Morad Awad – Awad Khutbah
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We praise Allah
We laud him.
We laud him.
We praise him.
The Sustainer,
the Maintainer,
the Giver, the All Merciful, the All Forgiving.
And we bear witness that there is no
deity worthy of worship and truth except for
Him alone,
with no partners,
as He is the one who gave us
everything we have,
owns us, our lives and everything around us,
and to him we will return.
Allah
said in the noble Quran,
O you who believe,
fear Allah.
The way he should be feared in truth.
And do not die except in the state
of submission to him, in the state of
Islam. We ask Allah
that we die
in the state of Islam.
Say, Amin.
Allah
created mankind from 1 soul
And from this one soul,
his spouse.
And from this one soul and his spouse,
countless men and women that will continue to
live until the day of judgement
and then will be resurrected
to the hereafter to be judged for their
actions.
If good, then good.
And if bad,
then to it
is their ending. We ask Allah
to make our ending in
Allah
revealed to us
the Quran
and guided us
to this blessed message of Islam
and to the guidance and the teachings of
our blessed and noble prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
And through this guidance
we were taught that we were brothers and
sisters.
Allah
made us brothers and sisters
in Islam
to show us that
we were not called Muslims in vain, but
we were called Muslims because
we have certain rights upon one another.
Just like our own family has rights upon
us,
our Muslim brothers and sisters have rights upon
us as well. These rights begin
when when the Muslim is born.
And these rights end when the Muslim dies
and perhaps continue
even after the death of this Muslim.
They do not stop at the death but
they continue afterwards.
As soon as a Muslim is born,
their right upon us is to do what?
To do their with their parents
and to go and visit them to make
dua if we are their friends or their
brothers and sisters in Islam.
We go to them. We make dua for
them. We gift them. They automatically
have a right upon us as soon as
they are
born. And throughout their life they have rights
upon us to visit them if they are
sick, to help them if they are in
need, to assist them if they need assistance.
And when they die, their right upon us
is to pray janazah on them, and to
make dua' for them, and to be there
for their family.
And after their death to continue to make
du'a for them, either in general by making
du'a for forgiveness and mercy for all of
the Muslim
or to make dua for them specifically
if they were your family, they were your
friends, or they were someone in your community.
So our rights,
the rights we have upon ourselves
are very very
noble
and honoring,
and great rights
that fortify the bonds of brother and sisterhood
in the community.
And this is
by the divine wisdom of Allah
So because of this,
I chose to live with one of the
noble, profound, prophetic sayings of Muhammad
May Allah
open our minds,
our eyes, our ears, and our hearts to
this noble hadith
as the rest of the will be an
explanation of it.
The prophet
said
in the hadith in Sahih Muslim
narrated on the authority of Abu Ureyra radhiallahu
ta'ala Anhu
that he sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
The prophet
said in the translation of this noble profound
prophetic saying, he said,
whoever does
whoever
relieves
or relinquishes
the pressure, the pain, the agony, the hardship
of a Muslim
brother or sister, then Allah will relieve them
and relinquish them and ease the hardships on
them.
And
in Arabic is it's like
releasing the pressure of.
When we say it's releasing the pressure of,
Meaning it's not complete eradication
of the problem.
Many Muslims have problems, brothers and sisters in
Islam.
Eradicating the problem
might be of difficulty to many of us.
But in this hadith,
all the prophet
is telling us is to do what? 10
feasts.
Relieve them of some of the pressure that
they may have.
For the people who do tafrij, they have
their ajr, which is completely relinquishing.
For the people who do
and relieving them, alleviating some of the pressure
that is on them because of the hardships
they are going through,
then for them is the ajer. What will
Allah
give them?
He will give
them So what they give
is what they get.
And this is something that we see throughout
the hadith.
And this is a principle
that we should all remember
and memorize
because
this is something we see every day of
our lives, brothers and sisters.
The principle we extract from this hadith is
what?
What you give is what you get.
Perfect
justice.
Perfect
justice.
