Unity – The Bountiful Yield of Tawheed
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The speaker discusses the importance of sh patterned behavior and the sh pattern of Islam, as it is a means of living. They emphasize the need for people to spend time in cemeteries and collect idols to reestablish the image of the holy holy father. The sh patterned behavior is dangerous and dangerous, and the importance of praising Allah's attributes and deeds is emphasized. The speaker also discusses the use of negative language and the importance of avoiding negative language and seeking the benefit of the deceased. They emphasize the need for small steps to avoid cultural bias and emphasize their unique approach to giving aid to people in need.AI Generated Transcript ©
My dear respected brothers,
I would like to
check,
a verse in Surat Al Baqarah,
which verse number
213.
That is chapter 2 verse 213,
Surah Al Baqarah.
If you have your phone handy, maybe you
can look at it as well.
It's very interesting verse.
I'm really gonna touch on
the first statement.
Mankind
used to be
1 single family.
One single family.
Togetherness.
No division.
Now,
read
what Abdullah ibn Abbas
said in explaining this verse.
And why Abdullah ibn Abbas
mankind
used to be 1 single family.
So what united them?
What kept them together?
Tawhid.
So
the moment
they
went astray from that us,
from that origin,
they started what?
Splitting, dividing.
And hence, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
sent the prophets and the messengers
in order to bring people back to Tawhid.
And then we
could say
by default,
is the origin.
And mixed with
the prophetic words.
Allah said
I created
Then the devils came and made them
go astray.
We have also from the way that we
were born.
What did the prophet say about the newborn?
Every newborn is born in what?
Islam.
Is
every newborn is born in Islam,
then who
switches that fitra,
who influence that fitra to
go away from to hate the parents and
whoever the parents allow to come across their
children,
the school,
the environment
and so forth.
The Again, the point I'm trying to make
here, I'm and I'm going around it.
If you wanna unite, again, you have to
go back where?
The Tawhid.
Because it's very sad, when we hear people,
you know,
criticizing
those who speak of the hate.
They say you're dividing
the. Don't talk about that stuff that divide
us.
Listen, if we do not unite,
what will we unite on?
We I mean, I could unite with you
to build a bridge right here. There's nothing
wrong with that. Even if you're a mushrik,
I unite with non Muslims to, you know,
to take care of the welfare of humanity,
feed the hunger for the hungry.
There is nothing wrong with that.
But the unity which
originates from
that you love Allah.
Has to be.
How can you unite with someone who associates
others in worship with Allah Subhanahu? Don't you
love Allah?
Allah called this.
Allah called this transgression
against me.
He called it
It's a great form of transgression
that you commit.
Of course, against yourself. Allah doesn't need us,
but you.
Abdullah ibn Abbas
mentioned
a very interesting
statement
which really describes
how
shirk
emerged
on earth.
Everybody upon Tawhid, now how shirk emerged on
earth.
Abdullah ibn Abbas said
The author is authentic
Between Adam and Noah
alaihis
salam, 10 generations.
I'd rather go generations because they lived longer.
If you say, you know, 10 centuries, you're
talking about a 1000 years only,
and we know
some of them would live for a 1000
years.
But what is meant here really 10 generations.
What happened?
The first
type of shirk,
which is the most
dangerous type,
which is shirk.
The shirk in the area of.
That you love
someone
equal
or above Allah.
And that is why I said
the whole issue has to do with what?
With loving Allah.
That you end up loving a created being
more than your love for Allah
That will take you to commit
shirk
because you will always place the created being
above
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And, for your information, this is the type
of shirk
our neighbors,
the Christians,
have fallen to.
They love Jesus.
They love him dearly.
You wanna know that. You you need to
understand that.
For them, he's a loved character
because
they talk about him all the time. They
hardly mention the father. I'm just using the
language here.
They hardly mention the father. All they talk
about is Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
Jesus,
Jesus. And and they abandon who? They abandon
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Although Jesus never
informed them to do that,
but
what they have fallen to also is in
shirkilmhab,
that they love Jesus more than their love
for Allah,
and that is why it's very hard for
them.
Unless someone, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guides.
So Abdullah ibn Abbas says that there were
10 centuries, 10 generations between Adam and Noah.
Then there were
5
very
righteous
individuals
who lived
Those are 5 individuals, by the way.
Those are 5 people,
but they used to be so righteous,
so pious.
The people loved them.
They loved them dearly.
And
people even if they are not Muslims,
they love
the righteous people.
They love them because
even even if they don't believe,
because they recognize
the high quality, the good quality,
the mannerism,
the character.
What did the Kufar admire most about Rasulullah
SAWSALAM? What was it? His what?
His
character. His character.
Can you can you imagine that at one
stage Abu Bakr Sadiq
wanted to leave Mecca and migrate to Abyssinia
like everyone else.
A man by the name of Ibnud Direna,
a Kafir,
a non Muslim.
He saw him about to get on a
ship and travel to Abyssinia or to Yemen
somewhere.
So he asked him, where are you going?
Said I'm leaving town, man. I'm I don't
like you guys. You guys are not
giving us a hard time.
Imagine this tells
Abu
Bakr,
Someone with your noble character
should not leave Mecca nor he should be
expelled. Come and I'll protect you.
Imagine that. Come and I'll protect you.
