Biss mila rohimni Rahim in the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the
most merciful. Heard a lot below heard Part Excellence presents lessens from the stories
of the prophets by Mufti Ismail even Musa menk he brought him and in his
Salam Part four Abraham, peace be upon him. Part four Salam about a
cat Smilah Rahman Rahim al hamdri Laila Alamin or salahtu Salam ala Rahmat alila Alamin
Nabi in a muhammad in ailah Ali he was habih tabina aman tabi ahambi san
in ilayomidin you are bad. All praise is due to a loss of Hannah
to Allah, blessings and salutations upon Muhammad salalahu Ali. He was seldom.
We ask a loss of hannahua to Alah to bless him and all his companions.
To bless all the messengers who have been sent to us from the beginning
of time, from the first man right up to Muhammad salahu Ali, he
was seldom. May Allah bless them all and grant them all goodness. And
may alas sub Hanahua to Allah bless us as well as our offspring, and
may he grant us every form of goodness, and may He create ease for
us in our lives, and may He protect us from every form of difficulty.
Aman, we love it, brothers and sisters. We have been going
through the life of one of the greatest profits of a loss of Hannah to
Ala, the prophet Ibrahim alaih his sala to a Salam. Abraham made peace
be upon him, and we went through most aspects of his life. There
are a few aspects remaining, and we would like to see some of his
children and what the prayers that he made, the duas that he made,
what was the result of these duas. To begin with, Ibrahim alais sala
to a Salam was a person who had great feeling for others. He never
made dua that others should be punished. He always tried his best to make
duaa and to pray that they would be guided. One of them was his
father. There was an occasion where his father had planned to burn him,
and in fact they threw him into the fire. And I'm drawing a comparison
between the time when Ibrahim Aleai is Salam's father threw him into the fire in
order to kill him and on the other hand, when Ibrahim ad is Salam
himself was sacrificing his own son. Now by the instruction of a lassukanaha at
Alah. Do you see the two both were fathers and both were sons.
But on both occasions we find that the help of Allah was with those who
believed. There we are so in the first instance, the father was at
loss, and Ibrahim ad is Salam, who was a firm believer, the
help of Allah came to him. And the second instance, they were both
believers and they had both submitted, So they both had won and there was
nobody besides Chipan that had lost. From this we learn that no matter what,
definitely, victory is for those who firmly believe. When the prophets Alabah
who Alahi was Selam, was faced with battles, he spoke of what is
known as i del hus Nayani. He says, look for us, we
are believers. We have one of two good things that happened to us.
Either we are victorious, in which case you will be losers. This is
talking of the battles at the time of the prophets or Allahu Adehi was ann
And we may, on the other hand, be martyred when we will be
granted victory in the Ahara, So we are in a win situation always.
This is what is known as del us nayan. A min does not cling
to life to the degree that he forgets that no matter what he does,
he has to go. This is why when it comes to organ transplant and
so on, there are laws in the Sharia. If people make it a
big business and they start killing people in order to steal organs to sell them
to others, and they start buying and selling and it becomes a trade,
it is totally prohibited. We are taught that rather die, because as it
is, you may be dying another five years down the line anyway. So
why steal somebody else's kidney or why do something that might be prohibited whilst we
are oppressing others. Yes, there are rules and regulations governing when it is
permissible and when it is not. That is not our topic today. So
we ask alas subhnah hawata alah to grant us iman and to grant us belief.
And this is why Ibrahim ale is salah to a Salam. He had
made the dua for his father. He says, oh, my father,
I pray to Allah that he forgive you for all this you have engaged in.
And Alas subhnahwat Alah later on reprimanded Ibrahim Aleah is salah to a Salam,
or corrected him and said, you should not be making duaa for him
once you know that he is from the people who have chosen to die in
the condition of disbelief, when all the signs were clearly manifest in front of
him. So this is why Alas Subhanah Howat Alah says that Ibrahim Ali is
solah to a Salam's dua for his own father. It was on a condition,
on a condition that when he meets a lass sup Hannah Howat Alah,
if Allah allows it to pass, it will be passed. And if Alasunhnahwatalah
does not allow it to pass, it will not. And already he was
told that that duao will not pass because this man, being the father,
having seen clear cut signs, having known them, still he disagreed, and
he denied solely because he wanted to make money out of selling his idols,
and he wanted to remain in the position of control that he was in in
the society and community, and for that reason, he was cursed by Alasunhanah.
What anah. Now let's go a little bit further. When Ismail Adahi
Salam had married and he was in Mecca, and we had mentioned yesterday that
his father, Ibrahim adah Is Salam used to come and go. He used
to be between the Arabian peninsula between Mecca and as Sham a Sham meaning where
Philostine is today, so as he used to come and go. One day,
it is reported, and this is a correct narration, he came into
Macca. Nobody knew who he was, and he entered the house. He
knocked on the door of Smile Ali Salam to go and meet his son.
Obviously, lo and behold there was a woman who answered the door. He
looked at her and he asked her a few questions. He greeted her.
She responded, and he asked her, how's your condition, where's your husband?
And what is he doing? And she complained one way to this man.
