Muhammad West – Be Like Ebrahim AS

			hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala shopping mousseline Satan I'm humming on Ali. He
was a big marine Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar La ilaha illallah wa Allahu Akbar, Al
Hamdulillah. Always we begin with the praise of Allah Insha Allah, Allah, Allah Allah will be
witness to these and unworthy of worship beside Allah subhanaw taala and we send our loving
greetings sanitation. So beloved Nabi Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who spice up your family,
his companions and all those who follow his sunnah until the end of time. May Allah subhanaw taala
places to be amongst them. I mean, I mean, when hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah we have today is the 13th
		

			of the hijab in Makkah, And Alhamdulillah it is the conclusion of the Hajj season. So for those
hajis that were in MENA, they either left yesterday last panel that allows you to stay two days or
three days, and today's the third day of the days of tertiary bamaca. And of course here in South
Africa to continue tomorrow as well. And the days of the week, the hajis would spend the day in tech
bead and remembering Allah subhanaw taala, as Allah says, to remember him much in his days because
of the mercy and the blessing He's given us. That is, of course the blessing of Islam and the
guidance of Eman and then they would spend the day of course in helping the Jamaat and then the last
		

			act of worship basically you would do as a * once you are done with Hajj is to perform one last
go off the waffle without the farewell throw off you give a greetings basically to the garba and
then you leave back to your country and masterless pantalla to get on all the Hajaj Maqbool hijama,
abroad my all of those who are fortunate enough and really they were very fortunate to attend Hajj,
the CML, ALLAH forgive all their sins and grant them a new life a new beginning, and for all of us
and Hamdulillah that were not part of the hutch, Allah except from us our Quran, whatever good deeds
we've done during these days of the hedger, l fasting on the Day of Arafah from Allah except from
		

			us, and make easy for us in these difficult times. I mean, Alhamdulillah now that * has concluded
we know that hajj is very much linked to Nabhi Brahim and the family of NaVi Ibrahim In fact, every
ritual from the sides of the tail off to the Peltola geminal to the Quran. Everything is in
commemoration of Nabil Ibrahim and his family and Allah Subhana Allah says, What are the Edifier
Ibrahim will call it mlbtr Is mine but when the V Brahim and Abby smile, we're raising up the
foundation of Aqaba, while they were building the Kaaba. They say the rock man at Aqaba Mina in
Mecca Simeone Oh Allah except from us this what we're doing this good deeds that we do here Allah
		

			excepted from us whatever good we do we are Allah except it in Nikka into Samuel Allium, you are the
one that years all our invocation to here I will do ah and you are aware of what we do or have been
our Janna Muslim any like I mean do RIA Tina Mata Muslimah Oh Allah Quran that we are always to be
in submission to you we're always Muslims. Oh Allah Subhan Allah how many of us make this dua Nabil
Brahim is making this dua here Allah let us always be Muslims yeah Allah keep us steadfast on Islam
has always been Muslims and submit to you for us woman to react in our and our offspring let them be
Omata Muslim a nation that our people be a Muslim people well it now monastic Anna, Oh Allah, let
		

			our monastic our rituals and it become prevalent and it become known. Basically people continue to
emulate our our rituals as Pamela fistula accepted, that the Ummah is that would follow and our Alma
in particular, we will continue to emulate year after year will commemorate Nabil Brahim and me
smile and the sacrifice that they made Allah Subhana Allah makes us follow in their footsteps and
enlisted with Dubai Elena and Allah forgive us our mistakes in the Canada while Rahim Allah you are
the ever returning and the most merciful to those who when you return back to Allah subhanaw taala.
So we see that the rituals of hajj are linked to the rituals, Nabi Rahim and Allah subhanho wa Taala
		

			does not only want us to follow in the pelting of the Jama throwing stones, like maybe even a throw
stone or to make tawaf in a circle like he may throw off, but to look at him as a human being and to
emulate him as a person and Subhanallah we know that often I mean, Mohamed Salah salaam Nabhi,
Brahim is the highest of those who attained closest to Allah subhanaw taala. And if we look at nubby
Brahim, for example, Allah mentions this concept in the Quran and only two places in the Quran
called Boone Salim, the Colombian Salim meaning the pure heart or the perfect heart so Allah speaks
about only in two places in the Quran. Allah speaks about a heart that is completely pure. And it is
		

