Yasir Khan – Jummah Pay It Forward Imam
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All praise due to Allah
See, sometimes we need to pause
and really reflect upon this term.
All praise due to Allah
that blessed you and I with another.
All praise due to Allah
that allowed us to wake up this morning.
All praise due to Allah
that gave us the health
that allowed us to crawl out of our
beds this morning.
All praise due to Allah
that allowed us to start our days this
morning.
All praise due to Allah
that we woke up with iman.
Last but not least,
all praise due to Allah
that gave you and I this privilege,
this amazing niyama,
this bounty
to come to the house of Allah and
worship Him.
Brothers and sisters in Islam,
we have to
remind ourselves
and we also have to hear the following,
that it is nothing
that you and I have done from ourselves
that we deserve
to be here to worship Allah
at this Masjid.
It is nothing but the mercy of Allah.
It is nothing but the mercy of Allah
There were
brothers and sisters that were with us last
Friday on planet Earth,
and they're not with us today.
I'm reminded of
our brothers and sisters in Gaza.
May Allah
help them. May Allah
assist them. May Allah
remove
that oppression from them. May Allah
stop the hand of the oppressor.
May Allah
allow our brothers and sisters
to be blessed with
much more stronger iman that you and I
are feeding off of
us that we're sitting here today.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in the
Quran,
If you were to enumerate my blessings,
Allah is telling us in the Quran.
If you were to enumerate
to count,
The blessings of Allah.
You would never be able to do so.
Behind every blessing of Allah,
there are millions of blessings.
This water that I just drink from, I
was thinking about the following.
You know, something as,
you know, clean, potable,
sweet water that you and I or I
take for granted.
There are millions of children
in this world right now
that are unable to get an education
because of lack of clean water.
Why is that? Why is that? What's the
correlation between the 2?
You have millions of children that walk out
of their homes with
buckets, with pails, with pots and pans, and
they start walking to the closest
clean, potable water source.
They're walking for hours,
but the time they collect water and they
head back home, by the time they arrive,
homeschool is already out.
Just this water alone.
We are so blessed, and it may strange
it it may sound strange when I say
it, but really, it is a blessing.
And I'm just giving the example of water
that we don't even have to think twice,
Is the water in my home safe to
drink, to bathe with, to cook with?
We get to dictate the temperature of the
water we bathe with.
These are all blessings of Allah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in the
Quran
and there's a principle I would like to
share
for my own benefit first and
for everyone else
Along with that, there's a principle that we
find in Surah Kasas where Allah
tells us
This is the topic for today's khutba, pay
it forward.
One way to define what Allah is saying
in this principle,
pay it forward.
What do you mean?
Asin. Allah says, Asin.
Be good towards others.
Do good towards others.
As Allah has been good to you,
pay it forward.
Now, we may ask ourselves,
how can I pay it forward?
I have a list of things that I
personally try to implement in my life.
Easier said than done, I have to admit.
But I'm sharing these things that, insha'Allah,
this is a reminder
for all of you righteous men and women
coming here to the house of Allah.
Allah tells us to remind the believers.
Remind.
Reminders benefit the believers.
So in spirit of that,
how can we pay it forward?
And the list that I have
to share
is not something that it asks
it's demanding us to go out of our
way.
These are things that, Insha'Allah,
I have
I have this positive assumption that all of
us have these things in our lives already,
but it's good to be reminded.
You don't have to go out of your
way to do these things, to pay it
forward.
Number 1
is through our good character,
the way we carry ourselves.
Rasulullah
said, this is in Sunan Abu Dawood,
narrated by Abdul
Such a beautiful hadith.
Rasulullah
says, those that have this quality of mercy
and kindness.
The one who is Ar Rahman
is
kind and
merciful towards them.
In other words,
and amongst the things that I'm trying to
live by personally,
is your said and done?
Is living our lives in such a manner
that I am going to show mercy to
someone
so that Allah can show mercy to this
sinful existence
Is he said and done?
To forgive someone so that Allah can forgive
me.
To forego
or to,
you know,
to walk away from a situation,
to have him,
to control one's emotions
so that Allah can hold back on his
gazeb.
Easier said than done.
But this is something we can all bring
into our lives.
See,
today,
we could all use little bit more kindness.
Little bit more.
Of course, I'm not saying let people wallop
over you.
You stand for your rights.
But the way we carry ourselves,
open you know, holding the door for somebody,
Initiating salaam.
Smiling.
Using extra verbiage in our text messages
that lets the other person feel the warmth
that you're expressing in that text message.
One more sentence maybe. It it could make
that person's day.
With our
fast paced lifestyle, we could all use some
more kindness.
The way we carry ourselves.
Because the opposite
respectfully,
if we don't look after our character, if
we don't look after the way we carry
ourselves,
then it it will cost us heavily on
yomulkayama.
We find narrations
where a person shows up for the sake
of time, I'm going to paraphrase,
a person shows up on the day of
judgment, the famous Hadith of Manil Mufless.
This person shows up with this
mass amount of good deeds.
This person made it with good deeds
onto the plains of Tayama.
But one person walks up
and files a complaint, Indallah,
that, oh Allah,
this person wronged me in this manner.
This person hurt me in that manner.
This person owes me this.
Allah
will say
to those individuals
that need to be paid back by this
person,
that the only currency today is his good
deeds.
The only way he or she could pay
you back is through
his or her good deeds.
