Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers, and praise be to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions, and peace and blessings be upon them. My brothers and sisters, the most important thing, we are talking about happiness, and we were talking about what I mentioned in the last khatira, the issue of happiness and how do you become happy, what makes you happy. So it's not just a question of saying be happy, be happy doing what. Now, it's very important to understand this because, as I mentioned yesterday, people can be happy in some very negative ways, and therefore happiness is not a reliable meter to judge whether one's life is going on track or not. Now, therefore, what is the right track? How do you measure happiness? And what should you do? Well, I believe... that the correct and the most reliable way of trying to be happy is to live a life of purpose, not just randomly live. To live is not merely to breathe. To live is not merely to draw breath. To live is to achieve something worthwhile, to create a legacy, to do something and create some results which carry on after you, to spread goodness wherever you might be. That to me is the true description of happiness. So live a life of purpose. If you... One of the most valuable and useful things to do is to read biographies. It doesn't matter whose biography you read, but read biographies. The best biography to read, of course, is that of Rasulullah ﷺ, because Allah ﷻ presented His Nabi ﷺ as the best of examples for all people and of all time. The best example for you is the life of my Nabi ﷺ. The best example for you is the life of my Nabi ﷺ, and this is for the person who believes in Allah ﷻ, who believes in the Last Day, Day of Judgement, and looks forward to the meeting with Allah ﷻ. So any person of Iman, the best biography to read must be available for you, and must be available for you, absolutely required reading is the biography of Rasulullah to study the seerah Mubarak of the Rasul because Allah put this forward as the best thing to do so that's the first thing second thing is as I said read any biography right anyone because no matter whose biography you read whether you read the biography of a good person or a bad person he teaches you something and the reason I'm saying biographies is because to the extent possible they are as true as any story might be and though biography is like all histories are colored by the people who write them and no matter how objective a author might say he is or she is or no matter how for how objective they think they are there will be some bias and some leaning towards whatever the author considers to be worthwhile but leave that aside that doesn't matter now that is perfectly okay majority of what you're going to read will be fact will be something which actually occurred which happened I love reading biographies and one of the authors I strongly recommend is a man by the name of John Mann he's written a biography of Sultan Salahuddin by Yubi Rahatul Ali it's called Saladin and he's written another one of Genghis Khan if you read both it's called Genghis if you read these you it's a good way to read these as well as a comparison between two of the most powerful leaders the world has ever seen and who had an amazing impact, but two extremely different people, two totally different people. And it is a good thing to read this and to then reflect and say, well, what is it that makes them different? Quite apart from asking yourself the question and saying, well, who do I want to be like? But even if you don't go there, say, what is it that makes them different? So read biographies. Now, when you do that, you will realize that anyone in this world who has had an impact, irrespective of the kind of impact, anyone who had an impact was able to do that only because they wanted to do that. They were clear in their minds. They had a purpose. They were living with a purpose. They were living for a purpose, to achieve something. And they were able to achieve it to whatever extent. But they were able to achieve it. And the reason they were able to achieve it is because they were clear in their minds as to what they wanted to do. So I remind myself and you, let us learn to live a life of purpose. Live consciously. Live deliberately. Live thoughtfully. Exercise your mind and exercise your thought. Exercise your choices. All of us, no matter who we are, no matter where we find ourselves placed in the story of life, we have choices. I want to give you a measure of comparison. We have choices. But we must convert those choices into options. The way I differentiate that is that if you walk into a store, say you walk into TJ Maxx, what are the choices y

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, there is a general feeling, a false feeling, that there is a false feeling in the world that somehow as long as you are happy, all is right with your world. As long as you are happy. So people say, as long as we are happy. People say about their children, for example, that, you know, what are they doing? How are they? Oh, no, no, no. As long as they are happy, it's fine. You know, whatever they are doing. Now, this is, I say this is a fallacy because if you think about it, there are people in the world who are happy doing things which are in themselves ranging from a waste of time to something which, things which are actually evil. The finest example of that is social media. Today, one of the biggest, if not the biggest calamity, the biggest pandemic, the biggest epidemic that is completely, you know, destroying generations, not even one generation. is social media addiction, screen addiction. Imagine we are living in a world where we have managed to turn it upside down. For example, things that we should keep private, things that we kept private, we meaning as human beings, we kept private for centuries, for millennia, generation after generation. Things which we guarded jealously, things which we did not reveal to anyone, many times even to people we should have revealed them to. We didn't share them with anyone except with our very closest, nearest and dearest. People we completely trusted. All that information today, we voluntarily, without being forced to, and without seeking or getting a single cent in compensation, we put it out there for the entire world and his wife to see. On Instagram, on Facebook, on Snapchat and God knows what. Our most private information, starting from something as mundane and apparently, harmless as what you eat, pictures of your food, pictures of your plates, to things which are potentially dangerous, which we should never ever reveal. Everything is out there. And we know very well that those who we are giving this to voluntarily, whether it's these companies who, run these social media, who own the social media, or whether it is people who use information they get from social media, to do other things with it. We know that many of these things, many of these kinds of people, take our information and use it for their purposes. The most benign result of that is that they make humongous amounts of money, while we get nothing. They make a lot of money, while we get nothing. They make humongous amounts of money using our material, our life stories, and we get nothing in return. That's the most benign form of it. Two, some very malevolent and evil things that happen with information that is freely given on the internet. Now, we are happy doing it. And the people who are using this information for their own nefarious, reasons are happy using it. Right? This is the most benign thing and the most common thing. And we get our children addicted to it from, literally from the time they open their eyes. And we have all kinds of excuses, and all kinds of reasons why we do it. Oh, it keeps the child occupied. Otherwise, the child is a nuisance. Otherwise, the child makes a lot of noise. If I didn't do this, what would I do? A simple question is, what did your mother do? What did your grandmother do? Before the social media, they came into the picture. Right? Children were still there. Right? They were still having babies. How did they keep them occupied? Think about this. You know, I remember, and I don't have to go back always into my childhood. I'm saying it right now. If you go into the villages, for example, in India, you will see this anywhere. You have a little kid. All he has is a shoebox, or the equivalent of a shoebox. Something like a shoebox. And he has, he has, he has, he has, he has, he has, some bottle caps, small or big bottle caps. And he has a string. Now this child, first of all, he accesses all of these materials. And then he creates a wheeled vehicle. So he makes axles, he fixes those bottle caps as wheels to that box that he has, the shoe box or its equivalent. He ties the string and then he puts something in it and he drags it around and he calls it his car, he calls it his bus, he calls it his train, he calls it whatever he wants to call it. And in the whole process he is learning to be dexterous, he is learning to use his intelligence, his reasoning powers, he is learning to create something. That thing which he creates is successful part of the time, sometimes it fails. And each time it is successful or fails, he is learning some other lesson. And he is having a hell of a lot of fun. He is having great fun doing all this. And most of the time he is doing this outside. He is getting some sunlight, he is getting some vitamin D, he is breathing fresh air hopefully depending on which place he is living in. All of this is happening. Even in America, I remember seeing exactly this hap

https://youtu.be/HoSt3sN4jDM Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu Wa Salamu Alai Sharafi Al-Anbiya Wa Al-Mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alaihi Wa Sallam. Tasleeman Kaseeran Kaseera. Famaa Baadu. I'm in KBR Park, where I come every day to walk five miles. And this is a young peacock. He's just molted his tail. He's waiting to get his full feathers. Beautiful bird, as you can see. I want to remind myself and you that the reason I do this walk is because I'm concerned about my physical health. And when I'm concerned, it's not because I'm worried or something, but because... It is important to be concerned about your physical health. And as you grow older, you don't grow stronger. You... It's the opposite. You grow weaker. And if you don't take care of yourself, then the price to pay is very painful and severe. So I do my best to take care of myself. The best way to do that, hands down, is to walk... five miles a day. And that is what I try to do. Now, the point I want to make here, as far as Khatera is concerned, as far as Fathir Bantar is concerned, is that just as we are concerned about our physical health, which we should be, we should also be concerned about two other things. One is our mental health. And the third is our spiritual health. These two are equally, if not more important than physical health alone. Mental and spiritual health. So the question I want to ask myself and ask you to ask yourself is, what is our plan for that? For better mental health? And better spiritual health? So just as walking five miles a day is a great exercise and the best exercise for physical health, then reading one book a month is the best exercise for mental health. It doesn't matter which book you read. It doesn't matter whether you enjoy... book or you don't enjoy the book. It doesn't even matter whether you understand it or not. As a matter of fact, ironically, a book that you don't understand, a concept you don't understand, but which you struggle to understand. So, say, for example, if you are not a, or if your knowledge of mathematics is like mine, then reading a book on mathematics I would consider it to be, for example, a refined method of torture. But that is better for me, for my mental health, than reading something, you know, a children's, a book of stories for children or comics or something. Because the struggle, the mental struggle that you have to undergo to understand something you don't understand is what generates brain cells. It is what creates new neurons. So, even though it's painful, or rather maybe because it's painful, because the same thing applies for physical health. Any exercise we do, whether it's in a gym or whether it's this walking and so on, the first sensation is pain. Without exception, the first sensation is pain. And it's only when you go through that pain barrier, when you can break through the pain barrier, that you reach a stage where you get what I call a state of grace, where now you enjoy the exercise. Not that you enjoy the pain, because the pain goes away. Then there's no pain. Then you're just enjoying it for the sake of enjoying it, and it's wonderful. But to get to that state of grace, you have to go through a state of grace. You have to go through the barrier of pain. There's no other way to do that. Similarly, as far as spiritual health is concerned, once again the same thing, which is, we have to go through the barrier of pain. And the barrier of pain happens primarily because we don't understand the value of spiritual health. In the words of the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamoorthy, he said, it's not a sign of health to be profoundly adjusted to a sick society. It's not a sign of health to be profoundly adjusted to a sick society. And one thing for sure, we today, globally speaking, are a very sick society. We are not just sick, we are very, very sick. And the pressure on us, always from everywhere, is to get adjusted to that sick society. So, this is the problem. This is something that we have to come to terms with and say, that I will not adjust to the sick society. And the fact that I am not adjusted is not a bad thing. It is a sign that my heart is still alive. It is a sign that my spiritual health is still worth salvaging. It is a sign that I have not yet been corrupted to the point where I just accept whatever is happening in society. And may Allah forgive us, you know, maybe I fall into the group of people who not just accept it, but who contribute to it. They make the society sicker. Take, for example, the issue of ostentatious spending or luxuries. It's not just a matter of saying, I have the money so I can spend it. No. The question is, if you have the money, what are the choices that you are making? People like to blame God, blame Allah subhanahu wa ta&#039

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wasalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahibu sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. Fama baadu. My brothers and sisters, to continue and expand on the theme of what we have been talking about for the last couple of days, which is the standard of excellence, al-ihsan. See the beauty of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam's explanations and his answers. He was called Jamil Galim. The person who was in his speech and in whatever he said, he was so perfect and so complete. He did not say, he didn't speak for a long period of time. What he had to say? He said it in a short, you know, short speech or maybe sometimes a sentence, which was a wealth of meaning. So when in Hadith Jibreel, when Jibreel alayhi salam asked him, what is al-ihsan? What is excellence? His reply was so beautiful. He said, ! To worship Allah as if you can see him. And if you cannot see him, know that he sees you. Now think about this, that yesterday as I was saying, the thing to do is when you stand on the Musallah, is to specifically say, O Allah, this salah is for you. This salah is for you. I am praying for you. Because Allah says, Allah says, Personal. Establish the salah for my dhikr. So when we stand on the Musallah, we say, O Allah, this salah is for you. This dhikr is for you. And therefore, Prophet Muhammad is saying, that pray as if you can see Allah. So when you are standing there and saying, O Allah, this salah is for you, it is as if you are seeing Allah. And then obviously when you do that with concentration, you will find that all thoughts and distractions disappear. And you get concentration and you are able to focus on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Now that is the whole issue of Ihsan. Now, ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! This is to be extended and should be extended into every aspect of our lives. So we pray as if we can see Allah. We do business as if we can see Allah. We are with our families as if we can see Allah. We drive our car as if we can see Allah. Everything in life, right? Our transactions as if we can see Allah. Now if we do this as if we are seeing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and knowing that even though we don't see Allah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will make us see Allah. is seeing us if we work with this awareness in every aspect of our life believe me our life will become very beautiful because every action will be an action of ahsan no matter how small or big that action is it will be an action of ahsan if i am cleaning my room then i'm and if i'm doing it with this consciousness that allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is seeing me as i am working real time allah is seeing me then imagine how beautifully that room will be cleaned right this thing has there are two major benefits that come from this awareness the awareness that i am in the presence of allah and again this is we not only have the dalil of rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam hadith we also have the dalil of the quran where allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said he said he is with you wherever you might be right he is with you wherever you might be so now having this awareness there are two major benefits the first benefit is that it gives you uh it's a shield against all sin if i am for example if somebody is you know i i obviously i don't smoke but if somebody who's smoking uh once he has this awareness that my rabbi is watching me how will he even ever light a cigarette right think about that he's going to light a cigarette he says subhanallah allah is watching me what do you do throw away the packet because this is something we do not do we do not do this we do not do this we do not do this we do not do this which is which is prohibited so why would i do that same thing i'm about to for example i'm about to uh you know bad talk somebody backbite somebody do some ghibah uh carry some tail namima cast aspersions on people uh you know insinuate people cast insinuations on people and so on any of this kind of stuff the before you even begin if you have this awareness subhanallah allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is watching me allah is allah is here allah is with me he listens to me he hears me then any chance of doing that evil action completely disappears so this is a shield and a protection from everything which is evil and the other big benefit is that it's a sense it it's it's a source of enormous confidence uh that you get because you say alhamdulillah i am with allah allah is with me so how can anything harm me how can anything how can any anything uh you know cause me any pain any suffering anything negative nothing whatever i'm doing i'm doing it for the sake of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and i'm doing it knowing that allah is with me so the

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wasalatu wasalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahibus salam. Tasleeman kathiran kathira. My brothers and sisters, somebody much wiser than I am said this, and I'm only repeating. And he said, what if I told you the ummah's downfall didn't begin with politics or culture or society. It began on the prayer mat. It began on the prayer mat. What is the first thing lost from the ummah? It is not hijab. It is not honesty. It is not charity. It is something far more subtle and almost gone. Rasulullah, he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam warned us. And he said, the first thing to be lifted from my ummah is khusho. Not prayer itself, not fasting, not rituals. Khusho. The heart inside the prayer. The body stays Muslim. The soul slips away. Now think about that again. The prayer remains. The movements remain. The words remain. The masjid, the prayers remain. The presence, the huzur of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala disappears. The humility disappears. The trembling disappears. The softness disappears. We keep the shell. We lose the soul. Why is this terrifying? Because when khusho is lost, you still pray. But your prayer doesn't lift you. Doesn't soften you. Doesn't restrain you. Doesn't change you. You pray with your limbs, but not with your heart. This is how an ummah decays from within. The ummah lost khusho when we started rushing. We started multitasking. We started treating prayer like a chore. Something to be done and finished with. We started thinking about everything except sallam. We started thinking about everything except Allah. Think about what happens in the sallam. Our bodies enter sallam. Our minds stay in the dunya. This is how khusho dies. The painful reality. Today we know the motions of sallam better than their meaning. We perfect our tajweed, but not our attention. We memorize surahs, but not salanda. We inherited the ritual, not the reverence. Khusho is not crying. Khusho is not crying. Khusho is not crying. Khusho is not crying. It's not emotion. It's not drama. It's not fear. Khusho is being present. Being humble. Being aware. Being small before Allah. Being sincere. Being still. It is the heart kneeling in sajda before the body does. Khusho was the secret of the sahaba. They didn't pray long. They prayed deep. When they stood, their hearts trembled. When they bowed, their egos bent. When they prostrated, the dunya disappeared. They prayed like people who knew they would die tomorrow. How to revive khusho? How to revive khusho? In one sentence. Before you say Allahu Akbar, whisper in your heart, Ya Allah, this prayer is for you. Ya Allah, this prayer is for you. Ya Allah, this prayer is for you. Not for him. Not for habit. Not for routine. Not for people. Not for discipline. For him. For Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That intention alone changes the entire prayer. The truth no one tells you. The ummah won't be revived by more lectures, more institutes, more seminars. It will be revived the moment hearts bow the way bodies bow. Revive khusho and you revive your civilization. So ask yourself. When I pray, does Allah have my body or my heart? Because the first thing the ummah lost was khusho. And the ummah will rise again only when we find it. Inside ourselves, inside our prayer, inside our hearts. In the words of the great grammarian and great scholar of the Abbasi period, in the court of Harun Rashid, he said, I heard the Arab. The tribal Arabs, the Badu, praying to Allah. With words that opened the eyes of eloquence and opened the jewels of wisdom. And opened the jewels of wisdom. I heard him say, It is enough for me to be your slave. It is enough for me to be proud that you are my Rabb. You are as I love. So make me as you like. It is enough for me to be your slave. It is enough for me to be proud that you are my Rabb. You are as I love. So make me as you love. See how beautiful this is. It is enough for me to be your slave. It is enough for me to be proud. It is enough for me to be your slave. You are as I love. So make me as you love. SubhanAllah. It shows us that the actual thing which is important is this connection with Allah. The connection with Allah in our Salah. When we can do that, when we get that connection, Inshallah, that is where the secret of success is. The connection of with Allah SubhanAllah. I remind myself and you that SubhanAllah, we, we are not in the same place. Inshallah, we pray. At least those of us who pray, pray. But how many of us pray in a way where that prayer is beneficial for us? Where that prayer really does something for us? That is the issue. The issue is what is my Salah doing for me? And I remind myself and you that Allah SubhanAllah told us that the Salah is the tool to deal with this world. Right? To deal with this world. Because Allah SubhanAllah told us

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Inna salatu wassalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam. Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. My brothers and sisters, the fundamental belief of Islam is the Tawheed of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala jalla zillaluh. That there is no one worthy of worship except Allah. That there is no one who can help or harm. There is no one who can fulfill any of our needs or desires. There is no one who has any power or authority of any kind in any sphere of life. There is no one who can cure disease. Or alleviate suffering. Whether it's economic or health-wise. Or of any other kind. There is no one who has the power to decree that the converse of this has the power to decree that somebody should become sick. Somebody should have some difficulty. There is no one who can do any of these things. Illa Allah. Illa Allah. Except Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This is the fundamental belief. And therefore, the fundamental belief also extends to the fact that when we have any need, we ask only Allah. Do not ask anyone other than Allah. We ask only Allah. And we ask only Allah without associating any partners with Him. And without going through this one or that one. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Himself commanded us and said Uda'uni astajib lakum. Allah said, ask Me and I will accept your ask. I will accept your dua and I will give you. Uda'uni astajib lakum. And Allah said the one who burns that and scorns that and does not ask, considers himself to be self sufficient and not in need of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said that He will put him fi Jahannam wa al-Dakhirin. And He will put him in the hellfire. And He will put him in the hellfire. You ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala always to keep us among those who always ask Him and who keep asking Him. And when you ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, there are three kinds of duas, if I can say that. One are the duas of the Quran. Rabbana a'tina fi al-dunya hasanatan wa fi al-akhirati hasanatan wa ila azama na'ar. Wa Rabb, give us goodness in this life and give us goodness in the life of the Hereafter. And save us from the hellfire. Rabbana la tuzikqaluwana ba'dayzi hadaytina wahablana milladinkar rahma. Innaka anta al-wahaba. O Allah, do not allow our hearts to change after You have guided them. And many others. The distinction of the duas of the Quran is that they all begin with Rabbana. So all the Rabbana duas are from the Quran al-Karim. And then there are the duas of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And obviously nobody can make better duas than Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam himself. No one can make better duas than Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was connected to Allah more than him, more than he was. And so his duas are the most beautiful duas in the world. And his duas are so comprehensive, they cover every aspect of life. It's a very good thing to memorize some of those duas and to ask. And his duas all begin with Allahumma. Allahumma. Allahumma a'ini al-adhi. Allahumma a'ala adhikrika wa shukrika wa husni ibadatika. The dua that he taught to be recited after every Salam. Allahumma a'ini, oh Allah, help me. Ala adhikrika, in your remembrance, adhikrika wa shukrika. And to help me to become grateful to you. Wa husni ibadatika and to beautify my ibadat. So Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam's duas are the beginning usually with, almost always with Allahumma. We know the famous story concerning Ramadan where, and Lailatul Qadr specifically where Aisha Siddiqua radiallahu anha, may Allah bless her and raise her darajat and fill her qabar with noor. Our mother and one of our greatest teachers, Aisha Siddiqua radiallahu anha asked Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, she said, Ya Rasulullah, if I were to get Lailatul Qadr, what must I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? Which is the best dua to make? And he taught her the famous dua which we all know, alhamdulillah. Where she, where he said to her, ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and said, Allahumma inna ka'afu. Tuhibbul aafu fa aafu anni. Allah, you are the forgiver. You love to forgive. So forgive me. On a side note, I must caution myself and you that the best form of any dua is the, any dua of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, the best form of that dua is exactly the way that he taught us to make. So don't, don't add to it. Don't try to improve it. Because there is no way that you can improve a dua of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So don't try to improve it. For example, this dua, Allahumma inna ka'afu. Tuhibbul aafu fa aafu anni. This is what Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam taught Sayyidina Aisha sallallahu ala

Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen Muhammadu Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbuhu sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. My brothers and sisters, I went to visit the grave of my brother-in-law Akbar Jang. Absolutely wonderful human being. And I realized that this was the first time I came to Delhi when he was not there. The first time I came to Delhi was after I got married. And then every time I've come here, we have come and always stayed with them. My sister-in-law and Akbar Bhai. One of the nicest human beings that I have ever had the pleasure and privilege to know. Extremely polite, very cultured, highly educated. A thinking person. And a person with whom you had, you know, he was very sociable. He would speak to anybody. I mean, he would speak to, from the greatest scholar to literally the, you know, the rickshaw puller. And he would do this. He would just walk around in the street and he would talk to anybody. You know, people who are selling something, he would stand there. He would talk to them in the most affectionate. And wonderful manner. He wouldn't sort of talk down to anybody. Very polite and very, very erudite. And you could speak to him literally on any subject on the face of the planet. He was a very well-read person. Very kind, very helpful. You know, thorough, thorough, thorough gentleman. And one of the best things that I can, that I remember about him was that in 40 years that I knew him. And I've, you know, we've lived with him. So, I've. You would have spoken in 40 years. I would have heard him speak for God knows how many hours. Not one single time did I ever hear him say anything negative about anybody else. Amazing. No. Never, never. Not one word of. Not one word of. Not one word of any casting, any aspersions on anybody. Any insinuations. Saying anything negative about. Not even once. In 40 years. Of. Of. We staying with them. They're coming and staying with us and so on. Absolutely fabulous human being. Akbar Ismail. And so, I went there to his khawar. And, of course, I make dua. May Allah make it easy for you. Allahumma khafirlahu wa rahamahu wa aafihi wa aafu anhu wa krim nuzulahu wa si mudkhalahu wa ghasilu ilmaaii wa althaljii wa albarad wa naqihihimina alqataya kamaa naqaitu thawbul abiyadu min al-danas. Allahumma adkhilahu fi jannatil firdausi laala bi ghairi hisaab. We ask Allah to bless him, to fill his khabar with nur, to forgive his sins, to grant him jandatul firdausul ala without his saab. We ask Allah to grant sabr to his family. We ask Allah to protect him from all the difficulties of the khabar and of the fire of Jahannam. We ask Allah to forgive his sins. Because Allah is Ghafoorul Rahim, He is Rahmanul Rahim. And there is no sin that anybody can do which is beyond Allah's forgiveness inshaAllah. And Alhamdulillah Akbar Wahi was a good Muslim and he died on Islam. We ask Allah to bless him and to help him in this time when the only one who can help us is Allah. Peace be upon you. see you will see a mound of sand and this is true for every one of us no matter how glorious and magnificent we might be in life when we die and we are buried a mound of sand is all that will remain and that's why the poet said he said the the mirage of life the truth about the mirage of life is this that as soon as your eyes shut you become a story from is you become was your name itself will disappear from people's tongues the moment you die because if you if you think about this when you go to somebody's janaza they will bring the janaza they will put it on one side and they will say that after the Salah after whichever fard Salah say Salatul Asr say after Salatul Asr there will be a Salatul janaza right Asr ki naaaz kay baad mein naaaz kay janaza padi jaaegi then after the Salah is over what will they say please form the safs for Salatul Janazah and then they will say bring the mayyat or bring the janazah, bring the mayyat they will not say bring Yaver Bhai, they will not say Sheikh Yaver to go either love no, they will say bring the mayyat so what happened to my name I mean the people who are saying bring the mayyat are people who know me, are people who are related to me, right, are people who love me inshallah but they will not say bring Sheikh Yaver, bring Yaver Bhai, bring Yaver no, they will say bring the mayyat my name is gone and I my body is not cold yet almost to that extent I have just been given ghusl and I have been clothed in my kafan and I am there I am not even in the ground and people have stopped using my name to the extent that if somebody says bring Sheikh Yaver here or bring Yaver Bhai here or bring Mr. Beg here people will say you have gone mad what are you saying, how do you say bring Mr. Beg Mr. Beg is dead, he is gone bring the janazah bring the body bring the mayyat and then you put the person in the grav

Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wassalatu wassalamu ala ashrafil anbiya wal mursaleen, Muhammadu rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahibu sallam, tasliman kathiran kathira. Fammabadu, my brothers and sisters, somebody asked me a question, I've been, last two further reminders, we've been talking about, of secret of success, and I said find a problem, solve it, scale it, monetize it, and one of our listeners, he said, how do I find a problem? Now, on the face of it, that looks like a trick question, so I'm sure he's trying to trick me. But seriously, if you think about it, how do you find a problem? That reminds me of a story. I was, many years ago, I was walking in Nizamabad with a friend of mine, and we went down, we were going to some place, and we went down a lane, and this lane was absolutely stinking. It was the foulest smelling thing that you can imagine. So my friend obviously expressed his disgust, and he said, what a horrible smell. So I said to him. That is the smell of money. So he thought I was speaking hypothetically, you know, that like money is dirty kind of thing. Of course, I don't believe money is dirty, money is money. What you do with it makes it dirty or good. So he said, do you mean, what do you mean? So I said, I'm not speaking hypothetically. This is the smell of money. So he said, I didn't understand. I said, what are you smelling? He said, garbage. I said, okay. So if you apply to the city and say that I want to remove this garbage, do you think the city will agree? And I said, apply to the city. I want to remove the garbage. He said, yeah, I'm sure they'll agree. So he said, if you apply to remove this garbage, who will pay you for that? He said, the city will pay. He said, yes. The garbage itself, you get. And the city is paying you to remove the garbage. Now you take this garbage and then you take it to a place and you separate it. You recycle it. Plastic separate, inflammable separate and so on. And you make a plastic melting factory. You make, you create a factory to make briquettes, fuel briquettes, for example. You take other garbage which can be converted into vermicompost. So you have fertilizer. So I said, there's three different revenue streams. Now you can upscale the plastics into making different kinds of consumer products. So that is a revenue stream that can be scaled up some more. So he said, fantastic. I never thought of that. I said, okay, then I'm not finished. So I said, here you have got three revenue streams. The raw material for which you are getting. Not only are you getting it free because garbage is garbage. People just throw it. But you are also being paid to bring it to your place from wherever it is. Right? So here is raw material being donated to you free of cost. And somebody is paying you to move that raw material from wherever it is to your factories. Right? He said, fantastic. I said, okay, I haven't finished yet. He said, what more? What is there? I said, I'll tell you. The real punchline is to come. So the punchline is to remove this garbage, you need labor. To separate the garbage into different, you know, basic raw material products for your different factories, you need labor. Who are the people that you are going to employ? He said, well, people who are very poor, people who have really no options in life, people who are completely uneducated. And since we are talking about India, we'll, we'll probably employ people of lower castes who are already oppressed and so on. So I said, there you go. Now you are providing employment for all of these people. And all of them, all of them are people in need, people who are, you know, who have, who have serious life difficulties. So I said, now think about this. So when you are doing this, you are getting Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will reward you because you are helping all of these people. At the same time, you are cleaning the streets. So now your city, instead of smelling like a garbage dump, now start smelling like a rose garden because the whole place is cleaned up. Plus you have provided employment for all these people. Now you being a good Muslim, inshaAllah, and you being, the purpose being to please Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, you will not exploit these people who you are employing. You will employ them. You will maybe start schools for their small children. Maybe you will start and you should start, you know, you should start a free medical facility for them to, you know, to give them, provide them medical aid. And then you expand the schools, employ, you know, make them absolutely top class schools and then open them. So now you've got a fourth revenue stream, which is schools. And it's a very, very popular and a very lucrative revenue stream. You have your hospitals. Now again, in the hospitals, that's a fifth revenue stream, right? And again, I'm not s

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ash-sharafi al-anbiya wa al-mursaleen. Muhammadun Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi sallam, tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Qumma baadu. My brothers and sisters, this is the second part of the Solve a Problem series. And that is, as I said, the secret of success is find a problem, solve it, scale your solution and monetize it if you want to. Now, for this, you need two critical essential things. One is curiosity and two is creativity. How do you get that? Practice this principle. Ask, how does it work? Then ask, how can I make it better? How does it work and how can I make it better? Now, this applies to everything in life. It is not only something that applies to mechanical processes. It's something that applies to human relations, for example. How's my marriage? How is it working? How can I make it better? My employment? How is it working? How can I make it better? Everything. You can apply it across the world. Right? Curiosity is, how does it work? Creativity is, how can I make it better? I always say this to myself and to all of you. Work for love, money will follow. Because only when you work for love, only when you work for the love of the thing you are doing, can you produce superb quality. And when you produce superb quality, you can charge a premium. Money will follow. But only if you have superb quality. Now, many times, people fail because they get discouraged. And that happens because they are concerned about what people will say. And I say to you, forget people. First of all, people won't say anything for the simple reason that people have their own stuff to do. They're not living their life wondering about you and commenting on what you're doing. And even if they're doing, forget them. They're not important. Forget. Forget people. Their opinion doesn't count. Don't seek approval from outside. Do the thing because you love it. And keep doing it. How many times? Until you succeed. Until you succeed. You don't count the number of attempts, except at the end after you have succeeded. You don't say, this is my 50th attempt. You don't say, this is my 10th attempt. No. You don't count the attempts until the end. After you have succeeded. So how long must I work until I succeed? Give you two examples. Thomas Edison, the great inventor who invented the incandescent bulb. His teachers said that he was too stupid to learn anything. This is what school does for you. His teacher said that he was too stupid to learn anything. And he was fired from his first two jobs for being nonproductive. When Edison was working on inventing the light bulb, they say that he made 10,000 unsuccessful attempts. Think about that. How long does that take? Right? 10,000 unsuccessful attempts. Now, when they asked him how he kept going after failing so many times, he said, I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Now, see that attitude. That is the secret. The secret of success. The attitude of saying, I am not going to feel sad, glad, bad, mad because of what people are saying. I am doing this stuff and I will do it until I succeed. So they said, you, how did you keep going after failing so many times? He said, no, I've not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Now, you can have that attitude only if you don't look for approval from people. And work for the love. Of what you do. There's no other way. If you are looking for approval from people, no way that you will succeed. There's a wonderful story about Thomas Edison. And the story is that he had his lab, uh, in a sort of granny cottage, um, outside his outside his house in his garden. And in that lab, he had all his experiments. All his documents. All his documents. All his documentation. His writing, his books, everything. And one night that cottage somehow caught fire. So now think about this. Here is a wooden building. It's full of paper. So what do you think happens? When it catches fire, you have the perfect fire. Got a huge fire happening. Edison's son says, I went looking for my dad because I thought to myself, you know, this, this is, it's a life's work and it's going. I'm going to commit suicide when I die. I'm going to commit suicide when I die. I'm going to commit suicide when I die. so he went looking for him he said I found him standing looking at the fire his hands behind his back just looking at the fire so he said to him the son came and said dad are you ok he said yeah absolutely he said go call your mom tell her she is never going to see a fire like this in her life her son is completely puzzled he said what here is the thing where your whole life's work is effectively gone down the drain and you are saying call your mom to see this wonderful fire he

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil amliya wal kursaleed. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. From Abadu, my brothers and sisters, the secret of success in life, whether you are an entrepreneur in a business or whether you are an individual doing something on your own, the secret is very simple. Find a problem, solve it, scale your solution, monetize it if you want to. Fourth step. Find a problem, solve it, scale it, and if you want to, if you want to monetize it, monetize it. Make money from it. The Nigerian billionaire and car manufacturer, Innocent Efediaso Chukwuma. I love African names, it's so musical. And a friend of mine said to me, anything which has three syllables is musical. So Innocent Efediaso Chukwuma. In the 19th, 1980s, every businessman in Niniaibi, in Nigeria, was importing motorcycles from Japan and China. They imported them whole, which is fully assembled. Because a motorcycle is bulky, however, a 40-foot container could only hold about 40 motorcycles. This made the landing cost very high. Innocent Chukwuma looked at this and he said, why are we shipping air? I want you to remember this statement. Why are we shipping air? Because this applies not only to shipping, it applies to a lot of things in life. Why are we shipping air? So he instead imported disassembled bikes and then reassembled them in Nigeria and sold them. Now disassembled, you could get 200 bikes in the same container, same 40-foot container. Now while competitors were selling motorcycles for, you know, 150,000 Naira, Innocent started selling for 80,000 Naira. And he was still making a profit. Now once he started assembling bikes locally, he realized that he was buying a lot of plastic parts from outside. Again, he did the math. He said, why import plastic when I can melt it here? So same thing. Why are we shipping air? He opened a plastics factory to feed his motorcycle assembly. That same plastics factory later allowed him to start making car dashboards and bumpers. That's where he started in his car manufacturing business. He didn't wake up one day and build a car plant. He built the components first. Then the car followed. Now many, this happens all the time in all sorts of things. Because many of us, many of us, we are losing money. We are losing time. We are losing opportunity. Because we are shipping air. So the thing to ask yourself is, where in my business, where am I in my life? Am I shipping air? Right? Because if you are, if you are doing something, any process, which does not give you a direct return, then that is shipping air. So think about this and ask yourself, where in my life am I shipping air? And you will find out. In India also, we have several great examples of this, of the principle that I mentioned to you, which is find a problem, solve it, scale your solution and monetize it. If you want to monetize. And that is this company called Urban Company. Now, Urban Company guys, is a classic example of find a problem, solve it, scale it, scale your solution and monetize it. All of us had these problems and we still have these problems. At home, the kitchen sink leaks, the bathroom flush tank, something happens. You want to put a nail in a pipe, you want to put a nail in a place in a wall to hang a picture. But if you simply take a nail and a hammer and you start hammering, then a whole chunk of plaster falls down and now you have an ugly hole in the wall. Your table, your chair, something is loose, it needs to be fixed. You need a carpenter. So you need a carpenter, you need a plumber, you need somebody to knock a nail in your wall. Maybe you need a haircut. And going to the saloon and all of that is a hassle and you wish that you could get a haircut, you could get a barber to come home and cut your hair, trim your beard, give you a pedicure, manicure or whatnot, a massage. Guess what? That's exactly what Urban Company hooked on to. So what they have is a whole bunch of professionals, who are dressed professionally, they are in a uniform. They have been, their antecedents and their background checks have been done. So when you book on the app, the service that you want, this professional then is assigned to you. He comes at a specific time, which you have specified. So according to your convenience, the price is, he doesn't come, he doesn't haggle. You don't have to talk to him. The price is already there on the app and you already have, you have paid the price for the service. He comes, he or she comes and they do the service and then they clean up after themselves and they leave. And all this is done in a very, very nice and efficient professional manner. Same thing, it's just a knocking and nailing a wall. But you are prepared to pay 200, 300, 500, whatever it is, whatever it is for that service, because you are gettin

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Tasliman kathiran kathira. My brothers and sisters, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reminds us about the purpose of our creation. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reminds us about why He created us. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, وَمَا أَخَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونَ مَا أُرِيدُ مِنْهُمْ بِالرِّزْقِ وَمَا أُرِيدُ أَن يُطْعِمُونَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الرَّزَّاقُ ذُو الْقُوَّةِ الْمَتِينَ Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, And I, Allah alone, created not the jinn and the humans except that they should worship me. That means, I have not created them for any purpose other than that they should worship me. I do not seek any provision from them, that is provision for themselves or for my creatures, nor do I ask that they should feed me, that is feed themselves or my creatures. Verily Allah is the All-Provider, the Owner of Power and Most Strong. If you look at the grammar of the last ayah, إِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ الرَّزَّاقُ ذُو الْقُوَّةِ الْمَتِينَ You will see that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has emphasized the fact that He is our Raziq six times. And finally in the last word of the ayah, He jalla jallahu invokes His own power, قُوَّةِ الْمَتِينَ to allay our anxiety about our sustenance. The issue is not His ability to provide but our faith. My brothers and sisters, my sisters, the thing to understand very clearly is that there can be no benefit in whatever Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala prohibited and there can be no harm in what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala permitted. This is the lesson that the Sahaba, Ridwanullahi alaihi majma'in, learned so well. They didn't try to balance anything. We talk about balance between deen and dunya. Deen is the way of living in the dunya. There's no question of balance. Deen is the way in which, according to which if we live in the dunya, then we will have a beautiful life in this world and in the hereafter. The Sahaba didn't balance anything. They simply chose to obey Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala without question. The only question they asked Rasulullah s.a.w., whenever a command of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala was revealed, was how should we do this? They never asked why should we do this? That is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave them control over their world. See the environment. I want to talk about one particular command of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, which is the banning of interest-based dealings. But before we go to the command, let's see the environment in which the command was given. The people of Makkah were mainly traders because Makkah has no industry or large-scale agriculture. They traded in the markets in Byzantium and Yemen, which were in Roman and Persian hands respectively. For this, they had a highly developed banking system, one of the mainstays of which was interest-based lending. They used various banking instruments, which had been in use in Roman Persia for a thousand years before Rasulullah s.a.w. was born. All the businessmen in Makkah were traders. Makkah used this system. And several, including al-Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib, and al-Anhu were bankers, with perhaps thousands of clients. It was in this context that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala prohibited the backbone of this whole system, which is interest-based lending and borrowing. Not only did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ban it, but he also declared war on the one who wouldn't leave it after the revelation of the ayah, after the ban. And neither did he offer an alternative to the system. Sometimes people ask this question and they say, if we leave this, what is the alternative? Give us the alternative first, then we will leave it. But that is not how the Sahaba saw it. They simply obeyed. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not explain the reasons for the ban. He simply banned it. Allah said, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا تَقُوا اللَّهَ وَذَرُوا مَا بَقِيَ مِنَ الرِّبَاءِ إِن كُنتُم مُؤْمِنِينَ فَإِن لَّمْ تَفْعَلُوا فَأَذَنُوا بِحَرْبٍ مِّنْ تَفْعَالُونَ Allah and His Messenger. And if you repent, then you will have the heads of your ancestors. Do not be wronged or be wronged. Allah said, O believers, fear Allah and give up outstanding interest if you are true believers. It's a conditional ayah. Prove that you are believers by giving up interest. If you are true believers. If you do not do this, then take a declaration of war with Allah and His Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. But if you repent, you may retain your principal amounts. Do no wrong and you will not be wronged. For anyone looking for a reason or explanation, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala declared, الَّذِينَ يَأْكُلُونَ الرِّبَاءَ لَا يَقُومُو

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Peace be upon them all. And after that, my brothers and sisters, in life we have a principle, all of us. And that is that we value something based on that thing fulfilling its purpose. Everything has a purpose. The purpose of this chair is to provide a place for us to sit on. The purpose of this chair is not to be a table for us to eat off. You can still do it. That's not the purpose. Place to sit. If the chair stops performing this function, then there is no value for the chair. The purpose of this phone is to do some things, help us to communicate. If this phone goes dead, it happened to me. I had actually quite a new Android phone a few years ago. And one day it... went dead. Literally. I mean, it just became a brick. Then we asked the warrant... It was unfortunately, the warranty period also had just finished. And the only useful thing, if you can call it useful, is the guy tells me, Yeah, this happens. I said, okay, thank you very much. Phone is gone. Kalas. I had to buy a different phone, new phone. Now, point is, I spent money buying that phone, obviously. You know, whatever it was those days. 30,000, 40,000, whatever. Phone went dead. When the phone goes dead, it doesn't change its shape. It's the same phone. It just doesn't work. So, do you think I would have said, you know, okay, so I spent all this money on the phone. And even if it is not working, still I spent the money on the phone. And, you know, it's a nice phone. The time that it worked, it worked. For whatever, one year or something. So, let me just keep it. I'll keep the phone. Maybe put a chain and then hang it on my neck or something. Like a necklace. Will I do that? Will you do that? What would you do? It stopped performing. It stopped fulfilling its function. So, what do you do? You try to repair it. You take it to the shop, whatever, and say, can you repair it? And if you say, sorry, this cannot be repaired. It's finished. Then what do you do? You junk it. You throw it away. Right? The same principle applies in life throughout. Same principle for things. Same principle for relationships. You have an employee. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have a job. You have an employee. You have employed him for a certain job. He doesn't come. He doesn't do the job. He does not do the job. And so on. So after a while what do you do? You tell him, please go find some other employment. I employed you for a certain job. You are not there. You are not doing this work. I employed you, for example, to drive my car. You are not there. Any time I need to go somewhere, you are not there. I am driving my own car. Then if I am driving my own car, why do I… Why am I paying you? water. Same principle. The same principle also applies to our purpose on this earth. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not create this world without a reason. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us, people will say, O our Rabb, you have not created all this batil, without any purpose, meaningless. No. It has a purpose. What is the purpose? What is the purpose of our creation? Why did Allah create us? Did Allah leave us to guess? You guess, what is your guess? No. Allah told us. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told us in so many words, and very emphatically. In Surah Az-Zariyat, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونَ Allah said, I have not created the jinn and the insan for anything other than my worship. إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونَ Nothing but my worship. I created you to worship me. And the first and foremost and most important form of that worship is Salah. Salah at its time. عَلَى وَقْتِهَا Salah at its time. And for the men, by jam'ah in some masjids. Salah at its time. And then Allah did not leave us to decide what is the meaning of Salah, how to pray. No. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala showed us. Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, a group of young, Sahaba came and they spent two to three weeks with the Rasul alaihi salatu wasalam in his company. They stayed in masjid of the Nabi sh-Sharif. They were given food from the houses of the Nabi alaihi salatu wasalam. And these young Sahaba, they were young boys, but you know, they were Sahaba. Nabi sh-Salam taught them, gave them tarbiyah. And the narrator of the hadith says that, we learned so much that I cannot even narrate all of that at one go. He said after two to three weeks, these are all young boys, they have come from, some of them from distant tribes. So they were missing their homes and parents. But then they are with the Rasul, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sall

