Yasir Qadhi – Working Together For The Greater Good

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			hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah, who raised the heavens and created the creation, he spread for the earth
and beautified it with vegetation. And he gave us the cycle of the night and day in perfect harmony
and alternation. He sent down to us the Koran as the divine book and revelation and made us the oma
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the one who shall occupy the Praiseworthy station. Allah
subhanho wa Taala reminds us in the Quran to have Taqwa of him when he says, yeah you have Latina
multiple la otra parte de Mouton, Illa, one two Muslim one. Do you Muslims? In the first verse of
surah, Allah insha Allah subhanho wa Taala gives us comprehensive advice. And one phrase in that
		

			verse shall be the summary of my hauteville. Allah says, What are our new idle biri? What taqwa what
are our new and then if we will read one, come together and cooperate together upon all matters of
piety, and all matters of good that are pleasing to Allah, and do not come together and cooperate in
matters that are evil or in matters that are transgressive. So in this verse, Allah Subhana, WA tada
reminds us, that as a part of our own, we cannot be individualistic, we cannot be solitary, we
cannot be selfish. We must come together with other people for bigger causes. We must cooperate in
order to do something of substance, one of the greatest sociologists of the oma, in fact the founder
		

			of sociology, our own Eben halden. Eben Haldane, he mentioned in his mocha Jima, that mankind by
nature are social creatures, that mankind by necessity, they must live in groups and communities,
they cannot live by themselves alone in the valleys. We are social creatures. And what that means is
that we cannot live on individual level know, individuals marry and they form families, families
come together form neighborhoods, neighborhoods come together, form subsections subsections come
together for villages and towns and countries and nations and almost an entire civilizations. And at
each one of these levels, there must be cooperation in order for that particular element to
		

			function. at every level. People need to come together, they need to put aside their differences,
and they need to work for a common good. And our Shetty tells us our religion tells us that as a
part of being Muslim, we need to have higher causes. We need to volunteer and spend time and be a
part of a process that is beyond just me, myself and I went to our new idol, taqwa come together and
cooperate in a manner that is good for things that are good. And we see this in any society and in
any corporation. And in any movement. You cannot have a corporation that is successful, you cannot
have a charity group. You cannot have a Masjid or a community except that people have come together
		

			for a greater cause. So the hook but today is a reminder Do not be isolationist. We all have causes
that we can volunteer for. We all have projects that we have a passion to do and our Shetty, I says,
find a project, find a passion, find something that is useful, that is praiseworthy, that is
pleasing to Allah and then come together and work for a greater good because dear Muslims, when we
come together and establish something, then truly we are bigger than the sum of our individual
parts. Think about that. When a group of people come together what they can accomplish is something
far more than what one person alone could accomplish. Look at this beautiful machine of ours could
		

			we have it as a functioning machine without the group support of so many people with so many
different talents? Look at any project, any charity, any NGO, any corporation there must be a
cooperation of talent
		

			Have minds and have hard work and dedication. And each person has a role to play. Each person brings
to the pool what he or she has, and then put together amazing things can happen. And so as we as
well, in our religious lives, we need to understand Allah subhanho wa Taala is commanding us to be a
part of the larger picture. Now, what are some of the things that we can do? How can we be a part of
the larger picture? In today's hood Bauer mentioned three or four points in sha Allah to Allah, the
first two of them, you all know, because we recite this surah every single day, while also in the
insanity of hoser illa larina Amano Amira. salia Hi, this is myself me myself and I those who
		

			believe and do good deeds, you must have that as well. But then what's the next part? What a while
so bill happy what a while so the solver What does the lossy mean? The lossy means they help one
another to lossy means they cooperate, the awasi is not selfishness that will see you get involved
in other people's businesses and affairs in a good manner how what's a while so bill hack this is
one of the ways that we cooperate together as a society we advise to what is good, we encourage
people to that which is the truth if we see an evil even if we cannot correct it with our hands with
our tongue and the least is in our hearts we don't like it we advise one another to be better put
		

			together we strengthen one another whatsoever so been out we preach the truth. We preach Islam we
preach morality we preach all of the good manners of Islam and then what a wall so the suburbs, we
remind one another that indeed patience is a part of life. We remind one another of the difficult
times and that coming together we give words of encouragement times are difficult, there will also
be severe if you give a good word inshallah brother we're going to make it through this inshallah Be
patient, Allah is going to help us words of encouragement when somebody is down words of
encouragement, when somebody is depressed, family and friends come together, what a wall solver
		

			solver you give words that are going to give some power to the person individually, when society
gives you tough problems. You're all alone, it might lead to depression, it might lead to very
dangerous things. When community comes in, family comes in friends come in once a while sober,
sober, they see the problem and they try to solve it by coming together. As they say in English,
having a shoulder to cry on, it makes the pain easier to bear. This is what our religion is telling
us we see a problem we see a sadness, we see a grief, we step up to the plate and we offer our
shoulder to also have a sub come we will do in this together we're going to be patient and Allah is
		

			going to help us so these are two things that the Quran mentions, number one to also be always
preaching the truth number two to also the sub helping at times of difficulty, and this leads to the
third point which is based upon this as well, and that is as a prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
said, manifests I mean and Kuru batterman, Cora bit dounia. Whoever helps his brother solve any of
the problems of this world, Allah azza wa jal will help solve a problem of his in the ark era.
Beautiful Hadith brothers and sisters, whoever eliminates a grief or worry of any brother of his in
this dunya. Allah will eliminate his grief on the Day of Judgment. Don't you want to have no grief
		

			on the day of judgment? Don't you want to be stress free on the Day of Judgment, this Hadees tells
us find a brother or sister in stress and make sure they're out of that stress, financial issues
time, a comforting word, a shoulder to cry on any help that you can give to a brother, a neighbor, a
friend, a family member, you give that help. Whoever eliminates a problem from his Muslim brother,
Allah will eliminate his problems on the Day of Judgment. In another Hadith, our Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said, Whoever makes his brother happy, Allah will make him happy on the Day of
Judgment. You want to be happy on the Day of Judgment, find somebody sad and cheer him up. He's in a
		

			difficult situation. You can do something, find somebody who is in need of some help, and you're
able to help and help doesn't have to be only financial help can be a cheerful spirit, a positive
attitude. A phone call when they're down help can be just doing something smaller, trivial. They
don't have a car, help them go do their groceries in your car, something small, but you enter
happiness into their life. This is cooperation. This is coming together. What are our new adult
taqwa whoever makes his brother happy, Allah will make him happy on the Day of Judgment, and that's
why our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said the best of all of mankind are those that are the
		

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			beneficial to the rest of mankind. Hi, Ron nasi And Pharaoh homeliness, the best of mankind are
those who help others amongst mankind, be helpful, be cheerful, do whatever you can, at the
individual level, at the neighborhood level at the family and friends level at the community level.
And if you're able to add the city and state and nation level as well do something useful, and Allah
azzawajal will bless you in this world and in the next, there are so many incidents from this era,
so many beautiful stories of the Muslims coming together and accomplishing so much you cannot
accomplish even a fraction of what needs to be done. If you are alone. You must have a community, a
		

			group of people, you must have like minded individuals that have a specific goal in mind. And they
come together to do that goal in the famous incident of the battle over the hunted up the Battle of
the trench. All of the Sahaba had to come together to build that trench in two weeks, so much so
even the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, he jumped into the trench himself, and he pulled it up
his cloth, his bottom cloth, he folded it up, and he started digging himself along with the rest of
the Sahaba That's what you call teamwork. Everybody was doing it and the incident of tabuk when they
ran out of food, some people had no food to eat. Do you know what the prophet sallallahu alayhi
		

			wasallam said that everybody bring whatever little that they have, share cooperate. So one person
brought one date another person brought just the date seat another person about a little bit of milk
that they might have had they put it all together and then the promises they made to our to Allah
and when they showed community spirit when they cooperated together, Allah subhana wa tada blessed
that amount and they could eat to their Phil. That's what happens when you sacrifice when you give
to your to others, Allah will give more back unto you, you will not lose being generous, you will
not lose giving something for the sake of Allah, Allah will give you back something much more than
		

