Raw notes from Sh. Riad’s Webinar

Introduction:

• Narrated by Ubad ibn Samit: When Ramadan use to approach the Prophet use to say, Ramadan the month of blessing has come, Allah blesses you in this month, he sends down the rahma, and the sins are forgiven, he answers your dua, and he looks at those who compete with good deeds, and he praises you to his angels. – Tabarani
• Ramadan is like a very beloved guest and we have to get ready for it.
• Ramadan comes and right when we start to get used to it, it’s gone,
• We have to make this the best Ramadan ever
• Ramadan is only a few days, it comes in and goes very quickly
• The successful ones are those who take advantage of those fixed number of days
• At the end of Ramadan, the people are in two groups the successful ones and the losers

24 hours in Ramadan

• Early birds
  • We start the day during Ramadan from fajr to maghrib
  • Fajr has to find you in the masjid (for brothers)
• Benefits of being early:
  • You get to pray in the first row and
  • Tabarani: Allah and his angels praise those who pray on the right hand side of the rows
  • You catch the Takbeet Al-iHraam
  • You will be able to pray the nafilah between the adhaan and iqaamah
  • You will be able to repeat after the Adhaan
• Dua is granted between adhaan and iqaamah (mustajaab)
• Make dhikr after Salah & your morning adhkaar
• Salat Ad-Duha = salah of those who are obedient
• Recitation of Quran
• Iftar
  • Break your fast with water and dates
  • Pray Maghrib
  • Don’t eat too much – keep it light
• Taraweeh
  • Pray taraweeh and come home
• Suhur
  • Try to delay the Suhur because it is sunnah to delay it

70 Advices for Ramadan

• Sincere Intention
• Repent
  • Allah tells us to Repent to him
  • Repentance is not meant for only the sinners
  • The Prophet would make istighfaar 70 times or more every day
• Be happy
• Send your greetings
  • Say Ramadan Mubarak
  • Customize your greetings
• Etiquette of sighting the moon
  • The sunnah of sighting the moon is neglected
  • Dua you say when you see the moon: :allahumma ahhilhu alayna bil yumni wal amaan was _Salam wal Islam rabbi warabbuka allah
• Niyah (intention) of fasting
  • One niyyah is enough for the entire month
  • When you wake up for suhuur, the niyah is right there. Why did you get up? To fast.
• Delaying Suhur
  • When you hear the adhaan, if you have something in your mouth, swallow it, but don’t take another bite
• Expediting Iftaar
  • Say the dua of breaking the fast:
  • Break your fast quickly
• Prayers in the masjid
  • Try to pray as much as you can in the masjid
• Invite someone for iftar
  • Always have dates in your pockets, and when you see a Muslim give them the date to break their fast with it, to get ajer inshallah
• Amongst the righteous
  • If you fast and make qiyam, you will be among the sideqeen and shuhadaa’
• Have patience
  • Persevere!
  • Have patience with everyone
  • Ramadan is the month of training
• Ponder on Allah’s Blessings
  • Allah has given you so many blessings
• Increase your obedience
  • Do as much Ibadah as you can
• Watch yourself
  • Watch your eyes, manners, everything
• Dhikr
  • Remember to make dhikr all the time
  • You’re fasting and your heart needs sustenance = dhikr
  • Busy yourself with the remembrance of Allah
• Give charity
• Visit the sick
• Meticulously choose your friends
  • Don’t waste your time with people who want to waste your time
  • Be friends with people who will remind you, and tell you to read quran, pray….
• Let your physical faculties fast
  • Don’t backbite
  • Don’t do Haram things
  • Don’t be fasting and at the same time do things that will break your fast.
  • Your ears, eyes, and all body parts should fast
• Ask Allah to be amongst those who are saved from Hellfire
  • Every night!
  • Not only on the last ten nights!
• Stick to the sunnah
  • Stay away from bidah
• Enjoin good and forbid evil
  • With wisdom
• Watch your tongue
  • Your tongue is a lion! If you unleash it, it will devour you!
• Honor your parents
  • Ask them for dua

