Johari Abdul-Malik – Time to Check Out Your Mind
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Things should be okay.
And thanking Allah
for so many blessings that Allah has given
us.
Blessings
beyond which any number we cannot count them.
And bearing witness
that Allah
continued to send guides and prophets and messengers
throughout the millennia.
No people have been left without guidance.
That guidance culminated with the guidance of Muhammad
1435
years ago.
Culminated
with
the prophet
message.
And
from that message, Allah sent to us
a letter, a communication
to humankind
that we might be guided aright.
We thank Allah today for that guidance from
Muhammad.
We ask peace and blessings upon him and
his family and his companions,
and all of the and those who follow
Allah's.
The ultimate reality, the truth until the day
of judgment.
Today in the, I just want to share
with you just
a few thoughts, and
I want to tell you today,
I'm probably not alone
in having a heavy heart.
It seems in the world today when we
look at the news,
every piece of news, what Noah De Bele,
seems like it's bad news.
Even bad news used to be there used
to be a little good news.
Now it seems
every channel, every station, they're saying some kind
of thing. Maybe it's against Islam or or
it's against humanity, it's against something,
against morality. I
like, almost as if the whole world is
going crazy.
And we ask ourselves sometimes,
what can we do about it?
Perhaps it might be helpful
to think about the words of Imam Shafi'i,
Rahim Allah Alaik.
If there was nothing else re revealed of
the Quran except this,
he said it would have been enough to
guide all of humankind
to the straight path.
And Allah begins
that Surah
by swearing
by one of Allah's creations,
time.
We're lost.
And then Allah informs us about the nature
of human beings.
Everyone
is a loser.
And I love the fact that Allah is
very general
because you might think, well, that doesn't include
Muslims, do it?
And if you and the Christians say that
doesn't include Christian. Everybody else is a Lord
of Jews. They they all say somebody else,
not us. We're the chosen people.
Quran gives some definition.
If you have a connection with a loss
of Hanukkah, then
it is natural that out of that relationship
should flow
righteous deeds.
If you see a person who's intelligent, they
study, they learn, they know things.
When you see their behavior, you know how
they're going to behave. They're going to behave
like an intelligent person.
If you meet an ignorant person,
comprehension, they're not gonna get it.
So don't waste your time
arguing with them.
Out of the right relationship with Allah
flows.
If you teach your child good manners when
they're growing up at that time, when they
get older, they have them inculcated.
It's called habit.
A person who has this relationship with Allah
over time,
they develop the sensibilities
that when individuals try to call them to
something different than what Allah has,
they have a fortitude that they can withstand
it. The conditions.
You and I,
through the units of time, have an opportunity
to find out what Allah's Haqq is and
then talk to each other about it.
Don't keep it a secret.
I love the
Quran is coming to the Prophet
in the early days,
and then it stops.
And when the Quran stops coming to the
prophet, he
and his companions, although there were few, they
were concerned about why we are not receiving
this communication
from Allah.
And then Allah reveals to
him
and the last
Go and tell people.
Tell people about this message that Allah is
sending to you even though maybe because that
is not coming right now, you feel like
you might be dejected. You're not.
That verily Allah is with the people who
have Amin for Allah. They are connected to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. In their salat, in
their zikr, they remember Allah. It affects their
behavior. It drives us.
What was so bizarre,
and that we patiently
persevere.
We don't give up.
Now I'm gonna tell you
part of what's bothering me today.
I believe that we have lost sense of
time
in our relationship
with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so that we
are as a people, I mean globally,
so hooked on making something happen right now
that the notions of sabr,
even the reality of what is hot doesn't
matter. What matters is what I want to
see happen and where I want it to
happen now.
It creates an impatience in our young people,
almost to the degree that it drives them
mad.
They want to see the establishment
of Islam. They want to see justice,
but they're impatient.
If you were to think about
connecting
the way the companions connected with time,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam described that there's
forgiveness from 1 jumwa to the next jumwa,
From one salah to the next salah.
So if I am
living in the time sense of a Muslim,
when I see you and I say,
let's get together later. And you say, when?
You said, how about Badr salatul Asa?
Because my time frame is set
based on what Allah has set as the
times.
What time is is our gathering? Let's meet
after Maghrib,
not 6 o'clock, 7:30,
after Maghrib because my time sense is adjusted.
When my time sense become adjusted to Allah's
time, I become more patient.
And I don't feel guilty all the time
because I am focused in my salah, that
if I make salatul asr,
I ask Allah to forgive me for what
I did before I made salah.
And I make a pledge that when I
get up from the rug, I'm not gonna
make those mistakes again,
Inshallah,
between then and Maghrib.
Now I don't know about many of you,
but I I know there are many people.
They make salah, and they're going through the
motion.
Maybe sometimes, I guess even me, I I
I realized I I finished making salaam, I'm
like, was I really there?
I know all the words.
I know all the movement.
