Waseem Hendricks – Celebrating The Best of Creation
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Okay. Rest easy. I won't be doing the
talk. It's Marlana. He's on his way.
He's just caught in a bit of traffic,
and he had some,
he had
a car issue, and it's all resolved now
from the delay. He's on his way. So,
just to save some time, we are going
to go through the announcements.
And just asked me to just
also,
make an announcement regarding
the Gaza
demonstration, which will be taking place
at 5 PM.
He's,
asked everyone for their support.
It starts at 5 PM, but what we've
seen, is that there are people that join
at 5:30
as they come back from work. And now
with Maghrib being later, you even when you
drive past at 6 PM, you still see
people. And as long as we keep this
particular
tradition going
and keep the momentum going, inshallah,
it serves as a timely reminder that we
have not forgotten the people of Hazza.
And then, just to announce some of the
events that are taking place.
I know that,
we've got
a Rambisne event, which is,
the traditional
Rambisne
part of our program,
which is hit by Mawlima Bahia as well
as Asa Sefosa,
and that will commence tomorrow
at 12:30.
And then they break for Zuhr, and then
they'll be,
and then they'll continue until
Asar
There's also a special guest,
and, the ladies Jammah will be having a
weekend in the last half, hour of the
program.
So that's the ladies program.
It's Rumpy Sneh with vikar
and,
combined with Athkar and Silawat,
from 12:30,
till 4 PM, and that will be on
ground floor in the multipurpose
center. We have,
I believe a grab a cuppa
event as well,
which will be taking place tomorrow Inshallah.
I'm looking for Hashem
tomorrow Inshallah.
And, please, the posters are up. You can
look,
at the grab a cuppa, which is a
wonderful way to connect for the youth. Please,
those who are not part of Arawakul Shabab,
we encourage the parents to, bring your youth.
And, this will be the
boys event or the, males event.
And I think in a week or 2,
we'll have the few ladies event, grab a
couple where they speak of pertinent issues.
Something that's very topical
at at the moment
is what we've heard
of the,
the event of the 2 ladies that took
place last weekend and that those are the
type of topics that they discussed.
And,
it's,
inshallah,
something that will serve your our youth very
well to have that discussion
in a Halkus' setting
with,
one of the islands in Sholah who will
be able to guide us through that process.
Then also we appeal to the community for
our ACME sales.
The sales have been a bit on the
slow side. We thought we'd give everyone a
3 month break. It seems like the 3
month break hasn't been long enough. But, hopefully,
the your your your your pensions for ACNI
is coming back. Please support the ACNI sales.
The contact details are you have to pre
order. It's a drive through. Very convenient. Once
you've pre ordered, you pay and you just
collect your Akni inshallah. That's a 100 rand
of punit and 1 punit feeds 2 persons,
and that all goes towards the masjid expansion
program inshallah.
And then we have our 12th of rebel
oval program which will be on Sunday,
inshallah
from Maghrib
to Ishay,
and that will be by Mawlana Waseem who
will be the main speaker
inshallah. So that's
our overall program starting
or commencing on Sunday inshallah at,
at Maghrib Salah, just following Maghrib Salah. And
then also just,
I think one of our last announcements,
It's, this week's, Jumuah collection
is for the Oman School of Excellence,
where our community and all of Musalis,
we are sponsoring 6,
Palestinian and Syrian refugees,
children, and,
they throw the grass up. And, we appeal
to the community. The funds are not coming
in as quickly as we'd like. We
have possibly 1 or 2 learners already sponsored.
And,
we appeal to the community to please,
donate. We would like to continue sponsoring these
6 learners. The new school term starts in
a week's time, and they're very excited that
to to go back to school. And,
we we wouldn't want to go back to
one of those 6 learners and say that
your sponsorship for the next FADES Academic Year
hasn't gone through. So we appeal to you.
I was on the phone earlier today,
having been there, having witnessed, I've
seen the transformation
in these children. A a child who cannot
make eye contact
a year later, you see this child transformed,
confident speaking,
being able to give an audible presentation and
so on. Some of these kids start school
as late as at age 11 and 10.
