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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
We seek refuge with Allah and His Messenger.
After that, Allah said,
Indeed, Allah and His angels
send their blessings upon the Prophet.
O you who believe,
send your blessings upon him
and give him your blessings.
O Allah, send your blessings upon Muhammad
and upon the family of Muhammad,
as you sent your blessings upon Ibrahim
and upon the family of Ibrahim.
You are the Most Glorious, the Most Glorious.
O Allah, bless Muhammad
and upon the family of Muhammad,
as you blessed Abraham
and upon the family of Abraham.
May you be blessed with a happy life.
My dear respected
elders, brothers, sisters,
I want you to remember two words.
The first word
is itaat.
Itaat.
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala
mentioned this word
many, many times in the Quran
related to Himself,
Jalla Jalaluhu,
as well as
His Habib,
His Habib,
His Nabi,
His Messenger,
Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
For example,
in Surah Al-Hazab,
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala
mentioned in the ayah
which you hear almost
every Jum’ah,
وَمَن يُطِي اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ
فَقَدْ فَازَ فَوْزًا عَظِيمًا
The one who obeys
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala
and His Rasul
alayhi salatu wa salam,
only that person
is the one
who will attain
and reach
and get
ultimate success.
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said,
وَمَن يُطِي الرَّسُولَ
فَقَدْ أَطَى اللَّهُ
The one who has
obeyed the Rasul
alayhi salatu wa salam
has obeyed Allah.
And so on.
Many places in the Quran,
this word
إِتَعَت
is mentioned
with respect to
Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
So obedience to the Prophet Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
is
وَاجِب
فَرْض
لَازِم
on every Muslim.
And without that,
nobody can hope
to succeed
either in this life
or in the year after.
But there is another word
which Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala
used in the Quran
with regard to
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
Where Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said,
قُلْ إِن كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللَّهَ
فَاتَّبِعُونِهِ
يُهْبِبْكُمُ اللَّهُ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ
ذُنُوبَكُمْ وَاللَّهُ وَفُرْرَهِيمُ
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said,
which means,
say to them,
Ya Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
say to those who claim
to love Allah,
Allah,
say to those who claim
to love Allah,
فَاتَّبِعُونِهِ
Allah did not say,
أَتِعُونِهِ
He didn’t say,
tell them to obey, you know.
فَاتَّبِعُونِهِ
Tell them to make,
tell them to make your itibah.
Tell them,
follow me,
emulate me,
imitate me,
act like me,
talk like me,
walk like me,
look like me.
Emulate me.
فَاتَّبِعُونِهِ
And what do you do?
And what will happen?
يُحْبِبُمُ وَاللَّهُ
Allah will love you.
Allah will love you.
And if Allah loves you,
what is the first boundary condition?
يَخْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ وَاللَّهُ غَفُرُ الرَّهِيمُ
All your sins will be forgiven.
Allah is the most forgiven
and the most merciful.
So two words.
One is itaat,
obedience.
The reward for obedience
is Jannah.
The other one
is ittiba.
Emulation.
And the reward for emulation
is Allah Himself.
It is the love of Allah.
Allah loving me.
Now, what is the difference?
Why this difference
in these two words?
Why is Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala
using these two words?
Itaat or obedience
is obviously
it is necessary
it is critical.
Without obedience
you cannot have any system
you cannot have any nizam
you cannot have any administration.
No matter what it is.
There has to be a chain of command.
There has to be somebody who
gives an instruction or an order.
There has to be somebody who obeys.
But obedience
is something which is
dependent
on obedience.
On what?
For you to obey me
what must happen?
Rayyan?
Just to respect you.
You respect me?
No.
Even if you don’t respect me
even if you hate me
that’s a good answer.
Even if you don’t respect me
even if you absolutely detest me
I can make you obey.
Yes or no?
Aha.
You bet.
You bet.
You will hate every minute of it
but you will obey.
Because the consequence of not obeying
will be so painful.
How do you think people
who live in most of the world?
Most obedience in the world
is done by compulsion.
Right?
How many of you would drive
who would gladly drive through a red light
if there wasn’t the camera on that
on that pole?
There is no one who would drive you
that would drive you
to a red light.
So what is required
for obedience?
Anybody?
Huh?
Submission.
