Waleed Basyouni – Khadijah – The Prophet’s Anchor
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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 judgement. I bare witness that
Allah is the only one worthy of worship.
And Muhammad
is final and last messenger.
My dear brothers and sisters,
before I start the Khutba,
I just want to make sure that you
know,
those who don't, that when the Khutba start,
you're not supposed to be in your phone.
And when the hotwa start, you're not supposed
to be reading from a book or a
musselff or anything like that. It's not allowed
and it is forbidden for a person to
be
engaged in other than listening to the hotwa.
And this is something that
maybe some people don't know the rules, so
it is important for you to be aware
of.
Nabi
came back from Warhira
shaking,
full of fear,
looking for his wife Khadija
seeing
hold me, hold me.
She immediately embrace him
and she brought her
close to her heart,
covering him Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam until he came down.
And he, when he came down
and he stopped breathing normally, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, she said what happened?
He told her the experience of him seeing
Dibrael.
The
angel Dibrael, when he first came with the
revelation to the Prophet
Then she said,
don't worry,
Allah will never disappoint you.
Allah will never forsake you. Allah will never
let you down.
Then she suggested to him
to go to her cousin, Wara'a Ben Nofal.
He was a person who
studied the book of Musa and Esa in
the Bible and the Torah,
and he became a Christian.
Or some said it means also he was
he studied the book of Musa alaihis salaam,
like
kind of he knows what the religion of
Moses and Jesus, and he read the Bible
in
the old days.
She is a person of knowledge of the
people of the book.
And he told
what he has experienced.
This is the same
great angel
who used to come with the revelation to
Musa
I wish I am
I will be alive.
I wish I will be strong
when the time comes when your people
force you out of town.
Are my people coming to kick me out
of the city?
Force me to leave my home, my hometown?
Something the Prophet didn't expect.
Then he said to him, Nam,
yes they will.
Indeed, they will.
Why?
He said no one will come
with the message like this
unless his people will turn against him,
will be enemy to him.
And if
I can witness that day,
I will make sure to give you
and to support you greatly
until you became victorious
and to grant you victory,
to support you fully.
A support that will lead to
prevailing,
lead to success.
And a story reported by Bukhari and others.
And there is this unforgettable
story,
that many of us know about.
I would like to have
few points to share
and lessons to learn from.
Number 1,
One of the first lessons that your wife
and the role that your wife play in
your partner play in your in your life.
If you're still young, not married yet, you're
looking for a wife that when the time
comes,
she will be the best advisor, the best
counselor, the best healer,
the best supporter, the one who give you
the wise counseling.
Like Khadija
That's why Nabi
always remembered
her
wisdom, her comfort, her support. He used to
say,
She believed in me. She
knows that I'm saying the truth. She supported
me. When people said I'm lying, when rejected
me, when they didn't believe in me, she
did the opposite.
Number 2,
It's not your wife should be your partner
in life.
And I mean by that that you consult
her. You share with her the thing that
happened to you. Talk to her about your
day. Talk to her about your concerns.
It hurts me when I see so many
times cases and families, when I see there's
so much gap. They don't know nothing about
each others. They don't know what's going on
in your life.
They should be basically counseling and sharing with
each other
their life and what happened in their life.
Number 3,
and these are quick points
just for you to reflect more upon them.
When this matter came
to Khadija,
what Khadija recommended? Let's go to someone have
knowledge of the book.
Person who has knowledge of the message of
Allah
Because the more you
emerge yourself in the book of Allah, the
message of Allah, the more wisdom you have,
the better understanding that you should be developing
as a person of knowledge.
And that's a matter so important that we
refer matters to and
we should not be pick and choose which
matter I refer or which matter I don't.
I'm not saying that the people of knowledge
knows everything.
But should they have the proper respect
and also proper counseling and being part.
Sometimes people come and talk and they say,
I have a question. And I thought it's
not a question, it's actually a demand
or not a question. It is, you know,
I already
made up my mind.
And that's not a right approach.
Another lessons from this.
I'm still can't go over no matter how
many times I read the story when he
said, I wish I am young at that
time.
I wish I'm young in age at that
time when this happened. Why? Because he understand
that young people, young men and women have
a major play and a major role to
play in society, in community, in supporting the
truth, in standing up for what is right,
and confronting
falsehood,
and pushing back on injustice.
