Salah Mahmoud – Fortress Of The Muslim
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استعو و اعتدلوا Straighten the lines, fill in
the gaps.
Pray as if it is your last prayer.
الله أكبر الحمد
لله رب العالمين الرحمن الرحيم
مالك يوم الدين إياك نعبد و إياك
نستعين اهدنا الصراط المستقيم صراط
الذين أنعمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم ولا
الضالي قاها
ما أنزلنا عليك القرآن لتشقى
إلا تذكرة لمن يخشى تنزيلا ممن
خلق الأرض والسماوات العلا الرحمن على الأرش استوى
له ما في السماوات وما في الأرض وما
بينهما وما تحت الثرى وإن تجهر بالقول
فإنه يعلم السر وأخفى الله لا
إله إلا هو له الأسماء الحسنى
وهل أتاك حديث موسى إذ رأى نارا فقال
لأهلهم كثوا إني
آنست نارا لعلي
آتيكم منها بقبس أو أجد على النار هدى
فلما أتاها نودي يا موسى إني
أنا ربك فأخلعن
عليك
إنك بالوادي المقدس طوا وأنا اخترتك فاستمع لما
يوحى إنني أنا الله لا
إله إلا أنا فاعبدني وأقيم
الصلاة لذكري إن الساعة آتية أكاد أخفيها
لتجزى كل نفس بما تسمع الله
أكبر سمع الله
لمن حمده الله أكبر
الله أكبر
الحمد لله رب
العالمين الرحمن الرحيم مالك
يوم الدين إياك نعبد وإياك
نستعين اهدنا الصراط المستقيم صراط
الذين أنعمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم ولا
الضال وأنا اخترتك
فاستمع لما يوحى إنني أنا الله لا إله
إلا أنا فاعبدني وأقيم الصلاة لذكري إن الساعة
آتية أكاد أخفيها لتجزى كل نفس بما تسمع
فلا يصدنك عنها من لا يؤمن بها واتبع
هواه فتردى وما تلك بيمينك يا موسى قال
هي عصايا أتوكأ عليها وأحش بها على غنمي
ولي فيها مآرب أخرى قال ألقها يا موسى
فألقاها فإذا هي حية تسعى قال خذها
ولا تخف سنعيدها سيرتها الأولى وضم يدك إلى
جناحك تخرج بيضاء من غير
سوء
آية أخرى لنريك من آياتنا الكبرى اذهب إلى
فراعون إنه طغى قال رب شرح لي صدري
ويسر لي أمري وحل العقدة من لساني
يفقه قولي واجعل لي وزيرا من أهلي حارون
أخي حارون أخي شدد به يزري وأشركه في
أمري كي نسبحك كثيرا ونذكرك كثيرا إنك
كنت بنا بصيرا قال قد أوديت سنك يا
موسى ولقد مننا عليك مرة أخرى إذ أوحينا
إلى أمك ما يوحى إن قذفيه في التابوت
فقذفيه في اليم فليلقيه اليم بالساحل يأخذه
عدولي وعدوله وألقيت عليك محبة مني
ولتصنع على عيني Allahu
akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu
akbar, Allahu
akbar, Allahu
akbar, Allahu
akbar, Allahu akbar,
Allahu akbar, Allahu
akbar, Assalamu
alaikum wa rahmatullah, Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah
InshaAllah Isha will be at 9 o'clock
starting tomorrow Assalamu
alaikum wa rahmatullah InshaAllah, Sheikh Salah is travelling
so by his request, if I can have
a few minutes of your time InshaAllah, 10
-15 minutes Just a short reminder for us
all InshaAllah I seek refuge with Allah from
the accursed Satan In the name of Allah,
Most Gracious, Most Merciful I seek refuge with
Allah
from
the accursed Satan In the name of Allah,
Most Gracious, Most Merciful So
approximately there are 1.9 billion Muslims across
the planet today So we can infer from
this that out of all the far corners
of the earth, there is a Muslim somewhere
over there And that this religion of Islam,
it has become well known, you know, people
have a vague idea of who Muslims are
They know what the deen is about And
it is easier to be a Muslim today
than it was in the early days of
Islam Especially in a city like Makkah Where
