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As-salātu wa s-salāmu ala ash-sharafī al-anbiyā’ī wa al-mursaleen, Muḥammadun Rasūlu Llāhī sallallahu alayhi wa alā alihi wa sābihi wa sallam, tasleemun kathirun kathirun. From Mabādhu, my brothers and sisters, if there is one… if you ask me to give you one single line or one single thought or one single word, which is the secret of success in life, one word, that word is judgment. Judgment. The ability to choose, the ability to judge between multiple options. This is the secret of success. One single word, judgment. Somebody with the right judgment will succeed, somebody with the wrong judgment will fail. The options are the same. Right? Take for example, careers. Should I work for this company or that company? Your judgment decides the future of your career. Marriage. Should I marry this woman or that woman? If you are a lady, this man or that man? That will decide the rest of your life. House. I want to buy a house. Which house? I have the money. Judgment. Car. You take it. Anything. It is your judgment and the correctness of that judgment which will decide whether you will succeed or fail. Now Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala made it easy because Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala did not leave us to guess. Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala told us. The muhajid, when he calls the adhan, what does he say? And then? Come to salah, come to success. So Allah has told us where is success? In salah. Right? That is the reason why, see the beauty of the Quran, Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala addressed the believers. The believers. Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said, do you believe? So first and foremost we have to decide, are we the believers? Because you know and I know that in the Quran al-Karim, anything which starts with that is an order of Allah, command of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala. So am I a believer? First question. If I’m not a believer then do what you want. But if I’m a believer what must I do? Allah said, when you hear the calling to the salah, when the time for salah comes, what must you do? Stroll along quietly, nicely, like in the moonlight. Others say no, run. Make effort. What? Rush there. And then what? Leave all your selling. Now imagine, see the beauty of the Quran. There is bayah and there is shara. There is selling and there is buying. Allah did not say don’t buy. Allah said don’t sell because if you don’t sell you cannot buy. How will you buy if the shop is closed? So Allah did not leave it to the buyer. He didn’t say no, even if the shop is open don’t sell. Finish, khalas, bant, tukkan, khalam. So that applies not only to selling, applies to everything. All your work, stop it. Rush towards the salah. And then Allah is saying, in that there is benefit for you, that is the best for you, in kumtum ta’ala if you could understand. Why is Allah saying that? Because after all when we are doing business, we are going to school, we are going to college, we are going to university, we are working in jobs, why? Because there is benefit. There is benefit and nobody does this, right? We don’t say don’t go to school, leave your school, leave your college, don’t go to work, sit at home. No, of course not. You should go to school, go to college, get a good career, study, you know, do your business well and so on and so forth. There is benefit for you. What Allah is saying, there is greater benefit in leaving that and going to salah. Not because it will harm you, but because it will benefit you. If you shut the shop, it will benefit you. If you leave the work, it will benefit you. So obviously if you don’t leave the work, does it benefit you? That’s why I said judgment, right? Where do we see benefit for ourselves? Here is Allah’s command. As I said, Allah didn’t leave us to guess. Allah is telling us, benefit is here, come. Allah will give you. Then you might say, but what about my one hour of work I will miss? One hour of business I will miss? One hour of school I will miss? Yes, of course. If I am going somewhere, if I want to travel say from here to Florida, then I have to buy a ticket, right? The ticket costs money. So what will I say? I lost $200. What do you mean lost $200? You spent $200 to buy a ticket to go to Florida. You went to Florida for a good reason. That reason is better than $200. You went to meet your family or friends. You went to make a $10 million deal. You went to do whatever you want to do, Alhamdulillah. For which you spent $200 buying a plane ticket. Is that a waste? How is it a waste? So I lose one hour of business. I shut my shop for an hour. I, maybe I have to make up one class in college or school or wherever I am studying. In exchange for that, what did I get? I got the promise of Allah’s command, that there is benefit for you in this if you come. So ask yourself, I should ask myself, what is my value for the promise of Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala? If Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala is saying zalikum khairullakum, do I believe that? Or I say no, no, no, you see this is okay. You must read the Quran, but I know where the khair is. If Allah is saying it is here, oh it’s okay. I know where it is. It is somewhere else, not in this. Am I saying that? Because we will not say it by, you know, with our tongues obviously, but our action, what is our action showing? If my action is showing that I am ready to leave the sala for something else, or something else, then is that the action of a mumin? Just think about this. Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said, Allah said, leave, rush towards the dhikr of Allah and leave your work. I don’t do that and I die. It can happen, no? Then I died on what? I died on deliberately disobeying Allah. Allah said, come to me and that is beneficial for you. I said no, I won’t come to you and I died. Now what? So where is that school, where is that college, where is that job, where is that shop, where is that business, where is that meeting? Everything is left here, right? That’s not coming with me. So when I stand before Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala, Allah will say, I ordered you, I commanded you. Wazaarul bayi fas’au ila dhikri Allah. You did not come. What is the answer? Yallah, I was doing the business deal. I was meeting my friend. I was doing the study in the class. The class will help you, Allah will not help you. Nobody said don’t study. As I’m telling you, understand this thing. I’m not saying don’t go to school. Forgot to school. Make that extra effort, make up that one hour. Big deal, man. What the hell if you don’t study? You don’t study, you don’t study. You don’t study, you don’t study. So if Kobe Bryant is giving a one hour exclusive coaching at 11 a.m. on Monday, and he is giving a one hour exclusive coaching at 11 a.m. on Monday, and he is giving a one hour exclusive coaching at 11 a.m. on Monday, and he is giving a one hour exclusive coaching at 11 a.m. on Monday, and he is giving a one hour exclusive coaching at 11 a.m. on Monday, and he is giving a one hour exclusive coaching at 11 a.m. on Monday, which is the middle of my school, middle of my class, middle of my working day, middle of my shop. But I’m a serious basketball player. I’m getting one on one coaching with Kobe Bryant for one hour. No one else, only Kobe and me. Do I need to complete the sentence? You will lie, you will cheat, you will do whatever you want. You will get a false certificate from the doctor, but you will go there, right? Because you will say, this opportunity I’ll never get. One on one coaching with Kobe Bryant for basketball, that is my dream to be a basketball player. One on one coaching with Nadal if I’m a tennis player. You name all the different sports, all the iconic players. Messi for football, right? Or Ronaldo. One on one coaching for one hour. What happens to be in the middle of my school day, middle of my work day, middle of my shop day? Forget it, I’ll make up that one hour. With this I will never get. On Yom Jumah, it is one on one with Allah. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam gave rukhsah, and rukhsah is what? Permission not to go, if you go you can still go, but if you don’t go there is no sin on you. This is the meaning of rukhsah. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam gave permission to four people. One, women. If a woman wants to go to Yom Jumah, alhamdulillah no problem, but if she doesn’t go there is no sin on her. Second one to a slave. Someone who is a slave of somebody else. Third one to a musafir. So I’m travelling, I don’t have to pray to Yom Jumah, if I pray, alhamdulillah, if I don’t pray, no sin. And the fourth one is somebody who is sick. Other than these four, there is no rukhsah for anyone. Other than these four, if somebody is ahil balik, he has intelligence and he has matured, then that person, that male, if he is not going for Jumah, he is committing a major sin. Please understand this. I don’t make the rules, Allah makes the rules. The shariah ul-dhur, these four. Other than that, you don’t go. That is the reason why, for example, with the Ahnaf, Imam Abu Hanifa said, three Jumahs you miss, you are no longer a Muslim. You are kharijul Islam. Right? Deliberately you leave one in Salat. Deliberately you leave one in Samaadhaan Madhabs. For example, in the Humbly Madhab, you leave one deliberately without an ul-dhur. You are kharijul Islam. You are out of Islam. No, I am not talking about, let’s not go into the aspect of it. Point is, why would you leave? As I am telling you, Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala is promising you success, and if I am leaving it, what does it say about my aqeedah with Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala? So please, Salat is the number one important thing that we have. And in Salat, Salat-ul-Jumah has very, very, very special importance. Especially in this country, Andhra, all you need to do is, if necessary, sometimes the letter is not required. You just tell your school, you tell your employer, they are happy to let you go. But if you need a letter, I have given letters to some people. They accept the letter, they let you go. So if you are not praying Jumah, what is the excuse? I am not saying pray here, not in any masjid. You must pray Jumah, that’s it. You pray here, there, anywhere. But if you are leaving Jumah without a shariah excuse, and I told you four things are required. Moven, slave, Sikh, traveler. Other than that, there is no fifth one. Please, my brothers and sisters, do not destroy your own life. And to the parents I am saying to you, it is your responsibility to make sure that your children, who are adults, that they come for Salat-ul-Jumah. Pray anywhere, whichever masjid is convenient for you. It is your job to make sure they do that. If you are not doing that, then you are the cause for your children’s missing Jumah, and that’s between you and Allah. And for the children, especially the… Once you are an adult, you are an adult. After attending puberty, it is your responsibility. Ask your father, ask your mother, whatever it is. If you need help to get to the masjid, talk to your friends. I am sure somebody will be happy to give you a lift or whatever. But make sure you go for Salat-ul-Jumah, whichever masjid. In addition to that, of course, all these fun Salat, you must pray them on time, if possible, in the masjid. But Salat-ul-Jumah, there is no Salat-ul-Jumah outside the masjid. You can’t pray Salat-ul-Jumah outside the masjid. It is Bai-Jama in a place where there is Jumah established. Ask Allah SWT to help us and open our eyes to what is truly beneficial for us. In this daif and akhara. I ask Allah SWT to help us to do that which benefits us, and to save us from that which does not benefit us. Ask Allah to enable us to understand that the Deen is the number one benefit, the number one benefit, the number one benefit, the number one benefit. Ask Allah to enable us to understand that the Deen is the number one benefit, the number one responsibility that we have. There is nothing, nothing, nothing which takes supersedence, which takes precedence over the Deen of Allah SWT. We ask Allah to bring this khadr of the Deen in our hearts and to enable us to do all that we can to benefit from this Deen.
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