No?
Submission, no.
Reward.
Reward, no.
Huh?
Patience.
No, no, no.
Man.
Fear.
Punishment.
No.
Huh?
Punishment if you don’t know.
Establish the rules.
Establish the rules.
No.
Tawakkul, no.
Very simple.
Respond to that.
Raiya, you’re not obeying me.
What do you want me to do?
Shake my hand.
No, no.
What do you want me to do?
Listen, I’m being…
Don’t get sidetracked by that.
What do you want me to do?
So what is required for obedience?
Instruction.
Wait, wait, wait.
SubhanAllah, you haven’t even eaten food yet.
Instruction.
Obedience is impossible in the absence of an order.
Obedience is impossible in the absence of a command.
Obedience is impossible in the absence of a request or an instruction.
Yes or no?
I’m telling Raiya, you are not obeying me.
He says, what do you want me to do?
Simple.
Give me an instruction.
Then I will choose to obey you or not obey you.
But you haven’t…
You haven’t told me anything.
And you are telling me you are not obeying me.
Is it fair?
It’s not fair.
It makes no sense.
How can I tell him he is not obeying me?
I have not told him anything.
Listen carefully.
To obey, an instruction is required.
So obedience is dependent on an instruction.
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said,
for example, I will tell you this.
Let us establish right now Salatul Isha.
Is it possible?
One more even.
Let us right now establish Salatul Fajr.
Is it possible?
Why not?
It’s not time.
The hukam for Salatul Fajr is not valid just now.
So for obedience, a hukam is the shart.
But,
have you seen a…
There is absolute profusion of this beautiful…
Moroccan soaps from a particular date.
Can someone tell me what is that date?
Even if not exact date.
From when?
Everybody is wearing Moroccan soaps.
From when?
Today something is wrong.
What’s wrong with you?
From the time Sheikh Abdullah came here.
Right?
Everyone loves Sheikh Abdullah, so you want to look like Sheikh Abdullah.
Now there are many ways of looking like him.
One of the better ways is to learn Quran and to learn to recite like him.
But wearing Moroccan soaps is easier, right?
What am I getting at here?
Let me give you some more examples.
You have people who are interested in basketball.
You have people who are interested in basketball.
You have people who are interested in basketball.
And then you will see them wearing a Chicago Bulls hat,
turn backwards with a peak at the back,
and they walk like they have shock absorbers in their legs.
Like this.
Why?
Because that’s how Michael Jordan walked.
Right?
Now, somebody who is wearing that hat and somebody who is walking like that,
if you ask him,
does Michael Jordan even know that?
Does Michael Jordan even know that you exist?
Obviously not.
So Michael Jordan didn’t call you and say,
Rehan, wear this hat, walk like me.
No.
Why do you do that?
Why do people have weird haircuts?
Why do people have weird clothes?
What is the biggest, today, what is the biggest psychological sickness,
which is resulting in,
an absolute epidemic of suicides among teenagers?
What is it?
It is so-called influencers on social media.
So-called influencers on social media.
There is somebody there, on social media,
who is showing their body,
or showing a certain kind of fashion and whatnot.
And especially teenagers,
and I’m not saying only teenagers,
because most of the social media is watched by people who are over 60 years old.
But especially things like Instagram and Snapchat and so on,
people are trying to emulate them and in that process,
they are going into health issues,
they are going and many of them are going into depression and so on and so forth,
because they are trying to live up to those models.
Now, that influencer, so-called,
on social media,
do they even know who exists?
Who is trying to follow them?
They don’t know.
They do not know the individual.
They know, okay, I have a million followers.
Who are those?
Name three.
We don’t know.
Why?
That is the meaning of itiba.
You know why it happens?
Because you love that.
Because you love that person.
Because you believe that acting like that person,
emulating that person,
imitating that person,
somehow adds value to you.
So you emulate them.
That person didn’t tell you to do that.
That person does not even know you exist.
But you are trying to be like that person because you love that person.
Yes?
Now, how about that person being Muhammad
You have to imitate somebody.
You have to emulate somebody.
Aristotle said this more than 2000 years ago.
He said there is nothing new in the world.
Everything is an imitation.
He said everything is a repetition.
So if you have to imitate somebody,
imitate Rasulullah
because the reward of that is
Allah will love you.
