Mubeen Kamani – Importance of knowledge
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Hi, all alfella.
Alhamdulillah.
We start out by praising Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, the one who is worthy of all
our praise and our gratitude. It is Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
who is
aware of all the things that are in
between the earth and the skies. It's Allah
that nothing escapes his knowledge.
It's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who is capable
of everything. It's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who
holds the keys to the treasures
of the world.
With then some peace and blessing upon the
prophet,
the one that was sent as a mercy
to mankind
and an example for us of how Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us to live our
lives.
We then send peace and blessing upon the
companions of Rasoolallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
his family members, those who helped him and
aided him, Ahmed,
thereafter.
We come to a unique time of the
year where
within the next week,
life for many of the people around us
will change,
And
this is because our children are now going
back to school.
In the past couple of months,
we stepped out of our schedule.
Usually, we have a set schedule. This is
when you sleep. This is when you wake
up. This is what you do during the
day. You go to school. You run errands.
But over the past couple of months,
we have stepped out of schedule.
And now that things are
going to go back to somewhat normal.
It's important to
understand
that when the schedule comes back to the
way it's supposed to be, there has to
be some sort of changes.
If you go back to last year's schedule
and this year,
the school year of 2023
2024
is the exact same of the previous year,
then all you're doing is rinsing and repeating,
and there's no change.
There's no improvement.
And that is not called a life. You
can't do the same thing over and over
70 times and call it a life. That's
not how it works. There has to be
some sort of change, some sort of improvement.
And now when it comes time to the
new school year,
the improvement that's needed is the understanding of
the value of knowledge, the importance of knowledge.
And this knowledge can be of any type,
whether it's our children that are going to
school for them to understand
that the knowledge you will get, whether it's
English, science, mathematics, soul studies,
any of it,
it brings a value to your life.
But on top of that, if you can
add Islamic knowledge, then that is even more
important.
Why? Because Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam hadith, it says,
The way
that ours 5 times salah is mandatory.
We have to do it.
The way that fasting in the month of
Ramadan, the way that zakat, the way that
hajj, the way they're taking shahada, all of
these things are mandatory. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam says
that learning knowledge
and the important part to understand here that
this is not just for our children.
Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did not say
that learning knowledge is mandatory for your children,
but he left it general that learning knowledge
is mandatory.
The Arabic saying
is Some people associate
some people
associate with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
but it's not a hadith. But the saying
is that seek knowledge
from your cradle
to your grave.
We think that the prime age of seeking
knowledge is 20, 20 5, 30. After that,
there is no seeking knowledge.
If somebody is in college
if somebody is in college after this or
somebody is taking classes after this, we look
at this person and say, what's wrong with
you?
Your day of studying are over.
But you look at the companion of rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam, and what you will
see is the companion of the prophet salallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
they made a sacrifice
for knowledge
no matter what their age was.
And that's the key word.
Knowledge requires
sacrifice.
If you think
if I think
that knowledge will come to me without any
sacrifice,
that it should be as easy as ordering
food off of Uber Eats, you're wrong.
There is no Uber knowledge.
We don't DoorDash knowledge to you.
That's information. You can get information online.
It's different. There's difference between knowledge and information.
Knowledge, you have to make a sacrifice. Knowledge,
you have to go out of your schedule.
Knowledge, you have to stop everything that you're
doing and bring your kids to gain knowledge.
And the difference between knowledge and information is
knowledge is something that gives you benefit.
Knowledge of the Quran,
knowledge of
Islam, the Hadith, what the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam is is saying. And
our masjid, ICF,
we're at a point where now all of
the,
you know, educational programs are about to start.
Quran Academy is gonna start. The HIFT program
is gonna start. We have Safwa. We have
Uswa. We have Sunday school. So many rare
learning program, so many different educational program that
the masjid has, but the sad thing is
many of us are actually unaware of it.
But imagine how sad it is that even
though the masjid has a program, we don't
utilize that program.
So many different places. If they had a
small program like this,
we
have maybe 10 different education programs.
Without any exaggeration,
ICF has around 10 different educational programs running
through the school year.
And for a masjid that's not in, like,
Dallas,
a single one of those programs will be
so greatly appreciated.
