Yahya Ibrahim – Jesus in Ramadan
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The speakers discuss the importance of Jesus being a holy spirit and the need for people to be aware of his actions and intentions. They emphasize the importance of holding onto the scripture and following the path of Jesus Christ, as well as the importance of fearing God's words and following the Bible. The speakers also emphasize the need to act with love and be mindful of one's actions, as it is the month for deception and discomfort. They also mention various acts of worship and a book called "strife" to emphasize the importance of fasting, avoiding promises, and being generous in public. Finally, they discuss signs that Islam is linked to fasting, health, and a sense of gratitude, as well as a fall party and a social event called "the no Older" to celebrate graduations.
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Welcome to, Al Amin Khaled.
We're happy that you are with us
here for over the school holidays
this week, next week, and the week after.
We will be also available for you,
inshallah for the salah. Just to take a
little bit of pressure off the Masjid.
We pray that Allah
makes it an acceptable time that we're all
together.
If I could just ask the brothers
to shift forward and fill the gaps. We're
already 3 quarters full, and there are a
number of people that are still on the
way
Always we begin with the praise of Allah.
We send our prayers of peace and greetings
and salutations
for our Nabi Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
We testify with firmness and conviction that none
is worthy of worship but Allah.
And that our Nabi Muhammad salallahu
alaihi wasallam is his worshiping slave and final
messenger.
I always seek to remind myself and you
of taq'u'llah.
This is the essence of all of the
instruction given by Allah to humanity.
Anitahullah.
Allah
says, oh ye who believe,
have the tafwa of Allah, the fear of
Allah, the love of Allah, and the hope
in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
to the capacity that I am deserving of
you.
Do not depart this worldly
life in any condition
other than willful
voluntary
submission to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make the month
of Ramadan
a month of increase in.
May
Allah allow our hunger and thirst,
our restraint from our spouses and from that
which is normal processes in our life
to be a reason for us to increase
in our nearness
and closeness to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
May Allah accept our fasting in this blessed
month of Ramadan and give us many more
Ramadans in good health
It increased the risk and iman
and in connection and closeness to our families,
Allahu alaamin.
This is also the season where a lot
of the people of the book, in particular,
our Christian community beginning to contemplate
their understanding
and their connection
to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us as believers
that Isa alaihi salam
was a messenger
of Allah
And that the example of Giza,
That the example of Jesus that Allah strikes
for humanity is that He was similar
to the creation, the unique creation of Adam
who was in essentially
created from dust not even from another human
form.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala discounts
and makes it clear
that Aesah
alayhis
salam
neither could they have killed him
nor
did they even place him upon the crucifix
but it was made seemingly
so to them
And the aqeedah of every Muslim,
everyone who submits themselves to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
in adherence to the tradition of the prophet
salaam
in the understanding of the greater tradition of
monotheism
and singling out,
unifying
all purpose of worship for Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. It is by pretext to know
that if one was born they could not
have been before what was born.
And if one was killed they have no
power of what occurs in their absence
even if there is a claim to return
to life and resurrection.
And Allah gives many Parables to mankind
in the Quran.
Our focus after establishing this limited
of what we believe about Jesus. That
he is Abdul.
The servant of God, a creative being
that the one who was weak and always
asking, love me, my Lord, assist me. The
one who did not have knowledge except that
which we granted to him through revelation and
by
Allah,
the one who it's documented
even in Christian sources
as being unaware of when the time of
judgement would be?
The one who Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala describes
in his manner of birth
And the great imams when they speak about
the verses in Surat Maryam,
why does Allah go to such great detail
in Surat Maryam, in Surat Abi Imran
to describe
that Allah said, kun fayakun, be and he
was. That detail is added so that you
know
that it is a divine inspiration from Allah
but as well that you know that there
had to have been a command to be
given for it to occur.
It was not just immaculate in its own
sense.
Is the originating
creator and the fashioner of all things from
nothingness.
It is only Allah
who is
the sublime dominance
over His creation.
Today, we want to focus our attention about
Jesus in Ramadan.
