Muhammad West – The Revival #30
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The speakers discuss the concept of sakaatul fitr, which is to avoid hungry individuals during Easter fasting. They also emphasize the importance of aid and labarang, as well as the need for community support. The speakers stress the importance of fidya and small impacts in building a healthy society, and emphasize the need for individuals to testify for their weight in the message. The speakers also touch on the spread of Islam across various countries and emphasize the importance of reforming Islam and small efforts. The conversation ends with a question about a potential return to Islam, and the speakers expressing gratitude for the audience's support.
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Night number 30,
the last night of Ramadan, and tomorrow the
last day of fasting.
My will accept from all of us what
we've achieved thus far. And whatever remains, whatever
good that is still left, may Allah bless
us with it.
There's always an opportunity. Every last moment of
Ramadan, we should take as a opportunity.
Remember that beautiful hadith that Nabi Islam says
every night, every evening, Allah
basically looks at a portion of the people
of Jahannam and he he he saves them
on the day on that evening. And so
there is a group of people who are
their status with Allah is not that good,
but through their duas and through their worship
on this night will be set free from
jahannam. May Allah grant that we are all
set free from jahannam. Amen. Amen.
This evening, we don't have a a a
program. We rushed to finish yesterday.
So, I'll start off with the announcements,
and then we have some reflections and questions
perhaps. But first announcements, the first matter, that
matter of
fitra,
sakaatul fitr.
Sakaatul fitr,
as the Nabi says mentions,
Allah
when we're done with the month of Ramadan,
our Ramadan fasting
is presented to Allah,
how we fasted.
And some of us,
fasted well. And some days we did good.
Some days we didn't do so well. Some
days
we said things we weren't supposed to. We
looked at things we weren't supposed to. And
zakatul fitr is that little small amount of
charity that we give that purifies our fasting
so when it gets to Allah, it's polished.
That's what the Nabi sun mentions. So if
you want to perfect your fasting,
you have to pay your zakatul fitr. And
zakatul fitr is on every single person,
for you and those who are dependent on
you, your kids, your wife, if you are,
looking after them. It's R77
per person. And ideally,
you should be either you give it to
an organization, a masjid or sanzaf, whatever, and
then they take it, but it's given to
the poor in the form of of food.
And so that means while you are enjoying
your your Eid,
breakfast or lunch, someone is eating because of
you. And that is the,
as we said, you know, there's a there's
a saying, the the worst
sound
is for people to hear you eating while
they're hungry. It's the worst sound. And so
we wanna make sure that nobody is hungry,
on especially the the Muslims is hungry on
the day of Eid while we are feasting.
And that is the concept of zakatul fitr.
So everybody needs to, insha'Allah, if you can.
If you really, really can't afford Zakat al
Fitr, R77 per person, whatever you can. Whatever
you can, Insha'Allah.
Fidya, we said this, we spoke about this.
Fidya is not
Fidya is for the person who can never
fast, fast, is unable to fast completely.
They don't have to pay it tomorrow or
before the end of, on the day of
Eid. You can pay your fidya after
it's a but it's a debt that is
owed, and you need to inshallah try and
pay it,
before the next Ramadan if you can. Some
people mention, especially pensioners. Like, I'm too old
to fast, but I'm also too I don't
have fidya. I can't pay. I mean, FIDIA
now is about R28 per day. If you've
times 30, it's almost a R1,000 for the
month. It's difficult for a pensioner to pay
a R1,000 in one go. So it doesn't
need to be paid now. It can be
paid in stages. You just have to feed
1 person one meal. That is the concept
of of fidya. Then the issue of aid
or labarang,
as is per the sunnah,
we will be having an idga or a
Mas'id. Idga means Mas'id, id salah in the
road, inshallah, whether permitted, here in Wells Street.
