Khalil Adam – Power, Money and Izzah

My

dear brothers and sisters,

in today's Friday, we want to talk about the concept of izzah,

glory, dignity, honor as it is derived and only can be derived

from Allah Aziz, the one who possesses the true might, the true

glory and the true honor. There's a Hadith of the Prophet sallallahu

sallam, a very famous Hadith in Tirmidhi. And he narrates this to

us Ibn Abbas, the nephew, in which he says, one time I was with the

Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And he tells me, yeah,

Ali, muka, kalimat, I'm going to teach you some words that were

going to benefit you. If Allah preserve Allah, Subhanahu wa, he

will preserve you. And then he says that to keep in mind, either

if you ask everyone for something that will benefit you for anything

that will benefit you, first Allah. Then make sure you ask

Allah, Subhanahu wa and know that the whole Ummah, if they were

together to benefit you with anything, they could not benefit

you except with that which Allah already has written for you. And

if they were to harm you with anything, they would never be able

to harm you except that which Allah has already ordained for

you. Why is this hadith the start of our khutbah today? Because it

not only teaches Ibn Abbas, the young boy, that the true power is

with Allah subhanahu wa is with Allah subhana wa taala, but it

teaches everyone else as well, the grown ups who are going to teach

it to their children. Because what we have today is a

misplacement of Isa. People try to attain dishonor, this dignity from

other than Allah, Subhanahu wa you see, for example, in the search

and pursuit of happiness, seeking through money, through power,

through position, people try to get this honor. In the case of

sulkaf, when you see the two men who are arguing amongst each other

or debating with one another one, he says to him, and Alan, I'm more

than you in wealth, and I have more people, more children than

you, meaning I possess that which will give me honor, or so he

thinks, but the true honor, Allah, subhanaw taala says, lillah, the

two Allah belong the true and absolute might, the dignity that

we seek from other things like money and position and power that

could only come from Allah subhanahu. Wa, it may come

temporarily in other forms. You may get it for a little while. You

may get that elevation. You may get that honor in a little while.

But the temporary, it's only temporary. The permanent is with

Allah subhanahu wa taala. And we see that Allah subhanaw taala,

even in the case of a man who is said to him fear Allah, it tak

Allah ALA, what happens to him when it is telling him to remind

him of, be aware of ALLAH SubhanA wa taala. What happens to this

man? Akhada is a tobilith. He is overtaken by his sin. He feels

rattled because of what he's doing, of misconduct. Maybe you're

advising him about some fraud he's doing because he's in a position

of power, and because he feels that power is what gives him the

honor he can't take it when you say to him, takila, fear Allah. Be

conscious of Allah with what you're doing. And so this becomes

the misplacement of the disbelievers and the munafiqun

themselves. The hypocrites are known for this. In the case where

one of the ghazawa, they were coming back, and what happened was

they were waiting in line for water. There had been severe

thirst among the companions, the muhajirun, the Ansar, and those

who were with them. And so as they're waiting on this line to

get some water, one of the muhajirun, he was a servant of the

muhajirun, so he was of the lower class. He got into an argument

with one of the Ashraf of Medina, of the Ansar, one of the noble men

of Medina. And so they got into a scuffle, and they called each

other names, and they called each other's camps to come and defend

them. So one of them would say, yeah, muhajirun, and the other one

would say, Yeah, Ansar. And so when the Prophet sallam, he heard

this, he says, this is a filthy way that you are labeling

yourselves in in and of itself, to be a muhajir is an honorable

thing, and to be an Ansar is an honorable thing, but when you use

it to fight one another, when you use it against one another to

justify that you are more honorable than the other, then

that becomes debased in the eyes of Allah. And that is why the

Prophet sallam, he said, This is filthy what you're doing. And who

took advantage of this? Abdullah ibn Abi salud, the leader of the

hypocrites, when he heard that one of his old men, because he used to

be the one that was going to be the leader of Medina. Had it not

been for the Prophet sallallahu sallam, he would have been the

king they were going, they were going to crown him to be the king

of Medina. And so when he heard this, he wanted to instigate this.

