Mikaeel Smith – Jumuah 30-08-2024
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Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in Suratul Hadid,
race
to the forgiveness of your Lord
and to a paradise
the width of which
is like the width of the heavens and
the earth
prepared for those who believe in Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala and His Rusul.
In Surah Ta'ala Imran,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
means to race,
to hasten, to rush.
In the first verse, I quoted Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala says, salbiqhu.
Musabaka means to run, to race against someone.
And in the second verse, Allah
says, Sahri'u, hasten.
Both of these verses communicate
a sense of urgency.
And it was this sense of urgency which
was passed down into the hearts of the
Sahaba,
that sense of urgency, that understanding that this
waqt, this time,
this vessel of life that we have is
limited.
And there's a beautiful,
amazing hadith
which is one of those hadith that you
almost need to look at once a week,
if not daily.
In fact,
quite a few weeks ago, I made this
hadith my screensaver
because of the power and how it shifts
our perspective
and that this hadith
sets a plan for putting your life into
the correct perspective.
In this narration, Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he was admonishing someone. He was giving someone
advice.
And he said to him,
ikhtanim
Khamsin
qabalah Khamsin.
He said, Seize,
value. The word 'ranima' is what you get
from war. It's it's valued.
Like seizing something, taking it, hold on to
it. He said, Seize 5 before 5.
Seize 5 things before
5 other things come.
The first of which he said,
Shababak
babalah haramek.
Value
the young years,
the years that you have a lot of
energy.
Shabbabik, when you're young, value those moments
before old age comes.
When you're young, there's so much you can
do in the path of Allah.
There's so much you can do in the
path of Allah.
The shabab last night, they wanted to stay
up late.
I said, I'm getting old.
They said, That's why we call you Ankh.
And then after Fudger, they said, Sheikh, let's
go for coffee.
I said, I'm tired.
Shabaabak
kabbalah haramek.
Value the years that you are young,
the years that you can give the best
of what you have to Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
As the hadith tells us hadith.
Beautiful narration tells us that there are 7
people that will be under honored on the
day of judgment, honored like no one else.
They will be under the shade of God's
throne.
And one of those people
is the one who spent their young years,
those young years in the path of God.
So, Rasulullah
SAW, he's saying, seize that those years that
you are young. Seize them, Hold on to
them. Value them. Know their value. Know what
they're worth.
Then, Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam said, number
2,
wasihaataqaqabaalasakamik,
and value the blessing
of being healthy.
Value the blessing
of health.
Babala sakamik, before
you are you are sick, you are ill.
Know how important it is and how how
much you can do for the sake of
Allah in those moments.
Value the moments of wealth.
When you have wealth and you can spend
in the path of Allah. Rasulullah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam, it's profound. I'm going to digress
to another hadith because it emphasizes
this hadith so much. Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam was speaking to Ibn Umar radiAllahu ta'ala
an, and it's a hadith of the same
meaning. He would he grabbed him and the
hadith says,
He grabbed him by his arm. And the
scholars say because it was that important, he
said, hold up. I I want you to
hear this well. He wanted to get his
attention.
And he said, in the similar meaning, he
says,
Take from your life before death comes.
And take from the moments of health.
Wallahi, we don't know what health is until
we become sick.
We don't understand the value of health until
you become sick.
And especially the brothers.
Y'all ever heard of the man flu?
Y'all don't even know.
See, our sisters, they handle sickness pretty well.
When a brother gets the flu,
call the masjid, tell them Iqdua for it.
It's a well known saying and joke and
understanding.
Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is teaching us that
value these moments when you don't have a
cough, you don't have the sniffles, you don't
have the flu, you're you're healthy. Recite the
Quran. Do the tasbihat. Do whatever khair you
can because the moment sickness comes, it feels
as if we were never healthy.
It feels as if we were never healthy.
We forget what
what Afiyyah felt like.
And so he he's holding on to the
arm of ibn Omar to express the urgency.
And then he says,
You don't know. This is profound. He says,
you don't know what your name will be
tomorrow.
Like, your name is what you know the
most about you.
You know your name. But Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam is telling us, chi things change
so fast.
