Mubeen Kamani – A Hidden Victory Events of Dul Qadah
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The importance of learning from events and showing the power of Islam to connect with emotions is emphasized. The speaker emphasizes the need for guidance and guidance to connect with others seamlessly. The importance of acceptance and love in relationships is also discussed, along with the importance of forgiveness and making promises of Islam. The speaker provides examples of how small talk experiences can lead to peace and comfort in one's life. The importance of forgiveness and making promises of Islam is emphasized.
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We shout out by praising Allah
the one who is worthy of all of
our praise and our gratitude is Allah
who teaches us lessons
through the Quran and the Hadith and
for us to then embody those lessons
and implement them into our lives.
We then send peace and blessing upon the
prophet
the one that was not only sent as
a mercy
to mankind, but as a mercy to the
world,
who led and taught us by example.
We then send peace and blessings upon the
companions of
and his family members, those who helped him
and aided him.
Umabad thereafter.
We are
around the corner from Hajj season.
And in Hajj season,
usually, the discussions are about
and the stuff that happened in the month
of.
Similarly, we went past Ramadan, and in Ramadan,
we talked about the events that took place
in Ramadan.
After a while, we'll come to, and we'll
talk about the events that happened in, and
then we'll go to, and we'll talk about
what happened in.
But what ends up happening is in between,
you have
6 to 7 months that many Muslims have
no idea what the history behind
these months are.
And like this, you had the month of,
the month that we're in right now.
And in this month, in the in the
month of,
a very big event took place, which led
to
many lessons, and not just many lessons, but
a shift
in the seerah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. Things change
when this happened here. This was a turning
point
in the seerah of sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
which means it was a turning point in
Islam,
the way that we have it. If it
was a shift in the, then it was
a shift
in our religion.
And that shift happened in this month,
and this was.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he wakes
up in the morning after Fajr salah, he
sits with the companions, and he says to
the companions that, I had a dream,
and in my dream,
we were back in Mecca, and we were
performing umrah.
This was in the 6th year of Hijra.
And the companions said to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
the dreams of a prophet have always been
revelation.
Ibrahim
had a dream that he was
sacrificing
his son.
And he went to his son, and he
asked his son, what do you think? And
he said that you will find me as
a patient servant.
And this has always been a form of
revelation,
so the companion said to the prophet
if
you have seen in your dream that we
are performing umrah, then let's go.
Let's go to Makkah.
And, it's been so long since we left
our hometown,
we miss the streets.
We miss, like, the way that you miss
the corner food, the street food
of back home.
You miss,
you know, walking around at night. You miss
going to the Masjid. You miss everything, the
marketplace. They said that, you Rasoolallah,
we miss a lot of times what happens
is that when you look at the Sira,
you always look at it as events.
But these events carry hidden emotions,
feelings behind it.
And he said,
it's been a very
long time. Let's go back to Makkah.
And the prophet
said to the companions,
let's get ready.
And around 1400
companions
packed their bags, and they thought to themselves
that we are going to perform umrah with
the prophet.
Now the whole point of today's is not
to go over what happened in this treaty,
but to extract lessons. What can we learn
from the incident of Hudaybiyyah? Because it's packed,
and there's no way I can even cover
all of them in 20 to 30 minutes.
But number the first lesson that I want
to point out is that the
companions saw an opening to perform
umrah or Hajj,
and immediately, they jumped on it.
And the lesson that we learn from here
is that if you have a vacation booked
this summer,
but you haven't gone to Umrah, you haven't
gone to Hajj, then what are you doing?
If your child has been to
Hawaii, but they haven't been to the streets
of Madinah, then what are you doing?
If
other destinations are on your radar, but the
house of Allah
Allah is not on your radar,
then the question is what are you doing?
Simple.
Later on, what happened is people come back
and say, my child is not connected
to the deen.
My child is 15 years old, 16 years
old. Now my child is going off to
college,
UT Austin, UTD, and I'm worried about their
iman. What will happen about their iman?
What groundwork have you put in? What foundations
have you put in? What priorities have you
showed your children?
If you showed your children that religion is
a priority, if you gave them
the peace of Madinah,
the sukoon, the tranquility of Madinah, then they
will always connect themselves to that.
If you show them the power of Allah
by standing next to the Kaaba, then they
will always connect themselves to that.
However, if you show them
the party life or the beaches
of god knows where, then that's what they
would connect themselves to.
So the first lesson that we take from
this is the companions immediately they said 1400,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is going.
Let's go. You know,
a small lesson in this.
