4 July 2025 As-Siddiq Institute & Mosque (ASIM)
Jumu`ah Khutbah
A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem.
Bismillaahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.
As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuh.
I’m just reminding myself and you, reminding Muslims and mu’mins of what we have put in the back of our minds. Everybody knows deen. Everybody knows where they started from. Every mu’min, every Muslim knows where they’re headed to. So, for the speaker or for the imam, or for the khatib to teach others, that is not adab. Adab is to remind. Allah is saying in the Holy Qur’an,
وَذَكِّرْ فَإِنَّ الذِّكْرَى تَنفَعُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
Wa dhakkir fa inna ’dh-dhikra tanfa`u ‘l-mu’mineen.
“But teach (thy Message) for teaching benefits the Believers.” (Surat adh-Dhariyat 51:55)
Remind them, O Habeeb. Remind them, O Rasool. Remind them, O My Messenger, My Beloved. When they remember, it benefits them.
Don’t put others in the position of ignorant ones, especially Muslims and mu’mins that know what you know. They are saying, Laa ilaaha illa-Llah. They are saying, Muhammadun Rasoolullah, sallahu `alayhi wa salam. Their hearts are full of iman. Their hearts are full of love to Rasoolullah(s), that’s why they are following him. Their hearts are full of love to Allah (swt), that’s why they are worshipping Him. Don’t put them in that position, O the one who claims to be a big one. “I will tell them something they don’t know. They are ignorant ones.” Never be like that, O mu’min. Be like what Allah (swt) has told Rasoolullah (s), wa dhakkir, remind. Let’s remember together. Let’s remember the days.
A few weeks ago it was Yawmu ‘l-`Arafah, the day of `Arafah. Mashaa-Allah today is another special day. Tomorrow is another special day. Yesterday was a special day, another day. How many days are there? We were celebrating `Arafah. The day of ‘Arafah has come, celebrate. Okay, alhamdulillah, we celebrate. May Allah (swt) accept from us and from the Hajjis, from everybody.
We celebrate four days of Eid. Ok, let’s celebrate the days of Eid. And then let’s celebrate the new Hijri year that came a few days ago. Let's celebrate the new year. Now let’s celebrate Ashura. Okay, now let’s celebrate Ashura. How many days are there?
Mashaa-Allah, every few weeks, every few months, there is a day that is celebrated. The day of this and the day of that. When is the Last Day? How many days are we going to celebrate? Do you think, “Everyday I’m celebrating something. Every week I’m celebrating something. Every month I’m waiting for a day.” How about the Last Day?
One of the great saints, people might have heard of his name, people may not have heard of his name. He was a grand saint. He said, “I was in Basra,” one of the cities in the Middle East and saw a funeral, janazah. He saw four people carrying a funeral to the grave. Nobody was behind the funeral. Nobody was walking with the funeral. No family, no friends, nothing, only four people. They took the funeral out of their good, kind gesture. They took it to the cemetery. He said, “There was nobody to pray.” They left it there.
He said, “I prayed janazah prayer on that dead one and I put him down in the grave. I covered the grave and after everything was done, I got tired and went to the shade and slept. When I slept, in my dream I saw two angels coming down to the grave of this man.” They opened the grave. The first angel told the second angel, “Check him out.”
He went down there. He said, “O master,” because whenever there are two, one has to be the one that is leading. That is the Sunnah of Rasoolullah (s) and his Companions. The second one told the first one, “O Sayyidee, O sire, O supervisor, boss,” whatever it is, “O my friend, O my companion, I checked this dead man.” Because Sayyidina Malik bin Dinar (r) asked, “How come there is no one behind this janazah?”
They said, “He was from the grand sinners, from the very cruel ones, a big sinner, a big disobedient one.” The second angel said, “I checked him out.” That was in the dream of Sayyidina Malik bin Dinar. The dream of Awliyullah is not a dream, actually. That is from their adab because they don’t want to show something that we don’t have. They don’t boast. Mashaa-Allah, nowadays, you see so many people coming and saying, “Hey, I saw a light coming in my room!” “I saw a saint talking to me!” “I saw an angel whispering in my ear!”
Sayyidina Malik bin Dinar, that Waliyullah, said it was in a dream out of his adab. There is no adab nowadays. So many people have no adab. They boast and they are proud of what visions they have and Allah (swt) knows if it’s true or not. We don’t judge, we leave them alone. If they are liars, Allah (swt) knows. If they are truthful ones, Allah (swt) knows. Good for you if you’re a truthful one. If you are seeing visions, good for you, Mashaa-Allah. Continue what you’re doing. If you’re not seeing visions and you’re lying, woe to you.
Malik bin Dinar said, the second angel told the first angel, “I checked him out. I did not find any part of him, any limb of his, any physical sense in him that was spared from disobedience and from sins. O master, write him from the people of Naar.”
