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Is Allah Really with Us? | Khutbah
Allah is with those whom He loves. How do we know whether or not that applies to us as individuals and communities? Are we not gaining victory because of some fault of our own? Live from Masjid Sri Sendayan in Malaysia.
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00:00Dear brothers and sisters, When the Prophet (ﷺ) was in the cave with Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (رضي الله عنه),
00:10and they were all alone in that cave as far as human beings were concerned, and what stood between a religion of two billion people today
00:21and a religion that would have ended with the murder of two men were the feet of the enemies right at the mouth of that cave. And I want you to imagine that moment,
00:34where Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (رضي الله عنه) looks out, and he sees the feet of the enemy, and the Prophet (ﷺ) is his responsibility as far as he is concerned,
00:47taking care of the Prophet (ﷺ) and protecting him, and the Prophet (ﷺ) looking to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (رضي الله عنه),
00:57and saying the words that two billion people recite today, لا تحزن إن الله معنا
01:07Don't be afraid, do not grieve, indeed Allah is with us. There is no need for you to be scared, there is no need for you to be sad,
01:20Allah is with us, and the certainty of the Prophet (ﷺ), the affirmation of the Prophet (ﷺ), would bring coolness and stillness to the chest of any human being,
01:34especially as-Siddiq, the one who affirms the truth, and affirms the Prophet (ﷺ) and all that he says and all that he does. A few years prior to that moment,
01:47the Prophet (ﷺ) was himself affirmed, by none other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
01:59وَالضُّحَى وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا سَجَى مَا وَدَّعَكَ رَبُّكَ وَمَا قَلَى Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala swore, that your Lord has not forsaken you,
02:12nor has your Lord found you repulsive. And here the Prophet (ﷺ) is giving this affirmation to his closest friend, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (رضي الله عنه). It comes down however,
02:27to something on an individual level. Are you confidently able to say, that Allah is with us right now? What does it mean to say, إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَنَا
02:40Verily Allah is with us, and I'm not speaking about the theological construct here. I'm talking about in the way in which we intend it, when we say it that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is with us, عَوْنًا وَنَصِيرًا
02:55As a means of support, and as a divine aid, and if Allah is with you, then it doesn't matter who is against you. And if Allah is against you, then it doesn't matter who is with you.
03:08We ask this question to ourselves on an individual level. Is Allah answering my du'as? Is Allah pleased with me? Is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala looking at me with His divine favor?
03:20But how do we actually broaden that to ask ourselves, does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala love us as a community? Is my family pleasing to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? Is this a household that Allah looks to with His divine pleasure?
03:35Is this a masjid that Allah looks to with His divine pleasure? Is this a community, a country that Allah looks to with His divine pleasure? Is this an ummah that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala looks to with His divine pleasure?
03:50And I want to take you actually to a verse that you recite every Friday in Surah Al-Kahf, verse number 28, where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
04:02وَاصْبِرْ نَفْسَكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ رَبَّهُمْ بِالْغَدَاةِ وَالْعَشِيِّ يُرِيدُونَ وَجْهَهُ وَلَا تَعْدُ عَيْنَاكَ عَنْهُمْ تُرِيدُ زِينَةَ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا
04:13وَلَا تُطِعْ مَنْ أَغْفَلْنَا قَلْبَهُ عَنْ ذِكْرِنَا وَاتَّبَعَ هَوَاهُ وَكَانَ أَمْرُهُ فُرُطًا Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, keep yourself patient
04:26with those who call upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala day and night, seeking His pleasure. And do not look past them. Don't turn away from them.
04:37Looking for the allure of this material world. And don't follow those, and don't pursue those whose hearts have been veiled from the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
04:51who follow their lowly desires, and whose affair is complete loss. I want to give you a visual to this ayah. We know the very famous story of Abdullah ibn Umm Maktum (رضي الله عنه),
05:06the blind man who came to the Prophet (ﷺ), rushing to the Prophet (ﷺ), while the Prophet (ﷺ) was speaking to some of the elites of Mecca. And Abdullah ibn Umm Maktum (رضي الله عنه),
05:21because he could not see, he comes to the Prophet (ﷺ), wa huwa yas'aa, in haste, grabbing for the Prophet (ﷺ), saying, Ya Muhammad, alimni mimma alamak Allah, O Muhammad (ﷺ), teach me from what Allah taught you.
