Salah Mahmoud – By Allah Allah Will Never Forsake You
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My dear brothers beloved brothers and sisters,
in the beginning of my Khubba,
I would just like to ask the brothers
who are whoever is using the the cell
phone, please,
for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
If you're coming to the masjid, alhamdulillahi
rabbilalamin,
you already made the effort
And we appreciate that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
will definitely word you for this because I
can tell you this for sure that
you had the choice and the option not
to come to the masjid. Right? Nobody would
have asked you why did you or didn't
come to the masjid. However, alhamdulillah,
maybe you got out of school, you got
out of work, maybe this is your lunch
break and you came to the masjid. And
guess what? SubhanAllah,
when you're using your phone, it actually invalidates
your prayer.
Invalidates your prayer even if you're reading the
Quran. SubhanAllah. I have seen some brothers reading
Quran throughout the whole entire Khutba. It doesn't
matter how boring the Khutba is, but definitely
you would come up with something. When you
get something inshallah from the imam, and this
is very important.
My apology. We here we we need to
encourage each other.
Allah
says, and remind because remind our benefits whom?
The believers. SubhanAllah.
Beautiful.
Even believers, we need reminders. That's why I
started off with this. Brothers and sisters,
one of the toughest situation that ever happened
to Rasulullah
alaihi wasallam, the beginning of alwahi.
Right?
When Jibreel alaihis salam came to him and
we know the story very well.
Right? When he came to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam and, you know, he he he
pulled the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam towards him
and he said, read, read, read. Right? And
the prophet said, I cannot read. That was
really tough situation, really hard. Right? Imagine yourself
in a cave somewhere in the middle of
the night in the desert, and somebody all
of a sudden comes to you, sees you,
telling you something that you've never heard before,
and something that you cannot do. How scared
you would be in this situation? So that
was the situation of
brothers and sisters, that
after, of course, jibreel alaihi salam, you know,
came
with right? The prophet
was so scared that he was shivering.
You know, that feeling when you're very scared
and you feel like you're shivering, it is
really hot,
but you still feel like you're shivering. That
was the, you know, the state of
or the status of
at that time. So immediately
ran back to whom? To the love of
his life. To his psychologist.
Right? Who was his psychologist at that time?
Asaydah Khadija
He she was the the love of his
life, the backbone of his household. And
Muhammad.
So he ran to her. Right? With this
situation, I just want you to picture this
in your mind, brothers and sisters. Someone who
is really scared and just running, running, running.
And he goes to say the Khadija shivering
and says, of course,
you know, and we knew the story. Wrap
me, wrap me, wrap me. I feel cold.
You know, it doesn't matter how many blanket,
how many cover. You're still feeling cold. That
was the situation of Rasul,
and Jibril did not want to scare the
prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam. But the matter of
the fact, he just wanted to tell him
that, listen. This is a serious matter.
It's not a joke. It's serious. What I'm
coming up with right now is very serious.
You know when you talk to someone and
you try to bring them towards you and
say, listen to me right now.
This is very similar situation. I'm just using
an analogy here to kind of give you
an idea of, of the situation of Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi
Salam goes back to say the
And this is the one thing that we
would love our brothers to do when they
are faced by calamity or something to run
to their spouses. This is the kind of
relationship that we want to have with our
spouses. That would be our psychologist, the one
who listen to us rather than the ones
who give us hard time or give each
other hard time. Right? So he run to
Rasuulullah,
not to a friend, not to anybody.
And now, her role as a psychologist,
as a person
who is very wise, Someone whom, you know,
loved her her her spouse, her husband so
much.
And she tells him,
the prophet said,
I fear that something might happen to me.
And then she said, the Hadith, and this
is what we're going to be talking about
brothers and sisters.
She said,
This is the first thing.
Have the glad tidings.
Do not worry.
Brothers and sisters, a lot of time
when people are facing difficulties in their life,
when they come to you, a lot of
times they just want
some words of, you know, to comfort them.
And this is something very important. Very important.
When someone comes to you with a with
a with a problem,
do not freak them out. Don't scare them
even more. Oh my god. This is gonna
happen to you.
Always give glad tidings. Let's go to Surah
Al Khasas. Musa
alaihis salam was very freaked out, was very
scared because, you know, the whole people the
whole town was running after Musa alaihis salam
trying to chase him to kill him. Right?
And then
when
he when Musa alaihis salam told him the
story, what did Shoaib alaihis salam said? He
said,
don't worry. You'll be fine.
So a lot of times people come to
you, and you need to listen to them.
And subhanallah, this is
this is this is a great reward from
Allah
that he comfort somebody. And this is what
the
did.
So the first thing, she comforted the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Alright. Now, what is the
next step? She said,
I swear by Allah that he will never
forsake you. He will never let you down.
He will never disappoint you. SubhanAllah.