The first angel said, “Wait. Check his eyes, first.”
The second one said, “I checked his eyes. I saw his eyes full of what Allah (swt) has forbidden us to look at. It is full of looking to the forbidden.” Are your eyes full of looking at the forbiddens or not? That one was like that.
He said, “Okay, check his ears.”
The second angel checked his ears and said, “I found his ears full of hearing what Allah (swt) has forbidden.” Are we like that? Check yourselves. That one was like that, listening to what Allah (swt) has forbidden.
He said, “Okay, check his tongue.”
“I checked his tongue. I found it full of saying what Allah (swt) forbids.” Do you say what Allah (swt) forbids? Every human being, it is a miracle if they say something that Allah (swt) allowed. Nowadays the custom is to say what Allah (swt) has forbidden on the tongue.
He said, “I found his tongue full with saying what Allah (swt) said don’t, with the forbidden.”
He said, “Okay, check his hands.”
He said, “I checked his hands. His hands were full of reaching out to haram. His hands were full of reaching out to disobedience and to what Allah (swt) has forbidden.” Are our hands like that? Is our tongue like that? Are our ears like that? Are our eyes like that?
He said, “Okay, check his legs.”
He said, “I checked his legs. I found it full of walking and running to what Allah (swt) has forbidden. Nothing in him has been spared. It is full of disobedience.” He said, “Write him from the people of Naar.”
He said, “Wait, let me come down.” So the first angel came down. He spent an hour. He said, “Write him from Ahlu ‘l-Jannah.” Why? “Because I found in his heart, “Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah(s).’” Allah (swt)’s Grace, Allah (swt)’s Fadl, Allah (swt)’s Afoo` and Maghfira will cover all his sins.” This is confirmed by Hadithu ’l-Bitaqah, as I mentioned last week in the conference. Hadithu ‘l-Bitaqah, the Hadith of that small little card!
Have you ever heard of that Hadith? Rasoolullah (s) has said, and it is mentioned by Ahmad, Tirmhidi and others, that Allah (swt) will save a mu’min on the Day of Judgement in front of everybody. He will bring that Muslim, that mu’min out and his scrolls will be spread. Do you know you have scrolls? You have two scrolls. Ninety-nine scrolls will be spread out. Each scroll, each sheet, each file is as far as the eye can see. Everything is recorded, O man! The imam reads Surah al-Kahf. On the Day of Judgement, the unbelievers will say, ma li hadha ‘l-kitabi la yughadiru sagheeratan wa la kabeeratan illa ahsaaha.
وَوُضِعَ ٱلْكِتَـٰبُ فَتَرَى ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ مُشْفِقِينَ مِمَّا فِيهِ وَيَقُولُونَ يَـٰوَيْلَتَنَا مَالِ هَـٰذَا ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ لَا يُغَادِرُ صَغِيرَةً وَلَا كَبِيرَةً إِلَّآ أَحْصَىٰهَا وَوَجَدُوا۟ مَا عَمِلُوا۟ حَاضِرًا وَلَا يَظْلِمُ رَبُّكَ أَحَدًا
And the Book (of Deeds) will be placed (before you); and thou wilt see the sinful in great terror because of what is (recorded) therein; they will say, "Ah! woe to us! What a Book is this! It leaves out nothing small or great, but takes account thereof!" They will find all that they did, placed before them: And not one will your Lord [O Muhammad] treat with injustice. (Surat al-Kahf, 18:49)
How come this book does not leave any little or big sin out, except that it is written? Your scrolls will be spread. Inshaa-Allah, the good scrolls will be longer than the bad scrolls. Ninety-nine scrolls were full of what the mala’ikah had written for that man. That is the Hadith of Rasoolullah (s). Allah (swt) will say, atunkiru ayyi min hadha. “Do you deny any of this? Do you think any of this was written wrong? Do you think My angels, My kataba, My writers have done injustice to you? Were they unfair?”
That servant will say, “Laa, yaa Rabbee. No.”
“Do you have an excuse? Do you have something to say?”
That Muslim will say, “No, yaa Rabbee. What should I say?”
“You have something with Me.”
Bala. Indana ladayna minka indaka hasanah. Allah (swt) says, “I Have a hasanah with Me for you.” What is that hasanah? A small card comes out. He (swt) says, “Go to the Scale.”
They put all ninety-nine scrolls of that mu’min, of that Muslim, on the scale all full of whatever he did by eyes, by ears, by tongue, whatever she or he has done by hands, by feet. All of that is written and it will be put on the Scale. Al-Meezaanu Haqq. Mu’min, you have to believe in the Scale. With Ismu ‘Llah, with the Name of Allah (swt), nothing can outweigh that. That outweighs everything.
That one who was buried by Sayyidina Malik bin Dinar, he's like us. Eyes full of haram, ears full of haram. (audio cut)
“Why are you here?”
