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Always forever we begin by praising and thanking
Allah.
We testify
that there is none worthy of worship besides
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And we send our
love and greetings, our salutations to beloved Nabi
Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam who is pious
and his pure family, whose companions, and all
those who follow his sunnah until the end
of time. May Allah bless us to be
amongst
them. We thank Allah for the blessing of
Iman, the blessing of Islam, the ability to
worship him, to fast for him, to make
sujood and salah for him. I will ask
Allah
to preserve us and our deen that we
die in the state of Iman, in the
state of Islam. Ameen.
We're speaking this part of a much long
series that we started with the creation of
Nabi Adam and the purpose of life, why
Allah created
us, why we are here.
And we mentioned that the purpose of the
creation of Nabi Adam was in one way
to look at it is to realize and
have a relationship with Allah that even the
angels cannot have. Our
ability to choose to worship him is very
different to Jibreel's
worship of Allah continuously.
We choose to worship him. We choose as
we go through the streets.
I'm hungry. I'm starving, but I'm not gonna
eat until Maghrib time. We choose to be
here, and that is why that's a very
special, unique
relationship that we have. And the one who
submits and surrenders willingly to Allah is better
than the one who submits without with compulsion.
That is why the angels made sujood to
Nabi Adam. But, of course, we have the
capacity,
the ability to be as falafileen.
We also have the ability to be the
worst of the worst. As the angels had
said, yeah, Allah, they're going to commit mischief.
They're going to disbelieve in you, reject you,
shed blood. They won't worship you. Allah didn't
say no. He didn't say no. They're not
going to do that. Allah said there is
something in them that I know that you
don't know. So within us, we have this
capacity of great good and great evil.
And each and every one of us, we
fight with that on a continuous basis.
So rashams, for example,
Allah mentions the the the sun and the
moon, the night and the day, the heavens
and the others, duality. Why? Then Allah says,
and so too in your nafs. In every
single person, you have this duality in you.
So and your nafs has this ability to
choose good or bad.
Successful is the one who purifies his nafs,
and the one that and and and the
one who has failed is he who gives
into his lesser side. That is the battle
that we all face with. We've got 60,
70 years, 50 years, 30 years, depending how
long Allah has given you to win that
battle.
And then we come back to Allah
to be accountable for what we have done.
Allah also from the story of Nabi'alam, Allah
also taught that we will make mistakes. None
of us are sinless. None of us are
free of sin. We will commit sin. And
Allah
has no problem forgiving all sins, big or
small.
Even up to murder and zina, Allah
will forgive. If we return to him in
the repentance, he will be off forgiving, quickly
to forgive. But what he will not negotiate,
what he does not does not forgive is
that of shirk. And so after Nabi
Adam, people came. Even Nabi Adam's own sons,
one killed the other. Allah
did not
hold retribution on that generation
until Nabi Nuh came where his people committed
shirk,
where they had invented a new religion. They
had invented a way where Allah became irrelevant.
When you come at shirk, there's no need
for Allah anymore. The rain comes from the
idol. The barakah comes from the kramat.
The protection comes from the tawee. Why do
I need Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala? Allah becomes
completely irrelevant, and that is the one thing
Allah will not negotiate on. And so Nabi
Nuh came. He preached. He preached. They did
not listen.
Eventually, made dua against his people, and Allah
removed them. He drowned them. And so we
see this began
a cycle now. Mankind goes through a cycle
of
creation, of of rather the one generation comes,
they develop and they grow and they become
powerful,
then they reject Allah. They commit other kinds
of sins. Allah sends a Nabi to remind
them. Allah does not hold them to account
until you send a Nabi. That Nabi spends
years years years, decades with them, preaching, guiding,
calling to them until that Nabi gives up
on his people.
From his own community, these are his own
family members, these are his own
relatives.
When that Nabi says, you Allah, these people,
there is no hope in them anymore. There's
no goodness in them. Remove them, you Allah.
