PART 2
We need a Ramadhaan to be as the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) was.
That he was the most generous, he was generous in general and he was most generous in Ramadhaan.
Like a wind …
spending,
giving to his right, giving to his left,
giving in front of him, giving behind him,
giving to anyone who came.
He gave without them asking.
We need a Ramadhaan to inculcate these qualities.
We need to control our desires.
We need to control our tongue.
We need to control our limbs.
We need to learn self-discipline.
We need to control our anger.
We must do things in Ramadhaan not out of habit,
something that is just tradition,
that we are more despicable when we went in.
We have to change our condition.
We have to change our connection with Allaah tabarak wa ta'ala.
For how light is the view of Allaah when they disobey Him.
This is what was said by one of the sahabas when he had the crown of the Persian King in his hand.
And the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said,
'that he had been sent before the hour.
And my provision has been provided for me under the shade of my spear
and humiliation has been written against anyone who goes against my orders.
Humiliation has been written upon anyone who goes against my orders.
If we want to continue in the position of humiliation that we are in,
then do not take the grand opportunity act like it doesn't exist,
neglect and forget and be hard headed, be obstinate,
follow your desires like you have been doing for the last 11 months and don't benefit from Ramadhaan.
And when our circumstances doesn't change,
when the Kuffar don't remove their spears from our necks,
when our women are consistently raped
and they are now these days in many parts of the world,
when all of that happens,
don't say "Why?"
You know why.
For we need a Ramadhaan
and we have to correct ourselves in this Ramadhaan.
And that you are a part of this Ummah and if you have an illness,
and if you are a member of this ummah with a sickness,
with filth, with crime, this affects the rest of the Ummah.
It is like your body when you have an illness.
It is like when you have hurt your finger or your toe,
it affects the rest of the body.
And it doesn't have to be said to you that the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said,
"the believers are like one body".
If we want to correct the position of the Ummah,
then we must first start by correcting ourselves.
Don't worry about Ubyaid, Hassan and Musa,
but worry about yourself.
Be selfish this Ramadhaan.
Not regarding giving sadaqa but where you are going to focus your rectification
or how to rectify yourself.
Your focus is going to be on yourself.
Not worrying about this person and that person's manhaj.
Are you on the correct Manhaj****
Not worrying about whether a particular brother is on the bidah or the Sunnah.
Are you upon the Sunnah?
Have those brothers stopped committing their sins
have you stopped committing that sin?
Has the brother made tawbah
Have you made tawbah****
Has the brother corrected a situation
have you corrected your situation?
Worry about yourself.
Worry about yourself this Ramadhaan.
Any other Ramadhaan do what you will.
But my sincere advice to you is,
this Ramadhaan worry about yourself.
Am I backbiting?
Am I slandering?
Am I committing fahishah?
Am I committing gheebah?
Am I committing Nameemah (tale-carrying)?
Do I have 'hasad'?
Do I have pride (Kibr) ?
Am I arrogant?
Am I too harsh?
Am I unkind?
Am I not gentle enough?
Am I gentle enough?
Question yourself.
Was my intention when I said what I said or did what I did for the pleasure of Allaah or to be noticed?
When I spoke what I spoke was it for the pleasure of Allaah or to be seen or heard?
Was I doing it "Haarisa min Qalbi'--- sincerely from my heart or I did it to be known?
'Khutbath Duroor' --- Loving to be known breaks it.
Be Mukhlis. Be sincere.
Be like that servant of Allaah like the Hadith that has been related in the Kitaab al tawheed
of the soldier whose head is disheveled, who is bare-footed and dirty..
but he is sincere to Allaah.
If he was placed at the rear of the army, he is pleased with that.
And if he is placed in the front of the army he is displeased with that.
His goal is Allaah tabarak wa ta'ala.
Not where I sit. Not us and them,
Not you and I but his brothers and sisters ..
its the servants of Allaah,
it is the believers,
it is the Muslim,
the salafiyoon,
it is Ahlul –athar,
it is Ahlus-Sunnah,
it is Ahlul-Hadith.
No one' bigger and no one is smaller .
No one wants to step on anyone nor desire that.
All of us should be working for the pleasure of Allaah tabarak wa ta'ala.
