Waleed Basyouni – How to build a heart that is attached to the Masjid
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The importance of being attached to theents’ rule is highlighted, along with the need for everyone to be attached to the church collectively and not just a few days or certain occasions. The heart is also emphasized as it is necessary for one's life and is a habit that is difficult to avoid. The speaker emphasizes the importance of remembering the Prophet's words and not being distracted by things like work or money. It is also emphasized that everyone should be organized and mindful of their actions to establish themselves as a good fit for the person in business.
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All praise due to Allah and his praise
and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet
Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, his family, his companions,
and his followers until the day of judgment.
I bear witness that Allah is the only
one worthy of worship and Muhammad salallahu alaihi
wa sallam his last and final messenger.
My dear brothers and sisters,
first of all, let me
say that I'm so,
glad that we all
made it. We fasted 30 days of Ramadan,
prayed together, came together, prayed Eid together, most
of us,
and those who have never get the chance
personally to wish them a very happy Eid.
I just want you to know that a
very very happy Eid for you for years
to come, you and your family and the
Muslim Ummah and the world in peace and
prosperity.
In Ramadan, it is very noticeable that people
increase in number in the masajid.
You know, every Masjid telling me how this
Ramadan Mashallah was filled with people.
You know, Salatil Eid was like so many
people come into the masajid. Some of you
in masajid pray 4 or 5 prayers, you
know, just to accommodate the number of people.
Yeah. And that's something so,
so good to see that our
community
getting attached to the Masjid more and more.
So I thought it would be appropriate today
to remind myself, my brothers and sisters, of
the importance of
making your heart attached to the masjid. Because
this is something not only a Ramadan, but
it should be something that all year long.
Yes, I know Ramadan has its own special
flavor
but the issue of you being attached to
the masjid is not restricted only to
a month or a few days or certain
occasions.
In the very famous hadith al buharyu Muslim,
mean hadith Jabir and others. He said sallallahu
alaihi wasallam about the 7 people that will
be in the shade of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. He said, in the shade of Allah's
throne in the day of judgment, in another
narration.
To explain what the shade means.
He said,
a man whose heart is attached to the
Masjid.
You know? And Nawi Rahimullah said it means
someone who loves the Masjid,
Who's you need the attachment, like when you
attach to someone, you love someone, you attach
to the Masjid.
And ruliq, it's like when you hang something.
As of the heart, even if your body
leave, your heart left.
And and this is very interesting
way of saying it. And I want you
to reflect upon this.
Attached to the
Even Masjid.
That's
that's interesting that Nabi is saying
that your heart is attached to the master
because I have seen especially among the young
people who hear my Khutba today. Now or
later on online,
you know what? Make sure that your heart
attached to the masjid for the sake of
the salah, for the sake of the Ibadah.
Not because you hang out with your friends.
Not because it's a social gathering.
Not because it's a fun. Not because it's
crude. Not because of any other reason other
than that I'm here
just because I want to pray. I love
salah. I want to be with Allah
That's number one reason I'm coming to the
Masjid. And that's so important, attached to the
Masjid. And the Masjid also shows you a
level of sincerity.
It's not because
it is my group, it is not because
they are from the same background, it's not
because my ethnic
background.
And the Masajid is for Allah
So my attached to the Masjid because for
the sake of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Also, when the Prophet said a man
whose heart attached to the Masjid is not
restricted to men. Al ilam arhim Allah said
also that applied to women.
It also includes women when the woman heart
attached to the masjid. When the woman's heart
attached to the masjid. And
it was mentioned the men specifically
because salatul janaa is obligatory
or highly highly recommended according to few scholars,
some scholars, on men. So the rules different.
Is on men, but not on the woman,
on women.
But the attachment of the heart applied to
both.
This hadith is general, and it can't it
must be kept general. So it means the
young, the old, the people who attach the
Masjid, not only the old people, also the
young people should be attached to the Masjid,
should love the Masjid, should think about the
Masjid. It should be part of their priority.
And unfortunately,
unfortunately
we, you know, we need to work
a lot on this issue with
the young generations,
is to make them attach to the masjid.
And one of the worst thing that we
can do to the youth is to de
attach them from the masajid.
And you know what? It doesn't matter. And
even I see in some of our community
when I travel and I meet some community,
our Masjid is not important. More important is,
you know, a youth center,
a social club, these
are good. But you know what, the Masjid
is the foundation.