The companions
didn't go alone,
but they found
they had somebody that can guide them.
They had somebody
that can lead them in this journey.
So many times people, and again, this is
not a place to, you
know, advertise,
but so many times people, they go, oh,
maybe we can save a few extra bucks.
These group people, they charge too much.
But then you perform a ummah or a
Hajj without guidance.
That makes no sense.
You want somebody to guide you. You want
somebody that can spiritually
lift you up. And whoever it is, as
long as you connect the companion, they found
the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, that the
prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, we connect to
him, and he'll be able to guide us.
If we are performing this
level of an act of worship, then we
want to do it right.
There's so many people that go to Umrah,
and they come back after having a nice
vacation.
Because life is fancy there as well.
You probably don't stay in a 5 star
hotel here in America, but over there, you're
going to stay in a 5 star hotel.
The food that you have there, you don't
get that food here.
The massive buffets.
But the point is that you have to
have somebody
that will guide you.
And right now, many of us are actually
booking our hedge
packages.
Don't worry about the hotel.
Don't worry about the transportation.
Worry about
who's gonna be there to guide you.
Are you gonna have
somebody that will be with you step by
step that can understand
the feelings that you need to have, the
emotions that you need to have?
Now the companions, they leave
Makkah to Makkah and they make this they
mean they leave Madinah and they travel to
Makkah.
And this journey is, of course, a journey
of emotions. It's a long journey. It's not
something as easy as what you and
I do.
A lot of time when we go to
Hajj al Umra, we actually have a stopover
in Dubai
and have 3 days of get the shaitan
out before
I clean myself.
Right? Or on the way back.
Too much deen?
Now party up a little bit.
But their journey was
not in 1st class, not even in economy
class, but traveling through the desert.
And once they get to
at a place called Hudaybiyyah on the outskirts,
the camel of the prophet
sat down.
He didn't get up.
And understood
that this is all
where Allah
as far as Allah wants us to come.
At this point, negotiation
started.
The Quraysh sent people, the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, the people.
The first lesson that I want to point
out is that prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
he was open and looking for solutions.
This was the problem.
The problem was that the Qurays said that
we are not gonna let you come into
Makkah.
If we let you come into Makkah,
like, that shows that we have no power
because we lost
in Badr.
Okay. Ohad, we won, but in Kandag, we
brought everybody, we brought all the groups, it
was ahazab.
We lost in that as well. We bought
all of our friends and all of our
backup and we lost in that. Now, if
we let you just come into our city
and do what you want, people will think
they were pushovers.
So this was a problem that the most
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had, but
rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, number 1, he
wasn't adamant that I have to have it
my way,
but he was looking for a solution.
Again, we take these lessons and implement it
into our day to day life.
And you ask yourself,
when I have an issue with my child,
when I have an issue with my spouse,
am I adamant that it has to be
my way? Why? Because I am the father,
and it can't be anywhere else,
any other way?
Or am I looking for a solution
to solve this problem?
Rasoolallah, a sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he was
open to a solution.
That's why the first negotiator came, and the
prophet, a sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said his
name has the word peace in it, and
we will get peace from it.
As his negotiation went back and forward,
a person came whose name was Urwa bin
Masood athaqafi,
and he observes
the camp of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, their behavior,
everything.
And he goes back
to Quraish, and he said, you know what,
guys?
I've been doing this negotiating
thing on your behalf for some time now.
And he gives lesson number 2 sorry, lesson
number 3.
I've been doing this negotiating thing for some
time now, and you sent me to Persia,
you sent me to Rome, you sent me
to Ethiopia, to Yemen,
but I've never seen people love their leader
the way that the people of Mohammed
love him.
And this is a key to success of
the companion of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
What made
Umar ibn Khattab great?
That he then goes and conquers more than
Genghis Khan.
What made Abu Bakr alaihi wa sallam such
a huge role model? What made Khalim Walid
undefeated?
It was nothing but
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Umar
bin Khattab as
a Khalifa,
he's walking past
a valley, and he stops and begins to
cry.
And the people around him asked him, Yeah,
Amir, what's wrong?
He said, this is where I used to
bring my father's animals, and I would fall
asleep. Right there underneath that tree, I would
fall asleep. And the next thing I know,
khatab is
give me a beating.
And he would say to me, if you
can't take care of some animals, how are
you gonna take care of yourself?
And Umar bin Khattab says, today,
I am the one person that rules over
and I take care of the whole Muslim
Ummah.
But what changed
me? That was a real me. That's who
I am.
