Yusha Evans – Dawaah Traning Program week 6
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The importance of being and being strange in one's life is discussed, including the belief that Islam is a process of "will" that will return to " harib." The speaker emphasizes the need to be aware of one's behavior to avoid overwhelming expectations and to take advantage of one's health to avoid overwhelming expectations. The discussion also touches on theiosity of Islam, including the historical precedent of the Prophet's teachings and the desire for everyone to follow his guidance. The assignment of the third category of strangeness is also discussed, and the importance of making an impact and making a difference in the world is emphasized.
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What the women, how women can play a
role in the work of Dawah,
and then we will start going into planning,
and we'll start getting into the how to
plan Dawah, and then we get into the
nitty gritties,
The last sifat that,
I decided to put down in this
is the sifat of being and and the
funny thing is that,
Sheikh Morsi talked about it on Friday
when he talked about the quality of being,
of being strange.
If you want to be involved in our
work, get ready to be
strange.
Because
not only are you as a strange as
a Muslim,
but then there's levels to that strangeness we
will talk about. If you wanna go and
be involved in the dawah, you're going to
enter into the highest level
of the as
they say.
You know this very famous hadith in Sahih
Muslim
where he said that Islam began as something
that was harib,
something that was strange, and it would return
back to being harib. It would return back
to something that is strange.
So he said, blessed are
blessed are those who are strangers.
Amr ibn al A'ouf,
he narrated the prophet
said that the religion of Islam
will shrink back to the Hejaz like a
shrink snakes back into its hole. It will
cling to the Hejaz like a mountain goat
cling to the mountaintop.
The religion began strange, and it will become
strange again just like it was at the
beginning. So blessed are there strangers who will
restore what the people have corrupted of my
sunnah of my sunnah. And this is something
that is important because he said what the
people have corrupted, not of the Quran,
not of the the religion, my sunnah.
The prophet
also said that there would come a time
where his sunnah would be corrupted. He said,
but those when that time comes, he said,
those who uphold my sunnah when the people
have abandoned it, they will be given the
death of a shahid. They will be given
the death of a shahid. When people have
abandoned the sunnah of the prophet
a person who goes around trying to reimplement
it, they will die the death of a
shahid. Allah will give them the death of
the shuhada and
That was from the collection of Imam Abdul
Mahdi.
Abdullah ibn Amr,
and this is narrated,
by the Muslim of Imam Ahmad and Ibn
al Mubarak in his Kitab al Zuhud. He
said, the prophet
one day with his companions,
he said blessed are the strangers.
He was then asked, who are the strangers,
oh Messenger of Allah?
He replied, they are the righteous people amongst
many evil people who
disobeyed them more than they obeyed them.
Abdullah ibn Umar, and this is in Bukhari,
he said,
the prophet
took a hold of my shoulders, and he
said, be in this world as if you
are a traveler.
Ibn Omar used to say, when you survive
and this is what, Sheikh Morsi was quoting
the other night. He said, ibn Amari used
to say, when you survive to the evening,
don't be expect to be alive in the
morning. When you go to bed at night
a lot of us go to bed at
night thinking that morning is guaranteed to us.
We put our alarm clocks, we have our
coffee machine ready, and it comes on its
own. And like we have the morning already.
Don't expect that that's a reality for you.
Every night you go to bed, it is
only by Allah's permission, will, and decision if
your soul comes back to you. That's why
one of the last duas that we stay
at night before we're sleeping is asking Allah,
if you take my soul tonight,
then let it be pleased. Take it in
a pleasing manner and have mercy on it.
If you give it back to me, give
it back to me with guidance and give
it back to me with Hiday
So that soul will be taken. The moment
you go to sleep, that soul goes. Where
it goes, what it does,
this part of the unseen world, we don't
know, but your soul is no longer with
you when you're sleeping. When you're awake, it
comes back.
He said, but when you go to bed
at night, don't expect to wake up in
the morning. And then when you wake up
in the morning, don't be expect to be
alive until the evening. Live your life like
this. Live your life like when I wake
up this morning,
I might not make it till tonight. This
is all I have. This is I talked
to to you guys about this, that the
presence is all that you have. That is
all that you possess.
Don't expect anything more than that. Anything more
than that is a blessing from Allah
He said, do do good deeds when you're
in health, before you become sick. And this
is part of the prophet's
advice.
