Waseem Hendricks – Lessons From My Recent Journey Yemen
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About our lessons that we have learned from
this beautiful journey that we undertook.
But, truly what it is for us, it
is for us to reflect
about the bounties that Allah
has bestowed upon us.
And how we saw how Allah
has mercy and his rahmat and his barakah
and his sakeena,
it descends upon a people who Rasulullah
alaihi wa sallam made dua for.
Yesalallahu
alaihi wa sallam
said that Allahumma bariklana fee yamanina wafishaaminah.
It is a prophetic dua and truly when
you're there you witness that dua of the
prophet alaihi salatu wa sallam.
When we entered we could see the barakat
on these people.
We could see that there is something different
about these people.
And then you realize how fortunate you are
with all the niyam and the favors that
Allah has bestowed upon us.
How you thought that you know what poverty
is and then you look at poverty in
the face and then you say, That
truly all things and praises are due to
Allah
When Allah mentions 31 times in Surah Al
Rahman,
and which of the favors of your lord
can you deny? Truly it becomes manifest
a manifestation
when you look at these people that truly
Allah has favored us and how can we
deny deny those bounties.
We are living in a beautiful sateek town.
But Jamaatul Muslimen, we need to
fulfill
that beautiful statement of Allah when Allah mentioned
called
That go and travel in this earth. Because
only when you travel you see the bounties
of Allah
You see how grateful you should be as
a human being.
How grateful we should be of people who
possess
possess this beautiful quality called iman.
Allahu Akbar how beautiful it is to possess
this status and rank being called among the
Ummah of Sayna Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Things that you don't realize when you see
it in the face all the time. But
when Allah
place you through a trial and through a
tribulation then you realize, subhanAllah,
you know, when I had it I was
not grateful.
Now it's snatched away from me, now I
regret.
And that is the Umayyadz al Khasey, speak
come out of the Talat.
Regret comes very late. Once it's already down,
gone, now you regret why did I not?
If only
if only I did it like this. If
only I could do it again.
That the
word and clause called if only.
It opens the door for shaitan.
It opens the door for shaitan.
We should not be of the people who
say this all the time: 'if only I
could get another chance, if only I could
have done it different.' That is not the
way of a believer.
So my journey, Jamat al Muslimen,
it started off so beautifully
that Allah
accepted
and my heart yearned
to be in this blessed lands for over
5 years.
And when it started to become extremely strong
was when I read a hadith of the
prophet alaihis salatu wasalam where Allahu ta'ala mentioned
that if you
are not visiting the holy lands
5 years apart from when you first went
then you are a deprived person.
So when you visit the lands of Allah
Ta'ala, the holy lands of Makkah and Madinah,
then in your heart should be a yearning
to go back.
There should always be a yearning to go
back and I did not realize
the magnitude of the statement.
But when I went I understood.
I understood what Allahu Ta'ala means because every
experience
in the holy lands are different.
Being favored by Allah
Alhamdulillah
5 times
I've been to the holy lands and every
time you go it's a different experience. And
all of us who have been more than
once we can testify to that.
But the holy lands is a place
that
softens your heart.
It brings you closer to Allah and
it grants you
that sense of
relief that the calling,
it came.
I'm here.
I recite Labbeik. Allahumma
Labbeik.
Oh, Allah I'm present.
And Allah ta'ala
respond at the time
when you read out these beautiful verses.
I hear you. I am present
and I'm pleased and happy to have you
here. Allahu Ta'ala mentioned,
where is this? At baytul laiil haram.
At Allahu Ta'ala's house.
At the Kaaba al Musharrafah.
And then you meet and you go and
you
come in the presence of
the best of Allahu Ta'ala's creation,
whom when you visit him,
it is as if you visit him in
his lifetime. SubhanAllah.
You know,
greeting the Rasulullah salaam
it ignites
something
within.
It shows you that you can do better.
It shows you you know, it's just like
a a a recharge.
You know, when you plug in your charger,
you see how that red,
when the battery is flat, starts to tick
and then it becomes green and then suddenly
you see 100%.
Allahu Akbar.
You know, that is how you feel, you
feel energized.
You feel, You Rabbi, I can take on
the world.
That one is within me now, I want
to go and spread the word of Islam.
Why? I've been re energized.
I visited my habib
The calling was there, Allah accepted it, and
your tears started running out of gratitude to
Allah.
And jamato muslimin,
showing gratitude
proves that you are wise.