This religion need to be not only practice
and protected
by the uncles and the elders, which is
so much barakah in it, but also in
the young generation.
We should invest in making sure that they
are in the front line
and you should not be in the front
line just because of your age,
but because your commitment.
Unfortunately, today, many people say, I'm just young.
You know, I don't I don't know if
I, you know, I'm responsible enough.
We raise the young generation to be true
leader,
to be able to take responsibilities.
It is wrong that you think being young
it means that I don't need to have
to be very religious. I don't have to
come to the Masjid very often.
You know, I don't need to practice everything.
You know, there is other people. No, it
is you. When you look at the Prophet
He was not surrounded by old people.
Only 2 people have white hair, gray hair
around the prophet And
the rest were what? Young.
Today, those young people in high school and
college, this is the time.
This is your peak.
And that's where you basically
should become closer and make taking responsibilities
and contributing.
I'm learning. I'm growing.
Just don't be arrogant.
Make sure you consult. Make sure you work
with the community leaders, with the people with
more experience.
It is not correct that we think because
he's young I cannot trust him. I cannot
give them responsibilities.
I cannot advance them. That's not correct.
One of the people that
read the Quran and learned the Quran from
Ma'ad.
Ma'ad, the leader of the scholars. Ma'ad was
what? 18 years old when he became Muslim
and he died in his early thirties.
That's it.
People in a young age,
Usama
The
one who's responsible
of the most important
fundamental.
I can't even think of a word to
describe
how serious this task is. It's the biggest
task in our history.
I think this is the biggest task ever
in our religion after the task of
Muhammad delivering the Quran to us and the
message to us,
which is the preservation of the Quran.
That done during Abu Bakr time, then Uthman
completed in Uthman time.
That's the most important task in the history
of Islam.
Who is responsible for it? Roma? No. Zayd,
young man in his twenties.
Young man.
And he was leading the committee.
It's important for us to understand that the
importance of
you know, investing and giving but the youth
who hearing me today,
you have to rise up
for the responsibility.
You have to learn how to be responsible
too.
There is something much bigger than your games,
much bigger than your
studies, much bigger than
your entertainment
life, your clothes.
Mus'ab, the 1st ambassador in Islam, young man.
Aani radiAllahi,
young man.
First Muslims among the early Muslim. Islam was
only 4 people. Ali was one of them
at one time.
Muhammad ibn Al Qasim took Islam to India,
Pakistan, all this Bengali. This land of Islam,
today the heart of the Muslim world.
This part of the world. How Islam arrived
arrived with Muhammad ibn al Qasim was what?
18 years old.
When he arrived to the shore and to
the land of Sindh.
Limimariq used to give fatwa in 21. Al
Bukhari give making narrating hadith in the age
of 18.
Shafi'i in the age of 14 giving fatwa,
acquire the knowledge.
So much been accomplished.
We just lost a dear friend in our
community.
Sheikh Mushba,
27 years old,
finished the Quran, went to South Africa, studied,
grow up among us,
accomplish so much in his life
that many of us have double his age
who did not accomplish even 10% of that
when it comes to the relationship with the
Quran
and to the deen.
And he passed away Allah
grant him dinner and gather us with him.
Islam have brought a generation
of young men and women who are so
dedicated to the deen.
That's something that's why you know why he
said I wish I'm young at that time.
One of the lessons from this story
when he said to him, Your people will
force you out of Makkah.
It's interesting,
it's important for us to plan for the
worst and wish for the best.
It's important for you to know what can
might face you in the future.
It's important
to be basically think about the outcome and
what's in the future to prepare yourself for
it.
We're very bad in preparing
ourselves for disasters, for natural disasters, for you
know, for for things. I think it's important
for us to be prepared.
Yes, we wish for the best but we
have to prepare also for the worst.
We as a community,
we should be thinking forward forward.
What'd be the worst scenario case?
Are we ready for that? Why think sharia
Allah and messenger Muhammad told us about many
things will happen in the future.
Asharatusaa,
the sign of the day of judgment. And
the Bisa told us about many things will
happen to prepare us for it if it
comes.
