Morad Awad – Have I become a Hypocrite
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Begin.
There's a brother
who wants to join us,
who wants to give
today.
Actually, 2 brothers. I want to ask you
to come up.
I know it's a small crowd. Can you
tell every our brothers and sisters your name?
Dominic.
And, Dominic,
what brings you to this beautiful faith? Can
you just share a short word with everybody,
telling us what what it is that attracted
you to Islam and this faith? You know?
It doesn't have to be long.
What I would say is the
the simplicity
of the faith,
just how simple it is
and not how
the complex all that,
just the simplicity.
So Islam
and that's what attracts everyone to Islam, and
that's what keeps us simple because Allah
simply wants us to go to Jannah.
Right? Simply wants us to go to paradise.
In order to do that, he made this
faith easy, simple, accessible, and made it,
in the heart of every single human. And
all we need to do is embrace it.
And that's exactly what you're about to do
today.
So, I just want you to repeat after
me. I know the only reason we're not
doing it after Khutbah is because Yani,
brother Dominic, didn't doesn't want a big crowd.
You know? He said, you know, I'll do
it in in front of a
I bear witness.
I bear witness.
That That There is no There is no
deity. Deity Deity. Worthy of worship Worthy of
worship. Accept Allah. Accept Allah. And I bear
witness I bear witness. That Mohammed
That Mohammed
is is his servant his servant and final
and final messenger. Messenger.
And that Jesus And that Jesus Peace be
upon him. Peace be upon him. Is his
servant Is his servant. And prophet And his
prophet. And his messenger. And his messenger.
Takbir.
Dominic. And the reason we we added the
third part to the testimony of faith is
because he's coming from,
Catholicism before that. So now, alhamdulillah,
the testimony of faith included.
We ask Allah
to keep you steadfast on this faith, and
we ask Allah
to bless you with and through Islam, and
to bless you with the progeny of Muslims
who embrace Allah
and to unite us all, all the brothers
who watch you today in Jannah,
in paradise,
insha'Allah, with this shahada.
Muhammad Rasulullah. This is the key to paradise,
by the way.
And, Dominic,
all of the brothers in front of you
here, everyone
of
yeah. And everyone of us and the ones
that are about to come in during the
Khutba, and the ones that aren't here for
the first, second and
about 1 and a half 1000000000 around the
world are your brothers,
and you are their brother, and you have
rights over them, and they have rights over
you right now.
In our life, we live to fulfill the
rights of the brothers and sisters upon us.
Right? Because we have rights upon them. They
have rights upon us, inshallah, and you could
demand those rights. You know?
And I wanna send the thanks, Jahid.
Maybe introduce yourself
to the community and, tell everybody how Yani,
you got to know Dominic and how this
began.
I met Dominic in high school. I went
over at North Garland High School. This is
about a cup maybe, like,
7 years ago now.
And
I didn't know that, but ever since then,
he's been watching me.
And,
he let me know the other day, hey.
What you do
attracts me a lot. You made a big
impact on me and an impression.
What does it take to be a Muslim?
And,
I was taken aback. I didn't know you
know, sometimes you go about your day and
you don't realize who's watching you, who you're
making impact on, all the little things, the
way you treat yourself in front of others.
And he said, Yad,
there's never been a time where you haven't
been positive or you haven't,
just made me feel good around you.
And,
you know, that I was
flattered,
but,
it just made me know that, you know,
just be careful going forward. Always make sure
you're really doing your best. You may be
having a bad day,
but remember that your bad day doesn't have
to be someone else's bad day. It can
make someone else's day much better.
So,
yeah, that's what I'd say. Thank you so
much, And
likewise, every single one of us,
our akhlaq and the way we carry ourselves
is the number one dua.
Same way Dominic inquired about Islam
through,
character. All of our characters should be the
guide to Islam.
Dominic,
now your family
should see the difference in your character after
you become Muslim
You know? So and that would be and
you would get the reward for bringing them
to Islam
So
now
it's the greeting. You know?
And I know we delayed the about 3
minutes,
but I promise I'll make it 3 minutes
shorter.
