 Today is the last Jumu'ah of Ramadan. This was a time historically Muslims were actually saddened. Now people, unfortunately a lot of people can't wait for the month to end. This is not a good sign. People want to go by calendars and have everything fixed and accorded according to their plans. Not necessary according to the way Allah SWT has arranged things. Islam is having a difficult time in the modern world because it's a religion based on nature. It's based on fitrah. It's based on just human beings living in communities and taking care of one another. It's not based on a nine to five world where everything becomes regulated and regimented. Ramadan is one of those times when it becomes really clear how difficult our religion is in the face of the modern world. Because so many people historically Muslims took Ramadan and it was a time everything slowed down. But people don't let you slow down. And so people really have a difficult time during Ramadan because they have to go and do all the same things that they're doing normally. Whereas in the traditional Muslim world things slow down. Even now we know in many Muslim countries things slow down and people say oh production is down. Everything's down. That's a good thing because it's reminding people that this is not about dunya. The Prophet SAW, people used to when they first saw the moon of Ramadan they shouted for joy. And you could read Titus Burkhards. He was an eyewitness in Fez when he said everybody on all the rooftops of the houses would get up to look for the moon. And when they saw the moon of Ramadan he said one by one as the people saw it. He said shouts came up. Allahu Akbar. All over until the whole city on the top of these roofs was saying Allahu Akbar. And then when the end of Ramadan came people cried. The Prophet SAW Jabir Ibn Abdullah was with the Prophet SAW once and it was Jumu'ah. He said Dakhatu Ala Rasoolillah. He's the last Jumu'ah from Ramadan. I came into the Prophet's company and the last Jumu'ah of Ramadan. And the Prophet SAW said Ya Jabir. This is one of the great people of the Al-Sar. He said Ya Jabir. It's the last Friday of Ramadan. Fawaddehu. Say goodbye to Ramadan. Waqul. And say. Allahumma la taj'alhu aakhir al-ahdi min siyamina iyah. Don't let this be the last time we get too fast. Ramadan. La taj'alhu aakhir al-ahdi min siyamina iyah. Fa inj'alatu hu taj'anim marahumah wa la taj'anim maharumah. But if you decree that this is my last Ramadan, then make me amongst those that you show mercy to and don't make me amongst those who are deprived of your mercy. And then he said, if you say this, he said. Fa man qala haada wa thara bi ehtal husnayain. Whoever says this, he will get one of two beautiful things. He will get to fast next Ramadan or Allah will forgive him his sins if he takes him during that year. Allahumma la taj'alhu aakhir al-ahdi min siyamina iyah. Allahumma la taj'alhu aakhir al-ahdi min siyamina iyah. Fa inj'alatu hu taj'anim marahumah wa la taj'anim maharumah. The blessing of Ramadan amongst many of its blessings is that this ummah goes back to recitation of Quran, Tilawater Quran. But one of the things about the Quran, Tilawater in Arabic means to follow. So it's not just reading the Quran. Yatsiruna kitab Allah. They follow the Book of Allah. They follow the Book of Allah. That's what Tilawater means one after another but it also means to follow. So we're supposed to follow the Book of Allah. All of the calamities that have afflicted this ummah have come from abandoning the Book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Taraqtu feequm amreen. Maas tamasiktum bihima lantadallu ba'adi. The two things I left to you, the two weighty things I left to you. If you cling to them, you won't go astray after me. Kitab Allah wa itrati. The Book of Allah and then my relatives and in a Rewaya Kitab, that's the sound. In a Rewaya Kitab Allah wa Sunnah Tanabiihi wa Kitab Allah wa Sunnahi. The Book of Allah and my way. The Book of Allah and my way. His way is the Quran. Kana khuluquhu al-Quran. Aisha when she was asked, How was the Prophet's character? She said, Kana khuluquhu al-Quran. His character was the Quran. So his way, his Sunnah, is the Quran. And now our Ummah has deviated from this Book. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he complained to his Lord, Qara al-Rasuru. Inna qawmiya taqadu haadal qorana mahjura. My Ummah has abandoned this Quran. Because it's not enough to recite the haruf. One of the things about the early community is that they actually not very many of them memorized the Quran. Adiyab al-Baqir ibn al-Arabi said, it was rare to find a scholar in Andrusiyyah that memorized the Quran. Because Sahaba did not memorize the Quran without applying it. It took Sahaba several years to do baqarah. Because they would do the ayahs and then they would apply them. And until they applied them, they wouldn't do anything else. Because they didn't want to bring on a tribulation. They didn't want the Book to curse them when they read it. And this is one of the things in our tradition, that's rubbatal in al-Quran wa al-Quran yal'anahu. Somebody is reciting the Quran and the Quran is cursing him. Because the Quran says that there's curses on the liars. So if he's a liar, the book is cursing him. There's curses on the oppressor. If he's an oppressor, the Quran is cursing him. If he's cheating in his transactions. We have Muslims that are so upright in all of these outward things of Islam and then in their transactions, that's why the salaf said if you want to see a man, don't be fooled by a long beard or a short robe. Throw a dinar in front of him and see how he acts. If you want to see people, see them in their mu'amilat, how they behave. But all of the calamities that have come, how many tribulations on this planet could have been resolved by itfa' billatihi ahsan. How many? Just by itfa' billatihi ahsan. How many calamities could have been avoided if people would just speak beautifully to people? The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam when one of the Jews said salamu alaykum, one of the Jews said salamu alaykum. Like some of the people in Medina, the Munafiqoon, they would say things. That's why the Quran says wala ta'rifannuhun fil ahna qawli. You'll know them by what's the context of what's the subtext of what they're saying. So he said, instead of saying salam, they would say silam. Like silam is a big rock. So instead of saying salam, they'd say silam or salam. So when they said that Aisha was with the Prophet sallallahu alaykum, she got angry because she was Arabic. She had khaira for the Prophet sallallahu alaykum. She got angry, and she started saying, you know, and salam and you and la'natullah. And the Prophet sallallahu alaykum said, don't do that. Don't do that. Didn't you hear me? I said wala alaykum. He said, you stajabu, you stajabu di, what are you stajabu dahum? Then, Allah answers my prayer. He doesn't answer their prayers. And he said, in la'laha, you're aqiba rifq, ma lay'a aqiba'unf. Allah will give with gentleness what He will never give with harshness. He'll give with mercy what He'll never give with cruelty. Allah is rafiq. You know, everybody now is clamoring for justice. As far as I can tell, that's what we're getting. When you ask for yourself, you ask for mercy. But when you look at others, you ask for justice. La yumru ahadkumahat yuhibbali aqihima yuhibbuli nafsih. You don't truly believe until you love for others what you love for yourself. So, if you want mercy for yourself and you want justice for everybody else, you're obviously not loving for your brother what you want for yourself, if you haven't completed your iman, la yukminu la yakmalu iman wa ahadikum. The iman of somebody is not complete until you want for others what you want for yourself. Nobody on Arafat, nobody on Laylat al-Qadir, what do people say? Allahumminna ka'adrun tuhibr al-Adra fa'adribiya. Oh Allah, you're just, you love justice, so be just with me. Is anybody saying that on Laylat al-Qadir? No, because the dua of Laylat al-Qadir, Allahumminna ka'afoon tuhibr al-afoon fa'afoo anni. Oh Allah, you forgive, you love to forgive, so forgive me. So that's what you're asking for yourself, but everybody else, Allah ya'al-tihimayas tahib. Allah ya'al-tihimayas tahib. Give him what he deserves. What is that? Allah is trying to teach us. If you want God to be merciful with you, if you want him to be forgiving with you, you have to be merciful with others. You have to forgive others. If you want to be, if you want justice with everybody, that's why they said in Medina, nobody wanted justice, because there was love. Rahm al-Isbahan, he says, where there's love, there's no need for justice, because everybody forgives. But now, everybody wants justice. And I'm not saying justice is not important, and I'm not saying Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala inna allah ya'amru ba'di wa d-ahsan. Right? Allah commands to justice. Right? Nobody's going to deny that. Allah commands to justice. And each of us should be just. But when somebody's not just with us, what does he command to? What does he command to? Right? That's the question. You should be just with everybody. But don't expect justice from other people. That's the nature of dunya. You should be just. Right? Inna allah ya'amru kum. Allah commands you. If you judge, if you judge, be just. Wa an ta'addu l-amanati ila ahliha. Right? An ta'addu l-amanati ila ahliha. We inna hakemtum