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All praise due to Allah and His praise
and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, 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 sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam is last and final messenger.
My dear brothers and sisters, today, I would
like to speak to you about someone from
Pakistan.
Someone who many people don't know him much,
but this man have he contributed a lot.
But before I take you all the way
to Pakistan, I would like you to take
you to Baghdad first.
I would like you to take you not
only into Iraq, but I would like to
take you back on time.
On the time of Imam Ahmad rahimahullah ta
'ala.
Imam Ahmad rahimahullah for 20 years, he was
tortured by rulers.
He was under house arrest.
He was arrested.
He was threatened to be killed.
He was prosecuted unfairly.
He was not allowed to teach.
He was not allowed to speak and he
was unbelievable.
The amount of difficulties that he had to
deal with over the course of 20 years
rahimahullah ta'ala.
Imam Ahmad rahimahullah after that, he became alam
min alam ahlul sunnah.
One of the most recognized names to the
extent it was said by some of the
ulama.
Allah have saved the deen after the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam twice.
Yawm al-ridda bi abu bakr wa yawm
al-mihnati bi al-imam Ahmad.
The day of al-ridda when people after
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam passed away,
many Arab tribes left Islam and Abu Bakr
brought them back.
And many people have deviated from the sunnah
and Imam Ahmad brought them back during the
Abbasid times.
Imam Ahmad rahimahullah was watched carefully by people.
So one time people noticed that he always
mentioned a man, his name, Abu al-Haytham.
He would say, Allahumma ghafur li Abu al
-Haytham.
Allahumma raham Abu al-Haytham.
Then his son Abdullah said, Yawm, my father,
I always hear you talking about Abu al
-Haytham.
Who is Abu al-Haytham?
You always call him.
In your prayers, in random times, you pray
for him.
Who is Abu al-Haytham?
He said, my son, this is a man
from the Arabs.
I didn't even see his face.
This is a bad one that I didn't
even see his face.
What do you mean?
He said it was one of these very
dark nights.
And you know in jail, it's so dark,
no light, I didn't even see who was
there.
But I know in the corner, there is
a voice of a man who told me,
I am Abu al-Haytham and I'm well
known in this prison.
Because I always get caught up, he steals
things and you know, and do like break
the laws and you're always like, mashallah, and
you're a customer to the prison.
Zuboon da'im fi sujoon.
Everybody knows me by Abu al-Haytham.
And I did a lot of bad things
and always caught.
Sometimes drinking, sometimes robbing people, terrorizing people, gang,
whatever, you name it.
Aqta'u al-tariqa wa ashrabu al-khamr.
Wa inni julittu fi diwani ameer al-mu'mineen
thabamiyata ashara alfa jalda.
Over the course of the years, I was
lashed 18,000 times.
A lot, means he was caught a lot.
And he said, Ya Ahmed, I am so
strong, I don't bend my back.
I deal with these guys with full confidence.
And I'm upon the falsehood.
Wa ana ala al-baatil.
I didn't show them any kind of weakness.
And I'm upon haram.
I'm doing things which is wrong.
Ya Ahmed, you are upon the truth.
Ya Ahmed, you're holding up the religion.
You're holding up the sunnah.
Don't show them your weakness.
Be strong.
They're going to torture you.
There's jail known for that.
Be strong.
Then Imam Ahmed qaala, lakinni akhaafu al-sawt.
Yani al-jald akhaafu.
Inni maa tahammal, jismu baseet jadda ya Ahmed.
He said, I'm, what concerns me the most,
I'm worried about the lashing, the head.
I'm worried that I cannot take that.
Yani after a while, I will give up.
I'll tell them what they want to hear.
Qaala ya Ahmed, la tahhaafu al-sawt.
Don't worry.
Inni maa hiya awwalu dharbah.
The hardest one is the first one, or
maybe the first couple of ones.
And after that, your skin will numb.
Don't worry.
That's the easy part.
Yaqul Imam Ahmed rahimahullah, Fama sabbaranillahu bimithliha.
Imam Ahmed rahimahullah said, I did not have
anything have given me support like this man.
No one supported me like this man.
No one have brought me strength like this
man.
So always I remember, I am doing this
for the sake of Allah.
And he was doing it for the haram.
And he was patient and strong.
So I will be more strong.
It's just the first couple of head.
It's just the beginning.
And after that, it will get easier.
And that's how it is.
My brother and sisters, I'm not suggesting.
