Waseem Hendricks – Jumuah Lecture 20220603
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Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah, enough, Madhu Minister, the one of
me to be. He wanted to walk him.
Mohammed
so
everyone with the
most beautiful greeting, the greeting of Islam, as well as the
greeting of Jannah, Asmaa, Allah
Alhamdulillah, thum Alhamdulillah, all thanks and praises are due to
Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, the One who created us from nothing,
As Allah, subhanaw wa Taala indicated, indicate to us in
Suratul that
where was Insan?
Who does insan think who they are?
Allahu Subhana wa Taala says there was a moment that nobody even knew
that you would
exist. He numin
Shay and Natura Allah, Jala jayal, you mentioned to us. And who does
insan think they
are? Insan was there that there was a period in a time that nobody
knew that they would even exist, Allahu, Akbar, and today, we think
wonders of ourselves.
We marvel our bodies, we marvel our strength, we marvel our
muscles and our skills, and we think that Subhanallah, we are so
wonderful, but Allah reminds us and cuts us short that it was a
time that you were nothing, nobody even thought about you.
And today, because of these actions from Insan, we find
ourselves in situations that we sometimes can't get out of.
But Allah subhanaw taala being the Lord of the world, saying to us,
who rahmat al I mean, as we send our choices, salutations upon our
beloved master say I Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi was Jamaat al
Muslimeen. He came and Allah mentioned that he is, he is the
example that we should follow and emulate. And if we are going to do
this, Allah subhanahu wa guarantee a success.
Allah, Allah guarantees a success. And look at incidences that is
happening currently in our lives. Because what is happening is
nobody's heart finds content today.
If you look, if you leave your house,
how do we leave our house today?
We need to be vigilant. We need to look to the right. We need to look
to the left. Is somebody not maybe waiting outside of my door. If I
send my child to the shop, there's a Wally. My child cannot even exit
his own boundary wall at his home because we are too afraid that
what if anything happened to my child, my wife is not at liberty
to go to the shop because they might just eat better,
leave alone the women, the men today, because of Allah's
blessings that Allah bestow upon certain individuals, we think that
we can take it upon ourselves, and we can put stresses on the family,
and we can abduct such a person, And we will get the world out of
it, and we will get our finance out of it, and we will get some
comfort for a period of time out of it. And we think that we'll
find comfort and tranquility. But Allah promises that Allah is the
most just. You can do as much as you want, but when Allah is going
to take us to task. Nobody else will be able to be there to
protect us.
So we need to look at our lives. Our life is in a complete,
descending and stressful,
look at what transpired within our own community.
It is whereby through what and Allah speaks about this so
beautiful. And we fall short of this every day, suspicion, one
that they suspect somebody from doing something. And mashallah in
the past, the suspicion was only suspicion and bad thought were
created in people's minds. But now, what it escalated to?
Up to vigilantism.
It escalated that by mere social media, by mere leading a message,
by mere listening to somebody and not very verifying information,
suspicion comes to mind and we will kill you,
and the words that is used is
come on. This, you know, kill them, Allah.
May Allah protect us. We need to verify things, everything that we
do as believers. We understand that this is the way of a
believer. We need to determine what is and truth is, and that is
why there's a court in Islam is called Qadha. You need to go to a
court, and there must be a judge, and you need to bring witnesses
forth, and if you are found guilty, then Subhanallah, whatever
the Haq is or the punishment is, that is what Inshallah, the Allah,
will be practiced upon and carried out upon the person who was the
perpetrator and the victim will then receive
sentences. Justice, justice. There's no justice, right. Such a
big word, subhanAllah, justice, which we also, we're seeking for.
But if we can just look at the situation, it was a man
who went up early in the morning, trying to go in and work for his
family, the breadwinner of the house went up, found himself in a
situation whereby remarks were made and the man is no longer
the horrified manner that the man was killed. That is another level,
even if a Muslim or a Muslim finds himself in a halal battle,
in a battle which is halal, we are not at liberty to do what pleases
our nafs.
We have to follow the instructions of Allah in His Rasul Salvador,
elders should not be harmed, trees, animals, Allah, the
conditions that is put forth, even when battle, what about what
transpired?
And what is the problem?
Our hearts are sick and ill, and it does not seem to find contempt.