That, you know, that basically
slogan that you see that there is kind
of unintentional
effort sometimes to attach people from the masajid,
you know. And that's not a good thing
because in Nabi
his companion,
Care to be where the adhan is called,
where the masjids
are. And because these are the way of
guidance, and if you leave them, you will
be misguided, ibn Mas'ud said.
I love
the fact that it focuses on the heart
and the attachment of the heart to the
Masjid. Not only that's why it's not enough
to force your kids to come to the
Masjid.
That's not enough.
That means I have to win my kid's
heart.
I have to attach my kid's heart to
the masjid.
He needs to understand why it is, and
not only as a parent, as an imam,
as a community.
We all have to work together to make
sure that hearts are attached to the Masjid
collectively.
And that's an important thing, you know.
So it is just it's just not being
there, it's just not, you know, fulfilling like
some financial responsibility.
These are good, but it's not enough
if the heart is not there. I love
when I hear someone was saying, for example,
you know, I just got a bonus, you
know, I got my tax return. You know
what? I'm gonna put part over to the
masjid. You know what? I think the masjid
need this, I mean the masjid need that.
You know, even some people when they buy
a carpet or something they come to me,
Sheikh, I saw this very nice carpet. Can
I do you need guys a carpet? I
found this beautiful air freshener,
you know. How about if we bring it
to the master chair?
You know, I I I still until today,
there is somebody came and said, Yeah, I
want to put a fish tank in the
Masjid, and I'll pay for it
just to purify the Masjid.
And I'll take care of the financial of
it, for years.
It's just somebody think about how to make
this, you know, a good place.
That's a heart that's attached to the Masjid.
You know?
Come by the nest, basically some people
I love it. How many times we have
seen people
stop and come. I said, Oh, you came
from Dallas. I know them from Dallas and
Austin. Said, Sheikh, we're going to Galveston. But
you know what? When we passing by, I
said, I need to stop and pray. You
know, I go to Godmasrat, I want to
make sure that I go to the masjid
and pray as well. That's a heart attached
to the masjid. Wanna be there in the
masjid.
You know, even when they travel, they look
and they search, we're the closest Masjid. I
need to visit. Somebody when they travel and
they pass by a Masjid, said, Let me
go check it out. You know, let me
basically pray 2 rakah there.
Even some people you will see, when they
are sick or traveling for a long time,
They feel so sad that they have not
been to the masjid for a while. They
miss the masjid. That's a heart attached to
the masjid.
Not someone said, oh man, I have to
go back now to pray Jumal.
Yeah. I was like in a long break.
You know, traveling for a month. Oh, man.
I have to go for Isha. That's not
a that doesn't show that the heart attached
to the Masjid, unfortunately.
You know.
He's happy to stay in the masjid. It's
not like, you know what, in rush, like
burning, you know, on the stove. The salah
finish,
first thing.
First thing out.
And you find him outside.
Ighdr, be careful to be like this. Then
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said one of the
sign of the kuffar, one of the sign
of the hypocrite.
Those who don't believe in Allah and in
the hereafter,
when Allah is mentioned,
their hearts tishma'izzi'an'is.
Even if you try to say Ishma'aza.
If you say Ishma'aza,
you feel your face goes all over itself
like shrink,
you know. You know, it's like it shows
you what it means. It means like you're
not comfortable.
Very uncomfortable. Even the words is hard to
pronounce, which means your heart is not in
ease.
If you mention someone else Oh,
now they like talk and joke and flaff
and they further relax.
That's not a good it's not a bad
thing to relax and to have fun and
to joke and to laugh about other than
religion. That's fine. But what's not fine that
you're so comfortable to spend so much time
like this, but when Allah is mentioned and
the Quran is mentioned, you just feel
uncomfortable.
That's what is something wrong.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us that those
who with their heart attached to their masajid,
they will never be distracted
by anything,
by wealth, by work, by business, by whatever,
family. It will not distract them from the
masajid. Allah says
in
the Quran, Those people,
the business transactions
nor
selling will distract them from the masajid, from
the salah and the masjid.
Business transaction is 2.
You get, you purchase and you
sell. Allah said, those people
know the business transactions,
know the sell. No selling will prevent them
from coming, distract them from coming to the
message.
