Ramadan Khatirah 31-03-2024

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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

That's you. Alright?

That's you. Alright?