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The world in its entirety
is a fasting month for the believer
with varying levels of fasting.
With the grace of Allah,
somewhat,
we have concluded
the formal fast from dawn to dusk.
While we resume food and drink,
abstinence from the things that Allah has made
permanently
prohibited remains
active till the end of time.
Today is the day of celebration,
but the supreme celebration will be the day
we will meet Allah
And with an average lifespan
of 60 to 70 years,
the greater
chunk of our day on life has passed.
Many of us are in the latter part
of our fast.
Some might be in the pre Maghrib
part of life of their fast.
And the time to meet Allah
is fast approaching.
Friends and elders, Allah has ordained
a life of challenges for the human on
earth.
Chapter 90, Surah Ballad verse 4, Allah
says,
We have created man
in
constant struggle.
Imam Shafi'i Rahimullah said:
The trials of this world never end. In
English, they say,
problems never end, they only differ.
Problems never end, they only differ.
While the happy moments of life
will only visit
you occasionally
like the 2
If this world was a place of compensation
for the pious
and retribution
for the wicked,
then the tyrant and the dictator and the
butcher
and the autocrat
would have not enjoyed one morsel of food.
But on the contrary,
The tyrants, the butchers, the dictators, the autocrats,
they are being pampered in opulence.
They are eating till they are satiated
while the children and women starve and are
bombed to death in Gaza.
When Sayidina Hussain
was assassinated,
the Arabic poet
capturing this tragic moment said,
How strange.
How ironical.
How paradoxical.
You send salutations
on the Hashemite Nabi,
and concurrently,
simultaneously,
you kill, massacre, and assassinate his descendant and
his own grandchild.
How strange. How ironical.
Well, tapping onto that very couplet of the
poet I say, in an era of democracy,
in an era of human rights or maybe
it's time to rephrase it. Human rights probably
has a color and ethnicity
because the death of 7
has activated
more panic alarms in the world than the
killing of 17,000
innocent children.
In an era where 1,000,000 of dollars are
being spent
to find life on other planets,
simultaneously,
1,000,000,000,000 of dollars have been spent to destroy
life on this planet.
How strange, how ironical, how paradoxical.
Rabi bin Hussein was a great Tabiri.
Abdullah bin Masood paying
tribute and homage to him said,
oh, Rabi,
you didn't see the Nabi of Allah, and
the Nabi of Allah didn't see you. I
was fortunate enough to see the prophet
and I'm happy and I'm honored to meet
you. I can tell you one thing, my
brother.
If the Nabi of Allah had to see
you, wallah, he would have loved you.
Wallah,
he would have loved you.
Somebody went to him.
He was a man of few words,
and they said,
listen. Hussein
has been assassinated.
We want a press release.
We want a statement from you. People said,
today, he's gonna come out of his shell.
Today, he's going to talk. The moment is
too tragic.
6 long months have passed. Nobody has released
a statement adequate enough. Do we say there's
lack of food or lack of political
clout to allow the passage of the lorries
and the trucks laden with food?
He said,
ah,
ah, have they really done this?
And we
say,
ah, have they really killed a woman coming
on a donkey cart to a hospital and
paralyzed her?
Have they really destroyed an entire family where
kids ask their mom, mom, when the drone
strikes, do we die gradually or do we
die instantly?
Exclamation of pain.
Has this literally happened and occurred?
They have assassinated
a child
who grew up in the lap of Muhammad
And the
prophet
would pacify
this child grandchild of his with the saliva
from his own blessed mouth.
Then he said,
Oh, Allah, the knower of the hidden and
the unseen.
Oh, Allah, the one who created the heavens
and the earth.
Surely,
you will deal with the pro the perpetrators
in an appropriate manner.
Surely, you alone will deal with the perpetrators
in an appropriate manner. He said, that's the
end of my statement. I've got nothing more
to say.
As the Quran says, woman, you have them.
Take that to heart. Let's ponder and digest.
The world, by its very nature, is riddled
with challenges.
That's my opening comments.
But we can distinguish
between
the inevitable
challenges
versus the self inflicted.
We cannot avoid and avert and divert the
inevitable
because that's the nature of life. But 3
things today I want to share with you,
I hope time allows me.
And if we can undo these 3 self
inflicted
miseries in our life,
then I promise you,
we will enjoy early paradise on earth,
if not advance hell on earth, what the
is unfortunately experiencing.
In chapter 4, Jews 4 verse 13 and
14,
Allah speaks about the condition of the people
of paradise and hell, and that's the format
of the Quran where it contrast the abode
of the noble and the wicked.
