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Talking a Alhamdulillah, we
o Barakatu, Alhamdulillah to Alhamdulillah. We thank Allah
subhana wa Taala again for all the favors, the bounties that is
bestowed upon us. And we place Salawat in to steam upon the
Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam as a means of barakah. The
last time we spoke about the boycott that they had upon the
rail. Is a we spoke about the hijra, the first Hijra to abyssia
to habasha, and we continue on that story, because it's very
important to extract the lessons that we can learn from all of
these events. Because at the end of the day, the seed of the Ramadi
so some was documented in order for us to understand and learn
from what the Muhammad, sallAllahu, alaihi wasallam went
through, and the Sahaba of the Muhammad, and is so of the
lessons. Lessons that we accept, that we see the patience and the
perseverance that the Rab Ali susam had, and the Sahara
Ahlulbayt when they face this difficulty, for it is not a trace
for a Muslim. Then, when he faced difficulty, that he can leave of
his deed. No, once you are Muslim and you convince 100% that you are
Muslim and you believe in Allah, subhanaw, taala, 100% it is not an
option for you to live off your deen. Of course, there's no
iqrafidin. There's no compulsion in Deen. And if a person becomes
murtad, especially in our time today, we live in in a minority.
We are the minority. We cannot force people to stay Muslim, but
it's not an option for a person to live with the deen, because
immediately they become mutat and, of course, there's different
categories of people being murtad and there is a different issue.
But coming back to our point that nobody has the option to leave of
the deen if they face difficulty by just by facing difficulty or
harm does not give you a reason to immediately leave of your deen.
You can protect yourself, yes, but it does not mean that you become
cafe or you become Mushrik just because you are facing these
difficulties. So from the first lessons that we extract is the
somber and the perspirations and the perseverance that the Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wasallam is people even with the non Muslims
that were with them, because not all the family of the nawali Susa
were Muslim, there were people that stood up for the nawali susal
because he was the family, even though they were not on the same
religion, but blood matter to them. And Allah subhanaw taala
says, in our Quran, yellow is tiny. Was Sarah in Allah sobering
or at the corner? Well, I'm fussy with a rod. Wabash, sauberian,
aladina, either abusive button in the lahi wa inna, Elijah, on your
own, I got him. Salawat, Robin, muratma, as I continue, ALLAH
SubhanA wa Taala says, Oh, you who believe those that claim that they
have a man? You and I? ALLAH, seek refuge with having patience and
your Salah, your prayer to Allah. Subhanaw taala, why? Why is it so
important to have patience and pray? You see, a person can be
able to handle pain, but if he does not have patience, then he
will not be able to survive the pain for a long period of time.
But patience is very important to have. So when you face difficulty,
also have patience in order to overcome because pain or harm or
difficulty is not the short it can happen. It can be very long. So
Allah subhanaw taala said, make sure that you have patience with
these things. But also was Salah when you make sure that you keep
on the salah seek, if refuge from Allah subhanho wa taala, with
salah, from these difficulties, from this harm that you are facing
with salah. Why? What about he to be? Says you reason being is
because when a person enters in his Salah and you say, Allahu
Akbar, you are saying there is nothing greater than Allah, even
my problems, even my problems, because Allah subhanahu wa is the
greatest, and Allah subhanahu wa taala is the creator of
everything, and he's in control of everything. And nothing can happen
except by his decree. No benefit can come to me except by his
decree, and no harm can come to me except by his decree. As the
Muhammad Sallallahu A salaam mentioned abus radiallahu anhu,
that no matter if jinn or ends have to come together. They will
not be able to benefit you, except what Allah has decreed to benefit
you, and they will not be able to harm you, except what Allah has
decreed for them to harm you. Jafati Rafael aklam or jafati
masahi that the things is dried and there's no more after that,
meaning that Allah subhanahu wa.
When Allah is decreed for something, all he says, Be, and it
is. And this is the concept that Allah is trying to inform us to
have, is that when you make that salah, that we do in it, and we
have the connection of Allah subhanahu wa taala, because that
Salah is your protection. And if you look at the ayat Allah
subhanahu wa says, wala nablu, wanakum, we will test you. Bill
coffee by fear well joy and hunger or knocks a minute and well and
lost of wealth or locks a minute amphos and loss of people of life
and the beautiful things in the dunya overim, but glad tidings for
those that have sober Alabama. Shah Rahi, he gives a very
beautiful explanation. He says that Allah subhanaw taala mentions
hope first. Why? Because hope you will find it fear, or sure you
know that worry at least. Let me say the worry of of this obeying
Allah, Subhanahu wa taala. Where do you find that? Mostly in Salah.