And you don't know it. It was probably
gonna be 40, but now it's gonna be
37.
A long
We praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We lord him.
We seek his assistance, and we ask his
forgiveness.
And we seek refuge in Allah from the
evil and the mischief of our own souls
and actions.
Whomsoever Allah guides, clearly they are the ones
that are guided. And whomsoever Allah misguides, clearly
no one or nothing can guide them. And
I bear witness and testify that there is
no deity worthy of worship
in truth, except Allah alone, and he has
no partners. And I bear witness that Muhammad,
the son of Abdullah, is his servant and
final messenger. Indeed,
brothers and sisters,
on this blessed day of Yom al Jumu'ah,
I remind myself and yourselves to fear Allah.
To fear Allah
in our actions
whether they be from the actions of the
limbs or the actions of the heart.
And to fear Allah and Eve in the
thoughts that go through our mind.
As Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reminds us of
this
in a noble ayah when he
tells us to fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and to prepare for a day,
to prepare for tomorrow,
because tomorrow
is going to be our end.
And our death brothers and sisters is indeed
as if it is tomorrow.
Because on the day of judgement, people will
see this whole span
of life that we lived as one day.
So indeed,
death
is but tomorrow.
Brothers and sisters,
as we come
into the midst
of our summer break,
and
we,
you know, we're struggling now
to
keep our commitments that we had during Ramadan.
As some of us,
you know, we lived
the month of Ramadan and then the month
of Shawwal, and we tried to fast in
the month of Shawwal, and we're we're trying
to persevere
and to stay consistent
with some of the deeds,
the iman,
the spirituality,
the spiritual high that we were on during
this blessed month. Right?
And now, we're in the middle of the
summer.
And as
the summer
break
moves on,
you know we might
begin to see
some laxity
in ourselves,
and how
our iman,
or our spirituality
is kinda getting less
and less. It isn't
what it was,
and
we aren't as consistent as we thought we
would be after Ramadan.
A person may think
or feel
like they have become
hypocrites,
Like they were something
and now are something completely different.
That they made promises to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, and they were committed to certain righteous
deeds, and they were in the masjid, and
reading Quran, and, and, and. But
right now,
things are changing.
I wanna remind myself and yourselves
of a hadith.
Where the prophet Where there was a there
was a companion
from the time of the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
His name was Hanzal al Asdi.
And this companion Hanzal al Asdi
met Abu Bakr radhiallahu anhu on the road
one day
and he told him,
Abu Bakr told him, How are you
And he spoke
about himself in 3rd person.
He said, You Abu Bakr,
Hamdulillah is a hypocrite.
Because Abu Bakr radhiyallahu was asking, How's hamdulillah?
How are you doing? You hamdulillah. He's
like, hamdullah is a hypocrite.
Ub Bakr said, What?
Astaghfirullah.
Don't say that.
A hypocrite? You know when you say hypocrite
that means,
Allah says, so there's so many ayaat about
the hypocrites, and now they're in they're
in the lowest of the hellfire. The hypocrites
are
They are the true enemies, so be aware
of them.
Right? Or beware of them.
So Abu Bakr was surprised. He said,
How are you a hypocrite?
He watch what you're saying.
He said, Wallahi, look.
Tell him, look, Abu Bakr. When we're with
Rasulullah SAWS,
we're listening to him speaking about jannah nar,
we're speaking We're listening to him speak about
the hereafter and the day of judgment,
And when we're sitting with him, it's as
if we see it with our own eyes.
It's as if we are looking at jannah
and nah.
He said, But
when we go back home,
and we see our wives,
and we see our kids, and we play
with our kids, and we go back to
our business, and you know, everything else that
we're doing.
You know, we start having fun, and joking
around, and we see people, and then then
we just forget everything.
We're not like that anymore. So I must
be a hypocrite
Because if I was true with my faith,
this is what he means. He means, if
he were true with the his faith, he
would always be consistent with his faith. It
wouldn't go up and down and fluctuate.
But he thought and he saw that the
fact that it went
down and it got less,
and it wasn't the same means that he
must be a hypocrite.
