 And I Enjoying You And I Enjoying Myself And I Advise You And I Advise Myself To Have Taqwa Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala I Advise You To Have Taqwa And I'm Not The Person With The Most Taqwa Amongst You And We Have Taqwa Outwardly And Inwardly And If We Have Taqwa Of Allah Allah Will Teach Us Allah Tells Us In The Quran Have Taqwa Of Allah And Allah Will Teach You And Have Taqwa Of Allah Outwardly And Inwardly Publicly And Privately And This Is The Sunnah Of The Messenger Of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam To Make Mention Of Taqwa Every Single Jum'ah To Remind Us Of Who We Are As Believers That We Are People Of Taqwa Outwardly And Inwardly Publicly And Privately Fulfilling His Commands Avoiding His Prohibitions And Doing What We Feel Is Best At That Very Moment And That's What I Would Like Us To Reflect On During This Khutba And This Blessed Day Of Jum'ah Is How Do We Developed As Believers The Ability To Do What's Best At That Moment In That Situation That Faces Us How Do We Make Those Decisions Every Single One Of Us Our Lives Is Unique And Individual There Is No Other Soul In The Entire History Of Creation That Is Experienced What You Have Experienced What I Have Experienced Each One Of Us Is Unique And Individual And This Deen Is For Everybody So How Do We Apply This Beautiful Deen To Our Very Unique Lives That We Are Living This Is How We Bring Taqwa Into Our Lives And If We Do It Sincerely Things Will Emerge From Us From Our Speech From Our Actions From What We Do From What We Don't Do That's In Line With What Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Wants From Us And That's Called Tawfiq Success From Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala If Allah Grants Us Success He Will Allow This Synchronization To Happen And We Will See The Reality Of Our Faith In Our Actions We'll See The Reality Of Our Faith In Our Actions So I Would Like To Turn To A Story That Happened During The Life Of The Messenger Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala That We Can Draw Some Of These Lessons Of How Did The Sahaba Do That? How Did They Learn To Apply The Deen In Their Lives When They Did Not Have The Messenger Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Always With Him He Was Not Always With Them And He Was Training Them To Be Able To Face The Situations As They Ar rose They Weren't Just Blind Followers That Needed Him To Tell Them To Do It Every Single Situation He Trained These Men And Women To Be Able To Face Those Situations And Allah Gave Success To Those Men And Women To Be Able To Do That When Mu'ad Ibn Jabal Was On The Way To Yemen Being Sent As The Governor Of Yemen The Newly The Area That Would Newly Be Part Of The Muslim Empire The Messenger Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Asked Him He Said, Oh Mu'ad How Will You Judge Amongst The People? Now Look At This The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam Didn'T Say, Oh Mu'ad You Have To Do This, This, This And This He Asked Him, Mu'ad What Will You Do? How Will You Judge? He Said With The Book Of Allah And The Messenger Of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam Said And If You Don'T Find It In The Book Of Allah He Said I Will Use The Sunnah Of The Messenger Of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam And He Said And If It'S Not There Sometimes As Muslims We Like Feel That Every Single Answer Is In The Quran Or In The Sunnah Explicitly There'S Answers There But Not Everything Is Explicit So He Said If It'S Not There In The Sunnah He Said I Will Use I Will Do And Give My Opinion Not That He'S Just Giving His Opinion He'S Making His Opinion In Line With The Book In The Sunnah And These Are The Things The Application Of These Rules Of The Deen This Is What We'Re Faced With On A Day-To-Day Moment On A Moment-To-Moment Bases When We Look In The Quran We Find That Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Speaks About Three Nefs Three Types Of Nefs The Nefs Al-Lawama The Nefs Al-Amarah And The Nefs Al-Mutma Inna The Nefs Al-Amarah Is The Self The Soul That Orders And Joins Us To Do Evil When We Get Those Thoughts Do That Wrong Thing That'S The Nefs Al-Amarah The Nefs Al-Lawama Is The Nefs That Sometimes Is Ordering You To Do Evil Things But It'S Also Saying You Shouldn'T Have Done That You Shouldn'T Have Done That Regretful Remorseful Of Those Actions And The Nefs Al-Mutma Inna The Tranquil Nefs Is The One That Is At Peace With The Ordaymen And The Order Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala The Qadr And The Amir Of Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala Some People Feel That The Development Of Us As Beings With Souls Goes Sequentially Okay, First We Start Off As Nefs Al-Amarah The Evil Soul Then We Go To The Regretful Remorseful Soul And Then We Have Tranquility According To The Ulema They Said These States Could Happen Throughout Your One Day In Fact One Sometimes In A Single Moment And Think About It What Are Those Things In Our Lives That We Accept Of The Dean And They'Re Easy For Us And We Implement Them And We'Re Tranquil We'Re Accepting Of Them But Then There'Re Other Areas And Each One Of Us Knows Those Areas Where We Struggle Where We Have Sometimes We'Re Slipping But We'Re Remorseful And Then There'Re Sometimes There May Be Areas Where We'Re Just Getting Bad Thoughts And Bad Actions That We'Re Doing And We Haven't Got To That Point Of Being Able To Reprimand Ourselves And Be In That State Of Ulema So These Things Are Happening Throughout The Entire Day How Do We Deal With That How Do We Apply In Those Situations So This Is Where I Would Like Us To Reflect On This Story Narrated By The Grandson Of Suwayd Ibn Al-Hadif That His Grandfather Narrates When He And Seven Of His People Came To The Messenger Of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam But Before I Go Into The Hadith I Have To Make Mention That In The Chain Of Narration Of This Hadith Is Some Weakness And Otherwise I Would Not Mention It Because It Is A Hadith Of The Messenger Of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam But Unfortunately In This Day And Age There Is A Plague That Has Creeped Into Certain Aspects Of Our Community That If Somebody Hears Hadith Da'if A Weak Hadith A Chain Of Narration That'S Weak Automatically I Don'T Want To Hear I Don'T Want To Listen To It We Stay Away From It It'S Not Part Of Our Deen And It'S Su'edab With Rasool Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam It'S Bad Edab With The Messenger Of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam Why? Because His Speech SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam Is So Precious That When We Hear It We Have To Have Respect For It We Have Respect For It Imam Malik رضي رحمه الله One Time Was In His Majlis Of Narrating Hadith And He Would Prepare Himself For Narrating The Words Of The Messenger Of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam When A Student Would Come To Him And Said I Would Like To Study With You He Would Say Do You Want Fiq Or Hadith If It'S Fiq Sit And Ask The Questions And I Will Sit And I Will Answer If It'S Hadith He Would Go To His House Take A Full Hussain Put On His Best Clothes And Wear His Best Perfume And Then Sit To Narrate The Words Of The Messenger Of Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam Out Of Respect And Love For His Words SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam Once During The Narrating Of Hadith They Noticed The Change In Imam Malik's Face Tense He Got Tense And He Started Afterwards They Said What Happened He Said In My Khuf In My Leather Sock Was A Scorpion That I Didn'T See When He Put It On That He Didn'T See When He Put It On And It Stung Him During The Narration Of The Hadith Imagine That Creature Is Normally They Sting And They Run Away But It Stuck In There And So It'S Trying To Protect Itself It Stung Him 17 Times And He Said But Out Of Respect Of The Words Of The Messenger Of Allah I Did Not Want To Cut Off His Words And For This Reason When The Hadith Is Mentioned Just Like If He Was Speaking La Tarfa'u Aswat Koum Fawqa Soutan Nabi The Quran Allah Tells Us In The Quran Do Not Raise Your Voices Above The Words Of The Messenger Of Allah So When The Hadith Is Narrated Just Like When We Hear The Quran Being Recited We Lower Our Voices And We Listen This Is The Way Of The Salaf This Is The Way Of The Early Generations The Real Salaf As Opposed To People Who When They Hear The Term La'if Hadith Oh, We Can'T Touch That The One Of The Most Famous Collections Of Hadith Is The Arba'een Of Imam And Nowawi Everybody Has That Book In Their Home Or At Least Should Have That Book And There'S An Entire Genre Of Hadith Collections For The 40 Hadith This Hadith Imam Nowawi Mentioned In His Commentary Is Based On A Weak Hadith That The Messenger Of Allah Said Whoever Preserves 40 Of My Hadith Will Enter Jannah He Said This Is A Weak Hadith But We The Ulema The Scholars He Said By Consensus Of The Ulema Of This Ummah By The Consensus Of The Scholars Of This Ummah It Is Permissible To Do An Action Based On A Hadith That Has Weakness In Its Narration That'S Imam Nowawi The Imam Of Hadith Telling Us But Unfortunately Now People Have This Visceral