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the messengers and messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and peace and blessings be upon him. Tasliman kathiran kathira famma ba'du. My brothers and sisters, in Jammu al-Tirmidhi, there is this hadith where Rasulullah, peace and blessings be upon him, is reported to have said, If you were to rely upon Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, with the required reliance, then He would provide for you just as a bird is provided for. It goes out in the morning hungry and returns full. In Jammu al-Tirmidhi, the hadith is reported where Rasulullah, peace and blessings be upon him, is reported to have said, the meaning of which is, If you were to rely upon Allah, if you were to rely upon Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, with the required reliance, then He would provide for you just as a bird is provided for. It goes out in the morning hungry and returns full. We ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to help us to have tawakkul on Him and on Him alone because only He is worthy of being and He is worthy of being relied upon. The question is, how do we build tawakkul? How do we build this reliance on Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, and on Him? And the answer is that we build reliance in the same way that we build reliance on anything else. And that is, by focusing on the power and the strength and the ability to provide of that entity that we are intending to rely upon and also to look at our own history in that relationship. And that is why they say, we should trust, we should verify, verify, verify, verify, verify, verify, intending to rely upon. And the second one is interesting because the second one starts from where the first one finishes, which is that having learnt about the greatness and glory and power and control of the entity we are intending to rely upon, to actually have this reliance, to have this tawakkur, there has to be a leap of faith. A risk has to be taken. At that point of risk, our true belief on this entity is called to question. You really believe. If you really believe, then step forward. I want to tell you two stories. One is a hypothetical story, it's a teaching story. And the other one is a true story that happened to me. The hypothetical story is that there was this man, it's a teaching story, so it's very useful. There was this man who wanted to climb the Matterhorn, which is one of the most famous mountains in India. And he was one of the very difficult mountains to climb in Europe. And he wanted to climb it, climb one particular phase of it, which was a very difficult phase to climb. And nobody had until that time attempted it solo, alone. This man decided that he wanted to do that. So he trained for it and so on, a couple of years. And he came to this mountain, and he said, I want to climb this mountain. And he said, I want to climb it. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. They were kind of quick people. very early. As he was starting to climb, the weather changed. And it looked like the weather, there was going to be a storm or something. And the weather was not conducive to climbing. So the people around him, they tried to dissuade him. They said, look, just wait. He said, no, I have no time. If I wait, then I lose this opportunity. Then I trained for this for two years. And I have to climb. And let's see, maybe the weather will change for the better. He said, no, the weather prognosis, the weather predictions are that it will get worse. Anyway, the man didn't listen to the advisors. He started climbing. And as he went higher and higher and higher and higher, the weather kept on worsening until it came to a point where this man was... It was very high up. And it became pitch dark. And there was a terrible wind and gusty wind and pitch dark. And this man is climbing on his own. No help. And then the inevitable happened. He reached up for a handhold. He caught a place in the rock. And as he was lifting himself up, his whole body weight on his one hand. The rock gave way. And he fell. It's pitch dark. He ca

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, this is a follow-up on my previous khatira, that happiness is a choice. Happiness, you don't become happy because of the possessions you have or the circumstances you find yourself in or because of what somebody else does for you or does not do for you and so on. Happiness is not a factor of external things that happen to you in life and definitely not of any material possessions. Happiness is a choice. You become happy when you want to become happy. And that's a very powerful and very empowering thought to keep in mind because you will find people in the best of situations who are constantly complaining. I have a friend of mine who, I even joke with him, but that's his life. He's had the best of jobs. He's risen to the maximum height possible in his career. He has wealth. He has properties. He has, you know, all kinds of stuff. But anytime you talk to him, you always say, yeah, you know, this is a but, yeah, but. I mean, this but is the root cause. The but is the biggest and the most clear symptom of this disease of ingratitude, of being ungrateful to Allah. Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest Quest and in that he had all his experiments and so on and so forth. And his whole life's work, so it was, you know, God knows, a few thousand experiments maybe. And one day there was a fire in the night. It was a huge fire, completely uncontrollable. And Thomas Edison's son says that the minute I discovered and I realized there was a fire, I went looking for my dad. I thought he must be going completely crazy because that's his whole life's work. And it's just, you know, going up in flames and nothing can be done to stop it. And he said, I saw him standing there with his hands clasped behind his back, watching this fire. So he said, I went to him, I said, Dad, are you okay? Is it, you know, this terrible thing has happened? He said, go call your mom, tell her she'll never see a fire this big again. Now imagine, this is the attitude of the man. His whole life's work is going up in flames before his eyes. And he tells his son, go call your mom because she's never going to see a fire like this again in her life. So the son says to his father, he said, he says, that's okay. But I mean, you know, this is your whole life's work. I mean, what do you have to say about that? He said, look, how many people get a chance to have all their mistakes wiped out and to start afresh? Yes. How many people get a chance to have all their mistakes wiped away, wiped off and to start afresh? Now, the same thing. It is a fire. All your life's work, all your experiments, everything is going up in flames. The question is, do you go into despair? Do you commit suicide? Do you say my life is over? Or do you say this is a fresh beginning? Who makes that choice? It's as simple as that. Who makes that choice? And the answer is very simple. You know, I don't need to tell you the answer, right? But do we make that choice? This is our challenge. Allah SWT did not promise us ease. Allah SWT promised us growth. And growth comes with pain. No pain. No gain. Growth comes with pain. The question is, how do you see that? I used to do Aikido at one point in time when I was in Bangalore. And we were sparring in the dojo. My partner and I using Bokken, which is wooden swords. Basically wooden sticks, slightly shaped like the, like the katana, the Japanese samurai sword. But obviously they have no sharp edges and so on. So my partner, obviously we are all friends. So he was, you know, sparring with me. So he's attacking me and I'm blocking and so on. Ou

Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen. Muhammadun Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi sallam. Tasliman kathiran kathiran. Amma baadu, my brothers and sisters. I was talking to a friend of mine, and we were talking about the different kinds of things that are happening in the world, almost all over the world, and everyone seems to be in some kind of problem or the other. For someone it's financial, for somebody else it is political, for somebody it's health, it's old age, it's, you know, all kinds of stuff. And the conversation was kind of going towards, you know, a lot of negativity. And I was, then I remember I said, I said to them that I was really repeating something which I read many years ago and which I try to hold on to because of how beautifully it's done. And the story was about this lady who, an old lady, this Uber guy gets a call. And when he goes to pick up, there's this very elderly woman. And she just comes to the door. She says, will you, can you help me with a bag? So he comes, he goes up there. There's one single bag. And as he picks up the bag, he sees that it's a small little house. And he sees that it looks like she is vacating the house. The house seems to be, you know, completely empty. And so he takes the bag. Takes her, helps her down the stairs. And then they are going to the car. And this woman seems to be very happy. Absolutely, you know, top of the world. So he puts the bag in the car. And then she gets into the car. And he says, he has the address. So he knows that he's taking her to a sanitarium, an elderly care facility. So he asks her, you know, just, you know, a conversation. He says, you're going to this facility. And, you know, who is there? Anyone in your family? She says, no, I have nobody. I'm alone in the world. And I got to a stage where I can't really stay alone by myself. So I need to go. I need to take this. I need to go to this facility. Now, this Uber driver, he doesn't know me. Should he sympathize with her? What should he say? So he says, spontaneously, he says, you know, that's terrible. I mean, there's no one here. Even to go to this facility, you have to go on your own. She says, well, you know, I'm not going to go. I'm not going to go. I'm not going to go. You know, you are there. I mean, I'm so happy that you're there. And thank you very much for being there. So the man says, of course, absolutely. I am honored. I'm very happy to be with you. And so he said, how are you able to maintain this kind of equanimity, this kind of, you know, there's no anxiety. You're not upset. Nothing, you know, you seem to be so happy. And really, I mean, what is there to be so happy about? So she said something which is fantastic and which has, Anandila stayed with me. And I'm sharing that with you because I think it is such a beautiful thing. She says to him, every morning when I get up, I'm at an age where I get up, I have aches and pains. And every day I wake up, I think I have a new one. And so on and so forth. But she said, every morning when I get up, I realize that I have a choice. And my choice is, that I can either think about this new pain I have. And I can think about the fact that I can't remember things too well. I can think about the fact that sometimes because when I need to go to the bathroom, the need is so urgent that sometimes there is an accident. I can think about all kinds of things. Or I can look out of the window and I see this absolutely beautiful, glorious sunrise. I see this absolute glorious, you know, sunny morning. I see it's now winter, so I see snow everywhere. It's beautifully white. And then there is a cardinal sitting on a rock. It looks like a ruby which is on a bed of white silk cotton. I can listen to the thrilling, beautiful sound and song of the skylark. I can think about the fact. I can think about the fact that while it is true that I am old and I have these aches and pains and stuff, but alhamdulillah I am able to walk. I am able to move around. I am not in a wheelchair. I can think about the fact that I am able to more or less eat whatever I like to eat. I don't have any crippling diet restrictions. I can't even go to the doctor. I can't even go to the doctor. And so on and so on. So meaning that she says that I have a choice to think about many, many things. And she said that I thought to myself that all of those things are true. While it is true that I have aches and pains and the rest of the list that I mentioned to you, it's all true. It's also equally true that there are so many positives. Right? That I am not in a wheelchair. That I am able to move around and so on and so forth. And a whole lot of them. It's not just these things. There are more and many more. So she sa

Auto-generated transcript:اللہ رب العالمين اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلامہ اور سلام یہ مسئلہ یہ ہے جو سکہ ہے جو سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی قربہ ہے یہ سکہ کی کیونکہ دیسرے سندر سے ایک سوشل کرنا چاہتا ہے مثال سے اگر آپ کہتے ہیں کہ میں سرکار کرنا چاہتا ہوں تو کیا سرکار ہے؟ یہ سندر سے ہے، صحبت ہے، صحبت ہے تو آپ کہتے ہیں کہ میں سو ساٹھ فرماتا ہوں اور یہ سندر میں سہ ساٹھ فرماتا ہے یہ سندر ہے لہذا اگر میں سہ ساٹھ فرماتا ہوں اور 20 سیکنڈ میں سہ ساٹھ فرماتا ہوں اور اگر میں سہ ساٹھ فرماتا ہوں اور 14 سیکنڈ میں سہ ساٹھ فرماتا ہوں کیونکہ سہ ساٹھ اور 15 سیکنڈ یہ میرا سندر ہے آپ یہ نہیں کہیں جہاں آپ یہ آپ کیہیں جہاں آپ یہ آپ کیہیں جہاں آپ یہ آپ کیہیں جہاں آپ آپ یہ آپ کیہیں جہاں آپ یہ آپ کیہیں جہاں آپ یہ آپ کیہیں جہاں آپ آپ کو بھی بیٹی نہیں ہوگی میں ایک انسان ہوں بیٹی نہیں ہوں بیٹی اور کٹس بہتر ہیں اور اس کے ساتھ لیکن ہم اس سے نہیں سمجھتے ہیں کیونکہ یہ ایک غیر سمجھتا ہے ہم انسانوں سے سمجھتے ہیں کیا انسان سردار ہے میں آپ کو ایک رانڈم نمبر دے گا کیا انسان سردار ہے آپ کو کہنا ہے ایک اولمپیک گولڈ میڈلسٹ سپرنٹ میں کیا کرتا ہے اسے سردار میں دینا تو میں میں کبھی نہیں دیکھتا ہوں لیکن یہ سردار ہے میں ایک اولمپیک گولڈ میڈلسٹ سے سردار کروں گا سپرنٹ میں ہندو سا میٹر دشت آپ کو سردار کر سکتا ہے ایک سردار تو کیا سردار ہے سردار کی سردار کیا ہے اب جو سردار کی حقیقت ہے وہ جو سردار کی حقیقت ہے تو ہمیں اس سردار کے باوجود ہے اور یہ اللہ سبحانہ وتعالی اور اللہ سبحانہ وتعالی ہمیں سردار دیا گیا ہے بہت سمجھا سردار اور وہ کہا اللہ نے کہا جو سردار کی حقیقت ہے اور جنہ میں دیا گیا ہے یہ شخص یہ فقط یہ شخص اس فیض سکسیسفل قرآن کریم اللہ نے دو لفظ لفظ لفظ مفلحون یہ لوگ ہیں مفلحون یہ لوگ ہیں جو سکسیسفل ہیں دوسرا لفظ فیض فائزون لوگ سکسیسفل ہیں فیض اور فیض دوسرے سکسیسفل مطلب ہے لیکن دوسرا لفظ ہے اس لفظ میں یہ ہے جو ایسی مطلب ہے لیکن یہ کبھی ایسا ہے یہ ہے آپ جانتے ہیں دوسرے لفظ فلا ہے سکس جو مطلب ہے مثال آپ کی بچہ سکتا ہے کہ یہ دوسرے سکس آئے جو سکس ہے وہ اس کے بارے میں سکس ہے درہندو اللہ میرے بچہ سکسیسفل ہے یہ سکسیسفل جہاں نہیں یہ سکسیسفل ہے جہاں جہاں جو کچھ جہہیں جاتے ہیں یا جو کچھ یہیں جانتے ہیں اور پہلے یہیں جانیں جو یہیں جانیں جو یہیں جہیں جہیں جہیں جہیں یہیں جہیں جہیں جہیں یہیں جہیں جہیں ڈالی سال، ٹیسٹ اوٹر ٹیسٹ اوٹر ٹیسٹ اوٹر ٹیسٹ یہ فلاہ ہے ہمدللہ یہ بہت بہتر ہے کیونکہ کیا ہے فلاہ کا اوپسیٹ؟ یہ فیلنگ ہے تو بہترین طرح فیلنگ نہیں ہے فلاہ فاؤز ایک آخری سکس جس کے بعد کچھ نہیں ہے آخری سکس جس کے بعد یہ سکس جہاں جہاں جہاں یہ سکس جہاں جہاں یہ سکس جہاں جہاں میں کھڑا ہوں اب اس طرح اس دنیا میں اللہ نے کسی کو نہیں دی کیونکہ کسی موقع میں آپ ہیں درستہ ہی ہوتا ہے اور درستہ ہوتا ہے اگر آپ کنگ ہوں ہماری دنیا میں کبھی اس موقع میں نہیں ہوتے ہیں آپ خوف رہے ہیں کسی بھی میرے موقع میں پہنچ سکتا ہے میرے اپنی فرمائی میرے موقع میں پہنچ سکتا ہے میرے موقع میں پہنچ سکتا ہے یا کسی بھی بھی اگر آپ سو کالی بہت مہترین سیٹ آپ کی مددی آپ کی مددی اگر یہ دموقراتی دنیا ہے جو ایلیکشن ہے وہ ہماری پھر آپ کو ایک مسئلہ کیا ہے آپ کی مددی جب کبھی جب آپ کے ایک ایلیکشن ہوں تو یہ اس دنیا میں ہوتا ہے دو سال دو سال کسی نمبر پیس بعد دو سال تین سال آپ صرف ایلیکشن کے پاس محکمہ کریں تو پیس نہیں ہے اس دنیا میں اللہ نے یہ محکمہ نہیں دیا محکمہ محکمہ یہ آخری طرح کیونکہ یہ محکمہ ایک سال ہے جب آپ اس ایکسام پڑھیں الحمدللہ بھی نہیں اللہ سبحانہ وتعالیٰ اس کے لئے پڑھیں اس ایکسام اور اس ایکسام اللہ سبحانہ وتعالیٰ نے کہا فَمَنْ زُمْزِعَ عَنِ النَّارِ وَأُدْخِلَ الْجَنَّةِ فَقَدْ فَازِ the one who has been freed from the hell fire and entered into Jannah this is the measure of final success that's why اللہ said فَقَدْ فَازِ اللہ did not use the word فَلَحْ اللہ said فَوْز this person is finally success after that there is no more exam now you are in Jannah enjoy yourself خاص and may Allah have mercy the one who is in Jannah that's it you know taste that that is what you worked for you got it person in Jannah worked for that got Jannah because on the day of judgment people will be given and rewarded and awarded based on their deeds and right based on their deeds then if the deeds and so on are two things which Allah سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى will check one is what did you believe عقیدہ what did you believe was your عقیدہ on لا الٰہ اللہ or was there some adulteration to that the degree of adulteration small big were you completely totall

Auto-generated transcript:As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh. Alhamdulillah. As-salātu wa-salāmu ʿalā-i-rasūli-llāh wa-alā-ālihi wa-sahbihi wa-man walā. Wa-ba'āt. I am absolutely delighted to see all of you, mā shā'a Llāh. May Allah bless you and protect you. May Allah use you for His work, in shā'a Llāh. And the thing I want to remind myself of you is that the position of youth, of young people, in Islam has always been very, very important. And if you read the seerah of Rasulullah s.a.w., how many of you have read the seerah? One, two, three, four, mā shā'a Llāh, good, good. Mā shā'a Llāh. So, the others who have not read the seerah, please make the intention that you will read at least one book, any book of the seerah, the biography of Rasulullah s.a.w. Say now we are almost at the end of this month, so say by the 30th of December, before this year ends, in shā'a Llāh, you will read at least one book of the seerah, of the life of Rasulullah s.a.w. Right? Okay? Do that. In shā'a Llāh. Because the thing is that to love Rasulullah s.a.w., to love Rasulullah s.a.w., not just to love him, but to love him more than we love anything else, is a requirement of Islam. It is something which we as Muslims, we do and we should do. But also, a theological requirement in Islam. This has been commanded by Allah s.w.t. in the Qur'an. Allah s.w.t. in surah Tawbah, Allah s.w.t. says, أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّضِيمِ قُلْ إِن كَانَ آبَاؤُكُمْ وَأَبْنَاؤُكُمْ وَإِخْوَانُكُمْ وَأَزْوَاجُكُمْ وَعْشِيرَتُكُمْ وَأَمْوَالُ لِتَّرَفْتُكُهَا وَتِجَارَةُكُمْ تَقْشَوْنَا كَسَادَهُمْ وَمَسَاكِنُ تَرْضَوْنَهُمْ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْكُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَالجَّهَادِ فِي سَبِيلِهِ فَتَرَبَّسُوا حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ اللَّهُ بِأَمْرِهِ وَاللَّهُ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الْفَاسِقِينَ Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said in Surah At-Tawbah Say to them, Ya Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam قُلْ Say to them إِنْ كَانَ خَبَابُكُمْ If your fathers and mothers وَأَمْنَاوْلُ and your children وَإِخْوَانُكُمْ and your siblings وَأَزْوَاجُكُمْ and your spouses وَعَشِينَتُكُمْ and your extended family وَأَمْبَالُنِي تَرَفْتُمْهَا and the wealth that you accumulate وَتِجَارَةً تَخْشَوْنَا كَسَدْهَا and your tijara, your business and trade in which you fear a loss وَمَسَاكِنُ تَرْضَوْنَهَا and your houses, your palaces, your villas, your flats, your apartments which you build or you buy and you love them, you look at them, you feel happy about them أَحَبَّ إِلَيْكُمْ If these are more beloved to you أَحَبَّ إِلَيْكُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِ More beloved to you than Allah and His Rasul Allah says فَتَرَبَّسُ Allah says get away Go away فَتَرَبَّسُ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ اللَّهُ بِأَمْرِهِ Go away and wait for the Amr of Allah Wait for the Azab of Allah Wait for the punishment of Allah And then Allah real forces that and says وَاللَّهُ لَا يَهْدِ الْقَوْمَ الْفَاسِطِينَ Allah does not guide people who are rebellious Right? So the love of the Rasul ﷺ To love Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And to love the Rasul ﷺ More than we love anyone and anything else Is not just a matter of discretion It's not just a matter of our nature It's a matter of our nature It's not because Rasul ﷺ was in any case a person Who is very easy to love Because he was such a beautiful being It is a religious requirement If somebody says I follow Islam But I'm sorry I don't love Rasul ﷺ This person is out of Islam This person has put himself in a place Where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala promised punishment He has said I will punish Right? Now how can you love somebody you don't know? To love somebody you have to know the right You can't love a stranger That is the reason why it is important To read the life of Rasul ﷺ To read his seerah Now the beautiful thing you will see Those of you who have read the seerah You will agree with me Those of you who have not read the seerah But you read it you will agree with me The beautiful thing about the seerah of Rasul ﷺ That unlike anyone else In the world Rasul ﷺ the more you know him The more the closer you get to him The more you love him The more you respect him Now this is not true of anyone else In English we say familiarity breeds contempt Right? This happens with a lot of people You look at somebody from a distance And say oh mashallah wonderful man Then for whatever reason you get close to that person You start going to their house You know you get close to that person You sort of Being with them the whole time You see their personal domestic life You see how they treat their spouse Or how they treat their children And how they treat you know their people who work for them And you start seeing faults You start seeing things which you don't like Right? You start seeing things which are No it is not that you have become suddenly critical No This is the nature When you get close to people The The The The The The The The The The The The The Th

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the Most Gracious is Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the Prophet, the Messenger of Allah, and upon all of his family and friends. Peace and blessings be upon him. We look at the rules of Islamic parenting. I call them the six rules. We ask Allah to help us to understand the responsibility of parenting and to fulfill it. And the last and most important, Akhlaq and Mahamirat. You know, I used to live in the US. I live again there now, but I used to live in the US in 1990. 1997, 2000. So, 2000, I came back to India. My father was not well, so I came back to be with him. Then I stayed for 20 years. I went back in 2019. Anyway, so I came back, and we had a flat, which we were renovating when we came to move into that flat. So, we were renovating the flat. And as part of the renovation, we wanted to put a water tank on top of the roof. So, the plan was, The guy who came and did the plumbing work and quite extensive plumbing work was a guy with big beard like this. And he said, I'm Hafiz Paran and so on and so on. So, I was very happy. Alhamdulillah, he's a Muslim guy. I'm very happy to give him this job. And he's happy to go to Paran and so on. So, he finished all the work. And I told him, get me a 1000 liter syntax tank, plastic tank for the roof. And install it. He brought the tank. Then the building people, you know, the committee, they said, we have a rule here. You cannot put a 1000 liter tank. You have to put only 500. I said, okay. I told the guy, take this back. Get a 500 liter tank. He did that also. He brought the tank, gave it. Now, I had given him the money for the 1000 liter tank. So, the 500 liter tank, the money was some 3000 rupees. Less. He did the work. He owes me 3000 rupees. He disappeared. Obviously, 3000 rupees won't kill me. But I thought to myself that, you know, at least I owe it to him that I should give him the opportunity to return the money. Right. Maybe I'll give it to him for free. But I don't want him to be a thief. So, I called him up. Once, I called him twice. I called him three times. I felt stupid calling him 3000 rupees. I said, what the hell. I mean, I can afford that. It's nothing. But I called him. Finally, I thought to myself, okay, one last call. By then, it was Ramadan. So, when I call him now, his wife picks up the phone. She says, he is in Etta Gap. He cannot talk. Huh? So, you steal somebody's money and you go into Etta Gap. And you cannot talk. This is our akhlaq. These are our mawila. We must be... The point is, you know, people watch. A job that is given to a Muslim must be super quality. By default. By default. Because you are a Muslim. Because you are the only one in the market who works or should work for the pleasure of Allah. Who works or should work with the knowledge that everything I do, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is watching that. He knows that 24-7. I have to answer him. Because that is your akhila. That's not the akhila of anybody else. Our akhila, your my akhila is what? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, he is watching us 24-7. And I have to answer to Allah no matter what. Rasulullah s.a.w. said, if you take away somebody's rights, Allah will not forgive you until that person forgives you. And this is irrespective of whether the person is a Muslim or not Muslim. It doesn't matter. Muslims are not allowed to be unjust to non-Muslims. You can't say, no, I am stealing only from the Christians. No. You are not supposed to steal, period. No matter who. Right? Very important. Muammar al-Assad is, this is where, may Allah forgive us, this is where we Muslims, we get into trouble all the time. Because of our dealings. We must change that. Because remember, see something. We are having this gathering here. How many non-Muslims are here? Nobody. But when you drive on the road, I mean, in Kuwait, there are not that many, but still there are quite a number. But if you go to any other country, almost everybody else is non-Muslim. But they are seeing you there. Alhamdulillah, mashallah, you look like a Muslim, right? Your appearance and all that, they can recognize you as a Muslim. They say, ah, ah, there you go. This is how Muslims drive. I know it's an unfair statement. What else do you expect them to say? Okay. What else do you expect them to say? So, this is a great opportunity for us, that we live in pluralistic societies, we live in multicultural societies, it's a brilliant opportunity for us to showcase Islam, to show that this Islam, you want someone to behave responsibility, ask a Muslim. You want someone to give more than what they take, ask a Muslim. You want someone to give you quality work, ask a Muslim. You want someone to come and help you in the middle of the night, call a Muslim. This is the message that we should give. This is the message that we should give.

