Jumuah Kuthbah 22-03-2024
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The upcoming month of centers is emphasizing the importance of achieving the taqwa of dash dash dash dash dash dash dash, which is a combination of sincerity and patientism. Personal and family presence is essential to achieve healthy spirituality, and control and personalized approach are key pillars. The speaker also encourages individuals to work on their heart and see if their body is firm, and reminds them to be mindful of their weaknesses and actions.AI Generated Transcript ©
Hi,
My brothers and sisters,
on this blessed day and hour and month
of Yomul Jum'ah and Sha'ruh
Mubarak. We ask Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
to accept from us
our efforts and forgive us of our shortcomings
and our mistakes.
We pray that Allah
accept our qiyam,
our siyam,
our duas,
especially in this month, allahu'ma
ameen.
Furthermore, brothers and sisters, we ask Allah aesawajal
to ease the pain and suffering of our
brothers and sisters,
Aina Makan, wherever they may be.
In Palestine, in Gaza, in Yemen, in Sudan
and throughout the world,
throughout the Muslim world. Allahum
Amin.
There's a good chance for you and I
to assume that
many of the khateeps today,
especially we are almost at the middle
of
the month of Ramadan,
Khatibs will be dedicating
their hutbaas and their topics
on encouraging us
to remain consistent.
Because
usually, this is the time where many Muslims
experienced
a slump
in their fasting,
in their whole experience with Ramadan,
might get a little exhausted, a little tired.
And then it starts to pick up as
we get closer to the last 10 nights.
May Allah Aso Wa Jal give us strength.
And so with that being said, I'm not
gonna do that today.
I wanna share with you a couple of
things
that will help myself and you really make
the most of Ramadan.
But we're only going to focus on one
thing.
Before we mention what that is,
when it comes to the rituals of Ramadan,
the fasting, the tarawee,
the duas.
For the most part Alhamdulillah,
all of us
have that
and we have a good connection with them.
Because prior to Ramadan,
we've been reminded about the importance of its
blessings and the mercy and the forgiveness.
We're constantly
reminded the importance of dua.
And we're here every night for tawawee. So
when it comes to the rituals,
we ask Allah aesawajal to accept it from
all of us.
There's
another side
to the experience
of Ramadan
that is absolutely
important.
Ramadan
also
exposes
a weakness
in the Muslim culture,
a weakness
that we constantly
have to be reminded.
We constantly
need direction.
We constantly
need nasiha.
And that part of Ramadan is our akhlaq.
It's our etiquettes.
Now there's 3 things.
Before Ramadan, you heard that the ultimate goal
of this month
was la'alaqum
tatakoon,
so that you might attain taqwa.
But what does that mean in Ramadan?
We have taqwa throughout the year. Don't we?
Walillah ihamd.
But when it comes to Ramadan, Allah says
so perhaps Insha'Allah you're gonna attain taqwa.
But you have taqwa.
So what is this ayah
focusing on
with respect to Ramadan
that's different from outside of Ramadan?
Three things the scholars tell us. Number 1,
when it comes to attaining the taqwa of
Ramadan,
number
1, sincerity.
Ikhlas.
Think about it.
Nobody knows
who is fasting
except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and that individual.
And what I mean by that is, somebody
could easily break their fast
at home, come and have iftar and we
would never know.
Fasting provides this
private
relationship
between you and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Nobody's gonna know about it. Nobody's gonna know
about your experience. It's solely between you and
our creator Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Their ulama, they say the benefit of that
and what makes
this sincerity
connected to taqwa in Ramadan
is that Ramadan
helps us to reinforce
and purify
our sincerity
for Allah
Aesawajal. So we experienced it already.
How does prayer feel now in Ramadan?
It's different.
Fasting, it's different.
Even in the Quran Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
told us,
Allah, Asojal, wants ease for you with respect
to Ramadan. He doesn't want to make it
difficult for you or me.
And one very clear example of that is
try fasting outside of Ramadan. It's almost impossible.
But Alhamdulillah,
by Allah's grace,
we can do it for an entire month
in the month of Ramadan. May Allah accept.
Hallahum Amin. Number 2. So we have sincerity.
Here's number 2.
The scholars say
sabr, patience,
is emphasized more in this month and that's
part of the connection of taqwa.
We're patient throughout the day. We're patient during
our fast. No matter how much it hurts,
no matter how thirsty, how hungry, we go
through it all.