			only in relation to it. Maybe Brian both cases Allah speaks about NaVi Brahim. And so when we
emulate NaVi Rahim is not just about the physical emulation of NaVi Abraham, but it is of course the
person he was so what kind of person was he? And of course we can spend a lot of time talking about
him, and O'Brien but just today inshallah we'll talk about a few points about his personality and
how we can be like him. So Allah says about this pure heart that nubby Brahim had. Now we brought
him as a young man, he left his town and he was alone. And he makes too many beautiful daughters
from another era. He one of the devices he makes he he says we were still young, he says, what I
		

			took a Xeni Yama you but I thought Oh Allah, do not humiliate them that FTM Ayala don't let me be of
those who lose out on the FBI my Yo my lion format and while I've been on that day, when it doesn't
matter how much money or children you have, all those things will mean nothing but
		

			At piano 11 at Allah be calm inside him he says only the one who comes to Allah with a Colombian
Salim with a pure heart with a sound heart with a perfect heart. Only such a person will be
successful on the day of Kiama Janabi but I am in his early life he made the story Allah let me be
of those who come to you on the Day of Korea when I come before yeah Allah that my heartbeat pure.
The second time Allah mentions this, this phrase becoming Salim in the Quran also about Nabi Rahim.
Now it's towards the end of his life. Now Allah Now the first one that Abraham was making dua. Now
Allah speaks and Allah says we're in them in Chianti, he, like Ibrahim, that really of the offspring
		

			of nabina wasn't Abraham. Abraham was a descendant of nabina is a jar or a bow because being Salim
when we brought him came to his load with a pure heart that we brought, his heart was pure. So Allah
subhanaw taala confirms that DeWanna bibra he made was a young man yalla let me come to you with a
pure heart Allah Sydenham Abraham came to me with a pure heart now what can we take from them,
Abraham that made him this perfect person that made his heart pure? What did he do many, many things
in the Quran of the things we'll only mention three of them. One is we we can extract two things.
The first is Allah says, we're easy but Allah Ibrahim are a boy who became asking for a term mount.
		

			Allah says, and we surely and mentioned how we tested Nabil Ibrahim, but he fulfilled His
commandments. So Allah mentions that even though Nabil Brahim was this pious person of artists that
him and put him under a lot of trials out there many people we look at our country now going through
a lot of hardship, and we begin to seek out Allah is it because you don't love us is because you
abandon us know Allah subhanho wa Taala in many times, it's out of his love that he puts hardship
upon us as a test as a trial to make us come back and to see is our Eman situational, do we only
love Allah when things are good, and when things are not so good and we become upset and angry with
		

			Allah. And it also makes us realize, Look, everyone is going through difficulties. Someone in his
marriage, there's a problem in his children Malartic in our income in our health, somewhere in our
life, every single person has some difficulty. And so Allah subhanaw taala says, these trials are
tests by our Lord, it's a question on an exam. And Allah looks at how we respond. Maybe Ibrahim was
tested in everything interested in his parents, in his children, in his wife in his her entire life,
he was tested, and he fulfilled those obligations to Allah subhanaw taala. So the first thing Allah
says about Nabil, Ebrahim, and when we tested him and we put an obligation on him, he fulfilled
		

			them, and therefore for us, whatever Allah subhanaw taala requires of us, the first thing we need to
do if we want a pure heart is to fulfill our obligations to Allah and Allah has made the things that
He requires of us not beyond our means. Allah didn't teach us like it is to be Ambia so instead of
Allah doesn't say, leave your family in Makkah in the middle of the desert and go away. Allah
Subhana Allah basically says come visit the Haram come for Hajj once in your life, Allah subhanaw
taala does not say that you need to sacrifice your children but give something that you love your
money two and a half percent once a year. That is aka perform your Salah five times a day. Then once
		

			a year in Ramadan, you need to fast avoid the major haram and try your best to avoid the minimal the
small haram no one can avoid all the Haram but do that and then for you for us Inshallah, that is
what is required from us from Allah subhanaw taala. As for the Gambia, Allah obviously put the bar
very high for him. And every time Allah tested the men in particular in the Rahim tested him in the
thing that he loved the most his son and that is the commemoration of the Quran. Allah Subhana Allah
is basically asking him to be Rahim, you will love this voice so much. You've been making dua for
him for 80 years you wanted a son, now that I've given him to you, will you sacrifice him if I
		