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the All-Merciful. May the Lord of the worlds be with you. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you. We look at the rules of Islamic parenting. I call them the six rules. We ask Allah to help us to understand the responsibility of parenting and to fulfill it. We are talking about life skills and as I mentioned to you, these are some life skills. One of the most important ones, encourage volunteering. It is very, very important. It is something which I tell you as Muslims, it is something we really must make an effort. You must see the number of committees, committees and number of volunteering work that is done. As I am saying, I live in America. I give an example. One of my friends is a Rabbi. He runs an organization called the Jewish Family Services in West Springfield. They bring in refugees from other countries and they settle them in the US. Guess which religious group is their largest customers? Muslims, right? And they do it all for free. They get funding from the government, they do it for free. Anyway, so his name is James. So I asked James one day, I said, you know, he was talking about his family. So he said, we have two daughters and we have two foster sons. So I said, you are doing fostering? He said, yes. He said, my wife and I were registered as foster sons. So people, orphans and people like that, refugee children, they govern, they send them to us. They live with us as our children in our home. He says, we have two foster children and both of them are boys and both of them are, they have problems. So one has a drug problem, the other one has a stealing problem. Tertuvian. Tertuvian. Tertuvian. Now I am thinking to myself, what is wrong with this guy? Why on earth would you become a foster parent? And on top of that, you take some druggy kid or something to look after. Why? You are mad or something, you are insane? He is not insane. He is a very sensible human being. He is concerned. Then he tells me, one day, and this whole conversation started because he had a pager in his pocket. We were going for a walk. He had a pager beeped. So he looked at it and said, no, it's not my car. So I asked him, what is this? And that's how the whole conversation started. So he tells me this. He said, then one day, this kid who was, I mean, this kid means that he is about maybe 17 or 16 or 17, about under 18. So he is still a foster parent. So this kid, he said, he broke into our safe. Right? He stole some money and he stole some stuff which is in the safe. So he said, we had to call the police. We called the police. And he says, to my surprise, when the police and the first responders, they came, he said, they were all my neighbors. So then I realized that in our town, the fire service and the police service is volunteers, which is our own people who live in the town. They volunteer so many hours a week for the police force. So then they put on a police uniform. They are trained. They are certified as police officers. They put on police uniform. And then they are driving cruise, cruising cruise cars. And then doing police work. Or they are driving, they are on ambulances. Or they are on fire engines. Right? He said, that is when I decided to do that also. So this guy is a rabbi. He has his whole synagogue to run. He has Jewish family services to run. Plus now he volunteers to be on the first responders team. So he is done. He is riding on an ambulance. He got trained. He did a whole course for a year and a half. He passed this whole course and so on. He is doing this work, all of it for nothing. Volunteering. No salary. No monetary compensation. Now imagine the goodwill that gets you. That's my point. Somebody's house is burning down. Some disaster is happening. Who lands up there? This guy. Imagine the goodwill he gets. Right? So people associate help with this person. But believe me, you have to hunt high and low to find a Muslim who can go there. Almost zero. I am saying almost. So maybe there is somebody. I don't know. But at least I don't even know it. He won't volunteer. He will not volunteer. He will not get out of our comfort zones. He will not even volunteer for Muslim children. Refugee children come who are orphans and they go into foster homes with other people of other religions. Now having said that, I have never seen a kid who is a Muslim. I have never seen a case where those people have converted that Muslim kid. They are not. They make it a point. They bring them to the masjid. I get called. They say, Chef, we have Imam Beg. They say, Imam Beg. I say, we have got only

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the All-Merciful, and the All-Merciful. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you, and upon your family and friends, and upon your family and friends. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and friends. Peace be upon you all. We look at the rules of Islamic parenting. I call them the six rules. We ask Allah to help us to understand the responsibility of parenting and to fulfill it. So, we are talking about life skills and as I mentioned to you, these are some life skills. One of the most important ones, reading inculcates this habit every single day. I say to people, you must read at least one book. I say one book per week, but okay, so let me be… So, let me be… Kind on you. One book per month at least. Minimum. I don't care what book you read, read any book you like, but one book per month, make this an absolute rule for yourself. Then increase it, two books, three books, four books, at least one. And inculcate it in the children. My father, again, I'm sorry, I keep on coming back to my father, but this is a parenting thing, so I shouldn't be. He used to read three books at a time. I do the same thing. Three different plots. One will be a history book, one will be something else. I can run those same, those things in my head simultaneously. Have the lunch. Very good for the brain. He did that. What he would do is, he would bring the books to me. He would give me a book. And then he would come the next day. Or maybe give me a day, the third day. And he would say, oh, pade, did you read the book? I say, you just give it to me. He said, two days have passed. What did you just give? Sign in the book. So he then tells me, what do you think? So I start telling him, the author is saying, no, I'm not asking you what the author is saying. I know what the author is saying. I read the book before I give it to you. I want to know what you are saying. So don't regurgitate the stuff to me. The author said, forget the author. What are you saying? You read the book. What is your take on this? So I routinely read books. I do an analysis of the book. I write it down. I write down key points that I need to remember. And that helps me in my understanding of life and so on and so forth. And in my own writing, which I do. Right? And then, respect for law and order. Respect for duty. I don't know, some of you may have seen this thing of people saying, my 10-year-old drives a car beautifully. Why does your 10-year-old drive a car? Beautifully or otherwise? You're breaking a law. You're teaching a child to break the law. And parents do this very proudly. You're teaching a child to break the law. You know, in Islam, some of our ulama have said that if you break a law of a country which is for the benefit of all the people, you have exited Islam. You are a murtad. Even if you don't want to go that far, definitely in Islam, it is a crime. It is a very major sin. So for example, you go through a red light. Nowadays, of course, there are cameras everywhere. We fear the camera. We don't fear Allah swt seeing us. We fear the camera. Because then they'll send you a very expensive photograph. Right? Going through a red light. This is, in Islam, this is haram. Because you are, potentially, you can cause an accident. The law, you might say, where is the law in the sharia to say, red light? No, the draw doesn't have to be there. The sharia allows laws to be made for the benefit of all people. Traffic laws are such laws. And others. So teach them respect for law. And give responsibility. It's very, very important to give children responsibility. Give them daily chores. Each person has a role to do. Your job is to wash the dishes. Your job is to do this, do that. Whatever. And don't say, no, no, no, why should my child wash dishes? We have suffered. No. Teach them the, teach them dignity of labor. Once again, back to my father. Every Sunday, we used to, we had a ritual in our house. And that was, all the shoes would be brought. We brought, sit in the line. Brown shoes, black shoes and those days, you, all these sneakers and stuff, you could have. You wore canvas shoes. And the canvas shoes had to be white. So with, for white, you had that lime, which you rubbed on it. So black shoe with black polish, black polish application brush, and then black polish shining brush. Then brown polish and this. And my father used to sit there, and we all used to sit, each one with their shoes. And we would polish our own shoes. And we told you, we had servants. No. You do your own job. So you apply the polish with the brush. Brush it with that. Then you hold the shoe between your knees. And you take a polishing cloth. And you rub it like this. You would have seen the film, or those of you who are from Mumbai, you see the Mumbai railway statio

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and the All-Merciful, and the All-Merciful. Peace and blessings of Allah be upon you, O Shafi'i al-Mursaleen, Muhammad Rasool Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and upon all of you. Peace and blessings of Allah be upon you, too. We look at the rules of Islamic parenting, and I call them the six rules. We ask Allah to help us to understand the responsibility of parenting and to fulfill it. So, we're talking about life skills, and as I mentioned to you, these are some life skills. One of the most important ones, number three, is the daily account, the mahasibah, and the learning journal. Learning journal is an interesting… tool that I teach people, which is, what you do is, take again your notebook. You do it in this sequence. First of all, what you do is, in the notebook, you write down three goals for tomorrow. Every night, you write down three goals for tomorrow in order of priority. And the priority has to be in keeping with your life goal. You are achieving these three… You're working on these three goals to achieve the overall goal, your life goal. So, first, you have to begin with writing down the life goal, and then going from there, writing every day three goals in order of priority, which will help you to achieve your life goal. Then, you… The following day, your day unfolds or unravels, whichever way you want to get it. So, you write down your three goals. And then, at the end of the day, you sit down, you open the book, and the book are the three goals you had written for the day. Now, you analyze these three goals and say, did I achieve it, did I not achieve it, what helped me to achieve, what hindered my achievement, and what am I learning lessons from that. Therefore, what did I learn with regard to achieving the goals? So, that you write down in a… In a… In a… You look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those and look at those happen, what are my learnings? Three columns. That is called the learning journal. This is very important and I strongly recommend that you start writing this. It's not a diary. It's not like every day in the morning I woke up at 8 o'clock I had breakfast, I ate this thing for breakfast and I don't know. This is only focusing on your learning. What are my learnings? This is what I experienced. This is my reflection on my experience and this is what I take away from it. Believe me, you start writing this, you will learn a hell of a lot. Because all of us go through life, we have experience after experience after experience but we all don't benefit the same from those experiences. Some benefit more, some benefit less. That has to do with the quality of the learning. And the quality of the learning to improve it, this is the way. It's to write a learning journal. I spoke to you already about friends, so I won't repeat that. This is a very nice quote. It's not one of mine, somebody has said it, but beautiful. It says that we must all suffer from one of two things. The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. We must all suffer from one of two things. The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. And the truth of it is that excuses don't change reality. So if you did not do something which you are supposed to do or you did something which you are not supposed to do and you make an excuse, it does not change the fact that you did something wrong. Right? If I lose something, for example, one of the amazing things that we give up, the biggest asset that we have, the only non-creatable, non-replaceable asset, which is called what? Time. We give it up for nothing. We give it up for nothing and the people who take it from us are making humongous amounts of money because we are giving up our life. Right? They have access to your most private parts of your life and you can't sue them because you gave them that access. If they got that, if they had got that access without your permission, you could have actually sued them for invasion of privacy. But you cannot sue them because you are putting it out there

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the kind and the kind of messengers and messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family. Peace and blessings be upon him and his family. After that, my brothers and sisters, we talked about the overall background, the reason why parenting, conscious and thoughtful parenting is absolutely critical. Parenting is not something that will happen by default. It's not something that will happen because you want it. It is something you have to work on. And it starts with having a dream for your child, which is a shared dream. Please think about these things. This whole issue of raising children is a vast subject. Second one. Introduce, connect, and make. Connection with Rasulullah . First and foremost, the Seerah of the Nabi . Essential reading, essential learning. As I told you, do not let tomorrow morning come on you without at least starting. I don't expect you to finish the whole book. But start. Read two pages at least before you go to bed. Any Seerah book. There are so many Seerah books. Alhamdulillah. Plenty of them. Whichever language. Alhamdulillah. Allah is the most Merciful. People have translated every kind of language. Whichever language. Read about Rasulullah . Then read about his rights. What is the right of the Rasul on us? Because we will be questioned about rights. The right of the Rasul on us is that we follow a Sunnah. That we follow a Sunnah. Very important. In every aspect of our lives. In our appearance, in our actions, in our dealings, in our manners, in how we pray. The finest example, the finest proof and evidence of somebody who says give me proof that following the Sunnah is critical. I will tell you the proof is your Salah. Salah is proof. How is it proof? Because Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Aqibu Salah. Allah gave a command. Establish Salah. Establish Salah. Establish Salah. Fa'an Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa do it did allah tell us in the quran is there any ayat or ayat or ayat of how to pray never nothing so how do you know how to pray because rasul taught us allah inspired him and he taught us that what did he say sallu kamara he said pray as you have seen me pray and that's a beautiful hadith about how this whole thing happened i won't go into it now pray as you have seen me pray so when we are praying here when we just prayed now salatul maghrib three rakat we prayed on the tariqa we prayed on the way of muhammad sallallahu alaihi salam now instead of three rakat if i say no i want to pray for god is my salah valid no i can have the best it oh no i i mean i i love allah so much three is not enough i want to pray 300 no no no sarathul maghrib is three rakat why because rasul allah sallallahu alaihi salam taught us there is no other answer because allah commanded him he taught us sallu kamara this is the foundation of proof evidence that the sunnah of of rosh is far from the believer the word sunna is used to distinguish between what allah made further so on and so on it say is terahi terah it does not mean the sunna is not important the sunna of the rasool is different from the hakum of allah that just to differentiate but to follow the sunna is further on the muslim and the evidence is salah itself and allah has predicted this itself so this is the meaning of sunna so this is the meaning of sunna itself so this is the meaning of sunna itself so this is the meaning of sunna itself I made this for all the five Harkans. How do you enter Islam? Allah does not tell us that. How do you pray? Allah does not tell us that. Allah told us to fast in Ramadan. What breaks the fast? What must I do if the fast is broken? What does not break the fast? All of this, not in the Quran. Allah made Zakat for us. How much Zakat on what? Who must pay Zakat to whom? Can you pay Zakat to your wife? Can your wife pay Zakat to you? Where do you find all this? In the Sunnah. Hajj. He said, take the Harkan of Hajj from me. Take the Manas. Take the rituals of Hajj from me. Imagine the Quran says very clearly, So on the 9th of Dhul Hijjah, what are you doing in Arafat? Did you think of this? Allah said, Hajjila Baitillah. To the house of Allah. House of Allah is in Makkah. But on the day of Hajj, where are you? Supposing somebody says, look, this whole issue of going to Arafat

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophet and the messengers. And peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and his companions. After that, my brothers and sisters, we talked about the overall background, the reason why parenting, conscious and thoughtful parenting is absolutely critical. Parenting is not something that will happen by default, it's not something that will happen because you want it. It is something you have to work on. And it starts with having a dream for your child, which is a shared dream. So it has to be a three-way conversation, the father, the mother and the child together. So the first one, connect to Allah . The training of connecting to Allah begins with tahajjud. Make tahajjud fardh on yourself. Right? If you want to raise good children, make tahajjud fardh on yourself. Don't let a single day pass starting from tonight. That you have not prayed at least two rakats of time. No matter what, whether you are well, you are sick or whatever, you are travelling, not travelling, doesn't matter. I'm not talking fiqh, I'm talking here the hope of Allah . Make tahajjud fardh on yourself. This is what will give your children, that's the connection. I mentioned this story many times before. And I'm mentioning it now again because I see a lot of new faces. You might not have heard this story from me. My earliest memory of my father, Anandul Ali. These were the days before plastics. There were no plastics. Chairs were made of wood. Glasses were made of glass, not of plastic. And so on. So we lived in, where we lived in India. In a big house. But this was the day, this was the days before. I'm talking about the late 50s. So it's the days before hot and cold running water. There were no geysers and so forth. Water used to be heated outside. Then brought inside. But tahajjud time there is no one to heat the water and bring it. So cold water. Every day around 2.30 or something, I would hear the sound of the metal bucket in the bathroom. You had bucket of GI, galvanized iron. It had a handle. So my father would put it on the floor, would tank. Then he would drop the handle, it would blank. So that was my father getting ready to make wudu. Then he would make wudu. Then he would pray tahajjud. And we could hear him. When he was, he would pray in the other room. Where we were sleeping. The main room. But he would, we could hear his recitation. And when he finished and his duas. Yeah. To this day I live by those duas. And then he would finish that. Then he would sit and read Quran. So he would hear him reciting Quran. Then at the time of salatul fajr, when the time comes to fajr, he would come inside. Turn on the lights and say, salatul khairu minna naum. And he would pull out blankets off. You're a little kid, you hated that. But that's how we, there's no option. There's no option of not getting up for salatul fajr. Whether you are five years old or you are eight years old or you are ten years old, makes no difference. You get up for salatul fajr and you play salatul fajr by jama'at. We lived very far from masjid. So my father would do the imamat. I would call the adhan. And the children would pray. Behind that, my mother and our sisters. No option. There's no question of, oh, chota bachcha hai sora. No, no, no, no. No chota bachcha. You are going to wake up for salatul fajr and you will pray by jama'at khalas. It's not a matter open for any discussion. This is how you raise children. You want someone. You want your child to cry in the night. Cry in the night for you when you are in your grave. Raise them like this. Teach them to take from the treasure of the parna. And another, give them memories. Give your children memories. When they think about things, good things, let them think of you. Another one of these. My father again. My brother and I, you know, we travel a lot and so on. Sometimes you have some problems, some issue. So, you would phone him. And tell him, papa, this thing matters here. This thing we have to do. Some issue we need. He would say, theek hai. Mai pakad leta unku. Diyen hai tak chhoda nahi. Huh? You say, okay. I will hold on to him. I will not leave him until he gives you. Who is this? Who will you hold on? Huh? You call me. You call me. You call me. You call me. You call me. You call me. You call me. You call me. You call me. to give medicines to people. He would treat them. He would not take the fees. Then he would also give the money to buy medicines. So, I told him, how is this? What kind of? It's supposed to be a business. All your colleagues and all your contemporaries, they've got big nursing homes and they're making money and so on. And you know, alhamdulillah, his

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the kind and the kind of messengers and messengers. Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and his family. Peace and blessings be upon him and his family. After that, my brothers and sisters, we talked about the overall background, the reason why parenting, conscious and thoughtful parenting is absolutely critical. Parenting is not something that will happen by default. It's not something that will happen because you want it. It is something you have to work on. And it starts with having a dream for your child, which is a shared dream. So, it has to be a three-way conversation. The father, the mother and the child together. Have the conversation with regard to what you want this child to become and why. And the child must be... the prime mover behind that. The child should want it. And you as a parent must support that. And if you feel that the child wants something which is inappropriate or which you think is not the right thing, then it is your job, with love and with understanding to guide the child to where you think the child should be. And again, be very careful and clear in this. It is not always that you have the right answers. You may not have the right answers. But you can try to find ways to help them. And so, having that level of humility to know that the child also has an understanding… And at the end of the day, the child… If you really want the child to exceed… and excel… then that will happen only if the child… is herself or himself completely committed to that goal. And that commitment cannot be forced. So, that's a very important thing to understand. Commitment cannot be forced. Commitment has to come from inside. If you want the commitment to come, then you have to spend the time and the energy behind it. Now, let me talk about what I call the six rules of Islamic parenting, because we are talking about parenting from an Islamic context. And as I mentioned before, these are important because this is something that we will be questioned about by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when we meet Allah. As I said before, to be a parent, to have a child is not a blessing. Allah never used the word niyamah for children. Allah used the word fitrah, which means test. So a child is a test. And if you pass the test, then it becomes a niyamah. But by itself, it's not a niyamah. If the child, if you fail in that test, then may Allah have mercy on us, the children can become the opposite of niyamah. So they can be a sadaqah jariyat, they can be a niyamah for you, or they can be the opposite of that. And that is, that depends on what we choose to do. Illa mashallah. So these are the six, what I call my rules. The first and foremost is to introduce Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to the child. The child must know who Allah is. And the child must have a relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's not just a matter of intellectually knowing somewhere, this is Allah, this is a description, no. So what? Why is that important? How does that relate to me as a human being, as a Muslim? So knowing Allah, introducing Allah is these two things. One is, who is Allah, His glory, His majesty, His power, His authority, His generosity, what He has blessed us with and so on, and answering it when we go back to Him, inshaAllah. And what is my relationship with that? Because, only when I understand my relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, then it comes to the actual action which is, therefore, what should I do? Therefore, what do I need to do? Right? It's not a, as I said before, it's not an intellectual exercise. This is a very personal relationship, which is closer and more personal than any other relationship, or the face of the earth, including our relationship with our own parents. Because all relationships of this world end with our death. The only relationship which remains is our relationship with our Creator, with our Khalif-e-Malik, with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This remains with us even after we die. Second one is to introduce Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, to your child. And then you can come back to this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of this discussion of t

