Riyadh Walls – Eid ul Adha 22 August 20181439
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We want to
just once again thank the community
for their kindness and charitability and benevolence.
You probably also that we have installed our
air conditioners as we have promised
and we once again want to say Shukran.
The amount which I have is that JEAN
has extended his, best salons to each and
everyone.
And, wish to you,
and at this point, I want to thank
Mullen as Zakaria Flander,
who has stood in for share during his
absence.
He's done a wonderful job, a sterling job
and we want to thank him and
pray Insha'Allah allah grant good health
so that he may serve the community
for many years to come Insha'Allah.
Assalamu alaikum. We wish you all
on behalf of the committee.
My elders in Islam,
my brothers,
colleagues,
our innocent young children,
Alhamdulillah.
All thanks and praise is due to Allah
Allah
who through his infinite wisdom
had made
certain days and certain times sacred,
and through sanctifying these times and these days,
he has given us an opportunity
to gain closeness and proximity to him,
so that if we might be
losing
ourselves
to what the dunya has to offer,
If we might be finding ourselves preoccupied
with that which takes us away from Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
then Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has legislated
upon each and every one of us
that there are certain times, there are certain
days, there are certain moments
that is precious to each and every one
of us.
And despite where we are on the scale
of our belief in Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
we gather on this day,
We glorify Allah
We remember him,
and above all, we use it as an
opportunity to return to Allah
because there's only one direction
that a believer or that any of the
creation of Allah
moves in.
It is the direction toward Allah
There is no other direction.
Even the one who tries to run away
from Allah
You will not find refuge,
and you will not find protection,
except that only he will end up again
by Allah
Let us orientate ourselves in our lives,
that whatever we do, whatever we say,
and however we interact,
we do it in a manner that is
moving close to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
not in a manner that is moving away
from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah reminds us in the Quran,
who is the one
that makes you and or causes you to
become happy?
Who is the one
that causes you to tear?
Who is the one that causes you to
die?
Who is the one
that gives you life?
Who is the one that creates from a
male
and a female,
from a drop of sperm
that is ejected?
Who is the one that will recreate you
another time?
Who is the one
that makes you wealthy?
Who is the one
that grants you contentment?
He, Allah, is the one. He causes you
to be happy, and he causes you to
be sad.
He is the one who causes to give
to causes you to die, and who gives
you life.
He is the one who creates pairs from
a male
and a female.
From a drop of sperm when it is
ejected.
And upon him
and through him is the new creation, our
new creation.
And he is the one that he makes
people wealthy.
And he is the one that he gives
contentment.
There is no
one that does this besides Allah
And that is one of the many reasons
why we say Allahu
Akbar,
Allahu Akbar,
Allahu Akbar,
We thank Allah for
granting us this beautiful day.
We thank
Allah for the nama and the blessing of
iman and Islam.
And in our thankfulness, we pray unto Allah
to cause us to live lives
that are
that we live up to this iman and
this Islam,
To cause us to live lives that we
can be true to iman and our Islam.
To cause us to live lives that when
we finally see the end in sight,
that
it is going to be something that is
imbibed within a spot of our constitution,
so that when mode comes and he takes
our ruh, that the last words on our
lips,
the last beats of our heart, the last
thoughts on our mind
is La ilaha illallah
Muhammad Rasoolullah.
And that when we are in the and
that when we are questioned
in our first accountability,
that we recognize
that there is no fear and there is
no need to grieve because we were trying
and striving to live lives that is true
to.
Says the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
who says this valuable statement and he means
it that there is no God but Allah
such a person will enter Jannah we make
dua that we are of those who will
enter Jannah through La ilaha illallah
And we make du'a unto Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala. You Allah, we are not
completely
happy just with being of those who have
iman. You Allah. You Allah,
combine with our iman
because we want to be of those who
are
Because the muttaqoon,
they have an even higher and a more
special place by Allah
We send peace and salutations
upon our beloved prophet
Muhammad
who
had
through immense difficulty
with a people that was a very difficult,
difficult nation,
who had ingrained in them arrogance
that ingrained in
them,
the tribalism,
the strong
sense of self and nation and tribe,
These people didn't bow to anyone or anything,
and our prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
was sent to such a people,
A people who
there were idols
all around the Kaaba.
A people who created an idol belt that
stretched from Yemen
right through almost to Palestine.
Such a people
steeped steeped in paganism and idolatry,
and the only thing that competed with their
idolatry
was their sense of self and arrogance and
conceit.
It was to such a people
that
Muhammad
was sent as
a mercy,
and it is no small feat. In fact,
it is one of the miracles
of all time that Allah
allowed this individual
to be able to conquer the hearts and
the minds of these people, Allahu Akbar.
And they became the shining stars of this
Ummah.
And how was this achieved?
Did Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi wa Salam achieve this
alone?
He achieved this through receiving
He
achieved this through receiving
the revelation from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala spoke to him and me
and you today we are the recipients
and we are the custodians,
and we are the protectors of this kalam
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
This treasure
that we are unable
to enumerate how just how valuable it is,
we are those custodians.
It is a miracle and it is a
miracle of all time and it is in
this miracle that Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala
reminds us about Ibrahim alaihis salatu wa salam
and that he reminds us about his son
Ishmael
and Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gives us
he gives us stories
because this is the one of the ways
that he teaches us and he makes us
understand.
Because we are able to relate as fathers.
We are able to relate as sons, we
are able to relate to struggle, we are
able to relate to difficulty
because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala did not create
this dunya as a paradise for us. He
created this dunya as a place of toil,
as a place of struggle
but he doesn't only create toil and struggle
and leave us to our own devices.
He creates toil, he creates struggle so that
he can know which of you are best
in action.
Which are best of you in returning to
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala? Who are the best
amongst you in dealing with the problems that
comes on his plate.
Who are the best of you that when
the problems come that he seeks his assistance
by Allah.
That he seeks assistance through patience,
that he seeks his assistance through salah,
that he doesn't lose hope because he knows
a believer.
That a believer never loses hope in the
mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The only people who lose hope in the
mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is a
people that are given to rejection,
and we are not that people.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala teaches us through the
trials and the tribulations of the prophet.
Never in the history
of of humanity
had Allah
ever allowed
a human sacrifice.
It has never happened.
Never. And it will never happened.
But Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala tested his prophet
Ibrahim alaihis salatu wa sallam.
He tested his son Ibrahim alaihis salatu wa
sallam with this command
that you
I saw in a dream,
My son,
I saw in a dream that I am
slaughtering you.
It's it's necessary to say in a dream
because of some of the
Arabic connotations of raa that we won't go
into.
But I saw in a dream
that I am slaughtering you, and we know
that the dreams of the Ambiya,
it is Allah
direct inspiration
to them.
The founders of Makkatul Muqarlamah,
the builders of the Kaaba,
those who taught us the
whose mother
taught us the
They are now going to teach us sacrifice.
They are now going to teach us about
They're going to teach us about pelting shaitan.
They're going to teach us about helm,
forbearance.
They're going to teach us about ultimate patience.
They're going to teach us about blind tawakul,
putting your entire
faith and trust
completely
100%,
not in any of your own abilities,
completely
100% in Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
They are going to teach us excellence
as human beings,
and they're going to do it in a
manner that is excellent.
Ibrahim speaks to his son.
His son, a young boy, and here we
should remember,
Oh my son.
I see something in a dream. The thing
that I see is that I have to
slaughter you.
I have to make sacrifice of you. There's
another word for slaughter in Arabic,
That is a bit more of a crude
word.
Is a more is more of a word
that has the connotation of sacrifice.
He said I see in my dream that
I'm sacrificing you.
What is your opinion?
This verse is teaching us something,
that communication with your children is of utmost
importance
even when it comes to the obedience of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
A communication needs to exist between father and
son.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam advised us,
in the first 7 years of your child's
life, you should be the one who is
playing with them, who is caring with them,
for for them.
It should be a time of complete joy
and enjoyment.
You don't make any demands on a 4
year old or a 5 year old.
Small small things you teach them.
In the next 7 years,
you start to teach them about ethics and
morals.
You start to teach them between
the the difference between right and wrong.
You start to teach them that human beings
have a responsibility
towards one another,
and they have a responsibility
towards Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
You you start to teach them about justice.
You start to teach them about fairness.
You start to teach them about iman,
about taqwa,
about sabr.
The prophet said, command your children to perform
the salah when they are 7 years old.
And then give them a hiding
if they don't do it when they reach
the age of 10.
In the next 7 years, after 14 years
of age,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam advised us,
be a companion to them.
Be someone who speaks to them.
Teach them what you know.
Be a guide to them.
Be a friend to them. Be a mentor
to them.
Be there for them.
Just be there if you can't do anything
else. Just be
present for them.
Don't be absent.
And we're not talking about
parents who are separated.
That is another big set of challenges that
they have. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make it
easy for you because things happen.
But if you are in
a safe marriage,
good marriage,
you and your wife together, and you are
raising kids, there's absolutely
no excuse to be absent as a father.
There's no excuse to leave your son to
his own devices.
There's no excuse for you that he has
to get his education
through YouTube,
through his peers
at the university.
That is okay for his academics.
But when it comes to his morality,
when it comes to his sense of being,
who he is as a Muslim,
who he is in terms of being your
son,
and you and your family
being obedient to the worship of Allah. You
have a huge, huge responsibility.
And part of that duty is that you
need to speak to them often and you
need to engage
and you need to listen and you need
to be open.
Small
verse.
What is your opinion in the matter?
What do you think?
Ibrahim alaihis salatu wasallam, he didn't need to
ask this. He knew his loyalty
is to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, and he
knew
come what may that the slaughter or the
sacrifice
is going to happen.
But still
still he recognized his responsibility and his duty
towards his son.
He recognized that this is not just something
that he can be obedient to Allah and
not think of anyone around him.
He needs to think of those that he's
going to impact on immediately.
And the son
the son responds.
He says, my father,
do what you have been commanded.
This is extraordinary,
and it is difficult for us
to understand
that how a person,
when he had been told that he is
a sacrifice,
can respond
by telling the person who is going to
sacrifice him,
you do what you have been commanded to
do.
It is only if you have been reared
in the shade of revelation.
It is only if you have been reared
by that
patriarch,
Ibrahim alaihis salatu wa salam,
Whom Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala himself had put
through many tests
and many trials before he came to this
point and this juncture in his life.
A son,
a son that was born
while there was no water.
A son whom at his feet, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala allowed the miracle of zam zam
to spring forth.
A son who had to carry the bricks
that was setting the foundation
for the Kaaba,
a son that along with his father
announced the adhan
to call people
to this place that is barren,
that where there is no people,
that they have to come.
That son
sacrificing with his mother,
sacrificing with a vision of his father that
is inspired
by Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
Ta'ala.
It is only someone that has been reared
in this manner.
In close proximity to revelation.
In close proximity
to a father
that when he has the most intimate
conversations, he's having that conversation with Allah
The son knows.
The son knows that this is extraordinary.
We are extraordinary.
I have a father whom Allah
speaks to,
And he says, You Abati, oh my father,
do what you have been commanded.
You will find me to be insha
Allah. You will find me insha Allah. You
will find me to be of those who
have patience.
That's the way of the believer.
For anything you intend to do,
don't say you're going to do anything.
Except that you say it is going to
happen with a wall and with the permission
of Allah
And if you say something and you forget,
and mention your Lord if you forget.
Say Allahu Akbar.
Because you you said something, you forgot to
say it is with the mashiya of Allah,
then you remember, then you say Allahu Akbar.
The slaughter happens.
The miracle happens.
The miracle is that the knife,
despite the pressure,
despite the sharpness that is the sharpness of
the knife and the pressure that is being
applied,
the miracle happens that the knife doesn't cut.
The knife doesn't cut, and before Ibrahim
can exert himself,
before he can
take his full prowess to try and commit
to this act now,
he hears, yeah, Ibrahim.
Yeah, Ibrahim.
Yeah. In Arabic, it means that call of
exclamation
to call you to attention.
That's why I'm translating it as, You Ibrahim.
Oh Ibrahim.
You have made the dream
you have verified that dream. What you have
seen in the dream has transpired.
And Ibrahim,
what is his response?
His response is Allahu Akbar.
Allahu Akbar.
Allahu Akbar.
What is the response of Ismael?
The response is Allahu Akbar because
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is greater than the
sharpness of the knife and the pressure that
is being applied.
We say Allahu Akbar
in our salah.
When we die, we put the maid in
front of us. There's 4 takbeers.
We put the maid in front of us
and the imam raises his hands along with
the rest of the congregation and they say
Allahu Akbar. It is a salah of 4
takbirs.
It has no ruku, and it has no
sujud,
lest those who are not believers say that
the believers
are making sujud and ruku to their dead
people.
No.
Ruku and sujud is only for that being
who raises the heavens without any support.
We say Allahu Akbar.
Why do we say Allahu Akbar? We say
Allahu Akbar because it does not matter who
that individual is that is in front of
us.
It doesn't matter what he had owned.
It doesn't matter what his position was.
It doesn't matter what he had achieved in
life.
It doesn't matter if he's a Nobel Prize
winner.
It doesn't matter if he's a president or
a king.
It doesn't matter if he's the worst person
or if he's the best person that ever
walked the planet.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is greater.
Because Allah
is the one who gives life and Allah
is the one who causes to die.
And at that moment we remind ourselves
Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.
Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.
Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar.
Allahu Akbar.
Allah is greater than everything.
And that is why we make this.
That is why we make that we make
why we make this
rather.
On this day of Eid, we are reminded
of the greatness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And when you are going to slaughter today,
because it is the day of slaughtering,
It is the day of sacrifice. It is
the day that we remember that sacrifice.
You make the takbir when you are making
that sacrifice.
And when you make that takbir,
then you are reminded
because it is an opportunity
It is not an opportunity
for samosas and pies.
If it is there, we will eat it.
But it is not necessarily an opportunity for
some wusses and pies.
It is an opportunity
for you to gain closeness to
Allah
It is Allah
mercy
to you.
Draw close to me.
I give you so many opportunities and ways
to draw close to me.
If you fail
drawing close to me in Ramadan,
maybe there will be a next Ramadan, but
if there isn't a next Ramadan for you,
we don't know.
At least you got Eid.
Draw close to me, Bil Hidayah.
Draw close to me with this with this
sacrifice of slaughtering,
because may perhaps you need that reward of
the slaughtering.
Perhaps you need that change of mind, that
frame of mind, that change of being, that
change of heart that the sacrifice is going
to bring about in you that it's going
to remind you about
So stand there remembering the obedience of Allah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Stand there remembering that Ibrahim and Ismael had
to overcome shaitan.
That it wasn't easy, that there was another
player.
And remember there will always be this player.
This player never disappears.
He is always there.
He is there,
him, his tribe, and they are watching you
from avenues that you don't know.
And they are looking and they are seeking
and they are studying through which door of
deception
do we deceive this one.
There has enough practice
since the beginning of creation to know that
every human being is different,
and every human being requires a different door
of deception.
Everyone is not the same.
Some fall
through drugs.
Some fall through gambling.
Some fall through zina.
Some fall through disobedience
to parents.
Some fall through their arrogance.
Some fall through their wealth.
Some fall through their knowledge.
Others even fall as they are trying
to gain knowledge of the deen of Islam
and come close to Allah. They fall.
Shaitan,
he uses each and every device in the
book,
and he studies each and every individual
differently, and he presents you with a certain
set of circumstances
that is challenging to you.
That is
Seek refuge in Allah
from shaitan.
This is the other lesson of this day.
It is the ability of the person with
iman to overcome shaitan.
Today we celebrate that ability.
Imagine Allah
made us weak and made shaitaan
powerful.
No. Allah
gave us the potential to overcome shaitaan.
He gave us the potential to close the
door for Shaitaan, the doors of deception.
If you just do what you need to
do,
just follow what you need to follow,
it is not complicated,
and then Allah assistance
will come.
We are reminded this day, and I'm closing,
we are reminded this day also
about the response of those of that son
that I mentioned in the Khutba on Friday,
of that son that when his father called
him to that which is good and called
him to life,
his response was different.
When his father said,
When his father said to him, oh my
son, get on board with us.
Get on board with iman.
Get on board with belief.
Get on board with obedience to Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
Get on board with humility.
Humility doesn't mean weakness.
Don't equate humility with weakness. When we say
and when we ask the young man to
become humble,
we don't mean that you must become weak.
We know that you have strength. We know
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala endowed you with
various types of prowess.
We know that. We are asking you to
be humble
in that which Allah
has given you.
Because it is only through humility and the
door of humility
that you will reach Allah
He's telling his son
come aboard with us. You don't know everything
my son. There's certain things that I as
your father, Nuh, is telling his son, no,
that you don't know. And one of the
things is that it was pertaining to the
unseen.
You are still too attached to this world.
You still think that this world is going
to last forever.
Your youth deceives you. You look into the
mirror and looking back at you is a
man that is strong,
healthy, full of vitality,
that is going to live forever. It is
a deception.
Ask your grandfather,
who is preparing himself for his cover.
Ask
him
and if he is not around
then let him be a sign unto you.
Ask your father,
who is becoming great,
who had the best of his days.
He was the man.
He's realizing now that this dunya doesn't last
forever and that he has to make preparation.
Why do you want to wait
when your father is calling you,
when your mother is calling you,
when Nabi Ibrahim is calling you, when Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is calling you, When
you have the Quran, the revelation of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala that is calling you?
Why do you want to deny
yourself the opportunity
to become a,
to become a,
and to get the ultimate reward?
Are you really intelligent?
Well, the intelligent person who is the one
who recognizes
that
that if he can invest now and he
can reap great rewards,
then that is a wise investment.
And this is the proposition of deen. The
proposition of deen is you plant now.
You work now. You tell the soul now
in a manner that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is teaching you, and you
will definitely reap the reward in the year
after.
