Nasser Barnes – Masjidut Taqwa Port Elizabeth Jumuah
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Beloved brothers and sisters in Islam, respected
seniors, respected for church, respected for
love and youth,
beloved listeners and viewers. Assalamu
alaykum
We begin the name of Allah,
and we sing salutations in our prophet,
and alhamdulillah,
we thank Allah,
and we thank our beloved Hafid Adam Karoliya
for the beautiful pira. May Allah continue to
bless him with years ahead of servicing the
Ummah. Ameen.
Beloved brothers and sisters in Islam, it is
indeed an honor and privilege for us
in Mashrul Taqwa
and the community of Port Elizabeth
and Utineaq
to welcome our guest speaker today, walhamdulillah,
Sheikh Nasir Barnes from Cape Town.
Sheikh Nasir Barnes
is part of the ulama
and teachers visiting the city for the Association
of Muslim Schools Arabic Conference, which is currently
taking place in our city, and he is
representing
his institution in Cape Town, alhamdulillah.
But, Sheikh Nasser, alhamdulillah,
has completed
studies in Al Azur, Egypt,
and then he went on to study at
Madinah University, Jammi Islamiyah.
It was there at Jammi Islamiyah that I
had the honor of meeting him,
and our friendship started.
Sheikh Nasr, we are almost
friends for 20 years, alhamdulillah.
Next year is our anniversary, so you can
give me a gift, inshallah.
Sheikh Nasr, alhamdulillah,
is a teacher, Arabic teacher, and he's the
department at Darul Arakam in Cape Town. He
is also a member of the Muslim Judicial
Council.
From Adena University, he graduated from Kuwait Dawa
Usuluddin, the faculty of Dawa.
And in Cape Town, he now continues to
teach at various institutes,
and he's also the imam of the Bluedown
Islamic Society, Masjid.
Alhamdulillah.
First and foremost, we thank and praise Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, our nourisher, our sustainer.
We put our salaams and salutations. We pledge
our allegiance.
I will show our loyalty to our beloved
Nabi Muhammad
and we beg of our almighty Allah to
grant his beloved
to intercede both for you and I on
the day of the day of the Yamah.
Allah
is the best of judges. We ask that
Allah grant his beloved to be our lawyer,
the best of lawyers in the day of
the Yamah.
Thirdly, after praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, putting
salawatullah,
the norm and the custom of each and
every Muslim
is that we show gratitude towards Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala,
and that we are grateful for the favors
that Allah
has bestowed upon us.
And we can never count the favors of
Allah
We know that's impossible,
but the last favor is Allah has granted
us life to be alive on a blessed
day, the day of tomorrow.
And at this moment,
in the measure of Allah,
a house of Allah,
that's a favor.
And we ask that Allah make us of
his grateful servants so that they may always
increase that favors upon us.
And then we also ask Allah, Subhanahu wa
ta'ala, Ahmed, by Allah grant that this be
the life changing Jumuah in our lives. Allah
grant when we enter the Muhammad, Ahmed, Jagan,
whoever.
Allah grant when we leave, we leave a
better Muslim, a better Mohammed, a better Ahmed.
And Allah grant that whatever aya we hear,
just remind us from Allah. Whatever hadith we
hear, remind us from Rasulullah.
The question we ask ourselves
is what is holding me and you back?
What is the reason
that we're not moving forward
individually?
Why is that? That when we know at
the start of Islam,
Islam was given to us on a silver
platter but on a high note.
Why is it now that we're in charge
and we're responsible for our deen? We see
it is dropping.
May Allah protect us, and may Allah guide
us. The question is again,
in this holy in this month of Rajab,
one of the sacred months,
in Sahih Bukhari on the authority of Abu
Hurairah
What is?
The custom in Jahiliya
is whenever they had a a a camel
or a sheep or a goat that was
born in this month, then they used to
slaughter that animal to an idol
to show the blessedness of this month of
Rajab,
to highlight this, to slaughter to an idol,
to show barakah
and blessings from the idols during this month
of Rajab.
May Allah grant us true understanding.
And if these people did this in Jahiliya,
when Rasulullah
came, he then taught us this is not
how we celebrate Rajab.
Let's fast.
Let's change.
Let's
switch off that fan.
Turn off that fan.
And which fan are we referring to? That
same fan that is holding me and you
back for all these years. May Allah grant
us through understanding.
When the month of Ramadan dawns upon us,
that same night when we sight the moon,
we're very excited.
What we should realize
that shaitan is chained up.
