Shafayat Mohamed – Our Intention Is Corrupted Short Islamic Reminder
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Other people
say, I have a little bit of money
that I'm saving for sickness and trouble.
What do they say?
For sickness and trouble.
You think think what happens?
Their intention, they make the bad intention.
You make intention to have money for sickness
and trouble, why must you think so negative?
Why don't you make intention for have money
for Allah in the part of Allah and
for dawah and deen? That's why your money
could only be used for sickness and trouble.
Do you get what I said?
If you make intention to have money for
sickness and trouble, your money will be for
sickness and trouble.
The prophet
says in the first Hadith in Bukhadi,
whatever you make intention for, that is what
it's gonna be. A lot of us make
intention, keep money, hoard money, keep money for
trouble. That's why the money will only be
used for trouble. Sometimes you're settling court matters
only. All your 100 or 1000 going. Make
the intentional life you give me money, I'll
be able to spend in your path.
In the deen of Allah, in the part
of Allah, and when you spend for Allah,
Allah will give you back in this world.
Didn't sponsor my trip to New York. You
know what I also did? I had a
choice to rent a car, go with a
Lexus.
I said, regularly, Muslims park their Lexus,
and they drive a cheap car on the
road. I will go with the best kind
of. Of a long. We drove the Lexus
from home today. I didn't care about the
miles. Why must I go in the path
of our line a cheap old car? And
when I wanna drive around the wife and
family and a few big short friends, I'm
using the Mercedes and the Lexus to show
off. Show off in the path of Allah.
For had this, go check.
When you have it,
you must use it.
When you have it, you must use it.
Don't hide your Lexus and your good car
and your money and put it away. Spend
it in the part of Allah. That's when
Allah give us a lot of us are
only saving money. You're saving money for only
children, which only children will benefit from it.
You're saving money for trouble, well only when
you have trouble you will use it. Make
intention money for Allah
in the path of Allah to donate to
schools, to massage it, to dawah, to deen,
and Allah will put barakat in your money
so your money could be used in the
part of Allah.
That's what we need to do. This is
Ramadan.
That's why a lot of us, our money
is only absorbed in trouble and sickness,
because that's the intention we make.
And don't tell me no. I hear everybody
say it. I wish I could tell them
when they tell me,
Our intention is corrupted.
Make the intention that whatever you have,
whatever you make is for Allah.
Allah will put barakat in what you have.
He will make you spend it in what
you have, and he will make it go.
Don't watch me have a Lexus back up
there. 3 years I changed 3 Lexus's, I
went all of America with it. I'm not
like some of our Muslims. I have Muslim
brothers here, when I tell them I'm going
in the path of Allah, they pack their
Mercedes and Lexus and ask me how are
we going.
I speak very openly, you know. I don't
care who kill me, you know.
They ask me how we going.
And I dare not tell them we're going
to your Lexus or your Mercedes.
Because they gonna die.
So I said, come with me. Allah has
given me that and I take that for
Allah. I made the intention to drive a
good vehicle for the sake of Allah. I'm
only saying that because I want those of
you who have a dollar, have a good
car, have something, use it for Allah.
Don't hoard it
because you will hoard it and your son-in-law
will use it.
If not, you die and your wife will
marry and another man use it.
I didn't say that. Yeah. The prophet said
that.
I said, Alir Radiallahu ta'ala who said that.
He told the dwellers of the grave.
He said, you have gone,
but your wives have remarried.
Your wealth has been distributed.
Your children have become orphans.
That's what's gonna happen to us.
The car and the money that we hoard,
the wise will be married and another man
will use it. When you could have been
using it in the path of Allah and
the angels would be with you enjoying it.
Don't be stupid my brothers and sisters.
This is Ramadan.
To only see what the verse talks about,
spending in the path of Allah publicly.
Surah Fathir chapter 35
verse 29, spend.
Spend publicly,
spend secretly. Allah doesn't have a problem with
that. A lot of people make excuse I
spend secretly. I don't want to do it
publicly. Allah says clearly, you can do it
publicly, you can do it secretly. And
I don't need to go into all the
details in the areas. You know, Alhamdulillah,
I was so happy and I feel so
happy that brother Azad could be here. I
know he puts his hands in his pocket
a lot of times, but we could have
6 half is could lead Salah in Ramadan
that I could have been free to just
go in the path of Allah. I wish
I could continue doing that. It is so
much of peace. I learned so much. When
I went to this college,
one man called Reverend Moon
from Korea
bought this college with his own money. He
didn't pass a box, and he didn't ask
nobody.
Actually, they're organizing for me to come and
do some interfaith lectures
and to do some lectures in Islam. Interesting.
You know who is a chaplain of that
college?
Brother, what you do it was?
A Muslim that converted to Christianity is a
chaplain of the college.
Because all of us are bunch of sleepers
here.
A
Muslim who is converted to Christianity is a
chaplain of the college. I said, brother, good
combination.
I was a Christian convert to Islam. I
will both make a bond. You from Chris
Islam to Christianity, me from Christianity to Islam,
we will do interfaith in this college, inshallah.
I'm a very positive thinker. I look at
the positive line. Here is a good bond.
And here my admire that very much. He
realized he wasn't talking totally to a fool.
Probably looked like a fool, but I'm not
totally a fool.
Brothers and sisters,
in conclusion,
I want to share a verse with you
and all of us who have Allah blessed
us, not just the wealthy ones.
I said those who are wealthy should spend
more.