• Tie your kinship
  • At least call them and say Ramadan kareem
• Make someone happy
• Be productive
  • Manage your time efficiently
• Talk to your neighbors about Ramadan
  • Break the ice and tell them about Ramadan
  • Bring them sweets or something
• Reduce too much laughter
  • This is time of khayraat, you have better things to do
• Don’t argue
  • Allahuma ini saa’im
• Give people their rights
  • If you owe them something, give it to them
• Dedicate time for Quran recitation
  • At least one juz per day
  • Have a plan, and sincerity
• Have a dhikr plan
  • Morning
  • Evening
• Try to perform prayers in the Masjid
• Don’t miss taraweeh in the masjid
• Plan for the night prayers
  • Qiyam Al-Layl
  • Any prayer after Isha prayer is considered to be qiyam al-layl
• Pray with concentration
• Do more voluntary prayers
• Seek the best times when dua is granted
  • When you break your fast
  • Jumuah between asr and maghrib
• Istighfar before Fajr
  • Ask for forgiveness
  • Before or after you do your suhoor
• Umrah in Ramadan
  • If you can
  • Umrah in Ramadan = Hajj with the Prophet
• Diversify
  • Don’t get bored, do different Ibadaat
• Don’t curse!
  • This is training
• Manage your anger
  • Train yourself to not lose your temper
• Say Allahumma inni Saa’im
  • Oh Allah I am fasting
  • If someone tries to bother you, argue with you…
• Don’t intermingle
  • Stay away from Haram
• Increase your worship in the last 10 days
  • Do I3tikaaf
  • Sisters can do I3tikaaf, the Sahaabiyaat use to do it
• Ask Allah to make you witness Laylatul Qadr
• Sleep Less
• Don’t waste food
• Try to have a nap in the afternoon
• Encourage your children to fast
• Be generous in Ramadan
  • The Prophet was so generous in Ramadan
• Beware of the Human Devils!
  • There are two kinds of devils: the Jinns and the Inns
  • The Jinns are locked up but the Inns are not
• Beware of disobedience
• Beware of smoking
  • Smoking is not makrooh, smoking is Haraam
  • Allah made the Khabeeth haram, smoking is Khabeeth (evil)
• Beware of backbiting
• Don’t spend too much time in the kitchen
  • Don’t waste the food either
  • Ramdan is not about eating, it’s about fasting
• Ask Allah to make you enter Jannah from Ar-Rayyan gate
  • Only those who fast will be able to enter from it
• If you exercise, try to do it a couple of hours before iftar
  • So you won’t get too tired and dehydrated
• Go to sleep after Taraweeh
  • Don’t spend too much time online or on TV
  • Don’t drink tea, coffee, and caffine stuff
  • Drink a cup of hot milk to help you fall asleep
• Don’t stay up late
• Recite ayatul kursi before going to sleep
  • Allah will appoint an angel to guard you the entire night
• Make wudu before going to sleep
• Sleep with the intention of waking up for qiyamul layl
• Make this Ramadan as the last Ramadan of your life
  • You never know if you’re going to make it until next ramdan, or this one even.

6 More Days!

The month of Ramadan in which was revealed the Quran, a guidance for mankind and clear proofs for the guidance and the criterion (between right and wrong). So whoever of you sights (the crescent on the first night of) the month (of Ramadan i.e. is present at his home), he must observe Saum (fasts) that month, and whoever is ill or on a journey, the same number [of days which one did not observe Saum (fasts) must be made up] from other days. Allah intends for you ease, and He does not want to make things difficult for you. (He wants that you) must complete the same number (of days), and that you must magnify Allah [i.e. to say Takbir (Allahu-Akbar; Allah is the Most Great) on seeing the crescent of the months of Ramadan and Shawwal] for having guided you so that you may be grateful to Him.(2:185)