The Nabi makes dua against those people, then
Allah destroys them. And we spoke about some
of the destroyed nations. And as I I
said last week, speaking about destruction in Islam
is was always awkward.
Always felt, we don't wanna talk about Allah's
punishment and adab. Allah's all merciful and kind
and loving. But perhaps
you would imagine now when you see a
genocide happening in Gaza,
you see people
killing children and babies
that surely there are certain crimes that is
justified for the adab of Allah. We see
that now.
We see that certain
generations, certain crimes are so bad that Allah's
retribution becomes justified. That's why Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, you'll find whenever he speaks about the
adab, he or when he speaks about the
adab, he mentions that
the
the word was justified against them. They had
crossed the line. They were given the lines,
the limits, and then they crossed
that line and now it becomes
I do not oppress anybody. Nobody is oppressed
in Allah's creation. Nobody is dealt with unjustly.
So now we as we said, we went
through generation of the generation. I was like,
how many generations are countless
nations, tribes, villages across the world, and we
find their remnants all over the world. They
had they gone they went down that same
route until a point came where it appeared
mankind
would have lost their head altogether. The worship
of Allah became extinct. There was not a
single place on Earth
where shirk was not the prevalent religion.
You would not have found anyone worshiping Allah.
Other
everything that is they would people are worshiping
everything besides Allah.
This became the state of this is the
norm, was the norm, until Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala sent the father of monotheism,
the man who is the most revered personality
on earth, the Jews, the Muslims, the Christians,
revere him as the father of monotheism. In
fact, even in the Hindu religion, you find
this term, the Brahmins. It is Nabi Ibrahim
alaihis salaam, perhaps the most revered personality in
all of all of history, all of mankind.
This man changed civilization. He changed, and and
I mean, his message,
we can see the biggest religions on Earth
are the monotheistic religions.
And Nabi Ibrahim,
so we talk about him and his message
inshallah today. Nabi Ibrahim
lived and was born in Ur, a a
city in Mesopotamia
in what is modern day Iraq,
where Baghdad, this area, is the oldest
area of civilization on Earth. People lived long
before that, but they didn't build cities. They
would try people were nomadic. They moved from
town to town. They basically moved and grazed.
That was the their livelihood. And then, of
course, mankind realized, look, it's easier to plant
things. Instead of looking for food, we plant,
and then next season, there's going to be
crops, And so cities were set up, and
it's in this region between the Euphrates River
and the Tigris River in Iraq, which mankind
So Allah says, what do Ibrahim?
Tell them the news or the story of
Ibrahim.
When Nabi Ibrahim asked his father, Waqomi and
the people,
what are you worshiping? What are these things
you are worshiping? His people, of course, Nabi
Ibrahim's people, they had idols, statues, and they
would have temples where you had all kinds
of different figurines,
statues big and small, different shapes, men, women,
whatever it was, and they would worship them.
And even more so, what was weird for
Ab Ibrahim, what was strange for him was
that his dad was the idol maker, Azar.
His dad was the idol maker. And he
found it very strange that a person would
come to him, come to Azar, come to
ibn Ab Ibrahim's dad and say, Azar, you
know, the doctor gave me the diagnosis. I
have cancer.
I have got cancer. Can you make me
an idol? You know, it looks so like
a medical idol. You know, it's got some
cancer treatment, chemo stuff. Put it so that
I can worship it, and this will remove
my cancer.
And Nabi Ibrahim is watching this idol semi
made in the workshop. As a child, he's
playing on these idols, jumping on them, riding
on them. Then he sees it in town,
that same man is worshiping, crying, begging, something
which my dad made. It was strange for
him. I can't understand this. So he says,
my people my dad, he's still he's still
a young boy. What are you worshiping?
We worship idols.
And we are devoted. We make like. We
make. We make
on these things. We devote ourselves to these
idols.
So you ask,
Do they he asked, can they hear you
when we speak to them? When we make
dua, do they hear?
Oh,
do
they have the ability to hurt you or
to benefit you? Can they hear? Can they
help? Can they do they have any power?