Nest. What's the beauty of mentioning specifically
nor selling?
If anyone here do business
knows,
when you purchase,
there is no guarantee for profit.
That's right.
You might stuck with the merchandise, maybe the
value goes down, maybe you will not be
able to sell it, you stuck with it.
There is a hope but not guarantee.
So Allah, but still there is a good
chance for you to make money.
But when you sell,
you guarantee
the money. You got your money back, you
got the profit. So that's, you know, that's
the best thing in business when you sell,
not when you buy.
When you make the money, that's when you
guarantee the profit. So Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
said, even when the profit is guaranteed,
that will not distract them from the
How can I attach my heart to the
Masjid? Remember, Al Masjid Baytullah.
The Masjid is the house of
Attach your heart to Allah, your heart automatically
will be attached to his house.
Immediately.
When you love someone, you love to visit
that person.
If you don't like to go home, there
is a reason.
Okay?
And if he can't wait back to go
home, there is a reason. Okay?
Because he any
Al Maqal, Maral Armesh. Al Armesh once had
a fight with his wife.
Al Amesh was very hard for him to
teach hadith.
To pull his teeth easier than to pull
a hadith out of him.
So, Al Aamesh
he went in a time, and he start
teaching people. He said, oh, you like us
today? He said, not really, but I guess
I like you more than the one inside.
That's why I came out from my house.
So when you when you are like attached
to someone, you know, you will love to
be with that person. You love to spend
time with them. So when you love Allah,
you feel
immediately
like loving the Masjid.
When you sit in the Masjid as if
you sitting in his house with him.
And who would have loved to be in
the company of Allah
Ibrahim, one of the things to help you
to do that,
Look at the way of the Prophet
First thing you notice
build his house right next to the mast.
I know similar when they look for a
house, they ask, Where is the mast first?
First thing they ask about, How far the
mast from the house?
Khan in Nabi
when he pray fajr, he stay in the
masjid.
Khan in Nabi when he travel,
masjid. Before the Prophet go back and enter
his house, he go to the Masjid and
pray first when he travels
How many of us feel that way? You
come from the airport and the first thing
you go to the masjid first.
I cannot think of anything more
to represent the idea better than this narration.
That Aisha
was putting his hand on the shoulder of
2 of the companions
Al Abbas and Ali, or Usama had been
zayed
or
Fadl ibn Abbas.
Two narrations. Anyway, so Nabi
putting his hand on their shoulders
because he want to go to the Masjid,
but he's so tired to walk.
He was exhausted because of the fever.
So he put his hand on the shoulders,
and
you know there is a sand, Firiman,
Ramen is not carbonate.
And Nabi
said, I can see 2 lions on the
sand
from the Prophet's
feet. He couldn't even make, take steps to
the Masjid.
Yet
he want to go to the Masjid.
And we put a chair for him and
he sat in the Masjid
Haram Mohammed sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
The heart that attached to the Masjid love
the salah,
feel that the salah is important in the
The Prophet used to spend time with us,
help us, work with us,
socialize with us, joke with us, smile and
laugh with us.
When the time of the salah comes, he
leaves as if he did not, he didn't
know us.
Khalaf is heart attached to the Masjid,
to the masjid and to the salah
Not only in Nabi sa salam kadari,
Some of the companions will be sick to
the extent that he's so tired to stand
up, and he will stand up and he
will hold his brother's shoulder just to be
able to sit because they don't have chairs.
I bet you anything,
so many of masha Allah.
If you don't if we don't have chairs
like what they used to have, many of
the brother that you see in the masjid
today, when they stand up, they might need
to hold to the someone
because it's hard for them to stand up.
Also,
look at the
area, the salaf, how he cared about being
in the masjid, and cared about salah in
the masjid.
He missed salatul jamaah, and he was holding
his beard and crying that he missed salatul
jamaah. And one of the Surahulam
missed salatul jama'a and he was in tears.
He said, what happened? He said,
he said if I lose my business, something
happened to him and I lost my business,
I would have a 100 people came to
give their condolences about my business got burned
or ruined or car accident in modern days.
I'll have a 100 people, oh, are you
okay? You're in hospital?
Missing salatul jama'ah is worse than losing all
my business.
You know Anas ibn Malik, whenever he remembered
testul,
testul, this testul is one of the beauty,
the jewel of Iran today,
the Persian Empire.