But this me that you see, it was
because
one man came into my life,
and that is the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And the lesson that we take from this
is
the more you let the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam into your life,
the teaching of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
into your life,
the sunnah of, rasoolallah, salallahu alayhi wasalam, into
your life, the more success
will be at your doorstep.
The more peace you'll find,
the more sukoon that you find, the more
taqwa that you have. Trust in Allah, subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
People ask, what do you get out of
spirituality?
What do you get out of doing this
whole religious thing?
And the answer is simple,
peace.
Because I know
that my example, the steps that I am
taking
are from the best of mankind.
I'm not going to YouTube and finding some
random stranger and asking them, oh, what's this
person doing?
How are they living their life? I'm going
to the best of mankind, the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. And whatever he has done
Again, we do the same thing today. Our
youth do the exact same thing that they
go online, find find some random stranger dude,
right,
and try to be like that person.
You wanna be like somebody? Then be like
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And Urrabbin
Masl al Sakhafi says that, I have never
seen people love their leader the way that
the people of Muhammad love him.
That when
he speaks,
it's pinned off silence.
No one's on their phone.
No one's talking to the person next to
them.
And the words that he uses,
it's as if they're gargoyles,
that they're statues, that they're the birds sitting
on their head, that the bird doesn't even
move. That's how steel they are.
And when he tells them to do something,
they rush to do it. To follow the
sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
they rush to it to do it.
And then he carries on.
Now, looking at other lessons that we learned
from
Hudaybiyyah.
In the street of Hudavia,
a huge problem was solved,
but not a single drop of blood was
shed.
And this tells you that the answer isn't
in the sword,
or we translate that in our language.
The answer isn't in aggression.
Many times when we come to a problem
within our family, within our friends,
We turn to aggression to solve this problem.
Did I not tell you to take out
the garbage?
Did I not tell you to do this?
You had a curfew. What's wrong with you?
Aggression.
If you look at what Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala told Musa,
he says to Musa, alayhis salam, that when
you go to Fir'aun,
speak to him in a soft manner.
Why? Because there's no benefit in aggression
in the wrong places.
So he says
so that he can correct himself.
In another place in the Quran, Allah subhanahu
wa'anahu wa'ala says to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa'ala sallam, if you are harsh in your
speech,
if you were rough and tough
and rigid,
then people would move away from you.
You want people to like you.
You want your children to be attracted to
you. You want your children to be with
you,
Then adopt
the quality of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. That was allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
was very gentle.
The companion says, I saw the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam and he was playing with
this young child and he kissed this young
child And I said to him, do you
kiss your children?
Now as lame as this sounds, you ask
yourself, when is the last time you
expressed
love to your child?
Now we're not talking about that toddler that's
extremely cute who comes and kisses you.
We're talking about that teenager
who inside is craving for love and attention.
But on the outside,
they make it seem awkward.
And inside,
all they want
is mama and dad and a buzz of
hoof. That's all they want.
But on the outside, hey, I'm too cool
for this.
I'm in high school now. I'm in college
now. I'm driving. I don't need you.
But a little beta, I love you,
means so much for them.
A little kiss on the head when they
come to hug you is so much for
them. So this companion asked the prophet
you kiss your children? And the prophet says,
of course.
He says, we don't kiss our children.
We're too cool for that.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, what
can I do if Allah subhanahu hasn't put
mercy into your hearts?
We know all of this, but the problem
is that we, it's
implementing it into our life and where it's
where it becomes beneficial.
These hadith that we talk about, these stories
that we talk about, Hudaybiyyah that we talk
about, we've heard it many times. It's not
the first time.
But implementing this into our lives, it's where
it's at.
So Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
he showed us that
to solve
and to resolve a problem, you don't need
aggression.
It can be done by love.
Then the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
once they come to an agreement, rasulallahu alaihi
wa sallam stuck to the agreement.
And the lesson that we learn here, a
Muslim
in one hadith, rasulallahu alaihi wa sallam says,
there are 2 qualities that can't be combined
in a believer.
Either
one is there or the others are.
He says, if the person is a believer,
then they can't be a liar.
The word of a believer has to mean
something.
If they're a liar, then they can't be
a believer.
And the sad part is in today's day
and age,
we know that trusting in a Muslim,
you may get it. But
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he made
an agreement.
Now look, this agreement, even though it's stacked
against the Muslims, I will stick by it.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he
did
For 2 years, rasoolallahu alaihi wa sallam, until
the Quraysh broke the treaty, rasoolallahu alaihi wa
sallam stuck with it.