And I know you might find this as
being something strange.
Would Jesus alayhis salaam
have honored the month of Ramadan?
And what actions do we find in the
Quran
in the statements of the prophet that
discuss Isa alaihis salam
that we can learn from to better ourselves
in the blessed month of Ramadan.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says to the prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
that he has given him a mandate of
prophets and messengers before him to follow and
to take lessons from. And Allah gives these
examples to our Nabi Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, so that he can inspire the Ummah
into a process of truth.
Aisa alayhis salamah,
Allah says that of his first words that
he shares with his community.
He spoke as a young child being breastfed,
one who is days old. When the false
accusations were made against his mother, the first
statement he says is
I am
the slave of God.
And the month of Ramadan is meant to
be a month that you prove to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
It is a month of proof of sincerity,
proof of love, proof of obedience,
that the word of Allah is what you
follow even
when times are difficult and other people find
it strange.
There are many around us who find it
strange that we don't eat and drink for
a certain number of days. Not just we
don't eat, but also any liquids and we
do not have it with our spouses.
That there is a level
of nearness that we seek with Allah through
restraint.
The
is a central
theme
that is being eroded away
by a culture of materialism,
hypermarketing, inflation
driven
processes
to make scares in people's mind certain commodities
and product that if I don't have it,
I'm lost.
Allah
sends Isa alaihis salam to his people to
say,
I come as a slave.
How many of us consider ourselves
slaves in the truest sense of the word?
That before I make a decision,
I check with the master if it's appropriate.
That before I step forward, I have asked
and assured that this is the direction I
need to go.
And if I remain in place, is this
a place that I've been asked to stay
behind?
Or have I been asked to move forward
or back?
This is the constitution of a believer that
Allah summarizes.
At the end.
The month of Ramadan is the month of
I hear the order of Allah
and I obey
without restraint,
without equivocation,
without resistance
what Allah has ordered.
And how many of us are in need
of the message
of falling in line with the orders of
Allah in the Sharia
and meeting the standards of the sunnah of
the prophet Muhammad salallahu alayhi wasallam.
Whether it's your teenage son resisting and wanting
a haircut that contradicts the way of the
prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam.
Or whether it's an adult who is vulgar
in his words of choice in speaking to
the mother of his children.
Whether it is a wife who is unwilling
to submit to the law of a husband
who works hard and diligent
seeking the love of Allah for himself and
his family.
Whether it is to save a penny today
as if I have earned it
for the next day.
To be a person who understands that my
place in the world is not simply governed
by what I feel and what I want.
We live in a time, in a generation
of what I feel has to be accepted.
I feel that I'm not who I think
I am. I feel that my attitude is
different or that my understanding of my identity
is different. Everybody must accept
rather than I accept
at times what has been ordained
and legislated
by Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
The mindset of the believer is
Inni Abdulla.
I am a slave of God
and the month of Ramadan is the month
of enslavement.
It is the month where you bring your
children to the messenger even when they're
tired. It is the month when you read
the Quran with your household after badger even
when they're sleeping.
It is the month that you rise up
and pray the du rakah before Badr, even
if you just go up down sufur and
want to get back into bed for the
2 hours before work.
The month of Ramadan is the month where
you give more charity than you have in
other months.
It is the month where you share food
more than you have in other months. It's
the month where you invite people into your
home who perhaps you are not as friendly
with. But it is the month of the
obedience to Allah and the qaam of qaam.
Ini ad Dummah.
I'm a slave of God
and the command of Allah is what guides
my life.
The orders and the prohibitions.
The halal is known and the haram is
known. And where I'm doubtful, I seek to
protect my deen by pushing it out of
my life. I won't resist even though I'm
not sure halal or haram. I will overlook
it for Allah and the messenger.
The month of Ramadan is the month of
scarcity
and drought.
It is the month where you are meant
to go dry and dehydrated
not medically
but from everything else around you.
If the day of Ramadan that entered
was similar to the day before Ramadan that
you lived and you look and there's no
difference
except hunger and thirst you are missing, Ramadan.
