The True Spirit of Islam - Siraj Wahhaj

assalamualaikum bismillah r-rahman r-rahim alhamdulillah alhamdulillah hero-villain mean nama doin a sting on a stock filumena be he will network valet mano dilemma shooting for cinema semolina ya de la vela mudalali for menu la ilaha illa national ilaha illallah wahdahu la sharika why shadow anna muhammadan abduhu solo I'm a bad mm Nordine and brothers and sisters I'm very thankful to Allah the Almighty to have the great privilege to address you tonight for a few moments and it is my great honor I feel humbled by the invitation of the Imam for me to come to work with you tonight mm northing two weeks ago I was on a plane coming from New York on us air it had the Guardia Airport on my way to Jacksonville Florida and in the back of me was a young mother and she had a young boy named Alex about three years old in the reason that I remembered his name because the mother repeatedly during the trip said Alex sit down Alex don't do this Alex don't do that and you know how children could be at that age into everything and then finally after the mother said Alex don't do this finally Alex said but mommy why and she said Alex just because I say so and there is something about the nature of a mother and father that they know instinctively that they have the right to tell their child what to do they don't have to read it in the manual they know by nature that the child is supposed to obey them the mother and the father they know that and also the child knows that whatever it needs it must seek it from the parent and look when the child is born immediately when the child comes out it searches for the mother's breast so that it can nourish itself I use that as an introduction for what I want to say to you tonight by the graces of Allah Allah tells us to do so many things as Muslims and sometimes our children don't understand and acts the question where mom and dad why do I have to dress like this why can I not go to the prom why can I not do why do I have to what why and sometimes we have to say well just because Allah said it in trust alone brothers and sisters you can tell off time the significance of something based upon how many times it's repeated I wonder do you know which word in the Quran this 114 chapters which word is repeated more often than any other word you will find a word in the Quran that's repeated so much and no other word comes near it and that is the name Allah then Allah must be significant some three thousand times in the Quran just Allah alone Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah over and over again he repeats his name all throughout the Quran and is interesting to note that the word after the name of Allah that most often appears in the Quran is the word knowledge and its derivatives almost a thousand times Allah repeats the word in the Quran in eylem only Matt Tyler Moore I love all of these things knowledge and its derivatives first the name of Allah and then knowledge today brothers and sisters I'm going to offer to you what I believe should be the spirit of our community in the next 1000 years I often wonder what tomorrow will bring like be like sometimes I think and wonder when my little said to my youngest daughters 30 years what would this country be like I wonder 500 years from now if we are still around what would this world be like the truth brothers and sisters none of us have the ability to know exactly what will happen tomorrow for Allah reveals in Quran although belay him initiate on your regime vomited enough some method Toxie bahadin and no soul knows what it will earn tomorrow today you rich tomorrow you poor today you live in a nice home tomorrow you're homeless today you married to a wonderful man tomorrow you will all have great parents today tomorrow one of them or both of them are gone you have children today but tomorrow some of them will go because Allah will take them away because that's the nature of this life whenever you begin to hold on to things in this life Allah let you know that nothing is permanent but him and so all your life you learn to love things and as soon as you get real close a lot snatches away from you just to let you know always known to remember to be humble and that you always put your trust in Allah not money not material things but in Allah so what will the future be like I want to first commend mm Nora Deen and the beautiful believers at masjid and sari and sister claire mohammed school imam i have to say this i have been I've been to a few places and I have never received the hospitality that I received from you since I've been in it's unbelievable I honestly I mean I can't make this up their act Tariq and you had actually you know this of Imam you want to make sure you have some water they gave me 18 bottles of water pastries fruits even a watermelon yesterday Oh any ma'am the hospital hospitality has been really immaculate you you almost make me almost think about almost wanting this thing for a minute I want to commend the entire school system sister Claire Muhammad school because one of the longest-running full-time schools in America is sister Claire Muhammad school that's a fact now tonight I'd like to share with you what I think should be the spirit of the community you know something's its significance by how many times it's repeated indeed the first chapter of the Quran is called smel Metheny that means the seven of repeated verses this chapter al-fatiha the opening book of the Quran is so significant that a Muslim must recite this chapter every prayer and every rakah and if you don't