
upon us.
And Allah reminds us in the Quran,
and I know that in this month, you
are going to hear
over
and over
and over the same reminder.
Now, SubhanAllah,
Sheikh Mohammed Al Hanodi, he used to remind
me, he said, look at the words in
the Quran,
and the phrases,
because sometimes there is an implication
in the phrase
that Allah is telling us
something else.
All
you who
believe.
And then Allah follows it with a command.
He says, if you think about this phrase,
the Anajee,
fasting has been prescribed for you. Allah
is
saying there is a connection
between
you saying that you believe,
and you following the prescription
of Allah.
There are many people who will say, I
am a believer.
But what follows,
is what follows what
Am I doing what Allah asked me to
do?
If I see the message of the Qur'an,
does it make me do something? And
then Allah
reminds us,
That Allah gave the same prescription
to other people who said,
that they believed.
Now,
I don't know about you.
Maybe we know some people who say,
they say I'm a Muslim,
but they do something different.
They say,
I'm for Islam, but then they do something
different.
For
us.
Grateful to Allah
that when we say we are Muslim,
we do what Allah asked us to do.
This relationship
between you and Allah. Allah tells you to
do something, and you do it.
And Allah tells you that if you do
it,
there is a consequence of what you do.
That Allah will give you in shambamadan
a gift.
You get the gift, taqwa.
Now,
me and you, we are very grateful, Allah,
let us live into the month of Ramadan.
Now, alhamdulillah,
we are adjusted
to
this relationship.
Now it's easy for you.
No food, easy.
No drink,
easy.
No passion,
easy.
But the prophet
He warns us,
saying that there are some people
who
in the month of Ramadan,
fasting from dawn
until sunset
every single
day.
But what they will take from Ramadan?
Hunger and thirst.
Hunger and thirst.
I met a man the other day and
he said, imam, how is your Ramadan coming?
And I said to him, oh, subhanAllah,
we were leaving the masjid and the moon
was full.
And I said, do you see that?
At first he looked at me like,
yeah, I see that.
So
I said, but do you see that?
He said, yes, yes, I see it. That
means we're in the middle of the month
of Ramadan,
because the moon is full.
I said, yeah.
I
said, man, I'm afraid that
all I'm getting out of Ramadan
is low hunger and a low thirst.
He said, well yeah, Iman, okay. But what
else? I said, but I'm hungry for this
other connection,
where Allah will give me this relationship that
it will affect my behavior. I will come
out of Ramadan
after a month of soul training.
My soul will be right.
I'll be able
to to do things freely without
the whisper of Shaitan
affecting me. I said, man, but I don't
feel like I'm getting anything but hunger and
thirst.
He said, yeah, amen. I have the same
problem.
I got the hunger and thirst part down,
but
my tongue.
It's hard for my tongue to fast.
My tongue
still
saying some things that in Ramadan,
I know because of my heightened awareness
with Allah, that I shouldn't say.
He said, Imam,
I'm abstaining from food and from drink and
from my passion, but I'm still not fasting
with my eyes.
I still look at things I should be
looking at.
I said, well, I'll end it now, brother.
You know, it's Ramadan.
There's a chance that Allah gave us to
work on these things, that you are aware
of this.
And as he walked away, I said, subhanallah.
I had realized
that, subhanAllah, I didn't have any problem with
my tongue.
And
my eyes are not looking the way they're
not supposed to be looking.
I said, maybe maybe we're getting this effect.
Maybe we're getting the effect of Ramadan, but
we don't really appreciate
the effect that it's having on us.
But alhamdulillah,
every
Thursday night in Ramadan, because remember, Allah tells
us,
We invite people of other faiths to come
to the masjid
Wednesday Thursday, but especially on Thursday to take
time with our friends and our neighbors and
we tell them about Ramadan
and the experience of Ramadan and so on,
so that they experience
some of this with us.
And a man
joined us and he said, you know,
I don't eat
pork, you know.
He's a Christian, he said I don't eat
pork.
He said, and I I I came, I
really enjoyed
the love and the fellowship
and the spirit
that I felt in the masjid.
He said I could feel
it was something with,
not just
10 people or a 100 people,
a 1000 people
seem to be electric
with their connection with God.