So Allah
says,
These are the boundaries, the limitations,
The one who obeys Allah and his messenger
Allah will bless him with entry into Jannah.
Gardens. Beneath which rivers will flow.
They will dwell in paradise with eternity,
but Allah references
their entry in a plural
form. In the people of Jannah, they will
be together. There will be no isolation.
There will be no individualism.
They will work together, which will enhance their
happiness.
And that's the ultimate success.
Verse 14 chapter 4 Jews 4, Allah
says,
And the one that disobeys Allah and his
messenger
and he
and transcends the limits of Allah.
Allah will subject him to hell.
Eternity in hell, but Allah references his stay
in hell in a sing singular form. He
will suffer his woe, his pain, his agony,
his misery individually.
And for him is a severe punishment, a
disgraceful punishment.
The scholars, may Allah preserve them and reward
them. They unpack and dissect every
exploration of the Quran.
Why did Allah highlight
the people of paradise in a plural form
to enhance their happiness, to give them an
added sense of joy and accomplishment?
Why did Allah reference the people of hell
in a singular form? Because nobody will aid
them and assist them. Unfortunately, today the Ummah
has become individual.
Today, we will see a get together. Today,
we will see a reunion.
Today, we will see an assembly. But you
know what's the pain, pain, my brother? You
know what's the cry, my sister?
For many parents, they will see their children
the first time in the year. Many siblings
will meet their siblings after 1 one entire
year has passed.
But
it's just like a a mom or a
prospective mum or a desirous mum who doesn't
have a child and somebody gives her a
child and she caresses that child and she
embraces that child and she cuddles that child
with hope and may Allah bless every desirous
couple with children.
But as much as she cherishes the moment,
she knows before sunset, I have to return
this child. My sister will take her child
and go. And in the night, I won't
have the soothing sound of a child. I
won't have the crying sign of a child
which can add flavor to my house. So
my message the first message is if this
Ummah can start networking together,
Allah's help was with the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam perpetually.
But why did Allah tell his Nabi Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam? Chapter 8 verse 62 and 64.
I wanna be of Allah.
I don't know if I don't wanna be
Time is so short to Allah here. This
is an important point.
O Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Allah is
sufficient for you
and the believers are sufficient for you. Allah
is sufficient for the people of Gaza. Are
the believers sufficient for them?
Allah is telling the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam,
Allah has aided you. Allah is enough for
you, and the believers are enough for you.
Unfortunately, that sense of unity is gone from
the Ummah.
In chapter 25 verse 54,
Allah
says, he's created man from fluid, from water.
Then he blessed him with blood ties, and
he blessed him with marriage ties. So he's
blessed him with an ancestry,
and he's honored him with in laws. The
scholars say the reason why Allah has mentioned
this is so that there is mutual
assistance
across the bloodline
and across the family line.
There isn't a home
in which one child is not on drugs.
There isn't a home in which one person
is not in financial stress. There isn't a
home in which one union is not on
the rocks. There isn't one family in which
a person is not seeking financial assistance. This
has been designed to mutually assist each other.
Allah has taken the declaration
of
sustaining every soul.
How do we then reconcile
that 1,000,000 that are dying out of hunger
when is the unequivocal
declaration of the Quran that Allah will sustain
every soul? And the scholars say part of
the sustenance of Allah is or the arrangements
of the sustenance of Allah for every person
is is given surplus to others, and he
starts them to filter that funds over to
the poor and the less in need. If
we adequately discard our obligatory Zakat and we
give the optional charity,
not one soul will die out of hunger.
It is amazing. It's academic. I hope you
can appreciate it. I will simplify it. In
Jews 22
chapter 33
verse 50, when Allah
speaks about the woman that the prophet
can marry, and, of course, that applies to
all.
So Allah says you can marry the daughters
of your maternal uncle, your maternal aunt, your
paternal uncle, your paternal aunt's daughters.
But, amazingly,
appreciate
the network. I said the people of Jannah
will be together.
We have self inflicted misery because everybody is
crying his own pain.
Everybody is crying his own pain.
So Allah said you can marry the daughters
of your maternal
aunts,
paternal aunts,
maternal uncle,
paternal uncle.
When referencing the male members,
When speaking of the male members, Allah used
the singular form. When speaking of the female
members, Allah used the plural form. So Allah
said, aunts
with an s and Allah said uncle, single.
And the scholars say why?
The reason for that is
that men have been tasked to financially assist
across the in law line. And when you
work with a common agenda and a common
passion and vision, then multiple become 1.
If the son-in-law has financial challenges or the
father-in-law
or anyone, the brother-in-law,
then part of this greater extended network is
to assist and empower each other.
The the aspect of drugs
has rocked havoc.
