Suhaib Webb – Friday Sermon The Prophet’s Guidance Through Confusion
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Has blessed us to come out of
an incredibly powerful time,
an incredibly distilled moment,
moments
of sincere
desperation and dua
and salah.
Moments where even we refrain from the permissible
to draw nearer to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
which is really the key to taqwa.
And that was the blessed month of Ramadan.
And naturally, we're going to feel as the
prophet
said
you know, there's a time where you're gonna
be up. There's a good time where you're
going to be down.
And as Imam Al Buhari brilliantly
mentions in his collection,
you know, this chapter heading that iman increases
and decreases.
That's normal, as part of life. It's gonna
happen to each and every one of us.
But what are the things that we can
do to maintain?
Some of the
gains that we made in the boot camp
of Ramadan.
Whose goal is
and
actually is a synonym for
And oftentimes when I talk to people, the
farther we get away from this epicenter of
Nur, this beautiful month of Ramadan,
They start to feel like little out of
focus,
a little confused.
They start to feel some dissidents.
That's very normal.
As one of our teachers used to say
to us, if you were to constantly be
on the hack, you would not rely on
to be on.
So, sometimes in weakness
and sometimes in confusion,
there's an opportunity to rely on Allah more
and to step away from our own sense
of power.
Some of the
even the
if they're not careful, they will say
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one who
controls all things.
Allah.
But at the same time he orders us
to work.
So, how do I gain
Basira?
How do I see through these times?
And I find myself
in the perfect space
of not
using my reliance on Allah
as an excuse to be lazy
or reliance on myself
as an excuse to be arrogant.
That's why Sahib will hiccup.
He
says Right? That that lapse, that failure to
stay focused
in all situations
is a sign of misplaced reliance.
And we may feel blinded, you know. It
can be difficult. So many things happening.
Literally, it happened to me last Friday. My
children had been sick
through the whole month of Ramadan.
Then I came home, finally
my my my 10 month old, her temperature
broke. I said,
now everything's back to normal and then our
electricity literally, we went blind. Our electricity went
out for no reason for 4 days.
The test don't stop, man.
Allah says
The test has to be there.
Because if there was no uncomfortability
in dunya, we would not long for
and we would not be focused on Ibadah.
One of the best ways we can gain
this insight of how to function after Ramadan
is with the prophet Sadel Akhwan
The prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam has sent as
a guide
to give us insight into things that may
confuse us.
He said I left you on a very
clear illuminated path
And
Allah
swears by
when he says
you know
the prophet is not lost internally,
emotionally, psychologically,
or in his worship.
Sayna Muhammad
is what will emulating him
and learning his way and adopting his code
of conduct
is how we can see.
Even if we can't physically see. That's why
that man comes to the prophet
and he's blind but he can see more
than those rich people, those influencers in Mecca.
Those aristocracy
in Mecca.
That blind man he can see with something
that they can see with.
That's why
if you go back and read it, what
does it say?
There is a relationship between it being sent
to a blind man about a blind man
and the chapter telling you, look, look, look,
not with your eyes, look with your heart,
look with your mind.
That's why
Allah when he describes the disbelievers of Mecca,
he says to say
They're looking at you but they don't see
you.
1 of our teachers in the Azhar used
to say when they those disbelievers looked at
Muhammad Alaihi Salam, they saw Muhammad
but when the believer looks at Muhammad he
says
Muhammad
So we gain sight and awareness
and we address our insecurities
and ambiguities
by clinging to the way of There's
a great example of this.
The authentic narration of
Qatari ibn Naaman
was one of the companions of Sayna, Raul
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And on the battlefield, Qatari, he lost his
eye. His eye fell actually on his cheek.
And Imam Mataburani he mentions with a good
that when the prophet came to him
here's how you model masculinity. Now, we find
young Muslims, they're confused.
How am I supposed to be a man?
Even the old Muslims confused. How should I
be a man? The way to be a
man is father
If you wanna be a man, father Sayedel
Muhammad
don't dilute what's good.
Don't be like those people that were given
and
they wanted other food.
They wanna change, exchange
what's good for what's less. Anyone who exchanges
the pattern of the prophet salallahu alaihi wa
sallamah
in their masculinity,
in their home,
for anyone else,
they are like those people. We ask
So when he came to Al Qata,
the prophet saw him and he ran to
him.