in that city there is 360 idols And
every person in that city is deeply devoted
for each and every single one of those
idols And so for a person to come
out and make the proclamation There is none
worthy of worship except Allah You must understand
that it is an astonishing remark to make
And for the people to accept that message,
to accept that truth, they are not ordinary
people You know, for one, they need to
have a heart of steel to go against
all of society and say that this is
the truth You know, a back filled with
stamina and most of all, you know, they
must be visionaries amongst laymen You know, people
who have the foresight, people who have the
vision that whatever mess I was involved with
before, this path is what is the truth
And so from those categories of visionaries, from
the category of those special people There was
a man by the name of Bilal ibn
Rabah And Bilal radiAllahu anhu, when he accepted
the message of Islam His struggle compared to
the other people who accepted this message was
multiplied exponentially Because Bilal radiAllahu anhu, he was
an Ethiopian slave, enslaved in Mecca And his
master is a disbeliever as well So while
other people had their own struggles and their
hardships accepting this religion Bilal radiAllahu anhu, you
know, the torment began, the punishment began And
it is a famous story about the punishment
and the torment and the sufferings that Bilal
radiAllahu anhu went through However, there is a
lesson that we can learn from this That
when you bear the hardships that Allah Azawajal
sends your way When you bear the difficulties
for the sake of Allah Azawajal's deen Know
that Allah Azawajal will do nothing except for
elevate you And so Bilal radiAllahu anhu, being
a slave We know that a slave's biggest
dream is to be free one day Is
that one day my son or my daughter
may be called a free man or a
free woman You know, one day I'll be
freed from the shackles of bondage So Bilal
radiAllahu anhu, with this dream of emancipation Allah
Azawajal fulfills that dream for him And Abu
Bakr radiAllahu anhu is sent to go and
pay the master And free Bilal radiAllahu anhu
And so you will notice that when you
travel to foreign countries Usually someone comes to
pick you up at the airport And whoever
comes to pick you up is an indication
of what your status is So for example,
a prime minister travels to a different foreign
land Then usually, typically the prime minister of
that land comes to greet that person If
you are a president of a country traveling
to a different country Usually the president comes
and greets you at the airport So for
Bilal radiAllahu anhu to be freed by none
other than Abu Bakr as-Siddiq Who is
by consensus the best and the most pious
of creation after the Prophet ﷺ This is
not an ordinary freedom And so Bilal radiAllahu
anhu, being given this honor Just yesterday, the
people of the town will not sit with
him Will not eat with him, will not
speak with him And now today he is
sharing the sofra He is sharing a meal
with the Rasul ﷺ The best of creation
ever possibly made What other honor is this,
Subhanal Malik?