And if we don't we have an illness which is Riyaah ---
doing things to be seen or Sum'aah ---
doing things to be heard and we need a Ramadhaan to correct that behaviour.
If we find that we talk to the sisters or brothers too much,
we need a Ramadhaan
to learn to stop talking to those who are not halaal for us to talk to.
And if we find that we are mixing too much,
we need a Ramadhaan
to start mixing with those whom you are not supposed to mix with.
We find that we have jealousy in our hearts, vengeance in our hearts,
distrust in our hearts for other Muslims based upon nothing but Shaitaan whispers to us,
we need a Ramadhaan.
We get all the good in front of us when we have the Book of Allaah tabarak wa ta'ala and the Sunnaah of the Messenger (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam)
and the fahmas Salafus Saalih and the connection to the inheritors of the Prophet alaihissalaam – the Ulamaa –
we got all the good in front of us but we are like that individual
who has a disease and he has the prescrip tion for the medicine in front of him
but he refuses to open the package – let alone read it ----- let alone take it.
We need a Ramadhaan, Our condition won't change.
We'll continue to complain.
We need a Ramadhaan or we'll forever be in pain.
We need a Ramadhaan or we'll go insane.
We need a Ramadhaan, you and I.
Why can't we lift up, roll up our sleeves?
Why do we have to beat the hands of one another?
Why do we have to step on somebody to get somewhere?
Why do we have to step on our brother –
he wants to go to the same place where you want to go?
The Jannah.
Why can't we do it together?
Why can't we be side by side?
You roll up your sleeves and I'll roll up my sleeves,
we'll get busy and we'll get help and support one another.
Why can't we make excuses?
Why can't we forgive?
Why can't we forget?
Why can't we let things go?
Upon clarity, upon Haqq,
knowing the Sunnah, knowing the Deen,
connected to the scholars, not preceding them in any statement or action
and if they make a statement, we make their statement (not add our own),
This is important. We need a Ramadhaan.
This blessed month where you can go in as the most despicable devil and come out like an angel.
That blessed month when you can go in as a miser and come out as the generous …
that blessed month where you can be one of those hard-hearted brothers –
(everybody usually gives you a smile but you don't give anybody a smile) –
and if you do it right, you'll come out of Ramadhaan giving smiles to those brothers ,
not in the faces of the sisters but the faces of your brothers..
We need a Ramadhaan to correct our condition :
we are slow,
we are lazy,
we don't have any incentive towards the deen and the Aakhiraah, the Hereafter .
Our incentives are towards the Dunya
and if the opposite of this was true most of the neighbourhood around here would be Muslims.
Many would enter Islaam in folds,
as Sheikh Ubaid Madkhali Hafidaallaah says in his explanation of 'Usool as thalaathah',
that Islaam is a Mahaasin – the beauty of it is explained.
Islaam he said is a Mu'jizaa minal Mu'jizaath' -- Islaam is a miracle of the Mircales. Ayah minal Ayaahs.
It is that, when it is presented to the hearts, when it is presented to the people, and it is done in the right way,
what happens?
They enter Islaam 'Afwaajan' – in the multitudes.
He said that if one of them has a business and we want to advertise,
very few who wouldn't advertise at all would say that "I have a business but I am going to be silent."
Business won't be successful and no one will benefit, he will loose.
Generally a good business person gets a good advertisement –
he may use the print media, he may use the radio, the audio media, to get his advertisement his dawa'ah,
he'll call out so that people will come and he mixes in the most beautiful way and has the most beautiful response.
This is what he does. The Sheikh said,
'if we were to do that with Islaam, show its beauty, explain its Mahasin –its beauty,
it is the natural fitrah of the person (unless his fitrah has been polluted) that he wants to know Islaam.
He wants to know why he walks upon the earth.
He wants to know his prayer.
He wants to have his connection with his Creator.
He wants to know the purpose of his existence.
But who will explain it to him or her?
Who will tell them?
Who will open up those hearts?
It is supposed to be 'us'.
Those of us who cannot express ourselves, what about our actions?
If the person sees you are truthful , why you are truthful?
Because Islaam teaches you truthfulness and you must be truthful
and there is high martaba being truthful and minas-Siddeeqi is the only martaba -- level after the Prophets…
It is the first level after the Prophets, rather.
Closest to the prophet's stations are those who are Siddiqeen, the most truthful.
