Our prophet's (pbuh) life was defined
by the upholding of trust, the restoring of trust to their owners.
He was “Al-Amin”, a trustworthy individual.
He advocated it, he called towards it, applied it.
And he told us that towards the end of time,
one of the signs of the Day of Judgment will be people will lose trust.
And an Arab Bedouin man came in
and interrupted the speech, and he said, when is the Day of Judgment?
And he said to him, when the trusts are lost,
then wait for the Day of Judgment.
You are dealing with one of three categories;
either you are dealing with your Lord
or either you are dealing with people
or either you are dealing with yourself,
he said, and a Muslim has to uphold the trust.
Dear users of the Internet and social media,
your time is an Amana, and there will be a question.
And that's why when the people of hellfire are roasting
and they will beg for a second chance, Allah will say to them..
Allah said, Allah instructs you that you are to return
the trust to the rightful owners of those trusts.
And that when you judge between people, you judge with justice,
how excellent is that which Allah instructs you to do.
Allah Almighty is ever hearing and ever seeing.
The scholars of Tafsir are almost agreed that the verse that you just heard
from Surah An-Nisa was revealed in the context of the conquest of Mecca.
After 23 years of struggle, planning and sacrifice Allah Jalajalalu,
who allowed the light of Islam to illuminate
the whole of the Arabian Peninsula and he (pbuh) entered the city of Mecca.
And one of the very first things he did after removing the idols was that
he took the keys of the kaaba from Uthman Ibn Talha
and he handed the keys over Abbas Ibn Abd Al-Muttalib
and in another narration to Ali Ibn Abi Talib
And the moment he walked inside of the Kaaba to pray,
Alllah revealed the verse that you just heard.
Allah instructs you to give back the trust to their owners.
So he came out of the Kaaba and he called for Uthman Ibn Talha
and he gave him back the key.
Take your key back, oh Uthman, this is Allah's instruction.
Today is the day of loyalty and righteous.
Our Prophet's (pbuh) life was defined
by the upholding of Amana, the restoring of trust to their owners.
He was “Al-Amin”, a trustworthy individual
and they knew him as “Al-Amin”, a trustworthy individual.
He advocated it, he called towards it, applied it.
And he told us that towards the end of time,
one of the signs of the Day of Judgment will be people will lose trust.
The trust will be abused.
And that is why Bukari narrates, on the authority of Abu Hurairah,
The prophet (pbuh), once sat with his companion speaking to them.
And an Arab Bedouin man came in and interrupted the speech
and he said when is the Day of Judgment?
He wants a date.
And so some of the companions, they said he heard the question but he didn't like it.
That's why he hasn't answered.
Other companions, they said he didn't hear the question.
And when he finished his speech he said,
where is the man who inquired about the Day of Judgment?
The bedouin said, Here I am. It's me.
And he said to him when the trusts are lost then wait for the Day of Judgment.
That will be a sign.
What is Amana that we are loosely translating as the Trust?
Is it limited to money that is given to you
or belongings when someone travels that you have to give back in full?
Is this just an Amana or is there more to it?
Because there is something profound
and huge connected to the concept of Amana/ the Trust.
Becausee the heavens and the earth and the mountains they refuse to bear it.
Alalh said,
We presented the Amana / the trust to the heavens and the Earth and the mountains
and they all refused it, not just that,
And they feared it. No way.
They understood that being a person carrying the trust
means accountability On the Day of Judgment.
They said, we don't want it, we are afraid of it.
Allah said, but man accepted to carry it.
Allah said, he is unjust, he is ignorant.
What is trust?
I share with you a quick tour of definitions given by our predecessors
as examples of what the term amana includes
so that we know what we are speaking about this afternoon.
Abdullah bn Abbas, he said
The Trust is the Obligations of Allah.
Abu Aaliyah, he said, Al-amana is the prohibitions
and the obligations of Islam very similar to the first definition.
Al-Hasan Al-Basri, he said,
Al Ahmana is the religion of Islam because the whole religion is but a trust.
you see, the concept of trust is not
just about money you keep in a store for your friends or your family member.
Trust is something that moves with you when you move,
it stays with you when you stay put,
it creeps into every one of the departments of life
and will bring with it a question on the Day of Judgment.
And that is why Alrazi, he said, in his tafseer,
when you interact, he says, you are dealing with one of three categories;
either you are dealing with your Lord,
or either you are dealing with people, or either you are dealing with yourself.
He said, and a Muslim has to uphold the trust in every one of those three categories.
So the trust, my dear brother, my dear sister, is a huge concept in our religion.
It affects us every second of our life.
And there will be heavy questions to expect on the Day of Judgment.
And I give example your family members,
my dear brothers, it's not just a privilege and an enjoyment.
It is primarily an amana, a trust, and there will be a question about it,
Yawm al-Qiyamah—Day of Resurrection
Allah said, all you who believe, protect yourselves,
and your families from the hellfire.
It's a trust,
Your husband, my dear sister, is an amana,
a trust from Allah that shall be asked on the Day of Judgment.
And that's why the Prophet (pbuh)
said to the aunty of Hussein, when he said to her, Are you married?
She said yes. He said, how do you behave with him?
She said, I tried to give him everything he needs, as much as I can.
He said to her, be very careful how you are with your husband,
because after all, he will be your paradise or your hellfire, the trust.
Your employees who work for you,
they are an amana, a trust, and there will be a question about them,
on The Day of Judgment.
The prophet (pbuh) said, give the employee his wage before
the sweat on his forehead has a chance to dry.
Give him his wage. Don't delay.
A trust, your time,
Dear users of the Internet and social
media, your time is an amana, and there will be a question.
And that's why, when the people of Jahanam /hellfire are roasting
and they will beg for a second chance, Allah will say to them,
Did We not give you lives long enough?
Did we not give you time such that
if you wanted to benefit, you could have remembered? Time is a trust.
Your private parts, your desires, your lusts, it is a trust,
and there will be a question about it on the Day of Judgment.
And that is why, in some narrations attributed to Abdullah..
when Allah Almighty created the private part, He said,
This is a trust that I have hidden with you,
so beware of using it except we're permissible.
The hijab is a trust. The Quran is a trust.
Mum And dad, they are a trust.
Your healthy limbs, your sight, your hearing, even your thoughts, they are a trust.
Allah said, you're hearing and you're seeing and even your heart,
There will be a question about them all on the Day of Judgment.
Therefore, how beautiful worthy of the words of Al Hasan, when he said,
Trust is the whole religion, and the whole religion is but a trust.
There is another trust that many Muslims are complaining of an inability to honor.
It an trust which they say we are betraying several times a day,
and we don't know how to stop it.
Which trust is this.
This is the trust of access.
In the 21st century, you are able to access a sin
that our fathers and great grandfathers need to go to great lengths to access.
They say this is a trust and I am failing on almost every evening.
What do I do?
For a moment, I shift your attention to an Ayah from Surah Al-Ma'idah.
That's when you hear it,
some of us may not understand what is immediately implied.
The Ayah says,
Oh you, who believe
Allah is going to test you with some of the game animal.
Game animal meaning the land animal that is hunted for food.
Allah will test you with some of the land animal
that is hunted for food that your hands and your spears can reach,
so that Allah may know or may clear
so that Allah may clear who fears Him in the Unseen.
What does this mean?
The scholars have said that this ayah was revealed in context of some companions
who are in a state of of pilgrimage.
And you know, when you are in a state of Ihram, one of the things
that you cannot do is hunt the land animal for food.
So they were there in Ihram and they were walking,
carrying out their pilgrimage, when all of a sudden,
animals that were usually so difficult to hunt gathered around the companions.
They came to them, they were beneath their feet,
bearing in mind the hunger of the companions and their poverty for the most part,
not a single one of the companion reached out
to one of those animals despite their need,
and they were within reach, and their spears could reach them as well.
Why did Allah test them in this way?
The verse said, so that Allah may make clear who fears Him in the unseen.
Now I shift your attention and you will say to me today, in the 21st century,
just 50 years ago, it was impossible to communicate
with a member of the opposite gender without so much planning and hard work.
Today, what do you need?
You need an eleven digit number.
You need a social media profile name.
And lo and behold,
you have 24 access of unfettered communication to him or to her,
And who was looking? No one other than Allah.
You will say, Why?
Why this fitnah?
Why has our Lord allowed this test?
Why is it that my child is able to access
all of the ideologies of the world from within the confines of his own home?
All of the cultures,
all of the social perversions and all of the fetishes of people in the east and west,
they see it in their mobiles and their computers.
Why would my Lord allow this type of test in my home and the home of the Muslims?
And the answer is the same as what you just heard in the verse,
so that Allah may make clear who are the ones who fear Him in the unseen.
the fear that came into your heart,
my dear brother, when the wind started to move the curtains of your door,
when you were committing your sin, fearing that someone has caught you.
That fear is greater and worse in the eyes of Allah thann the sin itself.
That fear should have been for Allah.
Beware of being an ally,
a friend of Allah in public or an enemy of Allah in private.
this is a contradiction in the personality of a Muslim, and this is unacceptable.
And whilst people may not discover this contradiction today in you,
it will be discovered on the Day of Judgment if it is not fixed today.
And that is why Ibn Majah narrates,
The messenger (pbuh) said, I know people from my nation,
he said, who will come on the Day of Judgment with mountains of good deeds,
Allahu akbar and Allah will deck them one after the other.
He will make them into rubble.
Nothing worthless.
scattered dust,
So the narrator ..
he said, messenger of Allah, describe them to us.
Give us their characteristics, just in case we are the people,
amassing all of these good deeds and there will be nothing on the Day of Judgment.
What do they look like?
He said, they are your brothers.
They're from your race.
And they even pray at night the same way you pray.
What went wrong? He said, the problem is
that they were a people who, when they were alone,
they would step over the limits of Allah.
What do we do from here?
This is a catastrophe.
Some of you will say, my hair is standing on end.
What do I do to uphold this trust of access to sin?
What do I do?
I will suggest three things in a minute or two.
And the first, a wholesome retreat to the Book of Allah
to recite the Quran with contemplation.
And that is why Ibn Taymiyyah, he said a person who recites the Quran
with thought contemplation, this becomes one of the strongest barriers
between him and sins, or at least some of them.
Find a way to access the Quran to recite it with contemplation.
That's number one. Number two, very quickly ensure
that you worship Allah privately where no one can see you.
Give yourself a portion of private one to one worship, even if it is a minute a day.
That's why Ibn Qayyim, he said the sins that people do
when they are alone is the main reason why people go astray later on in life.
And he said similarly the good deeds that you do when you are alone
will be the main reason why you will stay steadfast upon the religion.
Lastly, and my final message, dear brother, dear sister,
who is afraid of the trust of access,
I say to you message number three;
Connect yourself to something that is bigger than you.
Work towards an Islamic vision project that is bigger than your mirror reflection,
your career ambitions, your wage, and your health and fitness.
Connect yourself to a large Islamic goal and work towards it.
And watch how automatically most of these whisperings will be evicted from your life.
In my short experience,
I have seen that in the most of the cases I've come across, brothers and sisters
who are constantly dipping in and out of haram, observing that which is haram,
communicating, moving in and out of relationships,
exploring different drugs, using different applications,
whatever they may be doing, doing strange things to their body.
Most of the time it's because they are bored.
There is an emptiness in here, so they need to find something to fill that.
Whereas the people of high aspirations
like you, who are digging wells, who are starting charities,
who are learning knowledge, who are perfecting their recitation,
they are doing something that is bigger than their dunia.
They are far too busy to be slowed down by these fetishes and these whisperings.
The glow of their objective that they
follow is so bright that it has eclipsed every other Satanic whispering.
They make mistakes and they slip.
But when they do, they stand up again.
They say Astaghfirullah, and they have a North Star that they are following.
They know the path that they need to be on.
Connect yourself to something that is bigger than your dunia.
These are three concluding messages,
I wanted to share about the test or the trust of access.
We ask Allah to give us protection in our children.