And,
the area that I visited in Marjayun, which
is in the southern tip of Lebanon,
I just wanted to inquire about the sheikh
that I met, Sheikh Nasser.
And,
has having sat in his home, having met
the refugee families
on the border,
and I was informed sadly,
that the place no longer exists,
that it's all been flattened.
Those children
are no longer there. We don't know who
have survived. We don't know what is left
of that refugee camp, but it's become a
no go area.
So that is the reality.
We are they are assisting the Palestinian children
and in Lebanon as much as they can.
There's no funds coming from the Lebanese government.
So it's
everybody from the Ummah to help support these
orphans.
On that note, I hand you over to
Mawlana Owen. I just wanted to add, Zakah
is accepted and mohyoko machines are available
for the Aman School. So,
with that, I hand you to Mawlana.
Alhamdulillah,
thanks and praises are due to Allah
who gathered us for such a beautiful occasion,
and the reminder today is so amazing. The
reminder is of Ashraful Mahluka at Sayna Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. This is a month prior
to him
being born, not being a month known as
a great month. But because of him
being born in this month, this month became
a great month.
And Monday was known as an ordinary day
for us, just a Monday. But when the
prophet Muhammad
was
born on a Monday, Monday became a great
day. Monday became a day that we know,
that we are reminded we can fast on
that day. Why? Because Rasool
says, this is the day
that I have been born,
and this is the day that I fast
to show gratitude to the creator
And today we are reminded, what is Mawlud?
What is Mawlud? Mawlud is us, and thus
we need to remind ourselves about. It is
not only us
reminding ourselves about Rasul salallam and following his
sunnah in this particular month, but Mawlud is
every day of our life. We commemorate him
every day of our lives. We celebrate every
achievement of the prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And how do we celebrate Rasulullah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam? Showing it on our limbs. The
amr that we perform
out of hope and out of love for
him
is
one that could stood at night,
and he could stick to one verse,
reciting it out of what? Out of worry
and concern for you and I.
Oh Allah, don't punish them for they are
your servants, you Allah.
Oh Allah, don't punish them for they are
your servants, you Allah.
What a concern
Rasulullah
had for you and I.
But if you forgive them, look at the
compassionate way that the messenger
speak when he speaks about us. And he
speak to who? To the most compassionate.
Allah.
You forgive them. Indeed you are the most
exalted.
You are the most wise. You know the
action, shia Allah. Allah know what we are
doing, although we might think that we are
hiding it from people, but Allah always know
what we're doing. And that, Rasool Sallani went
as deep as that.
He knew that we are trying to hide
things from creation.
But he said to Allah, you know exactly.
You are the most exalted, and you know
what they do in secret.
Even that, you Allah,
don't punish them. Forgive them you Allah.
Allahu Akbar. And today still,
today still
we are not living up to the standards
of somebody who loved us so much.
Somebody that gave up his nights to cry
for us. Umati, umati, umati.
This is Mawlud.
This is reminding ourselves of these occasions that
took place,
that how can I be a disobedient servant
to Allah?
Love for the Rasul salallahu alaihi wasalam is
fard.
It's a fard in the life of a
believer to love Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasalam.
How can we not follow his practices?
How can we not follow in his footsteps?
But the main enemy
is who?
Allah
says who is the main enemy. It is
shaitan.
Shaitan
came to take us from the straight path,
and he's been doing it prior to Rasool
Salam's existence,
prior to he came into this existence,
and he will do it until qiyama.
But we have been given a manual.
A manual that if we follow that manual,
then we will be successful.
And we cannot follow how do you follow
something that you don't love and you don't
aspire to?
And that is why today, Jamat al Muslimeen,
we speak about Molud, it is to develop
a love. Because certainly, you know, some of
us, maybe we don't know, but we don't
love Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam the way
that he needs to be
loved.
You love your wife,
that is why you do everything for your
wife.
The wife say now, I want this.
Just not to have
at home?
Just not just to stay out of the
the the the red zone?