bain al-nasya an ta'akum wa bil-hadri. To fulfill your oaths with others. Give your amanat to others. The problem was called al-ameen. He was the most just of people. But he was the most merciful of people. He was just with others in the way he treated them. He gave everybody their due, but he didn't expect his due. And that's why, how many times do we see the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam? Somebody grabs his cloak until you could see the effects on his neck sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And what does he, does he demand qisas? Does he demand retribution? Lex talionis? No. He forgave the man. And the problem was constantly doing this. When the Jew came and insulted him and Omar wanted to kill him. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam He said, Omar, you scared this man. He said, go pay him and give him an increase. This like emotional compensation. Right? He said, give him more than his due because you scared him. That was our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Ramadan is shahad al-sabah. Where's the patients in our ummah now? Where's the, look at people out there how crazy they are now. All these people have lost their minds. And this one of the signs of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said many a day asa'a amongst the the signs of the last hour. He said, the intellects will go. People lose their minds. The modern world is driving a lot of people mad. Just driving is an insane. It's an insane thing to do. Driving at 70 miles per hour in these massive cars, one person the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is a shaitan. That one rider is a shaitan. So we've got all these beautiful shaitan. That's what the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam I think he called them beautiful shaitan. And one of the proofs is that shaitan sits between sun and shade. That's called the ta'adatu shaitan. He sits half in sun half in shade. That's why it's makrood to do that. To sit. But in the car you're sitting there half of your body is in sun the other half is in shade. And then it's polluting the planet. All these things, the car is one of the worst inventions. People love cars. They don't want to give up cars. These people collect cars. I'll be the first one to get rid of this car. It kills 50,000 people just in this country. And that's a war. Let alone all the poor animals. They're just trying to get across the street. And they get killed. This is the planet we're on. It's gone mad. But these are the times that we're in. And you have to know the time you live in. You should know the time that he's in. You should know the time that you're in. And even though we don't expect... I don't expect... We should... Those people that they're they're aware of the adhab of Allah that it can come anytime. And the end of time the sahaba felt like it was going to happen anytime. But we know that there's a lot that will happen. Because nobody's left that says Allah on the planet. Because nobody's left that says Allah on the planet. Because nobody's left that says Allah on the planet. Because nobody's left that says Allah on the planet. So there's still a lot of people that say Allah. But if you look at the signs now in the Muslim world and look at these things. These should put fear and trepidation in our hearts. Because these things can come here. Don't think they can't come here. And that's why we should be in a state of gratitude. We should be in a state of of gratitude with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Even about eating. One of the things about Ramadan. Put gratitude. O you who believe. Eat from the good things that Allah has given you. And show gratitude to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. If you're sincerely worshiping Allah alone. Show gratitude to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said God is content that a man eats food and thanks him for it. That's content. Eat and drink. Eat and drink. Eat and drink. Eat and drink. Eat and drink. Eat and drink. Eat and drink. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala permitted these things but be grateful. Be grateful. We should be in a state of gratitude because there's so much complaining on this planet. We've got a species now. Everybody complains. And the Muslims traditionally did not complain about things. They were worried about complaining. We have to get back to the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Especially the Akhlaq of the book of Allah. The Qur'an has many things. The Qur'an tells us of what went before. The Qur'an tells us what's coming after. So we know the end of all of this. We know what happens. Fariq of the Jannah and Fariq of the Sa'iyah. Groups in hell and groups in paradise. That's the end of the story. You want to know how this scenario ends? That's it. But the Qur'an has Akhlaq. Wa innaka la'ala khuluqin azeem. What's his khuluq? Khuluq in the Qur'an. And the Qur'an is not an easy book. It takes time. You have to sit with the Qur'an. The Qur'an is a book that takes time. There are books in it. There are books in it. There are books in it. There's an outward meaning of that. But the Qur'an has the Qur'an has many meanings. But the outward meaning is that you should be in a state of tahara. But the inward meaning if you are not in a spiritual state of tahara you don't have access to the meanings of this book. I swear by the positions of the stars. It's also the positions of the ayahs. There's a miracle of the Qur'an where these ayahs have been placed. Great Mufassirun have written about this, Imam Al-Biqa'i in the 9th century wrote an entire book showing how every single verse is positioned to create a complete structure of the Qur'an. They wrote 8 volumes on that subject alone. But people don't study the Qur'an. They don't study Arabic language, let alone the Qur'an. Because you can't access the Qur'an without the Arabic language, even though the meanings are available to people. The ajam have always had access to the meanings of Qur'an. It's one of the beauties of our religion is that even though you don't have access to Arabic, you have assays to the meanings. And that's why the ajam, their great obsession was the seerah. The non-Arab. They knew more about the Prophet than the Arabs did. Because that was their access. They couldn't read the Qur'an, but they could read the living Qur'an. They might not be able to read the book as it was revealed, but they could read the book as it lived. So this is one of the great gifts to this ummah is the book and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. It's not just a book. Allah could have sent down the book, just given it to people, sent down the book, and then you work it out, but he didn't. He sent a teacher, I will send as a teacher. I will send to alama means to imprint in you these meanings. So we have to go back to the book of Allah SWT. The book of Allah is not difficult. Dietary restrictions, not difficult. Iman Malik took that ayah. That's the basic prohibitions are all in that ayah. Very simple. The other one he saw as Makru. But the point is there, there's all the dietary in that one verse. And then kulu. Halal al-qayba. Eat halal and good food. Eat good food. Look for azka ta'am. Look for the purest food. Like in surat al-kaaf. He says, find the purest food. Eat good food. It's all there. One of the Coptic doctors when he heard that verse, he said You prophet didn't leave anything for Galen because most illnesses come from the stomach. And so the verse says, eat and drink, but not to excess. Be moderate in your drink. Economics. You want your economics? It's there in the Quran. When you spend, don't be thrifty and don't be spent. Be between the two. Be moderate. Get what you need. Maybe a little bit extra, but don't be extravagant. The economics is there. Military defense of a nation is there. Be prepared because it's a belligerent world. Be prepared. Everything is in the Quran. Imam Ali said, if I lost qatiaa min ibil. If I lost a herd of camels, I could find it in the book of Allah. It's this hyperbole. But his point is that everything is there. And the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, towards the end of time. He said many hadiths about it. And we have to learn these hadiths because these are times that people become confused. And our prophet told us about these times so that we wouldn't get confused. People in Syria, a lot of people are confused. What does this mean? I thought, isn't it? The best part of my ummah was in the early part because he was there. And the closer to him, the better it is. But he said, but the last part of my ummah would have great difficulties. He is covetous of us, solicitous for our affairs. He is concerned about us, about our iman. Don't lose your iman because of what you see. This dunya will confuse you. The one who has normal intelligence becomes confused by it. And then the atheists come. The atheists have always been there. They've always been there. And they never said anything different than what they're saying today. And the Muslims, we survived the collapse of Andrews. We had women who were teaching Quran. Their tongues were cut out for teaching the Quran in the Spanish Inquisition. We survived the Mongol invasion. A million people estimated that they were killed just in some of the major cities. The streets ran with blood. Libraries were burnt. Imagine how those people, what they were