That would then mean that we're supposed to
change our ways if we've been blaming shaitan
for every wrong that we've been doing every
day.
But what
why is it people are still capable
and able to send during this month of
mercy
to the month of Ramadan
because they haven't switched off the fan.
That what
you know, when we switch off the fans,
that the fins doesn't stop immediately. The blades
doesn't stop immediately.
As you switch it off from the switch
and you turn it off, you see the
blade still turning and turning and spinning until
it eventually slows down.
When the month of Rajab comes,
we need to stop bad habits.
Now we're switching off the fan. And when
the month of Ramadan comes and those blades
has come to a complete stop, now it's
only for you and I to gain rewards
one day after the other. May Allah grant
us to understand. Say, Amin.
Someone's tongue here is mustajab.
When we say, Amin to duas, malaika
coincides and also says, Amin, Allah accept the
dua.
May Allah grant us true understanding.
When reminders again come, we're now in this
month of Rajab.
We need to change ourselves
because Allah
tells us
Allah
says, don't be like those people.
When reminders come, they turn a blind eye.
When reminders come, they ignore Allah
They forget Allah
commands and laws or even the And
Allah tells us what will happen.
But in fact, they only forget themselves.
They will also be forgotten under
the Just as you didn't take note today,
they will also not be taken note of
on the day of
Who are
they? Those are the ones who are sinners,
transgressors the wicked ones. For Allah granted we're
not be of them.
Why are we mentioning this?
Very soon, insha'allah,
when we sight the moon for the month
of Ramadan,
we're all gonna be so excited and happy.
And this is why I started out when
I said, we must be grateful Allah granted
us life because don't for 1 minute assume
that each and every one of us will
be here when Ramadan comes.
We buried people this morning, yesterday,
and it will continue.
And the people have lost Ramadan
to someone next time.
Like you and I perhaps think, inshallah,
maybe the next one. When Allah
told
us,
I'm not your you'll we we could hear
a lot of that insha'Allah if Allah spares
us.
But the point of the ayah is, Allah
says Ramadan fasting has been prescribed upon you
like nations before you.
I don't want us to look at nations
before us.
Just look at our own Ramadan from last
year, 5 years,
6 years, 10 years ago.
Look at our own Ramadan from before
and then we will see.
Did I improve this Ramadan? Did I improve
last year's Ramadan? Did I improve? Did I
recite 1 khatam in 2010?
Now in 2011, 2 khatams, etcetera. Was there
improvement?
So instead of looking at nations before, let
us start looking at our own. May Allah
grant us true understanding
and we ask again,
What's holding us back from reaping full benefits
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala?
In the time that we have, we mentioned
2 quick things inshallah,
In order to move forward, in order to
draw Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's mercy, just remember,
the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
there every day. When the month of Ramadan
comes, Allah increases
us. We should be there in order to
do as much of the mercy and forgiveness
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But we see
the Ummah going slowly backwards
regressing,
retarding
and reversing.
Why? Because each and every individual's
iman plays a major role for the upliftment
and development of our deen of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. So step number 1, we want
to move forward and we want to switch
off that fan today.
The first thing
Allah
tells us the importance of tawbah.
Repentance.
Why repentance?
Because whenever we seek speak about doing good,
we think of salah, we think of Quran
recitation.
We want to increase in giving sadaqa. We
want to increase in helping each other. We
want to increase in doing good.
But on the flip side, we're forgetting, we're
also increasing sin.
If I were to ask who doesn't
commit sin, we also say, we're all guilty
of it.
But when last did you and I
make tawba?
What Tawbah Tan Nasuha?
A type of Tawbah where Allah doesn't erase
from a books of deeds with an eraser.
Allah tears out that entire page.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells us,
And this is not for everyone.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
Those of you who believe,
Come on.
Make tawba, repent, come back to Allah
But if you and I didn't make tawba
recently or we can't remember the last time
we made tawba, then is Allah says,
those of you who have iman.
May Allah make us of people of iman,
and may Allah grant us now to make
October.
Amin.
Allah
had a conversation with Nabi Musa alayhi wa
sallam.
Look at the harms and the dangers of
sin.
When Nabi Musa
had his dialogue was kalimullah to speak to
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tells Nabi Musa,
Allah tells Nabi Musa, Yeah, Musa. The first
to disobey Nasuni Iblis.
Allah
tells Nabi Musa the very first of my
generation that have died is Iblis.
I mean, Musa answers, says, you Allah, how
is that possible? The same Allah from Nabi
Adam is the same Allah you and I
may substitute for today.