And we do this for the sake of
Allah.
This is teaching us. Even if we have
patience,
it's teaching us
to reinforce
and strengthen the relationship between us
and patience.
Now one hadith I want to share with
you about patience, about sabru.
The prophet alaihis salatu was salam
once saw a woman crying
next to a grave.
And she was crying and crying, really emotional.
So he paused and he said to her,
if you are patient this is better for
you.
And the woman, she made a remark. She
responded to the prophet
alaihis salatu wa sallam with a phrase that
wasn't appropriate.
Basically she said just leave me alone.
This is my time, leave me alone.
She doesn't know that that's the prophet alayhis
salatu was salam.
Later on,
she learns who he was, sallallahu alayhi was
salam.
She went directly
directly to his house.
And she just apologized.
She spoke to the prophet alaihis salatu wa
sama. She apologized.
And she explained that this was my child
that died.
And the emotional
pain that I'm experiencing got the best of
me. The prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam then
tells her,
patience is the first thing
you should feel and experience when a hardship
or a calamity
comes to you or me. The first thing
that should happen is patience.
Now remember, we talk about this all the
time. Patience doesn't mean to hold back your
tears. It means to control them.
Patience doesn't mean don't feel sad or emotional.
It means to control them.
So
remember this one hadith about patience,
because we need it now
more than ever,
with all of the struggles of this world
to remind ourselves
that we can never ever live a healthy
spiritual life
without patience. May Allah Aso'a Jal bless all
of us with beautiful patience.
Number
3.
Number 3.
The ulema they say,
to attain the taqwa
that's emphasized in Ramadan,
akhlaq,
akhlaq, akhlaq.
Our manners.
Ramadan reminds us
how we get along,
how we talk to each other, how we
park,
where we go,
when when we have our iftar, that we
make sure we finish what we take. We
don't waste. We donate. We help. We look
out for each other. It reminds us
how important it is for you and me
to get along.
Because look at the whole experience of Ramadan.
We pray together. We fast together, we celebrate
together. Everything
about it
brings us together as a community.
And so what I want to emphasize today
is the struggle between
strengthening and purifying
our akhlaq
so that we continue
Ramadan
as better people and as better Muslims, and
Insha'Allah that carries on after Ramadan.
Here is one hadith that Insha'Allah
I think would really help.
Our prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam told us
in an authentic narration,
Akmalil
mumineen,
the most
complete
believers,
Emanin,
with respect to their faith.
The prophet alaihis salatu wa sallam says,
those believers
that have complete amen
must have these two things.
Number 1,
they must have good manners.
And number 2,
they are soft and gentle with their families.
You know who narrated this hadith?
It was Aisha radiAllahu Anha.
You know why that's important?
Because
she is going to know
more than anyone else the akhlaq of the
prophet alayhis salatu wassalam. And she is narrating
that these are the 2 things the prophet
alayhi salatu wa sallam said,
that we must have They're linked together.
You cannot have
strong Eman, but no akhlaq.
You cannot preserve and protect
akhlaq
and still have weak Eman.
You need both of these.
So
this point
about being soft and gentle
with the family.
That's our starting point.
Ask yourself, brothers and sisters,
what kind of presence do you have?
What kind of presence do you have when
you enter the home?
What's the impression that your family gets and
feels
when you're around?
Some families,
they count
the minutes
before he or she, whoever it is, could
be mom, dad, husband, wife, children, sons, daughter,
doesn't matter. But there's that one member of
the family
that perhaps
the rest don't
get along with.
Or there's always confrontation.
There's always problems.
This doesn't pause in Ramadan.
What the prophet alaihis salatu wassalam tells us
that if you want to really work on
yourself,
then it starts with the people who surround
themselves with you the most,
our families.
Here's the second hadith.
The second hadith our prophet alaihi sallahu alaihi
wa sallam tells us. This is an authentic
hadith.
Pause.
The prophet alayhi salatu wa sallam tells us,
our faith, our iman,
it's not going to
stand and become firm
unless
and until
our hearts become
firm,
until our hearts
can stand
on its own. And what we mean by
that is,
you have a heart where there is no
compromise
between right and wrong. When you see wrong,
you understand it's wrong.
When you see right, you understand crystal clear,
this is the right thing to do.