			this. Therefore dear Muslims, look at the situation we are in and see what you can do to cooperate
at a larger level. And as I said, there are multiple levels of cooperation don't just suffice with
one thing we come together as families that is one cooperation as neighbors we come together that is
one cooperation as our Masjid we come together that is one cooperation. But every one of us should
have higher purposes beyond these. What do you want to do with your life? Find a like minded group
of people. Do you like charity? Do you like knowledge? Do you like building something for the next
generation, think long term and then find groups of people that have the same vision as you and
		

			cooperate together so that insha Allah, Allah, your legacy can be much larger than anything you
could have done as an individual person. We conclude the first Hadith with the first cookbook with a
beautiful reminder that really illustrates this point. Our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He
said, The believer, like all to all of the other believers are like bricks, they come together and
they fortify the wall and he then put his fingers together like this. Each believer is a brick, and
the brick by itself it might be solid, but it might be weak, but a weak brick when you put it in a
large wall, that weakness is ignored. Nobody cares about that one brick being weak, the weak brick,
		

			all of a sudden is doing something that it could never do. Even a strong brick by itself could not
protect the house. It could not protect against an enemy. But when all of the bricks come together,
what happens you build a beautiful structure you protect you fortify you do something much more than
what one brick could ever have done. And our profits the law I sent him said that believer like to
all of the other believers is like this one brick that helps together building in that beautiful
wall. We want to build something of substance we want to go beyond just our middle our one life that
we have, we want to do something much more productive with this and that can only be done when we
		

			come together and cooperate what are our new eligibility was tough wha wha wha and if they will, one
may Allah subhanho wa Taala bless me and you within through the Quran and may make us of those who
is vs they understand and implement. It's Helen and how long throughout our lifespan I asked Allah
forgiveness us we'll ask him for he is the food and the ramen
		

			hamdulillah Al Hamdulillah Hello I had an I had a Samad Allah delimited while I'm you lead while I'm
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			Somebody might say,
		

			cooperating with people, and being with them exposes me to the worst of society.
		

			To the worst of interaction with others backbiting and backstabbing and slander, and this and that,
and if I stay at home, and if I don't get involved in any project, that Alhamdulillah I've saved
myself from all of that politics and all of that conflict. And to that person I say, pay heed to
what our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, he said, the believer who mixes with the
other believers and his patient at the irritation that they give him is better in the eyes of Allah
than the believer who cuts off from the other believers and does not interact and does not have to
be patient at their irritations. The believer who interacts with other believers, and is patient at
		

			what they give unto him and what mentality you have to turn us whilst
		

			that believer is better in the eyes of Allah subhana wa tada than the one who is cut off and doing
nothing. When you are alone, dear brothers and sisters, when you are solitary, doing nothing, how
little Can you accomplish in order to accomplish you need to cooperate when you cooperate? It has
some negatives there's no doubt you deal with people have rude tempers, you deal with people who are
obnoxious, you deal with people who will slander that is a part of the parcel. It's a part of the
package deal. It's a part of the program. You cannot do something of magnificence all by your own
and our religion teaches us come together, cooperate and do something and if it means you have to
		

			interact with some people you don't like so be it, put your egos aside, put your egos aside and come
together for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa Tada. Remember, dear believers remember what our Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, he said he had a law he either Jemma Allah's hand laws mercy Allah
blessings is on the group, the community of Muslims, and whoever breaks away is breaking away
towards the fire of *, a laws hand is over the group, we want to be a part of the group, we want
to be a part of that society, a part of that community, a part of that organization, even if it
means there's gonna be some negatives. So be it. It is through those negatives it is by interacting
		

			with others, that we can truly accomplish something that will be our legacies in this world and in
the next dear Muslims, each one of us should think about what our passions are, and should think
about how we can contribute. And especially during this COVID crisis, how much is there to
contribute? How many brothers and sisters are in trouble in grief? How many have financial issues
how many need a word of encouragement, how much charity work needs to be done? We all have something
to give something to give. Let us come together so that we can help the more unfortunate amongst us
so that insha Allah who to Allah, Allah will bless us with more in this world and more in the next
		

			remember dear Muslims, whoever makes his Muslim brother happy, Allah will make him happy on the Day
of Judgment. We ask Allah subhana wa tada to be happy on that day along with any diet for amino
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