Mubeen Kamani – Understanding Our Responsibilities
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We start out by praising Allah
who is worthy of all of our praise
and our gratitude. It's Allah
who
watches over us at all times, who hears
us,
who knows of our situation. It is Allah
who changes our situation
when we call onto him, when we ask
him.
We then send peace and blessing upon the
prophet,
the one that was not only sent as
a mercy to mankind, but as an example
of how Allah
not just wants us to worship, but how
Allah
wants us to interact and deal with one
another.
We send peace and blessing upon the companions
of
and his family members, those who helped him
and aided him, and nabad
thereafter.
Usually, when we look at the life of
the prophet
and the seer of
We tend to start
at the age of 40,
and there's a reason for this, which is
Rasool Allah sallahu alaihi wa sallam.
He this is where he received divine revelation.
And we think that from age 40 to
age 63
is where our focus should be at.
But in reality,
there are many incidents that happened before
age 40.
Or if I were to change my words,
age before age 40 was a build up
and was the building blocks, the building, the
identification, or if
you
age, this is where the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
built his credibility
amongst people.
Because before age 40,
this is where they got to know who
he was,
what he did for the community,
what his akhlaq was like, what his character
was like.
And when the Quraysh
objected against the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
they called him all types of names.
Majnoon,
crazy,
a magician,
a poet,
a soothsayer.
But the one thing that they were not
able to touch about the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
was
his character.
There is no narration that says that the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was a bad
man.
The Quraysh never said this. They never said
that he was dishonest
or he lied
or he didn't help people or he wasn't
merciful
or he wasn't kind.
Why? Because over 40 years of life, the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam this is what
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam not just
said, but he lived.
To the point that when the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam received revelation, and we've mentioned
this many times
before, he goes home to his wife, Khateera
bintakoila, and he says to Khateera,
cover me.
Something big has happened. I'm shaking.
And he tells Khateera
what had happened and Khateera Talan responds back
by saying,
Allah will not destroy you. Why?
Because
and this narration mentioned by mum,
and she goes over 5 to 6 different
characteristics. And each one talks about
how the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
helped others. She
said that you're good to your family.
Whenever there's something that people back away from
that they don't want to help, it is
you that steps up. You help the orphans.
You help the poor. You are with the
people who have nobody.
And all each of these characteristics is how
the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
he fulfilled his responsibility
towards others.
Now
before Revelation, an incident takes place where this
outsider,
a person that was from Yemen, he's from
a clan called Zubayd.
He comes into Makkah to Mulkaraman,
and his intention was that I'm going to
perform umrah in whatever way that they did
umrah before Islam.
And at the same time,
you might as well kill 2 birds with
1 stone.
At the same time, I will buy and
sell whatever goods I have.
He comes into the city of Makkadu Muqormah,
and then he goes to the market.
He's still in his uhram. He's still in
his garments.
And he bumps into somebody, and this person
is actually very noble. He's a distant relative
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
Asbin Wale.
And he says to Asbin Wale,
these are my goods. I want to sell
them. And Asbin Wale says that instead of
you going and selling 5 pieces to that
person and 10 pieces to that person, give
me everything.
I will offload everything, give me a good
price, and we're good to go.
The Zubeidi thinks the profit margin may be
a little less. However,
I won't have to worry about taking stuff
back home. I could just offload everything and
clear my hands.
Aspenu, he says to the Zubaydi
that because I'm buying so much off of
you, I need some time
to gather that money. Let me sell some
of this product.
Let me offload some of this product, sell
it, and make some money so I can
give it to you.
This Zubaydiyah agrees.
After a few days, he comes back. He
performs his umra.
He comes back, and he says to Aspin
Wael, As, where's my money?
And Aspin Wael, he pushes off, I need
some more time. I need some more time.
To finally, he says, what money are you
talking about?
I don't owe you anything.
And the Zubaydi now thinks to himself, I've
just become bankrupt,
Like that.
I bought everything
thinking to myself, I can make some money,
go back and provide for my family. And
now I've just lost everything, and it's gone.
And he goes door to door in Mecca
saying, help me. This is my situation.
I've lost everything.
And people
had no answer.
Why? Because Aspin Wade is one of ours.
You're an outsider.
You're gonna be gone tomorrow. We're gonna stick
with ours.
The Zubaydi, what he did is,
he puts together a poem.
And in this poem, Imam Bukharamtulillah, who narrates
who narrates his hadith, I wanna
point out one
piece of it.
He says, Nobility is not by living next
to the Kaaba.
You don't gain nobility
based upon where you live,
what zip code you are in,
whether it's a gated community or not.
How big the house is that does not
give you nobility.
This is Zubeidi says nobility
is how you treat others.