Itaat is dependent on a hukum,
on an instruction.
Imitation is an example of pure love.
Itaat can be forced.
Itaat can be compelled.
Not emulation.
Emulation happens for one reason only.
And that is because
I love the one I am emulating
and I believe it adds value to me.
Why do people
Why do you wear brands?
The dumbest thing in the world
is to wear a brand.
Because you are paying
premium price
to advertise somebody else’s logo,
to advertise somebody else’s product
for free.
That is very stupid.
That is very, very stupid.
If you are wearing, for example,
Hoka shoes because
you need the shoes to walk
and you have an issue with your feet and so on,
understandable, no problem.
But you are wearing a Nike shirt, for what?
You are wearing this brand and that brand for what?
You carry a Louis Vuitton handbag which costs
Louis Vuitton is not luggage.
Louis Vuitton is not handbags.
McLaren is not transport.
A Rolex is not one to tell the time.
It is one to tell the world.
And Armani is Armani.
Brands.
What is the brand
of Muhammad ?
His brand is what you remove from your face every morning.
You begin your day
with removing his brand from your face.
His brand
is what you remove from your face
every morning.
And then you say,
I am Aasikha Muhammad .
Then you will sing a Nasheed.
Then you will sing the song of Aasikha Muhammad.
And then one day,
you and I will go into the grave.
And the malaika there will say
what did you know
and what did you say about the man
who was sent among you?
And you and I will say
he was Muhammad
salallaahu alayhi wa sallam,
he was the Nabi of Allah
and I was his
what?
I used to remove his sign from my face every morning.
Hmm?
Please, this deen is not a deen of listening to lectures and anashis and this and that.
This deen is a deen of practice.
This deen is a deen of practice.
You say you are doing the work of Amal bin Maruf and Naya and Munkar and in your shop
you sell haram.
Do the Amal bin Maruf on yourself first.
Stand in front of the bidder and say, I will not sell haram chicken.
I will not sell cigarettes.
I will not sell alcohol.
I will not sell lotteries because all of this is haram.
I will not earn haram.
I will not feed my children haram.
I will not, I will get rid of all this because Allah is my raziq.
He is razaqu zulquwatil mateen.
He has the power to feed me through halal sources and say I will not do that.
Do that from today and then raise your hands and see how Allah will accept your dua.
This is reality my brothers and sisters.
This is the reality.
We ask others in your home, in your masjid, in your shop, in your daawat, in your party,
is the chicken that you are selling, that you are giving us serving, is it hand slaughtered?
Very good.
Mashallah.
You are so conscious.
Handu illa.
You are selling haram chicken.
How do you put these two together?
How do you put these two together?
If I am lying, tell me.
Ittiba of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam means to do whatever he did, to walk like
him, to talk like him, to look like him, to behave like him in every aspect of our lives.
And the reward for that is Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala will love
you.
You habibkum Allah.
Imagine this, that Allah loves you.
You raise your hand for dua.
What do you think will happen?
Allah loves you.
You raise your hand for dua.
What will happen?
This will bring about adhan and minutes, of special benefit.
Ittiba of Muhammad.
Prophet Mohammad said he would declare that that day of adhan in deen is the same as after
an adhan in deen is customary.
You are talking now about all this adhan, adhan is a throwaway thing.
Today we talk only about adhan, adhan nowadays.
In the todays day and age, no one even perspective about adhan has future predicated, but the
law of adhan hasーピ
stabilizes theum.
Adhan you can practice adhan.
One of the very beautiful stories from Salafus Salihin, Imam Muhammad bin Hanbal, Rahmatul Ali, was traveling somewhere.
And you know, the true ulama, the true scholars of the deen, they always used to take a, they were like publicity.
They didn’t want to, they didn’t want to travel with, you know, a whole bunch of buridin and so on, so on.
So by himself, alone.
And he reached a place.
And there was a masjid there.
He reached late in the night.
There was a masjid there.
He went inside.
He put his, whatever he was carrying, his baggage he was carrying on his back.
So he put it on one side.
He read some salah there.
And then he asked the mahasis who was there.
He said, can I stay the night?
Here in the masjid.
Because I’m a stranger.
He didn’t tell you who he was and so on.
