Mubeen Kamani – ICF 3rd Jummah
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Allahu
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Akbar Allahu
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We started by praying Allah
the one who has given us this deen
of Islam,
and who has completed this deen to perfection
for us,
where it covers every aspect of our lives,
not
just how to worship, not just how to
be a good Muslim, but also be
a good human being, a good member of
society. And we also send peace and blessing
upon the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
who then took those teachings of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala and brought it into practice, giving
us example
of how Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants us
to conduct ourselves.
We send peace and blessing upon the companions
of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and the family
members of Rasulullah Sallallahu Wa Salam,
those who helped him and aided him,
thereafter.
Usually,
people have
a false sense of pride over things
that are artificial,
that are not actually substantial.
A person will have pride over their career,
not knowing what can happen in their career
tomorrow.
Today,
they make really good money. They are have
a prestigious position
within their work field, and also that translates
within their society,
and they might have
pride over that or be proud about it.
There's a difference between pride and proud. They
might feel proud about it.
Whereas,
what will happen with that, they have no
idea.
Similarly, with our children, similarly,
with our background,
a person might be proud
that I come from so and so country,
or I speak so and so language.
But when it comes to
actually being proud about something,
a lot of times we fail to be
proud about the roots of our religion and
how firmly
our religion is.
And I'm not just talking about
has made you a Muslim, but
when it comes to Islam, how deeply rooted
Islam is,
it's not something that somebody just popped up
and slapped down on the ground, and we
follow it.
But for each hadith that gets mentioned,
there is a chain of narration that goes
all the way to the prophet
covering
decades
and centuries
of narrators
that mention this hadith, and who mention this
hadith, who mention this hadith,
all the way down to
ourselves.
A couple weeks back, we had a graduation
here in Dallas
of
a group of students who now became scholars.
And as they graduated,
their teachers read out the full chain of
narrations
that I have taught you hadith, and I
have learned from my teacher who learned from
his teacher, and read through all the names
until Nabi salallahu alaihi wasallam.
And in my opinion, if there's something that
we should be feel proud about
is how solid
our roots of our religion
are.
And because of this,
Islam in Islam, we have categorized
the most authentic book to, of course, be
the Quran.
But after the Quran, when the next sets
of books are categorized,
and they're called,
the 6 most authentic books
when it comes to the words of Rasool
Allah
and these 6 books, of course, are the
compilation of Imam Abu
Dawood, Nasai, ibn Majah, and Motayma Malik or
Motayma Muhammad.
These are the most
authentic books when it comes to Hadith. And
each of the Hadith that are put into
these books were not just eeny meeny miny
moe. This is the Hadith I wanna pick.
But they were put through many filters,
and then this hadith gets chosen
to be placed in the book of these
6 compilers.
A lot of time people without knowledge will
say, oh it's only in Bukhari or it's
only in Muslim, it's only in Ibn Majah,
it's only in Abu Dawood. And if it's,
you know, not Muslim and Bukhari,
they drop it down as if the hadith
is not something that's
actually true.
Whereas if you look at each of these
6 callers of hadith,
in their books they will have 1,000,
but their compilation
of actual their hadith
are half a 1000000, 3 quarters of a
1000000, and sometimes even over a 1000000 hadith
that come from
not just found on Google
or not just on sunnah.com,
but actually
they traveled and they learned these hadiths from
different teachers, and then with this large pool
of hadiths, they then
put it through filters and
select a few 1,000 hadith and bring their
in Bring them in their compilation.
For example,
Surman bin Ashas, who we know as
Abu Dawood,
in his compilation of Abu Dawood,
he has 48100
Hadith
in that compilation,
but he himself
knew 500,000
Hadiths.
Again, I'm not just pulling these numbers out
of my pocket, but through the chain of
narration that we have. Imam Abu Daw knew
500,000
Hadiths, and from there he selects
48
1,000 hadith, 48100
hadith to put into his compilation
of,
the, of Abu Dawood.
And,
it's a whole different discussion that if I
were to ask myself first
that
if Mubeen were to write a compilation of
hadith,
48100 is a
Forget about that. If I reach 48,
that would be a huge mountain.
But Imam Abu Dawood
then says,
from these 48100
hadith,
he says the foundation
of our deen,
the roots of our deen
lie amongst
4 hadiths.
So now you have 500,000
hadiths put into a filter of 48100
hadiths, and then he filters that even more,
making it extremely simple for you and I
that look, if you wanna understand
the foundation of your religion,
if you can only act upon
just 4 hadith, and these are the 4
hadiths. Why? Because acting upon all 500,000
is to be too much, and acting upon
48100 would be too much. He then makes
it very simple and says, the foundation of
our religion
is in this, these simple four hadiths.
