Muhammed Ilyaas Samaai – BIS MASJID ALFALAAGH JUMUAH 10 MARCH 2023
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First of all, we thank Allah
for the greatest gift which Allah
has given to humanity,
which is gift of iman,
the gift of karmada, illa hulillah, Muhammad Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
For having given us the opportunity
of coming in the house of Allah
on this glorious and auspicious and beautiful occasion
of Jum'ah.
Jamaican's killeen,
I suppose,
throughout the country
and probably
throughout the world in these
last 2 weeks leading up
to the holy month of Ramadan,
everybody's excitement is peaking.
A Muslim is very excited for the month
of Ramadan because this is the 1 month
of the year where Allah Ta'ala's
mercy and His blessings and everything is with
us
multiplied.
Allah Ta'ala's blessings is always with us but
multiplied
in the holy month of
Ramadan. And one looks at the objective of
Ramadan,
then a lot of attention
will be given
to
one specific
issue
in the life of a Muslim.
And
Allah means that in
A lot of the things you will be
compared, will be paid in this quality of
taqwa
because the objective of Ramadan is what Allah
says is.
Very often we hear that the objective of
Ramadan is that you can feel
the difficult that your brothers are going through
when they
are in hunger,
we feel the difficulty and so on. Allah
says, no. The objective is actually taqwa.
Those are fringe benefits
of Ramadan.
To feel the suffering away brothers, to feel
our ease, to go hungry. Those are all
fringe benefits.
But Allah subhanahu
wa taqwa. But what is taqwa?
Taqwa is defined
by various ulama in various ways.
To stay away completely from major sins
and to avoid repeatedly
indulging in minor sins. This is one of
the definitions of
taqwa.
However, these are very comprehensive definition of taqwa.
For those alama and scholars in the book
Kitabat Taqwa of ibn Abi Duniya,
He makes mentions of, he makes mention of
a narration from Sinal Ibn Mutali Ibrahim where
he defines Taqwa.
And this is a Taqwa, he
is 4 things.
Now,
before I get into what these 4 things
are.
In Cape Town, we normally,
when people speak of Taqwa,
say,
In African Americans will say,
In English they will say, the fear of
Allah.
I feel if one looks at the definition
of say nali ramanu,
then we have missed the mark without translation.
Because we inspire fear in people with this
translations,
mean to be afraid
of Allah.
And the English translation
fearing Allah, it tells you everything.
People should fear Allah.
So Rafati has Umur Quran,
the mother of the Quran,
because it gives birth to the wrist which
means everything flows from Surafatiha. And read Surafatiha
just in the first three aya, aya.
4 times in the first three aya Allah
mentions He is most merciful.
So do you fear the one who is
most merciful?
Or do you have hope in the one
who is most merciful?
But taking the definition of sunaali rubanoo,
it now gives us a much more comprehensive
view of what taqwa is.
Sunnani
says, number 1 taqwa is only 25%
fear.
To fear Allah
That's 25% of taqwa. Because if you got
a whole and it's divided into 4 then
that means each one of the 4ths are
25%.
So sunnahirullah says
to fear Allah.
But then in the explanation of Al Khufmul
Jaleel,
he says not to fear Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala personally but to fear
that punishment
which goes hand in hand with the disobedience
of Allah.
But a Muslim does not fear his Rabb.
We do what we do out of love
for our
robbed. At our madrasa for example, our madraba
after madrasa, I've got a rule that it
teaches me to obey and I'm not very
strict as a principle,
very lenient. But there's one rule that they'll
compromise on. Children who are not muqalla shouldn't
even know about the punishment of Allah.
They should only fall in love with Allah.
Because if at that age we teach them
the love of Allah, then whatever they will
be doing will be done out of love.
Now if one looks
at 2 ways
of inspiring a child to do something,
1 is via love and the other one
is via fear, then which one is done
sincerely?
The one done for love or the one
done for fear?
If a child does an action out of
fear,
that child has no sincerity in what they
are doing. They are merely trying to avoid
the repercussions.
That's all that they're trying to do, but
there's no sincerity in what they are doing.
But if that same child does something out
of love,
then that entire
heart of that child is connected to what
what they are doing.
And the sincerity will be attached to that.
Similarly with
our relation with Allah
If we do things merely out of fear,
it's good to avoid the punishment of Allah.
It's important.
But if we do things only out of
fear,
then there'll be a lack of sincerity in
the heart.