Things change so fast. You don't know what
tomorrow will bring. So he says it in
the most profound and emphatic way. He says,
You don't even know what your name will
be tomorrow. One of the things that hit
me the most of our people of Gaza
is when they show pictures of what they
were doing before October 7th and what was
happening now.
In the course of 7, 8, 10 months,
what's changed?
And there's no difference from them to us.
No difference whatsoever. The Innaqala Tedri Masmukul Gadan.
You don't know what your name will be
5 months from now.
Then Rasulullah
he says, wafaragak
kabalashugalik.
Take care of
thou you seize your free moments.
Seize your free moments
before you become mashhud, before you become busy
with life.
And last but not least, Rasulullah salallahu alayhi
wa sallam,
he said, wahayatakal
kabbalah motik.
Value this life that you have.
These moments that we are breathing
and we are alive and we are witnessing
God's blessings. Value these moments before
the angel of death comes.
Ibn Ataul Askandari. Ibn Ataul Askandari,
he says something profound.
He says, Khayru Aukatik.
He says that the best moments of your
life
are the moments in which you witness your
need
to Allah
The moments in which you witness your urgency
and your absolute
dependency and need of whatever khayr Allah
can send you. He says that's the best
moment.
See, the opposite of that is the mental
mentality of istighnah.
Istighnah is an interesting term.
To be, rani, means to be rich as
I just mentioned in the hadith.
But in Quranic literature, the usage of the
word istighna
are
used for those who feel they don't need
Allah.
They don't need the khair and the good
that Allah brings them.
I'll give you an example.
The narration in Surah Al Qasas,
the ayah in Surah Al Qasas Afwan
tells us that Moses was fleeing pharaoh.
There was a bounty, there was a warrant
out for his arrest and he's fleeing trying
to get away.
And he has nothing.
He doesn't know where he's going. He has
nothing.
And he
finds himself in Medyan.
And he comes to this well, and this
well has a bunch of men watering their
flock.
And to the side, he sees
2 women with their flock, Tadudan, holding back
the flock.
And he realizes this is a moment, this
is an opportunity
to serve and do good and do well
and to help.
And see, this is this is what's so
profound about this sense of urgency when it
develops inside.
Because by the end of this kutba, I
want all of us to walk out of
this this masjid with this sense of urgency,
realizing that I need every opportunity possible
to do good and to pay back Allah
for all the khair that I have been
given.
So Moses, alayhis salatu al salam, he sees
this opportunity.
And the Quran tells us that he goes
over, he speaks to them and he he
helps them water their flock.
And after he waters his flock,
he goes back and he sits in the
shade
and he says something profound.
He says
As ibn Utta'ala Askandari, what did he say?
Your best moment is the moment you recognize
your faqr, your need of whatever good and
opportunities Allah
will send your way.
So he goes back and he sits in
the shade and he says this profound du'a
that will echo until the day of judgment.
He says,
oh my
Lord, inni lima andzelta ilayyah
minkhairfaqir.
I need
I need every opportunity
to do cheirot,
to do good, to serve you. I need
every opportunity. This is why the scholars, they
say, when you give sadaqa, you should low
key be thanking the person you're giving the
sadaqa to.
Because it is through them that Allah
is allowing you to do khair.
I was mentioning Surah Al Layl.
Wa'amamam Baqila Wastaghna. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
The beginning of the Surah, Wa'amamaminataaawwataqah.
As for the one who gives
and fears God.
Wasadaka bilhusna and agrees and confirms what is
good. Allah says, fasanu yasiruulil
yusra.
Yusra is that life of righteousness,
that life of goodness,
choosing the right things. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is highlighting a quality that leads to ease
of choosing righteousness, the ease of doing good.
This verse was revealed according to,
Jareda Babri. This verse was revealed about
Abu Bakr as Siddiq
Do you know who Abu Bakr as Siddiq
was?
He was a man that saw the urgency.
He was a man that understood the urgency.
He was a man that understood the urgency.
Al Bidayu Nihayyah ibn Kathir says
profound narration.
He says that, Romer ibn Khattab this was
during the time of the khilafa
of Abu Bakr as Siddiq.
