Muhammad Vanker – 2020-12-04 – Jummah at Masjidul Quds
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Respected honored scholars, ulama, elders, beloved brothers, mothers,
and sisters,
we are often faced with a situation
where a near or dear one friend or
relative is struck with some tragedy.
Sometimes
physical, sometimes
financial,
sometimes
he loses a beloved one.
As a Muslim,
what is our moral obligation
to our fellow Muslims?
When we find them in such a situation,
how do we morally support them? How do
we aid them? How do we console them?
What are the guidelines that Islam has provided
for us in such a situation?
My brothers, we are universal
ummah and we share the challenges
of each and every person on this earth.
The rabbi of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam
advises us in this regard the first thing.
What did he say?
What an amazing piece of advice
that never dare to rejoice on the tragedy
of your brother.
What is the advice of the Nabi of
Allah?
Never dare to rejoice on the tragedy of
your brother.
Very soon
Allah will create an opening for him
and grant him refuge from that crisis,
wayabat
talik
and Allah will inflict a similar if not
a greater crisis on you. What an amazing
piece of advice.
My brothers,
you and I we live in such a
time
that there are many a people
who morally they may support you, they may
give you that moral support,
but Allah forbid
in their hearts they rejoice over your tragedy.
I think we can go one step forward
that many of them desire your tragedy,
and here again this ties up with the
prophecy of the Nabi of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam
when he mentioned 1400 years ago
that yaqunu
fee akhiris samani aqwamun,
that prior to qiyama,
certain people will make their presence on this
earth.
Who will express
brotherhood
externally
but there would be enemies from within. You
know like they say in English?
That I love the one
who openly hates me, but I hate the
one who pretends to love me.
I love the man who openly hates me.
You don't like the man? Tell the man
on his face,
But don't pretend you smile in front of
him. Behind his back you stab him. What
good days they knew? So what did the
Nabiya Fala say? That close to qayama,
certain nations will make their presence on this
earth, will express brotherhood externally,
but internally there would be enemies.
Once you and I discuss
the deviation of the pagan Arabs
prior to the advent of Islam,
and each one of us would concur and
agree
that the Arab man was sinking in his
deviation,
but even at that time
the Arab man possessed
certain qualities
that I swear by the almighty Allah, even
the modern day world
cannot match certain qualities that were found in
the pagan Arabs prior to Islam.
And who knows, perhaps it was an acknowledgement
to those qualities
that Allah Ta'ala says,
By these qualities Allah favored the entire Arab
world.
Arabic has become beloved, it has become the
language of Quran.
There was one Sahabi
by the name of Al Kama bin Harith.
He comes to the Nabi of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and he describes to the Nabi
of Allah
those qualities
that were found in the pagan arabs
prior to Islam. When Nabi alaihis salam heard
this, he was totally impressed.
What did he say? Very quickly I will
run you through this. He said the first
quality that was found in the pagan arab
prior to the advent of Islam was,
ashukroindarraha,
gratefulness
on moments of prosperity.
Not pride, not arrogance,
but gratefulness
on moments of prosperity.
We look at the practice of aqiqah, when
a child is born, you slaughter their animal.
When we study the history of aqiqah,
this goes back to the ancestry of the
Nabi of Allah. It comes down from the
very beginning,
on the birth of the Nabi of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, his grandfather Abdul Muttalib
brought this little child to the Kaaba,
announced his birth, namely Muhammad,
as a token of appreciation,
he slaughtered those animals.
Of course the rabi of Allah then came,
you know he taught us the the dua,
showed us the benefits,
Of course the Nabiya Fallah showed us the
benefits. What I'm trying to show you my
brothers,
the Arab man even in those dark days,
gratefulness
on moments of prosperity.
Number 2,
patience on moments of of difficulties.
Whatever difficulty
comes your way to persevere, to endure.
Number 3,
When you give a man your word,
honor your word.
Allah forbid, today no man honors his word.
What did the Nabiya of Allah say?
You're promised a man, it's a verbal contract.
Honor your word.
Number 3, wasidukofimawatinillekah.
You give a man your word, honor your
word.
And number 4,
happiness
on the bitter choices of faith.
Happiness
on the bitter decisions of fate.
What stern words?