He says, How can a servant of the muhajirun these immigrants who

came to our land?

Is, how could they dare speak to one of our Ashraf this way? You

know, he didn't think of it. Because before Islam, there was no

sense of everyone is equal in the eyes of Allah. There was no sense

of that. The best of you are the ones who have the most Taqwa.

There was no sense of that. It was tribalism, it was class system,

and many societies have that today. But then Alhamdulillah, for

Islam that regulated and put us all in in our place. And Allah,

Subhanahu wa says in the aqam akum and Allah that the best of you in

the eyes of Allah are those who had the most Taqwa of Allah, those

who have the most consciousness of Allah. So what did he say? Ibn

Abdullah? He called the Secret camp, and he called the men of

Medina who were already heeded about the situation. And he says

to them, il Medina, if we were to go back to Medina azumin, we will

surely take out all US that are honorable and noble. We will

debase those that are of the peasants, so to speak, those of

lower class. We will make sure they kick them out and know that

they and he will put them in their place. And so this secret meeting

was used to instigate the matter and feel because every chance he

could divide between the brothers, he would do that. And so we must

be also aware of those kind of rumors that happen between

brothers when they are pulled to the side. You know, the Egyptian

camp, the Palestinian camp, the Sudanese camp, Pakistani camp,

these sorts of things are looked at as filthy in the eyes of Allah

subhanahu wa when they're used to divide because at the end of the

day in IQ that the true believers are really brothers, and there's a

bond there that cannot be broken. So Abdullah ibn Abi salud, he

spread this sort of instigation. A little boy heard him told his

uncle, who then told the prophet muhammad sallallahu, alayhi wa

sallam. So the Prophet sallallahu called Abdullah bin abhi salud and

he says,

Did you say that? Did you try to divide us using these sorts of

rhetorics? And then Abdullah bin abhisalahu, of course, denied it.

He says, I did not say it. But Allah subhana wa Taala above the

seven heavens sent down in sutra munafiqun the verses that quoted

him verbatim. And he says exactly what I just mentioned. When we

return to Medina, we will surely have our noblemen expel those who

are abased from it. And then Allah subhanahu wa emphasized. He says,

dillah he to Allah belong to is that Walid Rasul, meaning, and to

the messengers and to the believers. It is Allah who

allocates that honor. It is Allah subhanahu Taala that gives it and

takes it away, as we know, Surat Al Imran, Allah subhanahu says,

Allahu Malik al Mulk say, the King of kings. He says, You give the

kingdom to whom you want, wat Kabi, menta Shah, and you take the

kingdom from whoever you want, to zoom in to what to did. Lumentia,

you honor whom you want, you dignify whom you want, and you

humiliate whom you want. Biedik, it is in Allah's hands, subhanah

wa taala, in his hands is all forms of good. In nahual He is

Able to do all things, my dear brothers and sisters, we must be

aware that the munafiqun, they only see the external factors, and

we must be aware not to chase those external factors in order to

gain that honor. Sometimes we do it through money. We see, if we

compete in money, then that will give us that honor that we seek,

which will then result in that false happiness that we perceive,

and so we will chase money in order to be of a certain class.