Reaction Hadith Da'if And It'S Bad Adab With The Rasul Allah Yes We Do Not Take Ahkam We Don'T Take Rulings Wajib Mandub From A Hadith That Has Weakness And It'S Changed But We Can'T Take Fadaila Al-Mal Virtuous Actions As Suwait Ibn Al-Harith Mentioned He Says I Came To The Messenger Of Allah This Group This Entourage That Was Coming To The Messenger Of Allah And They Entered Upon His Gathering And They Spoke To Him And They Said That He Was Impressed By Our Words And How We Held Ourselves This Is The First Time They Are Meeting The Messenger Of Allah We Should Think We Hope That We Would Have Had That Chance But What Would His Reaction Hadith Ibn Suwait Said He Like He Was Impressed By The Way We Carried Ourself And Also And Then He Asked Who Are You They Said We Are Believers We Are And Then He Said Inna Kaulin Haqiqa Fama Haqiqa Kaulikun Wa Imanikun Every Statement Has A Reality What Is The Reality Of Your Statement In Other What Is The Reality What Proof Do You Have For Your Claim How Are You Actualizing What You Said Say And This Is A Question We Have To Ask Ourselves We Say We're Muslim We Say We're Believers What Is The Reality Of What We're Saying So They Said 15 Things And Look How They're Able To Respond To The Messenger Of Allah This Is A Group Of Upright Men Who Respond To The Messenger Of Allah With His Very Precise Question And They Said 15 Things Five That Your Messenger Meaning The People That You Dispatched To Call Us To Islam And To Teach Us To Islam Because Remember During Especially During The Time Of Medina The Messenger Of Allah Was Sending Invoice Messengers To All Parts Of Arabia Calling Them People Were Becoming Muslim Afwaja And Learning The Deen And They Would Come To Visit Him And Now They're Sitting With Him 5 Things That Your Messenger Told Us To Do And 5 Things That Your Messenger Told Us To Believe In And 5 Things That We Used To Do In Jahiliya Look At This We Used To Do In Jahiliya During The Days Of Pre-Islam And We Still Do Them And We Continue To Do Them Unless You Don't Like One Of Them And He Like He Was Impressed Again By Their Statement So He Asked What Are The 5 Things That My Messenger Told You To Do And They Listed Out The 5 Actions Prayer Fasting Ramadan The Belief First What Are The 5 Things My Messenger Told You To Believe In Allah The Angels The Books The Mbiya And The Last Day The Ba'ath To Say The Shahada To Pray To Give Zakat To Fast Ramadan And To Do Hajj Whoever Is Able To Go To The House Those Are The 5 Things That We All Do These Are The Rules We All Know That What I Want Us To Call Our Attention To Is What Are These Things That They Were Doing In Jahiliya That They Continued To Do As Muslims And They Felt This Is In Line With The Deen But We'Re Just Going To Present It To The Messenger Of Allah And See If It Is Time With His Sunnah They Said As Shukr Being Grateful When We'Re Are In Times Of Ease And Being Patient When We Have Hard Times And Being Truthful When We'Re Faced With The Situation That Time Of Test You Meet Somebody You'Re At An Employment And Interview Somebody Is Asking You A Question When The Rubber Hits The Road Truthful What Are The 5 Things That Are The 5 Things That Are The 5 Things That Are The 5 Things That Are The 5 Things That Are The 5 Things Shamat And We Live Off We'Re Not We'Re Joyce At The Unfortunate Of Our Enemy We Don'Tleased At The Unfortunate Of Our Enemy Look At This Shivalry And The Last Thing Before That Is extent And Being Accepting Of The Bitterness Of The Curse And The Messenger Of Allah Said He said, how great are these things? How wonderful are these things? And then he said, I will add for you five things. And then he listed out five more things for them. He listed out five more things, and he told them that they make a promise to him. He said, if you go back with these 20, you will go back with these, go back, he's telling them go back with these 20. And one of them is do not accumulate what you're not going to spend. In other words, don't be connected to this dunya and do not build things that you're not going to live in. In other words, he's reminding them of what they should be focused on. And he's adding this upon those five that they came up with themselves. And that's where I want us to call our attention to. What are those things in our lives that we don't have an exact explicit order in the Quran to do? You pray five times a day, explicit order. Fast Ramadan, we know all the rules. But what are those things that we are doing just like Suwayd and his people? What are those things that we're doing that we would be proud to present to the Messenger of Allah and says this is not