			commanded you to do so? Sidenote, many people get confused and they say how can a father DESERT his
wife and his child in the middle of the desert? How can we would call that a man who did that? Who
would say you know what a bad husband he is, you know, he's, he's not maintaining his family even
worse, a father that is about to, you know, kill his son would say that this is you know, child
abuse, how is that this is we must understand that we Ibrahim's Tawakkol and his love for Allah and
His Eman in Allah was that he was sure Allah subhanho wa Taala will not take my son away from me.
Allah will not cause my son to die and Allah will not allow hogere and maybe smile to be alone in
		

			the desert and die of starvation. His Eman was I am putting them in your Kia Allah I'm not
abandoning them. I am rather putting them in your care and you will make sure that they are Okay
similarly like Nabi Musa, when he took the Bani Israel into the sea. He believed he said Allah will
not cause us to drown in the sea. Allah is going to make a way for us and that is our call that Nabi
Rahim trusted Allah will make a way out for me if I follow the road even though it looks like it's a
dead end. But I trusted Allah if he led me down this path there is a way out and that is Subhan
Allah of course the Gambia had the highest level of Iman and we are asked us to follow in their
		

			footsteps. And so Allah subhanaw taala placed these tiles upon Nabil Brahim and he always
		

			prioritize Allah every time he had to make a tough choice. He chose Allah subhanaw taala. And then
Allah subhanaw taala fulfilled made him the most, you know, is mentioned. He's the most loved
individual on Earth. In fact, the Jewish faith, the Christian faith, the Islamic faith, they're
called the Abrahamic faiths that these are and all of us, you know, we love Nabil Ibrahim, even the
Hindu faith, it's mentioned that the Brahmins, it comes from Ibrahim is the highest level of the
caste system of the Brahmins. And it comes from Ibrahim. So perhaps the most loved and admired
personality isn't to be Ibrahim because of his continuous prioritizing of Allah subhanaw taala.
		

			Whatever Allah placed on him, he accepted the ayah continues Allah Subhana Allah mentioned. So what
you do better when we tested Ibrahim Rabu, we can imagine for a time when whenever we tested him,
and we commanded him with something, he fulfilled these Come on, he did his part, Allah in Niger
locally Nassima. And so Allah subhanaw taala said, you know, you brought him I'm going to make you
an Imam, all of people for all of mankind, you will be a leader for all of humanity till the end of
time, every single nation, every person on earth, every color, every race, they will see you as an
Imam, and they will and they will take from you example. Now what's beautiful here, the second point
		

			we learn. So the first thing is that when Allah puts difficulty upon us, and we pass it's a test and
if we pass it Allah subhanaw taala, elevator, so whatever difficulty you're going through, know that
it's an opportunity to rise up with Allah. The second thing is, Allah says that we made the E Rahim
and Imam so it's not just about being when you are good, Allah subhanaw taala will make you a leader
amongst people and as Muslims Alhamdulillah. And we saw now in this last week, where there was a lot
of difficulty as Muslims, but hamdulillah it was so beautiful to see Muslims taking the lead, and
leading in times of very difficult in difficult times, when the nation is up and down, and people
		

			are confused what to do. And there's a lot of tension. As Muslims, we take the lead in goodness,
whatever good needs to be done, we will be the first ones to do it. But you start with yourself. And
this is usually the hard part. It is easy to lead others or to delegate to others. But to start with
yourself and with your family. That is the difficult thing. And so now you Brahim Of course, he
began with himself, whatever goodness there was, he was the first one to do it. And he made sure his
family was next in line, at least my you know, his Hakata of Zara, they were next in line. And so
they became a nation that was that became an exemplary nation, a family for all other people, in
		

			fact, as we see our * rituals is to follow that family. And so the second point here is that as
Muslims, Allah subhanaw taala wants us to be leaders not to be on top and to be give commands.
Rather, we should be the first in line, whenever there's something good to be done, we should be the
ones to do it. And we should begin with ourselves and I speak to myself first, my family first, we
should be the first ones to be devoted in our salah. The first one is to be good in charity to have
the best of character. And when we start doing that, as individuals, the community around us will
recognize that these people are people of goodness that they are good in what they do. And so all of
		

			humanity will recognize that goodness. And so what hamdulillah as we said, we saw in this very, very
difficult time, the generosity of the Muslim ummah, the key the concern of the Muslim ummah it shone
through. So, while we one of the silver linings of this very difficult time, was that the goodness
in this machine was came out. And it was a means of Dawa for all of us and Allah subhanaw taala made
what we saw here in South Africa, as something good came from it. And as Muslims were able we are in
the world, we must be as the abuses that breeds that we ever I believe it is, it brings about
goodness, he brings about kindness wherever he is, he's always benefit in him. So that is the second
		

