Waseem Hendricks – Jumuah Lecture 20220429
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The importance of wearing masks during the pandemic and trialing one's actions is highlighted, as well as the need for individuals to act like their counterparts. The speakers emphasize the importance of staying true to Islam, avoiding distraction, and being mindful of one's behavior. They also discuss the social and cultural expectations of Islam, including being present in public and being forgiven. The speakers emphasize the need to nurture oneself and maintain relationships with one's family, and to be a "we" in relationships.
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Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Wolf,
I'm
gonna everyone
with
the most beautiful greeting, the greeting of Islam, as well as the
greeting of Jannah, Asmaa, Allah. All thanks
and praises are due to Allah, the
Creator of the world, the creator of known to us and unknown to us,
the creator that has the power over everything. Allah, Jalla
Jalal, he gathers us in such unprecedented times. Look where we
find ourselves, against Jamar to mislead, and this is just a
reminder to us. Inshallah, I've been just informed to bring up
this reminder to everyone, as we enter the masjid, our close
proximity is inshallah. Within the building area, you should try to
wear masks all the time. Inshallah to Allah, and for those who feel
that it's a bit awkward and difficult for them on the outside,
there is an opening place inshallah for us not to wear our
mask. And that is also the law of the country. So let us, inshallah
try to abide because Allah trial and test us again. May Allah
preserve us that this pandemic that was should never, ever come
back Inshallah, and you make the duallum bar as well. Junoon, while
Judah was saying as calm, I mean, Allah protect us of all ailments
and illnesses, Amin ya Rami, for indeed, I don't think we'll be
able to survive another moment of our masajid being closed just for
the sake of an illness. May Allah protect us. This is the times that
we need to fold the Masjid. We see the masajid are being fold again.
We see our young ones and our elders are starting to come to the
masajid again. This is what we needed, Ya Allah. Our souls were
empty, and what did we do? Allah gave us this beautiful time, the
time we said, Allahu, akla Raja shower the blessings in the month
of Rajab. What happened? People started flocking towards the
Masjid. What did it remind us about you? Al fat warah.
Aindi, lahi, Abu Asma, navidila dream. It has that time when
Rasulullah Sallam went to conquer Maka. What did we conquer? We
conquered a trial in a test that Allah subhanahu wa and what did we
do? We showed unity. We are going to move back where to where we
belong. Where did Rasul assalam go back to TU Makkah, to his country,
to where he loved to be, to his hometown, his watan, and he loved
it so much. But how did he go with humility? He put down his head.
And how did we come back to the masjid? We must it. We put down
our heads. We bow down now. Did we come Aja in troops, we came to the
masjid. Look at the masajid. It's filling up in Allah subhanahu wa
Don't forget about me. Don't forget about me. You said barakah
rajapai gave you that.
And insha mashallah, it increased. And what did we do? Our worship
increased. This is exactly the way that the Sahaba RAM did this when
they came there, masha Allah, what happened? They started increasing
when they Tara. What did they show the farm? What did they show those
who disbelieve? Allah, Subhanahu? WA? Did they show anybody with a
different faith to Islam? They walked blissfully, masha Allah,
they walked around the showing their chest out. And that is how
we should feel. We feel that we are so honored. Allah has given us
a time again. I'm going to start moving and walking to the masjid.
I'm Suma galloping to the masjid like a was. That is how excited I
am. But we must always be in mind that as Allah, Subhanahu wa gives
good Allah also
remind us.
Allah
says, Don't forget. No, no, just because.
Am complacent and think that you can just say that I believe in
Allah, let things lie, but Allah will trial us and test us. Allahu
Subhana wa Taala is the one that tells us that the very purpose of
a believer and of anybody who is created is that they will be
trialed and tested in this life, nobody from the time of Adam ala
Salah to as up until now, until the end of days, we'll live a life
without trials and tests. Ask anyone.
If you find a perfect being, then know that he's a liar.
Somebody tell you, Oh no. Nothing wrong happens to me, nothing I've
never, ever had a pain or ache or something. I'm deprived. It's a
lion, a blatant lie. Allah calls him a lie.
SubhanAllah. Allah, protect us from this right. But truly, the
purpose of us being created is us being trialed and tested. And what
does trials and tests do? Allah, speak about it right before we say
this. Remember who can plan and who can pluck and who's the best
of plotters and
planners. One Maki, then Allah says that you can plan, plan and
plan and plan and plot and plot and plot, right? Allah know that
your Allah is planning and plotting as well. And then Allah
gives the answer, and indeed, there's going to be tops. Who's
going to be the winner of Allah?