recite al-fatiha then there is no prayer laughs or lack no prayer unless you recite Surat al-fatiha is that right then that must mean that this chapter is significant because it's repeated so often the off repeated prayer and there's something else that's important in the Quran that's repeated a few places and that's going to be the basis of my discussion tonight insha'Allah and I don't want you to worry because I'm I have developed over the the years the habit of making my talk short Imam you should be happy the day of long speeches from this guy is finishing inch inshallah but I want to bring something to your attention brothers and sisters I think I've been studying an imam for many many years and I think just now I'm beginning to understand some of it a long time ago when Allah created the first man Adam a laser that was sallam and his wife immediately from the very beginning Allah gave this man Adam and his wife great honor and a lot told all the angels to bow down to Adam and they did every one of them but there was somebody who wasn't an angel and jinn called Iblees that allow also ordered him to bow down to Adam I bear was stuck bar but he refused to bow down to Adam and he was arrogant and I want you to think along with me Allah gives everyone an opportunity to express themselves and that's a good lesson for parents Allah allows everyone to express themselves or likes it please what man Menaka I led test you that is a martica what prevented you from prostrating when and this is the key when I ordered you to parla he said Anna Heidemann Who I am better than him collectin II mean Aaron well collect the human team you created me of fire in him you created of mud I'm better than him and this brothers and sisters began the creation and the making of Shaitaan the devil notice you never read in the Koran Shaitaan from the beginning you read it please because he became Shaitaan based upon his challenge to Allah and so all of his life now this Shaitaan is obsessed with the idea that I am better than this man I refuse to bow down to him and I'm going to prove to you that this man is unworthy I will prove it to you that this man Adam this human being he doesn't have the right to be better than me and so everything that man does Shaitaan is they're trying to take him from the right path trying to prove to him trying to prove to Allah that we as human beings unworthy of the great honor that Allah has given to us it's repeated few times in the Quran so then that must mean that is significant and let me try in the next few moments insha'Allah to show you its significance in what that has to do with us tonight in raising funds for sister klara Muhammad school you know the irony the irony is that Shaitaan or it beliefs taught himself better and listen to what Allah said after after it beliefs refused to bow Allah said roots Ferrucci faculties get out in the communist or get in you are of the lowest ooch get out of here because even though you think you better in reality your words why because no matter what you think of yourself you got to go back to Allah commandant let me show you the wisdom of this you know II ma'am there are sisters that we married to Allah knows are smarter than us then brothers I'm not talking about you on necessarily but they are some sisters have PhDs college degrees variant Allah bless them deeper intelligent I have a very intelligent wife and I recognize that and I learned from her I hope you do the same thing but but yet even though they may even have more knowledge than sometimes their husbands in certain certain ways but Allah tells tell the man that her dad look our Mona Lisa min o the heads of the household right so sister she says you know what you my husband and I I I give you some advice but still I respect you because you were the head of the household why because Allah gave you that you see Allah has given you a man sometimes a man sometimes we give him hotbar brothers sitting there I could do that anger and do Bethenny man shoe have to listen to email i it from sunset school he didn't I'm better than him Shaitaan Shaitaan is talking to you because no matter what you think a lot told you to a baby man so you do it and if you do it Allah will bless you and if you submit to Allah Allah elevate you yeah yeah if you submit to Allah Allah elevate you but if you want fight and then now you're gonna prove that he's unworthy like Shaitaan and you won't go around now trying to do everything to undermine the man so I said you know I love the Imam you don't know him like we know now I know that I'm not talking about Miami and Fort Lauderdale I'm not talking about you are everybody here straight yeah I'm talking about other people so they don't think I'm no I'm serious don't think I'm talking about you all in a beautiful thing about me ma'am I don't know none of your business so you know me I don't know I'm not sure I don't know what's going on I'm just talking now broaden sisters I come to what I want to say tonight this was an introduction to what I really want to say when you get an opportunity I want you to pick up the fourth volume of body hadith in the section called kitab or NBA the chapter of the prophets I had the opportunity Imam to read every hadith in that volume about the prophets every word and I learned something very valuable don't like to share tonight which I believe should be the right spirit of the future one of my friends named Sharif lives in Arizona told me one day he says Suraj we should pray as if everything depends on allah and it does I mean everything so you think that you can