Firstly, she didn't know who he was. Secondly, she began to
complain, no, he leaves us here, he goes away, and we
don't really have much, you know, we're struggling, and so on.
There's hardly food and what have you. Now. Ibrahim a is Salam was
on another level, and so was his son Smile Ali is Salam. They
were those who submitted to Allah. They were those who surrendered to Allah.
They did not have room in their lives for any contamination of that. Remember,
when mother does not know anything about Islam, there is a great likelihood
that the children also will not know anything. And this is why the Hadid
says that you should marry someone who is deeply interested in the deal. And
even if someone has reverted a hamdulillah, for as long as they are deeply
interested in the dean, there is hope for your children. But when we
marry a person who is solely interested in the dunia, it will end with
the dunya. The children will be interested more in the dunia than them.
Every day it's about a car and a phone, and clothes and malls and
shops and eating out and so on, and this burgher from that place,
and that one from there, and the pizza and the ice cream and what
have you. The life of the children will be just the same. But
when you have a mother whose main aim is to please Amasudhnah Hawat aalah.
Yes, we can enjoy the dunia within the limits. We are not saying
don't go and buy, don't go and do this, don't go and eat
no. But you should remember primarily it is the pleasure of a love.
The children need to be interested in sal on a daily basis. It is
presented in the most beautiful form. I always say, if we were to
just present food in front of one another, or if our wives were to
present food as it were, without any beautification, half of us would not
eat. But you find a burgher marshallah. Look at it. It's closed
from the top, it's shaped nicely, it has beautiful little filling in the
in the center, and it has a bit of lettuce and mush. I
know it's Ramadan, but don't worry. You can eat as soon as you
go out. And it has the dripping sauce in there. Whether it is
marshall a mustard sauce that somebody says they, or whether it is tomato sauce
or what have you, it is presented beautifully. So it is made attracted,
attractable and attractive to us. Why don't we do that to our dean
where we make it beautiful, so our children look at it as something irresistible,
because sometimes we are lazy to read our own Sala mom, time for
salah ah, Hey not now, don't get up just now, so you're
the clock, switch off the alarm. If that is going to be our
way, then what do we expect of our children? They say, Mom,
don't worry you get up at age. I didn't wake you up because
yesterday you said, ah switchy dofah akbar. It suited me fine. So
we need to think of this very carefully. When Ibrahim Adei Salam heard this
woman, he was upset. She didn't know who he is. How can
you complain firstly to a stranger. Secondly, it was a blessing of Allah
that she took what was inside out and at least presented it so that somebody
got to know. And this was a gift of a loss of hannahuatlah.
So she was complaining about her own husband. Well, when we have problems
within the home, the first person you talk to is the person you have
the problem with. You need to speak to them beautifully and see and you
need to try and understand them and look at their aim in life and look
at your aim in life. If you are heading in one direction in shah
lah, there will be ability and there will be chance to rectify the problem.
But if you you are heading east and he is heading west, Walahi,
you need to start walking. Ma Allah protect us off. We either
divert course and walk in one direction, or we have to part ways with
goodness. So Ibrahim Alai is Salam looks at the woman and says, tell
him that there was a man who had come, and he is saying Salam
upon him, and he asks him to change his doorstep the threshold of his
door. Tell him, look this threshold, he needs to change it.
So she said, no problem, and he was gone before she could ask
him, who are you? He was gone. Now Ismail alaihis Salam came
when he came, Look what the narration says. As he entered, he
sensed that his father was here. He sensed him. You see the link
between the father and the son is the link of Allah Subhanahua to Allah.
They were connected with Dim, my beloved brothers and sisters. The spirituality of
every place is not the same. Enter some homes and you want to exit
immediately. And you enter some homes and the spirituality is such that you feel
like sitting and you are calm and relaxed. Let us make do Ah and
pray to Allah and live our lives in such a way that our homes are
in shah Lah, peaceful homes full of nor full of Rahma. So Ismail
alai is Salam asked his wife, was somebody here? She said, oh,
yes, the man came. Who was he? I don't know who
he was, but he was, you know, an elderly man. And
she described a little bit of a description. And we can stop there for
a moment to describe to you what was Ibrahim alai is Salam looking like Rasulu
lah Salalahu Alaisellam says in a correct narration that when I went up in ma
Garaj, I saw the Mba, the prophets, and he described them one
after the other until he says, I saw Ibrahim Aleai Salam. The closest
description for you is to look at me, and that is what Ibrahim alai
Salam looked like, which means he looked. He looked similar to Muhammad salaalah
Ali he was halam. They were from one lineage and they looked alike.
This is a Sahi correct naration so Mohammad Salaala Issalam is saying we are Luk
alikes myself Andybrahim Ali Islam. And this is why they are both known also
as Bali Laine. Allah has taken both of them as the closest of prince
of Allah Sabhanahwatan. So she described the man and she said, this is
what he looked like. So he asked a question, did he have any
message? Yes, he passed you Salam's and he said that you need to
change the threshold of your door. Immediately he looked at her and said,
that was my father instructing me to devorce you. You are the threshold.