Allah will be the one that will outshine you in your plots and
your plans, because he's our Creator. He knows what's best for
us.
I did announce Inshallah, just another reminder for the mosque to
be put on. But
there's an Audi that blocking the way, a black Audi.
There's no no number, please, I don't know. It's a black Audi and
new one they see that should please try to move the covid If
you can maybe indicate with the Audi standing Inshallah,
so Allah, Subhanahu wa and we might find ourselves in trials and
tests, and then we feel that Ya Allah, are you turning away from
us? Are you depriving us? Why Allah subhanho wa Taala has been
answering my prayers? Why Allah subhanahu wa is giving everybody?
Because if I look around me, people are so happy, you know,
which is radar, which is actually deceiving us? We are all part of
the what clan? What
is the word I'm looking for? Pretending clan. We pretend we are
so I am a great pretender.
I used to hear the old people saying that I am a great
pretender. They used to say that. So we are all pretenders. Because
none of us in our lives can say that we are not trial at the time
we are trial. But the beauty of Islam is Allah conceal our fault.
So we should not go out and say, Look, I have a bad time. You know,
my this and my that, and my children and my wife. You know?
No, we don't speak about it. We are all that
nation who are the nation of Ashraful Ali wa salam that he used
to teach us that whenever you come into the company of people, you
give them a good face,
you give them a beautiful demeanor. Your surroundings must
be nice. If they come in your company, must say, Oh, God,
so nice to be if you come to the masjid, people must be mashed. Oh,
this is my I want to come to the masjid. You know, the bus is just
so nice. We must be can't wait for the next to come. Because I want
to meet with amis.
I'm not going to look at you. I want to meet with the army, you
know, as a I want
to meet Azar. I want you to stand in front of us. You know, you you
must feel like you want to interact with each other all the
time, because this place is our Marcus. It's our center of our
community. This is where things happen. This is where everything
happens for us. You know, you feel a bit ill. You come here, you say,
You know what? I need to go to the doctor. No, no, no, I need to go
to the masjid. I'll find doctor. Ashley.
Just diagnose me. Quick Talk, man, you know, and the screen
is
free, you know what? But this is the place you have an issue, a
problem. You come to bucharepati, you know, he's a good attorney.
You ask him, How can I go about? No, you want some coke? I'm not
going to look where to go, right that you get some coke by certain
brothers as well. Mashallah, and you want some love, you come to
me, I give you a little.
It will always be a no cost. But this is the beauty of our massage,
and this is the beauty to.
The beauty of us and our trials will not deprive us from that.
Because the Prophet salallahu, sallam, say about the trials that
either ahaba, Allahu, abdah, then what does this trials do for us as
believers, that when Allah loves a servant, if Tara, then Allah takes
him so
mashaAllah, the Arab culture is always beautiful, that when they
trial, then they happy,
they happy. You know, I couldn't understand this when I was younger
and I was a student, it's almost difficult so happy. I traveled to
Yemen Ya Allah, the trials in the test the children nothing. They
give you everything that they have. But it is how small, but
they are just happy.
And I had to ask, you know, are you guys doing this when it's so
difficult? They say, Yeah, abi,
do you not know that Rasulullah Satan
says, when Allah loves Allah, test us. So I know now that I'm going
through this difficulty, My Allah loves me. Imagine a people with
such Imaan to understand the words of the messengers of Allah, just
like the Sahaba used to understand. So what is wrong in
our lives come? The first thing is, why did it happen to me? Why
did the Buddha do it to me? Buddha was about He
mustn't be like that. Now we start eating flesh, flesh, flesh, flesh,
flesh, flesh, flesh, flesh, left to Yama. We do a lot of vomiting.
You know, may Allah protect us, Inshallah, because that is not
good for our soul, that is not good for our being, that is
negative for us. What we should do is, if somebody something like
that happen, they go on, guide me and guide them, guide
us. All ya, Allah. We are so weak. We need to work very hard to
uphold this legacy of Salah. Then he says, ha and the time you aim,
your aim. How can we deprive ourselves of Your mercy like this?
Remember, what did we do? We cultivated grounds.
We cultivated it was Raja sharadan. Now we are harvest. So
now it is, what are we going to do after this?
If a beauty, we're going to eat.
We're going to eat. That is very important. That's the first point.
But others eat. Please, please, inshaAllah, don't deprive you of
that Nirmala Allah has given us. But what are we going to do with
our gardens?
