Mubeen Kamani – Jumuah October 21 2022
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I apologize for the delay. The khatib that
was supposed to come did not come. So
we have Sheikh Mubin just coming. He's walking,
from the parking lot on his way. So
just give us a minute or 2. Oh,
he's right there. Okay.
We start off by praising Allah, subhanahu wa
ta'ala, the one who is worthy of all
of our praise and our gratitude.
It is Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, who watches
over us even though
we are unaware of him. It is Allah,
subhanahu wa ta'ala, who hears us even though
very rarely do we call onto him. It's
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
who will forgive our sins even though we
very rarely ask for forgiveness.
We then send peace and blessing upon the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
the one that was not only sent as
a mercy to mankind, but as a mercy
to the world,
who taught us
how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us to
not just praise him or worship him,
but also to conduct our day to day
matters with one another's
thereafter.
When a person
looks at their
24 hours a day,
usually, it starts off something
where
the alarm goes off once
and you reach over and hit snooze,
2nd time, 3rd time.
And
you then look at the clock and realize
that I'm late and then it's a moment
of panic and rush
where I'm rushing out of the door kind
of brushing my teeth as I open the
fridge to pull out some orange juice and
have some sort of breakfast, and the next
moment I am out of the door.
And
either I'm taking my kids with me
and rushing them to school.
And then a person then from that point
goes to work, and then the time at
work is just one after another,
this assignment, that assignment, something due, a meeting,
a phone call,
turning in a certain project.
And by the time that they come home,
it's now 4 or 5 o'clock.
And at that point, we take out a
very little amount of time for the people
that are around us.
Maybe a little time with our children, maybe
a little time with our spouse.
But usually, our brains at this point is
somewhat fried.
And then comes dinner, and dinner usually it's
in front of
the TV screen, but sometimes
we'll sit together as a family.
And you realize that the whole day now
begins to wind down,
where it's just a few hours on Netflix
until Netflix has to ask you, are you
still watching or is it done?
And from there, you go immediately to sleep
and this becomes a routine.
Monday is like that. Tuesday is like that.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then you get a
little bit on Saturday and you tell yourself
that it's a weekend and I want to
relax and I want to,
you know, let my hair down.
And the question comes
in this cycle that we all live in
with a little bit of adjustments
of school, of family,
of other commitments.
The question comes where is spirituality
in this occasion, in this equation?
Where is our connection with Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala in this equation?
Because during the weekdays, a lot of time
we have the excuse that sometimes
I'm too busy
for salah.
I have this assignment or this I have
to turn in, and I can't really stop
right now.
And when a person lives a life like
this, usually what ends up happening is
solely solely
they shift away from spirituality
and deen.
You start off close,
but then with everything that's around you, you
slowly, slowly begin to move away.
And when a person shifts away from spirituality
and deen,
religion,
they find themselves in a place where
disobeying Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala slowly slowly becomes
easy.
Now people often ask the question
that
why is it that somebody next to me
prays salah and they
find a deep connection in their salah?
But for me, I don't find that deep
connection.
I mean the prophet salah radiatesalam has told
us that
salah is a coolness of his eyes, but
for me salah really isn't much.
It's a few gestures that I do and
a few chants that I say, but I
don't understand what I'm saying, and I don't
know why I'm bowing down going into sajdah
or putting my hands here or saying certain
things. I have no connection
with my
salah. And if you tie all of this
in what you realize is the lack of
spirituality
as well as the lack of connection whenever
we try to
connect with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala or connect
with our deen leaves a person completely empty.
And that's when missing salah becomes
very easy.
That's when doing anything religious
becomes a burden.
Remembering Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala becomes a burden
and this person slowly slowly
shifts away from their identity
as a Muslim.
But in everybody's life a moment comes where
they have
a eye opening
incident
where they want you to find
some sukoon and peace in their life.
1 of the youth here,
he said to me, Sheikh, that
I had an issue that happened in my
life, and because of that one issue,
I haven't prayed salah in the past
year. He said, in the past year, I
haven't prayed salah at all. Nothing.
Because of the issue that I've had.
But I feel this emptiness right now, and
I need to
be a better Muslim.
And that's what you realize that in everybody's
life a moment comes
where you feel a hunger, where you feel
a void
of spirituality.
But in that moment what ends up happening
is a person then says,
can I actually come back
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala?
Or have I gone too far?
I missed so many salals. I haven't, you
know, read Quran or I haven't done
what I should have as a Muslim.
Can I actually come back to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala and the answer to that is
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in the Quran himself
he says,
The reality is you can lose hope in
yourself?
You can lose hope with the people around
you. You can lose hope in your career.
You can lose hope in your education.