That's that's that's that's word that should be
cast in gold.
Showing gratitude to Allah
is a manifestation that you are a wise
person.
Luqman
is called the wise. Why?
Why is Luqman called the wise?
Because he understood that he need to show
and how he showed gratitude to Allah.
So if we are going to show gratitude
to Allah,
it's a sign of wisdom that Allah
has blessed you with.
Allah is clear in your statement
that if you show gratitude, Allah says I
will increase you, but
it doesn't stop there.
But if you show ingratitude,
if you are ungrateful,
then Allah says, his punishment is severe.
Allah look how Allah
connect Allah's punishment with being ungrateful.
And Allah has created another statement where Allah
says,
that insaan,
the creation of man, they are very ungrateful.
Our Lord, Allah reminds us that we are
ungrateful people.
But Allah says, but be grateful and you
will see how I will increase for you.
And be ungrateful and you will see how
things will be snatched away from your life.
Barakah will disappear. Rahma will disappear. You will
have pains and aches, and you will be
in distress
and depressed in this life.
Allahu Ta'ala mentioned. We have a life of
depressed depression.
May Allahu Ta'ala protect us from that. Ameenah
ur plan. But what does the holy lands
do? And this is our first encounter with
the holy lands.
As we entered Madinah first, Allahu Akbar greeted
the messenger
go
and made ziyarah,
you know, witness the hood and witness all
these beautiful places
where the ashab surrounded the messenger
and
you know you have that sense of tranquility
and peace and you feel that, subhanallah, how
I wish how I wish that I can
see my messenger, salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
And you only make dua, allahu alayhi wa
sallam, and you only make dua alei, allahu
alayhi
wa sallam. Some people go,
you know, with different intentions and when they
go there it's actually just a holiday.
It's actually just a holiday. Allah protect us
from this. But some people go with intentions.
Some people go with niyat
and some people go with goals, you know,
what they want to achieve.
And Alhamdulillah,
may Allah allow us of those who achieve
those goals.
Mignion, one of the people that traveled with
me
mentioned because of this journey Allah opened up
the way for him that he could witness
the mission
He could see the Rasool Allah.
Allah allow us all to be of those
who witness SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. How many of
us yearn every day for him SallAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam? Oh Allah allow us to see him
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. But how many of us
yearn to see Him salallahu alayhi wa sallam?
How many of us every day have this
pain and ache in our heart? Oh Allah,
I want to see the Messenger.
I want to see Rasulullah
I want to witness him because witnessing him
in this life means that his shafa'ah will
become incumbent upon us, the day of qiyamah.
He will ask about you and me. Oh
Allah that wasim,
he can't go to Jannah.
He saw me in his dream.
And when we see the prophet in the
dream, what does he say?
Whoever sees me in a dream, the prophet
say, he did not see me in a
dream. Here, here he saw me.
Allahu Akbar Allah allow us to see the
messenger
This Amin should have shaped the masjid.
May Allah allow us to see the Messenger
This is your beloved and my beloved you're
speaking about.
I'll give you minat say Amin for that.
How we have sacrificed for you and I.
And then SubhanAllah we travel from Madinah
with a heart full of pain and ache
again, because we are leaving the messenger of
Allahum Assata'ala, but we are going to a
place called Makkah,
A place where Iqra bismarabikal
ladi khalaqal
insana min alak.
These were the first words
and the first of the kalam of Allah
that has been revealed upon Sayyidina Muhammad
salallahu alayhi wa sallam. And we witnessed this
beautiful place.
And every time you look at this beautiful
building standing in front of you called Baytullah
Al Haram, the Kaaba Al Musharrafah,
you know, it brings,
first of all, a sense of feeling
that you can't describe.
Every day we make salah,
and what do we say?
Standing
in the direction of the qiblah,
of the Kaaba. That's our Qibla. Right?
So now I'm standing in front of the
Qibla.
No, mister
now here's the Kaaba.
Kaaba in front of me. So how do
you make salah here? You need to look
at the place of
frustration.
And you make salah, and you focus, and
Allah is in front of me. And Allah
is watching me.
But when I'm at the Kaaba, I don't
look down. How you look down?
Here's my kimla. Here's my Kaaba. You look
at the Kaaba.
And the magnitude and the greatness of the
Kaaba,
it grows on you, and you can't help
but to shed tears.