Go and take from the good deeds.
Fast forward,
people will line up and he will be
left with nothing at the end,
So much so that people will begin to
offload their bad deeds into his or her
account because this person had no longer
had anything to give. Allah will say to
the people,
he does not have anything to give, now
offload your bad deeds into this person into
the person's account.
It is incumbent upon us
that we pay very close attention to the
way we carry ourselves.
It's very important.
Part of
good character
is utilizing
our Allah given talent and skills.
Another form
of Be good towards others. Be a source
of khair for others
as Allah has been good to you.
Every single one of us has something to
offer,
and that is a fact.
Yeah. It's a separate discussion that
we may need to some of us
may need to go down the path to
identify what that hidden talent is,
but everyone has something to offer.
Everybody.
If you are a student
and you're good at a certain subject,
you could be
helping your fellow students in that respective class
or in that field.
That is your way of paying it forward.
In your professional life,
again,
there's always
room for one more. There's always room to
do some extra khair.
Sometimes,
it's simply connecting to people.
Right? When you have the intentionality of helping
somebody,
maybe by the shoe rack or outside,
Right? As
it's found.
A shoe rack talk.
Someone comes across, oh, I'm facing this challenge,
or I'm trying to find someone that does
this good,
or does you know, I'm looking for somebody
in this specific field. Oh, I know a
guy.
Connect them through text message
and That is your way of paying it
forward. It doesn't cost you anything.
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
told us,
whoever fulfill the needs of his brother,
Allah will fulfill his needs.
The strange thing is that between this and
the previous
method of giving back or paying it forward,
is that from the outwards, it may look
like
that
we're the ones on the ground benefiting somebody,
but in the long run, we're benefiting ourselves.
We're benefiting ourselves with good character.
We're benefiting ourselves.
Allah is going to be in our aid
and assistance
so long we are in the aid and
assistance of someone else.
And one more thing to point out,
objectively,
both of these things
don't cost us any money yet.
Honestly,
this is not a fundraiser. I'm not gonna
ask anyone to pull out their credit cards.
No. These are all things we could all
do. These are things that all of us
could contribute towards.
To conclude with the first.
We as believers
need to have the mindset.
In this example,
the bottle
being this much full, 3 quarters full,
instead of looking at it, but, oh, man.
You said you don't even have a you
don't you don't even have a full bottle
of water.
Remind ourselves what Allah has not blessed us
with.
Ask ourselves,
what did Allah not bless us with?
And see how we can earn Allah's pleasure
by paying forward in
as much as possible.
Why? For the pleasure of Allah.
Brothers and sisters in Islam,
one definition of a believer
is someone who is beneficial towards others.
In many respects, that's the bottom line.
We,
as Muslims,
have been blessed with the deen,
part of which
in its foundation,
we find
selflessness.
Zakah, which is the pillar of Islam.
It is literally part of our deen.
Of course, for those of us that is
due upon us to give our zakah, but
the concept is there. It's part of our
deen
to have some level of ether,
to have some level of preference
to others over ourselves.
In other words, our deen
programs us to be selfless.
The challenge is we live in a very
selfish society.
One more reason why we come to the
house of Allah, to be reminded
that, oh brother, oh sister in Islam,
yes,
you may be living in the West.
You may be living in a very selfish
society.
My time, my money, my home, my car,
everything, mine, mine, mine, mine, in a very
capitalistic
society. But remember,
your deen
expects you to be selfless
in a selfish society.
It is not befitting for a believer to
be selfish.
A believer
is someone that wherever this believer goes
is a source of hate for other people.
It doesn't matter where, from elementary school all
the way up to wherever
life takes you.
One definition of a believer
is that individual
that is
some sort of benefit
to someone else.
And when I say someone else, I'm implying
transcending the Muslim community.
We all heard the term actions speak louder
than words.
Perhaps, it's our good character
that will inspire
our coworkers
towards Islam.
Perhaps,
it's our character
when we are utilizing our Allah given skills
and talents
to help our non Muslim neighbor
that could inspire them and attract them towards
Islam,
and the list goes on.
Bottom line,
a Muslim
is someone who is a source of khair.
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said,
to paraphrase,
glad tidings to those people
that are.
Glad tidings to such people that are keys
of Khayr for the Ummah.
Make Dua. Let us all make Dua.
Oh, Allah, make every single one of us
such people
that we are the keys of khair and
goodness wherever we go.
And may Allah never allow us even for
the shortest amount of time possible
for us to be a source of evil.
May Allah
be blessed. May Allah bless everyone. May Allah
increase everyone in their khair, in their health
and wealth and barakah. May Allah
accept the Shahadah and the martyrdom of our
brothers and sisters in Gaza.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala allow us all
to lose our appetite
when we are about to impart on the
when we're when we're about to have a
meal thinking about the hunger our brothers and
sisters are experiencing in the Gaza.
Allow us to
lose sleep when we're laying in our comfortable
beds that our brothers and sisters in Gaza
are
have lost everything.
May Allah
stop the hand of the oppressor. May Allah
help our brothers and sisters in Gaza. May
Allah
allow all of us to do istighfar
and tawba. May Allah
help, assist,
aid
in any way possible our brothers and sisters
If possible, let us silence our cell phones
or turn them off.
Let us pray our salah as if it's
our last salah
because we will never know which salah is
our last salah.
Inshallah tonight,
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