Waseem Hendricks – How Our Hearts Yearn
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Umm, Alhamdulillah. Ali when I would even say,
Allah, wanna shadow, Allah, Illah, Illallah Sharika, when a shadow.
Anna Sayyidina, wana bienna Wahabi banana, the
most warmest and beautiful of greetings, the greeting of Islam,
the greeting of Jannah, salaam, Alaikum, wa rahmatullahi, taala,
wabarakatuh,
Masha, Allah, Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah, how honored we
standing here. And just a week ago, Allahu, Akbar, oh, it's a
little bit more than a week ago, we experienced such a beautiful
month, and our souls were nurtured. And we've received so
much from Allah, from his nafahad, from his openings, from his
blessings, from his rahmah. We were forgiven by Allah. Our souls
feel spiritually uplifted to live for another year, subhanAllah to
Ramadan, but Masha, Allah, we find ourselves in the second week, and
how do we feel? I think the first night, even the day of Eid, we
know how we felt. We had an amazing way in Ramadan to just
gaze upon the Ummah and just look at our masjid and just look at the
brothers in the masjid. And we felt a sense of joy and happiness
in our hearts. Why Allah's house is fold no matter who you are, you
whether you were the Imam, whether we are just the musali, whether
you were only the musali that comes from Ramadan to the masjid,
whether it was that guy that only comes for Eid to the masjid and he
saw Eid, it was like especially for those who were yet Eid,
Allahu, Akbar, the Zachman. Why do we speak about Zach Ma? Normally,
when we speak about Zach Ma, what do we attach to Zach makkatul,
mukarrama, the crowd is huge, but Wallahi, I was inside when I
looked afterwards of what transpired at our Masjid. We had
that sins of Allah. Akbar, look at the masses coming to masjiduba.
Look how they filled from front to the back. There was approximately
plus minus 40 to 50 females that came. There was
really no space for them, absolutely no space. And a space
was created for them. But what was created a space without the
musalla, but they were happy and joyful that we can just attend the
facility in the festive of Eid, they had no issue making Salah on
the ground, as Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
explained to us Jo elat that this earth al Earth must
that this earth has been created for the believers as a complete
masjid, wherever you find yourself, there's no excuse. You
can perform Masjid.
You're a lot. Li ALU, Hama, student, Mataura, can you imagine?
Allah didn't give this to any ummah. You know? What does the
Christians do? They go to a church, right? And they go into
the church, and that is a sermon, and that is a ceremony for them,
but for us, the ceremony happens anytime. If I'm on travel, I'm in
Safir, I find myself that the Oh God, come in. I stop a side of the
road. I just throw out my musalla, just where I stand, and I perform
my salah. Why you let Leal? Are the entire kuloha, masjid and
watahora. It's a pure place for us to perform our prayer Allahu,
Akbar, what the gift Allah gave? And then on top of that, Allah
say, okay, musafir, 81 kilometers or more. Just don't worry about
four rakaat. Just make two rakaat for me, but I'll give the reward
of an entire full Raqqa that you've done for mashaAllah. How
gratefully. How merciful is our beloved Allah. But how grateful
are we for these gifts? Some of us, we will drive from here to
job, but not making salah. Why? You know it's dangerous on the
road, although we know that if you make salad, that's a protection
for us against what Allah tell us is, well,
any evil, any vice, any SubhanAllah. So Salah is a
protection for you against that. But we say no, the protection is
to stay in the car, not to get out of the car. Aji Allah gives us all
these gifts, and we don't utilize these gifts. One thing I can tell
you about my kids, when it comes to these things, what do we do?
They are so excited. Why? I don't need to make four rakats. I only
need to make two rakats. You know? They feel joy.
Are different and use it. Allah gave it to us to use, right? So
why am I saying this? I'm saying this because I'm excited about how
we've nurtured ourselves in a man that Allah explicitly mentioned to
us, his Barakat, his Rahama, His mafirat, His forgiveness, His
mercy, His blessings, and many more things Allah mentioned to us
about the month of Ramadan. But somehow we need to think about
this, that particular Allah that we speak about, is that a
different Allah?
Is that an Allah that only exists in Ramadan Allah's blessings, only
descending upon us in Ramadan, Allah is only there. His
forgiveness is only there. In Ramadan,
Allah's Mercy is only there that time Allah will Akbar, Jamaat al
Muslimeen, then what do we think about Allah? And rasulallah says
that my servant, I am to him as he think of me. We think Allah is
limited to power, you won't reach the full capacity of gaining and
benefiting from Allah's Qudra.