But the hope in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that I will come back to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala
will accept me.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
don't
lose hope in the mercy of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. And this scholar says that this
order right here, where Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
said, do not lose hope in Allah's mercy,
is actually a command making it a
making it prohibited
haram for a Muslim to say, Allah will
not forgive me.
Many times, you know, shaitan plays with our
mind and tells us that, you know, you
Spirituality
is not meant for you.
Spirituality and being close to the deen and
praying salah and coming to the masjid is
for that guy in the masjid who has
a big beard and who wears this long
garment and who covers his head. You know,
spirituality is for that person.
You as a youth here in America or
you as a person that works in corporate
America who has a, you know, a small
store,
spirituality is not meant for a businessman.
And that is shaitan actually playing tricks with
our mind
Because Allah subhanahu wa'ala says,
Don't lose hope in the mercy of Allah
subhanahu
wa'ala. Why?
Allah
subhanahu wa'ala will forgive
all the past.
Why? Because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, this is
what he does.
He forgives.
In one hadith al Qudsiya, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says,
You Ibadi, O my servants.
Remember the 24 hours that we went through?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Throughout the night,
you commit sin.
When you think nobody is watching, when you
think, if I turn the lights off,
if I close the door, if I close
the curtains,
and it's completely dark, maybe nobody can see.
Allah Subhanahu says,
Innaqum Tukhti wannabilayr.
And as the daytime, the sun comes up,
wannaha throughout the day, you go you continue
to commit sin.
Sometimes you commit sin in public, other times
you commit sin in private. Sometimes you commit
sin intentionally, and other times you commit sin
unintentionally.
And in that same hadith, Allah Subhan then
carries on and says,
That's who you are.
Let me tell you who I am.
Your job is to sin.
My job
is to forgive.
As you sin throughout the day, I forgive
through the day, and as you sin throughout
the night, I forgive through the night, but
the only requirement is
you take the first step.
Come to Allah
And this is where
a person has to realize that no matter
what the condition of my life is,
no matter how far I feel
I am from my deen, or, you know,
sometimes we put this
label that I'm a bad Muslim.
But the reality
is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is waiting
for us. In another hadith, the Qudsiya Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us,
oh my servant yamna Adam, oh child of
Adam.
As long as you continue to call on
to me,
as long as you have hope in me,
as long as your hands stay up and
you continue to say, oh Allah, oh Allah,
and you don't associate partners,
I will respond to your call.
He says that you come to me running
a hand span and I will come to
you running I'll come to you in arm
span. You come to me walking and I
will come to you sprinting.
That's how beautiful Allah is. And then Allah
subhanahu wa'anhu says, If you come to me,
loatheitanin
with the earth full of sin,
With the earth full of sin.
I will meet your earth full of sin,
and I will come to you with the
earth full of forgiveness.
This is what Allah subhanahu wa'ala says.
In other hadith, it would say Allah, subhanahu
wa ta'ala says,
He says that if your sins were to
be stacked up,
you commit a sin and it's written on
a piece of paper,
then a second, 3rd, 4th until the full
page is completed.
And then the backside in this page, you
add a second page until it becomes a
book, and this book gets a second, 3rd,
4th volume until it becomes a pile of
books. These are all your sin.
Then this pile solely, solely becomes a mountain
of sin
until
until it reaches the peaks of the skies.
So mastakfatinin,
after that
you turn to me
and after that you ask me for forgiveness.
And we're talking about 40, 50, 60 years
of complete disobedience to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
You know, the reality is,
if I tell my son to do something
once
and he doesn't listen,
as a father, I'll forgive him.
3rd, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th time, but the
6th time I will say, that's enough.
You're clearly
disobeying me.
He'll come to me and say, Abba, I'm
sorry. I'm saying, no. You're not sorry because
you keep doing it over and over.
In this scenario,
Allah subhanahu wa'anhu says, after
60 years of sinning,
after a life full of sin, and now
your sin have reached the peaks of the
skies,
and
you come to me,
He says, I will forgive you.
Not just while I forgive you,
I won't care if there are no hard
feelings. In this dunya, if you do something
wrong to me, I may forgive you, but
in the back of my mind, I will
always remember.
I gotta watch out for this one.
He's hurt me in the past, he can
hurt me again. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
absolutely
not. Your slate is completely
clean.
No matter
what state of your life you are in,
no matter what your sin is.
And this is what this is who Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is. Rubun Rahim,
he is our Lord, the most merciful.
You know, sometimes
we go under that same mind thought that
maybe I have committed such a great sin.
I've done something too bad,
disobeyed my parents, whatever it may be.