So you be truthful because of that.
You keep your word because of that.
You are gentle, you are nice,
you have good behaviour, you have good etiquette,
you have good deportment, so when it comes to Islaam it is Afwaajan.
So if you don't see them doing it,
we are doing what we are not supposed to be doing.
If we were doing what we are supposed to be doing,
we would probably have to have this type of fundraising at one of the football stadiums.
If we are doing what we are supposed to be doing,
people will be hearing Islaam from the radio,
they will see articles written in the papers regularly,
they would see good behaviour,
they would see kindness and gentleness,
patience and forbearance.
They would see the qualities and characteristics of Mustapha sallallahu alaihi wassallam. i.e
if we were doing our job.
But we are not.
Not the male or the female.
Not father or mother or child.
We are not upon what we should be upon,
we are not doing what we are supposed to be doing.
We need a Ramadhaan to clarify our situation.
We need a Ramadhaan to put us in position.
We need a Ramadhaan to give this Ummah a rebirth, air ..
we have to understand that we are global.
Whoever follows the Book of Allaah, the Sunnah of the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam)
and the Manhaj of the Salafus Saalih, then they are our closest brothers.
And those who are upon ignorance, innovation, not mukaffarah,
they are still brothers from a distant but from within this Ummah.
So it affects all of us.
And we are connected in that way.
If you sit there saying,
'I don't care what they do to the Muslims in India doesn't concern me;
I don't care if they bomb Afghanistan up the planet… I don't care....
it has nothing to do with me …then you are a racist, a nationalist, you are not a Salafi.
Because a Salafi concerns himself about this Ummah.
Salafi at night thinks about this Ummah.
Salafi cries in his salaah about the condition of this Ummah,
he cries about all locally, he cries about their condition internationally.
We need a Ramadhaan so that we can realize the Islaamic brotherhood again.
We need a Ramadhaan because some of them never practiced brotherhood ever in their lives and may have been Muslims 50 years. We need a Ramadhaan so that the sisters learn sisterhood,
We need a Ramadhaan so that we can focus on the Aakhirah -- Hereafter and we give Naseehah and advice to one another that is of benefit and that our talking and our mixing is just not about the Dunya, and what you want to do in the Dunya and how you are gonna be in this Dunya.
We need a Ramadhaan so that people learn to inculcate in their children to be like Abu Bakr As-Siddeeq, Umar al-Khattab, Sa'ad abi Ibn Waqqas and like this. We need a Ramadhaan so that they can study knowledge. This Ummah needs another Bin Baaz, this Ummah needs another Al-Albani, this Ummah needs another Muqbil, this Ummah needs another Ibn Taimiyyah, this Ummah needs all of these and more. You are gonna tell me that none of them can come or no one like them can from our families? None of them can come from us? Not everyone who comes from us have to be Goofi. Can't our children speak the Arabic language at a young age? Can't we put in the hands of our children books that will benefit the Ummah.. the same love the Kaafir have for Harry Potter and their imaginary books? Our hope is low. Our desire is low. We are supposed to be having high goals. We should be looking at our kids Abdullaah and Abdurrahman and saying : You might be Sheikh Naasir for this Ummah. We should be saying when listening to Sudaisi and Shuraim that it could be you leading the salaah in haram. We are supposed to be having high goals. But until we brush off the dust, the foolishness of the jaahiliyyah , the hastiness of the youth, the bad characteristics that we have, we have to get rid of them , we have to change our condition, we need aRamadhaan.
We need our Qiyaam at night, we need recitation of Qura'an, we need to sit together and talk together only about the deen, not about the Dunya, we need to worry about our status in the Aakhirah, in the Hereafter. We need to wake up from our sleep. Wake up Oh Sleepy one. !! our slumber has been too long. You got to wake up, take wudoo, get within the caravan of Mohamed Ibn Abdullah, Abu Bakr As-Siddeeq, Umar al-Khattab, Ibn Taimiyyah – you have to get with it. How long are we going to stay sick? How long are we going to be unsettled? How long are we going to have our problems? We need a Ramadhaan. And let this Ramadhaan be the one where you come out of it better, come out of it committed, come out of it devoted, you come out of it with your head held high. You are from the Ummah of the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) and don't you forget it!!
Walhamdulillaahi rabbil aalameen.