And now if we say, wait, sheikh, we
appreciate the program,
You have to back up those words with
actions.
Ask yourself, how many of these programs do
I attend or do my children attend?
So many times we look for comfort.
And comfort in other things
is okay.
But when you show comfort in things when
it comes to religion,
that's the message that you're sending your children.
If I tell my child that, Berta,
it's gonna be hard for me to take
you from home to Masjid and take time
out, and because of this, what I'm gonna
do is I'm gonna put you in front
of a computer for my comfort,
and you're gonna learn with somebody overseas
that through a screen and you ask yourself,
if you were to take an online program,
how effective is it?
If I were to as an adult, if
I were to take an online program versus
in person, which one is more effective?
And the answer is, of course, in person.
And now you take that and you put
that to a 10 year old
who has an attention span,
you know, a very minimal attention span.
And you ask yourself
then you ask yourself the question, why isn't
my child learning Quran
online?
The message that we've sent to our children
is that there is no importance here. Comfort
comes before
knowledge.
Whereas the salallahu alaihi wa sallam 1 hadith,
he points out
he says whoever sets out on the path
man salakah. Whoever sets out on the path
that look, this journey of knowledge will not
be easy. It'll be difficult.
Some people take their children and drop their
children off in a foreign country. Why? So
that they can gain knowledge.
And when hadith
says, the best amongst you,
is a person who has knowledge of the
Quran. In the Quran, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says,
Is it possible? A rhetorical question.
Allah
is asking, is it possible that these two
people can be the same?
A person that has knowledge versus a person
that doesn't have knowledge. He's saying,
absolutely not.
There are 2 different levels.
And we're number 1, we it's important to
make this intention that this is what I
want for my child.
I want my child to get their knowledge
from not behind a screen,
but from heart to heart,
where they understand
what it is coming to a class, where
they make a connection to a teacher.
Start them off with Quran. Start them off
with Qaeda. Start them off with basic information.
The Sunday school, actually the safwa. And then
for ourselves as adults,
it's important that we stay hungry for knowledge.
Rasoolallah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in one hadith,
he says, manhoomani
lahayasbahal.
He
says, there are 2 hungry people
that there's nothing that sashates them.
They will never be full. 2 people
that will
always be hungry.
And he says,
Number 1,
when a person gets a true hunger for
knowledge,
this person can never have enough.
Once you understand what knowledge is, you just
want to learn more and more and more.
So many times people think that, oh, I
already know this.
Allah
in the Quran says, upon everybody that's knowledgeable,
there's somebody that has even more knowledge.
But knowledge comes with a responsibility.
And that responsibility
is,
number 1, to act upon them.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the Quran
no.
A lot of times we think that if
I make my child hafiz,
I've
secured their jannah.
Or if I give my child
information
or knowledge or if I bring them parents
come and say that my child was in
Sunday school.
How come they're doing this?
My child was in the Quran program. How
could they do this?
The reality is knowledge
is not your certificate to Jannah.
It's the tools that you need to get
to Jannah.
Then it's up to you.
You have all the
tools. You have everything that you need,
but imagine that person
who takes these tools away from their child.
Imagine
buying
a bed from Ikea,
taking the instructions, and telling your child, go
make that bed.
It's not gonna happen.
It's already hard enough
to make that for an adult.
It's already hard enough for an adult like
you and I to earn a place in
Jannah. It's not easy in this world. It's
difficult. Then how do you expect to send
your child out without the right tools, without
the right knowledge?
Where they're going to college, they're going to
high school, and they're being challenged about their
deen, tell us what makes Islam
the right deen.
But they don't have the tools to answer
that question.
Why don't they have that why why don't
they have the tools?
Because I never made it a point to
give my children
the correct knowledge that they need. I thought
to myself, if I bring my child to
Sunday school,
I've done my
part. That's it.
I'm gonna pick my child up outside.
At 2 o'clock, when
is happening, I'm gonna tell my child to
come outside
so that we can get home quickly,
but that's me doing my responsibility for the
full week.
The child gets into the car, and you
ask them, Berta because you want to be
a parent that
engages your child, you ask your child that,
Berta, what did you learn?
And the child says, I learned the importance
of salah.
Can we go inside and pray?