And he goes on to say, when people
find out
that the people that were supposed to take
care of the house of Allah, subhanahu wa
ta'ala,
this is what's happening and how they're scamming
people and that, you know, it's not safe
here. They're gonna stop coming to the house
of Allah.
When he says this,
a group of the Quraysh come together and
they say, we have a problem.
Our problem here is
that people stop coming.
Then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will hold us
accountable
of stopping people
from coming to the house of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says in the Quran,
who can be worse than a person who
stops people from coming to the masjid?
Who stops people from if you are the
reason why somebody else doesn't feel welcome here
If you are the reason why children don't
like coming to the masjid, we now have
a problem.
If because of your temper,
you're pushing people away.
Why? Because they don't wear the same brand
of Islam that you wear?
We now have a problem.
So they come together and say,
let's put together a treaty
that no matter what who the person is,
whether they are from amongst us or they're
an outsider,
we will stand up and help the one
that's being oppressed.
Another hadith, Rasool Allah, salallahu alayhi wa sallam
later on he says, unsur akhaka,
help your brother.
It is your responsibility
to help your brother
whether if he is the one that's being
oppressed
or if he's the one who is oppressing
somebody else.
The companions ask, You Rasoolallah, what are we
how are we supposed to one help the
person who is oppressing?
We understand
that we stand up for the one that's
weak. But how are we supposed to help
the person that's oppressing? And Rasool Allah radiates
all of them says, by speaking up.
By doing something.
By stopping it.
Help him. He's ruining his dunya. He's ruining
his akhirah.
Now in this gathering
where they come together and sign this contract,
there was this young boy there.
It was of course Rasool Allah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
And the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam later
on when he mentions this narration
So to finish off our story, after signing
this treaty, they go to Aspen Walid and
say, Aspen Walid, you now have to pay
up. Things are gonna change now. We're not
gonna sit here and stand for oppression in
our community.
Why? Because where we have a responsibility
to one another and rasoolallahu alaihi wa sallam
and we're gonna talk about that, what our
responsibility to one another is. Sometimes
we have a responsibility
to our community
and at the same time our community has
a responsibility
to us.
The masjid, the Muslim community has a responsibility
to you.
If we as a masjid are not fulfilling
our responsibility to you, then we will be
held accountable.
And if I as a person
am not if I'm not fulfilling
my responsibility to my masjid, to my community,
then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will hold me
accountable as well. It's a two way relationship.
Every relationship
that you step into, whether it's with your
community, whether it's with your your, you know,
your your your masjid, your children, your spouse,
it's two ways.
The famous narration where this father comes to
and
he says, that
my son, he's disobedient to me.
Right. This is like a very common thing.
My son is disobedient to me. Can you
talk to my son and fix him?
Umar Azzan says, okay. Sure.
The son was smart as well. He comes
to Umar Barilla Wa Ta'la and he says,
Umar, before you give me the whole
shapil about being righteous to my parents,
tell me, do my do I have any
rights on my parents?
Everyone always speaks about the parents right, but
do I have any rights? And that's where
you realize that every relationship
whether it's a relationship
of just 2 people that stand next to
each other toe to toe in the masjid,
you have rights on one another. You have
a responsibility.
And if one of you is not fulfilling
this responsibility,
the relationship
will fall apart.
Within our homes, if I expect my spouse
to do everything for me but I'm not
doing anything back for my spouse, that relationship
will collapse.
If I accept my children to do everything
for me, but I am not doing anything
for my children, then that relationship
will collapse.
And Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
so now after he becomes a prophet,
he refers back to this treaty, Khalaf al
Fudul, and he says that if the non
Muslims
were to call me
to sign a treaty like that and come
together
and form a pact like that where we
are helping society,
where we are fulfilling
our civic
responsibility
and our duty, where we are
fulfilling our responsibility
to one another, to our community.
Rasoolallah says, I will sign that treaty.
And then he carries on and he says,
my presence
in that treaty
and I want you to realize the people
that signed this treaty, they were not Muslims.
They were idol worshipers.
They gather in the house of Abdullah bin
Jadaan or the the
house of Abdullah bin Jadaan. And when they
sign this tree, they weren't Muslims. The prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says, My presence in
that gathering
was so dear to me
that if somebody were to trade me a
100 red camels, I wouldn't take the trade.
Why? Because we were helping our community.
And that is,
as Muslims
here in America, Allah
gives us responsibilities
on everything.
Everything that you interact with.
Not just people,
but everything that you interact with has responsibilities.
Your neighbors,
you have a responsibility to your neighbors. Your
home, you have responsibility to your home. Even
your car has a responsibility that you have.
You look at the hadith
where he talks about overburdening
your animal,
which translates to not changing your oil,
which translate to not putting on the right
tires, which translate to leaving your car as
a mess. The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
says, don't over burden your ride.