Why he spend so much time to talk
about it, bijal, about the last days and
what will happen to prepare us for it?
But these things
should be you should be based your knowledge
of it, not based on dreams and feelings,
and made up stories and rumors. No, based
on
sound information and sound evidence.
Finally I'll end with this.
When he said
or end with 2 quick points.
No one come with what you come with
unless there is enemy for him.
Why they hate us?
It's interesting.
And before him, look at all the prophet,
Musa, Isa, Nuh-uh, all the prophet and messenger
have enemy.
As Allah subhanahu
wa
ta'ala There is enemy from humans and jinn
to the Prophet and the Messenger and their
followers.
These prophets were not someone who not wise.
They were not terrorists. They were not extremists.
They did not start war.
They did not yeah. Any
did anything bad to them.
No. Still, there is enemy. Still, there is
a namaste and they fight them.
We will kick you out of our land.
I always wonder
why.
But you know, it's obvious actually.
Because you recognize false hurt when you see
the truth.
You recognize filth when you see purity.
You recognize the value of health when you
see sickness.
You understand what justice mean
or unjust means when you see justice.
You know what is right
and you value right when you see wrong.
You value freedom when you see dictatorship.
You recognize
liars when you deal with truthful people and
honest people.
Al hap is consistence, Al hap
prevail,
Al hap is like sunshine,
you cannot cover it.
Falsehood is so weak, it's like a shadow,
much bigger than its real size. That's why
when the sun comes out
and clear light comes out, it's disappear. And
that's why it will never allow and tolerate
the existence of Haqq. Because just the existence
of Haqq and justice and right
expose the falsehood.
And if we understand that, we understand that
we will never win everybody's heart.
And we will never win everyone.
There will be always people will not don't
like to be in the light,
do not like to leave filth,
do not rise above what is falsehood.
Then finally he said,
I'll give you full support.
He died
before that day come.
But me and you, we're living this day.
Me and you, we should ask ourselves,
are we giving that full support
to Muhammad
and to his ummah?
Do we giving that
100%
of our self
to what is right, to what the prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam brought,
fought for,
stood for sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
I'm not gonna talk about anybody else except
us here as American Muslims.
Do we really give that?
We as a community, we're very unique community.
We have very unique position. We're among the
richest,
the youngest, the most educated.
We have to be the most organized.
I think that something should make us think
and I will say it to start with
this.
How can you give that great to Islam
and to Muslim and to the causes of
Islam?
I think it start number 1 by
that you feel that I'm responsible for it.
It's easy for waratul to say, I'm I'm
old man, you know, that he's not even
yet a prophet and messengers. He can find
many excuse but he said, I wish he
want to be in the battlefield. He want
to be in the front. He want to
be in the, you know,
in the side of truth when it comes.
Some of us run away from it,
put his head in the sand,
shy away.
Has not what you learned from waraqa.
To feel that responsibility,
that I have a responsibility towards what this
religion came to establish.
Have responsibility
towards those who abused.
As we've been talking about what's happening to
our brother and sisters in Palestine,
and I feel the responsibility
to give victory and support.
I feel responsibility
when I saw what happened to our brothers
and sisters in Syria before that, in Iran.
And today in Bangladesh,
when we see protesters
who protest for a very just cause as
well,
sharpen their heads.
And the list goes on and on. Not
only that, I fear responsibility for justice,
for this young lady in Yokeba police
to protect her and to help her when
she got shot in her apartment.
I fear responsibility
to all end social injustice
that I see.
That's what this Islam came to stand for.
I feel responsibility to spread the Tawhid and
the right
and the sunnah of the prophet salallahu alaihi
wa sallam. That start first and foremost with
that feeling.
I feel responsibility toward my master, toward my
community.
And I'm required this big support comes when
we are unified.
We all have the brotherhood.
When we have the trust that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is
prevailing in His religion.
When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's religion
When Allah and His deen
have the upper hand in our heart,
We're economically strong, we're politically strong,
we're around our scholars and student of knowledge.
We're supporting our community and and our centers.
When we active in our da'wah.
If you have taqwa and you have sabr
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala promised that you will
not be harmed by the plotting.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala give us a
strength
and make it easy for our brothers and
sisters in Palestine
and our brother and sisters.