Morad Awad – The Time Has Come
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The Congressional speaker discusses the upcoming week when Congress will be preparing for the return of Jesus Christ. They will share information about the timing of the return, including the opening of doors and the presence of the holy month. The importance of fasting and forgiveness for past sins is also emphasized. The speaker emphasizes the importance of taking advantage of the blessed month, avoiding future mistakes, and focusing on forgiveness for the rest of one's lives. forgiveness for death and faith in forgiveness for the rest of one's lives are also emphasized.
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We start by praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
and sending our peace and blessings to our
noble prophet, Muhammad alayhis salatu wa salam.
And I remind myself and yourselves on this
blessed day of yawmuljumuatifirullah.
The way he should be feared.
As Allah reminded us of this in the
Quran when he said, O you who believe,
fear Allah the way he should be feared,
and do not die except in the state
of submission to him. We ask Allah to
die in the state.
Brothers and sisters,
we are
upon
a very great
change
that will take place.
Something not limited
to the world
but will be witnessed
in all of the heavens
and all of the worlds.
A time
that every inhabitant
of this universe
and every inhabitant of the heavens
below Jannah will witness
in this upcoming week.
This is something that we may not perceive
or comprehend.
But this is something that everyone will witness
to the amount of knowledge
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave them.
The only people
that do not
understand
how
important
the time we are about to approach is
are
a few
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's creation from the
jinn and from the ints.
From jinnkind and mankind
who disbelieve
and chose to live in heedlessness.
But everyone else and every other creation of
Allah
knows what is about to happen
in this upcoming week.
Brothers and sisters, we are upon
the great month of Ramadan.
A guest
that the prophet
taught the Sahaba to prepare for
not for days,
not for weeks,
but for months.
They would yearn
and try their best
to fix their habits and their routines so
that when Ramadan comes, they're able
to
maximize their benefit of this time.
Brothers and sisters,
this is the time where
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is calling every single
one of his sinful servants
to go back to him.
People that racked up
all types of acts of disobedience
throughout the whole entire year subject subjected and
subjugated
to Iblis
and to the plots of shaitan.
Whether it be sins
that they
dove into
with their bodies
or indulged into even with their hearts or
with their tongues.
Sins that perhaps can put away with all
of their hopes to go to
jannah. Sins
that reduced their levels and their ranks in
jannah, even if they were written to jannah.
Sins that perhaps
debilitated the person from ever improving and getting
closer to Allah. Sins that were shackling us
and holding us back. The time
came
to rid
ourselves
of those overburdening
sins
and live the moment.
Live the month.
Live this blessed time that Allah
gave us. Brothers and sisters,
when Ramadan comes,
the moment
the moment,
the instant,
the sunsets
of that night,
of the first day of Ramadan,
what exactly happens?
Today, I'm going to share a few things
of what exactly happens
the moment
Ramadan enters.
Not even after it ends or during it.
The moment it enters, what happens?
The moment it enters, brothers and sisters,
the doors
of Jannah
are open like the prophet alaihis salatu was
salam said in an authentic hadith.
He said,
Right? The prophet said, this is a a
blessed month that is approaching you, that came
to you. It's a guest for you.
And then he told us a few things
about this month.
He said,
The doors of Jannah
would open but
is more
than
without the for those who study Arabic
is a simple it's an opening.
But
it means it's completely open and there's no
way to perceive it or see it as
closed. The doors of Jannah will be completely
open.
And then the doors of Jahannam, the doors
of the hellfire.
Meaning, the passage
to go into the hellfire will be completely
closed.
Does Jannah know?
This is what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
assigned for it. As a matter of fact,
on this day, it was narrated that
Jannah will yearn. It will ask Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala
to fill it with the righteous
after it sees the worship of all of
the righteous creation of Allah in the heavens
and the earth.
The jannah is in haste. It cannot wait.
And Allah
once a year will prepare jannah and beautify
jannah
and decorate jannah even beyond the beauty that
is uncomprehendable
by us.
It will be
prepared and decorated
for those
who are written to enter Jannah in this
month.
On this day on this day,
the moment
the moment
Ramadan
enters,
6 things brothers and sisters
will happen.
