Khalil Hendricks – Jumuaah Programme 28th Shawwaal 1444
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The speaker discusses the challenges faced by youth in the world, including the lack of truth and falsehood, constant evaluation of everything, and uncertainty of what is stable and firm. They stress the importance of faith in protecting one's health and life, and the need for a lowly piece of the datch to be replaced with words of Allah and His Messenger. The importance of learning and studying to be more knowledgeable and knowledgeable in life is emphasized, and the speaker gives advice on creating healthy environments for children and networking with teachers. The speaker also gives updates on upcoming events, including a Marha of brotherolem and a Vision of brotherolem, and requests for the announcement of the ProQ of Shifa.
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Today. And the question is, how do we
survive
with our iman
in a really crazy world?
The first thing I want to acknowledge
is to our youth.
And I want to acknowledge to our youth,
and all of us must do this inshallah,
that our youth
are growing up
in very difficult times.
Even though they may have material
comforts,
they may have more material comforts,
They have more things. They have bigger houses.
They maybe drive around in nicer cars of
their parents.
The challenges they have are not like the
challenges we had.
The youth are being tested
to the core of their faith.
The core of their belief
is being questioned and being tested.
The notions that we had when we were
young that we took for granted,
we knew for we knew everybody knew
what right and wrong was.
Everybody knew
what truth and falsehood was.
Yes. Maybe we struggle to live up to
it, but we knew what the right path
was.
The young people today in the world that
they live in, the whole notion
of truth and falsehood is being questioned.
The whole
notion of right and wrong is being questioned.
The whole notion
that anything is stable
and firm and permanent is being questioned.
Everything is being questioned.
And they just and the world is just
becoming more and more.
All the time.
And for the young people,
it's a challenge
that if we are older, we can't imagine
how how bad it is,
how severe it is.
For those who work with the youth, they
know the challenges.
But it doesn't only affect the young people.
Even us who are older, who have our
grace,
we are also afflicted by the world.
We are also tested by the world.
And one of the scariest ahadith
is with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is
he predicts the future.
And his prediction is true?
Because his inspiration and wahi comes from Allah.
The being that knows everything.
And he inspires the prophet
and he communicates to him
glimpses of the unseen.
And the prophet,
he says,
There will be a great and manifest
trial.
It will be
Muslim.
It will be like portions of the dark,
dark night.
What happens in the dark night?
Nothing is nothing is clear anymore.
You can't see where you're going. You don't
know what the right path is.
You don't know who's around you. You don't
know who to trust.
The world will become like the dark night.
And here's the scariest part of this prediction,
where the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam, and we
believe his words to be true.
He says, salallahu alaihi wasalam,
a man in this days and and these
these days, which are dark days,
there will come a time where a man
will wake up in the morning as a
mukmin, as a believer
filled with faith,
but the darkness of these days will result
in him going to bed that night as
someone of no with no faith.
That is the greatest fitna.
Because, you, Allah,
we don't want to be tested, you, Allah,
but if you test us with our food,
and our income, and our clothing,
and our health, and our life,
we can bear that, inshallah.
But, dear Allah, don't test us in our
faith.
Dear Allah, don't test our children with their
faith.
We'd rather go without food.
We'd rather go without wealth. We'd rather go
without health, but we'd always choose faith.
And the darkness of the end of time
is that the very thing that we treasure
can be snapped, can be taken away
in a moment,
in a day.
And it's happening already.
It's happening in the best of families.
It's happening in all spaces.
Where faith
is sometimes
on a knife edge.
Faith is being held by a little string
that can be snapped.
The hadith continues,
That the man will wake up in the
morning
as a believer
and go to bed without any faith,
and then Allah speak the prophet speaks about
these actions.
He says about this person,
This man, he takes his deen, this thing
of great value, this thing of great significance,
the most important thing this man has. He
takes it and he trades it in, and
he sells it for the lowest, lowest piece
of this dunya.
For the cheapest, most insignificant
portion of this dunya, this man comes and
he trades his deen.
The most valuable thing he has because what
does it mean to trade your deen? It
means I trade in
It means I trade in.
I take all those statements and I put
them one side, and I say I don't
subscribe to that that, and I don't follow
that, and I don't want that. I want
the peace of this dunya.
I want a lowly piece of this dunya.
And this speaks to what?
The spiritual condition
in this age of darkness.
That the hearts
in this age
cannot value
things as they should be valued.
They cannot value things as they should be
valued because the hearts of this age
might put the dunya above the akhirah.