I wonder why did the Sayyidak Khadija radiallahu
anha say that to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam? What is the reason that she was
very confident that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
never let him down? What did he do
so that he would deserve
this high status that Allah
would always be in his in his sight.
Right? And listen to the 5 qualities, brothers
and sisters. That to say that Khadija
reminded the prophet
beautiful hadith, beautiful reminder, beautiful qualities that Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had. And if we have
these qualities, then I can tell you
Allah will never forsake you.
So let's listen to this and the beauty
of subhanallah,
our religion that the most rewarding deeds, if
you notice, the most rewarding deeds are not
actually the ones that you do directly to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But brother,
the good
deeds that you do for other people.
This is the beauty of our religion.
Your salah
is not going to benefit me personally. It's
only going to benefit you. But you know
what is going to benefit both of us?
Is if you actually stand on my side
and help me out.
This is the greatest word. Having we heard
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says,
There was a tree in the middle of
the road that a man cut off. Why?
Because it was harming people.
It was blocking their way and he cut
off the the tree. He removed it from
from the street, from the road. And the
prophet
said, because of that, I have seen him
enjoying himself in Jannah, Allahu Akbar. How easy
this is brothers and sisters.
So it's not just about,
which is amazing thing, of course. It's not
just about, you know, your siyam, your Hajj.
It's what you do to human being.
Right? So Assaydah Khadijah, radiallahu anha, reminded the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam with 5 qualities.
Right? And then what you notice here,
when you hear at first, Allah will never
forsake you or or let you down, then
you might think that you will tell him
because look what you're doing. You live in
everything. You're not worshiping idols. You're a young
man, however, you don't drink. You don't do
you can you don't do any of that.
She did not mention any of that. She
mentioned 5 things that the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam used to do. Number 1, count
with me please.
Number 1, call it.
SubhanAllah. What is the connection here?
You maintain good relationship with your relatives.
Subhanallah.
And this is something very important. When someone
comes to you with a problem or something,
always always remind them that Allah would be
with them because you're a good person. If
you're a good person, why would Allah let
you down? Why would Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
forsake you and they ignore you?
Right? So she reminded him of things that
he already did in the past.
Right? He had some sort of he had
credibility in here. He had credit.
Yeah. So she said, you maintain
good relationship with your family.
Something that nowadays,
Although
although we have all kind
of, you know,
like, you know, calling and technology
and social media and everything.
Yet,
we're falling short on that.
SubhanAllah.
We're falling short on that. How many relatives
we have back home that we've had not
spoken with them for years?
For years. Forget about the, you know, the
the the parents. I mean, the parents, of
course, should always come first. Some people don't
even don't talk to their parents.
Right? What about your auntie? Do you remember
the auntie when you grew up? She was
around you.
Do you remember even your family here?
Listen to this hadith brother and sisters.
The one who cut off his, you know,
the connection with his family, with his relatives
will never go to Jannah. Can you imagine
that?
This is hadith in Bukhari. This is hadith
sahih from Rasool Allah sallam. Is it that
serious? Yes. It is very serious.
Brothers and sisters, I say the Khadija reminded
Rasool alaihi wa sallam. She said, you're a
good person. You've been always good to your
family. You've been always good to your spouse,
to your kids. I'm sorry. To your to
your spouse, to your your your family, your
uncles, your cousins.
You've been good to everybody. Why would Allah
forsake you and they let you down? Nothing
is going to harm you. This is number
1, brothers and sisters. Check today.
Check your that your relationship with your family.
Even the ones I know that a lot
of times they say, Sheikh,
my brother doesn't talk to me.
He's the one I tried but he's not
talking to. Please try again.
You
will get more rewards. Right? My uncle doesn't
talk to me. There is financial issues. Shaitan
is always there. We understand.
But if you are someone who has Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala as his standard, you wouldn't
you wouldn't care if he hung up on
you or anything. You wouldn't care because you
deal with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not with
humans.
So maintain good relationship with your relatives. And
this is what Rasulullah sallam did. So what
was the second thing brothers and sisters? She
said,
you never tell lies.
You never lie.
SubhanAllah.
Lying is one of the, you know, the
truth and the qualities
that
nobody likes.
Nobody likes.
Cheating. Lying is what?
When you're cheating, you're lying as well.
When you're betraying someone, you're lying as well.
And because you're lying, you ended up cheating
and doing something else and that destroys our
houses.
Before I came to this masjid,
I had 2 hour session with couples who
unfortunately they're divorcing
because of lying and cheating.
SubhanAllah.
So I'm talking to them and this is
in the back of my mind that, you
know, I'm giving Khuba and I'm going to
mention that.
SubhanAllah.
So one of the couple they said like,
you know,
he or she they've been lying all the
time.