What do you want, my baby? Although in
your heart, it's like,
can you go and buy this stuff? In
your heart, you say that in your heart,
but, well, you know, we are the greatest
pretender
pretenders.
Say, no, no problem my baby, insha Allah.
You are getting that call. Yes, yes, yeah,
stuff it, Allah, there is waifing.
That is how we are, subhanAllah.
But we will do it. Why? Because we
love them.
We don't want to be in the bad
books.
When it comes to Rasulullah,
how much salutations do we send a day
on our beloved saint Muhammad
We know ourselves.
Is it 5? Is it 10
salutations a day? Is it a 100 salutations
a day? And and and if it is
a 1,000,
for that. But is that enough?
Is it is it 5,000 okay? Is that
enough? When is it going to be enough?
It's never enough.
And alhamdulillah, I meet people.
I'm not talking about abroad people here in
South Africa. One of our teachers, he doesn't
want us to mention him. I actually asked
him permission, he said, please Mawlana, don't mention
my name.
But wallahi,
every time we speak to him
he will say, he will start these conversations
with Allah subhassa lahu alaihi wa sallam
and then he will speak and he will
say yes but mawlana you know if it's
like this and like that and say, and
then he
will start speaking.
And then he will forget something
and then you will see, oh yes, masha'Allah,
you know this is what I wanted to
say. But salawat is constantly on the tongue.
And what is this? This is the lovers
of Rasoolullah,
people that understand that this salawat is not
just words.
The salawat affects us.
If it is that you don't love the
prophet
pretend to love him. Even if you pretend
to love him, you will come to love
him.
You will come to love him.
And many many people ask me, and today
the youngsters, you know, the mind setting is
different.
I had a youngster asking me, how do
you love a man? Why does I love
a man?
A man? Is it a man more
a star feel, that's not wrong.
There's a difference in loving him, how you
love him, how do you then love a
man, you salaam, you know. We need to
teach our children you can love men.
I mean, I love everybody that's sitting here,
but it's not that kind of love, you
salaam.
You know, it is a love of brotherhood.
It is a love that Allah connected us
with.
You
know, Allah connected us through La ilaha illallah
Muhammad Rasulullah
and that is why we need to love
one another. For who? For the sake of
Allah. The Prophet
is beyond that.
He even mentioned to us, That
you can never ever have complete faith in
iman.
Can you imagine this? Strong words.
You can never, the prophet
said, have complete iman and faith if you
don't love me
more than you love.
Who?
Your parents.
You Allah, how difficult is that? We know
how much we love our parents whether they're
alive or whether they are not alive.
We love our parents.
We make dua for them, insha'Allah. We make
dua for them.
Allah grant them Jannah.
Highest upon them Jannah. They are our parents.
They are our reason of existence. Allah used
them as the Sabbath for us to be
here, to become who we are today. We
are not only here because of them, we
are gonna be called by their name
the day of qiyama. No matter if you
love your father or if you don't love
your father, the day of qiyama you will
be called by your father's name.
What is Allah teaching us?
That you need to please your parents.
A youngster
a youngster came to complain to the Rasulullah
about his father. We all know the story.
You are Rasulullah. This is my father. He
just want from me.
Every time he takes from me. And the
Rasulullah
summons
summons the youngster,
the father
of the youngster.
And Jibril
descended to the prophet and he said, you
Rasulullah,
if he comes
ask Him about what the child is saying,
but also ask Him what did he say
and what did he think why he was
moving towards you. So this is jubilee coming
to inform the prophet of the father.
And then it is a long long long
conversation that is going to take place between
the prophet and the father. But the gist
of it is,
Rasulullah said, is this true that you take
from your son?
And the father looked down and he said
yes yes Rasulullah, I can't deny that I
am taking from him. But the reason I
am taking him is because he has got
an aunt that has no husband and nobody
to take care of. So I take from
that money and I spend it on her
and the others I spend on the needs,
on our needs.
But the son has a problem with that.
And then the prophet
said,
can you inform me or what did you
say
softly
once you are coming towards me?