There was one woman, she was a Mormon,
she said,
I love visiting here because everybody
is talking about God
and they're fasting,
and they're praying.
Another man said, he said, you know,
I like to eat at the halal restaurant.
And,
well
I, may Allah forgive me, but he looked
a little,
like redneck kind of looking.
I said, this guy said,
I like eating at the Hanau restaurant,
because
I know that the food is clean.
The impact
of our relationship
with Allah is having an effect, alhamdulillah,
in our society, whether we know it or
not.
And so
maybe, although it's the middle of Ramadan, maybe
we're getting more out of the Ramadan than
we think.
And I know that Shaitan really likes to
put us down.
And we are so programmed now that even
if shaitan is not whispering to us,
we still feel like we're not doing enough.
We are in the middle of Ramadan.
We have this guest
visiting us.
I'm inviting you, walhamdulillah,
to be hospitable
to your
guests.
As,
we open the masjid to be hospitable for
all of the community,
but in this
month we are in the middle
to take advantage of it
while your guest is here.
That you might come out of it with
taqwa.
That Allah might set your affairs aright
and give you, alhamdulillah,
the freedom from the hellfire,
and that Allah might enter us into his
jannah, mawbruh.
I have
for you
good news, Abdul Karim, and I have bad
news.
I'm going to give you the bad news
first.
If you have a $1,000,000
right now, you would be short
half a $1,000,000
So you ask yourself, what did I do
with the half a1000000
that I spent in the last
15 days. What did I what did I
do with it?
That's the bad news.
I can tell you I I lived my
whole life in America.
People in America, they make so much money,
you can work 1 job, 2 jobs, 3
jobs, 4 jobs,
and at the end of the month you
say to yourself, where did my money go?
Because there's not much barakah, a lot of,
lot of, lot of cash flow,
very little barakah.
That's the bad news. Brothers, please come forward.
There are brothers standing in the lobby, they
don't have any place to sit. Please come
forward.
You know, I've been to Makkah many times
and I can tell you that
if this is not crowded according to Makkah
standards,
please make room.
And Makkah, I think you could make salal
of the head of a pin.
You just want to be there.
The good news is that we still have
half a1000000 left.
Not only do we have half a1000000 left,
but in the last 10 days of Ramadan,
Allah is going to multiply
whatever you do in the last
10 as you seek laylat of qadr.
Hairim alfisahr.
So I'm reminding you as I remind myself.
And maybe I might remind you in another
way.
You see, there is,
there's a sign
you see now in the metro
or you see it on the side of
the
bus or in the train
and track. Anywhere you go, they have the
sign that says see something, say something.
See something, say something.
And then after that, they might have something
that says, a little sign that will say,
excuse me,
is that your bag?
So if you see
something
that requires
action,
do something.
If you see something or you learn
something,
then it ought to cause you to do
something.
If you feel something in Ramadan,
it should cause you, alhamdulillah,
to act
on something.
See something,
say something.
I would say to you,
in the month of Ramadan, maybe you have
a bag full of barakah.
Before you get off
the train or the bus of Ramadan,
is that your taqwa?
If you see your friend, you're telling, excuse
me brother, is that your taqwa?
Don't leave it.
Don't leave it. Don't leave it on the
bus.
We want to take it with us.
And so this month, walhamdulillah,
I'm reminded,
the prophet
was talking to his companions, and some say
that this must have been
early in the morning, like after Fajr.
Because
the discussion that followed,
people were amazed because there wasn't much time.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he asked
many
questions
to his companions.
Today,
if you want
to get a sense of how to put
your
taqwa into action,
it's for action.
And you have the
last
half of Ramadan.
How many of you?
How many of you
visited the sick?
And if you know the story why Abu
Bakr said, you Rasoolallah, I visit the sick.
Then he said, how many of you,
you went with the funeral?
Abu Bakr said, I did.
He said, how many of you?
You gave sadaqa.
Ubakr raised his hand.
SubhanAllah,
if you want to start thinking about how
to get
something
out of Ramadan,
Do something.
I know a lot of you don't use
social media.
I know you don't.
But I'm gonna post on Twitter,
again,
45
tips
to get
something
out of your Ramadan.
Feed the hungry.
