Waseem Hendricks – Jumuah Lecture
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The upcoming calendar for Islam is emphasizing the importance of managing time and finding the best places on earth. The negative impact of waiting for people to enter certain time zones is discussed, as well as the importance of avoiding evil behavior. The speakers emphasize the importance of following Allah's law and following his guidance, as it is the best way to be a part of the community. The African Muslims agency's efforts to build schools in Lebanon for children is also discussed, along with a potential candidate named Harem and a school of excellence in Lebanon for children. The speakers encourage attendees to show their faith and reach out to the community.
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In
The
moan.
La, Do Allah
I
greet everyone with the most beautiful greeting, the greeting
of Islam, as well as The greeting of Jannah, Asmaa, Allah barakah,
Allah, Allah Subhana.
Allah, Allah, Allah Subhanallah, once again, Allah subhanahu wa
gather us. But how Allah subhanahu wa gather us at this beautiful,
auspicious time of Johan and we realize today that this is the
first Friday of the new year of Subhanallah, the Hijri calendar,
and how fortunate we are as believers, that we can once again
reflect that, how our lives can improve better than it was
yesterday.
If we are conscious of Allah,
many things go through our minds. If we are conscious of Allah, if
we are of the heedless, then Subhanallah here upon year, our
lives will be the same. We will be caught up in this worldly life
that we call it the rat race, and we will run after only but the
creation and the favors of Allah subhanahu wa, forgetting the
Creator, Allah Jala jalalu.
Now this is such a beautiful month that Allah subhanahu wa taala,
messenger and Mustafa Alayhi Salatu was
saying that this is the month called Shah rumahil buharu. What
is different
we have suffered Rabih al awwal, Rabbi Al Ahn Jamal, Ullah Jamal
das Danny Raja, shahbaam, Ramadan, shahwal, mulkja,
but very beautifully, rasulallah. Let this particular month's month
stand out by calling it shahru Allah.
This is the only month that Allah subhanahu wa taala messenger
attached directly to the name of Allah.
Now, there are many things, Jamaat al muslime that Allah, Subhanahu
wa
Subhana wa Taala has made great the angels. But among the angels,
they are the greatest of angels.
We have
the ambiya,
but among the ambiya, they are the Ulus,
who stand out amongst the Ambia, and then among the ulu, we have a
cream of the crop, and Mustafa Allah,
then Allah subhanahu wa created many Uma, many nations, and then
Allah subhanahu wa the
best of Uma, the best of nations. Allah subhanahu wa calls it to us.
Allah subhanahu wa.
Once again created man, but Allah subhanahu wa,
out of man,
indicate to us, in many places, again, coming up the best of Allah
subhanahu wa, and
then we have
Zaman time,
right? The best time
is what
the best places on earth is started places we find the best
places, many places it exists. But the best places on earth Rasul saw
a mention is the houses of Allah, and
then we find time. Now, in time, Masha, Allah, there are many
Quran,
there are many explanations. Why? Because this is where Allah,
Subhanahu, WA favors as the boast. And Allah wants us to look at our
time and to manage our time in such a way. Why? Because Allah
looking for excuse upon excuse upon excuse to forgive us as
man being
described by Allah subhanahu wa as weak.
Allah subhanahu wa taala says, My servants, when it comes to time, I
did only make one time great. There are many times that I want
to give you, and Allah subhanahu wa did not give it at once. Allah
subhanahu wa spreads it out, and Allah says that we have created
you. And there are 12 months in the
year, 12 months Allah subhanahu wa has created. In Allah subhanahu
wa, come from Allah and
all Abu
Asmaa he
Fallon and Raja these four months are sacred, and Rasulullah
sallallahu mentioned to us be careful what you do with these
months.
Be careful what you do with these months. Allah, multiply for you
your rewards.
Don't be heedless. Take note. Do a lot of good,
but the Bucha to the Mahmoud,
the opposite of this understanding that if you do bad, be careful
what you do, because that bad also will be multiplying.
Allah calls this month,
the month of Allah.
How attached are we to Allah? How is our connection to Allah? Allah
subhanahu wa wants us to take this month and to make the most of it.
Why? Because if you do this, you will have relationship with Allah
subhanahu wa. And
there are many ways that we can find by having this relationship
with Allah subhanahu wa
and the first how we should build the relationship with Raqqa is
through his
it's through his Kalam Janda Jalan Rasulullah wa alayhi wa sallam,
says in a hadith,
then the
best of speech is the speech of Allah.
You connect yourself to the speech of Allah jalalu. You try to
understand the speech of Allah jalalu, your life will become
great. Your life will become honored. Allah will grant you
Islam. Allah will grant you dignity. Allah will grant you His
pleasure, and Allah will grant you success.