Might make the consumption
and the accumulation
and the amassment of this dunya
more important than the words of Allah and
His Messenger, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
May we be safe from such affliction.
But this affliction
is happening.
And none of us are safe from our
times.
The time of taking your iman for granted
is over.
Preserving your iman takes work.
It takes effort. If you don't connect yourself
to good spaces,
your iman will slowly decrease.
If you don't connect yourself to the masjid,
your iman decreases.
If you don't connect yourself to the book
of Allah, the iman decreases.
If a person doesn't connect himself to Rasool
Allah, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, the iman decreases.
If a person doesn't connect themselves to the
people of Allah, the iman decreases.
Until the person looks
and there's no iman left.
The days of taking
our iman and our children's iman for granted,
thinking that if they just live a normal
life, the iman is guaranteed.
Those days are over
because there is no iman in the streets.
There is no iman in the universities.
There is no iman in the shopping malls.
There is no iman in the workplaces.
Those are not places of the talk of
Allah and His Messenger
Those are not talks of the akhira. Those
are not talks of khidma. Those are not
talks of masajid. Those are not talks of
being close to Allah.
Those are talks of the dunya.
And if one does not
save oneself from those spaces
and plug into the good spaces, one will
become like them because al marwala
dinikalilihi,
the person will adopt and become upon the
religion of his peers.
The days of taking out iman
for granted are over.
My plea to you, alhamdulillah, I do
a bit of youth work.
My plea to you,
over everything when it comes to your child,
whether it's their material well-being, whether it's their
academics,
whether it's their sport, whether it's whatever,
make their iman
the main priority.
However you're going to do that, that's your
business as a father and mother.
Whatever model you're going to adopt, whatever place
you're going to use, whatever teachers you're gonna
connect yourself to, but make your children's iman
the main, main priority
from as small as possible because sometimes when
they get to teenage hood,
it's a very hard battle to fight.
Don't take it for
for granted.
It's difficult
because it requires us to be active
mothers and fathers.
It requires us to talk to our children,
to gaze at them with dua.
It requires us to make decisions for them
sometimes.
Children cannot choose for themselves always what is
best. They'll have chocolates, lunch,
breakfast, and supper.
We have to tell them what the healthy
diet is,
the healthy physical diet and the healthy spiritual
diet.
They cannot choose for themselves.
So wherever your child is located at the
normal school, at the Islamic school, at the
kith school, at the home school, at the
no school,
just make sure that the iman is being
sent.
So this hadith is a scary hadith,
but at the end
at the end of the hadith
is a treasure,
is the way out
Because there is the word illah,
and illah in Arabic means except.
It's as if the hadith is saying that
things will become so dark that the default
is that people will lose the iman
in a very short amount of time.
The default is that people will start their
hearts will become so corrupted that they will
start trading their faith for any piece of
this dunya, And at the end of the
hadith, Allah puts the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam puts in illah,
except.
Man,
the one who
ayahullahu,
accept the the one that Allah resurrects
and he gives life to,
with knowledge.
Except one person,
one pursuit,
except the one that Allah revives,
and Allah gives life
through which means through
knowledge.
Through?
In.
And which ilm are we speaking about?
We
speaking about,
first of all,
the words of Allah,
The words of the Quran.
A book that should be read
and studied.
A book that should be read
and studied.
Read and studied.
If you can't study the Arabic, at least
read some translations. It's not the same
between the Arabic
and between the English.
Is like between Stellenbosch
in town,
maybe even Durban in Cape Town,
but at least it's something.
At least it's something.
Which ulim should be studied?
The beautiful life,
the beautiful sayings,
the beautiful character of our most beloved,
Muhammad
Because to confess to love him,
but to ignore his life,
what love is that?
When one has a beloved,
one wants to hear every word from them.
When one has a beloved, one even suffices
not to hear a word, but to even
just hear them breathing.
1 doesn't even need to hear them breathing,
one wants to just feel even close to
them.
So if he is our beloved, and he
is our beloved,
because he's the beloved of Allah.
He's the beloved of Habibullah,
and if he's the beloved of Allah, he's
definitely our most beloved.
More beloved than ourselves and our parents and
our children he is the most beloved and
if we have the most beloved I want
to hear about Him, I want to know
about His life, I want to know about
how He slept and how He ate and
how He spoke and how he smiled and
how he looked. I want to hear about
his words
and I want to attach my heart and
fall in love with him.
Because once He fills my heart, where is
the space for this dunya?
