KHUTBAH 3
Shaykh Usaamah Al- Khayyaat
Safar 2, 1424 (April 4, 2003)
All praise is due to Allaah, Lord of all the worlds. May peace and blessings of Allaah be upon the Messenger of Allaah, his household and companions.
Fellow Muslims! Fear Allaah and put your trust in Him. Have good opinion of Him and call on Him in fear and hope. Remember your stand before Him on the Day of Resurrection;
That Day shall a man flee from his brother, and from his mother and his father, and from his wife and his children. Everyman that Day will have enough to make him careless of others. (Abasa 80:34-37)
Dear Muslims! It is during calamities and afflictions that some people get confused and issues become muddled up in their heads. This then makes them hesitate to say the truth that they know. It is in this situation that false rumours become widespread, that facts are turned upside down and random judgments that have no basis are passed.
A Muslim sometimes forgets that Allaah has decreed that He will be testing His servants from time to time. But how can he forget that while he reads this reality every time in the Book of Allaah. Allaah says,
Do people think that they will be left alone because they say: "We believe," and will not be tested. And We indeed tested those who were before them. And Allaah will certainly make (it) known (the truth of) those who are true, and will certainly make (it) known (the falsehood of) those who are liars, (although Allaah knows all that before putting them to test). (Al-Ankaboot 29:2- 3)
Allaah also says,
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