What you do to people in this dunya
is what is done to you in this
dunya and in the akhirah. The
prophet
alluded to this principle in many other ahadith.
For example, the hadith of
The people who have mercy, Allah has mercy
on them on the day of judgement.
Have mercy on the people in this dunya
and the one in the hereafter
which is Allah
will have mercy on you.
Allah will have mercy on you when?
In the
The prophet
also alluded to this in another hadith. He
said,
Indeed Allah will punish those who punish people,
of course unjustly in this dunya.
Those who inflict punishment on others, Allah will
punish them.
What you give is what you get.
What you do to people in this dunya
is what is done to you in the
akhirah. If it's good,
by Allah you will find it on the
day of judgement. And if it is bad,
then by Allah you will find it in
the day of judgement. And the Quran and
the sunnah is full filled with examples of
this. But we don't have time in this
khutba to mention
many examples. So in the first part
of the hadith
we said
And in the second part
Whoever does taisir
who makes it easy for a person who
is in debt,
then Allah
will make their debt easy on the Day
of Judgement. Do people have debt on the
day of judgement?
Yes, brothers and sisters in Islam.
People will be resurrected
on this day, the day of judgment with
debt.
And the only way to repay this debt
is by making it easy
on people who are indebted to you or
paying the debt of others
to relinquish them of the burden of debt.
And Allah
with this will relieve you of the debt
of the day of judgement. We ask Allah
to relieve us of this the debt on
that day.
The third part is
Whoever conceals and covers
the faults of a Muslim, Allah will cover
their faults on the day of judgement.
We ask Allah to cover our faults on
the Day of Judgement.
Brothers and sisters,
some people think
that mentioning the faults of others
is a way of helping them. Oh, you
know,
be careful from him. Oh, you know what
he did? Oh, you know what she did?
You know what I saw her doing? You
know what I saw him doing?
That type of talk is what will bring
our exposure on the day of judgement.
The more you expose people's faults in this
dunya,
the more Allah
will expose you in this dunya
and in the akhirah.
And we seek refuge in Allah from this.
No one wants their faults concealed. So the
only way
to conceal our faults
is to know of other people's faults
and to not speak of them, to conceal
them, to preserve them, to advise them privately,
not to expose them, brothers and sisters, in
Islam.
And the last part of this hadith and
this profound prophetic saying, the prophet
said,
Indeed Allah
is with
and in the assistance of a servant
so long as the servant
is in the assistance
of others. And this is the general principle
we extracted in the beginning.
In another hadith,
on Abi Saeed al Khudri
the prophet
said
that on the day of judgment,
the people
will be hungry,
and they will be thirsty,
and they will be tired.
The people who fed in this dunya
will be fed who fed others in this
dunya, who fed people who needed to be
fed, the people who provided
the people who who didn't hesitate
to feed someone who was hungry on the
street. These people, what does Allah
compensate them with on the day of judgment?
He said, The people who feed,
who fed in this dunya
will be fed from the fruits of jannah
on yomulkiyama.
A day when
everyone is hungry.
No one has anything to eat but these
people are eating from the fruits of jannah.
Because of what? Because of what they fed
others in this dunya.
May Allah
make us from them.
And everyone
will be thirsty on yawmul qiyama.
They'll be thirsty to their throats. Imagine.
Thirst
after sweat,
after tires of years,
perhaps not finding anything to drink.
Thirsty.
But Allah
will quench the thirst of who?
The thirst of people
who gave others something to drink, who were
thirsty in this dunya.
People who didn't hesitate to provide water to
the masjid,
or to the community, or to poor people
in general,
These people will be given what to drink?
Sealed nectar
from Jannatul Firdaus. Imagine this.
They will drink from sealed nectar, not from
the water of Jannah,
but from the sealed nectar, from the fruits
of Jannah. We ask Allah
to give us this sealed nectar
on
the And everyone
will be tired
and will be distressed on the day of
judgement. Except for who?
Those who pardoned others
in the dunya.
Those who could have took the haqq. They
had the ability to take their right.