And he said, what happened to you? His
eye was on his cheek. And the first
thing he said, look at the Sahabi,
my wife.
The prophet said what do you mean? He
said my wife, she loves my eyes.
And now I'm worried she's gonna leave me
because I lost this eye. He could barely
talk. He was in shock.
And the prophet
he took some saliva from his
mouth and his fingers and he put his
eye back into its socket and he could
see.
And that's why in the time of Omar
Ibn Abdul Aziz,
some,
you know, outsiders, they came into into Mecca
Medina when he was the governor of Medina.
And he recognized him but he was a
little unsure. He said, who are you?
And then one of them he read this
form
how do you know this guy start to
make this poem? He said our father is
the one his eye fell on his
cheek.
And it was put back with the hand
of Sayna Muhammad
And then Sayna Amari said you uh-uh Abin
Abdul Aziz he said you are the the
relatives of Al Qatari Men.
And he gave them gifts and treated them.
And he said
and his sight came back to him as
no. It was like he just started to
see it again.
That's why in one of the narrations,
Sayyidina Mahdaha he mentions Al Qataada, he said,
as I grew older, my other eye is
the one that start to have problems.
But the eye that was put back by
the hand of Sayna Muhammad
it was like I was a youth for
the rest of my life in its vision.
So, if we want to find spiritual sight,
we should think about the miracle of the
prophet
who brought physical sight by the grace of
Allah and the umrah of Allah to his
illustrious Sahaba.
We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and
So as we come out of the month
of Ramadan,
you may feel a little blinded, you may
feel scared.
As one brother told me, he said, man,
I'm worried, you know, Shaitan's coming out of
jail.
He's thirsty.
Shaitan is coming. Saw his
court appointed attorney
checking him out.
I remember my first Ramadan.
Subhanallah. I went to the every night. Was
by my university in Oklahoma.
And I used to go every
after school, free food,
as a student, you know,
and some salah.
And I remember my first Ramadan subhanAllah I
will go to the masjid it looked like
this And I said, subhanAllah, I'm so lucky
I converted to this religion, these people take
this religion really seriously. Then the day after
Eid I went to Maghrib.
That was just me.
And I was so innocent. I said, they
went to the other mosque.
I thought
they went to the other masjid for some
kind of church visit or something.
So, it it does come with challenges but
if we go to
we find some practices that we can institute
that are in our ability
within our that
will help us have sight
and perform as the prophet performs Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says
Quran after the verse that comes before this
and because of time, I don't wanna talk
about those 2 verses but Allah says that
they are going to try to bother you
to the extent that they cause you to
leave Mecca.
And after that happens, this of course is
important to what's about to happen with the
hijra,
then the punishment will come to them.
And then Allah says sunnah, this is the
sunnah, this is the way of life for
people who try to stand on righteousness and
people who want to live a life of
faith and devotion. They will face these challenges,
They have to face these challenges. That's why
Abuhamid Rahim Oholal and Manhajal Abideen. He mentions
one of the seven qualities of a righteous
person
is that they will face
test and trials. And Imam
says they will face test and trials with
resilience
and gratitude.
That's it.
That's it.
And then what is the
instruments we can use to have sight in
difficult times? Marriages are struggling. Our kids are
coming home with a 1,000 different ideas. They're
learning in school. We have a pandemic that's
happening. We have
situations in Muslim countries where the instability
and others were finding incredible instability in Muslim
countries.
It's a difficult time. How do we gain
sight after the month of Ramadan to stay
dedicated
to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
The first is to establish
the
and with you as long as you pray.
Seek Allah's help with patience and prayer and
we have to be careful of the lie
of neo modernity
that locates
ritual as meaningless.
The only way someone will look at the
5 daily prayers as being meaningless
is if they are looking at Islam through
the lens of neo modernity.
But the goal of ritual in Islam is
to locate is us in a way that
we see the world through
doesn't just mean a physical exit also means
internally Allah will give you basira, you will
see the reality and
then you'll understand.
What matters is I center myself on Ibadah.
We say in Urdu
Without that
without that,
you fail to see the real purpose of
life.
If I weigh myself on Instagrams,
no wonder I feel depressed.
