Jumu`ah Khutbah
A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem
Bismillaahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.
As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuh.
O mu’mins! O believers! Where do you run? Where do you go? Allah (swt) has given shelter to the believers. Allah (swt) has given shelter to the mu’mins. Why did Allah (swt) send you the Heavenly Message? Why did Allah (swt) send you Prophets and Messengers? They came to tell you, “O mu’mins. Allah (swt) is giving you glad tidings of Jannah.” What is more beautiful than that hope? Don’t be hopeless! A mu’min is never hopeless. A mu’min always sets his or her eyes on the life that comes. That’s how you should be, O mu’min, O Muslim.
Don’t like others who have set their eyes on this world. A mu’min knows that the Hereafter is the better place. It is a place of comfort, ease, happiness and joy. The mu’min knows that this dunya is daru ‘l-balaa’, the place of afflictions, difficulties and hardships. Recalibrate yourself, O Muslim, O mu’min. What has Allah (swt) sent Prophets and Messengers for?
Asta’eedhubillah:
وَمَا نُرْسِلُ ٱلْمُرْسَلِينَ إِلَّا مُبَشِّرِينَ وَمُنذِرِينَ وَيُجَـٰدِلُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ بِٱلْبَـٰطِلِ لِيُدْحِضُوا۟ بِهِ ٱلْحَقَّ وَٱتَّخَذُوٓا۟ ءَايَـٰتِى وَمَآ أُنذِرُوا۟ هُزُوًا
Wa ma nursilu ‘l-mursaleena illa mubashireen wa mundhireena.
We only send the apostles to give Glad Tidings and to give warnings: But the unbelievers dispute with vain argument, in order therewith to weaken the truth, and they treat My Signs as a jest, as also the fact that they are warned! (Surat al-Kahf, 18:56)
Mashaa-Allah, you read Surah Kahf every Friday. Alhamdulillah. Inshaa-Allah, you can continue. Do you not come across that ayah? “We do not send Messengers and Prophets except as bearers of glad tidings and warners.” They attract you to the Hereafter and they frighten you about the Hereafter. They attract you to Jannah. O those who have accepted Heavenly messages, know that you are on the way to Jannah. It doesn’t matter what happens in this world, sooner or later everybody leaves. Whether by your own choir or against your choice, it does not matter. Allah (swt) promised you: whenever you come out of this dunya, with Me you have Jannah.
Why are you hopeless and sad? Recalibrate yourself. Iman is the shelter. Where do you run when you’re in trouble, O man? You run to your heart. If dunya is in your heart, you’re in trouble. If you run from dunya to dunya, what have you done? What is Naqshbandi? When Allah (swt) is in your heart. You run from the outside world to the inside world. You run from the dar of balaa’, dar of mihnah, the place of difficulty and hardships to Jannatu ‘l-Qalb, to Jannatu ‘l-Ma`rifah.
In your heart there is Ma`rifatullah. That is Jannah for you. They’re running from dunya to dunya. You have not run from anything. What is Tawheed? It means there is nothing in your heart but Allah (swt). Does your heart contain anything other than Allah (swt)? That means you have not perfected your Iman yet.
أَن لَّا تَعْبُدُوٓا۟ إِلَّا ٱللَّهَ إِنِّىٓ أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ أَلِيمٍ
Alaa ta`budoo ilAllah, innee akhaafu `alaykum `adhaaba yawmin aleem.
That you serve none but Allah. Verily I do fear for you the penalty of a grievous day. (Surah Hud, 11:26)
Don’t desire anything except Allah (swt). Don’t obey except Allah (swt). Don’t want anything except Allah (swt). Don’t go except to Allah (swt). What does that mean? We have lost our way. Muslims have become like others, into this world and what this world has to offer. What happens at the end, O smart one? Allah (swt) says what happens at the end in Surat al-An’am. Glad tidings to the one who understands Allah (swt)’s directions. Glad tidings to the one who can comprehend Allah (swt)’s instructions.
Asta’eedhubillah.
