Allahar allahar Allah Sal allahar Ill oh brother Eric brother Eric Allah introduce himself and Allah declar the shahada so please say something about yourself um hello my name is Eric and uh after two years of studying Islam uh decided to take my Shahar today and uh can’t wait to start my uh Islamic journey and
Continue coming here all the time with the getting to learn everybody in the community and he has already taken the name Hamza will the the lion of raise your right hand say I I say your name Eric I Hamza declare I a Muslim that I am a Muslim
Muhammad I bear witness I bear witness there no God Allah there’s no God but Allah I bear witness and I bear witness muhamad that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah is the messenger of Allah upon please be upon Him promise I promise live by the teach Quran I shall live by
The teachings of the Holy Quran the guidance ofet mamad and the guidance of prophet Muhammad peace be upon him help so help me Allah mebar allahar thank you couple of announcements today we have the Seer class with Dr sadiki I continue continuing every Sunday I’ll be again
This Sunday the regular time 12: noon to 1 p.m. Char if you’d like to attend it’s upser class I’ll be in the conference room uh this Sunday also the new Muslims class with Dr tah that continues every Sunday 1:30 to 300 p.m. in the cafeteria like to 10 so that’s again every Sunday
3 1:30 stop by the uh gazebo outside for a fresh food vendor this Friday hot crispy hot chicken and so please support your local own Muslim businesses uh also we’ll have a dessert uh vendor outside delicious baklava for you today Al also Bara Cafe will be open for your coffee
Needs um tomorrow Bara Cafe will be hosting the paint for Palestine event that’s at 1 p.m. after the her prayer at the cafe if you’d like to sign up please uh look please sign up at the on the app or stop by the cafe um there’s also a
Meet up for Tech Muslims Muslims in the Tech Community at Bara Cafe that’ll be January 18th save the date for that tonight the youth group will be hosting dodgeball for brothers and um karate classes for sisters a dinner was also provided that’s tonight at 6:30 for the
Youth group the seniors will be having a movie screening on Sunday at 11:00 a.m. here at the Masjid in the conference room and um then tomorrow a special event with iok and SBA they’ll be visiting isoc tomorrow starting at 6:30 talking about the new year with shik mudas mayad and various
Others also food vendors Barka Cafe and Mama’s Kitchen so tomorrow please stop by here the event is open for everyone that’s the SBA event especially for young professionals we’ll see everyone tomorrow night 6:30 for that event next Saturday save your C save your date for the children’s business fair for
Palestine iocci is putting on this event to fund raise for Palestine uh have uh various vendors um hosted by children books Arts crafts and uh so please come by Walla food vendors that’s next Saturday uh in the morning um and then save the date for the OCS March 2nd OCS
Gala fundraiser that’s 40 Years of Islamic education with um special guest uh Dr shabaz and TK Abdul waha basketball player so buy your tickets from the main office or the OCS office that’s again Saturday March 2nd uh there’s a lot happening please make sure to sign up on the newsletter download
The app get all the announcements and save the dates for the events don’t want to miss out also please give attention to all these several donation options we have at the Masjid website the app the various uh uh modular outside as well um and today we have Special K all the way
From Michigan we have Imam d w please give him your attention thank you Salam alumb allahar Allahu [Laughter] asuh [Laughter] Allahar Alhamdulillah Was See beloved brothers and sisters in Islam I begin recommending for you but firstly from my own sinful self they have their proper regard their proper Consciousness their proper awe of our creator meaning having tawa for him he commands this several places in his last revealed book and of one of the
Ayat that He commands he says oh you who believe have talk before Allah and be with the truthful people and heel mentions another ay in Quran inat relating to a condition of this tawa where he says the Believers of but one fraternity they’re one Brotherhood so reconcile disputes make peace between
Your brothers and have TAA for Allah in order that you receive Divine loving Compassion or Divine Mercy de love brothers and sisters in Islam this night toight after we will be heading into the seventh month on the Islamic calendar Shah one of the four sacred months in
Islam Allah mentions and he says in the Quran that with Allah subhah wa taala surely there are 12 months and that 12 months like January February March no the 12 months on the Islamic calendar starting with Shaham and Shaham is one of the four sacred months and Allah subhana wa
Ta’ala says and with him in the book there are four months that are sacred and this is that is the upright established comprehensive way of life f so none of you do wrong or commit wrongdoing within these four months now we’re not supposed to commit wrongdoing
In any of the months but there are four sacred months and they have a certain status of these four sacred months rajab stands alone rajab is the month that stands alone the 11th month is the 12th is the month of Haj and then after this is Shaham in which the most
Sacred day of Shaham is y the day of B is from four sacred months in these particular months there is a heightened level of Consciousness and sacredness in these four months and Raj being of those that stands alone for instance Muslims are not allowed to be involved in any aggression
Or any fighting during the four sacred months except for when there is the issue of Defense when we are defending our lives and defending our land from aggressors from aggressors from from from from Fen then we can defend ourselves but there’s nothing offensive in these months also in these months the
Transgressions that we commit especially those Z and those sins and those things that we do but also the harm that we do to other people in regards to infringing upon their rights they are more weighty on the scale of our bad Deeds during the sacred months and R up is one of those
Lacken The Good Deeds that we do in the four SE secret months are also Amplified and this is the balance of our Dean the balance of Allah subhana wa taala so we should be searching in these nights coming up in these dates Turning towards Allah subhana wa ta’ala
Some of the of the Sals used to uh say that Shah is the month of what we could say is a z of planting seeds then the next month shahan is for watering these seeds and then Ramadan is the month that we Harvest from that which was planted in rajab so of the
Recommendations in increasing the Good Deeds running forat during this month let us start first on this first night increasing our e better if we’ve been Rel and haven’t been doing let us start with our let us start with our let’s wake up in that last third of the night my brothers and
Sisters in Islam when the Divine loving compassion and mercy descends the time when Dua must let us first struggle with thisd said that there were five nights in which Dua is not rejected he’s and it was his opinion that the first of is one of those
Nights he used to give life to certain Knights one of those kns that we should always be given life to is this is one of the opportunities that we miss during the week Le J the entirety of it starting at M to the very
End when F comes it is like the time of the last third of the night in any other nights of the week but one of those nights that s Ali used to give life to was the first night of so we should give life to this night
This is what the righteous salaf used to do the Companions and of course we know the status of the likes of Abdullah Omar in Ali Tali these Great Men these are the of the F of the sahaba all the sahaba were not equal in we say that
They were all they all were they all had adala they were upright correct but their knowledge wasn’t all the same Ali’s knowledge was big abdah Omar’s knowledge was big so we take this as a sign that we should give life to the night also in fasting it said that
Used to devote himself and give a portion of the month of rajab to fasting now our say to fast our Scholars say to fast the entire month this is Mak we don’t fast the entire month of R actually mentions this but the sahabah used to give life
To the month also and planting these seeds by fasting abdah used to spend time and used to devote himself more to fasting fasting if we don’t fast throughout the year we should start fasting during this month of rajab upcoming andas used to also give time for the fasting one of the preeminent of
The our mother said that the prophet would fast every month outside of Ramadan at least three days so if we have not been fasting those days that we that throughout the rest of the Year let us start fasting first Monday in the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam when he was asked why he fasted
The day he said and this is the day I was born he told us the reason why he fasted his importance to his born he’s the biggest n that came into the world the birth of he fasted Thursdays because he like to fast the days in which the Deeds were taken up
Anded the illuminated days or the white days we can call them the 13th 14th and 15th let’s give our time to fasting and increase our fasting starting in rajab my brothers and sisters Islam and carry this over into shahan to prepare us for Ramadan may Allah subhana bless us in
Rajab and bless us in shahan and have us reach Ramadan now many in the umah give weit and remember on the 27th of is the night Journey the night of the night journey and then the Ascension however there’s on this issue was this really the date one of the students
Ofd he believed that the night of the night Journey was on the first night of R not the 27th some say it’s the 27th some say it wasn’t the 27th of rajab some say it was the 27th of RAB R was the month of hij by the way
Not mam the prophet Sall alaihi wasallam along with AB entered into that was known as y not this is a misconception so there’s different days but we know one thing for sure that the most miraculous night of was that night when he was taken from Mecca in body and spirit to be
Makus in Jerusalem to the seven heavens and Beyond where no other human being has gone where the angel jbra stopped when he went further past beyond the far L tree and came back in one night this Miraculous Journey that happened after the year of grief when he lost his
Beloved wife kadijah his first supporter and his political support the man who raised him like a foster father Abu Talib we remember our Prophet s was yatim he was orphan his father passed away before he was born which there’s a Mak for him in then his grandfather Abdul mutalib
Helped look after him and he died when he was young and then Abu Talib then looked after so the history on this night we believe that it happened we’re just not sure about the exact night now fast forward historically speaking centuries after that over five centuries after that during the of is
When the Muslims under the commandership ofah laubi came and he took back Els in Raj now what happened before then how was El Mas lost if you read I Al’s report the great Muslim historian they say that in about a week the Crusaders came and killed 70,000
People we look at what’s and they didn’t have white phosphorus and cluster bombs and black helicopters like how Zionist do just had swords knives 70,000 some Western historians put lower say that probably was 40,000 let’s go to lower number of 40,000 killed by Crusaders Muslim Phil and others who
Were there others who were there amongst the Muslims who were there in that very small period of time after this took place of Els being overtaken there was an Islamic Revival it start on the time of the Abid cff named and this was the time of the scholars
That came about to did Ted like aldani Abed but some of the greatest stars of this umah were bir from that period and the fatua guilds were started in raising up the young men teaching them etiquet teaching them sacred knowledge and within a couple of generations these
Were the young men who were raised under this Taria that came with salahudin but it was never about numbers when Muslim lost elud was not about numbers it was about something inside that had to be rectified it’s never about numbers Muslims did not lose El Goods because Crusaders were strong
Muslims lost El Goods because we were internally weak hence when you read by IM gazali his magnum opus Ori M which his Magnum Opus he’s a h in books ascribed toik ABD jilani you will see these great Scholars they don’t mention one time in their books the word Crusader or anything
Relating to the occupation because they knew something inside had to be addressed had to be addressed sh who are all of you repent together like all of you Hold On Together tightly to God’s rope this is the Quran and don’t divide yourselves likewise all of you together repent
As it relates to Philistine and the occupation the day and what’s going on in Gaza yes we need activism but by Allah there’s no pure political solution to this issue we as Muslims had to place more faith in the Lord of the asbab then the asbab itself the asbab is the means it’s
The M who one that changes things he’s the lord of the means subhanahu waala all he can do is say is we have to rectify ourselves I believe that Muslims if we want to fix what’s going on in philistin and Gaza and the occupation of Kashmir it’s been
Going on just as long as Philistines and what’s going on in Sudan in the Congo and rohinga in Muslims and concentration camps we as Muslims should get together all throughout the country all throughout the world in our congregations and say Allah and we go in front of Allah subhana T brokenhearted it’s our
Sins that we have to repent from it’s our disunity that we have to repent from it’s our internalized tribalism our internalized racism that keeps us disunited that we have to repent from and then inshallah subhah wa taala if Allah subhah wa taala accepts this TBA the fet will come inshallah this is my
Belief and we learned this from history from the likes of our righteous scholars in that generation that came before that after Muslims were slaughtered and humiliated within a couple of generations we sham was free from the we ask on my Allah subhana tala to make us the people of sincerity during
The month of rajab make us the people of establishing and increasing our fasting and repenting to Allah subhana alhamdulillah m Sudir Allah abbar Allah abbar ASU Allah illu Muham St make this prayer as if this is your last prayer allahar Alhamdulillah For Allahar allahar allahar Allah Allah Alhamdulillah For Allahar allahar Allah Akbar Allah abbar allb asum want to thank Imam W for his inspiring message he is the director of the Care’s office in Michigan who he coming from Michigan area mallah Allah bless you reward you inshallah and be with you in your journey your travel and your
Important work of care that you are doing There and Everywhere mallah organization is doing a great job may Allah bless this organization and it work please remember your Dua Seattle Professor Dr suan camel may Allah bless him give him the place in Jenna R abbar 8-year-old girl is in hospital
Please pray for her shifa pray for brother brother Abu Bak Sim brother Muhammad brother Zang brother Muhammad sik brother bil dalati sister subani sister Malika and brother Kamal hamuda brother W Ali brother Mahmud mayat and brother nijah Amir and also please remember our dear brother Muhammad Ali who is still in
Serious condition and brother Arif Sharif alhamdulillah recovering well the family is grateful for your duas and our OCS Quran teacher and Community member dram is not well so please make Dua for the people who are not well may Allah give them please make du for several people
Who passed away during the week sister CIA AB Abu Alam sister Mariam Sim sister Dr mahm Jamal brother Muhammad nmed brother Muhammad NTI may Allah bless them may Allah give them Jenna and give patience to their family Allah please make Dua for the people who passed away and in aggression in oppression in
Justice that is done to them especially the people of Gaza may Allah bless them Allah give them victory over their enemies and pray for our brother Eric Hamza who accepted Islam may Allah bless him may Allah bless his family inshah and keep him always on the right path Mean
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