The
people love the righteous people.
That's
obvious
is is is known.
But now again,
the problem is that you allow this love
to
supersede
your love for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
I mean, there are certain things
Allah mentioned
that we love them inherently.
Intuition.
Allah mentioned 8. Look at this.
Your fathers.
Your children.
Your brothers.
Your spouses,
your nationalism, your clan, your tribe,
your family,
wealth,
money.
Trade,
business that you're afraid
is gonna lose.
What dwellings
Look at these 8.
If those 8 are more beloved
in your heart to you than Allah
and his messenger
and striving in his cause,
then you're in trouble.
Fatar Abbas.
The verse is in Surat I Tawg. This
is Quran.
That means Allah will use these things that
you love more than him to test you
with it.
And that's the thing again. The whole concept
is the concept of what? Of love. There
is a type of love, which they call
what,
that you end up loving your sheikh,
loving your imam,
loving your sheikh Tariqah, your imam, whoever it
is, more than your love for the messenger
of Allah,
more than your love for the for Allah,
more than the love for the sunnah,
then you give that
individual precedence
over the truth, over the haqq. Because for
you, he is the haqq,
and that's the danger of this.
Walegariq,
one of the scholars,
a Yemeni
scholar from the,
Yani 500 after Hijra,
he made a very profound statement, and he
said,
one of the
widest
gateways to misguidance
that you exaggerate the status of PO.
That is why you're not supposed to brace
yourself nor you're supposed to brace others
in Islam. You know that. Right?
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam heard someone praising
another person in front of him. He said,
Don't do that.
Don't help him
against his self, his nafs.
You don't you don't wanna do that.
That when people praise you,
Allah knows best who is the righteous and
who is the pious.
You you you shouldn't accept that.
You shouldn't accept that.
Between Adam and Noah, go back again to
the verse, 10 centuries.
And told those 5 people.
And and some of the wording that they
are offspring of one another, they died.
That he will miss them.
We miss them. They are no longer living
around us.
Shaytan
utilized that. He said, this is my chance
now
to implant
shirk on earth.
He appeared to them actually in a form.
And in the past, they say that shaitan
used to appear in a form of a
human.
Said you guys miss you guys miss them?
Why don't you go and spend some time
next to their graves?
The first type of shirk emerged in earth,
the grief.
The griefs.
The shirk of the grief.
The graveyard.
Imagine
says, 3 days before his death, I heard
him saying this.
May Allah have
may Allah curse those
curse them.
They have taken the graves
of their prophets.
They turned the graves of the righteous people
and their prophets into a places of worship.
Don't do this to my grave.
Don't do this to my grave.
Don't use my grave as a place for
shirk.
Don't do that.
Rasaifan said to them, listen,
You guys miss
their graves already.
Go and spend some time there. Go and
sit around their graves.
Spend some time so we have the their
company.
Of course,
something that you need to be a teller
to do that when you go and spend
time
in a in the facility of the cemetery,
you're gonna need the bathroom. You're gonna need
someone to give you water.
You're gonna need someone to give you food.
However, if if you like the money you
wanna spend time there, you're probably gonna overnight
too. An entire industry
emerges.
Some of you may may assume that the
whole issue has to do with. It's an
industry business that establish around it.
And people bring in.
A
whole people benefiting
the the most dangerous thing when the religion
becomes a means
of living,
that you you you use the religion
to make a living.
This is the worst thing.
He would he's willing to seal his religion,
his faith, his
for some
fleeting gains.
Something that
is gonna go away anyways. But the people
started going and spending time around
the grave.
Then Shaytan came by the way, Shaytan is
very easygoing,
very
and he takes his time.
He let those do this for 1 generation,
the entire generation.
So he came to the next generation.
You guys are busier than your parents.
You don't have a lot of time at
your hand.
What about this?
Why didn't you make statue of those people
and place them in the street? And by
the way,
make these statues while they are bowing down,
while they are praying, while they're giving.
So the those images would remind you of
what? Of the righteousness and pietus you do
like them.
That's the next
generation.
The next generation did that.
Look, he came to the 3rd generation,
and he said,
why don't you collect these idols in one
place
so that you have what? A sanctuary for
them. Because they are on the street. Those
are righteous people.
So they ended up with what? A place
of worship.
Allah
sent
a prophet, one of the strong willed prophets.
His name is Nuh,
He's spent
900 and 50 years
To walk them out of this?
No.
Look at the report.
We're not gonna leave our
gods.
This is the final report, prophet.
900 and 50 years of dawah.
Why?
Mahadda,
The love
that you end up loving
someone above, and that's the first type of
shirk.
Because when you love someone more than Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
you're gonna end up elevating them. You're gonna
and that is why Rasulullah
wound us. What did he say?
Don't you dare excessively.
Braise me like the Christians did to who?
To Jesus. But say about me what?
I'm
That's all.
Don't even
make any attempt.
Even at one day, a companion,
he said to him, insha Allahu
wa *a.
If Allah wills anew.
The prophet rebuked him.
Don't say that. Are you setting me a
rival with Allah?
You know, he made a mistake in a
letter.
Letter.
When you say if Allah wills and you,
it's in Arabic
and
place is the one before it and the
one after it what? Equal.