thinking when they saw them. You know what they were thinking? And that's the difference between them and us. They were thinking this is our wrong actions. We left the Book of Allah and so we get the punishment in the dunya. Why do you have the punishment in the dunya? The punishment of my ummah is in this world. It's in this world. My ummah has mercy on it. The punishment is in this dunya. So when you're looking around seeing, you look at what's happened to our ummah. The highest corruption rates in Muslim countries. The oppression of our women. They're being oppressed. They're being oppressed in our countries. The mistreatment of children. Look at the schools, the way they're treated in schools. These dictatorial teachers and then they wonder why they have dictatorial rulers over them. The corruption in the marketplace, the cheating, the lying. And one of the things that Muslims traditionally, if you were a foreigner, they would always give you a better price. Because they saw it as Dawa. Now, if you're a foreigner, they'll cheat you. If you don't know the price of the market. And that's why in the Books of Fiqh, they say, the Barani, the person from outside, if he finds that the man cheated him, if he asks him, is this the price of the Suq? And then he finds down the road that the price is not. He can take it back. It's one of the few instances where you can return a good that you purchased according to the Books of Fiqh. And then the highest download searches, pornographic searches coming from Muslim countries. Total degradation of women. Well, what's happened? We're the people that honored women. Nobody honors women except honorable people. This is our ummah. So we have to go back to the Book of Allah. Most of the people in here, I mean, I was going to assume all of them, Hassan Allah. You're good people. You're here because it's Juma. It's the last Juma of Ramadan. But we have to look collectively at our ummah. I'm just talking about collectively so that we can understand what's happening and why it's happening. We have to understand this thing because you will lose your iman. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that towards the end of time, he said, There's one. He said, He said, That he will wake up in the morning a believer. By the end of the day, he'll be a disbeliever. He'll go to sleep a believer. By the time he wakes up, he's a disbeliever. And then he said, He said, The one sitting is better than the one standing. The one lying down. The one lying down. So the stiller you are in that time, the better off you are. It's not a time of movement. It's a time of stillness because everybody is crazy. And then at the end of the Hadith, he said, Break your both strings. And break the swords. And be like the best of the two sons of Adam. What did he say? If you raise your hand to kill me, I'm not raising my hand to kill you because I fear Allah, the Lord of the world. He's saying, Be like that son. Imam Al-Baghawi in his Tabseer of that ayah, he said the first Sharia was non-violence. It was a prohibition. Permission was granted for those to fight. Permission. It's not Azima. The Azima is Uthman ibn Athan. Uthman ibn Athan took the Azima because he was a Ul Al-Azmi. He said, I'm not going to raise my hand. If you raise your hand to kill me, I'm not going to raise my hand to kill you. And he died a Shahid in Ramadan. Fasting. And he was told, he saw in a dream, you're going to break your fast with us. Uthman. Allah Akbar. But that's what the Prophet SAW said. Why? Because the Prophet was not a violent person. Nor did he seek war. Let the mannul iqad adu. He said, Don't desire to meet an enemy. But if you have to be brave, in other words, if it's forced upon you, there's a Hadith in Al-Bukhari. If it's forced upon you, now we've got these young people, all they want to do is go out and fight. There's a sickness in people's hearts. So this is our religion. Why? Because the Prophet used violence to defend himself and to establish a community. But when there's nothing going to be established, when there's no point for the violence, then what's the alternative? If you raise your hand to kill me, I'm not going to raise my hand to kill you. Why? Because it's nihilistic. There's no benefit. And I'm not saying if somebody comes into your house, self-defense is a right. But in fitna, don't join any side, because there's no sides to join. There's no sides to join. There's no right side. It's just Muslims killing Muslims. The Prophet ﷺ said Slowly, the disease of civilization will creep up upon you. Slowly. It just crawls. It's creeping. What are they? Envy and hatred. Envy and enmity. These are diseases of the heart. Right? And then he said, Can I tell you something? He said You