No, you need to know that. Ah, my Allah, to me, is what I think of
him. So what I think of Allah is He is capable of doing anything.
Allah is not incapable of anything
Allah, so wish Mish, what does he do? He just say, Let it be, and it
is. There we go.
Subhan, Allah. How can we limit the power and the qadra of Allah
is our Creator, is our Sustainer. Our souls were nurtured. We were
the ones nurturing our souls ourselves. No deterrent from
shaitan. I've achieved it myself. I can be proud of myself in
Ramadan even I've not been a person that were on my salah. But
in Ramadan, Allah here made salah,
even if it was that I am that person that don't, never, ever
will you find me with a soap with a top throughout the year, I will
not wear I'm gonna look like a woman.
A lot of my you know friends of a different faith, they come to me
say, hey, mashallah, quite okay. I know. Alhamdulillah, you look at
it as a rocky what do we look at it? As Allah speak in the Quran
about it, libas
and it is say it's the best, the best
adornment and clothes that you can wear. The best attire is the
attire that will bring you close to Allah.
So I'm looking like this mashallah, nice haram festival
happening. You think I will go with my top and my turban and my
Mishra still in my pocket, Subhan, Allah, and, yeah, I'm now, I'm
gonna Hui
I'm in a way now the disco or whatever, I will think 10 times.
If I am a sinner, what will I do? I'll at least take off my turban.
I will take off my Juba. I'll take off and I'll put on stuff. I'm not
encouraging. This is not going to happen in jail, but that is at
least what I would do. I would protect myself from
being noticed.
Say, bad. We like to
say John Columbia.
You don't recognize him, spikes in mashallah, yeah, I know what
you're talking about. You would love you with that guy once upon a
time,
you know. And now suddenly
he's bias. No, it is hidaya. It is guidance that found us. Like
guidance found us in Ramadan. Allah, let the biggest sinner out
there. He sees Ramadan.
He welcomes Ramadan. He tells himself that if there's a time
that I can change my life, this is the time I'm going to work towards
it, and I've achieved that now, Alhamdulillah, Ramadan came.
Ramadan left. The reality is now I realize the same Allah that's
within Ramadan is the same Allah that's outside of Ramadan. I must
upkeep that beautiful, beautiful nurturing of my soul,
who mashallah worship and who was filled with goodness, who was
attracted to only goodness, who was deterred from bad, who steered
away from all the evil that is who I am. What happened now? Jamaat al
Muslimeen, and here we come. Now, there's no Ramadan
now, there's no fasting. There's no waking up for sur then
what did we do at sahur? As Allah mentioned to us, well, Mustaf,
firina, bilaha,
that in that morning, time before Fajr, the.
Blessed time in Allah descends with his mercy and his assistance
and everything that you can think about
ALLAH ask questions, even for us, who is there out there to want to
be forgiven? Oh, once from my treasures come and ask me now that
Allah Taylor says, well, Mustafa in Abu Ashar that the time of
sahur, it is a blessed time seek forgiveness at that time we've
done that, we've been up for sahur. We ate, we made intentions
for fasting. We made duaz. We had aspirations for the day. We spoke
to our families. We reminded ourselves of what we have done
that is good and say, Allah, you are the first thing on my mind in
this morning. Ya Allah, at night at the Iftar table, most mustajab
time for me to make dua. We know the story of Musa, there's going
to come a nation after you. O, Musa, whatever you have spread and
talked and asked about they Subhanallah at the time of Iftar,
when they break the fast, when they raise their hands into amusa,
they are closer to me than you and your entire umm,
time of Iftar, what are you going to do? Break your fast? Allah, say
now that time, what is the most joyous time for you in Ramadan,
yeah,
I'm gonna devour you.
But babes is a chicken. No, is it? Man? So Allah chicken, my best
SubhanAllah. You know, you can see how you divided some devoured
samosa.
Why is it? Because it's a good time. It's you don't like water,
but you look at that water, Allah, some zombies in my house today
when it came from the tap.
Why is it like that? Because two times are the most joyous times in
the life of a believer. It is the words of Muhammad, sallAllahu,
sallam, at the time of Iftar and breaking your fast that time when
you're going to have that beautiful feelings and emotions
and all the thoughts that I had now, you have all that, but Allah
say that time is so mustajab for you to make dua. What a merciful
rabbi, Abu Asmaa. And what's the next time
when we mashallah, when we work with Allah, when we're going to
meet Allah, and Allah is going to say, Now, you go to Jannah.
