Omar Suleiman – Do Not Curse Time – What A New Year Really Means

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The New Year is a busy period, with a focus on the history behind the use of time to express time. The use of time is ultimately the responsibility of Islam to switch time, and sh lowering the level of evil is the reflection of actions. The speaker emphasizes the importance of remaining present for afterlife and helping others, while also addressing current crisis and negative reactions. The transcript uses a disturbing hadith from the Prophet that everything is possible, but nothing is impossible, and that the New Year is a difficult time period.

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			messenger, we ask Allah to send his peace and blessings upon him, the prophets and messengers that
came before him, his companions and family that served alongside him and those that follow in his
bus and path until the Day of Judgment, we ask Allah to make us amongst them allotment, I mean, your
brothers and sisters because it's cold, I'll make it very short in sha Allah to Allah, it should be
very obvious that there is no religious significance to the New Year switching from December 31 to
January 1. In fact, that's not just true for the Gregorian calendar. Even from a history
perspective, with our own history calendar, there is no established practice of marking the New Year
		
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			in a way that represents a change in any way whatsoever, except that it allows us to date our events
in accordance with the momentous occasion of the Hyjal. But anything that would cause us to reflect
on the change of time, and why we are still here, and what we need to be doing is good for us in sha
Allah to Allah to take time and to actually think about what it means to still be here on January
1 2021. And Subhan, Allah there's this interesting Hadith, which I've never seen cited so many
times, in one period of time, as I have in the last week. And it matches with also an unprecedented
time where I cannot remember in my lifetime, a single year that was cursed as much as 2020 that
		
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			people would curse the year people would say we're ready for it to go. People would say all of these
things about what the year was like and then attribute a curse to the year. And I wanted to talk
about this hadith and what it means and what it doesn't mean and then what the New Year means and
what it doesn't mean for us and that is the Hadith that we find in Bukhari and Muslim where the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, you're the new Adam. Yes, so
Buddha will enter via the Via de la, colleague, Leila one and a half. Allah Subhana. Allah says that
the child of Adam insults me now. Other is a tough word here to translate because there is no bottle
		
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			and there is no Knucks with Allah subhanaw taala ly a guru who say that nothing hurts him and
nothing depletes him or takes away from him or causes anything of him or what he possesses to become
deficient. So it is an insult the child of Adam insults me. He curses time and I am time because in
my hands is all things I switch I alternate the day and the night and another Hadith the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said let's do not curse time for Allah is time. And another Hadith the
Prophet slicin Um, said, la yah,
		
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			yah, hey, but no one of you should say what a horrible time this was or how horrible time is for in
Allah Who Adele for Verily Allah is time. So what does this mean for us? Okay, now there is a
context just like with everything else in Jehovah and the days of ignorance where they attributed
power to all sorts of things, everything but Allah subhanho wa Taala attributed power to the stars
attributed power to the idols attributed power to the time attributed power to animals attributed
power to all sorts of things. They would curse time in the days of ignorance. And it's just really
interesting to see how prominent it became how popular it became to curse time in 2020, right? But
		
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			they would say yeah, haber to die, cut them to the hub, they would say May time perish, how horrible
is time, how miserable is time. And there were certain implications to that. So I wanted to talk
about what it means and what it doesn't mean. Now obviously Allah is Allah Subhana Allah to Allah
and this hadith Bootsy Allah describes what he means when he says I am time. It's not one of the
names of Allah to call upon Him as time. It is immediately explained that what that means is that
Allah is the one who controls time, Allah is the One who switches the night and the day Allah is the
One who switches the weeks and the months and the years it is Allah Himself who does that. So what
		
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			is permissible, what is prohibited and what is on the on the, you know, in the realm of shirk, in
the realm of actually attributing a deity besides Allah subhanaw taala attributing a deity to Allah
subhanaw taala in regards to this Hadith from a permissible standpoint, I just want to go through
the very technical first.
		
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			It is okay. And it is natural to describe a time period as being a difficult time period. So it's
okay to say that this was a difficult year. It was a difficult year. It was a hard year for us
		
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			that is was not sub that's a description was a not sub not cursing the year to say it was a
difficult year is true.
		
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			I think that all of us may Allah subhanaw taala make it easy and we don't know what still awaits us
and the time to come. We don't know how long of it that we will be here to witness if 2021 Maybe
2021 will make us feel like we missed 2020 You never know we don't know what's left. We don't know
what's to come. And we don't know how much of it will be around for it. But to say it was a hard
year is permissible as well, just as a description we find it in the story of use of it is salaam
Subash. He does southern difficult years, we find it in little tiny his Salam saying you'll now see
it's a dark day, to describe the day to describe the week to describe the month to describe the year
		
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			as being difficult. It's fine. It's natural. It's how we interact with things and how we experience
things. That is okay. The haram part where it becomes prohibited, which is the second degree of this
is when you curse it, and you know Allah is in charge. So you're not saying that time determines or
decrees. But as you insult and curse time, you are in reality, insulting the One who created time.
And so it's you know, one of the examples that some of the scholars give is that if you go to
someone's house, and you eat their food, and you insult the food, who are you really insulting,
you're insulting the one who prepared the food, you're insulting the one who made the food, and
		
