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The Amazing Connections Between Jumah and Laylatul Qadr | Ramadan Khutbah by Dr. Omar Suleiman
Are you seeking the blessings of Laylatul Qadr beyond Ramadan? Every Jumuah is an opportunity to attain immense rewards and draw closer to Allah. In this khutbah, Dr Omar Suleiman explores how Jumuah mirrors Laylatul Qadr and why Allah reminds us that what is with Him is “better than entertainment and trade” (Qur’an [62:11] )—just as “prayer is better than sleep.”
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
I will now begin by saying that I am a Muslim. I am a Muslim. I am a Muslim. I am a Muslim. I am a Muslim. I am a Muslim. I am a Muslim.
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We begin by praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and bearing witness that none has the right to be worshipped or unconditionally obeyed except for Him. And we bear witness that Muhammad (ﷺ) is His final messenger. We ask Allah to send His peace and blessings upon
him, the prophets and messengers that came before him, his family and companions that served alongside him, and those that follow in his blessed path until the day of judgment. We ask Allah to make us amongst them. Allahumma ameen. Dear brothers and sisters, I want you to imagine if you were
sitting in the masjid of the Prophet (ﷺ) while he was giving khutbah al-jumu'ah. Is there anything more beautiful, more fulfilling than sitting and listening to the messenger of Allah (ﷺ) himself speak?
And while he is speaking, a caravan coming from Ash-Sham with all of its goods and with all of its bells and with all of its food and everything around it
comes next to the masjid and everybody leaves the masjid to catch what's on that caravan except for 12 or 8 people that stay with the Prophet (ﷺ).
According to many of the narrations that we find in Tafsir Surah al-Jumu'ah, this was the incident that Allah 'azza wa jal speaks to when He says, وَإِذَا رَأَوْا تِجَارَةً أَوْ لَهْوًا
انفَضُّوا إِلَيْهَا وَتَرَكُوكَ قَائِمًا that when they see these trades coming through when they see these goods coming through then they go rushing towards it and they leave you standing O' Muhammad (ﷺ)
قُلْ مَا عِندَ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ مِّنَ اللَّهْوِ وَمِنَ التِّجَارَةِ وَاللَّهُ خَيْرُ الرَّازِقِينَ Say that that which is with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is better than all sustenance, better than all trade better than all amusement and Allah 'azza wa jal is the best
of all sustainers and providers. Now, did this happen before the Prophet (ﷺ) started giving the khutbah? Was it when he stood up to say salam? Was there a period of hunger in Medina as some of the narrations
suggest? Is there more to the story? All of that is irrelevant to us for the discussion that we are having today I want you to think about the many ways in which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tests you
on a daily basis to see if you view Allah as better than what you pursue otherwise. And so we're learning on a daily basis Allah is better than food and drink
that what we gain through the spiritual sustenance of a day of Ramadan is better than what we gain through our physical sustenance and we go through this exercise on a regular basis until this becomes solidified in our hearts and minds
that spiritual sustenance is more important than physical sustenance we come through the month of Ramadan and we come across Laylatul Qadr the best night May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to observe it
and catch it and gain its full reward. Allahumma ameen But I wanted to talk about the many comparisons between Laylatul Qadr and the day of Jum'ah and particularly the way that
you approach Jum'ah on a weekly basis similar to how you pursue Laylatul Qadr on an annual basis because the point of this is actually to reframe our entire lives just like that one month is supposed to transform
the way we approach all other months, just like that day of fasting is meant to transform all of our other days so that we still prioritize our spiritual sustenance to our physical sustenance even when the physical sustenance comes back
in the same way there is a weekly component and subhanAllah as I was thinking about it there is almost nothing about Salatul Jum'ah that doesn't have a parallel or an analogy to Laylatul Qadr. First of all
the Prophet (ﷺ) mentioned to us, khayru yawmin tala'at alayhi shams yawmul Jum'ah, the best day that the sun has risen upon is the day of Friday this is the best
day of the week and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave this ummah the blessing of honoring the day of Friday and being honored by the day of Friday and the Prophet (ﷺ) also taught us though not in
these exact words but of course whether it is from the Quran or the Sunnah the best night of the year is Laylatul Qadr so you have the best day of the week and you have the best night of the year. This here is your weekly i'tikaf
from the pillars of Islam, the only pillar or component of a pillar that requires you to be in the masjid unless you are exempted and the reward is for those who are exempted as well but the only
component of a pillar that requires you to be in a masjid is this khutbatul Jum'ah and just like on the night of Al-Qadr where we search for the scrolls of the angels and we hope that the