earn bread but you can if Allah doesn't allow you we take so many things for granted every breath that we take we take for granted but just let a lot stop the air from coming let her last stop the rain which she has from what I understand let them stop the crops from growing all these things that you take for granted just let her last stop it so everything you do you have to ask Allah even when a man sleeps with his wife he has to ask Allah she has to ask Allah because take nothing for granted everything you do you have to add along here so if you're talking about the future every day every year every millennium every thousand years they've been 10,000 years every million years you plant ask Allah for everything every muscle bread he says pray to Allah as if everything depends on a lot and it does but then he said Siraj work as if everything depends on you see you you're working as if everything depends on you you're working as is but you know it depends on Allah you have to ask him and then you got to go to work and then you got a plan even though may never come in to existence but still you have to plan and let me tell you why I don't know what tomorrow will bring when man tether enough soon be ier than two moons and nobody even knows the land that they're gonna die I know brother friend of mine born in Pakistan moved to America and became a doctor in the city of Detroit we made Hajj and he died in Mecca born in Pakistan living in America dying in Mecca you don't know where you're gonna die and by the way that's why you be careful where you go because you don't want to die in a crack house you don't want to die in a hole a house nobody knows see a lot does that to you when you running hiding his sneak-around allows the manifest and so whatever you do in a dock allah bringing it to light and you don't know where you're gonna die what you doing what circumstance and that's why you have to try to live your life right because Allah can take you in a moment nobody knows the future but yet we have to plan I read all of the verses in the hadith about the prophets Imam I was in California UCLA and I gave a test to the students and I gave the same test to the students at University of Toronto and I came back to North New York I gave the students there the same test and in another city and I would like to give some of that test tonight inshallah if you know the answer I want you to raise your hand so if you think you know the answer Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him taught us that every human being that's born every one of them every one is touched by Shaitaan at his birth except two people if you think you know the answer the two exceptions raise your hand you think you know the answer this raise them up Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him said that every human being that's touched that's born paulin is touched by Shaitaan except two people Jesus and his mother Mary you should ask the question why it's a very literal audience if you go in the Koran you understand the significance of grandmother's and the answer lies within the Koran and the dough add of the grandmas of Jesus I'm not I'll let you study at yourself you say it's right there playing black and white Oh grandmother's very powerful I look at us tonight how well-dressed we are now beautiful dresses and our beautiful suits very nice but guess what in a few days when we die all of these great finery of clothing we won't take with us and for sure we will be resurrected for sure and guess what everybody without any exception will be resurrected naked am i right come on I'm all right naked same way you came in you think you're going out with something you came in naked remember you forgot you came with nothing remember all that money you got the job you have the home you have the clothing you have the children you have the money you have the bank account you have when you came in you had nothing and when you go out you have nothing you be resurrected naked in Aisha the wife of the Prophet said aren't the men and women gonna look at each other he's oh no not that day you'd be too busy worrying about what's going to happen to you with your Lord see you ain't gonna be looking at no look at that not that day brother trust me but guess what even though we will be resurrected naked we will be clothed question number two who will be the first human being clothed on the day of resurrection if you think you know the answer raise your hand yes ma'am prophet ibrahim yes Ali salat WA Salam will be the first human being that is clothed on the day of judgment Allah ho Akbar don't ask me why you got away - action number three when the horn will be blown every human thing everything alive will lose consciousness and when the horn is blown the second time who will be the first one to arise from consciousness or into consciousness if you think you know the answer raise your hand yes no good guess if you think you know the answer same sister nun prophet Muhammad Allah Akbar wrong it's a good guess yes prophet Musa Lisa that was salam prophet moses will be the first one to raise from consciousness i can tell you why that I can tell you but I won't know cuz we don't have time I just want you to just just come along with me for a moment I'm making a point here the Quran mentions the prophets in one person in the Quran Allah mentioned Allah spoke to directly that's prophet Musa finally my last question which prayer of what person is most beloved but Allah of all of the people at creation whose prayer is most loved by Allah if you think you know the