Auto-generated transcript:I want to remind myself and you that as far as children are concerned, the only thing that parents will be questioned about before Allah is how those children were raised, about their tarbiyah. Right? You will not be asked whether your child was a doctor or an engineer or a pilot or an architect and so on. None of which are bad things to have. All good things, I am telling you. But you will not be questioned about that. You will be questioned only about the tarbiyah of the child. What is it that the child did with respect to his beliefs? And with respect to his akhlaq, his dealings? So when you are talking about what is my dream for my child, okay, that's your dream for the child. But you are not the child. At the end of the day, he is the one who is going to or she is the one who is going to have to do what you have dreamt. So where is their commitment in that? So that is very important for you to understand. Okay? So the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the goal and the commitment for the dream comes from within the child, it's not going to happen. It will not happen. So, you have to guide the child to have a kind of dream which also aligns with your own dream. If you don't do that, and it is only your dream, it won't work. And then obviously when I say you, I mean both the mother and the father. So, it has to be a three-way conversation. Sit, three of you sit together and talk about this dream. What is it that motivates you? How will you do this? And so on. So, the dream, your dream for the child really should be the child's dream for herself or himself supported by you. It's not a question, I want my child to be this or that. You may want. You may want. Won't happen. Unless you put the effort. And unless the child also wants that to happen. So, have those conversations. I don't know if you have them yet, but you should have them. Now, parenting as I say is a contact sport. It's not a armchair dialogue. You can't sit and, you know, I want this, I want that. No, it has to be your involvement. And your involvement includes your time. It includes your talent. It includes money. But much more important than money is your time. So, how much time? How much time do you give to your child? And the usual answer we get from people is, Oh, but you see, I'm very busy. I have this job. I have to travel. You're making the choices. It is your child. You have to make the choices. And if you say, I have to do all of this. That's the choice you're making. Then don't expect magic to happen because magic won't happen. Right? Right? Andre Agassi, tennis player, who had the most powerful serve of any tennis player in history. He started, literally, his father started him playing tennis, literally, when he was the highest. He was the height of an adult tennis racket. So, how old is that? Maybe two years old. He just taught us the racket. And his father designed a ball throwing machine. In those days, they didn't have these machines. Nowadays, you can buy them. But in those days, he designed a ball throwing machine which used to throw the ball at a speed of, if I'm not mistaken, about a hundred kilometers an hour. So, like a bullet. And Andre Agassi's father had this rule that he had to, again, if I'm not mistaken with the figures, he had to face one thousand serves. This ball is being fired. He has to face that serve and hit it back one thousand times a day. So, by the time Andre Agassi was like ten or twelve years old, he had already faced a million serves, which no competition, no competitor of his ever did. So, the key is the dream of the father, starting early enough, and then consistent effort on that. Not a day was missed. There was no way, as long as I was not sick in bed, I was not sick. Whether it's Christmas, whether it is this, whether it is that, it doesn't matter. You are going to fire one thousand serves in a day. And there are many such stories about, I'm giving you examples from athletics and sports because they're easy to find. Many such examples. Great sports people don't become great sports people by wishing for it. There is a lot of energy, th

Auto-generated transcript:I want to remind myself and you that as far as children are concerned, the only thing that parents will be questioned about before Allah is how those children were raised, about their tarbiyah. Right? You will not be asked whether your child was a doctor or an engineer or a pilot or an architect and so on. None of which are bad things to have. All good things, I am telling you. But you will not be questioned about that. You will be questioned only about the tarbiyah of the child. What is it that the child did with respect to his beliefs? And with respect to his akhlaq, his dealings? And that is why it is so important to pay attention to that. See, I want to draw your attention to is this, that people in our normal sort of, you know, we will talk, say, well, so and so has been blessed with a child. Right? Or so and so has not been blessed with a child. Some people have children, some don't have children. Although Allah swt in the ayat of Mishra Allah swt made it very clear. Allah swt said, Allah is the one who has control over everything. . Allah said, He gives to whoever He wants to give. He gives to whoever He wants daughters. And He gives to whoever He wants sons. And Allah said, to some He gives both. And to some He gives nothing. So it is the, something which is given by Allah swt. Children. So I know many people, some friends, some others who talk about, who are so desperate to have children. And if they don't get children, they feel very bad about it. Society also puts pressure on them. How is it you don't have children? How long have you been married? Did you seek particular attention? Did you do this, do that? People ask all these funny questions. So there is a lot of sort of psychological pressure, social pressure. And then of course desire also. Alhamdulillah. No one can say, No one can say. No one can say. No one can say. No one can say. No one can say. No one can say. No one can say. Alhamdulillah, the world today has, how many, 7 billion? 7 billion didn't happen by accident. Because people have a desire to have children, so they have children. So, Alhamdulillah, this is all the Qadar of Allah. Allah made the earth, He created human beings, and then He put this desire to propagate the species in the hearts of people, so they are doing it. So, we talk about this, people who don't have children, they feel as if they are somehow, I won't say cursed, but not blessed. But the thing I say to them, I say to the others also, which is, look in the Quran and show me where Allah called children a blessing. Find me the place. Niyama. Allah, Subhanahu wa ta'ala, called children fitna. Trust. Inna wa alhamalukum wa auladukum. Niyama or fitna? Fitna. In Surah Al-Taghabi, Allah said this, In Surah Al-Taghabi, Allah also said, Inna wa alhamalukum wa auladukum, aduwan lakum. They are your enemies. Azwajikum wa auladukum. Your spouses and your children are your enemies. Except those who you have. So, forgive them and treat them and guide them correctly and so on. So, I'm not saying you should not have children. I'm saying, hamza merla givu. But don't just imagine that because you have a child, you are somehow blessed in this special manner. You're not. You have now entered the testing ground. If Allah gives you a child, Allah is giving you a child. He does not give you a test. If Allah does not give you a child, seriously, when people come to me and ask me, I say, thank Allah. Say, Alhamdulillah. Should I do this operation, that operation? No, I'm not. You're asking my opinion, I say no. Don't do any operation. Ask Allah. Allah will give you. So, I want. Why do you want? What? Huh? Huh? You're not sitting in this house in a bad manner. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. Don't feel at peace at all. There is no one to sit and eat. And it will be left. So the point is that, first and foremost, think about this. Those of you who are, who don't have children, or who are not yet married, and once you get married, you will want to have children. Don't make that into a default setting. Right? So spend some thought on this. Say, do I really want children? Alhamdulillah, by all means have children. But do that thoughtfully. I'm not discouraging you. I'm saying, do it thoughtfully. Spend some. It deserves that thought. And if you don't have children, if you don't have children, don't need to feel bad about it. Don't need to feel somehow defensive. Alhamdulillah. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala ha

Auto-generated transcript:Salam alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Allah is truly all-knowing, all-aware. As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. That thing is maintained to this day. It's amazing the millions of pigeons that are here, incredible amount of pigeons, incredible number of pigeons. And then people in there mistakenly, Allah have mercy on them, mistakenly believe that some kind of sadaqah in feeding pigeons. There are people selling grains and people buying grains and throwing it on the floor. And you have these absolute clouds of pigeons descending and eating the grain and drying up. And then of course, there are people like people eat food, they are sitting everywhere eating food. So all that food is dropped on the pigeons. They eat all that. But you don't see the kind of, you know, pigeon poop that you should really, technically speaking, see in a place like this because of the absolutely peak efficiency of cleaning that happens. Yesterday we were, as I said, in the first floor of Mataaf and we see people on machines, on scaffolding and so on, cleaning by hand every single ring in the decoration of the ceiling of the Haram. You know, they have all those beautiful Islamic art decorations, which are little rings and circles and squares and all kinds of geometric shapes. All of these are being cleaned by hand. There's a guy there on the top, way on top, who is polishing the, what looks like metal from below, because he is, by hand literally, he's spraying something on it and he's polishing it by hand, way up in the top of the roof. Amazing, the kind of cleaning. And I was thinking to myself that these are not people doing a job. These are people who are doing it, salamu alaykum, bismillah, these are people who are doing it for the barakah and for the blessing and for the reward of the Lord. And I was thinking to myself, these are not people doing a job. Cleaning the house of Allah . These are people, whether they are doing it with awareness or not, they are following the sunnah of Ibraheem . Who Allah commanded to clean their house. These people are doing it. There's no way that this job can be done by somebody who does not actually have this awareness. This is my gumman, this is my assumption that it's not a job that's being done just in the top. Because there's not a scrap, can you imagine? And people are peeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . being done just in the dorm. Because there's not a scrap. Can you imagine? And people are peeping. Subhanallah, may Allah have mercy on Muslims yesterday. My wife and I were walking up. We are walking up to the harem. We are not even in the, we are not in the mataf. We are not even in the immediate sand of the harem. We are on what used to be a road between the, between our hotel and the hotel opposite. And all these roads have now been closed off. And they have been paved with marble and then made into purely walkways, which is a wonderful thing. So, there's no cars and buses and stuff. But people walk. But it is still a road. It is actually a road. People are walking up and down that. In the middle of that road, there are these two large, portly gentlemen who are on the floor sleeping. One guy is about to fall asleep. The other guy is fast asleep. Literally on the stone floor, they are fast asleep. Amazing. Allah grant us this. Ability to sleep anywhere. And the people are beating around. They are women and children and peaches. Peaches and occasionally cats. They are all, you know, beating around and walking around them. Completely oblivious to the world. And as I said, my wife said, this is tabak kool. I said, smart. Only Muslims can do it. May Allah have mercy on us. There's nothing good about that. So, please don't even try putting putting, you know, obstacles in the way of people. Tabak kool or not, it's definitely not Islamic. But anyway, may Allah have mercy on them and forgive them. And forgive all of us. So, my point I'm making is that all of this that you see here, there's such a sense of peace. Imagine millions of people come here. There are incidents. And, you know, may Allah have mercy. There are incidents of sometimes stampedes during Hajj. And some people dying because of that. Some people dying because of dehydration, because of the heat. When they are walking from from Arafat to Mina and so forth. Of course, you don't need to walk. Now they have a train. They used to have, they've always had buses. Anyway, long and short of it is, that is it. But you never ever have a riot here. Think about that. Go to one football match and you know what I'm talking about. Right? There's no rioting. There's no rioting. There's no yelling. There's no screaming. There's no cursing. There's no people fighting each other. Although people are, you know,

https://youtu.be/tW2B_4_vsTo Quote mentioned: Instagram https://share.google/zLkIXaLoBK9Xkt0u1 Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu Wasalamu Ala Ashrafil Anbiya Ilum Kursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alaihi Wasallam. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. One of my very good friends sent me this forward on WhatsApp. And unlike most of these forwards, this one is really, truly worth reading and listening to. So I thought I will use this as the basis of my Pajayat Reminder today. First, let me read what the forward is. It says, I have no idea who is the author of this. May Allah bless them and reward them in keeping with majesty and grace. Very beautiful. The forward goes as follows. It says, What if I told you Ummah's downfall didn't begin with politics or culture or society. It began inside the prayer mat. What is the first thing lost from the Ummah? It is not hijab. It is not honesty. It is not charity. It is something far more subtle and almost none. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam warned us. He said, The first thing to be lifted from my Ummah is Khushu. Not Salah itself. Not fasting. Not rituals. Khushu. The heart inside the prayer. The body stays Muslim. The soul slips away. He did that again. Listen to that again. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam warned us. He said, The first thing to be lifted from my Ummah is Khushu. The first thing to be lifted from my Ummah,棊棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 棊棊 The prayer remains, the movements remain, the words remain, the masjid remains, but the presence disappears, humility disappears, the trembling disappears, the softness disappears. We keep the shell, we lose the soul. Why is this terrifying? Because when Kosho is lost, you still pray, but your prayer doesn't lift you, doesn't soften you, doesn't restrain you, doesn't change you. You pray with your limbs, but not with your heart. This is how an ummah decays from within. The ummah lost Kosho when we started rushing, we started multitasking, we started treating prayer like a chore. We started thinking about everything except Allah. Our bodies enter Salah. Our minds stay in the dunya. This is how Kosho dies. A painful reality. Today, we know the motions of Salah better than its meaning. We perfect our tajweed, but not our attention. We memorize surahs, but not saranda. We inherited the ritual, not the reverence. Kosho is not crying. It's not emotion. It's not drama. It's not a ritual. It's a ritual. It's not fear. Kosho is being present, being humble, being aware, being small before Allah . Being sincere, being still. It is the heart kneeling before the body does. Kosho was the secret of the Sahaba. They didn't pray long. They prayed deeply. When they stood, their hearts trembled. When they bowed, they prayed. When they prayed, they prayed. When they prayed, they prayed. When they prayed, they prayed. When they棊棊棊棊 That intention alone changes the entire prayer. The truth, no one tells you. The ummah won't be revived by more lectures, more institutes, more seminars. It will be revived the moment hearts bow, the way bodies bow. Revive khushu and revive a civilization. So ask yourself, when I pray, does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala have my body or my heart? Because the first thing the ummah lost was khushu. And the ummah will rise again only when we find it inside ourselves, inside our prayers, inside our hearts. This is where the beautiful reminder ends. And again, as I said, may Allah reward the person who wrote this. Very, very beautiful. Subhanallah. I remind myself and you, my brothers and sisters, that the purpose of reminders is not the reminder itself. The purpose of reminders is to then bring that action into our lives. If we listen to our reminder and I remind myself, I remind others, and we do not practice it ourselves, then the reminder has no meaning. So let us not become just people who routinely, without thinking, you know, just say things. Let us be people who when we say something, let us be those who will also apply it and who will work according to it. Because as Allah SWT said in the Quran al-Kareem, He said, يَا يُوَا الَّذِينَ هَمْ مَنُوا لِمَا تَخُولُونَ مَا لَتَفَرُونَ O you people, O you who believe, why do you say that which you believe? Do not do. لِمَا تَقُولُوا مَعَ لَا تَفْعَلُونَ Now, we don't want to be people who say something and do something else. Because that is a very dangerous thing to do. So think about this, that if you are, for example, if you and I, if we are, have lives where we say that we believe in Allah, we say that we believe in the Day of Judgment, we say that we believe in the meeting with Allah SWT, we say that we believe that we will be called to account for every single thing that we chose to do or not to do, yet we li

Auto-generated transcript:My brothers and sisters, just met my dear friend, Tamur, from California. He teaches… he's a software engineer, worked for Verizon all his life, senior professional, also teaches Arabic grammar. I've been here in Basin-Zabu Sharif, and so on and so on, he said something wonderful. He said that, trillions of people who live in this world, the time Allah created this world, trillions of people, and out of all those trillions, Allah honored one. And that one is here, in these beautiful mercies. Muhammad Rasool Allah. SubhanAllah. And I said to him, I said, look, this is honor. Because for the last 1500 years, and it so happens that this is the 1500th year of, from the beginning of the revelation, 2025. He said, for 1500 years, people are coming here. Look at these people here. They're coming here. All of these people, thousands upon thousands of them, not one is related to him, not one knows him, not one has seen him, but they all love him. Now this is honor. This is honor in a lifetime. And this honor comes for one reason only, and that is, that the person lives his life for one reason only. That reason is to please Allah . And that is, that the person lives his life for one reason only. This is the lesson we learn from Rasool Allah life. To simplify our lives. People say, declutter your life, declutter your mind, simplify your life. You know what's the best decluttering? The best simplification is to understand that there is only one thing to do in life. And that is? To make pleasing Allah your only goal. No other goal. Have only one goal. And that goal is to please Allah . Just one goal. To please Allah . And if you have this one goal, everything else falls into place. Allah provides us. We get stuck with rizq. We get stuck with, you know, how's my job and I'm making so much money and I have, my needs are expanding and I need to make more money and what will happen to me and this and that and the other. None of that matters. Because Allah promised. If He created you, He will fulfill your needs. And if you don't, then you will be in a state of ! not created the jinn and the insan for anything other than my worship. Allah did not create us to run around behind food and this and that and shelter. Allah created us to worship you. All the rest will come. We make reasonable effort. I'm not saying don't do anything. But do something. the Torah decrees it. It is happening because Allah decreed. If you got sustenance based on the amount of effort you make, then the head-loading coolie, the illiterate neighbor who was carrying stones and bricks on his head at a construction site would be the highest paid person in the land. If you got sustenance based on your education, the president of a university probably would be the highest paid person in the land. And I can go on endlessly with this. You will find that that's not the case. That is not the case. Yes, you effort, you make some effort, but Allah gives. Allah said that He gives and all the people need to take sustenance but most people don't understand. Let's just say, it is my Lord, my Lord, who expands your sustenance or constrains it but most people don't understand. Let us be among the people who do understand. Because we have been told this. What is there not to understand? Because we have been informed. We have been informed in the best possible way, which is by the Kalam of Allah SWT himself. How do we know this? Because Allah said so. Let us look to that. And let us make that our creed in life. That I will work to please Allah. That everything I do, there is only one question I need to answer. Does it please Allah? Because if you do the thing for the right reason, believe me, everything else follows. Do it for the right reason and everything else follows. That is the whole thing. Make sure the right reason, the reason is right. The rightest of right reasons is to please Allah SWT. We ask Allah SWT to be pleased with us and never to be distressed. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Wa alaikum salam wa rahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ala al-sharafi al-anbiya wal mursaleen, Muhammadun Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahibu salam. Sashliman kaseeran kaseeran. My brothers and sisters, I am seeing and looking at a view which, Allah grant all of us, is the view that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam himself used to see when he was in his masjids, when he was in his home, when he was in his city of Badin al-Barawarah, and that is the site of the Mount Ravaad. The Mount Ravaad is a very important historical place in Islam. This is Mount Ravaad. This is the mountain which has been mentioned in the hadith many, many times. It is the mountain about which Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, the mountain of Ravaad loves us and we love Ravaad. This is the mountain which gave shelter to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the battle of Ravaad when he was injured and he fell and they took him up the side of the mountain into a little defile where he was sheltered from the enemies. This is the mountain which, was witnessed to the reason for the defeat after the victory. Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had commanded a set of sahaba to, a set of archers from the sahaba to be on a small hillock that is adjacent to the Mount Ravaad to cover a passage that is between that hillock and the mountain, and prevent the enemy from entering the mountain. And prevent the enemy forces, especially enemy cavalry from attacking the Muslims through that passage because that would have brought them right at the back of the Muslim army. But unfortunately the sahaba who were there disregarded the instruction and command of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Because Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had commanded them very clearly and said, do not leave your post even if you, whether you see us winning or losing, even if you see the crows and vultures eating from our bodies, do not leave your post. What happened was that with the initial victory, the Muslim forces were even into the camp of the disbelievers and the enemy, and they were collecting booty. When these archers on the hill, they saw that, their intention changed and they said, well, the instruction of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, his command does not apply anymore because we have won the battle, the battle is over. The command applied only while the battle was happening and now that the battle is over, we don't need to obey the command. And they left. And when they left and they came down to collect booty, they left. And when they came down to collect the booty, that was exactly the time that Khalid bin Walid bin Al-Ahmad bin waiting for. And he came and he, he came and he, he attacked the Muslim army from behind. And the worst nightmare of any infantry is to be caught between the enemy in front and the enemy cavalry behind. And that's exactly what happened. The result of all that was of course disastrous. And the Muslims lost the battle. And in that battle, more than 70 of the Sahaba, the blessed companions of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, were Shaheed. They were killed. And among them, some of the greatest of them, Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib radhiallahu anhu, Musa bin Umair radhiallahu anhu, Abdullah bin Rawah radhiallahu anhu, and others who were among the greatest of the Sahaba. All of them. And the rest of them died in that, in the battle of Arhat, thanks to this one act of disobedience of the Sahaba. As I mentioned, the Sahaba had not rebelled. They didn't rebel. They were not, they had not left Islam. They had not stopped believing in Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. All they did was, they took a command of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and interpreted that in the light of their own convenience. They interpreted that in the way that was convenient for them to interpret it. And that was the biggest mistake they made it, that that they made, and which resulted in this great calamitous defeat of the Muslims. My brothers and sisters, the reason for saying this is, I remind myself and you, this is exactly what we do today. We take the command of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, we take his blessed sunnah, and then we take the liberty which we don't have of interpreting that to suit ourselves. And we say, oh, but you see, this is, doesn't apply anymore. We are living in the 21st century, and that was 7th century, and we are living in America or Canada or somewhere, and that was in medieval and pre-medieval Arabia. And all sorts of taweelat and all sorts of taweelat, and all sorts of taweelat, and all sorts of taweelat, and all sorts of ridiculous explanations, none of which pay attention to the fact that this was the command of the Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. It is not open for us to interpret it and to change it, and to choose to follow and not to fo

https://youtu.be/v2Wa6C1cdgM Auto-generated transcript: As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa rahmatullāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Al-hamdu li-llāhi wa barakātuh. Muhammadu Rasulullahi sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Faham abadu. Brothers and sisters, my dear brother and friend Atif. Atif Nasir from Kuwait. He told me, do go to the top of the roof after fajr. The sunrise is amazing. I didn't realize how true, what exactly he meant. Because when I come here, it's like being on another planet. Suhara is so incredibly beautiful. I cannot even imagine. I cannot even describe it. The roof is beautiful. It has carpets everywhere. And I was hoping to get a sighting of the Mount Rakhud. But that looks like it might not happen because in the direction of Ahud, there is a, the roof is not completely open. They have a sort of wall and a roofed veranda all around. So, on the roof you are open to the sky for part of it, part of it, but you can also shelter under the veranda if you need to. But okay, alhamdulillah. What I can see is so incredibly beautiful. It's cold. Madina is cold in the morning. So, but it's not badly cold. It's not bitterly cold. It's a very, very beautiful scene. Suha Allah. Waiting for the sun to rise. Inshallah. And it is unbelievable. I was going to talk about Mount Rakhud with the picture. But I guess that is not the case. I guess that is not to be in this particular video. But Inshallah. I can still talk about the mountain. I guess without the mountain being in the picture. I'm literally within sighting distance of the Mount Rakhud. And I will take a picture of the Mount Rakhud and show it to you. Before I go there, you can see here, this minar, which is a pointed one, which you can see there. Oops. That went off quite fast. Okay, that one. That pointed one is the minar, which is the one that is in front of me. And that is the one that is in front of me. And that is the one that is in front of me. This is the minar, which is next to the Gubbat Al-Hudra, the green dome of the best brother of Rasul Allah . So that is the minar of the dome. Now, this is the roof. So I was talking about the mount of Ahad. The mount of Ahad is, The Mahantra Vahad is, as I said, I'm literally sort of a very short walk away from the Mahantra Vahad. From where I'm standing, if the built-up area was not there, I would be able to see the Mahantra Vahad very, very clearly. That is actually my intention of coming up here. But, khair inshaAllah. The Mahantra Vahad is the Mahantra of history. It's the Mahantra which knows the history of the Muslims. It is the Mahantra about which Rasulullah said, the Mahantra of Vahad loves us and we love Vahad. And so that is the importance of Vahad is clear from many, many Ahadiths where Vahad is mentioned both literally as well as allegorically. For example, goodness, like the goodness of the, as much as the Mahantra Vahad, good deeds, the size of the Mahantra Vahad, a date seed, given in sadaqa by somebody who is poor. And that one date, so that one date seed, all that this person has and gives that sadaqa, Allah will make it grow like the mountain of Vahad made of gold and so forth. Many Ahadith, alhamdulillah, which are, which talk about the fazilat and the position, the prominence of this mountain in the seerah of Rasulullah . The mountain of Vahad is the mountain which gave shelter to Rasulullah in the battle of Vahad. When the Muslims had lost the battle, the mountain of Vahad was witness to the reason they lost the battle. After having won it, the mountain of Vahad, those that Rasulullah had given this instruction, this command, that nobody must leave, that the archers must not leave their post, until he commanded them to do that. But they left their post. And they left their post not because they had suddenly become bhaagi or rebels, or they stopped believing, in Islam and believing in Rasulullah . None of that. They left their post for a, for a reason, may Allah forgive us, the kind of reason that we give ourselves, which is that we take, we take one of the Ahadith, we take one of the command of Rasulullah , and we say that, oh you see, but logically that command is not valid anymore, because the reason for the command is, gone, and therefore I need not obey that command. And that's exactly what the archers said. Those among them who saw the others, the other Muslims collecting booty, they said, well, the command of not giving the mountain really applied while the battle was going on. But now the battle is over, and the booty is being collected by people, and if we don't go, and if we d

https://youtu.be/UHamiG5ea7k Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil abdiyaj wal mursaleen. Alhamdulillahi Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Abna al-Badu. My brothers and sisters, Subhanallah, I never get tired of these beautiful views of Al-Masjid al-Nabi wa al-Sharif. Once again, I'm sitting very close to the Roda Mubarak. Just behind it, a few steps away. I am thinking of the Hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The first Hadith in Bukhari, narrated by one of the Qatab-ul-Anhu, who said that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he heard Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam say, in our Aamalu Biniyat, that the reward of the deeds, or the deeds are based on their intention, the intention with which they are done. The reason I'm mentioning this Hadith is because, normally when we look at decision-making, when we look at, when we look at, especially in times of stress, in times of, you know, any kind of difficulties, and we are thinking of what to do, how to do it, what decisions to make, what might be beneficial, what might not be beneficial, so on. We think in terms of trying to project, or trying to, in a way, foresee, like for example, you might say, if I do this, such and such will happen, if I do something else, something else will happen. So, we are looking at, we are doing some sort of scenario planning, and we are trying to imagine scenarios, and we are saying to ourselves, if I do this, then this scenario will happen, and if I do that, then that scenario will happen. This scenario might unfold, if I do something else, a different scenario might unfold, and so on. Which is all really, if you look at it, an exercise in fantasy, because we don't know, and we can never know the reality. We can never know what will actually happen. So, what we are trying to say is, we are trying to kind of foresee that, to the extent possible. So, you might say, well, what is the alternative? What must we do, and why or how does this hadith relate to this issue of decision, of decision making concerning our lives? What's the connection? My submission to you is, the connection is that, instead of thinking what might happen, ask yourself, why am I doing something? So, when you are considering a decision, and you are saying that, this is what the future seems to hold, therefore, what must I do? Instead of that, think of the decision, and say, don't say, should I do this or that? Think of the decision and say, why would I do this thing? Look at the reason you are taking a decision or deciding not to take a decision. Look at the reason for it, why? I'll tell you why I'm saying that, with an example. I used to live in America in 1997 to 99, and I went to America for the reason why anybody goes to America, which is, to build a career in your life. And as part of that process, I had a partner, a business partner, with whom I was planning to set up a training company. We needed $1 million to start. We started fundraising, and we raised $250,000. We raised about 25% of what we need. We raised that in a pretty short time, just for a month, for less than a month. My partner was absolutely thrilled. And he said to me, he said, we have arrived. So I said, how's that? He said, well, we have 25% of what we need, and the bank will give us the rest. So I went silent for a while. He said, why are you silent? I said, because, I said, we need to have a talk. He said, what talk? So we sat in his house, and this was about maybe 9 o'clock or something in the night. And we talked till the following morning, the whole night. I said to him that, there are two things that we cannot do. One is, we have to do something. And the other is, we cannot do. Thirdly, I can't do. I cannot participate with you if you do them. So the first thing we cannot do is to borrow money on interest. Irrespective of the reason, irrespective of the amount of interest. We are not borrowing money on interest. Number one. I said, this is an absolutely, as far as I'm concerned, it's an absolutely written in stone rule. We cannot borrow money on interest. And I said, the second thing we cannot do is to use alcohol as in any of our promotional events. So no wine and cheese parties, and no product launches with drinks and stuff. And of course, I also said to him, no use of women. Either as, you know, in pictures or actual women in any of the promotional activities. So I said, these are the two or three things that we absolutely cannot do under any circumstances. He looked at me as if I was crazy. He said, do you realize where we are living? I said, yeah. Why? He said, what difference does it make? He said, because in this country, this country America, this country America is America because of interest. He said, this is the biggest benefit we have that we don't ne

https://youtu.be/Inc0bp3k3PI Auto-generated transcript: Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil biya'i wa al-mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, wa sahbihi wa sallamu ala alayhi wa sallamu ala alayhi wa sallam. A person says, I am standing here at the window of my room in Hilton, in Medina. And as you can see, literally, a very short walk from here, maybe just over 100 meters. This is the Masjid al-Nabawiwaye Sharif. Today, as I'm standing here, I'm thinking to myself, many, if not all of us are literally obsessed with one thought in our minds, and that is, how can I live a life of power and influence? And I want to say to you that, from where I'm sitting, as I mentioned to you, literally, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30 on them, they slide sideways and in the evening sometimes they open them so that you have this little open courtyard, not very little, quite big actually, open to the skies. Very, very beautiful to sit there with the beautiful breeze of Madina blowing directly into the Masjid. And these are the umbrellas that cover now, they have covered it, King Abdullah. May Allah forgive him and be pleased with him. He is responsible for covering the entire courtyard all around Masjid, which is a huge, huge, huge relief for the people who come here from the sun. And of course, it increases obviously the capacity for the people. So, we have this example of the Prophet Muhammad . And the reason I'm saying most powerful and influential is because as I look down here, you can see all those cars and buses there moving at a snail's pace because of… it's almost a traffic jam. And we have here the people… May Allah bless them down here on the ground. People who are here for one purpose only and that is to go to the Masjid-e-Nabawi-e-Sharif, to pray there and to present their salaam to Rasulallah . Literally I can tell you, I can stand here by this window for 24 hours and this stream of people, they are all here. This stream of people walking towards the Masjid-e-Nabawi ends 24-7, day and night, there are people who are going to the Masjid. And walking there, walking back, that's all they do. Alhamdulillah, I have had the pleasure and the privilege of being one of them. Now, how did this happen? How does this happen? How do you become powerful and influential? How do you become powerful and influential in this life? Paradoxically, it is by defocusing from this life and focusing on the hereafter. And that is the message of Rasulallah in a gist of it, which is the… literally in a nutshell, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, we can actually do something. In our entire existence, we began in the ilm of Allah SWT, in the knowledge of Allah SWT. From there we went into the Alam Al Arwah, the world of the souls. From there we, when Allah SWT, we stayed in the Alam Al Arwah, the world of the souls for Advokatul Ravisht. And then when Allah SWT decreed, we came to the wombs of our mothers. And then, we stayed there, for, period, of, whatever, number, of, months, and, then, we, were, rejected, into, this, world, extremely, unhappy, that, having, changed, our, situation, yelling, and, screaming, our, guts, out, and, then, we, suddenly, fell, in, love, with, We live in this world and we live in this world for as long as Allah decrease and just like we had no control over when we came into this world, we will have no control over when we leave this world. And then for most of us, that leaving of this world will also be, it may not be like yelling and screaming, but certainly something that you leave with great reluctance. And the key is to remember that just like this world, we had no conception of what this world is like. When we were in the womb of our mothers, we have really no actual experiential knowledge of what the aakhira will be like when we leave this world. But leaving this world is as inevitable as it was leaving the womb of our mothers. And it's with one difference, which is that when we were in the womb of our mothers, nobody came to us and to tell us about the joys of this world and what we are going to see here and so on and so forth. And we, where we were, we thought that was the ultimate. We were in a nice warm place and we had no, we were not in danger. We got our food on time and we were taken care of and all our nee

https://youtu.be/WxfsmWqWVSY Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wa salatu wa salamu ala ashrafil abya'i wal mursaleen, Muhammadun Rasulullah, insallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, wa sahbihi salam, tasliman kathiran kathira, amman wa ba'du. My brothers and sisters, I'm sitting, standing here, you can see right opposite the Prophet Sharif. I'm thinking to myself, here I am, this is the Prophet Sharif, over to the right from here, and little bit behind is the Rauza Mubarak. And if I turn around completely, and I'm looking now in that direction, which is the opposite, and I'm back to the Masjid-e-Sharif, you can see the Mount Rauhaj. Now, of course in the dark now you can't see the mountain, but that's where it is. It's literally a stone's throw from here. I'm thinking to myself, that 1500 years ago, this little village, which had this masjid, was made of mud brick, and made with the blessed labor and effort of Rasulullah, the son of himself, and all those who loved him. And now, I'm thinking, what has changed, and what has not changed? What has changed is the brick and mortar. What has changed is now that we have this magnificent structure, which is beautifully lighted. One of the things that always I'm very positively impressed with is the subtlety of the lighting of these beautiful buildings. It's the Masjid in Saudi Arabia, especially the Haramain Sharifahin, where you can see how these minarets are lighted. They seem to glow with an internal glow of themselves. The unlighted pillar-like thing that you're seeing are the umbrellas now folded. In the earlier videos, you would have seen them extended. They do that. They're on timers. They do that. They're on the roof during the daylight hours, and then in the night, as soon as it falls, sunsets, they are folded back up again. So, this is what has changed, which is the material surface things. But what has not changed, SubhanAllah, I was thinking to myself, and we were talking to some friends of mine. I met one of my very dear old friends here just now from Mangalore. He was remarking on how despite this enormous footfall, just see the people. And this is now a bit after Isha, so a lot of people have left, but still you can see this massive crowd coming out. What has not changed is the love of Muhammad ﷺ that you can see in all that happens here. Starting with the cleaning of the Masjid. The people of the Nizamah, the housekeeping who clean the Masjid, those who use machines, there are all kinds of machines. There are scrubbers and cleaners and carpet cleaners and carpet vacuumers and shampoos and all sorts of stuff. And then there are people who are just picking up stuff. And may Allah have mercy on the Muslims. There's no shortage of stuff that they throw out. They throw on the ground, but people keep picking it up. What is clear is how these people work by themselves. There's no supervision. They probably have one supervisor for every hundred people or something like that just to make sure that people are paid on time. I don't know why they even have them. But anyway, they probably have that. I don't know that they have anything more. Because you don't see any supervisors. You just see the people of the cleaning crews. They're working by themselves. What is abundantly clear is they're not doing it for the money. Because I know some of the people, these people personally, one of my very good friends is a cleaner here at Masjid al-Nabawi Sharif. And I know what he gets paid. He doesn't get paid very much. But he's been here for the last 20 years just cleaning the Masjid al-Sharif. The love of Muhammad , the love of Masjid al-Nabawi Sharif. For 20 years. Now, man is a cleaner of this beautiful Masjid. And it's not because the Masjid is beautiful, but because this Masjid is the Masjid of Muhammad . That has not changed. For 1500 years, Masjid is populated by people who love Muhammad . It's cleaned by people who love Muhammad . It's maintained by people who love Muhammad . It is, all this is done for the love of Muhammad . And Allah , may Allah reward them. These are the true billionaires and trillionaires of the world. Not the ones who cannot distinguish between good and evil. The ones who have a good lifestyle, whose sum total of their lives is the, which is to satisfy their desires. And then call it technology and what not. But with a result that they don't have any idea of what they are saying and doing. May Allah have mercy. These are the role models. These are the people who are unfortunately the role models, instead of the true role models who should be our role models. The best of them, the one without comparison is Muhammad Rasulullah . The one who Allah called Rahmatul Al-Alamin, the one who Allah called Al-Bashir wa Nazir, Da'iyanil Allahi bi-idhnihi wa

https://youtu.be/P73wmJlRdiA Auto-generated transcript:And may such people have such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such He entering the, what is also called Jannat al-Bakir. But Allah knows Jannah is Jannah. This is the graveyard of Madinah. This is the place, this is the place in which are buried the best of the best and the worst of the worst. This cemetery is buried of Sa'ib Ibn Al-Fa'a, may Allah be pleased with him. And this is buried Sayyidah Fatima bint Muhammad, may Allah be pleased with him. And this is also buried of Abu Ibn Saluk, the head of the Manafiqin about whom Allah has revealed the Quran and said, I will not forgive him and these people even if you ask forgiveness. Ya Rasulullah, seventy times. Sabiyyina marro. So, both are buried. Both kinds of people are buried. The best of the worst, the Sayyidah Fatima bint Muhammad was the, the, so this, I will show you there is a boundary there. You will see there. Inside, there is a boundary. Inside that boundary is Sayyidah Aisha S.A. and Sayyidah Fatima all of the the family of the Prophet is buried. If you see that boundary, inside the mound. This is the ultimate reality. This is where we will all end up. I don't mean the specific place but in a grave. Where a floor will be sand, soil and earth. Not be comfortable mattresses and cupboards. It will be sand and soil and earth. This is the ultimate reality. Whether you are a king or a pope, I make scripts. This is where we will end up. All of us without, without exception. I always pray here that may Allah bless you all in Jannah, in Tahajjud, in Sajdah, in Bila. So, if, if it happens, I am sure, so when it happens, then what will they do? What will the people do? How will they do? When the people there are finished, then what will they do? They will just, people, they will take them from there. Yes, then, they will go there, and all the Muslims, all of them, all of them, such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such such So, obviously this has become so big, but you do, you do, you do, you do, you do, you use these graves also. I said it's a huge cemetery, mashallah. This is the ending for all of us. Doesn't matter if you are a king or a queen or a copper, homeless person, what matters is our deeds. What did we die with? If we died with good deeds, if we died with belief in Allah, worshipping Allah, living our lives for the sake of Allah, trying to please Allah, then this will be the best thing that we can imagine. May Allah make us among those. And these graves will become, underneath this on the top you see soil, just to raise mound of earth. Underneath this is either a garden from a garden of the Jannah or a plate of the hell pile. We ask Allah to make this into a garden for the garden of Jannah for us, inshallah. And that will depend on our deeds, nothing else. What we believed in and how we lived our lives. May Allah give us the tawfiq, the guidance to believe in the correct thing, the right thing in Tawheed, which is to believe in Him as our Creator, Maintainer, Protector. To Him is return. And in His name we pray, Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And to live our lives in obedience to Him on the way of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. May the blessings of Allah be upon the Prophet and his family. May Allah bless him and his family. May Allah bless him and his family.

https://youtu.be/RHuqcOwaSFE Auto-generated transcript:As-salatu wa-s-salamu ala ayyashah, fila mihi wa-l-musa'il, muhammad wa-s-salamu ala ayyashah, wa-l-mahdi wa-s-salamu alayhi wa-l-mahdi wa-s-salamu taslimu, My brothers and sisters, I spoke to you about brotherhood yesterday. And as I am sitting here, as Masih Darwish Shariff, looking at this beautiful architecture, I cannot help but relate it to what I said, which is, see the effect of togetherness. See the arches, see the curves of the arches, see the curves of the pattern, see how the pattern relates one to the other, and creates this absolutely beautiful image, which would not be possible if the relationships were not there. But thanks to the fact that there are the relationships between the patterns, we have these wonderful, these beautiful, these beautiful, these beautiful, these beautiful, these beautiful, so beautiful, so lovely to see how this is one straight line and it's all connected. And that is the nature of life. Alhamdulillah we have, as you know in the Haram in Madinah, these are the AC vents, air conditioning vents. Temperature is beautifully maintained, neither very cold, obviously never warm. Very very beautiful temperature control. All that glitters here is polished brass, polished very lovingly every bit of it the whole time. Lighting is just good, neither too bright nor too dark. These chairs, and you can see there are a series of them in this line, all the way, as you can see. These are the chairs of the teachers. Chairs of teachers who teach. We have Dars, we have Khatiras after usually the Maghrib, Sathya, Isha. And see the other one, the chairs are covered and nobody sits on them. Very unlike some masajid where the chair of the Imam is a piece of, is a subject of dispute. And people sitting on it and then being told not to sit on it. They take offense and all kinds of nonsense that happens. One of the things that we, we have to understand is that, we have to understand that, we have a lot of frivolity, frivolity, frivolity, frivolity, frivolity, frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity frivolity see the whole year. And the thing that struck me the most always was this whole sense of Adam. Even everywhere, I mean here, quite clearly nobody calls you by name. No way that anyone would ever call me by name. So, immigration officer, imagine that I'm at the airport, with the immigration officer, I'm trying to get my fingerprinting. And my fingerprints always give me trouble, you know. Because my hands get a lot of work, how they lie, even how they do. So, the fingerprints are almost rubbed off. So, I'm trying to do that. The immigration officer is telling me to place them in a certain way. And he addresses me as Baba. And the first couple of times he said, Baba, I didn't even realize you were speaking to me. I'm thinking, why is he saying Baba? Who's the… I realized it's me. He said, Baba. Baba, here, here, here. Baba, here. He says, here, here, here. Baba, here. He's telling me to put my finger on this on a scanner. SubhanAllah, immigration officer, you only hear this here, you hear Baba, you hear Sheikh, their uncle, my uncle, once in a while, my father, youngsters introduce themselves. They say, I am your son, Abu Bakr. I am your son, Abu Bakr. I am your son, Abu Bakr. He won't say, I am Abdul Rahman. No. He says, I am your son. I am your son. Very, very, the level of politeness, it's a beautiful thing, Wallahi Subhanallah, to live in a Muslim country where the culture is Islam. It's not, and believe me, I have stayed in, I have been to Egypt several times. I have been to the UAE, I don't know how many times. I have been to Oman, I have been to Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, many times, of course, Saudi Arabia many times. The same thing. It doesn't matter which country. All, Alhamdulillah, Muslim lands are like this. With people who are steeped in their culture. The culture is a culture of respect, of mutual respect, of respect for age, respect for knowledge, and assumptions. You know, it's assumption of knowledge. Age, of course, at least, is very important. Age, of course, at least, is very important. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis for it. It's a basis fo

https://youtu.be/ZfEUYrA0rC8 Auto-generated transcript:As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillah. Ya Rabbi al-Alamin. Wa sallatu wa sallam ala ashra min al-fiya wal mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam. Tasbeeman kathiran kathiran. Ummabadum. My brothers and sisters, alhamdulillah. I am in Masjid al-Nabiyyat al-Sharif. As you can see, this classic architecture, all of us who have been here are familiar with it. I also know the architecture. May Allah bring you here as soon as you want to come here. InshaAllah. You know what strikes me? Two things that strike me here. One is that I am actually sitting, if you think about it, I am just actually sitting here within maybe 100 meters of the Rau'dah of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The Rau'dah is where he is buried, but that's where he used to live. That was his house. And the what we know today as the Riyadh ul Jannah, which is that part of the Masjid between his house and his mimbar, which he said this is a garden from among the gardens of Jannah. Al-Riyadh Al-Rau'dah means Riyadh ul Jannah. A garden from the gardens of Jannah. Now, I always make this dua whenever I have the honor and opportunity to pray in Riyadh ul Jannah, which yesterday I did. I always make this dua that Allah, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, told us that once you enter Jannah, once a person enters Jannah, Allah will not throw him out. Dhaariqah huwa al-fawthu al-adheem. Allah said this is the final success after which there is no test. No more test. Final success. That is when one enters Jannah. So I make this dua and I say Allah, you caused me to enter Riyadh ul Jannah which Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said is a garden from the gardens of Jannah. So don't send me out. Do not send me out. Because you allowed me in here. I came here with your permission, with your help. Because you wanted me to come here. Because of your mercy, because of your forgiveness, because of your kindness. So please do not deny that to me. Do not send me away from here. We ask Allah to accept this dua that everyone who has prayed in Riyadh ul Jannah, may Allah give them Jannah. Because He already gave them Jannah. And may Allah never take them out from Jannah. May Allah make us a part of Jannah. May Allah make us a part of Jannah. May Allah make us a part of Jannah. We ask you for Jannah and we ask you for protection from the fire. So what strikes me when I come here is that this place or the little villages I mentioned before off track for everyone except for the few Arabs who lived here. In the time of the great empires, the great Persian empire, the great Roman empire, the Eastern Roman empire, the Pajat Khan empire, the time of the empires, this was a full on place. Nobody cared about it. Nobody wanted it. Nobody ruled it. Nobody wanted to rule it. And so this became a place which this became a big blessing for the Arabs because since they were people who nobody cared about, nobody interfered with them. Subhanallah, today, I think one of the biggest problems of the Arabs today is that everybody within courts cares for them. Right? Most of them care for them like a lion cares for the antelope. He loves the antelope. But not in the way that he wants. The antelope wants to be loved. Anyway, that's a different story. But the point I'm saying is that it left them alone to have their own culture. It left this area alone for itself. It left this area alone for itself. And so the people who were living in this area were not living in this area. They were living in this area. And so the people who were living in this area, they were living in this area. And so Allah created us and the only one who is worthy of worship. The one who created us, the one who sustains us, the one who feeds us, the one who protects us and the one to whom we will all return. There is no doubt about this fact. It doesn't matter whether you believe it or you don't believe it because this will happen. This will happen. But one day we will return to Allah. And sitting here reminds me of this that this very simple but very incredibly powerful thought or philosophy, the philosophy and thought of Tawhid started from here and went around the world. Started from here and went right around the world. To every corner. To every human being wherever he or she lives. I think I can safely say that there is not a living person today who has not heard about Islam. Who does not… who may not know Islam as they are understanding it. But the basic fundamental belief that this is the worship of the Creator, the worship of the one God, the only God. I… The person who understands Islam. Who understands… who hears that may say, well I don't agree with that. Sure, no problem. Don't agree. But does it change anything? If you don't agree that gravity exists, will gravity disappear? If you don't a