When Anas touched or mentioned to him, he
cried.
He said, yes, that day we all miss
salatul fajr because we engage in the war
all night and we miss the salatul fajr.
And salatul fajr is more beloved to my
heart than
conquering that story,
conquering that city.
This is a heart attached to the salah,
attached to the masjid.
And if you attach to the salah, it
will be automatically attached to the massage. How
to do that? Attach your heart to sit
in the masjid. Get in the habit not
to rush out. Stay extra minute.
Make your ad calm. If you don't have
to rush, don't go.
They said the masjid used to be his
home for 20 years,
studying with Ibn Abbas
Make sure that you bring your children to
the masajid if you can, especially in the
weekends, especially in the days where they can
come for isha, when it's not too late
for them for school next day. Give them
the habit to come to salat and fajr.
Get them into the habit to come to
luhr, to Asr.
You know, and I'll end with this. A
heart that's attached to the masjid
cares about the masjids
to be clean, to be organized.
And maybe
it hurts.
I'll be honest, it hurts me.
Anybody has junk at home, wanna get rid
of it? He comes and put it in
front of Abi Medin's office.
We're
not a salvage army, you know.
You know, it's not like, you know, this
that you have extra stuff that you don't
need, you just dump it in the master.
And you wanna make your first seal feel
good, saying it's for donation. We don't have
that whenever you do that, you know that
we don't have that kind of service. But
the reality is some people just don't want
them, we use it. So if you know
what, I can give it bring it here.
It hurts when our kids it's so easy.
I don't know, even if your home is
not clean,
but the Masjid should be clean.
Why would somebody urinate on the floor of
the of the of the of the master
of the of their bathroom?
Why?
Why would somebody flush their, you know, diapers
in the toilet?
Why would somebody just take food and drink
and like careless?
Don't even in the
after after iftar,
especially among the young people. If this is
how your room, you need to teach them
that there is something need to be changed.
By the way, the good example way more,
Alhamdulillah. But just give you example,
I care about how that's why Nabi Hasan
said, one of the salakat, one of the
good deeds you get, you see something in
the Masjid and you pick it up.
Not just to pass by, even in the
parking lot.
You pass by as if somebody else no,
it is my masjid.
It's not.
Walid's not is not,
you know, it's not Maria. It's not whatever,
whoever helping us here.
It is our Masjid. We take care of
it. We make it clean. We make it
better. I want the best thing for
it.
Is not a commercial. It's a house, home.
You have to have that homey feeling.
Remember
that
those with their heart attached to the masjid
are in the shade of Allah
Remember
that said for each step that you take
to the masjid going and coming back, Allah
give you reward for each step.
Coming and going back.
Said those with their heart attached to the
masjid, those who spend time in the masjid
stay in the masjid, come off into the
masjid.
Will live in goodness, dying goodness,
and when the day of judgment comes
without as if he's free from sins like
a new a new child.
Whoever pray 5 daily
prayers always in the Masjid, and stay in
the Masjid as much as they can.
He have filled the the as much as
the earth and the sea, act of worship.
You know. Make sure that they remember.
Allah
Subhanahu
Wa
Ta'ala
said
Those who like to, you know, come Sheikh
what is missing. Is there any money do
you need? I can't somebody came said I
want to take care of the electricity bill,
water bill, I want any employee need. I
care.
It's not like hamdulillah, I missed fundraising.
No. I feel bad.
That's a heart attack to the Masjid.
So, you know, that's Allah said, those
who make the messiah to establish, they are
the true believer
in Allah and the Hereafter.
Good company will help you, you know.
Good imams and good leadership, good management, good
facility will help to attach to the Masad.
The masjid to be free from fit and
dispute and fight and and politics and and
and and things that divide the community will
help to make health attached to the masjid.
Good programs for youth, for for family will
make the hearts attached to the masjid.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us among
them those who are attached to the masjid.
Forgive our sins and bless our community, bless
our Masjid.
Allah bring a quick, fast relief for our
brother and sister in Palestine and Gaza. And
may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make things turn
around against those who have, who are abusing
them, who are killing them, who are massacring
them. May Allah and those who have far
sighted them. Allahumma Ameen. May Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala protect their their their blood and give
them victory over those who turns aggressive against
them.
I ask Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la to bring
also relief to all people who's suffering around
the world.