			thing is to always be a leader in goodness. And the way you become a leader in goodness is to start
with yourself whatever good you want to find in the world, implemented in your own home first, and
then outside Allah subhanaw taala will grant a further goodness, the last one spot Allah Allah
speaks about nubby Ibrahim's nature and his character as a person, usually we find and it's very
common for someone that becomes very pious, you know, maybe we can become very conscious of Allah.
And they they focus on the eBay that maybe they focus on the Salah, it becomes almost as if though
they become detached or distant from the creation they become this patient they become not so nice
		

			to be hanging around, they become a bit of a you know, a boring person, you know, they become a bit
harsh in the in the character this happens sometimes. And almost in you know, even worse than that
we find even some people there is a sense of spiritual you know, arrogance, someone can reach a
level of self worship, where they become when they look down on others. And this is the worst kind
of arrogance where you look down on others because you feel your iman is stronger. Now we look at
Nabil Brahim completely the opposite is the man who is the closest to Allah subhanaw taala and he's
the person who Allah has favored and honored. When Allah subhana speaks about him, Allah says
		

			Ibrahim the halimun a well known Muneeb that Nabi Ibrahim, surely Ibrahim was fully
		

			Getting someone that when he saw sin around him and the sins of others, he was very, very merciful.
And he let go he did not look down on anyone based on the sins that they did. So even though he's up
here, you know, in the clouds, and when he looked at the other sinners, he didn't look down on him.
He was very forgiving when it came to the tender hearted when I will speak so I'm gonna be bringing
him in a while when when he had his heart was very soft when it came to the creation, and he was
always returning back to Allah. In what context did Allah say this? When did Allah say nebivolol His
heart was very soft. It's amazing when we look at the context, Allah Subhana Allah mentions this,
		

			that when Habib Rahim was visited by the angel, so a group of angels three angels came to visit him
to give him the good news that he's going to have a second son of Israel is going to get another son
called his heart and be very much on hamdullah very happy about this. And then he asked the angels
what else? Why have you been sent? Allah doesn't just send angels like that for no reason to deliver
a message. So they said, No, we have come to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, the city of Novi loot the
people and we know what they did. Besides Shinnick they did a lot of haram. They were the worst
cities that ever existed. And now the time was up and they're going to be destroyed. And so when
		

			when he heard that these angels God was amongst them was coming to destroy the city of Novi loot.
Ibrahim says, Allah says Allah muda and Ibrahima wrote whenever you email him sphere had lived with
her at will. Bucha. And the good news of Nabhi is Hockett come, he began to judgment if you call me
Lord, he began to argue with Allah for the sake of the people of Nabil luta. Now Subhanallah we know
the sins that they had done, and if we existed at that time, I'm sure many people might even have
made you I will destroy them. And how many people spinal all that commit sin to do wrong things. And
especially that sin is done against us? You know, they robbed us they stole something from us, they
		

			said something evil to us. Yeah, Allah we make the biggest curse upon them and do against them.
Someone that said something about you something that didn't even look at you, right? Even
Subhanallah fellow Muslims who have a different opinion on Islamic method, you know, it's they
worship differently to you. I keep it one day you keep it that day. I believe this UBI And
subhanAllah weekers one another we make the odds against that person. Yen Abby Ibrahim is making dua
for them with all the sins and all the mistakes he's saying yeah, Allah don't destroy them. Give
them a second chance. Yeah, ALLAH forgive them. Yeah, Allah. And he is arguing. Allah says, You Jad
		

			you're gonna he's arguing with me, for the people of Nabil who's not even his own people. There's
not East people, but he's arguing with him. And so Allah when Allah looks at NaVi Brahim asking for
the people of NaVi Lutz mercy and he's arguing with Allah, Allah didn't say what a terrible person
he brought him in Allah says in the Ibrahim and halimun, what a what a soft hearted man he is the
house merciful He is that these people really deserve to be destroyed, yet he is still arguing for
them and begging Allah to have mercy upon them. And so on the one side, we find that bibra hymns
character is he is very strict on himself in worshiping Allah and fulfilling his obligations, he
		

			pushes himself as much as he can to worship Allah and to be devoted and to fulfill his obligations.
But when it comes to the creation, he is very soft and lenient. When it comes to others around him.
He lets things go doesn't allow obviously, he does not condone the sun. We're not saying that he
condones the sun, he knows it's haram. But he feels sorry, he doesn't, you know, he sees the sun as
a sickness, you know, this person, the sun he's doing is a disease, you know, when a person goes to
the doctor, the doctor doesn't curse the patient, you know, try to remove the disease from you. And
that is the kind of nature that nobody Ibrahim was. And so when Allah speaks about Nabhi, brams
		