وَلَقَدْ جِئْتُمُونَا فُرَٰدَىٰ كَمَا خَلَقْنَـٰكُمْ أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَتَرَكْتُم مَّا خَوَّلْنَـٰكُمْ وَرَآءَ ظُهُورِكُمْ وَمَا نَرَىٰ مَعَكُمْ شُفَعَآءَكُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ زَعَمْتُمْ أَنَّهُمْ فِيكُمْ شُرَكَـٰٓؤُا۟ لَقَد تَّقَطَّعَ بَيْنَكُمْ وَضَلَّ عَنكُم مَّا كُنتُمْ تَزْعُمُونَ
Wa laqad ji’tumoona furaada kamaa khalaqnaakum awwala marrah.
And behold! you come to us bare and alone as We created you for the first time: you have left behind you all (the favours) which We bestowed on you: We see not with you your intercessors whom you thought to be partners in your affairs: so now all relations between you have been cut off, and your (pet) fancies have left you in the lurch! (Surat al-An’am, 6:94)
You have come to Me alone without anyone. You have come to Me single. You have nothing with you. You are void of everything you have worked for in dunya. Furaada. It’s the plural of fard. The means alone, by yourself, nothing is with you. How do you enter this world, O insaan? Did you ever think? Does the baby come with jewels on its neck? Does the baby come with gold bracelets and money? The baby comes with nothing! They wrap the baby in a towel and even that is not his. It’s a dress for him but when he comes out, he is bare without anything.
How do you leave? They also cover you with a towel but you have nothing. You enter this dunya with nothing and you come out of it with nothing. It's only your body that contains your soul. Allah (swt) says, “You have come back to Me with nothing, void of everything.” O Muslim! O mu’min! You are going to return to Allah (swt) with nothing: no money, no children, no family, no friends, no LinkedIn accounts. You’re not going to return to Allah (swt) with your networking. You’re going to return to Allah (swt) by yourself. Does your family go with you into the grave? Does your money go with you into the grave? Does your wife, husband, children or friends go with you into the grave? No, you are by yourself. Understand.
Who goes with you in the grave? Who is your true family? Who is your true companion? Who is your true friend? O man! O idiot! Excuse my language but what can you do? They have to understand that they are not using their minds. If you are not using your mind, you and the one with no mind are the same. Your `amal goes with you in the qabr. Have you ever heard that Hadith? If not, research, Google.
Your `amal goes into the qabr with you. Your salah, sawm, zakat, and Hajj are in the qabr with you, protecting you. Only your good deeds will go with you into the grave and give you companionship and the glad tidings, “I am with you in this lonely place until Judgement Day.” Allah (swt) creates the most beautiful image out of that good `amal with the most beautiful scent. It is with you in the grave. Your grave will be expanded. Your grave will be lit with the good `amal.
O man, Muslim or non-Muslim, where are you from the good deed, from the good action, from the good etiquette, from the good morality? We have all gone into the bad `amal. Mankind at large has ignored the messengers. They have ignored that faith that is your shelter away from this dunya which is your heart. Shaytan lurks in your heart, the thief who has stolen the faith from the hearts of human beings.
The bad `amal also comes with you into the grave, not your money. They run after the deals. They’re 50,60, 70, 80 or 90 and they’re still after deals. They run after networking, “Who do we know and who don’t we know?” They run after making more children and more friends and more money. For what? You’re going to leave and go. The Lord of Heavens speaks the truth.
Wa laqad ji’tumoona furaada kamaa khalaqnaakum awwala marra. “As We have created you in the beginning, you have come to Us bare of everything, void of everything.” As Allah (swt) created you the first time as a baby, you’re going to go back the same, having nothing.
وَتَرَكْتُم مَّا خَوَّلْنَـٰكُمْ وَرَآءَ ظُهُورِكُمْ
You have left behind you all (the favours) which We bestowed on you. (Surat al-An’am, 6:94)
And you have left what We have granted to you. You have left what We have bestowed on you.” Where do you think your money comes from? Allah (swt), the Lord of Heavens has decreed that it’s yours. He sends it your way. Where do you think your children come from? Where do you think your sustenance comes from? It is the Lord of Heavens, Allah (swt) that has sent to you from His endless generosity. He has given you maa khawalnaakum. It comes from khadam, adba’a and the rest. What We have put at your service. Where did you leave it? You have left it behind. Why didn’t you send it this way? Why didn’t you send what I have given you in dunya to Akhirah? Why didn’t you use what I have bestowed on you in dunya to send it to Akhirah from `amalu ‘s-salih.
