Yasir Khan – Dedicate your Kids to Islam

Inshallah. Short, hatara, a continuation of what we did last

week, we spoke about setting the bar higher and raising the

standard in the Muslim communities. Mashallah, epic,

leading the one of the leading communities in the Muslim you

know, communities of America where mashaAllah, we have his program

daily, khaterras, the Masjid is full. All of that is great, but

always a Muslim looks at a higher level. So we spoke last week about

some of the scholars of Islam, for example, Al Hafid, Al mundhiri,

the author of tahib, and how at a very young age he was able to

accomplish so much, Imam Al Bukhari being able to accomplish

so much, and then Imam as Shafi, being able to accomplish so much.

The reason why we started with these scholars is because we were

covering that book, and it just came about. But of course, any

time we're trying to look for role models, looking for a system, we

always go back to the era of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa

sallam, and we see what the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam

did, and what his companions did. So when we look at that, there are

certain Sahaba, young Sahaba, I want to mention two, three of

them, just as an inspiration for the children and for their parents

of how we can raise the bar and how we can expect more and aim for

higher standards. So when we look at that, look at Subhanallah Ali

Radi Allahu Anhu. All of us know who he is, but did we know that he

was one of the first person to accept Islam at the age of 10? He

had to come up with this level of maturity and this level of thing

on his own, because nobody else in his family is accepting Islam. His

father is not accepting but look at Ali Radi Allahu anhu, going to

some more example in details we know the Prophet salallahu alayhi

wa sallam is in Makkah. Who does he send to Medina? Musa ibn Umar,

a young guy who grew up in luxury, who grew up in a household in

which he got whatever he wanted. He went and started giving dawah

in Medina to where multiple families accepted Islam on his

hand, a young kid today, we ask a teenager for the smallest thing,

memorize Quran. Go become a student of knowledge. Go give

dawah. Volunteer, become active in your Masjid. All of that. And they

think it's a big deal. But when you read about the Sahaba, it was

as a very young age. They took Islam, they took ownership of it,

and they represented it to the best way possible. When Musa bib,

numeral the Allah, one who is in Medina, he creates such an

environment that even though the Prophet salallahu, Alam is not

there, people are longing for him. People are talking about him.

People are wishing that they can see and one of those examples is

an asynchrony Allahu anhu, an asylum. Amari Allahu is a young

child, less than 10 years old, and his mom is telling him about the

Prophet sallallahu, Abu Salam, and he falls in love with him before

even seeing him. Today, we have to ask ourselves, the adults have to

ask this, which one of my child is in love with the Prophet

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, because we see the sahaba. These

are also Sahaba who did not see the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

sallam, but they talked about him. They learned about him to the

extent that they fell in love. Their children fell in love. ANNA

Sidney, Malik used to be like I wish I could go to Makkah to see

him, or I wish the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam can come

so I can see him. And when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam

comes, everybody goes forward to give him a gift. And the mother of

an Allahu AK, she has nothing to give to the prophesy Allahu Alam,

she takes her child, 10 years old, an asynchnamatic The Prophet

salallahu alayhi wa sallam. Used to call him unes, right? It's but

tasried as a loving word, like young annas. And she takes him and

gives him to the Prophet salallahu Alam, and said, O Prophet of

Allah, I want him to become your Khadim. I want him to become your

servant. Remember, Islam is not so great now that the ruling power,

or anything like that, there is not that many people accepting

Islam. Islam is still people are torturing our people are attacking

and all that today, yeah, we see Islam this great power at that

time, it was something very minute. Despite that, her mother,

his mother, asyndemand's mother takes him, gives him to the

Prophet salallahu, alayhi wa sallam, and says, O Prophet of

Allah, I want him to be your Khadim. I want him to be your

servant. Imagine we are giving our child to become a Khadim of Islam.

You might think that he has been.

Coming. What is he going to earn? What is he going to do? How is he

going to live? What is going to be this? What's going to be that? But

Allah tells us, and Allah shows us, manta Raka, Shayla, Awad,

Abullah, minhu, whoever leaves something for Allah, Subhanahu wa

taala, Allah gives him something better than that. Humay saradi,

Allahu anha, rather than dedicating her child to the riches

of the world to become this and become that, she puts him in the

service of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And he's with

the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, serving him as a servant

for 10 years. And after the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa

sallam passes away. What happens to Alad? What happens to servants?

