 Alhamdulillah It's good to be in the Masjid tonight believers We can only sort of dovetail What was already said so much wisdom so much beauty was communicated you know one of the One of the names of the Prophet Muhammad said the knowledge of them according to our perennial teachers is the perfect man right and son and came in Perfect man our scholars explained this by saying essentially He is a reflection of the divine names and attributes At the level of creation that is perfect If you look at anyone else in history Nobody comes close to him Just look at his life I'm gonna mention this all the time, but it's mind-boggling to me how people don't see this You know a father a husband military general a legislator a prophet a mystic was on and on and on No way in history was like this Right perfect reflection of the divine names and attributes And then the Quran were told that one of the central messages of our master Issa bin Maryam alayhim as-salam is to communicate to his people This type of mystical teaching it's paraphrased in the Quranic Statement Right this verse this statement of war on is in the context of Issa as-salam that be lordly Be reflections of the divine Right to call a movie a lot of love the hadith like this some say the weakness in the hadith You know, maybe there's some witness in the hadith but the early must say this is absolutely true Adorn yourself with the character of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Right the prophet salallahu alayhi salam is the perfect human being par excellence every prophet is a perfect human being And many of the saints men and women No one has it so perfect At a perfect equilibrium as he's a lot you said So his actions are reflection of the character if you will of his Lord and If we look at his life He was the epitome of forgiveness Right his forgiveness is something literally supernatural We're not describing anything divine to him so a lot. You said he's the best of creation supernatural I mean it's something that is just something beyond our frames of reference that he could forgive someone who cannibalized His uncle was also his almost like his brother That he could forgive this person You know, he didn't turn them away. He didn't say no, no, no. We don't need your Shahada We don't need your Shahada. We're okay That's unbelievable and And see the up the rush he ran me the story that The prophet salallahu alayhi salam one time He pointed to a man and he said this is the man of Jannah Right, it's a normal, you know, the Sahaba in general They would take obviously the statements of the prophet salallahu alayhi salam very very seriously Right, it's when the Bedouin would come and ask him questions They had big feelings about that because the Bedouin were a little gruff, but they would ask good questions So that's a how I would listen what they have to sort of, you know, make sure he doesn't reach adab things like that So anyways, he heard the prophet saying this man is a man of Jannah. So sit on her. So oh You start following this man around a little bit, right Looks like a normal guy Where's he going now? He's gonna go pray. It's a lot to do how or something. It's gonna praise some naffy lies Hmm That's what you got Every day Joe every day Every day Ahmed, you know, walking around So this is Omar so I have to ask him He said I heard the messenger of Allah say this about you. You're a man of Jannah and the man was the brother Yes, what are you? What are you doing? Why did he say that? Can you can you tell me why maybe he said that? You know, there's one thing before I go to bed at night. I make sure I don't hold any ranker in my heart for any Muslim I Have no enmity no hill in my heart for any Muslim. He's a man of Jannah The prophet sallallahu alayhi sallam like I said he is the personification of forgiveness And the month of Ramadan is a month of the witch We should really try to transform ourselves and and Inbide these divine attributes During the month It's not a burden. It's a guest. This is traditionally how Muslims would welcome Ramadan You know, so you have the Rasha touched on this too that if you feel a bit of Ramadansi refuge from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Marhaba take advantage of it enjoy your Ramadan Enjoy it. You don't have to worry about your breakfast Your coffee. You don't have to worry about it. You know, you can take a break from going to the gym. You know, you want to get you know Want to feel the pump three four times a week? You can still do that. You got to take it easy a little bit That's good. Take a break your body needs a break You know But use the nights to work on your relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah has 99 names. The names are infinite in reality. His names are infinite Right, but he's revealed. He's chosen these names to reveal to us One of his names is madik and madik the king Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Is the king of everything He's the king of al-alameen. Al-alameen means kullu masiwa Allah. Everything is subhan Allah So even ajeeba says in his commentary the 99 names that even this name all of the names There's a ta'aluk. There's a ta'aluk and there's a tahabuk Every name look with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So the ta'aluk means some sort of connection or association we have to this name Right, I mentioned this before but it's worth reiterating. Reminders benefits to believers Maybe it's the third or fourth or fifth or tenth time That's something we'll click. You'll have a fath inshallah ta'ala What is our association our ta'aluk with the name madik the name of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is simply an admission That he is the king and we are the servant That's it You'll be surprised how many people don't want to admit this They think they're the king right This is a god complex Everybody worships something There's no such thing as atheism in reality. The Quran doesn't entertain this idea. I'm an atheist Everybody worships something and the most common form of idolatry is worship of the nafs of the hawah Have you seen the one who takes as his lord as god his hawah? He worships his own nafs right So instead of waking up. Oh, I'm gonna misfudger. Maybe we'll do I got 10 minutes like me this morning I'm littering this morning. Oh Don't go start praying. Huh looking out the