Zahir Mahmood – From Zero to Hero
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Bismillah al Rahman al Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa
salatu salam ala say the most serene Maulana Muhammad while he
was having the woman Sabir Sana Isla de nueva respective province
elders
steamed scholars sisters salaam aleikum wa rahmatullah.
gives me great pleasure to be here
in sunny Cape Town, which is quite contrary to what it's like in the
UK currently much on lights quite gloomy and with 100 in the last
day today, so we need to go back. And I just, firstly would like to
thank
the massive committee and the brothers who have organized this,
for giving me this opportunity to address and speak to my brothers
and my elders and my sisters.
You know, one of the greatest miracles of the messenger of allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is that he came to a group of people
who actually nobody really cared about.
To the degree that if you know anything about Islamic history,
the Romans or the Byzantine, which were the Eastern Romans, they rule
all the way from Shang
to Eastern Europe.
But they weren't really worried about the hijackers.
They thought these people in the Hijaz would actually cause them
more headaches than you had the Persian to where the superpower of
the day, they ruled from all the way from Iran, to what is
currently the Pakistan
background.
So that they will all the way but they weren't really too concerned
about the Hejaz. And this is the miracle of the messenger of allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that he came to a group of people and
he managed to change them and lift them up from being nobody's to be
which Allah defines in the Quran as a lovely Allah Allah.
Allah is pleased with them, and they are pleased with their abode
by ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada. And this is the greatest miracle of the
Messenger of Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah He was that he
changed people's hearts, that he elevated people, that people who
are nobody in society, the message of allah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam managed to transform them. And this is a sign and shouldn't
be a
characteristic of
that we should be people that wherever we go, we should be
different. We should stand out. Allah when defining this on my
says quantum hydropneumatic operator to the nurse, you are the
best of people, you are the best of nations or courageous nurse
taken out for who the Muslims know, the Arabs know, the South
Africans know Allah says you are the best of nations conditional on
the fact that humanity sees your good
that wherever Muslims are, Muslims are different. Muslims stand out.
Why? Because they are motivated for the asset.
They are motivated for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala others are
motivated for other reasons, but believers are motivated for the
sake of Allah subhana wa.
And this is why if you look into the life of the messenger of allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the prophets Allah, Allah and he was
gave those people who had no hope he gave them hope.
Those who are the lowest in society, the lower strata in
society, the Messenger of Allah gave them hope. They felt that
this Deen gave him something special. And this is why the vast
majority of people who flocked to this Dean initially were not the
rich.
It was those who are Nobodies, the untouchables, the zeros in
society, the Makhdoom
they were the ones who thought and saw that this man gives us hope.
Some Allah Allah He was Allah.
And this is why brothers
the D
that we have is a deed which keeps gives people hope. It gives those
who are nobodies in society it makes them feel that no if I
attach myself with this deed that Allah subhanaw taala with give me
a standing a respect it gave people like Somalia the first
martyr of dinner of the hola How was a female, her family a mob,
Yasir it gave Billa they gave so hate it gave all these people who
are nobodies in society it gave them hope. And the question that
we need to ask ourselves today is that the deen that means a new
partake, how does it give people hope? What makes us sitting here
the Muslims of Cape Town different to the non Muslims. Are you better
in education?
Are you better in mannerisms?
Do you care for humanity more than others? Or are you exactly the
same? And in many cases, you are actually even a lower strata. This
is not what this Dean came to do.
This is not what Muslims are therefore, the Muslims are defined
as hailer Amma,
if you look in the life of the Messenger of Allah, He gave people
hope. He made them special.
entered the masjid and brother. Jehan told me that the mother in
law of the Imam May Allah smart Allah grant agenda for those has
passed away
in the Haram
and he reminded me of a story which Imam jihad is related
insane. And listen to this story very, very carefully. There was a
woman who lived in Medina.
She was of African origin. And you know what she would do you know
what to duty was, is that she would clean the Masjid. That was
her only duty was to clean the machine. So she was genuinely if
you came from African origin and you lived around that part of the
world, you are actually genuinely came from slave background. So she
cleaned the machine. That's what she did.
So the message of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam saw that this
woman had disappeared for a number of days. She's not around.
So the words of Allah Allah was a master Sahaba of the ALLAH and he
said, We is that woman who genuinely cleans a machete but I
haven't seen it for many days.
So the Sahaba of the Allah annum said, O Messenger of Allah, she
passed away last night.
And we bury them in genital bucket.
So the messenger of Allah said, Why didn't you tell me? So they
said, O Messenger of Allah. She clearly she passed away. We shroud
it against her mouth and we bury them.
And the narration mentions, it was as though they didn't regard her
as that important. Why? Because she wasn't from the Mojave room.
She wasn't from the unsavoury. She didn't give big much grace. She
didn't she didn't give him big donations. What does she do she
just clean the machine and a background was an offer high
status using a policy. So often what my when I go to the heart of
my own I remember this story, and I stand in the harem. And I
envisage this how the prophets of Allah and there was something
said, Where is her grief?
So he stood up from the masjid and he walked toward genital Bucky.
And he stood on her grief.
And he prayed the Janaza Salah on her grief. I know nobody else
beside this woman that the messenger of allah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam stood on her grave after she was buried and
prayed her janazah beside this woman who cleaned the masjid
why because you will not want it to send you and I a message that
this deal is a deal of hope that this deal is a deal of creating an
ummah.
You know, I have been here for a week or so. And I keep hearing
when I speak to South Africans very interestingly, because I
lived here for three years many years ago in the 90s.
They come out with this thing. I said how South Africa is good, but
you know what? And these are Muslims, normal non Muslim
Muslims. They should not stand is that have come
there's a lot of burglar dishes that have come. There's a lot of
Somalians outcome.
And I'm thinking that this is not your
excuse me here. This is not
Your father's land
laws land.
Where did you Lake into it?
You been a 300 years, you're still the children of some people who
migrated
over four generations of five generations. You can't you got an
issue. It's not like you're feeding the Somalians or the
Pakistani or the Bengalis. They're your Muslim brothers and sisters.
And you have an issue with other people who recite the same Kenema
as you La ilaha illallah, Muhammad Rasool Allah. And then this is the
irony. And then you'll speak about Uma, oh, look at what's happening
in Palestine, looks at what happening and do with the Rohingya
because look what's happening with these Muslims. You can't create a
oma in Cape Town in your local masjid. And you talk about
Palestine.
Because it's very easy to talk about things that you know that
you're not going to make any change to. But it makes us feel
good. It doesn't mean that you shouldn't be carrying and speaking
about these issues.
We like to speak about the muhajir rule and the answer, how the
muhajir rule and the Ansara the Brotherhood,
but you have an issue.
You have an issue
with other people who are migrating to the country for a
better life.
And this is the irony where we as Muslims, where we should be
actually making the Ummah we pray the
US you
if I was to ask, and I'll give you practical examples, so they're not
they're not, you know,
they're not. They're irrelevant. So, let me give you a practical
example. So they may be slightly direct, but a practical example,
if I asked the Indians
and not all I know generalized, if I asked the Indians
give me a list of the bad characteristics of the Malays.
You give me a long list.
Long list. If I asked the Malays give me the bad characteristics of
the Indian he can give me a long list.
If I asked a smiley, the same if I asked either the Pakistani,
exactly the same.
How come you can only see the force of other people?
How come you can't see the hate of other people. Every nation acts
like they chose to be born a Malay they chose to be born Indian, you
had no say in it. If you were Indian, and you happen to be born
of Malay, you will be defending them in the same way that you
defend your own.
And then the irony again is that you want to talk about ummah. You
want to talk about creating unity, you actively break the umma, the
same people if I asked you, okay, give me a list. Good
characteristics of the Indians, you pick about three or four,
three or four good characteristics of the Somalian, three or four
characteristics of the others. Why?
Because all you can see is negativity and reality that is
nothing besides a reflection of your own six things.
Nothing if you think for some reason, because of the color of
your skin, or because where you were born makes you superior to
others and you look down on other people that understand one thing
and if you take nothing from this talk besides the statement, that
would suffice if you look down on other people, because of that,
because the way people look the color of the skin where they come
from,
then you are taking no faults out of that person because nobody
chooses to be where they were born. Nobody chooses the color of
their skin. You are taking faults out of Allah subhanaw taala no
Altavilla
you're taking faults out of Allah subhanaw taala and if you are
brave enough to take faults out of Allah subhanaw taala then that's
your pains.
And this is why brothers.
You want to make an own master here.
Start in Islamia, machine,
star in these areas around you.
You want to give hope you want to give examples of how beloved the
Allah Who gave hope to people but you
You can't give hope to Hanover Park. You can't get home to
Bonneville you've never done anything in those areas, because
you and I generally have a stereotype regarding other people.
That's the reality of it.
But the problem is Allah Salam came and he broke those
stereotypes.
He broke, the spirit of people came into urinated in the machine.
And the Sahaba, roll up their sleeves to sort them out. And the
message of Allah said, Leave him, if you're going to chase him, he's
going to run around in all the machines. And what's he gonna do,
he's gonna defy the entire machine. So let him you remained.
And then the Messenger of Allah explained to him, this was a
bigger win.
And he explained to me in a nice manner. So imagine this, let's
bring that scenario today. And I'm not obviously promoting anybody
urinating in the machine.
But bring this scenario today. Imagine somebody came into this
must question. And he said something and he shouted, there
were a handful of youngsters out there to knock him out rather than
give him power.
And the Mercy of Allah explain to him and he's been turned around.
And because he was a Bedouin background, said, he didn't scold
me, he didn't swear me, he didn't rebuke me.
And then he makes a DUA, he said, Oh, Allah have mercy upon me at
Mercy upon Muhammad and nobody else
because the others wanted to deal with him.
So, if you want stereotypes, we will not create stereotypes of
other individual you will never do the work of doubt. You will never
have Ficker.
You need to remove the stereotype for this from our deen. The Bible
is a Muslim removed stereotype he gave people hope. He gave those
people who are no hope he gave them hope. People like Beloved,
beloved was what he was a slave. He was born a slave. In those days
you were raised a slave and you are going to die a slave. But the
Messenger of Allah gave him hope.
To the degree isn't to this, to the degree the messenger of allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam saw him being persecuted one day, and
he said who will buys Billa
and Abu Bakr said me and Abu Bakr Radi Allahu Anhu mentioned ganas
above that he was always the first person to do actions of good so
Abu Bakr says me so he goes to may have been cut off and he says to
me, he said tell me below said you can buy without because you're the
one who corrupted him in the first place. So he said how much
he said 10 gold coins.
So a man now a worker goes home. He brings back 10 gold coins and
he gives them to me a year away it takes the money and he pushes will
take him and then he began to laugh. So Abu Bakr radi Alana said
are you laughing for me? Yeah.
Is it worth it? I swear by Allah. If you had offered me one gold
coin for Biller, I would have sold it for one gold coin.
Abu Bakr Radi Allahu said Omega. I swear by Allah if you had haggled
with me, and asked me for 100 gold coins for Billa I would have given
you 100 Gold points. And then Abu Bakr bought him the best man
regarding who the Mercy of Allah said the Sun has not written upon
a man greater than Abu Bakr, Siddiq, Radi Allahu Anhu Abu Bakr,
radi, Allah, Allah would say, beloved, see you the beloved is my
master
amarapura katabi Allah, Allah who would say, the second best man
after the mbls, not to slam to walk on the face of this earth, he
would say Abu Bakr See you then our Arthur Cassina Abu Bakr is our
master and he freed our master.
Now let's get to your stereotypes, the Maya and your stereotypes. We
have a stereotype regarding everybody. If they're not on the
same structure as I am financially influence wise, we look down upon
them
will lie up so I'm telling you,
I for many hours have been Allah savers. If beloved walked through
that door today, many of us will look down upon him because of his
social strata, Stoughton status, but it is a matter does it really
what you think of people will lie doesn't matter is what Allah
thinks of that person.
Because you live for 60 and 70 years, and you create these false
perceptions, who makes you and I feel good because we may have the
finances or we may have the status, but in the eyes of Allah
makes not an iota difference.
If you say to me, you were born in a middle class society.
And you happen to be born in that and you look down on people who
look on live on shanty towns
Live in townships are live in the cape flats. Because you were born
with a golden spoon in your mouth
and you are given opportunities which others may not have been
given, not in a position of sugar, not to become arrogant. But
unfortunately we become arrogant instead of doing shooken
and the time of the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
there was a Sahaba His Name Allah had been haram, thy river haram
was a Bedouin Sahabi he lived in the desert. He would come to
Medina occasionally to sell stuff, and he would always visit the
messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
So the problem is Allah alayhi wa sallam wasn't at home one day and
live in Haram cave.
He knocked on the door and he asked for the messenger of allah
sallallahu alayhi salam. And they said at the mercy of Allah wasn't
at home, they save as I had been had on. Everything about him was
that in the dunya, he would have no status. The way he spoke, the
way he looked, the way he close financially, he had nothing of the
dunya
so the Messenger of Allah came home and he said, has anybody come
home today? And they said he has been haram cave, but you want at
home and he went? So this was a beloved messenger of allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. He didn't think okay, what God does I
had been haram, Dr. Range Rover, where does he live? Constantia?
Yeah, I'll go and look for him.
I'll go and look for him. Let me tell you straight
until you remove these false
pretenses and these fault criterias you will never never
prosper as
the biggest the love that we have with the Shia, the Sunnis have is
that they say Alicia to be because he was family member. He was the
husband of Allah, we say the best man for the job.
The best man for the job was Abu Bakr, a speaker of the Allah.
You choose the best man for the job, no matter what color skin he
is,
no matter which area he comes from, as long as he has the
flicker of D. I was an area I had breakfast in the area at my
friend's house, and I won't mention which area you might
figure out who the person is.
But it's one of the cape flats, so I had breakfast with him.
And he had an extension made in his house. So his house was
extended.
And the reason he had this extension made was so that the
women from the bleak Jamaat could stay at his house.
So we was having breakfast, and they were this was we were sitting
there, and we were thinking to ourselves, we have extensions, so
we make our houses look better. Not necessarily we need the space.
But we have extensions done for a good neovi purpose. Here's a man
who's an extension done in his house and you know what the homes
look in those areas and what the sizes of those homes are generally
for the sake of the deen of Allah Subhana Allah
Now, why does Why does a person like this, deserve the respect
that may be a person who is born in a rich area will deserve
because I criteria is money.
Like you are lumping. That's what it is. You and I you and you drive
a new Range Rover and all of a sudden you realize you've got
friends that you never had before.
You buy a 5 million pound 5 million Red House of where and you
realize that all of a sudden you have street cred that you never
had before. What they're respecting for you what they're
respecting you for for some robber and some for metal
for some bricks and mortar water, that's what you're getting
respected for. And if that's what you respect people for really is a
serious problem.
This is a serious problem. Because that is not what Allah and He told
us to look at. So the messenger of Allah comes home and he asked at
anybody come home he said law had been haram. So the messenger of
Allah went out looking for Allah had been haram and if it had been
haram in the marketplace
and he walked behind law had been haram and he's selling his goods
in a market stall at the mercy of Allah walk behind him and he
grabbed it like this from behind him. And he began to move him
around like this. And he said made yesterday who
who will buy the slave who will buy the slave so that have been
haram or the Alana doesn't realize is the messenger of allah
sallallahu alayhi salam
So he says, Let me go let me go. So he's grabbed his advice, made
yesterday has helped me yesterday has
eventually died even haram realizes the messenger of allah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And then Rachel mentioned that Allah
had been haram. He leads his head back on the shoulder of the
Messenger of Allah, so Allah Azza and he relaxes.
And then he turned to the messenger of allah sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, and he said I'm missing if Allah do you really
want to sell me?
Do you really want to sell me?
He said, Oh mercy of Allah, I swear by Allah I've been haram
nobody would buy me.
I have no status in the dunya who would buy a man like Allah had
been haram?
The messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, Allah him.
You may have no status in the eyes of the people, but I swear by
Allah, in his eyes, you have very high
you have on men status.
So brothers and sisters, we are a group of people who give people
hope. This religion is a religion of hope.
We live for the era. And look, this doesn't mean and don't take
this wrong, that if somebody Allah is granted a wealth Alhamdulillah
the name of Allah subhanaw taala blessing from Allah subhanaw taala
not all rich people are arrogant. You know how much sadaqa the Mercy
of Allah gave within his life, you know how much
within his life, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
equivalent to today's money, just enriching that we're not even
going for the Eve narration $21,000,000.20 $1 million. The
Mercy of Allah gave him the path of Allah smart Allah. If he wanted
to be rich.
Nobody could have been rich, he could have kept all the money in
himself.
While the prophets Allah Salam, utilize that money.
And nobody's telling you to give 21 million in the path of Allah.
Yeah. What? What you have is all for a favor from Allah subhanho wa
taala. The status you have is from Allah subhanaw taala make it
change.
You know, I often will lie. I often speak to people when it
comes to other individual they say, do the dour results are in
the eyes of and the hands of Allah subhanaw taala you do the Dawa,
you have the concern. You have difficulty now. You won't make an
iota different gift out to those people.
Imagine who the Messenger of Allah came to. He came to people bury
the daughters alive.