This is the very place where Ibrahim
and his son, Ismail,
alayhim as salat wasalam, both of them came,
and they started building this great beautiful building
standing here for the sake of Allah.
And we circumambulate
this
building here for the sake of Allahu Ta'ala.
And remember, we don't worship the Kaaba.
The Kaaba is of the sha'ir of Allahu
Ta'ala. One of the signs of Allahu Ta'ala
is greatness.
Looking at the Kaaba, is it big?
It is not big, but somehow when you
stand there in front of it, you see
the magnitude of it. It looks great.
It smells great.
To touch it is great.
To be in his presence is great. You
feel the greatness of the greatest.
How that place is magnified,
how worshiping there is different.
I make salah here, masha Allah. It's beautiful
making salah wherever you find yourself.
The entire earth is a masjid for us,
but making salah in the Haram,
something else.
Gazing at that Kaaba making salah, it's something
else.
Listening to the beautiful Quran being recited in
the Haram.
Allahu Akbar. It's something else. Allah, allow me
to one day lead salah in the Haram.
Allah, that's a dream of mine, and it
will probably only be a dream, but we
we have hope and wish.
Right? It's wishful thinking, they said. But we
have hope that Allah allow us just once
to stand in that Haram.
If Allah wants both Harams, inshallah, all all
3 Harams inshallah.
That we stand and we read saladi.
I must share a nice joke with everyone,
As I was standing in the haram, I
recorded
my one of my favorite reciters, Sheikh Abdullah
Al Juhani.
He recited so beautifully that day, you know,
and I sent the clip to many people
like we do on WhatsApp, you know, masha'Allah,
the imam of the haram al ruds read
so beautifully tonight.
And you know, as I sent it, the
one person responded to me, subhanAllah,
your dream always that you had came too.
I'm like, Allahu Akbar, what dream is this?
And he said, I did not know that
you stood in front in Makkah.
I'm like, me, Allahu Akbar, it wasn't me.
SubhanAllah.
How I wish, just beg to Allah, didn't
what happened. SubhanAllah.
But this person was, you know, he was
convinced that it was me standing. I said,
no, Allah. It was not me standing in
front. It was Sheikh Abdulaz Jahanni. I don't
know how he can equate me Sheikh Abdulaz
Jahanni. You Allah, that man, he is so
beautiful. You know? But Allah allows us, we're
striving and trying,
to do beautiful. Because when we read the
qalam of Allah, we read it and try
to read it in the best of ways.
It is not qalam of men, it is
the speech of Allah that we read. And
we want to beautify it so much that
it must affect all of us inshallah.
And Allah allows us always when you read
the Quran that it does not only affect
us, but it affects everybody around us and
everything around us insha'Allah.
So Mecca is a place of greatness, a
place where you realize that if I do
anything good here, it's multiplied by 100,000
times, the speech of the prophet and the
words of the prophet Muhammad
And that was amazing. And InshaAllah, we will
come back to Mecca again, and we will
come back to Madinah again.
Then we took our journey to Yemen,
to Tareem.
So,
If you if you speak about Tareem and
Yemen, your tears want to start running.
You know, because everything about that place is
amazing.
Like of the Haram and of Medina,
Yemen and Terem is just amazing. And I
promise you,
since the time that we were going to
undertake this journey to Yemen, challenges
was in front of us.
Challenge upon challenge upon challenge upon challenge upon
challenge. And it was very unexpected.
But inshallah we will not be able to
mention all the challenges. But one of the
challenges was that we were not aware of
what truly, you know, because
the previous time I went, Masha'Allah, I went
and it was difficult.
This time I went I was like prepared
for it but SubhanAllah, you know, being prepared.
It seemed like I was not at all
prepared for for the challenges that came my
way. The first thing is when we travel.
We travel
from jiddah, alhamdulillah, and we were travelling towards,
Sayyun
which is
an airport
and a place in Yemen
about a half an hour outside of terem
and from there we will take the transportation
to Terem.
And as we travel to Terem, subhanAllah,
you know we we we drive in this
plane, the Ahmadiyya airways,
and it's something ajeel.
You know when you're driving the airlines, you
can feel I'm sitting in the airline. It's
very nice,
you know. You'll be, but there are many
years.
It's almost like Hannibal Zatura.
You guys know Hannibal Zatura?
You know, those who know, they will know,
you know that. That croaky man, that croaky.
Now how do you get that croaky plane?
You know, but it feels like that and
it's like, hey, we're gonna make it.