This is Allah, Subhanahu wa taala.
How much time do we spend with the kalam of man?
There are many motivational speakers out there. If they speak,
we said, wow, Allah, that
is so profound.
The statement of man today is so profound for us.
But try to equate that statement with Allah,
you will see the inferiority mistake,
because Allah subhanahu wa is the only being who spoke
man can mention something now might be relevant today. Tomorrow
is very insignificant.
We take words of the past. We can take lesson from it. But does it
mean that it will really suffice for us today.
No, our times have changed. Things have changed. But take the speech
on Allah. Will it be relevant still today? Most definitely be
Ashe.
We are Muslim. We cannot even think about Allah, subhanho wa
Taala not being able to be, you know, a.
For us today, it's impossible.
We know that it will benefit us, but somehow,
the connection to kalaam of man is more than the connection to the
kalam of Allah.
So here's the time
Allah is reminding us and giving you bye, Mama.
What does Muharram mean?
It means Allah is forbidden us from certain things. What is Allah
forbidden us in this man, Forbid fighting,
forbid all negative things. And what should we focus on all
positive things?
What is Muharram also called,
but what is that sick section? Section all day around the Kaaba,
it's, is the Haram right derived from the same rootedness? If you
enter that precinct, what happened? No haram. You didn't
think of haram. Because what in that precinct? Any haram multiply
looking at the Kaaba 20,
looking at
haram
in the precincts of the Canada times 20. That's how we should
look at
it. Is the Haram Sharif, right? It's the noble precinct.
Similar to this, it is
forbidden for us to do in this month. You know, what is so sad
that even the time of jahidiya, the Quraysh understood this.
Why has this month to give us a, you know, an understanding? Why
these four months
because of a certain ritual that took place at that time. What is
it? It is Hajj. People perform pilgrimage. Even in the time of
January, they went to the car. They circumulated the caravan
the Quraysh tribe. They were waiting for the people to enter,
and they supply yesterday. They used to wait for them with water,
which water? Zamza?
All these things happened,
and they understood, and who were this? People worship idols,
people that did not believe in what Allah. They understood
in their sacredness to this month, to these months, we should not
wait haram. We should not do evil. We should not follow our worms and
our fancies. What we should do is stick to the law. And what is the
law? We should not commit evil and sin in these months, because it
will be multiplied for us. These are people with no demand in
understanding, no fighting.
People enter. And this is why, because, when it became people
prepared themselves for the journey of Hajj,
so nobody could come and be highway robbers. Take that care of
it. Fight with him. No war can take place. They understood this,
right. There must be safety, I mean security for it,
then they could go, and they could come and then go hijab. Why now
fighting? Obviously, it's now the time for them to perform the hajj.
And
then obviously after that, when Hajj is done, they need to safely
return to their places. The month of Muharram was there. Look at
this,
people with no Imam,
people worshiping idols, understanding the law of Allah
today, we are the believers. We
started off by saying, amongst the Ummah, they are no greater Ummah
than the ummah of some Allah.
How proud we should feel of calling ourselves those who are
the followers of Muhammad Allah.
What are we doing?
What are we doing to ourselves?
What are we doing to our brethren, to our brothers, to our sisters,
to our families, to our mothers, to our fathers.
You bet.
Angel worship. Worshipers could understand Allah's law.
We who claim to love Allah the most,
we who want to be the dearest that closes to Allah, Subhanahu
wa vi say Al Hadi,
it is the speech of Allah and rasulallah goes on by saying,
buchay, had you Muhammad Al Rasool, and the best of guidance
is the guidance of the Prophet, Ali salatul, Salah,
what Muhammad, sallAllahu, Sallam teaches
and follow my son,
do your rituals, and I am doing my rituals.
How many of us abandon the Sunda of Rasulullah? How many
of us, as the Prophet sawsna, if the time of facade?
Out.
God, look up. You gotta look down. You gotta look right. You gotta
live. How are you doing? Revive the Sukta, Masha, Allah,
whatever Allah grant you the reward of 100
Johanna,
removing a stone out of the pathway because you fear that your
brother or your sister might be hurt if they pass through this
valley or through this alley or pass the street.
What do we do?
Obliviously, we look at everything that can harm our brothers and
sisters, and we just will pass remove the harms of the road for
your brother and sister. When we do that, we will revive a Sunda,
one who will receive
how
easy it is to be a Muslim, how easy it is to gain the reward from
following the guidance of Muhammad Sallallahu.
What did Muhammad Sallallahu, Sallam is the people of that time
do
something that
comes to mind
that zakat,
oh,
don't start with this is now a note. Don't start with zakat.