Allah's doubi quoting the words of Allah, that
that person
will not enjoy the difficulties
that will come in his life. That person
will be not will not be content
and satisfied
on the divine distribution of Allah.
Tell him to look for another Allah other
than I.
Tell him to search and look for another
Allah other than I, because he considers me
incapable of being Allah.
My brothers in this world you will be
tested with the COVID 19. Each and every
one of us, we know of some person
or the other who had contracted the virus.
Many had passed on. May Allah shower his
mercy
upon the graves, those who are suffering. My
brothers, you and I are sitting in a
masjid. This is a boon and a favor
from the side of Allah. Make shukar to
the almighty Allah.
I swear by the almighty Allah, you can
put your head on the ground from too
late till the day you leave this world.
You cannot thank Allah enough. I've spoken to
many of those who had contracted the virus.
What did they say?
Death
stood at me in, you know, I had
seen death standing in front of me.
The time was not up.
My brothers, this is the reality.
Allah has given us, be patient. You will
be tested in this world.
You know, many a times you would find
a person gets up in the morning, the
man goes to the gym, he can do
a 100 push ups, 100 sit ups. Perhaps
you tell me, one push up, I'm pulsating,
breathing heavy, and the man gets up, he
has a heart attack, he's dead and gone.
That's the reality.
My brothers, these are challenges.
I think there's something that has dawned upon
each and every one of us,
that the angel of death is constantly
knocking on my door and your door. Nonetheless,
the rabbi of Allah, when he heard these
qualities from Al Qamab bin Harith,
what did he say?
Fuqaha
udaba
qadu ayyakunuambiya.
These are the qualities
of the ambiya.
These are the jurist of my ummah. Whatever
difficulty
comes your way, persevere.
Acknowledge
the good. Many a times you speak to
people how things are, things are bad.
My brothers, we constantly
complain.
Where last have you turned to the almighty
Allah, Allahumma'alaqalhamdulualakashook.
Perhaps the most ideal of,
incident and narrative recorded in Quran.
The time of Jumuah is limited. Very quickly
I will run you through this. Allah Talas
speaks about Ayub alaihis salam. My brothers, I
beg for your undivided attention. Allah Talas speaks
about Ayub alaihis salam in 4 different surahs
in Quran.
Sura Nisa, Sura Anbiya, Sura Anam
and Sura Saad.
Ayyub alaihis salaam
enjoyed every privilege that you can think about,
whether it was wealth, affluence, children,
farms, orchards, whatever it was. According to the
rewrite of Qurtubi, on the strength of Abdullah
ibn Mas'ud,
Allah blessed him with 14 children.
My brothers, we need to understand,
Allah is in total control.
Allah can turn the situation
of any man at any time.
Ayub alaihis salam, Allah blessed him. Then comes
the test of Allah upon Ayub alaihis salam.
To what extent?
You know many a times
people will say, Mawlana Shaykh, I'm going through
this challenge, I don't think any person
is experiencing what I am going through. My
brothers,
I open up before you this incident. Ayub
alaihis salam, Allah ta'ala decided to test him.
Allah is in total control.
Allah can turn the situation of any man
at any time.
All his farms started burning out.
He lost his farms, he lost his orchards,
he lost everything.
The roof of his house caved in, opened
The roof of his house caved in, causing
all the occupants of his house
that included his 14 children to die instantly.
My brothers,
I can hear it, you can listen to
me.
1 man loses 1 child. He would never
forget about the child for the rest of
his life.
At one go he loses 14 children.
That's not all. He then develops ulcers on
his entire body.
Only his tongue and his heart
was protected
from that particular sickness that he had developed,
and the person who was a pillar of
support to him was his honorable wife and
her name was Rahma, and she was literally
a mercy
unto her husband.
With with reference to the patience of Ayub
alaihis salaam. It is written, scholars have written
it was so great
that when Allah had taken away all these
privileges,
he was kicked out of society,
living in the outskirts of the town. He
turns to the almighty Allah, and he said,
oh my Allah,
I am totally
grateful
to you
for this condition that you have brought into
my life that you have removed those things
that potentially
could alter my relationship with you. SubhanAllah.
My children, my farms, my orchids,
These things potentially
could alter my relation with you. Oh Allah,
you have taken it away from me. Now
you and I enjoy this closeness.