There's nothing that can top that. Now, do you equate the two? Eating
joy, meeting Allah? There was a vast difference, isn't it? But
Allah say, My mercy that time, Musa, if they raise their hands,
they are the closest to me, closest to me, ask whatever you
want. How many of us know, really, at the time of Iftar was so
serious that Allah says This is that time that we really raised
our hands and we made every DUA and every desire that we had in
our heart, and we just gushed out our feelings to Allah. How many of
us did that at Iftar? Tayman, I think
the distraction was the samosa.
We thought more about that, but Wallahi, must I tell you
something? Who is your he knows what's in our hearts. Jala jalafi.
He knows what you want. He knows what you desire, and Inshallah, he
will grant us that. Dame. Pal anime, that is why it's such a
joyful occasion, time of breaking fast.
Our souls were nurtured, and who guided that nurturing? Allah, no
one can do this to us. No one can make a believer be so firm on his
Deen in Ramadan, it can't be your employer. It can't be your family.
Can't be no one that can guide you in such a manner that you will.
You know, you are a guy that gaze. But in Ramadan, you lower your
gaze. You are a guy that eat anything. But in Ramadan,
subhanAllah, I'll stay away from it, you know. So some of us will
say, Let's Ramadan Muslims. No, don't judge.
Alhamdulillah. Al has guided a believer, even if it was only for
that moment in Ramadan. It is that moment he showed who he truly is,
and we make dua Allah, keep them steadfast on that path. We are the
Muslims that know that I desire for my brother, what I desire for
myself. We are not going to have the comments like Allah was the
Ramadan Muslims. Then our Ramadan means nothing, because we are
judging Allah can make that person tomorrow to be far beyond and
better than us. Allah, forbid. Allah, grant us all to be equal.
Allah, grant us all to be conscious of him. Jala, jalalu. I
mean, that is a desire from a believer to another believer.
Our souls were nurtured. You know, what was one of the greatest
things that we've experienced? We have listened to the Quran
in a manner that we throughout 11 years, will not be focused and
listen to the Quran in such a manner.
Whether it was eight rakaats we perform, or whether it was 20
rakaats. At that moment that I stood behind that Hafid, I knew
there was something special about this moment.
I was present and Rafa read. Sometimes I know one word, rahmah.
Realize I can't speak Arabic, but I know what rahmah means, and I
understood that Allah is with me.
I know what maqam means forgiveness, and understood, and I
cried, Oh, Allah, forgive.
Or I didn't think anything, but the Quran just had an effect on
me.
Isn't that what happened in Ramadan? Everything good has an
effect on us. We saw it, so your soul has developed a relationship
with the speech of Allah. It
is for us now because Wallahi, our souls are yearning.
Our souls are yearning for what it received in Ramadan. How come it
is that we don't have that same Rabbah,
that same eagerness to feel that hype and that heightened state
with my Creator, Allah. What changed?
Same? Allah,
same. Deen, nothing changed. Time has changed. But is time going to
have an effect on me? Because I found myself in Ramallah,
I can't say that. No, I was a normal person. I did good. I'm not
a guy. Well, I don't give child. We don't give charity. Yes, main
but in Ramadan,
I was generous. Who do you think is most generous?
Allah, the generosity that you show inshaAllah, one day, Allah
will show generosity to you. And Wallahi, we don't know Allah
generous. Allah is
Sal Jawad Jala jalala.
He is the Most Generous, and perpetually He is Generous. He's
not Al Jude. He's al Jawad.
He's always, always, always generous. Allah. Allah says, you
know, wala in shakartun, la azi then Allah, don't say, Do
something for me, and then I will do something for you. Allah, say,
be grateful, and I will give you more. You don't need to do
anything. Allah, don't need a Allah, don't need a Allah, don't
need a Salah. Allah don't need al Siyam. But Allah say, if you do it
and you are grateful, I'll give you more. So if we were grateful
for the month of Ramadan that is past, Allah will give us many more
ramadans. Ameen. Allah give us yada in life extension in our
life, that we can, Inshallah, experience many more ramadans. But
Be grateful for the gift of Ramadan that came. Don't be like
some
that night when the moon was sight and you heard Magri Allah,
Alhamdulillah,
Ramadan is finished. Don't be like that guy.