They used to execute this during the
month of Allah
Muharram.
Rasha Allah, the name sha Allah
Ramadan.
Ramadan Ramadan Inshallah, the month of Allah
Muharram. You know, it piles up and it piles up and it piles up.
Why? Because we're running away from our responsibility. We're
running away from something that does not belong to us.
Zakat is something we need to understand. What is zakat? It is
purified our meaning that that extra is not mine. I need to give
it to those who we belong to.
But zakat, somehow we're looking for loopholes everywhere, yeah,
but no, not even easy. You know that that year, another, just
before that year, I decided I want to buy something. Just a pack of
the sweets of my daughter now is no longer than yourself.
For you, brother or sister. Allah subhanahu wa, exactly what we are
doing.
Allah does not sleep, and Allah does not slumber. Technically,
you use the money, and technically now you are not at limited to pay
zakat anymore. And what was your need?
What was that intention? You only wanted to get out from paying
zakat? Yeah. Do we understand the reward for giving zakat? That is
another topic.
Yeah.
People executing the Zakat during the month of Allah, the month of
Muharram, as well as the month of Ramadan mashaAllah.
How many of us thought about that? You know? Am I? Maybe you know, of
those who need to look at my world? And yes, I have limited
down to pay my zakat. So Inshallah, taala, I will designate
certain people that I will take out of their difficulty, not only
following one meal, but Inshallah, take them completely out of their
difficulty, if I can, if I if Allah has given me the ability to
do that, ya, Allah grant us all the ability to do that, just to
take people out of difficulty, we won't understand. I came across
two beautiful quotes as I was preparing the juman. The first
court is of Hassan Al basil. He mentions that, make lot of
friends, you know, make a lot of good friends.
Be friends, good friends, because good friends will look for you,
the day of qiyabah,
when they enter Paradise, they will ask Allah,
and then Allah, Subhanahu wa tell this and go into the alfayan and
go and take everybody with lalia Allah in their heart, and take
them to Jannah.
This is what Allah give to
to a good friend.
We know Rasul says, you can
make our
life so easy
and just give good friends, friends that remind you of Allah.
And when we say faith, remind you of Allah. You know, sometimes a
friend telling
my brother you don't
do that. Say somebody left when afraid, tells you something. Look
at him with love and say,
Ya Allah, have good good faith. Shukriya, walk.
God, he takes me out of my room and put me into noon. That's good.
That is not harmful to you. You might feel, you know, Oh, this
guy's been reminding me better so than Allah doing at the devti. Let
us understand that I'm cross with
his brother because he spoke of the truth.
Now what happened? I turned my back on him, and now what
happened? Now, I want to show you that
I'm
painted.
Let's
say
up a short way of arrogance turned into riba nabiba, you carried on
with the story we where is it going to stop? If you understand
whereby all we could have
done
is, yeah, my beloved
brother. Remand is beneficial for the believer. I accept this. You
will, Allah, say, so give me sha Allah, try to improve my life. And
through you, subhanAllah, I changed my life. So I will look
for you in the day of qiyama coming to the second quote, Ibn
pay him Jose, he says, I He says,
The day that
Allah tells you to enter Jaipur
and you don't see me, please ask Allah for that one Who gave you a
reminder, Allah, in this world,
just just to remind somebody, this is the importance that the Salaf,
our predecessors, they valued us. It is they give dawah. They gave
it to the intention, and Allah should accept it. And they used it
as a means that, Inshallah,
the good that I do now, it will serve good for me the day of te
ama, because that person that I gave a good word to,
he will think of me, and he will ask about me the day of teyama. So
I,
I'm reaching out to you, Miss Fatih, sad person speaking here
week after week. Subhanallah, if there's something at least, then
you can take away, ask about me, the dev, because, indeed, I will
ask about you. Insha, Allah. Allah subhanahu wa,
this is the purpose of life, once we look at life differently. You
know, it's amazing
Rasulullah.
For everyone wants to intergender.
Every single person must intergenerate. What is our dua? Is
it only me entering Jannah? There's something wrong.
We need to change our focus. Every single person I see, ever see a
potential chapter,
no matter who, how, what circumstances, no matter every
person I see, white, black, pink, dark, light, yellow, whatever
color the person, whatever ethnicity the person, what do I
see? A potential jagnati,
a potential someone who rasulsara cried for.
So I must make the effort to see that my brothers and sisters must
enter the doors of Jannah. And if I look at life in that way.
How can I still have enmity in my heart towards anyone?
How can I still possess I eternity my heart towards anyone which at
this time is haram,
hasta UL Hadi kalau, Allah makhail. Had you? Muhammad
Rasulullah? This is the guidance of Allah.