Umar ibn Khattab kan a yurakhibu. He used
to watch Abu Bakr as Siddiq.
Not to find faults
but to
learn from him, to emulate him and to
sabi qusariu,
to beat him if he can.
Ibn Kathir says,
after Fajr, Umar radhiallahu ta'ala an, he noticed
that after the masjid would clear out, Abu
Bakr as Siddiq would get out get up
and he would go Kharij al Madina. He
would walk in the still dark time or
early morning. He will go Kharij al Medina.
He would go outside Medina.
And he saw him going to a tent
out in the outskirts.
And the narration in Midaiya when Nehaiah says
he watched him on day 1, he would
stay there for 20 minutes, 30 minutes and
then he would come out and go about
his day.
Omar says, I watched him day 1, day
2, day 3. After a few days, my
my my curiosity had peaked.
I had to find out what this man
was doing.
He said, So after he turned away and
he left,
I went to the tent after him and
I asked permission to go in.
And there was an Idusa, there was an
elderly
woman there,
and she was blind.
And Omer ibn Khattab, he says, Excuse me,
ma'am.
I'm sorry to disturb you, but I just
wanted to know
who's that man that comes here every morning
I've been seeing?
Oh, she says, Oh, that young man, I
don't know who he is.
I have no clue who he is.
He says, Well, what does he do for
you?
She says, Well,
my husband has died many years ago.
And she says, I have no one but
Allah
and that man.
He comes and he cleans up after me.
He cleans up after me.
See, there are people in this audience, they
have this this gift from God that they're
always looking for the opportunity
to help others.
He says She says, He cleans up after
me. And then he cooks me food.
And then he feeds me.
And he sits for a moment and then
he leaves.
Do you know what Omar did?
The narration says, Jetha, he fell on his
knees, wabaka.
And he weeped, he wept.
And he said something, the shabab will love
this. He said, han tahuayabaaba'qa.
He said, Oh Abu Bakr, you're him.
You're him.
You're him. What created that sense of I
must serve? What created that sense of I
must
find every opportunity to give back?
It's because the Rasool embedded
in them.
Wafisahihein
and abimusa
and in Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
call alaakuli
Muslim in sadaqa.
In another irwayah,
every morning you wake up, there's sadaqa to
give. What that means is when we wake
up, you're not doing bonus when you do
good, brothers and sisters.
You're catching up for all the blessings that
you have. For all the alfiyah that we
have. For all the tranquility that we have.
For everything we have when we wake up,
your first thought is how am I going
to pay my debt back today?
How am I going to pay my So
why is Abu Bakr after Fajr going to
the the nursing home
and serving
when he's the Khalifa?
Is because he's got a debt to pay
back.
The ilam tajid, the Sahaba said, You Rasulullah,
what if we don't have money like that?
We can't give sadaqa that much every day.
Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he said, falyamal
bi yedi. He says, then work.
Fayanfa'anafsa.
Help yourself and give sadaqa.
Qalu feeilam tell yastatir.
Well, I can't work. What if someone can't
work?
Aulam yafal.
Qal yu'inudahaja.
Help someone in need.
Help someone.
Look at this Look at how it goes
to the social element. And I'm speaking about
this because I want you to imagine what
our community would be like if every one
of us was looking for an opportunity to
pay back our debt to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
So why was Abu Bakr and Umar radiAllahu
an working so hard?
It's because they had developed within themselves a
sense of spiritual indebtedness,
and that spiritual indebtedness was ingrained on them.
I'd like to share with you a glimpse
of the last moments of Umar
ibn Khattab Radhiallahu Ta'ala An.
The narration says that Umar,
you know, he was stabbed while leading prayer,
but he didn't die immediately. He died over
the course of a few hours.
And so this gave people time to come
and see him and bid him farewell.
And one narration mentions that
while he was on his deathbed,
Ibn Abbas walks in,
1 Jaleel Sahabi and another Great Sahabi,
bidding farewell as they go on the journey.
And so, Ibn Abbas walks in the door
and he says, Abshur You Amir Al Mumineen.
Glad tidings, Habibi.
Glad tidings.
What does he say?
You kept the companionship
of the Prophet.
Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Wa'asanta
suhbah.
You were good with him. You were good
with him.
And then you're Habib
He passed away. He passed away loving you.
Happy with you.
Ibn Abbas is trying to cheer him up.
You did so much in your life.
And then he says, And you kept the
company of Abu Bakr,
and you were good with him, and he
passed away pleased with you.
And then you were a just leader.
Oh, if this world would give us just
leaders again.
And he says
He says, If you die today,
you die as a companion of the Prophet
with whom Allah is pleased with.
The narration says, Faltafah to Umar Ilaibin Abbas.
Up till now Umar wasn't looking at him.
When he finished speaking, Umar radiAllahu an turned
his face, he's laying on his bed, I
want you to see it. He's laying on
his bed, he turns to him and he
looks at him
and he says,
all of that you said,
everything you just said was God's blessing upon
me.
And then he said so profound,
I'm hoping I leave this dunya
breaking even.
Nothing against me and nothing for me. This
man had developed such a sense of indebtedness
to God that despite everything he and that's
what kept him grinding.
That's what kept him moving is that I
have a debt to pay back to Allah.
The verses I began with brothers and sisters.
The worst feeling that can sneak into the
heart is istirna,
That I don't need these opportunities for khayr.
I don't need them.
As Ibn Attallah asked Kandari, what does he
say? He says, the best moment that you
have is the moment you realize how much
you need every opportunity for good. May Allah
allow us to benefit and value this life
that Allah has given us. May Allah allow
us to benefit
and value
the health that He has given us. May
Allah allow us to value
the free time and the wealth that He
has given us. And may Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala allow us to stand on the day
of judgement with Him pleased with us.
Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah,
Nahuwala SaliAllahu 'Al Karim, Amabad.
Rasul alayhi salatu wa salam, he expressed a
sense of urgency for action and valuing the
moments that you have.
And that's what I spoke about in the
first half of the Khutbah. For the remaining
3 minutes,
the Quran also
establishes that sense of urgency but from a
different perspective.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in the Quran gives
us many
glimpses into conversations that will happen in the
Akhirah.
Free of time, present and past, Allah is
telling us that this conversation is going to
happen on the day of judgment. I want
you to hear it right now so you
don't be that person.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us
at the end of Surahul Mutminoon,
Allah says until that moment when the
the death comes to them,
at that moment,
the person passing away, they're saying,
Oh, Allah, let me go back. Let me
go back.
So that I could do one more good
deed.
See, this is why I'm speaking about this
because we have that opportunity now. He's telling
us this conversation that will happen so that
we're not that guy.
We're not the one saying that.
In another verse, Allah
says,
this person says they wanna go back but
he says, walo Rudulaaadulimanuhuan
Allah says, if I sent them back they
would do it again. I heard a scholar
say something profound.
He said, why would you ask for another
day when every day you woke up in
life Allah gave you a new day?
Today is your new chance.
Today is your next chance. You've woken up
today. That's why we say, Alhamdulillahi
ladhi.
All praise to the one who gave me
life again after death. Today is your Rudu.
It is your next chance.
Allah
says,
kalla,
by no means will you go back.
He's emphasizing here
that we need to understand the urgency of
seizing the moment
and We need to understand that by looking
at the
remorse or regret that one may have reaching
that point, seeing all the lost moments.
I'll end with this narration.
2
narrations. On the day of judgement, Rasulullah
said, no servant's 2 feet will move from
their place
until they answer 4 questions. I'll only mention
1 because it's pertinent to this.
A'na no marihi fi ma'afna
on your life and how you spent it.
I heard a narration from a teacher. I
don't know the authenticity of it. A lot
of shayuk in the room.
That a man will be in jannah and
he'll look up and he'll see a bright
light. He's already in jannah. She's already in
jannah.
Sees a bright light above.
And he asks the angels or those around,
What's that star I see up there?
And the angels say,
Oh, that's not a star.
That's a person above you in rank.
So he says, Well, well, well, what did
he do to get there?
And the angels, they say, Oh, that person
They just said one more SubhanAllah than you.
Allah
So make sure the lines are straight. Fill
in the gaps.
Jake, thank you for