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Dont go around saying Kufr, Bid’ah, Shirk, Kufr, Bid’ah, Shirk – Yasir Qadhi

People who do not pray Qiyam cannot call themselves practising. – Shaykh Abu Eesa Niamatullah

Killing time? I wish you could give some to me, I need some more time. – Shaykh Yaser Birjas

What the fatwah!- Abu Eesa

DUA is a Simple form of worship and Common form of shirk–Yasir Qadhi

What’s cookin good lookin – Yaser Birjas

If you are at peace with the people, and at peace with Allah, you will enter Jannah in peace. – Shaykh Abdul-Bary Yahya

How can you plant seeds of sin and expect Allah (azza wajjal) to forgive you?- Shaykh Muhammad Al Shareef

If you trace back your Family tree and find Monkeys in them don’t confuse them with mine – Sh Yasir Qadhi

When you work in Da’awah your “employed” by Allah (SWT)! -Dr. Reda Bedeir

Your home is tapped, your phone is tapped and your conversations are recorded by agents. These are agents from Allah; ANGELS! – Shaykh Muhammad Alshareef

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The Righteous will die,
and the wicked will die …
The warriors who fight jihaad will die,
and those who sit at home will die …
Those who busy themselves with correct belief will die,
and those who treat the people as their slaves will die …
The brave who reject injustice will die,
and the cowards who seek to cling onto this life at any price will die …
The people of great concern and lofty goals will die,
and the wretched people who live only for cheap enjoyment will die …

Every soul shall taste of death …

Source: ‘Death’ by Shaykh ‘Ali Hasan al-Halabi

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The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah. It becomes rusty as a mirror becomes rusty,and its clearity is obtained by az-Zikr. It becomes naked as the body becomes naked,and its beautification is al-Taqwa. It becomes hungry and thirsty as the body becomes hungry and thirsty,and its food and drink are knowledge, love, dependance, repentance and servitude. -Ibn al- Qayyim.

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Challenges Facing Young People

Quotes From Lecture by Sh. Khalid Yasin

May 28, 2010 – Masjid Assaber

Allah gave us the legacy of Islam as an Amanah.

You cannot earn someone’s trust. Trust is given and it remains until it is violated.

Every time I look at a young Muslim I see a potential leader. The problem is that he is surrounded by people who are already in the lead. and they start to think that the only way they can become leaders is by immitating those who are already in the lead. So we’re not producing leaders, we’re producing immataters.

As long as you immitate, the best you can do is come in second because the one who comes in first is the one you’re immitating.

I wan to tell the young people: find another name to put on your shirt like Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali.

You can use Usamah bin Zaid but make sure you put the bin Zaid there.

Those $150 sneakers you wearin, if you think they make you jump higher then you’re just a fool.

Your kids spend 6 or 8 hours in schools…and they spend another 3 to 4 hours with fools…or tools.

How many fathers can say that you have encouraged your son or daughter when they were 12 to write a 5 year plan and to stick with it?

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

Make all the excuses you want. Like one man kept on saying, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” So after a while they say what’s his name, and they’re like oh he’s Sorry.

(The Shaykh was on an airplane and the guy sitting next to him was an orthodox Jew, so he started talking to him) “Hi my name’s Khalid, I’m a Muslim, but I’m not going to hijack the plane. Secondly, I know you’re Jewish but I don’t have a problem with that.”

(The Jewish man said to Khalid Yasin) “We can never beat you guys in talking cause Muslims are the best talkers in the world. We pray three times a day and you  Muslims pray five or more. So in talking and praying we can never beat you. But we can beat you in paying.

You listen to this rap music…I call it Monkey Music…

One of the idols is 50 cents. He’s so stupid he could’ve called himself a dollar.

Coca Cola gave him (50 cents) 400 million for some urban water and the fool! … He bought a gold chain with diamonds on it that was 150,00 dollars. He couldn’t even lift his neck!

