Summary: Jumuah Khutbah at the Irving Masjid in 2016<br> <br> رَّبُّكُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا فِي نُفُوسِكُمْ ۚ إِن تَكُونُوا صَالِحِينَ فَإِنَّهُ كَانَ لِلْأَوَّابِينَ غَفُورًا ٘<br> 17.25. جو کچھ تمہارے دلوں میں ہے اسے تمہارا رب بخوبی جانتا ہے اگر تم نیک ہو تو وہ رجوع کرنے والوں کو بخشنے والا ہے۔<br> 17.26. وَآتِ ذَا الْقُرْبَىٰ حَقَّهُ وَالْمِسْكِينَ وَابْنَ السَّبِيلِ وَلَا تُبَذِّرْ تَبْذِيرًا ٘<br> 17.26. اور رشتے داروں کا اور مسکینوں اور مسافروں کا حق ادا کرتے رہو (١) اور اسراف اور بے جا خرچ سے بچو<br> 17.27. إِنَّ الْمُبَذِّرِينَ كَانُوا إِخْوَانَ الشَّيَاطِينِ ۖ وَكَانَ الشَّيْطَانُ لِرَبِّهِ كَفُورًا ٘<br> 17.27. بے جا خرچ کرنے والے شیطانوں کے بھائی ہیں اور شیطان اپنے پروردگار کا بڑا ہی ناشکرا ہے (<br> These are handful of ayahs Allah gives us guidance on how we shd think about shopping and spending about our money.<br> Ayah 25 yr Master is more knowledgeable, more aware of in regards to what y have inside yrself. In other words i will not be able to check you, correct y directly vice versa.. this is something we have to figure out for ourselves ...it is a matter of personal conscience , personal morality... so someone who does not watch over themselves carefully .. does muhasiba of themselves ,they are not going to vie by the instructions of that are about to be given and that have already been given in this surah....<br> So Allah says<br> رَّبُّكُمْ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا فِي نُفُوسِكُمْ<br> If in fact y are good, righteous then Allah will know that better<br> فَإِنَّهُ كَانَ لِلْأَوَّابِينَ غَفُورًا<br> Those who keep coming back to Allah in repentance.. like we have the word 'tau waab' we have the word 'au waab'.. people who come back to Allah sincerely and feel bad about what they did and keep recognizing they made a mistake and keep coming back .. for those Allah is exceedingly forgiving ... inside the word 'au waab ' is the idea that we are never going to stop making mistakes ... there is always going to be something we could have done better and we have to recognize that in ourselves and then we have to keep making istagfar to Allah for the shortcomings that we have... we have to be constantly aware of our own flaws instead of waiting for somebody else to point out what is wrong with me I should be the first one to point out what is wrong with myself and constantly keep coming back to Allah which is a beautiful thing ... it is the perfection of Allah ... the only one perfect... it means all of us have some flaws... and we are always going to have flaws we are never going to be done with our mistakes... so that fact that we recognize our mistakes and that we ask Allah to cover our mistakes ..<br> If we see a crack in the floor you cover it with some cement this is literally the idea of magfira .. that we do this is an acknowledgement that we are imperfect and also the acknowledgement that only Allah is perfect and people that who seize to recognize that in themselves .. may Allah not make us one of them... people who dong actually think of what is wrong with themselves ... and what they could make better about themselves have forgotten the perfection of Allah .<br> Now Allah gives us advice on how to spend our money .. He says<br> . وَآتِ ذَا الْقُرْبَىٰ حَقَّهُ وَالْمِسْكِينَ وَابْنَ السَّبِيلِ<br> And give to the one who possesses closeness ..give the one relative his right<br> ...Allah is not making us think of all our relatives at the same time<br> ذَا الْقُرْبَىٰ<br> It is as if Allah is saying consider each one of them individual .. a lot of families .. y have some fight .. some uncle y don't life .. some cousin y don't get along with ... and somebody needs help .. and y think of helping those y get along with and don't think of people y had a fight with ... y skip them .. I will give my zakat in that place my sadaqa to that relative but my chacha forget about him..<br> So Allah is telling us the people that are connected to y by the womb of the mother ..
