Fear being called to account

https://youtu.be/RHuqcOwaSFE Auto-generated transcript:As-salatu wa-s-salamu ala ayyashah, fila mihi wa-l-musa'il, muhammad wa-s-salamu ala ayyashah, wa-l-mahdi wa-s-salamu alayhi wa-l-mahdi wa-s-salamu taslimu, My brothers and sisters, I spoke to you about brotherhood yesterday. And as I am sitting here, as Masih Darwish Shariff, looking at this beautiful architecture, I cannot help but relate it to what I said, which is, see the effect of togetherness. See the arches, see the curves of the arches, see the curves of the pattern, see how the pattern relates one to the other, and creates this absolutely beautiful image, which would not be possible if the relationships were not there. But thanks to the fact that there are the relationships between the patterns, we have these wonderful, these beautiful, these beautiful, these beautiful, these beautiful, these beautiful, so beautiful, so lovely to see how this is one straight line and it's all connected. And that is the nature of life. Alhamdulillah we have, as you know in the Haram in Madinah, these are the AC vents, air conditioning vents. Temperature is beautifully maintained, neither very cold, obviously never warm. Very very beautiful temperature control. All that glitters here is polished brass, polished very lovingly every bit of it the whole time. Lighting is just good, neither too bright nor too dark. These chairs, and you can see there are a series of them in this line, all the way, as you can see. These are the chairs of the teachers. Chairs of teachers who teach. We have Dars, we have Khatiras after usually the Maghrib, Sathya, Isha. And see the other one, the chairs are covered and nobody sits on them. Very unlike some masajid where the chair of the Imam is a piece of, is a subject of dispute. And people sitting on it and then being told not to sit on it. They take offense and all kinds of nonsense that happens. One of the things that we, we have to understand is that, we have to understand that, we have a lot of frivolity, frivolity, frivolity, frivolity, frivolity, frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity see the whole year. And the thing that struck me the most always was this whole sense of Adam. Even everywhere, I mean here, quite clearly nobody calls you by name. No way that anyone would ever call me by name. So, immigration officer, imagine that I'm at the airport, with the immigration officer, I'm trying to get my fingerprinting. And my fingerprints always give me trouble, you know. Because my hands get a lot of work, how they lie, even how they do. So, the fingerprints are almost rubbed off. So, I'm trying to do that. The immigration officer is telling me to place them in a certain way. And he addresses me as Baba. And the first couple of times he said, Baba, I didn't even realize you were speaking to me. I'm thinking, why is he saying Baba? Who's the… I realized it's me. He said, Baba. Baba, here, here, here. Baba, here. He says, here, here, here. Baba, here. He's telling me to put my finger on this on a scanner. SubhanAllah, immigration officer, you only hear this here, you hear Baba, you hear Sheikh, their uncle, my uncle, once in a while, my father, youngsters introduce themselves. They say, I am your son, Abu Bakr. I am your son, Abu Bakr. I am your son, Abu Bakr. He won't say, I am Abdul Rahman. No. He says, I am your son. I am your son. Very, very, the level of politeness, it's a beautiful thing, Wallahi Subhanallah, to live in a Muslim country where the culture is Islam. It's not, and believe me, I have stayed in, I have been to Egypt several times. I have been to the UAE, I don't know how many times. I have been to Oman, I have been to Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, many times, of course, Saudi Arabia many times. The same thing. It doesn't matter which country. All, Alhamdulillah, Muslim lands are like this. With people who are steeped in their culture. The culture is a culture of respect, of mutual respect, of respect for age, respect for knowledge, and assumptions. You know, it's assumption of knowledge. Age, of course, at least, is very important. Age, of course, at least, is very important. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. 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And, I think to myself that if Allah SWT had made our faces, had made our spirit as transparent as our faces, I think to myself and ask myself, what would my spirit look like? Right? Would it look nice and healthy and beautiful? Or would it look leprous and miserable? Like a, starving person. Because the food of the spirit is the zikr of Allah. The food of the spirit is the tilawat of the Quran. And if you say, well, you know, is my soul on a diet? Or is my soul getting enough sustenance? And that depends on how much Quran I read. It depends on how much Quran I know. And how much do I know? Do I know sufficient? Do I know enough? Today, we are, many people are very keen to do khutba, it seems, it will come to me sometimes, it'll say, I read Puran well, can I do the imamat ? Or this salah ? And I tell them, you just gave me the answer yourself, the answer it it, it cannot, it cannot, it cannot, it cannot, it cannot, it cannot, it cannot, it cannot, it cannot, it cannot, it cannot, Do not give khutbah to the one who wants to do it. Do not give salah to the one who wants to lead it. Because his niyyah is a matter of doubt. Does he want to lead salah to please Allah? Or does he want to lead salah to show the people? To demonstrate his beautiful karat? So if he wants to do salah, make salah, to establish salah, to pray salah, to please Allah, then why does he need to lead it? You pray. Allah made praying Jummah firm. He did not make doing the Jummah khutbah firm. I always run away. When people ask me, do you want to do the Jummah khutbah? I say, no. I don't want to do it. If they come and tell me, we want you to do it, please. Then maybe I will agree. Even that is not certain. Maybe I will agree. But Allah is witness. I have never ever asked anyone that I want to do the Jummah khutbah. Never. Alhamdulillah, I replied. I have never ever asked somebody to say I want to lead salah. Never. Alhamdulillah. Because that is my tarbiyah. This is what my shayukh taught me. They said do not ask for imamate because Rasulullah said, do not give your imamate. Do not give your imamate. Do not give your imamate. Do not give it to the one who asked for it. So, if somebody is asking for the khutbah, reject it. If someone is asking for salah, reject it. Sometimes asking it directly, sometimes it is done politically, by getting others to ask on your behalf. Then you can say, oh, no, I never asked it. So and so asked it for me, but that so and so asked it for you, because you made it known that you wanted it, do it. And, they were really doing it on my behalf. That it became a habit. it on your behalf, it means that you were the one who was asking. Fear Allah. Fear Allah. That's all I can say. I said fear Allah. Because Allah knows what's in your heart. Allah knows what kind of manipulation you are doing. And Allah will tell you, may Allah forgive you, because if He doesn't forgive you, then this is something that you will be called to account for. I asked Allah to save us from being called to account, because I said, Aisha Siddique Kharazanah reports, the Prophet said, the one who Allah takes account of, will be destroyed. The one whose account Allah takes, the one who Allah calls to account, will be destroyed. We ask Allah to save us from being called to account. Rabbana falfil Allah, dhruvana wa kaffir Allah. Siyyatillah wa tawaffana maalikurraat. Sallallahu ala nabiyyil kareem wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajmain. Bi rahmatika Ya Rahman Rahim.