Take advantage of 5 things before 5 other
things. And one of them was take advantage
of your health before you get sick. Because
then when you get sick, you can't do
the things that you used to do in
your home. Trust me. I know. He said,
and do good deeds as long as you
are alive before the calamity comes to you,
before death strikes unto you.
Ibn Al Qaim al Jazia,
he talked about strangeness and the strangers. He
talked about
and
the. What does it mean to be strange
and who are the strangers? This is based
on a a small booklet he wrote called
And he said Islam began as something strange,
and it returned to being something strange so
it give gliding tidings to the strangers. Now
he quoted and and defined the definition
of of being,
strangeness. What does it mean? What does it
mean? Because that means a lot of things
today. Right? People try to be strange just
for the sake of being strange. That is
kind of like a fad. People just want
to be different than everybody else. But what
does it mean to be a gharib in
Islam?
He said many times, in many situations, the
people that follow the religion of Allah, they
feel a sense of not belonging,
of being out of place, of not fitting
in, and in other words, of being strange.
This feeling could be in a gathering of
non Muslims
because you when you're in a gathering of
non Muslims, you feel strange. You're out of
place. He said, but unfortunately,
this feeling can also occur when you are
with your fellow Muslims.
He said, a person sees his brothers and
sisters are doing
acts that are contrary to Islam
or taking part in innovations
that sometimes even border on kufr.
Yet he feels that he does not have
enough power or courage to stop them in
these acts.
Some brothers and sisters, especially if they do
not have enough taqwa or Islamic knowledge,
sometimes buckle under the pressure of their peers,
then they join them in these acts,
knowing that this is not what Allah wants
them to do. However,
feeling helpless,
since it seems that they are alone in
their ideas
and without any support to help them do
what is right, they succumb to suppressors.
These brothers and sisters, may Allah have mercy
on them, should take consolation in the verse
of the Quran
and many statements of the prophet
describing this very situation of strangeness that they
feel.
Why have they been called strangers?
Allah says in the Quran, and this is
in Surah Tuhud, verse 116.
If only there had been in the generations
preceding you, people having wisdom, prohibiting others from
evil in the earth, except a few of
those who have been saved from amongst them.
So Allah is speaking about the in in
Surat Uhud, that only if there had been
the nations he's destroyed before.
The reason he destroyed them, because they stopped
warning each other. Allah
gave a promise in the Quran that he
would never destroy a nation while there is
a warner from still amongst them. While they
are still doing
while there is still some hope in them,
Allah won't destroy them. But once there is
no one left or they become so obstinate
that they are not willing to even listen
to the truth anymore, then Allah sends his
punish to him. Like he did the people
of Lu'l, like he did the people of
Ai'l, like he did the people of Thamud
and many other people in the past. When
he decides that because there is nobody left
amongst them. And Allah says, if only had
there been someone who was willing to stand
up, someone who was willing to go against
the crowd, someone who was willing to go
against the tide
and and and warn people that this is
wrong, This is not the way to be
doing it.
This verse speaks of the few people on
earth.
These are the strangers. These are the who
prohibit mankind from evil. These are the same
people whom the prophet
spoke about when he said Islam began as
something strange, and it will return to being
something strange. So then he said the end
of this verse, so he said,
So is
is translated as the red blood tidings. But
what do anybody know what actually is?
It's the name of something.
It's a name of a tree in paradise.
There is a tree in paradise called the
tree of and
he said,
basically saying that paradise is for the believers.
They are guaranteed
this station in the hereafter. And he's saying
that Islam would return to being something strange,
meaning that
Islam
as it was practiced not that Islam would
be go back to being small. He didn't
say it would go back to being small.
It started as small. He didn't say it
would go back to being small. He said
it started as strange. It would go back
to being strange. Islam has grown. Growing and
growing and growing and growing.
But the people who are sticking steadfast to
the are
getting smaller and smaller and smaller. As the
Ummah grows, their percentage gets smaller. So he
said those people, the would become strange. Islam
true Islam would become strange again would become
strange again. So give glad to and,
so the prophet
is giving good news of paradise to them,
to the strangers. It was asked, who are
they? He said, they are the people who
correct people when they come corrupt. This is
reported by Abu Amr al Adani from the
hadith of Ibn Mas'ud, and it was recorded
about it is authentic according to Sheikh Alba.
Another narration says, those that correct my sunnah,
which has been corrupted, are the people after
me. In another narration, he said in response
to the same question, they were a small
group of people amongst a large evil population.
Those who oppose them are more than the
who those who follow them. And this is
reported by Ibn Asakih, and it is, been
deemed authentic by Sheikh Rabaynu Muhammad Muawat'ala.
These praiseworthy people are called strangers
since they are small minority among mankind.
Thus, Muslims are strangers amongst mankind. The true
believers are strangers amongst the Muslims, and the
scholars are even more stranger amongst the believers.
And the followers of the sunnah, those that
clear themselves from the people of innovation, are
likewise strangers.
In reality, however, their strangeness is only because
they are a minority
and not because their actions or belief are
strange. It's not because they're doing strange things.
It's just because they've become a minority.
That in the larger group of the world,
they are strange even amongst the Muslims.
And we see this all the time, you
know, even even in Muslim families. Somebody wants
to start praying, you know what I mean,
in a family that's not used to it.
Or a sister wants to start wearing hijab.
The brother wants to grow a beard. He
wants to start going through the masjid. They
start saying, you're radical, extreme. You know, this
is too much. You know? And the first
thing they like to call him in a
lot of places, you become a now. You
know what I mean? Like, you've become,
you know, a wobbler, etcetera. You know? Like,
you've gone too far. So they become strangers
even amongst their own family members, their own
Muslims, their own
community.
This
is why Allah says in Surah Al Anam,
if you obey most of the people on
earth, they'll just lead you astray. If you
obey most of mankind on earth, they'll lead
you astray. And Allah also says in Surah
to Yusuf, and most of mankind will not
believe even if you desire it eagerly. And
this was, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
being told by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that I know you want everybody to believe
but most of mankind won't believe even how
much you desire it to be so. Most
of mankind is not going to believe.
Allah also says in Surah Al Maida,
most of mankind are rebellious and disobedient.
Then Allah says in Surah Al, Yusuf, but
and I talked about this in the Khutba
last week. Most of mankind are ungrateful.
They're ungrateful.
Therefore, Allah the all knowing knows most of
mankind will not follow the truth.
Instead, only a small group of people will
be set apart truly and correctly believe in
him, and these are the strangers amongst mankind.
The strangers in belief, however,
are the strangers in character and action or
in reality the majority of mankind, for they
are strange to Islam and the laws that
Allah has revealed.
Thus we see that there are various types
of strangeness. And this is where we're gonna
get into this because this is a very
important part. Is that Ibn Al Qayim Al
Jaz
divided strangeness. He divided being
into 3 levels into 3 levels.
Thus, we see there are various types of
strangeness, of which some are praiseworthy and some
are blameworthy. And some are neither praiseworthy nor
blameworthy.
He said, you should know, may Allah have
mercy on you, that strangeness is of 3
types. He said, the first type of strangeness
are the strangeness of the people of Allah
and the people of his messenger, alayhis salatu
wa sallam, which we previously mentioned.
This strangeness is a praiseworthy strangeness as it
has been praised by Allah and his messenger
Therefore, this kind of strangeness should be sought
out and its people must be supported.
This strangeness occurs in different times, in different
places, amongst different peoples.
These strangers then are the true people of
Allah, for they don't worship anything but him.
They do not take any support in any
path except the path of the prophet
They don't call to anything except that which
has been brought by the prophet
These are the people who left mankind
when the strangers were in need of them
the most. For on the day of judgement,
when all the other groups will go with
that which they used to worship, they will
stay in their places.
On the day of judgement,
Allah
will bring forward all the idols people used
to worship. Right? They'll all be out. And
Allah will tell the people,
go to that which you used to worship.
Like, go go see if they'll help you.
Like, go. And people will start fleeing to
the things they used to worship. They'll start
going. But the people
of Allah and his messenger, alayhis salatu wasalam,
they won't go anywhere. They'll stay.
They won't move. They'll be they'll stay right
where they are.
And it will be said to them, why
have you not gone as the other people
have gone? Why have you not run to
your your idols and your gods like the
other people have done? They will answer,
we had already abandoned them in that life.
Like, we already left them. We abandoned them
in that life, and we were more in
need of them than we are today.
We abandoned them in the world, and we
were more in need of them then than
we are today. And we will wait for
our rabb whom we used to worship. That
is what they that's why they won't move.
They'll say, we're waiting on our rabb. They're
going to their Rabbs. They're going to their
gods. They're going to our When our Rabb
comes, when Allah presents himself,
then we will go to him. Because that
is whom we used to worship. We left
the people when they were in the world.
We don't need them now. We needed them
in the world more than we need them
now. We don't need them today. We need
Allah
We worship him now or then, and we're
waiting on him now. These are the people
of the sunnah, and these are the people
of Allah This is,
It's recorded by Bukhari Muslims, so it reaches
the highest level of authenticity.
So this is something we should strive for,
this type of strangeness. So that on the
day of judgment, our feet don't need to
move and chase after all of these gods
and idols. We wait for Allah
Thus, it is apparent that this strangeness does
not call its bearer any discontent.
Even though it might cause you a little
discomfort in this world. Right? Being strange and
being a Muslim. I mean, you know what
day it is today. You know, you take
take extra precautions on this date. You know,
even my wife, she's like, this this is
one of the days that just don't go
out.
So you might have some discomfort on this
day, but the people on that day
will be content. Allah will give them contention
on that day. When everyone else is stressed,
when everyone else is worried, when everyone else
is running to and fro and looking for
their gods to help them out, the people
love Allah, the people love their hate, they
won't be worried. They'll be like, we're good.
We'll just wait for Allah
Rather, it is comforting strangeness and is a
solace to the believers.
This is because they know that their helpers
are Allah, his messenger, and those who believe.
And this is, a reference to Surah 25
of Surah Al Naida, that the believers are
are are are are are supported by Allah
as messenger on those who believe. That's our
that's our
our,
that's our safety net. Allah, his messenger, and
the believers. The believers, which I've talked about
it, that the believers are are are supporters
and and brothers to one another.
Even if all of mankind left and abandoned
them. These strangers are again described in a
hadith narrated by Anas ibn Malik,
in which the prophet said,
it is possible that a disheveled,
dusty person with not many belongings,
literally with 2 headdresses meaning like he doesn't
possess much, who is not noticed amongst the
people. If he ask Allah, Allah will fulfill
his prayers. Meaning that
a person who is close to Allah is
only known to Allah. Like, we live in
a world where things are
not always what the eyes see. Right? Like,
you might see somebody and think, oh, they're
so amazing. Please make dua for me. Your
dua is part we never know. It might
be that person whom you think is the
most weak, the most humble, the brother who
doesn't look like he's anything. He's poor. He's
disheveled.
He he might be the person whomever whenever
he ask Allah for something, Allah never fails
to answer him. So you never know who
is that person.
And this is recorded by, Atar Midi and
Al Hakim and has been,
classified as authentic.
Al Hasan al Basari,
this is known as one of the famous
of the most famous of the
The Ahlus Sunnah call him the imam of
the
He was known for his
piety, his his
his his,
knowledge, his his wisdom, his dedication. If you
haven't studied the life of Hasid al Qasr,
you should do so.
He is like the imam one of the
imams of the salif.
He said,
a believer is a stranger in this world
and he is never afraid of being humiliated
in it. And he never competes for his
glory. He's not looking for
fame. He's not looking for glory. He doesn't
care about any impact.
The people are in one situation, like the
people, they're one way, and he's another way
or she's another way. The guruba, they're one
way and the people are another way.
The people are content with him, yet he
is never content with himself. Like usually people
like who are really good Muslims, the people
are happy with them. They're content with them.
But those people are never content with themselves.
They're always in turmoil on the inside because
they're always worried about their own condition, doing
better, being better, worried about their own sins,
worried about their own situation.
From the characteristics of the strangers
are that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
described it to them holding on to the
sunnah even if people abandon it. They, the
strangers, leave all innovations
that other people invent.
Even if such practices come among common amongst
them, They also stick to tawheed even if
the people corrupt it with shirk. They do
not ascribe themselves to anything except Allah and
His Messenger alaihis salatu wasalam, which I've told
you so many times. That our Islam
our Islam is the Quran and the sunnah.
That's it. That's it. It does not matter
whom it comes from. If it does not
trace back to the Quran and Sunnah, we
leave it. We leave it. Simple as that.