And he starts off
with a very famous hadith that many
compilers of hadiths bring as the first
of which narrated by
The actions are based upon intentions.
That
says that actions are based upon intentions.
And if a person's actions are for Allah
and his messenger, then that's the reward that
he will get, but their actions are for
this dunya, that he earns his dunya, or
for a lady who that he want to
marry,
and his migration, his action is towards that.
That's all he gets.
And this is the first Hadith imam Abu
Dawood says,
the foundation of your religion is
check your action. Check your intentions.
Because you can have a good deed
with a faulty intention, and that will be
corrupted.
If you're doing something good, for for example,
in this example,
this person is migrating, leaving everything behind and
migrating going to another city, but the intention
is corrupted,
the whole action is corrupted.
On the other hand, sometimes,
and this isn't to open the floodgates,
but a person's action might be questionable, but
as long as their intention
is correct, then Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala will
put some level of khair and barqa in
the action.
For example, if a person doesn't know how
to pray properly,
but their intentions
are there,
then it is likely Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
will put some sort of khair in Barqa,
and then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will accept
it to a certain degree.
And this is what Imam Abdul starts off
with, number 1, check your actions. Check your
intentions.
And this goes with anything that we do,
of course, not just in our Ibadad, but
also in our mamlat as well.
Also, in our day to day dealings with
one another, in our going to work or
going to school, check your check your intentions.
Right now, you're applying for so and so
college, check your intentions why you want to
go to that college.
You may even be coming to the masjid,
check your intention why are you coming to
your masjid.
Every action of yours, you spend time with
your children. Check your intention. What is your
intention?
And with the correct intention,
any action
can become
a worship of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
As long as
the most mundane acts of going to sleep,
the most mundane acts of eating, the most
mundane acts of, you know, taking care of
your spouse or your children that becomes an
act of worship when the person's intention is
correct, and this is why
this is the first hadith when it comes
to the foundation of our religion.
Then Imam Abu Dawood said the second
hadith,
he says that,
Islam,
from the beauty of a person's religion,
from the beauty of a person's religion,
is that a person leaves that which doesn't
concern him.
They don't go and put their nose
in other people's business.
The person understands this is the path that
I need to walk.
There are certain matters that do not concern
me.
When I
dive into those matters, sometimes
it's me that becomes
a a means of corruption,
and a lot of time my diving into
this matter actually corrupts me.
So many times you get people that
they look into the hot topic of the
month. Why? Because
people are talking about
it. From
the beauty of Islam, look, it doesn't concern
you. Just leave it. Let people talk.
And what ends up happening is, their diving
into this topic
actually has a negative effect on them.
And that usually happens when a person doesn't
fully understand the subject matter, and the Islamic
perspective, and the wisdom of Allah
behind certain rulings.
So, Imam Abu Dawood says that from the
foundation of our religion is that you keep
yourself to what concerns you.
What concerns you
is your family. What concerns you is your
deen. What concerns you is your spirituality,
your connection to Allah
Your commitment to the society that you live
in. Your commitment to the masjid. Your commitment
to your, to the people that are around
you. This is what concerns you, and that's
what you should stick to.
Then Imam Abu Dawood says,
the 3rd hadith,
and this is a lengthier Hadith.
Halal is clear, and haram is clear.
But in between, there are those matters that
are doubtful that you don't know the full
meaning to, and sometimes Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
does not reveal it onto us as a
mercy
so that matters don't become hard.
And then hadith carries on that whoever falls
into the the behad, the doubtful matters, they
will solely solely
pass it and go into haram. And then
gives an analogy like a shepherd who grazes
his sheep all the way on the boundary,
and sometimes
without his knowledge, the sheep cross over into
the other person's,
property, into haram.
Or
they get so used to living life on
the boundary of sticking to the doubtful matters,
then now haram becomes easy upon them and
sometimes they dive into haram.
And then, rasool Allahu alaihi wa sallam says,
every king has
a restricted area, and the restricted area of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala are those matters that
he has prohibited.
And then finally, Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, so
he talks about halal and haram, but the
last part of the hadith is the main
part. That Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
Allah, beware.
In your body there is a piece of
meat.
When that piece of meat is good,
then the whole body will be good.
When that peace, amid,
is nourished by halal,
is nourished Okay. We're not just talking about,
you know, zabiha, non zabiha. We're not just
talking about pork and non pork or alcohol.
We're just talking about nourishing yourself
with the action that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
has made permissible,
instead of nourishing your body with things that
are that are doubtful or haram.
And when that piece of meat is flawed,
when that piece of meat is corrupt,
the whole body will be corrupt.
And, the prophet finishes off by saying,
verily that is your heart.
