The Blessing of a New Beginning
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The importance of returning to Islam is discussed, including the annual birthday celebrations of Islam and the importance of finding your return to the source of your passion. The speaker emphasizes the need to be mindful of words and learns and teaches the Quran to increase one's wealth and protection from natural hazards. The importance of finding your return to Islam and finding your passion is also emphasized. The speaker provides advice on maintaining a positive life and avoiding regret, and reminds students to be mindful of their actions and not just give things out.AI Generated Transcript ©
Always we begin with the praise of Allah
and 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 of Allah Azza wa
Jal. And that our Nabi Muhammad salallahu
alaihi wa sallam is his worshiping slave and
final messenger.
I continue to remind myself and you of
taqboolah.
And I pray that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
increases my love
and your love,
our fear and our hope in the eternal
mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
as the days go by and as the
challenges increase in life.
I pray that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accepts
from us the month of Ramadan that is
passed.
That Allah gives us an opportunity for many
more years to stand before Him in the
nights
and fast before Him during the days
in worshiping in adoration and in love and
hope and fear of Him Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala accept our fasting,
in our taraweed prayers.
May Allah accept our recitations of the Quran.
May Allah accept the little sadaqah and charity
and zakat that we may have to offer.
And I pray that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
opens to us the doors of new beginnings
and new opportunities.
This is the context of my discussion with
you for the next 10 minutes insha'Allah.
One of the greatest blessings of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala upon humanity
is the revival
and the opportunity
to restart
and to begin afresh.
And each and every day Allah gives us
opportunities
to pause
and start over.
Each and every week Allah gives us greater
opportunities
to pause
and to begin
again. And each and every month,
Allah gives us opportunities
to restart.
In each and every year,
Allah gives us an opportunity
to restart
and reclaim
our place within Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
One of the greatest blessings of the Ummah
of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is that
we have this concept
of Tawbah,
of return to Allah.
The Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam summarizes it
using the words of Allah Azzawajal
simply in the Quran by saying that Allah
invites you and I each and every evening
as many sleep
some wake.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says that in
the last part of the night, the night
where you wake up getting ready for fajr.
Allah calls out to the world and He
says, Halmin ta'ibim. Is there anyone who wants
to come back to Me? Is there anyone
who's gone too far and knows now it's
time to return?
Is there anyone who now recognizes
that what they put their trust in in
other than Me will fail them?
Is there anyone who now recognizes
that where they invested their energy,
their love, their fear in hope, in other
than me,
that now it's time to come back and
discover me.
The month of Ramadan ends with the day
of Eid. The word Eid for us is
Arabi. One of the
mistaken
contexts
is not a celebration.
It is an annual revival.
It returns each and every year. Y'all du
Aleinah. It comes back again and again.
And the reason it comes back again and
again is that at the end of a
massive
act of worship.
Your Eid is only after you've done something
Insha'Allah
that is so significant that Allah celebrates your
return to Him.
Allah gives you this blessing and He says,
Alhamdulillah
that you find your favor with Allah. You
say, Alhamdulillah
that I've fasted a whole month to Allah.
I've stood in the night of Qadr. I've
recited from the Quran. I've been with the
Imam each and every night. I've hungered and
thirst and been away from my spouse by
day. Alhamdulillah.
Today is a day barakah has set upon
me.
Today is the day I'm fresh.
I'm new.
I've returned.
I have a new start.
I have a new beginning.
Each and every one of us we aspire
insha'Allah for the next Eid that maybe it's
not here but on the plains of Arafah.
You go to the mountain of Arafah and
the next day is the day of Eid.
The Prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam says, Al
hadju Arafah.
May Allah bless you and I with hajj
sooner rather than later. Allahumma ameen.
And as you stand on Arafah, your whole
aim, Allahummafili,
Allahummafili,
Allahumma khamna. Oh Allah, let me come back
home.
