Waleed Basyouni – Jummah Khutbah 28-06-2024
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Wanna
All praise due to Allah and his praise
and blessings and peace be upon our prophet
Muhammad, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
his family, his companions, and his followers until
the day of judgment.
I bear witness that Allah is the only
1 worthy of worship and Muhammad his
last and final messenger.
Not far away from the Medina of the
prophet
there is a place known as Masakhi Nubini'Auf,
an area for Bani'a'u,
a tribe, Bani'a'u
lives there.
And 1 of their leaders,
He is the imam
for their congregations,
and he is 1 of the leader of
Bani
Salim
or Bani A'awf from Salim Bani A'awf.
And for the record, before he came to
Medina,
actually stopped there and prayed his first Jum'ah
while he's entering Medina.
In any way,
this a place known to be a place
for Al Khazrach. So,
Bani A'ouf used to pray their daily prayer
there. They have a Musallah, they pray there.
And in Jumu'ah, they come and they join
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in the
midst.
Sometimes it is a valley, so the rain
comes and
the valley runs with water. So it's banned
said my
eyesight became weak, and I can't see properly.
So I it will be too risky for
me to cross the valley to go pray.
It looks like he tried a couple of
times, he put himself in danger, so he
decide to go to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam and to tell him if it's okay
if he pray at home
and not to cross the valley to pray
with the Musa Allah with the congregation is.
He came to the prophet
in Jumu a prayer like you now.
And after salah, he came to the prophet,
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and said,
He came to the prophet and said, You
Rasool Allah, as I told you I can't
see properly and I'm worried if I cross
the valley while it's raining and flooded, it
will not be safe. So I decided I
want to pray at my home. But before
I prayed at somewhere in my house, make
it as a mussallahu, small mussallahu for me.
I want you to come to pray in
this spot first,
and I will start praying in the same
spot, seeking the blessings of the Prophet
being there.
It's not required, but it's something will make
him feel happy, special.
You know, this is a place where the
prophet pray, so I will pray. So at
least I don't feel that very bad that
I'm missing the congregation
because I'm praying in the same spot where
the prophet
prayed. And a kind of also an approval
that Nabi
allowed him to pray at home in such
case in such case.
So,
insha'Allah.
In Nabi
said, I will do
insha'Allah. But his insha'Allah is not like ours.
You know, when you wanna
brush someone away, tell them insha'Allah.
You know, will you do this insha'Allah?
You know, and it take maybe,
you know
I remember 1 of the brothers called me,
insha'Allah, Sheikh, insha'Allah.
I said, Why? You're not surprised.
He said, yeah. I called you Sheikh insha'allah.
I said, why? He said, yeah. I've been
asking you to find a wife for me
for the last 4 years, and every time
I see you, you told me insha'allah.
I said, yeah. I don't have,
brides on my pocket. I'll distribute them.
But inshallah, if I found 1, I will
let you know. Anyway, so
but in any case,
when he said, Insha'Allah,
I will do.
Guess what?
In the morning, in the daytime, before Duhar
time,
Saturday, Nabi and Abu Bakr and Umar coming
to visit
the ichman.
Less than 24 hours.
That's an incredible
respond
from a leader who's so occupied
for just a random request. It's not an
urgent. It's not like something
mandatory in Islam or anything like that.
So the first thing the prophet did when
he come to the house of Ittbam,
he said,
Where do you want me to pray?
Before even we sit down.
He said, In this place.
Then Nabi
stood up to lead the prayer, and Nabi
called his wife, his family, and Abu Bakr
and Umar, and all lined up behind the
prophet and Nabi prayed 2 rakah in his
house before he sat and start talking to
him.
I just imagine how happy he is, how
proud he is salall this man was at
that point.
Then Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam sat with
him.
Oh, Khazira.
I told the prophet, the prophet said, okay,
let's go.
What's?
It is
like a soup with a little pieces of
meat.
Just a little pieces
of tiny pieces of meat. That's it.
He said, that's the only thing I have.
And Nabi
said, okay. We'll sit and eat from your
soup.
When they heard that the prophet at his
house, everybody in the neighborhood start saying the
prophet, by the way, at ijban. So it
start coming, and they gather and they gather
until the setting or the place was filled
with people.
Anil Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam with them
asking about them and what's the happening with
them.
1 of them said, What about
What is he? He is very well known
in that Yeah, any area or that tribe.
I don't see him. He's honorable
recognized person.
A man said, Oh Malik ibn Nakh, don't
worry about him.
He is a hypocrite.
He doesn't love Allah or his messenger salallahu
alaihi wa sallam. That's why he didn't came
to care.
He didn't care to come.
And Nabi
immediately
did not let anyone else to speak.
Did not let the chains pass. Did not
let the war goes by.
Then Ibn Bishasulam said to him with a
firm voice,
Didn't he say,
and said it sincerely?
Allah forbid
hellfire to touch someone who said
sincerely?
The man did not back off. Want to
justify his judgment.
He said, for us, we always see him
hanging out with the hypocrites,
known well hypocrites. We see him always hanging
out with them, talking to them, have a
relationship with them. He never by cut them.
