Salim Morsy – 322018 Jumuah Khutbah and Prayer
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The importance of studying the story of Islam and improving oneself in this topic is emphasized, along with the need to be honest and show one's biases. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of forgiveness and the need to be wary of people who ask for forgiveness. The importance of protecting children and not letting them go out of the house is also emphasized. The speaker also announces upcoming events and fundraising for Muslims in the area.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
today,
I will be talking about
the topic
all of us. We need it. We need
to study about it.
We need to really
improve ourselves
in this topic
to understand
that Allah
will never ever wrong any one of his
servants.
The topic that I really would love
to discuss today
is
the righteousness
is
the righteousness
of parents
is the big reason
to protect
children.
When we look at the Quran,
so many verses
in the Quran
and so many stories
in the Quran
will teach us,
will help us
out to understand
our situations today.
All the prophets and the messengers
came prophet before prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
When they called
their people
to believe in Allah
and to follow their messengers,
the only one sentence
most of the previous nations
respond
back to their messengers
that we found
our parents
and the situation, and we don't like to
change it.
We found our parents,
grandparents
in the same situation,
and we don't like to change
the situation
even if this is bad situation.
And when we look at the parents,
how they influence
their children or their offsprings
so much.
To look at the first
verses of Suri Al Qasas, the chapter of
the stories
when Allah
explained.
We would love to grant
the weak people.
They were
oppressed
in the land,
and we would love to make them
our rulers
and to make them
inheritors
of the land.
And we will show
what they were afraid of it.
And we have a lot of pharaohs
everywhere,
and we have a lot of weak people
everywhere.
It's not only related to the pharaoh that
Allah mentioned in the Quran
or related to Moses that Allah mentioned in
the Quran. It's related to every single pharaoh
in the world.
And we have to follow the same steps
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala taught us in
the Quran after he mentioned the story
of pharaoh and Moses,
what did Allah say after that?
And we inspire the mother of Muses,
peace be upon them,
to
breastfeed him.
Why?
Why Allah commanded
the mother of Musa
or why Allah I mentioned
the situation
of Musa alaihi salaam when he was a
child, an elephant a child.
And this is for all of us.
The century
of empowerment
begins
with the time of breath breastfeeding,
And we need to understand, Al,
I have a child.
I have to take care of him or
her
since I received them.
It's not after they can walk,
after they can talk, after they can understand.
No. No. No. No. From the time that
I received them,
the struggling
will start since that time
to be our model for them,
to be honest, to be pious, to be
righteous
for them.
Sayeed al Sayeed al Musa'im
used to talk to his son to say,
say, oh my son, by Allah, I will
increase my level of salah because of you.
I'm asking Allah to protect you through my
salah, my prayers.
Al Hasan al Maslih. Everyone
recognize
who is Al Hasan al Maslih.
He's very famous scholar in our history.
His mom used to talk to him to
say, oh my son, you know why you
are Hassan?
The mother anti Hassan? He said, why are
ma? I don't know. And she said, by
Abba, every single time I prepare myself to
breastfeed you,
I make wudu before I give you
my chest.
Subhan Allah.
Every single time.
Did we do that?
Most of us, we might pray, we might
show that we are pious, but our children
is not good, are not good. Why? Some
think wrong.
We need to
put our
adept
on the
illness
to say this is the illness, and we
need a certain
purification,
a certain treatment
to cure it.
And we have to be honest with ourselves.
Somebody say, you know, I'm very biased. I'm
really I fear Allah but
my son is not.
I will ask myself,
did I do what Allah asked me to
do?
If I get, I
will be rewarded.
And my son,
even the prophet Nuh-uh,
peace be upon him, he was helping people
to become Muslims,
but he couldn't help his own son. Why?
But the problem with Nuh alaihi salaam, nothing
wrong. But this is Allah's wisdom.
We did our offer.
We did our job.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala choose for our
children to be a different way.
We should not be sad
because this is Allah's wisdom. But we have
to ask ourselves,
did we take care of our children?
Did we raise them
in nice way, in kind way to be
pious, to be righteous, or not? We have
to ask ourselves.
And
parents
will influence
their children too much.
Like I mentioned in the beginning of the
Khotbah,
most of the prophets and the messengers,
their people rejected their message because
of the culture of their parents.
And
Allah told us in the Quran in Surat
Al Kahf
the famous story.