And this was the sunnah, the Nabi in
Masjid al Nabawi, the 2nd holiest place on
earth. On the day of Eid, he said,
we will leave the Masjid. We'll get a
big open area because the Masjid wasn't big
enough for everyone, and the whole community must
come. The men, the women, the children, even
the ladies who never came to the Masjid,
some ladies stay in the, house secluded in
the hijab. He called them even new ladies
must come out. Everybody must attend the Eid
Salah. So this is a great sunnah,
and it's only befitting that here in Bukab,
which is the home of Islam in this
country or in the southern hemisphere some people
mentioned, we should be reviving sunans like this.
And please, if you're on the area or
in the area, or if you, you know,
you came to town for work, you sat
in you sat in traffic for work, sit
in traffic for the Eid salah inshallah here
in in the Buqab. So
when you look at the history and the
revival series, Allah fa'y with this little patch
of land that is the Buqab.
Series, Allah favored this little patch of land
that is the Buqab.
Allah favored
it. Has
blessed it. Surely, he has blessed it. The
masajid that still remains and the legacy that
still remains is something that we thank Allah
for it. So
all of all of us are attached to
this,
area. And so join us for the,
idga What else?
The Maharajah. So as we also mentioned that
there would be a cooking of food,
and this is something which is known
as a community,
that we are a community in this land.
One of the reasons why we are so
integrated
and so cared for in terms of our
non Muslim neighbors look. We're only 23 it's
2 to 5% of the population. Yet every
single one of you at work, your colleagues
are no you know, it's either e to
Wednesday or Thursday. Whether you're taking off and
they're willing to accommodate you. I mean, I
I I lecture at UCT, and I already
have people. You just tell me which day,
and I'll send in for you.
And we're like 3 Muslim lecturers on 1
module. So it's sort of like people don't
even have a a, they're happy to assist
and happy to support us as a community.
One of the reasons
is that when we give, we don't only
give ourselves. We wanna make sure that we
are a be part of this country and
that nobody should be hungry, Muslim or non
Muslim. And, therefore, we must continue this legacy
of giving, of being charitable. And more so
at the end of Ramadan when we felt
a bit of hunger,
cook that pot of food. As a group,
you're all part of a WhatsApp group. You
have a family WhatsApp group. Say, guys, we
want to show our thanks to Allah.
He's not only giving shukr to him, but
we wanna feed besides my fitrah, which feeds
a Muslim, I wanna feed a non Muslim
on the day of Eid. And I want
them to know it is the Muslims that
when we celebrate our acts of worship, our
Christmas, if you will, we celebrate with the
entire community. And so make that effort. As
we said, I don't know, a pot of
food is, you know, 4,000. It's a lot.
But if you're in a a group of,
you know, 10 people, 20 people, then it's
not so much. But you be that person
to go and say, I'm looking for 20
people.
Who who's going to join me, and we're
gonna we're going to either cook cook that
pot of food or we're going to contribute
to it. And so may Allah grant that
this is for us to build our community
and strengthen our position here in this community.
And, if you can, don't feel shy bringing
your barakat to work
the next day. Let them also enjoy that,
Eid barakat as well.
Okay. I think I've covered all the key
announcements. Then, of course, just once again to
thank the,
and to thank
whoever
a wonderful,
program here throughout the month. And for those
online as well, we've got a huge following
online, and we
say to them. They don't get the chance
to get the I know most of you
here just for the prize giving, the
the the lucky draw. I know that's why
half of you are here. They're not here.
So they their sincerity is a 100% sincere.
They they they follow for the sake of.
We we thank them. We hope to see
them inshallah. So we in the series,
a series that,
at the very last moment, we sort of,
I was thinking very long and hard how
do what series should we do? And, I
think it was a good good choice. And
reflections, everyone would have the further reflections. My
reflections,
of course, are, you know, is that
as bad as situation we all know the
ummah is not in a great state. The
sake of the ummah is not great. But
we've been through it, man. We've been through
it. We've experienced it. We've we've suffered. We
struggled, and we will get out of it.
Allah has
promised we will get, insha'Allah, we'll get out
of it. And we don't have to wait
for a Mahdi and Imam Mahdi to come.