He he is like, you know, socialize with
them, And he get He talked to them.
That's why what I said What I said.
Ibn Nabi's respond was amazing to me. Nabi's
repeated the same exact statement.
Nabi
said, Allah forbid the whole fire to touch
someone sincerely. He said la ilaha illallah. And
he said that.
End of the discussion.
You can't say that about him.
He protected his honor
Muslim.
He protected this man honor just because he
believed
because he stated it and he lived by
it.
Itban lived 50 years after this incident.
All the way to the time of Muawiyah,
50 years later, and it's been still mentioning
that story,
And the place where the Prophet by the
way prayed at,
his in the backyard of his house or
in the area of his house,
People recognize that place of salah
and it will exist until maybe 1992,
1993 something like that, and it was moved
in that expansion that happened in Madinah
at
that
time.
There is so many lessons from this story
that I wanna share with you.
And
Nabi said, Pray at home. Don't make your
home like graveyard. We don't pray at the
graveyard.
And Nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam meant to
pray at home, the volunteer prayers not the
obligatory prayers.
But from this,
it's bad and he want to have a
musalla in his house.
And that's something that Ulama said, it is
something a good recommended thing to do if
you have a space in your home. To
designate an area became a mussaddah. And 1
of the important thing of this for the
family member to see that, for your children
to grow up and understand that this is
a mussallah, this is a place we pray
together.
In case my home far away from the
Masjid, or I missed a salah. Not everybody
pray at his room. No, you gather everybody
and you pray. This is our salah area.
Even if it's not a room, it's a
part of the house. Maybe, you know, for
God's sake we have a game room. Can't
we have a prayer room?
You know, in our homes.
So we designate an area where you know
what? We said, maybe we read Quran, maybe
we make adkar, maybe we make dua, Maybe
we it became a place known that it
is a place where we honor the salah
as a family.
And that's something very interesting to to have
at home especially for the young 1 to
see this, especially for the girls to see
that as well and to witness that as
well. Even when they pray their sunnah salah,
that's where you go pray, and it became
clean taking will you take good care of
it. And you know what? To beautify it,
I
know someone's home. I've been to his house,
and it's amazing. The area for salah that
he has, it's not a big. It's in
his actually,
you know, in what you call game room
or that family gather room.
But he has it, subhanallah,
where it's perfume, where it is he has
this machine that spread like good smell all
the time. And he said, I treat this
like the way I treat the masjid.
I always make sure it's clean and beautiful.
So that's something we learn. Another thing,
there is this interest in people. I didn't
think it is a natural thing, not like
natural but common thing. People like to classify
people.
People like to put people in boxes.
There is an interest always sometimes in people
is to classify people. What you are? Would
you belong to what box? And I tried
to box people in every and I made
in my mind, in my head, so many
boxes and start fitting people on these boxes.
I think that's just wrong.
Being common thing, it's not
now a normal thing. That's not correct way
of dealing with people. And so many times
people became unfair and
unjust and accusing people falsely
by doing that.
You know, it is it is a problem
has to be controlled,
you know, not because you find a talk
or a word or an incident or something
somebody did, and you immediately said, oh, you
belong to this group. Oh, you are like
those people. Oh, you
are that's that's just unfair haram and not
allowed.
People have many different perspective. Not because they
agree with you in 1 point, it means
I'm exactly like you.
You know, when I let's say for example,
I agree with, you know,
a group, let's say, Padiani groups, which is
somebody like completely disagree with Muslim in many
principle. Maybe I agree with something that they
say. You know what? 1 of the thing
that the groups have in America, for example,
a wonderful program about blood donations, and I
praise that. It means that I'm I'm being
put in that box,
I'm with that group,
just because I praise that or I like
that.
So that's that's became a problem
not because you approved something or you said
something, somebody said belong to certain group or
certain,
ideologies
or certain political views, it means you immediately
belong to that group.
That's just wrong.
That's evil
intention.
That's somebody just looking for, you know, harming
others.
Another lessons that we learned from this.
That's why Nabi's Islam said, No. Not because
he talked them and he's 1 of them.
Not because he has some naseihat to some
of them or a deal with them, it
means 1 of them. That's not how it
works.
Another lesson that we learn, it is so
important to protect your brothers and sisters honor
when it is violated in their absence
or even in their presence.
Both. But it's more important in their absence.
That's why Nabi
did not let it go,
and Nabi
immediately
protected him.
And Nabi does not have the detailed information
about this relationship between him and the munafi.
He didn't say, Okay, tell me about it,
you know, and give me more information about
it.
Clearly protected him.
Said in these 3 hadith, it says that
to you when you protect your brothers and
sisters honor in their options,
the hadith of Tiramiziddhi said, Allah protect your
face from the hellfire.
And the hadith of Al Bayhafi said, Allah
will
not protect. And when you give victory and
you protect and you support, Allah support you
in the dunya and in the akhirah. And
in hadith Jabir, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
Allah will give you support in a time
when you need support the most. And if
you forsake them, if you fail to protect
them, if you fail to say the right
thing at that moment, Allah will fail you
in a time when you need his support
the most.