And obviously
knowing that the prophet looked
you know, and like, subhanAllah,
how do you know about this You Rasulullah?
And then he informed the prophet You Rasulullah,
what I said was when he was young
and he was sick, I did not close
the eyes of my eye. I did not
close my eyes of my eye. When he
fell, I felt the pain and I picked
him up and I never ever ever let
him go before he felt comfort.
When it was him crying, it was as
if I was crying.
When he was sick, it was as if
I was sick.
This is a father.
This is what he was taught but today
there is much more that he said. But
today,
you know, I thought that I put you
through your education and everything that one day
I am going to be happy and joyful
to see what you have become. But today
the only thing I hear from your mouth
is what? It's harshness.
You are harsh towards me.
You are
disrespectful
towards me. This is all that I hear
from you today. This is a father's conversation
with himself,
with himself.
How can my son be like this? I
did not hear him like this but today
you only give me harshness.
I was there, I felt your pain.
I listened to you over and over and
over and over. You asked me the same
question. I did not shout at you.
But today I asked you once, twice, thrice,
after thrice what is wrong with you?
Ajib,
Jamatul mister Mil, what did the prophet respond?
He has grabbed the youngster and he shook
him.
And he said, everything
that you are and that you own belong
to your father.
He can take whatever he wish.
How much we love our parents.
That is how much we love our parents.
We would give them anything.
Even the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam say, they
own what you have.
But he says,
you will never have complete iman
if you love me more than that person.
More than your father, more than your mother,
more than your own children.
Allahu Akbar. We only live for our kids.
And if you ask parents today, why you
work so hard?
Children,
what's gonna happen to them?
I want to secure their suhana. Almost like
we know what's happening in the future, but
when we say we die of camels, I
want to secure them. They must have a
house. They must have security.
Knowing in our heart that if Allah and
the snatches their weight will be away tomorrow,
but we work ourselves in the ground for
our kids.
But they made time for us. They made
time to see that you have your deen,
you have a good foundation of Allah and
His Rasul in your life. You need to
be in the masjid for your Mi'raj program.
You must be in your masjid for the
ruah program. You must go to the rati
ul hadad. You must have a sense of
joining with people and socialize with people in
gatherings where it will remind you of almani's
Rasul. It was incumbent for us to be
there.
The strange thing today is we
don't approve of such actions.
How is it that we can use something
so beautiful and turn it into something ugly?
How come we can't be tolerant with one
another? How come we can't understand that if
we come to the masjid, that's an act
of worship? And if we come and we
speak about the prophet
how can it be wrong? Educating ourselves about
our own selves, about our nabi can be
wrong.
We look for every
wrong in the book to prove that this
is not right, although we don't see the
bigger picture. The bigger picture is our children
don't know the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
The bigger picture is even us don't know
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. But we
don't want to enter into these beautiful majalis
or dhikr. And
when I say dhikr I don't only mean
dhikr in the form of zumba.
No no. Dhikr is also speaking about Anani
reminding us about the greatness.
We are celebrating
this personality
whom Allah calls Usfathul Hasina.
He is the best example. How can you
follow that example if you don't know him?
How can we we need to come to
the Majalis,
sit at the feet of the scholars and
learn about him and implement it because the
greatest action is your amal.
Not only knowledge,
actions under limbs.
Amal bil Jawaya.
Let it show on our limbs
that this is how much I love my
Nabi. I will express it in ways I
don't care.
He is the father of my teacher Mufti
Taheran Rahimahullah.
He said and he was, oh, you are
such a great army.
Why do you dedicate so much time to
the mawlid?
You know, SubhanAllah, when you're in the mooled,
you know, if you know maulay zukran, when
you see him when he was in the
mooled, it looked like every time he's in
the mooled he's in a state of ecstasy.
The way that he went, you know.
You Allah, if I am going to start
now we are going to have a mawlid.
You know, we are going to till Sunday
night we are going to read the Barzanji
and we are going to read all that
Mawali now SubhanAllah. How nice that will be.