Because, you know, of course, he was very well known.
He was the, he was the, the, the Imam of the masjid and Nabi al-Sharif.
So he didn’t say anything about all that.
He just said, I’m a ushafir.
I’m a ajnavi, stranger here to your town.
And can I stay in your masjid?
The man said, no.
That’s very surprising because, you know, Muslims are hospitable people.
So not only did the,
the Imam Ahmad not invite him, but when he wanted to stay, he would not let him stay.
He said, no.
So Imam Ahmad, he said, well, can I at least stay in the sand of the masjid?
You know, the little courtyard.
If you don’t want me to stay inside, can I just sleep in the courtyard?
He said, no.
So you prayed, now go.
And the man took him.
And this time, at this, by this time, Imam Ahmad said, no.
Imam Ahmad was old.
He was almost maybe 80 or something.
He grabbed him by the arm.
He took his bag.
He put the bag outside on the street.
He dumped the bag on the street and he pushed him out.
And Imam Ahmad almost fell down.
Now opposite this masjid, there was a baker, a bakery.
And this baker was baking bread and he saw this commotion.
He saw what happened.
He came across, he picked up his bag.
He took him.
He said, please come with me.
I don’t know what’s wrong with this man.
Please come and you can stay in my bakery.
So he took him inside.
He made a place for him.
He put his bedding and so on and so forth.
He said, you please rest here.
And he gave him some food.
He said, I bake all night because this is how bakeries work.
They work in the night.
So the bread is fresh in the morning.
He said, don’t let me disturb you.
You rest.
Now Imam Ahmad, he is
He is a great baker.
I won.
But how come this bakers back to the Adiriy legs.
That what are you doing?
This is why we should have bread compairs.
These aren’t good.
Didn’t we suppose it has to be like this of alimony.
We showed the honest what is the proof.
When we look at these Republican youth,
they don’t think like no,
here they were just throwing around назыв tons.
engaged in dhikr, in making istighfar.
This means that Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala
would have shown you something of his khudrat.
Because this is the hadith of Jesus, which is in Musnad ibn Ahmad.
So he said, because you’re making istighfar,
Allah would have shown you something of his khudrat.
So tell me, what did Allah show you?
The man said, what Allah showed me is that
every dua I make, Allah accepts, except one.
He said, every dua I have made,
Allah has always accepted, except one.
So now this is getting even more interesting.
See, Allah said to him,
which dua did Allah not accept?
He said, ya Sheikh,
it has been my life,
my long desire to meet Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal.
But I’m a poor man, I’m in this bakery the whole time,
I don’t have time, I don’t have money
to go all the way to Madina Munawwara.
So I keep asking Allah, Ya Allah,
I want to meet Ahmad bin Hanbal.
This dua Allah has not accepted.
Imam Ahmad started crying.
He said, why are you crying?
He said, because I am Ahmad bin Hanbal.
He said, no,
now I know why the Mohsin threw me out.
He said, Allah,
Allah swt did not allow me to stay in his house
because of your dua.
Allah sent me to you.
Allah did not even let me stay in his house
and you come to me.
He said, Allah sent me to you.
This is the power of ittiba.
How is it the power of ittiba?
Because the Prophet said,
make a step far,
make a step forward.
And Allah swt will open doors for you,
will extract you from your difficulties
and will open doors for you
where you did not even know there are doors
and Allah will become sufficient for you.
And now he said,
I make istikhara,
I make it far,
I make it far,
70 times a day.
And some Sahaba counted,
they said, sometimes he made 100 times a day.
This is the power of ittiba.
You make ittiba with Rasulullah ,
Allah swt will accept your doors.
I ask Allah swt to make us among the mutab’een of Rasulullah .
I ask Allah swt to make us among those who leave this place with the azam,
not just some near somewhere.
With the azam, with absolute certainty azam,
that we will clean up our lives.
That we will stop buying and selling haram.
That we will stop, we will ensure that we pray as many salah in the masjid as possible.
That we will stop shaving our faces.
That we will grow the beard,
the shabahat of Rasulullah on our faces.
That we will ask Allah swt,
then on the basis of this ittiba,
to accept our duas
and wallahi Allah is my witness.
Do that and ask and Allah will give you.
Translated by Raa’Bana