Meaning that you have a responsibility. And that's
why Islam came.
Islam came to give everything
its rights.
And that's the beauty of our religion.
In the famous narration
of
he tells
us that
every Muslim has 6 rights to another Muslim.
And where these rights may seem very basic,
there's actually a very deep meaning to it.
He starts off by saying the right of
every Muslim is that you greet them with
salaam.
And the purpose of this is not just
a salaam alaikum. It's not just a phrase
that we say.
But the purpose of this is it is
my responsibility
that we come together with peace. I will
not harm you. You're safe from me brother.
We're on good terms.
Rasool Allah says, the responsibility
that you have, the rights that you have
is when they greet, when they invite you,
you accept the invitation.
When they give you a dawah, come over
to my house. Why? Because our responsibility
is that this relationship
isn't just face value. It's not just surface,
But you make it intimate.
You go to each other's houses. You get
to know each other.
You connect at a deeper level.
The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam, he then
says that when he asks you for advice,
you give him sincere advice. Number 3. The
right of a believer is when they ask
you for advice, you give them sincere advice.
That you
care for their well-being.
And then number number 4, salallahu alayhi says,
when he sneezes you say, alhamdulillah.
When he's ill, you visit him. Number 5
So number 45,
it means every time
your Muslim brother is going through a trouble,
you are there for them. Whether it's something
as small as a sneeze,
or if they're actually sick in the hospital,
you have a responsibility
that you must fulfill.
But this relationship doesn't just stop here. To
the point that prophet
says, the 6th ride that every Muslim has
another Muslim is when they pass away, you
attend their janazah.
And this hadith where it may seem like
the prophet wasalam is just telling the 6
basic things.
Say salaam, go to each other's houses.
But rasoolah salaam
is actually building a community.
The roots to a community in this one
simple hadith
that you have to be there for one
another.
If you're not there for one another,
then this community is fake.
There is no sustenance here.
It's just a masjid.
That's it.
When the companions went to Habshah, Ethiopia.
After returning back, rasulullah
was upset with his companions. This narrator this
narration is, narrated by Jabin Abdullah.
Then rasulullah
asked them,
in Habshah, in Ethiopia,
was there anything ajib?
Was anything weird?
What stuck out to you there?
You lived there for so long, you got
you gained peace there.
What stuck out to you?
He narrates and he said that one of
the companions said that, you Rasoolallah, one time
we were in the marketplace,
and this nun who was carrying a pot,
like a clay pot on her head with
water, She went to go fill up water
and she was carrying this clay pot on
her head.
A young man came and put his hand
on her chest
and shoved her back
to the point that she fell down and
the clay pot fell down.
Broke water wasted.
She then spoke up to him and said,
oh young fool,
you will come to know
on the day that Allah subhanahu's footstool is
set,
on the day that the very first of
us and the very last of us will
be gathered,
on the day that our hands and limbs
will speak, you will come to know
what your situation is and what my situation
is.
This that just happened
because I was weak
and you were strong,
and you did this right here.
You will come to know what our situation
is. And the rasulullah, when
he sees this, when he hears this, he
says, she spoke the truth.
She spoke the truth truth, he says 3
times.
But then the unique part of this narration
that I really want to emphasize
on
is what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said next.
If this were to happen here in our
community,
think about it. What would happen?
Every single one of us would jump on
that youngster.
What's wrong with you? What kind of, you
know, how can you do this?
But the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, what
he emphasizes,
He says, How can Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
honor a nation
where the strong of them don't help the
weak of them?
The prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam doesn't point
out the youngster
saying that, Look, yes he is at fault
here but the true people at fault are
the people that allowed it,
the people in the community
who did not fulfill the responsibility
that they have.
In one narration, Rasoolallah Sallalla Sallalla Sallalla Sallalla
Sallalla Sallalla Sallalla Sallalla Sallalla Sallalla Sallalla Sallalla
Sallalla Sallalla Sallalla Sallalla Sallalla Sallalla Sallalla Sallalla
Sallalla Sallalla
says, Whoever sees something wrong,
you have a responsibility.
Stop it with your hands.
And if you cannot stop it with your
hands, if you cannot do something about it,
if you are just a common person who
is trying to provide for your family,
you're working that 9 to 5, you're spending
time with your children and you cannot stop
it, then you at least Number 2. You
have a voice.
Your voice matters.
Use your voice.
Speak up against it.
And if you can't even do that,
then at least know it's wrong in your
heart. These are your responsibility. And Rasool Allah
SWAMI says, stopping with your hand is the
best way to fulfill that responsibility. And if
you cannot do that, then use your voice
a step down. And if you cannot do
that, then you're all the way at the
bottom.