explicit, this is something that was from my culture. It was from my personal actions. It was from my people. These are the things that we are doing. And if it's accepted to you, we will continue doing it. And we can still doing that by placing it on the scales of the sharia. So that's what we should be thinking. We should be asking ourselves, what are those things that we're doing that are good acts, that are righteous acts, that are upright acts? And it's not something of specific order, but it's something that we feel this is what should be done at this moment. Me, given my moment, my time, my existence, my experience, my reality. This is what I feel as a Muslim, as a believer, as a person of taqwa. This is what I should be doing. Alhamdulillah wa s-salatu wa s-salam ala Rasulillah wa ala alihi wa sahabi yajma'in. Alhamdulillah wa s-salatu wa s-salam ala Rasulillah wa ala alihi wa sahabi yajma'in. Amma ba'ad fa ya'ibad Allah usikumu usi nafsibi taqwa Allah taqwa Allah wa s-sirri wa al-alaniya taqwa Allah wa yuallimakum Allah We praise Allah and we send peace and blessings upon His last and final and most noble messenger, Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa s-salam. And we seek refuge in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from the evil of our own actions and we ask for success from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in being able to implement this deem. And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give us the tawfiq, the success to be like the people of Suaid, to have actions of goodness that we would be happy to present to the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa s-salam if we had lived at His time. We would be happy when we come to the day of judgment and may Allah make our standing on the day of judgment easy. We would be happy to present it and we said, nobody ever told me to do this, but this was something from my culture. This is something that I felt was good. And the understanding, the opposite is also true. We also understand that there are things from our jahiliya from our pre-existing Islamic cultures that have crept into the ummah in various ways that we leave, but we look at the good and we try to find, yeah, I think this is good and let's put it there. And all of those five things that they mentioned can be found in the Quran. There's tawafuq with the Quran. And we'll end on this, that Umar radiallahu anhu was a person who was known to have experienced so much internalization of this deem that he was able to see what should be the appropriate thing at that moment. And for that reason, he was given the name al-Farooq by the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu alaihi wa s-salam, because he could distinguish between things. He had this insight, this fiqh, fiqh not as a subject that studied the laws and the rules, but fiqh as deep understanding. And because of this, he has many muwafqat and you can look them up and read about them. The muwafqat of Umar, the synchronizations of Umar. Like for example, what to do with the prisoners of bedir? He said, this is what we should do. And then when the ayah was revealed, it was in line with what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wanted them to do. When the slander of Aisha radiallahu anhu, the evil and the foul lie that people said about Aisha, as soon as he heard it, he said, subhanaka haadabuhtanun azeem. And when Allah revealed the Quran, absolving Aisha of that lie, he said, it would have been befitting for the believers that when they heard this slander, they said, subhanaka haadabuhtanun azeem. When Umar radiallahu anhu heard the ayahs of the khalq, the embryology, as he was listening to it, he was so taken by it. He said, fatabaraka Allahu ahsanu l-khaliqeen. And then the ayah was revealed, fatabaraka Allahu ahsanu l-khaliqeen. This is how much he was in line with what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wanted in those moments. And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give us the tawfiq, to give us the success to be like the faruq radiallahu anhu, to be like a suwaid radiallahu anhu, and to be like the sahaba. And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give us that ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood. Allahumma ar-rin al-haqqa haqqan wa razuqna tiba'a wa ar-rin al-baqir al-baqir al-wa razuqna jtinaba. O Allah, show us truth as it truly is and allow us to follow it and show us falsehood as it truly is and allow us to leave it. I'll say this and ask forgiveness from Allah for you and the women of Muslims and Muslims. And I'll finish the prayer.