However, if one does something
due to love for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
then automatically the sincerity is greater.
So Saladin al Rizkari
says, Taqwa is 1 fourth,
one quarter
is to do with
fear
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and fearing the
repercussions
of our misdeeds.
Not fearing Allah but fearing the repercussions of
our misdeeds,
our disobedience to Allah
He carries on and says,
And
And
Subhanallah, 3 words,
but look how comprehensive these three words are.
You practice upon revelation.
So what is revelation?
Quran
is revelation of Allah.
But is that the only revelation from Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala? In Surah Najib Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala means to you what? What the
revelation is? Allah
That when Nabi's alaihi wa sallam speaks, then
he does not speak from his own desires
but what he speaks is a revelation inspired
to him.
So which means Allah
makes the Quran
but Allah similarly
makes the as
well. I'm not making it I'm saying Allah
by word Allah Ta'ala actually states it is
wahi.
It is wahi, it is a revelation
which was inspired to Rasoolullah salAllahu alaihi wa
sallam. So his words, his actions, his deeds,
it's wahi.
So when sunnahali rukhanu says,
to practice upon revelation, it's a very
comprehensive statement.
To do whatever Allah
has instructed in Quran and to do whatever
Rasulullah
has taught us in the sunnah. This is
amal al Tanzi.
So we look at our lives,
then for the rest of our life
we can still aspire to practice upon that
revelation.
It will never come till end
because none of us will be able to
completely practice upon the revelation, not in not
in one lifetime.
Sahabr
are those guiding lights
who saw the revelation coming down, they interacted
with the revelation.
And
top amongst them being my
personal hero,
even he himself has never claimed to have
practice upon the entirety of deen.
Because that is
special for Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam. To specific
to Nabi Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam to have the
ability to implement
every single aspect of deen.
But that that does not
mean that we cannot attempt to do so.
Our life should be about attempting
to implement every aspect of sharia, every aspect
of the sunnah of Rasulullah should become part
of our lives.
But
everybody here will say, well,
Mullah,
what you say is impossible.
And I agree with you. It's impossible.
But
does that mean we cannot
attempt?
We cannot try?
The intentional belief is even better than his
deed.
So imagine we here in this masjid as
we are here today,
we say that, oh Allah, I make an
intention to practice upon every single aspect of
your deen. Every single faqd, every single sunnah,
every single nafal.
But I'll do so so one step at
a time.
Because I won't be able to do everything
one time.
I'll do so one step at a time.
But with intention that
I wish to do every aspect of your
dream.
Then where does the reward lie? In what
we have already implemented or what we have
intended?
The reward lies by what we have intended.
Everybody's every single person here knows the hadith.
Your actions will be judged according to your
intentions
and you will be rewarded accordingly.
So imagine your intention is to practice every
single aspect of deen. Deal.
Your reward goes hand in hand with what
intent what intention you have. So your intention
is for every every aspect of the deal,
then you get rewarded as if you have
implemented every aspect of the deal even though
you have not done so yet.
But one needs to make an effort to
get to that point then because an intention
without
an effort towards that intention is no true
intention in the first place.
So how does one go about
in practicing everything of the while that intention
is there to do so?
One takes it one step at a time.
A mountain is a whole lot of smaller
stones
all piled onto each other. Each stone builds
a mountain.
So it takes 1 stone at a time,
one step at a time. We look into
our own lives each one of us will
have a different thing to look at that
in our own lives.
And we ask ourselves which one of the
fard
am I negligent of personally?
And I'll start with that one fard and
we do. We'll find 50 fard that we
are negligent of. But I'll start with this
one foul first.
And I set myself a goal
that within the next
month, 2 months, 3 months,
I want that foul to become such a
part of my life that it will never
be neglected again.
And we focus all our attention on that
one.
I want one sunnah which is negligent in
my life
and for the next month, 2 months, 3
months, whatever amount of time it takes,
I'll work on that one sunnah to get
it such a part of my life that
it will never be neglected again.
And then I look at one haram
and all of us.
The beef fathers and teachers,
all of us are sinful, which means all
of us are indulging in something which is
haram.
Because doesn't
make you sinful. Endoubling in something which is
does not make you sinful.
The definition of a karaha of is what?
That thing for which if one indulges there
is no sin, but if one stays away
there is reward.
So which means if there is no sin
in magruh,
then the Bisa'al is gonna say all of
us sinful which means something in our lives
we are doing which is haram.