They've been lying all the time. They're not
saying the truth. They're hiding things. And what
is the result?
You have kids in the middle. Both of
them are screaming. The house
is broken.
Why? Because we did not listen to rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Alaykum basukkifain
nasukkayahdiilalbir.
A suk leads to what? Righteousness.
Righteousness.
It leads to what? To a healthy family
because there is transparency.
There is openness. We're open to each other.
There is no betraying. There is no shading
because our standard is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
I always say that to spouses. I always
say that to to couples. I always say
your standard and your relationship with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala should be very should be number
1. Should be your priority. If your relationship
with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is good, guess
what? You will never have an issue with
your spouse. Because when you stay away from
something haram because of Allah, no. Because you
you're worried that your spouse would find out.
So I say the Khadijah said
to Rasulullah sallam, you never till life.
Never. You always sad. Matter of fact, his
title
was a the most the the honest, the
most trustworthy.
That's why people, the companions of Rasulullah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam believed in the message of
Rasulullah sallam. That's why Abu Bakr supported
Rasulullah sallam in every step of the way.
Why? Because he had credibility.
If you're lying, if you're losing the the,
you know, the trust
in your household, you will never get it
back, unfortunately.
Trust is earned.
And if you are someone who has this
bad quality,
which is telling lies, then there will not
be trust.
And as a consequence, what's going to happen?
Broken families. What about the kids? They're out.
They lost. And this is the issue that
we're facing our communities brothers and sisters. I'm
really sad to say that. I'm not blaming
any of the brothers. Alhamdulillah. May Allah protect
you. But I'm telling you from my experience
with dealing with dealing with communities in New
York City, in Dallas, anywhere I go, there's
always shaitan there. But from my experience, that
was number one reason subhanAllah.
Because spouses, they're not open to each other.
They tell lies and that's a problem. So
that was the second thing
that
is
So number 1 was, you maintain good relationship
with your family, with your relatives. Number 2,
you're you're someone who always always tell tell
the truth. You don't lie. Right? If you
have this quality, if you don't have this
quality, work on it.
Right? Because what is the result here? As
she said to say the Khadija, she said,
Allah will never forsake you. Allah will never
let you down. You have enough problem with
anybody, Allah will take care of you because
you're someone. Allah knows your heart, And that's
the beauty of this. Right? It doesn't matter.
Human being can say anything about you, but
Allah
knows what is in
your
heart.
Or
a kol.
And the third one,
you help
the needy people.
Look at that. Any of the qualities that
I am talking about here, I've been talking
about here, it has something to do with
benefiting other human beings. Nothing about the person,
the person, the prophet
himself. It's about what he's doing to other
people.
Right? She said, and when you find someone
in need financially,
physically, emotionally,
any kind of need, any kind of need.
You just step up right away and take
care of it and say, I'm going to
help. I'm going to help for the sake
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That was the
quality of brothers and sisters. He would, he
would help the old, the young, the man
and the woman. He would not discriminate.
Good customer service is good customer service. Good
service is a good service. And that was
the quality of.
It's a beautiful.
If you help someone, this is the the
real sad. This is real happiness.
Psychologists say that. If any of the brothers
here, he would agree with me on this
one. If you want to be happy, they
say, go make someone else happy.
Subhanallah. It has a lot of psychological benefits
to us.
Right?
Remember, when you even someone asks you, how
can I go somewhere? And you actually told
them, make a right, make a left, and
whatever. Right? Subhanallah. How happy you were at
that time? How happy when when someone was
not able to carry something and say, sir,
ma'am, can I help you? How happy you
Subhanallah.
How happy you are when you help someone
financially. Someone who is in in in a
desperate need. Subhanallah.
That's why brothers and sisters, Rasoolallahu alaihi wa
sallam says in a beautiful hadith.
Beautiful hadith.
Someone imagine you're someone in debt. Someone who
cannot sleep
or she cannot sleep, losing their sleep over
debt or something.
Right?
And
all of a sudden, they get a message,
your debt was paid off.
Look at these students
who finish, you know, their schools and their,
you know, they have a lot of debts.
Imagine if you if you help someone who
is not able to pay back. The prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says, if you relieve
distress,
hardship of a believer
in this dunya, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
relieve your distress in the day of the
judgment.
Help someone in this dunya. And in the
day of judgment, when you are begging Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala for 1 hasana. For 1
Hasana, one good deed. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
will say, remember when you helped, when you
paid off his debt.
When you put the smile on his face,
on her face, remember that day because of
that my servant, now you are relieved from
the distress. Your
debt is paid off.
And then you're going to be the most
the happiest person ever.
So she told him, You Rasool Allah. Allah
will never forsake you. Allah will never let
you down.
Why? Because you helped everybody. Whoever asked you,
you were helping them. You were always there.
You're a man of the people
and that's why people loved you.