Usually, people don't care. People just push them to this side, that

side, an asynchrony. Malik of the Allah, one who becomes the most

respected, the most honorable, the most sought after person amongst

the Sahaba and after, as soon as the Sahaba passes away, people

from all over the world are coming to sit to an asylum aliquot the

Allahu anhu, asking him to make dua, asking him to narrate a

hadith. And Allah, Subhanahu wa Taala has put so much barakah in

an asylum. Aliquy, Allahu Anhu his life because of the dua of the

Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam allahummadi, he Wafi Amari, that

Allah has given him so many children that he had more than 50

grandchildren. Allah has given him so much wealth that he just had a

tremendous amount. And Allah made him live for so long that he was

one of the longest living Sahaba radi, Allahu, anhu, all of that.

Why? Because the mother knew that if I dedicate my child to the

deen, Allah will not waste him. Allah will not make him go left

and right. This was the smartness of the mother. The mother gave him

to servitude of Allah. Gave him to the servant of the Prophet

sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, but Allah, subhanho wa Taala raised

them to a level that today, after 1400 years, we are talking about

him. Today, after 1400 years, people are naming their children

after him. And even at that time, even amongst the greatest of the

company, of the company, the best of the timing, the best of the

timing, the best of the generation, was that of the

Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, even among them, an asylum

article, the Allah, one who is one of those stars, one of those

people that everybody knew about, he passes away. He's not even the

Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, pass away and an

asynchrony, malaria, the Allah, one who is not even 20.

Look at the status that he has achieved at this stage and

asynchronous the Allah, one who isn't the only Sahabi at this

young age, who's achieved such a tremendous level of honor, respect

and izzah in the eyes of people, you have Subhanallah Zayd ibn

abitra Radi Allahu Anhu. When the Prophet sallallahu, alayhi wa

sallam, goes to Madina. He's about six, seven years old. He dedicated

himself to the Quran. And his early teens, he becomes qatibul

Wahi. He gets the tremendous opportunity of writing down wahi,

and one of the only people who actually wrote the wahi. And when

the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam needed somebody to learn a

whole entire language. It comes in sunnah. Abhi Dawood that when the

Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam wanted somebody to translate from

Hebrew to Arabic, he told zaydub nusabb, I want you to learn

Hebrew. He went and learned it in two weeks. He went and learned it

in two weeks he would come and he would translate for the Prophet

salallahu alayhi wa sallam, the Prophet sallallahu. Alayhi wa

sallam passes away an asynchronous one who is in his teens, young

kid, and what Abu Bakr RadiAllahu, one who gives him one of the

greatest tasks anybody ever has been given in this ummah till the

last day, one of the greatest task Abu Bakr RadiAllahu gives them is

what Jamal Quran, the whole process of collecting the

different pieces of the Quran and putting it to one book, putting

into one piece who was giving this task? Zayd Musa Abu taradi Allahu

anhu, a young Sahabi. So my dear respected community, let's raise

the power higher. Let's not be content with just the memorization

of the Quran. Let's not be content with just coming to the masjid.

Let's aim for how our children can become Islamic scholars. Can

become scholars in sciences and mathematics and economics, in

sciences in the tafsir and Sciences of the Hadith and

Sciences of the Aqeedah. These are what we want our kids to become.

We need to come out of this mentality that the West has put

into us, that when you're 18, you're an adult, when you're 21

you're allowed to do this. We do not need to look at 18 or 20.

21 for us, our planning for our children become before they're

born, we start to think. Look at Maryam alaihi salam, right? What

are her parents thinking? Even before she's born, we will

dedicate to Allah, Subhanahu wa taala, before the children are

born, we say we will dedicate them to Allah. We plan for them of how

they will learn, how will they be raised in a Muslim community, and

how can they contribute to the Muslim ummah, whether that is in

the worldly sciences, whether that is in the Dini sciences, and to

say, we don't even need to separate both. They can become the

greatest of the scholars in both sciences not only contribute to

the Muslim world, but contribute to the global civilization. This

is the aim. This is the bar. This is the standard that we need to

reach. We ask Allah subhana wa Taala to give us the ability to

understand. Ask Allah subhanahu wa taala the ability to understand

and to implement and to preach to others. WA dawah alhamdulillahi,

Rabbil Alameen wa Salaam Alaikum.

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