I'm I'm in every one of them, but
am I really there
in a way that I'm connecting with Allah,
that when I leave Salah, I'm empowered, I'm
energized!
The burden has been lifted from me!
My mental health condition is improved.
I'm not all stressed out
because
I know that that salah was filled with
makfirah.
And then I hope like a person who
plugs their cell phone in when the battery
gets low,
I'm charged up.
For some of us,
we let our battery run a long time,
and then you try to call the brother
and he doesn't respond. And you say, well,
brother, why didn't you pick up the phone
when I called you and said my battery
was dead?
Some of us, our spiritual battery dies because
we let it go too long before we
charge it up.
You know,
they come out with new devices all the
time and they people ask, well, is the
new iPhone gonna have a longer battery life
because
my battery dies all the time.
Allah gave us a formula for how
we could maintain
our battery's life.
We could maintain the connection with a line
by plugging in
5 times a day
before the battery dies.
So that we might be energized from our
salah.
Right now, we're about
to go through another time change.
This time change
into
the new year.
And
used to told me to remind you they
are calendars for sale in the office.
New year.
Forgiveness
from 1 Ramadan to the next Ramadan,
from one
period of our acknowledgment of the reality of
Allah. Me, I took Shahadah.
So I know the day that I said,
everything before that Allah forgave.
But then after that,
like a person the prophet said, if they
bathe in a river 5 times a day,
how much dirt could they get on them?
They said, you Rasoolah, no significant amount. He
says salah is like that.
But sometimes
you get some kind of stain on you.
That regular washing not gonna get it out.
Maybe even the wash that comes from Ramadan
not gonna get it out.
And so you need to go to the
high detergent
Hajj.
And I want to remind you,
those who jazz who returned recently,
make sure that you visit with them to
get some of the charge off of them
before it goes down.
Many of them will come back. Their souls
are light like a feather
because they're not carrying that emotional baggage,
sin that they had before that journey.
And although I was talking to a journalist
the other day, they asked me, ma'am, tell
us about Muharram
and the Muslim new year. I said, well,
the Muslim new year doesn't have any religious
significance for us.
The first of Muharram didn't have any religious
significance for us, but
I would like to remind your readers
that the time
mark for the Muslim era
didn't begin like the Christian, didn't begin with
the birth of the prophet.
The Muslim era didn't begin with the revelation
of the Quran.
The Muslim era begins in the year of
the Hijra
where people, because of their connection with Allah,
migrated to some place so that they could
be free to practice their religion.
And the Jews
in Yesr'ab
would be able to practice their religion.
And Sabians, another kind of monotheist, that they
would be able to practice their religion freely
in a place that Muslims established for the
worship of Allah.
That era begins with
the Hijra.
So for us, when we think about the
year 0, the companions of the prophet,
they were in the time since.
Everything before that, one era. Everything after that,
a new era.
And they didn't retrofit time.
Like, if you go to your calendar now
at work, you see on the calendar 2014.
How did it get to be 2014?
In the z in the year 0, was
anybody saying this is the year 0?
The reality is that the the Gregorian or
the Christian era or or
AD
was created
many, many, many years after that event.
But the companions of the prophet
in their time, they saw the hijrah as
that dividing line, so a companion would say,
yeah, Abdullah, when did such and such happen?
They would say, oh, that was 2 years
before we made hijrah.
Say, well, and and when was your son
born? Oh, he was born 2 years after
Hijra.
Because the migration to a place where they
were free to practice their faith
was the central
issue
in their time.
So I'm not asking you to celebrate
the new year, but I am asking you
to celebrate
to be in the era of Rasulullah
and the establishment of a.
And we might want to take a moment
to reflect
on our own time,
and how we set our own priorities,
and what we think is really important.
That Allah might bless us in this next
year, in this era
with benefit.
I wanna change subjects on you,
and I I apologize.
But right now, there's a lot going on
in our world.
The first I talk about because you
you might not hear about it later.
Over 4,000 people have died from the Ebola
crisis.
That's a 1,000 little more than a 1000
people more than died on the tragedy in
911.
Why is it that everybody's talking about
that tragedy
and they move quickly to memorialize it and
to spend 1,000,000 of dollars to do whatever?
And most of the people who are affected,
by the way, in the Ebola crisis,
most of them
are Muslim.
Most of them.
Yesterday, they had the first case in Mali.
The most the largest country in Africa
with Muslim population is Nigeria.
Nigeria is not Ebola free.
Senegal had a case they have resolved. They
issued and now have been determined
Ebola free.
Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea,
still they're struggling.
And I don't know about
you, but
I know that people who live in that
part of the world,
they don't get their fair share.
They've known about the Ebola disease for 35
years.
They're only rushing now to find a cure
because it might come over to the United
States or Europe.
I'm inviting you to become an advocate
for your brothers and sisters
and for humanity
to do something
to end this crisis. Make dua when you
see the news of the terrible outbreak.
Make dua.