05:36And he's not aware of the surrounding of the Prophet (ﷺ), and the meeting that the Prophet (ﷺ) just secured, with some of the nobles of Mecca, who had rejected his da'wah up until that point,
05:48partly because of the presence of people like Abdullah ibn Umm Maktum (رضي الله عنه). عَبَسَ وَتَوَلَّى The Prophet (ﷺ) frowned at a blind man.
06:00Meaning he wasn't hurting Abdullah ibn Umm Maktum's feelings, because Abdullah ibn Umm Maktum could not see his frown. But the frown of the Prophet (ﷺ),
06:12represented something that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala saw worthy of correcting. That it doesn't matter what these people think of you.
06:24What matters is that you surround yourself with sincere followers. That it is not the political strength, or the material strength, of those people that will secure your spot in history,
06:37and more importantly secure your spot in the hereafter. But it is in fact the presence of people like Abdullah ibn Umm Maktum (رضي الله عنه), that Allah loves to see in this community.
06:49And that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is indeed pleased with. And how did the Prophet (ﷺ) receive that admonishing? When he would see Abdullah ibn Umm Maktum (رضي الله عنه), he would say, marhaban, welcome,
07:04liman atabani allahu feeh, to the one who Allah scolded me on behalf of. Welcome to the one who Allah admonished me on his behalf. He would welcome him (ﷺ). Now I'll give you another visual.
07:19Qatada rahimahullah says that this verse was revealed, in the general sense of course, about the people like Salman al-Farisi (رضي الله عنه), and Suhaib al-Rumi (رضي الله عنه), and Bilal ibn Rabah (رضي الله عنه), and those who were looked down upon.
07:33But he gave a specific sentiment, he said that it was revealed about ashab as-suffah, ahl as-suffah, who were the people that resided in the masjid of the Prophet (ﷺ),
07:45and they were at that time 700. Take a visual shot, and imagine the masjid of the Prophet (ﷺ), and its humble means, and he looks out (ﷺ),
07:58and he has 700 homeless people, in front of him (ﷺ). And that's who Allah will give victory to? That's who Allah will give victory through?
08:12Yes. Ya Muhammad (ﷺ), Ya Rasulullah, اصبر نفسك معهم, keep yourself patient with those people.
08:24Don't just be patient with them, in the sense that you tolerate them, but build a community of resilience, a community of patience, because what Allah loves to see,
08:38تراهم ركعا سجدا, سيماهم في وجوههم من أثر السجود, that you see a people bowing and prostrating, there is no sight more beloved to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, than these masajid being full,
08:52and the people in their ruku' bowing, واركعوا مع الراكعين, bow with those who bow, prostrating, because there is no position to Allah, that's more beloved to him on an individual level, than the position of sajda, where you lower your ego,
09:07where you lower yourself to your Lord, من تواضع, and whoever lowers themselves, الله عز وجل رفعه, Allah 'azza wa jall raises that person in rank, there is no sight more beloved of a community, than that community in ruku' and sujood,
09:21we just came back from hajj, may Allah accept it, from the delegation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, as the Prophet (ﷺ) referred to them, and think about how beloved the sight to Allah, of Arafah,
09:36two million people in ihram, with their hands to the sky, under the heat of the sun, disheveled, dusty, as Aisha (رضي الله عنها) narrated in the hadith Qudsi, crying, calling upon Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
09:50in their different languages, the king and the peasants, equal in the sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and Allah 'azza wa jall says, oh my angels, look at these people,
10:03ما أراد هؤلاء, what do these people want? They want your mercy, they want your forgiveness, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says,
10:18bear witness, that I've forgiven this group of people, I love this group of people, I love this ummah, and subhanallah, we are most pleasing to Allah 'azza wa jall, in that state,
10:32when we are in our ruku' and in our sujood, back to the ayah, back to the verse, and what it represents to the Prophet (ﷺ), the Prophet (ﷺ), bismillah,
10:47alhamdulillah, the Prophet (ﷺ) said, as is narrated, الحمد لله الذي جعل في أمتي من أمرت أن أصبر معهم,
11:01all praises be to Allah, who placed in my ummah, those who I have been commanded to be patient with, alhamdulillah for an ummah full of Bilals, an ummah full of Suhaibs, an ummah full of Salmans,
11:14Aisha (رضي الله عنها) narrates authentically, such a beautiful narration, she said one night I was coming home from salatul isha, and I was late, and when I got home, the Prophet (ﷺ) asked me, Aisha where were you?
