Sajid Ahmed Umar – Gift for my parents

			Rahman Al Rahim hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen are behind a study in one of Salah under Salim Allah
Hartmann the be in the Vienna Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi Eduware in my bad alone by living in
my environment on fire now Beamer and limitada Was it an element or mln Karim? We begin in the name
of Allah subhanho wa taala. We praise Him we request his assistance and we seek His guidance and we
request praises and blessings upon Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, I bear witness that
there's no one worthy of worship besides one Allah and that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is
his messenger to my brothers and sisters in Islam. Salaam Allah here aleikum wa rahmatullah wa
		

			barakato wabarakatuh. May Allah's peace, may his blessings May his safety be upon you all. It's a
pleasure to be with you all. in Swansea, as was said, It is my very first trip, I have been to
Cardiff
		

			a couple of times, Swansea is the first time this visit is part of a unique tour. And I've been
mentioning this in the different cities that we've been in, I've been part of many lecture tours,
but nothing dedicated to our parents, and in a transformative way, in that there is a very powerful
action elements associated with the with the topic, and theme of the store. And that is a sadaqa,
Algeria, a continuous charity, opportunity, and not just any opportunity, but from the best of
opportunities for our parents and SubhanAllah. I add to the idea of the uniqueness of the store,
given that the last of these talks is happening in a very unique venue. So Pamela, it's, as I said,
		

			my first time here, and I've been taught and educated that this particular building was built in
1874 1874. And the person who was responsible for selling this now, Masjid, which was previously a
church, to the Muslims, his family, built it Subhanallah and facing Jerusalem. And that's why it's
phenomenal how there was no need to adjust the direction of the Qibla the masjid is, is Makkah
facing as well as a result of it being Jerusalem facing and also Subhanallah how that person who
worshiped in this place as a Christian, then accepted Islam and Janessa was prayed in this very same
place after it was a masjid Subhan Allah and the pastor as a Muslim Subhan Allah indeed this is the
		

			cover of Allah subhanahu atter Allah Subhan Allah, Allahu Allah Kuma Yeshua we after I couldn't help
but think of this verse when our brother was relating to read the story. Allah says in his book,
that Allah creates what He wants without and he chooses from his creation and gives a precedence and
rank to his creation over others McKenna who Maria, no one had a say, in that matter, this was
entirely Allah subhanho wa Taala alone. So I open, expressing my gratitude to the community to you
all, and also highlighting Subhanallah how heartwarming, it is because the uniqueness of this trip
and journey increases, and inshallah this perhaps is a sign kitten will risk that we at the end, and
		

			the end is like musk, it will be beautiful and Insha Allah, you've been advised towards a class and
I remind myself again to this lesson for indeed, if we sit here for the sake of Allah, then we will
only be winners and ask Allah to make this a gathering that has only come together for his sake
alone, and to make this a gathering that he has a good word and follows it and to make this a
gathering that is forgiven upon its departure. I mean, you are a brand I mean, the Brothers and
Sisters in Islam.
		

			Once a person came to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam. And this narration is authentic. And
he asked the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who is most deserving of my kind character, who is
most deserving of my kindness, my kind, attitude, my good behavior, and the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam obviously you can imagine, right? From the outset, you would think that in terms of
the creation of Allah subhanahu wa T and that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam would say the
most beloved to Allah subhanho wa taala, meaning the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is most
beloved. But no doubt there's always context to all these questions. And also allah sallallahu
		

			alayhi wa sallam being the ultimate teacher always spoke and guided in a transformative way. As soon
as this question was asked, he said to this person, your mother, so he then said, then who? And the
prophets of Allah Allah He was seldom said your mother. And then he asked again and said, then who?
He said your mother, and then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was asked yet again. After
answering your mother three times, he said, your father. Now this narration Brothers and Sisters in
Islam is something we may have heard. But if we ponder over it, if we ponder
		

			Over the words of the prophets, Allah Allahu alayhi wa sallam the context of the narration, we
understand the very important point Brothers and Sisters in Islam, this idea of honoring our
parents, our mother and our father. It is part and parcel of the system of la ilaha illAllah.
Muhammad Rasul Allah, it's part and parcel of the system of Tawheed. Many of us, we will no doubt we
know to hate we know the Shahada. But how deeply Do we understand it, that this reality of la ilaha
illallah, Muhammad Rasool Allah, it's not just words that we utter,
		