2 weeks ago, exactly from today, I performed
Jumaa Salat in a prison
in Preston in the Great Lancashire area.
I cried so much like probably I never
cried.
There were 100 Muslim inmates
starting from the age of 16 going into
the late forties.
80%
of those drug inmates
or 80% of those inmates were drug related.
After Jum'ah had an interaction with them, some
have left children behind, some have left parents
behind. It's a scourge that's hidden right across.
Sayedna Lut alayhis salam,
chapter 11.
The Quran says,
Allah sent angels to his door.
The wisdom of Allah,
Allah did not reveal to him they were
angels.
That's the wisdom of Allah.
There's a test upon every person.
So Satan thought they were angels,
but in reality, they were humans, and they
came in the form of handsome lads.
When the nation came to the house of
Lut alaihis salam, he said, oh my people,
please don't make advancements to my
to my to my guest.
Y'all me out.
I said we have problems that's inevitable,
but we can distinguish and differentiate. There's
the inevitable
and then there's the self inflicted.
This was designed to work together.
Allah
said Go, oh Musa, you and your brother.
You and your brother was network.
I'm saying today when you sit down and
you have your lunch on the if you're
on your happy moment and occasion with the
family, let's think hard. Let the matured cousins
take some decisions.
It cannot be you owning half a private
clinic and your brother going to a state
facility.
It cannot be that you are buying a
new house and your nephew is looking for
a purse rate.
There's you as 2 kids, married, well anchored.
Your sibling is having an issue with drugs,
or the marriage is on the rocks, and
you leave this to your parents.
Says to his people,
fear Allah and do not disgrace me in
front of my guests.
And then he offers his own daughters.
But hear me
out.
They say, no. We're not interested in what
you're saying.
Is making an appeal.
They're not responding to his appeal. What were
the words of Islam?
Jews 12 chapter 11 verse 80.
I wish I had physical strength myself
so that I could forcefully stop you. Oh,
I wish I had the shelter of a
strong pillar. The scholars say,
When he said, I wish I had a
strong pillar. He had the help of Allah
unwavering.
He had the perpetual assistance of Allah, but
he said, I wish I had a family
unit that I could relate to.
This is the nabi of Allah. How many
a woman today would be crying when that
son comes home drugged up, and then she
would be
saying,
I had I wish I had strength, my
son, that I could tell you, stop your
shenanigans.
Oh, are we
Oh, I wish your sibling could come. I
wish your uncle could come. But, unfortunately, they
all are preoccupied.
Allah has made life such.
Today, I need you. Tomorrow, you need me.
This is part of the system of asking
help from Allah.
When Sayidina Yusuf alaihi salam is in the
jail, 2 other inmates come. They both have
a dream and a vision, and they say
to
Yousef alaihi salam, please help us.
You're a good man. Yousef alaihi salam tells
him, okay. You know what? This is the
interpretation of your dream, and that's the interpretation
of your dream. Days move on. 1 is
acquitted. The other one is implicated.
The one who's acquitted, he's going going to
be released. Yusuf Alaihi Salam says, I I
need a favor from you now.
I need a favor from you now.
Listen, when you go out there and you
by you're reinstated as the wine bearer, please
whisper in the ears of the king that
there's an innocent man languishing in the
jail.
This verse and the adoption and the relation
of Sayedina Yusuf with the inmate initially reaching
reaching out to Yusuf and subsequently Yusuf alaihi
salam reaching out to him
teaches us that the network of Islam is
that we mutually aid and support each
other. So I'm saying to you my brother,
this Ramadan,
don't tell people how much Quran you read.
Let them see the Quran in you.
Feed a hungry person.
Show kindness to an orphan.
Forgive someone who has wronged you.
Every time you forgive someone who has wronged
you, you forgive and you heal a wound
of your own.
Revere your mom. Obey your father. Love your
partner.
Wallahi.
Wallahi. It's
not about how far you reached in the
Quran,
rather how far has the Quran reached in
you.
We haven't been sent in this world
to see through one another.
We've been sent to see one another
through. Let's get him through, man. Listen.
Let's see how we can pay them up,
man. Listen. Let's put our money together. He
needs to go for a hernia.
We can't allow him to go to a
state. There's nothing left there.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, Al Mu'minu
Miraatul Mu'min.
A believer is a mirror to a believer.
Treat your brother like a mirror. Don't be
an x-ray. The prophet of Allah didn't say
you're an x-ray. Don't look inside. Look externally.
Help him and move on. That was the
first point. I mean, my time is running
out here. The second quick point, if we
can change,
we will undo the self infliction.