It's like that, you feel like that, you
know.
We are now flying towards Yemen.
And Allahu Akbar,
you know, when we came to land in
Sayun,
we were looking for the runway.
The train is not runway. Oh, where we
gonna land? Hello, Akbar. You know, when you
see an airport, you see, like, buildings, beautiful,
masha'allah, then. Yeah. We come to land with
nice lights and all that. There's nothing. There's
a small little walkie chain. Oh, No. It
looks like I don't know what it looked
like. I don't know what you can call
it. And then there's like a small little
building there, and that is where we're landing.
And subhanallah,
Allah,
you favored us? We landed.
We landed safely. Alhamdulillah.
And now you must get out
of the plane.
And that's why, sir, Aziz.
As we got out of the plane,
a type of heat struck us that we
are not used to.
The first thing you are grateful for is
Allahu Akbar Shukran for the weather in in
South Africa.
Allahu Akbar.
It was so hot.
It's the first thing. But because of nerves,
we didn't worry about the the heat. What
we saw is we leave and hear the
other people immediately coming and trying to board
the plane. It's like, what is this?
Now we're going into the airport,
you know, into the building of the airport.
And you see literally
a place that's probably from the wall there.
So it's about here. That's the airport.
That is where they check your passport.
You know, that is where you need to
give your documents and I'm like, what is
this? It's around okay. We are standing in
a line, they tell us that side and
this side, and we come there. And then
they ask you, Where is your visa? They
ask her. I said, It's on my phone.
No, it must be printed.
Where am I gonna print now? I asked
the Yemeni printers.
They said, yeah, you can go outside and
print. Allahu Akbar, but I don't know where
to go. But then alhamdulillah,
Allah is favored, has to speak a little
bit in Arabic.
And I spoke to one of
the the the the guys at the airport
and he said, inshallah, jameel, haveib labas, you
know, it's fair if this Saba and I
have a little bit of patience here, we'll
sort it out for you quickly. Alhamdulillah.
And the person went and he made some
copies for all of us. You know, so
my question to the person that all that
everybody that was there, they could benefit and
they could receive their copies.
You know, because otherwise it would be a
problem.
Because now they don't want nothing electronically,
you know, they want they want the hard
copy. Alhamdulillah, it happened and
we were probably about how many people?
I think about 30.
36 people. About 36 people at the airport.
Now where do you get that? 36 people
in the airport in the whole airport, subhanallah.
We were the people there. Right? And then
alhamdulillah, it took us about an hour and
a half to get out there
because everything takes its time. You know, they
need to manually do things. Everything went worked
a bit different. And then we went through
through the next stage where normally what they
do is they put your baggage through. It
goes through, and then they will check now
if there's things in there. There's nothing like
that. You just walk through, Masha'allah. You pick
up your bag on the other side.
It
was strange.
And you go out and we thought we're
gonna have a liquor bus now, ikon bus.
And we're gonna go to Tareem and you
come out there and they say, where's your
bags? And they put your bags. You know
that, like, how they travel, they put everything
on top of the roofs. You know, everyone's
bags on top of the roofs. Well, why
it literally happened like that?
I was like, what is this? Allah, but
this is how we travel
beautiful. They put all our bags on top,
and then we travel to Terem.
Few roadblocks. What do you call it? Roadblocks?
Alright. Where they check and they need to
check and
your paperworks and all that. Allah knows best,
you know. And everybody in Tariq
and in Yemen, they wear shotguns.
Shotguns
with a pair of plakies, with a vessi,
and that is the guy.
I was like, what is this, Ajay?
A plakis
with a vessi with a mangachi and a
AK 47 on the arm.
And he looks at you like, you know,
who are you? What you doing here?
It's the look, Badi just smiles after that,
and there you go, masha'Allah. Amazing.
And alhamdulillah, we entered tareem on a Friday
on a jum'ah.
You know, it was hot that day. SubhanAllah,
very hot. But alhamdulillah, we managed to get
ready in time, and we will go off
to jum'ah. And who gives the Jummah?
Habib Umar bin Mohammed bin Saladin Bin Hafid.
Laila Illallah.
Now we sit in a Jummah.
It's extremely hot, and Habib starts talking.
And Habib when Habib almost speaks I don't
know who knows Habib, inshaAllah, if if you
don't try to to to familiarize you with
the person and listen to him. Alhamdulillah has
many lectures. He only speaks in Arabic but
there's translation available for every lecture. Alhamdulillah.
And just listen to what the man speaks
about, Allahu Akbar.
You know, that
just brought everything together.
I visited your grandfather now, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam. I visited the place where Wahid descended
upon your grandfather, and now I'm visiting the
grandson of the grandfather. And he's speaking about
his grandfather
It was, oh, beautiful, that jumu'ah, the tears
started rolling from from our eyes out of
gratitude.
And in Yemen it's the most ajeev thing.
You know, the first thing that I
reminded myself of is, inshallah, I would love
to take our community or whoever would love
to go from our community to Yemen. But
then I thought, la la la la, the
restaurants here will not be, you know, up
up to the standards
of the of the guys here in Plata
Clov, man. You know, Plata Clov restaurant, what
is that? It's like Navo, and it's,
La Rocca, and it's like a like a
place here in Cape Town. You go to
Tareem, you get the butachi there. No name.
No name,
He's standing outside the Sisi's restaurant.
Right? And he makes you a liquor egg
with a rooti and a egg with a
rooti and a egg with a rooti, He
put it together in a square form, and
then he sells it to you with a
liquor chips in a packet, a see through
bread packet,
that is now your your your liquor meal
you have, and then he gives you tea
also in the packet. That you can lick
a bite in small packet and you drink
your tea from that packet. So I'm trying
to visualize now, you know.
Right, though,
And
Yemen, and they look
as a restaurant.
I would eat, but they then I go
on. And you literally see he takes his
hand,
He puts the money, put his mouth. Mhmm.
He said, that's it. That's it.
I want the barakat.
You know.
And when you eat that, oh lord, you
eat so little that you fool, mashallah.
You feel the barakat in your stomach.
You know, and this is how it was
in Yemen. And this is literally about a
few years. If you say 60 years back,
this is how you live. There is no
house that is built the way that our
houses are built. It's all clay,
but it's beautiful.
You walk down the roads, it reminds you
of the time
of How people remind you of Allah, how
people remind you of Rasulullah
just by looking at the face. Assalamu alaikum
wa ta'ala.
Is it possible for me to do something
for you? Would you like anything?
The way that the people, the character, everything
about them wants to bring tears to your
eyes. And something that I can't be,
right, it's very difficult for me is when
elders serve me.
I can't my heart
can't take it. It. But literally I have
pictures of it. Wallahi, I thought this time
I'm gonna take pictures. When you see a
person who's probably 80 years old, 90 years
old, coming with a nice cup of cold
water and he serves you.
And how do you feel at that moment,
Astaghfirullah?
You don't know, must I take it, must
I not take it? How can such a
this elder is serving me but they understand
what it means to have guests.
If you are a guest we need to
fulfill our duty towards our guest.
And this is literally what they do, they
fulfill their duty as guest,
as the host to look after their guest.
And this happened throughout your journey. And you
know there's so much I can say about
going to Darul Mustafa in the morning.
You wake up with what?
In Yemen, how do you wake up? How
do you wake up?
You switch off your alarms.
You take
say the motion of your ears.
For me.
I thought you're gonna make for me tea
this morning. So that's how I go
in our life. Allah protect.
Allah grant us, protect.
But in Yemen, it's different. In Yemen, you
wake up. How? Yeah.
Allah.
Yeah.
Allah.
Yeah. Allah. Yeah. Allah.
Yeah. Allah.
What do you think of waking up like
that? Waking up with the greatest name,
Last Al Jalalah.
The most noble and greatest name, Allah's name.
And that's how you wake up. And they
will mention this about a 100 times.
And once that is done, then you will
hear the 99 names of Allah being recited
immediately after that. And what do you do
at that time?
And then after tahajjud salah, mu adkar.
And then before, sujur salah, mu adkar. And
then the adhan goes in between adhan and
and and kama mu adkar.
And then after the I kama, it is
a salah. And then after the salah,
it is
more adkar. And after the adkar, it's a
glass very early in the morning from Habib
Umar Masha'Allah up until Israq. And then you
get Israq and then you perform Israq in
the masjid. And then after Israq, it's more
adkarq. And the most beautiful part of that
morning is what?
Is 4 1000 to 6000 people standing up,
coming to shake every person that is present
in that hand, in that masjid's hand.
Looking at one another in your face and
say: Assalamu alaikum. Assalamu
alaikum.
Assalamu alaikum.
Allah ta'ala forgive their sins for as long
as their hands are together. How many hands
did you shake? 5 to 6000 people's hands?
How many sins has been wiped off? Allahu
Akbar. Allah forgive us Jairat Musim today. How
do we shake hands?
Assalaikum Assalaikum
Assalaikum.
Shake the hand. We are men. Fatmaqasahana
SubhanAllah. Hug one another.
This is beautiful
So all these sunan, you start realizing all
these practices. It is not something small. It's
something that these people think as being really
great.
And every day you can shed all those
wrongdoings
and sins and whatever it is. We try
to shed as many as possible. We want
tonight to close our eyes without any of
that.
Allahu Akbar. And this is what Yemen is
about.
You know? And then you go and visit
the ziyara places. In the Zambo, there's about
70 batteries that is buried buried in in
Tariq in Yamuna. Then we made the adkar
of the Rajib al Khaddad at imam al
Khaddad. It's maqam.
At the maqam of imam al Khaddad. Imagine
you read the
This
is the author. This is the author.
This is the author. This is the author
laying here. Allah is blessed him. Who is
a
blind man who is a who wrote so
many that
everyone till today are benefiting from fiqh. Whatever
science you want to think about, he wrote
about it. Let alone the purification of the
heart. These people's heart is amazing. You are
literally walking in the land of Aliyah,
in the land of Aliyah, in the land
of pious people, in the land of people
that give their
life for Islam. And I'm going to end
off because my time is long time, but
I want to end off with this. One
thing in Tareema I want to mention is
that Sheikh Mohammed, mashaAllah, he revealed
this this incident 2 incidents with with regards
to him and one incident with with myself
encounter I also had was that Shaykh Muhammad
went to a mawlid program in Tariq. Now
mawlid programs in Tariq is not like yet,
very long.
They read the entire mawlids, subhanallah, these speeches
and talks and everything that happens, and it's
hot. Allahu Akbar, it's very hot. So sheikh
Muhammad was this one no lead, and Masha'Allah,
you know, she became a bit fidgety because
your other moment was long, you know, and
he thought, ah, this moment is a big
chillak, you know, that's how we think. And
he looked to the right and he saw,
subhanallah, look at this youngster.
Just looking and enjoying and, you know, shutting
his lamps out, seeing the praises of Allah
and his Rasool and his ilaha. Subhanallah, you
know, here I am feeling fidgety and look
at this boy. He's just enjoying the moment.
And then what he did, you know, he
had a little bit of a gift in
his pocket and he took out in an
envelope
and he put it into the pocket of
this youngster.
And this youngster's eyes raised so big, you
know, and he took it out of his
pocket and he gave it back to Sheikh
Haman. And he said, do not ever do
this.
Sheikh Mohammed told,
the people of Yemen, they need, you know,
they need it's not that they don't need
it, but he thought it's a good action.
He was going to give a little bit
of salatah to the young boy. What did
he tell you?
No.
No akhira can be mixed with dunya.
Hajib,
You know, how you see the mentality and
the mind setting of a people that understand
that
what is to come is much better of
this that we have here.
So they did not accept. In another incident,
a more younger child playing around, you know,
he was also busy at a
gathering program, mashallah. And this Muhammad gave him
something and he threw the money at him.
Muhammad, he was a youngster, and he ran
to his father and his father came. What
do you think his father said?
Exactly the same thing. Hajji,
please don't ever do this. Never mix dunya
with akhira. We are busy with akhira. Yeah.
You come here and you give us money.
We don't want money.
We are busy with Allah. Yeah. Allah's presence.
Allah's presence in the heart. Allah's presence on
their limbs. Allah's presence on everything.
SubhanAllah.
That they possess everything
in their thoughts, in their heart, in their
minds. This is what they think about. They
don't think about dunya. And I end up
with my story. You know, the guy that
normally makes some nice eggs and we that
was like, that was a dish for me,
man. I loved it because it's light. You
can eat it, masha'allah, with the record teachers.
He's very nice, masha'allah.
I I just asked him not to do
that part, but alhamdulillah.
So
we decided that we would love that we'd
bought that night. I thought this is a
nice breakfast, you know, it will sit all
nice in your stomach, so I would rather
go breakfast time than I'm going to purchase
this for me and my and because Shivan
and his family was with us and some
students were with us, and we're going to
do this inshallah for breakfast. And then I
went the next morning and I saw, hey,
but this Buddha is not here. I said
okay. And then I went the night again
and I saw, but the Buddha is not
even here at night now. And the next
morning again, the Buddha is not here again.
