Mubeen Kamani – Jumuah August 18 2023
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Allah
We start off by praising Allah,
the one who is worthy of all of
our praise and our gratitude is Allah,
who puts love for one another in our
hearts. It is Allah,
who guides us to people that are beneficial
to us is Allah who
is
the most loving.
We send peace and blessing upon the prophet
the one that was not just sent to
teach us how to worship Allah, but also
how to
interact and live with one another.
We send peace and blessing upon the companions
of
and his family members,
ummaabad
thereafter.
In Islam, there is a concept called hasid,
And hasad,
which can be translated as
jealousy or
even to a certain degree, envy, but there's
a difference,
is when you see something
and it doesn't have to be something materialistic,
some have something tangible, but it could be
even a quality,
even emotion that somebody else has.
And
you don't want them to have it,
and you want
it for yourself.
So, basically, you hate that they have it,
and you love that it will be taken
away from them.
This in in Islam is called hasr Jalif.
On the other hand,
there is a quality called a gibta, and
a gibta
is like hasad, but where hasad is impermissible,
you're not allowed. It's a disease
that the heart
gets overtaken by.
And it's a disease that there is no
end to it. Today, I'm jealous of
you. Tomorrow, I'm jealous of someone else and
then someone else.
I don't want you to have that car,
but then I don't want him to have
the next car. And then I don't want
them to be happy in their marriage.
I don't when I see
you
being happy and good to your children, I
don't want that because I don't I don't
have that. And
this disease
jumps from person to person to person.
Whereas, lip up
is that you
see something that you like,
that someone else possesses.
You want that, and you want them to
have it as well.
And this in Islam
is okay. It's good.
So you love that they have it, and
you love that
you get some as well.
In one hadith, and this is a very
beautiful hadith,
Rasool
Allah salahu alayhi wa sallam says on the
day of judgment,
the Anbiya and
the martyrs
and the martyrs
will have this type
of jail envy,
to a certain group of people.
Now this makes you think,
who could this be?
That Ambiyari muslato a salam want what this
group of people have.
What quality is it?
What characteristic
is it? What
emotion is
it? And Rasulullah
SAWHAN he says so the prophet says this
to the companions and the companions ask Rasulullah
SAWHAN, yeah Rasulullah, who are these people?
And Rasool Allah salallahu alaihi wa sallam says,
these are people that love each other for
the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And they have no other interests.
There's no other relationship.
I love you. Why? Because you're my cousin.
Not just that. But this person loves somebody
solely for the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
Then Rasool Allah Subhanahu Wa Salam says, not
because one gives property to somebody else.
I love you. Why? Because
I can get a job
off of in your business.
Or you pay me, or you give to
me, or you're generous to me, or you're
kind to me. Rasool Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
he says, it's not that. He says, I
swear by Allah,
on the day of judgment,
their faces
will be glowing, and they'll be put in
a high
rank.
And they will have no fear on the
day that other people will be drowning in
fear.
And then, rasulullah, a sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he read the verses,
Be mindful that the friends of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and if you link these 2,
this hadith and the verse that the prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam read immediately,
it tells you that
this quality
gives you friendship with Allah
Why? Because
the hadith and the verse
mentions,
These people will not have fear, and they
will not have any grief.
Looking at this hadith,
it makes you think that
loving somebody for the sake of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, we're gonna talk about how to
do that.
It makes you think that this quality that
you don't have to come to the masjid.
This quality you don't have to have a
beard.
You don't have to wear a thobe.
This quality you don't need to
study Islam.
You don't have to be a hafid of
the Quran. But this is a quality that
every single person
in this room
can have.
And that is that when you love somebody,
you ask yourself the question, why do I
love this person?
You know, a couple of nights ago we
talked about the hadith after Isha Salah. That
Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam says,
our religion is about sincerity.
And you ask yourself that in my relationship,
in my sincere
is my love for the sake of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Here, what Rasool Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala subhanahu
wa
ta'ala subhanahu wa ta'ala subhanahu
wa
ta'ala
will be the peep from them will be
a person,
There are 2 people that get together, and
the reason why you and I meet and
we smile is just I don't want anything
from you, and you don't want anything from
me. But
it's a love of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
that brings us together.
