Don’t nullify your Ibaadah

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions, are very much in peace. My brothers and sisters, I want to speak about some very important matters today, so please sit and listen. And these matters have to do with a very important aspect, which is the way shaitan deceives the good people. Shaitan deceives people in different ways. He does not deceive everyone in the same way. And like I told you the other time, the way you differentiate between the wasafis of shaitan and the wasafis of your own nafs is that you are not the same. The nafs is addicted to some particular thing. Right? Some specific thing. There is somebody who will watch pornography. For somebody else, he will never watch pornography. But he will do drugs. Right? Somebody will smoke cigarettes. But he will not drink alcohol. Somebody will drink alcohol, won't smoke cigarettes and so on. So, the nafs is addicted to some particular thing. But shaitan is not like that. Shaitan does not care what you do as long as it is disobeying Allah. So, it doesn't matter what. No matter what it is. As long as it is disobedience of Allah, shaitan is happy. So, shaitan deceives different people in different ways. So, some people he will take them to haram. But other people, may Allah bless all of you, like you, who are, alhamdulillah, people who have knowledge of Islam, people who are connected to the masajid, you come for Jummah, you come for Salah, you read Quran and so on and so forth. Shaitan will not tell you, you know, go smoke some marijuana or have a drink somewhere because he knows you are not going to do that. Right? So, there is no sense in trying to tempt you with that. He cannot tempt you. So, what he does with you is something else. He does, what he does with you is, and this is again the typical game of shaitan. If he cannot prevent you from doing something which is good, then he will make you do the good thing in a way which reduces or cancels the benefit of that. So, for example, shaitan will, shaitan knows, he cannot prevent you from going for Jummah. You will go for Jummah. As long as you are alive, you will go for Jummah. You make the effort, you take the time off and you will go for Jummah. Shaitan knows he cannot stop you. So, what does he do? He makes you do something when you come for Jummah which makes your Jummah invalid, cancels. So, you come for Jummah and you have this feeling, mashaAllah, alhamdulillah, I went for Jummah and may Allah bless you, you went for Jummah, so on. But when you look in your aamal, when you meet Allah , there is no Jummah. Say, Ya Allah, what happened? I went for Jummah. Ya. You went for Jummah. But then what happened? You went for Jummah and then you met your, then you saw your friend sitting there. So, you went and said, Salaam Alaikum, how are you? He said, Walaikum Assalam, how are you? Both your Jummahs become zero. Khalas. So, shaitan is very happy. You come, sit here, do your Jummah, no problem. Right? Say, Salaam Alaikum, Walaikum Assalam. You come and sit for the khatrah, then you walk away because somebody, your mother called or father called or somebody called. So, I thought, let me give you the dalail for this. The majority of scholars are of the opinion that it is obligatory to be silent during the khutbah. And one is not allowed to speak during the khutbah, not even if it is to order somebody to do good or stop some evil. And this applies. This rule applies whether or not the person is sitting in the mosque and actually hear the khutbah. See the beauty of this. Suppose you are sitting in a big mosque. Khutbah is going on, the mic fails. You cannot hear the khutbah. But you are, you know khutbah is going on and you are in the Jummah, you are in the masjid. And you find somebody is playing with his phone. Somebody is on his phone. Now, he is doing something wrong. If you tell the person, don't play with your phone, your Jummah is gone. Somebody comes and says, Salaam Alaikum. If you say, Walaikum Assalam, your Jummah is gone. That fellow's Jummah is gone anyway. He says, Salaam Alaikum. But your Jummah also is gone if you say, Walaikum Assalam. Although, to reply to Salaam otherwise is wajib. If your brother says to you, Salaam Alaikum, you must say, Walaikum Assalam. Unless it's a group of people and one says, this is something wrong. It's insufficient. But if somebody is directly addressing you and says, Salaam Alaikum, you must say, Walaikum Assalam. But in Jummah, if you say that, Jummah is gone. Sir, I heard that, does it apply to all forms of communication like texting and... Everything, JazakAllah Khair. Good question. Does it apply to all forms of communication? Yes, like texting, like whatever, WhatsApp, Facebook, every single form of communication. JazakAllah Khair, very good question. Ibn Abbas reports that Rasulullah said, whoever