SubhanAllah.
So with, with reference to the Muslade Ahmed,
in Kitab al Zohad it is written,
you know my brothers I always say
that we often sympathize
with the person who is sick, but we
forget to sympathize
with those living with the sick person.
Many a times
those living with a sick person
go through more difficulty
than the sick person themself.
What did the nabi of allahu alaihi wasallam
teach us? The hadith say, you know amazing
narration.
You know my brothers, we are living in
such a time.
If you and I can only take out
time
and pick up the phone, you heard somebody
met up in an accident,
somebody contracted some virus, some sickness,
pick up the phone. My brother, I heard
you're not well. I heard your family is
not well. I cannot come to the clinic,
to the hospital, but I'm making dua for
you. I'm making dua for you. What is
the reward of that? Nabi alaihis salam said,
manaza
Hazinan,
whoever will console
a person
who is distressed.
Allah will make him wear the garment of
piety.
And Allah will shower
his choiciest
blessings on that soul.
Whoever will console
a person
in any problem, in any difficulty,
Allah will make him wear 2 garments of
Jannah, which in in value will be more
valuable than the entire heavens and the earth.
What did the Nabi of Allah say? What
an amazing deen we enjoy,
where every aspect of our deen has been
discussed.
What did the Nabiya Fala teach us? When
you go and visit a sick person,
how do you morally support the person? What
did he say?
When you go and visit a sick person,
morally encourage him. You know, you go to
a a person, what's the problem? Now the
wife has got stage 4 cancer.
My brother stage 4 cancer. My father had
the same sickness. It's a matter of time.
You're gonna kill the man's wife before her
time.
What did the rabbi of Allah say? Give
people hope in life. When you go and
visit a sick person, the words of my
Nabi, nafisoulahufi
ajali. Give the person some hope that my
brother you will recover.
It's not the end of the road. You
will survive. It's a matter of time. I'll
see you in the masjid. I'll see you
at home. What did the Nabi of Allah
say? You morally support a person like that.
That man is is in that hospital and
that clinic with that illness and that sickness
because you had morally supported him.
Allah will give you the same reward
that that person is getting in his illness
and his sickness.
Allah will give you the same reward. What
a all encompassing deen we enjoy,
where every aspect of our deen has been
discussed. Coming back to this narrative,
so Ayubar es salaam,
his wife,
you know, she comes to him and I
often say, like I mentioned earlier on, we
sympathize with those that are sick, but we
forget to sympathize with those that are living
with sick people.
So the sickness started taking a toll on
her. So she comes to Ayub alaihis salam
and she says, Ayub, don't you think it
is high time to ask Allah to substitute
the sickness with good health?
Ayub alaihis salam gets up, a Nabi of
Allah
is conscious of Allah in the midst of
prosperity and in the heart of sickness. He
gets up in that condition.
How many years of prosperity? 80 years. How
many years of difficulty?
8, 7 years. Ask a man who can't
sleep for 1 night.
7 years consecutively.
Ayyub alaihis salam looks at his wife and
he said, ama astaghih
anatluba minallahi raaf abala'i
wamaqadaytufhee
mudatarafai.
When I enjoy the divine privileges of my
Allah for 80 years and my Allah has
only tested me for 7 years,
patiently I will bear, I will endure
the day Allah decides my cure well and
good.
That was the level of suffering, Ayub alaihis
salam. You know one day,
shaitan comes to the wife of Ayub alaihis
salam in a disguised form and says, you
know what? Your husband is suffering. He's sick.
I can treat your husband. I can cure
him, but there's only one thing I want
from you. After I've treated and cured your
husband, I want you to praise me
and acknowledge
that I have treated and cured your husband.
The desperation
of the wife of Ayub alaihis salam knew
no bounds.
She said I'll meet with my husband, I'll
revert to you. She comes to Ayub alaihis
salam. I met with the doctor, he claims
to say he can treat you, but there's
only one thing he wants from me. After
he has treated and cured you, he wants
me to praise him and acknowledge
the fact that he has treated you. Ayyub
alaihis salam gets up in that condition. He
looks at his wife, he said, oh my
wife,
don't you know that is the statement of
shirk?