Someone
didn't treat them well. Someone
didn't give them their due rights. What do
they do in return? What they do is
they pardon them. Allah
will relieve them of the distress of
May Allah relieve us of this distress.
Narrated
Abdullah Masood
said, he said, the people on Yawmul Qiyamah
will be as naked as they have ever
been,
and hungrier than they have ever been,
thirstier than they have ever been, and more
distressed than they have ever been.
He said, whoever,
whoever
clothed someone for the sake of Allah will
be clothed, and whomever
fed will be fed, and whomever
gave something to drink will be
given something to drink, and whomever pardoned will
be pardoned on this day. May Allah pardon
us all.
Brothers
and sisters in Islam, not everyone in the
dunya is from
Not everyone in this dunya
lives through hardship. Some people live through
Nam. Allah
bestowed their blessings upon them. We ask Allah
to continue to bestow His blessings upon us.
We live in peace,
we live in security,
we live in safety
These are some of the greatest nam that
Allah can give us.
If you're not hungry, you're not thirsty,
and you feel secure,
you don't feel like injustice will
be will be forced upon you, you don't
feel like someone will take one of your
rights away,
then
you own the dunya and everything in it.
Everything in this dunya was given to you
because there are people that don't have this
around the world.
So these people,
these people who live through hardships,
tests, trials and tribulations,
we should look for them
and we should try to relinquish them of
their stresses,
of their hardships.
Live with them in their trials. Be with
them. Have a smile on your face. Give
salaams.
Be kind. Be nice. If it's a child,
pat on his head. If it's someone who
is older, kiss his forehead.
Be respectful.
Anything
you do
in this dunya will be given to you,
in equal, on the day of judgment.
Indeed Allah will never lose
the ajr, the good deeds. The person who
performs good in this dunya
will always find it on the day of
judgement. We ask Allah
to make us from the people of good
deeds and righteous actions, and we ask Allah
to allow us to reap the benefits of
everything good we do in this dunya in
the and to make us from
Brothers
and sisters in the time that we live
in today,
and for those who don't know, I serve
as a youth director here
in epic Masjid.
The things
that I see
and I have seen since I served as
a youth director
made
me grow some white hairs on my beard.
And
the job isn't as easy
as some may think.
It is fun.
It is something
I truly enjoy and have a passion for.
But when you hear
what these youth have in their hearts and
in their minds,
and when they spill
out what's deep down inside, what not even
their parents hear,
it is really scary, brothers and sisters.
It's scary because
these people of hardship,
these people of tests and trials and tribulations
are amongst us today
and live amongst us and perhaps look like
the happiest people around us.
But in reality they are fighting.
There's a battle going on in their hearts.
There's a battle going on in their minds
that we are totally oblivious to.
We have no idea. The prophet
said,
And I remember
when I read this hadith, I said, Allahu
Akbar.
The prophet
said that the trials
will befall upon you. This is in the
end of times,
like the mats that we pray on.
1 string at a time, meaning they're stuck
together.
They're stuck together.
That's how close
these
fit and are to each other. And I
never imagined,
almak, subhanAllah, when I grew up,
I was young, we had and perhaps,
let's let's just think of someone a 100
years ago.
They would have 1 major trial, 2 major
trials in their life, some
a hard time throughout the year,
one shubha, something, you know, that they couldn't
digest.
One shahwa,
there's someone who they got to know and,
you know, an illegitimate relationship and they had
to overcome it and they had to be
patient and persevere.
But today, ikhwan,
today it is exactly the way the Prophet
described it.
Through social media,
when a person, when one of our youth,
who is still
trying to understand the world around them, who
still doesn't have a complete understanding of what's
going on in the world, who's still formulating
their perception of everything around them,
what is
making them formulate? The social media.
They go to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat,
Twitter,
and it's fitan after fitan after fitan.
One thing at a time. One is a
shahuwah. They have to say, astaghfirullah, udubilarshtarajeem.
Next, it's a shubha.
Somebody
is is
spreading misconceptions about Islam. The one after it,
another shahua. The one after it, something that
strikes an emotional chord, something that strikes
and it's fitan upon fitan upon fitan.