To the point that the treaty said that
when
somebody becomes Muslim, you have to send them
back. Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he put
a stone on his heart and he will
send back these people.
And this way you understand the next lesson
is
sabar and patience.
This event was
a adversity. It wasn't a good. You know,
Umar bin Khattab says that, once in my
life I doubted my iman.
He said that was a day of Hudaybiyyah.
I never doubted my iman except for that
day, and I went to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and said, You Rasoolallah, what's going
on?
Everything on this treaty, they now want peace
for 10 years.
We have to go back and we can't
perform Umrah. We can come back next year,
but we can only stay for 3 days.
We can bring weapons of travel, but we
can't bring weapons of war. It can be
an ambush.
Whoever wants to join the treaty, they can
join the treaty. There's so much against the
Muslims. You Rasulullah, are we not on the
truth? How can we agree to this?
It was a hard day for the Muslims.
But the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam teaches us
2 very beautiful lessons.
Number 1, no matter how difficult
your problem is,
it can be turned into a blessing if
you have patience.
And number 2, if you trust in the
plan of Allah
The reason why our difficulties seem so big
and they crumble us,
and rightfully so.
I mean, this week, our community was faced
with a huge tragedy.
We had a youngster
who
Arsalan Anwar,
doctor Anwar Noman Anwar, who runs the free
clinic, his young child who just recently got
married, I performed the nikka around 3 years
ago, passed away this week,
A huge tragedy to the community.
We were standing by the graveside and I
thought to myself, what can I even say
to bring some sort of peace and comfort
to their health into their hearts?
A year and a half ago, doctor Anwar
loses his wife, and today, he loses his
son.
But
what we learned from the life of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is if you
are patient and you trust Allah's plan,
then there'll be some sort of peace in
subsequent Allah will give it to your heart.
Where in one hadith, when he sends
a subrudia,
when it's dark in the room,
what do you say? Turn on the lights.
Open the flash of your phone so you
can see.
Rasool
Allah says, when there's darkness and you're going
through a difficult time,
and patience is that light.
It'll give you some guidance.
And this is a lesson that we've learned
from the treaty of Hudaybiyyah.
There are many lessons, but I'll finally finish
off with one last one.
At the end of this treaty,
he said to the companions, we're going back.
So
cut your hair, leave the state of Iran.
And the companions were still. Nobody got up
and did anything.
Just a little while ago, Urughur ibn Masood
said that when the prophet
said something,
they jumped on it, but now those same
companions are, mm-mm,
we're not moving.
The prophet
goes to his tent. Umme
was there, and she sees the prophet
worried.
And the prophet tells her that this is
the first time I've told them to do
something and they're not doing it.
What do I do?
And it's a beautiful lesson that we learned
here. Number 1, when you have a problem,
you're not gonna be able to solve all
the problems by yourself.
Seek help.
Ask for guidance.
Most likely, whatever problem that you are going
through, somebody else has gone through it.
As a youth director here for 6 years
now, there is nothing that people can say
to me that I'm like, oh, I'll just
send you one.
Nothing like that.
Whatever problem that your children are going through,
whatever problem that you are going through, you
can't solve all the problems by yourself.
Look for help. The prophet
goes to his wife and
teaching the status of a woman, she says,
Rassalla, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, they're in shock.
If you want them to do it, then
this is a powerful lesson right here, lead
by example. You go and cut your hair
and they will follow.
You can't tell your children to connect themselves
to a deen, but then not lead by
example.
You can't want for your children but then
not walk that same path.
If you want your children to walk that
path then you have to lead them on
that path.
You can't bring them to Sunday school at
Zor time and then pick them up from
the parking lot
and expect them, did you pray Zohr?
Hold up. How did it make sense? You
were in the parking lot waiting for me.
Why why are you asking me if I
prayed Zohr?
We learned that prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam looked
for solutions, Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did not
answer with a sword. The prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam actually the first lesson that we talked
about is the companions when they had a
chance to go to the house of Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, they jumped on it. Rasulullah,
salallahu alayhi wa sallam, stuck to his word
and his agreement that Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
gave victory, and that victory wasn't in winning.
You had to trust in Allah, subhanahu wa
ta'ala's plan. And
this plan is executed when you have patience.
And then Allah,
he gives the status of a woman who
solves this problem for the prophet
where she tells the prophet that you have
to leave by example.