https://youtu.be/Ir_IfT4260g Auto-generated transcript: Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, Alhamdulillah, wa bilalameen, wa salatu wassalamu ala ashraf, bi zanbi wal mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi, wa sallamu wa sallam, tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Umma baadu, for those of you who can recognize this, you know where I am, I don't need to explain, that is the bottom of the green dome, the raudha of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alaihi wa sallam, and I am in Masjid Nabiyyat-e-Sharif, Alhamdulillah, it's a beautiful, beautiful scene. May Allah bless all the people here. What you are seeing here is the sufrat, the dastarkhans, the food that is being spread out, and all of this is privately funded. There are families in Medina who have been doing this for literally centuries. We're right through Ramadan, and then throughout the year, every Monday and Thursday, the days of sunnah fasting, they give iftar to anyone who wants to eat. Nobody will even ask you if you are fasting or not. You can just sit down and you will eat, and there's beautiful food. I'm in this area which is normally an open space. It's a small courtyard, but they have these beautiful, these beautiful umbrellas that automatically open and shut. That's a wonderful sight to see also when it happens. So beautiful to be in Masjid Nabiyyat-e-Sharif. I remember the very first time I came here was in 1997, when my wife and I came here for the first hajj. And it was amazing. When I came to Medina itself, and then especially when I entered Masjid Nabiyyat-e-Sharif, it was like coming home. Now, I've been, I've traveled all over the world. I've been to many countries first time, and I know the feeling of first time. I know how it feels. It's some anxiety. There is obviously some excitement, obviously, but there is also anxiety. There is, you know, some level of, I wouldn't say fear, but, you know, you're wondering what's going to happen and so on. But here it was like coming home. And I'm coming to a place for the first time, never been here before. And this is the barakah of Rasulullah ﷺ and his beautiful maqam. Imagine, I remember 2008 when I came here, my wife and I, we came for hajj and I spoke at the International Hajj Conference. When we came to Medina after completing hajj, as we came over the little hill, and we could see the minarets of Al Hanuma Sharif of Rasool Allah ﷺ, I know the thought in my mind was, what is it about this place, which was a little oasis, unheard of probably at the time, which sent out the call for the oneness of the worship of Allah SWT, which echoed all around. And people responded and people answered and people continued to respond and answer, no matter how many people malign Islam, no matter how many Islamophobes they are, no matter what, people come to Islam, Muslims are Muslims, they are proud to be Muslims, they are happy to be Muslims, and they are people who come here, they flock here from every nation in the world. Every country. Every area. Every part of the world. As I said before, another reminder from Makkah, every complexion, every hair color, every shape of nose and eyes and mouth, every stature, the tall ones, the short ones, the large ones, the not so large ones, the thin ones, everybody from, you know, everything, they are here. If Allah made them, they are here. SubhanAllah, they come and they come for the love of Allah and they come for the love of his Habib, of Rasool Allah ﷺ, and they come for the love of the house of Allah and they come for the love of the masjid and abu-yash-sharif. SubhanAllah, imagine, what was it that made this happen? And… Because you're looking at a man who was alone and he had no resources. He had a vision and he had an aim which surpassed anything that anybody can imagine, but he had nothing to make it happen. He had nothing to make it happen. Yet, Allah swt has caused him to be the cause of millions and millions and millions of people, the 1.5 billion already in this world living, and imagine all the millions in 1500 years who came to Islam. We ask Allah swt to help them. We ask Allah swt to keep us in Islam and for us to die in Islam so we can go and meet Rasool Allah ﷺ in Jannatul Firdaus, inshaAllah. My brothers and sisters, the issue is to have a sense of awe and love and majesty of the place. And this is something that we have in both the Hanumai. And frankly, even though these are fabulous buildings, if you look at the buildings, if you look at the magnificent structure, if you look at the Haram Sharif in Makkah, it's like a city, literally like a city. Without a doubt, it's like a whole city. It's, you know, the electric power, you name it. I mean, everything is like a whole city in one mosque. But that's not what impresses. What impresses is the sense of awe and majesty. And that is nothing to do with the building or the architecture or the struct

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. A'lamo alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. From my Baadu, my brothers and sisters, there was a tragic accident, I think yesterday, where a bus carrying a group of pilgrims on the Mecca-Madina Highway had an accident with a, had a collision with an oil tanker and caught fire and completely burnt. And in that fire, I think about forty plus pilgrims died. They were Shaheed. And many of them, if not all of them, were from Hyderabad. Terrible tragedy. We ask Allah to forgive them and grant them, grant them Jannah of the Prophet. Grant them the clothes and the, grant them the Dharaja and station of being Shaheed. One of the tragic things of this accident was that eighteen members of the same family, they all died together in this accident, by Allah's mercy. There were forty-six people on this bus. I'm talking about the decree of light. And Ras Mahantala shows this. There are two accidents of this nature. One is this one, in which there were forty-six passengers on this bus. Forty-five died, one walked free. He is being treated for whatever injuries he received. But he seems to be okay. Another accident which happened recently in this way was when the Air India plane in Ahmedabad took off from Ahmedabad airport and crashed onto a hostel, a student's hostel. Imagine these students are sitting there having breakfast, the plane falls on top of the hostel and they die there. And everyone in that plane perished except one person. And that one person walked out. And he was just a minor injury. But everyone has died. Another accident I remember was when there was a plane, if I'm not mistaken, it was one of the Central Asian Republic's plane, meaning the plane belonged to the Central Asian Republic. And it was being flown by Air India on a wet lease. This plane landed in Delhi and broke into two. Literally the fuselage just split into two on the runway. And I know somebody personally who walked away from that plane completely unscathed. And the interesting thing is nobody died in that accident. The plane just broke into two. There was no fire. No one died in that accident. Including there was a small baby. Everybody survived. So Alhamdulillah, life and death is in the hands of Allah . We ask Allah for goodness and well-being in everything. We ask Allah to protect everyone from accidents. All the more important to remind ourselves to drive safely. And not just drive safely but to be in a safe state. Because otherwise, you know, to be in a safe state, because sometimes people, they try to drive safely. Nobody drives. Or rather, let me not say nobody drives. People do. But at least sensible people don't take risks driving. But maybe they are in a situation where they, where they, they are impaired because of lack of sleep or some other, some other reason. And that results in terrible accidents. So this is something to keep, you know, to think about. And to make sure that you are never in that kind of a state. The responsibility of the driver is for himself, for herself and for the passengers as well. So that's one part of the story. But the second reason I am saying all this here, apart from of course asking all of you to make dua for these people, is because some friend of mine, may Allah bless them, and bless them and bless their affection for me and good intention, with which they say these things. They said to me, please avoid road travel. Don't travel by road. Go by train from Makkah to Marina. It's not safe. Road travel is not safe. Now I know the intention with which they are saying that. That is a beautiful intention we have. May Allah swt help us to always wish the best. For each other. So, but having said that, the reason I am saying this is because, let us always be clear in our minds, that life and death is decreed by Allah swt. And if Allah swt decrees that you or I will die in a particular way, that will happen. Nothing that you do is going to change that. Nothing that you don't do is going to change that. And having said that, should you take precautions? Of course. We as human beings have been, as people have been, wanted to do whatever we need to do. So by all means take precautions. By all means, do whatever is reasonable. But to believe that the seat belt saves your life, or to believe that being in a particular model of car, somebody says, oh, you are a car driver, you are a driver, you are a driver, you see if that person had been driving a Mercedes, they would not have died. Well, if Dianna had died in armoured Mercedes, she was in the back, not even in the front. Whereas the, out of the two people in the front, I can't remember if it was the driver or the guard, one of them survived. Even after hitting the pillar of the tun

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wassalatu wassalamu ala al-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbuhu sallam. Tasliman kaseeran kaseera. Wa min baadu. My brothers and sisters, I am here in Mecca. We completed our Umrah yesterday, alhamdulillah. And we have not been able to come for, I think, for the last eight years almost. So, it was very nice, very lovely to be here and to be able to complete the Umrah. Allah made it very easy, alhamdulillah. We completed the Umrah in a very short time, alhamdulillah. Although the crowds, a lot of people, alhamdulillah, to the house of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And among the reminders that I always get, anytime I am feeling tired or something, alhamdulillah. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala shows me somebody who is probably, I won't say twice my age because I am now at an age where nobody can live twice my age. But certainly much older than I am. Maybe 10, 20 years older maybe, Allah knows. But doing Hajj, doing Umrah, making Tawaf, as well as little children. So, alhamdulillah, there is no excuse for feeling tired or anything like that. It's the house of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that attracts people from all over the world. The greatest, most cosmopolitan, most multicultural, multiracial gathering in the world is the Hajj. There are many gatherings where people gather in their thousands and in the hundreds of thousands. But if you look at the plurality of the gatherings, there are hundreds of thousands. People from practically every single country, every single nation in the world. And people of all levels of society, from the wealthy, wealthy and the wealthiest to the poorest. They all come to the house of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said in Surah Al-Hajj, إِنَّ أَوَّلَ بَيْتٍ وُضِعَ لِلنَّاسِ لَلَّذِي بِبَكَّةَ مُبَارَكًا وَقُدًا لِلْعَالَمِينَ Surely the first house of worship established for humanity is the one at Bakkah, a blessed sanctuary and a guide for all people. The first house of worship, meaning, somebody might argue and say, well, chronologically we know that there have been temples in Egypt, and temples in India and other places, which, Angkor Wat, for example, in Indonesia, in Bali, and different places which are probably much older. The house that Ibrahim alayhi salam built, the Kaaba, is approximately about 4,000 years old. And somebody might argue and say, well, you know, there are temples which are older than that. The house of worship here means, the house of worship of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, the Creator Jalla Jalaluhu wa Manawaluhu, who has no partners. So the house of worship of, in the sense of Tauhid, the house of worship of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala alone, without partners, without associates, without anyone to share His kingdom, share His power, share His authority, because there is no one who shares His kingdom, who shares His power, who shares His authority. And that is the house that Ibrahim alayhi salam built. And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave him the hukm. And he said, And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave him the hukm. Allah said, And call all the people to the pilgrimage. Call all the people to Hajj. They will come to you on foot and on every lean camel from every distant path. And today they come in. Plane loads upon plane loads. I was here once, many, many years ago. And we went to Majid al-Aisha for the mirkhat, to put down the ihram. And I saw there a truck, a container truck in the container. They had made a platform midway. They had made a platform in height. So there were people sleeping on top and people sleeping below. And this had come all the way from Uzbekistan. They had driven this truck all the way from Uzbekistan. And this truck, you looked at it, it looked like it was something manufactured by Adam alayhi salam, who was a young boy, who was a youth. Allah knows. Adam alayhi salam was never a youth. But the point being that this is an ancient truck. And the drivers and the mechanics who keep these things running, they are geniuses in engineering, believe it. People come. And then these people, these are all actually whole families and related families traveling together. So they camp, and they cook their food, and they wash their clothes. The whole thing, it looked so incredible. I really wished that I was... At that time, I was... I wished I was a man. was about 20 years old or something and I would ask to go back with them to Uzbekistan just for the trip just to see how it all happens so people who love Allah people who love the house of Allah people who love to come to the house of Allah and then I said about this house Allah said in in it meaning in this house in Masjid al-Haram are clear signs understanding place of Ibrahim the maqam of Ibrahim whoever enters it should be safe whoever enters the masjid is safe pilgrimage to th

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alameen, wassalatu wassalamu ala al-sharafi al-anbiya wal-mursaleen. Muhammad Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sallam, tasliman kathiran kathiran. Firmabadu, my brothers and sisters. Alhamdulillah, bi-zinillahi ta'ala. My wife and I, we are going for Umrah just now. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to accept our Umrah, to make it easy and to fill it with khair and barakah and to accept our duas. Inshallah, we will make dua for all of you. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to accept all your duas with khair and afiyah, inshallah. We'll give you what you ask with afiyah, inshallah. And we request you for your duas for our Umrah. A friend of mine asked me this question. His mother passed away. He said, what can I do or can I do deeds for her which will compensate for the fact that I perhaps did not serve her enough while she was alive? I want to answer that question in two parts. Firstly, a man came to Prophet Muhammad and he said, Ya Rasulullah, I carried my mother on my back for Hajj. So he's talking about carrying her from wherever he lived to Mecca and through all the manasik of Hajj, all the rituals of Hajj. He carried his mother on his back and brought her home. He said, Ya Rasulullah, I have done this. Have I? I fulfilled whatever I owed her for whatever she did for me. Rasulullah said, the action you did was a good action and Allah will reward you. As far as fulfilling her right on you, fulfilling or repaying her for what she did for you, he said, this action of yours, which is to carry his mother on his back for the entire Hajj, he said, this action does not even, doesn't even repay one birth pang that she felt when you were born. Now, this does not mean that we need to lose hope. It does not mean that we need to feel guilty about this, the fact that you were born. But it just puts things in perspective with regard to what we owe our parents. May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, whoever has parents, may Allah give them the tawfiq to serve them and to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la decreed and ordered us to do, which is to serve them. And for those whose parents have passed away, we ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la to forgive them and give them to fill their khubur with nur. We have the hadith of Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam also. In Ramadan, where he ascended the mimbar three steps, and he said, Ameen, Ameen, Ameen. And when he finished his khutbah, he descended, the Sahaba asked him, Ya Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, we saw you doing something you have not done before, we have not seen before, which is that you ascended the mimbar and you said Ameen three times. Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Jibreel Alaihissalam came to me on the first step, and he said, Ya Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, if somebody gets Ramadan and is unable, to get the forgiveness of Allah, he gets Ramadan, but he is unable to get the forgiveness of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala punish him and cast him aside, cast him far away. Say Ameen. So he said, I said Ameen. Now this means that somebody got Ramadan, meaning he was there in Ramadan, he found Ramadan, Ramadan came to him, and, but, he did not take advantage of Ramadan. Maybe he didn't fast, maybe he didn't pray, maybe he did something, which was prohibited. And therefore, the forgiveness that Ramadan comes with, this person is deprived of this forgiveness. The person deprived himself of this forgiveness. And Jibreel Alaihissalam is saying, may Allah punish this person and cast him far away. And he said, Jibreel Alaihissalam said, Ameen. And he said to Muhammad , you say Ameen. And he said Ameen. And he said, when I came to the second step, he said, Ya Rasulullah, if a person finds his parents old, one or both of them, and does not serve them and does not help them in their time of need, then may Allah curse him. May Allah punish this person and cast him far away. Say Ameen. Say Ameen. Say Ameen. Say Ameen. And Jibreel Alaihissalam and Rasulullah said Ameen. And he said on the third step, he said, Ya Rasulullah, Rasulullah, if your name comes before anybody, if somebody says Muhammad, if somebody says Rasulullah, Rasulullah, and a person, a Muslim, does not say, does not send salat and salam on you, does not say, Rasulullah, does not say, does not say, Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammad, and the whole of the, of the darud, of the salat and salam, then may Allah punish him and may Allah throw him far away, cast him far away. Say Ameen. And I said Ameen. And he said Ameen. So the position of parents and what we owe to them is something which is more than clear from these Ahadith. And we ask Allah s

Auto-generated transcript:Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa Salatu Wa Salamu Ala Ashrafil Anbiya wal Mursaleen. Muhammadur Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Alaihi Wasallam. Tasliman kathiran kathira. Fahamabadu. My brothers and sisters, I said there are two problems with this whole issue of acquiring knowledge and the desire to acquire knowledge. May Allah protect us from shaitan. Shaitan does not leave any stone unturned and he uses everything that we do and turns it into, turns something which is potentially beneficial into something which is potentially harmful. And he does it in two ways. One of course is to prevent you from doing something which is beneficial, but the other way he does which is very effective is to take that beneficial thing and make you do it in a way which makes it harmful. Right? It takes the beneficial thing and makes you do it in a way which either it becomes harmful, but harmful in the sense that either it becomes completely haram or it reduces the reward of the thing. So, instead of getting, you know, full reward, you get partial reward. It corrupts the reward of the thing. For example, you might be, you know, inclined towards doing charity and alhamdulillah you say, no, I have to do charity. I will do charity. But, you know, you have to do charity. But, shaitan will put it into your mind and your heart to say, well, you're doing this charity, encourage other people by putting it all, putting all this stuff on Facebook and Instagram and so on. So now you are hiring Instagram photographers to take pictures of your charity work and then you're putting it on Instagram and whatnot. And with the idea that you are somehow encouraging people to do it, but also what is hidden in that and which is probably even more true, which is that now your own ego comes into play. You are fantastic. What a great guy I am. I'm a philanthropist. I'm doing this and that. And shaitan will get people to come and praise you and so on. And you know, your articles will be written about you in the newspapers and stuff. So all of this now completely corrupts your niyyah and the ikhlas of your niyyah, the sincerity of your intention. And from being, starting point of where you are doing it to please Allah , now it becomes a self-propagation method where you are propagating your own virtue. And you are not just a person who is doing it for the benefit of people and so that you can get a good name. Now this is something to really, really guard against. Now one of the ways in which shaitan plays games with religious people is by tempting them to use their religious knowledge to find loopholes in the laws of Allah . So what is shaitan doing? Shaitan is trying to make people believe that they are not the only ones who are the only ones doing it. No one else is doing it. Right? So now there is, you are tempted to do something which is wrong. You know it is wrong. You should not be doing it. But because you have religious knowledge, shaitan will put thoughts into your mind of trying to find a way of doing something which you know to be wrong. But because you have religious knowledge, you find a way now around it. Right? Now there is no way around it. This is something which shaitan has put in your mind. This is what I mean. Yeah. So, I mean, it's, I mean, it's a very difficult thing. So, I have to say, I don't know if I can do it in a very perfect way. heart and your mind and you're now finding these so-called arguments in favor of doing something which is actually prohibited. One of the most common ones is this prohibition on interest-based dealings, which is a very clear prohibition. It is something on which Allah declared war in His own name, glorious name, and in the blessed name of Rasulullah . And Allah said, if you will not leave this, if you will not leave this interest-based dealings, borrowing or lending money on interest, then take a declaration of war from Allah and His Prophet . The ayat of Surah Al-Baqarah are very clear, absolutely clear ayat. Now, Shaytan puts, he finds his agents who, in the garb of being religious leaders, they now take this and they twist it and they say, oh, but you see, we live in America, the whole society is full of interest, so you cannot possibly escape it, so it doesn't matter. I need to own a house, and therefore first house is permitted. I need to invest my money, therefore, as long as 20 percent of your total portfolio, as long as the haram does not exceed 20 percent or 30 percent or whatever percent, right, they have different people of different percentages, may Allah have mercy on us, as long as the haram element does not exceed that percentage, it is okay. You ask this question and say, where did you get this percentage from, right? If you're saying 15 percent, if I have 16 percent, then it makes a difference. If I have 14, it makes a difference. Well, what are you talking, what are you tryi

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honorable prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions. Many thanks and blessings. From now on, my brothers and sisters, one of the... Alhamdulillah, we are living in times where there is a lot of interest in Islam. I have lots of young friends of mine, some students, some not students, but people who are who I know in many countries, who are very interested in Islam. Also, similarly, people who are interested in... therefore, this interest in Islam, for a lot of them, it's... it translates into, you know, harakas and conferences and so on and so forth. Of course, lots of stuff on social media and so on. So people are interested in the deen. But there are two... simultaneously... two problems that I find which are... which seem to go hand in hand. The first problem is that, thanks to the deen, we are able to go to our home. Thanks to the ease with which information... I want you to distinguish between information and knowledge. Between malumaat and ilm. Information and knowledge. I want you to distinguish between these two things. They're very, very important. So, the one thing is that, because information is easily accessible, easily available, whether it is multiple translations and tafaseer of the Quran al-Kareem, whether it is the siyasita or other books of hadith, whether it is reference material, you go to chat GPT or you go and do any kind of a search, and you put a prompt and it gets you information from all over the place. So, because there is this ease of accessing information, there seems to be a loss of the awe and majesty of the knowledge. And people I see treat the knowledge of the Kitab of Allah and the teachings of Muhammad Rasulullah like they treat any other kind of knowledge. So, the awe and the majesty of this knowledge, that this is Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala Himself speaking, that awe and majesty seems to take a backstage and may Allah have mercy in the case of some people, it disappears. So, therefore, for example, when we hear the stories of the importance of adab, the importance of the manners, the methodology of preparing yourself to receive the knowledge. The famous story of Imam Malik bin Anas , whose mother used to . She used to tie a turban on his head for him to go to learn with Rabia Turai, Rahatul Ali, who was his teacher. And his mother used to tell him, learn from the adab of Rabia before you take from his knowledge. Take from his adab before you take from his knowledge. And this is when Imam Malik was a little boy and his mother used to take him, they say she would take him for, in time for Salatul Fajr to the masjid, the masjid of the Nabi wa Sharif. And she would leave him there all dressed up. So, imagine he's being woken up before the time of Fajr and then he is being prepared by his mother. And then she takes him there, walks him there, leaves him there. He is in the masjid of the Nabi wa Sharif immediately after Salatul Fajr, he is there in the class of Rabia Turai. And he is there in the class of Rabia Turai. And he is there in the class of Rabia Turai until the time for Zuhar and then after Salatul Zuhar, his mother would pick him up and bring him home. Now, I don't know whether there was a breakfast program at that time or what, or whether this little boy didn't even eat any food all the way until Zuhar. And that's the time when he would have gone home and he would have had a meal. These are things to think about and say that today people walk around with buckets in their hands, what amounts to buckets, saying that they get dehydrated, unless they drink this gazelle down, this liters and liters and liters of water. You need to have food like little babies every hour. But whereas these people, imagine the kind of discipline that they were raised in. The result of that was that Imam Malik al-Ahmad al-Ali when he became a great Imam and then he wrote the Mu'atta. It is said that he became the first Imam of the Muslim community to be born in the time of Zuhar. Now, this is not the first time. Now, this is not the first time. Now, this is not the first time. But before he gave the dars of the Mu'atta, which he would give every day from Asr to Maghrib and then Maghrib to Isha, so he said before he did that, every day he would make ghusl, he would pray two ragat of salah, and then he would come and sit and give the dars of Mu'atta. Now, our internet alims, if you say this to them, they say, oh, but you see, he's only reading hadiths. Where is it necessary? Where is it written? What is the dhalil to say that he needs to have even wudu? Forget about ghusl. Why does he need to have ghusl? I mean, obviously, he's not having ghusl because he needed ghusl. This is