We always seem to eat this. It's important so you can pluck the
fruits. But let us remind ourselves, if we are not going to
eat,
if we are not going to eat, we cultivate it. And now everybody
see this beautiful gardens of the believers, masha Allah, look how
green it is. Look at the trees. Allahu, Akbar, why did you give
fertilizer? You know, I didn't smell so nice, but it's fertilizer
because I wanted the pastry to be there. You get. Take everything
that you put to that garden, and now mashaAllah, the garden is top
class.
Top class. You see ya salah.
Now one thing, there's the ones that can garden, and now you just
leave it. You don't eat from the fruit. You don't pluck it. You
look like no more water, given what starts happening. Roots
starts coming out. Ugliness shows his head again.
That's basically what you want to say, ugliness comes up and
what happened? People say, What happened to this garden? It was so
beautiful. Yes,
this garden. Don't look after his garden. They sometimes I come to
you, my brother, it's such a beautiful garden. What's
happening? So that's us. We cultivated our souls. We
cultivated our character.
You know, we forgave, we come and have and Now Allah is going to
say, because that root starts coming. This coming is coming.
Everybody says,
beautiful people after my God, oh, yeah, whatever. We
cultivate,
we will harvest it, but now we ignore. We deprive our gardens
from that beautiful manure,
you know, to keep it up and to keep it green and beautiful, our
souls are like that. It cries out for us all the time.
Allah, Subhanahu wa says about ourselves, What must we do with
us?
Zakat, purify it all the time. With what? With exactly what we've
done in Ramadan
Quran recitation at Cal
beautiful relationships, mending family ties, not cutting ties with
each other as friends and neighbors keep it up and that God
will bloom all the time. And what God is.
Make that garden bloom.
It is what is the garden that we need to bloom here? It's toil.
Stride deep, dug.
Have the spade, have the fork. Ya Allah, toil the grounds and the
floors. Mashallah, and then after that, what happens?
You see the fruits.
Now, if we do that in our garden here, as we toil and struggle,
Allah said, now you see what God and I will give you now, I'll give
you a hold on your reality.
You toil so hard here, mashaba to look after your soul and you, you
know, worship me so beautifully and try to do all those things.
Now, let me give you a garden and and Allah is going to ask us, what
can you tell me about the garden?
Allah,
remember that the weakest of believers will enter. Is there
missing?
The weakest of believers?
They will stand at the door of Jannah.
They will stand at the door of Jannah
and Allah subhanahu.
Wa do
you think about Jannah? This is yours. Are you happy and
satisfied? Imagine your
Allah mean or just
for us to be satisfied. It will be so nice that you know that my Lord
Allah is pleased with me. Yeah, I'm standing at the door of
Jannah, and Allah,
maybe that's me, but I'll use my name. We're seeing the weakest of
the slaves of the believers. Now I'm standing at the door of
Jannah, the weakest of the slaves, Allah interjen.
I stand there and Allah says, What do you think about your Jannah?
Are you happy?
I said, Allah, can you not be happy?
Allah says, no, no, I'm asking you look at your Jannah. So what is
that Jannah as far as the eye can see, as much as you want to walk
through and walk and look, as far as your eye can see, that is the
limits of your Jannah. So meaning you enter the Jannah, wherever you
walk, as far as your eye can see, that is your Jannah. That is your
property.
You earned it through your weakness,
right? And then Allah asking you a third time to ask you, are you
satisfied? Because you see Allah, how can I not be satisfied?
Because you're going to feel so ashamed. And how can I ask Allah
to Allah say, This is what I gave you. But now look at what I'm
going to give you. Allah is going to multiply that rewards for you.
How can you multiply something that is you? As far as the eye can
see, Allah knows best. It is not for all minute minds to be able to
fathom this. This is the greatness of Allah, as for the weaker
slaves, what about the ones who will be in Jannatul, begin with
the ambiya, with the truth, truthful ones, with the saliha and
the pious ones and the Shuhada and the martyrs, and on top of that,
Rasulullah.
What about
those guys? What is their Jannah? Remember they were tears sobbing
in the time of Rasul
out of fear of not being with him.
They know what they cultivated. They know the sacrifices they
make, but still used to cry. Can we ever be in your company
every day we make the dua for you that Allah has granted Allah, that
Allah is going to give you a station that Allah has promised
you? What about us? So barn became, they said, he became like
a madman. Was this for a moment, out of out of reach, where he
couldn't see and he couldn't be in the company of the messenger
SallAllahu. Alas, they said to ban. He came like a crazy man.