They said,
we just found our dads, our forefathers to
do. This is what we found. Our people
used to do it, and that's what we
keep doing.
As it was as my father done and
his grandpa, we just do as what the
previous generation was doing without asking questions.
So
so he said, do you not observe or
think about? Have you not, you know, taken
a he's asking them, do you not take
a step back and ask yourselves, why are
we worshiping this and why do our forefathers
worship it?
So did you never ask yourself, why am
I doing this over and over? And so
now he says,
he says, as for me, I don't feel
comfortable. I'm not going to worship any of
these things except the lord of all of
So now, subhanAllah,
they are non Muslims have a very
lack of understanding as to what Muslims worship.
If you speak to non Muslims, they know
that you fast, but they don't understand what
is your concept of God.
They might say you worship a black box
in the desert. They might say you worship
Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, a a man.
They might whatever ideas they might have, strange
ideas.
If you ever want to give a nice
summary of who Allah is and who we
worship, it is this passage in the Quran.
Nabi Ibrahim says so he says, I don't
worship any of these things.
And he found people worshiping stars and the
moon and the sun. He said, I don't
worship any of these things as well. So
they're like, what do you worship, Ibrahim? Are
you like a atheist? What are you worshiping?
I worship the one who created me, and
he guides me. He's always there in my
life.
And the one that feeds me and gives
me drink.
And when I become
sick, he is the one that kills me.
And he will be the one that causes
me to die,
and when I die, he will be the
one to bring me back to life.
And I hope when I meet him that
he will be merciful to me and forgive
me when he judges me. Whatever name you
want to call him. You want to call
him Allah. You want to call him the
creator, Al Khaliq. Whatever name you want to
call him. That one who made me, he
made the sun, he made the moon, he
made you, he made all of us, he
made the Jews, he made the Hindus, he
made all of us, same one. He sends
the rain, that one is the one I
worship. That is my creator. He's the only
one that can benefit me and harm me.
He's the only one that when I make
dua that he hears me, and he says,
this is
this is my my religion, and this is
my lord. And this is, as I said,
if you want to explain to a non
Muslim,
we get leave all the the terminologies aside.
Allah sometimes becomes complicated for them even though
in the bible, in the in the Christian
bible, in Arabic, when they speak about God,
they use the word Allah. Allah means God.
Isn't even you don't you don't like Allah.
I can't worship your Allah. Your Allah and
my God is different. He said, did your
is there a different one who made Muslims,
and there's a different creator who made the
Jews? I said, no. It's the same. He
said, that one, that is the one I
worship.
So now his people, when he said this,
they said,
Ibrahim, his father is saying, Ibrahim,
are you rejecting are you turning away from
my religion
and our gods? Are you turning away?
You better stop this nonsense that you're talking.
No. He's becoming a teenager,
rebellious,
and he is now speaking out. I can't
worship these things. I don't want to worship
these things are wrong. And his daddy is
saying, I'm going to give you a hiding.
I'm going to stone you.
So and then he said, get away from
me. Get out of my sight. I don't
want to I'm gonna I'm gonna hit you.
I don't wanna see you. Get out of
my sight.
Says, my dad, peace be upon you.
So he says, I will make dua for
you, daddy. I'm gonna make dua that my
lord, that Allah forgives you. Verily, he is
of forgiving. He's most gracious.
And
he said, and I will leave you.
I'm not going to bother you or disturb
you. I will move away from you. And
all these things that you're worshiping, you won't
see me in the temple. I'm not coming
to your worship. Don't count me out.
So Nana Ibrahim, as I said, he's a
a young teenager.
And like all teenagers, they want to
not rebel, but for the good reason. Not
all rebellion is bad. If you rebel against
something evil, then it's a good rebellion. And
he wanted to teach his people a lesson
he hoped would make sense to them.