If Allah wills venue,
then you're making the will of the created
comes under the will of who?
Of the creator.
Well, just speak speech.
Not only
you will
end up loving them more than that, You
actually end up obeying them.
A Christian
who later became a Muslim, the son of
Hadim Alta'i, his name is Adi radiAllahu an.
He came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
and he was wearing that huge cross. You
know how Christians sometimes they wanna display their
Christianity, they wear that big cross,
especially the orthodox of them.
So he came to the prophet
and the Rasul
is giving him dawah. He's talking to him
about dawheed. What is this? You know?
So he heard someone reciting the verse in
Surah Tawba, which says what?
The Christians have and the Jews have taken
their
prophets and their rabbis and priests
as God's beside Allah.
And Al Masih.
The Adi right away objected.
He said,
You Rasulullah,
by Allah we never worship them.
Look at the prophet what he said.
Don't they make lawful for them
the unlawful?
And don't they make lawful the lawful? This
is how you worship them. This is another
type of shirk, shirk at Ta'a,
the shirk of Awidians
that you obey them although
you know that they have no authority
to legislate.
Because who has the authority to legislate for
us? Who?
The one who created.
Listen. The one who creates
has the right to say what to do
with his creation. Apple tells him what to
do with this with this thing.
They give you a manual.
You do this. Yes. You know, many of
us don't read it anyways, but
that's how you find. Toyota, when you go
by Toyota, do you get Honda manual or
Toyota manual?
Will you get Tesla?
What do you get of manual? Tesla?
My son says Tesla also. I like that.
I like
Thel. The important thing is Allah is the
one who created. He has the right what
to legislate. Look at
this.
So Allah
brought down provision for you, and he said
it's halal for you.
Then you go, this is haram.
This is halal.
You can't eat that. You cannot eat it.
Did
Allah give you permission to do that?
Likewise.
And, you know, for for years,
the Catholic church
stood firm
in the face of the moral decline in
the world,
especially when it came to,
you know, the lbgtwxyz.
Like, a year ago or something, the pope
came out. Why all of a sudden?
They are part of the family.
What changed?
You see that's And the people who paid
them,
people who paid.
Okay.
Allah, listen. Likewise,
in in the in the Muslim world, we
have
these heads of tariqa, these heads of the
they just laid stuff, afghar and
and
Do they have
associates
who legislate
for them
rituals
that Allah never give them permission to. That's
exactly but again, I I want you to
pay attention
this. Why all of this?
When you love someone,
you fall for everything.
And the most devastating,
in my opinion,
that you actually call upon them,
not while they are alive.
After their death,
you go to their graves.
Imagine someone who's living. Look at the house
more than someone who's living. He goes to
someone who's dead beneath the ground.
Give me. Help me.
The you're better than him.
He's contained
down there.
What's going on?
Allah said what?
When you invoke them, they don't hear you.
By the way,
the subject
whether the dead
hear the living
in the service of earth
is not settled. It's not black and white.
You understand that?
There is actually a strong view that they
don't hear us
unless
or accept in certain cases.
Case number 1, right after burial,
Hadith Al Bara'ibna'az,
Hadith Amrub Nalaas,
that after you bury the deceased, sit there
if you're a family member and order what?
They find company. So that's the time.
Also, they hear the drumming of the feet
of those who buried them.
They could answer the salaam.
That's
other than that, we don't know.
And by the way,
we cannot
use analogy
in order to say they hear us because
they hear us at these certain times, that
means they hear us all the time. No.
Using analogy. You guys know you're familiar with
analogy, the council for analogy that you join
a ruling to
basically you say, well, if they hear us
after burial, that means they hear us all
the time. No. No. No. No. You must
have an evidence that they hear us all
the time.
So this case is exclusive to that. That's
it.
They don't even hear you. You're not sure
if they they hear you or not.
Of course,
when we
address these issues with them, the people who
commit that time of share because, again, when
I unite, you see, we're addressing it not
because
we were having issues with them
because
this
is the call of the messengers of the
prophets.
Never a messenger or prophet left
until it's settled.
Even if it's Nuh-uh, by the way, never
called the people to sharia.
He called them to to to leave.
Let's finish
first.
Let's settle
first.
Because
anything that you do on the basis of
not our aid is what?
Forget it. It's not accepted.
Well, like, some of the scholars, although
I hope this is not an invitation to
send, they say, a sin with tawhid is
much better than a good deed without tawhid.
A sin with tawhid, there is a chance
for it to
be
what? Forgiven, but a good deed without tawhid
is not accepted.
That's how dangerous this is.
Don't bother
because of your sins
as long as you have to wait.
Because you have a chance with
Hadith. Allah says what?
Adam, o son of Adam, if you come
to me on the day of judgment with
what?
Earth
filled with sins,
but with one restriction, one what?
You have a chance.
We we never rule a person who
engulfed
or indulge totally in major sins that he's
gonna go to hell. You can't you can't
do that.
You cannot do that as long as he
says what?
As long as he does that because he
has a chance.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says
Allah will never forgive that you come on
the day of judgment with shirk,
but you can forgive anything else.
When we speak about this,
trying to ask these people
to give up,
invoking
those individuals,
they say what? What is their means? What
is their answer here? We do not worship
them,
but we use them as
means
to get to Allah.
