Siraj Wahhaj – Importance of Dawah
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The speakers discuss the lack of worship for Islam, the closure of churches, and the loss of graduates from school. They express their desire to stop the spread of Islam and leave the church. The importance of praying for Islam and its potential outcomes is emphasized, particularly in shaping one's life. mask-wearing is emphasized, and profitable businesses are encouraged.
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As-salamu
alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.
Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu
Akbar I bear
witness that there is none worthy of worship
except Allah I bear witness
that there is none worthy of worship except
Allah I bear witness
that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah I
bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of
Allah Come
to Prayer Come to Prayer
Come to
success Come to
success Allahu
Akbar Allahu Akbar
There is none worthy of worship except Allah
I bear witness that there is none worthy
of worship except Allah I bear witness that
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah Brothers
and sisters we praise Allah the Almighty We
bear witness that nothing deserves to be worshipped
except Allah We bear witness that Muhammad is
Allah's Messenger and servant I make du'a
today I'm going to be with you for
a few minutes I make du'a that
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will guide my
tongue and my heart to say something that's
beneficial Allahumma inni a'udhu bikam ilm la
yanfa'u I seek refuge with Allah from
nafs that don't benefit The Prophet alayhi salat
wa salam told us Your deeds shall be
judged by your last deeds Don't tell me
how you began Tell me how you end
That's the issue Because many people they start
good and they go wrong So I don't
want any of us to think that we
are exempt All of us are human beings
and we make mistakes Allah he puts it
in this way in the Quran Don't die
except as a Muslim Everybody born Muslim and
everybody don't die Muslim So we want to
make sure for sure that we die Muslim
Don't be like those who forgot Allah And
therefore Allah caused them to forget themselves You're
good, you remember You make salat five times
a day But there are those who came
before us forgot And his companions said Ya
Rasulullah you mean the Jews and Christians and
Jews Yes who else And I want you
to pay attention Listen to what Allah says
in the Quran And we sent down the
Torah in its guidance and light And gave
him, him who is These are
books from Allah And then Allah gives you
a hint Permitted for you are the chaste
women of the people of the book You
can marry the chaste women of the people
Yes why They had the same thing Permitted
for you to eat the food of the
people of the book Why They were given
the same commandments But something happened Don't
be like those who forgot Allah Therefore Allah
caused them to forget themselves I have here
Some information I wrote it down because I
didn't want to forget it About 4,500
Protestant churches closed in 2019 4,500
churches Protestant closed An estimated 40 million people
stopped going to church In the last 25
years Why A study published in April
Estimated in the last decade and in 2020
I want you to listen 3,850 to
7,700 houses of worship closed Per year
In the United States 75 to 150 congregations
a week One more In 2014 3,700
churches closed 2019 4,500 churches closed Me
personally I don't know about you I only
know one masjid that closed In Harlem some
10 years ago I was shocked Small congregation
I said Imam you can't close the masjid
He said Imam we have to close it
I said Imam you can't close the masjid
One masjid and I'm getting upset And all
of these houses of worship closed Unlike most
of you I converted to Islam Alhamdulillah I
used to go to church Me and my
brother got an award for 100% attendance
in church What does that mean 100%
attendance It means one Sunday per week That's
it Not five times a day One Sunday
a week I remember I was 7 years
old I was in Marcy Projects And
it was a Sunday morning 7 years old
And I said to my mother Why we
got to go to church anyway 7 years
old I said to my mother And she
did she took a belt And she hit
me a few times And then she asked
me Now you understand why you got to
go to church I said yes ma'am
But I didn't understand And so me and
my brother got an award for 100%
going to church About 12 years old 13
years old And then after that we stopped
going Allah guided me to Islam Alhamdulillah But
the warning Be careful You will follow You
will Those who came before you The Christians
and the Jews Step by step You mean
Muslims will leave the fold of Islam Yeah
The question is Why And what can we
do about it I cannot imagine any scenario
Where I will leave the fold of Islam
I can't I can't imagine But I know
there is now Muslims leaving the fold So
we want to be careful To make sure
that we do not die Except as a
Muslim And that Allah continues to guide us
And our children In this deen of Islam
Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen I
want to give you a scene on Yawm
Al Qiyamah How do we know?
Because the Prophet told us I asked one
of the students If you had one wish
What would you wish for?
He said Imam I would wish That me
and my family all go to Jannah I
said to him I thought you would say
that Me and my family go to Jannah
But unfortunately We live in a time Where
many Muslims Are leaving the fold of Islam
Especially the youth We ask Allah To keep
them in the fold of Islam I want
to go to Yawm Al Qiyamah I asked
the student What would you want?
He said That me and my family go
to Jannah The Prophet said All the Prophets
were given a dua That Allah would answer
He said the Prophets hurried To make their
dua I kept mine for Yawm Al Qiyamah
Why?
To be shafa'ah To be shafa'ah
for my Ummah What do you mean shafa
'ah for your Ummah?
Because my Ummah is going to need Some
help on Yawm Al Qiyamah They're going to
need help Let me give an example The
Prophets will see Their followers Going to *
Allah Our brothers They used to pray with
us They used to fast with us They
made hajj with us Why are they there?
It's a hint Used to They used to
pray How many do you know used to
pray?
They don't pray no more Some of our
own children They don't come to the masjid
anymore What happened to them?