We ask for infinite mercy, oh, Allah,
wherever there's a Muslim going through any type
of difficulty, we ask that you give them
patience, oh, Allah,
We ask that you give them help, oh,
Allah, we ask that you give them strength,
oh, Allah,
we ask that you make the grave of
Arsalan Anwar, who passed away, as well as,
brother Saphter's mother, who passed away this past
week. We ask to make the grave in
the garden of paradise. We ask that you
give them their family strength and suffer them
with hard time. Oh, Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Muhammad Saeed, who passed away in Montreal, his
family members have requested that we make dua
for them. Oh, Allah, we ask that you
forgive all of their sins. Oh, Allah, we
ask that you forgive our sins as well.
Oh, Allah
We ask that you make it easy to
implement the deen into our lives. Oh, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. We ask that you make
us people who study the, the Quran, and
take the lessons
and implement these lessons into our lives and
be a good role model for our children.
Oh, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We ask for
Jannah and everything that brings us close to
Jannah. Oh, Allah,
we ask for guidance for us and guidance
for our children. Oh, Allah, we seek protection
from the fire of jahannam. Oh, Allah, we
ask that you be pleased with us. Oh,
Allah, be pleased with us. Oh, Allah, be
pleased with us.
Please move forward and make room for the
others.
Just a few
things, Angela.
We have
a sister upstairs,
that will be taking shahada. So if everybody
can please just wait behind.
Sister Aisha, if you have the mic,
we can get started. So what we'll do
is, Injala, I will say the shahada,
in Arabic, and then Injala,
she can repeat after me. Then I'll say
the shahada in English. And if she will
repeat after me after this, I will meet
her at the office and kinda go through,
some of the basics of Islam. And what
the one hadith that Muslim know very well,
the prophet said, when a person comes into
the folds of Islam,
all of their previous sins are forgiven. It's
a new start,
and we want to invite the sister and
let her know that, you know, this is
a new beginning for you. But for the
people that are already here Muslims, so, like,
wait. How can I get a hold of
that? For you on this you want a
new start, all you have to do is
raise your hands to
Allah, for forgiveness, and Allah, subhanahu, subhanahu, will
give you a new start as well. Islam
is about second chances. Islam is about 3rd,
4th, 5th chances. All you have to do
is turn to our creator, Allah, Subhanahu, and
this is Aisha, if you are ready, until
we can get started. We are ready.
We are ready. Okay. Listen. So,
sister Inshallah, I will say it Arabic first,
bit by bit, and you repeat after me.
Ash.
Ash. Hadu. Hadu. Al. How.
La.
La.
Ilaha.
Ilaha. Ilaha. Ilaha. Oh, Ash. Ash.
Hadu. Adu. Anna. Anna. Anna.
Mohammedan.
Mohammedah.
Abdulah.
Warasool.
I'm sorry. I didn't hear that one. Warasool.
Abdul Rasool.
I testify
I testify that there is no
one to be worshipped
to be worshipped but Allah. But Allah. And
I testify
And I testify that Muhammad
That Muhammad Peace and blessing be upon him
Peace and blessings be upon him. Is a
servant
Is a servant and messenger of Allah. And
messenger of Allah. Takbir.
You
it brings us all happiness. So inshallah, sister,
you are gonna get a,
wave or a a
not a wave, but a
flood of hugs,
today from all the sisters. And we wanna
welcome you to our family, or you're always
welcome here to the Masjid.
Everybody.
Again, if you can stay seated, Baytul Mal
is here and then we have our community
announcements.
There are some news programs that are happening.
But it's all up first. A a bill
from Baytul Mal.
I really don't wanna talk to you when
you're talking to,
Allah, so give me just 2 minutes if
you don't mind.
I also wanna go home as well.
Beitul Ma'al is here. We're giving you an
opportunity today to do some of your kurvani,
your utiha
overseas. You may do it over here. That's
okay. But,
please consider doing it overseas as well.
All of us are very excited for Eid
ul Adha. Our children are very excited.
We can imagine how excited everyone is, but
you cannot imagine
our beneficiaries
who eat meat
once a year,
how excited they are for Eid ul Adha.
Let's give them that opportunity,
please. I mean, there's not a day that
goes by that we don't eat meat,
and they eat meat once a year, maybe,
if they're lucky, if you're generous.
And so let that sink in a little
bit. Betul Mal has been around for a
long time, since 2003.
We are 4 stars out of 4 stars
in Charity Navigator,
and our expenses are about
6 to 8% of what we collect. That's
all I'm gonna say. Please make dua for
all the brothers and sisters in the world
that are suffering everywhere.