			heart being pure, the two things that comes out is that when it comes to Allah, He fulfills his Eman
with Allah and His devotion to Allah. And when it comes to the creation, he's very soft, very
loving, very gentle, giving kind, generous, no matter. And look, as we said, this is not just for
the believers, it's not only kind to the believer, sometimes we have this incorrect notion that to
be a good person is only to fellow Muslims or fellow believers. No, now Abraham is going out of his
way to make dua for the worst nation of the time that worst people, the people who deserve to be
destroyed, he's making dua for them. And so in this beautiful Hadith and we conclude this hadith, of
		

			the live and Amara, the Alon this hobby Austin obeso salam ala Rasulillah, who is the best of all
people, which people are the best. And so there'll be someone responded, a person who speaks
truthfully a truthful person and whose heart has been swept clean, his heart has been swept clean.
And so the Sahaba said, Yeah, rasool Allah says Allah, we know we understand what it means to be a
truthful person. We know what that means. But what does it mean for someone's heart to be swept
clean? And so there'll be some explain. A person whose heart is clean and pure is someone who is as
Taqwa of Allah is conscious of Allah meaning your obligations to Allah, the basics that you need to
		

			do, you are concerned and conscious of Allah, and you do what Allah commands you to do. That's what
you do, and at the same time, and he does not commit sin to the best of your ability, you don't sin
against Allah at the same time, you have no transgression, no malice, no evil and no envy against
others. So your heart has to have both these things. You can't be pious to Allah, but a horrible
person to humanity that
		

			is not a heart that is clean. Similarly, you cannot be a wonderful person and the best friend of
everyone, but you've neglected Allah you've never made the auto immune recited of and you never made
Salah you never turned to him any better. You've completely forgotten him. This is also a heart that
is not clean is a problem in your heart. And so the Sahaba Ostia rasool Allah, what signs How can we
see this manifest in people what signs will show it, so we're going to be so sometimes you will find
it in people who reject worldliness and the love the year of the meaning they may priority is more
focused to the accurate rather than the dunya. The biggest concern is the accuracy, not the dunya.
		

			He doesn't mean what this means doesn't mean that you just live in the mountains and you don't want
anything of a house or car No, but the Sahaba, you prioritize the Ophira over the dunya, you love
the year after more than you love the dunya. And I believe it with good character, those two things
goes hand in hand. So again, we see this basic, two sides of a coin. That is the believer on the one
side, you have this obligation to Allah, you focus on fulfilling your basic duties to Allah and you
try to increase in your Ibadah to him that spiritual, those ritualistic a bidat and to be closer to
Allah on the one side, on the other side is about having a good kind of nature with regards to the
		

			creation and that is the complete believer, you have both those things intact and that is what we
hope so in sha Allah, as we conclude and we speak about hydrogen commemorating Hajj. Remember,
commemorating Hajj is not just about following the rituals and going in a circle and throwing a
stone and running up and down. That's not the purpose of hygiene, but rather it is to take those
lessons and for us to implement it in our lives. And so if ever we Allah, this is gonna be so solemn
that if you want to take any example, a good example, then Ibrahim is a good example for you. So may
Allah grant us to follow in the footsteps of NaVi Brahim Elisa Salaam and all the pious people that
		

			came before us and may we be this Ummah that maybe Brian mentioned yet Allah, it could be an ummah
that will always be on the truth OMA that is are submitting to you. May we be that Ummah that is
submitting to Allah. We ask Allah subhanaw taala to accept from us and we once again we wish
everyone that you know, Eid, Mubarak is the last day of aid basically. And so we wish you all insha
Allah and your families that you had a blessing eat, and that Allah Subhana Allah accepts all the
good deeds that you have done in the Quran that you have done. And in particular, I'd like to thank
the all those who had the code been done through Majid verano Islam Al Hamdulillah. It was a very
		

			successful campaign. And of course whatever meat that has been donated to the masjid will be used in
our soup kitchen throughout the year to feed people so hamdulillah Allah bless you in that and a
special thanks to the team at Parana Islam did the Quran the giving up your eID to slaughter so you
spend more time with the sheep than with your family male like sip from you it was also very cold
eat some Allah really accept and reward you for your efforts. I mean Zack gonna hate it was Allah
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