answer raise your hand yes ma'am huh okay crying believe it that's good now on a specific name same system allow egg by profit that would correct listen to what the Prophet said so Lala Solomon and all of these things sisters and brothers they have meaning in the hub oh so la la la sala de oude 10a enamel Neffs allez-y a Kumu salute ah ho ayan mo seducer who the most beloved prayer to Allah is the prayer Prophet David prophet the world why because he used to sleep half tonight stand up and prayer 1/3 of the night and go back to sleep 1/6 to the night but why what's the reason what's the wisdom so an extra profit submalar asylum men aqua moon ask who is the most honorable person see he says Yusuf Joseph a prophet and the son of a prophet and the grandson of a prophet and the great-grandson of a prophet prophet yields use of a Joseph non brothers and sisters I conclude Prophet Muhammad peace and blessing be upon him said that none of you must say that I'm better than Jonah and he who says listen he who says I me the Prophet is better than Jonah is a liar it's a Nadi's any ma'am I put all these together and I said huh I got it the spirit that we must have in this community must be the same spirit as the prophets and not the spirit of Shaitaan what do you mean by that our prophet and said I'm the most honorable I'm me me me I he like Shaitaan like a beast Anna me this is where you begin to fall when you say me me me me honor honor me what happened to not nuit what happened to Allah first and foremost and I said ah nan I got any ma'am I got it I got it I think I understand a little bit in my conclusion I read something that the Prophet said the laser that was salam that really affected me he said cool of solomon and a clas Ibaka couldn't a human tackle ephesians you know that means he said every bone every bone of a human being is responsible to give charity every day that the Sun rises you didn't hear what I said did you he didn't say every human being has to give charity he said every bone of a human being have to give charity every day that the Sun rises and then I think I realize now that whatever I think I have done to make a contribution to Islam is really very very very very small I mean think about it I know we pray five times a day you know kind of think we doing something but it's not much compared to what Allah has given to us we don't really give back what we should the thing that I've learned the Imam in my studies is that whatever Allah gives you you have the responsibility to give something back I mean more than zakat I mean more than a portion of your salary you know what I mean I mean if Allah gives you sleep give some back this is why the prayer of Dawood was so great because if the average person slept six hours he would sleep for hours and pray to hours see while you're in the bed sleeping at night it's a it's a blessing but sleep is a blessing you tie it and you and your sleep and and some people don't want to get up but as a Muslim you have to get up even though you're tired you have to get up before the Sun rises you have to get your children up they have to get up but come on we got to get up we got to worship Allah you've got to get up you got to get up every day and you got to get up every morning you got to get up come on you got to get up you teach them five - six seven years old come on you got your where you going we're gonna worship Allah come on let's get up so like give you food we had this wonderful food tonight wonderful dinner so whatever he gives you you got to give something up so every year here come Ramadan you give up Higgy you give you food so I said okay I love them I'm not gonna take everything Ramadan for the whole month during the daylight hours I'm gonna give it back to you like give you a wonderful beautiful wife said a lot thank you for my wife I'm going to give it up mama and for you so whatever I'll give you I'll give you time then you get back sometime to the Masjid luck gave you a mind a beautiful mind and intelligent mind give something bad luck give this young girl beautiful body she looks beautiful what'd she do she covered up for Allah she shows her gratitude to Allah and go back down to the challenge of Shaitaan nobody said well at Ted you do I follow him Shaq he wound you will not find most of them grateful so the whole idea of Shaitaan the devil is to make the people ungrateful to Allah and that's why all these people they're ungrateful for the laws given to them and they turn their backs on Allah and so brothers and sisters I close with this and I might say to you I know how to Minnie you are better than me I'm not trying to be better than anyone else I'm trying to find my place and now I go and look and my brothers and sisters and I find something in them better than me because all of them have something in them better than me and that's why I saw the Prophet was he mentioned all these prophets and I could tell you more how lost them Imam okay Hetal many many your Imam is better than my Imam our lad Deacon Heidemann a lady your children are better than my children so jessica Cattleman's lgt your wife is better than my wife your school is better than my school your my students better in my Masjid your believers are better than my believers and then when we look at each other and see the good in each other that Allah has blessed with more than us than we appreciate a last creation I say this to you let's prove tonight let's give something back give it back to our school sister Claire Muhammad school here in this area I want 50 people that's going to stand with me