How can you attribute the quality of cure
to someone other than the Almighty Allah? He
said, if Allah cures me, I'm gonna lash
you a 100 times.
I'm gonna lash you a 100 times.
Subhanallah, let me just fast forward this incident.
There were two friends of Ayub alaihis salam.
They come to visit him. And one person
passed a comment, and he said, Ayub, you
have done something wrong in your life. That
is why you are suffering like this. You
know, often it happens. You know, what do
we say? That man Allah is showing him.
He must open his eyes. My brothers, it's
not for me to judge, not for you
to judge.
If somebody is going through some challenge in
life, make dua. Make dua for that person.
That's the bare minimum we can do. Ayyub
alaihis salaam turns to Allah. I've been patient
for years on end and people are leveling
these allegations against me. Allah ta'ala.
Allah ta'ala tells Ayub,
We confirm your patience.
Ayub, stand up.
Strike your feet on the ground,
gushes out the water.
Gushes out the
water. Ayub take a bath in that water,
drink from the water.
When he he took a bath in the
water, he had drunk from the spring,
Allah ta'ala cured him instantly.
The riyat of ibnahiban,
Allah send down the garment of Jannah,
a young handsome man
adorned with the garment of Jannah. His wife
used to earn and provide for him. When
she comes in the evening, she looked at
this young handsome man sitting
and she looked at him.
Where is my husband? He was sitting here
in the morning. Ayub
looks at his wife and he said, I
am your husband, and this is how Allah
has cured me. And this is how Allah
has cured me. When Allah cured Ayub alaihis
salam, he realized
he has to now lash his wife 100
times.
Allah ta'ala said, Ayub,
your wife was a subservient,
obedient wife. You are not going to lash
her.
I am going to make divine intervention in
the matter.
Ayub alaihis salam told his wife, you need
to lash your wife 100 times.
Allah ta'ala told Ayub, I quote to you
the words of
Quran.
Ayub,
all you do is
pick up handle 100
blades of thin grass.
100 blades of thin grass.
Make it into 1 bundle,
touch your wife once and that is lashing
a 100 times.
SubhanAllah,
this divine intervention
Allah made
why she was a pillar of support to
her husband.
You know, in Madariq ut Tanzil it is
written, you know, the object of marriage What
is the object of marriage? My brother, the
Quran says,
You must look at your wife. It must
put an end to depression
and not start depression. You know, like they
say the brother came home an hour early
from work. So the wife says, what's happened?
1 hour early today, no, the boss and
I had a tiff. So the boss told
me to go to *, so I said
I'd rather come home.
For me home is living *.
So what is the object of marriage? You
must look at the wife. The wife must
look at the husband. It must put an
end to depression and not start depression.
And Allah says marriage
should provide 1 of 2 things,
love and mercy.
So generally in a western circle,
you'll find in the initial stage of the
marriage,
the husband will express love, the wife will
express love. But in the latter part of
the marriage, when the husband goes into insolvency,
more than often marriages break up. More than
often marriages break up. So my brothers, what
I'm trying to show you, the Nabiya Fala
has taught us, give people support in life.
One day the Nabiya fullahi entered Masjidun Nabi,
there was a elderly Sahabi who used to
come. Nabiya alaihis salam said, where is this
elderly Sahabi? Anasur radiAllahu ta'ala anhu said, his
son has passed away. Nabiya alaihis salam said,
why didn't you inform me?
Why didn't you inform me? Nabi alaihis salam
immediately he got up. He went to the
home of this elderly Sahabi. He was looking
sad and depressed and Nabi alaihis salam morally
supported him. He gave him that moral support.
What did the Nabi of Allah say?
Speak about the good of those that had
passed away. You know, like I always say,
I don't know why people take flowers to
a dead man's grave.
Give the man a bunch of roses whilst
he's alive.
You know, like somebody said it so amazingly,
it takes the death of a person
to acknowledge that he was a good man.
I mean you start praising the person, you
know, like in Urdu they say, if you
understand,
You know, I always say wherever I travel,
you know, people say, Molana, what an amazing
speech. I said the local imam can say
the same thing. You would say, no, it's
one of those things. You know, if somebody
eats prawns every day and somebody eats biryani
every day, you know, it's one of those
things. You have it once a week, once
a month. I mean, you look forward to
it. Appreciate our imams. Really my brothers, whoever
I have traveled the world, appreciate
our local scholars and ulama.