Yes. That time will come. Maybe it's soon,
maybe not soon. But
we are all
responsible for the well-being of the ummah. And
this tiny community here in South Africa, here
in Cape Town in particular, we punch above
our weight, and we should continue to do
so. We should continue our you know, maybe
we can't,
we, we are even impacting things on a
global scale. We just look at the ICJ,
and we are impacting things on a global
scale, 50 Muslim countries, and it's our country
that is able to stand up in front
of the world. That does not come from
nothing.
That does come from our input. And so,
alhamdulillah,
we continue
as Muslims in this tiny minority
to write
the the the the future of this. And
so Allah
blesses every generation with a set of problems,
but he also blesses that generation with the
people, with the skills, with the resources, with
the expertise to solve that problem. It only
requires the will. It only requires the sincerity.
It
ummah, whether it's just your your corner masjid,
your kid's madrassa, whether it's the ulema, the
images, whatever it is, choose a problem. We've
got so many problems. Choose 1, make it
your own, and contribute. And Insha'Allah,
as the series showed, Allah
can bring success from nowhere. The smallest of
people, the smallest of inputs can have great
success. And sometimes the biggest of things don't
achieve
the barakah, but it is the the the
sincerity
that counts.
Are there any questions, any reflections that anybody
else would like to share
and give an opportunity to ask? Online, if
you're following online, you can also ask on
YouTube.
I'm tired of talking now.
Uncle Syed?
To me, what was interesting, Chet, was
that over this millennia,
Islam is spreading at a rapid rate,
but not through any kind of conflict,
through very different means.
And there's not a colony in the world
that I know of where you can't find
a machine.
Your thoughts on that. Alhamdulillah, al Said mentioned
that,
in the past perhaps, we could have said
that through conquest and through might because we're
strong, Islam spread.
Now we are in a very, very weak,
situation, yet Islam is still spreading. What what
can we mention on that? So remember that
hadith that the prophet said that Allah rolled
the world out for the Rabi Salam, and
he showed him the furthest point east and
west. And the Rabi Salam, I saw my
ummah. There will be Muslims in that area.
And, the first point south is us. And
we of that, you know, that's a great
testimony. We will be the people that will
testify that in the southernmost
put tip of Africa,
was kept up to us. So
Allah,
as we said, has made the Islam strong
and it will spread. And we know that
anybody
that openly, you know, looks at Islam, is
exposed to Islam, Allah
will bring their hearts to Islam. And something
as as, you know, Gaza, which is such
a terrible situation we're going through, is a
means by which many, many people are looking
at they look at people, they've lost their
homes, they lost their family, their kids. They
sit there, and they instead of screaming and
shouting, they say,
tears in their eyes. Their heart is broken,
but the iman comes first. And this person
is sitting there wherever they are in the
world with all their,
gadgets and enjoyment, I think, this person's strength,
I don't have. What gives this person strength
to continue? Why don't these people give up
or surrender? They have something which will lie
there in me. And, you know, as much
as the world is is moving towards atheism
and God is not part of your life,
when a person that doesn't have Allah sees
a person that has iman, when your colleagues
see that you're fasting and that you say,
look. I'm going to make salaam. I'm going
to Jumuah. There is an envy in that.
Everybody
wants to find and experience his or her
creator. And so, therefore,
with technology, with
the deen as it is, and as we're
spreading, whoever exposes themselves to Islam will have
no you know, it will naturally it is
the truth. It is the Haqq. It is
Allah's, revelation,
and that is why we're seeing people, flocking
to to this to this religion.
For the question.
With others trying, people are flocking to the
dean.
Anybody else?
No?
Yeah.
The sisters must also ask a question. It's
been really quiet this month.
Yes. Uncle,
the Krishnan
very quick question. So we started the series,
in fact, this series was supposed to be
on the different Mujaddids.
And the problem with that is so if
we remember the Nabi al Salam mentioned that
at the turn of every century, there would
be someone that is there to revive the
din that will bring people back to the
din. That is the the sort of the
the role of the mujahideen. And that's why
we always use the word revival and not
reform. We don't have to fix anything with
Islam. Islam is fixed.