Isn't that what
they
say?
Intermediary between you and Allah
This is exactly
the type of the shirk
the Arabs
engaged in.
For your information,
the one the Quran was revealed
on the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam while he's
alive,
he never worship these. He actually used them
as what? Intermediary
to
who? They said,
well, we do not worship.
These are the idols, names of the
They bring us closer to who?
The same concept.
The same concept. The same approach.
They say we don't worship them. We
do not worship them,
but they bring us closer to who?
Likewise, they say we don't worship the the
people buried in the grave, the the saint.
Whoever it is.
And by the way, these individuals could be
righteous, by the way, could be pious.
If you read their biography, they were very
pious and righteous. We like Jesus.
Did Jesus command the people to do this
to him? And in the day of judgement,
Allah is gonna ask him, And
did you command the people to take you
and your mother as 2 gods beside me?
Subhanak. Never did. Never happened.
Never happened.
I only inform them what you commanded me
to inform them. Worship
Allah, my lord and your lord.
But people made up these
things.
We will not worship them
except they bring us closer to Allah
And sometimes the funny thing is they use
some
logical
reasons
that is
absurd.
One of the,
famous, things that you would read is
when you want
to get to the president,
let's say the president of the United States.
Do you go straight to the president
or you go through the senator and the
MP? You guys call them MP here or
something like that?
Someone what inter
who's better, the president of Allah?
Look at this. Look at this.
Allah is better, of course.
But you see what Allah know. We don't
we don't not need that. You do not
need what? You do not need it.
Anytime that you want
to to to call up with Allah.
Allah. If my slave
asks you, oh, Muhammad, about me, let them
know that I'm near to them.
Ras Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam one day, he
was riding with his companions,
and they would make dua with a loud
voice
or tasbih with a loud voice.
They were traveling and they would read, Allah
wakbar.
Take it easy.
Take it easy.
Slow down.
You're not calling upon a god who's absent
nor he's deaf.
Lower your voice. Allah hears you. He's closer
to you than your jugular vein.
He said that to
them. But you do not need to do
that.
You do not need someone to come in
between you and Allah
period. Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is there.
Also, we cannot cancel out the from Islam,
by the way. There is a
There are was said in Islam.
Allah said in the Quran in a chapter
called
Oh, Allah. Be conscious, and they use that
verse, by the way, as an evidence
to support their approach.
Be conscious of Allah
and seek the means to get to him.
What
are these means? They are identified.
4. Four means between you and Allah.
4 wasila between you and Allah. Number 1,
his names and attributes.
To Allah belongs
the most beautiful names.
Allah using these names.
When it comes to dua
in particular,
Rasul said,
the essence
of worship
can be depicted,
can be illustrated,
can be seen when you.
Why?
Because that's when you break,
when you show that you're humble,
when you show that you're needing Allah. You
see, there are other acts of worship. You
could perform them, by the way, but you
don't display that.
Sometimes you see people pray
Know know what
although the salah should what? Should bring you
what?
What is the best position in salah?
The closest you can be.
Why?
The most honorable
you know what I mean? When you walk
like that, that becomes the highest
point.
You bless it with.
And for the sujood to be valid, this
and this has to what?
Why? Humility.
Humbleness.
Brothers, by the way, I perform Hajj every
year.
Don't people speak like that sometimes?
Allah doesn't like that.
1 of our righteous priestesses
said,
Sometimes a sin that breaks you,
makes you humble,
is much better than a good deed
that makes you
arrogant.
Because how Satan got
into that status, by the way by the
way, some of you, you know, I'm sure
you know that Satan was a good guy
at the beginning. Right?
He was righteous.
Satan was righteous. Satan was the best of
the jinn.
That's why
Allah elevated him, subhanah.
Allah said come with the angels. You're very
special.
But subhanAllah, that obedience and that
caused him to be what? I'm the special
one.
No one is like me.
That's very dangerous.
Why dua?
Because when you raise your hand like this.
When you ask Allah
to give you, that means you know that
you're poor.
When you ask Allah to strengthen you, you
know that you're weak.
When you ask Allah to teach you, you
know that you're ignorant without him.
Right? It's you
admit. You
Don't be like those who forgot who Allah
is, his names and attributes, and they end
up what?
Forgetting themselves, assuming that they are in control.
They are powerful.
They are powerful.
Shadow the important thing, why dua is a
very sensitive issue here that you go
and around these graves, by the way, you
see them doing things that you don't see
them in the masjid.
In the masjid, he prays
Allah.
This is exclusive to Allah.
If you ask, ask who?
Ask Allah.
This is this is exclusive
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. You have no
right
to give it to someone else.
You're giving it to someone who is dead.
You give it to someone who is dead.
Father, there are
4 means.
Number 1, what?
I'm gonna quiz you on this one. I'm
not gonna leave without you memorizing those four
means.
Names and attributes.
So you call upon Allah using the name,
and it makes a big difference
when you know the meanings of the name.
What does it mean, this name?
And by the way, pay attention here.
You don't have to request something
with the names.
You can actually praise Allah
just using the names and attributes.
I mean, you don't have to name what
a certain thing. You don't have to say
apple 16.
You don't have to say that. You can
actually just call upon Allah using the names
to praise him, and Allah knows what you
need.
