Yusha Evans – Khatira at Masjid Salahadeen
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The speaker discusses his experience with his deceased mother and the importance of taking action and making a plan to get out of time. He emphasizes the need to work hard and not waste time, stressing the importance of rest and knowing the end of life. He also reminds people to never waste their time and mentions upcoming events and scheduling programs for the future. The speaker emphasizes the need to protect people until the end of the war and to bring in their suggestions to the community.
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6 months later, not long after her 44th
birthday,
she died, and she died in my arms.
And the decline and I had moved to
Virginia at the time, so I didn't have
a you know, we talked every day. My
mother called me every day on the phone,
regardless. She called me every single day. But
I had moved to Virginia to work at
a masjid called Darul Salaam with the imam
Safiqa at the time. And I remember getting
a call
from her doctor saying that if you have
anything you want to tell your mother, you
should do so because she is declining rapidly.
And it took me a day to get
from there to South Carolina,
and at that point, my mother did not
even she wasn't cognizant of anything. She was
on so many heavy medications,
you know, just
end of life,
care that she didn't even know what was
going on around her. I was trying to
get her to take shahada. I was trying
to get her to accept Islam because beforehand,
she had told me the same thing my
father tells me today, that I believe everything
you tell me. I believe that Islam is
true.
I just will not leave my way of
life. The the same thing my father tells
me. I believe your religion is true, but
I was born and raised a Christian. That's
how I plan to die. So make father
make dua for my father's, Hidaya, Insha'Allah. I
told him, it's Allah. If Allah wants you
to be a Muslim, you're gonna be a
Muslim. I keep asking him over and over
and over again. But my mother passed away,
and her last words
in a in in a moment of lucidity,
lucidity before she passed, she looked at me
and she said, I'm sorry. Those are the
very final words my mother said to me.
I don't think I've ever really recovered from
that. It takes a long time to recover
from that type of thing, but I'm learning
as I get older that time is not
on our side. Time is not on your
side. So the things that you want to
do, do them. Do them. Make a plan.
Get at them. Take action
because time flies by like that. My mother
passed away at 44. I just turned 44.
You know, you never know how much longer
we have left in this world. There's no
promise.
So do not ever take time for granted.
There's a very famous hadith al Qudsi,
from the prophet
where Allah says, I am time, therefore do
not abuse me. I am time, therefore do
not abuse me. So the wasting of time
is an abuse towards Allah
Cause he is time and he's the creator
of time, and we cannot escape it. We
cannot it's it's one of those things that
we as human beings cannot escape. We can
escape so many things, but time, it it
it's it stops for no man. There's only
one person we know in history
that time stopped for. Little q and a.
Who was it?
Yusha. Yusha ibn Noon is the one person
whom we know recorded. Maybe it happened other
times, but for sure we know without a
shadow of a doubt that Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala stopped time. He stopped the sun for
prophet Yusha when he was about to conquer
Philistine.
And he commanded the sun that you and
I are under the command of the same
Rab, so stay where you are. And Allah
kept the sun there at the time of
'Asr and it stayed until they won the
battle and then it sets.
But other than that, you and I don't
have that type of luxury. We can't look
at the sun and tell it to stop.
It just keeps on ticking away. Do not
waste
what life Allah
has given you. Work, effort, effort. And we'd
say that I I give you the statement
of Ahmed ibn Hanbal
I studied the life of all the m's
but Imam Ahmed has a special place in
my heart coming there. Most of my teachers
were Hanbali.
I I I was very versed in Hanbali
Fith. I'm very versed in Hanafi Fith as
well. My first shifu traveled around with him
was
from Pakistan. Mohammed Zakuddin Sharafi was as Hanafi
as Hanafi gets. But
if you study the life of Imam Ahmed,
his son asked him one day,
oh father, when will we rest? You know,
we've gone through so much. We've been put
through so much. You've been put through so
many trials. You've been imprisoned. You've been all
this. When will we rest?
He said when we put both of our
feet in
then we'll rest. Until then we work. Until
we not just 1, until both of our
feet are in and they've closed the gate
behind us and we know we're safe,
until then we work, we rest, we keep
going. When he was on his deathbed,
he said that, Shaitan was there. His son
heard him saying not yet. Oh, not yet.
But, and he kept asking his father why
do you keep saying no, not yet? He
said, Chaitan is here with us saying I've
lost you, Ahmed. I've lost you.
And I'm telling him, no. Not yet. No.
Not yet. Meaning that until my soul leaves
my body, this war between you and me
is not done. So we're going to struggle
on life. We're gonna go through difficulties. We
just keep going. To win? To the end.
To the end. Whenever that end might come.
Allah gives you a 100 years, alhamdulillah, you
fight till then. But then we get the
rest. That's it. That's that's the goal in
life. You you you fight and struggle for
50, 60, 70 years, and then you get
perpetuity
forever to rest in Jannah. We after that,
you can do whatever you want. But just
remember, time is not on your side. You
don't have the time that you think you
have. And every time you hear that that
voice in your head saying, oh, I have
time, know that is shaitan. Know that is
shaitan playing with you and that is a
sign for you. Whatever that is you were
about to put off, do it. Do it.
Not today I mean not tomorrow. Do it
today.
Because tomorrow,
who knows if it's going to come? And
it's gonna come for all of us one
day.
Keep us in duas. We have a lot
of
things that are gonna be exciting happening here,
starting in the next month or so, insha'Allah.
Once we get a few things settled, we
will be having regular
ongoing scheduling programs, youth activities, the whole 9
yards. So make sure you keep telling everyone.
That is the goal is is to fill
this place to the point where we have
no toys but to build phase 2 because
we got brothers praying in the streets. Insha'Allah.
So tell everybody to come because one thing
I will tell you,
I have been around so many masajid and
not just here in the United States of
America, but all over the globe. I've been
around masajids and one thing that I've always
made sure I've done is I've studied how
they function. Right? I've looked at how they
function. I've tried to sit down with their
leadership and and ask how is your structure
set? How do you run things? And
a lot of times, it's not very community
focused. Right? It's focused on the elitism
of a few group or a group of
this trying to hold on to power and
struggle. I call it a game of thobes.
You know what I mean?
It's literally like a, you know, a a
game of thobes. It's like a like a
mafia mentality to try to keep power and
prestige. No. No. The Masjids are belong to
the Muslims. They belong to this is the
house of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. The moment
you make this place a walk for Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, it belongs to the Ummah.
And that is how I have seen the
the leadership of Masjid Saladin treat the Masjid
that it belongs to the community, the respect
that it should be given. And that is
a barakah that you don't find many places
at all whatsoever. So if we can bring
as many people here as we can and
let them see that, let them understand that
this is their community, that they get to
drive it. We are taking their suggestions.
I just walked in, earlier when the the
the was meeting with sisters to get suggestions,
to get feedback from the community. We want
you to be involved. We want help you
to help drive the future of Masjid Saladin
and where it goes. So it is catering
to your needs, not catering to our needs.
Like, we're here to service you. That is
it. We are servants. That's simply it. We're
servants of the house of Allah and servants
to the community. So So please bring as
many people as you can because I believe
this masjid, insha'Allah,
can be a future
example of what masajid in America
should look like and how they should function.