11:29She said, when I was leaving the masjid, I was listening to the recitation of a man, and the Prophet (ﷺ) said, let's go and listen to him together, so imagine the Prophet (ﷺ) and Aisha (رضي الله عنها), walking the streets of Medina, listening to the qira'ah,
11:44listening to the recitation of a man, and the Prophet (ﷺ) says, Aisha, هذا سالم مولى أبي حذيفة, this is Salim, the freed slave of Abu Hudhaifa,
11:56الحمد لله الذي جعل في أمتي مثل هذا, all praises be to Allah, who gave me and this ummah a person like this, can you imagine, that was what was pleasing to the heart, to the eyes,
12:11to the ears of the Prophet (ﷺ), alhamdulillah for an ummah of ruku' alhamdulillah for an ummah of sujood, alhamdulillah for an ummah of Islam, and as Umar (رضي الله عنه) said, when he entered into Jerusalem,
12:25and Abu Ubaidah (رضي الله عنه) came to him, and he told him, this isn't the best look, the leader of the truly free world, because we are people who are freed,
12:39من عبادة العباد, إلى عبادة رب العباد, from servitude to slaves, to servitude to the Lord of all slaves, it's not a good look Umar, you're so the slave on the horse or the camel,
12:53it's not a good look, and he said to him, that نحن قوم أعزنا الله بالإسلام, we are people who Allah gave dignity to through Islam, وإن ابتغينا العزة لغيره, أذلنا الله,
13:08when we seek it through anything else, Allah 'azza wa jall humiliates us, if you were to ask every Muslim, what's your vision for progress, what's your vision of the Muslim world, what's your vision of the Muslim people,
13:22what's your vision of the Muslim community, different people will have different ideas, but Allah 'azza wa jall tells you exactly what it is, it's a community that is pleasing to him subhanahu wa ta'ala,
13:36and that first and foremost is sincere in their pursuits of his pleasure, sincere in manifesting the acts of worship, the commandments and the values, that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given to us,
13:49it starts from that place, and I want you to appreciate for a moment, that the Muslims were always the underdog, we were always the ones that were looked past, what does that mean?
14:03In Mecca, the Prophet (ﷺ) was followed by the lowest of society, in Medina, as Ibn Abbas (رضي الله عنه) says, the Prophet (ﷺ) was keen to build relationships, with the Jewish community in Medina,
14:17with the people of the book in Medina, he was keen (ﷺ) to build with them, but they looked at him, and it was one thing to say that the Prophet to come is not from Bani Israel, but from Bani Ismail,
14:31it's another thing to say, wait, that's your community? Those 700 Ahl as-Suffah, these migrants, they don't look like the community,
14:45that Allah has chosen, they don't look the part, and when Muslims went to different parts of the world, when they came to this part of the world, you didn't look the part, why?