And this is what our young ones want to imitate: 50 cents, Master D, Puff daddy, and some dead donkeys, Tupac, Big E…

The triple A: Arabs, Asians, Africans make up the majority of the Muslims.

Yo! Ya know what I’m saying yo? Yo!

No one leaves their kids alone in the Catholic church. Come on now! That’s like leaving the fox in the chickadee house. Not the chicken house, the chickadee one, before they get to be chickens!

It’s called freedom, F-R-E-E-D-U-M-B. So let freedumb ring!

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Bismillah ArRahman ArRaheem

Tafseer Juz Ammah – Nouman Ali Khan

Surah Lahab Part 2

Ayah 2

• His wealth and assets did not benefit him at all.
• There are different kinds of negations in Arabic. Ex. Lam Yughni
• The word ‘ma’ is strong:  imphatic
  • It means not at all
  • It is always used to negate a countering idea.
  • He and Quraish believed that the biggest thing he had in his advantage was his wealth
  • This verse negates this belief
  • Since the past is used to guarantee something, this verse is not only saying that His wealth and assets did not benefit him at all it is also saying that it will not benefit him
  • Kasb: also includes children
    • So the ayah is also saying that your children will not benefit you either
    • Also Allah uses the third person ‘him’ instead of ‘you’.
      • Allah does not dignify him by addressing him.
      • This is a tradition of Allah against the worst Kafir
      • Wa La Yukalimullah

Abu Lahab use to take pride in two things and Allah took both of them away from him in this surah

1. His good looks (the disease he got was one of the skin)
2. And his wealth (his wealth will never benefit him)

Ayah 3

• The tone has changed – now the ayah speaks about the future
• When the past tense is used it’s usually used for the immediate future, something that will happen very soon (or something that will happen in this world/dunya)
• Maeaning of Verse: Very soon he will be cast into a flame which has the quality of red flame or flickr. This is an attack against him – you like to be called by flames? Then that’s what you’ll get.
• The letter ‘seen’ is used here as a threat and warning

Umm Jamil

• She was the granddaughter of Ummayyah and the sister of Abu Sufyan
• She had very high status and a noble lineage and she would show it off
• She and Abu Lahab were a high class celebrity couple in Makah

She use to grab her necklace when she saw the Prophet and she would swear by Lat and Uzzah that she would spend the necklace to complete her animosity againt the Prophet.

Ayah 4

• Now the surah starts talking about his wife Umm Jamil
• The word Imra’ah
  • There are two words for wife in the Quran. Imra’ah and Zawj
  • The two functions of marriage are, one to increase good in society and decrease evil, and number two, children.
  • When any of theses things is missing Allah uses Imra’ah.
  • And when they’re both there he uses Zawj.
  • In this situation, they have harmony and children but two negatives can’t make a positive [except in math]
  • They didn’t increase good in society so Allah uses the word Imra’ah
  • Because the word Wamra’atuhu is marfoo’ (has dhamma) it is a second khabr
    • This means the ayah is saying: He will be cast into a flame and so will his wife
    • They tag team in this dunya and in the akhira

• The word 7amalata
  • The word is mansoob (has fat7a)
  • There are 16 reasons why a word can have a fat7a on it
  • One of the reasons is shatm – condemnation/curse/anger
  • This is a way of Allah mentioning her in disgust and the disgust is captured in the fat7a
  • Allah uses 7amaalah instead of 7amilah to indicate that she will keep on carry it
  • 7amaalah comes from Fa3aalah
  • It’s also used to indicate one’s profession
  • The slave girls who use to bring in the wood were called 7amaalat al-7adab, and Umm Jamil use to think of her self as being way over them but Allah degrade her and brings her down as if to say I don’t care of your status in society. If you mess with the Prophet then you don’t deserve anything like that