But if you can be an Imam Ahmed,
at least be a bal haythab.
But don't steal.
Don't be a thief.
And in other words, if you can be
an Imam Ahmed rahimahullah, as a famous person,
Imam with all this knowledge, at least be
that person who support.
And please be that person who feels that
I can contribute.
Don't ever look down upon yourself.
Don't think that you cannot do and you
cannot contribute.
No.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the
Quran, وَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِّنْ آلِ فِرْعَةٌ مُؤْمِنٌ مِّنْ
آلِ فِرْعَةٌ يَكْتُمُوا إِيمَانًا A believing man from
the family of Pharaoh who concealed his faith.
Do you kill a man merely because he
says, my Lord is Allah?
Who's that man?
Nobody knows.
And in surah Yasin, Allah sent three messengers.
Yet a man came from the midtown or
uptown, however you want to translate it.
From the town and he said, he supported
the three messengers.
He didn't say, you know what, they have
three messengers.
Who needs me?
And now let's take you to Pakistan.
A man in Pakistan decided that he will
dedicate his wealth, his money, his time to
spread Al-Quran in Pakistan.
He said, I want to take the level
of teaching Quran to another level.
Where I go, where I find, I find
the Quran in the place where Quran was
revealed.
So it goes all the way to Mecca,
looking to get teachers from Mecca to go
to Pakistan and to teach Quran.
And he said, I will pay whatever it
takes.
I will provide whatever they want.
He goes to Mecca and at that time,
the Imam of Mecca is Shaykh Abdul Zahir
Al-Samih, rahimahullah, from Egypt.
He was the Imam of the Haram.
He was sick, he did not show up
that day.
So they find someone, like a random person,
led the salah.
So our man was praying behind that Imam.
He said his Quran was terrible.
He said he made so many mistakes that
I didn't remember praying someone, behind someone who
made that many mistakes.
I said, I came to Mecca for Quran
teachers and that's the kind of Quran teachers
they have?
What a shame.
So I'm going to start with Mecca.
So he decided to start a very solid
program to teach Quran in Mecca.
And he went back to Pakistan to one
of the Shaykhs that he knows.
His name is Shaykh Khalil.
Khalil Qari.
Khalil.
He goes to Shaykh Khalil and Shaykh Khalil
said, no, no, no, Mecca, I'm in Pakistan,
I'm not going to go to Mecca.
Mecca has its own.
He said, no.
I want you to go there and to
start teaching.
Such a shame that in Mecca, the land
of the heart, and we don't have good
Quran, and you are an excellent Qari.
You're the best Qari in the country.
He convinced him until he agreed.
And he moved him and his family to
Mecca.
And he became the Imam of a Masjid
by Bin Laden's family.
Not far away from the Haram.
And he had one of his students who
became so good and learned Quran very quickly.
And that man was no one other than
the head of all the Imams in Haram
later on, Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Isbail, rahimahullah ta
'ala.
Who became the head of Shu'ul al
-Haramain.
The heads of the whole entire two Haramain,
the Mecca and Medina, and the senior Imam
there.
One of his students, Shaykh Khalil's student.
He made him to him, help him to
memorize the Quran, to recite the Quran.
Then after a while, a Yemeni young man,
loved his recitation.
And that Yemeni young man, learned with the
Shaykh.
And later on, he became one of the
most recognized voices that ever lived salah in
Mecca.
Shaykh Ali Bajabir, rahimahullah ta'ala.
And one of the most incredible people in
memorization.
They said, you can't even, you can't count
in less than, not even five, one hand.
How many times he made a mistake in
qiraat, over the course of 40 years, of
his life, leading.
Anyway, then another family came to him, and
they said from Burma.
And they said, we have a son, who
we would like to invest in him.
And we heard he's the best Quran teacher.
And they brought their son to him, and
he studied with him.
Until he became one of the most recognized
voice, in leading salah, in Medina later on,
rahimahullah ta'ala.
And he became one of the imam of
Medina.
So you have, from his students, from his
students, people who led salah in Mecca, led
salah in Medina, Haram and Madan.
And thousands and thousands of imams.
All this by the grace of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, and by the, also that
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have made that
man to dedicate himself to teach the Quran.
But what's so unique is about the man
who don't, we don't even know his name.
And when these shuyukh, Ali ibn Jabir ibn
Ismail and others, they talk about, who taught
them the Quran?
The Shaykh, Shaykh Khalil, from Pakistan.
They gave him the credit.