When I shake your hand and you will
give me a hug,
when you ask me how my day is,
there is nothing else. There's no alternative motive
there.
It's just to please Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And Rasool Allah SWAMI tells us that if
you can build this quality within you
then all of your relationships, you're not expecting
something
back from the other person.
Another hadith, Rasoolallah salallahu alaihi wa sallam says
that a person
who
frees themselves from the dunya, Allah
will love that person.
And then the prophet said, If you free
yourself from what other people possess
then people
will turn around and love you.
So in your relationship, we see that
you have a clear cut intention.
And another hadith, Ramesh, salallahu alayhi wa sallam
tells us that on the day of judgment,
Allah
will call out to people and he will
say,
We're the people that loved each other
for my sake.
So this announcement we made.
Imagine right now there's a huge gathering right
here,
and
the imam or the khateeb or just say,
hey, where are the people
that were here with fajr? Please stand up.
You get y'all are special.
Like
that, Allah subhanahu wa'ala would say,
You're that person
that you used to smile at? That person
that you wanted nothing from? That person that
you cared about them? Why? Because
Allah subhanahu wa'ala told you to.
It was as simple as a As salamu
alaykum.
It was as simple
as how is your day going?
It was as simple as
you're going through a problem. Let me help
you out. Let me give you some guidance.
And because of that, Allah subhanahu wa'anhu in
the gathering
of millions of people
will call out and say come.
Come forward.
And the hadith says they will be placed
upon members of light,
pulpits like this of
light. In other Hadith
says that there are three qualities.
If you have these three qualities then you
will taste
the sweetness
of iman.
The sweetness of iman,
not everybody tastes.
And what is the sweetness of iman? It's
where
faith becomes beautiful to you.
Religion
begins to solve your problems.
Your deen
becomes a solution.
You're happy and content with your deen.
Previously, we said that
many times we send our our children off
to
high school, college, universities
and their iman is shaky.
Why? Because we haven't given them the tools,
the understanding,
the knowledge
to put up against
all the challenges that are being thrown at
them.
And this is where you have to understand
when a person tastes the sweetness of iman,
then
no problem
or no debate or no challenge or no
whisper of shaitan can change that person. Then
Rasool Allah, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, says these
three qualities are, number 1, that you love
Allah and you love his messenger more than
anyone else.
Number 2,
that you love people
for the sake of Allah
And number 3, Rasulullah
says that you hate that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala sends you back to darkness
after he has brought you to light.
That after Allah has given you hidayah
and showed you the path that you go
back to
your old ways.
And, rasoolallah, if you can have these three
qualities,
that you love Allah and his messenger,
that your relationships are just for the sake
of Allah
and that you love and cherish cherish iman,
then that's where your sweetness of iman you
taste the sweetness of iman.
Now the question comes,
how do we love or how do we
build this quality within ourselves?
Before we get to that, one important part
is that why why this subject now?
And the answer to that is that many
of us
are now going back to regular schedule.
Going back to
school. Right now, you may be here. Why?
Because your parent
brought you from high school for Jamukhba.
You're going to college. You're going to university.
And you will now build new relationships.
Your 1st year in college, your 1st year
in high school, you're a freshman.
You will now build new relationship. You're starting
a new job. This time of the year
is peep when people start new things.
And we ask ourselves,
in the new relationships that we are about
to build and the new relationships that we're
about to make,
what is the driving purpose behind it?
If it's Allah and his messenger,
then, alhamdulillah, we're on the straight path.
But now the question comes, like we said
before, how do you build this quality?
To love somebody for the sake of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, number 1 is to, of
course, be patient with them.
That when they are
going towards good,
you hold them and support them.
Many times what happens is when a person
is going towards good,
we
hold them back.
Person says that I've enrolled my kids into
this program at the masjid, and you say,
why?
You know, enroll them in Kumon.
Get your son a job somewhere.
Don't take him to the masjid. This happens.