Man has lost his mind. They say they’re smart. Maybe you’re smart with your math and physics, but you’re not a smart one. The smart one understands where he is going. Where are you going? “I’m going to the west.” Go to the west. If you keep going, you will hit the sea, the ocean. “Let me go up north.” If you keep going up north, you will hit the ocean. “Let me go south.” If you go south, you hit the ocean. Wherever you’re going is a dead end. If you go east, west, north or south, you hit the ocean. It’s a dead end.
Where are you going, O mu’min? I am going in front of my Lord. I have a journey. I am not prepared. I don’t have any sustenance and provisions with me. Some Awliyaullah used to cry and they used to ask them, “Why are you crying?” They say, “I am crying for a day that I have spent without perfecting my `amal. I am weeping for the days that have left me.”
Did you perfect your `amal yesterday, O mu’min? Did you perfect your deeds the week before, O mu’min? How about the month before? Did you perfect your good `amal that you will be presenting to Allah (swt), “Yaa Rabbee. I have done this for You, following Your Order.” They say, “We do it for God. We do everything for God.” Allah (swt) will tell you who is doing it for God and who is not doing it for God. That will all show up on the Day of Judgement. As a mu’min you have to perfect your `amal.
وَتَرَكْتُم مَّا خَوَّلْنَـٰكُمْ وَرَآءَ ظُهُورِكُمْ وَمَا نَرَىٰ مَعَكُمْ شُفَعَآءَكُمُ
Wa taraktum maa khawalnazkum wa ra’a zhuhoorikum wa maa nara ma’akum shafa’akum.
you have left behind you all (the favours) which We bestowed on you: (Surat al-An’am, 6:94)
You don’t see anybody you have befriended or networked with, with you. You don’t see anybody high or low that you said, “They will benefit me.” Where are they? They’re gone. You left them in dunya. Recalibrate yourself, O mu’min, O Muslim. Understand that your journey is to Allah (swt)’s Divine Presence. Perfect your `amal, your speech, your conduct, your manners, your actions and your deeds so that God will be happy with you. He will say, “My servant truly represents Me.” Aren’t you the representative of your Lord on earth or did you forget that or are you the representative of Shaytan on earth? Maybe you mixed up the two.
A human being is the representative of Allah (swt). He is the khalifah of Allah (swt) on earth. Allah (swt) will say, “My servant is truly My representative. He has that mercy, that conduct, that love, that power, that justice and fairness.” Where is humanity? May Allah (swt) forgive us. What else do you say?
We come to Jumu`ah, alhamdulillah. If you can do this every time, you will be safe on the Day of Judgement. If you read Surah Kahf--we are not perfecting any `amal. When we read Surah Kahf, we are not reading it correctly. But if you read Surah Kahf on Friday, Rasoolullah (s) said, the one who read Surah Kahf on Friday, there will be a light from below your feet all the way to the sky. That light will be illuminated for you on Judgement Day. You will be surrounded by the light of Surah Kahf if you just recite it every Friday. If we are not doing anything else, and we are not doing anything else, we are doing haphazard, random `ibaadah here and there. If you can just recite Surah Kahf every Friday--look at the Door of Mercy that Rasoolullah (s) has opened to his Ummah.
Judgement Day will be on a Friday. On that day, that Noor will be lit for you and on top of that Allah (swt) will forgive what you have done between the two weeks. If you read Surah Kahf, Allah (swt) will forgive what happens between the two Jumu`ah and on the Day of Judgement, Allah (swt) will give you that will illuminate your way, O Muslim, O mu’min.
Be careful. Allah (swt) says:
Wa kulli `amaalu. “Tell them, yaa Habeebi, O My Prophet, O My beloved, tell them, O Muhammad, ‘Do as you like. Fasa yarAllahu `amalakum. Allah (swt) certainly sees your actions. Allah (swt) is certainly aware of your actions. Wa Rasoolu. And the Messenger will see your actions. Wa ‘l-mu’minoon, and the mu’mins will see your actions.’”