You're the one who answered the door when he was when I wasn't here,
and he's telling me I need to devorce you. And he told her please
go back home. Now where was she from. She was from Mecca.
She was from the tribe of Jurham and jurhim. They brought Ismail up and
they got him married. They loved him to bits. They got him married
to one of them. Now he did not bat an eyelid. Why Look,
there was one youngster asking me, so does that mean if my father
tells me divorce your wife? I need to obey. I told him,
well, if he was Ibrahim and you were is mild, then yes,
so you need to understand this. We are on another level altogether, some
way faranah to ala Grand's status. Sometimes our fathers need direction themselves. Where
are we going to listen to them? Ma a la Grande's goodness? That
having been said, it is our duty to obey our parents within what is
correct, within what is decent, within what is reasonable, within what is
within the pleasure of a loss of anahnah. So Ibrahim alea Salam as he
had instructed his son, the son tells his wife, look, you can
now go home, and this is what it is. And he was not
blessed with any children there, and he sent her home, and Jurham accepted
her and told him, don't worry, we get you married to another.
How do we learn today? When a divorce happens, two tribes are at
war, two families are at war, people draw guns for each other,
people stop speaking to each other. If there are children in the process,
they are treated as weapons. He has tools to punish a third party altogether,
and they are brought up warped with their minds lop sided, on one
side. Only Allah knows what punishment they are going through, what hell they
are suffering in their hearts, solely because we do not have the heart to
understand that divorce does occur. It might be abdul halal, it's the worst
thing. It is the last resort, but it is a point of mercy
from Allah as well, to remove someone from an oppressive condition. There are
some religions that teach you no divorce at all. You married, you doomed,
And there are other religions that teach you and you know what, it's
nothing. You don't even have to marry. You can just live together.
My partner lahu akbar Allah grant's goodness, and understan in Islam, you marry
marsh Allah. The idea is to live forever. If something goes wrong,
you try to resolve the matter. If you still cannot, you involve elders.
When you involve elder people, you don't always have your way. You
allow them to dictate to you how to resolve the matter. One of the
reasons why our problems are not being solved. When we involve parties, we
just make them representative for us. That's it, which means you go and
fight my case like they are your lawyer going to the other party and fighting
your case. No, those must get together. They must decide the solution.
They come to you and impose it on you and tell you this is
the solution. You go by it. That's when the marriage works. So
in this particular case, they were so happy. They knew that if this
man says something, there has to be some reason behind it, and so
it is my Lalaislam. He did not just follow his father for no reason.
He knew that this is my father. He is a saint, he's
a Nabee, and if a nabe he instructs me, there is nothing I
can do there. You are so any one of us instructed by annabe.
The answers no, So don't end up divorcing your wives just because this man
told you and that one told you. No matter who they are. Alas
subnahuatla grant as the ability to solve our matters. This is an even the
month of Ramagan, we ask Allah, yeah Allah, help those who are
going through marital turbulence, solve their problems and crises, and help those who
are living in bliss to live in even greater, even greater bliss. Help
those who are not married to find spouses who will be the coolness of their
eyes. Why shall so? He Braham alai is Alam went away, and
time continued. This man was married again to another woman from the same tribe,
and he lived after some time. I alai is Alam came back exactly
the same thing. He knocked the door. The door was opened, and
a woman had asked him, or he asked this woman after greeting her,
that you know, how is your condition? What is happening here? And
so on? And she said no, al hamdurla. She didn't talk excessive
talking with him. Alhamdurillah. We praise Allah on all conditions. That's it,
and we are thankful to Allah. Su Hannah haatda. Now this is
the correct quality of a wife. Don't complain to third parties. Don't even
talk to them details. If you tell someone the goodness you are in,
they might become jealous of you. If you describe to someone what bliss you
are in, they might envy you. They might plan your destruction. Chaipan
might come to them and make them become so jealous of you. So don't
just say alhamdulinda. If you have a crisis or two. Also, there
are people whom you will tell them, yeah, I had a fight last
night, and what will happen? For three years, they will continue telling
people these two are on the rocks. On the rocks, and you solve
your problem the very next day, and then she will tell you after you
manage to find the source of the rumor. But didn't you tell me you
had a problem. Well, that was one issue we had. The other
night. I cleared my throat and he woke up from his sleep, and
that's it. All I did is I made sure he went to sleep again,
and we our problem was solve. So this is why we need to
be intelligent. We need to make sure don't discuss your matters with anyone,
no one. Make sure they are extremely genuine, and it is necessary for
you to tell them, then you tell them otherwise neither good nor bad.
Have a habit of saying alhamdulillah ala kulihal wanahou dui lahim in hali alien.
Now we thank Allah on every condition, and we seek his protection from the
condition of those who are going to be cast in the fire. That's what
we should be saying all the time. So Ibrahim alai is Salam looked at
this woman and he tells her give him my regards, pass him my salam,
and tell him he should maintain the threshold. He should maintain the doorstep
akabal. So when Ismail ladai Salam came back, he felt that his father
was there. He asked, what did anyone visit? She said yes,
she described the man. But this time when he asked, what did he
say, she said, well, he said I should give you salam and
you should maintain your threshold, meaning the doorstep. Keep it. So he
said, that was my father telling me to keep you as a wife.
You're a good woman and I'm Glinda. All a subhanaht Alah. Grant us
all the coolness of our eyes in our family is our offspring, in our
parents and our family members, and may he make us united as a Muslim
omar. So that is an interesting story that also occurred, and we learned
a few lessons from it. From the life of Ibrahim alai a salah to
a Salam. Then we have the dua that Ibrahim alay is Salam made.
When you find it and you read it in the Qoran, it is amazing.
Look he surrendered to Allah every single time, and he used to make
dua. We read yesterday that Ibrahim Adei is Salam. As he was building
the cab, he was saying, rab bana takab balmina in aka tasami lani
one of the doors us or Allah, accept it from us, from the
two of us, you are indeed all hearing, all knowing. And he
also continued saying, Muslim Allah, make us from amongst those who surrendered to
you at all times. Make the two of us those who surrendered to your
command at every time. Wa meanina o matan muslimtalak, and from our progeny,
from our offspring, make a nation that will be surrendering to you your
Allah. Then he made a very important to us well, arena manasi can
alina. What is the meaning of arena manasikana? Show us how you want
to be worshiped ya Allah through revelation, show us how you want to be
worshiped. You've instructed me to build a house. You've done this. There's
the rock here that is hajar aswat. There is the maca here that is
there, and there is so much that you've asked me to do. Your
Allah. You tell me how do you want me to worship you Arina manasikana,
show us the way of worshiping you what to ba alaina and forgive us
in the Rahim you are most forgiving, most merciful. From this we learn
that all acts of worship are prohibited, besides those which are taught by a
lass of anna awatalah, that is the law of the Sharia all ibat that
anything that you want to consider an act of worship will not be an act
of worship unless it was specifically revealed and sent down. Why because even Ibrahim
ali Salam knew that we cannot worship Allah how we want in a way that
suits us. We have to worship Allah how he dictates. We have to
do it how he wants. So he will tell us faja this time,
this many raka, this is what you will read and this is what will
happen. And you need to be in this condition of hudu. And this
is what udu means, and this is what russel means, and lo,
this is what it means, and this this is what it means, and
so on, and you will do this and do that. So Allah show
Ibrahim ali Salam away Allah revealed to him a certain act of worship. What
was that? Allah tells I, Brahim a is salam ini bill Haji,
to carry jalallah kunibami guarallah kuhnibamiami kulif jinamikor announce the pilgrimage. I want everyone
to follow your footsteps. Announce the pilgrimage in the people. Tell them they
have to come to this sacred place, and this is what they will do.
And Allah taught him the pilgrimage what to do. And you will find
they will come on every lean camel, from every valley, and from very
very far away they will all come. Ibrahim is Salam, now hailer to
begin with, forget about the internet and the telephone and so on, and
television and what have you? All this media nothing, no newspaper. He
was in a valley all alone with a few people, a little community.
He had just built the house of Allah, and a lot tells him,
just get up and make an announcement. You don't worry. It's up to
us to carry that. To this day, it is impossible to cater for
the number of people who want to go for Hajj, to the degree that
there has to be a quota in place. Imagine, only two to three
million can go for haj that is the Hajj that was announced by whom begin
with Ibrahim ale Haslam. And they did Hajj from that time, although later
on they had changed some of the items, and they had put idols,
and they had done this, and they had engaged in shiki aar, and
they started doing what a Lot did not reveal, as Allah says mans A
la Llahu biham Insultan, a Lot did not reveal any authority for them to
engage in those acts of worship that he did not send down. But when
Ibrahim ada is Alam called, the people began to come such that today we
taste the fruit of this verse that alas sub Hannah howat Ala has reviewed to
us. When we speak of quotas, we all know that on the globe
close on to two billion Muslims close on to two billion Muslims. From them,
only two to three million can make hajat any given time for now at
least, although they are trying to expand. But how many want to go?
I would like to think maybe two to three hundred million might want to
go. Malasubhnah houat Ala grant us understanding This is called acceptance of Ibrahim adae
Is Salam. Allah loved him so much. Allah told him, don't worry.
Everything will happen now, you just make the call and continue. This
is why we learn from this totally different example. When you do the work
of a las sub hannah howat Alah, don't worry how many people are sitting
in your program. Don't worry if people are blocking others from coming to the
program. Don't worry if anything negative is happening. For as long as you
are sincere, Allah knows those whom he has chosen will benefit from what he
wants them to benefit from. So even if there's one person in front of
you, it is more than enough. It will continue. Allah will granted
continuation, and Allah will granted growth. This is why Allah says, regarding
the kofar uriding aliotophy Allah he fyim walahhum Tima will carry al kafin. They
want to extinguish the nure of Allah with their mouths Allah says, Allah refuses,
but to complete the nure, the neur will definitely complete. Whether they
disbelievers or whoever else wants to extinguish it, it will continue growing. So
we ask alas sub Hannah howat Alah to grant us growth. Ifra Ali Salam
announced the hatch and alas Subhannah howat Alah told him how to fulfill this,
and alas subhannahwat Alah showed him how to worship him. And this is why
with us never engage in an act of worship that was not taught by Muhammad
Salahu Ali he was Slam, because if we do that, we will have
drifted from the mila of Ibrahim ale Islam, from the dean that Allah has
asked us to follow. Allah says, I will show you how to worship
me. Here it is. This is why the sahabad of the Alahan who
used to sit with Muhammad Salahu Ali he was Alam and ask him yah Asulallah
salaalad is Slam. You taught us this. Now we'd like to know this,
and we'd like to know that, and he would teach them, and
as he taught them, they re enacted and this is what was known as
abadha. So we should remember any act of worship, it needs to be
done for the sake of Allah subhanahuat' Alah, and it needs to be done
exactly how the prophets alla llahu ALLEIHI was alam did it? And I like
to tell people who ask questions, is this allowed? Is that allowed?