The treasure of the orphans.
It was underneath the wall, the old wall.
And why am I protected?
Their treasure. Because of what?
Because
of grandfather.
Some narration said it was the 7th, a
grandfather
for them.
SubhanAllah.
Their father was a righteous.
And when we look in the other hand,
prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam's uncle,
he took care of prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi
wa sallam more than 50 years.
Defended him,
supporting him. No one was able to hurt
prophet Muhammad
in his life,
Abu Tal.
And what happened after that?
In the time of death,
he was laying down on his bed. And
the prophet Muhammad
came to him, oh my uncle, oh my
beloved uncle, say a single
sentence.
I will intercede for you
on front of Allah in the name of
judgment. And there is other people
near to his head.
And they told him,
You won't
until he passed away.
And the prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
was crying because no one took care of
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam more than
him, his ankle, more than 50 years. And
he was asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for
forgiveness for his uncle and what Allah did.
Allah revealed the verse in Surat
Tawba.
For who?
It's not allowed for the prophet and for
his followers to ask for forgiveness
for
the one who passed away as a disbeliever.
And he testified there is no one has
right to be worshiped but Allah. He become
a Muslim. And Sayyid Abu Bakr was crying
so much.
And prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wasalam looked at
him. What's going on Abu Bakr? Why are
you crying? Your father is a Muslim now.
And he respond to
Rasulullah hisalaba a sallam just to see how
those people were were caring about prophet Muhammad
so much. And he said to prophet Muhammad,
o Rasulullah
I cry today not because my father
become a Muslim.
I would like my father to become a
Muslim more than your uncle
to become a Muslim. I wish that your
uncle accept
your message in that time. I would be
more than happy than my father accepted Islam
right now.
And just to to prove that parents
with influence,
their children or their office brains.
And this is the idea.
I will come back to our subject.
Did we really
care about our children?
Somebody would say yes. I'm working so hard.
I'm gaining money, and I'm feeding them every
single time they ask. No.
This is not taking care of our children.
This is not the good way to take
care of our children.
Our children, they need to see role model
in in the at the house.
Did we wake up during the night
without killing anyone and we pray to rock
up just with the intention?
May Allah help my children to be bias
pious and to be righteous.
Sometime,
we forget to pray,
and we ask our did you pray?
We should not ask them.
We have to do it before them.
We have to do it before we ask
them.
And
even sometime,
we might do something bad on front of
our children. Don't think that your child is
stupid
or dumb.
No.
He's very smart.
She's very smart.
They will record,
you know, all your actions and all your
words.
When they have a chance
to speak out
loudly,
they would say it, And you will be
surprised in that time. Don't be surprised
because you did not
train them
to be pious and to be righteous.
Somebody will say, you know, my daughter, she
take off hijab.
Subhanallah.
How come for a daughter
you expecting from her to wear hijab and
his her mom did not wear hijab? How
come?
How you expect
from a son to be a pious and
to pray all the time and his dad
did not take care of the prayer in
his life? How come?
And when you see your son doing something
wrong,
what is your reaction?
If you see your son bring some stuff
not belongs to him,
and what is the reaction of his mom
at home?
She will encourage him
or she will punish him.
And this is the first
reaction
for your child, for your boy or your
daughter,
your son or your daughter,
and they will start
going away
or going into the correct path.
I know it's complicated situation,
and you cannot see the result within few
days or even few days.
How long
time that Allah
gave to prophet Musa to become
an prophet?
No. It's at least 40 years
since he was
elephant
until he become a prophet.
And how many years after that that he
was struggling?
He was in training
to be able to
fight against pharaoh and his soldiers.
And this is the situation.
We should not be in hurry
to have a righteous children.
We should not burn them right away. We
have to give them chance
to be a a kind and to be
a pious and to be a righteous.
And this is our
opportunity that Allah gave us.
From the time of Adam alayhi salam
till the time of Nuh alayhi salam,
there is no disobedience
on earth.
They started
in the time of Nush
with the 5
righteous
people.
And the shaitan came to the first generation
and talk to them,
your children will forget about the pious people
that you have,
and you have to build stashes
for them.
And the first generation,
they build the statues with a good intention
to remind themselves and to remind their offsprings
to be a pious and righteous like those
role models, the 5 of them.
