April 24, 2026 | As-Siddiq Institute and Mosque, Burton, Michigan USA
As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa raḥmatu Llāhi wa barakātuhu.
Inna Allāha wa malāʾikatahu yuṣallūna ʿalā al-nabiyy, yā ayyuhā alladhīna āmanū ṣallū ʿalayhi wa sallimū taslīmā.
إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ وَمَلَـٰٓئِكَتَهُۥ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى ٱلنَّبِىِّ ۚ يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ صَلُّوا۟ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا۟ تَسْلِيمًا
“Indeed Allah and His angels send blessings upon the Prophet. O you who believe, send blessings upon him and peace.” (Sūrat al-Aḥzāb, 33:56)
Allāhumma ṣalli ʿalā Sayyidinā Muḥammad ﷺ.
Al-ḥamdu li-Llāh, al-ḥamdu li-Llāhi alladhī hadānā li-hādhā wa mā kunnā linahtadiya lawlā an hadānā Llāh. Wa mā tawfīqī illā bi-Llāh, ʿalayhi tawakkaltu wa ilayhi unīb.
Wa ashhadu an lā ilāha illa Llāh, waḥdahu lā sharīka lah, wa lā naẓīra lah, wa lā mithla lah, shahādatan mūṣilatan ilā dār al-qarār.
Wa nashhadu anna Sayyidinā wa Mawlānā Muḥammadan ʿabduhu wa ḥabībuhu wa rasūluh ﷺ.
أيها المؤمنون الحاضرون اتقوا الله تعالى وأطيعوه إن الله مع الذين اتقوا والذين هم محسنون
“Indeed Allah is with those who have taqwā and those who are doers of excellence.” (Sūrat an-Naḥl, 16:128)
قال الله سبحانه وتعالى:
وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ
مَا أُرِيدُ مِنْهُمْ مِنْ رِزْقٍ وَمَا أُرِيدُ أَنْ يُطْعِمُونِ
إِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الرَّزَّاقُ ذُو الْقُوَّةِ الْمَتِينُ
“I did not create jinn and mankind except to worship Me. I do not seek from them provision, nor do I ask them to feed Me. Indeed, Allah is the Provider, the Possessor of strength.” (Sūrat adh-Dhāriyāt 51:56–58)
O Believers! What was the point? The point: you wanted a better life. My life is miserable here. There is a better life somewhere else. I am in difficulty here. There is ease somewhere else. This is the common one: I am not enjoying myself here. I will enjoy myself somewhere else.
So that promise of a better place, better future, better abode, better company that Allah ﷻ has sent with all messengers attracted some. My life is difficult over there. There is an everlasting life, everlasting bliss. I accept. Alḥamdulillāh, they came. They came through. They came under the fold of anbiyāʾ, of prophets, of messengers.
And we are the same. We are hoping for a better life to come, a better company to come, better friends to come, and better enjoyments to come. And we say, Yā Rabbī, we accept Your offer.
Allah ﷻ is inviting you: Come to My home, come to My palace, come to My abode, come to My place. In Jannah, I will offer you all of that.
So many muʾminīn, so many believers accepted. They went. They came under the fold of the anbiyāʾ.
So why are we in this way? For what? That’s what everybody asks. “What’s in it for me?” Isn’t that what your ego asks? If somebody tells you, “Come, let’s do this thing together,” what do you say? “What’s in it for me?” Am I going to get something out of it? Are you going to give me something out of it? This is tijārah. Business.
So Allah ﷻ understands humans. We are into tijārah — we want profit. We don’t want loss. We want gain. So Allah ﷻ said:
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا هَلْ أَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَىٰ تِجَارَةٍ تُنجِيكُم مِّنْ عَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ
“O you who believe! Shall I guide you to a trade that will save you from a painful punishment?” (Sūrat aṣ-Ṣaff, 61:10)
تُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ
“That you believe in Allah and His Messenger…” (Sūrat aṣ-Ṣaff, 61:11)
And you do your best. You struggle your best in the way of Allah ﷻ, with your money, with your wealth, with yourselves. And Allah ﷻ is promising you Jannah. That is for the common ones. That is for the ones that are after pleasures. And that’s all of us, most of us.
Few, very few — prophets and Awliyāʾ — they are not into that. They are into Allah ﷻ’s Divine Presence. They want to enter into the Divine Presence. They are not too much interested in Jannah and rivers. They want:
فِي مَقْعَدِ صِدْقٍ عِندَ مَلِيكٍ مُّقْتَدِرٍ
“In a seat of truth, in the presence of a Sovereign, Perfect in Ability.” (Sūrat al-Qamar 54:55)
So we are asking Allah ﷻ to accept us into Jannah first. Don’t say, “I don’t want Jannah.” The way to Allah ﷻ is through Jannah anyway; you cannot go otherwise. But you should not restrict yourself to the pleasures of your ego. You should open yourself to the pleasures of your rūḥ. The rūḥ doesn’t eat, drink, or mate. It lives with tasbīḥ. So elevate, O muʾmin. Elevate, O Muslim.
So we are the lucky ones, the fortunate ones. We have accepted Allah ﷻ as our Creator, our Sustainer, and our Provider. We accepted His Oneness. There is no one who can partner with Him. He doesn’t need help. Why should He need a partner? He doesn’t grow old. Why would He need a son? He doesn’t die. Why would He need an inheritor to take over?