14:58Because your value system is different, and if we were a people that were relegated purely to aesthetics, as beautiful as this masjid was, we would all be sitting on high chairs,
15:11and pulpits, and benches, we would wear golden shoes, and golden slippers, and golden hats, but the reality is that, what's beautiful to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, are these faces on the ground,
15:26and we sit on the floor, in humility to our Lord subhanahu wa ta'ala, so we start from that place, what type of community does Allah love? Allah 'azza wa jall loves a community that worships him,
15:40Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves a community that's in a state of istighfar, in a state of seeking forgiveness, this ayah in the Quran, in Surah Al-Kahf, وَاصْبِرْ نَفْسَكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ رَبَّهُمْ Allah 'azza wa jall says, وَالْعَصْرِ إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَفِي خُسْرٍ
15:55إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالْحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوْا بِالصَّبْرِ that verily, Allah swears by time, that man is in loss, except for those, who believe, and do good deeds, and they enjoin truth amongst each other,
16:10they enjoin patience amongst each other, they enjoin patience amongst each other, and here Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, وَاصْبِرْ نَفْسَكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ رَبَّهُمْ بِالْغَدَاةِ وَالْعَشِيِّ keep yourself patient with those people, who do I want to be on my side?
16:25I want believers on my side, I want to be amongst them, وَأُحِبُّ الصَّالِحِينَ وَلَسْتُ مِنْهُمْ as Imam al-Shafi'i rahimahullah said, the very famous poem, I love the righteous even if I am not amongst them, I don't consider myself to be amongst them,
16:40لَعَلِّي أَنْ أَنَالَ بِهِمْ شَفَاعَةً so that maybe I can at least gain their intercession on the Day of Judgment, Imam al-Shafi'i rahimahullah, and he is who he is, he's saying I have imposter syndrome,
16:54when I'm amongst the righteous, and Imam Ahmad rahimahullah says to him, تُحِبُّ الصَّالِحِينَ وَأَنتَ مِنْهُمْ you love the righteous, and you're amongst the righteous, you're amongst them, we feel like imposters around you,
17:08but we want to enter ourselves amongst the righteous, because we want to be raised on the Day of Judgment, with those people that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves, so it starts off with that, and how is it that Allah describes them, they worship Allah in the day and in the night,
17:22meaning in public and in private, in public and in private, because the night worship is unseen, the public worship is the daytime worship, it is the values of Islam that are manifested,
17:36the akhlaq of the Prophet (ﷺ), the characteristics of the Prophet (ﷺ), if you think that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves a community that prays but cheats,
17:48that reads Quran but then lies in the next breath, that comes to the masjid with such observance of the etiquette, but is completely and entirely unethical
17:59in their daily business and their daily affairs with everyone else, that puts their face on the ground in humility and sujood, but then enters into their home with arrogance towards their family, if you think that's the person Allah is talking about,
18:13wrong person, that's not who, Allah doesn't love a community of hypocrites, because that ruku and that sujood translates into something,
18:25it's a humility that overtakes your entire presence, وَاصْبِرْ نَفْسَكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ رَبَّهُمْ بِالْغَدَاةِ وَالْعَشِيِّ يُرِيدُونَ وَجْهَهُ Why? Because they're seeking His countenance,
18:38they're seeking His pleasure, they're seeking His attention, not the attention of other people, not the pleasure of anyone else, all of them together have one audience,
18:51and that is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Himself, and Allah 'azza wa jall says, and don't look past them, don't look past them, هَلْ تُرْزَقُونَ وَتُنْصَرُونَ إِلَّا بِضُعَفَائِكُمْ As the Prophet (ﷺ) said,
19:06find me amongst the weak and the downtrodden, are you given victory or divine aid, except through your poor ones, your downtrodden ones, but on top of that, Allah says,
19:18وَلَا تُطِعْ مَنْ أَغْفَلْنَا قَلْبَهُ عَنْ ذِكْرِنَا Who are your role models? Who do you look to? Are you really following these losers, and I call them losers because Allah calls them losers,
19:33who have been put up as symbols for you as individuals or as communities, whose hearts have been veiled from the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, who have become idols of gluttony and greed. Is that who you want to be?