Auto-generated transcript:Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Now, most of the time, this is not conscious. So, we just give people permission to come and occupy, to live rent-free in your mind, in your head. Don't do that. Don't do that. Your mind is a very precious, very precious, precious thing. The mind is like a fertile field. The mind is like a fertile field. The mind is like a fertile field. The mind is like a fertile field. The mind is like a fertile field. fertile field, it will, whatever you plant in it, it will give you a harvest for that thing. Whatever you plant in it, the mind will give you a harvest for that thing. It makes it grow and it gives you a harvest. That is the reason why it's very important for you to choose what to plant in your mind. Because you plant wheat, you get wheat. You plant rice, you get rice. You plant wheat and you want rice, you will not get. So you have to decide, what is it that I'm going to allow into my mind? What will I allow to live rent-free in my mind? So choose who you want to listen to. And then listen to them very carefully. That's the second part. For the first part, we listen to everybody. Which is detrimental because everybody does not have the competence to say or tell us anything that is beneficial for us. And then the other part of it is that we disregard, again, consciously or unconsciously, real advice which can benefit us. And this would be the advice from experts. And advice from people who are... Who are genuinely concerned about you. So that's the other thing. So therefore, it's very important to pay close attention to that advice. Advice coming from people who are experts. And understand that that advice is coming to you and most of the time it will come to you free, is to be appreciated, deeply appreciated. Because it's not your right. That people must... So, that's the third part. That's the fourth part. That people must spend their time with you. People must share their hard-earned life lessons with you. Right? It's not... It's not something that is necessary for those people to do. If somebody's doing it, they are doing you a favor. And that is something that we need to appreciate. Not just take it for granted. If somebody is sharing their knowledge and their experience, it must be respected. One of the very detrimental things that I have noticed, especially this Gen Z, is this completely arrogant assumption. That anyone who's not... I don't know. I don't know. I don't think anyone can do that. I don't think anyone who's under 20 is not worth listening to. That the only people who are worth listening to are people of your age, people of this generation. Now that's about the most stupid thing that you can think about. Because experience comes with age. Experience comes with living life. You cannot have 40 years of experience when you are age 20. The only way to have 40 years of experience is to be 40 plus. It's not... is to be 40 plus. Now, having said that, not everyone who has 40 years of life experience can teach you something useful because of another very important factor, which is the tendency to document that experience. Because what is not documented is not learned. It's as simple as that. What is not documented is not learned. People live the life. So I'm 70 years old. There are millions of people who are 70 years old. But the 70-year-old who can teach you something will be the one who has taken the time and trouble to live reflectively and thoughtfully and he or she has documented their learnings. If they have done that, then what they have documented is potentially useful for you. I'm not saying everything is useful, but potentially useful for you. But if they have not documented that, then believe me, our memory is fickle. Our memory is not as reliable as we imagine. We forget things. We mix up things. We have, we call it the halo effect, which is we see something or we experience something good and that carries on to the next two, three incidents of people and we imagine good things about them and the opposite of that and so forth. So memory does all kinds of stuff. So the whole issue of making it useful is to document. And in the documentation, again, it's not just a matter of writing now this happened, this happened, this happened. No. It's a question of taking what happened, reflecting on it, extracting learnings from it and then, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you kno

https://youtu.be/rWvlGzItHqY Auto-generated transcript:I'm back again in my favorite place in Hyderabad, KBR Park. And as I'm walking, I'm hearing the bulbul calls. All kinds of names it has, Indian nightingale, also they call it and so on. I don't know what it is. It's a bulbul. And whenever I think about these zoological names, and I can't remember one, I console myself and say, well, I don't know or I can't recall the name of this bird, but the bird doesn't know either. I don't mean that entirely facetiously. Of course, you know, feel free to laugh. But the reason I'm saying that is because one of the downsides of knowledge is that it makes you jaded. I was speaking to a young friend of mine, may Allah bless him, very, very knowledgeable. He's a high school kid, but extremely knowledgeable about wildlife, birds. He has a special interest in, literally passion for, insects. I call him Spider-Man. He loves spiders and scorpions and all kinds of loving beasts like that. And knows a hell of a lot about them. And his bird identification is incredible. Knows all the names. But yesterday when I was having a conversation with him, I went over the weekend to Sarpanparli Lake, which is a very beautiful lake. I'm saying this for those who are listeners from here, who know the places on the way to Viharbas. And we saw a bunch of birds. So, point herons, cattle egrets, painted storks, stilts and What is turns, river turns and so on. So, as I was telling him these things, for every one of them, he said, Oh common, oh common, oh common. Meaning, these are common species. It's not a rare one. Thought that came into my mind was, that this is the first sign of being jaded. Where you're looking at, looking for some, you know, scintillating experience, some aha moment, every time in life. Now, the bad news is, it doesn't exist. Because most of life is repetition. Most of life is seeing the same thing again and again. So, you have two options. One is, you are constantly seeking this aha experience, this new thing. And so, therefore, when you see the same thing again and again, you're just bored. You don't want to see it again and again. But guess what? That's your fate. You will see it again and again. On the other hand, you have another person like me, for example. I don't care how many times I see the same thing. I never cease to be amazed. I never cease to be astonished. I never cease to marvel at the glory and magnificence of the creation of my Rab, Jalal Jalal Hu. I don't care if I see the same thing 50 times, 100 times, 1000 times. Incidentally, this is also the secret of my life. The secret of marriage, of a good marriage. As I have said many times before, I fall in love with my wife every morning, and every evening, and every afternoon. Same wife for the last 40 years. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. The thing is, if you find beauty in something, the beauty is there. And the more you can look at the same thing and enjoy that beauty, the happier person you are, the happier you will be. Because there are that many opportunities of enjoying that beauty. Whereas if you are looking for new things all the time, you will get them once in a while, but only once in a while. The major aha experiences of life, the major thresholds of life, are very few. Getting married, the day of the ceremony, the anticipation of it, and then the ceremony itself, and so forth, is one experience in your entire life. But your wife or your husband, you are going to be seeing them every single morning, every single afternoon, every single evening. And what happens to a lot of people, and I have seen this also happening, is that over time, they get bored. They get just used to seeing each other. They don't take care of their appearance. If you see them, if you turn up at their house, that's why I have, I make it an absolute rule, I always take an appointment before I go to some people. Because I want to share, save myself the shock of seeing this person, this friend of mine or whoever, in a state when they are just being themselves. I'm sorry, I don't want to see you as yourself, because life has taught me that that's an experience that is not safe. Because as Garfield said, what is seen cannot be unseen. And may Allah have mercy, some people, the state I've seen them in, I say, wow, this is something else. The same person, I mean, this guy looks like something the dog forgot to bring it. You know, I mean, really. So please, train yourself. And the way to do that is to develop shukr. Develop the ability, the tendency, the urge, the yearning to thank Allah . To be in a state of shukr the whole time. SubhanAllah, SubhanAllah, SubhanAllah. Marvel at the creation of Allah. Marvel at the fact that Allah gave you a life, eyes, and then He gave you full color vision to be able to appreciate, not just see, but appreciate the

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophets and Messengers. Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and upon his family and companions, is very, very peaceful. My brothers and sisters, yesterday one of our dear friends, Muhammad Ali Saab, whose children were all my students, prominent among them was his son, Hassan Zeeshan, who is currently studying, doing his Master's in Mechanical Engineering in UMass Lowell, Massachusetts. He passed away. And so I went to the Janatah last night after Isha. We asked Allah to forgive his sins and enter him into the Janatah for those without his Saab, to fill his Kaabar with his Nuh, and to give Sabah to his family. Mashallah, beautiful family, beautiful people. As I was there in the cemetery, the thought came to my mind about what do I want to be remembered for. That particular cemetery in Masjid al-Baqi in Hyderabad has, many of my friends in it, some relatives, some friends, some very old, very good friends. They all, thoughts about them flashed through my mind. That when I think of each person, what comes, foremost, what is the first thought that I think about them? What is the first thought that comes? What do I remember them for? There is Ikram Hai in that cemetery, with Ahmadineen Sheikh Imam Saab. And the thing that I remember, soon as I mention him, soon as I think about him, is how he used to come for Salatul Fajr. To our Masjid. Even when he had, started, he was getting, you know, physical health problems, he would get in his car and he would drive. And once or twice it's, the car got knocked here and there because of his driving. And we used to tell him, please, don't come on your own. And, and, may Allah bless Saib, he was there always, he would bring him. And Saib would tell him, look, you know, if, someday if I'm not there, because Saib had to travel and so on, so, he said, then don't go that day. But no, Ikram Hai would come. No matter what. Until he completely got incapacitated, he could not come at all. So the first thing I remember about him is, how he used to come for Salatul Fajr. Salatul Fajr. There is my dear, dear friend Zulfi in the same cemetery. And the thing I remember about Zulfi is his big smile. And the love and the affection that he had for me and I had for him. There's some, I mean, losses are losses, but there's some losses which are very, very, very, very serious and you literally feel them in your heart. And Zulfi is one of them. Zulfi's father passed away in Kuwait. And after that, I had gone to Kuwait for some programs. And Zulfi said to me, he used to call me Yawar Bhai, like everybody else. But after his father passed away, he said to me, can I call you Baba? Now what do you say to that? I said, there's no honor that is superior in my view, than that, that Allah is giving me through you, Alhamdulillah. And in that same cemetery is another one of my dearest and closest ones, Adnan Mahmud, whose death was such a shock. I was in Vermont, the Arabic courts, when I got news that he had died. And so on. I don't know. I don't think I will ever recover from that shock. He, that day was like, I mean, I tried to force, obviously control myself and so on, but everybody noticed. People came and sat around me. They said, what happened? Something has happened. What's happening? What's, you know, why are you looking like this? And the thing I remember about Adnan is, is always this tremendous sense of confidence. And he's always used to say, Allah is the one who gets our things done. Allah is the one who gets our things done. Allah is the one who gets our things done. Similarly, there's another dear friend of mine, Alhamdulillah, may Allah grant him a long and healthy life. Imtiaz Beg, who lives in Mysore. Imtiaz also has this thing. For everything. Allah is there. Anything, the slightest difficulty to them is the biggest difficulty. Allah is there. Allah is there. And I remember also with Imtiaz, how beautifully he took care of his parents. His mother and father, may Allah grant them both, Rahma and Janata Firdous. His mother passed away first, then his father. His father lived almost to be, I think, close to a hundred. And he was a famous Urdu poet as well. And a wonderful person. And mother also. Mother was a doctor. Imtiaz literally took care of them right to the end. Such Khidmat, MashaAllah. And there are many others. May Allah Ta'ala bless them all and grant them the method for those. My own parents, my wife's parents, each one, there is a memory. The point I'm making is, what do you want to be remembered for? And the reason I talked about all these people is, what is it that we remember them for? Because while I am saying these things about these people, these people also, the

Auto-generated transcript:My dear brothers and sisters, in the famous hadith of Abdullah ibn Awar r.a who reported from the Prophet s.a.w. The Prophet s.a.w. took hold of his shoulder and said, Be in the world as if you are a stranger or a traveler. Be in the world as if you are a stranger or a traveler. Among the teaching stories that we hear, the story of a man who came to the house of a wise man and he saw that the house had no furniture, absolutely nothing. The story is also told about the house of a man named Farid r.a. So maybe this relates to him. So he saw there was no furniture. So he asked him, where is your furniture? So this wise man, he asked the man, where is yours? So that man said, I am a traveler. He said, so am I. Ibn Awar r.a used to say, if you survive to the evening, don't die. Do not expect to be alive till the morning. And if you survive to the morning, do not look forward to the evening. In a healthy condition, prepare yourself for illness. And while you are alive, prepare yourself for death. And these are in Bukhari. I will send you the references of this also, inshallah. Another hadith in Bukhari, in Ibn Bajah and in Musnad ibn Ahmad, Rasulullah, Rasulullah said, What have I to do with the world? In connection with the world, I am just like a rider who sits under the shade of a tree, then goes off and leaves it. And this is in Tilmidi, in Namaja and Musnad Ahmad. Rasulullah said, what do I have to do with the world? I am like a traveler, I am like a rider on a horse who takes, rests for a little while under a tree and then continues on his journey. The great jurist, Al-Fudail bin Yaad, Rahatul Ali, said to a man, he asked him, how old are you? The man said, 60 years. Al-Fudail said, you have been traveling to your Rabb for 60 years, which means that you are about to arrive at your destination. So the man said, Al-Fudail said, do you know what is the meaning of that? He said, when a person knows that he is a slave and that he will return to Allah, he knows that he is to be asked about his deeds. If he knows that he will be asked, he should prepare answers to the questions. So the man asked him, he said, he asked Al-Fudail, he said, what shall I do? So Al-Fudail bin Yaad, Rahatul Ali said to him, that is an easy matter. So the man said, what is it? How is it easy? Al-Fudail said, you should stick to the straight path, meaning do not disobey Allah, do not anger Allah. He said, you should stick to the straight path for the rest of your life. You already live for 60 years, whatever is left, stick to the straight path for the rest of your life and Allah will forgive your past. You will commit sins, inshallah. And if you commit sins for the rest of your life, you will be held accountable for those and for the deeds that you committed throughout your life. So at whatever point in time we get some guidance, Alhamdulillah, straighten yourself from that time onwards. Don't worry about the past. And this is one of the things that shaitan tells. Shaitan says, oh, but you know, your whole life you lived like this. Your whole life you disobeyed Allah. What is the point now? There is always a point, even if it is two minutes before you die. We don't know whether it is two minutes or two hours or two days or two centuries. So from the moment you get the enlightenment, the moment you understand, yeah, I've been doing something wrong, immediately stop. Now, in the light of the above, a poet said, if a man walks for 60 years to a destination, then the destination will be very close. The destination will be very near. Ibn Abbas narrated that Rasulullah SAW said, there are two blessings which people lose. What are they? He said, they are health and free time. And this is in Bukhari, health and free time. Two blessings that people lose. Especially if you think about it, you know, in youth, how much of free time there is. Schools, colleges and so on. In your, when you start working, you realize you get an annual vacation of two weeks. If you're working for any company and so on, especially in the West, two weeks is standard, two weeks annual vacation. But in schools, when you are in school and college, you get two months of summer holidays, you get another month of winter holidays. So like it's about three months a year, you're free. Plus you've got a schedule which is, you know, more or less, half the day is free and then you are. So how much of free time there is? And so as you grow older, that free time, yeah, it is. And then once you retire again, the whole time is free. So Rasulullah SAW is saying, take advantage of health and free time. Ibn Abbas, this is a famous hadith of, which is called five before five. Ibn Abbas, Ibn Abbas, Ibn Abbas, Ibn Abbas, Ibn Abbas, Ibn Abbas, Ibn Abbas, Ibn Abbas, reported from Rasulullah SAW. He said, Rasulullah SAW was saying to a man, seize five opportunities before five events. What are they? He said, your youth before your o

https://youtu.be/bmGtVp8Gpe0 Auto-generated transcript:As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa rahmatullāhi wa barakātuh. Wa ṣalātu wa ṣalāmu ʿalaykum wa rahmatullāhi wa barakātuh. I am walking in Shiran Palace, KBR Park. And as you can see, they have this road. So, they installed these concrete blocks in a completely undrown chain. And then when they finished that whole work, then it rained. Heavy rain and the whole road got converted into a drain. And then somebody says, oh, how can we, we need water for the, we need space for the water to run off. So, then they hired a whole bunch of labor and removed these blocks individually, one by one. Every so many meters. Right? So, nobody thought that it would rain. Can you believe this? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. rains is a discovery for the forest department okay i think the way money is squandered is not funny anyway the park is very beautiful it's uh massively destabilized left alone so uh they haven't tried to improve it uh meaning destroy it so we have uh the natural vegetation and it's like an urban forest of grasses it has all kinds of different trees and lots of birds uh mammals reptiles small mammals uh reptiles and so on one of the most commonly seen things is peacocks absolute profusion of peafowl in this part what i want to talk to you about today is a thought which is that when we talk about careers we talk about life and so on we talk almost exclusively in terms of success in terms of victory right so what are the successes what are the victories and so forth and we run away from failures especially failures where the failure was not due to was not due to natural causes but was due to our own lack of judgment or wrong judgments we try to avoid that and pretend that it didn't happen or it couldn't have happened well after all how can i be wrong no i suggest to you that hooking your self-esteem hooking your self-image to success is a very dangerous thing and the reason is dangerous is because of how we are conditioned to define success our conditioning is that we from the earliest childhood whether it's a parent whether it's a teacher and then as we grow older it becomes a boss it becomes a individual boss and might become few rise enough in an organization and it could be the board of the organization but multiple external people our success what we like to call success depends on what they start doing and how they keep dealing with success this is what we are constantly moving on, my God, success is highly traveling fellow nano bio environmentalist andinary and 150 and display profile among other things as you walk along the screen or beyond the screen you have a long Parkinson who will say what can i do this or where I can do that or what can i do that or what can i do it this way there is an increasing strength of love it is a responsibility to keep growing lines across business since you are involved in it it is a complement in life okay so i have just been in the last several months over school you tried to define but instead they say about it. So if they say, oh fantastic, great job, we feel happy. If they say no, bad job, we feel unhappy. The job itself, what is my view about my work? We don't think about that. So our self-image and our self-esteem is hooked to success as defined by somebody else. Now that somebody is only looking at a final output or outcome without having almost no knowledge or very limited knowledge of what it took to get to that place. They don't have that knowledge, more than likely they don't care. But they will pass some judgment. So we also have this habit. We say, oh great, good job, fantastic job. Tommy, you're a great guy. And Tommy feels sad, glad, bad, mad. Now, as I said, the big problem with this is that then our happiness is always in the hands of somebody else. And if we are not able to get that good, then we are in trouble. Now, you might say, well, what's the alternative? I read a very wonderful LinkedIn post which I reposted also with my comments. This person says that in Japan in a preschool, they carried out an experiment. The experiment was that for one month they banned the word good. I'm assuming they would have banned the word bad as well, or maybe they don't say that. So anyway, they banned the word good. So, a child brings in his or her work, you don't say good job. Now, what do you say? They said, you described the work. You say, oh, Johnny, I noticed that you've used so many colors. Right? And you stop with that. You don't say, oh, that's a great thing. No. Oh, Johnny, I noticed that you've used so many colors. I noticed that you have put this thing, which is maybe a car, in a different perspective. You have not described the thing itself. You have not drawn the thing itself. But you have dr

Auto-generated transcript:In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Peace and blessings be upon the honour of the Prophet and the Messengers, Muhammad and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family, and upon all his family. And after that, brothers and sisters, this morning at the time of the Hajj, I got news that one of my very dear friends in America, his mother passed away, his mother passed away very suddenly. I called him, he said, 15 minutes. She was walking, talking, suddenly had a heart attack. In 15 minutes, she was gone. We ask Allah for Jannatul Firdous, without Hisaab for her and for Sabr for the family. I'm mentioning this as a reminder for us. Last Friday, my father's sister passed away, my Poovi. So, her children, they requested me to do the Salatul Janaza and so on. So, I went there. The Kavarsan in Chilkal Guda, that one section, we have our family graves. So, there's not enough space. So, they buried her in my grandfather's grave, her father, my Dada. My grandfather died in 1965. So, they opened the grave and they buried my aunt there. I looked into the grave, there's nothing. There's nothing. It was very salutary. It was very holy. It was very holy. It was a very holy experience for me to actually look into the grave of my Dada, my grandfather. I was probably nine years old or something like this at that time. So, they did not take me to the Kavarsan. I did not participate in the Janaza and so on at that time. So, this is actually the first time I've... I mean, I visited his grave many times. It reminds me that, Alhamdulillah, Allah reminded us of this day. Which will come to every single one of us. About which Allah said, كل نفس ذائقة الموت كل نفس Every living thing will taste death. كل نفس ذائقة الموت every living thing will taste death, without exception. Good or bad, old or young, sick or healthy, makes no difference. Muslim, non-Muslim, makes no difference. The worst of them died, and the best of them died. Rasulullah s.a.w. himself passed away. Allah s.w.t. said, Everybody. And one day, we will die. And on that day, S.A.w. said, You will then really see. Because the curtains which are there over our eyes, will be pulled aside. And then we will really see the reality. We will see the Haqqah. And that is the day we need to prepare for. This world, Allah s.w.t. said that this world is except, it is nothing except deception. What looks like success in this world, is actually failure. And what looks like failure, is success. So when we look, when we hear and read, about the last days, and about the Jal, and we say the Jal will show the fire, and actually it will be the Garden of Jannah, and you will show a garden, but that will be the fire. You don't have to go all the way there. You can see it today. You don't have to go all the way there. You don't have to go, Allah protect us from being at the same time alive when Dajjal is there, because that's a time when the Prophet asked protection from that time. But you can see the Jaliyat of this world. You can see this deception of this world right now. As we speak. Where things which we aren't behind in this life. Just go on the street here. You know this, India probably is one of the, it's not the only place, but one of the few places where you can actually see this chasing behind money, and running behind money, and running behind this false name and fame, and see it very clearly in this society. Small things. Designation for example. I should be called senior vice president sanitation. Who are you? You are a sweeper. Huh? Somebody is, one friend of mine getting very agitated about this. No, they don't call me this, they don't call me that. I said when you are saying they don't call me that, and that is bothering you, who has the power? They or you? Mind is blank. You've lost our capacity to think. When you are saying they don't give me this respect, who has the power? They or you? My point is, I am what I am, I know what I am. Whether you call me, you know what I am, or you call me, you know what I am, I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care. You know, you know Sheikh ul-Haram or you call me Shaitan ul-Haram, what difference does it make? I am myself. Call me what you want. What does it matter? But if you are stuck in this outside world, everything, your identity is based on what people say. They are not, you are saying it. They must respect me. Who is they? Who is they? And if that is the case, who is important, them or you? You've taken your life and given it to the hands of others. Do with me whatever you want. This is dunya. Somebody gives you one designation, oh, I feel so nice and so proud. I told one friend of mine, I said, go to the printer and print your name and assistant god. They can&