What did Abu Bakr tell him?
He said, wallahi,
I I feel the same way about myself.
And this is who is Abu Bakr radiAllahu.
He told him, Let's go and talk to
the Prophet
right now. And they went to the Prophet
And he
Abu Bakr told him, say, alhamdulillah, what do
you feel?
And he repeated to him what he said
to Abu Bakr.
And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
he said,
if you remained
the same way you were
in my duroos, in my presence,
listening to me, giving my sermons, and my
talks, and having that same mindset
when you are with your wives,
and when you are with your kids, and
when you are doing your business, and living
your life,
if you were the same way,
the angels would have greeted you when you
wake up in the morning,
and they would have gave you salaams when
you walked down the street.
The angels would've been in your present.
You
like
khalaas. It's as if you knew the ghayb
when you didn't know it.
As if you knew the future when you
didn't know. Like,
it would be as if you saw jannah
not every single day. He's like, What? But
It's not like that.
And he said
something that we need, you know, I'm going
to repeat during the khutbah.
He said,
He said, There's an hour of this
and an hour of that.
It's not all one consistent steady hour.
There's an hour, there's a time for this
and then there's a time for that.
And the and that those times shouldn't be
mixed
together.
Why?
Because sometimes brothers and sisters,
when we're committed
to an act of worship,
and we're doing a certain ibadah
or a kurbah,
we need a break from it
in order to miss it again, and to
want to go back to it.
And that break in and of itself, although
we feel the laxity in our spirituality,
we feel our iman go down. We're definitely
not going to be
watching a game with the guys,
and have the same faith as we do
sitting in a halaqa
for a great scholar with a great scholar.
Or sitting in a khutba jumma,
or listening to the dhikr of Allah, or
hearing the recitation of of Sheikh Sajjad
during taraweeh. We're not gonna we're not gonna
have the same faith, but
that hour
helps and allows us to yearn
for the hour of worship,
the hour of spiritual connection,
the hour of bonding with Allah subhanahu
So we all experience
this hour, these 2 different hours in our
day day to day lives.
Every single believer. Because if hamdullah is true,
then every single one of us here would
be hypocrites.
Because there's no way
that a person can balance
that type of lifestyle.
A Muslim is not someone
who is always, you know, strict or a
mumin of true believers. Not someone who's always
strict upon their faith, you know, doesn't have
time for games, doesn't have time
to, you know, to spend
joking around with the friends,
or, you know, going out to a game,
or playing something together, playing some basketball,
or taking the kids out to the park,
or spending some quality time with the family,
or this or the or that. Whatever it
is.
That's not what a true believer is. A
true believer is the one who gives the
right
to every person who has a right over
them.
And this is why in a hadith,
there's a narration where Aisha radhiallahu anha was
sitting with a woman,
and then the woman
got up and she left, and the prophet
said, Who is this woman? Said, oh, the
woman, she was talking to me about how
excessively she worshiped Allah
How much sunan she prayed in the day
and during the night, and how much she
worshiped Allah
in salah.
And the Prophet
he,
you know,
he said
to Aisha radiAllahu anha, and this is almost
in a disapproval,
in a disapproving way.
Tell her to take it easy, Aisha,
and to do what she can,
and to do what she can because,
And this
translates to
that Allah will never
get tired of recording your deeds.
But you will definitely
at some point in your life get tired
of this act of worship.
Allah will never get tired of recording your
good deeds.
But you will definitely get tired
worshiping Allah the way you're doing.
And then the ulema, they followed this hadith
in the hashiya,
and they say, And this is because
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala doesn't like the excessive
deeds
as much as he loves
what the deeds that are consistent
even if they are little.
That's why the consistent deed that is little
is much better and more beloved to Allah
than the excessive deeds that only last for
what? How long can a person go fasting
day after day?
How long can a person go praying,
you know, reciting
10 juz of Quran
every single night in qiyam? How long can
a person go
praying
20 rakahs, qiyam every single night for the
whole?
How long can a person do that?