And where do we look for contentment
in the creation of
we take tablets, we stress. People going to depression, some kill
themselves. Allah, for Allah, protect us. Allah, protect our
youth. Allah, protect our communities from this.
But we find that we are searching everywhere, besides, besides the
proper place to search for.
And you know what amazing Allah. Give us a book, which Allah says
there's no doubt.
Read this book, and you will find that it is what tibian and nikuli
Shay. It will explain to you everything that you need to know
and everything that you want to know.
Now, if your Allah and my Allah tell us, our Allah is telling us
that, guaranteed you'll find an answer. How come we search
everywhere else, besides where Allah instruct us and Allah guides
us to find answers.
This is the problem of today, Jelani,
look at Rasulullah acting to
his companions the
example of a non believer
in the battlefield
they dump and Their blood is higher for you now,
it is jihad.
It is a struggle and a strive for justice, for heart, for truth, to
stand up against oppression
and to do what is right.
So the enemy becomes halal for you, you are at liberty to go with
the conditions, and you can fight in the Cause of Allah. And
what transpired,
Anu Dasha rasulallah, he came to this state whereby he's got the
overhand of this person who's a non Muslim.
And as he raised,
as he raised this sword, what did the person do?
Person not that one is another generation, the generation of the
person now saying a
also,
and I'm not going to send the sahabi, he said yet. And
the sahabi took it at Liberty, at his own liberty, and said, You're
only saying that because I've got the overhand of you. And what
happened? He killed that person.
Sahabi killed the person. He.
And look at as far, the
one who was on the side of the sahabi, the
one who is the representative of the believers whom Allah is placed
in authority, none other than say that abuhamalus, it came to his
ears. And what did he do? He became extremely angry
when I say, we know there's not much occasion the Rasul became
angry.
I think we can probably count on our hands, two hands, how many
times the Rasulullah became angry, and this is one of the times, and
he summons the sahabi. And
as the sahabi came into the presence of the Prophet. He
reminded him and asked him, What did you do?
What happened and what transpired? Because he saw Don remember we
spoke about done suspicion. I'm not going to suspect. I want to
know your side of the story.
I want to know this person that was killed. It was his heart and
his right that his side of the story should have been heard.
But they gave him no opportunity. Similarly, in this case, he said,
I
took
it at Parliament. You know, you're only saying that because you know
I'm going to give you now, and may I kill you, explain to me what
happened in the battle, and I overpower he was now the one who
was at the bottom of me. I had the overhand of him, and then he said,
so I thought, I know, but this brother, he's playing fool with
me. And I, I chopped off his head. I killed
him. Respond in a very, very strict manner. Why don't you?
Don't, don't you just go to that corpse, open up the chest, take
out the heart and see if that person wasn't here.
Go
if this is what you determine as justice, why don't you open up the
person's chest? See, really, was he sincere, or was he not sincere?
Is that for you and me to decide? Allah, Allah, Sayyidina, Muhammad,
what the beautiful Deen we have. Jamal, what do we do? Our egos
gets the best of us. I won't say all time, but most of the time,
that is what is happening today. Alhamdulillah. You know for us, we
still have those times where our egos didn't count.
I'm going to repeat Alhamdulillah for us who grew up in such a time
where our egos did not come because if we had parents and you
had an ego,
well now you'll know how your ego will the E will go, they
will drop the E, and you will Go.
That was what happened. It was one time either of
you got down and there, off you go in mashallah with a tail between
the dog,
baby, right? That was good old days. Today, dynamics are
different. I'm not saying you
don't use basically. Why
don't
you just
say it? Maybe the
government will hear you today and say no, that's the only way
that it will work, because, honestly, parents are afraid to
eat the children
I just spoke to my students, I say this
afternoon,
they threatened or they threaten their parents today if you do
this, that if you do this. Masha, Allah, come try paninshallah,
I challenge my children to do that with me. You know, we are not
going to allow and tolerate that. Men need to become men again.
Leaders need to become leaders. We need to take our space in society.
And I'm not saying that I'm saying vigilantes, because we are talking
against vigilantes. We use the example from a sum. We cannot look
into people's hearts.
