Jumu`ah Khutbah
Alhamdulillahi ‘l-ladhee hadaana li ’l-Islaami wa maa kunna li-nahtadeea law laa an hadaana ‘Llah, alhamdulillahi `alaa ni`amihi zhaahiran wa baatina. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil’l-`alameen, was-salaatu was-salaamu `ala ashrafu ’l-mursaleen, Sayyidina wa Nabiyyina Muhammadin wa `ala aalihi wa sahbihi ajma`een. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, laa ilaha illa-Llah, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, wa lillahi ’l-hamd! Allahuma salli `alaa Sayyidina Muhammad. Allahuma salli wa sallim wa baarik `ala habeebika wa nabiyyika, Sayyidina Muhammad (s). Ash-hadu an laa ilaha illa-Llah, wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan `abduhu wa habeebuhu wa rasooluh.
As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh. Ayyuha’l-mu’minoon wa’l-haadiroon.
(Sayyid al-Istighfaar)
اللَّهُمَّ أَنْتَ رَبِّي لا إِلَهَ إِلا أَنْتَ خَلَقْتَنِي وَأَنَا عَبْدُكَ وَأَنَا عَلَى عَهْدِكَ وَوَعْدِكَمَا اسْتَطَعْتُ أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا صَنَعْتُ أَبُوءُ لَكَ بِنِعْمَتِكَ عَلَيَّ وَأَبُوءُ لَكَ بِذَنْبِي فَاغْفِرْ لِي فَإِنَّهُ لا يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلا أَنْتَ
Allahuma Anta Rabbee laa ilaaha ila anta khalaqtani wa ana `abduka wa ana `alaa `ahdika wa wa`dika mastat'aatu a`oodhu bika min sharri maa saan`atu aaboo laka bi ni`matika `alayya wa aboo’ laka bi dhambee faghfir lee dhunoobee fa innahu laa yaghfir 'dh-dhunooba illa Ant.
O Allah! You are my Lord! None has the right to be worshipped but You! You created me and I am Your slave, and I am faithful to my covenant and my promise as much as I can be. I seek refuge with You from all the evil I have done. I acknowledge before You all the blessings You have bestowed upon me, and I confess to You all my sins. So I entreat You to forgive my sins, for no one can forgive sins except You!**
O Believers! Prophet (s) encouraged us to study Shari`ah, to know how to behave and to have discipline. Allah mentioned Prophet (s) in Holy Qur'an:
وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلى خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ
Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem. wa innaka la `alla khuluqin `azheem.
And you (stand) on an exalted standard of character. (al-Qalam, 68:4)
Prophet (s) is the one who is on the best character, to guide humanity. May Allah guide us to His sunnah and to the Naqshbandi Way, and support our shaykh, and bring Mahdi (a) as soon as possible.
(Du`a and salaat)
** Shaddad ibn Aws (r) relates that the Prophet (s) said, “Sayyid al-Istighfaar, the most superior way to ask for forgiveness from Allah (swt), is to say the above du`a, and if someone recites it during the day with firm faith in it and dies on the same day before the evening, he will be from the people of Paradise, and if someone recites it at night with firm faith in it and dies before the morning, he will be from the people of Paradise."
[Sahih al-Bukhari: 8,75,318; at-Tirmidhi: 3393; an-Nasa'i: 5522; Ahmad: 16662]