If I feel like I waste my time
and I'm always on TikTok,
the fitness in the name
and if I'm always arguing with people and
I'm on discord,
it's called discord.
We shouldn't center ourselves
on the anchors of popular society and culture.
We center ourselves on and
then we have
Noor. They will walk amongst the people with
that light as Allah mentions in the Quran.
So the first is to establish the obligations.
The next verse
To continue and do extra good.
So the first is to cling to the
in my character, in my worship, with Allah,
and with people, with my parents, with my
children, with the elders, with my wife, with
my husband, with my kids, my neighbors.
Social scientists say the capacity of a person
is to really only know a 150 people.
After that, it becomes chaos. Now people want
a 1,000,000 friends, they wonder why they feel
discombobulated.
People buying likes, man, and
actually lie to themselves and say, I got
friends in high places. Bro, you bought them
likes.
Nobody in South Korea knows you.
You're from scars, bro, bro.
Nobody knows you in Russia.
But I'm a influence. I'm a makeup artist.
I got followers in the Reunion Islands who
you know from there, sis. Nobody.
I don't know why I feel so empty
because you bought love.
But the second is to do extra works
and the hadith says
that if a person continues to do good,
Allah will love them until he becomes the
sight with which they see, the hearing with
which they hear.
Meaning, they will be acting on the Sharia
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And the last is to have relationship with
the Quran.
The Satan
says in
And Allah says in the Quran about the
Quran
you have to fight to have relationship with
the Quran. Islam is not only gonna be
easy. It's gonna challenge you.
It's gonna make you uncomfortable. That's what if
if it's honest, it would do that.
Another
one of the great Afghan
poets he
said
and he cling to the book of Allah.
It's the only thing you're going to have
when everything else fails you.
I became Muslim when I was 20 and
my youth I was able to memorize the
Quran.
Alhamdulillah I was 20. I said you Allah
you bless me because 21 is when you
go to the club. It's either bar or
the minbar.
Now if you're young,
use this time, man.
To gain and fill your cup for old
age.
Because if it's empty,
you will struggle.
So that's why these verses twice
mention the the
Quran.
That the Quran is a healing.
I'll leave you with one assignment.
In the same chapter, in the same verses
I'm quoting,
go to Surat Isra verse number 80.
And this is the dua
we should be saying in many situations
but specifically as we leave the month of
Ramadan.
What does it mean? My lord, exit me
in truth and enter me in truth and
provide me. It's called sultan, an authority from
you. Here the authority means knowledge
that I can continue to see
to the difficulties that facing.
So out of the month of Ramadan, number
1, is to have relationship with the life
of the prophet to read the at least
you know once every few months as in
our families we could read the with our
children, our wives, our husbands
if we're in MSA
I know here you have a Sierra happening
I believe on Friday evenings
should be there.
You can't walk without the
The third we said is to expect tests
and trials. It's part of the way we
build our capacity for resilience.
The third is to establish the obligation obligations,
not to take them as a joke.
The third, to increase volunteers. Most nonprofits do
well when there is a large volunteer pool.
And the 4th to have an intimate relationship
with the Quran.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
We ask Allah to keep us truthful
on this way. We ask Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala to bless our brothers and sisters in
Palestine.
We ask Allah to protect
especially now people in Pakistan.
The situation in Pakistan.
We pray for our brothers and sisters in
Turkey,
in Mali,
in Senegal, in Chad, in the Congo,
parts of Kenya and Somalia.
We ask Allah to help our brothers and
sisters in Afghanistan.
We ask Allah to help our brothers and
sisters in Toronto.
May Allah give
you
may Allah
give you
May Allah protect your children and protect your
parents. We ask Allah
by all of his names. Any marriages that
may be struggling that he bring the hearts
together.
We ask Allah by his strength
to strengthen the leadership and the teachers and
the mentors and the imams
of this institution and this community.
We ask Allah
for those children whose parents may have broken
their hearts.
May Allah give you a light to find
a way to heal that relationship.
We ask Allah for those of our children
who may have gone astray. We ask Allah
to return them to us as he returned
Musa to his mother.
We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to bless
our new brothers and sisters in Islam.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guide your family
and your friends
and make you a means of their guidance.
We pray for our young brothers and sisters
in universities.
May Allah make your knowledge for you and
for the good. And may Allah protect you
from the difficulties you face.