So which one of the haram things
I will cut away from my life
and I'll set my goal that x amount
of time, 1 month, 2 months, 3 minutes,
it must be completely out of my life
to such an extent we I cannot imagine
my life with that thing back in my
life again.
But if one tries to do everything at
the same time
and I'm gonna change my entire life overnight,
Then we know we setting ourselves up for
failure.
Allah
who is Allah truly shayin Qadeel,
He's capable of doing anything.
Allah created this world and what it contains
in 6 days.
But 6 days.
If Allah is really capable of everything,
then
Why didn't Allah say in the entire dunya
and whatever it contains?
He's dead.
Why take 6 days?
When Allah
Quran is
the heart of Rasulullah
Well, Balamaji various reasons.
One reason that I've discovered
is Allah is actually teaching
us. Take things step by step.
Do things little bit at a time.
That that
slowly but slowly building on each other, that
is the sunnah of Allah
The sunnah
Rasulullah is tadrij,
do things
little bit of time and building on each
other.
So similarly now implementation of this deen,
let us not try to rush in and
do everything
and the sooner one rushes in, the sooner
one rushes out.
So make an intention
that one fog which is negligent in my
life, I'll make it part of my life,
such a part of my life which I
cannot imagine my life without it.
One sunnah, I'll make it part of my
life, such a part of my life I
cannot imagine my life without it. And one
haram, I'll abstain so completely that I cannot
imagine it becoming part of my life again.
And
that is.
So another one that carries on, and he
says the third quality is
to be content with little.
Now if you should ask
in
this masjid, if I should ask every person,
tell me what is little for you.
Give me little in terms of a rand
value.
Then
if you have 400 people with this masjid,
I'll have 400 different answers.
Because defining little
will depend on the individual
and that individual's income will be will,
change his mind into what his definition will
be of little.
So little is not a constant for everyone,
where everyone's definition is the same of little.
But Allah's
definition of little is very easy.
Everything in this world
is little.
Because competing the treasure of Allah
what is this?
Compared to the trees of Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala,
then everything that everyone of the human beings
combined
own.
It
still doesn't take away a drop in the
ocean of the Tirish of Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
So when Allah says, Arabic al Khali being
content with or when I'm
sorry. Says Arabic al Khali being content with
little, then He means whatever we have.
Because what we have compared to the tradition
of Allah subhanallah is little. So whether you
be someone who earns a 100 rand per
week, or whether you be someone who earns
a 100,000,000,000 per week,
it's still little.
But being content with that little will make
one wealthy.
It will make one rich.
Because true wealth
is not the amount that's in the bank
account. True wealth is how content the heart
is with what one has.
One finds
Sahab al Anub such as
who in the initial stages with Islam
lived
in the Masjid.
This part was have sufah.
And you find Sahar al Ghamm such as
in Uthman al Ghani Radwanu,
the son-in-law of Nasirullah Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam, 3rd
khalif of Islam.
There were 2 opposite spectrums
of
the financial
or our finances.
The one was absolutely poor, did not have
a home of his own, did not have
an income, would follow Nabi's alaihis salam, where
ibn Nabi's alaihis salam would go so that
he can also get some something to eat.
On the other hand, sir, alayhi wa sallam
was so wealthy
that when the call was made that this
army needs to go out but this army
does not have much.
The incident alayhi wa sallam stood up and
he said, I donate 1 100 camels fully
laden with whatever is required.
Majibat Musamin just try to picture a 100
camels fully laden,
then you take a truck today,
fully laden with whatever is required on the
truck.
He gives a 100 trucks for truckloads.
Says that's what I need. Nabi saw makes
a call again. He says, I
give another 100 camels fully elated with whatever
is required.
We salAllahu alaihi wa sallam 3rd time asked,
who is it to the naked cause of
Allah? Now, Usman once again. And say, Una
be you Allah, give another 100 truck loads
fully laden with whatever it requires.
Is there anybody here in this masjid who
is prepared to give 300 truck
loads fully laden with whatever is required to
go to Turkey or Syria at the moment
now?
Masai do it tablish Islam.
Tablish Islam booking pen.
Right? Wait till the people make the steal.
It's not in our nature to do that
because we don't have the quality of Sin
Uthman in
our hearts yet.
But what I'm trying to get to this
Sin Uthman
as wealthy as he was, he was poor.