tonight to say I want to make an intention to help sister Claire Muhammad school what do I mean number one if you're going to talk about the future of a school or business venture or anything you're going to do you must begin with number one Nia intention have them have the purpose intention to do something for Allah just have the intention what I want tonight is 50 people I will be the first one I want 50 special people tonight that's going to make intention just Nia I don't want any money right now just intention to donate $1,000 to sister Claire Muhammad school I want 50 people mmm I'm number one and before I leave I want 50 no less than 50 people that's going to stand with me for sister Clair Muhammad school in this area it make Nia to give $1,000 let me tell you why Carla Rasulullah he sallallahu alayhi wasalam in the locket a bell NASA net was say at a lot writes down the good and the bad what does a lot write down when may I marry miss Carla Dalton writing your Romania Mellon miss Carla Dalton shot in the order whoever does an atom's weight of good shall see it every atom's weight of good that you do a lot of write it down and every atom's weight of evil that you do a lot write it down when you're home alone by yourself and nobody's looking your wife not around husband not a wife around the Imams not around the teachers not around the Princeton was not around whatever you doing darkness is being written down Fuma belyanov Alec then he explained what it means for men hanging up a hustle nothing for the Philomela kepta below hasanat and the who has nothing Camila whoever intends to do a good deed but doesn't do it a lot writes down with himself a full good deed think what I just said whoever intends to do a good deed but something happens you can't do it I want to give a thousand dollars to the school I intended somewhere along the line that what I was trying to do it I couldn't do it I lost my job because of your intention Allah already wrote it down as a complete deed can I get fifty people today to make a commitment I'm a count them write this raise your hand I'm out I don't want no money right now all I want is fifty people who make me act to give a thousand dollars one two three four five six seven eight nine ten 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Oh 4546 and inform on 47 al-akhbar 4849 tuna that's 50 that's it hmm hey ma'am you got 50 inch on last 50 now I said I don't want the money right that's what I said right none I want some money the first thing you have to do McNeal that's first in the NIA must be sincere I want to help the school the school is good the school is great and Charlotte is the future now it's the future now so I make me I want to help the school so I make Nia a thousand dollars yes number one number two then there must be effort now how am I gonna how am I gonna do that you're gonna start today I don't have all my thousand dollars EMM I telling you but you know what I got I got some right now I'm going to give you toward my my thousand dollars tonight that's number one and i'm myaxx anybody to do the same thing some of you can pay the thousand right now yes those who can pay the thousand now I want you to pay that Imam I'm gonna need a couple of writers give me give me three brothers I need three brothers I need three strong brothers and I need some security okay is people get crazy I understand they're Tarek this get to any three brothers up here with me and Shalom now Jay don't you be walking out the door now I noticed everything when I'm up here anyone who moves I can see you now are we gonna get checked that's good no problem all right now number three you need a plan I close with these words of the Prophet the late so that was salaam someone came to him and say ya rasulallah madad o Messenger of Allah when is the hour and the Prophet said nay I did tell her what did you prepare for it so there must be a plan you ma'am this is my plan I'm asking you to do it I want you to take the money I give you tonight and next month July around this time I want you to call me at home and say Imam I want my second installment not I'm serious this is my plan that's how I'm going to decide intend to do it and I'm saying it's fun all these people you man and you could announce it on Juma the next day you call me to see if I took your business all right I'm putting pressure on myself okay I'm a ma'am I'm putting on your shoulder now you call me say mmm Suraj you see you reminded me to call you a month from now from then and I will send you a check the day that you call me I will put it in the mail in Xiang Liang right and I will do that and I want you to call me every month as our anniversary every month after that until them complete that's my intention and if Allah blesses me to be able to do it the next month I'll give all of it if not I keep on giving until I'm finished that's my that's what I want to do for the school because this school will help children is my children never go to don't matter fact is that some Muslim child will go there and they will learn did you watch the film of these young brothers and sisters these brilliant children I was impressed um I was ready I was ready to get the money right then so let's get the money what you need no speech you had it so then you have to have a plan now brother sister what we going to do we got one two three four handsome men are you all married is woofs it is yeah why not why not we have to facilitate people get married in any men wherever I go I found out if people married and I had to hook him up maybe he may be married within