The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he told us,
Forgiveness
for everyone
who's been looking for that time to be
forgiven. Everyone
who's been held down by sin, everyone who
never thought they're going to change or improve,
everyone of us who has that thing, that
habit, that routine,
that that addiction, whatever it is that we
that it's holding us down, holding us to
the ground,
preventing us from improving, from becoming the people
we strive so hard to be.
The moment
is Ramadan.
The prophet
said, whoever
fasts Ramadan,
iman and wahdisaabr
with iman
and seeking the reward only from Allah.
All of their sins will be forgiven.
And not only that,
but the prophet said, even the one who
doesn't fast. Let's say you had to break
your fast for some reason. Let's say
something happened and we couldn't fast. The prophet
said,
Whoever
prays qiyam in Ramadan,
what's the prayer? SubhanAllah.
Qiyam is taweeh.
The 8 rak'ah that we pray
either here or at home.
Plus
that we pray
if we are consistent with them from the
beginning until the end of Ramadan.
Forgiven for all of the past sins.
Then the prophet said,
okay. Who? What if they cannot pray
all of qiyam? They cannot pray
taraweeh. It's too long. Their shift
ends after taraweeh salah.
They had to break their fast, they couldn't
make qiyam. The prophet
said,
Whoever
prays
and stays up to worship Allah, prays extra
on this night of laylatulqadr,
83 years of worship. In 1 night,
all the gracious deeds are counted and all
of the sins in the past are forgiven
because of one night.
The moment Ramadan enters brothers and sisters,
and the person has the intention to fast
that Ramadan,
just the intention.
He didn't even fast. The moment Maghrib, the
sun sets on that day, and that and
that the first night of Ramadan.
The prophet said
in a hadith,
If you live from 1 Ramadan to the
next Ramadan,
the moment you get to the next Ramadan,
you're forgiven for what's between them
For what's between them.
The sins accumulated in between them.
The moment the sun sets on that day
of Ramadan,
Allah
will announce to the people of Jannah,
People whose necks were freed from the *
fire.
We ask Allah to free our necks from
the * fire. People people who were written.
People
who
Their lives,
their siyar, their actions
were going to lead them to the *
fire
if they persisted. But on this night,
Allah will announce everyday
a different list of people that are completely
forgiven, and their necks are free from the
hellfire. 1 of the sahaba heard this hadith.
1 of the sahaba heard the Prophet say
this. And the Prophet noticed he was holding
his neck.
He kept holding his neck. He kept holding
his neck. And the Prophet said,
Why are you holding your neck? He's like,
You Rasulullah.
When you said their necks are freed from
the hellfire, I'm holding this neck. In hopes
that Allah
will free it on that day. I just
wanna be one of those people, You Rasulullah.
We ask Allah to make us from them.
Not even people who are people who were
ascribed to the alfaireullah.
Allah with his divine wisdom changes the decree
to
enter them
into jannah.
This is the night
Ramadan comes in.
In Ramadan,
the prophet
said, whomever feeds
Whomever feeds a person who is fasting,
breaks their
fast.
Their sins are completely forgiven. This is just
in Ramadan.
This is only in Ramadan.
For those
who are feeding, for those
who are giving, for those
who are who who like to prepare food,
for those who are fasting.
This is the month
where all your feeding
you like to invite the brothers, you like
to invite the sisters, you like to give
food to your neighbors. This is the month
you have this intention.
When you give, know that Allah
is going to forgive you at this. And
when you're preparing that food, when you're delivering
that food, when you're feeding that food, you
are going to have a completely different mindset.
Knowing that Imagine,
just some dates and some water.
The person
who knows
what the reward is.
Imagine,
looking at somebody
who's waiting to just press a button.
It's gonna make you the wealthiest person in
the world.
How would you watch that person
pressing the button? You would yearn for it.
You'll be a little anxious. Imagine looking at
the person
breaking their fast in front of you, watching
them have some dates,
Have some food. Bismillah.
And you're watching them putting your dates in
their mouths and breaking their fast. And the
moment they chew and swallow it, you're like,
The reward is secure.
What a beautiful sight.
And the Prophet
said, the moment Ramadan enters
that night
when the sun sets,
He said, was so free that is shayatil.
That
shayatil
will be chained up.
And in another hadith he said, maradatu shayateen.