The day as if I was just born
then the next day is the day you
read
the day where you say Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah
I have a new start a new beginning
The day of Eid it's not just the
day of balloons.
It's not just the day where we give
our children happiness and fun. It's not a
day of just being released that you can
eat and drink.
It's not just a day where you go
back to what is normal quote unquote.
The day you read is the day where
you say the barakah
and the blessing of the massive Ibadah that
I've been engaged in for a month.
The barakah, the massive Ibadah of wal fajrulayalin
Ashur. The 10 greatest days the world sees.
SubhanAllah.
The 10 days
that begin the month of Dhul Hijjah
are the most
blessed days in the calendar even more than
Laila Qadr. SubhanAllah.
Even more than Laila Qadr.
And those who take advantage of them they
have that day of Eid the annual revival
the new
barakah
of new beginning.
And you and I today Masha'Allah as you
sit with me Alhamdulillah the first Jumuah after
the month of Ramadan.
The first Jumuah after the month of Ramadan
your clothing is clean,
your heart is clean,
Your mind insha'Allah has been cleansed. Your record
has been purged.
I stood in front of you last Jumu'ah
and I recited the hadith of the prophet
that the one who witnessed in the month
of Ramadan,
and their sins are not wiped away. That
they no longer come back brand new to
Allah. That they don't have a new beginning.
Then they've been cut away from the mercy
charity You and I are the ones who
invited people to our homes and broke bread
with them. You and I are the ones
who fixed fights and problems with our spouses
and our in laws. You and I are
the ones who adventured with our children to
come and prove our worth to Allah. You
and I are the ones who push ourselves
to finish the Quran. And as the days
grew by, we got more anxious.
I have 20 pages, 60 pages.
You Allah help me finish the Quran before
Ramadan comes to an end.
You and I are the ones who aid
comes with that sense of blessing.
And therefore when we greet each other we
say Eid at Mubar.
What a blessing you have that Alhamdulillah
a month has gone by and you are
celebrating the blessing of Allah.
How do we keep
the blessings
of Eid upon us? This day of Jum'ah
what does the Prophet refer to it as
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?
The day of Jum'ah
is a day you read every Jum'ah on
the earth and in the heavens. Why?
Because it is a day that returns each
and every week
where you are able as you have come
left your work, left your business,
left your time with your family,
you have scheduled your opportunity
That Allah has made the call out to
you in a chapter called Surat Al Jumu'ah.
When the time
Nadia. Lead your commerce.
Come
and make mention of Allah and ask Allah
for forgiveness.
That at the end of this hour between
now from when the Imam stands on the
mimbar until salatul Asim. Most of the ulama
hold that this is the hour the Prophet
shalallahu alaihi wa sallam said. This is the
hour of the day of the Eid of
Jumuha where no du'a is rejected by Allah.
It's a bara'ah.
An investment in it for you.
The Eid is an annual,
weekly,
monthly
opportunity
to find your return to Aba each and
every day.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says you have
this opportunity
to wipe your slate clean. In a beautiful
hadith where Allah
inspires the Prophet
to encourage us to pray better
and to pray more consistently.
The prophet shalallahu alaihi wa sallam said, Tahtariqoon.
Your sins begin to build a flame
around your life.
It's almost as if you are engulfing yourself
in the punishment of Allah.
Then you stand in front of Allah sallallahu
fajr.
And
Allah sends the coolness that extinguishes
the fire that you were earning. The words,
and the actions, and the statements, and the
sights, and the sounds, and the hatred, and
the envy of the heart.
You finish fajr,
you wake up, you're in traffic.
You go to work
that
guy that you don't want to see.
Things happen in your day
you begin to add the sins.
You begin to light yourself again then you
pray your
The prophet go through each and every one
of the prayers. The effect of our commemorating
Allah.
The concept of salah is that you are
acknowledging the greatness of Allah. That's the first
thing you're going to say. Allahu Akbar.