Understand that when you bear, he bore the
hardships He bore the suffering for the sake
of Allah Azawajal And Allah Azawajal elevated him
And the story does not end there Some
time passes, the immigration happens to Medina The
Muslims have now settled and reside in Medina
And the Rasul ﷺ, out of all of
the blessed Ashab radiAllahu anhum He chooses Bilal
radiAllahu anhu to be his confidant, to be
his right man You know in so many
narrations you will notice That the Rasul ﷺ
is telling Bilal radiAllahu anhu Oh Bilal, take
this from the Baytul Mayan, give this to
that person Give this to that person from
the Baytul Mayan You know he is a
treasure of the Rasul ﷺ And when the
Masjid was built Out of all of the
possible creation Allah Azawajal chooses this ex-Ethiopian
slave To go and call out the call
of the prayer for the Muslims Can you
imagine to this day To this day millions
and millions of Masajids across the globe Five
times a day all call out the exact
same utterance That Bilal radiAllahu anhu called out
on that day And in the hadith of
the Rasul ﷺ Whoever starts a practice, whoever
begins a righteous deed He gets the reward
for it And whoever completes it after that,
he gets the reward for it as well
So can you imagine an uncountable amount of
adhans are called out today And all of
the reward is going to Bilal radiAllahu anhu
When you bear for the Deen Subhanal Malik
You will be honoured in ways you cannot
possibly imagine And the time of Fathi Makkah
comes The conquest of Makkah comes And the
Rasul ﷺ He chooses Bilal radiAllahu anhu To
not go inside but to climb on top
of the Ka'bah And to call out
the adhan there The same city where just
a while ago He was at the lowest
status chain of society He is a slave,
understand that the slaves have no right except
to obey their master So in that same
city he is now calling the Ka'bah
And calling out the adhan for everyone to
hear And in Madinah There was an instance
Where the Rasul ﷺ was sitting with Bilal
radiAllahu anhu And so the Rasul ﷺ says
O Bilal, I heard your footsteps in Jannah
Subhanal Malik, can you imagine the sensation of
Bilal O Bilal, I heard your footsteps in
Jannah He already has the dunya, now he
has the akhirah promised to him as well
When you bear the hardships Know that Allah
Azza wa Jalla will elevate and honour you
in ways you cannot possibly imagine And now
some time passes The Rasul ﷺ has passed
away And Bilal radiAllahu anhu Is now on
his deathbed And his wife is there with
him And you can imagine the sentiments of
the wife My husband is about to pass
away I'm about to become a widow A
companion of the Rasul ﷺ is about to
pass away So she calls out, oh what
sadness, what sadness So Bilal radiAllahu anhu Look
at the response that he gives his wife
The clarity and the solace and the peace
that Allah Azza wa Jalla blessed him in
his final moments Bilal radiAllahu anhu says, no
This is not a sad moment but a
happy one For tomorrow, just after this little
hurdle I will be with my friends, the
Rasul ﷺ and the companions My point today
my brothers and sisters When you bear for
the sake of Allah Azza wa Jalla When
you bear the sufferings and the hardships For
the sake of Allah Ta'ala Know that
nothing will happen except you will be honored
You will be elevated throughout time and space
Whether you may be at work, in school
Act in an elegant manner Have dignity around
yourself Dress in accordance the way that a
Muslim should dress For the sisters, be wearing
the hijab The scarf on your head Wear
it like a badge of honor For wallahi
you are chosen specifically by Allah Azza wa
Jalla Out of all the billions of people
on this planet Allah Azza wa Jalla chose
you specifically to be on the haq So
wear and dress yourself in accordance to that
For the men as well For the young
boys over here at school Do not wear
shorts that show like half your thigh Have
some self-respect for yourself Be in accordance
to how a Muslim should dress Carry yourself
with dignity Be kind to everyone Be a
person who is approachable And in that instance
where the salah time comes And you have
to go and find a place to pray
You know people are looking at you You
feel weird and uncomfortable Bear that hardship, bear
that difficulty Have that sit down with your
boss Have that sit down with your teacher
And from what I know, what I have
seen Your boss and your teacher gains more
respect for you Have that sit down in
a mature manner Be a person that does
not shy away from the salah It is
your right living in this country By law
they cannot deny your request to pray salah
So my brothers and sisters Bear for the
sake of Allah Ta'ala And I promise
you we will be successful in this dunya
And if not in this dunya then in
the akhira We ask Allah Azawajal to grant
us the ability To make it extremely easy
for us to understand And act upon what
has been said and heard We ask Allah
Azawajal to make it easy for us To
bear the hardships and the difficulties That Allah
Azawajal places in our way And we ask
Allah Ta'ala to make it extremely easy
For us to remain steadfast on this deen
And we ask Allah Ta'ala The same
way that he has gathered us today To
gather us in the highest levels of Jannah
Al-Firdous Ameen Ya Rabb Al-A'lameen
JazakAllah khayran for your time and your patience
May Allah Azawajal reward and accept all of
your efforts SubhanAllah wa hamdik SubhanakAllah wa hamdik
Shadralla ilaha illa anta astaghfiru wa atubu ilaik
Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh