Yahya Ibrahim – Before Ramadan Ends
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The upcoming month of anniversary for Islam's actions is highlighted, with a focus on seeking action and making plans before events end. The speakers stress the importance of forgiveness and the need for actionable plans before events end. They also discuss the concept of Subhaness and the importance of healthy eating and being mindful of one's weight. The speakers emphasize the importance of forgiveness and mercy in building one's life and being a good steward of one's own wealth. A community event is also mentioned, with attendees attending.
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Always we begin with the praise of Allah.
We send our prayers of peace upon our
Nabi Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
We testify
with firmness and conviction
that none is worthy of worship on Allah
Azza wa Jalal. And then our Nabi Muhammad
salallahu alaihi wasalam is his worshiping slave and
final messenger.
I remind myself and you, Ustadq'u'llah.
And I pray that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
in the clothing of this blessed month of
Ramadan
as this month comes to a close that
we earn a higher level and a greater
consciousness and an awareness of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
That we grow to love Him and to
fear Him and to have greater hope and
measure
in His mercy that is eternal for us.
My friend that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accepts
from us the month of Ramadan that has
passed,
that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allows us to
complete the remainder of it with hayir and
mawaka and good health and iman.
That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accepts our prayers
at night and our fasting by day.
That Allah rewards us in greater measure than
we would reward ourselves,
Allahumma Ameen.
I pray for Allah
seals the month of Ramadan with goodness upon
our brothers and sisters in Gaza,
in Palestine,
and in places of dissension and warfare and
hardship around the world, Abadham Amin.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow all of
us who were assembled together to assemble
in his mercy and to depart from this
blessed mess with his forgiveness,
allahu alaihi'min.
Before Ramadan
comes to an end.
And these are words of advice
from my heart and your heart, for my
family and your family,
for my school and your community.
As the month of Ramadan
comes to an end, usually the last
Friday of the month is referred to as
al Jumu al Yateema. This is
the orphaned
Jumu'ah. It's the last one. It's going to
be alone. There's no other days
of Jumu'ah where the month of Ramadan will
be celebrated.
And this, of course, puts a pain in
the heart for those of us who began
the month of Ramadan seeking to achieve higher
levels
and find ourselves
sadly in a place where we know we
could have done more.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, although he is most
generous in his forgiveness,
most generous in his love and thankfulness
to to those who have approached it with
sincerity,
Nevertheless, Allah seeks of us to do greater
and greater effort
in seeking nearness to Him. And the law
says to the prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam
that the first chapter when that was revealed
to him,
as a believer,
that as your sujood increases you grow closer
to Allah.
And the recipe of success is not simply
wanting to do more, but it is actually
making a decision to do more.
In
imam al Hassan al Basawi, he would describe
the imam by saying,
It's not something you sit and say, oh
I wish I could pray more. It's not
something you say, I wish I could pray
to
every night.
Rather, it is a feeling of the heart
and it's demonstratable
by your commitment in action.
And that has always been the habit of
the twins of faith.
The 2 things that are inseparable that build
iman
knowledge of what is needed
to be done and acting upon it, actioning
it, and putting it into practice.
I hear, I've received the instruction,
I've heard the shirk, I've read the hadith,
I've learned of the prophet
habit.
I know what should be done.
And now I obey and commit into practice
before
Ramadan
comes to an end.
As the prophet climbed his mimbar, salallahu alaihi
wa sallam, in the month of Ramadan,
As he came up the first step, the
suhamba heard him say something uncharacteristic.
He's never done it before.
He said loudly,
Amin.
As if he heard dua being made and
the prophet asks for the same.
Ameen. 2nd step, said ameen. 3rd step, loudly,
said Ameen.
Jibreel had arrived
unseen to you and made 3 dua.
The one who lives
to find 1 or both of his parents,
1 or both of his parents in mature
age, in advanced
age,
And doesn't earn through serving them righteously
through connection of heart, through connection of finance,
through connection of words, through connection of care
and conduct,
even from a distance, the one who has
their parents in advanced
age still alive, 1 or both, and does
not earn Allah's forgiveness,
may they be cut off from the mercy
of Allah. And the prophet authenticated and said,
army. And then I arrived on the second
step and Jibril said,
and let the one who lives in the
month of
walayuqfarrla
and doesn't earn Allah's forgiveness
through acts of repentance,
through fulfillment of charity and zakah,
through standing in the depth of the night,
through recitation of the Quran,
through fasting
more than just from hunger and thirst, but
with the eyes and the ears and the
heart.
May they be bereft and cut off from
the mercy of Allah.
I said, Amin to this dua.
And then the third step,
And let the one whom you are mentioned
in front of them
and does not make mention of you by
asking Allah's peace be upon you. Salawatul durood
be upon you. May they be cut with
the mercy of Allah.
The month of Ramadan
is a month of trial.
It is a month of test for you
and your heart, your your home and your
family.
What conduct do you seek to bring forward
and what is your greatest aim and aspiration?
Our aim as defined in this hadeen is
to do enough that the mercy of Allah
and His forgiveness touches us.
There will be moments where we forget or
we make a mistake. Oh Allah, don't hold
us accountable.
Oh Allah don't burden us with what is
beyond our limits
but in the end
show us your pardon, remove our sins, forgive
us our
mistakes, and show us your mercy, oh Allah.
Istihal
and asking Allah for forgiveness
is done with the heart,
with the tongue,
and with the actions of each and every
one of us in our day to day
life.
Most of us at times we have forgotten
that istighfar is not just asking for forgiveness,
but rather it is a determined effort to
prove to Allah
that what I don't know of my mistakes
I seek to challenge them with greater good
deeds.
And the difference between tawbah and istighfar
for you and I which are partnered in
our life in the month of Ramadan and
beyond
is that talmah is because I know what
it is that I've done wrong and I
ask forgiveness for it.
Oh Allah, I was laid for salatul buh.
Oh Allah, forgive me for being laid for
this prayer. Tell me that to Allah, I
make an intention
not to do it again. I'm regretful having
done it. Talmuba
and nada mutawba in a anitubalimamitirmili.
Regret is the sign that you all repented
and have asked for forgiveness.
So it begins with Tawba. I know what
I've done wrong and I ask for that
wrong that you forgive it for me, oh
Allah. Istilfar is different.
And Istilfahr
is to cover the sins that you and
I make
not knowing their gravity
and the weight that they will have for
us on the day of judgment.
The things that we assume are not as
important as they actually are.
An individual, a man may speak a word,
a statement, a sentence,
something to the heart of another, something that
humiliated
another, something that slighted another, a word of
dishonesty,
a word of false promise, a word of
exaggeration,
a word of insult, a word of vulgarity.
A person may speak a word and consider
it minuscule,
not pay attention to its gravity,
its effect on the hearts and minds of
others.
But it will be an anchor that pulls
them under
into hellfire.
Istafaar,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, istawfiwullah.
Ask Allah for forgiveness. And they said, from
what, oh messenger of Allah?
He said, from sins that are blinding
you that you do not see.
Where it's something that you've done and you
didn't know it's
caused this effect in other people's life
that it is more silent than the footsteps
of a dark
ant in a moonless night.
And it occurs in my life and yours.
The month of Ramadan is the month of
repealing
what we make as mistakes from the dua
that we make in winter
And from the dua taught to us by
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Oh, Allah forgive me what I am confident
of, what I'm aware of, what I know
I've done wrong, and what I've forgotten, or
what I've misplaced, or what I didn't account
for.
Oh Allah, I ask you for forgiveness and
I return to you in Tawbah. I come
back to you seeking to be whole and
complete.
And from the aims of the month of
Ramadan
is for you to sit with your heart
and to begin to assess the reality of
your life in and outside Ramadan.
It is to begin to take stock of
what you view
and what your children consume on their tablets
and on their phones
with or without your knowledge.
It is to look inward in your household
and how you speak to your wife in
front of your children
And how you
emasculate
and share words of disrespect to your husband
in front of your daughter.
It is a moment for you to collect
the gravity
of the words and the statements and the
hear the hearing and the sight
that eats away at the tawakkah
of our home.
The month of Ramadan
is the month of Istkafar.
It is the month of return to Allah.
It is the month of asking
Allah to give us a new beginning.
The second
important deed before Ramadan
comes to an end
is to bring our family closer.
SubhanAllah.
The month of Ramadan brings us close. Even
if you don't want to be close, it
brings you close.
There's a time where everybody rushes to the
table to break their fast.
Outside Ramadan, maybe kids on the couch eating
and husband on the
everybody is distracted. The month of Ramadan comes
for the majority
of the time there is this desire to
gather in the early hours for suhoor.
It it is forced upon you by the
decree of Allah Subhadri wa ta'ala. And this
is really Alimam al Hajduk. He described this
hadith of the prophet
where he says that in the sukoon, there
is barakah. The barakah is that everybody comes
together. It's not just food, barakat from your
barn. It's that it wakes you up where
you would not have woken before the veg.
It causes you to sit with each other
and to prepare food for others.
And you wake up early for your children,
and it is a sadaqa that you perform
even though your job is to feed them.
And subhanAllah,
there isn't a piece of food, the prophet
says in the albinik adeem, that a man
allows
to be placed on the table that is
put in the in the mouth of his
wife and children except it is sadaqah for
him.
There is barakah in that family and togetherness.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he teaching us
how to eat and drink.
He would say even to young children, You
hudam,
kulbiya meaning.
Eat with your clean hand, your right hand.
Make sure you acknowledge this is from Allah.
Eat from what's closer to you, don't reach
over to others.
Allow
allow others to share.
Don't just choose what you want but allow
what Allah has given you, that it is
flowing in you. And don't eat from the
middle of the plate because the baruqah
enters the household in the middle of the
plate.
SubhanAllah.
As you sit together yesterday one of our
brothers, mashaAllah, after salawih, he was giving me
food that we brought for all the imam's
food.
SubhanAllah, I had some of it for sugoor.
Right?
So my fasting today,
it's an act that connects the heart.
Your family
is a central part of the message of
the month of Ramadan.
And the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam when you look into his Sirah,
he never
ever broke fast alone.
He never ate alone
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And if one of his wives did not
have someone to eat with her, he would
invite her into a house where he would
stay.
Come to the house of Aisha, we will
eat together.
This is the habit of the believers even
with our extended families.
One of the greatest aims of bawaka in
your life
that can give you a longer life. SubhanAllah.
All of us in the month of Ramadan
we look forward to Laylat al Qadr Allah
may
Allah give us the risk for Laylat al
Qadr
the prophets of Allah
he gives us a solution that equals
some of the things we ask for in
laylatul Qadr.
Oh, Allah.
At my hearing, in my sight, in my
body, oh, Allah. Oh Allah, keep my children
healthy. Oh Allah, keep my family safe. Oh
Allah, we make this du'a all throughout Ramadan
especially in the last 10 nights. The prophet
makes it very simple.
He says the one who wants to live
longer,
that their life is longer.
Their agenda was written at a certain age,
but they want to live longer, have more
longevity
of life,
both in material
and in length, in the health of their
life and in the length of their life.
Let them connect
Let
them be good to their cousins, to their
aunts, to their mother.
Let them be good to their extended family
before others. When Allah tells us,
your neighbor who is near you, it's not
near you physically.
Means from your family.
They're always the one who was put forward
in the Quran.
And then the other, the aljubah
means ajnabi. It's the one who isn't from
my family.
Your neighbor, even if they live streets away,
has more hapkta to you than the neighbor
next door to you if they are from
your household.
If they are from your family, from your
blood.
This is the deen of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
and shame
is upon us
where we find ourselves
in the month of Ramadan
and there is a family dispute.
2 sisters who don't speak to each other.
2 cousins who are feuding over financial
matters.
A son who doesn't ring his father for
aid.
And we stand and we ask Allahummafillellah
and the beginning of it
is in the correction
of our families and our loved ones.
The prophet, salawahu alaihi wa sallam, says, best
shirk give good news
for the one who wants a a mansion,
a household
real estate in Jannah
in the middle of Jannah, in the best
suburb of Jannah, the middle part of Jannah.
For who?
The one who connects,
the one who separated
from them.
And have the courage and the power to
forgive
the one who forgave you. We began saying
that the month of Ramadan, we don't want
to leave without earning Allah's forgiveness.
So Allah says to us,
Don't you forgive others
so that Allah will grant you his forgiveness.
May Allah
put coolness in our hearts towards those who
our hearts are aflame against.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
allow us to reconnect even if it is
with a message or a phone call or
a voice message or a WhatsApp greeting
to those who we haven't spoken to. May
Allah
allow husbands and wives who are having difficulty
with each other to sit on the table
with your children and put their past is
past
and begin afresh even if it is just
in the days of Ramadan, hoping
for greatness
to come thereafter.
Finally,
Allah's mercy is assured for those who turn
to him with the aid with the kani
bawlla ilaha illa Allah
haasamil
punmi with
an element of truthful sincerity that emerges from
the depth of their heart.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as you sit
in front of me today my dear brothers
and sisters,
I want you to have this bushwa, this
knowledge that Allah has forgiven us and Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala accepts the little that we
do
and Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is not a
vengeful Lord
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is not waiting for
your mistake
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not calculating
your sin.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the one who
says about himself as described by the prophet
salallahu alaihi wasallam.
Each and every night, not just in Ramadan,
but especially in Ramadan,
in the last part of the night before
Fajr, Allah says, Halmin Musta'afilim
fa'afilim that? Is there not anyone to ask
Me forgiveness that I forgive them? Alminta
even, is there not someone asking
to be forgiven for their errors that I
will forgive them?
Is there not one who wants more guidance
and more higher? Is there not one who
seeks me as I seek them?
And know that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
al Babur Kareem.
He is the source of righteousness and the
source of generosity.
He is alwafir,
al ghafoor,
al ghafar.
He is the one who is constant in
forgiveness,
who
is forgiving irrespective of how major your sin
is. He is the one who forgives
without resentment.
He is Ar Rahman Al Waheem.
So in these final
days, in the last days of Allah,
if all that you can muster
is to open your heart to Allah
and to just sit with yourself
and say, oh, Allah, give me a new
beginning.
Oh, Allah, I know I can do better.
Oh, Allah, guide me. As salatul,
it's established that you hear that imam saying,
kayir imamqoodyaalehin,
one of all the
let it be from your heart, Amin. Oh,
Allah, make me from them, You Allah.
Don't let me be of those who anger
you, meaning I know what's right and I
choose what's wrong.
O Allah, don't let me be from a
Bali, those who don't care about finding out
what's wrong and just wanting to live life
the way others live it without the care
for their astronauts.
Oh, Allah set me upon a Surat and
Mustaqim.
May Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, gather us upon
a Surat.
May Allah keep us and our families and
future generations
establishing the
and the believers of the day who's account
for all of our sins.
Allah. Allow us to live a life that
others can be guided through, You Allah.
Allah.
Oh, Allah, we wrong ourselves constantly, You Allah.
And if you don't show us forgiveness and
mercy, we will always remain as losers. Oh
Allah, grant us your mercy, you Allah, we
ask you to protect our staff and our
students, our parents, and our teachers.
Oh, Allah, we ask you to lead our
board and administrators and principal to that which
is leading and pleasing to you, You Allah.
We ask You, You Allah, Hamid,
to protect our institutions in Perth and Australia
and around the world that lead Muslims to
you, You Allah.
We ask you, You Allah, to allow
kasayah,
Allah. Oh, Allah, we ask you to accept
their martyrs in the highest levels of jannah
and to accept
those who have passed away in your mercy,
you Allah. Oh, Allah, we ask you to
care for the orphans in a better way
than their parents would have, you Allah. We
ask you, you, Muhammadu alayeen, to utilize our
wealth to be the shelter of the weak
and to be the food of the hungry
and to make us from those who are
compassionate
towards those we know and we don't know.
Oh Allah, correct our affairs and bring our
hearts in order, You
Allah.
Make our hearts of our children and our
loved ones, all of us upon your faith,
you Allah. Allahumma'had
been giving an iman and make iman beautiful
to ourselves and you, You Akram al Akramin.
We ask you, You Allah, to send Your
choices blessings
Humble yourselves to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Keep
your attention towards Qatibla. Turn your bodies completely
facing it. Lower your head in humility to
Allah. Keep your eyes at the place of
your sujood.
Empty your hearts of hopes in other than
Allah
Show your humility to Allah and consider this
could be a final prayer.
Just a quick announcement, inshallah. There is a
box downstairs that is for the collection of
zakat al fit.
This is under the direction of the school.
I'm not directly involved with it, but the
school, is managing it. The funds get banked
with the school, and then it gets transferred
to the.
If you can handle that earlier so that
it can be delivered on time, it would
be much appreciated.
I believe they will clear it out Saturday
night after the event. I think there will
be people who will be giving zakat al
fift. You can provide it there insha'Allah so
that it can be delivered as soon as
possible.
Tonight. Once again, the adhan is normally at
8 o'clock for us here, and we do
the prayers around 8:20.
But on
Saturday, will begin at 8 PM 8 PM.
We look forward to having you and our
families tonight and certainly tomorrow for the community.
Iftar, wajizat, umlaan nathirajizat.
Assalamu alaykum Warahmatullahi
wa barakat.
She was invited as well. Yes. Her book?
Oh, it will be a bit early.
Yeah. So the iftar will be 6, our
prayers. So if she arrives before the prayers,
we're not gonna do it we're not doing
it, so that they'll be seated here. The
VIPs will be here so they can attend
the talk and things like that. But everybody
will be here from 3. We're gonna open
it from 3. There'll be retailers.
They'll expecting a lot of people.
Yes. I'll let her know.
Okay. Yeah. 5. Even 5. Even 5. 30
that 6. Even 5. I would say 5.
5? Yeah. I I would say 5. Okay.
5 is better. That time. Yeah. I would
say after 5.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. After 5 is better. Okay.
Alright.
Registration or something for this hour. It's open.
There was, but you're still welcome to come.
Yeah. It's there'll be food truck lots of
food.
We're catering for 1500. So.
Oh.
Oh,
745.