Be like the guy when the Takbir was heard. You shed tears your
heart. Were you heavy? What has left me now?
The best time of the year has left me. The best night of the year has
gone by. Hopefully we've achieved that night. I mean, the best 10
nights of the year has passed every day. Allah said, next free
from the fray, from from the fire of *. It passed two Fridays
ago, everything was multiplied. Today is not like that. That time
is gone.
Our souls are yearning for those efforts and the sacrifices that we
have made throughout Ramadan.
Our souls are yearning for the good conduct that we had with one
another in Ramadan, alive. You know yourself after Ramadan
immediately.
Gusa,
no, we don't say who says?
Allah, right, so we were test on a day. We will be tested outside of
aid. We will be tested now for 11 months. But what did we do in
Ramadan? We found ourselves Buddha. So even
if I don't POA sa today, I say, but I don't need to be and indulge
myself in this. This is that of terrible, you know, if you are in
that space, in the frame of mind, Alhamdulillah, I'm just gonna say
assalamu alaikum. My brother and I'm going to leave.
I always say, you know, the embarrassment of a guy that comes
to you pizza, except you
can give me the face and defies as a
gallon of GSA. Salam Alaikum, and there you go. He's gonna feel like
a pop standing there. I did all this effort, if you're so I know
they say from me, salaam alaikum, peace be upon you, my brother. May
Allah forgive you, and Allah guide you. That same guy tomorrow is
going to come Pat if.
My mouth. Then I stood there. I was so angry, I was so upset, you
know, but you taught me something. You spit, you spread peace on me.
After that, subhanAllah, somebody else would have reacted very, very
different to you. But why did you do that, brother? Because I love
you. For the sake of Allah, I want you to walk through the doors of
Jannah, not to *. I don't want you to eat my flesh. I don't want
to take it back from yokiyama. I want you also to enter Jannah. So
don't do that, my brother. I love you. If there's a way that we can
discuss this mashallah, let's discuss it beautifully in amicably
and come to a conclusion, and mashallah, there we go beautifully
and separate our whether we agree or not, but at least we separate
happy from one another. Isn't that what happened
in Ramadan? But as it was, quartermaking Ramadan, Ya
Allah and the Imam, SWANA would tell you of trick host,
somebody last everything, okay, you give it that way, in a
different way, and mashallah smiles come out, and you love
that, and you see the change in the person.
And many of you change my attitude. Also. I came here
because every day, because it's ungama, but when I saw your faces,
you didn't need to speak. I just saw your
faces. Alhamdulillah, yes, you made me happy. I felt joy when I
saw you. You are the part of my fast being beautiful. I hope I had
a part in your fast being beautiful. But that is who we are.
We make things easy for one another. Our souls are yearning
for this, our good conduct and a good character that we had, our
relationships with our parents. Ramadan, every day, mommy, okay,
mashallah drove all the way from here to there to give a bochi, my
brother, my sister, you have everything. Can I help you with
anything? Buddha, please, this Buddha, please, that interaction,
communication. Love, siblings, beautiful. Ramadan is done. No
more phone call. Can we next? Ramadan from mummy, Phone No, our
souls are yearning.
Our souls are yearning.
We've done well in Ramadan. You have done well in Ramadan. Keep up
that how our souls yearn for what has passed. And clearly that is
it. Everything good comes to an end. Like your life is going to
come to an end.
You are not going to live forever. We are not going to live forever.
Allah, allow that our life be a love, a life with goodness and
prayer and beauty and pleasure of Allah within our actions,
this is what is very important. We see what is happening in
Jerusalem, in Palestine, in Raza,
the Palestinians are showering them with so much light that they
can't understand. No social media works anymore. Why? Because of the
character of Palestinians. They don't have bombs, they don't have
guns, they don't have nothing. What is it? What did they say? Has
buna Allah, one year man lucky,
Allah is sufficient for us. We can't understand it. We are not in
that position because we won't we won't understand it. May Allah
never put us in that predicament. Allah, allow us always to be the
ones to make dua for assistance and aid. May Allah accept him
So inshaAllah learn from them
that yearning to be a shahid must be like they yearning. They can't
wait to close their eyes for the sake of Allah. They know we have
been created for that.