It's salah time. I just learned the importance
of salah, and you're asking me to come
outside.
So what we understand
is,
number 1,
is that giving your children the knowledge
is investing in your children in a long
term.
Because one day, they'll be they'll be able
to act upon the knowledge. Allah, subhanahu, in
the in the Quran, he says
that the example of a person who has
knowledge but doesn't act upon it,
kamathalilhimariyahmilu
asfarah.
Allah subhanahu wa'ala says, imagine that there is
a donkey, himar,
and on its back is
as far as are these huge
books.
You have the Quran, you have
Bukhari,
Muslim, Nasai, whatever,
an encyclopedia.
But does that animal benefit from it?
No.
Until you don't
act upon that knowledge.
Until you and I don't act upon that
knowledge.
Now, one point I wanna make, a lot
of times people
we, not people, but we make this excuse.
We often say,
but I don't really have time.
I work.
I own a business.
I spend time with my children.
I go to the gym.
I have to be at my work 9
to 5, whatever it is.
I don't have time to, you know, attend
the halakas. I don't have time to take
a class.
And what comes to my mind
is
the example of
He narrates a hadith and he says that,
me and my
unsari brother,
me and my unsari brother,
we had this deal.
And the deal was
one day he would go and learn from
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and at night I would
take the information from him. He would share
what he learned.
And the next day
I took time off of work,
and I went and learned with the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And then at night, I shared with him.
Abu Hurirahu alaihi wa sallam.
People ask Abu Hurirahu
you lived a very short period of time
with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. How
is it that you've narrated the most Hadith?
And Abu Huria's uzan says that, my Ansari
brothers, they were busy in the farms,
My Muhajid brothers, they were busy
in the market.
There were those people that had businesses, they
had restaurants, they had, you know,
clothing stores, and there are those people that
that were laborers, they worked. But he said,
I
I understood that this part right here is
where I need to maximize and just learn
as much as knowledge as I can.
And, he said, I didn't work in the
farms. I didn't work in the market. I
dedicated my time to prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
I mentioned this all the time that every
time that you see
a Sheikh or somebody up here,
every time you see somebody on this and
you in your heart, you feel
this gosh, only if I wish,
Which is fine.
In one hadith Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam says that you are actually allowed
to have hasad
on 2 people, to feel envious of 2
different people. He said number 1, the person
that you're allowed to feel envious of is
a person who Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has
gifted with wealth and then that person spends
it in the right path.
They donate.
They give.
They share.
And the second person is a person who
Allah
blesses with knowledge.
That you are allowed to be envious of
this person. So every time you see a
person on that, every time you see a
person standing on this member, and you feel,
I wish, gosh,
my child was there.
What if my Ahmed was there?
What if my Aisha was the one that
was giving the khatra?
Understand
that gosh, that wish,
it requires
dedication.
Dedication
along with intention that you as a parent
have to make.
And that intention has to be followed. So
number 1, your child has to be dedicated.
Number 2, you have to have the intention.
Number 3, you have to lead by example.
When you show this hunger
for knowledge,
then your child will have the hunger for
knowledge.
And you open the path, and then you
give them the option.
Allah in the Quran, very beautiful, once again
says,
that Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala took us out
of our the wounds of our mothers.
You didn't know anything.
When Allah took you out the wound of
your mother, you didn't know anything, but today
Allah has given you knowledge
of the dunya.
Pair that with a knowledge which is even
more important
of the.
This deen talks about learning good in this
dunya and learning good in the hereafter.
Where the prophet says,
Oh, Allah
I seek protection from knowledge
that is of no benefit.
And the reason why I shared this because
when I was a child,
the reality is that my children versus when
I was a child, my children are much
more smarter
than I am.
If you're a parent, you agree.
You give a 5 year old a tablet
and they know exactly what to do.
They pick up knowledge.
They learn. They adapt more than what we
did.
Now the reality is either they fill that
hunger, that void
with knowledge of which which is an information
that has no benefit.
Child comes and says to me
that, Sheikh, let me tell you the stats
of Don Luka Donacic.
How many rings LeBron James has won?
How is that gonna benefit? Alhamdulillah.
May Allah give them more but that doesn't
benefit.