And then,
they have all of this bottled up inside
of them.
And when we work as mentors
and advisors
to the youth, we hear a lot of
the things that the parents do not hear.
Brothers
and sisters,
what we are doing here in the masjid,
And not all masjid have this, by the
way, and not all masjid
are in tune with what the youth are
going through.
We really really
have to go back and think
of what the role of the masjid truly
is.
And we have to understand
that
the next generation of the masjid
is the generation that will
carry it on their backs. The
foundations of the masjid
are upon the shoulders of those who donated
and built this beautiful and amazing facility. May
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reward everyone who contributed
towards it.
But the mission continues and it goes on,
and what is to come is a lot
more difficult.
And the way to do this,
the way to overcome this, the way to
combat what is to come
is by facilitating this in the masjid and
aiding, assisting
every single cause that we can that helps
the youth.
Everything that you give,
everything you give for the masjid
will go towards building the next generation that
will carry the message of Islam.
Grow the ummah, fortify it, strengthen
the iman of our youth. We ask Allah
to make us reasons for it.
We ask Allah
to use us for his sake and to
make us from the people
that build the masajid of Allah upon taqwa,
that build the masajid of Allah upon taqwa.
We ask Allah
to make us conscious
of ourselves,
our children, our families, and the youth of
our communities.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give
us the best of the duniya and the
ikhira. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
forgive us, have mercy on us. We ask
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to relinquish us of
the hardships of this
So, to do?
Just a quick announcement.
Just some quick announcements, inshallah, brothers and sisters.
First, inshallah, ta'ala, as you all know, tomorrow
we have the community dinner and fundraiser
We can see you all there
See these bright faces that I'm looking at
right now.
The next is I want
to remind you to donate for the masjid
as you're leaving. The second, the third,
the umrah trip for Sheikh Nadeem, inshallah.
You must register and put your thing in.
If you intend to go to umrah with
Sheikh Nadeem's group, inshallah, March 13th to March
22nd.
Please register and put in all your documents.
Number 4, Hajj with Ustadh Bajur. InshaAllah, they
they began to register for Hajj this year,
InshaAllah. So
if you do intend to go to Hajj,
visit the desk and,
inquire about that so you can submit your
documents and prepare early.
Number 5,
as you all know, we have
soon we have youth programs coming up. So
I just want to ask the families
of of the youth, the father the parents
of the youth, mothers and fathers,
to please stay tuned, inshallah, to any
activities that are going to be posted, sent
by email,
or posted on any of the social media
platforms, inshallah ta'ala.
I'm getting settled in right now, but soon,
inshallah, expect to get,
some more some more, posts. So just be
be tuned and be prepared. Jazakamalahir.
And an announcement.
Did you
This is your brother Harun Saeed from election
commission for the upcoming board elections for EPIC.
Quick announcements.
Firstly, for the meet and greet which is
inshallah on Sunday 12th January between Maghrib and
Isha. It will be in the multipurpose all
and it will be for members only. So,
again, a reminder if you are if you
want to become, you know, be a part
of that, event and if you're not a
member, registered member, so you can go ahead
and member. You just have to be a
member, not a voting member at this moment
so that, you know, your concerns are addressed
by the candidates.
And, to keep it simple, we have opened
up, the forum in which you can email
us the questions if you are unable to
make it to the event and the election
commission
will ask you questions on behalf of the
committee.
And for the people who are going to
be present in the event inshallah,
the, you know, you will be given, opportunity
to to write down your questions but no
verbal questions will be allowed and the questions
will be monitored by the election commission so
that it is in the best interest of
the,
you know, community and for the candidates.
And the next two important things is be
on a lookout because of the election date
is next Sunday which is January 19th. Not
this Sunday. The coming Sunday after that. That
is the election date. So, inshallah, before that
we will be having early voting
and absentee voting, open as well for the
community and the instructions will be mailed out.
So keep an eye open on your inbox.
If you're traveling and if you're unable to
make it, you know, just be on the
lookout for the email and, we'll give the
time inshallah.