Allah gave me the book.
Allah wants you to hold the book with
strength. Allah says in the same chapter in
Surat Mariam,
Hold on to the scripture
sternly
with strength.
Because people want to rip the book from
your heart, from your hand, from beneath your
eyes.
People want to change your culture,
change your understanding
of what are the limits and the boundaries
that are set by Allah not by you
and modernity.
Hold it.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam gives this
imagery that in the times like the times
we live in today, to hold on to
the kitab and the sunnah is harder than
holding on to a coal.
It burns and sears, and you want to
let go because it's more convenient,
and it's more comfortable
and it's easier.
It is easier to leave your hijab.
It is easier to say my workplace will
make it better for me.
It is easier to say
overlook
this type of loan or this type of
structure.
It is easier
to blur the lines for your children.
It's easier to allow them permissions
that your parents would not have allowed you.
It is easier to allow things to be
done outside the masjid that in the masjid
you will feel ashamed to do.
But the words of the prophet are the
same
let the fear of God guide you wherever
you are.
And the fear of Allah
is part of holding on the
book. It's for that reason as we began
that
this book
don't doubt it.
It will guide but you have to seek
it with taqwa.
And the one who lacks that fear of
Allah, the one whose home is not guided
by the word of Allah, The one whose
home is absent from its reading and its
research and its study
lives in a graveyard
by the words of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. He
says
It's like an abandoned home
or it is like a cemetery.
May Allah allow our connection to the Quran
culturally in the month of Ramadan
to extend beyond it.
That the month of Ramadan carries forward.
I'm a slave to God.
I know my place.
He's given me this book.
And he sent me as a prophet you
and Allah has sent you and I the
best of prophets.
Truly in the example
set for you by the prophet
is the most exemplar,
the most high, the most complete,
the most unadulterated,
the most unchanging
example of righteousness
and morality that you and I need.
And the one
who follows a path
and follow the pathway away from the Rasul
salallahu alaihi wa sallam brings
ruin to themselves.
Nqab warns in Surat Al Fufana
that on the day of judgment, people will
bite their hands with fear from what they
see.
Yeah.
I wish that I took a path with
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
I wish I didn't walk
in this direction
away from Rasoolallahu
Alaihi Wasallam.
Yeah.
How
how fearful and wretched my condition is today.
To know Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam implies
that you are acquainted with Him more than
the skin and surface level.
The hearts of my
family and yours need to fall in love
with Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam warned you
and gives you a test.
That the one
who has not set
love for me in their life
more than the love they have for their
father
and their mother and their children
cannot have completed faith.
And the reason for that is the love,
it's not an emotional love. It's not you
sit and you cry and and and I
I miss Rasool Allah, alaihis salaam, alone. That
love is a love that is conditional to
obedience.
Say to those who claim they love God,
that they want to follow God and obey
the words of God. Those who claim to
be slaves of God,
then follow the path of the prophet
And the path of Rasulullah
SAWHAN is not as in this ayat, the
character and the only.
It is the belief of Rasulullah salallahu alaihi
wa sallam.
The prophet believed in Jahannam.
He believed that there was a punishment for
those who strayed from a path.
And many of us we forget
that raising our families simply with Allah who
loves us and Allah is merciful is not
enough.
All my slaves fear me.
A day where an infant his hair would
turn white if he witnessed
it. A day where mountains are scattered like
wool in the wind.
A day where you stand in front of
Allah.
All of your sins gathered
and known.
What is this book that has gathered everything
of my life?
Nothing large or minute except it's gathered.
And they see it in front of them.
And your goal will not wrong you,
but fear
Allah.
Allah has made me a source of Babaka.
The Babaka of Isa, a, e, salam
was that he was one who could answer
the questions, And you could see that Allah
has given us the Quran
asked us to fear Him and to obey
Him and to follow the Quran and to
follow the nabi. And then from that moment
on, to seek, to learn, and to be
acquainted with the details of our deen.
And that leads us to a salah wazakam.
And I end before hutzba the first hutzba,
With the discussion with you about salah
that for you and I, at times when
we look distant to us,
My dear brother, my dear sister,
O slave of Allah,
you and I, we write endless messages.
We are watching endless videos.
We are concerned
and our heart bleeds and our eyes fear
for our brothers and sisters who are away
from us in Gaza and Philistine and the
Rohingya and the Uyghur and all parts of
the world.
But
Allah who none we worship but Him you
will not be asked about any of
it until you're asked about your salah first.
The first thing
you will be asked about on the day
of judgement,
give as much charity as you give.
Cry as much as you cry. March all
your life.
But if your sadaa you have the law
is not in order.
The first thing
you will be asked about for you and
your wife and your children.
Allah accepts it if it's complete, if it's
healthy.
You will be able to go through the
other difficulties.
Let your eyes
look inward.
Find yourself at attention in front of Allah.
Stand in front of Allah with humility.
Fill the masajid.
Fill the Jumar.
Take time from your work.
Take time for your family.
Walk to the masjid. Every step raises a
level in Jannah. Takes away a Sayyya.
And know that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
merciful.
As salah
was Zakat.
Because as much as
we seek, we have obligations to each other.
And don't confuse me by,
you know, thinking that I'm telling you to
ignore your brothers.
What will be your wealth? A share of
it must be the roof of those who
have no roof.
And the wealth that you earn must be
food that you feed hungry people away from
you.
Some of your barakah that Allah has given
you needs to be the bandages and medicine
and burn creeds for those who cannot provide
it themselves.
So everything you have has a haft.
The prophet
said for every joint
that a human being has, for every bone,
360
he counts in our joints
There is a sadaqa that is due every
day.
I'm not saying the dollar for every joint,
but there is an act of charity that
you must give.
There is something that must be done for
other than yourself.
It has to go beyond you.
Even if it is
just a smile that you give to somebody
who is
and I pray that Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala
allows us to take examples of the people
of the past
and to bring them into our contemporary life.
My dear brother, my dear sister, bring your
family close.
Bring your children close.
Smother them with your love.
Smother them with your care.
Spend on them its charity.
Spending on your wife and gifting your wife
and buying her for some something she loves
is a charity.
As the most baraka.
It's where a man buys his wife, his
family something.
Give
and love and hold together
and hold on to the difficult things that
we experience together as a community.
And know that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is insurmountable
and undefeatable
and He is the one who has promised
to protect Islam
but Muslims need to protect themselves with Islam
May Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, honor us with
the Quran.
May Allah honor our children with the love
of the Prophet, salAllahu alayhi, send them in
its obedience.
May Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, carry us forward
in assisting ourselves and our communities to achieving
betterment
for our own,
pray that Allah
protects our schools and institutions and masajid.
That Allah
fills them with righteous hearts and people who
are generous in spending upon them. I pray
that Allah
forgives us what we know and what we
don't know, forgives us the small and the
large, and makes us from those who are
a support and to those who are distant
from us. May Allah
aid our brothers who are unable to aid
themselves.
Acts of worship in the month of Ramadan.
The prophet, salallahu
alaihi wasallam, was one who was always first
I've been ordered to be the 1st to
submit myself to Allah.
My prayer that Allah
puts that energy in our heart that you
and I want to be the 1st to
submit,
the first in prayer, the first in mind,
the first in charity,
the one who people follow after us, so
he gave the reward of everyone inspired by
us. And such the umrah of the prophet,
shayate, wasalam, in all of its book becomes
a scale for the prophet, suballahu alaihi wa
sallam, on the day of judgment.
Three things that the prophet
linked together with fasting,
that perhaps they could be a benefit to
you and I in this final,
13 or 14 days of the month of
Ramadan.
1st, Allah
has linked
Make time for the Quran even if you
stutter in it.
And I say
even if you stutter in it because it
gives you double the reward. 1 for the
reading and one for the struggle of reading
when difficult.
1 for reading and one for the struggle
of reading. Lahu ajuran, twice the reward, double
the amount,
2 times by the order of the prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam. And every measure, the
asheri, and the I had, every measure is
multiplied by 10.
