Speaker 1: Alhamdula Alamin wassala to a Salam Alah ashari Amba Muslin
nabiena Muhammad Alah. Early he was habihi what taburin woman
tabi ahumbi sning ilayo mid dean, My brothers and sisters,
we praise a loss of Hannah Allah upon all conditions,
and we send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad Salalah. He
was seldom his household his companions. May Allah bless every
one of us too, and protect us from all evil,
my brothers and sisters. The first reminder, as usual, is
the reminder to draw closeness to a loss of Hannah adah,
to become closer to Allah as the days pass. For indeed,
every pass day is a day closer to the day
that we will be meeting with a loss of hannahoate Allah,
My brothers and sisters, Calamity strikes. Difficulty was promised by
a loss of Hannah at Allah to humankind, and a
loss of Hannah houate Alah says he will test us,
and he will continue to test us with various tests. However,
a loss of hannahamate Alah has told us that he
has favored us in ways that we will never ever know.
He has favored us in ways we will never be
able to gather if we were to try and count them.
Listen to what Allah says, or indo near Matalilah in inlav. Indeed,
if you are to count the favors of Allah upon you,
you will never be able to count them all. And
indeed man is not only oppressive, but ungrateful too. May
Alla not make us from among those who are ungrateful. So,
my brothers and sisters, in every difficulty and every hardship,
there is always a silver lining. There is always ease.
In fact, there is more ease than hardship in every
difficult situation. Take a look at those, even the non believers,
who have succeeded in this worldly life that is very temporary.
Many times we hear of how they had failed initially,
and as a direct result of that failure, they ended
up in a place where they succeeded in an unimaginable way.
Many have dropped out of colleges and then succeeded. Many
have lost in businesses and then succeeded. Many have been
fired from their employment and then succeeded. Wasn't this a loss?
Of hannahuat Alah, who knew and knows the future. Always,
may a loss of Hannah houaate Alah make it easy
for us to comprehend and understand. We are definitely going
through challenging times across the globe at the moment, But
my brothers and sisters, a lot of goodness has come
out of this. What I've learned from COVID nineteen is
something amazing. Yes, as difficult as it is, and as
much as it pains us to see those affected and
to see its spreading, and to see the tall rising
and many people losing their lives on a daily basis,
as much as it pains us, and we keep praying
and we keep trying, Let's look at some of the positives. Firstly,
the favors of a love upon us are great, my
brothers and sisters. Many people have developed a better relationship
with Allah than ever before in their lifetimes. People have
realized the presence of Allah, the reality of where we're heading,
how temporary this life is, and how quickly it can
actually be taken away. We are definitely going somewhere where.
While Allah has told us the one who created us
in the first place, he is the one who will
resurrect us, and he is the one who will take
care of us. So bahan Allah. It is something amazing.
People are starting to ponder over the Almighty for the
first time. Those who've never had belief, those who've been
weak in their belief, are starting to think about the Almighty,
starting to turn to him. People who've never prayed have
started praying. People who've never thought about being modest are
now taking it more seriously. People who've never thought about
the prohibitions and why they are there have now started
staying away from these prohibitions. Is this not, in a
way part of the favors of a loss of hannahuate Allah.
Let's take a look at the first point, gaining closeness
to Allah. How many of you, and let's be honest,
have become more conscious of Allah as a result of
what's going on, as a result of witnessing the helplessness
of everybody across the board, as a result of witnessing
a virus that we cannot see with the naked eye
spread like wildfire across the globe, how many of us
have become closer to the Almighty, developed a consciousness upon
levels that never was within our own hearts, minds, bodies,
and systems. May Allah sub hannahata Allah grant us goodness.
So every time there is a negativity, whenever we get
closer to Allah because of that negativity in our lives,
it is actually the favor of Allah. So hannahua to Allah.
And this is why sometimes when we are distant from Allah,
Allah taps us out of his love a reminder to say,
turned to me, I am the Supreme I made you
in the first place, I created you. I've provided the
basics for you, and at times even more than the basics.
You're going to come back to me. And I'm the
one who's going to take care of you forever and ever.
Subhanah Llah. All praise is due to Allah. Glory be
to Allah alhamdulillah la illaha illa Llah. None is worthy
of worship besides the Maker, the nurisher, the cherisher, the
sustain the provider, the protector, the cure, the one in
whose hands lies absolute control of everything in existence. Arab
bula Alamin Allah almighty, My brothers and sisters, how many
of us have started praying five times a day, even
if it means simply the Pharah, that which is compulsory.
Make no mistake more than any other act of worship.
The Almighty loves those acts that he has made compulsory
upon us. That's why he made these acts compulsory subhan Allah,
because he loves them so much. So, even if we
have started with only that which is obligatory or parah,
we have succeeded to a great degree. And Allah's favor
is manifest and clear. My brothers and sisters, Let's take
a look at another favor of Allah. What I've learned
from COVID nineteen is amazing. Many family have never spent
time together before. It is the first time that they
are actually connected and connecting and spending time and getting
to know each other and sacrificing with one another. Isn't
that a favor of Allah? Subhanahuatahana. Many have not been
eating together as a family, and for the first time,
they are not only eating together, but even praying together
marcia a la tabarakala. How many of us have not
been regular when it comes to attending the maschid, and
now that the massajid are restricted in most countries of
the world, how many of us are praying in congregation
within our homes? As much as we were restricted when
it comes to congregating in the mosques, we have now
developed congregations within our own homes, livened up the house.
Listen to the hadith. The prophet, Peace be upon him,
has always told us Lah taja'alubuyu takum kuburah, don't ever
allow your houses to degenerate into something similar to graves.
What is meant by this is, don't let your houses
be void of acts of worship. Praise Allah in your houses,
Worship Allah in your houses, ask Allah's goodness in your houses,
Engage in acts of worship in your houses, and more
than anything else, pray. Pray in your houses. So if
we were to pray together in our houses, we have
for the first time understood this hadith and narration of
the Prophet Muhammad, Peace be upon him, My brothers and sisters. Yes,
a lot of patience is required when we're getting acquainted
with our own family members. At times, people become irritated
and agitated at their own spouses or children, or siblings
or parents, or those whom they are living with. It's
our time to shine to your character and conduct. Didn't
you hear the profit piece be upon him. Say rai
rukum rai rokum li ahlihi this you should be knowing
off by heart by now, But it's not good to
just know it off by heart without practicing upon it.
The best from amongst you are those who are best
to their family members, starting with your own spouse. So
go out of your way. It's your time to shine.
Smile at those you live with, look at them with
the eyes of love and affection, mercy, goodness, help out,
assist in the home, share the chores. For the first
time we are able to do this. Isn't that a
silver lining? Isn't that the ease that has come with
this difficulty? My brothers, my sisters, Let's take a look
at how many things have been taken for granted during
the normal times that we had Subhanamah, we've become more
conscious of hygiene, of cleaning up after us. Isn't that
a favor of Allah subhanahuatlah. Yes, it should not lead
to the point of OCD. But my brothers and sisters,
isn't it a favor of Allah that we have become
more conscious of cleanliness? When the prophet Mohammed, Peace be
upon him always told us Atuhorushatrul e Maani cleanliness is
half of your faith subhana Llah, it is a large
portion of your faith. My brothers and sisters, haven't we
become more conscious of Allah to the degree that we
are taking revelation more seriously? How many of us did
not give much time to the Pur'an revelation the Word
of Allah, and today we're reading verses at times more
than just a few verses. How many of us are
improving when it comes to the quality of our recitation
and pronunciation of the verses of the Almighty in the
Holy porn, My brothers and sisters, for those of us
who have not yet started that it is the Almighty
who is giving us a chance, a favor, a loss
of hannah hoa to Allah wants us to utilize our
time in a very productive way, So don't waste your time.
It is an opportunity. The ease in the difficulty is manifest.
It is very clear how many of us are eating
healthy meals now that which is not a simple takeaway.
Not to say the takeaways are always bad, but at
times we haven't had the opportunity to eat within our
own homes. That which is cooked by our own hands
or the hands of our loved ones. Here we have
an opportunity. Don't forget to thank those who are serving
you and learn to serve them in other ways. Male
loss of hanahoa to Allah make us more conscious of
those who have dedicated their lives for us. Isn't it
one of the favors of Allah? When we witness entire
humanity put aside all their differences in order to save lives.
When humanity is being affected, then we see the reality
of saving one another and serving one another. Isn't that
part of the verse of a loss of hannah talah
when he says the one who has saved a single
life is similar to he or she who has saved
humanity at large? Or have jeremy are How many Muslims
have lost their lives saving the lives of other human beings,
irrespective of their religion, their race, their nationality, et cetera.
Is this not a favor of Allah? Does this not
show us that life is sacred as Allah has always taught?
How many are reaching out to the poor. I know
of many people who are paying their employees even though
they are not coming to work either, A full salary
or a portion of the salary, simply because the employer
can afford that which the employee cannot, especially in countries
and in situations where it is a hand to mouth scenario.
May Allah bless such people. What beautiful thoughts, what lovely gestures?
Subhan and llah? My brothers, my sisters. Isn't this showing
who we are and who we are supposed to be?