You find that Moses in Salah, because you you fear that you
might do something, and because you know, Salah the most, most,
greatest thing a person had to keep up with. Because everything,
it is only two things that a person can maybe be forgiven by
Allah, Subhanahu wa Taala and not question about it, but two things
you cannot. Is a namana as a day, at least, a loan that you might
owe somebody, and salah, Salah is the first thing that will be
questioned. So hope, in that sense plays a huge role fear within your
Salah, because you try to make sure that you make Salah
correctly, and you are standing in front of Allah subhana wa taala,
so you humble yourself, you show that khushu At ALLAH SubhanA wa
taala, and that is when he says, you experience the fear. So how
Salah you want to
defend yourself or arm yourself when it comes to fear, your Salah
is your arm, your Salah is your tool, while you are eat and
hunger. Now, how did Allah subhanahu wa taala prepares for
hunger? So, yeah, fasting Allah subhanahu wa taala has been
prescribed fasting upon us like has been preserved upon those that
were before us, so that we may gain taqwa. What is taqwa again
someday? Alamah translated as fear in fear in what not fear in Allah,
in the sense that he is going to, you know, he says, hard God that
is going to punish us, no, but you fearing to fall out of that, that
rahmallah that he he sends to us even though we are not worthy of
it. So, so yeah, in that sense, gives the person opportunity to
train himself when it comes to jewel, when comes to hunger, wanak
seminal amwali and loss of wealth. Look at Zakah. Allah subhanahu wa
trains us in that sense, to give min Awali and sadaqatan to tahiru
humor to Zakim Bihar, give of your wealth, or take from their wealth
and give it out to the poor so that they may purify them. This is
a castle. Trains you that wealth can be decreased. But even though
it's never decreased, because when you give out Zakaria, you give out
saraka, it only increases in barakah and khair and also on the
dunya. People think it's just in the afternoon after another dunya
as well, you will benefit by it. So zaka, naksim inat amwali,
naximin at amphos, how do we deal with lots of lives? He says that
if you look at Hajj now, seeing this will tell you that back in
the days when there was not, not everybody could afford to go by
plane, and a lot of people go by by the ship, they would leave, and
they would go like, three months, four months they are gone. Five
months are gone. And a lot of them would be under the the
understanding that they might not return, because you never know
what can happen on the way, or you never know what it can happen
well, they're on Hajj because there was no messages to message,
or the medical facilities at that time was not that advanced, and
all of these different things. So when people used to go over Hajj,
it's almost as if they are completely leaving. Or that's
where you find, for instance, in Cape Town, specifically that you
find when a person goes, Oh, Hajj, everybody comes to greet him, and
they ask forgiveness, and they ask love and all. It's a beautiful
tradition, alright, beautiful tradition that we need to keep up
with, because it it increases that mahaba, the love between each
other, and that is what the din is about. So people would greet you,
see, see you off Yani when you go for Hajj, because you never know
that you're going to come back. So you treat the person as if he's
now going, who are philadelph Indeed, he's going to Allah. And
then you deal with in that way as well. That's why you find a lot of
people crying when the hajars would leave, because they don't
know if they're going to see them again. And not too long ago, few
years ago, with the cranes, we saw that. It happened in our time as
well. So mecha just lost their lives because of the cranes that
fell upon them. And that even shows us that there it's a
reality. So when a person goes Hajj, it trains you, almost, if it
trains you in a way, when you face death, when you face loss of of
life. But look at the beauty, he says. But you need to understand
that Allah gave us the solutions before facing the problems, he
gave us a solution before he faced the problems. You know, you go to
psychiatrist. You would have to sit maybe for a week or two or few
days, tell him about your issues, tell him about your problems, and
then afterwards, by listening to you, He will give you the
solutions. Now, Allah is the creator of that psychologist, and
he's the creator of that psychiatrist, and Allah subhanahu
wa taala gave us the.
Solutions before we face the problems. So when we face the
problems, we'll be equipped properly in order to face them.