Is that you at least acknowledge what's happening
is wrong in your heart.
Now the reason why we say this
is that each one of us
has a responsibility to our community.
Not just the masjid,
but the community at large that we live
in. And each of us has a voice.
I remember one time I was driving here
to the masjid,
and there was I was listening to NPR,
and there's one sentence that really stuck out
to me. It There's a Muslim lady who
was talking about,
you know,
her situation.
And she said that, I grew up with
5 brothers
and I was always taught that if you're
not at the table,
then your voice would never be heard.
If you
don't stand up and speak and do something,
then your situation will never be heard.
Tomorrow we have election day,
and my purpose here is not to tell
you who to vote for. That's all I'm
talking about to you.
But you have a right,
and as a Muslim,
you have a right to your community
that you should
fulfill.
And the reason being is that your voice
matters.
The thought crosses my mind all the time.
What's one extra vote gonna do?
Is it gonna shift things?
Couple years back we all went out and
said that we're gonna go and vote for
the presidential votes and make a change, but
what happened?
So sometimes this thought may cross your mind,
but
your vote matters.
Why? Because
it's then calculated and the statistics
are pulled. How many Muslims from Frisco,
how many immigrants from Frisco, how many people
from the Middle East from Frisco got up
and voted?
And that
has weight in it.
It gives power
to our community. It gives importance
to our community because if you're not at
the table,
then your voice will never be heard.
Your issues will always be
a back.
It will always be a It will be
on the back burner. It will always be
a second thought.
We look at other communities and say, oh,
Mashallah. So in that community, they get days
off for Eid.
That community, the kids can, you know, be
excused from Jummah.
So many different things. And we ask ourselves,
why are they there, or why are we
here? And one of the answers to that
is
because
their voice has weight.
Their voice has weight. They take care of
their civic duty.
People understand
that the Muslims
can make a difference.
And tomorrow we have
again,
tomorrow's voting day.
And the purpose of this kutba is to
under to share with y'all that each of
us has a responsibility to one another,
to our community,
a way that we can make a change.
Exercise
this right that you have.
We look at back home
where
people don't have this right
of voting, and people don't have this right
for their voice to be heard.
Has put us in a place
where we can exercise this right,
and we can help others which is the
sunnah of RasulAllah.
We went through the sila of RasulAllah and
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam pointed out so
many different times.
It's not about just you. It's about how
you help others.
It's about what you do for others.
So we pray that Allah
makes these people that make changes, to stand
up for that which is injustice.
We ask for infinite mercy. Oh, Allah, Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. We ask to have mercy upon
our community. Oh Allah, we ask that you
give unity amongst our community, oh Allah
We ask that you protect us from any
type of harm, you protect us from any
type of fitna, you protect us from any
type of shurr, oh Allah
We ask that you make the people that
rule over us people that are righteous, O
Allah
We ask that you help any Muslim that
is struggling, O Allah
We ask for closeness to you, O Allah
We ask that you forgive our sins. Oh
Allah, if there's anybody that's ill in our
community, we ask that you give them shifa,
oh Allah, if there's anybody that passed away
in our community, we ask that you forgive
their sins. Oh Allah, we ask that you
give them strength to their family and their
loved ones and give them patience. Oh Allah
We ask that you give us the ability
to continue worship you the way that we
did in the month of Ramadan. Oh, Allah
As we come to the days of graduation,
oh, Allah, we ask that you write good
for our children in the future. Oh, Allah
We ask that you protect them from the
fire of jahannam. Oh, Allah be pleased with
us. Oh, Allah, be pleased with us. Oh,
Allah, be pleased with us.
There's a duar request,
for brother Duha who passed away in in
Pakistan. Also, sister Dania
who is a part of our Quran academy
teacher. Many of your children have, read Quran
and learned Quran with her. Her grandmother has
passed away.
So for both of the deceased, we ask
the law subhanahu wa ta'ala forgives their sins,
the law's mother makes their grave from the
garden of paradise. The law's mother wash away
their minor and major sinus. The lost one
that gives their family strength during this hard
time and patience.
Brothers and sisters. A couple of quick announcements.
On the brothers' exit, you will find the
young Muslims of Frisco with doctor Asif Hirani.
If you'd like to help support them, they
have books for sale, so please swing by
the blue tent right outside of those entrance.
The Usua Seminary Akita 101 class is currently
taking registration, and you can register at go.friscomasjid.org/aqd101.
And lastly, we have our blood drive and
free clinic on May 13th. That's a Saturday.
The blood drive will last from 11 to
5 PM, and the free clinic from 12:30
to 3:30 PM. You can sign up to
donate blood at redcrossblood.org
and search ICF to make an appointment. Everybody.
Assalamu alaikum.