And when that person
is taking the wrong path,
that you are the the guide for them
to bring them back.
Hey. I haven't seen you at the masjid
for a while.
Is there a reason?
Is there a problem?
How can I help you?
To love somebody for the sake of a
lost one and to be patient with them
is to make excuses
for them.
A lot of time we make excuses
to people but then this concept of husnidhan
is that you make excuses for somebody not
to somebody.
A person is late to a meeting and
you think of a hundred reasons why they
just might be late.
Maybe it's this issue. Maybe it's that issue.
And when you run out of excuses,
then Islam Chiyush put the blame on yourself.
That maybe I don't understand
what's going on in that person's life.
Maybe it's tied down with family. Maybe tied
down with work or school.
The reality is that we make a 100
excuses for ourselves.
I feel like
when I go home, I always have a
few excuses ready.
My wife asking me, why are you late?
And I have a list.
I can say, car broke down. I can
say, somebody came to me after salah. I
can say this and that, phone call. I
have a bunch of excuses ready as a
married man for 20 years. Alhamdulillah.
I am an expert at that.
But
here we say, instead of making excuses for
yourself,
to have love for the sake of the
lost, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and to be patient
with people is that we learn to take
that and make excuses for somebody else. And
this is something that I myself have to
work on.
Instead of giving excuses to my wife, I
actually make excuses for her.
Today, you don't feel like cooking?
Maybe you had a rough day with the
kids.
Maybe you're not feeling well.
And this is where our mundane relationships that
we are tied down with,
no matter what, actually become
beautiful.
It becomes a part of our deen.
So many times we hear the hadith that
your
your marriage, your niqah,
your relationship with your spouse is half of
your deen. How is it half of my
deen?
Because
you get a chance to implement what you
learn here at the masjid
and with
what's in your marriage.
Rasool Allah radiwasalam teaches us to be patient
with somebody else is to make sure
that you keep a good heart and clean
heart towards them.
You've wronged me, but today I forgive you.
And this is from the sunnah of the
Rasulullah He
says that the prophet
came to him and said that, oh, son,
if it's if you're capable, if you can,
then at night when you go to sleep
check your heart and if there's any hatred
or ill feeling towards somebody,
forgive them.
Rasoolallah as salallahu alayhi wasallam teaches us
that to love somebody for the sake of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, this also includes
that you be reliable
when they're in at the time of their
needs.
So many times you call people up and
say, I'm going through an issue
and their come through rate
their come through rate, if they're gonna be
there for you,
is
shaky.
But you ask yourself that question of how
what is my come through rate?
Whenever somebody calls me and says I'm having
a
problem,
do I stop what I'm doing?
And do I put people before my own
needs?
And Rabi
says, the believers
in mutual friendship and mercy and affection are
like
That when your brother has a trouble that
they're going through, you feel that pain.
You know, Yaheb ibn Muad,
he defines loving someone for the sake of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in a very beautiful
way. And he says, says, to love somebody
for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
it means that your love does not increase
when somebody is good towards you.
Whenever you come and visit me, whenever you
come and say salaam to me, whenever you
give me a gift, whenever
you say something nice to me, you compliment
me that my love for you goes up.
Yahya Bimaa says, that's not love for Allah
And on the other hand, whenever somebody is
difficult with you,
your love shouldn't go down
because these are qualities
that show you that it's personal.
Our love
is a personal relationship.
But when a person takes it beyond a
personal relationship and ties that relationship with Allah
that's
what
we're talking about.
Another hadith, Rasool Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells
us that when you love somebody,
tell them.
Anas ibn Malik Raguardan, he narrates a hadith.
Then Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam came to
the man came to the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam and he said, You Rasulullah, I
love so and so person.
And Rasulullah
asked him, Have you told him?
Affirm the love through words.
And this may seem very, you know,
minor.
But Islam teaches us when you love somebody,
express it. As a father, I fall
I fall weak here.
Because the only times that I tell my
children that I love them is then when
they're with their friends to embarrass them.
When my children are with their friends, I'll
go, Beta, I love you. And all their
friends look at him.