Allah says
He says, and indeed, Allah says we had
granted Nabi Ibrahim sound judgment, wisdom from a
young age. As a young child, as a
young boy, he saw things that people didn't
see. For he knew and Allah says, and
we know well who we give inspiration. Allah
says, we know well who we choose
as as
He says again, Allah repeats the ayah in
a different Surah. What what are these
or statues figurines that you are so devoted
to?
They said they said these are what our
forefathers worship.
He said so he says, do you ever
consider that maybe you and your forefathers got
this wrong?
So they said to him, are you being
like, these are different debates. So he said,
are you are you coming with something true?
Are you just a mischief maker? Are you
making games? Jokes. He's speaking to the Molana.
Molana, why you do this? What are you
are you taking me for a joke now?
You're asking me these questions.
Can the idols hear? Can the idols speak?
Can the idols have this? Don't ask these
questions.
So now
he says
well, he said so Nabi Ibrahim is saying
to these people, your lord is the lord
of the heavens and the earth.
The one who created, controls,
looks after the heavens and the earth.
And he says, and I bear witness to
that. That is our lord, guys. Our lord
is the one
who
made
us.
So then he said to himself, I'm gonna
teach you guys a lesson. By Allah, I
will surely
plot against your idols after you've turned your
backs and gone away. After you have left
Allah, I need to teach my people a
lesson.
So now we know the story. There was
a day of celebration where the people left
the temple and they maybe went out in
the in the woods or whatever, and Nabi
Ibrahim found himself alone
in, in the town. And they said, come
with, we're going to this party, this festival.
And usually these pagan festivals have all kinds
of rituals out in the in the woods
and stuff like that. He says, I'm not
feeling well.
I'm not feeling good. I've got some, you
know, I've got a fever or whatever. You
guys enjoy
yourselves. So now when the townsmen were all
out,
he gets out of bed and he runs
to the temple, breaks into the
the the the temple.
So then he comes in and he breaks
and he smashes all the figurines, all the
statues, the idols, he smashes them bits by
bits and except for the big one
and so that so they might turn to
it for answers And they broke all the
idols. He broke all the idols as we
know, and he left the axe or the
hammer
on the big idol. And he wanted them
to obviously ask this idol what happened.
So when the
when the opened the door, he's coming to
give a damn for fajr or whatever it
is. He says, oh my gods. What happened
to you?
Oh my gods. What happened to you? And
they called the people, come in. Look at
this.
Who dare do this? It was finally imagine
we walk into the Masjid and we see
everything is broken. And you can imagine how
upset and angry the people are of the
committee at an emergency meeting that calls, who
could have done this?
Who could have done this to our gods?
Indeed, this is such a criminal, bad criminal.
Ibrahim said, someone said, there is this delinquent
boy Azar's son.
That, boy Azar that we all heard about,
he's a troublemaker.
He's the only one that has been asking
crazy questions and speaking out against the idols.
Call him Asbihim.
So they called Nabi Ibrahim.
Bring him in front of the eyes of
the people. So it's not just him and
a few people. It's the whole village calling
him Nabi Ibrahim on one side and the
whole town, the whole masjid, everyone is in
front of him.
Ibrahim. They asked, did you do this, Ibrahim,
to the idols, to our gods?
He
said, why are you looking at me? The
big one did it. He's got the ax.
He's got the motor weapon. Why are you
looking at me? That guy hasn't got the
the the the the the the gun with
him, the the the the hammer.
Hada, this is the one that did it.
This is the bad guy. This idol, she
is jealous about all these idols. He broke
all of them. He's the one with the
ax, and he still even proudly keeps an
ax on his chest.
So
so ask him so he can tell you
what happened.
So then Allah says they took a moment,
all of them individually.
They pause for a moment, and they realized
that they were clearly on the wrong side.
They couldn't say to Ibrahim
that that's impossible.
A idol can't do anything. An idol can't
has any power. But they realize if we
say that that he affirms his position. So
if Allah says in that moment,
the penny dropped,
but collectively, they decided, no. No. No. We
can't say this.
They they said, no. We put that thought
out of our minds.
