Kamal El-Mekki – Ramadan Khatirah 31-03-2024
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The concept of risk is discussed, with a narrator sharing stories of people who have lost their positions due to poor health or lack of knowledge. A representative also talks about a man named Mohammed Abdul Basit who was fired and later lost his position, leading to his loss of access to power and opportunities. A woman describes a man named Ahmed tis Israel as a mean person and lost his position, leading to his loss of access to power and opportunities. A representative shares a story of a man named Muhammad Hanif Al Hubairi who talked to the Muslim population and was yelled at by his mother and his father, and fundraising for the community is mentioned. People from all over the world will be making a donation to the community.
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Take one more time.
Alright. So
yesterday at Fajr, we, I told the story
about risk. I'm gonna stay with that theme
because these are the days of spending.
Right? And then Ramadan is the month of
spending.
And when it comes to spending and risk,
a lot of times people get a little
anxious, a little worried about where the risk
is going to come from. And we're all
familiar with the verses Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
says,
And in the heavens
is your risk, your provision
and what are you've been promised.
And risk, by the way, isn't just money.
Risk is
Whatever you benefit from is risk. So knowledge
is risk, wisdom is risk,
courage is risk,
money also is risk and that's the one
that most people are concerned about.
And we also know that Allah Subha'ala says,
Whoever fears Allah,
Allah will find him a way out.
And Allah
will provide for him from where he doesn't
even expect it. And that's what makes it
more powerful when you know your sources of
income,
and then suddenly it comes to you from
a place you weren't expecting whatsoever.
And I always say like Allah does this
so we can learn to be courageous, We
learn to trust him, and we're not afraid
to spend the next time around.
So whatever Allah
is planning for you and your risk, you
will get it no matter who stands in
your way. And whatever Allah
has decreed you're not gonna get, you will
not get it no matter what you do.
And the story I have today
is narrated by a man, his name is
Ahmed ibn Israel.
He says,
and the Muhammad ibn Abdul Malik zayat. He
said, I used to work as a katib,
which is kind of like a secretary
for
one of the rulers. His name was Muhammad
ibn Abdul Malik Zayat
who used to be working under the Khalifa,
Al Wathak.
And he was very close to the Khalifa,
very close to Al Wathak.
And he had a lot of power and
access to a lot of wealth,
and he had the capacity to help people.
But they described him, they said,
He was
he was a mean person
and he was
a very stingy individual
and he would not give anyone a single
dirham.
So the first lesson is that if Allah
Subhaahu Ta'ala puts you in a position to
help people,
make sure that you're at their service. Make
sure that you help them because this is
a great blessing and a great opportunity.
There's a statement from,
Abdul Abbaas radiAllahu anhu, and it's very powerful.
He says
he says,
he said there's no one who has more
of a favor upon me
than a man who has some kind of
problem or calamity in his life,
and he stayed up all night thinking from
all the people that he knows, who can
I go to? Whom can I go to
in the morning to help me with this
problem?
And in the morning, he comes to me.
Ibn Abbas radala'anhu is saying, I can't thank
this person enough. I am so indebted to
this person that from all of the creation,
he thought well of me that he would
come to me and ask me to help
with with his problem.
So if if people call you for things
and I had a friend, he was complaining
to me. He said, this guy, every time
he needs a call a a ride to
the airport, he calls me. He said, I
never hear from him anytime. But he needs
a ride to the airport, he calls me.
That's the only time I see him or
I get a call from him. And he
was upset.
And I was thinking, SubhanAllah,
he thinks highly of you.
That he trusts that you will be the
one to serve him and help him in
time of need. And I must say I
was very happy one time a family called
this masjid and they said their father is
returning from overseas
and their mother doesn't drive
and, the sibling is working
and no one is there to pick him
up from the airport. So they called the
masjid. And, wallahi, it was such an honor
that you will call click because you need
someone to to be picked up from the
airport. It was such a great thing that
this is how you think of your Masjid.
And, alhamdulillah, we arranged it for them and
everything.
So it's a great thing when when someone
comes to you with a problem or you
have a position to help people. But this
man, Mohammed Abdul Malik is they had he
didn't help anyone. They said, yeah. And he
said,
He doesn't give anyone asking anything and he
doesn't even honor his guests.
Then one day a man by the name
of
Abdullah Al Hubairi, his name is Ibrahim Abdul
Al Hubairi.
This man, Abdul Al Hubairi, he used to
work for the government in the past. He
had positions of power, and his father also
used to work for the government.
And then his situation changed, then he lost
his position and he became poor. And so
he came
to
the office,
of this man, Muhammad ibn Abdul Malik al
Zayed hoping to get a position or hoping
to get some
money and he's someone of standing.
So he came and he would sit in
the gathering
of the amir
and he would ignore him he would never
turn to him and see what he needs
and he understood people come they need help
so he kept ignoring him
and he would come every day and they
would never look at his situation or attempt
to help him
and so this man Mohammed ibn Abdul Malik
is the yat, he tells
our narrator,
Ahmed ibn Israel, he tells him go to
that man
and tell him the Amir knows what you
want
and tell him
If he sits in this place for a
full year, Wallahi is not going to see
a dirham from me, a silver dirham from
me.
So
our narrator tells him, he said, I can't
go say that to him. He said, you
have no choice, you go tell him exactly
what I told you.