And I end up by saying, spend at this time in the Cause of Allah.
Mention zakat Zakai. You can give sadaqah, you can give Hillah, but
give this is the month of Allah. Allah looks, and Allah sees, and
Allah subhanahu wa Island keys.
So here is a project that we, Alhamdulillah, have undertaken
with Africa Muslims agency now Jamaat al muslimid, who was
Rasulullah.
He was an orphan.
He was an orphan.
How much care do we have for orphans today? My heart
dropped when I looked at 10 little, beautiful children that
came all the way from Lebanon.
They are Judea, Syrian.
Lebanese and Palestinian, no father, no mother, living a tent
coming into South Africa
saying that they're meeting their
parents. South Africa is doing well, especially Cape Town, doing
well for themselves by going out in the world and doing the great
work.
Masha Allah, and then the one child saying, Can you imagine,
I've never slept in the bed yet. Allah,
what should what does it do to us? We look at our beds and we don't
take anything. We just jump. Masha Allah, to sleep. Hear the child
look at the bed and say, Allah,
I've never slept in the bed yet.
Oh, eight years old, nine years old. Some are 16.
Subhanallah,
what?
How should we not thank our Lord Allah for what Allah has given us.
We can be then tomorrow,
believe me, it cost nothing for Allah subhanahu
wa to *, take it
away. We are nothing visible.
We are going to close our eyes tomorrow. We are deep, little
orphans that represent 1000s that are in the camps of of Lebanon,
they are reaching out to us. Alhamdulillah, African Muslims
agency has built the Aman school of excellence in Lebanon for
children that are in the elementary in the intermediate
phase. Right?
We say primary school here for us to understand, and
it cost them 16,000 a year per learner.
Rasalam, attachment to the orphan was one. Ya Allah, I am an orphan.
I lived as an orphan. I will die as an orphan. Ya Allah, let me
rise with the orphans.
So much attachment he had to the orphans. So I reach out to
everybody today, next week, Inshallah, we're not going to make
it difficult. Next week, we'll have a collection for the orphans.
Let us make unlike your Prophet Alisha that was in a crowd. I
front.
Touch the head of an orphan. You know,
because that head, let that head hand touch. You can't count that
hate, but it will be a testament in the Day of Qiyamah for you, and
it will ask for you to interject.
So try to eat, try to go to them, spend your wealth wisely.
Is very important. This life is temporary. We are heading I'm
looking at myself and I can't believe the age that I am. I mean,
21 is older. No, I still feel like I'm
12. Time goes so quick.
But when I looked at this orphans, it truly touched them. And believe
me, if you see that people touch it, their voices, their ways, that
the way that they conduct itself,
then the love that they want, the desire. And
when you look at them, you just love them. It's amazing. So
whoever's involved in this African Muslim agency, our Ansar, you know
our women, they are serving everything.
Alhamdulillah, our fortune to be as a community. You know one of
our community members,
they are hosting them at their homes.
So we as a community has been favored. Let us be a part of
ja Allah. Allah will bless you. You know, there's one child I
remember we were there last year by one of the functions of AMA,
and there was this particular portrait that has been auctioned,
you know, and when we looked at it, the significance to that that
pre painting was that the child that drew it could not see. She
was blind. And then the opportunity arised, and then she
could see. And she drew this because she she had sat down, but
she Allah gives Allah takes.
Allah makes no mistakes. Sometimes we look at ashamed Shaykh
Mashallah. This is the beauty of the creation of Allah. Everything
that Allah does is a reminder for us.
So let us be inshallah. Of those who are grateful, show our
gratitude. How giving inshallah and showing gratitude. Wala in
shakar, Azim and a Allah bless our Muharram.
May Allah grant this the month that we will change our lives and
we will gain closeness to Allah, Subhanahu wa Taala through truly
worshiping in some and we will truly be now in the following.
And
if we go in this group, Rasul said, there are two things that I
leave behind. This was a it is the Quran and my son let us follow his
son
let us read the Quran, because
that I believe leaving behind, they will never go astray, and
they will be of the successful ones. Allah grant us to be of the
inshaAllah, the successful ones, those who will walk through the
doors of Jannah, Muhammad, Salah, and those little orphans. And
Allah grant them to look at us, not to not to forget us, and to
ask for Allah, Subhanahu, WA, his people. They picked up in
panorama, they contributed to our education because currently, they
are running around. They have nothing we can contribute to them
to get better their lives is the education for them to become
leaders of tomorrow, for them to become of those who will do good
tomorrow and not to forget where they were, because they will give
back into their camps to assist, aid for them to get out of their
difficulty and to be placed in their ease. Inshallah, to Adam,
may Allah grant us to be and to have a.