Then they said,
Duh. Are you stupid? You know the idols
can't talk.
Are you dumb?
So are you worshiping something that can't benefit
you or harm you or speak or anything?
To you. Duh. Are you stupid? You say
to them, are you dumb? Are you crazy?
He's like, are you I have shame on
you.
And shame on these things that you're worshiping.
You are dumb and these things that you
are worshiping
are dumb. Are you have to give them
sins? Are you like crazy?
Now, obviously, when you can't win a debate,
when you speak to a bully and he
can't win a debate, what's he gonna I'm
gonna pound on you. I'm gonna beat you
up. You better shut up. I'm gonna beat
you up.
And protect your gods.
Do it. So another mob mentality.
Burn him and save the idols and this
evil child. So, of course, we know this
the the story that they set up this
this huge fire.
His own dad, SubhanAllah,
Nabi Ibrahim's own father was part of him.
He didn't say stop. He said, yes. Burn
this boy. What kind of son does he
is of mine? And they created this fire
and they threw him
in in the fire. And at that moment,
Allah says, we said
fire. Oh, oh, fire.
Ibrahim. Be cold
and safe for Ibrahim. Be cold and safe.
And they plotted and they planned, but we
made them the losers that day. Ibrahim is
cast into the fire.
Everything he's he's ropes and what burns, but
he comes out. He's not even his clothes
are singed, and he walks out of the
fire safe and sound. And next week, we'll
continue with Nabi Ibrahim's story.
Just a few quick announcements.
We, with
next week is our last,
Jumuah and then Eid would follow thereafter, and
we ask Allah to grant us all the
best of the last 10 nights. The last
10 nights begin the 21st of of Ramadan.
I believe that is Sunday night. Tonight is
19th.
20th. So it's Sunday night is the beginning
of the last 10 nights. In those 10
nights, there would
be laylatul Qadr,
where your decree, my decree, whether I live,
whether you live, whether we have rizq, whether
we have sus, whatever it's going to be,
Allah will make it known to the angels
in that
next next week and half.
And
on that night, whoever captures it in Ibadah
and Salah with devotion, Allah didn't the prophet
didn't say a 100 rakahs or 8 rakahs.
If you spend even one moment crying sincere,
your heart is sincere
hope all our sins are forgiven, and we
capture.
Also, from the Surah, we know
the angels
the Jibreel
descends.
When the angels descend
on that night or on their little Qadr,
and they will accompany the people of gatherings
of the kur, of the masjids, your
especially even our homes and
there is a general amnesty.
Anyone who has sins, anyone who has a
problem, Allah opens the door, the
the blank check of forgiveness
is there. And so I know it's been
a long month. It's tiring.
We are all exhausted.
It has inshallah make and make dua, Allah
grants us the strength, the tawfiq, to push
our utmost best to attain
all the barakah, all the blessings, all the
khair, all the rewards of this last 10
nights. And, also, very importantly, the ummah is
in a desperate need desperate situation. Many of
our greatest victories were in the month of
Ramadan, Ramadan, and so your duas, the duas
of the ummah means a lot. Keep the
ummah in your duas. We make duas for
all those who are suffering and struggling. We
ask Allah to grant victory for our brothers
and sisters in Palestine and throughout the world.
Then with regards to Eid,
we, of course, will determine when Eid is
going to be. We also have to look
at the moon, but one of the best
things to do on Eid is, of course,
to feed people. That's why we have Zakat
al Fitr. It shouldn't actually be money. If
you can feed, it's even better, but it's
a dispensation. We put our money together, and
we,
feed people. So the best thing you can
possibly do on the day of Eid is
to feed someone, and we have this great,
Buran, or we have what we call the
Maharajan, where we cook pots of food and
we feed Muslim and non Muslims alike. So
this is not fitra. Some can go fitra,
but these are also for non Muslims to
show we are part of a
community. It's not just only Muslims. And so
we hope that,
everyone can contribute and then
every evening,
every evening,