I'll listen for that egg now. Subhanallah.
You know. And then I I thought I'm
going to ask,
you know, where is this Hajj? So they
said, no. You won't find it Hajj and
now you'll find it Hajj in the Dharam
Mustafa. You'll go to the Masjid.
I go to the Masjid, but why? I
asked him why. They said, that Buddha,
when he goes, when he works, he works
till he has sufficient for a few days.
And after he hears, he knows that okay,
I've got a bed to carry on with
life. Now I go to Allah's house and
I worship.
I go to other houses and I worship
till I, you know, broke now again.
SubhanAllah,
and it makes nice again. Make make some
money. Alhamdulillah
yourselves.
Go to Darul Mustafa if you have sufficient
for a few days. Again, I worship Allah.
Make shukar to Allah. Show gratitude to Allah.
How many of us are willing to do
that?
I own my own business. Okay.
You
know, the reality what I'm trying to give
over is, look at the hearts and where
the heart should be. The heart should be
connected to Allah and not to materialistic things
in life.
When we have sufficient we must say Alhamdulillah,
we carry on worshiping and thanking Allah for
that.
Not running more after the dunya and running
more after the dunya.
Although our life is totally different to Yemenis,
we will not be able to compete with
the Yemenis.
Allah has blessed them in the way that
they are. But strange that the Yemenis tell
us that we are blessed because we are
faced with challenges that they are not faced
with. And they make sure that they are
not faced with the challenges, but they also
make sure that they meet people like us
that can inform them about our challenges, and
then they can make dua for us. This
is how amazing that people
are. Allah, allow us soon insha'Allah to travel
to the holy lands. Allah, allow us soon
to travel to, Yemen insha'Allah and many other
places like Syria insha'Allah Palestine.
Palestine.
Don't forget.
Right? La marzukna salat and feel masjid al
Aqsa mohurunaziz.
InshaAllah, soon. It's coming. The victory is coming.
Liberation is coming to Al Aqsa inshaAllah. And
that should be the first place on our
hearts and in our minds that we want
to enter, inshaAllah. Ameer Allah. And mashAllah endow.
Don't worry my hudba ribhudba will be very
short inshaAllah ta'ala. So
I went back to Makkah and, subhanAllah, there's
much as I wanted to say. We made
our tawaf and our ummrah, Allah opened up
more for us. You know, we were so
close to the Kaaba and many things happened
with us as a group, alhamdulillah.
We were all walking around the Kaaba. I
was reading
when we
looked around and the entire
people following us was with us.
They thought, oh, this is called kirtanin karam.
You know, and they were filling in with
the
What I did, I phoned somebody come and
he pushed me in a wheelchair. Now you
know those guys in a wheelchair, how you
do the tawaf, you know, it's like flesh,
you know.
And we were off to Madinah to Manoa,
and I was extremely sick. You know, I
thought, and I said, 24,
Allah. Yeah.
And and then I started becoming a peace,
like, I will make dua. I'm
like, y'all know? Here's it now.
Making dua, Allah protect my family all over
them. I'm ready. I wanna close my eyes.
I see janatul baqi. They pop, pop, pop,
tears. I can't even move. But, yeah, there
janatul baqi. I'm so close to the sousa
salah. And then 2 days after that I
woke up and I was fine. I was
like, salah.
I had worked back in Cape Town again,
you know, worship Allah, Allahu Akbar, you know.
Alhamdulillah, Allahu Ta'ala gave me my health and
my strength. And then subhanallah what happened,
I felt in my heart, you know, because
2 days I could not visit the messenger.
I could not enter into the road at
my booking.
It was very heartbreaking because then you start
thinking is this a journey accepted?
You Allah, now you're broken, now you're crying
in front of Allah and now I'm walking
because I need to go and greet the
messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam now. You know,
it was Maghrib and then Shaban was next
to me. I told him Shaban, you know
what, it is almost time for us to
leave Madinah.
The next day we were going to leave
Madinah.
And I told him, we need to go
and greet the Rasul and he said I
am going to go with. But as I
walked through the Rasul,
I was totally broken. Here's my encounter with
our messenger.
What am I gonna what the how is
this? 2 days I was here, I couldn't
even enter you. You feel
there's no acceptance. But in my heart I
said, Allah one sign. Yeah Allah just one
sign,
show me acceptance.