He came to people who would feud over the minutus issues, but he
gave them hope. He had a concern. Imagine every single year
Hartstein the prophets, Allah Salam would go from one tent to
the next to the next tent. Every single year, he would go from 10
to 10. For 10 years, the Mercy of Allah gave Dawa to the machine
again. And then Rachel mentioned about bring all that reason
together this how they work. They in separation, he mentioned that
his uncle Abu Lahab would walk behind him. And MSU Allah would go
from tent to tent and he said, don't listen to this man. He's a
mutt, you know, he's a fool. And other generations, people would
say to him, we're not gonna listen to you, your own people don't
believe in you. How are we going to believe in you. And as a
nation, they will pick up some dust and they will throw it in his
face. In other narration, he mentioned that they would spit in
his face. But from 10 to 10. He never gave up. He never gave up.
And they wonder he mentioned at the end of the day, his daughter
or daughters ailable young at the country bought some water for him.
And she's pouring the water in his hands and washing his hands and
the washing the spirit of his face.
And he looks up and he sees the anxiety in the face of his
daughter
and he sees it she see the father big spatter
and he looked at her and he saw how anxious she was.
And he said oh my daughter
don't regard this as disgrace what I'm going through today
for I swear by Allah
for I swear by Allah they will come that this Deen will reach the
home of every bacon unbaked home. And we've a testimony to the
statement of the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
he could have easily turned around and said these guys are a waste of
time.
They don't even deserve it. And you don't know we live in a time
is very interesting. Some of the most pious people are those who
are the most negative.
The most pious adult
do this don't bother with this. Don't bother with this. He doesn't
get off his backside. He's an armchair critic is on WhatsApp all
day criticizing doesn't do anything Oh mashallah he's so
pious, he doesn't get involved in anything. The messenger of allah
sallallahu sallam said, manakala, Harlequin NASPO.
Whoever said that the people are destroyed, there is no there is no
hope in the people, that he's the one who destroyed.
So brothers and sisters, we are people of hope. We are people who
give other people hope. We are not people who check people
stereotypes, etc. Just because Allah subhanaw taala gave us a
neck month that he didn't give other people.
And you see the hope? How how it manifested in the life of the
Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam and I'll finish up on the story.
There was a man who didn't have to be was a Christian.
He was a prince. So eventually, one day he decided to go to Medina
to meet the Messenger of Allah Subhan Allah, Allah observer. So
he says, I was walking with the mercy of allah sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam through the street. And this African slave woman stopped.
She said, O Messenger of Allah, I need something from you.
And as he says, the fact that he could be stopped in the middle of
the street, I knew he wasn't a king or a prince.
And the messenger Allah said, take my hand and take me to any street
in Medina and asked me for assistance, I will assist you. And
as he said, I realized this man is something special.
And then he says, he took me home. And he gave me the pillow to sit
on. And I said, No, you sit on the pillow.
And he said, No, you insisted. He was a Christian at the time. And
then he gave him Tao about Christianity. And Addison, I've
marveled about his knowledge regarding Christianity. And then
the message of Allah says, embrace Islam. For I swear by Allah, a day
will come.
A woman who will travel from Hera all the way to Makkah and Du Bois
and no person will interfere with it. So the embrace Islam for a day
will come that we will take the Jews of the Kisara the Krishna was
the Persian leader, the most powerful man on the face of this
earth. And he said you the Muslim to escape to go out of Medina will
take the jewels the kisser I said, Yes. So Addy, I swear by Allah day
will come that people will go out and give them to God. And nobody
will be ready to give them a cup, or the embraces Islam. And this
was the whole
says, By Allah with my own eyes, so women coming from Iraq, all the
way to the top, I think too often nobody interferes with them. He
says, I was in the army, which took the Jews of the Messiah
and he said, Although it hasn't happened today, but I bear
testimony that a day will come that people will go out and give
this talk and nobody will take this account. So brothers, my my
humble request is this.
You really care about the OMA
start here.
Palestine you're going to work for one day in a row hangers, one day,
a year, two days a year is your
this is your man in this machine. This Oh my God, Allah subhanaw
taala gives you strength that allows your community to prosper,
or you go from strength to strength. May Allah subhanaw taala
keep us united in this dunya May Allah subhanaw taala reunited
Jennifer for those. And I also want to finally thank the
committee for giving me this opportunity. May Allah subhanaw
taala given to as I said a lot of people Salam aleikum