The prophet, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, said,
Oh Allah, I kept him from eating and
drinking and their spells during the day. And
the Quran was saying
I kept him awake in Tawiyyah and reading
at night. Allah, masha fear if he, oh
Allah, allow me to push away the punishment
of genuine.
The second act that you and I find
linked by the prophet
is
being extra charitable. And as a demanding, he
said,
the prophet was always generous.
But his greatest
generosity was in the month of Ramadan.
It was like a a tornado
that moved through in Madinah
spreading its barakah everywhere, subhanahu alaihi wa sallam.
The prophet, subhanahu alaihi wa sallam, said
fasting is your shield. It will protect me.
But charity that other people are unaware
of extinguishes
Allah's anger cannot hold people mad the way
water poured and fire puts it out.
Cleanse your home with charity. Cleanse your illness
with charity.
Then put put a shield and a shading
for yourself from the heat of sin
with your charity.
And 3rd and finally, the prophet, salallahu alaihi,
who wasalam, said,
manpahaha
the one who stands before Allah every night
in Ramadan,
even if you could make it to the
after
Isha.
Don't go to sleep until you had a
share, even 2
If that's all, you know, I'm getting that.
Do not miss a night with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. And if there's anything that is
missed, double your energy.
Don't miss the rest.
Their sins are forgiven.
Another chance. The one who stands in the
night of Adah,
which is in the final 10 days of
Ramadan,
with iman and with knowledge that Allah will
reward them. Their sins are forgiven.
And Allah links the qiyaam
by day, by night, and the fasting by
day in the Hadith,
where he shows us that each of them
are 2 halves that complement each other. May
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, give you and I
the strength to maintain
with energy and health our prayers at home
are in the maljid within preference,
For our brothers and sisters, do not miss
the nights of Ramadan.
May Allah give us elevation.
And I end with this beautiful hadith of
the prophet
The nobility of the believer
on the day of judgment
is their night prayer. You know all of
us we like to be known for something
good on the day of judgment. The only
thing that people say, oh, look at this
man. What a good what a good woman
It's
their.
It's what Allah knows of you that others
don't. It's what Allah sees of you that
others don't. It's what Allah
takes
of your reward and gives you what you
could not ever imagine. And may Allah give
us the reward of the blessed month of
Ramadan
Allah. We are the sons of your slave.
Our mothers are slaves to you, Allah.
Whatever you decide for us is just, You
We ask you for your love, You Allah.
And the love of those who love You,
You Allah.
Humble yourself to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Consider this could be a final prayer for
all of us.
Just some closing announcements in chat log.
Next week,
Saturday, not tonight, next week in
we have our annual
Alhamdulillah,
this is a tradition that we've carried on
for nearly 10 years, mashaAllah.
It also coincidentally
is our 20 year anniversary
for Al Amin College,
formerly Langford Islamic College. May Allah grant many
more years of success, Al Amin.
We did put out for families at our
school and community members a link to register
so we can estimate how many people are
with us. And so, in the first 24
hours, 1500
spots were already assured.
So what we have done
is that we've also ordered food trucks and
other things so that there is less pressure.
And in inshallah, the weather is nice. We're
going to all have a wonderful picnic in
the mobile. There'll be chairs. It'll be well
linked. It'll be a beautiful experience for you
and your families.
So if you have not registered,
bring your Iqbar with you or buy from
the food trucks or bring something to share
with others as well
Bring your picnic mats if you don't want
the hard plastic chairs. Personally, I prefer the
ground, but that's up to you
it will be a beautiful atmosphere, and then
we will have our with
our yarviyang
kafal as special dua in Arabic by Sheikh
Muntis al Mensee, and one in English inshallah
over the end of the month, 10 days
of Ramadan.
We look forward to celebrating
our faith and our community and our school
with you.
There's also a fitra box that the school
has placed downstairs.
I'm not in charge of where the money
goes. I know that the board,
they have a particular charitable project,
but that is for Fintra
for the well, even a little bit early
so it can be delivered
on time.