If your heart is starting to feel that
way now,
or you've been feeling that kind of heart
throughout the month,
count your blessings
because
Allah Aso Wa Jal is facilitating
a path towards his forgiveness and mercy. May
Allah
allow all of us to be on that
path.
So your heart,
this is the second place to start as
well. So how do you do that?
How do you work on a heart
that stays firm and Iman is preserved?
Listen to the rest of the hadith.
Prophet alayhi salatu wasallam continues and he says,
The heart is never going to be firm
and stand on its own.
Until
the tongue
is controlled,
it stands by itself. Meaning,
you never allow your tongue to become loose.
If we want the hearts
to be firm
with Amen,
the next step to achieve that in this
hadith is we control
what we say.
Think about it, brothers and sisters.
This is exactly
as a community
across the world. This is our struggle.
It's akhlaq.
Have
having and holding on to faith and iman,
many of us can do that.
Many of us can get to the masjid.
It's a great positive for all of us.
But once we step out of those grounds,
or somebody gets upset, or they get irritated,
and you know the list goes on,
that's the turning point.
This Ramadan,
I'm encouraging
myself
and all of you here
to do one thing, especially when you leave
here today.
Today, at some point, I have an assignment
for all of you and I'm gonna have
this assignment as well.
The first thing that you I want to
ask you to do, when you get home,
ask your family.
Anybody.
Children,
your spouse.
Ask them.
Tell me one
part of my character that I need to
work on.
Tell me one weakness that I have.
And then you can do the same
with them.
You see, if you do this, scholars, they
say,
it starts to bring about the sense of
humility.
It'll help you recognize, wait a minute,
I really have to work on my patience.
I really have to work
actions. How will I behave when I'm upset?
What do I say? What do I do?
How do I react? I really gotta work
on this. When you start to do that,
the Suruleiman, they tell
us embrace those faults.
Embrace them, especially in this month.
So that insha'allahu
ta'ala when you
start to see those weaknesses, you accept, yes,
this is my reality. But you don't stop
there.
Because why? You have a heart that's firm.
And because that heart is firm, now you
could start to look at all those weaknesses
and
turn them into strengths. We ask Allah, Azza
wa Jal, to continue to purify our hearts
and our actions in a way that he
is pleased with. May we ask Allah, subhanahu
wa ta'ala, to count us from amongst the
righteous in this world
and in the hereafter.
Here is where we will pause.
If I may ask the brothers at the
back,
or actually all of the brothers to kindly
move forward during the resting period, please, so
that we can allow some more, brothers and
sisters in.
Finally, brothers and sisters,
this month of Ramadan,
when we consider all of the pain and
tragedy around the world, this Ramadan is different.
This is a personal
reminder to me and you, Inshallah.
Every dua that you make,
add
our brothers and sisters struggling around the world.
Ensure that they are part of your duas
as much as you are.
And ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to ease their pain and suffering.
And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, especially
for our brothers and sisters
in Gaza.
We ask Allah Azza wa Jal ease their
pain and suffering.
Whatever condition and state that they may be
in, We ask Allah Aso Wa Jal to
bless them with the blessings of Ramadan.
To honor them. Honor them in this world
and in the akhirah. We ask Allah Aso
Wa Jal to reunite all of us with
them together. Injannatulfirdausil'aarlah.
We ask Allah Aso Wa Jal to preserve
our brothers and sisters
across the world. Those that are alone. Those
that are with families and communities. We ask
Allah so that you'll keep us together.
You Rabbi in this blessed day of hour
of Youmul Jum'ah.
We are making dua to you, You Allah.
We have no strength except that that strength
comes from you. We cannot say anything unless
you allow it. We cannot see or do
anything
unless you allow it. You Rabbi, allow my
eyes, my hands,
my tongue, my heart,
allow my entire life to be in complete
submission to you, in a way that is
pleasing to you. You Rabbi, we ask you
in this blessed month of Ramadan,
accept our siyam.
You Rabbi accept our siam and our piyam,
our ruku,
our sujud.
You Rabbi, we ask you to accept all
of us from the righteous in this world
and allow us to enter the Bab al
Rayyan,
the door of Rayyan
that is exclusive
only for those that fast. You Rabbi, we
ask you to allow all of us to
enter
Jannah through the door of Rayyan and to
your mercy. Allahumma
Rasool, salawatul
Rasool, salawatul