“Because I believe. I have iman in my heart.”
That iman will save you, O insaan, as Rasoolullah (s) has said. If there is Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah, it will be taken out and put on that Scale.” That’s how that man, the one who was buried, even though he was full of sins, Sayyidina Malik bin Dinar was seeing the conversation of the two angels in this dream. The first angel said, “Don’t worry, Allah (swt)’s Fadl will cover his dhunoob and khataayaa, will cover his mistakes and sins.” Allah (swt) is All-Gracious, Forgiving to the ones who say, Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah, to the believers.
And it is in the Holy Qur’an, asta`eedhubillah. InAllah la yaghfiru ayyushraka bihi wa yaghfiru ma dhoona dhalika liman yasha’oo.
إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَغْفِرُ أَن يُشْرَكَ بِهِۦ وَيَغْفِرُ مَا دُونَ ذَٰلِكَ لِمَن يَشَآءُ وَمَن يُشْرِكْ بِٱللَّهِ فَقَدِ ٱفْتَرَىٰٓ إِثْمًا عَظِيمًا
Allah forgives not that partners should be set up with Him; but He forgives anything else, to whom He pleases; to set up partners with Allah is to devise a sin most heinous indeed. (Surah An-Nisa, 4:48)
Allah (swt) does not accept shirk with Him. Does not accept another one with Him. If you say, Laa ilaaha illa-Llah, you have taken that away. He does not forgive that but He forgives everything else. Keep that Laa ilaaha illa-Llah in your heart, O Muslim. Keep, Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah in your heart, O mu’min. That’s what will save you on the Last Day, the day of joy and happiness, inshaa-Allah, for all of us.
When you are dying, on the day of your death, if you are from the lucky ones and your soul is taken on iman, that day is a day of faraah wa ‘s-suroor, a day of joy and happiness. What is tomorrow? Everybody knows what tomorrow is. Did he die on iman? His soul was seized on iman. Why are you upset? May Allah (swt) forgive us. Why don’t you make it a day of joy and happiness? Allah (swt) knows what and how we die. Why not say, “On my last day, I wish my Lord takes me with full iman.” The mu’min will be with Allah (swt). The mu’min will be with Rasoolullah (s). We cannot reach their levels, of course, but we can at least have that Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah in our hearts, even if we are sinning and we are asking for forgiveness all the time. Even if you are sinning, don’t despair of Allah (swt)'s Rahmah, O mu’min, O Muslim. May Allah (swt) forgive us.
Remember the true special day, which is your last day in Dunya and also Yawmu ‘l-Qiyamah. That is the last day of dunya in general but dunya in particular for you is when you die. That last day is the most important day to remember. All the other days will pass and pass and pass. It does not matter. You commemorate what happened on that day. You ask Allah (swt)’s forgiveness if there were mistakes happening that day. If there was goodness happening that day, you say, “Yaa Rabbee, shukr.” You commemorate whatever day people are celebrating and you say, “Yaa Rabbee, give us the best of both worlds,” but that is not the day you will have joy and happiness. That is the day that you die, the last day of dunya, if you are taken with iman. Take a lesson from him. Tomorrow is a special day. Did he pass on iman or not? With full stars, with medals, full A’s, beyond A’s. Why are you upset?
May Allah (swt) forgive us. That is Shaytan. Shaytan is everywhere. Shaytan is among people. Shaytan is among Muslims and non-Muslims, making problems and fitnah. What happens at the end? Killing. You see what Shaytan drives people to.
You have to say, “Yaa Rabbee, alhamdulillah. He went on iman. Allow me also on the day I die that I go on iman,” and that is the day of farah, the day of happiness, if Allah (swt) covers us with His Mercy.
May Allah (swt) forgive us. May Allah (swt) allow all of us to be on Siratu ‘l-Mustaqeem. Awliyaullah have made the du`a:
Allahumma ja`alna mina ‘l-ladheena salakoo ‘s-Sirata ‘l-Mustaqeem.
Yaa Rabbee, make us from the ones who have tread Siratu ‘l-Mustaqeem.
Wa wasaloo illa janaabika bi ‘l-qalbin saleem.
They have arrived to Your Presence with a purified heart, qalb saleem.
Wa najoo min `adhabika ‘l-`aleem.
And they are saved. They were saved from the bad ending, the bad punishment.
That's what you need to do. Yaa Rabbee, allow us to be on the Siratu ‘l-Mustaqeem, sirat Ahlu ‘l-Bayt, Siratu ‘s-Sahaabah, Siratu ‘r-Rasool (s), Anbiya and Awliya, and the rest of the good ones. Allow us, yaa Rabbee, to reach Your Holy Presence with qalbun saleem. Inshaa-Allah, we can all reach with that pure heart, a heart full of the noor of iman.
Du`a.
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