Where is the space left for this dunya?
There's no space left.
This is what we need to focus on.
This is the ihiyyah of Islam.
This is the revival of Islam.
Islam contains all truth
and all answers
for all time,
and I tell you that with confidence.
Islam contains all truth
and all answers
for all time.
You can bring any ism.
Islam has the answer.
Any ism you want, I guarantee you, Islam
has the answer. Why? Because Islam was revealed
as the truth for all times.
And if you connect yourselves to that, and
then there is
a clear path,
and if that is taken away, it's a
dark night.
So my appeal to all of us,
we have to connect ourselves to circles of
learning.
Number 1, if you can connect yourself to
a living teacher
in front of the teacher and come to
a class even once a week, connect yourselves.
If you maybe prefer someone on YouTube, an
overseas teacher, connect yourselves.
Connect your family.
Make some portion of your week
the study of al wazdine.
And I guarantee you not not only I
guarantee you, I repeat the words of Rasulullah
salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
That the iqya of our hearts and our
children's hearts will be revived by
knowledge.
May Allah make us from those who study
His Deen, and love His Deen, and love
His book, and love His messenger, and become
His true worshippers.
We say
to Morana Khalil Hendricks for his beautiful presentation.
May the almighty Allah grant him the strength
and the health to continue
to do the noble work that he is
doing.
Jamat, we have quite a few announcements, so
please bear with
me. The first one is regarding the parking.
A number of residents are complaining
about
blocking their driveways,
double parking
around the masjid in their respective driveways
simply because the individual is coming to the
house of Allah.
Now it is not ethical, it is not
adab
to cause inconvenience
to other people
when we are coming to perform our salah.
It is important
to be considerate
at all times when parking.
Rather be a few minutes late
if you can't find parking,
but do not inconvenience
anyone
when parking.
There could be an emergency
either for an ambulance to come in or
for the individual to leave, whatever it may
be. So the appeal is to the jama'ah,
please be considerate
when parking and do not block anyone's driveway.
Then there is the Janaza
of brother Mahmoud, late brother Mahmoud Bray
of 93 Ruth Road leaving the residence at
3 PM this afternoon.
And also a dua of Mahfira for mister
Bray of Gold Braze.
May almighty Allah grant all the deceased,
Insha'Allah.
And then there is a request for dua
of Shifa for all those who are sick.
In particular, the names here are Qayyum Sayed
of Macbeth
and Fuad Saleh.
Then also,
there is a request
for
to announce that there will be a dhikr
tonight after Ishai by the Mizan Group, by
the Mizan Institute,
led by Mawlana Khalil Hendricks.
All are welcome.
Then also there's the Hajj greeting.
The following brothers and sisters will be undertaking
the journey of Hajj this year. Number 1,
Sho'aib Ibrahim Parker of 51 York Road Street,
Cravenby, departing on the 24th May.
Secondly, Zahid Hussain Shamsun Nisa, Yacine, and Hasina
Bibi Parker, departing on the 4th June.
Hussain Mia
and Dil Nawaz Begum Dateh
departing from 91 A Mabel Road, Rylands on
the 25th May.
Saidah Begum Sufi and Hanifa Bibi Parker departing
from 1 99
10th Avenue, Kensington
on the 21st
May.
Mohammed Shiraz and Nooran Karil of 13 Merton
Road in Rylands, departing on the 30th May.
Sadiq Atre of 75
Road Street in Godud,
departing on the 21st
May.
We make dua that almighty Allah grant all
the people who are undertaking
the sacred journey,
that Allah must grant them a Hajjmagbu'l,
that Allah must give them the strength and
the health to undertake the sacred journey
to protect their family and their belongings in
their absence
and to bring them back with salama.
And then lastly, jama'a,
there is a, and also,
Khan. He is leaving on Tuesday,
23rd May.
Then lastly,
Maulana Abdul Sattar Abdul Latif
of Al Aksha, Madrasa, and Masjid,
and president Maulana
Alawd Din of Madrasah, Talim ul Quran, or
Sunnah in India
will be collecting donations for the institute at
the Masjid doors of the Jum'ah Salah.
We urge all Muslimnis to donate generously towards
the upkeep of these schools
and enable them to continue their efforts in
educating,
feeding,
and housing the disadvantaged
youth of India, Inshallah.
Then I've been handed another one, dhikr and
kasaid, by the Aswathul Habibiya
every Thursday evening after salatul Isha. All are
welcome.
Shukran.
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Close the gaps in front of you.