Yasir Khan – Daily Reminder
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The speakers discuss the importance of building a "active act" to remove obstacles from believers and finding ways to develop relationships. They stress the need to address issues of stress and sadness in society and encourage individuals to find ways to develop relationships. They also emphasize the importance of finding out who one is and how they can help each other when it's time of sadness or happiness.
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The prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam,
he tells us that
if a person
he removes one difficulty from a believer,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will remove
from him
from the difficulties
of the day of qiyamah.
SubhanAllah, it's a simple hadith, but, you know,
it has a lot.
And today we have about 8 to 10
minutes to unlock some of that.
We see the Muslim
moon
and the minun, they're like brothers and sisters.
And when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
when he made one of the biggest
move
in the
period of Nabuwa,
23 years.
That was the move from Makkah to Madinah.
When he went from Makkah to Madinah,
he had so many things to take care
of. He had to establish a state.
He had to bring
the people
on what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wanted them
to do and how he wanted them to
live.
But amongst
the many things that he did, we have
to look at what he started off with
first.
One of the first things as we all
know is he started off
with
building a masjid.
Then after,
one of the things that he did is
he established
which was brotherhood.
He got 1 Ansari
and 1 Muhajir.
Muhajir are those who came from Makkah and
Ansar are those who were
from Madinah.
And he got them and he made them
into brothers.
And now they helped each other out and
everything.
The the Ansar, they were already established.
They had their houses. They had their businesses.
They had their families.
The
they didn't have anything. So they helped them
out in every aspect of life.
So today I want to emphasize on this
point
because
if you look at it, America is extremely
diverse and people are coming from all over
different places.
And this community has gone to its first
step.
The first step was to establish masjid.
An active masjid.
Now one thing that can beautify and it
probably already exist to a level, but we
can strengthen it, is to establish
brotherhood, to establish a relationship
in which we know each other so well
that if any of us have a problem,
the other brother is there to help us.
If any of us have a celebration,
another brother is there to celebrate with us.
And likewise,
we grow as not just a community,
but as a family.
And that's why I started off with this
hadith, the prophet of Allah alaihi wasallam saying
that if you remove a difficulty from a
believer,
Allah will remove a difficulty
of the hereafter
from you. Now difficulty of the hereafter isn't
something small.
That day when every single person
is going to be waiting
for the hisaab to start,
and people are gonna start from Adam alayhis
salaam
and beg him go and tell the Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala to start accountability.
But Adam alayhis salam will be thinking about
the mistake that he made and he's gonna
say I'm not fit for this. And they're
he's gonna say go to somebody else. Go
to
Ibrahim. Ibrahim will say, I'm not fit for
this. And go to Musa alaihis salaam. All
of the will say, I'm not fit for
this. The
or the people who dedicated
their life, their wealth, their families,
everybody,
and everything they've had to this deen.
If they on that day
are going to be fearful, imagine your anxiety,
imagine my anxiety,
imagine
all the things that were involved, all the
things that we have done.
The they're
going to be like, I can't do it.
That's going to be the anxiety of that
day
where every single thing that has been done
is going to be presented,
and we don't know what Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala is going to decide for us.
And so on that day, if Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is going to remove
a difficulty from us, then that's a definitely
a bargain to help somebody in this world
so that this way we can remove
a difficulty from that day.
You see, Ibni Abbas radiAllahu one who one
time was sitting in the masjid for
Today, subhanallah,
did it come to our mind that, hey,
somebody was here last week. I don't see
them today. And I say this very,
you know, I emphasize on this point, subhanallah.
I
I'm originally from New Jersey. In New Jersey,
we used, you know, actually you guys know
the masjid where the imam got stabbed. That's
my local masjid. That's where I grew up.
So we were in that masjid
and
as as a child I grew up there
and there was always this one brother who
used to come to the masjid and then
we didn't see him for so many days.
And subhanAllah
we found out
after months
that his house was on fire, he passed
away, and there wasn't even any Muslims to
lead his janazah. His body was frozen in
one of the, you know, one of the
facilities at in the city.
So
if we have that connection
where we know each other
and we know and try to find out
why is the person not here, what can
we do to help out, all of that,
then that's
what we call a Muslim That's
where the unity starts from. Today we want
all the Ummah problems to be addressed. We
want Palestine, and we want Kashmir, and we
want all of that. Where we start from
is right here. And subhanAllah,
the beauty over here is you have people
from all over the world, And so this
is a global village. This Masjid itself is
a global village where how many people can
come together
and get in touch and develop relationships.
So as I was saying somebody came to
the Masjid. Ibn Abbas radiAllahu anhu he immediately
sees some type of sadness,
stress on his face. So look at the
relationship.
Like, I look at you, I look at
you, I look at anybody, I can't tell
the difference between you from yesterday, from you
from today. Why? Because I never engaged with
you on that level. So I can't tell.
Do you have a stress today? Or you
happy today? Or
in comparison to yesterday, I can't compare it.
But the companions of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, they were able to see right
away. So he saw and he said, what's
going on with you? And he said,
I have some debt. I have some money
that I owe somebody.
And he said that if I was to
go with you and speak to the person,
would that help? Said, yes. Definitely. It's going
to help. And he's starting to leave the
masjid and somebody reminds him that, you know,
you are in the you can't leave the
masjid. And he said that I heard the
prophet salallahu alaihi wa sallam saying, whoever tries,
not even
tries to, you know,
help a Muslim with a need, Allah
will
give him the reward. And one hadith says,
1 year of
Another hadith says, 10 years of
Now in order for us to be able
to help someone,
in order for us to be able to
get the reward of 10 years of
or in order for us to be able
to
get a difficulty removed from the hereafter,
we must be able to help them, and
the only way to help them is to
get to know each other.
Get to, you know,
know what each other what we are going
through. So every day when we come to
Masjid, try to meet one person, talk to
them. And that's why when Imam Kashif called
me for this, you know, he said there's
going to be a breakfast and I want
you to talk before it, I was happy
because these type of
activities,
what they do is give us a chance
to mingle, to talk.
But now today is our chance to get
out of this comfort zone a little bit
and start to talk to each other. Get
to know a little bit more about each
other than just the fact that he comes
to this masjid.
And next till next Saturday, there should be
at least 5 people that I should know
on a more intimate level, on a better
level where I can know that, okay, maybe
I could help this person out. And Allah
knows, if you get to know somebody like
that, Allah
may use that person to help you.
So I wanna conclude with just this one
takeaway action that starting today with the breakfast
and then inshallah from every salah moving forward,
start to get to know people,
talk to people, ask them
where are you from, how are you, you
know, is there anything I can help you
with? And inshallah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
going to build the bond of the brothers
in this masjid to such a level that
you guys will truly feel like an ummah,
and it will serve as an example for
all the masajid
for everybody. Right? And inshallah, we don't need
to talk about stuff that are going to
be conflicting. We don't need to talk even
about, you know, even if we want to
talk about about
how to pray, how to talk about that
with imam. This is just on a level
to get to know each other better and
to be able to be there for each
other when it's time of sadness to console
each other, when it's time for happiness to
celebrate with each other. May Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala give us the understanding of the sunnah
of the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.