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The speaker discusses upcoming worship worship of Islam. They also address the weight of the revelation of peace. The speaker emphasizes the importance of not following rules and seeking forgiveness, as well as the importance of the upcoming night in the work, including the recording of Salallahu wa wa and the desire for forgiveness.AI Generated Transcript ©
We begin by praising Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
by bearing witness that none has the right
to be worshipped or unconditionally
obeyed except for him, and we bear witness
that Muhammad sallallahu alaihi is his final messenger.
We ask Allah to send his peace and
blessings upon him, the prophets and messengers that
came before him, his family and companions that
served alongside him, and those that follow on
his blessed path until the day of judgment.
We ask Allah to make us amongst them.
Allahumma'amim.
Dear brothers and sisters, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
chose that on the most consequential
night in the history
of humanity, which is the revelation of the
Quran,
which came down as Al Furqan, which came
down as the criterion
by which all of humanity would now forever
be changed and judged and held accountable.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala decided and decreed that
on this particular night, fiha yufraqu kulluamrin
Hakim.
That as he sat down the Furqan on
this night,
that he has decreed that on this night,
every single year Allah
decrees everything
that is to come in that particular year.
And subhanAllah, it truly is stunning
when you start to read about the narrations
and perceive
what it is that Allah is talking about
on Laylatul Qadr.
Now, we know that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's
knowledge is complete and that Allah Azzawajal already
knows and writes and decrees all that is
to happen based upon his all encompassing knowledge.
But what exactly happens on Laylatul Qadr? May
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us amongst those
whose decree is to be forgiven. Allahummaamin.
And make us amongst those who catch the
qiyam of Laylatul Qadr. And may Allah remove
any barriers between us and Him that would
cause our worship to go to waste. Allahumma
ameen. What exactly is happening and what exactly
is being decreed and what is it like
when that decree comes down? And I want
you to actually try to perceive this with
me, dear brothers and sisters, because I wanna
actually take you back to Laylatul Qadr last
year.
Laylatul Qadr last year.
And Dur'lama
mentioned, as Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu Ma
says,
that on that night, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
gives the scrolls to the angels of everything
that is to come for the next year.
You have the scrolls of death. You have
the scrolls of birth, the birth certificates of
so many.
The names of those that are to pass
away.
You have Asma'a Shuhada, the names of the
martyrs that are given to them.
You have the names of the tragedies, the
days of those wars,
the genocide that we are witnessing today.
All of that revealed to the angels on
that particular night. And SubhanAllah,
I want you to just for a moment
think
that while we were in this Masjid last
year
or while we were observing
Laylat
hopefully, as it falls within the last 10
nights last
year, that everything that happens from last Ramadan
until this Ramadan was revealed to the angels
in written form
and that this is what the next year
looks like. All of its disasters,
all of its decrees, the earthquakes,
the eclipses,
the wars,
the names.
And there is a mention of tafsir, subhanAllah,
that if you look to al muqasimati
amra,
those that apportion
the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Imagine
the Scrolls of Al Hurub
and, the wars and the great affairs
being given to Jibril, alayhis salam,
when he receives his instructions for that next
year.
Mimikael alayhis salaam. And Micha'il alayhis salaam, that
great angel about the sustenance of the year.
And Malik al Mu't,
the angel of death,
is given his scroll for the year.
These are the people that you will take
this year by the command of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Imagine the scrolls
that mention the people who are becoming Muslim
and the angels receiving the scroll that so
and so is going to take shahada this
year, So and so is going to become
Muslim this year. And the scroll's getting longer.
And some of those names perhaps being quite
surprising.
Imagine the scrolls of repentance.
Imagine the scrolls of people that turn away
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Imagine the scrolls of people
who had a good relationship with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala but They
wronged someone and so the door between them
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala was now shut.
And a person who's been in the favor
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is now written
from
those who are in despair.
Imagine as Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu masks
us, al Amwat wal Ajaal wal Arzaq
wal Ujjaj.