And not only that, one day he was
in Mecca, then they said to him, we
would like you to supervise the halaqat al
-Quran.
So if you ever go to Mecca, you
will find Quran circles in the Haram.
He's the one who started that.
And it became now, you know, official, and
legislated to have like an official structure.
And replicated in Medina.
And one day he visited Medina to make
sure that the halaqat al-Quran and the
circle Quran is organized.
And guess who heard him teaching?
Egyptian scholar.
And he said to him, that's a beautiful
recitation.
I love your Quran.
Then he started talking, said come with us
to the hotel.
So he take him to the hotel.
And he said, by the way, I didn't
get your name.
He said, my name is Muhammad Siddiq al
-Minshawi.
And he took Shaykh Khalil to the house
where he met Shaykh Abdul Basit and Shaykh
Ismail.
The great scholar in Egypt.
And he praised him.
Just a businessman who want to invest in
the right way.
Let's have that year, the year of 2025.
You know what?
I want to contribute.
I want to put the seed for something
good.
Sometimes you can reach that high goals in
Jannah through your deeds.
But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made another
way also.
Is through, you know what?
Helping others.
To help you in your akhira.
To be the means of goodness.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us
among those who hear the speech and follow
the best of it.
أقول لما سمعتم أستغفر الله لي ولكم فاستغفروه
الحمد لله وحده والصلاة والسلام على من لا
نبيه بعده وبعد Make sure, my brothers and
sisters, that we be among those who make
things happen.
Not just those who watch things happening.
Or even worse, those who said what happened.
You don't want to be among those.
You know what?
Love the truth.
Love the khair.
Even if you are so deep in the
haram.
So deep in the wrong.
But you know what?
Love the khair.
Don't lose that love.
Because that's the rope that you're holding to
it one day and it will pull you
out.
Don't ever make doing the khair a justification
for you to continue doing the haram.
Not because you're doing the haram.
You said, okay, I'm going to donate a
thousand dollars.
You know, and make sure that this is,
you know, it's like this is a call
of drugs.
You drug yourself.
You think, okay, I'm doing this just to
avoid quitting the haram.
No.
That's some of the salaf said, quitting usury,
one dirham from usury, from riba, from interest,
better than doing 70 hajj.
Hajj.
So that's not, I'm not saying this should
justify continuing doing what's wrong.
But no, I'm trying.
But while I'm trying, it's not going to
stop me to do something good while I'm
even involved in something that's not right.
Al-Hasan was there.
Then Mutarrif said, give an advice to people.
He said, I'm worried to say something that
I don't practice 100%.
He said, rahimakallah.
And who does 100% of what he
says?
We all try.
The shaytan would love that because he will
make no one speak, no one advise, no
one participate.
Everybody needs support.
Everybody needs advice.
Everybody needs help.
Even Imam Ahmed, rahimakallah, need the help of
that man.
We need to learn how to help one
another, especially if those people are oppressed.
And with this, I want to mention at
the end of my khutbah, something that many
masajids speak about today, which is our sister
who's been in jail for so long.
And regardless of the complication of her case,
but the amount of injustice, she came, unfortunately,
in the wrong time.
May Allah bring relief to her soon.
Ameen.
She's miskine, I mean, no, unfortunately, there's no
political will behind her.
That's why there are so many Muslims today,
if you notice, have petitioned to Biden, President
Biden, before he leaves office, is to reduce
her sentence.
A woman reported that she was raped several
times, tortured, accused by things that, you know
what, and evidence that, I'm not going to
put myself on the court, place, but at
least showing a little bit of leniency for
someone who is genius.
And it became a big political issue.
There is no doubt that people like this
deserve leniency, deserve to be helped.
May Allah make it easy for her.
But at least knowing that name and knowing
that this, the complicity of her case, maybe
you read about it, it's something that creates
a level of awareness.
Not advocating for any kind of, a lot
of people, by the way, advocated violence in
her name, which is wrong.
And her own family basically criticized that.
If you remember not long time ago in
Dallas, somebody did that.
That's not the way to help, the way
to help through the legal means.
Insha'Allah we will put in our, you
know, social media also linked to ways maybe
you can support her through her legal counsel
or who, one of them lives here in
Houston with us.
In any case, my brothers and sisters, I
hope this khutbah inspire us to be always
part of goodness.
May Allah forgive our sins and guide us
to the best of speech and actions.
May Allah forgive our sins and guide us
to the best of speech and actions.