And the Muslim worldview is not a pessimistic
one. We don't go through this life thinking
just about death, death, death. No. It is
not a pessimistic one. We live our lives
beyond this dunya with optimism,
but more than optimism, we live our lives
with obedience.
We live our lives, yes, thinking about the
next generation, and what we need to do
to plant the seeds so that our children
and grandchildren and great grandchildren
so that they can inherit
a land that is worthy,
worthy of our sacrifice, and our struggle, and
our death.
But we also remember,
we also remember that our final return and
their final return is to Allah
I will end
off by imploring and asking Allah
that Allah
must change the conditions in this country.
That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala must change the
condition
of the hearts
of the people
of this country.
We live in one of the most beautiful
countries in the world,
But all of us as we are sitting
here in this masjid,
we are not normal anymore.
We are all suffering some type of trauma.
We are suffering a trauma that we live
in a country
that requires you
to think about violence,
death,
*,
murder,
home invasions.
We live in a country that is absolutely
not safe.
We live in a country with inequality,
unimaginable
inequality.
One individual drives a car,
may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala if you got
wealth?
Wealth isn't a problem.
I'm talking about the inequality.
1 individual is driving a car of half
a 1000000.
The other one is trying to put up
a shack of 5,000
so that he has a roof over his
head.
This is the country that we live in,
and it is not a country that doesn't
have wealth.
It is not a country that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala doesn't send rain.
He is withholding the rain to teach us
something.
It's not a country that doesn't have mineral
resources.
We live in a country that is very,
very rich,
but it is the way that those resources
are managed,
it is the way that people are interacting,
it is the greed of people, It is
the corruption of people
that is resulting
that there's this deep deep seated inequalities.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala yalla,
let Muslims not be part of this corruption.
Let us not give a bribe. Let us
not accept the bribe.
Let us not buy anything that is illegal
or haram. It does not put our money
into haram places. It does not earn a
single cent from anything that is haram because
there is haram all around us. Yeah, Allah.
Don't taint us. Don't taint our wealth. Don't
taint our iman
with us that is around us. Make us
what we are supposed to be. The shining
beacons of hope in this country that is
South Africa.
Make us that.
Make us the nation that when other nations
look at us, they ask, what is this
community doing?
And already we are on the right track.
We love education
because the first of revelation was.
We don't give up on our parents because
the Quran says,
be grateful to me and be grateful to
your parents. We don't send our children out
into the world to go live in apartments
when they're 18 and fend for themselves.
No. We keep them under our eye for
as long as we can, and we make
sure that when we send them out, we
send them out and they are able to
tackle the difficulties that's going to come to
them. This is our community.
We are a proud community. We are not
a proud community because we are Malay or
because we are Indian. It has nothing to
do with ethnicity.
Our pride is founded in the fact that
we strive, that we have we strive for
taqwa, that we form masajid,
that we make ruku, that we make sujood.
That is where we find our pride because
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
says in the Quran
that indeed the most noble of you, the
best of you in the sight of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala
is who? Is those who have the most
taqwa. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us
of the muttaqeen.
May Allah protect our communities. May Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala protect our children.
May Allah protect our households.
May Allah protect our wealth and our possessions.
May Allah
protect our iman.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us assets
for the deen. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
if we have tendencies towards destruction and ruin,
that where other people are building bridges, so
that people can stand together. May Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala remove that destruction and ruin from
us, so that we are not of those
who just want to break the bridges.
Too many.
That's a important dua that we need to
make today and I end off with this
dua. You Allah,
make us of those who build this deen.
Make us like the
don't make us of those who break down,
because any fool can break down. Any ignoramus
can break down. It doesn't take a genius
to take a rock and to break something,
but it takes a lot.
It takes a lot
if you want to intend to build. May
Allah
make us build this.
For your families,
May Allah grant,
the the the animal that you're going to
slaughter,
please
treat the animal kindly.
You're supposed to have been treating the animal
kindly already up until now, but remember
that
it's very important for us. We cannot preach
to be the best ummah, but when it
comes to the slaughtering, we are butchering the
animal.
No. It's supposed to be a daba. It's
supposed to be a slaughter, not a tazbih,
but a massacre.
If you don't know how to do it,
it is sunnah for you to do it
yourself with your own hand, but if you
don't know how to do it, give it
to the imam or give it to the
other fellow. You can appoint him on your
behalf, and you can tell him, please slaughter
on my behalf.
If you if you got a bit of
confidence and he tells you, hold here, take
there, do that, give one stroke, and then
you do it,
inshallah. Then you do it, inshallah. Practice maybe
on a pie first,
and then some moosa or something, so that
you don't butcher the animal.
With that being said, we'll make
dua.