Allahu Akbar is nothing greater than You in
my life.
No success that I can attain except it
is from You. And no failure or fear
or worry I have except that You are
greater and able to help me overcome it
and pass through it
and break through the difficulties I see.
Allahu Akbaru Mindalik. Allah is greater than all
of this. And the Prophet would say this,
You Aisha Allahu Akbaru Madalik.
Aisha never fear. Allah is greater than all
that you fear.
So the concept of our Eid, the revival
after the month of Ramadan
is that Allah does not say to you,
okay wait
until the next Ramadan, wait until the next
Eid. But Allah gives us Eid each and
every opportunity
to gather together
in the worship of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to gain the bawaka
that we seek to descend upon us all.
Before I sit down for jibzatul lisraha,
I wanted to speak of 3 of 5
ways
that you and I can help ourselves and
our families
to live in the celebration
of Allah's blessing in our life.
The blessing of new beginning.
To live in the celebration,
in the shadow of the month of Ramadan.
In the shadow of our Friday prayers. In
the shadow of our salah.
How do we maintain that revival?
The first
and most significant of them
is the general concept of the zikr of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he
would say things to the Sahaba that would
astound them. They would be surprised
that simple words that we say if they
come from the depth of our heart can
have such a mammoth
change in our outcome.
You and I, may Allah forgive us, we
underestimate
the value of statements like Subhan
Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah
Alhamdulillah
Alhamdulillah
coming from your heart.
I want you insha'Allah today after salatuljum'ah
just focus on one of the blessings that
you have in your life, Yaqin. Just put
in your heart. It could be your children,
could be your home,
It could be your boss that other people
don't have a boss. Alhamdulillah. After a long
time I found a job. Whatever it is,
one blessing. Not many. Just one. And just
in your heart. Alhamdulillah.
You Allah. I am so thankful you Allah
that my wife is in good health.
Alhamdulillah,
my wife does not give me trouble. Alhamdulillah,
that my wife is honoring to my children.
Alhamdulillah,
that my wife is one who stands by
me, even when I've done wrong. Alhamdulillah
that my wife is one who forgave me
when I have erred. Alhamdulillah,
that when she made a mistake she was
quicker in asking for forgiveness than me demanding
it. Alhamdulillah,
Alhamdulillah,
Alhamdulillah.
Some of the Sahaba, the hadith is in
Bukhari.
They came upset
and they said You Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
The people who have a lot of money
and a lot of savings they took all
the reward,
took everything
When we pray, they pray.
When we fast, Ramadan, with you, they fast.
But when it's time for sadaqa,
when it's time for Umrah, when it's time
for Hajj, when it's time to help the
food, the weak, and
the jihad vis a visillah. When it's time
earth man gives a 1,000 camels.
You Rasulullah!
The ones who have a lot of money,
they take all the reward.
I'm poor, it's not my own fault. I
used to have money in Mecca, and I
made hijrah to Allah and His Messenger. And
I came with nothing but the clothing on
my back. It's not my fault I'm in
this situation.
It's not because I'm lazy. It's not because
I'm not intelligent. It's not because I don't
want to earn. This is my circumstance.
Why should this person have a higher place
in Jannah? Because he has more Sadis.
Taqala Rasulullah SAW Alaihi Wasallam
How about I tell you something?
If you did what I tell you now
all of what these people are doing with
all their money and spending and Umrah and
going and coming and
you will get all of the same reward.
Tell us shortcut.
He said to you do buri kulli salah
after you finish every prayer say SubhanAllah
33 times,
Alhamdulillah
33 times,
Allahu Akbar
34 times.
That's it?
So after the Surah SubhanAllah SubhanAllah
the rich Sahaba
Jazamullah
Hey, what are you doing?
