Yousef Bakeer – Hardship Shape And Unite Our Community
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The importance of witness marks for past events, such as returning to Islam, the death of a relative, and healing is emphasized. The transformation of Shaykh Luis is also discussed, including his journey to forgiveness and the importance of protecting their children and parents. The success of a journey in seven years of study has impacted people, and protecting their faith and emotions is crucial to protecting their children and parents. The importance of worshipping Allah azza wa Jala and protecting their faith is also emphasized. The conversation ends with a request for peace and blessings to the community.
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Allah is the Greatest, Allah
is the Greatest I bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship except Allah
I bear witness that there is none worthy
of worship except Allah I bear witness that
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah I
bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of
Allah Allah
is the Greatest, Allah is the
Greatest There is none worthy of worship
except Allah I
bear witness that there is none worthy of
worship except Allah I bear witness that Muhammad
is the Messenger of Allah Allah says in
the Qur'an Allah says in the Qur
'an He says, O Believers, have Taqwa in
Allah Azza wa Jal Which means that we
should be conscious of Allah Azza wa Jal
We should be aware of Allah Azza wa
Jal And we should protect ourselves from His
punishment and His wrath And we should never
allow ourselves to die Except in a state
of submission to Allah I begin my
khutbah by asking Allah Azza wa Jal first
and foremost To send blessings and prayers upon
our Habib, our Rasul, our Prophet Peace and
blessings of Allah be upon him O Allah,
send blessings and prayers upon our Prophet, our
Beloved, Muhammad And upon his family and companions
And after that, my dear brothers and sisters
in Islam Peace and blessings of Allah be
upon you SubhanAllah, this month marked the passing
of one of my dear friends And my
dear mentor, consider him even a Shaykh, my
Shaykh Shaykh Luis, who had a very interesting
journey That I figured that I can share
it with you as I am processing his
legacy Thinking about the greatness that he passed
He returned to Allah Azza wa Jal as
a cause of cancer That he was battling
And his life was very inspirational Because as
a child, he actually had to go through
a very difficult time As he was abused
at the age of 14 And SubhanAllah, Allah
Azza wa Jal sometimes bring certain life events
To you as an individual or to a
family or to a community And sometimes we
question what is the divine wisdom behind this
life event Sometimes we try to figure out
what is the reason behind it And SubhanAllah,
in the case of my dear Shaykh Luis
This life event has changed his entire life
Because this life event made him think about
Allah Azza wa Jal He was an atheist
and he never believed in higher power But
like I said, something sometimes happens that shakes
you inside That makes you rethink about everything
in your life Your mu'taqadat, your creed, your
theology, your lifestyle Everything Sometimes to the better
and sometimes to the worse In the case
of Shaykh Luis, was a huge transformation in
his life Shaykh Luis started thinking about this
concept of the existence of Allah Azza wa
Jal You see here, a life event happened
that caused a child to actually strengthen Not
only strengthen, explore the option that there is
actually a higher power And to be a
man with faith So Shaykh Luis, a couple
of years passed by, started learning about different
religions You know, just trying to seek the
truth To see where is the truth Until
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guided him to
Islam And what is very remarkable about his
journey He shared with me, you know, a
couple of things that actually made him believe
Things that hit his mind and things that
hit his heart But then he said, I
was really going through a difficult time But
then I found the Qur'an as my
shifa Shifa'un lima fissudur As Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala said in the Qur'an
That the Qur'an causes healing to the
heart of the human being And he said,
Wallahi, I found it Because every single time
I look at the ayat of the Qur
'an When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
Allahu yureed He said, every single time something
beautiful comes after it So he said, Wallahu
yureedu an yatooba alaykum Allah wants to forgive
you Yureedu allahu an yukhaffif aankum Allah wants
to, you know, yukhaffif is such a beautiful
word in Arabic language It means alleviate You're
carrying something very heavy And somebody comes up
to you and left it from you Make
it lighter on you Wallahu yureedu an yukhaffif
aankum Wallahu yureedu bikum al yusr Walla yureedu
bikum al usr Allah wants ease for you
And does not want to, you want to
harm you Or makes it so heavy on
you He said, I just found the Qur
'an as this relief And subhanAllah, I remember
when we went to our sheikh Both of
us, our sheikh Who also passed away in
this month May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
give him rahmah ya rabbal alameen He passed
away three years today He passed, he returned
to Allah at the age of 83 May
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make it so
heavy Everything, all of his teachings, all of
his writings Make it so heavy for him
on the day of judgment, ya rabbal alameen
Heavy on his kill, ya rabbal alameen But
then we went to our teacher And sheikh
Louise was trying to process everything Yes, his
heart is at rest now But he wanted
to strengthen his faith So he came to
sheikh Usama And he told him, you know,
we want to learn from you Both of
us went to him And we're just asking
him to teach us something Then he said,
I want you to meet me after Salat
al-Asr So we came after Asr prayer
to his house And then he told us,
I want to eat fish From a city
that's called Bursaid And that was the most
random request I've ever heard I've ever heard
from a sheikh Why do you want to
eat fish from Bursaid city?
We couldn't question, you know, his request And
we just followed So we went to Bursaid
And then he took us in a boat
Bursaid is a very interesting city Because in
this place, the Nile River meets the Mediterranean
Sea A river meets a sea So as
we are going in the boat He asked
both of us to put our hand And
try to take a sip out of the
water of the Nile River So we did
this And it was very, you know, it
was very normal It was a pure water
And then we entered the Mediterranean Sea And
he asked us to do the same thing
And the water was very salty And then
he told us Allah Azza wa Jal said
in the Quran وَهُوَ الَّذِي مَرَجَ الْبَحْرَيْنَ هَذَا
عَذْبٌ فُرَاطٌ وَهَذَا مِلْحٌ أُجَاجٌ That Allah has
merged two seas This is pure and this
is salty And they don't transgress And this
is one of the signs of Allah Azza
wa Jal Sheikh Luis looked at me with
a look that this is Yaqeen That this
book is coming from Allah Azza wa Jal
The reason why I'm bringing this story of
Sheikh Luis Is because we are devastated by
the news That has been spreading around And
just it's very difficult to process it I
myself feel this sense of pain I feel
the sense of sadness I feel angry that
why this happened Why a religious leadership would
do something like this And where is the
divine wisdom behind it?
And why this is happening to our community?
And how can we respond to this?
Many questions come I was overwhelmed over the
past week With all of these thoughts and
all of these emotions But then I said
subhanAllah to myself that Just try to process
the life of Sheikh Luis As a man
who was going through difficult time in his
childhood And that was a great life event
that happened to him And then I said
to myself Yes, sometimes we go through huge
great life events And then something great in
a good sense now comes out of it
And I said to myself subhanAllah Maybe it's
a wake-up call to all of us
It's a wake-up call to all of
us Because we need to reconsider many things
Reconsider protecting our children Measures and precautions that
we should take To protect our children To
protect our children To safeguard our children In
the masajid In the house of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala Maybe it is a reason
why we think about how to even You
know make the extra mile And emphasize this
to our children That you should never be
silent about something that happens to you And
that you should actually come and open up
and share And there's no shame to do
this Maybe us as parents should reconsider Leaving
our children alone with their teachers Or with
imams Even with the same gender Maybe we
think we No, maybe it's a must This
is a wake-up call A wake-up
call to all of us To reconsider Reconsider
our measurements and our precautions That we take
when it comes to our children Our own
children A father of two daughters And I
had a difficult time processing this as well
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala protect us
And protect our children And there is another
thing that I was reflecting on Is that
our religion Is about worshipping Allah azza wa
jal first and foremost That's the core of
our religion We don't worship imams We don't
worship scholars We don't even worship prophets We
worship Allah azza wa jal And an incident
happened When the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
Departured from this dunya And the Muslims were
very overwhelmed It was very difficult to actually
process The passing of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam To the point that Umar ibn
al-Khattab radiyallahu anhu It really hit him
It hit his heart And he was very
emotional about it He loved the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam And Abu Bakr al-Siddiq
radiyallahu anhu stood up And said to the
sahaba To the Muslim ummah Whoever
worships Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Muhammad has
returned to Allah But whoever worships Allah azza
wa jal Then he is the ever-living
He is Allah azza wa jal So yes
We worship Allah azza wa jal وَمَا مُحَمَّدٌ
إِلَّا رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَفْ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُولِ أَفَإِن
مَاتَ أَوْ قُتِلًا قَلَبْتُمْ عَلَىٰ أَعْقَابِكُمْ وَمَنْ يَنْقَلِبْ
عَلَىٰ عَقِبَيْهِ فَلَن يَضُرُّ اللَّهَ شَيْئًا He said
it Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala himself said
it in the Quran That we should anchor
our faith in Allah azza wa jal First
and foremost We learn our deen from our
leaders and our imams And our scholars throughout
the history of Islam And our prophets The
ones who brought this knowledge of Allah azza
wa jal to us But we don't worship
them Nobody's sacred Our faith should not depending
on a behavior of an imam Or a
behavior of a scholar Or a behavior of
a leadership A religious leadership Our faith should
be depending on Allah azza wa jal himself
And so events will happen People will make
mistakes People will make mistakes But that's not
a justification to us to be deprived from
our faith It's not a justification to even
emphasizing to our children That they should be
concerned every single time they go to the
house of Allah azza wa jal And that
could happen as well It's very devastating And
I acknowledge it I understand it But we
need to channel our emotions as well Understanding
the gravity of the incident But at the
same time We should really channel those emotions
We cannot deprive our children from the house
of Allah azza wa jal as well We
cannot make our children feel that they're actually
unsafe When they come to the house of
Allah Rather we make ourselves You know we
make sure that us And it's a collective
responsibility A responsibility of a father A responsibility
of a mother A responsibility of the imam
A responsibility of the board of the masjid
It's a collective responsibility We all share this
responsibility To make sure that this house of
Allah And all the houses of Allah Are
a safe haven to our children When they
come to practice the religion It's all of
our responsibilities But it's also very dangerous To
make our children feel the sense of resentment
Towards their house of Allah azza wa jal
itself Redirect these emotions To actually figuring out
more measurements More precautions to protect our children
And that's all of our responsibility Insha'Allah
wa ta'ala May Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala protect our children Ya Allah we ask
you in this blessed moment To protect our
children Ya Allah we ask you to protect
our children From all different types of evil
Ya Allah, Ya Allah, Ya Karim Ya Allah
we ask you to preserve our community Ya
Allah preserve our community Ya Allah preserve our
children يا رب العالمين يا الله يا كريم
أنت الحافظ يا الله We call upon your
name حافظ أن تحفظ أولادنا و بناتنا يا
رب العالمين أقول قولي هذا وأستغفر الله لي
ولكم بسم
الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله
صلى الله عليه وسلم Leaving you today with
a in a in a good note in
a hopeful message Sheikh Louise Came back from
his journey of studying in Al-Azhar it
was a journey of seven years of studies
and came to Mexico and He himself transformed
many lives Many people have reverted to Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala He was a source of
inspiration so yes a Huge-life event happened
to him in his childhood.
And that was that was a reason why
he is resilient and he went through it
and left a greater impact that we can
possibly we can possibly think about a Greater
impact that no that that that in his
position position He himself never thought that he
would be able to leave that impact Changing
many people's lives subhanAllah.
So yes, it is an opportunity in ma
'al usri usrah in ma'al usri usr
with hardships come ease and We ask Allah
subhanahu wa'ta'ala to bring relief to all
of those who are affected by what happened
Ya rabbal alameen.
Ya Allah we ask you to bring peace
to our community.
Ya rabbal alameen Ya Allah we ask you
to bring blessings to our community.
Ya rabbal alameen Ya Allah we ask you
to bring nothing but faith and prosperity to
our community.
Ya rabbal alameen Allahumma ghafir lana dhunubana wa
israfana fi amrina thabbit aqdamana wa ansurna al
qawm al kafireen Allahumma alina al haqqa haqqana
warzuqna ittibaa'a wa alina al baatila baatilana
warzuqna itjtinaaba Rabbana hablana min azwajina wa dhurriyatina
qurra ta'ayun wa ja'alna lil muttaqina
imaana