This man comes to the prophet
and he says the same thing to Rasulullah
salallahu alaihi wa sallam
that my sin is so great that Allah
will not forgive me. I've done something, one
thing that's really bad and I'm afraid that
Allah subhanahu alaihi
wa sallam, he mentions another hadeesa Qudsi
that on top of the arash of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
You know, you go to a building and
they have a sign and that sign will
tell you what this building is about.
This is a gym, this is a restaurant,
this is a masjid. It would tell you
what happens here in this building.
And on top of the arsh of Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, there's also a sign and
that sign reads,
Inna Rahmati
Sabaqat alaghathabi.
Verily My mercy,
it surpasses
and it goes further
than My anger.
Yes, Allah subhanahu wa'ala shadeel Iqab.
Yes, Allah's one that is jabbar.
Yes, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is kahar.
He can hold you accountable.
But
when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala introduces Himself in
the Quran,
there is no surah that says, Al kahar.
But there is a surah that says, Ar
Rahman.
Khalakal insan.
Even to the enemy of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, enemies like Fir'aun, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
tells Musa 'alayna
speak to him in a gentle soft manner
So
that
Why? So that he can correct himself. And
if he corrects himself,
then
I will accept.
And we
ask ourselves if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
willing to
accept and own after his sins,
then who are who are you and I?
What are our sins compared to that?
Usually, we have this false
image in our mind
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants to hurt
us,
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants to punish
us.
The lost one, Nawzubillah, Nawzubillah,
enjoys
us going through struggles and hardships.
And in one place in the Quran Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says
that
What will Allah subhanahu wa'anahu wa'anahu wa'alamindali?
Bi'adhaabikum
by punishing you.
By punishing you in this dunya
or punish you punishing us in the hereafter.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us to be
successful in this dunya
and he wants us
to be successful in the hereafter.
It's not that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you
know, that we're trying to fill up jahannam,
but Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wants to forgive
us. We'll finish off with another hadith of
Prophet Sallallahu Wa Ta'ala
Wa Ta'ala Wa Ta'ala Wa Ta'ala Wa Ta'ala
mentioned a person on the day of judgment
who
his sins will be presented in front of
him, and it'll be put onto a skill.
And, of course, his sins will outweigh his
good deeds.
And he'll be asked what you have to
say about yourself.
And the person will say, I have nothing.
This is reality. These are my sins. I
have done them.
And in return, Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, would
tell him, go, I have forgiven you.
And the person would ask, why? What did
I do?
And Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, would say, on
so and so night,
when it was a hot night in Texas,
your AC probably wasn't working,
and you were uncomfortable in bed because of
that heat.
You know, sometimes,
like, our back hurts like,
Or you're in sleep and you can't sleep.
Probably probably you're tossing and turning.
He said, because of the heat, you were
tossing and turning, and out of pain, you
said, Allah.
Because of that one Allah that you said,
you turned around
and you went to sleep.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala isla.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not sleep and
slumber does not befall him.
So because of that one
one Allah,
because of that one time you mentioned me
from your heart today, I forgive your sins.
And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam tells
us, this is who Allah is.
Don't
cut yourself short
and say religion isn't for me. That Allah's
mercy isn't for me.
But the reality is Allah's mercy is for
every single one of
us.
O Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, we ask for
your mercy. O Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, we
ask for unity amongst our community. O Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, we ask for your nusrah
and your help. O Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
we ask that you forgive our sins that
we have committed. O Allah, we ask that
you overlook our mistakes. O Allah, you you
pardon our shortcomings.
O Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, we ask that
you forgive the sins that we have done
intentionally and forgive the sin that we have
done unintentionally.
O Allah, forgive the sins that we have
done in private. O Allah, forgive the sins
that we have done open in public. Oh,
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. We come to you
broken. Oh, Allah, we ask that you accept
us. Oh, Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. Overlook everything
that we have done in the past. Oh,
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. Help us with a
new beginning. Oh, Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. Bring
us close to your deen. Oh, Allah, subhanahu
wa'ala. Bring us close to spirituality, oh Allah,
subhanahu wa ta'ala. Give us the ability to
do good deeds that will impact our children
or our community, oh Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We ask for protection from the fire of
jahannum, oh Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. We ask
that you be pleased with us. Oh Allah,
be pleased with us. Oh Allah, be pleased
with us.
Assalaalaiqum brothers and sisters. Just a couple of
announcements.
Tomorrow we have our VIPs of Islam, mercy
of mankind with sheikh kubeen after a mugger
prayer.
Dinner will be served. So inshallah, we'll see
you there. RSVP is on the flyer on
the in the lobby or on the website.
On Sunday, we have United Against Domestic Violence,
a holistic approach on again, that's on Sunday
at 2:30 in the upstairs prayer hall.
And