Is this allowed? Look, there are thousands of things that are not disputed
in the whole Umah, not disputed. Why don't we engage in all of
those things that are not disputed before we enter territory where people might tell us
you wrong. That's a very logical explanation, logical way of looking at things.
I'd rather do the five Salah, read the Koran, read the Adkhar,
do whatever I have to do, whatever the whole Ummah agrees with my
salm, with my zakha, with my heart, and what have you.
The whole omah a grease. I will not have enough time to enter territory
where people are telling me, brother, what you're doing is a bidhah.
I won't even have time because I'm so occupied with that which is confirmed correct
that I don't have any other time. But when we start engaging in things
that are disputed, things that people will debate with us about and so on,
what will happen? We will occupy our time with that which is less
important. It's like they say, when there is a pot, and you
have rocks, you have sand, and you have stones. What do you
put first? If you put the sand first, you're not going to get
the rocks in. But you put the rocks in. Then you put in
the stones and shake it a bit. They'll find their way in the gaps.
Then you put in the sand and shake it a bit more. Everything
fits in the pot. So the same way, we all have a capacity.
If you are filling your capacity with that which is disputed, you're not
going to have the chance to fulfill that which is not disputed. Common logic.
Ala supanahwat Alah grant as understanding as he granted Ibrahim ale salad to a
Salam and his offspring. So alas Suphanah hawata Alah speaks about some of the
books that he revealed to Ibrahim. We know that there are some books revealed
to Musa, the Taurah and the books revealed to Ibrahim. A salam Allah
speaks about them and calls them Spofi Iberahim or Musa the books or the so
of a Sahifa, the parchments, the scrolls, the revelations that were given
to Ibrahim and to Moses, to Abraham and Moses may peace be upon them
both and all the Mbia. Now we don't have that scripture with us,
but the Quran makes mention of some of what it contained, like alas Suprana
Howatala says in Allah. One of the things that mentioned in the book given
to Ibrahim bell to theirn al haya tad Dunya, well a hero to him
Abaka, Behold, you are giving preference to this world. Yet the life
after death is better and it is everlasting. This alasis. We wrote it
in the book that we gave Ibrahim, and it's repeated for us in the
Quran. Amazing, So we do know there was a book, and we
also have some of what was written. There is much more than this which
is mentioned in the Quran. I've only given an example. Another very interesting
point. Who is the one who gave us the name Muslim? What is
the meaning of the term Muslim? We spoke about it. It is a
submitter, one who submits. Who gave us this name. It was Ibrahim
Ahalam alas is in the Quran mill letter Abi kum Iberrahim, who was a
man kumul mus nim amiable. This is the religion of your forefather Ibrahim.
The religion of submission. He is the one who named you submitters before.
He is the one who named you submitters. Now, there was a dispute
between the Jews and the Christians at the time of Muhammad s d Allah Ali
was seldom. Some were saying no, Ibrahim was a Jew, and the
others were saying no, he was a Christian. And there was a debate.
Each one is claiming that they are closer and more deserving to Abraham.
So Allah answers their questions with so much beauty in the Qoran. Look at
the stages Alasis, alass in, aulacb Iberrahim, al Lavina, tabau v
lavina Man. Those who are most deserving of Abraham, those who have the
greatest claim to Abraham, May peace be upon him, are those who follow
him in his submission. And this bee who is here meaning Mohammed salah alam
and the believers, which means the Nabe and the Believers have followed him in
the submission. So they are the most deserving when it comes to the claim
over Abraham, because they surrendered to their maker and they worship their maker alone.
Now, the Jews and the Christians continued saying no, no, no,
no, He was from us, and the said, no, he's
from us. So a loss of hannahuata Alah responds in a beautiful way markhana
ibarra him Uyahudiya alasania quaala kingkana hanif muslima uama kana al mushiniki. You should
know that Ibrahim was neither Jewish nor Christian. He was a submitter to the
creator and he never ever associated partners with his own maker and created. And
the word submitter happens to be Muslim, so he was Moslim in that he
was a submitter subhanah lah and over and above that a loss of Hannah huata.