The same Allah that grants information from day
1 is the same Allah who brought us
up Quran.
The same Allah had information in the Torah.
So Nabi Musa says, say, Allah, how is
it possible?
When Iblis will live to Qiyama?
Allah
replied,
Musa, he's the first of my creation to
have died because he was the first of
my creation to disobey me.
Disobeying Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Neglect of salah or making salah when we
want to. Having ill feelings about 1 and
the other. There are so many small sins
that are piling up. We're concentrating on a
good deed and good. Don't stop.
But let us not forget to erase and
wipe out the bad deeds and the sins
as well.
What is holding us back? May Allah grant
us the switch of its fan today.
Amin. Nafani alayyah, Allah subhanahu tells us,
after we've now established
that a mopman is someone that will make
tawba,
but there's also an action that Allah loves.
In Surah Baqarah Allah says,
That Allah
love those
who make tawba.
The question is,
why are you and I not doing what
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala loves?
What is holding us back
from our tawba? What's holding us back from
istikhva?
What's holding us back from those things that
Allah loves in order for us to be
elevated?
In order for us to be the guide
for our homes,
in order for us to be that father
for our children, and husband to our wives,
and vice versa.
In the following hadith, Rasulullah,
was Masu
committed no sin.
Rasool Sam says, I'm at istighfar.
I repent. I come back to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
during a day a 100 times,
and you or I are too busy.
We don't have that time.
You know? Like, any masjid,
I hope inshallah that it's not peace custom.
But, you know, after salah, when you greet,
right now we see each other sitting next
to each other.
And you say,
On the left, you see this.
So quick.
After, no salah, no sunnah, no time.
Because now we it's a it's a razik.
It's a razik. We need to go seek
razik, and you're absolutely right.
But how do we run away from arazak
for risk?
How is that possible?
When we expect change in our lives, but
we don't expect to make changes in our
lives.
I will summarize
Great
Sahabi,
great poet,
always used to defend Islam with his poetry,
and he was a warrior,
fought in jihad.
At any time when they lost jihad, when
they announced the case for jihad,
Abu Majin al Taqafi was ready,
but he had one bad habit.
He was an alcoholic.
Since the time he embraced Islam, he just
couldn't kick that habit.
Great
warrior.
And then he said,
and
he tried to give it up. He recurred
and he just loved the bottle that much.
Eventually, he was exiled. Bahrain.
Do they call Bahrain?
Then he escaped from there, and he went
to Egypt goes to Egypt where he
was the Amir.
A battle came.
Al Qudsiya, a battle came.
When the battle occurred,
Abu Majana Thakafi
he was ready to fight because his only
desire
was to die a shahid.
His only desire was to be a mujahid
and die in the path of Allah Subhanahu
in battle. That was his only desire.
But every time he survived.
Every time
at this particular
battle.
So now he was ready to fight armored
and he was a brave fighter
and a man who's hoping to die. Can
we imagine how he fights in battle?
Saudi mukas go to Abu Majin al Taqw,
say, look at here. The letter from the
amir. I have to lock you up.
There's his orders.
He ties right there on the battlefield.
He ties, he chains Abu Majin al Taqw,
round the 3. And now they go fight
in battle.
Abu Majan Atakkabir
sees the battle roaring
and he's yearning, hoping he could be there.
He now shouts from the tree. He says,
wallahi
tuktu ilallah.
I repented
Please set me free so that I may
go fight
The wife of of Sadhguru
She
comes to the tree. She says,
you know, I my husband tied you up.
He says, wallahi. I may tawba.
Wallahi.
She says, I will set you free in
one condition.
If you survive,
you come back here for me to tie
you up.
He says agreed.
She unties and change him, and he fights
in jihad.
And now he covers his face in order
to disguise himself.
While fighting in battle,
he says,
if I didn't tie Abu Marjan up myself,
I would have thought that he's fighting there.
For the way and how fierceful he fought
in the jihad.
At the end of the battle, fast forward,
Saad Ali Wakaas came back to the tree.
He now needed to verify.
He came by the tree and what did
he find? He find a motherfucker
chained up again.
But he knew it was him
because there were now battle scars
on his body.
He knew it was him. Suddenly, he says,
Abu Majan, what are you doing?
What happened?
Abu Majan al Thaqafi, he said,
wallahi,
when you go in jihad, the doors of
Jannah opens up,
but Allah doesn't want me to enter because
of this sin.
I realized here,
I realized here,
there is not these chains
holding me back from dying a mujahid, a
shahid.
It's my sin against Allah that Allah is
not granting me.