We don't have the right to cut it open even, and we don't have the
right because this is the domain of only the Lord of the creation,
Allah.
Allah is the One who can determine it. But Allah gives us a way out.
Allah gives us the creation of Allah, a way out. And what is
Allah? I first want to start with the second part of the verse,
Inshallah, with the Allah. Subhanahu wa says Allah be the
krillah. That's my indul. Second part of the verse, What is Allah?
Subhana wa Taala says that Abu.
Questionable it is you shouldn't question Allah says,
unquestionably, by the remembrance of Allah to hearts find
peace and contentment, and hearts will be assured right. Assurance
will be given content.
So every action that we should do is one.
It should be to please Allah.
It should be to please Allah.
I cannot just do
and every action that we do, we should remember. Allah,
please don't even believe if it is good. You do remember we mentioned
this ample time. Ask myself if what I am going to do now, is it
beneficial for myself and for the party? If it's not beneficial for
myself but beneficial for the party, don't do it. If it's
beneficial for the party but harmful to me, don't do it if it
benefits both of us. Rabbi abuna, I can carry on doing this
if I find out that it is not beneficial at all. Don't do it.
Why? What happened? I remembered Allah.
I will not challenge Allah.
I am not of those who will be able to bear the punishment of Allah
if we think like this, we will never, ever commit sin.
Imagine every action you do, ya rab,
Allah says in Allah won't be
able to be Allah Spanish.
Let me round it up, saying
if we think like that. But look at the condition of that.
The condition of this is amazing, the condition that Allah gives in
the beginning of the verse Allah says, A ladina am Akina, Allah
gives
a condition.
This can only work
if you are of those who believe in Allah.
This can only work if you are amongst those who believe in
Allah. Let
me bring something to my mind, that if a movement commit
a
career a
grave, sin. What happens?
Say that person's Iman leaves his body,
a movement, a believer, a condition is you must be
believers. Then we can find contentment. In Allah's decade, in
Allah's remembrance,
our hearts will find nothing but
if you are not a believer, it's not going to work. But if a
believer does this, an example that is made in the hadith is
Zina
Zena,
if a believer goes and he commits adultery at the moment that it
takes place this Iman leaves his body. There's no iman. Imagine he
died that time.
Some some people might think there's a firewall. It's the
worst time. Why? Because, in the act that is grave, it's filth you
cannot indulge in that
Allah means Allah. Messenger mentions now even your iman is
taken out of your cells, and if you die, let's take you to die as
a disbeliever. Is the example that's made.
May Allah subhanahu
wa, condition that goes with contentment of the heart is only
to a believer, because Allah says those who believe and those hearts
are assured by the remembrance of Allah, those whose hearts are
condemned in the remembrance of Allah is those that are the
decrease and questionably by the Dhikr of Allah, by the remembrance
of Allah, to hearts find contempt.
Our hearts cannot be condemned today because of what society
portrays, what the West is teaching us and our children.
Allahu, Akbar, what do children find? They bring comfort to their
souls today, sitting in front of a screen, having some screen time
and have own time with himself, with his game that brings
contentment to our children. To our children. Contemptu is when
Liverpool wins the match, but
if Liverpool lose the match, then they walk around. Some
people might
say, Mala, why you're always using Liverpool? What is the names of
other teams? I don't know, but I'm not really. Sorry you other teams,
I don't know, but I'm
not
really, but I'm saying that will bring content to our youth today,
they will be so happy that the team is one.
But you know what? If you look at the values of these teams, because
I told my students today, soccer is not the sport. Don't fool
yourselves. Soccer is a religion. It's a dean. And I actually
crowded this morning and tested. I said, let's have a test. You know
what the simple question I was, what year was our soul? That?
Said, I'm born
there was
like Mona. Was the yoga of the year of the elephant. I said, No,
give me a number. You were born
19.
You were born 2000 and something,
right? Were born 19 something.
Allah protect us? Yeah, we still ended, you know, the 20th, the
20th century, you guys in the 21st century and mashaAllah century
apart. Allah doesn't sound so far, right, but they couldn't give me
an answer.
The year
was born. So I said, Okay,
who's the captain of Man United?
Who's the forward? Who's the right wing, Subhan Allah? They could
give us something Liverpool. They even know the opposition. Also the
stats, how the women's players here looked when he first played,
how they hear the certain play look now amazing. I say you guys
are half feet in this team.