You have to maintain your heart. You have
to work on your heart. You have to
understand that this has
a huge
impact
on the foundation of my deen, in my
practicing my deen, in me accepting
that which is halal. And it comes with
a very famous hadith where
says, when a person commits a sin, a
black dot is put upon their heart. And
then a second sin, a second black dot,
until this becomes a cluster of black dots,
and this cluster of black dot be then
becomes a cancer, and this cancer
overcomes a person's heart, and that's why Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in the Quran he says
that their eyes do not become blind, but
it's their hearts
that become blind. In another place Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala says,
that there is a seal on their hearts,
and this seal is from the effects of
our sins, and it is our job
to
to bring it back to life, and fix
our hearts, so that our whole body can
follow suit. And, the final of these 4
hadith,
so if you look at these hadith, the
first one talks about
check your intentions.
The second one talks about mind your own
business.
The third one talks about stick to halal,
stay away from haram,
and work on
your heart. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in
the Quran tells us, on that day
On that day your wealth and your children
will not help you. What you chase after
in the zunya will be of no benefit,
except for that person who comes with a
sound heart,
and with his heart he has nourished his
children. With this heart he has earned halal,
risk.
And the final hadith, Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa
sallam said,
or another narration of this hadith is that
a person's iman is not complete, they're not
a believer.
Until you love for your brother
what you love for yourself.
And this now rounds off
a complete foundation of Islam, where you've checked
your intentions,
you've stuck to that which is halal, you
stay you mind your business, and you love
for others what you love for yourself, you
have the good akhlaq as well. And with
these 4
ingredients, Imam Abu Dawood
is telling us,
now
your deen is complete.
If you can't act upon all the hadith,
hold on to these 4. And I look
at this narration of Imam Abu Dawood
as a cheat code because
that's the world that we live in. How
do I make this task easier? If there
is a YouTube video of how to be
a good Muslim,
this would be the YouTube video of Imam
Dawood saying that, you know, just stick to
these 4 hadith, and that's all you need
to do.
If there's a tutorial of how a Muslim
should be, Imam Dawood Abu Dawood is saying
that this is your tutorial.
To hold on to these 4 hadith and
your foundation
of Islam, the main part of your religion
will be solid, and then after that,
solely solely a person could build on.
We ask that you have mercy upon us.
You have mercy upon our children. You have
mercy upon our friends. You have mercy upon
our parents. You have mercy upon our spouses.
You have mercy upon our community. Oh, Allah,
we ask that you bring our community
together as one. We ask that you give
unity and love and
within our community. Oh, Allah subhanahu wa'ala, make
us a community
that includes everybody,
all the different niches and all the different
types of people within our community. Oh, Allah,
protect us from being a community who excludes
people and makes people feel alone. Oh, Allah
Help us complete our iman and help us
complete our religion. Oh, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Give us the ability to build a strong
foundation of our religion. Oh, Allah. Give us
the ability to be proud about our religion.
Oh, Allah. Give us the ability to act
upon as many hadith of Rasool Allah Subhanahu
Wa Salam. Oh Allah, make us people who
hold on to the Quran. Make us people
who hold on to the Hadith, oh Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. We ask that you forgive
our shortcomings, Oh Allah,
we ask that you overlook our mistakes. Oh
Allah,
we ask that you pardon our sins, oh
Allah,
we ask for the highest place in Jannah.
Oh Allah,
we ask for your pleasure. Oh Allah, be
pleased with us. Oh, Allah, be pleased with
us. Oh, Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, that anybody
that is that is sick, oh, Allah, we
ask that you give them that is complete,
that is quick, that
has. Oh, Allah, if there are any of
our loving mem of our family members that
have passed away, oh, Allah, we ask you
to make their graves from their garden in
their paradise.
Assalamu alaikum
Just a few announcements.
Sister Fatima Farooq, her uncle Fayez has passed
away. Also,
do I have my friend for brother Durahim
who has passed away in California? We ask
that Allah subhanahu wa'ala makes the grave from
the garden of paradise, that Allah subhanahu wa'ala
forgives their sins and Allah subhanahu wa'ala gives
strength and saber to the family members.
Brother Iqbal Voora, his father, Ramiz Voora, is
a lung cancer patient.
May du'a Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala gives him a
quick shifa. Those of you that have fulfilled
your your pledges that were that were given
during the month of Ramadan in our fundraiser,
We would like to thank you. For those
of you that haven't, please do go to
the office and take care of those pledges.
Inshallah, tonight,
at 5:30
we have a kids program,
with sister
Kazimah Wajad.
Again, there'll be a story time at 5:30
today.
There are many
opportunities
for to volunteer out here at the mission.
For example, some, Sunday school,
Safoa,
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if you like to do so, please go
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