There is the book
of
There is a very interesting hadith.
The prophet
called it
The dua of distress.
You know, when you're distressed,
you run out of means,
no one out there to help you, what
should you say?
What is the dua?
What did you ask for?
What?
You praised Allah with the most beautiful names
that he loves to be praised with.
Musa when they asked Allah
to teach him something that he can use
to invoke Allah.
What did Allah say to him? Say what?
Know the hadith, right? Say what?
Allah said you're a
Everyone says llah. I want something special. I
want something to Say llah.
I want
some
by my might and glory of the 7th
heavens and earth in one pan of the
scale
in the other pan,
You know you know the the dua regarding
Arafah. Right? The dua of Arafah. What is
the dua regarding the day of Arafah?
The best of the days
in the year is.
The best of the dua is the dua
in the day of haraf. And the best
dua, me and the prophets before me made.
What is the dua of the day of
haraf?
That's the the one.
Listen, you don't think Allah doesn't know your
need?
Allah knows what you're needing.
All what you have to do is you
praise him, and he will give you. Sometimes,
actually, we ask for the wrong things.
Allah knows what you
What did you say in in the belly
of the whale?
What did they say?
The first means between you and Allah is
his names. Allah has 99
names.
If you of course, more than that, but
out of them 99 names,
if you
actually one of the ways to the meaning
of that you call upon him using them,
that can be your way to Jannah.
Jannah. Allah has 99 names, 100 minus 1,
becomes a means for you to Jannah.
So you leave this and you go to
someone who is buried, who probably need your
help,
need you to make dua for him.
So this is the first means to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. Also you can use his
attributes
like, Dua
You know, when we when I make a
choice. Yeah. What is the
So this is the attribute of knowledge.
Allah named him
self,
and Allah loves to be praised with these
names.
What is the second wasilah? Was it 4?
Are you gonna take the second? We're gonna
finish with that, inshallah,
with those 4.
Right? What is the second? Your righteous deeds.
Your righteous deeds. Do righteous deeds.
What makes a deed righteous?
2 conditions,
sincerity and adherence.
That you do the act for Allah,
not for showing off, not to gain some
worldly
things, not to gain faith, not no. For
Allah,
and if it is a ritualistic act,
you do it in accordance with the sunnah
of the prophet
Anytime that you introduce an act of worship
into this religion that I have never
introduced you, it will be rejected. You're wasting
your time, wasting your energy.
Oh,
you know the story of the 3 individuals
who found themselves stranded in a cave.
Hadith Abu Numar. You're aware of that hadith.
Right? The 3 individuals who were traveling.
Each one of them came with what?
Righteous deeds.
The first one,
he sided his
dutiful to his parents.
The second one sided his,
abstaining from immorality with his cousin, female cousin.
And the third one, honest man, honest businessman.
He refused to take away the wage
of someone who worked for him, and he
instead he actually infested for
him.
We believe in what we revealed.
And we follow your message.
The the
towards the end of Surah Al
Imran.
You're using the
what? Your iman and your adherence.
No. You you want a. That's a legal.
But this other one where you take a
qurbani somewhere to someone who is buried and
and you go cry over a a a
a grave,
Has nothing to do with the.
So this is the second.
Is what?
Your righteous
deeds. What is the third?
Your
condition,
your poverty,
your sickness,
your need,
your disparity,
your depression,
What did Ayub
Musa alayhi wasalam when he was in Madyan,
homeless,
run away,
escaping the pharaoh,
when he went beneath the tree, what did
he say?
This is again another way.
I'm sick.
Cure me. I'm poor.
I'm I'm looking for a righteous wife.
Give me one.
That condition.
The last is
the supplication
of a living
human
that you think he's righteous.
Because, again, remember, nobody knows who's the righteous
and who's not.
Nobody knows that.
Where is
it? The prophet like this.
Now now who knows what's in here?
Nobody.
Allah knows best who is the most righteous
in this gathering. Allah knows that.
I don't know. You don't know.
Someone that you assume
that he
is good.
You will find out that
sometimes
the chain is is weakened.
That one time Rasul asked Umar to make
dua for him.
The prophet
asked Umar Al Khattab
to wait every year,
the season of Hajj
and go and look for a man, his
name is Huwab, who comes from Yemen.
Omar.
The prophet said, if there is a prophet
after me, it would be who?
And the the
Omar Shaitan, but he he's asking him to
go what? Some man who is not even
a prophet. He's not even a, I'm sorry,
a companion.
He's not even a companion.
He will come from Yemen to perform Hajj.
Go and
ask him to for to to make dua
to forgive. Allah forgives you. Every year, Omar
would go and look for the guy until
he found him.
Some people have some status with
Allah. You You may find someone who is
belittle. People look down upon him, but this
person can take oath on Allah and Allah
will fulfill his oath.
That's a status in the sight of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Again,
but this person has to be alive.
He cannot be dead.
During the time of Omar Ibn Khattab, the
Muslims suffered
severe drought.
Am,
a year, they called Amir Ahmed.
Muslims
needed rain.
They were in Medina. Where is the grave
of the prophet
Why didn't he go to the grave?
Life.
You make the
living.
Not someone who's dead.
The is crystal.
Crystal.
There is no ambiguity about it.
Straightforward.