Wat, Sua,
Yahuth, Yaouk,
Nesma
mentioned in Surah Nuh-uh.
When the 1st generation
passed away
and the 2nd generation
came after that,
You know what they did?
Because
their parents did not teach them to be
pious,
did not show them how to obey Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The shaitan came to them to their office
friends
and they the shaitan told them, your parents
felt these stashes
because they worshiped them
and you have to worship them. And this
is worshiping
idols
begins
from that time.
And we have to be very careful.
We are living in this environment
and we have to put our eye in
the middle
of our face
to
be careful
and to be wise.
If we have authority
to teach our children
until 18 years old
and after 18 year old, you will find
a lot of children just go astray.
They did not
listen to their parents anymore
because now they have free will to do
whatever they want.
We did not
teach them
how to
watch Allah in
their life. Our problem,
we scare our children from
their parents,
their dads, or their moms,
but we did not train them to be
afraid of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We did
not teach them
to fear Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
because when they learn how to fear Allah,
you know, everything will be
good after that.
We try
to teach our children do not love,
and we are dealing with the lies every
time.
We try to
raise our children as a pious, and we
feed them with the haram money
from Haram way,
even the way of Shubha.
Subhanallah,
we should not blame anyone except ourselves.
This is
the big investor investment
on
in our children.
We have to invest
in our children.
And Nabi al Salam mentioned,
when the son of Adam dies,
his source of good deeds will be ended
except three sources.
When we look at the three sources, it's
it will be amazing.
One of them,
Saba Katinjari.
We we we memorize the hadith. Just I
would like to help all of us to
understand the wisdom of the hadith.
Running
church,
continuous in church.
Means
a righteous
child.
Make dua for him.
How
the child will be
righteous?
It's not with that within
few days.
This is the long, long, long time
offered
from your side
to prepare and to raise your children to
be biased
and to be righteous. And sometime we really
force our children to do something
and
the result of
our actions,
it will be disaster.
We force them to do something
and we are not doing that.
We force them to pray
or to memorize Quran
or to lis tafar or to do good
deeds and we are not.
And this is
unjustness.
This is unfair.
Not fair for them
to force them to do something and we
are not doing that same thing that we
asking them to do.
We have to wait up and we have
to do something. We have to change our
mentality.
We are living in this environment. It's very,
very dangerous.
If we do not really
rely on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, if we
not ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for help,
we will we might get lost in the
mid in the middle of the jungle.
We really
need to pay attention for that.
Our children.
And
what should we do
just to
conclude our speech today?
What should we do to protect our children,
to protect our hearts,
to pray
special prayer because of them,
to wake up during the night.
Make, and
make
salah special for your son,
for your daughter,
for your children.
By Allah, Allah will never waste
your offer.
Just
make sure for that.
And do something good and hide it.
Do not announce it.
Al kabi add,
make something good
for the sake of Allah,
especially
for your children to become righteous.
And
ask
to protect them.
And
told us
when we go to bed, what should we
say before
sleeping? To put your right side on the
bed and
to say,
Oh Allah, if you choose my soul
to be the last time for me today,
just have mercy with my soul.
And if you give me other chance of
life for tomorrow
and what?
To protect me.
When you
ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to protect your
soul
and to have mercy with your soul if
you die
or to protect your soul when you return
back to life again
among the pious and pious and righteous.
And now you're asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
for protection.
The same way that prophet Yaqub,
Jacob,
when he heard about his son, the beloved
son, what did he say?
He said,
Our problem, we do not
Our problem, we do not understand our religion.
Our problem problem, we acting
in the physical action
to protect our children with the very wrong
way.
We need to study
about
the characteristics
of prophet Muhammad and
his companions.
How they used to treat their children.
How they used to take care of their
children.
I'm not saying feed feed them feeding them
and they helping them out physically bad. No.
It's very good but it's not enough.
You fed their bodies
and you did not fed their
souls.
This is very important.
When I sent my child to the school,
I did not follow-up with him or with
her.
When that child
saw the wrong model for him
smoking
or
cheating
or lying
or dealing with the bad stuff,
do you think he will
be passed?
*,
when the girl
saw her mom not wearing
hijab, not caring about her religion,
do you think the girl will
will will care about the hijab and about
modesty?
No?
And this is how the
our
scholars
mentioned.
You know, our children will be raised
according the way and the behavior
that their parents
will raise them.
And this is our problem today.