How long can a person go giving this
amount of sadaqa? Every year, 1 third of
their wealth.
This is great, but Allah loves
what is consistent.
Of course, the more the better. But even
if it's little, it's the consistency that Allah
loves.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he would not
like an an someone, you know, some of
us have this idea of the prophet
that he was very serious, you
know, and committed
all the time. And there was no leeway,
there was no jokes,
you know. The prophet
he's someone
who knew the akhirah,
and knew the day of judgment and what's
going to happen to the ummah, and he
knew about jannah and nar.
But the prophet
despite all
that,
he would joke around,
and he would be seen smiling in the
majalis of the sahaba
and laughing.
And the prophet
would smile until his teeth would show. And
he would be seen carrying,
carrying
his, grandchildren,
Al Hassan and Al Hussein
And he would play around with them and
stick his tongue out, so they can try
and catch it, and then he would bring
it in. And these were narrations.
And the Prophet
would be seen racing Aisha in the desert.
He would tell her, you know, in 1
year he raced her
and she swore that she can beat him.
He raised her and she did beat him.
And then he waited a few years until
she got a little heavier.
And then he said, I'll race you now.
And then he beat her the second time,
and he said, This is for the other
one.
This is for the other one.
And the Sahaba
they said, You Rasoolallah, you joke around just
like us.
He said, Yeah, but I joke with the
truth.
I joke with the truth.
You know, sometimes
he would diffuse the tense city of a
situation
A woman would come to him and she'll
be asking him, You Rasulullah,
my husband You know, she's complaining about her
husband. She's saying, Who's your husband?
And she's like, you know, Fulan.
Is he the one with the ears?
And she would she would smile and say,
what's wrong with his ears?
You know, so automatically she's complaining about them
and now she's like, what's wrong with my
husband's ears? And then he was like, what?
Doesn't he have ears like everyone
else? He said, yeah he does. And automatically
he defuses the situation alayhi salatu wasalam with
a joke because he knows how to diffuse
these situations. A woman came to complain to
him
and she she was saying,
she said, You Rasoolullah,
will I ever go to Jannah? Will I
go to Jannah You Rasoolullah?
Please will I go to Jannah? And it
was really bothering her, and she looked very
stressed out and full of grief.
The prophet he
said, you know old women don't go to
Jannah.
And the woman turned around, and she got
so sad, and
she started to cry and weep.
And then he turned around, he said, Come
back. Come back. Why?
Someone tell her, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
That they will be entered into jannah what?
Young.
Again, said in jannah you'll be young, you
won't be old. This oldness is only for
this dunya.
Right? The back hurting, and the skin wrinkling,
and everything.
No, this is only in this dunya. In
Jannah there's none of that. And now all
of a sudden, instead of grieving over, am
I going to Jannah or not? She's thinking,
I can't wait to be young again in
jannah.
See and the prophet was a master at
this. And this shows us that
these There are times
to be committed, to be serious, to be
devoted to worship like Ramadan,
like Dhul Hijjah which is coming up in
the next hijri month inshallah ta'ala. And there
are certain times like in Muharram and so
on so forth.
But
there are times to have fun. There are
times to joke around, there are times to
take it easy. And this is why the
Rasool
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told us,
Just like we were studying, we're in school,
we were working during the year, 9 to
5 schedule, go home, take the kids there,
bring them back. Oh, I have I have
basketball.
I have to go to the team. I
have to practice. I have to go to
soccer practice. I have to come back from
tutoring and You know, everyone has their schedule.
But the time of summer
is the of
of
laxity,
you know? It's the time to have that
fun. It's the time, you know students take
a break off of school. It's the time
we go and spend more quality time with
our families. We go out and have a
break, and so perhaps certain things that I
won't do, we gotta do in the summer.
Right?
Because this is part
of the deen, and we shouldn't feel bad
that we're falling back on our heels
in this hour
because
it will only give us more drive
when the hour of
comes Insha Allah Ta'ala. Because we'll feel like
what? We have to make it up, we
have to go back, we have to revive
the the spiritual connection again
There was a there were sahabas
that were actually
you know, one of the sahaba actually, his
name was Abu Darda
He was very excessive in his worship.
And one of his best friends, the other
Sahabi Salman al Farisi
went to visit him in the house. He
knocked on the door and,
Umu Darda, she opened the door, said, Where's
your husband? She's like, Oh, he's inside. You
know,
longest time. And he realized that she was
sad, you know, about her husband's situation.
And he told her, what's wrong? He said,
you know, she didn't wanna backbite or speak
about her husband because he's a he's a
righteous companion.
She said, you know,
my husband doesn't like this dunya.
Let's just put it that way.
My husband
doesn't like this dunya.
And Salman understood what her complaint was.
Right? So he went to Abu Darda. He
said, Yeah, Abu Darda, can you come over
my place
tomorrow? He said, Okay. So Abu Darda went
over. It was during the daytime.
Salman brought
a tray of food. He said, What'll eat?
Abu Darda said, I'm fasting. He's like, No,
I'm not gonna eat until you eat. You
break your fast and you eat right now.
So he broke his fast and he ate.
He's like, Okay, you're my best friend.
At night
he came,
Abu Darda, it was time to sleep, Abu
Darda was making wudu, getting ready to do
what? His all night kriyaam.
Salman said, No. Go to sleep.
He woke up the 1st 3rd of the
night, he said, No. Go back to sleep.
He woke up half of the night,
Salman said, no, go back to sleep. He
woke up the last 3rd of the night,
he's like, okay now you can pray a
little.
And then,
when he prayed, prayed fajr and Salman told
him, look,
your Lord has a right upon you,
and your you have a right upon yourself,
and your family has a right upon you
as well. Give every one of them their
rights,
And apparently,
you're only focused on the right
of Allah, but you're not focused on the
right of your family.
And then when the Rasul alaihis salam heard
what Salman said, he said,
salman.
Salman said the truth.
Brothers and sisters,
summer is a time to give back those
rights.
Summer is a time to live that other
hour and to connect with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, to connect with our families, to have
some fun,
and to
live
this moment without feeling guilty
about it, and without doing haram of course.
We ask Allah
to forgive and guide us. We ask Allah
to show us a straight path. We ask
Allah to guide our families. We ask Allah
to
forgive us.
Brothers and sisters, as
we speak about the 2 hours,
the hour
where we spend it for our lord,
dedicating ourselves, devoting ourselves to worship, and the
hour where we could, you know,
go spend the time.
You know, just relaxing and going out, and
having fun,
and living
in this dunya in a way.
We don't want to mistake that
for the fluctuation
of of like like
from halal to haram.
Living 2 lives
where a person
reads Quran and then goes,
you know, he listens to the recitation of
the Quran in the masjid, and feels that
spirituality,
and feels that iman go up but then
goes out and listen listens to
the, like,
worst music out there.
Where a person
sits here in the house of Allah and
then goes to the house where haram is
is taking place,
comes here and drinks
from what is given to the masjid as
pure sadaqa, you know, offered water or perhaps
a brother brought zamzam back with them from
Umrah. They drink that zamzam, and then they
go out and drink alcohol or drink whatever
it is.
Come here and they smell the misk,
and they smell the oud, they smell
the the beautiful scent of the believing,
righteous worshipers, and then they go, they smell
the scent of of marijuana, and drugs, and
all that type of stuff outside with,
with their friends. This is not
the fluctuation. This is not the hour and
the hour that we're talking about here.
Because the one who
has these two
hours
is in loss.
And the one who has these 2 hours
is doing
a grave mistake.
And the one who fluctuates
like this
is
you
know, in very dangerous in a very dangerous
place.
That's the least we can say.
Because
that means
that none of this iman
was fruitful enough
to make them get away from sin.
All of this faith and that that the
iman that we felt sitting in the halaqas,
listening to the Quran,
you know,
doing a righteous deeds together.
All of
that did not manifest itself in any action
because the person goes back
and is seen doing the worst haram things.
This is not what we say. But doing
halal things, muba' things, that is the hour
and the hour.
It's okay
to gather with friends to watch a game
or to play a basketball game or to
go out on a field, on a trip
to climb a mountain, or to see a
beach, or to do this, or to do
that, as long as there's no haram in
it.
Because the moment there's haram in it, there's
no barakah in it.
And going back to the faith is going
to be very hard to get to that
spiritual status that you were in before.
That fluctuation
is dangerous for the faith.
And the person who does this
is feared to fall into this haram and
maybe never get out.
Maybe that one
deed is is like quicksand,
and a person gets stuck in it. How
many bad deeds
do people do? Not thinking.
Think it's just like any other bad deed
and all of a sudden,
boom, it's gone.
It's an act of zina. Oh, that's it.
There's pregnancy,
and lie, and child support, and all that.
If it's how the drugs
the person's addicted, and then they spiral down
from there, and it's very difficult to go
up.
If it's just another so many different examples
that one can give.
And that's why
we it's okay to go and spend time,
but do it the halal way.
Avoid the haram.
Avoid anything that brings the
the
the, you
know,
the displeasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because
wallahi akhwan,
This dunya isn't worth it.
There's so many things that Allah made halal
that we'll have as much fun with, if
not more.
And we'll have more fun with because we
know that Allah allowed us to have.
And we know that this is the saa'a,
this is the hour that the Prophet
was talking about, to spend time with ourselves,
to have fun, to joke around.
So brothers and sisters,
their most joyous day for a believer
is Yomul Jumuah.
So make this a day of joy
for you, for your families, and for those
around you. Smile to those around you,
send glad tidings, reach out to your kinship
so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can bless you
and increase you in rizq
and increase you in wealth and health. We
ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to bless us
all with wealth and health, and to bless
us all with a righteous progeny,
and to bless our spouses,
and to bless
us through and with iman in Islam,
and to make us from the
brothers and sisters,
after
we're going to have a
for our brother,
sadaahlah Muhammad al Jabri. We ask Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala to have mercy on him and
to give patience,
to his family.
Ameen So please stay after, salatuljumuah,
so we can,
do our fulfill our right for our brother
inshallah ta'ala.
And also in the center right after salah,
we're going to bring,
we're going to bring the casket here. So
please Insha'Allah,
just make way for them before you begin
your sunnah prayers.
So,
Allahu
Akbar.
One moment.
If
we could just make a way here in
the center.
And if the family of, brother Sadullah can
can come up to the front.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Every soul will taste death.
There's not a single one of us
that will not come to this day where
we will taste
this fate of death.
When it comes to is
a
By doing this we fulfill a right
that our brother, the deceased, has over us.
Today, inshallah, we're going to pray Janazah as
if
this is our own brother
that passed away and he was our own
brother.
But not only our brother, but pray for
him as if he was our own,
family member
and someone from our family that passed away.
And make dua for our brother the way
we would want someone to make dua for
ourselves
when we pass away.
Because what we do for others
is what is done to us. So let
us make sincere dua
for the brother insha Allah. We ask Allah
to make the family,
of brother Saadullah patient. Ameen You Rabbil Aalameen.
To grant them patience and to unite them
with him in jannatul firdaus.
Amin.
So,
Salatul Janazah is 4 takbirats.
After the first takbir we recite al Fatiha.
After the second takbir, we recite as salal
Ibrahimi, allah musalalah Muhammadu alaalih Muhammad kamasalaytaalal
Ibrahimalal Ibrahimalakhamidilmajid
until the end.
And after the 3rd takbir we make dua
for the brothers, sincere dua, heartfelt dua for
their brother.
And after the 4th takbir, we do taslim,
inshallah, and we're going to do 2 taslims.
1 taslim to the right and one to
the left.
Jazakumullah.
The
janaza
will be taken to Farmersville Cemetery
Everyone
is encouraged
to go and walk in the janaza. As
you know, the the reward of
walking in a janaza is 1 kiraat as
the prophet said,
and the kiraat is like the weight of
uhud in gold, like donating that in gold.
So so
hasten for the reward
by Epic Suites, can you move them to
another lot because we need that lot for
the games tonight.