We stray away and it brings someone to
bring us reignite Islam in our hearts. And
so the prophet says that there were for
every turn of the century, there would be
at least be 1 mujahideid. Doesn't mean limited
to 1 or one person or a group
or movement.
And, as you can imagine over the last
1,400 year 14 14 centuries, scholars have differed
as to who they were. They only almost
agree on 2 people. They agree, number 1,
that the first is Ommun bin Abdul Aziz.
Everybody almost agrees he was the first Mujadid.
And then a a large majority agrees that
Imam Ghazali might have been the Mujadid of
his century. Between that, there's a lot of
different opinions,
and it could be for our region. I
mean, for us, as I said, it's undoubtedly
when Tuvan Guru was alive. He was the
mujahid of our time here in South Africa.
I mean, he basically brought Islam to, you
know, to the hearts of the people, by
the grace of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And,
there's a beautiful anecdote when
it mentions that when Saladin was in school
in in a Nizami, yeah, studying the syllabus
of al Muqazali, by that time, the Crusaders
had conquered Jerusalem already. Right? And the sheikh
was saying to the class, Allah will send
the Mujahid and that Mujahid, Insha'Allah, will
bring Jerusalem back. And everybody asked, you know,
who is it? Who is that? And salahuddin
picks up his hands. Yeah. Sheikh, I am
Iqdua. I'm that man.
This is a tradition. This is a well
known story that salahuddin, this young boy said,
I will be that Mujadid, and I will
bring Jerusalem by the grace of Allah. So
don't yes. We are humble and we're shy,
but everybody should make make dua that we
and our efforts will either be part of
that revival. I will be that reviver. Make,
you know, make it in your near that
Allah will
make you part of the revival of this
Umma.
So we don't know, but it's we make
the ifood as if though it would be
us. Amin
Amin. For the sisters,
very humble and modest. Any questions for the
sisters?
Are you listening?
Listening.
Very good.
Okay. So then,
without if there's no further comments or questions,
then, inshallah, we make du'a Allah
accepts all our deeds, our fasting, our charity,
our salah, our duas. May Allah
grant us to be better people at the
end of Ramadan. May Allah bless us with
many, many, many more Ramadans.
May Allah Allah keep us and our community
safe and secure. Oh, there's a question. Okay.
I have a question. I just wanna say
shukranath to you. Okay.
It's been an amazing season. I've had so
many call me from my friends that I've
shared with.
Shukran. God bless you and increase you I
mean, I mean
even
Shukran, Shukran so much. I always mentioned that
there is a big team
behind the scenes. I'm just a pretty face,
but the team does all the hard work,
man, and and I think Ubaid and and
the rest of them that does all the
work. So we on on behalf of all
of us, we we really appreciative.
And, my Allah grant us sincerity, and it's
really humbling just to know that little bits
that we do, the small efforts that we
do goes
sort of far and wide, and we don't
even know where it ends up. And, wherever
there's benefit, it is.
We appreciate the comments, and, it means a
lot to us, and Allah accept and continue.
God has to do good. And for all
of us, again, as I as I said,
we make du'a that Allah blesses us with
many more opportunities to worship him. Ultimately, the
ultimate objective is that we get to Allah
with good deeds, and he's given us this
Ramadan. He's given us this opportunity,
and we ask that he gives us many
more opportunities until we reach Jannah.
Ameen, and we make dua for all those
who are struggling and suffering. I mean, we
talk about this revival series. Can you imagine
what it must be like in Gaza or
Kashmir
or Uighurs who are not allowed to practice
the Islam or people forced not to fast,
you know, hoping and waiting for when is
this when is the Nasr of Allah going
to come. We make dua. Allah brings it
very soon to them and that we're able
to see it. We will ask Allah that
we can see that our, you know, the
ummah is strengthened, and we ask Allah for
forgiveness and to pardon us and to grant
us all
so much, and I hope you all have
a wonderful,
blessed Eid
and