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We were talking about the questions that we have to answer.
And as I mentioned, I remind myself and you, there are three questions that we have to answer in the grave
that have to do with our Aqidah, with our creed, with our belief.
Then there are four questions that we have to answer on the Day of Judgment,
which have to do with our Aamad, our actions.
The first of those questions we mentioned and talked about that last night,
and that was, Man Rabbuk, who is your Rabb?
The second question is, Ma Dinuk, what is your religion?
Now, I remind myself and you that there is a difference between Deen and Madhab.
There is a difference between Deen and Madhab.
A Madhab has to do with rituals concerning worship and with certain issues of halal and hara and so on.
Right?
A Deen has to do with a complete way of life.
So Islam is a Deen.
In Islam, we have different Madhabs, which we follow until last.
No problem with that.
But the Deen is Islam.
Allah said,
Allah said,
With Allah, there is only one Deen.
That is Islam.
And Allah said,
Anyone who comes on the Day of Judgment with any other Deen other than Islam,
will be among the losers.
He should be rejected.
So, very important.
Allah said,
Today I have completed your Deen.
So,
I have completed your Deen.
Today I have completed your Deen.
And I have given you my favor.
And I have completed your Deen.
Islam is a Deen.
Now, therefore, it is very important for us to ensure that we learn and we practice.
There is no practice possible.
without learning. May Allah have mercy on us. We don’t seem to give any importance to learning.
Islam, learning about Islam is like learning about… in terms of learning, I mean it’s not like
learning about anything else because nothing else will take us into Jannah or Jayaan,
but Islam will. If you practice Islam, you go to Jannah, otherwise you don’t.
But in terms of the time, the effort, the focus, it’s the same.
So just like you can’t say, you can’t say, well, I will learn cycling by watching some YouTube videos. No.
You have to get onto a cycle, you have to get a cycle, get onto a cycle, fall off a few times, learn, get your balance, right?
If you are training to be something more complicated than that, cooking for example,
or just to be a good cook,
you can’t say something more complicated than that, say you want to become a physician, a doctor, a surgeon, right?
Nobody becomes all these things by watching TikTok videos or by watching some YouTube videos.
You do that by giving it your full attention, full time, following a prescribed program
under the guidance of a scholar.
What is a residency program which you do in the hospitals?
It’s guidance under scholars. These scholars are called doctors.
Okay.
You can’t say, well, I joined medical school and now I want to do heart surgery on you and please lie down, give me a knife.
No. Systematic.
But somehow we have a different thinking with our, in the case of Islam.
We think that Islam is just, you know, baby listening to a khatira or something, listening to khutbah.
All this is good. But these are like the frills.
In addition to everything else, I go and sit in the khatira, I listen to a khatira, I listen to a khutbah,
I go and listen to a bayaan, and nothing wrong with that.
But if this is the only way in which you are getting the, excuse me, don’t fool yourself.
Do not fool yourself. You will not get the deal like this.
You have to apply yourself. Systematic process of study.
I’m not even going into,
the standards of our Salafi Salihin, of the great scholars of Islam.
Because today when we talk about that, it seems like it’s some fantasy, you know, like, is it even possible?
It is possible. It was possible. They did it. And that’s how you and I, we call ourselves Muslims. Alhamdulillah.
Abdul Abid Mubarak, one of the greatest of the Tabiur.
He said, I learned adab.
He said, I learned adab.
For 30 years before I touched the subject of Islam.
Adab. Just how to behave. How to approach the Deeb. How to approach Islam.
30 years. That’s not because he was stupid. Right?
He’s one of the greatest scholars of Islam. He didn’t learn for 30 years because he was dumb. No.
That’s how long it takes. Your entire life. This is how you raise your children.
He didn’t say he went to a school for 30 years to learn Islam. No.
He said, I learned adab. How?
From the way he was raised as a child.
Right?
Imam Malik Ramatullah Ali.
He says, my mother, he must have been about maybe five years old or something.
He says, my mother used to dress me up before Salatul Fajr.
She would dress me up. She would tie an amama on my head.
Little five year old kid. And then she would take him. She would walk with him. She would take him to Majlis.
And then she would take him to the mosque. And then she would take him to the mosque.
She would walk with him. She would take him to Majlis and Nabi Shaykh.
And after Salatul Fajr, he would sit in the Dars of Rabia Taurayi.
And his mother used to, every day, the mother would tell him, take from the adab of Rabia before you take from his head.
Learn the way of, and adab is everything.
How you sit, how you talk, how you walk, how you approach somebody, what you say, what you don’t say.
Everything is adab. And without adab, you get nothing. You get nothing.
You can be a Hafiz Quran. You can be a Hafiz of the Siyasita, all the kitabs of hadith.
You can be a, you name it. You can recite the Quran backwards.
You can recite all the Siyasita backwards. You will get nothing unless you have a hood.
Because none of that will go below the throat. And we have the hadith of MashaAllah.
Two Prophets used to come.
A man came to Rasulullah, SAW.
After the Battle of Hunain, when Rasulullah, SAW was distributing the Ghanima.
He came and he grabbed him, SAW, like this, by the neck of his shirt,
to the extent that it left a mark on his breast neck.
And he said, Ya Muhammad, iadil.
He said, Oh Muhammad, SAW. He said, do adal.
He’s telling Rasulullah s.a.w.
Do other.
Nabi s.a.w. said,
If I don’t do other,
Who will do other?
Then he said,
Give me so many,
Whatever it was,
Ghanam or something,
Sheep or something.
Nabi s.a.w. said,
Take it, go.
The Sahaba with him,
They pulled out their sword.
They said,
We’ll kill this.
This man is a burtad.