وَقُلِ ٱعْمَلُوا۟ فَسَيَرَى ٱللَّهُ عَمَلَكُمْ وَرَسُولُهُۥ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَسَتُرَدُّونَ إِلَىٰ عَـٰلِمِ ٱلْغَيْبِ وَٱلشَّهَـٰدَةِ فَيُنَبِّئُكُم بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ
Wa saturadoona `ilaya `alimi ‘l-ghaybi wa ‘sh-shahadati fa yunabbi’ukum bimaa kuntum ta`maloon.
And say: "Work (righteousness): Soon will Allah observe your work, and His Messenger, and the Believers: Soon will ye be brought back to the knower of what is hidden and what is open: then will He show you the truth of all that ye did." (Surat at-Tawbah, 9:105)
They say, “We are doing good.” Do as you like. “We are doing bad.” Do as you like. “We never do bad. We always do good.” Do as you like. Wa kulli `amaalu. Tell them, “Do whatever you want to do. Allah (swt) certainly sees. And you will be returned to the One who sees the secrets and knows the obvious.
That means they do actions without telling others. They plot in secrecy. They commit whatever bad deeds they do in secrecy. Allah (swt) says, “I see your secret `amal and I see your visible `amal.” Fa yunabbi’ukum bimaa kuntum ta`maloon. He will definitely tell you about what you have done. You said it was right. Allah (swt) will show you if it’s right. You say it’s not wrong. Allah (swt) will show you if it’s not wrong.
A mu’min is always on watch, on guard that his Lord is watching him. Be like that, O Muslim, O mu’min. Allah (swt) has given you iman so you can run to your heart that is full of iman when you are in difficulty and hardship. SubhaanAllah. Muslims nowadays say, “What do we do? Where do we go? Who do we talk to?” May Allah (swt) forgive us. Talk to your Lord in your heart. Fadhkuroonee adhkurkum. Mention Me, I will mention you.
فَٱذْكُرُونِىٓ أَذْكُرْكُمْ وَٱشْكُرُوا۟ لِى وَلَا تَكْفُرُونِ
Then remember Me; I will remember you. Be grateful to Me, and reject not Faith. (Surat al-Baqara, 2:152)
Allah (swt) says, Innee qareeb, “I am close to you. I will respond.” Ask Him. He certainly sees. He certainly hears. May Allah (swt) strengthen our iman. Strengthen your iman. Where is the iman? It’s in the Holy Qur’an. Dive into the Ocean of the Holy Qur’an and find shelter, peace and tranquility. If you don’t understand the Holy Qur’an, the Hadith is all tafseer of the Holy Qur’an. Rasoolullah (s) explained.
`Allama ‘l-Qur'an. Allah (swt) has taught the Qur’an. He created man, which is Rasoolullah (s) and the rest after him. `Allamahu ‘l-bayaan. He taught him to explain, to express, to speak. If you don’t understand the Qur’an or you’re trying your best, the Hadith is always there. If you don’t understand Hadith, `ulama are there, Awliya are there. Try to understand and make your heart a shelter for you, a Jannah for you from whatever is happening in this world. May Allah (swt) forgive us.
I want to finish here. In the Holy Qur’an, Allah (swt) says:
قُل لَّن يُصِيبَنَآ إِلَّا مَا كَتَبَ ٱللَّهُ لَنَا هُوَ مَوْلَىٰنَا وَعَلَى ٱللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ
Qul lan yuseebana illa maa katabAllahu lanaa. Huwa Mawlana wa `alaa ‘l-Llahi fal-yatawwakali ‘l-mu’minoon.
Say: "Nothing will happen to us except what Allah has decreed for us: He is our protector": and on Allah let the Believers put their trust. (Surat at-Tawbah, 9:51)
“Nothing will touch us except what Allah (swt) has decreed.” Huwa Mawlana. “He is our Supporter. He is our Caretaker. He is our Sustainer. He is our Provider.” “And on Allah (swt) mu’mins rely. In Allah (swt) mu’mins find support and power. Where are we from all of that? May Allah (swt) forgive us.
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