He said, so I went home to my
own home
and I took 3,000
dirhams
and I came and I gave it to
them, to the man,
to Abdullah Al Hubairi. He said I gave
it to him and I said look,
this is from me
so just take it and go.
He said from you, from your home?
He said yes. He said I didn't come
here to get something from you. I came
here to get something from the Amir.
He said, the Amir has said some things
that I don't wanna repeat to you. So
just take this and go. He said, La
la, you have to tell me what he
said. You have to.
So he said, if you sit in this
place for a full year, will Allah, you're
not gonna get a single dirham from me.
He said,
I've heard what he said.
Are you gonna go tell him word for
word what I'm gonna say to him?
He said yes.
He said go tell him
I used to come to you once a
day
and now I'm gonna come to you twice
a day in the morning
and in the evening
and whatever Allah has written for me for
me I am going to get it.
Which means, whether you like it or not,
I'm gonna get it.
And if I don't get anything, at least
I will just bother you with my presence.
Just you see my face every day is
gonna bother you. Alright? And he said from
that day, he would come twice during the
morning gathering and then later on in the
later part of the day.
And Muhammad ibn Ab Malik every time he
would see him he would get upset
He would say
this this this mean person has come, this
wicked guy is here now, he would just
bother him.
So our narrator then, Ahmed
ibn Israel, he says one day
the Khalif Al Wathak, he called Muhammad ibn
Abdul Mal Khazayat to his palace and I
went with him being his right hand man
and when we went there he entered upon
the caliphah and I sat in this other
area waiting for him to finish.
He said then after a while he came
out
and his face changed
and he looks like he's in shock.
And I said, did anything happen with the
Khalifa?
He said, Wallahi, I've never experienced
a strange a day stranger than this in
my life.
He said, what happened?
He said, I walked into the Khalifa
and we started discussing certain things and then
the Khalifa says, I want you to nominate
a person for me. I want to put
him in charge of 1 of the major
cities
in the Muslim empire.
So give me a name of someone, a
candidate.
He said, I couldn't think of any name.
My mind just went blank.
And I just stood there like this.
And the khalifa got impatient and start yelling
at me.
He said, Hey, I'm talking to you. Give
me a name of somebody.
He said, Because
of how often I see Ibrahim
Abdulal Hubairi,
I couldn't think of anything so I said,
Abdullah al Hubairi.
Khalifa said, Abdullah al Hubairi?
Yes, yes I know him. He's an excellent
man and his father was an excellent man
and he served us also in the government.
Yes, Abdullah Al Hubiri is excellent.
He said when the Khalifa started praising him,
I got worried. I said, no. No. No.
No. Not not Al Huberi.
I meant to say Abdullah Al Zubairi.
He said, I know Zubairi. He is a
good man, but a Zubairi is much better
than him.
Absolutely, yes. Al Hubairi, we're gonna put Al
Hubairi
in charge. He started to say, I don't
think he's a good person. So the khalifa
figured something is going on. He said, what's
going on? Did anything happen between you and
him? And be honest with me. He said,
I told the khalifa the full story and
what he said to me and I'm gonna
take it whether you like it or not.
So the khalifa started to laugh.
He said he is gonna get it whether
you like it or not. I said, yeah,
yeah, Amir al Mu'aminin,
he's poor and he doesn't even look good.
He can't go represent us. He says, then
give him 100,000
silver dirhams, and that's also from the risk
that he's gonna get this fight whether you
like it or not.
And he said
he said, when I walked, the Khalifa kept
laughing and as I was walking out he
was on his back
laughing
and saying he got it whether you like
it or not. And so
of course the lesson is when Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
has decreed that you're going to get some
risk, You don't need to cheat, you don't
need to lie on your resume, you don't
need to do some underhanded or some
shortcuts or anything like that. Risk is coming.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala promised us that. And
I would say that if
some multimillionaire
came to you and said, hey listen, what's
the problem? What's you you don't like your
job or you don't think it's halal or
just quit and I'll take care of you.
And you know he's a billionaire,
but how confident will you be? You go
in next day you quit and you let
the boss and everything because I have someone
backing me up. But we don't compare a
lot to his creation. When Allah
promises, why don't we trust it the same
way we trust the billionaire?
So our risk is written
and it will come to you no matter
what, you just do your part and Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala does his part. And in
the months of spending, the months of Infaq
and Ramadan
and these days don't be worried, don't be
afraid. I'm sure every single one of us
has an experience where they gave and the
money came to them immediately
and from where they least expected. Zakumalakher, may
Allah accept from you. Nam?
Kamil?
I was being indirect but let me be
direct.
So you understand, Yani, as communities
in North America like we,
the responsibility
is on us. No one else is gonna
come do it, No one else is gonna
come and and and give a check for
our Masjid. This is our responsibility.
You know, the classes that we hold here
from Quran to Islamic studies to weekend schools.
All these things are for our community and
for our children
and it's our responsibility.
So what I was really trying to say
indirectly was we're gonna be fundraising soon,
right? And in Ramadan, we don't fundraise in
the middle of the year, you know that,
we've never done that. We just everything we
need we gather in the month of Ramadan
and there are many places to put your
wealth but like I said that on Friday
you know calamities in different parts of the
world, people from all over the world will
give towards that.
But a masjid in Clear Lake called Clear
Lake Islamic Center, no one from China is
gonna send a check for it. No one
from Chicago is gonna say this is for
click, but it's for the people of Click.
That's you. Alright?