Visit the sick.
Go to the cemetery.
Pray the janaza.
Build relationships between people who you have issues
with. Make du'a, make dawah.
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
Make a list.
These are my goals in the last part
of Ramadan
because every time I see something, I'm gonna
say something.
Every time I see a need, I'm gonna
fulfill a need.
Every time I feel a connection, I'm gonna
follow that connection and I'm gonna get into
action.
So that my faith is not dead.
So when you leave the month of Ramadan,
you won't have to say,
I left my taqwa.
I left my taqwa in Ramadan, then I
went back to doing what I used to
do.
Right now, I'm going to
show you this postcard.
And maybe because the way the postcard is
made,
but we now have gotten the attention
of the white house
and,
mister Hussain,
Barack Hussain Obama, you got to say the
whole name, you know.
When I would say other things I'm not.
But I would remind, I will say it,
I will remind people,
that you know he comes from a Muslim
family,
right? You know, he's
not practicing,
right?
That's how they say it when it's our
children,
right? Our child is grew up a Muslim,
they went to Islamic school like Barack Hussein
Obama, but he's not practicing Islam,
Right?
But the white house now has its eye
on the genocide enemy Ammar,
formerly known as Burma.
And there are some Burmese Muslims who pray
with us here every Friday.
They provide a tremendous service to the masjid
I know.
We have been slow to respond and maybe
because you see this thing says save the
Rohingya,
you don't know what that means.
This is the tribe
in Burma,
that's a Muslim tribe
and they have been experiencing
the genocide
for almost 2 years now.
And it's not a Christian
genocide. These are
people who are Buddhist,
who are the majority.
I'm only asking you
to say something.
The postcard says send an email to the
white house
that says that the government should put pressure
to stop the genocide
in
Myanmar, Burma.
Alhamdulillah,
if you see something, say something.
If you feel something, do something
That Allah would reward you, Alhamdulillah,
with the best in this life
and the best in the hereafter
After salat, I'm going to ask you to
do something very simple.
We have established in this masjid some amazing
programs.
Ramadan is just one example.
If you are a party to this work,
if you just had a share in the
investment,
and you count the years until you meet
Allah
on the day of judgment,
you will be amazed what your ROI is,
return on investment,
and your IRAA,
your individual
retirement account with Allah will be amazingly
full.
I'm going to ask after salat that you
contribute to our waqf.
$1
a day
for 365
days.
Well alhamdulillah,
those of you who joined last year,
that cycle has come to an end.
We want you to recommit if you didn't
join us last time to join us.
We feed the hungry, ta'amal miskeen.
We provide space for the musaleen.
We take care of those people they need,
housing,
food,
clothing,
shelter. We hold house homeless women in that
room right there, in the coldest months of
the year.
We teach children to memorize the Quran in
this place and to be upright.
I'm inviting you to invest,
to have a share in that,
that if you feel something,
do something
for yourself, alhamdulillah, and your families.
Allahumadeena fimin hadayt.
Wa feeinafiman afait.
Wa tawalena fimintawalayt.
O Allah, guide us among those whom you
have guided.
O Allah, protect us among those whom you
have protected.
Oh, Allah, take us as a friend 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, help us to be emissaries of
your peace.
Oh, Allah, we pray,
that you will accept from us
our prayers and our fasting
and our standing in the night, You Allah,
and our steadfastness
in this deen,
la ilaha illallah Muhammadan Rasool Allah.
O Allah, we ask, alhamdulillah, for your mercy
and your peace on us as an ummah,
You Allah. O Allah, help us to spread
that love and compassion,
until it reaches every heart and every home,
You Allah.
O Allah, we ask that you put the
bonds of love between the husbands and the
wives,
You Allah, between the parents and their children,
You Allah. Oh, I help us to have
mercy on our old people, You Allah. Oh,
I help us to relieve the the misery
from those who are oppressed, You Allah. Oh,
I'll to provide food for those who are
hungry, You Allah, to provide safety for those,
You Allah, who live in fear. Oh Allah,
we ask
for your mercy and your peace on the
prophet
on his family and on his companions,
and all of the, you Allah, and those
who follow the way of your haqq,
the ultimate truth, You Allah, until the day
of judgment,
amen.