			with our tongues. It's not just an idea that we have in our hearts. It's not just about prostrating
to one, Allah subhanho wa taala, but it's about the system of worshiping one Allah it's the system
of prostrating to one, Allah subhanho wa taala, that as the prophets Allah, Allahu Allah, he was
setting them no doubt came with the massive and mighty task of unchaining, the shackles of
polytheism and separating people from the deep desires to follow the misguided ways of their
forefathers here he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam not only has time but makes time to teach the Ummah
about the importance of their parents, it's part and parcel of worshipping on Allah subhanho wa
		

			taala. And no doubt from the clearest of evidences and the most manifest verses in the Quran that
would solidify this discourse that I'm sharing with you. This idea that I'm sharing with you is the
verse which our young have with May Allah bless him and his brother and his family recited for us at
the opening of today's program. Wakaba Rob Booker and taboo in a year will be the wily daily sign
that Allah has decreed that you worship no one but him, and that you'll be excellent to your
parents. Now Brothers and Sisters in Islam. Here we see Allah commanding us towards his worship
alone, and then immediately commanding us towards being excellent to our parents. And again, as we
		

			searched for context to the earlier narration that I just shared, which is authentic, if we ponder
over this verse, and look at the time it was revealed and the surah that it is part of and, and
search for its context, we will see Brothers and Sisters in Islam, that this verse is a second
verse. And this teaches us two important points or an important point and then the context gives us
another important point. The first important point Brothers and Sisters in Islam, is that this
command towards being excellent to our parents, it was revealed before the Salah as we know it
today, it was revealed, it was revealed before Zakah being a pillar of Islam was revealed. It was
		

			revealed before fasting as a pillar of Islam was revealed. It was revealed before Hajj was revealed
Subhanallah before the pillars of Islam were revealed. Allah subhanho wa Taala revealed that we be
excellent to our parents. Again, going back to the earlier point of the system of the heat, and the
idea of our parents being part and parcel of the fabric of the system of la ilaha illa Allah we need
to understand this. Deeper Brothers and Sisters in Islam, that before the pillars of Islam as we
know it today, became solidified as part and parcel of the religion of Islam. being excellent to our
parents was made part and parcel of this religion. Also Brothers and Sisters in Islam, when this
		

			verse was revealed, it wasn't revealed to a people that were being spoiled by their parents and
protected by their parents and and looked after by their parents but rather it was revealed to a
people who are being persecuted by their very own parents because of la ilaha illa Allah Muhammad
Rasul Allah, because of la ilaha illa Allah Muhammad Rasool Allah, at that time, Allah subhanho wa
Taala confirms the message of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that you worship one Allah and
then confirms an important point that as you go through this difficulty, and this oppression and the
sanctions do not disobey your parents, and not only should you not disobey them, be dutiful to them,
		

			and not only should you be dutiful to them, but be dutiful to them in the most excellent of ways.
Subhanallah This is the reality of Wakaba rabuka taboo in the year will be the Wiley Dini exam, that
you'll be excellent to your parents. This is the idea of Excel. And again, I'll Quran you first of
all Quran the Quran explains the Quran in the Quran, Allah subhanho wa Taala commands
		

			for dunya ma rofa that be with them in the life of this world, in a manner that is known in a manner
that is acceptable that are managed in a manner that is not frowned upon. But also the Sunnah,
explains the Quran was sunnah to to fasudil Quran they shouldn't
		

			As well explains the Quran and in another narration which is authentic. The Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam is asked another question, which deeds are most beloved to Allah which deed is the
most beloved deed to Allah subhanho wa Taala and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says, a
solid, and I worked here, observing the salah upon its fixed and prescribed time. And then the
person said, then what he said barrel while he then barrel Valley then being dutiful and excellent
to your parents. He said, then what he said, striving in the path of Allah subhanahu itad La ilaha
illAllah. Again, let's bring context here. let's ponder here Brothers and Sisters in Islam. We know
		

			the station of Salah in Islam, we know the station of jihad and striving in the path of Allah
subhanho wa Taala in Islam, but before jihad, and after Salah, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam says, After you take care of Allah's rights, which is the Salah, take care of the rights of
the creation of Allah, the greatest of those rights is your parents, and Subhanallah he sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam who was blessed with Joanne Kelim, this universal ability to articulate and express
the teachings of Islam that in a few words, He will teach us so much more, he used the term bear and
bear in the Arabic language is from birth. And birth refers to vast plains that are borderless. This
		

			is the reality of birth. And that's why the Arabs, when they would leave the cities and go out into
the desert, they would say, we are going to the bar, meaning we are going to a place that is so
vast,
		

			that it doesn't have a frame twist, we're going to go so out that will be so far from the borders of
the city. And here we learn Brothers and Sisters in Islam, that in this one word, the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wasallam is teaching us how we should be excellent to our parents, that excellence
here has no boundaries rather everything that constitutes excellence, you should be that person with
your parents. And that is why the Scholars have to see when they explain this verse, while Bill
Wiley they need Santa. They didn't come up with theory. In many of the books off the field, you see
them sharing practical examples, very eloquent examples suitable to the normative values and
		