But that other stuff out there that we
hear and we see
is
out of this world. It's complicated.
One of the boundaries that Allah guides you
to the.
You know, when I entered the masjid and
I saw the name,
I I can't speak about anything else but
Tawhid.
You know, I love Tawhid. That's my, actually,
specialty.
And, I have couple of books written. One
of them is called know your Lord
and the other one called worship your Lord.
And they are available in my website, PDF,
for free, and you can actually download them.
You will find most of that stuff
there.
I thought maybe I can share this message
with you, maybe if you have questions.
They told me that we should allow some
time for question and answer.
I'm here for you inshallah.
Otherwise,
I'm I'm good to go. Right?
So do we have any questions?
Yes, please.
There are 3
Masjid
based on the hadith
we're allowed to travel to.
The prophet
he said,
You're allowed to leave England
and travel to these three places
with the intention of worshiping
and
the
multiplied a 100,000.
The
the prophet
a thousand times,
and the third one is.
The most authentic
after
a long research,
250,
the multiplication of of the Masjid Al Aqsa,
the increase. Yeah.
Now we don't have to visit the grave
of the prophet Sasa. We don't have to,
But the grave happened to be there.
Now
why do we visit the grave
of the prophet
or of the companions
or any dead person?
What is the wisdom beyond us visiting the
grave? The prophet
says,
I have banned you before
from visiting the graves.
Now I want you to visit it. Why?
It will remind you with death.
In general, in principle, I go to the
grave
in order to do what?
To remember
death. Because I could make dua for my
father
who is buried,
hid although in Egypt,
here.
Do I have to be next to the
grave to make dua for him?
That's an issue that, oh, Allah, this is
my father here. Allah doesn't know who's your
father, where is he buried?
Allah knows that.
You can make dua for the deceased in
your bedroom.
You don't have to go to the cemetery
to make dua for them. No. No. Not
unheard of.
Or or the the the thing that they
say, Fatiha. There is no such a thing
called Fatiha.
You don't go there. You go there.
Then you sit and reflect, man, this man
used to eat with me. I used to
play with him.
Subhanallah, he he died. He's no longer in
this world.
It's gonna be my turn soon.
Go and reflect upon that.
You go and and see someone who used
to be living with you, and he's no
longer in this world,
and he can't come back either.
That's a admonition.
Hakadah.
So when we go to these places,
whether it is a a prophet, whether it
is a Sahabi,
that's the essence.
But I'm not going there
in order to
invoke that individual
or praise them
at all.
If this is the intention,
this doesn't harm your tawhid.
But if you're there because you wanna touch
the baruque,
touch the grave of the Sahabi and all
that, that's a shirk. 100%.
And this is what the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam banned us from doing.
He said, do not turn my grave into
what?
A place of worship. Don't do that.
And that is why, you know you know,
although we have a lot of critiques for
the Saudi, but there's still, you know, alhamdulillah,
you go there and people remind you.
I mean, can you imagine having this, cemetery
of the shuhada and and and and Kul
Kufa?
You know, the the the the Uhud site.
Can you imagine having this in Al Kufa?
Seek amount of shirk.
You can imagine the amount of shirk that
will build around it, but
you go there, people warn you. You can
you can do that.
Look. This is the dua right there. That's
what you should do. Move on.
That's.
This is how shaitan
what comes
like he did to the people of
Noah.
There is a question mark
regarding
whether
the deceased
receives
the reward
of the Quran resided on his behalf or
not.
Again, it's not something that is settled.
And whoever
assume that
the reward reaches,
they based it on what we call again
analogy.
How?
They said,
listen.
If you can make dua for them, dua
is an act of worship.
You can make dua for the deceased, can't
you?
You can pay sadaqa on their behalf, can't
you? That's sadaqa is an act of worship.
Right?
What else can you do?
If they missed
mandatory
fasting, you could actually make up these days
on their behalf.
And they qualified. They missed and they qualified
to make it up, and they died before
making it up. What else can they do?
Hajj and Umrah,
provided that you performed what?
So all of these are acts of worship.
So those people who said the Quran, the
Quran is an act of worship. Yeah. But
this is analogy.
What is analogy?
You must have a text that the reward
of the Quran gets to the deceased. You
can't
use analogy in.
You can use analogy in.
You cannot say,
I mean,
Ali ibn Abi Talib
has a very profound statement. What did he
say?
If this religion based on analogy, based on
intellect and reasoning,
the widening in the bottom of the socks
would make more sense than what
why do we put the right and the
left in salah, not the left and the
right?
Why?
For you to produce analogy, qiyas, there must
be what? A reason.
There must be a wisdom.
Now you have no clue
about the wisdom why we do this in
the salah.
Yes. When there is business transaction, there is.
You know, I tell you, drugs is haram.
Any form form of drugs is haram. Why?
Because of analogy.
Because what drugs do,
make the mind absent. Anything that makes the
mind absent becomes a drug
even if it is not named literally in
the revelation.
You're getting that.
There is no evidence for this.
Well, listen.
You know, at the end of the day,
I think
the people are just trying
to not to upset
the societal
norms,
the social author.
This
is ancestor
inheritance.
They call it what,
This is something that they inherited for years,
been practiced for years.
For them to leave it
is what is being mean to your parents,
to your culture.