And when Rasulullah came back from the short expedition he underwent,
he entered and he looked at the stasis,
and the Prophet SAW asking me, What is this?
Whenever I sit in your company, I feel tranquility, I feel love, I
feel I belong. You were just away with a moment, and I couldn't
handle myself, and my fear stuck that if icon cannot be in your
company for such a short period of time, then what is going to happen
the day of priyama, when you go up and you in the agenda, and I'm
going to be in Jannah, but at the lower Jannah, and I will not be
able to see you
cry until.
The happiest occasion. Day of the Sahaba occurred when you saw
Don't worry
what
you will be in general, who you love. The happiest occasion in the
lives of the Sahaba, they understood that there's no one in
this world
that can tell us that we don't love Rasulullah. So they self gave
them a guarantee we will be with him in Jannah. And imagine what he
says. He says, My Time,
the best of people were my
people, RadiAllahu.
Allah is pleased with all of them.
With all of them, may Allah be pleased with us, amen. But they
understood the reality
that you can work extremely hard here, but you need to all the time
maintain it so we work extremely hard for what we have now. Don't
deprive ourselves by just throwing it out by the back door.
Maintain maintenance. Maintenance is important, whether it is for
our bodies physically, whether it is for our gardens, whether it is
for our cause, whether it is for whatever commodity we have, we
have to maintain. You have to so your soul is a part that cries out
for you to maintain your rule. Sometimes I deprive
our rules. Allah
was based. Allah deprive us. Sometimes from our roof.
We deprive ourselves, sometimes from our roof. And Allah,
Subhanahu wa mentioning in the Quran, but the aflacer of Allah,
remember him. Bring the spirituality in your life,
maintain it, look after it. Make your five times daily Salah on
time. Read your Quran and try to understand it.
Let your young age be good, let your middle age be good, and your
old age will be good. I mean, may Allah grant us all to reach old
age in a good manner. Allah grant us sanity. Allah grant us that at
that late moment of our life, we will still be able to remember
him, Jala jaran, and when we close our eyes, we'll be able to say, La
Ilaha, illallah, Muhammad, rasulallah,
that is important for us to understand. May Allah, Jala jalalu
Grant us of those who Alhamdulillah, we've cultivated
our grounds, but we will be of the maintenance of our character will
remain intact.
Our prayers will remain intact.
Our look with each other, our relationships will remain intact.
And on top of that altar, I look with Allah, the remaining thing.
And how is that we
must remind ourselves this is very important to remind ourselves,
Salah. Salah, Salah.
Make Salah give a deprive you of this favor and gift that Allah has
given us in the summer, in
Allah's Presence, Allah gave us day, please look after our salah.
Look at your kids, and don't deprive you on the Day of Judgment
that you will be questioned for it.
Why did your children not perform salah?
Why is your child? And then your child is going to say, Allah, be a
testimony against my father. I be testimony against my mother. They
did not allow me and taught me and nurtured me in such a way for me
to look after him. Did our children not be depriving us of
Jannah?
Wallahi, our children can be Allah says, What is our children in this
world for us and man well Banu,
our wealth and our children, they are a fitna for us. They are trial
for us, a test. Sometimes we feel we only they are not ours. Our
children doesn't belong to us. They belong to Allah.
Our elders used to say that you hear children and not for
yourself. You rear them for someone else,
because one day, people will look at your kids and say, No. Masha
Allah, You know what?
Machine did a good job. He's got a very good job. Look how beautiful
he's looking after his family. Or
it can
be closer. Right? So we have a big, big responsibility when it
comes we think children is just children. We have huge
responsibilities. What are we creating today? We're creating
adults tomorrow. They can play Xbox. She is fine.
If you're working from home is Mashallah. People start being very
comfortable in that go out and work, seek sustenance. And there's
a reason. Allah says, Go and seek sustenance.
No matter how much you love to work at home, you need to come
out. We are not an island really. Just live on our own, sitting in
the home whole time. It's not good for us, for us. You see.
Is a social religion, and to go out and to meet people and to
speak to people, connect to people, why? And that creates
opportunity for people to see the beauty of Islam. And everybody
just sit in their homes while Muslims what's going to happen?