Most of us have a children. I'm hungry
that.
But few of us taking care of their
children,
and we we still have a chance.
No. Don't lose the the the hope in
Allah
When you leave your child or your your
your your your boy or your daughter,
your son or your daughter,
just
you cannot do it by yourself.
You need
to have some help from the one who
has
all the power, almighty
Allah. Doing righteousness
will protect
the children
until death.
This is how our scholars
taught us,
and we need to really understand.
It's not easy job.
It's not
easy task.
It's very difficult and very complicated
task.
But
Allah
gave us a lot of examples in the
Quran.
And if we are willing to follow-up
the footsteps of the prophets and the messenger
of Allah, we will succeed.
But if we choose to do it according
to our ability and our experience,
we will get lost.
We cannot
continue in the same way. Just I would
like to make it make it longer.
I would like to
clarify
or highlight
some
points for all of us,
our children,
has a trust
Allah gave us.
We should
take care of the trust of Allah,
or we will be responsible
on front of Allah
How many of us
encourage his children to Muhammad?
How many of us
take his children to Damascus to pray and
to teach them to be role models?
How many of us really
assign his child or his daughter in the
Quran class or online or anywhere? How many
of
us caring about
the Islamic education for his children?
How many of us really
not
to have a single penny from Haram way
to feed
their his children or their
of judgement.
And whosoever
help people out to be bad, to act
a rude way,
he or she will have the same sin
of evil until the day of judgement.
When you start something good in your town,
in your in your city, in your place,
and people start
imitating
you,
you will have the same reward
because you was the first one doing this
good action in the tower.
But when you start to do bad action
and people start
imitate you,
and you will have the same sin of
people until the day of judgment. And this
is the same idea. When our children
saw us
or sharing Allah,
praying, reciting Quran, making istifa,
not to show up in front of people,
we are doing that sincerely for the sake
of Allah. Our children will
do the same
action
after that.
They are recording
for us
until
they will reach the moment.
They will be able, they will be strong
enough to say no, you are wrong.
And we should not be surprised in that
moment because we did not prepare them for
the sake of Allah
to be righteous and to be
Just very quick announcement.
The first one related to Hajj.
The
Hajj,
they start to
collect the down payment.
If you are interested
to go to visit Allah's house and to
perform Hajj this year, hurry up. And we
need your name and your support number
and your down payment. This is for the
brothers and the sisters. You know? So already,
government, every year, they they make they make
a new laws to make it difficult for
people to go
to perform
Hajj. Hurry up. If you have ability
and you are able to go, please do
not delay it for next year because we
nobody knows who will be in this life
or in the other life. This is the
first announcement for Hajj.
See iman,
as soon as possible, and
just
Allah Do not count the money is the
big issue. The big issue is, you know,
your interest
interested
and your intention
that you wish to go to perform Hajj
over their job. This is the first announcement.
2nd announcement, very quickly, we have our our
boys group today and the girls group in
Shaba and our sister Khalaqa today.
You know, every,
the first Friday of of every month, this
is,
very important for all of us to prove
ourselves with Allah a sawja.
Please
bring your child,
bring your children,
bring your wife, bring your sister, bring your
to the Masjid. This is the landmark for
us in our town here.
Do not choose to take them away from
the Masjid.
To train them to show them the address
of the Masjid when we die. They know
the address. They know their ways, how to
go to Allah's house.
Help them out in his life before we
die. Help them out to come to the
Masjid and to learn at the Masjid, to
help out at the Masjid. And this is
to be proud of your action and of
your choice.
The last what? What? Masjid al Nur. Yeah.
We have also our brothers and sisters in
Masjid al Nur, Somalian.
They
have fundraising dinner tomorrow at 4 PM
at their building in Eastern
Avenue.
3206
Eastern Avenue in Grand Rapids. Inshallah, they have
their, fundraising dinner. Please support them.
Go to them to help them and to
support them. We are 1 nation.
We are,
a one one one unit. We have to
have unity between us as a Muslims in
Grand Rapids and West Michigan.
The the the last announcement today inshallah,
our brother Amruz Abdul Rahman,
the uncle of brother
Aish, the the owner of, Supermarket,
and
brother-in-law of brother Ahmed Ayish.
He is very sick. He he had a
surgery,
last week. May Allah
cure him, and may Allah
help him out. And our sister, Natia