He places the final nail by saying yeah a helkitapi or people of the
book lima to ha jun nafi Iberrah. Why are you disputing about way Abraham
belonged wamazinata to Gino in bardi afla attacking on. You want to call him
duo Christian, but the Torah and the Bible were only revealed after him,
So don't you have brains? Lou Akaba. You're calling him Jewish, but
the Torah was revealed after him. You're calling him Christian, but the Bible
was revealed after him, So Alas is, don't you have the sense to
understand he was a submitter, which means his whole beauty was that he never
associated a partner with his maker. Why don't you do the same. And
this is why in those verses, Alas tells Mohammed, call the people of
the book, call all the Christians, call all the Jews, and tell
them, yeah, Kitaa in kalimatisawa Buddha in la. While Alabama invite them
by saying, O, people of the book, come closer to us,
Come and let's join ranks on one common word between us. That none of
us should worship any besides our Maker alone without associating partners with him at all.
And none of us should believe that any one of us should be worshiping
one another. Don't worship one another, don't worship a human, don't worship
a prophet, don't worship a saint, don't worship a messenger, don't know
worship Allah alone. And that's it. And that's the word that Allah tells
Muhammad salaalahu are. He was seldom to invite the Jews and the Christians with,
and we are inviting them with exactly the same word, come to the
common word, that which is between us, and you worship your maker alone
and nobody else. And Alas says, if they still do not want,
then you should just say, we bear witness that we are the submissives.
We have submitted. We will never worship people. We will never worship Jesus,
may peace be upon him. We will never worship prophets. We will
never worship render any act of worship for a stick or a stone, or
any sun or the moon. No, only for a lass of Hannah howatad.
So this was a beautiful, beautiful way of explaining. And this is
why Alasu Hannah Howat Alah tells us all. And he tells Muhammed Salahu ala
he was Selam as well after calling Ibrahim Adeh is Salam with one of the
most powerful words that he could have been called with is follow his example.
Listen to what Alas is in Iberra him akh Um. Ibrahim himself was an
ummah. Look at the word used. What is the meaning of ummah.
Ummah is referring to two things. It refers to leadership. He was a
leader, he was a powerful leader. And ummah also means he was a
nation in the sense that he had so much goodness that he was the founding
pillar of entire nations to come after him. And on top of that,
his sincerity and his monotheism was so powerful that it was equivalent to all the
others who came after him. Subhana lah from his people alas subhanahwat ala grant
is a deep understanding. And after that Alah suphanahuata alas is thum Hyena elaika
and ita mi eberraim hanifa Ama Khan al Mushiriki. Then we revealed to you,
O, Muhammed was Aldam follow this pure pristine path of Abraham. May
peace be upon him, for indeed he was not from amongst those who associated
partners with us. Then alas Hannah, how Alah again praises Ibrahim Adam in
the Koran. Alas is woman ahsan udin amim man is islamhuni lah him wahu
sin what Tabahami letter ibrarahim a hanif who can there be better in religion than
the one who has surrendered to his own God, the one who has submitted
to Allah, and he has followed the pristine path of Abraham. May peace
be upon him without associating partners with Alas su Hannah, Howat Alah and alasi
is what Allah who ibrahimina hence Allah to Kibrahim as a hellen, as a
close friend. Because of all that he did, look at the praise of
Allah Subhanah, Howat Alah, the praise of Ibrahim by a las Supana Howat
Alah is great and alas Supanna howat Ala says. Then Ibrahim made to ours
to us, and we answered them one after the other. He made a
dua what I calla iberahim or a medial al bada mean o Allah grand security
in this place today, there is safety in Macca subhana la. He says,
make this city, this town very secure, very safe, Marshalla.
It is very safe, safe in comparison to other places of the globe.
Supana Howat Alah grant as security. And also it is known as a haram
haaram meaning prohibited to engage in sin, prohibited to engage in certain items in
that particular territory, prohibited to kill insects and animals unnecessarily in that particular territory.
They are all in peace because of the dua of Ibrahim Alasanam. So
when Ibrahim says, ya Allah make this a peaceful place. Allah prohibited all
of us from harming any creatures or anyone there. Whoever sins in Mecca has
or will receive a greater sin than the same sin being committed elsewhere on the
globe. Alas suphanahat Allah protect us all from sin, and may He forgive
our sins. Then Alas suhana Ala says, he says, what your noubani
Abani and las name Robbie in kathminanas from a tabiani for Inhomi woman nasaani for
in Rahim or Allah, save myself and save my offspring, my children from
worshiping idols. Well, indeed these idols have led a lot of people astray.
Or Allah, whoever follows me, they are from me. And whoever
does not follow, Yeah, Allah, you are most forgiving. Look at
what he said, whoever does not follow yea, Allah you are most forgiving.
So alashana Ala heard the do our. So therefore Allah makes mention of
something interesting. Ala sukhanahwat Alah says, calla'ama kafara faoma oh colleen anoro in
arada, I mean. When Allah responded, Ibrahim Alas said, I will
grant you all the goodness. I will give you the produce. I will
give you every form of goodness. And for those who follow you, as
well as for those who disbelieve, I will give them a chance. I
will give them a respite. I will give them goodness in this world.
They may receive a lot of good in the world. Whoever turns to me
turns whoever doesn't, then they will be subjected to severe punishment if they don't
turn before their point of death. So our call firstly to all of us
and then to those who are not Muslim. We need to turn to our
maker and submit to the one who creates us alone before we die. So
when we pray, we say, oh you who made me, you alone?