Saddu Nwuka says, wallahi I will never lash
you again.
I will never tie you up again to
a free man.
And he says wallahi, I will never ever,
Abu Abu Mahdul says, let the drop of
liquor, alcohol pass my lips again.
The question is,
because
we're not moving forward and turning off that
fan,
how many opportunities did you and I not
miss?
How many sins are you and I guilty
of
that cause us to miss opportunities from Allah's
rahman?
Don't let this Ramadan be the same. May
Allah grant us true understanding.
May Allah forgive our shortcomings.
So we said number 1, to switch off
that fan
is to make tawba.
Number 2,
increase in adhkar.
Make lots of dhikr.
Make lots. Sometimes you think I must sit
on the mussala. No. Sitting by the red
robot, strike light, way there.
And And I'm waiting for my wife from
the shopping, and I'm standing in the queue.
Make a car. Make dick.
And those who remember Allah a lot.
Yes. We make zikr when we fear for
salah. We make zikr
once in a while,
but we need to make zikr a lot.
So Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will constantly
shower us with his mercy and his rahma.
So Namr ibn Khattab Radhu'an
and his caliphat was walking through the souk,
through the
mall,
through the flea markets,
walking in the marketplace.
He heard this one Sahabi said,
Oh, Allah,
make me of your few worshipers.
So no one says, what is this? He
comes
he may rather verify.
He walks behind the man again closer
just to listen.
Did I hear right?
Did did I understand correctly what you just
said now? And the man made the same
dua, oh, Allah make me of your few
worshipers.
So now, umru even asked him, turned around
and says,
Where do you come on this dua?
Rasulullah Assam
taught us to make dua for a lot.
Make dua for plenty.
You ought to be of the few. It's
an almost says, and Islam, alhamdulillah, is spreading
all four corners of the world. There are
now more Muslims.
Make dua for a lot of health, make
dua for a lot of wealth, make dua
for a long life. You're making dua for
a few.
He says, you Amir al mumineen.
Did you not notice in the Quran
when Allah speaks about majority,
that's usually not good.
Most of the people are ungrateful.
Most of them are unconscious and unmindful.
Most of the people are transgressors and disbelievers.
And most of them are ungrateful for the
favors Allah has bestowed upon them.
And most of the people are not believers.
So I made the honor of the minority
to be on the field.
I end up with question.
What's holding me and you back
from being the minority?
And we can only judge for ourselves,
are we part of majority?
May Allah forgive our shortcomings.
May Allah grant us true understanding.
I thank the imamat
that the and
everyone of
for the kindness
for the opportunity.
We say, jazakAllah Khayron, to Sheikh Nasir Barnes
from Cape Town for the very beautiful and
powerful Nasir. May Allah allow us to
gain benefit from what has been shared and
to practice upon the very important words of
advice. Ameen. Beloved brothers and sisters in Islam,
just two announcements. The first, Insha'Allah, is that
in preparation for the month of Ramadan,
the masjid's going to host some training
for those who would like to recite the
adkar in the month of Ramadan, the the
adkar that is recited
in between the Tarawee and the dua afterwards.
So we're going to have, like, a a
boot camp. I don't know if I can
call it that, or is that a bidashay.
Right? Pujis. Okay. Pujis Pujis camp.
We're going to have that in 2 weeks'
time. So we encourage, Inshallah, if you'd like
to gain some training and practice in reciting
that,
Imam Farooq and the other seniors of the
masjid will be having that on a Wednesday
evening in 2 weeks from now. Inshallah, you
can give me your names,
or you can give it to, them as
well, inshallah.
And also to the parents, please, inshallah, we
encourage you to push your children in this
line as well, inshallah, so you can,
volunteer them without them knowing. No problem, inshallah.
And they will form part of that training,
inshallah.
Then secondly, just an update regarding the education
project. As you might have noticed that we
started their innovations of the 4 year. I
just want to thank all the donors and
sponsors who have come in the last week.
To all the community members who have stepped
forward and have made donations. We really appreciate
all that accepted from you as a
and may you reap the rewards
of every student and teacher who will be
engaging
in this facility.
We are converting the madrasa building
to a world class education facility, inshallah, for
this community. And I just wanted to mention
that we are short by R15,000
for an order our second order of furniture.
So if there is anyone willing to assist,
please let us know.
You can assist us so that we can
place the second order and gain of from
that discount.
But, we still encourage everyone to participate.
And may Allah accept from all of us.
Please try and fill the spaces in front
of you. There's still some at the door.
Perform the salah as if it is a
final salah in this world.