I see what Mala I said. That's a I'm telling you today. That's a
deal. Look how beautiful. You can remember all these things, but you
don't know your beloved nubbies. Year when he was born. What does
it tell you? So they all agreed, there's a problem. Is a big
problem.
And you know what? We are, the parents today, somehow we are
continued.
Somehow we Okay, man, let them watch the soccer merchant, or they
say,
empty, I'll go with him to the sac of he'll say, Oh, I'm cheering,
masha Allah,
but we're not cheering or
we don't feel
remorse in our hearts when our own children don't understand the
importance of knowing their life.
But even the the burnt ear of Rasul
Allah, may Allah protect our offspring, because they are the
future leaders. How can our hearts be at ease and content when this
is happening still,
we should fear our future, and
who was this? This was our HIV learners,
those who study the Quran, we teach them everything. You must
have a passion. You must have a relationship with the Quran. They
don't know the Nadi.
I said, I don't even want to go to the Sahaba,
because they won't know if you don't know Rasul Salam, where
would he even say increase in the others?
He is the hero of hero some Allah, Abu
Asmaa, I fear asking the question, even to our elders today, which
yoga that was, was our Sussan are born? Because we might also, we
might have known in the past, but we neglected, and now we don't
know. So it is a reminder for us,
born in the year 570
so if we didn't know now, we know the year of the elephant is Greek,
right? Rasul was born when Abu Hakim and he wanted to destroy the
Kaaba. And subhanAllah, the Vishnu Salam was born at a particular
time, right? So may Allah, subhana, Allah grant Asmaa. And
wrong. It's not the other elephant?
No, he doesn't. At the end of
the elephant was when Abraham came to the grandfather of the Prophet
sallam. He wanted to destroy the kala Correct? Yes, right. So Jamal
screaming. We need to know our history. We need to have a
connection with Rasulullah, because Allah says that the
believers are the ones that will find contentment. Why? Because we
will follow the instructions of Allah. This is the only thing that
will work for us, and this is the antidote for today's chaos in
society. The only problem with us is how we portray our deen, how we
who are the representatives of the ambiya today,
remember, you are the resource today. You are the messengers
today that need to and I we need to convey a message, and we need
to carry over that message in such a manner that people should start
to love Allah, this mission they would want to become of the
believers, because Allah plays that in the Deena, in Allah, in
Islam,
that the only being that will be accepted by Allah is Islam. So how
can we have content in our hearts, if
only 1.2 billion Muslims on the surface of the earth? And I think
there's about plus minus the stat says 7 billion people on the
earth, right? 7 billion so that.
Means we have a huge responsibility, a huge job, 1.2
billion, 7 billion. We have a lot of
Salah. Would not have rest. He would not have rest. He wants
everyone to be successful.
We cannot accept the people can be on a party. We cannot accept as
believers that people can follow haram, Allah, Akbar. So where do
we start with ourselves? By educating ourselves,
with dropping everything
right and put importance to Deen first,
having Allah in our path, first,
knowing that if I have Allah everything, and if I love Allah's
Beloved, Allah loves me, and if I have that, things will go right in
society.
People will see the happy. People yearn to heaven and Allah, I
promise you, you know, Alhamdulillah, I've studied in an
institute in a country as well, and I was, I was I was faced with
it with a challenge from my principle. I went to a people that
did not understand my language.
I went into a location and I was challenging. I said, Mawlana, how
can I go and give dawah to people that don't understand my language?
Mawlana said, you know, Ibrahim, alaihi, salatu wasallah Allah
gives him an instruction in the center of the desert. Then make
the calling. And you say, Allah, has nobody around who's going to
hear me. But Allah respond, it's not your duty. Your duty is to
make the call. Allah will see two people coming, mashaAllah, in that
season, people will go, in terms
they will go, I think we they say they open up, probably two to 3
million people this year will be again. I'll increase the numbers.
I mean, I mean, I them safe.
So it's not for us to decide.
And I, you know, a youngster, and I even think about and
okay, I was instructed by my teacher. I have to do it. I went.