People not going to see what Islam is about. And that is why the
fight was there, to open our massage and keep it open, keep it
open, keep it open till the last, if we couldn't, indeed, and
the moment it could come open, we fought for it to open because we
understand the social that social gatherings need to happen, that
shoulder to shoulder need to happen. How happy we became. I can
yours. I'm getting goosebumps the first time that we started with
standing shoulder to shoulder in the Maji and you hear the army so
different, knowing that you are social dissing, yet
even everybody gives the
army the Malaika. When, you know, when everybody says, in unison,
the Malaika. And they come and they say, unison with it, then you
know, that moment, your your all your sins are forgiven. When the
Malaika army is together with the army of the Jamara, the jamabi is
being forgiven.
So now we staying in Salah. We stand shoulder to shoulder. You
know,
the next
year started flowing again. It almost like the brother in the
desert. There was nobody behind him, and he heard it. I mean, so
loud, he started running.
We is there no idea to go hand over. But then Amin sound. It's so
beautiful
that it reminded us of the days when Allah looked at us with
mercy. Allah allowed us to come to his house without any difficulty.
And it started happening again. And there's a possibility that we
might, you know, the world is a strange place, but we accept it
because it's Allah trials that we will inshaAllah, we will pass the
test. We won't pass the test. You know, it's been proven through
history. There were many pandemics in the past. Alhamdulillah, some
took very long, but they passed. And this one, it will pass. We
just hope that it passed in our time, because we don't want to be
deprived of Allah's house. That's one thing we don't want to be
deprived of, because the best places on the surface of the Earth
is the masaji, and the worst places is the marketplaces. And I
would like you love the marketplaces. Reapers, I can
already see what's happening. I say really told my family there's
no way where we're not going to go
two gates
along
schools,
all the Muslims are in baseball.
Allah. Protect us, you know. But this is just the reality of us. We
wait for that last moment and then, you know, it's a hustle and
a bustle. But don't forget, nurture yourself now, because
you've nurtured yourself beautifully up until now. Keep on
nurturing. Keep on looking at yourself. Keep that relationships
now you have mended and bonded so beautifully, maintain it and
Inshallah, what are we receiving? Not a garden in
this life, we will get the gardening paradise. Inshallah,
such a garden that even right, no eye has ever seen, ear has ever
heard, and Noah, no heart can perceive. And this is what the
beauty is, we don't
know what to
expect. Sometimes it's good not to know
what to expect, because I expected, it's our expect. Our
expectation can be how high in this world, if your expectation is
high and it doesn't meet, it out with you disappointed, right?
Allah promised you and you will not be disappointed. So you can
have an expectation that you wonder,
or sister, there's no way that Allah subhanahu wa disappoint us.
That is your Allah ever it's impossible that is not part of
Allah's quality means that his essence, Allah, will never
disappoint us as His creation inshaAllah, work towards that. You
know, we have beautiful relationships with men we are in
the masajid try to come because this is the place that you raise
Allah. Accept
Allah, accept Inshallah, and have that beautiful relationship with
each other, especially, I'm going to say at home with your own close
poor but your close ones, your wife, your children, all beautiful
relationships with them, because tomorrow you will no longer be
there and your reflection will be in there. Elder used to say, my
boy, let me tell you something. People will see you through your
kids.
I can be a molar now, but if you look at my children how they are,
you will know exactly your
cheap guys.
I see but one of the smile on things if they you
will
see yourself in your children, but if you nurture them beautifully,
you don't tell them and teach them.
About the Hadi and the history of the Prophet sallallahu, Sallam in
the Quran, they abide by that. What will happen? They will have
good character. They will say, Allah, will Aqaba know one thing,
I must say,
and
that is hard work. That is hard work because it's not always
standing out the way that we want it to be. Don't think that
mashaAllah, you loving your pious life and you try and your best,
there is not going to be challenges, and that is why you
are not allowed to hire and speak either others. You might look and
think the thought and do that, because if I do that, it might
happen tomorrow in my household, you know, let me not say that
Allah guide them and protect them inshaAllah and make it easy for
them. That is how we be, how we are as believers inshallah. So let
us count your mouth, use what we've cultivated and work on top
of that inshallah and gain guidance of paradise. There's just
one more time I want to remind us we have two of our brothers and
fathers, uncles and grandparents in our area that has been abducted
by the name of Mr. Islamaraja and Muhammad karibuha, because Allah
through our Qatar program last night, whether it was Qatar or
not, Allah knows, basically, if I look at the weather, it's really
beautiful. We spoke about it last night.
Allah knows best may do. We found Qatar last night.
I mean, right, and if it is, we definitely made to offer them, and
many, many people say Inshallah, they will be returned safely
inshallah to add it to their family
soon.