But you ask yourself,
how often do I express and parents,
we love our children,
but
we show our love in different ways. And
here, Rasulullah, SAW, wasalam, is telling this person
that go and tell him. Have you told
him? And the person said no. Rasulullah
said go and tell him. This person caught
up and said to him said to him
that I love you for the sake of
Allah
and Rasulullah salallahu alaihi wa sallam said
that may you be with the people that
you love.
Another narration,
a man comes to the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam and he says that when is
the day of judgment? And Rasulullah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam asked him, what have you prepared
for it?
And Nabi And and the guy says that,
nothing much. Just my fa'aas.
Nabi salallahu alaihi wa sallam tells him, al
marumaamanahhabba.
He says, but I love Allah and I
love his messenger. I only have my fa'ais,
I only have the things that I have
to do, but I love Allah and I
love his Messenger. And Nabi salallahu alayhi wa
sallam says, almarumaman
haba the people that you love, in the
day of judgment you'll be with them.
And this makes us understand that
who are we choosing
the relationships that we are making at this
time of the year? For the kids that,
once again, they're going to high school, the
kids that are going to college, when you
make these relationships,
filter out the people
that you bring into your life.
Any other aspect of my life, I always
filter out what's coming in. When I even
buy a phone,
I go online and read reviews.
When I buy a car, when I buy
clothes, I filter out
what I take in.
And the question comes up, why is it
that I'm not filtering out
the people that I'm letting in?
But
all of this, of course,
is double sided.
Double sided meaning that when you want good
people into your life, you have to ask
yourself, am I that good person in somebody
else's life?
When I want my friends to be sincere
to us, when I want my relationship, people
who love me for the sake
of Allah you ask yourself that, is this
what I'm giving back?
We'll finish off with hadith word, Allah says
that there are 4 qualities in a person
that shows you that they are a true
friend, that you love them for the sake
of Allah says, number 1, when you see
this person, they remind you of Allah.
Just by looking at the person,
just by being in their company,
your heart immediately goes to Allah
When you sit with them, does your iman
increase?
When you see them, they remind you of
Allah. When you sit with them, does your
iman, your faith
increase?
And when they speak to you,
does your knowledge increase?
And when you see their actions, do you
remember the akhra?
Akhirah? Imam Ahmed Alhambra says
that it's not that you love this person
for any worldly sake, any worldly benefit.
When you seek
when you love somebody for benefit in the
hereafter,
that is love for the sake of loss.
I'm about
Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi says that a Muslim has
6 rights.
A Muslim has 6 rights
upon another Muslim.
And your love for Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
is that you fulfill the rights
that Islam has put upon put upon you.
Right. Number 1 is that when you meet
your brother,
you start off with salah.
Number 2, if this person invites you, you
accept their invitation.
Number 3,
if they ask you for advice, you give
them advice and you're sincere
in that advice.
Number 4,
whenever they sneeze, you say, Alhamdulillah,
you invoke Allah's mercy upon them.
Number 5, when they're ill,
you visit them.
And number 6, when they pass away, you
attend their funeral.
These are the rights Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
puts on
every Muslim
to their Muslim brother.
And just by starting off with these,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala begins to build that
love within our hearts for one another. Allah,
subhanahu, in the Quran ordering us, he tells
us,
Oh, Allah,
we ask for him to have mercy. Oh,
Allah, we ask you to have mercy upon
our community. Oh Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, wherever
there is a Muslim that's going through any
type of trouble, we ask that you remove
those difficulties from their path, oh Allah,
wherever their Muslims are struggling financially, we ask
that you give them relief, oh Allah. Wherever
there is a Muslim struggling in their health,
we ask that you give them. Oh, Allah,
those of us who have lost a loved
one, we ask that you make our their
grave from the garden of paradise. Oh, Allah,
we ask that you make matters easy for
us. Oh, Allah,
We ask that you not test us. Oh,
Allah,
we ask that you help us in guiding
our children to the right path.