speaks in Jummah while the Imam is delivering the Khutbah is like a donkey. Kal-Hibar. Yahmeelu Asfara. Who is carrying books. Meaning that he has the load of something good on his back, but that does not do him any good because he's not reading the books. He can't read the books. It's just a load for him. Right? Somebody who speaks in Jummah while the Imam is delivering the Khutbah is like a donkey who is carrying books. And for those who tell him to be quiet, Jummah is invalid. There is no reward for the Jummah. What must you do? Keep your mouth shut. Focus on the Imam. And this is narrated by... Musnad Ibn Ahmad and Ibn Abi Shaiba and Tawarani and so on. And Ibn al-Hajar al-Asqalani in Bulugh al-Maram, he said this is a Sahih Hadith and there is no fault in the chain of narration. Abdullah ibn Amr reports that Rasulullah said, there are three types of people who attend Jummah. One, a man who is present but speaks during the Khutbah. And that is his portion of the prayer. Two, a man who is present and makes Dua. In his case, Allah may give him what he asks. If he wishes or he may not give him what he asks. Three, a person who is present and is silent and does not step over the necks of the Muslims nor harm anyone. For whom? For him, there is expiation, there is forgiveness from that Jummah until the next Jummah plus an additional three days. Because Allah said, He that does good shall have ten times as much to his credit. Man jaa abir hasanati falahu ash shuru amthaliha. So seven days plus another three days. And this is in Musnad Imam Ahmad and in Abi Dawud. So three kinds of people. Two of them, there is no reward. One person who is silent, who is listening to the Khutbah. For that person, there is reward for his attendance. Plus there is forgiveness between this Jummah and the next Jummah and for three days. In addition to that. Abu Huraira reported that Rasool Allah said, If during the Jummah while the Imam is delivering the Khutbah, you tell your companion to be quiet, then your Jummah is gone. You have spoken needlessly and Jummah is gone. And this is in Ibn al-Masih. Abu Darda al-Azhar ibn al-Adhiyallahu says, Rasool Allah was on the Mimbar and was addressing the people and he recited an ayah. And next to me was Ubay bin Ka'b and I asked him, When was that ayah revealed? He refused to talk to me until Nabi came down from the Mimbar. And then he said to me, You have nothing from your Jummah except useless talk. Who is saying this to? Abu Darda al-Azhar ibn al-Adhiyallahu. He was one of the greatest of the Sahaba. Umm Darda, his wife, was one of the first Muhaddithat, one of the first scholars of Hadith. She used to give Dars in Masjid al-Nabawi al-Sharif. She would sit on the Mimbar and give Dars. And the men would sit in front of her and the women would sit behind them. And when Malik bin Marwan, who was the Khalifa at that time, sometimes he was in Madinah, at the time of Salah, he would lead Salah and then she would go behind and she would pray. And her husband was one of the few, very few Sahaba, who was given by Nabi the permission to give Fatwa while in his, in his old lifetime. This is what he's saying to him. Because he asked Ubaib bin Ka'b al-Adhiyallahu, When was this ayah revealed? And these are the people who were witness to the revelation. He said, When was the ayah revealed? Nabi saw that. Ubaib bin Ka'b kept quiet, didn't say anything. Didn't reply, didn't respond at all. When he came from the Mimbar, he said, Your Jummah is invalid. Because of useless talk. Yes. What if during the Jummah, there is like a technology problem, let's say the mic doesn't work, and you are the only person that is able to fix it. Good question. What in Jummah, if there is a technology problem, for example, if something happens, some emergency, something happens, and you are the go-to person for that, then for you, InshaAllah, there is permission to go and fix that. And for you, the Jummah is good, InshaAllah. Right? Yes. During a Khutbah, Imam can point out somebody, like, please go and do this one, so he... Yeah, Imam good. The Imam has the option to speak to somebody and say something. I am talking about people, what they do among themselves, which we see every single Jummah in this masjid, believe me. Right? So I am giving you all the dalai, let me see what happens in the next Jummah. Then, Ahmad and Imam Shafi'i are reported to have made a distinction concerning the ruling between one who can hear the speech and one who cannot hear the speech, saying that speaking is forbidden for the one who can hear and not for the other one, but it's preferred also for the other one to be silent. Now, At-Tirwidi records that Imam Ahmad said, Imam Ahmad and Ishaq made an exception for replying to a salutation and responding to a sneeze while the Imam is delivering the Khutbah. According to Shafi'i,