As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullaah
Below is a short clip on the last khutbah by ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-’Aziz (rahimahullaah). Absolutely amazing subhan’Allaah - below is the clip (featured on al-’Afasy channel) and a quick translation of it:
خطب عمر بن عبد العزيز
آخر خطبة خطبها فقال فيها
‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-`Aziz (rahimahullaah) said in his last khutbah:
[يا أيها الناس]
O people,
إنكم لم تخلقوا عبثاً
ولم تتركوا سدىً
Indeed you have not been created for mere play
Nor will you be left in vain
وإن لكم معاداً
ينزل الله فيه للفصل بين عباده
And for you is an appointed time
Wherein Allaah will descend to judge between his servants
فقد خاب وخسر من خرج من رحمة الله
التي وسعت كل شيء
Truly the failure is he who has left the Mercy of Allaah
which has encompassed all things
و حرم جنة عرضها السماوات والأرض
And who has been forbidden from Paradise,
its width as wide as the heavens and the earth
ألا ترون أنكم في أسلاب هالكين
Don’t you see that you are indeed in a destroyed plunder
وسيرثها بعدكم الباقون
And those after you shall inherit it
كذلك حتى ترد إلى خير الوارثين
Like that it will be, until it is returned to the Best of Inheritors (Allaah)
و في كل يوم تشيعون غادياً ورائحاً إلى الله
And everyday you are going back and forth escorting (someone) to Allaah
قد قضى نحبه
و أنقضى أجله
His term has been settled
And his life is over
أتودعونه و تدعونه في صدع من الأرض
غير موسّد ولا ممهّد
Will you then bid him farewell and call him from the rough and unleveled cracks of the earth?
قد خلع الأسباب
و فارق الأحباب
و سكن التراب
و واجه الحساب
He has left all provisions
And left his beloved ones
He has settled to live among dust
And is due to face the reckoning
غني عما خلف
فقير إلى ما أسلف
He is free from what he has left behind
And in dire need of what he has put forth
فاتقوا الله عباد الله
قبل نزول الموت و انقضاء مواقيته
So fear Allaah O servants of Allaah
Before the descent of death and the coming of his time
و إني لأقول لكم هذه المقالة
وما أعلم عند أحد من الذنوب مما أعلم عندي
Indeed, I say this to you
But none knows as much as I do of the sins (I have) earned
ولكني
استغفر الله و أتوب إليه
But I seek the forgiveness of Allaah and repent to Him
ثم رفع طرف ردائه و بكى حتى شهق
ثم نزل فما عاد إلى المنبر حتى ماترحمة الله عليه
He then lifted the ends of his cloak and weeped…
Then he got down and did not return to the minbar until he passed away
May the Mercy of Allaah be upon him.
Ameen
Asalaam’Alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh’
Alhamdulillah, Barak Allahu Feeki, a great leader who lived his life in the worship of Allah ‘Azza wa Jal.
His wife said to him once, ‘Commander of the Believers, was there some matter that troubled you this night?’ And he said, ‘Yes, I saw how I was occupied while governing the affairs of the community, all its black sheep and its white sheep, and I remembered the stranger, beggared and straying, and the poor and the needy, and the prisoners in captivity, and all like them in the far places of the earth, and I realised that God most high would ask me about all of them, and Muhammad would testify about them, and I feared that I should find no excuse when I was with God, and no defence with Muhammad.’
And even when ‘Umar was with me in bed, where a man usually find some pleasure with his wife, if he remembered some affair of God’s (people), he would be upset as a bird that had fallen into the water. Then his weeping would rise until I would throw off the blankets in kindness to him. ‘By God’ he would say, ‘How I wish that there was between me and this office the distance of the East from the West!’
Rahimahu Allah
JazakiAllahu Khayran wa khayr al’jazaa fil -dunya wa fil-akhira.
Subhanallah subhanallah…
SubhanAllah what a tearjerker! Jazaakillahu khayran.
jazakAllah
Masha Allah!
Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuh,
Re: this statement ‘Truly the failure is he who has left the Mercy of Allaah which has encompassed all things’. This is so true. Subhaan Allaah.
Without the mercy of Allaah none of us would have been able to achieve anything type of good in this life, nor would we still be breathing or have families or be muslim or have a faith that unites so many people in an instant and nor would we enter Paradise or be saved from The Hellfire. May Allaah subhaanahu wa ta ‘ala encompass us all in His mercy in this life. Ameen.
Jazaaki Allaahu khayran.
Assalaamu alaykum
P.S. Looking forward to some more poetry re: The life of this world and the next.
Wa `alaykumusalaam wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuh
Ameen, wa iyyaakum – jazaakumullaahu khayran for your inputs. The things he did as a governer (rahimahullaah) were also a great preparation and a good build up to his two years as khaleefah.
Re: Mercy of Allaah
Subhan’Allaah – I was reading ‘Tanbeeh al-Ghaafileen’ the other day and it had a great reminder in there about the fact that even performing good deeds is from the Mercy of Allaah and it would never have happened without His prior permission (makes you wonder then how generally people are heedless of things like riyaa’ and hypocrisy)
Waffaqanallaahu limaa yuhibbu wa yardhaa.
May Allaah give us sincerity at all times and never allow us to be heedful of our Hereafter. Ameen