If we say that
So all of a sudden of man who
is giving charity is also saying SubhanAllah SubhanAllah
SubhanAllah SubhanAllah SubhanAllah SubhanAllah SubhanAllah
They came back You Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam
You taught us how to equal with them
and now they're doing what we're doing
Fadaik and Nabi SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam The Prophet
smiled it's a sunnah narrating this hadith to
smile.
Fadaik and Nabi alaihi wa sallam. He smiled
at them. He said, talikafatullahhi
you peem an yashar. This is what Allah
wills for them. It's a blessing of Allah
Allah wants to give them there will be
those who say it and there will be
those who
do not
Your job is to gain the reward of
Allah.
Wallahi.
The opportunity of having your heart connected
to the thankfulness to Allah.
To the thankfulness to Allah for something you
did not want
that was not as bad as you thought
it would be. SubhanAllah.
The
glorification of Allah in recognizing.
SubhanAllah.
No one is complete except You, O Allah.
No one has dominance except You, O Allah.
No one can heal except You You Allah.
SubhanAllah.
Only You Allah.
Make the zikr of Allah a part of
your life, a part of your children's life.
As you put your key in your car,
The moment you say this, the Prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam says, as you leave your
home, the one who says this the shaitan
says he's been protected.
He's been aided and he's been guided. Leave
this one alone go find somebody else SubhanAllah
the rest of your day. The Prophet
says the one who reads Ayatul Kursi
before they leave their home as they wake
up in their morning.
An angel remains guarding them until they go
to sleep in the evening.
The words of the dhikr of Allah
have a power that is beyond your physicality,
beyond your bank account, beyond your success,
beyond your intelligence.
They have a spiritual shield that is holistic
in its capacity.
Number
2, of the great values to increase the
Eid
and the celebration of the new beginning and
the protection of Allah's blessing upon us
is to become a person who learns and
teaches the Quran.
And you say shakiyah, I'm not a teacher
to learn and teach the Quran.
Part of learning and teaching the Quran is
even within your own home.
Even in you choosing a surah that your
children would like to hear and you leading
them in salatulmasrib
at home. That you set your intention
even if it is talking about an ayah
that you heard or something you saw in
a YouTube clip or something that was shared
to you. That there is always some connection
to the word of Allah in your household
with your family with your children
that you are one who is bashiruwala
to nephew That you don't use the Quran
in condemnation only.
One of the failings that I see within
some of the children within our students is
that whenever
the parents are using verses of the Quran,
it's almost as if they're chastising them with
it. Don't you know Allah said worship nobody
but Him and be good to Me?
The son did something wrong. This is when
the Quran has to be used.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said, Atimu Salawah Aquzaka.
Don't you know if you miss Salah you're
going to Jahannam?
Yaqi, what about all the other verses of
the Quran?
All of the other places in the Quran
that build trust in Allah?
Wasta'eenu
was somebody was salah When you are nervous,
put your trust in your prayer.
Put your trust in patience with Allah.
Wa'inna haalakabirah
I know my son's salah is difficult. Illahaal
khashayeen.
Try to be concentrating in this salah Allah
will make your next salah better.
Connect each other and remind
each other with the Quran.
And 3rd and finally
your charity.
The Prophet
said that your charity is your will,
your shade. SubhanAllah.
Something's gonna fall on you. The father of
Allah is descending and you don't you don't
have any power to push it back. And
the only structure,
the only roof,
the only power, the only cave,
the only hidden entrance that you can get
under
before it falls on you, It crashes upon
your home.
Is what you've done to others.
Is how you've helped another. Is how you've
invested
in the life of another who maybe you
will not even see.
And know that the greatest regret on the
Day of Judgment
when a person will stand in front of
Allah and will say Rubbir Jir'ul.
Oh Allah let me go back
Let me go back I'll do good deeds.
What are you going to do? In the
ayah Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says He will
say for Asabdakha
wa aqun.
Let me just go back I'll give charity.
Not let me go back or pray to
UH'a.
Not let me go back, oh fast Ramadan.