angels will record our names the Prophet (ﷺ) mentions that the angels are recording the names of those who get to the masjid before the khutbah starts can you imagine on the day of judgment
when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala rolls out the scrolls and you start looking through all the Fridays and as you are seeing the Fridays you are missing a week here, two weeks here, three weeks there and you remember
that yeah it was just two more minutes at work it was just five more minutes I was dragging my feet oh I still got the credit for fulfilling the fard, the obligatory nature of Jum'ah as well, the Prophet (ﷺ) teaches you to have a mindset
that you don't even get to that point because the one who comes six hours before the Jum'ah is not like the one who comes five hours or the one who comes four hours or three hours or two hours or one hour or even thirty minutes before, the earlier that you get
the greater the reward as the Prophet (ﷺ) mentions and they are not all the same Laylatul Qadri khayrun min alfi shahr Laylatul Qadr is better than a thousand months, we pray that all of us get that reward of a thousand months
but for some it's a thousand years of worship, because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala left the khayr the better part unlimited, unrestricted the person who starts taking care of their Laylatul Qadr
from Maghrib time until Fajr the one who makes i'tikaf for the whole night versus the one who makes i'tikaf for an hour the one who prays all of the qiyam versus someone who prays a few raka'at of qiyam the one who remembers Allah throughout the night versus the one who
has some conversations over suhoor all of these are differentiating factors, likewise the Prophet (ﷺ) taught us that the earlier you come to Jum'ah the proportionality of your reward is decreasing and if you could visualize the reward
closing in up until Salatul Jum'ah, until you get to this moment of when the Imam says Assalamu Alaikum and then the rule books close Laylatul Qadr has that same
component, where the angels have scrolls, and as the Prophet (ﷺ) said, how deprived is the person whose name will not be in those scrolls, meaning how deprived is the one who is deprived of the blessing of Laylatul Qadr and so you have the component
of the angels with their records you have the components of those who come early and achieve the reward, you have the components of the recitation of the Quran, where the Prophet (ﷺ) mentioned that the one who recites Suratul
Kahf from Friday to Friday, Allah 'azza wa jal will put a noor will put a light between those two things between those two Fridays you have the component of forgiveness from Ramadan to Ramadan is kafaratun lima baynahuma
is a purification purification for everything that comes between the two and Jum'ah to Jum'ah, the Prophet (ﷺ) says is a kafara, is an expiation of the sins between the two things but not everyone is going to achieve
that, you see there's a difference as the 'ulama mentioned between the one who will be sinful for missing Jum'ah or not be sinful because they caught at least the fard element of the Jum'ah, and those
who will attain forgiveness for their sins on the day of Jum'ah they're not the same thing and so you have this pursuit of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on a weekly basis where you come in a masjid, where you're supposed to take this seriously, where you
listen carefully to the Imam where the angels descend with salam all of these elements exist in the Jum'ah khutbah, the preparation of the heart for the Jum'ah khutbah, everything from the way that you do ghusl before you come to Jum'ah
the Prophet (ﷺ) would tighten his waist belt for the last 10 nights you do ghusl and you prepare yourself before you come to Salatul Jum'ah, all of these represent an experience for you, that this Friday, this
weekly i'tikaf that you have this weekly immersion of all of the elements that you have is for the best day of the week just like you have the annual immersion of all of these elements as you pursue the best night of the year, and you
ask yourself do I treat Jum'ah this special do I treat the khutbah that special, do I treat the salat that special, do I honor it and just as on the night of Al-Qadr we look to Allah 'azza wa jal
as a night of accepted du'a as the Prophet (ﷺ) mentioned that on the day of Friday there is an hour in which there is an accepted du'a, accepted hour of supplications may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to achieve it
and so just as you're pursuing those accepted du'as this is the day in which you pursue that special time for accepted du'as you have to take the mindset of the year and impose it on
your day to day, you have to take the mindset of Laylatul Qadr and impose it on Jum'ah the last thing that I'll leave you with is this SubhanAllah you find that Salatul Fajr is the nightly test of our sleep and some of us
struggle to get up for Fajr and there's that additional phrase in the adhan of Salatul Fajr, As-Salatu Khayrun Minan Nawm prayer is better than sleep that initial or that additional admonishing
As-Salatu Khayrun Minan Nawm prayer is better than sleep so let the one who is struggling to fight with their bed and they hear As-Salatu Khayrun Minan Nawm, prayer is better than sleep, recognize that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is calling them to something