Ayah 5

• She use to call the prophet Mudhamam (the one who is condemned)
• She use to also make poetry against the Prophet
  • Mudhamaman Qalayna – We are tired of him (mudhamam)
  • Wa Deenahu Abayna – And his religion we have rejected
  • Wa 7ukmahu 3asayna – And his rule we will always disobey
  • The Prophet use to say that they’re making fun of someone called Mudhamam and that his name was Muhammed (someone who is praised and thanked)

When a dog is barking, there’s no wisdom in barking back

When people start talking obnoxiously and ignorantly the worst thing you can do is respond

We have to learn to recognize a bark for a bark and an intellectual criticism as an intellectual criticism

Two themes are coming to a conclusion in surah lahab

• One theme has to do with Abu Lahab
• The second has to do with Umm Jamil

Four different kinds of disbelievers:

1. A friendly disbeliever

• Mu’tem bin adiyy
• Abu Taleb

2. A noble enemy

• He does show animosity, but if he had become Muslim, he would have been amazing
• Abu Jahl

3.Wretched enemy but nothing personal against the Prophet

• Utbah ibn Rabiah (the great debater)
• Waleed ibn Mugheerah (poet)

4. Hates Islam and hates the Prophet

• Abu Lahab

Four domestic situations for women

1. A wonderful woman with a wonderful wali (guardian)

• Maryam

2. A wonderful woman with a terrible wali (guardian)

• Asiyah – wife of Firown

3. A terrible woman but a wonderful wali (guardian)

• Wives of Lut and Nuh

4. A terrible woman with a terrible wali (guardian)

• Umm Jamil

Two negatives don’t make a positive

The worst male enemy and the worst kind of female character are both mentioned in this surah

Placement of the Surah

• In the previous surah Allah mentions that which will benefit you in the akhirah
  • Tasbeeh and Istighfaar (glorifying Allah and asking for forgiveness)
  • In this Surah Allah tells us about what will absolutely have no benefit in the akhirah
    • Money and the things you earn
    • Allah says in surah Baqarah, “For disbelievers worldly life was beautified, and as a result they make fun of those who believe. And people who have Taqwa will be above them [not in this world] on the day of resurrection.
      • In this Surah Allah gave his messenger a gift:
      • Not only will he be above Abu Lahab in the akhirah but also in this dunya

Kataballah La’aghlibana Ana wa Rusuli (Allah has declared I will dominate, I and and my messenger)

Ghalaba: is used for victory in this world

Afla7a or Falaa7: is used for victory and success in the next world 17

• Allah says regarding Firown, he was kept from accepting the deen/path
• Part of the miracles in the Quran is the prediction of the quran
• The Quran says rome will dominate in ten years, and this happened
• In this surah Allah says Abu Lahab will be destroyed.
  • Abu Lahab was very smart and clever enemy and had a sharp tongue
  • This was one of the easiest ways the quran made itself open to attack
  • Abu Lahab could have said La ilaha ilallah
  • If he had said that, even if it was sarcastically, he could say ‘your book is saying I’m burning in hell but here I am taking shahadah and it’s suppose to protect me against the hell fire. So your book must be wrong.
  • He had many years to take this opportunity but the Quran said about Firown he was kept from accepting the deen.
  • He never took the opportunity and we learn from that he too was kept from accepting the deen.
  • This is part of the miracle of the Quran

Placement of the Quran (continued)

• This surah comes after Surah kafiroon and Surah nasr
• Surah Kafiroon concluded that there are two distict religions
  • Lakum deenakum wa liya deen
  • To you your religion, and to me, my religion
  • The deen of islam, and whatever you people have
  • One of them is true, and one of them is false

• In Surah Israa’ Allah says: The truth will manifest and the falsehood will be destroyed
• The truth will manifest
  • Idha Jaa’a nasrullah (when the victory of Allah comes)
  • Surah nasr is the fulfillment of the promise of the truth will manifest
• Falsehood will be destroyed
  • Tabat Yada Abi Lahab
  • Surah Lahab is the fulfillment of the promise falsehood will be destroyed
• Dr. Israr Ahmed use to say Allah plants the seed somewhere and shows the flower blooming somewhere else