a month who knows Allah Allah these brothers are going to go to you right now into the table all of those who raise your hand now I just ask 4000 what about those who have less than that Imam your pledge forms what I need you to do Hasan is the UM if you don't have pledge forms get it get a sheet of paper and get everybody's name who raised their hands fifty people at least that's your assignment and right everybody's name down and amount they pledge and what they're given now some people here will give the thousand and shaolong write them down you got to keep we have to have accurate record and then we okay good and then we and then what we do is we'll go back and check after every month now those who have less than a thousand your money is not less significant I just wanted to get a commitment of least fifty thousand those of you cannot afford a thousand but have something to give nine hundred dollars or seven hundred or five hundred or four hundred three whatever it is a hundred or fifty even even a dime brothers and sisters you never know that one dime could be the difference the law will forgive you your sin and into you to Jenna this could be the difference but I want everyone to give something don't think that it's not enough the profit the laser that wa sallam said save yourselves from the fire even with half a date and Allah accepts anything however small it is if you do it sincerely for Allah Allah will accept it so please raise your hands again the brothers will come by inch Allah or maybe if we get a couple of sisters who can go to the sisters to help us a lot facilitate if you ma'am if you can get a couple of sisters to help us too right now um and by the way actually I want it if there's somebody here who can give more than a thousand I don't want you to limit yourself because I said a thousand if you have more than a thousand to donate to the school even though you've done it before do it again because you can't tax too much okay and give too much for Allah subhana WA Ta'ala manaka-san melo abdomens undercut the Prophet said your wealth is never diminished by giving sadaqa so please raise your hand the brothers will come around in sha allah and write your names and take your money please I'm asking you those who can do the whole thing do it now if you can do half of it if you can't do any of it right now just the knee add the intention but have that intention as you leave tonight what we're going to do you ma'am we're going to get these brothers start counting before we leave we're going to give them how much we actually counted how much in pledges inshallah now those of you who can't afford a thousand if you want to make a commitment for six hundred or five hundred I want you to do the same thing for instance how many people can make Nia to donate $500 raise your hand if you can donate $500 as a as your intention how many could do that okay good one two three good I'm the law for good five these little kids are tricking me five six seven seven alhamdulillah seven there's seven people anymore maybe three more we can do five hundred commitment and hamdulillah so that's seven people with a five hundred dollar commitment brothers by the time you finish a thought it you have to have fifty one thousand and seven five hundreds okay that's what you need to have insha'Allah also anyone else whatever everybody should do something even young brothers and sisters how do you brother 11 years old Egan announced your parents here ah I just tired Tariq he said if you give me loud she can donate some okay you know Brunson says I'm trying the truth I am anyone knows me I give my my children allowance every week to me that's like a like a bill that I have and I set aside money every week to give my children nothing else I always give them their money and I always teach my children that whenever they give I give them some money they should always donate some to Sado always and one day I gave my son Mohammed his allowance and I said Mohammed don't forget you have to donate something sonica and he I won those looks on his face like he was upset like he had an attitude here's five years ago I said Mohammed wasn't matter nothing I said Mohammed well I know something's matter he says what dad dad huh how come I have to give some of my money to sonica see Sarika is the name of my oldest daughter yeah really and he thought that he had to give so much money to a sister sonica I said no Mohammed I don't mean so tonight I want everyone to get to sonica my oldest daughter no no no not to the school sister Claire Mohammed school of course so run sisters um I really appreciate you and yours and your wonderful spirit and and I know that you will carry that spirit in this community the spirit of love and commitment to each other and a spirit of humbleness before Allah and with each other and that is tried to find the good in each other and if you look if you look close enough every brother you know and every sister you know we have something about them that's better than you make dua for each other and make dua I make dua for the Imam and master them and salt and sister Claire Muhammad school mmm may Allah bless you I love you and I love this community and I love the spirit that you have a Sonali Corolla

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Length: 52min 57sec (3177 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 20 2011

Reddit Comments

[u/In_Peace]

nice amazing video, I don't know why you got down voted so fast.

[u/mandazi]

Here is a good list of lectures from him: http://halaltube.com/speaker/siraj-wahhaj