He’s a kafirah.
He’s telling the Nabi to do other.
Nabi s.a.w. said,
No, don’t touch him.
Don’t touch him.
Let him go.
When he went,
Rasulullah s.a.w. said,
There will be people
Like him
In this ummah.
And he’s talking to who?
He’s talking to the
Akkaibirin of the Sahaba.
He’s talking to the
Biggest of the Sahaba.
Abu Bakr and Umar
And others.
Radheelanum, Ajmayee.
He said,
There will be people
In this ummah
Who will pray
More than you.
They will have
More Quran than you.
Because not all the
Sahaba were Umfas.
He said,
They will have
More Quran than you.
They will pray
More than you.
But the Quran
Will not go
Below their throat.
They can recite
The beautiful
Quran.
No problem.
The people behind them
Who are praying
Behind them,
You know,
They will be connected
With Allah s.w.t.
But the one reciting,
Nabi s.a.w. said,
The Quran will not go
Below their throat.
And he said,
They will be,
He said,
Imar will enter them
And leave them
Like an arrow
Enters a target.
And leaves the target.
There is no blood
On the
Tip of the arrow
Or on the body
Of the arrow
Or on the
Feathers of the arrow.
It will not touch them.
Imar will come inside
And go away.
Imar will not touch them.
These are the people
And these were the
Khawarij.
On the surface
To look at
Beautiful Muslims.
Appearance.
Inside.
And only Allah knows.
And Allah s.w.t.
Mentioned this.
وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَقُولُوا آمَنَّا بِاللَّهِ
وَوِلْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ
وَمَا هُمْ بِمُؤْمِنِينَ
Allah is saying,
They will say,
We believe in Allah.
We believe in the Day of Judgment.
But they are not Muslim.
They are not Mughneen.
And Allah is saying this.
Who will dispute that?
Appearance is important.
The Sunnah is important.
But,
It’s not only the appearance.
It’s the heart.
Deen is to follow Islam
in every aspect of our lives.
From the time we open our eyes
to the time we shut our eyes.
Every aspect.
Domestic,
home,
family,
children,
employment,
if you are in government,
government,
if you are in the military,
military,
wherever you are.
Wherever you are.
Islam is to practice
the Deen
in every aspect of our lives.
And that is the question in the Qabar.
What was or what is your Deen?
Meaning?
What did you practice?
So, to simply say the answer is Deen-e-Islam,
Deen-e-Islam,
my Deen-e-Islam is Islam.
It’s not something that we know.
Make the guy remember it and say,
make sure you say it.
No, no.
I will be able to say Deen-e-Islam,
my Deen-e-Islam,
if I was living by Islam.
If I was earning,
if I was eating haram,
if I was lying and cheating
and deceiving people
and creating conflict
and fitrah,
it doesn’t work.
It doesn’t work.
You can have a beard like
B.B. Lewinsky makes no difference.
You can have an amawa that looks like
the dough of the rock,
makes no difference.
Right?
We ask Allah SWT to give us ikhlas.
We ask Allah SWT to help us.
To obey completely.
I always say this,
selective obedience is disobedience.
Selective obedience is disobedience.
Allah SWT mentioned this in the Quran,
the ayat of Surah Al-Baqarah.
Allah mentioned very clearly,
Allah said,
do you believe in some things of the book
and you leave the others?
Very clear.
Read the ayat to the end.
Allah SWT said,
what is the reward for these people?
Khizjun fil hayati al-dunya.
Wa yawbal aakhirati yuradduna ila ashaddi al-aza.
Wa ballahu bi ghafilin amma ta’wilun.
Allah SWT said,
for these people,
there will be difficulty in this life.
Allah said,
I will make your life miserable
in this life itself.
You will suffer here itself.
And then on the day of judgment,
we will be returned toward
the worst of the punishment.
Think about this.
Here is the person,
what will be our reaction?
At least he is doing something.
No.
In Islam,
at least doing something doesn’t work.
You are not doing a favor to Allah SWT.
What is at least?
Allah says,
do three things.
I say, no, I will do two.
So what is it?
Now I am making myself arrogant enough to say,
no, no, I don’t care what you want.
Your three things are fine,
but out of those three,
I will do two because I like to do two.
The third one I don’t like,
so I won’t do it.
This is arrogance.
This is kufr.
What is the position of the Momineen?
Sama’ana wa ata’ana,
ghafranaka rabbana wa ilayka al-Masih.
Oh Allah, we here,
we obey and we forgive us.
And to you is our return.
This is the position.
The position of the Muslim is
sama’ana wa ata’ana, khalas.
Wa itqala nabu rabbuhu aslim,
qala aslams.
You remember when he said,
his Rabb said,
submit his, I submit it, khalas.
Finished.
He didn’t say,
I will think about it,
I will tell you tomorrow.
No.
No.
So I remind myself and you,
let us get our lives played
before we are called to Allah SWT.
We don’t know when that will be.
So get it in action.
Forget about everybody else.
Think about yourself.
Forget everybody else.
Think about yourself.
The only person you will be questioned about is you.
The only person I will be questioned about is me.
Allah will not ask me about you
unless you are my son or daughter or something
because then Allah will question about your dependence.
But other than that,
there is no question.
Your question is for yourself.
So we ask Allah SWT to give us ikhlas,
give us sincerity,
help us to do what is pleasing to Him
irrespective of who it pleases or does not please.
We ask Allah SWT to help us
and support us and protect us.
وَسَلَّلَهُ عَلَىٰ نَبِيِّ الْكَرِيمِ وَعَلَىٰ عَلَىٰ إِلَيْهِ وَسَاقَ اجْمَئِن بِرَحْوْتِكَ رَحُوْا
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