Bismillah ArRahman ArRaheem

Tafseer Juz Ammah – Nouman Ali Khan

Surat Lahab:

• Surah no. 111
• One of the shortest surahs in the Quran
• It is dedicated to Abu Lahab and his Wife
• Allah has never dedicated a particular Surah to a particular enemy anywhere else in the Quran
• Other enemy’s such as Abu Jahl, and others were mentioned a few times but never by name

Question to be considered is:

• Why is there this special emphasis given to this enemy of Islam?
• The placement of the surah

Historical Background of Abu Lahab:

• He was one of the most famous and wealthiest people in Makkah (even before Islam)
• He was the treasure secretary at that time
• His orginal name is Abdul Uzzah
• His nickname is Abu Lahab.
  • Lahab is a red flame that flickers and gives of light
  • Abu doesn’t litteraly mean father nessasarily. When someone is affiliated or associated with something you can put Abu infront of their name.
    • Example: When Ali bin Abi Taleb was sleeping on the dust, the Prophet called him Ya Aba Turaab. Meaning he was covered in dust
    • Example: Abu Hurayrah was called that because he had a cat that he loved.
    • Abu Lahab was given this nickname because he had a reddish complexion in his skin. And this was considered as good looking
    • He had a powerful lineage. He was the grandson of Hashim.
    • He was the Uncle of the Prophet, and his father in law.

History of Urwah (wife of Abu Lahab)

• She was the granddaughter of Ummayyah
• She use to flaunt her status and family background
• Her nickname was Umm Jamil (beautiful)
• The city use to look up to this couple because of their good looks and high status

Negative side of Abu Lahab

• He was the next door neighbor of the Prophet and he would throw filth into the house of the Prophet whenever the Prophet use to read Quran
• He ordered his sons to divorce the daughters of the Prophet
• When the Prophet’s son Qasim passed away, Abu Lahab came out of his house screaming and dancing. And he says Batara Muhammadun – Muhammed has had his lineage cut off
  • This was the death of a child in his own family and yet he celebrates
  • Even enemy’s in battle do anything like this
  • This kind of hatred is not shared by any other enemy of Islam
  • This is one of the reasons why he was given this special dedication
  • He curses Islam by saying Taban li Hadha Ad-Deen he was invited to become Muslim
  • When the Prophet stood on the mountain and called everyone, he told them that he was a Prophet and a warner. Abu Lahab said to him, Taban Lak!

Ayah 1

• Because Abu Lahab said Taban to the Prophet twice, it is said to him twice.
• When this Ayah was sent down, Abu Lahab use to make fun of it. He would go into public gatherings and he would take out his hands (because Allah said may his hands by destroyed) and he would sarcastically say Taban Lakuma May you be destroyed. Then he would say I don’t see in you any signs from what muhammed said.

Tab:

• A past tense verb of Tabba
• The feminine form is used because ‘hands’ in Arabic are feminine
  • There’s no it in Arabic
  • Body parts that are in twos are feminine
  • Body parts that are singular are masculine
  • Arabs used past tense for several reasons
  • One of them is when something is guaranteed
  • The past is associated with certainty, the future is not
  • So Allah is saying that his hands being destroyed is guaranteed
  • The second is to refer to a dua
    • That is why you’ll sometimes find the ayah translated as May both hands of Abu Lahab be destroyed
    • You can pray for someone and you can pray against someone

• Tab literally means to break apart slowly or to collapse
  • Other similar words are infasama, inqadha, and taqada3ah
• It is specifically used when something is falling apart little by little until it’s completely destroyed
  • That kind of destruction is called tabaab
  • From Tabaab we get the verb tab
  • This means Allah is saying that Abu Lahab is not going to die an immediate death, rather he’s going to die a slow and painful death
• Tab was used by the ancient arabs, they would go to a woman and ask her A shaabah am taabah (Are you a young woman or are you being destroyed)
  • They didn’t say old woman, they said destroyed because they affiliated old age with you deteriorating slowly and slowly towards your destruction/demise (death)