Recently we have seen In fact, whenever I
stand on this podium,
I think of our late Sheikh Fuad grant
him the highest stages in Jannah. He was
an amazing human being. He was an amazing,
may Allah Allah
escalate and elevate his stages. My brothers, in
conclusion, I would just like to leave you
with a letter of condolence
that Nabi alaihis salaam wrote to Muadh ibn
Jibril. I beg for your undivided attention. Just
give me 2 or 3 minutes.
Muadh ibn Jibril is in Yemen.
His son passes away.
He sends a letter to Medina
that my son has passed on. Nabi alaihis
salaam in his busy schedule,
he sends a letter of condolence
to Mu'ad ibn Jubal, which has been recorded
in many books of Hadith.
I quote to you the words of this
letter. My brothers, listen to this. Mi Muhammad
Rasoolillah.
From Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
the messenger of Allah, ila Mu'adhib najibil to
Mu'adhib najibil.
Salaamun alaykum.
I greet you with the salaams of Allah.
Fa ini Ahmaduallaha
al Malikallavi
la ilaha illahu.
I praise Allah
who is that supreme being.
Listen, O Mu'az.
Amma bad furthermore.
Our health, our wealth, our belongings,
our spouses,
our children.
This is the gift of the of the
Almighty Allah.
Allah allowed you to benefit from your son
for a period of time. On the appointed
time,
aw Mu'az,
Allah has taken your son away from you.
Allah has ordained
patience on us when he tests us, and
Allah has ordained
gratitude on us when He favors us.
Your son was from the gift of Allah.
On the appointed time,
Allah has taken away
the son. Allah has taken away your boy.
O Mu'adh,
if you are patient,
Allah will reward you handsomely.
Analjazah
waalam,
let me conclude my letter of condolence to
you, O Mu'az.
Moaning and groaning
will not revive the disease,
nor will it put an end to depression.
The letter of condolence to Mu'adh ibn Jabal.
I leave you with the words of my
Nabi. When his daughter Zaynab,
she lost her child,
she sends a message to her father. Nabi
alayhis salaam, he
subhanallah. He comes to his daughter Zaynab
and he consoled her with these words
To Allah belongs
what he took. To Allah equally belongs what
he gave you.
Everything
has a stipulated
time.
Be patient, oh my daughter Zaynab,
and hope for reward by the almighty Allah.
I am not consoling you
because I will not die.
I am not consoling you Zaynab
because I will not die. What can I
tell you other than what the great giant
Imam Shafi'i had said?
That this is the reality of life.
Either you'll lose your wealth or Allah will
take away that which is most beloved to
you. Allah will take away your beloved ones.
My brothers, we make dua. There's so much
more I could have made mention. I've extended
my time. I would like to take this
opportunity. Wallahi, it's an absolute honor. Know, wherever
I stand, I enter this masjid. Reward,
you know, the trust board. Reward
our imam. Allah preserve him. Allah protect him.
And Allah keep his shadow over us for
many, many years. And Allah, you know, protect
each and every one of you. You know,
each and every one of us knows of
some person or the other that has passed
on. Let us remember them in our duas.
My brother's death is a reality. Like the
Arabic poet says,
Every person will be snatched from his beloved,
not taken away politely.
No security,
no doorkeeper
will prevent the angel of death from entering.
Wherever he enters, he is no trespasser.
O foolish man, when Allah's camera is watching
you, when Allah's angels are recording your every
move, how then do you still develop arrogance
and openly violate the orders of Allah? We
may du'a to the almighty Allah. Allah grant
us the tawfiq and the ability on this
momentous day of Jumuah that let us be
those who give hope to others. We know
of some person or the other. My brothers,
like I mentioned earlier on, some person is
sick. Pick up the phone. Send the man
a message. Listen, I cannot do much but
I'm making dua for you. You know many
a times, you know you make dua for
the person, the man recovers. He says, monana,
you know what I was in a hospital,
the man came to visit me. I can
never forget him. Every dua I pick up
my hands, I take the man's name in
dua. And
the ability that we imbibe, we infuse, we
internalize
these amazing advisors of
Quran.