They do not, that is, ascribe themselves to
a shaykh. Meaning that I owe my religion
is what Sheikh so and so says. It's
just whatever he says is what it is.
Doesn't matter. We don't care if it comes
from the Quran and the Sunnah. We just
stick to it. And and we have a
lot of that around the world today. Muslims,
they they have their shiks. They they have
their and all of that. Whatever he says,
that's it. That's the end of it. It's
law. Right? Even if it's the most nonsense
thing. Trust me. I've been around. I've heard
it. I've sat in some of these gatherings
where I've heard things that are just like,
woah. You know what I mean? Like, this
is like, this is madness. You know what
I mean? Like, this is this is this
is crazy.
I I I I even heard of
a recording of one of these guys in
in Africa basically say that he was so
close to Allah
that Allah had made the hellfire forbidden for
him. Because if Allah sent it to him,
he would make it a cool garden.
And I'm like, what? Say what?
That he he is so amazing
that if Allah were to send him to
*, he would turn it into a garden.
May Allah protect us from this kind of
nonsense. This is not what we ascribe. This
is not Islam. This is not where we
get our religion from. It we don't subscribe
ourselves to any particular sheikh,
You know what I mean? Like, that's not
how we are.
Or particular madhab a group of people. Like
all of the Madahid, we've talked about this.
Right? We've gone over this. They're all traced
back to the Quran and the Sunnah. But
we don't become so blind
that that that that that that's it for
us. Right? I I grew up as Hanafi.
I'm not I'm not listening to anything else.
Right? That's that's very ignorant. It's a very
ignorant way to be.
I I told you most of my teachers
are are Hanbali. My my strength is in
Hanbali.
But I follow the Quran as soon as
If I find a stronger evidence somewhere else,
I follow that. That is it. That's what
that that's what it is. It doesn't care
if it comes from the madhhab or not.
If it's more in line with the Quran
and the Sunnah, we go with
that They are dedicated only to Allah with
their sincere worship of him and him alone
and to his prophet
by following the path he followed. These are
the people who are the ones who the
prophet
said, they are the ones who grasp the
hot ember, the hot coal. That that later
on in time holding on to Islam would
be like holding on to a hot coal.
Referencing to the hadith,
of this. Even if most of mankind,
even if all of them blame them for
this. This is the meaning of the statement
of the Prophet alluding to the fact that
they stick to a sunnah even if the
people corrupt it. Allah, all praise be to
him, sent to his prophet when mankind followed
different religions.
For those who worship there were those who
worship rivers, trees, those who worship idols. There
were Christians,
zoo Jews, Zoroastrians.
And Islam when it first appeared amongst these
people was strange to them. If a person
from amongst them accepted Islam and followed Allah
and his messenger, he would be shunned by
his family and his tribe. He would live
the life of a stranger amongst his people.
Eventually, however,
Islam spread far and wide. The Muslims became
stronger and stronger and stronger. So much so
that the strangers were those who didn't accept
Islam. Islam became so strong that they went
from being the strangers. Right? If you accepted
Islam in Mecca,
before the Hijra, you were a stranger. Right?
You were weird. You were outcast. You were
shunned.
Then Islam grew so
vast and so wide that it was strange
for you not to be a Muslim. People
would look at you like, you're not a
Muslim? Like, what what what is wrong with
you? You know what I mean? And even
to this day, I do ask people that.
When people when I have that conversation with
people, I'm like, why are you not a
Muslim?
You you know, why why? And that starts
I'm thinking like, why would I be a
Muslim? No. Why wouldn't you be? When I
explained to you what Islam is, your question
should be why would I not be a
Muslim?
But alas, shaitan
deceived mankind again.
People took to the ways of their forefathers
who who had accepted Islam had abandoned and,
excuse me. People took the way that their
forefathers who had accepted Islam had abandoned. So
they went back to the religion of their
forefathers. And we see that happening lots of
place in the world now. We we see,
unfortunately,
even in even even in the gulf, we
see Alet and an Uzza being worshiped again.
And the prophet prophecies
this. The last day would not come until
Lot and Uzza are worshipped again. And it
is happening.
They have them in museums
literally in in in in the gulf, and
there are people who go and are worshiping
them. May Allah
protect us from this.
But this is it is very dangerous.