The people of Jannah,
Allah will flush out from their hearts
jealousy,
ranker,
discord.
In Jannah, you'll be privileged with it, but
in this world, you can do it.
If you flush that out, then there will
be happiness.
Otherwise, your occasion of
will be just about jealousy and rivalry.
You'll call everyone to your house, but see
her deco, see her dress, see his. No.
You've destroyed it.
Make it a moment of happiness and not
about showing off.
Oh my, I see some prosperity and wealth
and affluence coming your way. How would you
deal with it? They said, only be of
Allah will be on a good footing. We'll
be very happy. He said,
our
our
I'm afraid. No. When wealth and
and opulence
and economic growth will come your way. Look
at what the prophet
said. I said work together, you'll have early
paradise. If you're working individually,
that's the faith of the people of hell.
The people of Jannah, the Quran says, their
hearts will be clean. And the people of
hell, the Quran says,
there's only arguments, there's only fights, there's only
quarrels, there's only feuds. If we undo these
three self inflictions,
we'll have early paradise on earth. If not,
we'll have advanced hell. So what did the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam say? He said,
On a side note, I often say when
people want to study Islam, how can you
convince them on the veracity of Islam? Present
him with all the predictions and the prophecies
of the prophet of Allah, and it will
stay you in your eyes that how could
a man prophesize this 14 centuries ago when
we witnessed it.
Your assemblies, your get together will be just
to show I got more. I've achieved more.
My decor, my layout, my format,
my
preparation.
And when that will happen, that the Hasidoon.
Now you think twice to go to the
function.
Look at look at Kabul and Habil. That's
why I often say, when people tell you
I'm your brother, ask him which brother, are
you Kabul or Habil?
I'm your brother.
Ask him which brother, are you Kabul or
Habil? If you're Kabil, one lie, I'm better
off without siblings.
And if you're Habil, welcome.
Kabil killed his brother. In the end, he
had no support. You don't speak to this
brother. You don't speak to that sister. You
don't speak to that nephew. So now the
Idis die because we had a fallout here.
We had a fallout there. So there's no
network.
It will be about I have more. Then
it will be about
outdo, impress,
then
The prophet of Allah says, when you see
your brother, you turn your back. But
it might be possible there's still some attachment.
You know, my nephew, don't tell him, but
we don't talk. But end of the day,
you know what? Just pass this envelope over.
End of the day, you know, my late
brother's son. There might be some feeling. But
the prophet said,
this will persist
and degenerate where it will then translate into
resentment.
Imam Ghazali said,
If you are living a life of jealousy,
you've shackled yourself with your own inflictions,
you've put yourself in a prison, you are
in permanent misery because the world will never
be free of people in your contemporaries
whom Allah hasn't given more than you. That's
the pattern of life.
So
you will remain in this condition till death,
and the punishment
of is much more severe. How do you
end it quickly so that we can mention
the last thing and wrap up? When Sayidna
Yusuf Alaihi
Salam was reunited with his brothers, what did
he say? Allah has been kind to me.
Don't take up sensitive topics today. It takes
us so long to get together. Make your
objective in your meeting longer than today. Put
some plans in place to rescue the family.
Create an established network so that we can
develop this and it has positive ripple effects
so that the whole is not hamstrung,
that we don't have any political clout.
Let's start today and connecting ourselves. When said
now Yusuf was reunited with his brothers, he
said Allah has been kind. He took me
out of the jail.
But he consciously
avoided
highlighting
the fact that Allah gave him freedom from
the well as well.
Because the word well was contentious.
That's why his brothers dropped him. So he
didn't want to Inside that topic, he didn't
want to bring about any subtle or active
reference
to something which was a hint to the
wrong of his brothers. The last
point, if we can adopt in our life,
and that is the people of Jannah, the
Quran says
In paradise, there will only be happiness and
joy. There will be no vulgar. There will
be no swearing. And in hell, the Quran
says,
They'll only be cursing and abused.
Make your homes free from vulgar.
Make your homes free from sometimes a couple
are having an a discord, and one will
capture the voice note of the other and
send it to me. Appalling to the core.
Appalling to the core. We can't make this
world paradise.
Allah says verse 108, the people of Jannah
won't desert won't request the transfer because Jannah
is the pinnacle of happiness.
But we can take some qualities of the
people of Jannah and make our
stay on earth a more pleasant place. So
the last thing, make it a place of
peace, a place of happiness.
Somebody said, and I'll conclude on this note,
it takes a day a minute to make
someone's day. It takes a minute to make
someone's day and a word
to destroy someone's life.
One word you can destroy someone's life.
Words can heal or hurt. So be wise
all.
all.