He had little
competed with the riz of Allah And what
Sinha'ali had, was little
competed with the riz of Allah
So when Sinha'ali ibn al Qariqalil,
to be satisfied and content with that little,
Then refers to whatever we have,
that is little.
But saying, Alhamdulillah,
I'm being content. My heart is at ease.
This is what my hub has decided for
me.
Being content does not mean one does not
attempt to improve the situation.
Does not mean one does not improve the
situation.
One needs to go out and seek your
rizq. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala Surah Jumara.
Allah tells us, when that salah of Jum'ah
is completed,
then go out in this world
and see the bounties of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. So we need to work.
It does not mean we have to say,
Alhamdulillah, Allah has decided I'm gonna be proper,
therefore I'm not gonna make any effort to
do anything besides that.
No. We should go out and seek the
results.
But be content with what Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
scenario
of Radwan tells us
is,
Make preparations
for the day of our journey. To make
preparations for the day of our journey. So
I'm going
to So I'm going to Pine Lake Merini.
Is that the journey that he's speaking of?
No. He's
speaking about the much greater journey. The journey
from
this world to the year
after. Making preparations for that journey.
Rasulullah SAW teaches us that,
In another way,
Increase your remembrance of that thing which will
cut off all your pleasures which is death.
Prepare oneself
for that journey.
Because if I realize that today is my
last day, I will live my life in
such a way that I ensure that Allah
is happy with me.
I ensure absolute certainty I want to be.
I want to have absolute certainty that Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is pleased with
me. But for some strange reason in San,
we have this pool al amal.
We've got this high hopes.
And you know what, in 20 years time
ago hajj.
Not ready now. In 20 years inshallah I'll
go
hajj. What guarantee do we have we live
to see asr salah today?
But we're planning for 20 years of age
to go hajj, I'm not ready now.
I'm not gonna give salakah today.
I'll do that once I reach 1,000,000 rand
in my bank account. Then I'll give salakah.
No guarantee
forget about Asar salah. No guarantee that I'll
be able to complete this sentence I'm busy
with at this moment.
But we're speaking about 10 years from now,
20 years from now. Strange young son was
it?
That high hopes will be what?
But
to prepare for that final journey.
Jumat Musamin Nabi
tells the hadith which
It brings joy to my heart and it
brings fear in my heart at the same
time.
Nabi says
that,
Whoever loves to meet Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala loves to meet that
person.
May Allah make all of us of those
people who love to meet Allah and who
Allah Wa Ta'ala loves to meet.
But the hadith
Ta'ala similarly will dislike meeting that person.
So I've got higher hopes that Allah Qalam
must make me of those people who will
love to meet Allah, and thereby Allah Qalam
will love to meet me.
But at the same time, I've got this
great fear
that what if I'm not ready to meet
Allah?
Will Allah
want to meet me?
Imagine, miss Saleen,
the 4 qualities of taqwa.
To fear
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, meaning fearing
our misdeeds which all encounter the Ras of
Allah.
To practice upon revelation
which means Quran and Sunnah.
Number 3,
to be satisfied and content with what Imam
Abu Ta'ala has given to us. And number
4, to make preparations
for their final journey, the journey from this
world to the year after. May Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala make us a Muqtatim. May Allah
make it such that when we reach the
month of Ramadan, we actually acquire the qualities
of taqwa insha Allah. May Allah grant us
all say and bark in our lives, and
may Allah make it this Ramadan a really
prosperous Ramadan for each and you and every
one of us in our family.
May
Allah
grant us the ability to have the taqwa,
which is deserving
to Allah.
A few announcements,
in the remembrance of Marham Ali,
Kara, who passed away,
29 years ago today.
Dua that Allah
grant him in all disease.
The Institute of Memorizing of,
Quran will be having their Ramadan Expo on
Saturday, 11th March 2023
at,
at, School,
108, Wilmington
Road, Kotut from 9 AM to 7 PM.
There will also be a breakfast, braai, and
more, also,
for the youth. Please do support this world.
Of course, food sales, please support the food
sales in the garage after. We're also selling
parpa bites in, the garage. It cost a
5,000,000
protected. The money for the parpa bites goes
towards,
Turkey and Syria earthquake
relief to support this worthy effort its worthy
effort.
And last but not least, we want to
say,
to all those who have contributed
towards our,
Nifshesha band program.
The program was, successful.
Grant those people long life.