And if that's the case, then know that you are in a losing battle

because one of the companions of Rasulullah saslam. His name is

hakib ibn hisam, he learned a very important lesson. What he learned

from Rasulullah saslam One time, he purchased a beautiful garment

that was previously owned by the king of Yemen, and he gifted it to

Rasulullah sallallahu sallam. Now, just to put in context, who Hakim

Ibn hazam is. Hakim Ibn hazam is a relative of Khadija Raj, and he

had not been Muslim at the beginning. He is the one who

bought Zayd, the son of Muhammad Salla sallam, and he gifted him to

Khadija, who then gifted him to Muhammad. Saw so he bought Zayd

the slave at the time, and then the Prophet saw them, adopted him

as a son. And so what happened was, when he bought this cloak to

the prophet, the prophet gifted it to Zaid son, Usama, and he let

Usama wear it. And so he could not as he's not a Muslim. Now he does

not understand. He says, I bought this cloak for one of the noble

men of Quraysh Rasulullah, right? He's a messenger, and could be

king if he wanted to. And so I'm giving it to him because I know

his value. So how could they, the son of the slave that I purchased,

wear the same cloak? He could not perceive it. And so when Osama saw

the comments of Hakim, when he said this, and he referred to this

and better than him, not because of arrogance, not because of any

kind of pride, unjustly, it is because I am a believer. He would

not had been Muslim at the time. And he says, I am better than him

because.

I am Muslim, and the Prophet always emphasized that the

believer is expensive and valuable. In the eyes of Allah

subhanahu wa is expensive and valuable even if he had nothing in

this world except his Iman that is enough for him to feel superior,

to feel like he has something to give to those who who don't have

it, even if they be in a position of high status, even if they be of

a different socioeconomic status. And this was what Hakim then, when

he became Muslim at the end, toward the end of Rasulullah

sallam's life, when the Prophet was giving the bounties of some of

the war booties. And in the campaign, he came to Hakim, and

Hakim, he gave him 100 camels. And he says, Didi Ya Rasulullah, give

me more. I want more. And he gave him more. He gave him more. And he

says, he kept saying, Sidney o rasulallah, then the Prophet

Sallam gave him the beautiful advice. And says, Yeah, Hakim. Oh.

Hakim, pause for a minute, you know? And this is the translation.

He says in the dunya khadun Hulu, that the dunya may seem beautiful

and luscious in green, he says, But whoever takes it with

generosity of soul, burika, Lahu, mafi, that if you take it not for

it to be a source of izzah for you, if you take it with

generosity of soul, then Allah will put Baraka in it. And if you

take it to be a source of izzah for you, so that you can show off,

so that you can put your foot down in the society as one who has

money, and so you look down upon people with it, lemu, bariclaufi,

that it will not have barakah in it, and he will be caledi, yakul

Wala ishba, like the one who eats and he's not full. And then he

says, and he

says that the giving hand is better than the receiving hand. So

always know that whatever is that you may want to have, seek it from

Al Aziz. Seek it from the one who possesses Isla in the proper way,

not in the way that will gain you arrogance and pride and and as a

result lead to your destruction. But take it with the sense of

wanting to give more. You know you're a person of power. Know

that Allah subhanahu wa has entrusted you with something

great. One of the stories in sutal Kaf is zulkar name. Why is he such

a great man? Because he was given power by Allah, but he didn't use

that power to abuse it. All of us in our position of power, whether

we like it or not, some of us are in our own families, the leader of

our families. Some of us have companies, some of us have

messages, some of us have countries. Whatever the capacity

in which you are given leadership in there is a great incentive for

you to be just with what you have. And in fact, the prophets Allah

Salim told us that one of the people who will receive shade on

the day where there's no shade except Allah shade, the seven

categories of people that will receive that shade. One of them is

a Imam on Adil, a right, righteous, just a leader, a leader

who doesn't abuse his power. Because this is a fitna towards

the end of times, and we go to talk about that. Inshallah,

binilla, after the short break, akuli, kalihada, West of Phila,

Ali wala ko FAU, Our

Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah and hadan, Allah, Alhamdulillah.

Kihiri, be

to Allah, who has guided

us to this way of life. And had it not been for Allah's guidance, we

would not have been guided. And praise be to Allah subhanahu wa

has not taken in his kingdom a partner or a son. And praise be to

Allah subhanahu wa sent upon His Messenger, his slave, Muhammad,

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the book in which there is no

crookedness. In it may the peace and Salutations be upon the

Prophet Muhammad, his family and his companions altogether, my dear

brothers and sisters, the reality is towards the end of time in

which we are living. Now. You know, these are the last days. As

the Prophet sallam said to us at his time, that the day of judgment

was close. We see the divide in society. We see how everything is

broken up. And we see, even from the time of Quraysh, how they took

idols for a reason to mind doing illahi, Adi, haleakum Isa Allah,

what does he say? He says they've taken these idols, put them in

their places, put themselves in charge, so that they can receive

their izzah. They can be honored. They can have that dignity.

