Download Translation of Khutba(2011,07,01)

Translation of Khutba (Friday July 01, 2011)
(Visiting the sick)
All praise is due to Allah, the Beneficent and the Merciful. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his
family and companions.
O servants of Allah, Fear Allah. Remember Him and thank Him constantly; with His remembrance, the hearts find tranquility and
with thanking Him your blessing are preserved for you. Perform righteous deeds because the best of provisions are righteous
deeds.
The purity of the Deen and the beauty of the Shariah becomes clear, even clearer with good character and correct actions,
which the Muslim practices with his brothers; both near and far. Concerning this :the messenger (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa
Sallam) said: “The rights of one Muslim on another are six” it was said: What are they O messenger of Allah (Salla Allahu Alaihi
Wa Sallam)? He (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) said: “When you meet him greet him, and when he invites you accept, and if he
seeks your advice then give it. And when he sneezes and says al-hamdulillah then say yarhamak Allah, and when he is sick
then visit him, and when he dies follow his funeral.” (Bukhaarie and Muslim)
In visiting the sick O brothers, good character shines through, - as are your brothers rights fulfilled when he is in a time of
incapacity and inability to join his brothers. In visiting the sick there is joy for the heart and removal of loneliness, decrease of
pain, and comfort for the sick and his family.
Narrated by Al-Imam Ahmad and Muslim from Thawbaan from the Prophet (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) who said: “When
the Muslim visits his sick brother he never ceases to be in a garden of paradise until he returns. It was said: what is its garden,
he said: its fruits.” In the Hadith Qudsi Allah will say on the Day of Judgment: “O son of Adam I was sick and you did not visit
Me. He will say: O Lord how can I visit You. You are the Lord of the worlds? He says: Did you not know that My servant so
and so was sick yet you did not visit him? Did you not know that if you had visited him you would have found Me with
him?” (Muslim)
In a Hadith of Abu Hurairah, the Messenger (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) said: “whoever visited a sick person then, a caller
calls from the skies: You have done well and your walk was good also, and you have earned a place in paradise” (At-Tirmidhi
and Ibn Majah)
From the etiquettes of visiting the sick is to stand at his head, placing your hand on his brow or on the place of pain, while
saying:“No harm, by Allah’s will it is a purification for you” (Bukhaarie) The Prophet Muhammad (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa
Sallam) used to do that. He also guided us to a supplication to seek refuge from the pain. Uthman ibn Abil-Aas
Ath-thaqafi said: “I came to the Prophet (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) and I had a severe pain which made me incapacitated so
the Prophet (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) said to me: Place your right hand on it and say Bismillah, I seek refuge in the might of
Allah and his power from the evil of what I find and what pains me, seven times so I did that and I was cured.” (Muslim)
It is preferable for the one visiting to make many supplications for the sick person. In this regard a Hadith narrated by Ibn
Abbaas states that the Prophet (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) said: “Whoever visited a sick person who had not yet reached
death and said seven times ‘I ask Allah the Great Lord of the Majestic throne to heal you’ except that Allah will cure him of that
disease” (At-Tirmidhi)
He (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) said: “O Allah Lord of Mankind, remove the harm, and cure him for you are the Curer, there
is no cure except your cure, a cure which leaves no disease” (Bukhaarie)
Jibreel had visited the Prophet (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) in his sickness and said: “In the name of Allah I read upon you, for
everything that harms you, from every soul and envious eye, and Allah will heal you, In the name of Allah I read upon
you” (narrated by Muslim from the Hadith of Abu Masood)
From the etiquettes of visiting, that one should be aware of, is: that the visit should not be long, nor should one ask much of the
sick person, nor speak too much, nor mention that which worries him or increases his pain, nor should he mention a friend he
dislikes, or an enemy, nor should he speak of his family and children except with what is best, all of this to show kindness to him.
These diseases and sicknesses are expiations for the sins, and admonitions for the believers, who leave all evil after being ill.
Not everyone who gets sick dies, and from this is the statement of Allah, in the Qur’an in Surat At-Tauba:
“And do they not see that they are test and afflicted in every year once or twice, then they neither repent nor take reminder” (S.9
V.126)
O Muslims, know that visiting the sick is a recommended act, even if the person is in a coma, because The Prophet(Salla Allahu
Alaihi Wa Sallam) and Abu Bakr visited Jaabir while he was in a coma. This type of visit is a form of giving hope to the family
of the sick, plus the possible answering of your supplication.
What we should also mention here is that some people place burdens upon themselves by taking gifts to the sick. They might
even bring things that are from the customs of other than the people of Islam - this is not from the etiquettes of visiting the sick, it
is clear exaggeration, a burdening flattery, blind following, and it might influence those who have no means to maintain these
customs to leave the legislated Islamic visit which Allah and his messenger (Salla Allahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) has ordered.
O Allah !
O Allah !
O Allah !
O Allah !
O Allah !
Give shifa (cure) to all those who are sick
Give Barakah and Halal Rizk in our business.
Give us Taufiq and strength to serve Islam and Muslims
May Grant us Halal Rizq and safety for Musmims in Japan and all over the world
Accept us for spreading Islam in Japan and all over the world
Ya Rabbil Aalameen