The whole thing has to do with that.
But if you truly want to benefit the
deceased, you should do what benefits the deceased.
Or listen. Where is this disease at? Where
is he? In another world.
Do you have access to this world? Do
you know what's happening to him now?
Do you know what kind of help he
needs? You don't.
So the only one who can really guide
you in bringing a benefit to him is
who? The one who knows both worlds.
Allah
Not you making some up some stuff to
to make you happy. Do you wanna make
your you wanna make yourself happy and your
culture happy? That's it. And the disease that
you don't care? But Rasulullah said, when the
son of Adam
dies, and
he does not receive any more reward except
what?
Those are 3.
There are other things. On his behalf.
Pay on his behalf, make dua for him.
You wanna benefit the deceased or you wanna
make your parents happy and you wanna make
the one who giving you happy?
My word.
If it you see, you have it has
to come to that.
Even loves that.
The hadith,
A companion was not common to to many
of us. Maybe some of you hear his
name for the first time. His name is
Sabra.
He narrated this hadith. He He
said,
sits in any way you're trying to do
something good,
any way,
whether he
prevents you completely or whether he distracts you
from delivering a quality act.
He's not gonna leave you alone. Look at
this.
Islam. The prophets chose the first
route, the first path, the first the
first road that wanna become a
Muslim, whether you wanna leave Christianity,
Judaism, atheism, and you become a Muslim, or
whether you're following heretical Islam, cultural Islam,
cultural Islam, Islam that is mixed with culture,
and you wanna follow this one?
Either. Yeah. That can apply to a Muslim
or a non Muslim. Look what shaitan does.
To Islam.
Are you gonna do that?
And
you leave the way for your fathers.
Well, listen. We
the majority of us
love our parents.
We love them. So there is a love
for the parents in our hearts. Shaitan
bank on this. Okay. Let me use that
love what?
My way.
Don't you love your parents?
What is the first objection
all the prophets faced when they came to
their people?
We found our parents doing this, and we're
not gonna leave it.
Shafa
Shaitan,
you know, transcend this to the the human.
Try to envision the scene when Abu Talib
was dying.
Abu Talib was dying.
The prophet is sitting in one side of
the bed. Who's was sitting on the other
side of the bed?
Reminding him with what?
The same thing.
Reminding him with the same thing.
Yeah. That's Shaitan. Shaitan inspires
Abu Jahal.
Jahal. The same the same approach, the same
ideology here.
But also that teaches you also
that, you know, you gotta take it easy
with those people.
Kinda don't don't approach them what?
Because, you know, you have to what?
You know, step by step gradually.
You can't change them day day and night.
You can't. It's
just impossible.
Just every day. And
one of the greatest things that you stick
to your way,
even if you're you're outnumbered, even if you're
few,
even if you're a handful.
You stick to your way.
You will send the message.
Yeah. But he's not teaching Quran for money.
He's
getting
reward for
getting a wage for the time that he
spends.
Yeah. That's how the scholars,
you know. So, you know, you're I'm not
getting a wage
for teaching Quran,
but I'm getting a wage for my time.
Because that time
equals money.
Yeah. The intention has yes. The intention has
to be pure.
Yeah.
But I I really meant Jan in the
context I was talking about that,
you know,
that you're willing to, you know,
sell and buy,
you know, the in the religion, like something
Allah made haram.
I don't know about England here, but, subhanallah,
the the majority of the liquor stores in
America are Muslims.
The majority of the liquor stores
in America are
Muslims. So Allah
give you a chance, give you money.
That's I really meant that. I didn't mean
you know?
Yeah. I I meant that you actually did
it. When, we have, you know, the drugs
now in America,
that marijuana and stuff like that is
legal.
And guess who rushes to get these,
these shops going selling marijuana to the youth
and Muslims?
They wanna make money.
They wanna be rich
at the expense of what?
When the prophet says when Allah makes something
haram, then it's haram to sell and buy
in it.
That's really what I was hearing.
Yeah. Sure. Absolutely.
Yeah. Yeah.
We have sisters?
Father.
Well, there is you can make dua.
I mean, you can, send your salaam.
What is written out there,
you can but there is no dua to
the prophet.
You're not invoking Allah
through the prophet.
Yeah.
That's that's absolutely
an act of shirk, although the scholars say
shirk.
They say by the status of the prophet
You could say by my believing in in
in in in the messenger of Allah, I
call upon you allah.
But this, it doesn't have to happen in
front of his grave. Yeah.
I mean, you can send salaam
from it.
I understand.
You can send your salaam without having to
send it through somebody.
I mean,
Muhammad. Right there, there is an angel who
will take it to the prophet in a
timely manner,
but you don't have to send it to
it doesn't have to be there. I think
that's where the issue is.
You see, that's where we get mixed up,
You
know?
Well, I started the whole lecture with the
Quran.
Now that's the Quran in me. Everything comes
out from the Quran. What did I start
the lecture with? So so I mean, what
was the verse?
You're not here?
Verse number 2,
I started the lecture with that.
And how many verses of the Quran did
I recite in my lecture?
I mean,
Ma'am, where are we gonna get the knowledge
from?
Ma'am, we do receive revelation.
We're a human.
