Crisis of Followership – #1

Auto-generated transcript:Peace be upon you all. I remind myself and you, let us make this into a regular practice of ours. I don't like to use the word habit because habits are unthinking actions. I'm talking about conscious thinking action. To send salat and salam on Rasulullah s.a.w. throughout the day, throughout the night, every waking moment. Keep your tongue moist with the dhikr of Allah and among the afzal of the dhikr of Allah is to send salat and salam on the Rasulullah s.a.w. And this is the only thing, only thing for which Allah s.w.t. said the one who sends salam on me one time, Allah s.w.t. will send salam on him ten times for each one time. Only thing. So let us take advantage of that to send salat and salam on Rasulullah s.a.w. I was reflecting for myself in the presence of our Sheikh that it is amazing that he is sending salat and salam on me. And I was thinking that if I ask you, for example, and I use this example there, I say that if, for example, if through this door in the front, if Rasulullah s.a.w. walks into this masjid, imagine this, just think about this, right? Many of us make dua, O Allah, show me the Rasul s.a.w. in my dream. So let us imagine that he walks in through this masjid. How many of us here, and you don't know, how many of us here, and you don't need to answer this question to me, it's for ourselves, how many of us here will recognize him? How many will recognize him? I'm not talking about how many will say, Oh, Mashallah, this is such a handsome man, wonderful man, I don't know who. Or will you stand up and say, Assalamu alaikum, Ya Rasulullah, SubhanAllah. You have come to my masjid. How many of us will say that? We ask Allah s.w.t, show me the Rasul in my dream. How do you know you're seeing the Rasul? If Nabi s.a.w. comes in your dream, how do you know that you are seeing Rasul s.a.w.? If we ask ourselves and say, and I suggest this also, so when this shock treatment happens, which I hope it will happen, be prepared for it. If someone gives you a plain sheet of paper and says, write down on the sheet of paper, what you know about Rasulullah s.a.w. How many of us can fill one sheet, just one single 15 line sheet of paper with what we know about Rasulullah s.a.w. Whatever it is. How many of us can do that? And to me, this is the SubhanAllah, may Allah SubhanAllah forgive us. Wallahi, this is something we should collectively ask Allah s forgiveness. We must make tawbah, sincere tawbah. Stand before Allah s.w.t. Pray two rak'ahs Salah and in sujood, cry, weep and say, Allah, forgive me for forgetting your Nabi. Forgive me for forgetting your Nabi. The tragedy is not that the enemies of Islam criticize the Prophet s.a.w. or try to attack Islam. The tragedy is, the Muslims have forgotten the Nabi. We have forgotten the Nabi. We have reduced the Zikr of Rasulullah s.a.w. to one day in the year. And then we have a dispute. Is this Milad Mawlud? Is it Milad Sharif and Milad n-Nabi? Is it Sunnah? Is it Bida? Let us accept. Milad n-Nabi, Bida. Haram. Don't do it. On the 12th of Rabiul Awal, don't do it. That is one day in 365. What about the other 364? What about January 1? What about October 20? Pick any date you want. Do we gather? Do we sit together? Do we talk about the Nabi's? What do we know about him? If Allah Ta'ala had wanted and Allah is the only one who had wanted to make him the Prophet s.a.w., he was the Prophet s.a.w. He is our Prophet s.a.w. He is our Prophet s.a.w. We all know that he is our Prophet s.a.w. He is our Prophet s.a.w. wanted and Allah is Allah. خَالِقُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ بَضِعُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ فَاتِرُ السَّمَوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ رَذَّاقُ ذُو الْقُوَّةِ الْمَتِينِ خَالِقُ كُلِّ أَشْيَا وَالْأَحْوَالِ وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ There is no, there are no hudud to the khudrat of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala could have sent his kalam, kalamul majeed. He could have commanded Jibreel a.s. to go and land on top of the Kaaba and recite the Quran. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala could have made every person listening to Jibreel reciting the Quran to become hafiz of whatever he hears right away. The Arabs have brilliant memories anyway. There are many stories of people just listening to a whole long qasida of 300 ashar and remembering it just like that. So this was a memory capacity. Anyway, I'm talking about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Your capacity doesn't matter. If Allah wanted, he could have done it. Why did he not do it? Like I mentioned in my khutbah this morning, this afternoon, why did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when Allah said, when Allah commanded us to pray, why did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala all, that's logical, right? You command me to pray, so then show me how to pray. It is logical. So why did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala not put that in his kitab itself? The book of Allah was not going to an editor. The editor was not going to say, I have published 40 books. I have to go to editors. The editor says, you know, Sheikh, this book is 700 pages. Nobody reads that much. Bring it down to 300 pages. Reduce 400 pages. Allah did not have, Allah was not sending his book to some editor to say, you can't have so many words. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala could have made this Quran everything detailed explanation. He didn't do that. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent those explanations in another form of Wahi, which we call Wahi ghair matloo, which is the Ahadith, which is the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, which is also Wahi min Allahi ta'ala. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Aqimu Salat. Aqimu Salat al-Zikri. Establish the Salat for my Zikr. You say, Ya Rabb, I am ready. What shall I do? Go to my Nabi. He will teach you. I want to know from you, Ya Rabb. Go to him. That is from me. Because, He doesn't speak of his own. He will tell you what I told him to tell you. Listen to him. Please. I don't want to go any more on this part because I have a topic to cover, inshallah, which is related, obviously, but I want to start from this because this is the fundamental. The fundamental is, if we do not remember our own Rasul alaihi salatu was salam, who will remember? Tell me. So please, do me a favour. Make a promise to yourself, not to me. Make a promise to yourself that you will make a promise to yourself that you will make a promise to yourself that you will make a promise to yourself that you will make a promise to yourself that you will make a promise to yourself that you will make and scale up that promise able to see and scale up that promise and scale up that promise able to see and scale up that promise able to see such as many as someают say, such as may be. such as may be. To me, I'm asking something in terms of to me, in terms of how we can stay used to shows that are poorly done, and in terms of how we have to act and how we have to kat gossip and how we have to listen properly and how we have to act effectively and continually, in the 58 verses you read. It is very important that we make the capacity of the heightened difficulty and theanal意 augmet andTheat당히, together and used to talk about the Ghazwat of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. This was a practice among the Sahaba. They used to talk about the life of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So do that also. But I am saying simple thing. Sit together and eat. This is our culture. Our culture is not for people to treat the house like a hotel room. Everybody, anybody comes and whenever they want to come, they come, they take food out of the fridge, stick it in the microwave, eat it, go away, dump the plate in the sink. This is not a home. That's a hotel. A home is where people are together. So bring this practice together. Sit together, one meal at least, sit together and eat. And as you eat, practice the Sunnah. Stop everybody. How do we start to eat? Did we wash our hands? Wash your hands. Come back. Now when we are eating, how do you start to eat? What do you say? Eat from your side of the plate. We have changed our culture. How can you talk about the Hadith, eat from your side of the plate when everybody has their own plate? Eat from your side of the plate applies to what? When there was one plate from which people sat around and ate. This is not Arab culture or Afghan culture. This is a Muslim culture. Start that. By all means, if you have guests and so on and so forth, you know, set out your Dalton China, what not. But when you are sitting at home with your own family, eat out of one plate. Then you can practice the Hadith. Use your right hand, eat from your side of the plate. Anything which is nice, very, you know, tasty. Give it to somebody else. Don't don't grab all the meat. Yeah. Practice the Sunnah. Every single thing. Practice the Sunnah. Walaikum salatu wa salam. Wasallallahu ala nabiyyil kareem wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajmain bi rahmatik ya rahman rahimeen walhamdulillahi rambil alameen.