Brothers and sisters in the first part of
the Khutbah, we're talking about
the hadith
of a saydah Khadija radiAllahu anha. The the
incident that happened with a saydah Khadija radiAllahu
anha when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
came from from the cave after received the
first revelation, he was really scared. Then a
say the Khadija radhiallahu anha, she said,
be happy. Don't worry.
Don't worry.
Be, you know, she give him the glad
tidings. Yeah. And then she said, Allah will
never forsake you. Allah will never let you
down because
there are 5 things that you used to
do and you're still doing. Because of that,
Allah will never let you down. Number 1,
we said that you maintain good relationship with
your relatives. You always talk to you. You're
always kind to them even if they're they're
harming you. Even they're treating you bad. You're
still kind to them. Right? Number 2.
She said, because you always say the truth.
You don't lie. You don't have this quality.
You don't tell lies.
Number 3, you help the needy person, the
needy people. When someone needs something physically, emotionally,
financially,
you're always there and you help them. Number
4, brothers and sisters,
you're
generous.
You've been always generous to your guests.
Subhanallah.
You know when you have a guest, especially
the guest home, they know the the the
the rights
and the etiquettes
and the the the respect of the person
of the host,
especially if I'm talking about the ones who
come to your house and they they know
the etiquettes. They're not someone who run them.
They do respect your house. Those ones are
blessing from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. One brother
used to tell me, your the guest comes
with his rizq.
Wallahi. The guest, they come with the rizq.
Whatever food they're eating, this is the rizq.
SubhanAllah. It wasn't yours. It was theirs.
So when you are generous to your guest,
and alhamdulillah,
one of the greatest things about the Muslim
community is that when I speak to non
Muslims, they say,
we really appreciate the fact that Muslim people
are very generous.
They're very kind.
Right? I just heard that last week from
a non Muslim.
You guys are very strong and you're very
generous. Yes. Why wouldn't we be generous and
our our role model is prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
If you are true believer,
be generous to your guest. If you have
a guest,
don't ask when are they leaving. Don't like
of course, for the guest, when you go
there, also know the etiquettes. Very important to
learn the etiquettes, you know. Be on time
and don't look around and sit when the
people where where people ask you to sit.
And all of these, you know, etiquettes that
we we talk about all the time. Right?
But if you know that, as as a
host, you should always be generous. Should be
generous. How many times we we hear stories
of Sahaba
companions that one of the stories was
there was a there was a guest. They
had a guest and,
they didn't have enough food. It was like
surprise visit. Right? There was not enough food
that they turned the light off and they
pretended that they pretended that they're actually aiding.
Right? Making like sounds so the guests wouldn't
feel embarrassed.
SubhanAllah.
So look how how beautiful this example is
brothers and sisters. So be generous to your
guest, and they are they are blessing from
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That's another quality Rasool
Allah
used to do. Maintain a good relationship with
your family.
Don't lie.
Say the truth all the time.
Help the needy people. Be generous, your guests.
And number 5
number 5
of the qualities that Sayeed Khadija reminded
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, she said,
What does it mean?
When someone is in calamity,
you always stand to their side. It's kind
of
the same like what we talked about,
but this is very important.
Do you remember that brother who was next
to you, standing next to you when you
lost someone dear in your family? Do you
remember that? I'm pretty sure a lot of
brothers are nodding now. Yes. I remember this
brother. He was next to me. I was
in the hospital and he came and visited
me. Right?
He was next to me. I had debt
and he helped me out. You we all
have this person in our life.
Right? If you have this quality,
people will love you. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
will love you. Right? Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
will definitely take care of you brothers and
sisters. When you help others,
Allah will help you. Allah will take care
of you for sure.
One brother,
I met him before and he was a
public figure. So,
give him the ability to serve humans, people.
He was a man who true man who
people. And, sometimes, his kids were complaining. He's
always busy and, you know.
So this brother, I remember one time I
was talking to him, telling him that you're
always busy but alhamdulillahi, you do great things
to humanity.
He said, you know, my kids,
my kids, if they know that I'm doing
this for them so that when wherever they
go, whenever they go, they will find somebody
else to help them,
they will appreciate.
Now I'm talking about 10 years ago. This
is like 10, 15 years ago.
His kids are all over the world and
every single location in the world, there is
somebody out there helping them. Do you want
someone to take care of your kids after
you leave this world?
Be next to the desperate ones, the people
who need help.
And this is the message that we got
from
our.
Five things brothers. Maintain good relationship with your
family today. In relatives, call them please. Number
2. Do not lie. No cheating. No betrayal.
Number 3.
Be kind to your help the needy one.
Number 4. Be generous to your guests. And
number 5. Be next to desperate ones. The
one who are affected and afflicted by calamities.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give
us understanding
so we can understand
and implement the sunnah of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam.