Yasir Qadhi – Lessons from the Grandfather Abu Diya – Becoming a Wave of Change
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The Prophetrows have created false false predictions and false scenarios, leading to false outcomes. The importance of human rights and citizens' ability to not seek help from any other than Islam is emphasized. The importance of faith and willingness to contribute back to society is emphasized, particularly in the field of technology, medicine, and engineering. The importance of staying true to one's values and goals is emphasized, and the need for people to rise up in their fields and become the best versions of Islam is emphasized. The importance of effort and rewarding oneself is emphasized, and the need for people to be inspired by others to become stronger Muslims and strong in their faith is emphasized.
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Do something for the cause of Islam.
Be righteous wherever you are.
You have no excuse, and I have no
excuse.
Allah has blessed us with so much.
Take what Allah has blessed you with.
Absorb all that you can.
And we seek refuge in Allah from the
evil of our souls and the consequences of
our actions.
Whomever Allah guides can never be misguided and
whoever is misguided cannot be guided except with
Him.
I bear witness and I testify that there
is no God other than Allah Jalla Jalaluhu,
and I bear witness and I testify that
the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is his
final Prophet and his most perfect worshipper.
As to what follows, know, O Muslims, that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has commanded us
to have consciousness of him when he says
in the Qur'an يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا
اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلَا تَمُوتُنَّ إِلَّا وَأَنْتُمُ
مُسْلِمُونَ Dear Muslims, in a hadith that has
been oft quoted and many of you have
heard it so many times, our Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam predicted a reality that we are
currently witnessing.
In a famous hadith reported in the Musnad
of Imam Ahmad and in other books of
hadith, he is narrated to have said, It
is only a matter of time, it is
only a matter of time before the other
nations of the world will call one another
to attack you.
يُوشِكُ أَن تَدَاعَ لِكُمُ الْأُمَمُ كَمَا تَدَاعَ الْأَكَلَةُ
إِلَى قَصْعَتِهَا Just like people are invited to
eat from a common plate, just like you
invite people for a wedding, for an invitation,
for a feast, a festival, come eat, come,
come, come.
So too, the nations of the earth will
be vying, will be openly boasting to come
and attack and no one will come and
defend you.
They said, Ya Rasulullah, is it because we
are so few in number?
أَوَ مِن قِلَّ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ The Sahaba
could not imagine how this could happen, it
must be that there's nobody there, it must
be we are so few in number.
And he said, لا ولَكِنَّكُمْ غُثَاءٌ كَغُثَءِ السَّيْرِ
No, but you will be like the foam
of the ocean.
Frequent, everywhere you see it, but like the
top, the froth, you know every wave it
has a little bit of foam.
Every wave it comes, you see that froth
at the top.
You will be everywhere to see, but you
won't really have an impact.
Quantity is there, but there's no quality.
You will be like the foam of the
ocean.
You will have lots of people, but these
people will not actually be able to do
something.
And the Prophet ﷺ said, Allah ﷻ will
remove from the hearts of your opponents any
mahaba, any awe and fear that they used
to have, Allah will remove it.
And Allah will inflict your own hearts with
a weakness.
They said, what weakness, Ya Rasulullah?
He said, حُبُّ الدُّنْيَا وَكَرَهِيَةُ الْمَوْتِ An obsessive
love of this world and not even wanting
or preparing.
You're hating death, you're not thinking about death.
Now this beautiful hadith, of course it is
really, we're living this reality as we see.
Who could have imagined the types of massacres
that have taken place for the last year
and two months?
Who could have imagined the types of images
coming from Gaza?
Who could have imagined that the oppressor continuously
paints itself as the victim and the broader
world is actually passing laws to protect the
oppressor and to protect any type of victimization
of those people?
Whereas every single attempt to help Palestine, to
help Gaza, to help the children of Gaza,
to help the orphans of Gaza, it is
being vetoed and blocked by the United Nations.
Who could have imagined we are live witnessing
a genocide, the likes of which we have
not seen since World War II?
And at least in World War II, it
was not being live broadcast.
At least in World War II, they said,
we didn't know about it until after it
happened.
Who could have imagined that the callousness that
we are seeing, we are still having a
solution, don't have a solution in sight.
So the hadith is taking place in front
of us.
The nations of the world are openly calling
one another to attack, to slaughter, to enable
that genocide.
And all of our 55 plus countries have
not been able to send any actual military
aid in defense of our brothers and sisters.
Who could have imagined this?
But our Prophet ﷺ not only imagined, he
predicted.
Our Prophet ﷺ told us exactly this would
happen.
So the question that arises, oh Muslims, the
very awkward question, the question that arises, what
will it take for us to stop being
the foam and to become the wave of
the ummah?
What will it take for us to stop
being useless and to start being useful?
What will it take for us to stop
being impotent and to become powerful?
What will it take for us to stop
being inactive and to become active in the
globe as we once were?
Because once upon a time, the ummah was
the wave that shook the globe.
Once upon a time, the ummah was the
light upon which the entire globe was mesmerized,
looking at the charisma, looking at the beauty,
looking at the power, looking at the technological,
the military and the intellectual achievements.
But what happened?
Where did all of that go?
And how can we bring all of that
back?
Exactly as the Prophet ﷺ said, that the
awe that people used to have of you
shall be removed from their hearts.
Which means once upon a time, they had
that awe.
Once upon a time, they looked up to
us.
Once upon a time, we ruled the world.
And then what did the Prophet ﷺ say?
That awe that they had shall be removed.
Means it was there.
That's why it's going to be removed.
They had it.
It's going to be taken away.
And it was taken away.
And it is taken away.
Our lives, the ummah's lives, Palestinian lives, Muslim
lives, are the cheapest lives in the globe.
Nobody cares.
There is no outcry.
There is no outrage.
Nothing happens.
Why?
Because the fact of the matter is, our
pain is not in their eyes human pain.
Our suffering doesn't register on their scales.
We have the wrong skin color.
We have the wrong faith.
We have the wrong background.
And alhamdulillah thumma alhamdulillah, in this last year,
so many realities have been made clear.
The hypocrisy of the world order that claims
to champion human rights.
The hypocrisy of the UN.
The hypocrisy of those that said, we want
freedom.
We want democracy.
We want human rights.
And where is all of that when the
slaughter is going on?
And even now, brothers and sisters, last week,
when the taghiyah of Sham was kicked out,
the Firaun of our times, and I don't
mind saying this, when he was kicked out
and expelled, the one who made 13 million
refugees, when he became a refugee himself, and
he flees the land after having led mass
graves, 150,000 people killed in one grave
site alone.
And now the BBC comes to interview the
ruler.
All of the zulm, all of the fasad,
all of the pillage and the * and
the torture is forgotten.
And the BBC asks the ruler, will you
allow the citizens to drink alcohol?
Will you allow the women to go without
hijab?
La hawla wa la quwata illa billah.
Have you no shame?
Have you no shame after all that this
person has done?
And now the one question on your mind,
will the citizens be allowed to drink alcohol?
O Muslims, understand the reality of what is
going on.
Do not seek izzah from any other than
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Do not seek help from any other than
the mawla.
Allah is our mawla and we have no
mawla other than Him.
This last year has been an awakening call
for the entirety of the ummah.
And we thank Allah.
Allah has chosen our Palestinian brothers and sisters.
The people of Gaza have lost their lives,
but their lives have not been lost in
vain.
It was their lives being lost that awakened
us.
It was their tragedy that caused us to
open our eyes.
So back to the question today, when our
Prophet ﷺ told us that we will be
like the foam of the ocean.
The question I ask you, what will it
take for us to stop being the foam
and to become the waves that we once
were?
We'll answer that straight from this hadith.
Straight from this hadith.
We can extract from this hadith specific aspects
that we all need to change in our
own lives.
First and foremost, number one, the hadith tells
us from the get-go, it is not
quantity that Allah is interested in, it is
quality.
Literally the hadith says, you will be like
the foam of the ocean.
What is the foam of the ocean?
It's everywhere.
But it's useless.
So what does that indicate?
It is not quantity that Allah is seeking,
it is quality.
And that means stop passing the buck to
other people.
That means stop blaming other people and saying
look at this and look at that.
And start asking yourself, what am I doing?
What am I doing to raise the quality
in my own life?
What am I doing to contribute to the
ummah?
What am I doing to come closer to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and impact my
family, my friends, my locality in the best
that I can.
Stop passing the blame onto others and start
looking in the mirror and developing quality from
within.
What Allah wants is quality.
What Allah wants is sincerity.
What Allah wants is you yourself, be the
best you can be.
And when all of us start doing that,
we will have both quality and quantity.
So point number one, prioritize quality over quantity.
Prioritize your own determination, your own iman, your
own ikhlas, your own tawakkul.
Develop your own relationship with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
Use the global tragedies to make you a
better person.
Don't just sit there and talk and moan
and groan and blame.
Use that energy, use that passion, use that
pain to then channel it into your own
self and raise the bar in your own
life.
Be a better person.
Conquer your baser instincts.
Make sure you're coming to fajr in the
masjid.
Make sure your salawat are on time.
Make sure you're contributing back to the community.
Bring that quality out in you.
And slowly but surely that is our step
one in raising the bar of the ummah,
quality over quantity.
Number two, the metaphor that is in this
hadith, and of course the Prophet ﷺ is
speaking in the most profound metaphors.
He talks about the foam and the wave,
right?
And what is the foam?
The foam is the froth on the top.
And the wave is coming from deep inside.
The way we don't actually see it, you
know modern scientists they tell us, waves are
actually formed deep inside the ocean.
We see the effects on the top, but
waves go very deep.
They're formed from the very bottom of the
ocean.
And as for the foam, where is it
formed?
It's formed right at the top, it comes
and it goes.
So one thing we learn from this metaphor
is that what Allah is asking from us
is that we stop being reactionary, minimally going
where the waves go.
We become the waves.
We stop going with the contours of society.
We stop being reactionary, and start being visionary.
Start thinking, start planning, start having steps ahead.
What are we doing with our lives, our
communities, our societies?
One of our biggest problems is that we
are not thinking long term.
We are literally thinking today, nafsi, nafsi.
We are simply going with the flow.
Where the flow goes, like the foam of
the ocean, we also go.
You will not become the wave if you
remain up there at the foam.
You will not become the wave if you're
always reactionary.
You will not become the wave if you
go where society goes.
And in order to go deeper, in order
to become the wave, you have to leave
what society is saying.
You have to leave the currents that are
going, and do not derive your values, your
ideology, your theology from the time and the
place that you live in.
Go deeper, and you go to the Qur
'an and sunnah.
You go to the religion that this Allah
has revealed.
Your ethics, your values, your system, your theology,
it will be taken from the deepest sources,
and that is the source that Allah revealed.
Do not be affected by the currents of
the time.
These currents change every 10-20 years, and
I speak especially to the youth here.
Do not be so shallow as to think
the one time and place you are born
into is the eternal truth.
No!
Society changes, culture changes, value changes, ethics changes,
but Allah's message does not change.
So do not be affected by the currents
and societies taking place, and go deeper and
study your religion.
Learn what you need to learn from Allah's
revelation.
That is the infallible teaching.
That is the eternal teaching.
And once you have done that, you're gonna
solidify yourself.
You're gonna anchor yourself.
You will no longer be the froth and
the foam.
You will no longer just be going where
the society goes, because you have established yourself
deep into the ground.
That is another reality.
A third reality we learn from this hadith
itself, and this is coming straight from this
hadith, is that the Prophet ﷺ said, Allah
will remove from the hearts of those that
don't like you.
Allah will remove the respect and awe that
they used to have.
You have to ask yourselves, why did they
have that respect and awe?
What was it that we were doing that
allowed them to have that mahaba?
The Arabic word mahaba, hayba.
Hayba means they're in awe of you.
Hayba means they're just mesmerized at what you've
done.
And when you look at early Islam, two
things come to mind that are obvious.
Number one, the sincerity and power of their
faith.
And number two, their willingness to contribute to
global society by giving the world the gifts
of technology, of mathematics, of optics, of all
of these sciences, medicine.
As children we learn what the Muslims contributed
to the West.
Why is it that we're no longer contributing?
Why is it that we're now on the
receiving end?
So if you wanna have that hayba that
we used to have, if you wanna have
that respect that we used to have, go
back to why we used to have it.
Be firm upon your deen and then master
the dunya to the best of your ability.
Be firm upon your religion and then contribute
back to society.
Be the best you can be in your
fields.
Whatever your fields are, whatever your specialties are,
whatever your expertise is, I want you to
be the top of the top.
I want you to strive to be the
best of the best for the sake of
Allah, for the sake of this ummah, for
the sake of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam.
I want you to rise and shine.
Be a leader in your own sub-community.
Whether it is in IT, whether it is
in programming, whether it is in business, whether
it is in engineering, I want you, every
Muslim, to rise up in your company and
to be the best person you can be
while you're proud to be Muslim.
This is how izzah is obtained.
Deen and dunya put together.
Deen and dunya combined.
That is what the early sahaba tabi'oon,
that is what the great imams did.
Unfortunately now, many of our religious folks have
nothing to do with the dunya.
Many of the dunya folks have nothing to
do with the deen.
This is our problem.
We need both of them combined.
This is what makes Islam so great.
To be the best at both and to
be proud Muslims and to have the relationship
with Allah and still contribute back to society.
Look at our giants, look at our icons,
look at the people in the past who
contributed and literally shaped the global civilization.
You find in them a pride of the
religion and you find in them a mastery
of their traditions.
Why can't we replicate that?
And so the third point is that nowhere
in the religion does it say, if you
want to contribute, you have to cut off
from the dunya.
Go and live in a mosque and lock
the door and pray.
No, that's not our faith.
That is hermitism.
That is a version of Christianity.
Nowhere in our tradition does it say, the
only way to contribute is by going studying
in a madrasa.
No, oh youth.
One out of 10,000 needs to go
to madrasa.
The other 9,999 stay here and master
the worldly sciences.
Be the best you can be and rise
up and contribute back to the city, the
land that you live in.
Make yourself a role model.
You don't have to mention Islam all the
time but be a Muslim.
Never be embarrassed about your Islam.
You don't have to give da'wah every
time you stand up.
Your presence becomes da'wah.
Your personality becomes da'wah.
Your charisma becomes da'wah.
That is the best da'wah and we
need you all to do this and so
my plea to you from this hadith is
stop thinking superficially.
Become the best in deen and dunya so
that the mahaba, so that the respect and
awe that those people used to have, they
shall return to having it right now.
And wallahi, we have the talent, we have
the resources, we have the diversity.
Here in North America, we are the most
diverse religious group ever.
Here in North America, we're of the most
educated of all religious communities.
We have everything.
It's just a matter of connecting it and
having that vision.
So this is the third thing we learn
from the hadith.
And the fourth thing that we'll take from
this hadith, the fourth thing that we'll take
is exactly what our Prophet ﷺ pinpointed the
problem.
What did he say?
He said, you're going to fear meeting Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
You're not gonna be thinking about the akhira
and your only goal will become the dunya.
You see, this is a paradigm shift.
This is a paradigm shift.
When Ali radiallahu anhu was asked about his
philosophy, he said, I work in this dunya
as if I'm gonna live forever.
But I prepare for the akhira as if
I'm gonna die tonight.
I work for the dunya as if I'm
gonna live forever.
I do the best as if whatever I
do, I'm gonna benefit millions of years, no
problem.
But I'm prepared to meet Allah at any
second.
That combination, that is what changes everything.
O Muslims, we are told to remind ourselves
of death, not because we wanna live morbid
lives, not because we wanna walk around depressed,
thinking I'm not gonna be here in a
100 years, even though none of us is
gonna be here in a 100, 120 years.
Not a single person realistically is gonna be
here.
We're all gonna be gone like our ancestors
before us.
Why does the shari'ah, why does the
Qur'an, why did our Prophet ﷺ say,
أَكْثِرُوا مِن ذِكْرِ هَادِمِ اللَّذَّاتِ Continuously think about
the destroyer of all pleasures.
Why are we told to think about death?
Because when you remind yourselves of death, subhanAllah,
you live the most productive and peaceful lives.
When you remind yourselves that, you know what,
this is temporary.
What I have, I have.
What I don't have, I don't have.
Alhamdulillah.
It changes your whole paradigm.
Whereas when you're greedy for the dunya, and
you don't think of the akhirah, when your
only concern and ham is the dunya, when
you're only worried about your bank account, and
your balance, and your houses, and your cars,
and what not, then you will not contribute
to the future of your own ummah.
You're only gonna live for yourself.
And the minute you remove that impediment, and
the minute you realize, I shall live forever
in the akhirah, and this world is temporary,
and whatever I do, Allah عز و جل
will bless and reward me forever and ever
and ever, if I do it right.
Once you start thinking along those paradigms, all
of a sudden, you start invigorating, you lift
the blinds and the shackles of selfishness.
And you become the most noble, and the
most dignified person there is.
Why?
Because you truly want to live forever in
the hereafter.
And you know you will only live forever
if you live good in your temporary life
over here.
The most people you can impact, the greatest
cause and changes you can do, the greatest
positives you can bring, that will be your
legacy.
Once you start thinking along those lines, then
all of a sudden, you ask yourself, what
can I contribute today?
What can I do over here?
How can I change the situation over here?
What one person can I benefit?
When I'm gone, his sadaqah jari will continue
after I go away.
And you start becoming a person of action,
not a person of talk, a person of
change, not a person of complaint.
Once you start thinking of the akhirah, and
you remove from yourself, and notice he said,
حُبَّ الدُّنْيَةِ He didn't say, it's haram to
live in the world.
No.
We want to live in the world, we
want a comfortable life.
رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَةِ حَسَنًا There's no problem
enjoying life.
Don't make life your goal.
Don't make the pleasures of this world your
goal.
There's no problem enjoying what Allah has given
you.
Enjoy your good house, enjoy your car, enjoy
the blessings, no problem.
But don't make it your goal.
Because that goal is a useless goal.
You're gonna be gone, I'm gonna be gone.
The ultimate goal is the akhirah.
وَإِنَّ الدَّارَ الْآخِرَةَ لَهِيَ الْحَيَوَانَ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ
The real life is the life of the
akhirah if they only understood.
So once you remove that from your heart,
حُبَّ الدُّنْيَةِ and you start thinking of mawt,
and again, thinking of mawt doesn't mean you
live a morbid life.
It doesn't mean you become depressed when you
realize, I'm gonna be gone.
You start thinking, what can I do in
my one life to make it the most
productive?
What can I do with the time that
Allah has given me to make me the
end all, to be all the best that
can be?
And that is the goal that Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala wants.
Realize, oh Muslims, Allah will judge you not
based upon the results, but based upon your
effort.
And once you understand it is your effort
that Allah will bless.
Allah doesn't care about results because Allah is
in charge of results.
You're not gonna be judged by results because
you don't bring about results.
Allah brings the results.
Allah is wasabbib al-asbaab.
You don't bring results, Allah does.
How can Allah judge you with what He
is responsible for?
You are responsible for what?
For your effort, for trying.
Your goal, you wanna try to leave the
largest impact.
You wanna try to benefit the most people.
You wanna try to have the greatest legacy.
And in that trying, in that trying, Allah
will bless you.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala mentions in the
Qur'an, إِنَّ سَعْيَكُمْ مَشْكُورًۭا Your trying will
be blessed and rewarded by Allah.
إِنَّ سَعْيَكُمْ لَشَدَّةً Allah wants your sa'i.
Sa'i here means you're trying.
Allah wants your effort and energy.
And the rest you leave it to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Once you understand, O Muslims, that success and
failure is not judged by results, but by
effort.
How empowering is that?
How invigorating is that?
How liberating is that?
Allah doesn't care about whether you actually succeed
or not in this dunya because He's in
charge of that.
Allah cares did you try.
And if you try to succeed, and if
you tried your best, then you shall be
marked as a success.
Even if the world doesn't see your success,
Allah will see your success and you'll be
written amongst the successful.
So, O Muslims, go back to this hadith
and make a market effort to stop being
the foam of the ocean.
To stop being the froth of the ocean
and start becoming the change of society.
Start becoming the waves that move and shake
all of society and go back to the
way that it used to be when the
ummah truly was the wave that shook the
globe.
When the ummah went from east to west
and it impacted the whole globe.
And inshaAllah it will do so again.
But only when every one of us rises
up to that challenge.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless me
and you with and through the Qur'an
and may He make us of those whose
verses they understand and applies halal and haram
throughout our life span.
I ask Allah's forgiveness.
He was well asking for His.
The Ghafoor and the Rahman.
Alhamdulillah, all praise is due to Allah, the
one and the unique.
He it is whom we worship and it
is His aid that we seek.
He is the Lord of the oppressed and
He hears the prayer of the weak.
As to what follows, it would be remiss
of me to stand here today in light
of so many incidents that have happened in
this last week.
If I were not to mention one particular
incident that has quite literally shaken the hearts
of every single one of us and especially
myself.
And that is the tragic martyrdom and the
death of our dear brother, the grandfather whose
images shook the entire world.
This one person with that one image, that
one image that he didn't even know was
being recorded.
The ikhlas, the taqwa, the sabr shook the
entire world.
And that is what iman does.
All of the propaganda of the billionaires, all
of the CNNs and the Fox News, all
of the lobbying of Israel and its AIPAC,
all of the superpower governments could not stop
the impact of one simple grandfather's love.
You want to talk about quality?
This is quality right here.
You want to see the impact of what
happens when one person really and truly stands
up for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
You see it in the life and times
of our one brother whose nickname was Abu
Dhiyah, the father of light.
Wallahi, it was as if we were all
in darkness and Allah used him to enlighten
the world.
It was as if his one light, the
simple dignified love.
You know, stereotypically, he looks like the caricature
of what this media teaches us a terrorist
looks like.
This media makes fun of us.
This media caricaturizes us, satirizes us.
His picture, his image, his clothes, his libaas,
his haya, everything is how the media wants
you to be scared of the Muslim terrorist.
And even that proved no match to his
love and dignity, even as his looks were
what they want you to be scared of.
He managed conquering the hearts, not of thousands,
not of millions.
Wallahi, of tens of millions of people around
the world.
I myself have given multiple shahadahs to people
across the country of America.
And I asked them, how did you embrace
Islam?
They said, you know, that video of that
grandfather, you know, that person he held up.
And somebody said to me, I said, I
could not imagine how somebody can be so
patient.
And I said, this must be something to
do with his faith.
And I began researching his faith.
And now he took shahadah with me in
some mosque in Chicago.
Subhanallah.
And Allah blessed me to speak to our
brother multiple times.
And I said to him, Ya Sheikh, Allah
has used you.
Allah has used you to revive the hearts
of millions of people.
I said to him, Ya Sheikh, Anta Qudwatuna.
You are our role model.
And Allah has used you to spread Islam
to tens of millions of people.
And he said to me in shyness and
humility, he said, Alhamdulillah illadhi istakhdama fi ta
'ati.
Alhamdulillah, Allah has used us in the service
of his religion.
He was just happy.
However, he was meant to be used.
And the last Instagram post of his a
few days ago, he expressed the love and
loss of his granddaughter.
And he asked Allah to reunite him with
his granddaughter.
And Allah answered that call.
And this shows you how evil and depraved
the enemies are.
They cannot stand to see love being spread.
They cannot stand to see mercy.
He became an icon of resistance, an icon
of iman, an icon of taqwa.
And so they bombed a refugee camp.
How low and dastardly you need to be.
How inhumane.
He had already been kicked out of his
house in another refugee camp.