And this is what Allah subhanaw taala shows us with the Sahaba
nabali shasab, that they show that patience and perseverance and they
seek the help of Allah subhanahu wa taala and assistance from ALLAH
SubhanA wa taala. That's Allah subhanahu Taala says one of the
ayah yawadina amanu is bu who believe, have patience and Sabir
meaning, support each other, be there for each other with sober
meaning, encourage other as well to have sober. Compete with each
other to have sober, because it's very important that just when you
face a calamity that you are sober, but those that are around
you also, as well, make sure that they also have the Sabbath and
encourage them to have that sober or rabito minutely man. It is part
of the aspects of iman. Is part of the pillars of iman that a person
has to show because Allah subhanaw taala had made that a maqam, a
status a daughter by Allah subhanahu wa salam as well, when
Ahmad ya said and his family went through so much difficulty that
the mother and the father of Amar Ibn Said were the first martyrs of
Islam, and then of Alisa isbirnam or idokumal, Jannah. Have sobre, O
people of Yasir for your outcome or the result of this
difficulties, and the sober that you're having and the fruits that
you will benefit is Jannah. So therefore sob is one of the means
in order to enter Jannah, just to have patience with people, to have
patience with your family, to have patience with those that are
around you. And sometimes, when a person show patience with those
that are good with him, you need to even show more patients with
those that are bad with you. Because what is the worth of a
patient if it's not tested, especially with difficult times?
And this is the most important message that we need to keep on
reminding ourselves Jamaat al Muslim,
one of the things also that we see is that this is one of the alamat,
the indications, or the signs of the truthfulness of the Muhammad,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, that if the NAMA Ali summons after
wealth and after kingdom, after dunya,
the first, first, let me say trial or tribulation that you would have
faced. You would have lift off this dunya. You see a person
that's objective is the dunya. If you see that his dunya becomes
difficult immediately, or Bulak, because he wants the dunya. That
is what he wants, power, to have an empire, to have a kingdom, and
that is what the person will want. But the NAMA Ali shasam showed the
cockpit opposite the response that with the difficulty and the harm
and tribulations that he faced, he showed more patience and more
perseverance. Why? Because the Ramayana of the kingdom Jamaat al
Muslimeen, the Rama Ali sum was here Asmaa Tamir Allah as a mercy
from Allah subhanaw taala, mean for every single creation on this
dunya. And this is one of the lessons that we extract as well
that indeed, the objective of the rail Sun was not to establish a
kingdom, but to sincerely call people to Allah, Subhanahu wa
taala. One of the lessons that we also extract is the understanding
that Alisa had of najashi and how he sends najashi the Ulama exact.
And they say, from this, we see that it's permissible that if a
king that is just, a king that is just that cease to justice that
does not harm people, does not oppress people, it's not a tyrant.
And he gives an opportunity that you can express your religion,
then there's absolutely nothing wrong by being under governance in
that sense, because he gives you that opportunity to be a Muslim,
he gives you that opportunity to have a maj he gives an opportunity
to education, to empower yourself with the knowledge of the deen, to
express yourself freely as well. And this is what we see that the
Rabb Ali shasam The reason why he sent in a Jas he didn't send them
in order for them to give dawah to najashi. No, he said, I'm sending
you their wife because there is a king that is just meaning you are
going to live under his ruling, but he's going to give you that
opportunity that you can worship Allah subhanahu
wa says, Our Quran YAHWAH, nurse in the heart. Now, come in the
career. Now, come show over Lita Inna, karma, command. Allah SWT
says, oh, people, we created you from a male and a female, and we
made you in different tribes in order for you. Taharafu now Tara,
for does not mean exactly the same thing like Alamo. Talamu,
knowledge taharu, meaning that you, you take the knowledge and
you actually realize the proper understanding behind it. It's
called realization. So realization is much more deeper. It has much
more information that you need to know. So what does the ayah
exactly mean? To put it in perspective, that you need to not
just know them the different terms, but actually get to know
them and also to be familiar with them and understand their
background and work with them. And that's why Allah.