And that is also what I want to
encourage, us as a community, not only in
Penangam and Cape Town. Bring those majalis back.
You know, we could say,
We know this.
We know this.
It was a part of us when we
left that machine.
That tune will remain with us
walking from the masjid, entering our homes. And
when I come into the house, I say
it, I hear my great granny start with
me, my mother start with me, my sisters
and my siblings and my cousins and everybody
that was in the house. Yes, we have
a big family living in one house.
Today, we have 2 people living in a
mansion,
quiet. 1 sitting in the one side of
the house, other one sitting in the other
side of the house, on their social media,
not worrying me, not even knowing what is
happening. Anything I want from my wife, I
message her.
And she reply from that side, okay, maybe
I'm gonna do it for you now. But
that is obviously tomorrow it's going to happen
because I must walk so far from that
place to here.
This is what's happening. But when we walked
in our homes, what did we feel?
And this is something if you didn't experience
it, try it. Try to have a conversation
with your children. Try to make it. They
can say,
no. There is no need for you to
have out tunes, make your own tune. But
you know what it is? It will remind
him of Allah and his Rasool. My time
is up. InshaAllah,
don't let the mood go by And one
day when we close our eyes, we regret.
Look
at look at the majority
of Muslims
globally.
And it's not that it happened only now
a 100 years ago. It happened since the
6th century.
It happened since the 6th century with scholars
who are reputable, who we follow today,
for all these years
has given the drill ahead.
They agreed that this is something beautiful.
Today, SubhanAllah, we find ourselves from the 6th
century so close to the Messenger sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam and the Suhava, we find ourselves
in the 21st century, 1000 of years later.
What do we say? No. No. No. I
think I know better.
I know better than that guys that lived
so close to Rasool,
that knew the Sahaba,
that lived with the Sahaba, that lived with
the with
the greatest of
current
of societies that lived after the prophet which
he mentioned.
Right? Those societies.
They knew definitely
better than us. They were the best of
creation.
After the prophet
so let us rather take from them.
Insha'Allah ta'ala. Everybody is gonna be a Sunday
for the Modi.
I mean, bringing your families. You know, it
is not we are not gonna come to
check.
To think that bad of a Muslim,
that is not the way of your Nabi.
Your Nabi would always have good thought about
people and not only people with faith. You
will even have good thought about people that
is not of the Muslim faith. And that
was what what what was encouraging to people
to enter the fold of Islam. And that
is what we need to bring back into
our lives.
Allah allow us, insha'Allah, to reach that state.
But the Karim family has decided that they
will make peace inshallah to bring closure. They
have performed salatul ghayb 2 nights ago on
their beloved father. And may Allah
If it is that he's in Allah's mercy,
may Allah envelope him with that mercy and
grant him the highest abode in Jannah. And
then also just one,
anniversary that I must mention, it is of
Amina Surqat and Liakat,
Surqat. Masha'Allah. May Allah grant him his 2
years, many, many more years to live together.
And for everybody here, Our marriage is may
last for many more years with the same
wife.
The first amendment was love because it didn't
hear the same wife. The second amendment was
very soft. Why brothers?
Just,
also a very important announcement. Yesterday was 25
years of the passing
of our honorable
pioneer teacher of Quran, Sharsali Abadi.
And
also ironically,
and now masha'Allah, Allah's decree his student, Jisirah
Juhar, also passed away yesterday.
On the same day that his teacher passed
away on Laylatul Jum'ah as well. And being
buried on Jumu'ah, Allah granted both the highest
abode in Jannah. In companionship together with Muhammad
They were truly people of Quran. The amount
of
huffar and scholars that came and they produced
in this life, you Allah we are indebted
to them. Allah allow those who are behind
and left behind of the scholars, Allah allow
them to walk in the footsteps of these
brilliant giants. MashaAllah.
And like I always say, we only stand
on the shoulders of giants. Everything that we
are doing is
the way it was paved by them. That
is why we can find things so easy
today. Allah bless them always, and
may everything that the scholars are doing be
a means of sadaqa jariyah for them.
I love what I can do.
Hello.