And so either your child learns knowledge
about Pokemon,
about
Minecraft, and God knows what,
or you give them knowledge that will actually
improve the quality of their life.
And this is actually an investment in yourself.
Because the very famous hadith where the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says when a person
dies, you and I are not here to
stay.
The next generation will take our place.
But the prophet says when a person dies,
their book of deeds is closed
except for
a few different ways.
Number 1,
knowledge that
is passed on.
Number 2,
security that you give
that
people benefit from. And then the prophet says,
a child
that will make du'a for you after you're
gone.
So you learn something, you teach your child
that your child passes on, and then when
you better the quality of your child's life,
when tomorrow
your child inshallah
is firm in their deen.
They will go outside, they will go to
work in a non Muslim environment, and as
a Muslim, they're proud.
I know my deen is true. I'm fine.
I believe in the Quran and not just
because, you know, that's what I was taught
by. I understand the Quran. I understand the
Hadith. I understand the value that my religion
gives to me.
Your child will raise their hand and make
du'a for you. That my Abba
chose the right path for me.
Those classes that my mother used to take
me,
she had food on the stove but she
left the house and brought me to the
masjid. I appreciate that.
The sacrifice that my dad used to make
when he brought me to the halakas,
the sacrifice that my parents made taking me
to classes,
I appreciate that and they made dua for
you after you're gone.
So the importance of knowledge
again, this topic is very broad,
and how it affects our society,
and how it affects our children.
But we come to a part of the
year where
things are about to go
back to
normal, back to schedule.
So this is where you choose,
do I actually bring a difference?
Add in some Quran classes for your children.
Add in, you know,
for yourself.
Adult classes.
If your child are not in the Sunday
school, enroll them in the Sunday school. The
masjid offers this.
If you don't utilize it,
then
what's the benefit?
Oh, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. We ask for
your infinite mercy. Oh, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
We ask that you give us knowledge that
is a benefit. Oh, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
We ask that you make us people
who take the path of knowledge ourselves,
that we become good role models for our
children and give them knowledge. Oh, Allah
We ask for knowledge of the Quran. We
ask for knowledge of hadith. We ask for
knowledge
of this dunya and of the hereafter. Oh,
Allah, give us knowledge of this deen. Oh,
Allah, give us knowledge of this dunya as
well. Oh, Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, we ask
that you put our children in the best
of schools, in the best of colleges, in
the best of environments.
Oh, Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, we ask that
if there's anybody in our gathering
that is going through any type of difficulty,
that you remove those difficulties from their path.
Oh, Allah, those of us who are struggling
within our families, oh, Allah, we ask you
give us peace within our families. Oh, Allah.
Those of us who are struggling financially, oh,
Allah, we ask that you give us ease.
Oh, Allah. Those of us who are struggling
with our health, we ask that you give
us a cure. Oh, Allah. Those of us
who have lost a loved one. Oh, allah,
this past week,
lost his father. Oh, allah, we ask that
you give them peace in their heart. Oh,
allah, we ask that you fill the deceased's
grave with with and light. Oh, allah
We ask that you be pleased with us.
Oh Allah be pleased with us. Oh Allah
be pleased with us.
There's a few Duwah requests.
The mother of brother Anurag Khan,
had a surgery yesterday and has not woken
up yet.
Also, brother Sayed,
Aluudin Ahmad Laiq.
He's in the ICU. Brother Mohammed
Najib, he's in the hospital.
We ask Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, give them
a quick a quick complete shefa.
Duay mafarod for number 1, of course, to
follow Sheikh Dunas Jangda. Also, for Sayed Diwar
Hussain Qadri,
brother Andaz, Raza, Sifat Ibrahim, all of them
have passed away. Ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
give their family patience and strength during their
hard time. Allah forgives their sins. Also, inshallah,
later on today after as as salah, we
have a,
back to school program for younger kids. You
can find the details outside. It's a anti
bullying program,
which we were talking to our children,
about how to deal with bullying at school.
After Madhub, there is
a middle school program
as well, a trivia program. So, if you
have children in the middle school, you wanna
bring them after If you have children in
elementary, I'll tell you, you're gonna bring them
after Assar.
Just like a little hair shake. Just a
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