The Hajj visas get issued on Maylatul Qadr.
I know that many of us are looking
to these apps and looking to what's going
to happen with this agency and perhaps you
have the intention. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
write down the full reward just by our
intention, Allahumma amin, and facilitate an accepted Hajj.
You wait for the visa. You wait to
see it in your hands. The angels receive
your Hajj visa from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
in this year.
And perhaps
the names of those who don't physically go
but that spiritually go.
So as you're asking Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
in these nights,
I want you to 1st and foremost immerse
yourself in what is happening in the heavens.
Because one of the ways that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala dawns upon us, the weight of
the revelation
is by informing us of how weighty the
revelation was in the heavens.
When the Quran Quran came down that you
recite and perhaps you don't take very seriously.
It shook the angels in every heaven as
they gathered around Jibreel alayhi salam, Shadeed al
Uwa,
the one who is endowed with strength as
he's being
as he is descending from heaven to heaven
with the Quran to the heart of the
messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam with a revelation
that could crush the mountains. And so who
are you to read that Quran
without any type of integrity and without any
type of awe and submission as you go
through the words of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Likewise,
when Allah Azzawajal mentions to you the descent
of Jibreel alayhis salam, and the descent of
the angels with the decree, by knowing the
weight of it in the heavens, it is
meant to cause you to long for it
in a certain way and to feel the
awe and submission towards it in a certain
way as you worship Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
in these last 10 nights.
Jibril, alayhis salaam, who was once given the
order
to destroy entire towns and cities and tyrants
to drown the
Firaun. Receives that decree on that night.
These are your orders for the year to
come.
And even the angels don't know until that
scroll comes to them.
Now here's, subhanAllah,
what we think about with our brothers and
sisters in Gaza.
When we think about what's happening, subhanAllah,
what was written last year while we were
making du'a, while we were exerting ourselves
for the decree of the year to come,
that in those scrolls are things that are
completely
unanticipated
by all of Allah's creation.
You know, if you were to talk to
us
and, subhanAllah, some of us remember in October,
the way that the entire world just changed
overnight.
And especially for American Muslims,
you thought that this type of stuff only
happens when an incident happens in the United
States. This type of
a dramatic
shift
of everything.
The angels received that on this night last
year, that this is what's going to happen.
And this year, as you are exerting yourself
for your brothers and sisters
and you're making du'a for al Nasr, you're
making du'a for victory,
Know that the scrolls are being printed from
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to the angels to
coincide with those duas of the believers
as they are praying and exerting themselves
during these nights. And so we ask Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala to write down a nasr
for our brothers and sisters. Victory for our
brothers and sisters in this year to come.
And we ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, the
one who sent Jibreel alayhi salam, shadeed al
quwa, on nations before, to send him upon
the oppressors
and to show us a sign in those
oppressors. Allahu ameen.
And as the names of the hujjah are
being written down, dear brothers and sisters, so
too are the names of the shuhada.
And I don't wanna go 2 ways about
this.
When you make du'a to Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala, the Prophet SallAllahu Wa Salam mentioned that
Allah, azzaw, could grant a person shuhada even
if they die in their beds, if they
are sincere in their dua.
As you see the ugliness of what is
happening, you also see
the stars, the lights
and that hope in the shuhada.
The list was long that was given to
our to the malaika by our Lord, by
alfarq subhanahu wa ta'ala, by Allah azza wa
jal who decides all things. The list was
long. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not
just decree in numbers, but every single name
was given to them of every single shahid.
And just like you don't have to physically
end up in Hajj
to get the reward of Hajj and you
hope that your name is written from the
hijans.
Oh Allah, we ask you to write our
names down from the shuhada.
Make that du'a sincerely from your heart as
well, that the decree comes down with that.
But I want to give you this one
incident, subhanAllah, of the shock of it all.