Then Islam became strange again just like it
had started, and the prophet
foretold.
Nay, indeed, rather, the true Islam
upon which the prophet and his companions were
on,
which gave the characteristic of the saved group,
which we talked about, has become even stranger
to the people than when it initially appeared,
even though its outward signs and external relics
are known and widespread.
Now think about this. This is what Ibn
al Qayyim al Jazdib
wrote in the 8th century.
He wrote this in the 8th century. Look
at us now.
He wrote this in the 8th century, which
is in the 7 100. And look at
us now.
How can it be so when these strangers
are only one group amongst 72
other groups as said in the authentic hadith,
which our group would divide into 72?
Each of which would follow its own desires
and take its passions as its god. There
are groups that base these teachings on doubts
and innovation and whose whole sole purpose is
the gratification of their own desires.
Thus, the group who achieved their goal is
by following the pleasure of Allah and following
the path of his messenger, alayhi salatu wasalam.
These will be the strange among all the
other groups. This is why the true Muslims
who adamantly cling to the sunnah will have
the reward of 50 companions.
You know this very famous hadith of prophet
when he was asked about the first, oh
you who believe, take care of your own
selves. If you follow right guidance, no harm
can come to you from those who are
in Aaron. This is from Surah Al Maida.
He said, nay indeed,
order good and forbid evil until you see
stinginess being obeyed and desires being followed, and
this world being preferred over the next, and
each person being diluted by his own opinions.
I don't I mean, that literally sums up
the world today. That is that is that
is the world today. I don't know if,
any of you saw,
what what what took place on on ABC
last night. It was like I I I
was very, very tough for me to sit
through. But that is the world of today.
And he's describing
it perfectly right here. Nay, indeed, order good
and forbid evil until you see stinginess being
obeyed,
desires being followed, and this world being preferred
over the next, and each person is deluded
by their own opinion. Each person is deluded
by their own opinions.
Then take care of yourself and leave the
common people. Leave the common people. For indeed,
after you there will be days of patience,
where patience will be like holding on to
a hot coal. Whoever is able to do
this will have the reward of 50 people
that do like him. They asked, oh, messenger
of Allah,
the reward of 50 of them?
He said, no. The reward of 50 of
you.
That people on this this era, when the
world is like this, and they separate themselves
from those people, like, they they draw the
line, they draw the distinction, and they uphold
what we have revealed.
The reward of 1 of them will be
like the reward of 50. And they asked
who? 50 of them? He said, no. The
reward will be like 50 of you because
they are doing it. And I said this,
the the scholars have taught us. Sheikh Mohammed
Makhtar was commenting on this hadith one morning,
and he said that the the reason for
this and this is what his father taught
him and his father was the great Muhammad.
He said that this is because
they will be doing
similar to what the companions did, holding on
to Islam,
establishing
Islam, holding on to the sunnah, keeping the
sunnah alive, but there's no nabi. There's no
prophet. There's no one there to guide them.
There's no there's no one to go. They
can't go to the prophet and ask him
questions, and they get revelation from Allah. They
are only holding on to the Quran and
the sunnah. They're holding on to the sunnah,
and they've never even met the prophet
They love the prophet
with the same preference that the companions loved
him who saw him every single day.
And that is why the reward for them
will be multiplied so greatly. And this is
why the prophet
said, I wish to meet my brothers. And
he said, my brothers will come towards the
end of time, and they'll believe in me
exactly like you believe in me. But they
would have never seen me. They would have
never witnessed me. This is why I say
that the love that we should have for
the prophet
is above everything else,
except the love that we have for Allah
that's, gonna be similar to the that's I'm
not gonna go too far into it. It's
Friday's football topic. But that the love of
the prophet
is above the love we have for our
own mothers.
That's why we should be offended when he's
when he is insulted. That's why we we
we we we behave the way we behave
when he is slandered, etcetera, so on and
so, because he is supposed to be loved
above all else, above all else.
And when we have that type of
love for him, this is the people whom
he wishes to meet. And I want to
have that love for our prophet
This is why even when it came, and
I mentioned this one time before, but, we're
gonna get to that that month very, very,
very shortly. But when you refer to things
like the Mawlid, right, we're gonna start having
that debate and that debate has been raging.
Right?
The Mawlid,
we know, is not something the prophet
himself practiced.
It's not something any companion practiced. Right? It's
not something in any of the salaf, we
cannot find it from them. Correct? So it's
not something really,
we do.
But even even Thayme in his in his
in his, he said about the people who
practice the mountain.
He said, if they
do it and this is why I say
we have to have
understanding. Islam is.
He said, if they do it, if they
celebrate
out
of pure love for the prophet,
he
said, even though I say they are wrong
in their actions,
they will be rewarded
with the love.
Even though the action is wrong, they will
be rewarded for the love of the prophet
This is his fatwa, not mine. This is
the fatwa of Sheh, of Ibn Taymiyyah. That
even those who celebrate the Mawlid, if they
do it for the right reason, meaning
love of the prophet
Allah will reward that love.
And this is this is, recorded by Tamedi
Abu Dawood.
Abu Dawood's chain is weaker with
regards to this,
but it is supported by evidence. It's the
whole science of hadith,
and Sheikh Mohammed, they call it sahib based
on the supporting evidence of different hadith, that
back it up. The reward is due to
the strangest amongst the people.
We're almost done.
So if the believer whom Allah has blessed
with wisdom and knowledge wants to tread upon
this path, the path of Allah, then let
them be prepared
to resign themselves to the life of a
stranger amongst his people. Just like his predecessors
who accepted Islam and were treated like this
by the people. For indeed he will be
a stranger in his beliefs
because the people have corrupted their beliefs. He
will be a stranger in his religion due
to what the people have done to it.
He will be a stranger to his manner
of praying because people are ignorant in the
manner of the prayer of the Prophet
He
will be a stranger in ordering good and
prohibiting evil for the people who have taken
evil as good and they have taken good
as evil.
He will be a stranger.
In short, he will be a stranger in
all matters of this world and the hereafter.
Calling to the path of Allah and withstanding
the harm of those people who go against
him.
As the second type of strangeness, then know,
oh reader. So that's the first type of
strangeness. A Muslim who oppose the Quran and
the Sunnah.
As for the second type of strangeness, then
know, oh reader, that this strangeness is the
blameworthy strangeness for people for its people are
evil sinners. These are the ignorant and the
arrogant of mankind.
Their strangest is due to the refusal to
follow the correct and straight path of Allah.
This strangest is the strangest of not conforming
to the religion of Islam. So this he's
talking about the strangest of people who try
to make Islam conform to their desires
rather than them conforming themselves to the religion.
And we see this a lot these days.
People moving, twisting Islam to fit their
ideas, their ideologies,
rather than conforming themselves. Islam is supposed to
conform the individual.
We don't conform Islam to fit the individual.
He said that this strangeness is the strangeness
not conforming to the religion. And such it
will remain strange even if its followers are
numerous. Meaning people who follow this new,
type of religion that is conformed,
they they they will remain
blameworthy strangers even if everybody follows them because
this is not the religion of Allah and
His Messenger.
These are the strangers to Allah, not the
strangers of Allah. These are not the These
are not the strangers of Allah from whom
the prophet told but is for them. These
are the strangers to Allah. These are the
strangers to Allah.
May Allah keep us from becoming one of
them. He said the 3rd category of strangeness
is in essence neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy.
It is the strangest that a traveler experiences
when he travels to a different country, like
a person who lives in a place and
Sheikh Muresi was talking about this. Like a
person who,
travels to a different country and lives in
a place for a short period of time
knowing that he has to move on. One
aspect of this strangeness is that all of
us, whether we realize it or not, are
strangers here. Like, this world is not ours.
It doesn't belong to us. It doesn't want
us. Right? Like, it the it we were
not meant to be here. We're not meant
to be here. We live here. We're buried
here, and then Allah resurrects us out of
this dirt. Like, we're never here in any
permanence.
One aspect in this strangeness is whether we
realize or not, we're all strangers, for we
all one go day to our permanent abode
in the hereafter.
This is the meaning of the hadith of
prophet when he told Abdul, Abdul ibn Aran,
live in this world as though you are
stranger or traveler. Thus, this category of strangeness
has the potential to become praiseworthy
if we realize the meaning of this statement.
And we pray that Allah blesses us to
be Muslims, knowledgeable, and pious, and forgive us
of our sins, and then he goes on
to praise the Allah
Now I'll give you something really briefly quickly,
another part because, this was quite long. He
went on to label 3 other levels of
strangeness with regards to the warabah.