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			that's bad other with Allah subhanaw taala that we are a people that try to elevate our standards
and other in our, in our mannerisms with Allah first, how we talk about God should be different. How
we talk to God should be different. So we have a certain other with Allah subhanaw taala. And that
is something that transcends all the different spheres, right, that's something that's highlighted
and prominent in Islamic tradition that we have added with Allah subhanaw taala that we that we hold
sacred. And so al hydrocal, lluvia, de cachorro, laser e Lake, all good is in your hands and evil is
not to be attributed to you, oh Allah. And so out of Adam to Allah subhanaw taala we don't curse
		
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			time, because we know that Allah is the One who is in charge of time. And nothing that happened
within that time through that time, during that time is anything except that it was decreed, and
that there is a greater wisdom and a purpose and something that we can grow and benefit from. And so
lots of good, don't curse time. Because Allah is time, Allah is the one who controls and they win
the heart who alternates night and day. And of course, sherek, which is the highest level, and this
is what was prominent in Jehovah was to actually attribute the the the hub to make time itself the
fan to make time itself the doer to suggest that time was not just the time in which evil was
		
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			prominent, but that time itself was the cause of evil or time was the was the doer of evil. And
that's something that I doubt that many of us do, or indicate, may Allah protect us from it all. But
that's the worst of it all. So to go back and to say, yes, it was rough. 2020 was rough and we don't
know what 2021 holds. But then to reflect on ourselves, both at an individual level and at a
societal level. It's something we should do in sha Allah to Allah, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, lie to me lie at a man termina Jana Hadoken will note that not one of you wish for
death in marsinah marsinah. It might be that that person is a good doer, for the other who and he
		
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			has their the hierarchy. And if you're a person, if you're a good doer, then you have more time to
do good. What imamo cm Philando who and your startup. And it might be that that person is doing
something wrong that that person is committing wrong deeds. And so this is a time for them to turn
away from those wrong ways. Every day you're here is a moment of reflection. Every week, you're here
is a moment of reflection. There are so many people, so many people that would have been sitting in
this Masjid last year at the same time that are not here right now. That's something for us to
reflect why am I still here? How do I make the most of it? Allah has given me a chance either I'm
		
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			doing good and I can increase in good or I'm falling short and I can turn away from those things
that are causing me to fall short, but attempted Allah I'm here and so long as I'm here I'm able to
help myself in regards to my afterlife, and I'm able to help others in regards to their worldly
lives in their house after lives. Every day is a new opportunity for me to better my afterlife
better my akhira and an opportunity to help others in regards to their dunya and Afia through Hitman
Darrell to help others in regards to their world.
		
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			They lines and in regards to their afterlife, so I'm still here. And that's something that we say
Alhamdulillah every moment that we wake up for every morning Alhamdulillah Allah the piano, all
praises beat to the one who gave us life after death, and to Him as the ultimate return anyway. And
so dear brothers and sisters, in conclusion,
		
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			when we're more vulnerable, at an individual level, we're more open to change. That's why for so
many of us, our turn back to Allah subhanaw taala came at our most difficult moments, where we felt
broken and hopeless, and the dunya turned its back on us with all of its promises, everything that
we expect it to be stable, of this dunya turned its back on us, we'll call it in Santa Monica,
right? And the ultimate occurrence of the Hereafter the earth starts shaking, and you say, what's
going on, this was supposed to be stable. So everything we used to count on things that we
considered stable things we considered untouchable, have betrayed us. And that causes us as
		
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			individuals to think well, where do I find stability? Where do I find meaning? Where do I find
purpose? As an individual now that I've become more aware of my mortality? What am I doing in
regards to my life that is beyond this mortality of mine? What am I doing with that recognition and
realization that things get out of control so quickly. So there is an individual change that comes
through vulnerability, and there's a societal change to
		
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			when we're more human, when we're more vulnerable. When we're more humbled, we're open to change.
We're open to reconstruction. And the status quo has been unacceptable in so many different ways, so
many different ways, not just in regards to the pandemic and how we handle the disparity in regards
to who has health care and who doesn't, not in regards to who has access to food and who does not in
regards to how we have decided, as world powers over the last several years, who decides to live
with bombs over their head, and who decides to live in peace and tranquility, not in regards to
economic inequality, not in regards to police brutality, there were many George Floyd's before
		
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			George Floyd. But it wakes people up out of their complacency and gives them a chance to reflect as
a society as a community as an individual. How do we embrace the vulnerability to change because for
so many people 2019 was worse than you and I is 2000 22,019 and Yemen or Syria or Palestine, or in
different places was worse than our 2020. And so the status quo is unacceptable for the people that
froze to death in the streets of Dallas. Do you remember last year that they were picking up frozen
people to death at bus stops homeless people that froze to death? Your 2020 was not worse than their
2019 It's a time for us to reflect how do we get better? May Allah subhanaw taala allow us to be
		
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			better in our individual lives and in our community lives and to do better for our own Asker and for
the people around us in regards to their dunya and they're asking Allah Amin a critical we have to
suffer from this misdemeanor stuff in the whole of woodworking
		
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			and hamdulillah salatu salam ala Rasulillah on early wasafi, Humanware, la la mineable minute when
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eradicate lightning in a bit lightning I could have done that with one human being himself in both
		
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			Allah and Allah here and will gladly with Assad what eater Baba while yong ha and fascia you
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welcome salah.