19:46Is that what you want to look like? Is that your insecurity? That as a community you want to look like that? You want your society to look like that? You want to be that person? أَغْفَلْنَا قَلْبَهُ عَنْ ذِكْرِنَا
19:59That person that is barred from remembering Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. وَاتَّبَعَ هَوَاهُ They follow their lowest desires. وَكَانَ أَمْرُهُ فُرُطًا And everything that they've pursued, subhanAllah.
20:12فُرُطًا is another word for loss. إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَفِي خُسْرٍ Verily man is in loss. كَانَ أَمْرُهُ فُرُطًا That person is in loss. The Prophet (ﷺ) said on the Day of Judgment
20:25أَتَدْرُونَ مَنِ الْمُفْلِسُ Do you want to know who a bankrupt person is? Not a person with no money in their bank account. It's a person who has incurred through their tongue so much sin. So much sin, so much evil.
20:39Their affair is in loss. Everything they earned meant nothing. It only became a proof against them on the Day of Judgment. So subhanAllah you can actually contrast.
20:49Allah says the community that He loves, the community that He is with, want Him. يُرِيدُونَ وَجْهَهُ They want Him. Allah says وَلَا تُطِعْ مَنْ أَغْفَلْنَا قَلْبَهُ عَنْ ذِكْرِنَا
21:03So these people pray day and night. These people are not allowed to remember Allah. These people are pursuing Allah. These people وَاتَّبَعَ هَوَاهُ They are people that follow their lowest desires. There are those that worship the Most High
21:17and there are those that follow their lowest desires. Look at the contrast. These are the people that will be given the highest reward. These are the people that will be given the lowest desires. Look at the contrast. These are the people that will be given victory in this life and the next. These are the people whose affair will be complete loss.
21:31Some of the scholars say the word فُرُطًا means they will fail to achieve happiness in this life or in the next. The most miserable people on earth are the ones who task themselves with happiness. They thought
21:45they could create a model of happiness and they could do it. But they failed. They could create a model of happiness and they could make their own happiness and when they got to their top, they realized that they were at their lowest.
21:59Because it didn't give them anything. The fame, the money, all of it. Nothing. It gave them complete emptiness and loss. And on the Day of Judgment, it is loss as well. How do we bring that back to ourselves?
22:13What is the community that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala loves? If you were to then take, dear brothers and sisters, every hadith or every ayah and then every hadith where Allah talks about a quality that He loves
22:27or a person that He loves. The more people that represent that, the more that that community is beloved. And so the more that you look to the ummah and you find those that manifest those qualities
22:41that Allah loves, the more beloved that ummah is. When you look at a locality, the more that people manifest those things, the more that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is pleased with them. If you want to know if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
22:55is with you, when the Prophet (ﷺ) says that Allah is with the believer so long as the believer is with his brother. Well then, Allah is with the believers
23:09so long as the believers are with their brothers. You can easily maximize that. Grow the circle. Take every ayah, every hadith where Allah says that He loves a person or He's with a person and say
23:23how many people cumulatively represent that. Where are we as an ummah with those ethics? How much do we represent of those things? The less we represent, the more that we incur the anger of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
23:37The more that we represent, the more that we incur the love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And then finally, dear brothers and sisters, when the Prophet (ﷺ) talks about unity, when the Prophet (ﷺ)
23:51talks about a community that is together, subhanallah it is in complete accordance with everything that Allah 'azza wa jall mentions about those whom He loves in the masjid, those