They bombed that camp and his granddaughter and
grandson were killed there.
He was then in a temporary refugee camp.
And then they threw a bomb onto that
camp as well because they knew exactly where
he lived and they got rid of this
icon.
But subhanAllah, how foolish can you be?
Do you think you will ever rid the
love that we have of this icon?
Wallahi, your actions and deeds have only demonstrated
your own depravity.
And if anything, it has sealed for us
the real level and the fate of this
brother of ours.
Wallahi, we read in the past of those
icons of the great times and what they
did.
These aren't just legends and mythologies.
You want to see a real person of
the salaf, a real warrior from the time
of the past?
They're amongst us and we saw it in
the life and times of Abu Dhiya.
Khalid al-Nabhan.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless him
and have mercy on him and raise him
to the highest levels of shahada.
But his death cannot be in vain, O
Muslims.
His death and the death of tens of
thousands, hundreds of thousands of people.
With his death, we should be inspired.
We should take courage.
Wallahi, how is it that he himself in
that circumstance and in that reality, he was
contributing to his own community.
There are video footages of him having lost
his own grandchildren and now going to the
orphanages and playing with them.
He's an elderly man, 67 years old and
he's jumping with the little kids who don't
have mothers and fathers to bring happiness.
He's bringing toys to them.
He goes and visits his mother and gives
her a rose and says, Ya ummah, cheer
up.
Everything will be good.
When he had nothing, he still gave love.
If he has no excuse, what excuse do
you and I have?
So brothers and sisters, stand up for the
ummah.
Do something for the cause of Islam.
Be righteous wherever you are.
You have no excuse and I have no
excuse.
Allah has blessed us with so much.
Take what Allah has blessed you with.
Absorb all that you can.
Be the best Muslim you can be and
then stand up and contribute.
Make a change.
Bring happiness to people's lives.
Showcase the reality of this faith.
If every one of us did that, if
every one of us came together and united
for the sake of Allah, Wallahi, we would
become that wave.
We would become the wave that shakes the
entire globe.
But unfortunately, what is the reality of us?
Nafsi, nafsi.
Myself, myself.
And not just that, dividing ourselves into ethnic
lines, dividing ourselves into sectarian lines.
The problem is all us.
Who needs an enemy when we cause so
much damage to ourselves or Muslims?
So please, for the sake of Allah, overcome
the pettiness in your heart.
Overcome the issues that you have.
Be the best Muslim.
Come together with as many people as you
can and contribute back to society.
Let not the loss of all of our
brothers and sisters, let not the loss of
Abu Dhiyah be in vain.
And be inspired by them so that insha
'Allah ta'ala we can do whatever we
can do.
I'm not comparing whatever we can do to
him.
But still, be inspired to become better and
go down that path and Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala will give you a better life
in this world and most importantly, a better
life in the next.
Allahumma a'iza al-Islam wa al-Muslimeen
Allahumma man arada al-Islam wa al-Muslimeen
abu al-Sumin fajghilhu binafsih wa ja'al
tadmeerahu fi tadbeerihi Ya qawiyu ya aziz Ibadallah,
inna Allaha ta'ala amarakum bi amri bada
binafsih wathanna bimalakadi qudusih wathallata bikum ayyuhal mu
'nun min jinnihi wa insih fa qala a
'zamin qa'ilin alimah inna Allaha wa malakadu
yusalluna ala al-Nabi Ya ayyuhal ladhina amanu
sallu alaihi wa sallimu taslima Allahumma salli wa
sallim wa barik wa an'im ala abdikur
Rasulika Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma
'een Ibadallah, inna Allaha ta'ala ya'mur bil
-adli wal-ihsani wa ita'idhi al-qurba
wa yanha'an al-fahsha'i wa al
-munkari wa al-baghi ya'idhukum la'allakum
tadhakkarun Udhkuru Allah al-'Azim yadhkurkum wa shkuru yazid
lakum wa ladhkuru Allah ta'ala akbar wa
aqim as-salah Allahumma
salli wa alaihi wa sahbihi ajma'een