			mannerisms of the people at the time, and they share in different examples, but none of these
examples contradict each other rather, they complement each other. Thus we find great scholars of
Tafseer Mujahid who is from the greatest students of even our best was from the greatest scholars of
the Quran, he explains this idea of being excellent to your parents, that you don't dust your Sobe
in a manner in which the dust from it ends up falling on your onto your parents. This is how he
explains it Subhanallah again, people who live in the desert, you might not understand this idea
living in Swansea with the greenery and all the wonderful
		

			sceneries around you but if you're living in the desert, dust and desert sand is part and parcel of
life. No matter how built the city is. Desert dust will always be part and parcel of it. So dusting
thought was was something which was normal. And here SubhanAllah. You know, you see from this stuff,
see that you're being told to check the direction of the wind, something you might only see people
doing on the golf course. For example, when the for those who play golf, I don't know if there's any
golfers in the audience here. So Subhanallah This is an example shed. Some others would say being
excellent to your parents is when you eating with them. And remember the Arabs would eat from a
		

			shared plate. So when you eating with your parents, you don't touch a portion from that plate, which
you sincerely feel your mother or father would want to eat from had their eyes fallen onto that
portion of the plate.
		

			Now, you know Hey Lola, look at this level Brothers and Sisters in Islam. Where were they? And where
are we? Where were they from the understanding of these verses? And where are we today? Subhanallah
even in how we address our parents. We are not looking after the system of la ilaha illa Allah I
said to you earlier, it's part of the system of la ilaha illa Allah and now I want to also highlight
to you and Inshallah, with deduces from what I've just said, said that not only did Allah revealed
the command to be good to our parents, but he revealed the Islamic identity of how we should go
about being excellent to our parents. That is not just about being excellent, but upon the identity
		

			of Islam, and this was revealed as well. And we see this in the verse that our young half recited,
we Allah subhanho wa Taala says when your parents were meaning when you are grown up enough to look
after your parents, so they will be much older, and you meet them in old age, what should you do
never ever utter a or show or portray a form of resentment to them. They shouldn't feel that you are
hesitant in
		

			terms of their requests in terms of their needs. In fact, some of the scholars of the past would say
that Falletta ko Lahoma off, Do not utter this term off in the Arabic language of is a show of
resentment. This means that when they urinate on their clothes, you should take their clothes from
them in such a manner that they don't feel estranged and they don't feel bad and they don't feel sad
and they don't feel
		

			depressed or in any way apprehensive to see you doing what you do for them that you do it with
happiness in their old age. Like they did it for you with happiness when you were young Subhanallah
right. What do we see today? I mean, I don't know if we have many of the millennials and the
teenagers around but we hear this that we address our our fathers as bro and you know our mothers as
babies. And you know everybody's mashallah happy about it and proud about it. Which identity are you
using, in showing your excellence to your parents, this is not the identity of Carla law of color,
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, this is a matter of faith. Brothers and Sisters in Islam,
		

			Allah will ask you about it on the day of gamma, this is a matter of la ilaha illa Allah that in you
doing it, you will strengthen your toe heat SubhanAllah. And the examples are many brothers and
sisters in Islam. And to further cement this idea that it is part and parcel of Tawheed we know that
too. He didn't come with Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam it came with the very first messenger
knew how to he Salam. And that legacy was transferred from his shoulders to the shoulders of other
prophets and messengers, until Mohammed Abdullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And if this idea of
being excellent to our parents is part and parcel of Tawheed, we would find it in the way of new all
		

			the way up to Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam and this is the reality. Allah tells us about the
dua of new Halley he Salam. When he said Rob big fiddly Oh ALLAH forgive me, oh my Lord, forgive me
while he while he there? Yeah. And my parents Subhanallah in the Sharia have been to Israel, Allah
subhanho wa Taala tells us that Allah Subhana Allah to Allah revealed to them with Allah Mitaka Bani
Israel Isla Taboola illallah wa Bhilwara, Dania Sana, Allah revealed to the followers of Musa that
they worship no one but one Allah and that they be excellent to their parents about yada yada he
Salam, Allah subhanahu Attallah describes him as saying, or Bahram bydd he will EMEA conjunct Baron
		