Do I put my head on the ground for Oh you, whom I'm
going to return to, have mercy upon me the day I return to you.
We do not risk anything in Islam. In Islam, no risks.
I don't say oh Man, oh Stone, o person, oh Prophet.
No I say oh Allah, yeah Allah. When I return to you,
grant me goodness. I am putting my head on the ground for you alone.
This is the power of Ibrahim's call and Chaipan has come after that to
divert people away from this. So he diverted the Christians, and he diverted
so many other people. They began to worship people, and they began to
worship others. May Allah sud Hannah howat Ala safeguards so Ibrahim ali Islam makes
another dua and he alas sud Hanah Hawat Alah firstly praises him. Alasays Ibrahim
shah k an Rameh. He was a person who was always thankful. He
was never ungrateful. No matter what condition we kept him on, he was
thankful alas is ij tabah Ella all things tuk him. Allah chose him,
and Allah guided him to the right path. So this is why we need
to ask Allah to guide us. Guidance is in the hands of Allah.
Suhannah Howat. We can hear a powerful talk and we leave here saying it's
a powerful talk. Hey, today I heard a lack of speech. Masham.
That's where it stops. If that's the case, what guidance did we
get from it? Did my life change because I heard a powerful talk?
If it changed? Now we are speaking even if we don't tell anyone we
heard a powerful talk. But our lives changed. Now we have achieved something,
but if it hasn't changed, we will hear talk after talk, eloquence
upon eloquence, and still we won't change. We will continue saying good talk,
good talk, good talk, and that's where it will stop. When
we die, also we'll be talking good Laho akbar alas Hannah not do that
to us. So Alas says Tanna Hassanah, we gave him goodness in this
world. And what in nahuf in I mean as sali, and even in
the Ahara, we have taken him as those who are Salah, those who
appear to enter into the Ahara on the highest of levels. And alas ubhannahwat
alyases Ibrahim al Salam always made to a for his children. Whenever Allah granted
him something, he says, yea, Lah, what about my children?
What about my officering? From all the time before he had children. So
when alas Hannah, howat alyassala ivarahim rambo bi kalimatia hun kala in jaino khalimzi
Imama. When Allah tested Ibrahim al Salam, he passed all the tests.
So Allah says, oh, Ibrahim, I appoint you as an Imam as
a leader. What did he say, kaula amiliati yalla? What about my
family? What about my children? You made me an imam. I want
them also to be Imam's. So look what Alas says Allah akbar Allah speaks
about the progeny now of Brahm al Islam alas Hannah Ala says waal Namin hum
wajillahum imad nabi Amrina. We made them also imams. We made them also
leaders who were calling towards us. What our hyena inlayhimlati itamas salati, what
itazakati. And we revealed to them to do good and to enjoin that which
is good, and to give out charities and to fulfill their prayers. These
were some of the things that Allah revealed upon the children of Ibrahim. Now
a question might arise. The question is, so who were the offspring?
Alas Hana tells Ibraham. Yeah, Ibrahim, the gift we want to give
you is two things. Will keep it in your family, prophethood and revelation
in your family. The books that will come down your family, all of
them, and the messengers your family. So Allah tells us in the forearm,
the names of some of these children of Ibrahim, whom he had chosen.
Do you want to hear these names so beautifully? They had just written
out Allahu Akaba Alas of hanahaat aalyases Wawa haaban Alah, who is Hakawakub?
You had two names, isn't it so hannahlah alasa is We granted him a
gift of his haken Yakub. His ma is coming. Just now the name
will come. He was also a child, so alass of hanahwat aalyases Kulanhadainah.
We guided them all Hanhadaina Kabulu, just like we had guided Noah before
them. So no Halai Salam was the father Ibrahim. Had Salam was from
the family of Nor. And now we find allus made mention of two names.
It's hark and Yakub. Then a las sub Hannah atalyas is wa Mei
Daulai, Manawai, Bau Sufa Musawaha. Look at the names one after the
other. Moses are own. So on, So on, Allah as peace
be a pond them. It doesn't stop there. Allah gives us a break
so we can rest, We can take a breath. Alas is singing.
That is how we recompense those who do good, which means we keep the
Dean in their progeny. You find the strong alum of dean, his children
will also be ulama, and his grandchildren will also be ulama. For as
long as they are serving the Dean, their children will continue serving the Dean.
That is Allah. And then and it continues. Was the carrya yaha
yah another four names and gives us a break in a sali in. They
were all pious, isna akaba. Look at all the names, one after
the other. They're just being recited a lost telling Salam. Here you are.
Everything is set. When we instructed you, you surrendered without ever batting
an eyelid. Now you look what will happen for you. This is a
lesson for us. Allah tests you one, two, three, four.
He tests you one after the other, big big tests. When you surrender
once twice, three times. Don't start saying, oh, someone did magic
on me, that's why this is happening. No, it is Allah.