Remember,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam says those who
are generous, they are They
are close to Allah and they are close
to paradise.
And those who are misers,
they're far from Allah
and they're far from Jannah.
Far from Allah, far from Jannah.
And I wanna share this with you as
we conclude the.
Remember if Allah has given us, Allah has
given you.
Don't wait for others to do and others
to give. You give.
What Allah has given to you, spend it.
Whether it means to the duaquran,
salah book, sponsor Hafiz, whatever,
because there is a verse in the Quran
that I really need to share with you
before I conclude. It's a very deadly verse.
But before telling you that verse, you know
in the bible,
in Mark,
Luke, and Matthew,
there's a famous saying that Jesus said.
He said
that the rich
will not enter
paradise, the kingdom of God, as he said.
The rich will not enter the kingdom of
God until the camel passes through the eye
of a needle.
Until what?
Important to hear this. You know, it's eye
of a needle. A very tiny little hole,
a big camel gotta pass through. Jesus says
the rich will not enter
paradise,
the kingdom of God,
until that camel could pass through that. So
those of us who are rich, Allah give
you money and you don't spend it, contemplate.
And don't tell me Jesus said that. Hear
what the prophet said.
He said that the poor will enter paradise
40 years before the rich.
In another hadith, they have narrated in
that the poor will enter Jannah
500 years before the rich. So don't just
say Jesus said it. Muhammad
said it.
The poor man will enter paradise 500
years before the rich man. It's nothing to
do with richer. Don't get scared, brother Azadi.
You brothers who have money, don't be scared.
It's nothing about that. I know I only
pawned on brother Azadi because I couldn't. He
close to me here. I know he he
wouldn't put me out of the. For the
few other brothers, you make a vote and
say, get him out, brother. He only pinpoint
me every Friday.
I only use him as an example. What
I'm saying is nothing about the rich.
It's if you're rich and you spend in
the path of Allah, you will be amongst
the first to enter paradise. You see the
point?
In Islam,
if you have money and you spend in
the path of Allah
because the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam says, there
are 2 people who you should be jealous
of. Whom?
A man who has knowledge and spends it
in the path of Allah, spread it, and
a man who has wealth and he spends
it. The man with knowledge and he spread
it, and the man with wealth and he
spends it. Those are 2 people you're allowed
to jealous. Wish that I had knowledge to
spread it, wish that I had wealth to
spend it. Because if you spend it if
you spread it, you will be first up
in Jannah. But if you don't spend the
money that Allah has given to you,
the camel will get through the eye of
a needle. Everybody knows what is a needle?
Tiny little thing so. Some people can't even
put a thread through the needle head.
The camel will go through. And if you
think that's hadith and it's za'if,
and if you think that's Jesus and he's
not Muslim, and I know how people think
very crazy. Let me tell you the verse
in the Quran and asked because 6 had
a half is here.
Chapter 7,
aya number 40. I don't have time to
get into the whole
aya
because time doesn't permit me.
Take the CD after chapter 7 verse 40.
Allah says those who reject my signs,
and Allah refers to,
those who reject my signs. The commands in
the Quran, his commands, his injunctions,
those who reject it,
Those and those who are arrogant,
those who are arrogant, those who reject my
signs. And Allah goes down to say,
they will not
be able to enter into the gates of
Jannah
until the camel passes through the eye of
a needle.
Just as Jesus said, Allah also tells us
in the Quran. Go check it out. A
lot of people think that's only bible. That's
only Jesus. Go check the Quran chapter 7
verse 40, where Allah says, if you don't
obey his commands, if you don't spend, if
he gives you, if you don't do what
he has commanded us to do,
you will not enter paradise until a camel
could go the eye of a needle. That
means a lot of time in *. A
lot of time in *. I didn't wanna
be so harsh today, but you know what
my brothers and sisters? If we don't remind
ourselves
on the day of judgment, you will get
up and say, Allah
Shafa'at never told us that, you know. He
was playing politics to brother Azad. He didn't
tell us. I don't care who it is.
I tell him what I have to tell
you inshallah.
I am not playing no politics.
No chairman. No secretary. Nobody.
What the Quran says,
who the heart fits, you wear it.
Hi, brother Irfan?
Brother Irfan, I real estate. He might get
us a house free and say, do that
in the path of Allah.
And get brothers out to pay for it.
Anyhow, I know you have a lot of
Muslim, brother. Amin has 2 houses. Brother, this
one, 4, 5 houses. I don't wanna expose
you, but Allah will expose you on the
day of judgment. On the day of judgment,
Allah will say you had all these houses
for dunya, for women, for show, to rent,
to make money. What about my deen and
my dawah? What are you gonna tell Allah?
What we gonna tell Allah?
We talk about that next week if Allah
give me better voice and more health Insha'Allah.
Don't kill me before that. Some of you
might shoot me before I come next week.
No problem. I die in Ramadan no matter.
May Allah forgive us. May Allah guide us.
And may Allah give us that hidayah. In
addition to your Quran,
and you read in Salah,
chapter 40,
chapter 35, verse 29, the verse 3 read,
on spending in the part of our humble
study and take this hereafter.
It's a small
Why do we let these radical imams brainwash
some of us?
We come here, we sit, we sleep in
Khubbas, we don't get the message, that's why
we miss it. All I need you to
be grateful.
Allah. Are you telling me Allah will
not protect the the prestige of Muhammad SAW
Allah was only living for business?
That's all our dream. Let me see who
shall save you now.