That is what people with children need. Why do you need a child? To carry your name after you, to sit in your place after you, to help you when you are old, and so forth. Allah ﷻ doesn’t age. Allah ﷻ doesn’t die. Allah ﷻ is not powerless and in need of someone to help Him. So Allah ﷻ is not in need of any of that. We are fortunate that we have believed in the Oneness of our Lord.
The Lord of Heavens is Allah ﷻ, as He called Himself in the Holy Qur’ān. They asked, “What is His Name?” He said:
قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ
“Say: He is Allah, One.” (Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ 112:1)
They asked, “Who is He? What is He — gold, rock, tree?” What is He? He said: Say, Qul huwa Llāh. He is Allah. His Name is Allah ﷻ — for you, because you need to know.
But those who have passed beyond that kind of knowledge reach only this: “It is only Him.” There is nothing in existence but Him. They do not need to define Him by any name. He is the Absolute Reality. There is nothing but Him.
May Allah ﷻ forgive all of us.
We have believed in the Oneness of Allah ﷻ, in the Oneness of our Lord, and in the prophethood of Rasūlullāh ﷺ.
So what do we do next? That is very important nowadays.
Everybody claims, “God is with us,” isn’t that so? People across the earth say, “God is with us.” Muslims say it, Christians say it, the Jewish nation says it, Sikhs say it, and Buddhists say it.
But God is with whom? In our holy book, in the divine message we have received, Allah ﷻ — the Lord of Heavens — tells us with whom He is.
And it is in Sūrat al-Naḥl.
When I was in trouble, I asked my teacher. He said: “Look to the last three verses of Sūrat al-Naḥl and read.”
وَاصْبِرْ وَمَا صَبْرُكَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ
“Be patient, and your patience is only by Allah.” (Sūrat an-Naḥl. 16:127)
Whoever is in difficulty, I am telling you the same thing I received from my teacher: “Be patient. Your patience is only by Allah.” Allah ﷻ will support you with patience. His Name is al-Ṣabūr. He will give you from His patience. By Him you are patient — not by yourself. The self is not patient at all; it is impulsive and reactionary, running to whatever suits it. But Allah’s patience is not like that.
وَلَا تَحْزَنْ عَلَيْهِمْ
“Do not be sorrowful for them.” They have not accepted Allah ﷻ and they have not accepted you — meaning the Messenger ﷺ. They have not accepted your message, and they are going to end up in a difficult situation. So do not be sorrowful for them.
وَلَا تَكُ فِي ضَيْقٍ مِّمَّا يَمْكُرُونَ
“And do not be distressed by what they are plotting against you.”
Have you come across this āyah? Come, read. If you are a muʾmin, you should not be in distress over whatever they plot against you, if you are among those to whom Allah ﷻ has given patience from His Holy Name. If Allah ﷻ is the One carrying you in this world, you should not be afraid of any plotting against you.
Where is the muʾmin nowadays who receives this bishārah, this glad tiding? Nowhere to be found. Everybody is distressed: “What are they plotting?” Yet Allah ﷻ is telling His Prophet ﷺ: Do not be distressed by anything they are plotting against you.
إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ اتَّقَوا وَالَّذِينَ هُم مُّحْسِنُونَ
“Indeed Allah is with those who have taqwā and those who are doers of excellence.” (Sūrat an-Naḥl, 16:128)
This is whom Allah is with. O people — from any faith, any race, any country — God is with whom? God is with the one who is muttaqī. What is muttaqī? It has many meanings, but the most important one is this: In taqwā — ijtināb al-maʿāṣī.
Avoiding sins. Avoiding disobedience. Tell me: Which Muslim is avoiding sin? Which Christian is avoiding sin? Which Jew is avoiding sin? Which Sikh? Which Buddhist? Which Hindu is avoiding sin? Which one is refraining from wrongdoing?
Muslims do things that are wrong. Non-Muslims do things that are wrong. So how are they refraining from wrongdoing? Ittiqāʾ means refraining from wrongdoing, and Allah ﷻ confirms it: Allah is with those who refrain from wrongdoing. And they are among those who are doers of good. So God is with the one who is a doer of good.
Are you a doer of good or not? Check yourselves. Nobody has to check each other; everybody can check himself or herself. God is with the one who refrains from wrongdoing, refrains from disobedience, and avoids sin. It is simple.
And not only that — there are two characteristics: They avoid sin, they refrain from wrongdoing, and they also show kindness. To whom? To all creation, to all creatures — not only to their fellow Muslims, but to everyone, including a chicken.
As Sayyidinā al-Fuḍayl said: If a man does all forms of good — all forms of iḥsān — and he treats a chicken badly, he is not from the good doers.
Rasūlullāh ﷺ said:
إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَتَبَ الْإِحْسَانَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ
“Indeed Allah has prescribed excellence in all things.” (Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim)
Where is your excellence in good doing? O mankind of the 21st century? People are racing in wrongdoing. Who can do worse? Regardless of faith, race, or land. But the heavenly message says: God is with the one who avoids sin, avoids wrongdoing, avoids disobedience, and shows kindness to all creation.
That is only a chicken — I am not even speaking about anything higher than a chicken, one of the smallest animals you might find on a farm. If you do wrong even to that one, you are not among the good doers. God is not with you. God leaves you, and right away Shayṭān becomes your closest companion. God leaves you to Shayṭān, and Shayṭān whispers. That is how we have become in this world. May Allah ﷻ forgive all of us. May the Lord of Heavens allow us to follow the heavenly messages correctly.
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