window. It's a son. Uh, no son I'm afraid to look at my muscle pro app. See if I'm gonna pray People wake up. Oh my phone my phone likes my comments pathetic As you said Sidi Muhammad as he said it's pathetic Who likes my comments? Who commented? Who is praising me? Subhanallah Who's praising me? Oh, no, this person didn't like me. Oh, they're gonna cancel me They're gonna cancel me That's fine What our concern should be is Allah going to cancel us This is our concern. You know who about cancel abu lahab Tabbat yadah abi lahabin what tab you see this what tab at the end he's canceled He's done And this is a neck up abu lahab. He was a smart man. Don't yo we could have said He's canceling me La ilaha illallah What do you say now? no He's done who is in control of everything Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala who has putra who has enum mutlak Who has in his yad the amra Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala So our concerns should be pleasing our lord subhanahu wa ta'ala. That should be our only concern Don't worry about people think about you You know, this is difficult to do especially nowadays Because it's it's a culture Of just worshiping enough I mean, I I don't know how young people deal with these things Maybe during Ramadan just get off all social media I was on facebook for about a year until 2017 And you know, I was a grown man at the time in my early 20s Give or take And even I was like This is this is not beneficial for maybe you can handle it. I couldn't handle it Just take a break during Ramadan read the Quran Engage with the Kitab of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Do you know what I'm saying? You can gauge how you really feel about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala This is this is difficult. You have to be honest with yourself How do you feel about the Quran? Do you read the Quran? Do you read it in English? Okay, do you read it? Are you trying to learn Arabic? The Quran is in Arabic. English is not Quran This is a translation as one of my teachers said never say the Quran says, God is one Are you sure about that? Yes He said When you say that say Some of the meanings that the Quran may suggest God is one the Quran says It's to be technical. It's still permissible to say the Quran says God is one, but you know, you're not speaking In reality So gauge your your relationship with the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. How do you feel about the Ulema? How do you feel about them? Oh, he's Ulema He's patriarchal misogynistic homophobic transphobic You know antiquated Blah blah blah blah blah What do they know? Subhanallah Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says Aqribun ulema Inna hu marathatun anbiya Honor the scholars For they are the inheritors of the prophets. There's no more anbiya. We have ulema Yeah, and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he warned us towards the end of time. There's going to be ulema ussuk There's going to be evil scholars. Yes That's true We have good opinions of people and people who have Ijazad and decades and decades of scholarship From from recognized ulema Who have sent it back to the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam? We should have a good opinion of these people. Our opinion of the ulema is indicative of our opinion of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Because this is the deen of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and these are the inheritors of Allah's deen How do we feel about Ahl al-Bait? How do we feel about the believers in general? Inna ma waliya kumu allahu ala subhu aladina amanu. These are our allies. Allah says you're only ally And he uses a singular is we're united Your only wali is Allah Is messenger and the believers And if other people want to sort of join hands with us for a certain cause that's fine, but we have herdude There's khilaf in the religion and many things are different of opinion, but if someone is telling you to do something That is haram That that is haram that is Deen That is axiomatically known by clear nusus of the Quran. That's muhkam and wadiya And telling you to do this or support this you can't do that. This kufr Stand by your deen have istiqama You know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says to the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the Quran Very powerful statement the prophet said my hair turned gray Because of this this statement for stuck him comma omir Have istiqama be upright Go on man to go on man to be there through mustaqem. He told one of his companions Say I believe in Allah and be steadfast upon that So we have An admission that Allah is our medic. This is called the ta'alluk and then we have to khalluk Which means to ornament ourselves So how do we ornament ourselves with respect to this name the king Allah is the king? well We also have subjects Right, we have limbs. We have hands We have a stomach We have private parts. We have eyes. We have a tongue The prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said if you can guarantee for me the proper usage of what is between your chiefs Your tongue and what is between your thighs? I guarantee for you jannah. We have to protect the heart The heart is the king Right as imam al ghazali says the heart is the king and there's going to be enemies on come and surround the castle And you let them in with your hands with your eyes with your tongue We have to do battle as the brother said Sidi Muhammad he said this is this is spiritual warfare We battle our battle is not with flesh and blood sometimes it is Our battle is with flesh and blood is not with flesh and blood with principalities of darkness I hate to call paul paul not this one right And he fusions actually pseudo call the fusions is actually a group by paul somebody pretending to be paul some forgery But he was wise this is true So we have this And then we have to happuk Which means we've actually we've actualized We've realized the goal and we've mastered the self And we put the crown on our head as it were. We are the king of our bodies I've protected the heart successfully But this is a lifelong process It's like some people read the Quran. I made khatam. Okay Put over your khatafas Goodbye. Goodbye Quran It's collecting dust until next Ramadan. Maybe I'll read it again And then you're looking at your phone. Oh, I got a text What do you know? If you'll come back in five minutes No, we have to be in the struggle Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam As-salatu wa sallam says Indeed we know that what they say causes a Constrictness to your heart It's hurting your heart what they're saying You can imagine what they're saying. They canceled the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam They threw him in the desert with the Sahaba for three years the entire ministry of Issa al-Islam was three years No disrespect to Issa al-Islam. We love Issa al-Islam. He's our prophet. We were going to write to Issa al-Islam in the christians For three years the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said no one would marry for the bani hasham No one would trade with them He would they canceled him He's put some pressure on him. He'll buckle No, he's not going to buckle. He has isti fama So we know that they're what they're saying causes a type of constrictness to your heart Fasabih bi-hamdi rabbik wa-kun wa-kun min-as-sajideen Glorify the praise of your lord and be of those who make such them. This is the response. They're insulting you to saying this It's hurting your heart Praise your lord Keep praising God This is a good sign. The Sahaba were very nervous in times of prosperity They were nervous in times of prosperity. Did Allah has Allah forsaken us? He's just giving us the dunya now What happened to the? What happened to the tribulations in terms of tribulations? Okay, Allah's purifying us. Allah's purifying us And worship your lord until al-yaqeen comes to you And al-yaqeen here according to all of the exigents it means al-mout It means death You worship Allah until you die This is our life in the dunya This is our life We want to go out but the shahada So we ask for istiqama may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us istiqama may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Give us khusna khatima a good ending never be Complacent with your state. He said salallahu alayhi sallam where the na'ame of khawf and raja Where the two sandals of fear And hope don't be so fearful of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that you say how can Allah forgive me? I've done this and that how can Allah forgive you? Astaghfirullah that tafna to me rahmatillah Never ever ever despair of the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is haram to be in a state of despair Of the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the prophet salallahu alayhi sallam give us a hapeeth It's such a hyperbolic example. He said there's a mass murder. He killed a hundred people. Allah forgave him. Allah accepted his towba But never be so much hopeful of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala That you start becoming complacent You start missing prayer You start singing and fasting I got a business lunch But they're telling me one time I got I got hired by a firm I'm not going to fast. He didn't ask me like your life fast. He said I'm not going to fast Oh, you're not going to fast, okay Not a good idea of istifamah in the religion. Don't worry about people think No one's opinion matters at the end of the day Nobody's opinion And if people cancel you, well, it's fine Take it as an as an honor It's it's a it's a badge of honor That you've been canceled by people of the dunya people who are materialists people who believe in the ruh People who believe in essences people who say the only matter that matters is matter People who think they can get surgeries and change their gender because there's no such thing as an essence This is a real worldview. These people are canceling you No, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will never cancel you He'll never cancel you as long as you keep turning to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Is if you come with a mountain of sins to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah says I will come with a mountain of forgiveness A man came after after sulaaf al-asir he came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam and said Ya Rasulullah I have Sent against Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to punish me according to the book of Allah. He said according to the book of Allah He did something major Right sometimes he he like you know did something He like you know something minor you punish me according to the book of Allah and the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam he said Hadar Hadar Didn't you just pray with us It's been forgiven As they say go and sit no more right although that's the gospel john. That's also not authentic, but We have something that's authentic in our tradition Allahumma jifumi Another thing that's inauthentic in the bible jesus praying for the jews on the cross father forgive them. They know not what they do Everybody believes that's a fabrication ask any new testament stall But we have a tradition in our tradition On on the day of uhud this blood streaming down the face of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam And he's catching his blood in his hands, and he's absorbing his blood like this And the sahabah are saying Ya Rasulullah, what is this and he said if one drop of this blood should strike the earth Immediately the angels will exterminate this forage They said Let it flow Allahumma jifumi Inna humna ya'lamu oh god guide my people for they don't know Look at the supernatural forgiveness Hinde bint qutba becomes muslim Wahshi becomes muslim Amr ibn al-Aas becomes muslim Abu Sufyan ibn harb becomes muslim Ibn abu jahal the son of abu jahal abu jahal the person fir'aun The prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam he said on the day of fatah maca He said ikrima the son of abu jahal is coming to me now do not revile his father He's going to become our brother Look at this forgiveness. This is unbelievable I've spoken too much. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us istifama May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accept our prayers and fasting May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala increase our takwa Of him our mindfulness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Give us the tawfiq to To uh To mirror his names and attributes in the manner in which the best of creations of al alayhi sallam did so