He's testing you. When you pass all those tests, Allah will fling open
those doors in such a way that you won't even know love Akaba so alas
Sumhanahata says after that, it's not stopped. The names might have stopped,
but Alas says one mean aba in him him hum m mustaphie from their parents,
from their children, from their brethren. We guided them, We chose
them, We showed them the right path. So not only those names,
but all their families, a lot of them, alass we guided them because
Ibrahim a his salams effort and his sacrifice. And this is why Annah alas
is what conia iberra Himaha is hata, what iber him a is harka komba
in ad one Abosa Omham seldom make mention of Ibrahim is hak and Yakub,
who were granted lots of power, and they were granted lots of foresight.
Alasses in alasnahum. We chose them, We chose them. And this is
why in the Koran, right at the beginning, Alas is in Allaha safadau
how ala Ibrahim alah imran ala la Lahmi. Allah has chosen Adam, and
he chose and the progeny, and he chose the family of Abraham, and
he chose the family of Amran. May peace be upon them. All Allah
chose them over and above all of mankind. So it's Allah who chooses and
this is why Alas speaks about jealousy. People today are jealous someone is an
alim. They're jealous. Someone has wealth, They're jealous. Someone has goodness.
They're jealous someone has any form of something positive. People become jealous.
So Alas is jealousy. Do you want to know whom we best out the
most? You think you know what jealousy is all about? Amyahsudun and alamahom
Lomi. Fuddly are they being jealous with the normal and ordinary people regarding the
virtue that Allah has given them? Alas is hang on. We want to
tell you what we gave someone else. Fakadina ala ibarra him and kitab a
hikmaaina hum mulkan ala the family of Abraham. We gave them all three things
that you could ever be jealous about. What are the three things we gave
them al qitab, which means we revealed books to them, We gave them
revelation, We kept it in them. Now, let's see who wants to
speak about jealousy. Then, Alas of hahnahawat aalyases we gave them hikma,
We gave them the wisdom, We gave them the path. Look at Ibrahim,
how he spoke to the people, how he conveyed the message. Look
at Muhammad, Salah was seldom from the family of Ibrahim, how he conveyed
the message Salah who he was seldom and Alas subhanahawatnalysis. We gave them in
the family of Abraham, Mulkan Aldeman. We gave them lots and lots of
not only property, but even authority. Take a look at David and Solomon,
Daoud and Suleiman. Made peace be upon them. They were prophets and
they were kings at the same time. Subhana Lah, they were from the
family of Ibrahim. Is Salah to a Salam, so alas is look at
what we gave them. So don't be jealous, ask Allah, Allah is
the owner. By you being jealous of someone, it's not going to come
to you. If that was the case, we'd all be looking hard at
the raymond will of that man. Mashallah, look at it and suddenly you
find it in your hand. Masham, that was the case. You look
at everybody's vehicles as well, driving next to the guy with a Bugatti and
you just stare at it. The next thing, you feel like you're in
it Allah lakaba. If that was the case, that would be the system.
Alas says, No, you want to one, ask Allah work towards
it, you will achieve it. You want Allas pleasure spiritually, ask Allah
work towards it. You will achieve it. Annahatala open our doors. Then
we have the death of Ibrahiman Salah to a Salam. He passed away,
and it is reported and recorded that he passed away in an area Infalos theme
which is today known as Al Khalil. It is known as al Khalen also
known as Hebron, and where he passed away he was buried. He was
kafan enshrouded by his own children and buried their subhan Allah. Then there are
the two children of Brahim Alah is Salam, is Maim and is Hak.
The older one is his Smail, may peace be upon him. The younger
one is his Hak. Not much has been mentioned in the Quran about both
of them, besides the story of his Smail adh is Salam prior to him
having been granted prophethood by Alas Suhnannah Hawat Alah. After that, Allah makes
mention of very few qualities of him. I'd like to make mention of them
today so that tomorrow wee can commence with the prophet lut and chadah alas is
in the verses we read this evening in Tarawi alas subhanahwat Ala says what kurufin
Kitabi Ismae make mention of the prophet Ismail in the book in Nahu kan asadi
Kadi. He was very very truthful to his promise. He used to fulfill
his promises and his appointments wakana rasulanabin here and he was sent. He was
also granted scriptures. What can I moro a la salati? He was zakati,
what can be marldon? He used to constantly remind his family members to
fulfill Salah and to purify themselves giving charity. And he was one whom Allah
was pleased with. So these are this is what is made mention of Ismail
Adahi sala to a salam as for his hak alaihi sala to a Salam.
Allah makes mention of him where he speaks about the prophet Jacob and where he
speaks about the fact that he was the father of Jacob Yakob balaihi salah to
a Salam and Jacob Yakub made peace be upon him, had children, from
amongst them was Joseph Yusuf Alaihi Salah to a Salam. So Allah makes mention
of how Ibrahim had a son who was an Abe, had another son who
was an Abe, had a son who was an Ab. So Yusuf aaleh
Is Salam had a very very high lineage because he was an ab son of
an ab, son of an ab, son of a hell of a loss
of Hannah, Hota, lots of Hannah ho ala grandas all goodness until we
meet again as all who was selling about and I mean Hammed so Hannah Hamdy
Hannah Laham handy should anta comana. Two boy