He said that the first level of strangeness
is a Muslim. A Muslim is strange to
all of mankind. Right? Like, we're just automatic
strangers.
Right? They will never accept you till you
become one of them.
He said, but the second level of strangeness
are people who are not only Muslim by
name, but they live by the Quran and
the Sunnah. Like, they use the Quran and
the Sunnah to live their lives. He said
that's the second and higher level of strangeness.
He said the 3rd level, which is the
pinnacle of strangeness, and it is the smallest
category of strangeness,
are the people who are not only Muslims
by name.
They not only live their lives according to
the,
but they go out and call other people
to come to this path. They go out
and call other people. They're either doing
meaning they're out trying to reform society,
or they are the du'a, the people who
are out calling other people to Islam. He
said that category is the smallest category.
He said, but that category,
that pinnacle level
is the barrier between Allah's punishment and mankind.
He said that category of people
are the people that are the barrier between
Allah's punishment and his wrath and the rest
of humanity.
He said when there are no more people
in that pinnacle state,
then the wrath will come. And it does
not spare. Just because there's Muslims doesn't mean
that it'll spare. Allah says when he sends
his wrath, it spares no one. No one.
He said, so as long as there are
people in that high echelon,
the people who are doing or
the people who are doing,
then Allah withholds his wrath from mankind. But
there will come a time where there will
be no more of those people, and the
wrath of Allah will come. And he said
this, the prophet
said the day of judgement will not because
that's the next wrath. Right? The next Allah
will not destroy people like that again in
whole in wholesale.
The day of judgement, he said that wrath
will come
on a people who are the worst that
have ever existed on this earth. He said
the day of judgement will not descend
except on the worst people who have ever
walked the face of this earth. And I,
unfortunately, think we are heading there
on a high speed bullet train.
That's that's the reality, a high speed bullet
train. So
pay attention. That's all the advice I'm gonna
give you tonight. That the world is quickly
changing.
Pay attention to what's happening around you. Pay
attention. This is why even my wife asked
me, like, why are you watching this nonsense?
Because it was literally like watching 2 kindergartners
go to each other. Right? Like, it was
ridiculous. He's He's like, why she was like,
why are you watching this? I was like,
because I
I I I information is power. Right? Like,
information is power. There is no power greater
than knowledge.
There is no power greater than knowledge because
knowledge is the one power that can't be
taken from you unless Allah takes it from
you. Right? What I know, you can't come
like this, brother, you can't come take what's
in my brain. Right? You can't come make
me forget what I know. Knowledge is power.
And I like to know what our enemies
are saying. Right? Like, you need to know
what they're thinking, where they're thinking, where they're
going. Even though half of it is lies,
at least you need to know what the
lies are.
I need to know what what's being said.
So be aware,
know what's happening in the world,
and do your best
when we're finished with this. Do your best
to get out there and try to make
some kind of difference, because that's what's gonna
matter or not. What difference did we make?
That's that's the real question. That's what I
asked myself
so many times. What difference am I making?
I don't feel like if I'm making any
difference, I I really don't feel mentally well
because I believe
that one of the biggest things that Allah
will hold us account or not to account
for or reward us for is what different
what impact
did you make on the world? And I
know this because I look at the life
of the prophet
Look at the impact he made. Look at
the impact. Look at the impact of the
companions. Look at the impact of the great
Muslims who came before us. Look at the
impact of the man who this masjid is
named after.
Look at the impact that they made. Even
with some he may have had some beliefs
that are not mainstream except
the impact. Look. Allah will reward the and
the impact that you've made over a lot
of other things. So try to make an
impact.
Right there.
I will see you guys on Friday. Friday,
I'll be doing both of.
And then as always, on Saturday evening, we
have the life of
As long as this thing doesn't act up
again before I have surgery, make dua for
me that the the stomach acid stays where
it's supposed to stay. I'm on some very
heavy medication now to try to keep keep
the stomach acid down, but the part of
my stomach that's below my diaphragm now is,
like, it it's small. You know, I have
to be I have to eat, like, tiny
meals and all kinds of weird things now.
So make dua for that, Insha Allah. But
other than that, I'll see you on Friday
and see you on Saturday.