How many have started feeding their neighbors and looking out
for them. Isn't that something we learn from this COVID nineteen.
How many have started looking out for those in need
and reaching out to them with food hampers. It is amazing,
my brothers and sisters. I've seen people receive food hampers
and then share the same food hampers with others around
them who do not have as much. Isn't that a
show of the purity and goodness of the heart. May
love purify our hearts even further so that we worship
none but Him? I mean, my brothers and sisters. How
many of us have appreciated our mothers and fathers. How
many of us have appreciated our guardians, those whom we
lived with. How many of us have gone out to
seek forgiveness from those who have wronged us or whom
we have wronged, subhan Allah, and forgiven them wholesale. Thinking
about how short life is. Life is too short to
hold grudges. Life is too short to hold things in
your heart and your mind that are negative. Let go,
Let go, and alas hanaho a to Allah will cause
the mountain on your shoulder to come crumbling down. You
will feel so good. How many of us have already
done that? How many of us have purified the heart,
like I said earlier, engaging in the recitation of the
Qur'an and the other remembrance of Allah. As we've always said,
those who truly believe, it is only the remembrance of
Allah that fills the heart with contentment, nothing else. How
many of us have developed conviction that is far stronger
than ever before, My brothers and sisters, is that not
a favor of Allah? Similarly, my brothers and sisters, how
many of us have appreciated the nutrients in the home
remedies that we have, the foods and the different types
of spices, and all else that we have even within
the homes. Many of us did not know the value
of black seed before this day. Many of us did
not appreciate prophetic medicine. Before this day, how many of
us have started looking in to prophetic medicine with conviction
and appreciating the fact that we were sent the greatest
of creation. Muhammad abdillah sol la lah Ali he was seldom.
How many have now appreciated that we are favored to
be from the Ummah or the followers of Muhammad salaalahu Ali.
He was seldom. Look at the remedies he has suggested
to us, and he has asked us to take seriously
not only the Black Sea, and not only the olive oil,
but so many other things. Subhan Allah here of Bila
a Lamin, I invite you, my brothers and sisters, to
go through the prophetic medicine and see. Perhaps you may
be suffering with an ailment, the cure of which is
in your house, in your home, perhaps in the cover,
but write in your kitchen. But you did not know. Subhanahmah,
I have learned to appreciate more than ever before prophetic medicine.
Although I was aware of it, and yes we believed
it and practiced upon it. But the conviction has strengthened
to degrees I've never imagined my brothers and sisters. Scores
of people have spoken about how they've been helped in
eradicating the symptoms of this particular virus that has taken
the globe by storm by simply following some of the
Sunna remedies taught by the prophet Muhammad, Peace be upon him.
How many of us now appreciate the remedies our mothers
taught us and the older people taught us subhannah lah.
For the first time, we're taking turmerican coriander a little
bit more seriously than before. For the first time, we're
looking at the medicinal properties of those things that are
within our own stone orige in our homes. Maya la
sub haanahua Talah make us appreciate that which is very
accessible to us. I sit and I look at the
hadith and the statement of the prophet Muhammed, Peace be
upon him, wherein he says that the Almighty has always
sent a cure before a disease has come onto the earth.
It's only that we don't know or we haven't reached
that particular cure. Sometimes it is right in our homes
and we don't even know my brothers and sisters. Something
I learned as well from COVID nineteen, when the prophet
Muhammed Peace Be upon him tells us about protecting your
health and giving up bad habits and never developing those
bad habits in the first place. If we did not
take that seriously, is this not a time when we've
seen that he was speaking the truth all along? Sub
hannahlah give up your small looking habits. Give up the
drugs and the intoxicants, give up the alcohol, give up
all that will destroy your health. Alas Hannah Ala says
wilat fun sakum in a laha can be in kum rahim.
He also says oula tund couldn't ilaka wah sin in
Nullah you have scene. The first verse literally means don't
kill yourself. Allah is indeed very merciful upon you. Not
only does that prohibit suicide, but anything that is harmful
and dangerous to you and your life is prohibited. Allah says,
don't do it, don't engage in it, don't participate in it,
even if it is in small doses. For indeed, the
mercy of Allah is far greater. The second verse that
I had recited, Allah is saying, don't ever throw yourselves
into your own destruction or demise or death, and alas
of Hannah, hot Alah continues by saying, do good asinu,
for indeed, Allah loves those who do good. Brothers and sisters.
We've learned all of this, more so right now with
this issue, the disease that is spreading across the globe.
May Allah protect us all and cause it to be
eradicated as soon as possible. I mean, my brothers and sisters.