Many people say, Sheikh,
I don't like this and that but somebody
said this and that, you know, about so
and so person.
You know the first question I ask people
when they tell me that,
what did you do?
Oh, I just want to tell you. Why
did you tell me? Why didn't you speak
up?
If I see somebody post in a in
a in a YouTube or anywhere or something
wrong and I know that's absolutely not correct,
I know that's that's not right. Why?
You know, when you look at social media
and you look at the people just let
it go. No.
I stand as a that's not correct.
That's not how it's handled.
You just don't walk away.
And if we have that attitude, No. You
can't say this about my brothers. You cannot
say that about my sisters.
And that will became
a behavior that is needed in the society
and in the community.
You know what's interesting?
And Nabi mentioned something about Malik ibn Darshan
that him
and all the companions share which is
La ilaha illallah.
He did not mention something
to make Malik ibn Darshan for example. No.
No. No. He's very special person.
Malik ibn Darshan for you to know.
For you to know. Is 1 of the
sahaba who witnessed the battle of Badr?
People of Badr Allah forgive all their sins.
Not only that, Malik ibn Daxin is the
1 that Nabi
appointed him
to destroy Masjid of Virar al Munafiqin. He's
the 1 who destroyed
the Masjid that built by the hypocrites, known
as Masjid, the Masjid of the hypocrites.
Could have easily
said, he is not a hypocrite, he's the
1 who destroyed their Masjid. He's not a
hypocrite, he's Badri. But if he said that,
would it sound like as if something is
special about him, but not
protecting your Muslim brother's honor? Nothing about being
special,
nothing about being, you know, a special person.
It's enough to make you special that you
say, la ilaha illallah.
It's enough to make you special that you're
a mummin muhid. You deserve my support and
my protection.
It's a great lessons for us to learn.
Honoring that
the that the person saying it means you
honor a and
you honor an islam and an iman in
this person's heart.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us among
those who learn from the life of Muhammad
salallahu alayhi wa sallam,
1 of the great lessons from this story,
Whenever you hear something and you see something
that it is ambiguous, something that's question mark
about someone.
You only judge this person or that statement
or this action
by what you 100%
sure known of.
You don't ever
Those who have disease in their heart, they're
looking for the ambiguity.
They're looking for the things that is question
mark,
and start judging people through that.
Judging statement through that, making rules through that.
But some evidence are very clear. He leave
it for something ambiguous from the evidence. Or
an incident that is ambiguous can be
point of view, can be, you know, misunderstood,
could be just a pure simple mistake.
And he take that and he make that
the default, and start
attacking and judging and people based on that.
That's absolutely not acceptable.
I'm wrong.
And that's something the Quran warn us from.
Also, not everybody building a relationship with people
that he or she disagree with
How about a relationship with people that you
might not agree with?
It means that this person is a betrayer.
No. There's many ways
of dealing with the people that you don't
agree with and we disagree with.
Not everybody has to be the watchdog.
Not everybody has to be the 1 who
scream at the street.
Not everybody has to be Like in our
community, they're always like, we need those people
who will go to sit on the table
and talk and make, you know, and reach
out and make, you know,
building a relationship and building a bridge and
communicate. And we need those people on the
street who are attacking a screen.
We need both. But what's important is those
who are inside the room talking and negotiating
do not sell out the people outside in
the street. And the people on the street
do not say and claim that those people
inside are betrayer.
They complement 1 another.
They get each other's back.
They help 1 another
at what is needed.
There's multiple approach always to any problem
and to any multiple solutions for any, you
know, issues that you need to solve.
There's a lot
to be said.
That cancel culture
that it became common and adopted to some
people today,
It is just not an Islamic culture.
Simple as that.
I love how an Nabi salaw sallam is
so near to his friends.
Easy to be approached, easy to be asked,
easy to be talked to. Even the 1
who said he's a hypocrite, he was not
scared to tell the prophet that.
He knows how malicab reduction is to the
prophet but he said what he feels.
That level of transparency is needed. Nabi was
not mad at him that he said what
he said, but he was correcting him.
And that's important.
It's to accommodate each other, and to listen
to each other, and to talk to each
other instead of talking at each other's or
about each other's.
I love how
generous the sahaba used to be and how
we used to be very generous. We, aljud
min al mujud, we give what we have.
You know, he has just this little souvenir
offer. You didn't need to make a feast.
And because people became so
exaggerating in what I have to provide or
what I have to give, we don't invite
each other's anymore. We don't talk with each
other. We don't get to each other's house
anymore because I feel the burden of it.
You know what I like about Malakim I
would like about it, it's banned that it's
banned 50 years, it's still mentioning the kazira.
It's still mentioning that little soup that he
gave the prophet He didn't want to shame
of it.
I'm not ashamed of that.
You know, you come to my house and
you know all what I can offer you,
maybe, you know, I'll make you a cold
turkey sandwich. That's all I got. That's fine.
You know, come and have some coffee.
My brother and sisters,
the Sirat Nabi salsalam is an excellent opportunity
to learn, to grow.
So I ask Allah
and the elders to always give us to
give us wisdom and to give us the
ability to learn from his life.