won't enter paradise until you love one another. We're commanded to love one another. We should love one another. We're brothers of different mothers. We are brothers and sisters. We have different skin colors. There's signs of God's magnificence and His greatness. We have different tongues as signs of His greatness. But we're from Benu Adam. We have the same father and mother. And Allah told us to love one another. And the Prophet ﷺ said, You will not enter paradise until you love one another. He said, Can I tell you something? That if you do it, you will love one another. Spread peace. Spread peace. Just spread peace. Be a peacemaker. He said, Just spread peace. Don't get in altercations with people. Peace. Allah is with you. That's the purpose to teach you taqwa. What do you say when you're fasting and somebody is trying to create a problem? I'm fasting. Right? But that's a madrasa. I say, I forgive you. I forgive you. I forgive you. I forgive you. I forgive you. I forgive you. Alhamdulillah. This is the last Juma. So we have possibly a few more days of Ramadan. For those who go by, I'm not going to condemn anybody going by calculation. You know, we prefer the seeing the moon and that was the dominant position throughout the history of Islam. But you know, people, everybody, it's a difficult time. It's a trying time. So we're not going to make it a source of energy or fighting. People make their ishti had and may Allah accept all of us. But for those of us who are going to see is possibly a few more days of Ramadan. But when the Ramadan, you're fasting is mu'allakun. It's suspended until you pay zakat al-fattar. So just as a reminder on the Eid, you should pay, I think it's around the Masjid here, $10. So the Hanafi madhab, so Rahma from Allah, the Hanafi madhab permits paying a monetary, the other ones they give grain or dates or some stable of the asa'a that you pay for each one member of your family that you're responsible for. So if you have five kids in your house and your wife and yourself, so you've got $70, you've got $70 around. But that's important to remember that zakat al-fattar because it's a time to remember the poor people. That's the purpose of it is Ramadan, one of the most important things in Ramadan is to recognize other people are suffering. So that's important. And finally, Alayna bi-kitab illa, insha'Allah may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us the ability to continue reciting the Quran like we recited in Ramadan. Now you're going to deal with Shail Tain because you know that some of them definitely got locked up because you started doing things you weren't able to do the rest of the year. So you know the reality of that hadith. But they're going to be back. But Allah will reward them insha'Allah and give us strength to fight them. Alhamdulillah. So may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept us, may Allah accept our prayers and prayers. May Allah forgive us and break us, O'Hammur-Rahmeen. May Allah make this great Quran our great Rabi'ah, our hearts, our hearts, our hearts, our believers, our loved ones, O'Allah. May Allah protect us and our Muslims everywhere, may Allah protect our brothers and our loved ones everywhere, O'Allah. May Allah protect this world, O'Allah. May Allah make us back no god but You, Subhanukah. May Allah protect us and our Lee, O'Allah. May Allah protect us and our loved ones so that we may be forgiven. May Allah make this Ramadan great. May Allah make this Ramadan great. May Allah remove our sins from the fire. May Allah grant benefit to your paradise with the greatest blessings, O'Hammur-Rahmeen. May Allah forgive and grant mercy to our Muslims everywhere. O'Allah, We don't speak Ka'adut here Allah just thought what is uptose my son. Allah has given. What is uptose my son? Allah is coming to you, O beloved brother, Allah hails us from this. Allah ma'afad nisa'ana fi kuli makaan. Allah ma'afir li'uhtina nabra, ya Allah. Allahumma taqbal minha ya Allah. Allahumma ja'alha minna shuhada wa ma'a sidaqin. Wa minna biyina sidaqin wa shuhada wa sariheen. Allahumma ja'alha fi ahsan rifqa ya Rahmah Rahmin. Wa khafif'an a'ilatihaya Allah. Wa ahlihaya Allah. Allahumma ahfad masajidana fi kuli makaan. Minna la'atidaha wa minna la'idwan. Allahumma ya Allah. Allahumma ba'raq fi khulfa ar-rashidin al-mahdiya min ba'adihi. Allahumma ba'raq fi sahabidin wa shireen wal-jannah wa satayal jannah. Wa ahla al-bayt ya Allah. Allahumma ba'raq fi ham jami'an wa sahabita rasulillah. Allahumma wa tada'in wa tada'in. Wa tada'in biyahsan ila yawm ad-Din ya Rahmah Rahmin. Allahumma ahfad nisa'ana wa awladana. Ba'ilhum an al-mukhadirat wa an sifah wa an izina ya Allah. Ba'ilhum an al-munkrat al-dati. Tuhi al-tubina ya Rahmah Rahmin.