Has Allah not blessed us and favored us? Yes, Allah
has taught us different ways of praying. If you cannot
stand and pray, you sit and pray sole ka imen
for ill m, testop heer faka ridden for ill m,
testoper for allah jung pray standing. If you cannot, you
may sit down. And if you cannot do that, then
lying down you still pray. From this we learn the
mercy of Allah alass is fast during the month of Ramavan.
If you are unwell, you don't need to fast. You
can make it up later. And if you are traveling
or you're going through hardship and difficulty and you are
unable to fast, you may make it up perhaps outside
the month of fasting. Isn't that the mercy of Allah?
The same would apply when it comes to praying in
congregation in the meschief, subhan Allah, Like I said right
at the beginning, how many of us have started congregations
in our own homes. Perhaps it's the favor of Allah.
Maybe he wanted us to multiply the numbers of congregations,
and that is what would have been of essence, Nobody
has stopped praying, That's what I've learned. In fact, more
people are praying, and subhan Allah alass Is won't ever
throw yourselves into destruction. Obviously, we see the difference of
opinion among the scholars, and what we ask the scholars
to do during difficult times like these is to show
solidarity by respecting the opinions of one another, even in disagreement.
Is that not a favor of Allah. Not every country
is going through this particular disease in the same way,
because the magnitude of it differs from country to country.
Some have already gone through the worst and others have
only started. Some may never see such bad days. But
it doesn't mean that we should not take precautions. Taking
precautions is obviously one of the favors of Allah. He
has granted man the intellect, and he says that you
know what within what the Almighty has ordained, you must
make sure that you've used your intellect, and you must
make sure that you have taken every precaution possible to
protect yourself. And this is why something in the Arabic
language known as al ahdubil asbab to do that which
would lead towards something you want to achieve. If you
would like to earn money, well you need to get
up and do something about it and work very hard.
Then whatever Allah has written will come for you. But
if you were lazy and didn't do anything, claiming that
the Almighty is my maker, then you were foolish. You
did not understand the plan of Allah. The same rule
applies to taking precautions. People should not sit back and
say this is a joke while they are seeing those
in other countries die, being affected and even in their
own countries. It's not a joke, my brothers and sisters.
We must take things seriously and taking it seriously. Taking
every precaution is part of your faith in Allah. Isn't
that a favor of Allah? When the prophet Muhammed, Peace
be upon him tells us to stay away from a
person who has a contagious illness. What was he talking about.
He was talking about these precautions. Not that it means
your faith is weak in Allah. In fact, it is
very strong. But taking precautions is part of understanding the
plan of a loss of Hanahu Attilah. My brothers and sisters,
there are so many favors of Allah that we can count.
When it comes to COVID nineteen. The difficulties that we
are facing, they are there. But the ease and the
goodness that has come out and will come out far greater.
Our lives will change forever. The way we look at
things will change, and has already changed forever. But my
brothers and sisters, if we have become better people, if
we are closer to the Almighty, we've learned to reach
out to others and appreciate the value of life and
the opportunities that the Almighty has given us to worship Him,
then indeed we have succeeded, My brothers and sisters, It's
not all doom and gloom. There is so much of goodness.
The best of man has come out. I recall at
the beginning of the crisis, a lot of people, unfortunately
were overtaken by panic and they went into what was
known as panic buying. But very quickly, as this spread rapidly,
they began to share what they had, and sharing is
definitely caring for Indeed, when you share goodness with someone,
the Almighty will care for you. Like we've heard before,
Colonel la hufion In Abdi, my colonel abdu Viaoni Akihi,
Allah continues to help his slave for as long as
that slave continues to help another. So, my brothers and sisters,
have we not seen people give hope to others, reach
out to others with the good word, make them smile,
be charitable? Is all this not part of the good
that has come out of the situation. So Hannah, Allah,
I ask you to speak to people, giving them good guidance,
giving them good words, words of positivity. The world needs
to be positive at the moment. We need to have hope,
hope in the mercy of Allah, Hope in the greatness
of Allah su Hannahua tah Hannah. He will intervene. He
has intervened, He shall intervene. There are people who've been
through worse than this in history, and they've come out.
The difference here is today, reaching the east from the
west would take you no more than a day. And
for that reason, this virus has spread like never before.
And this is why we say we are in it together.
Because we are in it together. We've got to take
this seriously with the mercy of Allah, with the help
from Allah, using whatever capacity has been bestowed upon us
by Allah. Whatever restrictions that need to be put in
place in sha Allah, will be over this very very soon.
Learned to speak to people, giving them hope, encouraging them,
praying for them, and do that which is definitely filled
with wisdom, do that which is responsible. My brothers and sisters,
May alas sub Hannah Alah bless every one of us
aslaah nabina mouhammadatu