24:05whom He loves in the battlefield, those whom He loves in the marketplace, those whom He loves at all times. إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ الَّذِينَ يُقَاتِلُونَ فِي سَبِيلِهِ صَفًّا كَأَنَّهُمْ بُنْيَانٌ مَرْصُوصٌ
24:19Allah loves those people who fight alongside one another صَفًّا, think about the rows of prayer, in lines, in rows, كَأَنَّهُمْ بُنْيَانٌ مَرْصُوصٌ
24:33they fight together in His cause for good things they pursue they pursue His pleasure together and they don't let anything come in between them كَأَنَّهُمْ بُنْيَانٌ مَرْصُوصٌ
24:47they're like a well fortified structure, likewise Allah 'azza wa jall loves the saff, the line of prayer that is straight, but the Prophet (ﷺ) says, do not leave
25:01gaps between you lest the shaitan interrupt your hearts stick together the way that you are in your lines of prayer stick together why? not for other than Him
25:15but for Him subhanahu wa ta'ala وَاعْتَصِمُوا بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلَا تَفَرَّقُوا hold on to the rope of Allah together do not become divided amongst
25:29yourselves and subhanallah Allah 'azza wa jall started in this verse by mentioning the rope of Allah because those who lose sight of the rope of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will become divided over their lowly threads
25:43I want you to think of the parallel on an individual level we become distant from the most high when we succumb to our lowly desires on a community level
25:57we become distant from the most high when we succumb to our lowly egos all of the divisions that you find in our communities
26:11all of the divisions that you will find in our ummah even if they have the disguise of being for truth you will find under that veil of truth
26:25a bucket of falsehood, batil ego, personal agendas division two people will divide an entire society will embroil an entire country in chaos
26:39will embroil an entire ummah in chaos because of their lowly egos and Allah 'azza wa jall says that those people that came before you وَمَا تَفَرَّقُوا they did not divide themselves
26:53إِلَّا مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا جَاءَهُمُ الْعِلْمُ after knowledge came to them, why? بَغْيًا بَيْنَهُمْ arrogance, ego, personal agendas to where they lost sight of the bigger picture and the only thing they could see was their big egos
27:07and communities become divided the ummah becomes divided why? because we forget that bigger purpose if you don't remember your higher purpose you get divided over the smaller things
27:23every small division is inflamed into becoming a means by which you destroy yourself as an ummah and Allah 'azza wa jall says فَتَفْشَلُوا وَتَذْهَبَ رِيحُكُمْ
27:37and so as a result of that تنازع, as a result of that division you fail and your energy goes to waste your ريح subhanallah you think about this how much energy is placed in division
27:51how much energy is placed in drama how much energy is placed with the ummah fighting amongst itself and as a result of that consumption of energy that consumption of the heart with ego and envy that consumption of the community's
28:05minds and thinking space that consumption of the resources of the ummah who suffers? we all suffer we all suffer we all suffer in the process
28:19and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will hold us accountable for that and I want you to think about this and this is something that I put forward to my dear brothers and sisters think about the things that cause us
28:33to argue and to fight and imagine being a person sitting in a tent in Gaza right now hearing the drones and the air strikes above you, having just buried 13 or 14 or 15
28:47members of your family and you get access to your social media and you start scrolling and you say this is what my ummah has time for? this is what you're doing? this is what you're occupying
29:01yourself with? we're dying over here holding down the fort literally for the entire ummah in this small strip of Gaza that's what you're occupying yourself with oh Muslims?
29:15what drives us to that? you think Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would be pleased with that? the Prophet (ﷺ) says the best charity is islah, is reconciliation why?