The biggest of the shayateen,
sufidat. What does sufidat mean?
Means they're chained up and there's something very
unique about this word.
For those
who
understand
what the promise of Iblis was when he
was exited from Jahannam.
When when he When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
exited him from Jannah. When he was exiled
and kicked out for disobeying Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala in Jannah, and he was kicked out,
there was something that he said.
He said,
That was the promise that a police
made.
And
is that word, you know, the thing that
goes into the hanuk.
For those who have or know
the the piece of metal
that is put in the mouth of the
horse or the mule, or the donkey
to control it.
Shaitan
promised
to do that to Bani Adam. You know,
when you're riding a horse, the moment you
pull on it
and that piece of metal wedges into the
jaw of the horse, the legs give out,
the arms give out, the horse has to
stop.
It can't continue. It could wrestle.
But
although the per the horse is stronger than
the person that's riding it. But the moment
these reins are pulled, that's it. The horse
has to stop.
It's
disabled.
And shaitan promised that to Bani Adam, although
he is weak. And Allah
said Shaitan said
I'm gonna stop them from doing any good.
But on this day,
Allah
is chaining Iblis, is chaining the shayateen,
so that they stop luring you, they stop
controlling you.
Just like that horse,
when the reins fall off and there's nothing
in its mouth and it's free, the believer
in this month is going to be free.
There's
nothing writing.
There's nothing controlling. There's no hold on. It's
only you and the reward Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala prepared.
So accomplish as much as you can, ask
as much as you can, do as much
khair as you can. Because perhaps,
if you're strong enough, and you attained enough
iman and taqwa,
when the shaitaan comes
to do this tahneek,
comes to put his reins on you, so
he could ride you again after Ramadan,
you're not in his control.
Has no way to control you anymore.
It's finished.
But it's only this month that we have.
So we need to take advantage brothers and
sisters.
And as soon as Ramadan comes in,
umrah
becomes multiplied
becomes multiplied
and equivalent
to a complete
and full hajj.
Umrah takes an hour,
an hour and a half, 2 hours.
We have some brothers and sisters that are
doing umrah right now. May Allah
preserve them and return them safely. I mean,
and accept from them. 1 umrah in Ramadan
is equivalent
to a complete hajj.
The moment that night comes in, so much
hair. Brothers and sisters,
the only loser
is the one who loses in Ramadan.
The only loser is the one who loses
in Ramadan.
The only
one
who is truly seen
as a person at loss is the one
who Ramadan enters and exits just like any
other month
as if nothing happened.
A day in Ramadan is just like a
day outside. What they were watching is what
they're watching before Ramadan. What they were doing
is what they were doing before Ramadan. What
they were
speaking like, the conversations they were engaging in,
the gossip, the backbiting, the slander, whatever it
is, All of that is the same in
Ramadan.
That's the true loser.
But the winner
is the one who understands what every
single creation in the universe understands.
And that is that this is a great
month and we need to take advantage of
it. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
allow us to be from those who take
advantage of this blessed month. We ask Allah
to forgive us and have mercy on us.
Brothers
and sisters,
I want everyone of us to imagine
something.
Something that the prophet
told us.
Imagine
a person,
a person's face
being smothered into the ground.
Think of someone's face
being smothered
into the ground, not the comforting ground
of the masjid and the carpets,
but
in
the dirt, in the clean,
and perhaps
you know
you know, the not so clean
dirt. Imagine somebody's face being smothered in it.
And they're trying to lift their necks up.
They're trying to lift their heads up. They're
pressing on their backs, but their face
is smothered and smothered and smothered over and
over again.
Imagine that that that imagery.
The prophet said
in an authentic hadith.
He said,
He said, may his face be smothered into
the ground.
The person
who enters Ramadan
And then Ramadan exits.
And they weren't forgiven
for their past sin.
May their
face be smothered into the ground.
This is a dua'a.
How did the How do we know the
Prophet said this? He was actually going up
the minbar.
There was 3 steps to the minbar.
The prophet went up the 1st step,
he said, Amin.
He went up the 2nd step, he said,
Amin. Went up 3rd, he said, Amin.
And the sahaba asked him afterwards, he's like,
you Rasulullah,
we heard you say Amin.