Nothing happened.
And I am walking towards the mission of
salallahu alayhi wa sallam. And I make dua
and wallahi, you know what I thought about
thee? I thought about all of you.
And I mentioned as I walked to the
masjid I said, you Allah,
my people of Panorama
accept them all here. That they will come
and visit the masjid.
That was and strangely enough, I thought I'm
saying this out softly in my mind, it
start it actually went loud and everybody like,
oh, this is happening with this bibtaya and
I'm broken. And I'm speaking about you when
I thought about you. And this is why
I want to mention it because I thought
about the people of Panorama.
Allah must accept you and I to stand
there soon inshaAllah.
And as I came close to the messenger,
he was on my left hand side, just
say about
10 steps away, an uncle, elderly man came
running to me and asked me, where
is the messenger,
You know, is he behind the first door?
Is he behind the second door? Where? I
said, no, behind the third door. And as
I showed him behind the third door, I'm
looking at the door, I'm pointing
the the asgari, you know, the person that
is there,
standing. He looks at me and he tell
me, come here.
And he calls me.
And he opens the barricade only for me
and he closes it again. And I'm like,
me?
He is like, yeah. Allahu Akbar.
I shouted and I moved and they told
me, greet the prophet.
And I stood in front of my mouth.
Come of us, bless us. I love that
moment.
I can't explain to you the feeling alone.
Alone.
Allah accepted me to greet my nabi.
Just here, where as Gary tell me,
salemu.
I greeted Rasool, I greeted Rasool, I greeted
Rasool, I greeted Rasool Abu Bakr, I greeted
Rasool and
took my time.
And after that I left and what better
sign would you want for acceptance?
That was my last greeting to my messenger
Subhana Wa Salaam And there I plead, oh
Allah, that this is not my last, but
the next time I want to come, I
want to come with you. You guys I
mentioned. I want to come with this community
and I want to come and stand inshaAllah.
Ameen, Allah accept us all soon inshaAllah. Is
that not beautiful? Is that not a beautiful
ending?
That place,
Mecca and Madinah,
it was a place of miracles.
It is a place of miracles, and it
will always be a place of miracles. Whatever
you have in your heart, you find yourselves
on the soil of Mecca and Madinah.
Making tensions,
Inshallah, there was there's a lot more that
I can say, and I will say it
in the few
weeks to come inshallah. All I share all
these beautiful moments with everyone. There's just a
few announcements that I want to make inshallah,
and then we'll immediately go into our,
other.
So we have a 5 that is happening
with our youth, inshallah,
31st August, which is Saturday tomorrow at the
that is here in the Gudit area, arrange
on transport and drop off at 6:30,
inshallah, contact the persons of Arwaq or Shabab
for that in order to register, inshallah. Then
we have Madrasa Spring Family Funding, which is
next week, 7th September 2024, inshallah.
This is something that you must our children
are gonna we taught how we used to
run.
Mommy and daddy, you're gonna jump. Subhanallah.
Inshallah, we're gonna have some fun with our
kids on the 7th September.
11 to 3.
Inshallah, come and join us on that day.
Then there's also a lady's on the 8th
September. That is the Sunday.
But led by Mu'alima
Caster,
and the guest speaker on that day will
be none other than Mu'alima Farzana Indriks with
my wife, Please send your ladies, your daughters,
your girls,
all the females that then
join
this beautiful
activities that is happening at Masjiduba inshallah.
Then also, we have a marriage workshop coming
up. Right? Next week inshallah, for 3 Sundays.
It, starts on,
8th
It will happen here. And guess who's going
to be the speaker?
You guys know. That guy is nice, I
can speak like about marriage. Inshallah, come. You
know, for those who are married, those who
are not married, your children bring them insha
Allah.
It will be child friendly insha Allah. If
certain things are gonna be discussed, then you're
gonna ask the children to leave. Nah, I'm
joking, Shoaam. We're not gonna speak about such
things. But inshallah, we're gonna learn beautifully about
the rights of men, you know, the rights
of the the women inshallah.
Some advices will be given and shared on
that day, the 3 Sundays inshallah.
Now Allah accept all our efforts and our
sacrifices.
For the Palestinians inshallah, whoever's available inshallah, they
can make their way. It's also, the birthday
of my great grandmother today. May Allah brought
her the highest abode in Jannah inshallah.
And may Allah reunite her with us inshallah
in the best of places.