Work together upon what is right and what is good, and do not work
together upon what is evil and bad and corrupt. But Allah didn't say
specifically, Ahmed work together with the people of righteousness
upon righteousness. So he said, work together upon righteousness,
meaning he has left it open motto that no matter who you are, what
background you come from, if it is good and it is hype that we can
work together, then we work together in order to improve
society and improve the community. That's Allah subhanahu wa and
Allah does not make it haram for you to do good towards those that
have not killed you or not fought you in your deen, meaning they are
not stopping you from establishing your deen. They are not stopping
you from establishing massages. They are not stopping you from
establishing institutions. They are not stopping you from
performing your Siam or performing your Hajj, you perform in your
zakat. They're not they're giving you the opportunity to do this so
Allah, SWT, they're not fought you within your deen trying to stop
your deed. Wallami di Aram, and they do not kick you out of your
own lads, until about Roma talks to elaheim that you do good to
them, meaning you live in harmony. Living harmony with these people
is Islam did not come to show what is it to be a Muslim. Islam came
to show what is a true human being. And I always repeat myself
that Islam came to show what is a true human being, because I know
Ali shalam was Rahma for all human beings, not just Muslims, but non
Muslims as well.
Salama Ali sum then sends them to habasha so they may worship Allah,
so they may live in a country and in a kingdom that nobody's
oppressed. And of course, without also looking at it specifically
that the raw did not, you know, sometimes we find certain brothers
say, no, no, no, no, no, we can't do that because they are not
working under Sharia. They're not doing the things according to Al
Sharia, they won't because they're not Muslim. They won't because
they're not Muslim. And that's why the Nabi is not like the NABI.
When he send them to habasha that he's thinking that they're going
to perform a Sharia that najash is going to now implement the Sharia,
of course not, but he send them on the purpose of just, of justice
that a person is just. That's why nethay mea and is one of his book
called Kitab majma Alpha. He says that Allah in Allah you came with
dollar, a Delaware in Canada, that Allah subhana wa Taala will
establish and support a donor, a country that is just, even if it
is kafir, and ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala will not establish or not
support or destroy a an empire or a country that is Muslim, but it
is all Imam a transgress because Islam is about justice. Islam is
about had. Islam is about Haqq, and that is what Allah, subhana wa
taala, one so much Jamaat Al muslime is to establish the Haqq
is to establish what is right and establish justice Ness between
human beings. That is what Sharif has come in order to propagate,
promote as well. And that's why Allah subhanaw taala, for
instance, is in the Holy Quran. Later only Amin donation Illa
until Allah subhanahu wa says in the Holy Quran, and do not let the
true believers take the non believers as awliya, meaning the
ones who is going to be in charge of you mean doon and meaning, if
you do not find a ready that there must mean in those positions, then
it's best. And there's nothing wrong with that. In what sense,
not that we are trying to promote Yani racism or anything like that.
But if a person, for instance, is a doctor, and it is best to use a
doctor to facilitate the or see to the to the needs of a hospital,
because it's best to know what is going on there. And that's why to
facilitate the matters of the Muslim men, it is better than
Muslim but if that Allah, subhanaw taala says binding, meaning if
there's no true believers, wama Yafa Derek, Malaysia, and whoever
does that, then indeed, there is not from Allah subhana wa taala,
but you must understand, there's a context within this higher that
Allah subhanahu wa speaking about specifically using the non Muslim
in order to promote violence. Again, your Muslim brother,
against your own person, against your brother, against your sister
in that sense. And of course, again, talking in context that
that time between the Muslims and the non Muslims. It was war. It
was fighting, it was killing. It was murder, was torture.
Alhamdulillah, today we do not, we do not live in those
circumstances, at least in South Africa, that we have in war
between Muslims and non Muslims. Alhamdulillah, we live in harmony,
as the ayah that I mentioned before this, that we can do good
towards him and all of these things. But then Allah says at the
end of the ayah, Allah and Tata, kumin Huq, now some of the Alama
has given tafsir and tamari. He says, I write about ama when it
came to the part Illah and Tatak women, whom tokah? He says, malam,
your Hiko dam, Muslim, Mama, Alam.
That ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala in one of the Allah saying, Whoever does
something good, or that Allah subhanahu wa taala will know about
it within Muslim or non Muslim, ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala might give
you the benefit on the dunya might give the benefit in the akhirah.
We never know. How is the benefit going to be Allahu yahannam, Allah
knows best, and we not there to judge, and we not there to give
our opinions concerns ALLAH SubhanA wa Taala to grant us the
understanding, and Allah subhanahu wa grant us to recite this Quran
from our hearts, not only from our minds, but from our hearts that
will make that Abu that we make contemplation and pond upon the
ayat. Allah subhana taala, rasala Sin Muhammad,