I knocked on the first door, and Allah and I speak, I felt very
woke when I'm looking at this man standing in front of me with his
whole family, two little kids. And I said,
I'm studying at the room, and I was instructed by my teacher that
I should come and I should give that word to you. And the guy
looked at me.
He said, hey, the guys, we didn't understand. I say, Yes, Muslim
must come. I don't know how to I was, you know, very green at that.
The guy said, no problem. He shows me his thumb. He brings his own
family out. He said, Come. I
don't know what language it was. He come, and then he knocked on
the next door, and I'm talking, and he's in the second house came
out. What
is happening here? I don't think I said, I don't think the guys
understand, I'm going to the
masjid. The guy showed me third house fought out at the end of the
day. I couldn't go back with a card, and I came.
So I had to walk with him. I walked with them home, and I said,
all these people came. I said, No problem. Malala started speaking
in the language Rahima, one of the greatest scholars of our time. He
lived,
and he was a true dad,
Allah, but the way that he called Islam
Subhan Allah, you know, we need to wake up. This is our pain is and
we started talking to them, and what did they do? The most amazing
thing happened, the first time in our experiences, all of them
raised their hands
and they say, Allah
illallah,
Abu Asmaa,
Muhammad, you know how I felt?
No, no.
To
bring over 50 people here, and they say, You
know what I said, Mawlana, can I do again? I
want to go give that away.
And I went every weekend.
I went to gidawa in locations
and hunger that the people have for Islam, we will not be able to
fail. People don't know.
So may Allah, Subhanahu wa come through the eyes of Islam. Allah
grant us to find contentment in our hearts, because it is
difficult to take our children are being kidnapped. Our females are
being abducted. Our males are being abducted. You know, there
are so many things that we are battling with, but we have the
answer. Allah said today that the first thing is, you have the
condition. It fits you. You have Iman, and you know what this Iman
will bring. It will bring contentment to your heart. It will
bring contentment to your heart. Just do what Allah desires from
you. And if you do this, inshaAllah, we become the DUA out
of our time, and we speak about our beautiful deen and inshaAllah,
people will accept this. People will accept it. We.
Witnessed it,
and Inshallah, to Allah that will weigh heavy on the scales of the
day of the arm of us. Inshallah, Allah guide us as a nation. Allah
guide us is an ummah, because we are the representatives of Allah
in this messenger today. We need to get our act together, and we
need to do what's right the time.
We don't need to remind ourselves so close. So let us know that
Qiyamah might happen today, because today is Friday. Don't
think, no, no, we should be safe. Kiyama might happen today. It's
Friday. Another Hadith, it mentions that Qiyamah will happen
on hmoh on a Friday. We are currently on Abu imagine that
imagine the trumpet start blowing down. What's going to happen to
us? Allah
says we
will start running
like mad people, they will be like drunkards, and they will start
running around. What
will happen now the earth will gush out from what is within it,
and inside of once again,
like what is happening is everything okay, guys, it's Kiana
is everything,
okay, guys.
And then once the realization come, my brother, my
companion, I've got nothing to do what won't be here. Abi, my
father, my mother, but nothing to do with you. Masahipatihi wa nahi,
your children, your spouse. It will mean nothing to you. That
time the mother will deliver the child. Just then leave and just
she will abort the children out of the wahi concern. What am I going
to tell Allah now and then
only our deeds, every good you've done, Allah will
reward you for that, even as small as an atom's weight, and even
smaller than that, the naked eye can't even see it, perceive it,
Allah says, reward you for that good or bad. Justice will prevail.
Allah protect us. Inshallah grants
to be content. Inshallah contented life, just with regards to the
people that has been abducted and Allah,
Subhanahu wa stone, Allah, Be easy. This is a woman you know as
a mother Allah, how terrible it should be with their families now
they don't know what to do. They are helpless. May Allah make it
easy for them. InshaAllah and the perpetrators, Allah first guide
them for guidance. They didn't do the right thing. If not, Ya Allah
destroyed No, because we cannot have people like that in society.
In the past, we know what would have happened. Justice would have
prevailed. The law of Islam would have come in play. Today. We have
a justice system that is failing us, Allah, Inshallah, for us to
make changes, which is good for us as a community. Inshallah, people
work with Darwin, Alhamdulillah, it.