			Arsia Subhanallah that he was righteous and dutiful to his parents and he was not a disobedient
tyrant, about isa when he was a baby in the cradle, miraculously speaking, the very first commands
that Allah revealed to him for his people. What does he say? What about Ron BYD that? Well, let me
as your enemy Jabbar and Sharqiya that Allah made me dutiful to my mother, and he has not made me a
wretched tyrant. Do you see Cherie after Sharia messenger after messenger Revelation After
revelation, worship one Allah and be excellent for your parents, brothers and sisters in Islam, it
is part and parcel of the fabric of Tawheed. Thus, not only did the command become something
		

			revealed, but the identity of how to go about it as well and she has inshallah will tell us about
Sulaiman, Allah He Salam, I'll leave that for him in sha Allah chef. Very quickly, Brothers and
Sisters in Islam, I have just a few minutes, virtues of being excellent to our parents, mashallah
you have an able Imam, and evil Alhamdulillah community and I'm sure you have been taught many ways
that you should be excellent to your parents. I will summarize
		

			some of the virtues we've spoken about the what, right, a little bit about the why, right a little
bit about the why. Because when we understand the virtues of doing something that becomes a very
powerful lesson for us and we become associated with it. And we find this internal desire now to
implement because we understand the benefits what are the benefits of being good to our parents?
Well, firstly, Brothers and Sisters in Islam, you get acceptance from the Lord of the worlds because
in the Quran, when Allah describes those who are good to their parents, Allah says thereafter Hola,
Erica Latina, Netta, Caballo and home cinema I mean, Allah says that these people who are good to
		

			their parents, we accept them, we accept their deeds. And not only do we accept their deeds, but we
accept their deeds based on their best deed that the salah has that they read throughout their life,
they were varying in terms of excellence, we will take the most excellent of their salah, and take
the rewards from that Salah and give the same rewards to every Sanada parent. And the same applies
to their fasting. And the same applies to the Amara and their charity and so on and so forth. If
this doesn't motivate you to be excellent to your parents, what were Brothers and Sisters in Islam,
this is the acceptance you stand to get from the Lord of the Worlds if you are good with your
		

			parents also, your do as will be answered. Your prayers will be answered. This is from the most
powerful virtues and effects of being dutiful to your parents, that Allah will accept your DUA from
the pious before us were those who went they were going to difficulty and they would complain. The
chef the Mufti then would say
		

			How is your relationship with your parents? Perhaps your DUA is not reaching Allah because you're
not dutiful to your parents. You're not serving your parents Subhanallah right. So if you are
excellent to your parents, Allah answers you do as you do as reach Allah, and Allah answers it. And
there's the famous story of our eastern currently a man from Yemen who was dutiful to his mother.
It's a long story and I'm out of time. But the the, the, the crux of it is that the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told the Sahaba that if you ever find this person, ask him to make dua
for SubhanAllah. And Omar one day finds him, the leader of the Muslims, promised Jana before he
		

			passed away. And Omar says to him, make dua that Allah grants me, Jana, that Allah forgives me, Omar
is asking him because Omar heard from the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam that this person has to
ask that I answered Allah answers his door is because of how he is to his mother, Abba Herrera,
Allah who, when he was the governor of Medina, at the time of Marwan he was living into her life for
10 kilometers from Medina, back then, it wasn't like today, right? Whenever he would live here, his
mother who was his neighbor, whenever he would go in the morning, he would greet her with the Salaam
and ask Allah to have mercy upon her because she raised him when he was young. And she would respond
		

			to the salam and say, may Allah have mercy upon you, because you looked after me when I was old. And
this was a morning program and an evening program when he returned of the Allahu and so they
understood the power of DUA and being dutiful to your parents and also Brothers and Sisters in Islam
from the virtues of doing so is Allah will bless you with a content heart. Because doing so as
you've not understood is the worship of Allah and those who worship Allah in His remembrance and
Allah Billick related Meindl Kulu it is in the remembrance of Allah that we are
		

			where our hearts and our souls find contentment. Finally Brothers and Sisters in Islam, how do we be
good to our parents? Well, Imam Abdullah haveto Allah He shared these points and inshallah I will
check for him happy the hula will also tell us about these points from the greatest of them no doubt
is implementing the teachings and making dua for them as we've said, but also this idea of sada
progeria and you will hear about a unique opportunity to do so be the light and have a show for him
I love you all for the sake of Allah. I know it was a rushed presentation but I am aware that Salah
is about to to enter upon us Joseph Campbell O'Hara Milla preservers in his obedience forgive our
		

			parents got them graves that are guidance from the guidance of Jana and those who are alive May
Allah preserve them in his obedience and inspire us to be the best that we can be to them I mean
your operand I mean, how the Allahu Allah for some Allah wa sallim wa barik ala Nabina Muhammad wa
ala alihi wa sahbihi wa with