And it really dawned upon me. I was
reading this narration from ibn Abbas, radiAllahu ta'ala
Anhu Ma describing that night
because it should bring about a certain awe
of the night tonight, which could be Laylatul
Qadr, the 27th night or what remains of
these nights. But obviously,
the 27th night has a certain weight to
it amongst these last 10.
Rabin Abbas, salallahu ta'ala Anhu, he says as
he's describing that night,
he says,
You see a man just walking out.
And in that same moment that he's walking
around in public,
having no idea what is happening.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala just printed out
his name as someone that will pass away
that year in the heavens.
So you think about just this image of
a person that just walking around, maybe having
a conversation,
making dua in the hallway. And in that
moment that you're in the masjid, in that
moment that you're in the hallway, in that
moment that you're at home, in that moment
that you're in public, at that very moment
in the heavens,
your name
was written down amongst those that would pass
away.
For the believer,
you don't sit there and you think to
yourself, well, you know, I'm this young. I
don't have any health conditions.
I don't think that it's me.
For the believer, that possibility
of you being that person that Ibn Abbas,
salAllahu anhu, was describing that at that moment,
your name just got written in the heavens,
is something that you consider with absolutely everything.
And so the urgency of tawba, the urgency
of repenting,
the urgency
of seeking forgiveness from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
seeking forgiveness
for your sins, Seeking forgiveness for your dulm.
The urgency
of getting your money right. The urgency of
shifting your lives right. The urgency of your
tawba, the urgency of your repentance can't wait
because you are considering the idea that your
name might have just got printed
in the very moment that you are sitting
in the masjid
or elsewhere.
And dear brothers and sisters,
with all of that being said, there was
only one thing
that concerned the Sahaba, and it shows you
their priorities. And I'll end with this bid,
When
you read in the when you read in
the narrations of the duas of the companions
on Laylatul Qadr in these last 10 nights,
none of them are saying, oh, Allah,
let me not be amongst those who will
die this year.
None of them are saying, oh, Allah, let
me not be amongst those who will have
this happen to them in their worldly sense
this year in terms of a fear of
a decrease of something of this dunya.
All of them are asking Allah
for one thing as their primary ask.
Allah. Oh Allah, make me from those who
are redeemed. Oh Allah, make me from those
who are forgiven. Because the greatest thing that
can be written in those scrolls in that
night,
and it could be either the surprise
in the heavens
or the expectation
of a person
is that you are amongst the forgiven. And
that last scroll
is what is given to the 2 angels
that are with you all the time that
write down for you. And SubhanAllah, as the
prophet
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentions to us the prompting
of the mala'ikah,
the prompting of the angels. Ichtim Bihayir, Ichtim
Bihayir.
End well. End well.
Against the prompting of the shayateen. Ichtim Bishar.
Ichtim Bishar. End in evil. End in evil.
I want you
to anticipate
and to hope bayudhulillahi ta'ala as you're making
du'a to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that what is given to those angels is
that this is indeed a person
who is going to end in khair. That
this is indeed a person that will end
in well and this is a person who
is going to end with the forgiveness of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. May Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala write down for us on this night,
if it is tonight or what is left
of the remaining nights, may Allah Azzawajal write
down for us forgiveness in our individual capacities
and victory as an ummah. May Allah, subhanahu
wa ta'ala, forgive us for our shortcomings
as Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, has turned us
towards him in Ibadah,
on the most consequential
night
of our year. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
allow us to exert ourselves, and may subhanahu
wa ta'ala allow our exertion to be sincere.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala count us from
the sincere and the steadfast. May Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala
allow us to overcome
the barriers of ego, and arrogance,
and desire
that stop us from reaching him. May Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala enable us to worship him
properly. Allah.
Oh Allah, enable us to remember you properly,
to worship you properly, to thank you properly,
especially on this night. And, oh, Allah, we
ask you that if the night has passed
of these ten that is Laylatul Qadr, You
Allah, we ask you for its full reward
and its full forgiveness. And if the night
night and guarantee us its reward.
night and guarantee us its reward.