Oh, we ask for good people in our
life. Oh, we ask that you make us
good to be in other people's life. Oh,
we ask that you give us the ability
to fulfill our relationships
as they should be. Oh,
we ask that you forgive our sins, our
major sins and our minor sins. Oh, Allah,
forgive the sins that we have done openly
and forgive the sins that we have done
privately. Forgive the sin sins that we have
done intentionally and forgive the sins that we
have done unintentionally.
Oh, Allah,
we seek protection in the fire of jannah.
Oh, Allah,
we ask for jannah in the actions that
bring us closer to jannah. Oh, Allah, if
there's anybody in this gathering that has a
desire that's hidden within their hearts, oh, Allah,
you are the one that knows what we
hide. Oh, Allah, we ask that you grant
them that desire. Oh, Allah, subhanallah, we ask
that you accept our duas. Oh, Allah, be
pleased with us. Oh, Allah, be pleased with
us.
After the salah, I,
have a request for everybody. Please stay seated.
Inshallah, I would just take 5 minutes after
the khutbah. So, Inshallah,
after the khutbah, please remain after the salah,
please remain remain seated for 5 minutes and,
there's a important announcement.
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So I wanna come to you. I just
as announced,
if you guys can just give me a
few minutes
of your time. Those of you that were
here during Ramadan,
if you remember, we had the tent outside.
And,
because, alhamdulillah, the community is growing, we had
to make special accommodations. So before I move
any forward, I'm not asking for donations.
But
I am asking.
Last week, our contractor came to us for
the expansion and said that if the merchant
can put together
$2,000,000
within the next week,
They will have the Masjid
first floor of the expansion up and running,
by Rumhan.
So, again, I'm not asking for donations.
But what I am asking for is we
understand that this is a large sum of
money, $2,000,000.
Alhamdulillah,
over the first salah, we had people
505 people
send them and say that they can give
a $100 $100,000
as a kalos,
as a as a loan.
When we have our,
fundraiser,
the Masjid plans to pay back everybody
that they borrow money from. So what we're
asking for is that we're asking for a
loan, a It will be documented. It will
be put in writing by the lawyers. So,
you shall have, you know, you won't have
to worry about that.
But if you have somebody that's lying about,
that you put to aside for a rainy
day fund, that maybe you even invested somewhere.
If you can part ways with it for
a period of 6 months
for a period of 6 months, that will
inshallah
open our doors open our doors. To be
honest, I actually forgot what the front doors
of our masjid look like.
My son, Mohammed, has no idea what the
front door of the masjid looks like because
he's always come through that door.
And it's about time that, inshallah, we open
our doors to our masjid,
that we don't have to pray in a
tent. We have the space here.
But what this will need is again, if
you can give donate, alhamdulillah.
But we understand it's a big amount,
and we don't wanna burden anybody with that
amount.
Inshallah, if you can part ways with $100,000,
please meet me. I'll take your information.
If $100,000
is too much, but you can part ways
with a good amount,
which inshallah, you will get back.
We'll be sure of that. Please meet me.
I'll be outside and I'll be in the
imam's office. Take down your information, and we'll
have the brothers contact you. Again, our goal
is to open our masjid our masjid.
Trust me, it's very awkward asking people for
money.
But but you can tell us for the
sake of our masjid, for our community, for
our children to to benefit from, and the
money will come back to you. So please,
do consider to, give the masjid alone. There
are some announcements there are some announcements.
Brother Sayed Min Hajj Rizmi and brother Assalullah,
are both sick.
We ask the mother of
and the brother of Ahmed Abdul Khan have
passed away. We ask the mother of make
their grave and garden paradise. And so later
on today after there
will be a seminar of on Islamic financing
here at the masjid. Tomorrow, after Maghrib, there
is a youth program.
The journey of Rasulullah, alaihi wa sallam, Makkah
to Madinah. There will be a kahoot and
some food served. That will be tomorrow. Open
to all youth, but open to the community.
If you would like to come in, you
know, take part inshallah, you can come down
tomorrow after Maghrib. The seminar for Islam Finance
will be today. And please, if you have
the money that you can part ways with
it, do consider me me, and just give
me the money alone.