Yeah. It's absolutely. Yeah. I by the way,
it's my specialty is
my specialty actually is.
Yeah. Yeah. I I I actually have
you know, I I thought,
interesting book that I just authored called Roadmap
to in
the Green Lane Masjid, and the people enjoyed
it. If you will not get it they
are available, all these books, in my website
for free, Annie. You wouldn't have to. I'm
not selling books here.
No. See? In the book means Yeah.
No, Yeah, I mean, one of them. Yeah.
Mhmm.
Yeah. I mean if you
you know, I I always like to,
quite frankly,
to let Allah choose for me.
Also, there are some people
poverty could lead them actually to Kufr.
You know, when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
seeked
with Allah from
poverty,
what did he pair with it?
That means some people poverty may send them
to
disbelief
because they begin questioning
why you know? So
some people,
poverty is good for them.
Allah says,
the way that they want that will,
lead them astray.
The human normally would transgress when he sees
himself
of no need to Allah.
According to him, we all need Allah, but
he sees himself rich and wealthy.
Yes.
There are people.
Yeah. That's the test. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For
I would say based on your condition.
If you can handle poverty
and you're good with it,
you're gonna enter Jannah 500 years before the
rich Muslim.
You know that. Right? There is a hadith
about that. Right? Oh,
the poor Muslim will enter Jannah half a
day before the rich Muslim.
You you wanna know why? Because the rich
Muslim is gonna have to stand and answer.
How did you earn that dollar? Where did
you spend it? How did you earn that
pound? Where did you spend? But the other
one, what?
Ready to go?
And, actually, the majority of the the prophet
said, I looked into Jannah, and I found
out that the majority of the dwellers of
Jannah are the poor,
not the rich.
Famous of course, we know Abdul Khayyim. Right?
He wrote a very interesting book.
He the the the entire book is centered
around which is better,
the poor who's patient
or the rich who's grateful
For which is more difficult, someone is poor
and patient,
or someone is rich and grateful?
Which is more difficult?
Actually the rich?
Yeah.
Because the poor, listen, you're you're what are
you gonna do?
Jump up, up and down.
But the rich has what?
Has the means to what?
Has the money. I mean, with the money
you can get the girls, you can get
the haram. Right?
But the other one doesn't have.
You're getting that. So it's gonna
cry every now and then, but
doesn't have the means to go astray. Yeah.
I enjoyed your company,
May Allah
bless you with especially
when I looked out of the window, brother
showed me the window,
and I saw that green dome out there.
And I said, alright. Mercy.
You know, sir.
But we are we are lucky if you
steadfast.
We need that voice next door, you know.
Absolutely.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Brothers and sisters.
This tour has been organized by,
the Jamiyah Adhadev as well as,
1 on my charity. Just quickly, well, has
anyone heard of, 1 on my charity here?
Okay. Hamda, the charity,
started about 8 years ago,
by a group of brothers
from the northeast of England. They were involved
in, dawah work.
And then once the Syria situation escalated, they
went on a convoy.
And,
they delivered aid there. Then when they came
back, they formalized. And today, what they, is
known as, 1 Ummah charity.
Now we work in, 18 different countries.
And,
like, many other people, you naturally will be
asking, you know, why, you know, there's so
many Muslim charities. Why are you different? What's
what is different about you? Alhamdulillah brothers, and
sisters with us, alhamdulillah, we're a charity that
is,
guided and,
compliant by the deen and Sharia. Alhamdulillah. We
have all the man scholars
that guide us. Alhamdulillah. And also,
we run on a 100% donation policy where
we don't deduct nothing from anyone's donation.
And, also, something that makes us unique as
well is,
when we distribute zakat to, the beneficiaries,
alhamdulillah, we've stuck to the principle of giving
it to them in cash only.
So,
I'm sure, many
last year, there was a a a lot
of questions regarding
how zakat is used. Alhamdulillah, the charity is
always stuck to this principle. We always give
it out in cash. Alhamdulillah. Unless the beneficiary
themselves turn around and say to us that,
okay, with the cash can you build us
a home? Then that's a different situation. Then
we'll take that into consideration. But in general,
the countries that, I've visited with them,
we've given out,
in cash to the beneficiaries.
So give allows them to because they know
what their need is. So maybe that's something
that will make us,
stand out from what others do. But, inshallah,
everyone does amazing work.
So, brothers and elders, this is,
as you know, the situation for the Ummah
is is difficult in many parts of the
world. So we're just asking everyone to make
dua for them to, inshallah,
remember the situation for many of the Muslims
around the world, the difficulties that they're going
through, inshallah.
We're we're so blessed. We have so much
ease, so much so
much wealth as well. So inshallah, please, visit
our website, 1 umah.org.uk.
Look at our work, inshallah. After it shall
be at the back if you want to
speak to me and ask further questions inshallah.
And we hope that inshallah, we have a
long relationship with the Masjid here, inshallah. And
we're able to come here, bring more here
as well, inshallah, for your benefit, inshallah. We
pray that Allah keeps, this Masjid strong and,
rewards the brothers behind
the effort that they've made, to make inshallah.
And also may Allah reward Sheikh for,
his efforts inshallah. He's got a long,
traveling and schedule ahead of him inshallah.
So once again,
may Allah bless you all and accept us
accept the.
accept the.