There's a hashtag,
hashtag, look like number sign, end Ebola.
Go to Twitter
and see if you can follow what's going
on. Maybe you can do something to make
a difference. Let congress know
that this is important because it affects
all of humanity, but also because many, many
Muslims are dying.
The other part is to do what you
can.
Not fundraising today. I'm not asking you to
spend any money.
But if you have money, you know what
to do.
The other is
there are some issues and concerns,
not only about health,
but about mental health.
I know many of you have seen
the news lately
of individuals
who have been
claiming that they're going to fight
in Syria, in Iraq, etcetera.
Whatever you think about that, that's not my
subject.
I know that there are a lot of
Muslims who are killing other Muslims
every day. Today is, so if you just
look at the news, what happened in
any country in the region, Pakistan,
India,
Afghanistan,
you name it,
you're gonna find some Muslims killed other Muslims
today. Iraq, definitely.
And over what, I'm not really, really sure.
But they're all but they're fighting.
Syria, Lebanon, Jordan,
they they find each other. I I I
I can't figure it out. I'm from Brooklyn.
Maybe, you know, just because I'm not from
the region. I can't really get it.
When I accepted Islam,
the life of a Muslim was sacred.
I accepted Islam.
Life of a Muslim was sacred.
Now you have Muslims who go and they
kill it. I was in Sudan,
met with
one faction and another faction,
killing each other
after they make salah.
That's some kind of mental illness.
You can't be a rational Muslim.
The prophet
in his khutba wada, he said the life
of a Muslim is sacred.
You get up, make takfir
on the other Muslim,
then go kill him.
And while you're at it, you can kill
his wife and his children.
Something is going wrong.
Most
of them.
Because they feel that the sense of urgency
and time, we gotta do something, man.
What we gonna do?
I don't know what we gonna do,
but let's go get busy. At least I
can do that.
You're sick.
And I know
about
about
some of the young people who have gone
over and they get sick when they're over
there.
When they find out, oh,
we're selling dope to buy weapons because they
don't make no weapons.
All the weapons come from the United States,
from Israel, from the Soviet Union, Germany. They
all come from over there.
I'm sorry. I'm making some of you uncomfortable.
That's not what they they they don't the
people who are you doing the killing
of other Muslims, they don't make they don't
manufacture what maybe IED, but they don't manufacture
weapons.
When they talk about heavy weapons, ain't none
of them weapons made by Muslims.
So someone else is benefiting
from the bloodbath.
My advice to you,
Many of our young people
are so isolated,
and some of them, they don't have good
boys, don't have good relationship with their father,
father busy working all the time.
That love and compassion that the prophet
talks about
for your children,
not there. Their friends are on Facebook.
Their friend is on the Internet.
And then the next thing you know, they
find another friend on the Internet who says,
you know what, man?
I really love you,
and I really wanna see you do something
with your life.
So why don't you come and get busy
with us?
And then when you look at the profile
of that person, you say that's so unfortunate.
They were taken advantage of
because they they were mentally
unstable.
That's your job.
That's your job.
Your neighbor,
invite them. The youth in your neighborhood, get
get together with them.
If they look like something is going on
with them,
build a relationship. Maybe there's something going on
with their home. This boy in Ottawa, they
said he's from a broken home.
He was
homeless.
This is this
is right.
These people are right for the taking.
And I'm saying to you, Alhamdulillah,
the love of this deen,
the love of Allah, the love of Muslims
is something that we have to share with
them.
Before we lose them,
and then Allah will ask us what did
we do.
Did we share this Deen with them in
a way that they would not?
I know it's 2 o'clock,
and, we used to say back in the
in the seventies,
Alham, you gotta get back to your slave,
Back to work insha Allah.
But I wanna remind you, alhamdulillah,
if there are any health professionals
who are with us,
We're not just talking.
Darahedra has agreed to join the Interfaith Medical
Specialist Network,
And we're going to have a meeting
medical people, you don't even have to be
a doctor, you could be any kind of
medical person,
to join us here at Al Hajjara this
Wednesday night
at 6:30,
because we have to do something.
It's the mind, body, and the spirit
that if
we make it home,
then you'll have in your chest that lump
of flesh that the prophet
said, if it's good, the whole body is
good.
That's the anatomical heart
as well as this inshallah.
So I ask you
please to make dua.
For those
who are suffering under the stress and the
the the diseases of the society.
Oh Allah, guide us among those whom you
have guided.
Oh Allah, protect us and our children among
those whom you have protected.
Oh Allah, take us as a friend among
those whom you have taken as a friend.
Oh Allah, strengthen us that
we might have patience
Oh allah, that you might gather us together,
that
we might love one another.
Oh allah, help us
within the of Rasulullah
that we might love you, you allah, and
love your ummah. Oh Allah, we ask for
your mercy and your peace on the prophet
and on his family and on his companions.
And all of the m b I, you
allah, those who follow the way of your
until the day of judgment
end.
Allahu
Akbar.