What were you saying He's like, this was
Jibril
making dua.
And I was saying to it.
And the dua was,
may his face be smothered into the ground,
the one who
gets to Ramadan, and Ramadan exits, and they
haven't been forgiven for all of their sins.
Brothers and sisters,
we have to ask ourselves right now.
Will we be from those who prepare for
Ramadan
adequately?
We prepare our routines. We prepare our habits.
We prepare our
our our lives, our work schedules, our school
schedules, everything.
Are we gonna shift it and shuffle it
and prepare it so that
we are forgiven by the end of the
month? So many ways to be forgiven
So many ways for all of our sins
to be eradicated and expiated completely.
Will we be from those?
I want every single one of us here
to ask that question to themselves.
Am I just going to be that
that person who comes in, plays basketball, volleyball,
shoots hoops, meets up with friends, does the
same thing? The only thing that shifted is
the dinner schedule.
Nothing more, nothing less, no extra
a little bit of a little bit of
thirst here, little bit of hunger there. But
it's the same old
business. Are we gonna let Ramadan go in
and come out like that?
If we are those,
then may our faces be smothered.
The Prophet said, Amin.
And we say Amin too.
But we need to commit from now
to not be from those
whose faces are smothered
on the day of judgment.
So we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
make us from those who prepare
for Ramadan
and are forgiven this Ramadan.
We ask Allah
to
make us from those who take advantage of
this month and are forgiven by the end
of it. We ask
Allah
to bless us, our spouses, our children, our
parents, our families
with a successful Ramadan. And they're all and
they'll all be forgiven,
for the all of their sins. We ask
Allah
to guide us to the straight path. We
ask Allah
to
put our hearts on the straight path in
this blessed month. You Rabbi. If we are
astray, then guide us. You Rabbi. If we
are weak, then make us stronger.
You Rabbi.
If we are broken, then fix us.
You
Rabbi. This month is coming and all
we need is You and Your help and
Your forgiveness and Your mercy. You Rabb, bestow
Your mercy upon us, You Allah.
You Allah, we need You.
We need You to fix us. Let this
Ramadan
be a pivotal month for us so that
we can pursue You for the rest of
our lives and meet You in Jannatul Firdaus.
We ask
Allah to unite us in our loved ones
in Jannah. We ask Allah
to unite us with Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam in jannatul firdaus and to make us
from those who drink from His blessed hand
alayhi salatu wa sallam. We ask Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala to guide us and to have
mercy on us.
Please fill up the rows in the back,
in the back along, along the glass windows,
and make sure the main is full. Fill
in the gaps.
Request everyone after salah to remain seated because
we have a
prayer
so, you know, everyone can join and receive
the reward for that.
Let's go.
We're going to pray
prayer on
a young
fetus.
Subhanallah. You know,
death
has no
boundary,
and has no
age.
But one thing
we can get
from any death is that
we are all going back to Allah
And
some deaths
are better than others.
In this case, Allah
took
the life of the child of our brother,
Abdullah.
May Allah
grant him and his family patience.
And this baby, as the prophet informed
us,
will be
He will be
a treasure
for the parents and will be an interceder,
shafiya,
for the parents.
And it was narrated that,
you know, the prophet
said
that whoever
loses a child and is patient with it,
then that child
will wait for them on the doors of
jannah,
on the day of judgment.
And will say, Oh my lord, I will
not enter jannah until I take my mom
and my dad with me. And Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala will tell them,
take your parents and go into jannah. And
this is only for the one who is
patient,
Mahtasib. And the one who said,
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to grant
patience to the parents,
this baby. And we ask Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala to bless them with righteous offspring.
Aminirabbalalamin.
Shalala Salatul Janazah is 4 takbiraat.
After the first we recite Fatiha.
After the second we recite Asalal Ibrahimiyya, Allahuasali'ala,
Sayidu Muhammadu ala'ali Sayidu Muhammad. Then after the
3rd we make dua
for the baby. Obviously,
the baby is sinless, but we make dua
for the baby to be an interceder for
the parents.
And for the the baby to be a
reason for the parents to enter jannah and
to make them patient. Right? And after the
4th, we do taslim, inshallah.
They will take the to
to Farmersville.
For those who want to
join.