For as subdakah
that I give something that in front of
you O Allah I gave a truthful promise
to another that I trust Allah who will
return what I gave.
I trust Allah who will reward me for
what I have. I trust Allah who will
magnify what I've given Abu'aal Mu'gaaal and
therefore it becomes your protection on the day
of judgment.
It becomes your protection in this dunya.
Wealth
never
depletes
by giving in in charity. SubhanAllah.
May Allah increase us.
Increase our wealth and reliance upon Him through
our charity. Allahumma Ameen.
Finally my dear brothers and sisters, two final
words of advice.
To maintain the true spirit of Eid, the
true spirit of revival and new beginning in
our life
is that Allah
blesses you and I
with good advice in receiving it and giving
it.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would say, Adeemu
Masihah
Your commitment to Allah in your practice is
shown in the sincerity,
in your behavior between you and Allah and
in how you interact and exchange advice with
each other.
Some of us, we love to give the
advice
but find it difficult to receive it.
The most bitter advice
is usually because of an arrogance of the
heart.
The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says in the
Adith of al Imam Muslim
The one who has in their heart.
Keep
an atom's weight
in their heart of arrogance
will not enter Jannah with the first of
the people,
will be held back.
Meaning
will not enter it in the first groups
of people.
And they said what does this mean? He
said,
It's that a person looks down at something
truthful that is said to them on account
of who said it.
What do you know? You're younger than me.
You're my son. You're my daughter. You're my
wife. You're my husband. What do you know?
What about all the mistakes you have in
your life? You're gonna come tell me now?
What about you last year? Don't you remember
how you were last year?
Leave all of this. Is what is being
said right or wrong?
Is it a hadith or not?
Is it the haft or not?
And al Nasihah
is one of those great signs of one's
humility to Allah Sub subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And each and every one of us, in
one way or another,
needs somebody to pull them aside and say,
Akhi, Uhti.
My brother, my sister, my husband, my wife,
my son, my father,
this could be done better.
And sometimes how it's said with us to
us is ugly.
But the beauty is in the message not
how it is carried.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allow us to
have hearts that are willing to cut through
the abuse or toxic behavior.
To hear a word of truth that can
benefit us in the dunya and Ashram.
May Allah make us projectors of giving nasiha
in the correct way and in receiving advice
in a better way.
And
finally
have hope in Jannah.
Always make your dua for Jannah always make
your focus in the 'afira
the ulama they tell us that the one
who seeks the 'afirah Allah will give them
the dunya and 'afirah.
But the one who seeks the dunya is
left with the dunya and may miss out
on the 'afirah.
If you set your focus, if you make
your decisions
by asking,
does this fulfill what Allah seeks of me?
Is this pleasing to Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa
sallam?
Is my life led in the right on
a Surat al Mustaqeem?
Or am I making choices beyond it? If
you make your life
seeking the end goal,
having the purpose,
having a target,
you will find that life becomes sweeter
in the dunya. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
tells us that the one who lives
with iman in Allah
and do righteous deeds,
Allah eventually says,
I will give them the good life that
they are seeking. May Allah bless us all
with a good life, with barakah in our
homes,
with light in our hearts, with the Quran
in our practice. May Allah make the love
and the sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam dearer to us than other things,
Allahumma Ameen. May Allah protect our staff and
our students and our parents and our teachers.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala lead our principal
and administrators
at our school here in college to that
which is pleasing to Him and turn us
all away from harm. May Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
send justice and peace and security upon the
weakest of the ummah. May Allah include amongst
them the people of Ghazah, the inspirers for
the ummah of Prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam
and their resilience and iman. May Allah grant
them a tawfiq, misdunya and Afrah. And may
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to help
Just a quick reminder, insha'Allah, this was the
final open public Jumu'ah for the term. We're
back to students only Jumu'ah from next
to seeing you again soon.
to seeing you again soon.