29:29you give charity to an individual to feed their stomach and to alleviate their situation you give charity to the individual to remove them from incurring debt you give charity to the individual to uplift them in their circumstances
29:43but what a charity to the ummah a charity to the community when you sit two people down and you cause them to reconcile and you squash their differences so that you save the entire community from a headache
29:57what a charity to the entire community a charity to their dunya and to their akhira but so few people are willing to do that to be people of reconciliation people of islah people that sit people together
30:11it's so much easier, juicier to gossip and to chew into the dead meat of your brother it's so much harder to be that person that says I will hold this ummah together I will hold this community
30:25together, when there are people that are fighting I will get in between and I'll say remember why we got here remember what brought us together in the first place let's grab onto the rope of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and stop fighting over these scraps, it's not worth it
30:39we have bigger priorities as an ummah this ummah cannot afford division and I end with the hadith of the Prophet (ﷺ) he said
30:53(ﷺ) that I asked my Lord for three things I asked my Lord that he would protect us this ummah from famine from plague and Allah 'azza wa jall granted me that
31:07this ummah will not be wiped out by a plague and subhanallah you can imagine how reassuring that was to the ummah under Umar al-Khattab (رضي الله عنه) the year of the plague where it seemed like the ummah was going to be wiped out
31:21the Prophet (ﷺ) said Allah promised me this ummah would not be wiped out by a plague and here we are two billion people later I asked Allah that this ummah would not be wiped out by an enemy
31:37Israel is not capable of defeating the ummah of Muhammad (ﷺ) do you understand me? they are not capable our enemies are not capable of removing us from the face of the earth
31:51they will inevitably fail and Allah granted the Prophet (ﷺ) that but the third thing I asked my Lord that he would not allow
32:05their ruin to come amongst themselves meaning that the disunity amongst them would not consume them and hurt them and Allah did not give me that
32:21Allah did not give the Prophet (ﷺ) that of the wisdoms of that dear brothers and sisters Allah 'azza wa jall will take care of our externals Allah will fix what is on the outside but he's given us enough
32:35to fix what's on the inside you have to take care of your heart let Allah do the rest take care of your intentions Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will take care of your outcomes and plan for you in your favor as an individual
32:49even when you can't see the wisdom of the outcome as a community as an ummah take care of what is amongst yourselves Allah will take care of what's outside of you but you have to fix your hearts
33:03we have to fix our issues we have to fix our problems and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will not look favorably on the Day of Judgment upon a person who brought chaos to this ummah can you imagine standing in front of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
33:17on the Day of Judgment and you were a cause for disunity you were a cause for dispute you were a cause for the inflammation of egos you were a cause for people hating one another you were a cause for people cursing one another
33:31you were a cause for other people to go to hell you were a cause for other people to go to hellfire that otherwise would have followed a path of guidance can you imagine meeting Allah 'azza wa jall on the Day of Judgment as an agent of division as the scholars mention
33:45it's better for someone to pursue a haram outcome a lowly outcome with a lowly means a gambler gambles seeking something lowly
33:59the alcoholic seeks something lowly the drug lord seeks something lowly those that manufacture these pervasive and disgusting narratives in the world they pursue something lowly the concert is for the concert but don't you dare use the deen of Allah
34:13which is the most noble of gifts to you to pursue something lowly use what has been given to you of greatness of love of love
34:27of love of love of greatness to pursue something great every single one of us is an agent of unity and we have to ask ourselves am I
34:41what Allah loves do I manifest the ayats and the ahadith on an individual level of what Allah loves and then my household is this a house that Allah looks at and Allah loves and then my community
34:55is this a community that Allah loves and then we can say with confidence إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَنَا Allah is with us هنيئا لأهل غزة glad tidings to the people of Gaza the whole world can see their beautiful qualities
35:09and so they can say with firmness إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَنَا Allah is with us can we say Allah is with us may Allah make us worthy of him being with us
35:23may Allah make us worthy of him being with us may Allah make us worthy of his love اللهم إنا نسألك حبك وحب من يحبك وحب كل عمل يقربنا
35:37إلى حبك oh Allah we ask you for your love and the love of those that are beloved to you and the love of every deed that would bring us closer to your love as individuals and as communities and as an ummah اللهم آمين
35:51وصلى الله وسلم وبارك على نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين والسلام عليكم





































































































































































































































































































