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Alhamdulillah, I remind myself and you, my brothers and sisters, that all the promises of Allah SWT are for the Muttaqun.
And therefore it is in my own interest and your own interest for you and me to examine whether we are Muttaqun or not,
whether we have Taqwa or not and if we do have Taqwa Alhamdulillah, Insha’Allah, then what is the level of that Taqwa?
How strong is it?
One of the best ways to see that is our attitude towards Salah.
Do we see Salah as an honor or as a burden?
Which one?
Do I want to finish Salah and go?
My South African friends have this wonderful saying,
Let us make Asar finish.
Let us make Zor finish.
And then what is finish?
Do we just finish and go?
Or is it an honor?
Rasulullah SAW used to say,
Go call the other.
Give us relief.
Give us Sukkwa.
Call the other.
We stand for Salah.
When he prayed Tahajjud, the Sahaba said, sometimes we were afraid the sun would rise.
He would pray the whole night.
Almost till the time of Fajr.
What is our attitude?
Allah SWT praised him and he praised those who stood with him in Salah.
What is our attitude?
What is our attitude towards spending in the path of Allah SWT?
Do we see that as a burden, as a nuisance, as something to be done and finished?
Somebody asked me on Zakat.
They said, there are stores, you know, stock value of the store.
There are big department stores.
So they say stock value of the stores.
So he said, should I pay Zakat on the market value of that stock or the price at which I bought the stock?
So I said only one thing.
I always say the same thing.
I told him, do you want Allah to count and give you?
Just tell me that much.
Do you want Allah to count and give you?
How many Salah did he pray?
What was the quality of that Salah?
My Rizq what I’m going to give him for food will depend on that.
You want Allah to do this calculation for you?
He said, no, I got you.
I got the answer.
Thank you.
Seriously, spend in the path of Allah understanding one thing.
If you don’t get anything from this, take this one thing.
Hold your hand like this.
This one, your left hand is your bank account in this world, is your worldly assets.
This, your right hand is your assets on the day of judgment.
All right?
When you are spending in the path of Allah, it’s not going anywhere.
You are taking it from this one, from the left hand, your bank account in this world
and transferring it to the right hand.
That’s all.
That is all.
It’s yours.
How can we give to Allah?
Can we give to Allah?
The one who gave it to you in the first place, we can give it to him.
All that you are doing when you are donating to the masjid,
when you are donating to some other cause,
when you are giving it to your own poor relatives who take first precedence,
when you are giving to people who are in need,
no matter where you are giving, whether it’s your money, whether it’s your time, your energy,
you are simply taking what belongs to you in this world
about which Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala said,
whatever is with you will finish with perish
and you are taking it and putting it into your own akhira account about which Allah said,
wa ma’indallahi baq.
And what is with Allah will remain.
So ask yourself, ask yourself, I have this much of asset, my net worth is so much,
what do I want my net worth to be on the day of judgment?
Forget who is asking you.
Forget the masjid.
Masjid needs this.
Forget the masjid.
The house of Allah, Allah will provide.
That’s why I never do fundraisers.
I say I will never do a fundraiser inside a masjid because to me to do fundraisers inside the masjid is an insult to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala.
You want me to beg people for the house of Allah?
When I’m standing in the house of Allah?
I will ask Allah,
Allah we need this, we need so much money to run this masjid, give us because it is your house.
How would you like somebody to come into your house?
And do a fundraiser and say,
I have to run brother Abdullah’s house so please we need so much money, give us.
He will throw me, he will kick me out.
He said who told you to come in my house and beg people to give money to run?
Running my house is my issue, it’s my problem, it’s my responsibility, right?
We stand and say how much money will you give for the house of Allah?
Give because it is your need,
not because the house of Allah needs.
It is Allah’s house, it does not need you, it does not need your money.
You give because it is your need,
you give so that you can say Allah I gave for you.
Allah I gave for you, please accept yaarab I beg you please accept.
It is my need yaarab give me, allow me to spend on your house.
You give and the people say we don’t want, no no no please I beg you please take it.
Please take it.
People running fundraisers you know per table so much money this that
even to give money somebody has to feed you.
Get out of this mentality, the terrible mentality.
We must pay must give in the house of Allah,
we must give to the house of Allah because we need it.
We give in the house of Allah because we want our name to be in the list of those
who gave for the house of Allah.
Yes or no?
We give because we want Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to say these are my slaves
who spend in my path and I will spend on them.
These are not my statements believe me.
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said in this beautiful beautiful hadith.
He said when you spend in the path of Allah as much as one date,
nothing is too small nothing is too big as much as one date.
He said Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala jalal ho receives it in his hand.
Just think of that.
Just think of that.
You want to count and give?
You want to count and give when Allah is receiving in his hand.
That is why you had Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiya allah anhu
who gave everything including his clothes
and he came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam wearing a sack
and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said ya babaka
what have you left for yourself and your family?
He said for me and my family is Allah and his Rasul.
He said why are you dressed like this?
He said this is all I have.
Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala sends Jibril alaihi wa sallam.
Jibril comes alaihi wa sallam and he says ya Rasulullah
tell your friend Abu Bakr that I send salam on him.
That Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala sends salam on him
and Allah wants to know whether Abu Bakr is pleased with him.
He started weeping and said ya Rasulullah Allah is asking me.
Allah is asking me.
How can I not be pleased with Allah?
And then he said to Jibril alaihi wa sallam what is this clothes you are wearing?
You are very new I have never seen you wearing this.
You are wearing a sack.
You are wearing a sack.
You are wearing a sack.
You are very new I have never seen you wearing this.
You are wearing a sack.
Jibril alaihi wa sallam tells him this is the hokum of your Rabb.
Your Rabb likes the clothes of your friend so much that he has commanded all of us.
Who is that?
The malaikah.
He said he has commanded all of us in the heavens to dress like your friend today.
It is not only me he said every malaikah is dressed like your friend.
Given the path of Allah because we want Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to be our witness that we give.
And Allah said for them
This is the certificate.
This is the confirmation from Allah.
Allah said these are the true believers.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to make us true believers.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to make us mudtakoon.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to accept from us and to enable us and to invite us and to allow us
to work in his path to spend in his path.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to help us to take from us and to allow us to give in his path.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to make us among the mudtakoon among those we call
and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala then for his for what he promised
that he should make us among those who have stations of honor in his presence
and he should forgive us
and he should give us our rizq in a beautiful honorable way in this dunya.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to help all those who need who are in need.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to protect all those who need his protection
especially our brothers and sisters in Philistine and our brothers and sisters in
Syria and in Iraq and in Sudan and so on.
The list of countries who enters we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to help them and to protect
them and to destroy all the oppressors everywhere wherever they might be.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to fill this earth with kindness and with compassion and with
justice and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to help all those who do anything in that path.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to help us in ways that we cannot imagine.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to provide us from sources that we cannot imagine.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to protect us from our sins and to forgive us our sins and to
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