So they create these systems in place for us to follow as puppets,

right, putting people in certain positions, whether it be because

of degrees or money or what have you. You know, these are man

created infrastructures so that they can put down the person, the

average person. And Allah warns us of this. And he says that those

who take Latina awliya, I mean doulminin, those who take the

disbelievers as guardians, as loyal allies

against the believers, meaning that you have your believing blur

there, but you're willing to sacrifice anything that is

beneficial for him or for the Ummah, for your own advancement in

life, for your own personal achievement. He says, is this the

case? Then No, Allah. Then emphasize Allah, izzah to Jami

Hala to Allah truly belongs. There is a that you will never be able

to get that izzah. You will never be able to get that full permanent

izzah. You will one day be humiliated if you seek this path

of always sacrificing your brother, sacrificing the Ummah for

your own advancement. And this is what we must be aware of as as

Allah subhana, Allah has warned us, Al hakumut, takalu makaur, you

compete over amassing wealth in order to advance yourselves in the

in this man made society, right? And then what happens? You'll

never be satisfied. You'll never end until you visit the graves,

until you yourselves are buried under and one day, a man may go to

the ATM, take money out, and he may die right before he spends

that money. And that money will automatically be inheritance. So

everything that he works for, everything that he chased for, if

it's not for Allah subhanahu wa, will be a source of regret and not

a source of benefit. And the only things that will remain al baqiya

Tu Ali had those deeds that you did for Allah subhanahu, Allah,

the ones you sent forth you, you took it from one account and put

it in the other account, the account of the that is what's

going to be waiting for us at the end of the day. And in order for

us to do that, we must seek Allah subhanahu wa in everything that we

do, even when we advance ourselves. I'm not saying don't

advance ourselves. We need to as Ummah, whether it be in the in the

Scholastic field or the economic field, we need to advance as much

as possible. However, let it be for the generosity of the soul

that the Prophet was talking about. Let it be so that we can

give back, so that we can benefit ourselves, our families, our

communities. Let it be attached to Allah subhanahu wa and karama. And

this is another point that I want to close with. Sometimes you may

feel inferior because you don't have those things that people are

are having or or that are chasing. And you may be in a position that

you are you know, not a person of authority, not a person of money,

not but know that Allah Subhanallah has honored you. Allah

Subhanallah has already honored you. He says he's already placed

on you value, and that even if the whole nation was to say to you and

to threaten you with with fear and poverty and death, as they did

with the Companions when they gathered in one of their campaign

they said that in the that the people have gathered to eliminate

you. So fear them. What did Allah? What did they respond with? And

this is only can come from when a person has attached his honor, his

value, his self worth, to Allah. They says has been Allah key. This

is a magic statement we should all know has been Allah. Allah is

sufficient for me, and he's the best of Trustees for what happened

to them. Kala, abubi, namati, min Allah. They turned from a position

of inferiority to a position of NAMA. They felt themselves

blessed. They felt grateful. They said, No, this is what Allah,

Subhanahu and His Messenger have warned us with. This is nothing

new, and this is the kind of attitude that not only the young

people should have, but the old people should have. As as Muslims,

we have something to offer, and people need to listen to us,

because what we have is something that will guide them from the

misery and the, you know, the tightness of this dunya into its

expanse. We have what it takes for people to be happy. We need to

know that, and we need to share that inshaAllah, that could, that

could only come from a mindset attached to Allah subhanahu wa We

ask Allah Subhanallah to give us the proper izzah and to bless us

in this world and the hereafter and to protect us and our families

from the fire. We ask Allah subhana to have healing on our

sick and to have mercy on those who have passed a