Allahu Akbar,
imagine yearning to die,
literally living the Hadith. Man Aha, Balika, Allah, whoever loves
to meet Allahu. Allah loves to meet that person. Imagine living
that every day you are waiting. It's coming. I'm becoming a shahid
soon. My children are becoming Shuhada. My parents are becoming
Shuhada. You wait for it,
Allah,
how fortunate we are and we are not grateful.
We are not grateful. How can we not show great how can we not show
gratitude to Allah for the favors that he has bestowed upon us? As
Allah to Allah, says in the Quran Fabi ala
Abu, which of the favors of Our Lord can we deny Allah grant us
acceptance and understanding our deen is beautiful. We've found
ourselves in the month of Ramadan. Keep up that the track record that
you've set for yourself, and that bar must remain like that. And it
must only,
it must only increase, become better and better and better.
InshaAllah, in Allah, assist us, if that is our intentions, and if
we put our trust in Allah with our intentions, and we will achieve
it. Inshallah, may Allah, bless you. We've had many challenges in
life. Ramadan, we understood a.
Challenges Ramadan, we were grateful for our challenges. After
Ramadan, we are not going to become different than this
challenge. How can Allah? How? Why no Alhamdulillah innalila, that is
who I am. I hand my methods over in the hands of Allah. Allah will
deal with it for me. I must just be a good servant and a good
slave, and Allah will provide for me, and Allah will be there for
me. Inshallah. I mean, Allah, accept Allah.
Allah, bless you all Inshallah, to Muslim. Very important
announcement. We spoke about Palestine today at half past four,
because Maghrib is earlier time. Change half past four, we'll meet
inshallah once again, on top here by on the corner of ishkiri and
platykov Road, will have a plakat. What
do you call it? Demonstration Inshallah, where we will show that
we still stand. You know, Ramadan came, Ramadan went. The
Palestinians are still being bombed. They still die. To these
people, it means nothing, you know, because they have no Imaan.
We have Iman. We will show people we have Iman. What is Iman? I will
stand in solidarity with my brother and what you know, what?
Bring your children. Let them witness this. They're going to be
the leaders of tomorrow. They must know that we must stand for Haqq.
Teach them. Speak to them about Palestine. Speak to them about
quts. Teach them the history. Let them understand that this belongs
to us as an ummah. I need to give my life for it. We need to start
preparing our children like this. You must give your life for Allah.
Don't speak to them like electric stuff, you know, bomb, no, not
like that.
But be prepared to give your life for Allah. How abi, you know, if
you close your eyes for the second Allah, Allah, give you the highest
the boat in Jannah. The reward is you can't fathom it. This is how
we need to speak Jannah is speak to them about Jannah. Let them
understand Jannah. Then that means nothing. Giving their bodies will
mean nothing. They only will have one goal, and that is Allah, and
that should be our life. One Goal, Allah. Let our souls be tranquil.
Inshallah, next week, we will speak about the soul. What is the
deterrence? What is the deterrence that keeps us away from what we
have achieved in our soul? What is it that steers us and keep us away
from this good and this fear? Inshallah, this for next week, and
say To be continued. May Allah, bless you all. Inshallah. Iran,
assalamu, Alaikum. Warahmatullahi, taala, barkatu, last, we hope to
see everybody at the demonstration today who is able and who are able
to be there. Yeah, we need three people. Everybody say, I mean, for
those who come, mashallah, you will also be rewarded. I mean,
barakah, masala, malikumar, pronouncement.
Also next week, the 27th
and the 28th we have our Hajj seminar. The fiqh of Hajj will be
discussed by prominent ulama, prominent ulama headed and
spearheaded by Malala Abdur Rahman Layli MAF next week. I won't speak
malab Rahman Layli will do the Jumaa next week. So we will be
continued after next week inshallah. So mulab Rahman Layli
will be here, and then this Saturday and the Sunday, a whole
day program for the fiqh of Hajj. If you've never been for Hajj, or
if you have been, come and reminisce, if you didn't go
mashallah, come and learn the fiqh of Hajj in sha Allah, taala, and
then also our Hajj classes in the masjid starts from this Tuesday
inshallah between Maghrib and Ishay. For those who want to be a
little bit and go a little bit more in depth with the journey of
Hajj, come and meet us between mahri, penesha, inshallah and
Allah Talas and reward you send your kids. I've been in Hajj
classes since the age of I think of seven or six years old. I've
been walking with my parents for Hajj classes and mashaAllah when I
went for Hajj, everything was easy for me. Let's prepare our little
ones now reading create the rahb for them to want to go to be To
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