Other meanings of Tabat

• Tabat = Halakat (die violently)
• Tabat = Khasirat (To suffer loss)
• Tabat = Khaabat (To go bad)
• Tabat = Dhalat (To go to waste)
• Tabat = Safarat min kuli Khair (To be completely void of any good)

Other names for Flame:

• Shiwadh
• Nu7aas
• Maarij
• Sharar

One reason why both hands of Abu Lahab are mentioned is because it is narrated that he once picked up a rock and tried to throw it at the Prophet Muhammed peace be upon him.

Tabat Yadahu: May both his hands be destroyed also includes his deen, dunya, the things he does, and their outcomes.

Tabat Yadahu: Your right hand is used to attack, and your left hand is used to defend. When Allah says may both his hands be destroyed this means that he won’t be able to attack anyone. And he won’t be able to defend himself either.

Abu Lahab’s name:

• His real name is Abdul Uzzah, who was an idol/false god. So Allah does not dignify him by mentioning the false god that he worshiped. Also nobody is the slave of Uzzah so his name is a lie so Allah does not mention his name.
• Because he is of the people of the Fire and Allah is going to put him in a flame that is flickering red, why not call him by his nickname because his nickname has now been given a new meaning. Now when he is called Abu Lahab, he’s not called that because he has redish skin or he looks good, but because he’s going to be in a Lahab forever.

Wa Tab

• The first part is Dua (May his hands be destroyed)
  • There’s no guarantee that it will happen
  • The second part – wa tab – is Khabr
    • It means that it is bound to happen. i.e.  it is guaranteed to happen
    • Abu Lahab developed a very serious disease and he started developing a swelling in his body
    • His sons, servants, family, and friends all stayed away from his because they were afraid to catch the diseases from him
    • He’s dying painfully and slowly and no one is there for him
    • His corpse was lying there and no one wanted to touch it so his sons finally hire some Abyssinians who use logs to drag him into a pit and then throw stones at him to fill up his grave. They didn’t even want to touch him either.
    • Allah’s promise came true -  that he would die a slow painful death.

Part 2 = Second Verse

Coming very soon Inshallah

There was a lecture last night at Masjid Assaber with Shaykh Khalid Yasin as a guest speaker. The lecture was scheduled for 7:45 after Maghrib but my mom decided to get there an hour early so we could get a good parking – I’m glad she did because the Masjid was PACKED. It reminded me of Ramadan. Almost everyone I knew was there.

The lecture was called Islam and America and was about an hour and half long but mashallah it was amazing! And if you didn’t make it…(I feel sorry for you) here’s the recording

*Gems and Quotes*

America is a country. Islam is a System. Many Muslims around the world are living in Muslim Countries, but there are no Muslims that are living in a Islamic System.

Islam will never be wiped out of this earth. And the day of judgment will not come until Islam has entered every house and every home and some have added every mind and every heart.

So when I speak to the homeboys – the Homeland Security, they are stopping me, aggravating me bothering me every time I come. Although I believe I am a better person then I was in 1965. I tell em you guys are late, you should’ve  caught me back then!

When you start saying who’s Munafiq, you should be careful because you will regret it more than Hudhayfah (ra)

It’s like if you go to the bank to take out all your money to buy a house or something and when you go outside and somebody puts a pistol on your head and says ’stick em up’ I don’t think if you’re a brave man, you big wresteler, boxer, you kung-fu, nin-jitsu, whatever you wana call, I don’t think you wana fight with a three fifty seven magnet… otherwise you would be foolish and dead.

Not more than 3% of the immigrants to this country ever go back to where they came from and it’s not because of McDonald’s or Bugger King or whatever.

What does it look like? It looks like a Masjid. Subhanallah. And now who’s there? Habashi. La ilaha ilallah. Abdun Habashi!

Ok I won’t ruin it for you guys so go and listen to it