so much greater, you are practicing in these last 10 nights As-Salatu Khayrun Minan Nawm you're practicing it to the extreme that the whole night is better in prayer than it is in sleep, As-Salatu Khayrun
Minan Nawm, and on the day of Jum'ah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says Qul Ma'a Inda Allahi Khayrun Mina Lahwi Wa Mina Tijara say what is with Allah is better than what you pursue otherwise what is with Allah
is better than your sleep what is with Allah is better than your sustenance what is with Allah is better than everything that you earn what is with Allah is better than everything that you spend with, what is with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is better than
anything else, therefore the conclusion that I come to is that Allah is worth every single sacrifice in my life not just my food and drink because Allah is better than everything else
behind Ma'a Inda Allahi Khayrun Mina Lahwi Wa Mina Tijara what is with Allah is better than what you earn and what you trade with, what is with Allah is better than sleep prayer is better than sleep, is the
implication that Allah is better than everything else Allah is better than everything else and SubhanAllah in the adhan As-Salatu Khayrun Minan Nawm prayer is better than sleep and then you go to
Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar right? Allah is greater, Allah is greater or Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest and in Surat Al-Jumu'ah what does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
say? Qul Ma'a Inda Allahi Khayrun Mina Lahwi Wa Mina Tijara Wallahu Khayru Raziqeen and by the way, Allah is the best of providers, and you know what that's a sign of? that whatever it is that you're pursuing
outside of that immediate religious goal Allah is the one who controls what proportion you will get of it anyway and how much blessing there will be in it anyway so you know what? Allah is the one
who determines how much barakah there is in your sleep and Allah is the provider of sleep and Allah is the provider of rest and Allah is the provider of energy Allah is the one who will provide for you in terms of your sustenance and so if you leave
Allah for something, know that you will lose Allah and you will lose that pursuit but if you pursue Allah at the expense of something else know that Allah will give you Himself and He will give you the best of what you would be pursuing anyway
so Qul Ma'a Inda Allahi Khayrun Mina Lahwi Wa Mina Tijara Wallahu Khayru Raziqeen As-Salatu Khayrun Mina An-Nawm Allahu Akbar sacrifice your sleep, sacrifice your wealth and you'll realize in the process
that you're really not actually sacrificing those things, in fact you are blessing them because you are pursuing the provider of the best of those things as well as the provider of the greater goals that only a few people pursue
Laylatul Qadr Khayrun Min Alfi Shahr This night is greater than a thousand months and there is no day of the week that has more qadr more honor, more esteem than this day of Jum'ah. Change the way you
approach Salatul Jum'ah going forward don't just look at the rest of these days and nights, look at how you approach Jum'ah every single week come early, take your shower think about how you're going to get there in a way that's dignified, you're not rushing to
get in. Walk with a slow pace knowing that every single step is forgiveness for a year of sin, an elevation of your degrees. Approach Jum'ah the way that you would approach Laylatul Qadr and with that internal sentiment
that now I know Allah is better. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reshift our priorities towards that which is greater. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to recalibrate towards Him in Ramadan in every way. May
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to catch the best of nights and the best of days and the best of deeds and have the best of endings and the best of rewards. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make the best day of our lives the day in which we meet Him subhanahu wa ta'ala
and He is pleased with us. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give our brothers and sisters in Gaza, in Palestine, in Sudan, in Yemen, all over the world, better days in terms of the oppression that they are facing and grant them victory in this month of Ramadan. Allahumma
Allahumma ameen.
Alhamdulillah, wassalatu wassalamu 'ala rasoolillahi wa 'ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala. Before I make the du'a, again I want to say, dear brothers and sisters,
it always bewilders me why Jum'ah is more crowded in Ramadan than outside of Ramadan. And so whether you're inside the building or you're outside in the tents, dear brothers and sisters, these are the gatherings, there are no
times throughout the year in which the angels are more gathered in single places than the masajid on this day of Friday. Dear brothers, those who have been deficient in regards to their Jum'ah, either not coming to it
at all or coming to it late and with laziness, this is your time to make tawbah to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. There's absolutely no reason why the numbers for Jum'ah should drop off in any way after Ramadan. So may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala keep us
all firm upon that which He has commanded us to be firm upon. And may Allah 'azza wa jal forgive us for our shortcomings.
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