It happened to them And If you're not
careful It happened to you And the good
news Allah Will say Take out of the
Hellfire Those whom you recognize Now It's a
favor for the Prophet Peace be upon him
Brothers and sisters We have a lot of
work to do We have to look at
our children Many of our children are leaving
The fold of Islam They are And I
don't want you to think that it's automatic
That automatically they're going to be They're going
to be alright They're not going to be
alright until we make it alright Make these
houses of worship Something that they can't wait
to come to Like we, the adults Nobody
make us come We come because we want
to come Sometimes our children come because we
make them come You gotta go to the
masjid But we As Muslims, Alhamdulillah We ask
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala To help us
Because One of the ways That we can
help Us Is by making these masjids Relevant
We adults We come all the time Because
we get it But our children don't get
it They leave the masjid They go to
schools Where they may get the opposite Of
what we learn In the masjid In the
Muslim school Meaning if our children go to
full time Muslim schools We have to make
our masjids relevant Inshallah Remember me and I
will remember you We're asking Allah the almighty
To help this ummah To help this ummah
Stay on the straight path What's the example?
Arabs call it The superlative You have this
in English In other languages, something is good
Something is better Something is best Whatever good
you spend Is for yourself Why
didn't you bow down When I ordered you
to I'm better than him You created me
of fire Him you created of mud I'm
better than him And then finally Allah said
about us You're the best You're the best
of the people Evolved from mankind But there's
But there's a rationale Why are you the
best?
Because you're enjoying the good and forbid the
evil Let me give you an example I
want to give you an example Don't get
mad at me I love you But I
got to give you an example In New
York City One million Five hundred thousand Muslims
One million Five hundred thousand Muslims in New
York City Three hundred Full time Muslim schools
I used to say Thousands of Muslim businesses
Until I found out Recently how many Muslim
businesses I'm thinking thousands Ten thousand Muslim Businesses
Wow Ten thousand Muslim businesses, that's great An
opportunity to make money On the one hand
But an opportunity to do Dawah on the
other hand The greatest thing that ever Happened
to me is the day I became Muslim
I am grateful to Allah But there are
millions of people Out there Who don't have
Islam What if you had a Muslim business
And every time a customer came in You
had an opportunity to give them some Dawah
to invite them to Islam But you know
what I'm not trying to be I'm not
trying to be mean But I'm saying To
you Years ago Our scholars said that Smoking
cigarettes was It's detested But not haram Now
Almost all of them say haram But that's
not even my point My point is If
you don't accept What the Imams are saying
The World Health Organization said that if the
nations Of the world do nothing about it
Listen to me, these are not my words
One billion People would have died as a
result Of smoking cigarettes A billion people We
have to do better As Muslims So Do
not be like those who came Before you
Who forgot Allah Therefore Allah caused them to
forget themselves Alhamdulillah We're still alive Allah gave
us a chance We can make tawbah And
I would Invite you To go after the
people To care For the people I was
in an organization Years ago called the nation
of Islam Many of you heard of it,
Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali Despite of all the
good that they did They didn't have Islam,
they didn't know Who Allah was, they didn't
know Prophet Muhammad as the last messenger of
Allah Alhamdulillah Allah guided us But there are
millions of people out there Who don't know
Do not be like those Who came before
you Who forgot Allah Therefore Allah caused them
to forget themselves Brothers and sisters I love
you, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless
you And bless your family We ask Allah
the almighty To have mercy on us Surah
Al
Mustaqeem Allahu
Akbar Allahu Akbar I bear witness that There
is no god but Allah I bear witness
that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah Come
to prayer Come to success Prayer has been
established Prayer has been established There is no
god but Allah What did you do?
Strain the lines, fill in the gaps Allahu
Akbar Allahu Akbar Alhamdulillah
Rabbil Alamin Rabbil Alamin Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim
Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim Malik Yawm Ad-Din
Malik Yawm Ad-Din Iyaka Na'budu Iyaka
Na'budu Wa Iyaka Nastae'een Iyaka Nastae
'een Ihdina As-Sirata Al-Mustaqeem Sirata Al
-Ladhina Sirata Al-Ladhina An'amta Alayhim Ghayri
Al-Maghdub Alayhim Wala Al-Dallin Ghayri Al
-Maghdub Alayhim Wala Al-Dallin Ghayri Al-Maghdub
The death from which you flee will meet
you.
Then you will be returned to the Knower
of the unseen and the seen.
He will inform you of what you used
to do.
O you who believe!
When the call is made for prayer on
the day of Jum'ah, then strive to
the remembrance of Allah, and give up all
business.
That is better for you, if you only
knew.
When the call is made for prayer on
the day of Jum'ah, then spread out
in the land and seek the grace of
Allah.
And remember Allah much, that you may be
successful.
And when they see a trade or a
business, they turn to it and leave you
standing.
Say, that which is with Allah is better
than amusement and trade.
And Allah is the best of providers.
Allah has spoken to those who praise Him.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
the worlds.
The Most Merciful, the Most Merciful.
Sovereign of the Day of Judgment.
It is You we worship and You we
ask for help.
Guide us to the straight path, the path
of those on whom You have bestowed Your
Grace, not of those who have incurred Your
Wrath, nor of those who have gone astray.
Glorify the Name of your Lord, the Most
High, Who created and proportioned, and Who measured
and guided, and Who brought forth the cattle,
and made them in abundance and in abundance.
We will teach you, so do not forget,
except what Allah wills.
Verily, He knows what is open and what
is hidden.
And We will ease you to ease.
So remind, if the reminding benefits.
He who fears will be reminded, and the
most wretched will avoid it, who will enter
the great Fire.
Then he will neither die therein, nor live.
He who purifies himself will be successful.
And he will remember the Name of his
Lord, and he will pray.
Nay, but they will have the life of
this world.
And the Hereafter is better and more lasting.
Verily, this is in the earlier Scriptures.
The Scriptures of Abraham and Moses.
Peace and Mercy of Allah be upon
you.
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